As suggested by the Advocate descriptive pamphlest of the various courses should be the rule and not the exception with the different departments of our university. The advantage of one of these descriptive pamphlets is too obvious to be dwelt upon. So small a space is given to each department in the elective pamphlet that a mere mention of the courses and an exceedingly brief summary of their intended work is all the information that can be gathered. In the descriptive pamphlets, however, all the necessary information can be stated clearly and concisely; the students are not obliged to make so many inquiries of the instructors as to the work which will be taken up in this or that course; and the instructors, in their turn, are not put to the trouble of answering the same questions over and over again.

There seems to be no reason why all the departments should not issue these pamphlets giving all the information possible about their respective courses. If the other departments inthe modern languages would kindly follow the example of the French department, which is soon to publish a description of its courses, the present ignorance and confusion which seems to exist as to the exact intention of the work in some of the modern languages might be effaced.