-The second number of College and School equals the high standard of excellence of the December number.

-The January Dynamo reflects much credit on the editors. The editorial department is especially worthy of notice and praise.

-Harper's Weekly for December 28, 1889, contains an article on Wesleyan University with portraits of the new President, Dr. Raymond and of Dr. Daniel Ayres, Wesleyan's benefactor.

-The Columbia Spectator is very attractive in its Christmas dress. It contains an interesting description of a German "Kneipe" and has the usual excellent collection of inter-collegiate news.

-The January number of the St. Nicholas contains the third paper of the series on inter-collegiate foot ball in America by Walter Camp, and an article on 'The Drop Kick" by W. T. Bull of Yale.

-The Undergraduate for December is hardly up to the average of the other college publications. The editorials are fair but the literary matter is meagre and there is little of interest to other colleges.

-Among our exchanges for December we are pleased to find a copy of The Lawrentian, from Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is a spicy sheet and its editors seem to have a good idea of what a college journal should be.

-The Delaware College Review quotes the following from an exchange: "Mr. Blaine is the only college graduate in Harrison's cabinet." We would beg leave to inform the exchange that Attorney General Miller is a graduate of Hamilton in the class of 1861, and that Secretaries Noble, Procter and Tracy are also college graduates.

-The Concordiensis has an excellent editorial on college songs that applies to Hamilton as well as Union. Our college is poor in strictly Hamilton songs. There is little that arouses more enthusiasm among students than college songs and particularly those relating to their own college. Can not some of our poets and musicians help us out in this regard?

-The December number of the Dartmouth Lit. is a little above the average. It opens with a series of articles on "The Utility or Futility of Examination," in which the subject is ably and thoroughly discussed. Then follows A Notable Correspondence," "Hanover's Ben in Literature" and A Story of Willow Brook," all of which are worthy and interesting articles.

-The January number of Lippincott's has just been received and too late to be thoroughly reviewed in this number of the LIT. Its leading story is "Millicent and Rosalind," by Julian Hawthorne and is, no doubt, up to the usual high standard of Mr. Hawthorne's writings. "The Theatrical Renaissance of Shakespeare" by Edward Fuller and "Nathaniel Parker Willis" by R. H. Stoddard are both highly instructive articles.

-The arrival of the monthly magazines is a joyous period for the exchange editor. True, it is the announcement of much hard work to be done, but regardless of this the monthlies are always so full of what is interesting to college men, and rendered doubly so because they are compiled by undergaduates. The announcement of the bitter suggests merely a termination in the sweet. We wish it were possible to give a more extensive review of the publications we receive, but neither time nor space in our pages will permit.

ALUMNIANA.

Τί πρῶτον καταλέξω; ἐπεὶ πάρα μυρία εἰπεῖν.

-Rev. JOHN L. COUNTERMINE, '86, has received a Presbyterian call to Fort Howard, Wis.

-DELOS M. WHITE, '70, has been appointed to act as clerk in the surrogate's office in Rome, with a salary of $600.

-CHARLES W. SKINNER, '81, recently principal of Hancock Union School, is now a student in Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, N. J.

-Dr. J. M. MANWARING, '55, is principal of one of the two colored schools at Owensboro, Kentucky, with Mrs. M. E. MANWARING as one of his assistants. -Principal S. REED BROWN, '86, of St. Johnsville, lectured on The Ethics of Success" before the Fulton County Teachers' Institute at Johnstown, December 18th.

-Dr. HORATIO E. SHUMWAY, '84, a graduate of the University Medical College in New York city, has entered upon the practice of his profession in St. Johnsville.

-The Independent contains an article, half essay and half story, by DANIEL HUNTINGTON, '36, president of the National Academy of Design, on the methods which give success in art.

-Among the juniors in Union Theological Seminary are FREDERICK J. SWIFT, 85, CHARLES W. E. CHAPIN, '89, MILO B. LOUGHLEN, '89, GEORGE D. MILLER, '89, and DAVID G. SMITH, '89.

