OUR EXCHANGES.

SEVERAL papers have something to say in regard to our match with Yale. The Princetonian enters into no extended reflections, but simply remarks: "Yale has been fortunate again - in its umpire." The McGill Gazette has the following editorial upon the subject:-

"We regret to hear that Harvard has been beaten by Yale in the late foot-ball match. The score shows that Harvard had really the best of the match, as she obtained three touch-downs, while Yale secured one goal; but, whatever the match shows, still it is nominally a defeat for Harvard. It is said that Seamans missed a place-kick for the first time during a match. We hope that Harvard will soon regain her laurels; indeed, we are magnanimous enough to wish that no club may ever beat her, except our own, or some other Canadian team."

THE Courant, in all its dignified and stately English, kindly pats on the back the Yale Lit., saying:-

"It has taken the position for years held by the Courant, and will not hereafter advertise beer, wine, and ale shops. At least, so it says. We congratulate the Lit. on its moral reformation."

The upholder of moral principles (for in New Haven total abstinence seems to take the place of what is understood elsewhere as morality) then entreats the editors of the Lit. not to forget that "theirs is a literary magazine in a University, and not a brewer's journal in Milwaukee.

AT a meeting of the McGill foot-Ball Club on 23d November, the question of sending a team to Cambridge to play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been adopted by a majority of the club, and accordingly we shall receive no challenge from McGill this year.

AN article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity.

THE month of November was a month of great athletic activity at the English universities. Rowing, foot-races, cricket, and foot-ball were all attended to, to say nothing of the "meets" of the Bicycle Clubs. At three meetings of the Cambridge club the "runs" on bicycles were, respectively, twenty-one, twenty-eight, and twenty-seven miles.