"We wish to call the attention of the junior class to the fact that this is the last day for signing for their class dinner. By last evening the blue book showed that there was still a great many men who had not yet signed. It is important that everyone who is going, sign today as the committee has to make all its arrangements in a short space of time. Enough has been said about the desirability of attending the dinner, and there should be a long list of names added to the blue book at Leavitt's today.

This morning the lectures in elementary Physics for the present year begin. Originally these lectures were those given in prescribed freshman Physics, Physics A. This course was prescribed like Chemistry A, for each class that entered college, including the present senior class. The next year the course was given, but owing to some irregularity in the lectures it was thought advisable not to hold any examination. Since then the course has taken the aspect of voluntary lectures to freshmen although other members of the University may attend.

This step is in a way analogous to that which abolished compulsory prayers. Compulsory attendance at chapel was abolished not because prayers were not a good thing, but because they would work out their end much better if made voluntary. In the same way it is generally agreed that a grounding in the elements of Physics just as in the elements of Chemistry is essential to a good education whatever specialty the student may take up. The making of these Physics lectures voluntary, then, instead of compulsory in no way detracts from their importance; it merely invites the men to listen for the sake of learning something to their benefit instead of compelling them to attend in order to pass an examination.