By a Reasonable Rad.
Why were we whipped? Rads wrangle round,
But to the cause make scant allusion.
When all's summed up, it will be found,
"Fusion" has won against Con-fusion!
A Suggestion.—In latest Observer is a capital article by Mr. Escott, whose text is that "smart" Society transplants to London all Parisian fashions that will bear the process. The title is "British Boulevardism;" but one still more suggestive of the mixture would be "John-Bullvardism." Perhaps Mr. Escott may adopt this and give us another column.
ROUNDABOUT READINGS.
In a biographical sketch of the late Rev. Dr. Julius Hawley Seelye, formerly President of Amherst College, in America, I read that "Amherst made him President notwithstanding considerable opposition in the faculty. He soon overcame that, and advanced the prosperity of the College in the accessions to its faculty and endowments that he secured. He soon required the students to sign an agreement to be gentlemen. A violation of the pledge resulted in the termination of their careers at Amherst." This sounds strange, for it would appear that if no pledge had been given the students might have behaved as they liked, without terminating their careers. The idea of solemnly pledging yourself to be a gentleman is quite colossal.
