OUR EXCHANGES.

THE Williams students are, without exception, sober, manly, and wise, as is proved by the following quotation from an editorial in the Athenaum on a certain steep path: -

"It is said that there is a guardian angel who watches over the steps of drunkards, babies, and fools, and perhaps his watchful care is extended to students too."

Perhaps, however, the "too" only crept in by accident, owing to a slip on the part of the Editors similar to that of the lady who was saved from drowning by "Providence and that other man."

THE Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes.

THE Yale Record advises its subscribers to calm their minds and consider that there is another baseball game to be played with Harvard. Perhaps, while they are about it, our friends at Yale might as well calm their minds and consider the possibility of there being two other games to be played. They might also calm their minds and consider that there is a boat-race to be rowed.

THE article on "Radicalism in College" which represents by itself the literary talent of Williams, in the last Athenoeum, is sensible and thoughtful. In a young man radicalism is indeed an essential quality. It is only the exaggeration of enthusiasm, and at our age enthusiasm cannot be too much exaggerated, at least at Harvard, where it is certainly not a drug in the market, whatever may be the case at Williams.

THE most remarkable thing about the Dartmouth is the small amount of space it sees fit to devote to matters in its own College. The next remarkable thing is the large amount of space it devotes to matters which have to do with no College at all. The last number contains a synopsis of the libretto of "Tannhuser," which at Hanover is spelt with only one n; an account of a palace-car journey from Boston to St. Paul's, Minnesota, in which we learn that Buffalo is "a place of great commercial interest and a great entrepot for the grain of the West"; an abstract of the Eastern Question; and an article on "Reading and Observation"; the whole capped off by a very short editorial (on Class-Day Parts) and a few items. A college paper is meant for the college in which it is published, and its literary department, even if interesting, should not be allowed to encroach on the more important department of local news.

THE Archangel, from Portland, Oregon, is a publication of the most startling interest, and because we only notice two articles in its last issue, it must not be supposed that the others are unworthy our attention. The first is a violent attack on Darwinism, in which the train of argument is somewhat as follows: "Darwin denies the Biblical theory of the Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This article, however, only proves the necessity of religion; the other proves that of the Roman Catholic religion, and its superiority to others, by giving a long list of famous men, most of whom lived before Luther's time, who were of course Catholics. If we at Harvard were only such avowed Atheists as we are said to be at heart, we might publish a long list of distinguished heathens who lived before the Christian Era in support of our doctrines. Would the Archangel then acknowledge itself worsted?