ON looking over the old curriculum about which several Transcript correspondents have had lately so much to say, it will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses in mathematics have been allowed for more than half a century. At the present day, any attempt to teach in a four years' course all the subjects which now could claim a place in a liberal education would result in graduating students well crammed, perhaps, but certainly very poorly educated.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
