The catalogue of Yale college for 1884-85 is out and contains much information concerning the changes in the elective system made at the beginning of the present year. The changes in the requirements for admission are also noted, but these interest Yale men more than anyone else. The departments in the order of their importance follow. The figures in the first column are for the present year, and those in the second column for last year.

Undergraduates, 580 612

Sheflield Scientific S., 249 212

Theological School, 107 99

Law School, 68 69

Art School, 40 49

Resident Graduates, 37 30

Medical School, 27 31

The total number of students, after deducting for names inserted twice, is 1086, whereas there was a total of 1092 last year, a net loss of 6. The 1092 of 1883-84 was a loss of 4 compared with 1882-83. The most noticeable loss is in the number of undergraduates in the academical department, which is offset by the rapod growth and increase in the Sheffield Scientific School. This latter branch threaten to rival, if not to supersede, the classical college, and in the dim hereafter we may learn to speak of Yale as a scientific school with a classical department attached. Compare these Yale figures with our own. The figures for 1883-84 at Harvard were 1522, an increase of nearly a hundred, and for 1884-85, 1586, a gain of 64. While Yale has gone backward during the last two years, the loss being ten men, Harvard has advanced rapidly in every department and shown a gain of over one hundred and fifty, the Harvard students to0day being exactly 500 in excess of those of Yale.