Editors Daily Crimson:

I beg leave to call attention through your columns to a suggestion made editorially in the last number of the Advocate. There is, as the writer of the editorial indicates, a desire among a large class of students that a series of lectures on live subjects be given under the auspices of the University. The wish expresses nothing derogatory to our college advantages as they now are but simply asks for the extension of a privilege which we to some extent already enjoy. The country is possessed of many eminent and active men who could hardly feel it anything other than a pleasure to lecture here at the invitation of our faculty, and certainly their words would be both welcome and profitable to the students. The step from college to active life, though great in its consequences, is after all but short; and any legitimate preparation for what is there in store for us cannot be useless. It is earnestly to be hoped that our faculty will heed this call on the part of the college men, and respond by arranging for them a series of lectures calculated at the same time to stimulate and instruct. The plan deserves at least a trial.