We remind the students of Dr. Sargent's class in developing exercises, which meets for the first time this afternoon at five o'clock. The number of men who have applied for positions on the floor is very gratifying, but this very number seems to stand in the way of the greatest usefulness of the class. As Dr. Sargent states in his notice, there is not room enough on the main floor to accommodate all the men who have applied for membership, and it has been necessary to us a pity. In some way or other every man who applies for membership should be admitted. For a man to find himself excluded from a course which means so much to him, simply because there is not room, is decidedly disappointing.

It is hard to see how a waiting list is to be of any value. If the course is to be carried on in a progressive way, very few men will leave it after once taking it up. A waiting list at the gymnasium is very different from a waiting list at Memorial Hall, for instance. In the latter case if a man is not satisfied with what he gets he has a chance to go else-where, and consequently places are constantly left open for new comers; in the former case there is no other place where anything as good or better may be obtained, and the wise man will stick to his place. The waiting list will become then, a permanent institution continuing through the year-not an inviting prospect for those who wait. The very number of men is in itself a demand for some different plan.

The obvious remedy for this difficulty is a division of the applicants into two or more classes meeting at different hours. Either a class might meet at four and another one at five, or one at five and another in the evening. This would give every one a chance and would remove the necessity for a waiting list. If this reasoning applies now it must apply in greater measure when the football and tennis season is over. In the winter time men must exercise in the gymnasium if at all. This or some other plan for making a better opportunity for class exercise must be adopted and adopted soon, or this branch of our educational system will lose the spirit of liberality which characterizes the policy of the University.