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The Aurora 20.3
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~or Oo:n:te:n:ts&ee Fi.rs"t Ti."t1e Page. The N·ew Rooms The Iowa Lea[ue Teacher's Bureau, J?o!ft tke Jlt~euttt Will furnish space for the exhibition and DES.MOi°NES, IOWA. presentation of much additional material ]frank E. Pli.1mmer, Manager. and former students, and all interested in its growth are invited to seud in any speci This Bureau is an Associate Member of the mens they may deem c~ ~11Leres1. National League of State Teachers Bur eaus, with Central Office at IOWA SPEOIMENS Des Moines. of animals. fossils, r0k,sc ores )tnd minerals FRANKE. PLUMMER, Gen. Mgr. are particularly desired. Oen PLAN: These State Bureaus, one located in each We will gladly furnish information re State and Territory, are co-operative. One enrollment garding specimens if desired. fee makes you a member of the Bureaus, thus multiply ing your chances of securing just what you desire in any Address MUSEUM, section of the Union. Iowa Agricultural College. With a Bureau in each State aud with each stale organ ized by counties, does it not seem reasonable to br-li•we Care Prof. Herbert Osborn. that we can do more specific work for teachers than a re- remote Bureau can? · 'I'EACHEHS WANTED: We want teachers for the many good positions now coming"in for the fall tPrm. Address for circulars and manuals. ]'RANKE. PLUMMER, . Manager Iowa League Teac_hers Bureau, Botanical Specimens . DES MOINES, lowA, Corner 6th aud Locust St. WANTED.
.All readers of THE AunonA are cordially invitC'd to send specimens of planM, especially Iowa Grasses and Injurious Fungi, To the Botanical Herbarium. Cor,·espond ence upon the Fl<>ra of t'.ie state is always welcome.
L. H. P AMMEL, The Civil Engineering Ames, Iowa.
The present rapid growth of the department of PEPAl{TMENT Mechanical ~ Engineering OF THE Solicits Drawings, Blue Prints and copies of published reports on works of con- Demands an increase of apparatus for in struction struction. We will be indebted to graduatiis of the Depart- from its graduates and otl~ers inter ment, and others ested in its welfare. interested, for Drawings, Blue Prints and Photo Prof. D. W. Church. graphs of all kinds of machinery. Address PROF. C. W. SCRIBNER.
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JUNIOR EXHIBI1'ION. One pertains to justice and honor, the other to dollars and cents. Protection may he :i\Ir. RDcldis in the "Evolution of Religion" good bnt it does not always give an author traced it back through its Yarious stages of ~ rio·ht to his own production. 'J'he law development. . . . sciz~s the man who takes an article of an Evolution is no modern idea though 1t 1s other's manufacturing, why should not liter hut recently thought it has. recei:ed m~ch ary production be as sacred? attention. It is a powerful factor m solvmg Be it said to our shame that we are not many problems. . . abreast the times in our late agitation of Primitive man rn hrs development, asked, this copy-right. vVhy should the United "\Yhat of the hereafter'? The idea was re States protect her own authors and then not ligion in embryo. His environment favore_d arant the same right to other nations? Is it pantheistic belie~. As he progressed hrs i';, ss criminal to steal from a German than religious concept10ns came nearer to the an American'? idea of infinity and through Brahma, Zoro This unrestraim!d theft works injury to aster and Budcla, they were prepared for the our autho1·s, since publishers can reproduce Christ,--the center of the religion that is so forei If it aids in a symetrical development of socialism clamoring for reform. 'l'he one is character, it is valuable. positive, uniting the affections; the other is Perfect attainments must encounter oppo negative, restraining our vices. Socialism sition. The oak withstands the storm; the would blend these, "its ethics are humanity athlete sacrifices ease and pleasure; the vo of man to man," thus making the individual calist has spent days of weary effort. subject to society. It points out specific The strong character is made stronger by evils but offers only generalities in their moderate opposition. The man who sinks stead; generalities are good but they cannot under life's burdens is the exception, not meet the diversities of mankind. Socialism the rule, for the strong is able to endure changes a composit whole into a coherent .:tnd grow stronger with endurance. mass; destroys individuality claiming that Trial is the test of character. Sorrow it is the disturbing element. Away with has its mission. the idea. These Utopian schemers would On the fragments of shattered plans and destroy competition, and hence place no re hopes; on the heaped up ruins of the pat-1t ward upon skill. Socialism is at variance there may be a stately dome, a joy to the with our fundamental principles. Evolu eyes of all. Its door-s will stand open to the tion not revolution is the need of this hour; wayworn and weary. evolve right principles instill Christ-like Life must be lived bravely, adversity born living. When mankind is wholly actuated joyfully, then will the end be triumphant. by true and noble motives, there will be no The statements were clear and well put. need of Socialism. A strong well written argument, showing Mr. Kaufman's subject wa3 "Iowa and work, thought, and ability. Iowa's Pioneers." His style of oratory was al most purely demonstrative. Mr. Benjamin presented "The Conditions It wvs the descendants of the constitution and Needs of Our Patent System." al sages, who settled the fertile prairies of Congress, desirous of stimulating the in Iowa, and developed her material resources. ventive genius, sought the best means and Her healthful climate, her rich soil, washed aftei• much discussion, our patent-system on either side by Ame.rica's two great rivers, was adopted. Though the system bears her extensive coal deposit" and other natural - some recompense to the inventor, it may be resources, made possible a hitherto unequal questioned whether it is adequate to the ed common wealth. needs of the nation, whether there is suf Manly men and womanly women from all ficient inducement to tempt the ingenuity quarters brought the elements of character of a man able to see and know the needs of requisite for developing these resources, and the times. possessed those principles which have placed The profits accrning from the department "the school-house on the hill," the colleges are not turned to perfecting and equiping here and there over the state, which have it. Inefficient officers are given place, in filled city and hamlet with churches and laid deed the office is but a training school for roads for heavy trains laden with the pro patent-attorneys. 'l'here is need of revolu ducts which an industrious people tempt tion; more room, better testing laboratories, from the prolific earth. able officials, honest attorneys, and more 'l'hey laid all tribute to furthering civiliza general interest in the system. tion. Patriotism was almost religion. The Under present conditions, the inventors child who played about the cabin when Iowa have done much for the advancement of the became a i-tate is not yet an old man. With industries, but great interests are sometimes genuine pride he now contemplates her two impaired on account of litigation. vVhen millions in the enjoyment of comfort and the Merrimac threatened our Navy we ap plenty. All honor to Iowa-pioneers for the preciated the inventive genius. blessings we enjoy. The inventor is not selfish, he is a nation Mr. Kaufman's style is vivid and every al benefactor, but his talent must yield him sentence tended to make us glory in our Iowa such reward as it can in other lines. "Beautiful Land." Mr. Benjamin supplements his facts with Mr. Stokes spoke upon "Socialism." reasoning and logical deduct10ns and evinces Statesmen and philosophers are searching earnest conviction. the mystic labyrinths of truth for principles Miss Freed's production on the "Results that will raise man to a higher life. 'l'hey of the French Revolution" showed much re see two conflicting forces, the aristocratic search, her style is smooth and pleasing. and the democratic, whence they develop The French Revolution began a new era THE A UR.ORA. 3 in history; it changed the political, social, which inspires humanity to action. and religious conditions. .Desire for fame is the mainspring of am The influence of th€ Feudalism with its bition. History is replete with examples of attending circumstances led to a series of ambitious men-men who desired fame more innovations which culminated in this Revo than they desired their country's welfare. lution and a complete change of political Turned in the right direction this ambi issues. The age did not lack men of strong tion has been of great value in the growth intellects to further the interests of reform; of nations. they may not have been always wise in their Ambition may be selfish and yet promote views yet their agitation set in motion other good; but when it is base, when it casts off minds. Social change was great, the court all that is ennobling and drives its subject to no longer fondled the profligate; the peasant, risk personal honor and man's welfare, it freed from oppression, began to develop his carries ruin in its track. fields and vineyards. Educational institu What then? have we here the greatest of tions were encouraged, literature again blessings and the curse of curses? Is am flourished and investigation took new life. bition a sort of Jekyll-Hyde passion? Not only France received new life,. but all We lament that it is a power urging one Europe and America felt a quickened pulse man on and on to high and honorable posi and fresh vigor. tion while it drives his brother to dis Christianity suffered; Romanism became grace and ruin. corrnpt; Reason was enthroned, but church 0 that ambition may be of the nobler and state must be separate and the "Faithful type! °\,Ve are under its reign. after a time again saw their religion left to Mr. Stewart is a forcible writer, and had them. a good oration. On the whole, the results were good and .!\fr. Spinney's oration on the !'Elimination put civilization on a higher plane. of War" was full of thou~ht rhetorically ex Miss Thornburg's oration is allegorical, pressed. His strong argument abounded in thoughtful and unique. She sees "Our metaphor. Morning Stars" above youth's horizon. 'l'his age sees fairer flowers and richer The dawn is bright and full of promise, fruits upon the matchless tree of human pro but who can tell what clouds may appear. gress. Humanity has cast off the silken net Youth is full of courage and kindly feel work of old necessity and spreads its wings ing, but too often the mirage of ambition under the azure blue of prosperity. To-day's cuts off thP light from the guiding stars; privilege is tomorrow's necessity; the ideal the flowers of love and purity are withered of the last decade is the reality of the pres by passions uncontrolled. ent. Customs and methods are subject to 'l'he light from Education bears power in this same friendly genius that points man its rays which blending with the light from ever onward. the Energy and Principle straighten the War, however, has existed for centuries, youthful faculties and render their possessor a custom as ignoble and infamous as it is strong for life's noon. old and destrnctive. It is a relic of the time Energy's beneficent rays are often turned when "Might made right." Though sanc aside by allowing foreign objects to come in tioned by priest and pagan, is blood shed their path, then the misguided student finds, and ruin in accord with reason? No, it ig but too late, that his efforts have not yielded nores reason. A necessary evil? As well the best returns, say poison is nourishment. Ca.n gentleness The star of purest ray serene is Principle. be ought but peasant, where violence is king? It inspires to noble deeds and right living. The W ebster-Ashburton Treaty and the Youth is the Eden of life, its perfection is great Brazilian change of government are our inheritance. From the mountain· tops examples of Arbitration not of War. Such we see another Eden-the Paradise of Eter examples are heralds of higher civilization. nal Youth. We may reach it, if we will War has aided the civilization of the past. but scatter the clouds that threaten, along The true soldier is the embodiment of self the horizon and attune our lives to the music sacraficing nobility and principle. We un of the Morning Stars. conciously salute him or shed grateful tears over his grave, but this age cannot say of Mr. Stewart spoke on the "Reign of Am his vocation, "It is well." War is incom bition." patible with the present degree of civiliza Ambition is a ruling passion; it enslaves tion. · The modern use of electricity and ex mankind; it is the life of the world-that plosives, together with improvement in im- 4 plements and war-vessels render modern and a very handsome though small, Indian warfare wholly unlike that of former ages. Tapir, also skulls, antlers and skins of elk and Adown the vista of futurity, we see a deer. · reign of peace reveling in the luxuries of The strange :tittle Klipdas from.South Af its own creation. Humanity has moved rica almost invariably excites inquiry~and from the armory in the valley to the state the fine specimen of Sea Cow or Manatee house on the hill, but in its halls are no de just added will also attract attention. Both liberation as to war measures. Nature's les of these represent orders that are peculiar son has been learned and mankind reaps the to certain regions and without specimens rich reward. can be but poorly understood by the students * of Zoology. SOME POINTS REGARDING* * THE NEW MUSEWII Of whales we must be content for the present with the skulls of certain species It may be of interest to readers of THE and the flukes of a porpoise. AuRORA and especially to those who have A large fruit bat, a number of our com been students at the I. A. C. to learn some mon native species of bats, the hedge hog, thing uf the improvements and additions porcupine, beaver, squirrels, rabbits etc., we made in connection with the occupancy of must pass merely with name, but must men the new musuem rooms which have through tion the addition of the cavy and haplodon, the efforts of the faculty and former stu and especially the sloth and great ant eater. dents and especially of the Board of 'J'rus 1'hese will surely be examined with interest tees been generously provided by the State. by every visitor. It may be said in passing that the collec In the interesting group of marsupials we tions in the department now to be housed to have added a giant kangaroo, the wombat, gether have been the growth of a number of koala and perameles, and these with the years and represent the work of many indi native cat, flying phalanger and oppossum, viduals. The College in early days secured already represented give us an excellent idea some specimens of Iowa animals and a col of this group. Of the monotremas we have lection of minerals and rocks from various both Echidua and the duck billed platypus. sources but the real work of forming a mu In the group of birds the collection con seum was begun I think by Prof. C. E. Bes- - tains almost every species known to occur in sey, now acting chancellor of the Nebraska the State, and with specimens of ostrich, State University, an ever active naturalist, apteryx, albatross, hornbill and penguin now and one who as Prof. of Zoology and Bota added will contain representatives of nearly ny gave the first impulse to the studies of every important famiiy. natural science in our school. Among reptiles the magnificent alligator Valuable additions were madfl by Prof. F. and turtle from Texas, gifts from Dr. 