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M. FULLER & CO., Phoenix Block. a11-1=, Caos_IYIPTJ,S. successful. Words of praise cannot be show- A • A. M. FULLER. H. H. FULLER. DEALER IN READY-MADE CLOTHING. ered too abundantly upon the editors, who, Men's wear in White and Natural Wool Underwear, Hos- ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY BY THE STUDENTS. iery, Unlaundried Shirts, Nightgowns, Silk and Linen notwithstanding the fact that the paper has O43 Water Street, MEADVILLE. I3 ,\ Handkerchiefs, Collars and Cuffs. Men's Kid Gloves, One Year, $1.50. In Advance, $s.25. Single Copies, so Cents. plain and lined ; Wool gloves of the best makes, Um- been supported by a very small number of the BOYNTON'S MUSIC STORE. brellas, etc. EDITOR IN CHIEF, S AM SING, E. D. REED. students, have well repaid - those few. Ever SAVE PER CENT. ON TWENTY MUSICAL since the first issue of the CAMPUS, each board INSTRUMENTS, AT BOYNTON'S. BUSINESS MANAGER, LAUNDRYMAN. H. R. KOEN. has endeavored to surpass the preceding ones 224 Chestnut Street, Meadville, Pa. both in literary attainments and the general 946 Water Street, Meadville, Pa. ASSOCIATE EDITORS, :.,1 Ii. F. W. McELROY. C. W. VIRTUE. appearance of the paper itself. The new board HE CORRECT STYLES FRENCH STEAM DYEING AND CLEAN- T IN ING ESTABLISHMENT. LITERARY EDITORS, of editors, upon assuming control, although N. A. WHITE. BLANCHE BASCOM. and INVITATIONS STATIONERY JULIUS CLAUDE, Proprietor. F. L. HOMER. the degree of excellence already attained is AT H. H. THOMPSON'S. very high, hope to make it even nearer per- South Water Street, Meadville, Pa. LOCAL EDITORS, '■111111111111 , A. C. ELLIOTT. D. G. LATSHAW. fect. To do this they need the co-operation FLOSSIE SCOTT. VIRGINIA PORTER. Lihlt.,1<-3C11,\111. - r & CU., D R. H. C. CARROLL, of every student in the college. As in all • EXCHANGE EDITOR, business enterprises, it takes money to run a DENTIST. W. R. FRUIT. HEADQUARTERS FOR FINE SHOES, paper, and only by liberal and numerous sub- Office, Phoenix Block, first door left of Stairs. Meadville, Pa. THE CAMPUS is forwarded to all subscribers until an scriptions can this be done. During the year 918 Water Street. explicit order is received for its discontinuance, and until 117 HECKMAN, all arrearages are paid, according to law. just closed, the different numbers have come E. VAN PATTON, VV . Subscribers are requested to inform the Business Man- out at regular intervals of time, but not as F. ager of any change of address. JEWELER. Address all business communications to EL R. Koen, often as they would have, had the finances Watches and Diamonds a Specialty. Lock Box 762, Meadville, Pa. WATCHES, SILVERWARE & NOVELTIES. permitted it. Instead of being issued every

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2 THE CAMPUS THE CAMPUS 3 After the beautiful and touching tribute to does, has repeated itself. This latter part is man who sits for hours far into the night over pleasant ways and kindly disposition have Dr. Wheeler which appeared in the CAMPUS painfully true so far as Allegheny concerned, a burning lamp day after day and week after endeared him not only to the cadets and the some time ago we have some diffidence in ad- and we are now at a loss to know whether we week, with no bodily training excepting a few students as a body, but also the members of dressing ourselves to the subject of his de- shall be allowed to even enter another such a steps to and from his room, is committing a the faculty, of which he was a worthy col- parture, which now seems ,certain. We had contest to say nothing of our meager chances sin. How many would desire the mind of a league. During his stay here he was pro- hoped that his stay might be prolonged and of winning what should be our share of the Daniel Webster were they compelled to ham- moted from second to first lieutenancy, an it comes home to us now at the end of the honors. Athletics at Allegheny, for the past per its brilliancy with the body of a dime- honor which was well deserved. On account year more forcibly than ever before that by museum skeleton ? None, certainly, but there of the serious illness of a member of his house- the resignation of our president, the faculty few years, has been practically dead, and un- are a few who appear to cling to such a doc- hold he will probably not leave the city for sustains a loss not easily repaired and the col- less there is a general stir among all the stu- trine. Let athletics be our watchword next some weeks yet, and those who remain behind lege has lost a head hard to replace. Though dents we shall again ask next May, " Where year. No lesson need be slighted, no class will still enjoy his presence. But wherever perhaps not so good a financier as a col- are we at ?" There may be some excuse for need be skipped, there is time for both. En- duty calls him, be it in time of peace or time lege like this should have at its head, he has our snail-like movements, but if there is it is ter the contests. Do your duty to yourself kept carefully concealed in some book-worm's of war, the best wishes of all shall pursue him. combined in a great degree all the qualities and to your college. which go to make a model college president. breast. Base ball, thanks to an energetic few, A man among men, he has shown executive has received an impetus rarely seen in this IDiterarti. ability equal to all emergencies. The record locality and we are to be congratulated on ,[flibst the closing scenes of this college of serious outbreaks among the students dur- having something to show for ourselves, year, no event will be more universally sor- tbe Eeab Sotbier. physically. One might venture to make the rowful to see than the departure of Major Cree ing his administration is very small and every Selected.] statement that it was because of our interest to new fields of labor. For the past three case has been dealt with in such a manner as When all the leaves have fallen, to preserve the dignity of the college and at in base ball that we made so dismal a failure years the battalion has been under his efficient Still on the bough some two or three remain; the same time warn others that " the way of at Pittsburg, but the miserly manner in which care and his faithfulness to duty and integrity And through the winter these poor leaves remember That they must have the pain even that enjoyable branch of athletics has the transgressor is hard." As a lecturer in of purpose s both going to make the excellent Of falling when sweet spring- is in the sky. the class-room, always clear and forcible, he been supported by the student body, knocks officer that he is, has raised the standard of He slept beside the famous, and I came the bottom out of any such fanatic remark. the corps of cadets. When he first came here never failed to remove all ambiguity in the And watched his sleep. Another will, in his peevish manner, say we text by an application of the principles to he found the battalion large in numbers but Hard by the village they had fought, have no gymnasium. This is true, but we practical life. He always inspired students lacking in discipline. To remedy this fault And so they brought him dead into the village. with admiration for their teacher and a love have plenty of solid ground and pure air about and still maintain the enlistment was his am:- Lhat battle was the first they fought, and he, for study. This closes the tenth year of Dr. the college. We believe the association has bition. Unfortunately, on account of an un- He was the first who fell. Wheeler's work here, nine as President and made no disposition of the cases of Allegheny appreciable feeling of the true worth and Beneath the trees they laid him—none had time one as Vice President. We wish his stay and the other colleges unrepresented, but ear- benefit of a military training the battalion has To think of digging any grave for him; here could have been longer, but wherever he nestly hope they will give us one more chance dwindled in numbers, but so far as efficiency And he was happy, thus to wait awhile Without his grave—and hear the battle's din. may choose to cast his lot, our best wishes go and enable us to redeem ourselves. In the and general appearance is concerned, it has with him. May he find as many friends in meantime let those, who have been prodding been better than ever before. It is to be And when they came upon the morrow's morn his new sphere as he has made at Old Alle- away at the dormant ones, continue to poke regretted that such is the case, since the To dig his grave, gheny. the disinclined in the ribs and bring the male major has spent all his time and energy in He sorrowed that he must go down to it * population of the college to their senses. behalf of those under him and performed his Not knowing, and all impotent to ask, Which way the fight had gone. "Strike out the mote from thine eye." Taking duties thoroughly and conscientiously. His ?Me Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Into his grave they shut him fast, a quick glance at all the students gathered to- many practical lectures, his instructive talks And told him naught of it; held its annual Field Day meeting in Pittsburg gether the eye cannot fail to see that there are in the class room, his firm yet gentle demeanor And ever since he still doth ask himself htst month. The contest has been held and many who are lacking, yes actually suffering at drills will never be forgotten by those who Which way it went—nor can he sleep in peace. is now a mere matter of history, and as history from want of sufficient physical exercise. A were fortunate enough to attend them. His —Roumanian Folk-Song.

