during regard. The
title is a boyish suggestion; but there is more evidence of "_brains_"
in it than is to be found in many far more pretentious publications.'

"These remarks will apply with equal justice to the entire ten volumes
of 'The Dartmouth.' It was highly creditable to the students who
originated and sustained it. 'The Dartmouth' was printed by Mr. E. A.
Allen, who during the continuance of this periodical made several
other ventures in the newspaper line. Sometime during the year 1840 or
1841, he started a paper called 'The Experiment,' which was edited by
James O. Adams, then a student in college. This paper was subsequently
issued in quarto form and called 'The Amulet.'

"In 1841, a periodical called the 'Iris and Record' was issued in
Hanover. It was published monthly, in numbers of thirty-two royal
octavo pages, making two volumes each year. It was edited by 'an
association of gentlemen,' and filled with well selected and original
literary articles. It must have had a considerable circulation, if we
may credit the assertion of the editor of No. II., vol. 3, who says:
'We doubt not there are hundreds of persons, whose names are on our
subscription list, who might every month contribute a short article
upon some interesting subject.' The 'Iris' was also printed by E. A.
Allen.

"During the same year an anti-slavery paper was published in Hanover,
called 'The People's Advocate,' by St. Clair and Briggs. In July,
1843, J. E. Hood became its editor, and continued to publish it for
more than a year, when it was removed to Concord. 'The Advocate' was a
spirited paper; and the editor, then a youth, showed himself an able,
fearless, and uncompromising foe of slavery, at a time when it
required great moral courage and liberal sacrifices of time, talent,
and labor, to advocate the principles of the Free Soil Party. In
February, 1844, Mr. Hood established a paper in Hanover, called the
'Family Visitor,' in which he advocated the various reforms of the
day; and published a variety of original and selected articles in
prose and poetry, for the profit and amusement of his patrons. On
looking over some of the back numbers, I find the contents as lively,
piquant, and interesting, as the best journals of to-day. Mr. Hood was
born an editor, and to the day of his death he performed well his
part; and when his Master bade him 'go up higher,' he left few peers
behind him in his chosen vocation."

Rev. H. A. Hazen, a reli