The first meetings of the afternoon and Saturday courses for teachers, in economics, education, physical geography government, Latin, and physical education were held yesterday. Today the first meetings of the following courses will be held: Botany, by Professor G. L. Goodale, in the Nash Lecture Room, University Museum, at 10 o'clock; Fine Arts, by Mr. Arthur Pope, in the small lecture room of the Fogg Museum, at 11.30 o'clock; Elementary French, by Professor F. C. de Sumichrast in Sever 23, at 11 o'clock; Elementary Greek, by Professor C. B. Gulick, in Sever 30, at 9 o'clock; and Public Speaking, by Professor I. L. Winter and Mr. B. G. Willard, in Lawrence 2, at 11 o'clock.

On Monday the first meeting of Professor W. A. Neilson's course in English, on "The Romantic Movement in English Poetry in the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century," will be held at 4.30 o'clock in Lawrence 1.

Professor Josiah Royce's course in philosophy, entitled "Introduction to Ethics," will have its first meeting next Wednesday in Emerson Hall at 4.30 o'clock. This course will meet each Wednesday and Friday afternoon.

On next Saturday, November 9, the first meetings of the two courses in music, by Mr. W. C. Heilman and Professor W. R. Spalding, will be held in Holden Chapel. Mr. Heilman's course, consisting of fifteen lectures on "The Grammar of Music," will meet from 11.15 to 12.30 o'clock. Professor Spalding's course of fifteen lectures on "The Structure and Contents of Instrumental Music from the Standpoint of the Listener," will meet from 9.45 to 11 o'clock.