Do We Appreciate It?

It is doubtful fchat we dnly appreciate the tact that we live almost in the shadow of the greatest University of this great nation. lts walls are cvowded withtliose things whichare wonderful helps to the student in his search for knowledge. We note this more particularly for the good of the members of our schools. Hovv many of them have availed themselves of the opportunity of peering through the large refracting telescope with its object glass of thirteen inches in diameter ? Iiow helpful it would be to both students and teacher if occasionally a visit should be made where the wonders of our planetary system could be more clearly viewed than with the naked eye, and the minds of our young people awakened to a more lively sense of the bidden things in nature. The classes in natural history, chemistry, anatomy and history will flnd helps in the great University museum which eost the people of our state hundreds of thousands of dollars to accumulate. These collectioDs in natural history and the industrial arts are arranged in such a way as to be accessible to everybody. The Chinese exhibit alone, numbering several thousand specimens, is worthy a journey of hundreds of miles to view. Great skill is shown by the Chinese in working in wood, ivory, porcelain and embroidery, and in painting on glass and stik. The art gallery might awaken in the niirid of some obscure pupil in our schools an idea of the beautiful which would change his wliole future life from one of obscurity to one of great usefulness and power. Let us, as citizens and .eachers aud lovers of well doing,wake up to a sense of our great privileges. We are aware that eight miles separate us from these magnificent helps, jut the cost of availing ourselves of ;hem is so comparatively small that we cannot afford to neglect the privilege.