The movement set on foot by the Board of Trustees to advance the interests of Trinity exerts a stimulating influence upon the College itself. The students, feeling the impetus given, have entered heartily into sympathy with the new management. That another door to literary work might be opened to them, they have planned and, with the approbation of the Faculty, established The Archive. Its columns will receive and preserve their best work. Dull efforts to say nothing in many words, mild platitudes on ancient classics, and meanderings through hazy sentiment will be buried in the dust of the top-shelf along with “Which is mightier, the pen or the sword?” A concise statement, however, of original investigation in any department, whether from student or from member of the Faculty, will be welcomed; for it has been determined that its aim shall not be solely a literary one. It is desired, also, that the paper be a means of communication between College and patrons. To this end, the circulation will be extended as far as possible over the territory covered by the North Carolina Conference. Trinity news, Trinity interests, Trinity announcements will be made prominent. The co-operation of clergy and laity, especially of the Alumni, is asked in putting The Archive into general circulation; for Trinity claims as her patrons the whole membership of the Conference.

The responsibility of publication is undertaken by the two Literary Societies. The two Managers and ten Editors are chosen out of their members, and the Professor of English has been designated Censor. Training in journalism is a legitimate part of College work. A proposition, however, to establish a Chair of Journalism merits the jocular tone with which the press has greeted it. The practical exercise afforded in publishing a paper helps to make ready writers, and is a valuable auxiliary to the regular course.

The College dominates the village, and liquor cannot gain a foot-hold. Friends of the institution could not lay too much stress upon the fact. It is a comforting assurance to parents that their sons will not be exposed to this temptation. Trinity lies next to a strong temperance community, and there is no danger that rum-shops will be set up just beyond the College limits.

Examinations for admission to College classes will be held twice a year, in June and in September, on the latter date exclusively at Trinity College, beginning at ten A. M. on the day before the opening. Applicants for admission in 1888 will be required to stand examinations on the following subjects:

1.

Arithmetic, including Metric System;

2.

Algebra to Quadratics;

3.

History of the United States;

4.

English Grammar and Analysis;

5.

Geography, Descriptive and Physical;

6.

Physiology and Hygiene;

7.

Latin Grammar, three Books of CÆsar.

All students, on coming up to enter, will be required to fill out a blank form of enrollment.

The entrance examinations, though this year necessarily incomplete, have secured beneficial results.

The students have in the main fallen into their proper classes without waiting for the regular examinations to show them their mistake.

In the A. B. Course, fourteen hours a week in recitation will be required of the Seniors. Six hours will be filled by assigned subjects, the other eight being made up out of subjects chosen by the student. The same number of hours will be required of those applying for the Ph. B. degree, but there will be eight hours assigned work to six hours elective.

The recitation rooms are full. Larger ones with more black-board space will be a pressing need, if the numbers grow. The preparatory department also demands that help which its importance merits. Will the Methodists of North Carolina see it, too, firmly established and able to offer all the advantages of a well-equipped school? Other denominations, as well as the State, are doing this. Few boys will remain for a sentiment; they go where the greatest inducements lie.

Till Congress meets and while Congress shall wrangle over measures, there is daily piled up in the national Treasury a dangerous balance withdrawn from circulation. Wall street is nervous. Some permanent relief must be devised. High tariff has the majority and must solve the problem. The Nation says:

“Looking about for some lamb to slaughter or some pig to shear, the protectionists have fixed their eyes upon the sugar-planters as the class likely to yield the largest fleece with the least squealing. The revenue from sugar is upwards of $50,000,000; the number of planters is very small. Although they have been reinforced to some extent by the manufacturers of glucose and a few sorghum and beet-root enthusiasts, they amount altogether to a very feeble contingent. Sugar is an article of prime necessity. * * * * *

“Accordingly we find such admirable defenders of protection as Senators Sherman, Dawes and Hiscock advocating a reduction or repeal of the duties on sugar, with a compensating bounty to the growers of cane, beets, &c., at home. * * * * *

“A bounty of $7,000,000 a year to the sugar-planters, paid by warrants drawn on the Treasury, would be a very different thing in appearance from a like bounty paid under the operation of the tariff, although it would be the same thing in fact. A bounty of $17,000,000 to the steel-rail makers, if paid directly from the Treasury, could not last a year. Yet that bounty has been paid during the present year in the indirect method of customs duties. We can think of nothing more likely to expose protection to irresistible assaults than the adoption of the bounty system in any single instance. We cannot believe that the high-tariff fraternity will be so short-sighted as to sanction it as part of their scheme of ‘tariff reform.’ We are persuaded that they will offer up the sugar-planters and the beet and sorghum cranks as a sacrifice without more ado, and be glad to get off so cheaply.”

It has been reserved for Reed and Kellogg from the foundation of the world to catch the Fleeting Thought and marry it to Geometry. O tempora! O mores!

English is rich in puzzles. Its orthography is a conundrum the size of “Webster’s Unabridged.” The foreign crew of printers that followed Caxton made high sport of rigging it out in fantastic shape. Then old Dr. Johnson fetched it a heavy blow with his paw and finished it. Presently China will offer her 50,000 symbols, or the pyramids will tender the use of their hieroglyphs, as a relief from this oppressive system.

Polydore de Keyser, Alderman for Farringdon Without, and a Roman Catholic, has been elected Lord Mayor of London,