After today's issue no notices of seminars will be received by the CRIMSON, although those already received for future issues will be published. We take this step for two reasons. In the first place, we are convinced ourselves and we believe that almost all men in the college are convinced that seminars hinder the right use of a college course, and that men who pass examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact remains that to most men they stand as a last resort in case their regular work is neglected. That the existence of this last resort tends to the neglect of regular work is undeniable.

In the second place, the action of the Faculty in openly discountenancing the seminars complicates matters somewhat. Some seminars are given by professionals, as it were,-men not in the College and, in some cases, not even in any department of the University; other seminars are given by undergraduates who are in this way enabled to support themselves. The aid brought to these latter is the only justification that can be given for the system, but now they, dependent on the Faculty for scholarships and the like, will be restrained from giving seminars, and the bulk of the business is likely to go into the hands of the professionals. Under these circumstances we do care to be in any way a means for promoting the system.