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A-^^' The , ^oV.ev^ ^^^^ V^ EDITORIAL YEAR, May, 1886, to WLay, 1887,

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JESSE E. PHILIPS, Jr., '87, Chairman.

ALFRED C. GARRETT '87. HOWELL S. ENGLAND, '88.

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HAVERFORD COLLEGE, 1887. LD

CONTENTS.

A Banquet,/, i:. Philips, Jr., Vol. viii, 89 A Political Contrast, B. Neivhall, Vol. Afterward, Independent, Vol. viii, 65 viii 35 Alumni Prize Oration,//. H. Goddard, A Series of Articles,/. E. Phdips, Jr.,

Vol. vii 159, 174 Vol. vii, . . 127 Alumni Department, B. Au-^vlujll, Vol. A Suggestion, /. E. PViillips, Jr., Vol. \'iii, 80, 97, 113 vii 147 A Poet's Retreat, C. H. Battey, Vol. vin'. An Idea, /. E. I^hilips, Jr., Vol. viii, 103 Athletics and Customs at Yale, Vol. Another Vacation, /. E. Philips, Jr, viii 4 Vol. vii. No. 10 167 Beneficiary Education, W. H. Fife, A Word on Cricket, /. E. IVulips,Jr., Vol. viii 8 Vol. viii. No. 4 57 Chase, Plin}' E., (with Portrait), /'/vy?j- Boyishness, B. Newhall, Vol. vii., No. sor A. C. Tlunnas, Vol. viii. No. 4, 59 9 H9 Chase, President Thomas, (with Por- Change in the Faculty, B. Newhall, trait), Tlunnas Kiniber, Vol. \-iii. Vol. vii, No. 10, 167 No. 7 1 13 Class Day, /. E. Philips, Pr., Vol. viii, ' Columbia College, Vol. viii 58 No. 6 87 College Friendship (Poem), A. C. Gar- College Life, /. //. Adams, Vol. vii., rett, Vol. viii 49 8, No 127 Commencement. /. E. PIdlips, Jr., Vol. College Mass Meetings, /. E. Philips, vii 178 /;-., Vol viii. No. 7 103 Communicated, Vol. viii, 63 College Periodicals, /. E. I'hdips, Jr., Consolation (Poem), //. 6'. Ibigland, Vol. vii. No. 8 127 Vol. viii 10 College Prizes, ]V. PP. I^ite, Vol. vii,

Cremation. /. H. Adams, Vol. vii, . 173 No. 10 168 Cricket, Vol. vii 186 College Vices,/, i?. IVdlips, Jr., Vol.

Cricket, '87 vs. '88, Vol. vii, ./. //. viii. No. 5 71 Adams 146 Cricket, /J. C. G"rt/7r//, Vol. vii. No. 10, 169 \ Dante's Love, W. H. Hazard, Vol. vii, PLlections, PP. S. England, Vol. viii,

156, 170 No. 5 72 Drifting (Poem), H. S. England, Vol. Flxaminations, /'. C. ffartshorne, Vol.

viii 80 • viii. No. 5 JT, Foot-Ball, A. C. Garrett, Vol. viii. No.

EDITORIALS. 1 2

/r//o-/(?;/<^?', A Change, PP. S. England, Vol. vii, 167 , Hazing, //. .S. Vol. viii. No. 3, 36 A Hackneyed Topic,/. E. Philips, Jr., Hero 'Worship, / E. Phdips, Jr., Vol. I Vol. viii 22 viii. No. 2 19

[ A New Cover, /. E. Philips, Jr., Vol. Individual Value, A. B. Clement, Vol.

vii 167 1 viii. No. 2 20

A New Department, _/. E. Philips, Jr., Literary Societies, /. E. I^hdips, Jr., Vol. viii, 55 Vol. viii. No. 6 87 A Mistake of Candor,///. Adams, Vol. Literary Work, B. Nezvhall, Vol. viii, vii 169 No. 2 19 j Locals, F. C. Haiishoriic, Vol. vii, No. Page 16; No. 2, Page 32; No. 3, 9 M9 Page 49; No. 4, Page 68; No. 5, Oratorical Culture, /. E. Philips, Jr, Page 84; No. 6, Page 100; No. 7, Vol. vii., No. 9, 147 Page 117. Our English at Haverford, IV. H. Fife, Fair Harvard, Theodore IV. Richards, Vol. viii, No. 6, 88 Vol. viii. No. 3 42 Our Gymnasium, F. C. Hartslionie, Foot Ball, F. C. Hartshoruc, Vol. viii. Vol. viii. No. 3 36 No. 3 51 Our Literary Societies, W. H. Fitc, General College News, A. C. Garrett, vii, Vol. viii, No. 4 56 Vol. No. 8, Page 145 ; No. 9,

Our Loss, /. E. Pliilips, Jr., Vol. viii, Page 165 ; No. 10, Page 185. " No. 4." 55 Vol. viii, No. I, Page 15; No. 2,

Our Neighbors, /. E. Philips, Jr., Vol. Page 34; No. 3, Page 51 ; No. 4,

viii, No. 3 . . 35 Page 70; No. 5, Page 86. W. H. Our Press Association, ,J.E. Pliilips, Jr., Fite, Vol. viii. No. i. Page 102. Vol. viii, No. 5 71 A. C. Gariett, Vol. viii. No. 7, Our Series of Articles, /. E. Philips, Jr., Page 118.

Vol. viii. No. I I Haverford and its Vicinity, F. C. Harts- Our Venture, /. E. Philips, Jr., Vol. viii. home, Vol. vii, No. 9 154

. No. 6, " 87 Heracles and Christ, B. Nezvhall, Vol. Politeness, A. B. Clement, \o\. viii. viii. No. 6, 90 No. 3, 37 In Memorium, W. P. L. '82, (P) Vol. Scribbling in Public, A. C. Garrett, vii. No. 8 129 Vol. vii, No. 9 147 Joseph L Squint's first Pome (Poem),

Smartness, /. H. Adams, Vol. vii, C. H. Batter, Vol. viii, No. 2, . . 23 No. 9 148 Lectures, A. C. Garrett, Vol. viii, No. 3,

Tennis, E. Philips, Vol. viii, No. i ; No. Page /. Jr., , 3 Page 47 4, 64.

The Aciiarnians, B. Neivhall, Vol. \ii. 1 iterature, IV. H. Fite, Vol. vii. No. 8,

No. 9 150 Page 141 : No. 9, Page 162; No. The Cricket Shed, A. C. Garrett, Vol, 10, Page 184. /. E. Plislips. fr.. viii. No. 5, 71 Vol. viii. No. I.Page 13. \V'. H.

The Grammar School, B. Neivhall, Fite, Vol. viii, No. 2, Page 32 ; No.

Vol. viii, No. 1 2 3, Page 53. / E. Philips. Jr., Vol.

. . i The Library, Vol. viii, No. i, , viii. No. 5, Patje 84. The New Rule, W. H. Fite, Vol. viii. Lord Macaulay, W. PL Fite, Vol. viii.

' No. 3 38 No. 5, . 77 The New President, /. E. Philips, Jr. Locals, B. Nezvhall, Vol. vii. No. 8, Vol. viii. No. 7 104 Page 142; No. 9. Page 162; No. The Opening,/. E. Philips, Jr., Vol. viii. 10, Page 172. F. C. Hartshorne,

No. I, I Vol. viii, No. I, Page 14. /. E. The Purpose of a College, B. Neivhall, Philips, Jt., Vol. viii. No. 2, Page Vol. viii No. 4 55 30. B. Ncwliall, Vol. viii. No. 3, The Social Side, W. H. Fite, Vol. viii, Page 48. F. C. Hartshorne, Vol.

No. 2 21 viii. No. 4, Page 66; No. 5, Page viii, Total Abstinence, W. //. Fite, Vol. . 82; No 6, Page 99; No. 7, Page 116 No. I, 3 Michigan University, Arthur L. Husscy, Voluntary Attendance at Meeting, H. Vol. vii, No. 10 iSo

S. England, Vol. vii, No. 8, . .128 Mi.st from the Ocean (Poem), A. C.

Without a Bow, /. E. Philips, Jr.,\o\. Garrett, Vol. vii, No. 10, . . .173

•. vii. No. 8 . 127 Mu.sic (Poem), A. C. Garrett, Vol. viii. No. 5 71 Earlham College, Arilnir L. Morgan, Music and Song, A. C. Garrett, Vol. Vol. viii. No. 5 74 viii. No. 6 92 /. 5". Exchanges. England. Vol. vii. My Queen (Poem), Vol. viii. No. 3, . 42 5'. No. 8, Pagt^ ; No. Page Myths and Science, //. England, 143 9, 163 ; No. 10, Page 184. Vol. viii. No. i, Vol. viii, No. 2, 27 .

Obituary, S. B. Morris, JV. H. Fitc, The Central Inter Collegiate Press Vol. vii, No. lo, 179 Association, /. E. Philips, Jr., Vol. Oration of Hampton L. Carson, con- viii. No. 6 97 cluded, Vol. vii, No 8 133 The Heroism of a Pri\ate Life, /. E.

Pearl (Poem), A. C. Garrett, Vol. vii, /%////'.?, /r.. Vol. viii. No. 3, . . . 41 No. 10 186 The Junior, W. H. Fite, Vol. vii, No. Personals, B. Ncwhall, Vol. vii. No. 8, 8 140 Page 143; No. 9, Page 162; No. The Old Church Bell (Poem), L. M. 10, Page 183. Vol. viii. No. i. Stephens, Vol. viii. No. 6, ... 96 Page 12. A. B. Clement. Vol. viii, The Present (Poem), A. C. Garrett, Vol. No. 2, Page 30; No. 3, Page 49; viii, No. 5 76 No. 4, Page 66. The Student's Dilemma (Poem), /. E.

Pope, Edward M., Percy Nields, Vol. Pldlips,Jr., Vol. viii. No. 3, . . . 47 viii. No. 4, 66 The Tennis Tournament, R. J. White, Public Meeting of Loganian Society, Vol. viii. No. I, 17

/. H. Adams. Vol. vii, No. 10. . .170 The Y. M. C. A. Reception, B. Ncivhall,

' Republicans and Temperance, B. Nezv- Vol. viii, No. 1 7 ha/l. Vol. viii. No. 2, 25 Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anni- Resolutions on Plmy P2. Chase, Vol. versary at Harvard, /tw. L. Mark- viii, No. 4 63 ley, Vol. viii, No. 3 39

Second-Hand Literature, /. H. Adams, Verses to PI M. P. 'ij , H. S. England,

' Vol. vii. No. 9, 153 Vol. viii, No. 6 • §9 Shadows All (Poem), y^. C. Garrett and Vice President's Address, T. IV. Betts, Haync, Vol. vii. No. 10 170 Vol. vii. No. 8, Page 129; No. 9, Sports, J. H. Adams, Vol. vii. No. Page 150, 9, Page 165. Vol. viii, No. 2, Winds of Autumn (Poem), A. C.

Page 3 1 Garrett, Vol. viii, No. 2, . . . 25 The Alumni Meeting, i^. C.HartsIiorne, Yale College, Isaac Thomas, A. M. Vol. vii. No. 10 177 Vol. viii, No. I, Page 10; No. 2, The Cane Rush,/. E. Philips Jr., Vol. Page 24. viii, No. I, 7

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THE HAVERFORDIAN. in excess of any previous year, and, indeed, beyond capacity of dormitories, with EDITORS: the the faculty before, notwith- I.OCANIAN. a stronger than ever JESSE. K. PMII.irS, Jr., '87, Chairman. standing some severe losses, and with a more prevailing unity and fellow feeling ALFRED C. GARRETT, '87. HOWELL S. ENGLAND, '88. than is customary, Haverford cannot help ATIlF.NMiUM. congratulating herself and holding her head IIARKER NEWHALL, '87. WARNER H. FITE, '89. a little higher than usual. With this comes EVERETT. the additional responsibility of maintaining ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. our elevation. This we can and must do.

IIi:nrv H. GouriARij, '87, Business Manai;c'i: -T^HE library of a college, if judiciously Allison W. Slocim, '88, Assistant Business M\''r. used, is a very large factor in the .Subscription Price, one year, ?i.oo process of forming a well With " The Student," 1.50 rounded educa- Single Copies, .10 tion. We have such an e.xcellent library

The Haverfordian is the official organ of the students of Hav here at Haverford that it is a shame to see erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. it neglected by such a large number of the

Entered at the Haver/ord College Post Office^ for transmis- students. Of course, during the pleasant sion through the mails at second-class rates. Fall weather, athletics demand more atten-

T^HE second of the series of articles on tion than later in the \-ear, but notwith-

American Colleges, in which the ar- standing this, no student can afford to lose ticle on the University of Michigan was the the advantages which the consultation of

first, appears in this issue. It is from the works parallel to those he is studying, or pen of Isaac Thomas, M. A., a Yale gradu- the completion of a regular course of read-

ate, to whom the Ha\erfordjan takes this ing is sure to give.

opportunity of extending its thanks. "Ath- Particularly in the line of history is the

letics and Customs at Yale " is from the greatest need. A very little observation pen of an under-graduate. will convince any one of the dearth of his-

torical knowledge among the great majority

TT is always in order at the o[)cning of the of students. The reason is not far distant.

college year for the college organ to The broadcast sowing of fiction, which has

eulogize the institution on its new de- received such good cultivation, has in a great

parture, and, but for the pre-eminence of measure choked out any other growth.

this year's outlook o\er any of the pre- Can't we borrow a little time from this

ceding, we would be tempted to omit the recreation, and (Ie\'ote it to more useful

usual self-adulation. lUit with numbers far reading. :

THE H AVERKORDIAN.

The advantages of the reading habit have management of its Head-Master, Mr. Chas. been hashed over so often and so generally S. Crosman, an Alumnus of '78, and also of admitted that they would be out of place Harvard, '79, who has brought, coupled with

here. But the great question is, " What a thorough experience in teaching, an earnest shall I read?" In answer, we would sa)' lo\'e for the school and his Alma Mater, it

Read what }-ou like best ; or, if you have has made this remarkable and encouraging

no choice at all, ask the librarian. If you progress, and has now become an established want to read simply for pleasure, we know and important fictor, not on!)' in Haverfoixl of no pleasanter books than the conquests and the scholastic circle of two colleges and of Mexico and Peru. The story of the two schools so near one another, but also Saracens and the Fall of (Grenada read al- throughout the entire vicinity of the city. most like novels. The rise and progress of Mexico and California are here represented^ the Turks makes an excellent topic. With and its boarders, few heretofore through

classic subjects we take it for granted every limited accommodations, are steadily in- will sports their one become acquainted. They are in- creasing in number. , The have valuable and absolutely necessary in order charms for them all, and some of our future to read Shakespeare, B)'ron, or Milton, or athletes, as well as literary giants, may be almost any of the poets, understandingly. here developed. All these features of its Poetry, biograph)-, travel, and fiction may past history and present development seem claim some of j'our attention too, but his- to augur with no uncertain omens a com.ing tory is and must be first to the student. success, only to be fitly measured by the

Still, in this place we only wish to call your lives of its students, permanent and sub- attention, fellow-students, to the fact that stantia], reflecting much honor to the col- we have an excellent library of 16,000 vol- lege and itself. Our best wishes for its umes open to the use of all. Do not ne- future go with it. glect such an opportunity.

T^HE time for foot-ball having arrived, /^UR attention is very pleasantly called we hope that during its short con-

to our grammar school, on returning tinuance the students will lay aside all to college, by learning that seventy-two other interests and give their whole atten- scholars are expected for the coming aca- tion to our Autumn sport. No thoughts of demic year. This fact carries our memory cricket, tennis, or base-ball need continue, back to the time when, only two years ago, and we hope these games will now be given this school opened with but twenty-one up entirely. For our success in foot-ball scholars ; last year forty odd was reached, will depend only on the interest displa)'ed and so it then more than doubled, while by the students, and we have no reason to now it has more than trebled its original be so confident as to be indifferent. The numbers. Beginning with a dwelling-house loss of five from the college team, and for school and boarding alike, it was ena- these among the best, makes it necessary bled, through the munificence if of Mr. A. J. that great effort be put forth we expect

Cassatt and other friends of the college success equal to that of last year. First, it near by, to open a fine school building, ad- must be ascertained just who should fill the mirably adapted to its many purposes, and vacancies. This is a somewhat hard task, it now expects to erect this Fall a comfort- and the Ground Committee cannot be cer- able building for boarding purposes on Ma- tain of any one, unless that player seems to ple Avenue. Under the able and energetic be uniformly reliable; /'. f., the candidate —

THE HAVERKORDIAN. must appear to be the best eligible player in its matches and because you want your in every afternoon scrub match. It will not team—the team of which you are an indis- do to play brilliantly in one game and then pensable part—to distinguish itself Then stay away at other times. In this way the of equal importance, the team having elected player's endurance is tested. Secondl)-, the a captain to lead it and to study up the meth- team having been roughly determined, we ods of playing, the team must let the cap- must appeal to all players to help train it. tain lead it, and must carry out the meth-

It must have a good set of men to play ods which he proposes. The feature of the against it, or the practice will be worse playing of the leading foot-ball teams of than useless. The team must practise unit- this country is the perfect subordination, by edly. This is somewhat an innovation, but which the captain with a nod or word con- manifestly, in a game in which concerted trols e\ery man and all his men absolutely. action is evcr\'thing, splitting up the team The members of the team should also be and playing its members against each other careful of their health —take regular and should be discontinued. And this involves very hard exercise, and especially keep the

that any student shoidd be willing to play digestion straight ; each one knows best for against the college team in spite of the himself how to do it. Late hours and smok- hurts and defeats he may receive, as he ing are fatal to our efforts. must, from the best players in the college. So that, by continued, united practice on In scrub matches scores ought to be for- three afternoons, the rest of the week being gotten, and onl\- the practice considered. open for everybody to play, and by care and This method also involves that when the attention, the team may hope even to sur- team is practising all but about fifteen pass its accomplishments in the past. The players who must oppose the team should interest—perhaps we might say loyalty—of be so kind as to give up the field, and be everyone in the college will decide whether

spectators only ; for nothing is so vexatious these objects are attained. to any team as to be compelled to oppose greatly superior numbers, especially if these r~^ LANCING casually over a newspaper, are poor players, and the symmetry of the ^^ the name and locality of which have game, the appearance it has in a real match, escaped our memory, we noticed an ad- is lost. So that on perhaps three after- vertisement of a temperance society with in " noons the week, the college eleven and the following motto appended : We will its two or three substitutes will play to- be masters of ourselves." This is an in- gether against a selected team of fifteen, teresting question. Are total-abstainers and will try to learn all necessary unit)- of masters of themselves ? Is not total-ab- action and the skilful moves which consti- stinence itself rather an admission that its tute scientific plaj'ing. adherents have a master whom they fear to

To the members of the team itself, we meet? Is it not an c\idence of weakness would say that the}- can under no circum- rather than strength ? The total-abstainer stances expect to be successful unless they hides from his enemj' because that enemy conscientiously attend the team's practice is his master. matches. That has been the greatest diffi- We offer this as an interesting question culty, to cojiipd the members to be on hand. not to oppose total-abstinence,—simply to at-

They ought not to need compulsion. Just tempt to test it. The question of using or let everything else slide, and c\ery one be abstaining from intoxicating liquors is one dressed and on the field in time ! And well calculated to perplex the mo.st acute come because )-ou wish the college to win mind; and that man is yet worthy of re- —

THE H AVERKORDI AN. spect who, when confronted with tlie ques- AXHLEXICS AND CUSTOMS AX YALE. tion, can only gi\'e tlie Rabbi's answer, " I don't know." Now grant, for a moment, "W'ALE is so well known in athletics that that a moderate use of undistilled h'quors it is needless to give more th^n a that is to say, of wine and beer— is not in- hasty glance at this subject. The principal jurious, does total-abstinence agree with kinds of sports in vogue at Yale are boat- the notion of ideal humanity? Is there ing, base-ball, foot-ball, tennis, and track not 5,omething better? If there is some- athletics. Lacrosse has been attempted, thing better, ought we not to strive to but, of late years, has not amounted to very reach it ? much. All these sports are controlled by However well total-abstinence may agree associations, the members of which are all with the present condition of humanity, we the students in all departments of the uni- are inclined to think that the final settle- versity. The ofificers of these associations ment of the temperance question will not control the management and finances of the be total-abstinence, but self-control. Self- teams. control is better than total-abstinence. A The most important branch of athletics self-controlled man is truly a master of at Yale is rowing, and the annual contest himself. One who fears a first glass of wine with Harvard on the Thames is a source of because of its temptations to a second is not great interest. There are regularly four a master of himself; one who resists the eight-oared crews—the 'Varsity, the Junior, temptation to a second glass is his own the Sophomore, and the Freshman ; but in master. It will be noticed that this refers the beginning of the college year a si.x- to an ideal humanity. It may be better to oared race is always arranged between the admit the weakness of actual humanity, and Academic and Scientific Freshmen. All accept total-abstinence. We refrain from the crews commence training in mid-win- expressing an opinion on the subject, and ter, starting with perhaps fifteen or twenty merely suggest the question to the reader. men, from whom the necessary eight are chosen. The men train faithfully and well,

'T^HE finals in a very interesting tourna- and there is always a great rivalry between ment are being played as we go to the classes as to which class shall have the press. It is the first attempt at anything of best crew. As a general thing, however, the kind, and its success augurs well for the the Freshmen train hardest, partly because tutu re of the game. There are about thir- they are ne\\' at the business, and partly be- teen nets up on various parts of the cam- cause they put more enthusiasm into their pus, and tennis attracts a good deal of at- work than tiie upper classes. Probably tention. The tennis association should have more time is consumed in practising for a a couple of courts graded and under its con- boat-race than for any other college ath- trol, so that future tournaments (for we hope letic contest, and complaints are often made that the first is not also the last) can be that time is thus wasted which might be played on our own grounds. Can't it be better employed. in studying. But it seems done ? It will take both time and money, to. be a general rule that, with the majority but it must be done. While we hope always of men who are connected with the differ- to see cricket as the college game, an active ent teams, the time which is used in train- tennis association will be no disadvantage ing and practising, if not employed in this to it, and a pleasant game for non-cricket- way, would be spent in doing nothing. .So crs. that a man feels that all his spare time, THE H AVERFOKDIAN.

after meals, recitations, and exercise, must mainh' from tlie under-classes, except those

be given to study. And in lliis lie ;i\oicls, who intend to go with the Mott Haven to some extent, tiie habit ol laziness, and at team. Up[)er-classmen seem to lose their the same time builds up his physical struc- interest in these sports the farther they ture. advance. The intercollegiate meet of '86 Two regattas arc held annuall}'—one in was quite successful, and Harvard won the the Fall and another in tiic Spring. The cliampionship cup.

University generally races in the Spring. Tennis is much played at \'ale, as at

In regard to the expense of rowing, it may other colleges, but there is no such in- be said that the crews .spend in the neigh- terest manil'ested in the results of the con-

borhood of $4,000 per year. The largest tests as in the other sports. expense, of course, is the boarding at a A large number of men go into athletics training-table. annually, and many in the hope of gaining next in importance is base-ball. The popularity thereby ; for there is nothing at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton form the Yale which gives a man so much honor principal teams of the intercollegiate as- and popularitv as being a fine crew man or sociation. As the time for playing is a leading base-ball player, and in every limited to the Spring months May and Senior class a great man}' of the men who June, it is impossible to play many games, succeed in getting into Skull and liones, but yet they arrange for two games be- the most influential Senior society, are those tween each of the colleges in the associa- who have distinguished themselves and their tion. Last year the association consisted of college by their doings on the water or in

Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Amherst, the field. Outside the regular college teams and Williams. Yale succeeded in again the students practice' a good deal, and on winning the championship pennant, \\ hich, any pleasant afternoon many men can be indeed, she had held every year, with one seen at the Yale field, playing ball or ten- exception, since the intercollegiate games nis, or practising running. The gymna- were inaugurated. There are, besides, the sium is not forgotten in the Winter season,

'Varsity four class teams, which play a though it is poorly adapted to the wants of series of games with each other, and thus the students. But it seems very probable serve to train men for the 'Varsity. that a new gynmasium, plans of which After these two most prominent branches have already been drawn, will be erected of athletics may be grouped foot-ball, track- before many years, better suited to the de- athletics, and tennis, in all three of which mands made upon it. many men engage. The foot-ball interest The customs which have been handed centers in the Yale-Princeton game, which down from father to son, and observed has generally been played on Thanksgiving from time immemorial at Yale are distinc- day at the Polo Grounds, New York, but tive and different from those of other col- was last year held at New Haven, where a leges. The first cListom that a person just victory was scored by Princeton. entering college meets with is the annual Yale sends every year some fifteen or rush between the Sophomores and Fresh- twenty, men to the meeting of the Inter- men. This is always held in a place known collegiate Athletic Association. The men as the Hopkins Grammar School lot. Here train very faithfully for this event and also both sides form, urged on by the Juniors, for the Fall and Spring games. In the and at a given signal move toward each Yale athletic came.s the contestants arc other. As soon as one side has shox'ed the THE Jri AVK;RFOKl>iyVN.

other back any considerable ilistance, and being witt\', antl the scene is often one of

tlie ranks are broken up, a rint;' is formed, much merriment. and tlie wrestlers step in and ha\'e their During Sojihoniore )xar nnthing of great turn. The distance from this lot to the importance happens except that the men colleges is one block, and the Sophomores haze the Freshmen slightly and are al- always try to keep the Freshmen from walk- lowed to dance at the Junior Promenade, ing home on the sidewalk, and there is a privilege which they did not enjoy the sometimes a very sharp struggle. A Fresh- year before. Hazing has been modified to man is never allowed to wear a tall hat, nor such a degree within the last twenty j'cars until Washington's birth- can he use a cane that at present it amounts to but very little. day, when he and his fellow-classmates The Freshmen are treated very well, except " parade the street with bangers " two or that they are made fun of and are compelled three inches in diameter. to do things calculated to make them look principle that it is the It is a general duty as ridiculous as possible. No injury is ever of the Sophomores to sit down on the Fresh- done to a man, and, though a great many men as much as possible. One of the ways are subjected to this light treatment, they in which the whole college helps them is in rather enjo)- it than otherwise. the matter of subscriptions. As soon as the The great social event to the Junior is Fall term opens, the new men are visited b_\' his Promenade. This is always a very ele- the subscription agents and asked to give gant affair, and the classes vie with each large simis to the different organizations. other in making the occasion finer every And it is a fact that the Freshmen pay the year. On the night before the Promenade, greater part of the money that is expended the Glee Club concert occurs, when the for many of these enterprises. However, Opera House is filled mainly with students the customs which most affect the new- and their lady friends. Many of the young comer are those connected with the fence. ladies are from places at a distance from The fence is a great institution at Yale, and New Haven. The other great event for the each of the classes has a particular portion, Juniors is the elections to the Senior so- which they call their own. In the Spring cieties. These take place a few weeks be- and Fall, in the early evening, they sit and fore commencement, and are performed in sing the praises of their Alma Mater be- a very unusual manner. The Juniors all neath the overhanging elms. Many of the gather in front of a certain building at pleasantest recollections of college life are 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and soon the connected with the fence. Freshmen, how- members of Skull and Bones or Scroll and ever, are not allowed to sit on the fence Key are seen coming out of their halls and until they have beaten the Harvard Fresh- choosing the new members. A man leaves men at base-ball. Great interest is always each hall once in about ten minutes, and attached to these games, and the rest of the walks directly to the place of meeting. Then, college seem to feel almost as deep an in- without saying a word to any one, he walks terest in the event of the match as do the about among the assembled students until Freshmen themselves. Two games are he finds his man, when he gives him a played—one at Cambridge and the other sharp slap on the shoulder. Then they go at New Haven. At the end of the year, immediately to the Juniors' room, where a day or two before the fellows leave col- the election is offered and is either ac- lege, the Sophomore-fence is given away to the Freshmen. Two speakers are chosen cepted or refused. It is needless to say for the occasion who have the reputation of that few men refirse. y THE H AVKRKOROI^VN.

With the ac!\cnt of Senior year many year, encouraged by the example of sister new duties come upon tlie student, and associations, to kindly and heartily wel- among these is the custom of bowing to come the new men as soon as they entered the I'resiilcnt. The President conducts tlie our midst, w hile at the same time the exist- chapel exercises, and at their conchision ence, claims, and importance of the associa- walks down the center aisle, on each side tion might be presented to them at the very of which are seated the Seniors. As he start. We believe this object has. been at- passes they all bow to him, bending their tained, and that a good start has been made bodies into the form of a right angle. for the year's work, which, if the responsi-

Whether this custom will be kept up under bility is only equally accepted by all the the regime of the new President remains to members, will, we believe, go on to a well ^ be seen. filled and honorable fruition.

THE Y. M. C. A. RECEPTION. THE CANE RUSH.

T^HE parlor of Founders' Hall was the /^N the 27th ult. the annual cane rush ^"^ occasion of rather a novel gathering took place in front of Barclay Hall. on the i"th ult. As the printed cards of It was 12 o'clock when the class of 'go, " invitation signified, it was a reception to with a huge club in their midst, took their the members of 'go and other new men," stand and challenged '89 to the encounter. and, judging from the general appearance So unexpected was it that it took some of faces during the evening, every one minutes for Chief Marshal Firth to sum- seemed to enjoy well his hour and a half mon his men to the conflict, but it wasn't Facult}-, members, and non-members, both long before they bore down upon the old and new, all were well represented, and Freshmen, who had the audacity to be after some ninety or so had gathered and seen upon the campus with a cane in their enjoyed a social talk, some gentlemen from hands. The class of '90 looked woefully Bryn Mawr, led by Mr. Morris W^eber, ren- small, both in numbers and in muscle, but dered some choice musical selections. The they were all there, as the class of '89 President of the association then briefly wel- found. The struggle was a hard one, and comed the new men and explained some of well fought on both sides. No regard was its advantages, and was followed by Prof paid to the rending of clothing, ordinary

P. E. Chase, Acting President of the col- bruises, nor personal discomfort of any lege, and Prof J. R. Harris, in well chosen, kind, but each man did his le\el best to informal addresses. After more singing, win a position on that cane. But finally the company was in\'ited to the dining- time \\as called by the judges— H. W. room, where a jilentiful supjjly of cake, Stokes, '^-, and W. D. Lewis, '88 —when contributed by kind friends of the associa- it. was found that '89 had seven men on the tion, and ice cream ministered to the only cane and '90 had si.x. The cane was there- part of our human nature which had been fore decided to be the property of '89. neglected. Music, both sacred and secu- Considering their number, the class of '90 lar, followed, and with the grand old hymn, showed considerable pluck and determina- " Nearer, my God, to Thee," the exercises tion to meet superior numbers and experi- of the evening closed. ence. Beyond the destruction of a con- The reception had its origin in the desire siderable amount of clothing, no other loss felt by the Young Men's Christian Associa- occurred, no one was hurt, and all were tion (.luring the last months of the preceding happy. THE H AVKRKOKniAN.

BENEFICIARY EDUCATION. tivate all [jarts of his nature. He will be of a robust ph)-si(|ue, of an understanding T^HE disparity of wcaltii is productive of mind, and of a devout spirit. The develop- no graver evil than tliat whicli gi\'es ment of no part of his nature will compen- culture and enlightenment to the rich and sate for the neglect of another. Neither a denies it to the poor. The privilege of the powerful and comely frame nor a height- best schools, abundant opportunity for the ened religious zeal will justify the lack of exercise of taste, elegant and congenial intellectual development. To be complete, surroundings, freedom from many of the to perfect the purpose of our existence, we smaller vexations of life, are all most must be intellectual. powerful means of culture, while lack of Were position in the world determined education, forlorn homes and a painful by the money which one earns himself, the system of economy rarely fail to lower the rule would not be so unjust. In the busi- tenor of thought and feeling. Wealth ness world, as a rule, men reach exactly leaves the mind free to roam among great that level to which their industry and per- things; the poor man must think much of severance have entitled them. Unfortu- small things. One's grade in society is nately, however, one must receive his men- usually regulated by his means; and wealth tal training before he enters upon the active will force an ignorant and boorish man into

business of life ; and his educationis, there- a polite circle, to which men of high ideas fore, dependent upon the means, the abili- and excellent abilities are not admitted on ties, or the good will of his parents. The account of a slender income. Unjust, in- death of his guardians may deprive him al- deed, as this ruie appears to be in principle, together of his school-life. It is, also, ex- in practice it is usually right. As a rule, tremely difficult for many in good circum- the rich are refined and cultivated and the stances to furnish their children with any poor are degraded and ignorant. semblance of a higher education. The ex-

Such a state of things, however, we fail penses of college or school are so great that to reconcile to the principle of human they cannot often be undertaken in addition equality. To imagine one part of the to those of a large household. It happens, human race educated and another part ig- therefore, that the children of the rich go norant seems hardly less absurd than to into the world with well stocked and well imagine a class of men with hands and a disciplined minds—an advantage which usu- class without them. Ignorance is a de- ally enables them to outstrip their poorer formity of the mind no less than is the ab- and less fortunate brethren. It is hardly sence of a hand a deformity of the body. possible, without some aid, to procure an

An ignorant man is an undeveloped man education for one's self Many stories have ; that is to say, he is less of a man than one been told of self-made men, but the)' are ot intelligence. To no part of the human mostly stories of a rise to wealth and influ- race has the prerogative of hands been ence; and few men have risen in the region specially given, and we infer that to no of letters by their own unaided efforts. Our part of the human race has the preroga- colleges are every year granting degrees to tive of intellect been given. Without men who, according to the class statistics, going into metaphysics, we may say have furnished the means for their own that in man's nature there are parts education, but who, if the truth be known, which are physical, mental parts, and spir- have had their expenses greatly diminished itual parts. A complete man must cul- by scholarships or tutorships. TIIK M^\VKRKOKi:>I AN.

The development of the mind, then, desire of man}' who.se wealth is commen- wliich must form a part of every liealtliy surate with such a plan to create a new col-

constitution, seems, by accident of birtli, to lege \\hich shall bear their name as its

be allotted to the wealthy and denied to the founder. If money could establish a first- poor. If the wealthy have any duty in this class college, as it can build a locomotive matter—and we believe that they have a or a steamship, no plan would be more

duty— it is to remedy the inequalities of fruitful of good results. Unfortunately for fortune by generously bestowing a portion such a plan, a college, to come into a state of their means to the cause of education. of usefulness, requires growth. Money will

Otherwise, we fail to see how culture will build houses, furnish laboratories, museums, be very generally diffused. Learning and libraries, and gymnasiums, will pay the sal- ability have their price, not exorbitant, in- ary of instructors, but will not always es- deed, when we consider the value of the tablish a first-class college. The worth of article received, but such as to preclude the a seat of learning, as may be discovered by possibility of maintaining an institution of very slight reflection, is usually estimated learning small and, unless its it is a sum ; as- antiquity far wiser on by ; and to en- sisted by the wealthy, a higher education dow an established institution with the will always be beyond the reach of those of means of extending its benefits than to moderate circumstances. It may be urged bring into existence, at a great cost, a that this is done through the public schools, school which will never attain to anj' rank for the support of which all are taxed in or influence. proportion to their property. The public Scholarships, to be distributed at the dis- schools are indeed valuable—we might say cretion of the Faculty, are, in our opinion, invaluable. As a rule, however, their course the best means of extending a higher edu- is extremel)' limited. A public school grad- cation to those who cannot pay for it. In uate is not an educated man, and any one this manner money may be invested to pro- deficient in public school learning may be duce the greatest good. The long experi- considered grossly ignorant. They aim to ence with young men which usually be- give a business education, and, so far, they longs to the Faculty of a college enables are successful. Beyond this they rarely at- them to separate the good from the bad tempt to go. the deserving from the undeserving. The The most fruitful way of aiding this cause conditions of diligence and good beha\ior is, we belie\e, through an established school which are usually imposed upon the recipi- or college. It often happens, indeed, that ents of scholarships jjjaces them among the students are helped by the private support first men of their class, and aid recei\ed of some interested friend, and, when the through official means may be accepted by student is successful, the result is extremely any one without the least sense of degrad- satisfactory. a course, is Such however, ing personal obligation. That there is open to many objections. It must include room for many more scholarships than perfect harmony of opinion and purpose on those already in existence is apparent from the part of the studenta nd his benefactor ; the fact that there are a number of applica- and, though we are far from belie\ing that tions for every scholarship. A list of the a man of a high sense of personal honor scholarships of any college will con\incc may not receive such aid, yet many such one that they cannot equal the demand.

refuse it. men would Even at Harvanl the list of more than lOO

In dex'otiiig money to this cause, it is the scholarships amounts to a very meagre ;

XHt: H AVKKKOl^UI AN. sum when taken in the aggregate. Man}- COIVSOLAXIOIS. of them amount to but j?ioo per year; a The ilarkest iiiglit upon the eaitli dcsceinling, very few reacli Now tlie lc)\vest late SjOO. t'lilit lay e'en a star's most feeble lay. at whicli one can study and li\c at Harvard Is oft the lierald of a Ijrii^hter (lay, golilen is, estimate, Whose dawn, in radiant colors Mending, College b\' their own S4''^4 P*^'' Spreads out in iR-aven the sun's resplendent way. year, conformit)' to w hich estimate, we are inclined to think, will be found extremely The awful tcnijiests, o'er the ocean raging, Mix witli the deadened salts the 'livening air, difficult. Nor do the expenses of other col- Which, breathing freshness to the dulses fair. leges fall below this amount. On the other Cause all the shadowy deeps, the storm assuaging, hand, but little money can be earned while To bloom in beauties tlelicale and rare. at college. It is very hard to do two things Such are our trials, such our tribulations. time. student does full at the same A who Our blighted hopes, our dreams that are but dreams justice to his curriculum work can have no And that which only for our downfall seems time left for other work; and he will do well Proves often, in its bitter ministrations. To heal and comfort like Siloam's streams. if, during his summer vacation, he can earn H. S. England, in "The Friend." sufficient to cover his books and clothing. It is plain, therefore, that, unless his board YALE COLLEOE. and tuition are covered by a scholarship, a student without means cannot secure a col- I. HISTOKV. lege training. At Harvard, to be sure, and Founding.—The colonists of New Haven at other large universities, tutoring and other early in the life of the colony formed the such work is a sort of profit for many. This, purpose of founding a college amongst however, must always be limited. themselves, but, owing to the remon- We have made the foregoing remarks be- strance of the Massachusetts colony, de- cause we believe that the prevailing idea ferred the execution of it a long time, and concerning culture is wrong. Culture is continued to make their annual appropria- not a lu.xury, but a duty. It is not the tion to the support of Harvard College. In exclusive property of the wealthy, but the 1699 ten of the principal clergymen of the right of all humanity. It is not reserved colony were appointed as trustees to found for professional men—for clerg)-men, physi- a college. A meeting was held for organ- cians, teachers—but for all men, for mer- ization in New Haven in 1700, and a so- chants and for mechanics. It is not a ciety formed to consist of eleven ministers, means of earning money or of success in including a rector. At a meeting held soon business. It is the part of every well de- afterward, at Branford, each presented sev- veloped mind, of every well developed eral books for a library, saying, " I give man. Society, we are told, should be these books for founding a college in Con- graded according to worth, and not ac- necticut." On October 9th, 1701, the cording to means; but while a higher General Assembly granted a charter for education is confined to the rich, wealth a "collegiate school in His Majesty's forms the natural dividing line, and, until colony of Connecticut," and on Novem- it is thrown open to all, society must con- ber 1 ith Saybrook was selected as the tinue to be graded according to means. place for the college, and Rev. Abra- The surest way—the only way, we are in- ham Pierson was chosen as rector. Com- clined to think—to bring mental culture plaint having been made of the inconven- within reach of all is by an extended sys- ience of this site, the trustees voted in 1716 tem of beneficiary education. to remove the college permanently to New J —

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millions. 1 hiven. The first buikling was fiiiishfd in more than two In 1701 there was coniincncenicnt, licld but one instructur ami one student; now 1 71 8, and at the first

September 12th of this year, it was named there are upwards of lOO professors and in- Yale College, in honor of Gov. lililui Yale. structors and 1,100 students. In the six

Ill 1745 this name was apjilied authorita- years (1701-1707) of the first presidency tivel)' to the whole institution. there were sixteen graduates ; at present, Purpose.— It is worth while to notice that in one year, graduates from the various de- the prop(.)sition made in 1698 was to found partments, none of them of lower degree a " school of the church," to be sup[iorted than A. V>. or Ph. B., number about 275. by contribution.s from tiie several Congre- In 171 8 one small brick building was amply gational churches. The college ^vas thus sufficient to accommodate the college work from the very first emphatically a Christian in all her departments ; now, with more college, under both nominall)- aiid actually than twenty commodious ones at her com-

Congregational influence. There can be no mand, she still is cramped for room. One doubt in the minds of thinking men that to hundred and sixty years ago, students of this fact largely has been due the wise con- the college came almost whollj- from Con- servatism shown in the management of all necticut or the colonies immediately neigh- the affairs of the college—a conservatism boring; an examination of the catalogue of which, while it may have seemed to some late years reveals the fact that now she to progress slow ly, has prevented the col- more than any other college of our coun- lege from trying doubtful experiments, and try—gathers her men from all parts of the has enabled her to go steadily forward, not world, and sends them out again to carry being compelled to retrace any steps, and into all the earth the lessons of wisdom which, as all her children believe, has made they have learned within her walls. her the most influential center of learning U. (iOVEKXJIENT. in our land. Until 1792 the government was adminis- Course of Study. —At Saybrook the course tered by the President and ten P'ellows, all of study was limited to Latin, Greek, He- of whom were clergymen. In that year, brew, logic, metaphysics, theology, and however, in consideration of grants from physics ; but, after the removal to New the State, the corporation voted that the Haven, the cm-riculum was enlarged, es- Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and six pecially in mathematics. From that time Senators should become Fellows, thus to the present the course has been con- making the corporation to consist of stantly added to, until now, in the under- eighteen members, besides the President. graduate, post-graduate, and professional In 1871-2 the Legislature passed an act departments, the curriculum embraces all which substituted six graduates of the col- the studies that make not only the accom- lege for the six Senators. These six Fel- plished but the profound scholar. A de- lows were elected by the Alumni, and were partment of medicine was founded in 18 12, so divided that one vacancy in their num- of theology in 1822, of law in 1824, and of ber should occur annualh-; this \-acanc)- is philosophy in 1847. In the latter year was filled each }'ear by the election of a gradu- founded also the Sheffield Scientific School ate to serve for si.x years, " all graduates of (named so in i860), a school for technical the first degree of five or more years' stand- and scientific training. ing in any of the departments of Yale Col- Groii'th.—In 1700 a dozen men presented a few books each as the beginning of the lege, and all persons who have been ad- wealth of the college ; to-day she is worth mitted to any degree higher than the first —

12 THK HAVERP^OKUI^N. in Yale College, whether honorary or in Thursday and Friday, with two each on course," being allowed to vote. All the Wednesday and Saturday. Test examina- departments are subject to the corporation, tions are held at the option of the instructor which bears the legal title, " The President during the term, and final examinations are and Fellows of Yale College in New I Fa- held twice in the j-ear (December and June), ven." The immediate government, how- the annual having been done away with ever, is vested in the President and Pro- two years ago. livery man must maintain fessors who constitute the P'aculty. Though a certain rank (two hundred on a scale of the President is ex-officio head of each de- four hundred) or be dropped from his class. partment, yet each has a separate F"aculty, When dropped he has the choice of leaving with a chief executive officer, who manage the College or of going into the class below its internal affairs. to try the year's or half-year's work over

again. A day's work is somewhat as III. IN.STRUCTION.

follows : Prayers—-which only the Academic All who apply for admission to the Fresh- students are required to attend—at eight man Class must have completed their fif- o'clock; recitation at 8.30-9.30, 12.00-1.00, teenth year. Examinations are held in and again at some hour in the afternoon June and September. A man may be ad- except on Wednesday and Saturday as mitted with two or three conditions (if they noted above,—varying somewhat with the be not too heavy), but such conditions class. By a recent decision of the F"aculty, must be passed some time during his first however, all recitations must be finished by year. The entering class each year begins four o'clock. Between recitations the stu- its college life by being assembled in the dents are under no one's immediate super- chapel the first Friday of the term (in 1886, vision, being allowed entire liberty of time September 24th), and there it is divided and place in the preparation of their lessons into such bodies as will suit the convenience It must not be supposed, however, that the of the instructors —usually of about thirty- Faculty are unaware of what the students five or forty men each. I'.ach man is as- are doing in the intervals between recita- signed to a division, and recites in that tions, for many a man could testify that division only for the first si.x weeks. At almost all his ways are known to one or the end of that time the divisions are re- more of the professors. This knowledge arranged according to scholarship into first, comes by no detective or spy system, but second, third, and sometimes, fourth, each because of the loving interest all the pro- division being above a certain rank. If, fessors feel in the welfare of the men under during any term up to the end of Junior their care. year, a man obtains a standing above the ReHgiojts Life.—If one were to believe rank of his division, he is allowed to pass some of the New York papers and others into the next higher division. If any one equally ignorant, one might suppose that fails to keep up to the rank of his division Yale was a good place for young men to he must pass to a lower. Such changes go to ruin at. The truth of the matter is are made at the cud of each term. Since that a young man who would go to ruin at the marking system is in vogue at Yale Yale would go to ruin at any place. Every (though not so rigorously adhered to as a man in the Academical Department must few years ago), each man's standing at any attend prayers every morning and religious record of his time is determined by the service on Sunday morning, either at the recitations. The usual rule for recitations College Chapel or at some church in town, is three each day — Monday, Tuesda)', such church having been chosen by him at TIIK H AVERKORDI AN. 13 the request of his parents or guardian at and, while there are a few valid objections to she has either failed the beg-innino; of the term. There is a woman suffrage, to use • 1 them logically or omitted tliem altogether. It general prayer meeting twice a week, con- is only necessary to add that the author's repu- ducted by the college pastor, open to all tation as a writer comes from " Under Two the members of the College. Class prayer Flags," in order to convince the reader of the meetings meet twice in the week. The character of the piece and of the weight with College Y. M. C. A. has a strong branch which it should bear upon a great and debatable in Yale, and under its auspices frequent question. talks the various professors of the Col- by In the series entitled "The Story of the lege or city clergymen are given on Sunday Nations" four new volumes have been added evenings. A new and beautiful building to the list—"The Story of Norway," by Hjal- gift (Dwight Hall), the of Mr. Elbert B. mar li. Boyesen ; "The Story of Spain," by " Monroe, has just been erected on the cam- E. E. and Susan Hale ; The Story of Hun- pus, at an expense of upwards of sixty gary," by Prof. A. Vambery, and "The Story thousand dollars, "that the social religious of Carthage," by Prof. Alfred Church. The work for Christ by young men for young first of these only has come to our particular notice. It is as fascinating as a novel, men, as carried on by the Young Men's interest- ing as a history of Scandinavia must be, and, Christian Association on its present basis, last of all, a valuable addition to the common may have pleasant and suitable accommo- literature of the day—that is, the literature dations as long as young men gather upon which will find its way into the hands of the of Yale College." In addition the campus most people. Quite a number of others are in to this there is hardly a professor or in- preparation by well known authorities. The structor at Yale who is not a member of series is issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New some e\-angelical church. In the light of York.

these facts who will say that men at Yale Funk &: Wagnalls have issued a " Life of religious influence? are not under active Schuyler Colfax," by O. J. Hollister. A cur- sory glance gives us the following facts: It is \_To be Co)iti)med7\

written in a candid, careful manner ; it deals too much in detail, and so makes the work too LITERATURE. long, putting it out of reach of a great many

\All hooks received be/ore the sotk 0/ the ntontk will he reviexved readers. Colfax was undoubtedly a man of in- in the tiuinber issued on the totk 0/ the follo%viiig vi07lth.\ tegrity, at the same time a shrewd politician, and a statesman of no mean talents. With a of the articles in the September number ONE personal magnetism which attracted all who of the North American is deserv- Review met or heard him, his death has left many its excellence ing of notice, not because of of warm admirers who will welcome a book, even style for that is wretched for the vital — —nor with some faults, which tells the life of a typi- importance of the subject itself, but mainly be- cal American. cause a woman has so far forgotten the dignity The Forum already stands among the best of of her sex as to enter into a tirade of abuse American periodicals. against those who advocate woman suffrage. With the exception of one or two points, her Oh ! for another war or pestilence, to destroy the perpetrators unlimitable supply article consists of a lot of uncorroborated as- of war arti- cles. sertions, such as, " Women on an average have little sense of justice;" "The admission of "Ramona," by Helen Jackson, has been woman into politics would bring into it what translated into the German. it has too much of already— inferior intelli- gence and hysterical action;" and, "Female legislation would invariably be conducted per PERSONALS. saltum." And yet, sometimes—for she from [Will Alumni or others please favor us wittr items for this column] so much scattering must necessarily hit some- thing—a good statement does crop out, as, '37, Lloyd P. Smith, A. M., Librarian and "The idea ))revailing among women that they Treasurer of the Philadelphia Libra-y since are valuable, admirable, and almost divine, 1849, died July 2d, aged 65. From 1868 to merely because they arc women, is one of the he was editor of Lippincott's Magazine, most mischievous fallacies born of human vani- 1874 ty." We cannot comment furtjier than just to and, beside writing a number of books, has say that her argument is witlumt foundation, been widely noted as a Ijibliograplu-r. 14 THE H AVERKORDI^N.

