WE publish in another column an article on instruction in elocution. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the necessity of a better system of instruction in this subject, so neglected here at Harvard. We must disagree with the writer, however, when he blames the instructors. Both those gentlemen are extremely painstaking and diligent in their efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very early in the term are even deprived of the benefit of fifteen minutes' instruction a week. Of course no very great progress can be made in such limited time, even with the best master, but we cannot see that the section system would be an improvement, as instruction to a section of six for an hour is the same as reducing the time for each member to ten minutes instead of fifteen; for elocution is not a study which can be pursued like history or political economy. A lecture on the general principles, though perhaps interesting, would not be of much use. Instruction in elocution resembles more nearly a lesson in singing or music; instruction by sections is almost useless compared with individual instruction. What we need is not a reduction in the time allowed to each man, but an increase in the number of instructors.