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Our Common Schools 8
A Sketch of Paul Kruger- 11
Who is Able to Judge? 13
America as a Power in the World 15
Old Ocean - A Poem 16
Y. M. C. A. Notes 16
Personals 17
Locals 18
Exchang~s 20 An Institution of High Grade, Standard Faculty and Courses of Study. ~~ University
Located at Westerville, Ohio, SUBURBAN TO COLUMBUS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
~~~~ There are Four High Class Literary Societies, With Elegantly Furnished Halls, Well Selected Libraries and Reading Rooms.
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The Christian Associations, the oldest in the state, are doing a grand work. Westerville is a beautiful and healthful village of about 2,000 popu lation, with a fine classical and religious atmosphere. There are no saloons or other low places of resort. Both sexes are admitted to equal advantages. Instruction thorough. All professors are specialists in their departments Expenses moderate. The University offers eight Courses of Study ; the Classical, Philosophical, Preparatory, Pedagogy, Music, F ine Art, and E lo cution and Oratory. There are increased facilities in the Laboratories and Lecture Rooms; in the growing new Chemical, Physic~! and Biological Library; and the new emphasis given to History and Ptdagogics. Students can also get work in Stenography, Bookkeeping ;cmd Type-writing. ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, JONE 13, 1900.
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\ - · JOHN HAYWOOD, PROFESSOR. EI1ER.ITUS.
PROFESSOR tfAYWOOD WILL, ON MARCH 16th, HAVE REACHED HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. I
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VoL. X. WESTERVILLE, OHIO. FEBRUARY, 1900. No. 6.
Published the 20th of Each Month of the College Year. flabby , presenting a marked contrast to the EDITORIAL ADDRESS: brawny arm of the blacksmith. I ' Editor OTTERBEIN .lEGIS, WESTERVILLE, OHIO. No student can afford to lower his general BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS : Business Manager OTTERBEIN .lEGIS, WESTERVILLE, OHIO. vitality by confining himself too closely to books or for the sake of mere idle gratifica D. T. BENNERT, '01 ...... Editor in Chief tion. He never knows when he may require B. 0. BARNES '00 ...... •...... •.•...... Assistant all the energies stored up in his tissues. F. OLDT, '01.. •...... Exchange Editor E. A. SANDERS, '02 ...... Alumna! Editor Mar.y an accident may bring a life of misery I. W. HOWARD, '01...... : ...... Local Editor or an early death to one who would have A. L. GANTZ, '00 ...... Business Manager passed unscathed through it, had he allowed H. E. Sli!REY, '03 ...... Assistant W. 0. LAMBERT, '00...... Subscription Agent his nerves and muscles to grow strong in glo J. L. SHIVELY, '02...... Ass't Subscription Agent rious activity. Subscription, SOc a Year in Advance Single Copies tOe Subscriptions wtll be continued until tl.oe pauer is ordered stop· ped b.Y the subscriber, and all arrearages paid. It is said that when the last Politics REMIT SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SUBSCRIPTION AGENT Republican state convention
[Entered at tbe postoffice, Westerville, Ohio, as second-cl!iss met it was not known who should be the mail matter.] gubernatorial nommee. In two hours the PHILOPHRONEAN PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS . present incumbent was decided upon. The BUCKEYE PRI:«TING Co., PRINTERS, Westerville. Obio. reason given is that George C<;>x threw his support to the man upon whom he thought he could rely. Both candidates before that con vention had probably made some concessions to Cox but he took the one who h:td, as he thought, most honor. Cox now comes for Give your brain sufficient food ward with a bill known as the "ripper bill." Exercise and an abundant supply of It is a ripper. This makes the chief offices of oxygen, and then give it a fair amount of Cincinnati appointive. good, hard work every day, if you wish to Of course Cox will :-eally appoint, though maintain it in a high state of healthy activity. through the governor. The constitution of Attorneys and clergymen who use their brains Ohio prohibits special legislation of this muoh are the longest-lived men in the state, variety but the bill gets around that constitu showing plainly that regular brain work is tional objection by specifying "cities of such good for the general health as well as for the and such qualities " Nine-tenths of the re efficiency of the nervous system in particular. spectable people of Cincinnati object to Cox The muscular system must be treated in a and rightly so. And the legislature of Ohio similar manner, if you do not wish it to be may be cowardly enough to pass this boll. come subject to fatty degeneration. An There are some men in the Republican \-H~\lS~<;l xnus<;l~ shrinks ?-11d becomes sof~ and party who ~hink sop1ethin~ Q1\1St be doqt; tg OTTERBEIN .&CIS. appease th~ wrath of liquor dealers. They is not one in which he is kept aloof from man·, are q uite troubled because of the Clark bill. m a forced communion with non-human This is a Republican measure. All of it is beings. Neither is it one unwisely trusted to simply placing party above commonwealth. the instincts of a natural but untrained affec A sad mistake, an ignorant act and the doom tion. Still less is it one in which the old of freedom. It is difficult to see how a legis pedagogic drill in formal studies is thrown lator who votes for the "Ripper bill" or aside to give place to pseudo-scientific play against the "Clark bill" can face his respecta ing, a vague and formless trifling with object ble constituents. If there is any reason why ive phenomena. The real " natural" education one should not be disgusted it is not apparent. is that aimed at in the best endeavor of to-day, in which the student is steadily, rationally and intelligently developed by Tlte quality that men most Beauty trained and sympathetic minds, toward the admire, that women most best manhood possible to him. Such an edu crave. Cosmetics do not impart beauty and constant grooming will not bring out the cation is not simply mental; it is physical; above all, it is moral. In it, the student's non potential. individuality is preserved, but is pruned and If beauty is only "skin deep" some one has guided; he himself furnishes the impulse .suggested that many persons should be skin toward his own development, but the ned or that some have very thick skins. channels in which this force acts, the ends However this may be, the fact remains that toward which it directs itself, are determined there are many homely people. Some origi for him. A natural education is one in which nally pretty have spent so much time before the subject taught is secondary to the manner the glass that they are round shouldered. of teaching; in which the task done is subsid Women read with eager eyes all recipes