A contributor to a recent number of the Yale News advocates that a congress be established at that college. Such a congress would, in general, afford very much the same opportunities for debate and discussion that Harvard men now enjoy in the Union. This proposal which is made at Yale is but one of the many with which our college papers all over the country are filled. To-day there seems to be a sort of fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students directly informed about the public business of the nation, is a very hopeful sign. The old societies used to discuss everything under the sun, except politics and religion, which were tabooed subjects. But now we have come over to the more sane idea that if we are ever to influence politics, we must learn as soon as possible to study political questions. There is no better way to make our politicians scholars, than to make our scholars into politicians; if the country needs more college-bred men in politics, she can best get them by rousing the interest of undergraduates.