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EXCHANGE.
EXCHANGE.
The Colby Echo devotes too much space to base ball.
The Hamilton College Monthly is distinguished by the large amount of poor poetry in its last issue.
"A Commencement Boomerang" in the Lehigh Burr, is good, but the would-be funny "Hand-book of Lehigh" is not at all amusing.
Certainly the worst college paper we have seen is the Archangel. It is a miserable mixture of "science and religion," ill printed and worse written.
The Bethany Collegian is only in its fourth number, so we wait with interest its possible development this year. Meanwhile we recommend brevity and condensation.
The same may be said of the "Stories for the Young" in the Harvard Advocate. We get a very dim impression that the author wishes us to laugh, but we can't to save ourselves from hanging.
From far off New Zealand comes an unpretentious but very attractive little quarterly, the Nelsonian It contains several well written articles, and we hope to have the pleasure of reading every number.
With this first number of its second volume the Courier appears in new form and new dress. We think it an improvement over last year, and shall endeavor to progress yet farther as we grow older.
The Calliopean Clarion is remarkable for its alliterative title, its occasionally good leading articles, and its sickly sentimental serial. The latter has at last died a natural
death—we meant, was concluded in the June issue.
OTHER COLLEGES.
Lehigh is agitated on the question of athletics.
The Haverfordian editors want a sanctum.
Cornell has 407 students about 50 of them young women.
Nelson College, New Zealand, has a girls' college attached.
The Williams papers are kicking against enforced attendance at chapel twice a day.
The Dartmouth is to be published weekly the ensuing year and its size reduced probably one-third.
Professor Goodwin, of Harvard, has left the University of Athens, and will return to the United States.
The Department of Political Economy at Harvard recently received a gift of $1,000 from an unknown friend.
President McCosh, of Princeton College, asks for $200,000 for the better endowment of philosophy, and expects to get it.
The University of Berlin advertises for persons to translate scientific works into modern Greek, Roumanian and Servian.
At Wesley, the students take no part in Commencement exercises, which consist mainly of an oration by some gentleman of ability.
Amherst and Dartmouth are to have daily papers. Harvard, Yale, and Cornell are the only institutions at which dailies have succeeded so far.