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VOL. XVII. MAY , 1SS9. No. 5. EDITORIAL. THE BATES STUDENT a MAOAZ.NK ,„»»...». »n.u ».-..*« n. YHK g,"eat Chang6S WhlCh bftVe r°" COLLBOIATK YKAK BY THE H CClltly tilUcll plilCC iVt UlC Cast Of CLASS OF '90, HATES COLLEGE, Bathorn Hall—the laying out of a new strcct in front of thc LEW.STON, ME. gymnasium and the cutting clown of the sweet-fern EDITORS l sllcs that ir. .1. PIPER, E. W. MOKKKLL, J" formerly east so refreshing A. N. PEASLEE, G. H. UAMLKN, a shade over the girls' tennis court—

N. F. SNOW, II. B. DAVIS. are all a means to an end. Thc "end" H. V NEAL, Business Manage. . Qew cncinical laboratory, which, \V. K CJARCELON, Associate Manager. " TKitMS.-»1.00poryear,lnadira»cei slnglecopy, ^ y«« »" know, is soon to adorn the 10wnts. , crest of the hill at the left of Ilathorn Subscribers not receiving^.lie STUDKRT regularly H „ TWg bllikliu,r is lo fuce tne should notify the Business Manager. ° Contributions cordially Invited. south as do the other buildings; it is Exchangee and matter tor publication should U) , l( tel, us somcwiult longer be addressed EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, BATES ... ro o/> «r STUIIENT, LEWISTON, MAINE; business letters to than wide, about 58 x 36, made of Lew- H. V. NEAL, MANAOEU OF STUDENT, LEWISTON, jgton brtok, an(l having a 11 ii> roof smoothly slated. Even in the way it

Entered M Second Class Mail Matter ut Lcwhton 1'o.t-QHko. .g ^ fo ^jj^ it SeClUS to bid tO all tl Printed at the Journal Office, Lewiston, Maine. cordial welcome. A projection near the center of the front contains the CONTENTS. , , , . . , ,, large door, and comes out to meet the VOL. XVII., No. 5.—MAT, 1889. „.. .. , .. ,, stranger fully lour feetf from the main BWTOBUi W8 baildinc. Bat here it stops, and the LITERARY: ... What is American Socialism? 107 beautifulsemi-circular tower close at the Ualph Waldo Emerson 109 ,i«rj,t gets ahead of it for five feet more. Shakespeare's "Tempest" NK> _f. , . ,. ... May-Kiowers 112 This classic tower and the projection Failure: Its Causes 118 topped by a neat gable are the orua- (^SlmioZ;::::":":::::^'^'-!:;:!!! »,c»ts °f ^ fio,,t °f tl,c building; LOCALS 119 each of the sides also boasts a gable, PERSONALS -. vvhile the center of the roof, not to be HOOK NOTICES 130 outdone by front or sides, rejoices in a COLLEGE NOTES 130 fl j ventilator, a sort of cupola POET'S CORNER 136 ° * POT-POURRI 127 called a "lantern." The back of the 104 THE BATES STUDENT.

building is plain, though it has its share |NK of the evils which is most en- of the handsome round-topped windows countered in college life is the ac- which give to this style of architecture quiring of the habit of using slang. the name of Romanesque. The sills Not that the use of low and vulgar of these windows are of North Con way slang is meaut, for the evil is too ap- granite, as is also that ten-inch band parent in that, but the so-called fash- running all around the building at the ionable slang which is used in polite top of the basement. conversation. The English language We are also told that this building is in all its beauty and expressiveness to be two stories high beside the base- can never be thoroughly mastered and ment. On the first floor is the chemi- rightly handled by one who habitually cal lecture room, with opportunity to makes use of slang. There have been illustrate the lectures by experiments men and there are those to-day who before the class. In another room also have realized its beauty and the power on this floor may be found the geolog- which can be attained by its right use. ical cabinet. This appreciation of the language lint " the way into my parlor is up a ought not to be confined to a few but winding stair," and if we go up the should he universal. The habit of " winding stair," situated in this case in using slang is by no means prevalent the semi-circular tower, we shall soon among college students only. Those find ourselves in a large, light, well- who profess to move in the highest ventilated room finished even into the social circles seem to pride themselves roof somewhat after the fashion of the in the number of slang expressions gymnasium. This room is the large they can make use of. The professor laboratory for individual work in ana- uses it in his class-room ; the lawyer lytical chemistry, and all around us are uses it at the bar; and the minister in pneumatic troughs, racks of test-tubes, his pulpit. The influence of this evil numerous bottles of ILNO, and HNO:„ is not decreasing but rather increasing, and everything else necessary for the and if no counteracting influence is accommodation of fifty aspiring young brought to hear we cannot expect to chemists at work at the same time. hear good forms of expressions from Beside this large laboratory, there is scholars who daily hear these slang also a smaller one for the private use phrases from the lips of those to whom of the Professor in Chemistry, and two they look for instruction. The influ- other small rooms for cloak rooms. ence then of all college students and Taken all in all we feel assured that graduates ought to be used in checking our new laboratory is to be both an this present tendency of our language. ornament and a benefit to Bates Col- lege. Those who have the matter in WVVVO years ago the interest in base- charge hope to have it ready for us by JJ ball at Bates died out, but last next September. A lithograph of the year a new interest was awakened and building will probably appear in our next number. Bates was again represented in the col- THE BATES STUDENT. 105 lege league. Though we won but two may be better served by the present games, yet the work of the season was arrangement than by any other? We not fruitless, for it laid the foundation think so ; and for that reason we hope upon which we now stand. This year it will not be given up. Besides, we Bates is represented in the league by fear lest, if we should have only one the best team she has had for several association for the whole country, the years. Though we were badly beaten stronger papers would practically mo- the first game, yet our courage does nopolize it, and crowd the weaker ones not flag. The injury of our captain to the wall. At least it is certain that was a severe blow to the nine, but still many of the poorer ones could ill afford, we have the material to cope with any or could not afford, to send a repre- of the college teams. The nine now sentative to a distant meeting, no mat- needs but two things toV-peat the work ter how much they might wish to do so. of last September at St. John,—a little To obviate these difficulties, would it more pull-together and more practice not be well to let each section have an at the bat. Hoys, work together as association to care for its own interests, you did then and the pennant is yours. and then have each of these represented Do not protest the games you win. in a central association, something as each State is represented in Congress. THE need of a General Intercolle- This seems better than to have only giate Tress Association seems evi- one association, as well as more in dent. The present sectional associa- accord with American ideas. tions are doing a good work, but they cannot fully cover the ground. There ■ N a number of Western Slates iu- are important interests that only a 4L tercollegiate oratorical contests are general association can properly foster. taking place and great interest is man- Chief among these is our new magazine, ifested in them. The idea is naturally the Culleyiuu, which needs and deserves suggested that a similar league might the hearty support of all the college be formed in Maine. Our base-ball papers of the country, and which, league keeps up a lively interest in the rightly managed and treated, would be athletic condition of neighboring insti- helpful to all. Should a strong gen- tutions, and something of this kind eral association be formed and assume would awaken us to an appreciation of the support of the Collegian, the suc- what they are doing in those lines of cess of the latter would be assured; work that are more distinctively the and, having a larger constituency to province of a college. Though prizes draw from, it would doubtless improve are uncertain, and their award often much faster than under the present unsatisfactory,.it would be well for us conditions. to have a chance to measure something But the question may arise, is it best more than bats with one another. To to merge the existing associations into the students of Maine colleges we sug- one? Are there not interests which gest that steps be taken for such a con- 106 THE BATES STUDENT.

test next year. It would afford a pow- here, neither making the attendance erful stimulus for better work in rhe- entirely compulsory, nor leaving it cn- toricals at home, as well as for this tirely optional, is by far the best. event, and could not fail to establish a higher standard of literary work. T/NOWLEDGE may he accumulated [\ to no purpose. The mere acqui- 1IHK proposition to make attendance sftion of the facts and details of knowl- at chapel exercises entirely op- edge without attention to their applica- tioual has been much discussed of late tion gives no discipline except to the in some of our colleges. If this be a memory. A student may learn the move forward, it is strange that it has rules of a language or the principles of not yet reached Bates, which has :i rep- a science, hut if he can not apply utation for taking the lead in advance those rules and principles to language movements, the admission of ladies, and science, he has gained a fund of for example. But somehow this does knowledge worth no more to him than not seem to he a move forward, but pearls at the hottom of the sea. For, rather backward. It looks like the like those pearls, it is far hcyond his first step toward doing away with all reach. What does it avail a student religious exercises in college, a result to become acquainted with the facts of little to be desired. One would almost history if he can not see in them the think that, in these days, when the great laws that govern nations and scholarship of the country is so largely men? Of what value is botany, geol- Curietian, such a move would find little ogy, physics, or any other science to support. Perhaps it would not were it the man who makes them a mere exer- not for the idea of compulsion which cise of the memory ? Can he see them attends the requirement, and which in the flowers, the rocks, and the rain- bffends the high (?) regard for liberty bow? No. His observing faculties of our freedom-loving youth. Bat it is have received no discipline and his as true now as in the days of the wise study has failed of its true end. He man, that "It is good for a man to has become a passive receptacle of other bear the yoke in his youth." Removed men's thoughts, and a leaky one, too. from all the restraints of home life, a He is the man of well informed intel- few requirements like this can hardly leet, hut of weak powers of observa- fail to exercise a healthful restraining tion. Literary culture alone cannot influence on us as students. We are make a man. It is possihle to have confident that a large majority of the read a great deal and to have waded students here would not be in favor of through many branches of study, having the chapel attendance made en- and still to possess hut little practical tirely optional, and if they would, their wisdom. It is not wholly how much parents would not. However other one knows that is of importance, but colleges may decide the question, we in a great degree the facility with which cannot hut think that the arrangement one can use what he knows. The stu- THE BATES STUDENT. 107 dent who knows :i great deal, but is healthy and mind alert, college work not able to use his knowledge, is the becomes a pleasure—a pastime. man of poor judgment and weak un- III. It will increase your interest in derstanding ; but the student who can your fellow-students. Remember that use his knowledge, though it may be you do not come to college to be shut, limited, is the man of sound judgment up as in a monastery, but to be a stu- and clear understanding. lie is the dent among students, just as later on man of practical wisdom. His is the you arc to be a man among men. If example to follow. you become interested with the sports of the students, you will soon become 1HIOSE who have not yet joined the interested with the students themselves. Athletic Association, we would Many firm friends are thus made, which urge to do so for three important rea- no one can afford to lose. Tics are sons : formed which are never broken, ties I. It will increase your interest in which will brighten the hardest and the college. To the confirmed book- most obdurate life, ties which, as the worm, college is nothing more than a years roll by, will bind you with increas- place where recitations are heard. He ing love to your college and college who takes an active interest in all that associates. Consult your purse then. pertains to the college, regards the col- Cut short) our expenditures. Join the lege as a home, an Alma Muter indeed. Athletic Association and get out of Incidents occur which will never be college life all there is in it. forgotten. Stir from your rooms, then ; ♦♦♦ shout the " Iioom-a-lak-a " and learn LITERARY. to love your college home. II. It will increase your interest in WHAT IS AMERICAN SOCIAL- the college work. ISM ? " He does not live whoso ]>oor contracted life BY C. J. E., 'so. Is narrowed to si single changeless round." T the beginning of the present cent- The student who pores incessantly over ury, monopoly of land, stagna- his books never learns the true ardor tion of trade, tyranny of caste, and and zest of college life. We need some- oppressions by a bigoted and ignorant times to forget our books and cease to clergy had plunged the working people worry why we cannot succeed with this of England and France into wretched- problem or that translation. If one ness and despair. applies himself strictly to his books Responsive to the cry of the down- with no intermission, he will soon be- trodden classes, there appeared, on this come morose, dissatisfied, discouraged. scene in civil history, two characters, Many students have become thoroughly colossal in their breadth of conception discouraged and left college simply be- and energy of execution. Saint Simon cause they took no recreation. Keep in France and Robert Owen in Eng- the life current flowing, and, with body land espoused the cause of the toiling 108 THE BATES STUDENT. masses, and proclaimed to the world Germany, the world's great socialistic, that inequality is the accident of birth nihilistic, and anarchistic strongholds. or of fortune, that all property should These revolutionists, also, believe in he common and collective and its distri- common property and equality of dis- bution equal; asking from each accord- tribution ; in fact, so firmly arc they ing to his abilities, and giving to each ac- grounded in the belief that they would cording to his needs. This was the first overturn all existing institutions and actual declaration of real socialism, found upon the ruins a socialistic state mistaken perhaps, but wrung from the that should embrace the world; like heart and brain of generous philan- Gonzala's Commonwealth, having thropy. neither riches nor poverty, nor occu- In 1826, the economic principles of pation nor sovereignty, yet each would Saint Simon and of Owen were wel- aspire to be king of it. In 1878 Bis- comed to America, and served for forty marck disfranchised 200,000 Socialists, years as the philosophical and working and, it is reported, assisted many of basis of American Socialism. Some- them with German gold to emigrate to times under the milder title of commun- America. ism, hut still embracing the essential To-day there are probably half a mill- principles of unity of property and ion socialistic sympathizers in the equality of distribution, they flourished United Stales. They are embraced in during these years in sixty-nine com- three classes, namely: The Interna- munities, supported and inspired by tional Working People's Association, some of America's brightest and ablest or Society of the Black Hand ; the In- men. ternational Workmen's Association, or Of these communities the most inter- Society of the Red Hand and the So- esting was the Brook Farm, of Rox- cialistic Labor Party, boasting no hand, bnry, Mass., of which Dr. (-banning, but stigmatized by John Most as the (;eo. Ripley, Horace Greeley, Geo. Blue Hand, because of its cowardice. Win. Curtis, Margaret Fuller, Chas. Differing as to means, they cherish the Dana, and Nathaniel Hawthorne were same object. To quote their own members; a society that "Aimed to be words, it is " Free land, free tools, and rich, not in the metallic representative free money." Terribly in earnest, of wealth, but in leisure! to live in all both branches of the Internationals the faculties of the soul." Thus earlier exclaim " Away with private property, American Socialism, with its religious away with authority, away with the ardor and Christian aims, proved a State, away with the family, away with beautiful and interesting, if not alto- religion. War to the palace ; peace to gether successful experiment. the cottage; and death to luxurious But since 1850, socialism has suffered idleness." Renouncing all government a grievous and radical change, wrought except individual will, they rejoice in chiefly through the importation of rev- dynamite and ignore the ballot. olutionary socialism from Russia and On the contrary the Socialistic Labor THE BATES STUDENT. 109