for beauty while their husbands ·are ttying to iary to the effect of doing it; in which the question to be asked at the completoin of an make an honest dollar with which to help intellectual step is not, What has the student them "be beautiful." learned? but, What has the student become? Beauty is of the soul. It is the attitude we assume toward truth. Bright faces are always beautiful for we get in them a glimpse of a It would be too much to assert pure soul. Music in Education that everyone who is not mu The man who " stands four-square to every sical, i. e. who lacks the sense of rhythmical wind that blows," is sure to be handsome. form or of pitch, is lacking in the finer percep Cain's mark is soon stamped upon the wicked, tions of poetry. But students of psychology and the mark of righteousness upon the face know that temperaments which have no per of its possessor. Gracefulness may be the ception of either rythm or pitch, tend toward domination of matter by mind, but beauty is the p .ysical rather than the spiritual forms of the mark of approv'al of right thought and emotion, and that those human be:ngs who proper conduct. possess one or both in even a small degree, may, under careful direction, have their tem A natural education is not peramental tendencies guided into higher Natural Education one, as is too often supposed, channels. lt is, in any case, a remarkable fdct, in which the student is left to grow up as he that from a purely physical point of view much may, subject to the chances of his own envi can be accomplished toward the establishment ronment, a prey to his own inclinations. It of health by the process of emotional self-con- 8 OTTERBEIN AlGIS. trol, indispensable to the artist. Attention the warpings and bias of undue selfishness and has rarely been called to the-enormous capac interest. All things considered, general intelli ity of great musical artists in this regard. gence in all is better than high culture in a As a science music should be taught as few. accurately, as reverently as any of the other Many things might be mentioned that con sciences. "Art," says Taine, "has at once tribute to the spread of intelligence, su~h as the this peculiarity, that it is at once noble and transmission of thought by means of books popular, manifesting whatever is most sacred, and newspapers. But . more potent than either and manifesting it to all." Does paii1ting, of these is the Free Common School, as a factor does sculpture, does arcliitecture deserve that in the diffusion of general intelligence among description more than music deserves it? Do men. It is vital to our hope as a great united those who call it the most universal, did Rob republic covering a whole continent. The com ert Browning who called it the "queenliest qf mon school gives to every child the one indis arts," err? . Do they look for too great scope pensable element, intelligence. Not only does for it, when the scientist Helmholtz gave a it teach hi n by the master, but the scholars are large part of his majestic mind to the discov all masters to each other. There is an atmos phere of intelligence in the school and a public ery of obscure details embodying its existence? sentiment of intelligence among the young and Again, even as ff1Usic is universal and scien rising generation around the school house. tific, so is it ethical. It is indeed of itself, as Intelligence becomes, where common .schools Plato said, "A moral law." It is also intel abound, one of the signs and tests of manhood. lectual; quickening perception and awakening The question is no longer, "who can throw delicacy of insight; strengthening the whole th; heaviest weight farthest?" or ~'who can mental grasp. run and leap most like a deer, or hilg most like a bear?" Another test of manhood is intro- " our £ommon Scbo·oJs duced; and it is no longer muscle that makes the man, but brain. Intelligence becomes popular A. W. WHETSTONE, 'o3 in the village and in the district, and manliness goes up a grade where common schools ~ NOWLEDGE is that which a man knows. abound. 1I K \~ Intelligence is that which knows it. Our common schools also equalize. For ~ Knowledge bears the same relation to human life is incessantly creating diversity, and intelligence, as invested wealth does to that if such diversity were to be continued indefi spirit of enterprise which creates wealth. The nitely some men or classes of men would grow one is the active cause. The other is the pro mountain-high, while the less favored would lie duct or effect or result of that cause. Mere valley-low. And so, a kind of aristocracy knowledge' will not save men. Intelligence is a would follow classification. Classification preservative force. Intelligence · is of more inheres in nature, but it ought not to reign value to us than high culture, though high except throughout the gen€ration where it culture may be of more value to an old mon asserts itself. Aristocracy is individual. It archy than general intelligence, and of more does not belong to classes in perpetuity. As value to us, by and by, than just now. an attribute of individual excellence and power, It is giving eyes to the whole people to give nowever, it carries with it ambition and aspira them intelligence. It gives them training tion, and lordly success. But if human life en0ugh, at any rate, to guide them in their permits itself, by institutions, to hold these ele course. It gives them a certain instrument vations for the prosperity of other individuals with whic;h to resist the outburst, of p:1ssion , than those who have earned them, you have OTTERBEIN AJGIS. 9 instantly classified human society into an artifi together and stand on a common dead level in cial aristocracy, and a ·. . low-lying common the school house. And the teacher does not people. call the roll of the boys by their parents' alti Now, brain is owner and master in this world. tudes but by the alphabet. And if A is a poor Men may make resolutions, form combinations man's son and B a rich man's son, B comes and devise plans, but as long as God keeps His after A notwithstanding. And the rich man's original decrees unchanged, so long brain will dunce stands below the poor man's smart boy, be found to own and to govern. And they and must. In fhis little germinant republic of that have it will be masters. And they that the common school, all the boys whose parents have it not will be servants, with protest and live in vastly different mansions, and with vastly rebellion, it is true, but under the decree of different customs are brought down to the God. And the true equity which comes with fellowship, and the brotherhood and commun an ideal democracy must be that equity which ion of a common humanity. They are obliged gives to every man an equal share of b1ain to mingle together and they frame laws with cultute. He that has it not, is made by that each other. And it is a good thing to bring very deprivation, lower than his fellow who