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 54O H. W. LYONS in this country? Is it in any the practical-needs of the people students live ? Are' the students by their study to a true understanding healthy desire for the solution of the the people? Or do the majority of way connected with amongst whom the themselves inspired of, and to problems them study economics because they consider it comparatively easy, and because it is necessary for the all important degree with which to. so!v.e their own eton. omit ditcul- ties? How much lndlvldu&l research, tmportant or nnimportant, will a student do outside ments of the curriculum?--for this is s their interest. Let us apply the standard of the three our teaching "Head, Hand and Heart." The annual results of the University examinations, with the great majority of passes in the third division, is, I take it, sufficiently indicative of the fact that we are not meeting with overwhehning success in our purely in- tellectual endeavors. Bombay side at least One reason for this is the failure o! late the require- real test d H's to on the years d the students to speak English outside the class room, with the inevitable decline of their knowledge of the language of our instruction. 0nly recently ! dis- covered a fourth year student spelling machinery. "machiary", and a third year student who declared that the word "salient" and "hit aunt sally on the koko" were from the 5ame root! Another and s deeper reason is because of their about the practical industrial and commercial life which that the majority of our students, caste, know nothing and care little forms the basis of most of our economic theory. The whole philosophic outlook of .the student is opposed to his acceptance of the subject as of vital social importance. I know many who talk a great deal; but if the subject does assume any real impor-