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COLBY UNIVERSITY.
EDITORS. Chief . Franklin W. Johnson, '91. THE old custom of spending the twilight Alvah H. Chipman, '91, Adetjbert F. Caldwell , '91, hour in singing college songs on the steps, Alfred B, Cottle, '91, Herbert R. Purinton, '91, which has been obsolete for so long, has again Archibald M. Dick, '91, Loring Herrick, '92 , found favor among the boys. We are Charles E. Cohen, '92 , Harry L. Pierce, '92. glad that a custom so worthy and enjoyable has not been Managing Editor. allowed to die . out. Those old melodies that George R. Campbell , 'qi. the student has sung for years are just as fresh and melodious as ever. What so softens our natures, removes all per year, in advance. Single copies 12cents. Terms.—$1.50 feelings of enmity and makes us thoroughly at The Echo wUl be sent to all subscribers until its discontin- uance is ordered, and all arrears paid. peace with each other as the singing of a few Exchanges and all communications relating to the literary Department of the paper should be addressed to Tub Colby songs in the early evening. Those rollicing Boko. songs arouse our latent spirits, aw alee in us that Remittances by mail and all business communications should bo addressed to the Managing Editor, Box 154, Waterville, Mo. buoyant spirit of good fellowship which char- Any subsci-lbcr not receiving the E0110 regularly will please notify the Managing Editor. acterizes college students, unite us with that common, sympathy and loyalty which is a bless- Printed at the Sentinel Office , Waterville, Maine. ing to us and the college. We must not let the good old custom die. These hours are among ' CONTENTS. the most enjoyable of our course, and will, in after years, call up many happy remembrances Vol. XV., No. 2.—Ma/ 31, 1890. of our college life.t
The Sanctum : SELDOM do jubilant college students receive College Singing 13 so distinguished a reception as that given Our Reception .13 us by His Excellency, Gov. Burleigh, on the A Suggestion • 14 The Tennis Tournament 14 evening of our trip to Augusta to meet the President Small's Inauguration 14 victorious nine. His cordial kindness will long The Pennant •• '....14 be remembered by the Colby students. In fact - Communication , Compulsory Chapel Attendance.... 15 the kindly and appreciative manner in which Literary : the people of Augusta received our lusty yelk ¦ ; A Critique on Gray's Elegy ...... 16 and hoarse songs, with fire-works and illumina- < ' Henry Draper's Decision...... 17 tions, gave us a somewhat' pleasant surprise. It Campus 20 was evidently something now for fcliem as well Exchanges ... V. .' 23 as for us. They should be thankful that Colby Personals, ...... 24 wins but one pennant a year. \
" " ' ' ¦: ' . r ¦ ¦ , . ;: V^ commencement week approaches we feel take the place of the customary oration before AS like repeating ^.suggestion or- request re- the literary" societies of the college. The prin- cently made by President SaiMl to the students. cipal features of the exercises will be an inaug- It is that as many of the students as possible ural address by President Small in which he should arrange to be present during the week will give his ideas of the future management of commencement. The prevalent idea that which the college needs. There will also be an the end of the final examinations is the signal address by some member of the trustees not yet for a fourth of the students to pack up and decided upon. We may look for something start for home should be divorced from every novel and interesting in the address of Dr. mind. Commencement week is as much a part Small. This will be an appropriate and pleas- of the college year as any other. It is the ant change from the usual routine of com- crowning end of the year's work, without which mencement week. we lose the pleasantest part of our college life. And besides the enjoyment which one expe- C-O-L-B-Y. Rah, Rah, Rah ! Yell it as riences, the varied exercises of the week, the ye never yelled before. Proclaim the glad largo number of alumni whom the occasion sound until every Colby man, be he near or far, bring.? back to . these old halls, that indescribable hears the welcome shout which tells that by the sense of grandeur which unconsciously pervades prowess of her loyal sons the pennant is again everything give us a more exalted idea of the to wave over Colby's proud halls. Before her extent and value of the work which our college brawny heroes Bowdoin's stalwart warriors with has done and is doing. We go home better all their lore of old-time chiefs, Bates' proud satisfied with ourselves and our year's work for champions, confiding in their last year's laurels, having been present during the week of com- M. S. C. with her muscle and highland daring, mencement. We can not afford to lose a single have all gone down in the dust of defeat. commencement of our course. It is no common victory that our boys have won. With opponents well worthy of their THE tennis tournament is creating much steel, they have won victory after victory with- interest among the boys at present. A out the shadow of defeat, until six games stand large number of entries have been made for to their credit. They have thus accomplished a the singles, several series of which have been feat which, according to our best information, is played off. Most of the contestants have already unparalleled in the annals of any college in the dropped out, leaving behind the best players. league. The final contests will be exhibitions of superior We are rightly proud of our nine. They tennis playing. It would be a difficult task to have used head as well as hand in the work. name the final winner. An even more interest- They have won honorably the plaudits which ing f eatur e of the tournament will be the series they receive. of doubles. The teams are well matched and Honor is due the manager who has so ad- the winners will have to work for the victory. mirably worked for our interests, honor is due As tho interest in tennis increas es we f eel the captain who has led his men to victory, more and more our lack of suitable courts. honor is due each man who has played on the While we have an abundance of as good turf team, and honor is due the students and others courts as one could desire, we have not a sing le who have so generously given their support. clay court on the campus. • Our courts suit our own purposes well enough, but if we ever wished THROUGH the kindness of Prof. Little of to enter a