courtesies of our department we have in most in
stances found it easy to be pleasant. We have
found so much of forbearance toward ourselves
and so much real merit that it has not been a task
to respond but a task to respond so as to give as
good help as we received. We are frank to con•
fess and indeed glad to own in your favor that
criticisms wisely and honestly made have done us
good. Your words were well weighed as you
may guess, and almost, though perhaps not quite,
always we have been able to discover kind mo
tives. And while we speak thus let us give this
parting opinion to whom it may concern : That
exchange editor who fondly dreams that his own
paper has risen above the suggestions of its com
peers and seizes upon such suggestions as offering
opportunity to " show his fighting blood, " and
whose ''eyes in a fine frenzy roll" where'er he
sees or thinks he sees defects in others,truly pros
titutes his column to ends far beneath its possible
accomplishments. But we must say adieu and
why should we consider our own pleasure and speak
farther to you since our parting must be of less
importance to you than us.
—As a Pennsylvania journal w. were in
terested in the article entitled " Labor Troubles
in Pennsylvania " which appeared in the Universi-
Magazine, The Magazine is very pronounced
in its statements yet we may not deny them.
We may say indeed that we are glad to see col
lege bred young men not afraid to protest earnest
ly against the unrighteousness perpetrated by a
patrician element. Here is a sentence we believe
and will quote " The cruelty, obstinacy,
,and
duplicity of such men as Austin Corbin will bring
a terrible retribution at some future clay. "
--v.lere is the Dickinsonian welcome and
worthy of welcome. We had a word to say to the
exchange m.in of the Dickinsonian in our last
number but lack of space forbade. It is this :
The FREE LANCE was perhaps more
,innocent in
its inquiry for the reason why Dickinson declined
to play our team than he may imagine. We don't
choose to be sarcastic as our friend occasionally
appears to us to be, and we only say to him ; You
and I can't play that mooted game of the past on
paper ; we prefer the campus and eleven men on
our side.
--In trying to decide which one of the rest
of our many exchanges claims mention now we
feel very much as the squire who after hearing a
law suit decided that both parties were right and
the constable should pay the cost. We have
learned lessons from you all.
—ln perusing the late Phareira we were
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pleased, and we confess that we .said to ourselves
after having enjoyed every page : " How enter•
taining those ladies are " We almost feel like•
asking to call upon them.
—From the University we gather that frater
naties work practical detriment to that " esprit de
corps," which is most desirable everywhere,
among students in the University of Vermont.
Are we correct in our c inclusion ?
—The Varsity professes to be a journal of
literature, university thought and events, and such
it is in truth.
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