Party has remained true to some, at American manhood, and these dark least, of the ideals of primitive social- pyramids of social evil will crumble ism. Believing in the ultimate triumph into dust. of a socialistic state, it would work out its destiny by peaceful degrees. PALPI I WALDO EMERSON. It emphasizes the dignity of labor, and P.Y A. N. P., "M. claims that " Socialism rightly under- So waved Hie pine tree through my thought, Ami fanned the dream it, never brought. stood is Christianity applied to social — Woodnotes. reform." It censures violence, and Bind no laurel erown for him, abides by the law. But wreath of pine, with sap of firo, Whose needles are his myriad thoughts, However, it falls into error in as- Whose towering trunk, a central spire, suining that selfishness can be eradi- Unites them in grand harmony, cated from human character; it falls And draws them higher, ever higher.

into error in supposing manual labor Bough winter cannot hare the boughs the sole source of wealth, forgetting By his rude grasp of raging cold. the brain must plan before the hand Hut when new leaves, in silent course, can build ; it falls into error in using The former growth in love enfold, Rejoicing in this better garb, the right of suffrage not as a means of Unheeded falls the useless old. salvation but as a weapon of battle against our gracious government. So grew his truth from year to year, Evolved a grander self in thought, We respect the virtues of primitive Finding the new released the old, socialism ; we condemn the principles And for still higher regions sought, of anarchy. Modern socialism has Until his e'er aspiring life With God's own presence was inwrought. less of good than of evil. What are the remedies for this evil ? Restriction of immigration, co-operation, educa- SHAKESPEARE'S "TEMPEST." tion, patriotism, and Christianity. Prop- BY A. L. S., 'Hit. erly restrict immigration, and the tur- f^W/IIE TEMPEST" is one of the bulent Hood of atheism and discontent, H latest as well as one of the best that swells the ranks of socialism, will of Shakespeare's plays. Malonc fixes recoil on its natal shores. Institute the date of its composition at Kill just co-operation between employer A.I)., but this is not to be regarded and employed, and the conflict of labor as strictly authentic. The play de- and capital will vanish in the peace of rives its peculiar merits from the di- a common interest. Teach the genera- rectness and variety of its characters, tions the principles of government and which exhibit almost every emotion and they will uphold the dignity of the impulse that stirs men to action. There State. Preach the gospel in its sim- is displayed at once the folly ami con- plicity, not as the instrument of a for- temptibility of the weak; the mon- eign despotism, and the heart even of strousness of the purely animal; the a Socialist will hail the good tidings. successes and failures of worldly wis- Assert, everywhere, the patriotism of dom ; the strength and weaknesses of no THE BATES STUDENT. the intellectual faculty, and the subtle The boatswain, a minor character in and charming powers of imagination. the play, exemplifies a class of people Moreover, this is not obscurely ac- wholly occupied and satisfied with their complished, as by presenting the same sphere in life. In this he somewhat individual in several lights and leaving resembles Gonzalo, Sebastian, and An- the general results of uncertain origin, tonio. He is different in that he is a but by pursuing a simple plot and by genius in his own little world, and, nar- embodying each character with a be- row though that be, he regards with a fitting individuality. sort of contempt, or at least noncha- Trinculo and Stephano are typical lance, any dignitary of another calling, of a considerable class of men who though it be a higher and broader one are shallow, careless, and hopelessly— than his own. As he replies to Gonzalo, sometimes despicably — commonplace. "there is no one on board for whom he They are not only extraordinarily ani- cares more than for himself." mal and passionate like Caliban, but In Alonzo, King of Naples, Shakes- they arc vulgar. There- can never be peare exhibits a keen appreciation of the any excuse for vulgarity. character and motives of most kings of Caliban seems hideous, yet there that time. Though a man that would is a sort of sublimity in his char- stoop to any plot to further state in- acter. He is bold, self-conscious, and terests, he was very willing to be for- self-controlled. He is passionate, given when the "tables were turned," not because he is weak as were Trin- and he saw greater advantages in pos- culo and Stephano, but because to him sessing the friendship of his former passion is the legitimate expression of enemy. He was a thorough-going his character; the embodiment of his policy man. ideal. Shakespeare " turns the tables " very Gonzalo, Sebastian, and Antonio are naturally and gracefully by introducing men of the world. Their interests are the marriage of Ferdinand and Mi- centered in the affairs around them. randa. Ferdinand is an honest, chival- They refuse to consider the hereafter rous, impulsive youth, such as, 1 imag- as seriously affected by their present ine, we may often meet. business. This speech of Gonzalo is Prospero very truly exhibits the characteristic: "Let the wills above strength and the foibles of the intel- be done, hut I would fain die a dry lectual man. As we should expect death." from analogy to life, Prospero is the Antonio is maliciously wicked. Sa- ruling character of the play. Though bastian is criminally weak. Both arc by his seclusion he loses his power in wholly selfish. Both ultimately come society, yet by that very seclusion and to grief. Gonzalo is the honest, candid, devotion to study he is enabled to gain benevolent counselor. His motto is a secret strength that restores to him a " be helpful." He lias a keen sym- controlling influence. pathy for human Buffering. He reaps Prospero and Miranda eacli show his reward. the influence of Nature's teachings and THE BATES STUDENT. Ill the sweet ministrations of solitude. creations of this facidty is certainly Each, however, is affected in a manner something very remarkable. peculiar to the individual. To Prospero Ariel is the personification of the solitude with nature is opportunity for human faculty of a'sthctic perception meditation and instruction in the hidden and creation. So accurate is this anal- mysteries of life. To Miranda it is ogy that the whole story of Ariel a freedom from the debasing influences may he regarded as a sort of allegory. of court society ; an opportunity for We might include also the characters normal growth; an inspiration to of Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban. purity, gracefulness, and frankness of Miranda, the central figure, would character. typify the developing mental powers Miranda is often called an ideal as a whole ; Prospero, the guiding, re- woman ; hut not justly so. She is straining, controlling power of reason; pure, loving, perhaps perfect so far as Caliban, the necessary and somewhat she is portrayed to us, hut Shakespeare ignoble services of animal passion ; and does not present her at the age and in " dainty Ariel," the exhilarating, fas- the circumstances necessary to reveal cinating, ennobling influences of poetic the full power and charms of complete conceptions. The very details of and symmetrical womanhood. Ariel's existence are matters of uni- Indeed, I have never found among versal experience. Shakespeare's writings anything like an Who has not at some time felt his adequate presentation of the dignity, imagination to be of supernatural ori- individuality, and superior worth of gin? Who has not been conscious of woman's character. the enslaving influence of the animal As far as I can judge, womanhood is instincts over his finer nature, impris- much more completely and successfully oning it as it were, " in the heart of portrayed in the little volumes of the pine?" Merideth's "Lucile" and Tennyson's T quote advisedly the expression " in "Idylls of the King " than in all of the heart of the pine" because it is Shakespeare's plays taken together, a most often through the beauties of circumstance doubtless due to the hu- nature, " the murmuring pines and the miliating position of woman in the hemlocks," that the intellect (Prospero) social and private life of Shakespeare's is enabled to recall the imagination day. from servitude to animal passion. Af- Sweet, airy Ariel is certainly one terward when it is released it "comes of the finest and most exquisite to answer thy best pleasure ; be't to products of Shakespeare's ingenious swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on imagination. It must have heen the the curled cloud." offspring of his delight in the delicate Ariel's demand, " my freedom," is workings of his own imaginative fac- what every one feels at times when ulty. The fine perception in grasping the soul, awakening into fuller life, just the sentiments that are universal seems to soar to other worlds, and 112 THE BATES STUDENT.

