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. MiMiM&MibhIM 00 Our Exchanges. kr journiils. The present No. is well filled anil among tlic rest it contains many good thoughts on College Degrees." In this the author makes a very bold stand for higher scholarship to be attested by more rigid examinations. He says: "Thu result is that there are almost as many grades of colleges as there are college and a degree has come to be a meaningless appendix to a young man's name, or rather it means anything or nothing, according to the status of the institution which conferred it." This is the true spirit. We are glad to sec it manifested and long for the reac tion to bu brought about by its general acceptance. The Vasmr Jrinccllany'm appearance is head and shoulders above every other vis itor to our sanctum. Its articles, howev er, will hardly repay perusal. You see Vassar is a female institution, and it is intensely charnctoislic of the ladies, von know, to sacrifice the interior for the sake of the exterior. So trim your ribbons, my dear, and learn to give solidity and firmness to your thoughts. We hate fanaticism. We hate a Catho lic, because he is a remnant of the Dark Ages. Wo hato everything thnt is preg nant with priggery. We despise all sleazy and waterish strains at flimsy, weak-backed wit. For these things we recoil from the Niagara Index. We gave the chap a dose last month which made him feel so unfortunate about the region of the digestives that he raised up on his hind legs, grew awfully rancorous, whined and howled and gnashed his teeth madly in the air, but at last ho weakened and falling fimsily broadside, in Ills extreme effort, be has vainlj' attempted to disgorge upon our feet the following. "The print ers seem to have squandered too much cheap ink on the October number." The remainder of Urn mess is so much a conglomerate of figures, broken backed words and muddled letters that it defies analysis. You can judge however of its watery thinness by the proceeding. Now, Mr, Index, we advise you to remodel some of your ideas on " Self Education," lay aside your lamb's cloak of Religion and scamper off, for a more genial clime, to some canyon in the Rocky Mountains. The Dcnitan Collegian has been "Visit ed by an Ideal" two whole columns long. The rest of the paper is as soft as usual. The beautiful blue Bale Student causes us considerable " Mental Suffocation," while we snooze over its "Principle of Progress in Man." For booby-noodle poetry wo advise all to read the " Capture of Pegassus" in the in the November number ef Tno Universi ty JftfKourian. We can spare room for a few. lines to show you how sup-headed some women arc. There was once in ancient Action, In the hind of God 9 and Herons 'Mongthe hill tops and xallcvts On thu mountain capped with white snow. The Trinity Tablet for November has arrived We read with much interest thu article on "Poetry," in which the author says, " Poetry is the dreamland of the soul. The sweet visions that come to the spirit, the aspirations for the perfect, the heart's yearnings for what is above and beyond, all shim forth in sweetest beauty through the golden medium of poetry It is for fancy, not fact, that we look in poetry, and fancy is always more attractive than fact." Yet we believe that a poet's forte must be the turning, so to speak, of fancy into fact, and hence the truthfulness of the sentence of Max Muller, which the author quotes, "It is truth and not fiction that is the secret of all poetry." The University Reporter has come to us in fragments latel. Give us a little more ' Consolation," gentlemen, but let it be well dressed. In the College Olio wc notice " A Pious Fraud." Qui Vive, ditto. Wc hastily glance at the Chronicle, Uni versity Review, and others too numerous for space. -'rUWamrtttXw,m , - " 7m'"jm "'' l'"MIMIMlilWlligBMIIMMWMWBWIli.iijm,MMi
