TRANSLATIONS into verse, in order to pass muster, have to be very good indeed. A tolerable poem in a college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator. The thought being the only creditable part of the "The Flower and the Cloud," in the last Yale Courant, and that belonging to its original author, we can see no possible object in its publication.

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth"! See what returns the Advocate gets for its kindness and condescension: "The Advocate of October 5th fills up about a column and a half of itself from our last issue. If it would be any convenience, we will send up the type next time." - Yale Courant.

IN the "School of Mines Department" of the Columbia Spectator, we read of a gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable.

"WE want subscribers, - a thousand, - if that number will come. Our club rates may be learned by glancing at the advertisement which appears on the outside page: Read and work." - Niagara Index.

The Index might have saved itself the trouble of putting in the last word. In its case read and work are beyond a doubt synonymous. We must acknowledge, however, the justice of some remarks about the Advocate and the Crimson.

"THE Cornell Era comes to us in an entirely new dress, and changed throughout." So says the Tufts Collegian; but

"Quod semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem Testa diu."

THE Collegian, with a happy combination of injured dignity and scathing sarcasm, denounces the members of the Freshman class for their unanimous refusal to subscribe to the paper. After all, as there are only twenty-two Freshmen, it is hardly worth crying about!

THIS, too, is but one of a series of inventions in our honor; we give two more examples: -

"Harvard is to have a new dormitory building costing one hundred and eighty thousand dollars." - Trinity Tablet.