ADVERTISING THE PROFESSIONS.

The establishment of a series of lectures on the professions by the Union is due to the belief that while a very large proportion of the undergraduates are trying during their college course to make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they do not see what the others have to offer. In the choice of lecturers the Governing Board hopes to secure men of distinction in every subject--taking sometimes men who are far advanced in successful careers and sometimes comparatively young men who having but recently made the choice themselves, but are already eminent, can perhaps sympathize most readily with the point of view of the undergraduate.