MA1ATRICULIATI]ON EXAMINATMIONS. Enough for us-that if we do The present deed that should be done, THEOLOGY. The three shall open to our view; ne! (ORDER 0F MERIT.> Past, present, future-O GEo. F. CAMERON, '86. H ebrew- Confession of Fait/s- Paul F. Langil 1. John Hay. Jobn Hay. Paul F. Langili. William Hay. William Hay. Sames A. Brown. in Rat Portage, Hils Lectures- Mari, Grcek and English- DR. S. S. ScoviL, '77, is practicing Man., and doing wehl. Since bis removal to the Prairie John Hay. e hn Hay. Paul F. Langil I. aul F. Langill. province bis healtb bas mucb improved. J%mes A. Brov nO. James A. Brown. William Hay, William Hay. Sci HOLARSHIPS AWAROEu. David Strathern Dow-~Soo-to John Hay. J OHN HAY, B. A., '82, was suddenly called bomne on We bave Dominion-88o- -to Paul F. Langill. account of the serious jllness of bis brotber. since been pleased to learn that tbe illness is flot likely to prove fatal. MEDICINE. Latin- Annie E. Dickson. ~.equal. C. Collins. C. Collis PAUL F. LANGILL, B. A., '81, wbo bas filled tbe post of E. J. McCardal. missionary at Mattawa for the past year and a haif, was, A, Dywar. eqal by J. Casselman. eqal H. Dawson. we learn tbrougb tbe columns of the News, presented 50 compliment- E. McLaughlan. A rithmetic- bis congregation witb a purse of $i and a E. J. McCardel. C. Collins. ary address, previuus to bis departure for the college. A. F. McVaty. A. Ný Wbite. equal. A. N. Wbite. W. C. D. Clark. F. B. Smitb. E. J. McCardel. A FORMER managing editor of the JOURNAL, J. B. MC H. Dawson. H. Dawson. Laren, M. A., '78, dues sucb a flourisbing law business at W. C. D. Clark. A. E. Dickson. Nelson, Man., tbat ha concluded to take a partner. No Physis- Geomzetry- one would suit bim but une from Gananoque, and we J. Casselman. C. Collins. must say we can congratulate him on bis choice. The W. A. Kyle. A. N. White. equal. Rev. E. D. McLaren, M. A., B. D., '73, hast Wednesday E. McLaugblan. E. J. McCardel.j evening assisted in drawing up tbe articles of union, and W. C. D. Clarke. W . C. D. Clark. the Rev, J. G. Stuart, B. A., '76, and J. R. Lavell, B. A., A. Dywer. H. Dawson. 177, were aiders and abtettors in the transaction. We wisb H. Dawson. A igebra- tbe new firma of McLaren et uxor, nee Miss Wilhelmina J. M. Connarty. A. N. Wbite. Bruugb mucb joy and prosparity. J. A. Stirling. C. Collins.lr. eul E. J. McCardel. W, C. D.Clr. eu. English Gramtmar- E. J. McCardel. W. C. D. Clark. E. McLaugbhan.
excitement anent tbe Alma Mater ehections *POETRY T HEis annualbaginning to show itsalf again, and considerable canvassing bas already been dune. PASTlPRsiENT AND pUTrURE. songs HE past! In even our oldest WE undarstand that somne members of the choir are T Regret for older past appears; agitating for a move up to tbe gallery. In our opinion The past! with ail its bitter wrongs, tbis would be a decidedly good change. And bitter, huried years. Tbe past! with alI its crimes and abames, sword, and king and cowl; Its rule of INQUISITIvE Soph. (to Professor in History), -"Weil, Its tortures, scourges, axes, flames, danger of lire wben tbe foui! wouldn't tbere ha considerable And myriad murders barns were so close togetbar as under tbe Mark System?'' 1 lays Irrepressible junior : IlFire tbat man uut, some une The future! to our latest concludes tbat the question of longing clings Omnes stampunt, and tbe Prof. A conimon strain does not need any answer. Forfuture nigbts, and future days, And future thoughts and tbings; Tbe future! Wbo ofus will see Tbat future?in its brightness bask, dJ UT as the Principal was about to commence bis Ye ask the future? Let it be; address, on the occasion of tbe Installation the other Ye know not what ye ask! avening, be was interrupted by a sound closely resembling tbe bray of an ass, emitted from a reed instrument in tbe Tbe present! Ab, tbe mightiest mind bands of a student in tbe gallery. Tbe Principal was, as Holds only t/uit! Wa may flot see usual fully equal to the occasion,' and quiatly remarked The dead days, nor the undefined, witb a smile, Ilwell, I hope that gentleman is flot speak- And unformed ages yet to ha. ing in bis own vernacular." QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
A METAPHYSICAL EFFUSION. THE following note, sent by a junior to a fellow class- in the next house, about eleven o'clock LAST summer, among the iooo Islands of the St. Law- mate, who boards and Arts. one evening last week, will explain itself:- sence, there was a camp of students.-Medicos got metaphysical battle took place between DEAR JIM,-Je suis allee blokee upee; j'ai (hic) just one day a wordy 1 (hic) vous would pretez two representatives of the respective faculties belonging iund jch wjsh like thr dickens medico equus, parceque--(blot)-Dod gast to the party, as to the immortaliy of the soul. The moi votre Latin Prose speaking of bis measly (hic) pen !Slide ini the (hic) bicycle, dlaims to have gained the victory, and (hic), this the rocky surface of the anyway (hic). l'in bust-(blot). You know me, victim. says, "1His blood waters old mani, hence some metaphysical shoots (hic) dont you ? CHARLEY. ground, Yea, and years will wave their -tail and stately beads over the grave of the murdered S-, while the hooting owvl will croak bis departed THE freshman class is in despair. This is the way they melancholy lay above, and so does one dear sleep.' The medico shortly express the state of their feelings friend sleep on his profound wrote an epitaph for the tombstone which was away afterwards Oh. to be wafted to be raised in memory of bis defeated and departed From this black Aceldamna of sorrow, friend. The epitaph: Where the Latin of prosy to-day, Is the prose of the Latin to-morrow. 1 Say, stranger, rest thee now I pray, this green gravelhere ; could help themn but fear there is no Beside We wish we For cold the wind and dark the day. remedy but hard work. The clouds o'erhead are drear. on the last nonthly These tangled grasses, that bestrew PRO..,in Science (comrnentiug cold neglect, Botany, in which quite a numnber had This grave,-through examination in knew, but heaven's dew, requisite forty per cent). -Youcannot put No moisture failed to get the Nor tears of sad respect. Off study tili the end of the session, for although " distance is not always so when lends enchantment to the view," it wet horror from thy brow, gentlemen, in the Wipe off YOu get there. This is specially true, And fear from thy pale face, case of an examination. So, beware 1" The Material present think of now, The Etherial past efface. a freshman and as he slowly walked up and For be. whose earthly remnants lie HE was look in down on Princess Street, there was# an uncertain Beneath this heavy sod, like the expression on the facial area of a soph. in Life, when Flesh should die, his eye, hash. Believed about to ask his landliady for a third supply of That Soul returned to God. indistinct mutterings escaped from bis From time to time and Thought were one, of which was very vague. I f any of Believed that Soul lips. the meaning the Flesh distinct, those seniors should see me," hang the girls anyway," And from when each one's race was run, to get it somnewhere," and s0 on, bis perplexity And thought, IIIve got a student thought to think, Seeming to increase each trne. Now and then That Soul still but hie paid no attention to any salutation shade 1illustrious one! wýould pass, the Con- Departed whatever. At lest he muttered, - I111 have to risk Beneath these upbeaved banks and glancing burriedly up and down the street, camne, when Life was done. cursus, seven Thy body hie buttoned his coat up tight and dashed into the Thou'rt dead, old Snoozer. S- at the pace of a badly scared mud-turtle. No cent store, a less than two of the fair attendants, seelllg that hie was and smilingly inquired student, at once stepped forward, Mr. Carmichael, of King, Lecturer odthurch He was evidently emibarrassed, but at last THE Rev. bis pleasure. of delivered a lecture on "Ossian" before the to stammer out, blushing to the extreme ends History, mnanaged got any Ossianic Society and some of its friends, on the evening his capilla. y appendages I, weel-~urhu- We will give an account of the 'what kifld will you have? Here's of Monday, the -,imat. ink bottles ?"IIIIcertainly, lecture in our next issue. a splendid one, now," answered one of the damozels, stand, Picking up a nice cut glass bottle with a bronze Ionly a dollar and a haif." The fresh, was evidently colonel for hie actually summ-oned MR. EDITOR, tell me why tickled to death by something, so infolonel ? that he only wanted one Is spelt in a style Uip a faînt smile, and remnarked ray of light on a sorrowing wight, and when the girl went off to find Cast one tO carry in hîs pocket, Who for years bas subscribed for your jolonel. such a one, hie muttered, 'wonder if tbey have any seven- then in walked a junior and Senior, and centers.1 Just a rack the fresb, with a groan of despair, diodged behind "Kick Up Thunder' was performed was pro- TUE new play of of nick-nacks, and by the trne the ink-bottle front seats in the gallery in Queen's College last open door and bolted. in the duced, he had edged towards the night. It was written by the author of " The Bloody What a blessing it is to be bashful! Putty Knife. -Daily News.
of King, and the Rev. D. Rosq, by day. REV. J. CARMIcHAEL, is getting more classîcal day D., of Lachine, officiated at the afternoon services in TSUPELY QueenLs on the students bulletin B. The following notice was posted Convocation hall on Nov. 12th and igth respectively. board a few days since Ou botb occasions the audiences, were large. ABESTE PROFANII is velit better singing of col- Qui in Classe chem. Sc. librumn meum invenerit THE history class claims to have referre lege songs in their class-rooma than any other class in Ad. Carolumi C-l. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
college and challenge alI comers. Their melodious howl SUB3JOINED is the list of University preachers prior to may be distinctly heard every afternoon, (Saturdays and the Christmas holidays :-Nov. 26, Rev. Dr. Grant, Prin- Sundays excepted,) as far away as the Kingston bospital. cipal; Dec. 3, Rev. Dr. Elliott, of Chicago; Dec. io, Rev. Prof. J. Clark Murray, of McGill College, Montreal; THE author of the following hunes says that they Dec. 17, Principal Grant. represent tbe scene in a certain class-rooma tbe other day wben the Prof. fined eacb member of the class fifty cents LOVE'S young dream is madle of caramels and garden for "cutting:" gate farewells, with many a silver quarter laid out in soda The Professor came down like a wolf on tbe fold, water. And bis hand was stretcbed out for the silver and gold, And the gleam of bis eyes was like that of a cat, And witb anger the tassel stood up on bis bat. was an '86 man, sbe, a blooming Like the leaves of the forest wben summer is green, ilE college widow. He Tbat class with its note-books at luwrites to bis father announcing bis engagement. roîl-caîl was seen, The reply: Like the leaves of the forest wben autumn bas flown, My DEAR SON :-Accept my heartiest congratulations. That class at dismissal was withered and lone. I was engaged to the samne Miss Bunter when 1 was in For the voice of the Senate bad spoken the word, college, and can appreciate the fun you are baving. Go And the sbivering students in sorrow had heard, it while you are young. And their pockets were ligbtened of "1money to spend," Your loving father, And cutting forever had come to an end. AUGusTus DEFOREST.-Williams' Atheneum. And there sat the fresbmen, with terror struck dumb; HEY diddle daddle, the press and the twaddle, In bis eye was a tear, in bis moutb was bis tbumb, The copy j umped into the fuss; His brow wvas o'er clouded, bis soul was opprest, The college boys laugbed to see the fun, And tbougbts of bis mother were racking bis breast. And the joke ended up in a muss. THE above appeared in the Brounonin, under the head- And there sat the sopbomore angry and pale. îng, 'College Nursery Rhymes." It seems appropriate. She cried if a lady, hie swore'if a male; And the junior, he tbougbt of cigars and of rum, A MOTTO for young loyers: So-fa And 'five into fifty,' he groaned for "ladsum." and no father. But the senior redolent of Lubin and Kant, THE millenium must soon be near at hand-the Fresb- From the ethical standpoint hegan to descant. man and Seniors play foot-bail together. Now trot out He appeared metaphysical, dignified, calm. the lion and the lamb. Advising tbe freshman, consoling the lhmb. MAUO ." And nowv you've shown me all your favors, THE College parody fiend bas broken out again in a dear, do tell me wbo was there-the men, of course, I new place. Hoping that be may have a relapse, sbould mean. ' Alice: "Oh, let me see! There were lots of he see some of bis efforts in print, we insert these college men, of course-yes, and some real men. "-Ex. Heavy Tom was a great.big lad, Who madle tbe Brockville players mad; Professor: -The order of this class is intolerable." He pushed tbem about, and kicked their sbins, Student : "Please repeat that statement, sir." And often knocked tbem off their pins; He didn't seem to care a red, HE WAS sitting in the parlour with her, when a rooster Wbetber be stood on bis heels or bis bead. crowed in the yard. Leaning over, he suggested, I'Chati- When the game was through, ail went to dinner, cleer." I wish you would," she replied; I'm as sleepy And bere again Tom came in winner," as I can be." He cleared. Truly poetic, is it not ? But try another " The freshmen of our class A FRESHMAN wrote to bis father: Dear Par-'I want Are bound in frîendly tether; a little change."' The paternal parent replied. Dear Through every pluck or pass, Charlie-just wait for it. Time brings change to every We're sure to stick together, body. The Sophomores may vaunt Their slight advantage o'er us; Opera-Billee Taylor; No matter bow they taunt Last week, Friday night. We still will sing our chorus, &c." She, full dress with lillies, But enough of this, if he torments us any more we wil Opera-cloak of white. publish bis namne, sure. Only met on Tuesday, Impudence ungraced, CoNuNDRum.-ist student (after lecture on philosopby Trys to put, bowever,. with regard to ancient atomists and their theory as to, the Arm around bier waist. nature of atoms)-Why is an old maid like an atom ? Heavens! bow sbe shuddered, 2nd student (who distinctly remembers one characteristic Shivered like a saint, of an atom) confidently-Because she ain't squeezable. Whiter than ber lillies, (QU-rY.) Seemed to want to faint. He began to stammer, IT is reported that a certain Fresbman bail to leave bis Not a word would come; boarding house the other day on account of beinig too She, "lSir, oh, bow dare you highly fed. Can this be possible ? Wait tilI coming home.1' QU E EN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. DECEMBER 11, 1882. No. 5. VOL. X. KINGSTON, CANADA, noticed, none bave as yet given any object for its formation except one paper, the Yale Courant, which suggests that the asso- NUMBERS during the Session by the Published IN TWELVE ciation take the shape of "an inter-collegiate SOCIETY of Queen's University. ALMA MATER bureau of correspondence." Could this be STAFF: iarranged, it would noýdoubt have the effeet A. McLACHLAN, - Mano ging Editor, of improving the general tone of niany of our ÇOMMTTEE: EDITING and most certainly such an Law-H. M. MOWAT, B.A. college papers, DiVinity-JAMES SOMERVILLE, B.A. riruprovernent is needed. W. G. ANGLIN. Medi cine-T. A. MOORE, ofWc would, however, like to hear from somne MCKAY, B.A. R. M. DENNISTOUN. Arts-RODERICI< ofour friends how they intend the matter ta G. F. HENDERSON. F. W. JOHNSTON. as it would seemn to us that it is A. G. FARREL. J. J. WRIGIIT. be arranged, of such a thing than J. S. SKINNER~, Secretary-Treasîirer. rmuch casier talking Numbers, io cents. ta comphŽtion. It is a TERMS:-Per Session, $i.Oo; Single bringing the projeet to A. Mc- so talk it up. Matter for publication should be addressed good subject for discussion, J. SKINNER, P. O. Drawer LAcHLAN ; Business letters to S. 1146, Kingston, Ont. the excitement consequent on the namne of the NWthat Editor must be acquainted with The the Aima Mater elections is over a few author of any article, whether local or literary. observations as ta the manner in which they some holidays are rapidly have been conducted, coupled with S the Christmas doubt- A 1Aapproachirig arrangements will suggestions for guidance in the future, will~ To the most unpleasant tlcss be made for special railway fares. 1be in place. Hitherta that elecaions bas the praper autharities we would suggest feature in connection with the Trunk (or office atherlines in addition ta the Grand been the practice -of each candidate large It seems ta us be apprbached in this mnatter. Quite a making a personal canvass. the Midland, be entirely doue away with, and numnber of students travel by this should that in the late con- and we know that that line gave excursion we are pleased ta note arc in this respect rates ta same studcnts last year. There test a precedent has been set over which a it will be well ta fallow in the future. also anc or two other roads which candidates did make a number of students travel, tc entitie Though some of the sufficient tick- to this fact them ta reduced fares. If passible the personal canvass, and perhaps an Friday their success, it is a ets should be good for departur.e owe in a great measure the dignity night. If this be not donc many will bave question if they would not enjoy borne. ta a much greater extent if ta wait over Sunday before reaching of their offices they had been sparcd the few unpleasant acros of aur college exchangcs occurrences incident on making such a can- SEFVEFRAL «een agitating for ~'the uine have lately b vass. It i§ also unpleasant for the student associa- the formation of an jnter-collegiaté whose vote is solicited ta have ta refuse the have tion of editors, though as far as we QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
candidate, (who, in nine cases out of ten, is a granted, and we are confident that if a small personal friend,) not because he considers him room were placed at our disposal the A. M. incapable of filling the office properly, but Society will see that it is furnished with a because his opponent has in his estimation a writing table and other necessary furniture, prior claim upon his suffrage. including a book-case, in which current and In the recent elections quite a number of back numbers of the JOURNAL may be safely the candidates left their cases in the hands of preserved. their warmest supporters, and we are satis- fied that their interests were quite as well T HERE is a very great deal of truth in supported as if they had undertaken to attend the well known line, "Better late than to them personally. never," but we think the rest of the proverb Another reform we would like to see intro- -"But better never late,"-though seldom duced is voting by ballot, instead of the open quoted, has quite as much force. In con- voting as at present. We are of the opinion that nection with this we would refer to the very if the practice of a personal canvass were en- marked change which has lately taken place tirely done away with, and a system of ballot in the tone of several journals when referring voting introduced, much of the ill-feeling to this University. This change is particu- which too often is the result of the annual larly noticeable in the columns of the Mail. Alma Mater elections, would be averted. Expressions of sympathy and good-will, if given when Queen's was passing through T HE want of an editorial sanctum in the dark days, would have been encouraging ; college buildings is one of the disadvan- they would have been very pleasing even if tages under which the members of the pres- given when the university had overcome ent staff of the JOURNAL perform the some- immense difficulties and was rapidly nearing what onerous duties of their office. As the front rank among similar institutions; matters now stand, there is no place about but now when Queen's has attained a position the college, outside the class rooms, where commanding the respect of al], and is recog- an editor may set down to write an article, nized as one of the universities of the Do- revise copy, or correct a printer's proof. minion, these laudatory notices come just a These, however, are not the principal reasons little "late." Our college has also suffered for bringing our claims before the senate for much at the hands of those whose education a small room in the basement, to be dedica- should have made them far more liberal. It ted to the service of the knights of the quill, is quite fit and proper that men should esteem who are endeavoring in their own humble .their own "Alma Mater" above ail others, way, through the medium of the JOURNAL, tO but this is no reason why statements quite promote the interests of their Alma Mater. misleading in their character, and prejudicial But when we consider the fact that not even to other institutions, should be disseminated a file copy of the JOURNAL has been preserved throughout the country. If we refer to Cen- throughout the years of its past history, tral Ontario, it is because that part of the simply because there was no place where file province is best known to us. In the princi- copies could be safely stored, surely this of pal town of that section, until within the itself will be sufficient to warrant a conces- past year, most erroneous' ideas of Queen's sion on the part of the senate to a request have prevailed, and of the students now here from the board of editors for an editorial from that place, there is not one but expresses sanctum. We understand that in many the greatest surprise at the extent of the- other colleges a similar request has been institution into which he has entered. The QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL
if this change were effected, the Saturday relative advant ages and disadvantages of night meetings of the AIma Mater Society, universities, for ail have both, is a q]uestion would be mucli better attended, for reasons of public interest, and we think we are not that can be gathered from the foregoing re- wrong in using the columns of the JOLIRNAL marks. If this alone were the only gain, it to expose a long existing error, and to con- would be arniply sufficient. as a reason for gratulate the Mail on the more liberal spirit the change, for it is acknowledged by aIl, that which prompted these words :- The wveak the culture obtained fromn a pairticiîpation ini and paltry years of jealousy are past; now the debates of this society, is nearly as neces- is the season for mutual help, syrnpathy and sary for the proper development of the mind, good-fellowship." as the discipline of the collegiate course it- to the \A E believe we are giving voice self. VYwishes of ail the students when we We therefore strongly recomrnend to the the change bring up again the matter of our weekly holi- Senate this change. It is merely froin one day to day. The JOURNAL, in its first number of of an established holiday of it.' can this session, mentioned in connection wvith another, which, to say the least college routine, this fact, that at Cornell, this day had been miake no difference in the besides changed from Saturday to Monday. To while ýmuch can be sa'id in its-favour, said. It would aid a Nveekly receive the full benefit of the collegiate what we have the attendance on the course and also to keep the work well in hand systemnatic review, and would, in a great for the exams, ýso as to obviate cramming as Aima Mater Society put away the temiptation to dese- mnuch as possible, it is necessary that one day measure, Sabbat h. On the other hand, noth- in the week should be givefi to revieWiflg. It crate the can be said against it, more is'also quite as necessary that another should ing, we think, of an old custom. be given to mental rest. This being the case, than it is the hreaking urge the change. Give it. at least, it will be quite plain to every one, that if the We again greatest good is to be obtained from these a trial. reviews, they should corne after the day, ON OURL CIIAN- given to rest, when the mind will be fresh liONOIZ CONFIEIMRE» vigorous and better able to do justice, and a city in Great Britain can to itself. 1 HE greatest honour that both to the subjects on hand and 1. confer upon anyone is to enroll him on its Iist of bur- is 'If the holiday is on Saturday, the brains of 'gesses ; and inasmuch as it is still truc that the prophet his own city, the distinction is the students are i n a state of mental exhaus- usually without honour in the greater when it is bestoxved upon a feel equal to the neces- feit to, he ail tion and they do not His native town of Kirkcaldy, in ,the King- tha.t the townsman, sary grind. The natural resuit is dom of Fife," has conferred this unwontcd honour on our day is taken for recreation, leaving barely highly esteemed Chancellor, and has donc it with a hearti- valuable and agrecable. The eriough time, at the last moment on Satur- ness that makes it doubly 'lang toon" of Kirkcaldy bas a history that goes back to get up the class -work for Mon- day night, to the days of St. Columba. It was one of the centres of let alone day, or perhaps it is not done at al], the Culdees, thirteen centuries ago. Its present Parishi anly review work. Or wha.t is stili worse, the Church has withstood the blasts of the German Ocean for years. Last Century the town gave Adam Whole thing is left over until Sunday, a course six hundred Smith to the world. And in our own Century, at one and many. Now, if Monday were Practiced by the same time, it had as schoolmasters Edward Irving and the holiday, both days would be put to their Thomas Carlyle. Now, it is becoming an industrial and thousands legitimate uses and the resuit, as no one will centre, and boasts its great manufactories mechanics, and mechanical engineers. Kirk- deny, would be very beneficial. Not only of skilled caldy, too, has been chary of its civic honours. In 1843, tliis, but we think, indeed, wve feel sure, that QU.EEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
it conferred its franchise on Richard Cobden, who was remain ardently attached to my native land. (Lood then visiting the good old Royal Burgb. Only one other applause.)" person, Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, the present Home Sec- One of the honorary graduates of Queen's, the Rev. Dr. retary, has received it since. The Minute of the Council, Baxter, was present at the banquet, and made felicitous agreeing to confer the honour on the Chancellor, is as fol- reference to the Principal and to Queen's. We extract lows:- Provost Swan called the attention of the Coxîncil from an eclitorial in tbe Fife Free Press the following out- to the fact that Mr. Sandford Fleming, Civil Engineer, of line of the Chancellor's career : Ottawa and Halifax, in the Dominion of Canada; Mem- -The youngest burgess of Kirkcaldy was born, we be- ber of the Institute of Civil Engineers; Fellow of the lieve, on the 7 tb January, 1827, in a large bouse in the Geologîcal Society; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Park near the shore, the garden wall of wbich waswashed Society, London; Member of the American Society of by the Firth of Forth. He was educated at the Burgb Civil Engineers; Member of the Institute of Mining En- Scbool-wbere Carlyle taught, and where bis own stauncb gineers, New York; Member of the Canadian Institute, and warm-bearted friend, Dr. Locbart, afterwards Toronto; Chancellor of Queen's University, Canada; and moulded the intellect of young Kirkcaldy ; the teacher of Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. bis day being John Kennedy. School-days ended, young Michael and St. George; a native of Kirkcaldy-was Fleming went as a pupiî to Mr. John Sang, C.E., witb visiting here for a few days, and be thought that it would wbom be remained about tbree years. ln 1845 he left be desirable to show the Council's appreciation of the bis native town and proceeded to Canada. wbere be bas eminent position Mr. Fleming holds as a Civil Engineer, spent bis best years, generally in the great public xvorks of and Literary and Scientific man, by presenting bim with the country. The Intercolonial Railway, to connect the freedom of the Royal Burgh of Kirkcaldy. The Halifax in Nova Scotia with Quebec, wvas projected as a motion wvas carried unanimously, and it was resolved to national work, to be carried out jointly by tbe Provinces ask Mr. Flemning to meet the Provost, Magistrates, and and tbe Imperial Government. Mr. Fleming xvas elected Town Council in the Town Hall on Monday first, at tbree by eacb Government to conduct the preliminary survey p.'m., and the Clerk was directed to prepare a Burgess and construct the works, and when we mention that the Ticket, in usual form, to be then presented to him. It distance from Halifax to Quebec is about seven bundred was remitted to the Provost and Clerk to make the neces- miles, some idea may be formed of tbe gigantic nature of sary arrangements." The proceedings took the form of a tbis undertaking. A volume was issued by Mr. Fleming civic banquet, beld on the 13 th Nov., in the Council in 1876 describing tbe wnole work, and giving a history Chamber, at whicb a number of excellent speeches were of the negotiations wbicb led to the establishment of the made. Special reference was made to 'the high literary great national bigbway. Wbile this vast undertaking wvas ability Mr. Fleming displayed in the noble and manly in progress, Mr. Fleming was appointed, in I87 t, by the address which be delivered on being appointed to the Canadian Government, to the post of Engineer-in-Chief Chancellorsbip of Queen's College."' The Chancellor's of the Pacific Railway, a line stretching across the Corr- response was admirable. A brief extract will indicate tinent, and now well advanced towards completion As its spirit: those wbo had an opportunity of perusing tbe annual " Any work I have been enabled to perform, any littie volumes and reports on the Canadian Pacific Railway are success I may have acbieved, is due wholly to the rich aware, the name of our townsman was bere again con- inheritance I received here, to the principles of truth, and nected with no ordinary undertaking but with an enter- honour, and uprightness, which were implanted in the prise of gigantic dimensions, and in wbicb stupendous home of my boyhood. To those who conducted my early obstacles bad t0 be faced, and eventually overcome by training, and moulded my character in the Lang Toon, bis -ingcnuity and skill. As we have indicated, Mr. 1 give full credit for alI. (Loud applause.) At an early Fleming's public services have been recognised by the age I left for another *portion of Her Majesty's dominions. Qucen, he being created, in the year 1876, a Companion For well nigh forty years I have made my home and bave of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. donc my work in Canada. And 1 must tell you that George. They have also been fully recognised by his Canada is a country destined in the near future to 611lan fellow-Canadians at différent times-in a very marked important place in the great colonial empire-applause- way indecd Lby their appointing him Chancellor of and this colonial empire will become a vast federation of Qucen's College. And now bis birth place bas publicly nations under the one flag, speaking the one tongue under donc him honor, and who will say that in the act, so the benign sway of the,'one sovereign. (Renewed ap- spontaneously and enthusiastically gone about, it bas not plause.) To some extent I may have been connected also honorcd itsclf?" with the general advancement of Canada, and I am proud to be identified with that country. (Applause.) Those IT is not the whichness of the whcrc, nor of the wvbcn, nor even of the which, but of the what that constrains tbe a truc Canadian who are dearest to me are there. I am philosophical do, but is-ing the 'is-ness of the is, iý a in thought and feeling. But while a Canadian, and, like mnatter of no lcss difficulty than the whatness of the a Catiadian, a loyal subject of the best Queen who ever what."-Extract from Concord Scho of Philosophy- held a sceptre, I do not cease to be a Scotchman or to yale Courant. 55 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
OSSIAN AND »Ie GONGS. _ + 9gORRESPORoERGE.+ of King, lecturer on Apolo- 7We wisb it to be distinctly understood that the JOURNALdoeS flot Rev. Mr. Carmicbael, be expressed in T HE a lecture on the above subject in Con- comm it itselt in any way to the sentimnents which msay tgetics, dulivered thIis 1departmnent. vocation Hall, on Tuesday evening, NOV. 2oth. The the N X NELR locturer was evidently bimself in full barmony with OUIR sp irit of the poot whose words be was portraying, and the To the Editor of the Yournal: course, lecture in itself was a poem of great beauty. 0f Who is to be our next Chancellor? It is high of tbe SIR,- as the lecturer remarked, the English translations time that expressions of opinion sbould be given on to tbe mind Poems of Ossian fail in tbemselves to convey the point. Candidates can be nominated only by the expressed of tbe reader the more subtle shades of tbougbt University Council, and the nominations can be made their beauty it therein, and to bave a true appreciation of only at the special meeting. whicb is beld on the 16th of Gaelic. is necessary to study tbem in their original next month. The members of the Council ought to have baving NOoune, however, will lever bave cause to regret some light as to the wishes of members of the University, spent bis leisure hours in tbe study of even the Englisb both in and outside Kingston. 1 know nu better way of translation of tbese poems. giving them sucb light than by letters to the next number be 0f the life of Ossian we know little. Neitber of the JOURNAL. This is ail the more necessary, because witb any for any contomporary writer furnisbes us no one can vote on this occasion but registered Graduates we informatiun on tbis point, and what we do know and Alumni. It was intended some time ago to give stu- drop in bis that eflect mnust glean from random remarks let dents also the right to vote ; and s by-law to in tbe harý Poems. He appears to bave been brought up was passed by the Council. The by-law, bowever, here bis halls of Selma, a palace of bis father, and been found to bu illegal. The statute constituting the war songs and SOiJI was fired by the tales of battles, the Uiniversity Council not only excludes stu-dents generally, of Morven classes ; the funereal wails of tbe bards. Over tbe bilîs but Graduates who are studonts in attendance at and here, as ho accompanied the bunters in tbeir cbase, and by-laws are intended to supplement, not to contra- was Wvell as at Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Scbaffa, be venle, laws passed by Parliament. the University, taugbt poetry by the rugged beauty of nature and The Chancellor is the bighest officer of the of nature of mark, and one ]ikely to interest music of the waves. Apart from the teachings He mnust be a man ; probably in, hope to get a better and its surroundings, ho bad no education bimself in Queen's. We cannot himself in the whole course of bis existence ho neyer saw the inside Chancellor than Sandford Fleming bas proved to get une as of a school-house. 0f a Supreme Being be knew notbing; a dozen ways to be. But we should try happy hunt- good. Gentlemen, wbo ho neyer makes mention of a Great Spirit or go od, or, at any rate, nearly as ho knew your reasons. ing grounds. It is possible, however, that is 'the rigbt man? Give bis name, and give Him in A MEMBER 0F THE COUNciL. Something of God, but was too canny to mention bis poems, but on this point we must romain uncertain. Dec. 6th, 1882. is also uncertain. The antiquity of the writings of Ossian MtAlitiON AGAIN. neyer committed tbem to writing. The Ossian bimself To the Editor of the Yournul: figures, bowever, are very primitive, and tbe style and in your last'lIssue, are few, tbough bold and striking. Tbe letter of IlUndergraduate' words used T IrelativeHE to the remarks of Principal Grant on IlMar- is wild and ungrammatical, the composition French language mion,' naturally recalled to my mind the old vigorous, ànd the imagination extremely vivid. bold and which asked to be allowed to carry the bis topics being serious fable of the cat He neyer descends to the amusing, cry was, Il e suis His chief camnels burden, and whose expiring and grave, bis scenery wild and romantic. and best warrior in anciont or ecralse." hero, Fingal, is the noblest to the temerity of the writer, I main- Witbout referring furthur Poetry. Ho is not only a warrior, but he letter mnodemn wisb to make a few statements about the contents of bis to the last a deep love for bis wife and family, tains is cbargud xvith «illiberality,' larbitrari- of bis son. The poems Principal Grant displaying great grief at tbe death to gag,' &c., because he gushing out in ness,' 'narrowness,' 'attempting Of Ossian wore spontaneous utterances, regard to IlMar- dwelt dared to express a decided opinion witb accord with bis feelings at the time, Histboughts question mion," and those wbo have been discussing the heroos and their deeds whomn bu bad known in the On the for public schools. Those ephithets, 1 utterancos, ho seemis to of its suitableness long Past, for, at tbe time of these strong as 'stupid,' the adjective Nestor among men suppose, are almost as have been pour, old and blind, living a to on- used by the Principal. Some migbt be disposed seems to bave had.some belief in a ofa new generation. Ho is Undergraduate, that he bas a right to use are totally quiro, IlWho spirit worîd, but the spirits which ho mentions Grant a similar privi- at such opithets, bu t 'denies Principal different from men. He is said to have been buried the latter loge ?" for it is a 'matter of opinion' whetber in Perthshire. This is but the faintest as -the flngalsa Knoll, said any more than was appropriate, j ust as truly Of a highly eloquent lecture, which we deeply Indeed, I sketch I-Marmnion" question is a 'matter Of Opinion.' regret that space will not allow us to publish in full. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
can imagine people unreasonable enough to suppose that There was an article in your last issue, entitled " Mr. Principal Grant may have as true a sense of the appro- Spencer," which might as weli have been written in hieroglyphic as in smaîl pica. 1 feit myself in duty bound priate as 'Undergraduate' himself. to read it through. I feel in duty bound to read it Wc are informed that the IlMarmion" cofltroversy through again. I arn not n0w going to anticipate what originated with the leaders of the Roman Catholic my feelings may be after the second perusal. But I yen- ture to Church; and the wsriter wonld have us believe this a suf- hope that no sncb arnount of nerve force as was, or is yet to ha, expended by your correspondent on Mr. ficient reason for at least considering the discussion Spencer, will be needed to comprebienfi Emerson. wortby of attention. 1 have high reverence for dignitarias Ralph Waldo Emerson was both poet and philosopher. in both chnrch and state, yet I could naine things which The tendency of his mind was, it rnay be said, mainly amazed at lind- existence to church leaders, and yet were of philosophical. Consequently we are not owed their ing words and phrases bard to be understood cropping up such a nature, that 1 think even ,Undergraduate' would now and again in bis stanzas, On the contrary I arn scarcely da'a to, say that they wae even worthy of being always agraeably surprised when I master any verse with- discus3ed. ont a second reading. But a poet is not to be judged by bis ability or inability to swing the philosophic sledge- poem 'raflects on the The -îue3io-i is n)t whather the bammer. Were sncb the case, we rnigbt be allowed to purity of certain orders,' but whether it oversteps the wbispar, the poat's corner would ha unknown ta rnost bounds of truth. 'Cari the immature mind of youth corne editors, A poet must stand or faîl according as bie is able in contact with a picture of immorality of any form, or unable to depict nature. Emerson bimsalf clearly this. He also understood the full meaning of taint ? is a question which understood poetic or otherwise, without the word "nature' -aninate and inanirnate, There have has been answered in widely différent ways by the guar- been poets of nature as it is displayed in the world about dians of public morals," remarks our friend. It matters us-in the mounitains, trees and floods. There have been little how the question bas been answered. Our daily poets of buman nature witb its sympathies, loves and passions. Emerson, I think, cannot be ranked amongst papers are filied with pictures of vice a hundred tirnas the former, in vain bave 1 looked far traces in hirn of a more revolting than any found in -"Marmion." Imagine real love of nature. Somne will tbink that bis life of a parent with pious solicitude taking from the hands of retirernent in wood and glade is a sufficient answer to the his young son a copy of IlMarmion," and allowing him above statemant, 1 arn of the opposite opinion. It was, evidently, bis views, both athical and philosophical, which to take up the Mail or Globe, and read of deeds, coin- caused him to saek solitude, Alone, then, bie was in self- pared to which those hinted at by Scott are mare trifles! defence compelled to look for an embodirnent of bis If aIl literature which contains pictures of crime must ba theories, Ha, thareupon, clotbed the tracs and flowers in prohibited, we must do away with ail newspapers, most philosophic-even in spiritual garb. Thus it was man acting on nature, not nature on the man. Witb bim periodicals, sermons, the Bible, &c., &c, nature was onîy a means to an end. He bas plainly ex- GRADUATE. pressed himself on this subjact in bis "Each and Ail," and we May return to it wben we treat of Emnerson the philosopher. Wordsworth, on the other band, could love 9oNTRIBuTED.- nature for itself, In reading some of bis minor poems we cannoe fail to see that he moved in a sphere peculiarly bis own, We rnay view nature in its external aspects. Wordsworth xvas a very cbild of nature, and she often write OU asked me somte time ago, dear JOUJRNAtL, to reveals herself to ber devotae, If there is in us a faintest Y for you an article on Emerson. 1 had a, friend in trace of the po2tic mood, we mnst notice the exqnisiteness Ottawa, not now, however, residing there, who was pas- of the littla poern beginning, "A wbirl biast frott bebind sionately fond oif this philosopher, and after sundry con- the bih,"' or of these well known lines: versations, by which it was sliscovered that wa had some IFor oft wben on my couch I lie, tastes in common,-each of us, mira bile dictu, having read In vacant or. in pensive mood, and liked Tennyson's "Princess, "-he would not be satis- Tbey flash upon the inward eya fled with anything short of rnaking me also, passionately Wbich is the bliss of solitude, fond of hirn, In compliance. then. with his request I And then my beart with pleasure filîs, took home the volume. I have still a vivid recollection And dances with the daffodils; of how, for my friend's saka, I worried ovar the sentences This it would bave been impossible for Emersoni to bave of this '0 2ŽxOl-UkJO4, and how, finally, I was giv en over written, Ha also would bave cast a glance over the 'host to despair. But I need flot anlarge. From that time of daffodils' andi rernarked their 'dancing in the breeze,' until just a week or two ago Emerson and I walked apart. but after doing su would hava writtcn in poetry or prose Even yet bis writings would have been for me among the (in aither the substance would bave been stilIl the saine) books to be read, had not your reqnest brought the mat- that as the wind blew in and ont amongst the flowers, the ter to a crisis. I still smile at the racollection of our curves thus made by their waving tops were curves of worthy librarian hunting for the volumes high and low,-- beauty, and they corresponded witb the curves of the how also, my gown was for once useful in rernoving from universe and the planetary systern, and then again with them the dust of years. I was pleasantly conscious, as I the curves of the saul of tbings. Sncb an idea bas in it wielded my paper-cutter, of treading a path unknown ta not only no poetry, but, with ail due deference ta Emer- the student-lifeeof Qneen's. But there my enjoyment son and ta Swedenborg the Mystic, from whom Emerson ended. 1 devoured witb set purpose "The Conduct of wonld have received the thought, aven no sensa. Words- Life," ',Representative Men," and the i' Poems." I worth is flot the only poet who bas seen the simple beauty dipped ino same other volume, but, I fear, have accorn- of nature, but I think bis was the clearest vision. What phished little. However, I have already waded so far other poet bas ever said that across the stream, that it will be as easy to gain the oppo- "'Tis my faith that every flower, site bank, as to retrace my steps. One remark more. Enjoys the air it breathes," QUE EN'S COLLEGE JaURNAL.
