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A monthly paper published by the Students of Georgetown College in the interests of Alma Mater.

SEVENTEENTH YEAR. JUNE, 1889. No. 9.

A TABLE OF CONTENTS. ten freundliehen Aufforderung zur Theilnahme an der 100 jiihrigen Jubelfeier der Universitat Georgetown nicht moglick gewesen, der THE NEWS OF THE MONTH 157 Jubilarin reebtzeitig ihren Festgruss zu entbieten. LITERARY WORK. Indem ich nunmekr im Auftrage des Conseiis der Kaiserlicken “ Especially on Mental Pabulum ” 159 Universitat Dorpat mittelst der beifolgeuden Votiftafel dessenberz- Rare Ben Jonson 162 EDITOR’S TABLE 163 lichsten Gluckwunsch der Universitat Georgetown zu ubermitteln FROM THE SANCTUM. mich beekre, erlanbe ich mir gleichzeitig Euer Magnificenz hied- Valedictory 164 urch ganzergebenst zu ersuchen, der Universitat Georgetown spe- “ Tober-Na-Vuolich ” 164 WITH THE OLD BOYS 164 ciell aueli noch meinen Gluckwunsch freundlicht ubermitteln UNIVERSITY NOTES. und der selben vollster Bluken und Gedeihen auch fur die fernere The School of Law. 166 Zukunft wunschen zu wollen. Rector der Kaiserlicken Universitat Dorpat: Special Notice.— The Centennial Supplement of THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR DR. A. SCHMIDT. JOURNAL has been ready for some time. It is a magnificene Secretaire des Conseiis: piece of typographical ivork of forty pages, bound in a memorial G. GREFFNER. cover of blue and gray. The supplement contains a full chron- Accompanying this letter from Dorpat was a congratulatory icle of the. three days’ celebration, the Centennial Sermon, the inscription which we print below: Alumni Poem and Oration, the Addresses by the President of the United States, the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, the Q. B. F. F. F. Q. S. various church dignitaries, and others who took part in the UNIUERSITATI LITTERARUM festivities, together with the letters of congratulation from Pope GEORG-IOPOLITANAE Leo XIII. and the great Universities of the world, from ARTIUM QUAE AD HUMANITATEM PERTINENT Bologna, Salamanca, Cambridge, etc., etc. Single copies SEDI CELEBERRIMAE twenty-five cents. ACADEMIAE IN AMERICAE FOEDERATAE IMMENSIS REGIONIBUS AHTIQUISSIMAE NEWS OF THE MONTH. DE OMNI GENERE DOCTRINAE THE following letters in answer to the University invitation BENE MERITAE of last February have been received within the past few ANTE IIOS CENTUM ANNOS days: FELICISSIMIS AUSPICIIS THE LETTER FROM KINGSTON, CANADA. LIBERALITER CONDITAE (L. S.) Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. SACRA SAECULARIA “ Sapientia, Stabilitas, et Doctrina.” CELEBRANTI KINGSTON, CANADA, June 11, 1889. OMNI QUA PAR EST OBSERUANTIA CONGRATULAMUR MY DEAR SIR: I am instructed by the Senate of Queen’s Univer- sity to acknowledge receipt of your highly esteemed invitation to FAUST A OMNIA PRECAMUR take part in your Centenary Celebration in March last (February). I regret to say that unfortunately the invitation did not reach us UNIUERSITATIS LITTERARUM DORPATENSIS until after the time appointed, and consequently too late to be in RECTOR ET PROFESSORES. our power to appoint a representation. Tour obedient servant, GEORGE BELL, LL. D., DORP ATI LIUONORUM The President University of Georgetown, D. G. Registrar. IDIBUS APRILIBUS A. MDCCCLXXXIX. * -x- -x- * THE LETTER FROM SYDNEY. * * THE LETTER FROM NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND. THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, N. S. W., May 7,1889. SIR: I have the honour by direction of the Senate to acknowledge Republique et Canton de Neuchatel, Academie de Neuchatel. the receipt of your invitation for a delegate from this University to NETJCHATEL, le 24 Mai, 1889. be present at the University Festivals at Georgetown on the 20th of Monsieur Joseph Havens Richards, 8. J., Recteur de V Universile de February of this year, and to express the regret of the Senate that Georgetown: the invitation did not arrive in sufficient time to enable it to send any delegate, as well as to transmit its cordial thanks to you for the MONSIEUR LE RECTEUE ET TEES HONOBE COLLEGUE-. Le Conseil invitation. de l’Academie de Neuchatel a pris, avec autant de plaisir que d’in- I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, teret, connaisance de l'invitation que vous avez bien voulu lui ad- H. E. BARFF, dresser de se faire representer au centenaire de la fondation de Registrar. votre University. Malheureusement, cette invitation ne nous etant The President University Georgetown, U. 8. A. parvenue qu’a la veille de la cer&nonie, nous avons ete empfichd d’y * repondre comme nous aurions desire. * X Neanmoins nous ne voulons point manquer de vous exprimer THE LETTER FROM UORPAT, RUSSIA. notre reconnaisance pour la part que vous nous avez offerte a votre Ministerium joie, nos felicitations pour le lustre qu’un siecle revolu apporte a der votre noble institution, et nos voeux pour la gloire et la prosperity. Y olksauf kliirung. Je vous pile, Monsieur le Recteur, de bien vouloir presenter ces sentiments a nos collogues de Georgetown et d’agi-yer vous mfmc Kaiserliche l’expression de ma consideration la plus distinguee. Universitat zu Dorpat. An Au nom du Conseil de l’Academie, Seine Magnificenz A. U. MENTHA, Recteur. Hector den Herrn Rector der Universitat * Georgetown. x- * Dorpat, His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons paid a visit to the denl9ten April, 1889. College on Ascension Day to administer Confirmation to the No. 445. class of candidates who had been prepared by Fr. Welch, S. Leider ist es der Universitat Dorpat in Folge'des durch Postoerz- J. Early in the day the Rev. Rector of the University, ac- ogerung geursackten verspateten Eintreffens der an die selbe gericli- companied by the Chancellor, went to Tennallytown to meet 158 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 1889 his Eminence. After the ceremonies there the Cardinal re- The May devotions closed with a gem of a little sermon by Rev. Fr. Barnum, S. J. turned to the College, where the following class was con- * firmed : * * William Joachim McCarthy, Hobert Edward Berrian, The “ Reading Circle ” of the class of ’91 held its last Alfred William Fergerson, John Aloysius Ryan, Philip Fred- meeting on the night of May 5 th. erick Walsh, James Edgar McShane, Felix Alfred Kelso, * Frederick Henry Lee, William Emmett Gleason, Charles Francis Gleason, Ernest Pendleton Magruder, Francis Aloy- The final oral examinations began June 12th, extending un- sius Welder, George Aloysius Baillio, Julius Thomas Kane, til June 22d. Louis Ignatius Kane, Oscar James Braneff, George Thomas Braneff, James Carter Cook, Alfred Aloysius Hayes, Emilius * * Joseph McKee, George Cuthbert Powell, Frederick Stanislas A gang of men, under the direction of Mr. Harrigan, of the McElhone, Mathias Aloysius Tunis, Francis Stanislas Ryan, Naval Observatory, have been engaged in trimming the trees James Francis Power. around the walks. A short address was delivered by the Cardinal both before * and after Confirmation. He was assisted in the ceremonies by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Idaho, Dr. Marty, Rev. The direful effects of the recent flood are too well known to Fr. Rector, S. J., and Rev. Fr. Prefect. At the close of the receive mention here. But what a reminder of those portentous sacred rite, Benediction was given by the Right Reverend days of Deucalion; so that well we might fear, “ Grave nere- Bishop Marty. diret Saeculum Pyrrho, nova monstra questae." * '-k * * * * On the evening of May 28th the Philonomosian Society The final prize contest in elocution took place on the even- held its annual debate in the dining hall of the College. The ing of June 5th. The skill and talent displayed on that occa- hall was filled to overflowing, and the ring of applause that sion were well worthy the reputation of the College, and it is burst from the audience as the speakers ascended the stage thought that the contest was a close one. The judges were was often renewed throughout the evening, frequently inter- Hon. Felix C. C. Zegarra, Minister of Peru ; Hon. J. Hub- rupting the gentlemen in their discourse. The debaters on ley Ashton ; Alexander Porter Morse. Mr. Morse in a letter the occasion were Messrs. C. Manning Combs, of Maryland, to one of the faculty spoke in very high terms of the “ ad- and Samuel J. Boldrick, of Kentucky, who upheld respectively mirable training ” displayed by the several contestants. •* the affirmative and negative sides of the question. The sub- * -* ject under discussion was the Blair Bill, upon which, during On the afternoon of the 8th the Class of First Grammar the course of the evening, even “Uncle Sam” himself fitly celebrated its annual class reunion. The programme of deigned to express his opinion, a fact that removes all appre- exercises consisted of speeches and poems, in which a goodly hension that any difficulties respecting the same will arise in number of the class took part. The President, M. R. Den- the future. He would have the Blair Bill passed. At the close ver, R. Driscoll, Vice-President, Secretary E. Kernan, and of the exercises Fr. Rector, in a little impromptu speech, W. Robinson, Treasurer, each in turn made appropriate offered his congratulations both to the gentlemen on the de- remarks, all praying a safe and pleasant passage from the bate and the director of the society, Mr. A. J. Elder Mullan, rocks and storms of the ocean of First Grammar into the port S. J. The applause which greeted his remarks made manifest of Poetry. The Treasurer, carried away by his love for the that all present joined fully in his congratulations. entertainment of the class, invaded the territory of our The judges were Re/. Fr. J. F. Lehy, S. J., Mr. William Historian. The manner in which he utilised his trespass J. Ennis, S. J., and Mr. Cornelius Clifford, S. J. The music shields him from our censure, though he was not hidden from was under the direction of Professor Donch. a reminder of the Historian: The Treasurer had scarcely ■* * * finished when the cry went up, Boldrick ! And our grave and dignified Orator arose and gave us a production which will The philosophical specimen, predicted in our last issue, long linger upon our memories. His subject was “ Classi- took place the morning of June 1st. A paper on the Immor- cal Education.” He compared the march of the army tality of the Soul was read by Mr. F. A. Kelso ; the defendant of’92 into Sophomore with that of Hannibal into Rome. was Mr. J. A. Grant; disputants, Messrs. J. M. Prendergast Mr. Boldrick was followed by H. Sedgwick, the poet of and D. O’Day. It is the last class specimen that will be the class. This gentleman’s poem teemed with well-wrought given by the Class of ’89. hits upon the Freshmen. He was loudly applauded. The next in turn was P. O’Donnell, the Historian of the class. * Now we found that the class was rather indebted to W. Rob- An event that occasioned more excitement among the boys inson for his usurpation, for the oration of Mr. O’Donnell than anything since the Centennial was a visit from five mem- was far above any chapter in annals that he could have bers of the Corean