'71, W. T. Moore visited us on the aSth ult. Professor Beatty was married in July, and '78, Henry N. Stokes, Ph. D., has during will go to \'alparaiso. Chili, to manage a the past two years been a student of chemistry branch of his father's cracker fiictory. in Germany. Professor Harris has until lately been a

'80, Chas. E. Co.x is Professor of Matlicmat- Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, England. ics and Pedagogics at the L'niversity of the Pa- The July American Journal of Philology con- cific, San Jose, Cal. tains very scholarly articles by A. M. Elliott, '82, Geo. L. Crosman was married on the A. M., '66, Associate Professor of Romance

28th ult. to Miss Mary A. Pickering, daughter Languages at Johns Hopkins, and F. G. Allin- of Aquila H. Pickering, of Chicago, 111., who son. Ph. D., '76. has been long connected with the publication Edw. D. Cope, A. M., formerly Lecturer on of the Christian Worker. Mr. Crosman has Zoology here, has received the honorary de- gone into the manufacture of wood and paper gree of Ph. D. from the University of Heidel- bo.xes, with his father, in Lynn, Mass. berg. '82, H. M. Thomas, M. D., has returned from Europe, and is practising in the office of his father. Dr. J. C. Thomas. " Ignitions rocks."

'82, W. R. Jones has become Principal of a " Not for this has our blood flown." high school in Massachusetts. Welcome, '90 ! You've got pluck. '82, Isaac M. Cox is business editor of the In the Logan ian, " Professor ." and resides in Germantown. Student, " Overheard in the cane rush : Just wait till '84, Chas. R. Jacob and R. M. Jones, '85, " we get outside ! will spend the coming year in Europe, to per- We ought to reach the century this year; fect themselves in French and German. They the roll shows '95. will be for the present located at Nismes, in A Junior, being unable to describe a garnet, the south of France, where there is a colony of is heard muttering to himself, " Oh, dog ga(r)n- Friends. it!" '85, Jos. L. Markley and H. E. Smith, '86, Professor in Geology— " How does tufa differ will study at Harvard this year. from lava?" Student (boldly) — "It's very '85, W. T. Richards, who took the highest much the same, only a little tougher, you honors in chemistry on graduating from Har- know." Sudden attack from behind cuts vard, and who takes a graduate course there short his discourse. year, was here on the 24th ult. this " The Freshman who considers the "gizzard '85, A. W. Jones is teacher of Latin and as one of the human digestive organs is doubt- Greek in Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, less a chicken-hearted individual. Me. It was a philosophical Junior who recently '86, Jonathan Dickinson, Jr., is Professor of remarked that the masculine of duel; must be Greek at Wilmington College, Ohio. goose .' '86, W. P. Morris is in the laboratory of the Pottstown (Pa.j Iron Works. We hear thas a certain Sophomore lately for- got his connection. '86, I. Morris, Jr., is with Morris, Wheeler & Co., iron merchants. Professor in Dawn of History—"Mr. N.,

'87, J. H. Adams has entered the medical with what were the stone arrow-heads fastened department of the University of Pennsylvania. to the shafts? " Mr. N.. (confidently)—" They '88, ('. W. Dawson will attend the Boston were bound on with marrow cut from bones." School of Te( hnology. " " " Our latest from down home : In a dis- '88, Geo. S. Patterson enters the Wharton School of Finance of the ITniversity of Penn- trict of 400 registered voters, the Democrats sylvania. pollid 15,000 votes." y ' ;

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Now (loth the giddy Sophomore, Star bicycles are having a great boom at With freedom newly found, Haverford. For the benefit of those who Disjiort his silver-headed cane. " would like to see how it is done, " Captain And proudly strut around. J. J. Essey, the crack fancy rider of Virginia, He looketh sternly on the Fresh. has consented to give a few exhibitions in front As something mean and low, of Barclay Hall. Every day at noo.n. Forgetful he was just as green

One Utile year ago. Scene, a room in Barclay Hall ; three stu- dents hard at work. Enter liase-ball fiend with Professor— " How do you deduce that formu- a coin in his hand. " I'll bet you this Rou- la?" Student (wlio has a very vague idea of manian lire that the Phillies— " Chorus of the subject) — " Well, I guess you work it rotnid execrations and protests from the three, during by mathematics. ' which the B. B. fiend is forcibly ejected and An important feature in the cane rush was peace restored. the [lack of] close; nevertheless, sotrie didn't

What a novel change I At last there is a think the umpire's decision was supported by class in college without a Morris. '90 needn't naked facts. be discouraged, however. They may pick up Not at all likely. "Barker, old man, have one or two of them before they get through " you got a tooth-pick with you? it has been done. " That ancient joke about the porter who will Persons using the north window in place of black all boots left outside the doors" rather a door will please close the same. A penalty is missed fire this year. The only unfortunates attached to disobedience of this order. were five new Sophomores, and they had their " " class- boots . carefully polished by their own GEIVERAL COLLEGE NEWS. mates. Cornell has 125 more men than ever before. New student (showing the Professor a test Yale has nine of last year's foot-ball team. tube, containing a general mixture)—" What's The Princeton foot-ball season opened Sept. this?" Professor (inost obligingly) — "I 23d. haven't the slightest idea." Egypt is represented in the Freshman Class

" We have a little dog that eats tennis balls.'''' of Princeton. There is an artillery company at the Wiscon- The cricket team moans the loss of its cap- sin University. tain and two other good bats. The University of Pennsylvania has lost five Tennis seems to have taken a great brace, men from its foot-ball team. and the tournament is all the talk now. Heidelberg University celebrated its 500th anniversary last August. A member of the geology class says that the Princeton has but four members of last year's crust of the earth is much thicker at the North foot-ball team left. Pole on account of the extreme cold there. A proposed gymnasium building at Trinity will contain a theatre hall. He is a lucky man who can keep his morn- ing paper long enough to see the base-ball Vassar's first tennis tournament came off in medals were the prizes. scores. July. Gold The Acharnians will be again presented at — " Can you tell nic where Matron to Jimior the New York Academy of Music, Nov. 19th. that tall man with the moustache rooms?" At Harvard the group system, instead of the guesses several Seniors and a few The Junior marking system on a scale of 100, is to be used of his own class, and then gives it up. He this year.

out afterwards that it was a Sophomore. found In nearly all colleges, with regard to the He thinks he will have to wear glasses after number of stiidenls. this seems to l:)e an unpre- this. cedented year. :

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The paper of the University of Michigan will be filled during the absence of Professor offers prizes for the best poem, story, humor- Blackman by Professor Charles E. Cox. Pro- ous sketcli, and dramatic sketch. fessor Cox, though a stranger, has been re- ceived with favor by the student critics. He A base-ball bat of rosewood, wiili an en- is a man of experience and ability." Mr. Cox graved silver shield on it, was presented by is an old Haverfordian, having graduated in Wright & Ditson to the champion class at the class of '80. We are pleased to hear of his Tuft's College. success. The Yale Faculty have thought somewhat Our artistic friend, the Adclphian, we are of prohibiting inter-collegiate base-ball games, sorry to note, has in its June number spoiled owing to the "undue celebration" of their the appearance and belittled the importance of championship in which the students indulged. its exchange column by inserting advertise-

The University of Pennsylvania offers a few ments. Such a practice is clearly indefensible. fellowships in political science and history, The College Speculum for August takes up opening unusual advantages for advanced study the whole first page with a dry, badly-measured in these lines to the graduates of any American poem "The Death of Eva." Any one college. (?), —*— who has ever read the original story in " Uncle EXCHANGES. Tom's Cabin," and remembers the plain, sim- ple words which make the narrative so touch- The commencement numbers of our various ing, will surely find it hard to express his utter exchanges are, as a whole, very creditable. contempt for this long-drawn-out and lifeless Esjjecially prominent for its many merits is attempt. If our college papers must be dis- the ' Varsity of June 9th. This distinctively figured and their standard lowered by poor at- least literary magazine is not only filled with tempts at verse, let us at be careful that thoughtful, readable prose articles, but its the subject-matter of the effusions is not taken poems also are of an equal standard—a criti- from the masterpieces of our language. rarely cism which can be made. In the Colby Echo for July 2d there is a short Two articles in the Vassar Miscellany for biography of Heinrich Heine. It is well writ- July, on the subject of religious instruction in ten, and in its portrayal of the erratic career of " " the public schools, although they bring out no the Byron of Germany we are reminded of new arguments on either side, show how the the lines— claims of the Catholics are being recognized, " The vine that bears too many flowers trail upon the ground." and their side defended, even in Protestant col- Will leges. However, we cannot bring our mind to Yet the perfume is just as sweet as if the most the point of sanctioning the overthrow of our artistic trellis held it up. present system of instruction, which, with the cannot forbear quoting the following aid of such bodies as the Y. M. C. A., is tend- We

little from a late issue of the American : ing to break down all systems of narrow sect- poem arianism. " RELEASED. " Go, bird, and to the sky We waited quite impatiently for the prize Pour forth what thou and I of the Chrotticle. number Ann Arbor Two Have suffered here prizes were given for poems, two for stories, Thou for thy mate removed, and one for the best dramatic sketch. There And I for faith disproved was one also offered for the best humorous In one as dear. sketch, but, although three competitors en- " Farewell ! and if again tered, no prize was awarded. Apparently, Thou find for prison-pain Felicity, there is a dearth of Bnrdettes at the university. Use this thy glad release, The articles which won prizes are all pub- A prophecy of peace, lished, and are worthy of the places assigned Dear bird, for me. by the judges. Mr. H. G. Newcomer, a man "J. li. T.Mii;." of promising literary ability, took two first The September University Revietv is a good prizes, viz., for the best poem and the best number. "The Law and Lawyers," an ad- dramatic sketch. dress of an Alumnus, occupies almost too The Pacific Pharos has improved its appear- much space for an article not written by a stu- ance much by placing a bird's eye view of the dent, but from its solid worth it is, we sup- college buildings on its cover. We clip the pose, excusable. The department headed " Re-

following from the number of Aug. 25th : views," and containing notes on current events,

"The vacancy in the chair of mathematics is well worth adopting in other college papers. — —o4325

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The Piincetonian has begun, once more, its The games in the doubles were not very close regular visits, and is as alive as ever to the ath- as a rule, flarrett and ^Vood vs. Collins and letu- interests of the college. Lewis being the only one reijuiring three sets to decide it in the first round. In the third We are sorry to notice the disgraceful c|uar- round these same players contested in an ex- rel into which the Cn covipos men- '88, B. Wood, '87, vs. J. W. Sharp, an_d W. tis.,^' it is time for him to pause and consider Hippie, '90, have not )et been decided. whether such abuse is in the line of his duty, It is to be hoped that hereafter tennis will and whether such conduct can tend to raise be the Haverford game for the first three the standard of his paper. weeks of the Fall, and that this is only the first of an annual tournament. Appended is

TENI^JIS TOURNAMENT. the summary : SINCLES.

' First Round. 'HE interest in tennis having steadily in- I F. Morris vs. Strawbridge, I 6 5, 6 - creased during the past five or si.x years, —6, — — Collins Firth, 6 and an association liaving been formed, it was vs. 6—4, — decided to hold a tournament of both doubles Bond vs. G. B. Wood, 3—6, 6—1, 7—5 and singles for the college championshii). The Lewis vs. riiiliips, 6—3, 6— Merion Cricket Club very kindly granted us W. Evans vs. Conard, 6— 2, 6— the use of their grounds for the occasion, and it Roberts vs. Bailey, 6— 3, 6 i is due to this fact that the tournament was so Valentine vs. Fulrell 6—5, 6— successful. There were thirty-four entries, and, Second Round. as many of them were exceedingly good play- Morris vs. Bond 6— 3, 5 — 6, 6 — ers, much speculation was indulged in as re- 6 6 Roberts vs. Evans, —5, 5 — 6, — 6 6 gards the result. In the first round of the Valentine vs. Collins, —4, 4— !>, — singles the most exciting sets were between F. Lewis— Bye. Third Round. Morris and F. H. Strawbridge. The latter re- Morris vs. Roberts, 6 6 l)eatedly made numerous swift low returns from — 2, — Lewis vs. Valentine 6 1,6— the left-hand corner of his court, and every Final. point was a long and well contested one. F. Morris vs. Lewis, 6—4, 6— Morris finally won the necessary two of three DOUBLES. sets. First Round. F. F;. r>ond and G. B. Wood also played

Garrett Wood vs. Collins & Lewis, . 5 6, 6 6 three very even and well fought for sets. Wood & — —3, — 6 6 placed very well, but Bond's returns were much Sliarp & Hippie vs. Stokes & Branson, . — 5, — swifter, and he came out the winner. Stokes & White vs. F. W. Morris & P. H. Morris, 6 6 In the second round. Bond and Morris met, —4, — Evans & T. Evans vs. Valentine Ov and this was really the most exciting contest W. Baily 6— 2, 6— of the tournament, as it virtually decided it. Strawbridge & Firth vs. Roberts & Numerous brilliant plays were continually made, Bond 6— 2, 6— and, though Morris placed well. Bond covered Second Round. his entire court very ably, winning one of the W. Evans & T. Evans vs. Stokes & three sets. White 6— 2, 6—0 W. Evans and G. B. Roberts were also well .Strawbridge & Firth vs. Sharj) & Hip- matched, the ball frequently being returned pie f>— 2, $—''>. 5—7 fifteen or twenty times. Evans is a left-handed Garrett & \\'ood — Bye. player, but changes his racket from iiand to Third Round. hand very (juickly, so it is very difficult to Garrett & Wood vs. W. Evans & T. place on him. Roberts won from him, but 6 I 6 Evans, — 5, — f), — was soon after beaten Ijy Morris. Morris then Sharp & Hippie— Hye. played Lewis in the finals, and, beating him, Final. won the tournament. Garrett & Wood vs. Sharp & Hijiple. THE H AVERKOR13I.\N.

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1iW«lifH»li S^S^P^^^Sfe=* Faculty for 1886-87.

THOMAS CHASE, A. IS. (Harvard), A. JI. (Harvard), LI.. Ii. iHarvard), I.lt. D. (Haverford,) President and Professor of Philology and Literature. PLINY E. CHASE, A. B. (Harvard), A. M. (Harvard), LL. D. (Haverford), Acting President and Professor of Philosophy and lyOgic. ISAAC SHARPLESS, S. B. (Harvard), So. D. (University of Pennsylvania). Professor of JIatheniatics and AstroTirjiny.

ALLEN C. THOM.VS, A. B. (Haverford), A. JNI. (Haverford 1, Librarian and Professor of Rhetoric. Political Science and History. LYMAN B. HALL, A. B. (Aniherstt, A. .M. and Ph. H. Ml.iniii^'en), Professor of Chemistrv and Physics. SETH K. CilFFORD, A. B. (Haverf<.rd), A. .M. (Haverf..rdi, Professor of Latin and (ireek. WALTER A. FORD, M. D. (.lefferson (."ollejje, Philadelphia), Instructor in Physical Training and Director of the Gvmnasium. ,T. RENIiELL IIARRLS, M. A. (Cambridge, England), Professor of Bible Languages and Ecclesiastical History. M'^'RON R. S.VNFORD. M. A. (Middlctown University), Professor of Latin, and in charge of the Discipline. LEVI T. EDWARDS, A. B. (Haverford), Professor of Engineering. .T. PLAYFAIR McMURRICH, Ph. D. (.lohns Hopkins), Professor of Biology. S.VMUEL LEPOIDS, Bach, es Lettres, (La Sorbonne, Paris), Instructor in French. HOWARD F. STRATTON, Instructor in Free Hand Drawing. JAMES WOOD, A. M. (Haverford), Lecturer

The following regular courses are given.

I. Course in Arts and Science, for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

II. Course in General Science and Literature, for the degree of Bachelor of Science.

III. Course in Practical Science and Engineering, for the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering.

Haverford College is on the Pennsylvania Railroad, nine miles from Philadelphia. It offers to ninety boarders and a small number of day-students, the advantage of a col- legiate education, of the ordinary grade, under the tuition of scholarly instructors, and in a.ssociation with gentlemanly young men of good moral habits.

The facilities for good work include a Libi'aiy of 15,000 volumes ; an OUservatory,

well e<(uiji])ed and in active operation ; a I>aboratory where students are engaged daily in scientific work; machine shops and other appliances. The College is in the country, in a lawn of sixty acres, all the conditions being favorable to the best physical develoiimcnt. Tho.se intending to enter in the fall of 1887 arc advi.sed to make application at an early date, to secure choice of rooms. For information address

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Joseph I. Squint's First Pome 23 Yale—(Concluded) 24 Winds of Autumn 25

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Vol. VIII. Haverford College, P. O., Pa., November, 1886. No./. )

THE HAVERFORDIAN. oracles, and follow his steps much- after the manner of a cur. If he takes a seat in one EDITORS; lecture LOOANIAN. corner of a room we do the same, JESSE E. PHILIPS, Jr., '87, Chairman. if he eats at a certain table we try to get a

place at the same board, and so on, down ALFRED C. GARRETT, '87. HOWELI, S. ENGLAND, 'SS. the list of the evidences of our servitude. ATIIEN.'EUM. How much we are influenced by this wor- BARKER NEWHALL, '87. WARNER H. FLPE, '89. ship it is impossible to estimate, in some EVERETT. cases more, in some less, but always to a ALLEN li. CLEMENT, '87. FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. great extent. Now a certain amount of

homage to our superiors is always due, but Henry II. Gouharh, '87, Business A/ana^'c-/: for Al.i.lso.N \V. Sloctm, '88, Assisfaiit Business J/'./i: a man to lose his self-assertion, his indi- viduality, and in a great measure his own Subscription Price, one year. $1.00 With " 'Die Student," 1.50 self respect, is certainly contemptible, and Single Copies, .10 unconstrained admiration for our hero will

The Haverfordian is the official organ of the students of Hav this. forget that arc erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during do Don't you a man the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. too. Hold to your own ideas if you are Entered at the Haverford College Post Office^ for transmis-

for ; sion through tJte ntails at second'Class rates. censured them be independent without

being dogmatic ; respect }'our fellows and TT is announced that one of the features their opinions much, but your own more. of Lippincott's Magazine for 1887 is to In short be as maul}' as you can, cultivate be a series of articles on American col- your own self-control and follow out your leges written b_\- undcr-graduates of the own lines in your own original way, and respective colleges. We did not know be- then unconsciously you may become the fore that our ideas were common property. hero and someone else the worshipper. But the readers of the Haverfordian will

know the origin of the idea and will rate A X rE all do, or should, appreciate fully the editors of the abo\c-named magazine the fact that we have come here in accordingly. order to acquire a thorough culture, and A NYONE who observes, will be surprised secure the highest and fullest intellectual when he sees how much hero wor- development. Our curriculum has been

ship there is among students. There are arranged with a \icw to this object, by a

few of us who do not have among our fel- wise distribution over diverse fields of

lows one to whom we bow mental!}- if not knowledge and means of mental training.

in reality. Often our master is an athlete Themes on tiuestions of the j)iesent and

and we hang

But all these opportunities are insufficient even the condition of the weather is agree- for our purpose, without the literary work able, or not, just as it suits his own pur- of the two societies. A man may learn all poses. The first thought on any new " the knowledge that books can teach him, project is, How will it affect me?" Hence but if he cannot express himself forcibly, he practically declares, that all else is as readily and elegantl)' on paper, or when nothing when compared to himself, for, in- speaking in public, his gold is only, trans- deed, did he not exist, so far as he is ferred from one mine to another, far more concerned, what would the existence of all inaccessible than the first. This power other things amount to ? these societies supply, and the practice Again, on the other hand, he may say, " gained there is fully worth any two studies I am but one on this mighty globe, which one may take. Composure and facility of in turn is but as a drop in the ocean when speech when on one's feet are alone a price- compared with the universe. less acquisition, which very many men, in Such, we say, are the extreme estimates other respects talented and able, do not which a man may make of himself, and, possess. Too great devotion to one's stud- though we would be far from encouraging ies is almost as reprehensible as too little, anything even bordering on self-conceit, and he who lives only in his books, dwarfs yet we believe it is far better to cherish an and neglects some of his most valuable exalted opinion of one's own worth than to powers. There is no fellow in college, entertain the idea that one man can accom- however busy he may think he is, but what plish little. has time for society work, if he only makes For, as a man values his own abilities, so up his mind to it. Some of the busiest men will he venture to use or rely upon them, now in college, in their studies, do the most so will he come to consider the need others literary work, and yet find chance for have of them, and thus will he become an plenty of exercise. Take some of the time active worker, or even a leader, in the affairs unconsciously spent in idleness, and you will of men. leisure create a deal of for what you want It is this individual activity that is to do. We would urge every man in col- needed in the state, in the church and in lege to join one society or the other with- the college. Were every voter aware of out delay, and when he is there, to get all the value of his vote ; did every citizen dare the good out of it he can. It's a first-rate to speak and do that which he inwardly investment for time and money. knows to be right and best, many of the

unpleasant and perplexing questions in

"T^HE value of an individual, as estimated politics would be speedily and properly

by his fellows, may not vaiy much settled. from a certain mark on a given standard, Did every professing Christian rightly but, when reckoned by himself it depends estimate the value or greatness of his ex- almost whollj' upon the light, or way, in ample and influence in the advancement of which he considers himself On one hand, truth, we believe it impossible to realize the THE H AVBRKORDI^VN.

change for the better that would take place lege men are bearing witness, in their lives,

in the civilized world. to these opinions. They lay everything And did every college student know his aside for sports. They resist every attempt

true worth in the college community, no of the Faculty to enforce the performance

one could be heard to exclaim, " I cannot of their duties. They embrace every op-

attend society to-night," or " There will be portunity to have their recitations post-

enough on the foot-ball grounds without poned or excused. They dishearten the

me." But each individual without being professors by their dull and listless attitude

specially notified or invited, as the time for in the class and by their lack of interest in

cricket or foot-ball, for society or class- anything nobler or higher than a game of

meeting came around, would indicate by foot-ball or .a cricket match. On this ac-

his presence, that he realized his own im- count many rigid moralists, not unnaturally, portance. but most unwisely, rise up and condemn •«.• amusements and pleasures of all sorts.

XTOT a few men look upon college as a The question of pleasure rarely finds a

place whose proper object is to fair and just answer. At the one extreme furnish them, during four years, with all are those who live solely for pleasure, who possible amusement. For this purpose it place all other interests in subordination to provides cricket-grounds, foot-ball and base- pleasure, who eat and sleep for pleasure, ball grounds, well-kept lawns for tennis who study for pleasure, nay, who worship courts. To heighten their interest in these for pleasure, and who cease to worship or sports, it has tennis associations, foot-ball study when worship or study have failed to associations, and cricket clubs; and when please. At the other extreme are those the cold weather forbids further out-door who profess and, indeed, actually do con- amusement, there is a gymnasium in which sider all pleasure as sinful, the monk with they may practice, not, to be sure, for the his Ave Maria, and the Puritan with his vulgar object of preserving their health, quotation from the Prophets. Now we but for a place in the rowing crew or foot- affirm that both of these are wrong. There ball team of next year. They render the is no more reason to condemn pleasure inacti\'ity of winter endurable by class sup- than to condemn eating and drinking; and pers and social clubs. To be sure the there is no more reason to live for pleasure college reserves the right of supervising than to become a glutton or a sluggard. their conduct, and also, laboring under a The truth is that amusement and recrea- sad mistake, it prescribes a certain amount tion is the necessary compliment of work ; of work to be done. These, howe\er, are and, as such, it is peculiarly the right of necessary evils which a true college man those who work. The old adage, "^\11 learns to reduce to the soon minimum ; anil work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," after all, his diploma gives him a good is as true in manhood as in childhood. Yet position in society. it must be remembered that duty comes Consciously or unconseiousl)-, man\- col- before pleasure .uid that only those whose THE HAVERKORDI^\N. duties are performed may indulge in pleas- Foot-ball more than any other college ure. If college men could learn that the sport has been decried on account of the

first object of a college course is the devel- bodily danger attached ; and Rugby foot- opment of the mind and that healthful and ball is often a rough and dangerous game, genuine amusement is the proper offset to and our advice to a fellow who thinks more curriculum work, that, only as these two of his looks than he does the exercise elements of college life are rightly diffused, would be, don't play. But in some things will their after recollections of college be this game stands so pre-eminent that every pleasant, we should then have students so able-bodied student ought to engage in it zealous that they would endure the post- to some extent. The exercise leaves no

ponement of no recitation, and sportsmen part of the body unused ; running, kicking, so eager that the only unpleasant days at blocking and tackling brings into play every college would be the stormy days. joint and muscle. It makes a man fearless, gives him nerve, produces quick judgment

'T^HE place of athletic sports in a college in an emergency, requires an accurate eye

life is a hackneyed topic, we know, and long endurance. It requires all these and there isn't a college paper that' hasn't when you see a man bearing down upon volumes in its back numbers upon the sub- you at a terrific rate and you are expected ject, but occasionally an accident such as to stop him. In fact there is no game that the unfortunate occurrence at Carlisle, or requires so much and gives so much exer- the unusual interest manifested in a boat- cise in return. That it has been perverted ing contest or foot-ball championship, into a slugging match by some is not the opens athletics in general to adverse criti- fault of the game itself A man can be a cism. So many of the indignities and so gentleman and a foot-ball player at the much of the rough treatment that once was same time. characteristic of a collegiate education and In no game, perhaps, does the posses- which undoubtedly made men of tougher sion of good habits become so evident as fiber, has been done away, and so many in foot-ball. A man who is addicted to comforts have been added that college life spirits or tobacco or any other vice, cannot is fast becoming a time of soft indulgence. make a first-class player. His head must Which shall we have, the rough-and- be clear, his blood pure and circulation per- tumble fence-fight, bridge-fight or cane rush fect, his eye true, and his endurance less- and similar contests, or in their place sub- ened by no evil habits. No one knows stitute cards and wine and billiards. For these facts better than foot-ball men them- one thing is certain, the student is going to selves. So with all these advantages have diversion of some sort. If not in man- not- ly athletic trials of strength and endurance, withstanding the slight danger, and it is

it will be the pampered self-indulgence slight, foot-ball ought always to retain its which tends to enervate and unman its pre-eminence as a college game, during victim. the colder weather before w inter sets in. — —! — —; ! —

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JOSEPH I. SQUINT'S FIRST They'd got only one load when down it all come POME. There warn't nothin' left but to turn right roun' hum.

Such is the troubles as comes to the lot A srriiv ui- A I'liric. Of the miserable farmer who oughter be shot For makin' his sons foUer up in his track. He sat on the fence vail that hot summer day And not givin' 'em room, the poor critters, to crack And watched the slow process of making the hay, The whip o' their brains o'er a nation." For though to the hay-field he often was pressed wonderin' had barely let drive this pent indignation His heart was disgusted, withal sore distressed, He When he felt a powerful arm from behind, And he sat on the fence-rail most heartily tired, .\nd the paper flew gently away on the wind, With his muscie all gone but his fancy all fired. .\ storm in the north and the storm " Now what's there tew hender," he said while did roam of the leather Seemed by unlucky chance to be brewing His thoughts o'er the tumbles, " my makin' a pome together. For after a hearty but quite heartless .shaking I'll show them peert town chaps willi cuffs for their And goodly amount of consequent collars. Jo's (juaking. The choleric father burst forth in this way,_ That all of our wenltli here ain't in cents and in dollars. " What mean ye, ye rascal, a mopin' all ^^'e've got common sense here and intellec' tew, day, As though all of us now had nothin' ter Tliough the latter should be very modest, 'lis trew." do But to toil and to labor to feed So he pulled out a piece of thick paper dyed brown and clothe you. I guess ye'll find out afore many weeks pass And scribbled away with a critical frown : That to yield to your tantrums us folks '11 be las'. " laid as as a ! The hay heavy and wet mat Come stir up yer pegs there and git the hay in !

That's been out in the rain and so thickly set that Don't ye see the black storm comin' ? Where have ye

The farmer and all (?) of his stalwart young sons been ?" " To clear a few rods had to mow away tons ! As Joseph had rested and muscle returned He for poetry no more but for hard labor burned. Here paused our young poet and viewed his new work, When the conscience was pricked of this mischievous shirk. Next morning the sun shone out warmly and kind And has hasted along lest his father should know And the amateur poet walked fieldward to find Of his much jirolonged absence and sure symptoms The manuscript blown, but alas it was drenched show And lay in a wretched mud puddle entrenched. Of a lowering storm which might he on the rise He thought, as he rescued his prize from the slime, With rain-drops of leather and whirlwinds of sighs. How low to rediculous dropped the sublinie. Thus our embryo poet rushed onward headlong 'Twas brought to his garret and copied once more And heard the sweet muses who trilled him the song. Then like to Ben Franklin's slipped under the door Of the newspaper office that published the " " Times ; How chipper they looked ! How strong and yet lithe, Where it duly got in, for the plain, simple reason As they bent to the work of a swingin' the scythe ! That all was received that came in right season How nodded the grass as it fell to its death ! .And the editor had a great liking for rhymes. How it lep' in the air at that keen, cruel breath I" So in the next issue in advertisement print— on by Just here the wrapt genius gave way to temptation "A Poem Hay-Time ; Joseph I. Squint" And loudly broke forth in a fond exclamation, .Stared blank at each reader of Swampyville Centre.

" Well now, I never ! but ain't that right smart

That figger 'bout breath can't be very bad art. " But what shall I tell em about in the next ? When Joseph was old and fair fame with gray hairs .\nd here he found out he was slightly perplexed, Came over his head with its freedom from cares, Howe'erhe began with a furious vim He took up his grandchildren unto his knee

To tell of a tempest relieving to him. And told how by one mighty stroke he got free

Fiom the toil and the drudg'ry of farm and of field " But arter the hay had been raked out to dry it And bid them O never to such low work yield.

the sun had shone hot enough reely to it, " And buy Let every young Squint here soar high above such '. And the boys was a rakin' it all up together. May he ne'er grasp the little but grab on the much !

The' came a disastrous quick change in the weather. May we ne'er be contented till each little Squint The clouds in the north warn't no pleasant sight. Sees the fruit of his labors in advertisement print

And the thunder it snarled like our Grip in the night. As good advice here my own couplet I'll quote, Now the men they rushed round as if they was mad. 'A man can as easily be a true pote " And the fac' was, they r/w.v-, they was right hoppin' ' mad. As can a sweet lambkin turn into a goat I 24 THE H AVERFORDIAN.

YAI.E COLLEGE. tary contributions, " foot-ball " supports

(l-ONCLUDEh.) itself from the gate receipts and usually is able to contribute a surplus to some other Son'ci/is. Five or six years have gone — interest, while the others are partly sup- b)' since the Faculty abolished tiie l'"resh- ported by gate receipts and partly b}- con- secret societies, leaving only the open man tributions. Until 18S0 no pro\'ision had one, Gamma Nu. The Sophomore secret been made by the college for the out-door societies had been put to death some years .sports of its students, but in the Spring of before that time. One need, therefore, that year a movement was started in the speak only of the Junior and Senior socie- class of '81, which resulted in the appoint- There are two Junior societies in the ties. ment of a committee to find out whether a .Academic Department. Psi Upsilon and suitable field for college sports could be Delta Kappa Epsilon, both of them chap- purchased, and, if so, whether it was prob- and both of about equal rank as con- tered able that money could be raised to pay for cerns honor. From forty to forty-fi\'e men it. A favorable report on both points was admitted into each of these each year arc made and during the next year twenty-nine election exercises are among the and the acres purchased. In 1882 this committee of college life, but must be seen to be si^/its was merged in " The Yale Field Corpora- appreciated. The Sen. or societies are three tion," -which was formed to " manage Skull and Bones, Scroll and in number, grounds to be used by persons connected, and Wolf's Head. The first \\as or- Key, or \\\\o shall have been connected, with the second 1841, and the ganized 1832, Yale College, for athletic games, exercises, in Fifteen men are elected to third 1844. and recreation in said college, and to take, society every year and the ceremony each buy, own, and hold property, real and per- to the first two is one of the of choosing sonal, necessary and proper therefor." All C7'a!ts of the college year always attracting persons who, prior to its incorporation, to see it. None of these societies arc many paid five dollars to the field fund, and all chaptered. students and instructors who, since that Athletics.—The athletic interests of Yale time, have paid a like sum to its treasurer, are under the control of the under-gradu- are members of the corporation. Four officers ates, each interest having a separate organi- under-graduate of college athletic associations, si.x graduates and two instruc- zation, viz.: boating, base-ball, foot-ball, tors in the college constitute the board of lawn-tennis and lacrosse. In addition to management. June 1st, 1884, the field was these is the Yale Athletic Association, thrown open to the college, and has been which has control of general athletics not used since that time for all out door sports included in the above organizations. Under connected with the college.

its management athletic games are held Conclusion.—Much more might be said of Yale, religiously, socially, intellectually three times in the year, and named respec- and athletically, but enough has been writ- tively Fall, Winter and Spring Athletic ten for a sketch, and enough to give some Games. These games include running, idea of what the college is and is doing in walking, bicycle racing, throwing the ham- all these directions. Her sons are all proud mer, putting the shot, boxing, fencing, of her, and looking at her past, and know- spirit her wrestling, jumping, pole-vaulting, etc., and ing the of present, they have no fear for her future. She needs only to be prizes are provided for the winners from true to her idea as a Christian college and receipts, i. e., the games are self-support- to maintain her high standard of intellectual ing. Of the above-mentioned interests the requirement to keep her as she ever has " boating " is supported entirely by volun- been, in the van of American colleges. — ;

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-WINDS OF AUTV'I»II««. tivcl)' dcmaiuling attention, and of so great

November cometli with a wikl forelKjclinL; economic importance. Increasing from a Now wiiuls in all the woild unchallenged reign, merely moral question to a political one, With gold or crimson shame Iheir siilijects loading; creating a national part)-, which iti 1884 In nioinUain pastures lie tl'.e llowers slain. polled 150,000 votes, and establishing Pro- Aloft, abroad, the helpless leaves hibition in States, in Upon its towering tide the gust receives, four and very large

And then attends them slowly to their graves again. portions of ciglit others, it equals in impor- tance the other great conflict of the era, .\roun(l the wigwam corn shocks' cintained doors

breeze betrnys itself willi idle sound to which it is in many respects The ; and closely Its secret touch reveals the golden stores allied, namely, the Labor i]uestion. or stout har(bknucUled cars: from all the groiuid

Soft breatlis of ripened incense rise, This Prohii^ition party has drawn the

Incense of perished leaf which mouldering lies most of its numbers from the Republican And fallen nut that stanleil sleeping woods around. ranks, and the latter party, realizing this

No creature dares the mountains bitter peak, fact, is trying every means in its power to For there the whirlwind lifts its voice alone, prevent any further defection. This party's Then sinks away down entUess ridges bleak, corrupt record in several States is, however, With pines, the friends of flying cloud, to moan. The raging mobs of angry trees. constantly weakening the fond allegiance

Surge wdien the furled blasts upon them seize ; of many, who formerly had been enthusias- Across the restless wilds stern voices sadly speak. tic for its success. Notably in New York, " " Deep in the lofty wood of ancient oaks, the infamous Nooney-Shook act for the play. Like souls of mighty men, the tempests protection of Republican saloon-keepers, is Now present, rousing all with frenzied strokes. doubtless one of its most fatal mistakes, Then roar, retreating far, and die away. and, apart from all moral considerations, Their great farewell departing blows

Forewarning pitiless of blinding snows; clearly shows how much power the liquor 'Tis time the jioor against the Winter's cold must pray. element has in the part)- in that State. A. C. Garrett. This bill has led an eminent divine to de- clare that, in raising that as a banner, the REPUBLICANS A3VD XEMPER- party was ' marching in procession APiCE. at the funeral of its own greatness.'" This is not

T^HE pfescnt political .situation and the the party of Lincoln,of Seward, of Andrew, riL;ht course for each upright voter and the heroes military and civic, of twenty

in the matter of temperance in politics, are years ago. She has been drugged with indeed " well calculated to perplex the rum and beer, and is strangeh- metamor- most acute mind," while the duty of total phosed. In the face of God and man I abstinence, considering the weakness of an cannot march in procession with that party actual humanity, a centtiry's experience in any longer." failure of self-control as a the utter remedy, It is, however, in only one State that it

and the influence that all exert on their fel- has so disgraced its fair name, in the na- clear to the lows, should be mind of every tional field it is still clear, and, though by one. The best means to attain the desired no means ideally pure, represents fully the universal sale of end, the prohibition of the country's needs. The whole Union is not alcoholic liquors, is a much mooted ques- ready for Prohibition, and this seems at tion. It is incumbent on every American present to be almost wholly a State matter. citizen, particularly those wiio have the ad- The evil of intemperance, being, as it i.s, in vantages of culture and learning, very care- our very midst, must be dealt with face to fully to consider this subject, so impera- face. In each .State let us have Prohibition, THK FI AVKKKOKOIyMM. if possible, if not, local option, restrictive to the need of action. They .seem to have legislation, high license e\'cn, if we can do come to no very definite decision, but their no better. The cry " Prohibition, or noth- influence may tend to shape the action of ing," is fanatical and unreasonable. It is their party. It is foolish and useless for it of course futile to broach national legisla- to incessantly talk about its twenty-four tion, until at least a majority of the States years' record, of its abolition of slavery, of are'under prohibitory law. Unlike the evil reconstruction and negro suffrage. These of slavery, it is not confined to any one sec- are questions of the past, they concern us tion or class, there is no place, no home in chiefly as history, but the issues of to-day the country, but what has felt, more or less and to-morrow are what the American peo- directly its influence; and just where we ple demand to be now decided. We care find it, must it be attacked and overcome. little for w hat it lias done, but much for

The State authority is really the stronger what it Ti'/// do. It has justly gained the

power, and in its hands alone should tem- honored name, now alas ! somewhat tar- " perance legislation at present lie. Here nished, of the grand old party." If it have the successes been achieved, and its stops here, rests content with this title, and strength duly concentrated has accom- refuses to make itself the " grand w^Ti' party," plished permanent results. the party of reform, of right, of reconstruc-

The analogy between anti-slavery and ting revolution, as it was twenty-five years prohibition, with their fostering parties, ago, if it neglects to catch up the mantle of though it fails in some particulars, espe the heroic leaders of that day, it will have

cially that mentioned above, is on the whole cause to bitterly repent its fatal mistake. quite just and at least striking. The Whigs The Tribune points out the selfishness and held aloof from the burning cjuestion of party spirit of certain Prohibitionists in New their day, compromised with sin, declared York, statements to be heard rather cum that a moral question should not be brought graiio salts, but it ill becomes any political into politics, and the ph(eni.x of the Re- partisan of to-day to reproach another on

publican party rose from its smouldering that score. Our attention cannot be thus ashes. With this party rests to-day the diverted from the goal we have set before decision as to whether history shall repeat us. We demand a decision and a definite " itself. As is the hated " Third Party to- position on the subject. The Democracy day a party of one idea, so was the libera- declares itself opposed to all sumptuary tor of African slavery in 1861, and yet, legislation, and so we have, no hope there,

growing in detail and scope, it has ably our hopes rest solely on its great opponent. guided the nation for a quarter of a cen- Which bundle of hay this party will choose, " tury. But it has, up to the present day, " wet or " dry," (any donkey of good taste

persistently neglected to lend its aid to this ought to know), is the vital question for its

second great moral reform, this vast eco- voters. May it not share the fate of the

nomic measure involving millions to the subject of the fable !

country, and its bold claims to the origina- If it will continue to express the great

ting of all temperance legislation are, save moral sentiment of the land, if it stand upon

in a very few instances, without foundation a platform whose chief plank is a still more

and false. For example, it was a Demo- needful Protection, than that which is now

cratic Governor and Legislature that gave its main support, around no banner will prohibition to Maine. we more gladly rally and march on to vic-

The Republican Anti-Saloon Convention tory ; but if it dodge the question, strive to lately held shows that many men are alive keep peace between deadly foes, right and T H li H AV E RKORDIAN. 27 rum, shake the " bloody shirl," that should MVTHS vs. SCIKNCE. be buried as deep as the dead of tliat feai'- line MY1IIOI,0(;IS'IS VERSUS IHE SCIENTISTS, IN ful struggle, and ring the changes on the KEI..\T1(_)N TO THE ORIGIN OK THE GODS. tariff, AS is its present policy, riglit-ininded, VERY people has its gods, war-like or conscientious men w ill ha\e a hard strug- "P ^ peaceful, cruel or benign, spiritual or gle between habit and conviction, and the material, and it is very evident that some- latter is sure to triumph. Indications are how, sometime in the world's history these not very promising now for such action b}- various deities must have had some origin, the party, \\e grie\e to say, but, as good in other words, man must have once, first Republicans, hope that better counsels will arri\edataconccption ijf supernatural beings prevail. Its voters are quietly waiting to which were able to exercise a power over see the results of the developments of a liim for good or evil. year or two, and when the party policy be- To explain this origin, or first conception, comes more definitely shaped, a firm deci- many theories have been from time to time sion will be made, that will cause great joy put forth, but all have at last resolved them- or sorrow, according as the party's course selves into these two, the mythologic and has been. the scientific. In this time of e\'olution, in a period of According to the first, the mythologic, pohtical crisis and social reform, when la- man is a being entirely separate from nature, bor, temperance and kindred subjects are and bears no relationsiitp to any other form the living issues of the hour, and the prin- of life. His " little all flowed in at once," ciples of republican government are indeed and in some mysterious, inexplicable, in- receiving a se\'ere test, the outside world is conceivable way, he suddenly appeared on looking with keen interest, to see what the the earth perfectly developed in every par- citizens of the freest and most prosperous ticular. His ideas of some material things nation on earth will do. It is highly neces- might have been somewhat misty, but his sary then, that we, as sovereigns of half a religious conceptions were perfect. He continent, act with circumspection and fore- however obstinately concluded not to hold thought, yet with promptness and energy. these pure and spiritual ideas, but immedi- No time have we, who hold in the balance ately turned his attention to the natural the questions of life and death, for weak- objects around him and began to worship ness and inaction. Life is no May-day for each and every material thing which in- an American citizen. Let us remember our spired, in his enlightened but willfully per- priceless privileges, ^\rested from reluctant verse mind, feelings of awe or beauty. It tryanny by long lines of ancestors, exercise is taken for granted that these intellectual at the polls the riglits of intelligent free- beings must of necessity worship something. men, and bequeath to an ever-grateful pos- Accordingly, by the mythologists, all the terity a temperate, orderly and well-gov- principal divinities are traced to the more erned fatherland. prominent objects, with which all people must be familiar such as the sun, moon, Alack, Alack our noble " Chavvles," earth and air, the sun especially claiming an We sorely mourn lliy loss, amount of attention " enormous and being Thy sweet " Gor-ram " lliy graceful " spun used to explain the origin of gods of every And smutty " albatross," description. Horns, triumphantly slaying And then, alas, fierce Thy waywayii class the serpent, the warlike Ra, Osirus, " Is left without a boss. the gentle and lover of men, the far-dartinsf 28 THE H^^VERKORDIAN.