lookiugyet further to the heights beyond, FAILURE: ITS CAUSES. cries, " O loose these mortal chains." By F. J. I)., '89. Ariel's lack of human sympathy is THE subject of failure is not a cheer- also true of the {esthetic faculty, for ful one to speak upon. It docs some of the finest conceptions of art not in any sense look over the beauti- take their inspiration from intense ful, radiant, and perfect side of life ; k human suffering, as ' The Dying Glad- but, on the contrary, it gives one a sort iator," » Laocoon," " The Prisoner of of post-mortem view of humanity. Nev- Chillon." ertheless it is a most interesting subject Finally, as a whole, the drama is to study into, and a most difficult one hold and general rather than minute or to understand. It is interesting be- specific. It is like an outline map of cause it deals with that noblest of God's the great currents of life. " Macbeth," creatures, man, of whom Shakespeare "Julius Caesar," and "The Merchant says: "How noble in reason, how of Venice " are details from the great infinite in faculty, in form and moving panorama of existence. "The Temp- how express and admirable, in action est" is a comprehensive view of the how like an angel, in apprehension how whole. It suffers a lack of intense like a god!" And yet these infinite human interest accordingly. capacities, this reason, this multifold faculty, this godlike power of appre- hension and action, all of these some- MAY-FLOWERS. times in the course of individual life By ERIC, '90. become so frost-bitten by accident, A southern slope of gray lirown grass, From which the northward-journeying sun pain, and disappointment, that they Has harely solved the blanket white. cease putting forth endeavor, and with- Along it. as I musing pass, draw into the recesses of the mind It seems the life nan never run To loose the bonds of nature's night. and heart, with a quiet and nerveless majesty like embalmed Pharaohs. An But scarcely is the thought, expressed, When close beneath my feet. I see investigation of a few of the reasons A star-group touched with morning's bloom. that occasion this ebb, this retrograde, The perfume rising from its breast this subsidence in human experience, Is the first incense given to me Of glad spring life from winter's tomb. cannot fail to interest. Failure is difficult to understand in So oft when life seems sad and dull, Like subtle odor will arise any broad and fundamental sense, be- A true word from a trusting soul, cause there are so many different types A promise heaven-sent, powerful, or varieties of it, and consequently so That all the wealth of truth we prize The hidden future shall unroll. many different causes for it. Now to search for a common bond or cause of ♦ ♦-♦ death in the victims of consumption, of The Cornell delegation to the sum- fever, of apoplexy, and of heart disease mer school at Northfield will number would be fruitless, because the microbe, fifty. so to speak, differs in each case. Each THE BATES STUDENT. 113 case constitutes a distinct genus in the flames did not touch his honor. itself. Now to search for a common Has he failed? A man embarks his cause of failure, an underlying princi- property in a ship, and one night in a ple that is constant and unvarying in storm it goes down, but his courage is all cases, from the pure Queen Cath- unaffected. Has he failed? A man erine, who hy kingly decree " wears has his throat cut from ear to ear, but a golden sorrow," down through all he was defending his trust. Has he grades to those who by false love or failed ? Thousands of men in the late low instinct's decree become the very civil struggle did their duty, when they dust and loam of society. To search knew the doing of it would in an instant for a constant similar principle of tear their bodies into unrecognizable failure that inheres and ministers alike masses. But does the concourse of to the downfall of a Napoleon, whose citizens through the nation, placing the great projects miscarry on account of evergreen circlet upon the soldiers' the veto of an allied Europe, to him of graves on the 30th of May, designate lower estate who is dispossessed of them as failures? Thousands of other the petty accumulations of plodding men, and women also, to-day in that industry, seems also fruitless, because other struggle for life and duty, while the microbe of failure, as it wore, differs their hands are keeping up an everlast- in each case. In one case the microbe ing fight for the bread of existence, is ambition, in another false love, in their heads and hearts are taking hold another low instincts, in another spec- of the great, good, and beautiful things ulation, in another envy, and in others of life with a sweet and enlarging in- Hood or fire. Each case of failure ap- terest. Are they failures? A young- pears to constitute a genus in itself. man stands forth so strong, so beauti- And therefore to discuss the causes of ful, so upright, that a whole family of failure it would seem necessary, in the hopes are centered in his manhood. absence of any common reason, to But sickness comes. His hopes are regard each particular case alone and truncated, his activity forever circum- by itself. Hut, however, this is not scribed to the couch, and uncomplain- necessarily so. For, just as it is always ing hope through a series of years keeps the law of gravitation that brings all him cheerful. lias he failed? A man things to the earth, whether it be a says, " I will build me a house," but golden sphere, a rotten apple, a brick, all through the years his heart was or a snow-flake, so there is a common so kind that to perceive need was to clement, a constant related cause that relieve it; and one day his hair is gray, brings all human beings to the earth of and where the walls should rise and the failure. And that this is true will be roof of his house should spread, there manifest when we examine closely the rises the trunk and spreads the branches true nature of failure. of a tree; and where the portico and Now precisely what is failure? A veranda of his house should be there man's house burns to the ground, but are shrubs and weeds ; and never in r

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this world will the corner-stone of his power held by popular favor, but the house be laid. But his heart is young, condition of the mind and heart, so de- and all the beatific visions of spring, of grees of failure do not run up and down summer cloud, of singing birds, and nil the thermometer of external acquisi- the beautiful I lungs in nature glow tions, but inhere in the state of the more appreciated as life advances, and mind and heart itself. In general I the internal radiance of loving and define failure as the process of the being loved are his. Has he failed? gradual diminution of the force ele- Oh, don't tell me that the loss of money ments,the gradual discouragement from is failure, for if the loss of it is then circumstances, until permanent dejec- the lack of it is, and if the lack of it is, tion sets in, followed by the final renun- then how many good, honest, enter- ciation of all effort to obtain those ex- prising people are failures. Hut this cellences and powers the heart agreed is contrary to all admission of God or upon in early life. man. Therefore neither the lack nor The first cause of failure I mention loss of money is failure. Failure is not is the fact that men have no settled loss of property, but loss of courage; policy with themselves. It is inevit- not lack of funds, but lack of heart able that a thinking, robust man should sympathy ; not industry on small pay, have conflicts in the region of his spir- but idleness. A $l,f)00 man working itual, intellectual, moral, and affcctional on $700 salary is not failing, but a natures. These conflicts must come $1,500 man loafing on a 82,000 pros- before there is anything rich, prized, pective, is failing. No man who works, and durable in manhood. Hut there who does his duty, whose life is one of eomes a time when the conquest of self steady, honest industry, can fail. must be made. There must be acquired The full-rigged and manned ship that and held in the soul some terra firma. is launched in the deep ocean, buffeted There must be settled belief in some- and beaten and sometimes driven upon thing. There must be an immutable the rocks, is the successful man. homestead in the soul, where the spir- The full-rigged and equipped ship, itual nature can say, " I have a right fidl of promise, that never is launched, to this. Upon its unyielding perma- but rots upon the dock, is the failure. nence I will rear my lofty and white The student who, when he graduates, architecture." There must be a home- is full of energy and capacity for hard stead in the soul, where the moral nature work, content only with the subjuga- can plant its solid masonry and rear its tion of his worst self and serious oppo- structures more grandly simple and sition, but who in a few years loses chaste than any Doric temple. There courage, until he is amply content to must be some settled principles the subjugate warm food and a feather- intellect accepts and believes without bed, is a failure. question or reservation; for without Now just as success is not accumu- this there can be no growth. Where lation of wealth, nor any position of this is not the case, where religious THE HATES STUDENT. 115 ideas, moral notions, and intellect- fessional life in which a man does little ual conceptions are constantly on the else but extend unresponsive solicita- wing, the poor mind, under this wind- tions to the world. He is like a suc- mill process, becomes confused, whirls cessful fisherman in everything but the around, but makes no advance. In fish. He has all the paraphernalia, all such evanescent mentality great ideas the tackle. He llings his well-baited and inspirations can find no trellises on hook into the stream, but the fish don't which to climb, no sun to ripen. With- bite. Perhaps some of you have sat in out a settled internal policy with him- a boat and fished several hours without self, a man cannot grow, he will fail. a bite. Perhaps you have been so un- Again, a fruitful source of failure is fortunate as to fish half a day without inadequate preparation. The law of catching anything, and then you began equivalents, that a man will get what to get glum, to boil internally. You he pays for, is operate in every code of felt implacable wrath against the boat, nature or man. To inform himself the pole, and all your surroundings, upon his topic, his case, his profession, and mentally consigned all the fish in to master the elements of his subject, the sea into all manner of disagreeable is an injunction laid upon life with as and warm situations. Well, think of a much authority and sanction as has any man fishing in a little office, not one statute law upon earth. lie who trios day, but months and years without to climb into the realm of useful hap- scarcely a nibble. Think of a man piness and honorable power by cheek, who expected to catch big fish catching jugglery, sleight-of-hand, and fraud, nothing at all, and yet fishing on, month the same is a thief and a robber; but after month. The courage that is re- not only that, he never gets in. Though quired to do that sort of a thing is a man have the strength of an ox and hardly appreciated. Under that pres- the spirit of a God, and lack an sure said RufusChoate," during the first understanding of the situation, there- two or three years of my professional fore is he a drawback and an injury. career, in seasons of despondency I In conscientious preparation there is a seriously debated throwing up my pro- compensation in the soul's belief in its fession and seeking some other method own efficacy. Without this belief there of support." It does not take half the is failure. nerve and courage to harpoon a whale Another essential element of failure that it takes to hold an unresponsive is the expecting of too rapid advance- fish line all day in a small pond. Those ment. The building up of professional initial years stand out in existence like or other business is necessarily slow a desert—a desert upon which is drank and gradual. Even undisputed ability the cup of despondency and doubt, but and worth must serve a long apprentice- also upon which is generated imperish- ship to obtain the acquaintance and able qualities of manhood. How many, confidence of the public. There are disengaging from the sweet and con- several years in the beginning of a pro- fluent companionship of preparatory 116 THE BATES STUDENT.

