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The Aurora 12.9

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CLASS POEM. Never hear the proctor's footr.tep Echo loudly in the hall, [Read before class '83 on class day by W. J. Wormley.] As he searches for the Freshmen, Or the noisy cannon ball. Classmates, do you all remember, No more races through the orchard, How almost four years ago, No more fries of Plymouth R.ock In the spring of that long winter, Will beguile the hungry nipmuck, All the roads were blocked with snow ? Till the hour of 2 o'clock. Drifts of snow lined all the liy-ways, Student life for him is over, And the winds blew sharp and keen, And its memories alone And the Settlers vowed that never Now remain to tell the pleasures Had they such a winti;r seen. Of the times forever gone. Well that spring a class of Freshmen, When we leave the dear old College, Known as class of '84, When our school life here is done, Came to occupy the garrets, Do not think' the battle ended, Or sky parlors on fourth floor. Then 'tis only just begun. Left their homes and friends behind them, Now we have our life before us, To the halls of learning came With high hopes and aspirations We are eager for the strife. All our hopes are in the future, Of ob~aining here a name. Hope is mainspring of our life. 'Twas not longuntil they got it, For one morning unawares, Life is one continued struggle, Some artistic upper classmen One extensive march of time, Placed a pieture on the stairs. They who falter and grow weary Soon are passed and left behind. On this picture in large letters, N-I-P-M-U-C-K, Onward ! then, the future waits you, Spelled the tribes name they had figured Y ot1 can make it what you will, And they bear it to this day. Take our grand old motto with you, Many moons this tribe has been here, Let it be your motto still. Four long summers worked in peace. WENDELL PHILLIPS. Soon their brother tribes will miss them, Soon their labors here will cease. C. VINCENT. Never more about the grape patch, Every theory has its leading ad­ Will they walk with stealthy tread At the silent hour of midnight, vocate; every science has its leading Jerry's gone to bed. spirit; every age has its heroes, and 196 LITERARY. every nation has its leaders in art, re­ states and depopulated countries in ligion, philosophy and statesmanship. the path of his conquering cohorts. The world contains but one Darwin, Napoleon by his iron will swept one Edison, one Herbert Spencer or over Europe, sending terror and dis­ one Bismarck. The page,; of history may into the monarchical courts, reveal the existence of but one Alex­ leaving in his pathway the shattered ander, one Napoleon, one Demosthe­ remnants of once superb and magnifi­ nes or one Wendell Phillips. cent armies. He paved his way to Darwin deals with the problems of fame with broken promises and the biology, searching out the hidden re­ blighted hopes of those he &ihould have lations of diiferent forms of life to cherished. each other; tracing it from its sup­ Demosthenes held the Greek mvili­ posed ongm in the microscopic zation under the spell of his hitherto amoeba, through all the changes unrivaled oratory. caused by shifting environment; fol­ But greater far than any of these is lowing its development through all he who, when the curse ot slavery the countless ages of the past; reading flung its death-like pall over our na­ its history in the rocks, upon the sea­ tion, stepped forth upon the field of shore and in the product of the mine. conflict and unsheathed the sword of Edison, working in his laboratory, free speech and a free press; he whose rejecting current theories, bringing to clarion voice was heard in every vil­ us a never-failing_source of light, en­ lage and hamlet proclaiming the right abling u~ to talk across the states or ofliberty and equality before the law, call to our friends across the sea, has he whose matchless oratory broke earned the plaudits of mankind. forth when the fates seemed against Herbert Spencer has speculated his cause, when the last hope of upon all the great problems of life friends was dying, when the exulta­ from biology to psychology and ethics. tion ot foes was almost boundless; His . numerous essays upon subjects whose burst of indignation checked moral, political and aesthetic have the current of popular feeling and brought him the acquaintance and ad­ turned it in his own support in these miration of a reading world. burning words :- Bismarck sits on the throne ofpower. ' 'When I heard the gentleman lay He is regarded as a gloomy fortress, down principles which placed the a menace to liberty within the range murderers of Lovejoy side by side of its influence. He is the mighty with Otisland Hancock, with Quincy prince, the ruling despot, the arbiter and Adams, I thought those pictured of nations. lips would have broken into voice to Alexander, cruel and ruthless, fear­ rebuke the recreant American, the ed alike by friep_q and foe, devastated slanderer of the dead.,, LITERARY. 