THE much-looked-for University Bulletin has at last come out. If it is true that the Register suspends publication because it thinks itself superseded by the Bulletin, then we must admit that the Bulletin is a decided improvement upon Mr. King's publication. It leaves nothing to be desired. To its old features, which interested only specialists, it adds new matters that interest all members of the University alike. Particularly welcome are the Votes of the Corporation and the Overseers, and the abstracts of the labors of Harvard scientists. We cordially welcome this new addition to our University literature, and hope that the prosperity of Harvard will soon enable it to publish a periodical like those of some of the English universities.

IN another column will be found an article in relation to the proposed change in the method of instruction in Freshman German. If, as the writer states, there is a serious disagreement in the German department regarding the proper system to be pursued, it is to be regretted; but still we cannot ignore the fact that great advantage is gained by a Freshman section from instruction by a professor once a week. Still the supporters of the measure, in citing the precedent of a similar plan successfully adopted in Latin and Greek, seem to have called to their aid an example not wholly analogous; for men come to College with a considerable knowledge of Latin and Greek, derived from four or five years of preparatory study; while the men in the Freshman sections in German have no such foundation, and are all practically beginners. So, while we can readily perceive how the Latin and Greek sections profit materially by receiving a third of their instruction from a professor, yet we are by no means sure that the plan would work as well with beginners in German. One other point of the writer's we should touch upon, namely, increasing the number of men in a section. This must be disastrous, and the advisability of such an increase is to be questioned.