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(jSafeny HO. ft tcbiTOit's TAllLK. Hi by the two literary societies. The result, thus fur, must surely meet the most sun guin cxpections of till friends of peace fill elections. In fact, every election since held has been decidedly tame. Ev ery nominee has dropped into his new honors as easily as a Junior learns not to love tne military drill. This will not do. The reaction has been loo great. Nothing short of a division of each society on the editorial question, thus giving rise to a four cornered light, will redeem the repu tation of the students in this matter. In this number of the Student will bo found a reply to an article that appeared in the March number. Just what the feelings of the writer of the prior article are, in having his arguments ussailed by the artillery of a pugnacious? contributor, we are unable to state, but the idea, in it self, seems to us a good one. There is nothing lost for a writer to take a bold, decided ground. If ho can't elicit a re ply, it would Beem that nobody differs with him. A diversity of opinion in arti cles on a common subject lends interest and animation to the columns of a college paper. Our attention has been repeatedly called to the fact that persons, while temporarily absent from the University, fail to recoive their Student. The business manager may sometimes have neglected his duty, but the failure has often been caused by the neglect of subscribers to inform that functionary ot their prst-ofllce address. The catalogue, for obvious reasons, is not always a sure guide in ascertaining this fact. Let all subscribers, therefore, attend to this matter before leaving school, so that the annoyance of not receiving the Student at the proper time may be lessened. We regret that the Junior and Sopho more classes did not carry out their do. Bign of holding public exhibitions near the close of last term. Both the classes would undoubtedly have given excel lent entertainments, and considerable pre. paration was actually made by tno former class. We are loth to charge the failure to a lack of incentive, and fear the post ponement ot the exhibition was the main cause of its being "tabled." EDITOR'S TABLE. Scarcely any department of college journalism needs more prompt and care ful revision than the local columns. Many of our exchanges whoso learned editorials, finely written essays and pol lshed orations would be a credit to older journals edited by wiser heads have per mitted this very pleasant department of their paper to degenerate sadly. Their locals are pompous, "slushy," trite, silly or stupid. Bright, witty, spicy Hashes rarely illuminate the columns ot college magazines. Among all our exchanges few have poorer locals than the Student Life, from Washington University, whoso most brilliant eilusions are these: "Why is a cat like a red-hot teapot ?" and, "Sure as tho vino clings to tlio Htuuip, You nro my ilonr littlu Btigar lump." This is from another exchange: "A curious thing Ih lovu, It coineth from above, And lightutli like a dove, On Borne. But Homu it never hits, UiiIuhh it gives tliem IUh, And scnttern ull tlielr wits, Ah hum!" The Students Journal contains a forci ble editorial upon the agitation of an In-tcr-Collegiato Base-Ball Association, and sensibly says: "If the object is merely to awaken college spirit in our several insti tutions, we think that the spirit had bet ter lie dormant if it can be awakened in no other way." It justly rebuked those o.litors who had been in favor of substi tuting such an association for the Oratori cal Association. A long, tedious oration on "Strength" occupied many of 1ig Jour nal's columns. Some thoughts were good and expressed in forcible language, but PWfJ!