Legation, the party consisting of two ladies given us. He chose for his subject “ History,” and showed and three gentlemen. It fell to the lot of Mr. Dunn, S. J., to how closely it was woven with literature. His conclusions show the visitors through the building, which kind service he were splendid. And now our Prophet, trembling at the rendered with the grace and agility of one skilled in all the lot he had to unfold, appeared in the arena. In Calchas- arts of diplomacy. We have been unable to ascertain whether like form he unveiled the future. To those for whom the an issue of National interest be at stake, or whether the curious fates have in store the Presidential chair and Chief Justice’s visitors, desiring to let no point either of interest or curiosity robe we need add no encouragement, but those whose lot it escape them, were attracted to the classic shades of George- is to become “circus soups,” and “ wandering minstrels,” town, merely as mute admirers. One of the staff who had an can find consolation in the words of the Prophet: interview with Mr. Dunn could, however, gather few particu- „ “ Now, if any think their fortune lars, save the names of the gentlemen, but not a name of the Has not been told aright, ladies could he gather. He said that the gentlemen of the Let him strive to make it better Legation were Ye Cha Yun, secretary of Corean Legation ; With all his main and might.” Ye Ha Yung, Corean charge d’affaires ad interim, and Ye The room was drowned in applause as Mr. Hennessy finished. Won Yung, and that the ladies were the wives of two of the The Professor, Mr. Mullan, closed the exercises, reviewing gentlemen, but he did not know their names. It never for the past and wishing all a happy vacation. And then with a moment occurred to Mr. Dunn that they were no more nor light hearts the members of Freshman Class left the room, less than Mrs. Ye Cha Yun and Mrs. Ye Won Yung. It may hoping that their last recitation had been said in it, and be of interest to mention that they are the only two of the singing, Venit summa dies, though not with the feeling of high class fair sex of that nation in this country. Pan thus. June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 159

Had one been standing on the belvidere of the south I loyal to his convictions; devoted and generous to his friends; tower on Tuesday of the Whitsuntide intermission he would a dutiful son and a provident husband and father. He left have seen a miniature embarking—not from Arcady, but from neither great fortune nor a distinguished reputation, but the the Junior Division. The Preps were going in search of some memory of many sterling and lovable characteristics will be cool, sequestered nook along the Virginia shore, where, for a solace to those near to him, and admiration for one who ac- one day at least, the horrors of mensa mensa and the terrors of quitted his public duties with high credit, and ^honourably Prefects were to be soothed by a long, lingering lave sustained his personal relations in all circles, will long dwell (very lingering, as the sunburned backs testify) in the yellow with those who called him friend. R. I. P. waters of the Potomac, and washed down with ginger-ale, * * lemonade, pop, and all that farrago which polite society places Bob Magruder, one of the oldest and most faithful of the under the head of picnic edibles. College servants, is lying in a critical condition in his little They landed about a mile above the Three Sisters, where cottage adjoining the Observatory grounds. A few days ago, the mermaids moan at midnight, sic fertur. while at work about the Observatory, a nail entered his foot Here where the beech-nuts drop among the grasses, and caused a painful wound from which lo.cked-jaw set in. Push the boat in and throw the rope ashore; Jack, hand me out the claret and the glasses, We are glad to state that there is every hope of his recovery, Here let us sit. though the danger is not entirely over. Here we sat and watched the Preps enjoy themselves. And P. S.—As we go to press we chronicle the sad news of oh, with what zest they threw themselves into their fun ! They Bob’s death. He passed away just before dawn on the morn- reminded us very forcibly of a bevy of overgrown cherubs that, ing of the feast of St. Aloysius. R. I. P. tired of their straitened position on a cloistered wall, had * * come out for a day’s frolic to rid their joints of an overcharge of Miss Rosecrans has presented to the College a fine crayon stiffness. They were almost as airily clad as the conventional portrait of her father, General W. S. Rosecrans, LL. D. cherub, but it would have taken one of Olympian constitution (Georgetown). The picture is in a rich gold and brown to perform the feats which were done by their Georgetown frame, and has been hung in the large reception room of the brothers. We feel assured that lemonade, pie, chicken, sar- New Building. dines, and ginger-ale, quickly followed by a header into the * * % Potomac, would be far beyond the digestive powers of any When the news of the Pennsylvania disaster reached George- cherub—from those of Grecian antiquity down to the modern town, Fr. Rector spoke in chapel to the students in residence milk-faced creations of the best plaster-of-Paris. on the propriety of sending some contribution to the suf- * * * ferers. A subscription was immediately opened under the The shockingly fatal accident which befell Mr. N. S. Brown, direction of the College Conference of St Vincent de Paul. father of Neill and Walton Brown of the Preparatory School, One hundred and sixty-two dollars and ninety cents was the excited the deepest and sincerest sympathy of the Faculty and sum collected, $50 of which came from the College authori- students. ties. In addition to this, the sum of $50, to be devoted to the Mr. Brown had been Reader of the United States House of same purpose, was placed in the hands of the College author- Representatives for a number of years, and his energetic and ities by a gentleman of this city, whose name is withheld at manly character had won and kept for him many friends. his own urgent request. This contribution was forwarded to Party spirit was forgotten, and all its strength seemed ever Bishop Phelan, who was then at the scene of the disaster. merged in admiration for the upright and loyal Reader. Miss Virginia C. Moore, the chairman of the Ladies’ Com- The following extracts are from a lengthy biographical mittee on Subscription for this part of Washington, writes notice which appeared in the Nashville Daily American : that the College contribution, together with that of the Met- Neill S. Brown, third son of the late ex-Governor Neill S. ropolitan Railroad, was the largest received in this portion of Brown, was born in Pulaski, Tenn., February i, 1846, and the town. died at Nashville, Tenn., June 2, 1889. After Governor Brown’s return from Europe, in 1853, whither he had gone as Minister to Russia, he became a permanent resident of what LITERARY WORK. is now known as East Nashville, and the subject of this sketch ESPECIALLY ON MENTAL PABULUM. received his education at the private academies which were in “ If a man write little, he needs a great memory, if he con- operation in that vicinity before the civil war and the occu- verse little, he wants a present wit; and, if he read little, pation of this region by the Federal armies. *** ** **** he ought to have much cunning, that he may seem to know what His death vacated a place it will be difficult to fill with one he does not. History makes men wise; poetry makes them so competent and peculiarly fitted for its exacting duties, and witty; mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral in the discharge of which he was not only famous for the fine ex- philosophy, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: nay there ecution of a clear, resonant voice, commanding the ear of a is ?io obstruction to the Inman faculties but what may be over- numerous and noisy body—the National House of Representa- come by proper studies. ”—LORD BACON. tives—but for his promptness and skill in clerical work, and his » rPHE fame, honours, and rewards,” writes an author, whose thorough knowledge of parliamentary law and proceedings. I name I have mislaid, “ consequent upon youthful talent, With the thousands who had observed his performances it will being brought to a full and brilliant maturity, depend almost, if be preserved as a tradition in the history of Congress, and of not altogether, on the energy and perseverance employed in the emulation for those who may succeed him. Not only was he struggle of life. * * There is hardly one instance of a man, popular with men of all parties in that body for his rare and however highly gifted and richly endowed by nature, who has unequalled capacity as an officer, but for his many genial risen to a conspicuous position without the most assiduous and characteristics, his kind and accommodating manners and diligent devotion to his chosen pursuit.” Great men fostered frequent acts of personal friendship, and his unquestioned their fame in painstaking, self-denial, determination, and mid- integrity. This esteem and confidence was signally mani- night study—the “ limae labor et mora," that is spoken of in fested in the action of the House, which, by unanimous vote, Horace. Hogarth says,.“ Genius is nothing but labour and dil- granted him the usual honour among its roster of officers, igence,” which is nota pleasant prospect, I admit. The genius known as the privileges of the floor of the House at all times. portion, we are ready to embrace; but the means, labour, and dil- General Clark, the appointing power, has recorded his appre- igence, we are prepared to deliver up without a pang of remorse. ciation of the character and services of Mr. Brown in the Labour and diligence present the following picture : The sun graceful and thoughtful act of naming his eldest son as his is shining brightly for everybody but ourself; chatterings and successor until the meeting of the new Congress. ■ gay laughter just abstractly audible, just distinguishable—but ******* ** we’re getting to be a genius, and geniuses have to be cooped He was brave as a soldier and under all circumstances; up with a tome and a quill and a demijohn of ink and say, i60 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 188S bah ! to the bright sun and the rollicking younkers and the Hume, Gibbon, and generally all those volumes which “ no dames with trinkets and laces attired. “ Fie on such foolish- gentleman’s library should be without.” ness,” quoths the genius, and he coops himself a little closer, Read, for Bacon says “it maketh a full man;” but read just for spite. Will you care for the genius? How much, what? “ Get into thy head the pregnant thought of a great please ? You can get it, sir, in all styles ; price, labour and mind,” so that thy mind, besides imbibing, will have at the diligence. Not to day, eh? Well, you might call after the same time a good, rousing, puzzling Gordian knot to unravel. Day of Judgment, when the boss will have a new stock. Good Some people fill their heads with words, words, which is very morning,—and it is settled; genius is unbought because it costs bad for their heads, and much worse for other people’s heads. too much. “ Labor omnia vincit,” cries Vergil lustily, and by They should heed the counsels of Bacon which are placed, by way of explanation Horace remarks, “ Nec rude quid prosit special request, at the head of this article, for if they read what video ingenium." We are all geniuses in the same manner costs no brain work, the powers of the cerebrum will gradually that every block of marble hides an Apollo. grow inapt, and everything that calls for demonstration will John Quincy Adams was a wise boy, from the very begin- become distateful. If we mingle in giddy company we shall be ning.