A LIFE-LONG COURSE.

Too often the principal contact a university maintains with its alumni consists of requests for assistance. Princeton has just announced a valuable plan whereby the University undertakes to do something for the alumni. Copies of lectures developing new ideas or throwing light on current events are to be distributed at frequent intervals to Princeton men wherever they may be. In this way the university offers to its students a life-long course, a course which will serve them long after they have received their diplomas and gone out into the world.

In the last analysis the alumni of a university are its backbone. As the living embodiment of what the institution stands for they hold in their hands its honor and its reputation. The more intimate their relations with the rest of the structure, the stronger the whole will be. Going one step beyond alumni bulletins and reunions, Princeton has adopted this admirable idea, well worthy of emulation.