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Originality, What Is It ? - 3
Goethe's Faust 5
The Real and the hmgi nary 9
Alumnals 12
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Excha n g~s 19 An Institution of High Grade, Standard Faculty and Courses of Study. ~~ University
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VoL. X. WESTERVILLE, OHIO, JANUARY, 1goo. No. s. Originality, Wbat Ts Tt? "I recover my property wherever I find it." The whole philosophy of plagiarism lies in that
G. L , GRAHAM, 1900. sentence. A man of genius takes unhesitat ingly whatever he can organize; a vulgar plag IF there is a time in life when we hear mere iarist is a vulgar thief, a liar, and a braggart. n about originality than another, it is when Nine tenths of what is denounced as plagi-, rism '¥ we are in college. At no other time in is not such but it is only such as the plants ex life will a better opportunity be afforded to ercise upon the earth and air or the bee upon observe originality and at the same time point the flowers and honey suckles,-to organize out the plagiarist than in college. Just where the stolen material into higher forms, and originality begins and in what it consists is a make it suitable for the food of man. question of some little dispute among learned Such a false accusation is only a manifesta_ men and sometimes students as well. tion of ignorance and narrow mindness upon In many things that shall be said upon this the part of the accusor. Should we be sur subject, the writer does not claim originality. prised in this day and age to hear those about But as it is a subject that should concern us us accuse oth<>rs of plagiarism or cribbing? If and is one fitting at this time and place in life, we do hear this we hear only a repetition of the writer has made a careful study and will what has occurred all through history. Our give the opinions of great men, and historical best poets, our best writers have been accused facts concerning this subject. A proper under of plagiarism and cribbing. Milton was brand standing of what originality is and in what it ed as the ''celestial thief." Shakespeare was consists, may sometimes keep us from brand accused of pilfering. yet he was acknowledged ing another as a plagiarist who on the other to be more original than his originals. When hand may be perfectly innocent of such a petty genius borrows, it borrows grandly, giving to. theft. the borrowed matter a life and beauty it lacked One of the meanest things that any student, before. Byron who helped himself freely to critic or any literary man can engage in is that mens' thoughts and ideas, declared that all other of accusing or arraigning another for theft on pretentions to originality are ridiculous. the score of petty para lelisms and co-incidences. Our best orators ha\ e also been accused like One writer says that the small critics who stoop wise. Mirabeen got the ablest of his speeches to this are like constables who thrive by catch from Durmont. Fox was often primed by ing thieves; they hunt down the culprits, not Burke, and Burke by Boiingbroke. R ousseau because their sense is outraged, but because borrowed largely from Sidney and Locke. they get a fee for hanging the offender. Byron borrowed from Rousseau. The G:::r While there is a gre::tt deal of plagiarism man, K lopstock, borrowed from Milton; Ren there is, however, not so much as we some der from Vico. Gothe openly acknowledged times imagine. When Moliere was taunted his indebtedness to Shakespear. W ebster's with having plagiarized a scene here, a sitaa "Se<~: of U pturried Faces" was supposed to be tion there, a chard.cter elsewhere, he replied: very fine and very new, until some literary re- OTTERBEIN .&GIS. triever scented it in the pages of Scott. M<> a paragraph of another and this happens to fall cauly is deemed an original writer, yet few under our notice! \Voodsworth, as soon as he men have been more indebted to books ior il heard a good thing. caught it up, meditated lustrations. upon it, and very soon reproduced it in con· A person may be guilty of what is known as versation and writing. plagiarism not knowing the limit of the free \Vebster made notes of striking things and dom allowed him in his writing. While there used them when an oportunity was afforded. is much liberty granted to a person in writing Emerson says that next to the originator of a as will be sho'wn later on, however, there is a good sentence is the first quoter of it. He also limit. Literal, bold borrowing; whether of the says that the nobler the truth or sentiment the plan or treatment-substance or form-the less important the question of authorship. If a thoughts or expressions,-of :a work is abso speaker or writer gives us inspiring lessons, it lutely indefensable. What do these forgoing is not so important to us whose they are. statements mean? Do they debar us from Mathew says that he is not a thief who bor using or borrowing another man's thoughts? rows the ideas of n hundred other men and re Are we always to carve out everything anew. pays them with compound interest. It is one Dig down until we reach a product never seen thing to purloin finely tempen;d steal and · or heard of before? No, it does not mean that. another to take a pound of literary old iron, Burke says, ''he that borrows the aid of an convert it in a hundred watch spring worth equal understanding doubles his own; "he that' each a thousand times as much as the iron. uses that of a superior, elevates his own to the Emerson says again that we are as much in stature of that he contemnlates." formed of a writer's genius by what he selects ''What is a great man," asks Emerson, "but as by what he originates; that the iprofoundest one of great affinities, who takes up unto him thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an self all arts, sciences, all k •owables as his food?" equal mind and heart finds and publishes it; From these statements are we to conclude that that it is as difficult to appropriate the thought's there is no such a thing as originality? Yes, of pthers, as it is to invent; that !J. great man if by originality we mean an absolute creation quotes bravely and will not draw on his inv,·n of new material, -an isolated act of bare imi tion when his memory serves him with a word tation, instead of an act of adaptation or mould as good. Cicero says when a thought is ex ing, so as to resemble a new crc::ation, and, in pressed in the best possible language why try deed to be one. But if by originality is meant to clothe it in another garment perhaps not so a just-selection and vitalizing of materials that good. The complaint so often made that ''there already exist, a fresh an novel combination of is nothing new under the sun" is itself old ideas, imparting new life to what is combined, old as