At a given signal the whole College was suddenly and brilliantly lighted up. Each pane of glass in the thirty-six large front windows, even to the apex of the pointed gothic arches, seemed luminous by an independent light. And the agreeable effect of the whole was heightened by transparencies in several windows, exhibiting tasteful and appropriate devices.

The President elect, the Faculty of the College, and several others, having assembled at Professor Trimble's, were escorted by the Kenyon Guards to the College. The Guards then formed a line facing the building, and a few paces from it, with the other students and citizens in their rear, when President Smith, from the steps of the Middle Hall, introduced Mr. Andrews to the students as their future President, to whom he hoped shortly to resign his honors and his duties in College.

Mr. M. Hamilton, of the Senior Class, having been designated for the purpose, then addressed the President-elect on behalf of the students, gave him a hearty welcome, and among other things, expressed their entire confidence in him, their high anticipations for Kenyon, and their determination to do their part in making the institution still more than ever a light and glory in the land.

Mr. Andrews, in reply, reciprocated the kind feelings expressed, and alluded to the position of the institution in the community, the beauty of its location, the faithful labors of its officers in years past, and their success, the difficulties with which Kenyon, in common with all other institutions of learning, had had to contend, and the necessity for the zealous co-operation of the students with the officers, in order to secure the highest prosperity of the Institution. He alluded also to his connection with Common Schools, and expressed his belief that upon their efficiency, upon the moral and intellectual education of the great mass of the young, depended the hope of the country, and that there is no antagonism between the common schools and the higher institutions of learning; that, if rightly conducted, they would react beneficially upon each other, and that in devoting himself to what he considered the good of this institution, he was still laboring in the same field. He hoped to be on such intimate terms with all the students, that on all occasions they could without reserve consult with him, as with a friend having their best interests at heart, and that the most friendly feeling would prevail, but if unfortunately a case of discipline should occur, he was determined to be firm and unyielding in the discharge of his duty.

We cannot pretend to give anything like a perfect sketch of his remarks, all of which were exceedingly appropriate, well received, and responded to by three hearty cheers.-Western Episcopalian.

The catalogue of Oberlin College for 1853-4 presents the following summary of its students: Theological 22, College 94, Teachers' Department 7, Ladies' Department 270, Preparatory Department 898-whole number of Gentlemen 716, whole number of Ladies 589: total 1305. A President and ten Professors and Tutors constitute the Faculty: beside whom several female Teachers and other assistants are employed in giving instruction.

The catalogue of Marietta College for 1853-4 enumerates the following: Seniors 11, Juniors 11, Sophomores 22, Freshmen 30-whole number of Undergraduates 74: Academy 60-Total 134.

The Female College in South Delaware has been purchased for the purpose of establishing a Female Seminary of a high order under the care of the Old School Presbyterian Church.

Western Reserve Eclectic Institute.-This Institution is located at Hiram, Portage county. Its third annual Catalogue gives the names of 529 students, -296 Gentlemen and 233 Ladies. Mr. A. S. HAYDEN is Principal, and is assisted in giving instruction by seven teachers.

Burgess Hall-is the name of a select Family Boarding School for young ladies, located at Springfield: the number of pupils is limited to twenty. Rev. CHARLES F. LEWIS and Mrs. LEWIS are the Principals.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.-Ironton.-Mr. J. B. Beach, of Ashtabula county, has taken charge of the public schools of this place. Mr. Beach is a most thoroughly educated man, and long since selected the profession of Teacher, which position he has for several years sustained with eminent ability and credit. We therefore congratulate the Board of Education upon their success in securing a Superintendent so well qualified, and so likely to give credit and character to our public schools.-Spirit of the Times, Dec. 6.

Marlboro Union School.-The second annual Circular, a neat pamphlet, contains much valuable information. Mr. ALFRED HOLBROOK, the Principal, is aided by ten teachers and assistants in the different departments. The pupils in the High School, during the year numbered 214, in the Preparatory 56, in the Primary 62. Of these 182 were from abroad. The School has apparatus valued at $1,500, and a Library of reference worth $300.

Wilmington-We enjoyed the pleasure of a visit to the Wilmington schools this week; and though we accord to the teachers, so far as we had the means of judging, a very good capacity for their business, and to the pupils at least ordinary attention and intelligence, we do think that Wilmington will never have a school worthy the times and worthy her, till the "graded school system " is adopted.-Herald of Freedom, Dec.

McConnelsville. The examination of our schools was attended to last week as we had previously advised our readers. These schools are really creditable to our town, and it should be the aim of every one to see that they are properly sustained. In this we all have a duty to perform.-Morgan Herald, Dec. 2.

Hints, Suggestions and Questions to Teachers.

To draw horizontal lines on a blackboard, (for the purpose of writing copies, mottoes, etc.,) the Teacher should have a piece of twine, like a carpenter's chalk-.~ line, draw it across the chalk, and let a scholar take one end and the Teacher the other, and holding it near the board "snap it," and you have a line at once. A staff (for music) can be made in this way in a few moments, and without the risk of scratching the board, or the inconvenience of using a ruler.

