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mon-looking houses, with their stucco fronts, would 

 be ornamented with three or four of these signs. 

 Such a great scholar had his chambers here ; such 

 another, there. The people are proud of having 

 roomed a student who acquires high position. The 

 government in Prussia makes entrance upon any 

 learned profession conditional upon the passing of a 

 university examination or its equivalent. Bismarck 

 says emphatically that the university in Germany 

 exists for imperial purposes. No entrance upon a 

 great profession there without such a thorough train- 

 ing as comes from a university course, or from its 

 equivalent outside ! What if university life had sim- 

 ilar honor here ? 



It is often affirmed that the American Congress 

 has deteriorated in general intellectual capacity in 

 the last fifty years. The number of educated men 

 in it is less than it has been. The preparation of 

 college graduates for taking part in thorough discus- 

 sion in our newspaper press is not as complete as it 

 ought to be, and as it will be by and by when we 

 have suffered enough from inferior newspapers. The 

 second-rate sheets are maintained better than the 

 first-rate. We have in this country no class of col- 

 lege graduates waiting to get into their professions, 

 who can produce critical articles like the best of 

 those known abroad in nations no larger than ours. 

 There are several critical weekly journals in Ger- 

 many and France, and at least half a dozen in Great 

 Britain, usually in large part written by university 

 graduates waiting to win their way into their profes- 



