Last May the Century published an article by President Thwing revealing a shocking ignorance of the Bible among college students. A class of men and another of women were asked to explain the scriptural allusions in a set of twenty-two quotations from Tennyson. Miss Briggs, a teacher in Hampton Institute, well known among our readers, was convinced when she read the results that her class could do better than the college men, and she proceeded to test them with the same examination. The result is given in detail in the December Century. The Hampton class of negro men and women included two Indians. The parents of thirty-four out of the total thirty-eight were born in slavery. Not one of the students could enter college without three years of further study. They had, however, received systematic instruction in Old Testament history as part of their academic course. How did they compare with the college Freshmen known to President Thwing?—Out of 836 possible answers, 645 were given correctly. While the college men averaged 43 per cent. and the college women 49 per cent. of correct answers, the Hampton students averaged 77 per cent. A host of questions and comments are suggested by this comparison, but one inference has such a direct bearing upon the home and the responsibilities of parents that we wish to quote it in the words of Miss Briggs herself: “If young people with much less than ordinary early training can do so well after a brief systematic course of instruction in the day-school, it would certainly seem that there must be weakness in the home instruction given to the children of some educated Christian families.”—Congregationalist.