CARTOONS are now in order with college papers. The Courant has tried two, and the Era has depicted the disastrous effects that the cap and gown produces on Ithaca's inhabitants. As the mania seems to be travelling westward, we may expect the next thing in this line to be a picture of the Niagara Index board.

By the way, the Index, having devoted last year to proving that higher education in America tends to suicide, intends, during the coming winter, to expose the total depravity, to put it mildly, which exists in colleges that have not "about them the influence of the true [Roman Catholic] religion." "Frequently," says the Index, "students of Yale, of Harvard, of Rutgers, of Cornell, fall into the clutches of the law, and as a consequence are treated just as their offence merits. Generally the charge is 'drunk and disorderly,' and the customary alternative of ten dollars and costs, or ten days, is the last resource. This we know to be an ordinary occurrence with Harvard students. And we have good authority for saying the same in regard to Yale's angels."

As athletics do not flourish at the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, it is needless to say that in the Index's opinion "one thing has contributed not a little to the spread of this college profanity, this immorality, this vice peculiar to college, and it is the encouragement given to sports, athletic and aquatic."

THE Record will admit that we have sins enough of our own to atone for without being called to account for the misdeeds of others. We must decline, therefore to be responsible for "They All Do It," and "That Husband of Mine," - articles which appeared in the Advocate.

"THE Freshman foot-ball team have had their pictures taken with a foot-ball in front of them with 'Champion' on it. Champions of what? Their only victory was over the Grammar School." - Yale Record.

Why should the Record object to this perfectly innocent and justifiable action of the Freshmen? They have only followed the action of the Yale University team, which the Record defended.

THE Columbia Spectator contains an article on "College Morality": we give one or two short extracts from which to judge of the whole: -

"It is a good sign that fewer students smoke in the Senior than in the Sophomore year."

"Perhaps, more cordial relations between professor and student would have a salutary influence. .... Our system of compulsory marking may also have something to do with the character of the students, - who can tell?"

"Would it not be a good plan if the Society for the Suppression of Vice would also establish a chapter among us?"

"A FRESHMAN who wished to read up on Mineralogy began on Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice.'" - Brunonian.

YALE'S claim to the foot-ball championship is disputed, and with good reason, by Princeton. Says the Princetonian: "This fall, we have beaten Harvard and Columbia, and played a drawn game with Yale. Yale has not played Columbia, refused to meet Harvard, and had one drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence for this year we deem that our claim to the championship is just and proper."

Yale insisted that in the game with Princeton, only goals should count; the result showed two touch-downs for Yale (?).

Speaking of the game, the Princetonian says : -

"Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when there was no chance of detection. We were in hopes of playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make this statement rashly, as we feel confident that the facts support us."

THE following cheerful prophecy appears in the columns of the Yale Lit: "'Lampy' has deserted us; he is grown up now, but, if we are not mistaken, he will return a wiser and a sadder fool."