197 In the annals of American, con­ free the world from hopeless despot­ tests for liberty, there has been no ism. Phillips saw the American other such scene except Patrick people angrily refuse to listen when:a Henry's famous defiance of George monstrous wrong was attacked; he the Third. Demosthenes against saw the most cultured city in the Philip, Cicero against Cataline, Web­ Union pass by on the other side in ster against nullification and . Clay disdain when bruised and bleeding from his place in the Senate Chamber, humanity lay fainting by the wayside. each had his powerful party for a sup­ We know nothing of the insults he port. suffered, of the wrongs he endured, Phillips stood alone. Denounced but if we will turn to the pages that by parties, condemned by public still quiver with the withering sar­ opinion, with no party at his back, casm and blasting scorn which he with a pure and noble manhood, for a hurled at those he deemed recreant to high and holy cause he struggled. liberty and humanity, we may form Luther nailing his challenge to the some faint conception of the m(jrtal church upon the very doors of his strife in which he stood. chapel, amid the thunders of the The contest raged upon the plat­ Vatican, presents a scene not more form, in legislative halls, and spread sublime than Phillips demanding to the blooJy fields of internecine immediate and unconditional emanci­ warfare. pation at the hands of a nation in The terrific storm bas rolled away. complete possession of the power of Phillips' cause, the cause of humanity slavery. His impassioned oratory was triumphant. But let it not be could make the rights of the peasant said that this brave soul had finished seem as important as those of a king, his task. The slave was freed, but his fascinating eloquence could make the same principles of equality and the assassination of a despot seem as equity to all labor, white and black, trivial as the doom of a gnat. Born still demanded his attention. New and reared an aristocrat of the bluest duties were performed with the same blood, his conscience set aside all pat­ fidelity to truth and justice. To these rician impulses and enabled him to own new duties he brought a mind mature as his brother the poorest son of Erin and trained by a life of conflict. His or the meanest slave in Dixie. Phil­ riper years showed a finer discrimin­ lips knew it was not from the palace ation, a nicer sense of equity. His of Charles the Fifth, not from the opinions were always carefully ~on­ luxurious ~courts of Paris, but from sidered and [ever exhibited :a terse­ the hovels of the Dutch along the ness of expression that carried con­ bleak and barren shores of the North viction to the mind of the enchanted sea, came the inspiration of liberty to listener. He brought to his new 198 LITER.ARY. labors the zeal of an enthusiast, the point into the whirling vortex of sound judgment of a sage and the politics j Charles Sumner stands a scrupulous regard for truth which model of statesmanship worthy of ever characterized his life. He com­ emulation by all succeeding gener­ bined the magic leadership of Garri­ ations. The pure and spotless life of son with the subtler statesmanship of Wendell Phillips remains a pole-star Sumner. To the keen insight of an above the horizon. A man of steel; intuitive genius he added the labor­ a reformer, stern and inflexible; a ious toil of the ripest scholarship. The friend true to the end, an orator closest and most critical st~dy was al­ fascinating, enchanting and withal ways given to the subjects of his in­ logical and unreserved. vestigations, and his conclusions were "He stood on the world's broad threshold; published in unmistakable terms. No wide The _din of battle and of slaughter rose; nobler friend of liberty, no truer He saw God stand upon the weaker side, friend of humanity ever breathed the That sank in seeming loss before its foes. free American air. Many there were who made great haste and ciassmates, schoolmates and sold Unto the common energy their swords; friends I As our college career is He scorned their gifts of fame, and power closing, I deem it not inappropriate and gold, to call before our minds the purity, And underneath their soft and flowery the moral grandeur and the self-sacri­ words, Heard the cold serpent his; therefore he ficing heroism of one whose memory went will be revered and cherished in the And humbly joined him to the weaker part, hearts of his appreciative countrymen Fanatic named and fool, yet well content, So he could be the nearer to God's heart, long after many of . the presidential And feel its lilolemn pulses sending blood roll are forgotten. Through all the widespread veins of end- "-e are waiting for the College less good."---- doors to open through which we shall -We regret to announce the pass into the strife we have hitherto resignation of Prof. Thompson from viewed from afar. We are waiting the chair of mechanical engineering, to launch upon the heavy sea of a wqich took place at the recent meet­ busy ·rnrld. ing of the board. He soon goes to To-uwrrow we start on our sepa­ Lake Charles, La., where will en­ rate journeys through life. Does the gage in an engineering enterprise path lead into the busy whirl of busi­ with a salary of $5,000 a year. His ness i • The lives of Cooper and Pea_ family accompanies him so that the body will serve as models. Does students will in the future miss the constant foresight of Mrs. Thompson duty call to plead in courts of justice~ in the boarding department which The career of the immortal Lincoln she has supermtended for several will ever be a beacon light. Does it years. EDITO RI.AL. 199

