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VOL. III. HARTFORD, CONN.,_ DECEMBER 15, 1870. No. XII.
.J.ASON. For he forgetful of his ancient flame, Jason, foT so the ancient histories run Went courting round in search of newer game. Was the. own son, which is most strange, of A(e )son. Medea found her husband at his tricks, He went to Colc his for the golden fleece, And swore she'd stick him by the river Styx. (The mode of ge tting sheepskins in fair Gr:ece.) But finally she flew away in haste, Sailing in Argo, as an argonaut To old Aegeus who had better taste. And spent his time in learning what was taut. Jason survived his jealous partner's loss, When young he lived with Chiron the old sage, But finally he went ad irgeros. Where he continued 'till he came of age. His uncle had usurped the throne, LOVES OF THE LEARNED. So Jay determined to ccme hy his own. To town he strnde where there was great to-do, " Every man to his trade" is a saying which, Because in coming he had lose a shoe. though homely in its dress, is fraught with He met Pelias and accosts him thus; wisdom. And seldom does it find a better 'Who're you and what's this place.' 'Its I ol' cuss' illustration than with the learned. It is true, Replies the monarch with a stately joy Lives of great men all remind us Thinking like Louis that 'l,etat c'est moi.' We may make our lives sublime. The King persuades him to go on a trip To Colchis in a weather-beaten ship, But they also show, that those who challenge To get the fleece from Colchian dragons stern our admiration while they guide the ship of Hoping that Jason would get fleeced in turn. state, wield the pen of the writer or map out Jason set sail and reached the Asian strand, the heavens, on the contrary become laughable And made to King Aeetes his demand. the moment they play the lover. Walton, in The King consents if Jay will yoke the bulls his life of Hooker, says there is ,~ a secret, sa And sow the teeth he from the dragon pulls. C1 ed wheel of Providence ( most visible in mar Jason agrees and by Medea's ai.d riage) guided by his hand that 'allows not the He stole the "sheepskin" from the haunted glade. race to the swift,' nor 'bread to the wise,' nor As he was leaving fair Medea whined good wives to good men." 'Oh gallant stranger don't leave me behind. · It needs but mention of this to summon to Tutissimus zbis in medio the reader's mind the patient sage, Socrates, Think of yourself and think of Meedy oh ! and his termagant wife Xantippe. The story For sure you will go safest with Me-dea ( r) Since when I'm by, no danger need you fear. of their conjugal felicity is too well known to This said they sailed across the bounding sea, need repetition, and so, regretting that there was Until they came to beauteous Thessaly. in that day no Sunday Mercury, let us pass on Here fair Medea cooked old Pelias' hash, to a name scarce less honored in the roll of By cooking him within a calabash. philosophy, and whose posse·ssor was equally And Jason ruled in all the porn p of state, remarkable in his love experiences. 'Till his wife's love was turned to deadly hate. It is recorded of Sir Francis Bacon, that, The Trinity Teblet. when in spite of economical habits, he had con ried man, there was at that time a pleasant con tracted some troublesome debts <;ind was very ceited gentleman of an ancient famil~, in Essex, dubious of becoming Solicitor General, he cast one Mr. Jno. Colt of New Hall, that invited about to restore his sinking finances by matri him unto his house, being much delight~d in mony. Upon this subject he thus expresses his company, proffering unto him choice of himself. "You may observe that among all any 0f his daughters who were young gentle the great and worthy persons whereof the women of very good carriage, good complex memory remaineth, either ancient or recent, ions, and very religiously inclined; whose hon there is not one that hath been transported to est and sweet conversation and virtuous educa the mad degree of love ; and therefore it is tion enticed Sir Thomas not a little; and well said that it is impossible to love and be although his affection most served him to the wise." And by these )Jrinciples he was guided. second for that he thought her the fairest and He selected as the object of his favor, a rich best favored, yet when he thought with him widow, noted for wit and spirit, but said to be self that it would be a grief and some blemish to of a capricious and violent temper. After a the eldest to have the younger sister preferred proper course of attention, in which, however, before her, he ( out of a kind compassion) set he met with little encouragement, he proposed tled his fancy upon the eldest and soon after to the widow. This u little encouragement'' married her with all her friends' good liking." was due to the fact that ~ir Edward Coke, his Probably