No one who takes interest in the development of our elective system can but be pleased with the changes which have been made within the last year or two in the department of Physics. This study which once was looked upon by the average student as simply a maze of calculus and logarithms, has been brought to a position where its real worth as part of a complete education is beginning to be appreciated. Abstruse mathematics are no more necessary to a thorough grounding in physics than they are to a knowledge of history. That this is indeed true can be seen from the work in what is comparatively a new departure in our Physics courses - namely the elementary course in Laboratory work, Physics C. It is open to freshmen, so that those who have a taste for the study may begin real work at once, while others, who have no special tastes, may take it to their advantage to see whether they will make Physics part of their system of education. Nearly all our other branches have courses of a similar grade, such as History I, Chemistry I, Political Economy I; and it must be gratifying to the members of the faculty, who are anxious to increase the importance of physics in our curriculum, to see with what promptness their efforts have been met by the elective-choosing student.