COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

At a meeting held in St. Louis on Saturday last to discuss the question of compulsory education, letters were read from Presidents Eliot, McCosh and Porter. Presidents Eliot and McCosh both favored compulsory attendance at schools, which view was also taken by President Porter, who said that he took it for granted that the only reason why the State is justified in taxing all its citizens for the support of public schools is that it may promote its true well-being, and perhaps defend itself from irreparable disaster; and that if this is to be assumed, then it is equally clear that it is not only its right, but its duty, to compel attendance under proper limits some efficient school, public, parochial, or private.