in all the Annals of Love that rival for the Solicitor Generalship, was likewise courtship is unique and might be fairly con his rival for the widow's heart -- no, money sidered a model of Platonic affection. This bags. But alas ! she of the wished-for gold re phrase, by its kindred sound, and by power of fused Bacon, and accepted the crabbed Attor association reminds us of Plutarch, who seems ney General, well stricken in years and to w horn to have formed a remarkable exception to the there were, "seven objections-his six children rest of the learned, for his wife was not only and himself." well-born and well-bred but a woman of 1:1ost Bacon, however, had good reason to regard remarkable qualities in every way. "She had this as a fortunate escape. For the lady, from no passion for the expensiveness of dress or the honeymoon onwards, led poor Coke a most the parade of public appearances. She thought wretched life-refusing even to take his name, every kind of extravagance blamable, and her separating from him, doing everything to vex ambition went not beyond the decencies and him and even teaching his childJen to rebel proprieties of life." [If her mantle has de against him. Indeed, it is said that to this lady scended upon any woman of the present day, we owe " Coke on Littleton," for she made the that woman would do well to make it known.] labor of its composition a sweet relief from Furthermore it is told of her that "when on the scenes of his domestic life. one occasion Plutarch had some misunderstand Worthy to be put by the side of Bacon's ing with his wife's relations (his mother-in-law?) love-making is that of Sir Thos. More ; a man Timoxena, fearing it might affect their union, as renowned for vast legal acquirements and bad duty and religion enough to go as far as judicial acumen as any of those who have Mount Helicon, and sacrifice to Love in the adorned the position of Lord Chancdlor of celebrated temple there." Think of_a woman's England. From a descendant of his we have making a pilgrimage as long as from New York the following curious account of his courtship. to Indiana in order to prevent a divorce! "Sir Thos. having determined by the advice We have said that th~ lµck of Plutarch was and direction of his ghostly father to be a mar- exceptional, and _somewhat in contra~t with the 1 he Trinity Tablet. 179 rest, as, for example, with that of Hooker, that of Tasso's love, madness, and imprison whose matrimonial experience as related by ment, so well treated of by Wilde. These Walton, is somewhat as follows. At the age suggestions must serve the reader in that further of 28, coming to London to preach at St. Paul's pursuit of the subject which space forbids our Cross, he stopped at the Shumanite's house pen to trace. where the preachers were lodged free. To this he came "so wet, so weary and weather SMALL PACKAGES. h ::- aten" and "possest by such a fear anJ faint Thunder! Yes, we might as well say thun ness" that he de paired of preaching, his ser der as to think it. Coming up stairs, imagined mon. "But a warm bed, and rest, and drink we were at the top, turned the corner too quick proper for a cold" (given him by Mrs. Church and flattened our proboscis against a post; we man, the matron of the Shumanite house) felt the increasing size of our nasal organ relieved him of all danger on that score, only in more ways than one, and though conscious to plunge him into a greater trouble. For, we were going to cut a swell about college for "the kindness of Mrs. Churchman's curing the next few days, yet precious little consola him of his late distemper and cold, was so tion in that; and especially when our upper gratefully apprehended by Mr. Hooker, that he class-mate of a chum caps the climax with thought himself bound in conscience to believe "We should think you were big enough to all she said. So the good man came to be per come up stairs without assistance, at this hour suaded by her ' that he was a man of tender in the evening." constitution,' and 'that it was best for him to "Aye, there's the rub:" we could but bot have a wife that might prove a nurse to him; tle our pain and indignation ; we are a little such an one as might both prolong his life and man. This isn't the first time either that ou1 make it more comfortable ; and such an one five-feet-two has been looked down upon : she could and would provide for him if he don't spooneys with long legs like to walk over t ;1011ght fit to marry.' And he not considering us, and make us feel pleasant with "Why you that the children of this world 'are wiser in don't grow a bit ? " Don't the ladies, dear their generation than the children of light,' creatures, always say "what a nice little fellow trusted her to choose for hirr., promising upon he is, isn't he?" Don't we always get the fa ir summons to return to London and accept high chair