The steadily increasing number of courses offered in the Summer School and the more than proportionate accompanying increase in the number of students attests very clearly the value of the instruction there offered and the growing need among various classes which it meets. It affords to a few men in college a convenient opportunity to make up deficiencies in their work. To the ambitious student who wishes to supplement his regular work and to obtain the most ample training and instruction in the shortest possible time and with the least possible expense it is a great advantage.

But those to whose needs the courses in general are most adapted are teachers, or those who intend to become teachers. It is they who form the larger part of the students in the School. This class of students, composed both of men and women, comes from many different states. Most of this class have never been able to take the regular college course at Harvard and take the only opportunity offered them, in the leisure weeks between the closing and the reopening of school, of working under Harvard instructors, and of study in the College Library. In returning to their work in the fall they spread through various parts of the country Harvard methods of instruction and, it is to be hoped, something of Harvard's aims and spirit.