To form a cheap out-door scraper, get one or more plank, and nail to the edge a piece of strap-iron, or an old hoop. Lay the plank flat on the ground and fasten it with stakes: you can thus make 12, 24 or more feet of "scraper" for a few cents, and the saving in the appearance of your school-room and the cost of sweeping may be as many dollars.

In governing schools, the exercise of ingenuity is often far better than the use of authority, the threat of punishment, or the application of force. A Teacher who understood this related the following: "The other day about twenty of the scholars were taken with a sudden and severe fit of coughing. It was one of those contagious coughs peculiar to schools, and to conventions with a dull speaker on the stand. Instead of using harsh measures to stop the noise, he

called the afflicted ones from their seats, alluded to the danger of sitting in a stooping posture with such a serious cough on their lungs, and then advised them to stand erect on the floor an hour or so. At the time of recess, he thought it would not answer for them to go out and play in the cold, while in such a dangerous condition, for, by increasing their influenza they might lose their lives. His tender-heartedness was too much for them; they all came in the afternoon completely cured."

"When his scholars, having tried repeatedly to solve a difficult question in arithmetic, without success, called upon him for assistance, a Teacher of our acquaintance used to say to them pleasantly, 'Have you tried it faithfully?' 'Have you gone just as far as you can ?' 'Have you come to a full stop?' 'Well, do you not know what the spelling book directs you to do when you come to a full stop?' 'No, sir.' 'Why, count six and go on.' This, or some other pleasant remark, would generally so change the current of the scholar's thoughts, relieve his weariness and quicken his perceptions, that he would be able to discover his mistake and surmount the difficulty without assistance."

"To prevent scholars from putting pens in their mouths, for the purpose of cleaning them; a Teacher once stated in our hearing that he had found no method succeed better than, in sight of the school, to drop into each of the inkstands a little of the water in which a dead rat or mouse had been soaked.

All the scholars in school should have some exercises in numbers or arithmetic daily. The youngest should learn to count, by counting their fingers, the number of scholars in the class, of panes in the window, or of balls on a wire in the numeral frame. Older ones should have exercises in reading and writing numbers, in adding, substracting, multiplying and dividing, and in reciting the different tables; and all who are studying arithmetic from a book should be classified, and recite as regularly as in grammar or geography.

Scholars in the Alphabet may be classified with as good results as in any branch of study. Four, five or six, however, will generally be found enough for one class. This class should have its number in school, (as fifth or sixth class) and should be called to read with as much regularity and as much ceremony as any other. In teaching such classes, cards containing the letters in large type, will be found a very great convenience.

Reading classes should generally be stationed as far from the Teacher as possible, that the scholars may become accustomed to use a tone of voice so loud and distinct as to be easily understood in any part of the room. Scholars should be accustomed to study their reading lessons as regularly and faithfully as any other.

The practice of having pupils commit short and spirited pieces for rehearsal or declamation, will be found to aid them in their efforts to improve in reading.

Selections.

The Straits of the Bosphorus, which connect the waters of the Black Sea with those of the Sea of Marmora, and at the western extremity of which is situated the city of Constantinople, are seventeen miles in length, and possess an average breadth of about one and a half miles. They are of considerable depth, and remarkably easy of navigation. A strong current, however, constantly flows from the Black Sea, which, when aided by a northeast wind of long duration, becomes so powerful, that a sailing vessel can hardly make headway against it. In the width of its channel, safety of navigation, and swiftness of current, it more resembles a noble river than a branch of the ocean.

The harbor of Constantinople, which is properly an arm of the Bosphorus, received at a recent period, the appellation of 'The Golden Horn,' and is one of the most secure and capacious, as well as beautiful ports in the world. It is situated near the western mouth of the straits, about sixteen miles from the Black Sea. The curve which it describes, might be compared with propriety to that of an ox's horn; and the epithet golden was expressive of the riches which every wind wafted from distant countries to its bosom. The entrance is about five hundred yards broad, and upon emergency a strong chain might be drawn across to guard the city against the attack of a hostile navy. About five miles from the Black Sea, two fortresses are constructed-one on either continent, upon the foundation of the celebrated temples of Serapi, Jupiter and Urius. These castles form the chief defence of the city against encroachments from the north and east. The old castle, six miles distant from the city, a work of the Greek Emperors, commands the narrowest part of the channel, where the strait contracts to a width of but 500 paces. Here it was that Darius, twenty-three hundred years ago, connected the two continents by a bridge of boats.