when we make a call, and sit in her choice; and he did so in that or about the mortal fear that we are going to slide off following year. because our heels don't touch the floor? and we Now the wife provided for him was her know that the adorable gave us that chair on des, and Milton. While, for the shade of the 1 took us to the lecture the other night and our picture, few s:i crease during the years 1834-5-6, as appears improved, that its req1::1irements cover every from examination of the list of books and branch of literary and parliamentary exercise their donors. which fell under the objects of the former In the year 1839 the Parthenon became soc1et1es. Besides it is found that duties are involved in a little "unpleasantness." The better fulfilled when compulsory, than when members of the Athenreum made some asser optional altogether, after a hard struggle of tions in regard to the Parthenon being "deeply three years to keep life in the dying bodies, our in debt," which (so say the Parth. records) inclination and experience both bid us "let were wholly unfounded, but which led to a the carrion rot." resolution "That the Parthenon hold no further intercourse with the Athenreum." And from Speaking of the English department, we wish this time each ran on in its own "particular to chronicle a novel but happy innovation upon curve," strongly stimulated by a spirit of rival the regular routine. Among other Senior ex ry, until about the year I 860, when the general ercises in extemporaneous speaking, it is pro interest b'egan to flag. posed that a number of toasts be provided to After that time it was always "small, grow which the members of the class be called upon ing beautifully less" until in July of I 8 70, after to respond impromptu. When we add that the a hopeless struggle for ten years, it "paid its opportunity for the exercise is to be afforded at last debt," and among the things of the past a supper given to the class by the Professor of henceforth was to be numbered the Trinity English, we think we have recorded a custom College Parthenon. which few will fail to appreciate. Esto per petua ! MINOR MATTERS. The success of the "woman" experiment We give below an in~enious calculation at Michigan University is said _ to remove the which appeared in the Pacific. The assump,~ prejudices of the most obdurate. In conduct tion that one man in a hundred is a graduate and scholarship, the female element is exercis does not of course mean that the proportion of ing a most useful and stimulating influence, and alumni to inhabitants is one to a hundred. despite the temptation to carelessness and rude " Weigh the ordinary classical college course ness which are presented by daily recitations, against all other modes of education whatever: chivalry is said to thrive. assume that one man in a hundred is a graduate; then, calculating probabilities on the data given The Argus deplores the decline and fall of lately, we should find that, by going through col the literary societie~ and asks if this be not lege, a man increases his chances for the presi an unanswerable agument against secret socie dency in the ratio of 150 to 1 ; for the vice ties. If, at Middletown the decay of these presidency, in that of 133 to 1 ; for the pre venerable institutions be owing exclusively to miership, in that of 580 to ·1 ; for the speaker the rise of secret fraternities which have failed ship, 340 to I ; for the supreme bench, 367 to to supply the places of those they supplanted, I ; for the chief justiceship, 500 to I ; for the surely there is cause for complaint. Of course average of the six positions, 295 to r. If we we cannot speak for any college but our own, classify equivalent system of study with the though we think o:..:r cause is common with collegiate course, instead of being against it, many, when we take issue with the Argus as to these ratios will be nearly doubled." The the cause of our literary societies dying out. perusal of this table will be of interest to those Our English department has been so much ambitious for political h~nor_s. The Trinity Tablet. COLLEGE AND CAMPUS. The remarkable protraction of fine weather Published mcnthfy thrcughout the ccllrr)c.ir )'ear enables the work on the campus to go on with by the Students of out obstruction. The stone foundation for the posts of the iron fence have been planted, but 'TRINI'TY COLLEGE. we suppose the railing will not grow till spring. We saw a mysterious drawing of an imposing THE TABLET is for sale at Geer & Pond's Book carriage entrance but we don't know yet where store, Hartford, and at Hoadley's, New Haven, Ct it is to be stationed. We hope not in the rear of the college. Terms $2.00 per volume, (twelve numbers), in ad vance. Single copies, 20 cts. We are glad to register the end of our strict ures upon the "melodiousness" of the middle Subscriptions and Communications should be ad section R H. We were on the eve of peti dressed to '' THE TRINITY TABLET," B~x 818, tioning the trustees to change the name of the Hartford, Conn. building to '' Music Hall." But the faculty have passed a law forbidding students the use of CONTENTS. musical instruments in their rooms except be VoL. III, No. XII.