EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- "H. H. D.," who wrote about college honor and proctors in your columns, Wednesday morning, must remember that in the mid-years and annuals no individual instructor can depart from a rule laid down for all. It is only by being indiscriminatingly applied that supervision by proctors carries no possible offence. One-hour examinations are optional with the several instructors, and may, I suppose, be optionally managed.

But suppose that "H. H. D." had his wish and that all students, simply as such, were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very well to talk about the individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place where it would be practically wise to ask for no guarantee would be a place in which individuals who had no honor would be sure of disgrace. Our college is I fear, not exactly such a place. To say the least, it is too large and incoherent. A new variety of club would, it seems to me, be a more promising field than the college at large for planting crops of this new sort. Club opinion is one of the greatest forces in the world, a force that no one can afford to despise.

I happen to receive this very day a letter from South Carolina which contains a passage so apropos that I cannot help quoting it. The writer speaks of a student, of I know not what Southern college, who is in the house. "I asked him about the tone of honor among them. He said a man he knew from near here cheated in his Latin examination. It was known to the other men, who told their friends, and the fellow was dropped completely. He had no friends-all cut him-and at last he could stand it no longer, so cleared out and went to New York!"

I hope that "H. H. D." will not think I differ from him in fundamentals. I heartily agree; only whereas he says to the faculty: "You must begin." I insist that both sides must begin, and I still think the fate of the proposal in the conference committee augurs rather ill for the student side. The question is at present, so far as I know, not practical; that is, no proposition of change is likely to arise in the faculty. What would be the fate of any proposition arising from the students? I cannot even guess. Very likely we are well enough off as we are.

A PROFESSOR.