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SWAPS.
SWAPS.
The Occident sits down on our contemporary.
The department Courierosities in the Monmouth Courier is well edited.
The Wabash comes to our table rather slim in girth, but containing good matter in all departments.
—The Swaps man received a little book entitled Health Notes for Students, by Prof. Wilder. It contains many valuable notes and hints for students.
The Amherst "Senate" system is attracting much attention throughout the American college world. It is a method of government proposed by President Seelye, a man of large experience with students.
-Harvard has a co-operative society which tends to greatly reduce the expenses of those wishing to avail themselves of it. It would be well if K. S.U. could have some such organization among her students.
—Out of the smouldering ruins of her noble University comes the Indiana Student without even the smell of fire upon her garments. Although fire may blacken and char the walls it cannot injure, but rather strengthens the true university, the spirit of her sons. We extend to you the heartfelt sympathy of the Courier.
—Colby Echo contains a good article on Hypatia, Kingsley's heroine, slain by an ecclesiastical mob. In the same issue it has a long poem, "The Sea," which is a very prosy mixture dished up in attempted measure. The author evidently thought when he started out that blank verse pen-tameter was his stronghold; but soon he floats away beyond the confines of this
verse'' and adopts hexameter, with an occasional rhyme. Finally he settles down into rhyming tetrameter catalectic and with this finishes his labored effort.
The Star-Cresent is upon our table in its infancy. Although it is quite young for a phrenological examination, we believe if you will use a little less slang, conform a little more to the accepted arrangement, and leave out those cuts, for they are not funny, you will find a welcome place wherever you go.
The Argonaut gives us a "stab." That is right Mr. Argonaut; we were not angling for suckers but got a bite. Your voice has doubtless been heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, and all college papers will forever hereafter cease to clip, publish or compose anything of that nature.
The October number of the Transcript is very anxious for the proposed amendment in Ohio. The smoke has cleared away and we are sorry to say the amendment was lost. All the clogs and hindrances have not yet been removed, and the car of progress moves slowly in consequence.
We learn from the Indiana Student that Christian Boisen, (whom many of the old students will remember) is dead. Although Mr. Boisen was here but a short time he won the respect of all who knew him, and all will agree that a young life, buoyant with hope, and full of glorious promise, was cut off "long ere its prime."
The Prince of Naples, son of King Humbert, is said to be a constant reader of our American magazine for boys and girls St. Nicholas.