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VoL. VIII. HARTFORD, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875. No. V. Glazier's Art Gallery. Where may be found a large assortment of Geo. Saunders & Co., Oil and Water Color p AINTINGS PHARMACEUTISTS, Line and Mezzo Tint Engravings, Water' . AND DEALERS IN Colored Photographs, &c. FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, ALSp, FRAMES OF NEWEST DESIGNS. 276 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. Respectfully, CHO I CE HAVANA CIGARS, 0. D. GLAZIER & CO. WINES, Ll~UEURS, &c., OPERA GLAS ES, MAGIC LANTERNS, MICROSCOPES, · ANDTHECELEBRATED PARK DRUG STORE LAZAR US & MORRIS ' PERFECTED 377 Asylum St., corner Ford St.
HATCH~ TYLER, and EYE GLASSES, in Gold, Silver, Steel aod Shell Wholesale and Retail Dealers in all kinds of Frames, and a Full Assortment of OPTICAL GOODS, at the Anthracite & Bituminous Coal, Depot, 167 Asylum St., opp. Allyn House. Office, 80 State Street, Gregory's Building, HARTFORD, CONN. Opera Glasses and Magic Lanterns to loan.
KRUG, PARISH & CO., College Book Store. Manufacturers of Cigars, - WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BROWN & GROSS,
SMOKING & CHEWING ToBAccos, BooKSELLERs & ·STATIONERS, Snuffs, Meerschaum and Briar Pipes, &c. NO. 49 ASYLUM STREET, 267 MAIN ST., HARTFORD, CONN. HARTFORD, CONN. :MICHAEL POWERS, L KRCG, CHAS. KUEHNHOLD, R. B. PARISH. F. A BROWN. W. H. GROSS. 66 :f11E TRI:NI1'~ TA.13tlt~ H . S. HOUSE & C O ., Spring and Summer City Hotel Drug Store. Drugs and Medicines of all kinds. Goods in Store. Imported Cigars best in town. Students' Trade Solicited. Choice Goods for Men's W ear EAGLE DYE HOUSE. Made to order in first style and at short notice. Very respectfully, GEORGE ROHRMA YER. Ladies' and Gents' Garments of Every Description, Dyed, Cleansed and Repaired. John J. Lehr, K I O G LO V E S O L EANS E O. Over Conklin's "Bazaar.'' No. 24 TRUMBULL STREET. AT Men's Furnishing Goods, MORIARTY BROS' At Popular Prices, At C oNKLIN's B AZAAR. MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, H. W. CONKLIN , Will be found the Manufacturer of the Celebrated Latest and Most Fashionable Goods ; P HreNIX SHIRTS,
And when made up by those popular Tailors need no PERFECT FITTING, further recommendation. and SUPERIOR in EVERY respect. Thanking the students for past favors, and hoping fo POPULAR GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES. a continuation of the same, they are assured that busir H. W. CONKLIN, ncss transactions will be always satisfactory, NO. 264 MAIN STREET, N ew Store ! New Goods ! BACON'S Call and Examz"ne ! R estaurant and Supper R ooms, E R N ST SCHALL, No. 25 CENTRAL ROW. 207 MAIN STREET, CORNER OF MULBERRY, Oysters in every style. DEALBB IN All kinds of Game in its Season. Diamonds, Watches, Stone Cameos, Students will find this House the best and most rea Sterling Silver, Plated Ware, &c. sonable in the city for Parties, .Suppers and Spreads. Private Supper Rooms if desired. No Old Stock. Everything new and sure to suit. MRs. A. A. BACON, Proprietresa. WATCH REPAIRING. ALFRED ESTLOW, Clerk.
WILLIAM P. WooLLEY's E. P. & W M. K ELLOGG, LIVERY ST ABLE, Art and Photograph Gallery,
No. 108 MAIN STREET. No. 279 MAIN STREET,
Good Horses and Carriages to let at fair HARTFORD, CONN. prices. Hacks furnished for Parties, Weddings, Picture Frames of all kinds made at short Funerals, or by the hour. Passengers for notice, and prices reasonable. Boat or Cars called for in any part of the City. Photographs Executed in every style of the art. Horses kept by the Day or Week, at reason Satisfaction warranted, able Rates. Orders may be left at the OFFICE. Special A tfention paid to Class Pitturts. VoL. VIII. HARTFORD, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1875. No. V.