'l'. vV. E. L. Beal and numerous contributions from Shearer of class '81 are among the moRt students and friends of the college and oc striking specimens in the collection and al casional purchases together with the regular most cause n.;; to overlook the manv little collecting of the department have increased ,makes, lizards, hnrned toads, turtl~s etc., the accumulations of specimens till now but among which will be found about every there 1s abundant material for illustrating species known to occur in Iowa as well as the studies taught and, especially for the many from other localities. The frogs and study of the fauna of the State, we believe toads do not make much show but with the it can claim superiority over any collection fishes remain as Agassiz is credited with in Iowa. saying "In excellent spirits." It may be Of mammals it contains excellent examples stated however that the collections in them in each order, and for all the prominent fam groups represent the native fauna well, and ilies. A Macaque and a Lemur represent there is in addition a collection of Pa01fic the Primates. The wild cat, sable, raccoon, Coast fishes including a number of interes skunk, badger, fox, prairie wolf, seal, and ting species, fiying fish, flounders etc., and other carnivores illustrate this interesting some Atlantic species, dog fish, skates, scul order while of the larger herbivorous ani pin, hake and others of interest. mals we are fortunate in possessing a hand Of insects we have a 1ionsiderable number somely mounted Buffa1o, a specimen of the --of thousands-- and while only a few can be Big Horn or Rocky Mountain sheep that placed on exhibition for want of room and everyone familiar with these animals admits because of injury from light or the little to be an unusually large and fine specimen; interest many possess to the general pnblic that peculiar relative of the hog the Peccary they are all accessible to the special investi- T.:H:E AURORA. 5 gator or to students in their studies and we hand it is expected that by close grouping feel sure that nowhere in Iowa and in but fow and the use of compact cabinets of drawers places in the west can students of our native for material used in study that the rooms insects find a collection equal to it as an aid will provide ample space for a number of to them in their study. years to come. We trust however that our 'I'he mollusks, worms, echinoderms, polyps collection will grow from now on more rap &c., are all represented and then are many idly than ever and we look especially to the specimens that might be given special men former students and friends of the college tion but time and space both forbid. Many for additional contributions. marine groups are represented and for the With a room devoted especially to taxid specially delicate and perishable ones, the ermy and facilities for such work we will be beautiful glass models manufactured · by able to care for even the largest specimens Blaschka in Switzerland serve to furnish an of birds and mammals and will be glad to excellent knowledge of their appearance and secure any that generous individuals may structure. bestow. With regard to the rooms to be occupied For the Geological collect10n w0 want it may be said that the upper floor is to be particularly samples of the quarry products devoted to a general systematic collection of of the state, coal from various mines, and animals representing all orders and arrang fossils from every locality where they occur. ed as far as possible to show the natural af HERBERT OSBORN. finities and grouping of the divisions of an [Note.-As none of the wall casing has imal life. '.l'hus starting with the Protozoa been begun in the museum, Saturday June at the left on entering the visitor may pass 13th, it will be seen that any attempt at the in a natural circuit to the groups of sponges, complete arrangement of material is impos hydroids and corals, starfishes and sea urchins, sible and only a small part of the collections worms, mollusks, crustaceans, insects, fishes, can be readv for exhibition at the close of batrachians, reptiles, birds and mammals and the present "term.] gain some idea of the order of develop ,. * * m 3nt in the animal kingdom and, if he in quires so far, some conception of the lines PRESIDENT BEA.RDSHEAR'S ME which are indicated by connecting forms as MO.RIAL ADD.RESS. developmental paths for each prominent AMES, lowA, May 30th, 1891. group. Comrades, Friends and Fellow Oountryrnen: 'l'he floor below has in the large west room Truly heroic deeds are so in wrought within the lives and institutions of a people that they the collections in Geology and Mineralogy become deathless and live imperishably in the and the material in this branch, heretofore universalremembrence of mankind. Like the with scarcely any opportunity for exhibition, sun in the heavens, their constant presence and will be in shape for convenient use and in benediction give to every day a meridian glory. After the battle sixty-seven years elapsed be spection. fore Bunker Hill monument as a powerful speak In the north east room of this floor it is er. stood motionless, surp_assing in eloquence intended to develop especially a State fauna the inimatable oratory of Webster and commem and to bring together here all posible ma orating one of the most distinguished spots where in the American Revolution the Nation's terial to represent the animal life of the infancy was cradled and defended. After the State, while the remaining room will con death of the Father of our country eighty-four tain such miscellaneous collections as cannot years and almost an entire generation of men be grouped in other rooms, donated collec passed from the world's stage ere the alumin um point graced the completeness of the Wash tions that are to be preserved entire, and ington monument. These illustrious heroes of specimens in archeology, ethnology etc., that our country's early story depended not for the would be out of place in the systematic ar perpetuity of their fame upon shafts of grandeur rangement adopted in other rooms. and of art, for clustered close and seen by the side of the great leader they still make the pic The first floor is devoted to instruction, ture entirei wherein "Towering high above the lecture room and laboratories, except that column which our hands have builded, beheld, the reference collection of insects will be not by the inhabitants of a single city or single state but by all the families of man, ascends the placed on this floor and the basement in colossal grandeur ot the character and life of cludes rooms for alcoholic material, taxid Washington." These pieces of the everlasting ermy and storage, reference collection of hills outlined in accord with the choicest thought bird and mammal skins, and insect breed of artist and wrought by the cunningest skill of artisan are but feeble embodiments of the na ing room. tion's love and gratitude and serve chiefly as While almost every foot of room will be object lessons ot patriotism to the coming gen occupied at once by material already on erations. So nearly three decades of years after e T:::S:::E A UR.ORA- the last gun of the war fJ,· t:1a uaiJn, we asse:n very fires of war an:l the b::inds of the Uni,m ble b day up:m the m 1st appropriate and hal forged in the furnaces of a great national afflic lowed of all our nationals holidays; that our chil - tion bore tile strength and perfection of heaven dren and children's children may here remem\Jer bJrn suffering. The nations of the earth were how the natbn h:ts been he,ile1 throaght the _ com:Jelled to respect, profoundly, the stars and stripes of a s'.lre affliction by a bloody war from stripes and in the li~ht of this new day of pow the awful curse of a great wrong; how that lib er an1 lioerty, the British Lion skulke1 to his erty, equa1ity and humanity called their country den and the rival in commerce rivalling that of men, and their kin to sa'.!rifice en-th's richest learning in the middle a6as becama th:i wonder treasures, truest friend,hips, yea ttnt for which and admiration of observing nations. These a man will give all that he hath, life itself, to se achievments were due largely to the fact that cure and preserve for u3, one country, one c)n the American soldier fought, not as a hire stitution, and one destiny. ling, but as a patnot, cheered only by his own There are spots in life, placed up)n which the hope of humallity, strong only in the confidence mind is crowde:l with a thousand intermingled of his cause and sincerely desirous for the safe tender memories, Memories of our yesterdays ty of the nation. He breasted the temptations near and far, in which scenes of life and native to indolence and dissolnteness, ever consequent land are emblem·.ttized by the glories of a spring on war, and returned at the first opportunity morning musicful by singinJ bird, joyous with to the unfolding of the national resources and springing c'.lrn, c:mtente:l kine and prattling the perpetuity of the government he loved so child-all over-- graced by a smiling providence. well. The civil war had an epoch, making force Mem1ries of th9 awfal emphasis the,9 happy apart from the Revolutionary war, formerly the pictures gave to the ravages and sarrows of a orator and writer went to ancient and foreign then distant storm The mysteriou3 paths of histories for deeds of valor and military renown. our lives are all crosc;ed in such a sp::>t to-d,ty We read with admiration haw taking the silver and of the m:iny m3m)riec; that spring with the case containing the heart of Bruce and throwing magic and hallowed t::inch of this environment. it into the midst of the Saracen host the illus I am sonnwhat at a loss which to give recogni trious Douglas in the Holy Land rushed on in tion for our instruction. There come to mind to the thickest of the fight, exclaiming "Pass paintings of fond farewells in which was ex first in fight, as thou were wont to do and Doug hibited bravery of women as worthy and strong las will follow thee or die!" But in the annals as any that ever graced a battled front by sturdy of our history we read with juster pride how, as warrior, of heroes and loved ones that in the Farragut swept up the Mississippi, past the bat eventful fat9, of c_rnal w ..tr chvqaJ their f >r teries of Vicksburg, lieutenant Cummings had tana3 an:l de,tinie, ever mwe. l'h)nghts of a leg shot off by a Rebel ball. He was urged t'.1 nc1 w,n,e 11'1.'Il.]3 ci,re cheri.,\iel by this day below deck but refusing, shouted to his soldiers and "Get the ship by the batteries! Get the ship "Whose sacred blood, like the young tears of May, by boys, and they may have the other leg.'' In Paved with eternal fl iwers that undeserving way' And apart from he:wens comfort the uhief c,nso:a- Grecian history we learn that a L:tcedemonian tion for us to day mother had five sons in battle near Sparta and Is that eaca cherishe1 n:tm9 it; peace s1:nll hold. of a soldier returning from the battle she made L'ke stars that gem the azure sky their deeds on lli.~ inquiry how it had gone. "All your fl ve sons tory's paJe enrolled, Are sealed for imm'.lrtality." are slain" said he. "Unhappy wretch," replied Fr0:n Carlvle we learn that a her,) is not a tile motlrnr, "I asked thee not of what concerns di,se:nbler n:>r se"lfi3h nJr unduly ambitious, my children but of what concerns my country." but that he is sincere; that he thinks and be "As to that, all is well" said the soldier; "then lieve3, not lo::>kin6 at shams, but realities. Judg said she, "let them mourn that are miserable, e:l by this lofty standard, our patriot dead my country is prosperous and I am happy." But s11ffer n::i loss but fill the full statue of an ex contrast with thi,i an incident of our own strug alted manh)::>d. Free from mei·cenary motives gle. Mrs. Elletof Philadelphia, who had given two and sincerely believing in the justice of his sons and four grand sons to her country'::; serl'ice c::i.u~a he fo:i\\"ht frJ;n prin~ipal a:d povej in said when the body of one of her grandst,ns was vincible. Hc1 was the citizJn saldier an1 f,m'.\"ht brough home for burial: '·I don't regret the only that his rights and liberties as a citizen gift to my country; HI had twentv s::ins I would might be se~are and uninipared. He knew so give them all,for the country must bepreservfld, well how to c::immand because he knew so fully and if I was twenty years younger. I would go how to obey all that was good and true. So myself and fight to the last." In Roman his that the war was no sooner over than the diR tory we read that a great chasm opened in the charged soldier turned the independence, intel Roman forum which the sooth-sayers said could ligence and courage developed in the field of be filled only by that which was most valuable strife to the nobler pursuits of peace in the set t'.l the state. An eminent soldier Marcus, tlement and cultivation of western plains and Unrtius. mounted his war house and, full armed the Pacific slopes. in the opening of mines, the rode into the gulf a noble sacrifice for his coun building of railways and developmg of the many try, At the battle of Gettysburg, in the hottest industnes. Many of the younger ones entered of the battle when men- fell like grain before the academies and colleges and thence went out in sickle five standard bearers of one regiment to the profmsions and trades to shape the desti were shot down in quick succession but the col nies of the States and mould the councils of the ors dropped 1Jy one were grasped by another nation. The North and the South had learned and never touched i;he ground, being carried to respect each other at the canon's mouth and triumphant into the enemy's works. Scarred the provincaisms and clannish provinces of all veten,ns of fifty victories toward sunset of the sections had broken forever in tne newly en long bloody day of Waterloo cried with au exul larged and better known country stretchin[\" tant pride "The old guard dies; It never sur from lake to gulf and from ocean to ocean. A renders." Sherman in his march to the sea new national life has been bJrn purer for the burned the bridges destroyed the railways, cut T.:a::::E A UR.ORA. 7 the telegraph wire3 and m'trche:i into the heart tarv forces of our nation bacom, a()cum11lative of an enemy's conntry with no pnrpose of re testimonv wl1ich like tlie life that was in the treat but to conquer or die. These are but leaf Savior of man, uecomeil a ligi1t devine to beckon let,; fr,nn n:1.m3rJus in~iiJnts in the civic w.tr down-trodden man to the uatioaal heights of that evidence the patriotism and bravery sur life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If it passed by no people of any nation, ancient or is true, as Hallam says, referring to the victory mJdern, and bring every thJughtful citizen to a of Uharles Martel over tlle invading Saracens keen realization of the closing exclamation in between Tours and ?oictiers. ·'It may jnstly be Webster's speech at the completion of Bunker reckoned among those few b,tttles ot wuich the hill m)numont, '·Thank God-I I also-am an contrary event would have essentially varied American." the drama of the world in all its subsequent The magnitude of the forcas em'Jloyed and scenes;'' 1t is doubly trne that the destiny of the soldiery geniud p0rtrayed by· officer and this nation and of the world would nave been pt'ivate alike. are with)ut parallel in military shaped by a radically different civilization had history. During the service there were engaged the stars and bars become our national emblem seventeen lrnndre:i re6iments of infantry, over and instead of our ship of state sailing triu m two hundred and saventy r cavalry leader, Thomas of eagle eye and father ary scl1ools, and sixty thousand student:, in the ly sympathy, of Hancock eminent m courage colleges nuder the royal leadership and tutor and exalted in character, of Howanl the trusted age of three hundred arnl sixty thousand t<1ach friend or Sherman, of Mead the illustrious hero of ers. Truly Charles Sumner's vision of peace and Gettysburg and of the many who waxed valiant love is realiziug, "Our battles shall be schools, rn fight and turned to flight the armies of the hospitals, colleges and churches; our arsenals aliens. The leaders of an army are in a meas .shall be libraries; our navies shall be peaceful ure the indicPs of a cause and its soldiery, al ships on errands of perpetual commerce; our low me a few conirasts of military heroes as armies shall be the teachers of the youth and taken from our school books. the ministers of religion." This is indeed the Alexander enjoyed the full range of his am cheap defense of nations. bition, possessed cities of vast wealth; at the The second of the great mogul emperors, tlie slightest provocation slaughtered right and left ,vise and energetic Jalmngir had a custom of entered the golden gates of Babylon, Susa and letting a chain down from his citadel within other cities. humbled bv his power, until the easy reach of the humblest inhabitant and con ultimathule of empires was reached and over nected with a cluster of golden bells in his own whelmed by passion, died in a drunkPn debauch chamber so that any subject, however lowly, to the joy of thousands. as if a mad swine of the could reach by the pomp and haughtiness of the street had perished. To the astonishment of courtiers, to the hearing of the emperor. Do not the Homans Hannibal scaled the hitherto impreg think me imposing upon the proprieties of the nable Alps, defeated