tournament outside our own campus Bowdoin College the class in the French we might find ourselves at an immense disad- Revolution have the use of several volumes of vantage from having had no practice on clay the Monitor, to aid them in their work. This courts. With plenty of clay near by and suffi- leads us to suggest the advisability of more cient interest we could ha\e several good clay intimate connections between the two colleges. courts at small expense. It would be an excellent thing if we could have an occasional lecture by members of the Bow- innovation at commencement will be the doin faculty, " ' AN and for members of our faculty to inaugural exercises of President Small, to lecture before the Bowdoin students. More in- timate relations along this line would be con- require of pupils admitted to his classes. Unless ducive to mutual good. Christian culture can be given without so much recognition of God as is involved in public read- A COMMUNICATION. ing of the Christian Scriptures, and prayer, an Compulsory Chapel Attendance. institution founded expressly for Christian cul- THE discussion in the Echo about attend- ture cannot be true to itself and its aim if it ance at chapel seems to have taken a too neglects those essential means of influence. limited view of the question. It seems neces- Colby assaults no student, with, religious weap- sary to suggest one or two considerations that ons ; but the chapel services aim to cal1. atten- make the conditions of the problem somewhat tion to those fundamental facts emphasized in different from those already noticed. Christianity, which, according to the belief of First, then, Colby University owes its exist- the founders, finished manhood must recognize. ence to the Christian religion. Students are at liberty to admit the force of Second, it was not only founded as a Chris- the facts or not, as they please. The college tian school, but it has been developed by the could not, without radical change of its charac- contributions of men who, almost without ex- ter, neglect to commend them to candid reflec- to ception^ gave their money its support because tion. they wished to maintain not merely an intel- Fifth, if students are unwilling to receive the lectual gymnasium, but an institution for liberal total influence of a college like Colby, if they Christian culture. demand intellectual training without religious Third, whether rightly or not, the authorities suggestions, there are numerous institutions of the college do not think it necessary, in order where they can get it. Students are not caught to carry out the purposes of the founders, to in any l eligious trap at Colby. Its religions ply the students with religious argument. All principles are suffi ciently advertised. No stu- the instruction proceeds upon the assumption dent is under any compulsion from the college, that the design of the college can be best ful- at any rate, to enter Colby. If he chooses to filled by opening to the mind every natural clo so, knowing its character, is he not bound avenue to all attainable knowledge, without at- bv all the laws of courtesy to render at least tempt in the class room to show its religious passive deference to its religious arrangements? import. If the members of the faculty had Sixth, the difficulty of preserving a daily ceased to believe in the religion which the col- religious service from monotony is beyon d dis- lege was established to serve, any performance pute. Even family prayers, in the most devout by them of ceremonies commemorative of that households, are often dull exercises, yet few religion would doubtless be a mockery : but the whose childhood felt the influence of a family daily chapel service at Colby is regarded by the altar, regret, in manhood, the time used in those faculty as not only necessary in discharge of the dev otions. So far as Colby is concerned, I am trust committed to them by those who shaped the strongly of the opinion that the students on the purposes of the college, but as a suitable means whole recognize tlie fitness of a daily religious of testifying to the conviction behind all the exercise, participated in, formally at least, by all teaching, viz., that the Christian revelation con- the students. Compulsion is hardly more than tains the laws of combining proportion which a theoretical objection to the plan, f or it is so harmonize all knowledge in the highest wisdom. liberally administered that absence is possible Fourth, ' . while Colby almost too carefully whenever a reasonable occasion is alleged. guards against everything that could be inter- The gradual change in the conduct of stu- preted as offensive propaganclism or proselyting, dents in chapel corroborates this view. When • the college authorities consider it proper to de- the six o'clock bell was the relentless summons mand that each student shall treat the religious to prayers, half-rested nature protested, and the portion of college influence with the same re- service became so perfunctory that the tradition spectful' and manly attention which he is ex- of its hatefulness still does more to disturb our pected to show towards the intellectual elements chapel exercises than any real live present ob- of college culture. In this the college is asking jection to them. The fact that the barbarisms 110 more than a teacher of the "Swedish move- of those days have been little by little out- , ment," or of/the Delsarte system would properly grown ; that the students of to-day would spon- taneously discountenance many things that used stroke has been taken amiss and that no better to be habitual, indicates that the judgment of arrangement of the scene or .shading of the the students is not so variant from that of the colors could be effected with the same material, authoiitie3 as the discussion implies. unless indeed by the same artist. * I am inclined to think that the main question, True it is a gloomy picture painted amid the for a college- like Colby, is not between compul- weird shadows of a summer evening, yet there sion and election, but between a lifeless form is pervading it all a spirit so in accord with our and a genuine and hearty attempt to approach better natu re that we are drawn irresistibly into God and to lead the assembled students into sympathy and admiration for its pathos and the spirit of worship. Students hate shams. beauty. Whatever be their religious opinions, they sel- Who, that is at all familiar with country life, dom fail to respect, in some degree, other peo- has not felt that same inexpressible emotion ple's religious sincerity. For this reason, I ber which the opening lines suggest. It is a spirit lieve that details of the chapel service aie that seems to brood over one with the gathering entirely secondary . If it can be kept honest shadows—a something akin to sadness and lone- and sincere and reverent, the mild constraint liness, and yet so vague as to elude a satisfactory which protects it will never become a first-rate conception of it. In the words of one of the grievance ; but students will in general approve former stanzas of the Elegy omitted in later , of that wholesome regulation, without which it publications, we find a beautiful expression of would be too easy to disregard the dictates of this emotion : - their own judgment respecting attendance and "Hark how the sacred calm that breathes around appropriate observance. Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents whispering from the ground , A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Let us now imagine the sun just set and the sky still aglow, like to a sea of molten gold -with islands of emerald, ruby and sapphire. Grad- ually the gorgeous colors fade, leaving at last only a faint flush and a few colorless clouds above the horizon. Then the twilight deepens A CRITIQUE ON GRAY'S ELEGY. into long shadows that seem to hover with their HRHIS poem has a place among the highest black wings over the hillsides and meadows and i models of art in all English literature. the silent and gloomy forest. While the spell Though that remarkable genius and brillian t of this musing lingers upon us and obeying wit which characterized many of his contempo- its prompting, let us stroll thoughtf ully forth raries was wholly wanting in its author, still his through the old village street and out into the sentiments are so in harmony with the beautiful less populous districts of that land of hedge- and pathetic, his fi gures so homelike and appro- rows and beautiful meadows. Suddenly and priat e an d presented with such delicacy of por- quite unexpectedly we find ourselves at the trayal and embody such rare art and tender gate of the country churchyard. To still further feeling, that few poets even of a higher genius gratif y that meditative spirit let us enter. But have obt ained a more lasting renown. hark I Though he was but a slow workman, and the "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, , price of this production was seven years of care- The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, when the last touch The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, ful thought and toil, yet A.nd leaves the world to darkness and to me. was given the canvas there stood a painting so "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight magnificent in its execution and so impregnable And all the air a solemn stillness holds, against that destroyer, time, that it will doubt- Sav e where the beetle wheels his droning fli ght less withstand centuries yet to come. A.nd drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." No admirer of the beautiful can read critically "What could be a more inspiring and eloquent the entire poem without being charmed by that introduction to the scene which follows than . exquisite tone and finish which can only be the these two stanzas ? There is not only unusual touches 6f a master hand. We feel that not a .; music in the rhythm and a perfect euphony in the combination of words, but a most touching Many years, as I say, I have stood here. But harmony in the ideas they represent. never has my stone heart been so shaken with Now with another master stroke the poet pity as on a night—how well I remember it— shades the abstract into the concrete and gives fifty years ago. Listen to the old, gray prison us the text of his Elegy : for an hour and hear a tale that shall wring "Beneath those rugged elms , that yew tree's shade, tears of pity from your eyes and set you ashiver Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, when you are warni in your beds. Each in his narrow cell forever laid , It was a bleak, bleak night in January and The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." the icy gusts were blowing through my towers. What is true of the peculiar worth and beauty The inmates were nearly settled f or the night of these stanzas is true of the entire poem. For when there was a sudden noise in the corridor. my own part, after reading it in that brown The turnkey was leading along a young man, twilight in which much of it must have been who followed as if dazed. The uncertain light wiitten, I feel more like following in silence of the lantern revealed a stern, sharply-chiselled the thought it suggests than attempting to rep- face, deep blue eyes, waving brown hair and a resent the effect in words. In this respect it mouth that warned the wary not to trespass too leaves an emotion not unlike that of very sweet far on the owner's clemency. music, and who would clothe that emotion in All that night Henry—for I afterward learned words ? that to be his name—went up and down his cell with a ceaseless tramp, tramp of his heavily- HENRY DRAPER'S DECISION. booted feefc. AM an old, gray prison, standing just outside In the morning the turnkey let in an early I the city limits. • Years and years have I stood visitor, who immediately sought Hen ry's cell. here, in fair weather and. foul, in sickness and They greeted each other warmly and the stran- in health, in life and death. The ivy clings ger said : about me and when the days are fine, the doves "Well, well, old fellow, this is the most settle on my towers, where they sit and sun ridiculous ! But we will soon have you out all themselves and plume their soft feathers. right. Just sit down here with me and tell me I have felt the waves of battle rage about my every circumstance so that I can be at work on base when the human sea weltered and swung, the case at once . You say you were at home up and down, back and forth, over the hill yon- all the evening when the murder was com- der where now stands a great, gray shaft of mitted ? Now, that dagger. That's bad. I'm masonry in honoi of the struggle. afraid, old fellow, that will go hard against you. I have seen innocent children hush their You see it is such an infernal peculiar one and shouts as they came under my sombre wall. then always han gi ng above your desk so. How Years later, I have seen those same children— do you account for it yourself ? their little f aces hardened in