PERSIUS, SAT. IIL 36-43. LITTLE BICE. Great King of Heaven, if Thy avenging hand Sweet little Bice was dead, and as she lay Would fall on cruel tyrants, greater woe stretched out there so still and white, in the Thou ne'er canst send, than when with natures stirrod By fiercflst passions poisoning all their life, green-room of the play house, what a weird Virtue they see, and n:ourn, too late, its loss. mockery seemed the rouged and painted Less terrible the groans from brazen bull mourners, who, in the interval when their Of Sicily, or sword that trembling hung duties required them not to flout their finery From gilded cornice o'tr the revellers In purple clad, than is the voice within for the amusement of the public, flocked That whispers to the heart, " We go, we go, about the tiny coffin of their one time little Headlong adown the steeps, we know not where." friend. She had only been dead a day, and 'Tis then the very soul irows pale with fear, the members of the strolling compa~y who Nor dearest friend the mystery can read. had grown to love this little speck of sun PERSIUS, SAT. V. 30-61. shine, that flung her radiance over the dreary When first the guardian purple ceased to awe; monotony of their hard lives, now missed When golden boss, mark of my boyhood's years, the gentle, cooing voice, and the soft footfall I hung an offering to the household gods ; of the fairy feet. When friends were kindly, and the robe unsoiled Gave me the right with searching glance to look, Little Bice, (for all her adopted guardians O'er all Suburra; when the pa\h of life knew) was an orphan; they had found her Took changing shapes, and with a mind untrained one morning, a few months back, fast asleep In the world's ways, I wandering had come in the very attitude in which she now lay Where roads divergent made me doubtful, then I fell to thee, Cornutus. Thou didst take dead, so delicate and fragile-looking, they My tender years to thy wise loving heart. almost feared to touch her, lest the gentle Thy skilful methods, cheating me for good, brittle frame should crumble. When 11t Pulled out my tangled morals, till my mind, length she · awoke, and looked upon the By reason moulded, strove to be subdued, And took its shape beneath thy artist hand. strange faces about her, the wistful wonder How come there back in memory the long days, ment of her gaze made more than one hard Bright summer days, in study spent with thee I eye dim, and caused many a callous heart to How come there too the feasts for which we plucked throb in memory of an innocent childhood, The night's first hours I One work, one rest we shared, One modest meal our graver moods unbent. past long ago. Say, canst thou doubt our separate lives were brought She could not have been more than seven By some sure covenant into such accord, . years old, but she firmly closed her little lips And governed by a single guiding star? upon the past history of her life, saying only Whether stern fate in equal Balances Our passing days suspends, or the birth-hour that her papa and mamma were dead, and Of faithful friends united fortunes shares she so wanted them again. She gave her Between the heavenly Twins, and thus we break name as Beatrice, and this was quickly 'fhe blows of Saturn with one shield of Jove, shortened into Bice, which in time gave way I know not, nor would ask. Enough for me, Some star there is tbat blends my life with thine. to Little Bice, and by this she was known, ALUMNUS. Iand more often called. 68 THE TRI:NIT-Y T.!.l.l3LB1'.
There seemed at first to be some grief of plod on, easily satisfied with the dull routine her past life, which held her in its painful of sordid earth. · bonds, but this, after the manner of most The hour came, and with it Little Bice children, she threw off in a short time, and appeared in the green-room fully dressed for became the life of the company. She took her character, an hour before the time for an exquisite delight in beholding the per performance. Her part was simple, a few formances of her foster-parents, and her joy lines to recite, and then to fall appa1~ently could scarcely be contained when she found lifeless into the arms of her stage-mother. that her name 11ad been placed in the cast of She complained somewhat of a pain at the a new piece. She danced from one of her heart as the time drew nigh for the rising of friends to another, in the wildest excttement, the curtain, but every one was so occupied proudly showing "her part," and gleefully with the preparation of his or her own part, parading her importance; unconsciously that these complaints passed by unheeded, and causing more than one weary woman, with but if noticed, were attributed to her unaccus few more years weighing upon her brow,to sigh tomed situation. enviously in her heart for the thrills of · So the time passed on, and Little Bice joyous excitement in her task which anima- tripped upon the stage; at first she paused, . ted this bright yl)ung breast. half-frightened by the surging upturned At length, totally unable to expend the faces before her, and the glaring of the bril exuberance of her spirits in any other way; liant foot-lights in her face, but daunted only she buried her shining golden head in the for the instant she went on with her words, shaggy coat of ·old Nero, the watch dog, who and in such a na'i·iJe childish manner, that as listened forbearingly, · as the happy child she gracefully withdrew after her first scene, poured into his sympathetic ear the tale of her the audience applauded in a tumultuous wonderful joy. The 'day arrived, we were in manner. Her bright eyes sparkled, her little a large town, and our manager expected an bosom heaved, but a strange glitter succeeded over fl.owing house. All that day Bice was the sparkle of pride, and a hectic flush took in a tumult of hope and anxious fear; would the place of her modest bluEhes as she went she forget her lines 1 Would her courage back for her last scene, that in which the fail at the last momenU Would she please stage business called her to die. The mo all her kind friends 1 Would she succeed 1 ment ·came when she was to do this bit of act All these questions she put a dozen times to ing, in which she took more pride than all the the good-humored members of the