A passage in an article in the current Harper's Monthly written by Wong Chin Foo, the editor of the Chinese newspaper published in New York, gives a very shrewd comment upon the idea of education that prevails among Americans. "We have heard of young men in this country," says Mr. Foo, drily, "who have graduated in three or four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit to one's collegiate course, except he live beyond the age allotted the human race. If a student graduate from any college of a certain grade in ten years, he is considered a prodigy. We have frequently seen in China men of fifty years of age, the fathers of families, still attending college, diligently seeking to obtain their first degree. But the gaining of the first degree does not complete a Chinaman's education; far from it, he has gained but the first step on the ladder of fame." An idea that certainly presents a startling suggestion to Americans. Under such a system it is probable that the majority of, for example, the Harvard faculty would still be in the leading-strings of "Finals" and "Semis;" but then the query arises, "Who would constitute the teaching body if all the professors became undergraduates? A social system which can support a learned class of such disinterested devotion to a life of study must either be exceedingly wealthy or exceedingly despotic. The import of the passage after all is only that the class of which college students in China are composed never contains any Philistines, while in America - in America it would be difficult to make such an assertion.