-Dec. 15, 1870. tween the hours of half past twelve and two. So we were prevented. We admit the law is PAGE. somewhat severe, but it grew out of an abuse, and Jason, 177 as in many other things, the comfort of major Loves of the Learned, • 177 ities must be first consulted. We see no rea Small Packages, . 179 son, however, why this should interfere with College Custom, 180 the musical education of any who are really A Sophomore's Lament, 181 anxious to improve. The faculty would no History of the Parthenon, 18 l doubt consent to the cabinet or some other Minor Matters, 183 room in Seabury Hall being used for a music Notice, 184 room, and heating would be a trivial expense College and Cam pus, 184 to a club. The Meteor, . 185 The President proposes during the vacation Class Debates, 1_ 85 Lectures, . . 185 to have his recitation room nicely papered an to take breath for the coming year. Our next The six thus chosen are obliged to speak; any number will be published the latter part of Jan others may follow them who desire to do so ; uary, and with it we shall forward to our sub and all who speak will be excused from the scribers the title page and index of the present first recitation on Tuesday morning. After volume. the six men chosen by lot have debated, ad journment is always in order. The appointees THE METEOR. will be marked chiefly according to the merits The following notice appeared in one of our of their arguments, the maximum being twenty. city newspapers last week : "A bright meteor It was at first intended to have the two up was observed in this city at about eleven o'clock, per classes debate together, but on further con Monday night; and persons in the vicinity of sideration this was thought unadvisable. We the Park heard it explode, and describe the think the whole plan an excelleut one, and have sound like that of a six pounder." A lady and no doubt it will succeed admirably. It is no gentleman were walking up Buckingham street, more than just that talent, as distinguished at the time, and the lady told a friend " that, from mere labor in the regular college curricu though she did not see the meteor, she heard lum, should find some representation ; and the it very distinctly, and thought it must have fall present plan goes a great way towards accom en in the rear of the college campus." Sev plishing that end. Furthermore, by this means eral others are also said to have seen the me far more interest will be taken in the debates teor. It was described as very large, of a dark than in those conducted by the former literary red color, and carrying a considerable trail. societ!es ; so that although those organizations About an hour before midnight, on the have now passed away, the main end for which night in question, several members of the they were founded is still accomplished, and, Freshman class were engaged in conveying a on the whole, accomplished in a more satisfac keg of gunpowder into the west campus, which tory manner. keg they subsequently caused to explode. " Fama, malum qua non aliud v~locius ullum." LECTURES. Excellence in penmanship is unquestionably THE CLASS DEBATES. a very desirable accomplishment. But when a The debating project has at length been student has ente:-ed college his chirography has brought to a consummation. The Professor of reached what may be called its crystallizing English recently announced to the two upper point, where a certain fixed and settled charac classes that he would meet them separately, ter has been acquired, which modify as you will every alternate week, for the purpose of extem cannot be radically changed. And even if it pore discussion ~pon some subject which could be we are inclined to doubt if the acqui should have been given out at the preceding sition be worth the time which the copying of meeting. It has since been decided that the long lectures takes from other uses. meetings shall be held on Monday evening, at We find the following admirably expressed half past six o'clock. The Professor of Eng ideas on this subject in the Chronicle. "Not lish presides, and the rules of order are sim the least objection to the lecture method is the ilar to those of the United States Senate. Six manual labor of keeping. and copying notes. speakers are chosen by lot at each meeting, ·We exceedingly doubt if there be a professor one of whom is to present the bill at the next here who has so much to say which is new or debate. Another to second it. The remain valuable or not already accessible in print, that der may speak on either side of the question. he can make it worth the while of a student to 186 The Trinity 7 ab/et. spend his time in copying three hundred pages PARTICLES. or even one hundred pages of manuscript. 