troupe, rest; she spoke her words easily and fell who having long ago gotten over the excite back naturally into her mother's arms. The ment of a new appearance, were interested to audience saw the cle,•erness of her effort, and no greater extent than that a well-filled in sympathy with her youth, shouted their treasury might reward their efforts. And so plaudits in uppreciatjon. But in an instant it is in every path of life-at first, all hurry, their noise was hushed, as the actress in bustle and glow, all burning for hono·r whose arms lay the child, lifted a white, and fame, then in the later days of care and horror-stricken face, and the vast crowd were worldliness, in total forgetfulness of the silent as the dead, while they waited to hear noble aims for which we one time yearned, the "resistless eloquence of woe" poured we are satisfied with a mediocrity of effort, forth in such a manner, as none other than and from the contemplation of the lofty· and this actress was supposed to render it. Rea ven-betrothed aspirations of the soul, we Suddenly a murmur arose, the stage filled THE TRINITY T.ILBLET. 69 with men and women, and the whole audience the rough-coated old dog Nero. As he had rose and pressed forward to ascertain the shared the joyous sunshine which her pres meaning of this strange scene. Litt.le Bice ence ever threw around, so he felt the had acted her part too naturally, and lay chilling shadow which the taking away of like a delicate snow-blossom, wonnd in the those rays had brought. In his queer, half arms of the horrified woman-dead. human way, he wept for the gentle spirit of Yes, Little Bice was dead, and in a voice his friend, and cast a wistful gaze upon the choked with sorrow, the manager informed rigid features, sweet and tender even in death, the audience, who withdrew in respectful that could not return his look, and mourn sympathy from the gray shadow of the play fully licked with sympathetic tongue the house, leaving the company alone, to mourn marble hand which drooped in all the grace their departed little companion. of death over the side of the bed. The dread foe, disease of the heart, had Sorrow was upon all hearts; men and women seized her as a shining mark, and death had of a hard world, bred to a life which rarely claimed her for his own. The strain and knows a tear save in mimic agony, now felt unaccustomed action of the stage had proved the scalding drops of true grief roll down too much for her slender stalk of life, and their painted cheeks, which alJ unaccustomed the Reaper, searching amidst a garden-world to such strange visitors, received the tender of rare and beautiful plants, ,iad culled this homage to the dead with wondering thought one fragile lily, to form a fragrant offering fulness, and offered no impediment to the for the bright garland of Eternity. silent rolling of the stranger drops down their So she lay there, stretched out upon a callous surface. But when did the living stage couch, gilded and trimmed to the last long mourn for what is gone i alas! alas! it · degree of gaudiness, a single drop of pure is a part of the world's hard philosophy that gold, shining amidst the duller flashiness of when one soul departs, another takes its place, cheaper metal. What a strange medley of and we must forget our sorrow of to-day, the earth surrounded that pure inhabitant in preparing for the untried morrow's care. of a lofty Heaven. Scattered about upon the So with little Bice. floor, lay the discarded robes of stage queen~, Reverently and solemnly we laid her away the tinseled glittering apings of royalty, the and then her image faded from our minds, humble peasant's dress bung side by side with recalled sometimes by ·the subtle power of the ermine of the duke, grotesque masks haunting memory, but this too finally dis leered hideously down upon the pale waxen appeared, and Little Bice was banished from face, false shining gems glowed through the the world, and a new life took her place, and dim obscurity upon the once blithesome the Earth plods ceaselessly upon her daily dancing eyes, now closed for ever, gaudy way, forgetful of the little flower which lithographs of theatrical celebrities gazed sprang up by the roadside, bloomed awhile solemnly upon the fragile, pulseless form with sweet fragrance-and :was plncked. before their vacant eyes. Everything seemed a ghastly mockery of the death angel, and SPECIAL AN.D GENERAL. the pale light, dul1ed to a deeper pallor in its passage through the dusty panes, dimly This country is pre-eminently distinguished lighted up a strange and awful scene-a par for the facilities it affords for the diffusion of adox of paradoxes. knowledge amo11g all classes of the people. Not )east among the sad group of mourners, In addition to the admirable system of free gathered about the bed of Little Bice, was schools, which prevails independent of all 70 11IE TRINITY T.,4.BLET. sectarian influences, and our higher seminaries In either case they equally err. Let him who and universities, where the poorest person has no taste for novels read them on that ac may, if he so desire, receive an education at a count all the more, for he most needs them mere nominal cost ; there are more books, and so with the novel-reader in regard to his reviews, magazines and newspapers published tory. And it is not with tho intellectual few here than, it might be said, in the whole world that we are concerned, who read only the best besides. There being no laws restricting or authors, who read with reference to the litera limiting their circulation, the freedom of the ture or to the moral, and not for the sake of press- once our national pride, (though now the naked story, and whose remarks or criti becoming, we fear, a national disgrace and re- cisms can have no important bearing upon the proach) prevailing to its full extent; books flood of ''light literature," which is everpour and papers furnished at comparatively low ing from the press; but with the illiterate rab rates, there is scarcely a family but may have ble, whose only intellectual food is the Dime its library. But, however flattering all thi~ novel and periodical romance. These books may be, we must admit that these privileges, and papers could not be read, and the evils both in publishing