Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, Trinity Tablet (1868-1908) Catalogs, etc.) 7-2-1887 Trinity Tablet, July 2, 1887 Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tablets Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity Tablet, July 2, 1887" (1887). Trinity Tablet (1868-1908). 208. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tablets/208 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, Catalogs, etc.) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity Tablet (1868-1908) by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. VOL. XX. HARTFORD, CONN., SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1887. No. VII. A GAIN it becomes the duty of the TAB- LET to bid farewell to the graduating ¢ht ¢rinH,i ¢abltf. class. Eighty-seven, since their entrance, has Published every three weeks during term-time by distinguished itself in many ways. Its ball nine during Freshman year was a great suc­ the Students of cess; its foot-ball eleven was highly credita­ TR.lN.lTY COLLEGE. ble, and in many ways they have left their mark behind them. But principally the col­ BOARD OF EDITORS-CLASS OF '88. lege has to thank them for the example they Managing Editor, - J. W. R. Crawford. have afforded of perfect class~unity. By Busin,ss Editor, L. LeG. Benedict. means of this factor alone they have always been a strong body in using this influence for the good and welfare of the college. They H. M. BELDEN, W. ]. S. STEWART, have in many instances infused their own A. C. HALL, W. C. STUART, F. C. WAINWRIGHT. sense of consolidation into college interests and provided them with "back-bone" just Term5 $2.00 pu year. Single copies, 20 cents. when it was needed. They have furnished Subscriptions, Advertisements and Communications more than their quota to the various college should be addressed to organizations, and in many we shall miss them exceedingly. Individually they are all THE TRINJTY TABLET, good men and true, and we shall suffer a P. 0. Box 398, HARTFORD, CONN. great loss in them. Farewell, 0 Eighty-sev­ en ! and in your many branching paths may T/11 TABLET is for sa/1 ng·ulady at the Book Stons you indeed fare well. ,f Brown & G,·oss, 79 Asylt1m St .. and J· R. Badow, 232 Asylum St., and at No. 7 :Jarvis Hall, Trinity College. THE base-ball nine has closed a most suc- cessful season, reflecting credit upon the ANOTHER Commencement has passed college and upon themselves for their hard and another band of aspirants for fame work and enthusiastic play. They have won has passed out into the unknown,-but as ten games, lost five and tied one. To them ~sual others advance to fill their places, and one and all, we, in the name of the college,' rn a few weeks they will be forgotten, but extend hearty congratulations and thanks. not entirely. The Freshman class promises Especial credit must be given to our battery, to be very large if we may judge of the -Shannon, '87, during his connection with future by the promise of the present, and we the college, has always had the base-ball shall probably have all we can accommodate interests at heart and to him more than any­ next year. o_ne else is_ d~e _the almost perfect organiza­ tion and d1sc1pl111e of the nine. In the box THOSE of us who accompanied the nine he has displayed great judgment and skill and to Middletown, on Saturday last, have has made a reputation for himself in the to thank the Wesleyan men for the kind collegiate world. He has only failed when reception they gave us and for the treatment not properly supported. Much of his success which our men received at their hands. We should be attributed to the manner in which all had a pleasant time, and assure Wesleyan Barber, '88, has taken his curves and shoots that we will do all we can to reciprocate when behind the bat. He has played a remarkable they next visit us. game and deserves the highest praise. For 74 THE TRINITY TAB LET. the first time our battery has been strongly CLASS DAY. supported, notably in the infield, which has worked hard, accepting all chances ; Brinley The Class Day exercises of the class of '87 and McLemore especially making many bril­ took place on the campus on the afternoon of liant plays. Again we hold out the hand of June 28th. After a march had been played congratulation to the nine, one and all, and by Colt's band, Mr. Octavius Applegate, the wish them all manner of good things. president of the class, delivered an address of welcome. He then introduced Mr. William AT the Amherst-Trinity game of June 11th Agur Beardsley, of Monroe, Conn., the class­ there was present a small contingent of day orator. Amherst men who were bent on making their Mr. Beardsleys's subject was "Monuments presence known by any means whatsoever. Themselves Need Memorials," a line of From them we have learned several new Trabbe's "Borough." The terms monument "wrinkles" in the contest of a base-ball and memorial were first dwelt upon and eluci­ game :-for the first time we found out that dated, the difference between them being it is extremely practicable and proper to howl pointed out. A monument is tangible, ma­ at a called strike, be it the first or the third; terial, passing away. A memorial conveys also that at critical moments it is the thing the idea of an abstraction which exists after to engross the attention of the players of the the concrete perishes. A memorial gives life opposite side by stentorian cheers and yells. to thoughts and actions, and with concrete We have also learned several points in "coach­ expression, yet is intangible and invisible. ing,-viz. : any language is proper, ladies The orator then showed that a man must notwithstanding; personal epithets, when leave behind him a memorial, as giving ex­ neatly and elegantly couched are calculated pression to the monuments left by him. to inspire with enthusiasm, &c. We need to Success may be obtained, the popular appro­ correct the impression that Trinity began the val may be won, but this is not sufficient. "yelling of fly-balls"-" applauding of errors" Amsition is blind, and leads in winding paths. and other "disgraceful " features of the game. That a man must follow ambition to attain It is something that Trinity has never done success is a great mistake. Our country is and certainly would never have attemped, in sore need of good and patriotic men with had it not been for the useful lessons learned no bonds of self-interest to shackle them. from our visitors. As for the slurs upon the Look at our great west. Indeed all over our size of our college, it is needless to say any­ country are strikes and labor troubles. We thing, but it must be very galling to be beaten have not thus far experienced any deep in­ by such a "diminutive '' institution. In juries from these seditious influences. Reason conclusion we would wish to say that "the has triumphed. But may they not, like the common rules of politeness " as taught and lava restrained within the crater's mouth, encouraged by some of the Amherst men burst forth some day and involve us in mire ? and as exemplified in their coaching, are not Our subserviency of self-interest to the gene­ in vogue here. ral welfare can avert this calamity. Fame can offer no higher guerdon than the privilege AFTER THE BALL. of wearing the simple chaplet of American The last dance o'er, "Good Night" is said, citizenship. A man may work until Fortune All on their homeward way have sped. has shed upon him all her favors. But how The rose leaves scattered here and there fickle is success! How transient a monu­ Exhale faint perfume on the air And speak of Hartford's girls so fair, ment has he reared! Adversity seeks its Yet with the gladness victim with all its force, and hurls down the There comes to all monument. It had no memorial and cannot A feeling of sadness After the ball. last. "Monuments themselves need memo­ The class-day hop was danced to-night, rials." This tells us that the quiet un­ Our class-day, do you wonder quite assuming citizen may leave behind him an Why amid all that seems so glad impression more lasting and stronger than A tinge of something should make us sad, A word or so spoken that genius, which like a meteor, illumines the That's about all, sky, and then sinks into dark oblivion. Re­ A heart or so broken nown does not come to all. "For as by an After the ball. H 1o. THE TRINITY TABLET. 75 unseen hand the web of life is woven. And Ah ! well I recollect the deep respect unseen fingers move along the loom, and ply With which I viewed those graduates elect, the busy shuttle." The greatest memorial With awe I gazed upon the favored gent we can leave is the respect of our fellow citi­ Who held the onerous po,t of president. And the class orator did then appear, zens. Recently in this beautiful city was An eloquent volcano, soon to rear reared a monument dedicated to Hart­ His head sublime above the common herd ford's patriots-"in honor of the men of Hart­ And then give vent to many a fiery word.