part of the union, quaking and groaning under a host of anticipated evils. As the clock struck six we were immediately driven into the southern dining-hall, and herded after some definite arrangement; but whether alphabetically, or according to age, size, or color, I do not now exactly remember.

The terrors of that day-have they not been already done into rhyme, and does not our poet live to describe them? Neglect of it would deservedly forfeit the annual butt that we suppose annually crimsons for the laureate in the cellars of Harvard. Enough that we blundered through Sallust and Cicero, a considerable portion of Virgil (not with much regard to the quantity), solved a few equations in a very summary manner, kept pretty well in our latitude in respect to the questions in geography, and conjugated amo to a charm. Græca Minora was not quite so much Greek to me, as to some of my fellows; and I had been beaten into the synopsis of the passive of τύπτω.

Our examination over, and a week or two elapsing, we were in quiet possession of our ground-floors in the different buildings attached to the University. The allotment of chums, like misery, introduces us to strange bedfellows. The over anxiety of my worthy tutor would have yoked me to a young gentleman with whose address and person I was wholly unacquainted; but fortunately for myself I preferred to dwell in single blessedness till I could make some more agreeable arrangement. The partner of my choice soon took occasion to be guilty of one or two little improprieties, that subjected him to the censure of the government, and rendered his removal from the University a matter rather of necessity than option. He carried away with him all the good wishes and good opinions of his fellow-classmates; if we may infer it from the fact that he left none of these commodities behind.

Opposite to myself, during a large portion of the year, in the lower story, resided a singular compound of whim and incongruity. He was a genius, and scorned compliance with the usual proprieties and civilities of life! Of what strange scenes has his apartment been the witness, and what tales might those four walls tell of the odd matters that have taken place within them! I was in his room when he

was packing up for departure-for he too had some disagreeable misunderstanding with the Faculty-and never do I wish to see a gloomier sight. There is something vastly unpleasant in seeing a shipmate cut adrift in this manner, not knowing whither the waves, that may be setting in with the swell of a tempest, are to carry him. There were some half a dozen of us to bid him good bye-not that we ever felt any particular respect or attachment for him, but he was exactly of that description of fellows who, while they play the devil with their own fortunes and work out their own ruin, at the same time do the thing in such a whimsical style that we cannot help sympathizing with, though we may despise them alternately a dandy and a sloven, after a fashion of his own; to-day running about the college yard slip-shod and stockingless, to-morrow threading the streets of the capital in a gig that had every propensity to look exceedingly fine, and in garments that put Cornhill loungers continually on the look

out.

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We dropped into his room the morning on which he was making preparations for departure. The walls, had been stripped of some half dozen beautiful engravings, trunks had been packed, and carpet taken up, and the occupant was concealing his sorrow by whistling with uncommon vehemence while in the act of pulling and tearing much more violently than circumstances required, at the cords of his bedstead. Years have passed on, and severer fortunes have obliterated all recollections of his regret at this separation. But in summing up accounts at the close of our college career, we are indebted to our old classmate in a single word of remembrance.

There are others whom adverse circumstances have removed from us; some to different occupations, whom we would wish all prosperity-and one to his last rest-Peace to his memory!

Since sitting down to these paragraphs, my quiet has been several times disturbed by those nuisances which are so troublesome to all residents in the vicinity of the Colleges. There has been a man grinding most delicious music, a second playing, as they tell me, some respectable airs on the flute, and a third singing and rehearsing to the extent of his lungs, and to the great edification of all attentive listeners.

These listeners are to-day exceedingly numerous, for Holworthy has many idlers during the first week or two in July. Nor is this dignified leisure at all disagreeable or unnecessary. We have need of a few hours of indolence and conversation and reflection, for leave-taking, on our past pleasures and future prospects. We have our recollections and our dreams, and it has been wise to give us a lazy day in which we may remember and dream.