the friendly criticisms we are not a TJJR ~ 'ITTJRORA. whit less thankful, and trust they have received whatever corrections PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE we have seen fit to offer in the same spirit. ~LITERARY* SOCIETIES r- ** * OF THE • THE Delaware College Review, in Iowa State Agricultural College. its last issue, published a lecture de­ livered before one of its literary so· EDITORIAL STAFF: cieties, by Belva A. Lockwood, but W. A. GROW, '85, Editor-in-Chief ANNIE E. HENRY, '84, Literary fails to state whether or not the ex­ ANNIE WILSON, '84, Scientific presidential candidate is a graduate W. P. DICKEY, ')34, Local of that College. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ** * A. S. HITCHCOCK, '84, Pres Bachelor Two editors of the Dartmouth EDNA BELL, '84, Sec'y. Cliolian College paper, were expelled recent­ W. M. HAYS, '85, T:reas, : Philomathean ly for expressing sentiments not in C. A. CARY, '85, Solicitor, Crescen accordance with the views of the TERMS: faculty. We will wager our paste One Year, in advance, $1.00 cup and best chair (the one with the Single Copy, .12 thr~e le-limbs,) that the editors THE AURORA will be forwarded to all wear larger hats than the members of subscribers until ordered discontinued and the faculty who expelled them. all arrearages paid. * * Book Notices given f.ree of all books sent * us by authors or publishers. WE purposely delayed this, the Rates of Advertising furnished on appli­ last issue of THE AURORA for H384, cation. Address all communications to in order to give our readers a full re­ "THE AURORA," port of the December meeting of the AMES, IOWA. Board, which many of them would not otherwise be enabled to obtain. THE space devoted to commence­ * '* ment exercises in this issue has no,. * MR. TYNDALL realized $13,000 cessitated the omission of the scien­ from his lectures in this country in tific department. •)(- * •1872. This he left in the hands of WE desire to thank* our patrons and tn1stees for the benefit of American exchanges for foe many courtesies students who wished to prepare them­ extended to us during the year. For selve:S abroad for original research in the many kind words of our ex­ physics. The fund has now increased changes we are truly thankful. For to about $Im, 000. 200 EJJITORI.AL. A.HIGHLY commendable custom was They are men uncxcelled in these, inauguarated this year by President their favorite departments, and here­ Knapp. We refer to the practice of after will work together for a com­ inviting professors from other col­ mon cause, the upbuilding of the leges to occupy our college pulpit and Iowa Agricultural College. The conduct the Sunday services. By following concerning new professors this means we have been enabled •we clip from the Register : · during the year to listen to many of NEW PROFESSORS. the finest speakers and best thinkers ''Prof. Byron D. Halstead was elect­ of the State. Such men as Bishop ed to the chair of Botany to succeed Prof. Bessy, resigned. Mr. Halstead Hurst, Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Fellows, graduated at the Michigan Agri­ Prof. Gilchrist and others whose cultural College. and spent four years names we do not rncall at present. at Harvard with Dr. Farlow, Dr. The chance to hear good public speak­ Goodale, Prof. Storer and others, ing is one of the best advantages of taking the degree of Dr. S. He is one of the main editors of the .Ameri­ attending college, and one that is too can .Agricultitralist, and a very ready often unappreciated. We hope this and acceptable writer. Hehas given custom so happily introduced by much attention to the fungi and other Pres. Knapp, will be continued next low form of plants. year. Dr. Launcelot W. Andrews, of Boston, Massachusetts, was elected ** * Professor of Chemistry to succeed THE contest for position at thelowa Prof. Pope, resigned. Dr. A. gradu­ Agricultural College, which has en­ ated at Harvard College, then gaged so much attention throughout took a course in the Shs:ffield Scien­ tific School at Yale College, then went the State for the past few years at last abroad and took a course at the Uni­ has been amicably settled. The versity of Bonn, in Germany, and Board met at Ames Monday, Decem­ another course at the Goettingen ber 1st, and their proceedings were University. He is the author of five made known Saturday, ,December 6th. or six books on subjects of chemistry, the most of them printed in German. There were no applications for the It is felt that the college and the State presidency, and the Board decided to have been fortunate in securing the elect an entirely new man. Members services of both these gentlemen. Clarkson and Dysart were made a The chair of Mechanical Engineer­ rspecial committee to ascertain the ing was not filled, and Mr. Mott, Chairman of the Board, was appoint­ very best available man and report at ed a committee to ascertain a suitable the next meeting. Ex-president professor, and report at the Jauuary Welch was tendered the chair of soci­ meeting. ology and psychology, and Ex-presi­ The controversey over the profes­ dent Knapp was tendered the chair of sors of military tactics has also been settled. Captain Lincoln has been agriculture. Both gentlemen accepted. retained in the position occupied by .EDITORIAL. 