254
SWAPS.
—The Denison Collegian is one of our stald exchanges. "The Civilization of the Future" is an article especially worthy of mention. The writer is, however, guilty of some very strong statements, in which we think the truth will hardly bear him out. One, that civilization is in its infancy is surely an unthinking statement. To be sure, we are not at the apex of civilization yet, but we occupy a place a little advanced beyond infancy. De Nunciis had better sneak off, orwithdraw his mule, or both.
We have always invited students to come into our sanctum and spend an hour with us looking over the exchanges. In this way a student may get a vast deal of information about other colleges and their workings. Many have come and enjoyed, as we trust, a pleasant time. We were largely patronized by the Freshmen, hunting chapel declamations. If they palmed them off for original we kept mum. But when '87 had ceased worrying those whose religious scruples compelled them to go to chapel, when the last clarion notes of the Freshmen had died away, the number of our callers decreased. But still an occasional visitor would drop in, thumb the exchanges, make a few remarks about the worth of our paper compared with other college journals, always to the advantage of the former, and retire. This continued for some time without interruption. Once in a great while a Senior would brighten our gloomy abode with the sunshine from his manly countenance. One morning a Sophmore, noblest of his class, came in and requested to look over the exchanges. We seated him at a large pile and went on with our writing, leaving him in rapt enjoyment. At length he asked if we had any magazines published exclusively by ladies. We gave him the Sunbeam, Miscellany, and Rockford Seminary Magazine. He
perused them for a few moments and then brought his fist down rather forcibly upon the table, exclaiming, "Great guns! here is my old——." "What?" we asked eagerly. "Friend," he replied, after a moment's pause. It was a copy of the Rockford Seminary he was examining, and without further satisfying our curiosity he turned to the exchange department and began devouring it. Not another word could we extort from him. His mind reverted to the scenes of other days, and he soon fell into a reverie from which we could only rouse him by telling him the dinner gong had sounded.
-"Prof. Perry, of Williams College, has made a mathematical calculation by which he computes that Gest, the student who met his death while coasting at Williams-town, Mass., was moving when hurt, at the rate of three miles per minute."
—“Now we have the Theta grip. May our friendship never rip"
The Colossus of Rhodes must take a back seat. Bartholdi's statue of Liberty Enlightening the World is a revelation. New York is to be envied; and in some smaller degree we may be envied. We have just been presented with a picture, 26x36, by the Travelers' Insurance company, of Hartford, Conn., giving a capital representation of the majestic image.
—Prominent among our new exchanges is The Pawnee New Era, published at Pawnee, Indian Territory, in the interest of the Pawnee Industrial Boarding school. It is a little out of the regular line of college papers, yet is a very fair exponent of the work done in such a school. Number one contains a very interesting historical account of the founding of the school.
Cornell University has received an invitation, signed by the Duke of Argyle as Chancellor, and Sir Stafford Northcote as rector, to send a representative to the 300th anniversary of the founding of the University of Edinburgh, next Easter, this representative to be the guest of the Edinburgh authorities.