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!s POETRY. Anthracopalaemon crawled out of his hole, QUOTING AND MISQUOTING. And laughed at the fun till he turned into coal; 1A1 It JiALl'IHOHIi. As, for watching the game, he possessed great “With just enough of learning to mis- facilities, quote,” is one of the stinging lines in Byron’s Art tliou that loveliest daughter of thy clime From the far reaching limb of an Asterophyllites. British Bards and Scotch Reviews. This was That sparkiest in the sapphire of the wave, Macropetalichtliys now joined in the race, a fair retort upon the censorious critics, Whose bosom knew the story of thy brave, To force the Belemnites to give up the chase, against whom it was directed; but as to gener- And bears their memories onward to all time; In the light that ensued upon Scoharie Grit, Whose spell is on the land and on the sky, The Spirifer Crispis went into a fit. al readers it would be very unfair to charge an And in her lap the largess of a bride; Please watch Old Sauropus Primaevus make tracks absence of learning or culture upon them be- Who slirinest Art in monumental pride, On that slab of blue limestone, on purpose to tax cause of a failure to recite the thought or sen- To tell how true men live, and how they died ? The brains of Ike Lea, who will use all his lore timent of an author on all occasions with pre- Yet shall the glory of thy people speak To find out the shoes S. P. commonly wore. cise verbal accuracy. To enable themselves to Not in the life that pulses through the mart, On that marsh that will soon undergo alteration, do this they would be obliged to burden their Nor m trble’s grace, but in the knightly heart, The Ichthyosauri are taking their station, memories with words and phrases to the exclu- O queenly city of the Chesapeake. And posing themselves in attractive positions sion of more important subjects, and all for a • Yea, for the knightly heart of elder days To be afterwards found by our great expeditions. Hath dowered thee ; in sooth, a rarer crown The earth was, just then, in a rather warm state, purpose which can be served quite as well by Than pillared Art, and fairer than renown, And the sun’s rays beat hotly on Lingula slate, reference to the author’s works, or to some Of outward seeming and of passing praise. So the meeting stopped work and reclined at their handy book. When making such references Remember how they came, thy pilgrim band, ease, in conversation, strict verbal accuracy’ ought A godly race and bold, from weary skies, ’Neath the wide-spreading shade of umbrella trees not to be required ; but when writing for pub- To win thee birthright and with high emprize As a Dutch Iguanodon sauntering along, lication, it is unquestionably the right practice To make thee peerless in the Western Land. With his paws in his pockets and pipe large and strong, to verify whatever quotation is to be used, For they had heard of virgin fields that be wherever it is practicable to do so. The ob- (Had never yet their gold the sickle shorn, Chanced to tread on the tail of a young Ammonite, And brooding o’er them slept the primal morn) The meeting adjourned for a general fight. servance of this habit tends to keep our classic Where the day quivers in the saffron sea. CHORTJS : quotations free from corruption, and the Here on the lordly hills, for aye untrod, O, wonders were done by the shovel-nosed clam, neglect of it tends to what has occurred and And where the everlasting woods rejoice, The Eurypterus Remipes fought as he swam; will continue to occur—the twisting of terse In plighted love they lifted up their voice, The Pterypod swallowed himself in a rage, and apt expressions out of shape and meaning. And wept with bended foreheads on the sod. And thus ended the Palaeozoical age This last mentioned casualty has happened to —Lehigh (University) Journal. Wept, but as men may weep who joy have won, a saying attributed to Walpole, “ All men have Who keep their faith with heaven and troth with [men; CHEMICAL DITTY. their price.” There is no evidence that we Ah ! never should their maidens pine again know of, that he either said this or meant it ; By broken altars, crouching from the sun. INORGANIC. but there is evidence in Coxe’s Memoirs of Thy gentle homes knew hearts as true as steel, Oh! come where the cyanides silently flow, Walpole, that he held certain professed pa- Whose pledges ne’er proved false to friend or foe ; And the carburets droop o'er the oxides below; triots of his day in low esteem, and that allu- For they were Christian men in weal or woe, Where the rays of potassium lie white on the hill, And to their fathers’ G-od alone could kneel. ding to ''them, he said “ All those men have And the song of the silicate never is still. Like as the morning cometh upon bliss, Come, oh, come! their price.” This is quite a different thing Or he of Patmos saw in light unroll, Tumti, turn, turn! from the cynical and demoralizing sentiment Thy vision broke :—a city of the soul Peroxide of soda, and urani-um ! attributed to him in gthe much abused and Within the borders peace and justice kiss. While alcohol’s liquid at thirty degrees, almost universal mis-quotation referred to. And many a life of fragrance still thou hast, And no chemical change can effect manganese; On the other hand, some of the popular Whose psalms are worthy to be said and sung : While alkalies flourish and acids are free, forms of what purport to be quotations from And they shall keep thy glories ever young, My heart shall be constant, sweet science, to thee! well-known authors exhibit improvements in Fair Baltimore, nor alien to the Past. Yes, to thee! M. J. B. expressiveness and epigrammatic force. There Fiddledum dee! Zinc, borax, and bismuth, and H O plus C. are very few people unfamiliar with the phrase GEOLOGICAL DITTY. —London Fun. applied to office-holders, “ Few die, and none resign.” This is attributed to Jefferson, but is Ye Trylle of ye Trilobite. NOTE. “ Fair Baltimore” is a portion of a somewhat better than the way he put it. What A Polyp was chasing a Crinoid one day, he said about official vacancies was this: Through a thicket of algae just over the way, longer piece, the remainder of which, with When some noisy Belemnites, on mischief intent, some changes, and with a verse borrowed from “Those by death are few; by resignation Espied Master Crinoid and for him they went. this fragment, appeared in our paper a year none.” Here the popular [form is a manifest CHOBUS : ago, under the title of “ The Pilgrims of Mary- improvement; yet who can name the person Sing Trilobites. Rhizopods, Acalephs all, land.” The changes made in the latter por- who was the author of the quotation as it now How the Ichthyoeephalus gave a masked ball; tion, to adapt it to its title, induced us to with- stands ? Additional vigor has been given in Says the Archaeaniscus to Megalosaurus, hold any signature at the time. ED. the same way to a saying of Josiah Quincy, If we don’t travel lively, they’ll get there before us. 2 GEORGETOWN who, in opposing the Louisiana purchase, “ As good luck would have it.” These are Would it not be well for you, if the idea has argued in Congress that if the hill should pass, used in scores of ways, without the slightest not already been broached, to suggest as a vol- it would work a virtual dissolution of the thought of where they come from. From the untary part of tlie College curriculum, classes Union, and that it would be the duty of1 some Bible we get “ Escaped with the skin of his of phonography and telegraphy ? In my opin- of the free States to definitely prepare for a teeth;” “ The root of the matter ;” “ The pen ion, sometime in the future, near or remote, separation, “amicably, if they can ; violently, of a ready writer ;”“ At their wit’s end;” electricity will be the chief motor and illumi- if they must.” The popular form of this, de- “Fearfully and wonderfully made “’“Mer- nating power, and newspapers will be published rived from Henry Clay’s misquotation of it is : chant princes” (in Isaiah, however,it is “ whose in short-hand. Why, look you how startingly “ peaceably, if we can ; forcibly, if we must”— merchants are princes”); “ A feast of fat the world spurts : Winans’s cigar steamer, a much more muscular diction. Under the things ;” “ The burden and heat of the day ;” upon which a fortune was lavished, would same process, a wider popular use and under- “Absent in body but present in spirit;” and have crossed the ocean in five days with the standing has been given to the first line of even “Spreading himself like a^reenbay mails and thereby revolutionized trade. But, Walter Scott’s couplet: tree.” There are many other phrases uncon- just as the experiment tended to perfection, 11 Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, sciously quoted from those great sources of the cable was laid successfully and it annihila- Morn of toil, nor night of waking.” expressive and vigorous English, but it would ted space, so to speak, and the Winans inven- Almost uniformly this is repeated “ sleep the carry us too far to follow them further at this tion. Where discovery will stop, we cannot sleep that knows no waking.” time. So we may close this with a reference tell. Tlie London Times of 50 years ago com- Some corrupted quotations of another class to one very frequently misquoted passage from pared unfavorably with any country journal are simply unchallenged errors without ma- Genesis : “ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou now published in Georgia. Think of that. terial harm, except that the purity of the orig- eat bread.” How many times, too, we find But enough of this. I started out to write inal is lost. Of this description is Bishop this repeated, both in conversation and in print, three lines of compliment and have put you to Berkeley’s line, “ Westward the course of em- in other words than those of the English trans sleep with a dull, disjointed sermon, written in pire takes its way,” which is most frequently lation—“the sweat of thy brow” being nearly a treadmill and pointed with a pen which loves repeated in a form for which Mr. Bancroft, always used instead of “ the sweat of thy face.” to linger the historian, is said to be accountable, viz., —Phil. Ledger. “ o’er the school-boy spot, “ Westward the star of empire takes its way.” We ne’er forget, though there we are forgot.” In the same category we may place the phrase, I.ETXEB FROM AN OLD STUDENT. Very Sincerely and Respectfully, 1 JAMES R. RANDALL. ‘ Beauty unadorned is adorned the most,” Office of tlie Constitutionalist, which is a short and easy way of refeiring to Augusta, Ga., May 2d 1875. NOTE. The letter of our esteemed corres- what