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departure, and his report is now one of the strong features. The debates are marked by a lack of preparation. This should be changed, for if properly managed the debate is one of the most valuable exercises. Most of the debaters seem to think that wind is argument, and to deny a statement is to disprove it. On the 23d March the resignation of C.C.Dart from chairmanship of the executive committee was accepted and W.H.Brown elected to fill vacancy.
Now that the constitution is printed amendments are numerous. At the last two meetings several such were discussed at some length, but the bitter spirit of the preceding meeting was conspicuous by its ascence. A $50 sinking fund was locked up for buying a carpet, so we think we will have it this time, sure. R.
EXCHANGE.
We have been the recipient of several new exchanges since our last issue, all of which we are well pleased with, and very willingly place them upon our list.
No.1, vol.1 of the Bethany Collegian certainly makes an excellent start in the line of college journalism May success attend you in the years to come.
The modest request of the Lawrenceville Record to "X" is complied with and with no reluctance on our part. The only feature that detracts from its otherwise presentable appearance, is its fondness for mixing advertisements with reading matter.
The Crescent from New Haven, Conn., invades our "sanctum" for the first time. Like the Lawrenceville Record, and the High School Index, it comes from a high school, and will compare very favorably with the others of the same class.
The Sentinel with pretentious cover comes fairly running over with military news. Its literary, local, personal and military departments all have their full share.
The Archangel comes all the way from St. Michaell's college, Portland, Oregon, to gives us college news of the northwest. Rather diminutive in form, and wanting in literary articles.
The Asbury Monthly in a well written article discusses the decay of Protestantism.
The letters in the Bucheltel Record on "German University Life," are by far the most interesting that we have ever read. We hope they will be continued.
The Baldwin Index, with ruffled front and elevated back, attempts in the editorials of its March issue, to demolish the Courier Exchange Ed. because we dared to review some of the contest productions of "baker," a short time ago. We were somewhat surprised to find the editorial space of the Index containing the ebullition referred to, since the exchange department is supposed to take charge of all such differences; but the reasons for this new departure became very "apparant" when we made the hair-raising discovery that changes had been made in the editorial staff of the Index, and that the author of one of the productions referred to,had been placed in charge of the editorial department of the Index. To this gentleman then, who thinks forbearance "ceaces" to be a virtue, we may be safe in directing what little we have to say. If our friend of the Index had been as alive to his own deficiencies as he is to those which he so generously ascribes to others, he would certainly have never afflicted us with so much
poor spelling, nor given us "baker" in evidence thereof. While we in our criticism, strengthened every statement by illustrations taken from the productions, the warlike editor of the Index dwells at some length upon the injustice of our criticism, not once attempting to show in what way they were unjust, and finally even admitting one of the most prominent faults of them all. What is "sononus" Greek, and who, friend, is "Hudibros?" We have read some of the "long line of poets from Chaucer to Longfellow" and fail to find only a very limited use of compound adjectives in any of them. To attempt to thus justify the inordinate use of them in the "baker" contest orations, is as reasonable as to try to establish a truth from a fallacy. While De Quincy, Carlyle and others may have been addicted to the use of compound adjectives, it does not follow as a natural conclusion that when stuffed in a chaotic manner into an oration, they will make it either readable or intelligible.
LOCAL.
We are sorry that limited space in the literary department prevents our publishing one of the orations entire in this issue, for its publication, better than words of ours would vindicate all that we have said concerning them. But our "baker" friend is probably just ushered into the journalistic world, and first attempts generally are windy and futile, so the Index limb of journalism may be pardoned for his harmless "effervescence." Our youthful high school friend has much to learn before he reaches man's estate, and in all probability will be criticised more than once if he persists in giving publication to his ideas in his homespun orthography. The compliments he has so kindly paid us, like the tone of his editorials and orations, show only too plainly his calibre, and injure no one but their author.
Hop.
Hack.
Abbott.
Opera.
Changes.
Regents.
Base ball.
President Keys.
Speaker Walker.
Bye! bye! Junior Preps.
The Daily Morning Sun.
A large number of students voted.
The regents increased Spangler's salary to seven hundred dollars per year.
An unusually good program was presented last Friday at the German society on Prof. Carruth's birth day.
The University is inside of the corporation of Lawrence.
Several of the present Seniors will return and take the law course next year.
The Sophomores have commenced making their collections of "bugs."
It is rumored that the recent University hop did not develop the best of feeling among its projectors.