THE ALUMNI JOURNAL

OF THE

ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.

VOL. III. SEPTEMBER, 1873. NUMBER 9.

PROFESSORIAL TENURE OF OFFICE.

T HE Northwestern University, The fact in this case is that an after thinking a year about it, has institution desires to keep its effec- deliberately returned to its old pol- tive men. The conditions of col- icy of electing a professor once for lege service are such as to exclude all. The fact is a significant one, any systematic rotation or promo- and probably indicates that the West tion. A professor's value is great- will not adopt the newer policy of est, as a rtule, where he has worked our Eastern Methodist universities. longest, and his character and qual- Hereabouts, the opinion of all, or ifications are a part of the wealth of nearly all, thoughtful persons who the college or university. It would have studied the subject is adverse be unwise to rotate him out or re- to the new departure. move him to ahother field by a reg- There is in the case no question ular system; but even if it were of the power of trustees to remove wise to do so, there exists no ma- professors. This power is held un- chinery of change. There is no der the old rule of unbroken tenure, professorial presiding eldership or and there is a very simple and effec- episcopacy. The professor whom tive procedure authorized by time- a wheel has turned out is not turn- honored precedent. Mistakes in ed in somewhere else by the same elections, and inefficiency developed wheel. Ministers under our system after election, can be cured by re- can claim new appointments from questing the resignation of the pro- their conferences; the most effect- fessor, or by declaring his chair va- ive of professors cannot claim a cant. This secures a full examina- new appointment from anybody un- tion of the facts and makes an un- der the sun. favorable decision an act of justice Professorial service is quite pecu- based upon knowledge. To decline liar. On one side is a body of stu- to re-elect under the new method, dents to be dealt with wisely and either because a presiding officer de- impartially. A college wants to re- sires a change or because there are move every possible danger of fa- doubts about efficiency, may be a voritism or laxness in discipline. way of perpetrating an outrage un- We want a wise professor's best der the forms of law. judgment and purest motives. We -25 x94 Professorial Tenure of Office. [Sept., can hardly expect this of men al- institution. They will grow old. ways in danger of losing their pla- God bless the gray-haired profes- ces. On the other hand, is a board sors! We have never known one of trustees, who want the soundest whose feeblest work was not worth opinions of the men who devote more than the stoutest lift of his all their time to the service of the young manhood. The Northwestern college. If a professor is not worth buried in 1872, a man who drew a good deal as an adviser, he should his life painfully through five years not be retained. In most cases, he of decline. But, in manifold ways is the only one who intimately and offices, the invalid Noyes was knows his own department, the on- to the last hour in full effectiveness, ly one competent to speak with com- even on his deathbed; and his slow- plete information of its students ly-gathered small fortune will always and of its needs. But a man ex- teach in the university. posed to perpetual danger of loos- The subject is large. We see in ing his position is not likely to give it a lesson upon the larger question his best judgment. He will often of national civil service reform. not have any best judgment to give. We should despair of curing the This man should be chosen with nation if our colleges should sicken care after ample trial. You are not with the fever of purposeless rota- dispensing a favor in choosing him; tion and removal. The old colleges you are securing a man to do the are to this day the best examples of work of a man where self-control, a wise tenure of office. Selected self-denial, devotion to his calling with care, living in close heartlock and a perfect freedom from any with their cause, the men of Yale, taint of demagogry are absolutely Harvard, Brown, Williams, and essential. He should not have any, other colleges, have best shown how the slightest, need or provocation a stable tenure of civil service may to win by arts and cunning what be founded and maintained. We should be given for work and ac- hope our Western colleges will teach quirements. civil service reform by retaining its A good professor will always iden- principle in their own tenure of pro- tify himself with the institution. fessorial service. The interests of For its welfare, he will work in ma- the school are vital, and no one ny ways beyond his bargained stint, man's interest should stand in the making a thousand unpaid steps to way, but as long as a professor does desirable'ends, just because the col- his best, and the very best for the lege is love and home to him. school his tenure should be safe. With concentration and accumu- When, finally, it may be thought lation of wealth, there must be some best to remove him the question danger of demoralizing the teaching should come up in something like a body. There had best, be at the Court of Inquiry, where complete center of every university a care- justice may be done him. A law fully-selected corps of professors, that executes itself is apt to be a whose singleness of purpose is as blind law that lacks human sympa- sure as their culture, whose whole thy as well as eyes.-N. W. Christian life is boundup in the life of the Advocate.

Pride hath no glass To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. -Shakespere. 1873.] ]he Genius of Liberty. 195

THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY.

GRADUATING ORATION, W. H. WYLDER.

SCALE with me yon mountain's on ethereal wings; it is stamped in brow, and with the eye of imagina- never-fading letters in the deep blue tion view that stream gushing from sky above us; and everywhere mor- its hidden depths. How sparkling tal beings waft back the response and pure its waters. Coursing its from throbbing hearts. way down the mountain side, it When we review the pages of the mingles its waters with another and past the foot-prints of the Genius with increased rapidity it leaps from of Liberty, child of the skies, arrest chasm to chasm with splendor daz- our attention. They are indicative zling and sublime. Now steadily of the most bloody cruelties that it speeds onward through the dense ever tyrant had to repent. She has forest revealing its wealth and echo- gilded in golden letters the grand- ing the notes of praise of the war- est achievements that ever called bling songsters; or softly it glides, forth the praise of man. breaking the deep silence of the She has so infused herself into the meadow, unearthing and polishing thought and literature of the world its secret gems. Invigorating are that now the shackles of the op- its breezes, and in its musical mur- pressed are being loosened; princi- murings there is joy and gladness. palities and powers are crumbling to As we trace its meanderings through dust beneath the advancing wheels glen and glade it soon plunges into of education and christianity, the the bosom of the 'ocean. In the emancipators both of body and soul. morning, a tiny drop uplifted from Despotism has ever retarded pro- the depths of the ocean; in the eve- gress and intercepted the ays of ning, united with a myriad of its the sun of truth, and misery like a crystal brothers, a torrent hastening dark spirit has brooded over the ty- its return to be clothed in the ma- rants domains. But as the ark borne jesty of its former life. upon the flood of waters, finally As the little drop is caught up by rested on Ararat, so the Genius of the sun under the direction of Om- Liberty floated above the gloom of nipotence, and in the mountain ignorance and superstition that stream traverses the lengths of the threatened mankind and as proudly the earth teaching the lessons of rests on its eminence of safety. To true life, and returns to the bosom that eminence many an outraged of the ocean, so the Spirit of Liber- and fettered patriot having turned ty, emanating from the Father of his eye, has caught hope and inspi- life, has been intimately connected ration from that bright form clothed with every event of which our world in the habiliments of freedom. has been the theatre, that has point- Turn to Erin's isle, the "Eden ed the souls of men toward God. of the ocean," the seat of valor and It is a God-given principle, man- virtue, and behold the effects of op- ifest in every creature that explores pression. Here, where nature lav- the dark waters of the deep, that ished her wealth and beauties, where ranges the regions of earth and air. she has planted the germ of true The low murmurings of the wash greatness, blasted talent and unmiti- of the waves make it ever the bur- gated miseries speak in loudest ac- den of their song, it is borne to us cents of minds dwarfed and blunt 196 The Genius of Liberty. [Sept.,