* giddy; if we eat only sweets the palate of our tongue becomes He never allow indifference to fasten her paws upon him. In- depraved, and so on. Mr. J. Russell Lowell remarks: difference, that deadly thing, that stagnation. A stagnant pool “There is a choice in books as in friends; and the mind is indifferent because it does not care to flow one way or sinks or rises to the level of its habitual society—is subdued, another, and would rather prefer being gaseous and unhealthy, as Shakespeare says of the dyer’s hands, to what it works in. than revelling in a current. At the early age of three, Sir Cato’s advice, “ Consort with the good," is quite as true, if we William Jones, the English Orientalist, evinced a remarkable extend it to books, for they, too, insensibly give way their industry in searching for knowledge. About fifty-five own nature to the mind that converses with them. * * We times out of an hour he would run to his mater and apply are apt to wonder at the scholarship of the men of three cen- for information. Now it was “ Quis ?" now “Cur?", turies ago, and at a certain dignity that characterises them. but his mother invariably answered, “Read, and you They were scholars because they did not read so much as we. will find out." Read? Did she realise that greatness lay They had fewer books, but they were of the best. Their therein ? Did she say to the little fellow, Read, William speech was noble, because they lunched with Plutarch and Jones, for it maketh a full man? Yes, and he read, and, in supped with Plato." This means that we do not lunch with the old familiar thought of Longfellow, he left his footprints Plutarch or sup with Plato. This means that we chase butter- on the sands of Time. Read, and you will be wise; read, flies. We want only facts. Facts ? leave that to Dickens’s Grad- and you will be witty, subtle, deep. Isaac Newton read so grind. Facts was all he wanted. “That is English,” says attentively that he never heard anything of what was going M. Taine. Taine did not like what was English. Fill ahead on around him. Why, at the age when most boys “devote with facts; it is like surfeiting a dog with food, for a sleep- their free energies to ‘knuckling down,’” Douglas Jerrold iness ensues. Let the mental forces be led out to battle ; read with a passion the “Death of Abel ” and “Roderick don’t barricade them. Education, what does that mean? Random.” Coleridge read the Bible when three years old, E-ducatum, does that mean to stuff? Who comes to college and at six he had devoured ‘ ‘ Belisarius, ” “ Robinson Crusoe, ’ ’ to be stuffed? Here is the right sort of a fact: Reading and “Philip Quaril,” and “The Arabian Nights.” Benjamin study, especially reading and study of the classics—trained Franklin found “ Plutarch’s Lives” in his father’s limited the intellects of all great men. Shakespeare owes everything library, and read and reread them with profit and pleasure; to extensive though irregular* reading, and it has been rea- he then saved his small sums of money to the purchase of and appreciation must necessarily have sought relief from Bunyans’ Works, which he subsequently bartered for Briton’s the fatigue of forms in poring over the beautiful and vivid, Historical Collections; moreover, he grew ambitious to improve grand and harmonious writings of the ancients. We further his style, and took one of the best models which the literature of know from the plots of his plays that he acquainted himself England furnished—•“ The Spectator.” He read “ Locke on with Claudian, Plutarch, Plautus; and I see no reason why a the Human Understanding,” and sketches on Logic and a man of his ability could not have read as well in the orig- Rhetoric, which latter were found by him at the end of an old inal what other men of less ability have read in the original. English grammar. Says Sir Walter Scott, “I found in my But obscure are the early studies of that mighty poet, and mother’s dressing-room (where I slept at one time) some odd safe those who urge that he read the translations. To say he volumes of Shakespeare, nor can I easily forget the rapture with read the originals sounds far better. The story is told of Ben which I sate up in my shirt reading them by the light of a fire in Jonson that his fondness for study tempted him to carry books her apartment, until the bustle of the family rising from supper- in his pocket while plying his trade (that of laying bricks) in warned me it was time to creep back to my bed, where I was order that he might make the best of his leisure moments by supposed to have been safely deposited since 9 o’clock.” refreshing his memory upon his favourite passages in classical Read, read, the injunction can not be too often repeated. authors, and that one day, while working on the scaffolding Carlyle was a prodigious reader. They tell us that when Dickens was writing “The Tale of Two Cities,” he asked *You will find, as a rule, that reading what pleased them was gen- Carlyle to lend him a few books. The next day Dickens erally the following of all great men. Shakespeare himself says: wonderingly beheld a dray, loaded with books of all nations, “ No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en; stop at his door. Carlyle had sent them ; they were Carlyle’s In brief, sir, study what you most affect.” idea of a few books. Macaulay, the bright, the versatile, And Dr. Johnson: “I would not advise a rigid adherence to a par- ticular plan of study. I myself have never persisted in any plan for used to master on a voyage to India what many men labour two days together. A man ought to read just as inclination leads at all their lives; and Charles Lamb could read anything him; for what he reads as atask will do him little good.” (Boswell, which went by the name of book, save “court calendars, Vol. II, page 213, ed. 1859). Pope “ roamed over the fields of learn- directories, pocket-books (the literary excepted), almanacs, ing wherever his fancy might lead him.” Poor Goldsmith wan- dered through the ways of literature in much the same manner as he traveled in Italy. Irving never took kindly to regular study, but *J. Q. A., at nine years of age, to his father: was faithful, throughout his school-days, to Ariosto, Chaucer, and DEAK SIR: ** I have just entered the third volume of Rollin’s Spencer. We might all do well in being faithful to such poets. “History,” but designed to have got half through it by this time. Scott's real studies were those “ lonely and desultory” ones, of which I am determined this week to be more diligent. * * I wish, sir, he has given us a copy in the first chapter of “ Waverley,” where you would give me, in writing, some instructions with regard to the the hero is represented as “ driving through the sea of books like a use of my time, and advise me how to proportion my studies and vessel without pilot or rudder”—that is, obeying nothing but the play and I will keep them by me and endeavor to follow them. strong breath of native inclination. With the present determination of growing better, I am, dear sir, sonably inferred that during his early years he was a student in Your son, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. the office of a lawyer, for his works show extraordinary knowl- P. S.—If you will be so good as to favour me with a blank-hook, I will transcribe the most remarkable passages I meet with in my edge of the technical phrases of the law.f A man of his humour reading, which will serve to fix them in my mind. —Seward. JSee Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VII, p. 84. June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 161

of a building at Lincoln’s Inn, a lawyer heard him recite a | Galileo, Kepler, and Newton; all the most successful states- passage of Homer with surprising appreciation, was attracted men, and, to be brief, great men, such as Walter Raleigh, to him, and, upon discovering his thirst for learning, gave Sir Edward Coke (Lord Chief Justice of England), Canning, him opportunities for renewing his studies at the University Oliver Cromwell, The Duke of Wellington, Brougham (Lord of Cambridge. Milton, at the age of twelve, worked in spite Chancellor of England), Christopher Columbus (I nearly forgot of his weak eyes and headache, until midnight, and even him), Fenelon; and the orators, Fox, Edmund Burke, Pitt, later. His John the Baptist, a character resembling himself, Bossuet; and then a patriot, ah ! le Marquis de Lafayette; and says : almost all the Presidents of the United States—foremost, John “ When I was yet a child, no childish play Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Van Bu- To me was pleasing; all my mind was set ren, W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Pierce.* Serious to learn and know, and thence to do Of course, all of these did not enjoy the classics after the What might be public good.” —M. Taine. fashion of Johnson, Napoleon, and Webster, but, at any rate, Milton went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, and after- the cultivation which the old masters afford insensibly wards “passed four years in devotion to study, disciplining sharpened their intellects. Not every man acquires the facility his mind with mathematics and the sciences, and storing of reading Latin and Greek fluently—the writer of this confesses his memory with the riches of classical lore.” Dr. Samuel that he makes a meagre breakfast on Sophocles, no one will take Johnson's favourite compositions were Horace’s Odes; but what it as an argument against my thesis—but since to try and con-' he read solidly at Oxford was Greek, Homer, and Euripides.