THE OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item: -

"Gaskill, '78, is trying to find money enough to get married on. Guess he won't succeed unless he employs more skill than usual, and refrains from gasing about it all the time. If we did not know him, we would lend him enough to tie the knot. We think we could borrow that much! Let your courage, wax - we were almost tempted to say something about waxing your mustache, but we remember."

THE Record contains a letter severely snubbing an apparently blighted writer in the last Courant, who declared that "all New Haven girls were either literary and old-maidish, or flirts and fools."

"ALTHOUGH it is comparatively early in the term, Senior parts have been assigned to Pray, Salutatorian, and, with the exception of those who had parts last term, and a man who entered Bowdoin during Senior year, all the rest of the class." - Bowdoin Orient.

Our readers must not judge from this that Commencement parts have been assigned to any very great number of students.

THE Advocate, last spring, gave us news of the opening week of the Turco-Russian War, and the Yale News now gives us a summary of events in one of the last weeks, condensed into ten lines, and closing with this comment: "Gloomy prospect for the Paris Exposition and European tourists."

THE following item from the Cornell Era opens a vast field for mathematical speculation in regard to the number of times that six goes into twenty: -

"At a meeting of the contestants for the Freshman crew in Room S, upon Wednesday, twenty men presented themselves, and were divided into three crews of sixes, each division having a captain."

We hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem in the next issue; but really, if they are going to put six-and-two-thirds Freshmen into their six oared crew, something ought to be done about it.

WE hear sad news from Princeton. The schoolboy spirit seems to be rampant, and the time honored quarrels between Freshmen and Sophomores, which were stopped for a time, have been renewed with real Princetonian ferocity. On the evening of the 18th a number of Freshmen entered a Sophomore's room, and after tying the inmates to their chairs, shaved their heads, and then beat an orderly retreat. They were pursued by the irate Sophomores, when released by their friends, and a combat ensued. Pistol-shots were exchanged, and one of the Sophomores was wounded in the thigh. Dr. McCosh and the Faculty are doing their best to preserve order; but in spite of their efforts Nassau Hall is, and promises to be for some time, in a state of intense excitement.