Professor DANA replied briefly, in the closing remarks of the last lecture of the Course on Geology, delivered April 2d, 1856:

"Before parting, permit me to express my gratification in the sentiments yesterday conveyed to me, from the members of the class attending this course. In my opening lecture, I requested your willing ears, and I have had, as I believe, more, your deeply interested attention. The relation of Professor to Student, was to me, personally, a new one; for I had long been accustomed to that only, of gentleman with gentleman. It has been my special pleasure that this last relation has been continued into my new trial of College life; and I shall remember with peculiar satisfaction, my pleasant intercourse with the Class of 1856. To them all, I tender my wishes for their future success and happiness."

Editor's Table.

How the subject theme may gang,
Let time and chance determine;
Perhaps it may turn out a sang,

Perhaps turn out a sermon.

BURNS.

VERILY, gentle Reader, the occasion calleth for moralizing, rather than the jocularity in which we would fain indulge. We are to make our last bow to you, and we see you already turning your expectant eyes towards our suc

cessors.

Then, too, Alma Mater is before long to drop us from her lap-the giving up of this editorial charge reminds us of it—and we have a solemn conscious. ness of the weakness of our legs. We feel like shrimps hopping among the weeds on the shore of the "ocean of life," and viewing in the water scores of big and experienced fish awaiting our advent with open mouths. We are apprehensive.

Our college life for the past three years offers us some food for serious reflection. We have some qualms about the hours employed in cultivating wild species of grain. We groan at the recollection of the long lists of ails and ills that have befallen us during our course, and which the faculty have doubtless conned over with compassion. "Poor, sickly Students!" would anybody exclaim, who should read over the collected files of excuse papers.

Yet, while these grave subjects incline us to soberness, we have respect unto your patience, and our limited space, and, without expressing them, simply inform you that we have feelings.

We spoke of the ocean of life. We have a few lines about the sea, which were surreptitiously conveyed into our drawer.

I often longed, in boyhood's days,

The sea-life's joys to taste,

And twine my arms round" ocean's grey

And melancholy waist."

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EDITORS' VALEDICTORY.

OUR Editorial duties are concluded with the present number, and, in parting with our readers, we have to offer them our thanks for their kindness during the past year, and our good wishes for their future. We are under great obligations to those who have added interest to our pages by their valuable articles, to two or three constant contributors in particular.

We resign our post with gladness, because it is a toilsome one, yet it has been pleasant enough to cause us some regret at leaving it, and we have no doubt that we shall hereafter look back to our connection with the Yale Lit. as one of the happiest features of our College life. Without further words, we bid you, readers, Farewell!

G. F. BAILEY,

J. M. BROWN,

W. H. W. CAMPBELL,

H. DU BOIS,

L. C. FISCHER.

TO OUR READERS.

WITH the present number of the Lit. we begin our editorial duties. We have no great plans or promises to offer. What the Magazine will be the coming year will depend very much upon the interest manifested by those who contribute to its pages. We love our work and shall engage in it heartily, leaving to maturer pens the speculations of philosophy and the discussion of the great, critical and political questions of the day. Our humble endeavor will be to treat of such topics as come more immediately within the province of college ability and sympathy-such as are calculated to hold up the mirror to Yale life, and consequently to give it a higher tone of feeling— to inspire enthusiasm in our studies and earnestness in all that we do or shall do, and thus promote, in however inadequate a degree, the best interests of our fellow students and the honor of our Alma Mater.

EDITORS.