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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.
