luxury and conviviality; but scattered between your sheets, they are an annoyance, compelling wakefulness. I doubt if Rip Van Winkle could sleep upon cracker crumbs in peace. It is annoying to find foreign substances in your food, more particularly in pie. I have noticed this, as a Sophomore friend has just asked our waiter if his pie was made in a barber's shop; remarking, parenthetically, that of all pies, he liked piebald. Now, although we hear it said of any young woman, that she is "as good as pie," young women now-a-days differ from pie, in that their principal attraction is capillary. Peters (out of College at present,) says that of all things, he likes to gaze upon a young woman with comb-ly hair. Peters will make his mark; when he does, I shall recommend a slate pencil rampant, as a suitable crest for his arms.

The famished individual, upon entering our breakfast-room, will have his attention called to a vertical row of paintings, between the back-door and window, some of them quite rare, a few well done, illustrative of our frugal mode of living here.

The subjects of these paintings are not above suspicion; as the observer turns from the figures on the right, forbidding gluttony, he will notice eggs, whose originals may be full of embryo ornithological life, and ham, which may have landed from the ark, and have been cursed by Noah.

A slate-pencil, with a slate and educated waiter attachment, is an excellent thing to have in a restaurant. Our's is thus furnished. It is a good medium of secret communication between the hungry and modest customer and the waiter. That melancholy individual of one fish-ball notoriety, might have been living now, an honored citizen, had his restaurant provided a slate and pencil. Furthermore, it brings the waiter above and the functionary below into close communication, I might say, face to face. Modus operandi. Student sleeps over breakfast, (I have noticed that the man who can't sleep on a late supper, always sleeps over breakfast next A. M.,) rushes into prayers, flunks in recitation, goes out, in a state of famine, before it is finished, (two marks,) enters our restaurant, addresses waiter, who puts three more marks on the slate; slate goes below, via dumb waiter; smoke, flurry, steam, suspense, fifteen minutes. Dumb waiter ascends with slate, hieroglyphics, and the answer. Breakfast finished, proprietor puts down several additional marks on ledger, and the thing is done. The question was asked, if man partakes of the nature of his diet, e. g., will a pork diet tend to make a man voracious, or a clam diet make him happy in New Haven during the rainy season? Nibs said

that he had heard of several Fejee Islanders who had become pious from Missionary diet. Said I, "Nibs! if this theory is true, as it may be, you was raised on cabbage heads.'"

One of the gentlemen near the back door interrupted our discussion, by asking the waiter if a man ought to pay for his grub if he hadn't aught to pay. As our waiter is a logician, he thought not; "Then charge my breakfast," rejoined the youth as he departed.

This interruption caused me to speak of the present high prices of board. Our philosophic neighbor, who by the way has materially advanced the cause of temperance, by practically demonstrating the necessity for total abstinence societies, said that his board was so high they seasoned it with attic salt. Peters asked why they didn't live upon poached eggs. I am afraid Peters will never get back to College. His paternal ancestor is a very good man and a deacon; as he passes the "Sasser" for the monthly contributions, his irreverent son calls him "Old Sacerdos." He had expressed the wish that his offspring would be a good scholar and one of the lights of College, and was filled with dismay when Peters told him that good scholars were looked upon here as mere rush-lights.

Our attention, at this moment, was called to a warm discussion, which had arisen between a pair of individuals, who belong respectively to the two lower Classes, arising from the question of the constitutionality of sporting beavers and bangers. Our Sophomoric friend thought the Freshman Class should consider the peculiar position of the Sophomores; that Classes before them had successively bullied the Freshmen, and they must save their reputation. The Freshman said, referring to this saving clause in his opponent's remark, that the Sophomore Class were excessively economical! He argued that as College customs were relics of barbarism, the question of supremacy was one not of morality, but strength; that if his Class was strong enough, there could be no doubt of their right to rule. Quoth the Sophomore, "In consideration of the incontinent desire of your Class to hold the reins, you Freshmen ought to wear bibs." "Why so?" "Because you'drule."

As our Freshman has not yet become accustomed to College wit, he is excusable for not perceiving the point of this remark. Our German musical friend, who has been named Diateutonic, (Diet for short at meal time,) by his admiring friends, expressed his astonishment that young men, just completing their second term in College, should manifest such extravagant reverence for beavers. "In fact," said he, "the Freshman clings to his newly acquired beaver, as Ephraim to his idols: it becomes his 'Castor Diva.'"

Long waiting for breakfast had plainly brought Diet to a low state, and I was relieved to hear the waiter, in a voice calculated to alarm all the hens in the neighborhood, request the unseen caterer below to hurry up "them three eggs three minutes." After certain mystic rites, Fabius lays aside his slate and pencil, and places before D. his matutinal repast. And we depart, envying his quiet pleasure, as he absorbs an inordinate abscissa of buttered toast; and admiring the self-possession of Peters, who, standing near the door, while he promises to adjust the charges of the mild proprietor very soon, abstractedly appropriates a few peanuts (on the right hand table as you come out,) for consumption during the impending noon recitation.

