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Ling to a tnufactur- xly THE CADET. in VOL. I. is of ben- ORONO, MAINE, APRIL 30, 1886. No. 7. uantity of cohol, are 5ke Cadet. will be a benefit to the college but a poor one would make us the laughing nixture is ISSUED ON THE LAST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTII stock of the State. the unde- DURING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR. BY THE We have good material and with good work a creditable alcohol. MAINE STATE COLLEGE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION. position can be won. :tracted RS e cocaine, BOARD OF EDITORS. CUSTOM in most of the western States cocaine is that of having ral RALPH K. JONES, Ja.. .8f; Editor-in-Chief. A inter-collegiate oratorical bstance is II. A. McNALLY, '87 Business Editor. contests. We remember seeing a few years B. J. ALLAN. )36. F. BLACK,'86. ago in the papers of one of the colleges in this J. F. LOCKWOOD.'M. A. D. PAGE. '86. State a proposition to D. W. COLBY.'87. C. '1'. VOSE. '87. start something of the J. It. BoAnomAN, '88. kind here. We would like to see this done. WEL" There is plenty of time to discuss such a ques- TERMS: tion and we would like to learn the opinions of Per annum, in advance $I.co. the Bowdoin Orient, Colby Echo, and Bates Single Copy • 15, Subscribers not receiving TtIE CADET Student on the advisability of attempting Down. regularly, or those chang- to ing their address, should notify the Business Editor at once. adopt the plan in Maine. Contributions from the Alumni and friends of the College will be hite." gratefully received when accompanied by the writer's name. No an- onymous articles will be accepted. AST 11111 we stated that in our opinion Advertising rates can be obtained on application to the Business a Field Editor, to whom all business communications and remittances should Daly should be observed some time this 21-m11<." be sent. All other communications L should be sent to the Editor-in- Chief. spring. We believe so still, and would urge 1113." the students to consider the matter. The ENTERED AT THE ORONO POST OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL gym- f Roses. MATTER. nasium committee should make out a programme and get those of the students who show EDITORIAL. ability to train for the events. The faculty rushes. would probably give a day some time in June, )NTO." OW that it has been decided that the nine and Maplewood Park, Bangor, would be a fine N shall again enter the inter-collegiage league place to have the exercises. Although no r-ders. it becomes incumbent upon those who are to remarkable records would be made, there is represent us on the diamond, to practice faith- every reason to believe that they would he ion for the fully. If they will all do their hest we shall creditable and after the custom has once been Store have a nine of which we can feel proud and in inaugurated it will prove a source of amusement whose hands the reputation of the college and benefit to all. ietor, will be safe. If on the contrary the work is slighted the end is only too clear. Any man HERE are a few students rooming at Brick D STS. who will not work constantly should be dis- T Ihll who seem to be utterly regardless of placed and some one substituted. A good nine everybody and everything except their own 98 THE CADET. and reputation of the college, amusement. They are constantly making a creased age best anti would add much to the usefulness of disturbance. In the discharge of its duties the one that the adv: institution. council has incurred the displeasure of these, the happy is not men, children, and they seek to insult and dent, bu was taken abuse its members by every means in their year ago considerable interest of his sr power. The good sense of the student body is A in tennis, an association was formed and a in favor of order and decency and the councillors court laid out. Last fall the sport languished should not let the attacks of these persons but now is a good time for the interest to be TO nt interfere with the exercises of the functions renewed. We hope that there will enough of the which belong to them. the students take hold of the matter to give it inevitabl a boom and revive the game here. is alwayE perfect, i of holding a convention of HE question EN appreciate the value of good reading. ance of t] representatives of New England college T The advantages given us by the Library know" o forming an inter-collegiate Press F papers and and Reading Room should be made the most of, evident a Association is being discussed. The project for at no other period in life does one have the fall in sel our hearty approval. We believe meets with same privileges in this direction, as during his students in much benefit to all concerned. it would result college course. Our text books, no matter how always ft of persons interested in the same Associations practical, can not give us all we need in our bing the( and working in the same lines and for objects, different lines of work and study :—but much he does n same ends, invariably benefit their members. the of practical good can be derived from the various which cal case it would result in the better acquain- In this scientific and technical periodicals that we have his cours college editors and more of an evrit-du- tance of access to, and also by means of the various others w among them. It would also cause a better colps works of reference in the library much fuller self-decer acquaintance with the advantages and workings knowledge can be had than can be imparted by examinati the institutions represented and would do of the text book alone. If the time wasted by the carrying with many of the petty jealousies and away average student during his course, could be rather tha misunderstandings that at present exist. In spent in judicious reading, he would have laid his hopes connection with this a bureau of matters of the foundation of a broader culture than the dig e na I plug interest to the different colleges might well be who scarcely takes time to skim the dailies. owing to I established and in a small way the advantages The dig may by confining himself wholly to will unsci the associated press would be gained. We of his books, become completely the master of his may not a the proposition will meet with general trust chosen branch, but at what a cost! His mid- in the ligh approval and the success which it deserves. night oil burns at the expense of his nervous to take thi system, and although his learning be exhaust- too e01111111 E understand that the executors of the ive, how often he sadly lacks knowledge of hu- aflitirs. As will of Ex. Governor Coburn expect to man nature and ordinary business THE r( W We also student who is pay all the bequests next February. some one has said, "The 1885 try to the world, will go have heard that the trustees mean to also something of a man of of Mr. Oa and guarantee who shuts out the light of have the State take the money further than the man have been endowment is about himself wholly to his folio the interest. The present day that he may give notices the thirty thousand dollars, with Now the dig, as a college char- one hundred and and his lamp." ted by the exception, while the the additional one hundred thousand the income acter, here at least, is an commends ex- less spare time is the gen- will barely cover the necessary running boy with more or of the est: At the meeting of the This spare time is worse than wast- penses of the college. eral rule. and the co June we hope steps will in cigarette smoking, card play- alumni association in ed when spent the need and one ways in which be taken whit h will lead to the raising of enough ing, and the thousand partments a of 8 time. It is a matter of regret to make the total endowment quarter the idle kill and for th not see until too late the chance million. Although this sum is very moderate that more do tions THE gain a good general knowledge of still it would give a firm foundation, and with they have to "The pres which ought to come with the in- world's atlidrs, to be acquainted with the the additions the degree en

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FALL TERM—A. M. plucked down by his rough hand. Look! the hear a tap Genius of the palace is beckoning us to enter. of the mail Algebra and Geometry ; Physiology ; Chemis- The heavy doors swing back and disclose to and ruin he try ; Botany. view the marble hall, along whose sides are the air". P. M. ranged beautiful statues and marvelous paint- with some 1)111Witig—free haunt and mechanical. ings. We wander on through the ever chang- floor which ing and endless maze, until at length we A. M. SPRING TERM. Hall, annot reach a lofty watch-tower, where our gaze, reverie to-r French ; Botany ; Rhetoric ; Trigonomety. shifting from the blue vault overhead, finally

