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NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED May 16, 1873

THE Williams Review, in an editorial, gives an account of and discusses the late boating convention. In an appreciative manner and a very amusing style, it depicts the disgraceful confusion that there prevailed. The performance it describes as consisting of two pieces, - a carefully prepared farce, entitled "The Packed Committee," and a burlesque, "A Freshman Unmuzzled." Throughout the piece its spirit is well sustained, and its roughing efficient. An extravagant view of the matter, however, is only taken in speaking of the ludicrous position which many of the colleges were made to hold in voting against their own interests. As regards those questions on which any difference of opinion can exist, there prevails throughout a temperate tone.

THE Wabash Magazine contains a delightful poem entitled "Charley." It is supposed to be written by a young woman to whom he had been engaged to be married. When young,

"I and Charley played together late and early every day." They appear to have played particularly hard, for, growing tired,

"Charley's curly head would nestle fondly on my panting breast."

But at length Charley went to college, and we all know what he is going to do: -

"Bit by bit I learned the secret, - Charley, young and easy led,

Far had left the path of Virtue, far in Sin's dark highway strayed.

"Led astray by bad companions, step by step had been his fall;

Smoking cigars, playing billiards, joining in the drunken brawl;

"Step by step, but ever going, noting not the course he held,

Till, at last, disgraced, dishonored, he from college was expelled."

This raises a commotion in the family mansion, and the old gentleman, having put on his heaviest boots, we presume, goes "to bring the culprit home."

"Yet he came not; but his father, bowed with sorrow, came at last, Saying, with a pair of ruffians he had started for the West."

A few lines are now devoted to the hysterics which are to be expected under the circumstances, and then comes the climax: -