As a good many Seniors seem to be in doubt as to just what is wanted in the sketch to be written in the pages at the end of the "class life," I should like to explain the purpose of this sketch and try to suggest what it should be.

The answers to the questions in the first part of the "lives" form the material for statistics in the class report. The sketch to be written at the end forms no part of the report and is purely optional. The "lives" are kept on file in the College Library, and it is consequently desirable that each man should write a short personal account of himself, that in after years people interested in him may find out his college impressions and his estimate of the significant events of his life and of the influence of those events and surroundings on his character.

Of course, it is impossible to lay down any hard and fast rules; each man must decide for himself how free and open an estimate of himself he wishes to give. These "lives" will pass through no hands but those of the secretary until at the end of a few years they are filed away in the College Library. With the purpose of the sketches thus explained it is to be hoped that men will have no further difficulty in filling out their "lives." Some may choose to give a mere outline of events not covered by the questions; others may give a psychological analysis of their characters, showing the influence of events, of friends and of their home.

Whether because of not understanding what is wanted or for other reasons only 260 "lives," considerably less than half, have been handed in. The remaining time in which they may be handed in is becoming short and all men who have not done so should fill out the blanks and hand them in immediately.