THE Faculty is now considering the expediency of establishing next year two more courses in Art. The History of Art will probably be continued in a higher course under Mr. Norton, and a second and higher course in the principles of Drawing will be established. What is now Art I. will continue to devote an hour a week to Ruskin's "Modern Painters" and four hours to drawing, while the higher course will take up as text-books other works of Ruskin, probably Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses," and possibly the "Treatise on Art," by Leonardo da Vinci.

To say that we rejoice greatly at the prospect of having these increased advantages placed within our reach is not to say enough. We are constantly reminded by our surroundings that there is nothing about which we are more in need of education than matters of art. "There is not a building, nor a corner of a building," said Mr. Norton not long ago, "with which a Harvard man can have any pleasant associations from beauty of architecture." But this is not all, nor is it what is most to our discredit.

A hall built by an association of men of acknowledged culture to commemorate the deeds of heroes should have been a monument worthy at once of the culture of the builders and the heroism of those in whose memory it was raised. But what is Memorial Hall? In point of architecture it is (we quote another art-instructor) "about as bad as anything can be."

The lack of education in art matters is evident, and experience has proved that while the present courses are good as far as they go, one cannot in a year fully master the principles they should teach. We cannot too earnestly express the hope that the possibility of the formation of these new art-courses will speedily become a certainty; and we are confident that, when established, they will never be in want of students.