P. M. settles on the ground stretched beneath us. It is PROFIT Laboratory Work ; Mechanical Dra w hug. our fair domain, the title deed of which is to be FEW ins handed to us next Commencement. Yes! time ft This would give a whole year's more work Nature is to be our slave; for see yonder bah_ inic. Eac in the laboratory to the chemists, and an addi- bling brook rushing on to join the deep and nearly all o tion of more than a term's draughting to the silent stream whose strong arm drives the thous- sary time ft engineers. It would be of direct practical bene- and spindles in that distant factory, its rippling In comp] fit to the students at the time and throughout music is hardly sweeter than the subdued hum far above t their college course. Under the present man- that reaches us of the mingled harmony of as students agement but few of those now in college would Labor's clanging hammers and rattling shuttles, higher edu advise a friend to enter the first term and many while for a milder accompaniment comes the When I six would not the first year. indistinct murmur from the golden harvest field. I do not mm Of course arrangements could not be made Anon, the shrill whistle of a locomotive, startles general kn for next year, but the one following the financial us betokening that active trade is abroad and knowledge condition of the college will be much improved forming a fitting crescendo in the grand anthem adapted cot and we hope the authorities will at least consider of human industry. Let us descend and approach ture and re1 the matter carefully. the factory. It is a massive building and of a course. THE CADET. 101

vast proportions. We enter—the line upon line The question naturally comes up, "Can of shafting, the inter-winding belts, and the it be otherwise?" In a great measure it invisible power, are at first confusing. At last can. We are not wholly without time for such however, we stand before an imposing structure, training during our course here. On the con- now is our loom. Yes, there is the woof which we for trary the arrangements of our terms afford us random the last four years have been spinning and put- such a period of time that is well fitted for the sks, the ting on the loom. The mechanism is about to pursuit of a course of reading:—Our Winter ; but 'tis start, it is waiting the signal to be given by a Vacations. yet is to rolled diploma. The Future with her winged The time is past when the study of Latin and 3anwhile shutters stands there ready to furnish the warp. Greek were considered essential to a liberal edu- an easy Ah ! but that web is not to be plain, for "Cir- cation ; institutions have sprung up within the rht-web" cumstances the messengers of veiled Chance," last two or three decades which prove this ; and I are ready to weave in the varied figure—that even go as far as to say that tbr a "liberal" educa- tl arches figure! What is it to be? But no! We can tion it is not necessary to "go to college." Time e a van- not foresee; can only follow as those fleeting and space will not allow me to demonstrate this ;h winds shuttles will ceaselessly furnish the web. We statement, but for a proof of it I will point to the no. idea! must stand there then as effortless Chatauquan Society, an institution that today whether — -as woodland nooks is educating the mass of the people in our cities, to-mor- Send violets up and paint them blue." from master mechanic down to the common We,at least have now but a short time to watt : laborer. With all this before us then why can pennons Ah! the signal has been given, the loom is in we not educate ourselves in a similar way? ver dun- motion : see upon that silver woof a golden warp Why can not we take up such a course of study ouching. is being laid. Watch the figure ! Does not in the same way during our winter vacation? breeze that beautiful scroll look like the initial of By a little thought upon the subject now we can g rudely Success? But suddenly the vision is gone. I decide what different lines of study would be x:ok ! the hear a tap at the door followed by the entrance best adapted to our individual tastes and train- Lo enter. of the mail carrier who little knows of the havoc ing. If you lack imagination read Shakespeare ; ;close to and ruin he has wrought among my "castles in if you lack practical ideas read Franklin ; for ides are the air". This sudden awakening, together political training read Webster and Calhoun. us paint- with some not indistinct sounds from the fourth These are but few of the authors whose writings Nr clang- floor which forcibly brings me back to Brick are necessary to satisfy the wants of the student ngth we Hall, announces that it is bed time, so no more of literature. This is only one of the many dr gaze, reverie to-night. ways by which we may make the winter vaca- 3, finally tion profitable. Too often our vacation is wasted is. It is PROFITS OF A WINTER VACATION. 911(1 we get nothing only what our text books I is to be I.,W institutions are there that allow so lilt k, atlbrd us here. . Yes! F time for reading as does ours at the present What we need most to lift us up to a higher tder bab_ time. Each course is so laid out as to command scale of culture and refinement can only be ob- deep and nearly all our time hardly allowing us the neces- tained in this way. Life means a great (kill to he thous- ,ary time for proper recreation. many of us and one truth of life is that it is rippling In comparison with other colleges we stand worth all we pay for it ; and he who puts little tied hum far above the average in our specialities, yet, into life will find its value little when the time mony of as students, we lack one important factor of a for appraisal comes. shuttles, higher education, the knowledge of literature. "Life is not an idle ore, omes the When I speak of the knowledge of Literature, But iron dug from central gloom ; 'est field. I do not mean the reading of many books for a Heated hot in burning fears, , startles general knowledge of authors. I mean that And dipped in baths of scalding fears, road and knowledge that comes from a well planned and To shape and use." anthem adapted course of reading, and that mental cul- Cornell men are debarred from examination approach ture and refinement that necessarily follows such in any study from which they have been absent ig and of a course. 15 per cent. of the recitations. 102 THE CADET. But in ti RACE PERSECUTION AND PREJUDICE. themselves, not for strength in numbers, but as a pestiferous animal, whose contact were a mo: iN the benevolent light of the 19th century, isolated was pollution. Even their individual names any disease with our moral natures quickened into sensi- were ignored by the people who spoke of them nature and tive perception of right and wrong through the as Cagots as we would speak of a beast by its they had teaching of the past hundred years of civil and generic name. Although the brand of Cain was results edil religious advancement, we can look back to not impressed in a Cagot's countenance or person priviliges criticise and condemn the various antipathies of by his Creator, his fellow-man must needs supply lar superstii our sturdy ancestors, and to simulate a shudder it, and for many years if one of the despised the law, a at their cold-blooded practicalness in showing race was found without his badge, a piece of French Re their dislikes. The luckless victims of their yellow cloth cut in imitation of a duck's foot, detestation disfavor did not endure social for a sown in his clothes, he was tined ,and stripped of lessness fo time only, with scores of philanthropists to his entire dress. They were expected to shrink them. But moderate and bridge the gulf of separation, but from all passers-by; to walk only in unfrequented their favor, were packed man and race summarily from the ways; liable to he flogged if found at market on moved and human stage to mingle with the brute herd. In day except Monday ;and even forbidden to eligable to o fict a brute had several conditions to make his any drink from the fountains of towns and villages as a part of lot enviable compared with these objects of pop- water should become