1st Senior: "How do you get your Butler One feels that he could easily do something so easily ? " Second do. : "By intuition, in more profitable. If a professor wishes to sub to-it-ion you know, look into it just before I stitute his own words and methods of speech get up to recite. "--The Reading Room has for those of the text books, the least he can do on file 4 3 periodicals, consisting of magazines, is to have them printed. It is quite too much reviews, weeklies and dailies. Among these to waste precious hours in mere copying." are the nine best exchanges of the TABLET. Now in reply it may be said that the close --If a professor marks you low, flunk your attention which copying demands and enables next recitation. It will." snub" your tormenter the wandering mind to give, makes 111emorizing dreadfully.--Students, help those who help much easier. We grant this, but still beg to you. Patronize those who advertise in the be relieved from the copying, for this reason. columns of the T ABLET--An aspiring Soph. Those who desire any aid in learning the lesson, in a recitation in Zoology revealed the fact from the quill-driving system, could have the that Batrachia have for covering, hair or none full benefit by taking their text-books and copy and that their members are adapted for flight I ing out the lessons. But there are those who Give him a B. S. and ask no further questions. do not need this assistance to commit the lesson, --How is this for poetry: who could acquire it }n one-third the time of 'Tis midnight and the setting sun Is rising in the wide wide west; the former class, and there is no sense in tying The rapid rivers slowly run them down to the same number of minutes by The frog is on his downy nest; this reporter-training, time-wasting method. The pensive goat and sportive cow Hilarious hop from bough to bough. DO WHAT YOU CAN. --Homeopathic physcians give their children We have an impression that most of the two whippings at a time; one to satisfy stern students ar~ in a state of blissful ignorance of justice, another, tender parental love. For one of the most important elements which go " Similia similibus curant1f_r. "--I st Junior: to make up one raiJon d'etre. At the close of "That moustache of yours has a foreign one year we shall devote the profits from our look about it." 2d do. : '' How so?" Jst editorial labors, to purchasing books for the do. : "It looks like those that come from college library. We have no intention of ad Cork.''--Preparations are being made for ding any ponderous tomes, as relics of the dead setting the iron fence around the campus.- past, but shall make a selection, from a list Can the Prussian treatment of Napoleon be· kept by the Assistant Librarian, of those books called Sedan charity ?--More students are not contained' in the library for which there is pursuing voluntary studies ( additional to the the greatest demand. Ar:. these cannot fail to regular course) than in any previo~s year. be the very books the students wish to see in --At a college meeting held on the 3d the library, we feel that this object must be inst., Robert Hudson was elected orator, one of interest to them. Of course every and Arthur T. Parsons, poet, for Feb. 22d. name added to our subscription list, will in --Scene in recitation on Metaphysics. Pro crease this purchasing fund by just two dollars. fessor: ,~ How does Hamilton illustrate this So we ask that during _this vacation you will do matter of association, by his re-visiting Ben what you can among your friends whose inter Lomond?" Metaquizzical Senior: "He says est in the college will be sufficient to make he went to see Ben Lomond and he being news concerning it likewise of intere'-t. a Prussian &c. The Trinity Tablet. BOOK NOTICES. diction which is charming. Indeed the book left such a pleasing impression that we hardly know what DoROTHY Fox. By the author of "How it all Hap pened," etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. to say in its dispraise. It is rumored that the author will soon publish another work, and we are sure that Sensational novels are so much the rule that we she will take her place at one of the most popular read the present volume with quite a new enjoyment. female writers of the day. It is a clearly drawn picture of guiet lifo, and yet we doubt not that any reader will .find it quite as interest THE LIFE OF HENRY JoHN TEMPLE, V1scouNT PAL ing although " the old, old story" is here told of a MERSTON, K. G., G. B. C., &c. With selections from his Diary and Correspondence. By Rt. Hon. Quakeress, and has no "nice elopement.'' The Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, G. B. C., M. P., Two elegant edition now issued is a reprint of the story volumes. