In his Annual Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration of work. So, although President Eliot by no means condemns this specialization, yet his figures fully refute the charge of even the strongest believers in a general college training. On the other hand he asserts that the complaint is that the more advanced courses are unduly small; to quote his own words, "The liberty to specialize is as yet barely used. Certainly it is not abused."