" Apollo anil Hercules pciTdiiiiiiv^ his giant Another ver\- serious objection is that tasks, the beautiful Balder ami the thunder- these hypothetical people of which the my- ing Thor, all these and countless hosts of thologists speak, must have personified the

others are indcscriminately referred to the first material object and worshipped it as a sun. In like manner all the goddesses of dcit)-, withciut associating an)' actual person

whatever character are asserted to have had with it, a process altogether unthinkable. their origin in the moon, the earth, or some Now let us examine the scientific theor)-. ill-defined " female principle of nature," The scientific school, of which we will take which however unintelligible to us, was of Herbert Spencer as the ablest exponent, course understood by these primitive men. claims that man himself is a j)art of nature, Then there are gods which signify death, and subject to the same laws of progression the storm-wind, evening, e\ening breeze, and retrogression with the so-called lower morning, morning breeze, and so on ad iii- forms of life. If such is the case, then he finitiini. In fiict, if the amazing imagina- must have had a similar origin, and that tions of these modern god -makers can be origin they point out to have been gradual trusted, there was nothing in the world so development, from more primitive life types. natural for primitive man as the wholesale Starting then, with man in this i)ristine state, personification of all the forms and forces unimaginative, stupid, and in all likelihood, of nature, which they, as natural!)-, at once semi-arborial, although li\'ing in families, began to worship. with no thoughts of a higher level than the Now, even if no other or more satisfac- procuring of his food and shelter, the satis- tory theory had been ad\anced, to account fying of his immediate desires, how can he for the origin of these deities, there are some originate the conception of a deity which he very serious objections to its acceptance. will worship? How can he even conceive In the fir.st place, of what wonderful men- of worship in itself? The way is this. tal calibre these first men must have been Animals are observed to move their limbs possessed ! They could comprehend their and jaws in sleep, and sometimes suddenly true relation to the supernatural, living. starting up, they aw-ake, as if just ready to Spirit that had created them, and yet they perform some act, the conditions for doing preferred to pay their homage to inanimate which are not present. Every one has things which they knew had not life, or else, noticed the disappointed look of a dog on with their superior power of understanding such occasions, and the half-abashed man- some things, and these of the highest order, ner in which he again coiled himself up be- they were totally unable to distinguish be- fore the hearth fire to complete his nap. tween living and inorganic objects of the The obvious explanation of these phenom- most common sort. ena is that animals must have dreams. Just Their minds must have been formed on so must these primitive men have dreamed, the same plan, as the mind of an ideal horse, and in their dreaming, no doubt, at times which we once heard a worthy farmer de- they saw the forms of dreaded chieftains scribe. He thought, ifthe horse were hungry, who had died. Tliese savage leaders, blood- and were led into the pasture, he should im- thirsty and cruel in life, and delighting in

mediately fill himself with w hate\er vegeta- slaughter, must in some way be appeased, ble growth was nearest at hand, without or they will injure yet those, whom in life regard to quality, but if he were commanded they injured. to do anything, then he ought to know- Thus, the idea of an existence beyond exactly what to do. But, as a matter of this life, and the killing of some man or fact, the horse did know what kinds of grass animal to appease the dead chieftain at once, he relished best, and did not understand a arose. Au)' natural disturbance, such as complicated command. In the same way drouth, famine disease, or punishment by we fear the mythologists will discover, when an enemy in war, will henceforth be looked dealing with actual humanity, that the most upon as evidence of the wrath of the dead unenlightened can tell an animate from an chief, and will be followed by bloody sacri- inanimate object, while even those much fices and bodily torture. more advanced can not always grasp the Of course, as tribe, in time, united with higher spiritual truths. tribe or as one chief after another died in y :

THE H AVKHKORDIAN. '-') the samu tiibc, tli(jrc arc more aiul more i'mil the one im.'.glnaiy the other natural; ghosts to be appeased and the foundation one basing its assertions on the etymology of a I'olytheism is laid. Goinc;" on at tlie of the names of tlie deities, tlie other going same time with this development of tribal deeper antl explaining tiie origin of the gods, is the development of the worsiiip of names; one unable to gi\e any explanation pciurtis, the gods of the household, which of animal worshij^, or animal sacrifice, the arises from the worship of family ancestors, other offering an explanation which covers so common, in savage and half-civilized every species of worship; one gathering its tribes, and which as is seen in the case of evidence from the writings of an ignorant the Romans and modern Chinese, can exist but speculative people, who imagined fanci- side by side with a comparatively advanced ful causes for what the\', being ignorant of state of civilization. facts, could not exjilain, the other taking its But the careful reader asks, " How, on facts from the broad field of biology, inclu- this supposition, is it that we find the names ding by this term all life of every kind, and of the various gods to trace up to the same making no assertion without a correspond- root word from which the word " sun " or ing observed fact to show in its support. " " moon " or other object is derived ? Our conclusion in regard to the m\-tho- The explanation is, that in all semi-bar- logical theory is therefore, that it cannot barous and tyrannical governments, the stand. Not only is it incompetent to ex- most extravagant terms of abject flattery are plain all the phases of the subject with always used in addressing the monarch. which it grapples, but as far as it extends, He is not only styled the Sun, the Storm- its premises are fancifid, and its conception wind, the All-protecting Firmament, but he of the human mind absurd. It is as " far " is the strong Lion, the l-!ull, and as snakes fetched in every respect, as the ancient are emblems of wisdom among man}- people, Hindoo theory of the support of the earth, he is the Serpent. It is most easy to see or an Indian medicine man's theory of the how on the deification of such a chief, that treatment of disease. in the process of time, the worship should The objection is often made b)- the myth- be transferred from the man to the material ologists that facts supplied from the obser- object from which he took his name. Here vation of existing savages cannot be taken we have explained also the origin of the as true examples of what primitive man practice of personifying these inanimate was, that all our savages are men fallen from things, and the practice universally indulged a higher stage of civilization. But admit- in by unenlightened nations of pouring out ting c?//this, which facts do not support, but to their deities continuous streams of mean- which the complex languages of some tribes ingless praise and flattery, which is sup- seem to indicate in their special cases, there posed to please them. are no traces of evidence that any of them Thus by this theory can be explained not have ever lived in a more civilized state than alone the origin of the sun gods, and wind the ancient inhabitants of Java or Mexico, gods, but also the origin of the various ani- civilizations which to say the least, were mal deities which form the great stumbling- accompanied with religious conceptions and block of the mjthologists. We no longer ]M-actices of the most hideous, licentious and wonder at the various strange worships revolting character. The inhabitants of which we find to exist, since all are seen to Australia, New Guinea, and the vast multi- arise naturally from the same cause, viz. tudes of blacks in Africa, however, if they the primiti\-e ghost and ancestor worship. have ever enjoyed this hypothetical civiliza- Which of these two theories of the ori- tion have not even left one trace of its former gin of the gods will be the finally accepted existence b\' one solitar)- ruin of an\- kind. one ? A theory must be made conformable But apart from all this, e\'en if it could be with facts. If it does not adequately ex- shown that all our .sa\ages have fallen from plain the phenomena observed at present, a higher state, they must have first risen or if it is not ba.sed on observed phenomena, from a condition far lower than the lowest it is not a true theory and sooner or later existing savage, or the great science of bi- must lose its hold on the minds of men. ology, founded on the observation of all Trying our two theories by this test, we forms of life is a hollow farce. THH HAVIiRKORE>IAN. 9IARRIED.

\\\'t\\ Aluriiiii or olliL-rs please favor us with items for this column ] Palmer-Walter. —On tenth month, 21st, at Parkerville, Chester county. Pa., by Friends' '7^, I'ldwaiil P. AUinson, A. M., was married, ceremony, 'P. Chalkley Palmer, of Media, and tenth mo, i4tli, to Anna G. Roberts, daughter H. Jennie Walter, of the former place. of Lewis Roberts, of Tarrytown Heiglits, N. V. The newly married couple will reside on King- sessing Ave., West Philadelphia. LOCALS.

is at of a suc- '79, John H. Newkirk the head MDCCCXC—ninety. cessful corporation of Philadelphia known as -V contradiction of terms: —'"Gases obey the " Bonney Vise and Tool Company." Boyle's law when farthest removed from the '79, John H. Clifford was married 9th month, Boyling point." 14th, to Phoebe E. Newton, of Fall River, Mass. A Junior says that the Egyptians called the

'79, John E. Sheppard, Jr., M. D., is now one sun Osiris when it was setting and Atum when of the most successful phvsicians of .Atlantic it Self.

City. N. J. 'Phe annual attempt to look through the cap '83, Bond V. Thomas married Miss Carpen- of the transit instrument was made the other ter, at Concord, N. H., on the 13th of last evening by two seniors, with the usual result. month. Its removal revealed a Andromeda crossing the seventh wire. The atmosphere then assumed a '84, Alfred P. Smith is in Wayne MacVeagh's hazy appearance with a blue tinge. law office. The machine-shop was the recipient of a '85, Elias H. White witnessed the game of splendid blower from the the Buffalo Forge Co., foot-ball, between '89 of Swarthmore and our of Buffalo, N. Y., the other day. Sophomore Class team played on the Haverford College grounds, the 20th of last month. About twenty of the prettiest of Swarthmore's girls visited us when their Sophomore brethren '86, Jonathan Dickinson, Jr., has been elected played foot-ball here. The girls drove over President of the " Lowell Literary Society " of and left with pleasant impressions of Haverford. Wilmington College, Ohio. We like the idea of this companionship. Let '87, Bacon entered the medical depart- John us see more of it. ment of the University of Pennsylvania at the It has proved to be dangerous for students beginning of the present year. with embryonic moustaches to w-ork in the '87, Calvert Wilson has graduated from laboratory, for in one case at least the acid has Georgetown University, and is now in the proved fatal, —to the moustache, and anew one Senior Class at Harvard. is Slo\v-com(ing). '87, Wm. E. Hacker is learning the "Calico A ball shed 12x85 f^*^' '^ to be erected on " bu-siness the firm of Print under Wm. Simpson the east side of the gymnasium for cricket prac- Company. Sons & tice in winter. Now don't let us hear any com- '87, E. Coleman Lewis is now in business, plaint of too little practice among our bowlers being employed by The McFadden Ornamental and batters. Iron Works of Philadelphia. Company At last we are to have Jnstruction in elocu- '88, W. D. Lewis, having been called home tion. George H. Makeuen, A. B., (Yale) has by the death of his father, is with us again. been secured to take charge of a class in this

'88, Edward Brooks, Jr., has joined the class badly-needed exercise. And now we may ex- of '90 at Yale. pect to hear our Platos and Ciceros cleaving stillness of Barclay Hall with oratorical Canon Creighton, Prof, of Ecclesiastical His- the appeals. Howard F. Stratton is also to be in- tory at Cambridge University, England, lec- structor in Free Hand Drawing. tured here on the 2Sth ult. on " The Value of the Study of History." He is the author of Prof. —What is a synthetic language ? several standard histories, and has come to this Student—One which has terminations at the country to represent Emanuel College, Cam- end. bridge, Harvard's Mother College, at the lat- Prof. —Which end? Student—The final end. ter's 250th Anniversary this month. While one of our champion (?) bicycle riders On the 28th Prof. A. C. Thomas, by a fall, was housing his "fractious" steed the other severely fractured his nose, and though still day, the beast kicked him in the face, dislod- confined to his bed, we are glad to report that ging portions of two organs useful in the mas- he is rapidly improving. tication of hash. y )

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Goddard, '87, carries his arm in a sling. It near their opponent's goal, secured a touch- is uncertain whether the actuating cause is a down. Having punted it out, they ran in again sprained wrist or an excuse to avoid foot-ball and made another touch-down. These inter- in order to decorate places of worship. esting tactics were kept up until time was called, when the score stood 28-6 in favor of Swarth- The following lectures have been arranged more. We do not particularly blame them or by the college authorities to be delivered in the referee, but we do blame '89 for not having Alumni Hall at 7.30 P. M : come to some agreement on this subject with Rendel Harris, M.A. Nov. 16, 1886, Prof. J. their opponents beforehand. This miserable Nov. 1886, Dr. Henry Hartshorne L. L. D. 23, scheme, has, we believe, only come up this fall, " Poetry—Its past and future." and as the rules are strictly against it, it is Dec. I, 1886, Luigi Monli, A.M. strange that it should ever have been allowed. "John Milton." But a few colleges have played it, and so a pre- Dec. 8, 1886, Luigi Monti, A.M. cedent has arisen, which is difficult to over- " Personal Reminiscences of Longfellow." throw. Haverford at least has made a stand in Dec. i8S6,/aOT« Wood, A.M. 15, this matter, and in our first college match, we "America before the European Discovery." had no trouble of this sort. iii&-] Wood, A.M. ' Jan. 5, , Javies This match was played with the Tioga team " By whom and for what, settlements in on Saturday, October 28th. Game was called America were made." at four o'clock, Haverford having the ball. Jan. 12, 1887, £//is Varna//, A.M. Garrett first ran with the ball, and then Morris, " Historical Recollections." and much ground was gained. Just here an Jan. 18, i88t, James Wood, A.M. unfortunate accident occurred. The captain "The formation of the U. S. Government." of Tioga, in making a tackle, broke his nose, Feb. 2, iSSt, James Wood, A.M. and had to retire. Play was soon resumed and " Increase of Population and Material Devel- Overman soon succeeded in forcing his way opment of the United States." through and making a touch-down, from which Feb. 9, 1887, Edward Broo/is,Pli.D. Hilles kicked a goal. Before long Garrett got " Elocution." another touch-down, but the goal, which was Readings by George H, Makeuen, A. B. an easy one, was missed. Tioga now got the Feb. 15, 1887, JV. Rando/pli, M.D. ball some distance up the field, but could not "Hygiene" (Illustrated.) keep it long. We had got within a short dis- Feb. 22, 1S87, at four o'clock P. M. tance of their line, when Garrett fumbled the (Speaker to be announced. ball, and Tioga got it again. Howel, our old March i, 1887, N. Rando/pli, M. D. Haverford man, made one of his pretty kicks, "Hygiene" (Illustrated.) and we had a long distance to recover. It had March 8, 1887, N. Rando/ph, M. D. about been made up, when Haverford again " Hygiene" (Illustrated.) dropped the ball, and with the same result,

Howel sending it up to our goal again. In this SPORTS. way nothing was gained before time was called, the game being played in half hours. The Finals in the Tennis Tournament which In the second half, Haverford's play was were being played as we went to press last much improved, and the score mounted accord- montli, resulted in a well-earned victory for ingly. When Tioga attempted to run, they Sharp and Hippie, score 6-3, 6-4. Their op- invariably lost ground, as they were unable to ponents, Garrett and Wood, took second prize, lienetrate our rush line, and when they kicked, as none seemed willing to play them. Haverford always got the ball and rushed it up Only a few matches have been played since again. Howel made tjuitea good run, but was the opening of the foot-ball season. The Fresh- nicely tackled by Garrett. A very pretty feature men played two matches, one with '88 and an- of the game was a stop by Hilles, who got other with '89, and, as is generally the case, through on the half-back just as he was kicking were badly beaten. They have several men the ball. The latter struck Hilles and r who may make good players, but they need bounded into Tioga's goal, and a safety was practice in playing together. They had ar- forced. After this, touch downs were made in ranged a match with the University Freshmen, rapid succession, but only one goal was kicked. but the latter backed out. When time was called, the score stood ^2-0, in The game between the Swarthmore and Hav- favor of Haverford. erford Sophomores was well played on both The team, on the whole, pla\c(l vcrv wlII,

sides, but marred by an episode in the last part and showed that there was good stuff in it that of the match. Swarthmore, having got the ball gave promise of future victories. They tackled. 32 THE HAVERKOKDIAN. protected the half-backs, and followed up the of crimes and scandals, and he also very justly ball very well, but it was very evident that they criticizes the insufferable self-sufficiency of the needed practice in some important particulars. average editor. " My Journalistic Experiences," We refer i)articularly to goal kicking. The the title of which explains itself, is a paper by team appeared to be peculiarly deficient in this Jeannette L. Gilder of "The Critic" of New particular, which is in some respects the easiest York. " Brueton's Bayou " is an amusing story part of the game. Though it made no vital l)y John L. Habberton, the author of " Helen's difference at Tioga, when we have to play much Babies." stronger teams, we cannot afford to lose a single The Atlantic Monthly for November con- point through carelessness. Also, the ball was tains a number of good articles. " The Peckster fumbled and dropped quite a number of times. Professorship " is used as a title for a very clever Now this is a very bad thing, as when playing piece of fiction in which the writer touches the heavier teams, it will be of the first importance subject of psychology. "Germs of National for Haverford to keep control of the ball. A Sovreignty in the United States" is a review little practice in these points, and we are con- of that process by which tlie States of the Union fident tliat the team will come out ahead in all formed themselves into a nation. The third its matches. paper of "French and English," "A Korean LITERATURE. Coupd'etat," "The Blindman's World," "The French under Mazarin are also included in this [All books receu'ed be/ore the 20th of the month 7vill be reviewed very interesting number. A few familiar topics in the number issued on the toth oy the/allowing jnonth.] are treated with considerable ability in the

' I 'HE November number of Harper s is an Department of Contributions. * unusually interesting one. The first thing Announcement of Ben. Perley Poore's forth- that strikes our eye is an excellent frontespiece coming book. —Sixty years of a busy journal- "At the Authors' Club, New York," opposite ist's life at Washington are epitomized in Major to which is the beginning of George Parsons Ben. Perley Poore's forthcoming book. One Lathrop's article on "The Literary Movement of the admirers of the Major recently said that of New York." The magazine would be well " at a judiciously ripe period of life the Major worth reading for nothing else than this essay. sto])ped growing old, and since then, like some Reviewing briefly the days of Irving and Cooper, of the choice Maderia of which he writes with Mr. Lathrop proceeds to show us the present so much feeling, he has only been accumulat- literary men of New York, their mode of living, ing boquet and flavor." Major Poore has been their mode of working and the character of one of the best known anil one of the most their works. The interest of this paper is in- knowing men in Washington society for half creased by numerous portraits, all executed in a century. His is the svmny temperament de- a style worthy of Harper s, not the least con- lighting in bright, social intercourse. Yet his spicuous among which are the handsome features connection with daily journalism and his posi- of Mr. E.C. Stedman and the thoughtful coun- tion in the United States Senate placed him tenance of Mr. John Burroughs. " How I always in the thick of political affairs and social formed my Salon," is an article by Madam gossip. He was ever in the Washington Edmond Adam, a woman who attained extra- " Swim," breasting the waves with jovial vigor, ordinary celebrity both by her books and her and never failing to hear or see what was said famous political Salon. Other articles of inter- and done. " est in this number are Hallow'een : a Three- fold Chronicle," "Our Coast-guard," and EXCHAIVGES. " Co-operation among the English working- men." We have received the four following new ex-

changes within tiie last month : We are sorry to be unable to say much in Tiie Wilmington Home Weekly, is a spicy favor of the new number of Lippineott' s. The little sheet, with its various departments well articles are too much of one character and too sustained. The editorials are especially able, little of any character. In this one number we reminding one of the editorials in the American. are confronted with no less than six papers about newsjiapers and editors. Two of these, The Lafayette, from Lafayette College, however, are worthy of mention. " Newspa- Easton, Penna., is a semi-monthly which com- perism " is a strong paper on the evils of the pares favorably with the papers of like charac- j)resent state of journalism. The writer very ter published at Tuft's or Colby. We ad- projierly condemns that practice on the part of mire the tasteful design on the cover. The our daily journals of gratifying a degraded taste paper is fully alive to the athletic interests of by the pul)lishing and emphasis of the details the college. y '

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The Seminary Opinionator, coming from Wy- It is remarkable in what high estimation that oming Seminary, Kingston, Penna., brings epitome of American Roman Catholic opinion, countless reminders of school-boy days. The the Niagara Index, holds modern infidels.

literary articles are for the greater part most Speaking of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, whom it wonderful examples of that peculiar style in- dubs a -'glib little whiffet of the infidel dulged in by the average )-outh when he tries school," it says he " has reached the top-most to soar above himself. Here is an extract from rotnid of the ladder in the profession 'of law." " the Human Mind." Go on then, thou im- What wonderful lawyers infidels must make ! mortal creation. I know thee not and yet I If only a " little whiffet " of this school stands know thee. I cannot comprehend, yet deeply on the "top-most round of the ladder," we have I studied thee. Farewell to thee, but in suppose, if a champion of infidelity should vain do I speak the word." Again, " Alone study law, he would go soaring away off some- at midnight. How dreary every thing seems. where far above the reach of any ladder. Let All is silent as the grave. No sound is heard us advise all lawyers to become infidels. save the creaking of the floor, at which I The Purdue appears for October in a changed startle. And * * I sit alone in this stillness form. ' While the size of the paper has been undisturbed, unmolested, brooding over the somewhat reduced, yet the number of pages teachings of some past hero, trying to learn the has been increased." It is the intention of the orations of Cicero, or the mathematics of Py- board of editors further to improve the paper thagoras." We can only spare the space to by adorning the cover " with a new and pleas- copy two stanzas as an example of the poems ing design." It might be well also to change of this paper : somewhat the sentence which reads, " Students " Thou God at whose great will all worlds revolve, and graduates of Purdue are cordially invited Full millions more beyond our comprehension. to contribute articles, verses and other itrfor- thy command all nature shall dissolve, ' At mation. And sink forever in a moment's mention." " Liberalism as a Social Force," a lecture " Thou cans't create the atoms in their place, by Prof. R. G. Boone, which apjjeared in full And send, in rolling force, with equal ease, A hundred million worlds in boundless space, in the Indiana Student for October, is a lecture And place them in their order by degrees." which would do honor to the faculty ot any college. We are not surprised when we read Our fourth addition to the exchange list is that "the chapel was filled" the Hesperus, from Denver University. This to hear the lec- ture. It is rare for a college to secure a little paper, although only in its second year, man of so broad and liberal views, has already assumed the proportions and char- but this instance is but an index of the direction in which acter of a live college organ. An exchange col- lege influence must flow. The days when only column, however, should be, by all means, narrow-minded D.D's. and lesser ministers en- added at once. rapt in hide-bound creeds, shall pose as direc- T\\Q Dariinoii/h, M'tlmington Collegian, Oher- tors and instructors of youthful minds are lin Review, and Tuftonian, have all ap])eared drawing to a close. The assertion which has in new covers. The cover of the Ttiftoiiian, been made, not without ground, that colleges however, is the only one which displays any tend to " polish pebbles, but to dim diamonds," artistic design. This cover is a real improve- will lose its force when all our higher institu- ment to the paper, and reflects credit on the tions of learning can boast such men as Prof. taste of the editors. Boone, as members of their faculty. We are informed by the Sliident that the ta- The Hobart Herald for September, bles in the dining-room of Providence Friends' contains a l)iographical sketch, School, have lately been provided with table- accompanied with a por- trait of Prof. L. Smith. cloths. Surely the world moves. H. There is also a semi-comic account of the Charleston earth- The College Olio, after a prolonged absence, quake. has once more made its appearance in our .sanc- The exchange editor of the Swartlimore tum. It has been much improved inside and fliti-nix suggests a " State convention of col- out since our last acquaintance with it, but we lege editors" to be held "at Philadelphia, or are sorry to see the exchange column wanting. elsewhere." He states that "much mutual The College Cabinet has come out imder a benefit could be derived from such a meeting." new name, the Genevan, which is altogether Perhaps there could. We can imagine many more ajipropriate, as one can tell at once from ways in which meetings held for as many dif- what institution it comes. We would recom- ferent objects could prove of "mutual benefit ;" mend a new (over to a( comp.Tny the new but then we can imagine as many more whi( h name. would not [irove so beneficial. If the editor '

34 THE HAVKRKORIDIAN. will kindly explain the object of the conven- GENERAL COLI.EGE I«E'WS. tion, his "brother quill-drivers" can form Columbia is trying to revive foot-ball. some definite opinions on the subject. The Princeton Glee Club practices daily. Says the Umiergraduate, " Almost every col- lege ]iaper we pick up has an article on com- There are 62 students at Bryn Mawr College pulsory attendance at chapel prayers. The this year.

]irevailing tone is that of resistance and fault- Lowell is said to conduct the Italian and finding. All sorts of remedies have been ad- Spanish courses at Harvard.

' prayers optional,' is the general vised. Make There is a rumor that the Princeton Seniors cry. We can not see that attendance would will adopt mortar-boards. be helped by any such condescension to what The Princeton Freshman Foot-ball team de- we deem laziness." We do not think this feated a Vineland Team, no to o. general cry is caused by such a "laziness." Hamlin, one of Yale's best rushers, broke his The key-note is struck in an appended quota- leg in a practice game lately. tion from another college paper, which we also copy. "The fact is 'compulsion' is becom- Rutgers had a holiday to let the students at- ing an odious word among college students. tend the unveiling of the Bartholdi Statue. It has caused more trouble than all other things Princeton's illustrated paper, the Tiger, will combined. There is a growing appreciation of probably be again brought to publication. whicli revolts against it. Whenever manhood Yale has beaten in foot-ball—Technology confidence and responsibility have been placed 96-0, Stephens, 54-0, and Williams, 76-0. in students, then unprecedented advance in The Columbia President in his opening ad- college government has been made. Compul- dress congratulated the college on last year's sion can only compel the fulfillment of the athletic achievements. letter of the law ; option has the power to fulfil American team of college students the spirit also. Option has this advantage "An de- feated a German team, by a score of 16-0, at likewise ; it makes interest absolutely necessary Gottingen, to secure attendance, and thereby stimulates Germany." the faculty to do its utmost." A Northern Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Asso- ciation has been formed by Williams, Tufts, The University Herald, in a somewhat fier)' Amherst, and Technology. and flowery article, touches upon the demands " "The victory of Lafayette over the LTniver- of the laboring classes. Stand ! the ground's entitles your own " is made the watchword of the So- sity of Pennsylvania the former team to cialists and Anarchists-, and from instances in membership in the foot-ball league next year." the world's past history the conclusion is de- There were 900 applications for admission at rived that labor will have the wealth it has pro- Wellesley this year, but there are accommoda- duced. The picture is a dark one, —the over- tions for only about 550. throw of our existing institutions—but history Brinley, '87 Trinity, as prize for the Inter- does seem to bear out the decision, the poor Collegiate Tennis Singles, received a bowl made will some day strike for and obtain the wealth of an elephant's tusk ornamented with chased which is withheld from them. silver. The Pennsylvania College Monthly for (Octo- An editorial in the Yale Courant on the ber, maintains its usual good standing. The alleged inefficiency of religious exercises at Yale little poem by E. J. Brenner, breathes the has created such a sensation that the suspension spirit of true poetry, and promises well for the of writer and editors is threatened. author. "Periodicals and Pamphlets" is a Harvard's foot-ball uniform is "dark crimson good department, but we think that the depart- jersey with a white ' H,' canvas jacket, crimson ment of exchanges should consist of something stockings, and breeches of thick mole skin of a beside mere quotations. creamy-white color." Our young friend the Penn Chronicle, con- " The charter of William and Mary College, tains a short biographical sketch of (ien. Lew. Va., is retained by the old President ringing Wallace, and a criticism of his literary works. the college bell every morning. No student We are glad to note the improvements in this responds, for the institution has been defunct for paper, but as yet one would judge from read- years. ' ing it that sucii a thing as sports or games were The Harvard Faculty, in order to decrease entirely foreign to the college. It is hardly the number of special students, in future will advisable either, to insert notices of exchanges require each candidate for a special course to among the editorials. undergo a severe examination to prove that he Where is the Washhurn .Ura ? is a good student and a hard worker. THE FI AVERKORDI AN. IMPROVED FOOT BALL * PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL * FEATHER-WEIGHT RUNNING ^^^ JUMPING SHOES

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Haverford College is on the Pennsylvania Railroad, nine miles from Philadelphia. It oiFers to ninety boarders and a small number of day-students, the advantage of a col- legiate education, of the ordinary grade, under the tuition of .scholarly instructors, and in association with gentlemanly 3'oung men of good moral habits. The facilities for good work include a Library of 15,000 volumes; an Observatory, well equipped and in active ojieration ; a Laboratory where students are engaged daily in scientific work ; machine shops and other aj)pliances. The College is in the country, in a lawn of sixty acres, all the conditions being favorable to the best physical dcN'elojunent. Tho.se intending to enter in the fall of 1887 are advised to make application at an early date, to secure choice of rooms. For information address THE ]DE.A.3Sr, Haverford College P. O., Montgomery Co., Pa. y ;

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THE HAVERFORDIAN. zens' safety. Our long-standing friendly association with Russia and France have EDITORS; born fruit in the gain of Alaska and the LOGANIAN. reception of the sculptor's ideal of the patron JESSE E. THILirS, Jr., 'S7, Chairmon. goddess of two great republics. How dif- C. G.\RRETT, '87. ALFRED ferent is Europe's condition ! Turkey is a HOWELL S. ENGLAND, '88. never-ending bone of contentment for lion ATHEN.tU.M. and bear, while the other powers are highly BARKER NEWHALL, '87. WARNER H. FITE, '89. interested spectators, and all the ill-fated EVERETT. nation can do is patiently to submit to being ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. chewed, and hope, with the rest of the world, FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. that so thorough a mastication may be soon

IIexry FL GdDD.lRD, '87, Business JMaiin^er. followed by a final digestion and assimila-

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The Haverfordian is the oIHcial organ of the students of Hav- ruin of diverse religions, civilizations and erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. empires, that spreads over the home ofAlex- ander and Pyrrhus, of Constantine and Entered at the Haver/ord College Post Ojffieeifor trtmsvih- sion through the mails at second-class rates. Solyman the Magnificent. May their shades foster the result! TTOW puerile and useless to an Ameri- can seems this stirring of the war cauldron in Bulgaria ! We may as a nation "T^HOSE who at the opening of Bryn count it among the best of our Thanksgiv- Mawr College saw perilous times ing blessings that we have no " balance of ahead on account of the proximity of a col- power to maintain on this continent. With lege exclusively for men, should now see an eminently peaceful foreign policy, some- the existing state of affairs to convince them times almost to our own disad\antage, and of the groundlessness of their fears. So far under the most amicable relations w ith our as anything like friendship is concerned the two little neighbors that nestle under our two colleges might as well be in different wings, as it were, neither a rascally editor continents, and in its stead there is a sort on the one hand, nor e\en over-zealous and of jealous criticism constantly passed, little unjust revenue officials on the other, can calculated to engender kind feelings. That disturb our calm and prosperous condition. this is partly Haverford's own fault we fully By a vigorous enforcement of the Monroe grant, and trust that the rest of the blame doctrine however, especially just now in the will be as freely admitted. At present with case of the Panama canal, and by quietly nothing in common, no exchange of ideas presenting a modest bill whenever a certain or anything approaching fraternal feeling,

J. Bull damages our property, we can and our relations to our neighbors is anything do preserve our own dignity and our citi- but ideal. 36 THE HAVERKORDIAN. A word as to our Gymnasium and its use. caution, and we are done. Do not aim at We notice with regret that it is not great strength in any particular direction.

nearly as well attended as it should be. Herein lies a danger, for the over-develop-

The men who most need this kind of work, ment of certain muscles, is, later on in life,

and who would be greatly benefitted by it, often a greater hindrance than if the\' had seem to be the \'ery ones who stay away. always remained weak. But let us honestly

This is worse than foolishness. Now is the endeavor to improve our oppcjrtunities and time and here is the place to pay some fit ourselves for the hard task, which it will attention to our //(r.wVv?/ being, and to do be our duty to perform in this life.

something for our bodies, which will fit them for the hard work which will be required of /^NE year ago last June e\ery kind of them. To throw away such splendid op- ^"^^ hazing was abolished by order of the portunities is ine.xcusable. Let no man be faculty. The students, as a body, approved ashamed to go into the gymnasium because the measure, and all hazing has ever since he has a poor form, or because he is not entirely disappeared from Haverford. At well developed and is not given to athletics. the time of its abolition here, the countr)' at Rather, for this very reason, let him turn to large was up in arms against hazing, and with still greater zest, for the primar)- object every one was disposed to look upon it as of a gymnasium is not to turn out athletes, wholly evil in its effects ; accordingly we but to give every man as perfect a develop- hailed the new order of affairs as an un- ment as possible. When you go into the mixed blessing. Gym. do not let your ambition be to do Last year, with the exception of some such and such a thing so many times, or to friendly advice from, and personal conferen- twist yourself into all manner of contortions ces with the Sophomores, the Freshmen's on the bar and rings, but go up to the pul- course was all unruffled. This year, in ad- ley weights and get to work like the other dition to the above-mentioned proceedings, men you see at them. No great result is in a much weaker form, a grand banquet ever obtained without hard work, and mere was served up and an entertainment pro- " fooling " on the bar and rings will do little vided for the new men generally. towards filling out the frame, which is what What have been the fruits of all this? most men need. By all means get exam- Last year's Freshmen, with all coercing ined and ask the doctor to show you your power removed, and with no common foe to weak points. By steady work on the proper fight, have been permanently injured, their machines you can soon bring up the delin- class split up into factions, and only half quent muscles to their proper size, and at organized, while such a thing as a healthy the next examination you will find a great class spirit is almost extinct. gain. The half hour twice a week, which With the new men of this year it has is required of the two lower classes, will do fared still worse, for since they were not little or nothing for a man unless he docs a only freed from hazing but were received good deal of extra work. with such open arms, and so generously Some men pride themselves that they do feasted, many of them really believe them- not need gymnasium work, as they are al- selves the rightful lords of the whole col-

ready strong enough without it. Nonsense ! lege, and their wonderful conceit and self- Every man needs it. In these days, as the importance are as ridiculous as they are doctors tell us, no one is naturally well de- suffered veloped all over, and consequently work of pitiable. Not only have they this

this kind is invaluable. One word now of wrong, and it is a great one, but class organ- THE HAVERKORDIAN. 37

izatioii and class feeling bid fair to become, to them, respectively, just as all other nat-

in the near future, totalh' dead. ural gifts are granted to man, and that this A person of ordinary observation need faculty like any other can be developed, but only compare the condition of the two up- not created. per classes, with the other two, to see at As we are now engaged in the develop-

once, the good effects of a little vigorous ment of many of our mental faculties, and, coercion. to a considerable extent, we are glad to note, '87 and '88 have both undergone this of our physical structures too, the writer wholesome discipline and the effects are would impress upon us, also, that this is the marked, not only on the class organization, time to cultivate and encourage the small but on the men indi\idually. Moreover it endowment, it may be, of that which tends is that very class which had the hardest tow^ard politeness in our possession. As no ordeal to pass through, which is to-day the two individuals are likely to be identical, best organized in college. This is no plea were space granted, it would be impossible for a retrograde movement. The backward to lay down any definite plan for training or step was taken when hazing was abolished, bringing out that in man which is almost as the fruits of the two systems show. Al- absolutely essential, in order that he may though such advice as was recently given be considered agreeable by his fellows. by the Juniors to the Freshmen may serve Assuming, then, that every person is en- partly to remedy the evil, \'et it can never dued with a certain amount of this knack produce the effect of a vigorous system of or faculty, and repeating the statement that coercion on the part of the Sophomores, not the general politeness of all times has been, alone on the Freshmen, but also on their more or less, artificial or deceptive, we will own new men who fail to appreciate their endeavor to trace out the cause or causes proper position, as subordinate to the two of this unnatural state of affairs and thus be upper classes. better prepared, whate\'er the extent of our natural endowment may be, to a\'oid this or 00 far as we are able to judge, at the these causes. present time, the natural inclinations of Seeing this artificial condition is not con- man always have been the same, hence it is fined to our own times we at once infer that not surprising, judging from every day it must be due, in part at least, to some scenes about us, that as far back as history native or inborn tendency of man. Let us carries us, courtesy, where we find recorded take a common method of expressing, or instances of politeness, always has been, showing, politeness by one, to another, and, in speaking general terms, more or less by inquiring into its character, we probably artificial or even deceptive. will be able to learn the nature of the motive Not for an instant would imply, we by that produced it. For this e.xample we will this general statement, that it is impossible seek a place where only the simplest forms to meet with truly polite individuals; there of politeness are observed. We enter the certainly have been, and are, very many of college dining-room, at one table but two them, and his intercourse, with the world, students remain, within reach of both of must be limited indeed, who has never met them is a fruit-dish containing two oranges a score of with persons whose inborn polite- of unequal size. At about the same time ness is admired b_\- all who know them. each student is ready for fruit, and " out of Thus we might infer that there are many politeness " each, to save his companion the shades or degrees of politeness, and that trouble, hastily reaches for the plate. He, individuals have certain amounts of it alloted who is fortunate enough to get the strouzcr :

38 THE HAVERFORDIAN. hold of the dish, immediately presents it to position to respect the college laws has his comrade, who, " out of politeness," takes enjoyed anything" less than absolute liberty. the smaller orange, leaving the large one on On the other hand, we think that the stu- the plate for him who passed the fruit. dents, placed upon their honor, have shown The motives, which prompt such every an honorable decorum and respect for the day politeness, are so evident that an analy- college laws. sis of this common occiu'rencc scarcely It is then with extreme delicacy that we seems necessar)-. Suffice it to say, on ac- \'enture to criticize a rule recently made by count of his selfish disposition, each student the faculty. Under this rule, no abscences wanted the larger orange. Student A. was from evening collections are allowed except therefore anxious to pass the plate to stu- by a separate request from the parents of

dent B., and vice-versa, because student A. the student for each absence ; and no visits knew student B., desiring by deception to to Philadelphia are allowed during the mid- make a good impression, would take the dle of the week except by such excuses. smaller orange and leave the larger one for General excuses, indicating that the parent himself Likewise many absurd exaggera- has perfect confidence in the character of tions in forms of politeness, particularly of the student and is willing to assume the implying for more than is meant in connnon responsibility, are no longer received. modes of greeting, b}- the slightest investi- Our objections to this rule may be briefly gation can be traced to deceptive or selfish stated. A regulation which forbids a stu- motives. dent to make an evening call unless he pre- Hence we are led to conclude, that to be- sents an excuse from home, which forbids come actually and honestly polite we must him to spend an evening in town with his strive to subdue all selfish and deceptive in- family without an excuse, may be entirely

clinations ; for, indeed, we believe it will be proper in some places, but is unworthy of found that those who think not of them- a college. It is perfectly right that children

selves, or of the impressions such and such should be placed under strict discipline : it an action will be likelj' to make, but con- is not right that this discipline should be stantly endeavor to add to the comfort of maintained when they have ceased to be their fellows, are the ones that are known children. A tutelage which is wholesome as the naturally polite. for those who have not yet acquired a clear perception of right and wrong and moral "\ 1 TE believe we are expressing the sen- strength to follow their convictions degrades timents of all fair-minded students and unmans those who intellect has ripened, at Haverford when we say that, as a rule, whose perceptions are developed. they have been treated by the faculty with It is probable, however, that our criticism great liberality and respect. No serious should be directed not so much against this restrictions have been placed upon their rule as against the causes which may have leaving the college : no interference has made such a rule necessary. We have be- been made with their time further than to fore signified our strong disapprobation of exact attendance at recitations or at meet- the custom of admitting students to the col- ing: the hour formerly set for retiring has lege who are under a fixed age —a custom been removed : private requests for excuses which is not at all peculiar to Haverford have been met with the utmost liberality but which Haverford can help to discour- public petitions from the college have re- age. Our observation justifies us in saying

ceived great consideration : and, in short, that to associate a youth of fifteen with an- no one at the college who has shown a dis- other of nineteen is injurious to both parties. :

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It deprives the elder of that sense of the School formed in line and proceeded to

digiiit)' of collegje life which is the best -Sanders' Theatre to hear the orator " whose

means of preserving order in the college: it name," as Hon. James C. Carter, of New

afflicts the younger with a precocity that is York, said in introducing him, " is enough sickening. If parents will persist in sending to attract throngs hither " — Mr. Justice

boys to college before they have reached a O. W. Holmes, Jr. His oration wasschol- suitable age, we certainly think that the arly and practical. With changed names

college ought, for its own sake, to refuse his idea of the functions of a law school them admittance. would be those of any professional school We hope, then, that legislation at Haver- " I remember that a very wise and able man

ford is not to be a legislation for children. said to a friend of mine when he was begin-

We think that the mass of our students ha\'e ning his professional life, ' Don't know too

show that they will meet manly rules with much law,' and I think we can all imagine •manliness and honor. If any have \iolated cases where the_ warning would be useful.

the good faith imposed upon them by this But a far more useful thing is what •was treatment, they are the ones who should said to me as a student by one no less wise feel the hand of authority. If any are too and able—afterward my partner and always young to be treated in this manner, they my friend —when I was talking as young are, by all means, out of place in the college. men do about seeing practice and all other things which seemed practical to my ex- X^'O HII3VDRED ATSO FIFTIETH ' AIKiJSIVERSARY AX HARVARD. perience : The business of a lawyer is to know law.' The professors of this law T^HOSE who were present at the fiftieth school mean to make their students know anniversary of the founding of Haver- law." He then went on to state the part ford, to some extent, can appreciate what the Law School has in the fame of the Uni-

the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary versit}', and closed with this tribute, " It is

must have been at Harvard, with its multi- the crowning glory of this Law School that

ple years of history and experience, and it has kindled in many an inextinguishable

still greater number of graduates. Distin- fire." The exercises of the day closed with guished visitors from foreign universities the collation in the gymnasium. gave evidence of the interest in Harvard The fog of Saturday morning was a dis-

which is felt among institutions of learning appointment to the undergraduates, as this abroad, and eminent representatives from was their day of the celebration. However,

all prominent American Universities and by nine o'clock, the fog began to lift, and

colleges attested the same at home. It is the boat-races came off successfully. After an occasion which will long be remembered this the classes proceeded to Sanders' The- in the history of American education. atre to attend the literary exercises. The The celebration was opened on Friday, oration was deli\-ered by F. E. E. Hamilton

November 5th, by the meeting of graduates of '87. In the beginning he thus alludes to " of the Law School. Towards noon the the celebration : We commemorate the large lecture room of Austin Hall was quarter- millenium of a university which

crowded with graduates of many years, ' first among equals,' has striven to gi\e

judging from the venerable heads which form to American education ; we commem-

gave dignity to the throng. After going orate the triumph of Puritan life and the through business relative to the Association, widening success of that struggle of Puri- the meeting adi(~)urned. ShortK' after, the tanism which, running through eight gene- graduates and present members of the Law rations, would perfect a form of education 40 THE HAVERFORDIAN.

distinctively Puritan, yet wholly Ameri- towards them.—" Once in the ages came

can." the wondrous life, but what life made mani-

The poem was read by F. S. Palmer, '87. fest had been forever there the love of God, the possibilit}- of man. These two which The address by E. J. Rich, '87, introduced humor into the exercises, as he proceeded made the Christhood—these two—not two, to give the " Evolution of the Harvard Stu- but one—had been the elements in which dent." After singing the ode, written bj- all life was lived, all knowledge known, all

Lloyd Mc K. Garrison, set to the tune " Fair growth attained Oh ! how little men have Harvard," the exercises closed. Under- made it and how great it is Around all graduates could not be truly represented life which ever has been lived there has without a game of foot-ball, and so one was been found forever the life of the loving played with Wesleyan, resulting in a befit- Deity and the ideal humanity." ting victory for Harvard. It was fitting that the last day of the cel- ebration should be graduates' day, the Bright and clear dawned Sabbath, No- meeting of so many who thus returned to vember 7th, Founder's day. An expectant the scenes of their youthful joys and antici- multitude crowded Appleton Chapel to pations. All Cambridge flocked to wel- hear the sermon by Rev. F. G. Peabody. come President Cleveland and some of his His theme was taken from Job xxxvi. 16. cabinet, as they came from Boston, escorted " Even so would he have removed thee out by the Lancers. The College Faculty, the of a straight, into a broad place." The Faculties of the several schools, invited text is very suggestive. Founded as the guests and graduates of the various classes first public appeal announced " that the had formed in line, Commonwealth may be furnished with and soon after President Cleveland had been received knowing and understanding men, and the by President Eliot, the procession started around churches with able ministry," he said of the the quadrangle, and wended its way to San- college, " The spirit of the Puritan sect, out ders' to hear the oration of which our college sprang, was a sense of of James Russell Lowell and the poem of Oliver Wendell responsibility to God ; its form was a Holmes. To few, and to the few, but once scheme of a state based on the Old Testa- in their lives, is granted the privilege of ment. The Puritan state was at once a sig- meeting in such an assembly. Mr. Lowell nal failure and a magnificent success. The held the audience in his power, by giving Puritan failed in the purpose upon which he them the fruit of his ripe scholarship and set his heart ; though the ver_v qualities culture, rare wit and wisdom, as he traced which made him sure to fail are the very the history of the University, revealed qualities which have been perpetuated, and the province of the ideal University and made which it would be our ruin to lose." his plea for " those liberal arts which ha\'e A grand symphony concert, led b}' Henry formed open-minded men in the past, nor Gericke, was given in Sanders' in the after- have lost the skill to form them." After noon. No idea of the strength and beauty an interlude by the chorus, the venerable of the sermon in the evening by Re\-. Phil- poet arose, and by his clear and loud voice, lips Brooks, on " Jesus Christ, the same rejoiced the hearts of many in knowing yesterday, to-day, and forever," can be that mentally and physically the " professor, given by an extract. Only those who " autocrat and poet is still vigorous. It is heard it can appreciate how he portrayed needless to quote from either of these, as the influence of the teachings of our Saviour by this time their productions have been and Harvard's past and expected attitude given to the public. THE HAVeDRFORDIAN. 41

The collation in Memorial in the after- meritorious self-abnegation and die unre- noon was a grand success, and many were quited for perseverance and bravery, in the the toasts responded to by [irDniincnt men. warfare for existence. In 1857 there died It was unnecessary to be inside to judge of in Paris a Venetian gentleman of moderate the occasion. The enthusiasm extended circumstances. His last days spent in or- far beyond the walls of the grand edifice. dinary pedagogery. Do )'ou think it The evening witnessed the torchlight required more bravery to lead the soldiers procession of the students and a display of of Venice against the attacks of the Aus- fireworks on Holmes' field which, like all trian armies than it did for Daniel Manin to the other parts of the celebration, were all fly from his home and eke out a scanty that was expected. Thus closed the cele- subsistence in the cold metropolis of France? bration. Who of the many will live to see The philosophy of Socrates and Plato the three hundredth anniversary? has been the wonder of twenty-three centu- ries of the philosophy ; but what of dollars THE HEROISM OF A PRIVATE and cents,of bread and butter, of the cobbler LIFE. on his bench, the girl at the loom or the

A 1 fE measure success by its results just farmer at his plow ? There's a deeper as we measure time by minutes or meaning, which we may read between the space by inches. A successful enterprise lines of the page of every day life, than

nets so much gain ; a successful life must appears to the uninitiated. Were I to ask exhibit wealth, or influence, or fame. It you to name the world's heroes, C;usar seems to be accepted as an axiom that tal- and Wellington, Washington and Mazzini, ents or genius must and imV/ produce as Luther and Zwingle would be among them. their inevitable consequences a proportion- Were you to name the Royal families, you ate amount of apparent success. And in would mention the Stuarts, the Tudors, the main the judgment of the world is the the Houses of Hapsburg and Hanover and right one. It is true that wealth, honor, Rourbon. But the true royalty of earth

etc., indicate a superiority of mind, but it is knows not the purple nor the sceptre ; its not true that a superior mind will always real heroes have not had the honor of see- show itself to the general public. There is ing their names in print, but they are heroes " ?" more genuine merit, more manliness, more all the same. Life is what we make it of the wealth of integrity, not reckoned in Not always. Men with loftier aims and dollars and cents, among the o: -o/./.o: richer in talents than you have failed. So than anywhere else. Have we failed to see may you. But, a man without ambition is it ? We have not looked foi' it. a rudderless ship. Better have an impos-

It is not hard to die a glorious death in sible ideal than drift at the mercy of wind the wild frenzy of the fight ; it is infinitely and tide. Collegians are more sanguine of harder to be a silent target for the enemy's the future, more sure of success, than any guns. It isn't hard to bear disappointment other class of men. Their aims are higher, when the applause of an admiring public their prospects brighter, their resources hangs upon your words ; it is unspeakably greater. The thought of not attaining our hard to bear up under unseen burdens and purpose never enters into our calculations. a stranger to human .sympath)-. Little And )'et it is as impossible for all of us to do we know or appreciate the heroism of fill positions of honor as it is for all to stand the great mass of mankind. It is said at the head of our classes. We cannot all " ; Merit brings its own reward " but it be generals, but we can at least be soldiers doesn't. Some men live a long lifetime of of the line. Heroes are not always con- 42 THE HAVERKORIDI^VN. querors. Leonidas' defense stemmed the FAIR HARVARD. tide of invasion only for a time. Bunker 'T^HE average school graduate who has Hill's defenders fell in the midst of defeat. "come up" to the University does not The greatest, the truest heroism consists in take long in discovering that Harvard is in filling the place in which circumstances, truth a University and not a college, nor possibly beyond our control, ha\'e placed us will he ever again be tempted to make an and in filling it well. Your niche and mine indiscriminate use of the terms. He also may not be very high up in the tower of discovers sooner or latej-, that in the words history, but it will take a lifetime of bravery of one of her apologists, " Harvard wants to fill it as it must be filled. men, not boys." It is with this predilection It is well to aim at the stars, if perchance of hers clearly stated at the outset, that she we may hit the tree tops. It is better to offers the much questioned, mucli misun- aim at the tree-tops and strike their highest derstood system of elective study, that has branches. Our names may not be enrolled been planned by wise and cultured men among the prominent in the archives of to- who knew what they were about,— the is test. standard is day ; that not the Our opinion of many respectable critics to the within ourselves. Have we made earnest contrary, notwithstanding. endeavor ? Are we conscious of a well- It is my purpose, first of all, to explain fought strife ? Are we among the true roy- exactly what is meant by the opportunities alty and the truly heroic ? they seek to offer; not that such explana- The crying need of to-day is more men. tion has not been made before, but that it Not men to fill public offices, not politi- needs to be renewed so long as misunder- cians, nor jurists, nor statesmen, nor poets. standing on the subject continues to exist. But men who, with a wholesome trust in Every college is elective in the sense that themselves, will do their duty by themselves any man can, and many do, elect to really and by their vicinage. More men to bear study nothing at all, while others elect to the burdens of a private life with all the get everything out of college opportunities heroism which it necessitates. that they can, sometimes too in special di- MY QUEEN. rections, though a little discouraged as to the prospect of going-far enough in any one Oh ! 'tis Scotland's the country of the beauties,

(It's often you've heard of its fame) of them to be really worth while.

