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WSBBS 8 THE HESPERIAN STUDENT. TAFFY A quail on toast is brttor than two In tho bush. Butlers Analogy, Prof. "Mr. T. you may pass to tho future life' " Mr. T. "Not prepared." A scholar, just learning Latin etymology, said that equinox was tho Latin for nightmare The most diminutive sheet upon our list is Wz Bhaltutk Oadet. It Is good what thcro Is of it. At Iowa College tho library Is opon only two hours a day and tho News Letter grumbles. Good reason. College Biys Is fairly good, but it is not romarkablo for anything in particular exoopt some fearful poetry. Tho Undergraduate Is a model journal. For news merit and real sub9tanoo it will bear comparison with any paper upon ourlist. Another "largest telescope in tho world." It brings tho moon so near that tho man cau be distinctly heard yelling "Don't shoot." Ex. Next wo shall bo having a coat-tall flirtation code. Having tho tails covered with mud will moan I don't like her father. College Record. Tho close of a patriotic oration by a Prop: "Yes our country shall remain until Gabriel plays his last trump aud orders up tho unlvcise. Ex. Hostess: "What muatyou really go, Professor?" Pro- lessor: "My dear madam, there is a limit even to my capacity of iuillcliug my self on my friends!" Hostess: "0 no not at all, I assure you I" Ex. Orphous drew rocks by tho all compelling power of his music. Tho music of tho hnrmless, necessary cat is still more potent. It not only draws rocks, but pokers, boot jacks, and all sorts of movable furulturo. Tho Acadia Athenaeum is printed on very heavy paper of a cream colored lint. This gives to It tho appearance a "genuine Caxton" or some such veneruablo publica tion. The. reading matter, however, is excellent. Tho Asbury Monthly wants tho faculty to put a stop to orators using notes as au aid in delivery. It docs not hurt any one but the orators themselves and if thoy want to injure. their memory aud scholarship, why, let them. Tho Reveille published under tho auspices of a mili tary school. It is a good paper f jr tho place ; but why have af green cover? As un improvement we suggest cadol groy trimmed with gold braid and a row of buttons down tho front. Th Premier is a high-school paper, a leaf of advertise ments alternates with u leaf of reading matter, thus giving to it the (appearance of a patent medicine almanac. Tho Premier is fully as good, however, as mony more proton, tious periodicals. "Hall gcntlo spring! ethereal mildness hall I" Thus quoth tho poet, anil hlH prnyorproYallcd, For scarcely had ho tuned his lyre to elnp, Bcforo tho weather altered and it hailed. Ex. Tho Blackljrnian informs us that every student iu tho University is the happy possessor of some kind of a mu sical instrument, ond that great Interest is taken in this branch of the flue arts. Ah ! How we pity tho iuhabittants of that doomed city I Instructor "You scorn evolving that translation from your inner consciousness." Soph.-"Woll Professor, I read in my dovotlons last night that, by faith Enoch was trans, latod,' aud I thought I would try It on Homer." The Oluxddock. For a good literary paper tho Spectator Is proomluent. For news it is not unsurpassod. A ltttlo moro local would sond tho Spectator to tho head of tho class. As it is, tho magazluo is admirably edited and much hotter than tho majority of collogo publications. Tho oxchango column of tho Sunbeam is conducted iu au original manner. It consists of quotations from tho various college papers, and contalna no comments what. over. JLt striKos us mat "uuppings" woum uo a moro ap propriate name than "Exchanges" for such a department. Wo do not thluk that tho Yale Record Is as good a jour mil as ought to bo expected from so famous an institution. Tho literary department is filled with the productions of would-bo wits. Sometimes a really good thing appears, bnt tho majority aro exceedingly vapid and meaningless. Tho locals, however, aro "A No. 1." The exohaugo editor of tho Oornellian must have been drinkiug syrup "as a beverage" lately, for ho gives all tho papers gratuitous pull's of surprising magnitude, and man ifests a saccharine spirit generally. Wo like to see our friend in such a good frame of mind, as it is said that a good humor is tho greatest enomy Death possesses. ThoWooster Collegian contains a mathematical depart ment We do not understand what object it is intended to attain to. Can it be possible that thero aro any students at the University of Woostcr who really like mathemat cs? Out hero we get enough of such amusement in class, and consequently we do not care for any outside. It is very difficult to look at the well known picture of Stanley and flvo Negroes in a skiff fighting 840,271,824, 548, 227,420,002 savage negroes, all armed with repeat lug aud breech loading rifles, at ten paces, without .yield ing to tho impressiou that either Mr. Stanley is given to prevarication or that the artist has misunderstood his figures. Tho articles composing the literary department of tho Institute Index have rather a juvenile air about them, save only one entitled "Martin Luther"'which is good enough to make up for the deficiencies of the others. The local column is full of blind allusions to "pickles." Why don't tho local tell us tho joko at once, and not keep beating around the bush In such au aggravating manner? Tho oxchango editor of tho Bickinsonian Is nothing if not unique. Tho column over which he presides is writ ten up in tho Btylo of a patont novel such as tho Chicago Tribune frequently affords its many readers but some how it don't look well; rather forced and indicates too much mental exertion on tho part of tho distinguished author. All tho rest of the paper h up to the standard. Tho University Quarterly, of Now York University, is not a very frequent visitor, but, whenever it comes, it is an example of what a roally first class college paper should be. In the recent number the editorial and liter ary departments aro of rare excellence, and the local ab solutely perfect. Tho make-up of this magazine is very fine, and takiug it all together it Is a fit object of pride to he students of the University of Now York. r. J. v
