College prayers at Harvard are voluntary, and will be conducted during October by Edward Everett Hale, during November by Phillips Brooks.-Ex. According to the statistican of Yale class of '81 the average expenses of its members for the four successive years were $933, $959, $952, $981; total, $3,825.-Trinity Tablet. Prof. (to Fresh. in geometry)—"What is a circle?" Fresh. (after reflecting)-" A round straight line with a hole in the middle.”—Ex. The Marquis of Lorne has offered a gold and silver medal for competition by the third and second year students, respectively, of Toronto University. The prizes are for general and not for special proficiency.-Haverfordian. The Oxford cap is now worn at Princeton, Williams, Amherst, Trinity, University of the City of New York, and Brown University.-Ariel. Prof. in Philology, in a jocular mood-" When were there only two vowels?" Five Sophs murmur "Not prepared," whereupon the Professor makes answer: "In the days of Noah, when you and I were not."-Athenæum. Harvard's boating last year cost her over $4000; Yale's cost her $4432.52.-Nassau Lit. The average age at which students enter American colleges is seventeen; a century ago it was fourteen.-Colby Echo. The last year has been a notable one in respect to the number of bequests that various colleges have received. Within that time $19,000,000 have been given by private individuals in this country to the cause of education.-Ex. The oldest educational institution in the country is the Boston Latin School.-Critic. Why is every Boston boy sure to make a noise in the world? Because he is a little hubbub in himself.-Occident. How to make a Maltese cross-"Step on its tail."—Ex Professor (to student who has conjugated mourir with the wrong auxiliary)" If a man was dead would he say J'ai mort or Je suis mort?"—Bates Student STRAIGHT ON. Methought I saw a pilgrim journeying slow Lay wood, and stream, and meadows spreading wide Kingly his bearing, and his face, although Scarred with past pain, broad-browed and noble-eyed; Yet must I move straight on, for though my soul Clear as of old from youth's high mountains, still, -Harvard Advocate. BOOKS RECEIVED. Roget's Thesaurus, a Treasury of English words and phrases. For sale of J. P. Ambler. This is a dictionary arranged in reversed order,—given the idea to find words to express it in. It is a valuable reference book, and would be especially useful to students and youthful essayists. The lists of synomyms are carefully arranged, and include not only single words, but phrases. The Decorative Sisters: A modern Ballad by Josephine Pollard, with illustrations by Walter Satterlee-for sale by Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., New York. This attractive little book is a clever hit on the æsthetic craze. The verses are in Patience meter, and the colored illustrations teem with sunflowers, "faint lilies," deformed storks, etc. The book is well worth adding to one's library, as an exponent of the "unutterably utter." We acknowledge the receipt of the following exchanges: Acta Victoriana, Amherst Student, Archangel, Argo, Argus, Ariel, Athenaeum, Atlantic Monthly, Bates Student, Beacon, Berkleyan, Boston Times, Bowdoin Orient, Brunonian, Carletonia, Chronicle, Colby Echo, College Mercury, College Olio, College Rambler, College Record, Columbia Spectator, Concordiensis, Cornell Era, Cornell Review, Cornell Sun, Crimson, Critic, Dartmouth, Dickinsonian, Dutchess Farmer, Educational Review, Exonian, Hamilton College Monthly, Hamilton Lit., Harvard Advocate, Harvard Echo, Harvard Lampoon, Haverfordian, Hellmuth World, Hesperian Student, Horae Scholastica, Illini, Kansas Review, Lafayette College Journal, Lantern, Lasell Leaves, Madisonensis, Nassau Lit., News Letter, Morning News, Northwestern, Notre Dame Scholastic, Occident, Oracle, Philadelphia Evening News, Phillipian, Polytechnic, Poughkeepsie Daily News, Princetonian, Rockford Sem. Magazine, Round Table, Spectator, Students Journal, Student Life, Syracusan, Targum, Tech, Transcript, Trinity Tablet, Tuftonian, Undergraduate, University Herald, Wabash, Willistonian, Woman's Journal, Wyoming Lit, Yale Courant, Yale Lit., Yale News, Yale Record. Among our modern writers is one who, though entitled to a place in the front rank of the world's novelists, is not as widely read, or as highly appreciated as he deserves to be. His nationality is sufficient reason for this comparative obscurity; and, although the foremost among Russian prose writers, Ivan Sergheïovitch Turgénieff has a comparatively small number of readers and admirers. But even after the power of his books is diluted by a double translation from Russian into French, and from French into English, they show a power of psychological analysis and description, a satire so subtile, a philosophy so broad and an observation so minute, as to place his claim to preeminence beyond question. In his kindly cynicism, occa |