It is no new thing to hear complaints from the students in the English department about the illegibility of the handwriting of instructors in the various courses. It certainly is true that very many of the criticisms on the backs of themes in English composition courses are so hurriedly written that they cannot be readily made out. The students, eager to find out wherein they have succeeded or failed in their work, must stop to analyze the handwriting before they can get at the opinion of the instructor. So far has this gone that there is more than usual humor in the popular jest that the English instructors should furnish another key with every criticism, with explanations of the various signs,-the regular theme card is not enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked in his work by an apparently unnecessary carelessness on the part of instructors. Certainly it is but fair to ask the English instructors to write a reasonably readable hand.