The publication of the quinquennial catalogue in English will commend itself to everyone as a great improvement. For some years the tendency to leave the old formality of Latin where it still survives has been marked. When it was decided to hold the evercises of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Auniversary in English, many hoped that Latin had been finally abandoned as an official language. It was retained, however, at the next Commencement exercises. Now it has lost one of its chief strongholds in the quinquennial catalogue, and to replace it by English in the Commencement exercises would be a consistent and welcome change. The college is growing more and more modern in spirit. It long ago dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises, and the change of the language of the quinquennial catalogue leads us to hope that Latin may be abolished there also, this year.