literatuere itself. Ovid :complains of then the writer of today is as original as any the early writera for having stolen all the good that ever dipped a pen in ink. . tl1tngs. The early writers stole from the Originality, as Emerson puts it is being ones Greeks; the· Greeks crib ben from the Egytians; self, and reporting accurately what we see and the Egyptians from the Antediluvians and they are. Higginson says that originality is seeing are supposed to have purloined from Prome through a pair of new eyes, which· being inter theus, who stole the fire directly from heaven. preted tis seeing old thiHgs in new relations. It is an an easy matter to raise the cry ot plagi In the light of these definition of originality by arism; but "there is all the difference between men who have stamped with the impress of suggestion and plagiarism, " says Henry Rogers, their personal greatness the ages in which they ''that there is betwween making blood from lived, shall we saythen that another is a plag blood, and receiving it into the veins by trans iarist or a cribber if he uses a sentence or even fusion." OTTERBEIN .AiGIS. s
If the subject treated be not new, the meth that time his life was one of indulgence. He od of treating it n!ay be new. Two men play went whither he would, all the luxury and tennis with the same ball, but one directs it . beauty of the world were his for asking, no best. That which distinguishes one man from man could harm him, his skill in _magic was another in the art of speaking and writing then exhibited at Maximilian's Court, he summoned is the superiority in the the use and arrange Trojan Helen from Hades, compelled Satan to ment of language. And the greatest thing to restore life to her, and then became her hus be aimed at is to give to our fellow-beings in band. Helen and her child vanished, the last spiring lessons, borrowing ~randly repaying moment of the twenty-four years came, a what we borrow with compound interest, giv terrific storm broke at midnight, and, in tne ing it a new life and a new flavor. And above morning, Dr. F.a~.:~st's dead body was found, all be honest and true to our convictions regard bearing marks of a terrible struggle with infer less of what o hers may say. This is being nal powers. His Famulus, or body servant, one's·self, which according to Emerson is origi made a compact \\ In the second scene Faust goes into the internal and unseen. Her supreme spiritual street, desiring to be a man among his fellows. agony is described in words which make this But, ever in his mind is the question : ''Can scene one of the most tragic in all literature. God reveal Himself to one who cannot know The counterpart to it is the closing scene of the truth?" When he and Wagner return to their Second Part. home a black dog accompanies them. This Mephistopheles and Faust flee from justice, dog personifies selfishness. He appeared just and engage in the terrible orgies of Walpurgis when, during the walk and meditation, Faust Night in the Hartz .nountains, where the had decided to resume his life as a physician atmosphere is diabolically supernatural in the solely for his own benefit. While Faust reads extreme. This scene has made the term the first chapter of John's Gospel, the dog ' 'Brocken," the name of the mountain, a syn barks and growls so dreadfully that Faust sus onym for those most debasing experiences pects that the animal is the embodiment of an which come to some persons during their evil spirit. By tue usual formula of exorcism struggles from ignorance to knowledge, from the spell is broken, the dog disappears and evil to good, from reality to potentiality. Mephistopheles appears. He is an intellectual Even Mephistopheles cannot, for a time, Devil. His plan is to present the opposite of meet the reaction which sets in upon the soul Good, and he overcomes Faust because he of Faust when he knows that Margaret is in argues skillfully along the line of Faust's own prison because, driven insane by grief, she has doubts. He makes a compact to serve Faust, killed their child. They go to her dungeon and when Faust's happiness is so pure and and listen to her ravings. She 'i-ecognizes complete that he exciaims to the passing Fanst by his voice, but she refuses to be rescued moment : ''Stay-thou art so fair," then with the help of Mephistopheles, the one who Mephistopheles is to become the owner of conspired against her peace and purity. To be Faust's soul. The search for happiness com rescued by the Evil One is to be lost forever. mences with a scene of course revelry. Faust Sorrow has given her wiser and clearer vision. is more than ever disgusted. Then Mephis Mephistopheles exclaims : "She is judged !" topheles brings about the meeting with Marga- But a voice from above declare" : · '·She is . ret, as she comes from the confessional, so saved!" Mephistopheles and Faust' disappear, pure that she had nothing to confess. Al hearing Margaret's faint cry to :her lov~r : though she falls, she falls through ignorant "Heinrich! Heinrich !" love, not through wicked passion. She is the So •the first part of the drama ends,-nega helpless victim, the innate, essential purity of tively. The hero's innocent victim dies, not whose nature cannot be permanently stained. the guilty hero. He lives in order that he m.ay At the shrine of the Mater Dolorosa, touch'ing learn that salvation cannot be imparted, that ly she sings her prayer for rescue from worse righteousness cannot be imputed, but must be than death. She feels herself a living sin, and worked out as well as worked for. Not yet bitterly exclaims : has Mephistopheles won the wager. Faust " Yet, all that drove my heart thereto, exclaims: "0, had I ne'er been born!" , Not God! was so good, so dear, 'so true!" yet has he bid the passing moment, " Stay!" Margaret's mother takes a sleeping potion, Here ends the microcosm, the world in little, given with no thought of evil results, and sinks Faust's life of passion, emotion and. aspiration into her long, last slumber. Her brother, in all far self. In the Second Part he enters the trying to avenge the betrayal of his sister, is macrocosm, the world in large, and' studi~s the killed by Faust. Again Margaret goes to the machinery which develops society, government Cathedral. Her own conscience is her worst and the human race, and solves the problem of accuser, her real trial and condemnation are his destiny, and fi nds the only solution, i ~ 8 OTTERBEIN A!GIS. attruism, the world in little and the world in Mothers, mysterious, enthroned goddesses, great existing each for the other. t1meless and spaceless. When Helen appears, The Second Part of the drama shows us the Faust tries to sieze her. His aspiration toward social whole, the events of which are on a scale beauty awakes, but he is not yet ready for so grand that allegorical