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ABOUT PEOPLE.

The colored girl of the same ability as the white has not the same chance in earning a livelihood. If nature establishes the limits of color, it also permits educated labor to succeed, yet custom forbids. A friend found a vase, black in hue, placed on an end of his mantelpiece and a white one on the opposite corner. He looked at them shudderingly, uttered the word, "miscegenation," and ordered them removed. His feeling about the blacks could not even tolerate the mismated vases.

There is also the illiberality of the classical against the scientific tendency in education. A Greek scholar denounced President Eliot as prejudiced because he favored the introduction of more scientific studies, which the erudite speaker thought were best fitted for laboring people, and a president of a Western college characterized Harvard as only suitable for an aristocratic community. Graduation at Cambridge or Yale is equivalent to a mark of social superiority, supposed to be incomparably

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