TO OUR READERS.

In entering upon our new duties, we deem it unnecessary to make any promises, or to offer any plans. Our cheerful acceptance of the station which the partiality of our classmates has assigned us, is a sufficient pledge of devotion to our trust; while precedent has, to some extent, established the limits within which our aims must be confined.

The nature of the position in which we are placed, ought, in justice, to supersede the necessity of urging our claims upon your patronage. We are not unconscious of the many difficulties which we must unavoidably meet; yet, we doubt not, that they, who have imposed a difficult task upon us, will manfully aid in bearing us successfully through it.

As long as the Magazine can be well sustained, and conducted in a manner consistent with the original design, there can be but little danger of over estimating its value. It will be useful, as conducing to the development of talent; it will be interesting, as a kind of mirror of college mind.

The age of this periodical renders it an anomaly among American college publications—a fact which reflects credit on the undergraduates of Yale. Its success, in the future, will depend partly upon our exertions, and partly upon yours. We have, therefore, a common interest at stake, which involves