representation of them abstract beauty which Helen typifies, and she is necessary. Revolution, war, founding of a eludes his grasp, but he is attracted by the republic, revival of industry, modern art, litera vision and is drawn after it. ture and science are produced by Mephisto The scene changes to Faust's old library, pheles to tempt Faust. He, however, is pass where his former Famulus, Wagner, is trying ing from the realm of passion to that of ideas, to produce a human being by means of alche and the temptations finally overwhelm Mephis mistlc art. Mephhistopheles, by his magic, topheles, himself, who, indeed "a! ways wills crowns the experiment with success, and the the bad, but always works the good " spirits, Homunculus, guides them to Thessaly, In the opening scene Faust is sleeping while where we see the classical Walpurgis Night. Ariel chants the healing influence of nature Faust seeks only Helen, and goes even to Hades and time. Moral and spiritual wounds can be, to implore her release. Helen, fleeing from the must be healed, but not by continual remem wrath G>f Menelaus, arrives at a Gothic castle brance and remorse,· because these, carried too whose owner proves to b~ Faust. They are far, produce moral inflammation, just as irrita married and Euphorion is born. Re repre tion of a bodily wound causes physical inflam sents not only the union of beauty with him mation. True atonement is not making a who seeks beauty, but also the union of the luxury of remorse, but it is going on with life classic and romantic in art and literature. cheerfully and bravely for others. Mephisto Some critics think that Byron was in Goethe's pheles and Faust next appear at the Court of mind when he created the character Euphorion. the German Emperor at Rome, the former as This child of Helen and Faust dies, Helen dis Court Fool. He proposes to remedy the appears, but her garments become clouds upon ruined condition of the Empire by digging up which Faust is upborne never agai ~ to sink to the buried treasures of Rome, but all weighty his form~r level. This third act, ·'The Helena" matters are laid aside for the Carnival, which is is matchless both in mechanical execution and an extraordinary masquerade, confusingly full in the deep, ever increasing impression which of allegorical figures representing society and it makes upon the reader. government. After the Carnival, the Emperor Having consecrated himself to beauty, Fau<;t finds that he has been induced to sign a· docu demands activity. By winning a battle, Me ment which proves to be a decree to issue phistophles obtains for him a part of paper money redeemable when the treasure the realm which man cannot inhabit, because it shall have been dug up. This measure was is flooded by tne sea. Faust has found originated by Faust, under the_ influence of his work for nthers. He wishes and tries to Mephistopheles, who hoped to corrupt Faust make this territory a fit home for man. In by launching him upon public life. Such pros the last act is shown the accomplished work. perity follows that Faust is appointed Chan Faust is one-hundred years old. Mephisto cellor's assisrant. The Emperor commands an pheles de~ires to satisfy him, and, by murder exhibition of magic, and orders Faust to and confllgration, obtains for him the last tract summon Helen and-Paris from Hades. Mephis of coveted ground. Faust only curses such in topheles is bound to ser\;'e and assist Faust in humanity, and Mephistopheles is baffled again. all things, but, this is a dangerous task, not to It is midnight. Want, guilt, necessity and his liking. Ht: gives Faust the magic key care stand at the door. Care, alone gains ad which unlocks the door behind which are the mittance, because she can slip throu t;h the ley OTTERBEIN AIGIS. 9 hole. She bends ·over Faust whose eyes be visions, transcendently more beautiful than any come blind, but ·true light shines upon his material embodiment of it. He has concep spirit. He is so happy in working for others tions of truth infinitely grander than any exhi that he exclaims: "Ah! still delay, thou art bition of truth which he sees on earth. This so fair," and dies. Mephistopheles fights for prophetic gift, this conception, this immaterial Faust's soul, but angels rescue it and the Mater thing after which the real is patterned, is called G\oriosa gives it to Margaret who is to be the a vision or an ideal. (The terms "vision'' and guide of the new-born faust_ Not yet has she "ideal" are used synonymously here.) entered the highest heaven, but now, by saving There i~ in the human mind the power to another, she ! as come to the hour of her own receive the truths which come to it through complete purification and pardon. Mephisto: the senses. There is also in the human mind pheles has lost his wager, denial has denied a power, as clear and distinct, to see things itself. that are not_ It is the power to see things in "The Indescribable, here it is done: their imagined condition. This is called a The W oman-Soulleadeth us upward and on-'' vision or an ideal. In the First Part the chorus of angels and A vision then, as used here, is a perception women awakens Faust from thoughts of suicide of something higher and better than we have to human love and sympathy_ In the Second reached, either in single actions or in our life Part they bring moral healing. Helen awakens and character. It may even relate to single aspiration, Margaret guides. The Mater acts. The artist has a vision of his picture Gloriosa points to the upward path. Goethe before he paints the real, and he is far from uses the abstract, neuter term '' Das W eibliche." success whose painting surprises him by being It is not any one loved woman, but the Ever better than he thou~ht; he must have thought Womanly which has saved Faust. The aim of very vulgarly indeed. A child that ' sees an our mortal existence is to know ourselves in apple as large as it can hold in its hand, has relation. The womanly sees relations, and the no trouble in ·seeing an apple as large as it can relation of the rranly to the womanly is typical hold in both hands, or twenty times as large of the great law of the relation of individual and beautiful. He has the power to create it. and universal. The relation of the manly and Among the i-gnorant, in . all nations this womanly typifies unity with God, the lack of power of fashioning pictures, visions, ideals, which unity is the only possible loss of salva has existed. And it is where it has depended tion. Relation alone can create unity. God upon ignorance, that it has led to fantastic and is both Father and Mother. even to impossible things. But however im "Das Ewigweibliche zieht uns hinan_" perfectly it may have worked among nations in times gone by, this power of fashioning an imaginary thing and then having that imag tbt Rtal