contaminated to nized, althoi ular antipathy, for then the vigorous business- lest the others. His possessions were limited to a cer- and past as like disposal of the human outcasts produced number of animals, and any excess was judice kept good appetites, and a beast might have at least tain promptly confiscated. Did his unlucky sheep The sorro the redeeming feature of fitness, and further chance to stray beyond its limits it was forfeited of "man's it his poor memory would receive rest after earth- promptly killed, the poor owner holding could claim ly trials, neither of which were vouchsafed to and himself fortunate at such an escape of flagrant so regarded his human counterpart. violation of the public rights. Zealous Catho- conquest, wl industry ha When an offender to the public eye became lics in their workings they were allowed the the protectic too obnoxious, or his humble sphere was con- liberty of certain limits in church beyond which and driven f sidered better if empty, be speedily disappeared it was forbidden them to pass, and a low door only in losinl and the world never troubling its head about the through which no others except Cagots should with other r procedure so long as the end was accomplished. pass was allowed them for entrance. of Acadia, A notable instance of unremitting race prejudice Nor did the end of life furnish any diminution human race and is furnished by the history of in the severity of persecution, for the victim's wantonly in1 the Cagots, a people of northern France. In- poor dust must be interred on the north side of fell upon th deed so persistent had been their disaster as a the hurrying-place that answered to Potter's race that they were popularly known as the Field, and entirely apart by himself. Super- Another Accursed Race. Of their origin all traces are stition forbade any emigration, and any change popular dial lost, as is also their national distinction. Back of their location was looked upon with distrust. Cagots can in the they existed as a race in the Thus indignities without number or cessation is known of greatest number. But even then their origin were heaped upon the poor, miserable, uncom- proscription. was a mysteity No country would claim them, plaining race, %dui had doubtless learned a lesson were regardi the protection of no people was their birth-right, of patient forlwarance through long-suffering. a limited pi the blood of a Cagot was enough to him But with the more enlightened days of toleration restored to t from all relationship with other members of the investigations were instituted into various preju- happier state human family, and fix his doom of cruelest dices against them. Each Cagot was popularly the romantic oppression. The reason of their alienation was charged with being a leper, a descendant of themselves, 1 as much a mystery as their origin, but unlike Gehazi, hence his curse. Also they were be- with respect the indifference manifested towards the last, the lieved to be possessed of an infectious odor, a all countriet lives hr first NV as by no means neglected but kindled direct proof of their alienation, and unfitness to mal and fanned by all the dark superstitions and mingle with the clean. In they were years brougl prejudices of those ages. regarded as of Jewish descent, and as practising promises, th4 against them The Cagots lived apart in communities of all the magic and sorcery of that inflations race. THE CADET. 103 bers, but But in their defence it was found that they l banishing, outlawing and destroying the contact were a most robust and frugal class; free from "heathen" they had so shortly before sought to Li names any disease or hereditary taint; of an industrious' honor. Even edicts threatening dire punish- of them nature and unknown to the jugglery of which ! ment to those who should give shelter or aid to ist by its they had been accused. In the light of such one of the race, were issued, and Prussia Cain was results edicts were declared allowing many renewed a decree forbidding any Gypsy over )r person priviliges and rights before withheld, but popu-leighteen years of age to be within her boundaries Is supply lar superstition and custom were stronger than on penalty of hanging. Under such oppression despised the law, and for a few years previous to the their disaster was rapid, and in the struggle for piece of they were held in greater existence the worst elements of their nature ck's foot, detestation than ever, and an unpunished law - were developed and a race that was once supe- ripped of lessness for a few years existed against rior in culture and manhood degenerated into to shrink them. But the tide of justice having set in the ignorant, defiant vagrants, seeking both equented their favor, gradually their disabilities were re- refuge and revenge like a wild beast from his iarket on moved and in the eighteenth century a Cagot was pursuers. Like other races (luring the last 3idden to eligable to office of church, and slowly his claims century all of their retsrictions have been re- villages as a part of the human family have been recog- lieved and their claims to equal rights with the Mated to nized, although even at the present time the name rest of mankind allowed. Yet their number is to a cer- and past associations hold a reproach and a pre- greatly diminished and their identity as a race cess was judice kept keenly alive. fast being lost. ky sheep The sorrows of Acadia furnish another chapter Among other instances we find the Jew, forfeited of "man's inhumanity to man." The Acadians and the Negro, suffering such prejudices, holding could claim nationality from France, and were but a prejudice which is fast being eradi- f flagrant so regarded as a dependency until the English cated and overthrown. is Catho- conquest, when driven from the barren land their But why do we find race antipathies and the iwed the industry had made fertile, they were granted perpetuation of a race line? Thlt such does nd which the protection of no country,and being oppressed exist and has existed from earliest time we know. low door and driven from place to place they round peace How long this is to remain ethnologists cannot ts should only in losing their identity by being incorporated answer. It is not the separation of races but with other races. Says Bancroft in his history their mingling that brings disaster. And :is in minution of Acadia, "I know not if the annals of the Nature strength tends to survive and become human race keep victim's the record of sorrows so victor, so might was the law of past ages, ivhich wantonly inflicted, so bitter and :h side of perennial, as has gradually been modified by some elements upon Potter's fell the French inhabitants of Acadia." of right. Superstition in Church and State Super- Another people who have been the object of always tended to make stronger the strong and y change popular distrust are the Gypsies, who like the crush the weak. It was only an argument of distrust. Cagots can claim refuge in no land. Nothing destiny. If one was made weaker thin another cessation is known of their origin and the cause of their his fate gave no rights that a stronger was uncom- proscription. In the fourteenth century they bound to regard. Superior in one, superior in a lesson were regarded as tribes doomed to an exile for all, was a wide generalization of the plane of tuffering. a limited period when they would again be existence. The diminution in the severity of oleration restored to a country and themselves be in a the persecuting spirit and the atrocity of its US preju- happier state because of their exile. Such was manifestations furnish an excellent illustration iopularly the romantic super,t it ion that they attached to of the intellectual and moral advance of man- ndant of themselves, and Ui)1. a time they were treated kind from a state of savagery towards a state of were be- with respect amounting to almost reverence by refined civilization. all countries and classes with which their nor- It is no longer held to be sacrilege to question odor, a the principles, or hold mal lives brought them. But the passing of opinions different from fitness to those of our stubborn ancestors, but it shows a years brought no fulfillment hey were of their claimed spirit worthy of the enlightened days we iractising promises, the popular tide turned vehemently live in to make inquiry into their actuating against them and both Church and State ous race. vied in motives, that abuses may be remedied, and 104 THE CADET.

