"Impeded . . . Harassed"

The experiment that is being tried out at Harvard just now has called forth widespread comment, all of which has been laudatory. A reading period is being held for the two and a half weeks preceding midyears. During this time books selected by the professors and supplied by the library are being read, and a knowledge of their contents is to be required for the examinations. There are of course no lectures. Miss Ada Comstock, head of Radcliffe, said in an article appearing in the college daily that if this experiment succeeds "it will be a step in the direction of making education more of an independent, personal adventure and less of a submission to a prescribed routine." This is a step we should all be glad to take, for we often find ourselves impeded by apparently unreasonable rules, barassed by petty requirements. Such freedom as this reading period promises would be a welcome change. Bryn Mawr "College News".