life, have entered upon that desert, and, well to be led by poetical sentiments expecting to cross too soon, have heen and fine emotions, but when they lead overpowered by the barren monotony, a man away from men as they really and the few voices and the few lamps are, and away from struggling, hard- that had lighted, cheered, and guided lined, every-day life as it really is, then seemed to be going out and growing are emotions and ideals a delusion and silent, until from the soul is wrung a snare. When a man has such a grand that bitter cry, "It is no use." By ideal of government that town affairs expecting too rapid advancement, am- look insignificant; when a man has bitious purposes, dreams fostered in such a conception of the absoluteness youth, self-pledges, and extravagant of duty that he absolutely neglects the but noble resolves have filled thousands trivialities nearest to him ; when a man of lives with as melancholy memorials has such an ideal conception of heroes as ever marked the desert track. and heroism that he cannot see it in the There have been many lonesome every-day life and the common people ; vigils in the past—vigils upon battle- and when a man has such tender sensi- ments and towers, midnight vigils in bilities and delicate yearnings that he lonely passes, where no light struck the is shocked and repelled by the great, eye save the penciled serenity of a star. gross needs of society, then it is time lint no vigil that has been kept between for him to come down a notch, for a Marathon and Gettysburg, between too delicate and impractical ideal is Delphi and the modern ehureh, ever rendering abortive the purpose of his required more pure courage and self- being. This is not the function of the faith than that initial, unhistoric, and ideal. But on the contrary, the many- perennial vigil kept in the first epoch colored, many-sided ideals that stretch of professional life. away ahead in perfect beauty, so far The last cause of failure I mention from weaning man from his surround- is the most difficult to understand and ings, cover the soul like a giant lens, more melancholy in its operation than through which the imperfections of life any other in the world. It is that seem more perfect, the unloveliness of failure caused by having a too delicate life more lovely, and the un heroic and ami impractical ideal. It sounds like trivial mankind more heroic, nobler, a paradox to say a man can fail by and ampler. going up too high. But a man can make a fool of himself just as well by FANCIES. climbing loo much as he can by creep- BY M. S. M., '91. ing too much. It is well that the mind In tilt; pools of tlio meadow, hero, The gay littlo frogs arc singing, should be stored with ideas of beauty, Like the piping of numberless fairy flutes, sublimity, harmony, and power. Hut Their elear shrill voices are ringing. it is absolutely necessary that those Where the violets soon will bloom ideals shall have a vital relation, a real Now a miniature lake is lying, connection with practical life. It is Born of the tears the snow-elves shed, When Winter, their king, lay dying. THE BATES STUDENT. 117 How my childish dreams oome buck, COMMUNICATION. As I gaze at the dimpling water; I seem but a fanciful child again As here, by its brink, I loiter. HOW REPORTERS LIVE. I could almost hope to see, T<> the Editors of the Student : Come out from the alder's shadow, The manner of living of a New The fairies I used to watch for long York newspaper reporter is like Hood's Hero In this charmed meadow. Sarsaparilla — "peculiar to itself." Ah, see! from the rushes there, It results from the general Bohemian Swift over the waters sliding, Bowed by a frolicsome nut-brown sprite, character of his existence, together A tiny shallop is gliding. with some remains of his early habits, It turns to avoid a Bnag, and a slight regard for the ordinary (A fallen twig from the willow) usages of society. It is usually on the And rides, with a proud triumphant air, 41 European plan," if anything so On the crest of each mimic billow. desultory can be said to have a plan. And now ho rests on his oars The reporter, generally in company A moment, this queer little sailor, To talk to a frog who has Been his craft with another of the same fraternity, And paused in his song to hail her. takes a furnished room, or bachelor A movement—hush! he is K°ne; apartments, where he makes his do- It was only a foolish vision; mestic headquarters, and where he Mill frolic fancy has captured me generally manages to sleep during And borne me to her Elysium. some part of the twenty-four hours. Where all the dream-folk wait, These apartments are usually between And all is beauty ami gladness; Here let me wander awhile Mlh and 20th Streets and 3d and (ith Forgetting the world and its Badness. Avenues, and are in most cases fitted For here can I feel again up comfortably, and sometimes ele- The joy of those sweet lost hours, gantly. But the small amount of time When I wandered careless as bird or bee that their occupants spend in them, pre- Through a world abloom with Mowers. vents their acquiring the Impress of So leave mo my foolish dreams, their inmates' tastes and habits that Ye, who in your brave endeavors To climb to some mountain height of life students' rooms commonly acquire. Have missed Heaven's sweeter favors. The rent ranges from six dollars to I, down in the meadow, here, twenty dollars a week, according as Can smile at your toilsome climbing; the reporter is satisfied with a single From the mountain top ye behold life's room on a cross street at some distance cloud, But never its silver lining. from Eifth Avenue, or goes into a suite -♦-♦-♦ in a more desirable locality. Edison has just presented to Sibley The conventional idea that day be- College a line dynamo having a ca- gins in the morning would hardly apply pacity of 480 lamps, and listed at to the newspaper man's day. If you $4,700. The Brush Electric Co. have should look in then you would find him contributed an improved motor of 10 and his chum sound asleep. Some- horse power, worth $000. where between nine and eleven a 118 THE HATES STUDENT.

wbite-aproned, meek-looking waiter, prices are considerably higher in the from some neighboring restaurant, upper part of the city than in the bus- mounts the stairs, carrying a covered iness portions. Dinner, of course, is tray. There is a tradition that he the chief meal of the day. Its char- knocks gently at the reporter's door acter varies much with the reporter's before entering, but no one ever yet taste and the state of his finances. heard him. The first indication of his Indeed, the question " Where are you presence is the clatter of dishes as he eating?" has come to be considered a sets the tray down. This arouses at test of a newspaper man's prosperity. least one of the sleepers, who turns Naturally reporters, like other New over, opens his eyes slowly, gazes at Yorkers, aspire to a dinner at Del- the waiter for a while, and finally asks monico's, and many of them dine there. in a sepulchral tone: "What's the If you know how to order, you can get bill? " The latter names a sum as far a good dinner there without going out- in advance of the actual price as he side a five dollar bill ; or if you have a dares; some change is fished out of friend with you and divide the course, a pocket and handed over, the appari- the cost is less. tion vanishes, and our friend goes There are many dining places that comfortably to sleep again. Inside the might be mentioned, where the food is next half hour he wakes once more, good and the prices are moderate ; but stares at the tray in apparent wonder, there is one that deserves especial no- and finally kicks his chum and remarks : tice. Almost every newspaper man in " Say, old man, wake up and cat your New York, at some stage of his career, breakfast. It'll get cold if you don't." has found himself obliged to eat there ; This wakes them up enough so that and, although he usually migrates one gets up and divides the contents as soon as possible, he generally keeps of the tray, while the other takes his a vivid remembrance of it ever after- share in bed. wards. It is a cellar restaurant under This meal in the forenoon is digni- the corner of Beck man Street and Park lied by the name of breakfast. Dinner Row, known as " Hitchcock's." It is may come anywhere between live in open day and night, Sundays included. the afternoon and one the next morn- The bill of fare consists almost wholly ing. If a meal intervenes between of what is known as " beef and beans, these two it is called lunch ; while a butter cakes, and coffee.'' Beef and meal after dinner is called by the reg- beans are ten cents ; other things five. ulation name of supper. There is a tradition among the reporters The character and cost of these who frequent the place, that the dishes meals varies greatly. Breakfast usu- are washed once a day and the waiters ally consists of a roll and a cup of change their aprons on the full of the coffee, chocolate, or milk, with perhaps moon. Hitchcock's cannot be called a an egg or omelet. This generally costs luxurious place; but the New York- from twenty-five to forty cents; but newspaper man who has never seen the THE BATES STUDENT. 119 peculiar swinging motion with which LOCALS. the waiters slope from one table to an- other, nor witnessed the reckless angle The sixth of May at which it is possible to carry a cnp Was Arbor Day. of coffee, and slide it along the marble Three holidays so far this term, and table, without spilling more than two- " more to follow." thirds of its contents, has lost some- Look for a picture of the new build- thing he can never replace. ing in our next number. The reporter's work may be done The Sophomore class hats are very be- somewhere between eleven o'clock at coming ; so are the ''J2's. night and three the next morning, the Mr. I. N. Cox has sold out the col- latter usually happening only when he lege bookstore to N. VV. Howard, '1)2. has to take his place at the copy desk. In that case he will probably send out W. F. Ham, '91, is rapidly improv- about one o'clock for another meal. ing and hopes to rejoin his class next Very likely it will consist of a good term. sized sandwich and a bottle of beer. Miss P. (reciting in Botany)—" A This ho will manage to swallow while style isn't always of any use. Some- "blue penciling" some unfortunate times there is no style at all." brother reporter's copy, which has A. N. Peaslee, 'DO, went to Phila- come in after the crush has begun. delphia as delegate to the International If he gets through by eleven or half- Convention of the Y. M. C. A. past he can spend a few hours in rec- II. .I. Piper and W. II. Woodman reation, and then have time for sulli- have been chosen captains of the two cient sleep before the next appearance divisions of the Junior class in Botany. of the apparition with the tray. But Day, ''JO, captain of the base-ball even in New York the available amuse- team, badly sprained his ankle while ments at this time of the night, though running bases about three weeks ago. not few, are limited in variety. It is Plummer, '91, has resigned his posi- needless to say that theatres, concerts, tion as superintendent of the hall and evening calls are not among ground, and Emerson, '81), has been them. appointed in his place. Such is a hasty view of the way reporters live. If there are any who The Sophomores go out to look for imagine that, by going into newspaper birds nearly every morning at o.<30. work, they can secure a life of elegant One member of the class has seen over ease, or who think, as did the writer, thirty species this term. that by undertaking it they will be kept The foundation of the new chemical more in the line of tin; literary work laboratory is now being laid, and other they wish to do, I can only say, take improvements arc going on in the way Punch's advice and "don't." of grading, etc. The building will be I). C. W., '85. ready for use next term. 120 THE BATES STUDENT.