Even prose writers, of whom we maY mention Christo- pher North and Charles Dickens, abound in delicate touches of nature. What, for instance, is more beajitiful than the description of the antics of the leaves, or of Ruth at the fountain in Martin Chuzzlewjt. 1 might also at the evening, Nov. 2th, there was held say that a 'plentiful lack' of real sympathy with nature is O NBritishMonday American Hotel the annual dinner of the a characteristic of the vast majurity of the novelists of Medical Students. Shortly after 8 o'clock about ninety tu-day. One wearies of their never-ending chit-chat. 1 gentlemen sat duwn around the huard, Mr. Frank Kidd said above that nu trace of a love of nature is fouind in occupying the Chair, Mr. Young the Vice-Chair and Mr. Emerson. I should nuxv like to note a single exception. T. Cumberlaud the znd Vice-Chair. Among the guests That is found in the first verse of - Hermione: were Col. Montizambert, Major Short. Capt. Farley, B. On a mnound an Arab lay, iBattery. Profs. Fowler, McGowan and Marshall of Queen's And sung his sweet regrets, University, Ductors Stewart, Clark, Sullivan, Dupuis, And told his amulets; Laveil, C. H. LavelI and Henderson, and Messrs. S. Mc- The summer bird Cammon, of Gananoque, W. M. Drennan, W. J. Shanks, His surrow heard, J. C. Anderson, J. O'Reilly, B.A., F. C. Heath, B.A., and And, when hie heard a sigh profound, others. Letters of regret were sent hy Sir John A. Mac- The sympathetic swallow sxvept the ground. donald, Sir L. Tilley, Sir C. Tupper. Sir R. Cartwright, Emerson's absorbing interest in the intellect, as it kept Mr. Blake, Hon. O. Mowat, Côl. Hewitt, Col. Twitchell, himn from talking wjth nature, made him also unable to Dean Lyster and A. Gunn, M.P. After supper, which express what was in human nature. The key-note of his fnlly sustained the reputation of the British in every detail, Mind was pitched high. It was impossible for him tu The Chaîrman proposed the "Health of the Queen." descend. If he had written a drama his characters would Drunk with honor, Song-' 'God save the Queen." This have been everv une ideal. in this he was a thorough was followed by that of the Governor-General and Princess Greek. The Greeks considered that the representation of Louise. agony or disgust in a painting or sculpture destroyed the The Vice-Chairman proposed the health of the "Army, begauty. The idea of beauty and order ,pervaded their Navy and Vulunteers." whole philosophy. Su it wvas with Emerson. He is per- Referring to the achievements of the British in Egypt Petually writing about Beauty, .and many of these pass- lie eloquently pointed out the difficulties of the late war ages are remarkably fine. But it was beauty in the whole and the brilliant victory which terminated the contest. that delighted him. Nuthing according tu him was As a full fiedged Corporal in the rear rank of the Cana- beautiful apart from relation. It is written in the Law dian Volunteers (bull frogs), hie knew from experience the that it is flot gond for man to be alune. Emerson would difficulties of a campaigning life. In conclusion he re- extend it and say, it is ot gond for anything to be alune. îferred to the great work being done by the Schools of Only in relation of one to the ail dues Beauty manifest Gunnery and the Royal Military College. herself. T-here would then have been a dreary monotony Lieut.-Col. Montizambert, in reply, spoke of the time ln Emerson's characters. Each xvould have been when the standing army of Canada consisted of himself, faShiuned after the saine pattern. The shape of the Dr. Neilson and a tmumpeter, and how they once held the 5fl0u th would always have been just the particular shape Citadel of Quebec, fired the mid-day gun and floated' the 'takes when we say "'Papa, potatues, poultry, prunes standard from the staff. and prisms."1 The posture of the body would always Col. Duif. of the Cavalay; replied very briefiy. have reminded us of a geometrical figure, or a man on Major Short, in response to numerous calîs, spo'ke of Stilts. The tone of vuice would have carried with it the jthe physique, bravery and endurance of the Canadian freezing indifference conveyed by the accents of our soldiers and claimed that they wvere flot surpassad any- Modemn society-maiden. There would have been no life, wherle. He denounced the political trickery which had "0 reality. The cloudy regions of the intellect, high endeavoured to cry down the Military College, and above Par-nassus, would have been their dwelliiig place. further he thought that Canadians wery now begining tu HiOw different from Shakespeare always! How different realiz the importance of the institution. MrJ Cryan inavry masterly speech, proposed the fromu Byron at his best 1 How different fromn Byron in this (asking pardon of our Sister Undergrads): toast of the "City of Kingston," calling on Dr. McCammon "And Must I say ? albeit my heart rebel 1to reply. With ail that woman feels, but should ot tell, 1 Dr. McCammofl regretted the absence of the Mayor, Because-despite thy crimnes-that heart is moved; and descrihed the superior advantages of Kingston as a It feared thee, thanked thee, pitied, madden'd, loved. 1university city. It is claimed they are unsurpassed by Reply flot, tell ot now thy tale again, those uf any city in Canada. No city in Canada extends dues. Thou luv'st another-and I love in vain." isu, cordial a welcome to the students as Kingston of the subject. classes, and very friendly feelings th Mfust say now, before leaving this part They are known to ail tat somne of Emerson's poems are beautîful-all are worth have always existed between Town and Gown. He hoped Studyin utteare flot worth the study as puems. these feelings would be intensified and made firmer. btas discîosing bright gîimpses of the truth, and when Mr. G. S. McGhie proposed the "Faculty." None in flot these, they are still useful as the simplest expression 1Canada is superior to it. He referred to his connection it is that Emerson Hospital, and claimed for Kingston, Sfhs phlspy e above ahl with the Montreal sne,, and it is here that he will always hold some place. professors equal in abiiity, skili and management to But I surmise, MRt. JOURNAL, that I have kept yon long any in Canada. enough. We May, if aIl is well, consider the philosopher Dr. Sullivan, in reply to repeated calîs, said thati on ailother time. But at present we are heartily glad to selectiflg him tu respond the "boys" had put the rigbt hear the bell ring for intermission and pack up our traps. man in the wrung place. He gave a slight sketch of the the loss sus- S. W. D. history of -the Royal, and spoke feelingly of tained in the removal of Dr. Dickson from the staff by friend and uperatur the late Dr. was run uver by a death. As a teacher, WAeWSCONSIN paper says: "A chjld was valued and esteemed by two generations. of and cross-eyed, pantalets on, Dicksofl Wh gOn three years oId, students and clients, He referred to the advantages 'hChflever spolie afterwards." QUEENS COLLEGE JOURNAL. claimed by the Royal, and said they were real material ones. lucrative practices in various parts of Canada; that He closed an eloquent speech by eulogising medical among them were some of the greatest orators and finest students, than whom there was a no more genial class inex- public speakers in the Dominion. Hence it was with a istence. The Doctor was loudly applauded on retiring. great deal of diffidence that he, a recent graduate, under- Dr. T. R. Dupuis spoke of the special advantage of a took to reply for such a distinguished body of gentlemen. thorough Anatomical knowledge, That the Royal im- He congratplated the College upon its increased staff, and subjects as parted such he knew. While in Englaud the Secretary of the additional importance attached to such the College of Surgeons of England, told him that this sanitary science and hygiene. He also congratulated it College had sent out good anatomists. What better proof upon the more commodious quarters into which it had is there than this, that our College is inferior to none. recently been moved. These were all steps in the right Mr. J. H. Emery proposed "Queen's University." He direction, and he hoped that the students would derive spoke of the connection between it and the Royal. much benefit from them. He suggested, however, that Prof. Marshall, in responding, said that the branch of there were other improvements which might still be made. science he taught was more closely connected wlth medi- For example, he thought more attention might be paid to cine than most people thought. He told a story of the clinics than was at present the case, and more trouble late Dr. Abercrombie and a lady, and in concluding said should be taken to enable the students to profit by Post that he hoped a closer connection would be established mortemn examinations. These, together with anatomy, between himself and the medical students. formed the keystone to a correct diagnosis which was [En.-In connection with the yarn about Abercombie essential for the successful treatment of disease. From we might say that although we have never had such an this he went on to speak of the proposed consolidation of experience we would highly enjoy a similar one, and as . universities and medical schools, of which he strongly we are taught to emulate the shining lights of our pro- disapproved. That experiment had been tried in France fession, we certainly will at no far distant date endeavour by the first Napoleon, and in the opinion of intelligent to place ourselves in the evident position in which that men had been one of the most potent causes of the humilia- distinguished surgeon once was.] tion of France as a nation. In Germany, with its many Prof. McGowan replied briefly, thanking the students universities, the standard of skill and culture was higher. for the very cordial reception which had been tendered He also spoke unfavourably of the Ontario Medical Coun- him. cil as at present existing. A uniform standard of educa- Prof. Fowler said that he considered the medical class tion at first sight appeared plausible; but there were num- the best he ever had under him. He had a great esteem erous objections to its practical working. It necessitated for the medical profession and rejoiced that he was in a low and simple grade of examination if honesty were de- such a position as to assist in training students for a noble sired, and the latter appeared incompatible with the pres- cause. ent high standard of examinations as authorized by the Mr. E. Forrester proposed "Sister Universities," re- Council. It also failed to keep out quacks, and was an marking that the good feeling existing between the differ- unfruitful tax upon the students and practitioners of this ent colleges and ûniversities was a matter of congratula- Province. Finally, he eulogised the late Dr. Diekson as tion. the Nestor and the glory of the surgical profession in Dr. Clarke said that once he considered that no good Kingston, and he trusted that his'mantle would fall upon existed outside of Toronto. Since coming to Kingston he worthy shoulders. had changed his ideas and thought that Queen's Univer- Mr. J. Sterling proposed the health of the "Freshmen" sity with Royal College represents the twin sister of in a neat and pretty speech. Toronto University. He returned thanks for the manner Mr. Burdette said that although not yet well acquainted in which the toast had been drunk. with the other students, from his brief acquaintance with Mr. W. G. Anglin proposed the Council, whom he de- them he and his fellow students approved of them. The scribed as legal guardians and bread and butter license longer they were acquainted no doubt the better they givers of medical students. would respect one another. Song-"Son of a Gambolier." Mr. Dunlop gave a recitation, which was loudly ap- Dr. M. Lavell, in xeply, stated the real nature of the plauded. Council, and how difficult it was to contend against the Mr. R. Smith proposed the "Press." Replied to by Mr. opposition which had beset it for some years. The Coun- R. W. Shannon, of the News, and J. Elliot, of the Whig. cil had performed good work for sixteen years, and he Mr. R. Catwright proposed "Our Guests." Messrs. S. hoped it would still continue to do so. He did not advo- McCammon, F. C. Heath, B.A., J. Anderson, A. Mc- cate wholesale prosecution of unlicensed quacks. In Lachlan, W. J. Shanks and J. O'Reilly, B.A., replied. some remote communities they are useful and often are Mr. A. Forin proposed the "Ladies." Mr. Cumber- the only ones within many miles who can successfully land, Major Short and Mr. G. S. McGhie replied. baffle disease. Let those who are doing good, live to do Dr. Stewart sang, "Green Grow the Rushes, O !" which further good, but those who in large and more civilized received an encore. communities arise in opposition to talented men should be Mr. Gordon McCammon gave "Our Host," to which put down. Mr. Davis replied. Dr. D. C. Hickey proposed the "Learned Professions." Dr. Sullivan proposed the health of Mr. Kidd, Mr. His speech, as usual, was overflowing with humor. Young and Mr. Cumberland, who had discharged their Dr. Saunders, in the absence of Dr. Fenwick, replied, duties in a satisfactory and able manner. maintaining that the army and navy should be included Thus came to an end the annual dinner, and it was as in the toast. enjoyable as any ever held under the auspices of the Mr. Cumberland proposed "Our Graduates," who have medical profession in Kingston. No doubt many sore taken high positions wherever they have gone and are an heads and painful stomachs were prevalent the following honour to the College. day, but "Boys will be boys," you know. Dr. Henderson made an able and exhaustive speech, of Next year there will be many faces absent. Many will which we have only room for the faintest notice. He said have gone to dine upon the world and pocket the crusts. that the graduates of the Royal College were both numer- Although we enjoy a dinner we shudder at the crusts;. ous and influential. That many of them occupied most however, it is better to have a crust than to have nothing. important positions and enjoyed very extensive and QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL
Medical College bas lost an eminent AT Dit. »ICKSON. By bis death the TrmE of course, for the past few years the con- head, tbough, physician our last issue it was our painful duty to record tbe nection bas been but nominal ;the city an able IN John R. Dickson, the President of the and society at large a kindly Christian death of Dr. aid giad citizen, the of the Royal College of Physicians and Snrg.ýons. wbose vcry example was of value to it ; and Faculty associate so soon after wbich sad event took place on the morming of the 23(1 IlIt.. mnedical profession a brother, whom to lose a short account of the life of tbis able phy- gifted associate Dr. Yates, is to bereave severely. and we believe bis late former sto- sician wiîl prove interesting to our reeders. The ve'ierable heads are fast leaving to tbeir Co. As a pbysician we John Robinson Dickson was born in Dungannon, donts the burden of a noble calling. , 818. Hisfrie îds acknowledgment of Tyrone, Ireland, on the 15 tb November, ca.i offer to bis memnory tbe warmest for the bar, but bis own wvill prevailed. a id success in bis cases, won often at great sacri- designed him Glas- ii-examnpled prosecuted bis medical studies in the Belfast a id tice of comrfort.7 he t- was a sus- and fromn the latter obtained a licens.- Upon the announcement of bis death there gow Colleges, could oh. and the students practise midwifery as, on account of bis age, bie pension of class work at tbe College, in Kingston in 1838. In the to postpone their annual banquet. On tain no other. He arrived also resolved the 2 th uIt. the being still too young to get a license, hie Saturday 5 following year, funeral obsequies occurred. entereýd mbt partnership with oclock a of Shortly before 1 the late Dr. Hutchinson, was beld at bis late wbere hie re- eservice. Peterborough, summer residence on Wolfe mained two years, and then were hie Island. The remains went to New York, where the ferry wharf by , and met at spent nearly a year medical students and Facul- returning to Canada in 1842 who preceded the bearse, the practice of ty, commenced wbile in the rear walked the bis professian in Kingston, and a large number until bis relatives where hie remained of citizens. Tbo procession decease, and hiere bis steady towards ('halmers' and moved habits, perseverance Cburcb, where the Arts stu- skill soon became known. Professors were bis dents and Surgery was. perbaps, academic costumeAs Mair met in forte. The late Dr. the body was conveyed up Said of him: "He was con- aisie a solemn maiech was for it. the stitutionally fitted played on the organ, the au- Though always flrst he was inside standing. Rev. was dience neyer in a hurry. He Mr. McCuaig read a portion calm, decided, expeditinus Scripture, Prof. Mowat been of and thorougb. 1 bave led in prayer, and Principal present at opers fions by the a short address of our NGrant made Most skilful surgeons in wbicb bie eulogised tbe de- timne and have seen noue that meeting him a ceased. Since had the real requisites for the first time some five fully for successful surgeoni more years ago. he had learned to than Dr. Dickson.' respect, admire and love the In 1854 bie was among The speaker forming deceased. the Most active in touched upon the leading the Medical College in Kiug- points of the deceased's char- ston, and at its first regular acter. He was pogessed of meeting he was unanimously extraordinary energy, a keen chosen Professor of Surgery. insight and a fervent, strong This school became the judgment, so that any course Royal Coîlege of Physicians of procedure adopted by him and Surgeons, for which in relied upon as correct. 6 Charter. was 18 6 heobtaiued the A man endowed as Dr. In î86o, beiug on a tour for have lived longer bad hie spared himself health, he visited the varbous Dicksofl might it a poor succeeded in obtaiuing recogni- done less work, but he (the'speaker) believed colleges in London, and and of years, he lived. degrees of Queen's and the Royal, for nothiug estimate to judge a man by the number tion for the bis less or more, so long as him lose sight of the future interests of, It made little matter if one lived ,ver made to inspire and stimulate 1862 heaapite ugo to the Provincial he left a memory and example CollegeIn College of Phy- bim. In these respects tbey could Penitentiary. At the first meeting of the those who came after was elected its Presi- had been called away. Principal Grant 8icians and Surgeons of Ontario he henor him who particu- the appointment of Medical reerdote strong convictions of Dr. Dicksofl, dent. In 1869 he received He trusted of the Kingston Asylumn for the Insane, larly bis great aversion to intoxicatiflg liquor. Superintendeut oppo- bave an influence -on those position he held until 1878 when, though in that decas example would 'which the sake of bis him. His last years had sition to frieuds of the institution, lie, for who respected and honored the deceased resumned >prac- all the affection, care and tenderness health, resigned. Last year been crowned with of but neyer really rallied. from and to-day they had paid the last tribute tice hy way of consultation, possible, beniediction, of four years ago. He bas suffered from a Rev. F. McCuaig pronounced the the attacks respect. and friends to paralytic attacks and brain congestion an opportunity was given to students Blow apoplexy, the and reformed and being but recurring sypos view the remains. The procession then the following degrees> remains to Catara- MTh, ewese pyork ia h many of the students accompanied the MD.. New Yor icia42i M.R.C.P., London, and Edinburgh, 1867. )4*R,ç,' E-ng., 1863; and'F.R.C.S. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
cOLL[eGE SOCIleiTEs. their college course. The Corresponding Secretary xas directed to inform the International Committee that this MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. Association beartily approved of the scheme and xvould the co-operate with them. The convenors of the Devotional A REGULAR meeting of this society was held in Principal's class room on Nov. 25 th. The President, Committee reported that in conjunction with committees Mr. Thom, was in the chair and conducted the opening appointed by the Missionary Society, they bad drawn out exercises, It was agreed 10 give Sharbot Lake, Missis- a programme stating the subjecte and leaders for aIl the sippi, and Hinchinbrook a fortnightly service during the different Friday afternoon meetings during the session. session tili March iet, and ta pool the offerings of these A large number of these programmes had heen printed stations to meet the expenses. The Treasurer reported a and distributed among the students. The book of He- deficit of $Io, whicb must be liquidated in some manner brews had been chosen as the portion of Scripture for before next spring. Is it ton much ta ask the readers of iespecial study at the Sahhath Missionary Bible Class. the JOURNAL. who are interested in our work 'to assist ns Convener of Religions Work Committee reported that to "«owe no man anything." It is possible that few of xvork had been recommenced in different parts of the city tbem outside of the membership of the Association are and vicinity. Some discussion arose as to the advisahility aware of the fact that there is a work to be done by the of attempting to start a meeting on Ontario street, The Missionary Association, and a very great work, whîch Committee said that it was their intention to make a in order ta be successfully carried on reqjuires the sym- special effort. Convener of Membership Commitee said pathy of those interested in the work. Last year the there were some new students present ready to he re- Association bad eight men employed as catechists, and ceived as active members. Before the meeting closed it this year there is every probability that more will be re- wvas agreed to hold an Evangelistic service in St. Andrewvs quired, and there are continually calîs for service in the Hall at 8 o'clock Sabbath evening, Dec. ioth. neighborhood which cannot b2l met. It is most discour- THE ALMA MATER SOCIETY. aging ta begin the session with debt, especially as it will been in a state of be necessary to provide at least S1200 for next season's T HE College bas for the past fortnight work. This opportunity of referring to the matter at the eéverish excitement ovrthe annual elections of the Alma commencement of the winter has been taken so that any Mater Society, but now quiet bas once more been restored, and the eloquent speeches of of the old members of the Association, or any of the the candidates are friends of Missionary enterprize in different parts of the no longer beard in the halls or the class-rooms. On 1Saturday evening, Nov. î th, the nominations country, and especially in this city and immediate neigh- 5 were made borbood, may have the privilege of aiding us if they are and the following gentlemen declared to be in the field for s0 inclined. The Treasurer, Mr. J. McLeod, will gladly tbc several offices: President-D. A. Givens, receive any contributions. Interesting reports were read B.A., F. C. Heath, B.A., and by Messrs. R. C. Murray and F. W. Johnson, the only R. W. Shannon, M.A. two missionaries the Association were able te, send ta 1 Non-resident Vice-President-Rev. James Ross, M.A., Manitoba tast sommer, the former of bis work at Grant B.D., and Dr. J. Stewart. Valley, the latter on the C. P. R. among the navvies. Resident Vice-President-W. G. Anglin, A. Gis an and Messrs. Steele, Monro, and J. A. Grant were appointed ta J. C. Anderson. Secretary-J. P. McNaugbton and A. G. Farrell. report at the next meeting on 9 th Dac.. The meDeting was closed with the benediction. Treasurer-J. F. Kidd, G. W. Mitchell and R. M. Den- nistoun. Y. M. C. A. Critic-A. Gandier. in Committee-A. HE regalar monthly business meeting was held J. Macdonnell, H. M. Froiland, C. T Divinity H-all,. on Saturday 2nd, at ii a.m. After Clancey, J. Dunlop, A. Smith and P. M. Pollock. devotional exercises and *reading of minutes of previons On Monday the candidates laid tbeir dlaims for sup- meeting the Association was informed that Dr. Elliott, of port before tbe free and independent electors in the clas- Chicago, bad intimated bis willingness to deliver a popu- sical room, and some very witty 'and forcible speeches lar lecture, subject-'The, Waldenses," under the auspices Were made, and accordingly it was determined ta hold a of this Association. The offer was accepted and the Ex- similar meeting in the Medical College, which was donc ecutive Comm ittee was instructed to make ahl necessary on Wednesday. Anotber meeting ,sas beld in the Arts' arrangerncnts for having the lecture in St. Andrews Hall College.on Wednesday, wben Messrs. Shannon, Farrel, on the evening of Friday, Datc. 8th. Letters of interest Dennistoun, Smitb and Pollock gave up the contest for re- and encouragement were read from L. D. Wisbart, spective offices and tbe rcmaining gentlemen wbo bad been College Secretary. A communication was also read from nominated on Saturday eveningwere left ta "ýgo it alone.- M. T. Pyne, College member of the International Com- On Friday evening, according ta tbe constitution of the mtittee, concerning tbe issuing of tickets ta College.'students jSociety, tbe atnnual meeting was beld, tbe Reform Hàll which will admit them ta ail privileges of any town or baving been engaged for tbe occasion. Two bundred city Association they may visit during any vacation of gentlemen appeared ta polI tbeir votes and to show tha QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
A BAINE-FUL SCENE. the interest in the Aima Mater Society revives at least cf the iast sitting cf the Conccrsus rose, and as the voting wvas At the close once a year. The excitement Iniquitatis, the jury having brought in a verdict cf open a pretty acdurate guess could ho made at the chances "lGuiity" bhis lcrdship prcceeded iii solemie tones, of the opposing candidates. Seme of the latter oven xvent whiie breatbless silence pervaded the Court assernbied, te wcrds the unhappy fresbman \oho as to employ cabs to bring down some of the city address in the following SO far prisoner, convicted cf ail the charges brought At about 10:30 fgured as graduates to holp roll up their majorities. against him and which were for the mcst part attrihuted the polis were closod and the resuits made known amid te indomitable "'cheek: enthusiastic cheers. The following gentlemen will manage Prisoner-As 1 centemplate thy boardless yeuth, and face cf thine net furrcwed by a long ac- the affairs of the Society for '82-'83: look upen that quaintance with crime, 1 can scarce bridle imy emotions President-D, A. Givons, B.A. te censure yeu in wisdcm. Though this pulsating vessel Non-resident Vice-President-Rev. James Ross, M.A., in my besoin were one vast iceberg instead cf tender mneat B.D. yet would it te aqeous fluid meit at this dire sight. From are wrung the bot lachrymal drops cf pity. and President-W. G. Anglin. mny epticS Ist Resident Vice- that without the aid cf any tearful bulb. i'erhaps my 2nd Resident Vice-President-A. Givan. tears are te you unseen, but are net things invisible the cf s Secretary-J. P. McNaughton (accl.) strengest in nature? Witness steam, the unseen kick Treasiirer-J. F. Kidd. mule, the odor cf sulphuretted'hydrogen. would cause an eider visage than thine te H. M. Froiland, C. Crimes that Committee AZ_. J. Macdonnell, crimson bave been brought and proven against thee. The Clancy. motive that bas driven you te deeds se ghastly is un- face below the Amid loud cheers Mr. D. A. Givens was called on to douhtedly "cheek." -The side cf the definition cf it, one cf the mcst address the meeting, and in a neat speech hoe expressed eye" is Dr. Jebuson's words in the language. Tnken in a merciy deciared that it was "the suggestive bis thanks to the students and physical sense wcmnan's cbeek is enchanting te behoid, proudest moment of his life." The other candidates suc- y et more se te kiss. WJhat epicuro whcse i.eeth have net Taken in a metaphorical Cessfui and defeated were heard in tomn. The former de- watered ever 'pigs cheek." the most marvellous thing in crea- they had reached the sumamit of their ambition, sense cheok is simply clared tien ;it is lcfty as the sky, prcfcund as the sea, bcundless as glad they didn't get and the latter that they were just as space, The word check bas a talismanic influence on the office after ail! With ronewed cheers for the victors, peets, awaking tbem te strains cf sweeter meicdy. The a glove on the"I Ladies' Candidate," and the "lBurly Freshman," a immortal aspiration cf Romnee that ho were hie might touch bier cheek, is pretty and wvas formed and one of the well knowvn and oft- Juet's han d that procession fanciful te both levers and glovers. of "O0ld Grimes," &c. repeated serenades given te the tune There are four linos I ,.vould rather have written than Thus onded the great Aima Mater electiens. dine witb the Principal: ",Daugbter cf the rose, whose cheeks unite The (liffering titles of the red and white; Whicb heaven's alternate beauty will display, The blusb of morning, and the milky way." There is a divinity student wbo labors under a strange tbis year that some of JUNIOR philosopby is se tough infirmity of vision and memery, which incapacitates himn ~>the boys have to go down to "lHades" to make it out. from distinguishiflg between any two women. To bimi tbey are ahl alike. In this distressing state cf circum- bit on the expedient cf sticking a w'afer on quotes from stances bis girl STTJoENT, who bas eaten too much pastry, cbeeks that be might know hier frem t1e rest chattering pies in dismal discords one of bier Shakespeare: "And of bier sex. But even this precaution bas net prevented Sung.", him from mistalseniy kissing the wrong wuman-an errer which ho seems rather te relisb. ''My deair," hoe said te werds te express my. ad- (to student who bas road a bier the other day," I have net PRoFEseR of metapbysics yeur cbeek. " "1My cbeek, indeed,"' expostu- 'I sir, wbat follows ?" miration cf 1long papor on "lSpace' )-Weil, is past endurance." up "ITimne" after that."' Professer lated she indignantly, "Iyour own Student-,'î took interpretation cheek is a synonym for bimself back in bis chair)-' Well, thoen proceed. In its popular If you can flot overcome your besetting sin my advice is, -stay in bed.' There you are much safer, mucb ->1 TEM S.-<- cosier. If yen get up the chances are a thousand to one then consider the risks yeu run. you'll go out. And witb mucb favour amang You migbt break your limb on the football field; you JACROSSE14American doesColleges. not meet'This game is admitted ta be miglit meet a candidate for an Aimta Mater office and thc most scientitic and is. certainly one cf the most manly writhc under bis hand-shake; some yoong woman migbt gamesever played. And the strcng opposition manifested- take a fancy ta yon. See wbat mischief is done when an opposition wbicb bas been mucb fostcred by the rivers leave their beds! American College press-can only be attributed ta spite. Truc, the early bird gets the worm, but the witty school- boy bit it when hie said, the fate cf the worm is an awful A FARMER wba bad some cider ta scîl was pricing teas, example of being up toc, scon. and found that thcy had risen several cents a paund. 'Neyer get up! 'tis the secret cf glory, "What's made tea riz?"' said bie. "Scarcity cf tea- Nothing so true can pbilcsophy preach. chests," said tbe merchant. Hawever, he agrecd ta take Think cf the naines that are famous in story, some, tabe paid for in cider. "Haw mucb 's your cider?" 'Neyer get up,' is the lesson they teach," asked the merchant. "Twenty cents."' "Twenty cents! Pursue after wisdom; cry after bier; seek lier as silver. cried tbe merchant; ',Wbat are yeu asking sucb a price Remember Pope's words: as that for ?" 'Cause bungboles is scarce," replied the 'A little learning is a dangerous thing; farmer. Drink deep, or taste not tbe Pierian spring, For scanty drafts intoxicate tbe brain, As HE sat on the steps on Sunday night bie claimed the But drinking largely sobers us again." rigbt ta a kiss for every shonting star. She at flrst de- Take or advice and sucb a cbange will corne c'er you; murred, as became a modest maiden ; but finally yieldcd. tbat if ycu depart life young, ycur epitaph might run thus: She was even se accommodating as ta cail bis attention bis observa- " Tbine only fault, wbat travellers give the moon; ta flying meteors tbat were about ta escape on lightning bugs, Tby ligbt was lovely-but it died toc soon." tion. Tben she began ,calling"' him and at last got him down to solid work on the ligbt cf a if you set at naugbt our counsel sean shall you pass But ilantern that a man was carrying at a depot in the distance, te tbe grim ferryman wbich poets write cf te the kingdom where the trains were switching.-Ex. of perpetual nigbt. But let flot that be kncwn in japan.
IT WAS evening. Three of tbem wcre killing a cat. 'WHAT is that up Iin the choir there ?" Student- One of tbem beld a lantern, another beld the cat, and a "'Tbat that looks at ail the other members cf the choir in third jammed a pistol into tbe cat's car and fired, shoot- turn in less tharn baîf a minute?" Vîsitor.-' 'Yes." S.- ing the man in the baud wbo held tbe cat, and the anc "That that covers bis countenance wvitb a semi-idiotic witb the lantern was wounded in the arm. The cat left grin?" V.-' Yes." S.-"Wbat ! that that bas a some- when it saw how matters stood and that ilI feeling wvas what extensive moutb longitudinally ?" V.-' Yes; wbat being engendered.-Harvard Daily Hera id. is it?" S.-"Why, that's afresbman." V.-Arealltbe freshman like that?" S.-,No." V.-The gods be PARTI NG. praised." Wben bie asked bier but "«yes" ta bis question ta say,_ Shie was a ruaiden quite winsome and gay, "MAN'S inhumanity to man," or rather, weman's inhu- Ail the long years in the ligbt cf bis love, manity te a fresbman, was painfully ý.xemplified tbe other She bad fluttered bier feathers, the dear little dove. evening te a senior, wben upDn entering the room of a She bad answered bis glances and neyer said nay freshie be found bima seated on a cane-bottemed chair, under wbicb a Iamp was burning brightly. Upon inter- But in this last heur cf bis very last day, rogation it was learned that the poor fellew bad been Wben bie asked ber but "«yes' te bis question ta 5av, rShe said, looking up in bis eyes just abave, football and had been perspiring freely, and was pforced,laying threugb the delay ef bis boarding-bouse mistress Wby, ne, 1 could neyer, oh, neyer say that," te put up the coal stove, ta resort ta this barbarous ex- And firmly but tenderly, passed bim bis bat-Ex. pedient in erder te prevent bis under-clothes freezing upon him. Surely it is net tee severe te say cf that bearding- adapted hers must be an adamantine beart THE£ trustees cf the University of Pennsylvania heuse keeper that intO be the occasion ef sucb an outrage being a reselution that it is inexpedient ta admit women when sbe ceuld a perpetrated en bumnanity. the departmnent cf arts, but the trustees will organize separate cellegiate department for the complete educatiefi cf women whenever the necessary funds are provided. THE cenduct of semne ef tbe students seated in the gaI- lery during Professer Marsball's lecture on Tuesday even- ing was, te say the least, ungentlemanly. The cbild's 1 THE Chinese have long been in the habit cf printinig play indulged in on that occasion of tbrowing paper darts, sleeve editions of the classics te assist candidates at the hymn-books, etc., down amongst the audience is scarcely cempetitive examinations whose memeries are net sufflci- in keeping witb the dignity of University undergraduates. ently retentîve. A similar benevolent idea bas lately inl Had it been confined te the members cf the freýhman duced a native merchant at Sbanghai te print a diamand class, comment would be unnecessary. This, bewever, 1edition of the largeat lexîcon in the language, consistiflg was net the case, as some of the leaders were cbeeky of io6 books. That it might be small eneugh te be easilY sopbs., witb an odd junior and senior member from whom hidden in the candidate's sleeve or plaited in bis queue, much more beceming conduct should be expected. No it was necessary te print it in se small type that the doubt the beys tbought it was clever on their part. It is Iediteraxneunces in bis advertisement that, be will supplY a question wbetber the citizens present would agree witb each Purchaser with a magnifying glass te 'enable him te tbemn in this respect. read it. Q UE E N'S COLLE 0E JOURNAL. Nao. 6. Vol. X. KINGSTON, CANADA, DECEMBER 21, 1882.
a great pity that sa good a custamn sbauld be dropped, and we hope same member of your class will attend ta tbis matter, since we Session by the Published IN TWELVE NUMBERs during the knaw a picture was taken. Yau are daing University. ALMA MATER SOCIETY of Queen's yaurselves and posteritiy an injustice in not STAFF: handing dawn ta future generatians yaur Editor, A. MÇLACHLAN, - Managing genial faces. EDITING COMMITTER. DiVinity-JAMES SOMERVILLE, B.A. Medicine-T. A. MooRE, W. G. ANGLIN. is, perhaps, nathing mare narrawý- R. M. DENNISTOUN. T HERE Art.ç-RODERICK MÇKAY ,B.A. ing ta the mind of a student than F. W. JOHNSTON. G. F. HENDERSON. spending bis whale time in studying far ane A. G. FARREL. J. J. WRIGHT. prize ar hanor, ta the utter neglect J. S. SINN*ER, Secretary-Treasur'Cr. particular i0 cents. ather classes. If a man really bas a TERMS -Per Session, $i.oo; Single Numbers, af bis to A. Mc- particular subject, hawever, and Matter for publication should be addressed lave far one P. O. Drawer ail means LAcHLAN ; Business letters to J. S. SKINNER, wishes ta make a specialty af it, by 1146, Kingston, ont. let bita do sa, but let him da sa prampted by of the The Editor mnust be acquainted with the name a lave for the study, riat by expectatian of whether local or literary. author of any article, gainng a prize, and further let him flot neglect bis other studies in pursuing tbis a brief A man wba studies fromn lave of bis W E give, in anather column, end. sketch of the Dialectic Society, the work, even thaugb be may not gain tbe prize, latest addition ta aur already long list of stili retains a sense of the pleasure en4oyed Students arganizatians. The abjects of the inits pursuit, while be who studies for- the it dis- Society we have already alluded ta, and prize alane, and fails, feels tboroughly Only remains for us ta add aur goad wisbes heartened by bis failure, and tbinks tbat be pro- ta those already expressed by Principal, bas gained nathing by his study. ad- fessors and students, for its present and fu- Our new curriculum affords peculiar ture prosperity. We have no daubt that vantages ta students wisbing ta pursue any these wisbes will be fully realized. particular study, and those who fail ta take advantage of the inducements offered, will not be laoking aut for their own inter- time ta surely 'fT bas been aur intention for same for students Of '83, tbe class ests. It is toa late now "draw attention ta the fact that or even for many of '84, ta avail tbemselves '82 is nat represented amoflg the class- we of of this, but ta men of the junior classes, Pictures that decorate the walls of the read- would say, mauld ye your courses according iflg roam. How is this, '82? Surely you ta this new plan, and in the days ta came ye are flot asbamed of your phizes, In aur will not regret it. Opinion you bad yaur full share of beauty, it a'nd YOur class was of fair size. We tbink QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
together each year the same classes. This HE good old custom of having class sup- T pers is somethingthat we wish was more is no longer the case, a student may now general at Queen's. At present, and we do take his classes in any order he pleases, and not know if it has ever been otherwise, it is as many of the classes are optional, it so observed only by the senior class of each happens, that men of the same year, may go year. The happy results which accrue from through their entire course without ever be- such social gatherings of class-mates must be ing in the same classes together. Of course so apparent to ail that we wonder the junior this rarely happens, but it is just as rare a years do not follow the example of the seniors thing for two men to take the same subjects in this respect. Some, in acknowledging at the same time ail through their course. their usefulness, urge as an argument against The former state of things cherished a spirit them the heavy expense incident on carrying of esprit de corps we do not now have, and it out such a project successfully. To this we is to strengthen this spirit that we advocate have only to say that we do not think it class suppers. ought to be an objection. Great expenditure is not necessary to a successful re-union. To proved a AST week the Royal College have a grand banquet, to act as if we were L perfect Godsend to the quidnuncs. Its mere eating machines, gluttons and wine- students magnified their office and met with the bibbers, is not the object of these annual most gratifying responses ail round. The gatherings. It is to bring ail the members ladies among them constituted themselves of a class together, at least once in the year, judges of what a Professor might, and what so as to promote a social, friendly feeling he might not, teach. The gentlemen sent among them. To bring them together some- their ultimatums to the Faculty. Colleges where outside of a class-room, where they in other parts of the Domiuion competed for may spend an enjoyable evening and culti- the honor of their presence, fees or no fees. vate the friendship of their fellows, by which The Mayor of the City, with Ex-Mayors in the bond of union existing between them profusion, spent the midnight hours and the may be strengthened. The genial, social short hours too in beseeching them not to qualities of men, and of women too, are put out the light of Kingston. The press all always supposed to be at their best, while over the Dominion chronicled the changing they are surrounding the social board, and phases of the conflict, while the local news- from time immemorial among ail nations, papers apparently instructed their reporters supping together manifests the greatest to take note of nothing else. The transit of friendship. Where such good-fellowship Venus was a trifle to it, in the public inter- exists, it is not necessary that the table est excited. Ordinary mortals would be should groan under ail the varieties which spoiled by so spontaneous an outburst of the season affords, as much enjoyment emotion; but the students of the Royal will would attend a simpler repast. Another heed it with ail the nonchalance that pre- reason why we ask attention to this subject, eminently distinguishes them. a reason why these re-unions are more Now that the hurly-burly is done, there necessary, if we may be allowed to use the are not many points on which it would be word, than in the former days of Queen's, is profitable to descant. On one, the question that in former days the members of a class of co-education in medicine, opinions are not not only entered, and, if ail went well, left unanimous. On another, the attitude of together the college walls, but they attended Trinity Medical College, there can be no r "
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cuses offered by the offenders make it worse. two opinions, except, perhaps, among the Of course we here speak subject to correc- inmates of Rockwood or Tririty. In no de- tion, as we have only the newspapers' state- is the question of co-education sur- partment ment of their pleas. It seems that they urge rounded by so many practical difficulties as that they did a somewhat similar act pre- medical study. With after-the-event wis- in viously. When a dish was broken Mrs. dom we can now see that the Professors of Maclarty always cried, "It wascrackit afore!" Royal College should not have made so the But not even Mrs. Mclarty would have offer- experiment, when one of their num- risky an ed the excuse, "I crackit it afore." They opposed to it on principle, and that ber was plead, too, that they thought McGill intended a gentleman occupying a chair from one to do the very thing they did. McGill will delicate questions had to be discussed. which appreciate the compliment. But what are students made a mistake when they The we to think of the moral elevation of the of the case, admissibly closed a presentation gentlemen who would use such an argument? of view, with a threat of from their point A Highland rascal was wont to declare, "If They should have reflected that leaving. others are honest, I will be honest; but if preserve their self-respect gentlemen cannot they cheat, thank God I cnn cheat too." a question so presented. The if they discuss But even Dugald never dreamed of the code, knowing how peculiar are the Faculty, too, "If I think others intend to cheat, I shall between medical professors and relations take care to get the start of them." It is have taken a more concilia- students, might unnecessary to say a word more about the outset. To return a let- tory course at the Trinity Medical Professors. The one com- considered a species .of ter to the writer is fort in connection with the whole embroglio to further correspon- insult that puts an end is that those gentlemen went out for wool, dence. and returned home shorn; shorn of their the But all mistakes were thrown into honour and without the least mite of the shade by the action of the Trinity Professors. wool they so desperately longed to get. a To say it was worse than a crime, it was THE NEW CURRICULUm. blunder, is weak. It was both, and more. P HANGES are always acceptable when It was a violation of the espret de corps that offence they tend towards improvemert, and ought to animate professional men; an changes in the curriculum of a University against college decorum and a downright are in this respect like any other changes. indecency. A modicum of good sense social We propose to consider in this relation the and good manners is usually expected from recent changes in the curriculum of Queen's any collegiate faculty; but hereafter this as- University. be made with limitations. sumption will A university course may be regulated with that there is a prospect of breaking Hearing a view to serving two different purposes, sister institution, the Toronto Professors up a either to give a broad and sound liberal edu- are hastily summoned; or the Dean, knowing cation, or to make specialist in some depart- their sentiments, acts without going through ment of study. Queen's has always acted that form. Her Majesty's mail is too slow upon the assumption that the first of these is in such an exigency, and the telegraph is most important, and that specialization into requisition; and lest there may the Called to a post-graduate course. be other Deans likeminded, rates are cut so really belongs So stringently was this principle carried out low as to defy competition. in former years thatit was quite impracti- It is a melancholy business, and the ex- .QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
cable to have an extended honor course, the extent the labor of professors already bard- great amount of work done in "pass" sub- worked. This problem they seem to have jects by ail students, whether reading for solved in a very satisfactory manner. The honors or flot, preventing ail except very principle which appears to have been fol- superior students from, attempting honor lowed in framing the recent regulations was work. In those davs the classes were to exact as many subjects from the honor- "wedged" into the different years, as is stili man as from the pass-man, but to allow the done, I believe, in the majority of Canadian former, to a certain extent, to elect honor- colleges, and no relief from, this stereotyped subjects in lieu of the easier or more uncon- systemn was allowed even to honor students. genial pass subjects. The whole system, as The flrst change for the better was made it has been made by the recent changes and sortie vears 'since, when the principie of as it at present stands, will be more readily counting a student's standing by "years" understood by consulting the following syn- was abolished and the principle of "subjects" opsis of it. instituted in its stead. Then first a nuinber In the flrst place ail pass-men for B. A. are of Options were introduced, but every stu- required to pass the examinations in junior dent was compelled, for bis B. A. degree, to Latin and junior Greek, and in senior Latin pass in a particular number of subjects, one and senior Greek; but French and German of which, at least, must be a senior subject. together, taken as both junior and senior And to prevent students from acting upon subjects, may be substituted for Greek. the mistaken idea that they could master ail Secondiy, ail pass-men for B. A. are re- the subjects of the curriculum in one, or at quired to pass in senicr Mathematics, junior most two sessions, they were not allowed, Physics, junior and senior English, junior except in special cases, to present themselves Philosophy, and two of the foilowing, viz.: for examination in more than three subjects Chemistry, History, Natural Science. at the final examinations of each year. And Each subject, with two unimportant excep- as there were eleven subjeets in ail, the tions, is tanght for five hours weekly during-- course, although counted by subjects, was the whole session. necessarily a four years course. Such is the pass-course which must be .Stili no adv antages were given to honor followed, as far as subjects are concerned, by students, as they in common wîth ail others every person contented to be ranked as a _were required to "acquit themselves like mere pass-man. men" in the eleven subjects demanded. The Moreover, the Senate recommends a cer- consequence was that while a comparatively tain order of subjects to be pursued by high efflciency in the "pass" course was ob- students proceeding to a degree, but if a tained, the honor course, on account of the student thinks himself wiser than the Senate great amount of "extras" which it demanded, in this respect he is under no compulsion to was but "poorly honored." follow their advice, but with a few excep- The probiem, which thus presented it6self tions hie may take the subjects in that order to the senate was, how to form a profitable which hie thinks will best suit his con- compromise between specialization on the veniences. If, however, he should find hini- one hand and width and variety of mental self at any time in a difficuity, owing to con- culture upon the other, without to any extent flicting classes, he can have only himself to iowering the standard for the mere "pass- blame. man," and without increasing to too great an The Honor departments are four in num- QUEEN'S COLLEGFJ JOURNAL.