his friend because he feels that he must choose equal rights to all be granted. When the popu- of imaginati between friendship and ; and when he lar voice is that the individual and not the race ingly wit has brought himself to utter those words "It is to be held responsible for individual acts ; involves for must be by his death", he stabs Cresar in the when disbelief that weakness is an excuse reveals a ; when same spirit that he would have stabbed Brutus political and personal abuse is manifested We may -blindness in had his country's good demanded it. And need man is affected with certain color tragic be human I try to prove to one who has read the play his the exterior view of other members of the when he in nature was loving and generous? Every where family ; when creed and custom may be held is dead ;" we find that self is lost in country. He is a respect in all bodies, by all bodies, then may that whic we hope for a more speedy obliteration of 'suicide because his country gone, he has nothing race line and race prejudice. for whichto live. For him there is no hereafter so for him suicide is no crime. He does not THE SP escape responsibility and sorrow; but JULIUS C.ESAR. die to THIS, because his work being finished, he has nothing Prof HIS play is the work of Skakespeare's riper for which to live. I can only say as before, high stall( years, and well worthy it is to hold such T here is a perfect man, but perfect under Roman his previa rank ; for among all he has written, there is conditions. same plan nothing which stands higher as a master-piece And Shakespeare has surrounded this wonder- we bespe of art. True it is that it lacks the character- ful character with great men; great as we esti- general istics which give excellence to some of the other mate men, but compared with Brutus they sink world. I works of Shakespeare. In it we find none of into insignificance. Here is Cassius, a man who scientific the tragic violence displayed in Macbeth, we honestly desires the good of his country, but in the aut deny not that it is wanting in that wonderful he desires the good of Cassius more. He is by six pla play of imagination seen in The Tempest. But ever looking to the safety of himself as is shown moths. in purity and strength of diction it is not excelled in these words "And let us swear our resolutions" careful stt by anything written in the English language. and he lacks the high principle of our perfect the autho Oft-times a single word or line involves a whole man when he says "In such a time as this it is many ento great principle of life, or betrays to us some not meet that every nice offense should bear his England, great human passion. This is preeminently the comment. Then comes Ctesar himself, a man mens of work of Shakespeare the scholar, rather than purely and unreservedly selfish ; a great man vicinity, t Shakespeare the play-writer ; yet this is not and a bigot. We read on and on, finding noth- the subjee enough to entitle it to the rank which the critics ing to redeem his character until we reach Althoug have given it. Where then must we seek it? those words "Et in Brute," where Shakespeare value to It cannot be in the plot for that is simple in the I with his masterly skill has shown a phase of "Grasses extreme, being laid at that time when Ciesar, character of which we had not before caught a ness to ent having crossed the Rubicon, finds himself in glimpse. teract thh. tbrty days the master of Rome and all the terri- Passing over Marc Antony, we call your atten- whom the tory over which she holds sway. It deals with tion to another perfect character. It is a gem doubt its vl those historic characters, the history of whose of the purest water; one of Shakespeare's best and profes: lives is the history of the eventful days in which creations—Portia, the perfect woman, always it has :area they lived. Under the skillful pen of Shakes- under Roman conditions ;finely unselfish, wholly but proofs peare we have seen these men live and act as objective; all as a woman that Brutus is as a insight and they lived and acted two thousand years ago, man ; and having said this, can we pay her to write su and as we study these creations, we realize the higher tribute? for the aid: object of the play. In closing let us remark that no composition dation of t We find it to be the highest object of dramatic of Shakespeare will bear closer study. Indeed, table of six art, the portrayal of human character. In it would seem that the immortal poet had in vast amoun Brutus, Shakespeare has given his ideal of a this play more than in any other, aimed to highly estii perfect man, but perfect under Roman conditions; dispense with all outside show and dazzle of distinctive a man generous, loving, brave, unselfish and scene and caricature that he might construct a one to disti patriotic ; an assassin and a suicide ; the slayer work which should engage and charm the pure larva to wh THE CADET. 108 ust choose imagination, and engage and charm ever increas- 1 when he The typography of the work is clear, and ingly with increasing study. Thus a word words "It often reflects great credit upon its printers (Sprague involves a whole great principle of & sar in the life ; a line Son, Augusta). The pamphlet is incorpor- reveals a whole great passion of human ated •ed Brutus nature. in the report of the College Trustees, and We may well doubt whether Shakspeare's also And need great in the Annual Report of the Board of tragic bosom ever heaved more deeply Le play his than Agriculture, and can be obtained by addressing when he penned that simple utterance, "Portia the -ery where Secretary of the Board. is dead ;" and the ocean swell but dies away in He is a that which follows. nothing as THE TRUE FRATERNITY STANDARD. )hereafter 5 does not THE SPHINGIDAE OF NEW ENGLAND. E have a standard of weights and meas- ures. In the army we find a physical orrow ; but HIS, the latest publication from the pen of standard. In chivalry they had certain high as nothing Professor C. H. Fernald, is fully up to the T and fixed standard principles by which each as before, high standard of excellence which characterized brave and noble knight was measured. We ler Roman his previous books,and which places him on the have, as a people, standard American ideas. same plane with other scientific authorities, and , In religion, we 'see the true Christian character ; is wonder- we bespeak for it a hearty welcome from the ; in society, the perfect gentleman, our beau ideal as we esti- general public, as well as from the scientific ! of a woman. As every one must have a correct ; they sink world. It is an eminently practical as well as idea of what perfection is before it can be. a man who scientific pamphlet of some ninety pages,written reached, as by keeping an object in view we untry, but in the author's happiest manner, aml illustrated can walk directly to it, why not strive to estab- re. He is by six plates representing species of the Sphinx lish and maintain a true standard among our s is shown moths. It represents the result of a year's college fraternities the land over, not by which solutions" careful study and untiring labor on the part of to judge a boy when be enters, but by which to )ur perfect the author, who has been willingly aided by judge him as we shake hands with him as he s this it is inany entomologists from other parts of New leaves for the outer world, to enter upon the Id bear his England, who kindly sent him data and speci- active duties of life ? This is a matter upon ;elf, a man mens of the Sphingidte of their immediate which all fraternities can harmonize and work [Treat man vicinity, thus making the book authority upon ding noth- together in developing the true character of the subject of which it treats. their we reach members: tho character, I in .an, their Although it is perhaps of less direct practical