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Philosophy at Harvard. The courses of 

 study in philosophy that are offered to stu- 

 dents by Harvard University for the year 

 1890-91 number seventeen. In the element- 

 ary courses, students attend one, two, or 

 three lectures or recitations a week, as the 

 case may be. Advanced students carry on 

 their studies mostly by themselves, meeting 

 for a conference with the professor once a 

 week. The facilities for philosophical study 

 at Harvard have about doubled within the 

 last ten years. In 1880-81 there were ten 

 courses in philosophy for undergraduates 

 and graduates, two of which were given 

 only in alternate years, the instructors being 

 Prof. Bowen, and Asst. Profs. Palmer and 

 James. These dealt with logic, psychology, 

 ethics, contemporary philosophy, earlier 

 English, French, and German philosophy, 

 German philosophy of the present day, and 

 the history of philosophy. Courses cov- 

 ering substantially the same ground are 

 given now, besides which four courses given 

 in the Divinity School, on the philosophy of 

 religion, are open to general students of phi- 

 losophy, and there have been added a course 

 on Greek philosophy and three which deal 

 with modern thought and modern problems. 

 One of these last is called Cosmology : a 

 Discussion of the Principal Problems of the 

 Philosophy of Nature, with Special Reference 

 to the Doctrine of Evolution, and embraces 

 lectures by the professor and the writing of 

 theses by the students. For the current 

 year three theses upon assigned topics will be 

 required, and are to bo based upon the pri- 

 vate reading of Herbert Spencer's First 

 Principles, and of Le Conte's Evolution in 

 its Relations to Religious Thought, and other 

 reading to be announced. Another of the 

 newer courses deals with the ethics of the 

 social questions charity, divorce, the In- 

 dians, temperance, and the various phases of 

 the labor question. The mode of study in- 

 cludes lectures, essays, and practical obser- 

 vations. There are also three " seminaries " 

 for advanced students a psychological, a 

 metaphysical, and an ethical and guidance 

 will be furnished to students who wish to 

 take up individual investigations of ques- 

 tions in ethics. In the psychological semi- 

 nary the subject for the current year is Pleas- 



