The announcement of a new course of study in the Lawrence Scientific School is but one more exemplification of the liberality of Harvard in education. Every step like this which offers new opportunities and introduces a new field of study is sure to result in the end in broader and better education. What should be noticed about this course in particular is that it recognizes as a subject worthy of study and instruction a science, which not long ago was hardly noticed as such. Physical training has had but few scientific exponents; for the most part men have taken their exercise as they pleased. The new step in the Lawrence Scientific School, however, recognizes the fact that physical training demands more scientific instructors, and that it has grown to be so important that it is worth a man's while to give himself up to teaching that kind of work. And that is the very object of this course; it is to fit men to look at physical culture as a science worth studying, and as an art worth practising. The result cannot but be beneficial to athletics of every kind. In the future they will doubtless be set on a more scientific basis in which the best development of the body will be brought about most economically.

It has been impossible to learn much of the details of the course as they are as yet only partially decided upon. Further developments will be watched with interest.