immense amount of cigars annually consumed in college, as it was while I was there, (Class of '40,) if but one fifth of it were appropriated to keeping up the Magazine, its size could be greatly enlarged." Every contributor is earnestly requested to send us his articles with his name enclosed in a sealed envelope, which, he may rest assured, shall not be opened unless the article is accepted. Hereafter no article will be published unless it is accompanied by a responsible name. By a circular "To the Friends of Williams College and the Patrons of Art," dated June 15th, we are glad to see, that WILLIAMS, almost simultaneously with YALE, is awake to the truth, that "there is no class of persons who are more susceptible than students to the power of noble Art; that “there are none who need more its elevating influences," and that "the only way in which the college student can be assisted in forming a correct taste for the beautiful in form and color, is to place before him the best models and specimens in all the branches in ancient and modern art-to provide for him an art gallery to which he can repair when fatigued with study, and catch a spark of the inspiration which has fired the souls of the great masters." In the same circular we read the following: "As Williams College was the first in this country to erect an Astronomical Observatory, so let it be the first to establish an Art Gallery which shall be an honor to the Institution." The Art Gallery in Yale was open to the students before the date of this circular. In an article in the June number of the Harvard Magazine, entitled "The Boating Reputation of Harvard," in which the writer proceeds "to express his individual opinion, praising what he likes and finding fault where he has cause," occurs the following: "If a man has a soft spot, the third mile is sure to find it. We are equal to any for a momentary spurt; but when dogged persistence, even under probable defeat, is required, we are wanting." This was evidently written amid the memories of defeat, and before their late great victory over the best boats of Boston. But read this. "Granting that we must yield to the English, must we also confess our inferiority to our competitors here? There can be but one answer with regard to American students; we claim superiority over them, and are ready at any time to make good our boast, as we have done before." Verily this is modest, very! We are glad to learn that the new boat just added to our Navy is to be named the YALE. In the race on Monday, the 28th of June, its superiority over the Varuna was established. NOTICE.-A liberal premium will be paid by the publisher for two copies each of No. 7 and 8, of Vol. 21 of this Magazine; and also No. 8, of Vol. 22. The Practical Results of College. THERE are many men of excellent judgment in other things, who entertain the opinion that the acquisition of a Collegiate education involves a useless expenditure of physical, mental, and often moral energy. The labor which it necessarily requires, the time which it consumes, and the self-denials which it inevitably exacts, are looked upon as sacrifices at once foolish and unjustifiable. The desire for knowledge, beyond a "common school or business education," is, by a stretch of charity, regarded as a harmless and somewhat pardonable weakness, but the devotion of a life-time to study, is either an inexcusable piece of folly, or a positive profanation of intellectual endowments. Others, with less sense and more bigotry, regard College as the nursery of vicious principles and immoral practices. It is in their pious eyes the very birth-place of roguery, and shaking their heads with ominous significance, they pronounce those College boys "awful fellows." "awful fellows." There are still others, (generally ambitious Sub-Freshmen compose this class,) whose conceptions of our real life are somewhat more complimentary to it, yet they are no truer than those mentioned above. And in deed, their representation of College experience never can have a real existence until discipline can be acquired by "masterly inactivity," and those vicious social forces, which develop themselves in every secular association, can be eradicated. They use no "midnight oil" in painting their picture of College, from which laborious study and painful drudgery are either carefully excluded or never thought of. But College is conceived of as a place where "greatness is thrust upon a man," and all that is required of him is a passive acquiescence in the process. In their estimation, the student is the very incarnation of jollity and good humor, never meeting with anything to mar them, and his human nature furnishes a striking exception to the general proposition that human nature is every where the same. Their ideas of his native and justly assumed dignity, are higher than our student character will ever attain to. College is, in short, a kind of terrestrial paradise, where every classmate is a firm friend, and every acquaintance a worthy repository of confidence. Treacherous confederacies, under the name of friendships, ungenerous prejudice and unfair dealing, never find a "local habitation" in their College world. To those who have served an apprenticeship in Biennial Hall and the Recitation Room, and have become acquainted with the whole modus operandi of College, it is hardly necessary to say, that the he who indulges himself in such views "With an empty picture feeds his mind." We have noticed these views of College life for the purpose of showing how widely men in the outside world differ in their conceptions of it, and also for the purpose of showing that they have no rational foundation, and are entitled to but little credit. The first one of the opinions noticed concerning the uselessness of a Collegiate education, arises from a spirit of envy, or prejudice, which always manifests itself in depreciation. We believe that there are few, if any, of those who annually graduate from Yale, whose characters and lives give vitality and nourishment to this opinion. We believe that every man who passes through College receives some practical good from it, whatever may be his position and circumstances while here. We believe that there is no place where a man can gain a better knowledge of the world, and meet with more valuable experiences in the same length of time, to say nothing of the discipline of mind which every man must necessarily get who graduates at all. The opinion in regard to the vicious ten |