Thompson put in this form : To the Editor of the COLLEGE JOURNAL, pondent, a member of the Philosophy Class of “ Loveliness DEAR SIR : I have received several copies 1855-6, should have had an earlier insertion ; Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, of the JOURNAL and cannot adequately express but since its receipt, tlie pressure on our col- But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.” my pleasure in perusing them and my admira- umns has been such that we could not find In this instance the popular form, as we tion for the literary excellence they manifest. room for it without omitting something that think, is not an improvement. So, too, the In my day, at Georgetown, the English lan- would not bear postponement. We assure frequent expression, “ where there’s a will guage was, I think, neglected. I should say, the author of “ Maryland, My Maryland” there’s a way,” while very terse and strong perhaps, subordinated to Latin and Greek At that the sentiment he quotes : “ though there loses something of the wider meaning of what any rate, we never had a Journal, which I re- we are forgot,” has no bearing upon Mm. Our appears to be the original in George Crabbe’s gard as one of the best testimonies of advance- readers and ourselves will cordially welcome line, “ Be there a will, and wisdom, finds a ment. It is true that a medal was given as an anything from his pen, and the same welcome way.” There are some changes of quotation occasional prize, at the annual Commence- awaits him, should iie visit the College person- too, about which little need be said, except ment, and I had the honor of securing that ally : moreover, a few of his contemporaries that they are changes. Thus, Matthew Prior’s prize for English Composition, in my 17th still inhabit the spot. ED. line, “Fine by degress and beautifully less”— year, having had but two predecessors—Ludim usually comes to us as “ Small by degrees, ” Bargy and ffm. M. Smith. The former made ERRATA IN OUR LAST. In the poem “ Spes &c.,; Shakespeare’s “ The man that hath no no sign afterward, and died, I am informed, a Expes”—which, by the bye, should be “ Ex- music in himself” very often appears as “The Lt. in the Federal army. Smith was a very spes,”—there is evidently a mistake in putting man that hath no music in his soul," and his brilliant man. He wrote admirably in prose thou for though in the last line of the fourth maxim that “ The better part of valor is dis and Verse; was our crack orator and played verse. The verse therefore should read : cretion” appears five times in six in the inver- Hamlet like Edwin Booth. His physical ted form in which later writers have misquoted beauty was as great as his talents were showy “ But what’s it to me that thy heart be embalmed By the warmest of loves and affections the purest, it. and dazzling. It was high-treason, in lang Since the storms of the spirit can never be calmed But there is a great deal of quoting done al- syne, to doubt that Smith would fail to reach Even though, lapped in thine, mine could rest the most unconsciously by the use of phrases that that point “ where Fame’s proud temple shines securest?” have gone into the body of our every day lan- afar;” and yet, so far as my knowledge ex- In “ De Quibusdam Rebus,” the 17th line,, guage, the phrases being used without a thought tends, he never did anything in the world to re- page 110, should read, “ and for the best essays on the part of the speakers as to their origin. deem “the promise’of his Spring.” upon given subjects.” ED. Some of these are from Shakespeare, and As my career, for a number of years, has more from the English Bible. All of the fol- been that of a journalist, I have often wished We welcome to this office the College Jour- lowing familiar phrases are from Shakespeare: that my early training had had so effective a nal, an able monthly, published at the cele- “ Fast and loose“ I know a trick worth two school of practice as a College paper. The brated Georgetown College, D. C., during tlie of that;” “Poor, but honest;” “The short Press may justly claim to be the greatest power scholastic year. The journal is neatly printed and the long of it;” “ That was laid on with a in the world, where thought is free. How im- on tinted paper; its pages are filled with a pleasing variety of interesting matter, while trowel;” “ Some of us will smart for it;” “Mas- mense the advantage, then, for youth to be the editorial department especially gives evi- ters, spread yourselves “ My cake is dough ;” trained to the handling of such a weapon ? dence of much ability.—Buffalo Cath. Union- COLLEGE JOURNAL 3

DOMESTIC COItltESTOXDEiM E. this timely warning will suffice to ward off the not for one’s own private benefit or advantage. evil. I therefore invite all to join the Associ- I do not like to make a statement of the kind, MR. EDITOR. I am happy to address yon ation, and contribute their mite towards secur- but circumstances seem to bear me out in the once more : for among the things that gladden ing its prosperity. The plan of union is too assertion. the first few gloomy days after our return to good a one to be defeated through any want of In conclusion, if I have made any charges College, the idea of communicating with your concord among ourselves, or through any lack that are unwarranted, I beg to say that I am paper is one thateomes “ smiling to my heart.” of generosity in supporting it. One great ad ready to retract them, if proven unjust. If Besides, I have really something to say, and it vantage to be derived from its success is that it not, it is my hope that the faults alleged will concerns subjects that are now engrossing the may be made to embrace, in its organization, be corrected. attention of your College readers,—for in almost anything and everything that could be stance, the new “Athletic Association,” the CACCETHES CARPENDI. desired, in the way of sports and diversions. Boat Club, the Band, &c. Moreover, I shall o ♦ However, I do not say that at this time, it speak my mind very plainly on these subjects, (Frhrn the Baltimore Sun, Sept. 6th.) should also include a Boat Club, which there is because I want my fellow-students to under- Desired Retrocession to Maryland. a project on foot of organizing, and, of course, stand what they are undertaking, and by re- enrolling in the Association. I deem the mat- marking the faults in our old organizations, be We annex a petition of residents of George- ter impracticable at present. The Athletic on their guard against repeating them in the town, D. C., to Congress, praying that that Association has now enough to engage its atten- new. ancient Maryland town be retroceded to its tion, and I am sure its progress would be im Well, the plan of embracing the Billiard mother State. It is now from thirty-five to peded rather than facilitated by the organiza- Room, the Gymnasium, and in fact all our forty years since retrocession was agitated in tion under its auspices of a rowing club. Next Georgetown, and it is a good many years ago sports and amusements under one “ Athletic Spring will be time enough to take that matter Association,” is a capital one. What I fear is since the question was decided favorably upon up. that on account of the disposition of some of by a vote of the people there. There is an im- our students, there may be difficulties in carry- Then, I should like to call attention to the pression that the State of Maryland once for- ing it out in a satisfactory manner. If all pro- claims of the Band. It is a remarkable fact, mally, through its Legislature, expressed its ceed to their work as they should, hold their that although all take pleasure in hearing the willingness to accept this small portion of the meetings regularly and orderly, obey the laws band play, and even call for it when they wish territory it had ceded to the general govern- they make and the officers they elect, pay their to be amused, yet, when instruments and music ment, provided Congress should consent. The dues promptly, and not behave about them as are needed, or repairs have to be made, and subject came before Congress, and was dis- if they thought they were being robbed by the the leader knocks at any one’s door for assis- cussed earnestly, and perhaps received the unhappy collector, then all will go well. But tance, he meets with a very discouraging recep- sanction of one branch of that body. Alexan- if they do as many did last year,—squabble tion. One would suppose, from the rebuff's he dria was retroceded years ago to her mother State, Virginia, through the assent of Congress , like ward-politicians at every sitting of the gets, that his band was a private institution Association, disregard the laws they adopt for conducted for the pleasure and advantage of at tiie solicitation of its people. At least two thirds of the population of Georgetown and the their government, overwhelm with wrath the the young gentlemen who compose it, and not law-abiding few who oppose their proceedings, designed, as it really is, for the entertainment Heights are pronounced retrocessionists, and it is said almost the entire population would and hold back their dues, while they keep their and recreation of the students at large. It is purses open for every other kind of outlay,— a poor return for the industry and pains-taking express themselves in the same manner if their views could be obtained. This is not at all re- then the Association will not be a success, and of the members of the band, in trying to im markable, as the advantages of retrocession to nobody can expect that it will. prove themselves for the general good, to be I do not anticipate that any such proceed- told that they may bear their own expenses. Georgetown would be obvious. That old Mary- land city would thereby regain the right of ings will occur in the beginning. Doubtless, A word, Mr. Editor,—pardon the subject, JOURNAL. self-government, become the second city of all will go on smoothly for the first three but I think it necessary,—about your months; the meetings will be well attended I hope all understand your end. If not, let importance in Maryland, and enlist the foster- ing attention of the Maryland Legislature and and well ordered, the billiard-room will be me say that it is the students’ benefit, and that maintained in good condition, the tables be when they contribute their subscription dollar, people. The Georgetown Courier says that cared for, and the cues kept in repair ; the they aid none but themselves. Yet, when their the objection which is urged against retroces- gymnasium will likewise give satisfaction to hands reach into the far recesses of their pock- sion is that “Baltimore would swallow