Prof, in Botany—»What is the strated to the inhabitants that there name of tlie buds that sometimes come was such a place as Hates College. out on the roots of a tree when the The following members of '89 will trunk is injured ?" Student—"Ad- take part in the exercises of Class Venturous buds, aren't they?" Day : President, H. W. Small; Orator, One of the Professors, meeting a E. L. Stevens; Poet, A. L. $ afford ; graduate of '88, a few days ago, asked Parting Address, G. H. Libby ; His- him if he was going to take French this torian, Miss S.A.Norton; Prophet, term. The Professor had evidently F. W. Newell; Odist, A. E. Hatch. mistaken him for a truant Soph. The following are the members of On the evening of Friday, April 12th, the base-ball nine : Call, '8!), c. ; Wil- occurred the President's annual recep- son, '92, p. ; Gilmore, '91, lb. ; Dag- tion to the Freshman class. The young gett, '89, 2b. ; Day, '90, s.s. ; Graves, ladies of the other classes were also '92, 3b. ; Knox, '89, c. f. ; Emery, '92, invited, and all passed a very enjoy- r. f.; Putnam, '92, 1. f. ; Cox, '89, able evening. manager; Day, captain; Daggctt, The Union, the literary society of change pitcher; Gareelon, '90, scorer. Nichols Latin School, held a public A slight departure has been made in meeting in Nichols Hull, Friday even- the curriculum by having the Sopho- ing, April 19th. The exercises were more class begin German and the well attended, and some of the parts Freshman class French this term in- showed considerable ability. stead of next, as is usually done. We were all glad that Washington Though they take these studies but was made President of the United once a week, they will gain a good start States just one hundred years ago, for in the languages and can do better April :50th was a holiday. The Polym- work next year. nian Society had an inauguration The class of '90 enjoyed a very pleas- meeting on the following Friday even- ant evening, April 29th. The occasion ing. was an expression of gratitude to their The two games of ball between the Vermont classmate for the maple sugar Hates and the Lewistons, April 20th they have received from him every and 25th, were each witnessed by a spring term. The serving of refresh- large crowd of spectators. The first ments and the singing of a poem writ- game was won by Hates with a score of ten for the occasion, were followed by nine to five; the second by the Lewis- responses to the toast from several tons, ten to nine. members of the class. The evening The Juniors celebrated Arbor Day was a scene of enjoyment to every one afternoon by a class ride to Durham. present. The frequent shouts of "Hoom-a-lak-a" At the annual election of ollicers of and the orange and banana skins left the College Y. M. C. A., Wednesday to dry on the trees, sufficiently demon- evening, May 1st, the following officers 77/74' BATES STUDKNT. 121 were chosen : President, A. N. Peas- High Kick. Day, Garcelon, Emery, and Turgeon. lee; Vice-President, Niokerson, '!)1 ; Club Swinging by Note. F. 15. Nelson, Recording Secretary ; F. Young Women's Class. K. Em rich, Corresponding Secretary ; MUSIC. Horizontal Bar. H. E. Walter, Treasurer. The associ- Pinkham, Turgeon, Frenoh, and Dodge. ation is at present in a very flourishing Fancy Club Swinging. Garcelon. Balancing. Dodge. condition, having a membership of MUSIC. sixty. Joint meetings of the Y. M., Long Wand Drill. and Y. W. C. A. have been held Wed- Pinkham, Hutchinson, Wheeler, Plummer, Buzzell, Smith, Wilson, Blanohard, French, nesday evenings throughout the year. Davis, Walter, Cutts, Peaslee, Garcelon, Wednesday, April 21th, from eight Skelton, Libby. o'clock P.M., to April 25th, was passed Fencing—Foils. by the Sophomores in the upper regions Miss Prescott and Miss Knowlton. High Jump. of Ilathorn Hall. They were having a Garcelon, Neal, Garland, Emery, Walter, class party and a general good time. and Turgeon. "Calculus," "Chums," "TheCymna- MUSIC—BAND. sinm," " Peanuts," and "The Tie that Fencing—Sabres. Plummet and Dodge. Pole Vaulting. Binds," were toasted to just the right Garcelon, Garland, McFaddcn, and Wilson. brown by Mr. Watson, toast-master. Sparring. Wheeler and Sanborn, Other festivities were engaged in, and Parallels. SaiTord, Garcelon, French, Wilson, Tur- they broke up just in time to wish each geon, and Dodge. other a "Happy Fast Day." Sparring. Knight and Dodge. Wednesday evening, April 21th, was Tumbling, etc. Garcelon, Day, French, Pinkham, Emery, passed very pleasantly by the Freshmen and Wilson. at the house of their classmate, It. A. Pyramids. Small. The young ladies of Mrs. Small's SaiTord, Garcelon, Day, Davis, Pinkham, Emery, Pluminer, Wilson, Turgeon, and Sunday-school class were also invited. French. Miss Meserve's "Village Preacher," MUSIC. Under the direction of Mr. Albert E. Moore Mr. Buzzell's "Owl," and Mr. Wal- the following pieces of statuary were repre- ter's "Darkies," amused and enter- sented: tained all. Before the guests departed, Sophocles. Apollo Belvedere- their appreciation of the pleasant even- Minerva. ing was tendered Mrs. Small in a very Discoblus. graceful speech by Mr. Wilson, Class Fighting Gladiator. Dying Gladiator. e sident, and as gracefully replied to Theseus and Minotaur. by Mrs. Small. Group from the Temple of Minerva, .Egina. Following is the programme of the Messrs. Dolt, Eveleth, Stevens, Davis, ttich- ardson, Rounds. athletic exhibition, given by the college YOUNG WOMEN'S CLASS IN CLUB SWINGING. in City Hall, April 27th: '89—E. I. Chipman, M. S. Little. MUSIC—1SATKS COLLEGE BAND. 'i)0—M. F. Angell, Blanche Howe, J. L Fencing—Gun and Sabre. Pratt, E. F. Snow, Dora Jordan, Pluminer and Dodge. 'ill—A. A. IJeal, Kate Prescott. 122 THE BATES STUDENT.

'<>2— J. P. King, S. E. Wells, Grace Knowl- Gall.c 4 1 1 0 i; t ton. Gilmore, lb., .... I o 0 1 o 0 Instructor in Gymnastics—P. H. Dodge. Enoz, c.f 4 o 0 0 2 0 The Lewiston Journal says of tlic ex- Garcelon, s.s. 4 2 •> 0 1 1 1 0 hibition : " It was :i splendid one," and Emery, r.f 4 0 0 0 of Instructor Dodge, it says: "lie Totals 37 5 7 2 27 15 18 worked hard to bring about the event, 150WDOINS. A.II. It. It.II. B.B. I'.o. A. and the performance showed that he Packard, 8b., . . . . 6 4 1 1 1 1 fully understands athletes and is a Freeman, 2b 4 3 2 0 9 1 2 good training-master." Fogg,c.f 7 3 0 0 Thompson, r.f., ... 5 .'! 2 1 0 Hates and Colby played their first Pish, c 7 2 4 0 1 league game on the college grounds at Jordan, s.s 7 2 2 1 1 Newman, l.f., ....(> 2 0 0 Lewiston, May 1th. The following is 1 Hilton, p (I 1 1 0 111 0 the score : Downs, lb. 4 0 0 10 0 0

GOLBYS. Totals 52 21 l(i 3 »26 17 5 A.II. R. B.H. T.ll. P.O. A. B. ♦Emery hit by baited ball. Wagg, 3 b 5 :; 2 2 Gilmorc, 11) 5 4 11 0 0 Innings, ....123456789 Huberts, c.f 5 4 1 1 0 Bates 4 5 0 118 0 1 1—21 Foster, c <> 3 (i 7 2 Bowdoins, ....00 1008 100—6 Kallook, r.f (> l 4 0 II Time— 2 h. 30 in. Umpire—G. W. Richards. Smith, 2b 4 o 0 1 •> ♦ ♦♦ Blegquire, s.s 5 0 0 0 1 1 Merrill, 1.1 (i 0 0 0 0 1 PERSONALS. Totals 47 l'.i 13 1!) 27 21 i 8 ALUMNI. BATES. A.II. H. II.II. IMS. P.O. A. B. '07.—Rev. II. F. Wood lias accepted Graves, ■">!) 4 1 2 1 0 ] Wilson, 2b., p. ... 5 1 1 1 11 a call to the church in Bath, Me. Putnam, l.f 5 0 0 1 0 '07.—Rev. Arthur Given, formerly Daggett, p., 2b. ... 5 0 0 ;$ '.) principal of Niehols Latin .School, has o Gail, c 5 1 ■j 5 been elected representative to the Rhode Gilinorc, lb 4 2 2 12 0 Enoz, c.f 4 2 1 0 0 Island Legislature from Cranston. Little, r.f 2 1 0 0 1 '72.—George II. Stockbridge, Esq., Emery, s.s 4 0 1 0 of New York City, Electrical Expert Totals, 38 8 !> 11 27 27 i:s and General Patent Solicitor, is one of Innings 1 2 .'t 4 5 6 7 8 '.I the editors and proprietors of the new Golbys 5 0 0 5 2 0 2 4 1 -1!) Hates 1 :S 0 1 0 ;( 0 0 0—8 technical magazine, '"Electric Power," Time—2 It. 15 m. Umpire-—Richards. which is devoted to the interests of the Hates and Bowdoins at Brunswick, electric railway ami the transmission May 11th. The score : of power by electricity for industrial BATES. purposes. It is an able magazine, A.it. n. II.II. s.B. P.O. A. 10. beautifully illustrated, and although Graves, 3b., 4 0 0 1 0 1 2 technical in character contains much to Wilson, 2b., p., ... 5 0 2 0 1 5 o Putnam, l.f., 4 1 1 0 4 0 1 interest any intelligent reader. Daggett, p., 2b 4 l 1 0 :t 6 4 '72.—John A.Jones, the well-known THE BATES STUDENT. 123

Lewiston civil engineer, has lately com- '89.—A. R. Call has returned from pleted for the city of Auburn a series his school at China, Me. of splendid maps of the sewer system, '90.—Miss M. V. Wood has finished the streets, lots, buildings, and all the her school in Dover and returned to features of the city proper. Mr. Jones her college work. has done similar work for Lewiston, '91.—G. K. Small is teacher of Rhet- and is unquestionably better informed oric and Elocution in the Nichols on the underground wealth of these Latin School. two cities than any one else. »91,—Miss Bray is assistant teacher in the South Paris High School. '81.—Rev. B. S. Hideout has been —♦♦-♦- made a member of the Hoard of Visi- tors of the Rangor Theological Sem- EXCHANGES. inary. Mr. Hideout recently lectured To no poet of America does the to the young men in the Congregational national heart warm more sincerely than church at South Paris. to him who knit together North and '.SI.—Rev. II. E. Foss has been ap- South by his songs of (ire and of love. pointed by the last conference to the "Whitticr's Voices of Freedom," in church in Ilallowell. the Pennsylvania Cnllcf/e Monthly, '81.—C. S. Haskell has been ap- shows that his work is earnestly ap- pointed a Trustee of the Free Public preciated beyond New England. The Library of Jersey City, N. J. article shows a keen realization of the '85.—R. E. Attwood has resigned strength and simplicity of his nature. his position as Treasurer of the Lew- The influence which the " Voices of Free- dom " have had, so great that it lias made him iston and Auburn Horse Railroad, and the laureates of anti-slavery, is in a great meas- accepted a position in the National ure due to the simplicity of his piety. Though Shoe and Leather Rank of Auburn. a man fond of metaphysical studies, he never allowed philosophy to enter into his religion. '85.—W. R. Small, M.D., has been The " Over Soul " of Longfellow and Emerson appointed Senior Surgeon in the Hos- hecame with him the " Over Heart." pital at Randall's Island. The progressional character of his '80.—Sherman G. Ronney, who is to work, fitting itself to the varying needs graduate from the Harvard Medical of the hour, is well summed up. CD School next June, has decided to settle It is useless to attempt any classification of these poems except in their chronological in Lewiston, and has leased one of the order. Some are hymns, some are narratives, tenements in the new Neal Block on some denunciations of evil-doers. Called forth Main Street. Mr. Ronney was In- by individual and distinct events, they bear no logical relation to each other, except as the structor in Chemistry at Rates last fall. tone of each is influenced by the progress of STUDENTS. the cause of anti-slavery. In the early ones we see clearly an effort to create a sentiment '89.—F. M. Ruker has been obliged against slavery. Abolitionist was then the to close his school at Lisbon Falls for name of a small society of "fanatics" with a few weeks on account of scarlet popular opinion either set directly against them or indifferent to the moral and the phil. fever among the scholars. anthropio aspect of the question. The national 124 THE BATES STUDENT. pride was to be awakened, the fire of enthu- tion in the field of college journalism. siasm to bo kindled. Tlio evil is tberefore There are a good number of depart- portrayed in its darkest colors. Soon the "people" with its keen sense of right took up ments and all well conducted. The the cause and undertook tins struggle for its editorial column especially shows the sake. Then all the poet's labors were devoted results of faithful work. The poem to the obtaining of victory in the fight. The tone changed to that of a battle loader, and as "Achilles and Briseis" contains some time brought forth a Lincoln and a Sunnier good thoughts clothed in careful Ian- and the armies of the land to take up the con- guagc, but the meter at once brings test, and still later when victory was assured, each now advance added new confidence to the reader to American forests and his words, until his whole soul burst, into the streams, so completely has Longfellow triumphal chant of " Laus Deo." made it his own peculiar properly in More especially is lie described in the "Hong of Hiawatha." The author the closing sentence of the essay : is also guilty of gross anachronism in Whittier is essentially the poet of the heart picturing the Greeks with sabers in —the simple, purely American heart, the poet their hands. Thus the poem fails to of "Snow Bound" roused to the moral indig- nation of a righteous mind, become the poet present a distinct event, for names, of Freedom. meter, and weapons produce a con- The same number contains a fine fused medley of Trojan siege, of mod- poem, "Katathumion " ; but its length ern warfare, and of primeval American forbids copying in full. Here are a forest. few stanzas from it: Among many good qualities, the best Though man be judged by mortal deeds of which is strong thought, there are Are not bis thoughts real actions' seeds? in the Kentucky University Tablet two Shall man be judged by overt .act When thought is pure, intent exact, conspicuous faults. The first is care- And naught from hope can e'er detract less wording and arrangement of sen- Save some sad deed by allurement's power tences. The same word is used many Wrought out in one unguarded hour? times in the same paragraph, even in the oration on "The New South," For he who ne'er hath deeply felt, Whose heart in grief can never melt, which won the State intercollegiate Hath truly never deeply thought; prize for Kentucky. The other is the Nor him bath nature wisely taught frequent occurrence of typographical That life's true end is better sought errors, showing hasty proof-reading. By union of emotion pure With thought which shall fore'er endure. The Sunbeam is the best exchange we receive, conducted wholly by ladies. Man cannot scale sublimity It is distinctively a ladies' paper both Nor comprehend infinity. in name and nature, and it is a relief Then why not let our faith attend to find one that is, when so many are To things which finite thought transcend, And make our thought with pure faith blend ? trying to make their publications mas- Thus mortal man can bridge the chasm culine. It is a healthful indication to Which Unite thought can never fathom. see some preserving the fundamental The first number of the Buchtelile differences between man and woman gives promise of being a good addi- without claiming superiority for either.