has down to the original starting point all the it. Do not misunderstand me! Democracy elevations and inequalities produced by the does not mean a universal level. It does not various forces of active life and say to all the mdan' compulsory equality. It means equz'tab/e boys, ''your feet must all stand on one level; oppottunity. Organized society will always be now shoot your heads as high as you please." graded. True _equity classifies men into super Liberty of growth and equality at the start is ior and inferior. All that can be rightfully the law of a true democratic life, and this is demanded is, that all men have education for what the common school gives. their full development, opportunity for the use It is, also, in the highest degree desirable, of their powers. After that, men must find not only that the school should be common, but their own level. The common school, by that it should be jree; and not only that it beginniP.g early in the child's life, by affording should be free, but that it should be supen'ot. not only the primal stimulus, but by opening No community can afford to let a primary the eyes of men, so that they can avail them private school be better than the free public selves of all the other stimulz', which, by and by school. You cannot anywhere else, so ill afford they wiil meet, is keeping up a true democratic to be parsimonious, and cali it economy, as in equality by giving to all men their own proper the administration of your common . schools. equal chance for brain-culture. Secure more buildings, larger edifices, better It is democratic, also, in the sense that it is furniture, more teachers with ampler support, bringing back again, to a common level, all the (for the support of our common school teacher~, irregularities and inequalities which the various especially of women teachers, is a burning forces of active life produce. Knowledge, shame and a lasting disgrace to our civilization) riches, skill, I have said. create classes, and so, \\-ith more capacity, bringing hither the noblest inequalities. If in the spring you look over men and the noblest women. This is political the cultivated field where corn grew the wisdom. And no where is wisdom so squand previous year you will see the ridges that ered, or folly so regna~t as where men are remain. Now comes the plow to turn over the unwilling to be taxed and are parsimor.ious in soil and all the old hillocks go down and lie those revenues which go to maintain free com level for the next crop. The common school mon schools for all the children of the whole is the plow that levels each generation of community. The rich and the proud, the human ljfe. All the children, without regard aristocratic and the arrogant may be unwilling ~9 ~~<;~ll~n<;it,:~ qf r ar~nta e- e : have _to com e; ~Q sepd their ~hilc\ f ~l.l 'Yith th ~ ~ · ~ om~o p hf!r ~'l 10 OTTERBEIN A!GIS.
but their children need it. It is one of the take away religion from education? Let us · best' features of their whole education. And not impose our religioiJS books and convictions they should be compelled to do it, not by law, as a yoke upoa others because we happen to but by the fact that they cannot anywhere else have the majority and the power. find a primary private school that is as good as But are there no other ways of giving relig the free public schools. ious instruction? Do you suppose religion is These schools should not only be free and all given to men when you have taught them common and superior but they should be the catechism? If a man can say the catechism, unsectan·an. If it be needful that the teaching -the lesser catechism, the greater catechism, of technical religion should be excluded from the Westminister, the Episcopal or the Luth our common school!5, for the sake of maintain eran catechism-without stumbling, from be ing their universality, I vote to exclude it. If ginning to end, is he a saint? Is religion all it be needful that the Bible should not be read taught througli such instrumentalities? By no . in our common schools in order to maintain means. If the teacher that stands in the school their universality, their freedom and their com is an example of justice, if the teacher is full of monness, I vote not to read it. If the reading sympathy and goes down to the dull and the of the Bible obliges us to forego our principles stupid, and with infinite tenqerness lifts them of toleration, I shall maintain our principles of up avd supplies their wants, is not that teacher toleration. It was because our forefathers better than any catechetical instructor? You would not suffer others to impose their faith cannot help having religion taught in the upon them that they came hither. And shall school if ye>u have a man or a woman there. we, after three hundred years, with all the But it will not be religious dogma. For is growing light and knowledge that has come U:ere a child that does not esteem ''whatso down to us upon this subject, commit the fatal ever things are true" and ''honest" and ''just" blunder that sent the Pilgrims across the sea in and "pure" and "lovely" and "of good report." the dead of winter to lay the foundations of Let those great underlying principles be taught. this noble republic? Any thing more than this is the duty of the What! cries out one with real and conscien church and therefore out of place in the school. tious fear, "Do· you purpose to bring up the Therefore let our common schools take care children of the community a nest of infidels?" of that for which they were instituted-namely N0! I purpose no such thing. You might as -universal instruction for all the children of well say, "Do you purpose to bring up these the whole community in the first elements of boys in school in indolence?" We do not intelligence. Make the children readers. .teach the mechanic arts in the common school. Give them such knowledge and training that Society needs a hundred things that are not may become thereafter their own instructors. taught in the common school. This is the functiof'l of the common school. In the early primitive times, when a dozen And you cannot tax too heavily nor tax too functions clustered around one instrument, the often to secure the fulfillment of that function. teacher used to teach the Bible, religion and The wisest expenditure a state can make is for the catechism as well as the spelling book and the support of the common school. For every the arithmetic; but in our day of general intel time you educate a child, yo•1 stop up a leak in ligence, we divide the functions · of society, the hull of the ship of ,the commonwealth. letting the church teach dogma and letting the common school perform the task of teaching intelligence. And because we take from the The greater part of Association Men for common school the special f:.mction of teaching February is devoted to the Life and Character religious history and dogll'l:a, do we therefore of Moody . OTTERBEIN A!GIS.
