B THE HIGHER SCHOOLS. fl All the magazines are filled with cuts and de- fl scriptions of Universities, Art Schools, School of fl Design, Gymnasiums, Colleges, etc. It has become fl fashionable for very rich men to lavish wealth on fl Universities, and it is good, for in that way many B them will perpetuate their memories and better B still, become educational fathers to thousands. B. wno except for them, would be lost, so far as a B higher education would be concerned. It seems B to he a constructive age, so far as the schools are K concerned. What was satisfying even twenty- fl five years ago will not suffice now. There Is noth- B ing wrong except the possibility that many are be- B ing educated In branches they are not fitted to B acquire, and that others attend the higher educa- B tional insititutions simply because it is the fash- B ionable thing to do and without care to excel. fl These are days when resolute and far-sighted B men should control the higher schools; men with firmness enough to say to all students, "You will- get no diplomas from this school unless you earn fl them and the record you make will be recorded B here where all those who care to know will be B permitted to see them." fl More important still is "the need of teachers B who can say to students, when necessary, "You B are on the wrong track; you would make an en- B gineer or an artist, but never a clergyman or law- fl yer; you should change your course of study." H Competition is growing more and more exact- B ing every day. Skilled labor In literature, or law B or medicine, or any of the higher pursuits of men B Is counting for as much as it does with those who B delve in mines, or run any of the great industrial B energies of the day. B Bright men should run the Universities, but B tho Mghtest kind of men should conduct the pre- B Paratory schools. H Many a student, after graduating, spends years B to vain ffort before finding out what he is com- B potent to engage in with success. This is because B somQ 0QQ who ought to have advised a different B Paratlon failed in his duty. B t ut as things are progressing there are going B J bo some wonderful scholars in this country a B ew years hence, wonderful along all the lines of advancement, and we believe that in twenty-five twenty-five years more students will cease to go to Europe to perfect their educations, except possibly in art, because there will be higher schools on this side of the Atlantic than anything Europe can offer.