Rev. Dr. Hale in a recent discussion of the public school system, advanced a theory of education which would involve as its purpose continued self-education after the years of schooling. It is true that this theory ought fundamentally to occupy the minds of our educators, but where such a theory, if rigidly carried into practice in the common school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination of the student to acquire at a university that knowledge and self-dependence which will enable him to complete his education in after years. The aim of the university, therefore, should be not to give a young man an education which is impossible, but so to interest him in the great problems of existence that he will be willing to give whatever leisure he may have in after life to the task of self-education.