specialization is introduced without material- and are named respectively the depart- ber, ly jnterfering with that breadth of culture of Literature, Philosophy, Mathema- ments which it is the important duty of a college Science. tics and trainling to give. Candidates for honors in the department of Literature may pursue one of four courses, SCHEIPrlLING'S TA.SEDNA and they are not required take Chemistry or last session, te Science, nor to take History, unless was announced in the JOURNAL Natural A S firm of S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago, History as one of their honor publishing they choose have undertaken to issue a series of German philosophical of the subjecis. The courses are, classics, to consist cbiefly of a critical exposition four great ideal phil- 2. honors pbilosopbic systems of Germany's Honors in Latin and Greek; and Hegel. I. osopbers, namelv, Kant, Fichte, Schelling and German; 3. honors the in Latin and Frenchi In order te carry out tbis Npurpose, they secured writers on in Latin and English and History; 4. honors assistance of the most distinguished American was asked German and in English and pbilosophy. Amnong others, Professor Watson in French and of Sche]ling's to contribute to the work, and the exposition in Flistory. has now ap- pbilosophy entrusted to him. That work th_ý departmeflt by those Candidates for honors in peared, and will no doubt be gladly welcomed ; since the are not required to take who take any interest in studies of this nature Of Philosophy, the sys- or Natural Science, but work not only affords a clear insight into CheMistry, History, and in its tem of Scbelling, considered both in itself the honor course in mental and of the MTust pursue relations to the productions of the other members remarks Moral science. same school, but it also supplies, in the critical important honors in the department upon that system, a clear idea of the most Candidates for of the to take problem of modemn philosophy, and tbe nature of Mathematics are not required will need but solutions afforded. The present volume Chemistry, History or Natur- already studied senior Classics, little recommendation to those who have one of two work, ai Science, and tiiey may pursue the contents of Dr. Watson's previous admirable witb such a courses. Those are, SKant and bis English Critics,'" which met in all quarters of the philosophical pure Mathematics, with the favourable reception 1. Honors in world, and especially in Grea.t Britain. ; 2. honors in Physics Watson, in the Class of senior Physics As bas just been indicated, Professor a clear and con- wvith the third year honor work in Mathe- present work, bas not only presented in the pbilosophy of lflatics. cise manner the important points in but he bas the departmeflt Schelling and estimated their relative values, Candidates for honors in system ahd. those also traced the connection between bis not required to take senior showing of Science are of the other disciples of tbe transcendental metbod, one hand, and Classics, and they niay pursue one of two -bis relation, througb Fichte to Kant on the revolution- to Hegel on tbe other. Kant, he sbows, had courses : knowledge, ized tbe ordinary conceptions of existence and in Chemistry and in two of problems ,- Honors and opened a new path to the solution of those Zoology, Geology; kuowledge, the three subjeets, Botany, relative to the conditions and extent of buman existence. in Cheinistry and Experimental and the nature of our moral and spiritual 2, honors incom- subject of Practical Astron- That bis task should bave been left somewhat Physics, and the manifests plete, was only natural, Tbis incompleteness Otny. regard to itself more particularly in bis conceptions with and rather vague Such, then, are the new arranlgemnents, our maoral and spiritual relations, which are the further we consider that they are a decided im- and unsatisfacory; hence it was mainly to relations that anything which preceded and more accurate determination of these provemnent upon first chapter bis successors devoted themnselves. In the themi Candidates for honors have sorne account of of the prýeet work, followitig a preliminary pass subjeets brother idealists, relaxation from the simpler tbe general relation of Schellinlg to bis whole Kantian Wlithout being so completelY relieved frorn we have a most excellent epitome of the rather as it them, as to nmake their education decidedlY philosophy, in wbicb the system is viewed its general results than in its individual parts; Orlesided- Thus a considerable amount of appears in QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. since these parts are evidently looked at in the light of find both the defects and the excellencies of his system the whole, all minor inconsistencies being thus avoided, brought to view and set in opposition to each other. In the ninth chapter we have an examination of Schell- while a clear ýand intelligent view is presented of his whole ing's later philosophy, which is found to be much more system as it must have appeared to Kant himself in its suggestive of problems still remaining to be solved than most developed form. At the same time the real imper- distinguished for its solution of them. Among other fections in the doctrine of Kant are by no means ignored, departures from the general tenor of his philosophy, there is noticed in these later productions, a tendency to modify for, in the beginning of the chapter on Fichte, these are that pantheistic conception of the absolute, which he had clearly though briefly pointed out, in order to afford an formed, and in which was merged, though in a manner idea of the points to be developed or improved by his more mystical than rational, all subjective and objective followers. The attempt made by Fichte to rectify these existence, and an attempt to give a more definite deter- mination of this absolute intelligence in the shape of a defects, as he understood them, and reduce the system of personal God manifesting himself in the world. This at- Kant to consistency with itself, is also dealt with, and his tempt, however, cannot be said to have been very suc- desire to rid philosophy of all things in themselves with cessful, at least from a philosophical point of view, for their mysterious and unknowable character, is shown to his conceptions of the nature of God and liuman freedom are lost in an atmosphere of mysticism which is born of have led him to neglect, or deny, all objectivity relative to imagination rather than of pure reason. In fact, as Pro- the individual subject, and to merge everything in pure fessor Watson has pointed out, the importance of his intelligence or will, which, by its activity alone, gives rise philosophy consists rather in the points which he has and the general suggestiveness of his remarks, to all known existence. Thus from the absolute Ego he raised than in any positive or permanent contribution which he spins out both subject and object, while it is to that has made towards the solution of the great problems of Ego that we must look for their union. But, adopting Philosophy. In the concluding pages of the volume we this method, as Professor Watson bas shown, he was find some very instructive and valuable remarks on the relation of Schelling's principles and method, both to the quite unable to show in a satisfactory manner, how these theories of his predecessors and to modern thought. In various individual Egos were related to each other, and conclusion it is remarked, that while Schelling and Fichte to the Universal Intelligence. Now, it is from a protest have developed certain phases of the Kantian system, yet against this utter disregard of anything as objective in the true spirit of that system was alone apprehended and distinction from the individual Ego, that Schelling is developed in its integrity by Hegel, in order to fully shown to have taken his course. Having defined the appreciate the value of whose system, however, a previous position which Schelling occupied with regard to the study of Fichte and Schelling will be found of great theories already advanced, the writer is in a suitable po- service. sition to make intelligible the efforts which he put forth TuE TRANSIT OF VENUS. to give a still more adequate solution of the critical Professor problem. the lecture delivered by As the distinctive feature of the book is a critical state- WEMarshall, publish belowin Convocation Hall, on Monday evening, ment of the philosophy of Schelling, the body of the work 5 th, before a large and intelligent audience. The subject is devoted to a detailed examination of his system. The is an important one, and was so ably treated of by the gradual separation of his system from that of his master, Fichte, the continuous development and unfolding of that professor that it cannot fail to interest the readers of tle system as he advanced from stage to stage, obtaining JOURNAL, and especially those who are interested in the clearer and broader views of the nature of his task,- study of Physics and Astronomy. We are unable to give solutions of the though his comprehension of the proper the illustrations which were used in explaining many of points which he raised by no means advanced so rapidly, -and the nature of the advances made at the different the points: stages, are set forth in a manner which removes many of The transit of Venus is a phenomenon which has been the almost proverbial difficulties which attend not only observed only four times in the history of the world, viz., the writings of Schelling, but of the whole school to which in 1639, 1761, 1769, and 1874. The event takes place he belongs. again to-morrow, but will not occur again for 121J years. Having considered at some length the earlier produc- The very rarity of such an event must arouse in a thought- tions of Schelling, and the formulation of the problem of ful mind a desire not only to see it but to learn the mean- transcendental idealism, Professor Watson then proceeds ing thereof. When, however, we think of the yearsof hard to set forth particularly the theoretical side of his phil- work and deep thought spent by hundreds of men in osophy; that which is concerned with our knowledge of preparation for observing this phenomenon, and the years the objective world and its relation to intelligence; after spent by hundreds of others in reducing the observations which he takes up his practical philosophy dealing with made, when we think that such an event affords in fav- the nature of the will, which plays so important a part in ourable circumstances the most delicate means of deter- his system, and our moral and spiritual relations gener- mining the most important perhaps of astronomical ally. The end of all moral action was, for Schelling, a constants, viz., the distance of the sun from us, when we gradual process of the unfolding of the Absolute, or of think, further, of the sublimity of such a problem, and God, in man; the ultimate good being a complete har- of the power displayed by man in being able even to mony of the unconditioned and conditioned, a union of attack it, I think that no apology will be required on my freedom and necessity in an absolute identity, At the part for asking your attention to-night to this important same time his great fault is shown to lie in the elevation event of to-morrow, and requesting you to discuss with of nature. or of objectivity, to the same level with his me very shortly the different steps which have enabled individual subjective intelligence, which makes their astronomers to deduce from the passage of a planet acrOss subsequent union under this absolute identity of intelli- its disc the distance of the sun from us. At the sane gence incomprehensible. This is brought out very clearly time, ladies and gentleman, the subject is one which can- in the general criticism of Schelling's idealism, where we not easily be thrown into a shape to strike the popular QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
an accaufit of the relative sizes of the earth and the seen, of the pale eye as some scientific lectures can, and I must therefore imiaginary sphere of the heavens, the direction sublimity and importance of the problem, the wili be the saine in ail parts of the erh trust ta the of the heavefis hemi- which I shail try ta explain ta you this eve- is, supposiflg ail the people in the nothern -solution of Say, for that they would iiing, for asking close attention ta what 1 shaîl sphere ta be looking at the pole of the heavens, it will be difficuit ta perceive thé in exactly the same direction. The pole, witbout such attention ai be looking apart the different isteps wbicb lead ta the complete hcowever, would nat appear ta any twa considerably sequence of hemisphere. This Solution. We shaîl cansider briefiy, ta be in the samne part of the visible determifled the figure and flot having the saine horizon, and there- 1. How astronamers have arises from them by a dimensions of the earth vie inhabit. fore not the samne visible hemisphere. (Illustrated determined the motions of the earth avoid as 2. How they have figre)icl it is most conveflient (in order ta relatively ta the sun and other bodies in space. will cross the son's the effects of refractian) ta measure the 3. What is this body Venus which lunch as possible order the altitude of a star near the zenith, in disc to-morraw? change in horizon. knowledge of the answers ta mneasure thie change in the direction of the 4 and lastly. How with a ta ta are by previaus questions does the transit enable us WlXen, then, different arcs of terrestial meridians the three the curvature of determine the son's distance. these means measured, it is found that the equator ta either and dimensions of the earth. the earth dimninishes as you go from 1. The figure wie infer ýhows that the figure of the That the earth is limlited in every direction pale, and the law of curvature of the earth's sur- of an oblate spberoid, the shorter fromu the fact that almast every portion eartb is very nearly that Navigators and travellers diameter passiflg througb the pales or the face has been seen by iman. axis being that it is have in variaus directions gone round it. axis of the earth itself. From these measurements from the land, prablem ta caiculate the From the fact that whlen a ship recedes likewise an easy geomnetrical the horizon, and after it the of the earth. the bull disappears firat in dimensiaons a eartb bas continuous curvature, now, if wie allow the rotation of the earth about masts, wie infer that the But wie shall direction sînce this phenomenoti is oh- axis, a proposition which is proved, as and that in every fixed independent of its in every horizon wbere there is a sea, but presently see by metbods altogether served flot only were of aur previaus particular horizon. If the earth obtain evidence of the truth in every part of any figure, wie spheroidal uls, the masts, on which puts ail doubt away. The an infinite planle which it appears ta deductiofis, found by magnitude, would first became and of that amount of ellipticity wbich is accounit of their amaller steam- figure, a plastic body of Tbis phenomonon is best seeni wben two actual measuremneft, is the figure which inivisible, line. W'e of the earth, would ers pass one another and are sailing in the samne the saine dimensions and as mnass that fact that the the samne angular velocity bave another palpable proof of this in the have assumned, provided it had the earth's ,That the earth as a whole is the sum of the three angles of any triangle on wbich the earth really has. more so than it is naw, surface is greater than two rîght angles., plastic, and that ages aga it was earth's (Experîmental proof given.) at any considerable portion of the there is strong evidence. is 'I looking cîrctilar, unless obstructed by proof of the correctfless of these calculations surface, it always appears Another the weight of from whatever place or obtained: If the earth be a spheroid, mountains or other irreguiarities, thus of its surface; it bu viewed. This is equivaletit ta must be different ait different parts fromn whatever height a a body a body at the equatar that any plane section of the earth is a circle, the calculated ratio of the weight of saying the state is 590:591. Whether belonging exclusively to the sphere. If ta that at either pale on this account Property ait dlifferefit parts of wie shall enquire wben wie Of the atmosphere be very differetit this agree witb experimetit weigbt. is not perfectl>' cîrcular, but this influence of the eartb's rotation on the horizon, the outîine investigate the like every explained by the uneqilal effects of truth of the eartbs spheroidal form, cati be satisfactorily The more forced oî«Our refraction. other truth in astronomy, is more and is wie shahl learn that the eclipse of the moon, a phenomeflon whicb minds the mare vie learn ; thus, In every shadow, the system, and if y ou take Produced by the moon entering the eartb's earth is a mnember of the solar Now, il i5 Jupiter, it is observed tâ have a Outline of the shadow is invariably circtilar. any ather member, c.g., can always cast a and of that degree of ellipticity which onlly a sphere of ahl soîid figures which spheroidal form it bu situated ta the illumina- ta the time of its rotation. circular shadow, however corresponds rela- consider briefly the motions of the earth ting 'body. Let us naw about an general spherical form ta the sun. These are two, its rotation Having proved by these facts the tively around the next proceed actualiy ta meast>re axis once in a sidereal day, and its revolution 9f the earth, astronomners frofi an out if there be nu deviatiofi sun once in a sidereal year. lt' 80 as ta find done by measuriflg in exactly spherical form. This is AXIS FIXED IN DIRECTION arc of the ROTATION OF THE BARTH ABOUT AN parts of the *earth the length of an different ta the other the cati be made from observations of Ileridian, in going from onu end of whichi Before any deductions we plaine ta the uarth's of bodies extraneous ta, the earth whicb sensible horizon, that is, the tangent the motions itself bu flot through a knowti angle.(ydon wie must ascertaifi wbether the earth surface bas turned inhabit, understand the of the earth the curvature in motion. It is flot difficuit for us to, 1tis e measure ait those parts sensible hori- generally experience ait the the earth's surface.) Wu kniow whep aur motions of the clouds. We Of the altitude of and motion of clouds; by has turned through any angle by samne timie the force of wind Zonl samne amnotiit. velocity of the air above either pale of the heavens altering by the climbing his vie leara that the rotates or the sphure of tban that near the surface, or that Whether it be the earth which mnay be greater or less that round it, we know that the pales surface may be almost stili, whilst the heavens which tomns the air ait the that the the samne, Hence, so long as aur is in rapid motion. it is known also 'If the earth are always above us ascend of the pale of the clouds is such that vie may easily sensible horizon is th samne the altitude height of the that but if in going directly to either of them, and when we do 50 wie find heavens will he constant, 4above mnany sus- our horizon turtis tbrough any angle, by heaps of small globules of water Pale Of the earth pale they are merely great the saine angle will the altitude of the correspanding -when their height is s0 ta bave any in the air, and even learned from parai- the heavens be altered, Suppase the earth pe-ndedwe cannot reach them it ig easily of tha they do flot nearly figure whatever, and P p ta be the direction of its ax-is, lax and the properties of air that a'nd, therefore, that in which the pale of the heavenis ~ QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. transcend what is called the practical limit of the atmo- ing to the laws of fluids, equal pressure in all parts of the sphere. Hence no one thinks it a strange thing that the atmosphere, blow from the poles towards the equator, but clouds should be moving above us while the air at the having less velocity from west to east, than bodies at the surface is nearly still. But when we observe the heavenly equator appear to blow likewise towards the east, and are bodies we see in their motions an imposing regularity, and therefore north-east and south-east winds. The monsoons, we know that their motions are in no way infiuenced by hurricanes, as well as the ocean currents, like the Gulf- the wind. From parallax and the properties of light we Stream and Kuro ShiwoorJapan Stream, are explainedin a learn that amongst the heavenly bodies the earth is so similar way. The phenomena of procession and nutation insignificant that its very existence is known only to a are explained by a change of the direction of the earth's very few, and that the differences in the distances of the axis of rotation, caused by the action of the sun and moon heaveniy bodies are immensely great. We can also easily on the protuberant matter at the equator. These bodies observe that at least a few of them have motions relatively tend, according to the law of universal gravitation, to to the rest. From such facts combined with the observa- make the earth rotate about an axis in the plane of the tion that the axis of rotation, be it of earth or heavenly equator, perpendicular, therefore, to its axis of daily sphere, has nearly a constant direction, and that appear- rotation. (Illustrated by experiment.) Such an action ances would bc the same whether it be that the earth can alone alter the direction of the axis of rotation, not rotates or the sphere of the heavens, we are almost forced the angular velocity. Hence precession and nutation to conclude that while the clouds form essentially a part cannot alter the length of the day. Indeed, this motion of the earth, and that their motions with respect to it are of the earth by which we reckon time is the most uniform real, the heavenly bodies are in no close way connected of all motions known to us. Laplace having made a care- with it, and that their daily uniform rotation from east to ful comparison of modern with ancient observations of west is merely apparent, the effect of a real rotation of eclipses, has asserted that the length of the sidereal day the earth itself. (Illustrated by travelling in a railway cannot have altered so much as the hth part of a carriage or steamboat.) second in upwards of 2,000 years. But we know that the But the axis of rotation is not absolutely fixed in direc- friction of the tides on the earth's surface and its secular tion (phenomena of precession and nutation), and if it be cooling must at length, however, slowly alter even this the sphere of the heavens which rotates, we must allow element, that whilst the relative positions of the stars remains the To these proofs of the earth's rotation, it is interesting same, the axis of rotation moves amongst them, or that to add the evidence we obtain from the analagous motions the earth keeps moving a little, so that the axis of the of the other heavenly bodies. Those few which can be so heavens might always coincide with the same diameter. closely examined, viz', the sun, moon, and a few of the Surely such phenomena are much more naturally ex- planets, are found to rotate like the earth about a fixed plained by a change in the direction of rotation of the axis and in the same direction as the earth does. axis of the earth. Having proved the earth's ellipticity by actual measure- REvOLUTION OF THE EARTH AROUND THE SUN. hydrostatics require that to keep the ment, the laws of days and nights, the rotation of the sphere on the earth's surface as they really If, for several waters of the ocean of the heavens about the earth be closely observed, it is are, there must be something influencing their weight. of found that whilst the apparent rotation of the stars is This is most satisfactorily explained by a diminution is not uni- owing to a rotation performed uniformly, that of the sun or moon weight as we go towards the equator, a daily rotation, these bodies by experiment.) But Foucault's form. Hence in addition to of the earth. (Illustrated to the earth. On account of this shows us the rotation of the earth. have a motion relative pendulum actually new motion of the sun, it is found to describe a great was explained by a model. Time of rotation of (This circle of the sphere of the heavens inclined to the equinoc- plane of oscillation of a pendulum in the latitude of King- was also ex- tial at the angle of about 23g in 366k sidereal days. ston34ý hours nearly. The gyroscope the stars is called the experiment.) This path of the sun amongst plained and precession illustrated by fixed. You must not confound proof of the earth's rotation is found Ecliptic and is practically Another palpable body's apparent path in the sphere of the that a stone let fall from the top of a tower will a heavenly in the fact heavens with its real path in space. Thus, while the fall somewhat to the east of the vertical. This arises a larger circle sun's apparent annual path in the sphere of the heavens from the top of the tower havingito describe to the earth is an time, and having therefore a is a great circle, its path relatively than the bottom.in the same This is proved velocity from west to east. ellipse with the earth in one of the foci. greater linear in this its new orbit rotation being now satisfactorily proved, in the following way. It is found that The earth's The most natural infer- let us investigate what would be the effects of such a the sun's apparent size varies. ence to be drawn from this fact is that the suu's distance rotation, and see if they actually exist. were a rigid body such a rotation from the earth varies in the inverse proportion, and on Unless the earth an ellipse with the earth's figure that of an oblate spheroid, this assumption the path is found to be would make But the sun and moon are we have just proved by measurement to be its the earth in one of the foci. which not the only bodies which seem thus to move amongst the form. Another necessary consequence would be a gradual weight of a body in going from either stars. There are a few others called planets, the motions diminution of the to be iu no way connected with the earth, the equator. It is easily caldulated that on this of which seem pole to and altkough apparently more closely connected with the account the weight of a body at the equator is to that at either pole as 288:289. But we found that owing to the sun, yet, even with respect to it, their apparent paths are earth's ellipticity alone the weight of a body was dimin- by no means ellipses or any other known curves. Let us not this annual from either pole to the now ask ourselves the question, " May ished by .Jst part in going motion of the sun relative to the earth be an apparent equator. Now, 4 =h and by actual experi- motion arising from a real motion of the earth around the ment and calculation it iszound that the weight of a body sun ?" The rotation of the sphere of the heavens having at either pole is to that at the equator as 194:193. been proved to be similarly accounted for, it is very justi- The trade winds can be most satisfactorily accounted fiable to suspect that such may be the case. As regards for by a rotation of the earth from east to west, combined the sun, phenomena would be the same in either case, a with a greater heating of the atmosphere at the equator positive revolution of the earth around the sun would over that at the poles. These winds, too, preserve, accord- produce an. apparent positive revolution of the sun around QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
from observation the times that that the earth As we know exactly the earth. On the hypothesis, however, Venus and the earth take to revolve around the sun, it is sun in one of the foci, we at often transits moves in an ellipse with the easy calculating from these numbers how Copernican Theory of the solar system, to a con- once arrive at the and are likely to occur. Thus, reducing ¾:gg of all theories, alone gives a satisfactory which, tinued fraction, we get the following approximations, simple explanation of its movernentsh between the earth and the (The numbers were explained.) Are there any analogies 8 23 6 -71- which us to class them together ? It is easy calculating that the change of latitude planets to induce so that the planets receive their light and heat undergoes in eight years is greater than 16', Like the earth and Venus apart, may oc- sun, That it is so with the inferior planets in order that two transits, eight years from the proves must transit in both their phases tell us, and spectrum analysis cur at either of the nodes, Venus Mars, unlike that of the the sun's centre, at one transit to us that the light of all the planets, cases some distance from The earth and planets' north of the sun's ceutre, at the other, south of it. stars is merely reflected sunlight. being was lear , are bodies much inferior in If a conjunction took place just at the time Venus we sham presently would take place but comparable with one another. crossing its nodal line, then the transit would be nu tran- magnitude to the sun, across a diameter of the sun, but there TO ALL. KEPLER'S THREE LAWS APPLV sit eight years after that one, and, indeed, at the same alone on analogies. We have not, however, to depend would be no transit for 235 years. To-mor- of the earth gives not only a node there and the next This assumed revolution the row's transit will be at the ascending node, of the apparent motions of descending node. satisfactory explanation will take place in June 2 004 at the only rational explanation of a motion how by the transit of planets, it gives the correct- Let us now consider briefly the stars, viz., aberration, After able to measure the distance of common to all parallaxs Venus astronomers are places of the stars for refaction, doing this I must explain how the appar- ing the apparent that al the stars the sun. Before what precession and nutation, it is found of a body depends on its distance, and also and whose planes are parallel ent size of a body is describe in a year small orbits, we mean by parallax. The apparent size common to ail the stars, 15 at the eye, and to the ecliptic. This motion, measured by the angle which it subteuds and can only be explained on the that as a body becomes satisfactorily explained and I can easily show you by a figure earth revolves around the sun, just in the same proportion does hypothesis that the of ig more and more distant, around the earth, at the average rate (Explaimed by case of avenue and not the sun space at it become smaller. a second, and that light travels through of you have also observed that when miles per a fact fsrst deduced figures.) Many nearer the rate of 86,ooo miles per second, or a balloon is floating in the air, the of Jupiters satellites and bird is flying, the figure from observations of the eclipses it cornes to you, the larger it appears. From found afterwards by actual experiment. those who have a knowledge of elementary the earth revolves likewise, the distance of There is yet greater evidence that geometry will at once see that if we know This is found in the physical explana- can calculate its real size, around the sun. motions a body, and its apparent size, we the motions of the solar system. Thee now its real and apparent sizes we tion of three laws of or, vice versa, if we the necessary consequences of the its distance. Now, what we determine are as propounded can calculate show you, motion, and that of universal gravitation of Venus, as I hope presently to laws not only gove a in the transit the sun, and Isaac Newton. These four apparent size of the earth as seen from by Sir of the motions of the is the be deter- perfectly satisfactory explanation explained to you how its real sizecan refined the very observation as I have thus determine its dis- Solar system, but have much mined by measurement, we cat 0f them. tance. on the subject of THE PLANET VENUS. Allow me now to say a few words sun's disc to.morrow, is the change of direction in which a Now Venus, wîich will cross the parallax. Parallax from rotating about an axis body is seen arising from a change of the position, a body just wikeOur own earth, viewed. (Explained first by terrestial paral- is d the sune It r however, nearer to which it is and revoving aro of lax and figures.) The parallax of a body, you will at once thang the eartb is, so that in the course the on us and see from these figures, measures the apparent size of the someties the sun lies between its revolution somelimes Venus distance between the two positions from which'the body Vefus (superior conjunction) and (inferior conjunction.) is viewed, as seen from the body itself. Hence, as before, cornes between us and the sun the two positions from phases of Venus and appar- if we know the distance between (Explained by figure, also the which a body is viewed, and its parallax, we can deter- is meant by the inclination of Venus ent sizes; also what mine the distance of that body. and the hbe of nodes. Inclination orbit to the ecliptic, be at once seen that a Let me illustrate celestial parallax by explaining to you of orbit equals 3 23' 35). It wîll wben Venus is in inferior the moon's distance from us is measured (Illus- transit of Venus can occur only how might even determine the moon's near theline of nodes. trated by figures.) We conjunction, and at the same time paralax by two observations at the same place. since the et me explain to you that ,o make this a little clearer by its motions of the moon while the earth rotates for twelve jusI as a place on the earth's surface is determined hours are completely known, and can therefore so the place in the spbere of the latitude and longitude, by its lati- be allowed for. Now why can we not apply this heavens of any heavenly body is determined ? being the angular distance very direct method to determine the distance of the sun tude and longitude, the latitude to any change as measured u its circle Simply because the parallax of the sun, due of the body from the ecliptic, of position on the earth's surface, is so small, and a very its longitude being the angular distance Of latitude, and that of the small error in measuring this parallax would make a very the body's circle of latitude and between on the ecliptic where the great error in estimating therefrom its distance. At the vernal Equinox, a definite point 1a the sphere of the distance of the moon, the apparent size of an equatorial is about the 22nd of March. which it is not difficult sun of latitude correspond to radius of the earth is 57' 3", from heavens the ecli tic and circles to calculate, since we have determined the equatorial e equator an meridians in the sphere of the earth. radius of the earth, that the moon's distance is approxi- semi-di aeter is just about ofonly 'ow, as the sun's apparent at the co6juiction ratey 3 8 88i miles from us. Now, if an error On the average, it is evident that if the moon's horizontal 16 north or south, exceeds 16', a m is made in the determination of Venus' latitude, whether be less thail 16', is called, there will result an error in the transit cannot oýccur, but if its latitude parallax as this of the sun's disc, and therefrom of only about seventy the Venus no cro s some portion calculation of its distance be seen as a black spot creeping over it. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. miles, but so small is the sun's horizontal parallax that the figure are available, and tremendous difficulties of cal- the same error of i" would produce in the calculation of culation are caused by the situations of the places of its distance an error of nearly ni,ooo,ooo miles. To observation and the rotation of the earth which cannot measure the sun's distance from us in the same way I be neglected. have just explained the moon's is measured, would not be I.-METHOD OF DURATIONS, less difficult than for a man to measure how far a train in the moon moves in an hour, provided he could see the- The next method I shall explain is under favourable train and that on the moon trains travel about as slowly circumstances much easier of application than the first, as they do here. but the favourable circumstances are not so likely to The transit of Venus, however, enables us to calculate occur. It is known as the method of durations, and wiil, the sun's parallax with a probable error of very much less as well as the previous method, be adopted in our own than i". It is 2j centuries ago since the great astronomer, observatory. (Illustrated by a figure.) Suppose K and Kepler, proved, from a iong series of observations, that it Q to represent Kingston and Queen Adelaide Island, was very easy to determine the relative distances of the which have nearly the same longitude, but very different planets from the sun, and was enabled to enunciate the latitudes, and that the transit is simultaneously observed remarkable law that the squares of the periodic times of at these places. At K Venus will be seen to describe a the planets are in direct proportion to the cubes of their chord of the sun A B, and at Q a chord C D, and evi- mean distances from the sun, and the great Newton after- dently the distance between these two chords : distance wards proved that that law was a necessary consequence K Q :: distance of Venus trom the sun : distance of of his grand law of universal gravitation, 'tnat every Venus from the earth, i.e., : : 5 : 2 approximately (Kepler particle of matter in the universe attracts every other law III). Now, as K Q can be easily calculated from the with a force whose direction is that of the line joining known figure and dimensions of the earth, the absolute them, and whose magnitude is directly as their masses breadth in miles of the zone A E B C F D is determined. and inversely proportional to the square of their dis- If now we but know the position of these chords relatively tance." To take the case of Venus and the earth to the sun's centre, we shall evidently be able to deduce the diameter of ihe sun in miles. Knowing this, its dis- will easily understand from this, if s da you tance is immediately derived from its apparent size. Dp, we can determine the distance of the Now, as we know the rate at which Venus will cross the earth from Venus, or any of the other planets, we shall sun's disc (viz., 0".026 per sec.), if we but measure the be able to calculate that of the sun. The problem to be times of transit across the chords A E B C F D, we at solved is thus shifted from finding the parallax of the sun once get their angular lengths, and can then calculate to finding that of any planet whatever. Now, none of the their angular distance from the sun's centre. The differ- planets approach the earth so near as Venus does at in- ences of these distances gives us the breadth of the zone ferior conjunction, and if we then can find the parallax of in angular measure, and, as I have just shown you how Venus, the problem of the sun's distance is solved. The we determine its breadth in miles, the diameter of tf-e transit oi Venus, you will readily. understand from what sun i\n miles and then its distance is determined. Observe follows, affords peculiar facilities for measuring its paral- particularly here that the whole problem is practically lax. You might readily ask, how is it that at any inferior reduced to the observation of a considerable period of conjunction whatsoever it is not possible for us to meas- time (to-morrow it will be more than five hours), and as ure Venus' parallax ? The answer is very simple. At astronomers can measure time to about the tenth part of inferior conjunction Venus presents ber dark side to us, a second, you can easily imagine the exceedingly favour- and unless her black side is then projected on the face of able opportunity here presented, if circumstances permit. the sun she is invisible. The principal difficulties in this method are to catch At inferior conjunction of Venus the sun is 34 times precisely the exact moments of internal contact at further from the earth than Venus is. Hence any error ingress and egress, in determining the parallax of Venus will produce an A modification in this method, in which the rotation cf error of 31 times less in the determination of the parallax the earth about its axis is taken advantage of, is known as of the sun, but the great value of the transit of Venus for Halley's method, but in the present transit cannot be the determination of the sun's paraliax is that we can ob- applied. measure the parallax by time instead of by the direct III.-PHOToGRAPHIc METHOD, servation of an angle. There are four distinct methods of observing the transit of Venus for scientific purposes. The third m'ethod is known as the Photographic Method, and consists in taking photographs of the sun's I.-DELISLE'S METHOD. disc every few minutes during the transit, and thus map- (Illustrated by a figure.) ping on the photographic disc of the sun the very chords crossed by the planet. A special instrument known as Venus moves over 360 x 6o x 6o - "67 per sec. the photo-heliograph is used for this purpose. 224 7x 24 x 60p IV,-HELIOMETRIc METHOD, Earth 36ox6ox6o- = 0".041 per sec. x-e4 6o2 The fourth method is called the Heliometric Method, 365- 256 and consists in measuring directly by an instrument Therefore Venus moves relatively to the earth 0".026 per known as the Heliometer the angular distances between sec, Now, suppose that the total parallax for a diameter the edges of Venus and the sun, and thus deducing at dif- of the earth is 16" approximately, Venus will take to pass ferent times during the transit the angular distance be- 16" tween the centres of Venus and the sun. over this arc -6 sec=io min, nearly. Thus the prob- The calculations 0".026 required after the observations made of a considerable according to the latter two methods are similar to what I lem is reduced to the measurement have portion of time.. This method may be applied both at the already explained for the method of durations. and egress of the planet on the sun's disc, and as Before dismissing this subject of parallax, let me direct sngress your attention to some of the truths the internal contacts of these epochs can sometimes be which we can at determined practically an error of t sec. would entail an once deduce from a determination of the sun's distance, error 6oo times less in getting the sun's parallax. Prac- In the first place, from Kepler law III, we can, by simple observation tically, no such favourable circumstances as is implied in of the times of revolution of the planets 73 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. knôèvn to thé public their the planets and philantfrophy in making around the sun, determine the distances of valuable timne to the further- The distances intention of devoting their from the suni, and likçewise from the earth. of a Most worthy object, namnely, a mneasuring the apparent ance nf the furnishing to be Of the primaries being known by medi cal education for womnen, the course satellites we at once get the coplt departing from sizes nf the orbits of their completed in four summer sessions, and in of the satellites from tbeir primaries. female students witbin distances of the this course and introducing the knowing the distances of the members during the xwinter sessions, the Again, aparn sies the halls cf the college solar systema frein us by rneasuriflg thei that they wvere deprived of the feu Thus, so far as dis- male students claimed per- we can at once get their magnitudes. the lectures in ail the departmnents, with concerned, the whole grand benefit of w'hole the tances and magnitudes are one or two exceptions, and that on the our earth forms but a small memn- baps way of their solar system, of which presence of the ladies wvas an obstacle iu the ber, is known. inedical education. It will earth's orbit obtaining a full and complete But again, by knowing the size of the bere to go furtber into detail, as many of of a grand base line, be unflecessary have around the sun, we bave command w ill be at once apparent to those wbo with xvhicb to measureý the objections it may Viz., thediameterof the earth's orbit on the subject. To the public, and aIse, wbich twinkle at inconceivable thougbt appeared to be the parallax of tbe stars be added, to the Professors, everything beyond our systemn, if there be any. wbich had been slumbering so distances astronomner going on well, but the tire with the exception of a very few, the fanned into flame by the nnwarranted Now, with sncb a base long was suddenly stu- finds to bis utter astonishment that even fashion in whicb the female This means that and uncomiplimentary at least line the fixed stars have no parallax. one of the lectures and treated 8 compared to the dis- dents interrupted tbe male 1 6,ooo,ooo miles is simply nothing of the, professors with disrespect. AIl now this magnitude witb two the final year, tances of the stars. Compare students, witb tbe exception uf those of particle of musk wbicb affected the nostrils the 8tb inst., presented to the size of the have held a mneeting on Friday, wrîter in the COLLEOE JOURNAL, and wc settirig forth their objections to of a certain magnitudes the Faculty a memorial an illustration of the smnallest and greatest of affairs, and stating that they would by tbe pbysicist. the existing state maIe and which are attempted to be measured tbnthis session attend the Royal, if parallax detected yet in any no longer together after the The greatest beliocentric femnale st=dens were to take lectures i" Wîth sncb a base line and such should be any female stu- Of the stars is about star Christmas holidays, or if there is easily calculated that the nearest coming spring. The final a parallax it would dents in attendance after the away from tbings visible to us, and we to sign the memorial, as it Tight sneak 1 mean by that students were not requested flot detect its disappearance for 3ý years. in all probability they wouîd bid adieu fromî the nearest fixed was expected that that the light which we now receive to the college at the end of the session. it 3à years ago, even altbough that the students as an star was sent fromn The Faculty regarded this action of at the rate of 186,ooo miles this impression, light bas been travelling attempt to dictate to themn, and, under Per second. informed the students that the governmeot to you what you wiîî 5eto- very properly Faculty and not Let me now briefiy explain of the college lay in tbe bands of the T by figures.) florrow. (Illustrated gentlemen, I witb tbe students. concluding this lecture, ladies and to us, that each party made a mistake Before fact tbat in Kingstonl Now, it seems the ob- desire to draw your attention te the outset of this trouble. We think that some montbs have been at tbe very the studeuts there are two citizens Who for to co-education in medicine made by to assist in the observa- jections worthy the serins consideration of the spending their time and energies and I think we ougt wr strong and tion of the rare event of to-morrow, notntlhwvr h eoilcnan the transit of 1882, Fcly feel proud that in the history of in the main was couched in tO of one of ing tbçse obiections, wbich figure as assisting ini the solution respectful, concluded with a declara- Ringston will mani, lejguage the most s0 strongly problems whicb cao be solved by tbe students' intentions which was the grandest tion of threat. It that the professors regarded it as a worded more becoming had would bave been much better and far requQsted the the students after stating their objections, -'-ROYAL -ý OLLEE.<- arrangement whereby the grounds AFaculty to Make some alI due >IE»IAL for their objections would be removed. With A EAILýUIRIE. say that rauch of '.REDECAFýcoEVDUCÂTK[ON respect to the medical professors. we question whicb bas been the topic avoided had tbey flot been HIS all absorbing tbe tbe trouble would have been to and serions discuso ang and concluded that tbey were being dictated conversation past week or ten days ton hasty, intention migbt StudentsTOf of the Royal during ths by tbe students. That this was not the aIl thoughts of the JOURNAL,, and tone of the has well nigh excluded bave been inferred. from the Most respectful finds us without our mtidicumi Thus, owing to these mis- the morning of publication bint greater part of the miemorial. we believe we did receive a betweefl professors and students, Of "copy. "Moreover, better takes a breach was made editor that perhaps it would be had always previously existed the front Our managîng question, between whom there diffi- any reference to this co-education and the task of settling the flot to make amicably settled, mnst cordial relations, now tbat tbe matter bas been SO more but from co-educatiof was thus renderedwould ot the ed at, we ave on culties arising The professorS very properly hiatio iuhneeletil brrinent facts in the case be- compîîcated. foetto inrreaders. bifl h by the manner in wbich their memo- one in the dents felt aggrieved and tbey (the students) at once kThe week just ended bas been a momnentous King- rial bad been answered, the Coîlege of Physicians and Surgeons, other medical colleges in the *Oistory of s0 far at least communicated witb on wbicb some fifty or more A great question bas been decided, asking for ternis 'atoll, a,"cocered.Dominion, hiscollge , such be accepted, and in reply received aware co-education students would approach the As MOst of our readers are no doubt information as enabled tbem to again on trial in the Rnya College snce of thse sexes bas been this Facuîty, this time with an alternative.. of last session. Since the adoptionof serins proportions, the beginning The matter now assumiflg very there bas been a the fact that the Royal Col- Course, from its very commencement, stu- and appearances pointing to in- anng not a few of the of being at least very materialîy 'flurnsur of discontentment froifi their lege was in danger and stti- Who felt that the Faculty had departed ot compîetely destroyed, the Faculty d'its, displayed their liberalt ju , if Original prospectus, wherein tbey QUEEN-S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
dents held meetings at the college building, but in sepa- serted itself, and the following resolution was carried at ràte rooms, and communications passed between them, one a.m. without a dissenting voice, although two or three but instead of coming to a settlement, the affair was only students declined to vote at ail, though they felt the pro- aggravated, the students being determined to secure what posal to be a good one: "Resolved-That having heard they had asked for, and which, as was afterwards proven, the gentlemen who have acted as mediators between the was more than could be legally granted. But as both Faculty and ourselves, and the assurance that in future parties were desirous for the continuance and prosperity the Faculty agree to give an education to the male and of the Royal College, we felt confident that an amicable female studants separate and distinct in every particular, settlement would yet be obtained, if some of our influen- and that it is not their intention to admit females in the tial citizens would step in and endeavor, by kindly future, we accept the same as a satisfactory settlement of mediation, to bridge over the gap, and, we are glad to say existing difficulties." that this "consummation devoutly to be wished" was A vote of thanks was then tendered to the deputation, finally attained through the energetic and painstaking and they were given three hearty cheers and "For they efforts of four Kingston's prominent men, namely, Mayor are jolly good fellows." The students then escorted the Gaskin, and ex-Mayors Gildersleeve, Mclntyre and Pense. gentlemen to their respective homes and received from To these gentlemen the City of Kingston owes a debt of each their thanks and congratulations. gratitude which we are sure is deeply felt, if not already This is what one of the deputation has said of the expressed, for the retention in our midst of an institution "boys:' "From a serious lot of anxious debators, now like the Royal College, of whose standing and influence that the trouble was over, they became a jolly lot of stu- the citizens have such good right to be proud-and dents, relieved of a serious trouble, and with the love of the Faculty as well as the students have cordially their Alma Mater fully restored. In spite of appearances thanked the mediators for their services and are pleased in their late determined rebellion they regard their Pro- with the results, for it was frankly acknowledged that but fessors warmly, and this was demonstrated by their for their mediation a rupture would have taken place visits to the residences after the settlement to give them which would have proved disastrous to ail concerned. farewell cheers ere they left to-day for their homes. These gentlemen made it their special business on The students, in spite of the prolonged absence from Thursday afternoon last to interview the members of the their classes and excitement of the week, appeared last Faculty as well as some of the prominent students, and night uniformly steady and decorous, and are a body of then having arrived at the facts in the case, they attended, young men whom it is worth while undergoing even a by request, a Facultv meeting on the same evening at Dr. more prolonged and delicate mission to once more bring Lavell's office, being cordially received. After a discus- into the best of harmony with a local institution." sion of an hour or two, what appeared to be a solution of The following letter closed the official correspondence: the difficulty, was arrived at, namely, the proposition for To the Secretary to Stvdents of the Royal College: sex, and the visi- a double course of lectures, one for each DEAR SIR--I am in receipt of your letter of this morn- tors emerged and wended their way to the College "den," ing, enclosing a resolution passed at a meeting of the stu- where the students were anxiously awaiting their arrival, dents last evening and desire to say that the Faculty with a promise of the Faculty not only to do the double of the gentlemen who have inter- the accept the suggestions work involved in this double course, but to abandon ested themselves in their present College difficulties. The admission of female students as well, especially so long as in future to the female students upon the Faculty agrees to give the Colleges of Canada were not in full harmony now attending College a medical education separate and subject. The proposition, virtually, to all intents and distinct in every particular from the male students, and- and dis- purposes, involved the formation of a separate as the Faculty believe that under existing circumstances, tinct medical college for women. Furthermore the Faculty co-education in medicine is a failure, there is no inten- if guaranteed additional clinical lectures to the students, tion of admitting female students in the future.-I am, they will attend. faithfully, deputation received yours Upon their arrival at "The Den" the FIFE FOWLER, Registrar. an enthusiactic reception from the assembled students, who December 15th. felt that in these gentlemen they recognized evidently of the 'friehds indeed." After submitting the mediatorial pro- Thus harmony has been restored, the dignity position each member of the deputation addressed the Professors maintained, and the object of the students at- students, and in forcible and eloquent language the advan- tained. The new arrangement virtually creates a new tages of the proposition were pointed out as allowing both medical school in Kingston, so that the good old city Faculty and students to retire from their former position takes the lead of ail others in the Dominion, having one gracefully, by practically granting ahl that the students medical school for women and another for men only. It had a legal right to ask and preserving the honor of the will be seen that by this new departure the Faculty of the College towards the ladies. The students would be Royal College alone are sufferers since, in order to make guaranteed complete lectures, and whether real ground ex- matters agreeable all around they have taken upon them- isted for the alleged suppressions was therefore aside from selves a double set of lectures. This involves not only a the question; and they could point to the students of other heavy strain upon their mental and physical endurance, colleges who were looking to them to fight the battle but makes a serious inroad upon their time, which, to against co-education. They had succeeded in demon- medical men, is valuable. strating that a separate ladies' college was the only prac- That the Professors are willing to undertake double ticable scheme. They had made sure the fulness of their work is an evidence of their deep interest in the College own education and could not reasonably go further and and, also, that they are willing to meet ail reasonable re- say that the ladies should be forced out altogether, and be quests of their students. deprived of theirs, since they would no longer interfere Long life to the Royal ! and may she ever in the future, with their course in any way. as in the past, send forth sons who shall distinguish The deputation being requested to remain, and cheer- themselves in the paths of science, and thus reflect credit fully giving their assent thereto, an animated debate was upon their Alma Mater. commenced, in which nearly every student present took part, questions being very freely put to the visiting gentle- WHEN should a very æesthetic young man propose to man, and as freely answered. Fnally, good judgment as- his lady-love? He should Oscar Wilde day light is fading QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. aireamh antis 'n ou -tigli so a thuigea an so fein cha * g~RE~pNDENE.~Cha lionrnhor ~ddhe 'in aireamh bheag a Ghaelic; agus culthuigoas iad i ; cha fhiosraich mi co dnes not labhair iad il ged a wish it to be distinctly understood that the JouitiAL i oda ni 's coireachd dhoibh. *.We te thé sentimcnti which ina be expressed no ci COMMit itself iii any way dhui se phrois homh a bhi iabhairt mn thimchioll cliu this departinent. uair air dl Iomnadh -1h duine rnim ag radh nach eil feum na Gaelic, iabhairai OUiEt NuE l CIHANCELlt.10& elic antis 'n latha so; ach tha dhroarn s' 'm bith air a Ghai To the Editor of the Yournul: aineolach air fuighantas na canan so a iabhairaiS mar s0 HE question is being asked with increasing frequency, a caint air hith eule air arn bheil smon to a tha na sheine n . Who is to be our next Chancellor ?" I venture on. Chuala sitit fo chionti ghoirid T be a eolach, ach a h- a SUggest tenainm oe who wili in evory respect îidh air damn Ossian, agus fhogulumn occupant seanachas mineacha worthy successor of the present distitiguishOd ifhiach iad 'n rannsiachadh agus 'n sinn gu deimhinti gr Of the highest officer connected with the University. 15 ionnsachadh. The naine of James McLennafl, B.A., Q.C., Toronto, bheii barrachid eolas air a Ghaelic, His qualifications Andieagat agus a familiar to every Alumnus of Queen's. dna tha fios air cho feumnail As san aige mnar an cer for the position are too patent to need enumeratioti. achadh aý chainteair. Tha sion a and tha i anti a ratis a student hie was distinguished for marked ability Ghaelic a duigh air a ionnsachadh in bis faichean go bheil a Stuccess; as a lawyer hoe occupied a foremost place h-oil-tighOati air an taobh eule de'n pro- anti a moran dhe na profession ;as a friend of the Universiiy, bis time, n tir sa fein tha sinri a faichean gu generousily chaun; agus amis' dhe'n fessional services and means have always been nus mno gh-irratas aig moran are bheii ni's mo agos Piaced at the disposai of bis Alima Mater. Tifese îail suas agus ionnsachadh nac caint so. they can.- shinagh air son cuti Nish a dlaimns that cao hardiy be eqnalled. Certainly ~ioghail tha 'n t- Oula Mac be mon- Anns a Bheinn-F shuidhe. flot be snrpassed by any other whose namne can antis an oil-tigh gach h-ue teagaisg na Gaelic 'n tioned in~ connection with the office. as 'n jint ghearr gu bhi againo ann for Agus tha mi dhoch na Gaeiic; If Mr. McLennan consents to bocome a candidate rn-Righ cathicir foghluma and h-Oil-tigh na Ban: the Chanceilorship, 1 bespeak for hirn a generons so bi tii agam ri radh aig arn eule. ach mu dheibhinr luachmhor herysupport. Fihul or air son mum amns a phaipeir Moran taing dhuit Siati heaty aitffhiyyoUs, M. leat. A N s0 air son mo litir.
