The Varsity, of the University of Toronto, says in its editorials, that "it is the glory of Canada and the United States that the people are proud of their colleges, and feel and acknowledge that a benign influence emanates from them." In this respect institutions of learning in the new world are contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those of the old world. By their liberality to the people they gain a well deserved respect. The people see the light that the colleges do not conceal, as of old, but let shine where it will. In no better way, as the Varsity suggests, can these happy relations between colleges and people be sustained than by courses of lectures, open to all, given by prominent professors and specialists. "Cultured men," says our contemporary, "ought to consider it a pleasure to assist in such a way those to whom fortune has been less kind than to them."