A committee of the New England Association of Teachers of English has been asked by the association to make a study of the reading habits of school and college graduates, hoping to discover what effect the formal teaching of English literature has in forming such habits. Dartmouth has been chosen as one of three institutions to some of whose graduates questionnaires are being sent. Six classes at about five-year intervals have been selected to represent the alumni opinion of the last thirty years. Those who receive the questionnaire are asked to fill it out and mail it promptly'