HARVARD labors under a disadvantage in being a college where it is suitable to go regardless of expense. A certain class of young men must be sent to college because that is the high-toned thing, and famous and costly institutions will be the victims, and that in spite of high standards. At the same time some of the best material will be lost on account of lack of means, - Oberlin Review.

NATURALLY enough, we think, the [Cornell] challenges were not accepted. The papers of Harvard and Yale treated the affair in a perfectly cool and proper way, but the Cornell Era seized the opportunity of indulging in some of that ungentlemanly bluster of which it is so fond. We do not doubt that the challenged universities acted without any mean or unworthy motives. - Acta Columbiana.

Is it true that there is to be established at Harvard a Deronda professorship? The literature of the subject really seems to call for this; and as Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, I see, has been lecturing on George Eliot before the Boston University, I hope that the authorities at your Cambridge seat of learning may be waking up to this great want of the time. The lecture-room of the new professor ought to be in the Zoological Museum for convenient reference in a general way to matters pertaining to the Stone Age and various geological strata, which might throw valuable light on George Eliot's genius. A chemical laboratory adjoining the lecture-room would also be necessary, in-order to assist the scientific atmosphere and aid the class in establishing suitable habits of analysis. A special lecture-room edition of the work to be expounded should be prepared by interleaving the great ethnic novel romance with pages from Herbert Spencer and Gall and Spurzheim, and from other works, as the professor might select. I believe that if the thing is to be done at all, it ought to be done thoroughly. Moreover, the chair should be a movable one, like those connected with Cornell, which are frequently found situated in parlor cars en route from New York and Boston to Ithaca. - The Contributor's Club in the Atlantic for April.

WHEN a college paper reaches the state of total depravity which the following extract from the Undergraduate indicates that that paper has reached, it is time for the publication to cease:-

"We are totally irresponsible, then, for all puerilities and crudities that may ever be found in that [the literary] department. The articles therein published are merely the expressions of individual opinions, and so long as they are not indecent or inappropriate, we cannot very well exclude them. If there were as many good articles handed in as we could use, that would please us much indeed, for it would push the poor ones out. Otherwise we cannot easily get rid of them. So, if lower classmen are left to do the work, and in doing it, attack subjects which are as much too deep for them as logic is for women, and of which they are as ignorant as a pig is of politeness, there is nobody to blame but those who could and should do better."

YALE, having suffered from similar attacks, extends, through the Lit., her sympathy to Harvard. Adverting to the Transcript's criticisms of certain Harvard students at Boston theatres, the Lit. says:-

"It is needless to say our sympathies are with the students, - not, mind you, with those few who are justly condemned, but with the college in general, which is made to bear the charges deserved by a few. It half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority of us are real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother all the vice that is in our midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding our efforts; and that the most discouraging thing we have to contend with is the ungenerous action of those who raise their virtuous voices to call in the public, whenever our efforts have for a moment hailed."

SOMETIMES it is rather amusing to see one's self through the eyes of another. In the present instance the observer stands on the intellectual heights of the Kansas University, and condescendingly remarks:-

"Women are now admitted to all the privileges of Harvard College. Eastward the star of education takes its way. Kansas, from the first, founded her university on the better-half theory. . . . . We are almost at a loss to understand why it is that in these latter days Harvard College has fallen heir to so many adverse criticisms, not from its enemies alone, but from its friends. Either its recent history has been one of rapid retrograde, or else the scholarship of New England has gone suddenly ahead of the standard of its most venerable seat of learning. It has been charged that Harvard men are not fit to take places in every-day life; that they are apes of Oxford, or the more unlovely features of English scholarship in general, and Oxford in particular; that they are malproportionately intemperate; that they are emphatically a 'foolish and perverse generation'; and that their courses of study are crowded full of faults."