and tbt Tmaginarv inary thing come back and act upon the person that fashioned it, has been working out one of A. W. WHETSTONE, '03- the most energizi ng and powerful elements that is in the human composition_ For, although ~~~HERE is in every soul of anY. elevation, there is great use and great glory in the man ~~ that prophetic gift by which there hangs agement of things that are, and are apparent to ijf over every step a vision of something the senses, yet there is infi11itely greater glory higher and better, and nobler, and sweeter and in the fashioning of things that the hand can purer_ not handle, nor the eye perceive, nor the ear Every man who is really and fully organized hear. ~n '\ noble ~a.ttern, ha.:'! hovering over him R ightlr \lS ~ Q ! this powtr cf ~r~ll t in&' an ideal 10 OTTERBEIN A!CJS. -that is to say, anything more perfect in the There is a like circulation in the functions of imagination than its prototype-the power to the soul. We have the reality of the outward put anything in the place of the thing that is life lifted up by soul-power into the form of an before you, or that you have, is a power which invisible life, and we have the bringing back lies at the root of all growth iri the individual, again of this invisible life as a means of carry and of civilization in a community. ing the process of growth and culture among The relations then existing between the ideal men. This forming of loftier conceptions and and the practical, the visible and the invisible, applying them to practical life, is the contin the real and the imaginary are of transcendent uous Jaw of Christian civilization and of all importance. It has been said that everybody civilization. The more you examine this pro in the world is either a Platonist or an Aristo cess, the truer you find it to be. telian-Plato standing for the ideal philosophy Wisdom consists in the application of the and Arisiotle for the real and practical. But higher invisible qualities which we have de the perfect man unites them, and is at once duced ; in bringing back again these invisible both Platonist and Aristotelian. His feet qualities and re-incarnating them in facts. He standing on solid facts, his head goes philoso is not a painter who simply copies a tree just phizing and his heart is the balance between as it is. A photograph of a tree is not a work them. So that it is wiser to say, that he who of art. But he who observing trees, brings to begins as an Aristotelian should end also as a bear upon them the imagination, the fancy, the Platonist, and he who begins as a Platonist reason, the emotion, the laws of association, so <>hould end also as an Aristotelian. For the that from the sight of them there rises in his two together bring a man where he can, if he mind an ideal conception, and then who brings will, obtain a conception of a type of manhood back again to the canvas these idealized trees, that is greater than either Plato or Aristotle even if he takes the visible ones for his model, the perfect embodiment in this world, of the adds to them those subtler graces which come intellectual, the emotional, and the practical from him and do not hang upon them. He elements of life that are so often dissevered and who does this is an artis.t. First he ta~es represented partially. Some men being full of things seen, and of th~se he frames, in emotion, some being full of thought, some the higher realm of thought, ideal con being full of morality, the true man is made up ception. And if he would make these con of them all in harmonious combination. ceptions valuable, he reduces them to a visible There is a perpetual, reciprocal interchange form. by which facts become principles and these This double action which is going on, or principles become facts again. The relations ought to go on in all men, needs perhaps some of this truth to those experiences which have development in reference to its application to t o do ·with the operations of life is a matter of practical and moral life. great importance. You can say that the same Illumination is thrown, in the first place, thing is going on between the human mind and upon Theorists in life; upon those who live to the visible world that is going on between the follow out and to deduce great truths. It is ocean and the sky. A ll the water is subject to certainly right fo r men to reason and to carry evaporation. It rises in a continuous vapc r, their reason as far as they can. But he who and when it has been held in the air long dwells only in the higher and subtler elements, and flows through rills and rivulets anq rivers he who deals only with visions, ideals, seldom back to the sea. The life of the sea and the going back to facts, becomes impractical and land is dependent upon this continual change of unfruitful. He is a partialist and a partialist visible water into invisible vapor, and of invis remote from life. He is neither very useful to ible vapor into visible water again. himself nor a very safe guide to others, Theo- OTTERBEIN .&GIS. i:t ries and principles are to be tried by their tJf the meditatist. Meditation is largely a relations to practical life. running of the mind-mill. And certainly it You are able to see, secondly, what is the does no good to run the ~ill with nothing in true sphere, and character of the reverist. it. Thousands meditate when they have Revery is the emotional nature of man touched nothing to meditate upon. Meditation with by the imagination, rising out of facts and them, _consists in constantly checking them standing above them, having no other connec selves and bringing tht:mselves back to the tion with them than in looking at them as pic thing at hand, for as the thing at hand is tures. A reverist is one. who having forsaken nothing, it is hard to stay to it. practical life, is dwelling in ether from which You may also perceive the position of men he never returns in any practical or benefi who are moralists, according to the common cent form. How easy is the heroism which use of the term. There are many persons goes on in revery, when we have lost all who are so disgusted with the visionary forms sight of real life and facts and perform great of life that they rebound to the other extreme. deeds in the imagination. How easy it is for The question is, whether a man who stands on us to sit with closed eyes, in some shady nook, the ground which is usually called morality, during the summer day and ena<;t the part of a has aspiration, whether he is endeavoring to hero. How easy it iS- for us to go out as a vic develop 1--.imself and whether his conception of torious general! · M-1rching no longer wearies what his life and character ought to be, is such us ! With what ease we abstain from food ! that the invisible is perpetually tending to his How brave we are in the endurance of all hard