OUR EXCHANGES.

THE latest thing in puffs is printed by the "Cascadilla Art Gallery" in Ithaca. It is a letter from "a prominent lady of Hartford," asking for two dozen more copies of her last portrait, which makes her "look as she hopes to look in HEAVEN."

THE Dartmouth has settled some disputed points in chronology. It decides that the Great Pyramid was built just "253 years after the Flood, and 150 before the Tower of Babel." This period was 3,971 years ago, and "it is but 3,367 years since Moses lived," so that the Pyramid was just 604 years old when the Israelites left Egypt.

THE spelling-match mania has reached England, and a "Spelling Bee" took place last month at Rugby. Three gentlemen kept apace for some time, but at length one succumbed before Sanhedrim, and another before pseudonyme, leaving the victor to glory in the correct spelling of physiognomy.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else.

THE Yale papers have assumed a very religious tone. The Record has become almost High-Church in its views of life. It has determined to mortify the flesh, during the "Lenten season," by refraining from its habitual "pastime of gentle reproof and delicate personalities." Any one who is familiar with the columns of the Record will at once appreciate the extent of its self-denial.

The tone of the Courant, too, is far more pacific than usual. A correspondent of this paper is much shocked because the "President's Sunday-evening prayer-meetings" are poorly attended. It seems that Dr. Porter recently invited some "prominent gentlemen" to address an audience of "cultivated young Christian gentlemen." When the time came, only thirty-six cultivated young Christian gentlemen appeared, and to cap the climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would set the fashion of attending the meetings which the "President has done all in his power to make attractive." If the President's attractive powers are fairly represented by his work on Metaphysics, it is hardly probable that this wish will be realized.

Another writer in the same paper takes a more cheery view of religion at Yale. He thinks there are "unusual indications" of a "revival of thoughtfulness in religious life," and calls for a revival on the Moody and Sankey plan.

PRINCETON has had such a revival, and the present condition of society there appears to be not unlike that prevalent in England during the earlier years of the Commonwealth. "Prayer-meetings," says the Nassau Lit, "are no longer dull, but fervid." The influence of religion is felt in the "recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits "solemn, introverted repression." This state of things is due partly to the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, partly to those of a number of Rev. Presbyterian Drs. from New York, and partly to the "strengthening influence of room prayer-meetings." These latter consist of gatherings of twenty friends or so, who converse on religious topics with cheerful earnestness, who utter "heartfelt prayers," and indulge in "hearty singing." The Lit. has described these proceedings at great length, first, because "this theme - religion - is in every one's mouth"; and secondly, because it wishes its "sister colleges" to know "how the change came upon" Princeton. It is convinced that the "sister colleges" will at once followed in Princeton's footsteps; and it thinks that in the deep religious convictions of the rising generation the political problems which have arisen since the Rebellion will find an easy solution.