CONTEMPORANEOUS HISTORY AGAIN.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I think that every student can see the advisability of such a course as is now being urged in your columns, - namely, a course in Contemporaneous History; and I feel so strongly that an inestimable benefit would be derived from it that I cannot refrain from writing and offering a few suggestions.

In the first place, great care should be taken not to make the course a "soft snap." It would have to be managed very shrewdly, so that there would be plenty of work somewhere, even if Russia took it into her head not to advance further into central Asia, if Germany suddenly decided not to extend her colonies, and if the whole Irish question suddenly ceased by Gladstone's yielding what is demanded of him. History pauses sometimes.

As for an instructor: care should also be taken in selecting a man to teach such a course which admits of great partisanship. He should be able to give a faithful account of all the events that would come up in the course. Nothing injures a student more than a partisan instructor. He should be neither an Anglomaniac, a Francomaniac, a Conservative, a Radical, a Republican or a Democrat.

Finally, I would recommend that the course be six times a week, from quarter of nine to nine every morning. The authorities to be used, are the Herald, the Globe, or the Journal. For those who wish to go deeper into the subject, the Nation had best be consulted once a week. This plan I am sure would please everybody, especially the anti-Chapel agitators, and those who are anxious to do away with the present marking system, for in this course there would be no marks given, or no examinations.

N.