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ship shine upon an unworthy and blushing brow. The dissolved pearl was a noble drink for queenly Cleopatra; but could you not have guessed that it would disagree with our weaker stomachs ?

We print above the Order of Exercises at Commencement. The parts which were not spoken are starred. The day passed off pleasantly and creditably, with little difference from other such occasions; old graduates looked happy and hot; undergraduates showed a dash of gloom at the loss of a class which they have known but to honor, and whose departure they will remember but to regret.

In the evening of this day, and till midnight, the "Orpheus" club of German vocalists, round a lighted table on the green, sang German and Latin songs, while lager beer supplied their inspiration. Their songs, plaintive, merry, weird, grand, gave us a fuller appreciation of that emotional, high-strung German student life, of which these sounds and faces are a clearer type than printed pages without number could be; and as we look and listen, we think with more shame of the dull, callous lives many of us lead here.

Our Vacation strollings are over. The blaze of Society pin, the undulation of Sophomoric swagger, no longer mark the collegian in his erratic course through the watering-places and the mountains. The crust of coldness toward others, which conceit for self and college engenders abroad, here is broken through, and shows beneath it a warm-hearted unselfishness toward fellow-collegians. However full of careless happiness may have been the vacations of any of us, no one, we will venture to write, looks again without pleasure upon the College Yard, its trim paths, its bright green turf, and its vase-like elms, and the brown, merry faces of the plaster-boys that fill up the picture. There is one change in the College Yard, the new chapel rising in its northeast corner. This new building gives good promise of roominess and beauty. It is to be built of Pictou freestone, from a tasteful model; and we trust it will adorn without shaming our factorylike old buildings, dear to us in their unpretending homeliness. Future classes will now speak their last words of eloquence, and bid Alma Mater adieu, under a familiar roof.

With the new term, all are entering upon the dignities of a new name and the responsibilities of a more advanced position, and a nearer approach to manhood. Such being the case, may everybody fight well the good fight, be uninterruptedly virtuous and happy, and subscribe to and write for our Magazine.

Ar a meeting of the Class of 1857, held at the close of the last term, Messrs. FRENCH, ROPES, and STORROW, the former editors from that Class, were unanimously re-elected.

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