The Eagle

tinual visits of our proselytising hero than by the drills and parades which would result, if they acceded to his wish. The cause of loyalty triumphed and in the marvellously short space of three weeks, no less than thirty recruits were enrolled in that list of effectives which annually forms the subject of a jubilant leader in the Times. It may however be doubted whether the "effective," who owes his efficiency high-pressure system of three weeks' training, constitutes that impregnable bulwark of his country which flattering inspectors and exultant scribblers represent him to be.

At this crisis in our hero's history, a paragraph appeared in the papers announcing that a plan was in contemplation for uniting the islands of New Zealand and Nova Zembla, by means of an underground railway. The announcement was followed the next day by the mysterious disappearance of our hero. His fate is still shrouded in melancholy uncertainty: there are those who connect his disappearance with the paragraph above mentioned: there are others who assert that he has gone in quest of Nana Sahib or the North Pole: but in any case I think we may predict with certainty that the world will awake some morning to find that some problem, which it has for centuries believed impossible, has been suddenly solved, and that the solution is due to the superhuman exertions of the Enterprising Man!

SS.

OUR CHRONICLE.

WITH the issue of the present number, our College Magazine completes its fifth volume, and the tenth year of its existence. Those amateur periodicals are few indeed to which so long a life is allotted, and the Editorial Committee feel that their hearty thanks are due to the contributors to whom the Eagle owes its present vigorous condition. They can point with pride to the fact that while the Magazine has not deserted its original object, of furnishing an outlet for the literary talent of Undergraduates, in almost every number there have been articles by men whose names would serve as passports that would give them an admission to the pages of periodicals of far more wide spread reputation. From one point of view alone, the state of the Eagle is far from satisfactory; but that is a very important one. The expenses of publication are met by subscriptions; but while the resident Graduates and Undergraduates have promptly met the calls for sums already due, the dilatoriness or forgetfulness of non-resident subscribers has produced a certain amount of temporary embarrassment, and the Editorial Committee feel that unless this can be removed before the end of the Long Vacation they would not be justified in entering upon the publication of another Volume. At the same time the sums due to the Eagle, even allowing a considerable margin for subscriptions which there seems little hope of receiving, more than cover the total of its debts. Under these circumstances the Editors are sure that the Members of our College would much regret the extinction of a periodical which does much to cement the strong College feeling, of which we are justly proud; and they therefore appeal to them to let no careless neglect cut short the life of our noble bird, but by their liberal contributions of food, both literary and pecuniary, to send it forth to wider and higher flights. They may also remind subscribers that it

was in reliance upon their promises of support that the expenses of publication were undertaken, a reliance which they are very reluctant to believe misplaced. The Editors contemplate several considerable improvements in the external appearance of the Sixth Volume, should they be enabled to enter upon its publication.

The Rev. S. S. Walton, fellow of this College, has been appointed to the rectory of Fulbourn. Mr. J. E. Sandys, Senior Classic, 1867, has been appointed a Lecturer in Classics. The Naden Divinity Studentship has been adjudged to Mr. W. E. Pryke, B.A., 14th Wrangler (bracketed) 1866, second class Theological Tripos, 1867; and the Fry Hebrew Scholarship to Mr. W. Covington, B.A., 18th Wrangler in the same year, and first class (with Hebrew Prize) in the Theological Tripos, 1867.

Our College shows no signs of falling off in the career of classical success, which has of late been so brilliantly pursued by some of her members. Of the University Prizes adjudged, six have been brought to this college; having been won as follows:

Sir W. Browne's Medal for Latin Ode- G. H. Hallam.
G. H. Hallam.