Jl Sk¢tcb -of Paul Rrug¢r bears so well his three score years and ten. Born wi h the oldtime manners of a German E. S. ZUCK. '02. peasant, he has come to be the leader of a people. His early life was one of toil and describe the disposition, peculiarities, hardship, one in which he grew and acquired and character of a man whom you have the strength which now upholds him in his not met nor even seen, is a task at once duties of state. His feats of strength as a boy difficult and easy. It is difficult if one depends are marvelous; some that are reported seem entirely on his own resources; easy if he finds great enough for a Hercules or a Samson. In in the words of those of more extended and stature he is almo!>t a giant, being six feet tall accurate knowledge a skeleton for his sketch. and weighing two hundred and twenty-five The latter is my ~ask, and at best I can only pounds. His legs are Ion~, his hands and reflect the words and thoughts of others upon feet large, though his head is small In compari this subject. son with his huge trunk. He is not an Character to a large degree is just what a impressive looking man in his misshapen person will rna ke it. We have our destinies in coat and trousers. His personal appearance is our own hands; we alone can say whether our at times even repulsive. One description says characters shall be positive or negative, go'od that he is a stranger to the uses of a handker or bad. Environment is a factor, however, in chief when suffering with a cold, his fingers the formation of human character, which must serving him instead, and that during an inter not be overlooked. For example, place a man view with the author of the description he spat in the solitudes and fastnesses of a great moun continually into a waste basket near the table. tain range, and naturally he becomes in mind His long, loosely fitting, black, frock coat is and ideal as lofty as the snow-capped peaks often grimy with dirt, and the huge, lumpy, that tower above him. A nature, bold, rug black shoes often quite innocent of polish. ged, self-reliant, and God-fearing, becomes a His iiving is plain and simple, and consists part of his character. On the other hand, chiefly of meat and vegetables. The meat is place him on the plains that stretch away to usually boiled, and the President is said to be the north and the south, to the east and the especially fond of turnips, which he eats raw west, apparently as level as a floor, until its as well a~; cooked. It is only since Mrs. edges touch the horizon, and he will take upon Kruger has become so advanced in years that himself an entirely different disposition. He is servants have been taken into the house. impelled to rove and wander about, with no Their former life as common people has been single spot as an abode and with no place for a little changed by the dignities which have been home. So we shall describe a man who is the forc·ed upon them. Society is an ·unknown rt_!presentative of a people who have to a large_ quantity to the President as well as to his sub~ degree been fashioned as to character and jects. There are no meetings for pleasure or nature by the country in·which they have lived. amusement. When they meet it is either for To be sure they constitute only a small fraction business or for religion, and beyond this there of humanity, but nevertheless they deserve our is absolutely no social life. attention inasmuch as they possess qualities to No one gives him credit for intellectuality. be admired. His friends say that to a naturally shrewd John Paul Kruger was born in eighteen intelligence he adds the wisdom of years and hundred and twenty-five. His father was the experience. His enemies on. the oth€r hand, first settler in South Africa. His German allege that to cunning malevolence he joins an parentage doubtless explains his many pec\11- outrageous hypocrisy of religious motives. iarities, and his mode of life shows why he No one gives him credit for much education.
