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This is an exceptionally dull season of the year for college papers, at least, one would be forced to that conclusion by reading the exchanges now on our table.
The Baldwin Index is marked by a gushing literary article on music, and a three page editorial on Satan or George R. Wendling, we can't exactly tell which.
The Harvard Advocate holds its course serenely on water-lined paper regardless of other college organs.
The cross-eyed condition of the March number of the College Courier augers ill for the moral status of the Business Manager.
The University Mirror deals in rehashes of Shakespeare.
The Hamilton Female College Monthly maintains an excellent reputation for poor poetry and has a critique on Julius Ceasar.
The Adelphian's frontispiece is dim and dingy, and it has an excellent article on Bulwer Lytton.
The contents of the College Journal is largely of local interest.
The last number of the Kansas Review is the best issue this year.
—The Alabama University Monthly has a yum yu n article on "The Speaking Dead."
The present staff of the Bethany Collegian appropriately finish their work to the slow music of an article on "Suicide."
The Argonaut appears with a highly aesthetic cover in pale blue and red. The articles are as good as usual, but there should be more system in the arrangement of the matter.
If the trustees of Simpson College contemplate erecting a new building, they can secure a solid foundation by taking the back numbers of the Simpsonian. The
contributors are solid men, "men of weight and faith."
When the long suffering exchange man attempts to read, in the Weslyan Bee, articles on "Reason as a Source of theological Knowledge," he is tempted to use expressions theological but not orthodox.
The St. Mary's Sentinel publishes an enormous poem in which ten successive lines begin with "The" and "And." It isn't every paper that, like the late lamented Day and Martin, can afford to "Keep a poet.
The Colby Echo's translation from Beowulf is good; but otherwise there is too much echo.
The Lehigh Burr would be a pretty good paper if it would kill off about half dozen of its contributors, who write alleged funny stories.
The News Letter is well edited, but should change its typographical dress for a plainer one.
According to all reports the Swarthmore Phoenix is in a rather "sat upon" condition, as it has to submit all copy to the faculty before publication; a relic of barbarism.
The Stevens Indicator is very well printed, and the articles are quite characteristic of the work of the school.
The Illini is well gotten up, though largely devoted to local interests.
The Atlantis rehashes a part of Froude's Caesar and doesn't give the distinguished author credit for it.
—The students who are taking French are anxious to use "Sarah Banum" as a text book.Lehigh Burr.