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Editors on the college papers at Williams are excused from writing essays.
Asbury Monthly contains, as an additional attraction. a letter from an alumnus in Chili.
The Adelphian Christmas number. contains a rather suggestive frontis-piece, a girl hanging her stockings, an editress we suppose.
"Non Paratus" dixit Freshie, Cum a sad and doleful look. Ompe rectum" Prof. respondit Et nihil scripsit in his book.
— Exc.
It is gratifying to see our holiday sisters as they come trooping in; some with changed form but all a little above their average worth.
The Harvard Advocate has been discussing college poetry at some length. We would refer it to the local on our contemporary for sample verses.
The Occident has changed her tactics. Her spinal column was not able to stand the pressure sailing under her old banner. What will the "Barbs." say?
The Simpsonian is a good college paper. Its columns are free from stuff, which fills so many college papers, Thomas Carlyle and Conservatism are good productions.
Changer on the Illini, if the last article, in your department is an index to your future policy, I hope you will reconsider the motion you have made, and extend a forgiving hand.
The Star-Crescent man turned with elvated back and ruffled front when I chanced
to remark on his youth and inexperience. I thought, owing to his lack of judgement and manifest want of good breeding, I would not reply; but lest he gloat, as small minds will, over his supposed victory, I let him know that I read what he had to say and judged him accordingly.
There was a man in our town And he was wondrous wise; He wrote a crib upon his cuft Of much diminished size.
But when he felt a little bored,
And yawned with arms extended;
This wise man gave himself away,
And straightway was suspended.
Amherst Student.
The Correspondence University at Ithaca, New York, is now an established fact. Instruction is provided in the following subjects: Agriculture, Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, Botany, Civil Engineering, Drawing, Hebrew, History, Ancient Languages, Modern Languages and Mathematics. Columbia Spectator.
Are Modern Geologists Justified in Attributing to the Earth a Greater Age than that Generally Recognized by Biblical Chronology: this, in black type, is the heading of an article in the Athenaean. The article contains much of that same stuff which flooded religious magazines when Darwin's first great work appeared. "Yom," he concludes means a natural day, forgetting that there were three "yoms," if I may be allowed the expression, before the sun, the ruler of the day, was created. He draws largely on the idea that God was able to create a complete world in an instant. He seems to forget that God works by means to accomplish ends.