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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!
