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The Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris embraces 

 purely scientific subjects. They are treated widely in all their 

 many phases, just as letters are in the Faculty of Letters. The sub- 

 jects pursued are : Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathe- 

 matics in all the higher branches, Mechanics, Mineralogy, Physical 

 Geography, Physics, Physiology, and Zoology. No subjects, for 

 instance, like Language, Letters, or Political Economy, such as are 

 taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more or less 

 in connection with work in science, are found on the program 

 of studies of the Faculty of Sciences. The former subjects are con- 

 sidered as belonging to the department of letters, and to this latter 

 faculty, consequently, they are relegated. The prominence given 

 now in some of our scientific schools to Engineering, Architecture, 

 and Landscape Architecture is due to the development of these sub- 

 jects in recent years in this country. Although these topics are not 

 to be found on the program of the French faculties of science, the 

 subjects themselves have long received the most careful attention 

 in French technical schools. 



The Faculty of Law of the University of Paris offers about forty 

 courses given by as many different professors. Compared with the 

 courses given in our law schools of good standing, the Paris courses 

 are not so technical, and, speaking broadly, have considerable more 

 educational value. There are no less than fifteen courses on political 

 and economical science, a number of which, like Comparative 

 Social Economy, Public International Law, History of Economic 

 Doctrines, are of much general interest and value. Judging by the 

 program of courses recently made at the Boston University School 

 of Law, that is, the introduction of courses on International, Co- 

 lonial, and Consular Law, it would appear that in the future more 

 such courses as are offered abroad, and which are of educational 

 value to all, are likely to be given in our law schools here. The 

 impetus in this direction is in a large measure due to national ex- 

 pansion. 



The courses offered by the Faculty of Medicine are similar to 

 those that appear on the programs of our best medical schools. 

 About sixty professors give as many courses either at the school 

 itself, in the Place de l'Ecole-de-Medecine, or at various hospitals 

 in the city. As pointed out in comparing the announcement of the 

 law-school courses with similar ones in this country, the French 

 medical schools likewise may possibly offer a few more popular or 

 less technical courses than can be found in the American schools of 