0[ T0 the Editor of the journal to the letter front a"Mme 13IALECTIC CLUB. EAR SIR-In answer ID which appeared in your last issue, issue, a number -Jof the Council,'" Sw rifya .nounced in a former a time and give miy reasons," a contemplation for 1 WOuid like '1to suggost a sug- Sof stuentsa have had in to do. It can hardly be calied No hie asks someone so tirne tfo miction of a Philosophical Society. for the person whomn 1 have mooth gestion on rny part, howevOr, tfore taken, howevei', until about a as a fitting can- doeie, 0 was frequentiy rnentiofled meeting was held. This meeting 0OWinl view, agoit hen as preTîinary I have reference getiflel-priti- didteat hetimnedidat of the lastate electiot.theeir orne fifteen or twetity Mac- was attended by s to nl ess a personage than the Right Hon. Sir John îf Dr. Watsoti's classes-who, after a a mati, ialmebro donald, an aid Kingstonian, a graduate of Queen's, esoived, "that it was expedient to form position of shrc isc mebrsion in fact, in every way qualifled for the high discussion of phiiosophical questions." for the very Chancellor of this University. Agaiti, from a purely sel- a socîety made a starting point, and in a This motion was fish Point of view, what could be a better advertisemnent on cotistitutioni was drawn up, a series toth short ieaslt follows: for the Institution than the electioti of Sir John ~ed for, and officers elected, as nothing gained by di- of meetings arratil F.R.S.C. Chancellorship. But there cao be rs dent-Prof, Wactsoni, LL.D., disagree with mie. Which Hnrr CUIS5i, as I feel sure no one will .Holton Britton, '83. the rsdný iflember of the Council will be the first ta miove in -A. Givan, '83. ViPresidentE miatter ? urer-G. Y. Chown, '84. politC Secrty-ea as -short and simple as 1 Mnay just add, Mr. Editor, that ini MY Opinion on" was made tti for Ohtntt econsidered at ail. For mny own part amnS The ided, however, arnong other things, possible. It provl -goig,no-a hougbgotd. GiT. uhar meetings throughout the session, at holding of reg questions a tougthouggoig not biOte Giît. the mobe read and discussed, and t by OltgiC ~a ih" which essays are tures, to be delivered at intervals Gufear riegladh ýýCuetslha the forma- answered; for iec sother universities ;and for ntsltalOl!g&n nr1tg the use of A MAIGHSTIR : as tro eminent men frorr of philosophical works for nach bi ni 's arn bîth ri choir HA mni 'n dhochas air son a tion of a library air son focal no dha a sgriobhaidh T leith members. 's a canan 's toigh leumn PhaiPeir-naigheachd so, ann '76 QUEEN'S COLIEGE JOURNAL.
At the first regular meeting Mr. S. W. Dyre, '83, read have been unaccustomed to the black grime of the coal mine, to the engine-room and the threshing miii. These and a paper on Spencer's " Deduction of Force--an exceed- ninety-nine more of the most unpleasant duties of life have ingly able essay, which was thoroughly appreciated. At been almost entirely performed by the members of the the second meeting, which was opened to tbe public, Pro- more robust sex. and a counter- fessor Clarke Murray, LL. D., of McGill University, As a recompense on the part of men, concession on the part of women, the former have been Montreal, lectured on "Berkeley." On this occasion accorded the honour of exclusive right to some of the nearly ail the Arts Professors and quite a number of citi- most advanced positions in life. Parliamentary halls zens and students were present. Tbe lecture was able, have not re-echoed the shrill voice of women ;the cloaks slender eloquent and interesting, and was enjoyed to the fullest of lawyers and judges have not enveloped their forms; pulpits have flot been pounded by the frail fists of extent. At its conclusion Mr. Britton moved, and Mr. females; surgical instruments have not been grasped by McLeod seconded a vote of thanks, which, after a speech the compassionate hands of ladies. Other important by Principal Grant, was carried enthusiastically. Dr. offices could be mentioned which have generally been filled by men. Watson occupied the chair. 0f late this mutually concessive method of carrying on The Diaiectic Club, since its inauguration, bas enjoyed the business of life in civilized countries has been some- almost unexampled success, and is, in fact, already recog- what disturbed by the ambition of the weaker sex, whose nized as one of the ieading societies in the University. members may now be seen treadifig the halls of colleges. sitting in academic shades, and aspiring to those posi- We predict for it continued and increased prosperity. tions which have hitherto been accordeà to men. While they show no desire to oust the members of the ruder sex MA'rHEMAIIcAL SOCIETY. from the humbier and more toilsome pursuits, they at- tempt to drive him from those places of distinction for of the T HIS society has been formed by the students which bie bas been thought better fitted on account of bis Mathematical and Physicai Classes, for the discussion supposed mental superiority. Thus equilibrium is seriousiy of problems bearing on their class work. The officers disturbed, and we have some fears for the resuit. If man the state of are:- is superior, .both physically and mentally, matters as existing in the past is the proper one; if hie is Hon. President-N. F. Dupuis, M. A. superior in body alone, that superiority is to bis disadvan- President-Rod. Mackay, B. A. tage; if hie is superior in neither respect, he is greatly im- Vice-President-J. M. Dupuis, M. D. posed upon by the gentier sex. Sec. and Treas.-A. E. McColl, '85. Committee-Messrs. Chamberlin and Robertson. +- POETRY.+ The meetings are held every alternate Friday evening AN ANS WEL. in the mathemnatical class room, which Professor Dupuis "(jAN it be good to die ?" you question, friend; has kindly loaned for the purpose. Friday evening. Dec. -Cari it be good to die, and move along ist, was appointed for holding the first meeting, but on Stili circling round and round, unknowing end, account of the Aima Mater elections, it was not heid until Stili circling round and round amid the throng orbs, attended by their moons- evening, when, after discussion of general busi- Ot golden Saturday To catch the intonation of their song ness, Dr. J. M. Dupuis read an interesting paper on the As on they flash, and scatter nights, and noons, construction and use of the Sun-dial. He flrst gave a To worlds like ours, where things like us belong?' short sketch of the varions means used at different times To me 'tis idie saying, IlHe is dead.' to obtain a proper division of time, and then treated of Or, IlNow hie sleepeth and shall wake no more; the construction of the Sun-diai, flrst trigonometricaliy The little flickering, fluttering life is fled, and then geometrically, Forever fled. and ail that was is oer'- Inboth of these processes, the construction of the dial I have a faith-that life and death are one, was treated of universally, showing the means of con- That each depends upon the seif-same thread, structing a dial for any latitude. After treating of the And that the seen and unseen rivers run position of the dial with iespect to the axis of the earth To one caim sea, from one clear fountain-head. and the angle of gnomon, hie concluded by treating of the as shown by the dial, and the use of I have a faith-that man's immortal mind inequality of time May cross the willow-shaded stream nor sink; Table of Equation of time. the I have a faith--when he has left behind His earthly vesture on the river's brink,- When ail his littie fears are tomn away IN civilized countries it has long been the established His soul may beat a pathway through the tide, ruie that men should make large and important con- And disencumbered of its coward-clay cesions to the opposite sex in deferrence to the inferiority Emerge immortai on the sunnier side. of the latter in physicai strength. Ail the more burden- So sayg:-It must be good to die, my friend, some kinds of labour have been done by the maie pula- It must be good and more than good, I deem, tion. The weak hands of women have heen spýarecithe 'Tis ail the replication I may send- xertion necessary tD steady the heavy plough, guide the For deeper and axe. swimming seek a deeper stream. unruly horses, and wield the course shovel, pick It Their tender feet have been saved from. following the must be good or reason is a cheat, It must be good or racking harrows, wading in the muddy ditch, and tread- life is ahl a lie, ing on the cruel battlefield. Their fragile bodies have It must be good and more than living sweet, It must been relieved from bearing the heavy sack, the dirty hod, be good-or man would neyer die. and toilsome burdens generally. Their delicate faces GEo. F. CAMERON, '86. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
g lnes were found in one of the corridors, TEE followinl do not like to to the JOURNAL. Though we addressed such puns, we publish +' DE .ýNOBIS -ýtOBIbIEUS..-* encourage the perpetrator of themi as a curio Sity: its useful- A ONE-NIGHT'S TRAGEDY. F the "ýCoucursus IniquitatiS" b as flot lost bave been spotted at the Iness good 'subs" migbt The loniel y pair sat on the steps, animal meeting of the A. M. And ta lked and langhed aloud. "Why is the moon, love, like my arm?" how is it 1Becaiuse its 'neath my cloud." THE Professor of Chemistry-" Mr. C-, ?", Mr. C- that your brother is flot attending the c]ass You've guessed it right,"' he softly said; is bie sick ?" He is taking Pbysics, sir." Prof.-Wbat, ,,Now, wby no moons but one?" "On thai I tbink, l'il have to get the son." of Venus the other day, My lig lit, sir, from A STUDENT wbo saw the transit as baing like a snmali piece of black court describes Venus a mnere pretty girl's face. Like it, it was but She was a blusbing maid, plaster on a of the sun, over black speck, w'bich entranced the glory Wbo made bis weakaning pulses tbrob, whose surface it passed. As ber band in bis sb¶ laid. And then, of course, it was delayed Fresb- grasp, Xmas draweth nigb, and tha bashful Witbin bis brawny ANn now morning ' before waste the hours doth go down street early in the And thus the two did 'fan bave left their within bis clasp. the wily Junior or the reverend Senior Her waist wberittonvt bes ierng in bis hand the rhino, tbe nigbt grew on apace lady-love. And as 'i a card to send unto bis faithfnl -And time came for departing, Says bie, ,"Mydear, though no upstart, I straight must be upstarting." is "fractus bello" as hae ex- ME. J. J. DOUGLASS, '85, He beating beart, bas gone to Peterboro on furlough. He prest bier to bis presses it, and hie will lips is; after Christmas, wben we hope A kiss upon bier expects to be back better service than then, or two, take bis place in the ranks able to do And for a minute ever. His life is one [-] Wban suddenly bie flew in air, a goat bad struck bîm; battie to the deatb 1 As tbough fresbmen wera determined to boot bad lifted him, -THE one of the numnber wvas beard! Her papa's 'with the "concursus.' we are the' And in a snow bank stuck him. their war song, which begins, ' Oh! linging suppose it is because back. Wbaat: that can't be threshed." We He lay tbere on bis youtbful tbey are too green. His life's blood fled its founitains, His knees ware pointiflg beavenward, mountains. a Like peaks of the Pair-o'-knees REVEREND SENIORS" are to have "'YE GRAVE AND Burflett House. friend went by, banquet on the 2211d inst. at the Next mnorn a Frasbmafl grand time. And found th~is pale sopb dead; Tbey will undoubtedly have a jovial near Tbey took bimi to a cburcbyard And dug bis lowly bed. sessioni, Iniquitatis" bas beld another wooden slab these words, TEIE "Concursus is sean goiflg about Upon a anis cosqune anotber fresbmafl He carved while hae was cryan: dutias ail loving youtbs, for here bi ccustomed "Beware '86. lowly mien, our love sick sopb is Lyen. 'With bowed baad and self." A subduad pbantomn of bis former is told Of two juniors wbo ware RATHER a good story two way to their boarding bouse, about one of the ablest studerits wending their feeling sligbtly RFv. JAMES AWDE, B.A., a numnber of yaars, in the morniflg, flot long since, botb Pilosophyhf that bas graduated iii o'clock On tbe way one of tbam tha Dialectic -but no, judge for yourself. to read a paper before been wich e bas consented data. Tbe subject: bas not yet against an obstruction, Club at an early hapaed to stumlel fellow-baiflg, for hae at once let out known.- vdelY toýok for 'a was Made and fioored said obstruction, wbich from the shouldar standing a man but an ampty trae box, by tba way not, Haaring the science class says hae axpari- trea it was destifled to ancircle. ASTUDFENT of the natural and against the up and trium- difficulty in bis study Of Insectivora, causad by the faîl, hie straigbtanad ences great tbud I'za-bic-floored 'im, expressed in these lines phantly hiccoiighad to bis friand, " Suite a.greas witb the sentiment 'ima up, Jim." Jim at once by (O. W. Holmes :_ Jim, sure. You-bic-belp finally camne on to the road. and groping around, upofi My parlor rug, stumbled box, but finding it stiff Sitn itb my microscope with the prostrata trea Was a very livaly bug; in contact and stammered out, ith a very baavy quarto and witb onl wanea, unyialding, bacama alarmed, T~he true bug bad bean organized and Tom, deadsh door-ic-nil. the bumbug in tbe copper plate wudhv hr ýYouve-ic-killed bim, But it, ah?" Tom was unequal Wbat'll ye ào-..ic-about a proposition. twice as many."1 occasion, but Jim quîckly made for the you-bic-go and "Tell ye's wbat wa do_.h~ic-Tom; and some good an' li stay bere wisb zur-bic- Club is now fully organized, fetcb--bic-boys, STHI Glee year. nfging mnay be expectad from tbem this QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. corpshe." The other assented and stumbled off, but soon MR. ANDREWS, transiating Virgil-" 'Tbree tîmes 1 forgot his mission, and on reacbing home was put to bed strove to cast My arms about ber neck, and-' that's as by his fellow boarders. Jim was found in the morning far as I got,' Prof.'"" ,Well Mr. Andrews, 1 tbink that with bis arms still clasped around the victim of bis was quite far enougb. "-Ex. friend's muscular prowess, lying in the gutter taking "'care of zur corpshe.- A yuutb was bidding a maiden adieu, And ever anon. as be shook ber baud, step, S. H. SNIDER, M. D., 81, of Carman, Man., has taken He'd turn again, witb iingering unto bimself a sulent partner from Hamilton. Weil doue, And some oft-answer query again wouid demand, Sam. This bored the maiden, su at last she said, "'Don't you thiuk this is toc, mucb adieu about notbing?-Princetonial.
CLASSIcAL professor (to student transiating Cicero)- a few lines of the text." (Text hegins the vegetable and animal "Now, Mr. S., read C ONNECTING link between Tu, tu, Antonil,' &c.) kingdom.-Hash.-Ex. Student (starting out boldly)-' 'Chew, cbew, Antonii, &c." (Uproarious applause.) HAZING bas reacbed a state in Lafayette College as yet Prof.- Now, Mr. S., please try and give that a little unparaileled in college bistory. There the Sopbomore more classical pronunciation." with a malignity of purpose utterly unworthy of scbolars Student (making another galiant effort)- Too, too, and gentlemen, got the Fresbmen in a public bail and set Antonji," &c. (Lady students strike an attitude.) them down to an elegant banquet, and as each Fresbman entered a state of coma, or succumbed to indigestion, a howl of fiendisb deiight rent tbe air. This species of THE ciass Of '82, Yale, gave $îo,ooo to the athletic refined cruelty bas actually heen applauded by the coliege sports.-Ex. 'Evings! Tbink of it '83, and make up press. It is said that the Freshman class in Lafayette is your mind to do sometbing for your country next year. this year more than usuaiiy large and robust. AMHERST is soon to bave a new gymnasium. One per- 62 ,0O.-Merciury. Come away, Englisb, you may son bas "contrihuted 5 DR, A., with merry twinkle: -Mr. littie cbildren! report for the first baif of the Fresbman class, embracing the ladies." Smilesof satisfaction. "Mr. Blackwell, you may report for the second haîf-likewise emhracing the THE Prof. of Philosopby strikes the nail on the head ladies." Blackweli faints. Moral Doctor A sbouid not wben he mentions to the youth, wbu give the universal manifest sucb inconsistency witb these young gentie. negative. 'not prepared,' that tbey bave not been agoaiz- men.-Ex. ing enough. Aud it is clear tu ahl that nu une wili be able tu depict the agony on their countenance in the they don't. SHE was a very pretty young person, and he was trying spring, if to talk bis hest. " I'm a sophomore," he said at une of ber questions. "1Why, how can that be ? You TEE Oberliin Review thus puts it delicately in its per- But she saw bis discomfiture. "Oh, 1 see." she said, sonal column: '76-Miss -paid a visit to frîends in witb the softest look of mystification, -Yuu have two Oherlin seime time ago. She is still connected w'itb the sophomore years at your college. "- Yele Record. institution for imbeciies at Columbus," ',Wbat quantities of HFl was a facetious sophomore. court, bere, Miss Smith. Nice room TEE facuity at Williams bave a private tennis dried grasses you do keep Guess to get into." '-Make yourself at home," she and play entbusiastically.-Mercury. Humph! for adonkey us. said witb great gravity. tbey copied from
IN THE kingdom of Siam, ail coliege students are Nu LES$ than 758 students matricuiated at Oxford in B. A., allowed but two wives. Thiis is shameful. Tbey are put- i88o, and 8o5 graduated-4o3 witb the degree of ting more ruies on every year. After awhile they wili and 322 witb M. A. In 1881 there w'ere 3,160 matricu- probably be limited to une. The Freshman sbould cer- iated students at Edinburgh, of whicb in Arts there were tainly kick.-Ex. 1,037; 433 gradiiated in Arts and 305 in Medicine and Surgery. WHO was the first stocking mender? Xantippe, who used to damn old Soc-Ex. COLUMBIAs aggregate endowment is now 65,300,000, of whicb 0500,000 was received from the late Stephen "AND oh, by-tbe-by, my son tells me you don't make Pboenix. Tbe income is 628i,ooo, and the number of hie shirt colars stiff enougb. He's in the Guards, you students 208. know, and they go in for being very particular !"' IWell, ma'am, ail I can say is, I've gut a son in the Guards my- self, and 1 allers wâshes for 'im wben hie cornes 'omne, and DALHOUSIE has again been made the recipient of favors he don't make no complaints 1" from ber distinguished benefactor, George Munro, Esq, of New York. Thbis time it is the endowment of a chair in Metaphysics and English Literature. The new, pro- "Her lips were like the leaves," be said, distinguished honors both crimson tinted," fessor, Dr. Schurman, bas won "IBy autumn's the other side of the Atlantic. lie autumn leaves preserve in this country and on "Some people College. By pressing them," she hinted.-Ex. bas iatterly been a professor at Acadia QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL% ~DA, JANUARY 10, 1883. NO. 7. VOL. KINGSTON, CANA second isdiscouraging. rn ur TRUILY it advised £number this session, we strongly ta jaîn every member of the freshmnan year during the Session by the where is the Published IN TWELVE NUMBERS the Rifle Companly. And now, of Queefl's University. it cannot have ALMA MATER SOCIETY Rifle Companly? Surqiy prospects STAFF: fallen throughi for good. If the Editor, be resuscitated, it is a A. McLACHLAN, - Managiflg are thiat it will not of (Queen's, EDITING COMMITTE burning sharne ta the students B.A. èxercise can no where b'iieity-JAMES SOMERVILLE, as a more beneficial G. ANGLIN. Medicine-T A. MooRE, W. than that obtained from rifle DENNISTOUN. be procured MÇKAY, B.A. R. M. for A4yts-RODERICK have amang us now material F. W. JOHESTON. drill. We J. S. SKINNER. bat- J. J. WRIGHT. as good as any in the city A. G. FARREL. a campany three or four quallified militia GEO. F. HENDERSON, Secretary-Teasiirer. talion, besides Single Numnbers, 10 cents. hope and trust that TERMS:-Per Session, $I.oo; officers. W'e sincerely be addressed to A. Mc- be allowed ta die out, Matter for publication should this mattex will not letters to GRo. F. HEN DERSON, P. O, announce in the LACHLAN ; Business and that wc will he able ta Draxver 1146, Kingston, Ont. the drill is next issue of the JOURNAL that with the name of the The Editor must be -acquainted or literary. again in full blast. author of any article, wvhether local announce yet another now over, WA E have ta hoiidays are staff. A year having T HE Christmas Iooking happy and VV change in aur and ail are returning S. we have thoroughly since the appoifltmeflt of Mr. J. el.For ourselves, eiapsed that holidays, and we sincerely hope Skinner ta the Secretary-Treasurership' efljayed the office, and Mr. Geo. readers can say the sarne. Ta gentleman resigned bis thlat ail our was appointed we would say, settie dowfl ta F. Henderson, froçi the staff, ail the students fill the hurt yourselves what- in bis stead. Mr. Skinner will S3teady work, but don't Mr. H. M. vacancy thus made in the staff. ever YOU do. the Law Mowat, B3. A., representative of no suc- addition ta aur already Faculty, has alsa resigned, though STILL another and this long list of Coilege Societies, cessar has as yet been appainted. tirne it is an important one. The Apollonian In this connection we might say that, has for ta anything Schoal, founded by the thealagues, though we are decidedly averse the oratorical as a favor if its Purpase the cultivatian of like dunniflg, we would take it of Divinity Hall, not yet sent abilities of the inhabitants sucli af aur subscribers as have appearS We at an early anid before the JOURNAL again in their subseription, would do'so venture will a great deal eXpect that the effeet of the new date, and thas save ns, at least, then give aur be apparent ta ail. We will afi ncnenince readerS an insight into how the cuitivation aforesaid iS rnanaged. 80 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
mate object of a student's course. Morning, W E respondencehave before uswhich a copy has of taken soine placecor- noon and night they are at it, till what was between our Senate and the Education De- gained yesterday is almost irrevocably hid- partment, anent certain regulations lately den by the acquisitions of to-day. In the adopted by the Department, by which Uni- arrangement of their knowledge chaos reigns versity graduates are excluded from occupy- supreme. Many facts and ideas have been ing the position of Assistant Master in High acquired, but they can seldom be found when Schools until they have taken a Normal needed, or applied when suitable. Another School course. We regret that we have to class of students seems to have adopted as a hold this correspondence over until our next standing rule, "one hour only shalt thou number, as this is a matter which seriously study during each day ; the rest thou shalt affects a large number of students, and as spend with the 'boys' in rolling the 'bully some of our leading dailies have published football,' in rousing the echoes in college articles which have mistakenly represented halls, and in lifting up the voice in the socie- our Senate as advocating the very thing they ties of your college." The right course are opposing. We are happy to state, how- seems to be between these classes. The ever, that on account of the prompt action failing in Queen's leans decidedly towards of the Senate of Queen's on-the matter there the first, and though it may seem paradoxi- is a good prospect of the obnoxious regula- cal, we must confess that there is too much tions being rescinded. studying done in our college. Professors may laugh at the idea. They tell us that credence in the T HE report having gained they have been through the course and know all regis- early part of the session, that what is best for students. With all defer- tered students would be eligible to vote at ence to superior age and ability we think a the election of the next Chancellor, not another opinion might be had from observa- little disappointment will be felt by many tion in the world around us. We sometimes and now, on learning that that privilege find men of great erudition exercising but so we can- right is still withheld. Why it is little influence. They have the tools but and we not surmise, but the fact remains, cannot use them, while others ofless learning an unquestionable can only hope that what is are able to do more, because they can bring Ail the under- right will soon be granted. their knowledge to bear on practical ques- as much interested graduates are certainly tions. It is true we must have men deeply of their Alma in the welfare and prospetity educated ; but a mistake is made if this is Alumni, and it seems Mater as are any of the held to be the sole object of a university should be respec- but fair that their opinions education. The work of training men for appointment. ted in such an important public positions belongs properly to universi- to the powers The students in submitting ties. The public largely endows these insti- judgment which that be, trust that the good tutions, and. therefore, should have some- the past may be has marked their choice in thing in return. The London Spectator, a in the coming elec- still further exemplified very able journal, thinks that the debating tion. and other societies of our colleges form the is best and most natural means of fitting men ig a model student ? This W HATa question that thousands of young for public life. It is a grand work for any men are daily endeavouring to answer. To college to be engaged in, therefore let us one class "cramming" seenis the only legiti- have more time for this study. This change QUEEN'S COILLEGE JOURNAL
weakness even more than the dlaims of strength, knowing ; l young strength, does not mean less work for the student that nid strength can see tu itself, w hile without is preparing hiînseif no iess than ynung xveakness, rnay be poxxeriess because the mnan wvho sclbuols its 'Great-heart.' It 'honnurs ail men,' and its life, or for jourflalistic or other raise the for political and hospitals and charities are designcd tu hope that our and work, has no easy task. We lowest of thcm tu the truc ievcl of their manhood, suciety will soon recognize this important give to ail the 'open eareer. Like a wise parent, Senate vears; will identify itsel 1 wvill keep a tight hold un its children in their tender factor of college work, and c gradually re!ax its hoid as they grow inatux means taken for its acconi- and it wiil more with the and strong cnough to take care of themseives." vigur- plishrnent. The foilowing extract xviii give some idea nf the H's nus way in which the xvriter handies his theme. nervous and forcible, and compeis tl-e A SUGGEST[VE SIEIIES OF ]ESSAYS. style is alxvays in the reader, but perhaps it carnies tn an extreme indicates tbe direction attentiornnf book whicb clearly which ynungOxniafls have caugi.t ANY of the present day i the methnd nf allusinn which the streamn of thought Balil.N A the careful attention frnm the Master nf flOwing, or is likely to flow, deserves 'struggle fnr exis- when the book 1It is weil tn nnte that the phrase Especiaily is this the case nt Of students. is by nn means free frnm ambiguity. We must the cuitured youth of a country, for the tence' proceeds from prestige tn wvin it nv uncritical .men of une generation aire aliow its great biolngical tbougbts of the thinking yuung There is, next. For indulgence in a reginn that is abnvc binlngy. uniikeiy to be the prevaient views uf the not sense in which the 'struggie fut existence' of tbe JnORNAt ý will nu dnubt be undnubtedly, a these reasuns readers aIl prugress. There is 'an- of essays, written by is the essentiai conditin of itterested in a fnrthcuming volume is entirely false. which will show nther sense in whicb the samne statement a littie group of young Englishmnen, is ru0 if 'existence' mneans 'bare life,' Starvation that the'sway of the depressing sehoni It is faise amuong uther things struggle fut a bare existence, the namnes as Spencer, Bain stimulus. The mere of tbought represented by such neyer leads tn the land of uts effort tu save unescîf frnm starvation, and Lexxes is flot quite su universai in either in a snciety ut in an individual... are apt to suppose. There are tu be nine prugres birth as peuple prngress, there is sumnething mure a special tasi< bas been Wherevet there is Writers in ail, by each of whom or even deiiberate efforts reflecting individuai spiritual at wnri< than frantie undertaken, and their essays wbile or at least bond of after self preservatin; and that is ideals, of tbought wili have this commun him divergencies we tbrow a man intu deep water and leave are ahl wtittcfl from the point of view of ideas. If union, that they wiii nut teach him to swim, may be cailed Ideaiism. there,' his terrified strnggliflg What for want of a better word the banît. The effort uf men, and thouh imay enabie him to ciutch unity underiying ail the endeavouts even The ends meet, and the cnnsciuusness that be bruught out by a discussion tu mnake buth making them buman, wiil defeat the purpuse, dues net .social and politicai haîf a day's holiday wuuld oIf the îiteraty, scientifie, ecunomical, through, thit by stimulate a man. He may become perfect The wotk is alsu tu contain a preface aspects of life. teeth of this suffering, but nut by means University, in wbicb bie will is tu say, in the Professor Caird, of Glasgow told not tu trust. to the Pour late Professut of it. When peuple are o ccasion to say a word about the dCstitution, take tu their neighbnrs tu save them frnm the work is to be dedicated. Laws ut Green, to wbom if they are utice thuroughiy desti- sheets of whicb bave this dues not mnean that In une of the essays, advanced power to save tbemselves. It a graduate of Glasgow tute they have the smaliest been received, Mr. James Bonat, nearest pauperism take Existence" in a is a commun phrase that 'those Oxford, treats of - The struggle fut neyer and tu avoid it.' The destitute man may to mnake tbe reader look impatiently ieast pains way that il, weli fitted habituai pauper may aim is to show that bappen to becume a paupet, and the for the test of the series. Its generai but the wings it is a legitimate neyer alluw bimself tu beconle destitute; the desire of gain or weil-being, wbile is ciipped by destitution as by indolence. endeavour, is only truly viewed wheti it are as effectually end of buman a certain point, and it kilîs the aspects of social life. A sketch of Carry depressin beyond tegarded as une of the and the point is and an attempt power of effort by kîlling all hupe; the Modemn State is accordingly drawn, anywbete short of deatb, at the moment limits of State interference with reacbed, if ever is mnade to indicate the being becomes an endea- is ton wise to adopt the when the sttuggie of the humnan the individual. Mr. Bonar an escalpe from mnake the State vour nut tu gain abondance of life but extreme Individualism which would 'struggle death." the supreme Constable, and aliow the Inetely be society coud nut do better than to rage unchecked. At the same tiine The new phiiosuphical fot existence' this admirable essay. is the true ptincipîe take up, and thorou.ghiy discUss, saYs that 'laissez faite' or 'hands off' W. except the low- Of government in ail the strata of sucîéty "instead of letting the He purpuses est. "Modemn Society," he says, MR. W. C. COMPTON is again in the city. strata, takes evety 8truggle rage itself out in the îower attending Queen's Coilege.-DailY News. the clainis of Possible Pains t,, end it. It s-ecognizes 82 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
UNI[VEIMSITVr SEPRMON. annual return of light.and life. It was a happy thought to associate the two days. New hope for earth 'when the Principal Grant for the world O NSunday afternoon (Dec. i7 tb,) son begins again to corne nearer. New hope conducted a special Christmas service in Convocation when the Son of Righteousness dawns on its horizon. Hall. The choral part of the service was appropriate to We read in to-day's lesson the circumstances of His birth, the simple and touching incidents that cluster round several Christmnas carols being rendered. the occasion, His cradie. He came to save Jew and Gentile, and to The following is the sermon:-ý both His birth is heralded. To wbom among the Jews? ilu God's sight, Herod the King and his men of war are UPON OUR TrHE INCARNATION AND ITS BEARING not the representatives of the people. Neither are the 0F LIFE. IDEAL iScribes and Eiders. They are apparently wise, learned We shaîl not meet again as a congregation till january and pions men, They are deeply read in the Commen- But a man may have rnastered 14th, and 1 therefore take the present opportunity of taries of the Rabbis. wishing yon a happy Christmas and a good NewYear. We tomes of theology and yet be without the heavenly wis- stand on a great natural summit of time, looking back dom that a simple loving heart supplies. He may have over one annual course of the suri, and looking forward to busied himself ail his life with the verbiage of controversy, another on which he is entering. This is the week of the and may have the repotation of learning, and yet know winter solstice, and before the week ends we shaîl have 1less of God and nature, less of truth and fact than a commenced a new year, according to the division of time shepherd, a gardener, a weather-wise sailor has learned. made by nature. The oftener I stand oni sncb a summit, Fitly, then, is the message concerning the coming of the the more insignificant time.-witb ahl its noisy and fever- King sent to lowly shepherds wbo have learned reverence, ish bustle-appears, and the more near and overwbelming humility, and some portion of truth from reading the book the realities of Eternity. The more must it be seen bY us of the heavens ini their nightly watches. And the Gentile that the one thing needful is to be united to the Eternal. world is also divinely summoned. Its representatives are The world offers so much of unsatisfactoriness that at grave, wise and noble men. But they, too, had been times the most bopeful gets caught with life-weariness, accustomed to commune with nature; and in loving ber Who and cries ont with Elijab, -it is enough ; take away my tbey had learned to discern the signs of the times. life, for I arn not better than my fathers,"' or with Paul, they were or from what part of the East, what kind of a desire to depart and be witb Christ, which is star they saw or how it led them, we know not and are -I have a there have ever been far better." But sncb seasons are not our hast. The not careful to inquire. In the East true believer is a worker, And the true worker is a sucb wise men. Bâlaam's prophecy was not forgotten in singer. This is a very practical world, with plenty of lands where such words are handed down from genera- bard work daily offered to our hands to do. Even when tion to generation. Not in vain had the Jews been scat- littie cao be known, there is always plenty to be done. tered over the East. Not in vain had Esther shared the And this is the season of the year when hope sbould be throne, and Daniel ruled the Empire of the Great King, most exultant. It was believed that a Saviour King would corne, and What word have 1 for you at such a time ? I know about this time there was a general expectation that He none better than that with which the Lord jesus com- would be born in Judea. nienced and ended the earthly teaching of His scholars; They who seek shahl find. Tbey are led a long and in Follow thon me. Again and again He uses the same toilsome way to the Holy City, to the men who had during His ministry to aIl who desired any rela- charge the inspired oracles. God neyer gives unnecessary word So tionship with Him. It indicates the key-note of His light. What man can do or tell, He leaves to man. dealings with men. It is His word to us at ail times. It wben the seekers get to the law and the testimony, the star is His word to ns now. disappears. Who is Ha that speaks so authoritatively to men ? By Two classes are found in jerusalem. First, the religions what rigbt does this man assume sncb a superiority over world that rests in the letter ; the men who believe them- us? Holy Scriptnre answers, He is "the Word of God" Iselves everything, but who do nothing for the world. Tbey -made flesh.- Therefore He speaks by divine rigbt. know the place where the Saviour is to be born, and they six On this truth, the trutb of the Incarnation, is based the know the time, but they will not take a walk of five or hope of humanity,. Well migbt the announcemant of it miles to seek Him. Are there flot men now who believe be called tidings of great joy. As the choir bas just in all the creeds of the Church, but wbo go not out to carolled, the fact that God's Son took our nature is "the seek Christ, flot even into the next street where hearts are great joy." If it is not true, then this is a horrible world, breaking, outcasts perishing, poor little children cry- and the onîy possible theory of life is Pessimism. But it ing? Side by side with this religions world is the politi- is true, The Christ was born at Bethlehem. Born after cal world that desires to use religion for its own ends. a method unique, mysterions, transcendental, but in per- It believes in God in a kind of a way, bot believes also fect harmony with what He was, in harmony with His that it can evade His will by the diplomacy of falsehood, work and His life. For sncb a life as His, g~is birtb was deceit and cruelty. So was His death. So was His resurrection. The Scriptures having been opened to tbe seekers, natural. and Bethle- His birth, His character, His teacbing, His miracles, His Christ is flot far away. A walk of five miles, death, His restirrection, His ascension, each by itself is hem is seen crowning a ridge that overlooks one of the inexplicable. Take ail together, and we bave a symmetri- most fertile valleys in Judea; and bo, the star reappears cal whole, We have the most charmingly natural and and stands over the place. And they rejoiced with great unaffected biography that ever was written. And the joy! Thus, ever press on, O seeker, and to you the star whole chain depends on the first link, the Incarnation. shail arise, and a joy fill your heart that the world under- In the Calendar of Christandom, the birthday of Christ stands flot. Men may say, we see no star. Or, it is ni" is associated with the return of the sun to the aarth, and better than other stars shining in the beavens. or, it cao with the festival kept on that occasion by ail nations, and be explained by ordinary causes. No, no, the truly \Vise called Yule by our Saxon and Scandinavian forefathers. man auswers, it is the star of Bethlehem. The day on which Christ was born is flot given in the To what is the divine light pointing ? Corne and, see. New Testament. But if a time was to ha selected, what To a babe; a babe lying in One of the stalîs, excavated time so suitable as that on which ail nature rejoices at the for cattie ont of the rock, adjoining.the public Khan or QUJEEINS COLLEGE JOURNAL
works. He was a man and thought nothing in as in Ris up, as we have Jesus is crowded out of the inn. Su con- man foreign or uncongenial. Brought Caravanserai. worid push Jesus family; taugbt in the ordinary tiflually does this busy, greedy, selfish been, in the bosomi of the The world turns witb His hands as a carpenter; taking into an obscure corner. Only a babe! ways; workinig for The worid has always been a glad festivities of marriage, and providing away with loud laughter. part in the sinners and equal in potency to a babe ? of the guests; eating with fooi. What agent is the superfluities ; living a life of wealthy sages fromn the East turo not also wit the boly men of earth The grave, good, give eating in the conversation worshi Him. To Rim they giadiy calm, beneficent activîty; delighting away. They althe of happy homes; distinguished the best that Ris earth yields; gold, representing of friends and tbe society representiilg men not by dress, looks, titles or habi- Wurld, for it can buy ail the world ; incense, from the mass of heart, and their faith that but by full orbed inteliectual and spiritual the praise and devotion of the tudes of life, the needs the bitter work of and unwearied willingness tu attend to He is God; myrrh, representing greatness life thus flowed tbe fact of His true humanity. Let us, of the pour and suffering. But while Ris repentance, and not it consisted of nu hap- And if tbe Eternai Word was on equably and unostentatiously, too, adore Him. ashamned to Neyer for a moment was H to become a babe, let us neyer be hazard collection of events. ashamed weakness 4sour or of the rushing tides of time . be babes, and we shall find that our the sport of circumstances, the He yield Ris uwn sense of rigbt tu strength. Neyer once did fues or ail stages of multitude. whether the clamour of And the babe becamie a man. Through voices of the friends. every epocb: a long, seductive appeals of companions and humanity He lived, consecrating the more prîncipies that tbrougb the schools of boy- There rqigned supreme ihH im great tOilsomie, sorrowing journey No. whicb Re invariabl weakness of the flesh and the triais determined His life, principles by huod and youth, the on will of Ris Father-the for a divine being to tabernacle steered Ris course. Tu do the of life. It was long coiiied pointed tu that pole, that star Yes, but the ligbtning in tbe needle of Ris life always tbis poor earth. longer, if we Rim . To save Ris bruther makes visible the eiectricity, iasts ever burned clear before in night that of tinie, than ' fromn their folly and their sin, tbough the moment's flash with the whole fromn tbemnselves that compare if we compare Ris Re incurred their hate even untu death, did tbe manifestation of the Christ, su doing R-is mmnistry, unseen ]ife, before object. And wben, at the close of years on earth with His Eternal was Ris cometh and bath 33 years He was revealing the Father. said, "The Prince of thîs worid and after. AIl those with He during aIl the bitter reveals the thought and is one nothing in me," He testified that As the true Word reveai the been able to make a lodgment nature, 50 did the Christ warfare, Satan had neyer it from uts very at the heart of tried at every point of Ris thought and the eternal love that is in Ris soul ; that tbougb the eternal God, brings Himr nigb at every point met the tempter-in the Universe. Jesus reveais to us being, He hiad back. And to Him. Ail the or strengtb of faitb and driven him makes us feel our relationship weakness it mani- to Us, are they? Daguerreo- rose triumphant over deatb, He made Words and works of Jesus,' what when He ini the chosen for ever God's sympa- Re had conquered the conqueror types, in which bave been stamped fest that humanity untu foolisb sons and daughters, is power, that He bad reconciled thy for Ris weary, wayworn, seat of draw the alienated departllre from Rim, His Father, and bad received power to Ris sorrow because of their the into reconciliation with return, Ris warnings of judgmnent, and rehelliotis life of the flesh up Yearnings for their I sec God I-Ris tears over us! Nuw, the wili of God. the Ris tears-ah, my mnuch higher the natilral harmunized with love in His heart towards me as Tbis was the life, He God with a than earth. I sec He iived. This is the life that than buman love as heaven is bigher supernattiral, that We read Christ power to enable mne live in our day and generation. that there is provided for me in would have us and ages, and with which to conquer sin, of the great and good of ail lands to walk as He wvalked, power the lives as they had the spirit of spotless before Himn. Yea, the very wvetbank God for them. As far and s0 at last to appear or even to us. Their victories are our against sin which formerly terrifîed Christ they reflect Rim our Mvrath of God against stars in our sky. But Jesus is my heart against Himn, those denunciations victories, They are us adore Steeled or mraketh a lie, that life-giving sun. 0, corne, let wbatsoever worketh abomination sun, the iight and the risen and whatever is opposed to babe, the man, the crucified, inflexible determination to destroy Rim-tbe that justice and purity that ascended Lord! Ri' ineffable boliness, ail us fromn the heaven of 'me, is now beautîful and helps to And what is Ris word untu formierîy condemned know rîght baud of the Father? that Ris heart is love, and heaven wbere Re sitteth on the W'ilnme to Him. 1 see of every- addressed to Peter and tu His love that mnakes Himn intolerailt The samne word that He that it is of tbe pillar Jamnes. to Pbilip and to Matthew, false and vile. 1 can see the necessity Andrew, to John and to The thing a pillar of met themn un earth,-Fllow me. light and juy to the Israelites being xvben He fi rst addressed that was sun that brings Re spake to Peter when He and gloomn to the Egyptians. The samne word that the hast timie cluud that ensures the record of the last Evangelist, for riw life tu the living is the samne agent bim, in the others do, of that whicb is dead. Foilow thou me. Neyer mind wbat speedy corruption and destruction on earth, thou me. What God, but He reveais the kind 1 am to appoint themr, Foliow And He not only reveals and or wbat Simply this; live on eartb whicb God ýiswell pleased, is mneant by this divine word ? Of life in the flesh with time spirit of life that was in me possible for us to attain unto. Many a as I lived. Let the law of the whiçb it is of sin and had the cry gone up from hearts cunscious be in thee likewise. I in the and enabie us to of life, 0 mny younig bruthers, weakness, who will show us the good, To this ideal lIooking to frame a modei caîl yuu. Look tu Jesus, for Many a teacher had sought namre of Christ, detail be- follow it ?" ages that were tu corne. net Cunsider Ris life, till every for his disciples and the n begets liking." imnitate Rim, draw in Socrates oniy thepcueo living tu yu Meditate un Rim, even Plato couîd ot cornes Thus calmly, a beautiful ulbehpituew fullow Himn as dear childrefl. Who specuîated of Ris hife shaîl sweetly creep ideal bas Thle idea the lessons he taught. Man's yuur study of imagination, aîwayO practise or unnatural. And worst of ail, Into image. thesbenoe-ie power tu shahl be transformed intu Ris býumnan teacher bad in himself no perenflial and day by daY yuu He could be nu Saviour of the world. in a iift up others. to R-is B. &., '78, figures as partner of the Lord fromn H-is rough cradie JAMES R. BALLAGE, City, Iowa. but the life ideal life, ini itS and Luan firmn in Rockweli rOugher death.bed is the absolutely Law, Land in His sufferings as weil 8Ilenlces as weli as in its speech, QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOUJRNAL.