4 THE CAMPUS THE CAMPUS 5 B 'Retrospect. two Egtracts from VresiOent Winder's I mean to say, in the second place, that you be formed of the number of friends whom we Vresentatton Map abbress. are liable to two opposite errors as to the charac- must lose even before Commencement. ter of your education. One is to go out with the impression that you know everything worth know- All of one's experiences in college are not apt Young Ladies and Gentlemen of Me Senior Class: Sentiment is cheap nowadays, hence it is little ing, that you have graduated from the best college esteemed. So lightly is it held that any ex- to be of a pleasant character. Almost everyone My first thought on an occasion of this kind is in the world and that nothing can be learned any- hibition of emotion is considered almost a sign feels, at times, offended at the slight attention always to say that I regard a graduating class as a where else ; and that it is not worth while to try paid to their great (?) abilities. Disappointment group of people who have been rescued, so to say, to learn anything anywhere else. That error a of weakness and we are prompt to ridicule any from the wreck. I cannot help thinking of the few of you make ; the other one you are more and defeat in class elections hurt severely at the one who ventures to show feelings, either of number of Freshmen and Sophomores whom I liable to make. And that is that you didn't grad- pleasure or pain, over any commonplace occur- time. Some may even recall midnight visitations have loved and lost not so very long since, but uate in a class of 30o persons who did not know without any overpowering thrill of pleasure. for a good while. To a man placed where I am each other—that you didn't graduate at a college rence. Doubtless this tendency to rail at our this spectacle of the struggle between the begin- But time is the great healer of all our wounds. able to spend more money in a year than this col- sentimental friends, has a salutary effect in re- ning of the Freshman year and the end of the lege is worth in its total capital, that you—on the straining the "gush " to which we Americans are Gradually the bitter fades out of memory and Senior year, is necessarily a painful one ; so many other hand—graduated at what is usually denom- only the sweet remains. Mellowed by the flight failing through frivolous reasons—including the so much addicted ; but like other good things it inated a small college. You are in some danger of even a few years, most of our memories of girl they didn't leave behind them but found here of being tempted to regret that. Then again you is liable to be abused. The mere mention of a in Meadville ; so many falling out for serious are in some danger, on the same ground, of being feeling of sadness at leaving college is almost college life are pleasant ones. The class fight reasons, such as health and money, that those tempted to believe that the college did not do its which was so fierce and which seemed to arouse who go through are a kind of remnant, so to say. certain to provoke a smile ; yet I think no one, duty by you, that you were not properly educated. such bitter feelings, slowly assumes a humorous I have not counted the lost in your class. It is a You find that you cannot run a saw mill, and begin though graduating with the highest honors, looks painful business to count up. But I can think of aspect, and may even be recalled with positive to wonder why the college did not teach you how forward to Commencement without occasionally some who ought to be here, who might have been to run a saw mill. You find that you cannot run pleasure. a sharp pang of regret. The thought of at least here, who can give no other reason for not being a saw mill or any other kind of a mill, and why But by no means were all of our experiences here than that they did not choose to be here, and did you waste four years of your life—the 'way they being free from books and professors, and of who have before them a long life of self-reproach disagreeable at the time. We are told, and may usually put it—"in digging up Latin and Greek getting out into the world, is a very pleasing one, because they didn't choose to be here. roots." well believe it to be true, that no other part of but while we are indulging in this fancy, the Not to be graduated at college may not undo a Now I want to warn you against depreciating the life is so full of enjoyment as the years spent at man or woman. Undoubtedly many people have thought of leaving old friends and associations value of an education. I do not know that from college. Certainly the past four years have fur- been good and successful without graduating at what the college has taught you I have a right to thrusts itself disagreeably forward and robs our college. But no man ever entered college and say that you are able to do any single thing. We nished pleasures to which nothing before us is at fancy of half its charms. failed to graduate who did not secretly, if not have not undertaken to teach you to do anything all comparable. openly, regret it all his .life. No matter what Yet the prospect of parting with present com- that has at the end of it a salary. There is a Doubtless to many the most pleasant momories may have come to him in the way of success he slight exception to this in favor of the civil engin- panions is not the only reason why the thought still feels that he made a mistake when he set out are those of the fraternity life of the college. eers but I refer now to the bachelors of arts. The of leaving college is not altogether a pleasant one. in life. whole theory of your education is that your minds Here the genial fellowship and close sympathy of At no other time is one so apt to think of the In the course of a year many cases of this kind need training, that you need to learn how to think, those we love best, was enjoyed to its fullest ex- come to me—more especially in the post-graduate that is to say, to compare, to judge ; that this changes which are constantly taking place in department—during the last year so many that I tent. Here the ties were formed which shall last training of yours had to be carried on for a con- college life. 'Tis true that "all the world's a have come to think that there is a vast amount of siderable time in close contact with little things, through life, and which shall always keep fresh in stage," but during no part of the play are the unhappiness arising not from a want of a college small questions, because these questions tend to our minds the memories of the few years spent education but a failure to obtain it while it was scenes being so continually shifted as during the give you judgment, qualify you to discriminate, to here. within reach, when it was within sight. see minute differences. few years spent in college. My first year in I congratulate you, young ladies and gentlemen, You have not, so far as I know, been given by But all things must have an end, and we are college was made memorable by the size of the that you have not yielded to temptations which the college any fitness for any particular employ- compelled to bid adieu to our cherished have come to you every year since you came into Senior class. Never before or since has Allegheny alma ma- ment. The college gives the student a disciplined ter. The past contains much to regret ; the pages this college, some of you six years ago ; that you mind and a habit of study and an intuition to fit sent out so many graduates in one year. have resisted this temptation, and that you are of life are blotted all over with faults and errors. himself for his work what ever it be. If you are The number of acquaintances made during the here. And I must say once more that it is for me able to study a profession the short way to do it And the past cannot be changed, but we may only past four years has necessarily been very great. a certificate of character. The fascinations of the is in some profession school. Universities exist hope that in the future those pages may be less world are so great as related to getting an educa- for the purpose of furnishing students with special Those graduating each year form a small part marred by blemishes and that the lines of truth tion, they so constantly present themselves in the information and the training of their profession. of all who enter college. Men are constantly faces of young people, that it is rather a surprise that and sincerity may stand out with greater clearness * * * * * dropping out and soon forgotten. Only fourteen any go through than that many fail, and there and beauty. '93. must be some good stuff in a man or woman who I must refer to the relationships and friendships members of the graduating class this year were goes through. Nobody who understands anything which you have formed here, including as some Freshmen in '89. Twenty-seven members of the about the nature of the facts can fail to have a small part of it my own personal interest in you high regard for you from the mere fact of your and that of my colleagues, including in it the class have left college not having graduated. If you owe for the CAMPUS, don't fail to settle graduation at this college. winter slides on the hill, including in it the beans This being true of a single class, some idea may before going home.

