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The attention of the reader is directed to the number of hours per week at the school of mining engineering as compared with the hours per week at the University of Illinois. Thirty hours is a pretty heavy course to carry, yet it is done in many schools and the students seem to be none the worse for it. Their work is no more arduous than that of youths of the same age employed in offces and shops and around mines. Assuming seventeen hours per week, each hour supposed to involve two hours of preparation and we have a total of fifty-one hours per week spent on studies. Assuming that four of the seventeen hours were laboratory work, which counts one-half, the student has then actually put in about fifty-nine hours per week on his work. This is an average of practically ten hours per day for six days. In the mining course above described the laboratory