A SUGGESTION.

IN Scribner's, for January, T. W. Higginson proposes a plan for Inter-collegiate Scholarships. The necessary money being presupposed, candidates from different colleges will be examined by a competent board, and the prizes assigned to those who give evidence of the best general qualifications. As in the case of the English schools and the University Scholarships, each college will work for the reputation of furnishing the greatest number of successful candidates. Each, also, will try to be excellent in its various departments, that it may secure many of these scholars as resident graduates.

The advantages of this plan in the interests of true scholarship may be inferred from the effects of the regattas and class-races upon the physique of students.

"If it turns out that they" (who "labored, twenty years ago, to introduce physical as well as mental training into our educational system") "have succeeded only too well, the remedy is not to be found in condemning the boat, but in securing for the book its fair chance. And, by way of helping towards this, it may be well to point out that the athletic interest has been wise enough to employ one special lever which the intellectual interest has thus far overlooked, - inter-collegiate emulation."