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a divine affection makes it more blessed to give one's self at Hulings Hall, including in it everything that to his juniper tree and his journey to Horeb. But under us say on a desert island. You , know he will perish. De than to possess another's self, Our life begins only when has moved your affections, not omitting the Cam- this marvelous story there are permanent analogies and Foe left to Robinson Crusoe enough of the wreckage of his this transfiguration of the outward by the inward man ship to save him, and then invented another man to bear pus elections, and the other happy and confrater- harmonies with human life alike in heroic and unheroic begins. Till then this being is only another animal ; but him company. But even then Crusoe was in vital contact nal relations which have sometimes been called ages. Let us find lessons for this hour in principles com- the first play of a child's fancy clothing her doll with life fights and conflicts. But I am sure that all of through his memory with the spiritual treasures of his old mon in that semi-supernatural life and in our more prosaic and feeling reveals the " piece of divinity within us." home. Under his juniper tree, the angels of his boyhood these will come back more and more gilded with living. All that life means, even for men still savage, is expressed ministered to him and refreshed him for his awful task. fascinating light. There is not for you in all your I reduce these principles to this : Our life is a journey ; in some satisfaction of the rude soul. His delight in chase Some one has said: " If our passions were 'limited life to come any such sweet tract of associations it is a journey of a human spirit ; it is a hard journey, or battle is a triumph of his dominant or conquering within the atmosphere of the globe, each man would be as your college life has given you. You will find spirit. How much more is the civilized man's life the their prisoner and would never strive to climb higher." nothing in all the world laden with any worthier too great for us without spiritual sustenance ; this spirit traveler must be fed from the unseen world, a bald diversion, entertainment and refreshment of a living soul! It is another way of saying that man is man, because or tenderer regret—and happy regret—than this naturalism is inadequate food—he must fly like Elijah and Be the life low or high, be the delights coarse or refined, physical environment is always more or less overcome by college life of yours, and therefore you ought sleep like him under his juniper tree, unless supra-natural be the exercise work or play,, be the result an eat then jug the spirit force in man—because there is an inner nourish- sometime to come back. You ought to come back hands feed and strengthen him. or an alabaster box, a log cabin or a cathedral, a lesson ment through which we climb higher. Some angel of our as often as you can. But in coming back remember 1I. We are apt to enlarge the sphere of naturalism by mastered or a kingdom gained, the worker and the victor nature, or of God's sending spreads for us a banquet in that you will not find just what you left. But adding to it the realms of mental and moral experience, is always the spirit in man that goeth upward. I am re- the wilderness of our strivings, and bids us, in hours of come back and get your own reminiscences. and to call all those inner activities believed in by all men peating an ancient truism ; but the veriest truism—worn, languishing, arise and eat because of the greatness of the In four years the personnel will have entirely a part of nature. In this way the spiritual and super- but not out worn—often needs restatement. because being journey. changed about you ; but you can find your old natural are reduced to those matters of belief or of rare never denied it is in danger of lapsing into forgetfulness. V. It is good for us sometimes to measure a little the room here fifty years from now. Once in a while experience which, though they may be universally possible, And yet, this spiritual man in us, how vague and dim and magnitude of the task of living. Consider it as a matter a man comes here and wanders up and down and are realized only in rare and special experience, This is a attenuated and ghostly we make him in some of our of choice and decisions. What a multitude of them must be finds the tree he planted, and the tree is a kind of way of giving over to naturalism all that part of spiritual conceptions ! How large, luminous, realistic and lusty made for our body life, for our education, for our social affil- center around which all the sweet associations of life which is universal, and of confusing all our concep- he is in our human life ! Even in the lower life it is not iations. We pick out a few, such as the choice of a wife, college life gather. If you cannot do anything tions about life and duty. In strict and perfectly settled the literal flesh, but spiritual flesh--the soul desires that or the chOice of a profession, and fill libraries with books else but find some place on the fence that you fact, naturalism concerns the physical world and that only. utter themselves in fleshly delights, delights of the spirit of counsel. But these are only the most beggarly fraction hacked, or the bench you cut your name into, Supra-naturalism rightfully claims the whole inner world groveling in clay and making itself glad in carnality. of the appalling whole. If a lad could see all of them in come back and find your own and be happy, be- of thought, feeling, will, imagination, and struggle. This For there is no joy but the soul experiences it, no trans- one vision of the night, he would awake, like Jacob, to cry cause this hill will always, while you live at least, inner life of a man—a life distinctly above the bodily life port which is not fulfilled in the spirit. I say this not to out: " How dreadful is this place !" Consider the great- contain something that belongs to you, which you —I assume as the great fact conferring importance and disparage the higher joys, the sacred bliss, of the upper ness of the moral task laid on us. To be true with infinite realms of soul life, but rather to get a better grasp of the have made your own. Strangers will be filling dignity upon our "passing through nature to eternity." ti temptations to be false; to be brave when flight into the places, strangers will be roaming these hills, the III. What is your simplest life ? Is it mere digesting, whole round truth that our life is a journey of the human woods seems the only safety; to be manly when sneaks town will change its face, everything will be new, breathing, exercise of muscle and brain work of adjusting spirit. We cannot escape into any other life for man, like seem to gather all the goods and chattels by their unmanly but you may still find your own, and the college means to ends ? Is the mill, the shop, the farm, anything God, is a spirit. And if I believed that this spirit were industries; to be faithful when opportunity bribes and may be a perpetual fountain of joy, and a return more than instrument to higher ends ? Your life, call it a an evolution out of lower forms of existence, that belief malice threatens ; to be just where injustice offers us all to it among your sacred pleasures because you journey, a race, or a battle, is more than meat, more than would leave impregnable the FACT that man as he is known we want. Consider the social difficulties, the social fric- came back here in search of your own. raiment, more than goods. It is not merely a play of the to consciousness and history is such—is man—by virtue of tion, the treasons and the enmities, the demand for charity muscles, it is a struggle of the spirit. It is the stout heart, his living soul. This body, from whatever whence it of the hand and of the heart, the wasting effects of strug- not merely the sharp blade, which cuts down the enemy. has come, is merely the encasement and tent-covering of gles in rivalries and competitions. Surely it is all too, Ube Maccalaureate %ermon. It is the industrious soul that toils and makes the body the master within. The far-off twilights and beginnings great for us if we are to be coffined into ourselves and shut sweat. It is imagination, desire, aspiration, resolution— of this spirit in man are to science a part of the infinite un- up to the resources of one poor globe of dust. Happily, the soul stuff in us— that marches and sails on land and known. We may wrangle long about the homologues of this is not our case. We have measureless resources be- DELIVERED BY DAVID H. WHEELER, LL. D., PRESIDENT ALLEGHENY COLLEGE. sea. We achieve in proportion to the energy and ardor some old skeletons of human bodies; but we shall find no yond these. of the spirit in us. A small success or a great success is missing links in a stairway of ascending souls. In all VI. Memory and hope enfranchise the prisoner of the THE FOOD OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. the result not of the physical mechanism of a man's body times, in all stages of known civilization, the spiritual hu- atmosphere as soon as he really begins to live for himself. Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.—I. Kings, but of the stalwart qualities of his soul. manity reveals itself, asserts itself, and building a but or a In the beginning memory is-only a fringe of green behind xix:7. It needs not that I undervalue the machine—God's language, a family or a kingdom, is always an indwelling us, and Hope stretches out an illimitable landscape of en- I. A biblical incident has for us the same value as a workmanship—but I must insist that the machine is run by soul. We recognize ourselves in the lowest savage or the ticement. The fringe behind us widens into a golden age, parable. We cannot find like circumstance and exper- the spiritual man. You shall easily find multitudes of most distantly related race. " One touch of nature makes and the vast landscape of Hope narrows, as age comes on, ience in our lives, but we can find the same laws of life these divine machines that run to very little effect. Ex- the whole world kin." The real and broad divergence into a fringe of green touched with autumn frosts. But and relations of these laws to fundamental human nature. amine them and you shall find every part of the physical is between the higher spirituality and the lower, between midway, where life is hardest, the two surround us and in- We, therefore, instinctively seek in sacred history for the gear present, even in perfection. Paul had not such a the mind of the flesh and the mind of the spirit. The one yite us and refresh us. Imagine a man cut off from Mem- deep-lying causes and the infolded spirit of events and in- perfect body as the first idler you may find in any street. burrows downward, the other soars upward. Hell and ory and Hope ! To remember and to anticipate is to cidents. In this search, we may err to our damage—as we The poor machine often throws out the best quality of life heaven are absolutely necessary conceptions of the destiny transcend the atmosphere. In an actual prison you will may err in searching fora physical truth under its envelop and of achievement. As soon as life presents the human of each kind of journeying. One goes to be swallowed up live on the past, refresh yourself with the future. They of phenomena. But a chance to go wrong should not re- valities which so far meet our ideal as to make life seem in the Red Sea, the other to Horeb, the mount of God. are two life buoys sustaining us in the whelming seas. Nor: _strain us from a brave effort to go'right; and a candid tem- worth living, it presents also the spiritual manhood. A IV. But in both kinds of living, good living and bad is it merely a matter for consolation when the troubles per will help us to find the right ways of the Lord in sacred mind pulse throbs here. Appetites and affections higher living, the living man is ministered unto. Bad angels and come thick upon us. Every day's commonest labor is story. than the gross appetites and affections undergird them, good angels awaken the soul to feed and strengthen it. made possible by inward feasting at these banquets of the Shut it up into itself, isolate it from all spiritual contact, An incident in the life of Elijah is apt to be peculiarly interpenetrate them, and lift them into a new meaning. soul. The memory may be only the fragrance of yester beyond us—to stretch into a field of miraculous experience and it will sleep on under its juniper tree. This necessity day's supper; the hope may be only for the sweet sleep of What was carnal has become spiritual when Dumas cooks of the human spirit appears as soon as you cut him off; let the coming night; and yet each shall lighten that journey- where we cannot follow him. Such an incident is the flight or Abelard loves. Grossness falls off from passion when

S THE CAMPUS THE CAMPUS of a day. " Actual things," you say; no, they are things moral classification are like lava beds where volcanic fires absorb much from a large society is a condition of growth irradiated into attractive beauty by the touch of this necro- have raged. Get to the bottom of them and you shall into largeness. Cassius asked: "Upon what meat cloth 1Doecte. mancer, the human soul. touch the seething crater whence they were flung. And if this our Caesar feed that he hath grown so great?" It In Memory and in Hope, Imagination broiders homespun we use them with any force, our hearts will glow and our might have been said in reply that Caesar had been fed with gold, and builds out of coarse stones castles and cheeks burn with the original fire. upon the common desire of the Roman people for deliver- Of course you passed. towers, and covers them with cathedral splendors. You VII. Is it therefore an unreality ? Is there no virtue ance from the strifes of faction and the perils of anarchy call it, perhaps, only idle dreaming. But it is not idle ; it and no vice ? Why, what do we so certainly know, what until he became so gigantic that even the envious Cassius Where is the Athletic Association ? is some of our noblest work. We make epic poems of our exists by such irrefragible witness, as this emotional life felt his own littleness by the side of the great representa- lives; we touch their crudity with a light of fancy and so of a man ? A virtue is not so many pounds of pressure ; tive Roman. So Washington imbibed and expressed in Darragh's parents came to see him graduate. dramatize them into beauty. It is not idle play; it is ban- it is such and such an order of moral feeling. "I did not his greatness the American spirit, while as yet most other queting under our juniper tree that we may travel in the harm him; I only hurt his feelings." There was no other men remained narrow and provincial. So Lincoln holds Read Dr. Wheeler's last baccalaureate sermon. strength of that meat to our Horeb. There may be excess harm so great as this within the whole compass of your us all in thrall of our wonder that he so truly caught and of imagination; there is more danger of defect. If a mart powers. And so it is that refreshment of our feeling of uttered the heart-thought of a distressed and perplexed Mr. Campbell, Jim's father, came for Com- cannot throw some transfiguring light on his tasks,= if he self-respect; of 'self-love, of self-devotion is the very meat people. Under his juniper tree the angels of our national mencement. cannot escape from the wearisotneness into a happier, and drink of our traveler. Emotional transfiguration of life nourished him for his journey to Horeb. Our personal though only an imagined, sphere of activity; if his hope life is a good. The important thing is spiritual sustenance power rises to dignity through this absorbing of the spirit Misses Kerr and Whitney spent Commencement cannot borrow sunbeams from the imagination, the jour-, for a hard journey. Exact knowledge, if there be any— of our fellows, of our land, of our time. Alike in the with their K. K. F. friends. ney will prove too great for him. I fancy that there are may help you on your way as far as the juniper tree. But simpleSt and the grandest living, the companionship is a few who waste their lives in idle reverie, and I suspect you will