you everybody. But the novelty will then wear ets to answer the call of the hungry collector, up but this is ludicrous enough, in view of the swallowing up which Georgetown is sub- off, and if old students return to their old ways —that is, if they propose to answer it, at all, jected to by Washington. It would be impos- and new students imitate their example, the which is by no means the uniform case,—oh! Association meetings will be no better than the look of benignity which they cast upon the sible for her to be more completely “ swallowed up,” buried as she is almost out of sight, than those of the Reading Room Society were last recipient when they pass over the small sum she now is by the national capiial, having lost year. As to the Reading Room itself, it is the called for, is something excruciating ! Would her old civic government entirely, the election place, you know, where everybody is supposed your readers be astonished when I tell them that no pecuniary benefit is derived from the and possession of her own mayor, aldermen to go for quiet, and to read in peace, and JOURNAL by any one connected with it, except and councilmen, the control of her own prop- where, in fact, people go who make no account erty, so that she cannot even do what she of disturbing their neighbors as much, and as pay for the work done on the mechanical chooses with her own market-house. In every reading as little, as possible. part of it? Is it not strange, then, that those civic sense she is completely “ under the I speak from experience, and I foresee what for whose benefit the paper has been instituted jacket” of Washington. will happen again if all do not resolve that and in whose behalf it is edited, should slight Some twenty years ago Georgetown made a matters shall be conducted differently. Being it? It is their own affair, and yet this is what brave struggle to get those railroad connec- cautioned thus early, it is to be hoped that happens in many, very many cases. I can tions which naturally she should have had on they will not allow entrance at any time to the only account for this discreditable conduct by any line coming to Washington from the West, spirit of disorder and misrule. And as I would attributing it to an indifference which arises but she had no proper aid from Washington not wish to discourage any, I have no doubt from a selfish disregard of everything which is 4 GEORGETOWN

and failed. If substantial assistance bad been still retain much more territory than is neces- seized with a sudden determination to take the sary for tlie mere purposes of a capital; and given to the organization for constructing the shortest cut to get out of the Redstone coun- railroad from the Point of Rocks, which has the section in which we live may well be sev- ered from the District with great advantage to try , and not one of them could be brought since been made by the Baltimore and Ohio us, and no disadvantage whatever to the gov- back in time to save their distance. Thepurse exclusively, it would have come into the Dis- ernment. We are oppressed and burdened, was given to Hayes under a great deal of hard trict to and through Georgetown, instead of without corresponding benefits. Our taxes are swearing on the part of the owners of the passing far north of it, and into Washington enormously high, and mainly because we are near the seat of government and supposed to horses. A general row ensued, but the fun of at a point miles beyond the town. If Congress be ready to maintain its splendor ; whereas we the thing put the crowd all on the side of the had aided and brought the railroad through do not participate to an appreciable degree in bull. aught of the numerous blessings bestowed upon Georgetown, as itassisted nearly half a century r The horsemen contended that they were ago in bringing the Chesapeake and Ohio canal the capital. AA e are entirely ignored (and nat- urally so) in all appropriations made for the swindled out of the purse, and that if it had through it, there would have been a binding capital; and but a single member of both your not been for Hayes’ horn and ox-hide, which ligature between Georgetown and Washington, houses resides among us. We are only recog- he ought not have been permitted to bring on constituting them much more nearly one com- nized as belonging to the seat of government by its tax gatherer, and we feel that our con- the ground, the thing would not have turned munity than can possibly now be the case. dition would be much bettered if we were sep- out as it did. Upon this Hayes told them that Being deprived of this improvement, George- arated from the District and allowed to manage his bull could beat any of their horses anyhow, town is in a more isolated condition than ever our own affairs. and if they would put up $100 against the “And, as in duty bound, we will ever pray.” before. Maryland’s earliest great work of in- purse he had won, he would take off his ox- ternal improvement, the canal to which we hide and leave his tin horn,and run a fair race have'referred, finds its terminus at Georgetown, SHAM HAYES’ BULL RACE. with them. His offer was accepted and his there debouching into Rock creek, made to do money staked. They again took their places so originally with the view of extending that Some 40 years ago the managers of a race course near Brownsville, on the Monongahela, at the starting post, and the signal given; water line to Washington ; but that extension, Hayes gave the bull another touch with his expensive as it was, proved so entirely useless published a notice of a race, one-mile heats, on a particular day, for a purse of $100, free for spurs, and the bull gave another tremendous as to demonstrate an utter waste of all the bellow. The horses remembered the horrible moneys ever subscribed by Congress and the anything with four legs and hair on. A man in the neighborhood, named Hayes, had a bull sound, and thought all the rest was coming as District to the capital of that company. Hence before. Away they went in spite of all the ex- the canal proper, reaching through a fine wheat which he was in the habit of riding to the mill with his bag of corn, and he determined to en- ertions of their riders, while Hayes galloped producing and milling region in Maryland to his bull around the track again and won the the invaluable Cumberland coal region, was at ter him for the race. He said nothing about it to any one ; but he rode him around the track money. From that time they nicknamed him the cost of Maryland, burdening her with an Sham Hayes. He afterwards removed to onerous debt for many years, but supplying an a number of times on several bright nights, and the bull had the hang of the ground pretty Ohio, but his nickname stuck to him as long as immense coal trade at Georgetown, which he lived.—Notre Dame Scholastic. would remain of the same advantage to Wash- well, and would keep the right course. lie ington as ever if the old town were retroceded. rode him with spurs, which the bull considered particularly disagreeable ; so much so that he Retrocession, looked at rightly, would perhaps Medical fi>e|>artaiient. always bellowed when they were applied to his be as much to the advantage of Washington as r sides. On the morning of the race, Hayes AA e announced in our last the changes that Georgetown. Instead of a lifeless neighbor, came upon the ground “ on horseback’ ’ on his had been made in the personnel of the Facul- drained of all capital and enterprise, the closer bull. Instead of a saddle he had a dried ox- ty, since the publication of our Annual Cata- alliance which retrocession would produce be- logue in June. Further changes have been hide, the head part of which, with the horng tween Maryland and the national capital, by made by the appointment of Dr. P. J. Murphy, reason of their adjacent city populations, would still on, he had placed on the rump. He car- ried a short tin horn in his hand. He rode up as Assistant to the Chair of Physiology, Dr. C. make Washington a participant in the greater V. N. Callan as one of the Demonstrators, in business life and activity which would be likely to the judges’ stand and offered to enter his bull for the race, but the owners of the horses place of Dr. H. II. Barker, Dr. J. L. Eliot as to result in the restored Maryland town. Wash- Prosector to the Chair of Surgery, and Dr. ington could certainly spare Georgetown as objected. Hayes appealed to the terms of the notice, insisted that this bull had “four legs John AYalter as Prosector to the Chair of well as Alexandria, and would retain all the Anatomy, in place of Dr. P. G Young. advantages from her neighbor she ever had and hair on,” and that therefore he had a right to enter him. After a good deal of “cussin’ The Faculty for the AYinter course numbers before. The same good fellowship and social and discussin’,” the judges declared themselves thirteen professors. College Building, corner intercourse would be uninterrupted. The citi- compelled to decide that the bull had the right of 10th and E. Sts., N. AY., AYashington. AYe zens of AYashington would go over in street to run, and he was entered accordingly. AYhen suggest that, well-known as the Building may cars and breathe the free air of Maryland, and the time for starting arrived, the bull and the be, it would be as well to have a sign upon it look down then, as now, from the heights of horses took their places. The horse racers were indicating its occupancy by our Medical Fac- Georgetown upon the princes and palaces of out of humor at being bothered with the bull ulty, for the benefit of strangers. Other occu- the capital. Here is the reasonable petition of and at the burlesque which they supposed was pants of the building have their signs : why the Georgetown people: intended, but thought that would be over as should not we have ours ? “ To the Honorable Senate and House of soon as the horses started. The signal was Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled: The given, and they did start. Hayes gave a blast It is a singular fact that our subscribers undersigned, residents of Georgetown and of with his horn and sank his spurs into the bull’s never can see any paragraph referring to them- that portion of the District of Columbia lying sides, which bounded with a terrible bellow, at selves. Only twenty-nine, up to Sept, 25th west of Rock creek, most respectfully petition have renewed their subscriptions, including a your honorable bodies to pass such an act as no trifling speed, the dried ox-hide flopping up will retrocede to the State of Maryland all that and down, rattling at every jump, making a few who pre-paid long ago. AYe repeat, then, territory lying west of Rock creek and now combination of noises that had never been what we announced in our last, and in type embraced in the District of Columbia. The heard on a race-course before. The horses all that they can see • United States, after such retrocession, will flew off the track, every one seemed to be J NO PAY, NO PAPER. COLLEGE JOURNAL 5

