The new "Correspondence University" has before it a wide field of usefulness, and its objects must appeal to the sympathies of all friends of education. Its idea is certainly novel and suggestive,-suggestive perhaps of other functions of a similar nature which it does not yet undertake. There are many courses given each year in our best American colleges of nearly parallel scope, on subjects the same or closely connected. In many of these, especially in the higher courses, a certain amount of original work and of independent investigation is undertaken by professors and students in fields comparatively unexplored. As yet there is no established means of communication between our colleges by which speedy information of the result of work of this kind can be conveyed from one to the other, or by which arrangements for co-operation and mutual aid in investigation can be made. If such means existed there is no doubt that in numerous higher courses, for example, in history, philosophy, or the sciences, which involve original work, much better results could be attained and fewer useless or duplicated efforts would be made. It is true that the means for the general dissemination of scientific knowledge and of the latest results of scientific investigation are to day exceedingly numerous. Nevertheless there is as yet no trustworthy means for the intercommunication of the results of class room or "seminar" work-work so often tentative and highly specialized and thus little likely of immediate publication.

There is then obviously a field open for the establishment of a co-operative bureau, of intercollegiate communication. The private communications of professors and the conferences of learned societies at present, it is true, partially fulfil this purpose; but very inadequately. Perhaps it is within the province of the new Correspondence University to act as such a medium of communication.