THE articles in the Cornell Review for October are chiefly written by alumni, so that we cannot judge it by the same standard as other college papers. There is nothing of which to complain in the perfectly impartial account of the Freshman race, excepting perhaps the remark that "as usual, Cornell had won"; and that is too harmless a piece of self-deception to call out any reply.

"MENS sanus in sano corpore" is the way the Berkeleyan expresses it. After all, the old form was getting rather hackneyed, and there is nothing like variety.

THE Hamilton Monthly has articles on a dead thing and a dead person: Civil Service Reform and William Cullen Bryant; would it not be well if both were left to sleep in peace?

THE Round Table contains a very pretty imitation of T. Buchanan Reed's "Bay of Naples," entitled "Moonlight Song." It is a relief to find so correct a piece of versification after reading the rough and unmusical verses which abound in most of the college papers.

THE Cornell Era censures most severely the practice of "rushing."

A SENSIBLE writer in the Exonian suggests the substitution of laurel-wreaths for other prizes at athletic contests, but he does so half jokingly, and wisely remarks that he fears the change is too radical. Seriously, would it not really be more satisfactory; a wreath can at any rate be consigned to the waste-paper basket; whereas the hideous silver-plated monstrosities which are now the reward of prowess are not to be got rid of by any amount of ingenuity.

THE Oestrus is so vulgar that we are reluctant to acknowledge its undeniable cleverness.