A considerable number of students has felt the need of at least a half-course in the topics of the day. There can be little doubt that, were such a course started and conducted on an intelligent basis, it would be largely attended. Many men enter college and pass from day to day with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics of the day is needed. The field of the course would, to be sure, be changeable, but in general it should cover the history and present statutes of pending movements and changes in American and European politics. Beside this it should include a discussion of any subjects of general interest, for example the labor movement. Only by some such training, however acquired, does a man feel himself able intelligently to cope with the questions of his time. For the sake of those interested, the CRIMSON would urge the faculty to add to the present elective list a course on the topics of the day.