A CHANGE is to be made in the classification of the studies for next year, and Professor James's course, Natural History 2, will be found hereafter among the electives in philosophy. The mere transfer of the elective from one place to another in the Catalogue of course is of no importance; but the fact that the change will allow this course to count for honors in philosophy is very important. Every one who has tried to keep posted on the philosophical speculations of the day knows how important it is to have a knowledge as complete as possible of the relations existing between mind and body. Dr. James's course, dealing as it does with Herbert Spencer's principles of psychology and with the latest investigations on the functions of the brain, supplies a want that is felt by every student of philosophy; and now that it has been rightly classified, we may confidently expect that this course will occupy a place equal in favor with that of any philosophical elective.
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