Professor Wright's Lecture.

Professor Wright gave a very interesting lecture last evening on "classical studies in America and the classical instruction at Harvard." He began his lecture by speaking of the knowledge of classics at the present time. He then took up the studies taught at Harvard, beginning back as far as the seventeenth century and continuing down to the present time. At the same time an exceedingly interesting account of the requirements and customs at the different periods, was given, together with the studies taken by the four classes. The fact that Harvard has been generally speaking, the model after which the colleges, founded during the last seventy years, have founded their classical departments, shows the importance of classical studies at Harvard.

In closing Professor Wright reviewed the courses of classical studies open to students at the present day. He also explained that the honors in classics are not alone intended for those who expect to be teachers, but also for general scholars, literary men and classical investigators.