If one thing more than another could impress one with a sense of the greatness and dignity of this university, it would be the extraordinary quality of the horses and vehicles in the possession of the college and employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges on his faltering steps in an almost vain endeavor to drag a cumbersome snowplow through the mighty drifts. Spavined, aged, Lame, his case would surely seem to be one to provoke the pity and interference, if not of the college officers, then of some of the numerous societies formed for the protection of such as he. We will say nothing of the rumor that this animal, together with his companion in arms of apparently similar age, is a resurrected "subject" from the veterinary department of the college. Evenless deserving of credence is the report that these two worthies are bargains secured long ago from the veteran corps of the Cambridge Street Railway Company. Ourselves, we incline to the theory that both were a part of the original foundation of the college and as such under the terms of the bequest have become inalienable parts of the college possessions ; and hence they have remained from year to year incapable of death from fear of statutory prohibition, and thus deprived of that welcome release which, if their unhappy lot had been otherwise, would long since have been theirs. However all this may be, it can hardly be disputed, we think, that long-continued and meritorious services should have earned them by this time a pension and retirement from all active service on half-pay, so that they might spend the rest of their days cropping the tender grass of some bleak New England pasture, or nibbling from well-kept stalls the fragrant hay.