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He can read and write the Dutch language of always sells his horse or hunting spoil as the his people, but is said never to have ventured property of an extremely avaricious and hard far into the common domains of history and dealing friend. In diplomacy this method of geography. The former he holds to be irrev transacting business is very prominent, espe erent and useless wherever it disagrees with the cially as ''Oom Panl" has learned by · expe Scriptures, and the latter unnecessary in good rience. that the seeming plain and outspoken citizens, who should love their homes and stay language of English diplomacy often contains in them. Too great a knowledge of geography a world of unimagined meaning and unthought has made the Englishman of to-day, or accord disaster. It is impossible, not only in the ing to his own famous statement, "The . larger affairs of state, but e\ en in the minor English care so little for their own homes that· negotiations, to get a direct yes or no from the . they have no hesitation in invading the . homes Transvaal executive. of others." He pretends not to understand This brings up the question of the Presi English. Whether he deems it beneath his dent's personal honesty. Until lately no one dignity to recognize any language other than ever supposed that he had amassed his very his own, or whether he lacks the intellectual ample fort:.me by the prostitution of his office. ability to master a foreign tongue, the reader But such seems to be the case. In America must decide for himself. He confesses, how he would likely be called a boss, or a boodler, ever,. that once he attempted to learn the such has been his method of doing business. language, and his method was amusing as is Every concession granted in-th-e Transvaal has, his general line of conduct. Re carried with figuntively speaking, bought its way through him, on board the ship which first brought the executive officials. His political policy is hi.n to England, a Bible printed in both as unprogJessive and corrupt as his conduct of English .and Dutch. He said that as the Bible gov~rnment. Education is of no use to his was the only book with which he was familiar, mind, and the methods used by Englishmen he thought he could easily learn the English in developing the resources of a country are equivalents of the Dutch texts which he knew contrary to the Holy Scriptures. The civili~a Jo well. He made just as much progress as tion in his republic is hardy on a level with might be expected from his method, and that of America in seventeen hundred and finally he told a fellow traveler that the Word seventy·five. Inasmu"ch as he opposes civiliza of God seemed to him profane in the barbarous tion and education, the two prime factors of tongue of King James' version. Christianity, he is a thorn in the side of hu His Biblical manner of speaking in parables manity, a barrier to the onward march of the is not wholly to be laid at the door of religious world toward a nobler and higher ideal, toward habits of mind, much as it may suit the patri a timf' when nc.tions will no longer war, when archal pose which he affects. This parable man will love his fellow being as a brother, and point or view is a pronounced attribute of the when eternal peace will rule the universe. South African native. Whenever a Kaffir wishes to say that he has done a good piece of business, he generally says he has killed an elephant or slaughtered an ox. All his life, Tr.e Slayton Jubilee Singers, who appeared formerly more than now, Paul Kruger has asso here Saturday evening under the auspices of ciated with the natives. In this way he has the Citizens' lecture course, remained over acquired his famous habit of never doing busi Sunday and gave a sacred concert in the ness in a direct or straightofrward manner. He imagines that more is to be gained if a bar chapel on Sunday afternoon to a large and gain is circuitously arrived at, just as a native appreciative audience. OTTERBEIN .£GIS. 13
Wbo Ts Jfbl¢ to :Judg¢ 1 himself on his work thus accomplished, when his attention is called to the works of another,
CAROLINE LAMBERT, 1901 greater and wiser than himself. .~ It has been called an age of discontentment, '·"Who shall judge a man from nature, an age in which the "ifs" would seek to make Who shall know him by his dress? us great. For, "If I were only you what won Paupers may be fit for princes, derful things I would do." Were it possible to· Princes fit for something less. · Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket bridge that impassible chasm, we would-pause May beclothe the golden ore, and hesitate upon the brink of the coveted Of the deepest thought and feeling, happiness and be as discontented as before. Satin vest could do no more." The tourist, traveling in luxury and ease In this great world of ours where the good with all that wealth can afford to make life mingles with the evil, where the sun shines pleasant, grows wearied with the monotonous alike on the just and the unjust, where the life of travel when he beholds situated on the refreshing showers fall on both the rich and the bank of a mountain stream the peasant's vine poor man's crops, we have di~played people of clad hut. He sighs as he gazes on that little every type and description. Each seeking to hut with its peaceful calm surroundings and gratify self, to satisfy his own desires and long murmurs to himself, "I would I were to-day a · ings and yet constantly criticising and judging peasant dwelling in that little hut with no gold either his less or more fortunate neighbor, who, save the golden sunshine, with no music save as it appears to him, ha& never a care or sorrow God's songsters of the air and the flute of the to cross his peaceful pathway. This has been shepherd lad. To dwell there, it · would be to · called an age of criticism. An age, in which it me a little Eden, shut out from the sin and · you would succeed, you must realize that life is deceit of this world, frPe from the anxious busy not a dream but a stern reality-not like the cares of city life. Ah! it would indeed be rest globe rounded and smooth but like the polyhe to dwell there! The shepherd lad feeding his dron rugged and angular with its many faces sheep on the mountain side caught a glimpse and many sides. · of the passing tourist seated in luxury and ease The poet smiles triumph ~ ntly to himself in the palace car. He gazed in rapture on the when he beholds for the first time his poems happy faces as they passed and murmured to in print. The whole litera_ry world which has himself, • 'Oh ! I would that I might some day been awakened to new truths, new impulses, be somebody, that I might behold some of the reJOices and applauds the new-born poet. grandeur and beauty of this world, that I might Meanwhile the keen eye of the literary critic is dwell elsewhere than here in this little valley, · not asleep. Scarcely has the fame of the late on the rugged mountain side, beside the little renowned author fllashed round the world until stream, with no music except the notes from my the critics, with eagerness, begin to analyze, poor flute and the bleatings of my little lambs!" search, vex, probe and criticise the works of Alas ! for the tourist, alas ! for the shepherd the poet, that within a fortnight he turns from lad! But would happiness be complete for the fragments of his inspired and carefully them in their exchange? wrought works, with a look of astonishment and The ambitious youth cries "I seek success disgust. The historian, "who has spent months and that I must obtain!" Success? Pray, tell and even years in careful study and constant me what is success? · Is it the jingling of so labor, preparing and arranging the details of his many dollars in a professional's pocket or a history, finally completes the last page. No bank check for the same? Well has it been sooner has he glanced over the pages of his said, ''there is one thing in this world that is history in print and is just about to congratulate better than success, that is, to deserve success~,. 14 OTTERBEIN A!.GIS.