mkespeare members must exhibit as they pass through the value to the farmer than his work on the world. In a phase of assisting in the preparation of a "Grasses of Maine," yet its undisputed useful- human e caught a being (the mind, heart and soul) for the ness to entomologists will in greater part coun- duties, the obligations and the responsibilities teract this loss. The testimony of those to of friend, your atten- brother, citizen, husband and father, whom the book has been sent proves beyond a all t is a gem fraternities should be governed by nine!' the doubt its value as a book of reference to students same 'care's best principles. It will appear to any one and professors, and the flattering notices which upon in, always reflection, that our different secret socie- it has already received in influential journals are sh, wholly ties in our various colleges have much that is in but proofs that its author is a man whose clear common. tus is as a Let me ask the Greek world, is this insight and judgment make him especially fitted idea a had e pay her one? Ought not our fiaternities to to write such books. It is valuable especially bear about the same relation to our collegiate for the aids to the student given in the pronun- mnposition educational system that our various Christian ciation of the Latin names,and in the synoptical denominations . Indeed, do to our social system? The table of species. The former is the result of a churches, )et had in you might say, are "as distinct as the vast amount of work, and its value cannot be too waves, but aimed to one as the sea." They differ upon highly estimated. The synoptical table is the many points, but I dazzle of as to their grand central idea, distinctive feature of the pamphlet, and enables the salvation of !onstruct a mankind, they are united as a one to distinguish from the perfect insect or the Macedonian phalanx. u the pure Our bannered Christian larva to what species it belongs. hosts, as to this grand and glorious struggle, 106 THE CADET. A mu, will stand together as history tells us the allied the minds and hearts of those who have confid- well by armies of Europe have often done when fighting ingly placed themselves under our influence, fair conC in a common cause. True, there is an honor- care and guidance during the important and Gover able Christian rivalry between the churches, trying days of college life? Let fraternities college, ; and who will say that this should be condemned? have an honorable rivalry, but still, as to those the farn Many there are who contend that this is just as it principles that are to form and mould our true pleased 1 should be, and that it is one of God's own ap- manhood, let us stand together, and ever re- The hi pointed ways to work out and accomplish the main as fixed and immovable as the great Atlas by the salvation of the world. itself, which, Theta Pi And now can we not, with such examples, ‘‘Though storms and tempests thunder on its brow, bor Jack make of our Greek system, the nation over, a And oceans break their billows at its feet, The Sc means of great good? Have we not many great Still stands unmoved and glorious in its height." evenings —The Sigma CM. purposes in common? Can we not be of much some ohs assistance to each other? Can we not, by incul- The h cating the proper ideas, make of each fraternity CAMPUS. April II a pillar to the college in which it may be estab- Rhetoric, lished—pillars upon which the very institution Rats! the Juni( itself may lean for support in the hours of What? adversity, and in times of danger and of peril? At a n If this last question could be answered in the "Beg pardon." held Frit] affirmative we would no longer hear of chapters The council is in great demand. elected I fighting for life in some institutions, living a Lost, a trunk. Inquire of "Mike." F. Black. work. kind of skulking existence in others, and in "Father and I and the Board of Agriculture." prohibited. "The f some absolutely "The highest thing to do is, to do nothing." Let the fraternities all keep constantly before the room And they say that "Schmidt"found out where their members a true idea of friendship, which, and that's "Pie" was. of course, must not be lost sight of for a moment ; Mr. L. What made Andrews so sleepy the night of not that friendship, however, that takes within Natural J the assembly? its circle only their members, but that friend- offered th Deure du Wile, nicht die Sabe ;nicht den ship that takes humanity within its folds and ment Stal makes each desire to see mankind, if possible, Sibre. The So one great brotherhood. Let our fraternities Chapel services Friday, April 2nd, were led work, all estahli,h and maintain, by their intercourse in by Dr. Torsey, of Kent's Hill. Senior nil college life, by their general walk and conversa- Marsh 2nd is fully convinced that dairy farm- in wood t tion, by their college and fraternity literature, a ing is not his forte. A Spei true standard of excellence. Then will the The removal of the old "long barn" is the the auspic educational institutions of our land send forth loss of another "ancient landmark." roll on, with of reading young men, as the years the many Impromptu concerts in the laboratory do not virtues adorning their character like cluster C. H. St meet with much approval—"Thanks, Mr. B. their minds and hearts will be ever Boardman roses. In That will do." found shining the pure principles of charity, Committeo The first of the students' course of assemblies lonor, truth, liberty and patriotism, as well as Merchant at Monitor Hall Friday evening, April 9, was ,every social and moral virtue. [Upto a very pleasant affair. Many of our chapters doubtless come very "As sei near the true standard ; at least their aim and The Junior chemists have been examined ice Satun aspirations are in the right direction. Let them in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, and have Orono Col lead on, and let the others follow the principles begun the second volume of Naquet. little engi they so beautifully illustrate. Are there not One of the Sophomores thinks that the human how to sa many central ideas, true, noble and good, upon vocal organ is a wind instrument. menced w which all can unite? Can we not assist each After a great deal of labor and waste of time and the otl other in developing, adorning and beautifying the gas machine has been put in running order. THE C A D E T. 107 A much needed job has been done in the old was very much surprised when the cake of ice well by the boarding confid- house, and it is now in went down, taking him and the saw with it. fair condition. ifluence, As he came to the surface he made a remark ant and Governor Robie recently paid a visit to the not intended for polite ears, and started for the ternities college, and also inspected the diseased cattle at Lake House." to those the farm. He expressed himself as much The chapel has been provided with new chairs. our true pleased with the institution. After this the Faculty will have no aver re- "excuse of The ladies of the Universalist society, assisted a valid nature" for absence from prayers. lit Atlas by the Maine State College Chapter of Beta It is reported that one of the Freshmen Theta Pi, expect soon to put the play "Neigh- is engaged to a young lady in its brow, bor Jackwood" on the stage. Brewer, and the fact that the Freshman proposes to invest in a The Sophomores took advantage of the tine ight." bushel of apples, free to all comers, adds addi- evenings during, the full of the moon, and made ma Chi. tional stability to the report. some observations of the heavenly bodies. At a recent meeting of the Sophomore The half-term examinations came Friday, class it was voted to have an Ivy Day, somewhere April 16. The Freshmen were examined in about the middle of June, and C. L. Howes, Rhetoric, the Sophomores in Astronomy, and