The beginning of the new year affords us a favorable opportunity for stopping a moment in our college course and glancing around us, both backward and forward. It is but natural that we should look back, first of all, upon the fall term which has just closed, but which already seems a long way in the past. To many of us, in fact we fear to a great majority, such a glance will give us cause to rejoice that there are still a few weeks before the examinations in which we can endeavor to make up for the time which has not been devoted to our studies. The new year brings little gladness to the students' hearts, except by anticipation. This is for us the busiest time of the year. Returning from a pleasant vacation, we are plunged at once into the trials and tribulations of an examination period. The secular and college New Year's Days do not correspond. The one begins on the first of January; the other on the ninth of February, when, we are informed by the catalogue, the "Second Half-Year begins." Yet still in spite of this discrepancy we willingly yield to custom and wish our readers and the college a Happy New Year.