People, as a rule, pay for being amused or self in intellect because he does not nse to being cheated not for being served. Five similar positions of trust and honor? "A thousand a year to your talker and a shilling a man's a man for a' that" says the American, day to your fighter, digger and thinker, is the whether he be the man at the anvil, at the rule. Is the man who brings the greatest good plow or whether he dwell beneath the gilded to humanity and the world the one who dome of the capitol. The man who treads up receives the best pay? How much do you and down the shores of the Ganges says ·to think Homer got for his Iliad, or Dante for his himself, "a man's a man (or a' that, a man's Paradise? Bitter bread and salt and going up a man for a' that" and he shakes his head and and qown other people's stairs. The man who repeats it again, for there in that land of ~aste discovered the telescone and first saw heaven and hereditary rank where it is impossible for was paid with a dungeon. The man who one to rise above the level of his ancestors, it invented the microscope aud first -saw earth cannot be interpreted to him as to the Ameri died of starvation. Did St. Stephen get · can man dwelliug in this land of liberty and bishop's pay for that long sermon of his to the freedom. Shall the Christian judge what may Pharisees? Nothing but s~ones. be right for the Mohammedan, the Mohamme It has been called an age of injustice, an age dan for the Christian, or the Christian for the in which ''right is forever on the scaffold, Jew? Can the one ask the other to entirely wrong forever on the throne." You smile and renounce his faith, his creed, simply because think it is only the pessimist's view. But, tell he, peering through the narrow windows of me, is this injustice when the poor starving prejudice, imagines his faith, his creed to be m1n with not a penny that he can call his own, the only true faith, the only genuine creed? driven forth by his intense hunger, resorts to The Christain maiden kneels reverently with the last means and steals enough food for his bowed head and lifts her soul in prayer and evening meal. He is declared at once, in the adorati'on to the great God. The Catholic eyes of the law, a vagabond, a villian and a maiden with a heart as true, with a soul as thief and is thrust behind the iron bars, where p:~re, with desires just as sincere, \prays to the he may rest for a fortnight, come what may of same God in the way which a loving mother's those dependent upon him. While, on the lips have taught her, by counting her beads. other hand, he, who is licensed in the eyes of the Dares the one say to the other, my W
that the military power of a nation is not meas 01d Oc~an ured principally by the number of men she can marshal out on the field of battle, nor by the DAVID L. HURST number of gunboats she has sailing the seas. There is something more than this that lorms Thou ever-rolling, dark, mysterious sea! the foundation of military vin ue. A love of Thou changeless emblem of eternity! Thy billows sweep through every clime, country must prevail; a patriotism that rises Defying all the storms oftime. above national pride, that is more than a com Beyond the farthest reach 0fhuman sight, mon passion, that seeks no trivial honots; a Thy million breakers, glisteni11g silvery white, patriotism that lifts the eager eye to a nation Come rolling on in their majestic sweep To lash the frowning caverns of the deep. redeemed and exalted by the shedding of kin dred blood. And when the black clouds of What mystic power within the vague dim past war deeply gather over our land, it is npon this Marked out thy boundaries, chained thee fast? In coming ages, what. must be thy goal? sacred virtue that we budd our hopes of And when shall thy proud billows cease to roll? victory. Man, by the power of his ingenious might, But there is something greater and more Sweeps o'er thv form, like eagles in their flight, sublime than all this, which we can not over Oft to be sad I; strewn prone at t'hy feet, Enwraped within thy watery, winding sheet. look. America is more than a commercial center, and more than a military power. Mars In thy sepulchral bosom, dark and deep, is not her God. Her God is nature's God. Great ancient warriors keep their last long sleep. Here ships of costly treasure meet their doom, Ever since she broke down the ramparts of And diamonds flash within thine ocean tomb. slavery within her own borders and gave free Thou show'st the impulse of the human heart, dom to a hopeful race. she has stood for the - Now wild, distracted, driven, torn apart, supremacy of human justice and liberty. She Now still, subdued and tranquil, soothed to rest, No wave of fear upon thy placid breast. is not content with her own freedom. The American is not all of the human race! Re In sweet delight I could forever stay, cognizing the equality of all men, espousing the Surrounded by thy misty, heaven-tofsed spray. Bask in thy majesty, and find sweet rest, cause of right, believing in the universality of Reclining softly on thy pulsing crest. God's love, she must labor in the interest 'of all Soon I must bid thy beauties all adieu; mankind ! Herein lies the true greatness of Soon shall thy heaving form be lost to view; America. Guided by these principles she can Yet, ages after I -and mi' e are gone, Thy storm-tossed, sun-ki~secl waves will still roll on. not help but reflect a civilization vaster and grander than any in all the world. And now what can we say respecting her £. m. fl. 11. not~s future? The age of prophecy is over. But does the past teach us nothing? Has the pres The week prior to the day of prayer for ent no promises? Then let us believe in spite colleges was suitably observed by the Y . M . of all doubts and dogmas that there is still a C. A.~ by holding half-hour prayer meetings higher and loftier height to which America will each day from I 2:30 to I p. m. ' yet ascend.--- More than usual interest centers in the Ohio State Y . M. C. A . convention, meeting at A new feature at the church serv1ces IS a Findlay, Feb. 22-2 5, as it is the first session small leaflet, entitle,~ the weekly calendar, since the change from annual to biennial con which contains the announcement of all the ventions. The program IS inv;ting from services of the week, the Sundar mo; 11ing beginning to end. Besides prominent diviues ~Hy ic~ ~ iye q in f4q1 fP G_ c ~Ue ~ e profes?ors the r ro ~ rafll coq~ ~ ip p . '" OTTERBEIN .&CIS. . I7
