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The College Journal published at the College of the city of New York, is among our recent exchanges. It devotes the columns almost exclusively to college news and games.
The Star-Crescent, whose exchange editor has a very tender spot, (?) still comes from the "sunny south," It contains a good article, Language. The author handles his subject with ease and grace. But "Mark" is a prodigy, why, he does nothing but rant, and talk of Nature's jewels, saintly lilies, iris-hued flowers, dancing waters, floating cloud, sparkling stars, silvery moon, babling brooks, etc. Bosh Mark, if you have anything to say, say it, but don't cover up your thoughts with a multitude of words.
The Badger for March 6, gives all its space to reporting a joint debate between two literary societies. The question, "Conceding the constitutionality, should the United States assume control of the interstate railway traffic?" is ably discussed on both sides.
Our state exchanges have been busy for the last week discussing the "foot and mouth disease," and the extra session of the legislature. All conclude that Gov. Glick and other leading men of the state have been the dupes of designing men and would-be newsy correspondents of the press; and that the disease is nothing more than a kind of scratches caused by standing in wet, filthy corrals, and in no way contagious.
Gov. Glick has undoubtedly injured himself politically in thus hastily calling an extra session of the legislature, thereby involving the state in unnecessary costs. Had he examined the ground carefully and taken the testimony of experts and not of quacks and one horse veterinary surgeons he might have avoided such an egregious blunder.
Miss Minnie Wheeler was the representative of Ohio Wesleyan University, in the Ohio State Contest. Her oration, "The Poet's Ministry," is printed, in full, in the March number of the Transcript. Her style is pleasing and her figures poetical and well drawn. The subject is well treated, looking at it from her standpoint, although she does not follow the same line an average male orator would pursue.
How cold that "ad,'' "Ice cream," on the cover of the Transcript, made us all winter! And now it makes us shiver to think the season is actually coming on.
It has become fashionable of late for exchange editors and other paper functionaries to deliver themselves of an opinion as to how an exchange department should be conducted. We venture that more crude thought and liliputian ideas have been expended on this than any other one department pertaining to college journalism. An "ex" editor when he assumes his post, or soon after, or when he sees war between two of his neighbors, writes out an abridged form of the moral law for his modus operandi, which, as one of our exchanges suggests, he marks and sends to his 'best girl.' He sticks to his resolutions until some brother "ex,'' conscientiously, or wittingly fires a shell at him, when all of his good little resolutions are forgotten. We would suggest, in order to avoid further