and reading, are greatly which must follow them would be avoided, if abused. Any one who reflects upon the one did not write, and another did not pub. quantities of worthless and trashy matter lish, and a third did not sell them. Although under the name of Romances and Novels, that complaints are frequently and justly made are daily thrown before the public, and which · against said productions, they never go further; form the intellectual food of the greater.pro~ the writer and publisher, the source of all portion of our population, must admit that a the evil, are hardly ever thought of, or men reform is needed in this country in the pnbli- tioned, whereas, if the cry were made against cation and circulation of books, newspapers, them, and especially the former, we think, it etc. The public taste in reading has become migl1t have the desired effect of bringing their vitiated by them. The powers of the imagi- pernicious pens to a halt. If, too, the seller nation have become exhausted by such highly- was publicly condemned, we would find that wrought pictures of human life. The facts the extent of their circulation would be greatly of real life are too tame to arrest the attention narrowed. We will visit our friend, the book of this class of readers. Every day occur- seller, and watch his customers: first, in order, rences must be clothed in the language of one asks for a philosophical treatise of some fiction and exaggeration, before they can be sort ; another, for some classical work ; a third, induced to read them. But let it not be sup- for Dr. Kane's arctic explorhtions; and, finally, posed, however, that we disapprove of novel- a licentious romance is called for. Knowing reading entirely, for that would be silly on the character of each book as well as, if not the face of it. There is the element of sen- better than the purchaser, the bookseller waits timent, which enters more or less in the minfi upon each of them with eagerness. We now of every man, and it too, requires food, if we step into a druggist's : a customer comes in would educate all our faculties. Hut it is a and asks for arsenic, the apothecary becomes common failing of us all to set up his or her alarmed, and not until he has satisfied himself taste as the only truly correct and refined that it is wanted for no criminal purpose, does taste, and, therefore, worthy of being. fol- he hand him the package, labeled-Poison. lowed; that the narrow path of life we have The one sells poison to the mind, the other to chosen only leads to true happiness. And the body. But there is this difference, that thus it happens that some devote themselvijs arsenic is sometimes useful, while a viciou entirely to novel reading and others to history. book is hurtful. Of course, should the books THE TRINITY TABLET. 71 seller discontinue selling such books, his busi Mr. James Watson of New York, was chosen ness would,.; not be so large, but this is the Referee, or as he is now called Umpire, for usual result of honesty and integrity in. one's the next Regatta. business ; yet, if gain is the excuse for doing Each boat's course will be buoyed off its what is ignoble, the business of a gambler and en tire length so that there will be no danger a robber can be defended. Now, in what way of fouling. it would be best to check this destructive The positions of the crews at the start stream, is a wide question; yet, it must appear were drawn for with the following result: that a reform is needed, if we would instill in Williams, 1; Cornell, 2; Amherst, 3; Bow the inferior classes a correct and refined popu doin, 4; Brown, 5; Columbia, 6; Wesleyan, lar taste. 7 ; Princeton, 8; Dartmouth, 9 ; Yale, 10 ; Trinity, 11 ; Harvard, 12; Union, 13; Ham MINOR HATTERS. ilton, 14. SNEAK-THIEVING. NOTICE. Several of the students have had money The class of '75 has made arrangements stolen from their rooms lately. One man lost with Messrs. Kellogg, by which the students sixty dollars; letters have also disappeared of other classes can procure photographs at from the Reading Room. Measures ought to the following reduced rates : Cabinet size 1 Doz., $5.00 be taken at once to ferret out the thieves. This 1 Doz. Cabinet size and 1 Doz. Card size $4, $8, 7.00 sort of thing has gone on long enough. It Small 1ize, single Doz., 3.00 only be an act of justice to clear innocent per Small size for 2 Doz. at $2.00, 4.00 sons of unjust suspicion by discovering the Views, Roome etc., in lots of not lees than ½ Doz., 6.00 Groups. Cabinet size, 5.00 guilty party or parties. It is desirable that. all who wish pictures THE CREW. should sit as soon as possible. The crew went out on the river for the Those who desire their rooms taken, are :first time, during the recess. They did requested to hand their names to either of remarkably well and promise to take a very the members of the committee. good position in the next inter-collegiat~ W. BRYAN, } Com. Regatta, Captain Hooker is coaching the new s. E. SMITH, . men in the pair oar recently purchased by WARNER PRIZES the Sophomores. By virtue of a recent legacy, the Executive OETENNIAL TEA PARTY. Committee of the Society for the Increase of A Martha Washington Tea Party was the Ministry,. has voted : I. To offer four given by the people of Hartford, in Allyn prizes of twenty-five dollars each, one to each Hall, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, class in Tiinity College to be awarded and April 22d and 23d. Each of the original paid at Commencement. II. To limit com thirteen States of the Union was represented petition to those who are scholars of the by a table- presided over by the fair ones of Soc~ety, or approved . applicants. III. To the city. award the Freshman, Sophomore and Junior The total receipts were over four thousand Prizes for excellence in the department ol dollars. Greek ; the Senior Prize, for excellence in ROWING CONVENTION. the department of Ethics and Metaphysics. The regular annual convention of R. A. A. IV. To determine the award by the highest C., met at the Massasoit House, Springfield, marks obtained in the regular recitations and Mass., on April 7th. The rules proposed at examinations of those departments during the the last meeting were amended and adopted. current year. 72 THE TRINITY T.11.BLET.
