A change in the distribution of students among the several divisions and departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was noted by Dean G. H. Chase '96 as one of the most interesting developments of the academic year 1927-28 in his recent report to President Lowell.

The largest groups have been for many years the students of Modern Languages and the students of History, Government, and Economics. Until the year 1920-21, the Modern Language group was usually in the ascendancy, but for the past six years, History, Government, and Economics have shown the larger enrolment. Now the students of Modern Languages have again become the largest group in the school. It is possible that this change may be a mere fluctuation without any deeper significance, but the marked increase in the number of students of Modern Languages is certainly noteworthy.

A considerable increase in the number of students of the Fine Arts is another change. This is partly accounted for by the fact that in the spring of 1926 the Carnegle Corporation offered 55 scholarships to men and women who proposed to undertake the teaching of Fine Arts as a profession. Eighteen of the men to whom awards were made elected to study under the direction of the Harvard Division of the Fine Arts.

This experiment in encouraging preparation for teaching in a specific field is the first to be undertaken on so large a scale, and its results will be watched with much interest.