And it's fast progressin' my suit is. But the defining of a University does not With Scotch lassie my Jean, at all involve a criticism of any existing My Queen, college. The question is not whether the

Oil ! 'tis Ireland the land of the flirt is, college systems are or are not advisable in It's Belfast is the name of the town.

Since there she has been, she quite pert is any gi\-en case, but whether the man who

My Scotch lassie Jean, is most in earnest in an)' direction whatever, Queen. My can get out of these college courses, ar- .She uses an " a " of the broadest. ranged as they are (and no doubt rightly so An' sure'n her man is a inon. arranged in the interests of general educa- She drives with a rein of the tautest. My Scotch lassie Jean, tion) those advantages of exact and special My Queen. training which he urgently needs, and the If she thinks she is sure of a lover, result of which he feels to be needed by the Why I think she is sure of one too, world around him. In old times, when I'"or my feelings I never can cover, what was known as philosophy, was a cut- For my Scotch lassie Jean, My (Jueen. and-dried article, a(id all there was of science THE HAVERFORDIAN. 43 would go into a nutshell, the so-called undoubtedly are, if not for the same classes humanities bad it all their own way. The of mind, at least equal in significance. If languages men had spoken, and the things Greek be not offered, there must be a full they thought and said, no matter whether equivalent of other languages and much wise or unwise, were alone worth the con- more and higher mathematics, as well as sideration of mankind. But though the subjects that depend upon mathematics. If words of Terence, " Homo sitiii, ct luiniani only " minimum mathematics" (prescribed) a iiic nil aliciiiiui piito',' that the humanity is offered by the student, then " maximum " men were so fond of tiuotinsj, ma\-, I tliink Greek must also be offered, thereby mak- be quite as aptly quoted by a man of science, ing the conditions of entrance more diffi- far be it from me to discuss the relative cult than was ever the case before. value of different sorts of knowledge. It is It would seem that should a candidate enough to say that no truly scientific man get so far as to pass even tolerably well the could possibly undervalue the importance gates of these entrance requirements, he of classic knowledge, no matter how urgent might be trusted to decide for himself on might seem to him the claim of his special what line of study the precious remaining work. years of his youth should be spent. In the

It is w ith the liberal wish to give equal freshman year only three out of the neces- advantages to " many men of many minds," sary five " courses " are open to choice, but

that Harvard has thrown open her doors to afterwards the field is so arranged that it is elective work, let us boldly confess also to possible to follow an exhaustive course of

the elective play, should the student on study, either on the group system as it ob- entering be so minded. No methods and no tains at Johns Hopkins,—or else taking regulations unfortunately will keep out the such parts of groups as may claim his in- born trifler, but seeing that to such a man stant attention, the student may select other (or boy as he should be called) even the subjects of interest during the same year, " softest " of elective courses turn out in the leaving the remainder of his group to wait end to be much more troublesome than he his leisure, thereby making himself a less imagined for, perhaps the elective plan will one-sided man. Finally he can select (or do him no harm. No system has yet been his parents can have selected for him) such found that will furnish supplies of character, courses as would make his final desree of conscience, or of brains, and the guard- after four years of study almost an exact ians of such youths as are endowed with a equivalent of that which he would receive constitutional lack of these things hardh^ from the most conservative Facult}'.

have a right to expect that a great Univer- " " An\- course if it is taken up in its pro- " sity should pause to consider their case too per place in relation to the other " courses careful!)'. in the same branch, is so arranged as to The task that Harvard has imposed upon be equal to every other in difficult}-—the herself in attempting to be in fact as well in subject of theses and forensics being the

name a true University, is a much greater only one which is obligatory in the last one than appear to a superficial critic. A three years of a student's course. careful study of recent catalogues will con- There arc not many recitations ; —the vince of any candid reader the magnitude work consists mainl)- in " grinding " notes of her undertaking, and of the success it of lectures and in reading. Occasionally infor- promises. mal " hour exams." are held as much to At tile outset, the entrance requirements test the character as the progress of a stu- 44 THE H AVERKORDIAN. dent, but his standing usually depends en- He may, should he be so inclined, make tirely upon the results of his mid-year and his way into one circle or another of Cam- final examination. bridge societ)% and share all the petty

Then, after all is over, honor is given triumphs and disappointments pertaining where honor is due, the same degree to thereto. every one no matter in what field he may If his disposition, or the state of his finan- have distinguished himself Perhaps this ces, cause him to desire a life of greater is the new feature of a liberal education con- freedom, he is welcome to live the life of a ducted on an elective foundation to which veritable hermit, without comment or criti- the greatest exception is taken. But it is cism. scarcely to be expected that all those who The majority of the students live in small have worked hard for degrees in a direction circles of their own, and outside of the that has so long been thought the only le- friendly relationships in their special clubs gitimate one, should at once be able to and societies, know little or nothing about accept as of equal value the hard work in each other. There is such a thing as general another in so different a one—a work that Harvard societ}-. (perhaps unconsciously influenced by some The late agitation in the public press con- dim reminiscences of popular lectures) he cerning the baneful influence of extravagant cannot consent to regard as an equivalent and luxurious students, on the character to his own classic grinding, imperfect even both of the University itself and on that of though he may admit the results in his the men as individuals, manifests what I case to be. Such misunderstanding the might be allowed to call a plentiful want of world will outgrow ; and while the Hu- information on the subject. There are men manities will never lose their position, the at Har\ard as there are elsewhere who live Inhumanities, as some one has facetiously chiefly for extravagance and display, but termed the newer courses (doubtless from such men have no influence on the sober the severe Mathematics they require) will be majority of the students, nor do they affect regarded in a juster light. the " tone of Harvard " as nnich as, outside, Possibly we may in the remote future they Vifould affect the tone of the world. behold a scientific A. B. grumbling over By the dissipated fellows who contrive now the equal degree that has just been con- and then to make a sensation in the papers ferred on a Greek fellow who has not far out of proportion to their numbers, even

seemed to do half the grinding he himself less influence is exerted, for in the cultiva- has found necessary. But the grumbling ted and inspiring atmosphere around them

of neither will a\'ail anything before the they occupy in the view of other students a steady progress of ideas which will finally position as conspicuously disgusting as the

remodel tlie most conservative Universities. sternest moralist could desire. Such men

Of life at Harward, there is onl}' to say generally enter Harvard with an ambition sort distinction that it is a little world, a counterpart of the for the of they attain, and though it is not true to say that they do no great world around it. A man can be him- least self, and master of his own preferences, he harm, we may at think to ourselves

may select his own companions, and is far that a youth who could be turned from the less exposed to the influence of "evil com- sternest purpose of life by such examples,

'' munications surrounding him than is the would not be intrinsically worth much.

case in a smaller college, where he is of ne- Among the Societies of Harvard, the

cessit)' brought face to face with all. Hasty Pudding Club probabK' takes the —

THE HAVER KORDI AN. 45 first rank. It includes one hundred of the spring '89 was fortunate enough to prevent most popular members of the Senior Class, the Yale Freshmen from taking their fence elected by the preceding Senior Pudding and of course there was great jubilation in men at the time of the latter's graduation. Cambridge over the event.

Next to the Pudding comes, perhaps, the It is the custom after an intercollegiate Signet, which is a Senior Literary Society, victory, especially an important one, to composed of twenty-one members. The have a celebration. The Harvard Brass usual Greek letter secret societies exist at Har- Band assembles on the piazza of Matthews' vard in great numbers, the most prominent (one of the halls) and playing " Yale Men being perhaps the "Institute of 1770," with Say " thereby collects the students. Many about eighty to one hundred members. Roman candles are fired off from the various Out of these, a chosen forty constitute the buildings, and amid the glow of crimson " Dikey Club," {Delta Kappa Upsiloii) the lights the Glee Club and band render choice initiation into w'hich seems to outsiders the musical selections, usuall}- of a patriotic na- most notable thing about it. The ordeal is ture. Finally, the band again starts the always absurd in the extreme. Men are re- familiar tune "Yale Men Say " and the stu- quired, for instance, to kiss all the babies dents form into a procession and march they may meet in the streets, or to sell news- around the " Yard " each one singing the papers for a week. Others are made to prome- air in endless repetition until his feet are nade streets with the some absurd placard tired and his voice is husky. on their backs, with fool's caps or with their Harvard would not be Harvard without coats inside out; or to drag little woolly her boating. The men undergo a very se- dogs on wheels by a string, or something \'ere course of training, and when the river else equally preposterous. is open, the crews row every day. During An article on Harvard without some men- the winter they also exercise daily in the " tion of athletics would indeed be filled rowing room in the gymnasium. All the with incompleteness," though there will interest, of course, centres in the Harvard- probably be nothing new for Haverford Yale race in June, which Harvard won in readers. '85, but lost to Yale in '86.

Base-ball, of course, is the rei

astic about it whether he will or no. But Facult}' have removed the official embargo,

alas. Harvard is seldom able to obtain the this game has been taken up by the stu-

championship. She won it in '85 , but lost it dents with renewed interest. As the Prince- to Yale last July in a tie game. It seems ton and Yale matches have shown, the col- to be the peculiarity of her nine that they lege has not yet recovered from the effects always get " rattled " in a game to play off of its years of enforced idleness —but next

a tie ; and to this very unfortunate peculi- fall no doubt, she will make a better arity may be traced the usual loss of the showing. championship. The Freshmen, who are For tennis, very fair courts are provided always enthusiastic over every sport, pla}^ by the Tennis Association on Holmes' Field, two games annually with the Yale Fresh- and the\- are always crowded in fair weather.

men, and great interest centres around these Great interest is taken in the annual tourna- conflicts, because of the custom of the ment. " fence" at Yale—as alluded to in the au- Cricket has but few supporters ; the tumn number of the H.vvekkordi.\x. Last same has never been naturalized on New :

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England soil. Rarely is a victory scored by does it confer? I will finish in the words of the team, and such a victory, when it hap- President Eliot in his last report pens, is usually over some small local club. " We may thus see very clearly what the Since a slight interest, however, seems to degree of Bachelor of Arts means at Har- have taken root and even sprouted, we may vard Universitv, and what it does not mean. assume that it is alive and growing ; and no It does not mean that all Bachelors of doubt the day will arrive when even Haver- Arts have passed through the same course ford may find in an eleven of the great of studies in college ; and it does not mean University a foeman worthy of her steel. that all Bachelors have necessarily studied Lacrosse and polo have a few supporters, together while in college any subject ex- but as a rule, do not find much favor with cept Rhetoric and English composition and the mass of the students. the barest elements of Chemistry and

The only form of sport in. which Har- Physics. It does mean that all Bachelors vard has been uniformly victorious, is the of Arts have spent from seven to ten years, " general track athletics." For seven suc- somewhere between the ages of twelve and cessive years her men have won the cup at twenty-three, in liberal studies. They have the annual intercollegiate sports at Mott all learned at school the elements of three

Haven, and there is every prospect that she languages beside English, the elements of will continue to hold her own. Mathematics and Physics, a little Ancient During the winter months nearly all the history, and something of English literature. students exercise in the beautiful new They must also have gone, while at school, Hemenway gymnasium, and the scene there somewhat beyond the elements in at least in the latter part of the afternoon is lively in two subjects. the extreme. At college they must have added the The large hall is crowded with three or elements of a fourth language to three four hundred students, going through every studied at school, beside pursuing the few imaginable motion, the crew is active in the prescribed studies above mentioned ; and rowing room, and the running balcony is they must further have spent three years filled with an endless string of runners. The and a half upon a prescribed quantity of bowling alleys and hand ball court in the liberal studies, each person being at liberty basement are also very well patronized as to select his own subjects of study during they deserve. The gymnasium is in every those three years and a half, and all studies particular as nearly perfect as can be being accounted liberal which are pursued imagined, and that it is appreciated may be in the scientific spirit for truth's sake. Such gathered from the fact that nine hundred being the comprehensive signification of its and fifty lockers do not nearly provide for degree of Bachelor of Arts, the University all who wish to e.xercise there. has no occasion for the great variety of

I wish it were possible to give those who special courses, with degrees in letters, phi- liave never seen fair Har\'ard some idea of losoph)', political science, journalism, and the loveliness of her natural surroundings so forth, with other institutions have estab- and the dignity and beauty of hei archi- lished. Every student makes his own tectural effects—but this is an attempt I course for three years and a half, and the must leave to more skilful pens. common goal of all courses of liberal study

And in conclusion, since the question is the degree of Bachelor of Arts." may have risen in the reader's mind, what Theo. W. Richards. after all is a Harvard decree worth ? What Cambrui!;c, Novcmbet' 2T, iSS6. — —

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THK STUOEPUT'S DILEMIHA. which had come various donations for masses to be said for souls, etc., and by tak- I pore o'er my books until late in the night ; " The hours unheeded go by. ing a center of gravity" of these places, as " Till I fall asleep by the light of my lamp, also of a place whence a " recurring pig And I dream of the days as they fly. had been repeatedly donated to the monas- rises before nie the goddess ambition Then ; tery, an animal which as the speaker scien- She lays her fair hand on my head. tifically remarked could not have travelled With the other she pomts me to new worlds to win, To gain a fair name like the dead. very far, the location of the recipient mon- accordingly Psalter .She tells me there's trouble in reaching this goal, astery, where the had There's attention unfettered by love, been bound and probably written, and there- ( >r any such nonsense as worries the head, fore the Leicester Manuscript, the same But a student's reward is above. was determined to be at Cambridge. Not " I'm more than persuaded I'll follow stern Goddess, much could be ascertained of the history I give myself wholly to thee." that place But a change has come over the face of my dream of the monastery at ; and taking And another's fair features I see. up another thread, the first of the owners of

A face full of pleading with love's sweetest smiles, the Psalter, whose names were written on A form that is graceful in bearing, its title page was found also to have owned While hands that are white keep beckoning on the " Three Heavenly Witnesses Manu- From the goddess whose colors I'm wearing. script," so called from the verse, I John, 5- " " I spring to her side ; I'll give up ambition ! which was falsely interpolated in order But my dreaming is broken. I wake; 7, to this to Erasmus, who promised to Now my mind is uncertain ; I'm pledged god- compel had

dess. recognize it if any manuscript were pro- Must I forfeit my I.ove for her sake ? duced containing it, to include it in his LECTURES. Greek Testament. Several other manu- scripts were found in the British Museum which had belonged to the same man, and fir.st lectufe of our course wa.s de- THE which had their quires of part parchment livered by Profe.ssor J. Rendell Harris and part paper folded in a peculiar on " The Leicester Manuscript of the New way also employed in the case of the Leicester Testament." The speaker, confronting a Manuscript, which fact goes to prove tliat large gathering of students and. visitors that document also belonged to the among whom was a welcome representation same owner. Elis history so far as could be as- from Bryn Mawr College, began \eiy pleas- certained was then recounted. In this way antly by remarking on the hunting instinct and by many other considerations which which is so universally implanted among we cannot report, the lecturer led us on man's passions and which is rapidly exter- very interestingh- in the direction of proof minating the wild animals in ci\-ilized lands. that the manuscript was old and reliable, He himself had turned his hunting instinct but before any defin.te conclusion could be into a useful channel, and directed it in reached he was compelled to close his dis- hunting out old Bible manuscripts and course, ha\'ing shown his hearers the meth- proving their authority. One of the most ods used in such determinations, and the interesting of these is the manuscript in wide field yet open for individual work. question. The Leicester Manuscript be- came known quite recently, but for that Our second lecture was by Dr. Henry reason its authority is not to be questioned Hartshorne on " Poetry— Its Past and P"u- without proof An old manuscript Greek ture." The lecturer began with noting the

Psalter was found quite recently at Cam- earliest it origins of poetry ; how was the bridge University, which, from the peculiar earliest form of language as used in the method used by the scribe in joining his most primitive religious chants, how long " letters, from his recumbent epsilon's," it remained an oral art and when it was and " tall tau's," was readily i)roved to have committed to writing, how long the classic been transcribed by the same hand as had forms prevailed before the rhymed form penned the Leicester Manuscript. On the which we know came into vogue. He then binding of the Psalter was pasted a page of discus.sed the numerous and varying defini- monastic accounts in Latin \\hich contained tions of poetry given by different writers names of places about the monastery from with the conclusion that the qualities of the — —

48 THB KAVE^RF'ORDIAN. poetic spirit were too evasive to be certainly The fellows who spent their Thanksgiving defined, but that high thought, emotion and vacation at Hotel Haverford only averaged imagination, and refined utterance were at twelve or fifteen in number, while only about ten dined itself. least essentials. The different kinds of here on the day poetr\', although the spontaneous modern A Junior persistently maintains that the productions sometimes seem to belong to sources of solar heat is the sun. so many kinds as to defy classification, It is rumored that the Cricket Eleven con- were enumerated. templates having smooth planks placed at a safe of angle from the upper class-room windows to the Gnomic ; Lyric— which the Psalms cricket shed, to ensure rapid transit from one are very noble examples ; Elegiac—includ- to the other after class, and lose no time for ing perhaps " In Memoriam," and a large practice. part of Matthew Arnold's productions ; Assymmetry received its death blow at Haver- Epic—with which the lecturer counted ford. Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress ;" Idyllic In Geology again. " There are some places as " The Eve of St. Agnes,' " Lady of the where there is only one tide at a time." Tliis Lake," "Hiawatha," and "Evangeline;" is interesting ; such places must be rare (?) Pastoral, Dramatic, Comic, Satirical, Hu- To a Sophomore after a fine tackle, " Well morous, Descriptive, Society verse, and " done. That was a ' Good 'un.' Didactic— of which class Cowper's " Task," The Baron announces that as the world and Wordsworth's " Excursion " are repre- especially the Faculty—does not apiireciate true sentative, but which being a long and labor- genius, he will compose no more verses. ed kind of poetry is too much for the modern syndicate of students has been formed stomach and has therefore become inartis- A in the Laboratory to secure a Chestnut Bell of finally, a class itself, tic ; and by —Walt such size and depth of tone that its awful warn- Whitman's " Abyss of Realism." The ing may penetrate to the remotest recesses of speaker thought English so rich both in that chestnut-haunted locality. If this does not literature in its capabilities its existing and quell the army of whistlers, who ravish our ears that it would become the main fabric of the with tunes long since " gone to their long " universal tongue." He A\ould have even home," they will promptly be placed in tlie the most humble singers tolerated that they hoods, where all offensive gases must be evolved. all together swell the chorus and help may And now the bore goeth forth seeking whom to make things brighter. Though the he may bore ; and woe is he upon whom his more pretentious forms of poetry may be- glance falletli, for he sticketh closer than a come obsolete in this practical age, the brother and like sin, when once he is enter- lyrical forms, at least as long as men are tained, is not to be put aside by rebuke. emotional, will never be abandoned. He That nature abhors a vacuum was ably dem- " called our attention to the poetical feel- onstrated by a Junior attem])ting to exhaust a " ing as a quality of our minds which if glass bulb by spiritus vivens. Broken glass in discovered and cherished, would be most mouth and eyes has helped to make said Jimior instrumental in making the hard places of wis°. life more endurable in whatever occupation Smokers—Beware of the professor who asks we may be placed, and recommended us to for a match. educate this higher endowment by a study There was a yoiiiif; Sopli. tliat appeared of the great poets now while we have the To be raising an elegant beard : IJiit his guardian said, " No, chance, but mainly by obtaining in the The wliiskers must go," beautiful rural surroundings of our college, And so the young Sopliomore was slicared. a genuine love for nature. Then he placed o'er his clean-shaved cheek A silk hat so shining and sleek, LOCALS. That the maids he would meet

Disgusting ! On that gay ChesUiut Street Our botanical student says that he knew that Ne'er had seen such a liandsome physique. grasses had bearded flowers, but until recently The Convention of Masters of the leading he never saw a bearded Reed. fitting schools in the Middle States in session Prof. " Can you tell me of what race Napo- in the city visited the college as its guests on " leon was ? the 27th nit. After a sumptuous dinner in Student. " Of Corsican."—^.v. Founders' Hall, they held a very interesting — —

TtiE H AVERF'ORDIAN. 4$ session in Alumni Hall, in wliich they chiefly the British Parliament, visited the college on discussed the admission into colleges by certifi- the 29th instant, and was present at our even- cates instead of by examinations, most of them ing collection. « favoring such a plan. Afternoon tea at Prof. Harris' closed the entertainment. About eigiity COLLEGE FRIEP^DSHIP. were jjresent, bejides Profs. James and McElroy " ?'' My stars ! wliat's the rumpus I liear overliead of the University of Penna., and other guests. I cried in alarm and in wonder, As there came the fust crash of wliat some might have said Was a bit of judgment-day tliunder.

[Will Alumni or others please favor us with items for this column ] " Has the tower tumbled in, or a meteor fallen ?

Just hark at the smashing of chairs I '39 Henry Hartshorne, M. D., LL. D., Ah, I see ; 'tis a figlit, and some neighbor is callin' physical indisposition owing to the continued To test how tlie carpeting wears. of Prof. Phiny E. Chase, LL. D., has now Yes, yes ! and those thuds that so frequently come the Senior taken charge of instruction of the Are simply the cranial knocks Class in Mental Physiology. Where some student seems using the heatl of his chum '49 Albert K. Smiley, A. M., who for a num- At driving down ISelgian blocks. ber of years, in connection with his brother, has Such wantonness surely is work of an ass been successfully engaged as a proprietor of the My gracious ! and there goes his lamp ! In a ruin of pictures and grinding of glass summer resort at Lake Mohonk, recently enter- He wages his Ijattle, the scamp. tained the Indian Committee. I'd really prefer he should play violin, We cjuote the following from Tlic Weekly For at first I almost had fainled ; Universitv Courier, of Lawrence, Kansas, Now I see it is merely a sociable sjiin, " Prof. Edward D. Cope," [A. M. of '64] Two Freshmen just getting acquainted." " treated the geology class to a short lecture Wednesday morning," (17th of last month) EXCHAIVOBS. * * * " He says that western Kansas is the geologist's paradise. * * * 'y\\^ lecture During the past month three new exchanges was very much enjoyed by all." have made their appearance in our sanctum, the Bible Cflllege Exponent, the Unn'ersiiy A/inor '79 William Penn Evans, is now in the West, and the Prineeton Prep. seeking a drier atmosphere for the benefit of his health. The first named comes from Kentucky Uni- versity, appears to be true to its aim, and is a '77 Isaac Forsythe is book-keeper and steward success as an exponent of a Bible school. of the " Friends' Asylum for the Insane," at The literary articles evince Frankford. much thought, but the author of the poem the "Lover's Leap," '78 Jonathan Eldridge was lately married to should have given more attention to the meter. Anna Thomas, ofWesttown, P. O., Pa. The University Mirror, from ]3ucknell Uni- '78 is successfully engaged Edward Forsythe versity, Lewisburg, Penn., is a fair college pa- in the Western Land Mortgage business, his per. The enterprising management has institu- office is in Philadelphia. ttd a course of lectures to raise the burden ot '79 Edward Gibbons visited the College on debt, under which the paper is now laboring, 6th of last month; he has joined the Knights and efforts are also being made to unite the of Labor and has been on a successful strike. Mirror with the Layman. The latter plan is thought by the editors to be a good one, but '84 J. Henry Bartlett has relinquished the book-keeping at Westtown, and at the opening we doubt very much whether such amalgama- of the winter term, will enter more into the dis- tion with an outside journal can be of any bene- cipline of the school. fit to a college paper. The Prineeton Prep, isa new publication, '84 T. Herbert Chase has returned to Ameri- but, from the business-like way in which the initial ca after an extended tour through lingland and number is gotten up, we prophesy for it Scotland. a long life of usefulness. '85 Augustus T. Murray was with us on the It is seldom one reads in a college jiaper an 19th ult. article ot such literary merit as " Night in the '87 Alfred Chase is now travelling on the Dissecting Room," which apjieared in the in the neighborhood of Continent, probably Pennsylvanian of Nov. 9. It is only a short Paris, with his fother and family. sketch, but displays the talent of the writer. Arthur Pea.se, an active member of the So- Some of these fine days, we may have another ciety of Friends, and formerly a member of Dr. Holmes ainong our men of letters. '

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The Wilmington Home Weekly says sarcasti- publishing a series of articles on American col- " bright college journal, the Haver- leges yet a careful criticism cally, That , more can hardly FORDiAN, says, with amusing candor and iin- be expected from a college which actually ex- consciousness of what a dreadful thing it is say- pels those students, who are of sulificient literary ing. ' The time for foot-ball liaving arrived, we taste to attend the refined plays of Shakespeare. hope that during its short continuance, the stu- The Ut sinus College Bulletin is a good ex- dents will lay aside all other interists, and ample of what a college paper is sure to become give their whole attention to our autumn as long as the students of the college are not sport.' Farewell, Euclid! Tra-la-la Virgil! represented on the editorial board. The whole !" Important business ! See you later We paper is full of notices of those good boys who " suppose .our witty and learned contempo- intend to enter the ministry ; of the delights rary, who evidently thinks college student and of study," and of that "barbarous 'fun,'" book ivonn ought to be synononious terms, is foot-ball, which should be prohibited by all not aware that ancient Euclid has been super- means. Every alumnus noticed is a Rev. The seded long ago by the more intelligible and thing is all too one sided, too partial. Un- modern Sharpless and that we bade adieu to less the live fellows of a college are on the edi- gentle Virgil before our college days began. torial board, the paper cannot be truly a col- The Varsity seems to be declining. Re- lege paper. duced in size, and printed on poorer paper, it There is a pleasing sketch of a poet, but little does not compare very favorably with its stand- known, in the Bates Student for November. ard of last year. The strong literary depart- David Barker, although his fame has not been ment which has characterized it heretofore, is great, possessed the true poetic spirit. It is a much lessened, yet not so much in quality as good thing to study the life and works of our in quantity, and much too great an amount of humbler poets, as often they voice the senti- space is allotted to the anomalous department ments of the people at large better than men of

' ' ' Round the Table. more lofty genius. The Colby Echo, for Nov. 12, contains a The University Quarterly contains a fine well written article "The Lost Atlantis." oration, "The Scholar's Duty and Oppor- We are sorry to see a paper of such a high tunity," which is well worth reading. The standing display so great an antipathy to a Quarterly is inclined to criticise its new neighboring rival. Thei'e is no criticism in the rival, the University, for failing to maintain a poor verses attached to the exchange column, standard worthy of its name. and to allow these unfriendly sentiments to ap- The College Transcript is not a paper of such pear in an editorial besides, is surely in bad merit as its numerous editors ought to pro- taste, to say the least. It reminds us too much duce. The number of Nov. 27, opens with of the somewhat similar quarrel between the a poor poem, "The Creed of the Bells." College Rambler and X\\t Afoiimouth Collegian. The prose articles, except two written by The Notre Dame Scholastic has taken up the Professors, and quite an abundance of quota- march of progress, and without detracting in tions, are below the average college themes, in any way from the literary merit of its contents, ability. Of the five editorials, two of the long- in almost every number now appears some article, est treat of the dull routine of life, and deplore treating in a fair spirit the most advanced the monotonous course of college duties. It scientific subjects, or recording the life of a would be well for the paper itself to awake out great man, without reference to his religious of it habitual stupor, and infuse more energy opinions. The step is in the right direction. into its various departments. The exchange The Roanoke Collegian for November con- column is rather too miscellaneous in its tains a beautiful pathetic little poem, "The character. Bore," there are few students in whose " Thrice Told Tales;" is the title under breasts it will not find a responsive chord. which is appearing a very creditable series of The article on Wordsworth's " We are stories in the Dartmouth. Other papers would Seven," was written by one who could rightly do well to profit by the example of this journal, appreciate the poet. The issue altogether is a as well executed articles of this character are creditable one, except that several short poems always appreciated. and paragraphs are copied without any intima- The exchange column of the Niagara Index tion on the part of the editors that they are not is a shame and disgrace to the world of college original. journalism. The low and beastly manner in The Earlhamite, with its usual obtuseness, which its contemporaries are blackguarded is criticises us for devoting one third of a recent most contemptible. And since the gross in- number to the interests of Vale, apparently sults, which it has heaped upon the lady editor failing altogether to grasp the tact that we are of the Sunbeam, we cordially agree with the THE H AVERKORIDIA.N. 51

Lafayette in saying that " Such a sheet should The "ruggedness" of alien foot-ball fields be ostracised by other college journals." No seems to trouble the Princeton team, since of gentleman could pen such coarse, ignoble course it is used only to Jersey grades. slander, and no respectable paper would per- mit its publication. FOOT BALL.

GENERAL COLLEGE NE^VS. H.AVERFORD VS. UNIVERSITY. This important game which was looked for- Yale will in future be Yale University. ward to with such great interest, on account of

Two Harvard graduates of the Class ' 1 1 are its being the first ever played between the two still living. colleges, is now an old story. Altlrough the Yale's foot-ball record recently was 656 points result was not quite up to our most sanguine to opponent's o. expectations, yet it was a gallant fight on our part, and a fine game withal. The match was The University of Berlin is said to have 600 played on the University Athletic Grounds, American students. on Wednesday, November 3d, and was well at- There were 113 applicants to the Princeton tended, a large number of students from both Freshman Glee Club. institutions and many outsiders being pre- Harvard's graduates think her foot-ball team sent. the best she ever had. Game was called a little after three and Hav-

Weight of foot-ball teams : Princeton 170 lbs., erford, winning the toss, secured [jossession of Harvard 167, Yale 162. the ball. As the teams took their positions on A Japanese Nobleman took the graduating the field, the Haverford men looked so light in prizes at Rutgers. coniijarison with their heavy opponents, that it seemed as if they must certainly be overwhelm- Moody has just been at Harvard and prob- ed, but this was only partially the case. Gar- ably next visits Cornell. ret took the ball first and made a fine run, much The Harvard foot-ball team lately scored 70 to the astonishment of the University men who points in 30 minutes against Dartmouth. did not seem to be able to stop him. The The Harvard Annex has seventy-three stu- next run took the ball still further down the dents—only eleven more than Bryn Mawr Col- field, and prospects- began to look very fiivora- lege. ble for Haverford. Soon our men tried kick- Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark ing a little, but this evidently did not pay, have opened their universities to women. owing to Graham's fine punts and the superior- ity of their rush line. Whenever their half- "A Tennis Tournament is to be a regular back kicked, their rushers would break through feature at the Vassar Commencement." and follow up the ball, ready to tackle our half- Harvard's figure against Exeter, 15S-0, is backs as soon as they got it. Indeed it was said to be the " record " in foot-ball scoring. only by the efficient work of our runners that Two young ladies, together with some male we ever gained any ground. After several delinquents, were suspended for hazing at the good runs by Morris, Garrett and Hilles, a Maine State College. touch-down was secured, much to the delight The 560 Wellesley College young ladies re- of the Haverford men and to the manifest alarm cently held an old-fashioned husking party in of the University. But though the goal was their Gymnasium. the easiest kind of a one, it was missed, which only further demonstrates our need of an " There is some talk of an inter-collegiate expe- rienced goal kicker. oratorical contest between the different New England colleges." The ball was now taken out to the twenty- five yard line, and Graham sent it way up the At Princeton, Wesleyan and other colleges, field, where Garrett got it and made up a good prizes are offered for the foot-ball player who part of the distance. This was by far the most scores most in match games. interesting part of the game, as the teams were Columbia has the smallest Freshman Class well matched and the play was very even. The which has entered for year.s the students say — University at length succeeded in getting the because of increased requirements and tuition ball within our ten-yards line, and it was here charges. that our rush line did some of their best work. The Yale foot-ball uniform is " sweaters with It was impossible to prevent their opponents an old English 'Y' on them, brown canvas from making a little at each run, but this little jackets, mouse-colored fustian knee-pants, blue was made as small as possible. At lengtli, stockings and long blue caps." rather than have four downs, Graham attempted 52 TPIE H AVERKORDIAN. a goal from the field, but missed it, much to our running was far superior to theirs, we were our relief, as the ball now returned to the much inferior to them in rush line work, and twenty-five yard line. in tackling. As the teams which Haverford Several good runs were made by Garrett and play are usually composed of much heavier Morris but very little progress was made, and men, we do not see how we can win any our men did not seem to be able to get through matches this fall, unless the rush line does bet- their opponent's rush line. In fact, the supe- ter work in blocking and getting through. rior training and endurance of the University Nevertheless, under the circumstances, the men men were even now beginning to show. A lit- made a very good stand and, w'ith improve- tle kicking was done on both sides, but our ment in certain points, will make a strong men did not return the ball as well as they team. Especial credit is due to Garrett and shoul,d have. Before long, University secured Morris, who both did some splendid work as the ball on a foul, and then, by dint of hard half-backs. work, succeeded in making a touch-down, from which they kicked a goal. The score now The game between the Freshmen (?) team stood 4-6, in favor of the University, but the and the Germantown Academy was ])layed on game was far from ended. The University our own grounds. It was remarkable chiefly tried and missed another goal from the field, on account of the very little scoring which was and time was called without any change. done. The first half was finished with nothing Play was resumed with Hacker on the team gained for either side. It was not until a k\v instead of Janney, who had retired after play- minutes before time was called that Thompson ing a good game. Our half-backs now did at last succeeded in getting a touch down, from some fine running, and Hacker especially gain- which no goal was kicked, owing to '90's inex- ed considerable ground. Our men soon had perience. The ball was placed on the ground the ball near their opponent's goal Ime, but before their man was ready to kick it, and the could not succeed in breaking through, so Academy men, rushing up, secured possession

Garrett attempted a goal from the field. He of it. Time was now called ; score 4-0, in made a very good kick, but failed to send the favor of '90. Veeder and Thompson played a ball between the posts, so the team weni back good game, and did the bulk of the work for to the twenty-five yard line. This was fatal, the Freshmen. Church, who is an experienced for the University men soon forced the ball foot-ball player, played a very fine game for down the field, and Alexander made a good the Academy, and had he been at all supported touchdown. A goal was kicked and the score by his men, they would undoubtedly have increased against Haverford. beaten. By working hard our men forced the ball Haverford vs. Lehigh. into their opponent's territory, and prospects seemed brighter for us. At this juncture, how- Our annual game with Lehigh was played at ever. Shell got the ball and made a fine run to Bethlehem on Saturday, November 20th. The the middle of the field. He had scarcely been weather was all that could be desired, but the downed when " the Cuban " slipped up and ground was in its usual alluvial condition. seizing the ball from him, was away off down Haverford won the toss and choose the west the field before anyone had realized it. By the goal, giving Lehigh the ball, which, however, time our men had taken in the situation, he they soon lost. In a few moments Lehigh re- had secured a touch down, from which no goal gained the ball and by very sharp play suc- was kicked. This was, of course, a very lucky ceeded in making a touch down in the first occurrence, and there are some who maintain four minutes. A goal was kicked and it was that Shell had "down," and that consequently evident that our men had to do with a teanr the touch down was obtained on a foul. How- much stronger than any they had ever met be- ever, it was very nicely done, and our men fore. The team seemed to understand this and .should certainly have been more watchful. determined to do their best. Several very After this our men had rather a hopeless task good runs were the immediate result. Thomp- before tlieni, but they succeeded in preventing son made a splendid effort and would, perhaps, the University from scoring again. At the have crossed tiie line had it not been for the close the score stood 16-4, in favor of the miserable condition of the ground, which was University. so soft that he could not keep his feet, and In commenting on this match we can only before he could get off again he was downed. say that we were fairly beaten. Whether they By several minutes of hard work and good all- would beat us every time is indeed open to dis- round play by Janney and Hilles, Haverford suc- jnite, but there are one or two indis]3ensible ceeded in getting the ball away down the field. ])oints in which they excelled us. Although Here, however, aji unfortunate fumble gave THE H AVERKORDI^^N. S3 the ball to Lehigh who speedily forced an- majority of their play at Bethlehem was not up other touch down, from which, of course, a to the mark. Our middle was exceedingly goal was kicked. Things now began to look weak, and bad passes and fumbles gave our bad for Haverford, and it was certain that if op[)onents two touch-downs. When it was too our men did not brace up they would be late the rush line did indeed show what it could "shut out." However, the ball was again do under an emergency, but this only serves to put in play, and Hilles, by a magnificent i)unt, show that want of steady play is our chief sent it outside close to Lehigh's goal. This defect. Runs by Garrett, runs and kicks by was a great gain and Garrett, by some e.\cel- Hilles, runs and tackles by Thompson, and fine lent runs, succeeded in getting still nearer the end-rush work by Janney, were features of the line. At last Hilles, by a desperate run through game, and had they been as well supported as the rush line, succeeded in getting a touch- their opponents, the result would have _been down. As there was no time to punt the ball different. However, suppositions like these are out a difficult goal was attempted, and it is not idle, for they had a mu

it But few relative its importance, still forcing down when time was called ; a words to not score, 18-4, in favor of Lehigh. The decisions as an advertiser's, but as a real work of art, will of the referee, Mr. Swift, of the University of be appropriate. The book will be uniform in Pennsylvania, were fair and impartial. style with the same set of publications of former In conclusion we can only acknowledge a years, —but greatly superior in workmanship and design. Seldom has it been the lot of defeat which was as unexpected as it was com- book buyers readers to have the plete. Our team this year is almost as good as and respective mer- its the year's publications temptingly in former years, but Lehigh's team is incom- of so and parably better than any they have put in the tastefiilly laid before them. The illustrations field heretofore. Not only was their rush line are numerous and surpassing all expectation in superior to ours in weight, but they also excel- the daintiness and thorough artistic skill shown in their led us in general play. It is indeed an open production. Each notable Christmas question how much longer Haverford can con- publication receives due notice and appropriate " tinue to cope with other colleges whose teams advertisement. The tout ensemble'^ deserves are invariably much heavier than ours. Hith- the unlimited praise it will receive from the erto we have come out ahead by excelling reading public, and as a moderate edition will printed, for free distribution, them in skill, but they are becoming skilfiil be we urge all to too, as was well illustrated at Lehigh. We have lose no time in procuring a copy; for such pos- * always a good supply of half-backs, and good session 11 * * * (.f jg5 haste, ones too, but we are sadly in need of heavy .111(1 speetl must answer it." men to fill the rush line. However, we would not discourage the team, for at times they Readers in English literature who have en- played a very good game. Nevertheless, the joyed references to Prof. Henry Morley's critical — :

54 THE HAVERKOKDIAN. and descriptive work will welcome the news of the most entertaining stories of our language. the early issue of the first volume of "an attempt In regard to the manufacture of the book ihat towards a history of English literature," upon is before us, we will say that it looks as if it which Prof. Morley has been engaged for many were made for work. It is neatly and strongly years past. About twenty volumes are planned bound, the illustrations are numerous, and the at the rate of issue of two a year. It will be a type is excellent. It is in two volumes, each of continuous work, though the volumes will be convenient size—a piece of forethought on the grouped in sections forming distinct histories part of the publisher which will meet with grat- of periods. Volume I. will come down to the itude from those who spend many hours with reign of Alfred. {Book Nnm.) books. A new edition of Prescott's " Ferdinand and Isabella" has been issued by John B. Alden, of New York. It is hardly necessary to refer our readers to the subject-matter of this book. Mr. L. Stadelman, Prescott's works have all the interest of Sir Walter J. Si ott and all the authority of Hume. " Ferdi- nand and Isabella" is an account of one of the DEALER IN most interesting and important passages of his- ^^^ tory. It is a narrative of Spain when she was I ( ) /\ I in her glory, when she was in the full enjoy- ment of the honor derived from the discoveries -AND- of Columbus, when her gold fleets covered the Atlantic, when her .dominion extended to the

Pacific, when she had driven - the Moors from Grenada and when the union of the crowns of LUMBER, Castile and Aragon had made her the greatest power in Europe. Such a subject would be pleasing at the hands of the prosiest of scribblers .A.I^ID3;v£OI^E, :e'-^. at the hands of Mr. Prescott it becomes one of

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Faculty for 1886-87. THOMAS CHASE, A. B. (Harvard), A. M. (Harvard), LL. D. (Harvard), Ut. D. (Uuverford,) President and Professor of Philology and Literature. PLINY E. CHASE, A. B. (Harvard), A. M. (Harvard), LL. D. (Haverford), Acting Prosideut and Professor of Philosophy and Logic, ISAAC SHARPLESS, S. B. (Harvard), Sc. D. (University of Pennsylvania). Prolessor of Mathematics and Astronomy. ALLEN C. THOMAS, A. B. (Haverford), A. M. (Haverfordl, Librarian and Professor of Rhetoric, Political Science and History. LYMAN B. HALL, A. B. (Amherst), A. M. and Ph. D. '(ioltingen), Professor of ('heiuistrv and Physics. SETH K. GIFFORD, A. B. (Haverford), A. M. (Haverford), Professor of Latin and Oreek." WAIjTER A. FORD, M. D. (.lelferson ('ollege, Philadelphia), Instructor in Physical Training and Director of the Gymnasium. J. KEN1>ELL HARIRIS, M. A. (Cainliridge, Enuhind), Pinfessor of Bibk' Languages and E\ ck-siastical History. MYRON R. S.VNFoRI', >L A. (Middlctown University), ProiVssor of Latin, and in charge of the l>iscipline. LEVI T. EDWARDS, A. B. (Haverlbrd), Professor of Engineerinc J. PLAYFAIIt McMl RRICH, Ph. D. (Johns Hoi)kins), Professor of Biology. SAMUEL LEPOI DS, Hach. es Lettres, (La Sorbonne, Paris), Instructor in French. HOWARD F. STRATTON, Instructor in Free Hand Drawing.

The following regular courses are given.

I. Course in Arts and Science, for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

II. Course in General Science and Literature, for the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Course in Practical Science and Engineering, for the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering.

Haverford College is on the Pennsylvania Railroad, nine miles from Philadelj)hia. It offers to ninety boarders and a small number of day-students, the advantage of a col- legiate education, of the ordinary grade, under the tuition of scholarly instructors, and in association with gentlemanly young men of good moral hal)its. The facilities for good work include a Library of 15,000 volumes; an Observatory, well equipped and in active ojieration ; a Ijalioratory ^^'herc students arc engaged daily in scientific work ; machine shops and other appliances. The College is in the country, in a lawn of sixty acres, all the conditions being favorable to the best physical develoi)ment. Those intending to enter in the fall of 1887 are advised to make application at an early date, to secure choice of rooms. For information address

Haverford College P; O., Montgomery Co., Pa. ; —

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CONTEXTS.

VOL. V^M. NO. 4.

Kditorials.—Our Loss Tage 5^

A New IJepartment 55

I'he Purp jse of a College 55

CXir Literary Societies 5^

A Word on Cricket 57 Columbia College 58

Pliny Earle Chase—1820-1886 59 Resolutions 63 Communication... 63

lectures ^4 Afterward 65

Edward M. Pope (>6

Personals 66 Locals 66

Exchanges ...;.....«. 68 General College News 70

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Vol. VIII. Haverford College, P. O., Pa., January, 1887. No. 4.

THE HAVERFORDIAN. T^HE Haverfordian proposes with the assistance of the old students of Hav- EDITORS; LOGANIAN. erford, to add a new department to its list, JICSSE E. PHILIPS, Jr., '87, Chainnau. namely: a department devoted to the alum-

ni and their interests. The column will be ALFRED C. GARRETT, '87. HOWELL S. ENGLAND, '88. open to communications, letters, class- ATHEN.1JUM. histories, personal notes and biographies of I5ARKER NEWIIALL, '87.

WARNER H. KITE, '89. Alumni ; such articles to be contributed EVERETT. from time to time by the members of the ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. FRANCIS C. MARTSHORNE, '88. Alumni Association. We hereby ask for

the earnest support of all old Haverfordians IIknry II. GoDDARD, '87, Business Manager. this a feature of the paper. Allison W. SlocUM, '88, Assistant Business M'ifr. to make column

It depends largely upon your support. Subscription Price, one year. $1.00 With " Tlie Student," 1.50 Single Copies, .10 T^HI^ remarl'C was made a while ago by Extra Copies January Number, IS one of our professors that "it makes lit- The Haverfordian is the oHicial organ of the students of Hav- erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during tle difference tvhatdi man studies at college." the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. The idea was new to us, but consideration

Entered at the Haverford College Post Ojffice^ for transmis- has convinced us of its truth. One of the sion through the wails at second-class rates. chief objects of college life should be a

A X riTII lica\-y hearts and thoughtful thorough and broad training for life, and

countenances, we bade one another the acquirement of a deep-rooted culture. our Merry Christmases and Happy New All the varied powers of the man, of which

Years. The loss of our beloved Professor he is himself often largely unconscious, are whose portrait is presented herewith to our here brought to the front, tested and care- subscribers, and the sudden death of our fully exatnined, and, if practicable, put to fellow student which followed so closely, their best use. Since college is but the be- upon it, cast a gloom over us all. In the ginning of one's education, it should par- one case any verbal expression of eulogy take far more of the nature of a firm and or respect must fall short of that which sound foundation, than of any superficial

every heart contains ; and in the other our structure. No one can succeed as a special- feeling of loss and sorrow, that a life, which ist until he is first well grounded in the ele- promised so richly had ended thus soon, ments of every branch of learning. That fails to formulate itself But an over-ruling delicate and cosmopolitan mind, which feels

God knows better than we the disposition at home in every variegated field of knowl- of His creatures. edge, is one of the richest and noblest at- 56 THE HAVERKORDIAN.

