THE most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line, -

"Venus and red-lipped Mars."SOME queer subjects are worked into the editorials of college papers. The Princetonian has one on a circus that is coming their way. The College Argus turns itself into a Republican "organ" for the occasion, and grinds out six columns of wrath and words on the town elections.

THE manners of the Yale Courant do not improve with age. After what we cannot help thinking a very vulgar, and not at all funny, parody on the "Maid of Athens," comes a reply to an article in the Acta Columbiana, which passes all bounds of decency and good manners.

THE Yale Lit. is very pleasant reading, after its rampant fellow-collegian. One of its poems, a little song called "Only," is pretty, and all the prose articles are good and well done. The best of them seems to us to be the one on that perennial question "What do we come here for?" entitled "An 'Immortal's' Experience."

THE Princetonian has a tirade against smoking, and more especially against inhaling, and says "Vultures and wolves have been known to turn away from the dead body of a tobacco-user." This shows clearly that any person who uses tobacco does wrong, because he thereby deprives "vultures and wolves" of that which is, no doubt, their due. But as an argument against the weed its force will not be felt by any one who does not intend himself especially for wolf-meat.