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,

And did the job up brown.

She laid herself upon her bed,

Where she was wont to lie;

Undid her chignon from her head,

And followed Antony.

Vassar Miscellany.FROM the Courant we learn that "the sublimest apocalypse of God, the most overwhelming argument for the existence of an Architect of this golden cathedral of the universe, - a Being of unfathomable attributes of love and perfect goodness, - that has probably been made by soul to soul," has just been delivered at New Haven. Immortalized Yale! But why don't they print it and send it round?

THE best time made at Yale in the Fall Regatta was, for six-oared barges, two miles in 13.57; for six-oared shells, three miles in 19.34 1/4. 12 men are already in active training at Cornell.

A LADY, being told that Williams had lost her rudder, gravely informed the gentleman that "that will make no difference; for the man in the bow steers with his feet." - Targum.

WE have received the Brunonian in its new form, and a very bright and well-appearing paper it is. It adheres to the plan of printing a longer and more pretentious story than is usual in college papers; but if the attempt is always as successful as in the present number, the Brunonian need print no shorter pieces. The editorial articles are evidently interesting to the students of Brown, and in keeping with the local character of the paper.

TUTOR to SOPH. Do you understand this statement?

SOPH. No, sir.

TUTOR. You may demonstrate at the board that the statement is not a correct one.

SOPH. I accept the statement, sir.

(Beautiful example of childlike trust.)

Argus.PROFESSOR GUYOT, of Princeton College, the physical geographer, has been requested by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to prepare a biography of Professor Agassiz. He is a native of Switzerland, and has been a personal friend of Agassiz from his boyhood. - College Courant.