The CRIMSON has spoken several times both this year and last in regard to the junior English examination. In the first place the time of the examination is very annoying to say the least. We can see no reason whatever why so many men should be kept in Cambridge for a week or ten days, when this comparatively unimportant examination could as well as not be given on the same day as the examination in senior English. If no change is made in the date of this examination this year, we hope that next year something will be done in the matter.

But it is of the way in which the examination is conducted that we wish principally to speak. The plan as followed last year and to be observed this seems to us manifestly unfair and in direct contrast to the manner of conducting the examination in English D.; and it is to be regretted that in face of he evident objections to the present plan some change has not been made.

We can see no reason why the system of handing in briefs should not be done away with and the same plan followed that worked so successfully in the senior English last year. The time and labor that must be given to the preparing of three briefs is great. and coming as the briefs do in the height of the examination season they seriously interfere with other work; and in the little time that can be given to them they are often hastily and poorly done.

The prescribed English courses for Seniors and Juniors are practically the same in the work done through the year, yet the present manner of conducting the Junior examination, in direct contrast to the senior course, necessitates much more work, the taking of time of other examinations and gives an open advantage to men possessed of good memories.