THE Vassar Miscellany is as earnest as usual, - so much so as to be a little heavy as well. It prints some excellent Commencement essays, and criticises the performances of Commencement and Class Day. Professor Mitchell seems to be a great favorite at Vassar. Stanzas have been written in her honor, of which the following is a specimen:-

"We're singing for the glory of Maria Mitchell's name,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Good woman that she am"

THE Exonian bewails the present state of its finances, and hopes for better things in the future. Last term the editors were assessed one dollar and fifty cents each to make up a deficit. Exeter is taking great interest in her athletic sports this year.

THE reports of the University Magazine show a strong interest in athletic sports in the University of Pennsylvania. There is nothing else of interest in the paper.

DANIEL PRATT has been addressing the students of Dartmouth, and the result is an unusually bright number of the college paper. The Dartmouth's notes on the early history of the college are interesting, and the locals have the rare quality of being amusing to others than the students themselves. Personals, however, seem to form the body of the paper.

THE poetry of the last number of the Yale Record is unusually good. "Vacation" might have been written by Edgar Fawcett, and the rhythm of "Madelina" is worthy of Poe, if it is not imitated from him. We clip the following, which is not poetry, but fiction:-

"The college championship' may be taken for what it is worth, as long as the hoary Ernst and Tyng beat us! Harvard could not have done it."

THE Malvernian comes to us filled with reports of lawn tennis and cricket matches. English boys are evidently not losing their interest in field sports. The literary department of the Malvernian is small but good, and the appearance of the paper is exceedingly neat.

Lasell Leaves comes with accounts of Commencement week that make us wish we had been there to hear. There is something extremely lady-like, not to say girl-like, about this paper; and the suggestion of the editors that "it is fast becoming quite respectable to remain single," makes us think that in all probability proposals to all of the editorial board would be in order.

THE Phillipian is pervaded by common-sense. The profits of the paper for the past year have been devoted to putting a stained-glass window into the Great Hall of Phillips Academy. Here is an example for college papers to follow, - when they make money.

THE Yale Courant speaks nobly about the race, but is not pleased with the Atlantic's article, which it calls wishy-washy. We agree with the Courant that there is a little hyperbole about the statement that to point out the faults of Yale's method of rowing is "simply to enumerate every one that can exist." In the article "To the Freshmen," the Courant informs them that they are members of the greatest of American institutions. Whew!