I tainmcnts of human endeavor. If at twenty- ' the indisposition of the students to embrace one a )-ounL,r nian enters tlie workl w ith all the opportunities offered by the societies ; his mental and sj^iritiial powers trained and nor is it necessary again to encumber our ready for action, knowing well what he can columns with a repetition of the advantages do, and somewhat ignorant of what he can of belonging to a society. Our object is nut, he stands upon a great vantage-ground simiil}' to criticize their present organiza- o\er the large majority of mankind. If tion, which we consider to be, in some re- this be his position, tiiough his actual spects, calculated to interfere with their l.-iio7i>lc(ige maj- be small, he is nevertheless proper work. One object of a literary soci- bound to succeed somewhere. Without ety is to cultivate the art of public speaking; this abilit}-, he must slowly learn by experi- in other words, the art of keeping one's ence and disaster the neglected wisdom of presence of mind before a large audience, his youth, for he is handicapped at the and of using language suited to the dignity start and sees others, better equipped than of such an occasion. Now we are quite he, rank among the leaders of humanity. sure that no such practice is obtained at

WithoLit a go\'erning principle or purpose, Haverford. We are quite sure that the he will rudderless drift on life's stormy most bashful man would be safe before an ocean, or sluggishly lie in some dull har- audience of fifteen or twenty, of whom one- bor. With a view to these liberal and pru- half are reading " Life," and the other half dent purposes have the courses at Haver- are asleep. We are also sure that no man ford been arranged, and with like aims will without a strong imagination could address the wise spend their hours of study and this audience with the dignity demanded in the prudent invest their mental capital. the Academy of Music. The art of public speaking must be cultivated under the awe

and inspiration of numbers ; in the pres-

XTO thoughtful Haverford man is, we ence of a few there is no exercise of self- are sure, satisfied with the condition possession, and the voice natural!)- drops from a dignified to a familiar tone. Alore- of our literary societies. Few of the pro- . ductions which grace the meetings of these over, essays and recitations to be heard by societies will survive a sound literary criti- a few do not invite the same care as those

to be heard by manv. This, we believe, is cism ; and their members are showing their appreciation of that fact by failing to attend the result of three societies in a college of the meetings. It is a well-know n fact, in- one hundred students. deed, that, even of our best scholars, com- We are told that a number of societies paratively few can mould their ideas into produces a rivalry; but we must own our- an intelligible and logical form, or render selves unable to detect any evidence of the works of the great masters of literature rivalry at Haverford, except a prodigious in a manner at all artistic. amount of boasting at the beginning of the

It is not necessary to inform our readers college year for the benefit of the Fresh- that the cause of this state of affairs lies in men. Moreover, we do not believe that THE HA.VERKORDIAN. 57 rivalry is necessary to the life of the socie- TT has been evident that the interest in

ties ; and we consider this absurdity of cricket at Haverford has not been up to equal \'alue with the doctrines that persecu- its usual mark. Little interest was mani- tion is the natural nutriment of Christianity fested, with one exception, in any of last and war the only recipe for national senti- spring's matches, and the fall practice ment. But there is no rivalry between the amounted to little or nothing. It is true

that the tennis tournament was partly re- societies at Hax'erford ; they seem to be ex-

sponsible for latter failing, but if tennis pressly ors^anizcd to prevent rivalry. A the tends to dethrone cricket we must weigh member of one society may resign, but may the matter well before we enter into another not join another. A member of one society tournament, or at least deny entrance to may not attend the meetings of another, ex- cricketers in general. For, fascinating as cept those of the Loganian Society, which tennis is, and however interesting a contest are open to the public. The membership in it may be, it should not be indulged in of the societies which depends not upon to the detriment of the established college merit but upon the address and persuasion game. Tennis cannot and must not take of their members, is fixed early in the college the place of cricket. j'ear ; nor \\ill superior merit bring an in- And now, as to a little advice—a first crease of membership or of influence. They and second eleven should be organized have no object for rivalry except a reputa- at once on gymnasium work under good tion for superior merit, which must rest leaders, continued throughout the winter;

upon their own testimony ; and, conse- regular hours for practice in the cricket quently, there is no rivalr\'. We are not shed established, and a thorough cricket altogether prepared to suggest a complete spirit aroused. union. There are, indeed, some advantages Of all games cricket is the most de- in a separation, though rivalry is not one of pendent upon constant practice. A tyro them; and we should much prefer an or- never makes runs. Good, hard, earnest ganization which would combine the advan- work always does. And while we feel tages both of union and separation without the loss of some of our leading men we their disadvantages. We leave this to our still ha\'e the material to put a good team readers, hoping that they will devise some in the field if we only use it, and we can't plan which will secure the hearty co-opera- begin too soon. tion of all students in extending their stud- Harvard's team for '87 will be stronger ies beyond the necessarily narrow confines than ever before, and the University has of a college curriculum into the broader had some excellent additions to its al- realms of literature, where they may study ready strong team, so that Haverford's the works of the great masters of prose and position in the race will be predetermined verse with a freedom and delight not to be unless the strongest efforts are put forth

in found the class-room. to prevent it. S8 THE H AVERKORDI/vN

COLliMBIA COLLEGE. rooms. Thus there does not exist that feeling of fraternit}' between the students of of the desires entertained by Berke- /^NE the several schools which there might be. ^"^^ tlie clierished one of founding ley was Columbia College has now " a school of In the earlier part of a college in America. Arts, a school of Mines, a school of Law, last centiuy he \isited this country, and the a school of Political Science, and a school certain it is, that at about that time, the of medicine ; employing a President, one first steps taken toward the establish- were hundred and sixty -seven professors, in- ment of what is now " Columbia College." structors and assistants, and has in all the there were a great w ho feared But many departments nearly fourteen hundred stu- the design to imitate a church- that was dents." establishment, and so it was not till 1753 All attending the school of Arts, who re- that a charter was granted to " King's Col- side in New York City, are required to lege." attend chapel at half-past nine, A. m. As trustee of Trinity Church donated to The no student remains longer than his daily the new institution the land now bounded recitations and chapel demand, the latter is by l^arclay, Cluu-ch, and Murra)' streets, not regarded by all as it might be. By two and the Hudson river; there the college o'clock the classes are over and the build- remained for more than a centurj-. ings appear deserted. Previous to the Revolution the college Here still flourishes the " marking sys- could have been little more than a boarding tem ;" yet perhaps there is a prospect of a school ; one of the reports of that time change, since, in his last annual report, reads : "All students but those in medicine, President Barnard recommended that each are obliged to lodge and diet in the college, student be marked simply " proficient " or unless they are particularly exempted by " deficient " as the case might be. the Go\ernors or President ; and the edi- Young ladies can pursue the regular col- fice is surrounded by a high fence, which lege course in an " annex " located in an- also encloses a large court and garden ; other street. and a porter constantly attends at the front During the first two years of the course gate, which is closed at ten o'clock each the only optional study is that of a modern evening in summer, and nine in winter;

language ; in the Junior year one-third after which hoLU's the names of all that the studies is optional, while all the classes come in are delivered weekly to the Presi- of the Senior year are elective. dent." doubtless, has its full share In 18 14 the state legislature ceded to the Columbia, of " " trustees " twenty acres of land on Manhat- the sporting interest, since here are sup- tan Island," upon part of which grant the ported not only several tennis clubs, base- ball and foot-ball teams, but an athletic and college has been located since 1857; '^^^"^ land thus acquired has greatly increased in cricket association, as well as an efficient value, and has been the source of a large boat-club. During this year no foot-ball income. team will be formed, in order that the boat- The block bounded by the Fourth and club may receive more liberal support. Madison ax'cnues, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth The representative secret societies of " " streets, is occupied b\' the buildings of the American Colleges have Chapters here. " " several " schools," each of which is a sepa- Students from the different schools can rate institution, complete in itself; each has become, and are, members of the several " its own faculty, its own buildings and class- Chapters ;" while the most proficient of THE H AVBRKORDI^YN. 59

whichever "school " lie nia)- be a member, A. B. Among his classmates were l-Cdward obtains place in the athletic organizations. Everett Hale, .Samuel P'liot.and other ul-11-

Since its founding this institution has not known men. In 1844, he took the degree ceased to graduate men who are an honor of A. M. He began his career as a teacher to their i)rofessions, or callings, antl to the by taking charge of a district scho(jl in college. However we may think in regard Leicester, Mass., the home of his mother's to the two great political parties, we must family, and shortly after he was appointed agree that their late candidates for the principal of a school in Worcester, which office of maj'or of New York were singular- had at that time the reputation of being the ly able men both were formerly Columbia hardest to manage in the district. In ; one

.students ; and many graduates might be both of these positions he was entirely suc- nameti who are now pin'suing useful and cessful. In 1840-41, he was an associate

honorable careers. teacher in Friends' School, Providence ; and With her large income, her efficient fac- in 1841-42, in Friends' .Select .School, Phila-

ulty, and her weighty influence, there can delphia ; in 1842-44, he had a private be no doubt but that in the future, as in the school in the same city. On the 28th of past, the same high standing will be fully June, 1843, he married Elizabeth Brown maintained, and even grander work accom- Oliver, of Lynn, Mass. This most congenial plished by " Columbia College." union was only broken by liis death. Most of the years 1844-45 ^^'ere spent in New PLINY EARLE CHASE-1820-1886. Plngland, during which time he prepared for publication his Elements of Arithmetic, T N the death of Professor and acting Pres- noticed below, and assisted in cataloguing ident Pliny Earle Chase, Ilaverford the Library of the American Antiquarian College suffers a great and unusual loss. Society. In the fall of 1845, he returned to " The good gray head that all men Philadelphia and opened a private school knew," is gone from us forever. for girls, also giving lessons in schools and It is eminently fitting that the pages of families. In 1848, he was obliged to gi\-e The H.werfordi.\x should contain some up teaching on account of severe hemor- recognition of his worth, some account of rhages from the lungs, and it was about ten liis life, some attemjit to point the character years before he was entirely free from these of that life. attacks. A less sedentary employment be- Pliny ICarle Chase, the oldest son of An- ing advised by his physicians, he entered thony and Lydia l'"arle Chase, was born at into a partnership for carrying on the sto\-e Worcester, Mass., August itSth, 1820. The and foundry business, the llrm name being old family mansion is still standing near North, Harrison & Co. In 1850, the firm Lincoln Square, but the neighborhood has was enlarged by the addition of A. W. been invaded by large manufacturing estab- North as an active, and John Edgai- Thoni])- lishments, and its attractiveness as a place son, late President ol' the Penns\-lvania of residence is mostly gone. Like so many Railroad, as a special partner, the name be- of his distinguished Massaciiusetts contem- ing changed to North, Harrison & Chase. poraries he received his early education in The works were at Wilmington, Del., and the excellent common schools of that state. tile salesrooms in Philadelphia. In 1851, He was also for a time at Friends' Boarding the firm was changed to North, Chase & School, Providence. In he 1835, entered North. Harvard College as a Freshman, and was In 1861, Professor Charles Dexter Cleve- graduated in 1839, taking l''^' degree of land, so well known as the editor of the 6o THE HAVERFORDIAN.

Compendium of English Literature, wishing thoughts were interpreted by his sympa- to retire from teacliing, sold to Professor thetic and well-stored mind. In 1880, at Chase the furniture and good-will of his the request of the Board of Managers, he young ladies' school at 903 Clinton street, reluctantly took charge of the discipline of Philadelphia. But after a time Professor the college. It was not a position in ac-

Chase found it more lucrative as well as cordance with his tastes, and it was gladly better suited to his health to confine him- relinquished in 1883. His administration self to pri\'ate instruction, and so, in 1866, of the duties was marked with great kind- he gave up the school, and also disposed ness and he retained the good-will of all of his remaining interest in the foun- the students. dry business. In 1870, he visited Europe In the summer of 1883, he again went with a small party under his charge. On abroad accompanied by several members of this trip his wide culture and his perfect his family. command of the languages of the various At the organization of Brj-n Mawr Col- countries visited, independently of his per- lege, in 1884, he was appointed Lecturer on sonal charm of character, made him a de- Psychology ciiid Logic. In the winter of lightful companion. It is needless to say 1885-86, he had a severe attack of pneumo- how great was his own pleasure in visiting nia, after which he never recovered his places so familiar to him in name and in usual health, though he was able to preside history. In 1871, he received the appoint- as Acting President at last commencement. ment of Professor of Natural Science in His health did not improve during the Haverford College, with which institution summer as was hoped, but, on the contrary, he was thenceforward connected \\'ithout he grew worse, and new and unfavorable intermission until his death. s}-mptoms set in. He returned and was He was also acting Professor in the Uni- present at the opening of the college, but versity of Pennsylvania, for several months, was not able to assume any duties. On the taking the place of Professor Eraser who 17th of December he peacefully and un- had died in office. consciously passed away. In 1876, the degree of LL. D. was con- I am not qualified to speak critically of ferred upon him by Haverford College " on his scientific work. Indeed, there are few account of his attainments and original re- so qualified, because he belonged to that searches in Mental and Ph\-sical Philoso- class of philosophers who are ahead of phy." In the spring of 1878, he had a theirtimes—men who see, though it may severe attack of sciatica and partial paraly- be imperfectly and dimly, very deeply sis of one foot, from the effects of which he into the relations of things, and whose never fully recovered. He continued to speculations, like those of the Marquis reside in Philadelphia until the summer of of Worcester, though misunderstood and 1878, when he removed to reside perma- perhaps even unintelligible to contem- nently in one of the houses on the college poraries, contain truths grasped and ac- grounds. cepted by fiiture generations. _ He has been In 1875, a new chair of Philosophy and criticised for working in too wide a field. Logic was established, to which he was It is true that his studies and investigations transferred. How congenial were the sub- cover a very wide field, but it must be re- jects placed under his charge only those membered that his was an unusual mind, who were under his instruction can fully and not a few of his in\estigations were appreciate. Dymond, Porter, Whately and simply recreation, the results of which, Berkeley had new life given them as their however, seemed worthy of publication. In ;

THE HAVERKORDIAN. 6i all his studies, too, he constantly lnund luied his attention chiefly to the last two proofs of his belief that all thinL;s foi'ni one sLibjects, and especial!)- to the confirmation liarnionioLis whole of his " General Postulate, All Physical phe- nomena arc due to an Omnipresent Po-u

Part I. Practical Instructions. Part II. Prin- ber of years prepared the scientific notes or ciples and Scholia." This is, perhaps, the first gleanings from other scientific publications, attempt to put this subject in a simple and chiefly foreign. popular form. In 1864, the Magellanic gold medal of the American Philosophical Society was He delivered many lectures in Philadel- awarded to him for his paper on the " phia on subjects connected with science Nu- merical Relations of Gravity and Magnet- and at various conferences on education at ism." He was for several years one of the Portland, Baltimore, Richmond, Ind., New secretaries of the last-named York and elsewhere, he gave addresses of society, and latterly one of its \'ice-presidents. He was greater or less length on educational topics. also a member of various scientific lit- He was a frequent contributor to The Stu- and erary bodies at home and abroad. dent and Friends' Revieic, on educational, Three years ago he was emplo}-ed to testif}- as an scientific, and religious subjects. It is, expert in an electric light suit in however, in the Transactions and Proceed- New York. number of his suggestions ings of the American Philosophical Society A rela- tive to the method cjf observing the that his most important papers appeared. weather were embodied in the instructions issued In the Proceedings for \o\ember 5th, 1880, " by the United States .Signal Service Bu- w ill be found a List of Papers communi- reau to its observers. The rapidity cated to the American Philosophical Soci- and accuracy of his arithmetical ety by Pliny Earle Chase, LL. D." They calculations will be testified to by anyone who has seen number in all i rg, beginning with one on him extract the sc]uare' root " Sanscrit and English Roots and Ana- of large num- bers at the blackboard. logues," September 17th, 185S, and ending with a paper on " Relations of Chemical He had a wonderful faculty of seeing Affinity to Luminous and Cosmical Ener- analogies and harmonies where to the or- gies," April i6th, 1S80. This list alone dinary mind none existed, and it is not woukl fill se\-en columns of The Haver- unlikely that as time goes on the scientific i<)KU)i.\N. Tlie titles show the wide range world will be compelled to follow more of his investigations in Philology, Meteor- and more in the lines in which he worked, olog\- and Physics. After 1863, he con- and that, though he himself had the satisfac- 62 THE HAVERKORDIAN. tion of seeing many of his predictions antl and he ahva)'s took the highest ground forecasts proved, still more will be accepted as to the dignity, importance, and re- in the future. He believed, to use his own sponsibility of the calling; his own words words, that " science and religion are out- will best express this feeling: ''Our ^\•eak-

growths of a harmonious nature ; that all ness gives us no excuse for shirking our error is man's mistake, while all truth is share of the work, or for trying to throw

God's truth ; and that there is no real con- any portion of our individual responsi- flict between Reason and Revelation." bility upon the great Master Builder. It

is the duty of educators to till the soil, to He was an enthusiastic Botanist, and in remove noxious weeds and other obstruc- the spring and summer he would often tions, to plant and water, and then look come into the house with his hands full of hopefully to God for the increase. We can plants to be e.xamined. Though language not give faith to our pupils, but we can was in later years quite a side issue, he show them that the foundations of faith are was an unusually able linguist, and could impregnable, and no one should feel him- speak with comparative ease six or seven self qualified for the teacher's chair who is languages; while with the aid of a diction- not able to expose the weakness which ary he could read about I20, including dia- characterizes all the onslaughts of skeptic- lects. He was one of the two or three men " ism." Again : Schools have been too ex- in the country who could read Eliot's In- clusively intellectual they have cultivated dian Bible. ; the intellect without cultivating the moral Of his i^ersonal and religious character and religious faculties. This is an error. it is unnecessary to speak to those who * * * Intellect was given to man that knew him well. Rarely does it fall to the he might fit himself for immortality. He lot of any one to meet a purer life, a kind- should be trained to see that his intellect lier heart, a greater simplicity, a more per- was meant to be a means of drawing him fect humility. Never putting himself for- continually upward, and that an exclusive ward, he was always ready to listen to devotion to earthly pursuits is necessarily others, and always treated them with kind- degrading. We must satisfy our intel- ness and consideration. His own exten- lectual nature, but the highest satisfaction sive attainments were kept in the back- is to be found in the self-control which ground, so much so indeed that many of his forms a sterling character. "' * "^ In- friends were not by any means aware of tellectual culture cannot be too great if it is the extent and variety of his knowledge. kept in due subordination to Divine Guid- In the social circle he was bright, cheerful, ance." It was most instructive to see how and, on occasion, witty. He was always fully these doctrines were carried out in his disposed to think well of men, and this own life. With all his great attainments he trait more than once inflicted on him con- accepted the truths of the Gospel in sim- siderable pecuniary loss. plicity and with an unwavering faith. To Born and brought up among members of the young men who have come under his the Society of Friends, he always had the instruction, such teaching and such a life strongest attachment to its principles. In cannot but be a permanent influence for later years, though never officially recorded good; to all who knew him, his example as a minister of the Society, he frequently and memory will be a lasting possession. .spoke in the ministry, and his discourses Lives like his are at once a proof and an will long be remembered by his hearers. illustration of the power of grace in the Most of his life was spent in teaching, human heart. Allen C. Thomas. ;

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RESOLUTIONS. At a special meeting of the V. AI. C. A., held December i8th, the following resolu- IMMEDIATELY upon the receipt of the tions were passed : inteUigence that Haverford was bereft of It has pleased our Heavenly its acting President, a mass-meeting of the Whereas, students was held, and a committee ap- Father to take our honored professor, Pliny pointed to draft suitable resolutions. Ap- Earle Chase, from the cares of a busy life to the enjoyment of eternal happiness, and pended is a copy :

Whereas, His life has been an exempli- W'lii-.REAs, It has pleased an all wise fication of that of a Christian gentleman, Providence to remove from our midst our and liis words have always inculcated the beloved Professor, Pliny Earle Chase ; and principles of that divine life, of which he Whereas, W'e recognize the irreparable was himself a reflection; loss of one so thoroughly informed in Resolved, That the Young Mens' Chris- every branch of human knowledge, and so tian Association of Haverford College has prominent in the practice of every Chris- sustained the loss of its most devoted friend tian virtue, and and wisest counsellor, and one who has

ever guided and fostered the Christian life Whereas, We realize that by his death of the college we are bereft of a most able instructor, an earnest Christian teacher and a true friend, Resolved, That we do hereby extend our whose every effort was for our best welfare; full and sincere sympathy to his family in therefore be it their great affliction, and

Resolved, That by the death of Profes- Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- sor Pliny I'^arle Chase, the country has lost tions be presented to his family and printed one of her foremost scholars and scientists, in the Haverfordlw. one known and respected throughout the Signed by a committee of the associa- tion. civilized world ; the Christian Church a zealous and powerful defender of her divine Barker Newhall, truths, our college her ablest professor W. F. Overman, v ; Consmitlee. and we, the students, our most beloved and H. H. Goddard, J

honored friend and teacher ; and be it C03WMUNICATED. Rcsok'ed, That we extend to his be- reaved family our sincere sympathy in To the Editor of the HaverfonVtan : their deep affliction, and pra\' that God Mr. Editor,—On behalf of the class of may comfort and sustain them as Me alone '89 and by their instruction, we submit to can. And furtiier be it you the follow ing communication and pro- Resolved, ThsX a copy of these resolu- test. We noticed in the December number tions suitably engrossed, be presented to of the Haverfordlvn an editorial on the the family of the deceased, and that they be subject of hazing. In the course of this printed in the HAVEKFORDIA.^:. article the writer undertakes to corroborate his remarks by a comparison of the classes

J. P3. Philips, Jr., '87, I Signed by the at present in the college. He states that, in

H. S. England, '88, [ Committee June, 1885, hazing was prohibited at Haver-

W. H. FiTE, '89, [" on behalf of ford, and asks what was the result of pro- " E. M. Angell, '90, J the College. hibiting it. His answer is that last year's 64 THE H AVERKORDIAN.

Freshmen ('89), with all coercing power in the class of '89. The object of the removed, and \\ itli no common foe to fight, Haverfordian is to foster a college feeling have been permanently injured, their class among the students, and to represent their split up into factions, and only half organ- interests with the public and with other ized, while such a thing as a healthy class colleges. And unless it has the support of spirit is almost extinct." He further pro- all the classes and all the societies of the ceeds to say that it is only necessary to college it will fail in its aim. compare the two lower with the two upper Therefore, on behalf of Haverford College, classes of the college to see the good effects and in vindication of the unity and class of coercion, and that the class which passed spirit of the class of '89, we make this pro- through the hardest ordeal is the best or- test. ganized class in college. H. Firth, ^ Now we have nothing to say concerning W. F. Overman, V Coniuiittc the subject ofthis : we simply wish to refute W. H. FiTE, j the statements made therein, and to protest against any invidious comparison of classes, LECTURES. of societies or of persons being made in the columns of the H.vverfordi.w. It is not true On December 1st we had the great pleas- class is split up into factions. If that our ure of hearing again Professor Luigi Monti, such is the case, we greatly doubt if any of this time his subject being "John Milton." our men can say to which faction he be- He gave a review of the great epic poet's longs, or to which faction he does not be- life ; his Italian travels and studies, from long and we affirm that the writer of this ; both of which seemed to spring his main article would be unable to make a division inspiration ; his hardships in advocating of the class into the factions which he men- great reforms ; the lack of appreciation of tions. The class of '89 formally declares his genius by contemporaries. The lec- to you, Mr. Editor, that it is not under the turer then considered " Paradise Lost." Its influence of any internal dissensions, and main idea originated in some Italian plays its form one harmonious body. that members which Milton saw produced when he was It is not true that we are half organized or in Italy ; numerous passages had been bor- lacking in class spirit. In sim- that we are rowed from the w'orks of Dante, Tasso, of this we offer the fact that, with- ple proof and Ariosto, one or two of the speeches of twenty-four hours after the appearance of in the Fallen Angels in hell being almost di- article which reflected unpleasantly the rect translations of Italian passages in those class organization, we had for- upon our poets yet this fact was no detraction, since ; mally protested against it, and our commit- as Professor Lowell says, not the fact of tee had interviewed the editor of the paper. borrowing but what is made of the idea Moreover, we would affirm that the class of borrowed is important, and the passages '89 is not, in any respect, inferior to any taken by Milton were b}- no means weak- class in college, either in athletic courage ened in passing through his sublime mind in mental attainments. or and falling into new utterance. Professor Furthermore, Mr. Editor, weprotestagainst Monti then passed rapidly over the poem, any comparisons of classes in the Haver- making beautiful quotations, expressing the

FORDIAN. It announces that it is the organ opinion that it excelled all other poems in of the students of Haverford College. Of moral elevation, and calling it the " Poeti- these students, nearly one-third are included cal Bible." He closed by quoting and ex- —

THE HAVERKORDIAK. 6S pressing extreme admiration for the sonnet ^tna in his brain, wished to know if he written on the massacre of tiic Waldenses, had seen that most malicious and out-

which begins : rageous attack which had been made on " " ( him. Oh," said the poet, that is only a '*A\-eiige. ) Lord I Thy slauglUerefl saiiils," bilious attack." Mr. Monti also related with On December 6th, under tlie auspices of great feeling the circumstances of the tragic the Y. M. C. A., Mr. Burdctte. lectured on death of the poet's young wife, as also the " Tiie Pilgrimage of a Funny Man." He death of Longfellow himself seemed to refer to the hfe journey, and in- On December 15th, Mr. James Wood lec- terspersing his usual convulsing side-re- tured on "America before the European marks, he depicted the difficulties and dan- discovery." He spoke at length of the gers of the humorist, assuring us that the mound-builders of the Mississippi valley, life of a fimny man was far from funny, but and the remains which proved their state of that in fact the greatest humorists had civilization. Wild hunter tribes of the kind usually experienced the bitterest sorrows, known to us, notably the Iroquois, inhab- and were always subject to great reactions ited the Eastern mountains and sea board, of melanchol)'. We believe this lecture and owing to their greater hardihood har- was generally considered much funnier than assed the mound-builders, and drove them last year's, and if Mr. Burdette continues to into cliff- dwellings or away to Mexico. grow funnier from year to year our only Mr. Wood mentioned two disproved theo- recourse will be finally to beg him when he ries with regartl to the existence of man on addresses us not to be " as funn\- as he this continent,—that the}' were originally can." created here and that they were one of the On the 1 8th Professor Monti gave what lost tribes of Israel. Another theory is that we would consider one of the most charm- men came from Europe by the " Lost At- ing lectures we have heard from our plat- lantis," but the existence of such a conti- form,—" Personal Reminiscences of Long- nent has hardly enough scientific proof fellow." Having been, from the time he The very possible drifting on wrecks in first arrived in this country a voluntary the ocean currents of men to America or e.xile, and was taken b}' Longfellow as their simple transit by the Behring straits, "The Young Sicilian" in the "Tales of a which are no broader than the English Wayside Inn," until the death of the poet, channel, appeared to him the most plausi- a most intimate friend of the latter, it was ble theories. no small treat to hear him tell of some of » * the private life of the poet which the world AFTERWARO. agrees had the greatest and most beautiful I heedlessly opened the cage, spirit, and to find that in his actual life no suffered my bird to go free And ; less, but rather more, than in his writings And, though I besought it with tears to rcUnii, was the same Christian beauty to be found. It nevermore came back to me. But what was perhaps most striking was It nests in the wildwood, and heeds not my call, O, the bird once at libcrly who can enthrall ? the humor and fun which the poet seemed to have allowed to bubble over in private, I hastily opened my lips, but which is almost wholly absent from his .\nd uttered a word of disdain. That wounded a friend, anfl forever estranged poems. Mr. Monti related how once, a A heart I would die to regain. biting criticism having been aimed at Long- But the bird, once at liberty, who can enthrall? fellow, the former came running in, and And the word that's once spoken, O who can recall '} " " with some breath of the volcanic air of — Virginia B. Harrison in the Independent. 66 THK HAVERKORDIAN. EDWARD M. POPE. PERSOIVALS.

[Will Alumni or others please favor us with items for this column.] nPHE death of Edward M. Pope was an '58 Hugh D. Vail, A. M., is now residing in unexpected calamity to the college and Santa Barbara, Cal. to his relati\'es. The transition from life and '71 Walter T. Moore is superintendent of strength, to death was so sudden that we foreign affairs in a prosperous and extensive are unable to realize the fact. The empty concern under the name of diaries Cumming. chair at class and table, the vain search for '71 William H. Haines is in business, in the calm face and the voice heard no more, Philadelphia, with Morris, Tasker & Company, force will us to comprehend our loss. Iron Works.

The signs of future usefulness were al- '81 Albanus L. Smith is a member of a ready apparent in a character of intellectual Philadelphia firm, known as the Manley & corpora- grasp, manliness and simplicit)'. Cooper Manufacturing Company. The tion has an extensive ornamental iron works. His faculties were evenly balanced, and '83 Thomas K. Worthington is at Johns he understood with equal facility and accu- Hopkins, studying for a Ph. D. racy the branches of languages, mathe- '83 Samuel B. Shoemaker was recently matics and science which he had studied. appointed resident physician at the Pennsylva- In no class will his loss be felt more than nia hospital. in the Greek, where his authority was su- Henry N. Hoxie, (A. M., of '83) is expected preme and his elegant translations the pride to accompany the Wharton family Soutli this of his fellows. He was by nature and in- year. clination a student and the sports in which '84 T. H. Chase, formerly of the editorial he participated were always of secondary staff, now in the law school at Harvard, spent interest. the 22nd with us.

His heart was pure and simple. He '85 Lloyd Logan Smith, who during the past thought ill of no one because he saw some year has been continuing his studies at a Ger- good in all. He never appeared to be what man University, has now returned to America, he was not. He made no pretense to and is in the New York office of AVhitliall, learning which he did not possess. There Tatum & Co. is not a man in college who ever heard '85 Enos L. Uonn is teaching school in Wil- from his lips a word that was impure or un- mington, Del. true. His bearing whether among his '85 Jos. L. Markley, of Harvard, called during classmates or professors was always of ex- vacation. actly the same dignity and openness. He '86 Guy R. Johnson was with us on the 17th looked forward to the future with a calm of last month, he is chief hook-keeper in the hope. Malaga office, of the Malaga Glass Manufactur- ing Company.

He did what many of us try to do : he '85 Horace E. Smith, of Harvard, paid lived out in his life the principles of a per- Haverford a visit on the 22nd ult. sonal Christianity with a simplicity and at the same time a firmness that is rarely LOCALS. seen. According to the Haverfordian, publisiied His class and those who really knew him one year ago. " First skating of the season on will be made to realize that a strength has 12-7-85." This year we had good skating on passed from them and from the institution 3rd of last month. to which he belonged. " How many downs, Mr. Referee?" THE PI A-VERKORDI^\N. 67

The " Gunning Fiend " thou canst not see, Mix intimately a blackboard rubber, a row because he is not yet in sight. of empty laboratory desks and two lazy

"chemists," and the result is a combination Quicksilver, according to " Fweddy," is an which will defy analysis. ore of silver. has been turned completely " Dan " thinks that " what's-his-nauie " was The Museum upside down. All the cases have been the greatest musician of all time. moved over to the south side of the room, and the rest The "Apostolic Father" thinks that ieau- of the space is occupied for Biological works. coup should be pronounced boocup. The shock This is a great improvement on the old room. to the Professor was a severe one, but he is " recovering slowly. The " Mutual Admiration Club is now in

Concrete, according to a member of the full blast. As a consequence, the cloud of ob- scurity which has liitherto veiled the history of Geology class, is an excellent example of a con- cretionary rock. the Ancient Egyptians, is being rapidly dis- pelled. The other night the Everett Society passed three aniendmendments in ten seconds, and A Senior in describing the customs of a Jew- without a single dissenting voice. The shock ish patriarch in regard to the Passover, made the startling assertion that " He and his family was so great that the President nearly fell out their annual bath !" of his chair, but by a mighty effort he recovered then took

himself. The cricket shed is becoming popular, and

is A chestnut : " Jones, may I borrow when the light improved, the team ought to

your rubbers ?" be able to get some very good practice in it. " Lost ! small, yellow Purp," with a Robert J. Burdette gave us a lecture the A other night, by invitation of the Y. M. C. A. voracious appetite for Tennis balls, overshoes, Though the night was very stormy, the audi- etc. Please return to '88. was large and enthusiastic, the lecturer ence and Overheard. " Well, E-r-y, how did Kris- was at his best Kingle ever get all those things into your stock- " In Geology. Prof. : How do rocks get ing?" rid of their water ?" The class circus, "They Barker says that " The great Amazon is only expell it." " But suppose they can't expell a mile wide at its mouth." We suppose he it ?" " Uh, why then they just susi)end it." would consider the width of the Delaware at

Some of the students went in to see Bishop Market street a mere toothpick's throw. a few nights ago, and have been bewitching the We hear that a Bryn Mawr student has dis- College with their " mind-reading" ever since. covered positive evidence that the ancient Professor Sandford gave a lecture before the Greeks used to smoke before meals. They Loganian Society on " The Press of a Century ought to have known better.

ago." His remarks were drawn from the first We are sorry to say that the stately old fash- volume of one of the earliest newspapers in this ioned clock which stood in the entrance of country. It is a very curious and interesting Barclay Hall, has been removed, and an unaristo- old book. cratic and commonplace eight-day concern now

That little editorial last month seems to have Jiangs in its place. Thus, one by one, the old made quite a sensation among our " jealous things go. critics " at Bryn Mawr. The prevailing opin- On Thursday, December 9th, on the way ion is that the writer must have been suffering back from meeting, an animated snow fight from an acute attack of sour grapes. took place between the two lower classes. The .^.nd yet another. '• What kind of rock do Sophomores took up' their stand on this side of phosphates give?" Our eminent pedestrian: the bridge, and literally jumped on the unsus- " Phosphates give an apatite." pecting Freshmen. The latter violently pro- 68 THE HAVERKORDI^\N.

tested against such outrageous treatment, but EXCHAIVGES. one after another they were all rolled and their We have received a copy of the Wec/dy faces washed, to the utter ruin of their shirt Ledger, published at Tacoma, W. T. It pro- collars. Several '89 men suffered the same fesses to be independent journal devoted jjunishment, but this was not down on the pro- "An to the development of the resources of Wash- gramme. The affair was very good natured on ington Territory." If opposition to the present both sides, and it was a very fine thing— to administration of the goverment tends towards look at. indejiendence, or the improvement of the above A laboratory man has just perfected a remarka- mentioned Territory, then the paper is true to ble filtering apparatus. It is constructed entirely its aim. of glass rod, and is said to filter light, heat or No. 3, \^ol. I. of the Seminary Mirror has electricity witli great ease and despatch. The reached our sanctum. It is published by the stu- only trouble with liquids is the difficulty in dents of Raisin Valley Seminary, Adrian, Mich. making any at all pass through the apparatus. Ofcourse beingso young, it bears quite numerous When this is accomplished, they will undoubt- evidences of its infancy, in its general make uj). edly be well purified. However, representing as it does, " the only In rain and mud and darkness was played the educational institution of Friends in Micliigan,"

first half of the foot-ball game between '88 and the Haverfordian, true to her Quaker instincts, '89. '88 had the ball, and with only two will be glad to exchange.

momentary exceptions kept it throughout the The Ho/cad comes to us for the first time. half hour. Hilles ran well, and '89's rushers This plain little journal, while it maintains blocked and tackled well. '88 was well up the throughout an air ot quaintness, is a paper of field when Slocura was disqualified by the more real merit than some, of much more pre- referee. Though the play from this on was tentious aims. " The Lorelie," in the num- always in '89's territory, their good rush line ber before us, while by no means an exact work prevented '88 from scoring. translation, is not bad poetry, although it could When play was resumed three days later, have been much improved by being written in the ground was hard as a rock, and a bitter a different meter. cold wind was blowing across the field. In the Wilmington Collegian for November Play was quick and hard throughout the there is a long address entitled " Our national half. '89 had the ball and with good runs by difficulties in the light of the past." The Thompson and Firth, and a rush by Dunton^ article is well written, but lacks that depth secured a touch down. The try at goal failed. of thought and a certain un]3redjudiced It was now '88's turn, and two splendid runs candor of looking at things as they truly are, with good rush line support carried the ball which should always mark essays of this charac- within the ten yard line ; but the stubborn ter. resistance of '89's rushers kept them there until " within a few minutes of "time," when a touch The continued story, The Royce Case," down was secured, but no goal resulted owing which has just closed, in the Briinonian, did carry to the high wind and the shortness of the time. not out the plot so successfully as the opening chapter gave us cause to hope would Score, 4 to 4. be The game was excellently played on both the case. sides, and with the exception that there was too "Crazy patchwork" and a " Letter from

much of a disposition to argue and claim fouls, Japan," are the prominent articles in the last

etc., it was a good game throughout. If more issue of Our Magazine, and they are worthy of players would play the game, and not stop to their place. It is interesting to note that the complain or contest decisions, foot-ball would English school girl takes a place in athletics, be much nmre enjoyable botli to players and beside her stronger brother, and with such suc- spectators. cess that two scholars of the North London Col- THE HAVERKORDIAN. 69 legiate School, Misses E. G. and E. M. Wilkin- pantheism and atheism. If it were to prevail son, took three first prizes in " open handicap" as a science, under its influence the social fabric

swimming matches ; the distance swum in each would be destroyed and anarifhy enthroned." case being 88 yards. What a fine thing it is for society that the writer, who signs himself "R.," has not contracted a " Yarbs," in the Tuftonian for December 4,

belief in phrenolog)' ! is a well told story of how some adventurous youths spent vacation, and " Another Victim," The Student, for December, thus comments in the same issue is a very clever thrust at the depreciatingly on the work of Haverford stu- " popular story writer. dents : The defect of elementary training in

Since the clear explanation setting forth the reading, writing and spelling, is often pain- advantages of a State Convention of College fully felt," It is left for the reader to gue.ss feels this defect. I'^ditors, which appeared in the December who For the students, we can number of the Sivarthmore Phccnix, we are say that in these respects they are not aware of inferiority others, heartily in favor of the scheme. We do not any to who like themselves mean that we favor the holding of only one con- have passed through years of preparatorv work. " vention, because, the College editorship being Ifany one else feels the defect," let him ex- necessarily of so short duration, and the edi- amine the students of other colleges in these matters, torial boards of all the papers changing from and we are sure he will become better year to year, there could be no permanent good satisfied with the work done at Haverford. We derived from a single meeting. What seems to do not believe the slur was intentional, but ap- in a the be needed is a permanent association, which pearing such paper as Student, it can- shall hold meetings at least once a year. In not help being an injury to the good name of these meetings subjects of mutual interest the college. could be discussed, greatly to the advantage of The Perdue has appeared in a new cover. all concerned. As the papers of the various The design is rather more elaborate than is de- New England Colleges are about to form a sirable, but the different figures are so arranged similar association, we cannot afford to be left as to produce a very good effect. The cover is behind in the onward movement. As the a great improvement over the old one, and was

Swarthmore Phixiiix has the honor of first call- designed by Mr. H. A. Mills ; the same artist ing general attention to this matter, let her set who made the design for the cover of the De a time and place for the first meeting of the Pauiu Monthly. notify the Pennsylvania convention, and other The Princetonian for December 6, contains a college papers. The matter is one in whic h synopsis of a lecture by Mr. E. Miller. The we are all concerned and every college paper in lecturer discussed " The Ethics of Naturalism." the Stale should .send its representative. Let After reading the general outline of the discus- the meeting be called as early as possible. sion, and noticing the speaker's indiscriminate

In a recent number of the College Olio is a jumbling of different theories under one head, curious piece of literature called " Phrenology." we were glad to learn that a debate followed in

We are perfectly aware that it is fashionable now which Dr. McCosh, Prof. Ormond and others to deny all claims of phrenology to rank as a took part. It is to be hoped the matter was science, most probably, because the majority made clearer. of the people have rather poorly developed The Baldwin Index from liaker University, heads. But though we blame no one for join- Baldwin, Kan., has just made its appearance in ing in u|)holding so harmless a fashion, yet our sanctum. The different ])artsare moderate- when he produces reasons for so doing, they ly well sustained, but the editorials being put should have at least a shade of reasonableness. after the literary department, seem out of place.

The writer curiously concludts that if phreno- There is a great deal of first class literature in logy is true, Christianity is false, and ends his the number we have seen, literature in essay thus: " Phrenology leads to materialism, the form of quotations from authors of more or — — — ' — —

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less notoriety. No doubt this displays the The University of Pennsylvania's base-ball familiarity of the editor, with standard works, nine for the coming season is expected to be but in a college paper, we want to have the " one of the strongest of all the college

' student's ideas expressed in the student's words. teams. plan massing the exchange notes with The of Professor Baur, of Yale, was recently knocked the general news is a very bad one. Each of " senseless by the bursting of a " venerable these departments ought to be ably managed in ostrich egg. every college paper, but should never be merged "The University of Pennsylvania has plans in one, and to introduce miscellaneous quota- for the formation of an extensive botanical gar- tions into either of them, is in exceedingly poor den." taste. >< Twenty-seven men have played in at least GENERAL COLLEGE NEWS. one game on the LTniversity of Pennsylvania's foot-ball team in the past season. "An annex for women is to be established at The son of President Arthur, and two sons of Yale." President Garfield are studying law at Colum- cent, of Freshmen use "Twenty per Yale bia. Ex. tobacco." The parents of a student who was expelled Harvard's Christmas vacation began as late as from Dickinson, have begun a suit against the December 24. college for gio,ooo. Ex.

The University of Pennsylvania has a Pro- A professor in a Vienna LTniversity made fessor of Assyrian Art. himself insane over a mathematical problem, and A Yale paper gives portraits of their nine, then committed suicide. crew, and foot-ball eleven. It is reported that Dr. Beck will retire from

A Chair of Pedagogics is in prospect at the the foot-ball arena at the close of this season. University of Pennsylvania. The Doctor has had a career of about S years. Ex. The Princefonian of December S, has an in- teresting discussion of defects in the foot-ball Ames, Princeton's freshman half-back, won rules. the prize cup for the largest score made in their inter-collegiate foot-ball matches. scored Williams intends applying for admission to He touch downs. the Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball League. Ex. 7 The one hundredth anniversary of the confir- Two additional professors are to be appointed mation of the Royal Charter of Columbia Col- on the Faculty of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. lege by the New York legislature, will be cele- April 13, 1887. The Trustees of Columbia have decided not President McCosh, of Princeton, proposes to make Greek and Latin elective. Ex. a convention of colleges to restrict college sports The earliest piofessorship-of-law in this coun- and do away with existing abuses. He pro- try was established at William and Mary College poses that Harvard, as oldest, act in the initia- in 1779. tive. The modeler of the Puritan and Mayflower A convention of the Intcr-Collegiate Foot- recently lectured to the Harvard Freshmen on ball Association, after three hours hot debate, yachts. left the decision of the championship between

Captains-elect of foot-ball teams are : —Cook, Princeton and Yale, to the other colleges of the of Princeton ; Beecher, of Yale ; Holden, of league. These judged that Yale got the game,

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Vol. VIII. Haverford College, P. O., Pa., February, 1887. No. 5.

THE HAVERFORDIAN. 'T^HERE is a prevalent opinion among a large class of college men, that col-

EDITORS; lege is a place where petty vices can be LOGANIAN. indulged in with impunity, where one is JESSE E. run. ITS, Jr., '87, Chainnan. expected to be a little fast or he isn't any- thing, and where in fact all the various sorts ALERED C. GARRETT, '87. IHnVEEL S. ENGLAND, '88. of wild oats can be sown, afterwards to be ATIIEN.IiUM. choked out by a vigorous scattering of gen- IJAKKER NEWHALL, '87. uine wheat. It isn't necessary to name any WARNER H. KITE, '89. particular vice or vices in this connection EVERETT. ; ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. we might name three of the most prominent FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. and call them the college " graces," but we

Henry H. Goddard, '87, Business Mnnnger. shall not even do that.

Ai.Liso.N \V. Slocum, '88, Assistant Business J\/': Suffice it to say that this opinion is an

erroneous a fatal as well. Subscription Price, one year. $1.00 one and one No With " The Student," I -5° one can live a year or two along a down- Single Copies, .10 ward line and fully regain his loss. We The Haverfordian is the official organ of the students of Hav- erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during have a mathematical proof of this, if proof the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. were necessary. Entered at the Haverford Cottege Post Office^ /or transmis- sion through the mails at seconet-class rates. One reason why such a sentiment is

abroad is because the better class of stu- HE formation of a State Intercollegiate dents are not outspoken against it. A little T Press Association meets with our more decided stand against some things warm approval. The hearty cooperation of would be sufficient to decrease their num- our fellow-editors ^\ill make it a success, ber. When the college record is made and what is more, a lasting benefit to col- up, and when each student passes judgment lege journalism. So soon as people recog- on his work, some men will find themselves nize that a college organ is not issued for behind, and it will not be those who take a fun, but because it has something to say and decided stand against college vices. means to say it, just so soon we will see their standards raised and a place for them in the journalistic world. There is no rea- "\ 1 TE wish to extend to Professor -Sharp- son why a college monthly should not have less our greatest thanks, in behalf of as wide a circulation and as high literary the cricketing fraternity of the college, for merit as many of our professional literary the time and trouble he has expended in magazines. Lack of time is a considera- obtaining funds, materials and workmen for tion, but this can be more than compensated the construction of the new cricket-practice for by the number of editors and the abund- shed. The students themselves for whom ance of material. A retrospection shows a the shed has been built,—both as a place steady advance, and the prospect indicates where they can continue their cricket-prac-

its continuance. Hail the Intercollegiate tice during the winter, and where their su- Press Association. perfluous energies and apparently automatic ;

72 THE HAVERKORDIAN.

tendency to damage college property may Now, at first thought, it seems that nothing be harmlessly worked off,—have certainly could be more appropriate, than that the done next to nothing towards aiding its literary societies should control the paper, completion. Of the several hundred dollars and surely no better plan could be adopted,

necessary, the students have contributed if the societies were the college.

only fifty, the rest having been secured However, as the facts now stand, there is through the liberality of friends and the en- a considerable and increasing body of the ergy of Professor Sharpless. We would students who do not belong to any society, also give our best thanks to those friends but who are students nevertheless and ought

of the good game ; they have certainly done to feel that they have a real interest in the one of the best things for cricket at Haver- college paper. These men must be repre- ford which has yet been forthcoming. But sented. How this representation can be the way for the students to express their brought about, the present editors cannot

is is appreciation of the benefit to use it, and as yet fully agree ; nor it for them espe- to turn out next spring such an array of ac- cially to decide, for the problem belongs to curate bowlers and batsmen that the unex- the college as a whole. pected loss of some of our best cricketers It may be well to state the manner of

will not be felt and the college may hold its conducting the papers at other colleges, in

own as it has succeeded pretty well in doing order to enable us to arrive at some more heretofore. But the best way to show this definite ideas on the subject. appreciation would be to continue the good In some colleges the papers are conducted " work by making improvements, such as hav- by a self-perpetuating board," that is, the ing a sky-light put in the roof just above the members of each board, before retiring the " pitch," extending the wainscotings, from office, elect their successors. This setting "stumps" of the right size, padding method at once malces of the editors a select the walls at the sides and behind the bats- body, a kind of aristocracy, who represent man, enlarging the white back-ground be- no one but themselves. As this plan does hind the bowler, placing some material of not admit of any representation by election " " the consistency of sod on the pitch to on the part of the college, it is plain that

prevent the ball from rising so swiftly, etc. our present system is better. A simple and good way to improve the Other papers are managed by a joint light would be to paint the interior of the stock company, whose members are chosen building white. All these improvements in various ways. This is a good plan when should be accomplished from the funds of the company is composed of a large major-

the cricket club, to prove that the students ity of the students, otherwise it lies open to appreciate the start which their friends have the same serious objection as the first-named given them. system. Some few papers are conducted by only A S the time for the election of a new one class, but this plan is open to the great ^^ board of Haverfokdian editors draws objection that all the editors are new every on, a great problem has thrust itself upon year, thus causing annual attacks of green- the consideration of the present manage- ness ; for just as one board of editors be- ment. How can we make our paper in comes capable of producing a decent paper, reality what it only professes to be now, an it is deposed bodily, and an entirely green organ of the students ? board takes its place. Every one knows how, at present, the Several \ery good papers are conducted editors are elected, and what they represent. by men chosen by competitive examination ; !

