Today marks the beginning of the semi-annual examinations, a period in which our college life assumes its most dismal aspect. The annoyances consequent upon the presence of the mid-years are not few; and it is to lighten these in some slight degree that the CRIMSON volunteers the following advice to the more thoughtless of our little community.

The frequent celebrations, the noisy ebullitions of students, due to the delight of being "all through," are neither a cause of edification nor enjoyment to their less fortunate neighbors who are still compelled to plod the tiresome road of the "grind." Again, the man who surrounds himself with more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past, but we now intend to give the true name to such actions, viz., inexcusable selfishness. He who collects a stack of books in an out-of-the-way corner is doing no more nor less than robbing his comrades of the privileges for which they pay.

We wish to impress upon the men, especially those inexperienced in the method of conducting examinations, the importance of bringing to the examination room nothing which can be construed as having been introduced from a dishonest motive. The phrase "college honor" has still a vigorous force, and appeals to every thoughtful Harvard man.

In conclusion, we advise no one to pursue a systematic course of "cramming," A man who studies the larger part of a night before an examination enters the examination room with impaired mental faculties, unable to express forcibly or well the substance ground up the previous nigh. A clear mind with a few facts is of more avail than a muddled head with an interminable jumble of confused statistics.