OUR exchanges having become too numerous, we have decided to cease exchanging with those journals which, either from remoteness of location or from want of literary merit, have seemed to us void of interest. We beg leave to inform the journals mentioned below, that our increasing collegiate duties prevent our giving that time to the perusal of their columns which they doubtless merit: College Courier, College Journal, Central Collegian, Indiana Student, Asbury Review, Lehigh Journal, Qui Vive, University Reporter, University Missourian, Geyser, University Press, Alumni Journal, Annalist, Southern Collegian.

We glean from the Courant the following items: Estimate of necessary expenses, $ 375 to $ 650. The Christmas vacation has been lengthened to three weeks. 6,000 volumes have been added to the library. In the whole University there are 87 instructors and 1,031 students. "For the purpose of meeting a long-felt wish of the Alumni, sub-graduates, and university men, in increasing college unity and the knowledge thereof, a general YALE PIN is proposed." Any toy to keep them out of mischief!

BASE-BALL. - Wesleyan Freshmen, 15; Yale Freshmen, 14; Bowdoin, 17; Bates, 14.

INJUN PROBABILITIES: "Mebbe snow next week; mebbe rain; mebbe some damn hot." - Argus.

CORNELL has been challenging Yale in chess. There was a time when Harvard, etc., etc.

ANOTHER affecting extract from a Philadelphia obituary poem has appeared. It reads:

"Put away those little breeches;

Do not try to mend the hole;

Little Johnny will not want them,

He has climbed the golden pole."

Exchange.A CHAP who spent $ 1,500 to graduate at Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at $ 24 per year. Where would he have been but for his Latin and Greek? - Exchange.

ON THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA.

She took a little poison snake,

And hid it in her gown;

He gave his tail a little shake,