NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent changes of editors, the college papers have an individuality that is usually very marked. One can see this by taking the trouble to look over the back volumes of the Advocate and Crimson preserved in the Library. So, too, colleges have their own air of personality. And this characteristic is nowhere more evident than at Yale. The Yale papers carry a self-assertive air, that is apt at times to degenerate into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia is the very spirit of wit, - too apt, in the case of the Acta Columbiana, to degenerate into vulgarity. Of the Spectator, with its admirable illustrations, we wish to speak in terms of unqualified approval. It is suggestively humorous rather than broadly farcical; the little delicate touches that lighten the general effect are added to advantage. . . . The Orient (Bowdoin), Dartmouth, Athenoeum (Williams), Brunonian, and Student (Amherst) have much in common, each being the only representative of its college, and each being industrious in the accumulation of locals. We may be pardoned for preferring the Student above the rest, mainly for its manly and sensible editorials, its generally courteous tone, and the really witty articles that appear from time to time. Were General Garfield not to be our next President, the Athenoeum might be more entertaining reading. Of the Vassar Miscellany we have little to say, because there is so much to praise, so little to - not condemn, but differ from. It is a model among the monthlies; the department, De Temporibus et Moribus, we have sufficiently commended heretofore . . . The Cornell papers form the strongest possible contrast to the Miscellany, - captious and undignified in manner, engaged in quarrelling with each other, discourteous in the extreme toward other colleges. The Era has disgraced itself in its attack upon Oberlin, whose Review, by the way, is very readable and sensibly written. . . And this brings us to the general subject of our Western exchanges, which we have not room at present to mention severally, but which are in the main free from vulgarity, if at times crude and hasty. . . Returning eastward, we find the Princetonian, which has improved very much, of late, in the way of contributed articles. Its editorial articles have always been well written. We cannot say so much for the poetry, from which its columns are however, mainly free; but the Nassau Lit. publishes verses execrably and intolerably bad . . . The 'Varsity, of Toronto, is one of our newer papers; and, if it shows no traces of youthful faults, certainly is free from the weaknesses of age. . . Of the Argus (Wesleyan), we say nothing, because, as of the Trinity Tablet, there is nothing to say, good or bad.