* quer the classics calls into play all the intellectual capacity of The great French mathematician, Pascal, when young, was the student invariably much benefit accrues therefrom. After informed by his father that he must be kept in total ignorance the classics, in potency, comes mathematics (which, of course, of the sciences, till he had mastered the Greek and Latin lan- has not accompanying it the prestige of Latin and Greek), guages. John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent, the brave old English which is not considered so refining. Nevertheless it is an in- admiral, was reckoned the best Greek scholar at the school dispensable study. The puzzling problem quickens the mental which he attended, so that he was selected to the honourable sight, as juggling makes the juggler’s eye alert; the knotty post of reading a passage from Homer before Mr. Slade, a equation forces open the pores of the brain, and sounds its great London distiller, who was desirous of ascertaining the fathoms. Napoleon revelled in it—it gave its share to great- progress and proficiency of the boys. Napoleon, while at ness and whatever erroneous principles peopled his mind, Brienne, says Abbott, “ read and re-read the poetry of Homer they arose not from mathematical teaching. Napoleon while and Ossian with great delight. He wrote once to his mother: at Brienne “became highly distinguished,” says Abbott, “in ‘ With my sword by my side and Homer in my pocket, I hope to all mathematical studies. All books upon history, upon govern- carve my way through the world.' * * The lives of Plutarch ment, upon the practical sciences, he devoured with the utmost he studied so thoroughly and with such profound admiration, avidity.” A few words concerning history; how little do that his whole soul became imbued with the spirit of those men profit by it. It is classified experience, and yet we too often “ skim lightly o’er its pages,” instead of plunging them, illustrious men. * * So great was his ardour for intellectual not body, no, but soul, into our very heart’s core. improvement that he considered every day lost in which he It is not necessary to quote many examples of men who had not made perceptible progress in knowledge.” Lord especially studied history; one prominent instance will suffice. Mansfield, the Chief Justice of England, translated Horace When Calhoun* was a lad he had ample opportunity for study, and Sallust with ease, conversed freely in Latin, and wrote it having a brother-in-law who was the librarian of a small cir- in prose and verse. When the French naturalist Cuvier was culating library. No one counselled or directed him in the a little lad he used to repeat his Latin lessons to his mother. selection of books for perusal; but, as if by instinct, he dis- DanielWebster, whom a friend of mine has frequently made the carded fiction entirely and occupied himself, to the exclusion foundation of an argument against classical education, was in of all lighter reading, with historical works. They were few thehabitof reading onehundred lines of Vergilat alesson. He in number, but he devoured them eagerly. Rollin’s “Ancient not only read, but relished them, and in less than a year read, History,” which so many have used, is mentioned especially.f with his teacher, Vergil, Cicero, and, in private, two books I had intended to include in this article a list of fifty or sixty of Grotius and Puffendorf in Latin. Says Byron, “ The of the best books, gathered from a Pall Mall “ Extra ” on the moment I could read, my grand passion was history,” which subject, but space hinders me; also, the opinions of noted he generously inserted betwixt his hours of Latin and Greek men upon the best books, and an interesting sketch of Walter at Trinity College. Dr. Arnold, when a mere youth, sailed Scott in his early days, his classical studies epitomised from small ships in his father’s garden, acted the battles of Homer’s Lockhart, his biographer—but I have had to omit all this ex- heroes with whatever implements could be used as spears and cept the following advice. I would advise—how many have shields, recited appropriate speeches from Pope’s translation not done so before me !—every person who has not read Lock- of the Iliad. Later on, at college, he contracted a lasting hart’s life of that “ modest, just, resolute, and merciful man,” passion for Aristotle and Thucydides, next to whom he hon- Walter Scott, “ the greatest genius that has ever Written oured old Herodotus. Matthew Arnold has told us who novels,” to do so at once; the man who with courage and “ propped, in those bad days, his mind,” Homer, to wit, uprightness refused all favour when in debt, and paid off in five and Epictetus and Sophocles. George Eliot received “especial years ^70,000, perishing from the effort it cost. “Never was training in Latin, French, , and English composition, and there a more healthful and health-ministering literature,” learned Greek, ‘in order to read JEschylus.’ ” Latin and writes President Andrew White in Scribner's, “than that which Greek seems—-nay, is-—indispensable to greatness. There will he (Scott) gave to the world. To go back to it from Flau- be found exceptions, but they will hardly be of a character to bert, and Daudet, and Tolstoi, is like coming out of the glare crush our faith in the classics. Cortes attended the University and heat and reeking vapour of a palace ball into a grove of Salamanca, but left academic life, as it did not suit his in the first light and music and breezes of the morning.” ardent and restless genius. Cortes might have been a better Although the “Monastery” is usually called the least in- diplomat had he remained at Salamanca. As space does not spired, Mr. White first came “ under the spell of genius in permit any more long clippings from the lives of eminent fiction by it;” read it three times, following it by other nov- men, I will but append the names of several great spirits, who, els from the same source. “ ‘ Quentin Durward ’ first showed among many others, hold a loftier head. There is first the to me, a boy of twelve,” says the same writer, “something poet Spencer, with Moore, Scott, Shelley, Campbell, Leigh of the real significance of history.” Goethe and Balzac Hunt, Landor, Wordsworth, Southey, and Emerson; Bacon both tell us that the novels of Scott are great works of art, and, of course, all the philosophers; Addison, the essayist, and the others, Steele, Swifit, and DeQuincey, who could *See Frost’s “The Presidents of the United States.” harangue an Athenian mob; Macaulay, Gibbon, and other j-Calhoun entered Yale College and was graduated with distinc- historians; all the greatest astronomers and scientists, led by tion, just four years from the time he commenced his Latin grammar.—Jenkins. *Boswell. %“ Life of Calhoun,” by Jenkins, pp. 29-30. 162 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL [June, 1889 and they both held art as a word not to be lightly used. The | The former contains a few of those lyrics in which Jonson history of Scott’s early days will open to one the opportunity was at his best. For instance, the exquisite hymn to Diana, of studying character as it rises to greatness. It seems he be- beginning—• gan by reading aloud to his mother Pope’s translation of “ Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Homer—Homer, that poet he so closely resembles in being Now the sun is laid to sleep, broadly human, as Professor Blackie, of Edinburgh says. Seated in thy silver chair, But I will write no more of the “ Wizard of the North,” State in wonted manner keep, since Lockhart’s classic* can be very easily gotten. Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal, gleaming quiver, I conclude my cataloguing, for it can appear as nothing Give unto the flying hart else, with a passage from Milton’s best prose composition, Space to breathe how short soever.” the “Areopagitica.” Follow well the thought standing boldly in what DeQuincey calls in Milton, “ the majestic reg- Although it has been said that Ben Jonson was lacking in ularity and planetary solemnity of the epic movement.” that faculty “ of stamping new beings upon the imagination “ For Books,” says the old blind poet, “ are not absolutely of mankind,” yet the characterof “ Volpone ” in the comedy dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to of that name is a very powerful portrayal; a play, to quote M. be as active as that Soule was whose progeny they are; nay, Taine, which affords us the sharpest pictures of the manners they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extrac- of the age, in which is displayed the full brightness of the evil tion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are lusts, * * * cruelty, and shamelessness of vice. as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous This drama and that of the “Alchemist,” for development Dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance of plot and dramatic construction, may be placed among Jon- to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlesse son’s best works. warinesse be us’d, as good almost kill a man as kill a good In plot and style they are somewhat similar. Sharp, weighty, Book.” These are burning thoughts, which, like living coals vigorous writing characterise them throughout. The material of fire, will bear no trifling with. Exist in classic literature of both plays consists of a “ tissue of cheats effected by two we must; and breathe its soul-inspiring atmosphere. Let not confederate sharpers upon various gulls gaping for money.” time bring us gray locks and a brain untilled—look what In these plays everything is moved in obedience to his mighty others have done : power of satire not in the rollicking manner of the “ Venusian “ We must do something, and i’ the heat.” bard,” but rather with the “rigidi censura cachinm” of Juvenal. In the words of a distinguished writer, no more vengeful come- CHARLES LOUIS PALMS, ’89. dies have been written, none more persistently athirst to make vice suffer, to unmask, triumph over, and punish it. RARE BEN JONSON. Of Jonson’s effectiveness as a satirist much has been written, HERE are names that have power to conjure up before the although it can not be denied that he has force, railing, in- mind the incidents of some great deed, the occurrences vective, powerful contempt and scorn, yet his satires never of a noteworthy epoch, or the character of one in whose life prove very effectual. His characters are too grotesque, too we all have an especial interest. Lligh in the category of such labouriously wrought out—they are hardly much better than names stands that of Ben Jonson, the rare singer of Eliza- automatons. The object of the satire is too open, the process beth’s reign. With the strange individualism of this wonder- too evident. ful man, his egregious but serene self-belief, his eccentricity, With less compliment than truth was it said that “ Jonson’s his assumption of the role of literary dictator of his age, we plays were works, while other’s works were plays.” And the have nothing to do. Ben Jonson as a singer, dramatist, and tragedies of Sejanus and Catiline seem to corroborate this proseman, Ben Jonson and his place among the writers of the assertion. Although they give us a vivid picture of the crimes Elizabethan era—that is our theme. His was an era which and ferocities, the passions of courtezans and princesses, the seemed to be overcrowded with geniuses whose privilege it daring of assassins and great men, yet there is about them was to come early into fame. withal, an over-laboured artifice, an excess of mechanical con- At the age of twenty-two he produced his first work, “ Every struction. Man in His Humour. ” It is undoubtedly his best comedy, an d If ever there was a man capable of treating ably a subject from it one may readily form a fair estimate of his abilities as drawn from ancient classic times, it was Jonson. In the “ Fall a dramatist. The characters all move in the same plane, never of Sejanus,” we are presented