-Rev. MURRAY H. GARDNER, '84, previously called to Martinsburgh, N. Y., has received another call to West Grove and Avondale, Pa., with his senior year not yet completed in Princeton Theological Seminary.

—EDWARD CURRAN, '56, has been re-elected president, and W. T. DunMORE, '75, attorney of the Utica Homestead Aid Association which, at the close of its sixth year, has 540 members and a capital of $115,053.

-Rev. WILLIAM REED, '71, came to College Hill, Jan. 15, on a sad errand, to bury his youngest son, WILLIAM VANDERHEYDEN, who died in Troy, of pneumonia, Sunday morning, Jan. 12, aged 7 months and 26 days.

--In the New York State Assembly, Speaker Husted has appointed Hon. S. F. NIXON, '81, chairman of the standing committee on "Internal Affairs," and Hon. JOHN D. HENDERSON, '68, has been placed on “Judiciary.”

-In the senior class of Princeton Theological Seminary are MURRAY H. GARDNER, '84, and JOHN H. THOMPSON, '87. ALBERT EVANS, '89, is in the middle class. LOUIS G. COLSON, '87, and FREDERICK PERKINS, '89, are juniors.

-MILTON K. MERWIN, '85, is a student in the School for Christian Workers at Springfield, Mass. Rev. DAVID A. REED, '77, is the founder and president of this prosperous school, and Rev. Louis F. GIROUX, '84, is pastor of one of the two churches founded in Springfield by Mr. REED.

-The portrait of Hon. GERRIT SMITH, '18, in the Memorial Hall of Hamil ton College, was presented by his daughter, Mrs. CHARLES D. MILLER, of Geneva, who has recently presented another portrait of her father for the court house in Morrisville, Madison county.

-THOMAS D. CATLIN, '57, Hon. HENRY J. COOKINHAM, '67, Oliver A. HESS, '81, and ten others are trustees of the United Glass Company, with a capital of $1,583,500. The principal office is in Syracuse, and the president is THOMAS D. CATLIN, '57, of Ottawa, Ill.

-One might go farther and fare worse than by tarrying at Fargo, N. Dakota, where a robust gospel is preached by Rev. GRANVILLE R. PIKE, '80, to such hearers, (presumably,) as COMAN C. AMES, '66, VINCENT S. STONE, '74, WILSON MOYER, '81, CHARLES F. AMIDON, '82, and CALVIN L. BRADLEY, '82.

-In the New York Observer's review of "A Historical Sketch of Hamilton College," by Rev. CHARLES E. ALLISON, '70, of Yonkers, the reviewer emphasizes the fact that the Synod of New York has on its roll of ministers 59 graduates of Yale, 58 of Williams, 55 of Amherst, 86 of Princeton, 138 of Hamilton.

-Dr. EMORY W. RUGGLES, '85, a graduate of the college of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, is now in Vienna, Austria, for the completion of his medical studies. Among the medical students who preceded him in Vienna were Dr. F. E. BARROWS, '72, Dr. IVAN P. BALABANOFF, '84, and Dr. CHRISTO P. BALABANOFF, '85.

-Dr. SELDEN H. TALCOTT, Ph.D., '69, has accepted the invitation of the executive committee of Hamilton Alumni to deliver the annual oration at the 78th commencement. As superintendent of the Middletown state asylum for lunatics Dr. TALCOTT holds a position of commanding influence, and his gifts as a popular speaker are of the highest order.

-Rev. WILLIAM N. CLEVELAND, '51, recently of Forestport, has entered upon the duties of a new pastorate at Chaumont, Jefferson county. His call to take charge of a prosperous church in a large field is a matter of congratulation among his friends. He will be greatly missed at Forestport, a place made famous all the country over by President CLEVELAND'S visits at the home of his brother.

