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the. Wesic'an rgus. THE COLLEGE PAPER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AND ITS STUDENTS: VoL. 8. • .: ,: " , " _ .' " • .BLOOMINGTON. .. : ._ : , . .. : ILLINOIS,' : ::. ; : " _ THURSDAY,". MAY 15, 1902. No. 25 Editor in Chief.. HELEN M. DEAN. 3rd Vice-President, Frank Brown VERY inte-esting state of af- - Editor;.. .... RALPH C . SMEDLEY. Literarjr Secie tary-Treasurer, - C. W. Gray fairs educa-tionally, and one Athletic Editor..... .... RALPH BENNETT. which augers much for the GRACE PARKER. SMITH DEBATING CLUB.. ocaEditos......... CHARLES ROBINSON. President, - - Harry Jones future of the country, was Exchange Editor............HORATIO BENT. Secretary, - - Fred Hammond brought out in a recent report. It is the fact of the great increase in the Subscriptions $1.oo per year, payable in advance. LECTURE COURSE BOARD OF CONTROL. Single copies, 5 Cents.. number of students who are being President:, - Charles Robinson Secretary-Treasurer, James Coss drawn to our colleges and universities. Communications for publication-should be addressed to In 1872, for every million of our en- the Editor-in-chief. C. E. Leighty James Love The ARGus will be sent to all subscribers until ordered tire population, there were 852 stu- discodtinued and all arrears paid up Christie Parker, Chas. Evelsizer DrR.O Graham. dents in college including law, medi- cine, theology, and ,other graduate AMATEU RIAN SOCIETY COLLEGE CALENDAR. courses of study . Today, for each President, - - Chester Staubus million of. people, there are. 1913, or Secretary,: -- Nellie Arrowsmith Sunday.-Y. M. C. A., 2:00 p. m. two and a half times as many young Y. W.C. A., 2:30 ~. MUSICAL-S people in proportion to the population, - Tuesday, 7:30 p. m. -Smith Debat- THE I. W. U, BAND. in attendance upon institutions of ing Club. Manager, - - - Harry Love higher education as tliere were thirty ;May 15.-Nor ial vs. Wesleyan at Asst. Manager, Prof. A. F. Caldwell years ago. When we remember that Bloomington. Secretary,, - - William Ferguson each. college graduate is a center of May 16.-Oratorical Contest. Instructor, - - Mr. Galeener increased culture and influence in a May 22.-Lombard vs. Wesleyan at DEBATE COMMITTEE. community, and that thCe number of Bloomington. Member of Faculty, O. such is constantly increasing, a feel- .... .. ~ . ~~-.:,. -... '; Dr. L. Lyon President, - - Thord Ewing ing of hopefulness aind iencouragement comes to each one regarding the fu- OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Secretary, -- Harry W. Jones Treasurer, - Charles Eveisizer ture and the prophecy concerning the days to come cannot :but be optimistic. ATHLETIC- E. P. Prince, Anita Lundy, D. H. Hartley. WESLEYAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. - President, - - - E. C. Stone CLASS--" WHETHER in individual or nation, SENIORI . Vice President, - Win. Ferguson idleals control. Thinking determines President, - - Beach Kilgore being. :What one really determines BOARD OF CONTROL. Secretary-Treasurer, Ethel Howell and wills to be, that he already is, in Chairman, Prof. J. Culver -IHartzell NIOR. embryo. Waanamaker, the poor boy, Secy.-Treas., William McCullotgh President, : Charles Robinson dreaming of wealth and resolving to Faculty, Prof. Adelbert F. Cald-ell Vice-President, - Christie Parker gain riches, was a prophecy of the College of Letters, - Harry Love Secretary-Treas., Parke Longworth great merchant prince. Moody, the Collegeof Law, - Blake ILeach S -OPHOMORE. uncultured young man, as he gathered FOOTBALL. Presidenft, - Grace McIntyre in those street urchins, was merely the Mainager, - - Beach Kilgore Vice-President - ' - Milton Burris forerunner of the gieat evangelist Captain, - J. H. McFadden Secretary-Treasurer, Mildred Russell whose power to hold and sway vast BASEBALL. audiences is so well known. Our own FRESHMAN. Manager, - .Charles Robinson President, - - B. F. Brown nation is but an;enlargement of some of Captain, - HIarry Cassaday that. Vice-President, - Chas. Evelsizer. the ideals controlled -the Ne w TRACK TEAM. Secretarv-Treasurer, Juliia Haslanl England Puritans.' Let the. ideal be a Manager, - - Wilbur Galeener, noble one and the character will be- FOURTH YEAR PREPARATORY. Captain, -. - Ralph Bennett come: likewise. Like Ernest in the President, - - Clyde Myers "Great Stone Face,' whose noble form LITERARY-- Secretary, - - - Edith Baxier he so carefully studied and admired ORATqRICAL ASSOCIATION. RELIGIOUS- until he unconsiously took on the same Member of Faculty, Dr. 0. L. Lyn Y.M.C.A. characteristics, we, too, grow like ,our President, - . Frank Poundstone President, .- .