OUR EXCHANGES.

THE Amherst Student needs to learn that it is never safe to jump at conclusions. Because they were unable to find the answer to the riddle in our poem called "After Browning," they should not pronounce it "merely a collection of words indiscriminately thrown together." There is so good a point to the answer that we should be sorry to have the Student miss it merely from dulness, so try it again, and if you have to give it up let us know, and we'll send you the solution.

FROM the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal we take the following:-

"A meeting of the [Oxford] Boat Club was held on the eve of going to press, when the challenges or invitations received by the President from Philadelphia and New York were taken into consideration. Mr. W. B. Close, the President of the Cambridge University Boat Club, telegraphed on Saturday to the New York Herald office that it will be impossible for the University to send a crew to compete at the race in July. The business of the Oxford Club we may be able to report next week."

We learn from the same paper that a "Bicyle Club" is in prosperous condition at Cambridge, Eng. The club has rooms "where maps and literature connected with bicyles will be at the disposal of members," and hold regular "meets" twice a week for "runs" across country.

SCENE, Ithaca, Parlor. - Charming Sub-Fresh to enamored Soph. "Now do sing 'Lagerbeer Horatius' once more, won't you?" Soph. grinds out the noble air of "Lauriger" with ill-concealed disgust. - Era.

THE last Courant contains the following:-

"SCENE, Chapel Street Bridge. - Street Urchin (to Capt. Cook). Say, Cap'n, is Kinnidy going to row? C. C. Yes. Street urchin. Is Kinnidy a catholic?"

THE future historian, seeking information concerning the manners and customs of the Yale undergraduate in the year of grace 1876, will find the Courant of February 12 a mine of information on the subject. For some time past both the Record and the Courant have been greatly excited over a prospective event, which is called in New Haven the "Junior Promenade." This "Promenade" has finally taken place, and from the account which the Courant gives of it we are led to infer that polite society is not the sphere for which the Yale man was created. "We would (sic) like," says the Courant, "to remind some of those gentlemen who took such delight in plunging from one end of the hall to the other in three steps, and bumping everybody on the way, that it would be well to take a few lessons either in dancing or etiquette." We thought at first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor at the time it was indulged in. On reading further, we discovered our mistake, for "the only really unpleasant feature of the evening was that little scene around the lunch counter during the intermission. Some of those who came without ladies acted as if they were at a Delta. Kappa. peanut bum, and in spite of the entreaties of the committee and waiters, crowded, till those who were disposed to be gentlemanly had to push in to get anything at all." As we read, still further down the column, that "on the whole the Promenade was a success, perhaps more so than any other we have seen." we shuddered involuntarily at the thought of what sights had met the eyes of the editors of the Courant.

So entertaining was the account of this Promenade, that we have scarce space enough left to do justice to the "Banger Rush," described on the next page. The "Banger Rush" was caused by the fact that "although it was twelve days before the customary time for Freshmen canes to be seen on the street, several members of '79 swung out last Wednesday with the offensive article of furniture." A fight took place between the Sophomores and Freshmen under the windows of the New Haven House, and was viewed with interest by the "ladies" of that hostelry. The college authorities inconsiderately interfered, but many more contests took place during the eventful day, and now several Sophomores are waiting, in fear and trembling, for the edict which will banish them for a time from the grateful shade of the New Haven elms.

One more quotation, taken this time from the department headed "Yalensicula," will illustrate, if our other extracts nave failed to do so, the chaste diction of the Courant. Possibly apropos of the "Promenade," we are told that "she danced lovely - but she was engaged to the fellow who ate eight plates of ice-cream."

WE learn from the New York Evening Post that a military college is to be established in the vicinity of Oxford University:-

"The objects of the college are stated to be to provide the best possible education for the sons of officers; to train and prepare candidates, whether sons of officers or not, for commissions in the military service; and to enable its senior pupils to keep residence as unattached university students, and to take degrees."

FROM the Forest and Stream we learn that the National Rifle Association has offered to make any rifle club in the country an auxiliary, as it were, of the Association, in return for an annual payment of twenty-five dollars. This sum will secure to the club who pays it the right to send some of its members to the annual matches at Creedmoor, to receive a bronze medal from the Association to be competed for by the different members of the club, and several other like privileges. We recommend our Rifle Club to consider the proposition.

BROWN will not send a Freshman crew to Saratoga. - Courant.

WE have seldom seen anything equal to the unassuming modesty with which one of our Vermont exchanges speaks of itself. In the second number of their first volume they say:-

"We have a large circulation in this and neighboring towns and among our Alumni throughout the United States, yet we would like greatly to increase the number of our advertisement; and subscriptions."

OUR exchange list has increased so rapidly of late that we find it impossible to give to all the papers sent us the attention which their many merits doubtless deserve. We have therefore decided to discontinue the publications which, either from the distance at which they are published, or for other reasons, are more interesting to others than to ourselves, and we shall hereafter not exchange with the Adrian College Recorder, College Herald, College Mercury, Journal of Chemistry, Lafayette Monthly, College Chronicle, Tripod, Transcript, Owl, University Review, University Herald, University Magazine, College Olio, Insurance Journal, Spectator, Reporter, Alfred Student, Collegian, Wells College Chronicle, Winnowings from the Mill.