elevation and to the development of the visi ships of the camp! How, when the shock of ble in him. But those who are usually called battle comes on, we are knights-a Couer De moralists and who continually play round Leon, every one of us! How we are wounded! about their duty as fathers and husba_nds and How we are nursed, lying in our tent! And neighbors and citizens, are so slavishly ad what wondrous gratitude springs up from our dicted to fact, that they give but slight notice deep sense of obligation. Meanwhile all round abC\ut us are those who are going on with the to the highe( visions of life, and having nq realities of life whieh we do not share. We do picture spread out before them, having no not take hold and help in the duties of the constantly recurring conception that rebukes household. We reserve for ourselves the best and condemns them all the time and leads places. We are so refined that nothing that is tnem to higher endeavor, they become dim, rough must come to us. We become self-con dull, stationary and stagnan~ . scious and exacting. Thus, while the reverist Some light is thrown also upon the proper is d w =lling in visions of heroic life, he is, in use of fiction . According to the principles fact, a selfish person. which have been developed, just so far forth Now, if revery acts in us, to quicken the as fiction enables one to rise above the vul dull sense "'hich over-addiction to matter pro garity, the comn1onness and the sordidness of duces, then it is beneficial. But there are too the real without separating himself from the many per:Oons who think they are something practical, it is beneficial. But he who so when they are nothing. They think they are reads fiction that he forgets to come back to· something because they dwell in such reveries. practical life, reads it to his harm, to his pos But their practical life is barren an~ poor and itive damage. A reading of fiction which selfish and mean. throws off care or brings knowledge to the Thirdly, we may from this double-action of minds of men is good and wholesome. He man, from the re,ll to the invisible and from who reads fiction to rest himself, to lift him self above the dead lev-el of the common real t~~ invisib-le to the real, see the true position · . ~ 12 OTTERBEIN A'iGIS. reads it to his advantage and profit. But he the emotional men and very likely they are who reads it to abide in it, never giving back better, for although the emotional men are a better man to his household or business sensitive to feeling, the unemotional men duties, is hurt by it. A man, to be benefited never use their feeling as a cascade to fill the by the rea ;ing of fiction, must not only be _ air full of flying drops and vapor. They use lifted up by it above the affairs of earth, but it rather as a mill-stream with which to turn must come back again to those affairs with · the wheel of purpose and activi ty. renewed strength and zeal. Now to be heroes in novels and never any where else, is demoralizing. To be full of Jllumnals overflowing sympathy in fiction that has no inspiration L demora1izing. If you find that C. A. Funkhouser, '99, entered the law the use of fiction brings you back to your school of the University of Michigan ~ this fall duty with more alacrity, with more cheer and as a Junior. more aptitude ; if vou find that it makes you L. A . Thompson, '94, who was · formerly a better in your relations to your fellow men, surgeon in the National Millitary Borne, near then it does not hurt you and you are at lib Dayton, received an appointment as first erty to use it. But if you find that the use of. surgeon of a regime11t in Manila, the last of fiction llJakes you morose ; if you find that it· December. Dr. Thompson has 'left for the gives you a distaste fo~ work; if you find that Philippines to join his regiment. it makes you unkind, disobliging and selfish, then you may be sure, that, whetherit injures . Mrs. Flora Bash, '7 5. and husband, who anybody else or not, it injures you. . recently returned from China, spent the holi Fi1~ally some light is thrown upon the emo days as the guests of Prof. L. H . McFadden. tion! element in our nature. It is safe to rouse Mr. Bash was employed by a syndicate of intense feelings and hi.J?;h exciteme:1ts if they eastern capitalists to secure concessions and take on practical forms. But 'it is neither safe the right of way for a new railroad in central nor wholesome tci have such feelings aroused China in which the capitalists are interested, if they do not take on such forms. Which is R. A. Longman, '97, who OC(;upies the the better mother, tl'e Otte that is intensely position of "elder brother" in the Boys' Indus emotional or she that is very practical? The trial Home, Lancaster, paid his Westerville one that has a great amount of feeling, but friends a short call during the holidays. Rev. cumparatively little of the practical, or the one Mr. Longman is well liked at Lancaster and that has comparatively little apparent feeling possesses special qualifications for the position and a great amount of the practical ? There which he now fills .with credit and efficiency. are many great hearts that turn the current of deep emotions into actual practical deeds. J. A. Barnes, '94, pastor of the West Broad Some men have a cold sluggish, stupid tem Street Presb/terian church , was granted a four perament. · Under the most stimulating months' leave of absence by his congregation, influences they scarcCly wake up. Others are in order that he and Mrs. Barnes might join intensely excitable. If you look at them they the 1900 pilgrimage to the Holy Land and change color, and- if you breathe upon them, Egypt. They sail from New York Feb. ro, quiver all over. And yet no more credit is 1900, and the trip personally conducted by due to the emotional man because he sounds Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, will include, beside quickly, than to the other. These' unemo the afore mentioned places, Turkey, Greece, ~ ional men are as true to their nature as are Italy, Switzerland, France and England. OTTERBEIN ..