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Misses Atwater and Pew do not return this year.

Miss J. B. King is teaching in the High School in La Porte, Indiana.

Miss Nagai has returned to Japan.

Miss C. E. Griffith, formerly of '81 has returned to college to join the class of '84.

Died, at Little Falls, N. Y., Sept. 26th, 1881, Kate F. Whitman, eldest daughter of Hon. S. M. Richmond, in the 32d year of her age.

Miss Agnes M. Lord, formerly music teacher at the college, recently sailed as missionary for Constantinople.

The following alumnae have visited the college this month. Mrs. Ellen Skeel Adee, '69, Misses A. Skeel, Weed, '73, Poppleton, '76, M. H. Stockwell, H. E. Gardner, '81.

EXCHANGE NOTES.

The last number of The Crimson is one of the best we have seen. There is not a dull page in it. The "Post-Mortem" of the Quizzical Club is especially good.

During the summer vacation, we heard that the Argo had never received our "puff," given on receipt of its initial number. And we now find "Ephraim" complaining that certain publications, on his exchange list, have failed to put in an appearance. We think that this cannot mean us, for the Argo has been on our exchange list since last spring. However, we wish to reiterate our good opinion of this new-comer and to add the hope that it will be a regular visitor at our sanctum. The last number is capital. It is pervaded with the frank, hearty spirit which characterized the first issue; and its subject matter is a fulfillment of its fair promises.

The Illini opens with several brisk, sensible articles dealing mainly with the necessity of supporting the paper by prompt and numerous subscriptions. The advice given in the fifth editorial to new students is good, but its tone is decidedly too grandfatherly and "preachy." Indeed, this tendency to preach seems to be a strong one with the Illini contributors.

It crops out very markedly in the article on "Vacation Reading," a production with several noteworthy features. Its method of paragraphing is unique, the views it advances, new(?) and striking(?), and some of its sentences-we quote: "While Dickens, Thackeray, Hugo, William Black and many of the poets will be found both pleasant and profitable as vacation reading, Endymion, Lord Beaconsfield's last novel, is very interesting and may be read with profit, although of the many thousands who have read this work since its issue a few months ago, a large per cent, doubtless were disappointed. The poem, Light in the Darkness," has elements of good in it, much that promises well for the author, if he succeeds in gaining greater terseness and strength. For the existence of the other two effusions in rhyme, we fail to see the need. We suppose that "That Wedding" is meant for a joke; but we are too obtuse to appreciate it. If it treats of actually exisiting parties, we should say that it was in very poor taste.

CLIPPINGS FROM EXCHANGES.

"Sun, moon and stars forgot," quoted a Junior after flunking in astronomy.- Williams Athenauen.

First Senior reads from Schlegel-" Christianity was introduced into India about the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century." Second Senior. "Was it the fourth century B. C. or A. D?" Both refer to Schlegel.-Lasell Leaves.

Greek has been dropped from the list of required studies at Cambridge, Eng.-Rockford Sem. Mag.

Thomas Carlyle accepted the degree of L.L. D. from Harvard, in 1875. Whately, Lyell, Holland, Hallam, Guizot, Baron Napier, J. S. Mill and Martineau, all received honorary degrees from the same college.-Syracusan.

Commencement appointments at Amherst are decided by lot. Advocate.

An old geography solves the modern problem of city sanitary systems, by the remarkable statement: "Albany has 400 houses and 4000 inhabitants all standing with their gable ends to the street.”—Rockford Seminary Magazine.

Columbia College has an endowment of about $5,000,000. The total income of the College is $321,917.56.

Prof. "What are the moon's nodes?"

Student "They are the-a-why the-a-corners of the moon's orbit?".

Prof. "If Julius Cæsar has had three daughters, what would have been their names?" Brilliant Fresh.-"Julia." Prof."But how would he have distinguished one from another?" Fresh.-"He would have called them major and minor." Prof. -"But what would he have called the third?" Fresh. (desperately)—"Circumflex."

The Johns Hopkins University begins its fifth academic year with 142 students, seventy-five being graduates, fifty-two matriculates, and nineteen special students. President Gilman, in his address, said that the institution aimed to be a society of scholars, in which the oldest teachers were still students, and the youngest students were looking forward to literary and scientific careers.

"WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS," ETC.-Lady Fussypompous; "Tell me, Miss Roseleaf, have you large trees in America?— but no, of course not! I beg pardon, but I really quite forgot that America was such a young country. "-Harvard Lampoon.

Prof. Political Economy-"What word meaning money in Latin shows the fact that formerly cattle were used as a medium of barter?"

Junior. "Bullion."—Argo.

The Harvard faculty has voted to make prayers voluntary., -Argo.

Oxford caps have been adopted at Columbia. The seniors are to be distinguished by a button of purple, Juniors by dark blue, Sophomores by cardinal, and Freshmen by dark green.

At the "Promenade" an '84 man, with that tender solicitude and anxiety which always characterizes a Sophomore about to be, stepped up to stranger whom he thought to be a Sub. Fresh, and patronizingly inquired, "Do you enter College in the fall?" "No," replied the other, "I graduated at Columbia in '78." Exit Freshman cum lachrymis.-Athenæum.

The faculty have voted to have prayers voluntary next year. -Harvard Advocate.

Columbia College has just obtained a large globe four feet in diameter, with the surface in relief to show land and water. It came from Berlin, and is one of the eleven largest ever made.-Syracusan.

Prof. Philology. "What was the effect of the Norman conquest on Saxon literature?"

Sophomore embarrassed. "It, it mixed it up."—Argo.

Sophomore (to new Prof.)-Say, Fresh, don't you want to buy some furniture?- Williams Athenaeum.

One of our brilliant young students not long since called at the office for some postage stamps. "What denomination?" interrogated the P. M. Baptist," was the prompt reply.Ex.

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BOOKS RECEIVED.

Japanese Fairy World. By William Eliot Griffis. $1.25. To one who is fond of fairy stories, the little book will be a treat. Gathered from the wonder-lore of Japan, many of them are, as we would expect, representations of natural phenomena and forces; others are purely imaginative. All are delightfully quaint and foreign. The book is illustrated by drawings made by a Japanese artist.

We have received from Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, the second edition of the American revised version of the New Testament; long primer crown, 8vo. This volume contains valuable marginal notes, giving possible renderings of doubtful passages and explanations of obscure expressions. The preface of the English Revised New Testament is inserted, and an appendix gives a list of the renderings prepared by the English Revisers.

We acknowledge the receipt of the following exchanges : Acta Columbiana, Amherst Student, Argus, Argo, Athenæum, Bates Student, Berkeleyan, Boston Times, Brunonian, Colby Echo, College Mercury, College Rambler, Cornell Era, Cornell Review, Cornell Sun, Crimson, Dartmouth, Denison Collegian, Dutchess Farmer, Educational Review, Exonian, Harvard Advocate, Harvard Echo, Haverfordian, Illini, Lafayette College Journal, Lantern, Lasell Leaves, Madisonensis, Nassau Lit., News Letter, Northwestern, Notre Dame Scholastic, Occident, Oberlin Review, Poughkeepsie News, Princetonian, Round Ta ble, Syracusan, Targum, Trinity Tablet, University, University Herald, University Portfolio, University Quarterly, Volante, Willistonian, Woman's Journal, Yale Courant, Yale News, Yale Record.

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