WE have already, among our exchanges, the Trinity Tablet, the Boston Beacon, the Lasell Leaves, and Monthly Musings; why do we not all make use of "apt alliteration's artful aid"? We might have "Yale Yelps," "Vassar Voices," "Cornell Criticisms" (not a bad name for the Era), "The Bowdoin Bore," and "The Princeton Puritan," "Dartmouth Diggings," "Amherst Attempts," and so on.

THE first column of Monthly Musings is aptly headed "The Muse." It consists in selections from Byron and Shelley. There are also Musings on Aristotle, and on Campbell's poetry; also, there is an article entitled "A Summer Reverie," consisting of judicious clippings from Wordsworth. After this, it is needless to say that native genius is not called much into requisition, as far as poetry goes.

"It is noticeable that a greater part of the department for the Fall numbers is given to silly foot-ball matches and other boyish nonsense which make Eastern colleges a laughing-stock in the eyes of sober-minded people. It is all well enough to have a foot-ball game once in a while for a little exercise, but for a number of colleges to take more interest in such things than they do in their studies, is a peculiar product of Eastern superiority. - Michigan Chronicle.

Comment is quite unnecessary!

THE McGill University Gazette is quite readable, and if there were just a little less about foot-ball, and fewer second-rate and second-hand jokes, we should praise the Editors for their judiciousness and care in selection.

"WE were admitted into the Church," says the Dartmouth, "last Sunday. It has been completely transformed." The latter statement is certainly a natural consequence of the first; but on reading a little further we find that the church into which the Editors of the Dartmouth were admitted, is not the Church in general, but that belonging to the College; and that the transformation is a material, not a moral one.

THE Princetonian and the Beloit Round Table amuse themselves with speculations on - the Devil! College papers have long enjoyed publishing three-column biographies and criticisms of famous authors, and it is not unnatural that the author of all evil should have his place in their pages; perhaps it is nothing new, either!

"WHEN with the years for ordinates, and the classes for abscissas, the curve of our fortune shall be constructed, may there not be the depression which is threatened for the year of our Lord and the Seniors, '78!"

We think it hardly necessary to mention that this splendid mathematical metaphor is from our friend the Boston Beacon.

THE Princetonian, in a paragraph on the Packer Quarterly, completely forgets the ordinary courtesy that one paper owes to another. We heartily approve of criticism; we ourselves intend to criticise, and are willing to be criticised in return. But criticism does not mean simply giving an opinion; it means also giving grounds for that opinion. We quote from the Princetonian: -

"The first piece, 'Shadow Fancies,' is passable; the next, 'Ballads,' a little better; Vestigia Nulla Retorsum,' awfully poor; 'Student Lamps,' just tolerable; Louis Adolphe Thiers,' good, yea, very good, in fact, the only good article we found; 'Hobbies,' insipid; 'My Friend Balbus,' worse; 'Summer,' worst, - the worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child."

"THE foot-ball season did not open as gloriously as we anticipated, for in the first match Harvard gave Columbia the worst defeat she has ever sustained." - Columbia Spectator.

OUR boating challenge to Harvard is still unanswered. From the Crimson's account of the meeting of the Harvard Boat-Club we gather that the feeling at Harvard is that last summer "the first race was good discipline for the second," and that "the Yale race should be kept independent of all others." Some may be inclined to resent these expressions as showing a spirit of loftiness and condescension on Harvard's part. We trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other things subservient to that wish. Any one who studies Harvard's action in this affair will see the existence of a real desire to row Columbia. Our challenge has certainly received careful attention; and the only question which prevents its immediate acceptance is a natural one of expedience. Columbia wants to row some college; and, for all reasons, Harvard is the most desirable. No false ideas of dignity should present themselves to cause unnecessary trouble. - Acta Columbiana.