the mould of Henry shook his head gloomily. crime—again going beneath my sombre walls, "A sk heaven, not me. I could have sworn bub this time with manacled wrists and under that it hung above my head all the evening as I guard. sat writing." He sat wrapped in thought whil e I have witnessed the awful spectacle of a the other made some hasty calculations on a bit heartbreak. of envelope. Suddenly he gave a start. I am a democrat ; an expounder of the moral "What is it, old chap ?" asked his f riend. law ; I am an eternal preacher and my text is "Nothing, nothing. But, Harry, I don't see written on the gallows in my courtyard ; on my a hope ahead fox rae. You may as well throw cheerless gratings 5 in the step of the condemned up the game first as last." who paces Ids cell by night; in the moan of the "Nonsense ! You have grown moroid over broken-hearted mother, who comes to take a last night in this clammy hole. I tell you we are farewell of her cherished son ; in the watchful going to have you cleared. Do you think, old eye of the guard ; and on the iron keys that chap, that I am going to leave you in the lurch ? grate in my. locks stands the sentence pro- I won't leave a stone unturned, and if they try nounced against mankind, that "Whatsoever a to hang you I will follow you to the gallows nun soweth that shall he also reap." and cut the rope myself ."
¦ ¦ ¦ • ¦ \\ \\ . ¦ - Henry still shook his head hopelessly. "I t ]pluck - at our hearts 1 and jibber in our faces ? can't be done. I am a doomed man." ir ou are a man. O, yes, you are a man and so "Pshaw ! I tell }'ou you are not. We will <3an stride, rough-shod, over a woman's heart. have you out of tins in the course of a week Why did I murder ? You evidence your own and you will be eating the biggest thanksgiving ':Lumpishness by such a question. Did you never dinner at my house that ever was concocted." Jhear that when a woman is wronged she some- "Harry !" This time Henry looked straight times thinks of. revenge ? No, you thought her at his friend and hel d him with his truthful hands too small and white to hold a dagger ; eyes. "I am a doomed man. Do you hear ?" too confiding to know how to direct a life-blow ; The young kw}*er shook off his forced cheer- too pretty to be stained with blood at midnight. fulness, grasped Henry hard by the hand and O, yes, Henry Draper, you are a man." was out of the door. "Marian , silence ! You are a passionate, spoiled All day Henry sat as in a stupor, not touch- child and your anger has led you to a fatal ing his food nor even lifting his eyes from the length. Have done with this useless tirade and floor. At nightfall, the turnkey announced an- tell me how you are going to extricate yourself. other visitor. Henry did not raise his ej^es You are in danger, fearful danger.'" until he heard a slight rustle in front of him. "0, no, Henry. I am perfectly safe. Do I Tor the first time he seemed deeply moved. think for a moment that you will betray me ? "Marian , why are you here ?" You will plead guilty. I have thought of all The two stood and confronted each other. that. It is fortunate that my fate does not rest The woman addressed as "Marian" stood and in your hands alone. Think what a pleasant looked him straight in the eyes. She was very life you would lead if you should declare me tall and stately, with great, black eyes that before the judges. What a pretty stigma it looked as if they might raise the witches, should would be on a man that he had saved his own they choose. There was something remarkably life at the expense of a woman. I can see the childlike about her, with all her stateliness. In children in the streets pointing a finger of scorn fact, one coul d tell from the lips, which half at you and casting dirt and stones upon your pouted when in. repose, and from the quick, pas- shame. O, no, Henry. I am perfectly safe." sionate movements • that this beautiful creature The unhappy man groaned and sank into a was a spoiled child grown to a woman. chair. "Marian , leave me. You torment me "Henry Draper, you deceived me !" like seven devils. Leave me. Have you no "Marian , Marian , let us have none of this at pity ? Have you no mercy upon the woman such an hour. You shall not mock me now." who has promised to be my wife ?" "I am not here to mock you. I have come "None , Henry." This time the woman spoke to tell you something that may have an interest almost indifferently. In another moment she for you. 1 stabbed Ma ry Morgan at midnight, was ffone. with your dagger, on the road that leads to the Deep into the night Henry sat, buried in South Side hospital." thought. Only an occasional groan showed Henry seized her by the shoulder with his that he was conscious of' any feeling. About strong hand. "M arian , are you nuid, that you midni ght he started up and began a desperate come to tell rne this ? Do you speak the truth ? walk, back and forth , from corner to corner of . Swear that you speak the truth." his dismal cell. He muttered half insanely to "Before God , Henry Draper, I murdered Mary himself so th at I could tell his thoughts. The Morgan." sh ock of his hideous situation nearly unsettled "But the motive, the motive, Marian ?" his reason. Only the week before he was ' a The woman before him drew herself to the rising young physician with excellent prospects full height of her magnificent physique while and the promise of a happy married life, but her dark cloak fell back from her shoulders. 110 W; "Shall I toll yon , Henry ? Do you really "O, my God ," , muttered Henry, "that a care to know? 0, y ou sottish race of men piece of folly should bring me to this. A con- don't half begin to kn ow what there is in a demned murderer, condemned before the trial ! woman's heart. Did you over surmise the an- O, Louise, I h ave broken your heart." guish that tears us sometimes ? the devils that Then he would turn fi ercely. "I will not sacrifice a true heart to a false ! I will declare he had caught her beautiful arm and they were her to-morrow before the judges !" A gleam of standing face to face. Now he seemed a pretty hope lighted up his face, ashen in the dim light child with golden hair, that made the whole of the lantern that fell upon it from the cor- community wonder. His mother was holding ridor. But suddenly his fist clenched and he him close in her arms and telling him about drew his breath hard. What chance of happi- God's love. He listened with the great tears ness for himself or Louise if he should doom a falling down his cheeks, for the