their armies and made the occasion (for in these particulars all parties imperial city tremble. But forsaken of his own have sinned and come short of the glory of countryment, he died solitary and friendless. God) in saying that 111 the elective franchise Ceasar, having conquered eight lmnrlred cities some of our American citizens have no sympa · and shed the blood of one million of Ins foes, thetic chain within their reach, the pulling of was struck down like a dog in the very place WJ1ch will ring the golden bells in the citadel of where he expected the greatest honor of his justice. .1 am aware that a race prejudice many countrymen and the gratification of his unquen soul-fathoms deep still overwhelms the minds chible ambition. Napolean whose word was of many but how long will the patriotic sens1- a terror to ruler and pope alike, having made b1lities of our people behold this great wrong ~urope to quake with the tread of his armies in perpetrated upon a large per cent of our citizens t11e height of his power, gained almost every and not become irreparably blinded? thiug and yet was unhappy. suffered the ignom "A little fire quick trodden out, ing of banishme::it and died in a lonely isle Which, being suffered, rivers cannot apart from the scenes of his glory and the en quench." dearments of native land. Gen. U. S. Grant I carry ttns subjeGt away from blind partisan rose from humble station as opportunity opened, bickerings and in the ballowed associations of hrou~ht syi,tem out of chaos in the armies of this hour weld it to your soberest thought and tile Union, imparted a vigor and wisdom of most patriotic zeal. When the un\on soldier plan to the army nnexcelled in history, com was escaping from prison hells forsaken by his manded the largest armies of the world with the brother in white and pursued through trackless fewest words. and least pretension and most and miasmatic swamµs by mereiless blood consumate skill, suffered untold agonies like a hounds, then his brother in blacl{ was ever rea christian, and died leaving a mighty nation from dy to betriend him and guide him home and in hamlet to princely mansion in deepest mourn guiding him back the black man was the sol ing, and friend and foe became one agam in the dier's best friend this side of the north star. last sad ministry of love conveying him to the Before trusted with a musket it was asserted tomb. On that sad, hallowed, touching da>,; of that the black man would not light for his liber our nation's devotion to her brave defe1,ders, ties. Hut in the battle's smoke his nerve proved the verv first, the Southener viea with the steady :md his aim true. He will prove just as Northener in the beauty and taste of floral co worthy entrusted with the ballot tint counts . memorations of the deathless deeds of this .!le may be limited in education but in the sec world's hero. In him .they all recognized a ond sentence of the declaration of independance brother born of principle, magnanim1 ty, and he can learn that '·all men are created equal heaven -grained soul. and endowed by their creator with certain mal Seyeral things should be emphasized in the ienable rights, iife, liberty and the pursuit of sacred quiet of this day. Monarcl1y ma:v sway happiness. While in the very first sentence of its subjects by the influence of authority and the constitution he finds the prime object of this precedent; despotism by blind will; but a Re union. "to establish justice and secure the bles public roust rule by the intelligence and love of sings of liberty.'' By learning two sentences he its citizens. "Let us remember that it is only will have the fundamental principles of Ameri religion and morals, and knowledge, that can can citizem,hip and the keys of his political des make men respectable and happy, under any tiny. I would rather have a man that embraces form of government," "the univers·a1 education the Amerii:>an flag as the emblem of truth, jus of the people is the means by which intelligence tice and liberty, exercising the right of fran is fostered; right reason is exalted, and rational chise than any one that will parade the streets public opmion produced. Education makes the of our largest cities flaunting a red flag as sym most of every citizen and plavs havoc with the bohc of Ins views of government and liberty. demagogue; ·it induces knowledge ot law; love The patriot and orator, Wendell Pllillips said, of liberty; integrity of ~haracter, and hastens ''We stereotype feeling into intellect and then the perfection of man. The leaves of its healing into statutes and finally into national character." are going to the uttermost parls of the nation. \Ve have gone beyond the incorporation of Already eight million school children are act feeling into intellect and almost thro11gh that of ually in the public schools of tlle land; two statutes, and under Providence Di vine will hundred and fifty thousand youth in the second- soon be at tile height of attainment in such ua- T~IE .A.UR.OR.A._ e tional character, for "Behind the dim unknown begotten by the sacrifices of our fathers in giv Staudeth God within the shadow, ing us national birth aud the holy example of Keeping watch above his own. men and women who have toiled in the field, A spirit of toleration in politics, in society, in wrought in the shop, planned in the legislative civic questions and in relig10n, should be more halls and decret,d justice in executive chairs. nearly universal Questions ot national policy We have the rich in~itement of the men who, in affecting the various sections of the country our country's peril left home and kindred dear stirred by local interests should be solved, not to fight the battles of truth and liberty that in the light of a province or a state, but in that of home and native land might be inviolate under one country. Ne need more statesmen and few one government and one flag. Conflict of capital er polititions; more patriots and less partisans; and labor, corruption and ilhteracy in large more Americans and fewer sectionalists. cities, a perverted ballot and similar evils are in One country needs but one flag. Let the Con our national existence like the smut th:tt often federate veteran, the Southern orphan and wid aoounds at the time of a prolific yield of corn ow weep sincere tears over their de,mrted he when the weighty ears hang with pleasing hu ros and direct their mility under Heaven·s blessing. If the m,iver sality of the love of country will permit the ".l<~ootsteps to each slope of green access Cretons to call their land by a name which indi Where, like an i•1fant's smile, over cates a mother's love for her child, cause the the dead Etheopian to imagme that God made his sands A light of laughing flowers along the and deserts while angels only were employed in grass is spread," formmg the rest of the globe, enable a certain But in the name of one country and 01!e flag Arabian tribe (Ouadelin) to conceive that the whereon every sister state is starred and hon0r sun, moon and stars rise only for them, incite ed with the Nation's emblem on eve;:y sea un the Maltese, isolated on a rock in the ocean, to der Heaven, let the stars and bars be kept in distinguish their island by the name, The Flow tile museum with the sad relics of that lamenta er of tile World, lead the Norwegians to inscribe ble war and never again tax the charity of an upon their Rix dollar, ''Spirit, loyalty, valor, over-indulgent nation by being flaunted in pub and whatever is honorable, let the world learn lic parade as the symbol of a "Lost cause." among the rocks of Norway," and induce the God hasten the day when the conception of the Esquimaux, attached to their frigid zone to es poet shall be ftllly realized. teem the luxuries of blubber oil fur food and an ice cabin for a habitation above all the refine "No more shall the war-cry sever, ments of other countries, what should be the Or the widening rivers be red; ctepths ()f the patriotic emotions of the true Our anger is banished forever, American as ia his just pride he exultingly ex W11en are laureled the graves of our claims "This is my own, my natiwe land." dead .. Heaven help us to honor the nation's dead sol Under the sod in the dew, diery, the r!eparted heroes of our country and of \\, aiting the judgment day, our homes by inspiring us with a holy purpose Love and tears for the Blue, to adopt the best measures for the securewent l'ears and love for the Gray." of the wisest government by keeping us from a In our present prosperity there is much that diseased conception of citizenship and one-sided bears evidence of the worth of the American yiews of the great questions of state that now soldier. A man's love for his native land lies confront us by saving us from our deceits and deeper than anv logical expression, among those conceits, by helping us to thf' employment of pulses of the heart which vibrate to_ the sancti such means and the selection of the men as our ties of home and to the thoughts winch leap up representatives in government that will most from his father's graves. Look to our environ healthfully promote the institutions of the ments. We have abounding harvests, springmg state; that will give good encouragement to the grasses, contented kine on a thousand prairies laborer and to the capitalist a!Ike and be a de and teeming industries. Think of the homes !Ight to the lovers of good government in all the wherein man and woman live in hallowed su land. God grant us all grace and wisdom for the premacy m each other's affections, and·firesides duties of life until we come to that land where sa::1ed l>y domestic virtues. '.rhrough the benefi the mystery of tins strange life is solved and cent influences of honorable parentage and the the most faithful toiler for eart-h's good can iay destiny shaping power of these homes our child aside his gravest responsibilities at last. And in hood has been protected; our ripening manhood the language- of Daniel Webster 1t may be said and womanhood fostered through life unto our this Memorial day as of Bunker Hill monument, graver responsibilities as mdividuals and citi "When both we and our children shall have z13ns. l'he state has furnished and amply pro been assigned to the house appointed for all liv vided instituti.ons auxiliary to these hometi to ing may love of country and pride of country culture the youth, shelter the friendlests, succor glow with equal fervor among those to whom the infirm of body, ioster with tender care the our name and our blood shall have descended weak of mind and give brotherly aid to the un and then when honored and decrepit age shall fortunate. Upon this western continent, we as lean against the base of this monument, and American people have been prosp~red i~ the es troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered tablishment of a government m which the around it and when the one shall speak to the rights of man as man are universally recogniz other of its object, the purpose of its construc ed. While integrity and worth of character out tion and the great and glorious events with weigh silver and gold and bestow upon every which it is connected there shall rise from every man the birthright of an individual sovereignty youthful breast, the exclamation, 'l'hank God I surpassing that, of kmgs. We inherit the spirit - -I also-am an American! .1.0 T.E[E ...E>...... URORA. COLLECTING INSECTS IN A SUB to propagate continuoasly throughout the TROPICAL REGION. year, if conditions are favorable and suitable living host plants are to be found. Unfor DY F. W. MALLY, l\I. .SC., Assistant Entomo'.ogist. U.S. Department of tunately 'this appears to be the case with Agrie :lture. what has heretofore been considered one of Alm•.>st any student endowetl wtth the the most injurious insects, (the Boll ·w Orm true sacrificing, sympathetic spirit of an in of Cotton) to Southern Agriculture. 'I'he vestigator, is constantly impressed and often irregularities in the habits of this species almost inspired 'with the ever varying and caused, in a measure no donbt, by attempt diversified forms of life, both· animal and ing to adapt itself to temporary favorable vegetable, which he meets at every turn iu his and unfavorable conditions, are a constant travels from place to place .. Concerning menance to the efforts of the economrc insects this seems to be especially true when entomologist. the· climatic and geographical changes are As a second feature may be noted the sufficient to effect marked changes in the grea~er abundance of insects due to the long nature of the flora. 'l'he opportunities for continued season for propagation. studying historically and· morphologically vVhile in the North usually one, two, or the 'life of an insect in this North Louisiana at most three generations are bred, here us climate and topography are, in some respects, ually four or five and sometimes six are ma imperi'or to those in northern sections. This tured. Aside from these features of great in not due to any superior educational ad importance to those who study insects main vantages, for indeed Louisiana, and it may ly from an economic point of view, are others be said the South generally, has few colleges of equaUy as great interest to those devoted or universities having generally recognized. more strictly to the science of Entomology. facilities for scientific instrrction, much less Such for example are the multiplicity of original research. In Louisiana there is temporary or incidental morphological vari but one other strictly entomofogical worker ations which arise under the two consider ot1,tside of the field agents of the U. S. De ations already referred to. These are inter partment of Agriculture. Those beginners esting to .the specialist, but can only be re in Entomology who are anxious to "strike ferred to in this article. The third most upon 1iew things" should visit these much 'important feature is the. topography. Dur neglected localities teeming with nearly all ing a single day's tramp for the purpose of the forms of insect life found in much colder general insect collecting, the writm· traversed as also much warmer regions. Some of the the rich, Randy, level and extensive .valley of more noticeable features in the consideration of the Red River. For a change, a tall per of subtropical entomology are: simmon tree was climbed and the not unusu First; The long season during which in al sight of the vast expanse of a 10,000 aere sects may continue propagation. As early cotton field was presented to view. While as the 10th of February, the writer found descenil.ing many bark and leaf insects were various species of beetles burrowing in the captured, together with an unsolicited inter ground, and depositing the eggs for the first view with a hornet's nest, which had thus generation. By the latter part of :March, far been unnoticed, The (re)-collection of nearly all the planting of garden and agri this incident call to mind unpleasant sensa cultural crops has been done, and the woods tions,-painful to dwell upon. Reaching the and fields are green with luxuriant vegetation. ground again a walk of two e>r three miles Due to this fact nearly all kinds of insects took me into·a dense forest of cypress, pines which are collected at Ames in May can be and magnolias, interspersed with many of found abunctant here at least a month earlier. our well known northern deciduous forest With many species this gives time enough trees. Rambling through this for several for the first generation to have matnred, hours, I arrived at what is called the "hill partially transformed, and ready to issue a country." nothing more than quite broken second time, when the first beg-ins to appear sandy, uplands. An hour's walk again in the Norlih. The great majority of the brought me into a forest, but this time only insects found here pass through a short rest to lead me into a dense almost impenetrable ing or hibErnating period during the winter. marsh and swamp, a veritable cane-brake, This period is at best much shorter than in with cess-pools of stagnant water, soon to be the North, since the feeding time extends the store houses of malaria. In all these far into December and begins again in Feb different localities extensive collections ruary. Indeed some species seem inclined were made. 11 Returning late in the evening, the collect That their graves will be decked with flowers ed material was temporarily cared for until · As summers shall come and go. the next morning, when all should be studied Through the dai·kening clouds of battle, and the collection arranged. 