201 him this year, and General Geddes will retire from the presidency with was appointed Treasurer and Record­ the respect and confidence of those er of the College. This arrangement with whom he has been associated. is highly satisfactorily: to both gentle­ To Ex-president Welch and men and will meet with the hearty General Geddes, we give a cordial approval of all. A resolution was welcome back to the college in which also adopted declaring that the terms they labored so long and for which of all members of the faculty will be they did so much in the years gone during satisfactory service and not by. for annual terms or stated time. All To the new professors we also give the accounts of the College were a hearty welcome to Iowa's First and thoroughly inspected, and every Foremost (if not now, it soon will be) voucher in the institution carefully college. examined and every thing found to The action of the Board in be in excellent order. All the other adopting the resolution concernmg professors were re-elected. Prof. the tenure of office, is certainly to be Budd was elected president of the commended, and is an action that College until a new man should be should have been taken years ago. secured." The AURORA looks upon the new This ends the contest at Ames. The state of affairs with a vast deal of satis­ curse of jealousy and petty faction faction. It views the weeks' action which has been dragging our College of the Board and its happy termi­ nation with the feeling that all is well down, slowly but surely, has at last and looks forward with trust that been removed, and to-day the Iowa all will be well in the years to come. Agricultural College stands on a firm­ er basis than ever before-a footing LOCAL. from which it can and will arise and take the position awaiting it, that of -Goodbye! First college in our State, and First -Farewell! agricultural college in the United -'84 Gone. States. The Board of Trustees to whom -'85 Coming. the State is indebted for this peaceful --Goodbye, Nipmucks ! settlement of affairs has shown itself to be composed of men possessing all -Welcome, Diggers ! the AURORA in its first issue claimed -The annual ball given by the for their board, liberal minds, capable students on the evening of November of rising above petty jealousies. and acting from a non-partisan standpoint 12th, in the Ames Opera Hall, was a solely for the good of the College. complete success socially, if the man­ To take an unsought position agers did have to foot a little surplus against one's own will and fill it suc­ of the expense. Everybody had a cessfully against opposition 1s no good time and the music was excel-· easy task. This Prof. Knapp has done. On a11 occasions he has shown lent, as given by the Des Moines himself to be every inch the man, and band. 202 LOCAL.

--The electric light flashed upon -No more chapel! the contest speakers and added to the -No more 5 o'clock promenades! brilliancy of their efforts. · -No more "old Judge" picnics. -"The Freshmen class at Cornell -Lou Brown took his farewell trip embraces twenty girls."-Ex. Oh! to Nevada the Wednesday night that that we were a Freshman class at school closed. Cornell. -John Pope teaches · school near -Your local editor'e salutatory was Ransom, Illinois, and Frank Schroen­ short and his valedictory will be leber is engaged in the same lucrative shorter according to his success in his business at the eame place. efforts, so wishing his successor better -Again is the AURORA called upon luck he bids you goodbye. to record to a most happy event. --Mr. Collier and Mr. Rickman are This time it is M. E. Rudolph, of going to keep bachelor's hall in the '75, and the bride Miss Claudie G. buildin"g this winter and guard its Shedd. The event took place at treasures until the old halls are filled Montecello, Mo., Nov. 19. again with the returning students --Mr. A. W. Quint, one of '85's who will take up the work of 1885. :first and foremost members will not --The Baccalaureate discourse was be back next spring. His classmates delivered this year by President will be glad to learn, however, that Knapp. It was very instructive and he will be back next fall and graduate interesting and was listened to atten­ with '85. tively and greatly appreciated by the --We predict for the I. A. C. next students. year an unusually large attendance.· --There were a good many entries Every Democrat in the county will this year for Baccalaureate trot, but want his boy to learn to read so he we have never yet heard who was the can be elected sheriff and become winner, yet the whole affair seemed eligible to the office of President. very interesting to the participants. -Ye local, with several other I. One peculiarity of the trot was that A. C's, are putting in the winter there were no single entries, and this swinging the birch in Illinois, and if was for a long time unexplained un­ nothing happens to prevent, the til we were shown the ''General sucker state will go solid Republican Laws for Students," where there is a in 1885. clause saying that no one shall go -Prof.. H. Osborn was elected out in single rigs. At this our won­ .Secretrry of the Eastern Iowa Horti­ der ceased for who ever heard of any cultural Society, at their