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...Acta Columbiana.THERE are forty colleges in Canada...
...Dingus recently, "Why is the Columbia College Press like a performance at Tony Pastor's?" "Because a bird in hand is worth two in a bush," replied Suipee. "Wrong," said Dingus, "it's because it is composed of Actors and Spectators." Suipee swept the floor, Dingus was the broom. - Acta Columbiana...
...K.WE agree with Dogberry that "comparisons are oderous," but it seems to us that the last number of the Acta was by far the brightest of any of the Exchanges we have received thus far. We have been in a state of perpetual smile ever since we read the adventures of the Acta representative at Vassar...
...College year draws to an end, there is one matter in connection with undergraduate journalism that we wish definitely to comment upon, once for all. At the time when the Yale papers chose to "excommunicate" the Acta Columbiana, we could not sympathize with their hasty and discourteous action; but so long as there was a doubt, we preferred to make no editorial allusion to the affair. But the doubt exists no longer. The Yale papers stand convicted before the college world of a breach of courtesy toward an exchange whose merits would seem to entitle it to the highest consideration...
...have led to its foundation we do not know; but its founders have, we understand, already gained valuable experience upon the other paper, and are, we do not doubt, fully competent to carry on successfully the work they have begun. We expect the Argo to take rank with the Acta, the Spectator, the Amherst Student, the Vassar Miscellany, and others of our most valued exchanges...