OF CHOICE OF COURSES.

There is a very illuminating letter in John Graham Brooks' life of William H. Baldwin, Jr., '85--"An American Citizen"--from Mr. Baldwin to his younger brother, which those who are choosing courses might profit by. "I thought I would take Natural History IV," he says, "Just to hear Professor Shaler, but it proved to be a 'New Heavens and a new earth'...The ideas which I got from Professor Shaler led to many other inquiries, and no one thing can ever happen to me so fortunately from an intellectual point of view, as happened when I took N.H.IV." It was not Natural History IV in itself which so inspired Mr. Baldwin, but Natural History IV as given by Professor Shaler. Two or three courses under the great teachers and men of the Harvard Faculty, unless their subjects are absolutely distasteful, will do more to inculcate the eagerness and desire for knowledge, which Mr. Goddard in the current Century complains of the lack of in undergraduates, and will make more for breadth than any other feature of college.