One of the many objections to the elective system has been that the student often choose a course under a missapprehension, and after it is too late finds that the course is not what he wanted. When a man can take but a limited number of the courses offered by the college, it is very important that he should choose the courses for which be is best suited, and in which he is most interested. The bare title of each course as it appears in the elective pamphlet gives him but little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under the disadvantage that they are not authoritative. Besides this they have the appearance of being compiled for the purpose of telling how many hour examinations each instructor requires, and as an attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide in the selection of courses. To remove the objection of meagreness of the elective pamphlet and as a supplement to it, the instructors in geology have been in the habit for the past few years of issuing a separate descriptive circular of the courses under their charge. This year their example is to be followed by the instructors in the departments of Greek and Latin. This circular is to be an enlargement of the sheet heretofore distributed by the Greek department, giving the list of text-books that are to be used in the different courses, and will contain a brief description of each course, similar to those offered by the geology department. The instructors in geology also give several connected schemes of study to guide a student in selecting a definite plan for his whole college course. The classical circular should also contain similar schemes, which are of great value to the student. If the example of the departments were followed by all the instructors in college, there would be less cause for dissatisfaction arising from a lack of knowledge as to the nature of the different courses.