'l'his done, I And with many a comrade lost1 ·They have carried our standard safely, found that I had before me, from the rich And our Union preserved with cost; river valley, about such a collection as I That God-cursed stain, revealing would have made on our extensive Iowa The sins of an early day, prairies, traversed here and there bJ narro'w In their blood, at the nation's altar, strips of wood~ and orchards. From the TJ-,e martyred have washed away. forest, I had a highly interesting and in It is meet we should scatter flowers structive combination of the insecti, which At the graves of our soldiers slain, And should offer a nation's tribute frequentJ!1e evergreen a?d deciduous woods . To the cormades who still remain; or both. · From the "hill country" those - "\Ve live and enjoy the blessings freque1,ting dry, broken, sandy places, such They battled and died to gain, as are rarelv found · in Iowa. From the In a land that is undivided And cleansed of a cursed stain. swamps a ni'ultiplicity of forms of insect life consisting principally of the lower im But alas! there are·others sleeping- There were brothers who wore the gray perfectly known forms, especially Thysanuri Let us pardon and leave their sinnings dae and alli-ed forms.' With our God and the judgment day: 'l'hus have I written something of the ex The grass at their graves is growing, tensive and abundant opportunities in a Refreshed by the heaven's dew, And of flowers enough are given subtropical region which are presented to To share with the Gray and Blue. the beginner that he may form more liberal And we thought, as to-day we gathered and comprehensive ideas of the science and At the graves of our honored dead, morphology of insects. In so short an arti At the camp of our silent army, · cle upon so far reaching a supject, nothing With our tokens of love to spread. And looked on the a5ed faces, exhaustive or comprehensive can be written, Ah, veterans dressed in blue, and I have endeavored only to be suggestive Of the flowers we bring next season and not too technical to be of interest to the A part may be shared with you. general reader. If I have helped to enlarge ]<'or the ranks of our silent army upon the thoughts of any embryo entomolo They are swelling from day to day, Soon the last of our gallant warriors ist as to the scope and considerations of our To his rest shall be laid away; most fascinating profession, this article will Let the hearts of a grateful people not have been contributed in vain. Long cherish their sleeping brave, Shrevepmt, La., June 10. And the banner they saved in battle, Our standard, forever wave. ... ** MEMORIAL POEM. Adtl1•ess Deliverell by Johnson B·rigluwi De:ivered at·the Bachelor-Cliolian Memo1'ial Ses at the De study of Latin and Greek. world," the possibility of a coming time I am not here to echo the charge that the when Byron's shivering dream would find study of the dead languages is "a college some measure of realization on our earth. fetich." I join the student of the classics in But the recent utilization of what once was maintaining that an independent knowlPdge regarded as "the spirit of the power of the of root meanings of words and the attain air," a demoniac force sent to earth to thwart ment of that scientific accuracy and purity men's purposes, the many and varied appli in the use of language which is essential to cations of electricity to the mechanic arts broad culture are possible only by the old and also to the lighting of the mechanic's and well worn roads which lead to Rome workshop, the palaces of the rich and even and Athens. the homes of the humble, have concentrated I do maintain, however, that in the matter power, and so dispelled these gloomy fears of mental discipline alone the study of Lat for the future of the race, and revealed to us in and Greek language and literature should in new and startling forms the great all-sur no longer be accorded a monopoly. rounding fact of overruling wisdom and 'rhe study of science is not only unsur benevolence. passed as a disciplinarian, but, unlike the The children of Israel followed the pillar martinet, it charms and fascinates while it of cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night. instructs and drills. The pillar of cloud to which th~ tiller of the In prompt recognition- almost in antici soil and the toiler in the city will in the pation-of this late discovery in the student near future turn with renewed and ever re world, we dedicate to Science this beautiful newing confidence is the smoke from the and costly building which our State has furnaces that propel the power generating en wisely ordered. ginery upon which the great food-consuming We citizens Qf Iowa jom with these stu manufactures of the future must depend for dents and their teachers in dedicating this their activities; and the pillar of fire by building not to Science as an abstraction, or night, the comet like shafts of light emana as a mystery grasped by the few and incom ting from these great furnaces. prehensible to the many. We of Iowa, In anticipation of a more thorough utiliza thoroughly imbued with the utilitarian tion of nature's willing forces and not as spirit which the rapid progress and develop-· curious experimenters with occult laws, we ment of our age compel, have no time for build temples and dedicate them to miracle play, no taste for mystery, no pa Science. Old time dreamers thought out tience with modern refinements of Medieval mvsterious connection between the stars in legerdemain. th.eir courses and the operations of the Soul We seek results. Our eyes are opening to of man. Old-time experimenters spent their new processes, new combinations, new uti lives in vain endeavor to change the baser lization of nature's forces, and we would metals into gold. But Science in our day is have our young men and young women "Ever straining past the things that seem work these combinations and exhaust these To that which is-the truth behind the processes, doubting not that along dream." new lines of investigation still other ways Browning, the greatest soul-searcher of will open leading the student into worlds of our time, puts this inquiry into the soul of activity undreamt of in our philosophy. Paracelsus, the noblest madman in all litera Do I expect too much? ture: "Why put a marvel by because too rich "Are there not. Festus, i.re there not, dear Michal, 'J'wo points in the adventure of the diver, with hope?" One- when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge, We have only to point to the marvels of . Ooo-when a prince, he raises with his pearl? our recent past; We need but mention a sin In every age there have been noble phrng gle name, that of Edison, to establish upon ers after pearls, and w bile millions have ris a firm base our hope for the future .of Science en empty handed and thousands have found as led by the hand of Invention. graves for young ambition, only now and The germs of disease which now baffle then a lucky begg'lr has risen a prince. the physician's skill must ultimately yield In this age of investigation, we would to the microscope. send our young and ambitious divers into The fast denuding of our forests and ex the dangerous deeps with equipment for the haustion of our coal mines not many years task of finding pearls. We would have ago suggested to those who were not sure them first know where pearls l:'re, and then that know how to bring them to the surface. "God rules in heaven,-All's right in the We as a commonwealth, have found it pays T~E A UROR.A.._ 18 to provide at large expen~e for the training form a helpful and important part. From of our ambitious youth, that their noble am this struoture will annually go forth young bition for the best things may not be worn men and young women strong in discipline out in futile plunging where nn pearls are of mind and soul, and equipped with the found. world's best thought and latest discoveries. When I was a student, it was my · good The ambitious Athenian youth who fortune to sit for a time under the teachings sought his future in other lands was wont, to of that simplest and sweetest of great teacl1- carrv with him embers from the hearthfire ers, Lewis Agassiz; and. tho I have forgot: at h;)me; and wherever he builded his new ten much he taught, I shall ever associate home there he would relight the embers with his name this, his favorite truism: brought from Athens, and thus from many "When you want to know anything, waste a distant shore and mountain side, the light no time in indirection, but go directly to the which told of Greek civilization was wont man who knows." to shine far out into the night, dispeiling In accordance with this philosobhy of di the deep gloom of barbarism. So in the rectness in education our State has laid deep coming time, students of science who shall and firm foundations for instruction in the go forth from this favored home of the sciences; and to this building in the coming sciences will (if our commonwealth shall years the State will gather the men who wisely and faithfully fulfill its trnst) take know-the men who know most, and who with them some portion of the fire which here best know. In order to compass this end, has warmed their souls to healthful activity, we as a commonwealth will have to broaden and in new fields of endeavor shall relight out beyond the narrow measure by which the fire, and the gleams of light which ema we gage the value of a hired man's services nate from noble purposes born here shall diR in field or shop. When Agassiz was lec pel the darkness of ignorance and tell their turing at Cornell University in '69, needing own story of our commonwealth's glory. spending money for the furtherance of some costly experiments, he accepted a two hun ** * dred dollar bribe· to quit his work and studies and go to Elmira to lecture. I walk ed up College hill with him, soon after his return, and he then told me that was, he thought, the last general lecture he would ever deliver. "It's an easy way to make money," said he, "but I've no time to make money." Now when our State finds a man of Science who~e work is thus absorbing and resultful and whose teaching is thus inspiring, it had best pay him all he requires to make his life satisfying to himself and resultful to others, and so emancipate hi~ from the money getting problem which ill accords with the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the im THE NEW MORRILL HALL. parting of instruction in science. In these ** * enclosures should be found preeminently the Add1•ess delivered by Prof. Bessey. men who know. Who is the best known of Iowa's practical as well as theoretical agri A little more than twenty-one years ago, culturalists? You have him here. So, when on a cold February afternoon, I first saw these the young men and young women of future grounds. In this space of time what changes Iowa want to know the deep things of have taken place! 'l'hen these trees which science, there should rise first in all men's now give such an inviting shade were but mind;i this structure, which we are dedica slender sticks, if indeed they were yet plant ting to-day. Here should be found not only ed. Then this stately campus was little more the knowledge sought, but the men who than a field. In fact, I have seen parts of know how best to find it, and make it their the present campus turned over by the plow, own. and made to serve the useful, but not orna In the future of Iowa, this building and mental purpose of growing potatoes and corn. the influences emenating therefrom will per- Then there was but one building for college 14 THE .A.URORA. purposes, and it was much smaller than is and dozens of bottles of pickled snakes now. The old farm house was here, and two (nearly all of one or two common species); homes for :rrofessors, one occupied by the let us hope that the rest of these good men President, Dr. Welch of revered memory, (peace to their ashes) may not be broken by and the other by the professor of mathemat the reproaches of those sorely wronged ics-now Professor Jones of Cornell Univer beasts. I tremble for them when I think sity. that the beasts of the fields have possibly a To. many of you this period seems like 3: future existence. Imagine the meeting of long time; many of you were not yet born, the spirits, the one of a trustee, and the oth and yet the picture which met my eyes that er of one of those dumh beasts whose poor bleak day, in 1870, is as clear in my mind as body had been for so many years made the if I had seen it but yesterday. I must say laughing stock for the gaping crowd of mu that the picture was not very inviting. It seum visitors, and the jeers of the zoological was a bleak, treeless, uninteresting picture. student. It was one well calculated to bring the chill But let us not despise that early purchase. of homesickness to the young graduate who It was no willful error that gave that instruc had been called from Michigan to the chair tive aggregation to the college. The inten of botany and horticulture. tions were good. There was the laudable Those were not days of comfort. There desire to provide first of all for the study of were no graceful gravel drives. There were · zoology, a desire which after these many no comfortable walks. There were no gar years has borne fruit in the erection of this dens. There were no shrubs, to give beauty fine building. I trust that this later gift to to the landscape. Those were the days of zoology has not the constructive faults of beginnings. They were days of small be the first. ginnings. And now having spent this much time in Inside of the solitary building things were reminiscences of the past allow me to come no better. Here was a college without =l,p to the present and first of all to congratulate paratus of any kind. It did not ~ven o~n a you gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, up microscope, and as for the splendid chemical on the fine building which you here dedicate and physical apparatus which it now possess , to higher education. You are making an in es, it had not yet been bought. A few sheets vestment which will bring in great returns of illy mounted plants, which were still more for many years to come. For scores of years, illy named, constituted the whole of the yea even it may be for a century, the young outfit of the botanical department. A small people of this great commonwealth will en room on the lower floor the Bachelors socie _ter these walls, and carry away to their ty room was known as the museum. Here homes lasting benefits. was deposited that marvelous collection of As long as Morrill Hall shall stand it will birds and beasts and insects which some be a monument to your memories. Having trustees with more zeal than knowledge had begun the work so well, I trust that you will sqandered hundreds of dollars upon. Tradi make abundant and frequent appropriations tion tells us that these misguided men actu for filling it with the best apparatus, and the ally paid fourteen hundred dollars for those finest specimens for its laboratories and col monstrosities, which, I trust, have long lections. You need have no fear of making since ceased to puzzle the youthful Hawk such mistakes as your predecessors made eye zoologists. I remember to have heard long ago, for you have expert advice and you some visitors remark that it would be no sin will make no mistakes. Give to them freely for one to fall down and worship those al for specimens, books and apparatus and you leged representations of birds and beasts, will make no mistake. for certainly they were not images of any Allow me to congratulate you Mr. Presi thing in Heaven, or on the earth. I trust dent, and your faculty in these more favor that the like will never be seen ·again. I ed days, upon your good fortune in living wish to treasure the memory of this collec under a more benignant star than did we in tion, in the full belief that it was absolutely the earlier years. You are to be congratu and positively unique. But pleasantries lated upon your good fortune in having aside. Let us laugh if we will at the condi reared for you such a fine structure to serve tions of those early days, let us smile if we for the great uses to which you will devote must at the trustees who in their innocent it. enthusiasm supplied the college with those Use wisely these good things and let your horribly stuffed specimens, and the dozens good works be so numerous and so marked 15 that they will commend you still more to the doing. Add to what you have i-o nobly be tmstees of the College, and to the people of gun, and continue until you have here a great the State, that still more buildings like this college splendidly equipped in every depart one may come to you as the years roll by. ment. I would