F. S. Brick, S. F. Miller the Juniors in Calculus. and A. H. Buker, were chosen a committee of arrangements. They At a meeting of the _Base Ball Association propose to close the festivities of the day by n held Friday, April 16th, H. S. French, '86, was class supper in the evening in Bangor.. They. elected President and Manager, in place of G. selected for a motto the German Seid treu, F. Black,'86, who resigned on account of other work. A meeting of the Lawn Tennis iculture." Association was held "The man that spread my overshoes all over Apr. 12, and the following officers were °thing." elected: the room is so mean that he can't sleep nights, President, Ralph K. Jones Jr.; Vice. nit where President, Harry and that's the reason he don't have his lessons." F. Lincoln; Secretary, Wilder Colby ; Treasurer, Jas. D. Lazell ; Executive Mr. L. H. Merrill, '83, lately assistant in the iii .rlt(.f Committee, J. Murch Ayer, Luis P. Cilley, Natural History Museum at Washington, was Abram W. Sargent. offered the position of assistant in the Experi- tack den ment Station, and has accepted. We clip the following from the Bangor Whig and Courier: were led The Sophomore mechanicals have begun forge THE NEW ENGLAND SPHING1D.E. We have work, all the forges being taken up. The received, with the compliments of the author, an Senior mechanicals are having a short course iry farm- admirable work on "The in wood turning. Sphingidae of New England," by Prof. C. II. Fernald, A. M., who A Spencerian Club has been founded, n" is the under so ably fills the chair of Natural history at the the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.,for the purpose Maine State College. It is a volume of some of reading some ofthe works ofstandard authors. ry do not ninety pages, with five plates of illustrations, C. H. Stevens, Secretary, F. S. Brick, J. R. s, Mr. B. containing a clear and detailed account of all Boardman and A. R. Saunders, Executive the species of Sphingidte, or more commonly Committee. The first reading will be from the ,ssemblies called Sphinx moths, occurring in the New Merchant of Venice. England ril 9, was States, and the most of which have [Lipton Correspondence Oxford Democrat.] been found in Maine. In the introduction the "As several men and boys were busy cutting author describes the names and habits and examined early ice Saturday on the lake, the teacher from stages of these moths, and gives a synoptical and have Orono College thought he would show them a table of the family and also of the larva.. The little engineering, saying "they did not know species are then considered in detail, and the he human how to saw ice." He took the saw and com- five plates give splendid illustrations of some of menced work with one foot on the main ice the leading species. Prof. Fernald is one of te of time and the other on the piece he was cutting. He the best anthorities upon the Lepidoptera and ing order. 108 THE CADET. particularly this family, in the country, and his to be Lieutenant Co. B. Cadet Sergeant Vose, WEDDI valuable work will be perused with interest by Co. B, to be First Sergeant, Co. B. event at t the entomologists. Appointments. Cadet Private Burleigh, Co. Abbot, T A, to be Sergeant, C. A. Cadet Private Mc- the marril The schedule of the games of the Maine Inter- Nally, Co. A, to be Sergeant, Co. B. and Miss Collegiate Base Ball League as arranged by the Assignments. Cadet Private, B. R. Clark, mony beii different managers, is as follows: to Co. A. by Rev.( May 8(2 P. M.)—Bates vs. Colby, at Lewiston They will be obeyed and respected accord- May 12 (a P.M. —Colby vs. Bowdoin, at Waterville immediat( May 13 (a P. M. —M.S. C. vs. Bowdoin, at Orono ingly. By order of Mr. Sutta May 15 (2 P. M.)—Bowdoin vs. Bates, at Brunswick May ts (2 P. M.)—M. S. C. vs. Colby, at Orono LIEUT. CHAS. L. PHILLIPS, Esq., of May 21 (3 P. M.)—Bowdoin vs. M. S. C., at Brunswick 4th Artillery, Commandant. State Co] May 22 (10.30 A. M.)—Bates vs. M.S. C., at Lewiston May 26 (3 P. M.)—Colby vs. Bates, it Waterville H. S. FRENCH, Civil En1 May 29(2 P. M.)—M. S. C. vs. Bates, at Orono 1st Lieut. and Adjutant, Coburn Cadets. large May 29 (2.30 P. M.)--Colby vs. Bowdciu, ....at Lewiston get June a a P. M.)—Colby vs. M. S. C., at Waterville very estin June a (2.30 P. M.)—Bates vs. Bowdoin, ...... at Lewiston lune 5 (2.30 P. M.)—M. S. C. vs. Bowdoin, at Bangor PERSONALS. having a June 5 (3.30 P. M.)—Bates vs. Colby, at Brunswick recipients June 9 (3.30 P. M.)—Bowdoin vs. Bates, at Waterville June 12 (2.30 P. M.)—Bates vs. M. S. C., at Waterville happy co June 12 (4.45 P. M.)—Bowdoin vs. Colby. at Brunswick numerous June 19 (2.30 P. M.)—Colby vs. M. S. C., at Bangor C. P. Allen is a member of the Republican life.—Bai district committee of the fourth Maine district. The class of '89 have elected the following Edmund Abbott, M. D., has this winter been Dr. Lel officers for the spring term: President, C. G. attending advanced medical lectures in New in Stetson Cushman; Secretary and Treasurer, John Reed; a year's cc Base Ball Manager, A. J. Coffin ; Historign, York. '77. and has sl F. C. Briggs; Executive Committee, A. J. At the city election in Attica, Kansas, this in New Y( Coffin, G. G. Gay, Willard Edgerly. spring, Robert B. Burns was elected Mayor by Prof. C. II. Fernald is soon to he engaged in a large majority. Mr. Burns is quite well Miss He connection with a staff of Professors from known in this vicinity, having married the only M. C. Fer various institutions in the United States, upon daughter of Albert Plummer, Esq., of Upper York, wh The compilation of a complete catalogue of the Stillwater. winter. Lepidopt era of America. Prof. Fernald will '79. E. S. A write the articles on the Pyrolithe, Tortricidte A. L. Moore,of Limerick, has been appointed nemahn and Pterophoridae. This work will comprise a trustee of the college in place of his father. time in th( references clipped fr(mt all scientific works on Luther S. Moore. practice in the food plants, and lairal habits of all the spe- Harry P. Bean is assistant engineer of the 'cies known in all the States. New Brunswick R. R. His headquarters are Connected with J. N. H this, and editing different parts, at Woodstock, N. B. will be Prof. high Scho .Smith, of the Smithsonian Institute, and Lord F. E. Kidder, of the firm of Curtis & Kidder, 'AValsingham, of England. architects, of Boston, has been engaged in mak- ing plans for a fine residence to be erected on HEADQUARTERS CORPS OF CADETS, Third street, in Bangor, the coming summer. Maine State College, Orono, Me., '82. So mudl March 30, 1886. Frank I. Kimball it, mining engineer for change col Orders No. 3. By direction of the President Coulter and Huff, Greensburg, Pa. give anyth the following reductions, promotions, appoint- Dr. James H. Patten will soon open an office seems in g ments and assignments are hereby made in the in Orland. Since he graduated, he has studied Corps of Cadets: meaninglee two years in an office and taken a course of an especial Reductions. Cadet Lieutenant Sears, Co. two years in a New York medical college. fair to give B, to be Private Co. B. Cadet Sergeant Ruth, '83. various opi Co. A, to be Private Co. A. L. W.Taylor, of Bangor, is President of the rivalries, a Promotions. Cadet Sergeant Cilley, Co. B, Penobscot County Educational Association. of large co THE CADET. 109