last meeting. person, especially a student, doing Chas. Keffer read a paper before such an unheard of thing and yet the same society on the subject, preserve his reputation. ''Development of Fruit Buds." LOO.AL. 203 -"Aged Ancient Antiquities" it versity, of Minnesota, subject: "Civic :should have been instead of ''Local." Education." The address contained We refer to the heading of one of the the problems in regard to education 1columns in last month's issue. that confront the American people -Louis Michael, a one-termer of to-day and gave the course that '87, has turned granger and goeth should be pursued in the common about with hay-seeds entwined in his schools and colleges to educate the flowing locks. people to govern themselves more -G. W. Green, one of '86's best perfectly. The subject was a live men, and withal a stalwart Philo, is one and showed careful study and teaching school this winter. Ditto gave food for earnest thought for the for nine-tenths of I. A. C. students present time. (in regard to the last part only.) -Cla1s '84 can well congratulate The reason that our local columns itself_, upon the fine state . of the was so short at both ends in the Oc­ weather during commencement week. tober number is explained thus: A For several years this eventful WElek large part of the manuscript was lost has been marked by cloudy skies and in the mail before it reached the muddy roads which rendered it dis­ printer's hands and so it was not put agreeable and often impossible for the in type. friends of the students to visit them -Nat Stark had anencounter with and see them receive their coveted thugs in Des_ Moines, lately. He parchment for which they have labored was going home late in the evening and waited for "four long years," but when some. villian struck him with a this year nothing seemed to be lack­ sand bag. He heard a noise and ing in that direction to make it a dodged, thereby escaping the full complete.,success. The weather was force of the blow; which might have perfect and the roads smooth and resulted seriously. the College was thronged with friends The melancholy days have come, 'Tis colder than the tomb, and visitors who surely can carry Forpolitics no longer hum aV1>ay with them pleasant remem­ And boomlets cease to boom.-Life. "Why rushest thou so swift and strong, brances and favorable accounts glean­ Salt River, Oh, Salt River? ed by observation which cannot fail Thou'll sweep my poor, frail bark along, And all my friends thou'lt sever." to correct many musty errors in the - Deleware Gall-Review. minds of some regarding the great O grand old mythical River of Salt, work being done by Iowa's industrial That flows from the political plain, Tell me,dost thou bear on thy briny breast school. · . The bark of James G. Blaine? .,,..,..The banquet given by Capt. Lm- -The address before the trustees coln to the students and visitors of on Tuesday evening was given_ by the College was much appreciated by President Folwell, of the State, Uni- all who parto()~ Qf the bountiful re- 204 LOO.AL. past. About 350 sat down at the new Seniors begin to realize their loaded tables, and after doing com­ dignity and position• and are deter­ plete justice to the excellent meal, mined to maintain them at all hazards, li"'tened to several toasts given by but these lofty reflections are sadden­ Cttpt. Lincoln, the first responded to ed by the thought that one more by Capt. Rigby in behalf of the new short year will again make them board, in a feeling manner referred Freshmen in another school and they to the present occasion as a pleasant will be obliged to leave the protect­ reminder of his own college days. ing walls of their alma mater and can Mr Luther Foster, now superintend­ live over only in memory the pleasant ent of schools in Jones county, and a hours there passed. But saddest of member of Class '72, responded for all are those who look for the last the Alumni, and gave a happy de­ time as students down the chapel scription of his first attendance at the aisles, over the campus, up thewalks, I. A. C. in the spring of '69. Presi­ and raise their eyes for a last long dent Knapp now spoke in behalf of look at our noble edifice. All these the faculty, and Prof. Thompson are sad reminders of pleasant by-gone spoke for the retiring professors. days, and they see that they will Prof. Pope being absent, Prof. Stan­ soon pass from this little world by ton was called in his place. Then itself to mingle as great drops in the followed responses in behalf of each great ocean of humanity. · of the classes. Mr. Garrett, for '84, -Miss Sinclair has so far recover­ in a very witty and pleasant speech; ed from her long illness as to be able Mr. Lockwood for '85; Mr. Green for '86; Mr. Faville for '87. to go to her home in Michigan, where we hope she will so far recover that -Good-bye: the saddest word. she can take her accustomed place November 12, the saddest day of the again next spring. year for the students of the I. A. C. when the Freshmen, now full-blown -Prof. Bessey and family have Sophomores, have begun to realize gone to take up,.