also congratulate you ladies and And now Mr. President and gentleman of gentlemen of the Alumni Association of the the Board of Trustees permit me to offer a College upon the good fortune of your Alma suggestion which is born of an experience Mater. Many of you were here in the day of a quarter of a century of college life. of beginnings-the day of small things, and You have here an organization which has I know that you rejoice with the same joy grown up to its present proportions through which fills me as I look upon this fine hall. many years and under many influences. I join with you in wishing for the college a Guard carefully every part and let no rude prosperity· which shall increase with the hand touch its delicate mechanism. Throw passmg years. around it such influences as will enable it to To you the young men and women of the grow in quietness in all its parts, until it present student body you who have come so shall reach !ts full maturity, perfect and recently that I know neither your faces nor ~ymmetrical throughout. Let no harsh winds your names: You who are strangers to me of discord and rasping criticism ehill the although you are on the ground on which I inner life of the college. Build a wall of worked before you were born:-you who are confidence about it that can never be moved. daily using specimens of my collecting, and And may God bless you in your good apparatus and books of my own purchasing work. in short you of whom I find it difficult to think as other than my own pupils, whose *** faces and names I ought to know,-to you I PEBMA.NENT INVESTMENT. would extend my heartiest congratulations I. B. SCHRECKENGAST. upon this present occasion. You live in This speech is the result of a compromise. favored times. Your lives are cast in pleas My first thou~ht was to take up the discussion ant places. You enjoy greater facilities of some pubhc question. There are a number of exceedingly interesting public questionsi the than any of your predecessors. Remember temperance question, state enforcement of aw, that of those to whom much is given much education, politics in the south and in our large is expected. If you inquire into the lives cities-all of them of prime importance and of of those elderly Alumnae and Alumni you great interest when handled by one who has a new thought to offer. The difficulty w.ith me will find that they have been successful and was that I hadn't the new thought; and I had useful. They have taken honorable places not sufficient time to devote to this address to in the world's work. If they who had few manufacture it. I found myself in the position er of these good things have done this well, of an old German I once heard of. On coming to this country he was advised to go into the much more will be expected of you who have huckter business. On starting out in the morn been more favored. When the history of ing with a load of potatoes he soon found he the College is written twertty years hence, had forgotten the name of his produce. In his let it not be said of you that in spite of your dilemma he saw another man selling the same kind.of produce and calling out "tatoes" "ta opportunities and superior advantages your toes." After listening for a few minutes he lives have not shown the same sturdy man concluded he could not improve on that and hood, or the same strong character which fell in behind crying ''shust the same," "shust marked those of vour predecessors long ago. the same.'' I believe prohibition is the most im portant question before Iowa to day, and the And to you the friends of the College, best method of enforcing the law in every cor citizens of the State who have gathered here ner of the State, is a very live question but on to celebrate the opening of this hall of learn this phase of temperance I am only prepared to ing, I extend heartiest congratulations. It follow after Mr. Mahin of the Muscatine Jour nal and some other live men of the State and is a noble thing to build Colleges. It is a cry "shust the same." Some changes in the noble thing to richly endow them with liuild theory of education or some phase of the ques ings, books, apparatus, and all the material tion in relation to the Gov't. as a whole are inter for apparatus, and the material fol" the study esting themes but I could do little more than cry out after E. E. Hale and Judge Tour~ee, of nature, and man and man's history and de "shust ze same," So I come to you to-mght velopment. When you make such provision compelled by the shortness of my time, to choose as you have here you rear a more enduring a field that because of the pecuhar habits of my monument than they who rear marble shafts, mind. I am more familiar with. My discuss ion stands midway between the profane and the or granite obelisks. religious worlds (using profane in its best sense) Let not your hand be weary in this well and to my mind leads from one to the other. 16 THE .A.U.ROR.A._ For want of a better caption I have headed it problem is somewhat analogous to me presented Permanent Investments. in nature. ·rhere is a wide difference between The majority of the occupations of lite arise the plane on which we find the dust of the out of our physical necessities, We are so tired earth and the plane on which we find the rose. to a phvsical body, that requires to be supported Yet the rose with its sub tile beauty, its delicate and wnose support must be wrested from the perfume and all there is about it to make it the material world, that the relations existing be most beautiful of flowers, is the outcome of cer tween this lowest part of man and physical tain manipulations of the grosser material. So world determines or gives color to the most of i~ comes to my mind it is possible to spend our the infinite v,1,riety oE the tra1es, e:nployments hves on the low plane of supplying our physical and occupations of men. From the daily labor necessities, as many of us must and yet so spend er whose sordid views prevents him from see them that the interest on the effort will be paid ing in his toil anything but the mere pittance in strength of will, earnestness of purpose, that will enable him to live another day, up to courage to face life, mental enla1·gement, beauty the man who has reached the highest type of of character and high spiritual attainment, ideal living. All have had their lives more or that are of an infinitely higher order of values. less determined by their physical necessities, Here then is the intensly interesting process by and none have been able to entirely emancipate which a man can transfer his material wealth themselves from the dominion ot the life of into immaterial, his time into eternity for sense and the limitations of material things. So character fixed is ''eternal destiny." that we find life to be very real and practical. . With these enlarged possibilities before us, 'l'he struggle for existance, the effort to wrest the question of the most that can be done be, a livelihood from the elements, the effort to keep comes interesting. When life seems small and from being thrown off aud knocked out by the meaningless men do not trouble themselves great masses of humanity also struggling for much about it, but when it opens up before them existance is a very real and practical struggle. in its largeness they want to accomplish tt e So that tne majority of us as we take our places most, Men inquire then, not how may I do in life and begin its work, however high or tran well, but how may I do my best. The best is S)endent our ideals may be, what ever elevated done when men realize the most on their invest views of existance we mav hold, find that we ment of time and strength. This involves a are compelled to spend an amount of time and discussion of values. strength in mere physical toil and monotonous It is said there are two principles or tests for routine duty that in itself would be almost un the determination of values. "The time test endu.rnble. This being true of us who do not and the quality test," aside from any influence especiallv represent the toilers of the land, the which the disturbance of the law of supply and case becomes much worso when we consider demand, or any accidental considerations may those whose lot it is to work from year to year have on the Commercial value, the intrinsic without cessation. In those whose lives are one· value will fluctuate more or less in proportion continuous round of daily toil, who are compell as these factors vary. Let the quality of two ed to dev Jte the whole of time and strength to the commodities be the same and the ratio of the satisfaction of their physical wants, who see in two values will be the same as the ratio of the each day's toil only the means to another day of times that each may be enjoyed. Let the quali strength and who are compelled to hoard that ty of a commc,dity be a constant quantity and strength that it may be given to the next day the time of service an uncertain one and the val of toil, we have the lowe,t and most disc11uraging ue will increase or diminish as the timtl of ser phases of life, with the tendency rapidly to an vice increases or diminishes. If the quality is I nihilate the division line between man and the the time of service 2, the value may be represen beast of burden. All of us are compelled to ted by x. If now the quality is 1, the time of pay more or less tribute of time and strength service 4, the value must be 2x. This is suppos to the demands which the body makes on the ing that the quality does not increase or decrease material world and 1f there is nothing in this throughout the entire time as it is liab.le to do life of toil but the satisfaction of those demands in:material values. But in immaterial values to the reward is not worth the effort. which I intend to apply this reasoning it may in Such a material gross view of life gives us crease, it certainly' can not decrease. Now if such a humiliating sem;e of its worthlessnass the time of service is constant and the quality and hopelessness, that is paralyzing to earnest increased or diminished the value will be affect pmpose. strong courage and high endeavor. ed in a similar way. The product of the quality The majority of the people of this world are for the unit of time multiplied by the length of compelled to toil for a livehood, others who are time maybe said to represent the value, Now not compelled to toil do so for a mere money re it will be readily seen that low quality and long ward that is not used to any higher purpose time may equal in value high quality and shorter than the satisfaction of the demands of the time and the reverse. And if either factor is body, and I repeat if there be nothing in iife infinity the other may be exceedingly small and but that which can be reckoned in a commercial yet the value represented be greater than in an way, taking the experience of the race as a other commodity where both factors are large whole, it is not worth while to live. bnt finite. For example take a commodity One of the vital questions that every man whose qnality is 1, and whose time is infinite. ought to face is, how may we so invest omselves Take another whose quality is 1000 and time nnder this necessity to toil as we are, as. to real 1000, the value of the first will be infinity and of ize out of life more than mere.physical rewards? the second 1000 x WOO or 1,00:l,000, and the two Is it possible to spend as much time and values will be to each other as infinicy is to strength as we a.re compelled to spend in mere 1,000,0011. It would only take 1,000,000 years of physical toil, and yet make that investment infinity to make the value of the first equal to pay interest in a higher order of values? The that of the second, and all the rest of the years T.::S::E A UR.ORA. 17 of infiity will represent the amount which the state of pertect10u. to the exclusion of any effort value of the first exceeds that of the see<,nd. ti1ey may have 011 the world or on ourselves allll Now if these principles of value are correct it our real work. l take it the failure in results will at once be seen that the man does the best would be complete. I exclude mental culture for himself who invests his resources in that in this way because it would be difficult to ap which combines tile hiJhest quality with the ply the above principles or value to it. It is so longest time of service. closely connected at some points with what I Perhaps it may be said that long time of ser consider of supreme value that the exact bound vice is of no special allvantage. if the time of ari .. s are difficult so d.etine and l do not wish to service is longer than the individual expects to comµlicate this aiscussiou with it. As a matter enjoy it. A coat that woulll last 50 years would of fact men do uot pursue physical or mental be of the same value to me, as one of the same culture or any of tile natural powers, as an end quality that wvulll last 150 years for I do not ex in themselves but a!:! a means to worldly Wt'allh, pect to need a garment more than 50 years. grntit:icatiou of ambition, 'locial posttiou ur However the intrinsic value of the one is not some other end which they reg.-ird as supreme! v as great as that of the other. Now in investing good. Aud it is supremely good to which the our resources we must be careful to invest in above principles of value are to be applied. The that kind of riches that will enllure as long as ordinary 01lj 0 .cts of the am bit10ns of men, those we do; otherwise we will find ourselves poverty things pursued by the most meu as supremely stricken at some stage of our existence. This is to he desired, such as life of pleasure. attain the difficulty with the devotee of pleasure, even ment of political power, position in tt1e social considering this life alone. He puts in physical world, worldly wealth and a large variety of strength, mental power, moral virtues, and finds kmdred pursuits have time and again proven himself in the middle of his earthly career so that there is no permanency in them. burned out that he is no longer capable of en The man of wealth tinJs him~elf poor, the pol• joying that kind of values. He finds himself it1dan lose3 his power, the lion in the social bankrupt, health, mental powers, manhood all world is compelled to take second place, and all g-one, and yet possibly years to live, The wise possibly because of no fault of their own and at rnvestor will look out for the time factor. Now a time when they think themselves at the height we are children of eternity. I remember one of power. This life has few sadder spectacles Sabbath afternoon about 7 years ago, I sat in than that presented by those men who have in the old Chapel under the preaching of Dr. King vested all their resources in some kind of tem of Cornell, when he said many beautiful and poral value and had it taken from them. In strong things; rn comparing notes afterward that part of the t'.