law Department. W. Hoffman, L.L.D., Librarian of the Con- ornamental pillars in the smoking-room, in gressional Law Library, will preside over the place of the several tude beams that stood The Law School of this University will open Moot Court. here, support the floor of the Museum, above. its regular winter course on Wednesday even- The business management of the School is The floor above that again, the President’s ing, October 6th, at six o’clock, in the old in the hands of B. T. Hanly, Esq., one of its room, is strengthened by two powerful iron Gonzaga College building, F. between 9th and former graduates, and a young lawyer of great girders manufactured for the purpose at the 10th Sts., Washington, under the most favor- promise and ability. There can be no doubt Phenixville, Pa., Iron-works, and locked to- able auspices. The corps of instruction for that under such favorable circumstances, and gether. The east end of the smoking room 1875-6 embraces Judge George W. Paschal, possessing such palpable advantages, the looking towards the College gate, is pierced L.L.D., and Edward S. Reily, A. M., the latter School will be largely attended. The roll of with a window and a door, the latter ap- succeeding Christopher Ingle, Esq., who this students for the coming year already embraces proached from without by an enclosed entrance year devotes himself entirely to the practice of the names of several of our College graduates. or hall-way, quite ornamental in character, his profession. Besides these gentlemen, Rev. from which a brick walk leads to the gymna- P. F. Healy, S. J., President of the College, COLLECiE IMPROVEMENTS. sium, close by. The billiard-tables and fix- tures have been put in complete order, and in will lecture on Ethics in its relation to positive We referred in our last number to the im- law, and M. F. Morris, Esq., on the History of provements that had been made about the Col- the smoking-room, the spittoons—if we may Law, to be followed by a supplementary course be allowed reference to such an article—are lege duiing the summer vacation, all of which on the subject, during the term. Judge Pas- pretty enough for mantel ornaments. In fact, are indeed not yet quite completed : but we chal, who received the degree of L.L.D., at this suite of rooms, once so low and dingy, made no detail of them,—“ W. D.” to the con- our last Commencement, is ex Chief Justice of might well be included among the show-places trary, notwithstanding,-—having reserved this the Supreme Court of Texas. He has a very pleasing task to the present number. The en- to which visitors are conducted. We beg to extensive practice, and has written several able suggest that the walls might very properly be trance to the north building has been com- works on the Constitution and upon other adorned with handsome pictures, or at least pletely changed in appearance by the substitu- heads of American law which are of high au- tion of a cheerful cream color for the dark with chromos. A beginning of the kind will thority among the profession. Mr. Reily is a brown of the walls in this covered area ; the be made by supplying copies of the small pho- native of Adams Co., Pa., a graduate of benches around it have been painted oak-color, tographic views of the College and grounds Georgetown College of the class of 1863-4,and which were taken a couple of years ago, towards the panels at the sides and the iron work in received his A. M., here in 1867. He has been front retouched in lighter colors ; iron gratings the expense of which, Jos. E. Washington of a resident of the District during the greater of an ornamented character, painted to match ’73 has kindly contributed. Who will follow part of the interval since his graduation, having the walls,and with the spear-heads gilt, substi- suit? been one of our corps of instructors during tute the green screens that closed up the lower The old stone steps leading to the refectory, 1866-7 and the following year, and afterwards half of the windows upon this area and dark and referred to by “ W. D.,” have been re- at Gonzaga College. Meanwhile, he studied ened the corridor within : and a new reflector newed : the number of lights in both study- rooms has been doubled, and in the larger one, law and graduated at our University in 1872, over the front entrance replaces the homely each student is provided wilh an arm-chair, with the first class matriculated in our Law affair that heretofore lit up at night the long (Ileywood’s patent seat.) The Philosophy Department. He then returned to Pennsylva- brick wall leading to the south building. nia, and, settling himself at Gettysburg, his Within the corridor, the walls are tinted a light class room is, except when occupied by the drawing-teacher, entirely devoted to Society ability, industry and probity have secured for blue, the benches against them, and the wain- purposes, and the smaller room adjoining has him already a large practice, which he would scoting, opposite, painted oak-color with wal- doubtless have hardly surrendered except to nut-color trimmings ; the doors are oak-color been fitted up for the Philosophers as a reci- tation-room, each arm-chair having a leaf at- serve his Alma Mater in the position to which instead of dark brown ; the panels of the win- he has been called. He will bring to the dis- dow-jambs are buff, set in white; the windows tached, so as to dispense with the use of desks. charge of the duties of his Professorship a themselves are protected at the lower frames Many other repairs, above and below, within and without, but not so noticeable in character thoroughly trained mind, and one well versed by screens of wrought iron ; and two tasteful in other learning besides that of the law, be hanging-lights depending from the ceiling re- as those we have described, are either in prog- sides a facility of imparting instruction which place the primitive fixtures familiar to all old ress or completed. The improvement in the set-out of the dinner tables, our lively corres- his experience must have gained for him. students. The colors employed in this part of The lectures to the Junior class will em- pondent above referred to chronicles with very the house were suggested by the architect, Mr. natural satisfaction. brace, among other topics, the discussion of J. L. Smithmyer, and the whole effect is ex- The trees around the gymnasium have been the elementary principles of the Common tremely pleasing. thinned out or trimmed so that that handsome structure is not so buried out of sight in foliage Law, the Law of Real and Personal property, The basement rooms east of the Laboratory, the Law of Contracts, Mercantile and Criminal as it was ; and the splendid horse-chesnut near that is, the billiard rooms (the old “ Jug-room” it now shows its graceful outline conspicuously. Law; those to the Senior class, the Science of and the next one,) the smoking-room, (recently The forester, Horrigan of the U. S. Naval Ob- Government, Equity Jurisprudence, Common play-room, and forty years ago, study-room,) servatory, has also been busy in other parts of the grounds, especially the College Walks, and Law and Equity Pleading and Evidence. Be- and the corridor adjoining, have been com- sides the inducements of moderate fees and some pleasing little vistas have been brought out pletely renovated. A new stairway to them or improved, while nobody misses what has able professors, there is a Law Association or- has been built, the whole area has been exca- been taken away, though it made material for ganized under the auspices of the Faculty, the vated nearly two feet, and “grouted”—that is, many cart-loads. In short, this lovely spot is being cared for, and the few aspens that are object of which is to improve the members in laid with cement between rafters : and on these the knowledge and practice of the law. On its left, and which threaten to deform it with their rafters a double flooring has been placed, one odious growth of suckers, will all finally dis- rolls may be found the names of many of the common level being maintained throughout appear. The magnificent view from the south most promising young lawyers of Washington. the premises. The rooms are wainscoted all side of the College, over the Potomac, Analos- tan island, the aqueduct and the Virginia It has a library of several hundred standard round, to the height of the window-sills, and law works, and is an incorporated body. All shore, is now, owing to the clipping or removing .students of Georgetown Law School are eligible oiled, as all the floors are, besides, and the of intervening foliage, displayed in its full ex- to membership in this association. Charles windows are newly set with wood work. Two tent. e GEORGETOWN

THE GEORGETOWN be. This is a destiny to which Georgetown purpose they will have the three cities of aspires : but we know that time is one of the Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria to COLLEGE JOURNAL essentials to its realization ; and only by such choose from ;—and the propinquity of this enlargements of the curriculum as can be made trio of cities is no slight indication that we ESTABLISHED 1872. from year to year without confusing or revo- are, in the right spot for a great university. A TWELVE PAGE QUARTO, PUBLISHED lutionizing the course of studies, can we hope However, if the College can procure by lease, MONTHLY DURING THE TEN MONTHS to attain it. This has been done already and is purchase, or gift—and we can do little in the OF THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR. still being done. As to Law and Medicine, matter of the university of the future without these departments already exist and are in suc- millionaires to help us in realizing the design, TERMSOne dollar a year in advance. Single copies, ten cents. Business cards cessful operation, although conducted in the —the block at our immediate left on emerging (one inch) inserted for $5 a year, inclu- adjoining city of Washington. At the Col- from the gate, or at least the Second St. front ding’ a copy of the paper during that period. Additional space furnished at lege, we are as yet hampered by old buildings of it, no site could be better for the erection of the rate of fifty cents an inch, or Four dollars a column, each issue. which we all feel that we have outgrown, but students’ quarters. For their meals, they will which