£GIS. 13 New Year finds the better class of men in this OTTERBEIN .lEGIS. state of mind. Thus, and thns only, are they Published the 20th of Each Month of the Col lege Year. fit subjects for the New Year. If man has not gone through the close EDITORIAL ADDRESS: Editor OTTERBEIN !EGIS, WESTERVILLE, OH IO. scrutiny of self and does not act in accordance BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS: with tha t and the lessons of the past, he will Business Manager OTTERBEIN !EGIS, WESTERVILLE, OHIO. be in no wise able to realize his better self; he D. T. BENNER.T, 'Ot ...... Editor in Chief cannot be the potent L.ctor he ought to be, B. 0. BARNES '00 ...... Assistant nor rep.der the blessings to his community F. OLDT, '01...... Exchange Editor that he is under obligations to render. The E. A. S~NDERS, '02...... Alumna! Editor man that heeds the instructions of the past I. W. HOWARD, '01...... Local Editor A. L. GANTZ, ·oo ...... Business Manager and looks into the old self and purifies it, is H. E. SliiREY, '03 ...... Assistant swept on by the opening of the New Year W. 0. LAMBERT, '00...... Subscription Agent into higher plains, with strong hopes and firm J. L. SH IVE LY, '02 ...... Ass't Subscription Agent resolves. Then the true manhood begins to Subs~ri pti o n, !!Oc a Year in Advance Single Copies tOe develop. Then it is, when man begins to Subscription• Wi ll be continued until t!Je pauer is ordered stop ped b.v the subscriber, and all arrearages paid. solve the knotty problems of life upon right REMIT SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SUBSCRIPTION AGENT principles. Wheth, r ' in school or upon the [Entered at tile postoffice, Westerville, Ohio, as sec<>nd-class farm, in ;he pulpit or before the bar, he then · mail ma1.1er.] ~--. - faces his task like a man and thus becomes a PH ILOPHRONEAN PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS . blessing to humanity and an honor to his BUCKEYE PRI~TING Co., PRINTERS, Westervil le. Ohio. God. "Time is indeed a precious boon, But with the boon a t ask is given ; The heart must learn its duty well To man on earth and God in heaven." I MEN, in every walk of life are greatly bene- N whatever pursuit a pers0n 1s engaged or 1-l fited by the egress of the O ld Year and I whatever kind ,. of work he is doing, his the ingress of the New. Though there is no success depends largely upon the degree of visible or outward change, yet there is some thoroughness with which he performs his thing about it that causes man to stop on his work. lt matters not so much, how much he hurried march and think. As the Old Year does as how well he does it. What we need leaves contemplation and seriousness reign in to emphasize more is the necessity for and the the minds of the more thoughtful, they begin wo . th of thorough work. to think of their condition, of their progress or A person is , to a great extent, what he retrogression. makes himself and is inclined to do what There begins to dawn upon them a more satisfies him. If he has high aspirations and direct cognizance of their actual place. Self is sets up for himself a high standard of work seen in many cases more distinctly in a clearer manship, he will make better progress and light than ever before. Weakness and strength, reach highe:r attainments than if he is content vileness and purity, ignorance and intelligence, with an inferior grade of work and satisfies potentialities and actualities, are weighed on himself by doing "as well as many others," the balance of conscience. No one can tell We so metimes hear it said , that the grade the many benefits that come from such an given for class work amounts to nothing, examin,ation. And how har,pily it is that the implying that it matters little whether the q. OTTERBEIN AJ(;ts. student receives a high or a low grade. The sanitary principles attacks by its presence the high grade stands for thoroughness to a large weakly constitution in the community, and , extent. while the lower one represents a more having passed, leaves the average of. consti inferior grade of work. He may not be the tutional vigor somewhat higher than before. brighter student who receives the higher grades, but it indicates thoroughness to that degree. 1JT vanous times tn the past there have Let us set the standard high. Let the limit J ~ been occasional protests against the of our aspirations be an exalted one. And by formal manner in which the colleges confer honest effort, thorough work, and determined honorary degrees, and alumni associations purpose, finally reach the goal of our am have gone so far in some instances as to bition. demand the abolition of the practice. No system appears to be followed and there are no signs of a standard of merit. One man· cwrHAT wars have directly or indirectly receives a degree who has really earned it by 1 resulted in some advantage to the world distinguished attainments. or services in a:t, in past times, it would be vain to deny; and literature, science, law, medicine, morals or that their role of usefulness even between so religion; another, because he has '~(bunded a! called civilized nations, is wholly at an end, it scholarship in a college, or presented a build would not be safe to assert. ing; another, because his friends have clam . This however, may be said, that if war ored for him to have it; another, b~~~tise he ensues between two nat:ons, it is owing not has been preaching, or writing,::" or, working, · to their civilization in any true sense, but to for many years, and all other men of his age some lack in the civilization of one or the in similar walks of life have received it; other or both-some predominance of the another, because. he has been the . victim of spirit of greed, some inaccessibility to the unjust persecution, or has had hard luck and dictates of reason, some faul[ of domestic gov needs to be encouraged, and another, (an all ernment by which crude passions and ignorant too representative case), because he is thiubng prejudices of the multitude or possibly the of leaving something to the college, and the interested and partial views of a governing honor will add a spur to his generous im class, are allowed undue sway, some national pulses. arrogan'ce, some aberration of public opinion. What is the result ? The degr e is made so• War in such a case, teaches sharp and much common that the really deserving man hesi• needed lessons, but, unfortunately, it does t:Ites to accept it, and it is worth nothing to not invariably advance the cause of justice. the undeserving man who wears it. ' The It shows where power re:ides, but does not degrees were devised for the purpose of. always indicate the. right. It may chasten recognizing eminent attainments or services in where chastening was less needed and exalt intellectual pursuits. When a u1an had the pride of those who already were too inso pursued a certain course of · st'udy in law, or lent. Whatever evil it may destroy, it leaves divinity, or other branch of learning, and had new created evil in its path. A ll we can hope passed examinations which demonstrated his is, that upon the whole, the education of the attainments, he received the degree as a cer world may be advanced by the dire expe tificate of his knowledge. Why not return to rience. We need not, however, laud war on the early practice ? Why not return to the ' this account, a ny more than we laL•d the epi old simplicity and truthfulness which ought to demic which, taking its origin in neglect of form the basis of every institution of learning? OTTERBEIN AiGIS. 