~their permanent res­ the difficulties alternating with the idence in Lincoln, Nebraska. He pleasures, such as are found nowhere receives an advance of several hun­ else but in a college life, and the new­ dred in salary from what he had here, born Juniors just at the half-way which he well deserves, if the s~rvices stone of their college course begin to of such men can be estimated in dol­ see the end and resolve to push on lars and cents. with greater vigor than before for We understand that the engineers they realize that the Sophomore year will ask for a department in the Au­ has tested their strength and they RORA next year. have not Q<::l<::li! founq wanting. The PERSONAL. 205 PERSONAL. been called to be an instructor in an institution that is the first of its kind -Mrs. Wagner visited her daugh­ in this country. ter, Cora, a short time ago, but re­ -A peculiar, yet very painful ~c­ mained only between trains. cident, occurred to Mr. Chamberlain, -Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were late­ of the Freshmen class, shortly before ly at the College to visit their daugh­ the close of the term. While trying ter and see Miss Fannie graduate. to Lhrow something from the second -Mrs. Hunter, of Independence, story window of Kirkwood Hall into gave her son Will and the College a the room below, he lost his balance visit recently and was present at the and fell a distance of eighteen feet to contest. the ground, striking upon his head -Prof. Hainer took a trip immed­ and arms, breaking the latter above iately after the close of school, to the wrist, and was otherwise injured what is apparently the Waterloo of so as to make him delirious for about his bachelor days. If he did not twelve hours. The arm was dressed Ric(s)e and meet the above conflict by Prof. Fairchild, and he was able squarely he deserves the fate of a to start for his home commencement Julius Cresar. day, although in rather a weak con­ dition. -Peter Burns, of the Junior class, having been tendered the position vacated by Ferd Smith, in the Boston ALUMNI. Institute of Technology, accepted, '78. W. K. and Mrs. Robbins of and started for the "Hub" shortly Manchester, N. H., were in attend­ before commencement, much to the ance at the commencement exercises. regret of his classmates, as he was one of the tried and true members of '84. Joe, he of the house of Porter, of '85 and we could ill-afford to lose surnamed the wicked, has buckled on him. his father's ax and gone forth to-, -Prof. Pope started on the even­ chop wood-that's all. ing of November 12 for Boston, where '83. C. M. Doxsee read a paper he will immediately enter upon his on butter making before the dairy­ duties as Professor in the Institute of men and stockgrowers assembled at Technology. His family accompan­ Algona recently. ied him. It is a sad blow to our '78. · E. G. Tyler expresses him­ chemical department whose head he Flelf as being well pleased with the has been so long, but he had acquir­ state of affairs at his alma mater. ed a wide reputation as a chemist and '78. Miss Belle Woods is yet at we are proud to know that he has Jefferson, Colorado. 206 ALUMNI. '82. H. J. Gable and J. B. Marsh of Mr. E. A. Alexander to Miss visited us commencement. Mable Young of class '83. We clip '83 Berte Carson teaches this the following concerning the event winter near Ransom, Ill. from the Aldine Register. ''The hospitable residence of Mr. '83. George Caven is vigorously Duane Young was filled to overflow­ driving the editorial quill in the ser­ ing on Thursday evening by a large vice of the Daily Tribune, Minneapo­ number of invited friends who gather­ lis, Minn. ed there to witness the marriage of Mr. E. A. Alexander to Miss Mabel '83. Ferd J. Smith has been Young. obliged to return home on account of Rev. W. H. Drake performed the sickness and leave his position in the ceremony, after which the friends all Boston Institute of Technology. united in extending to the happy couple their heartiest congratulations. '81. Information reaches us that The house was handsomely decorated Charles Coe is in the Cook county for the occasion and a bounteous sup­ hospital where he is gaining wisdom per had been prepared, to which all and experience by treating the sick sat down and did full justice. The and injured of the metropolis of Illi­ newly wedded couple started on the morning train for their future home nois. at Hamburg, in this State, where Mr. '81. E. C. Fortner is at present Alexander is a prosperous young acting as surgeon in the Cook county merchant. He is a young man of talent and ability, and takes from our hospital, Chicago, where we learn he midst one of our brightest and most is meeting with flattering success in accomplished young ladies to grace his chosen profession, the foundation his home. Mabel will be sadly miss­ studies of which were laid at the I. ed by her many friends of long years A. C. standing, for she has lived in Alden all her life, and was ever the merriest '81. T. W. Shearer has resigned among her associates. The young his position as assistant in chemistry, couple were classmates at college and and will immediately enter upon the the acquaintance was thus formed practice of medicine in Des Moines. which has ripened into a happy mar­ riage. The occasion will long be re­ He also holds the chair of chemisty membered by the guests as a most in the Des Moines Medical College. pleasant social gathering." We wish our "unknown" compound­ The groom, Mr. Alexander was at er the greatest success in his chosen one time one of '83's most promising profession, and we believe from his members, but who was prevented abilities and his genial manner that from graduating by a severe term of it will surely be his. sickness during his junior year. '83. One of the happiest events The list of presents to the happy the AURORA has been called upon to couple from their many friends and chronicle this year is the marriage welHvishers, was unusually large and ALUMlvl. 207

