The current number of the Advocate appeared yesterday afternoon. With this issue the '89 board of editors resigns the management to the incoming '90 board, Under the charge of '89 the Advocate has had a well-defined and representative position among the university publications. Editorially it has been as fearless as firm in its treatment of college evils, and in all matters of general college interest the stand it has taken has been a most commendable one; in a literary way it has fully maintained the high standard which the Advocate has held in recent years. Mr. G. P. Wardner, '90, will be the president of the incoming board, and Mr. W. K. Post, '90, secretary.

In the last number the '89 board has completed its work most satisfactorily. The editorials are characterized by the same vigor, earnestness and candor which have given the Advocate its influential position. They are upon a variety of topics, but all are important and equally interesting. The attitude of college men towards their papers and its effect upon college journalism, which is touched upon in the first editorial, is not especially original in thought, but all college men can read it with advantage. The blow struck at tutors and coaching is timely; and the vigorous treatment of the remarks of a gentlemen at the recent Dartmouth dinner will, we are sure, be read with considerable satisfaction by men at Cambridge.

In "A Ghastly Journey." Mr. Post has treated an old idea in a new and realistic way. The story is told in a natural and effective manner, and is so skillfully managed that the fact that the writer has been hoaxed does not dawn upon the reader until the end is reached. The enjoyment of the whole is heightened by the skillful way in which the denouement is managed Under Topics of the Day is "Another's Study in Happiness." It is thoroughly ideal, and, to us, somewhat unsatisfactory. The short sketch, "In the Train," by R. W. Atkinson, is one of the brightest bits of the number. Mr. Zinkeisen, in his "Heine's Pictures of Travel," displays an intimate sympathy with the author, as well as an understanding of his moods and surroundings. "The Difference," a continuation of "Is there a Difference?" which appeared in the last number, is a natural piece of dialogue, but aside from that has no particular merit. The poetry of this number is not above the usual run of Advocate verse. The number is completed by the usual book notices and "Advocate's Brief."