IT bas been suggested that one of the large mooms in -:RYAL-ý OLbEGE.-<- the Royal be fitted up so as to make it a comfortable reading mcom. This might be easily doue, and with but THE CURE 0F S',CC!ARN-E I).ABETES. littie expenditure, we might have, instead of cur large well ventilated but rather cheerless den, a cosy carpeted [N a paper by Dr. G. Felizet, reaci before the Academy room provided with tables, chairs, and ail the ieadiug Iof Sciences, August 14, says the _7ournal d'Hygiene, medical journals of the day. The room used by the the author claims to have discovered a remedy for a classes in medicine and materia medica wonld answem ail disease usually regarded as incurable, Sach. Diabetes. the purposes much better than auy other room in the The author states that he has succeeded in puttiug an building of the proper size, and is easy of access wit bout end to Glycosuria artificially produced in animais, and toiling up long flights of stairs. It wonld certainly repay that the medicine that suppresses artificial glycosuria will any small efforts in oum part, to render it habitable, and likewise cure diabetes in a few weeks or months. There also wouid prove a source of comfort to present and excels, he says, a bond of union between Artificial Gly- future students. cosuria, Intermittent Diabetes and Confirmed Diatetes, and that b.nd is irritation of the rachidian bulb. It is no., then in masking the disease by snbmission to the sev-,rities of a regime except from bread, fecuients and sugir that the disease may be cured, but by tapping the very source of the production of sugar, that is to say, by 6K6 suppressing the irritation of the bulb. llromide of Potassium. by the elective sedative action that it exerts FIT HER uine ont of ten of those whom we hear speak, on the functions of the bulb, suppresses the effects of sncb Jor ail Engiish dictionaries and grammars, s0 far as I irritation with a rapidity that is often surprising and in have consuited tbem, are wrong with regard te the sound large and repeated doses cures very obstinate cases. of Ii- in certain womds. Acccrding to the bcks refemmed to, ,i has only two sounds, one simple, as in tin, and one MAL\RIAL GERMS. diphthongal, as in inine, where the Ili" sound is a combi- The cause of malariai diseases is said to have been dis- nation cf the sound of ''a" in far and that cf ,ee' iu covered by Prof. Laveran, a French Savant of Val de seck. A very large majomity of us, iucluding myseif, give very minute organism, named by him Grace. It is a the two illustrated above, Oscillaria Malarioe. M. Richard, who aunounced the thpt letter three distinct sounds, discovery in the French Academy of Science, has found and another which seems to be a combination of the souud these microbes in ail the fever patients of the Philippeville of -n' in nut with that of "ee;" and is illustrated by sncb Hospital in Algiers. They are located in the red blood words as ice, light, knife, &c., in which the 'i' is ot destroy their contents. They corpuscles and completely mind, &c. Wbich cao be rendered visible by treating with Acetic Acid, but geuemally sounded as it is in size, mne, otherwise it is difficuit to detect them. They look like a is correct? If grammarians and writems of dictiona ries necklace of black beads with one or more projections, are rigbt, it is bigh time for a large number of us to refomm. which penetrate the celi of the corpuscle, and oscillate witb a whip-like movement.
CIGARETTE-SMOKING. W HAT a marvellous thing is our emotional nature! Scarcely less injurions, in a subtie and generaily un- I thiuk that is the namne of what I want to taik, recogaized Nvay, than the habit of taking -nips' of alcohol about. We listen to or look at something funny, and our between meais is the growing practice of smokirig cigar- feelings are excited. The eflect is pleasiug. We, or at e -tes incessantiy. We have not a word to say again ' t smoking at suitabie times and in moderation, nor do our least 1, in my ignorance of metaphysics, caunot generally remarks at this momenit apply to the use of cigars or tell the reason whywe shonld be thus affected. We listen pipes. It is against the habit of smoking cigarettes in to a tale cf suffering, real or fictitinus, and our feelings are large quantities, with the belief that these miniature doses again stirred, we know uot why ; the effect as before is of nicotine are innocuons, that we desire to enter a pro- test. The truth is that perhaps, uwing to the way the pleasing. tobacco-leaf is shredded, conpled with the fact that it is It would aeem, indeed, that the enjoymeut resnltiug brought into more direct relation with the mouth and air- fmom anytbiug wbicb stirs our emotions depends not on passages than when it is smoked in a pipe or cigar, the the kind cf feelings excited, but on the exteut te which effects produced ou the nervous system by a free con- sumption of cigarettes are more marked and characteristic ,they are excited. Indeed to mauy, a passage, for than those recognizable after recourse to other modes of example, of a play which abounds in pathos causes l~e smoking. A pulse-tracing made after the subject bas Most intense enjoyment. It may seem contradictomy te a rule, be flatter smoked, say, a dozen cigarettes will, as say that anytbing whicb causes our frames to be convulsed and more indicative of depression than one taken after the smoking of cigars. It is no uncommon practice for with sobs, and our eyes te be dimmed with tears, affords young men who smoke cigarettes habitually te consume pleasure. And yet it does. Indeed, the meat intense fromn eight to twelve in an hour, and to keep this up for enjoyment I bave ever expemienced, next te that caused or five boums daily. The total quantity of tobacco four fromn the Most pathetic nsed may net seemn large: but beyond question the by the Binomial Theorem, arose volume of smoke te which the breath organs of the dialogue and action on the stage. Seme say that they smoker are exposed, and the characteristics of that smoke, feel repulsion towards a piece which possesses much of as regards the proportion of nicotine introduced into the the element of pathos--their enjoymeut arising fromn what system, combine to place the organism very fully under the influence of the tobacco.-Lancet. they cali the humorous, This I cannot understand. To QUJEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
You say, perhaps, that the time boing extendod tho more enjoyment than and show nu more knowv me a passage of eleep feeling affords papers would be more verbose us hold our sides for our profossors prefer concise an- a dozen of those which miake lodge. I am glad that a wild, wei rd get were more timne If you \\o-ild sing for me, sing awers. I bolieve such they would laughtor. ;sing and condense tho more moelanchoîY the better The student could then re-write molancholy strain, given. Be- a heart that is breaking. answers. Paper is cheap enough. such notes as might burst from some of his poorer me ploasuro, play for thought he would not be apt play for me, and wish to afford sides with more loisure If you com- doubtless is served up. as a slave in his chains might to put in the trashi that, sometimes, something sad, such of misin- for his native land. Anothor there would not be the samne danger Pose, or a captive as he sighs Moroover hand- us groater satisfaction, are mystOrious question. The -class of feelings, which gives terpretin a porhaps of courage undoubtedly, and thus the oxam- are called u p by exemplifications writing ,vould be better thoso which (though I have not the part which Douglas took uerýs takIndbeosd short and daring. Road for .me e pleas- Marmion's defiance of the very ne would in King James' sports, 'Lord haf the advantages) 1 du on Lucy's mar- mientioned the desired extension of time. Ravenswood's desporate words ed and benoefitod by Douglas, in prose be brought against it. almost anything from Scott ; for not see what arguments cao niage day-read now have it would he of valour with a masterly hand With the host of professo>h we and verse he paints deeds or mure in humour, jokes, fun, as on the examiner tu have one indeed. Away with your flimnsy nu imposition of desporate courage or during the time of examination. caîl it. Paint for me deeds the roomn for you me, huwever, fromi unlimited time beîng allotted of her-edn pathos. Spare I plead for practically scenes we find in bounds, however of cruelty or treachory such as papor, of course withifl reasunable represe-itations each display sone me 'Titus Andronli- arrangod. The college may actions of lago. Play not bofore it mnay ho the pleaso pardon this step, but it is the right direc- liko. The philosophers will originality if she takes c us,' and the don t day will be more im- «emotional nature,' for I roally* tion, and cortaiflly the examinatiun me for not defining tho idea what relation it bears to posing. know h-ow. I have no work un but 1 strongly sus- putting the gist of a wholo session's Xtill, the desiros, or the conscience; Fancy the imagination. four short hours. it has some connoction with paper in pect that the have here set down, and 1 humbly beg the pardon of I hope to see this idea that 1 If this is not the case, ventilated and and collectively. many students have thought, XanIt-anchorýus club, individually of which consummated in '82-3. Yus TEmpus.
that the JOURiAL doea 110t the~ Yournal it tu be distinictly understood be expressed in To thte Editor of ¼We wisib to the sentimients wlîich iiiay 'CO1nnî itself iii any way read of large evory paper we pick up, we N almoat in Canada, and Jdonations and gifts given to colleges For instance, the Globe ospecially in the United States. an account of the presentation Tu the. Editor of thte Yournul: of November 29 th contains College of the 'David Morrice alteratiuns, for the better undoubtedly, to Montreal Preshyterian 0W that such &c., I believe i ir, when I read that7rprt* being made in the Curriculum, Hallandlibrry.Now, Nare a much needed were such men in Mon- the time to suggest tu the authoritiOt was gratified to learn that there for the sake of their church. change. treal as David Morrice, who, its colloges. But, air, the finals in particular, would come forward and endow It is this. At oxaminations, papora set faith in and around be allowed for writing on the cannut mon of the Presbyterian more time should wlîy anme such gift. heretofore. Well, why ? Be- come furward and grant Queen's than the two hours given Kingston able to do it. it. As a rude the oxamns. that there are mon in this city justice and fairness domands 1 amn certain we cause and most nimble experienced their favours; may are such that it takes tie bost-preparod In the past we have all the the future, full allotted time to answor alan exporieicO thom in fingered studont the Yours, &c., '85. has made us difforont. Thoro questions Put. But nature their subject thorough- 1882. are are those who, though kflowing WINNIPEG, Nov. 17 th, slowness (not lazinesa on account of a natural con- l, cannot in such a short tîme. Had number of the JOURNAL bany moans) get through ho good papers as thoO MR. EDITOR,-Areceftto alimni "to lot tbemaselvea they time they could put in just as l-tained an invitation fair to possible means for this chap who heads the list. Is it from." Adoptitig the oflly Of the quick-wîtted heard wbich, perbapa, as the other ? to send you a few jottifiga SaY the one bas as good a chance end 1 venture almoat every whom the fact to your readers. Since thore is the nervous studont, from may prove interesting and Agaîn, knows out of bis 1 accounts of what ho sees very limited drives all ho arriva bore aenda home that bis time is himn somne private or public, the hour of examinatiofi, and it takes as by these lotters, wbother head in hears, and the main hie reCover at all. You may people are familiar witb tilrue to recover himself, if the majority of Ontario sUhile, but really the case iS flot unCOrmof. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. features of Manitoba, I shall confine myself to some points BV-LAWS REGULATING TRE ELECTION oF CHANCELLOR OF QU3EEN's which, not being of so much importance are not so well UNI VERSITv. known, but still may be of interest. EVERY nomination shall be in writing actually I presume the first thing which might be spoken of is IJ. signed by at least five members of the Council, and the atmosphere. It has been remarked that it contains a filed with the Registrar before the hour of 5 p. m. on larger proportion of oxygen than the atmosphere in the nomination day, and no other nomination shall be allowed. Vice-Chancellor or Vice-Principal and Regis- in the great rapidity II. The East. This is particularly noticeable trar shall scrutinize nomination papers; and in the event with which a fire spreads, and the fierce vigour with of there being but one candidate nominated, shall declare which it burns, so that when a fire breaks out it is almost such candidate duly elected ; but if more than one, then impossible to extinguish it before it has completely de- they shall declare the names of such candidates, and the Registrar shall forthwith take the necessary steps for stroyed its prey. This increased volume of oxygen may obtaining the votes of the registered voters. also account for the active life which the Manitobans live. III. A candidate may at the said meeting or at any time Another characteristic feature-I might say the character- within ten days thereafter signify his desire in writing, istic feature of Winnipeg-is the mud, which is not addressed to the Registrar to withdraw his name as such candidate; thereupon the remaining candidate, if only silicious as we have it in other places, but altogether car- two were nominated, shall be held to be duly elected and bonaceous. If left on the boots till it dries it comes off in shall be so declared, and if more than one candidate cakes like dough. When quite dry it also burns readily. remain after such withdrawal, then the election shall pro- withdrawn had never That is the good and useful side of it, but when we have ceed as if the candidate who has so of been nominated. rain the air is almost blue with blasphemy on account IV. For the purpose of taking the votes it shall be the the numerous falls which occur through its agency. In duty of the Registrar to prepare and immediately after fact, when ladies go out they very often use canes to steady the expiration of ten days, to transmit to every graduate then. It is very remarkable how little rain moistens the and abinnus referred to in the first sub-section of section nine of the Act constituting this Council a printed voting ground and how soon it dries and hardens again. When paper in a form to be approved of by the Vice-Chancellor dry and hard the sound of a horse galloping is the same and also the names of the candidates for the office of as if it were on a stone pavement. Yet another property Chancellor. of the soil. It is this: After a heavy rain the water V. He shall also transmit with such voting paper a letter approved of by the Vice-Chancellor containing full sometimes filters through and gets into our cellars. By information as to the conditionsof voting and the mode the time it gets that depth it is quite hard. The Red of returning the paper. River at Winnipeg is very treacherous. To one standing VI. Such voting papers shall be returnable on or before (after which no voting paper bank it seems almost as smooth as a lake, but let the fifteenth day of March, on the l shall be received) and shall be opened by the Registrar him take a boat and see how soon he will change his in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor and any voter opinion. The current is not onlv very strong going down who may be present, on the first lawful day following, at but there are several currents running in different direc- the hour of four p. m. VIL The Vice-Chancellor and the Registrar shatT tions. Suppose a man fell in. Perhaps one current would thereupon scrutinize and count the votes, and prepare a pull his head one way, while his feet would be drawn statement in writing of the result of the said ex- away in another direction by a counter current. No amination, and sign the same, and lay the same before bathing therefore is, indulged in. Some years ago the the next meeting of the Council. communicate bringing a prisoner over in a boat. VIII. The Registrar shall also forthwith chief of police was to the several candidates the result of the election, and Just after they left the shore the former gave the boat a shall publish the same in some newspaper published in sudden rock and overitwent. Thechiefshotdirectlydown, the City of Kingston. and there he was found the next day firmly glued to the IX. In the event of a vacancy before the expiration of the current term of office, the Vice-Chancellor, or in his bottom of the river, his feet having stuck in the mud. absence the Vice-Principal and the Registrar shall give This was before they got to deep water. notice in one of the daily papers published in the City of Another feature which persons coming here are sure to Kingston that they will attend at a day to be therein notice is the brilliant display of the aurora borealis. Al- named (and which shall be not les§ than four weeks after the first publicatton of the said notice) for the purpose of most every clear evening it is visible, flashing and chang- receiving nominations, as aforesaid, for a new election, ing all over the north. It is not confined to this particular and all proceedings shall then take place as is herein part of the heavens though. We often have it over the before provided for the election of a Chancellor save that the time for the whole sky. It is composed of most delicate and beautiful return of the voting papers shall be two months after the date of their issue. tints, sometimes resembling a rainbow. The colors change WHO ARE vOTERS? their position, in fact they are always changing and form- Section nine, sub-section one of the Act constituting the ing new combinations. University Council, defines who shall be voters at the Yours, &c., election of Chancellor. It is as follows:- A. W. T., "For the obtaining of a registration of such graduates 188 Jemima St. and alumni of Queen's College as may desire to vote for elective members of council and for a Chancellor of 'the SUSPENDERS for College breaches, is a Junior's defini- University of Queen's College, as hereinafter provided, tion of Faculty. and to be considered eligible for election to membership QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL
sEffIOft R&E.tUN4ION. be a condition the in the Council, and such registration shahl of 1883 was held in being elected; Pro- banquet of the class cf any graduate or alumni veting or Tu HE House on the evening of Dec. zîst. At about sucbh IBurneit vided aiways that the Council shaîl net admit te seniors, together with repre- attending classes in 9 o'clock the awe-inspiring registration any alumnus actually l.eft societies as in'.ited or any alumnnus whc may have sentatives from the different college Q ueen's Cellege, cf twe years' %vell laden College without being a mnatriculant gatbered around the table, wbich xvas Q ueen's net matriculated at guests, standing, or any graduate wbn has and many unknown delicacies. judging or student Df Queen's College, wjth ail known least once as an alumnus the banquetters must have taken whc shaîl matriculate lifter the year 1879, fr om subsequent events, or any alumnus of said1 The catables \vere plentiful sncb alumnus shaîl becomne a graduate a long fast in anticipation. util cover w'jth an College. and of excellent quality, and \vent under and yet sol ease and quickness that was astonishing; A V almost txvo hours ,vere QUE?'s OLG LB marvellolS was the capacity that provided. been received as donationsi spent in hiding the good tbings follewing books have toasts. THE and ar cknowledged: Then followed ne less tban twenty Censuso first cf May, 1882, ý The tbe Chairman of the Banquet, proposed CnuofCanada. an 7vols. alaetayppr Mr. Dyde, responcAed to hy a vociferous render- Gcvernment. Q ueen," wbich was Dominion Queen." Ontario Governulent. ing of -God Save the Statutes cf Ontario. xvas proposed Institution. -Governcr-General and Princess Louise' Smnithscnian Report. Smitbseniau a and responded te by flzrce ch,''rs andi First Report et Bureau cf Etbnology. by the Chair, cf the Interior, Washington. tiger. 15 vols. Reports, Department Navy and Volun- Mr. A. McLeod proposed "Army, " Bureau of Education, 3 " the Canadian Volunt 1eers Departmeut, teers"- bigbly complimentiflg I "Chief cf Orduance then first-class on aIl the qualities necessary for making 36 "Engineering Department, soldiers. 33 ."Department cf State, a highly cloquent ,style, briefly Officer, Mr. Skinner, in 8 "Chief Signal graduate of the Royal responded, followed by Mr. Duif, a 13 "Coast Survey, that several College. who referred te the fact "War Dapartmnent, Military 8 bad doue their share graduates of the same institution 8 'Treasury Department, the settlement of affairs in Egypt. cf Agriculture, towards 3 Department was proposed by Mr. H. E. Young; frem the Library cf the late Heu. "IOur AIma Mater" 219 "Miscellaneous, sung in respense. HI-ere's te Goed Old Queen's" was Hamiltoni. referred J. in proposiug ,The Arts'Faculty," Mrs. Ewing, Hamilton. Mr. Sbanks, "Varieus old works. te the success cf '4 sometbiflg bordering On eloquence works. Prof, Fergusen. with ability as 5 "Old Mathematical literary werld, te their of Scetland. our Professors in the I Reports. Cburcb hearing towards the instructors, and te their gentleuxanly Picturesque Quebec.Th Geed Fellows" was sung with cf the Aneitymnese Language.Th students. IlTbey are Jclly Inglis' Dictionary in respcnse. enthusiasmn of Physicians and Auther. The health of "The Royal Cellege hy Mr. Fergusen. Injeply Mr. ef the Observatery. Yale College. Surgeens' was propesed jes" in Report Fergus. reference te the 'affair of the la~ 1881. A. D. Fordyce, Esq., W. Auglin made a result cf Missionary Herald, with the college, claiming that, as C. Hamnilten. connection iu Compend cf Baptismn. Rev. J. twe medical colleges bad been established Lawrie. the contest, the charges of Latin Psalms. Rev. Mr. of eue, and acquitting the beys ef Buchanan's the place ef rivalry, &c. Mr, Amierican Marathi Mission. want ef gallantry, rebellien, fear aIse speke briefly in repîy te the University cf Christiana. IMoere and Mr. Mundell I Vol. teast. Vestigia Celtica. Rev. Dr. Masson. same by Mr. Givan, who ISister Universities" was preposed Campbell. exists between Confession cf Faitb. Rev. R. of the increasing geed feeling wvhicb Glasgow, Aberdeen, St spoke McKay and West- Calendars, &e., frem Edinburgb, Queen's and other collegeS. Messrs. (Tor.) briefly respended. I John Hopkins, Knox lake Graduates," hiuted Andrew's, McGill, Mr.' J. McLeed, in preposing "Our P. E. D. School te find their way te University College, Dalhouîsie. the sens ef Queen's seemed able Hope), and that Replies were made Col. Schcel (Port places, civilized and uucivilized. (Tor.), Trinity all the former cf whom said the Ccllege cf Ottawa. by Messrs. Knigbt and Givan, Prospectus cf Is won distinction in Medicine, that the graduates of Queen deficient John?"- 'lNe mum! Theelegy, but seemned comparatively Mr. B3- caîl lu my absence, Lawv and DIm leastways wheu I tcld hlm as teachers. but Mr. Tbank Heavens did, yeu he said c patent that some cf the Ont, and asked wbat namre to give (At abeut this s tage it becam Yeu Wvere ber, thank heaveus 1"-Ex. the table became sleepy, a kind Of lOw lîke," "lMissed feasters at the northern endof by the redness cf their eyes.) fact mnade evident A. L., till Seciety" was proposed hy Mr. bee crawling on bis baudl 'lAIma Mater seciety tc the LI'rTLE bey watched a showed the Importance ef the iA he scbbed, III didu't Smith, wbo A. M. S, and stung him, when it sat dowu it hurt Gîvens, the President of the .stoppednmdits walking about, but when college. Mr. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JDURNAL.
Miss Maggie Bamford, Mrs. Rockwell, and Miss Agnew. responded, representing the society as the link of con- nexion between Graduate and Undergraduate, and Mr. J. Dunlop, first year in medicine, promises to prove between the different faculties. Brief replies were also a very strong addition to our already good list of readers Givan, the two Vice-Presi- made by Messrs. Anglin and and reciters. His rendering of "Jane Conquest" was dents. from the audience. Mr. Shortt proposed "Missionary Association and Y.M. such as to elicit a vociferous encore C. A.," and showed the elevating and ennobling influence The Glee Club shows up in good form once more. "Little of such societies upon the students. Mr. J. Grant replied Moses" took well, and "Steal Away" was decidedly good. Mr. Anderson as repre- on behalf of the Y. M. C. A., and We would suggest that in the future the programme be the Missionary Association. senting late when it 'Glee Club" was presented by Mr. Nicol, and was a little shorter, as the hour was somewhat responded to by a speech from Mr. Shanks, and a song was concluded on this occasion, and though it was a from members of the club, programme rarely improved upon in Kingston. many of R. Grant proposed the "Dialectic Club and Mr. H. the audience began to show signs of weariness towards Mathematical Society" in a humorous speech, which was well received, Mr. Britton responded with his usual the close. facility of expression and abundance of humour. He rejected Idealism as inconsistent with the exploits of the FOOTBALL. evening, and approved of the philosophy of Sam Jones, is whose "summum bonum" was dinner. Eover suppose for this that fall we at may Queen's. safely Althoughsay that footballour clubs Club, and Gymnasium, and Snow Shoe Clnb," W "Athletic have not been able to engage in as many outside matches was presented by Mr. Goold, and drew from Mr. Mitchell a humorous speech and song, and from Messrs. Shaw and as they would have wished, several local games have been McAulay speeches eulogistic of the prowess of Q. C. played, with very satisfactory results, and the officers of students. Messrs. Renton and H. E. Young also briefly the different clubs have cause to congratulate themselves replied. success attending their efforts to increase the Mr. Steele proposed "The Football Teams." Mr. A. on the McLeod and Mr. H. E. Young responded, the former for amount of interest taken in the game here. This year the Association Team, the latter for the Rugby Union. has seen the inauguration of a new venture, the organi- Chambers, "The Ossianic Society," proposed by Mr. zation of a Rugby football club at Queen's. Though this to by two Gaelic songs, one by Mr. J. McLeod, was replied team, and the other by Mr. Campbell. at first had the effect of weakening the Association Mr. Shortt presented the "Concursus Iniquitatis'.' with this was soon straightened out by hard practice, and we much enthusiasm. Judge Anglin responded with elo- feel confident that Queen's can boast a larger number of replied for the "Concursus quence and wit. Mr. Moore good Association players than she has had for some time Virtutis" of the Royal College; and Mr. Mitchell has a Rugby team, which, by next repeated the "cry of the Court" in such a manner as past, while she further almost to produce convulsions. spring, intends taking a place second to none, if we may "Fellow Students" was proposed by Mr. Gow, and judge from the success aiready achieved. With only a responded to with an appropriate song, week's practice the Rugby team met and closely contested Mr. Britton proposed "The Press," to which Mr. Mc- confessedly one of the Lachlan replied for the JOURNAL, Mr. Shannon in behalf a match with the R. M. C. Cadets, of the News, and Mr. Shanks on the part of the Whig. finest, if not the finest, of our Canadian clubs, and in a those of Mr, Rathbun gave -The Ladies," eulogizing match with the Brockville club our team was victorious Hearty response came in the Kingston in particular. by the rare score of four goals and three tries to nothing. of a song, "Maid of Athens," a speech from Mr. shape M. Patterson, in which he evinced an almost culpably thor- Subsequently, a second match was played with the R. ough knowledge of his subject, and a short address by C., in which, though our men were beaten, they played in Mr, Westlake. such a way as to draw forth well-merited encomiums of on behalf of the guests, proposed 'The Mr. McLachlan, praise from the spectators. The last match played was Graduating Class," to which Mr. Givan replied, and then presented "Our Guests." one with the K. C. . Club, in which Queen's was success- The last toast of the evening, "Our Host," was pro- ful by four goals and several tries to nothing. With this to by Mr. F. posed by the President, and responded good beginning we may safely expect great things from in behalf of the proprietor. Fralick, Club next season. The toasts were interspersed by several songs, some of our Rugby Union which were of the nature of replies, and others quite independent ; of these we may mention that of Mr. Rath- THE SNOW SHOE CLUB. bun, as being especially well rendered. o'clock a. m., with 'Auld UESDAY of last week was the date for the annual The proceèdings closed at two T meeting of this Club. The unanimous motion that Lang Syne" and 'God Save the Queen." Mr. J. Carr Anderson should occupy the chair, was car- cOLLEGE SOCIETIES. ried, thereupon Mr. Anderson, with an eloquence that would rival that of the 'old man eloquent' himself, stirred A. M. S. ENTERTAINMENT. the souls of his vast audience, already burning with enthu- siasm for this manliest of sports, to fervent heat, series of monthly Alma Mater Society's T HEentertainments first of the was held in St. Andrew's Hall on the which manifested itself throughout the whole meeting, by evening of Friday, the 16th ult. - An exceedingly good the order with which the proceedings were carried out. programme was presented to a large audience, introducing When this gentleman at length sat down, a fitting tribute, a number of the old friends of the society, among others, a storm of clattering impedimenta was paid io his elocu- QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOUIRNAL.
Sec.-Treasurer. but beartily resolve, tionary powers. The retiring and modest anxious thongbt, do hereby seriously was bigbly satis- eftect of co-educa- H. E. Young, then read his report. This that owing to tbe dire and disastrous that the club bas ever feinale women' wbat- factory ; indeed, we do flot believe tion, at tbe Royal College, that nu in sucb a flourisb- wbat capacity, to partici- before, during its long existence, been soever, be allowed, no matter in to the untiring exer- tramps. That we shaîl flot ing condition. This is due mainly pate in any manner in our bis indefatigable labors club by subjecting it to their tions of Mr. Young, who has by peril the prosperity of tbis of SI7. Sucb a balance been able to bring in a balance baneful influences. when we re- save tbe Queen. indeed speaks well for the club, especially IV, God this organizatiofi there rnember that from the nature of upoil its coffers. Then is a constant and heavy'drain for the ensuing year. followed the election of officers inhabitant, bas there of tbe Canadian Neyer, in the memory of the oldest B.A., '81, is Treasurer various positions of A McTAVISH, wbere hie is purauing bis been s0 tierce a contest for tbese LVInstitute at Princeton, contest of the Alma bonor and trust. The late electoral theological studies. is completely lost Society, when compared with it, M.A., '81, bas Mater retire. 0cR old friend, Rev. J. C. Cattanach, back seats to whicb it bas to to Sherbrooke. in the shade of the left Dundee Centre, Que., and removed riot, and risk of ill, but bas now fully recov- It was during the greatest excitemneft, He bas lately been seriously rnembers polled their serious corporeal injury, that the ered. (the annouflcemen~t votes. At last tbe following officers elected, of Morrisburg, an old Queen's man, down the bouse) were declared REv. Hugh Taylor, 1 of bringing a unanimous cal from the congregatioti President-W. E. D'Argent. bas received Honorary St. Andrew's Cburch, Paketihamn. President-H. E. Young. Sec.-Treasurer-A. G. Farrell, J. Greensbiels, of Montreal, xvho died lately, M. Mowat, B. A. MR. David Inspector Impedimentorum-H. left 65,000 to Queen's. G. Y. Chown, Committee-W.,j. Shaflks, Executive an examiner "F. J, Macdonell and J. C. Booth. PRoFrssoR Fletcher has been re-appoînted University, not place tbe Inspector Impedimneftorum in classics at Toronto We sbould was re-elected among the flerce contestants for office-be anotber ex- tbe fact tbat the club A. MACGILLIVRAY, of Williamstown, by acclamation. This was due to Rzv, churcb enlarged and for tbîs of the JOURNAL, bas had bis great ability of tbis gentleman editor Tbe cost was $6,ooo, recognized the improved. during the past summer. bis well knowfl un- bas no debt. office, and because, notwithstanding and yet that cburcb be bad flot yet been tiring industry and perseverance, owing to the fact tbat in tbe hardware business at able to complete bis inspection, GOWER GORDON, ex'4 s members are so large and dlaims to be flourisbing. the pedal extremities of somte of tbe Guelph, impedimenita, a correspondin~g magnitude of Kingston to and requiring tbe SNooK, B.A., '81, bas returned to îess than a superbuman effort could MARCtJS several Queen's that by notbing bis law studies. He reports bis task in tbe finish Toronto and 6itturishing, gentleman bave completed graduates to be studyitig law at aforesaid was agreed that time, one year. Therefore, it alloted year, in be reinstated in office for anotber from the congregatiofi of St. Andrew's he shouîd A DEPTITATION M. McGilli- work mnigbt be finished. It Perth, called on their pastor, Rev. his order tbat this important Churcb, him -with a New foresigbt can prevett a few days since, and presented patcual desirable, if humnan vary, Of $225. Mr. McGilli- is should Year's gift in tbe shape of a purse accident fromn faulty impedimenita former editor of tbe JOURNAL, it, that no tbe vary, wbo by the way is a prosperity and serenity of purse of $50 by the same congrega- happen to mar the present was presented witb a for bis any unluckY membe .r on a since. AIl tbis speaks well Club, by the sbipwreck of tion a short time in tbe country require the popularity. snow1bank. Recent disasterS officers, and n0 one will rigid investigation by the of last year's mfOst ticket of leave. McARTHUR, B.A., a graduate be allowed to leave port without a certified Rîtv. Glîo. Finch Pres- bas recently been settled in were 'added to tbe conisti- divinity class, enters upon bis The following amendments of Glengarry. Mr. McArthur bytery field under most favour- tution:, duties in a large and promi'siflg every Friday, to deliber- auspices. L. (a) That this club do meet able ate on matters affecting its interests and'prosperitY. permission, we do here- one of the (b) That, with Mother Nature'S A. LANG, M.A., of Lunenburg, on Saturday REV. Wm. leave of resoive, that in future a weekly tramp granted three months' bY ALs ex-editrs, was past sumifer. The member. J OtRN bis congregation during the shall be partaken of by each and every absence by and he is at work club accomplished the desired result, thanks and good wishes of tbe rest IL. That the hearty for the able mnanfler again with renewed health advgr extended to the retiring officers are filled their offices. May itl which they have respectfully theY neyer want a friend. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
~DE -%NOBIS,ý NOBILIBUS.,
Dec., the field of college literature the Mloi- a fancy dress Carnival ou the z9th W E ýwelcome to students of T HERE was which we learn that the seven stu- rin Collcge Review, published by the at Peterboro, at Though there is, of course, appeared as undergrads of Queen's. jMorrin College, Quebec. dents of that town the first number is exceedingly is also said that while the sophs were quite content room for improvement, It and by next month we expect a good deal with their own dazzling greatness, the freslîîîeî endeav- well edited, from the Revice. oured to palm themselves off as seniors befcre the wonder- ing rustics of that place. A KISS. You ask what \ve wvould caîl it. We give it up. It is 'Twas the first kiss of Summer, something altogether unprecedented as well as unparal- Ail fragrant and sweet, leled in lhe records of student life. We refer to the fact From a lovely companion that, in the midst of the festivities at the senior re-union, In secluded retreat; the door opened, and in stalked, uninvited, unexpected, a * No sister, no kindred, Fre3 -, but no, we have nit the heart tu write it, tu No rivaIs, nu spy let it be kuown that such a thing occurred at Queen's. Observed thy fair blushes, Was it cheek? Too mild. Too mild ! Was it down- For no one was nigb. rigbt, brazen-faced impudence ? No, no, friend, that thuught seems altogether wruug. ]3etter give it up. We says he pants to meet Roscoe Conkling. effrontery and OSCARi Wilde of calling it 18-carat, pure, unadulterated Now he sbould pant to meet some other celebrity, and it, it looks really impertinence, but now we bave written he would have a pair of pants-an article of dress he possible, then very mild. Give it up, my son, give it up! If sadly needs.-Norristown Herald. dismiss it altogether from yuur mi, and should yeu ever chance tu meet this curiusity in human form, thank une only of these Over the garden wall, t'ie gods that our clasa of '86 contains and tall, keep it quiet, tell it nut in Apple trees big affairs. Iu the meantime No apples as yet s0 hard to get j apan. And you may bet l'Il neyer forget of Wa have at last full possession of a sanctum. Some The night'that dog was on me set but our readers may be inclined to dishelieve this fact, Over the garden wall. -Madisoncnsis. fact it is, notwithstanding. Our premises are nut yet as fully furnished as we hope themn tu be before long, and may mention to our young lady frienda. en Passant, AN amateur editor bas made a fortune by his pen. His we and that our chairs have nu cushions, and that a relic of what father died of grief after reading one of his editorials, was once a toga at present bas tu do the duty of a peu left him $i5o,000. wiper. The door of our sanctum, we may also mention, is furnished with a patent combination mantrap, provided Oi- Comle wbere the cyanides silently flowv, as a safeguard against parody fiends and punsters. And the carbures droop o'er the oxides below, l/crbiiu, Sap. Where the rays of potassium lie white on the h iii, And the song of the silicate neyer is stili. come, tom ti tom tom, IT seems hard that students should have to suifer for Come, oh the sins of their prufessors, but the following episode tells Peroxide of bromine and uranium tale :-SCLNE, at an eveuiug party, -street, Toronto. a liquici at 30 deg-rees of Toronto School of Medicine requests the While alcohol's Student nu chemical change can affect manganese; pleasure of a dance from a suciety belle, xvho supposes And the answer, While aikalies flourish aud acids are free, bim tu be a Trinity man, and receives Thee. not care to dance with a My heart will be constant, dear Science, to IThauk you, Mr. -, but 1 do de, Student "I beg your pardon, Miss Yes, to Thee! Fiddle doma Trinity student.' and bismuth, H, 0 plus C!-Ex. -, but 1 tbink yuu are mistaken. I du not attend Zinc, borax Trinity, I attend the Toronto Scbool of Medicine." Miss -, "Oh! Then that alters the case. With No word was spoken when they met, pleasure, Mr. -,- and the young lady pruceeds By eitber-sad or gay ; to congratulate ber' cumpanion un tbe stand taken by the k And yet one badly smitten ws faculty aud studeuts of tbe T. S. M. anent the recent Twas mentioncd the next day. troubles bere. They met by chance this autumu eve, glance nor bow, at Dese- With neither A NUMH1ER of our students speut tbe vacation together 5 -- that They often come rente. The Belleville Ontario correspondent from A freigbt train and a cow.-Ex. place, says that in the matter of taking the twist ont of doughuuts tbey display an agility approacbing the mar- Vallons. WHY is it Bob .always walks up tu college ? No, it's THE Rev. Geo. Bell, LL.D., Registrar, bas been ap- nut because only two cranks are needed on a bicycle. poiuted Treasurer of Queen's, "until tbe aunual meeting Give it np ? Because be is opposed to horses because of the Trustees, vice C. F. Irelaud, B.A., resigued. they crib and be can't find an asteroid.-Roch. Camnpus.
