The recent midyear examination period served to accentuate a certain lack of organization in some of the larger courses of the college. In some instances section men either through inefficiency or insufficient information from headquarters lagged behind the general course program to such an extent that they were forced to make unreasonable assignments during the last weeks of the term in order to make their prospective sections fulfill the quota of reading prescribed by the course.

A conspicuous example of this inefficiency was to be found in French I where in two of the six sections instructors, in making jolting last minute assignments, frankly confessed that they had previously been unaware that the work in question was to be required for the first term's quota.

Similarly, there was considerable last minute confusion among students taking Economics A as to certain outside reading assigned in two books. Some instructors assigned both books while others assigned only one. Those assigning both gave as their reason that they were required to do so by the department. Rumor of this reaching students in sections where only one book had been read excited some pre-examination consternation. Moreover, in at least one section, progress had been so slow in the regular text that during the last weeks of the term assignments were raised from three chapters a week to three and four chapters a meeting. Under these circumstances, through no fault of the student, proper review for the examination was difficult. Such conditions were unusual rather than typical, but the mere fact that they existed at all is indicative of inefficiency somewhere. The all-importance of the approaching final examinations makes it imperative that some remedy be effected in the very near future.