the names of Gov. James A. Mount, of now at home to friends at Middletown, where Indiana, Judge Seldon, P. Spencer, of St. Mr. Sebald has entered business. Louis, and John R . Mott, who has made the Rev. B. Bovey made a short call here last Y. M. C. A . a world-wide organization. The \-\eek. delegates from Otterbein are Messrs. Graham, Hendrickson, Judy, Brubaker, Good, Wilson, Prof. F. 0 . Clements spent Sunday, Feb. 18, at hon1e. Lambert, Snyder, Boring and Remaley. Mrs. Daisie Shoemaker, '95, visited at W. The devotional committee have been judi 0. Baker's a few days ago. cious in their choice of leaders and the meetings on Thursday evenings are a source Mr. Dellar was called home for a few days of help to those who attend. Several of the on account of the c'eath of a cousin. professors have shown their interest by leading Miss Helen Shauck, '97, spent several days j the meeting and still more by attending. We here with her many friends recently. appreciate your presence, professors, and have been helped by your talks. Mr. J . Gerlaugh presented the gymnasium with two hundred dollars worth of equipments. On Thursday evening, Feb. I 5, the follow ing officers were elected for the ensuing year : Mr. Hugh Kline, of Dayton, and P. R. President, Frank H. Remaley; vice president, Needles, of Hoytville, made short "business" _D. J. Good; recording secretary, H. V. Bear; trips to this city a few days ago. corresponding secretary, L. S . Hendrickson; Mr. J. L. Shively is again able to attend treasurer, C. W. Snyder. classes, after being . confined to his room
. ' several days on account of sickness . Ptrsonals Mr. W. F .. Coover entertained his sister Miss Mabel, of_Dayton, and his cousin, Miss Dr. Garst is making the study of interna Metta B.eardshear, of Ames, Iowa, the first of tional law interesting. the month. There is a young man at the Mossman club She (enthusiastically)-Oh, George , don't who has a peculiar incentive for study. you think the greatest joy in life is the pursuit Miss Marguerite Lambert has gone home to of the good, the true and the beautiful ? join her people in a trip to New Orleans. He-That's what I am here for, darling. Ex. Miss Olive Robertson, of Mt. Liberty, spent a few days with her Westerville friends. THE NATION Mr. G. W. Walters is able to be about Demands men who can cope with present again, after a serious attack of congestion of exigencies. the lungs. THE CLUB Rev. Geo. Browne, of the A merican Tract society, preached in the college chapel, Sun Demands a STEWARD who can secure the best, and most for the least cash outlay. day morning, Feb. 18. Mr. G. A . Sebald and Miss Katie Alder FR.ANK BOOKMAN were united in marriage, Jan. 20, at the home will settle the latter problem for anyone of the bride's parents in Plain City. They are desiring this information, 18 OTTERBEIN .&GIS.
toea Is gram consisted of record makiLg in indoor gymnastics, following wh1ch occured the Several students attended the Arion concert Sophomore-Freshman basket ball game, in of last week. which the Sophies proved conclusively by a score of 14 to 2, that they could play ball. Rev. D. W. Downey led chapel exercises Friday, Feb. 15 . Feb. 22d was observed as a holiday, and Judge Tod. B. Galloway, of Columbus, gave The chapel choir is growing smaller. There an address in the college chapel at 10 o'clock. may be a scheme on foot. Each of the literary societies furnished a Uncle Tom's Cahill made its appearance at selection of music. town hall a few days ago. Mr. Oldt has been under a heavy mental The Philalethean girls are making prt para strain for several days, on account of the loss rations for remodeling their hall. of his books and notes of Physics. Prof. Mc Fadden advises the gentleman to take a course Mr. McMillen thinks that the preparatory of instruction under Prof. Schram. students are having too many prayer meet ings. If you are interested in the discussion of the latest college news, board at the Miller club. The conservatory of music will give a recital The topic for this week is the "Sophomore in the college chapel, Saturday evening, Prep Basket Ball Game." Last week, "Key Feb. 24. ser's 'Future as a Lawyer,'" was disposed of. Graham and Woolsey do not always agree on minor points in international law. Dr. The Juniors have organized a bas;ket ball Garst seems to favor Woolsey. team with J. G. Sanders as captain and E. V. Bowers as manager. Prof. Schram, of Buffalo, gave a, .talk to the Ira Flick was elected captain of the Preps, students on the 2 I st, for the purpose of after the resignation of C. Long. They expect organizing· a class in memory drilt" . , to win the inter-class. championship, even About seventy-five students have procurred though the Sophomores think they have a tickets for the lecture · on ''Liquid Air," to be cinch upon that place. given in the Columbus auditorium by Prof. One of the most delightful events of the Chas. E. TripL'r. social season was the Valentine reception "Now soup," said M. B, while that com gtven b_; the Misses Mable and Georgiana modity was being served at a certain boarding club, "is the substance of things hoped for, You Will Save Money the evidence of things not seen." ----- By Attending Our SP[CIAL SAL[. The Woman's "church work society" gave a reception on last Friday evening, and an Men's Good $lO.OO Overcoats, now $6 .75. Men's Good $10.00 Suits, now- $6.75. nounced that the parsonage was now free from all debt. We compliment the ladies in their noble work . .A gymnasium tournament was given Thurs day evening, Feb. I 5, under the direction of Mr. D. J. Good, physical director. The pro- Cor. High and Long, . Columbus, Ohio. OTTERBEIN AiGIS.
