OUR EXCHANGES.

THE Courant complains of a lack of enthusiasm for the spring athletic contests at Yale; the same probable reasons for this failure are attributed as were before by us in the case of our spring meeting; namely, to the fact that the best athletes are engaged in the more important branches of baseball and boating, and are unable to devote their time to anything else. The highest jump was 4 feet 11 inches; the time of the mile run, 4.55 1/4, which was very good time; the hurdle-race was won in 19 sec., and the hundred-yards dash in 11 sec.

The Courant, as usual, criticises the Record severely:-

"The literary matter in the last two issues of the Record reminds one strongly of the bill of fare in the boarding-house, where they had 'lungs, liver, and lights' for breakfast; 'lights, liver, and lungs,' for dinner, and so on in ever-pleasing variety."

However that may be, the Courant itself is not perfect. We were surprised, to put it mildly, when we opened the No. of June 17, and read the following announcement printed in large poster-like characters:-

"REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.

FOR PRESIDENT:

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, OF OHIO.

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:

WILLIAM A. WHEELER, OF NEW YORK."

The Yale papers have justly prided themselves upon being "newsy" without regard to taste or expense, but this in stance of journalistic enterprise "far outshines" anything we had expected of them.

Yale seems to have great confidence in her crew as regards the result of the race at Springfield. Observe this item and tremble:-

"All who have staked anything on the Harvards, at the Springfield regatta, want to see the University row at Lake Whitney, and then hedge."

THE Chronicle of the University of Michigan has condescended so far as to call the Crimson readable. At last is our anxiety at an end!

THE Meteor of Rugby and the Etonian of Eton both reflect credit upon the English schools; all the matter in these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter, why not either shorten the paper or publish none at all?

IN this respect the Madisonensis is worse than the Student; half of the June 3d number is full of uninteresting and extraneous matter; as to the Round Table it got inspired the other day, and has relieved itself by a poem, an extract from which we insert:-

"While, beaten by the waves of sin,

The sinking heart this prayer begins:

'O God! have mercy on my soul,

And' - does not live to say the whole.

A waiting his return again,

A mother's heart looked out in vain:

She sees the storm of earthly ill.

A sick'ning dread her sad soul fills."