German 4, the course in composition, given this year under Mr. Lutz, has achieved so considerable a success that it deserves to be extended from one hour a week to a two or three hour elective. The field for work in it is large enough to call for such an extension, and increased advantage and popularity would certainly attend such a measure. It is to be hoped that some favorable action of this kind may be taken by the faculty for next year. The importance of the course calls renewed attention to the need of a similar one in the French department, where little or no provision is made for exercise in composition, although the need of it is great and urgent. We enjoy admirable advantages at Harvard for the study of French literature and for translation, but in the matter of French composition there exists this lamentable deficiency in instruction, which would be largely remedied by the institution of an additional elective after the plan of the German course referred to.
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