are too extensive to be pulled down all look out for themselves : private parties will The COLLEGE JOURNAL is published by a at once, and can only be supplemented by ad- be glad enough to take the whole feeding con- stock association among the students. Its ditions as we go forward in our career. There tract, and the College, by maintaining a refec- purpose is to aicl their literary improvement, is no question that such additions as can be tory or “commons” of its own for a limited to chronicle the news of the College, etc. The paper being principally devoted to matters of conveniently made will he constructed forth- number, would furnish a standard by which local interest, it must rely for its support with, and even undertaken within the year. these parties wouldhave to regulate themselves, chiefly upon the students and Alumni of the Those that are to follow will be in keeping with if they wish to keep their custom. These de- College and its Departments, and their them, and will form a part of a comprehensive tails in regard to a future which is remote from friends. These and all former students are exhorted to sustain it by their patronage. plan already adopted, which will involve, in us by a whole generation, at least, if not by a Those whose address is not known, are re- the course of time, the entire remodelling of still greater interval, may seem somewhat quested to communicate it, or their friends our present structures, if not the absolute re- Utopian, but we can better realize the idea of will do so for them, as a specimen copy can moval of the greater portion of them. Then, the university which the Tablet thinks may at any time be furnished gratuitously. Those 7 who wish the back volumes willbe supplied at as to space, we have, with our 154 acres— grow up here, by anticipating some of thp a reduction. lying, too, on the very edge of town,—all that material circumstances which must accompany Address, the most ambitious university could demand : its development. Let us add, since we have COLLEGE JOURNAL, and a location that in all its aspects, material gone thus far, that, both for the use that can Georgetown, D. C. and other, cannot be surpassed in the United be made of it as a site for buildings that may States. To realize the University, properly in some measure call for isolation, or as a Col- GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, OCTOBER, 1878. speaking, we have still to eliminate some fea- lege campus, and in order that the approaches tures that have clung to us, legacies of the to the institution may be made respectable in “OUGHT WE NOT TO HAVE A CATHO- LIC UNIVEHSITY.” past, such as the preparatory school carried on appearance,—which they are not, now,—the in connection with the collegiate course, &c. : entire block lying between our eastern wall Under this heading, the New York Tablet of but conservative as Georgetown is, she would and the grounds of Trinity Church ought to be- Aug. 28th supplies a suggestive article in its doubtless know how to adapt herself to her long to us, as we believe Trinity grounds do ’ editorial columns, which, but for its length, we changed circumstances in the future of the already. An acquisition like this must of should be glad to transfer entire to our col budding University, just as she is doing now in course be effected through the millionaire unins. In commenting upon the systems that adapting her course to the needs of applicants friends Providence will doubtless raise up for prevail in modern universities, the editor—our who wish to dispense with the ancient lan- us when all else that is possible shall have been James S. MtiUaly of ’73—quotes the pregnant guages ; which is, practically, the beginning of effected by ourselves. Trinity parish ought words of the celebrated Dr. Newman, himself the elective system proper to be offered in some then to be accommodated with a building in formerly an Oxford man : of the higher studies by a great university, at some quarter of the town more central for the “ Thus, their notion of a university is a sort least in this country : and which maybe offered congregation, and the present church be put of bazaar or hotel, where everything is showy in a lower grade without belittling the eminent to use by ourselves for church purposes in and self sufficient-and changeable. 'Motley’s place the classics now hold and must ever hold connection with the Catholic students, thus the only wear.’ The majestic vision of the in the scheme of any university which deserves becoming the religious centre of the Univer- Middle Age, which grew steadily to perfection the name. Doubtless, too, the eliminating sity, as our present College site will conti ue to in the course of centuries, the University of process must overtake our domestic system of be the scholastic centre. Paris, or Bologna, or Oxford, has almost gone the present time : it would be clearly imprac- The Tablet speaks of “ foundations” which out in night. A philosophical comprehensive- ticable to board, lodge, and watch with paren- the wealth of generous friends must provide, ness, an orderly expansiveness, an elastic con- tal attention over eight hundred or a thousand in order that opportunities may be afforded to structiveness, men have lost them, and cannot students who would frequent our university— young men of great talents or aptitude to ac- make out why. This is why : because they then admitting none below Freshmen and con- quire an education otherwise unattainable by have lost the idea of unity ; because they cut sequently attracting a large number of persons them, for want of means. Here too is work off the head of a living thing, and think it is per- of mature age. These could take care of them- for wealthy friends of the College to do, fect, all but the head. They think the head selves : at least they will be old enough to re- whether Catholics or non-Catholics—and of an extra, an accomplishment, the corona oper- lieve the College of some minutiae in the mat the latter class of religionists Georgetown has is not essential to the idea of the being under ter of the responsibilities it now holds. Nor as many friends as among the former. Why, their hands.” need the College cumber its beautiful grounds indeed, should pecuniary assistance be with- The Tablet believes that even we of George- with lodging-houses for all this multitude. held from us, after our honorable record of town may some day remedy all this, so far as Many students, especially the non-Catholics, nearly a hundred years, when in our day, and this country is concerned, and fill the vacant would prefer the amenities of town life to a country we see institutions of learning on a place that awaits the University as it should residence within College confines. For this vast scale created ah ovo by the largesses of COLLEGE JOURNAL 7

not expend their force on worthless issues. rich men ? Our wealthy friends—or those who ceipts would be applied to the direct needs of the University, without passing through inter- The public would seek these men for office. ought to be our friends, considering what we They would fulfil their trust, and the entire are capable and anxious of becoming,—have vening hands. country would hail the Catholic universities as looked on long enough with inexpensive ap- Here we are, then, the great Catholic Uni- their deliverers. proval at the progress we have made, with the versity, inchoate. As College editor, we are “ The spot to be selected for the site of a limited means at our disposal. It is time now privileged to say this much, and being in no wise Catholic university, although an important, is that they should put their hands in their pock- of the authorities of the College, nor receiving only a secondary consideration. Neither,per- ets and aid us in our endeavors, or provide for any hints or suggestions from them on the haps, is it for us to suggest. Yet GEORGETOWN us in the testamentary disposition of their subject, in general or in particular, we are not would, we should suppose, suggest itself imme- diately to every one, from its proximity to the property. Strange to say, in the whole history withheld by delicacy from making so broad an assertion. Speaking also for our students and capital of the Union, and because there exists of the College, little of the kind had ever there already excellent material for the com- been done by gentlemen unconnected with the for the friends of the College, and knowing mencement of such an institution. This insti- College until the donors of the five new medals their sentiments upon this point, Catholics and tution has, in fact, all the elements of success. non Catholics alike, we have no hesitation in Still, as we have said, this is only a secondary which were presented at our late Commence- affair. The location of the university can be ment came forward to inaugurate a novel prac- putting upon record our opinion, too, and determined afterwards. Let the hierarchy, tice in our regard,—and, let us hope, to lead alleging our reasons for it, for the encourage- clergy, and wealthy Catholics take the matter ment of such contemporaries as may share in in hands at once, and after we get the Catholic the way for others who will have the honorable 1 the appreciation and good wishes expressed by university we can then discuss The Public- ambition to emulate their example,by providing- School question.’ ” through the means God may have given them, the editor of the Tablet. It is time now, after this lengthy introduction, which we had no for specialties which must grow through assis- SrPPlEMliSTARY. tance from without, and can be fully realized idea, when we began, of indulging in, that we in no other way. give the article referred to, or that portion of We own to some degree of apprehension in it reserved for insertion here. It has been the care of the authorities of the presenting ourselves to our readers at this “ Without any rough invasion of the temper College, and of the Maryland Province of the opening of a new scholastic year, and in the and habits of the people, this very serious evil first number of a new volume of the JOURNAL, Society to which it belongs, to supply the tea- [the devotion to mere money-getting, and the chers and professors who have hitherto conduc- —which ought to be made especially attractive, unconnected and fragmentary character of the ted it through its advancing career,—men —at such length as we have done in the prece- higher instruction imparted to those who, on trained by a long and laborious preparation, ding article. The weighty character of the the contrary, seek for learning] would be rem- subject, however, must be our apology : and for the most part, and especially of late years, idied, to a great extent, by a Catholic univer- for the task they have in hand : they will con- sity. The establishment of a metropolis of we hope, too, that on that ground, our readers tinue to provide for it in the same manner with learning, and still more, of several, would of will attentively peruse it. There are those itself give a powerful impetus to its cultiva- among our students of the present year who the increased solicitude which our develop- tion. Those of the toiling population who, will doubtless witness tne realization by old ment demands ; and if the comparatively lim- conscious of great mental power, thirsted for Georgetown of the ideal here set forth. It ited number of members of the Society should knowledge, would be able, by the aid of “foundations,” to slake their thirst at the prove an embarrassment, they will call in, to may not occur, in its finality, until many of purest fountain. Those to whom time was not 'them shall have grown into staid and matured fill vacancies, the best secular talent and given to go through a complete curriculum capacity, as they have begun to do, already. would have received what knowledge they had citizens : perhaps not until the advance of Under such auspices, the future of our Univer- acquired in scientific form, systematized, that years shall have frosted their now youthful is, and vivified by a principle. Instead, then, sity, be it all that the Tablet anticipates as locks. But, if they are interested in their of being an unmeaning, fragmentary, barren Alma Mater, it is well to anticipate the possi- possible in growth, is not likely to be marred knowledge, rapidly disappearing, in conse- by short-comings or failures in the executive quence, from the memory, their little stock bilities of her future'career : and this very an- department, or in the matter of professorships would live in the mind and would be able to ticipation will help the result. It is easier for expand and fructify. A body of ripe scholars or the incumbents of them. If this country an institution like this to build itself up and or of men versed in natural science or specu- grow great, when by so doing, she exactly ful- has not the men to fill the chairs that may be lative philosophy, or history, or letters, or created, we have Europe to draw from. grammar, or music, or the other arts, would be fils all that had been expected of her by the children whom she nurtured and the friends Secclii, Piauciani (now dead.) De Vico, and ever at hand, eminently fitted for professor- ships or for headships at the several colleges who knew her capabilities. Moreover, the in- other distinguished European savans have been throughout the country. Our language would terest that they will take in beholding her ad- here already, and might have remained had be rescued from what it is now suffering at the vancement will not be a mere idle and unfruit- they believed that the restored peace and order hands of crowds of illiterate writers, and pre- ful sentiment, but will enlist their active efforts which invited them back to Europe would be served from the utter corruption that threatens it. A more complete unity, as well as univer- in her behalf, will call into play their perso al so short lived. If we cannot recall those of sality, would be communicated to the educa- influence, if they hold a position in the world them who are living, we shall be able to obtain tion given by tire several colleges ; a learned which shall make that influence valuable, or men approximating them- in learning and retreat would be provided for distinguished will incline them intuitively to aid her with genius, whenever our necessities here prove literati; and refined morals going hand in hand with intellectual advancement, the whole char- their means with a liberality proportioned to greater than those which retain them where acter of the country would be raised. Its effect the extent of the fortune with which Provi- they are. With a tithe of tire great income would even reach the deep-seated corruption dence may endow them. Georgetown College which such colleges as Harvard, &c., possess, which is now preying on the country and threatening the very form of government with has a future. What shall it be ? Let us anti- we could rival, in the extent and solidity of dissolution. Ignorance and vulgarity are the cipate for her the highest position that she can the educational results which would follow, inspiring spirits of these rings, of these robbers attain ; but, in realizing it,—let our College all til at the best and oldest American univer- of the public, of these betrayers of the govern- sities could accomplish; for our means would mental trust. In less than a generation, a readers of the present day particularly remem- not be employed, except in the case of the few flourishing university would have produced a ber,—she must be largely indebted to the gen- class of men incapable of stooping to such eration of students whom she is now training, seculars who might be employed here, in pay- baseness, able to administer a public trust with ing great salaries and supporting families, or vigor and wisdom, as well as conscientiously ; or whom she has recently matured and sent indeed in paying salaries of any kind. All re- their minds, expanded by high culture, would forth into the world. 8 GEORGETOWN

GEORGETOWN. and resources to the erection of an hospital. We foresee that we shall have to omit many These two good works are as widely different items of interest that we expected to find room Georgetown is to be the dwelling place of as the immortal life of the soul and the transi for. We have a long list of “ Personal” noti- the elite of Washington at no distant, future. tory state of the body. Our brethren in Bel- ces in reserve, giving an account of old stu- It certainly is a beautiful place. Georgetown gium and Ireland have thoroughly understood dents here and there, and enumerating those College must be a delightful place for training the truth of this, nor have they been intimida- who have visited us during the summer, es- the young idea. The views from the College ted by the sacrifices which the erection of these pecially such as took that occasion to subscribe are simply grand, and the one from the South- beneficent institutions naturally entails, and to the COLLEGE JOURNAL. For this class of old ern portion is equal to anything on the conti- even now they are harvesting the fruits of students, whether they visit us here or not, we nent. their generosity. May their noble example have a tender place in our heart, of course. The Signal Service buildings, Arlington stimulate others to follow in the footsteps they Old students who already take the paper are Heights, the home of Lee, and the beautiful have traced: may the re-establishment of particularly anxious to hear of comrades whom river are all extended before you, a glorious Catholic Universities everywhere enable the they have lost sight of. Why do they not panorama. During the war, fourteen forts Church to continue, in favor of modern socie- oftener tell us of those whose whereabouts were visible from the College. The Library ty, the work of civilization which the blindness they know?—We are obliged also to defer an and Museum of this College are worthy of a of the Revolution had checked.” account of some additional gifts to the Museum. long description, but time presses.—Exch. Our sincere sympathies are due to the esti- —As to our Exchanges, if ever we made a firm BRIEF NOTICES. mable family in this town who have been resolution to go through them and comment upon them, it has been while cogitating the The Santa Clara Owl for September thus plunged in deep distress by the misconduct of a son. It would be well if the unhappy young make-up of this number. Yet, here we are, at welcomes back to California our late Professor the very close of the work, and with this weary of Rhetoric, so endeared to all here : man could bear alone the burthen of his wrong-doing, but such, in the nature of things, task unaccomplished! Will our contempora- “Father Edmund J. Young, S. J., who has cannot be. Still, if his parents can be con- ries grant us further grace ? been away from this Coliege for over four soled by the testimonies of heart-felt sympathy These “Brief Notices” have run on until years, is now daily expected from the East. that are offered by all who know them, and by they have absorbed everything else, including We rejoice especially at the thought that he is what would have been, by their proper title, returning to remain with us permanently. the bright promise of the son who is still left “ College Jottings.” Under this head, the Father Young is a man who wins the affection to them, the force of the blow may be weak- ened. principal item should be the opening of the of all who know him; and we feel confident new Smoking-room, Sunday, Sept. 26th, after that he will be welcomed with enthusiasm. The President was called to Boston, Sept. dinner. To inaugurate it in proper style, C. “ Since the above was in type, Father Young, 25th, by the critical illness of his brother, Rev. Manly and T. P. Kernan were appointed a we are happy to say, has arrived. He reached A. Sherwood Ilealy, pastor of St. James’ committee to wait on the authorities of the the College on the evening of the 25th of Church in that city, and had not returned when house for a supply of segars. These being ob- August, and was most warmly welcomed by our paper went to press. tained, a gay reunion took place in the new the Faculty. We saw very little of him that At ttie time of writing this paragraph, rooms amid jovial songs and choruses and evening, for he was monopolized by the Fathers. three weeks have elapsed since studies were flashes of wit. Our special reporter has given The next day, however, a holiday was granted resumed, and we have already 170 students in us a full detail of what was said and sung, but by our kind President, in honor of his arrival; attendance, viz : 133 boarders, of whom 43 are we dare not be lengthy, for fear we should not and at one o’clock the students all assembled new-comers ; and 37 day scholars, 15 of whom be able to get anything in. E. Dolan wanted under the verandah, and as Father Young, ac- arc new. We notice a few who were here in a to know why his segar was like a College companied by Father Varsi, entered the hall, former year, and have now returned : but we Treasurer : Because you can’t draw anything the Brass Band played a march, and Father miss also many whom we had expected to greet out of it. Timmins asked why the spittoons Young was obliged to stop. A few other again. The greedy maw of business has swal- were like the shoes of a certain little Profes- pieces were then played, and when the seren- lowed some of them up : others decline to re- sor : Because they had stumps in them ; &c. ade was over, three cheers were given with turn because not promoted in their classes: The Band, though as yet composed of only four such “ vim” that one could easily see that the and a number are still to arrive, some having members, Messrs. Etheridge, Fleetwood, J. C. welcome therein expressed came not from the gone abroad. The usual variety is presented Payne and R. Jenkins, also treated the com- boys lips only but from their hearts. Father this year, our students coming from all the pany to a variety of music, and afterwards Young responded to the reception in a short States between Mexico and New Hampshire, played in the yard.