Is There A Monopoly?

The students as a class are those wlio come among us for a short time, and ar not consideied as residen ts. They hae their institutions and tueir assocfations to sustain which they often have to cali u - on the citizens. One of these is the Studenta' Lecture Association, an oiganization which continually appeals to tlie townspeople for patronage. Indeed, they well know they could not exist were it withdrawn. And th people have stood hy them nobly. But now comes an organization composed of students and citizens which recently secured the services of a lecturer to come to the city. It was severely crlticiscd by a college publication, which declared that: " Whtn otber University or city organizations trespass on the legitímate field of the Lecture AssociatioD, itis but poetic justice if they fail iguominionsly." This indeed is arrogancc seldom excel led. For an aesocialion dependent on the peoplo to claim that it alone has the solé right to introduce all aimuements to I the student ortown community is pitiable self-conccit which sonie day will srot linely knocked out of the prii? who entertain it. The m inagers of the couie we helere ('o not feel in tliis way, lor they kuow the recent lecture could nol have hurt them let it have been nuver so successful. Thtn espcciully aftcr the leeUuefailed todraw, to show such a spirit of haughtineijs and malevolence is exceedingly injudicious botli for their piper and the assoeiation whieli whlle claiming to aid they damage. We predict the loss of patronage they have already pustained from tovvn people on account of tliat indiacreet artk-le will teacli them a useful lesson.