The beauties of paternal college government were well illustrated by the recent escapade of the president and two professors of the University of Minnesota with a wild and wilful student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore, and all but one ran back to Fourth street, pursued by President Folwell. This one, who was Asa Paine, the victim of the shooting, ran straight by the president, and was pursued by Professors Moore and Pike, the latter drawing his revolver and crying, "Halt, or I will shoot you!" This threat incited the young man to greater speed, and he was closely followed, Professor Moore using his cane about the arms and shoulders of the fugitive with good effect. When they reached a vacant lot in front of Professor Pike's residence Paine fell, and, before he could rise, was caught, it is claimed, in a shower of blows from Professor Moore's stick. He gained his feet, crying, "I can't stand this. Stop or I will shoot!" at the same time drawing a revolver and waving it over his head. Professor Pike came up with him, and, thinking his own life in danger, presented-his pistol and fired, the ball taking effect in the fleshy part of the left thigh. The wounded youth exclaimed, "I am shot," and the professor quickly assisted him and led him back to President Folwell's, where he was kindly cared for and a doctor hastily summoned, who pronounced the wound not fatal, and probed for the bullet, but failed to find it. In the morning Paine was conveyed to his father's residence, where he now lies." At last it seems that the vexed question of student government has been settled. Admonitions, summons and suspensions are out of date, and the new and improved plan of faculty-night-patrol, stop-or-I'll-fire regulations now comes in vogue.