- C. E. Leighty. ideals., The value of ideals was recog- 1st Vice-President, Herbert Thorpe S. C. A - nized by the one who said; "Let me 2nd Vice-President, C. E. Leighlty President, - - Myrta A. Fairfield. write the songs of a nation and I care THE WESLEYARN ARGUS. not who makes their laws." The Land, whence they thought that the infidels, but the people, although greatest disaster that can overtake an Christ would come to judgment. For deeply incensed at the persecution and individual is to lose sight of his ideal there had been the scene of his life, and suffering of the pilgrims, were not or even feel that that ideal has been death and resurrection. To visit Jeru- yet ready to tlke up arms in their be- attained. To the earnest, thoughtful salem, the Mount of Olives, Calvary, half. It is just at this time that Peter mind, the ideal is still in the distance. and the tomb of Jesus was to the the Hermit, with all his fiery elo- The reaching out for that which is Christians the height of their ambi- quence, coimes upon the scene and above us lifts us up to a higher sphere, tion. iverything which had been as- arouses the passions of the people to a purer atmosphere, a broader vision, sociated with the Saviour was cher- their highest pitch. and a nobler life. ished by them with the deepest rever- Peter the Hermit was a native of ence. Places had been set apart for Amiens. He was educated at Paris, CONTRIBUTOR'S CORNER. every scene in the Gospels and in early afterwards in Italy, and then became Christian history. The whole land a soldier. After serving in Flanders was a place of miracle, and to visit it for some time he retired from the WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN was an act of the deepest devotion. army. After the death of his wife THE TREES. If a person happened to die there or some years later he became religious even on his way there, it was supposed and went through all the mortifica- In spring, when the green gits back in the trees that he went straight to Paradise. tions, fasts and prayers of a ieligious And the sun comes out and stays, The pilgrims brought back with them life without satisfying his great zeal. And yer boots pulls on with a good tight from the Holy Land, various relics, Still desiring to do(10more, he entered squeeze which the people: -almost wbrshipped. one of the most severe and strict And you think of yer barefoot days; The pilgrims were taken under the cloisters, where he lived the life of a When you ort to work and you want to not, And you and yer wife agrees protection of the law; they were ex- recluse. Even this failed to satisfy It's time to spade up the garden lot, empt from toil and were commended him and he became a hermit. In this When the green gits back in the trees. by kings to the hospitality of their solitude his body becanme emaciated -Well, work is the least of my idees subjects. All believed that a pilgrim- and his fancy filled with ideas of a When the green, you know, gits back age to Jerusalem expiated all sin. Of fanatic-whatever he wished, he be- in the trees. the many thousands who undertook lieved and whatever he believed he saw When the green gits back in the trees, and these pilgrimages, the greater number in visions and dreams. Thus lie saw bees Is a-buzzing aroun' ag'in were animated by the most disinter- in a vision that he must make a jour- In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please ested motives, but some had more ney to the Holy Land and there was Old gait they bum roun' in; selfish aims. For the multitude at no rest for him until at last, overflow- When the ground's all bald where the hay- large there was the attraction of a ing with religious zeal, lie set out on rick stood, new mode of salvation whereby the his journey. And the crick's riz, and the breeze layman, without laying aside his wild It Coaxes the bloom in the old dog-wood, was natural that aman of his re- And the green gits back in the trees, habits, could attain to a degree of ligious, and in truth, fanatical nature I like, as I say, in such scenes as these, perfection scarcely to be acquired by should be deeply affected by the abuses The time when the green gits back in the most austere monk. of the pilgrims. His soul was stirred the trees. The growth of monasticism and to its lowest depths and his profound When the whole tail-feathers o' winter time feudalism gave an added impulse to indignation aroused by the distresses Is all pulled out and gone, these religious journeys. The monks of the people of God. He immediate- And the sap it thaws and begins to climb; t were free and A nd the swet it starts out on glad to go and they won ly made a vow that he would arouse A feller's forred, a-gittin' down merit by the journey. The feudal the whole Christian world and form a At the old spring on his knees- lord had been wild at home, but the company to drive the infidels from the I kinds like jest a-loaferin' roun' pilgrimage to the lHoly Land would land of the Savior.

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