A notice pinned on to the black-board, and pulled down as soon as Mr. Watford entered the classroom, announced the project in the following words: "NOTICE.

" Discipline, efficiency, duty, obedience, public service; these are qualities that excite admiration everywherein the classroom, in the camp, and in the wider field of life.

I hated the stuffy malodorous classrooms, with their whistling gas-jets and noise of inharmonious life.

We raided the classroom for rugs and cushions and with the collection made down beds in a half ring around the crackling flames.

Although theoretically we have more recess time than formerly, in the practical working out of the system we find that the three minutes between recitations is occupied in gathering up one's books, and reaching the next recitation room; besides this, that there is often some confusion in reaching the various classrooms, and that there are many little inconveniences which would not occur were we sitting at our own desks.

You as a student cannot afford to have your attention so distracted from the meaning of the lecture, therefore reduce your classroom writing to a minimum.