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BOOK NOTICES. but only an organ of thought. It is not to be driven into him but only out of TIIK STORY OF THE PURITANS. By Wallace him, through the urgent consciousness Peck. [Charles T. Walter, St. Jolmsbury, that something must be said." The Vt.]. author urges throughout a plain, nat- The author tells us an old story in ti wholly new way. A fine vein of hu- ural method of teaching. Simple facts mor runs throughout the story. The should precede abstractions. Valuable author rasps off the rough edge from suggestions of the plan and method of the laws of our Puritan Fathers by teaching are given throughout. telling us witty and laughable stories THE IDEALS OF THE REPUBLIC, OR GREAT about them. In his original way he WORDS FROM GREAT AMERICANS. G. P. shows how they solved their problems Putnam's Sons, New York and London. of life,—to fight the eold, the Indians, This little volume contains the Dec- the Dutch, the Quakers, the witches, laration of Independence, Constitution and the devil. Notwithstanding the of the United States, Washington's humorous character of the book, as two inaugural and farewell addresses, Mark Twain says of his " Roughing Lincoln's two inaugural addresses and It," in spite of himself facts will crop his address at Gettysburg. Wash- out. We can give no better idea ington's farewell address is given as than by quoting from the preface: found in the original manuscript. This "While compiling this book the is accompanied by many valuable notes writer has had in mind the words of and suggestions. The whole book pre- Macaulay : « There is a vile phrase of scnts a neat and attractive appearance. which bad historians are very fond,— Everything considered, it is the best of 'The dignity of history."' If any the kind we have ever seen. dignity lias crept into this history it ♦ ♦♦ has sneaked into it unbeknown, and COLLEGE NOTES. will be eliminated in the succeeding editions. The book is amply illustrated Oxford University has appliances throughout. Full-page illustrations by for printing in one hundred and fifty E. W. Kemble. Vignettes by (). Her- languages. ford. The young ladies at Bryn Mawr have formed a cricket club. PHYSIOLOGICAL NOTES ON PRIMARY EDU- Hon. Benjamin F. Butler will deliver CATION AND STUDY OF LANGUAGE. By Mary Putnam Jacolti, M.I). G. P. Put- the oration at Colby next June. nam's Sons, New York and London. One of Amherst's professors uses This is a book that deserves careful no chair in the class-room. We sup- study by every teacher. The author pose he sits on the class. deals with the subject of education in University of Virginia students are a decisive and logical manner. To the allowed to bring their dogs into the child the author says: "Language class-room, but the professors draw should not be an object of thought, the line on " horses." 120 THE liATES STUDENT.

The Indies of Harvard Annex have race was won by Cambridge, April 20th. challenged the Columbia Co-eds to an by two lengths. The course was from eight-oared race. Putney to Northlake, a distance of four The University of Pennsylvania is miles and two furlongs. The Oxford to have the largest dormitory in the, crew became confused and steered badly. United States. It will cost $12f>,000. They made a final spurt, but failed to The Yale News denies the report reach the Cambridge boat. This is the circulated by the New Haven papers, fourth successive victory for Cam- that the university is to have a chair of bridge. The score is now—Oxford protection. twenty-three races ; Cambridge twenty-' Ex-Minister Phelps has accepted the two. The one rowed in '77 was a dead presidency of Columbia. His salary heat. will be greater than any other college ♦ ♦-♦ president in America. POET'S CORNER. Realizing the disadvantages of so- SHEPHERD JJOY'S SONG. ciety strife, the students at Williams My gentle shepherdess, arc endeavoring to raise by subscription Coino forth upon the hill, two hundred thousand dollars to build And tend the Hoeey flock a general chapter house. That follows at your will. My thoughts are like the sheep, Theodore 15. Wannamaker has given For they can do no less one million dollars to Princeton, the Than go where'er you lead, income to be given annually as a prize My pretty shepherdess. —Swarthmorc Phoenix. to the student performing the best work in English history and language. COUPLET. Colby is to have a new observatory Last night a star and physical laboratory to cost about From regions far Beyond the gates of heaven, $15,000. It is the gift of Colonel R. C. Dropped from its place, Shannon, of New York, an alumnus Down, down through space- of the college, and member of the To earth a soul was given. class of '02. To-night a light Several of the Harvard professors Hath spread full bright lock the doors of their lecture rooms Far out o'er heaven's dome, And through its heains live minutes after the recitation hour A swift Hash gleams— in order not to be interrupted by tardy Another soul gone home. —Tech. students. A prize of $100 has been offered for SONNET. the best written article on student life The rich cathedral is ablaze with light; Splendor alone might seem to win a soul, in the University of Michigan ; the Where harmonies forever onward roll, article to be written by a lady either And glory lingers in the arms of night. connected with the university or an Yet what avail its grandeur and its might, While chill magnificence invests the whole, alumna. And echoes, never dying, cheat their goal The great English University boat And till my tainting heart with nameless fright. THE BATES STUDENT. 127

Oh, better far tor me tlic modest church, Crashing and roaring in sonorous war Where lovo, for God outweighs the lovo of With wild chaotic grandeur filled the sky. show, BelOW, the sea to swollen fury lashed Where humble, honest folks each Sabbath By madly whirling, rushing tempest-winds, search Was heaped and tossed in billows mountain- Their hearts and, reverent, bowing low, high. Confess their sins with penitence and tears, Pond'ronsly rolling, leaped and fell and And seek forgiveness through the flying years. seethed —Dartmouth. The mighty surges, striving in mad race To win the shore. The rock whereon I stood Did shake and tremble "neath the watery PORTFOLIO. shocks, The brook flows sparkling through the wood, While foamed and hissed, aye thundered then With many a dancing shadow. the surf. From violets blue and violets white, The lightning, ensign of the duelling clouds, It snatches kisses in its Might, Anon shed over the majestic scene Then glides in calmer, gentler mood An instant, livid glares. And in that deep, Demurely through the meadow. Expectant hush which falls betwixt the Hash It flirts with nodding grasses green. Of lightning and the pealing thunder-clap It woos the tall marsh mallow, Rose in my awed and wond'ring soul the And half in love, and half in fun, thought— It wins the heart Of every one, An echo of the symphony sublime. And, laughing then at what it's done, Of clouds and winds and waters— God it great. Hastes off to seek another scene. — Williams Lit. A pretty thing but shallow. —Yah Lit.

THE TRYST. POT-POURRI. A pool, deep-wooded, in a quiet vale, Upturns its face to meet the kiss China and Japan arc buying dried Of drooping boughs, with fond caress, apple from Maine. Thus does Amer- Lots fall the secret of the place—a tale Of purest love made known alone to me. ican industry help to swell the popula- No motion moves the unknown deep, tion of the Orient.—Boicdoin Orient. But calm, serene, as half asleep, This love of mine, with subtle charm, holds me. Professor in Logic (to Sophomore, reciting)—"You don't seem quite clear The tryst is broken; but as to requite, upon that point." Soph.—" Well, that My soul for cares which lingers still, is what the author says, any way." The r/enus loci, with aroma fills My memory, and gives me for my might Prof.—" But I don't want the author ; A legend, simple, old, yet ever new, I want you." Student (glumly) — Which tells mo "Faith is good and Lovo is "Well, I guess you've got me."—Ex. true." —Hamilton Lit. A Sophomore, stuffing for examina- STORM VOICES. tion, has developed the ethics of Sun- Upon a rugged crag whoso jutting peak day work in a way to render the future Tower'd grim above a lonely rockbound coast, elucidation of the subject unnecessary. Alone I stood. Above, around, below, My reverent eyes with solemn awe enthralled lie reasons that if a man is justified in Encountered awful sights which craven souls trying to help the ass from the pit on With dread and miserable fear would fill. the Sabbath day, much more would the Above, the clouds in angry masses piled, Black hosts of misty monsters fierce and ass be justified in trying to get out strong, himself. 128 THE BATES STUDENT.

