OUR EXCHANGES.

THE Yale papers publish a great deal of matter in regard to the withdrawal of their college from the Rowing Association. They repeat the old arguments about the inconvenience of a race in which so many contestants participate, and they expressly declare that Yale's desire is to try her strength with Harvard, and with Harvard alone.

A notice is published in the Record, requesting "all those in college who weigh less than 110 lbs." to call upon Captain Cook, who proposes to select from the number a coxswain for the University crew.

THE Dartmouth has a very sensible editorial about the action of Yale and Harvard. It pronounces Harvard "manly" for "withdrawing at a time when she will receive countless flings on account of never having won a race." It is somewhat annoyed at Captain Cook's alleged statement that Yale has a rivalry with Harvard alone, and consoles itself with the reflection that, whatever the Captain may think, the "majority" consider Dartmouth, etc., very formidable rivals. It admits that "colleges with an abundance of men and an abundance of money must dislike having to give up cherished plans for the sake of colleges which lack both, and which make opposition just because they lack both." And it concludes by saying that it does not think that "what has been done in the way of withdrawal" will make any great difference "as regards the Association."

THE Tripod plays the part of the fabulous fox as follows:-

"We are glad that this [Athletic] association is prospering throughout the East, and hope it may displace the mania for rowing and boat-racing extant there. We hope that the stubborn fact that a very large number of those who rowed in the renowned boat-clubs of England have been brought to untimely graves by heart-disease, resulting from too sudden and violent exertion, may yet have its just weight as to this portion of American physical education."

The same paper informs its readers that Harvard has challenged Yale to row a race at Saratoga, independent of the regatta.

THE College Argus, in a moment of inspiration, suggests that Wesleyan adopt for a cheer "Amen! Amen! Amen!"

IN sound common-sense none of our exchanges surpass the Tufts Collegian. An editorial; in the last number, which urges the necessity of more attention to political education in our colleges, is particularly good.

PROFESSOR MAX MULLER has retired from his Professorial Chair at Oxford, after twenty-five years connection with the University.

A CERTAIN Professor Rose, who appears to have managed the Laboratory of the University of Michigan for a good many years, turns out to be a defaulter. The Chronicle tells us that he has embezzled the funds of the Laboratory to a very considerable amount, and the Regents of the University have in consequence" suspended" him.

A VERMONT publication with the extraordinary title of "Winnowings from the Mill," tells us that the "Harvard College Faculty are discussing the propriety of opening their Library to the students on Sunday. Chapel exercises were abolished there two years ago."

A CORRESPONDENT of the University Magazine, confused by the moral eccentricities of college students, suggests, as morality appears to be dependent on custom, that a convention of delegates be held at Philadelphia, "who shall be empowered to ratify and confirm, for their respective institutions, such code of morals as shall be agreed upon by the Convention."

A VERY small publication, called the Archangel, displays a familiarity with very large subjects, as follows: "Next to pride, the sin of scandal is hated most by the Almighty."

THE Rugby Meteor intelligently declares that the Americans are going to have a grand septennial celebration next summer.

IN reply to a letter from a Harvard undergraduate, suggesting that sporting rifles would be more acceptable than military rifles to college marksmen, the Forest and Stream says: The use of a military rifle would not prevent the riflemen from using any other weapon for amusement or practice. We should be glad to hear the sentiments of college men on this subject as applied to our badge, and stand ready to so amend the conditions as to make them satisfactory to the greatest number."

THE imaginative faculty appears to be finely developed at Adrian College. The last number of the Recorder contains three original stories, a poem about Henry Wilson, and a reference to the "Shah" of Egypt.

APROPOS of the President's wail over the lack of students at our Divinity School, we copy the following from the Academy, December 18: "Theology is evidently not a favorite study with the rising generation of Germans. At Heidelberg only nine of the 488 students have entered their names as attendants at the classes of the Theological Faculty. About twenty-five per cent of the students are foreigners: America contributing 39 names, England and Scotland 21, Russia and Switzerland respectively 24.