-tate in which I have been per with friend Norton out on the Campus I found mitted to work for the last three years there both had made note of this choice sentiment, is a large dass of people who are making mater '·Tread softly child of eternity for the echo of ial wealth cheir one aim in life. and it has be your foot steps shall resound throughout the come a matter of cons1dnable local prominence agei::. '' As children of eternity it becomes nec the numbu of men who having invested their essary in inve:itiug wisely that the time factor all in material things, on re.verses of fortune or should be infinite. And any man who invests loss or health, have taken their own lives, look in that which can not stand the vicissitudes out for the time factor. l'ut the element of per incident to a life on earth, or that· can not be manency iuto your lives. Yonng_man just be• retained during and after the sll'J~ks of dis- gining your college career, look out for the 1:wlution, any man who invests in that valne time fador. Young man just ending your col where the time factor is not infinite, will find lege career and begimng the work of life. Look himself at some stage in his career bankrupt out for the time factor! Dear fellow alumnis in with weaith all goue and resources all exhaust the midst of a busy life, deep probably in some ed. I plead for the time !actor, I plead for the political scheme. or big with some plan for the elcrneut of permaueucy, I plead for such a rapid accumulation of wealth, put the element permanent investment of your resources that of permanency mto your living! wuen the stars have .. faded away," when the sun has grown dim with age," aud nature Now I know of no value, in the application .. sunk iu years',' the soul tiounshing- iu immor of these principles that is as independent of the tal youth will still have with it to enjoy, that law of change that we tind in this world that is wealth that is the result of a life wisely and as well c,tlc11lated to withstand the vicissitudes permanently in\'ested. of this life and service, the shocks of dissolution Now as capitalists or speculators we find our and which answers as completely to the time selves iii possession of certain resources, time, test with that factor reduced to infinity as char strength of body, strength of mind, power to get acter. I remember hearing Joseph Cook once wealt11. the w110le,rnm of the powers of manhood. say "l hold this to be one of the profoundest Now the problem iR to invest these l'esources in tri1ths of the umverse. We are steadily chrys harmony with the above principles the highest talizing into perm:inency of character, into a quality with the time factor infimte. love of what God loves and a hate of what God I take it for granted that our resources are hates or a hatA of what He loves and love of not in themselves an end. They are the means what He hates." And I apprehEmd that when through the proper combination of which (lome once it is chrystalized until it becomes fixed, no thing is produced. I take it physical strength contingence-, of time or surprises of eternity is not one of the purposes of life. I uuderstaud can alter it. No transfpri,nce from the world of that mental culture is not, in itself, an end, but sense to the world of spirit, from the region of that iu the real structure that is to be built, time to the regions of l'ternity can in any man phyRical strength and especially mental culture ner affect it, for character fixed 1s eternal des are very important factors. If it were possible tiny." to devo'te any or all of onr resources to a high Now with the factor of the valne of character 18 THE AU.RORA_ reduced t,o infinity, however low the quality test in amassing material wealth and neglect to may prove to be, if it is a positive quantity, the transfer it iuto permanent good. Not only ma intrinsic worth of character must be more than terial resources but every department of our that of anv other commodity however large bJth possibiiities ought to be invested rn the same factors may be if they are finite quantities. w,iy. To spend intellectual stre11gth along lines Apply now the qnautity test; character may of per Eonal or political schemes without refer be good or bad, and the st_artlmg thought abot_1t ence to the good of the race, is to dissipate it is that good and bad it is eternal. On tlus strength that ought to be spent along lines that question of the quality of character, I recognize are helpft.al to humanit)' and that give the race the difficulty of obtaining authority for I have an uplit't, it is to prostitute God girnu resources. not aimed to found my argument on the teach It may he Utopean but I am hoping for the ing of Revelation. But if we ac<_:ept the con day when men will change the direction of their clusion of the l:Jest huruan authority known to efforts; when the desire to infuse into society me it may be expressed in the perfectly script some uplifting force will be the consuming am ural idea that good character is cbrvstalized bition that overshctdows all personal plans. conformity to the Divine will m all its work in But it may properly be said that t!le masses of us and through us; and bad character is chrys men are so compelled by their necessities to talized oppos1t.ion to the Divine will worked out spend themselves in toil that little time is left in the various channels to which each parti..:u for works of love and mercy. This is undoubt lar life has its bent. Who is there that dare as edly true but when the real dignity of labor is sert that there are values in this world that can understood their very toil will be seen to be an be compared in quality with value, honesty, excellent method for the application of the purity of heart, life or any or the virtues that go principles for character formation. ·.rhe man m to make up a noble lifel Unhesitatingly, has a very low idea of life who toils only because when the quality test is taken into this problem · of physical demands. The obligation to toil is the best investment is investment in the be~t. to higher ~ource than physical necessity. Money The ideal life then that I hold before you, ac ought never to be lliade all the measure of the cordmg to the principles of tt1is discus~ion s value of labor. Every wm,lth producing toiler the one that has all its resources invested in is a blest:iug to the race. And if those unem christran character and tile most successful life ployed would spend their resources in helpful is the one that has the largest per cent of it,s re toil. the incraa-;ed wealt11 would be a help toward sources so invPsted. the relief of the suffenngs of the world. Everv We now face the question of the transferring man with divine given resources of body and of our efforts or resources into character. The mind ought to toil from principle whether there how of the problem 1s interesting. Is it possible is a physical necessity or not and whether there to so combine and manipulate our gross resour is a money consideration or not. ces. our time and strength with this material LEt the daily laborer whose necessities hold world, that unaided from without a christian him to l11s task, realize that his obligaticn to character mav be dPvelopec.l r U uhesitatingly toil is to a higher source than hunger. that as he we mu:,t answer no. No more tiian ic is posilible gives off of his strength, he is relieving others to so manipulate the du3t of the e 0 trtll that the as well as himself. let l11m realize that he is a rose mav be evt•lved without the introJu•:tion public benefactor, in short let him understand of the pt:inciples of life. So I hesitate not to that the divine economy is such that the highest sav that the first requisite to a christian charac possible devel0pment of character also may be tei· is a life supernatnn)llY implanted and that obtained. Let lum understand that physiral life has to do with Ct11:½t. It is not the province toil is not only the channel along which physic of this discu~sion to enter into the nature or al relief comes bnt also a channel along which how of this life for that would involve a discus'l the best and most pe1manent riches may he ob ion ,,f more or less of the problems of the atone tained. ment. Now with this life as the bas:s, the prin 1'0 my mind this is the key note that is to fur ciples that control the evolut10n of that life or nish inspiration to the toiling masses. A man the formation of christian character mw broad - may go on without faltering in extreme poverty ly be stated to be unseltish devot10n to God and and discourag-ement if he can beiieve in perma the interest~ of othen. And l know of no p:Jssi nent results from his life. Let him cease to be ble field on which b.3tter to wort{ out thesci prin lieve in the permanencv of the results, let him ciples, than on this e,irth wit'1 its toiling- mil get the conception that"life means little or noth lions and nnnumbared opportunities for help ing and he at once loses hope. I can testify to ft1lness. Here our mental and physical resour the_in~piration in the th night. I spent the first ces can always be taxed to their utmost in the summer atter my graduation in a tile factory relief of those abont us. In this field the man wheelrng tile and clay at from $1,00 to $1,2.5 per of weatlh can tran3fer his dolbrs of silver and day. gold into character and actually watch the trans That was a long- summer to a young man fresh formation take place. I heard once· of an old from school and the work was very undignified. lady who bv practicing the closest economy was Of course I was after the dollar then for it would enabled to keep throughout a number of years enable me to get into school again. Bnt there at least one worthy young man in school all the were times wnen the work seemed very hard time, thus putting a moulding hand on a num and the dollar very small; at such times in the bllr of lives that \Vere to go out and bless the olistering sun and withering heat 1t was an in world by their usefulness. Our mental andphys spiration to know that all over that country ical resources and our material wealth can all there would be better farms, better crops, more be made a bles;sing tJ humanity an1 by their re money for pictures and bool,s and schooling, as act10n a double blessing to ourselves. Unwisll a consequence a better type of manhood, and all indeed it must be to spend our time and strength because work of that kind was done. TEE .A.UR.OR.A._ 19 Alumni are the people. "~ THE AURORA booms. & Every one is as happy as in days of yore. TrI.E ACTNe)RA. Old faces turn up to us in every hall and reception room. Published Monthly by the Literary Societies of the Iowa State Agricultural College. Many of the students are being visited by relatives and friends. Intellif!encer Job Press, Ames, Iowa. About twenty students will remain at the Coggeshall, Printer. college during v.acation. TEB:M:S_ Senior Hodson reported at the banquet One year in advance, One Dollar. for Des Moines Register. Single copies fifteen cents. Advertising rates furnished on application. Miss Mills of '90 captivated ns with the All business communications should be. addressed to pretty solo sung at alumni exercises. L. L. EMERSON, Bus. Mgr., Ames, Iowa. What cheers the fretful faces of THE AURORA staff more than the hearty co-oper Editorial Staff. ation of the Alumni? E C. Oggel, '91, Editor in Chief. We ask in all sincerity of those alumni .Mary Hook, '93, Literary. W. H. Jackson, '91, Scientific. who receive this issue and have not paid up J. F. Schulte, 91, Local. back subscription to send it in at once, or at E. P. Hudson, '91, Exchange. least we would ask those to remit us 20 cents for this issue as it has been of great expense Board of Directors, to us and we want to pay our honest debts. L. L. Emerson, '91, Business Mgr. We think this issue worth many times its W. H. Heileman, '91, President. Emma Boyd, 92, Sec'y and Treas. cost to any old alumnus. We cannot send B. N. Moss, '91, A. C. Stokes, '92, Solicitors. out any more issues to you unless we hear from you by letter. For in looking over DIBECTOE.Y_ the· accounts we find many are indebtAd to Bachelor Debating Society. us and, of course, by continual sending out W. C. Jones, President; J. H. Moore, Corres ponding Secretary. of issues and no income we run behind. Give Welch Eclectic Literary Society. to us your support and when we don't do our G. S. Angus, President; F. C. Stewart, Corres ponding Secretary. part send in your advice and we will profit Philomathean Literary Society. by it, we are young and willing to learn. w. H. Jackson, President; Iowa Campbell, Corres Should your AURORA not reach you drop us ponding Secretary. a card and know why. Let us get acquaint Cliolian Literary Society. Jessie Maxwell, President; Mary Hook, Corres ed with you thus and we will pledge our ponding Secretary. strength to make every issue reach you: Crescent Literary Society. E. P Hudson, President; Vinnie Williams, Corres ponding Secretary. *** Engineering Society. The Freshman-Sophomore declamatorv J. H. Moore, President; B. Benjamin, Correspond ing Secretary. contest of '91 was one of the best delivered at Veterinary Society. the institution, so say those who are suppos Prof. M. Sta.Iker, President; J. C. Norton, 1st Vice ed to know. The recitations lacked more President; G. S. Waterhouse, Corresponding Secretary. of the old wearisomeness so often found in Science Club. such -eve~ts. ·rhe cheerful and gay were Leo Thurliman, President; H. A. Gossard, Secre tary. everywhere mingled, this, with the talent Lecture Association. . displayed had a very relieving effect upon E. c. Oggel, President; Clarice McCarthy, Secre the audience. tary. The decision of Judges gave Mr. Faville Oratorical Association. J. H. Moore, President; Mabel Owens, Secretary. 1st place, Miss Mills 2nd, and Mr. Randlet Y. M. C. Association. 3rd. J.C. Norton, President; E. E. Clinton Correspond The following is the marking as given by ing Secretary. the four judges, Dr. Richmond's markings Y. W. C. Association. Mary Nichols, President; Jennie Thornburg, Corres being used as referee. 'Twill be noticed ponding Secretary. that the referee's marks harmonize the more Athletic Association. closely to Judges Wilson and Coyle. We F. J. Bowne, President; Wincent Zmunt, Secretary, 20 THE A UROR.A._ will only remark that it seems to us that ~tr,.~ judges should come to an understanding as to whether they use a high or low standard Alumni Department. of marking, in case they do not, we are apt '!!..,f-.'Q)Tcg;f).'i to have the great difference occur again as . 'ff. ·. is shown below, not that it changes material THE .ALUMNI B.ANQUEI, ly the places of the speakers but because it is a step more toward having harmony At 10:15 P. !\I. the gong sounded for the among the judges' markings, which means admittance of the alumni and friends to the more satisfaction to the school-boy, and does feast. The banquet was prepa1'ed in the not allow him to accuse a judge of stinginess. old chapel under supervision of Col. Lincoln. To illustrate what we mean, if the marks of One hundred and eighty-six plates were plac Judges Wilson, Richmond and Coyle had ed and all was sparkle and bliss. been taken instead of Judges Weld, Wilson Mr. R. W. Hopkins class '76 was toast and Coyle, "The First Settler's Story" would master of the evening. The first response have received 2nd instead of 7th place. This called for was "The Graduate of '76" by S. difference in the markings of judges is too Hitchcock '76. He said: Friends: I hardly great to admit of explanation and shows the expected when I went home, of attending uncertainty of entering a contest. How the alumni meeting, much less of ever giving ever the decision gave a general satisfaction.• , response this evening before you. It is difficult for me to do a pleasure to my hear ~ ·.~ ers, for I never see ~' pun and, here, now, I feel the cold shivers run up my spine like lzj 8 H c.,. 8 8 8 ~ 8 ~ ~ ~ 0 when I spoke here upon this Platform my 0 00 !ll Cl) Cl) Cl) =-Cl) Cl) =-Cl) c,' "" "" "" ~ 'li 1t So "" Cl) piece at graduation, but I will do my part q rn lzj 0 ., ti- ="" .,. !ll O' ~ 0 0. ,.!ll ! Cl) !ll ll:I and give my experience at leaet. We have =.,. s f "C s: < "C 0 "':=o ... rn 0.= !ll ., = s· s· !ll g ~ enjoyed the program here to-day and I caIJ 0 Cl) rn C) = lo' s ~ ,,; ... ~ '< y,= >3 'li ;ii ""' H = : 0 ..."' : 0 °'l : only say, '76 are few tonight, but perhaps = ;:!; 0. a .,_ 0 >3 rn s· : s ., "' : t< we are remembered by our evil more than 'O :> "' rn : g "' "'0 : "' t'J Cl) ~ oo· ;<- rn ., (I) Q !ll 0 : _the good we ever done. We are the ones .,. s w ,_.. : a ., ttj"' : "' Cl) 0 .... 5· 0. : who got up t,he mock programs, shaved the :' ., : s., : ':'1 0 4 : '< : = : C) : "'C' horses tail and committed so many depreda !ll" !ll 0 : : : "" : : ... : ., tions around these old familiar places . : : : ~ : : =· : °'l \Vhen we left this institution we thought t< g:i a ~ Q g:i ~ ~ '< ~ 0 r" ., ~ ~ - to perpetuate our memory by placing a gran io'., !ll s· "' C) ~ ;-< ;-< = ~ r" ;,;' ~ :-1 0 ite boulder out upon the campus with the = Q"' ::;; <'.'l a ~ ~ ~ "' ~ ~ ., ll:I 0 0 ., ~ !ll ~ C, Ill year of graduation carved upon it, but some 0 "' !ll :3 ., z ""< .ill C, ~. ., :::: :::1. " 0. >3 "' p' y, 0.