with a startling, but truthful, exciting one’s curiosity to an extraordinary degree, but giving picture of those times which produced a Messalina, an Agrip- pleasure, nevertheless, by the utterance of many sensible and pina, and a Tiberius. The principal character of this great witty things. This play was followed by the satirical comedy tragedy “ gives one the idea of a lofty column of solid granite “ Every Man Out of His Humour.” In this drama Jonson nodding to its base from its destructive height, and dashed to satirises the manners, the absurd affectations, the coarse- pieces by a breath of air, a mere word of its creator, feared, grained vices of the city and the court. Living in an age of not pitied, scorned, unwept and forgotten.” A tone of literary profligacy, when writers went to shameless extremes, he power and impressiveness, coupled with strength of phrase dared to appear amid them as a reformer, and few men were and apower of portraying scenes almost Shakespearean in their more suited to that role than the high erected spirit—“who effectiveness, runs throughout the tragedy. His other tragedy of all things loved to be called honest.” His verse groans ‘ Catiline,” can not be said to equal “Sejanus.” It does under the weight of his wrath. ‘not abound in such striking passages, and, besides, it is open to the charge of slowness and monotony of action, owing to ‘ ‘ My soul the skilled long-spun speeches of Catiline. But it is, in spite Was never ground into such oily colour of these defects, a splendid work. To flatter vice and daub iniquity, But with an armed and resolved hand As we have said above, Jonson excelled in lyric poetry. In I’ll strip the ragged follies of the times the “Celebration of Charis,” a collection of short poems, Naked at their birth.” there are charming love songs worthy of the best idyllic muse The characters of this drama are inferior to those of “ Every of the classic triflers of Sicily. Nowhere do we find this poetic Man in His Humour,” but the language is much more forci- spirit stronger than in the Masques, a kind of masquerade, with ble and vehement. ballets and poetic dances, in which all the magnificence and “ Cynthia’s Revels ” and the “ Poetaster ” which appeared untamed imagination of the English Renascence were dis- next, between 1601 and 1605, were successful as satirical hits, played with true barbaric zest. Here Jonson puts aside that but as stage plays they failed. crabbed satire and scorn so plentifully poured out in his comedies, and he moves like a very prince in the domain of *Lockhart’s “ Life of Scott” and Boswell’s “Life of Samuel true poetry. His characters are “ drawn from all times, all Johnson” are considered the best biographies in literature.— worlds, the abstract, the divine, the human, the ancient, the Taine, and others. modern.” June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 163

“ The Vision of Delight,” “Pleasure Reconciled to Vir- call lower only because Shakespeare was above it; and in his tue,” and “ The Gypsy Metamorphosed,” are the best of his matchless prose, and still more matchless song, he was, indeed, “ Masques.” The latter is much longer, and bears the marks our “rare Ben Jonson.” C.-ALBERT WHITE, ’90. of a more elaborate performance than the others. Accord- ing to the scheme of this Masque the fortunes of the king and his court are to be told by the gypsy prophets, previously to EDITORS TABLE. which, however, the following benediction is given : WE are indebted to Messrs. Berziger Bros, this month for “ The fairy beam upon you, two little pamphlet editions o The Will of God,” and The stars to glister on you, “ Catholic Worship,” translations -om the French and Ger- A moon of light, man respectively. We need not : . nark that the hardest part In the noon of night, of the Lord’s Prayer is “ Thy will oe done,” and that any at- Till the fire-drake hath o’ergone you, The wheel of fortune guide you, tempt to make the wish more easy should meet with thanks, The boy with the bow beside you, from whomsoever it comes. “ Catholic Worship” contains a Run aye in the way, very needful treatise on Sacramentals, whose use is so little Till the bird of day, understood oftentimes by Catholics themselves. And the luckier lot betide’you.” “ Studies in Civics,” from the press of D. D. Merril, St. Aside from the dramatic and poetical productions of Jonson Paul, and “Ideals of the Republic,” from the Knicker- he is also the author of philosophical essays, which, in breadth bocker press of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, touch on the same sub- of view, adequacy of reflection, and vigour of eloquence are ject in different lights. The latter is a beautifully-bound in every way equal to the essays of his famous contemporary, little copy of the Declaration of Independence, Washington’s Lord Bacon. We refer to his “ Explorata,” or “Discov- second inaugural and farewell address, and Lincoln’s first eries.” and second inaugural addresses. It would be rash in us to The more pity it is that these essays are so little known, criticise such material. As for the make-up of the book itself, when it is remembered that in felicity of expression, splen- it is in Putnam’s best style, with print as clear and bold as dour of utterance, and the atmosphere of deep and sagacious the sentiments of its pages. This is the first of a series of thought which permeates them they stand almost alone in the twenty pocket editions in the same style. English prose of their time. Their style is terse and clear- “ Studies in Civics ” is a venture from the land of promise, cut, without the curt and docked manner of the statesman the infant West. The “Constitution of the United States ” philosopher, and full and ringing without'being over-copious. is made a text for careful study, and a treatise on commercial In the opening of the first essay we find these, among law is subjoined. Both parts of the work are arranged for other lofty and weighty words: “ Heaven prepares good men use as a text-book for advanced students. The print and with crosses, but no ill can ever happen to a good man. That binding show the resources of the Western publisher to be in which happens to any man may happen to every man. But no way inferior to those of his more advanced brother in the it is his reason what he accounts it and will make it.” There East. We commend the book to the Rhetoricians as a substi- is doubtless in the structure of this sentence much of the tute for Story. Latinist, too strong a flavour of the conciseness of Tacitus. “ Primary Education ” by Jacobi, reaches us from the press But observe the lofty wisdom and eloquence of the follow- of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. ing : “ What a wretchedness is this to thrust all our riches It is another experiment in the old attempt to discover the outward and be beggars within, to contemplate nothing but the proper way to teach. Will the author pardon our criticism if little, vile, and sordid things of the world, not the great, we presume to say that no two children did or will give noble, and precious! We serve our avarice, and, not con- the same results for any one method of teaching ? tent with the good of the earth that is offered to us, we search It is plain enough, that had the Persian king, in his experi- and dig for the evil that is hidden. God offered us those ment to find which was man’s original language, taken some things and placed them at hand and near us that he knew other boy and put him through the same training, or took a were profitable for us, but the hurtful he laid deep and hid. half-hundred boys, he would have had an original language Yet do we covet the things whereby we may perish, and bring for every boy. The author of “ Primary Education ” shows them forth, when God and Nature hath buried them. We great interest in the subject, however, and the work is well covet superfluous things when it were honourable for us if we worth study by those whose office it is to instill the first ideas. could contemn necessary.” We would like to quote further “Parliamentary Procedure,” from G. P. Putnam’s Sons, from this enclosed and—we regret to say—unknown garden is just the book to be in the hands of young debaters. All of wisdom, but our space is limited. the knowledge n . zessary for conducting or obeying the intri- No one who has studied these essays can fail to recognise cate workings of society for debate or public deliberation are that Jonson was worthy of the friendship of Bacon and Shakes- to be found with . its pages. peare, worthy to be ranked at the head of the great writers in “Elementary Psychology” comes to us from the press of prose and poetry of his time. Among these great writers Jonson’s position as a dramatist A. S. Barnes & Co. The author, John M. B. Sill, principal of the Michigan State Normal School, assigns as his object in and poet is a peculiar one. That he was greater than Beau- writing, the production of a text-book for higher schools. mont, or Fletcher, or any of the minor writers of this period, The book is well divided into chapters and subordinate is admitted ; and though these dramatists may have surpassed paragraphs, but the matter each psychologist will judge him in creative power, yet it can not be said that they are more original than he. They were imitators of the “great according to his own idea, for the judgment on such a topic master ” of the age ; Jonson owed as little to his contempora- is about as subjective as the topic itself. To us the author seems to have analysed his mental cadaver keenly and with ries or to the English poets, who preceded him, as Shakes- good judgment. The book oversteps its subject just a little peare himself. He borrowed, when he borrowed at all, when it goes into the objectivity of judgments. from the ancients; his “Sejanus” and “ Catiline” are veri- table antique mosaics ; what he takes, he takes as a conqueror, “Memory Training,” by William L. Evans, M. A., from or, as Dryden puts it, “he invades authors like a monarch, the same press, is an attempt to train the memory after a and what would be theft in any poet, is but victory in him.” system partly arbitrary, partly associative. The system, as In the style and construction of his plays, Jonson is decidedly the author himself says,‘is compiled from observation of the original. But they act unwisely who compare him with the process we use when we remember best. M. Loisette had great dramatist, whom God made to sit apart and alone. best look well to his fame as an original discoverer for this To his high region Jonson dared not climb, but elect work verges dangerously near his patented method. The genius that he was, he knew his element, and took his way process outlined is helpful, as any one may see, but the ques- along the slopes that stretched in grandeur below the crest tion is, whether one could not work by the old road more on which that eagle soul sat solitary. Yet, like every master easily than endure the bother of learning such a complex spirit, he, too, was alone; alone upon that height which men system. * J. M. PRENDERGAST, ’89. 164 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 1889.