story of the woman to be hanged ? Finally, in sheer des- gentle Christ made his little heart almost burst peration, he thrust his fingers into his pocket with pity. His mother held him closer and and drew, forth a copper. closer. He struggled to get away, but the "I will hang my fate on a thread." He threw loving arm bound him fast. It grew tighter up wildly into the sir, then held his breath and tighter. He could feel it dwindling and tensely as the copper fell. He had thrown it win ding into strands. It was about his throat so that . it fell through the grating and rolled off now and the shadow of love that had folded down the corridor. The sleepy guard started him grew blacker and blacker until it shrunk when it chinked on the floor and began to and settled over his head for the executioner's search for it with his lantern. Henry waited cap. Great beads of agony stood on his face. breathlessly. The lumbering watchman pawed His veins were .swollen and they stood out about for it with his great hand. Rising slowly upon his forehead like whip-cord. to his slouching height he advanced toward the "O, my God, end my misery !" he shouted. cell. He quickened his mad stride. Once he. stopped "Which side was turned towards you ? and clutched the gratin g until his fingers were gasped Henry from behind the bars. "Tell me livid. The day was just dawning. The serene, or I will throttle you." pure light was flushing up against the eastern The guard stood with feet wide apart, re- sky. The sight calmed Henry. There was a volving the copper in his greasy hand. softened light on his face as he watched the "Wal , now, I call that curus. I call that tints of rose steal agi?inst the gray. He turned durned curus. I've bed a deal of curus things his face—which had grown ten years older dur- in my day." ing the night—and bringing his clenched fist "I command you to tell me at once !" roared clown upon the table he forced the words from Henry, now completely beside himself. his lips, "I have decided." "Wal, yes, I were a goin' ter," answered the * * * * * guard in an abused tone, "if yer wouldn't be so Shall I bring you to a lovely summer morn- fierce like. I tell yer 'twas a curus carcum- ing, early in June ? The birds are piping stance. That ere coin was tilted up straight in clearly, the grass is soft and green and over all a crack, veered nuther. one way or t'other. broods a full content that comes with the Never saw nuthin' plumber in my life." springing year. Tho children in a fiel d near by Towards morning strange fantasies began to are fairly rioting ih buttercups and dandelions mingle with Henry's thoughts. Now he saw and clover. Their gay, innocent laughter is Marian, han ging on the gallows, dressed in the answered by the contemplative ba, ba of some long pale blue gown she had worn one evening lambs near by. • when he sat close beside her. The delicate What is that dark f orm, gliding down the lace was still nestled against her throat and street, that seems to disfigure the very sun- two rosebuds hung limply on her bosom. Her shine ? It pauses at my door and looks up. It round, fair arms dangled and swung at the will is a woman. See, she wrings her hands hope- • of the rope. With shuddering horror he con- lessly. The fire of youth is gone from her dark templated her face, now darkened and discol- eyes. Her fi gure, that must have been very ored, and the soft throat distorted and seamed tall once, is shrivelled and bent. Suddenly she by the pitiless rope. Then again he seemed to moves her arm. There is something familiar in be hanging beside her and Louise was kneeling the movement. Ah, now I know. It is the below and imploring thorn to come down f or ghost of haughty Marian. love of her. Once he gave a sudden, short She drew her tattered cloak about her shoul;. laugh. He and Marian ,were playing tennis and • dors and passed on. I watched her fnr down
' ¦ ¦ i . . • ' the street. What was it that I caught in the Professor McLeod from McGill University, feeble gait, in the tattered fringes of the cloak, Montreal, was here recently to get information in the lean arms that hugged it tight, in the from Professor Rogers in regard to a standard most unlovely face that seemed moulded in a of length for the Dominion of Canada. frown? Why, it is my text that I have read on The tennis tournament which has been ar- my gallows and on my gratings these fifty years ; ranged is being played with much interest. that I have seen buried in a certain ignominious The boys seem, to show more enthusiasm over" grave ; my text that shall rise at the last great tennis than they have for some years before. day and burn upon the ghosts that flit from my The Freshmen walk out of the dormitories charnel-house, that "Whatsoever a man soweth now instead of taking a running jump to avoid that shall he also reap." a deluge from those sudden showers which are very frequent just before the Freshman reading. The history professor forgot the key to his class room the other day and had to send Bassett after Sam. The dusky janitor crept up-stairs with the tread of a foot pad, musically jingling his string of keys. The "sings" on South College steps are rol- Red fire. licing, jolly affairs. Citizens at a distance might Tar barrels. suppose that a darky meeting was in progress Wet yaggers. in the vicinity of the bricks. "Mug's" powerful voice rises high and clear above those of his "You 're on sure, old man." companions. "Gather your information from original The Colbys played with the Brunswicks at sources." Brunswick, Saturday, May 24, and defeated Professor Battis is a base-ball and tenuis them by a score of 14 to 11. Ladd took the enthusiast. place of Wagg, who has gone to play with the The census enumerators left for their ap- Frederictons, and pitched a very fi ne game, pointed sections to-day. striking out nineteen men. What's the matter with the Colby base-ball Saturday, May 17, Deputy Sheriff Hill of this nine ? She's all right. city with a sheriff f rom Augusta arrested a man Who says so? Everybody. on the campus while he was engaged in watch- A. Junior informs the class in history that ing a game of ball. The man had stolen a watch "R obespierre was accustomed to take evening in Hallo well and had escaped the n otice of the walks with his sweetheart and his favorite dog." officers until he was fin ally captured in this The Sophs, took their half-term examination place. in English Literature last week. Prof. Smith The crowd f rom Fairfield , which has always was confined to his house