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By our request The News Letter is upon our table. You find a welcome nook.
The High School Index is surely a laudable effort for sub. collegiates.
From the old Penn state comes an unpedantic paper, yet one of true worth, The Haverfordian.
The College Rambler, for November although good in some departments, is a little weak in literary matters.
The Vanderbilt Observer still continues, at the old stand, to dish out good readable articles on live and important questions.
—"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few chewed up." Illini thinks the College Journal belongs to the last class.
The Wesleyan Bee arrived a little late. It is a good paper, but has the first page poorly ornamented with a long drawn out, labored description of The Old Homestead which in prose might do, but in poetry it becomes so monotonous that no one, except the author perhaps, will read it through.
The Carson Index comes to us emblazoned with please exchange. It has a continued poem in its literary department. Yes, we will exchange Mr. Index, if you will discontinue to continue continued poems. We don't like the strain on the mind caused by anticipation.
—Many of our old exchanges have not reached us yet, and some are making their first appearance in the November issue. Why this is we can't say, unless it be that the first issue is not a sample and they are afraid to trust their baby to the merciless exchange editor.
Cornell has devised a plan for the establishment of a correspondence university, which will not require attendance, but will be managed entirely by correspondence.
The students of both Princeton college and the Seminary united to commemorate the birthday of Luther. The exercises were very impressive.
The Harvard Advocate comes as a welcome visitor. It is decidedly an exponent of college affairs and represents, in many features, the real spirit in salt water colleges The articles are about subjects which interest a Harvard student rather than students in general.
In one of our exchanges we found a defense of the classics, by Lord Coleridge. The classics surely need to be defended. Not, however, because they lack worth to stand alone, but because of the unrelenting warfare, the so called practical educationists are waging against them.
This warfare is carried on in many ways. Some are open and above board; but others in a semi-underhanded way by having all or nearly all the sciences together with the laboratory work, in each, inserted into the classical course. This as a natural consequence either over works the student or causes him to neglect the object for which he went to college, a classical education.
The Atlantis is among our recent exchanges. It has a literary department very far above the average and is equally good in other departments. It is not only welcome on account of its merit as a college journal, but also because it comes from the institution where our new and efficient Prof. in Astronomy was located.