“ TOBER-NA-VUOLICII.” The College Journal. We shall publish one more issue of the JOURNAL ere we bid farewell to the “ cares of classes of classics.” In our July ESTABLISHED 7872. number, which will be entirely devoted to the Commencement, the new board of editors, comprising some of the best brains TERMS : One dollar a year in advance. Single copies, ten cents. Ad- vertising rates on application. in ’90, ’92, and ’93, will make their bow and assume charge of the JOURNAL and endeavour to carry it through the eight- The COLLEGE JOURNAL is published by a committee of the students eenth year of its existence. Meanwhile, like that delightful va- towards the close of every month. Its purpose is to aid their literary cation party to which we alluded at the opening of the fall term improvement, to chronicle the news of the College, &c. It also serves the in October last, we “ take up the chorus ” with Arthur Clough Society of Alumni as an organ and means of intercommunication. Being principally devoted to matters of local interest, it must rely lor its patronage and sing : chiefly upon the students and alumni of the College and its Departments, “ To-morrow we start on our travel. and their friends. These and all former students are urged to give it Lo! the weather is golden, the weather-glass, say they, rising; substantial support. Ten months here have we read; ten months will we read hereafter; Address, THE COLLEGE JOURNAL, Two months hence will return and think of classes and classics. Georgetown, D. C. Fare ye well meantime, forgotten, unnamed, undreamt of, History, Science, and Poets! Lo! deep in dustiest cupboard, 17THYEAR. JUNE, 1889. No. 9. Thoolcydid, Oloros’ son, Halimoosian, here lieth buried! Slumber in Liddell and Scott, O musical chaff of old Athens, Dishes and fishes, bird, beast, and sesquipedalian blackguard! Entered at the Post Office at Washington as Second Class Matter. Sleep, weary ghosts, be at peace and abide in your lexicon limbo! Sleep as in lava for ages your Herculanean kindred, Sleep, for aught I care, ‘ the sleep that knows no waking,’ THE STAFF. TEschylus, Sophocles, Homer, Herodotus, Pindar, and Plato. Editor in Chief: Two months hence be it time to exhume our dreary classics.” J. M. PRENDERGAST, ’89. May we all find our Bothie of Tober-Na Vuolich !—THE Associate Editors : EDITORS. C. Louis PALMS, ’89. J. S. EASIIY SMITH, ’91. D. J. O’DONNELL, ’89. RAYMOND HEISKELL, ’91. WITH THE OLD BOYS. C. A. WHITE, ’90. C. BENNETT SHIPMAN, ’92. D. F. KNOWLAN, ’90. C. MANNING COMBS, ’92. Exchange Editor : We of the present generation were quite “ worked up ” this D. J. GEARY, ’89. last month by the marriage of one of the Old Boys outside of our Business Manager : Assistant Business Manager : very gates. We were quite aware by tradition of Hon. Eugene Ives’ ability in runningoff with medals, but his success JOSEPH I. HEALY,’91. P. J. O’DONNELL, ’92. in obtaining everything else needful from the same old George- town threw us into quite a fluster of amazement. We only hope that he will not, in the course of his career, need anything FROM THE SANCTUM. which it would trouble us of Georgetown to let go, for from indications so far, let go we should have to, willy-nilly. VALEDICTORY. By scarcely legitimate means our editor managed to abscond ON the threshold of a new life we stand to take farewell from College and witness the marriage, but he will not trust of the old. And as we speak this last adieu we look himself to describe. This is what an adept in the art says of back with mingled emotions upon the few short years the ceremony : of schpol life. About them in the overladen cells of Yesterday will long be remembered in the annals of Trinity memory hover the time-worn phrases of the old authors Church. Within its walls was to be married one of the daugh- with many a long-winded formula and head-splitting pro- ters of the parish, who by gracious ways and liberal hand had position—all huddled together in a mass of confusion and endeared herself to every member of it who had come within disorder. Often has ourbrain been taxed to its utmost to marshal the circle of her acquaintance. And it was singularly appro- these troublesome battalions in line, but that was the task of the priate that Miss Annie Waggaman, the daughter of Thomas E. examiner’s closet, and a sweet satisfaction steals over the soul Waggaman, Esq., should have been wedded to the Hon. Eu- as we realise for the first time that that functionary’s grim gene Semmes Ives, a member of the State senateof New York, smile has at length lost its terrors for us. But with our sec- in old Trinity. In this church she had been christened, at its ond breath a feeling of sadness creeps in at the heart. Pleas- altar she had partaken of her first communion, and had been ant associations linger about those old school days—remem- received into the bosom of her mother church. Nothing was brances that we can not thrust away without a twinge of pain. left undone to make the interior of the church in appearance And, after all, what is the new state ? It is but a repetition worthy of the occasion. The chancel and altar were fairly of the old. Life is a perpetual study and we are no less pupils embowered with the loveliest and rarest flowers, whose deli- when tossing about in the world than when poring over our cious perfume permeated every portion of the edifice. books in the class-room. We shall, therefore, say but a short Wherever the eye turned there were to be seen potted palms, adieu to you, old Georgetown. Your influence shall be ever growing hydrangeas, ferns, magnolias, Marguerites, and im- with us and it would be ungrateful to bid an eternal farewell. mense masses of lilies. The main altar and the side altars were For to what should we say farewell? Not to the lessons thou aglow with the light of hundreds of tapers. The hour fixed hast taught us, I hope, else we had better never have seen you. for the ceremony was 11 o’clock, but by 10.30 every seat was And as to your classic and familiar walls, we hope to pay them occupied, while the aisles were filled with those who were an occasional visit in the course of time, when we need to be obliged to stand. It was a representative assemblage. There reminded that we are still school-boys, still in need of many was scarcely any one prominent in the social and business cir- tilings that go to make up the sapiens. cles of Washington that was not present. Precisely at 11 Since, therefore, the parting is to be a lasting one only in o’clock the door leading from the sacristry opened and along name, it is fitting that our words of farewell should be few, line of clergymen entered. They were headed by Fr. Clark though in speaking them our hearts fill up with the tender (a great-uncle of the bride), Fr. McClosky, and Fr. Elliot, of sadness of one leaving an old and tried friend. New York; Dean Mooney, of Newburg, New York, and Fr. Once again, then, old Georgetown, we shall bid you adieu, Kelly, of Trinity. while this single desire fills our soul: May the favouring smiles For the second time the door through which the procession of your early influence never cease to beam upon us, while we of priests had entered opened and two gentlemen came into struggle restlessly with the uncertain issues of the world. the chancel. The first was about five feet ten, and slightly D. J. O’DONNELL, built. This was the groom, Mr. Ives. Right behind him was In behalf of the outgoing Editors of’Sp. a gentleman upon whom the gaze of the entire audience was June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 165 intently turned. It was the Hon. Hugh J. Grant, the mayor while Howell, all immersed in affairs as he is, and practising of New York, and Mr. Ives’ “best man.” There was only a humour rather as a vacation exercise than as a steady trade, has few minutes’ waiting, and then the uprising of the audience perhaps already reached the highest ability that is to be ex- indicated that the bride had arrived. As the bridal party pected from the development of his powers. We should add, reached the chancel, Mr. Ives stepped forward and extended however, that there is a greater variety in his performances his hand to his future wife. They entered the chancel and than in those of our friend from Richmond, and we suspect, separated, each kneeling before one of the “ priedieus.” The too, that in the secret of tears, that other great gift of the ushers and bridesmaids took their seats in chairs which were comic muse, the Georgia man may possibly be the superior. arranged in a semicircle around the chancel. Mayor Grant, “ But a truce to these definitions and discriminations. after gracefully bowing to the priests, the young couple, and There is such a thing as too much analysis, but there can not to the audience, occupied a chair next to the maid of honor. be too much of either of these glorious humourists. He whose The music ceased, and the bride and groom stood before Fr. good fortune it has been at any time to enjoy the fun of one Clark. The impressive marriage service incident to the of them, may thank Heaven for the benefaction; and he can Catholic Church was then repeated by Fr. Clark. The re- hope for nothing more delightful than an opportunity of en- sponses were clear and distinct. This was followed by a grand joying the different fun of the other. If it is Howell that he high nuptial mass. then chances upon, reeling off story after story amid the noisy Mr. and Mrs. Ives, with their attendants, drove direct from gayety of the crowd, he will surely question the Richmond the church to Mr. Waggaman’s residence, 3300 O street, opinion and maintain that the cake rightfully belongs to the northwest. Here a reception was held from 12.30 to 1.30. Georgian. The house was elaborately and most tastefully decorated with “ But before leaving the subject we must be allowed to pro- flowers, and a tempting collation was served continuously. test against a wrong pronunciation of the word Cowardin, by The presents are said to have been unusually numerous and which hasty readers may sometimes be led astray. The em- valuable. phasis is entirely upon the second syllable, and it is rather heavy. There is nothing of the coward about the young man, Be it known to our inimitable toast-master at the Centen- nor even in the sounding of his name. nial Banquet of the Alumni, that the JOURNAL doth hereby declare that a special funny column will be opened if he will Mr. Rooney, of’87, has been “a poetizin’ ” in a public way but furnish the wit. It was moved to do this even during even thus early after his birth into the literary world. We the august celebration, when the fame in which he was held have the assurance to believe that it was his editorship of the among those who knew Charley Cowardin, ’74, reached all JOURNAL in histime that caused his thoughts to flow into music generations of Georgetonians present in person or by proxy with such ease after so short a period of apprenticeship. Surely, at the banquet over which he presided. It is confirmed in his work will not look strange in the JOURNAL, where it has its decision now by an article of June 2d, in the New York so often appeared before, though it be transplanted, from its Sun, headed “ The Two Humourists. We print it without native soil, the Boston Republic \ change: “ We are not surprised that some of our esteemed Rich- RECOMPENSE. mond contemporaries should still entertain a doubt whether Capt. Evan P. Howell, of Atlanta, is the peer of Mr. Charles BY CHARLES DANIELS ROONEY. O’Brien Cowardin, of Richmond, as a story-teller. Those A poet sang—the world praised him— who have often been enchanted by the efforts of the one may And he was sad ; well hesitate before they admit the other to an equal place in A poet sang—one woman praised him— their admiration ; but we can assure them that Captain How- And he was glad. ell is an artist of rare and genuine genius. And so it is, my lady, “ Yet the difference between the two is distinctly marked. Tho’ critics carp at me Cowardin was born to be an actor, and his rich and subtle comic I care not, it I merit humour flows forth as naturally as he breathes. The process is One word of praise from thee. physical as well as intellectual. The whole man is engaged in it, and all his faculties are employed. The unstudied gestures, For the hustling world, my ladv. Needs sternest song to move,' the swift and total changes of facial expression, the inimita- And does not heed the vibrance ble modulations of the voice, the coruscations of the eye, Of the subtle chord of love. form a combination of art as spontaneous as it is cultivated, as refined as it is irresistible. It is a novel and peculiar The sweetest song, my lady, thing, and we can compare it only to the humour of Benoit That ever poet sung, Is the reaching cry of longing Constant Coquelin, as it is displayed between two plays, in • Of a heart by sorrow wrung; the recitations he likes so well to deliver from the front of the stage in a black coat and white choker. Or the magic voice, my lady, “ Captain Howell, on the other hand, is a humourist of the Of eyes that speak to eyes— old school. His style is broader, his method rather that of a The silent comprehending— Love’s word, which never dies. great stump speaker or a tip-top camp-meeting orator than that which we usually associate with the dramatic stage. Yet, So, when I sing, my lady, he, too, would have been a famous actor if he had devoted Tho’ all the world may sneer, himself to that profession. There is something about him It suffices—recompenses, which reminds the old theater-goer of the late William E. If thou but hold’st it dear. Burton, who at the beginning of a play used to convulse New For I know so well, my lady, York audiences with laughter forty years ago just by showing The halting verse or line himself before the footlights, and before speaking a word. If Finds meaning in thy soul, dear, anything, Howell is more intellectual than Cowardin, and The other half of mine. less spontaneous. He does it because he likes to do it, and because he has some purpose to subserve, such, for instance, Through the kindness of Mr. James A. Gray, B. A., ’88, as carrying his audience over to his side of an argument—for we learned that N. Garland Street, who left from Second he is a potent controversial athlete as well as a wit and mimic ; Grammar a few years ago, was admitted to the bar in Little while Cowardin does it because God made him so, and he Rock, Ark., after a very brilliant examination, in which he can’t help flashing and scintillating and laughing and making was complimented by his judges. Prosit! everybody else laugh along with him. Charles William Jones, who left us in ’83, has “joined the “Besides, he is the younger champion of the two and no- joined.” We received this month notice of his marriage to body can tell to what height of perfection he may yet attain, Miss Angeline Ayer, at Reno, Nev. 166 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 1889.

