OUR English cousins have been very generous of late. Each mail brings us more college news from the other side of the Atlantic. To-day we have to acknowledge the receipt of the Oxford Undergraduate's Journal; a large paper full of matter, chiefly of local interest.

A small publication bearing the formidable title of the Blackheathen has also reached us. From its name, we at first supposed it to be devoted to the missionary interests in Central Africa; but upon investigation, it appeared to be an exceedingly bright sheet, conducted by the members of Blackheath School, near London. We shall take great pleasure in adding these papers to our exchange-list.

PRINCETON is in trouble, according to the Nassau Lit. It appears that, for some unexplained reason, the chamber-work in the college dormitories is done by a "clumsy, dirty set of men, who are better fitted by ability, odor, and appearance to act as scavengers, than to have free access to the parlors and bedrooms of gentlemen." This the Princeton students rightly consider a grievance. They feel the need of the soothing influence of woman's presence, and of the smoothing influence of woman's hand, - especially upon their pillows and bedquilts; and they send forth a noble appeal for justice and their rights, in the shape of goodies. They apostrophize the "President, Treasurer, or Proctor of this institution," who may chance to read their "feeble attempt to describe the incompetency of the servants" who are forced upon them by the hard-hearted official in question; and they beg him to examine for himself the chambers of horrors which they so graphically describe. After dwelling for a time upon these dismal scenes, they suddenly draw the most striking of contrasts. They tell their preceptors that "at Harvard women take charge of the dormitories," and they proceed to describe the spotless neatness with which the students' rooms are kept by the sweet-scented sylphs of Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves, and close with a prayer for cleanliness, tidiness, and women servants. We sincerely hope that they may soon have all these. Their present lot is hard indeed. We can pity, though we can hardly realize, the sad, solitary, and savage lives that they drag on, unbrightened by the smiles and uncheered by the refining presence of chambermaids. This article renders us sensible of our own blessings. We thank goodness for our goodies; and we cannot refrain from thanking the Lit., in the name of those fair attendants, for the pretty compliment which it has paid to their deft neatness, - a quality which had hitherto remained undiscovered!

WE are glad to hear that the "ladies of the Freshman Class" at Cornell "have shown their good sense by voting not to attend the Class Supper." Their enthusiastic advocates of co-education appear to be sobering down.

WE have received a perfect shower of Meteors from Rugby. The Eton College Chronicle has also reached us. The matter contained in these papers is of purely local interest; they are sporting journals of average merit, and as they make no pretence to literary excellence, it would be ungracious to criticise them further.

SOME critical remark in a recent number of the Magenta greatly offended the Virginia University Magazine, and that publication declares that we are altogether too self-sufficient. We regret that our Southern friends are unable to distinguish between conceit and the pride of conscious merit.

THE Tufts Collegian is a trifle heavy, but remarkably sensible in its general tone. Its article on the Study of Political Science is particularly good. The editorial statement that they have yet to receive their first contribution from a student of the college, however, suggests the idea that the Tufts Collegians may not be as rational as their representative.

THE Oberlin Review appears in a new dress, and celebrates its splendor in a long editorial. Unfortunately the local printers proved unequal to their task, and the pages of the Review appear in the following order: 4, 5, 2, 3, 12, 1, Its editors trust that the improvements made in the paper will induce their friends to renew their subscriptions immediately. We hope that this trust is not unfounded, but we venture to suggest one additional improvement. The name of the paper might be judiciously altered to the Ohio Labyrinth.

THE attractions of Amherst College as enumerated in the Student are such as to make us tremble for the future of our own Alma Mater. The new College Church, "just finished at a cost of $70,000," is a "beautiful building with a chime of bells in the tower," and is "designed exclusively for Sabbath worship." The town, though small, possesses some of the finest religious edifices in the State, and the Mt. Holyoke Ladies' Seminary, as well as another "College for Ladies, is near at hand. "Board can be obtained for $3.50 a week, or a little more"; and that the luxuries of life are not unknown, may be seen from the statement that "a diminutive popcorn boy has been amassing a colossal fortune among the students lately."

THE following moves constitute the record, up to date, of the game of chess between the Cornell and the Yale Chess Clubs:-

YALE (WHITE). CORNELL (BLACK).

1. P. to K. 4. 1. P. to K. 4.

2. P. to KB. 4. 2. P. takes P.

3. Kt. to KB. 3. 3. P. to KKt. 4.

4. B. to QB. 4 4. P. to KKt. 5.

5. Castle. 5. P. takes Kt.

6. Q. takes P. 6. Q to KB. 3.

7. P. to Q. 3. 7. B. to KR. 3.

8. P. to K. 5. 8. Q. takes P.

9. B. to Q. 2. 9. Q. takes P.

10. Kt. to QB. 3. 10. Kt. to K. 2.

11. QR. to K. sq. 11. QK. to B. 3.

12. Kt. to QKt. 5. 12. Q. to QB. 4 (check).

13. K. to R. sq. 13. Castle.

14. Kt. takes PB. 14. Kt. to K. 4.

THE Transcript, from Delaware, Ohio, is amusing in the glimpse it affords of the manners and customs of the natives. They have high-toned stationers out there, and neat things in visiting-cards in advance of the Paris style, as is seen in the following advertisement:-

"If you want a pack of visiting or call cards, neatly encased, either white, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green, call at the Gazette office. We have the only rep cards (five tints) in the city, and offer them at the same price as the plain tints!"

It is a mixed college, and the effects of co-education are visible in a poem called A Psalm of Country Life, from which we quote three stanzas:-

When we quit the corn-field battle,

And put on our Sunday clothes,

Susan milks the female cattle,

Then into the parlor goes.

We've no tickets, like a circus,

And then wait about an hour;

No, a little hug won't hurt us,

Nor a sweet kiss make us sour.

Then, when you get to squeezin' 'em!

I tell you that is bliss;

O say! where is Elysium!

'T is this! 't is surely this!

In our mind's eye we can see the Delaware swell, making his P. P. C. after the above-mentioned interview, and blighting the hopes of rival swains with a lavish display of "call cards, tinted rep, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green!"

THE University Herald satisfactorily disposes of the drama in a single column. Supporting its theory with liberal quotations from ancient authors of unquestioned merit, it concludes that the influence of the stage is thoroughly pernicious. The article is excellent in its way; but if its author had shown some practical acquaintance with his subject, his arguments would have been more convincing; and if he proposes to pursue the matter further, we should suggest a visit to some locality where facilities for the observation of theatrical affairs are afforded. - An amusing attempt at epigram occurs in the same paper. Some youth, in the enthusiasm consequent upon introduction to the first principles of mechanics, has been struck with the idea that "human life is an effect, the resultant of forces acting from within and without."

THE latest feature of the chromo gift business comes from Dexter, Me. They have a church there which gives a chromo to every new convert. - Ex.

A JUNIOR thinks that there are periods in a college life when a fellow feels like translating Alma Mater as Mother-in-law." - Ex.

A BURR OAK young lady entered a drug-store lately, and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clerk showed her a roll of sticking-plaster. - Tyro.