We publish today the amendments to the regulations of the college which have been under consideration by the faculty since the recommendations were made by the Board of Overseers. These amendments as now published are in accordance with the suggestions of the Overseers in many respects, their main tendency being to insure greater regularity of work and attendance by all the students, and a more intimate knowledge on the part of the faculty of the work done by all the men in each course.

The system of advisers for members of the freshman class is an entire innovation and it remains to be seen how it will be carried out. It will certainly be of service to those who come here to work, and may be a stumbling block in the way of those who wish to take only "snap" courses.

We have suggested before this that hour examinations, as now carried on, are one of the greatest hindrances to regularity of work on account of their being given utterly without method and usually in a bunch at the end of the term. We hope that under the new regulations some attention will be paid to method, and avoidance of the crowding of work and its attendant worry and strain. The best recommendations of the Overseers have been adopted; those that have in view better and more regular work. Conscientious, hard-working men they will not affect to any degree, but they will get work out of men who have heretofore done nothing.

In the most important of the recommendations the Faculty have not concurred and the overseers have accepted their opinion. We are heartily glad of this. If in the opinion of the faculty, who, as we have insisted, should have the controlling voice in matters of student government, reporting every morning is inadvisble, the Overseers could do nothing wiser than to agree. The Faculty, from virtue of its position, know thoroughly the needs of the students under them. It is a matter of great congratulation that this unnecessary and retrograde clause of the late recommendations has not carried through.