EDITOR'S TABLE. Did you ever think that "sermons in stones" meant a great deal more than the melody of a poetical figure? To me nothing in campus life and surrounding appeals more strongly with richness of suggestion and the magic of imagination, than the worn slabs that form the thresholds of the old Treasury building. Here is a "sermon in stone" which can claim a host of joint authors. It is a discourse that has all the features of a composite picture. With all its appealing force, not one man, but thousands have helped in its production, and no one can say that he wrought it out. That deep hollow has been worn in solid rock by the feet of those that have gone before-footsteps hurrying, lagging, restless, and slow with the calm pacing of contentment and comradeship. Every Yale man that has crossed those thresholds in those years that have past, left his autograph on the tablets of stone. You may not find it, but the trace was left, and in this composite of multitudinous memories, there is a shadowy history of academic life for many years. The stone steps of the old Brick Row tell the same mute tale, and in some ways they are the more interesting. But the Treasury stones do not bring back the memories of simply dormitory life alone. They are the record of the college in all the phases of its varied life. The dark tunnel through the building is a "King's Highway," and the grim financial decrees of the campus government have summoned every Yalensian up those heaven-aspiring stairs considerably more than once in his college life. I will not try to classify the imaginings which may be inspired by those deeply worn "monoliths," so to speak. It is a pleasing task which you ought to take up for yourself when the rain and sleet dance hard against the rattling window, and the blue incense to my Lady Nicotine is wreathing ceilingward. I give you only the text. There is the sermon for you to read, and you are sure to find therein a "food for reflection." We are all living in anticipation just now, while the pleasures of realization and retrospection will come only a few fleeting weeks away. The foundation principles of this Republic will be in great danger for the next month. Monarchical institutions will make a brave showing, for throughout this broad land of ours, there will be scattered many hundred young men, each one of whom will be a "king" for the nonce; king in the midst of his awe-stricken family. It is a good thing to be an object of hero-worship for the time, for abdication will be here soon, and the proud undergraduate whose realm is a barren campus will be an humble vassal. Graduation is the great regicide. We congratulate the young ladies of Smith College on the literary and typographical excellence of their new monthly magazine. It ranks, even in this its infancy, with some far older rivals. 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