Class in Butler's Analogy. Prof.— Prof, in History—"Who was the— "Please pass on now to the 'Future king in Shakespeare?" Sophomore State.'" Student—"Not prepared, (blushing)—" I don't know." Prof.— sir." Prof.—"Well, I would advise "Well, it always throws a Sophomore you to prepare yourself before the final class into confusion to ask anything examination."—Ex. concerning the Bible or Shakespeare." A newly appointed crier in a county Student collapses. court in Australia, where there are CLASSICAL CRITICISM. many Chinese, was ordered by the •21 Ii.C. judge to summon a witness to the Old Horace, on a summer afternoon, stand. "Call for Ah Song," was the Well primed with sweet Falernian, let us say, command. Pat was puzzled for a mo- Lulled by the far-off brooklet's drowsy croon ment ; he glanced shyly at the judge, To a half-doze, in a hap-hazard way and found him as grave as an under- Scratched off a half a dozen careless rhymes, As was his habit. When next day Ins came taker. Then turning to the spectators Awake to work, he read them several times he blandly simpered: "Gintlemin, In vain attempt to catch their sense and aim. would any of you favor His Honor " What was I thinking about? Blest if I with a song?"—Earlhamile. know! Jupiter! What's the difference? Lot them Tins funny Fresh shinned up the tree, go! " All for to hang an effigy, 1888 A.D. That would the Soph'mores vex. The funny Fresh slid down the tree; " Lines twelve to twenty arc in great dispute " His eyes stuck out a rod when lie (Most learnedly the lecturer doth speak); Discovered himself thereat to he " I think I shall ho able to refute Confronted by the—President. Orelli's claim they're taken from the Greek. —Pulse. I think, with Bently, Horaco's purpose here A certain Professor's text-book was Is irony, and yet I do not know But Dillenburger's reading is more clear, found on the campus not long since, For which ho gives eight arguments, al- and on the margin the following note though appeared s "Use joke No. 7 in con- Wilkins gives twelve objections to the same." (So on ad Inflnltum.) Such is fame! nection with this paragraph. —Fortnif/htly. TIT FOR TAT. A small ragged boy entered an oyster He timidly climbed up the brown stone steps, Ho timidly rang the bell; house in Salem, Mass., and asked: He felt that this visit might be his last, "Will you sell me an oyster for a Hut why so he could not tell. cent? I want it for my sick mother." As he stood at the door the winter wind "What is the matter with your mother?" Whirled in (he streets about, asked the man, as he proceeded to fill a But above its roaring IK; heard her say, "John, tell him that I am out," can with oysters, thinking he would help to relieve a case of suffering. As the door was opened, with stately mien, He said to the butler tall, " She's got a black eye," was the reply. " Pray, go to Miss Jones with my compli- The benevolence rapidly faded from ments, the mind of the oyster man, as he put And tell her I did not call." — Williams Weekly. one oyster in a paper bag. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. BATES COLLEGE.

FACULTY' OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT. Kiev. OREN B. CHENEY, D.D., THOMAS L. ANGELL, A.M., President. Professor of Modern Languages. REV. JOHN FULLONTON, D.D., REV. JAMES ALBERT HOWE, D.D., Prof, of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology. Professor of Systematic Theolopy and llomiletics. .JONATHAN Y. STANTON, A.M., GEORGE C. CHASE, A.M., Professor of Greek and Latin Languages. Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature. REV. BENJAMIN P. HAYES, D.D., THOMAS HILL RICH, A.M., Professor of Psychology and Exegetical Theology. Professor of Hebrew. RICHARD C. STANLEY, A.M., JOHN II. RAND, A.M., Professor of (Chemistry and Geology. Professor of Mathematics.

RKV. THOMAS HILL, D.D., EDWARD R. CHADWICK, Lecturer on Ethics. Instructor of English Literature and Elocution.

OLASSWA L DEPARTMENT. TERMS OF ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined as follows: — LATIN : In nine liooks of Virgil's .Eneid; six orations of Oicero; the Catiline of Sallnst; twenty exercises of Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, anil in Harkuess' Latin (Irammar. GREKK : In three books of Xennphou's Anabasis; two books of Homer's Iliad, and in Hadle.v's Greek (Irammar. MATHEMATICS: In Loomis' or GreetileaPs Arithmetic, in Went- worth's Elements of Algebra, and Plane (leometry or Equivalents. ENOLISH : In Mitchell's Ancient Geography, and in Worcester's Ancient History. All candidates for advanced standing will be examined in the preparatory studies, and also in those previously pursued by the class they propose to enter, or in other studies equivalent to them. Certificates of regular dismission will l>e required from those who have been memliers of other Colleges. The regular examinations for admission to College take place on the second Saturday before Commencement, on Tuesday preceding Commencement, ami on Saturday ((receding the first day of the Fall Term.

COURSE OF STUDY. The regular Course of Instruction is that commended by the leading Colleges of the country as eminently adapted to secnri' liberal culture and ;i sound classical education.

EXPENSES. The annual expenses for board, tuition, room rent, and incidentals are $180. Pecuniary assistance, from the income of thirteen scholarships and various other benefactions, is rendered to those who are unable to meet their excuses otherwise. Students contemplating the Christian ministry receive assistance every year of the course.

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL. This is a department in the College, established by vote of the corporation .1 uh ._! 1, 1870. It occupies Nichols Hall, situ- ated about a quarter of a mile from the College buildings, and is in charge of a sjiecial Faculty appointed by the College corporation. Candidates for admission are required to furnish testimonials of good standing in some Christian church, and 10 give evidence of their duty to prepare for the gospel ministry, certified by the church of which they are memliers resi>ectively, or by some ordained minister. Those who are not gnuluates from College, previous to entering upon the regular course of study, must lie prepared for examination in the common English branches, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Algebra, and in the Latin and (Ireek languages. Tuition, room rent, and use of libraries free. COMMENCEMENT, Thursday Jims 27,1889. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Crayon Artist and Photographer, As he is now situated in liis NEW STUDIO, SANDS BUILDING,

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NICHOLS LATIN SCHOOL.

This Institution is located in the city of Lcwiston, Maine, and is named in honor of LYMAN NICHOLS, Esq., of Boston. The special object of the school is to prepare students for the Freshman Class of Hates College, though students who do not con- template a College course are admitted to any of the classes which they have the qualifications to enter. The School is situated near the College and Theological School, and thus affords important advantages of association with students of more advanced standing and scholarship. The Course of Study comprises three years and as many classes; that is, the first year, oi- third class j the second year, or second class; the third year, or first class. The classes are so arranged that students can enter the school at any time during the year.

HOARD OF INSTRUCTION. IVORY P. FRISUEE, A.M., PKINCIPAI Teacher of Latin and Greek. W. V. TIBBETTS, A.15 Teacher of Ancient History and Geography. ARTHUR TOWNSEND, A.B Assistant in Mathematics. E. W. MORRELL Teacher of Mathematics and Latin. C. J. EMERSON Teacher of Elocution and Rhetoric.

For further particulars send for Catalogue. , p pRIgBEE> 1Yimipal LYNDON INSTITUTE, LEBANON ACADEMY. Pupils fitted for Business, Scientific Schools LYNDON CENTRE, VT. or the best Colleges. W. C. BUCK, A.15., Principal. WALTER 10. RANGER, A.M., PRINCIPAL, For further particulars, address the Principal, Teacher <>f Latin, Greek, and Political Science. or ELIIIU HAYES, Sec'y Trustees. JUDSON is. BAM, A.M., Toaoher of Natural Science and Mathematics. WILLIAM L. BUNKER,Teacher <>f Banking, Book-keeping, and Penmanship. New Hampton Literary Institution, HENRY it. BACON, Teacher of Elocution, .IOS. II. NEW HAMPTON, N. H. Ill MI'IIKF.Y, Teacher of Vocal Music. Miss JEANNETTE I!. WILSON, Teacher of French, Six Courses of Study—Classical, English and German, and English. Miss CLAItA L. HAM, Classical, Regular Scientific, Musical, and Com- A.B., Teacher of Lalin and Greek. Miss MABEL mercial College Course. Address, REV. A. B. MESERVEY, A.M., C. BEMIft, Teacher of instrumental Music. Miss Principal. EMILY KIMBALL, Tonchorof Painting and Draw- ing. Mii8.lt. II. HARVEY, Matron. For both sexes. Young Ladies'Classical Course. GREEN MOUNTAIN SEMINARY, College Preparatory Course, Scientific Course, each of four years; Commercial Course, of one year. WATERBURY CENTRE, VT. Instruction given in Music, Painting, Drawing, and Courses of Study—College Preparatory, Elocution. Classical and English Commercial. The best Character of instruction unsurpassed by any sim- Commercial Department in the State. Ex- ilar institution in the State. Modern Methods in penses Low. LANGUAGKS AND SCIKNCK. No crowded For further particulars address the Principal, classes. An excellent LIBRARY,adapted to wants Miss LIZZIE COLLEY, at Waterbury Centre. of students. A rare CABINET, probably uucqualcd by any similar institution in Northern New Eng- land. Chemical LABORATORY for individual ex- MAINE CENTRAL INSTITUTE, perimenting. A pleasant READING-ROOM, eon- PITTSFIELD, MAINE. taining a large number of the best papers and mag- azines. Large rooms and steam heat. Delightfully Thorough Courses of Study in English, located. Summer home of N. E. Conservatory of Classical and Scientific Branches. Music, for 1886. I. W. SANI50UN, Sec'y andTrcas., Normal Department attached. LYNIKINVILI.K, VT. J. H. PARSONS, A.M., Principal.

MM BUSINESS DIRECTORY. You Will Find a Good Line of Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, and Slippers AT C. O • MOURELL'S. CORNER MAIN AND LISBON STREETS, - - - LEWISTON, MAINE. SIGHT— BIO BbAOK BOOT.

Lewiston Monumental Works. J|# B. Skinner, Manufacturers of Monumental Tablets, etc Esti- Manufacturer of mates furnished for Cemetery and Building Work, from Light, Dark, and Red Granite, American or Bobbins, Spools, and Skewers, Italian Marble. And BaSO-Ball BntS. Also, Killed Hard Wood. 13 and 14 Bates Street, Lewiston, Maine. Orders by Mail promptly attended to. JOHN P. MURPHY, Manager. LEWISTON, MAINE. E. Cornish & Co., £# & | S. Millett, (Successors to u. P. Foss,) DKALBB6 IN PRACTICAL .TAILORS, Court Street, AUBURN, ME. Millinery and Fancy Goods, C. V. CORNISH, CUTTKR. 13 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. FOR NOBBY STYLES, CALL ON W^akefleld Brothers, JJ.Twombly&Co, DKAI.KRS IN Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals, CUSTOM TAILORS, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Sponges, Brushes, I'crhnnery, ete. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully com- Opp. Y. M. C. A. Block, Court St., Auburn. pounded, and ordoil answered with care and dispatch. GBO. II. COB II, CUTTKH. 114 Lisbon Street, - - Lewiston, Maine. If You Want to Buy Ezra H. White, D.D.S., THE BEST GRADE OF COAL, DENTAL ROOMS, LOW, FOB CASH, CAM. ON No. 1 LYCKUM BLOCK, J. N. WOOD, 64 Middle Street. Lisbon Street, - - Lewiston, Maine.

A SPECIALTY MADE Wood, Robinson & Co., JOBBBB8 OF -Of PAPER AND TWINE. Special sizes made to order. Slate Agents for the llano Manifold I ,rit'T Hook. Writes and copies at the same time. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE lOl Main Street Auburn, Maine. THE BATES STUDENT, PRINTING A Magazine Published Monthly During the Collegiate Year by the CLASS OF '90, BATES COLLEGE. LEWISTON JOURNAL OFFICE. LEWISTON, MAINE. BUSINESS DIRECTOR V. AUTHORS OF BATES. [f you have a book you wisli to have published, and want to know how to have it clone at a slight expense, write to CHAIU.KS T. WALTER, Publisher, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, enclosing stamp, and stating what you have, and if possible, enclosing MS. All MSS. sent in this way will be carefully returned, if sufficient postage is enclosed.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. THE STORY OF THE PURITANS, By WALLACE PBOK, Illustrated l>y five full- page illustrations by K. W. Kemhle, and about forty vignettes, in tints, by O. Herfonl. Cover design l>y Kemhle. Price, $1.00. HOW DEACON TUBMAN AND PARSON WHITNEY KEPT NEW YEAR'S, I5y W. H. If. MURRAY, Illustrated by Thomas Worth, aixl others. Price, $1.25. THE DORCAS SOCIETY, and other sketches,by JAKES HUCKHAM (Paul Pastaor)of the Burlington Free Press. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. SONOS FROM THE SKASONS, By DEXTER CAKLKTON WASHBUBN (Bates, '80). (Second Edition.) Price, $1.25. THE LEGEND OK PSYCHE, By CARRIE WARNKK MOKKIIOUSE (Hates, '77). Price, $1.00. Hand stamp for illustrated circulars. CHARLES T. WALTER, Publisher, ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT.

