We clip the following from Science:

"If the presidents of all our colleges would follow the example of President Barnard of Columbia, and publish each year a full report on the progress of the institutions over which they respectively preside, it would be an advantage not only to the institutions themselves. but to the cause of higher education in general. Mr. Charles F. Thwing, always an observant critic of college methods, emphasizes this point in a recently published article. President Barnard's report for the last academic year has just been issued, and with is appendices, is a most valuable document. It rehearses the changes and improvements of the year, trances the work of the various schools separately, and discusses such questions as those of attendance, scholarship, the marking system, elective studies, and wonderfully successful public lecture courses of the past two winters. We are glad to notice the steady growth of the graduate department, as it augurs well for the future of the institution. President Barnard says very little concerning the finances of the college, and we are therefore led to infer that no appreciable part of the sum asked for three years ago has been obtained. An announcement reaches us with the president's report, which should be referred to in this connection. It is the programme of courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages offered for the present year. From this we learn that the most complete department of its kind in America exists at Columbia, and that, under the inspiring leadership of so cultured a scholar as Dr. H. T. Peck, no fewer than nineteen courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages are announced. This is a remarkable showing, and when considered in connection with the courses of Professors Bloomfield and Haupt at Baltimore, Whitney at New Haven, and Lyon, Toy and Lanman at Cambridge, proves that a great impetus has been given to advanced philological study in this country."

The writer of the above seems to be ignorant of the fact that President Eliot has for years been in the habit of issuing just such a report as is spoken of.