THE H AVERKORDIAN. 73

but as the successful candidates may not how little we really know about them, until

represent the opinions of the college at all, the examinations are at hand. Then it is this system will not answer our purpose. that we have to do some of our hardest

The literary society plan is the one per- work, and often to very little purpose. For

haps the most widespread of any ; but this though cramming will generally put us

we have already, and it is to remedy the through, and often with a good mark, yet evils of this that we propose a change. subjects studied in this way are not really Although the present board has not ar- mastered. The knowledge so hastily and

rived at any definite conclusion as to what promiscuously acquired is not stored up for will be the best method to adopt, they are, future use, but only borrowed, so to speak, at present, inclined to favor a modification until the examinations are over, after which

of tlie joint stock conipau)' plan, wliich will it is flung to the winds. be something like this. Every man in college No amount of cramming can possibly would be a member of the company, and make up for good, steady work during the the editors and business managers would be term. The only way to acquire a lasting

elected according to class, and by their own knowledge of a subject, is to master it, step

class-mates. That is, each class would have by step, as the lessons are assigned. Then, a stated number of representatives, and the too, the explanations of the instructor will privilege of choosing them. This would have their due effect Be not deceived nor give each man a lively interest in the paper, discouraged because the man who crams and, at the same time, restrict the election gets a better grade than you. Marks, as of editors in such a way that no one class admitted by all experienced professors, are could usurp too much power. The editors only approximate tests of proficiency, and

simply state the matter, in order that it may it is only necessary to be near the top. In be considered by the college at large. It studies in which you take an especial inter-

would be well to carry out whatever change est, it should of course be your aim to do seems best to the college, before the time as well as possible. In all others, whether for electing the new board of editors, early you like them or not, do your duty by them

in April. during the term, and when the examinations

come you will not regret it. Hereafter let "T^HE Examinations have come and gone, it be your ambition to be able to say, as and we have experienced our usual the dreaded season approaches, " / )ieed not disappointments and surprises. The lazy cram." man has in some cases failed utterly, while in others he has managed to skin through MUSIC. by the skin of his teeth. Many good stu-

Great Angel ! rountl our planet wandering, dents have astonished themselves and their Thou seekest him who hath a wailing soul, Professors by their productions. Let us see To enter there and make thine own the whole, if we cannot draw some useful lessons from Possessed of greatness thou alone canst bring. experience. Entranced in mystery words may never sing He whirls on passionate waves that surge and roll We all have our particLilar study or Implacably. The solemn ages toll in whicli we are generally well pre- studies Or tlowery wreaths of melody round him cling. pared, but we have also our " Cares," or Thou mountest to our spiritual part

studies, in which we take but little interest. Most near, far Echo of the choirs of Heaven

Oh I enter here and sound upon my heart; We go on from month to month, giving With nobleness my aspirations leaven. such subjects as little attention as possible, That thoughts and deeds may fall in perfect art,

and it is seldom that we fully appreciate And slumbering worlds awake and move and start. 74 the; h avbrkordian.

EARLHAin COI^LEGE. year the first session of the Boarding School was opened. It was provided that no one 'T'HE church and the school are two in- should be connected with the institutio'n in stitutions, for which the Society of the capacity of student or teacher who was Friends, during the entire period of its ex- oot a member of the Society of Friends. istence, lias manifested special concern. It We quote from the rules of the first Board- has advocated the theory that the one is " ing School Committee : The teachers and the counterpart of the other. To the soul, scholars shall be members of our religious acute and trained in the perception of society and conform to plainness in dress spiritual truth, it would cast in as a second and language." factor, a mind cultured and refined by a Under this organization the school year study of literature and science, thus produc- was divided into two terms of twenty-three ing the noblest type of manhood. In the weeks each. The expense per term was light of this fact, it is not strange that very $30.00. The students usually came with soon after Friends' settlements began to be their minds fully made up to make the best made in Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana, of opportunities. Some had had experience attempts were made to establish a school in in teaching and most expected to teach. whicluthe young might be educated. Those It must be remembered that no railroads nor coming from the Carolinas had been ac- graveled turnpikes had yet been constructed customed to a system of schools under their in the vicinity. The stage coach line con- own control ; while those from Pennsylvania necting Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, brought with them a knowledge of the passed through Richmond. Students within educational systems of the East. range of this line commonly did their travel- Earlham has not been a plant of rapid

ing on it ; while it was no uncommon thing growth. In 1832 the Indiana Yearly Meet- for them to come from homes more than ing first considered thepropriety of establish- an hundred miles distant by means of car- ing somewhere within its limits a Boarding riages. School. The committee to which the sub- ject was referred ha\ing reported favorably, But the true life of the institution dates from the task of raising means was undertaken 1859, when it was reorganized and placed and at the close of the following year, ^137 upon a college basis. For this new college had been collected. With the exception of the name of Earlham was proposed and 1835, in which year nothing is reported to adopted in honor of Joseph John Guerney, have been received, the committee appointed who owned a country seat in England by to receive contributions report each year that name. small sums until 1837. In this year ^59.85 Two courses of study leading to the

were collected. From this it will be seen bachelor's degree were opened, viz.: the

that means did not accumulate very fast. Classical and Scientific. It continued thus

But in joyous anticipation a site had already until the fall of 1884, when a Latin-Scientific, been chosen for the prospective building. embracing most of the studies of classical

It was in 1839 that the foundations were course except that history and mathematics laid, but owing to the great financial panic were substituted for Greek, was added. In that prevailed throughout the land at that the autumn of the next year a course, based

time, work was obliged to cease, and it was upon modern languages, was instituted

not till 1847 that the structure was com- under the dirrection of Dr. Hans C. G. von pleted ready for the reception of students. Jagemann, whose profound scholarship and On the 7th day of the 6th month of this enthusiasm have placed him among the very THE HAVERKORDIAN. 75 foremost of modern language teachers in own extensive libraries. The Ionian became

America. This course requires three full an incorporated body in 1S74, and its official years of German, during the last of which organ is the Earlliamitc. lectures and recitations are entirel)' in Ger- From its beginning, ladies have enjoyed but the of the centers in man ; work year the same pri\ileges as gentlemen. They the study of the history of German language recite in the same classes and recei\-e the and literature, and in the philological ex- same degrees. A glance at the roll shows amination of the most important works that the attendance is now nearly equally representative of different periods. Two divided between the two sexes. years arc given to French. During the Earlham is a denominational college. But second )'ear difficult modern French prose although founded and maintained by the is read and essays on connected themes Society of Friends, with the primar}- object written by the class. of fitting its members for honorable posi-

While Earlham recognizes the utility of tions in the church and in society, its halls foreign languages in the educational field, are not barred to persons of a different per- it is not disposed to sacrifice to them the suasion. Man\' of its students are members time that should be given to the English of other churches, and two of its ablest pro- language, A thorough study of this richest fessors have been Lutherans. The aim of literatures has been a prominent feature is to teach religion of the heart rather in the course of instruction. An entire year than strict conformance to creed. The is given to this branch. Typical works of moral tone of Earlham society is equalled each literary period are chosen for study. by that of but few institutions anywhere. The chief works of Shakspere and Emerson True to the ancient customs of Quakerism, arc critically examined, while the American the mid-week meeting is continued. Chapel group of poets are read and discussed. To exercises are held every morning before the supplement this, there is a course in com- day's work is begun, for attendance on position for all classes. Each student is re- which every student is held responsible. quired to prepare and deliver before his class Earlham does not suffer by comparison per term besides appearing two essays ; be- with any of her colleagues in the West. fore the whole school and such visitors as Not having as large an endowment fund as present, may be once a year. An oratorical has fallen to the lot of some others, it has contest, in which members of the Junior not been able to provide as extensive an class participate is one of the events of the outfit "of physical apparatus as ha\e State spring term. The contest takes place in the institutions like Michigan Ll^niversit)' or the cit}' of Richmond, and a full audience is Ohio State University. But through the always sure to greet the candidates for labors of so ardent a disciple of Agassiz as oratorical honors. Joseph Moore, it has been enabled to have

Secret societies of course are not tolerated, at its command a geological and zoological I'"astern Ijut their place is more than taken by two cabinet which many colleges would active Literary •.Societies. The Phruni.v be proud to possess. While the range of

Band conducted b)- the ladies of the college instruction is not as varied as that in some classes, began its existence in 1856; while others, it lias ever been characterized by its brother. The Ionian, first saw light a thoroughness. year later. At present the average mem- Its graduates arc well distiibuted among bership of former is different professions the about thirty ; of the the and occupations. latter, about forty. Both these societies Quite a numljcr, coming from the farm, have —— ——! —; ; !

76 THE HAVERKORDIAN. returned to it. Some have chosen literature THE PRESEKT. and become eminent in its walks. Others The poet dreamed until it seemed have risen to distinction at the bar: still others All real things were gone ; Its veil unfurled another world have become missionaries. But the field He fore him floated on. into which the larger portion of Earlhamites In visions of enchanted air enter is that of teaching. So marked is this The past had lost its little pain In perfect joy 'twas born again tendency, that one is almost regarded as a And stood transfigured there. "stray sheep in the fold," if he does not at For high arose before his gaze some time make a trial of the business. In lines of wandering light, Four college presidents and fourteen pro- A silver dream of saintly haze, A towering and transcendent blaze, fessors have received here their first As marvellously bright degree. As Heaven's citadels, The home where everlasting beauty dwells. The natural beauty of the surrounding He dreamed a dream of former times. country acts as an inspiring influence. The And something seemed to bring The harmonies of many chimes, buildings are located on a farm of one hun- More sweet than mortals ring, dred and sixty acres, south of the National More like the hymns that spirits sing.

Road, one mile west of Richmond. Near Ah ! music like the Sabbath bells From clouds of summer sky. b}' is the Whitewater gorge, rich in geogical When Nature's voice rejoicing tells specimens of the earliest periods, where the From all her rivulets and dells How we may then draw nigh profitably ambitious student of nature may To Zion's throne, spend his leisure moments. The native So now alone, From far and deep the former music wells. forests consisting chiefly of oak and hiccory in the distant, distant past are the home of more than a hundred Joy Joy ! when the future's stirring hope species of flora. The college itself is sur- In all unfathomed splendor massed Ajijieareth where the portals ope beautiful groves lawns. rounded by and That guard the darkness round us cast. But sad, that all must die Located as it is in Eastern Indiana, Earl- Across the glorious sky, ham occupies a central position with regard A sunset fading on a mountain slope. to Friends' settlements in the Ohio Valley. The poet turned his thoughts to toilsome things: Where now is joy, and In this territory are three Yearly Meetings, where the blazing , dreams; viz. : the Ohio, Indiana and Western, num- No more the vision glows nor music sings The sudden flash of insight only seems. bering in all not less than forty thousand The silver chimes of former times, members. It is plain that a religious organ- The future's mighty sound. ization of such magnitude should have in Are like the throbbing, mounting waves The dreamy sea that leaps and raves its midst a college in which its principles Along our carnal bound : may be taught, and in which culture and And of the time far distant tells This sea of sound that haunts the bells. refinement may be imparted to its members. But now, the present hour. By employing a faculty composed of With pitiless iron power, Is like the crashing clapper-clang thorough scholars, Earlham is able to fulfill From which the dreamy music sprang ! these demands and to give to its graduates Down, down, down ! his spirit sank, a diploma that is recognized by the best As if 'twould never rise again; And deep of dark and bitter pain. institutions everywhere, giving promise Of .sorrow and despair, he drank. thus, of being in the future as it has been Hard pres,sed with fear and hope forlorn. His heart could only mourn and mourn past, ; in the the moral and intellectual centre Far gone was all his gladness and complacence. of Western Ouakerdom. Oh, bow not to the Present ! Bow not down

Rouse thy giant .spirit ; it Arthur L. Morgan. up make reign ! And low before the glories of thy crown. Earlham Colle^'e, Riihmoud, Jan. zg, iS8y. Thy momentaiy trials sink in deep obeisance. THE H AVERKORDI AN. 77

LORD niACAVLAV. no one could see. He never for a moment admitted to himself the possibility of his be- statesman in English history has XTO ing wrong. His understanding was swift held a political position so easy to and accurate ; he quickly comprehended the define as that of Lord Macaulay. The question at issue and immediately formed of his policy are as clearly cut as features his own opinion. When once he had com- of his character. was a Whig of those He mitted himself to an opinion he never re- the most advanced type. Political power, considered it indication tracted ; and he an believed, was the right solely of the he of the highest sense of honor in a states- people. the will of the people the By man that he should adhere to one set of governed; by that will he was ad- King opinions and to one party throughout his that will stood the House of vised; by career. that will the Established Lords, and by He was a man of strength rather than of His whole career, both as a Church. sensibility. He loved strong men and and an historian, was marked statesman strong characters. He forgave the vices of firm adherence in this principle. He by a the strong more readily than he acknowl- the Reform Bill because the supported edged the virtues of the weak. A man of ceased to repre- House of Commons had large and generous impulses, he appre- people; he opposed the Estab- sent the ciated perfectly the noble and grand parts of Ireland because that lished Church of human nature; to the gentler passions was not the church of the Irish church he seems to have been utterly indifferent. people; he supported the Established It is probable that he was well aware of of England because that church Church this peculiarity of character. ' He had no church of the English people. was the idea whatever of either art or music. reason, in his writings, he For the same Though he wrote verses, he rarely wrote II. with an excess of severity loads James poetry, nor do we believe that he consid- and William of Orange with an excess of ered himself a poet. For polish and bril- Yet it must not be inferred that praise. liancy his verses are not inferior to Pope's; carried the popular theory of govern- he for strength and eloquence they are supe- so far as to be insensible to the bless- ment rior to Pope's. But his rhymes ha\-e order and the advantages of a ings of neither the gentle beauty of Wordsworth government. He was, indeed, a strong nor the rugged grandeur of Homer. In zealous Whig, but he admitted the neces- fact, his notion of poetry prevented him of a Tory power in the state. " One," sity from being a poet. In the essa}- on Milton he sajs, " is the moving power and the we are told that poetry was an art of antiq- other the steadying power of the state. uity; that it belonged to the childhood of is the sail, without which society One the human race; that men of modern times would make no progress; the other the may read poetry, and may e\-en write ballast, without which there would be small poetry, but that the enthusiasm which pro- safety in tempest." was quick to a He duced and the simplicity which nourished perceive a change in the condition of the the great poems of the past is lost forever people and prompt to legislate for that to the human race. change, but he trusted not less the strength In spite of an acquaintance with history of ancient customs and ancient institutions. and literature, in which hardly any man has No man was ever less guilty of the sin excelled him, he seems to have been a of the Laodiccans. What he saw he saw man of rules rather than of principles, a clearU', and wliat he did not see he thought man of deeds rather than of thoughts, a 78 THE HAVERKORDLVN. statesman rather than a philosopher. He ophy had nearly perished. The philosophy could detect the faults of a false system of of the Renaissance was that of the ancients. philosophy, but could not construct a sys- Bacon came and invented new methods of tem of his own. While still a young man arriving at truth, explored new fields of he became famous for his attack upon the knowledge and gave an impulse to that Utilitarian theory of government. Yet great wave of natural science which has

even here he failed to produce any counter- . come down to us laden with the splendid theory; and in his criticism of Mitford's discoveries of Newton and Galileo, with "History of Greece " he frankly o\vns»that the valuable inventions of Stephenson and he attaches no importance to theories of Morse, and which has \\rought a mighty government. " A man who upon abstract change in the civilized world within every principles should pronounce a government generation. The great effect which the to be good, without an exact knowledge of steam engine, the electric telegraph and

the people to be governed by it, judges as the Atlantic cable have had upon civiliza-

absurdly as a tailor who should measure tion has turned the attention of all scholars the Belvidere Apollo for the coats of all his to the study of physics. The study of ab-

customers." stract truth is nearly forgotten ; and schol-

It is, however, in his essay on Bacon that ars, in their anxiety for the material progress we learn most of the general tenor of his of humanity, have forgotten that material

mind. The philosophy of the ancients, pro.sperity is only a great and important he says, was to make men perfect. Bacon's means to the cultivation of the mind and philosophy was to make imperfect men com- the soul of man. No class of men were fortable. It is not difficult to learn, in his more ready to appreciate the effect of the excessive praise of Bacon, that Macaulay study of physics upon publi-c prosperity was a man who thought more of making than statesmen and political economists, imperfect men comfortable than of making and no class of men were more inclined to men perfect. " Logicians," he informs us, depreciate a philosophy which gave no aid

" may reason about abstractions, but the to civilization. It is, therefore, not a matter great mass of men must have images.' of surprise to us that Macaulay, who was We suspect that Macaulay belonged, in this by .nature rather unspiritual, should attribute respect, to the great mass of men. He to the Baconian philosophy greater virtues

certainly required images. The visible than it possessed and should visit the philos- results of modern philosophy were to him ophy of Socrates with more contempt than

of vastly greater importance to mankind it deserved. than the invisible results of the philosophy Macaulay's essays are perhaps the most of Socrates. intoxicating literary fruit of the English

We think, however, that this caste of language. A well-known writer on litera-

thought was in some degree owing to the ture has said that, to gain the full force of age in which he lived. The ancient philos- Macaulay's sentences, they must be read ophers dwelt upon only one side of philos- twice, but to comprehend their meaning, a ophy. They dealt largely with doctrines glance is sufficient. To no poition of his

of spiritual perfection. They, indeed, set writings is this remark more applicable

before them high and noble ends, but they than to his essays. Like luxuriant fruit, either overlooked despised the means to are not easily or they pressed dry ; but enough those ends. During those dark ages which mav be quickl}' obtained to satisfy the followed the overthrow of the Roman Em- thirst. Indeed, it is not easy to read them pire even the memory of the ancient philos- slowly. The progress of the narrative is —;

THB H AVERKORDIAN. 79 so swift, the labor of uncierstanding so with that of Mr. Green, for instance, — will small, the argument gleaming with so much detect any material difference. A states- brilliance and vivacity that the mind is man rather than a philosopher, he has writ- unconsciously hurried to the conclusion ten history rather for the establishment of yet, upon a second reading, the study of political rules than for the attainment of ab- his words and figures, of his antithesis and stract truth. In this respect he does not climax, reveals the wonderful completeness rank among those who are properly re- and perfection that are under the dazzling garded as the highest class of historians. exterior of the work. There are, indeed, His History establishes no general prin-

faults. The rhetoric is at times showy. It ciples, nothing that could be used in the must be remembered, however, that they construction of a system of government. were written to catch the popular eye and It is a history of Britain, written for the to die as soon as public curiosity had been British, to explain and defend the British satisfied it was only after an ill-spelled constitution. ; and and ill-punctuated edition had been issued As such, however, it is invaluable. There by unauthorized persons that the author is no constitution in the world so stable consented to correct and revise works to and vigorous as the unwritten constitution which he attached no great value. They of the British. The story of its birth is were mostly written while Macaulay was lost in the Witenagemot of the Anglo- taking a conspicuous part in great political Saxons. At the time of the Great Charter events, and the spirit of the House of Com- it had already passed fiom childhood into pervades the whole argument and at the close of mons and youth ; the seventeenth emphasis. century, after an active though turbulent

Of all his works there is none of so youth, its majority was tardily recognized sustained excellence as the History of Eng- by the Act of Settlement. Macaulay 's land. There are passages more eloquent History was to co\er that period from the in "Hastings" than in the History; there accession of James II. to the reign of are more beautiful passages in " Milton," George IV. Hardly had he begun his stronger passages in " Barere;" but in none work when he was prostrated by heart

is eloquence, strength and beauty combined disease. He felt that his tihie was short. and sustained so well as in the History. He saw that he must alter his plan Parts of the essays might be called flowery, or leave his work undone. He deter- but no just critic would jmpute this fault to mined to make an effort to complete the the History. In this work, written in the reign of William HI. and the history of ripe judgment of experience, he has ex- the Act of Settlement. During the last

changed the oratorical style of the essays seven years of his life, in which he was for a style more suited to the dignity and never free from sickness, he labored bravely gravity of his subject. There is no loss of at a work w hich he had hardly completed wit, vivacity, or of enthusiasm, but he has at his death. He has left to the English learned to "beget a temperance which people a noble account of that period of shall give it smoothness," and what his their history when their constitution as- style has lost in glare it has gained in splen- sumed the form which it still bears. dor and richness. The st)'le of Macaulay has had a great Respecting the \eracity of his Historj- effect upon the English language. With there has been much dispute; )et no one an immense vocabulary and a clear, exact who will compare his Histor}' with other notion of the meaning of everj' word, he standard histories of the same period was able to w rite in a style w hich has ne\'er —

8o TMEi KAVERKORDIAN. been excelled by aii\- writer for perspicuity ALITMKJI DEPARTMENT. of and expressiveness. A comparison HAVERFORD FIFTY YEARS AGO. Macaulay's English with that of Bacon first \ivid impression, and Shakespeare, or ev-en with that of My on going to Haverford, in 1836, was of the broad brow, Hume and Dr. Johnson, will show what silver hair and paternal voice of Daniel B. English has great strides the language Smith. " Master Daniel " we soon learned made in exactness, and also with what ex- to call him. It was a " School " then, not

actness Macaulay used that language. A yet a College ; our teachers were masters, not professors although their ability, re\iew of the works of subsequent writers ; learn- ing and functions might -Hell have justified will fail to produce any clearer expression such a title. Six teachers and officers at of thought. The clearness of the language that time constituted the faculty, or staff, of of the present day we owe largely to the school : one not engaged in giving in- Macaulay, and more than one great writer struction, unless in the important depart- has acknowledged his debt to him. Yet, ment of practical ethics and institutional law. This department was celebrated not thirty years have passed since his death, among us by an irreverent and anonymous and the prevailing style of English is band, in a poem of some length, of which I greatly changed. Macaulay's style is a remember now only these lines : medium between the involved and stately "Arise, in haste to dress, James, the Bible has been read. Latin of Dr. Johnson and the simple Saxon Thee knows 1 have authority to ptiU thee out of bed." of Mr. Ruskin. We are now under the influence of a movement in favor of the "Among the qualms of regret for early short-comings have been, with Saxon constituent of our language, a move- some of us, those for our want of proper respect and ment, however, which, as Professor Louns- regard for this honest and useful official, observes, cannot be permanent. There bury who, since leaving Haverford, has lived a can be no doubt that the English-speaking long and honorable life, not long since people of the future will choose for their ended, as a physician, in California. model of style—so far as they will choose One recollection of those days is of our models of style from writers of past ages bodily hardiness. No furnace, grate or stove warmed the sleeping-rooms of Old from those who have made the best and Founders' Hall, and some of us, at least, most discriminating use of both the Latin kept our windows open all the year round, and Saxon elements of their tongue, none whatever the temperature, from zero to 95° of whom have excelled Lord Macaulay. Fahrenheit. No gymnasium existed then on

the grounds ; but. the few "bars" on the of the woods were much used, DRIFXIIVG. edge and the "ball alley" was a favorite resort for a very pleasant exercise. Our games were foot- ball, "shinney," base or "corner" ball, and, We were in the current drifting, Rapt in mists and near the sliore, at last, cricket, which I well reinember But, at times, the clouds uplifting, playing at Haverford in '38 or '39. Opened to our vision shifting Football Glimpses of old Labrador, then was a very good, acti\e Of that rough and rock-bound country and sufficiently rough game. As an old- stormy Labrador. Known as timer, I must protest against that I call the II degeneration of this into the terribly rude, Soul of mine, thou too art drifting sometimes almost or qtiite brutal, mashing mist-encircled sea. O'er a and bruising fight of the common "Rugby" But the clouds, before thee lifting. Open to thy vision shifting football of to-day. Glimpses of eternity. Swimming in our dam, in the woods at a Of that course of endless changes short distance south of the college, Which men call eternity. was a H. S. England. delightful summer refreshment. Most of ;

THB HAVERFORDIAN. 8r us went thither after four o'clock on sum- read by the graduates. Of that class of mer afternoons. For skating, we liad to nine, but one now survives. make special excursions to a greater dis- On the whole, fifty years ago, we had a tance, unless we were contented with the very good time at Haverford. Solid, small circle allowed by the same modest thorough instruction was given, while liter- dam. " Kelley's dam " was our principal ary culture was fostered. Our love of "the resort at such times. true, the beautiful and the good" was Harverford literary life was then pretty cherished, by precept, example, and the active, being encouraged and aided b)' the power of personal influence. While we re- talents and culture of our preceptors. John joice in the greatly enlarged prosperity and Gummere, the Superintendent and teacher resources of Haverford College to-day, our of mathematics and astronomy, was ab- affectionate remembrance will always linger sorbed in the sciences, of which he was a around the "Auld Lang Syne" of Founders' master and an authority. Daniel B. Smith Hall. Thirtv-Nine. was endowed with admirable taste, large reading, and enthusiasm for poetry. His rendering of Wordsworth, especially, will '42 Richard Cadbury has resignetl his never be forgotten. In the Loganian So- position as Steward of the Pennsylvania ciety, William Dennis, our classical teacher, Hospital, and has opened an ofifice as ex- graduate of a New England college, and pert accountant. He has presented tw'o Samuel Gummere, assistant teacher of plaster casts to the College Library. mathematics, afterwards President of the '49 Albert K. Smiley was at the College College, aroused our wonder by their on the i6th ult., on the way to Florida and fluency and copiousness of matter and ex- California. pression in the debates. The Literary Societies, besides the Log- '53 Wm. B. Morgan, A. M., has suffered anian, were the Historical and the Franklin from trouble with the eyes, and has been Literary Society. Older students mostly incapacitated for work. belonged to the former. Our evening '53 Wm. H. Pancoast has resigned from meetings were very much enjoyed. Never Jefferson Medical College, and has entered in life have I since felt so warm a glow my the Medico-Chirurgical College. of literary ambition, as was kindled by listening to the eloquence, in prose or verse, '56 R. P. Hallowell has just issued of Fisher or Serrill (both long since passed from the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., away) in those days. My conviction was "The Pioneer Quakers," a defence of the then formed, and has never been altered, Friends in Massachusetts in the Colonial also the that the students' own literary societies days ; fourth edition of the "Quaker have great value and importance as parts of Invasion of Massachusetts." the intellectual life and work of a college. '69 Pendleton King is Secretary of the I was present at the first Commencement Legation and Acting U. S. Minister, at of Haverford, in 1836. It was held in the Constantinople, Turkej', vice Hon S. S. " lecture-room,"now the dining-room of the Cox. college. The two graduates were Thomas F. Cock, of New York, now M.D., and '70 Rev. Chas. Wood, A.M., has con- " LL. D. ; the latter honorary degree having ducted Theatre Services for the Non- been bestowed upon him by the college in Church Goers," in the Arch Street Opera this winter. its Semi-Centennial }-ear : and Joseph Wal- House The audiences have ton, at present the able Clerk of Philadel- been so large that many have been turned phia Yearly Meeting, and Editor of the away. Rev. Dr. McVickarand others have Friend. The exercises were very simple preached. with "no flowers" either of rhetoric or '71 Wm. P. I'' vans has gone to CaliTornia those gathered from the greenhouse or for his health. garden. At the ne.xt Commencement, in 1837, several very creditable "essays," '72 Abram F. Huston has latclj- been which would now be called orations, were made a Manager of the College. :

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'72 R. T. Cadbury, A.M., has gone to LOCALS. Boston, and resides at Charles River Sta- The sleds have not come up to last year's tion, Mass. record yet.

'73 J. L. Tomhnson and W. A. Blair, '81, We learn that it is salutatory to take a balh has started a paper called Tlic Scliooltcadicr, once a week. in North Carolina. A certain Junior will please brush liis hair before coming to meeting. '81 W. P. Shipley has been suffering from • The Baroness says the Examinations are a a severe attack of neuralgia in the face, great strain. We agree with hiin. but we are glad to hear that he is much better. The new papering in the dining room is very fine. We can now feast our eyes while minis- '82 L. M. Winston is in the office of the tering to our bodily wants. City Engineer, Philadelphia. " Shang " says electricity must be at the bot- '82 Samuel B. Shoemaker, M.D., has torn of it, and yet the Professor calls him selfish for keeping a joke to himself. been appointed a Resident Physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Student to waiter, who has just given him a " piece of meat : Is that the rarest you have?" '84 T. H. Chase has spent the last month " Yes, sir." " Well, then, bring me something with his late uncle's family, and has now rarer." secured a position in a New York publish- It reminded us of our childhood to see the ing house. " incubates " sliding down the hill on little pieces of ice. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Loganian was given a rare treat in the form of a lecture on "The Comedie," by Pro- Mr. David McConaughy, General Secre- fessor Lepoids. This was the gentleman's first tary of the Philadelphia Association, and attempt at lecturing in English, but he made Assistant State Mr. W. A. Bowen, Secre- himself very well understood. He touched tary, conducted a meeting in the Y. M. C. upon writers ancient and modern, and his lec- A. Room on the i ith ult. ture was very interesting to the small but select audience which heard him. Rufus P. King, just returned from a mis- sionary tour around the world, gave an The new spring-doors in Barclay Hall have account of his travels before the Associa- made the halls so hot that Beauty says he would tion on the first of this month. like to go out between the acts. The Intcrcollcgian gives a cut and an The following was found among the Labora-

tory receipts : account of the dedication of Dwight Hall, I Camel's Hairbrush. the home of the Yale Y. M. C. A. This We never knew before that the animals used is the fourth building of the kind in the them. country, and must greatly aid the Christian work of the University. Tiie local editor is ready to receive condol- ences. The bottom of his trusted silver mine Either Mr. Wishard or Mr. Ober, Col- has at last dropped out, and he is once more of International lege Secretaries the Com- thrown localless upon the world. In short, the mittee, will visit us here soon. Geology recitations have stopiped. In view of

this fact, we offer the following, as it is The Association has several speakers in our last opportunity view who have promised to address it, either Icebergs were defined as " Chunks of ice secularly or religiously, and hopes to con- floating about on the ocean." tinue the addresses of the past. Certain rocks were said to have an organic Checkers and chess have been lately disposition. added to the Association room, and seven Sandstone was said to form limestone by papers, including the Daily Press, arc on metamorphosis, The sturgeon was stated to have a gelatinous file there. A rack and files now add to the skeleton. convenience of their use. And the chemical element usually found in The Association's membership is now 5 i. organic rocks, was ^aid to be limestone. —

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In Deschanel a SopJiomore refers to the cyl- Speaking of derivations, " Jim " wants to inder of an engine as the " i)iston-rod box," an know the adii/Ura/ion of the word "dent." ingenious (.-ombination of words which would One absent-minded friend was studying in delight the heart of a hater of comprehensive his room, the other day, when a student, hav- Latin words. ing knocked and received no response, entered The following curious combination was scat- and sat down, apparently unobserved. He was tered broadcast in the hall one night. The not so sly as he thought, however, for our A. Faculty have vainly endeavored to ascertain in M. F. suddenly called out in a loud voice, what language it is written : " Come in." "Local, bumbocal, diddylumti-cumfocal, This is the season when the Junior goeth skeelegged, skylegged, bowlegged local." about seeking a subject for his oration. And The chemical comi)ound mentioned in our when he getteth him one, then doth he trans- last as defying analysis, still defies it, but is port a goodly part of the library over to his thought that it will soon undergo spontaneous own room, there privily to devour it. combustion and jjass off as CHj;stN[;ts. "Guss," or the man with the tight pantaloons, In one of the plays which the "advanced Ger- is said to possess an embryo. We have ordered mans " are reading, there is a long soliloquy. a microscope.

it, these erudite individu- After reading one of The " Good Samaritan " insists upon it that als remarked it was a wonder the actor didn't he is direct from Samaria. get out of breath. A still eruditer one, how- We have a fine lot of sleds on the Hill this ever, put in the point that " He couldn't because winter. '89 and '90 have each secured fine he was speaking to himself." We suppose he large sleds, and we now have ample accommo- thought it was a sort of" stage whi.sper." dation for visitors. It is a pity the new sleds A certain Senior wishes it distinctly under- were made quite so long, as it seems to be some stood that he has not got a corner in examina- disadvantage. The acme of perfection seems tion papers. to have been reached in 'S8's sled, which has When the sleepy Editor is consuming the held all records for three years. It has a plucky " midnight oil, the clang of the steam heater, little rival in '90's Kid," which gets up a echoing through the halls, fiills pleasantly on very respectable speed. '87's old terror still his ear, for it is the assurance of warmth and goes bumping and thumping down the Hill, comfort, whicli formerly could not be enjoyed and, from the loads it carries, it is a wonder at a late hour. there is anything left of it. We believe that "Casket's" sled is a worthy successor to the The "little children" on the third floor "Board of Health." amused themselves the other day by lowering sliidenl in tlie library things down the banisters. We used to do it A Among the alcoves oaken, when our feet were small, but we used strings In streams of blissful wisdom was of sheets. instead His dry cerebrum soakin', When " Fweddy " was asked how he thought (In criticising of the book jianes of glass were broken.) a certain actor was supported, he said, " It Two looks like marble, but guess its only wood." Senior. —" When does a Junior feel ilown in " We suppose he meant to say that all the other the mouth? actors were sticks. Junior. —"Give it up; never had the ex- When " Smithy " was asked to name two perience." kinds of electric lamps, hg said, " Candescent Sen. — " When his moustache is long enough and incandescent." to bite." — Where is " Wilson"? Prof, in Psychology. "What other of our daily operations belongs to the sensori-motor Now doth the musical Senior liie him away ?" to the hall heater, and when he hath perched class of actions Sucking, sir." liimself thereon, he poureth forth his soul in Precocious Senior. — song. Yea, the very walls doth he cau.se to re- On January jth James Wood lectured on verberate, until he putteth to shame the noctur- " l!y Whom and for What, Settlements in nal melody of the city felines, and outdoeth America were Made." even the delicious harmonies of pandemonium. On January 12th, Mr. Ellis Yarnall lectured A Senior has discovered that the number of very interestingly on his " Historical Recollec- burnt officers was greater at Tabernacles than at tions," relating his remembrances of Lafayette aay other feast. This is conclusive proof that and the Duke of Wellington, and of the times the Jews were cannibals. of Napoleon III. 84 THE HAVERKORDIAN.

I^ITERAXURE. aside from the interest derived from its Shake- spearian counterpart, is valuable as history. [Ai/ books received be/ore the 20th 0/ the month will be reviewed modern theory of science has opened such in the number issued on ike loth 0/ the/olltnving nionth.\ No a discussion as that of evolution, or the survival The changes are at present being rung upon of the fittest. Just how far the facts correspond the negro dialect and other local dialects to a to the hypothesis is yet to be proved. The field marvelous extent. It strikes us that this sort of is open to scientists and invites their acutest thing can be run into the ground ; and when powers of investigation and generalization. we read some of it we wish it were. A "The Origin of the Fittest," by E. D. Cope, more wishy-washy, insipid, senseless thing than from D. Appleton & Co., is worthy of more a poor story dressed up in detestable doggerel than a passing notice, both on account of the cannot be imagined. It takes a master to use high rank of its author as an anatomist and such a thing. Every literary tyro cannot be a jjaleontologist, and the merit of the work itself. Charles Egbert Craddock, and even she some- The book is in fact a collection of twenty pa- times is guilty of writing for the sake of the pers covering a period of as many years, but dialect alone. Still if we had any writing of nevertheless is a clear, logical statement of the this sort to be done we would rather trust it in facts upon which evolution is based. her hands than any one else. " The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley," by Ed-

The power which women are wielding in ward Dowden, LL.D., published by J. B. Lip- modern affairs is .so frequently brought to mind pincott Co., brings again to our consideration by the press, and by women themselves, that a name we are too apt to neglect. Lives of we must admit the question of woman's place Shelley have appeared before, but we may say in the world, of to-day, as one of the leading that this easily leads them all in authority as topics of our time. And whatever she may well as in interest. With many manuscripts have been, she has been advancing, and is and other hitherto unavailable material, the au- advancing, asserting her rights, using her power, thor has produced a book worthy of so remark- and, thank fortune, using it in the right direction. able a genius as Shelley. Perhaps no man ex- A little book from Chas. H. Kerr Ss" Co., hibits so many admirable traits coupled with Chicago, entitled, " The Social Status of Euro- such a disordered life, or lived a life so roman- pean and American Women," is full of facts on tic, if the term may be used to include the re- the subject of woman's condition in the leading sults of his strange social theories. countries of the world. The author, in speak- In the magazine world there is evidence of ing of America, says: " The lack of a uniform renewed activity. Atlantic leaves nothing to marriage and divorce law is a crying abuse." be desired, and it would take a cynic to find And again, after saying " the morality of Amer- anything there to criticise. ican women is liigher to-day than is that of any Harper' s and Century will find a dangerous other civilized community," she warns her rival in Scribner s magazine, which starts out sisters against a growing tendency to make vice with the brightest prospects and an assured suc- respectable, and throws 'the responsibility of cess that is deserved as well. Lippiiuotf s still elevating or degrading society upon the shoul- preserves its claim of being "eminently reada- ders of our mothers and our sisters. A little ble." Such a galaxy of monthlies may well more such wholesome advice, coupled with such delight the popular mind ; and the United a candid statement of facts, is what is needed States may compliment herself as much as she instead of a lot of poetic nonsense about likes upon the superiority of her magazines. "woman's possibilities " and the "future of woman." EXCHABiGES. From the .same house and in similar form comes "The Legend of Hamlet," by George The following new exchanges have been re- P. Hansen, late United States Consul at Elsi- ceived during the last month : nore, Denmark. Among the legendary records The University, of which we had heard from which have been preserved and incorporated its sister publication, the University Quarterly, into the history of Denmark, is that which tells is a paper which promises to be a credit both us the story of Hamlet. Almost every writer of to those who originated it and to the institu- Danish history, modern and ancient, refers to tion from which it comes. We shall gladly him as an historic personage. But the true exchange. Hamlet is far different from that of Shakespeare, The Coup iV Etat, from Knox College, 111., of and lives long after avenging the death of his which we have read such favorable comments in father, taking possession of the throne, and rul- many of our exchanges, at last has reached us. ing in the despotic barbarism which character- We are quite pleased with the paper, and hope terized his age. The story is nicely told, and to number it among our regular visitors. !

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The School Teacher, a journal '' devoted to Now for a perusal of some of our old friends: " approved methods and principles of teaching The Wilmington Collegian for January sur- and " to education in general," is a little prised us by its pale and wan appearance. On monthly magazine publislied at Winston, peeping between its covers we were still more N. C, bv two Haverford alumni, L. Toni- J. surprised at discovering that it was pale with linsop, ''73, and W. A. Blair, 'Si. The rage about our criticism of one of its November Haverkordian wishes them success. articles. Come, come, old boy, make uj) Tlie York Collegian is a rather awkward- We are perfectiy willing to admit, if it will looking paper coming from York College, cool your anger, that we do »•( lack that peculiar Nebraska. It contains only eight pages, but " depth of thought " which would enable us to since these are very large, and each has three view either the ])ast or present in the light of colunms of reading matter, it seems to be about any deformed, distorted, irrational dogma, or equivalent to an ordinary sixteen-page paper. set of dogmas, and tlien complacently assure The different departments of the Collegian are ourselves that we were viewing phenomena in well sustained, and its unwieldy size is the only the light of truth. thing we feel inclined to criticise. The Bates Student has again changed the The cutest little school magazine which we design of its cover, and this time has made a have seen for a long time is the Fenn Charier decided improvement. The Student ranks News. It is well conducted throughout, and among the best college monthlies, and always the old Penn Charter, which has prepared some contains something worth reading. We quote of our best students in the past, can now aid the following extracts from an editorial in the in training future editors for the Haverford- January issue which treats of an abuse by far lAN. Our young friend has, however, done "too prevalent in Eastern colleges : great injustice to two of our proud Sophs by " We are glad that canl-pl.iying is not prevalent at Bates. Such an occupation may do for gamblers dubbing them " Freshie " in its joke column. and Ijlacklegs, but for honest, intelligent young men it is not The College Argus, which several years ago the thing. It may do for tiie starved in soul and intel- lect, but college students should find some amusement was one of our regular exchanges, but which better fitted to tiieir station than shuflling a pack of long time had ceased to visit us, wishes to for a grea.sy cards. 'Progressive Euchre,' 'Whist' and renew our former friendship. We admire the ' High Low Jack ' are all members of the same family. Argus very much, except its cover, and are Nothing connected with them is either tender, elevating pleased to shake hands again. The depart- or beautiful. Their tendency is, and always has been, to draw the mind away horn weightier matters, and for ment devoted to " Notes and Comments on young men who expect to be and to do something in life Upper Class Studies" is a very good one. It is a needless waste of time and energy. Candid criticism of any text book by a student * * * -x- * * must be of value to the instructor, and may be Young men, students especially, should leave card- a potent means of keeping the college authori- pl.iying to those who earn a living by questionable meth- ods, or to those whose only occupation is killing time." ties out of " ruts " and abreast of the times. Our old friend, the College Rambler, has The Standard, Mr. Henry George's new appeared in a tasteful new dress. It is pleasing labor paper, has started on its career. We to note the great development of this paper have received the initial number. There can within the last two years. be no doubt that there is cause for sucli a pub- Tlie University Afcfnthlv, while lication. The people need awakening to the Alabama maintaining its usual dignity and good sense in fact that wealth is being gradually appropriated other departments, has lately allowed its ex- by the few, while labor is treated by these with more and more contempt. Already we hear change column to run wild. This is the way that the vote must be taken away from " ignor- the various exchanges are addressed, after hav- ant labor," and unless this ruinous tendency be ing noted some four or five individually :

" : overcome our republic must fall and a misera- Dear E.xchanges —We arf entering upon the duties of a new year—our craft is already launched ble aristocracy take its place. AVhile Mr. upon the pacific waters of another sea, which merges has .set out to arouse the people to the George into the boundless ocean of time. Christmas and New realization of this fact, we doubt if he has Year, like lulling dreams, have come and gone,—and taken the right plan. A jjaper five cents a we hope the seasons have brought i>leasures and happi- copy, and §2. 50 a year, cannot have such a ness to the hearts of you all." wide circulation among the laboring classes as There is more of this kind, but space forbids a cheaper one. However, the tone of the pub- its reproduction here. The case is a sad one ! lication is bold and fearless, and must produce Still, the cause can be guessed, at least partly ; a profound effect, if the laboring man can for, Just before this loving epistle, the editor afford to buy it. states: " We would just give half of our lives 86 THE HAVERKORDIAN.

to be near enoiigli, and high in favor, that we GEIVERAL COLLEGE NEWS. miglit shake lianih with those brave kidies who Columbia's wiiniiug crew of last year has lost edit the Hamilton College Monthly." Poor its stroke oar. fellow ! He will soon begin to write poetry now. The Medical School of the University of I'jdinburgh now admits women. What can be the matter with the Stevens The only mark in electives at Rutgers is that Indicator? During the whole of this college of the examination. year we have received only two copies. Surely . "A Junior at Yale has started a class in the all the fault cannot lie in Uncle Sam's mail Hawaian language." system. From the December number we learn "A student at Vassar can limit her expenses, that the Indicator has lately passed into the including books, to ^25 a year." hands of a new management, and will be a Bowdoin students recently had to attend strictly scientific paper in the future. We prayers in a temperature of zero. hope to receive it more regularly uirder the "Ex-President White has given his magni- new regime. ficent Historical Library of 30,000 books, to The Pacific Pharos thus sensibly comments Cornell." on the projiosed intercollegiate press conven- The Junior Class of Law at the Michigan

tion : University is said to contain a Catholic priest, " Eastern college editois are discussing the advisa- 65 years old. bility of holding a convention. The idea is an excel- Previous to 1786, both Harvard and Yale lent one and deserves to be carried into effect. No students were ranked according to their social editor, whether in the college or out, connected with the position. public press can afford to ignore the ideas of his fellow- editors, be they his rivals or not." The Boat Club of the University of Pennsyl- vania is going to buy a steam launch for the use It seems strange to us that the different of the crew. Pennsylvania college papers do not take a Women may now take the Harvard entrance more active interest in proposed association of examinations in any city where they are offered the State college press. We should like to to men. suggest that the Delaware College Review be The Conference Committee of Princeton asked to join in forming the association. This students which is to help in the discipline of the ])aper is not published far south of the slate College, was elected on January 22d. line, and, from its situation, could better belong Princeton thinks of sending an expedition to the Pennsylvania association than any other. luider Prof. Young to observe an eclipse of the " Silence," in the Notre Dame Scholastic sun in Russia, next August. of January 15, is an essay which expresses very "It is reported that the editors of the new beautifully the great value of this corner-stone Songs 0/ Harvard axe to ht prosecuted for in- of Quakerism. It is impossible to read the fringement of copyright." production without thinking of Fox, Penn, A new institution, Clark LTniversity, with an Barclay, and the host of other worthies, who, endowment of a rnillion or more, will be found- in their silent " waitings," used to receive ed at Worcester, Mass. their inspirations. "A new Base Ball League is proposed be- We will be much indebted to the Butler tween University of Pennsylvania, Columbia,

Collegian if it will be so good as to send us a Lafayette, Wesleyan, Trinity, Cornell, St. few specimens of those model Indiana Fresh- John's, and Hobart." men who, without any outside coercion, are at once so tame and gentle, and yet zealous for their class interests ! The species, if it ever Dr. E. Harle Buckland, existed here, is now extinct. Please label them carefully, fo.r we wish to place them in the museum. ST,4- The Beacon for January is a very good num- ber. The editorials are especially strong. In Formerly Instructor at Philadelphia Dental College. the literary department are two interesting discussions of the fraternity question and an article, "The Freedmen at Home." The Ardmore Offi-ce, .f/h house beloio Stadclmans Drug Store latter, although well written, seems too hard in its conclusions as to the mental capabilities of our negroes. The quaint poetry of Sir John

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VOL. VIII. NO. fi.

Editorials.—Our Venture Page 87

Literary Societies 87

Class-Day 87

Our bngli.^'h at Haverford.^.., 88

Verses to E. M. P., '83 89 A Banquet 89 Keraclen and Christ 90 Music and Song 92 The Old Church Bell 96 The Central Inter-Collegiate Press Association 97

Alumni Department 97

Local-s 99 Exchanges 100 Genetal College News "^

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Vol. VIII. Haverford College, P. O., Pa., March, 1887. No. 6.