ed of moral perception. But for the development, stand on the basis of down-trodden sons of Ireland is personal expediency and clip off there no ark of safety? Has not the their outer branches. But not un- mantle of a Curran or an O' Connell til the true genius of liberty gives fallen upon some disciple under the the watchword, "Avanti, Eretelli, yoke whose heart burns with the fire a Roma," and freemen arise in of patriotism and is undaunted by their might, hurling the potent the threats of gibbet or stake ? Has missiles from the batteries of truth the eloquence of an Emmet ceased at their central power will we be to arouse the souls of brave men to free from this baleful air. a sense of their wrongs and trampled Indeed, he who submits his most pride? The flames of the renovat- secret thoughts to the inspection of ing spirit are already bursting; and carnal priest and subjects the devel- it has been foretold in prophetic opment of his better nature to priest- vision that "despotism, ere long, ly regime, though unfettered his must irrevocably meet its downfall." limbs, is a slave. It is said that "slowly indeed will Nor is this the only form of des- man emerge from this deep degra- potism in our midst. Cast your dation." "But the free mountain eyes out upon our broad and fertile of liberty, albeit, it is often raised prairies, checkered over with vil- into the storm and tornado, yet it lages, and see the nobler part of our is always healthful, invigorating and population grinding under the iron sweet. " wheels of monied monopolies. See Nor will such a renovation be brave men and women wearing brought about simply from educa- away life's strength with unremu- tion. Those illustrious "shades" nerated toil. See the fiends of chi- that shed an elevating influence canery and popular shrewdness fill- through the haze of the past, and ing their coffers from the treasures those characters destined in the of honest labor; those depraved, dim future to raise man in the scale yet applauded, forms in official robes of real life, owe not their special gloating over the spoils of an out- pre-eminence to intellectual eman- raged nation's treasury. Is this cipation alone. There is poison and America's boasted liberty? Turn death in that freedom of mind that to the "Garden City of the West," gives not control over self When or that metropolis of the East, and thus enamored the thought of such tell me why wallow those thousands a one is the thread woven into a in the abyss of misery and servi- vail that spreads over the under- tude? Why so many writhing under standing and realm of the soul dark- the power of alcohol, that poison as er than the shades of "Erebus;" deadly as the atmosphere of the and under its stagnating influence dreaded Upas tree ? are bred noxious vermin which prey As these aggressive powers ad- upon those forces that elevate and vance, we virtually join their ranks, expand the soul, giving it glimpses taking shelter under the wings of of the glory that awaits it. Even popular opinion. In the proportion in this land of letters the fairest and that we fear to make war upon in- noblest of earth are being enslaved; temperance, lest we injure the brew- fetters are forged before unknown to ing interests, or wholesale swind- the home of true men. ling, lest we lessen the profits of The most fertile spots have been trade, in that proportion are we seized upon and are now pregnant slaves. Freedom from such tyrants with such influences as are worthy never? only of Papacy. Some counten- Let the despairing wash of water ance them. Others, dreading their cease; but while nature's night cov- 1873.] The Ministry of Sorrow. I97 ering is scintillated with gems inspir- cesses, illuminating the whole be- ing thoughts, pure and free, be ing. It disperses the cloudy film girded not with their yoke. Though and liberates those noble powers so they arise in such power as to call long held in bondage. Man opens forth the dearest sacrifices of life the his ears to the tidings that light and freetnan Will stand firm, and, if need life has come, and beholds the glow- be, mount the scaffold as the mar- ing words of truth indelibly im- tyrs of old, with that same confi- pressed on the tablet of his heart. dence in the cause of right. He, It sends its golden beams from a and he only, is free whose judge is thousand centres, and penetrates enlightened conscience. the web of subtle infidelity, reveal- As the "stronger affections of our ing to the world the wretchedness nature are restrained and guided, of infernal tyranny. not destroyed, by the stronger pow- While its influence fertilizes the er of the intellect," so the gentler heart, as the sun lightens the world, and purer affections, are rendered let those whose hearts beat warm more pure and refined. There is with freedom's fire, unite in ex- no antagonism, no discordant ele- claiming, O, Genius of Liberty; ments, "but heart and intellect ex- thou who strikest terror in the ty- pand together." He who bends rants domains; at the waving of the knee to the scepter of enlight- whose wand massive doors of prison ened conscience only is manacled cells swing on their hinges, and at with an easy yoke, that of his whose magic touch letters of fire Maker. Then does the soul of man are written on dungeon walls, giv- step forth in its true majesty. The ing birth to thoughts that oppress- star of education and christianity ion fears; under whose expanded has fully risen upon the night of his wings the weak and persecuted take being. Amidst the chaos of igno- refuge: who dost free mortals from rance and superstition it fathoms Satan's thrall, and point tore alms the depths of the soul, bringing up of eternal felicity; thou who dost the germ of that bright immortal bring order out of confusion and form with which it shall appear at life out of death, how matchless thy the coming of the judge of the power. world. It pierces the inmost re-

THE MINISTRY OF SORROW. GRADUATING ORATION, A. H. DAVIES. LIFE in its truest significance is a chastening influence they disappear means of purification. A crucible like the mists and shadows of night of refinement, into which the crude from the advancing sun of day. Joy bullion of humanity is gathered and permeates the seething mass with its exposed to the fiery heat of disci- radiant spirit, illumining the dark pline, until freed from its corrupt- recesses of gloom and despair, until ing dross, it sublimates into pure it glows with clarified beauty and and genuine gold. Numerous and transparent lustre. Faith with sweet powerful are the elements assisting incense caught from the golden cen- in this process. Love pours its heav- sor of God, perfumes the fiery cauld- enly essence upon the dark spots of ron with its ineffable fragrance. But hatred and malice, and under its Sorrow, clad in the gloomy habili- 198 The Ministry of Sorrow. [Sept., ments of woe and sceptered as the and poverty, joy and grief, warm priestess, weeps tears of crystal pur- friends and spiteful enemies, cher- ity, which, falling within the cruci- ished hopes and ruined prospects, ble, cause its contents to sublimate in "are the mysterious influences bro't chaste and beautiful refinement. to bear upon human souls, by the How potent her influence; how sub- loving hand of Him who seeks to lime her ministry. At the movement bring his children to the topmost of Sorrow's mysterious wand those round of bliss and perfectness." deep undercurrents of strength in Sorrow urifes, elevates the intel- the soul are revealed and quickened lect. Ambition may arouse and with new vigor and activity. As stimulate the mind to action; Love the stars are seen best when shadows may increase its activity and multi- overcast the firmament, so the no- ply its possibilities, but Sorrow en- blest elements of human character nobles the mind by leading it to are exhibited most brightly when contemplate high and heavenly the night of affliction envelopes the things, and inspiring it with greater soul. Then those god-like attributes, perceptions of the sublime and the which in the sunlight of prosperity beautiful. In the enchanting fields are unnoticed and unused, blaze of literature there blooms many a forth from the gloomy darkness of fragrant flower which gives forth its tribulation into beacon lights, and, sweetest odor-that divine essence of shedding their radiance upon the its beautiful life-only, when the mental and moral landscape far and cruel, driving storms of affliction wide, become the Shekinahs of hope have broken its fragile stem and upon the weary pathway of after- crushed it to the ground. coming generations. What a sad illustration is Shelley, Sorrow is omnipresent. It makes "the highly gifted, but deeply err- earth.resound with the pangs of an- ing child of song." Oh! the trou- guish. In every clime and land where bles and calamities which beat upon the sons of men have found a home, and crushed that sensitive, loving its muffled and gloomy tread is heard. heart. Deprived of his children It has filled the world with moans, by the cruel decree of an infamous and blood, and tears. It has judge, denounced and persecuted snapped in twain the golden cord for the only error of his pure life, of love, and broken with grief the he left his native England and trusting hearts of friendship. We sought a home of seclusion in South- behold its melancholy presence in ern Europe. And then, with a heart all the scenes of life's changing dra- which was but the sepulchre of ma and never once lose sight of its blighted hopes and aspirations, be- tearful and bloody tracks. rneath the bright sky and balmy air But pain is one of nature's meth- of the "land of poetry and song," ods of elevating. As in the vegeta- he listened to the sad music of the ble and physical kingdoms, where gently murmuring Mediterranean growth is a product of vital action, and wooed his muse to those sub- heat and cold, sunshine and dark- lime strains of harmony, sweetest ness, quiet zephyrs and beating ever known or heard. As the sweet- winds, misty fogs and ascending va- est song of the nightingale is heard pors, gentle showers and drenching when its delicate breast is pierced tempests, are all so many vivifying by the rough and jagged thorn, so forces in the process of physical de- our poet breathed his richest melo- velopment, so it is in the mental dies with the barbed arrows of an- and moral worlds. Vigorous health guish fixed and festering in his soul. and wasting sickness, prosperous Oh! the purity and tenderness of sunshine and adverse clouds, riches his poesy. How gently sensitive The Ministry of Sorrow. '99 the thought, ever expressing the page is but the reflected radiance of most delicate feelings and loftiest celestial glory, and the thrilling emotions of our nature; and when melody of his poetry is surely the the rude hand of Sorrow touched rapturous harmony of an angel choir again and again the quivering heart, expressed in human language. how divinely sweet became the Sorrow consecrates and sanctifies strains resounding from the lyre. the soul. History, both sacred and Forbidden the enjoyments of that profane, is replete with illustrations. society he wasso well fitted to adorn, Sorrow has taught the orator holier he retired within himself and in the themes, and the inspired writers of depths of his splendid fancy he sacred wit penned their holy roamed at will, plucking the most thoughts while sorrow and affliction beautiful flowers and brilliant gerits, guided their trembling hands. How and with the grandest thoughts of sad the history of Joseph, of Job, his own originality he wove them of David, and of Paul; yet, how into garlands of melody which have infinitely great their heritage of since become the proudest laurels purity and strength of character de- of his muse. rived from their sufferings. Mar- From the many beautiful illustra- tyrs, dripping with the fires of per- tions which abound in history's secution, have put on the white gallery I would fain select another. robes of inward righteousness, and Dante, the bard of high and holy in the roaring of the flames have thoughts, his heart was early touch- caught the notes of that glad anthem ed by affliction's cruel hand, and which ever falls upon the ear of the the response is an echo of melody suffering pilgrim to the Celestial which, borne upon the winds of City. Sorrow, by its hallowing in- time, has swept around the world flunence, assimulates the soul to in ever increasing grandeur and God. Blending the human and the sublimity. Exiled from his beloved devine elements within us into a Florence, the prosperity and happi- unison of feeling and volition. ness of which were the all absorbing But sorrow dates the climax of its subjects of his life, broken-hearted ministry, in perfecting the mental by the early death of his young and and moral humanity of the world's beautiful Beatrice, he wan d e re d Redeemer. through life as a sorrowful outcast. The pathway from the manger to Persecuted and hunted by unrelent- the cross was bedewed with tears ing enemies, his "cup of sorrow" and blood, and sorrow cast the overflowed with anguish, and he shadow of its sombre wing o'er all drank inspiration from its bitter- the changing scenes of his mysteri- ness. ous life. As we follow him as he is Mastering all the learning of his tossed hither and thither upon the country, familiar with all philoso- stormy waves of grief, we behold phies and the beauties of all poetry, the dark cloud of affliction hover- he moulded them into shapes of ing around and gradually enfoldihg symmetry'and beauty, and breathing in its gloomy embrace the broken upon them the fervency of his own hearted interceder for the world's brilliant genius, monuments o f redemption. Then, as he merges poetry as enduring as time and as from the gloom and terrors of that immortal as thought itself, are the bloody scene, and borne upon the results. That with spiritual eye he wings of heavenly messengers, as- was permitted to gaze through his cends far beyond the mortal ken of tears upon the realities of the un- the observer and is ushered into the known hereafter, we may not doubt, happy climes of life eternal,-the for the light which beams from his ministry of sorrow ends. En ds 200 The Demands of the Times. [Sept.,