—The same afternoon, but neat little speech, saying that he was most together with a scattering from the west, among some of the elder pupils of the Visitation happy to return to Santa Clara College. We whom Illinois is represented for the first time Academy, accompanied by out-sisters, visited are sure that he cannot be more happy to re- in several years. The Georgia Brigade has the Museum, &c., and were invited to hear our turn than we to receive him. The health shrunk away considerably, but South Carolina College Choir in the Chapel, with organ ac- which our dear preceptor enjoys is perfect, has at last a little coterie. California has one companiment by Prof. Gloetzner. It is need- aud we earnestly hope that it will continue to representative, and the Spanish-American less to say that on this occasion, Clem, and be so.” countries have a good many. New York holds the rest surpassed themselves. The young We take from the October number of the its own, and the Massachusetts delegation has ladies, escorted by Fr. Curley, then visited the “Messenger of the Sacred Heart,” a monthly somewhat grown in number. They are rapid- Observatory, and were lost to view, except as issued from Woodstock College, Md., the fol ly getting acquainted with one another, and we the procession filed out the gate on its return lowing extract, embodying the religious view shall evidently have as harmonious a family home. of the subject considered in our editorial col- and as well mannered a one as usual. We The Chaplain wants to know what has be- umns. “ To contribute to the foundation of a might except from the last remark some young come of the decorators that used to attend to Catholic university, is to perform a work more hoodlums on the small boys’ side, who, how- the altars last spring and summer. Not a vol- agreeable to God, more useful to religious and ever, are reported to he getting ashamed of unteer has presented himself so far, and the civil society, than to consecrate our energies their bad manners, especially at table. garden that lies below the chapel windows is COLLEGE JOURNAL 9 loaded with flowers. He desires to thank Bishops” seems not to take much stock in con needs wise and religious counsel. It is the re- those young gentlemen, chiefly members of temporary history. capitulation of what a good parent would say the Poetry class, who have served on Sundays, to her child : but not every parent is wise, and and iudeed on other days, since schools began. Publications Received. hence, the importance of this book to many A band of younger acolytes will be trained, no who enter upon the duties of life without doubt, to take their place: but in the mean Speeches of Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees. ample guidance from parents or secular supe- time, the courtesy and good-will of those who Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. While this riors. now supply for them deserve special mention. book will find readers chiefly among lawyers These notices were prepared for our vaca- The extracts in prose and verse with which and politicians; we trust that students who tion number but were excluded for want of we have been obliged to All up our paper until wish to make themselves familiar with con- room. Other publications received will be we could get original contributions,—and we temporary history, especially of those event- noticed in our next. delayed our paper that we might not be obliged ful years between 1860 and 1872, will give it a to make it all extract or editorial,—ought to careful reading. They will also find both the OUR SOCIETIES. interest our readers. The article on “ Quoting political and literary addresses excellent mod- But few of the College Societies have as yet and Mis-quoting” should supply useful hints to els of style, each in their sphere. Combined oi'ganized. When they do, we shall publish some of our College writers who are a little with force of expression and originality of the lists of their officers. The Reading Room careless in the use of their quotations. The thought, they possess a polish that one would Association held its meeting Sept. 19th and question of Retrocession to Maryland is one hardly look for in the writings of a Western elected Rev. Wm. Carroll, S.J., President: that interests every one of us. The original orator. A fullness of illustration from both Clement Manly, Vice-Pres: John G. Agar, pieces speak for themselves. Both are timely, classical and modern sources, shows the author Rec. Sec: Arthur Hood, Jr., Treas : Thomas though they partly cover the same ground : to have been a thorough student in his College P. Kernan, Librarian : Wm. F. Dammann, Jr., and “ W. D.” has spice for the editor as well as days. The Address of July 4th 1860, before Assistant Libr : Wm. F. Smith, Frank de S. for other people. the Literary Societies of the University of Jenkins, Redmond D. Walsh, Patrick II. Virginia, is at once a history, a constitutional All who knew John T. Herlihy, and valued Lynch, Francis J. Duffy, and G. Carroll Hor- him for his sterling character and amiable argument, and a prophecy. The speeches in Congress depict the convulsions and excite- sey, Censors. Corresponding Committee, J. traits, will be truly grieved to hear, if they Carroll Payne, Gabriel Landa, and Franklin ments of the time more vividly than even a have not heard already, of his death, which Roberts. historical sketch could do. But the space at took place at his home in Washington, Au . The Senior Sodality organized on the 26th. our command does not permit us to dwell as 12th. His disease was inflammatory rheuma- Officers, Rev. James A. Doonan, S. J., Direc- we would wish, on the merits of particular ad- tism terminating in dropsy. When he was re- tor : Jno. G. Agar, Prefect: Clem. Manly, dresses. The work has been compiled by his moved hence in June, he had little hopes ot re First Assistant: Thos. P. Kernan, Second son, Chas. S. Voorhees, of ’73, one of the orig- covtry, but maintained a cheerful and patient Assistant: J. Carroll Payne, Sec: James inators of this paper. spirit, and did so to the last. Fortified by the Dolan, Treas.: G. Carroll Horsey, Libr. : Jno. Catalogue of the Albany Law School, 1874-5. consolations of his Church, he was enabled to J. Fatjo, Assistant Libr.: Albert J. Laplace, anticipate death with calmness : he even gave We perceive from this Catalogue that the donor, Jas. F. Tracey of ’74, another of our Sacristan : Jno. H. Fleetwood, Assistant Sacr.: particular directions in regard to his funeral, Arthur Hood, Jr., Censor. Consulters, Wm. JOURNAL’S founders is a graduate in Law in desiring, among other things that he should be J. Willcox, Enoch B. Abell, R. D. Walsh, and buried in the suit that had been prepared for ’75. Connecticut Board of Education. Six Re- Thos.F. Malian. him to wear at our last Commencement, and At a meeting of the Philosophy Class, Sept. ports by B. G. Northup, L.L.D. The first of with the May badge upon his breast, given him 16th the following officers were chosen : Presi these Reports, that on “Village Improve- when these objects were distributed last May dent, John Carroll Payne, of Warrenton, Va: by the writer of this. He was an only child, ment,”—the rest being purely educational, and not to be debated in a short notice,—is Vice President, William Jenkins Willcox, and his heart-broken mother, though hereto- Philadelphia. Clement Manly, New Berne, one that interests us especially, and we wish fore in excellent health, survived him but a few N. C., Treas., Seer., and Chief Caterer. [“ Chief that the authorities of every one of our Mary- days. His funeral sermon was preached at the Caterer! ’ ’ Who ever heard of such an officer land and District towns, where so much re- Church of the Immaculate Conception by the in a graduating class? But then this is Mary- mains to be done in the way of improvement, President of the College. land, or ought to be, (see our Retrocession ar- could have the reading of it. Our College writers must stir themselves to ticle,) and in Maryland, the land of good living, Addresses at the Annual Commencement give us original matter for the next issue : a caterer is an important personage, Chief of the Law Department of the University of everything is now settled at College, and caterer : that is, everybody in the class is to Georgetown. Our thanks are due to Frank J, moving smoothly, and there is time enough for cater for himself, and the “ Chief ” is to pile it M. Daly, Esq., late of our College corps, and writing, if they will but employ it. If some- on. This is the way it was done last year. graduate in Law at said Commencement, for thing suitable for the first page is not handed We thought, then, that these young gentlemen this pamphlet. It contains the sterling ad- in by the 11th of October, we shall have to call were industriously preparing themselves for dress of Hon. George W. Paschal and the ex- our scissors into requisition. an era of high living in ’75-6 : and so it is, cellent Valedictory of Mr. Daly. We spoke whether one considers the place of their abode, In our list of College officials, Page 11, a of these addresses in a former number. or their symposiums below, with the “ chief” dis-arrangement of the types makes us assign Peters' Celebrated Mass in D. We have attached. ] an erroneous date to the term of service of our this favorite Mass from the publishers, Geo. greatly esteemed House Physician. This term Willig & Co., Baltimore. In small churches, “ SOUR GRAPES.” The vine-yard, notwith- has been continuous since 1843, and our read- this Mass is generally preferred to any other. standing the drafts made upon it for our tables, ers can correct the statement accordingly. Counsels to Young Ladies who have com- still abounds with its purple riches : but the Mount St. Mary’s College, Md., has at last pleted their education, P. F. Cunningham & double difficulty of an osage orange hedge, favored us with a subscriber in the person of Son, Philadelphia. This admirable book without, and a man with a gun, within, makes one of our former students. The “Mother of touches upon points wherein every young lady surreptitious visits to it extremely rare. 10 GEORGETOWN

