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EXCHANGES.
Bates Student comes to our table from Maine. It contains besides other interesting reading, an excellent poem entitled The New Year.
The literary department of The Wittenberger is well conducted, and shows evidences of merit. The Wittenberger is now entering on its sixth year, and is a very creditable paper.
The last issue of The Campus contains an article on Social Culture, which is well worth reading. We should like to ask whether it is the contribution of a lady or gentleman.
We have received the February number of the Alabama University Monthly. Its general make up is good, but we take exceptions to the article on Skepticism.
The Earlhamite says we have 331 students this year. Come out, Brother Earlhamite, and visit us. We will introduce you to 375 of the best looking and most intelligent class of students you can find in any college in the United States.
The Archangel is among our best exchanges, and though we don't wholly agree, perhaps, in the matter of religion, yet we can fraternally shake hands in the good cause of popular science and universal knowledge.
The Round Table, published every Wednesday by the Archean Union of Beloit College is comparatively an old college paper, being in its 25th year. Its typography is unexcelled. Its articles are of a rich and racy sort.
The Simpsonian, representing the Simpson Centenary College, of Indianola, Iowa, lies upon our table, and after careful perusal we have come to the conclusion that it is a first class college paper. We shall always welcome you.
The Carthagenian, devoted to the interests of Carthage College, comes to us this month in neat pamphlet form. Its leading articles are good, and altogether it is a well conducted sheet. Carthage non delenda est. Recte.
The University Magazine, published at Philadelphia under the auspices of the Philomathean Society (State University), has been received. It is very neatly gotten up, and is a live college paper. Each department is well sustained.
The College Courier is, as the old lady said, as "cherp as a cricket" this month. After looking over the numerous exchanges on our table, it is really a relief to read the Courier, and like meeting an old friend we say, Bless your old soul! How are you?
Prosperity seems to have blessed our friend the Kansas Monthly. The January number comes out in flying colors, with 16 pages of wholesome reading-matter, and the prospect soon of doubling the number of pages in succeeding issues. Pages 4,5 and 6 should be taken out and framed by every intelligent voter in the State of Kansas.
The Cornell Review for January is a most interesting pamphlet. Modern Skepticism, Theodore Winthrop and His Writings, and Communism in America, are three excellent productions, and will amply repay perusal. The editorial department is well sustained, as also that of exchanges. To any student wishing to take an instructive college journal, the Cornell Review would be recommended by us.
The Denison Collegian is one of our regular exchanges. The fact of its being published each alternate week of the collegiate year by the literary societies, tends to create a stimulus in each society to excel, and as their endeavors tend in the same direction the result is obvious. Kansas University papers might learn a lesson in the example the Collegian presents us.
The Tripod, now entering on its ninth year, wishes a prosperous New Year to all. "One especial care," as it says, "is to make the paper essentially a journal which shall record those incidents and pranks which sandwich college life." We only remark that if the boys of the Northwestern University are as full of "Old Harry" as they are here, it will necessitate the enlargement of the paper at once. You are always welcome.
In the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry for January, we find an ably written article under the head of Thoughts Upon Our Conceptions of Physical Law, by Prof. F. E. Nipher; an essay by Judge E. P. West, entitled Footprints of Primitive Thought; Science and Man, by Prof. Noah Porter, of Yale College; besides much other interesting matter. The Review is a credit to Kansas City, and a commentary upon the intelligence of the Western people.
The American Journal of Education comes this month as full of news as ever. It has several articles of special importance to teachers. We heartily enjoyed the article on School Management, and hope it may be the means of tearing down too many of our barns commonly called school houses and replacing them with commodious, beautiful buildings. Every teacher who lies awake nights puzzling himself or herself how to "grade," will find the whole problem settled in the January number, under the head of "A Problem Solved."
Our Schools. We take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of No. 1, Vol. I. of Our Schools,a paper devoted to educational interests. Printed in the literary hub of Kansas, it deserves our support. It supplies a long felt want in the State Its articles are well chosen and well written. With the platform it unfurls, success no doubt awaits it. It starts out with the patronage of such men as Allen B. Lemmon, Winslow L. Hayden, A. H. Terry, and others. It courts honest criticism, and any paper of this day that makes so bold a stand must succeed. Success.
There are ninety-seven colleges in the United States with co-educational principles.—Vidette.
The total attendance at Michigan University is 1,347.
Iowa boasts thirty-five colleges and the largest law school in the West.—Ex.
Don't try to write too plainly, says an eastern exchange. It is a sign of plebian origin and school breeding. The scrawler is the man of genius. -Ex.
The first college journal was published at Dartmouth, in 1800.
Syracuse has 250 students ; Williams, 268.
Kansas has six sectarian colleges, two seminaries, five normal schools, one agricultural college, and the best university in the West.
Oxford University, England, is over ten centuries old; has an annual income of about a million of dollars, and a library of five hundred thousand volumes. -Exc.
Oh, the Soph., the Soph.
On, the Soph., the Soph.,
The obstreperous Soph.,
Blowing and shooting his big mouth off:
Following, watching, aping the Senior; —
Miserable Soph., you're running great danger.— Ex.