EXCHANGE poetry - bad.

THE monthlies are generally too heavy or else childishly light.

THE Yale Courant comes out in new form, which, as regards typography, is far inferior to its old one. A change has been made, too, in the management of the paper, which places it more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want to go to Skull and Bones; playing ball will not take them; hence, men will not play ball to get there.' Now there are only three flaws in this argument: The major premise is not true; the minor premise is false; and the conclusion would not necessarily follow if both premises were true."

THE Record says: "We shall print very soon a series of articles on Harvard customs, which we hope will prove of some interest to our readers." We shall wait for these articles with much impatience, and we assure the little Record that they will prove of quite as much interest here as at dear old Yale.

IT is rather amusing to notice the sincere way in which many of our smaller exchanges compliment the Advocate and Magenta on their cheerful resignation after Harvard's defeat in the Regatta, and applaud their "plucky" hopes for next year. We assure our kind sympathizers that boating is not quite dead here, and that just as likely as not there will be some kind of a Harvard crew next summer.

YALE won the foot-ball match with Rutgers, at New Haven.

THE nice little boating row at Yale is all over, and the Skull and Bones still exists.

ONE who knows, says "kissing a lady with an Elizabethan ruffle on is about as much fun as embracing a circular saw in full motion." - Ex.

WHAT are we to think of the Senior who replied to the question of his instructor, "How would you ask for two glasses of lager?" "By raising two fingers," and that "he had been there." Perhaps it would be well to add, for the benefit of those who are waiting to find out where the laugh comes in, that the instructor expected him to say, "Zwei glas lager." - Chronicle.

Freshman. Can I go to New York, sir?

Professor. Why?

Fresh. I want to see my mother.

Prof. That's very natural.

Fresh. My mother wants to see me too.

Prof. Well, that's very natural also.

Fresh. May I go?

Prof. No.

Yale Courant.THE Junior who was found the other morning in the wood-box, sleeping off a carouse, insisted that he had merely been laying in his winter's fuel. - Anvil.

THE story is told of Thomas Nast, that when he was at the height of his celebrity in New York last fall, a Western lady sent him a marriage proposal. He sent back a cartoon of a lady with two or three children, with this inscription, "My wife and children, the only objections." - Ex.

COLLEGE journalism has taken a decided and remarkable start at Cornell, the beginning of the new year being marked by the birth of two papers, or rather, a paper and a quarterly magazine, - The Cornell Times and The Cornell Review. Of these the Review is by far the larger, and, we must say, the more vigorous. From the Salutatory we learn that it is conducted by the literary societies of the University. The articles are all well written, interesting, deep, and spirited. Though we shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that success, as the Review claims, "will have accomplished a reform which is needed at other institutions of learning as well as our own." Experience has shown that long articles, however well written, are seldom read by the majority of students, and a college paper, to live, must be supported by every undergraduate. This fact, and the character of other college magazines convince us that one is not needed here, at least, and would not succeed if once started. We shall, therefore, watch the course of the Review with great interest. The other paper, The Times, lays no claim to the highly literary, but is full of college news and life. Its founders have wisely adopted a plan somewhat similar to the one in vogue here. The editors are chosen from the four classes by the outgoing board. This is a great innovation, as the editors of the Era are from the Juniors, and are elected by the class, thus making their election more the result of the workings of cliques than real merit. With this new foundation, and men of well-tried ability at its head, the Times may already feel itself on an even footing with the Era.

THREE suspended students at Hartford spend their time flirting with the inmates of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. - Record.

THE last Record thinks Harvard is conceited about her foot-ball rules, calls our Nine the Bostons' "playthings," and thinks that Yale had better secure the services of Professor Goodwin when he returns from France. Leave of absence, not resignation, little Record.

THE Bowdoin Orient has no exchange department. Perhaps it abstains, with good reason, from criticising others in the hope they will follow its example.