What Happened In Oswego

ïlie Oswego Times has a good story to teil, in connection with the literary piracy in which the students in our colleges and academies indulge. The late D. P. Pago, the firsf, principal of the Albany State Normal School, made one morning before the whole school remavks to the following purport : He said that a few years previous, while traveling in Massachusetts, his wife, at a hotel, found an article in a magazino whieh impressed her so favorably that she copied it hito her scrapbook. He read it at the time and had not thought of it since until the evening before, when tho same article had been handed to hiui by ono of the students for " correction" as an original composition. Ho sincerely regrettod that among young gentlemen and ladies, aspiring to the honorable ppsition of teaohors, oven ono should bo found who would do so dishonorable a thing as to try to pass off, as his own or her own, the productions of another, and his first impulse was to exposé tho fraud in open school. - But he presumed it was tho iirst thing of the kind that had occurred in that institution, and as there might be extenuating circumstances, he had concluded to forgive tho offender, provided that individual should cali at his room within three days, confesR the fault, and promise not to repeat it. In this statement Mr. Page gaveno intimation as totheoharacter of the " piece," or the personality of the offender, and, before the expiration of tho three days, more than two-thirds of the studenta had called upon him, acknowledged tho offense, and apologized, " and," said he, while relating the circumstancè "tho nght man did not como at all."- The story needs no commonts, and cmbodies its own conclusions.