A friend has just been pointing out some pleasant passages in our college life which had almost escaped my memory. Nothing is like comparing notes to bring out these interesting matters, that would otherwise have faded imperceptibly from the memory. But there were two or three things that neither of us could well have forgotten. The Sophomore Supper -with its thousand unmentionable associations-it is well perhaps to be silent upon. But the Inauguration, can we pass it unmentioned, with the bustle and beauty, the wine and wit, the appropriate complimenting in Latin, and the eloquent wisdom in English, the evening promenade, to the sound of thrilling music, with a glow of light, giving to the leaves of our old elms the shine of silver, and the names of the PAST and the PRESENT standing out in letters of flame to remind us of the talents, virtues, and dignities of BOTH.

And now we suppose it is our bounden duty to grow melancholy and pathetic, on the uncertainty of what may fall to our lot in the world which we are so soon to enter. Shadows darken over its many paths. But youth is too much occupied with its hopes and visions, to look with becoming anxiety upon the scene of its exertions and triumphs. It is too much alive to the desire of action, and the many impulses of ambition, to waste a thought in unavailing regret, or sigh over the exchange of quiet study, for the exciting restlessness of crowded life. It looks forward and not behind, and resigns the thought of the irrevocable past, for thought of the present and the future.

It is pardonable to give one glance about us, and cast in our minds the probable fortunes of our fellow students. The future will tell us how much we have mistaken their talents and their characters. Some will go on the same high course of severe discipline they have pursued within the walls of our University, and reach with honor the dignities they have

hoped for as the recompence of their self-denial and labors. Some who have passed with the gay and thoughtless, as gay and thoughtles as any, and who have concealed even from their own hearts nobler passions and aspirations, will rise beyond their own daring hopes, and look down upon the wise fools who now honor them with their scorn. Many, in the pride and promise of young years, must slumber where we shall all so soon be gathered; though the green earth will look as gay when we are gone, and the silent stars will shine as coldly and beautifully upon our resting-places in death as upon our habitations in life!

A DREAM,

(From the German of Uhland.)

I dreamt, not long ago,

I stood on a rocky steep,

On a cliff by the Ocean's strand,
And I look'd far over the land,

And down on the glorious deep.

Beneath me, in gallant trim,

A stately bark lay moored,
The surge its dark sides laving—
Gayly its flag was waving,

And a pilot stood on board.

And behold! there came from the mountains,
A merry, merry band,

Crowned with garlands bright,
They seemed like spirits of light,
As they tripped along the strand.

"Oh whither wilt thou take us?"
"What nymphs are ye so gay?"
"Earth's Joys and Pleasures are we—
From Earth we fain would flee,
O! bear us from Earth away."

The Pilot he bade them enter,

And they entered one by one;
"But tell me, are here all?
Are none left in bower or hall?"

And they answered-" None."

"Away then!"-The bark, unmoored,

Leapt gayly from anchor's thrall,

And away she swept, with a glorious motion,
And I saw them vanish o'er the ocean,

Earth's Joys and Pleasures all.

COLLEGE FRIENDSHIPS.

SURELY and swiftly is the time approaching when many of us are to leave the scenes which have been so familiar to us for years, and for years, too, in which of all others in our lives we are capable of receiving the strongest and deepest impressions. When a few short weeks have passed away, we shall have broken our present connexions and bound ourselves by others of a different nature. A new and wider world will be open to us, in which we may all act out our characters on a larger scale; in which the voluptuary may revel more freely and more luxuriously, in which industry may reap a fuller harvest, and ambition tower to loftier heights. With such a prospect before us, why is it that we would fain linger a while ere we start upon the race-why is it that we look on the future with doubt or misgiving, and on the past with a kind of melancholy tenderness?--It is that the signal has been given for the severing of ties that are interwoven with our heart-strings-for the parting of friends who, perchance, may never again be united.*

It has been contended by some that there is scarcely such a thing as a real College friendship ;--that if they were asked to point out the place in which artificial manners superseded warm, hearty feeling, they would take a college. Now if there be one opinion more absurd than another it is this. There is no foundation for it in common sense or reason; and study

* Mr La Touche we hope will excuse us for the liberty we have taken in cutting out a portion of his piece. The fact is, that our first signature was arranged after all the others had been completed, and some of them struck off; and, as the articles, " Passing away," "A Dream," and "Evening by a Tailor" were in type, it was necessary either to curtail the piece or lose it altogether the latter alternative we could not think of for a moment. Therefore, we repeat it, Mr. La Touche, excuse us, do—

EDITOR.