QrEO. HUE. ^0^-2^, THE ATTENTION OF » FLORIST* TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 37 High St., AUBURN, MAINE. Is called to tbo following list of Cut Flowers a Specialty. SUCCESSFUL BOOKS: Apgar's Plant Analysis, lor If ice Sure Sandier

Bryant At Stratton's Book-Keeping, -GO TO- Cooley's I'liysies, Cooley's Chemistries, A.. E. HA. 11LOW'S, o ray's Botanies, Where ;i large slock and variety is always on hand. Fisher's Outlines History, Robinson's Mathematics, A. E. HARLOW 58 Lisbon Street. Swinton's Readers, Swinton's Oeographics, NEW YORK STORE. Webster's Dictionaries, Etc., Etc., Etc. PUBLISHED BY B. PECK & CO., Importers, Jobbers, and Retailers of IVISON, BLAKEMAN & CO. Dry and Fancy Ooods, Millinery, &c. NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. 12(i AND 128 LISBON STREET, LEWISTON, ME. B USINESS DI HECTOR Y.

RICHARDS &, MERRILL, Merchant Tailors, .^r^., Ready-Made Clothing, Furnishing Goods, etc. We have always on hand a very largB and choice selection of Foreign and Domestic Woolens, in latest stylos and nov- elties, which we make to order, anil guarantee in Kit, Trimmings, and Workmanship, equal to any that can be had in Maine. 1J A full line of Kino Custom Keaily-Made Suits anil Overcoats always on hand. Our Motto: Quick Sales at Small Profits. No. 1 Lyceum Hall Building, Lowiston. Maine. lOSEPHfilLLOTT'S * STEEL** PENS. ' THE FAVORITE NUMBERS. 303,404,332,351,170, AND HIS OTHER STYLES SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

J. H. STETSON & CO., DR. EMERY BAILEY, Successors to BEAN & STETSON, DENTIST, Dealers • in • Stoves, • Ranges, • Furnaces, No. 3 1-2 LISBON ST., LEWISTON. Anil Ventilators, Tin, Iron, anil Copper Ware, Zinc, Lend Pipe, Sheet Lend, &c. Tin, Iron, ami Cupper Work to order. 68 LISBON STREET. Gas administered to extract Teeth.

WALKER BROTHERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in PRINTING Oysters, Clams, and Lobsters * OF ALL KINDS * Goods Delivered Without Extra Charge. 55 Bates St., Near Main St., Lewiston, Me. EXECUTED WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, IN THE HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART, EXCHANGE HOTEL, AND AT MODERATE PRICES, ft. YOUNG, Proprietor. AT THE OFFICE OF THE Centrally located near all stores and depots; near headquar- ters of Horse Railroad. CHAPEL ST., NEAR MAIN I LISBON STS.. LEWISTON. |ewiston journal.

BUBIER & MASON, WI-0 MAKE A. SPECIALTY PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS HOUSE AND DECORATIVE PAINT- First-Class Bookf College Printing ING, GRAINING, GLAZING, *UCIl AS KALSOMINING, AND Programmes, Catalogues, Addresses, WALL-TINTING. Sermons, Town Reports, Etc. All Work Done in a Workmanlike Manner. Don't send out of the Stale for Printing, for We HATES ST., OFF. BLEOTBIO I.KJIIT STATION. guarantee to give satisfaction. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HIGH STREET LAUNDRY AUBURN, MAINE. NATHANIEL DAVIS Proprietor. \gtT Office: A. S. WOODMAN, Room 40, P. H. „^J| All Wort Neatly and Promptly Done. RKPAIIUNd Neatly Done, If desired.

BARBOUR & OLFENE, DEALERS IN Loring, Short & Harmon, DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS Fancy and Toilet Articles, Sponges, Brushes, IVrfnniery, MANUFACTURERS OF &c. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully Compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. 208 & 123 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON. BLANK Books, R. C. PINGREE & CO., DEALERS IN

136 Main Street, STATIONERY, PLANING MILL WALL PAPERS, LAW BOOKS, ANI> AM. KINPS OF WOOD WORKING. OPP. PREBLE HOUSE.

Indian Clubs turned to order. PORT LAN D.

LEWISTON STEAM DYE HOUSE, No. 141 Main Street.

JOSEPH LEBLANC, . . . PROPRIETOR. Clothing Gleanmd, Dyed, and Repaired. F. I. Day, DOUGLASS & COOK, Fine Boots and Shoes. Books, Stationery, Paper Hangings, WINDOW SHADES, PICTURES AND FRAMES, 188 Lisbon Street, l.< u i.-t.m. Frames made to order. NOT THE BEST but just asgooil DOYLE BROTHERS,

Can be bought of Lewiston Five Cent Store, L. C. ROBBINS 32-38 Lisbon Street. As any place In the cilv. Directly Opposite the ('rockery, GlflSS Ware, Tin Ware, Toys, Notions, etc. Catholic Church, and Near the Free Baptist Church, Wholesale and Retail. MAIN STKKKT, No. 270. 3, DOYLB. I". M. novi.K. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

G.W. ELLARD&CO., 178 Lisbon Street, WSURANCECOMPANK LEWISTON, * HARTFORD, CONN. Boots, Styles, and niters. ORIGINAL ACCIDENT COMPANY OF AMERICA, LARGEST IN THE WORLD. LEWISTON AGENTS FOR PAYS ACCIDENT CLAIMANTS, $3,000 a Day. "U5.Lt. Douglas' Shoes" "MORAL: INSURE IN THE TRAVELERS." WARDWELL'S FOR GENTLEMEN, AND ART STORE "Taylor's Adjustable Shoes" IS HEADQUARTERS FOB FOR LADIES. Oil. PAINTINGS, ETCHINGS, 8 Principals, 11 STEEL ENGRAVINGS, TEACHERS WANTED! Assistants, and Pastels, ami Artofypes. PICTURE FUAMKS in all a number for Music, also Ail anil Specialties. Send new and desirable patterns. BRONZR UOODS, stamp for application form and circulars of Informa- STATUARY, STATIONERY, ETC., ETC. tion to Alwiivs in stack n large assortment of goods suitable for National School Supply Bureau, WEDDING and BIRTHDAY PRB8BNTB. Call and ex- amine mir Btoek before parehaiing elsewhere. Mention tills paper. Chicago, III. You can earn $50 to Wir.O WARDWELL'S ART STORE, per month during your vaca- lion selling our specialties in NO. 29 LISBON STREET. , • Nursery Stock. We can give situations to fifty good, energetic men for the sum- mer, or permanently if they wish, and would like 9 to bear from any wlm mean business. The work is All of Harper est place in the city to pet a Nice Oyster Stew. Correspondence solicited. THE LARGEST STOCK OF CHOICE ^JUDKINS' LAUNDRY, Flour, Groceries, Provisions, etc., 187 Lisbon St., Lewiston, In the City, can be found with Is NOT EXCELLED IN FINE WORK. NEALEY & MILLER, Cor, Main and Bates Streets, LEWISTON. Try us, and we will convince yon. *ydtottom Prices always guaranteed. CURTIS & ROSS' Oh 2*£- -A-LXjEiT, Successor to TBAGnE k IlAl.e, hotographic Studio DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, 28 LISBON ST., LEWISTON. Photographs of all kinds and 6l7.es finished In the best possible manner. Having perfected the Physicians' Prescriptions ucctirately compounded. Bromide process, we are now ready to furnish the PERMANENT BROMIDE PICTURES of any size and at moderate prices. To customers wishing for Bromide Pictures, no charge will be made for making the negative. FREE-HAND ■ CRAYONS • A • SPECIALTY. SPECIAL • RATES • TO • CLASSES. CTJRTIS SZ ROSS, Cor. Lisbon and Ash si -., Lewiston.

O. A. NORTON, Coal, Wood, and Hay, •'!•: Ash St, and in Grand Trunk Yard, LEWI8TON, MAINE. &g-Orders by Mail anil Telephone promptly filled.

A. L. GRANT, Manufacturer of Pure CONFECTIONERY, 160 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON.

It. IIKK8SKU. K. «'. IIKKSKKK. E. H. GERRISH, R. DRESSER & CO., APOTHECARY, DKALKKS IN 145 Lisbon St., cor. Ash, LEWISTON, ME. Meats, Groceries, and Provisions, Prescriptions promptly and accurately prepared. Full line of Chemicals, Drugs, Perfumes, Toilet 181 MAIN STREET, LEWISTON. Articles, &c., at Reasonable Prices. CARMAN & THOMPSON, JORDAN, FROST & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Eastern, Western, and Southern Radiators, Valves, Steam and Gas Pipe Lumber, Mouldings, Gutters, and Brackets. ami Fittings, Boilers, Engines, Pumps, I'laning Mill and Lumber Yard Foot of Cross Canal. Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, and Engineers' Supplies, LEWISTON, ME. WM. JORDAN". A. B. FKOST. F. M. JORDAN. 48 MAIN STREET, LEWISTON, ME.

JOHN Y. SCRUTON & SON, Fine Custom Tailoringi Ready-Made Clothing,

23 LISBON STREET, LEWISTON, MAINE. GEO. W. SMITH, ^Established 1874. Turning, Carving, Scroll Sawing,

AND FANCY WOODS, \».s. op§e, 24 Main Street, . - LEWISTON.

IMPORTANT! ^ine * j^pin{ir)g If you want good TEA, COFFEE, FLOUR Or anything else usually kept in a first-class Grocery Store, or if you intend to visit any part of the world (especially 88-$2 ^?airp it., Europe), or are sending for friends or sending money to friends, be sure and call on JOHN GARNER, Grocer and Provision Dealer, Agent for Fleischmann & Co.'s /fubGiPi?, ferine. Compressed Yeast, Passenger and Exchange Agent,

PARK STREET, 213 LEWISTON. [ You pave 1 piomeni To Spare

Yon can use it to good advantage in looking over our EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF FURNITURE

For every part of the household. If you do not wish to purchase now, come in and look us over and get posted so that you may be able to select correctly in the future. In this issue we would direct attention to our' CHAMBER * SET • DEPARTMENT Which is crowded full of choice designs in all kinds of wood, made strong, and finished perfectly. We will be glad of an opportunity to show up the line. Our Prices will be As Low as the Lowest. BRADFORD, CON ANT & CO., 199-201 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Me.