THE announcement of an advanced course in rhetoric and themes will be received with satisfaction by those students - and there are many of them - who feel that as far as they themselves are concerned the time heretofore devoted to these subjects has been too short. Opportunity is now offered to gain that practice in writing which is essential to almost every man who would communicate to others his ideas and the results of his study. The aim of the course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which the instructor in this course has given out in the past, those who take English 5 will have no reason to complain, as the New York Evening Post recently complained in regard to the Townsend essay subjects at Yale, that the students are not encouraged to write on live topics.