sleep your last sleep there unless angels awaken and banquet under the juniper tree. Mrs. Howard, of Chardon, Ohio, was present that high living, high thinking, high achieving, are nour- feed you. A stout heart is better than a strong foot; IX. And there came also the angels of God to bid us to see her daughter, Clara, graduate. ished at goodly banquets of the imagination. something happily expressed by Admiral Farragut in his arise and eat. Who dares say that no influences from the Our emotions make another great banqueting house of "Iron hearts in ribs of oak" as his ideal of a navy. And invisible world have ever broken into his slumbers and Miss June Rankin, of Linesville, spent Com- life. For some purposes we need to know the exact fact— the strength of the heart is the power its emotions have shaped his reveries into plans and purposes ? That world the thing AS IT Is—for other and nobler purposes we need over the facts—or so-called facts of life. The emotions is closer to the spirit than physical realities. It needs no mencement week as the guest of Miss Stevenson. to know the thing as IT OUGHT TO BE, as it MIGHT BE, as make life lyrical. They fill the prisoner's atmosphere instrument or language—no touch or speech--to veritably some time or other IT MAY BE-or even as our desires with songs and everlasting joy. I need nottenter into a touch us and to speak to us. I said as much as that when Dan S. Darragh spent Commencement week would HAVE IT TO BE if they had the power. Even in utter disputed question about the relative distribution of material I said man is a spirit. Why argue about it when our re- with his brother, R. W. Dan is no shorter than hopelessness of changing a hard and grinding fact, the good in our day; but some hint of the facts—the spiritual ligion and our superstition, our devotion and our fear, move fie was last year. soul may find relief in pictures of it changed into a pleas- facts—lie in the lyrical character of nineteenth-century us all to wonder, to awe or to prayer. We must worship. ant and blessed fact. For the dream of this change has poetry. It is a song; a great swelling volume of song. It Our nature has an unfulfilled wish, an unsatisfied hope Some of the faculty and students attended the nourished our courage. I well know that this poetizing of is not set to minor keys and ribbed in with elegy and swan- which concern the invisible things. I must hasten ; but the world is reproached as an obstacle to scientific prog- song of despair. For one "Song of the Shirt" you shall stop to think how little literature would be left to our Eng- M. E. Sunday school picnic at Conneaut Lake, ress. It is even affirmed that there can be no science—no hear a million carols of gladness. Well, then, if life be lish tongue, if all the pieces or passages relating to this un- Tuesday, June 2oth. knowing the fact just as it is—because even the scientist growing harder, we show by our method of sweetening it seen world were ruthlessly torn out of it. Think what must dream some lyrical elements into what his eyes be- that we have fled from the Jczabel of grinding care to find great blank spaces would be made in our dictionaries if On Thursday, June i5th, Dr. Flood entertained hold. In this view, if ever a true scientist exists, he will refreshment under our j uniperi tree. And if life be brighter, the words were cast out of them which get their color and the ladies of Hulings Hall and many gentlemen be a man with no imagination and no heart. He will not it is partly because we are moving to Horeb, refreshed by have their value from the kingdom of God in us and above even CARE TO KNOW. Love of the truth may itself bewil- the ministry of the better angels of our nature. For my! us. I make these suggestions instead of an argument— at his farm, " Maple Lawn." der the seeker of truth—since Love wants its beloved to own part, looking at life as simply a pilgrimage of the hu and I am sure that God's angels do awaken us and feed us exist in leality and yet paints that beloved with the heaven- man spirit—"passing through nature to eternity"—I can- on this toilsome march. Misses Clara Campbell, Maud Johnson, Myrna ly glow of affection. The imagination is rather a servant not help seeing in our lyric poetry and lyric life—for when The necessity for the ministry of God in our life lies in the Langley and Stella Foote were the guests of K. A. of our emotions than an original inventor of things better was life more emotional—a revolt against the oppression greatness of it, the dullness of it, the weariness of it, the sor- O. during Commencement. than the facts, A biographer sets down to study a life of nature, the total depravity of things— and a successful row of it. The dying pagan cried for light, Weary souls pray with an honest purpose to reach and describe the fact ; but revolt. Philosophers have now these many centuries ad- fOr rest. Pain comes and the disturbed spirit is beset by de- The Flood declamation contest of Ossoli Liter- if the life be worth writing, some quality in it will evoke vised, commanded the human creature to subdue his spair. For such hours, there is no sustenance, no light, admiration and affection—and the biography will be the emotions. But he still loves and hates, fears and hopes, no rest, no hope, unless God minister unto us. A belief ary Society took place June 8th. The prize was life its subject ought to have lived, or might have lived. and builds his life into such lyrical intensity as he can at- that God is near us, and helps us, is our only succor under won by Miss E. Mae Bentley. You are a different man to every one of your neighbors— tain unto, with a persistence, enthusiasm and confidence the juniper tree. This is not a theory; it is an experience. your name should be legion—because each of these neigh- unsurpassed in any, even the most arcadian age. The good of all times have left us their witness'to its re- While Dr. Montgomery was examining his class bors mixes his knowledge with a different emotion. VIII. I have indirectly suggested that human society is ality and its power. Faith in God as a very present help in astronomy, a wasp flew in the window and sat Is it an evil or is it a good ? Undoubtedly it is a good. appointed for the nourishment of the spirit of our traveler. in time of trouble is a vast human fact ; and I join this The greatness of the journey called life makes emotional Coming more directly to the social banquets of life, we fact to the great doctrine of the deliverances God works upon the Doctor's bald head. The Doctor's transfiguration of realities the meat and drink of the trav- shall see the home life, the neighborhood life, and the for believing souls. If God feed us we shall march to our classes will not be examined next year. eler. You may say of one man that he lives in his self- national life, conspiring to refresh and invigorate the soul. Horeb in the strength of that meat, our journey of forty conceit; of one woman that her pride is her life. We see There is indeed a social friction and conflict which is a days or forty years, to meet Him and to know His "still Prof. Thomas—" Everyone •who did not see the small desires building some lives and great desires build- part of the hardness of the journey. But whoever found small voice " as the divine voice, heard clear above the Centennial Exposition should go to the World's ing grander lives, and we label every virtue and every the sweetness of human life in solitude? ."-We find our tonic strong wind, the rending mountains and the shaking world. vice with a word packed full of emotion. We say he was joys and our bracing athletics in those social relations Fair." a traitor or he was a patriot, not with the emotionless calm which mould us within into the family spirit, the pro- Prof. Ross—" Well, I was at the Centennial." of a scientist labeling a specimen but with a hotness of the fessional spirit, the neighborhood spirit, the national spirit; heart caused by admiration or contempt. The terms of and each is not a burden but an inspiration. The power to What do you think of Wilcox Hall of Science? Prof. T. What, were you born then ? " F .