int Vose, WEDDING BELLS. There was a very pleasant stitutions will influence these, but such feelings event at the residence of J. P. Moore, Esq., in can easily be detected. A good honest opinion, ;igh, Co. Abbot, Thursday evening. The occasion was if it be in the nature of a criticism, ought not to rate Me- the marriage of Mr. George A. Sutton of Orono, be resented ; on the contrary, its effect should and Miss Helen L. Stetson, of Abbot, the cere- be to stimulate the editors to correct the weak t. Clark, mony being performed in the happiest manner places. The difference of opinions among by Rev. Charles Davison, and witnessed by the editors as to the proper proportion in which accord- immediate relatives and friends of the couple. editorials, literary matter, etc., should enter Mr. Sutton is the youngest son of A. B. Sutton, into the make-up of their magazines, leads to LIPS, Esq., of Orono. He graduated at the Maine many criticisms that might be dispensed with. mandant. State College in 1883, taking a full course in Some editors seems to think their paper ought Civil Engineering. He intends to establish a to he made to please their exchanges, while jadets. large general store in Abbot. The bride is a I others seek to suit their alumni or the students. very estimable and accomplished young lady, The alumnus or student would care but little for having a wide circle of friends. They were the the compliments or criticism of other college recipients of many elegant presents. The PP's which appear on his magazine ; but happy couple have the best wishes of their extracts from editorials or articles relating to numerous acquaintances publican for a long and pleasant college affitirs, would be of general interest. life.—Bangor Whig. district. The Berkeleyan, under the head of" Have we nter been Dr. Lewis Robinson Jr., will open an office an Architecture," makes some very sensible re- in New in Stetson. Since his graduation he has taken marks on the architecture of the United States. a year's course at the Maine Medical School, We clip the Wowing: and has studied two years at Bellevue Hospital "Why must we forever put acanthus leaves nsas, this in New York. and Ionic rolls at the top of our pillars, because 1layor by '84. the Greeks so decorated theirs? Have we not a uite well Miss Hattie C. Fernald, daughter of President world of leaves and flowers as beautiful as that I the only M. C. Fernald, has returned home from New which surrounds them? If we really felt the 3f Upper York, where she has been visiting the past intimate connection between nature, life, and winter. art, as did the first builders of the Gothic Cathe- E. S. Abbott, after graduating at the Halt- drals, we would sculpture our own leaves and tppointed nemahn Medical College, and remaining some flowers instead of the acanthus of Greece or as father. time in the hospital, has acquired a flourishing the lotus leaf of Egypt." practice in Bridgton, Maine. Our neighbor, the Argosy, contains an inter- er of the '85. esting article on "The Dignity of Labor." The arters are writer evidently takes the right view of the J. N. Hart has begun his third term of the High School at Dennysville. subject, and altogether it is an ably written and Kidder. exhaustive argument. d in mak- rected on The W. T. I. contains a very interesting immer. EXCHANGES. editorial on energy, from \ iiieh we clip the fol- lowing: So much has been said of late on the "ex- I "There is a full, hearty ring to the word ineel change column," that we can hardly expect to energy.' Granted that it owes this property give anything original on the subject. It hardly largely to the arrangement of its consonants, an office seems in good taste to be eternally exchanging and even then, few will refuse to admit that it as studied meaningless compliments, yet when we notice gains much more from its associations. Energy, course of an especially good feature, it is no more than if not the only gem, is certainly the most valua- Lae. fair to give credit for it. Doubtless there are I ble in nature's storehouse, and prodigal though various opinions in regard to criticisms. Local she may be, who ever complained that he re- ent of the rivalries, and the contempt which the students ceived too much from her? Archimedes said: ation. of large colleges sometimes feel for smaller in- Give me but a place to put my lever, and I 110 THE CADET. depreci- will move the world,' and he might have added and 'school pride' among us, and if we us Give me energy enough and I will dispense with ate ourselves others will soon depreciate The nu the lever. Call a man energetic, and we will still more." tory to Pi look at him twice, hoping to see some promise The University Monthly is out with a three- 3,000 un of great possibilities. The word energy fixes column editorial on college spirit, in which it 66,000 pi our attention, for it means revolution, the fore- deplores the existing state of things at the The _N6- runner of progress, the surety of advancement." University of N. B. It is certainly to be re- ing discus but We have received our first number of the gretted that such a condition should exist, and Yale, Pennsylvanian, which seems to be a well con- no doubt it is due in a measure to the location. but Harvt less ducted paper and a credit to the institution. We experience this difficulty in a greater or The Un We welcome it among our exchanges. degree, and attribute it to the fact that we have the five h no near neighbors with whom to engage in next Augt We notice an article in The Notre Dame college sports and contests. We sympathize persons w Scholastic, entitled plea for the Constitution," with Monthly, and if it finds a remedy, would in which the writer attacks the "Blair educa- At Alle, be glad to receive a copy of the receipt. tional bill" in language both elegant and pathetic. changed ft From certain parts of this production one would able dissa to be entitled a Plea for Ignorance. change. think it ought OTHER COLLEGES. "If the Senator from New Hampshire will look Yale is] at the statistics of that • division of the country shun, as it left. whence he comes," says the writer, "he will Amherst has six of last year's nine a $100,00 find a greater proportion of those who can read Columbia has electric lights in her library. her the fin and write, and there, also, more crime and more A Chinaman took the prize for English com- Up to 1 looseness in morals and the family relation, than position at Yale. graduated in any other part of the United States." In Twenty men are trying for the ball nine at University other words increased knowledge and enlighten- Cornell. 110, Oberl crime and immorality. ment mean increased Gymnasium exercises at the University of University of civilization will We hardly think the history Pennsylvania are obligatory. 80, Syracu bear out this assertion, even if the statement 47, Kansas Ladies in the cadet club of the State Uni- regarding the statistics of New England were Massachus( versity of Kansas, are said to drill with guns. true. We always supposed that Senator Blair Of the the two great knew a thing or two, but this author has grave Among the alumni of Yale are Delegates, Worcester. doubts of it. In regard to the constitutionality lexicographers—Webster and directory, of the bill the writer says little, but rests his The faculty of Delaware College has pro- academic e argument on such flowers of speech as the fol- hibited the presentation of plays. 4 were We lowing: The students of Tufts College voted against Harvard In bill sings to the peo- "The Blair educational compulsory chapel attendance. of Virginia ple, to the States, with a Siren's voice ; but woe The Princeton authorities have decided to Michigan 5 be to them if allured to its embrace, for they make their college mu university within five years. mouth, Hat shall be crushed thereby, aml the macerated that ity 2 each. frames of State governments will Ii(‘ as bleaching Out of every one hundred freshmen and at Har- skeletons upon the fields of centralization." enter Yale, seventy-five graduate; vard, seventy four. 0 U The March number of Student Life contains The Dartmouth minstrel company gave a the following in relation to the annual Junior ! pleasing entertainment March 2, for the benefit Traveler exhibition : of the base hall association. There was a full Davis Junct "The audience was not as large as the oc- house. Intelliger casion should have called out, which may Traveler have been owing to two causes, one of which Harvard is still the largest college in the Teuton: was, no doubt, the general apathy of the teachers country; Oberlin comes second, and Columbia and students toward the exhibition. It cannot has Wien to third place; Michigan, is fourth Jules Ye he denied that there is too little school spirit and Yale fifth. lying is noi people.