EXCHANGES.

THE Yale News urges the managers of the Athletic contests to post the dates of the events as soon as possible, and cites Harvard as a good example of enterprise in this direction. Judging from appearances, both colleges are doing their utmost, the one to win, the other to retain, prestige. At all events, the coming contests can hardly fail to be of interest. The Courant, in speaking of the letter by a Yale graduate in a recent CRIMSON, declares that "When a good solid blow is to be struck, there is nothing for the purpose like an intellect trained at Yale." That has always been our opinion, and we are glad to find it thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin, and the Review is disposed to resent the insults of its cotemporary, - very properly, as we think. But the Index can at least claim to be amusing, and what more can be said of the best of us all? . . . The Student and the Athenoeum pursue their straight-forward ways, and represent public opinion at Amherst and Williams very creditably. . . . We learn from the Tablet that Trinity is to have a new paper, the Ivy, which will probably be green and flourish. The Niagara Index is on the war path, and scalps the 'Varsity and the Record this time. The bright, chatty, school-girl air of Lasell Leaves is very pleasing, and puts reader and editor on a friendly footing at once. But we would not imply that this favorite paper is deficient in articles of real merit. As to the Phillipian, we would beg leave to remark that when it calls a writer in the Exonian a "consummate fool" and "an egregious ass," it does a very contemptible thing, unworthy of amateur journalism, which has, hitherto, for the most part been free from vulgarity, at least.