TEE Corner Bookstore, su well known to students, bas "VIOLET, dearest, do yon play that tune often ?" a5ked again changed bauds, tbe present proprietor being Mr. Hugh Montressor of bis affianced. 1 Yes. pet, and when F. Nisbet, late of Toronto. Mr. Nisbet bas a great we are married V'II play it ail the time." Then Hugh curiosity at bis store jost now, wbicb be takes great plea- went out and shuddered bimself to death--Midland Sent. sure in exbibiting. Caîl and see it. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNALIE N o. 8. JANUARY 24, 1883, VOL. X. KINGSTON, CANADA, Queen 's Normal Sehools. The Senate of The vigorously oppose sucli a requirement. of public correspondence involves questions by the NUMBERS during the Session account, oh- Published IN TWELVE interest, and we hav&, on this of Queefl's University, A copy of the ALMA MATER SCIETY tained a copy and insertý it. each of the STAFF: Senate's memorial was sent to Editor, in reporting the re- A. McLACHLAN, - Ma11agiflg other Universities, and of Toronto, the EDITINO COMMITTRE ceipt of it by the University B.A. representing our .Divnity-JAMFS SOMERVILLE, error xvas fallen into of MOORE, W. G. ANGLIN. whichl Mediciine-l. A. as asking for the very thing B.A. R. M. DENNISTOUN. Senate A4ts.RODERICK McK.AýY, As this appeared in F. NW. JOIINSTON- they were opposing. J. S. SKINNER. docu- J. WRIGHT. the publication of the A. G. FARRELL. J. several papers, an effectuai correction. GEo. F. HENDERSON, Secrttry-Treasifr ments wilI be 10 cents. bi.oo; Single Numbers, TERMs :-Per Session, been be addressed to A. Mc- opposition lias Matter for publication should QONSIDERABLE, HENDERqON, P. O. of the citizens, and ;Business letters to GEo. F. ''offered by some LýACHLAN of the IJrawer 1146, Kingston, Ont. especially by some of the ministers Nwith the namne of the coin mns of the The Editor mnust be acquainted city churches, through the whether local or literary. services which author Of any article, papers to the Sunday night past six or eight have been carried on for the of our College of the JOURNAL wle pub- weeks under the auspices N a late number to the weekly House. The stu- an editorial relative Y.M.C.A. in the Opera olîlshed at least one corn- be discou;aged hidaY. This has elicited dents, however, were not ta subject whiçh will be unfavourable Ixtunication on the in their undertakiflg by any Wilile xve aur- such a yen- fOuInd in another colurnn. comments as to the propriety of in favour of Monday being adduced. Selves are strongly ture. The fallacy of the objections consîder tlîat thîs subject, by the the holiday, we have been proved beyofld question bas its pros and cons, all these like almost every other, marked success which lias attended opinions from graduates We are ax11d We would invite services since their commencement. well as from undergrads of is in sucli and al1umni, as g lad f0 know that aur Associationl subject. that it may stili QUteen'5 on thle a healthy state, and hope extend its sphere of usefulness. ACORRESPON DENCE bas taken place further University interrogated ' between the Senate of tlîis E have been frequently on the sub- wA present Chancel- adthe Education Depart ment VYas ta whether aur adopted by the eligible for re- ject Of certain regulations lor of the University will be university graduates present term departmnent by which le-t ion at the expiration of bis excluded from being appointed assistant which the By- are of office. This is a question teachers in Higli Schools, until they bave of Chancellor do the law respecting the'election added a professional course at one of QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. not answer, and the question remains un- deserve at least the consideration of the answered, at least so far as we are concerned. proper authorities. The fact of the enquiry being repeatèdly It has been the almost universal excuse of made by the students, though they are pow- those who have failed in their exams., that erless to move in this matter, would seem to their failure was due to want of time, either indicate a desire on their part that the gentle- to write all they might haye written on the man who has filled the office of highest honor subject, or to review and correct what they in our University so efficiently during the had written. If, as we are sometimes told, a past three years should be rewarded by re- college's standing is to be judged by the num- election. ber of unfortunates which its Senate succeeds We do not hesitate to venture the opinion in plucking, we urge that this number be that in the estimation of the undergraduates made a just criterion of its standing. no more popular appointment could be made. As a means to this end we heartily endorse The sympathy and many kindnesses which and recommend the suggestion of our corres- the present Chancellor, Mr. Sandford Flem- pondents already referred to. If any good ing, C.E., C.M.G., has extended to the stu- reason exists why such a change would be dents of Queen's since his appointment three unadvisable we would like to hear it, if not years ago have endeared him to all. we trust to see it introduced at the next finals. [Since the above was written we are to get pleased to learn that Mr. Fleming has been had hoped that we were going W E through this session without being unanimously re-elected.] obliged to remind our subscribers of their pecuniary liability to us, but it seems that the into college NEW spirit is being infused A life at Queen's, or perhaps we should fates have been adverse. We are well aware rather say an old one is being revived. We that among our subscribers there are few, if seemed of late to be almost unconsciously any, who purposely let this matter escape drifting into a state of semi-sentimentalism their memory, but we regret that our occa- in our daily routine of class work, without sional "gentle reminders" do not have as ever thinking to season the otherwise some- good effect as we would wish. A great many, what monotonous drudgery, by howling with perhaps, are not aware that the JOURNAL all the gusto that should pre-eminently subscription, like that of almost any other characterize the singing of college songs by periodical, is supposed to be paid in advance. students. Our class of subscribers is such that the We hoped that the publishing of a college matter of a dollar can seriously affect none, song book would have the effect of resuscita- while we, on the other hand, are anything ting this old-timed practice, and to a certain but wealthy, and again we would ask our we can call all our extent our hopes have been realized, but the friends, for such we hope Saturday morning praétice of colIege songs, subscribers, to pay up and very much oblige. which have been recently comnenced in T is a matter of surprise to students who Convocation Hall, bids fair to revolutionize come to Queen's from other cities as well this important feature in college pastime. as from towns and smaller villages through- HE suggestion of some correspondents in out the country, that there is no such a thing our last and in the present number, that as a skating rink in Ki'ngston. Why don't more time should be allowed at the examina- some of our wealthy citizens invest some tions, and the reasons adduced in its support capital in such a project ? QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOUJRNAL.
A NOTHER excitement lias broken out in an article on circles, this time at Toronto. this number we publish -- nUniversity N wbich op- Mr. H-ouston S"Woman's Place in Society, At a late meeting of Senate a recent num- abolisli the Besi- poses an opinion expressed in gave notice of motion to well represents College; ber of the JOURNAL, and whiçh dence in connection witb University of the question. the funds of and upholds the opposite side the alleged reason being that any reference to properly over- We have bitherto deferred the college are not sufficient and it is not our legitimate work of to the subject e ditorially, take the other and more dictate even an intention here and now to the college. there are those there is, of course, opinion. On the one hand To the knowing ones a sphere in so- and it is probable Who would assign to womnan sometbing bebind this, which, up to a tion of whetlier college ciety cotermiinous with that that the whole ques as customn seetfls of good will thus late period, nature as well residences are productive. accorded hier. On up. to have unanimously be opened those who dlaim been looked upon withi the other band there are Tbey have always of roaming suspicion, and the for bier the right and privilege a certain amount of leads bier, or it have doubtless brought wherever ber individual fancy troubles of last session seem to a head. Anxious par- Inav be lier special endowments ibis dissatisfaction to of the learned pro- and indeed invite ber, be that in any ents tbrouglhout the Province, the bumbler wvalks of look upon the Resi- fessions, or in any of some members of Senate already somie- iniquity, in wbicli every life. The question, thougbi dence as a liot-bed of present excitiflg con- On the other hand What hackneyed, is at form of evil is fostered. world, and cennected with the siderable interest in the college those who have been time ago bas occa- a perfect moral gym- Our allusion to it a short institution consider it of our contem- a man will graduate with sioned comment from sorne nasium, from whicb not committiflg bis place in life such poraries. One of them, wbile a preparation to take offers the give hlm. to any defmnite opinion,' as no other training can itself of of opini6u a as an explaniation wby women Upon this slight difference following sucb a desire A special number the nineteentb century manifest lively war has resulted. career.Il..W table. Itý articles to enter upon a professional of tbe "Varsity" is on our were tbe barrierS that any attempt should cannot belp tbinking that are instinct with rage that debar mucli loved Resi- put aside, tlie restrictions be made to abolish tbe freely once and sentiment bias from entering professions dence. Aithougli too mucb Womnen to obtain ad- we can heartily forever removed, the demand appeared in the discussion, ranks would very quickly witli those wbose affections MTissionl to these sympathize their likes an obstacle-least of twined by association round subside. No one have been on opposition-by can, of course, be said will woman snbmit to old home. Mucli all bier end, and she question, but we will note hook or crook she will gain both sides of this not." which lias been greatly wIould be no woman did she only one objection connected with that this move The subject is inthflately over.estiinated. -It is urged and while pres- vestige of college spirit. the question of co-education, will kilI out every that co.education to this we have only to say seem to oppose Iu answer residence, ent indications bas long been without a Canada,' Queeu's college in the medical profession, at least in we believe there is no other be able to say that it bas and yet by its stu- we are happy to this country so mnucl beloved Queenls that it in assisted by tbem when proved such a success at Fdents, or so readily the proprletY ol reqires. Would befolly to question occasion COntinuing It. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
N a former issue of the JOURNAL we re- learner's progress by frequent oral examina- ferred to the necessity which exists for a tions. The former method may-and un- German change in the lecture system employed in doubtedly does, as in the case of the this and other Universities. Our attention Universities, where undergraduates have has again been directed to the subject by the already been taught in the gymnasia to do quotation of our remarks in the Oxford and their own thinking-produce excellent results, Cambridge Undergraduate'sJournal with fav- but it seems to us that the requirements of ourable comment. New World Universities at present point to It must be acknowledged by every one a necessity for teachers in the truest applica- acquainted with the different systeins of tion of the term. teaching in Universities, that in new and Granting, therefore, that in the hands of struggling institutions such as America pos- a competent Professor the lecture system is sesses, the lecture, system is the only one at peculiarly adapted to our Canadian Univer- present available. We are yet in the pioneer sities, we conceive it to be the duty of those stage, and a few generations will probably entrusted with its working-viz, the college special pass away before American undergraduates professors-to so regulate their are able to enjoy the advantages of individual methods of teaching as to produce the most tuition, as practiced in the English Univer- beneficial results in the case of the students. sities. Until the increasing wealth and pros- It cannot be denied that a large proportion perity of this country permits the introduc- of the time of undergraduates is unnecessari- tion of a similar custom here, the majority of ly wasted by professors, either in needless students must tread the wine-press alone, repetitions, or in the assumption of prior with the assistance afforded by their lecture- knowledge. Another,-and we regret to notes. Text-books are unquestionably in- consider it the .most systematic of any- ferior to the latter, for the reason that a method of wasting the time of students is good lecturer condenses the researches of a the engrossing manual task of writing volumi- whole mob of text-book writers into the nous notes when following a lecturer on an lectures of a single college session. The abstruse subject. Except in a few rare cases lucidity of the latter, of course, depends the mind is not actively employed on the entirely on the ability of the lecturer. subject in hand during the lecture hour, and Excepting the case of the study of lan- the task is reduced to one of mere copying. guages, and some of the sciences, the subjects Probably another hour or two is spent in re- taught in our Universities are mere outlines writing or deciphering notes, and altogether of vast systems, and the professor in each as much time is spent in this manner as department has the privilege of stamping his would have enabled the student to acquire a individuality of thought on the mass of read- pretty thorough knowledge of the subject had ing which fornis the basis of the lectures -for instance-his notes been printed. There delivered to students. And just here we can surely be no good reason why lectures must distinguish between the mere lecturer should not be given daily in printed form to and the genuine teacher. The former writes the students to be followed on the succeeding bis lectures and delivers them without expla- day by a searching oral examination, and any nation or any attempt to make them clear to explanations by the professor a discussion the mind of the student,-the latter moulds of the subject bas rendered necessary. Some the thought of the student by a painstaking such method as this would, we think, not exposé of the difficult passages, and tests the only relieve the student of a large amount of QUEEN'S COLL.E(ý-E JOURNAL. walks of life pense wvhjch men employed in these .lower constant proportioflate to the wvaste of the drudgery, but wotild encourage receive, is generally and as a vital forces. a mastery of the sublect, of performing effort at If woman were more capable tban man gratifying to the strength of consequence be more those tasks whjch reluire such extraordinary direc- superior ability, An occasioflal move in this muscle the world wo~uld recognize her teacher. herself of the op- of the happiest re- and she would, nu doubt, gladly avail tion bas been productive she now receives ? portunity of obtaining more pay than not worth trying further That she does suts-is it for the time she speuds iu lighter tasks. seems to prove not attempt to oust man from his position IN SocITv. is not able. In the case of the TuEPLACE OF WYIAN conclusively that she accorded to man, not in day are aspir- bigher positions which have been tbe wumneu of tbe present tas
bas been yet given. ,We have ebtained a cepy, and pub- Most without exception being merely to obtain a liberal lish it, with the hope that many wbe allowed the matter education. In the United States where the ties of con- at the time te drop eut ef tbeir tboughts will new swell vention are less binding upen wemen than in any other the noble army ef volunteers. portion of the globe, and where wemen have been mem- The list censists of twe divisions;-first, of tbose who bers of the bar and bave occupied the pulpit, we see how promise fer only eue year, thougb they may. and doubt- few comparatively have entered these professions. A less will, if circnmstances permit, centinue for the whele larger number bave entered the medical profession, in peried desired; secendly, ef tbese wbe promise se much some departmeuts of which,it must be acknewledged,they a year for five years : have a betéer rigbt te be, than the members of the 'ruder I. George Stephen, and D. A. Smith, Moutreal, $i,ooo sex. " each; Hon. D. L. Macpherson, Friend, and J. Jaques, If we take the trouble to analyse this new ambition on Toronto, $îoeacb; J. Redden, Kingston, $8o; E. Chown, the part of the ladies whicb bas struck sucb terrer te the Kingston, $50; Rev. H. Cameron, Kippen, $io. bearts of some of tbe strenger. sex, we shall find that tbeir To know the actual amount premised by each douer in object in ceming to the fountain bead te drink of the pure the next list, multiply the sum stated by five. Castalian streams, and sit beneatb the palm tree's shade, IL. Allan Gîlmour, Ottawa; James Michie, Toronto; wvas not, that they might becume pettifoggers at the bar, the Principal, and John Carrnthers, Kingston; $5oo, each. or that tbey might as second or tbird rate divines A. Gunu. M. P,, and G. M. Macdonnell, B. A., King- wring a few paltry dollars from a suffering congregatien, ston; Hon. A. Morris, M. P. P., P. C. and R. Hay, Te- but that tbey migbt, add te their moral pewers a well rente; Sandford Fleming, C. M. G., ChancelIer; $250 intellect and fulfil as far as may be, the higbest trained each. of their being. It is net te the interest of mankind end Mrs. Macuee, Kingsten, $i5o. that any class sbould remain in ignorance. It is felly tben N. F. Dupuis, M. A., J. Fletcher, M. A., R. V. Rogers, te suppose tbat a liberal education weuld net be a great B. A., Friend, J. McMillan, Kingston ; A. T. Drummond, if it could be obtained by a class wbicb exercises benefit, LL. B., James jobusten, Audrew Allan, Jonathan Hodg- snch a mighty influence over our race as wemen, fer edu- son, George Hague, Montreal; Rev. D. J. Macdonnell, in the higbest sense of that term, has been eue ef cation, M.A., James Maclennan, Q. C., A. T. Fulton, J. Kay, metive pewers in the elevatien of ur race tbe greatest Toronto; J. A. Grant, B. A., M. D., J. K. Boeth, A. Gil- from tbe deptbs of barbarism te tbe sun-lit eminence upon mour, Jr., J. Gilmeur, E. H. Bronsen, Ottawa; John it now stands, or rather upen which it advances. wbicb Charlton, M. P., W. C. Caldwell, B. A., M. P. P., Lau- net se perfect as be migbt be, and as, we may Man is ark; D. B. Maclennan, Q. C., Cornwall;. M. Leggat, anticipate, he will yet be, and tbat be with confidence Hamilton; Rev. D. M. Gordon, B. D., Winnipeg, $i00 full possibilities tbe power whicb has te may attain te bis each. a large extent lain dormant in ene wbele section of the Rev. Geo. D. Ferguson, B.A., Kingsten; James Rebert- body polîtic must be breught te its fullest actuality. son, Montreal, $8o eacb. R. Carr Harris, C. E., Kingston, $60. Jobn Watson, LL.D., Folger Bres., W. Nickle, Harper & Craig, J. Swift, William Harty, George A. Kirkpatrick, Principal, at tbe request of the AST May or June, tbe D., Toronto; R. L Trustees, issued te some of tbe benefactors and te M. P., Kingston; Hon. 0. Mowat, LL. all the Graduates of Queen's a circular stating, tbat ad- Gill, Brockville; P. A. Macdonald, B.A., Winnipeg, $50 ditional revenue te tbe ameount ef $7,500 a year was each. W. B. needed te make necessary additions te the staff, and te L. Clements, McKelvey & Birch, Kingston; Perth, provide for anticipated witbdrawal of grants from tbe Smellie, C. E., Moutreal; Rev. James Ross, B.D., Temporalities Fund and otber losses. Tbe University $40 eacb. Rev. J. Car- Council first moved in the matter. Both the Council and Rev. James McCaul, B.A., Montreal; Toronto, $30 each. the Trustees felt that as the payments te tbe subscription michael, King; F. McHardy, Shannon, M.A., H. A. Bayne, D.Sc. John Rob- Of 1878 were net yet completed, it could bardly be ex- R. W. Kingston* pected that anotber $i5o,eoo would be raised ; but tbey ertson, John Duif, and Geo. Robertson & Son, Toronto; M. felt that It weuld be suicidal te draw upen capital, and Andrew H. Malech and Alex. jardine, J. A., Owen Sound; tbey rejected the idea of leaving Queen's, even for a time Kinghorn, Montreal; R. Ferguson, B. in a state of partial equipment, They reselved, there- $25 each. T. fore, te ask for snbscriptions for five years, beginning H. Mooers, R. J. Carson, A. Macalister, G. Hague, May 1883; ail subscriptiens ever tbe $7,500 te be funded, G. Smith, D. D., Kingston; G. L. B. Fraser, B.A., H. G. Walker, John Lauder, or used for new requirements tbat might emerge; and, Hopkirk, J. Gordon, Ottawa; D, Coulson, Dr. D. knowing the constituency of Queen's. tbey resolved te ap- W. Gooderbam, Wm. J. Henderson, D. C. peal by circular instead of by the usual method of personal Clark, Rev, H. M. Parsons, Toronto; M. C. Dawes, J, solicitation. The general success of the new movement Watson, Rev. J, S. Black, Rev. R. Campbell, M. A., has been aIready announced; but ne list of the respenses Montreal; Rev. D. Mitchell, Rev. M. W. McLean, B. A., QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL
TuliE SIENATIE CO RSO D NEWITI< ENTr. E. IE]DUCATrioNAiï DIEP»Ai&rT Rev. R. J. Laidlaw, James Walker, A. Belleville; INSTRUCT(1ION John Armour, E. G TI E MINISTER Or PUrIt Malloch, B. A., M. D., Hamilton; To THE HON. Chatham ; Rev. FOR ONIARio. TOIZoNrO: Malloch, B.A., Pertb; Geo. E. Ireland, B. A., College %vould B. D., Guelph ; T. D. Cumberland, FIHSenate of the University of Queecos J. C. Smith, the Minister of Education B. A. Carillon ; Rev. D.P. Niven, respect.fully represent to ,Winnipeg; And. Bell, with reference to the Order- C. C. Cleaver. M. D., Trinidad; and the Governor-in-Cuncil, Regu- B.A., Mount Forest; J. Of July îst, t882, approving 'Amended Rcv. jas. Cumberland, in-Council 3 Normal Schools,' A. McKillop, B. A., Pembroke; as 10 training of Teachersin the Lavell, B. lations in themselves, J, H. Meilîle, Morrisburg; J. R. that section 111 makes changes inadvisable M.A., Stella; of wvhich is to discriminate R. J. Darragh, M. D., Battersea; Rev. and the inevitable tendency A., Smith's Falls; and under-graduates of ail colleges 8.20 each. against the graduates John Chisboim, B. A., Maxwell, outside of Toronto. B.D., Ches- and universities Kingston; Rev. John Ferguson, teacher's Pro- W. Baillie, The holder of a flrst-class Public .School bey, $15 eacb. is, but a university graduate hereafter Milîs, G. S. vincial certificate High School D. Cbown, Neil McNeil, Thos. is îlot, to ran< as a legally.qualifled assistant Chas. Rev. that wvhen a man has been Richmond, J. McArthtff, F. C, Ireland, master. The Senate considers Hobart, J. T. H. by mneà whose position is a guaran- M,D., F. C. Heath, B. A., taught for four years youth R. McKay, J. Agnexv, the highest kiiîd of educators of D. D., Kingston ;B. N. tee that they are according Maguire, B. A., Rev. W. Bain, be bimnself has been trained to teach Chatham ; A. C. Dun- attainable, judgment of the best Davis, B.A., Rev. J. R. Battisby, to the only methnd tbat. in the W. Ewing, profession is wvorth anything Wardrope, D. D., Guelph; authorities in the teaching To IOP, Rev. Thos. for the act ual work of teaching. B. Sc., Toronto; Rev. Dr. Moore as a preparation he can Montreal; Geo. Ritchie, a man to go to a Normal School before M.A., Charlottetown; P.C. oblige such those already Ottawa; Rev. K, McLennan, to teach, is an additional bar to Desoronto; be allowed the highest class Almonte; R. J. Craig, M.A., existing, the effect of which is to exclude McGregor, B.A., A., While to prevent Gaît ; Rev. H. Cameron, M. of men from the teaching profession. W. G. Brown, B. A., such graduates as assistants is to Ingersol; Rev. J. Car- trustees fromn appointing in Glencoe; W. Briden, B. A., and to restrict themr to men who, M. A., Mount narrow their choice training. M.A., Norwood; Rev. D. Fraser, of the world, have bad an inferior Michael, J. GaI- the judgment the character of Jos. Andrews, Middbeville; Rev. The change proposed affects not only Forest; Rev. also for head masters. Rev. D. ;Strachan, Rockwood future High Scbool assistants, but baher, B. A., Pittsburg; be appointed an assistant, and Rev. Jos. Evans, B. A., Hitherto a graduate could G. McArthur, B. A., Finch; proof, for a sufficient time, of knowing Rev. if he gave practical a head Carolina; Friend, G. R., $io each. how to rote, ho was eligible for St. Paulls, N. how 10 teach and to what is Thorold; Rev. J. J. Cameron, To subject him, in addition, A. McCulloch, B. A., mastership. book examina- a "professional training" or a text M-1A., Pickering, $6 each. called than a superfluity. Pollock, B. A., tion is somethiilg worse W. Dobbs, Portsmouth; P. M. of Rev. F. A., witb regard to undergraduates ;Rev. John May, M. The change proposed under- J. L. Whiting, B. A., Kingston stili more objectionable. An Dingwall Fordyce, the fourth year is induced D. Melntyre, Lindsay; A. one year of his degree is to ho Ottawa; Washilg- graditate, within man which is J. R. Thompson, B.A., Olympia, from that training of the whole Fergus; Rev. to wîthdraw comparatively un- Colemani, M. D., St. John, N. B.; ta ho the highest, to the ington Ter.; W. F. acknowledged 1 or that what is J. B. Dow. B. A., of a Norme School, Rov. G. Mordy, M. A., Walkerton; imotnt routine in Toronto, rom Sep- $5 eacb. ald"aprofessional, thraining"' He is to los a ea Rev. J. Gandier, Fort Coulonge, the Christmas holidayt. Whitby; the tomber till which, but it îrresistibly suggests months' "trainiing.- Another year, This is a goodly list, for this tbree be much better ?" There are on the list to be made coifplllsory, would question, IlWhore are the nine if it is is added to his alumtli, but ten in post graduate university work, and seventy graduates and spent pointed out that some- botweon sixty Cal- college course. And it, must ho are enrolled in the Univorsity's to all undergradu- timos that number thing like a bribe is indirectly offered to publish an additionl list their own Universities, endar. We hope to ho able ates outside Toronto to leave their thus prove that the when they cao take simultaneously before the end of the session, and and attend three months. in vain. collegiate year and their ,professional', not appoal to its readers altogether no such consequence; JOURNAL doos or the Doubtless the Minister intended be sent in to the Principal Soniate to point out the inevitable Rosponsos should but it is the duty of the class of changes proposed. The higher Treasurer. resuits of the a profession more and more repelled fromn mninds will ho them to the extent wbicb evefi at presnt is not attracting to the lowor class of minds wo would ail liko to see, and to the follýowing: I went over are presontod to induce tbemn ()NE of the seniors sends us powerful inducemontS to To- a long evening with Alice somne timoe course, by transferring tbomsolvos intending to spend close cOti- shortefi their had pro- As we Sarturn ber Mars porch in the seats of learniflg they tbemselves tiiTie sinco. ber fair .cboek, ronto, fromn 1 had just touched my lips to viously chosen. Jonction Orion us, camne ouit, ber wehen the old lady, who had had that seem to, them to be Zenith under a cloud. The Senate trust that chanlges brmw blackor than I've ever interest of an attempted over I badn't Earth otigbt to," unnecessary, and in the will "Jupiter ?' sho said. -No, and 1 effects of which they bolieve a Lyra Beta quarter Ilshe said ; centralization, and the be Said 1. IYou-re more." cause of true education, will flot want you coming round to Boýrealis any be injurious to the dont hm,~ikIl~ bo mnuch gratified if the Govern- off-", I dodged and wont pressed. They would "If Uranus cant' always ct one, '-Ex.n flian can planet but he QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL
us when tbey beard that we came from ment would cancel the Order-in-Council so far as it has picion on been referred to in this petition. Queen's. " Anotber tells us, ' tbat tbe Session threat- 1 have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, ened to, lock the door on our student when they heard GEORGE BELL, LL.D., wbence he came." Anotber !"ICao any good Registrar. from thing corne out of Queen's." Anotber: They moder- ates frae Queen's. TORONTO, December 13th, 1882. Sis:-Il amn directed by the Hon. the Minister of Edu- Now, Mr. Editor, the question naturally arises, from cation to acknowledge the receipt. of your letter of the what influence springs these mutterings ? Cao you or from the Senate of l2th inst., enclosing a communication any of your readers inform us? It was always the the University of Queen's College respecting the regula- opinion of the Society, that we were a united cburcb in tions of the Pîst JulY, 1882, on the subject of the qualifica- tions and training of teachers for the Collegiate Institutes feeling, as well as work; have we been mistaken ? That and High Schools. it does not arise from any action of the students, is mani- Minister's careful The communication will receive the fest from the fact that wherever we have sent a man there In the mean time I arn to inform you consideration. from the same source, that the operation of tbe regulations in question bas been is always a -request for another deferred tili ist january, 1884. and very often a petition for the samne individual, and in I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, nine cases out of ten a fiank confession of the change of ALEX. MARLING, at the expressions regard- Secretary. opinion of the people,and regret ing Queen's, ta which they formerly gave vent. Again GEORGE BELL, EsQ., LL.D., ask, whence this undercurrent of feeling ? and wbat is Registrar University of Queen's College, Kingston. we it ? Is it jealousy ? groundless prejudice ? or what ? We ought to know. sa that whatever is wrong sbould be rectified. There is no doubt that such a feeling exists ; and we should THE MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. that it is widespread and carefully fostered, like to know wbo does it. REGULAR. meeting of the Association was held in rWe are sorry that want of space prevents us from the Principal's class room on gtb Dec. The Presi- giving the report in full in this number,-ED.]ý dent occupied the chair, and conducted the opening to pay any students sent out by exercises. It was agreed APOLLONIAN SCHOOL. the Association to do service during the Xmas bolidays, as so far been marked by the the same remuneration as those employed in the summer THE present session oganization of many clubs and societies for the prose- season, It was also agreed to change the hour of meeting cution of particular studies, or the accomplishment of from io a. m., ta ii a. m., in order to allow several arts peculiar aims. One of the foremost in origin and design students wbo have classes then, to attend the meetings. is that organized by the 'theologs- witb the above Interesting reports were read by Messrs. Grant, C~amp- School. Many graduates in theology bell and Steele. Mr. Grant's station last summer was name-Apollonian leaving college-tbough they have gone througb a Eden's Mills, a littie settiement near Guelph. From his on careful and thorough course of training-feel incapable, report the work seems to have flourished tinder bis care, for instance, of speaking freely and readily upon a pass- and from outside sources we learn, that tbe people were age of scripture, if called upon to do so, witbout previous much attached ta bim, and properly appreciate bis ser- In this way many bave become such slaves vices. Mr. Smith of Guelph, dispensed the communion, preparation. Briefs, &c., tbat when without these wben ii new members were added to the churcb. Mr. to M.S.S. Notes, young Walter Scott without the famous Campbell met witb much success at Bentwick and Craw- they are-like Iat sea." How can this evil-for it ford, the two preacbing stations ta whicb he ministered, in button-completely is an ecil-be remedied ? This is one of tbe the Owen Sound Presbytery, There were three different evidently questions whicb the above named scbtipl sets before itself denominations existing in the district, but our student ta solve, At its regular weekly meeting the cbairman reports the greatest barmony as prevailing among the to some member present a text of Scripture, and people, a somewbat unusual state of affairs in the country, gives without any time for preparation, that member is required and no doubt attributable to the good offices of Mr. to speak (as ta a popular audience) upon that text for at Campbell bimself, and those witb wbom be laboured in least ten or fifteen minutes. Wben this is done the other the work. Mr. Scott, of Owen Sound, an old graduate of members of the achool are allowed from two ta five min- Queen's, dispensed the sacrament, and congratulated the remarks, elocution, congregations on their very satisfactory condition. There utes each for.criticizing the speakers's that a popular audience is one feature, in the reports of men from the West, to attitude, and in fact:everything wîth, as well as suggesting additional the Society which of late years bas been painfutly appar- might find fault ta those brought forward by the ent, and that is the antagonistic feeling displayed to aur thoughts on the passage say that this is the college by the eldership and laity in many places. We speaker. The members Ealready subjected. have, during the past five or six years, continually beard severest training ta which they have ever been of New York, one of America's leading pulpit such accounts as these :- The people looked witb sus- Dr. Cuyler 99 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
a course of training as that wonderful faculty of orators, feeling the need of such in the worid. By it wa possess beiflg none such in bis singly or in crowds, that this sehool has taken up, and there swaying men's minds either course of training proofs of man's transcen- days, went through a soinewhat sirnilar furnishes the Most irrefragable his own study-to per- brute creation. Amnongst for montbs-an hour each day in dant superiority over the speaking. Thse school find that eloquence is considered one fect hjrnself in the art of extempore civilized nations we in Seripture elocu- elements of success in c5*mmand- also purposes having regular exercise of the most important readiness to answer confidence of men. If Whitefield the cultivat ion of the human voice, ing the asteemn and tien, that will so patbetically infidels, and everything, in short, could pronounce the word 'Mesopotamia"' cavillers and men, we need not Iworkrnenf that need not be to draw tears from the eyes of strong fit them for becoming as of words 1 Apolloitiait School? It at the effect of bis fuli flowing torrent ashamed." But why cal it the wonder associations down ail before it. Men wbo are to distinguish, it fromn clubs, which irresistably bore is called school professions cannot give naines have becomne too jntenselyv candidates for the legal or clerical and societies, as these It is the higb road wise to christen it wit h mucb attention to this useful art. common. Then it was deemed too success. Christian orator. usefulness as well as to distinguished the naine of some refined and poiished to eminent Paul, at once as we ale wandering very naturally of Apollos, the contemrporary of But we must* stop, The naine hie Nihil,- wbich char- said of bimn (Acts 18.24) that enough front the «,Vox et Praeteraa s3uggested itseif, as it is speakers. migbty in the scriptures'" so many thick beaded public was "an eloquent man and acterizes ALMA MATRaî. been fairly launcbed Thus the Apollonian Schooi bas life with the fairest pros- Opon the restiess sea of college Surey the noble pects of a long and useful existence. approval of before it sbould meet with the aitn it bas set understood that the JoiRNAL doe8 not Be that as it may, the present 'yWe wisb it to be distinatly masy be expressed in every intelligent Man. itselt in any wîa, to the sentimients whieh to experience its invaluable colmit iflembers bave already begun this departiflent. toit, corne what will. More aid, and are determined to stick Apollonian Schooi wiil be Particulars regarding the the JOURNAL. the YournaI given in some future number of To the Editor of on the space for a few lines you kindly allow me the last issue WT ~YsubjectILL broached by II Tempus,- in that more timie be given of the JOYRNAL? The suggestion commend itself examinatiofis is one wbich will NIH11L.-" at the final command "Vox ET IpRAE'1'rUieA and wbicb, I think, ougbt to to Most students, truîy any of its articulations well. As IlTempus- very 9HE human voice, apart from itself to the Senate as as the humarn, tbough fairly weil acquainted a wonderful curiosity. As far states there are mnany who, is is Man's voice causes, unable to superior to the brute, so far their subjects, are, from varions tellect is witb alloted as animiais. It is wonderfui in paper in the short time SUperior to that of all other produce sncb a good of thunder as in Indeedtbere ara.not Sometimes it gives forth tones could ware the time lengtlwned. Compass. At other they perh"aps, slow iedger lina in the base cleif. baing slow wrîters as weil as, D, below the first a few who, any- regions of the feathered in an hour, to give in writing tirnes it ascends into the acrial thinkers, are unable, as in C in the second of .wbat they know regarding 8Ongsters or of the shrill cicadal, thing like a fair statement Between these two mnay be examiried. Now since ledger line above in the terror cleif. the subject on wbich tbey dascanding scale that more to ascertaiti wbat a extremes there is an ascanding and object of an examination is ladder. the bie can commit of a great master painting of Jacob's knows, than in bow short a time retninds us studerit any and the other leans upon there does not seemi ta be Onle end stands upon terra jirma bis knowledga to paper, well-known laws of perspec- way of lengtbenitig the time. a silver cloud, wbere, by tbe insuperable difficuity in tbe a singla line; upoti tbe adopted this principal it was represeuted by almost Professer, at ieast, bas already tive, whispers can be one connectioti of this ladder of sound wbat atîgelic Exams; wby tn t extend it, in steps like in bis montbiy of wbat boarse thunders and demnon to the finals? If the suggestion liSPed above, and cadences witb ail subjacts, be groaned below. More than angel ta, a great boon would ahrieks may By Father Time were given effect in the scale. It is wonderfuî in expression. many another. are beard be conferred on myseif and on it assumnes infinite tbereby SLOW COACH. of the use of articulate langîlage nîeans ini- If, then, we consider the innumerable migbt be remarked in con- ifliportance. or displeasitig intoflationis, and the P.S.-~Anotber thing which flectionsI the pîeasing is that if a period is alloted, it we need not nection ý.with Examinatiois harmonies of which it is capable, to, and there sbould be a entrancing wherever bumiat sbould be strictly adhered be astonisbed at its effect as dispiayed that every Student, on an in- in power, as a use- distinct understandiflg has latiguage is found. It is wenderful by the examiner that the time the thotights of the timation being gtven instrument in giving utterance to in bis papers. As matters at fuI unrivaled and un- expired. must at once hand Mlind it stands alone in the universe, QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOUJRNAL
Monday is that at present a large number of students are present stand those wbo, from fcar of transgrcssing the obliged to remain at home studying on Saturday evening, cxisting rules, Icave off writing at the bour's close, are instcad of atending the meetings of the Aima Mater placcd at a manifest disadvantage to those others wbo Society, and thereby detract considcrably fromn the life of continue to xwrite for, perbaps fiftcen or twenty minutes the meetings and their own pleasure. 1 need not spcak longer. f. thc habit ofstudying on Sunday, whicb is, as every prevalent at college. In fact it is aiways To the Editor of the .ournal: one knows, very a bad sign when a mail comes to classes on Monday EAR SII,-I am glad to sec another cry out against 1 1 morning with bis recitations perfectly prepared, while on thc absurdity of sixty-minute examinations. It is thc othier hand, any man who habitually comes ufipre- one of the evils wbicb ougbt to be rcmedicd, witb the pared is without doubt studying for the church. Now, if vaunted march of improvement. There are xvondrous the unscrupulous man could enjoy bis day of rest on in the new regulations, and many very clianges Sunday, as hie ought, and both hie and his more consci- moves in the rigbt direction, ne doubt, but the good entious rival could work on Monday, it is evident that a will not be complete until a man gets ail the time reform mucb more satisfactory statc of affairs would bc brought bie w~ants to write down wbat hie knows about a subject, about than now exists, The only argument that I have an examination. As long as the test of ability is at heard advanced on bebaîf of the Saturday holiday is the subjeet ce hetnd,- and not 'wivht is his knouledge of there is always more fun s0 nmouy lectures , that it is a general holiday, and '1how miue/ in ait heur cout hc couduise, of on it than on any other day of the week. This may be bave free scepe. The two tbings are the student sbould but there is no reason why Qucen's sbould not be college, solid, truc; quite distinct. We bave many mcn in able to bring about a change, at lcast as far as the schools deep, well read, and baving a tborougb grasp of the mat- in the ciy arc conccrned, and at any rate the principal in time cvcry day to give a ter in band, but slow te tbink, and indifferent pcnmen, classes in thc college arc over of the students ample time for an after- sharp, flippant, sbaliow super- large i nmber wbo arc pittcd against sncjy ment. 1 hope, Mr. Editor, that you will flot pre- ilno'on ficialists, wbo can cram the lectures like a turkey allow this important subjcct to drop, and that we may paring for a Xmas market, and, baving a good memory sce the question tboroughly discussed in thc JOURNAL. Yours, &c., digits, rattie off the gist of the month's work artd-'nimble MONDAY. before bis less sbowy comrade bas wcll begun. It often bappens that a man is se constituted that, as the moment's fiy, and bis tboughts will not take the shape hie would bave tbema do, that bie gets se nervous, as to lose bis head good people for the last fifteen minutes of the bourble is ex-'84, as given the altogether, and A LLEN McROSSIE,N.Y., a rest from bis Sabbatb orations of ability ? I say no! of Riverside, pcrfcctly useless. Now, is this a fair test for a short time in order to wisb bis Kingston friends the and Tempus seems te agree witb me, and ne doubt bie is compliments of the season. the mnoutbpiece of a score of students wbo bave suffered Matt. W. McKay, B.A., '79,' are from the present metbod. if the man who writes fast THE many friends of among us. He bas se as te put as mucb in small compas as bis to sec bis genial face once more can condense comenceýdglad the study of Medicine at the Royal. slow or verbose competitor spins eut in a long paper, Professer wbo wcll and good, hie will not lose by it. The ISAAc NEWLANDS, who belonged to the class of '82, iS examines may be trusted, surely, te judge of a man's among the wanderers who have returned. He bopes to knowlcdge, wbetbcr lest in a maze of words or put in a graduate in the spring. .sbort, pitby way. 0f course, the latter method i s tbe THE fresbman class bas received a new instalment inl but the examinations are net as a best, we aIl know that, the persons of J. C. McLeod, of Kincardine, wbo matricfl- rule te test concise composition, but wbetber the student lated last session; W. Kelly, of Dundas, and Allen, of open arms, dees or does net know tbe brancb of study upon wbicb Kingston. The class bas received tbem witb at it, after tbeir baving borne tbe beat and offers himself te be examincd. I hope te sec the stu- but we wonder bie burden of tbe Concursus. dent of Qucen's allowed ail the time hie wisbes for botb montblies and finals. WE bear that Rev. Geo. McArthur, BA., '81, is shortly 1 amn, Sir, yours, &c., te go into partnersbip witb another Manu. Weil donc, A GRADUATE. your reverence.