at Christmas and Easter, we have not only three weeks at the former mentioned season, when we may visit our homes at a distance ; Published every three weeks during term-time by but also a recess of a week in Spring, when tlte Students of one feels most like enjoying the pleasant TRINIT-Y COLLEGE. sunshine and roaming in the green fields; and, as the annual reviews follow in a very Managing Editor, . ISAAC HIESTER, '76 few weeks after college convenes again, it is EDITORS, CLASS OF '76. a wise provision that we should have the opportunity of a rest, and be thus enabled, in· EDWARD N. BURKE, JOHN D. MCKENNAN, ISAAC HIESTER, PERCIVAL PADGETT. the meantime, to take on sufficient nerve power to prepare us for the severe ordeal, which we Terms $2.50 per year. In advance, $2.00. all must pass through. But, before that Single copies 20 cents. serious event, we trust the professors, who Subscriptions, Advertisements and Communi have not as yet given us their appointed cations should be addressed to lectures, will not overlook the matter ; for "THE TRINITY TABLET," they little know, by complying with the DRAWER 20, HARTFORD, CONN. request, how much they would minister to the indulgence of a natural propensity and The TABLET is for sale at 41 J. H., and at one peculiar to this season, vix: Spring fever. Geer and Pond's. We would, respectfully, urge it upon the Professor of Greek, whose lectures are always 00/fTENTS. interesting and instmctive; and, we are quite VoL. VIII, No. V, MAY 1, 1875. Persius ...... 67 sure that we would be brought to a keen Little Bice, . . 67 sense and appreciation of the " flexible ductil- Special and General, 69 ity" of the Greek language and its other Minor Matters . College and Campus g charms, more by said lectures, at this stage Cowardice, . . 73 of our course, than by the polished chor~ses Personals 74 of Sophocles and Goodwin's "moods and Particles . . . . 75 tenses." Class-Day Appointments, The Base Ball Club, . ~~ In a few days, if the weather continues, Glee Club, . . . 76 warm and we escape the predicted snow-storm, The Athletic Association, 77 the excavation, so long deferred, at the new Obituary, . 77 college site will be begun. Book Notice, . College News, . . ++ When those who have just returned resume Notes and Clippings 78 their customary beats, will find that no improve ------ments as yet have been made at their first COLLEGE AND CAMP US. destination, the north section, Brownell Hall. The Easter recess has closed to the regret of The familiar quotation," How oft the sight all. Although the weather was not as warm as of means to do good deeds makes good we might have desired, it was a delightful sea deeds done," seems to have no effect, or son ofrepose. We often cc,ngratulate ourselves possibly, it does not suggest itself. upon the wisdom shown by those, to whom In our last edition there appeared an arti credit is due, in thus dividing the vacation. cle which began thus: "It has, we are happy Instead of giving it all at once, and that too to see, become a frequent matter for men of in summer, with the exception of a few days the upper classes to contribute to the TABLET THE TRINITY TABLET. 73 and the paper is thus becoming a very fair unw~lling to do his allotted work. There are exponent of the views and opinions of the few of the first class among students and the students." If this were strictly true, how tendency is rather to the other extreme, happy we would be, for our task would be plucky indiscretion. But moral cowards are considerably lightened. In our February many in number. How few could be ex number, such was the case, but since that cluded from this class r Many a student has time, contributions have been decidedly been lead to do wrong, simply from the fear nnfrequent. We desire to correct this state of being laughed at and receiving · the much ment, as each student, as an individual, might dreaded epithet, " a coward." He forgets suppose we were so crowded with communi that he is more of a coward to do wrong than cations from others that it would be entirely to refuse to do so, even though he be called unnec~ssary for him to contribute, and thus such. He may be called a brave fellow by we migh~ be deprived of valuable assistance. his companions for indulging in some dare At any rate, it distinctly shows that the wri devil, fool-hardy freak against the Faculty ; ter of said article had a just appreciation of but he can never have the full approbation of how matters ought to be. We hope we may his own conscience. This constant monitor hear from him again. rebukes, him even when he is in the midst of his forbidden and unhallowed pleasures ; and he cannot but feel that he would have been a OOWARDIOE braver and better man, had he possessed Cowardice is considered by most persons to sufficient manly courage to refuse to act refer simply to one's physical abilities. A contrary to the dictates of his own conscience man is a coward or not, just as he happens to and better judgment. The love of the appro be ready to use his fist or some weapon when bation of others is unquestionably a powerful he is insulted, or when he considers his honor prompter in making us act according to the or dignity to be injured. If he is quick to desires of others; yet, surely, no one will resent some supposed injury, he is looked deny that the proposed measures should meet upon as a brave person·; but if he does not the approval of one's own deliberations. For knock a man down, the moment some distaste in that case, though the result of his delibera ful remark is uttered, he is spoken of as a tions may be at variance to the wishes of his coward. But how many men are considered comrades, he will scarcely allow himself to brave and 1:allant, when they are in reality be disconcerted for one moment, if by chance cowards in disguise. A truly brave man is any one whom he met should cast a discour one who is ready to resent any real injury, and teous or supercilious look at him; nor will he equally prepared, when he finds himself in heed the various motives assigned by them the wrong, to make reparation. U nfortu for his actions. na.tely, however, there are but few of this But though the moral coward is far from description. being a rare occurrence in college, the mental Cowardice, moreover, may be divided into coward, as we call him~ is by far the most three classes, physical, moral and mental. common. He is one who is afraid to study Physical cowardice is shown when one is or apply himself to any work from fear of afraid to maintain his rights; moral cowardice being deprived of $Orne enjoyment, which when through fear of giving offense to some though innocent in itself, is very hurtful companion, one says " no" when he means when it takes a man from his work. You "yes"; and mental cowardice is evinced,a.ccord know him the moment you see him. In ing to our defit;1ition, when he is afraid or rather recitation, he either has his b~ok open, or else 74 THE TRINITY T.11.BLET. papers in his hand which he is attentively of what others may think. Of course, we .are perusing in order to make a perfect recitation. all cowards to a greater or less extent, the Ile spends the time which should have been difference between us being only in degree. spent in honest work, in some enjoyment or But if men in college would Jook at the else in loafing, and when the time comes to matter in this light, they will not in after life recite, he is perfectly ignorant of the subject. when they have lost the occasion of undoing He is afraid he will ":flunk" and that fear the past, have their consciences tell them that operates upon his mind so greatly as to cause they lost their opportunities and that, too, him to forget honor and to use dishonest through the fear that by doing their work, means in order to recite. Are there not men they would lose some supposed enjoyment. who go into examination with their pockets filled with "skins," in order to save them- · PERSONAL. selves from being "conditioned i" What is HALLAM, '30.