Changes in the Academic Course at Yale.

The prospectus of courses for 1893-4 at Yale has just been completed. Its most noticeable feature is the diminished number of required courses, accompanied by an increase in the number of electives. The whole number of courses is 147, against 128 during the present year. The chief increase is in Physics, there being seven new courses offered. By the new plan sophomores are to be offered six courses from which they shall elect five.

By this scheme it is possible to drop Greek or Latin and substitute Physics or Mathematics or modern languages; in short, it is a decided step in the direction of free election of courses. In the junior year only one course of three hours a week is to be required, the students electing anything else they choose, provided that they have not less than fifteen hours a week. The required course is in mental and moral science. In the senior year only one course of two hours a week is to be required, and this is a choice from eleven electives in moral science.

The various new courses follow no special line of work, but are added in nearly all lines of study.