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MMtkAJi 4!2() EdITOK'B TaMiK. Vou vii, 53 t . r. p.,1. HT ! Ii B I I 1 ,! f:'U uu Uiu renders of the Alabama periodical in a most persistent munner, for after tak ing up the usual space in the proceeding No.hogives lhcc()nclusiou,which consists of eleven pages, in the present one, and the magazine opens in the middle of a sentence which looks very badly. The Institute is heralded in by a most remarkable jingle, called "The Silver Wedding," in which every alternate line makes a most perfect rhyme. We tack led it with considerable courage and at the end of fifteen verses took a rest, and taking hope tried fifteen more: then our suspicions being aroused we concluded to count the remainder of the verses, all the while carefully watching for italicised letters, forjjwe feared it was all only u pre lude to some advertisement of patent med icines, when we found that only nine re mained. What a muse it must have been to grind out thirty-nine verses, each more beautiful and striking than the other. The Institute is most favored in the pos session of such a remarkable genius. There is considerable thought in the ar ticle on "The Policy of Louis XI," and the style is clear and easy, so that a pleas unt impression is left upon the reader while there is valuable information im part ud. Its division into paragraphs is peculiar, and the paragraphs of one line, then of two Hues alternating with an en tire half page, this being the manner through the entire arlicli-, lends very much to weaken the client of a perusal. Another new comer! The East Tonne see University sends us No. 1), Vol fi of its monthly published by the literary so cietles. It is in a very neat magazine form and wo think will bear acquain tance. I! echoes the views of the Jionton Beacon in regard to the aim of the paper, and says that it wishes to bo not "an organ of the editors, but a mirror in which col lege sentiments and studonts opinions are reflected." This is a good aim and if it succueds in it 'twill bo all thatisroquirod. The gay Taryum is horo with its aston- ishiug wit and lengthy descriptions of atheletic sports, for these two character istics strike one as predominating in tho Kutgors college paper. Thorn are some good editorials in the present number and much observation of collogo allairs is shown in several of them. In one of them the editor attempts to justify the students of Kutgors, in some of their ir regularities, by laying the blame on the newspaper reporters, and be accuses them of willfully misrepresenting tlie slate of af. fairs in their desire lor sensation. This is very probable, but there can be no doubt that there has been consiJerable careless ness among the students of New limns, wick college and the writer acknowledges this when he cautions the students against any further disorders that reflect on their college, and furnish opportunities for ex aggerated accounts. The marking system is next discussed by one who has evident ly felt the injustice of the present system, and he makes some forcible arguments in favor of its abolishment. Ho claims that there is a strong tendency to cheat in tho class room and especially by those who desire a good mark; that students will humble themselves in a most servile man ner, to obtain the good will ot the proles sors thus hoping to obtain iho preference; that the diflerent courses recite to dil' ferent professors and the dissimilarity of marking which exists under them makes it impossible to place Ilic honors of Ili class where they really belong. Quito a vivid description is given of a geological excursion of the senior class. CLIPPINGS. Wit mako3 it easy to grow old, but not impossible. "A revolving fragment of the paleozoic ago collects no oryptognmous vegetation" is a now rendering lor ii popular pro verb. Tho other day a teacher askod an uu regenerate pupil what tho gender of a ,' . 1 1 . IMMM ,,-,, ,-" T