The Seniors are much agitated at the prospect of having but a short Senior vacation. Heretofore the Faculty gave four weeks, but they seem disposed to limit it to two. We prize knowledge, but are willing to forego all we can learn during the hot days of June, for the privilege of having our less fortunate under-classmen envy us enjoying the cool shades of the campus.

A petition has recently been submitted to the Faculty asking that Chapel exercises on Wednesday afternoon be discontinued.

The Washington Literary Society has moved its place of meeting from its too closely crowded Hall, and now temporarily occupies Room No. 1 in Pardee Hall. Active efforts are making to raise the funds necessary to erect a new building for Hall purposes. Frank Hall is also making efforts in the same direction.

A new feature in the College exercises was inaugurated on the first Wednesday of February. On the first Wednesday of each month all the students, excepting members of Brainard Society, meet for elocutionary exercises under Prof. Barlow. At the same time the Brainard Society meets for the discussion of suitable topics. These exercises supplant the 11 o'clock recitations.

The question of Free Trade versus Protection was ventilated by the Seniors recently in Political Economy. Prof. March appointed the following members to discuss it: For Free Trade, Allen, Dale, Henderson, and Scroggs; for Protection, Carothers, Lewis, Pollock and Walker. Owing to the want of time only four papers were read, two on each side, viz.: Aller and Dale on one side, Carothers and Lewis on the other.

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The Juniors are now deeply engaged in the study of Milton. the study of the Constitution they have discussed many interesting topics, among others, the Right of Secession.

The Easton Lecture Course is a decided success. February 16, Mr. W. S. Andrews gave his lecture on Dialect Humor, and on March 2d, Bayard Taylor entertained the audience with Ancient Egypt. After the lecture Mr. Taylor was banqueted by the Lafay

ette Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, of which Mr. Taylor is an honary member.

The Natural History Society of Lafayette College was organized in April 1868, but was disbanded in March 1870. Since then the College has been without any organization of a scientific character, until at a called meeting of those interested held on the 5th of last month, (February), this society was reorganized. About forty members were enrolled. The organization was completed by the election of the following officers: Pres., ex-officio, Dr Catttell; First Vice Pres., Dr. Porter; Second Vice Pres., Prof. Prime; Rec. Sec., Frank G. Harris; Cor. Sec., Artemus C. Ward; Treas., W. M. Hunt; Librarian, J. B. Fuller; Curators of Museum, Messrs. A. P. Berlin, S. B. Brown, Alexander Hamilton. The Chairmen of the several Committees are as follows: Mammalogy, Henry Michler; Ornithology, F.G. Harris; Herpetology and Ichthyology, I.O. Acton; Conchology, W. B. Riegner; Entomology, J. L. Patterson; Botany, Dr. Porter; Palæontology, Jos. R. Shimer; Geology and Mineralogy, Prof. Prime; Antiquities, M. Bixby; Library, W. A. May; Topography, S. B. Brown.

Frank Hall held an election for Anniversary Orator on Wednesday evening, March 3d. The election resulted in the choice of Hon. George W. Curtis, alternate, Hon Schuyler Colfax.

At the same time reunion performers were chosen as follows: Reunion Orator, Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick; Valedictorian, W. W. Dale; Respondent, S. A. Martin.

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At last! The catalogues for '74-5 have indeed come ! laid on our table this evening, March 2d! And, though long delayed, it looks well. The number of students is: Resident Graduates, 4; Seniors, 35; Juniors, 79; Sophomores, 86; Freshmen, 115; total, 319. Several gifts to the College are noted; among them, from the Jeru-Kontorel of Sweden, a complete set of iron, copper, nickel, and lead ores; from Rev. John Menaul, Class of '65, of Arizona, garnets, petrifiactions, and Indian curiosities; from Samuel Hayden, Easton,a golden eagle; from Mr. Douglass, New York, a donation for the increase of the Library in Christian, Latin and Greek authors, of which about $1,000 have been expended. Hon.

E. W. Leavenworth, H. J. Williams, Gen. Robert Patterson, Prof. Wm. Harkness, M. D., M. Mylert, Dr. C. W. Holmes, The Smithsonian Institute, and United States Bureau of Education have also made donations to the Library during the year. Large additions have been made to the Herbarium.

LAFAYETTE AND EASTON.

President Cattell has been confined in the house several times during the winter by sickness. He is apparently in good health at

present.

