Our esteemed contemporary, the Harvard CRIMSON, had a reporter who was lucky to talk with Miss Zona Gale. We do not know what he said, but we have her reported words, words that many alumni and undergraduates will inscribe upon the tablets of their hearts. "I do not believe in examinations," said Miss Gale. "They ought to be abolished." They certainly ought, for no doubt the examinations of today are as pestiferous as those of years ago. They are a cruel formality devised for the torture of ardent young souls whose message is that of bigness and brightness to a stodgy world.

This lady's sentiments so exactly accord with those of millions of Harvard men that we are convinced that she ought to be put on the board of overseers; indeed, ought to go higher. Why should not Harvard have a female president? None of the incumbents hitherto have ever had a tithe of her enlightenment. Do away with examinations, do away with the unworthy prying into the amount of knowledge possessed by these innocent victims; above all, do away with any power of inquisition into the amount of work they have done.

Miss Gale seems inclined to substitute class discussion for examinations. There is much to be said for this idea; it is about time that the principle of the witenagemot be introduced into the class-room. Relations between instructors and students should be cosier and more chatty. The human touch should be felt even in analytic chemistry and Romance philology. But with all the good will in the world we must point out that if there be class discussion, undergraduates must attend classes, and that will interfere very much with their more serious activities. But this is mere criticism. What will prove immensely popular is that this lady should take so broad a view of a system which has received not a little attention from those who have groaned under it. Boston Transcript.