—B( THE CADET. depreci- 111 elate us The number of gymnasia, or schools prepara- THE DIFFERENCE. tory to Prussian Universities, is 253, with nearly 'Tis easy to be brave a three- 3,000 university-trained teachers and about NVhen the world is on your side; which it 66,000 pupils. When nothing is to fear, at the The Nation has been publishing an interest- Fearless to bide. o be re- ing discussion of the relative merits of Harvard 'Tis easy to hope, xist, but and Yale. Both sides have warm supporters, When all goes well; location. but Harvard seems to be ahead. When the sky is clear, or less Fine weather to foretell. ir The University at Heidelberg will celebrate have we the five hundredth anniversary of its existence But to hope when all's despaired, ngage in next August. A hall capable of holding 5,000 And be brave when we are seared,— mpathize persons will be erected for the occasion. That's another thing, my dear! y, would And will do to tell.—Lassell Leaves. At Alleghany College the holiday has been changed from Saturday to Monday. Consider- When a Tennessee girl is kissed she frowns and able dissatisfaction has been expressed at the says, "Put that article right hack, sir, change. where you took it from."—Ex. KS. Yale is hopeful of soon having a new gynma- It was a Harvard Sophomore who said the sium, as it is reported her alumni are raising other day, when told that a girl had once taken a $100,000 fund for the purpose of building the highest classical honors of the college, "0, ibrary. her the finest gymnasium in the world. well, you know the girls have nothing to do but study. We fellows lish corn- Up to 1883 the twelve following colleges had really have so much else to attend we for graduated 1,294 women: Vassar College 540, to that don't get much time books.' II nine .11 University of Wisconsin 114, Wellesley College Thrice is he armed who bath his quarrel just. 110, Oberlin College 104, Smith College 90, —The Bard of Avon. ersity of University of Michigan 87, Cornell University And four times he who gets his blow in fust. 80, Syracuse University 64, Boston University —J. Billings. 47, Kansas University tate Uni- 36, Wesleyan 5, and the Senior: (asks Prof. a very profound ques- Massachusetts h guns. Institute of Technology 5. tion.) Of the 380 Senators, Representatives two great and Prof.: "Mr. W., a fool can ask a question Delegates, catalogued in the Congressional ter. that ten wise men could not answer." directory, 208 received only an ordinary or Senior: "Then I suppose that's why so many has pro- academic education, 151 went through college, of us flunk."—Ex. 4 were West Pointers, and 6 are self-educated. Mrs. Part ington, after attending a country against Harvard has 8 graduates enrolled; University church in the winter, remarked that the text of Virginia 7 ; Princeton 6; Yale, Miami and was very appropriate, but somehow the parson Michigan 5 each; Union 4; Bowdoin 3; ecided to Dart- did not refer to it in his sermon. The text, as iive years. mouth, Hamilton, Amherst, Williams and Trin- it caught the old lady's ears, was "Many are ity 2 each. men that cold but few are frozen." d at Har- OUR WHAT-NOT. A college paper urges the Faculty to see that the walks are shoveled off early, and shoveled y gave a off wide. When the snow is deep, and the he benefit Traveler: My good man, how far is it to walks are narrow, co-education becomes a was a full Davis Junction? meaningless farce.—Ex. Intelligent Teuton: Only shust a leedle vays. One of the Sophomores has discovered a new Traveler: Is it three, or four, or five miles? 5re in the rule in Analytical Geometry—that the more Teuton: I dinks so.—Ex. COIUMbi.l you take of it the less you'll know about it, and , is fourth Jules Verne is not yet able to sit up, but that the more you know about it, the less you'll lying is not 80 hard for him as it is for some take. He is sure this is a good rule, because it people.—Boston Post. works both ways. 112 THE CADET.

He had a silk hat, half-hour match at looking out In the recent That was glossy and round Kimball and Plymp- logarithms, between Prots He had a silk hat, 1,000 ton, Prof. Kimball won, with a score of But he went on a bat, to 982. Prof. Plympton said that he was a And on it he sat little out of condition, having solved 147 prob- With a sensible sound. lems in the Integral Calculus the night before. He hag a silk hat He immediately challenged the winner.—Ex. That was glossy and round. —Yale Record. My pony, 'tis of thee, Emblem of liberty, To thee I sing. A newspaper correspondent describing the Book of my Freshman days, American watch manufactory at Waltham, Worthy of fondest praise, Mass., and in speaking of the astonishing mi- Worthy of poet lays, nuteness of some very essential parts of the I'd tribute bring.—Ex. watch, says:—"A small heap of grain was VOL. I. First Tramp (contemplatively): "Horace, shown us, looking like iron filings or grains of did you ever wonder what you would do if you pepper from a pepper castor—apparently the got all Vanderbilt's money?" mere dust of the machine which turned them "No, I've never thought examined with a micro- IssuED ON Second Tramp: out—and these when DUBIN much about it; but I guess I would lay low scope, were found to be perfect screws, each to till the atlitir blew over."— Ex. be driven to its place with a screw driver. It MINE STA1 statistics at Waltham worth Mamma (with much show of indignation:) is one of the single pound of steel, cost- "I have called you three times: I am very remembering that a ing but 50 cents, is thus manufactured into B. E. CLAR much annoyed." H. A. McNA are worth 11 dollars." Charlie(who isfond of Bible stories:)"Well 100,000 screws, which D. W. 0 called Samuel three times, and he —The Engineer. J. S. WI The Lord D. W. C didn't get mad about it, did he?"—Life. Can you tell me what is the olfactory organ?" "(IOSSAMER." asked a Boston teacher of a pupil. TEMPTS reply. Per annum, in a4 "No, sir," was the prompt Tetlow's "Lily White." Single Copy..... "Correct." Subscribers noi ing their address The pupil seemed surprised, but held his Tetlow's "Swan Down." Contributions peace. gratefully receiv, "Fancy Lily White." anonymous articl In two small parts she broke a straw, Shand's Advertising ra Editor, to whom so, then said, "Now draw, She held them Shand's "Perfumed Chalk." be sent. All ott And should you get the shorter lot Chief. You'll give to me—let's see now—what? TAPPAN'S "ROSE BUD." ENTERED AT Ti I have it now—a pound of creams !" With real delight her sweet face beams. French Creams & Cream of Roses. "But should I get the longest?"—" Oh! All the Choice Toilet Soaps. Why then I get two pounds you know."—Ex. Also Fine Line Combs & Brushes. Auctioneer: "Now, gentlemen, what shall I WE wo CELEBRATED "ODONTO." say for this magnificent and authentic l'aul CHOATE'S of Veryoneasy? Come, start it at something." , (FOE THE TEETH.) the second Old Gentleman: "Don't see the painter's All Pure Tooth Powders. with the F unavoidable name on it anywhere, mister." And every other Standard Preparation for the August nun Auctioneer: "Of course not. A picture like Toilet can be found at the Drug Store that doesn't want signing ; it stands on its merits. on Warren's Corner. and in ordet No bid? Pass it in, John, and bring out the advertise Ai next. Now, gentlemen, here is a superb ARA WA RREN, Proprietor, continue th Landseer by the same hand." (Tableau!) October an —Melbourne Punch. CENTRAL & HAMMOND STS. should have