Prof. E. J. James' Opinion of Harvard.

Prof. E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, speaking in a publication of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, of the expansion of college work from its ancient narrow field of mathematics and the classics to the broader field in which modern languages, history, political economy, philosophy and the sciences occupy an equal place with mathematics and classics, writes as follows:

"Harvard College, although not the first to begin this reform, nor successful in her first attempts to introduce it, has by a series of happy coincidences taken her place at the very head of the column and stands today by universal consent at the head of American institutions, so far as number of different branches taught in its curriculum and the number of courses offered in each branch is concerned.

"This will appear more clearly by a brief comparison of one of its late announcements with the typical course. The following subjects were represented in the college by different courses, aggregating the number of exercises per week indicated by the figures following each subject: He brew, 8; Aramaic, 2; Assrian, 6; Arabic, 4; Ethiopic, 2; Sanskrit, 8; Old Iranian, 2; Greek, 40; Latin, 40; English, 29; German, 24; French, 26; Italian, 10; Spanish, 12; philosophy, 30; political economy, 17; history, 45; Roman law, 6; fine arts, 17; music, 13; mathematics, 38; physics, 21; chemistry, 23; natural history, 50; total, 471.

"The typical college has something like the following: Greek, 11; Latin 11; mathematics, 12; history, 5; physics, 4; natural history, 2; French, 3; German, 3; political economy, 3; political science, ethics, etc., 3; philosophy and logic, 3; total, 60. That is, Harvard College offers nearly eight times as many exercises per week in the various branches of human science as the ordinary classical college."