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W. LYONS Western States. Would the students co-operate? I feel confident that those who have a real interest in economics and in their country would do so; and that such a development .would lead to the presence in our colleges of students specially selected by Native States to st.udy these practical problems. I found ? ready response on the part of several of my students to the suggestion in our Economies Olub to carry on extension lantern lectures as s part of the work of the club. We are now giving fortnightly lantern lectures to s?.oure funds to purchase sets of slides for this purpose. T? great diflioulty is, however, that the men who realme the value of such work are fourth year students who are living in the shadow o! their B.A. examination, and all o! us have-reason to kno? how all-enveloping and impenetrable that shadow is. My proposal would involve the addition of st least another year to the usual two year oourse in e.oono? miss--in the University of Allahab?, (or instance, the putting of eoonomios on the oourse for the Inter? mediate examination. ? The years oonld be divided as of the final year would be work of the should form important would be the work of sip t' resen , essentially nature preyiously outlined. the ,basis of a B.A. thesis; e?timation of the first two but the work practical Such work but most the ability eoonomios, by the student, of his real knowlec]ge of the' p?ofessor who had directed his work throughout the year. Such an estimation would be invaluable in directing student's attention to suitable lines of work in after life, probably relieving the present pressure o! applicants for clerkships in government offices. In order that such estimations might be done on a fairly uniform basis, and in order that such an htnovation in teaching methods might be successfully hltroduoed, it would be necessary for the university'