OUR EXCHANGES.

THE World will hereafter publish its college news in the Monday edition, and will give even more room to this department than it has hitherto devoted. Although the World's reports were better than those of any other paper, they left, at the close of the year, something still to be desired.

THIS is the reception which awaited the editors of the Courant on their return to New Haven the other day: -

"The hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch."

A WRITER in the Courant has been amusing himself by some slurs on Mr. Alexander Agassiz and his conduct at Springfield, said slurs beng backed by a clipping from the New Haven (!) Palladium of July 2. The half-made charge of unfairness in the Palladium time has proved unfounded; and we presume that time will also cause the Courant writer to be ashamed of having written a tirade which, while it convinces no one, can harm only the one who wrote it.

THE college paper that does such things (it is not necessary to be more explicit) prepared a table of statistics of the circulation of a number of college papers, the object being to exhibit its own superiority in this respect. We have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item.

IT is so pleasant to be remembered that we do not feel like quarrelling with our Princeton friends on the wording of the following toast responded to at one of their reunions: -

"'Our Sister Colleges,' 'The Dean of Harvard College - Soldene.'"

A REVOLUTION has been effected this term in the game of which, above all other games, Rugbeians are most conservative. A fiat has gone forth that in future all shins, unless the ball is between them, are to be inviolate. Deprived of its most distinctive feature, Rugby foot-ball exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth and lamentation over the degeneracy of the present amongst the foot-ball heroes of the past. - Rugby Meteor.

IT seems that among the amusements known to Freshmen of this and other colleges is the one of writing to Vassar for young lady correspondents. The Freshman obtains a catalogue, finds the name of some Sophomore or sister Freshman, and "in flowery and verbless sentences" pleads with her to correspond with him. But the Vassar maiden always laughs at his poor spelling, ridicules his absurd mistakes, and "resents the impertinent demand on her time and attention." On the whole, the fun seems to be pretty equally divided, only we would suggest that the Yale and Harvard writers pay still less attention to rhetoric and dictionary, for, as it is, their communications are said to be less amusing than the others.

We feel that in The Nation we have an eminently safe guide. - Vassar Miscellany.

Had the editors of the Vassar Miscellany known what a host of articles headed "Vassar Indifference," "Vassar Pessimism," etc., the above sentence will cause to be showered upon their devoted heads, they would have confined their attention entirely to the discussion of Miss Alcott, Mrs. Whitney, and George Eliot.

FOR the most part, the college press is content to tread in the same paths year after year; and so it is with real pleasure that we observe the enterprise of the editors of the Dartmouth in securing for their paper regular and special correspondents at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges. These letters, we are promised, will be "sprightly, interesting, but honest," and the writers will be the most brilliant that these institutions afford. O happy and much-to-be-envied Dartmouth!

Lasell Leaves is the name, and "Dux femina facti" the motto, of a new publication hailing from Lasell Seminary. The character of the paper can be judged by the following extracts: -

"Right over opposite

Lives a young man,

Who flirts with the 'Sems'

As hard as he can."

"Why is Lasell the beginning of evil? Because Adam's among us."

WE commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good.

A '77 man, coming out on the horse-car this morning, explained that this year his visit to Cambridge was on business, and not for pleasure.