The curriculum of studies is under the direction of six faculties: Jurisprudence, which confers the degree of lawyers and ministers on the completion of a five years’ course, the dean of the faculty being Dr. Lizardo Alzamora; Medicine, granting the title of “Physician and Surgeon” to graduates who complete its six years’ course, Dr. Manuel Barrios, a statesman of distinction, now president of the Senate, being dean of this faculty; and the Faculties of Theology, Mathematics and Physical and Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Letters and Administrative and Political Economy, which do not confer professional degrees. In order to be eligible to the Faculty of Medicine, the student must have completed two years of the course in Natural Science and the obligatory course of the first and second years of Mathematical Science and Physics. The Faculty of Letters, presided over by the dean, Dr. Javier Prado y Ugarteche, renders especial services and performs double duty by preparing students to follow the career of the law and training professors to teach in the higher public schools and colleges. It is thus the meeting ground between the university and the primary school, its graduates being afterward represented both in the highest classes of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and among superintendents of primary schools. Only recently a law was introduced in the Senate through the efforts of university professors, to establish complementary courses in the Faculties of Letters and Sciences for the special training of professors to direct the national colleges of secondary instruction. The law makes professorship a public career sufficiently attractive to induce students of ability to devote themselves exclusively to this pursuit. A four years’ term of preparation is required, practical teaching in the College of Guadalupe being included in the last two years’ course. [Illustration: DR. JAVIER PRADO Y UGARTECHE, DEAN OF THE LITERARY FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARCOS.]