with a humanity purified and per- That, as with aching heart, and fected; ends with a humanity and throbbing brow, and swollen, bleed- a divinity blended in sweet and last- ing hands, we climb the rugged ing harmony; ends with him who hights along life's thorny pathway, was "the man of sorrows," endow- the burden of grief which bears us ed with kindly and immortal pow- down shall cause the germ of im- ers, as seated upon the circle of the mortality within to grow and bloom heavens he extends the sceptre of into a higher and holier develop- dominion over an unbounded uni- ment. Then, when the harvest of verse of matter and of mind. time shall end, and the reapers of How precious then the consola- death shall gather us all, may none tion that in the dregs of every cup here be the chaff scattered by the of sorrow there is a divine essence strbkes of sorrow's flail, but may we which no sooner quaffed than it shall all be the corn ripened and pure, permeate our souls, inspiring us to which shall be garnered forever in nobler thoughts and grander deeds. the Master's granary.

THE DEMANDS OF THE TIMES.

GRADUATING, ORATION W. H. BOOTH. AS THE rough stone taken from minity and shame. The name of Le- the quarry, is moulded and fash- onidas and the three hundred Spar- ioned into an object of symmetry tans will ever be praised for their and beauty, by the hammer and valor and love of country. While chisel of the skilful artist, so man the planets continue to move in moulds and fashions the age and their accustomed courses will the impresses upon it character. Every name of Copernicus be spoken with age, whether "golden" or' 'bronze," admiration. So long as we think is characterized by its thoughts, of wisdom in the council, of the achievements and failures, and their purest patriotism, of the highest in- influences have been reflected into tegrity in public and private life,- the future, brightening or darken- so long will the statesmanship and ing the pages of history as they va- manly courage of Lincoln beprais- ried from truth, justice and human- ed and his name kindly cherished ity. The thoughts and deeds that and revered by all lovers of free- are uttered and performed in our dom, country and humanity. day, will go ringing down the ages But, in contrast with these; how echoing and re-echoing to pos- many of those of other times were terity, nor will the last sound wave once the custodians of nations, the be broken until it will have sound- defenders of the people and plod- ed against the walls of time and ders after truth only to betray the echoed into eternity. confidence and honor entrusted to The statesmen and heroes of other them. And in our own times how days, whose words and deeds once many of our illustrious men, whose moved the world, live in history brow, the wreath of honor has cor- and their names are now lauded to roded; their manhood has been the skies, or branded with igno- shorn of its glory. They vowed 1873. The Demands of the Times. 201 fidelity to their constituency, more many obligations and responsibili- fealty to their country and flag only ties, one which must prepare to rec- to be wrapped within its folds and ognize new influences. The past, hidden from the gaze of the honest with its long line of pageantry, moves multitude. Their names have been before us, and its ancient divinities sullied, and they have lost in the of violence are retiring to their miry and murky darkness of politi- kindred darkness. cal intrigue and bribery, the true The sun of our moral and intel- conceptions of patriotism, and have lectual universe is entering a new never attained to the true ideal of ecliptic no longer disfigured and manhood. deformed by the mythological im- Nations; like men, chisel on ages of animal rage, but glowing the marble the history of their with those heavenly signs of pros- lives and deeds. We read on the perity and happiness. broken columns of Roman ruins, When a free people shall learn the story of her rise by her invin- that its greatest benefactors are men cible arms, of her glory, corruption devoted to the liberal instruction and downfall. The winds, that and elevation of all its classes to sweep over the monuments of Gre- one grand plane, it will have opened cian art, sublime in ruins, catch the to itself the path to true glory. whisperings of her lingering spirits, If we would see the foundations and bear to our shores the dying laid broader and deeper, hpon which words of her Socrates and the death our country's liberties shall rest; if knell of the republic, that in seek- we would see her carry forward the ing beauty, she sought her destruc- work of political reformation and tion. rise, the "bright and morning star," The last century has been char- over a benighted world, let the in- acterized by grand reforms an d tellectual and moral character of achievements. A nation has been every class of her citizens be eleva- born; governments changed; evo- ed until the farmer, mechanic, and lutions wrought; battles fought and professional man shall form one victories won. Thought has changed grand brotherhood; aim li n k ed the aspect of nature and annihilat- with aim, hopes with hopes, and ed space and time. The arts and destiny with destiny. sciences have arisen from the nights The conservative powers of this of the darkened and come forth on nation do npt lie in education, or their glorious mission of progress "the universal press." Nor does and civilization, to the dawn of a the perpetuity of this government day soon to be resplendent with the rest in navies, forts, or armed men; light of truth. but when in the grand march of in- Mindful of the past, let us not be tellect the culture of the heart keeps neglectful of the future. The past pace with the culture of the head, and present calls for advancement then and not until then do these in every department of life. What become conservative forces. The has been done should be but the legitimate relation between the heart stimuli to something' higher and and brain must be maintained or nobler. Not only should a free peo- education will germinate national ple make themselves worthy of free corruption by a law of nature that institutions and a free government, can not be evaded. but they must strengthen and per- Not only are these demands in- petuate them by their virtue and in- cumbent upon man alone, but upon telligence. woman; for the hand that rocks the We stand to-day on the thresh- cradle, rocks the world, and moulds hold of a new age, fraught with its and shapes the destiny of mankind, 202 The Demands of the limes. [Sept.,, What grand fields are spread out for lessons of wisdom and truth. Your speculation and labor. Our age is kind acts axdlkinger words of cheer one of great action. Opinions "wax and sympathy, when we were weary and wane" in years, as before in and desponding, are never to be centuries. Truth and falsehood, re- forgotten. You have kindly led us ligion and skepticism, true virtue up the hill; showed us the pastand and sham philosophy, are striving present; pointed out to us the paths for the mastery. Our highest ideals of the future, and encouraged us to have never been realized. Truth enter prepared upon the arena of remains undiscovered. Already too life. many rocks and shoals are besetting We hope that the noble work of the onward course of the "Ship of elevating man's moral and intellect- State," and if we would see her sail ual nature, may be carried forward, prosperously down the stream of overcoming every obstacle and light- time on her mission of good, let ing up the dark recesses of igno- these barriers that threaten to en- rance with the light of truth. Your gulf her be destroyed, and on their cause is high and holy. Your fame ruins build buoys and beacon lights. is the property of nations, and will Let her be manned by a manly crew; fill the earth in after ages in propor- a firm hand at the wheel; a true tion as it sounds not far off in our commander on board, then with own times. We bid you God-speed sails spread and with her flag at the in your noble mission, invoking mast head, she will sail into the ha- Heaven's choicest blessings on you. ven of prosperity and happiness,- To the worthy Board of Trustees then and friends, we can never be too "A time like this demands grateful for your labor and zeal in Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, building and dedicating this beauti- And ready hands; ful structure to the cause of liberal Men whom the lust of office does not kill, education. May its walls ever be Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, sacred to virtue and piety; to sci- Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who have honor; men who will not lie. ence and literature ; to true friend- Men who can stand before the dema- ships and refined sentiment, and gogue and scorn his treacherous flat- may a brilliant success mark its fu- teries without winking, ture course. Tall men, sun crowned, who live above To the kind and generous people the fog in public life and private thinking. of Bloomington we will ever be For while the rabble with their thumb- grateful. We came among you worn creeds, strangers. You received us kindly, Their great professions and little deeds, and around your firesides we found Mingle in selfish strife, Lo ! Freedom weeps, encouragement, homes and friends. Strong rules the land and waiting jus- Students, as we leave you for tice keeps." other fields of labor, we will ever think of your happy faces and kind FAREWELL ADDRESS. acts, and hope that you will go on There comes a time in the life of in the grand work already begun. every one when he must leave the You will meet with difficulties and home of his childhood with its fond sometimes defeats; but be vigilant associations and recollections, and and brave and the victory will be with parting blessings go forth to yours. In your long and toilsome meet and battle with the stern real- course you have our sympathies and ities of life. Before we bid adieu best wishes, and we will ever be to our "Alma Mater," we turn to glad to return to meet your familiar you, our worthy President and Fac- faces and revive hallowed memories ulty, to thank you for your many and associations of college days. 1873.] Language and Race. 203 Should we meet in after life, let us bering that to be a man is to over- meet as friends, grasp the hand come, or fall gloriously in trying. warmly as in days of yore, talk of Though we may not have courage the past and be encouraged in the to face the cannon's mouth, or to future. charge the masked battery, let us Classmates, one word before we have courage to live, remembering part. A toilsome past has been trav- that in weal or woe, joy or sorrow, ersed, marked with disappointments prosperity or adversity, we are and hopeful endurances. During brothers, and that your disgrace is these years of toil and study, we our shame. have been rigging the vessels in May we prove a blessing to man- which we are to sail on the ocean kind, and never sully the name and of life. To-day the cable is to be honor of our "Alma Mater. May loosened, the anchor weighed. Let we all so live and so act that when us then spread the sails and nail to time will have furrowed our brows the mast-head our motto, "Sauvi- and silvered our hair, we may look ter in modo, fortiter in re,"-gentle back on a life well spent in useful- in manner, resolute in deed. Into ness and forvard to a golden future. whatever department of life we Teachers, schoolmates, trustees launch our boats, though wind and and friends, one and all, farewell. tides oppose, let us be men, remem-

