Charity at Home.

There were other speakers, notably Professor Sir Bernard Pares of London University whose principal theme the broadening of the syllabus—as said, you cannot teach a language you do not also teach its country's history; and Dr. Lincoln Ralphs, lately President of the N.U.S., and a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, who had many finely phrased things to say. He wanted a vigorous discontent for the educative system, which under modern conditions he regards as a charity suffering from all the defects of a charity. He was very concerned at suggestions which had been made that attendance at lectures should be made optional, his view being that if this were an established fact lecturers would attend to become entertainers—remembering my own University. I wondered if this were not already so!