The old discussion upon the advantages of an elective system of work in our colleges receives at the hands of Professor Palmer in the last number of the Andover Review, some new and valuable material. It is now three years since it was first decided to allow freshmen at Harvard to choose for themselves the manner of work which was required of them. The effect of that action has had time to develop, and what has been discovered? None of those evils which we were told were sure to follow the reckless piece of liberation which the faculty had displayed. Students have had the advantage of an extra year wherein they might learn how to work and how to systemize that. There are many men in college to-day who have their electives chosen for their whole college course, and when changes have been or are necessary, they are made judiciously, with the conception of the unity of the whole well in mind. The system of making an outline of one's college course soon after entering, is becoming more general every year, and it will not be long, we believe, before it becomes universal. When it does, the triumph of the elective system will be complete.