-Rev. J. W. Hallam has re- their excuse i "We do not intend to ' skin,' signed the rectorship of the parishes of Wind unless we find we are going to get stuck." ham and Willimantic. His address is Stam Can anything be more disgraceful than this i ford, Ct. A man who acts in this way is simply a MoonY, '36.-Rev. Martin Moody has re coward and nothing less. By his own mouth signed the rectorship of Christ Church, Beth he is condemed, for he says that he acts thus any, Ct. His addJ,ess is Fair Haven, Ct. from the/ear of being "conditioned," but he ELY, '42.-Rev. W. A. Ely is at St. John's has not the courage to receive his punishment. School, Manlius, N. Y. But mental cowardice is not displayed iri this Dououss, '46.-Rev. Malcolm Douglass manner alone; it is not an unfrequent sight has resigned the presidency of Norwich Uni to observe a student dodging around corners versity, and has become Rector of Ch1ist to avoid meeting a Professor, from the fear Church, Andover, Mass. of being called to account for some work P.A.noocx, '48; NoRToN, '68.-The Rt. Rev• which he onght to have performed but which B. H. Paddock, D. D., class of '48, and the he has shirked. How often do we find men Rev. Frank L. Norton, M. A., class of '68, who are afraid to attend recitation either were among the Price Lecturers at King's from the fear of not being able to recite, or Chapel, Boston, the past winter. The Revs. from the fear that they may be called upon Phillip Brooks, Wilberforce Newton and Dr. to make up some back-work,- Alex. H. Vinton, were the others. One hun- In all these cases/ear is the motive which dred years ago Mr.Wm. Price left an endow actuates men to act in such ways, and they ment to support these lectures, and the fortu themsel ves acknowledge it. True, there is a nate gentlemen are paid in gold sovereigns. kind of courage in it all, but it is only the The fund also yields $6,000 annually, which brute courage, which is of the lowest and most goes to the poor of King's Chapel and Trinity degraded character. The Indians and the Church. It is a noble relic of o]d Boston, Hottentots possess such bravery and yet, how LINDSLEY, '49.-Prof. Charles A. Lindsley, few of them are considered courageous in the of Yale College, is Secretary of the Counecti true sense of the word. These persons lack cut General Hospital Society. that higher, that nobler courage, which is, in B100KWITH, '50.-Bishop Beckwith's address fact, the only true courage t.hat elevates man is Atlanta, instead of Savannah, Ga. so much above the level of the brutes. The W1LL1.A.Ms, '50 ...... Rev. Wm. H. Williams moral we wish to draw from this is, that we sailed for Europe on April 14th, in the should all be afraid to do wrong, regardless '' China." THE TRI.NTTY TABLET. 75
Cu.A.sE, '52.-Rev. Francis Chase was in mores, in a box labeled "specimens of brass." this city during the recess. -Captain Hooker went to see the prominent WITHERSPOON, '56.-Rev. 0. Witherspoon boat-builders in New York about a new boat. is at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati. Charles B. Eliot of Greenpoint, L. I. will W ooTrEN, '64.-Rev. Edward Wootten has probably build it.-Stndents are excused by declined a call to J effcrson City, Mo. the Faculty to attend weddings, under the BIXBY, '70.-R. F. Bixby has returned from head of "family afflictions."-Most of the Europe. crew have had their beads sbaved.-the I'IJ'!I PEcK, '71.-Wm. E. Peck was in this city is progressing favorably.-The usual College on the first of April. exercises will be omitted on May 5th and 6th, GRAY, '72.-M rried, in Trinity Church, Wednesday being Election Day and Thurs this city, April 8th, by Rev. Prof. E. E. John day Ascension..Day.-The float on which the son, John W. ~ray to Miss Clara, daughter Boat House rests, having gotten out of repair of James Bolter, Esq. Richardson, '73, during the past winter, the Boat Club has Chapin, '74, Scudder, '75, and Skinner, '76, voted an appropriation to have it hauled up acted as ushers. on the dry docks and calked.-The Histori ZIEGLER, '72.-Married, in Grace Church, cal Lectures were omitted yesterday, Bishop Brooklyn Heights, April 7th, Rev. Panl Zieg Williams being unavoidably absent.-The ler to Miss Mary Frances Boll. Juniors will commence to review mathematics GRA.NNiss, '78.-F. 0. Granniss is one of next week.-The next TABLET will be issued the organists at the General The~logical Sem ... May 22d. The 16th inst. is Natal Day inary.; Have any measures been taken in regard CHASE, '73.-H. J. Chase is at Centredale, to a Oollege dance on that occasion i-The R. I. Seniors began to read their poems in class laRt Wednesday. They have finished writing Chemical Lectures.-Reviews have partly PARTICLES. begun.-The crew are excused from evening The University crew will stay with James chapel. Riley in Saratoga. The college head-quarters will be at the Grand Union Hotel.-Roberts CLASS-DAY .APPOlNT.iVENTS. '75 and McKennan '76, were the Trinity CJass President, w. BRYAN. delegates to the Rowing Convention.-The " Orator, W. J. RoBEBTS, crew went out on the river for the first time " Pc,et, during the recese.-Since Easter morning, Ivy Orator, w. D. SARTWELL . chapel. is at eigl1t o'clock instead of at half Prophet, H. G. McCoucH. Chronicler, w. E. CURTIS, JR. past eight as fortnerly.-Since the snow went Pres'n to "Prof. Jim." T. McLEAN. off the ground the base ball fever has broken Wreath Oration, JOS. BUFFINGTON. out afresh.-During the recess several mem Book Presentation, G. M. HUBBARD. bers of the University crew practiced with CLASS COMllITTEE. the. Hartford Nine.-The Athletic Associa BULKLEY-Chairman. tion has voted to have an exhibition during BRYAN. HUBBARD. LINCOLN. MAYNADIER. Commencement week.-The crew have been SCUDDER. STARK. wORTHINGT0N. forbidden to black their shoes, they fear that the extra weight will impede their running. MUSIC COMMITTEE. One of the Professors keeps the slips of paper, BUFFINGTON-Chairman. on which are printed the names of the Sopho- SMITH. RoBERTS. 76 THE TRINITY T.11.BLET.
