THE motto for the temperance crusade: "H2O! every one that thirsteth." - Ex.

THE Southern Collegian, without displaying any great originality, is remarkable throughout for its solid good sense.

WE acknowledge the regular receipt of the Every Saturday, which becomes more entertaining with every number. The editorial department is very spicy.

A BOSTON man was cursing an editor the other day when he fell dead. Several similar instances have lately been reported. Men should be careful in speaking of anything sacred. - Ex.

BASE-BALL matters are lively at Yale. The Nine for the coming season will be, Bentley, c.; Avery, p.; Scudder, 1st b.; Maxwell, 2d b.; Nevin, 3d b.; Osborne, s. s.; Foster, l.; Smith, b.; Hotchkiss, r.; and Bigelow, first substitute.

THOSE papers which devote two thirds of their space to reviewing first-class periodicals, and append a list of such "exchanges," ought to be congratulated on having worked up to the higher plane of literature. Don't howl "sour grapes." They must be regarded as only a little above Dryden Springs Gazette. - Geyser.

BESIDES the three serials now being published in Every Saturday, the last number contains a very interesting reminiscence of Agassiz by a former pupil, an article on "Woman's Work Abroad," and an entertaining story translated from the Russian of Pouspkin. "Kyle Griffiths, a Tale of the Welsh Coast" possesses only the merit of brevity; a hackneyed plot, told in the old, stereotyped way.

FROM the Forest and Stream we gather the following in regard to the English crews who are to meet on Saturday next. Average weight of the Cambridge crew, 163 pounds, Average weight of the Oxford crew, 173 pounds. In the Oxford boat the stroke is the lightest man, and the bow the heaviest but one. In the Cambridge, the bow is the lightest, and the three heaviest are Nos. 4, 5, and 6. The indications of a good race are numerous, the betting being two to one in favor of the lighter crew.

THE Geyser opens with a homely appeal from "Uncle Ike" to close the "hell-holes," or, in Cambridge vernacular, beer saloons, and follows it up with a heart-rending wail over tobacco; having, apparently, just discovered that its use is "alarmingly prevalent." It tells the following sad story: "We were visited lately by a young man from town, seven years old, the son of respectable parents, who is an inveterate tobacco-chewer, and has been such for over a year." Verily, if that is the state of affairs there, we cheerfully overlook the grammar, and add a few quarts to the burning tears of the Geyser. The number closes with a very sensible article on "Rich Men's Sons."

THE dearth of poetry in the Williams papers is at last accounted for. An editorial advice to the contributors of the Review says, "If you send poetry, write it as carefully as possible, and enclose a postage stamp." The Review is evidently severe on the poetic muse.

THE Atlantic for April contains another instalment of "Prudence Palfrey," which grows more and more interesting. A new amplification is now introduced in the person of the handsome young clergyman, who is, evidently, about to cause a few ripples in the course of true love. "Jack," at present, is dead; but no experienced novel-reader can doubt the ability of that punctual young man to turn up at any moment. The number also contains a review of Mistral's Calendan, an article on the financial system of Texas, before the annexation, and an interesting account of Liszt, by one of his pupils. To say that the Atlantic is "as good as ever" is high praise; and there is certainly no lack of variety.

THE little Record is again before us. The fondness for pictures which we suggested in a recent number has developed its natural result sooner than we had anticipated. It has initiated the pictorial business in college journalism. The last number contains a couple of beautiful woodcuts of the new boathouse, together with an accurate sketch of some double-scullists, and a lifelike representation of the University Six, showing the true Yale position of the back and shoulders at the beginning of the stroke. We wish it every success in its new enterprise, and only hope it may not follow the example of most illustrated papers, and become sensational. We say this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs and societies of Harvard. The article, besides being calculated to create a false impression by its general tenor, is notably inaccurate in most of its particular assertions.

THE Amherst Student is good, as it always is. The following stanza, taken from "An Ode" dedicated and presented to Daniel Pratt, on occasion of his recent visit to Amherst, shows that the students have profited by the teachings of that great philosopher:-

Flashed the tidings of his advent through the incandescent skies!

- And thereat

Like an epidemic Maelstrom the demented people rise,

And "Vox POPULI VOX DEI!" through the cosmic spaces flies!

All earth's congregated millions wildly hanging out their eyes,

When, with high, potential air,

In the PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR,

Sits the Leader of the People, - sits the circumambient PRATT!

Chorus.

Clang the bassoon, - let the kettledrum ring;

Whangdoodle and gong in harmonious song;

While the clam and the nightingale sweetly prolong

The praises of PRATT, - Oratorical King!