THE HAVERFORDIAN. A NY change in the present arrangement of the literary societies at Haverford,

EDITORS: should be most carefully weighed before it LOGANIAN. is carried into effect. It is evident, of JESSE E. PHILIPS, Jr., '87, Chainimn. course, that the interest in society work,

with a few notable exceptions, has reached ALFRED C. GARRETT, '87. HOWELL S. ENGLAND, 'S8. low-water mark. Whatever the reasons of

ATHEN.«UM. this literary apathy may be, and some of BARKER NEWHALL, '87. them are patent enough, we cannot discuss WARNER H. FITE, '89. EVERETT. them here. It is rather our duty to remove

ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. these causes than to make any vital change FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. in the societies themselves. Any plan of

Henky H. Goddard, '87, Business Malinger. amalgamation will meet the full opposition '88, Assislmit Business J/\ Allison W. Slocum, of all ex-members of both, and so seems

unadvisable. Anything which will Subscription Price, one year, $1.00 enlarge \Vith " The Student," 1.50 the audiences, as joint or public meetings, .Single Copies, and at the same time infuse more of a liter- The Haverfordian is the official organ of the students of Hav- erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. ary spirit into our life here, must meet the

Entered at the Haver/ord College Post Office^ /or transmis- approval of all. It will take a determined sion through the ntails at second-class rates. loyal effort to accomplish this. No half-

"T^HE formation of a College Press Asso- hearted methods will be of any avail. Let

ciation, which occurred under such us make our societies, not what they once favorable auspices on the 19th ult., meets were, only, but more than that, make them with our hearty approval. The good to be the center and spring of our literary life derived is so evident, and the call for col- here at Haverford. lege unity so urgent, that anything which promotes it is more than welcome. To ^lyHEN a friend lately asked us: "Why make it a success entire co-operation, and doesn't Haverford have a class-day? united feeling are necessary. All personal we couldn't tell him, except that we never preference or presumed college superiority had had such a thing. But the argument should be absent. Jealousy will kill it that whatever is not, is wrong, is as fallac- " quicker than anything. The full repre- ious as Pope's Whatever is, is right." We sentation and the active interest shown, don't intend to set forth the arguments for augur well. The absence of any repre- such a custom, but there certainly are none

sentative from our neighboring university against it. Instances of colleges without

was noticeable. class-day exercises are rare. Indeed they 88 THE HAVERKORDIAN. are often the most enjoyable fetes of the a good recitation because he is not master year, and many an Alumnus looks back of his language. with pleasure to the day when his class More conspicuous and more disgraceful held sway at his Alma Mater. At any is the use of bad grammar. It is remark- rate, a day when prophet and poet, orator able, but quite true, that some who rarely and historian hold high carnival cannot have a wrong accent or a wrong termin- but be crowded with pleasant memories. ation in Greek, commit some sin against

Closely allied to this, is the issuing of a English s)'ntax whenever they open their college annual, by either the Junior or mouths. It is not the lack of knowledge. the Senior class. Two great advan- When they write, care and attention re-

tages offset whatever objections there mo\-e the errors : it is their spoken lan- may be to such a publication; condensing guage—that which is developed by use into one issue all the leading items of the and association,—which is bad. year, an annual, being in fact, a college Furthermore, we should notice the gen- directory, and usually a pecuniary credit to eral laxit}- in pronunciation and the sloth- be put down against commencement ex- fulness in enunciation. To these branches penses or class banquet. These two fea- of good speech, we ma)' say, our men pay distinctively collegiate only, need tures, scarcely any attention. Their pronunciation— some good active work to secure their is like Sam Wellers spelling, "according consummation. to the taste and fanc}' of the speller;" and

they forget entirely that a clear, distinct

Tl TE wish to call the attention of our and correct utterance is a necessary orna-

students to their use of the English ment of orthograph}'. language. It has been said by those out- The correction of these faults must lie side that Haverford men do not use good with the students. It is beyond the prov-

English. Whether this is more true of ince of the faculty. The English education

Haverford than of other colleges, it is which one acjuires at college, is theoretical certain that our men do not use their rather than practical. Unfortunately, in native tongue with the grace and elegance entrance examinations, it is too often the or even with the correctness due from col- custom to assume the preparation in Eng- lege men. Their principal defect seems to lish and to confine the examinations to the be poverty of expression and indistinctness classics and mathematics. The student, in the use of words. It sometimes happens therefore, is left to his own care and to his

that a student in recitation room finds him- associations for good English ; and the self unable to explain something which he rule is that a student who uses bad English

thoroughly understands ; and it often hap- upon entrance will use bad English at his pens that he explains it in language so in- graduation. distinct and shadowy as to veil completely We are dealing with a subject of no sec- his real meaning. So it is that a student ondary importance. One bears in his lan- who is master of his subject, fails to make guage the stamp of his culture, not the ;

THE H AVERF'ORDIAN. 89 extent of his learning or tlie activity of his A BANQUET. faculties, but the general effect of his edu- A MID slush and mud and rain, the cation upon his mind. He may be a pro- Senior class assembled at the St. found philosopher, a ready linguist or a George Hotel, on the evening of February subtle mathematician, but his language 26th ; but it made little difference -how the will still indicate the cultivation of his mind elements battled, for the discord without and the development of his higher senses. only made more evident the concord A cultured mind prefers naturally a pure within. It was the occasion of '87's Class Banqtiet. Shortly after eight o'clock the is not sensitive to a speech ; and one who last member arrived, and the doors of the solecism, a barbarism, or a mispronuciation banquet hall were thrown open and eighteen must necessarily have in him an element of hardy, healthy, hungry students sat down vLilgarity and coarseness. to the best the land affords. To write out the menu would make this account need- lessly long, but experience teaches that

croquettes and terrapin, pheasants and ices, TO E. M. P., '88. induce strange spirits. Capacities were en- larged to a dangerous limit, but no one How little thought we, three short months ago. When thou wast here with us, and thoughtful grown, wanted to stop first. We talked together of the dim unknown. When talking and eating began to lag, How soon thy soul these mysteries would know; toasts were proposed and responded to as First of our jilighted band follows: Record," To reach that unknown land. "Our H. W. Stokes; "Personal Peculiarities of '87," F. H. Straw-

Weary and blind, still search we for the true; bridge; "The Future of '87," A. C. GaiTet; But thou, most fortunate, thy lot is best, " '88," " The Class of G. B. Wood ; Peculi- To sleep forever in eternal rest, arities of Professors and others whom we Or live forever, finding ever new have met at Haverford," W. H. Futrell And grander, higlier Irutli In thy perpetual youth. "Our Successors at Haverford," B. New-

hall; "Our Twin Star," R. J. White, and

.Ml ! no surprise was thine, whiche'er it be. "Our Alma Mater," A. H. Baily. The hall The life or sleep? No bigot's blighting creed was a continuous roar of laughter during Had fettered thy great soid, which true indeed these responses. A few appropriate presents To truth where'er it seemed, soared nobly free, Over all dogma's cant had been placed in the hands of the toast- And walls of adamant. master of the occasion, J. E. Philips, Jr., and these were then presented among But though to thee most l)lest has been thy fate. shouts of mirth. The class song was sung, The blind old world lias need for such as thou; and the college yell closed an occasion For, wedded to her lilindness, even now She loads with curses, burning with her hate, which will long linger in our memories as Who strives to break in twain one of exceptional fraternity and unity Iler dark creeds' galling chain. coupled with hilarity, while the prevailing

Yet we who wait awhile, then follow soon sentiment was expressed in response to Where thou hast led, will follow in thy path. "Our Alma Mater," " Here's to Haverford,

Scorning the dull world's malice its and wrath ; right or wrong ; when she is right, may Striving to rouse it, craving but the boon she stay right, and when she is wrong may To cry on ceaselessly : " Awake, arise, be free!" — II. S. England. she be made right." 9° THE HAVERKORDIAN.

HBRACLES AViH CHRIST. rather the god as we find him in Grecian poetry and art, in his relation to the con- Grecian god is familiar to the nPHIS ceptions of the painters of his character, majority of the educated world chiefly and to that religion, which has superseded as a hero, about whose name are woven the sj-stem of which he was a part. While many a tale of exploits of wonderful the Hebre\\- conceived man as created in the strength and bravery. The strangling of image of God, the Greek formed his gods Antaeus, the capture of Cerberus, the in the likeness of men. Heracles, however, slaughter of the Nemean lion, etc., are feats would seem to form an exception to this that have made his name a synonym for rule; he was a man with the powers and great muscular power. It would not be attributes of a god. And just here we without interest or profit, to trace the catch the first indication of that curious and origin and significance of his many labors striking analogy between the character and to ser\-ices rendered by some prehistoric action of Heracles and Christ. Both spent benefactor, in subduing the adverse forces their life on earth in an unwearying round of nature. For example, the fabled killing of service for their fellow men, both dis- of the Hydra, that monster with nine ever regarded self for the good of others, both renascent heads, is referred to the drain- achieved womlrous deeds in the physical ing of the Lernean Marshes, the heads world unparalleled before or since. Of representing the springs that fed them, course, the differences are numerous and while the fire that eventually destroyed vital. One was the true and only God, the them, was in fact the burning of the forests, other a rough and burly giant with many a which sheltered the water, and rendered it blemish in his character. One was an difficult of access. However it is not our actual and immortal reality, the other a cater to the iconoclastic spirit of purpose to poetic conception, founded upon a scanty the age, nor to follow the example of chil- basis of fact. Complete similarity, of dren, who pick beautiful objects to pieces, course, is lacking, but the analogy remains, in order to learn their Why and How. nevertheless, true and forcible. It may ruthless slaughterers of the tales of The seem strange that such a lofty and noble Pocahontas and William Tell will surely character, so striking a contrast to the lust- have to answer for their blood before an ful Zeus, the bloody Ares, and the jealous aesthetic and poetic tribunal ; for though Hera, should not have occupied a higher they have served dull Fact, they have place in Grecian mythology. W^e must re- striven to rob the artistic world of some of member, however that the \'irtues of the its ripest and fairest creations. Indeed a yet ancients were wisdom, valor, beauty and more ardent school is rapidly extending the love, typified in Athene, Ares, Apollo, and worship of the god Protoplasm, and re- Eros, their favorite divinities. The Christ- the mystic growth of Evolution with veres ian virtues of self-denial, helping others, superstitious awe. humility, and submission, were not fully re- is not, therefore, the Argive hero, and It cognized, and consequently their exempli- his elevation to divine estate, nor the vis- fication took rather a low rank. ionary consolidation into a symmetrical This virtue of submission is shown by whole of actual deeds by diverse bene- Heracles in his complete resignation to the factors, nor yet a study of comparative my- labors imposed upon him by Eurystheus, a thology, his identification with some Sun- course of action very rare in classic times, God or Tyrian Melkarth, and the origin of and he here foreshadows the perfect hu- his cult, with which we have to do. It is mility of the meek and lowly Jesus. More- — "

THE H AVERKORDIAN. 91 over, the idea of Redeemer or Deliverer is miration for the generous soul before her very frequently associated with the name of mental view, bursts forth :

Heracles, especially in the mind of the " Gladness be with thee, Helper of our world ! great tragedians. In fact, nearly all of his I think this is the authentic ^ign and seal Of Godship, that it ever waxes glad famous twehc labors consisted in freeing And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts some person, or country, from a destructive Into a rage to suffer for mankind. And recommence at sorrow: drops like seed and invincible pest. Braving all the dan- After the blossom, ultimate of all." gers of Hades, he rescues the hero Theseus In the life history of this hero-god some from the hopeless bondage, to which he analogous circumstances present themselves. was there subjected. The story of Pro- He is born the son of Zeus, who is iden- metheus and the bold conception of tical with the Roman Jupiter. Disregarding Aeschylus furnish perhaps the strongest the common character of a supreme divinity, instance to point. Bound to the rocky recognized by all peoples and at all times, slopes of Caucasus, while " The bright let us look at the word itself It is derived chains eat with their burning cold into his from the primiti\e, ' D}'aus", light, and bones," and " Heaven's winged hound " pitar," father, /. f., Jupiter is "Father of hourly tears his heart, he suffers all the tor- lights," the exact words of James, as ap- ment of a Job, yet like him he refuses to plied to God the Father, of the Christian curse the Power above him, like him he faith. Or taking another view, since finally, in spirit at least, utters that trumpet " heaven " is primarily the vault of the sky, " " tone, I know that my Redeemer liveth ! the source of light and the original object Among other passages is this : of worship among the early Ayans, we may " From her seed " Shall spring the strong He, famous with the bow, render this word as Our Father who art in Whose arm shall break my fetters off." Heaven." When Heracles comes to ma-

The prophesied Redeemer comes, Hera- turity he is tested by temptation in its acles, a scion of the royal house of lo, his strongest forms, as was Christ in the wil-

father the supreme god, and, shooting the derness, and comes forth victorious, fol- torturing bird, frees the giant from his pain, lowing henceforth the guidance of Virtue and absolves him from the penalty of his in implicit obedience. The wild beasts are transgression. Euripides, by the clear light vanquished by him, as were passions and of his genius and the warm reality of his sins by his great follower, uncleanness put intense humanity, shows him to us as the away from the Augean stables of the hu- kind, tender-hearted friend, the self-sacri- man heart, and death conquered and

ficing benefactor. In all the incidents of crushed. At last, their life work finished, his rescue of Alcestis, we can see the per- the end comes. Like as Christ died on Mt.

fect unselfishness of the man, and feel the Calvary through the the treason of his dis- throbbing of the ever s}-mpathetic heart. ciple, inspired by Satan, his conquered As in his freeing of Theseus, he achieves a enemy, so did Heracles die on Mt. CEta by triumph over death, an exceedingly rare the poison of Nessus, his vanquished foe, power in ancient days, and brings back to administered by his own wife. Their spirits

life the loved and dear, as did the Nazarene ascended to their Father above, and to di- in later days. Alcestis stands again upon vine station, while the direct agents of death the earth, and the happy pair in unison destroyed themselves in remorse. Similar

breathe gratitude for this greatest of all in paternity, in action, in character and in boons. The Greek girl in Browning's trans- death, analogous in general law and in par-

cript, who recites the poem, filled with ad- ticular circumstance, the imperfect concep- —

92 THE MAVERKORDIAN. tion of the Greek finds its perfect realization music AND SOIVG. in the advent of tlie Saviour of the world. A NYONE who has felt the full effect of The ancient heathen t\'pe of Christ has a master's music executed by a mas- gained a complete fruition. terly performer, can scarceh' fail to wonder In tracing this analogy, both characters how these combinations of clear sound, so have, of course, been treated from a purely mechanically produced and in themselves human standing point. The life and death so intangible and indescribable, can possess of the God, Christ, ha\-e achieved infinitely such moving power over some equally in- more for mankind than those of the god, tangible but deep-rooted sense within our- Heracles. As has been said before, it is selves. And speculation on what this an analogy merely. If we would seek sense may be is full of possibilities. It cer- any cause or reason for this, a partial one tainly does not seem to be the intellect, for may doubtless be found in the fact, that the there is no chain of thought started, which religious aspirations and conceptions of cul- then affects the emotions; nor, ^^•hen music tured mankind are universally similar. makes us feel gay or sad, it is the sug- Heracles is not the only god, who bears a gestion of any gay scene or sad event, likeness to Christ; Buddha and others show which we may have experienced, that pro- great resemblance in life and character.

duces the effect ; or if it does start lines of However this character, which the high thought or recall memories, they come sec- conception of Heracles exemplified, was ondaril)', and are caused by the emotions not especially admired by the Greek or not by the music. But the magical chords Roman, and it is remarkable that in their shift and slant like the colors of a North- way of regarding things, it should ha\e ern Light, and play upon our very exist- lodged in the hearts of any, or found ex- ence, shaping our aspirations and desires pression at all. Yet the nobler, loftier na- with a power unresisted by the abandoned ture often asserted itself in spite of creed will. Perhaps a sharp line of treble tips the and custom, and not a few Greeks drew harmonies with siK'cr, then all our percep- near in heart and soul to the truths of

tions seem as clear as light ; or the base Christianity. Sophocles, Aeschylus, Soc- tones strike deeper and deeper till bound- rates, Plato, all saw quite clearly the light less depths of feeling, revealed by the re- of true religion, and their disciples in the sponses there awakened, are then first dis- fair "City of the Violet Crown" might covered within ourselves, and we feel ready later have welcomed with joy the God, to wrestle with the elements. The music whom they ignorantly worshipped, declared pleads or arouses, dances or inourns, and by the eloquent lips of the Cilician Jew. we follow all its moods as if we were one This sketch of the mighty hero-god may

with it ; our sensibilities await every change fitly be closed with the delicate tribute of Schiller in his "The Ideal or Life": as keenly as live embers fanned to scintilla-

" Deep degraded to a coward's slave, tion. It does not seem to be tones which Endless contests bore Alcides brave, affect us for note struck alone, ******** ; any how- ever clear and mellow it may be, does not All the torments, every toil of earth Hera's hatred on him could impose, produce emotion. It is the melody of suc- Well he bore them, from his fated birlh To life's grandly moiniiful_close. cession and the concord of simultaneous Till the God, the earthly pait forsaken notes which produce this effect,—not the From the man in flames asunder taken. Drank the heaveidy ether's purer breath. sounds, but the mysterious relation of Joyous in the new unwonted lightness, sounds one to another. The way in which .Soared he upwards to celestial brightness, Earth's dark heavy burden lost in death. these affect the mind seems very inexplic- a

THB HAVERKORDIAN. 93 able. No one would deny that tlie effect velopement arc perhaps nearly limitless; may be called emotion, yet a metaphysi- but in its present stage it seems bounded cian's definition of an emotion, that it is a by easily reached confines. Words are its feeling of pleasure or pain associated with language; and since the music language some idea which has been suggested to the does not reach all of us, a language that mind, fails here, because the simple changes compromises between thought in words and of chords or an unexpected turn of melody feeling in music was found and has long suggest no idea to the intellect,—bring up been beloved by most of mankind. That no picture before the mind's eye with which is Poetry. Now perhaps we may see the the emotion is associated. Ideas are in- place held by Poetry. It is a language tellectual, and music seems most fully to which is to reach the emotional or spiritual hold sway w hen the intellect is silenced and nature, which seems in such close com- the whole mind is centred in this condition munication with music, through the of feeling. In fact nothing appears to point medium of the intellect ; both poetry and more surely to the existence of some music must have that order of symmetry, mental part superior to the intellect than the in the former called measure, in the latter, effect of music upon us. W-hether we call "time," which seems to be craved by an in- this existence spirit or soul, it is not con- satiable appetite of our higher being; and versant with words or thoughts, but plays as the sounds of music, moulded into melo- above tiiem, and the nearest that we can dies and harmonies, are inwoven in the " know of its nature is that it is like the framework of time,'' so the thoughts of grandest music. To it music is a language, poetry, moulded into figures and sug- as words are to the intellect. Its move- gestions, are constrained in the symmetry ments are emotions, as thoughts are the of metre, rhyme, verse and stanza. This movements of the intellect : but its lan- thought must be clear and refined, sug- guage few know and almost none speak, and gestive of beauty in things or actions, just to its manifestations scarcely any pay atten- as the notes of a musical instrument mu.st tion. They say it is visionary, transcen- be pure and true,—devoid of all harshness. dental yet there is reason to think that if it inelegant repulsive is ; So that anything or as sounds rightly, the thoughts of the intellect foreign to poetry, as a cracked bell would be and the actions of the body will fall in har- to a chime. The essential difference between monious order to its tune. Everything mi- these two arts is, that in poetr\-, thoughts graceful and wrong is a discord with this affect the " inner sense " of the intellect music, and in most of us this discord and b)- their quality make a faint \ibration of drowns the music so that we never hear it. response upon the emotional nature, and in

And this personal music is a part of and in music, sounds, through the outer sense of perfect accord with the universal music the hearing, reach more directly the same which rules all things. As I said, music is destination. The intellect is the bridge be- a better language, and one that few of us tween the spirit and the outer world,— understand, but in which only the great bridge full of obstructions. Thought brings master-composers spoke and wrote. The in the figures of this outer world, and we present is eminently the reign of the in- obtain ideas of them : music suggests no

tellect ; science holds sway and its grand objects, creates no ideas, does not need to generalizations infatuate us with the per- cross the obstructed bridge of the intellect,

fection of their symmetry ; the intellect is but appeals .straight to the spirit in its own tlie " highest part with which most of us arc language. Thought has meaning,"—/. c.

fully acquainted and its possibilities of de- ! it means something to the intellect; music ; —

94 THE HAVERKORDIAN. is meaningless, for its meaning is only per- den sunset light is striking across turret ceived by the spirit. and mountain, the deep blue lake sparkles

This is an unusual distinction, at least in the daparting rays, the mountain torrent scientifically and one which, like all other plunges from the cliff, tiie shadows in the hypotheses, no doubt would present many valley and high glen, the gloom of the objections ; but it seems to account for ob- pines that cling to the great Alps are all

served relations and will serve to aid us in purpled with evening haze ; the air is cool, understanding the pro\'incc and necessary and so pure, so straight from the elements,

characteristics of poetry. that its odor suggests no thought : then If we compare Wordsworth's "Excur- suddenly, amid the grand scene, out of the sion " with Poe's " Bells," for example, we silence, pure, sweet and terrible, breaks the find the extremes of poetic quality, the di- bugle call, and its echoes fly away far and dactic and the lyric, and it is not hard to hi"h, like ten thousand answerino- voices. say which of the two is the more lilce mu- We have, perhaps, seen such a scene, and sic. Lyrical poetry again may be said to heard the bugle's "wild echoes flying," and comprise among its many forms, that which we recall how fast they did seem to be is called the Song, and which most nearly flying, and how wild they were,—for who of all, approaches the nature of music. It could pursue thein? The feelings that then

is the poetry which has a quality that is welled up are re-awakned, now mellow with light and free, without much logical mean- time,—which means that the emotion is left ing, but full of spirit and suggestion. It is purified by forgetfulness of all the dis- rare kind but Tennyson's " Bugle which at the time alloyed a ; Song" comforts were is a good example. We will examine a with our perfect enjoyment, such as the stanza. cares of a tourist's life, the oppressive feel-

ing in the midst of a strange people, or " The splendor falls on Castle walls, And snowy summits old in story homesickness. All this is what is meant The long light shakes across the lakes. by " suggestion "; and the genius of the And the wild cataract leaps in glory. poet is in his ability to suggest so much in Blow, bugle, blow ! Set the wild echoes flying. six short lines. Though one would say that Blow, bugle ! Answer Echoes I Dying, dying, dying.' the stanza contained no thought whatever, If you were very matter-of-fact you yet the beauty of the ideas or imaginations would perhaps say : What does it mean ? formed awakens the response of emotion in Probably it would not mean much to a our spirit. Now we will examine the matter-of-fact person, and in fact meaning is stanza more minutely. not what is to be desired, but rather feeling. First, we may see that it has a number of The poet has laid his hands the upon keys words which combine musical vowel sound and strikes the first chords. Immediately with beautiful associations of meaning: we know where we are ; if he had been "splendor," "castle," "old," "wild," "cata- composing music, these first notes would ract," "glory," "bugle," "echoes," "flying," have been deep, grand, but stirring, and " " dying : every one has its vivid associa- their strength would have set our spirits in tions; and of all words in our language accord with his mood in an instant ; but "bugle" seems to me one of the most ex- since poetry must appeal first to the intel- quisite. It is as strenous, musical and lect, he conjures up images, ideas ; he tells rhythmic as the sound of the instrument; us what we are to imagine, and with the it begins with the sudden "b," bends rolling words we see an old rock-bound through the pure "u"-sound and lapses castle, high-set among the Alps ; the gol- with the roll of a liquid. The word "flying" :

THE HAVERKORDIAN. 95 seems full of swift fearfulness, and "dying" The whole stanza seems "thin and clear." strikes a note of sadness which accords The echoes go flying, flying on and on and well with the poet's feeling, while both its on, till their very distance makes the tiny sense and the triple repetition close the sound seem something strange and super- stanza fitly with their sinking cadence. natural. They scatter down every glen, The alliteration should be noticed in the and seeking out every flower and grass- second and third lines, as another musical blade, waken all the elves from their aid. Then there are two strong rhythmic hiding places and call them out to answer effects resulting from the "quantity"— of the the challenge with their silvery chorus. words employed. The first is : "And the But having closely examined the first wild cataract leaps,"— Here all the syllables stanza, we will leave the song, only noting before "leaps" are rather short, so that the that the third stanza is more serious, hav- accent and pause are withheld and gather ing' a definite thougrht, and thus aban- a cumulative effect before bursting in the dons a little its song character. But the

word which is meant to be forcible ; an pure song, I suppose, is very rare, and extra syllable and the hard consonants multitudes of poems entitled "songs," bear in "cataract," give it a grating sound which no claim to that distinction. Tennyson, also increases the intensity of the line. The however, wrote several others which come second rhythmic effect is: "Set the wild near the ideal; such are: "Sweet and echoes flying." The first three words are Low," "Break, Break, Break," and "The rather short, and gather up the time, which Poet's Song." Each one strikes a different is then released in the long, sonorous key, and they possess such delicate shades "echoes," according with the real sound. of meaning as to be very hard to define- These effects must not be supposed to be The last one has a strange sort of confi- imaginary, for they all conspire har- dence and splendor that is very fascinating, moniously to affect our minds. It is, in though it is perhaps the least song-like of fact, \ery largely such musical effects of the four. I cannot forbear further mention- language that give poetry its influence, as ing, as examples of songs, Kingsley's distinguished from prose, though perhaps "Brook," which is so very "clear and cool," this results mainly from the greater frank- and that marvel of poetry, the song in ness of emotion which is permitted to find " Marmion " beginning: "Where shall expression in poetry. But the strangest the lover rest." The symmetry and an- fact of it is that though word-sounds, alliter- tithesis of feeling, the intensity and music ation and cadence, appear so artificial \\ hen of this latter, are little short of matchless. analysed, they are not to be produced by American life does not seem to be very any rule, but are only born, so to speak, productive of songs. The "Betrayal," by involuntarily in the mind of a genius. Sidney Lanier, and one of his beginning: The second verse of the " Bugle Song" " May the Maiden," however, are good is no less wonderful. The poet's feeling examples. Of our elder poets' work, "The changes : his fingers move to the trebles of Vision of Sir Launfal," seems to me to his ke)'-board, and there they ring out still "sing" rather more than any other. sweeter music So we have attempted to trace the re- lationship between music and poetry, and "Oh, hark! Oh, hear! I low ihin and clear. And thinner, clearer, farther going; a little of the means by which the latter Oh, sweet and far, from cliff and scar, effects its conquests. The song is that The horns of elf-land faintly lilowing ! quality of poetry which is most nearly Blow ! Let us hear the purple glens replying. Blow, bugle! Answer echoes! Dying, dying, dying." allied to music, because it is the least : ; ; :

96 THE H AVERKORDIAN. intellectual; and in this age, when we think In the .summer's heat, when a perfume sweet that we have no time to waste on such Came uj) from tlie meadows low, unsubstantial things as music and poetry, Where the ground was strown with the grass new mown the short, intense song may be the kind of To wilt in the noonday glow, art which will most effectually reach our Then the sound that woke with its measured stroke, emotions and keep them in proportion, and Was fainter than thiit at prime, so it may be the form which will hold first And the mowers ceased from their toil, released place in our kiture literature. By the sound of its welcome chime. The arts are all related. By whatever channels they reach us, all aim at the same

goal ; all seek to pierce through sense and In the autumn days when the hills were ablaze, intellect,—to cut their way through the In scarlet and crimson drest. phalanxes of dullness with which our man- When the sun dropt low in the fiery glow ners are now besieging us, and attaining Of the forest that lay to the west, to the higher nature, to sound upon its Then, trembling in air like the voice of a prayer untuned strings. That is breathed in a cloister dim,

Harmony rules the Universe; the laws Came the fall and swell of the old church bell.

of nature are chords in the great music : As it rang for the vesper hymn.

beauty is harmony ; art is beauty, and whatever brings us to a love of these When the fields were white, and the moon's pale things makes each of us one clear note in light the same great music. All the courses of Played over the Frost King's shield; things tend to hush the discord and to When the babbling rill by his power was still. make all ring clear to the universal tune. And the lake by his breath congealed. Now we can better understand the counsel Then the old bell rang with a shriller clang which Kingsley gave to his little daughter: Than it knew when the fields were green,

"And so make Life, Death and that vast Forever And the sharp, clear note of its brazen throat One grand sweet sonj;." Came down on the northwind keen.

THE OLD CHURCH BEI^L. In the summer's glow, or the winter's snow,-

Two miles or more from my fatlier's door In the morn, or at the eventide.

A church on the hillside stood, Two tones of the bell e'er cast a spell

Whose spire raised high to the changeful sky When they rang through the country wide

The sign of the Hnly Rood. 'Twas the joyful sound which it pealed around

And the ponderous tongue of the bell that swung When happy lovers were wed.

In Its belfry to and fro. And the heavy roll of its solemn toll.

Spoke loud and clear through the changing year When it rang for the peaceful dead.

In its tone of joy or woe.

In the cool spring morn when the grass and corn Still the cross points high to the changeful sky.

Were covered with shining dew; And the bell speaks loud and clear

When the world was still and over the hill But the echoes sleep in the silence deep

The sun rolled into view, Far off from my listening ear

Then its voice was blent, as its echo went Yet in dreaming mood I have often stood

Far out on the crystal air, In the place that I knew .so well

With the low of herds, and the song of birds, And I often hear, in my memory's ear,

As it rang for the matin pi-ayer. The sound of the old church bell. ;;;

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THE CENTRAL IPtTER-COI^I^E- among the component members of the ASSOCIATIOP*. GIATE PRESS Association, in order to give authentic news, promote closer relations, etc. A copy T^IIE benefits of ors^anization are so of the Constitution will be sent to all the patent and unions are so common, colleges within the Middle States; and that the only surprising thing is that such many more are expected to become mem- an association as that mentioned above was bers of The Central Inter-Collegiate Press not formed long ago. In accordance with Association. opinions expressed by various college jour- nals in Pennsylvania, a meeting of the ALUMPJI DEPARTMENT. editors was called at the Continental Hotel,

Philadelphia, for P'ebruary 19th. Eight Phthuldphia, March I, 1SS7.

journals responded with fifteen delegates, You were so good, Mr. Editor, as to ask as follows: Lafayette, two; Lehigh, one; me to send you some reminiscenses of Muhlenburg, one; Franklin and Marshall, Haverford during the life of '74. In answer

to that request, it seems to me that there two ; Swarthmore, three ; Ogontz, two are no recollections of our day better worth Geneva, one, and Haverford two. J. E.

Philips, Jr., of Haverford, was made tem- recalling than those of one official whose porary chairman. A committee on perma- life closed in our }-ear. It is no di.sparge- nent organization reported a constitution ment to others who have served her long and by-laws, which, after careful amending, and well, to say that Alma Mater never was adopted. Under the new constitution gave her sons more priceless gifts than the the officers for the ensuing year were influence and friendship of such a man as

elected, viz.: W. G. Underwood, of Swarth- was her President, Samuel J. Gummere. more, President; Miss Little, of Ogontz, Since his death in 1874, three college gen-

Sccirtniy and Treasurer ; and Messrs. Roe, erations have come and gone, it is not un- fitting, therefore, to record anew some faint of Lafayette ; Martin, of Geneva ; Smith, of tribute to a memory which should be Lehigh ; Philips, of Haverford, and the President an Executive Coinnnttee. handed down from class to class.

After election, a paper on the exchange Samuel J. Gummere was born at Ran-

department of a college paper, was read by cocas, N. J., in 181 1. His education was H. S. England, of Haverford, followed by received at the school of his father, John discussion by Messrs. Cummings, of La- Gummere, established in Burlington in fayette Jenkins, of Swarthmore, and others. 1S14. His schoolmates testify to his un- ;

The various systems of electing editors, usual ability in mathematics, it being re- their compensation, and under whose au- lated that as a little boy he was accustomed thority a college journal should be issued, to sit on the laps of the young men and elicited remarks from JNLirtin, of Geneva work out for them their problems in alge-

1 Roe, of Lafayette ; Underwood, of Swarth- bra and mensuration. In 183 he filled more and England, of Haverford. After a the position of classical teacher at Provi- spirited discussion as to what kind of mat- dence, and in 1835 came to Ha\'erford, as ter should compose a college monthly Assistant Professor in Mathematics, under whether athletics or literary articles, or his father, then president. In 1843, to-

local matter, or all, the convention ad- gether with his father, he re-opened their journed. famous school in Burlington, which was Among the leading features of the Con- crowded with pupils from almost every

stitution is the writing of circular letters state and the Spanish Isles. In 1862 he 9$ THE HAVERKORDIAN. accepted a call to the Mathematical Chair and attention. His was the hand of steel at Haverforcl, was made president a few 'neath the glove of silk. In person he was years later, whicli office he adorned till slight and almost spare, of active habits his death, on the 2ist of October, 1874. and a tireless walker ; he loved to walk about the grounds, to frequent the cricket There is much unwritten of what ma\' be matches; for every student. Senior or called the dark days of the college, which, P'reshman, he had a pleasant word or smile if truly written, would show how great when he met them. I can scarcely recall were the services of President Gum mere, Maple avenue without seeing his form, while he held the helm with matchless going to or from his house to his college. patience and tact, when the best friends of The affectionate respect for him the college were discouraged and divided which every student carried away with him, in council. The strain which he bore so amounted almost to reverence, and their silently, doubtless largely contributed to recollection of him grew brighter year by his death, which was the result of general year, as the)* mixed with the world and prostration, and which his simple life and found how rare was such a character sound constitution should have postponed as his. to the full scriptural limit. He was confined to his room for two Professor Gummere was of such a mod- months by general prostration and, with a est, retiring disposition that a casual ac- mind unclouded to the last, died quaintance would scarcely have realized October 2ist, in his 64th year. the 26th, how versatile were his acquirements, how 1874, On amid the glow and glory of the really remarkable were his intellectual autumn lea\-es, so t)-pical erf the life departing in its powers. His reputation as an astronomer full beauty, his body was born and mathematician was national; and his across the lawn by pall-bearers representing the interest in these sciences lead him to ac- Class of '74 and the four classes then in company Professor Morton's party to Iowa, college, and was followed by the faculty stu- to take observations of the total eclipse of and dents and a large concourse of Alumni the sun, in 1869. To profound scholarship and friends, who mourned him with no in the exact and physical sciences, he ordinary sorrow, fitting added an excellent knowledge of the to a resting place on the spot where he had so long and successfully classics and a ready proficiency in the labored. modern languages, and of these he was Edw. P. Ali.inson, especially fond of the Spanish. An ex- tended course of reading, guided by a cor- '49. Alfred H. Smiley with his two rect and simple taste together with the daughters, visited the college on the 9th enlarged views gained by considerable ult., en route for Washington. travel at home and abroad, contributed a completeness to his culture that many men '71. Randolph Winslow, M. D. and H. M. so eminently gifted in one direction often Thomas, M. D. '82, are Fellows in the new miss. Reticent and undemonstrative by pathological laboratory at John Hopkins. nature, he was genial and approachable and '76. D. S. Bispham and wife are reported in. private life often displayed flashes of safe at Mentone, notwithstanding the earth- chaste wit and humor of high order. His quake there. talent for imparting knowledge and main- taining discipline '80. was wondrous ; his mere Chas. F. Brede is studying modern presence ensured unconscious good order languages at John Hopkins.

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for last A speaker in society, wishing to give a state- 'Si. J. II. Moore has been the " two years a minister in the Society of ment great antiquity, said, Since the days of Friends, and has built up a prosperous Cain." academy in Pilv'eville, N. C. A student having read from a newsiiaper that Mauna Loa (the Hawaian volcano) had '83. Wm. E. Scull was married on the "gone off again," aSeniorasks, "Who's he?" i6th ult. to Miss Florence M. Prall of Pat-

It is erson N. J. They sailed for Europe on the seldom that one hears such surprising 26th, for a tour of several months. egotism as a Junior lately displayed by ex- claiming, " He saw I and my mother." '84. O. W. Bates is closing out his late father's business, and is preparing to study A Junior thinks he has hit upon a word law. which supplies the missing link between the

Greek word meaning "to know" and its '85. R. M. Jones has gone to Germany Latin derivative meaning "to see." He says to continue his studies there. they can both be 'expressed by the verb " to * '86. T. W. Betts is in an architect's office perseeve." in Washington, D. C. The Elocution Class has begun, and is well

'86. lecture attended. present appearances, it J. Dickinson Jr., delivered a From seems in the course at Wilmington College, O. absolutely certain that " the war must go on."

'87. J. E. Parker has been teaching at "Fweddie," om- long-suffering contributor Spiceland Academ\', but has returned to and Associate Local k^ditor, has furnished us Earlham College. with another of his famous bon-mots. It was at the table, and one of the students, seeing some sediment in his tumbler, remarked that LOCALS. the water was full of moss; Our friend imme- diately replied, with what was undoubtedly

Stainuh; likewise, St.minch ! also, STAUNCH ! charming repartee (if one could only see the point), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Now doth the Local Editor " Feel most e.xceeding Scllm," "/(? vaga," in the Ars Poelica, was rendered Because a stray remark, last month, " " by an erudite Soph, as Go, tramp ! Stirred up the wrath of " J-m." The Loganian, after a good deal of filibus- And soon his earthly happiness tering, has decided that "The Marking System

He must for aye forego. is an evil." Of course, after this, the marking Because he mentions "Smithie's" name. system must vanish from the earth.

Or treads on " Ezray's" toe. "Billy," alias "Darling," or the "Man O fellows of a mirtliful mind, with the Club," has had more trouble in the Who read these harmless jokes, laboratory. He somehow managed to direct a

Think, for your sake, what awful wrath stream of hot water from his waste-bottle into The Local Ed. provokes. his organ of vision, and to the inquiries of the bystanders, he explained that the "beastly President Ciiase and family are in Italy. thing spit in his eye."

Murray Shipley was present at meeting on Washington's Birthday was fitly observed at the 26th ult. Haverford by a whole holiday, instead of the half-day which we have hitherto been granted. It is reported that a fluent Latin scholar re-

cently translated " Scribo /i/eras /iias," i)y "I * Note. — /iV did not commit this crime, and arc not responsible. writing two letters." am We merely give it as an example of a real bad /•un, —Local Ed. THE HAVERKORDIAN.

Pisces is the Zodiacal sign for Februan', and A Fresh., being asked to name the religion Haverfordians now use the analogous symbol of the Jews, called them Christians and Idola- of " Billy-in-the-Pond," as a sure indication ters, and, as a last resort, asserted that "they

that the skating season is over. worshipped the sun."

Student, who is somewhat metaphysically Tlie AtheuKum gave an entertainment the inclined, arguing with a professor: "I claim other night, and invited a limited number. that the mind cannot have a true existence." Prof. Edwards gave a stereopticon exhibition Professor: "Very well, I will grant that the of his own getting up, which was very fine. mind does not exist, and take you as an ex- This was interspersed with songs. ample to prove it." The Everett gave a public meeting, at which There is one feature of the "abuse of going the Prize Declamations came off. On the to Meeting" which has not received any whole, the meeting was a great success, and notice. Why does the first nian to arrive the large audience was, no doubt, well pleased. always take his seat at the outer end of the W. H. Futrell secured the first prize, and W. bench, so that everyone who comes after has F. Overman the second. It is a first-rate idea to squeeze past him ? having the society meetings public now and A student in Astronomy says that the pole then. star is situated about 40° above the southern Professor Sharpless gave a very interesting horizon. He was the man who, when he address before the Logan ian, on the " History reached Marple, wanted to walk home via Founding of Haverford." other West Chester. and Among items, he gave the following, as a sample of Those students who sometimes "go up the the transactions of the Loganian in its early road of an evening," rejoice in the new board- " history : Resolved, that to-morrow afternoon walk which extends from Bryn Mawr Station we go out and pick the daisies out of the to the correct place. lawn." The Professor also gave his ideas of William Carvill, formerly the gardener at Haverford's future. After the lecture a discus- Haverford College, died in Philadelphia, March sion on the present condition of the literary 3d, aged 90 years. He laid out the grounds of societies took place. After a good deal of the College in 1832-34, planting with his own "sound and smoke," the matter was referred hands many pf the trees which now are the to a committee. great ornament of the lawn. He visited the College several times a few years ago, and claimed the honor of introducing cricket here, EXCHANGES. then almost unknown in America. The Fordham Monthly is the only new ex- The following remarkable syllogism was de- change received this montli. The cover of veloped in the Logic Class: "All civilized this paper is quite artistic, with the exception people are whites ; all Ancient Germans were, of the figure of a sad-looking monk, which oc- whites : therefore, all civilized people are An- cupies the space that should be given to a table cient Germans." of contents. It is a noticeable fact that the A "sleeper" has been attached to the ad- Roman Catholic colleges, as a rule, maintain a vanced German Class. Berths must be ordered literary character of high excellence in their beforehand. papers, and the monthly is no exception. It Vail says the chicken was "foul." This is has the added merit, which the others cannot sure; perfectly true, to be but remarks of this boast, of devoting a considerable space to nature cannot be allowed. matters which do not immediately concern the Probably caused by overwork. —" Why are Church. The poem on Edgar Allen Poe dis- shoemakers men of great endurance ? Because plays considerable genius, the writer having they last so long." evidently caught the spirit of his master. .

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We were surprised to find, in a late issue of We are glad to notice that the Ursinus Col- the Ogoittz Mosaic, that the Haverkordiax is lege Bulletin has at last found room for an ex- especially noted for the great attention she change column. This is a step in the right jjays to athletic sports, and that sporting sub- direction. Now let your students have a repre- jects seem to be the only ones "at the toni- sentation in the board of editors, and your uiand of the editorial staff." If it were not publication will become really a college paper. for the context, we should be compelled to The Indiana S/iiJcnt has sadly degenerated tliiuk this criticism was cruel sarcasm. During

since becoming a semi-monthly, • the present college year tiventy-eight editorials in spite of having a special " conductor" for each have appeared in our i>aper, of which six treat depart- ment, and an of athletic sports, including one which speaks "undertaker" —for what it is not stated. However, he seems to be true of the gymnasium. Tliis is another illustration to his name, and is burying the of the just criticisms apt to be made when an good name of the paper very fast. Last year the editor criticises a paper which he has not Student was a very fair monthly, it is read but somehow losing ground. A state university should do better journalistic The Seminary Opinator has come to our work. sanctum again. It has much improved in Taken all in all, the Tuftonian is the best general tone since our last acquaintance. The semi-monthly with which we are acquainted. opening editorial is the only article in the Its cover is one of the most artistic, and in present number which shows the rhetorical style of type and quality of paper it must beauty of the flowery school-boy essay, so please the most fastidious. The editorials and marked in past issues. The Opinaior has, we the various departments are well conducted. believe, been publishing a series of historical The series of articles now ajjpearing in it, letters relating to Haverford, written by one of setting forth the merits of the different pro- our professors. We should like very much to fessions, and written by Alumni, who state the receive copies of the back numbers which con- facts as learned by experience, is a very com- tain these sketches. mendable feature.

The Chronicle has come out in a very taste- In a recent number of the Adelphian is a ful, neat new cover. It is a great improvement little poem, "My Love," which, if it was on the former gaudy one. The long story, written by a child twelve years old, as stated, "Suiciding by Mistake," is not worth the is a wonderful work. The scene is beautifully great amount of space it occupies ; but the described, and in the seven stanzas there is little iioem, " To a Conservatory Flower," is a only one fault in the meter. very creditable attempt. An article, "Secret Societies," in the Ariel, The ////;// has also donned a new dress. We is a severe denunciation of all Greek letter are compelled, however, to say that it has not fraternities. While we should not like to be- any improvement by so doing. made A paper lieve that these secret organizations are so such a high standard should appear in of a utterly hurtful as the writer asserts, yet they do more artistic cover. seem to take the place of the old-fashioned literary societies, for whose benefits they offer The Univer.sily Quarterly for February con- no adequate substitutes. There is, moreover, tains a thoughtful address, comparing American always a strong jiresumption against any organ- and foreign judicial systems, and an essay, ization which has secrecy and oaths as its dis- good in parts, on the future of the English tinguishing features. language. All the departments of this magazine seem to be better conducted than that devoted In this age of Anglomaniacs, it is most re- to the exchanges. Surely a quarterly should freshing to find, now and then, an honest, devote more than a page to its contemporaries. whole-souled Anglophobiac. Such a writer, ;

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contributed an article, "England," to the GENERAL COLIvEGE NEUVS. University Herald for February 15th. The Yale has now a fencing class. whole career of England is rapidly reviewed, and her fearful crimes, which we are apt to Columbia has twenty-one lady students. gloss over, are boldly brought forth. The Amherst and Williams have toboggan shutes. essay has the true patriotic ring. We notice among the clippings of the same number of the Columbia celebrates her centennial this year.

Herald, one credited to the Queen's College Harvard thinks of forming a dramatic asso- Journal, that originated in the Haverfordian ciation. last year. We refer to the one concerning the Professor Lancianni has been lecturing at non-combustibility of carbon di-oxide. Now Princeton. this is a small affair, but it illustrates a great tendency among college papers to steal from The Yale Glee Club recently cleared $1,000 a concert. one another. The Queen' s College Journal is by

not one of our exchanges, and in all proba- Princeton Theological Seminary has a student bility, having gleaned the local from another 71 years old. paper, in which, likely, it was credited to Trinity has a class in Sanskrit under Prof. "Ex.," waited a while and then printed it as W. R. Martin. original. This practice of stealing deserves the severe condemnation of the college world. At Amherst the Sophomore course has been made almost elective. The Dickinson Liberal, for February, might The University of Pennsylvania will hereafter be supposed to represent a theological .seminary bestow the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. instead of a school in which the elements of modern science and progressive thought are About twenty-five per cent, of Amherst's taught, judging from the tone of all its literary recent graduates have entered the ministry. articles. The other departments, however, are Lil'pincotf s Magazine offers a prize of of their usual character, and are well managed. §50 for the best article on "Social Life at Am- The Hobart Herald, for January, did not herst." reach us till after our February issue. The It is said that Princeton will apply for en- editorials of the number are good, but it is not trance to the Inter-Collegiate Cricket Associa- well to occupy so great a part of the literary tion this season. department with an article not written by a present student. The statement that it may Williams has introduced a new system of "serve as a model to upper-class competitors "cuts." Twenty cuts a term are allowed, and for the Horace White Essay Prize," hardly one " Sunday " cut. serves as a sufficient excuse. Several members of the Freshman Class of

The College Olio is taking the lead among the University of Pennsylvania have been dis- Ohio papers, to have an association of the turbing the chapel services by attempting to western college press formed on the model of sing alto. the one lately inaugurated in Philadelphia. Harvard's new grading system ig arranged as We are glad to .see the Olio take this step, but follows : A, above 90 per cent. ; B, 90 to 78 would advise that if the idea is to form the C, 78 to 5o ; D, 60 to 40 ; E, failure, below association soon, it had better call the conven- 40 per cent. tion itself, and not wait for some one else to take the lead. Judging from our recent con- A new religious journal has been started by vention, these inter-collegiate press associations a committee of the Inter-Collegiate Y. M. C. will be of very great advantage to all con- A., and circulated through several colleges. It cerned. is called the "Inter-Collegian." THE HAVERFORDIAN. VI IMPROVED FOOT BALL PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL

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LEVI T. EDWARliS, A. B. I Haverford), Professur of Emiineering. J. PLAYFAIR McMURRICH, Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins), Professor of Biology. SAMUEL LEPOIDS, Bach, es Lettres, (La Sorboune, Paris), Instructor in French. HOWARD F. STRATTON, Instructor in Free Hand Drawing.

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vol.. VHI. NO. 7.

Editorials. —Our Valedictory ,... Page 103 Thanks 103

College Mass Meetings 103

How to Protect the Libraries 103 Our New President 104 A New Move 104

'89's Class Banquet 104 Picturesque Haverford 105

Similes • 108 A Poet's Retreat 108

L* Amour no Lafayette College m Alumni Department.— President Thomas Chase 113 Personals. 115

Locals iiC' Exchanges 117 General College News «i8

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Supplement to Vol. VIII No. 7, The Havekfordian. y The Haverfordian.

Vol. VIII. Haverford College, P. O., Pa., April, 1887. No. 7.