LANGUAGE AND RACE. THERE is nothing so closely con- the mother tongue which has given nected with the spirit as speech. the name of our race-the Latin Many philosophers have confound- language. In the most remote an- ed the idea with the expression of tiquity are unerring proofs of this. it, and have proclaimed the impos- While the speech of the Pagan peo- sibility of the most secret and inti- ples-the progressive, artistic Indo- mate thoughts without the aid of European peoples-has rounded pe- language. Christianity has called riods, complicated syntax, averb rich the Second Person of its Trinity the in tense and moods, which enable God Man, the Word; and the rev- it to subordinate secondary thoughts elation of ideas, which is for our to the capital thought, subsidiary soul what heat is for our life, has phrases to the predominant and the been the eternal revelation of speech. sovereign phrase, the religious Sem- Human speech is, therefore, the most itic peoples, born to diffuse mon- intellectual and the most spiritual of otheism, reared in the solitude of all our natural functions, and speech the desert, the authors of that music is diversified not according to race. which appears like the sob of the What strict kinship there is between soul, and of an architecture which the Porttguese, the Italian, the reserves all its marvels for the inte- Spanish, and the French! It might rior-the speech of these peoples is be said that all the Latins are born triliteral in its roots, simple in its knowing these four languages. With syntax, suiting the sense to the a little reading, a little practice, we sound in its words, cut up into ver- attain to their complete possession. sicles united by the primitive medi- And Why ? Because the four dia- um of the conjunction-all differ- lects are immediately derived from ences of the highest importance 204 The Woman of Shunem. [Sept., from the rich variety of Greek and of religious peoples, who have found Latin, the two languages formed to the idea of the unity of God in Je- contain and to express the variety rusalem and in Mecca; who have of human thought. resolved almost all their forms of The Indo-European languages government into a pure theocracy ; have these characteristics because who have been directed by the voice they are the languages of these peo- of prophets; who have written the ples who have passed through all Koran and the Bible; who opposed political ideas and social forms; to the Greek Chorus the melancholy who have placed the direction of hymn; to the drama, subjective and their states in the hands of the leg- lyric poetry; to free thought, the islators, tribunes, heroes; who have perpetual commentary of their rev- written the analysis of Aristotle, the elations ; to the gods of mythology synthesis of Plato; who have con- and, the God-man of the Gospel, sumed innumerable ideas in the per- their one Creator, secluded as in se- petual movement, the periodical cret tabernacle in the immensity of renovation of their spirit-while the the heavens.-Harper'sMagazine. Semitic tongues are the languages

THE WOMAN OF SHUNEM.

BY REV. HENRY BACON. A Sacred Drama : Founded on 2 Kings, Chapter iv. CHARACTERS.-Adah, the Woman of Shunem; Shalem, her husband; their child ; the Prophet Elisha; Gehazi, his servant; Naomi, sister of Adah; Sarah and Rebecca, of Shalem's household; Harvesters, Gleaners, &c. PART I. [A Strain of Plaintive Music.] ADAH. Say, why this heaviness? why does thy brow Wear such a constant gloom ? Do I offend, That thou should move so sad along thy way ? SHALEM. Nay, ask me not: and yet I should not hide, From thee my sorrows or my joys. I grieve That I no higher life can live. I'm sick Of the dull round of labor and of care. My fields and flocks are rich, and every sun Dawns in propitious brightness on my way, And yet I'm ill at ease. ADAH. And so 'twill be Till thou shalt live for more than fields and flocks, Thy household and thy kin. Fruit must be sunned In the great light of heaven, ere it will yield The lucious sweetness of its soul to thee; And ere thy spirit can make known its power To yield thee peace, thou must awake and live For more than narrow bounds. Give to thy love Expansion, in warm sympathy embrace A larger round of duty and of joy. SHALEM. I own thee right, but I know not how To think or act. I yearn to do, but still 1873.] JThe Woman of Shunem. 205

I know not how nor where to lift my hand To serve beyond the round of home and field. Would duty were a simpler thing to me. ADAH. I'll tell thee now; there is a man of God Who daily passeth by our door, with slow And wearied tread. Now let us make for him A little chamber, where he'll turn for rest And find the comforts which his body needs. 0 to our home shall angels come with him, And from that room, sweet thoughts, as odors sweet, Shall come to clear thy brow, and make our home All bright and fair. SHALEM. It shall be done. I'll haste To put the thought into successful deed, To give him comfort where he asked it not. ADAH. So do, and soon thy heart shall find new springs Of peace and joy ; for every deed of love Is as a flower that blooms in Spring, and ere We know, the Summer, with its glad, bright days Is here, to make the eye grow bright, the heart To leap in gladness with the songs of birds. SHALEM. So let it be, thou Giver of all good! And as I sow for thee, so let me reap. ADAH. I bless thee for that prayer, for now methinks I see new light about to dawn, and o'er The hills of gloomy doubt and fear shall rise The keener radiance of serener days. SHALEM. Haste we to the deed of love. Within. [Exit.

