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THE HESPERIAN. 5 no visiting the Unitcc States for the first time, is that hook making ami hook-selling is a far more important branch of husineas in America than at home. The hook-stores are laid out on a coliassal plan. One funis in them specimens of the highest pitch of perfection as well as of the lowest stage of degradation, in the art and mystery of making hooks." BXCUAtVGE. Assorted Weather. First it is slippery. Then it is sloppery Now you melt, And then you freeze, Now vou cough, And then you sneeze: Watch the ineieury, Hop and skip. It's not strange. We have the grip. Ex. Hillsdale iccetvcd $ 1,000 as a donation from Hon. E. X.. Koon. The Harvard and Columbia Ficshman teams have arranged for a boat race. Yale may enter if she wishes. The faculty of Lclaud Slanfoid Jr. University has demanded the resignation of the editoisofthe Palo Alto. Ex. The JMOereiico. The plumber and the poet work In very different ways; For while the lormcr lays his pipes, The latter pipes his lays. lilenor. Thcic seems to be a movement on foot to have a cade encampment next k,car. Cadets fiom all over the United States aie expected to be present. Many of our exchanges have taken on a political turn. The silver qucston is the question of greatest interest. We" arc glad to sec so many in favor of free silver. professors are said to have received offers from the same institution. We sympathize with them. The spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding club con sisted of an opera in three acts, the words and music of which were both original. The club gave four performances in New York, then in ltoston and then at the club-house in Cambridge. Harvard Monthly. In the Ariel of the University of Minnesota, Otto K. Folin treats the fraternity question in as (air and jast a manner as we have yet seen. Most Harb's get red-headed and fly off the handle. However. Otto Folin keeps his head clear and treats the subject with great reason and good sense. The Vassar Miscellany considers the Harvard Monthly as its best exchange. It is one of the best. Yet the Vassar Miscellany ranks quite as high with it. The only difference is that it docs not come quite so often. The literary column is especially good, while the editorials outrank all olhers. At the ball game, O my darling. Think not bitterly of me. If I. shouted at the umpire, Something that begins with Y).4lrunonian. Carlton college, Northfield, Minn., takes great interest pi athletics. They have seventeen tenuis courts on the cam pus. The freshman clr ss have lately erected a grand stand with a seating c.-q "Mly of 150. The girls made the awning for the same. This is the way we like to see things nvvc along. I. seems like America. The following is from the Hillsdale college Herald. Class-spirit is all right, if not rude and out of place. To hang burlesque cartoons in the chapel to exite mirth, should not lie seriously condeinmed. Hut, when the line between r.ruumeiii and coarseness is not properly recognized and regarded, and unseemiiigly outbursts occur during religious exercises like that of "marking time" for an incoming fresh man, the "joke is up and the jig is on." It seems that Hillsdale can stir up a little excitement r Poets, like maple trees. When the spring first moves, Have on top, a kind of sap, Itoiling down impiovcs. Felix, in Oberlin A'eview At a recent meeting of the faculty, the following resolution was adopted: Any student making a term niaik of So per cent, shall be exempted fiom term examuatioue ware college Review. The Midland criticised a recent number of Tin; II kspk KIAN for tirade upon aceitain college. 'Wc own that we were a little rank, but wc weic all woikcd up, ami we hav not got the patience of Job. The lienia has the oration delivered by one of its editors, Miss Nelson, which took first prize in the interstate contest. It also has a short ozcounl of the icceptiou tcndeied her upon her return. The llema may, well be pioud of its lady orator Misticss "Did you light the oil stove?" Hridget "It went out Ma'am." Mistress "Well, light it again," Hridget "Can't, ma'am, it went out through the ioof,' Ex. A man had a very bald head, Which expose! him to all sous of weathers; "I want an egg shampoo" he said, 'If I cannot grow hair I'll grow feathers." Brnnonian. The University of Wisconsin is considerably stirred up over the report that President E. C. Chambcrlin is going to leave them. He has received an offe- of head professorship (' well as the rest of the western collogcs. Now, N.-lbe is a Vassar gill, They use the Roman style in reading I kind of ihoudil when she read duces. Her rougMi eyes look sort of pleading. And now 1 guess lell meant it, too. y For Well she didn't see to intss 'e 11, l)M said: "why, Joe! how did you kiuy 'Oer motto was Juliet ficissw.Er. A few Chicago university notes will always be relished. Richard G. Moultoii, of Cambridge, Eng., fithcr of the uni versity extension, and the gieat Shakespearian scholar is a late addition. An elective house to cost $2j,o,ooo has been piomised. The chemical laboratory will be Che largest and best equipped in the country. Professor Remsv.ii, or Tonus Hopkins fills the chair in chemis ry. Professor Palmer, of Ilaivard, will be professor of philosophy with a salary of $7,000. Miss Freeman, ex president or Welle ley, will fill the position of dean of the woman's college. Professor II. E. vou Hoist, of Friedburg, has accepted a call at a salary ol $7,000. Ninety four of the one hundred teachers will be Americans. The students seeking admission are so numerous hat the plans for dormortories and oilier tiuiiuing-. mu - aenlarged. Our exchanges havr many similar notes, b s .a but a lev of in toy. The Mr. P. A. Rydberg on the 27th for the Hlaok Hills where he will spend the summer in collecting botanical spec nntis. Mr. Rvdbcrir has a commission from the United Slates department of agriculture as agent in the Hlack Hill s He also has a comnmsion Horn tne uimcimy. He takes n geology, from the University of Chicago. Several othe Mr. Wagner aB his aslstant. nammmtmafi