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott, 187 l. from '' Good Words." In this work the author has given us the life of SAINT ANSELM. By R. W. Church, Rector of Lord Palmerston up to the year 1841, although the Whately. Macmillan & Co. original intentior, was to have written a complete This is a full and interesting biography of one of biography. But so much was tendered the author, the greatest of English scholars and rnetaph ysicians in in the shape of private as well as official correspond the•Middle Ages. The theme is well treated, though ence, that it was deemed best to publish the work in with a partiality for the great Archbishop which is so its present form. The two volumes now issued are evident as to render the reader cautious about taking the promise of some three or four others, and these all that is said for granted. The evils of the monas when completed will give us the life of a man whose tic system, too, are hardly painted in their true actions form a prominent part in the history of his colors, though its good points are well brought out. time. This work also touches upon the church and civil history of Britain during a period whose influences CLARENDON PRESS SERIES. Shakespeare, Select Plays, The Tragedy of King Richard 11. Edited by are felt even to this day. W. G. Clarke, M. A., and W. A. Wright, 1\1. A. ENCHANTING AND ENCHANTED. From the German of Second Edition, Macmillan & Co. Hacklander. By Mrs. A. L. Wister. With illus The design of this series is a most admirable one. trations. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. It furnishes the student of Shakespeare with just such Hacklat1der's fairy tales indicate a fancy almost as assistance as he is most in need of, and this in a most free and bold as that of the Arabian story-teller. All convenient form. The notes are chiefly devoted to the reality in whic~ Poe clothes the unreal dread, the structure and grammar of the language; to which this author throws around the unreal pleasant. The are added a few historical references. The prefaces translator, Mrs. \tVi srer, possesses considerable skill in contain a brief outline of the history of the different the German, and has given a good illustration of it in plays, and of the sources from whence they were this work. The present volume contains "The Elfin deri,;ed. Such is the general plan of the series, of Tree," "The Dwarf's Nest," "The Princess Mor which the volume before us furnishes an excellent gana," "Castle SilerKe," and "The Fairy Tankard." example. Well gotten up, and beautifully printed, SHILOH; OR WITHOUT AND WITHIN, By w. M. L. ·Ne are sure it will be a great aid to students of Eng Jay. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Hartford: lish literature. Church Press Co. A CoMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ANGLO-SAxo:--: This attractive story was originally printed in the LANGUAGE. By Francis A. Marsh, Professor of Churchman, and was received with universal favor. the English Language and Comparative Philology The scene is laid in New England, and as a description in Lafayette College. New York: Harper & of the life and manners of that part of our country as it Brothers. was thirty years ago,-nay, as it is to-day in some This grammar, though excellent as a whole, 1s places-the book may well be ranked with'' Oldtown chiefly noticeable for that part which is devoted to Folks." The characters are well-defined, and true to the syntax. The field is a new one, but the great the life; the descriptions are exquisite, sometimes learning of the author, combined with a most happy powerful; an·d the whole is written with a purity of arrangement, have rendered this portion of the 188 The Trinity Tablet. work invaluable to the English scholar. The princi had been insulted. The president of the class and ples are concisely and forcibly stated, and the com another man were suspended indefinitely. The parisons made with Sanskrit, Greek, and other lan Freshmen all signed a paper declaring the withdrawal guages, are full and well-chosen. His treatment of the of the class from college till the two men were re etymology of the language is also admirahle and sci stored and immediately began to "cut." The class entific. The bqok will do much to promote the withdrew the first paper, and the men were allowed philological study of the English Language, the ne to return. cessity of which is now so widely felt. HARVARD. There is no immediate prospect of having a new COLLEGE CLIPPINGS. gymnasium, another new dormitory, or of having AMHERST. marks received for breaches of decorum made inde The row in the Naval Association has resulted pendent of those received for scholarship. in the resignation of the President, Commodore, Vice IOWA, Commodore, and Board of Directors. The Medical Department was opened Nov. (?) 