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suggested by the experience which has now been obtained. 

 It will be entered upon with vastly increased means of success, 

 in buildings, collections, and other apparatus of instruction, and 

 also in the wide spread interest which the past course has 

 awakened. Undertaken with such advantages, it will be of 

 especial interest as determining, once for all, the practicability 

 of sustaining such a course of instruction. To this end, an 

 amount of patronage at least two-fold, and probably three 

 fold that which the late course obtained, is essential, even on 

 the basis of extremely moderate compensation to the lecturers. 

 Whether this can be secured our experiment of next winter 

 will determine. 