= ~ i:j ;:!; l,j demon of the night hid it beneath the ground, g:: .ro 0. Cl) 00 a ~ :=o Jt ., ct g. ., g ; It was but natural that such a one should be tinued ill health affected his mind. His physician order chosen to grace the home of one of onr brightest ed complete rest and change, and after refusing to give up his work until long after he was unfit through physi and most successful young men-1'. F. Beving c>t~ weakness to properly perform his duties, he was final ton of class '84. ly mduced to make a visit to his parents. They were married in June, '88, and went to In a very few days after his departure, his wife was their new home in Sioux City, where Tom had ~~-mooed to his side, but he was dead when she reached won an enviable reputation for himself as an at Memol'ial services were held in the col:ege chapel on torney and as a progressive. whole souled man. Monday, Jnne 9th, when addresses were delivered by Their home life was al! tllat their most ctevoted President McLouth _and Professor~ Cary and Keffer, and appropi:iat.e_ rE:solut1ons were adopted by the faculty. friends coulct desire. No queen has held a warm Un bemg mformed that a memorial was to be read be er fealty, no spirit a more devoted affection than fore _Mr .. Cotey's college alumni, Pres. McLonth express this truo woman, in her true home. ed_ his )ugh appreciation of the character a11d services of Her home was llriglltened by the presence of a th•s faithful worker, whom he regarded as an honor to little_d_aughter, named for that dearly loved col the institution that gra1uated him. lege _friend, Edna. On tile advent of a bal>y boy her JOY seemed complete, but, alas! it was of ** short duration. After making a brave struggle * to live for the husband who idolized her, and for BISTORY OF I. A, C. ALUMNI. the helpless little ones who so needed a mother's care, she calmly accepted the inevitable and died BY MRS. WHEELER. as bravely as she had lived. The beauty and strength of her charaflter The history of _the Alu_mui_ of the Iowa Agn shone out iu that last week as never before. She cultmal College 1s that of active, energetic, men spoke of many of her college friends, and said tu and women. Men and women who have "enlist tell the rest that she thought of them. One of ed in the ranks of earnest strivers'' a:id who the pathetic things she said was that she knew have been taught, in recitation rooms and labo that her home was too happy to last. How rnlo!·y, that wnatever object they may hope to strangely unjust death seems some times, but attam 1s to be wrought out by their own hands· let us trnst that 1f our small minds could grasp that "all true work is sacred." Varied are thei; the harmony of the Divine plan, all would seem occupations and widely separated are the great just and nght. er number of those, who, as classmates laoored To the class of '87 we extend our heartfelt at the same tasks to the end of the fo~r years sympathy for the loss of Lwo of their number course. It has heen the custom at each of the W ill Frater and Charles Cotey. biennial meetings of this association to note in The former lived but one short year after his a brief way the changes that the years have graduation from college. during which time he brought to the Alumni that they may not as fought the dread monster, Brights Disease. Ev they drift awav from their Alma Mater be lost ery plan which loving parents could devise was -sig_ht of but that we_ may know what they are put into execution to prolong hts life, but to no do111g and ~o"'. the mstruction gained here is avail. Patient, llrave, uncomplaining, he sank shap111g their llves. Through the circulars sent away with a prayer upon his lips. He was out f1:om ~he trea~urer's office and other helps mourned as an only sou and an only brother can very full 111format10n has been obtained and if be mourned. As a student he will be remember it has been used ii, any satufactory wanner, its ed as always fait.hfnl, kind. and good natured· purpose bas been served. ttwughtful and earnest in his work and trusted 187?. J.C. Arth~r i~ located at La Fayette, by the professors. Ind. 111 Purdue Umvers1tv as Professor of Veo- In his t1Venty-fifth year it seemed. that a lite etable Physiology and Pathology and Botani;t of u~efnlness and prosperity was before him, to experiment station. His scientific ability is but 1t was sudd mly ended lure, "' l!'aith will recognized throughont the Uuited States and he ~ope ,ind love will trn3t" that it began rndiantlv has ueen_ an in~tructor in bntany in the states of 111 that better land where ·•Time limiteth not and Iowa, \VIS\lonsm, New York and Indiana. He where the glittering star cf life goeth not down J_ias publishe!l severa:l reports and papers relat forever.'' mg to botan•cal subJects among which are '"Ttle As information concerning the death of Prof. :Flora of Iowa," ·'History and Biology of Pear Chas. Uotey was received at a very late date Blight" and ··Handbook of Plant Dissection " Coulter & Barnes being associated "ith him in w~ append, !~is memorial as written t,y his the latter worlL He is one of the editors of the fnend, Prof. Uhas. Keffer. ··Botanical Gazette" and a member of eight im The announcement of the deat'1 of Prof. Chat'les Jos eph c.,tey was received by his colleag.1es of the South port~nt, scientific societrns. O. II. Cessna is in Dakota Agricultural College faculty on the 6th of June the Methodist ministry at Belvidere Ill. The 18.IJ. he having committed suicide. while suffering from mercantile business claims two from 'this class ins,inity 9:t his.father's home in Madison, Nebraska, the day prev10us. Professor Cotey was elected instructor in C. N. Deitz, a lumber merchant at Omaha, Neb: shorthand, type writing and telegraphy, and accountant and IL Fuller, a dealer in tlry goods at Ottum of the college. and began his work April 1st 1888. Dur wa. F. L. Harvey is instructor in Economic h's services to the institution he made for hi~self an en Botany and Entomology for the Maine experi vhble reputation as a careful bnsiness man and a suc c ·ssful teacher, endearin<>; himself to the students hy his ment station at Orono where he has bePn for uniform kindness and courtesy, and @mm:tndino- the re the past five years. In addition to the degreef> spect of all witn whom he came in contact by his0 energy which this institution has conferred upon him his unswerving integrity and devotion to his duties: Mr. Cotey was married about six months before his death he has received. from the Arkansas lnduE-triai !o Miss Dalinda Mason, professor of domestic economy University, the degree of Ph.D. He has added m the college and their home life was most happy. about one hundred speciPs to the fossil plants of . D~ring thP '".inter of 18l9-90 llfr. and Mrs. Cotey resided Arkansas and discovered several flowering an,t m Pierre. Whlie there Mr. Cotey suffered from an attack of La Grippe, which was renewed after his return home. fossil plants new to science. In Maine, he has A complic,ition of physical disorder., resulted, and con- discovered two new fungi and three others not T:S::E .AUR.OR.A_ 23 before reported from America. He has also follower of that profession at present. C. E tound in entomology two new species and added Clingan is a prominent physician of Sioux Ctty. important facts to the Jife history of injurious G. E. Marsh of Osage, J. R. WhittakPr of insects. Reports and classifications of his work, Booue, G. W. Kiesel of Dubuque and W. R. together with \!ontnbutious to scientific periodi Smith of Chicago are attorneys and are doing cals anrl papers, constitute his list of pu1Jlica well. O. P. McCray is an Insurance and State t10ns. He is a thorough worker and judging agent at Sioux City. M. C. Litteer is in Oklaho from what he has already accomplished, we may ma in agricultural pursuits. A. A. Parsons is a expect much more from him in the future. furniture dealer at Van Horn, Ia., although he Prof. aud Mrs. Macomber are in Des Moines speaks of his life as uneventful, we hear of him where he is master of his law profession and as b1iing selt sacriticing and always ready to she is mistress of the household. I. W. Smith is perform kir,d offices for others. Marv .Palmer a physician at Charles Uity where he has a suc Snell is at Boone performing the many ducies cessful practice. H. U. Spencer is caslner of t\Je t~iat (!la!_rn up home life. Kate Tupper Galpin 1st National Bank of Grinnell a posit.ion he has hves m Los Angeles, Cal. She has lilied many held eighteen years. He is also treasurer of Io important posit10ns as instructor, among them wa College._ J. L. Stevens still follows his law that of Prof. of Pedagogy. Ida Smith .Noyes is profession and ,is a luxury operates a farm of in Chicago where she has aided her husband bv three hundred and ten acres. C. L. Suksdorf is writing some of the best advertisements fo-r Superintendent of Scott county schools and a his mventions that harn been written besides resident of Davenport. Among the few profes devoting considerable time to the study of art sors of former times now found at the college is in Paris. Journalism is the occupation uf E. A. Prof. Stanton, who to every student is closely Pyne of Vinton who is pleased to review 11is associated with mathematics. J. W. Wells is a thoughts of other days. . successful farmer at Nevada, Ia. Lut.her Foster 187.5. Three of this class are lawyers, J. M. bas been Prof. of Agriculture in the Agricultur Whittaker of Marshalltown, F. J. Macomber of al College of S. Dakota since J 885 and Director Lewis, Cass county and M. E. Rudolph of Can of Experiment Station since September, 1890. ton, S. Dak. Six are housekeepers in their L. W. Noyes is a manufacturer of agricultural homes, Millah Cherrie Whitmg in Dem·er, Col. implements in Chicago, of his invention of the Ida Ross Boardman at Odebol Moines. [We heartily congratulate him m his Veterinary Science in the South Dakota Agri new departure.] Bertha (.)arson Cleave lives at cultural ()ollegi., at Brookings. D. B. Coliier and Marseilles, lllinois with her little daughter of wife, Lvdia Shreckengast Collier, am farming five years. Minnie Ifoapp. Mayo is happily em at Darard, Ta. George F. Goodno and Anna ployed in her home duties at Lake Uharles, Lou Nichols Goodno are at Dedham, Massachusetts isiana, being the mother of two little boys. Her where he is superintendent of Dedham & Hyde man Knapp is treasurer of the College and Ma Park Gas & Electric Co. D. E. Collins is a vet rv McDonald Knapp is our efficient secretary. erinary surgeon at Emmetsburg, Iowa, M E. M. E. Wells is a locomotive engineer his ad Johnson at Red Oak:. E. E. Sayers at Algona, dress being Deadwood, S. Dakota and Kate Mc I<'. S. Shoenleber at Morris 1llinois, and S. :--tew Neil Wells has been vis1t.ing m Iowa. S. Mead art at Uouncil Bluffs. Mr. t,hoenleber is also in is State Engineer of Wyoming and is located at the livery business. W. M. Hays is Prof. of Ag Chevenne. M. J. Riggs is bridge en~;inp.ering at riculture in the University of .Min.iesota. G. 11. Toledo, Ohio. F. J. Smith is a physician at Al Glover is a veterinary surgeon at Longmont, ton, Ia. W. D. Wells is principal of Grundy Uolorado. He expects soon to return to his for Centre schools. Agatha .West is a teacher in the mer practice in Denver. Frank Leverett occu high school of Rock Rapids and is very success pies the place of assistant geologist of the glaci ful. Mary Young Alexander is the wife of a al division of the U. ~. Geological Survey and prosperous banker of Clarion and a model lives at Danmark, Ia J.B. Lockwoon is at Se housekeeuer. Emily Reeve is with her sister in attle; Washington and is assistant engineer of the milli11ery business at Algona. Jennie L. the San Francisco Bridge Co. ,John G. Pope is a Christman is teaching in Albany, New York. mechanical engineer in the employ of a firm in 188~- 'l'. F. Bevington of Sioux City, L. W. .Akron, Ohio. A. N. Quint is an attorney at Garrett of Des Moines, B. T. Hainer of Guthrie, Carroll and C. E. Underhill at Onawa, fa. Em Oklahoma and C. H. Sloan of Geneva are en ma Porter Sloan reports herself a:i very much gaged in the legal profession. [Mr. Hainer pass occupied in overseeing the early education of es over the question "Are you marriedi'" and Ethel Sloan. 1. B. Shreckengast is engaged as a extends his answer to agricultural interests giv Methodist minister at Sweetland. Ia. L. F. Mc ing information of his stock farm, so we must Uoy is a civil engmeer in railrcad employ, his infer that 11e is inclined towanl a bachelor's µresrnt address being t:-:eattle, Washington. D. life.] A. S. Hitchcock occupies the place of first L. Hutchinson has the same occupation at .Oe Assistant in Botany in the Missouri Botanical marsville, Montana. W. B. Niles is an instruc Garden at St. Louis. George Chathurn 1s SupEC:r tor in Veterinary science at the College. intendent of city schools of Humboldt, Nebras 1886. J. W. Bradford is junior member of the ka aod holds a life teacher's certificate fwm firm of Bradford & Son leadmg furniture deal that state. He has been elected to the Superin ers at Nashua, Ia. P. S. BIHns is an instructor tendencv of the Wymore schools at a salary of in Chen.istry in the Boston Institute of Tech $1,200. He is the happy father of a little girl. F. · nology, having studied a year in Germany since L. Lambert's whole enbrgy is devoted to farm graduating. He gives the date of his marriage ing at Chatles City. G. w: Osborn is 1( cated at to a Maiue lady as May 21st, 1891. V. C. Gam Fremont as Veterinary Surgeon and State Vet bell is teachirig at Rhodes, Iowa, Lizzie Langfitt erinarian of Nebraska. .J. F. Porter is in New at Greenfield, and B. Buchli in tbe city schools York City and is Vice-president and ffeneral of Alma, Kansas. W. E. Gamble is a physician manager of an electric railway. G. W. 'lhomp at What Uheer, and A. P. Johnson at Sigourney. son is principal of the Casey high school and de Mr. Johnson says that he 1s a chronic bauhelor. voted to the interests or his familv consisting of u. W. Green is au unmarried farmer at Dunlap. a wife and three children. M. J. Wicks occupies S. If. Hedges 1s a bridge contractor with the the same position in the schools at Panora, Ia., Ulinton Bridge & Iron Co. He says he 1s11't and George 1V. Wormley in the Hazel Dell married at present. R. R. Myers is assistant Academy at Newton. [Mr. Wormiey has a sala cashier of the Hank of Anita. Practice in Veter ry of $1300.] M. Vincent is manager of th:- ~ake inary science is the occupation of M. H. Rey City nurseries at Lake Uharles, Lvms_1ana. uolds, Keosangua, Iowa, H. L. Chatterton of Olive Weatherby Marsh of Des Mones 1s at Peterson, G. A. Johnson of Odeholdt, E P. tending to the domei:tic and social welfare of Niles of Ames and E. S. Johnson of Mornmg her family. W. II. Weir is a merchant and land Sun. 0. W. Rich i!! in the nursery business at owner at Randall, Ia. Fannie Wilson is teach· Atlantic, Ia. E. S, Richman is horticulturist ing in Northboro, Massachusetts, having com and botanist in the Agricultural College of pleted a two years course iri the State Normal. Utah located at Logan. S. D. Clough is teach Addie Rice Hainer is boarding and enjoymg ing, in the insnrauce business and overseeing life at the College. C. Vincent is unmarried and farm in Norwalk, Ia. M. Z. Farwell is at 'l'res is at Winfield. Kansas where he is lectnring and Piedras in New Mexico in the ;i;eneral merchan publishing in behalf of the labor reform. Edna dise business and is also postmaster. He was Belle Anderson was married in Deeember 1890 married last September. to a hardware merchant and lives m Missouri 1887. S. A. Beach is associate Prof. of Botany Va,.ley. Alfre:1 Williams is a civil engineer at and Horticnlture in the Agricultural College of Denver, Uolorado. Texas and Norma Hainer Beach superintends 1885. Hannah Hutton Shearer Jives in Wal his household affairs. lisvillP. Texas and is the mother of a little girl. W. A. P,itersJn is principal of schools at Line J.C. Lipes is endeavoring- to establish at Auro ville, Ia., G. A. Colton at Virginia City, Mon. ra, Missouri a teacher's training school. He and Emma I. Casey i'! a teacher at Delta, Ia., S. hopes to succef'd although he considers that B. Clari. is a marned farmer at Plattsburg, N. state a hard field iu which to labor in such an Y. Esther Crawford has prepa:ed herPelf for a enterprise. C. S. Bowie is an electrical eng"ineer professional cataloguer and 1s now engaged 111 at Tacoma, Washington. C. A. Cary is Prof. of that work at the college. C. F. Curtiss is assist- THE .A.UR.OR.A.. 27 arit at the experiment station of Ia. A. C. Felt is C. Sayers of Fairfield are veterinary surgeons. assistant cashier in the 1st National Hauk of Grant Flora is a civil engineer at Hhodes la. J. Superior Neb. G. /:l. Govier is at Dallas Texas E. Hyde and J. B. Allen are lawyers at Mrnneap and is general agent and assistant engineer for olis. K. IL Granger'!! address 1s Handolph the, Geo. King liridge Uo., 'l'. V. Harpel is an Mass. and he is principal of the Harwich centre attorney at Perry. la. The chosen life work of grammar schools. He expects to graduate tmm U. E. Hanson is to help develop the horticul Dartmouth Medical College in '92. Fred L. ture of the northwest and he is secretary of the Dobbin is in Galveston Texas ctealiug in real e ,. Capital City nurseries at Des .Yloines. He is tate. E. L. Bartholomew and Ella Henderson author of a manual of horticulture for the north Bartholomew are living in Mi11neapoliE1 where western states which has been published in the he 1s at work on the Minneapolitl Journal. They lJamsh language aiHl is soon to appear in other have a little boy born June 5th '91. languages. E. A. Kirkpatrick is at Rhodes pre 1889. James Baker 1s teachmg- school and paring to teach psychology anct pedagogy. I<'. studying law at Ames. J. ]<:;. Banks is assistant W. Slally is in the U. S. Agricultural depart eng111eer and agent for Southern Bridge Co. lo ment at Washington, as an entomologist aud cated at Birmingham Ala. S. B. Beyer is assist is a contributor to agricultural papers of the ant in Geology and Zoology, D. B. Bisbee in South. A report of his on the boll worm of cot Chemistry. H. A. Gossard in entomology and ton has just been published. A.. E. Osborn is a P.H. Rolfe in botany at the college. W. B. A committee on resolutions consisting of J. W. of praise and commendation were many. Doxsee, C. F.Saylor,O. P. McCray was appoint The dress parade was followed by review ed This committee subsequently made the fol lowing report which was unanimously adopted. after which the companies were to be dis Be it resolved by the Alumni association of missed and all would proceed to Morrill Hall the Iowa State Agricultural college in session to the dedicatory exercises. Instead of dis assembled. missing their companies the captains march 1st, That we recognize in President Beard shear the newly elected executive officer of this ed them up close to the band and all stood college a man of superior force 2 ability and waiting. Col. Lincoln again insisted em scholorship, and that we pledge hrm our sup• phatically on dismissing '·those companies" port in all wise efforts to extend the power, the but for once his orders were disobeved. As muflence and the standing of our Alma· Mater. 