AT last we have a regular Graduates' Department, containing nearly forty courses of which about one third have been taken from the College electives, and the rest are from that mysterious region vaguely described as "special instruction from professors and other competent persons." To us, who have not been admitted behind the scenes, the sudden organization of this department has given much surprise, but also much pleasure. We look in vain for a course in Chinese and for some other desired courses; but an excellent beginning has been made, and criticism at this stage would be unjust. For the present, many of the courses will be taken by undergraduates chiefly, for hardly enough graduates remain here fully to support the department. How this will be in the future cannot now be foretold; but certainly the organization of this department is a sign of the approaching time when required work can be done away with, and Harvard become more like a German university.
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