for several days after before formed a line from the catcher's fence the event. to the grand stand and chinned for the visiting* Student in botany—"Why do some tendrils team, took seats on the grand stand at the last curl in one direction and some in another ?" Bates and Colby game, but retired out of sight Professor (smiling)—"We won 't stop to dis- and hearing when they saw thai Bates was out cuss that point just now." of the contest. . One student soberly remarked to another a A very pleasan t sociable was given by the few (lays since, "Y ou are a talented young man. young ladies of the Methodist society Friday You are master of two languages and one of evening, May 28rd. A miscellaneous program ' them is the profane language." was given, a very interesting part of which The arrival of Carl's new "Bronco" created were the readings by Prof. Battis. After the considerable excitement on the campus and program was carried out ice cream and cake ever since that time somebody has been at- were served and a social time was enjoyed by tempting to mount its perverse back. all. One of our rising young divines came very Hieronymus Pop, Bonner near meeting with a sad mishap which would Lora Grace Cummings. have caused him much discomfort. His room- music. Death of Paul Dombey, mate thought he would play a joke on him and Dickens Joel Byron Slocum. substituted an old composition in place of his The Burning- Ship, McJsfaugkton sermon just before he started out to assume his Ivan Cecil Eight. pastoral duties. The plot, however, was discov- Jim Black, -Anon esse Hosmer Ogier. ered before it was too late and the sermon was J music. restored. 4 When the news came from Not long ago a little dog found his way into the game with the Bates at Brunswick announcing the room with the class in French. He stole , a score of 9 to 7 in favor of Colby, enthusiasm ran hi h quietly up to the ladies in the class and yielded g among the boys at home and expression was to their caresses in a very appreciative manner. iven to their The professor remarks—"Mr. B—, I guess you g joy in the manner of cheers and a din of horns. But some more had better take him out. If it was my dog I satisfactory demonstration was necessary shouldn't care, but we don't know what a and a special train was chartered to leave Waterville at 6.45 strange dog might do." "Bu n" proceeds, drag- P. M. for Augusta, to meet the boys, who would come ging the dog by the collar, saying, "No, you as far as there on the last train from Brunswick. don't want to go, do you, doggy ?" The notice of the celebration was quickly circu- After their exhibition the Freshmen thought lated and between seventy-five and a hundred it was high time to let folks know that they were at the depot to take the train for Augusta. had got a class yell. So having mustered up Among this number were our old and respected courage they formed ranks and marched to the janitor and one professor who certainly bears the president and several professors. houses of the interests of the boys at heart, and who added When they had gathered together before one much more pleasure to the occasion by his pres- 's house he overheard tho following professor ence. After arriving at Augusta and greeting soliloquy : 1st Freshman—"Are you sure this the nine with hearty cheers and hand grasps, is the ri ht house ?" 2nd Fresh.—"Yes." 1st g the boys raised Sam upon their shoulders while Fresh—"Well , are you sure ?" 2nd Fresh. — he delivered the address of welcome to the boys " 1st Fresh.—"All right then. Let 'er "Yes. and congratulated them on their unparalleled " And this was the result : Knickerbocker go. success. Then the company f ormed in line and -nine, Knickerbocker-^-ty, Knickeibocker-Knick- proceeded to "d o up" the principal streets of rbocker-Knickerbocker-three, Rah! Rah ! Rah e ! the city. They first marched to the house of Nine-tv-three. Gov. Burleigh and halting before his residence The Freshman prize reading occurred at the gave him three rousing cheers. The Governor Baptist church Friday evening, May 16. Each appeared upon the scene and gave a few words ' speaker gave evidence of careful and excellent of welcome, saying* that he was completely sur- training and the entire program was considered prised and should like to have all come into the unusually good. The prizes for gentlemen were house. The party passed through the house, won by C. F. Stimson and H. M. Conners. Miss receiving a hand shake from the Governor and Taylor received the first prize for ladies and an introduction to Miss Burleigh, Mrs. Burleigh Miss Cummings the second. The program : not being able to be present on account of ill- MUSIC. PRAYER . MUSIC. ness. After the company had passed through David Sloan , Boyle O'Beilly the house they gave three more cheers for the - Charles Norman Perkins. Governor of Maine and he once more Mary's Night Ride, , Cable addressed WELLINGTON ' HODGKINS. them, saying that he used to play ball himself College Oil Cans, McGuire and always felt pleased over a victory, although Evangeline Marion Taylor. he probably didn't play the way they do now. MUSIC. He thanked them for their call and said he Tempest , Dicktns should be pleased to meet them again . Harry Mylbs Conners. He re- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Browning" marked to a friend afterwards that he never Cyrus Flint Stimson. met a more gentlemanly company of men and . After marching Bonney, lb., - - - - 4 0 0 0 0 9 0 S .was much pleased with the call Gilmore, c, - - - - 5 0 1 1 12 3 0 through some of the principal streets of the Lombard, 2b., 4 0 1 1 0 3 0 3- Roberts, e. f., -- - -31 110100- city, amid cheers, songs and shouts of C-o-l-b-y, Merrill, r. f., - - - - 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 the party returned- to the depot to take the Purinton, s. s., 4 0 0 0 1 2 3 O train for Waterville at 9 o'clock. There was Totals, - - - - 35 6 7 10 3 20 19 10 • quite a brilliant display of fire-works by some BOWDOINS. A.B. R. lb. T.B. S.H. P.O. A. E. of the Augusta citizens and red fire was burned Packard, lb., - 5 1 1 1 0 14 0 1 at the doors of drug stores as the company Thompson, r. i., - - -41000102 Fish, C., - -- - - 5 0 3 4 0 4 3 . 