OUR EXCHANGES.

HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity: -

"The Freshman are having Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, with which, by the way, they have been regaled the whole year thus far."

NOT content with inserting two pages of advertisements in the body of the paper, the Record devotes a portion of its editorial space to puffing a jewelry manufactory. It is not clear whether the editors set a high value on the merits of the advertisements or a very low value on the merits of the articles. The same paper pathetically asks, "Where is the Yale Athletic Association?" No athletic association has been seen loafing around here this spring, but that is all the help we are able to give.

THE warning given in the last issue of the Record, that unless the requisite funds can be secured no race will be rowed with Harvard this year, ought not to be disregarded. Two weeks of the time within which the sum must be raised have already passed. Within the coming fortnight additional exertions will be made, that the old-time struggle may be enacted again next June. It is needless to reiterate the claims which this matter has on the consideration of the College. Every man ought spontaneously to recognize the misfortune which a refusal to row our doughty antagonist would entail on our boating interests. - Record.

THE event of the season at Cornell was the Navy Ball. The committee fully met the heavy responsibility cast upon their shoulders by providing "good music, a nicely crashed floor, and a good supper." "The ladies threw their sweeping trains in graceful curves, conscious of an admiring eye over yonder in the corner, while the gentlemen, perfectly overcome by this generous display of gracefulness for their own special benefit, now also make a desperate effort to appear graceful, causing a smile of pity on the faces of the ladies." Conscious curves would cause a smile of incredulity on even Mr. Tyndall's face, but wonders never cease at Cornell. The favorite dance seemed to be the "dignified lancier," and it was only at half past three that "the most enthusiastic dancers agreed that the Navy Ball of '77 was over." We thank the Era for giving us an insight into another Cornell mystery.

ALMOST all the college papers have contained reviews of "Student Life at Harvard." Of the reviewers, some have praised lavishly, while others have not spared criticism; but all have found some pleasure in reading the book. The extremes of criticism have been found in reviews outside the college press. While we have found nothing in the book to justify the indiscriminate praise of the Boston journals, we have certainly found nothing to justify the contemptuous and ill-natured growls of the New York Times and the Atlantic.

WE congratulate the Vassar Mis. upon reaching the expected end of "Man versus Hairpin," a story which bears resemblance to no other known literary work except "The House that Jack Built," with which it may reasonably claim kin. One easily gets the run of duplicate and duplicated, - "This is the girl who loved the man," etc. The number is, however, one of Vassar's usual merit. The Editor's Table thus sets forth negatively the chief end of the Mis.: -

"The way in which Vassar wishes to appear before the public, is not through articles, written by her inmates, in which the peculiarities of our life here are made the most of, and the aims and objects toward which that life tends are entirely ignored."