In addition to an advanced course of thesis and seminar work in topics of English and American Constitutional and Political history, which we advocated a few days ago and which seems to us the greatest need of the history department today, there is still another course which has been suggested for the department and which many would be glad to see taught next year, if possible. That is a course supplementary to History 2, though of a somewhat different character, involving not only constitutional but also narrative and general history, especially of recent times. This course should take up in turn historical topics suggested by recent events such as the present invasion of Egypt, the Tonquin War, or in another field historical questions suggested by the present political condition of Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany. It has been said that every man is most ignorant of the period in history immediately preceding that in which he lives. It would be the purpose of this course to train the student in a proper method of historical estimates of recent events. No more excellent discipline in historical studies could be devised than such a one as this.