In striking contrast to this state of affairs is the condition of the German department. First of all, the department has no head. It is a disgrace to Harvard College that it has no full professorship in German. This condition of irresponsibility probably accounts for the absolute lethagy which has characterized this department of instruction. Some one instructor ought to be made to feel the necessity of making strenuous efforts to improve the students' facilities for pursueing so important a branch of study. We cannot sufficiently deplore the loss which the college sustains in the departure of Mr. Wheeler, whose able teaching has been much admired and enjoyed by all those who have taken his courses this year. At present the interest in German literature is surely as great, if not greater, than that in French, and it is generally conceded that a student cannot get along in any branch of science now-a-days without a working knowledge of the former language. Moreover, why should not the students at large have equal opportunities to listen to evening lectures on Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Heine, as well as those given so often on the representative authors of France? Will not the authorities take immediate measures to improve so important a department as is the German department. It should be raised at once to a level with the other departments which bring credit to our university, instead of being allowed to linger on in this lackadaisical way, under no responsible management, and giving instruction that is inefficient and unsatisfactory.