FLOOR COMMITTEE. College nine. '76 still continues to hold the BLAIR-Chairman. championship, and, we doubt not, will hold it SMITH. K.lNE. SCUDDER. CORTIS. BRYAN. through the rest of the term, though '77 have BuJi'FINGTON. MoCoucH. expressed a determination that they shall n~t; we like to see such an exhibition of spirit and RECEPTION COMMITTEE. trust that it will lead to several games dur BRADIN-Chairman. ing the next few weeks before Commence LINCOLN. H OOPi':R. ROBERTS. ment. We have heard that the College nine SARTWELLE. intend to have a new snit made for them, to take the place of the old one which has become . CLASS-SUPPER COMMITTEE. much faded. In speaking of the Ball Club, McLEAN-Chairman. BUFFINGTON' BRYAN. it naturally reminds us of the place where PRINTING COMMITTEE. they play viz: the ampus, which has been HUBBARD-Chairman. so ploughed up by the heavy carts that have KANE. been driven over it, as to become nearly FINANCE COMMITTEE. impassible for pedestrians. Will not the CURTIS-Chairman. College see to it now, so that it may become a fit place to hold the Class-Day celebration i A little trouble to the College now will save THE BASE BALL CLUB. a great deal to the ladies then, whose dresses Sometime ago we made inquiries about the will be ruined by the dirt, unless the place is progress the Base Ball Club was making, and turfed over. also added a few suggestions, which we thought would be of use in selecting a nine ; GLEE CLUB. but onr inquiries were fruitless, inasmuch, as During the pleasant evenings with which nobody could give ns any information on the old Prob has blessed us of late, numbers of subject, or showed the least spark of interest the students may be seen gathered on the about it, and our suggestions were of course campus indulging in what an unexperienced unheeded, and so, at the present time, the person might call howling, but which the club might as well be in a non-existing state undergraduates long accustomed to such dem as the present one. We should like to stir onstrations dignify with the name of Pinging. the captain up a littlet when we see the Jack Verdant Freshman vie with dignified Seniors of energy that has been exhibited. The other in trying to make the most noise. An un College nines have already begun to practice trained tenor makes frantic endeavors to strike and intend to give their opponen~ a tough a note which Wachtel himself, try he uever so struggle for the victory. Our club certainly hard, cannot begin to reach, while a very has great ad vantages in having such splendid loud bass rolls· out great volumes of sound opportunities for practice as are offered them which would put to shame those famous by the Hartfords, and they should make use animals of Basan spoken of in Holy Writ. of them to the beHt of their ability. Since The Jong-suffering residents in the neighbor we are a small College, we do not pretend to hood of the college, rush to their doors and pick ont a splendid nine like Yale or Harvard windows expecting to see some deed of horror or other large Universities; but we do wish enacted, but with a sigh of relief return to to have one which cannot be beaten by any their interrupted occupations murmuring for in pluck, even if they can in playing. The the thousandth time, "It's only those stu class nines are in the same condition as the dents." But it is not always so. Once in a 1'H11 TRI:N'ITt' TA.13L111'. . 'i'i great while the weary searchers after knowl edge are awakened from pleasant slum hers by ✓ OBITUARY. the sound of voices " in sweet accord," sing- It is with peculiar emotion that we record ing those songs familiar and dear to the heart the death pf Henry Scudder Wood, of the of every student, the recollection of which class of 1871, which occurred at the residence serves to draw every alumnus nearer to his of his father in Huntington, L. I., April 19th, fostering Mother who prepared him for the of con~umption. Some weeks ago Mr.Wood, great battle of life in which he is now so went to Florida for the benefit of his healtl1, actively engaged. Now as it is an axiom upon which serious inroads had been made that any enterprise to be successful mnst by constant and severe application to his legal have a leader, so college singing can be brought studies. Not gaining any benefit from the to no degree of perfection without a Glee climate and with a knowledge of his approach Club. It would only be a waste of time to ing dissolution, he started North to die at attempt to enumerate the many ad vantages home among friends. When ho got to New that would arise if such an organization could York, he was so weak that he had to be car be effected in this institution. There are ried from the house of a relative to a carriage enough really excellent voices in college to Just a day after his arrival at the old home make it a decided success. If some music- stead, in the presence of those who were ally inclined individual in our midst will take nearest and dearest to him, he quietly passed this matter up and bring it to a successful away. It would be a vain task for us to attempt termination he will gain for himself undying to write a eulogy. Those who were college renown and will be looked upon as a public mates of Mr. Wood, loved him for his genial benefactor. social qualities, and respected him for his great ability. He has been cut