Among the many interesting recent developments of the University elucidated in the newly published report of the President, perhaps the Summer School has obtained least general recognition. This school has had a remarkably rapid growth, as the fact that $1720 were paid as fees by the students in the summer courses in 1886 as against $7,873.50 in 1891 testifies. The Faculty last year decided, after much discussion and deliberation, "to admit to its list of courses that may be counted for the Bachelor's degree eight summer courses - one in German, two in Engineering, one in Physics, one in Botany, and two in Geology, together with one in Geological field-work, all of which courses are carried on under the supervision of a regularly appointed officer of instruction, and with proper tests of the industry and proficiency of the students." The undoubted advantages of some features of the plan adopted by the new Chicago University, are thus attained at Harvard also. This is a distinct gain, made here without disturbing the old method of university life. For it is undoubtedly true, as President Eliot says, "that six weeks of assiduous application to one subject for eight hours a day enables an earnest student to make an extraordinary progress in a new language or a new science." The opportunity for this especially in the courses which require field-work, is very advantageously offered in the summer, and the statistics show that a gradually increasing number of men are coming to realize the fact.