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In average age of Sixty-one, read one for five months; read twenty two for sixteen days.

Also, in age of oldest, read three for ten months.

we should strive so to scatter the seeds which ripen into manliness, that we do not reap a barren harvest. At least, let friendship and kindness so far enter into our daily life while we are together, that the coming year may be forever a sacred spot in our memories.

Now wishing all our friends, subscribers and non-subscribers, a pleasant vacation, we touch our hat, with our usual grace, and make our most polite bow.

EXCHANGES.

Harper's Magazine for June and July are on our table, full, as usual, of interesting and instructive reading. The University Quarterly has just been received. It offers an attractive table of contents. The Yale News Article, by J. P. Blake, of '62, in a vivacious and vigorous style presents an entertaining review of the last three months record. We thank him for his friendly notice of the Lit. and cordially reindorse, all that he has said therein, concerning the relations of the two Boards. The Williams Quarterly is also before us, with a fine list of articles. The character of this College Magazine is now firmly established, and is such as entitles it to no second rank. The Harvard Magazine comes to us this month in rather a diminutive form. A monthly newspaper might well supply its place. Two of its four pages of reading matter are taken up with a personal explanation of one of the anlu to Harvard students The Magazine

Literary Prize, consisting of a gold medal, valued at twenty-five dollars, to the competition of all Undergraduates. No Student can be admitted, however, as a contestant for this Prize, except upon the following conditions; 1st, that he is a member of the Academical Department, and a subscriber to the "Lit." for the year in which he writes; 2d, that his essay be a prose article not exceeding in length ten pages of the Magazine; 3d, that the production, over an assumed name, but accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the real name, in full, of the competitor be sent in on or before Saturday the 12th of October next. All pieces, answering these conditions, may be directed to the Undersigned.

The Committee of Award will consist of two Resident Alumni and the Chairman of the Board, who will studiously avoid anything calculated to throw the least light upon the name of a single contestant, until the prize has been adjudged.

J. P. TAYLOR, Chairman Board of Editors.