CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON:-

IF you will allow me a short space in your columns I should like to call attention to an extremely ingenious "unwritten regulation" of the Faculty which has recently come to my knowledge. I have not been fortunate enough to find out about its operation at first hand, but I am induced to make it public solely for the information of my fellow-students. It seems that the men who go to hour examinations and, finding the papers not to their taste, leave early, have at last been outwitted. For if a man cuts an hour examination he receives the penalty for being absent at an examination; whereas if he is present it is called a recitation, and therefore, if he leaves early, he is liable to be marked absent. So that if a man does not go to an hour examination they call it one thing, and if he does go they call it another, thus getting the dead-wood on him in either case. This is certainly a very pretty embodiment of the principle "Heads I win, tails you lose." If I knew to whom the credit of originating this ingenious device were due, I should be glad to give his name, in order that he might meet with the recognition which he deserves.

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