And still another of these happenings do we chronicle, lawyers, which in the minds of many who entertain it extends with many congratulations, to Mr. Walter R. Abell, ’69. The to the law itself. They say—and the saying is no doubt the ex- Sun, of Baltimore, has the following notice: pression of a partial truth—that the multiplication of laws is a ABELL-BOGUE.—Mr. Walter R. Abell and Miss Philomena sign of decadence in the people; that as laws increase, virtue M. Bogue, daughter of Mr. Henry Bogue, of this city, diminishes ; and that lawyers grow strong on the dissensions were married at n o’clock A. M. yesterday at the Cathedral. and weakness of their neighbors. People who hold these The ceremony was performed with nuptial mass by Rev. J. views in their extreme form will not, I fancy, be pleased to B. Mullaly, S. J. Rev. James A. Doonan assisted in the cel- hear of the exceptionally large number of new-made lawyers ebration. Cardinal Gibbons was present in the sanctuary, who will go forth from this hall to-night, nor rejoice at the as was also Rev. F. A. Smith, S. J., president of Loyola Col- annually increasing ranks of the graduating classes in all rep- lege ; Rev. P. J. Donahue, chancellor of the diocese, and utable law schools throughout our country. Rev. W. A. Reardon, of the Cathedral. Flowers, palms, “ Yet if we give something more than a merely superficial and candles lent attractions to the ceremony, which was ac- glance at the question we shall, I imagine, discover without companied with appropriate organ selections. The bride and difficulty that this prejudice ought not to apply to well-made groom wore travelling costumes, and in the absence of invi- laws, nor, a pari, to well-made—that is, to thoroughly in- tations the attendance was mainly confined to their respective structed and upright, conscientious lawyers. Multiplicity of families. regulations is not necessarily a sign of decay, but rather of a highly developed state of society. This highly wrought civili- Through the medium of a letter to the Rector, Fr. Richards, sation may be attended with strength or weakness ; but, in we learn that Bernard A. Kengla, who left us a few years ago, either case, it will necessarily require a vast body of legisla- is now in Tucson, Arizona Territory, and that in him the tion. The wants and needs of men, their relations and mu- Territory possesses one more prosperous citizen. His brother tual interdependence become far more complex and far-reach- Lewis has gone to San Francisco, where he has resumed the ing in such a state of society as ours. And as the points of practice of medicine. contact are increased, obviously the probabilities of friction We noticed in the Cosmopolitan for June an exquisite little and the possibilities of collision must multiply in exactly the vagrant from the pen of our Centennial poet, Conde B. Pallen. same proportion. To regulate these multiplied relations, ex- For the benefit of those who do not see this magazine, we tending to the most minute affairs of life, new legal provisions would wish to reprint the lyric, that those who knew him as a are necessary, and as a consequence a new body of lawyers poet “infuturo ” while he was still a student, may measure appears upon the scene to expound, discuss, and defend them. his riper effort, and predict still higher honours for him yet to But this only shows that the machine has grown more com- come. But some one grew so enamored of some article in the plex; not necessarily that it is weaker or less efficient. When Cosmopolitan—mayhap of that same little gem—that he bor- we see an old farm-wagon, patched, and nailed, and bolted, rowed the magazine body and bones ; so trust us when we say and here and there rudely tied with bits of rope, we conclude it is true poetry, and let us all hope to see more from the that it is falling into a state of decay. It is the figure of a same pen. state needing many laws to bind its discrepit parts together and postpone dissolution. But when we look upon the steam WASHINGTON, D. C .June 8, 1889. locomotive, with its myriad parts bound together with bolts To Rev. J. Havens Richards, S. J., and screws, we never imagine that the multiplicity of fasten- President of Georgetown College. ings indicates imperfection in the structure. The republic of DEAR FATHER RECTOR: About the time of the “Cen- Rome, when verging to the fall, was the old hay-wagon, creak- tennial ” Father Cowardin and I had a talk about the feasi- ing and tottering, and needing nails and wire and ropes to bility of raising a fund of $50,000 as a memorial gift from her keep it from decay. Our own vigorous republic is the mighty sons to old Georgetown. It seemed to us that there must steam-engine, and every law is a bolt or screw, contributing be five hundred alumni each willing to contribute $100 to the perfection of the whole, and ensuring smooth and pow- for such a purpose. Inclosed you will find a cheque for my erful working. hundred. Give my love to dear Father Curley. I am com- “ So essential, in fact, is the necessity of law to the State, ing over some Sunday afternoon to see him. I make the cheque that society, even in the simplest form, can not exist without for $105, to include one copy of the Memorial Volume. its aid. It is not only the foundation on which the building Very truly yours, R. Ross PERRY. rests; it is the cement that binds the walls together. Men do not all think alike; their views and their interests are necessarily at variance, and, unless restrained by some exterior UNIVERSITY NOTES. rule, their passions will lead them to follow their own interests to the unjust detriment of others. Hence we find that how- THE SCHOOL OF LAW. ever crude the form of society may be, it is guided by some HE eighteenth annual commencement of the Law School more or less definite code. From the passing away of that of Georgetown University was held in the National Thea- primeval time when man’s intelligence, preternaturally treon Monday evening, June 10th. The floral decorations about illumined, and man’s will, preternaturally chastened and the stage consisted of banks of ferns and palms, with a centre- guided, were a law unto themselves, he has never succeeded piece spelling “Class of ’89” in immortelles on a back- in establishing a society, not so much as a savage tribe, ground of smilax. Fr. Richards delivered the opening without the formulation of some kind of law. Without law address. The tone was worthy of one who holds the presi- there is not society, but a mob. dency over so many widely diverging branches of the great “All this is sufficiently obvious, and matter of every-day tree of knowledge. It was liberal, as we might expect it to be observation. But if we extend our consideration very slightly from an enlightened scholar, but it was still more. The words we shall find that law is the foundation and cement not only betray all the enthusiasm of a devotee of the law. We give of all society, but of the whole universe as well. All natural the address below : agents operate by law. The myriad portions of our universe “ A few hours ago I had the pleasure of meeting upon the are bound together by it. The planets and the sun, that vast steps of the State Department building the members of the group of which our solar system is a member, the incon- present graduating class, in order to be incorporated with ceivable star fields filled with suns and worlds that outlie us even them in a class picture. As they stood there it seemed to me to the limit of the universe, have interaction and interdepend- that their tall and erect forms harmonised well with the mas- ence by its means. The most infinitesimal pulse of light that sive granite columns that support that mighty structure. I trembles along the ether from the furthest star, millions and said to myself that they had chosen the proper place; for millions of miles, to our eye, is as much under the dominion every true and conscientious lawyer is a pillar of the State. of law as the stone that falls at our feet or the plant that “I am aware that all persons will not agree with me in this es- springs up in our garden. The whole of science consists timate. There exists, I believe, a popular prejudice against simply in the investigation of law and its application after it June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 167 is discovered. The Metaphysician, the Mathematician, the profession that you now embrace ; this is why I rejoice to Physicist—in what are they engaged but in ascertaining and hand you the diplomas that constitute the guarantee of your utilising the laws of Being, of quantity, of Sensible Phenom- fitness to this high and noble calling. ena? Our brother, the Physician, is only the lawyer of the “ I hail you as entering upon a sacred office. The vocation physiological world—and, unfortunately, the laws he points indeed is exalted ; but we know you to be worthy. For out to us are violated oftener than any others. two years, or for three, the University has watched over you “ But of all the forms of law that prevail in this universe— and prepared you for this night. She has treated you with I had almost said that constitute the world—human law, no mistaken tenderness, but sternly and rigorously; and that with which the advocate or counselor is concerned, is the when quizzes and examinations were rife, you may have most noble and godlike. At first sight such a proposition thought her not the Alma Mater she ought to have been, may not seem true, for natural laws are the direct ex- but dura noverca, a harsh and crabbed step-mother. But now pression of the intelligence and will of the Maker, while she reveals her smiling features, and you realise, I doubt not, human laws are the work of free agents and limited intelli- that when she seemed sternest her affection for you was ten- gence, and are subject to all the defects of ignorance and the derest. dangers of passion. But here, again, we must not be de- “I fear that in discoursing upon the law I am violating ceived by superficial appearances. The human law-giver, law; for the unwritten rule of our commencement requires, I whether king or people, is not free to follow caprice. His believe, that the President’s address should be brief, especially action, to be just, must be founded on the great principles of if the evening is warm. For fear, therefore, lest our.new lawyers the moral law, which alone have power to bind a free intelli- should take out their first brief against myself, I will proceed gence. It is the office of the human legislator to apply and immediately to the conferring of the diplomas.” enforce the provisions of the natural law; to define them The address to the graduates which followed was delivered where they are obscure, to determine them where they are by Hon. T. M. Norwood, of Georgia. His words were a vague; but never to impose a precept which does not flow at mingling of humour and good advice, containing special warn- least mediately and indirectly from that primeval source. ing against the rock on which so many lawyers are lost—poli- “ From this point of view human law is, theoretically at tics. After the address to the graduates was completed, the least, as much the expression of the divine mind as the natural prizes, awarded by a committee consisting of Henry Wise laws which rule the operation of necessary agents. And in one Garnett and Samuel Maddox, were announced as follows: sense it is as much a natural product, a result of natural forces, Faculty cash prize for best essay in Post-Graduate class, as they. Place a body of men of certain characteristics in Wm. Rogers Clay, of Kentucky. given circumstances and with stated surroundings, and a cer- Faculty cash prize for best essay in Senior class, Emil tain body of laws will infallibly result. It is not that they are Starek, of Ohio. not free to act thus or otherwise as they please ; but the Special prize for best essay from Senior and Post-Graduate natural sense of justice that is common to all men, with the classes, Emil Starek, of Ohio. light of their reason falling upon those great broad principles Cash prize for best average in Junior class for the year, of natural right that are the expression of God’s law, will lead George W. Rea. them in the long run inevitably, though freely, to the same Cash prize for best average in Senior class for the year, conclusions. Hence, within certain limits of variation, induced John J. Coniff, of West Virginia. by the swaying passions of mankind, the law of man may be Cash prize for second best average in Senior class for the looked upon as a product of natural forces as much as the year, John C. Dermody, District of Columbia. laws that rule the tides, or regulate the storm in its apparently Cash prize for best average in Post-Graduate class for the capricious course, or guide the stately march of the stars in year, Wm. Rogers Clay, of Kentucky. their shining path. Only, as the outcome of human intelli- Special cash prize to Robert W. 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GEORGETOWN, D. C. W. W. WALKER, PROP. (Formerly with L. C. Bailey.) Offer to the trade a full line of all grades of flour, from lowest to highest, of our own manufacture, and at the lowest market prices Also grind Corn Meal and Buckwheat and keep in stock a full line of all kinds of FEED, HAY, OATS, and STRAW. A comparison of prices and Mill be Pleased to Have you Hall. quotations with other dealers is solicited. m. D. F. BRADY, FRED. STOHLMAN, C O N F E C TIO N E K Y aHEEk-v,, CONFECTIONERY. 1420 New York Ave., Washington, I). C. 1254 High Street, Georgetown, D. C. Practices in United States ancl Bistriet Courts, Court of Ciaims, and before Keeps always on hand a full assortment of Fine Candies and Cakes, Executive Bepartments. Special attention given to correspon- Ice Cream, etc. dence with non-resident attorneys. Orders for Cakes or Ice-Cream Promptly delivered at the College. S. R. Mallory. E. C. Maxwell. T. A. Newman, MALLORY & MAXWELL, FINE SHOES, Attorneys - at - Law, 3136 M Street, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. West Washington, D. C.

