It is often doubted whether college students as a class ever maintain an active interest in the current events and discussions of American politics. An interest in the details of party management, in the workings of the spoils system, and in the glories of American stump oratory and buncomb is hardly to be expected of them. But that they do generally keep up with the current drift of discussions of political principles to as great an extent as almost any other class in the community is, we believe, the case. In our own case, this abundant interest in current politics and party principles is evinced by the great popularity of the study of political science at Harvard, by the flourishing condition of such institutions as the Harvard Union, and by the high average of political intelligence and information shown by the speakers before such societies. The Society for Political Education receives a large share of its patronage in reading members from the student class of this country; and this fact shows not only the active interest of this class in such questions, but also its discrimination in the choice of instructors in political principles. That students the world over are a patriotic and liberty-loving class is generally-felt. Yet the rebuke implied in the following sentence from Senator Hoar's oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were to form a part, and for the great history of whose glory they were inheritors."