Keeping Their Heads.

It does not surprise us to learn that the general uneasiness and unsettlement of working habits which prevailed in the College last spring, during the early months of the war, appears to be giving place to a steadier gait. It would be far stranger if the College community failed to reflect the spirit in which many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober the most heedless; and the accompanying reflection that it is for them in their security to do something at least approximating in value what many of their contemporaries are doing at the peril of their lives must provide an unaccustomed spur for the daily task. The pity would be if there were no response to it. --Alumni Ballctin.