IT may gratify the managers of the recent explosion at University to learn that their action has been widely noticed by the college press, and has also figured, in a somewhat embellished from, in the columns of the New York Sun. The reputation which attaches itself to such reports is, however, anything but creditable to the College, and it is to be hoped that the thoughtless students who so disgraced the name of Harvard a few weeks ago will hereafter restrain their pranks within the bounds of common decency.

THE Freshman class at Hamilton has "bolted" - i. e. refused to attend college exercise - on account of the suspension of two of its members. This proceeding appears to have been quite common at Hamilton, and the Faculty are disinclined to yield. At the same time, they seem unwilling to expel the whole class, and matters are in a thoroughly unsettled condition.

Such a state of things is discreditable both to Faculty and students. It is characteristic rather of a manufacturing town than of a University.

THE Chronicle, of the University of Michigan, publishes. a long article on Harvard. It is written in a very friendly spirit, and in better English than is generally discovered in that longitude, by a person who appears to consider himself familiar with his subject. His views on some matters, however, are remarkable. The following sentences are so replete with novelty that they deserve attention:-

"Harvard builds grand Memorial Halls, but the student turns away from their magnificent proportions to gaze upon Hollis, Massachusetts, and Stoughton Halls, rich with memories of the past. It must be confessed that they are not calculated to remind one of home. The wood-work is rough and unpainted; the windows are dirty and dim; the walls are dingy and smoked. Yet the Harvard student counts it a privilege to stretch his limbs beneath their mossy roofs, and the older the building is the more valuable becomes his habitation. He cares not for the rickety stairs or unpainted walls; he gazes upon the traces of illustrious predecessors and is happy."