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THE HESPERIAN. EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRAC. Yale has thirty-two colored students in the freshman class. The Courier makes a very interesting Statement in num ber of Sept. 25. The senior hat at Iowa City is a "black silk plug." What do the girls do? The Towa State University wants $150,000 for construction and repair of buildings. The Exchange Ed. kicks. It is not encouraging to start in on exchanges ten months old. The Illinois State Oratorical Contest between eight Illinois colleges came ofTthis year October 2. University of Kansas has a senior class" of twenty-two. Which is in order, congratulations or condolence? Why can't the Uni. Courier get into better shape? The material is good, but it makes the Ex. Ed. tired to read it. Complaint of a decline in college enthusiasm is general'. Too much "dig" the cause. There are two sides to the question. The Hillsdale Herald appears bright and early on our table. It contains a good article on college papers besides much oth er readable matter. Doanc is not entirely regenerate yet. The Owl claims to be modest in admitting that Doanc is not the only school in the state. The indications are encouraging however. At the U. P. College at New Wilmington, Pa. a student who fails to attend a regular examination and has no excuse has not only to make it up but pay $1.00 for the privilege. Any college paper that will use a whole column and a half with a quotation of the oldest kind of stock expressions about some business college ought to be ! The Northwestern has a reminiscence of a college escapade. Good idea! WThy can't somebody throw light on the hints of stealing type, &c &c. that old students of Nebr. Univ. are everlastingly getting off? The journal published by our neighbors of the State Uni versity will hereafter be knoxrn as the Hesperian, as its editors consider the word "Student" superfluous. This is an im provement. Doane Owl. From the College Student we learn that Pennsylvania stud ents are trying to screw their courage up to wear "Mortar Boards". By the way, where have ours gone? They are conspicuous by their absence this year. A writer in the Occident wrestles vigorously (or otherwise) with the question of outside reading. But we arc in a dense fog as to what he means by outside reading. Outside of what? If of the text book, we disagree most emphatically. The Hillsdale College Herald comes out with an article on "The Financial Question" that is glittering. It contains some very flowery language, but we knew just as much and no more about "The Financial Question" after, as before, read ing iu It is not good for a college paper to print all the gush liter ary, or any other, societies can write about themselves. Wc merely make this as a suggestion to the Univ. Ranew, Old members should not need anything of the kind and new stud ent of sense will wait till a literary society has proved by" its work that it is good before he joins. The Blachburnian comes again to our table. It has an at tractive look and appears to be to a large extent free from long, dry, fossilized specimens of literary effort. Better a small amount of interesting matter than a vast collection of uninteresting stuff. A college student generally feels it a duty to look his college paper through and it may be easily made too long and too dry. The Ex. Ed. wonders whether each student is penned off in a separate pew in Kansas Univ. chapel. We would suggest to The Crescent that picnics should be picked when they are ripe or they are not good. We notice that some of our exchanges take space to chron icle every addition to their college library. Is it a good idea? Suppose wc print a special edition, filled with erudite dis cussions of Latin pronunciation, for the special benefit of The VtdetU- Reporter. The Hillsdale Advance comes to us mostly biography of the , "Founders and Builders of Hillsdale College" and personals, and promises contributions from Will Carleton's pen. An exchange suggests that students should wait in chapel till the faculty get out. Our faculty have never had a fair show heretofore and have evidently fixed the chapel with a special view to heading off the students. Review has changed its name to Foster Academy Reviero. It's rather small for a monthly, its gallantry (however) in giving way to the young ladies, should be rewarded. Its chess department is a wrinkle we have not noticed in any other of our exchanges. The University Press for April 25, '85 gives a long and ex ceedingly tedious article on Roman Kingship It is not wise to cumber the pages of a college journal with articles that have nothing in them that cannot be found in more entertaining form in almost every standard author. An article such as that in the Press costs only industry, not thought. The Doane Owl comes to our table in a new dress. It contains the oration that took second prize in the home contest last year which compares very favorably with the one which took first prize. Last year failed to cure Doanc and they are still oratori cally rampant. The Universiy Press for Oct. 2 contains ' articles on "The Benefits of Literary Society Work", "A Basin of Water" and a review of Miss Rose Cleveland's "George Elliot's Poet ry and Other Studies." . The "Other Colleges" department is uncommonly full and interesting. Too much space is taken up by locals and personals but they always fly uncommonly thick this time o year. The Notre Dame Scholastic of Sept. 26, consists mainly of scientific, and church information and poetry. But we would suggest that, if poetic effusion is a nescessary part of a college paper, all that is necessary be procured from a competent writer. A person of sense should know with out trying that a member of a rhetoric class can not write poetry. We have our doubts about blue birds having "trembling throats of marriage bells". Such gush does not adorn the pages of any paper, much less a college paper. They are having a racket down at our sister university of Kansas. Subject, the University Courier. Opposing parties to the riot, "Frats." and "Barbs," For particulars see two editions of the Courier, or two Couriers, of Sept 25th. Too bad! Students, of all persons, should dwell together in harmony. One Courier very considerately asks that its mail be sent to box or it may not reach them, but fails to say where it will go. One comes at fifty cents, the other at a dollar. The question now arises as to which we shall exchange with. If their worth is proportionate to the price ithedollar one is ours. But perhaps we want both. It may be interest ing, you know. ,