WE are surprised and disappointed to find that President Eliot in his Annual Report makes no mention of the exigencies of the study of elocution at Harvard. We should think that he would have referred to the fact that last year the students paid privately for the heating of Sanders Theatre, although the College ought to furnish a proper room and proper heating, for those who take elocution as well as any other study. We also expected to learn the reasons for the poor accommodations given to the students of speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very high estimate of the study of elocution? or does he regard the great impetus that has been given to it lately by the students themselves as a mere ephemeral matter? We prefer to believe that it was oversight on the President's part that led him to overlook a study in which more than one hundred and seventy-five men are directly interested, and we hope that he will speedily turn his attention to bettering the existing conditions.