PROBATION

The new ruling of the faculty to abolish probation at the November hours will be heartily approved by the student body. It is a well-advised change, prompted by long experience with the inadequacy of the old plan.

College obligations are not slow to gather momentum during the first days of the term, and toward the end of the first month the average undergraduate finds himself swamped. In the midst of his complexities came, heretofore, the November hours. Many a capable man finds it impossible to hit his stride in the beginning, and can only fall into it gradually. Once having found it, however, he can hold the pace. It is largely in the interest of these men that the ruling was revised, since it was thought unfair to subject them to disciplinary action upon such inconclusive evidence as these early tests produce.

Freshmen may wonder that they were not granted the same consideration as upperclassmen, since they, more than any others, find it difficult to adjust themselves to the requirements of their college studies. But their case is different. So great is the change from secondary school to college that many Freshmen are left hopelessly adrift and need to have their difficulties brought early to the notice of the authorities and themselves.