It is satisfactory to learn that the Trustees of Girard College have decided not to allow its property in future to be used for bar-room purposes. However convenient it may be for the Faculty that the building of the college should be provided with a bar, it is nevertheless undesirable from the point of view of morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well known that the late Stephen Girard so earnestly dispproved of theology as to direct in his will that no clergyman should be permitted to enter the college buildings. It is doubtful, however, if he intended to encourage the sale of mixed drinks on the premises. [Ex.