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88 I-GCAIi NKWK. VOL. VIII, I challenge my opponent! I dial !" Op ponent: "Let's hoar yon shorten 'you bet." "Sir. President, 1 don't want to be inter ruptod!" cried tho cornered youth, with groat presence of mind Ex. Tho Chinese Encyclopedia is just out. It meets a long fell want: no family should bo without it. It is published in Peking and has only 5,020 volumns. Price $7,r00. Ex To pass, or lint to imss that is tho question, Whether 'tis nobler lit the in I ml to minir The fears ami terrors of an examination, To "pony through" a soa of questions. Or, by tho aid of cramming, mif-uor thuiu. Tripoli. A Junior's inscription ovor his library door: Tho Lord helps them who help thomsehcg. The tmuleiit pout sang; The Lord help htm who help hlmsoir To books In ihlschebaiij;! Al Princeton subscriptions toward tho payment of tho boating debt arc being raised. A canvasser reports oighnnino unwilling promises, and one payment of oO els. A movement is understood to be on foot in New York, to establish a Univer. sity for colored men, whose future work would he directed toward the elevation of their race in the south. $200,000 is al-n-ndy pledged. Tim student of the German uuivur&i lies are about to puUish an illustrated pa. per, something on the plan of tho Lnmqtio It is to bo called Sehmollis, and is to be "nnilhuirulcd (J on mm buor.gnzotto, writ, ton by students and Philistines for Philis tines and studenls." Ex. Pi of. Mulliorof Amherst College is try iugu new plan wilh the advanced classes in Greek. The students are not marked at nil in class, being at liberty to come or not an they please Monthly reviews are had, by which the rank of the student is determined. Tho plan has thus far workud woll, no moro absences occurring lliiin under the old svslem. LOCAL JSTEWS. Where? Slioit term! Board coining down. Rooms scarce and high. What did you say? White flag? Striped stockings made quite an im pression on Easier eggs. A good many new students camo in this term. Tho StudonUs voted tho Tomporanco tickel, but it "got left." Most of the students wont home dur ing vacation; nducetl ratos oiuilit 'om. It is a quoin spoeios of in.fnt.you-woigh-shttu that makes big girls always unwilling to bo weighed. An awful follow who claimed to bo stu dying geomotricul drawing, oxpluinod that ho had been drawing sweolnoss from Anna. lips. A wayward young gentleman who has been studying Trigonometry, says that tho frown on the paternal brow is to further developments as sine is to Inn gent. A great many of the books for lite term's work arrived from thiee days to two weeks behind time. "Thus ever thus." Can't some means be devised to fjot books here when they are needed? Sumo of the students about a dozon of them havo formed a boarding club. They aro making a success of it. Hoard costs them only $1.7f a week, whurcms they would havo to pay from Lfi0 to !tfi0 11 tliey boarded. This is wlutl has lout- boon needed in tho Univorsity, and no doubt wo will havo more students whon they find that board can be procured also low a liguro. Tho veteran mnshpoi and fryingpan will disappear and "baching?' will become a thing of the past.