costly, and we regret that lack of '83, and the recollection of her stu­ space forbids their publication. As dent career renders exceedingly Mr. and Mrs. Alexander start out touching and pathetic her early de­ upon their life's journey as man and cline and death. She was a student wife, the AURORA thows after them in the happiest, most attractive sense its oldest and largest shoe, an.l joins of that term, passionately fond of her with their host of college friends in studies, carrying a serious ~nd heroic wishing them a long life of happiness purpose in every thing she did, a and boundless prosperity. quiet enthusiasm which is itself a fore­ taste of succeRs. She was one of '83 We clip the followi~g from the .Ames lntelligenc~r of Nov. 29, written those who give assurance beforehand by her much respected teacher who to the teacher that no outlay of energy preached her funeral sermon : or application in the work assigned DIED-Sabbath morning, N ovem­ shall be wanted, and that every re­ ber 23d, after a long and painful ill­ quirement of routine shall be prompt­ ness from Bright's disease, Effie G., ly met. In all that aspiration and eldst daughter of A. E. and Eme­ character can do for a young person, line Slater, aged 23 years, 5 months in pushing through the long and and 10 days. severe mental toil of a four ye!l,rs' Effie was born in Chautauqua course in college-and there is a hero­ County, New York, and was seven ism in this that the outside world years old when the parents removed knows nothing of-Effie exhibited as west, settling in the vicinity of the a student, and was a model in it all. college. She grew up in the constant As we reflect now, it seems very companionship of an only brother, to beautiful to us, to recall this talented whom she was most ardently devoted, young lady, going quietly about her and for whom, indeed she seemed to task, all the time with unruffled kind­ live, but whose sudden death in Jan­ ness and sweetness, facing difficulties uary, 1883, when Effie was entering and as it appears now, disease also, upon the last year of her college and coming out with the palm of vic­ course, fell with a crushing weight tory at last. Yes ! the frail body broke upon her spirit, and, it is thought, down under it, it is true, but as we hastened the work of the dread dis­ look upon it now, that was at least ease which had already taken hold of· the spirit in which all high intellect­ her. The loss of both these promis­ ual and moral attainment is won; and ing children within two years falls as as we learned in the lesson over her a heavy bereavement on thi1 estimable coffin, it was all gathered up and car­ family, and they have the tenderest ried forward to the new beginning in sympathy of the whole community in the other world. Christ abolished their affliction. death, and assured us that there was Effie was a graduate of the class of '208 .A.LUK.NL

an inherent "incorruption" in the was a fine production, arguing that spiritual nature which Effie so assidu­ the religion of Mahomet, although de­ ously and so successfully cultivated, fective, was a religion for the times something that survives, and acts, and in which it was born and an impor­ endures, and achieves, when the tant factor of progress from idolatry natural body has fallen away forever to tqe worship of an unseen God. into its primitive dust. Mr. Schreckengast followed with It was a cold winter's day when we an oration showing the existence of a laid her fragile wasted tenement living God, entitled the ''Voice of away in the tomb, but a large and the Ages." His thought and delivery sympathetic company gathered in the were most excellent, and won the ap­ Congregationel Church to take a last · proval of a majority of the audience. look at the faded image of this lovely After music by a male quartette girl. Among these the young lady's Anna L. Nichols delivered the oration class-mates, Miss Minnie Knapp, ''Modern Rationalism" showing the Miss Aggie West, and the room-mate broadening of religious beliefs by a of the deceased, Miss Jennie Christ­ spirit of rationalism through the pres­ man, ling.ered with great tenderness ent and by-gone ages. Then followed over the remains. She is not dead but the orations "Adversity's Mission," has- and "The Philosophy of Reform," "gone unto that school the first by Oak. G. Norton and the Where 1;1he no longer needs our protection, next by Chas. E. Underhill, both And Christ Himself doth rule." w. doing credit in production and de­ livery to the societies which they rep­ THE ORATORICAL CONTEST. resented. ''The Old Order Changeth" by Lydia A. Schreckengast was a On the evening of Nov. 1st, the production showing deep thought and oraiorical contestants were met in the thorough preparation and · received college chapel by a fair-sized and ap­ close attention from the audience. preciative audience that listened In an unembarassed manner and a with marked attention throughout pleasing delivery, Clyde B. Lock­ the evening to the nine orations, wood gave the oration "Amerioa's none of which could be called poor, Lost Empire" having in mind her for it was a contest indeed as there sister republic, Mexico, as his subject. was no one who could so far outshine The oration of Will B. Hunter de­ the others as to be unanimously called livered in a very dramatic style was the best. The first speaker called by ''Goethe," and dealt chiefly with his Mr. Williams, President of the ora­ masterpiece Faust and the characters torical association, wag Will A. Grow. therein portrayed. ''Hamlet" de­ whose oration ''The Man of Mecca" livered most gracefully and in an en- SOCIETY SORAPS. 