The publication of notes on college courses unauthorized by the instructors, seems to have become a serious evil. It is an act of doubtful honesty for a man to offer for sale a set of notes on lectures, when he knows that the lecturer is greatly opposed to any such publication. Moreover, such notes, not having passed under the careful revision of the lecturer, are most likely to contain inaccuracies of more or less magnitude, and are therefore likely to mislead students. But we suspect this thing will continue to be done whether it is liked or not until the instructors see fit to do something in opposition to those men who propose to publish notes. Students find it to their advantage to review their courses by the best possible methods, and if each instructor should publish a short abstract or outline of his course, this would be more satisfactory than complete notes, and would help to solve the problem.
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