The work which is being done by Professor Hanus in the University is comparatively unknown and yet it represents a tendency of educational activity which bids fair to become much augmented in the future. Professor Hanus's courses are concerned with the best methods for imparting knowledge to others rather than for acquiring knowledge for one's self. The importance of attention to this subject he will explain in his lecture tonight.

He believes that, beyond dispute, men who intend to devote their lives to teaching should acquaint themselves somewhat with this matter. There is a very general inclination to take it for granted that, provided a man knows, he can make known. Yet, put to the test of actual work in the world. this notion shows itself to be most misleading.

And more than this. Professor Hanus believes that no man, in search of a liberal education, can wholly overlook the subject of teaching. College men become leaders in their communities everywhere, and must, in large part, solve their problems. Among the problems of communities few are today receiving so much thought as that of public education. Some acquaintance with such problems and their most promising solutions is therefore a needed part of a well-rounded college course.

Such beliefs, it seems to us, promise much good. It is not the function of universities simply to give a few men knowledge, but rather to fit these few men to be the means of making knowledge possible for many people. The university is not to create an intellectual class, but is to intellectualize the whole country. The temptation is very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen in men who so fiill themselves with knowledge as utterly to lose the power of initiative. Their knowledge is a great weight rather than a great power. The idea underlying Professor Hanus's work is that men should take time to consider not only how to obtain, but also how to impart. It seems to us to be a very wholesome idea.