II. PROPHET. Gehazi, thou'rt wearied with thy task to-day, And movest as a pilgrim shorn of strength. Let's rest a while-'Tis cool and pleasant here; And as the eddying stream winds round the rock And then the swifter flows, so may our rest Increase our strength. 'Tis pleasant here,-sit down. GEHAZI. It would be so, were there no home to which A generous heart might bid us welcome now. See that proud dwelling! how the vine and rose Cling round its portal; the broad fields of grain Stretch out in lengthening lines beyond; the hills Are dotted oe'r with snowy flocks; the song Comes from the vineyard, and the joy of hearts Amid abundance knows no pause. PROPHET. Alas, Thou little readest what may here exist; For wealth unhallowed by the love of God,- The love that shows itself in strength to man,- Is vain; it cannot bring sweet peace of mind, For none can buy what only goodness gives. GEHAZI. I wish I had thy faith; for there are times My heart turns over in its grief to see How partial is our God-to let the rich Bloat in their happiness, while such as thou Are left to wander heeded not by them. PROPHET. Gehazi, take heed to murmur not for me, Lest I should think thou hast an eye on self. But hist, here comes the woman of the house, And a fair sister. The light of a good deed Illumes their faces as they move along. [Enter Adak and Naomi.] BOTH. [ To the Prophet.] Peace to thee, father! PROPHET.-Heaven bring ye peace. 20o6 The Woman of Shunem. [Sept.,

ADAH. We bid thee welcome. Turn in and look, Lo, we have made a chamber for thee there, Thine own, to use as may seem good to thee. We fear thou'rt wearied as'thou passest by, And crave thy pardon for our wrong delay. PROPHET. Blessings on thee and thine ! God's poor are kept By Him, and those who cheer their way shall find No lack in house or heart. The field of Love Is the best soil in which to cast the seed In hope of large increase.. Thou hast sworn well. NAOMI. You'll help us reap, good father, will you not ? A happy time we'll have, and even thou, So grave and solemn, will not frown on mirth Where hearts are reverent to the bounteous God. PROPHET. Thanks, maiden, thanks. Religion never frowns On innocent delight. It came to give To man the rules of happiness, that he Might pluck the rose and never feel the thorn. NAOMI. Oh then you'll take my roses, plucked in love To smile our welcome as you pass within. PROPHET. Yes, happy creature, I receive thy gift, And may ye pluck life's flowers as sweet as these, Gehazi shares with me. Dream not, my son, There's aught of evil while such sweetness smiles. GEHAZI. 0 Master, thou art ever teaching me The lessons of our Maker's love! Ere long My spirit shall repose as thine in faith. PROPHET. Let us within. ADAH. This way, good father, here. [Exit.

III. REBECCA. O what gladness to our home has come Since the Lord's prophet was our guest. Methinks His very step is charmed-its echo lives As music on the air. SARAH. Ah, yes, 'tis so. And out from that charmed room do angels come, As odors from the flowers,-we feel them nigh, And all the earth is ladened with their breath, Though we behold them not, REBECCA. 'Tis even so ; And little dream we in what wondrous way The God of heaven will the blessing bring To those who do his law. Our master seems Another being since he oped his heart And house to the great prophet of the Lord. SARAH. Ah, yes ! This morn I heard him sing a hymn Such as I never heard fall from his lips In days when work and wealth engrossed his mind, And he could grant no freedom to the heart. [A strain of music. REBECCA. Hark ! now they sing-our master and his band, As now they hasten to the field with joy. SARAH. Let us within and join the song. [Both exit singing some familiar air.

IV. PROPHET. There is a burden on my heart. I fain Would make thee some return for all the deeds Of watchful kindness thou hast done for me. ADAn. 0 say not so-'tis joy to serve thee sure. And if a payment's due on either hand 'Tis we should pay,-we've more received than given. x873.] The Woman of Shunem. 207

PROPHET. How so ? You speak a riddle in those words. I've given nothing-greatly hast thou blest. ADAH. Yes, father, thou hast given much. Thy words, Thy looks, thy very shadow's been a gift To bless, to strengthen, and make happy here. Ere thou didst come, our talk was all of earth, Of transcient and ignoble things; but now We dwell near heaven, and our joy is when Some deed of kindness can be done, or thought Is winged with such a burden to the Throne, And brings an angel down to bless, PROPHET. But yet I can do more for thee. Wilt thou permit, Thy name to sound upon our sovereign's ear, When I shall ask a place for thee, where thou Shall shine in courts among thy peers ? Say, now. ADAn. I thank thee, sire, but here I dwell in peace With mine own people. A bird that wanders From her nest to seek a home in bowers Fashioned by art, where ruin lurks beneath The bloom, leaves joy for sorrow. I'm content. Here was I reared, and every hill and tree Hath some dear message of sweet love for me. PROPHET. Blessed be thou, fair daughter of sweet Peace, Thy home shall be as Eden ere foul sin Polluted with its presence bower or stream; And here shall sing a bird whose notes shall strike More sweetly on thine ears than sound of harp Or viol; when that voice is still, fear not, But call for me; it shall be tuned again. Peace be with thee ! Farewell. [Exit. ADAH. Farewell, farewell! But yet I wish he had more plainly told What 'tis my lot to fear and hope. 0 Thou Who o'er thy feeble creatures spreadeth now The veil of mystery in Love! prepare My heart for grief and joy, for death and life,- That I may serve thee whatsoe'er my lot. I'll lean on thy good Providence, and go Along life's paths of joy and wo. [Exit.

V. SHALEM. Come lads, hurry to the harvesting! Let Your songs ring in the field and o'er the hills. 'Tis meet we should be joyful when the grain Bends to the sickle, and the golden wealth Of rich increase repays our yearly toil. Come, sing the song, and let the gleaners there Blend in their silvery voices. Come, begin.

HARVEST SONG. O merry is the harvest time O merry is the day, We gather up the golden grain, And bear our sheaves away. Be happy in the harvest time, Let grateful songs arise, To Him who bids the ripening beams Fall softly from the skies. O bless in happy harvest time The sun and dew and shower, Whose gentle aid has granted us This merry harvest hour. 208 The Woman of Shunem. [Sept.,

[Adak's son enters. SHALEM. Whither now, my boy ? Boy. I'm work boy; don't see My sickle ? I cut the grain, and whistle With the rest. SHALEM. Brave boy ! come here and take my hand, And I will find you flowers to reap. Boy. Ono! I want the real grain; you'll see I know The way to cut it down-just so. [Exit.

