OUR EXCHANGES.

A WOULD-BE orator of Yale reckoned without his host when he delivered an oration on "John Milton as a Republican" at the Junior exhibition. A writer in the last Record exposes the fact that the oration was judiciously selected from one delivered in 1869 on "John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and John Locke as Advocates of Liberty," which was found in a back number of the Yale Lit.

THE Record severely condemns the bad habit of marking library books. We would go a little farther, and condemn that of marking even one's own, for this reason: book-marking is like dram-drinking and only total abstinence can safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental.

THE Latin oration, of which a part is given in the Oberlin Review, may have sounded well enough when it was delivered, especially if it was spoken too fast to allow the audience to notice how strikingly English were the constructions, - and some of the words too; for instance, institutionibus!

We also notice that the author uses inflexissimus in the sense of inflexible, whereas it means just the opposite.

THE Packer Quarterly has ninety-six exchanges! Like the Courant, we don't envy it, even though it appears only once in three months.

WE cannot resist giving two quotations from a poem in the Tufts Collegian, entitled "The Wreck":

"It fills the eyes with pitying tears

To see how weak that strong ship is;

It wanders wild, as if burdened with fears,

And over her deck the spray-drops whiz."

. . . . "the rocks were craunching [sic] in savage delight Its sides that so bravely the tempest had met."

THE Exonian is a weekly paper published at Exeter, and contains much news about that school. Perhaps when it is well started we may look for some articles of a literary character, which we miss in the first two numbers.

THE Lafayette College Journal has an article entitled "The Wit and Poetry of the Sophomores," which, it is needless to say, is very short.