WVEEKLY, ilOilIDÂV. A. W. THOMPSON, cx-'83, who lcft us for Manitoba Col- lege, is showing the boys there tbe wortb of Queen's by To the Editor of the Yournal: topping the list in several of tbe exams. Walter Hobart, tbe saine class, appcarcd uuto a few of bis fricnds dur- witb much interest your of 1EAR SIR,-I bave rcad ing tbe Christmas bolidays. He is at Montreal at prescrit. iJeditorial notes on the subject of the weekly holiday, be ghid 1 hope that the change you advocate may soon W. E. D'ARGENT bas again returned to the fold, but the brought about. One of the chief reasons wby the holi- fold intends to turn himi out shortly as a full.fledged Rev- Snow-shoe Club will be livelier than ever now' day which now falîs on Saturday should be kept on B.A. The QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
readers somne- are glad to be able to enlightefl our WE of our mnaîid and hait, and 'vhat as to the condition lady wba xvas divers aiher disease3. Of those fierce HE following lines wcre writtcn by a those suffering from Herald, T city reccntly, an the football, jas.- A, Brownf and Charlie _Lstopping at a certain botel in tbe enthusiasts of of ours,and student wbo xvas present with a knee nearly as good as one evening of a class reunian. A J im returns Douglass feels ta suggests that she must be an makes things liviely on a crutclb. on the occasion refcrrcd Charlie Xrnas. John Hay, tronblcd witb indigestion : the better of bis siopýe home before old maid are feeling the resuits Of Wc bave listened ta tha noises, B.A. '82, and Charlie Cameron on ta the cbcering John mournfullY spent bis vacation To tlîe shouting, too bard lvork. are glad to have listencd ta the cat-calîs, but flowery beds of ease, but, as we We anytbing so00 to be again in the To the stamping, ta tbe jeering, report, be bas revived and bopes Charlie, poor boy, under- And bave came ta the conclusion bosom of bis fellow-Theologs. pups, of losing bis.bead, and altbough That of ail fatiguing Went the painful operation days after loonisb, turned right side up agaîn a few, The mast be pluckily we would ad- most baboonisb, re-opened, be doesn't loOk l'el', and The College In M1onroe Nve have a Most buffoonisb- vise bim to give himself a rest. ;he is down witb the is a student in bis cups. clear case of parental indiscretion want the crime of inatcd aid mneasles. I hydo not af tbe senior year, beld door we hope tbey will kecp frm l . AT a meeting of the members at their countenance wil Mr. James V. Anglin was unani- draughts. Do this, anrdDonald'sjovial on Monday aftcrnaan, at and grows fat on the campus. to represent tbe class as Valedictorian b e seen again as be kicks mnously chosen of anc or Convocation in April. The namres tbe closing tbey declined Somerville, B.A. '8i ather gentlemen were mentioned, but BENNETT, B.A., and James two congratulate JOH1N the beginning of a new candidates for the bonour. We believe in commencing study at ta ecome in Divinity Hall. Mr ngnu year, bence their tardy appearance Sunday, January TiHE services in Convocation Hall on A. GRANT, B.A. '78, wbo left us and took as who JAMEs Unjver5ity, Montreal, ha conducted by Rev. Prof. Nicholson, in Medicine at McGill 14 tb, were fromn tbe text course in England for the degre:e of a powerful and effective discourse lately passed bis examuination preacbed am came ta give of Physicians. 12; 51). "'Suppose ye that I Licentiate of the Royal College Luke 1 rather division.' peace on earth? I tel yau. nay; but Qucen's bas gone. We R old and tried friend of purpose offer- ANOTHE Esq., of Toronto, a Trus- wants ta know if the Senate refer ta the late James Michie, AN enquirer year. We cannat Queen's loses a generons sup- a prize for the best paem, this tee of our College. In bimn 1 ing suggest that if such is notice is deferred unti next answer the question, but wauld Porter. A more extended let it be known as soon as issue. their inîtention, tbey sbnuld possible. but on* any of our married students smile, IT is seldom of the class of is a yaung freshman at Queen's, morning, Jany. 15, D. J. Hyland, THEEE scenes, M'Ionday looking as bappy as the proverb- Who frequents tonsoril *85, appeared at College down is s0 thin ial clam. It is a son. But the That's removed fromn bis chin, veritable waste of bis means. city a few dayS aga. 'Tis a DR. OLDHAM, '8i, was in the w«w recently good bealtb of the English Literature Class CHoWNN, '8o, bas returned in A MEMBER room, by an DR. HARRY H. studying in has sînce been confined ta bis England, wbere hie bas been injured, and and spirits fromn up witb a tour on the con- accidental dîscbarge of duty. the London hospitals' finisbing intends sbortly ta locate in tinent. We underst'and be wbole armny consists of A CERTAIN Prof. says that bis Hamiltun. staid senior ta the verdent fresh. ca1îrmen from the and, of u library-tbe ponies, our old friend Rufus Ovens plie h e s 'r the Bo bebavioUr im- WE have beard fromn ill-health from He su adds, tha nless the future of '83. Tbough probibited by be furtber the class keeps up bis proves, bell also add the boots. college this year, he very sensibly attending tbat bie gets the JOURNAL associations by seeiflg tbanks of the students are college COLLEGE SaNG BOOK.-The regularîy. '83, for aur new book of College due ta Mr. .W. J. Sbanks, for the ago bas specially arranged and adapted '78, who located not long sangs wbicb he published at W. B. KENNEDY, M. D., many friends will be &lad College. The book is Brainard, Minn., bas. as his students of Qucen's city bookstores. at up a lucrative prattice at (25 cents), and is on sale at the to bear, already worked himiself cost priceý of the book, and tbase student shoulfi bave a capy Every one shauld see ta it at wba have not already purcbased at ten are beld every Saturday morning study of mankind is man,'an once. Practices are conducted by LoGIC.-, THE proper But every study shouîd in Convocation Hall, wbicb the terni man includes woman. o'clack Conducta for Queen's shtiUld F. C. Heath, B.A., Musical ail students Mr. one, came al! be ardently embraced.-~Therefore, College Glee Club. Corne ardently embrace,, etc-Q. E. D.-Ex. a .yaung lady friend of his "-I need thee every hour, A SOPHOMORE dlaimns that it A GIRL worked the motta: it ; it takes read 'Hamlet,' but soon gave it ta him. He says bie can't help told bim tbat she began ta aind Presented feed the pigs, and with Shakespeares' spelling; hlm. tWO hours ta milk the cows and up, disgusted buiness has ta be attended to.-Ex. QTJEEN'S COIJLEGE JOURNAL.
Will any gentleman in the =HEN atbandsome girl drops her handkerchief for a PROF. in chemistry class-"' gentleman to pick up, it mnay be that she wants to flirt class give me sumo properties of Marsh gas?" No reply. the legs of you are very stupîd, him,iand it may be she wants to splinter P'rof. -" Well, gentlemen, eitber w ithis gbt trosers ail to pieces.Ex or careloss, or perbaps 1 am lecturing too fast, and not quite clear enougb."' A PRETTY youflg girl full of pique, " gas' is not very luminous." Loud A junior- Marsb spique, applause. Got down in the mouth su to And when peuple laugbed She thought she was chaughed, SENIOR LATIN, A student is asked to translate, but And stayed in the house for a wique.-Ex. responds witb tho universal negation. Prof. 'But you have not been able to translate for "A Kiss, dear," he said, several days, Mr. M, How is it ?" 'Ils a noun, we allow, Student 'I haven't gut a translation of this Horace But is it proper or common, yet, Professor.'' Canst thon tell me now?" -Why, I think,' she replied, Ir may not ho generally knowxn that we have a figbting To speak nothing boath, editor on ur staff. XVe have une, bowever, althougb ho While ber visage grow red, this ses- bas had notbing tu do, professioually speaking, 1 think it is both.- the stafi was assem- "Wy, sion until a fev days since, Wbile tlîinks su, too, and they at once proceed to iu the temporary sanctum, the ýNB.-He bled in solemu conclave put the theory loto practice.].-Ex. door opened and a certain Sophomore entered, flashing rage, and declared bis inten- as to bis eyes wvitb extreme music)-"Do you know the scribes into su many grease spots, MISS SOCIETY (idly turning ber tion of converting begin to Fall?'"- Fresb. (thougbt- been insulted by somne references in this 'Wbon the Leaves ho baving generally along in the first two weeks Ho %vas politely listeued to and introduced tu fully)-"Why, yes, colnmn. It depends somowhat on the weather." -Ex. the figbting editor, and the chief scribe baving kindly of October. cunsented to act as referee, and two others as seconds, the war commenced. The first round xxas highly excit- 1AN anxious enquirer " wishes to know why a stupid, ing, both parties striving to make as much row and do as awkward fellow is called a "muif." \Ve are flot very sure little figbting as possible, util, urged by the melodions but we think it's because nothing but a muif will hold a encouragement of bis confreres, the JOURNAL man went lady's hand without squoozing it.-Ex. in and cleared ont bis opponent in fine style, finisbing off enemy's by depositing une of bis pedal extremities in the ANALOGY. Prof: "Mr. T., you may pass on second round did BUTLEk'5 beft uptic. Time i min., 36 sec. The to the 'Future life." Mr. T.: "Not prepared." ot last long, as the mon at once clasped and the scribe was tbruwn. The referce, however, disallowed the faîl as 39) sec. A sopEomoRE, a village girl, the clasp xvas nut exactly commpe il faut. Time a brigbt full moon, to get serions, and A swinging gate, Iu the third round, ur man began softly, ''Little Pearl, the ruom. Ho. had one decid- He whispers made things lively around l'Il come back again, yes, very soon. ed advantage, in that bis fist was su large that every time su great ho delivered a blow, it caused a draugbt of wind A tear bedims a brigbt blue oye, that it quite took away bis opponent's breatb. Finally Two rosy lips begin to pont; ho- the enemy %vas obliged to retreat in disorder leaving A short, sweet kiss, a long, sad sigh, bind as trophies a quarter section of bis mortar-board He goos. She puts the hall lamp out, and a portion of bis toga. Time i min.,' 59 sec. The scribe baving been congratulated ou bis success, and bis "He's surcly caugbt, the silly lad,'' wounds baving been treated xvlth Bnrdock Blood Bit- She says; "ýhe bas an awful mash." tors, the business of the meeting was procoeded with. "Pour tbing ;' he says, "lshe bas it bad, The figbting editur bas nuw fnlly recQvered from bis in- He calmly coaxes bis moustache. juries, and is ready to attend to any business ofi bis office -Hamnilton MontJîly. \Ve may mention that bis flgbting weight 15 175 lbs.. from the Westminster play: CharrinusExIRACT's Tu pal non sobrius es. ais? Non ego sobrîus? At me tutota- lus,Byrrbia-Quid ordo inter discipulos gaudet habere sucs. Lac et aquam poto, non vini turpe vonenum. ACHICAGO yuung man, lu a rash moment, told bis Chr-T nunquam Bacchi pocula grata bibis? Agirl that if she would bang up ber stocking on Byr.-Nunquam.. Christmas ove ho would fill it to the brim witb sometbîng Linnaeus-Quid? Nunquam. nice. Ho bas since seen ber stocking, and is undecided Byr-Vix Nunquam. Ex. wbether to get into it bimself or buy ber a sewing ma- chine-Ex. JONES-' What did you tbink of my argument, Fogg ?, Fogg-"It was sound, very sound (Jones delighted), a brick. WHEFN oscar Wilde saw Niagara Falls be exclaimed nothing but sound, in fact'" Jones reaches for 'Bulk, but né beauty.' Wben a little Detroit boy flrst -Ex. saw 'the sublime cataract he solemnly whispered: like taking my bat off to God.' That is 'Mamma, I feel by the accidentai between embryo idiocy and embryo A CORNELL man was lately injured the difference bis duties. mnanhood.-Ex. discharge of QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. 7, 1883. No. 9. CANADA, FFBRUARY VOL. X. KINGSTON, meet A Nlation OTHER whiçh petition we feelis just sure now wilin circu- undergra- the approval not only of the with once during the Session by the of the Senate as wei, when Publjshed IN TWELVE NUMBEFRS duates, but UniversitY. before them. The SOCIETY of Queen's matter is broi.Wht ALMA MATER the of ex- STAFF: ask that the programme petitioflers public say two Mas oging Editoy, may be mnade A. McLACHLAN, - aminatiofis agony actually begins, EDITING COMMITTEE weeks before the only two days notice, SOMEFRVItLEF, B.A. instead of our hiaving DiViltity-JAMES years. The reason- Medicine-T. A. MOORE, W. G. ANGLIN. SON as has been usual of late B.A. R. M . DENNISTUN that no Arts RODERICK McKAY, of the request is so obvious F. W. JOHNSTON. ablefless J. S. SINuNER. The change would J. J. WRIGHT. comment is necesSarY. A. G. FARRELL. 1 or inconvenience Secretary-Treasulrer. not entai any extra labour GEO. F. HEINDERSON, be a Io cents. of the Senate, and would Session, $1-00; single NumberS, on the part TERMS:-Per A. Mc- to the students. should be addressed to source of great satisfaction Matter for publication P. O. letters to GEO - F. HENDERSON,' LACI4LAN ; Business see an "editorial" Ont. would like to Drawer 1'46, Kingston, W TE in our university. xvith the namne of the VYcourse introduced The Editor mnust be acquainted local or literary. one, as we understand author of any article, whether The idea is not a new American col- such a course existS in sorne by that "an editor is was last week honoredi leges. ;It may be true 0 UR sanctum Fleming, C.E., a suitable training a visit from Chancellor born, not mnade," but secured for him- professiQn as weil C.M.G. Mr. Fleminlg has would, be desirable for this of the presefit gen- to be success- Self a place in the hearts as for any other. An editor, neither tirne nor education, but if of students which fui, requires a good getieral eration can change. Classics, from the University this extended over Literature, Separation have always been and History, The interests of Queefl's Philosophy, Political Economy identified himself sufficient. As part of his interests, and he has the course would be rapid advancemfent. work on the JOURNAL, \vith every step of our such a course, active to see the Uni- of special essays and Chancellor Fleming live as weIl as the writiflg May done 50 much We do flot versity for which he bas criticjSs should be prescribed. to any other in this the JOURNAL which second in no particular wish to see a staff for of every man in by the Senate, is the hecarty wish would be influenced directly Dominion management of the college. but we do think the chief in the past have to one or perhiaps two But the Chancellor's visits this paper equivalefit of better things presefit Art's course. We alWaYs been the forerunners classes in the that this one see an editorial course, to corne, and we are informed trust we shall soofi The plot will not be the Art's course, pub- is not an exception. in connection with But we lished in our calendar. fullY worked out till Convocation. WVill not anticipate. 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long trial to demonstrate this fact. The Çs OME time ago we advocated the substi- ~'tution of a high standard obtained at advantages arising from the introduction of the monthly examinations in place of the a system based on the foregoing suggestions, final, and called for the views of the students seem to be nurnerous ; the disadvantages, if upon the miatter. No response has been there are any, have yet to be shown. made, but the idea, if developed, would be so productive of good that we hesitate to ST is, perhaps, scarceiy w'ithin the province allow it to be entirely forgotten. We sug- 'of college journalism to discuss the ques- gested that students who obained a certain tion as to whether the study of shorthand average standard at ahl the monthly exami- should be introduced into the catalogue of nations, should be excused frorn writing at Common and High School studies. the final or university examination, and in We may, however, in so far as the training support of snch a system it was shown that in these schools is Prefatory to, a University cramrning, the greatest evil a student must course and a consequent professional life, contend against, would be, to a great extent point out that so long as the present lecture unnecessary. This fact alone shouid be suf- system continues, a knowiedge of shorthand ficient to recommend it to the Senate, and wiil prove itself to be one of the most valu- to the students. But in addition to that it able aids to the student who purposes taking would excite more interest in these examina- such a course. That it shouid be so, needs tions. The institution of awarding prizes only to be hinted, as the arguments in its has been abandoned. These were determined favor are so numerous and self-evident that by the results of the monthly exams., and no one would think to question it. have always been a great inducement to To ail those who anticipate a college regular attendance. Already this session we course we would suggest the advisability of notice students are neglecting the regular acquiring a knowledge of shorthand, both as monthly examinations because, they say, "It a rneans of lessening the drudgery of ciass- makes no difference." We should be sorry work, and as an accomplishment which xviii to see these exarninations faîl into serious be of constant service throughout a profes- neglect. Sucb a state wouid be against ahl sional career. traditions of the cohiege, and a step in a wrong direction. By means of them we have a training that nothing ASeverything seems quiet about the college, and pro- else can give, fessors and students have taken themselves off, and and that we cannot afford to lose. What John does flot appear to be lurking anywhere with broom then would be better calculated to insure and poker, 1 think III go out for a littie ramble. There their continuance, and their being made a is one nook which I specially delight in-that is the cup- board below the stairs. Now that the letter-box is out of proper factor in the course of every student, use, and some one has kindly removed the Y. M. C. A. than the systemn which has just been pro- hymn-book receptacle to the classical c]ass-room, there iS posed. Certainiy there must be something littie danger of being disturbed in that retreat even i to give permanence to the monthlies, and it broad daylight. I always avoid that corner of the closet where the blackc bottles were last winter. 1 hate, above does flot appear that anything else but our ail things, stale whiskey smells. I wonder if Coleridge suggestion wiil do so. The training and had a snuff of them when he got off that stanza about practice which is received by attending, is odours. His mind must have been running then Or' flot sufficiently apparent to students, so that something more material than Universal Spirit. But if 1 talk bookishly, Dr. Bell will be setting a trap for ni> we may be sure, they will not attend for the benefit in the Librar>'; so, as Tom Sawyer said, 'munms sake of these alone. It will not require a the word.' But the other corner, into which the old QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
reference to the first-year man was flot wholly unpardon- are swept, is the spot I frequent most refer papers and notices able. Yet-I must say wbat I mean-the pointed extrerneîy inquisitive about ail the doings ncthing of ail. I am ence to a feature of Mr. Freshman's face was and, as I have no means of getting a on Of the students, short of mean. To attack a man from behind a fence, while they are on the bulletin to giimpse of the notices a dark night, is the part of an assassin, and to attempt be satisfied with devouring the nexvs in board, I bave ta hurt any person's feelings-I do not care whose-wvhile I find that severai things have changed sorne- is the part of the closet. you are yourself incog. and behind a rnask In the first place I arn really be to what since last session. a coward and a sneak, His best reparation would about lost rubbers, lost But pieased ta see sa few notices apologise, or if not that, at least to deciare himself. I neyer rigbtly understood gloves and lost note-books. the sentiments of mice are evidently not current amnongst We are told that riches bow these things disappeared. at least a certain ciass of students at Queen's. but I neyer heard believe take ta themselves wings and fly away, But what is John doing ? iighting the gas. I ta oversboes. This, 1 Of a similar remark being appiied I quite forgot in mny nîusings that this is lecture night. But there are other then, is a decided improvement. must escape to my ',wee bit housie' 'wi' bickeringibrattle' I seidom read an If I have matters not so pleasant. For instance, for there are few men like Robbie Burns. and scored that that they announcement that is nat 50 scratched nibbled any toes, my advice t'o their owners is it. The tendency whips one can with dîfficuity decipher hereafter keep their boots on. I have only used must almost amangst some students ta disfigure notices when I rnight have used scorpions. that these family must be amaunt ta a mania. I arn fuily persuaded Hello 1the nest is empty The whole for one too, for I know a students must be Fresbmen. The handwriting, off already to tbe lecture. Imust go, na one, I see evprything, reasan, seemis tatally new ta me, and besides littie cranny, from whjch 1 can hear and giviflg believe, could be a full session at Queen's without heard my grand- tKATrING RKENK FoR& over practices 50 unstudent-like. I have A CURLIý]NG AND being a callege QUIEEN'S. father, wbo hàd nat the privilege of a public school, mause, but spent most of bis life in is said ta repeat itseif. Coliege journaiists played tricks like that. HISTORY say that the youngsters there are known to do so. But ta human depravity must bimself fit for callege should put But one who deems be attributed the cause. Some time ago in these columns tbings, else, in my opinion, he had a Curling away such cbildish a friend of the students rnooted the idea of Everytbing like pens better returfi ta a public scbool. Rink in connectian with the University. His suggestion, from those possessed with This glori- and pencils should bc taken however, as we ail know, bas been set aside. until they get beyond their baby- wjth its this cacoethes scribeadi ous oid fasbioned winter we are experiencing, of right and wrong will not again tha t hood. But perhaps my ideas huge snow heaps and biting frosts, reminds us with intelligence. an institution pass muster witb beings endowed a curinîg shed ta which we migbt resort is inta the Senate's courted in Speaking of annauncements, I got greatiy needed and desired. Football is flot two singularly sen- have seemed waste-baskest the other day, and saw rnidwinter. At any rate aur students neyer if I remember holidays at Christ- satianal bulletins about a band and a circus, inciined ta kick out of doors after the of the magi rightly, I migbt have tbought it was a joke mas, though clubs elsewhere keep at it ail the winter, eavesdropping, The game in themselves, bad I nat overbeard, wbile beating the snaw inta a bard, level plain. and learned fram croquet on ice, ta whicb some students discussiflg the matter, winter is certainiy preferable ta spirit. Well, for not keep- t hem that one of thetflselves was the maving .Montreaiers resart. Perbaps the reai reason I ever saw. That may be found of ail notices those were the very worst ing the baIl rolling ail the seasan through, less than archangel football is enough, and a mnoving spirit must be consideraby in the fact that two months' >spots, if I seeks rest; ruined.' I could bave appreciated the clever change is saught for. It is said that the heart be taken as unkind The bead contrais the were flot quite sure that they would the head excitemefit and change. ta introduce names baw deligbtful a resor t the foot- Cuts. The fellow had the audacity foot, bence noa matter absurd altogether. It a time we cry , enougb. " If from the Senate. Tbatwas toc, bail campus may be, after the swan and craws as it is doubtful if vie wauld be will be samething like the fable of we were confined ta one thing the feelings that we bbar of, who was far as the Seniate is concerned. But as content and grateful as a theologue must have been an his circuit witb rabbits, prampted that part of the production presented every where be welst I asked ta say grace was going ta say ungentlemanllybut for breakfast, diflfer and supper,and when thoroughly...I not be able ta aid rabbits hot like unmanly better. But a mouse may hé burst out "Rabbits young and rabbits That allusion rare and rabbits tougb, thank iudge as ta manly and unmanly conduct. and rabbits cold, rabbits that the author of the this is a hiarey digres- ta a flrst-year qXian shows, at least, the Lord for rabbits enough'. But points ta bis being gymnasium is resorted ta ; farce was not himseif a Freshmnaf, and sion. In midwinter manths the or disfigured on the faotball field, in mind a certain occurrence at their flot by ail that figured a Senior, who had of the notice, ail kinds present re-union. He was, from another portion but oniy by the few. There exercises of 1 do nat cangratulate The freshie may learn the flot a member of the Y. M. C. A. themiselves in endiess variety. However, bis the fourth year if my surmises be correct. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. use of the horse, a nobler creature than bis pany; the soph, Honourable John Hamilton, the venerable Chairman of may strengthen leathern lungs; the junior may feel the the Board of Trustees, and we have now ta maurfi the deligbts of being suspended, while the senior may take his lass of another of its members, the late Mr. James Michie. first lesson in climbing. Every organ of the body may be Mr. Michie was born in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, developed, from the tangue ta the toe. But let a ray of Scotland, and came fromn thence ta Toronto in 1845. He sunlight pierce this arena, and what a study far an atomist entered the employmrent of the mercantile bouse of A. in the dust kicked up by the agile campany. Samewhere Ogilvie & Ca., of wbicb bis uncle, Mr. George Michie, we have read the opinion af one af Germany's first phy- was a partner. He remained witb that flrm until '1853, sicians concerning cansumptives, that if he cauld keep bis wben the present firm of Fulton, Michie & Ca. was lunged patient amid fresh and verdant faliage free fram formed. He was also a partner in the wbalesale firm of inhaling anything but pure air, he cauld restare him ta Gea. Michie & Ca. In varions matters af public interest he strength. Certainly the involved principle in this treat- was chosen ta fill positions for which be was eminently ment, is true. Exercise in a canflned raom in which the fitted b'y bis sound judgment and integrity. He was a numeraus athietes cause a Sahara claud ta be canstantly director of the Bank of Commerce, Vice-President of the suspended is daubties nat the best. It may assist ane Freehold Loans and Savings Company, director and member of the body ta the detriment af anather, but af treasurer of the Dominion Telegrapb Company, director course such exercise will always be loaked an as better than of the Western Assurance Company, and a member of ne. the Board of Trflde. He was as generous and charitable But better than ail body invigorators would be wbat we as be was prasperous in business. One action cannat be are re-suggesting- a Curling Rink. Its atmosphere would amitted ta be mentioned wbicb of itself wauld show the be healtbful, its exercise exbilarating and flot ton severe. generasity of bis nature. His late uncle, wba originated Pleasureas wellas benefit would be derîved. The need- the Home for Incurables, Toronto, left a legacy of $2,000 ed union of the students would be helped by getting up ta the institution, pravided it was establisbed in three friendly matches. Surelyit isnfot unfitting for aCanadian years ; and altbougb that period bad long elapsed before, university of Scotch descent ta take the initiative. If na anything was done in tbat direction, the deceased, wba friend will immortalize himself by putting up a suitable was residuary legatee under the will, carried out bis building, it would flot be unseemly for the authorities ta uncle's intention, and likewise added a substantial sumn. erect it. The cost would be low, and once establisbed it The very unexpected intelligence of bis deatb on the would be a paying institution. We hope this may prove ï3 tb January last was received in Kingston witb expres- seed sown on good ground, and that aur suggestion may sins of' general regret. Wbile yet apparently in the fuill soon be acted upon. vigaur of life in one short week be had been called away. Mr. Michie was well known ta the friends of Queen's University as one of its most efficient Trustees and mos-t in][NuTEi 0F UNKVERITIIv CUCL U LrATE JAUFIS 1fICIE. generaus benefactors, and ta ahl as the unaffected Christian meeting, adopted man wba amid the cares of an extensive business took HE University Council, at its recent T thefollowîng minute in reference tothe lamented death delight in aiding, nat merely by pecuniary assistance, al- by bis personal and of two of the Trustees, the Honourable John Hamilton tbaugb that was neyer wanting, but bow- and Mr. James Michie: active exertions, in every good work. We cannot, "The Council unanimously resolved ta record their ever, do better than record in the columns of the JOURNAL deep sense of the value of the services rendered ta the a short extract from the toucbing notice of bis decease by University by the late Honourable ,John Hamilton, Chair- bis pastor and intimate friend tbe Rev. D. J. Macdonnell durmng the long period of man of the Board of Trustees, an tbe Sabbath immediately after: thirty-three years. His high character, bis mingled dig- nity and courtesy, and7bis constancy and earnestness in "As a trustee of Queen's College and a member of the promoting the interests of the College, have had no slight Temporalities Board many of us know baw valuable and influence in strengthening the attachment of its friends;- iunselfish were bis services ta the Churcb at large. He and wbatever differences or difficulties have arisen since was the belper of many a good cause. Many a country of the University, be bas always been the cburcb, as well as every city charity, counted him amofig the foundation a poor bject of the respect and esteem of every one connected its benefactors. Many a struggling man-many with it. family-had reason ta bless bim. I neyer went ta bimi ini ",The Council record their deep sense of the loss sus- vain-and I went often-to ask for belp towards any good tained by the University by the recent deatb of Mr,.James abject. Large-hearted and liberal, he stood out as a noble Michie, of Toronto, a member of this Council. Noted example ta, rich men in the use of maney. He was pros- for integrity and energy in business pursuits, for generous perous and no one grudged him bis prosperity. ,Wber' liberality in behaîf of Queen's College, and of Church the ear heard bîm, then it blessed him, and when the eye support and extension, and in response ta every deserving saw him it gave witness ta bim. The blessing of hiln, ca il of charity,-and for bis amiable and gentle nature in that was ready- ta perisb came upon bim; and he caused social life, be was respected and beloved wherever known. the widow's heart to sing for joy. The Council now mourn the loss of one of the most de- On the follawing Lord's day, in a sermon ta the congre- voted friends of this University." gation of wbicb the late Mr. Michie was a pramirlent We took occasion in a former number of the JOURNAL member, the Rev. Principal Grant, who knew himn welî, to refer at some length ta the decease of the late thus spoke of him: QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
We say, tirst, that those systems of philosophy whicb not for me to refer to what hie wa s to this congre- the knowledge of God, are insufficient for the good -It is not unfit- exclude of gation. That bas been donc alroady, but it is of the human race. By the wrds -The knowledge. that I ahould tako this opportunity of testifying how we include ail that scripture teaches concerning ting can God,- attributes; a wido commuuity sympathizes with you. Especially the Deity. Not only His existence, but His of the University of Queen's Collogo, His general relation to the universe as its I apeak as Principal and not only to at w'boso Trustee Board ho bad sat for many yoars, and Preserver, but His particular relation willingnîess Author and Saviour. where bis modesty and practical wisdom, bis men as Father, Judge, Law-giver, Avenger him a deserved Their theories to serve and ready liherality, had given There are atheists, although not many. I knew bim personally, and loved bîm their littie day, grown old, and if not quite place of bonour. the have lived un- He was a true man ; for he combined dead, they are not far from it. Finding their position as a brother. of a and revela- of a cbild and the tondernOess and purity tenable before the attacks of science, reason simplicity a man. He was it and taken refuge WOman with the strongth and courage of tion, they have practically abandoned that bis chief charactOria- called Agnosticism. The Agnostic a brave man, and 1 considered in a new citadel, he may flot have thougbt so. Ho wvas deny the existence of God; neither does tic, thougb many does not abont it. witb that rare moral courage that does not despair it. He owns that hie knows notbing brave who en- affirm does on the weaker spirits faint. He was the first man afflrms that you know no more than he wben wben He 'that nothing can my predecessor to appeal to the Churcb subject, and hie lays down the axiom *Couraged point. He This last principle the fortunes of Queon's wvere at their lowest be known of the personality of God.'" me iu the.work scores of books written in was the first man iu Toronto te, encourage has had already scores upon ago. What sbould wo learu of it. Some arguments are so ably constructed; *to which 1 camne five years support scientific This, that goodness, unsolfishuesa, sophistry is so cleverly veiled under fromn bis death ? their made a special are the qualities that do most gond in the terras that plain people, that have neyer purity of heart, otherS. themselves utterly and that makes the deepest impression upon study of these subjects, may find world, loved. This, and uneartb thefallacieswhich He loved mucb, therofore be was mucb unabletouriravel the tangle, wîtb tbe samoe bold and often unscrupulous asser- again, that oach of us sbould be inspired bide themselves under 50 we shall wish here to do more than to s0 we saal best honour bis mnemory, tion. Therefore we do not spirit; doatb." of this whole question which live nobler lives, so shall we triumnph over present you with an aspect hearer can appreciate. We do not in- every intelligent Looking to discuss the cause s0 much as the effect. tend we dlaim it is at the effects of agnosticism on mankind needs. It is, indeed, applying the ru!es Rev. Charles 'insufficient' for our afternoon, January 2 îst, the their fruits ye shaîl know them.- N Sunday in Con- given by Our Lord, "By of Montreal, conducted the services shown a golden powder, highly perfumed, 0J Doudiet, the following able dis- We might ho as an vocation Hall, wben ho dolivored every respect, and be urged to use it attractive in We are course: toilet, as a most precious cosmetic. unte Hini, Lord show us the Father and article of ? Yes. John XIV. 8.-'ýPhilip saith wby dozeýns refuse it? Is it not beautiful it Sufficeth us." asked it may ho, popular systems of deadly. It is a rank poison. Slow It is well kuuwn that one of the most But it is strength, in- wbicb denies tho possibîlity It saps our health; destroys our modemn philosophy is that but sure. Such a powder ia father of bis cbildren. The per- flicts unspeakable torture. It kilîs. of knowing God as the of it what Alfred' de for us, wbo hoarotb and answeroth agnosticisma to us. We mnay say sonal God wbo careth French poots of our age says Iu view of this fact we propose to consider Munet, one of the greatest prayer. to tho Lord "Wbat have we been working at, tîriefly tbis accidentai roquost of an apostle himself of his atheism. upon bis than Pbilip demolishers, when.we dissected Christ mucb deeper in its meaning we stupid His beavenly j esus, a request the Father, and it Wbat were we goiflg to sow on Ihm self bad tbought. -,Show us altars? to the winds, we tomnb, when casting the Holy Dove Sufficoth us.- down eternal siace? upon it, the more also wo are sent it bleeding, wbirlirig is The more we reflect bare a world according t3o our fancy. It in the conclusion that this question lays We have made strengtbened Christian struc- sublime. But men die in its breath! very foundation stonies of the wbole grand. It is 1But the known, humanity is dead, we believe no more in priests If God, as the Father, can ho Hypocrisy kuow God!" ture. every sufficiont mno- is dying, for we no longer May find in that sublime knowledge, virtue to say, tbat our in the direction of ail that We do not wisb to be understood tive for its moral dovelopmnent work to kili virtue and, ;and if God, as the Fatber, cannot modern philosophers knowingly is beautiful and good Neither did Voltaire and tbe if tho SupremLe Being is to be a mere abstraction; destroy the bopes of mon. beknown; dream that tbey were doing anytbing think of Hlm only as the ,Unknowable,'11 mon of bis school, tbougbt if men can wyill romain that wi be to the welfare of bumanity. They it is bard to see wbat inducemnefts destructive iu the and spiritual ad- their philosopby, like new blood, transfused Sufficient to insure the moral well-being tbat and regenerate the race. Take away the Persoflal veins of a dying main, would renew vancement of tbe humnan 1 men of the agnostic scbool the truth of what Christiafis cal His world. And thus the best Living God, deny In such of the world. But you have a world witbotit hope. prefer to work for the amolioratioti revolation, and cbarlty, their principle of an unknowable can we find sufficiont motives of can tbey effect it witb a WNorld whore 'wben times We think not. and solf-denial. lnu cba world God? bave any mutual love shall we look for unknowable it follows tbat we cannot of darknoss and affliction comne, wbere If God is bave any that the good we do bn the world will consolation and peace? certainty give us to do it. in two parts. reward than the satisfaction it may Our subject divides itself most naturally other of will moot wbth wbat appears to us te in- tbat tbe evil that we are guilty In the flrstwe will try to show Also, earth somotirnes affords excludes the knowl- othor punisbment than tbat whicb 3Ufflciency of that pbilosophy which broad views and philan- Iu the second, the sufflciency of the gospel us. There are somne mon Wbose edge of God. to gîve largely.of their means, 5 only rest on the assumptlon tbet throi despotismi will lead educate the igno- Ytem, wbich does ot andi 1abor, to relieve the destituto, but preseuts bim to man asth tim of God can be known, 1 concerning and civilize tbe savage. Sme Finally, we wil Idd a few remarks ant, raise the fallen, rather. Jesus Christ, agnostiC5. but the immense majority the central figure of the Christiani systemn, these may have beon WNho bas revealed the Father unto mon. 108 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. have been Christians. Believing in a personal God, the work. We see it in the existence of sons of Christian Father of men, they believed also in the brotherhood of mothers, who deem themselves too intelligent, too wise, mankind, in a reward beyond that of their own feelings, too far advanced to frequent churches, or even to grant in a treasure laid up in heaven. The good we do is not that 'Unknowable' they have enthroned on Jehovah's seat un-seldom repaid by ingratitude, sometimes by hatred. the least worship, the least adoration, the least gratitude. Such a return might well freeze up all the springs of It has taught them to make the chief end of life, riches, benevolence and philanthropy, were it not for a belief in power or pleasure, to acknowledge no other restraints God the Father of all, to whom men are accountable. than those of civil laws and selfish regard for themselves. Take away human responsibility to a known personal God Unbelief has, although in a smaller degree, influenced and what law will remain for the general good of man- woman, and the results, which we need not specify here, kind ? It is not hard to say the law that will remain, and the have been appreciated by unbelievers themselves, who one that the immense majority of men will put into rarely prefer the infidel to the believer when they wish for a life companion, or even for a school teacher or a practice, it will be "selfishness." Men will follow what- ever they fancy will lead to their personal good. If a governess. The most skeptical husband knows well that few remain firm and steadfast in the practice of the vir- he has infinitely higher guarantees of faithfulness in the tues of generosity and self-denial, we cannot shut our principles of a Christian wife than in the most beautiful eyes to the self-evident fact that the enormous majority theories of the agnostic. will take its own interests, passions and appetites as the Insufficient to build up and insure the solidity of the laws of life. social edifice; modern agnosticism is still more insufficent Let faith in God, the Father and the Judge be lost. to satisfy the wants and aspirations of the human soul. Let Hi5 revelation to man be rejected as unworthy of be- It wipes away no tear; it may float on the ocean of life lief. Let a faithless and soulless naturalism replace Chris- during a dead calm, but sinks at the first tempest. We tianity, and what remains to control the evil instincts of have, in dark days of life a thousand times felt the the masses. Mankind would soon find that the law of the strength of the divine comforts of the gospel in our soul. strongest would be the only law that the fittest only Where shall we find the comforts of a philosophy without should survive. Occasionally, in the history of nations a personal God? Answer, great philosophers of the age! we find the exhibition of the extreme consequences of such For it is not only our intellect which cries for the light; an order of things. Conquerors like Tamerlan exter- it is our heart. And what light do you give in the minating the vanquihsed men, women and children. eclipses of life, or beyond the veil of the grave? In Parents, like the Spartan, killing sickly children, that spite of the most beautiful sophistry the human heart, would have been only a burden on the state. Charitable brethren, has always cried out with Philip, "Show us the souls like the Bishop Hatto of the old legend, who im- Father and it sufficeth us," and will always repeat that agined as the best possible poor relief, the shutting up in cry. Show us the Father ! The Father, not only God, but a barn and burning alive all the beggars of his diocese! more. God in His relation to man. Any ideal, less than Of course our modern philosophers will not acknowl- this, although superior already to the highest conception edge the logic of these conclusions. Their safeguard against of infidelity, would be insufficient. Therefore, so long as these extremes are found, first, in their superior culture, man is the Being that we find him, we have not the least but, second, and perhaps chiefly, in the influence of fear that agnosticism or any other system of philosophy Christianity around them, of which they can never can destroy, or replace the theism of holy writ. wholly free themselves. But let them remember that Even according to the much talked of doctrine of the sur- the masses are not at all influenced by their scientific vival of the fittest, the gospel will survive modern attacks theories, whilst it cannot be denied that the idea of a as it has survived the old. Human science has much to a personal God, to whom every one has to give an account, do, much to invent, before it can supply the world with is one that has, as yet, an enormous influence among moral force equal to the one bestowed by Jesus of Nazar- them in restraining evil. Destroy this idea, persuade eth, when He revealed God as the Father of humanity; them that instead of being the children of a personal God much to do,before it could replace the Creator, by causes, they are evolved from primary germs, through gradations both improbable, and in any case insufficient for known of brute life, and who knows when the tendency to de- effects, before proving that humanity has groped ii the scend, acknowledged by the doctors of that school, may dark through all its ages until those comets of the 19 th not bring them back to brutal deeds, the thought of which century left their track on the heavens. Will it ever suc- makes humanity shudder! ceed? We think not, and as a philosopher of the modern It is said of Voltaire, that he once ordered all of his school wrote in a recent number of the most widely cir- servants out of the room, where his friends were ridicul- culated French review. "After having tried everything, ing the idea of a personal and avenging God, giving as his some of us may possibly discover that there is a God reason, that he had no wish to be robbed or murdered in who is the Father of his creatures, and a future life to consequence of such theories. Infidel as he was, his which this present existence is only the preface." us to consider the sufficiency of powerful mind could not but work out the inevitable so- Secondly. This brings lution of the atheistic or agnostic, problem. Ana- the Christian ideal of a Divine Father. Let us first ascer- lyze the work of unbelief and you will find it de- tain what are the needs of humanity. They are social scribed in the word "destruction." It has rudely at- necessities and personal necessities. How does the gos- tacked Christianity in all its most cherished beliefs. It pel, that revelation of God as a Father, meet them ? does not hide its intention to overthrow if possible that If God is "the Father" of all mankind, men are breth- immense structure, which, after withstanding the storms ren. Both statements are explicitly made in the Gospel. of nineteen centuries, is as firm as ever. It snatches from God is called "the Father of all." We are directed to the poor wretch floating on the stormy waves of the sea address Him in prayer "As our Father which art in of life the plank of hope that held him up, and leaves him Heaven." Jesus tells men "Ye are all brethren," and the to drown. It ridicules all it cannot explain. Nothing is apostles address Jews and Gentiles by the titles "men and sacred to the unbeliever, neither his father's faith nor brethren." his mother's tears, neither the tombs of the martyrs nor We cannot separate the Fatherhood of God from the the cross of Calvary. Unbelief has erected no hospitals, brotherhood of man. Let man see His Father in God, built no asylums, reformed no criminals, civilized no and receive this relation with the implicit faith it merits, nation. But we can see daily around us its destructive and the noblest virtues, the most touching sacrifices, will QUEEN'S COLILEGTE JOURNAL. enumeraanted by wsp alsor t?prmte rcia idea h one the stems of a plant from a common moot. and ontsuethd usby grow from it as " Live Phi lSo usmthe Fdathe selfishness of philosophy says to man, Fatherdof, and sits unavoIa The cold of the gospel otheri wous the theuaoia thyself, first of all." The brothemhood the rotherhood of man, wthas for thy brethren," and in do- ble cosec tells him, "Live for God and for us the thy own greatest good. inculcates. Show ing this thou art workinig out duties which this brotherhood do to others as we ideas, the Fathemhood of God, Father !and we niay then learn to If these two inseparable unto us, and also -,not to do of man, were pre-eminent every- would that others should do and the brotherhood prosperity we do not want themn te, do unto us." would be impossible, and the to others that which where ,wars successful find social maxima of the full sufficiency peace would be universal. if by Where coold we ne- that follows we do not of the gospel. Sufficient for our social becomes rich and prosperous, of these, but sufficient war a nation by a corres- the view of the Divine Father, is also that every item of its gains is balanced. cessities, forget gospel, universally re- for our personal neéds. ponding loss to a sister nation. The learn that "He careth if is the realization of the If we accept His revelation we ceived, is universal peace. confidence in aHeavenly Father the Lord judgeth among the nations for us.' This child-like golden age. ,When and their exceedingly ridiculous to, the unbeliever. beat their swords into plough-shares, may appear àtom, part they shahl they learn wiar be rigbt, if man waa but the living into pruning hooks; neither shahl He might and mysterlous spears great whole, which some unknown any more.' -Isaiah ii., 4. of a until he once more of God be reccived of a force has animated for a briaf time, Again, let the Fathemhood from which hie came. But is but highly probable' drops in the nothingness crest of a truth, it becomes not only possible, led by fiake of foamn, lifted up from the bas spoken to bis children,' and if man only the back into the that the Father and wisehy the by the wind of life, to be thrown we read camefully wave, in the image of God his this probability, record of his reve- boundless ocean. No! Created which professes to be the appear. It has had its book with the righteousness life is more than it would at first lation to men, we find it consistent it will have no end 1 And what instincts tell us must be the foun- beginning, but God-like and equity that our own find are revealed to, us by the Father's throne. In the decalogue we glorious prospects dations of the Divine only children 1 Eternal dwellings 1endless of nations, for humnan laws, message to His that eye has the written consciences to Moses on sure hopes! lasting re-Unions' things a thouaand forma the precepta given joys! came up into the repeat in of nations, society seen, nor ear heard, and that neyer Simai. The peace and security not for them that lve him! Mount esoît of, obedience to the heart of man! prepared by God and families are the inevitable thought of a Father in Heaven that revealed in the gospel, and Therefore, it is the tears of Fatherly laws of the God thîs of the poor, wipes away the of the tables of atone, theme is upholds the courage even above the commanda and thy and made the martyrs sing His praisea shaît love the Lord thy God, the mourner, but could flot summnamy, -Thou who is hie? Jesus fiames that consomed the body, as thy self." Our neighbour 1 in the the Father, from the neighbor Good Samamitan. The touch the soul. Take away God, in the pamable of the every land will risc the sob- answered traveller is taken up, clàd, faith of humanity, and fromn robbed, wounded, almnoat dying reward. For what motive bings of despair. ago, camed for, without hope of that young girl, who, 250 years because hie is a man, and as You have read of to then is this due? Simply this of incendiarism, and condemned of the samie Father. Apply was falsely accused off with red such a brother, a child de- of deaths. Her fingers were tomn and you have the key of a thousand the cruelest tore hier tender flesh ere Divine principle, heroisma., A hot pinchers, nameless tortures a thousand sacrifices, a thousand her ended her earthly life. votions, throat,' does not forsake the slow fire kindled around brother does not cut hia brotheras te anniversary of the fire came round, not even pasa him by like the Year after year, as of man- him by the wayaide. does both the pulpit held up to the execration he carea for him, defenda him she was from the dusty manu- priest and the Levite, This is Lately an author discovered and if need be fromý himnself. kind. undoubted evidence, her fmom his enemies, is the ocean scripts of this old trial, and by Evangelîcal principles. This sick in bed at the tiie many sublimity of philosophy~ cannot innocence, for she had beein artificial ponds of homan was accused of having fired. You to which the h such prînciples miles from the town she ?" even fromn afar. It is thmoUg injustice! Is there no redress compare nations, relieving the in- exclaiin, ,What frightful a J udge that Chriatianity civilizes heathen unless there is a God, a Father, sick and tries to reform the None, brethren,' is full of such. digent poor, cames for the have is not an isolated fact. History true missionamies of Christ And this there was not the fallen. It is because inhabited if above human errors and crimes that already on shore4, Ah! of Humanity, the thinker viaited heathen lands, the Redeemner eternal justice of the Father b>y cannibals, the praîses of last desperate question of nut long ago need no Ionge might well put to himnself the aread ear, te sipweckd mrinr -Is life worth living?" who now underatand modern scepticisnl, It is in if hie is cast away amnong those man bas ever seen the Father. fear and the brotherhood of man. Thirdly.