VI. ADAH. Alas for thee, sweet cherub; thou so late Full of thy merriment, as spring-time brook Dancing along its flower-enameled way. In the rich music of the harvest time Thy tender voice was heard, and aged hearts Grew young again to hear thy mellow tones, That bade them think of life's glad morn. No more The starry light of thy sweet eyes shall beam To cheer my hours of lonely thought and prayer. No more the roses budding on thy lips Shall drop to charm my way and make me proud. Thy cheek has lost its bloom! and on that brow, So radiant with the smile of thought and love, I find but icy marble,-no sweet vein Starts to my lip, with answering pulse to greet The kiss I give thee now. Alas, my boy, That this should be the story told of thee ! Ah, little thought I, with the bending grain Would fall my flower ! What shall I do? where go? NAOMI. Hast thou forgotten, sister, that dear word That told of music stilled and tuned again ? The prophet lives-let's haste to Carmel's brow,- Who knoweth what sweet joy may yet be ours ! ADAH. Well spoken, sister, I will haste away.- [ Enter Shalem. SHALEM. What is the evil now ? Thy tears and gloom Foretell calamity-say, tell me all. NAOMI. The boy is dead. The pittiless sun bore Heavy on his tender brain and- SHALEM. Alas, and is it so? I bade the lads Bear the dear burden home, but only dreamed That he was wearied. Fatal want of thought ! ADAH. Forbear thy grief! Send hither a young man To go with me to Carmel. Haste, I go ! SHALEM. Why so? 'tis not new moon, or Sabbath now, And why disturb the prophet in his home ? ADAH. I cannot tell thee. All I know, my heart Burns for the greeting. He will speak a word Shall do us good. I go athirst for streams That only from the rock at his command Will come. I'll bring thee of the river's flow. [Bolth exit. NAOMI. O thou who givest to the yearning heart The answer of its love ! befriend her way, And let the dew once more upon the flower Grow odorous with the breath of blooming life, And sparkle with the hues of morning light. [Exit. VII. PROPHET. A weight is on my spirits-something tells Of sorrow,-bitter bursting grief, and yet I know not why my heart should droop to-day. GEHAZI. Cheer up, my master, I have learned to hope In darkness and in gloom. The mountain air Will soon dispel those vapors of the brain. 1873.] The Woman of Shunem. 209

PROPHET. No, no, my son. This sadness at my heart Tells of a death,'or that which wears its form, In one I love. Ha, hither comes Adah! Run and bespeak her message,-say, is it well With thee, thy husband, and the child? Hasten, run ! [ Gehazi exit. Life is a solemn thing. In every change The aspect of our days doth wear, there is A sign of woe, a token of decay. The wave that breaks upon the pebbly shore, Most lovely is, the moment of its death; And when its mate doth come with foamy mane, Tossing its jewels with its sounding joy, We mourn its fate,-how soon must beauty die, Cheer up, my soul, and lean upon thy God, Humbly submit unto his chastening rod. [Adah and Gehazi enter. Lo, she is here ! Say, Adah, is it well With thee ? and with thy husband? and the child ? ADAH. 0 yes, 'tis well ! But yet my heart is sad, And with its grief is near to bursting now. I would not murmur, but look up with hope, And own the hand that took away the boy ! PROPHET. Alas, and is he gone, a star to join The light of other stars unseen by us, Yet dwelling ever in the smile of God ! How was the case ? praytell me all. ADAH. 'Tis brief, The story of his death. He went abroad Amid the harvesters to play, when lo! He cried, "My head ! my head !" and then they bore The darling to his home, and there he lies On thine own couch, within thine hallowed room, In sleep too awful for a mother's gaze. PROPHET. Hasten, Gehazi. Take my staff and lay The sacred branch upon the sleeping child, And watch the treasure cautious till I'm there. Salute no soul-pause not, but run with speed That shall befit the errand of the hour. [Gekazi goes out. ADAH. My father, hasten to our darkened home ! I cannot go without thee. There's a gloom, Thy word alone can banish. Saidst thou not The music stilled should be attuned again? PROPHET. I did my daughter. To my ear now comes A voice that speaks of thee and thine and joy ! I'll haste with thee. One moment and we'll go. [ Goes out. ADAH. Great Father of all spirits ! Thou enthroned Above earth's changes, 0 prepare my heart For the mysterious future-joy or woe. I yield my all to thee, and in the grave of hope I'll trust to see the blossoms of new hopes Spring forth to beautify the tomb of joy. 0 in Thy love may my weak heart be strong, And in the vale of sorrow sing faith's song. [Exit. VIII. GEHAZI. I've laid the prophet's staff upon the child, And watched the beauteous form in vain to see Returning life. I fear that never more Those sunny eyes will lift their curtain up And let the light of gladness bless his home. NAOMI. Nay, say not thus. My heart foretells that yet Those little feet will dance upon our floor, And the sweet prattle of that merry voice Be music there! GEHaZI. Hope on, if still you dream; --27 210 The Woman of Shunem. [Sept.,

I must have reason ere I hope again. NAOMI. And what is reason to the voice that speaks From out the oracle of loving souls Who trust and trust, and never lose their trust. Did not the prophet speak of music stilled That should be tuned again within this home? GERAZI. 'Twas a dark saying. I know not what was meant. NAOMI. Know not? why- But hark! what notes are these? Triumphal is the music-gushing clear As when the harvest song is sung, or when The merry vinters, shouting, tread the grapes! CHORUS. [Enter Prophet, Adak, Shalem and the child. ADAH. O0what shall tell our thanks ! Kneel, darling, kneel, And to thy benefactor tell our joy. PROPHET. Forbear! kneel thou to God, the Source of life. Ye have been kind to me, and when I had no gifts To pay thy love, then heaven in mercy smiled And let me do this deed for you. SHALEM. My flocks, My fields,-all that I have is thine. By thee I have gained riches such as earth ne'er gives To Art or Labor, wealth of mind and heart, The treasures of the soul-the gold of heaven. The earth smiles sweetly, and the human face Wears an attraction winning to my love. O I began to live when thou didst come. PROPHET. I rejoice to hear thy words. Dost hear, Gehazi, how the truth comes out when Time, The Revelator, speaks the word ? Is heaven Partial now ? GEHAZI. Nay, look not thus ! I repent The folly of the past. PROPHET. But yet I fear Thou'lt turn some day to bitterness and sin. ADAH. 0 let us trust for better things ! and now Give all our hearts to bliss. How wondrous comes The blessing that our heart most needs,-no mind Can trace the path through which the angels come, To bring the blessing for a kindly deed. NAOMI. True, sister, but we know the prophet's words Were truth, when by our home he spake of seed Sown in the field of Love. We've sown and reaped. EPILOGUE. Now let this lesson with your spirits rest, He sows the wisest, who receives as guest God's messenger to man, Truth, Love divine, And in the home doth build a hallowed shrine; Dead hopes shall live and rise to bless his home, And angel breathings gladden every room.

When God reveals his march through Nature's night, His steps are beauty, and his presence light. - ames Montgomery. 1873.] One Hundred Miles an Hour. 211

ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR. THE highest railway speeds in the and as a chain is no stronger than world are attained in England, and its weakest link, so a few hundred the highest speed is attained on the yards of bad track would spoil for Great Western Railway, and this the purpose of traveling at ioo miles speed may be taken roundly as fifty an hour a whole line. It would not miles an hour. There is a tradition be impossible, however, to maintain in existence that Brunel once trav- such a line of rails from London to eled from Swindon to London at Liverpool or York. The really im- eighty miles an hour; but we have portant question is, given the line never been able to get a shadow of and the carriages fit for it, what shall proof that this speed had be e n the engine be like, and is it possible reached under any circumstances or to construct an engine at all which, any time whatever on a railroad. with a moderately heavy train, will Mr. Stirling has run one of his great attain and maintain a velocity of outside cylinder express engines and Ioo miles an hour, on a line with a a train of sixteen carriages at seven- grade no heavier than, say i in 300. ty miles an hour on the Great North- The first points to be settled are, ern, on a level or with a slightly fall- how much power shall we require ing gradient; and we know that to haul a train which will suffice to the Yarmouth express on the Great satisfy the demand of that portion Eastern sometimes has reached six- of the public wishing to travel at ty-four miles an hour down the xoo miles an hour. At 6o miles an Brentwood bank. On two occasions hour on an ordinary line, and mak- some years ago in Ireland, we ran ing due allowance for contingencies, 14 miles in i6 minutes, with a pow- the resistance to be overcome can- erful engine and a train of but two not, according to experiments care- coaches. Much of the time was fully carried out both in France and done at over 65 miles per hour. On this country, be much under 40 lbs. the Boston and Albany road, United per ton. At 30 miles per hour the States, the 54 miles between Spring- resistance is about 20 lbs. per ton ; field and Worcester were run by an at 47 miles an hour the resistance engine with x6 inches cylinder, 22 reaches 32.5 lbs. If the resistance inches stroke, and 64 feet driving goes on increasing in this propor- wheel, in fifty-eight minutes. / tion, then the resistance at ioo miles Much of the run was done at near- an hour cannot be less than 75 lbs. ly seventy miles an hour. On a first- per ton; but it may be very much class line there can be no question, more, and it would not, we think, therefore, but that a speed of sixty- be safe to take it at less than 120 five to seventy miles an hour may lbs. per ton. Now a speed of oo be available with safety. We believe miles an hour is 146.5, or in round that it would be possible to lay per- numbers, 146 feet per second, or manent way so well, and to sustain 8,Soo per minute. This multiplied it in such excellent order, that trains by 12zo and divided by 33,00ooo gives, might travel on it with perfect safe- say, 32 horse power. Therefore, ty at ioo miles an hour. Miles up- each ton moved at zoo miles an on miles of such track are to be found hour will represent 32 horse power. now on most of our main lines, but The "Great Britain" broad guage it is not to be disputed that nowhere Great Western engine, with its ten- can ioo consecutive miles of perma- der, in running order, represents a nent way in perfection be found; weight of 64 tons, and a heating 212 Birth-Day Offering. [Sept.,