DE QUIBUSDAM REBUS. &c., from standing on the cold damp bricks thankful for very good advice given in the iy. which once paved the floor of the play room, I books that are read to them. The only effort regret to say that that pleasure is no longer in MR. EDITOR : How are you ? you are well; they have to make is not to go to sleep. You store for you ; in that part of the northern I know you are, in fact. Editors are always in can’t expect them to take it from the JOURNAL building e-erything has undergone an entire health Judging from the healthy length at which when they have the trouble of borrowing a copy change, and both billiard and smoking—no they deliver themselves, or some one is whom from their neighbors, and then having to read we call Mr. Editor. You are an important longer ^itoy-rooms—look like some fashionable it for themselves. saloon,—leaving out the sideboard. personage, the world can’t spare you, even for As an agitator, Daniel O’Connell has many a day. Well, I am glad to see you looking I will not tire you with a detail of these im- admirers and imitators in this College, real agi- well, glad to get back, and see our College in a provements, since you gave an account of them tators who go at their work scientifically. Now to your readers in your last number. One state of progress—following the illustrious ex- why don’t you get them to agitate some mea- ample of the nineteenth century. How many thiug I must mention, which will, no doubt, be sure which would result in advantage to the new boys have we, and how few old ones! a source of regret to such of the old students COLLEGE JOURNAL ? Every student ought to Like the leaves on a tree, we are whirled away as cherish their recollections of ruder days : consider it his duty to not only take a copy of by autumn gusts,—except we go in spring,— the tables look cleanly : more than this the the paper, but to get at least one copy sub- to make place foi a new crop. Only a few of whole refectory has an air of gentility ; and scribed for by his friends. Instead of this us are left, who in our sere and yellow leaf those who found amusement in stuffing the friendly feeling towards the JOURNAL, there is stand amidst the fresher buds ;—I would have pepper-box with hash, bread, &c., have to find a faction in the yard which seems in positive said greener buds, but for fear of insulting our other little games in which to indulge their hostility to it. This feeling is particularly new friends. fancies. Castors now surmount each table,and shared by the day scholars, and they, more Speaking of new boys, what a nice looking- the glitter of the polished plate gives a cheer- than others, could be of real benefit, would set of fellows they are! All of them seem ful appearance, and doubly affords a sauce to they attempt it. And they would, if their bright and happy : only one or two undergoing our meals. hearts were in the right place, that is, in the the process—generally applied to the feathery Mr. Editor, I saw that man with a tape and interest of the College and the students. You tribe,—of moulting, shedding 8 few home fan- measuring rod prowling about this place again. should have more subscribers. Nothing is a cies ; accustoming themselves to put aside But the thing is no longer a joke. It used to greater incentive to writing than to know that some “ fond records,” which usually produce a be amusing to see him come around, looking you will have many readers, and that your kind of lethargy and sadness. You, Mr. Edi- up at the buildings as much as to say : “ you’ll thoughts will go far and wide. Some of our tor, who have watched the growth of so many come down, old boy.” It has been repeated young geniuses in the yard have no intention of chickens, fully understand me. But they are once too often, I can’t laugh any more, ’tis wasting their breath instructing the few who a fine, intelligent set, to all appearances; positively mournful now, yet, w'e are having read the JOURNAL ; they imagine their ideas somewhat too well dressed, above our ordinary improvements : they actually going on at this will be more extensively circulated by loud standard, which results in giving a seedy look “moment, every one is delighted at them, and talking,—in the study-hall. to our own boys. This will wear off in time. we gather round and look at the workmen with I am thinking seriously, Mr. Editor, of sell- Their shirts look white, but they were “ done unfeigned pleasure. Still that is enough ; we ing out my right to “ De Quibusdam Rebus.” up” at home: their outer garments have a can congratulate ourselves that in future there I thought it was sold a day or so ago when shiny, new appearance, but a few scuffles, and will be so many more conveniences, but when some one approached me upon the subject: the wear and tear of a few days on the gymna you come to speak of the New Building—there but the interview only resulted in a little dis- sium will suffice to remedy this. I have no ob- it’s out, sir; tho’ I did not mean to mention paragement of the title, and myself being sold. jections to fine dressing, but our friends seem, the word. Good-bye. to a certain extent, isolated, not exactly one The Amusements in the yard should be per- W. D. with us. I have no doubt,—this is not conceit, fectly successful this year. From the number —that they will, in time, become our worthy and disposition of the boys, there is every Georgetown Alumni. reason why they should be. Base Ball must successors, props of our ancient institution. We are authorized by the Secretary, E. D. not degenerate, most of the College Nine being Of the old boys, nothing need be said except F. Brady, Esq., Washington, 460 0. St., N. W. back. A few days ago, I noticed in the field, to welcome every kind face. In this, Mr. Edi- to announce that a stated meeting of the McMeal, our old Captain Timmons, J. Dolan, tor, I am sure you join with me. Alumni Association will be held on Monday, Malian, and ourself, or our namesake, W. D., The watch-word now is improvement or Oct. 11th at 7J o’clock, P. M., at the George- “ improvementsI dare say there are many keeping themselves in practice. If some of town Law College, 915 F. St., N. W., Wash- persons of such sentiment that they would sub- the rest of our boys would train up to their ington . mit to the use of a bad thing, themselves, and standard, the College Nine would, in truth, by He also desires, and we beg to urge most the Centennial, be a fair nine, I regret to see earnestly, that ail graduates who have not yet subject posterity to the same inconvenience, in done so, will send to him, previous to said order that they might return some day' and such lethargy in the Athletic Association. meeting, name, degree, year of graduation, say: “ Yes, here is the same old thing ; this is Fellow students, elect the right men to fill the and present adderss. the identical old worn step that was there in right places, or you will have no club or socie- We want to see this Association a live thing : which it cannot be, if our graduates hold back my time. How slippery with sleet it used to ty carried out in a proper and effective man- from it, or delay opening communication with be! By George! Don’t I remember ?” Here it ner. I wish I could touch upon the Band, the Secretary. This much, at least, everv one T is, Mr. Editor, he remembers ; sentiment is Choir, Billiard room, &c., at some length ; but can do, at a slight outlay of ten minutes of .uppermost; his face actually beams with perhaps one can be of more service to them by time and a three-cent stamp. pleasure, as he recall the delightful sensation going in and helping them, than by giving good Those who by the permission of the Presi- of bruises, neck breakings, etc. I sympathize advice,—tho’ the advice may come through the dent will be allowed to take extra lessons in a little with these people, as their day is over. medium of the COLLEGE JOURNAL. AS a gen any particular branch of study, can make ar- Our administration has sentiment, but, Deo eral rule, boys don’t take to advice, even when rangements with Mr. Walter A. Donaldson, A. B.,still residing at the “Hall,” College Gratias, it takes a different turn. Ye who given gratis. For instance, I have noticed grounds. Pupils from without prepared for found pleasure in catching cold, influenzas, that during retreats, they don’t seem a bit the U. S. Military or Naval Academy, &c. COLLEGE JOURNAL 11

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Sumner. A Speciality in Gent’s & Ladies’ Trunks, REV. A. M. PARESCE, S. J., (late Rector of Rev. W. B. Cleary takes charge of St. Ann’s Valises, and Morocco Traveling Satchels. Woodstock College, Md.,) Spiritual Director. Church, Tenallytown on Sundays. CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER. A call is respectfully solicited. REV. JOHN B. GUIDA, S. J., Professor of GRAFTON TYLER, M. D., Attending Physi- Rational Philosophy. cian (23d year.) REV. JAMES CURLEY, S. J., Director of the DR. W, EVANS, Dentist. Observatory and Professor of Botany. HALL & HUME, REV. JOHN J. RYAN, S. J., Professor of Phy- The Brothers occupy the offices they held sics and Mechanics. last year, except that Bro. O’Brien replaces 807 MARKET SPACE, Bro. Gallagher as pastry-cook. DANIEL J. KELLY, A. M.,M. D. Professorof Chemistry and Physiology. WASHINGTON, D, C. NOTE. Of those who were embraced in the REV. WM. B. CLEARY, S. J., (late Professor list of Faculty and officers of last year, and Dealers in of Rhetoric at the Novitiate, Frederick) Pro- who are not with us the present, it may be well fessor of Rhetoric and Lecturer on Christian to add the Post-office address. Rev. Edmund FINE FAMILY GROCERIES, Doctrine. J. Young, S. J. Santa Clara College, Santa REV. JAMBS CLARK, S. J., Professor of Mathe- Clara, Cal. Rev. John J. Murphy, S.J., Rev. WINES, CHAMPAGNES, matics. C. H. Stonestreet, S. J., Rev. JolinA.Mor- OLD FRENCH BRANDIES, REV. JAMES A. DOONAN, S. J., (late of Wood- qan, S. J., Novitiate, Frederick City, Md. Rev. Dennis A. Kelley, S. Jand Mr. Hugh stock College) Professor of Poetry. SOLE PROPRIETORS &c. EDWARD OTIS FORNEY, A. B., Professor of Quinn, S. J., Gonzaga College, Washington. English Literature. Mr. Eugene F. Hill, S. J., and Mr. W. R. of the popular Cowardin, S. J., Woodstock College, Howard MICHAEL A. O'KANE, S. J., Teacher of First Co., Maryland. Mr. Anthony J. 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