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With this issue the UNIVERSITY COURIER will, in all probability, cease its existence as such, and unite with the Kansas Review, to publish a paper known as the UNIVERSITY REVIEW. It was thought best by all parties to unite the efforts into one. Whether this be wise or not the future will tell. We do not propose to discuss it here. But, as our connection is severed with this issue, we would like to say a few words on retiring.
Our acquaintanceship, we trust, has been productive of good; we have enjoyed it, and been benefitted by it. And I would say to my successor, exercise caution. Handle the Baldwin Index carefully, for you know she is a tender scion. Beware of the Gatling gun of the Illini. Treat the Rockford Seminary with deference and respect, for she demands it. Provoke not the wrath of the Crescent. Enter not into contention with the Rambler, for the name is suggestive. Think not, in the freshness of thy youth, to gain the ear of the Advocate. Be courteous and kind. If we have wounded any one we hope time will heal the wound; if any one wounded us at any time, we buttoned our coat over it and went on our way muttering.
CLIPPINGS.
—Kenyon and Amherst excuse students, who obtain a term mark of 75 per cent. in any branch, from the usual examination on the subject at the end of the term. We think a plan similar to this would vastly improve the scholarship of the colleges and do away with the evils of "cramming" for examinations. The facts show that students who obtain a good term mark seldom have any trouble in passing their examinations. Moreover, under such a system each one would try to do his best on every lesson, and thus learn far more of the subject.
—Perhaps it is safe to say that one-half of the translations made in the classics are bohna fide. —Chaff.
Forest and Stream will next year offer a $100 cup for inter-collegiate shooting. The conditions to be announced later.
The presidential ballot at Cornell resulted as follows: Blaine 159; Edmnnds 108; Cleveland 27; Arthur 24; Tilden 21; scattering 53.
—The State college of Alabama, situated at Auburn, Ala., has followed the lead of Vanderbilt in repealing its anti-fraternity laws. Beta Theta Pi.
The New York Sun is not as respectful to judges as it should be and is very unkind to Colonel McClure, saying:
Out in Kansas last week they had an oratorical contest, and awarded the $100 prize to a young man who waltzed around the conundrum, "Watchman, What of the Night?" Now they have found that his effort was a clean-cut plagiarism from Colonel McClure, of the Quaker City. The young Demosthenes has been censured and disgraced. We are opposed to lynch law, but some severe punishment should be inflicted on the committee which awarded a prize to the eccentric vaporings of Philadelphia's editorial mugwump.
—"It is more blessed to give than to receive," as the young man said when he imprinted a kiss on his sweetheart's lips. "I think so, too," she replied, as she returned the salute; and thus two hearts were made happy by a single quotation.-Ex.
The reply of a poor fellow whose house is situated in malarious district, to the question: "Is life worth living?"--Not by a damp site.
-At Dartmouth two new prizes have been offered: one, $40, for the best essay on "Free Trade," and the other, $50, for the best one on "Protection."