off just as he THE .ATHLETIC .ASSOCIATION. was about to enter upon a course of usefulness The Athletic Association propose to give and distinction in his chosen profession. an exhibition in or about Commencement week, and think that it will be a success. Since they cannot expect thereby a reasona: BOOK NOTICE. ble sum for the Boat Club, it is intended to We have received from Mr. James Watson, have the exhibition free of all charge. This his valuable Rowing and Athletic Annual for will, of course, be much better than the usual 1875. In addition to a full and complete record way of charging for admittance, provided of races in 1874 this work contains much other only that enough can be raised previously by matter ·or importance to all those interested in subscription to pay the necessary expenses, Rowing and Athletics. It is for sale by Geer such as cleaning, lighting, etc.. Of course, and Pond. Price 50 cents. we must not allow this exhibition to fall through on account of lack of funds, so we COLLEGE NEWS. must expect to bear, each one his share of the According to the Niagara Index, there are expenses. Such an exhibition at the proposed five billiard tables in the Seminary of Our Lady time would be highly entertaining, for the of Angels, two of which the Juniors have examinations being all over we would be in recently purchased. just the time for fun. It has been pro posed that the Athletic Association form HARVARD. themselves into a committee of the whole to The Sophomores have voted not to accept go to Newton's Varieties in order to get some Yale's challenge for a game of base ball. new ideas for the coming exhibition. The Freshmen crew is made up of Loring, 'i8 1'1IE TllI.N11'Y T.fl.11LE !f. ------~--~------(stroke), Morgan, Ely, Warden, Bancroft, Le NOTES AND OLIPPINGS. Moyne, (bow). The Yale hit. tells us prettily but too briefly '.rhe Theatricals given for the benefit of the the sad story of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, who wrote Boat Clµb, realized more than one thousand the lines: dollars. 4 ' While we aend for the napkin, the soup gets cold ; The Glee Club gave a concert in Steinway While the bonnet is trimming, the face geta old ; Hall, New York, .April 2d. When we've matched our buttons, the pattern is sold ; And everything comes too late, too late." RA.CINE. The Lit. now passes into the hands of '76. The College authorities and the Insurance "Mr. C.'s translation of Greek Testament Companies are having some trouble about the was singularly in harmony with the version of payment of the losses on Taylor Hall recently St James."-Nassua Lit. consumed by fire. The case has been submit (Live and learn. King James must be a saint ted to arbitrators. peculiar to the Presbyterian calendar.] The Mercury announces the painful fact that all the Juniors will speak for the Larrabee We regret that the examinations at the next prizes. The poor members of the other three I. C. L., are so arranged as to furnish such classes and the people of Racine, have our heart abundant opportunities for "ora.mming." It wo.uld be far better to test the man's knowledge felt sympathy. of Greek or Mathematics or any study by a CORNELL. general examination entirely. We commend to 'rhe college of the carnelian and white has the directors of the contest the following from been giving public entertainments for the bene the Volante : fit of the Navy. Just the same in all branches, Geology, French, The Syracuse B. B. Club, has projected a Latin, Logic, and Fowler, Astrology, Trench, Substitution at pleasure by those tournament between the nines of Cornell, Ham Who with eyes on some prize, therefore shirk ilton, Hobart, Union, Madison and Rochester, Their legitimate, self-chosen work, to be held in Syracuse during the first week And accept what the contest directors propo11e. in June. But do they st-qdy Astrology at the University The Freshmen are worked up about sending of Chicago? a crew to the inter-collegiate Regatta. Of the so-called" Harvard Spelling Matches" Lewis Heublein of Hartford, was one of Cor we should like to say a few words. The students nell's delegates to the Convention of the R. A. who figured in the spelling-match at M nsic A. C., recently held in Springfield. Hall on Saturday last were not representatives YA.LE. of Harvard University. They were students of Harvard University, but were not authorized • 'rhe Universitynine is made upof Avery, '75, by any one except themselves to enter the con pitcher; Morgan, '78, catcher; Willia.ms, '77, test. The general feeling in College is against 1st base; Maxwell, '75, 2d base; Wheaton, '77, such exhibitions or learning in public halls and 3d base; Bigelow, '77, short stop; E. Smith, '75, theatres, especially when prizes are offered and left field; Hotchkiss, '76, center field; Knight, entrance-money pocketed by the managers. '77, right field; Carter, '78 and Dwight Jones, Anything in the Yankee Show line is very ,75. substitutes. distasteful to most Harvard men, and previous it is proposed to have a grand opening of the to the spelling mania we had supposed that an new boat-house during Commencement week. invitation to become the puppets of the show The Sheffield Glee Club recently gave a con would have been indignantly refused by every cert in Bridgeport. one.-Magenta. 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