The Yale News proposes that to vary the monotony of the present system of study, a one-hour lecture be held on the matter contained in some one of the best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than they would become under the "depressing routine" they are now following. This proposition certainly sounds well and, no doubt, many students would be benefitted by its acceptance, gaining much practical knowledge and learning something of the present political state of other countries besides their own. Many would also learn about the affairs of their own country, in this way, who, although excellent classical scholars, if questioned now on this subject, would show themselves sadly deficient. We should like to see the proposition of the News accepted, but doubt its practicability.