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Come back next fall and bring a new student Commencement Egercises. party spirit had been harmful. His delivery with choice flowers, and delivered the salutatory. with you. showed careful training. He heartily welcomed the audience in behalf of Sunday dawned unauspiciously, but the knowl- Mr. Cowell followed with a very effective reply. '93. Morey's mother and sister came to see him edge to be dispensed by Dr. Wheeler was enough His delivery was natural, his arguments well cho- Mr. R. D. Beardsley, the class historian, traced graduate. to draw large a audience to the Stone Church, sen and his manner very convincing. the career of '93 during the last four years, telling where they listened to a magnificent sermon which Following this,, Mis. John Porter gave two of its victories and defeats. Miss Gageby's sister visited her at Hulings appears in another part of this issue. The musical beautiful selections upon the organ, after which The oration was delivered by Mr. Alden 0. Hall last week. part of the morning's exercises was excellent. In Mr. Asa J. Echols, Allegheny's representative, Davis. He handled his subject, " The Character Staples will be commissary of the Hulings Hall the evening, the anniversary sermon before the col- delivered an oration on the subject, " Jamestown of the Anglo-Saxon -.Language," in an able man- Club next year. lege Y. M. C. A. was delivered by Rev. C. C. Albert- and Plymouth." He compared the Cavalier and ner. He discussed the relations of language and son, of Jamestown, N. Y. It was a fine oratori- civilization, and the qualities which made the Even the little wasp is of some use. ..So thinks Puritan elements in our civilization and the vari- cal effort, and gave evidence of deep thought. On Anglo-Saxon tongue pre-eminent. Dr. Montgomery. ous qualities that each has contributed to our account of the crowded condition of our columns, progress. His delivery was graceful and the lan- The class essayist was Miss Margaret Belle Misses Bertha and Gertrude Pierce were back details must be omitted. Grant Norris, president, guage plain and beautiful. Harper, who chose for her subject, " The Mission for Commencement. read a report of the condition of the association, Mr. A. 0. Davis chose as his subject, " The of Science." She read her-production in a very which would prove that it is in a very prosperous clear and pleasing way. Miss Llna Lattin went home to attend the wed- Growth of Lawlessness." Mr. Davis commenced Miss R. Belle Watson, the class poet, recited a ding of her friend, Miss Moench. condition. his oration in a vigorous manner, but, after speak7 ing about three minutes his memory failed him . poem entitled " Memory's Pictures." The verses You have been boarding at Hulings Hall. Now Inter.Zocietv Contest. and he was obliged to Sit down. were original and witty' , and were delivered with go home and board with your mother. The next speaker was Mr. Ellis J. Chester, of grace and ease. • , ,, - , , • Philo-Franklin, who gave a very interesting decla- The ladder oration was given by Mr. R‘. Harry Mrs. Patchin, mother of Harry Patchin, at- The annual contest between Allegheny and mation entitled " Ned." It had strong dramatic Patchin. His subject was "The Citizen-King." tended Commencement week exercises. Philo-Franklin Literary Societies was held in the power, and the delivery showed careful prepara- In closing his address he presented to the Junior Stone Church, Tuesday evening, June 27. tion. Class a beautiful ladder of flowers, the fOur J. Bennett Porter spent a few days at Pittsburg Mrs. John Porter played a selection on the or-` Mr. • Arthur D. Dunn then rendered " Father rounds representing the four happy years of cot- while attending the Smith-Goff wedding. gan, after which Dr. D. H. Wheeler introduced Phil's Collection," with ease and expression. lege life. The reply was made by Mr. W. E. Mr. Wilmot H. Gibson, of Allegheny Society,' Mr. Erwin C. Fisher and Miss Hattie E. Moench The selection was of a humorous nature and Stilson, '94, in a few well chosen words. who read an essay on " Dollars or Men." The were married at the bride's home in Cattaraugus, pleased the audience. Mr. Ellis J. Chesbro read the class prophecy: speaker was heartily applauded at the close of his N. Y., June 21st, 1893. At the close of this, it was announced that Mr. Be predicted great renown for all the members of essay, which he had delivered in a clear and fprci- Davis would make a second trial. He took the the class of '93. Last Friday the College nine were badly ble manner and with but little reference to his • platform again and delivered an address on the The Valedictory was delivered by Mn. R. W. Whipped by the Cochranton team. Our boys manuscript. subject, " Growth of Lawlessness," which he Darragh. He gave a sketch of the career of the played poor ball. They should have wiped up " Journalism as an Educator of the Masses," treated in a very radical manner. poet Shelley. His closing remarks contained the dust with those fellows from Cochranton. was the subject of the essay read by Mr. H. S. The decision ' of the judges, Dr. T. C. Beach, some good advice for future classes. Chamberlain. This gentleman's performance was The Phi Kappa Psi boys gave a very enjoyable Rev. Ward T. Sutherland and Andrew J. Palm, greatly marred by an uneven enunciation. party at Saegertown last Thursday evening. gave the contest to Allegheny, with nine of the fraternitv -18anquets. A vocal solo was then given by Miss Dolly A. Boating, singing and dancing were the chief ten points ; the declamation of Mr. Chesbro alone Carter, who responded to an encore wit another Wednesday evening of Commencement week is amusements. An excellent supper was served at saving Philo from total defeat. beautiful selection. the Eureka. always dear to the heart of every fraternity man. The next was the debate, Jas. W. Campbell, of This is the time when old friendships are renewed The competitive battalion drill was held on Philo, taking the affirmative, and Geo. G. Cowell, Senior Class 1Day. and the alumni become acquainted with the ne* Tuesday afternoon, June loth. The officer's of Allegheny, taking the negative. The question. initiates. prize was won by Cadet Captain Gamble, the ser- was: " Resolved, That party spirit has been more Wednesday morning, at io o'clock, was the The old boys tell of the glorious past and the geant's prize by Cadet First Sergeant Homer, productive of good than evil." Mr. Campbell time appointed for Senior Class Day exercises. young fellows recount the triumphs of the year, and the corporal and private's prize by Cadet treated the subject in a general way, admitting Soon after. io o'clock the class president came but they all talk about the bright future of their Corporal Farrer. that particular instances could be cited where upon the stage, which was beautifully decorated fraternity. 