IN the lecture on "Young Men in Politics," that Colonel Higginson gave in the Finance Club course, last week, he touched upon a point that deserves attention. He stated it as his opinion that there was not, among us, that general interest that he found among Oxford undergraduates, in the political and social affairs of other people, not to speak of those of our own country. We fear that this must be fully acknowledged; while it is much to be regretted that here, at least, there should not be some influence at work against the feeling, "We don't care for abroad," which so often finds expression in America. At Oxford, the debates of the Union do much to keep alive an intelligent interest in matters that every gentleman must, sooner or later, be acquainted with. There, it is "the thing" to think and to talk about them, and to take part in the Union debates. Here, it is not; and this lies at the root of the matter. Until men who are prominent in college take the lead, as once they did, in giving a reasonable amount of attention to matters of general interest in the world, we shall have no club like the Oxford Union, and it will be, as now, "the thing" to think of little besides being "swell." To be swell, and at the same time to care for what is going on in the world, is found perfectly possible in England, at least. It may be granted that conditions here differ in some important respects from those at Oxford; but this does not account for the lamentable apathy that is too much the fashion with us.