surface of 2,100oo square feet. This railway if the resistance is anything engine has indicated over 800 horse like I20 lbs. per ton. power. To run such a machine and It is little more than waste of train weighing 35 tons, or a gross time to discuss any other question load of 99, or say, in round numbers connected with the matter, such as ioo tons, at 1oo miles an hour would safety and working expenses, until require 1oox32, or 3,200 horse pow- it has been settled whether it is, or er, or just four times more power is not impossible so far to reduce than the most powerful high speed resistance that it will become possi- locomotive that has ever been built ble to construct an engine of sufi- could exert. To run the engine, cient power to fulfill the intended weighing 38 tons, alone would re- purpose. quire a power of 1,216 horses, as- If it can be shown that the resist- suming that the engine's resistance ance could be brought much below was identical with that of a carriage. 120 lbs. per ton, then it may be pos- These figures suffice to prove that it sible to attain a velocity of ioo miles is absolutely impossible to obtain a per hour.-The Engineer. speed of io00 miles an hour on a

BIRTH-DAY OFFERING. [The following note accompanied can but feebly speak the feelings of an oil painting representing a ship a sister's and a brother's trusting in full sail in New York harbor, heart. presented as a birth-day present, We beg you,.then, take this the June 7th, 1870.] work of some poor tyro artist's un- ANOTHER year has flown since skilled hands, as some slight token last you hailed the quick return of of the love we bear to one whom natal day, with all its kind remem- we delight to call "our sister." brances. Many are the checkered And, as the steady vessel smoothly scenes through which your path has floats upon the placid bosom of the led, these three decades. From mighty deep, and safely makes the helpless infancy to laughing child- quiet haven of the grand metropolis, hood's happy hours, and on through so may the future of your life glide girlhood's dreamy spell to bloom- on unruffled by the vanities of time, ing sixteen's "castles in the air;" the word's enticing, yet deceiving past modest maidenhood and gayest charms, and all the treacherous bridal hours to matron's daily house- reefs and fearful whirlpools which hold cares and mother's fond em- so thickly strew the uncertain sea brace and purest love, the fickle of life with mangled wrecks of hu- glass of time has run the sands of man souls, and safely land you far life, and swift your feet have meas- beyond the confines of this narrow ured o'er its tortuous winding way. sphere in brighter climes of never- What hopes, what joys, what sor- fading bliss, with all the good, with. rows, what intensest care or calm angels, and the everlasting Father, implicit trust it has been yours to to join the loved and cherished share we only know in part. But ones who have already gone before, this we know, a truer heart beats and those who here still cluster in not in all our happy circle; nor our happy circle while we bide our one who does more "richly merit time. As ever, from our hands a little souvenirwhich * * * * 1873.] Illinois Wesleyan University. 213

ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. WE clip the following from the brilliant prospects in his own State, Daily Pantagraphof Aug. 2 3 d: is as yet a matter of some doubt." The doubt expressed in the clos- DR. SAMUEL FALLOWS, PRESIDENT ing sentence of the above extract is ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. set at rest, for Dr. Fallows was in The Board of Trustees of the the city and personally appeared be- Wesleyan University held an ad- fore the Board of Trustees a n d journed meeting, yesterday, for the formally accepted the position. purpose of electing a President to President Fallows will bring to the fill the vacancy which had existed discharge of his duties a ripe ex- for some months. By a unanimous perience as a scholar and executive vote they confirmed the action of officer, and under his efficient ad- the Visiting Committee in nomi- ministration it is safe to prophesy nating Dr. Samuel Fallows, of Mad- a prosperous future for the Illinois ison, Wis , as President of the Uni- Wesleyan University. versity. We gladly welcome the Dr. to his Dr. Fallows being in the city, new field of labor, and now that the was immediately notified of his elec- question of presidency, which has tion, and appearing before the been somewhat agitating the minds Board, accepted. of the friends of the University. is Dr. Fallows is a scholar of the so satisfactorily settled, it remains greatest attainments, and as an ed- *for all to be wide awake to all its ucator, is known throughout the varied interests. The great imme- Union for his wonderful success. diate need is students. Every young He is at present Superintendent of man or young woman in the bounds Public Instruction of Wisconsin. of the patronizing territory, who has He is also a minister of the Meth- the least yearning for an education, odist Episcopal Church. should be sought out and prevailed The Chicago Times Qf yester- upon to enter at once upon the day, referring to-.a telegraphic an- noble work. And where there seems nouncement of his nomination by to be a manifest want of interest in the Executive Committee, says: the educational work, those who are "Hon. Samuel Fallows, who has awake to these important demands been chosen President of the Illi- should labor to direct attention to nois Wesleyan University, at Bloom- this great civilizing agency. Should ington, is at present Superintendent it be deemed expedient by the of Public Instruction of Wisconsin friends of the cause, in any locality, He graduated at the State Univer- to spend one sabbath in the inter- sity of that State; served during the est of Christian education, the mem- war, first as Chaplain, and then as bers of the faculty of the University Colonel, and was subsequently pas- stand ready to assist in the work. tor of the pring Street Methodist The prospects for the coming year Church, it Milwaukee. For the are much more flattering than in past three years he has served with any preceding year in the history conceded ability in the position of the University ; but let it be re- mentioned above. He is an excel- membered the labors of the year lent educator of the progressive will be begun in September, in the school, and is a preacher of great new building, where there is ample power and polish. Whether he will room for five hundred students. accept the position to which he has Friends and patrons of the Univer- just been chosen, at the sacrifice of sity, will you fill its halls ? 214 Illinois Wesleyan University. [Sept.,

