Is a trick tradesmen have, in the Universities, of _persuading_ students to get into their debt, actually pressing their wares upon them, and then, when their books show sufficient reason, forsooth, they _make a mock_ assignment of their affairs over to their creditors, and some _pettifogging_ attorney addresses the unlucky debtors with an intimation, that, unless the account is forthwith paid, together with the expenses of the application, further proceedings will be taken! though the wily tradesman has assured the purchaser of his articles that credit would run to any _length he pleased_: and so it does, and no longer. Such fellows should be _marked and cut_! It is but justice to add, however, that these observations do not apply to that respectable class of tradesmen, of whom the student _should_ purchase his necessaries. The motto of every student, notwithstanding, who is desirous of not injuring his future prospects in life, by too profuse an expenditure, should be "fugies Uticam,"--keep out of debt! * * * * * THE SOURCE OF DR. PARR'S ELOQUENCE. Some of Dr. Parr's hearers, struck with a remarkable passage in his sermon, asked him "Whether he had read it from his book?" "Oh, no," said he, "it was the light of nature suddenly flashing upon me." He once called a clergyman _a fool_. The divine, indignant, threatened to complain to the Bishop. "Do so," was the reply, "and my Lord Bishop will _confirm you_." To the same wit, when a student at Emanuel College, is attributed the celebrated-- ADDRESS TO HIS TEA-CHEST, "_Tu doces_," (_thou tea-chest_!) Others give the paternity to Lord Erskine, when a Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge; _n'importe_, they were friends. AS A SPICE OF THEIR JOINT VANITY, It is related of them, that one day, sipping their wine together, the Doctor exclaimed, "Should you give me an opportunity, Erskine, I promise myself the pleasure of writing your epitaph." "Sir," was the reply, "it's a temptation to commit suicide." On another occasion more than one authority concur in the Doctor's thus ASSURING HIMSELF A PLACE AMONGST THE GREEK SCHOLARS OF HIS DAY. "Porson, sir, is the first, always the first; we all yield to him. Burney is the third. Who is the second, I leave you to guess." ANOTHER SPICE OF HIS VANITY