24, The Fall Regatta took place Nov. 5th. The with an able corps of profossors, and thirty students. Freshmen beat the Seniors and the Agriculturals the The Imperial Academy of Vienna, has adopted Juniors. The best time made was by the Agricultu and published a paper on the '' Symmetry of Crys rals: 19 m. 59 sec. tals," by Prof. Hinricks. CORNELL. MERCER. President White has presented the necessary bonds, The anti-secret society feeling was so strong as to duly signed, and made proper requisitions for arms cause the expulsion of the Chi Phi's from the two for the College of Military Science. literary societies. The Trustees have purchased a collection of over OBERLIN. four hundred tropical birds, including a species of To accommodate the lady students who wish to crane over six feet high. A taxidermist is to be em wash on Monday, that day is observed as the holiday ployed at once to mount these new accessions to the of the week, instead of Saturday. ornithological cabinet. Out of four hun::lred and twenty-six young ladies CHICAGO. who have been graduated, one hundred and seventy Drawing is obligatory. one have married young gentlemen graduates of the DARTMOUTH. same institution. An anniversary of the literary societies was held PRINCETON. on Friday evening, Nov. 18. The new organ cost $2,500. Foot-ball has been resurrected, and, through the The office of Proctor has been established. kindness of Pres. Smith, the students are well supplied The chapel and campus have been enlarged. with balls. RIPON. It would seem as if the fellows had rather '' rough Middle college is enlivened this term by four ed" it on the G. A. T. for Daniel says '' Dartmouth pianos, two organs, a melodeon, several jews-harps, a is a Grist Mill of Hell to grind out Devils." yawling cat, squealing rats, sqto1eaking mice, and more HAMILTON, than a score of '' singers charming . " Nov. 4th, Prof. Huntington told the Freshmen VASSAR. that they had not made one algebra recitation this There are thirty-three Bachelors of Arts. term befitting a district school. The Freshmen WESLEYAN, ac~ordingly bolted him at next recitation. As the An extended course of elocution has been provided. Prof. came from the empty room, some one called WILLIAMS, '' Trete" out of an upper window. He went up, Class Day elections have been held. knocked and was not admitted. The class then sent Three new scholarships yielding $1 50.00 apiece, to the faculty justifying their bolt, holding that they have been founded. The Trinity Tablet. Two bags of heans, and one of saw-dust have awake spirit. The Era for Dec. 2d informed the been added to the apparatus in the gymnasium. public who might desire to attend, that on Dec. 1st Winter vacatior has been extended to three would be held a re-union of Dartmouth Alumni. ln weeks. the same issue, we learn that Racine has been pro XENIA. vided with a billiard table and smoking room. As Miss vVilson has a small flower garden in her this was done last June, we presume the news must room. Just the way to get pupils to appreciate the have come by special telegram. remark concerning Soiomon: '' He knew from the vV e are surprised to see that the Chronicle has so Hyssop that grew in the wall to the tall cedar of misunderstood our article on "Tendencies" that Lebanon. "-Pantograph. it frels obliged to ask for an explanation. The arti YALE. cle in question merely alludes to the desire, on the Analytics is not to be optional. part of some friends of the University, to carry the The great noise for which the south entry of Far matt er of election of studies (invariably resulting nam is (in)famous is caused by the Seniors running against the classics) to the same radical extreme up and down stairs to keep warm. which it has reached, as was mentioned, in Cornell University. A comparison of the two courses as laid EXCHANGES. down in the catalogues will, we think, show the mat to be as here stated. We hope it will pretty soon be known "who named the colleges.'' V!" e acknowledge the following additions to our list of exchanges: Pantograph University Press, Henceforth the Brunonian is to have six numbers Dalhousie College Gazette, and Williams Quarterly. per year, instead of four. The Cap and Gown waxes enthusiastic on the subject of lecture notes, and exclaims O tempores l ADVERTISEMENTS. Is Latin elective at Columbia? The Williams R eview contains a good article on ESTABLISHED 1840. the subject of partial students receiving some official recognition of their work on completing their course. The Harvard Advocate, Nov., grumble.; at the Gymnasium, the Rank List, Forensics, and Prayers. Gavit& Co., In compensation however, we have this piece of atomic liveliness. "The Pen is mightier than the Sword; but what is mightier than the Pen? An old ENGRAVERS cheese." An essay on Protoplasm is