The Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully awake to the important questions of the day. And there is no better way to waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear them passively; but if some such incentive as a prize stirs us thoroughly, we will be very likely to hold our interest even to the future. Accordingly, we hope that attention to the subject of Civil Service Reform can be excited here as it has been in Indiana University.