A few days ago we expatiated with pardonable pride upon the influence which our editorials of last year exerted upon the Board of Overseers in leading them to adopt English as the language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers, whenever they have tried to recognize their own names. The overseers, startled at their own boldness, have lost heart; their courage has stuck, it is true, but only for a few days. The mucilage with which this sticking was done must have been of a very poor quality, the quality which has very little consistency in it, the quality that looks well, but does its work poorly.

Still, it must be understood that we do not undertake to keep such a body as the Board of Overseers in the path of consistency, that is altogether too difficult and irksome a task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing at this position of affairs to extend its all powerful arm to their assistance. Our bi-weekly contemporary has had so much to say about consistency within the last few weeks, that this supposition may, after all, be highly probable.