-Prof. Riggs, of Auburn Theological Seminary, delivered a lecture upon the Niebelungenlied at Houghton Seminary, Friday evening, March 7. The lecture was very interesting and instructive. Views from a stereopticon added materially in the description of places. Hamilton College was well represented in attendance upon the lecture.

-Robert Speer, Princeton, '89, spoke upon Foreign Missions in Silliman Hall, February 27 and 28. Mr. Speer by his earnest and forcible manner of speaking, impressed upon all the need of foreign missionaries and secured new names to his list. Friday afternoon, February 28, Mr. Speer made a few remarks upon college athletics as conducted at Princeton.

-Last year's LIT. Board collected exhibits of the college for the Paris exposition, consisting of campus views, photographs, catalogues, college publications, etc. Many Hamilton men who visited Paris during the summer marked with pleasure the exhibit of their Alma Mater. Through the kindness of Dr. Darling the present Board has received a memorial of recognition from the exposition. This memorial will be presented to the college.

-The following notices have lately appeared upon the college bulletin: Before making any engagements for games, concerts, &c., out of town, all student organizations are requested to consult with the committee of the faculty on athletics. BY ORDER OF THE FACULTY." The attention of students is called again to the regulations adopted September 20, 1889, especially to the 2d paragraph of No. 2:

Absences in excess of these will not be excused except for reasons presented in writing prior to the absence and considered sufficient by the Faculty. This regulation must be strictly adhered to. BY ORDER OF THE FACULTY.'

-At a meeting of the senior class held March 14th the following commenceinent officers were unanimously elected:

Permanent Secretary-William Morgan Phillips.

Officers of Campus Day--President-Samuel Duncan Miller; Orator, Robert James Hughes; Poet-William Day Crockett; Junior Response-Duncan Campbell Lee; Sophomore Response-Charles Andrew Frasure; Freshman Response— Daniel Wyette Burke.

Officers of Class Day-President-Eugene Landon Crockett; Orator-Robert Benedict Perine; Poet-James Austin Tooley; Prophet-Joseph Darling Ibbotson, Jr.; Historian-Clayton Halsey Sharp.

Ball Committee-Alfred Austin Moore, Edward North Smith, Eddy Clark Covell.

Invitation Committee-Clarence James Geer, Lincoln Abraham Groat, Albert Husted Rodgers.

General Committee-George Henry Minor, Melvin Gilbert Dodge, James Burton.

Presentation Committee-James Arthur Seavey, Charles Herbert Anthony, Hyman Augustus Evans.

INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS.

-Harvard has fourteen serial publications.

—The Persian language is taught at Cornell.

—An anti-cribbing society has been formed at Amherst. -There are thirteen graduates of Yale in the fifty-first congress. -Longfellow was but nineteen when made professor at Bowdoin. -At a mass meeting Dartmouth raised $1,200 to be given to base ball. -The loss by fire at the Toronto university will amount to $1,000,000.00. -The invested funds at Harvard amount to $6,874,046.25, yielding $337.532.05.

-The course of civil engineering at the University of Syracuse has been discontinued.

-There are 3,847 men in American colleges who are preparing for the ministry.-Ex.

-Ex-President Porter of Yale has been elected president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

-The senior class at Lafayette has decided to wear the cap and gown at

commencement.

-The Methodist church is agitating the question of a national university in Washington, D. C.

-The average age of those who enter college is seventeen years. ago it was fourteen.

A century

-A student at Yale was fined $20 for carving his class number upon his seat in the new Osborne hall.

-The Agassiz museum at Harvard, which already has a floor-space of over four acres, is to be enlarged.

-No class will be graduated from the Columbia law school this year, as the term of study has been lengthened.

-Miss Warfield of Maryland has bequeathed $100,000 to fund an Episcopal college, which is to be named after her.

-Amherst is to have an advisory board to control the athletic policy of the college and the finances connected therewith.

-The fourteenth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University was celebrated on Washington's birthday in Baltimore.

—Rev. Dr. N. L. Andrews, dean of the faculty and professor of Greek, has been elected to the presidency of Madison University,

-At a recent meeting of the Yale faculty nineteen members of the freshmen class were suspended on account of low standing in Latin.-Ex.

-It is said that there are eighty-seven college professors now on duty who have been pupils under Dr. McCosh, ex-president of Princeton.-Mail and Express.

-After the recent examinations at Heidelberg University, Germany, two students are said to have committed suicide on account of failure to pass the examinations.

A bill has been presented before the Rhode Island senate abolishing the denominational test in the election of the trustees, president and other officers of Brown University.

-The Columbia College library is said to be the best managed in the world. Writing materials are furnished for the visitors, and light meals are supplied to students who are too busy to leave their work.

-The English sporting journals suggest that a series of foot-ball games be arranged between picked English and American teams. The dashing American style of play finds great favor with the English, who would be glad to welcome a team from this country.- Williams' Weekly.

