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Jxch:utQc gjric-n-hritc, A school girl routsod to multiply 1,000,000 by 1,000,000, Ijcciuiso it was naughty. Ex. The Comcllinn is better than usual nml tlint is ns much ns to say Hint it approaches perfection very nearly. JEsthcticism is the perception of the betweenness be wcn things which have llttlo or no betweenness be ttween them. Ex. The Sibyl is published three times n year and its ex change editress is so enchanted with this plan that she advises other collego papers to adopt it. Tho Collego Record is a now oxchango which presents a very attractive appearance. "Wo extend the fralerna hand, and shall always bo glad to welcome the Record. Lesson in Political Economy "Is time money?" "Yes, sir, it is." "Prove it by an illustration." "Well, if you give twenty-five cents to a couple of tramps, it's a quarter to two." Ex. A friend, interested in physiology, contributes this: "Why is that point of the elbow that is always getting hit called the "funny bone?" "Becauso it holders on the humerus." Ex. First Vassar Scniormcditatively looking at a pine tree: "I wonder why some class doesn't choose a pine tree for its class tree?" Second Senior: "It is strange, they make such good matches." Ex. Our artistic exchange, Palette Scrajrings, is again re. ceived. The present number contains an article on the laic Gustave Dore, which is well worth reading. There is also a sketch, entitled "Slreet-cars," which is very bright and happily concicved. It may be all right but we don't like thnt "Itoll of lion, or," containing tho names of the exemplary bojs and girls, which is regularly published by tho Notre Dame Scholastic. "We will not censure to severely, for perhaps it is compelled by the faculty to publish this black-list. The WcsleyanBce, one of onr Illinois exchanges, is a very well edited paper. Its literary department is excel lent, and the editorials are full of solid thought, but we notice that the local column encroaches somewhat upon tho "Personal." " A place for everything, and everything in its place." A writer in the Academiati, in an article entitled "What's in a name," discusses the character of several imaginary maidens in n style thai shows great insight, and we presume acquaintance with tho object of his stud'. The names of the respective damsels are used as a basis for his analytic genius. The College Student contains a clipping from tho N. T Times which is a lamentation over tho entire absence of humor, wit or merriment in all American College under graduates. It is very fortunate that the Times man did not see a copy of the College Student or he would have used it as an awful example of his lugrubrious remarks. We meet with anew friend in tho College Chronicle, which comes to us marked "X." The Chronicle is not very largo, but it is full of solid matter. Wo seo that it has, until the present issue, "been laid away in its grave clothes," and that it again makes its appearance for the first time in the year. To it we tunder our compliments, and beg that it will accept our best hopes for its welfare. Our California friends, the Bcrkcleyan hnd tho Occident, are quite full of their ChnrtctsDiiy. They tell us that ex ercises resembling tlioso of commencement wore given, , and that in the afternoon and evening dancing was in- dulged in by students and others. Wo havo our doubts about tho dancing but the essays and orations wcro cer tainly very appropriate. Tho last issue of the College Rambler comes up to tho usual high standard of this paper. Among other excel lent articles wo notice a communication in which com plaint is mado of tho too great aizo of the literary socie ties, and that much interest is lost from the fact that so many students are members as to practically remove all feeling of personal responsibility which holps s much in a small society. The views of tho Rambler's correspon. i dent arc emiucntly correct, in our opinion, and it is well s for all collego societies to keep in mind the fact that numbers aro not always strength. Tho Wisconsin papers aro engaged in a hot debate over the well-worn subject of co-educallou. Tho University Press is on the right side in our opinion. It stands up nobly for equality and women's rights, which the Badger seems inclined to infringe upon. Much may bo said upon both sides of the question, but wo have no doubt that, taking all tilings into consideration, tho plan adopted by thestate universities is tho best. What would we do without the girls? In their absence our halls would bo a desolate waste and a howling wilderness, and then, too, "Othello's occupation would bo gone." There wns a young lady named Hannah, Who slipped on n peel of Imnnnna, And oh, my 1 Moro stars did sho spy, MIiuu you eco In the star-spangled banker. A young man rushed to assist her, And picked up her muff und her wrlstcr. "Aro you hurt?" ho cried. "Do you think," she replied, "That I fell for tho fun of it, Mister J" Ex. Tho Student's Visitor, which hails from New Berlin, Pa., is one ot our most welcome exchanges. In short wo arc delighted witli it. A volume of this valuable periodical would serve as a complete library since it contains ex haustive short treatises on Science, Literature, Mathe matics, Metaphysics and Theology. It also contains a solitary witticism which, upon analyzation, we would place in the Qaaternery Eprch. Let it not bo Imagined that the aforementioned witticism is at all funny for it is not in the least so, since anything really humorous or wide-awake is carefully excluded from this most sombro sheet. The North-West Missouri SchoolJournal is before us We must confess that, however good the internal portion of this magazine may be, it is sidly deficient in respect to the external. When first taken up it very nearly resem bles a catalogue of sccondshand books. In its literary de partment wc are pleased to observe a poem entitled tho "Heathen Chinee, by Bret Harte." We aro very clad to seo that this interesting article ia not omitted from tlio pS! pages of the School Journal. It is entirely new, and is i really a very humorous little thing. But who is Bret Harto anyway? Is lie ono of the students of tho Inati- . tuto? At any rato wo think that wc may safely predict I a big -uu for tho "Heathen Chinee." J f V tk&mmmmsmi4
