In vain with sonnets to the maid.
The poet to win her heart essayed ;
A yorse she liked, but—woman's whim—
she still appeared aryerse to him.
BLIND LOVE.
[She thinks.]
My darling is wounded and angry, I fear :
He writes to me, "Negligence caused by a tear."
[lie thinks,]
By thunder ! I wonder if Bessie will care,
I wrote to her plainly "I'd boon on a tear."
On IL tlla's plains the devotee
Into religious fervor wrought,
Prostrates himself before the ear—
Forsooth, he'll have his Juggernaut.
At home the Prohibitionist,
Who in a little snare is caught,
Prostrates himself before the bar—
Forsooth, he'll have hisjug or naught I—Ex.
EXCHANGES.
It is not with a feeling of regret that we again
resume our labors, for that regret will come,
all too soon, when we lutist transfer our labors to
our successors and step down and out, If any of
our exchanges should seem to be neglected or too
severely criticised we ask that they be leinent
with us for but a season feeling sure that in
"another day and generation" recompense will
be made. We earnestly hope that we shall be
favored with all of , our old exchanges and that
this year will b.; a most successful year to us all.
As it is so early in the college year few ex
changes have reached us.
The Ursinui College Bulletin issued a mid.
summer edition and the editors of that energetic
paper deserve great praise for the spirit of enter
prise they have manifested. As by so doing they
were able to give the students, Alumni and friends
of the college a full account of their commence
ment exercises.
One of the noticable features of the October
issue of the College Student is the length of several
THE FREE LANCE.
A VEUSE.
—Harvard Lampoon
—Drunonian.
of its literary productions. One of these articles
occupies nine out of twenty pages of the paper.
While we do not doubt the excellence and inter
est of the production, which is entitled 'Tetrarch
and the Renaissance," yet to our mind comes the
question—can a college paper afford to devote
nearly one half its space to the publication of an
address which, as in this case evidently,nearly the
whole body of the Students heard delivered. In
our opinion a monthly college Journal, which the
F. and M. student is, should have variety in order
to have interest for the undergraduates and Alum
ni. It should have college news, college liter
ature and comment on college topics. In such
requirements the recent issue of the Student is en
tirely lacking.
The recent issue of the Munlenberg bewails the
fact that athletics at their college are at a stand
still, owing to the fact that their board of Trus
tees have denied them the privilege of contesting
with other institutions.
Such a state of affairs is, indeed, deplorable for
without some athletics a college is dead. We
think however that the students of the college in
question are largely to blame for the stagnation of
field sports there, for if they would wake up; sure
ly in the course of time the managers of the col
lege would wake up also and make them a few con
cessions in regard to inter-collegiate contests.
We agree heartily with the Lantern, of Ohio
State University, in its opinion of the college liter
ary society. We clip from an editorial the fol
lowing few remarks on the subject :
"It need hardly be said that the most effective
way for a college student to acquire and cultivate
happy facility in the expression of thought is by
regular drill and constant practice such as are fur
nished by the literary societies of the University.
The careful study of the college life of some score
of typical, successful men chosen from all the var
ious walks of life,.reyeals the fact that these men
as a rule were enthuSiastic and constant workers in
the literary or scientific societies of their respec
tive colleges.