0 passed through the street. The greater part of Hutchinson, 1. f., - - - 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 O the company returned on the special train, while Hilton, s. s., - --- 40000131 Freeman, 2b., - -- -41120241 a few found some attraction in the capital city Spring, 3b., - -- - 42220320 until the next train . Downes, p., - - - - 4 0 2 3 0 0 7 0 and did not return Burleigh, c. 1., - - -- 4011010O BASE-BALL. Total s, - - - - 39 5 10 13 1 27 19 5- Earned, runs—Colbys, 1, Bowdoins, 2. Two base hits—Foster, Colby met the last year champions on the 2, Parsons, Fish, Freeman, Downes. Stolen bases—Parsons, 2, and easil defeated them. Wagg, Bonney, Packard, Thompson, Spring, Burleigh. Double campus, May 14, y plays-Foster and Lombard, Foster and Bonney. Bases on. The home battery did excellent work and the balls—Merrill, 2, Parsons, Wagg, Roberts, Tbompson. Hit by was exception pitched ball—Bonney. Struck out—By Wagg, 2; by Downes, 5. fielding of Roberts and Foster Passed balls—Fish, 4, Gilmore. Time of game—2 hours, 10 min- ally fine. Pennell pitched a fine game but his utes. Umpire—Scaniiell, of Lewiston. catcher could not hold the ball. The score : Again the Colbys met their old antagonists, COLBYS. the Bates, and this time at Brunswick, May 21. A.B. K. IB. T.B S,H. P.O. A. li. Much depended upon this game since Colb Pai sons, 3b., - .- -41110223 y Wagg, p., - • - . 3 1110 13 0 needed this to make sure her hold upon the Foster, l. f., . - - - 4 1110 3 10 Boimoy , ID., -. - -5122090 2 championship. The Colbys led throughout the Gilmore, o., - - - - - 4 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 entire game. Parsons did some fine execution Lombard, 2b., - .- -40001612 Roberts, c i., - - - -22110300 with the bat-stick. The battery, Wagg and Gil- Merrill, r. f., --- - 40000000 more, did excellent work, and Purinton, Roberts, Purinton, s. s., • - '^^^^2.1-1 ¦ ¦ Lombard and Bonney played a fine game. Totals, - • " 34 8 7 7 3 27 15 S BATES. COLBYS. A.B. It. IB. T.B. S.H. P.O.. A. E. A.B. It. IB. T.1J. 8.II. r.o. A. E. Parsons, 3b 5 3.3 fi 1 3 3 3 Ponnell , p., -- . -50110200 ¦ Wagg, p., - • - 4 .1 a 2 0 0 4 0 Putnam, lb., - • • - 5 1 1 1 0 14 0 0 ¦ . 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 Foster, 1. f., - - - 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 Hoffman, e., - - - 4 ¦ ¦-40110450 Bonney, lb., ¦ • • 4 0 0 0 1 12 0 0 Wilson, 2b., .- - ¦ Chase, 8D„ - - • - 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 Gilmore, c, - . • 5 2 1 1 0 8 3 0 Day, B. B., . - ..30110001Lombard, 2b., - • -•40110 310- - --42110,1 Mai-don, 1. *., - - - -40110000 Roberts, c. i „ - 1 0 Gnroalon , r. f.', .. - 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Morrill , r. f., - • - - 3 10 6,0 0 0 0 . Little, c f., ¦ • • Purinton, s. s., - - • 4 0 0 0 .0' 0 8 2 -J2--^--l ¦ 88 i) Totals, - - • -38 1 . 5 5 0 27 14 5 Totals - • • . 0 11 2 27 20 5 Earned rnns-Colbys, 3. Stolon bases—Colbys, 8; Bates, 8, BATES. A.B. It. l u, X.H. S.H. P.O. A. 15. Double plays—Foster and Lombard . Bases on balls—Wngpf. ¦ Roberts, 2, Parsons, Hit by pitched baU-Fostox, Gilmore, Day, Ponnell, p., - - - 5 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 Struck out—By Wagg, 2; by Ponnell, 8. Passed ball 8-r-Ho1l'm tin . Putnam, lb., • • - - 5 1 2 2 0 10 0 0 Hoffman , o., - . - - 4 2 0 0 0 8 1 0 0, Gilmovo. Wild pitches—Pennell. Time—S hours. Umpire— ¦ Pushor, of PittsOeia. Wil son , 2b., -- . fi 12 3 0 . 3 0 2 Day, s. b., -¦¦-40111811 The Colbys met the Bowdoins at Lewiston, Emory, 3b., 40000101 Mardon . l. t, ¦-• •410000 00 May 17, and defeated them in a very exciting Gavcolon , r, (., 4 1 1 1 0 1 o l , which gives to Colby the three straight Little, e. f., .-. -400012 0 , 0 game ¦ Bowdoin. The interesting Totals, ' • - ' SO ' 7 7 8 2 24 10 1 games played with Earned rnns-Colbys, 2, Bates, 8. Two base hits—Wilson. feature of the game was Foster's double plays Throe base hits— Parsons. Bases on balls-Wagg, Merrill, Hit by pltcbod ball—.Bonney, Hoffman. Struck out—By Wagg, 0; with Lombard and .Bonney . Gilmore did some by PoimolJ , 8. Passed balls—Holnnan, 8, Gilmore. Time of fine work behind the bat and throwing to sec- game—2 hours. Umpire—Soamioll, of Lowieton. ond, COLLEGE LEAGUE STANDING. COLBYS. Played, Won. Lost. Poi- Oont. A.II. n. in. T.n. S.H. I'.O. A. B. Colby,' ¦ ¦ - , 0 0 0 1,000 ¦ ¦ • 8b.', ¦ - ¦ •42121448 Bates, • • • : 6 ' 2 8 / .400 Parsons, ¦ ' WilBg, p., J- • 8 0 0 0 0 7 0 Bowdoin, • • . . , ' . (i 2 4 .888 : Foster, l.f., • , . . -BOS 5 Off . 9 1 I M. S. 0., ¦¦-.. ¦« 14 .200 influence on them and- on their works. His gjft of word painting is unsurpassed and his creative power and ability to produce intensely graphic scenes, are marvelous. * * * "His literary genius is indisputable and at the close of bis life he was the acknowledged head of English letters. The many extreme opinions in regard to his style, principles, moral influence and philosophy have at length given place to a . We notice an interesting article in the Oberlin more rational and moderate judgment." Review, entitled "Sight-seeing in Argentina." The following article clipped from the May The writer was evidently wide-awake while number of the Olio is sufficiently suggestive there. without any further explanation : One of the chief items of interest in the May "Dormitory life has its advantages, from a number of the University Mirror is the analysis student's standpoint of view, which are of no of the article entitled "The Evils of Unrestricted little value ; but, like other good things, it has Immigration." From the analysis we should its disadvantages which almost if not quite al- judge that the article was one which deserves together equal its advantages. Considerations of neatness and general good order as well as to appear in print. suavity in manners are liable to be regarded as A somewhat novel article appears in the last matters of secondary importance. Intellectual issue of the Journal. The subject of it is "Th e culture is the one great end and aim of the average dormitory man, and in his strivings Duties of the Rich to Themselves." We quote after this the amenities due his fellows are oft- the following : times overlooked. Each is apt to regard him- "Of all our wealthy men, how many feel that self as "lord of all he surveys," as long as he there are duties they owe to themselves, not by does not look outside, and to do and act as he the massing of a much greater fortune to their pleases without Tegard to the wishes or welfare already untold millions, but by bringing their of others. If he has been belated by banquet social and intellectual condition to a higher state or other midnight attractions, his ebullitions of of perfection ? * * * joy are likely to be heard in song or other hila- "Many rich people are fully alive to their rious noises which prove