to take a leading position as journalists, lawyers, physicians, and principals of several of our public schools.

A word on the course of studies followed at Detroit College. In all important points it is the same as that generally pursued in colleges of the Society of Jesus. We append a brief sketch of this course, as it appears in an annual catalogue of one of these colleges, adding what is peculiar to Detroit College. The classes of the collegiate department are four in number, corresponding to the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, but known as the classes of humanities, poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy. The preparatory or academic department consists of three classes, known as third, second, and first academic. The plan of studies is based on the idea that a complete liberal education should aim at developing all the powers of the mind, and should cultivate no one faculty to an exaggerated degree at the expense of the others. During the early part of the course, the student's attention is principally devoted to acquiring an accurate knowledge of his native tongue and of elementary mathematics, with all the branches ordinarily taught to boys from 12 to 15 years of age. At the same time the rudiments of the Latin language are mastered, and the study of grammar is thus made from the beginning comparative and analytical. By means of constant oral and written exercises, study is rendered thoroughly practical. In the second year Greek is begun.

As the pupil advances, his judgment is exercised more and more, while less attention is given to mere memory work. When, after three years of preparation, he reaches the college course, properly so called, he is supposed to be able to read with some facility Latin and Greek; to be thoroughly familiar with the grammars of these languages; in a word, to have the tools of literary work in some degree under his control. He then devotes himself more particularly to the cultivation of his literary taste and powers, by reading and imitating the best models of ancient and modern literature. The following year is given to the training of the imagination, the nature of poetry is explained, the technicalities of verse making are mastered and practiced, and the great poets are carefully studied. Then comes the year of rhetoric, during which the student's critical powers are exercised and developed, poets and prose writers are scientifically analyzed, the principles of oratory are carefully examined, and the speeches of the world's greatest orators are read and discussed. While this literary training has been going on, the course of mathematics has been steadily continued, and natural science, in its various branches, has been taken up, as soon as the development of the mind admitted of its being pursued in a systematic and really scientific way. The last year of the course serves especially to discipline the reasoning faculties by the study of logic, metaphysics, and ethics, and by higher studies in mathematics and natural sciences. During this year great attention is given to metaphysics, a thorough knowledge of which is regarded as of the utmost importance,