Whose manner was yearning and mild.
He sailed o'er the ocean
Which raised no commotion
On account of this tender young child.
The freshmen's banquet at Ithica, N. Y., took place Friday evening. The sophomores threw a few bottles, with a chemical compound therein, at the windows, and made a great deal of noise, but they finally withdrew. The two kidnapped freshmen were not released until Saturday morning.
There are about 150 college journals of various kinds published in this country. Yale heads the list with three annuals, one monthly, two bi-weeklies, one daily and two or three occasionals. - [News.] Harvard has three bi-weeklies, - the Crimson, Advocate and Lampoon, - two dailies, one annual, - the Index, - besides the Calendar, published weekly, and the University Bulletin.
A dyspeptic contemporary satirically says that Mary Anderson, in Galatea, "during a considerable portion of her time on the stage, appears as a statue, and as a statue she is without a rival. . . . When the final moment comes. Miss Anderson mounts the pedestal with dignity and self-possession, much as she might if she were going to have a photograph taken."
The Post, yesterday, spoke editorially of "the disturbance made by a lot of immature, conceited, cubbish, bumptious, and obstreperous boys and young men" at Oscar's lecture. The Post added that the demonstrations of the Yale men toward Oscar were "much more coarse and offensive in their demonstrations than were the young men who tried to take a benefit in Music Hall."
General Daniel Pratt, G. A. T., was in readiness Friday evening, according to announcement, to lecture at 581 Washington street, on "AEstheticism," viewed from his standpoint, but the audience was wanting, and the general, after waiting some time for a gathering of respectable size, departed in disgust.
One of the buildings of the St. Francis College, Richmond, Que., occupied by the art, classic and German department, 250 feet long and five stories high, was burned Saturday morning. Nothing but the walls remain. The occupants barely escaped with their lives. Loss, $15,000. Several valuable libraries were also burned.