The scenery of the Bosphorus is said to be unrivaled in its peculiar character of beauty. On each side of the straits arise in picturesque confusion from the water's edge, hugh cliffs of jasper, agate, porphyry, calcareous spath and cornelians. Such is their abruptness that the belief is generally entertained by the inhabitants of the surrounding country, that the two walls of the straits were rent asunder thousands of years ago by some terrible convulsion of nature. The temples and votive altars, profusely scattered along the banks, attest the fears and devotion of the Greeks, who first explored the inhospitable Euxine or Black Sea. Private houses, too, and delightful gardens, lie resting here and there upon the summits of the banks, or clinging to their steep sides, while the mosques and palaces of the great metropolis, its snow white minarets and gleaming crescents, resemble more the fanciful conjurations of an eastern fairy tale, than a reality of the modern world.-Boston Journal.

The Dardanelles, from which the strait, or Hellespont, derives its name, are four strong castles, built opposite to each on the European and Asiatic coasts, and are the keys of Constantinople. Two of these castles, the old castles, were raised by Mahommed II., soon after the conquest of Constantinople, in 1453; the other two, the new castles, were built in the middle of the seventeenth century to protect the Turks against the Venetians. The latter command the entrance to the Hellespont, and the distance from each is about two miles and a quarter; in four hours' sail up the strait are the old castles, which are about three quarters of a mile apart. These are well mounted with formidable batteries. All along the European shore to the Marmora, the aspect of nature in its ruggedness corresponds with the frown of the guns; but the scenery on the Asiatic shore is beautiful. The region abounds, too, in places famous in classic story. Here it was Leander paid his nightly visit to Hero; here the ill-fated hosts of Xerxes crossed a bridge of boats; here Solyman crossed on a bare raft; and in modern times, here Byron swam from Sestos to Abydos.—Times.

Courtesy. Dr. Humphrey was once seated in a stage coach, when a gentleman and lady on their bridal tour, wished to be accommodated with seats inside. There being one vacant seat, the newly married pair were subject to a separation, unless some passenger relinquished his place.

This no one appeared willing to do, when the Dr. mounted the outside, insisting upon the gentleman occupying his seat with his bride. Subsequently, the Dr. was collecting funds for the College over which he presided, and was presented with

a handsome donation from the stranger he had met in the stage coach, with the remark that he knew nothing of Dr. Humphrey, or Amherst College, save that its president was a "gentleman."

The Sandwich Islands lie between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, on a direct line from San Francisco to Hong Kong, China; about 2,250 miles from the former place and 5,000 from the latter. There are eight inhabited islands in the group, whose aggregate area is about 6,000 square miles. The present population is about 60,000. Some 5,000 Americans have located on these Islands.

Ohio is the second State in the Union, if the number of children attending school be the test; for, according to the seventh census of the United States, the State of New York had 690,321 children at school; Ohio had 514,800, and Pennsylvania, the next, numerically, had only 504,610, while Virginia had less than a fourth of that number.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF IGNORANCE.-As an illustration of popular ignorance in England, it is stated that a woman in Sheffield recently surprised a neighbor with the astounding intelligence that the devil was dead! The truth of this statement being doubted, the skeptical woman accompanied her friend to the shop in which she had seen the fact advertised. The couple at length reached a dyer's shop, in the window of which was a placard with the inscription-'Satin dyed here!'

The man who spells God with a small g, is a member of the Wisconsin bar. He is a man of superior natural abilities, and an eloquent speaker, but being very deficient in early education, he occasionally makes the ludicrous blunders which have rendered him famous. He was accusing his opponent of acting fraudulently. Yes, gentlemen,' said he, 'this whole transaction appears to me to be a fraudulent one. Upon every event in its whole course I see written the word fraud.-Ay, gentlemen, and upon that plaintiff's brazen brow, (pointing fiercely at that meek looking gentleman,) clear as the light of noonday, I see written in characters of the blackest dye-F-R-O-A-D.'

Not long since, a gentleman, then a chorister of a certain choir in Vermont, wrote to a certain publisher in Boston for a copy of that popular singing book, entitled "The Ancient Lyre." In his communication he used the following language: "Please send me the Ancient Liar, well bound." The publisher, in answer to his request, replied:-My dear Sir-I do not doubt but the devil has been, and still is in Boston; but it will be difficult to comply with your request, for the reason that Boston influence is so strongly in his favor that it will be impossible to bind him."

A lady of wealth put her daughter, who had been pampered by indulgence, under a governess. Upon calling to inquire how her daughter progressed with her studies, she was told, 'Not very well.' 'Why, what is the reason?' 'She wants capacity.' 'Well, you know I don't regard expense, you must purchase her one directly.'

A lady, who had traveled for pleasure, being asked how she was pleased with the Natural Bridge in Virginia, replied that, “it would be a very nice bridge when it was done, but it was not quite finished when she was there."

This reminds us of the lady who, when sailing on Long Island Sound, gravely inquired whether there was any water on the other side of the island!

A merchant not over conversant with geography, on hearing that one of his vessels was in jeopardy, exclaimed, "Jeopardy, jeopardy, where's that?"