This is a condensation of a paper given at the Physics Section Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, 29 December 1962, by J. Theodore Peters and M. Lalevic of the Drexel Institute of Technology.A plea is made for more colleges and universities to offer emission or atomic spectroscopy as an undergraduate elective. So much of our knowledge today of the mechanism of radiation, of atomic structure, and of properties of atomic nuclei resulted from spectroscopic research. It seems only natural then to expectmorecourse offerings in this field. Further evidence is given for the need for more work in higher reaches of theoretical spectroscopy. There is still much to be discovered and checked and tabulated as to emission lines for many of the 102 elements.