It has been decided that the course in History 20 under the charge of Dr. Hart, will take up topics in United States history connected with the period since the outbreak of the civil war. The work to be done will consist of a short and a long thesis by each member of the course. This plan must meet the approval of all college men who are interested in questions of original research, for the papers which the men in the course will prepare are intended to be real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians or biographers are by no means few, we have good reason to believe. Last year discoveries were made by students in the course, and with the growth of a better knowledge of the use of historical sources which comes with time, we may confidently expect that the work this year will reveal some heretofore sealed pages of American history.