12 THE CAMPUS THE CAMPUS PHI KAPPA PSI. SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON. The thirty-eight annual symposium of Phi The banquet of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was held are higher duties. If we would aid in rightly having refined and educated people go and live Kappa Psi took place at the Commercial. About at the Gable House. A sumptuous repast was shaping the destinies of men, we must fulfill our among them, teaching them better things, furnish- highest duties. thirty old boys were present. The toasts were as served, and the following toasts were responded ing employment, and bringing sunshine into their follows : to, John A Gibson acting as toastmaster : Miss Clara B. Howard read an essay upon dark, ignorant lives. Symposiarch, W. C. WILSON, '80. " Romance in History." She spoke of the days The last oration, " The Great Pretender," was The 38th Annual Symposium.. H. . J. Humes,'69 Patriarchial Days F. H. McQuiston Phi Kappa Psi ..Frank A. Cattern, '89 Recent Extension Ward M. Sackett of chivalry, the age of brave deeds and knightly Those Damages .Arthur L. Bates,'80 Annals of Omega's Past Year...W. H. Gibson delivered by Mr. B. A. Heydrick. He attacked Our Alumni Jas. P. Colter, '68 In the Bonds of Hymen E. E. Higley achievements. Our ideals are different. The Reminscences E. M. Wood, '79 Recollections of ' 91 C. C. Freeman our nation's spirit of pride and boastfulness. Our Since We Have Married Been.Sion B. S a ith,'86 Omega's Future TT. M. Morrison old spirit was necessary to evolve those times, but Our Absent Brothers C. C. Laffer, '89 Our Alma Mater A L Boush progress is the result of natural laws. The true The Shield M. 0. Brown, '91 The Record this age demands a different temper. In grap- Penna. Beta of Old Pearson Church, '57 The Pithburg Alumni AssociationH W Rana test of our pretentions is just coming, when we Our Better Halves...... H. M Barrett, '90 A. 0 McClelland The Pittsburg Convention A. 0. Davis pling with religious and political questions we can must wrestle with Old World problems under Old Our Capri ornus ..... David G Latshaw PHI GAMMA DELTA. The Ladies John Dunn find room for many knightly deeds. World conditions. A merry crowd of old and young Gammas sat KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA. The next speaker was Mr. R. W. Darragh, and The orchestra gave another number and then down to the elegant banquet at the Budd House. The girls of Kappa Kappa Gamma held their his subject " Nationalism." Life is an endless the Senior class came upon the stage to receive They all report a jolly time. This was their pro- annual banquet at Trowbridges. There were struggle. We are not satisfied with our great and their diplomas. Dr. Wheeler touchingly referred gramme : fifteen plates supplied with luxuries and substan- free nation. We strive to remove the gulf that to the fact that they were fellow-graduates, the Toastmaster, C. W. FULLER, Esq. tials. Mrs. Marjory Harper was toastmistress separates rich and poor. Many remedies are pro- president and the class leaving the college to- Auld Lang Syne ...Dr. Montgomery The Phi Gamma Delta in the World and these were the toasts : posed ; that of Bellamy is founded upon an idea gether. Frank P. Ray, Esq as old as it'is false, that of having the same wages The Class of '93 B. A. Heydrick The Fleur de Lis , Bertha Pierce Our Girls Hon. John F. Dravo. Pittsburg Rushing Alice Kerr Pi's Chapter House Ed. L. Mattern Initiation Gertrude Pierce and the same mode of living for all. Men of dif- These came to attend commencement : Reminiscences of College Days...... Our Cold Slaw Spread Flossie Scott W. V. N. Yates, Warren ferent abilities and natures cannot maintain a The Alumnus Dr. Frederic C. Howe Reminiscences Jessie Smith '8o, F. S. Chryst, Warren, Ohio. Our Fraternity L. H. Lauderbaugh constant level. Nationalism attempts to lift the ALPHA CHI OMEGA. '90. Harry Household, Boston, Mass. people without lifting the individual. PHI DELTA THETA. Alpha Chi Omega assembled in the parlors of '68, Rev. W. P. Bignell, Randolph, N. Y. After the orchestra had rendered a selection, The fourteenth annual banquet of Penna. Delta, the Park Avenue church. The banquet was served '9o, H. M. Barrett, Erie, Pa. Miss Vernice Gelvin read an essay entitled Phi Delta Theta was held in their beautiful par- by the Young Ladies' Society of the church. Here Ex-'88, W. N. N. Yates, Warren, Pa. " Goethe." Goethe was a poet, but he was some- lors on Water street. Caterer Rushworth prepared is their program : '9o, C. N. McClure, Sharon, Pa. thing more than a poet. He was a man of won- '92, J. L. McBride, Seneca, Pa. a fine spread. The old Phi enthusiasm was aroused Toastmistress, MRS. Juvie C. HULL Our Honorary Members Mrs. John Dick derfully varied accomplishments. As imperial by these stirring speeches : Our Graduates Charlotte Belle Weber '8o, C. A. Ensign, Warren, Ohio. Farewell Miss Mary R. Pinney councillor, theatre director and man of business, D. C. O'Coistrrolt, '89, Toastmaster. Virginia Porter '63, Rev. R. N. Stubbs. Allegheny College ...C. F. Ross, '91 Our Sorority Anna Ray he did his work well. Our Vows C. C. Albertson, Ill. A '92, Miss Stella Foote, Union City, Pa. Bleating of that Goat Will Bignell, '87 " The Required Factor " was the subject of Mr. Alpha Pro' ince T. A. Douthitt„93 '92, Miss Bertha Pierce, Erie, Pa. College Days James W. Campbell, '93 W. J. Merchant's oration. The signs of the Early Days 0. R. Thomas, ex-'91 Commencement Map. '92, Miss Gertrude Pierce, Erie, Pa. Phi Preachers John K. Howe, '93 Phi Medics E. R. Pond, ex-'90 times show that a crisis is at hand. The day of '92, C. H. Luse, Carmichels, Pa. Absent Broth rs E. J. Chesbro, '93 Thursday was a perfect day, not being so warm The Ideal Alumnus W. A. Elliott, '89 competition is at hand. Co-operation is the re- '63, Rev. J. M. Bray, Erie, .Pa. Prepdom George Grant, '97 as commencement day usually is. By io o'clock Other Phis C. A. l'effer, '92 quired factor that will solve the labor problem. Phi Sisters and Cousins R. B. Reitz, '89 the Stone Church was filled with friends of the The Class of '93 W. E Stilson, '94 Miss Anna Dunn read an essay upon ' A New Farewell R. W. Darragh, '93 Seniors and the college. After the Northwestern Club." This club was formed for the purpose of Negt Vear's facuttp. orchestra gave an introductory selection, the au- KAPPA ALPHA THETA. telling the exact truth in everything. The results dience was led in prayer by Rev. J. R. Thoburn; were disastrous. She showed the effects of being On Wednesday afternoon the Board of Trustees Twenty-one Theta girls assembled at Mrs. Kep- of Oil City. perfectly truthful. In politics, the press, society of Allegheny College elected the successor of Dr. ler's, on Market street, where an elegant banquet Dr. Wheeler then introduced the first speaker, and even religion, we act parts and tell false- Wheeler. The Board of Control had recom- was served. Miss Harriet Reitze acted as toast- Mr. J. W. Cary, who spoke on the subject, " Du- hoods. If the truth were always told, society mended Dr. Geo. P. Mains, of Brooklyn, N. Y., mistress. The following toasts were called for : ties of Our Nation." It is the duty of the Anglo- would be greatly changed. and by a unanimous vote of the trustees he was Kite Flying Mae Goff Smith Pan Hellenic Manda L. Edson Saxon race to develop freedom and spread Chris- The next essay was read by Miss Belle Watson, elected President of Allegheny College. Our r resident R Belle Watson Our Alumnw .Elva L. Bascom tianity. Our country offers great opportunities who chose as her subject," College Settlements." Dr. Mains graduated from Wesleyan Univer- Pygmies Grown N an ri e C. Jones The Senior Quartette .... Millicent M. Davis and we have made the most of them ; but there It was an interesting account of the present move- sity, in the class of '7o. He has been pastor of ment to elevate the lower classes of the cities by the largest churches in New York and Brooklyn,

