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SWAPS.
SWAPS.
The Swarthmore Phoenix ranks well in most of its departments. We would suggest, however, that it make its literary a little stronger.
The Normal News comes to our table a welcome friend. It is of especial interest to our Normal editor, who immediately seizes and bears it away to the seclusion of his own sanctum.
The Kansas City Review has in the October No. a lengthy and exhaustive article on the Tools of the Mound Builders, with cuts, showing the shape and peculiar construction of each tool.
The much vexed question, the marking system, is now being pretty well discussed in almost all college papers. And one would think, in reading the various criticisms, that the old system was about to go to the wall.
—We like the make up of the University Mirror. It is well sustained in all its departments. But we think those cuts, if such they may be called, at the head of each department, could be well dispensed with, or changed.
The Denison Collegian contains an excellent article on the Suppression of Mormonism. The writer in a very logical way, shows that Mormonism is not a religion, and that even if it were, the government would have a right to interfere when its practices become intolerant.
—Our friend the Occident still wages what, with her, is an eternal warfare against the Greeks. If there is one thing to be admired above another, it is steadfastness to conviction. She has seen fit to "take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them?"
As some of our exchanges have taken particular exception to the super-abundance of criticism in the first issue of our paper for this year; we would like to say for our own justification, that we did not have anything to do with the department then.
The Sunbeam comes to us from the land where sunbeams are surely grateful, and especially one so thoroughly concentrated as that before us. It is a bright, spicy little paper, with a longer exchange list, we venture to say, than any other North American college paper.
The Baldwin Index, our nearest neighbor, arrived just as we were going to press with our last issue and hence too late for comment. We see, however, that the exchange editor, like all good, honesthearted fellows, takes in all that our Editorial is pleased to give him and honestly sets about to refute it.
Mr. Editor, on the College Transcript, we would suggest for your own good, that you write your own criticisms and not clip them from other papers, for that forces your readers to one of two conclusions, either you lack the ability to write them, or else you think they will have more weight coming from another paper. If the first be true you acknowledge your own inability, if the second, the low rank of your paper.
The Fredonia Presbyterian comes to us with the following paragraph marked: "The University Courier of Lawrence, Kansas, is a bright college monthly. Its front page is decorated with the photographs of the new chancellor and members of the faculty. On the whole they are rather ornamental for a lot of pedagogues." Instead of being a monthly, Mr. Fredonia, we come out on the seventh and twentieth of each month, and our motto is non nobis solum.