quite unpleasant to duty toward others and at the same time appar- those who have "earned a night's repose." If ently devoid of a sense of duty toward them- he calls upon bis neighbor, he makes himself selves. The function of wealth in affording thoroughly at home. * leisure for culture and for thorough painstaking "Bu b let it be known that the dormitory stu- work in any field of progressive labor, has al- dent is not alone in this. His friends from ways been and always must be a far more im- outside are even more inconsiderate than he. portant one than that of furnishing temporary Conduct that elsewhere would be unthought relief to suffering humanity." of is regarded as legitimate in the dormitory. Decorum that elsewhere would be ri idl fine articles in the Hobart . g y ob- Among other Her- served is here forgotten. Indeed, they f re- ald we notice one on the "Literary Genius of quently make themselves most u nwelcome visit- Carlisle" which is worthy of notice. The f ol- ors in ways too numerous to mention." lowing will perhaps be of interest : The greater part of the North Western is "On e more and his best work remains for our given up to an account of the death of Presi- notice and admiration, that magnificent prose dent Cummings, who was elected president of " In s epic his "French Revolution. pite of the Northwestern University in 1881. cold reception it received, this superb work of genius rose above all obstacles, overcame all op- The Chronicle comes to us as usual, but we position and took the place in the world's litera- fail to find any literary department. ture that it will always hold. Here was a sub- The May number of the Wabash contains two ject fitted to his vivid style. By the aid of many personal memoirs, he has excited an unusual prize orations. The titles of the orations are feeling of reality, which combined with his mar- "Law and the Public Welfare" and "Oppression velous power of delineation, produced pictures in America." Both of these articles deserve
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WARREN MERR I LL, A. M„ Hon. I'EROIVAL BONNEY , A.M., Vice-President, and CIvaUtyuui of the Board of Trustues. tfocrelary nnd "Trcasurer. PACI7LTT OIF 1 UsTST ^tTO TIOISr. ALBION W. SMALL, Ph. D., PiiKsinirex, IBabcock Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosop hy. Rev. SAMUEL K. SMITH. D.D., j WILLIAM 8. BAYLEY, Ph.D., Professor of Rhetoric. I Professor of Mineralogy and Geology. JOHN B. FOSTER , LL.D., j SHAILER MATHEWS, A.M. Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. ' Professor of History and Political [Economy. EDWARD W. HALL, A.M., Pkofkssou C. E. ADAMS, A. M., Professor of Modern Languages, and Librarian. Instructor in Gymnastics. I'ltoiwssoit E. W. HALL, WILLIAM ELDER, A.M., Sc.D., j Merrill Professor of Chemistry. I Secretary and Registrar. " JULIAN D. TAYLOR, A.M., j WILLIAM CRAWFORD, A. M., Professor of the Latin Language aud Literature. ! Instructo r in Pedagogy. LABAN E. WARREN, A.M., WILLIAM S. BATTIS, Professor of Mathematics and Lecturer on Art. Instructor in Elocution. WILLIAM A. ROGERS, A.M., Ph.D., Professor or Physics and Astronomy. THe Course of Izistria -ctioao. Is substantiall y identical with the Regular Classical Course in the larger Colleges of New England. There are Special Courses open to those prepared to take them. Additional facilities for laboratory work are now furnished. -A-pparat -u-s etucia. Oa"bin.et. The departments of Physics and Chemistry are well equi pped with apparatus for experiments. For the study of Natural Science there are collections illustrative of Ornithology , Conchology , Geology , and Mineralogy. The Observatory is furnished with a telescope and other instruments for instruction in Astronomy. Z=la.3rsioal Train ing*. The general princi ples of Physical Education are taught by lectures in the first year. Exercises in Gymnastics are required of all the classes. The gymnasium is veil provided with the most approved apparatus. LiTorar ^r and ZESead.ing' -IEeoom.. The University Library of 23,000 bound volumes is a choice collection well arranged in a building which is a model of its kind. The alcoves are open to the students , and the contents of the shelves arc rendered easy of access hy means of a card catalogue and indexes. The Reading-Room contains the best periodicals , and is always open. Expenses . The Trustees are determined to furnish the best possible education at the lowest practicable cost.j Tuition is jjtyt; per annum. The total necessary expenses of each year , including board , washing, fuel , and li ghts , areYrom $225 to $275. UPrisses and Scnolarsni ps. There are several prizes offered for excellence in Reading, Declamation , nnd Composition. The Merrill priaes for exceptionally good preparati on for college, and for excellence in scholarshi p, amount to $100 per annum. For indi- gent students, allowances varying from $36 to $60 arc made, on certain conditions , from the income of scholarshi p funds which amount to $76 ,000. or |^ * For Catalogues any further information apply to fche..Pro. PHILLIPS & RICHARDS, Prop's. F. iL. G $;- . CO. School officers supplied with Teachers for Schools of all WTJ^ r ? Grades. On short notice if neccessary. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Teachers desiring situations in Maine or Mass.. should send stamp for Application , Form. FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY ADDRESS THE MANAGER, MAIN ST., - WATERVILLE, ME. C. J. RICHARDS, Prin. Wil ton Academy , WILTON, - • • MAINE JlIffVv®©d Hotel ,, H. M. GOULD H. E. JUDKINS, Prop'r. MERCHANT TAIL O R, WATERVILL E, • . MAINE. ,.W i i "Waterville, Maine Most Stylish Goods. Elegant Fits. WHAT IGNATIUS DONNELLY 8AY8I Jm^4Q "HP^l ^^ ,_ " DflA.nBe Sins—Ploniieto send mo another box of COBURN CLASSICAL INSTIfUTE. fat ^Pena, euro Bend the ZtafeHa brand; I have {a wiueu then for some time, and p refer (hem to any other. Very respectfully yours, Iohattos DoNNJBi&Y," M ^^Hn HH *^, V^1 Ifyour Stationer does not koop Botli Soxos. TUvoo Ooni'sos ot Study : English and Solontlllo Goui'BG, tlivoo years; College PreparatoryCourse, throoyonrs : H £M TADELLVShis ±M& PENS Ladles' Collegiate Course, four years. Idxpchsos Re ason- .jdriKv^'ssH^bkJ'Hul ustO,. buslnew card, and Mo, for samples . . able. .. For further information /wBk>'Z3mmKk, U* at*'** PAUf*ht. paiji/iiook a»iv station. send for Catalogue to «SWk. ^ ^ El ^R °'mW BT. MINN., or IIUNItV IIAIN- J. Hi HANSON, ^" PBiV JKmK\MUDOH* VQ., VW V0UK CITY. Nam$ thitpcwir, Principal.