There appeared in a recent issue of one of the prominent magazines the following statement : "We are well aware of the fact that there are many men who get learning at college without culture, and that there are many men outside of the colleges who have, with comparatively little accurate learning, a great deal of valuable culture." Without pretending to urge the "sweetness and light" plea, an intimate relation with the short-comings of college life leads us to inquire into the reasons of the fact above quoted. Strange and incredible as it may seem, there are men in good standing in Harvard college who have never entered the library. A large college like Harvard must necessarily contain men of every shade, of taste and purpose. Some of us are here to get through, others for strange and unknown reasons, a few to work. It is not necessary to be a "grind," or even a hard student to become cultivated. It is of no consequence whatever what makes a man if he is only well made. But to be "well made" there are some things which we must all do. Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education" to be a cultivated man, it is true that nothing will give culture or, indeed, education so quickly as general outside reading. Whether it be supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much we read. Some of us are bound to rank and marks, others to nothing, but how few of us have any definite method, beside cramming through a cunningly arranged series of examinations, by which to arrive as a higher intellectual sphere. Of course it only would be labor lost, either to argue with the "grind" or to seek to urge proper reading on many others, but the reading men are laying the best foundation and it is at college, if anywhere, that we must learn to accustom ourselves to books.