WE have received the prospectus of a new college paper, the Columbia Spectator, which will be the "official paper of Columbia College." It is to be of the same size as the Advocate and the Crimson, and it will alternate with the Acta Columbiana, thus giving the Columbia students two papers a month. We wish the new paper all the success which its prospectus anticipates, - and that is a great deal.

THERE are many American college papers that rejoice in names which defy the tongue and grate harshly upon the ear; the following are some of the names given to our English contemporaries: Carthusian, Salopian, Cheltonian, Ulula, Wykehamist, Welingtonian, Malvernian, Armachian, Ousel, Elizabethan, Haileyburian, Denstonian, Glenalmond Chronicle, and Rossallian.

THE Princetonian, speaking of the Princeton-Harvard game, says: "Altogether, the game was intensely interesting, and one which shall not soon be forgotten by those present. The umpiring of Mr. Bird gave entire satisfaction, and we take great pleasure in remarking on the perfect good feeling which prevailed during the entire game."

"THE Yale Courant is about as near our ideal of a college paper as any publication we know of. Often entertaining, never dull, full of articles which we can all read with pleasure, - articles full of life, - its locals pithy, its criticisms just, its whole tone manly, the Courant does honor to its editors and to the institution from which it comes." - Princetonian.

"Princeton men have no confidence in their Nine, at least they never bet on it. We hardly claim it as due to the revival influence over them, or to a high degree of moral perfection. They did n't bet and would n't bet under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools of ten cents, etc., will have to be stopped. Better back up your Nine." - Courant.

In the above extract from the Courant language is used which would disgrace any sporting paper published, and we think that the Princetonian will now hardly care to stand by the whole of its commendation.

HARVARD College has its Transcript, and the University of Michigan its Christian Advocate. Our Western brothers have already been accused of irreligion; "experto crede," the charge of immorality will come next; - and as the Chronicle devotes four columns to its defence on the first head, the second, being far more comprehensive, will probably call forth a supplement to the next number. This will prove the converse of "parturiunt montes"; the ridiculous and insignificant charge will bring forth a mountain of argument. The Chronicle editors, however, should learn wisdom from us, and fight the war in the enemy's country by publishing their criminations and recriminations in the Advocate itself. This would leave them more room for discussing the propriety of dancing on Class Day. By the by, if the signers of the "counter-petition" in our Senior class had only taken the ground of morality as an excuse for their action, no one could think them "dogs-in-the-manger."

THE Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury.

THE Hamilton Literary Monthly is remarkable for the shortness of its articles. Although in a college paper long articles are insufferable, the case of a magazine is different; and such a subject as "The Moors in Spain," or "Womanhood in Shakespeare and Milton," or again, "The Unity of the Bible," if broached at all, should be treated at length. The Hamilton editors probably think that "brevity is the soul of wit"; in reading their last issue we must confess that we " start, for soul is wanting there"!

WE learn from the Bowdoin Orient that a banquet lately given at Brunswick was enlivened by "the wit of Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve.