Students in other colleges are continually complaining because they are treated more as school-boys than as college men. Monitors are appointed to watch theeir deportment in recitation, all such methods are resorted to which belong only to a preparatory school. Harvard, we are glad to say, is almost totally free from any such childish methods of discipline. Still it is to be regretted that so many of our instructors are obliged to ask for better attention and less disturbance in the recitation rooms. It is certainly rude for any student to read or converse during a recitation or lecture. It annoys the instructor and students alike. If a man can't give his attention to the remarks of the instructor, he should, at least, keep quiet, that those about him may not be disturbed. We believe that no one would willingly disturb his instructor or fellow-students, and make these remarks in order to recommend more thoughtfulness in the matter than seem to have existed heretofore.