However faulty and pernicious the examination system now in practice in the college is, under the existing circumstances it is impossible to do away with it. But there is one of its evil consequences which, if the instructors to whom we appeal will, can be avoided. It lies wholly within their power and sense of justice to make a change.

This evil for which some of them are responsible is the injustice of their marking methods. Men do not come to college to get high marks; but of the men who apply for scholarships, it is the marks which frequently determine whether or not they shall remain in college. To these men, then, the instructors who announce that they do not give "A's" because they consider their "B's" just as high as the "A's" which other instructors give-to these men, we say, such instructors are unjust. We recognize plainly enough the difficulty of making a set and equal standard in all the courses, but we think that those instructors who publicly announce that their standards are different from the majority, should make an effort towards a system more nearly like the average.

To many men, such differnces of standard signify nothing; but when insturctors, by such methods, calmly decide the fate of the scholarship men, they have a heavier responsibility on their shoulders than they think. The natural result of this evil is to drive men from the courses in which the instuctors announce they will not give the highest marks. Such an effect tends toward the destruction of the benefits of the whole elective system.

The evil is a serious one; to the instructors who cause it, we appeal for a remedy.