The work of the committee on elective courses is no doubt hard to perform, and presents many complications not easily explained to an outsider. We do not, therefore, wish to criticize adversely the committee's labors, but simply to recommend a change which seems to us very desirable.

The last year of college life serves to fix the mental activity of the coming graduate more than any other of the four undergraduate years. It is, therefore, highly important that a selection of senior courses should include those which, at the same time that they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life of which is notoriously the personality of the instructors. It will be impossible, as the elective pamphlet is now arranged, for any member of next year's senior class to take these two courses together, and yet they both, from their very nature, should be delayed till the very end of one's college life. Good-natured complaints in reference to this very conflict have come to our ears from many quarters, and we therefore feel constrained to make mention of this difficulty. It seems to us of no little importance; and we rest in the hope that a long time for consideration may make it easy to effect the change.