Memorabilia Valensia.

The Promenade Concert.

The Promenade Concert occurred at Music Hall, April 3d, 1866. The Orchestra was under the direction of Mr. THEODORE THOMAS. We subjoin the Programme.

Junior Exhibition.

The Junior Exhibition occurred Wednesday, April 4th. We give a list of the Managers, and the Order of Exercises.

1. MUSIC: Overture, Der Freyschutz-Weber.

2. Latin Oration, "De libro C. C. Taciti quo referuntur situs, mores populi Ger. maniae," by GEORGE PRESTON SHELDON, Rutland, Vt.

3. Oration, "The Eloquence of Demosthenes," by LEONARD TREat Brown, New Haven.

4. Oration, "Roger Williams," by SAMUEL KEELER, Wilton.

5. MUSIC: Romanza, Tannhauser.- Wagner.

6. Dissertation, "The Immortal Three Hundred," by JOHN MILTON HART, West Cornwall.

7. Oration, "Richard Cobden," by ALFRED EUGENE NOLEN, Woonsocket, R. I. 8. Oration, "The Tendency towards Centralization in this Country," by CHARLES KINSEY CANNON, Bordentown N. J.

9. MUSIC: Polka, Aurora-bell-Strauss.

10. Oration, "The Ingratitude of the Athenians to the Public Men," by ALBERT WARREN, Leicester, Mass.

11. Oration, "Progress in Russia," by GEORGE COTTON BRAINERD, St. Albans, Vt.

12. Dissertation, "The Visible World a Stimulus to Intellectual Progress," by HENRY TURNER EDDY, North Bridgewater, Mass.

13. MUSIC: Quartette, Rigoletto.- Verdi.

14. Oration, "The Liberation of Humanity," by RICHARD WILLIAM WOODWARD, Franklin.

15. Oration, “Edgar A. Poe," by DAVID JAMES BURRELL, Freeport, Ill.

16. MUSIC: Season Galop.-Heller.

17. Oration, "The Uses of a True Conservatism in a Republic," by HENRY CLAY SHELDON, Lowville, N. Y.

18. Philosophical Oration, "The Spirit of Literature," by JAMES MAGOFFIN SPENCER, Brooklyn, N. Y.

19. MUSIC: Selection, Ione.-Petrella.

EVENING.

1. MUSIC: Fra Diavolo -Auber.

2. Greek Oration, “ Τῆς Λάκωσις ἀγωγῆς καὶ τῆς ̓Αθηναίας παιδείας σύγκρισις," by THEODORE LANSING DAY, Newton, Mass.

3. Oration, "National Responsibility," by LUTHER HART KITCHEL, Chicago, Ill. 4. Oration, "Characteristics of Modern Historians," by CHARLES GOODRICH COE, Ridgefield.

5. MUSIC: Romanza, Le Clair.-Halevy.

6. Oration, "The Relation of Magna Charta to Civil Rights," by EDGAR ABEL TURRELL, Montrose, Pa.

7. Oration, "The Ideal American," by JoHN WARREN PARTRIDGE, Worcester, Mass.

8. Poem, "The Ships of Tarshish," by PETER BRYNBERG PORTER, Wilmington, Del.

9. MUSIC: Echo Galop -Bergman.

10. Dissertation, "Modern Republicanism," by HENRY MORTON DEXTER, ROL bury, Mass.

11. Dissertation, "Aaron Burr," by BOYD VINCENT. Erie, Pa.

12. MUSIC: Fantaisie sur Themes par Schubert.

13. Oration, "The American Statesman," by JAMES GREELEY FLANDERS, Milwaukee, Wis.

14. Oration, "The Personal Character of Socrates," by JAMES FISKE MERRIAM, Springfield, Mass.

15. MUSIC: German Song, Cornet Solo-Abt.

16. Oration, "Robert Burns," by WALLACE BRUCE, Hillsdale, N. Y.

17. Philosophical Oration, "The English Commonwealth," by PETER RAWSON TAFT, Cincinnati, O.

18. MUSIC: March-Potpourri.—Gungl.

Boating.

The Strokes of the Harvard and Yale crews met at Springfield a few days since, and arranged the preliminaries for the annual race. We give the challenge and acceptance below.

We, the undersigned, members of the Harvard University crew of 1866, hereby challenge the Yale University crew to row us a six-oared race at Worcester, Mass., July 27th, 1866.

We, the undersigned, in behalf of the Yale University crew, accept the challenge sent by the Harvard University crew, to row a six-oared race at Worcester on Friday, July 27th, 1866.