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and is secretary of the Brooklyn Church Exten- godspeed in his future home. At a late hour the - Howard A. Couse, Tidioute, Pa., is a stu- sion Society. assemblage dispersed, making it a fitting close to dent at Yale Law school. He lately won the 2:r7 The successor of Lieutenant Cree, whose time a most successful college year. " Betts " prize of $5o. mirroPC iv:AN! has expired, will be appointed by the War De- Rev. W. G. Williams, D. D., '75, of Broad partment. Street Church, Columbus, 0., has been trans- crir • With these exceptions, the faculty will remain 0.1\furn.n.i.*- ferred to New Haven, Conn. the same as last year. STRA1614 ARE TH:BEST. CIGARETTE SMOKERS who are will- J. C. Spencer, '92, was here. James S. Gibson, '90, was married to Miss ing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade Cigarettes, trbe Conserratory Commencement. Nellie Lake, at Syracuse, N. Y., June 27. Mr. M. 0. Brown, '91, is renewing old acquaint- will find THIS BRAND superior to all others. and Mrs. Gibson will be at home in Montclair The fifth annual commencement exercises of the ances. The Richmond Straight Cut No. I after October 1st. Meadville Conservatory of Music were held in the CIG-A.1-1.FrralECS J. B. Stull, '84, of Warren, Ohio, was in town are made from the brightest, most delicate Academy of Music, the evenings of June list, D. C. O'Connor, '89, superintendent of the in flavor, and highest cost GOLD LEAF part of the week. grown in Virginia. 22d, and 23d . The recitals were for the gradua- public schools of West Point, Neb., was back for BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, and observe tion of the following ladies : Piano—Misses 0. R. Thomas, '8o , of Jamestown, was in commencement week. Mr. O'Connor and family that the name of the manufacturers as below is on every package. Elizabeth Bentley, Ada Lenhart and Orline Bow- the city last week. are spending part of the summer at Grove City, TOBACCO ce, man. Voice—Misses Ruby Krick, Cora Davis, Pa. el pet. 4 ATRElcog Rev. A. C. Ellis, '78, Pittsburg, Pa., came up BRANcH k, lkletiMOND VIRGINIA Edith Moore, Mae Spofford, Mary Foote and for commencement. Cards are out announcing the marriage of R. Mrs. Nella Kamerer. They were assisted by the C. Crowthers, '9o, and Miss Bertie Woods, of Frank A. Cattern, '89, has just graduated from A. ORRIS & SON, Misses Pickard and Sherred, who had successfully West Newton, Pa. They will be at home to their Harvard Law 'school. completed the post-graduate course in piano. friends at 32o W. South street, in Cincinnati, The programs consisted of the most classical C. A. Peffer, '92, spent commencement week where Mr. Crowthers is making enviable success music, and were rendered in a finished and effec- with his Phi brothers. in the wholesale coal business. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers and Furnishers, tive manner. The work showed careful study Miss Nancy Jones, '86, Greenville, Pa., was and reflected great credit on the teachers. The marriage of Sion B. Smith, of this city, 245 Chestnut Street, Meadville, Pa. The attendance each evening was very large, here commencement week. and Anna Mae Goff, of Allegheny, Pa., both of the class of '86, took place at the North Avenue and every number was greeted with generous ap- J. A. Wakefield, '9o, a young lawyer of Pitts- Miss. Margaret W. Noble, a Kappa Kappa M. E. Church, in the latter place, Tuesday, June plause. burg, was here on Thursday. Gamma of De Pauw University, now a student at 13th. Mr. Smith is well known to all the stu- At the close of the last recital, Dr. T. L. Harvard Annex, took the fifty dollar prize offered W. W. Thoburn, '81, is instructor in zoology at dents, on account of his presence at many of the Flood, president of the board 'of trustees, with a by the Woman's Suffrage Association of Massa- Leland Stanford, Jr., University. gatherings of the students, while Mrs. Smith is few appropriate remarks, presented the diplomas, chusetts for the best essay on woman's suffrage, no less popular. A host of friends unite in their and introduced to the audience Mrs. Juvia C. S. P. Austin, ex-'95, has returned home, after the other contestants being from Vassar and congratulations and wish them a life of happiness. Hull, director of the Conservatory. The young a successful year at Johns Hopkins. Smith Colleges. Thomas Wentworth Higginson ladies then held an informal reception, and re- They will reside in Meadville. Rev. R. F. Keeler, class of '53, Hubbard, Ohio, was one of the judges. ceived the congratulations of their many friends. was back to meet the Board of Control. AUGUST KRUEGER, In order to encourage the study of medicine among the graduates of literary and scientific Thursday evening a large gatheringwas present to Robt. F. Fox, '92, was married during the early GREENDALE CONSER VA TORIES, schools, the College of Physicians and-Surgeons witness the dedication ceremonies at Wilcox Hall pa;rt of June. Mr. Fox is in Brooklyn, N. Y. Branch office, corner Center and Market Streets, of Science. Dr. Flood delivered the address, be- MEADVILLE, PA. of Chicago has established ten scholarships of W. P. Varner, '9o, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Miss Special attention given to Floral Designs for Weddings, Parties, $100 a year each, to be given to applicants who ing followed by Dr. Wheeler, who has worked un- Funerals, etc. Jennette McClintock, of Emlenton, Pa., were tiringly for the completion of the building. present the best qualifications for the study of married May 16, 1893. After the above exercises, the spacious rooms J. W. HOWE, medicine. of Hulings Hall were thrown open to many as the H. M. Barrett, '9o, now on the Erie Disisatch, Dealer in all kinds of invited guests of Dr. Wheeler and his estimable has accepted a ' position as superintendent of a On account of insufficient financial back, the FURNITURE Co Commencement Hop did not take place as usual. wife. A very large crowd was present, all-desir- district school in Denver, Col., at . a salary of 253 CHESTNUT STREET, Several different parties were made up who sought ing to grasp the Doctor's hand and wish him $1,2oo' per year. MEADVILLE, PA. pleasure elsewhere. • THE CAMPUS THE CAMPUS BATES. Carpets, Curtains, Wall Paper. College Now is the time to buy JOHN J. SHRYOCK, Meadville, Pa.

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