Yale students are to have the benefit this winter of a course of seven or eight lectures upon practical topics of the day, to be delivered by some of their own professors. Among the subjects are Protective Duties, Futures and Corners, Civil Service Reform, European Politics, and German Universities. Every winter we have several good readings from the classics given by the instructors in those departments for students and outsiders, and some lectures by prominent strangers visiting or travelling in this part of the state; but these are about all. It is seldom that we hear any authoritative statements on the practical questions of so much interest to a large class of students. Much is taught about some of these subjects in the various courses but this instruction is necessarily confined to a few,

Why cannot some of our leading instructors in Political Economy and History be persuaded to give a course in some of the leading points of the great practical questions? It would be no more difficult for the college to arrange such a course than to arrange the classical readings in Sever 11. Should they not see fit to undertake such a project, then one of the numerous special societies, Historical Society, Finance Club, and others, of which we hear so little in public, might bring their forces together and persuade the professors to lecture under their auspices. It is certainly worth a trial and a successful effort in that direction would meet with the hearty approbation which it deserves.