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extreme form of the d la carte system . 

 is adopted, no groups being required 

 except in the professional schools, 

 even the graduation theses being abol- . 

 ished. Students may take the last two i 

 years of the bachelor's course in the 

 professional school, and as they may 

 enter at mid-year and receive a credit 

 of one half year on the entrance exam- 

 inations, they may obtain the A.B. 

 degree for a college residence of one 

 and a half years. Students receive 

 extra credits for high standing and 

 deductions for low standing, the ex- 

 cellent system being thus introduced of 

 letting quality of work as well as 

 hours of attendance count for the de- 

 gree. 



The unstable equilibrium of the 

 college course is doubtless an indi- 

 cation of progress. There is no rea- 

 son why an institution such as Har- 

 vard or Columbia should not adopt the 

 different programs which are supported 

 by good educational authority and 

 maintain them side by side. At the 

 English universities, a student may 



take the ' poll ' course or an honors 

 course ; he may specialize to any extent 

 or elect freely; he may follow a fixed 

 course of tuition or engage in research ; 

 he may receive the B.A. degree for work 

 in medicine or engineering; he may be 

 in residence three years or five. There 

 is no obvious objection to maintaining 

 in the same institution the free elective 

 system of Harvard, the culture group 

 system of Princeton, and the special 

 group system of the Johns Hopkins. 



THE CUTIVATION OF MARINE AND 



FRESHWATER ANIMALS IN 



JAPAN. 



Professor Mitsukuri, of the Im- 

 perial University of Tokyo, presented 

 before the International Congress of 

 Arts and Science a paper on the culti- 

 vation of marine and freshwater ani- 

 mals in Japan, which has now been 

 printed by the Bureau of Fisheries. 

 Professor Mitsukuri calls attention to 

 the fact that the cultivation of aquatic 

 animals is not only a matter that will 

 have increasing economic impoi - tance, 



Varieties of Gold-Fisii (from Japanese Paintings). 



Lower left, wakin ; lower right (group of three), deme, ryukin, ranchu ; upper left (two), 

 ranchu ; upper middle and right, oranda shishigashira. 



