The recent announcement that an attempt is being made to establish at Yale a St. Paul Club together with an Exeter Club, in addition to the Andover Club already existing, seems to betray an almost pitiable weakness upon the part of our new-made university. Is Yale upon so weak a basis that it is necessary to form proselyting communities whereby to recruit her numbers? Can she not rely sufficiently upon the advantages which a course of study at New Haven presents above a course of study pursued elsewhere to induce the young men of the country to adopt her antiquated systems? Or must an attempt be made to overpersuade, through friendship and social ties formed at school, young and undecided students who are too frequently led "to join the majority?" It is not strange that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force that spirit into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism, ought to be made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done, it may be done by no more questionable means than by that modern blade of Mohammed, - the blade of the oar.