The provisional announcement of the courses of instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 1916-17 has recently been published. Following are some of the more important changes, but those are not final.

In group I: English 41 will not be given; English 26 hf., Contemporary Literature, English and American, is a new course; French 3 and 4 will meet three instead of four times a week; Comparative Literature 19 hf., The Forms of the Drama, will be open for the first time to undergraduates; Fine Arts 1f., Principles of Landscape Architecture, is given for the first time in the College; Fine Arts 3c hf., The Athenian Acropolis, will be a new course.

In group III: History 16 hf., History of the Spanish Empire, will be given as a half-course; History 32a hf., American History: The Formation of the Union, 1760-1829, will be given by Dr. Morrison; History 32b hf., American History, The Development of the Nation, 1830 to the Present Time, will be given by Professor Channing; History 13 hf., History of Massachusetts, will be given again; Government 35 hf., Military Administration, will be a new course.

In group IV: Philosophy 1 hf. (formerly D), General Problems of Philosophy, will be given the second half-year; Philosophy 2 hf., Introduction to Philosophy through the Problems of Conduct and Religion, will be given the first half-year; Philosophy 9c hf., Social Psychology and Ethics, will be a new course given by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, of Cambridge, England; Philosophy 17a hf., History of Christian Thought since 1632, will be a new course; Philosophy 17b hf., Modern Philosophy, especially as influenced by Ritschl, will be a new course; Philosophy 19a hf., History of Continental Ethics, will be a new course; Philosophy 21 hf., Advanced Logic, will be a new course, given by the Hon. Bertrand Russell; Philosophy 23 hf., Modern Theories of Knowledge, will be a new course; Philosophy 27 hf., Scholastic Metaphysics, will be a new course, given by Professor De Wulf, of the University of Louvain; Psychology 7a hf., Genetic Psychology, will be a new course.