A day or two ago we spoke of President Eliot's proof that at present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only upon six cases. Moreover, it is very probable that had those who were inspecting the lists known the individual needs of each man, the selections of study might not have seemed so unintelligible. So when we compare the few instances of actual abuse of the elective system with the amount of good which it can and has done, the showing for it is very favorable. Then, too, it is well to remember that the purely theoretical arguments against it are flatly contradicted by real facts.