Washington's Birthday was celebrated in Easton with more than usual enthusiasm. Flags were unfurled from many public buildings. The streets in the afternoon were crowded with jolly pleasure-seekers. The Easton Grays paraded through the principal thoroughfares attracting the attention of all by their excellent marching and good appearance. The Patriotic Sons of America, of Phillipsburg, were escorted through the several streets by the Grays.

Prof. Barlow gave a Complimentary Reading on the evening of the 22d ult., in the American Reformed Church. Many of the Professor's friends were present. Aside from the fact that the reading was complimentary by the citizens of Easton, the Professor must have felt honored by the beautiful decoration of the platform. The selections were well received, and the reader if possible, excelled himself. Prof. Barlow in response to a number of inquiries, announces in a printed circular that he is prepared to answer applications for Public Readings.

The Dispatch has been discontinued as a morning paper, and becomes an evening Democratic Daily.

Mr. Riegel, of book store fame, has purchased of Mr. Clifton the brick dwelling on Northampton street. Mr. Riegel's store-room is too small for his daily increasing business. The new store-room is two doors above the old one. We have examined the location, and

find that it is not a good "loafing " place, unless the owner consents to close up or plank over the large basement entrance in front of the window.

Many of the former students of the College will regret to learn of the death of S. Holland Knowles, which occurred the 20th ult. Mr. Knowles was never connected with Lafayette, but his services in the arrangement of the parade and dedication of Pardee Hall were appreciated by the College.

The Easton Express publishes the following article, taken from the Bradford Argus, of Towanda, Pa. :

"The extensive and valuable library of our late honored citizen, Hon. C. L. Ward, has been donated by his heirs to Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. This library is one of the most valuable in the State, and its late owner gave to it many years of his life, all the culture of his liberal mind and excellent taste gathering it together. It is a monument to the memory of its late possessor, and while we greatly regret its removal, yet it is a satisfaction to know that it is to adorn the shelves of an institution that stands so high as Lafayette College. We shall miss its absence, as it has ever been open to the public, and its rare and quaint volumes of almost "forgotten lore" were the admiration and boast of all lovers of literature.

We have lost in this bequest what, in all probability, will never again be secured to our town. It is to be known at the college as the "Ward Collection," a name synonymous with classical knowledge, fine literary taste and unprecedented philanthrophy, and everything that personified an old-time gentleman and scholar. Such generosity as this, coming, as it does, from the children of the late C. L. Ward, reflects credit upon themselves and honors the memory of their father.

In a recent lecture to the students of Theology of Yale College, Dr. Hall paid a graceful compliment to Lafayette. Speaking concerning the necessity of a knowledge of Latin and Greek in ministerial work, the Doctor said: "Whether it can only be gained by the heathen classics, whether the christian classics could not be used with advantage, at least, for the candidates for the ministry, is an open question. At any rate, every one must watch with interest

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the plan being tried, so far successfully, in Lafayette College with the Greek and Latin fathers, and which has enlisted the co-opperation of men like Professors March, Ballard and Owen.

The Seniors, after waiting six weeks for copies of Longfellow's Hyperion, were obliged to take Evangeline as Text-Book.

LAFAYETTE PERSONALS.

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Rev. Dr. Robert W. Landis, Professor in the Theological Seminary, at Danville, Kentucky, is the author of the poem in the Cincinnati Presbyter, entitled "Bring Jesus to thy Home."

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Samuel W. Barber, Attorney at Law, is engaged in the rare capacity of cashier of an immense landed estate of four millions of dollars. His office is in St. Louis, Missouri.

Rev. Dr. W. Henry Green, of Princeton Seminary, contributes to the Sunday School "Normal Class Book," just published in Philadelphia, the section on "Manners and Customs "' in oriental lands.

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Heckman. At the opening of the elegant new Presbyterian Church in Columbia, Indiana, on January 3d, the dedicatory sermon was preached by President George C. Heckman, D. D., of Hanover College. The Herald and Presbyter says "it was full of

interest."

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St. John.-Rev. Oliver St. John, besides acting as Financial Secretary of the American branch of the Palestine Exploration Society, with his office at 29 Exchange Place, New York, is on the platform as a lecturer on "Washington and the Revolution." The Hartford Courant says: "There has never been a more popular course of lectures in this city than this by Professor St. John.

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Rev. Jesse L. Howell, of Oak Grove, one of the oldest Mission Stations in Minnesota, has had the pleasure of welcoming 55 persons to membership in his church during a recent revival.

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Rev. John J. Pomeroy, who has for a number of years held the