EXCHANGES.

-The Bates Student and Undergraduate come to us this month adorned in new gowns. They are neat and tasty and well deserving of comment.

-We are always pleased to receive The Dartmouth among our exchanges. Its high literary merit is very noticeable as it is reviewed along with many of the monthlies that fill our table. We congratulate its editors on their successful publication.

-The Sibyl for February contains many articles of literary excellence. "Literary Individuality" and "Madame De Stael" are especially deserving of praise. -The February number of the Tuftonian has failed to reach its usually high standard. The article on Hawthorne" is its chief production, and is well treated.

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-The Cornell Magazine for February opens with " How the Princess Royal' Was Won," by Professor Thurston. Other articles are "The Earliest American Novelist," and "The Catholic Church and the Labor Question," both of which are able and instructive discussions. The magazine can hardly be compared with an undergraduate publication. The sources from which it derives its material are chiefly from professors and alumni of the University.

-Lippincott's for March is swelled to generous proportions by "Capt. Chas. King's Two Soldiers." The story is complete and occupies ninety-five pages of the magazine. Marshall P. Wilder defends "Our English Cousins" against the charge of being glum and unhappy. William McGeorge gives the history and working of the system and investments represented by western mortgages. His article is in the main commendatory of the system.

CLIPPINGS.

-During a recent examination of law students for admission to the Allegheny county, Pa., bar one of the questions was: "Name twelve animals to be found in the Polar regions." One of the students made ninety per cent. by the answer: "Six walruses and six Polar bears."

Lives of poor men often remind us,
Honest toil don't stand a chance;
More we work, we have behind us
Bigger patches on our pants.

-Dartmouth.

DESTINY.

From pages filled with history
We see-though dim with mystery-
Like an eastern caravan

The onward march of human life,
And seek in every nation's strife
The destiny of man.

Philosophers have lived and died
Who by their constant studies tried,
Within life's little span,

To solve the question, but, alas !
Even now no problem can surpass
The destiny of man.

Vain are the strivings of mankind
His thought by finiteness confined
The problem can but scan;

And though he labor long and well
Eternity alone can tell

The destiny of man.

--The Dartmouth.

-The following poem bears a peculiar interest in the seemingly prophetic spirit of its author, who died but a few days after its publication:

Way back in those archaic days when time for man got ripe,
A tailless ape sat on a tree and smoked a penny pipe.

And as he smoked, lo, thought began. He knew that he enjoyed.
(Be not surprised at this. You see that ape was anthropoid.)
Thus thought began, and thought is all that makes a man a man.
So be it known that thus in smoke the human race began.
But mark how in a circle move all sublunary things.
Events, like smoke, resolve themselves into expanding rings;
And as the monkey's pipe made thought, and thought created man,
The cigarette shall take him back to just where he began.

-Pulse.

-"Are you superstitious?" "Not very; why?" "Do you believe it is a sign of death when a dog howls under your window at night?" "Yes, if I can get my gun before the dog gets away.'

BY THE SHORE O' THE BLUE WATERS.

Bricht, sae bricht is the sky.

Bricht, sae bricht is the sea,

But fa' mair bricht are her bricht blue een
Where luve blinks bonnilie.

Fair, fu' fair are the sunbeams,

A-glintin', a-glistnin' the sea,

But a comelier sicht is the winsome smile
A-lightin' her face for me.

Blythe, blythe, blythe are the waves
And the sound of the frolicklin' sea;
But blythesomer fa' is her ripplin' laugh
A-laughin', a-ripplin' for me.

Oh! Her look, and her laugh and her smile,
And the sky, and the land and the sea,-
What care I for the haill braid wurld

Her ain fair sel' for me. -Harvard Advocate.

SOMETHING WANTING.

On the pebbly, billow-washed sea shore
They were strolling along on the sand,
Where the moon on the waves of the ocean
Made a silvery path from the land.

And she heard in the splash of the water,
As it danced in the moon's silvery light,
One perpetual song,-her heart's echo,
"Ah me! Will he ask me to-night!"

Then gently he spoke, and his accents
Seemed noble, and tender and true.
"Do you love me?" he eagerly asked her,

And she murmured, "You know that I do."

Then she cast down her eyes and blushed sweetly
(Though she gave him her soft hand, ungloved),
And waited to hear his next question-

But he murmured, "I like to be loved."

HOW THE MILL GRINDS.

The fellow at the ladder's top, to him all glory goes,

Williams' Weekly.

And the fellow at the bottom is the fellow no one knows.

No good are all the 'had beens,' for in country and in town

Nobody cares how high you've been when once you have come down.
When once you have been president and are president no more,
You may run a farm, or teach a school, or keep a country store,
No one will ask about you, you never will be missed,
The mill will only grind for you while you supply the grist.
-Burlington Hawkeye.

-At a college club boarding house: First student-"This tea is very weak."

Second student-" Lean it up against the butter."