209

thusiastic style by Fannie E. Carson, The Crescents again carried off the was in defense of his sanity and up­ oratorical palm. holding the great philosophical charac­ * * ter of Shakespeare's masterpiece. Miss Anna L. Nichols,* (Clio) will During an interval of several minutes, be editor-in-chief of the AURORA next everybody · waited patiently for year. the decision bf the judges, * * who were Prof. J. C. Gil­ Mr. Lockwood, *(Crescent) will be christ, Cedar Falls, Prof. Leigh Literary editor. Hunt, of Des Moines arid Prof. S. N. * * Fellows, Iowa City. At last it came Miss Emma Porter* (Philo) will announcing the first to be ''America's have charge of the Scientific depart­ Lost Empire," and the second "The ment, Voice of the Ages." This was a sur­ * * pri.:e to every one and a disappoint­ And Mr. Geo. *Goodno, (Bach) ye ment to some, but contests of this present local scribe, will endeavor to kind generally turn out against the keep the local department from flying willofthe majority, and as the honors up and striking him the face. fell on by no means unworthy heads, * *· we feel sure the I. A. C. will be rep­ The Alumni addresses* delivered resented at the State contest by Mr. before the joint session of the socie­ Lockwood. ties at the graduation of members Thus closed a contest the equal of were all unusually good. Notably which the I. A. C. has yet to see. however, was that of Mr. C. H. Lee, the Philomathean speaker who de­ SOCIETY SCRAPS. livered an address seldom surpassed A ''Longfellow Session" was a re­ for depth of thought and soundness cent Crescent attraction. The recita­ of logic. tions and· select readings were well ** * chosen. A fine oration on ''Long­ Mr. D. B. Collier, the good look- fellow," "Alphabetical Roll Call" and ing man of the Bachelor Society will the ''Bridge Song" were some of the ''collect all AURORA monies and re­ special features. ceipt for th~ same." 210 JJIREOTORY. ALUMNI. Anna G. McConnon, Vice-Pres. Edith Royce, Recording Secretary OFFICERS. Clara Porter, Corresponding Sec'y. '74. 0. P. McCray, President. D. L. Hutchison, Treasurer. '72. E. W. Stanton, Secretary and C. E. Underhill, Chaplain. Treasurer. · Fred Faville, Usher. '72. John L. Stevens, Mamie Grey, Assistant Usher. '73. D. A. Dent, -- Malley, Sergeant-at-Arms. '74. C. D. Boardman, Addie Rice, Librarian. '75. C. H. Lee, '76. A. P. Barker, BACHELOR. I '77. F. W. Booth, The Bachelor Society is the only '78. Emma McHenry, exclusively gentlemen's society of '79. Alice Whited, this college. It was organized July '80. Carrie C. Lane, 16, 1870. Its object is the mutual '81. R. J. Hopkins, improvement of its members in Sci­ '82. C. _F. Saylor, Vice-Presidents. ence, Literature, and Art of Speak­ DIRECTORY. ing. It meets every Saturday even­ ing at 7:30, in Bachelor Hall. Its CLIOLIAN. officers are: The Cliolian Literary Society is G. B. Hibbs, President. the only ladies' society of the I. A. C. G. F. Goodno, Vice-President. This society holds literary sessions L. P. McCoy, Recording Sec'y. every Saturday evening. Its object F. S. Schoenleber, Cor. Sec'y. is the improvement and culture of D. B. Collier, Treasurer. ladies_ in literary work. Visitors are E. A. Kirkpatrick, Chaplain. cordiallv welcomed. Officers a1e as A. W. Sherman, } S erg't s-a t-Arms. follows: S . H e d ges, Anna L. Nichols, President. Gerte Poyneer, Vice President. CRESCENT. Hilda Becker, Recording Sec'y. This is a society admitting both Emma Casey, Correspondi'g Sec'y. ladies and gentlemen to membership. Luta Poyneer, Chaplain. Its object is the impaovement of its Lizzie McClusky, Treasurer. members in literary work and parlia­ Fannie "Wilson, Usher. mentary law. Its sessions are held Ollie Wilson, Sergeant-at-Arms. every Saturday evening in Crescent Hall, to which all are cordially invit­ PHILOMATHEAN. ed. The Philomathean Literary Socie­ OFFICERS. y is a society admitting to member­ C. Vincent, President. ship both ladies and gentlemen. Its I. Weatherby. Vice-President. regular meetings are held each Sat­ K. Gardner, Recording Secretary. urday evening of college year. A11 W. E. Gamble, Cor. Secretary. are invited to attend literary session. H. Hutton, Treasurer. LIST OF OFFICERS. C. VVagner, Usher. G. W. Wormley, President. D. Forbes, Sensor. @'Buyers of Carpets and Curtains will find it to their advantage to visit the SETH.F. STEW ART'S CARPET HOUSE, at 521 w. Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa. Anything you need for a window or floor is there. Best Goods. Price Guaranteed.