Freshman English.

A new plan has been lately inaugurated in the freshman English examination in June. By the recent regulation, men in English A may anticipate one of the three hours required for the examination by preparing a short essay from five to ten pages in length, on the works of one of the authors who have been discussed in the lecture room. The composition must be entitled, "What I find in the writings of-," and it must be presented to the instructors before the 15th of May. By this method one is allowed his own selections from the several authors; but it must be borne in mind that the essay thus prepared will be gauged by a much higher criterion than the work of those who take the full three-hour examination. The advantages of the new system are obvious, and the freshmen may congratulate themselves on being the first to avail themselves of such an excellent innovation.