Pres. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has make a plea to the various colleges to consider a plan by which an inter-collegiate system of granting degrees may be adopted. Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should be made in the work necessary for a degree of A. B. in many of our colleges, it is doubtful if many college faculties in the South and West are at present willing to follow the radical lead of Harvard. It is to meet the objections of these faculties that Pres. Gilman's plan has been devised. This plan would, however, act as a restraining influence in more ways than one, if it were adopted by some of our smaller colleges. But it would tend to remove the objections now made to them, that their work in itself does not deserve the recognition of the regular degree. A plan which promises such advantages will not long need to be advocated before it is carried into operation, and if it is successful, will remove forever the troubles consequent upon too great advancement or conservatism in college work.