15 Above all, why not remove from college H~ need not wait long a pretext to find, honors the atmosphere of sham and humbug Who follows the bent of a God guided mind. When life's in the b alance, his brother to defend, which is so fatal to everything it touches, and He strives like a hero, his help to extend. which, appealing to the sense of the ludicrous, which is so keen in Americans, deprives those Across sailed the Maine our greetings to bear To the down-trodden soldier now filled with despair. honors of the last vestige of value by mai.;ing To the clark cruel Spaniard, engrossed in his_pride, them rediculous. Who slaughtered his brother and mocked when he died. It is a fact that a mercenary motive is the The gm st of a nation, in proud stately mien first one given in many cases in which the She sailed in the harbor through waters serene. obvious merit of the recipient of the degree Not seeing the hatred that lurked in the eye, does not itself supply the explanation of its Which scoffed at "Old Glory" when passing her by. bestowal. All this could be remedied by Out yonder they placed her where the deep swelling having the degrees conferred on merit alone, tide as the recognition of distinguished achieve Concealed 'neath its bosom the engines devised. Then waited in silence the deed to commit, ments in intell ectual pursuits. It is the duty Under cover of darkness to blow up the ship. of the -college to stimulate and encourage intellectual growth in all pos"sih le ways. If A quiver! A crash! Oh God what a sight! To see human souls sent out in the night. they bestow their. honors, not in recognition Down, down they sank 'neath the waves' foaming crest, of inteiiectual achievements, but in return for A shameful crime, 'gainst a national guest. material benefits, and in recognition of The world stood aghast at the treacherous deed rnate1 ia1 success, to whom can the author, the As the news flew o'er it with the lightning's swift speed. poet, the painter, the scholar, the scientist, or While we gathered our dead from the d a rk gloomy deep other intellectual worker, look for encourage And laid them away in eternity's sleep. ment and sustaining strength? Could our nation's honor brook such an insult, And let Spanish treachery our sailors engulf? Ah! No! God had spoken and we must obey, Drive out the proud Spaniard let Cuba go free. The call of our nation was met with three cheers, While out from our valleys came brave volu:ateers, W. '1'. TRUMP, 01. To follow our colors, in gallant array, Marched the sons of the blue with the sons of the gray. The wild waves came dashing from the deep southern sea, Then out from the shores of our dear native land Bearing the cry of a people who longed to be free. They sailed with our flag ; for her they must stand. Their bright sunny isle was bathed in the blood ''Remember the Maine" was ever the cry, Of those whose cry came across with the flood. She must be avenged; the Spaniard must die. The Pearl of the seas was shrouded in gloom The emblem of liberty floated out o'er the sea, Must the hope of ambition go clown so soon? With a message of gladness to those who'd be free. Is there no one to help this people distressed ? The flag of the tyrant must now cea8e to wave Is America deaf to the cry of the oppressed? Near the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not so; we may know from the nation's deep sigh, Our flag is now hoisted, unfurled to the breeze, From her heaving bo~om and the look of her eye. And floats o'er the people of the isle ofthe ::.eas. The blood had but spoken the woe of a people, From far down at Manila to Cuba's fair shore Whom God had created, our brother, our equal. The flag of oppression will be seen never more. Long! Long! We stood doubting our duty to do, We tore the false colors from San Juan Hill While statesmen were puzzled what course to pursue, Though many a brave soldier his life blood did spill. Just how to help Cuba, and not to offend Yet freedom is purchased, a people is blest, The nation that crushed her, that, that, was our end. And tyranny driven from the land of the west. OTTERBEIN AiGIS. also for his earnest endeavor to treat all the boys alike. Griggs is proving faithful. Prof. L. H McFac' den says that Oldt is W . 0 . Turbin has not returned. probably not the best penma' in school at the present time. 0. 0. Zehring was here visiting. Shively was studying the ceramic art the Harry Arnold ·'ill be in school in the spring greater part of his vacation. The clay is all term. off his shoes now. Hugh Kline will not enter school for several Anyone interested m the welfare of a par weeks. ticular lady should read Bennert and Shivley's Ask the girls at the Yates house about the dissertations on tbe art of wooing. lamps. Prof. T . G. McFadden has reported some Charley Keller is studying qualitative work very serious delays since he gave his chemistry in chemistry. class the formula, Ki + 2 S =KISS. There is a lady m school who seems to Roby is after the class grade in I nternational enjoy long visits. Law. He is sitting on a front seat, which gives him an unfair advantage of at least two Senator Harbaugh preached several very percent. o':er all other competitors. interesting sermons. Lambert says, "The Injuns and Fillipinos Mr. and Mrs. F . B. Bryant a re enJ ·ying were not treated jus.tly." their work at Shiloh. Dr. Garst says, "Just as you think about Mrs. Scott says that Prof. Scott spent part that, Mr. Lambert." of his vacation fishing. Willie Zehring spent a few days at Otterbein toea Is at the beginning of the term. The Mossman club is still on top. Anderson, Gantz, Lambert and Graha '' were admitted to the Senior class. Revival meetings are now in progress at the cullege chapel. Grace Wallace received a flying visit from her sister, Mrs. Lowry, of Springfield. W l1at a peculiar sensation se1zes a person when summoned to the President's office or is The boys are preparing music for then. xt stopped by a mem her of the faculty. Y . M. andY. W. C. A.--(book carnival?). Several new students made their appearance A . L. Gantz was formally introduced to with the winter term and they are now enjoy Michigan society on the evening of Dec. 16, ing that blissful art of being "ridden." '99· On Saturday evening, Jan. 27, will occur " Jack" Kilbourn and his mother spent a the local contest of the Oratorical Association. pleasant vacation with relatives and friends in Four contestants will strive for honors. :Qayton. On the resignation of Mr. Pearley Kilbourn~ Jo ~ lhas h an~ s desl'! f\ ~ s credit for h is hard as manager of the baseball team of l900, Mr, V(gf~ f\S tn~\1a~er of th ~ ·g~ foo~Qaj l ttan1 i'H\q ft, ~· ~ hire ~ Wflr5 ~ ~ ~ ~tqi t\J pll t~~ va~anc ;y 1 OTTER!JEilV .AiCIS. Mr. Shirey is hard at work getting everything wishes, may try for a place without expense. in readiness for a successful season. One can obtain full information about the dates, places and character of the examina Miss Grace Brierly has been eniertaining tions, free, by writing the Columbian Corre her mother for a few days.