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MtHM ?0. ii. KDITOll'S TAllIiK. on ahawk and batllc-nx ; slashing right and left among the exchanges, ho pours vials of wrath upon the first unlucky papers that meet his eye. Justice and Charity are evidently not in the curriculum of "Our Lady of Angels. TheFebrunry number of the Knox Stu dent grcels us with a most enjoyable essay on Hollands' "Blttcr-Swcot," followed by an enthusiastic article on Charles Sumner. The Knox Student has only readied its fifth issue, yet it has already obtained an enviable position. Its editorials are sound and the literary department would be a credit to any paper. Wo must con less, however, that we cannot sec why the Student should join some other papers a mong' our exchanges in making cutting(?) remarks about our red dress. Your os tlictic taste, Mr. Editor, is sadly in need of cultivation if you cannot admiro its beauty. You should say that "its bright, ness and attractiveness are typical of the wealth of thought within!" The Wtttcnburger in a sensible article urges the students "to keep road up on politics," and truly says that "u knowledge of political news should form a part of the education of every student, without re. gard to his future occupation." The Wtttenburger is the only one of our ex. changes that has a mathematical depart ment devoted to the solution of problems inlricate and puzzling enough to send a half-dozen able-bodied students to the In sane Asylum. The Simpsontan has the poorest editor ialsofany of our exchanges. Those in the February number were scarcely worth, y of the name. A paper in its ninth year and with seven editors should present a belter appearance. Arouse ye! Somnol lent Simpsonians! The same criticism would, to great extent, aapply to the Gol lege Olio. The Ariel opens as usual with a poem. "I'ruy what In 11 student to do Wliun lie linsn't u word to nay, And lit nnmo In down on the hulluthi board For nn cfHiiy on such n dny?" The exchange column is much hotter than usual but the editorials are decided, ly below par. The University Missourian has ti pecu liar arrangement of its own by which it places the editorial department first and the literary contributions last. We tin not consider that the change is any im provement. We especially commend its contributed articles as boing short. This affords space lor a larg o number of themes and their varied style adds materially to the worth of the paper. We wish Hint all of our exchanges might follow their example in this particular, as so many of them seem to string out their articles merely for the sake of covcr'ng space: a purpose which many of them most effect ually accomplish. The Student Life gives the honored first place to sentimental "souvenirs" of "my early lovo and I." The poem was en tiroly out of place in a college paper. Romance, "rare felicity," "bewitching lips" and so forth, have no business in a paper which pretends to be devoted to the, "culture and higher education" of stu d'.'nts. Judging from tlio editorials the now corps of editors had r hard time in ob taining their positions. When each of the students contributed 2 hands, 2 feet and "an irrepressible voico" and "I ho battle raged for 2 hours" and the "chair, man was carried out by weeping friends, a miserable wreck," the election must have been to say the least rather breezy. EDITOR'S NOTES. Edinburgh University lias 2,550 stu dents. West I'oinl library contains 25,000 vol. nines. A Harvard instructor in German lias been dismissed (or selling examination papers. Ex.