Scott and the Misses Ethel and Glenn Crouse ical Association was held Saturday .eveniug, at the Scott residence, on the afternoon and Feb. 3d. It is ~aid to have been the best evening uf February 13. The house was very contest in the history of the Association. The tastefully and uniquely decorated with smilax final averages 'A ere: J. H. Caulker, '02, and strings of hearts. In the dining room 88 S-6 ; A. W. Whetstone, '03, 88%; Mi~s delicious refreshments were served. During Caroline Lambert, 'oi, 83Yz'; H. A. Wor the receiving hours, many of the faculty, man, '03, 83. The fo1lowing is the program students and friends of the hostesses called. in full : Delighted? Yes, that is the word for all Music ...... Selected students who come here for their shoes, and Philomathean Orchestra. why not ? Here is to be found all that you possibly conceive in new styles, shapes and Oration ...... ;"Our Rela tion to the Dark Continent" shades, and you'll put your fdot into it-into a Jos. H . CAULKER. good thing-if you buy these shoes. M usic-Rem ember Now Thy Creator in the Days ]. W . MARKLEY, of Thy Youth ...... ]. B. Rhodes Cash Dep. Store. Philophronean Quartet The local contest of the O tte rbein Orator- L . M. Barnes, H. L. Dallas, I. W. Howard, H. U. E ngle Stationery and Engraving'-.._...... ,. Absolutely the only complete Stationery Department in the city of Columbus, carrying at all times a complete assortment of "Whiting's" Fine No.te and Correspondence Papers, Visiting Cards and Card Envelopes, and doing the Highest Possible Grade of Fine Stationery Engraving, Wedding Invitations, Announce ments, Reception and At-Home Cards, Business Cards, Monograms, Crests and Address Dies, all of' which we do at g reatly reduced prices. A large collection of miscellaneous Stationery Articles. Erasers, Fountain Pens, Fine Tablets. Memoranda Books, Cribbage Boards, Playing Cards and Whist Sets, Library Pastes, Letter Seals and Wax, Inks of all kinds, Mourning Stationery in a Complete Assortment of Styles and Widths of Border. C. H. D. Robbins &. Co. 176-178 North High St. Columbus, Ohio NOTE- Special lowprices will be given on Engraving Orders of Any Size or Character.:
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Oration ...... •..•...... , •.••.... "Who is Able to Judge?" something funny and for this reason we feel CAROLINE LAMBERT. inclined to overlook the fact that "Honest Music- Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 14...... Liszt . John" sometimes forgets to put the humor in Mart ha Adell Roloson. his paper. Oration ...... ~ ...... "Our Common School" A. W. WHETSTONE. Wanted-Rain , by umbrella plants. Agents to sell ties of friendship. A pugilist, to lick Music-Summer Fancies ...... Olivier Metra Philalethean Glee Club. stamps, box cats and scrap paper.
Oration ...... "Then and Now" So much true worth and humor's found H. A. WORMAN. In ou r exchanges many, That we are fairly at wit's end, Decision of J udges. It makes us feel uncanny Music-Dixie Kid ...... A. Geibel To try to pick out purest gems Philoph ronean Quartet. ' From such a goodly lot; But time speeds on, we m ust to work, Music ...... Selected Come scissors, then, and paste pot.- Ex. Philomathean Orchestra. In the Independent of Jan. 18, the principal articles are "Our Policy Toward Porto Rico," Excbang~s '·The Inju~tice to the Colored Voter" and The Dickinsonian contains several well "The Objection to the Double Turret." "New York Daily Papers and Their Editors" written stories. begun in this issue is concluded in the next. Pennsylvania Coll ege is well represented by the Gettysburg Mercury. STUDENTS! The February P hilistine presents some Bicycle repairing a specialty. Wheels made to views which are not altogether orthodox. ord· r on short notice, enameled in any color. FA U BER-one or two-piece hangers; Wheels guaranteed. A fn ll line of sundries in stock. Does not food mold character? The-Ger Razor grinding. Revolver and g un repairing and mans eat a great deal of sausage and they are a fu ll line of'ammunition. very dogmatic. - Ex. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
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