A notice was printed in Thursday's issue in regard to the Sauveur School of Languages, which will be held during six weeks of this summer, as in the last few years, and we wish to say a few words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student a practical knowledge of the language he is studying. We speak thus well of the school because it seems to us an institution in every way worthy of the support of college men.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