next in c-rder. A number of our Western exchanges fill up their sheets with a column or two of '' Sweet Syllables" etc., which being interpreted means " slobbering over onesel(" We would merely suggest that so much PRINTERS, sugar coating is not without suspicion of a pill. The College ·courier seems to be devoting itself to ALBANY, NEW YORK. a crusade against secret societies. In a burst of phil anthropic benevolence it exclaims: '' How much bet FOR SAMPLES OF w ORK WE WOULD REFER TO ter would it be, to be one band of brothers and SISTERS ! " Yes, let us build us phalanteries and study AMHERST, HAMIL TON, MICHIGAN the system of the free love communities. UNIVERSITY, TRINITY, UNION, If there is anything which we, as an American, are inclined to worship ic is promptness and wide- And many other College:. 'The Trinity Tablet. 1 l)EMING & GUNDLACH, College Book Store. Watches, Jewelry, BROW.N & GROSS, Booksellers €5 Stationers, SILVER WARE, ETC., NO. 49 .ASYLUM STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. NO. 20 STATE STREET, F. A. BROWN. W. H. GROSS. HARTFORD, CONN. HENRY S. BRIGGS, 3-81 MAIN Sr., HARTFORD, CT. ORNAMENTAL Watches of all kinds repaired CONFECTIONER, in the best manner and Ladies' and Gentlemen's lee Cream and Dining Room. warranted to run well. lfTEDDING & OTHER PARTTES H. A. DEMING. L. GUNDLACH. Supplied with every requisite. The CollegeBootmaker. REILLY'S WM. LINKE, Dancing Acaderny, 271 MAIN ST., HARTFORD, CT. No. 3 Asv1uM STREET, Would call the attention of his numerous pat- ons to his new stock of FRENCH CALF-SKIN MR. REILLY respectfully announces that he has one just imported. The best of materials and a of the best furnished and most convenient academies PERFECT FIT ~uaranteed. in the country, which he will let on reasonable terms, for Dancing Parties, Receptions, Germans, etc. F. A. SYKES, Particular attention paid to dancing classes in young ladies'Seminaries in every part ofthe State. No. 7 ALLYN HousE, HARTFORD, CONN, FANCY BAKERY & LUNCH ROOMS. MR. REILLY will make arrangements for the instruction private classes, and for those persons Weddings, Collations, Dinners, Soirees, if Furnished in the most recherche style. · who desire to learn the German. w AITERS AND MUSIC FURNISHED. Address ~ Particular attention given to getting up P. H. REILLY, College"Spreads." P. 0. Box 647. HAR 'l'FORD, Cf. The Trini{y Tablet. R. G. WA TERO US, Hart, Merriam & Co., TI-IE HATTER. 325 MAIN STREET. THE CORNER HAT STORE, 313 MAIN ST., CARPETS, CURTAIN 1·f ATERIALS, Corner of Asylum, Hartford, Conn. ALL KINDS OF Oil Cloths, Mattresses and HATS, C t\PS, AND FURS: BEDDING, CHILDREN'S HATS AND CAPS. PAPER HANGINGS, &c. We shall sell Fine Goods at Low Prices, ALL OF THE N . E. SUGDEN. C.R. HART. L. B. . MERRIAM. LATEST STYLES. E. S. HIGGINS & CO., COLLEGIANS! Druggists and Apothecaries, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE That the place to get your WASHING done 139 Main Street. neatly, promptly, and satisfactorily is at DEALERS IN The Hartford Steam Laundry, DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES. 41 TRUMBULL STREET. Bundles called for and delivered in any part CHOICE WINES AND CIGARS of the city, fn e of charge. Constantly on hand. GEO. F. STEARNS. PRESCOTT & WHITE, Attention, Students I I Artist Photographers HENRY SCHULZE, TO THE The old and original CLASSES OF SEVENTY, AT COLLEGE TAILOR, TRINITY AND YALE. 253 MAIN STREET. ESTABLISHED 1836. A Choice Selection of Goods CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD, ALWAYS PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS, On hand, from which the "nobbiest" suit will CORNER PEARL AND TRUMBULL STS., HARTFORD, CONN. made at reasonable _pricc!s. COLLEGE PRINTING of all descriptions. Students' custom solicited. PRINTERS OF HENRY SCHULZE. THE TRINITY TABLET. 2 5 3 Main Sc. opposite the Post Office. The Trinity Tablet. STUDENTS, ATTENTION! FALL AND WINTER GOODS, FOR GENTLEMEN. Having just returned from New York with a fine selection of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, FOR GENTLEMEN'S WE.AR, I am prepared now to show them to my patrons and the citizens of Hartford in general, and will be happy to make them up in the most fashionable styles and perfect manner. I do not hes tate to say that this stock is second to none ever offered in this city CALL AND SEE FOR y OURSELVES. JOHN J. LEHR, 266 MAIN STREET, AT ESTABLISHED 1836. Conklin's Bazaar! THOMAS · STEELE & SON, 264 MAIN STREET. Jtwtlqrs uml $nm~!imith~, WINTER GOODS. A'.' 0 nKALEliS IN We are prepared to furnish our friends and cus c~i.o.L:b 1 ,~,U'\'\'\,0/\~ VERY CHEAP! A HOSE, GLOVES, SUSPENDERS, NECK TIES, ~thA):iWJ ~i.o.'I.~, SCARFS, Specialty. SHIRTS, ~ M/V\~i ctLJ~1, Jc, COLLARS, i TOILET GOODS, Agents for the i;,ale of the celebrated &c., &c. PATIK PHILLIPP & Co., & l\f. GRoss:-,ur-.:-. H. W. CONKLIN. WATCHES.