THE HAVERFORDIAN. "\ 1 fE wish to thus publicly express our thanks for the account of President EDITORS; Thomas Chase, which appears in the LOGANIAN. Alumni Department. Coming as it does from a graduate of Haverford and a per- JESSK E. rillLIPS, Jr., '87, Chairman. sonal friend of her President, it is a fitting

AI.ERED C. GARRETT, '87. tribute to the ability and power of a great HOWELL S. ENGLAND, '88. man. We accompany the article with a ATHE'-.tUM. portrait. r.ARKER NEWHALL, '87. '89. HE results of the last few college meet- WARXER H. KITE, T EVERETT. ings ought to be plain enough to de-

ALLEN B. CLEMENT, '87. rive some practical lessons from them. FRANCIS C. HARTSHORNE, '88. Any measure ought to be carefully con-

sidered and its ultimate end calculated Henry II. Godd.\rd, '87, Business Manager. before it is left to the decision of a mass Allison W, Slocum, '88, Assistant Business M'gr. meeting. Instances of resolutions and Subscription Price, one year. >i.oo actions hastily voted upon, afterward to be With " The Student," 1.50 Single Copies, .10 repealed or materially amended, are too Single Copies, this issue. •>5 numerous to be commented upon. It is a The Haverfordian is the ofHcial organ of the students of Hav- notorious fact that almost any measure can erford College, and is published on the tenth of every month during the college year, under the supervision of the Loganian Society. be railroaded through a college meeting. Entered at the Haver/ord Coltege Post Office^ for transmis- So that a few determined men can carry sion through the mails at second-ciass rates. almost any revolutionary scheme they Al nTH this number of the Haver- choose to concoct. Again, any radical fordian the editorial year comes to change should be subjected to the most a close. Our successors are hard in our rigorous debate and only submitted to vote tracks and we inust make place for other after sufficient time has been given. It must and abler men. Our retrospection would be remembered that however good a change reveal much to feel grateful for and some may appear, the burden of proof lays with things to regret. In common with all, we the other side and there is always a pre- feel that we have not fully attained what sumption in favor of existing affairs. we had hoped yet at the same time we ; are conscious of some success. To have nPHE late move made by the Everett to preserved the high standard which fell to protect its books from being lost us, was in itself no small matter. And so through the carelessness of those taking on laying down our duties as editors we them out of the library, seems to us to de- ask for those who follow us the same sup- feat the \ery purpose for which it was port and s)'mpathy which has always been adopted. So long as only members of the given to us and promise you, on their be- Society can have tiie privilege of using the half, a steady advance in the quality and books in the library, and those so un- interest of the Haverfordian. fortunate as not to belong wish to take out I04 THE HAVERKORDIAN. the books also, there will be an incicased "T^HE Class of '89 has decided to hold number of those books which mysteriously Class Day Exercises this year in disappear, without record, from the shelves. place of the Cremation usually held by the Besides this, the other societies will have to Sophomore Class. For some years the adopt similar measures and their books Managers and Faculty of the College have will begin to be lost in greater proportion been considerably annoyed by the class of than at present. The best method, it seems people which the Cremation has drawn to to us, would be to provide larger register the College grounds from the neighboring books for the societies and allow any mem- villages. These people, in spite of the ber of any one of them the full use of the efforts of the Class conducting the Crema- libraries of all. This, of course, would tion, have never left without some injury to necessitate a system of inter-society regu- College property. This year the Faculty lations by which each society should pledge expressed to the Sophomore Class their itself by a stated security placed in the col- wish that some other exercises should take lege safe, to be responsible to both the the place of Cremation, and the Class, upon

others for any damage done by one of its consideration decided to have Class Day members to a book belonging to either of Exercises as mentioned above, which they them. Such a regulation could easily be hope will offer attractions not inferior to made by slight amendments to the differ- those of Cremation. We trust, from the abili-

ent constitutions, and all further trouble be ties of the Class, that these exercises will thus avoided. be not less interesting than the Cremations ••-• of past years. TN the selection of Isaac Sharpless as * I President of Haverford College, the '89's CLASS BANQUET. Managers have done credit to themselves and to the college. Having the longest On the evening of the first of April, the connection with the college of any of the Class of '89 assembled in Philadelphia to present faculty, thoroughly acquainted with enjoy a class supper at one of the best

its management in every particular and a restaurants in the city. The table was

man of rare e.xecutive power, it would be tastefully adorned with a center-piece of

difficult to find his superior. flowers, the gift of Professor Sanford. Mr. The marked prosperity of the past few Frank E. Bond was toast-master. Toasts years has largely to his superior been due were called for and responded to as fol- business ability and keen foresight. The lows: "Our Career," G. C.Wood, Presi- appointment is eminently fitting in all re- dent of the Class; "Our Personal Peculiar- gards and meets the hearty endorsement of ities," W. H. Fite; "The Ladies of Bryn both faculty and students. Mawr," W. G. Reade ; "Our Alma Mater," The serenade on the evening of the an- S. P. Ravenel ; "She who must be obeyed," nouncement was the natural expression of F. N. Vail; "Our Future," L. M. Stevens. approval of the selection. The response of There was a general feeling of good fellow- the newly elected President and its recep- ship and the occasion will long be remem- tion showed the close feeling which already events in the exists. Prof Gifford's remark, in his short bered as one of the happiest address to the students, from the steps of history of '89. At a late hour Broad Street Founder's Hall, speaks about the highest Station was sought and the fun and merri- " praise that can be said of any one : Prof ment only ceased with the arrival of the

Sharpless is a man who wears." students at the College. l^HE HAVERKORDIAN. i°S PICTITRESQUE HAVERFORD.

DEAUTY in land- scape as far sur- passes the brush of the painter, as the beauty of the hvint^, sentient human form transcends the sculp- tor's chisel. Art never could, and never shall be able to portray na- ture perfectly. True, painting gives us the color but not the ex- actness of line and shade. Photography gives us the latter, but not the former; something is always want virons. The architect has added to the ing. To read the esthetic we must go to the surrounding country much that increases source itself Only by contact can we grasp its interest. Ardmore, Bryn Mawr and in- anything of the wondrous beauty and depth deed this whole stretch of the Pennsj-lvania of feeling, with which nature is so lavish. R. R. abound in stately mansions, superb More richly than usual has she endowed churches and cosy cottages. But while us here at Haverford. Surrounded by a Haverford does not boast of many triumphs country far famed for the picturesque and of architecture she exceeds them all in attractive, it is a fitting center of such en- natural beaut)' and picturesque effects. As a fitting memo-

m rial of the semi-cen- tennial celebration of the founding of Hav- erford College, a granite gate-way was erected, at the en- trance of Maple Ave- m nue on the Lancaster Pike, through the kindness of Justus C. -A Strawbridge. One of -4 , the pillars bears the

vi date 1833, and the other 1883. The view i 1.: both up and down Maple Avenue is ^^v" ^ most delightful. The f^^^ ^^^ second illustration. io6 THE H AVERKORDIAN.

looking across the pond with Barclay Hall in the dis- tance gives per- haps the best idea of the situation of the College. Bar- clay Hall, while presuming to be no ne plus ultra, in unity of design and general effect

is hard to surpass.

It is of course in summer, when

H a V e r fo r d has donned her gahi attire that she shows to the best advantage. With more grove of trees is particularly enjo)'able. than sixty acres of lawn, tastefully laid out, Summer reveries can here be induced on planted with shrubbery and adorned by short notice. Most beautiful perhaps of all flower beds, it is no wonder that she is the Haverford's Avalks is the one which twice a admiration of all visitors, foreign as well as week conducts us to the meeting house. native. The serpentine walk to the house Overhung, as it is, its whole length, with of President Chase, flanked on either side shapely maples whose thick leaves the sun by lilac, mock orange, and other large rarely penetrates, under most circumstances shrubs, and further on winding through a we would call it romantic. The bridge

it ______„__ ,, .._ where crosses the old railroad I

.lit has been the -cone of many a rough and tum- ble snow-fight or class rush.

It is doubtful if any grounds of equal size furnish tm ":« so many views for tlio amateur pho- togi'apher. .Nu- merous scenes,

r e a 1 g e m s i n themselves, are constantly com- ing into notice. The collections in possession ot THE HAVERKORDI^VN. 107 some of our artistically inclined friends attest the truth of this state- ment. We give also a vJew of Founder's Hall. Not so much on ac- count of the pictur- esque which it contains as on account of tlii recol lections whicli cling round it. It is a t)'pical building of its kind of fift)' or more years ago. Now nn longer a dormitory, but devoted to class rooms and such purposes, it loses of course its in- terest to us; but many who read this article w"ords what our e\es ha\e so thoroughly and see its familiar lines will, doubtless, comprehended. turn awa\- with a sigh of regret, and cer- Partiall}- surrounded by the grove north tainly a mind teeming with memories. of Founder's Hall is the residence of Pro- Looking south from Founder's the view- fessor Sharpless, a pretty, comfortable, cot- needs little comment. It simply must be tage which derives much of its attractive- seen. And in describing, in this desultory ness from its location. Adjoining it, is way, some of the beauties of Haverford we the foot-ball and base-ball field. Here are conscious of our inability to express in our victories and defeats have made us ,^, happy or glum to the tune of the northwest wintl howling through the woods. As we approach this field we pass the aich which spans the path to the

ci b s e r \' a t o r y. This i\'y-clad

iLJic of the old

n gime is still the jiiy of the pho- tographer, and space alone pro- hibits us from gi\ing a view of

-jMiil it here. —— -

io8 THE HAVERKORDIAN.

Alumni Hall and the Library, half-con- A POET'S RETREAT. cealed by pine trees is another subject of ' I ^HE little village of Amesbury is a genu- our artistic friends. ine New England town. Its streets Such are some of Haverford's most run in defiance of all geometr)' and its po- striking scenes. With the cricket field sition is on the side of and even over a slave covered with players, clad in picturesque of a stream that toils ceaselessly with the costumes, with tennis courts all occupied many mill-wheels, and flows on to enjoy the reason of Haverford's popularity is not more of its primeval loneliness beyond the far to seek. Compared with the grounds noise of the streets. of other colleges, it far surpasses the ma- When we arrived there, in the midst of jority of American colleges and is the peer a hard shower, we did not stop to see much of almost any of the great English Uni- of the place but drove at once to our versities. friend's residence. It was a good sized That she may ever increase in her loveli- house standing back of and somewhat higher ness is the wish of all. Rich surroundings than the road, and coiiimanded a fine view and pleasant prospects are no hindrance to of a broad valley where, we were assured, intellectual development but rather an in- ran the waters of the Merrimac, the river ducement to make the most of such ad- mentioned so often, with or without name, vantages. Work and pleasure are not in- in the poems of Whittier. Already we compatible. The one is necessary to the began to feel we were treading ground completeness of the other. Pleasure of whose memory had been preserved in song, landscape is more real and more lasting and what in these days could make it more than any. Here then should be the acme holy. The lake of Attitash lay only about of delight, for nothing surpasses the " Pic- a mile away and Haverhill itself was distant turesque of Haverford." but a few miles to the west. SIMILES. Here the power of the poet became mani- fest to a greater degree now that v/e were where he had exercised the magic of his Like Astarte, all resplendent. actual presence. With awe and trembling Smiling on her glorious way, Bright as stars, with joy attendant, we had inquired if he were at home and a In their magical array, negative answer, though heard once before Ever marvelously gay; when visiting there, did not fail to sadly So thy soul with love o'erflowing, defeat our hopes. But if the poet were Thrills with happiness complete. Better than the Gnostic's knowing. absent, the place where he wrote and the Round thy life a lustre throwing. inspired Unalloyed and pure and sweet. country that many of his lays were Dower for a princess meet. not forbidden to our eyes and we were for- tunate in seeing as much of them as we

As the morning's rosy splendor. did. Beaming o'er its clouds of gold, Meanwhile the storm had ceased although 'Rapt in radiance blue and tender,— Is the light thy features hold. it was still cloudy and rather threatening.

E'en in every form and mould ! The position of the house and the view

Sweet as music, softly swelling. from it were both slightly peculiar and the Unto ears with care oppressed, whole country seemed different from the Pure as pearls of priceless telling, Rich as fragrance, deep upwelling general run ; there was a certain charm Under skies that speak of rest. it felt like Doth thy presence please us best. about that one ascribing to the H. S. England. poetic influence, though it probably had —

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more to do with the rare beauty of the these bluffs were well wooded. One of Merriniac valley. The latter was seen in- them has become celebrated under the

deed, under lowering skies, but it never- name of the " Laurels," for it was among

theless made a lasting impression upon us. the laurels on its summit that a number of The following morning our friend drove the poet's friends met yearly, forming a sort us to meeting and, in order to see some- of club that bore the same name as the

what of the country, we started quite early place where it held its meetings. We and took a decidedly roundabout wa)'. find that Whittier was at least twice the Turning down a cross-road which bore the poet of the occasion. " I name Martin," according to a guide-post, But the road soon led us away from the we had not proceeded far before a lane was river and into the old town of Salisbury

seen going off to the left through a growth which is divided from Amesbury in appar- of bushes, and here we all alighted. The ently the most arbitrary fashion ; to a name of the road we had come seemed stranger's eye they seem one town. Both

rather suspicious and we were quite pre- towns are exceedingly picturesque but it is pared for whatever was to be seen. The our own opinion that the poet has chosen

lane soon led us out into an ordinary look- the loveliest spot of all for his dreaming

ing lot covered with shortly cropped grass place. The house is on a long wide avenue and a few thistles or tiny spruce trees abundantly shaded with great elms, and scattered around. Here is the place stands somewhat back from the unpaved

where, street. It is painted a light color and has

" Poor Mal)le in her lonely home a very pleasing air of neatness about it, not Sat by the window's narrow pane that stern artificial trimness which city White in the moonlight's silver rain." mansions often exhibit. We did not fail to notice the two glass panes in the door at No trace of foundation or foundation stone the further end of the short piazza, for these remains but it is known that this is the spot have become famous. They are the win- which once bore the house of Goody dows through which the poet looks from Martin, though it is hard to conjure up his desk upon the outside world. various attributes mentioned in the story Whittier tells. There are no large trees at The meeting to which we were going is the that Whittier attends is all near, and the river, it could hardly refer same when he to the Merrimac, has dwindled into a small at Amesbury. It is not far from his home stream. Of course we wished we could and is located in a little pine grove at the have had the poem with us and thus be junction of theelm-shaded avenue and a road

enabled to enter more into its spirit, for that comes into it from the west. The here surely was the spot that could lend meeting house was quite large but the most inspiration. worshippers few, and one side of the build- We now continued our way down toward ing was not at all occupied. the river and the road became quite steep. From meeting we drove directl)- back to

In consequence of this the general view im- the little house among the trees, to which proved and was really very picturesque. we were speedily admitted through the in-

At this point the Merrimac is tolerably tercession of our friend who knew the lady broad and flows with considerable current. of the house. The latter was very pleasant I remember the opposite bank rose almost and answered our many questions with as immediately from the water to a height of much courtesy and frankness as could be a hundred feet or more and the tops of desired though she had probably heard — ; — — no THE H AVERKORDIAN. them dozens of times before. It appearf:d with portraits of his distinguished con- that the poet had gone to 'Squam lake temporaries, Lowell, Emerson and the rest. some miles to the north, on a general rest- It was growing late, however, and after a ing and recruiting tour. brief visit to Po Hill, at the east of the town,

We were taken directly to his study, it we returned as quickly as possible to the being of course the most interesting room house. in the house. On stepping into it I was Our afternoon was devoted to a visit to immediately struck with the lowness of the the Whittier birthplace at Haverhill. The ceiling and the general coziness of its aspect. ride thither was very pleasant indeed for

Pictures hung aroud the walls but I have the sun had come out and the country was forgotten all their subjects excepting that of most fresh and picturesque. We found the one. This was a pen and ink drawing of place looking much like its pictures with the poet's brother, Thomas Whittier, and it some of their usual perversions omitted. hung directly over the desk. The latter is The house has much the same appearance placed near the two glass panels, as has as it did in Whittier's time but the kitchen been mentioned before, and it too is cele- is divided into two rooms and the fire-place, brated, for here was written " S/nnc Bound',' the historic fire-place, has been in part as well as many minor poems, probabl)' all bricked up. A stove set up in it when we those in his works which are dated at were there served effectually to quench any Amesbury. Along that side of the room sentimental reflections in which we might in which the glass door was located there have been inclined to indulge. Adjoining stood a lounge, made especially notable by the kitchen is the room in which the poet the little pillow at its head, for on this was born and here we signed our names in pillow were embroidered the words, the register which usually infests such famous places. " Our pines are trees of he.iling." But when we turned homeward the sun testing it soon noticed the faint Upon we slanted down the little knoll to the west of odor of pine leaves and the lady of the the house and lighted up the whole scene house informed us that this had been beautifully and we thought it no wonder worked and presented to Whittier by some that the great man should love dearly such of his lady admirers. We thought it a an old home-like place. very pretty and dainty compliment as well as a useful gift. L'AmOVR. But it was time to leave and so we made From lite French in the Orii^imil Ah/rr. a brief visit to the parlor where a beautiful portrait of the poet's mother was to be seen, Tell me, my heart, my heart afire. What is this love, this word so sweet? and I think one of his sister Elizabeth to — It is two souls with one desire, Two hearts with but one beat. whom he refers in the " Demon of the S/?id_v" and in words like these, Tell me why 'tis, we love receive ? —Thus Cometh love —since it conielh so. Tell me why 'tis, that love doth leave ? " So sweet, so de.tr is the silvery tone — It is not love, if it e'er doth go. Of lier in whose features I sometimes look,

.\s I sit at eve by her side alone Tell me, what is the love that's true ? That which in others hath its life. .\s we read by turns from the self-same book, — And the love with defeats most few ? Some talc, perhaps, of the olden time —That which with least noise is rife. Some lover's romance, or quaint old rhyme." Tell me, how do its riches grow ? — 'Tis at each step by giving wrought. I \'entured to glance in the poet's piioto- How does its madness' language flow ? graph album. It ajjpeared to be well filled —Love just loves,—and speaketh nought. —

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I^AFAVEXTE COLLECiE. For a number of j'cars the outlook for the new college was gloomy, but in 1863, Dr. Caltell made president his a beautiful location and cleliglitful sur- was and IF upbuilding of the college during his presi- roundings make an institution, Lafay- dency of twenty }-ears, will live a monu- ette would be surpassed by probabi)' no his name. other college in the country. ment to At present Lafaj-ette has fifteen build- Easton, the seat of the college, is a city ings, a Faculty of twenty-four, and some of some fifteen thousand inhabitants, charm- two hundred and fifty students from all ingly located at- the confluence of the Le- sections of the country. The following high and Delaware rivers, some sixty miles courses are open to the students : Classical, north of Philac'elphia. This section of the Scientific, Latin Scientific, Chemical, Civil countr)-, the gateway of the famous Lehigh PLngineering and Mining Engineering. Each Valley, is hilly and ver}- picturesque. is a course of four years, at the end of The college is situated on a plateau some which time the student receives a degree. two hundred feet above the river's level, at It is unnecessary to dwell on the thorough- northern extremity of street, the Third one ness of the instruction, as the high posi- of the important thoroughfares of the most tions occupied by Lafayette's Alumni are a city. The approach to the college is by testimony that Lafayette is doing her share a series of massive stone steps and winding in giving young men a sober Christian edu- masonry. graveled paths supported by As cation. one ascends the paths and beholds the But I presume the Haverfordian de- beautiful terraces, the shade trees, the sires an outline of the student life at grassy dotted well-kept flower campus by Lafayette more than a " catologuey " article magnificent Pardee Hall, he beds, and must extoling the virtues of the college, and feel that has a situation of which Lafayette reducing the expense to an almost impos- justly feel proud. she may sible figure.

Speaking of the college, Donald G. Mitch- I do not think the students at Lafayette " ell says, If no art school flanks the other differ much from those of other colleges. courses of study, the whole surroundings Here you find the son of the Pennsylvania with its valleys and wilderness of wood and Dutch farmer, the young would-be swell, gleams qf water—is itself an art education. the young prodig}' who was big at some If the young men of Lafaj-ette paint no pic- country town and thinks the eyes of the tures and write no sonnets, the\' will carry whole college are on him. Here also you out with them into the world a living mem- find the young school teacher fresh from ory of visions of landscape beauty that will the forest, the " society man," the athletic quicken the eye to every aspect of art." man, and the goody goody, who thinks to The college was founded in 1832 and the smile is to sin and that all students who Rev. Gcoige Junkin was its first president. are not as good as he are on the broad The first class, consisting of four men, was road which leadeth to destruction. But graduated in 1836. Two of the first gradu- such are characters you find in every col- ates are still living, the Hon. N. B. Smith- lege and probably you have them at Haver- ers, of Delaware, and G. W. Ked, of Texas. ford. In the year 1849, the infant college was When a Freshman applies for admission taken under the care of the Presb\terian he is shown to the business office of the

Church, under whose patronage it still college and there, after relieving himself of remains. Although a Presbyterian college, five dollars, the regulation fee, is given a Lafayette has many students of other reli- card on which are written the studies in gious faiths. What good the church does which he is to be examined. It is here to the college is better known to the Fac- probably that he will get a good impres- ulty than to the students. It may be amus- sion of the students. Some fellow, proba- ing to your readers to state that until a bly a total stranger, will kindly offer to' year or so ago the Presb}terian catechism show him around to the different examina- was a regular study, and a terrible bug tions and introduce him to the \'arious bear to Lafayette Freshmen. professors. The I'reshman is delighted at THE HAVERKORDIAN.

his new found friends, and, if green, he given signal both sides start on a full rush little knows that his courteous companion for the cane. They meet. Then com- " is a " rusher for one of the Greek letter mences the struggle. Each side tries to fraternities, on for Frank or Wash Hall, or push back the other, the object being to perchance his f|-iend wants to sell him some carry the cane down the field and under old furniture. Examinations through our your opponent's goal. The rush generally new comer gets a room in one of the six lasts about five minutes and the Sopho-

dormitories where all the students dwell, mores have always been victorious. . The

his new friend helping him greatly ; after- Freshmen are then prohibited from carry- ward he meets other fellows and perchance ing canes until the spring term. Some- a senior may condescend to say, " Mr. times the sophs indulge in mild hazing but Pumpkins, I am glad to meet you." The the vigorous measures instituted by Presi-

Freshman sees other men watching him dent J. H. M. Knox have probably stopped and at last realizes that he is being sized up hazing at Lafayette. " " and probably spiked by one of the nine The students support three publications. letter fraternities which have chap- Greek The Lafayette is published semi-monthly ters at Lafayette. All the fraternities liave and has si.x editors. Each retiring board well-fitted-up rooms in town and although of editors choose by competitive examina- at times there is rivalry between them, the tion their successors. The paper has a feeling is generally good. Being a frater- good circulation and is a success. nity man at Lafayette does not in the least The college annual, called the Melange, signify that a man's friends are all in his is issued every year by the Junior class. own fraternity. All the students room in Each fraternity has a representative on the large buildings and so every man meets editorial board and several new fraternity every other in college. men are elected. The Coiiiiiiencevient ./?rc- The literary societies are an important WYif is a small daily published during com- factor in the student life. The two socie- mencement week. Efforts are being made ties at Lafayette are the Franklin and to establish a literary bi-monthly, and next Washington. Each has a large library term will probabh" be issued the initial and well-fitted-up rooms located in Pardee number. Whether the new venture will be Hall. Meetings are held every Wednesday a success remains to be seen. Able men evening and a large proportion ol the stu- are on its staff and the literary merit will at dents belong to one or the other of these least receive praise. societies. The Junior oratorical contest be- tween the two Halls is held every year four Of late years Lafayette has made won- men being selected from each Hall to de- derful strides in Athletics. The students liver orations. Three prizes are given, the support foot-ball, base-ball and field sports. first prize is fifty dollars, second thirty and The base-ball team has always been good, the third twenty. and the record. of the foot-ball team last One of the most inij)oitant events of the fall augurs well for the future. In field year, at least to the n.ew freshman, is the sports Lafa}-ette does well and Mr. God- annual cane rush. A few days after college shall, '87, holds the inter-collegiate record opens the Sophomores issue a challenge to in the pole vault. Within the past two the Freshmen for the cane rush. Of years a glee club has been organized in the course the challenge is accepted and a day college, and will continue to be one of the appointed. 'The coming rush is now the leading student organizations. The college uppermost topic in the minds of the stu- has also good banjo-clubs. As I am writ- dents. On the afternoon selected for the ing this article the Glee and Banjo Clubs rush both sides appear on the athletic are on a trip visiting the principal cities of grounds, which are on the campus directly the state. The students have a great deal in front of the dormitories. A stout stick of energy. All the organizations are well is placed in the middle of the field between supported and the record of the exponents the two foot-ball goals. The Sophs line up of student life at Lafayette will compare in a solid mass under one goal and the very favorably with organizations of a sim- Freshmen's line is under the other. At a ilar nature at other institutions.

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In conclusion I would like to make a may yet find consolation in the beautiful

reference to an article which has been thought of Archbishop Trench :

going the rounds of the college press, that " soul, regrets stilled But hush my and vain be ; is, " Lafayette has never received a legacy." Find rest in Ilini, who is the complement Of what soe'er transcends your mortal doom. This is true, but it must not be presumed Of broken hope and frustrated intent; that the college has no wealthy friends. In the clear vision and aspect of Whom, The fine buildings of the college show the All wishes and longings are fulfilled." generosity of her friends, while the names of It is, however, of our living loss that I Pardee, Blair others will be held in and would more especially speak at this time all Lafayette's sons and friends. memory by of one most closel)- related to him whose A. W. Cummins. death we mourn, and nearly allied to him also in many of the graces and attainments— ALUMNI DEPARTMENT. which adorned his life and character,- ^his brother, the late President Thomas Chase of

For the IIaverfordian. Haverford. recei\'ed him in PRESIDENT THOM.\S CHASE. A note from the summer of 1854, informed us of his arrival in Phila- delphia, and of his readiness to await our a recent number of the Haverfordian IN call. Its history was this : a deeply interesting sketch of the late Some two years before that date the acting President of Ha\-erford College, Dr. Managers of Haverford had become Pliny E. Chase, from the pen of Professor thoroughly convinced that an entire change Allen Thomas, has presented in outline in the conduct of its classical department some of the remarkable features of his was essential to its fuller success ; and the character and life-work, which it is hoped Secretary of the Board made a personal re- may be worthily filled out at no distant quest that I would visit Harvard and Yale day. Universities, and endeavor to secure some only the varied interests grouped Not able and efficient young graduate, who College, but the of around the community would undertake to re-organize the Letters and of Science at large, ha\e sus- methods of instruction in Greek and Latin tained a loss in his remo\'al which can classics at the school ; and to introduce a hardly as yet be fully appreciated. Modest, more thorough drill, as well as an improved patient, unobtrusive, course of study, more adapted to a first- •" And, as the greatest ahv,iys are. class institution of learning. In his simplicity sublime,"' It was hardly supposed that a member of the Society of Friends could be obtained the casual obser\'er would be apt to under- for the purpose. estimate his profound attainments, and per- It had so happened that in the summer of haps to pass him lightly by, in the rush of 1850, I had met most pleasantly at Chnm- self-asserting aspirants for fame who crowd ouni, and again the following winter at the high-ways of life, and even the by-ways Florence, Dr. Asa Gray of Harvard of literature and the arts. whose reputation was European, even then, Yet few, in our day, have trod either although he had hardly attained to the with a firmer step, or a more earnest pur- zenith of his present fame. pose, and with a more rightful claim to On parting we had exchanged our North their highest honors. German Guide-Books, with an assurance Abo\^e all was his reverent acceptance of on his part of earnest personal interest and the truths of Di\-ine revelation, and his per- friendship. So that I felt sure at least of a " sonal trust in that Saviour, in whom are warm recognition at Harvard, and willing hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowl- therefore to undertake the delicate task as- " edge ; in whose bright presence he has signed me. gone forever to dwell. A cordial reception from Dr. Gray, and a If some high purposes of his life seemed kind note from him to Prof Lane in charge to be but partiall)' fulfilled, or in any degree of the Latin Classics at the UnivxTsity, frustrated through his untimely death, we plunged us " in medias res," at his breakfast ;

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table the next morning,—when our sit- proving its drill ; so that by the date of uation and our needs were fully explained. Thomas Chase's return, in 1854, all the " If you could only wait two years, said classes were in much better condition for Prof Lane with enthusiasm, when I had such a first rate Master, than they would have finished our story, I could recommend to been without such intervention. you the finest and most thorough classical It became needful to arrange for a private scholar who has graduated at Harvard Academy in Philadelphia for William within th2 past seven years,—our late Tutor Rej'nolds for which the means were pro- of Latin, Thomas Chase. He is in Europe vided, and which he successfully conducted at present, attending lectures in Germany, until his departure some years afterwards

and visiting tha classic scenes of Greece for France ; where, first as a private tutor in and Rome." the Creusot family, and afterwards, through In case we could not wait, the next one their influence, in the Government Depart- he would recommend, would be Ephraim ment of Education, he has rapidly risen to Whitman Gurney, another distinguished distinction and pecuniary ease; retaining graduate of Harvard tlien in Boston, and his position through all the varied changes whom he thought we could procure with- of Administration since that time. out delay. While at Cambridge in 1852, I procured I made up my mind in a moment, that if through Prof Lane a copy of Cicero's we could obtain him as a loaiin tcnens, our Treatise on " The Immortality of the permanent selection had better be deferred Soul, edited b)- Thomas Chase, tutor at until Thomas Chase's return. This, how- Harvard," and used as a text book at that

ever, Prof Lane thought could hardly be College ; which displays in its notes and accepted by Mr. Gurney; and so I found commentaries no ordinary research and would be tiie case in an interview with him learning. This copy I forward, with Dr. that day in Boston. He was willing to Asa Gray's old Guide Book, for preservation come to Haverford as its classical Professor, among your archives, as interesting memor-

but not to fill the vacancy ad interim. ials of that visit. I have often since felt thankful for not Of the subsequent career and of the having yielded to the strong temptation to splendid achievements of Thomas Chase at return directly to Philadelphia, and re- Plaverford, within the past thirty-two years, commend him to the Managers as the most its students and Alumni have no need to be eligible candidate presenting. reminded. These are too fresh in their Modest, dignified and scholarly in his de- memories and two deepl}- engraven upon portment, with an excellent record and their hearts. strong credentials, he would have filled our They know how he never rested until he requirements far better than we had hoped had lifted the Institution, not only in name for, when I left home. but in character, into an acknowledged His after-career was most creditable, and position among the leading Colleges of our largely connected with the University where country. How as President, with the aid he graduated. I regret to add that within of an excellent Faculty and a most able and the past few months his death has been de\oted Board of Managers, and other publicly announced, with the most lionor- friends, who stood nobly by him in these able notice of his character and life-work. efforts, he added so largely to its facilities,

Leaving the matter open, however, with both material and financial ; enlarging its regard to his permanent selection, I de- buildings, its library, its apparatus, its col- termined first to visit Yale College, armed lections in natural histor}-, its scholarships, with a note from Prof. Lane to Professors and its permanent endowment. How these Hadley and Thatcher of that University efforts were crowned in the last years of his and there succeeded in engaging William Presidency, with that magnificent bequest A. Reynolds for the intermediate position, which undoubtedly his own personal in- subject to the approval of the Haverford fluence and his able administration had Managers. largely attracted. He did good service at the school, re- How in and over all these achievements modeling its curriculum and greatly im- and triumphs, he preserved the simplicity of THE H AVERKORDI A.N. "S his Christian character, and the earnestness graceful defences, at the last in order to

of Ills Cliristian l.iitli ; .so tliat liis last re- complete its invulnerable protective power, port to the managers in 1885, including his " He poured the ocean rouiul." history of the Jacob Jones legacy, is at once Were there any other panoply needed by a model of classic elegance of diction, and Thomas Chase for his protection from the of humble yet fearless confession of his dangers which at times accompany an ex- Lord and Saviour. pression of even a well-deserved approval The recent high tribute that President than those graces of Christian culture and Eliot of Harvard paid to Thomas Chase as character which have been alluded to, the his old tutor, expresses I am sure the waves of the broad Atlantic flowing be- feelings of personal obligation which hun- tween us, while we are thus thinking of dreds who have passed under his charge at him, would avail to furnish it : would soften

Haveiford, would gladly re-echo ; and they any note of praise that might sound too will join me in the conviction that his loss loud and temper the fervor of any estimate to the College at this time will not easily that would seem too glowing, if breathed be replaced. into the ear of the dearest friend by our

I know that his successor will ha\-e side. around him the same efficient coadjutors, A few more words and I am done. One and the same wise Counsellors who sup- of the most saintly men of our day. Bishop Lee of Delaware, is now lying critically ill ported President Chase ; and that whoever these would select will be worthy of that at his home in Wilmington, if indeed he position. may be living when these lines shall appear in your columns. vigilant a guard as his will As doubtless Through his kind influence, the name of be maintained over the moral and spiritual Thomas Chase was added to the list of the welfare and tone of the Institution. Per- American Committee of Revision of the haps even a keener eye than his may watch New Testament, after it had been closed over its business interests. Through what without including any representative from seems pro\-idential now a foresight the the Society of Friends. Managers have succeeded in attracting from I shall never forget how earnestly the late the older University of another Cambridge, beloved President of Haverford, Samuel J. one of the most acomplished Greek scholars Gummere re.sponded to an appeal for such of om- day, whose presence assures the cretlentials as would insure the desired ap- success of the classical department of pointment ; bringing into my office more Haverferd. than once, strong testimonials from Harvard University as well as from our own College. Yet I think that all these will agree with justified the effort me that for a combination of those rare and The result amply

all ; and sterling qualities which go to make up the which we then successfully made his colleagues bore witness at the close of gentleman and scholar,—for a most happy their labor, that had on the Committee union of the " suaviter in modo"with the they " no more able and efficient co-worker than fortiter in re,"—for that experience of all Chase, Ha\'erford. the affairs of the College which led him to Thomas of an exact knowledge of its capabilities and Thom.\s Kimbek. its needs,—for a lo}-al devotion to the Kiihtiuiiul Hill, Loit^ Island, X. Y.,j»io., 24, iSSy. fundamental principles of the Society of Friends, in perfect consistency with a broad '74 Edw. P. Allinson had the good for- and heartfelt acceptance of the great truths tune last month to find the original charter of Christianity, it may be long ere we of the city of Philadelphia, a document "shall look upon his like again." hitherto not known to be in existence.

Have I seemed to speak too highly of the '79 F. Henderson, LL. B., has given up living? It will not harm him. The great law, and is in a banking house in Philadel- Poet of antiquity tells us when the mighty phia. Artificer of the shield of Achilles had '82 L. M. Winston has gone to Dan- studded it with varied ornamental and bury, Neb. ' " '

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'87 W. E. Hacker is in the office of A certain professor was seen entering Barclay Irwin & Toland, brokers, Philadelphia. Hall carrying a lantern and a hatchet. Whether he was, like Diogenes of old, searching for an '88 R. M. Janney is with the Susque- honest man, or was making a raid for Junior hanna Water Power and Paper Co., Cono- orations, long overdue, we have been unable to wmgo, Md. decide.

a mistake due to a similarity in By Tlie Loganian has decided that it is alto- sound, Wm. B. Morgan was wrongfully gether too fine a concern to meet every two stated in a previous issue to have had weeks, and thus "waste its sweetness on the trouble with his eyes. Wm. E. Morgan, desert air," and has concluded that hereafter his son, formerly Observatory Assistant one meeting a month is all that it can bear. here, was the afflicted person. The constitution has also been so altered that the Society does not hold any meetings after the Spring vacation. The old collection of coins has been given to the College, and now the lone curator finds his occupation gone.

Heard in society: "China and other African Imagine the astonishment of the students, countries." when, amidst the unbroken stillness of the Something Hke carrying coals to Newcastle. dining-room, there fell upon their ravished A Junior suggests using caustic potash for a ears strains of sweetest music. But still greater sore throat. was their surprise and anger, when they beheld before them the ancient grinder, who, with An accomplished French student translates unprecedented gall, had crossed the sacred ^^Un cas iV apoplexie foudroyante," thun- "A threshold, and had stationed himself in their dering case of apoplexy." midst. But they did not long contemplate Professor to student, whose ideas of German this interesting spectacle, for our agile profes- sor took the matter in hand, and the celerity grammar are somewhat vague : "Did you not of our friend's departure rivalled the haste study this lesson ? " " No, sir; / went to bed early last night. ' with which the Freshmen used to "leave" the Latin class in "Spotzy's" overlordship. Found in a society minute-book: "A declamation, "The Loss of the Arctic," by An old Alumnus would hardly recognize our Henry Ward Beecher. Library now. A new case has been put up in Just as we were going to press, we heard that the Everett alcove, and one will shortly be placed in the arrangement somebody had lost a plug hat. A little notice Athensum. The on the bulletin board would call attention to of the middle part of the room has been en- the fact. tirely changed, and the table by the fire-place

has been . removed. Several large cases for The Elocution Professor says a certain Junior reference books have been put in, and many " runs his steam-engine too fast." other improvements introduced, among which We hear that Bryn Mawr has a House of may be mentioned the iron-bound rules gov- the Everett Library. Commons. In order to preserve the balance erning of power, Haverford should at once establish a In the German conversation class we heard a of Lords. House student make the unqualified statement, " Ick

' From the amount of green cloth displayed habe ein Weib. here on St. Patrick's Day, one would suppose A gentleman from Baliol College lectured to a large number of our students hailed from the the Logic class on " Some New Ideas of the Emerald Isle. Syllogism." The fellows didn't say much, but

tiiink they breathed freely it The Junior Class thinks of presenting one of we more when was all over. its members with a work entitled, " How to make Amendments at a College Meeting." Stuart Wood, an honorary member of the Everett, lectured before a public meeting of After all the fuss and rumpus about its man- the Society, on "Russia." He told us much agement, how's the Haverfordi.\n ? Right that was interesting about Russia, and had a up at the top, where it always is. few pictures to show afterwards. Among these A member of the independent French class was a drawing of the carriage in which the late translates pig-iron, "fer de coc/wn." Czar met his death. THE HAVERKORDIAN. 117

Not very many days ago, our schemers pre- cipitated upon this community a new scheme, That cute little journal, the Pcnn Charter conceived in secrecy and dedicated to the News, whose appearance we welcomed only proposition that we should all wear gowns. two months ago, is no more. In its stead a Now we have concluded a great controversy, more pretentious periodical has come out. This testing whether that scheme, or any scheme so is the Penn C/iartcr Magazine. do not conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We admire it as much as we did its more modest We here dedicate a portion of our space as the predecessor. The tender youth, of the age final resting place of those who did so nobly generally represented at such an institution as gas, that that scheme might live. But in a the Penn Charter, are not quite prepared to this larger sense we cannot consecrate plan ; furnish the public with such a magazine as the brave men, windy and loud, who struggled Harper s or the Century. Young birds must for it, have consecrated it far above our power learn to fly by degrees, and not think to main- to add or to detract. The world will little strong steady flight note nor long remember what they have done, tain the and of an eagle, when first they venture from the nest. but it can never forget what we say here : That we here highly resolve that these men shall not The Dicliinsonian for March, contains an in that shall, have gassed vain ; the world be- able article commenting on the late decision of fore long, have a new birth of freedom, and the court, regarding the limit of power of a col- that gowns of students, for students, and on lege faculty in dealing with the actions of stu- students, shall forever perish from the earth. dents. The article concludes thus :

" If we interpret the new law riglit * * * * Tlie Sophomore Class, by the advice of the there are but twu courses open, either of whicli is fr.Tught Faculty, have decided not to have a Cremation. with difficulties. As this is probably a death-blow to the custom, First, beat down all attempts to withhold testimony. our patriotic soul could not restrain itself, but Establish the custom of compelling students to testify, no matter how nearly this may approach the principles burst forth into the following lamentation : of the old-time Inquisition, and how difficult it maybe

Farewell, O Cremation, thou annual ta.\ on to change the present sentiment, or : Second, Let the faculties of colleges abandon the idea the Sophomore's pocket ! Small and insig- confining themselves nificant wert thou in thy infancy, but thou hadst of control altogether, entirely to the scholarship of students, and, making no note what- of late assumed enormous proportions. No ever of conduct, throw students entirely upon their own longer wert thou, O Paley, thou man of dates, responsibility." compelled to suffer disintegration and thy ashes It appears to us that these are the only ways gathered into sacred urns, while all around thee open in which college faculties can now act. stood a solemn throng, arrayed in bolsters and That both are somewhat objectionable there pillow cases, inscribed with the mystic symbols, can be no doubt, but the second course ap- the skull and cross-bones. Long time ago hath pears to us decidedly the best. Before adopting the wily Sophomore discarded that primeval this, however, our colleges must make certain garb, and lately he hath appeared bedecked in well-defined restrictions as regards age and faultless gowns, direct from the maker of shams. moral standing, before admitting any student And thou, O Wentworth, swallower of formulas, into the college community. who for the past few years hast suffered death and persecution at our hands, do thou now rest We are happy to acknowledge the receipt of thy weary bones, secure from further molesta- Lassell Leaves. With the exception of the tion. As long as thou dost live, mayst thou cover, the rnost artistic features of which are continue to grind out logarithms for thy Trig- the two ugly little cupids sporting with some onometry, and we suffer it ! No longer shall a struggling vines, we are very much pleased with weary fire committee carry heavy beams, that our new exchange. The editorials are good thou mayst fitly be cremated,, nor a crafty and the principle literary article " Howell's building committee construct platforms which Portraiture of Women," is a well-written pro- will not stand. No more shall a busy draping duction, sound in its criticism and displaying committee " tacks its ingenuity" to bedeck careful study on the part of the writer. The thy pageant with most striking contrasts. O departments of " Locals," " Personals," " Po- Cremation, thou art gone! Brief was thy litical Notes," "Scientific Notes," "Major sojourn, and glorious was thy last appearance ! and Minor," and "Art Notes," though rather And now that thou art forever banished, what short individually, are well condticted. We Sophomore but doth grasp his pocket-book the wish especially to commend the colfmin of tigliter, and count himself a happy man ? Sic " Political Notes," because this plainly iiidi- transit gloria mundi ! Thus, one by one, our cates the presence of that interest which Ameri- good old college customs pass away. can women are beginning to take in national ii8 THE H AVERKORDI AN. affairs; a real, live interest which must precede sadly disappointed. The Haverfordian has the exercise of their rightful privilege of the always held herself far above the vulgar level ballot. The exchange department is the best of of name-calling and blackguard into which any ladies' journal with which we are acquainted. our angry friend, in order, we suppose, to give a practical illustration of that chiv- We hear with regret that the Pacific Pharos "southern alry," of which he boasts so much, has so is no more. We are sorry that so good a paper heartily has disappeared from the field of college jour- plunged. We wish to thank the Monthlx, however, nalism ; and yet the editors are right in their tor in action. If the sentiments expressed in a col- informing us those beautiful, soul-stirring " lege paper are not those of the students whom verses, quoted for our benefit, that Old Time" has changed his sex, and "now," hav- it professes to represent, there is no excuse for ing "man's equal," is posing as " a the existence of the organ. It is far better that become true a college should have no paper at all than that type of womanhood." it should support one whose sentiments are tampered w-ith by anyone outside the student GEXERAL COLLEGE IVE^VS. body. The Studeiif for April discusses at some Harvard Freshmen number 280 students. length the question of originating a new jour- A law school has been founded at Cornell. nal " based on Friends' jirinciples but not Swarthmore's new observatory is completed. formally propounding them." Some intima- A course of sixty lectures is being delivered tion is made that the Student shall be so trans- at Columbia. formed as to become such a literary paper. It seems to us that there is a great need in our The Vassar girls are trying to introduce the Society for a monthly magazine of general lit- Oxford cap and gown. erary and educational interests, but we should The University of Oxford has an annual be very sorry to see the Student transformed income of over ^100,000. into such a periodical. The Student in its The University of Pennsylvania has 10S8 stu- present form has filled and is filling a place dents and 136 Professors. which no magazine of more miscellaneous At Dickinson two literary societies have be- character could possibly occupy. Let us by tween them over 21,000 volumes. all means have our new monthly or quarterly ; Nine of the existing American colleges were for it will tend to increase the interest of young existence before the Revolution. Friends in our distinctive " practices and prin- in ciples," which are now so much overlooked, Brinley, the tennis player of Trinity, took but on the other hand do not let us allow the the second prize in the annual oratorical con- Student to loose its present character. test in that college. The University of Michigan ranks second in The University Herald appears for March respect to numbers among American colleges. with a special design at the head of every students. department. This innovation may indicate an It has 1535 appreciation of the beautiful in art, but it does Four hundred thousand dollars, has been not correspond with the general business-like bequeathed for the purpose of founding a tone of the paper. woman's college in Montreal. Paris Just as we are about going to press, the The University of was founded in 1200 Alabama University Montlily has arrived. and is the oldest institution in the world. This sheet having been abruptly awakened Oxford was founded in 1206 and Cambridge in from the " lulling dreams" of " Christmas and 1257- New Year," by a short criticism in our Febru- One hundred and seventeen students have ary issue, occupies over a page and a half with withdrawn from Roger Williams College at a rambling, incoherent harangue addressed to Nashville, Tenn., on account of trouble with our exchange editor personally. The article the faculty. referred to consists of long, ambiguous sen- The Students' Board of Amherst has for the tences embellished with a remarkably scholarly first time exercised its authority by expelling a French quotation, and words here and there man who, contrary to promise, used a " pony" aitistically printed in italics. These sentences in class room. are freely interspersed with other shorter ones, reeking with a low, malignant, ungentlemanly Professor Dwight, of Yale, wrote an article personal abuse and insult. 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THOMAS CHASE, A. B. (Harvard), A. M. (Harvard), LL. D. (Harvard), Ltt. D. (Haverford,) President and Professor of Philology and Literature. PLINY E. CHASE, A. B. (Harvard), A. M. (Harvard), LL. D. (Ilaverfordl, Acting President and Professor of Philosophy and Logic. ISAAC SHARPLESS, S. B. (Harvard), Sc. D. (University of Pennsylvania). Professor of .Matlieuiatics and .\strononiy. ALLEN C. TIIOMAS, A. B. (Haverford), A. M. (Haverford), Librarian and Professor of Histoi-y, Political Science and Rhetoric. LYMAN B. H.\LL, A. B, (Amherst), A. M. and Ph. H. 'i iiiUin^en), Professor of Chemistry and" Physics. SETH K. GIFFORD, A. B. (Haverford), A.M. ( Haveifunli. Professor of Latin and Greek. AVALTER A. FORD. M. D. (.lefferson CoUetce, Philadel[»hia), Instructor in Physical Training and Director of the Gymnasium. J. REX DELL 1 1. Mil: IS, M. A. (t'ambridge. England), Professor of Bible Languages and Ecclesiastical History. MYRilN II. s.\XFul;li, M. A. (U'esleyan University), Professor of Latin, and Registrar. 1!. LEVI T. KIHVARlis, A. I llavcrf.ud). Professor of JCnginecring. J. PLAYl All! McMl HUirll, Pli. 1). (.lohns Hoiikins), Professor of Biology. S.AMUF.L Ll:r(illis, I'.ac h. cs Lcltres, (La Sorbonne, Paris), Instructor in French. HOWARD F. srK.\TT(iN, Inslruclor in Free Hand Drawing.

The followino; regular courses are given.

Course in Arts and Science, for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Course in General Science and Literature, for the degree of Bachelor of Science.

Course in Practical Science and Engineering, for the Degree of Bachelor of Engineering.

Haverford College is on the Pennsylvania Railroad, nine miles from Philadelphia. It oiFers to ninety boarders and a small nuinl)cr of day-studonts, the advantage of a col- legiate education, of the ordinary grade, under the tuition of scholarly instructors, and in association with gentlemanly young men of good moral habits. The facilities for good work include a Library of 15,000 volumes; an Observatory,

well equipped and in active operation ; a Laboratory where students are engaged daily in

scientific work ; machine shops and other appliances. The College is in the country, in a lawn of sixty acres, all the conditions being favorable to the best physical development.

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