It is reported that there will be numerous changes in the English department which will give it the which will give it the position of importance that it deserves. Professor Child's course, the present English I., is to be made into a two years course similar to his Shakespeare course, which change will aloof more, thoroughstudy of the authors treated. Such a study as this is one that will attract a number of students who wish to make thorough study of their own language In addition to this, Professor Hill's old course is to be revived this year under Doctor Royce. This course, in connection with the increased advantages in the way of the study of collection, offered in an advanced elocution elective by Mr. Jones, should do much to remove the reproach, that Harvard students can never speak or think before an audience. For those who wish to make a more extended study of the whole literature of the language, the courses in English literature given by Professor Hill will be extended to full courses. The present system of forensics, at present a farce, is also to be changed. A number of is also to be changed. A number of subjects are to be selected from the courses offered by the different departments of the college and selections are to be made from these, so that a man can choose something in which he is interested. This will, of course, tend largely to add to the benefit of the instruction in this department hitherto so weak. Dr. Royce will have charge of the forensics.

These changes cannot fail to increase the popularity of this department among students who feel that a systematic course of instruction in their own literature is absolutely necessary for every student of Harvard. Hither to the charge against our colleges has often been that they confine themselves to given lines of instruction, and that they never go beyond these lines. The largest acquaintance with the literature of their own times and own language that many work of the courses and from their daily newspaper and magazine reading. Thorough instruction in literature, treating the masterpieces of their languages as worthy of better use than grammatical exercises, seems little thought of. The change in this state of affairs which our English department is endeavoring to bring about should be imitated by our other departments of modern languages.