_Amis lecteurs_, this is a painful topic.

It is possible that we too, we, the 'potent, grave, and reverend' editor, may have suffered these things, and drunk as deep as any of the cup of shameful failure.
Let us dwell no longer on so delicate a subject.
In spite, however, of these disagreeables, I should recommend any student to suffer them with Spartan courage, as the benefits he receives should repay him an hundredfold for them all.

The life of the debating society is a handy antidote to the life of the classroom and quadrangle.

Nothing could be conceived more excellent as a weapon against many of those _peccant humours_ that we have been railing against in the jeremiad of our last 'College Paper'-- particularly in the field of intellect.

It is a sad sight to see our heather-scented students, our boys of seventeen, coming up to College with determined views--_roues_ in speculation--having gauged the vanity of philosophy or learned to shun it as the middle-man of heresy--a company of determined, deliberate opinionists, not to be moved by all the sleights of logic.