In a few weeks the elective pamphlet will appear; the faculty are already considering the additions and omissions which will be made and the manner in which different courses will be conducted. We sincerely hope that the expediency of adding certain courses, which have from time to time been suggests either in our editorial columns or by our correspondents, will be considered. The value of the sciences is fast becoming recognized, but our scientific department, although, perhaps, in some respects the strongest in college, will never be fully equipped until it offers to the students an elementary course in one of the grandest of the sciences, astronomy. It is with amazement that one in looking over one hundred and eighty, or more, courses fails to find even the mention of this almost subline study. We feel sure that a course in this science, conducted in the manner of the elementary course in geology, would be one of the most popular courses in the college curriculum.

There is a demand on the part of many students, who intend to make journalism a profession, for some kind an elective which will in a measure prepare them for their future life work. Already many other colleges, among them Cornell and Columbia, have securred the services of able journalists to deliver to the students, courses of lectures during the coming year. Let us hope that Harvard will not be behind her sisters in this respect, and that in our next elective pamphlet, we shall see the announcement that arrangements have been made either for a systematic course of study, or for a series of lectures on the subject.