In regard to the new building, The work is progressing favorably, the Daily Leader of August 26th, and the entire two stories will be has the following: completed in time for the opening of the Fall term. The old Univer- THE NEW WESLEYAN BUILDING. sity building that has so long served Yesterday afternoon, in company its purpose, will be deserted, and with Profs. DeMotte and Crow, we the entire school transferred to the visited the new Wesleyan Univer- new building. Of course, in the sity to note the progress being made present unfinished condition of the in the completion of the building. work, it is impossible to speak in The portions of the building now detail of the style and finish, but under contract comprise a 11 t h e when completed, we will tell our rooms above the basement up to readers all about it. the Mansard roof. With a President who stands high Entering the main hall, and turn- among the distinguished educators ing to the right, we come to the re- of the country, with an able and ception room, a room 30x40 feet. experienced corps of professors, In addition to the reception room each one having demonstrated in a there are three recitation rooms, practical manner, his fitness for the and a large cloak room to the right position assigned, and with this of the main hall, running from the magnificent building, one of the north to the south. The first door most commodious and convenient to the left of the main entrance is in the country, the friends of this. the President's reception room. To noble institution may well look for- the left of the main hall are four large ward to a prosperous and useful fu- recitation rooms and a cloak room. ture. This institution from small All of these rooms are to be finish- beginnings has grown into a mighty ed in fine style. The walls will be power, and with its added advan- wainscotted with oak or ash, and tages, will hereafter rank among the the rooms seated with the most im- foremost educational institutions of proved seats. The reception room the West. will have two large chandeliers, and The Fall term of the University all the rooms will be lighted with will begin on Tuesday, September gas. I6th, and close Tuesday, Decem- On the next floor, passing up ber 23 d. wide stairways, we come to Amie Chapel, which has already been de- A GENEROUS GIFT. scribed in the Leader, and which, The following resolution adopted by the way, is certainly one of the by the Board of Trustees of the Uni- most pleasant and convenient audi- versity at their recent meeting, ence rooms in the city. Directly speaks for itself: opposite Amie Chapel is the Day Resolved, That the thanks of this Board Chapel, a room 4ox6o feet, with 20 are hereby tendered to Rev. W. 'erguson, feet ceiling. This room will be used M. D., for his very rare and invaluable for the religious exercises of the copy of the "English Hexapla," contain- University, and on all occasions ing the six important English Translations when it is desired to bring the stu- of the New Testament Scriptures-the Wiclif, Tyndale, Cranmer, Genevan, An- dents together in a body. It will glo-Remish, and the authorized, with the be seated to accommodate about Original Greek Text, after Scholz, and 400. The ventilation of the room with a historical account of these transla- will be ample, and it will be finish- tions. This great work, procured by Dr. ed in a neat and substantial manner. Ferguson, while in London, we regard as a most valuable addition to the library of On this floor there are also two rec- the University, and we highly appreciate itation rooms being finished. the spirit which led him to dedicate this 1873.] What Not. 215 great work to science and true Christian sity of Edinburg, Scotland, with a literature, as he has so beautifully done sincere wish upon its fly-leaf. for the continued pros- perity of the Institution, and a hope We take pleasure in presenting that the advancement of science to our readers the beautiful dedica- and the promotion of true Chris- tory language referred to in the tianity will be the aim and object above resolution: of all its teachings." "This copy of the English Hex- apla is presented to the Wesleyan "c agna est veritas, et revzalebit, University of Bloomington, Ill., by Noctura versate mann verate diurua.' the Rev. W. Ferguson, M. D., F. " W. FERGUSON. Ph. S., and formerly of the Univer- Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 22,.'73.

WHAT NOT. -The best frontispiece-an honest face. -A Portland man, caught fishing for -It is easier to say a good thing than trout on another man's land the other day, to do it. completely silenced the' owner, who re- monstrated, with -It is better to do a good thing than to the majestic answer, say it. "Who wants to catch your trout? I am only trying to drown this worm." -Publishing a good thing is saying and doing it both. -"Tommy, what are you going to do with that club ?" "Send it to the editor, -The chariot of God's providence of course." "But what are you going to runneth not upon broken wheels.-Ruth- send it to the editor for?" "Cause he erford. says if anybody will send him a club, he -" Where are the men of '76 ?" shout- will send them a copy of his paper." ed a stump-orator. "Dead," responded a -" I wish you wouldn't give me such sad looking man in the middle aisle. short weight for my money," said a custo- -The old gentleman who put his postal mer to his grocer, who replied (remem- card in a stamped envelope is matched by bering the customer's unpaid grocery ac- an Omaha man who has his money-orders count,) ' and I wish you would not give sent by registered letter. me such long wait for mine."

-There is no truth more important and -"Let go that jib-let go that jib, few less thought of, than this: The more quick !" shouted the captain of a down- we forsake simplicity in anything, the more east sloop to a raw hand in a squall. "I we multiply the means of corruption and ain't touching yer old jib," replied Jona- error. than, indignantly, as he jammed his fists -Josh Billings gives the following ad- deeper into his trouserloons. vice to young men : "Don't be discour- -A stone-cutter received the following aged if yer mustash don't grow. It sum- epitaph from a German, to be cut times hapens that where a mustash duz the upon the tombstone of his wife: best nuthing else duz so well." "Mine vife Susan is dead, if she had -The costliest ornaments are often the life till next friday she'n bin dead shust simplest. There is no gold, nor jewel, nor two veeks. As a tree falls so must it stan, sparkling pearl, eqpal to the "ornament all tings is impossible mit God." of a meek and quiet spirit, which is, in the sight of God, of great price." -- The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: He who resolves -Old Scotch lady: "Take a snuff, sir?" never to ransack any mind but his own, Gentleman (with large nasal promontory, will soon be reduced from mere barren- indignantly): "Do I look like a snuffer?" ness to the poorest of all imnitations; he Old lady : "Well, I canna jist say you do, will be obliged to imitate himself, and to though I maun say ye hae grand accom- repeat what he has before repeated.-Sir modation." 7oskua Reynolds. 216 Editorial Notes. [Sept.,

EDITORIAL NOTES. -The Fall Term of the University will name of Rev. Samuel Fallows, D. D., the begin September I6th. present State Superintendent of Public In-. struction, of Wisconsin, and we are happy -We call especial attention to the en- in the assurance that the General accepts trance examination at 9 A. M., the first the position tendered him, and will devote day of the collegiate year. his whole time and energy to the interests -A. J. Banta, of '67, occupies the of the University. bench as judge of the Fifteenth Judicial -THE cable dispatches from the Vien- District in Kansas. na Exposition announce that the "gold -R. A. DuMars, of '76, has begun the medal of merit" has been awarded to study of medicine in the office of Dr. Fry, Messrs. WILsoN, HINKLE & CO., of Cin- of Peoria. cinnati, as "the publishers and manufac-. turers of the best school books in the -C. H. Long, of '73, has accepted the world." Americans generally, and Cin- position of principal of the school in cinnatians in particular, will the better ap- Mackinaw. preciate this high honor when told that all -R. B. Welch, of '76, has been elect- the great book-publishing houses of Leip- ed principal of the public schools in Wash- sic, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, and ington, Tazewell county. other cities, competed for the grand prize. -Cincinnati Daily Times. -The first daily chapel service for the collegiate year will be held at 9 A. M., -The following closing remark in the September 16th, in the new chapel. new catalogue will be read with interest by all the friends of the University: -G. W. Crum, of '73, is pursuing his OPENING OF THE NEW BUILDING FOR. medical studies under the direction of DAILY RECITATIONS.-"A contract has Prof. J. L. White, M. D., of this city. been let to Messrs. Hayes & Evans by -J. A. Kelley, of '71, as principal, which all the remaining rooms will, with- with six assistants, will expand the intel- out fail, be ready for occupancy at the lects of the rising generation in Elmwood opening of the collegiate year. The space during the coming year. thus made available comprises a large day chapel and thirteen rooms for recitations, -All who expect to enter the Univer- affording ample accommodation for over sity as students during the Fall Term five hundred students. Arrangements are should endeavor to be present at the first made such as will enable the school to daily session, commencing 9 A. M., Sep- open with a full corps of teachers, and tember I6th. instruction will be given as usual in all -The Statistician reports that of '73, the various departments." three have chosen the profession of the -The McLean County Teachers' Insti- law, one that of medicine, one spends the tute, of which mention was made in our present year in pedagoging, two enter the last, was very largely attended. The sec- Christian ministry, and two are undecided. retary's record shows two hundred and -We recently had the pleasure of call- eighteen names enrolled as members, most ing upon our old army and school friend of whom were present during the entire J. T. Hoblit, of '64. With the care of session. By invitation the members of the the office of Clerk of Logan County, and Institute passed a very pleasant social a half dozen clients waiting their turn for evening at the residence of the County counsel in matters pertaining to the law, Superintendent, Mr. Hull. Some mali- no wonder that we found him all over in cious persons, taking advantage of the oc- business. casion, proceeded to administer a sound caning to the unsuspecting host. Mr. -Advices from what we consider a J. A. Kelly, of '71, was, by appointment, perfectly reliable source, bear to us the made the bearer of the deadly weapon, tidings that our timid and retiring friend, and, with words befitting the occasion, he ,Frank Poorman, of '76, has actually form- acted well his part. Mr. Hull, though ed a life partnership. The despatch re- somewhat stunned, received the unpro- ceived at the office of the Statistician voked attack with due forbearance. A reads : "Ft Poorman is a married farmer subsequent examination revealed the fol- in Minnesota.". Echo answers Poor-man. lowing inscription, which places the whole -Wetakegreatpleasure in placing at the matter in its proper light: "John Hull, head of the faculty roster oftheUniversity the by Institute, Aug. 3rd, 1873."