2nd. That we desire to.thank those members the band finished playing, Major· W. C. of our association, who provided the satisfac~ Jones stepped out and in a neat and eloquent tory intellectual entertainment of the Alumni speech presented the Col. with a beautiful meeting and in dqing th~s we in no wise forget floral tribute, a miniature cannon. We the excellent music furmshed on that occasion by Miss Chambers, Prnf. Backus and the college print the speech in full. orchestra. · Ladies and Gentlemen: The mrlitarv exhibi 3rd. That a vote of thanks be tendered to tion you have just wituessed closes a prosperous the secretary of this association for her indus term's work. If perchance while viewmg- these trious efforts in working up the attendance of mal?ouvers you have uttered words of commen this meeting and otherwise contributing to the ~at101;1 upon the cadence of the step, the precis- success of this pleasant gathering. 10n or the manual, the neatness of a movement 4th. That we appreciate the efforts of the ·10- or its smoothness of exe Mr. Emry entertained his sister during the closing exercises. Mr. and Miss Hudson entertained their parents June 16 and 1 7. Mr. Rundall was visited by his mother the first part of the week. Misses Justis and Mechem once of the class of '93 are at the college. Mr. \V elch once of the class '92 came down from Boone on June 16. Mr. and Miss Malley were visited by their mother Tuesday and \Y ednesday. Mr. Nichols, once of class '90, was here on Local Items. May 30th visiting with his sister. Miss Doolittle was visited by her sister on Mr. McClanahan entertained Messrs. Pet June 3. erson and Wier on June 16 and 1 7. Mr. :J\lfoCord entertained his brother on Rev. Fouler, of Cedar Rapids, conducted May 31. the services in the chapel last Sunday. Miss Cottrell was visited by her mother Mr. and Miss Sirrine were vi~ited by their on June 5. parents the last few days of the term. Miss Blaine was entertained by her father Mr. Duroe was called home on account of on June 11. the death of his sister. He returned on Mr. D. G. ·white wa~ visited by his brother June 4. on June 7th. · Mr: Dunbar, the chairman of the Board Miss Williams was visited by her sister of Trusteee, is at the college. He arrived on June 1st. ·on !une 13. Miss Saylor was visited by her friend Miss Morrison was visited by hei- sister Miss Zimmerman, from Grinnell, during the last Sunday. closing exercises. Prof. Bac>,kus ente1tained his mother on Pres. Beardshear has received the degree May 30 and 31. of L. L. D. "\Ve can say we know it could not Miss Georgia Porter, once of the class of be put upon worthier ·shoulders. '90 is at the college. Ye president of AB"RORA staff was givPn a Hattie Elden, once of the class of '90, made chair at the banquet table Tuesday night, he a short call on June 8. is to-day of a torpid disposition. Miss Bigelow once of the class of '90 came Junior trots are awful numerous, they up from Ames on June 8. nearly exceed the mashing qualifications of some of the more mature seniors. Mr. Boyd was here on June 5th visiting with his daughter Emma. · F. E. Furrey, of '81 gave our sanctom a very pleasant call while here, he knows the Several delegates of the Des Moines school · road-of•a c◊llege Journalistic world. were at the college on June 3. Remember the AURORA for the remainder Mr. Passig was at the college on May 30 of the year is 75 cents including this double and 31, the guest of Miss Hook. June issue and commencement issue. Mr. Foster was at the college on May 30 and 31 visiting with his son George. President Beardshear has returned from his tour in Ohio. He delivered a course of Miss Ford, once of the class of '92, made lectures in the colleges of that state. a short call at the I. A. C. on May 30. On June 3rd the two bovs' battalions On Saturday, June 13, Prof. ORborn moved drilled for the colors. As the judges decid the museum to Morrill Hall. 'l'he work of ed it as a tie the colors were carried by the moving the library was also begun. ladies battalion the remainder of the term. THE.AURORA. ~ . - _, -~ . ~ ' , M{!ssrR. Mehan and Head left for their _About 130 Al_1,1mni.were at the reunion. homes last week. The reception given by Col. Lincoln to Mr. Bartley, once of the class of '93, was :· the 'officers and the ladies battalion, was en shaking bands with bis friends at the college joyed very much by all who . attended. As (11,st-Sunday. usual the tables were filled with all sorts of luxuries that time and money could afford The two assistants in chemistry have , a'nd everybody seemed happy. The Colonel made the analysis of some mineral water and bis wife know· how to entertain. sent to Prof.. Bennet from Sioux City. Walter E. Scott who attended school here Miss Yeisley, once of the class of '90, ar last yea~ is now a p:ra.ctfoing physician at rived at the college on June 13. She expects Adel, and is in intimate business relation to be _here during the closing exercises. with .J. L. Simcoke He is enjoying a good Miss Curtis, a member of the class of '93, practice and is having astonishing success. w,ho left college a few months . ago on ac We all wish you well Dr. Scott. · count of sickness is again at the I. A. C. We are eorry . that. the excellent address On 'rhursday evening, June 11, several delivered by Dr. Yeomans at the dedication Professors and assistants took their tea at of Morrill Hall has been omitted from this Prof.. Pammel's. All report a pleasant time. issue. It is too late now as we go to press The rails for the Ames and College Rail immedi1itely, to insert it, but we will print way have arrived and will be laid this week, it in our next issue. Watch for it. thus by Friday or.Saturday the motor will On account of our Alumni department be in running order. . which is a large part of this issue, we have W. U. Rickard, once of the class of '91, delayed THE AuRORA one week. But we made a short call at the college on June 13. believe you will appreciate it. all the more He is taking a course in Civil Engineering since by delay we have made additions and at Iowa City which he will finish next June. made our accounts _of the closing exercises fuller than they otherwise would have been. On account of the late appearance of the new chapel seats it was necessary for the _To the many friends of the AuitoRA, we carpenters to work by[;nigbt so as to prepare say a hearty thank you. We appreciate seating capacity for the Dedication Exer fully the responses for support and aid from cises. you. Permit us to say again, THE AURORA staff are still enthusiastic, we are still work .. Saturday morning, June 13, was_ the time ing, booming, and shall continue to do so. for mihtarv inspection. The first prize was Our efforts thus far having been appreciated, awarded to Mr. White while Mr. Roberts we shall endeavor to do still better, endeavor took second. Guns were in better condition to give 'l'HE AURORA that lift upon the high than ever before. plane we spoke of in our first issue. May . It is with sorrow we learn that our worker, our further efforts reap as grand a result as Miss Hook, will not be with us this fall, our our past. Once more, thank you: paper will miRs her. We wish her success; . On June 5th the State Athletic lfield Day a visit to our circle will alays be welcome was held at Iowa City. Several of our boys _in word or letter. . went down to take part in the contest. Mr. . Why not, in order to, make Junior Ex. Zmunt very easily walked away with the a success, have it on the Monday evening be medal on the Base Ball throw by throwing fore schoo1 closes? We believe· it to be a the ball 344 -feet. On account of the rain .much better way than to have it when we and a strong wind it was impossible for him want to go borne on Wednesday. to raise his last years record which be other wise undoubtedly would have done. Among w· e have seen the Vis Medicatrix, a bi the other contestants, Trotter, Grattan, Fos montblv J oumal, edited by Woods Hutchi ter, and Ashford took second in several events son, A: M. M. D. with L. H. Pammel, B. On account of the bad _weather the latter Agr., Professor of Botany at this College half of the program was postponed until and S. Stewart, M. D. D. V. M. of Council June 13 when it was completed at Marshal Bluffs as Associates. The Journal is a credit town, where Mr. Grattan took first prize on to them as well as useful to the entire Mede the running high jump, . his record being ical Fraternity of Iowa. 5 ft. 4¾in. · TE:E .A.UR.OR.A._ 88 The Joint Freshmen and Sophomore decla '84. .lJ'Iiss Perret has been teaching at mation cont.est which was held in the college Ottumwa. She arrived at the college on chapel on June 5th was without doubt equal June 13. to any heretofore held. The declamers were '90. G. H. Schulte is up in Worth county. twelve in number and their declamations He has been attending the law school at all'showed careful preparation. The honors Iowa City. were awarded Mr. Faville first, Miss Mills second, and Mr. Randlett third. The judges '89. A. A. McLaughlin arrived at the col were Mrs. Henrv Wilson, of Ames, and lege June 15. He has been studying law at Prof. S. T. Weld and Rev. Campbell Coyle, Ann Arbor. of Nevada. The decision gave general sat '89. _Mr. Shoenlober is at the college. He isfaction. has been working as a mechanical engineer "· ** in.Chicago. ALUMNL ·'90. Ada 1\Cills arrived at the college June 13. She has been teaching in the '82. Mr. .iffcDona.ld is practicin C:::a::ILD & ~LLE~? Livery, Feed f Sale ST~ELE? AMES, IOWA. A. W. Rogers, ~------Boot~ Sha~ Mak~r. Bepalring of aU kinds 01 1ho~\ ncllce. South side of Main street, Ames, Iowa. 'l\ N. Nelson & Sou, Cal)ier JJros.,. & MerJJ1aJJ,- Dea1ers in Merchant Tailor8. Boots and Shoes, Ames, Iowa. American and Imported French and English Suitings made to order, and perfect fit guaranteed. Will allow Railroad fare to students purchas ing suits. Registered Dentist West side Story St., Boone, Iowa. R0oms at rPsidence, opposite the West House, Ames, Iowa. Wallace & Johnson's, ~co. ·c. BAKE!R., BOONE, IOWA, Is the place to go for your Practical Watchmaker and JBWBlBr. Watch work a specialty. All work warranted. e3 t e:>"I~ FI t Ne;- · Old Nat'l Bank Stand, Ames, Iowa. and Gent's Furnishing Goods. Ten per cent. discount to t:itudents presenting · their cards. Geo. G. Tilden, Dealer in COHN & HOFFMAN, .Dry Goods, Clothing, Dealers in Furnishing Goods. We keep a complete line of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes Hats and Caps, Groceries, Notions, Trunks, Va- ' Uses, Ladies' and Gents' furnishing goods. Custom and Tailor-made Clothing a SDBcialty, Agency for Foss Brothers, · GEO. G. TILDEN, Merchant Tailors, of Chicago. North side of street, Ames, Iowa. Corner 8th and Story Sts .. Boone, Iowa: GEO. D. LOUD, Manufacturer of L. M. Bosworth, and dealer in Druggist ti Book Seller. FUl{M1TUl{E. North side of street, Ames, Iowa. All goods delivered at the College without extra charge. Chicago and Des Moines dailies furnished at Bicycles ! regular subscription prices. We carry an unequalled line South side Main Street, A]lles, Iowa. and can surely please you. Cycles Sold on Easy PaymBnts. BINCHAM & CO., Sporting and Athletic Goods ■s~i••~e. § l~tis~a~ of all kinds. 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Edinger Prices $4 per dozen for strict ly first-class work. . Work put out Promptly and Satisfactorily TO .ALL CONCERNED. I pay personal ~ttention ~o_ all sitti.ng_s, _and in that way can wa~Tant all my w01:k. With more expenence and improved fac1lit1es my work co1,stantly improves. Special rates will be given to students. · 603-605 Walnut Street, Call and see me. DES MOINES, IOWA. . °SUS\\\f.!,$ If you want to take a Busi BIGELOW & SMITH, ------ness Colll'Se or a colll'Se in Dealers in Shorthand and Typewriting, send for a Cat alogue to The Capital City Commercial Col lege, Des Moines, Iowa. r:>RY {S-e)e)l:>S, gfothing + J. F. mahain, AND Gents' Fur Shelf~- H0avy Hardware. nishings. Ladies and Misses Fine Shoes. Students' supplies in our line a special ty. Goods delivered free; Clothing a specialty. Ames, ~owa. Prices always the lowest. Ames, Iowa. STATE COLLEGE -OF- Agriculture {fl Mechanic Arts, .&•BB. :IOW& .. Officers of -Instruction. W. M. Beardshear, A. M. President. Professor of Psych- D. W. Church; C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. . ology. Miss Stephanie Marx, B. L., Preceptress and Professor M. Stalker, M.Sc., V. 8., ProfessorofVeterinaryScience. of French and German. J. L. Budd, M. H., Professor of Horticulture. D • .A. Kent, B. Sc., Assistant Professor of Agriculture. E. w. Stanton, M. Sc., Professor of Mathematics and C. F. Curtiss, B. S. A., Station Assistant. Economic Science. · A. J. Wiechardt, M. E., Assistant Professor of Mechani- D. S. Fairchild, M. D., Professor of Pathology, Histology, cal Engineering. . Therapeutics and Comparative Anatomy. W. B. Niles, D. V. M., Assistant Professor of Veterinary Col. James Rush Lincoln, Professor of Military Science Science. and Tactics. Alfred A. Bennett, M. Sc., Professor of Chemistry. Miss I::c~ ~i~::~: A. B., Instructor in ED!flish, Herbe_rt Osborn, M. Sc., Professor of Zoology and Ent.o mology. Miss Fanny F. Thomas, A. M., Librarian and Instructpr · in Elocution. · . J .. c. Hainer, M. Sc., M. D.,Professor of Physics and Elec trical Engineering. F. A. Weihe, M. E., Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. A. c. Barrows, A. M., D. D., Professor of English Liter •Joseph Chamberlain, B. Sc., Assistant In Chemistry. ature and History. Leo Thurllmann, B. Sc., Assistant In Chemistry. C. w. Scribner, A. B., M. E., Professorof Mechanical.En-· gineering. ·Miss Minnie Roberts, B. L., Assistant in Mathematics. L. H. Pammel, B. Agr., Professor of Botany. S. W. Beyer, B. Sc., Assistant in Geology and Zoology. Mrs. Eliza Owens, Professor of Domestic Economy. P. H_. Rolfs, B. Sc., Assistant_ In Botany. J.C. Norton, D. V. M., House Surgeon. James Wilson, Professor of Ag1·iculture and director of Experiment Station. Miss Marie Chambers, Director of Music and Instructo11 G. E. Patrick, M. Sc., Professor of Agricultural Chemill in Vocal Mssic. ' try. George Baekus, Instr'!Jctor in Instrumental Music. Courses of Study. Four Courses in Agriculture. Preparatory Class. 1. A Course of 4 years. 3. A short winter course. Beglnalng July 21st, a preparatory class wiU be formed 2. A Course of 2 y1:1ar. 4. A dairy course. and given instruction In Algebra, English Grammar, U. S. Hi&tory and Human Physiology to fit students for en Five Other Special Courses. trance to the Freshman class _of the following year. 1. A course in Sciences related to the indus- Graduates of High Schools tries. Who have completed Algebra and are thorough In Arith 2. A course for young ladies. metic,' Grammar and English Composition, and have had 3. A course in Mechanical Engineering. a year or more of Latin, can enter probably the second term of the Freshman year, July 21st. and graduate with 4. A course in Civil. Engineermg. the class in B½ years. Catalogues and full Information 5. A course in Veterinary Science. may be secured by addressing. Also Special ·Post Graduate ,lines o:i' Study W. M. BEARDSHEAR, President. in the Sciences. · · Ames, lows.