The former regulations of the faculty requiring "continuous residence at the University during term-time" has proved to be so easily infringed that it has been deemed best to make the rules on this point more stringent than ever before. Accordingly, the rules as changed now require that the student shall reside continuously at Cambridge, that notice must always be given for absences which will result in cuts, and that a student who is away longer than three days must always see the secretary at his return, to show that he is back and to explain the cause of his absence. These rules have caused much unfavorable comment among the students, but this comment seems immature. The length of vacations is fixed, not by the faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length of recesses, as settled by the overseers, must be observed by the students. Just how this will be accomplished was not decided. It is probable, however, that in future such "infringements" will be punished in somewhat the same way that late registration in September is punished-namely, by special probation.