Students' Burdens.

TODay with the greatly lessened revenue apparent everywhere, in all lines, and all sections, the difficulty of making both ends meet is becoming more and more acute. The University Student like everyone else has naturally felt the pinch, and finds examination fees and the like now increasingly difficult to meet.

So far there has been no reduction in these fees by the University authorities. Their point of view can easily be understood. They like the rest of us have anticipated a decrease in the number sitting the examinations in the future and therefore do not feel justified in lowering the fees desirous though they may be of lightening the Students' burden.

There are thus two sides to the question and it should be thoroughly fought out. And at the same time the lecture fees and the fees for degrees themselves should also be subjected to scrutiny. They at least appear to be very lopsided, the degree of LL.B., for instance, costing £7 7s. 0d., whilst the corresponding degree in Arts is only £1 Is. A glance through the other degree fees shows no set system throughout the whole series, some degrees being picked out for harsh treatment apparently haphasardly.

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