THERE are at present, in the various departments of Harvard University, including of course candidates for Masters' and Doctors' degrees and resident graduates not candidates for a degree, 105 representatives from 52 different universities, colleges, or scientific schools, from seven to nine students coming from each of these five colleges, - Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale. There are also about 162 graduates of some department of Harvard who are continuing their studies in the same or a different course. That is to say, out of the 1,278 students in the University, 105, or nearly one twelfth, have come from some other college, and 162 others, rather more than an eighth, have already received degrees from Harvard. Had we included the summer courses, we should have found five new colleges represented, and fourteen more foster-sons, so to speak, of our Alma Mater, besides several gentlemen who are professors in still other colleges that are not represented by graduates.

We give these figures, thinking that it will be very interesting to our readers to see how much Harvard is already accomplishing in the department of post-graduate instruction. We published last year an article describing a new university which had been founded by Mr. Hopkins solely to give post-graduate instruction, in which the writer pointed out how much Harvard was already doing, and how much more she could have done, even with a part of the endowment, than the new institution can hope to do for a long time. This year Harvard has made a still greater advance, and established twenty-five courses especially for graduates. Why should not some millionnaire earn a part of the glory of the founder of our College by endowing beside it a new college, a branch of the University, for the especial instruction of graduates?