· spondence College, Washington, D . C. Crowds, Cash, Compliments. They come, they bought, they wondered. To buy or not buy? That is the quest ion. Tis true you may not possess the riches of J. W . MARKLEY. the millionaire or the shining dust of a return Keller and Sherrick stood out in the rain ed Alaskan, but with such tempting p rices the n;ght of the senior push smoking sulphur and splendid values as we are offering, can in their pipes of clay. you aftord to pass them by ? Bishop J. W. Hott has been spending a few J. W. MARKLEY, days among us. He preached in the college Dep't Cash Store. chapel both· morning and evening on the 21st. ' " Among the alumni who spent the holidays T he president of the Athletic Board states in Westerville may be mentioned : Miss Daisy that personally he will have no time to indulge B 11. '87, of Wellington; Miss Lenore Good, in a thletics in the spring term. The query '98, of Mechanicsburg; Miss Anna Baker, '98, is-Why? Columbus Grove; Miss Alma Guitner, '97, Muncie, Ind.; Mr. F. B. Moore, '97, Colum The ladies' societies have deviated from their bus Grove; Mr. L. B. Bradrick, '98, Craw usual custom and are holding their sessions on fordsville, Ind ; Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Frankham, Friday evening. This will continue as long as '97, of Mechanicsburg; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. revival meetings are being held. Harris, '98, of Dayton. T he P hilophronian quartet, composed of Messrs. Barnes, Dallas, Howard and Engle, After the adjournment of the literary go to Centerburg Jan. 24 and 25, to furnish societies on Friday evening, Jan. I 2, a book music for the Farmers' Institute. carnival was given in the Association hall under the auspices of theY. M. and Y. W. A new chemical balance has recently been C. A. Some very quaint and original ideas added to the apparatus of the laboratory. So were used in representing books. A pleasant perfect is its poise that an atom or a vacuum time was enjoyed by all. The hour at which may be weighed with the greatest accuracy. the lights were extinguished was not indicative that the guests had just dispersed. Suffice it The seniors have decided not to have a to say, the janitor was in the conservatory representative on commencement day but on sound asleep. the contrary each one will show their orator ical ability by speaking a little piece of their . The following installation progdtms were own invention. excellently rendered by the Philomathean and T he U. S. Civil Service Commission Philophronean Societies in their respective announces that the annual examinations for halls on the evening of Jan,uary 19: positions in the classified service will be held PHILOMATHEAN. all over the country in March and Apnl. Music ...... Grand Inauguration March There were over 8,000 app •intments last year, Philomathean Orchestra and, judging from present indications, there Chaplain's Address ...... The Brotherhood ot Man will be nearly 10,000 this year. Anyone who D. F . Adams tS 01't'ER!JEiN A!CJS. President's Valedictory ...... Oratory Music-Remember Now Thy Creator in the G. L. Graham Days of Thy Youth ...... J. B . Rhodes Violin Solo-Legende ...... Bohm Philophronean Quartet J. D. Miller Debate- Installation of Officers Resolved that Pleasure is the Purpose and Aim of Life President's Inaugural...... Forces in Development of Man Aff., H. E. Shirey. Neg., C. 0 . Callender W. T . Trump Music-Gay Hearts (Walt;) ...... ].C. Macy Nordica Valses ...... Tourgee Glee Club Mandolin Club Narrative ...... E . W. Shank Piano Solo-Polonaise, A. major...... Chopin YEA, VERILY! Ivan Rudisill And now it came to pass that on the first A Prophetic Satire ...... , ... H . A. Worman month and on the nineteenth day of the p·a 0 D tfGrand Valse ...... Hunten month that the ladies of the Senior class sent 1 n ue \. Galop Brilliant ...... Behr Messrs. Grabill and Hewitt a decree to all the male members 0f the tribe, Extemporaneous Speaking saying-"When the even is come, gather all yourselves together at the house which is Roll Call Music ...... La Sernata called "Gym" and there it shall be declared Philomathean Orchestra unto you what thou shalt do." And it was Adjournment even so that when darkness had come and covered the whole land, that about the ninth PHILOPHRONE AN. Music{ba.. Proudly as the Eagle ...,...... L. Spohe You Will Save Money ~ Hush! Hush!...... W. H . Neidlinger Glee Club By Attending Our SP[CIAL SAL[. Critic,s Retiring Address ...... The Evolution of a Nation W. 0 . Lambert I· Men's Good $tO.OO Overcooate, now e6 7tS. Men's Good $10.00 Suite, noW' .6.75. S 1 f a. I'm Wearing awa'to Lando' the leal.. A . Foote 0 0 t b. Good Night (Serena de) ...... C. Dennee I. W. Howard THE President's Valedictory ...... Conscience vs. Brains S. R. Seese President's Inaugural UNION T hings Evanescent-Forces Eterna l F. A. Anderson Cor. 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And one of of them and said, "Arise, let us go hence." them answered and said, "ln the parlors of And they straightway took their departure, the gymnasium," and they departed, and lo the sneezing, coughing and swearing vengeance lights shone before them and they rejoiced as they walked along. with exceeding great joy and when they drew nigh and came into the basement of the gym nasium, they saw the fiery furnace and they opened their boxes and presented unto it sulpher, rubber and many precious things. It would be difficult to find a way in which But being warned that they should not tarry the "Phagocyte" could be improved. Ohio long, they departed to their rooms, a back way. 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The principal features for January are, ''Evidences of Association Pro grass," ·'Getting Results," and "The Gang Instinct." T.~e "M President Schurman, has had ample oppor TRADE MARKS DESIGNS tunity for investigation in those islands. COPYRIGHTS &c. "Two Views of the Boer," has also a tem ~u1~Jl~n;s~~~r~Gf gus~t~~~~i~~df~~~c~g~\ohne;.n!~ invention is probably p atentab1e. Communica. tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents poral interest. The number of Jan. 4 gives sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken tfirough Munn & Co. receive some valuable statistics concerning the condi special notice, without charge, in t~e tion and str,;ngth as well as gro~Ath in the . Sti~ntifit Hm~ritan. past year cf the ch u1 ches in the United States. According to this the United Brethren church shows a slight .decrease in numbers. ·•Our 077ER.BJ..IN .&CIS. 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