The placing of the final examination in English C on the Wednesday before class day has aroused a great deal of complaint among members of the junior class. This is a grievance of long standing and has called forth an annual protest for several years past. According to the present arrangement, many juniors get through all their examinations except English before June 10, and are compelled to stay in Cambridge one or two weeks longer than they otherwise would. If it is the object of the faculty to keep them in Cambridge as long as possible it is difficult to understand their motives. Men who come here from a great distance, do not go home at all during the year and are naturally anxious to leave as soon as possible. Any unnecessal delay is unjust to them. It is particularly irksome to be kept by a course so unimportant comparatively as English C. English D is given a place near the beginning. and there is no reason, so far as we can see, why English C could not come the same day. There would be no conflict, for no other courses come on that day.

The list as it now stands is provisional. We hope that the grievance will be thoroughly considered, and, if possible, remedied before the final assignment.