NOBBY AND RELIABLE CLOTHING. F. D. VEALF & CO., Men’s Fine Furnishings, Livery, Hiring, and Sale Stables, No. 1072 32d (High) Street, And a complete assortment of Trunks and Valises. (Gladmon’s old stand,) GEORGETOWN, D. C. W. NORDLINGER, 1®” Horses taken on livery by the day, week or month. Carriages and hacks to hire at all times at reasonable rates. 3103 M Street, Georgetown, D. C. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAin TO BOABDEES.

RESERVED FOR 0. H- FUCKLINS, Real Estate Agent, ‘■g .1^1-13 Thirty-Second & N Sts., >< ss West Washington, D. C. ■2 w ■» s o cd-n .2 1 o-ooZ ftaiv. 3 -Q-c, POOLE & BROOKE, A C *. -- siS g! 8 . s a 937 Louisiana Avenue, Washington, D. C., fr— Co mS Commission Merchants for the sale of all kinds of Country Produce LBJ o ™ c O , and dealers in Oils, Lubricating and Illuminating, “ Capital Cylinder, and El Dorado Engine.” Specialties also our own brand 150° Fire Test Water White Oil for lamps, “Potomac.” In fact, everything in C0 XT-— i»g 5; £ -jBO the Oil line we can furnish at wholesale prices, and particularly the «0 « 5 H rB droduots of Petroleum. c03.2f l June, 1889.] THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. 171

o. o. GREEN, TICPEJflY Tfffi VICTOR 1 1 mnh EgTHTE HND INgERTINGE TISEN ! . R v. ja. Member of the Washington Stock Exchange, Agent of the Life Insur- ance Co. of Virginia, and Virginia Home Fire Insurance Co. GEORGETOWN, D. C. OFFICE : Fireman’s Building, Seventh and Louisiana Avenue, WASHINGTON, D. C. This Institution was founded in 1809, and rebuilt in 1873. It occupies a beautiful site on the Heights of Georgetown, J. W. BOTELER & SON, 933 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, overlooking at once the city of Washington and the lovely Present more than usual attractions for parties in search of China, Glass, Plated Ware, Bronzes, Lamps, Bric-a-Brac, Wedding and water scenery of the Potomac. Attached to the Academy Other Presents. The best manufacturers of all nations are repre- are the pleasure grounds, embracing an area of forty acres, sented by their latest and most desirable productions in Boteler & Son’s attractive stock, to which they solicit an inspection. which secure to the pupils the advantage of a residence in J. W. BOTELER & SON, Washington. D. C.

the country. Wm. M. Gait. T. J. Mayer. R. L. Galt. In the course of instruction are comprised all the requisites of a refined and polished education. Wm. M. Galt & Co., The Musical Department is under the supervision of gradu- ates from the conservatories of Leipsic and Paris, while the FLOUR AND FEED. facilities for acquiring a knowledge of foreign languages can hardly be surpassed. WHOLESALE AGENTS TOR For full particulars apply to the Institution. Ceres, the celebrated Minnesota Patent Process, Sterling, Min- neola, Gilt Edg-e, Reliance and Golden Hill. H. C. EWALD, Corner of Indiana Avenue and First Street, Washington, D. C. BAKER AND CONFECTIONER. ICE CFE^M 8?Ui@@N, DALTON & STRICKLAND, 719 Seventh Street, between G and H. « FINE jiiHOEp,»« in* HATSI HATSI Large assortment for Men and Boys. No. 939 Penn. Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. EVERY VARIETY AT LOW PRICES. Young Men’s Shoes a specialty. W. F. Seymour, 3139 M Street, Georgetown, D. C. JAS. T. CLEMENTS, VA/oomiApi! in 9JB snopduosqns nv Undertaker Jj Director of Funerals, 00 8 » » » 9 09 8 j> »> >» 8 1237 Thirty-Second St., (70 High St,) -e 00 8 » >, I°A Z WEST WASHINGTON, D. C. aiuq alio pe qo^y p 00 2$ Everything first-class and at reasonable rates. ■S1{)U0X 8 ■n°°n: AY ■Ava ANV w oNiONaiMiAiOD Noixdiuosans J° swaai AHYHan xoaias SHUILI The Losekam, 1323 F St., N. W. Washington, 1). C. H. P. GILBERT, LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S ALL KINDS OF HARDWARE, RESTAURANT. Machinists’ and Contractors’ Supplies, & Harness, 1208 and 1210 Thirty-Second Street, West Washington, D. C. This space belongs to THOMAS E. W AGO AM AN, C. M. Bell, Photographer, Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer, 463 Penna. Aye., and 70115th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 917 F Street, Washington, D. C. J. EDWARD LIBBEY, URgUMNE HOHDEMY, XjYi.xn.lDe2? IMIex*oIb-aiYt}, EAST MORRISANIA, 150th St., New York. The Scholastic year is divided into two sessions. No. 3018 Water Street, Georgetown, D. C. Terms per session, including board, tuition, washing, bed- Oldest Established Lumber Yard in the District, From our location we are at less expense, and can sell lower than any ding and library, $142.50, Music, $30. other yard in the District. Spring and Summer Dry Goods. H. G. & J. E. WAGNER, A large assortment of DRY GOODS can always be found at Jewellers, Watch and Clock Makers GIBBONS .1- JIOSGINSON'S, 3135 M (Bridge) Street, Georgetown, D. C. No. 3221 M Street, West Washington. We will be thankful for a share of your patronage. Dealers in Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, Stationery, Magazines 172 THE COLLEGE JOURNAL. [June, 1889.

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SOLARI BROS., PROPRIETORS. Agents for the Celebrated UNION STEAM LAUNDRY. Laundry will be called for at the College twice a week. “ ii ©iiTOirari mmiT From the establishments of Knox and Youmans, New York. Com- NEWMYER & BIRKENWALD, plete stock for Spring and Summer now ready. English Silk Um- N. W. Corner 32d and M Streets, West Washington. brellas and Walking Canes. B. H. STINEMETZ & SON, FRANCIS MILLER, Dealer in French and American HATTERS AAIsm ZFTJZELHLIIEIELS, Window Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, etc., 1237 Penn. Ave., next to corner 13th St. 307 Ninth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. VOIGT & HAAS, Agent for Averell Chemical Paint, and Pratt’s Astral Oil. Manufacturing Jewelers, Wm. S. Teel, MERCHANT + TAILOR. 713 Seventh Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Men’s Furnishing Goods In all its branches. Fine Dress Shirts Made to Order. Best Goods at Lowest Prices. Call and See Me School Medals and Society Badges a Specialty 935 Penna. Ave., Washington, D. C. VACATION.—You can earn $50 to $150 per month during your vacation selling our specialties in NURSERY STOCK. We can giye situations to fifty good, energetic men for the summer, or per- J. V. BURKhT CO. manently, if they wish, and would like to hear from any who mean business. The work is quickly learned—is easy, healthful, and profitable. Our best salesmen have been students who have taken *t $ Electrical Supplies, -x- at up the work during vacation. Send for terms. MCMANAMON & LUETCHFORD, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. Telephone 711-2. 1409 New York Ave., Washington, D. C.