EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There has been some talk lately among the professors and instructors about the advisability of abolishing the mid-year examinations in favor of periodical hour examinations.

This plan is a good one and eventually must be adopted as one of the necessary reforms of the college. The present system of examinations is comparatively worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college offers, is tempted, with the present system of examinations, to loaf. Such a man would oppose hour examinations; but the man who is desirous of making the most of his advantages here (and I think such men are in the majority) ought to favor them.

Hour examinations would of necessity be a spur to the habitual loafer, and would certainly raise the standard of college work at large.

I would like to know the college sentiment in this regard.

M.