There never has been a time, in the history of our country at least, when the evidences of a great social revolution were so plain as at present. The laboring classes are arousing themselves from the lethargy in which they have rested for the last century. Cooperation, distributive and industrial, is the form which this movement is taking. The dangers of misdirected energy on the part of the agitators are grave, and, as Mr. Brooks said in one of his lectures last term, the only way of averting them is by the education of the masses on this question. But how can men be enlightened unless there are those competent to instruct the great body of laborers who are, as a rule, utterly ignorant of the simplest economic principles? The smattering of knowledge which men acquire by studying one or two courses in the theory of political economy will avail nothing. What is needed at this college is a course in the theory and history of co-operation. For it is co-operation which is the most striking phase in the social agitation Let us hope that a course of this nature will be offered as an elective for the next college year.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.
