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There is something really amusing in the grim vigor with which all the publications of that great college, which cannot for the life of it support an illustrated paper of its own, slash at the productions of more ambitious colleges. We have all given up hoping that Yale will ever evolve out of its conservatism sufficient enterprise to put a rival in the field for the Lampoon or The Tiger. It has evidently given up all hope, itself, since the News recovered from those weekly gasps after the (to Yale) Unattainable, which appeared in its supplement last year and so like the fox who was minus a tail, it deems it its only policy to deride all those who do aspire to artistic display, and chatter that these are but blemishes from which may the gods ever spare its pure pages. Oh, crafty antediluvians of Yale! - [Athenaeum.

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