-Rev. Dr. ROBERT L. BACHMAN, '71, of Utica accompanied by ROSWELL SMITH, president of the New York Century Company, left home on Tuesday, Jan. 7, for a western outing of six or eight weeks. They will visit St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and other places in California. During the absence of Dr. BACHMAN the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Utica will be supplied by Rev. Dr. JAMES S. RIGGS, of Auburn Theological Seminary.

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-Prof. W. T. ORMISTON, '85, of Robert College, is the author of a tical Arithmetic on the Inductive Plan," recently published in Constantinople. The author has not thought it necessary to prepare original problems in all cases, but has adapted them in general to the money, weights and measures now used in the Turkish empire. It has been taken for granted that "the omission of answers to the problems given will commend itself to the instructor as well as to those students who desire a thorough knowledge of the subject rather than the ability to work certain given problems."

-Clark Academy, at Goodland, Sherman county, Kan., Miss R. D. Kiner, principal, began its second year, September 2. This academy was chartered June 19, 1888; opened September 17, 1888; adopted by Osborne Presbytery,

April 12, 1889. The academy was founded by a gift of a large campus and other property amounting to $10,500, by Rev. G. M. CALDWELL, '80, and his sister, Miss M. E. CALDWELL. By the terms of the deed, the academy is to be maintained as a Presbyterian School, and should it cease to be such, the property is to revert to the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies.

-The boards of the Presbyterian Church are officered by men of the highest character and ability. Among these officers are Rev. Dr. HENRY KENDALL, '40, corresponding secretary of the Board of Home Missions in New York ; Rev. Dr. FRANK F. Ellinwood, '49, corresponding secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions in New York; Rev. Dr. HERRICK JOHNSON, '57, President of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies in Chicago; Rev. SAMUEL J. FISHER, '67, recording secretary of the Board of Freedmen at Pittsburgh, Pa.: Rev. HENRY N. PAYNE, 68, field secretary of the Board of Freedmen at Atlanta, Ga.; Elder DAN P. EILLS, '48, secretary of committee on Systematic Beneficence at Cleveland, Ohio.

-The case of Dr. JOHN CLARK, '83, of Delhi, might be cited to prove that the power of man to relieve extends over even that delicate and vital organ, the brain, and that the cranium is not a closed chamber to the skill of scientific surgeons. He was thrown from his carriage some weeks ago, and became unconscious at times, losing for five weeks the power of speech, and being partially paralyzed. He was removed to Roosevelt Hospital, New York, where the trouble was located and a piece of the skull removed, behind the ear. A mass of blood and serum which depressed on the brain was removed, the piece of skull replaced, and after a few days the doctor recovered his power of speech, recovered the use of his paralyzed members, and was at last reports, a few days ago, on the high road to health.

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-Prof. H. C. G. BRANDT, '72, is the compiler of A German Reader, with Notes and a Vocabulary," published in December, 1889, by Allyn & Bacon, of Boston. This book is highly commended in Modern Language Notes" as "the most attractive collection of early prose and poetry that has been published in a long time. The discretion used in the matter of notes is a happy change from the methods employed by the editors of other recent readers. The introductory notes to each extract, upon its style, vocabulary, and author, will certainly be welcome to many instructors." The Milwaukee Lehrer Post speaks of Professor Brandt's notes and vocabulary as "worthy of unconditional praise. The vocabulary is the most painstaking that has ever come before us. And this was to be expected, for Professor Brandt is one of the most prominent etymologists in this country."

-Col. ROBERT M. RICHARDSON, '42, of Syracuse, proposes a new and significant design for our national banner: "I would place thirteen stars in the upper left-hand corner of the blue quarter or field, which would symbolize the original thirteen states; in the centre of the blue I would have twenty-five stars, in five rows of five stars in a row, in the form of a square, to represent the twenty-five states that joined the union during the first century of the existence of the flag; and in the right hand lower corner of the blue I would place four stars to designate the number of states that have been added to the number of states since our centennial of 1876. In this corner will be room for any additional stars. The design need not, in its essential feature, be changed by