freedom, subject to no despotic rule, where a
college education is open to all and where any
profession or trade may be learned without being
watched by obnoxious police,
The Southern Collegian of Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Va., is a good, solid, college
monthly contains forty-five pages of readable
matter, and all more or less interesting. The first
article, “Lord Bacon,” was especially meritorious.
We hope to see the University always represented
among our exchanges.
We acknowlege the receipt of The Nassau Li
terary Magazine for December. Its literary matter
is of the most interesting character.
The Argus comes to us for last month ex
ceptionally bright and lively, It contains a
Christmas story, “A Welcome to the New Year,”
and other short delightful articles.
The Christmas number of The University News
was an excellent one, containing a drama in five
scenes, called “The New Year” by Henry O.
Sibley.
DRAMATIS PERSON/E,
King Old Year, King New Year.
Prince Winter. Prince Autumn,
Princess Spring. Princess Summer.
Zephyrus,—Spring’s Musician
Breeze, —Summer's Musician.
Gale, —Autumn’s Musician.
Storm, —Winter’s Musician.
Julius Caesar. Ocean. Spirits.
Throughout, the drama teems with the most
poetic passages.
LANCELETS.
The arithmetic of love:
After introduction /
Four compliments make one blush,
Three blushes makes one tender look,
Four tender looks make one ramble by moonlight,
Two rambles by moonlight make one proposal,
Two proposals (one to Papa) make one wedding.
—Ex
Who killed the greatest number of chickens?
“Hamlet’s uncle did murder most foul.”
THE FREE LANCE.
Interviewer (to Duke, lately over) —“What has
struck you most prominently in America?”
Duke—“ Please keep off the grass."
Literary Bohemian—“ Is Binks, the sporting
editor, in?” Office Boy—“No Sir: this is his
night off, and he’s gone to prayer-meeting with
his wife.” “L. B.—Well I’ll stop and chatawhile
with Dinks, the religious editor.” O. B.—“He
ain’t in either: he’s on a spree.”
lowans are boasting of an electric girl who can
hold the strongest man in a chair with ease. We
never saw a decent looking girl who could'nt.
In Latin, —Prof. “Now as to quo dam, what is
the significance of the termination dam?”
Freshman, —“Makes it more emphatic, Sir.”
College Journal.
A question in the conservation and corellation
of energy ; —ist Soph, to 2nd Soph. “What
becomes of the energy expended in putting one’s
arm around a pretty girl?” 2nd Soph.—“lt all
goes to waist.”
There is something exquisite in the American’s
reply to the European traveler who asked him if
he had just crossed the Alps.—“Wal, now you
call my attention to it I guess I did cross risin
ground.
Oh, come where the cynnkles softly blow,
And the carburets droop o’er the oxides below,
Where the rays of potassium lie white on the hill,
And the song of the silicates never is still.
Come, on, come’ tumi-tum-tum
Peroxide of soda and urani-um.
While alcohol’s liquid at thirty degrees,
And no chemicnl change can effect manganese,
While alkilies flourish and acids are free,
My heart shall be constant, sweet science, to thee.
Yes to thee, biddlc dum die,
'line, borax, bismuth and IL SIC.
A miss is ns good ns a mile,
A kiss is ns good ns a smile,
But four painted kings
Are the beautiful things
That are good for the other man's pile.
—Hallowcll Classical.
[Detroit Free Press. J
— Brunonian,