We are constrained to believe, though with regret, that the average student of the university has become so accustomed to the visits of the summons boy, as to pay but little heed to the invitations of which he is the bearer, other than to note the time at which his presuce at U. 8, is required and make such mendacious preparation as seems best to him for passing the inevitable ordeal. But, on receiving our annual summons yesterday we noticed that it differed from our last summons, received exactly one year ago, in that the seal of the college which, if we remember rightly, is to be found at the left hand upper corner of the card, had undergone a change. Now, at the risk of appearing somewhat hypercritical, we would remark that the false heraldry displayed upon the card cannot fail to be painful to the eye of the conscientious student. It is bad enough to be summoned, but worse when that summons is stamped with a seal which certainly approaches more meanly the emblem of Yale than that of Harvard. We all know that the seal should bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease.

Now this may seem a point of but little importance, and indeed, it would be, did it not involve a graver question, and one, too, that threatens to involve us in serious complications. We are in receipt of advices from eminent counsel informing us that a summons bearing the imprint of a seal which fails to meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words of warning, therefore, in the earnest hope that the proper authorities will promptly correct the existing errors, and thus avert the impending difficulties.