President Eliot has been selected by the Faculty of Northwestern University to deliver the N. W. Harris course of six lectures at that University this spring, from April 9 to 14 inclusive. This course was founded a little over a year ago from a bequest of Mr. Norman W. Harris, one of the foremost bankers of Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation into any department of human thought or effort." Last year the lectures were delivered by Professor Borden P. Bowne, of the department of philosophy at Boston University since 1876.

President Eliot's subject will be "University Administration," and the lectures will be as follows: I. "The Trustees." II. "An Inspecting and Concurring Body--Alumni Influence." III. "The University Faculty." IV. "The Elective System--Academic Distinctions." V. "The Method of Instruction.--Social Organization." VI. "Administration--the University President." This will be President Eliot's longest visit to Chicago in recent years.