-No of His perfec- the. Fatherhood of God which alone that we can realize.somethiflg refuted obj ecti.on. to Christiality Jeaus unthinkable There is an oft been chamged The Deity issornething inconceivable, mention. Chriatiaflity bas tions. look at God through His son deserves paaaing that* have to men, if they refuse to of the reîigioua wara and persecutiona for us the language wIAith all that truc Christianity Christ. Christ translates and place in its name. We dlaimn j esus tongue. Christ gives shape taken these. Men have att*ached Hieaven in our vulgar imagine for ini no degree responsible for the ideas of God that we niight is creeda, have put dogmias in form to the vague four evangelists themSeîves to certain seeli Look at the sketch given by Fatherhood, and it will be eaaily ourselves. his answer to Place of the Divine been on ac- the life and love of Christ, remembering religious persecutiofi or war bas of Mde, has seen the Father." that evemy which too Peter, "«He that has seen on differencea of creed and dogiia, for huinan misery is found COufit of these the power, by making An infinite compassion disciples led astray thoae who had John the Baptist sends his' often the différenices of theology, the every page. When that ahould them forget that above ahI th e ur "Art Thou He have taught themi to to Christ wit-h Hanwrlgad Fatherhood of God, ahould or do we wait %r aflote Common of brother men ~terl corne, sec, the lame respect even the errora rl, and what you have seen; the blind of the world, tolemanice isthat tell John the deaf hear, the dead rise, If, in our age walk, the lepers are cleansed, ex- we nothopeta Chria- to the poor. His mercy pescto the exception,:iiay and the gospel is preached dogmas, formas of wor- hes importance tocontestedtond QUEEN'S COLILEGE JOURNAL. tends itself to the hungry, for he feeds tbem; tostrangers, "lMost sacrilegious murtber bath broke ope for he heals the daughter of the Canaanite ; to the young The Lord's anointed temple."' for he blesses cbildren; to the guilty, He forgives the fallen Magdalen, and even His murderera. This is God! "lUp, up, and see He tells us, 'He that bath seen Me bath seen the The great doom's image." Father." God who feels for human woes; God who re- gards ail His children alike; God who saves and forgives At this point it is not evident that Macduff suspected who even enemies, w~hen they repent. Jesus gives ns hope be- tbe real murderer waa. In the fourtb acene he tells Ross yond'the grave. God calls us to glory. (who, by the way, calîs him "the good Macduff") witb A Father who forgives, heals, comforts. A Father who evident sincerity that Duncan bas been murdered by bis renews our life by giving us another which shall be end-' less; who even embellishetb it by the company of those grooms, at the instigation of bis own sons, Malcolm and that were dearest on earth, and whqrn He brings again Donaldbain. At tbe same time, by bis refusal to attend xvith Him out of that sleep where they slept in Jesus. the coronation, and bis parting words witb Ross, it is A Father wbo relievea our sufferings, strengthens us against clear that he waa not quite satisfied with tbe accession of the temptations and juls of life, and takes away the terrors of deatb. A Father who redresses ail wrongs and gives Macbeth. to every one according to His work. A Father who hears The succession of cruelties atnd murders wbicb followed our faintest sighs and answereth our feeble prayers. tbe coronation of Macbeth seems to have tangbt, not only This is the Father that Jesus shows to the world. And Macduff but also many others, wbo the regicide was. that Father sufficeth us. He has sufficed for the millions of believers wbo preceded us. He will suffice for the Macduff, fearing the murderous spirit of Macbeth, and millions that will follow us. The Christian idea is not like filled witb love and pity for bis country, flees to the Eng- the modemn philosophical ideas, to be tried. It has been lish court in time to aave bimself from the awful fate tried. It bas proved itself, not only a faith worth living whicb soon after befeli bis Wîife and cbildren. for, but wortb dying for. It bas been a tbousand times sealed by the blood and tears of martyrs. It bas survived From the dialogue witb young Malcolm, wbicb is one tbe most terrible tempests, and it will survive yet. It de- of the finest passages of tbe play, we learn some of the fied the hurricanes of skepticisms now, as it bas success- motives and feelings which infiuenced Macduff. We find It bas its monu- fully defied them century after century. no trace of selfisbness in bis pleading with ments in the hearts of millions, and wben this old earth Malcolm to will be dying, the glorious cross of Christ will yet stand wrench tbe sceptre from the hand of the tyrant. His above its ruins, and the Divine Fatherhood will have lost anxiety is ail for Scotland. Wben Malcolm seems to notbing of its sufflciency for the human soul! doubt bis sincerity, and bints tbat be is but an agent of word; and to And may God bless the preacbing of His Macbetb, bis noble, patriotic cry is: "Bleed, His name be praise.-AMEN! bleed, poor country, Great tyranny, lay thon tby basis sure ! Then, wben Malcolm, in order to be assured of Macduff 's truth of purpose, falsely accuses bimself of various sinful passions, Macduff shows a lenience wbicb may seem cul- pable; but we abould remember that he was only justi- fying Malcolm as compared witb Macbeth, for whom "the legiona of borrid bell" could acarce afford a match ; IN eacb of Shakespeare's plays there are certain charac- for wben Malcolm proceeds to such an extent self-calum- tera wbicb seem to tower above the others, and attract niation tbat he presents a picture more horrible than the attention of the reader to subh an extent, that little the ",fi end of Scotland," Macduff despairingly cries: "0 interest is attacbed to the lesa important dramatis Scotianri, Scotland J" and in anawer to the appeal, "If Persoîue. Commentators select these as the objects of such an one be fit to govern, speak," be exclaims: "lFit their admiration, and analyze tbem witb the closest to govern! No, flot to live." study. The character of Hamlet is largely dwelt upon in The interview having corme to a joyuus end by Mal- ahl editions of that play. Macbeth and his lady are neyer colm contradicting bis self-accusations, Ross arrives fromn neglected even by tbe most commonplace editor. But Scotland witb tbe newa of the murder of Macduff's wife the large majority of the characters of each play, proba- and cbildren. The scene is a most patbetic one. We bly on account of their aupposed inferiority, are left again observe the unselfisb patriotism of Macduff. His witbout remark. For this reason it may be interesting firat question is: "Stands Scotland wbere it did ?" His to look for a few minutes at one of the latter class. own private affaira are of secondary consideration. But Macduff is a character whicb does not attract tbe at- wben Rosa, witb "words that would bc bowled out in the tention of the critic to any extent, and yet we tbink it desert air," makes known the bloody butcbery of tbe possesses some interesting features. He flrst appears in tyrant, Macduff's natural affection, bis love for wife and the tbird scene of the second act, when he comes to the children, overcomes ail else. The teara of the strong man castle of Macbeth, intending to depart thence with Dun- faîl like rain and we are reminded of the poet'a uine: can, but finds that bis royal master bas been murdered: ",Talk not of grief tili thou bas seen the teara of warlike Ostensibly, be is the flrst to discover the crime, and men." For some time there is no word of the murderer, shows his loyalty to the King, and bis detestation of the but we hear from bis lips the brief, broken interrogations, illiany by such cries of horror as: expressive of a heart tomn witb grief: Il My children, QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
it as a stinging but no doubt righteous judgment silently ?" 'AIl my pretty unies ? ail former gradu- too ?- ýMy wife killed, too pasd uPon the deficient scholarsbip of wve find bis seul- thcmn. did you say aIl ?" Gradually, however, ates, as well as upon the professors wvho taught for revenge. anguisb overcome with a passionate desire Yours, &c., good Macduff.' ONE W110o \AS 'IHRE. Nor must we wonder at tbis, even in 'tbe of tbe civilizing and Even at the present time, in spite .years, wvhat re- Christianizing influences of a thousand How would sucb a tragedy caîl forth! vengeful feelings DIALEC TIC CliB. savage times, -when mnight was mucb more in those Watson, the "blood and destruction were soin use.' upon the suggestion of Professor right," and when A CTING making an effort to found witb sorrow, we flnd members of the society are At flrst, as revenge is commingling success. A between two a library, and are meeting with encouraging exclamnation- 'O hell-kite' '-interjected the when of standard works have been ordered from questions alluded to above; and large number Of the mouruful been presented by friends, su of bis kindred bas become England, and others have hatred agaiust tbe mnurderer made. The room bis loved ofies to that an excellent beginning bas been all-absorbing, and hie bas recommended very kindly trans- expression to those formerly used by the Principial,-who mercy of heaven, hie gives full book- the until to the society-has been furnished with become more aud more fierce ferred it feelings, xvhich only aIl necessary articles and is now in tbe almost sublimey case, table, chairs, and hie meets and slays the tyrant, con- used by members, as a study. It is exceedingly fierce words: heavens, veflient. "Gentle essays were read by Messrs A. ;front to front At recent meetings, Cut short all intermission B. A., and G. Y. Cbown. Inter- and myself; L. Smitb, P. M. Pollock Bring tbou tbis fiend of Scotland The -Question Drawer- is him; if hie scape, esting discussions, followed. Within my sword's length set also an excellent feature in the regular prugramme-one forgive him, tua !" Heaven which is much appreciated. the close of the battle, In the final scene of the play, at of young Malcolm, Y. M. C. A. we find him brînging intu the presence accursed head, monthly business meeting was held in be loyally hails as king, Macbeth's THE regular wbom bad been January 2otb at ru a. m. evidence that bis great revenge' Hiint Hall, Saturday, as a ghastly that bie had re- The Corresponding Secretary reported complete. had supplied them ceived the College Vacation Tickets, the vacation, and to aIl wbo bad asked for them before who might was ready to furnish themn to any members a communication doe net still desire them. He had received distinctiy understood that the Jet R.NAL of *.*We wish it ta be whieh inay be expresse te University Y.M-C.A with a programme commuit itsetf je aey way ta the senthiients from Toronto this departiuent. their religins meetings. reported that Convener of Religions Work Committee As TEFACHF'ts. Street, in a central QUEFNqmvEN a roomn bad been procured on Ontario of thte YournalI shauflt furnisb 7'a the Editor place, and suggested that the Association at the graduating part of the city. ~IR,-In your report of tbe speeches it and begin the work at once in tbis dojustice ta Mr. Knigbt. You to furnish kclass diriner you scarcely Accardingly the committee were authorized in proposing "Our Graduates," at once. say :-" Mr. J. McLeod, the room and begin the meetings seemed able ta find their state of the As- hinted that the sons of Queen's The Treasurer announced the financial uncivilized. Replies were undertaken wvas to be way ta alI places, civilized and sociation, showving that if the~ wurk the former of wbont must be made to made by Messrs.Knigbt and Givens, carried out successfully a large addition won distinction in the members of the said that the graduates of Queen's the funds. It was suggested that but seemed comparatively in the city for sub- Medicine, Law and Tbeology, Association ask a few of their friends Knigbt was understaod ta aid of the work. Two reasons were gîven deficient as teachers." Mr. Sscriptions in Queen's found tbeir way say that few of tbe graduates of for adopting such a course. in scbools or colleges. was to somte extent doing the work inta, the ieacbing professian-eitber , st, The Association trustees frequently asked for had somne dlaim upon the He pointed out that school of a city Y. M. C. A., and thus of Toronto University, applications from graduates Christian citizens. of Queen's men de- which a number of the thinking apparently tbe scholarsbiP) 2nd. The noble manner in be inferred that the forward and gladly offered He said also, tbat it migbt prominent citizens had corne fective. a similar opinio n as- with the evangelistic trustees of Queen's entertained to meet the expenses in connection AIma Mater had been ap- proved that tbey would mnuch as oily une graduate of tbeir services in thie Opera House, althougb six vacancies had belp to the Y.M.C.A. in pointed on the college staff, deem it a pleasure to give a little years. He found no work. been filled an it within as many the other departments of its doîng so, but accepted ault with the college trustees for QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
It was resolved -to hold a special student's prayer meet- only in size. In all other positions of the cutting plane, ing on the day of prayer for students, which is annually not included in the foregoing, the section is an Hyper- observed on the last Thursday of January. bola; (which is therefore a general figure) except when Monday, Yan. 29th.-The special service for young men it assumes a pre-coincident with the axis of the cone, at on Thursday, 25th, was well attended. Prayer was which position the boundaries of the section are two offered for the students of Queen's, and for those of all straight lines which meet at the apex of the cone. Thus other colleges. Mr. Somerville, delegate to Convention, we have a constant gradation from the point through the gave a short talk about the work as represented at the Circle, Ellipse, Parabola, Hyperbola, to the straight Convention. lines, between any two of which there is no possible fig- It is evident that the work of the Salvation Army will ure. The foregoing is only a very brief outline of a few not interfere with the evangelistic services conducted by of the leading points of the lecture, which occupied an tne Y.M.C.A. every Sabbath evening in the Opera House. hour or more. Last night the house was crowded by those who listened with intense eagerness to the earnest words of the speakers. UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. Uni- of the Council of Queen's MATHEMATIcAL SOCIETY. T HEversity annual took meetingplace on Tuesday evening, Jan. 16th, the Society, held on only strangers present being the Rev. Messrs. Lang and HE meeting of the Mathematical T Friday evening, the i9 th ult., was one of unusual McGillivray. The first business taken up was the elec- interest. Professor Dupuis delivered a lecture on "Con- tion of a Chancellor. tinuity," especially as applied to Mathematics. The Mr. James Maclennan, Q.C., of Toronto, was nominated, subject, though somewhat abstruse, was treated in such a but a telegram from him was read which stated that he way as could not fail to be interesting even to those whose declined to be a candidate for the position. Mr. Sand- tastes were not at all mathematical. • ford Fleming was then nominated and declared elected The Professor first showed that the principles of con- unanimously. tinuity applied, not to mathematics alone, but also to A motion was made by Mr. John McIntyre, Q.C., time, Physics, Chemistry, &c. As an example, from the thanking Mr. Fleming for his generosity and munificence operations of nature, be showed the continuous action of during the past three years. It was carried unanimously. the sun's heat. Mr. Fleming subscribed $5,oo to the Endowment With regard to mathematics, it was shown that the Fund, and his contributions amount to over $500, besides more simple geometrical figures were the limits of more books and valuable papers. complex and general ones, as mile-stones on a road are Prof. Williamson and Dr. Bell were appointed to draf t definite points separating the distances between. A a minute in re the deaths of Hon. John Hamilton and Mr. straight line is one that is continuous in direction; a curve James Michie, of Toronto. is one whose change of direction is continnous. Applied Messrs. R. V. Rogers, B.A., and A. P. Knight M.A., were to the conic sections, the ideas were briefly as follows. appointed a committee to draw up a by-law fixing the The change in form from a circle to a straight line, back date of the Council meeting for the nomination of future to a circle again, and finally to a point is continuous. Chancellors. Beginning with a circle of finite radius, if we imagine the The Council also appointed à committee to confer with centre to move away, and the radius to be thus lengthened, the Alma Mater Society with regard to a banquet to be the arc approximates a straight line; and we assume that tendered to the Chancellor at the close of the present if the centre were at an infinite distance, the arc would session, under the joint auspices of University Council actually be a straight line. Again, if we suppose the and the Alma Mater Society. centre to approach the arc, the radius being thus lessened, Notices of motion were made: and ultimately vanishing, the circle becomes a point. If i. Dr. Saunders-That no thesis be asked for medicals. we take a cone, and cut it by a plan at right angles of the 2. Rev. Mr. Lang-That alumni of two years standing arcs, at the very apex, the section is a point. As soon as have their names published in the calendar. the plane is moved towards the base of the cone, but still 3. A. P. Knight-That the Matriculation Examinations consist of classics, mathematics and English, including at right angles to the axis, the section is a circle, which history and geography. is.a special figure, since, if the plane moves in the least The Council then adjourned. from this position at right angles to fhe axis, the section is no more a circle, but an ellipse, which is a general "DID Mr.B-call in my absence, John ?" "No mum! but Mr. Thank Heavens did, leastways when I told him figure; for if the plan be moved so as to make a smaller you were out, and asked him what name to give you he and smaller angle with the axis, the section still remains said kind of low like, ' Missed ber, thank heavens !'" an ellipse of varying form until the plane becomes paral- lel to the slant side of the cone. At this particular IT is rumoured that a gentlemen purposes erecting this summer, in the vicinity of the college, a mammoth board- position, the section is a special figure, called the Para- ing house, in which some hundred and fifty students may bola, which, like the circle has no variation in form, but be accommodated. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURINAL.
PROF. N, (illustrating a point in Philology)- Now, Mr. W--, you know that beautiful sentiment of Long- fellow's: I know a maiden fair to JOHN McLEOD, '83, bas heen appointed to fill the sec, c>vacant pulpit of tbe Baptist Cburcb for the present. Take care--.' Mr. W.- No sir. 1 dlon't know ber." THIEV alI do it. Even Dr.D.P.Lynch, '78, of Almonte, is not proof against the prevailing infection, for he ton has THE senior wbo described the stairway leading down to joined tbe ranks of the Benedicts. Next. 0cr sanctum as the Facilis descenSUS Averno bias been challenged by our fighting editor. The articles bave flot WR noticed in tbe columns of the News, that Gen. yet been drawn up but we expect that the scene of the Claxton, B.A., ,76, late of tbe law flrm of McGuire & bloody conflict will ble the sanctumi sanctorum. The F E. Claxton of tbis city, was running for Mayor, witb success, seems determined to avenge this libel on the sanctity of at Gladstone, Man. our abode.
HVGH N. McDoNALn, M.D., '82, of Lake Ainsiie, N.S., THE latest developements of Mathematics as exhibited tbougb be carriedl all before bim wben joining ur atbletic to the bonour c]ass, enable the student to solve interesting competitions, bas at last met bis equal, or rather bis su- problems such as-given the locus sedendi of a seni1or at perior, witb tbe resoît of the complete annibilat ion of ur three different times during the day, to calcu'late bis cbampion. For nwing to tbe cbarms of Miss Bella, situation at eleven o'clock at night-given the ages of four But the thought would stili distress me, 'OH, maid with laugbing, iaughing eye. 0f it I could dispossess me, For what those tears? oh !why that sigh ?"l By nu means I had in store. She murmers as the biusbes comne, If I sat me down to grind, "II swaiiowed a chunk of cbewin' guru." Very shortly I would find Stealing siuwly o'er my mind, Like echo from distant shore, SCENE-Lecture room, "lnot a tbousand miles from This-plucked in classics"-plucked, plucked, plucked. N.* Y"-Prof.: "IIn this stove there are two pipes, C Piucked in classics, and D. The coid air gue.s up C, and comes down D hot." Nothing more. Students, "Oh 1 My happy dreams of.laureation LECTURE upun the rbinoceros. Professor: 'II must As B.A., at Convocation, beg you to give me your indîviduai attention. It is Underwent sad alteration. absolutely impossible tbat you can form a true idea of They bastily fied from me, this bideous animai unless you keep yuur eyes fixed upun To return, alas! no more. me."' QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
VOL. X. KINGSTON, CANADA, FFBRUARY 26, 1883. No. io.
IN addition to the conversazione which plays an important part in our Convoca-
Published IN TWELVE NUMBERS during the Session by. the tion festivities, we are to have this year, it ALMA MATER SOCIETY of Queco's University. seems, a University Banquet, to be given STAFF: under the joint auspices of the Council and A.'McLACHLAN, - Managing Editor, the Aima Mater Society in honourof Chan- EDITING CONIMITTEE cellor Fleming. The committee appointed Divinity-JAMES SOMERVILLE, B.A. by these bodies to make the necessary ar- Medicinie-T. A. MOORE, W. G. ANGLIN. rangements is a thoroughly representative ArtS-RODERICK McKAY, B.A. R. M. DENNISTOUN. and energetic one, and we may reasonably J. S. SKINNER. F. W. JOHN-TON, A. G. FARRELL. J. J. WRIGHT. expect that the affair will be a great success. SGEo. F. HENDERSON, Secretary-Treasitrcr. \Ve trust that graduates and students will TERMS :-Per Session, $i.oo; Single Numbers, io cents. lend every assistance in their power, and, at Matter fot publication should be addressed to A. Mc- ail events, make a point of attending. fLAcHLAN ; Business letters to GEO. F. HENDERSON, P. O. Ont. ;Drawer 1146, Kingston, of additions being with the namne of the ,WE are glad to hear The Editor mnust be acquainted made to the museum. Were it not for author of any article, whether local or literary. these cursory notices in the columus of the JOURNAL, we can imagine înany of the stu- Q UR correspondent who signs himself -Gray" seems exercised over the dents being surprised to hear that our Uni- in connection non-appearance of the lecturer on Elocution. versity has sucli an institution He is evidently not cognizant of the fact that with it. We confess that our curiosity is during the session '8o-'81, thue authorities somewhat excited at times, to know what the secured the ser-vices of an able lecturer on closely barred iron doors at the farther end this subject, who delivered a course of lec- cf the main hall, shut out from our view; tures to which ail registered students were and the question naturally arises in our granted free 'access. The unmistakable minds., 'When are we go.ing to have access to lack of appreciation, however, on the part of the museum ?' the students of the privilege thus afforded themn was sufficient, in our opinion, to war- S INCE our last issue we have had amongst rant the discontinuance of these lectures us Mr. H. H. Ragan of New York, who while the then generation of students held delivered two of lis illustrated lectures on the boards. travels, in Convocation Hall. Mr. Ragan is We have no doubt but that when the stu- one of the finest, if not indeed the finest lec- dents of Queen's show that they wish to turer whom it has ever been our pleasure to benefit by such a course of lectures as the listen to. It is a matter of great regret to calendar announces'the opportunity will be the Aima Mater Society , under whose aus- forthcoming. pices the lectures were delivered, that more 116 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. of the citizens did not avail themselves of The whole question seems to resolve itself the opportunity of seeing and hearing what into this, whether it is better, by announcing was in every respect a pleasing and intellec- the order of the exams. some time before- tual treat. We bespeak for Mr. Ragan a hand, to encourage a systematic review of most hearty reception, if it should ever be each subject separately, or, by withholding our good fortune to secure bis services on this information, compel a promiscuous and any future occasion. general cram on three or four subjects ?
opinion of E are glad to have the T HE petition of the Senate to Parliament W "Anti-Cram" on the question of the for the abolition of the present tax upon programme of the finals. While we concur all books imported from abroad should in the general sentiment of bis communica- receive hearty support from Free Traders tion we are not disposed to admit that the and Protectionists alike. conclusion at which he arrives is a perfectly Canada is and must long be in a condition valid one, viz.: that to announce the order demanding rather a bonus than a burden on and date of the final examination in the dif- the introduction of books of a high class. ferent subjects, say two or three weeks be- From every point of view, the tax is a nui- forehand would be to encourage cramming. sance that should be abolished at the earliest What will be the result. of withholding the possible moment; and now that there is a order of the exams. until the evening before large surplus every year, the time bas evi- the agony actually begins? Simply this: dently come for abolition of that nui- An effort, during the two or three weeks pre- sance, at any rate so far as universities ceding, to cram three or four subjects at once, and. public libraries are concerned. and hence the best adept at this practire A Canadian who writes a good book comes off winner in the contest. On the adds immeasurably to the national wealth, other hand, if the student knew the order of but it is impossible to do good literary work bis different examinations he could set about on any subject nowadays without knowing his work systematically, and the general what other men have written on it, and also result would be a much higher average per- on kindred subjects ; and few people have centage. any conception of the difficulties in the way It goes without saying that by the plan of getting knowledge in Canada. In Eng- proposed, or rather advocated by "Anti- land a man bas only to go to the British Cram," many more will fall victims to the museum, and he finds every book ready to dread demon "Pluck" It seems to us bis hand. Scotland, France, Germany and unjust that the nan whose staying powers the United States have their great libraries. on a leavy general cram should survive the We have no university or public library up ordeal, while his less fortunate classmate to modern requirements, and the individual whose powers in this respect are inferior worker is handicapped by Customs regula- should fail. tions that add a-iominal sum to the revenue, At least nine students out of every ten seem at the cost of embarrassing him, wasting his to regard cramming as a necessary evil, if time, and adding considerably to what he we may judge by their actions, and we ven- bas to pay out for the public good. One of ture to predict that while final examinations our well known authors thus describes the are to measure the extent of their knowledge process through which he bas to pass :-" I of the subject in hand, it will ever be thus. find myself from time to time in want of QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. some special book. Formerly I went to a an inopportune occasion for the discussion local bookseller and gave an order. He of its utility and for pointing out that no would promise to write home. I would wait other study is so well adapted to give men a month, six weeks, two months, and finally a training such as will carry them far on to do without it. Now, I always write to a positions of influence. British publisher to send it by book-post. Aristotle says that haffiness is energizing When the book does come, I receive a notice according to virtue-a healthy unimpeded that it has been transferred to the Customs activity of every element of our nature. We house ; and there, after a most vexatious and exist as we energize; energy is the means by lengthy process of signing papers and paying which our faculties are inproved; and increased fees, the book is at length obtained. The energy is the end which that development process is the same as though one were im- proposes. In energy, therefore, is contained porting dynamite or some such suspicious or the happiness, existence development anà perfec- communistic material." It is no wonder tion of our being. Any collegiate training is that Canadians who have contemplated and therefore good in proportion as it affords a actually commenced writing on subjects of stimulus to greater energy. We have many general interest have abandoned their work studies which are, in a secondary sense, of solely from want of the needful books. The great importance-important because they loss to the country in reputation and in all fit us for social or influential positions among the higher interests of life is incalculable. our fellows. These studies, however, while From the students point of view the tax is they polish, do not give us increased strength peculiarly odious and indefensible. It adds of intellect. The march of intellect is not greatly to the cost of every valuable text- always a' concomitant of the march of book, and these are the tools with which he knowledge, and the value of any study is to has to work, and tools that cannot be made be judged not so much by the complement of in Canada. Scientific apparatus is now ad- truth it gives to us as by the higher degree mitted free, and books are the students' in which it determines our capabilities for apparatus. action. As a means to this end metaphysi- We shall be able to judge of the amount cal speculation should have a first place. It of "sweetness and light" in the present Par- deserves this position first because of its liament by the reception given to the Senate's dignity. It deals with thoughts the most petition. sublime-God-the soul-the present worth and future destiny of man-are these not to this con. late visit of Mr. Spencer subjects which would make any study in T HEtinent and the consequent direction of connection with them important attention to philosophical systems, the form- ? But apart from the dignity which thus belongs ation of the "Dialectic Club" in our midst, to metaphysical pursuits, they and the accidental notice of some remarks are among the best gymnastics for the mind in a work of Sir W. Hamilton's, have occa- ; they create the desire for sioned in this article. We are glad to see the and give the means of having increased energy, study of Philosophy increasing in popularity and where there is most energy.or life, there is most victory. Phil- both within and without college circles.- Especial prominence has been given it in our osophy commands us to know ourselves. Knowledge drawn own university. This is as it should be, for from without is imperfect. no more important subject could be placed It makes its votaries fatalists and materialists. on the curriculum. The present may not be We can only know God as we know our- QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
selves. It has been in the past that philoso- As som e one bas said concerning the spirit phy was considered opposed to religion. of infidelity so rampant in our day :-"This Churchmen çonsidered it as playing with cannot be exorcised by a solemn reading of "edged tools"; to meddle with philosophical creeds or by Jenunciation, it must be brought problems. This opposition drove the philo- into the clear white light of thought, and sophical world to take up an unnatural rlike every other spectre of the night it will attitude against the Christian world. This vanishi with the dawn." For this condition position was a faise one. Truth is the basis of things our colleges are in a great ineasure of both Religion and Philosophy, and the responsible, and any indication of increased temple of our religion bas no firmer buttress' 1care in this particular branch of study s0 than true philsophy. This caution, however, neè*essary for nineteenthi century leaders was perhaps necessary, and beneficent at a should be hailed. as a good omnen. In our time when crude philosophy might have leading Canadian universities the philosaphi. given rise to wild and erroneous ideas. The cal chairs are as a rule filled hy able men. truths of philosophy may be "edged tools," Our contemporaries will pardon the pride but this only makes thern tools such as no with which we refer to our own professor. master builder can afford to do without. Dr. Watson, a lthough quite a young man bas History also proves that philosophy is not gained an, enviable reputation for acuteness opposed to religion. Let us take that of of perception and lucid expression, nat only France. Voltaire and others thought the here but in the philosophical centres of the sensualisrn of Locke to be a perfect philoso- old land. We hope he may long direct the phy. The secret of life had been discovered. thoughts of our students in a subject the Succeeding scholars in that country thought importance of which we have drawn atten- they hiad only to develop these ideas, and as tion to in this article. a result when philosophical discussion dropped religion languished. But the proper stud yof WEcan be certain of this much that Emerson wvas a philosophy is absolutely necessary st of Idealist. Wbat else he was some critics, in our colleges. We philosophize as we believing that there is a scbism between the man and bis think, and if the universities of aur land do writings, consider wvi]1remain a matter of conjecture. He, bowvever, in calling bis works his autobiography not give the invigoration bas necessary for health - evidently precluded the idea of any such schism. It fui thought we sink into ail kinds of error. would, moreover, run counter to the whole cbaracter of Let us now apply these remarks to ourselves. bis productions to suppose that be Ieft any essential part Americans, as a mass, read without thinkîng. of himself unexpressed. We may, then, take it for grant- ed that when dealing A lack of deep thought is apparent in our witb the works we are dealing with tbeir author. Since this is so, after baving discovered literature and our education. Christian tbe stand'wbich Emerson took witb regard to Idealism, theology bas been comparatively ineffectual and shown wherein he was in error, it would be quite in in Arnerica in silencing opposition, owing ta place to deduce from it wbat sbould bave been his position with regard to other questions, and tbus its deficiency of the philosophical element. ascer- tain whetber be w'as self-consistent or not. The latter 0f course the power of our religion depends part of the subject must be omitted for want of space. entirely upon the spirit of Christ and the Systematically to accompiisb the former will necessitate knowledge of 'eternal truth' in each believer; our going over considerable ground before we fall in witb our pbilosopber. Even tben we wilI be occupied more but at the same time a correct view of great witb tbe tendency of bis theory than witb tbe explicit philosophical questions is necessary that the statements. Many of his essays would amply repay atten- attacks now sa prevalent an Christian tive perusal. One pbilosopber cornes thought and religion may be easily repulsed. to tbe front and asserts tbat be bas found tbe key tbat unlocks the universe. Wben cast QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. into the smelting furnace erected by him difficulties are dispersed. This mist, like a peculiar atmosphere in the resolved and doubts vanish. All that people now have to Arctic regions, has rendered dimly visible to all explorers do is, as they travel, to keep an eye upon the finger-posts only startling and misshapen monsters, and the best and erected by him, and they will straightway reach the De- hardiest of our pioneers have returned disappointed. lectable Mountains and Beulah land. For them will Reason has at all times failed to clear away this obstruc- remain only millenium after millenium of peace. But tion. It is at this time somewhat outspokenly acknowl- the next philosopher asserts that the whole theory is a edging its failure. In groping about this realm of dark- house of cards, and with the blasts of his criticism over- ness many a one has taken hold of something and gloried throws the fabric. Humanity once more finds itself in the imagination that he had solved the mystery. grovelling in the mire. Thus the work of construction When brought to the light his prize was found to be only and demolition goes unceasingly on. But beneath the a ghost. One of the best works of Kant is his demonstra- in this region of currents and counter-currents there is a steady onward tion that everything, as yet discovered his flow bearing away without deviation towards the truth. obscurity, has been but ghost and shadow-that, in There is undoubted progress. Even the fact that the own words, each of these philosophers had been occu- if we preceding theory is known to be a failure is a step nearer pied with an illusion. He has further shewn that is inevita- the attainmeAt of the end, or, at least, of making discern- are left to the guidance of reason, this illusion is thMt he shows ible the impossibility of attaining it. The snail may ble. His most suggestive work, I think, of God to man crawl up the face of a rock three inches in the day time what must be the form which the relation the and fall back two at night, but in the twenty-four hours is forced to take in order that it may be adapted to side it has climbed an inch. Although it should, the next nature of man. Here, then, we have on the one morning, find itself again at the starting point it will have illusions, and on the other the outline of a reality. learned that, unless its efforts are increased, all further In the entire course of speculation two theories have relation of endeavour at that particular point will be unavailing. . been put forward regarding the nature of the We may now see that even the failures of philosophic the infinite to the finite-of God to man. Each ends by research are in a sense successes, and that, accordingly, declaring that it is unnecessary to seek for any relation, essen- philosophy is not standing still, but marching forward. since on examination the two are discovered to be ; the other The terminus for one generation is only a way-side sta- tially one. One makes the finite infinite tion for the next. What was an impassable barrier for makes the infinite finite. The first says that man is God; the thinkers of yesterday has been scaled or circumvented the secondsays that God is man. The latter has been by the thinkers of to-day. Rugged mountains have been adopted by the great majority of heathen nations. Each reduced to painted canvas. But though we may take by of the gods of Greece and Rome is a human being en. storm a fortification which resisted all the strategy of our larged indefnnitely in one direction only. Jupiter, for ; fathers, it is only to be confronted by a wall within the example, is all-powerful, but far frorn being all-wise wall. Finally we will have to face the citadel which to while some of the other gods were put to rout by the us and to all future generations will be impregnable. heroes of the Trojan war. The former has been adopted Reason must at this juncture assemble its forces and own by the Hindus and by a school of philosophy represented its inadequacy. This point bas been more br less clearly by Emerson. The worshippers of Brahma, by stopping reached by the Idealists. Indeed, it is contained im- up their ears, eyes and nose, and by lying motionless, plicitly or explicitly in Idealists of all ages, ancient and except that they muttered the mysterious syllable 'Om' modern. (which performance, as this word has no meaning for Here, naturally, there comes to be considered the themselves or anybody else, was equivalent to an absolute question as to what reason has actually done. What have negation of human reason), believed that they became the employees of the mental workshop turned out as one with God. Emerson considered that every atom in indubitable fact ? Ovçr what extent of country does the universe exhaled the Deity. He says, ' Nature is too reason now possess undisputed sway? What land is still thin a screen-the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.' debatable ? An ordinary mortal will call a rock a rock, and nothing Thinking men hold it beyond a doubt that God is. more. A geologist will examine the object in order to They assert that He is manifested in the intelligible order learn its composition and the character of its formation. of nature in conjunction with the intelligible character of A geologist of a speculative turn of mind, on finding that man. However much materialists may dispute this even a pebble is an almost inexhaustible field of research, proposition, Emerson and the students of Queen's will may be led by a process of reasoning to infer an intelli- not yet come to blows. Just as Christopher Columbus gence capable of comprehending the universe. He sees set out from a country, whose boundaries were all clearly through a glass darkly. Only the mystic leaps beyond defined upon the map, to discover a new world, so phil- the sensible barrier and stands face to face with God. osophers now set out from the starting-point of the He needs nothing finite whatsoever. Prccesses of reason- existence of God to discover the nature of his relation to ing are too dull and sluggish, He disdains all contact man. It is here that the mist of the ages is still to be with the things of earth. To him nature is a perfectly 120 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
transparent glass tbrough wbicb be piainly sees tbe infi- its infinity. Instead, therefore, of realizing. an ideai infi- nite. If such is' the case, tben there can be no great finite in ail attributes, they represented an idea of a being reason for retaining the transparent glass. When it bas in iite in some Particular attribute of power as Jupiter, of wisdomn as Minerva, &c. , and tbus became the victims been removed the finite bas been removed with it, and of the illusion described above, viz: that of making tbe man and God are one. infinite, finite. The saine process is revealed in bero- Histonicaily, it may be stated thus. Plato, the great worsbip. Different people are naturaliy inclined to ad- mire different virtues. Ideaiist, recognizing the finite and the infinite, endeav- One man, e. g., has a reverence for courage. He wili in ail probability lower bis ideal, oured to connect them by ail tbe pbwers of reason at bis wbicb contains the attributes of gentleness, peace, &c., as command, and failed. Piotinus, a Neo-Platonist, ac- weli as courage, to the level of some courageous person counted Plato's failure as a failure of reason, and 50 known to him through history or in actual life. Witb this bero declares that if man and God are to be connected, the he wiil flnd no fault at ail. Again we see the saine law operating upon those under the influence of bond of union must be ultra-rational. This bond must ardent affection. juliet is the personification of ail now be sought in tbe froth and foami of ectasy and mys- that is sweet and loveable. Romea is tbe beau-ideal of ticism. Man must henceforward sit aloof upon a tripod. ail that is manly and bonourable. The same tendency is carried to its extreme amongst Emerson, wbile silently ignoning tbe frotb and foam, idolatrous nations who fail down in adoration before statues, paintîngs or images clings stili to mysticism, and, thougb tbus denying tbe of their gods. This is the great illusion-the necessary efficacy of reason, wouid stili commerqd bis scheme to illusion of reason. If this is the be-ail and end-all of reason's advocates as a national mysticism. But on ex- human existence, then the utmost we cao know is that we must try to deceive ourselves-tbat we must walk into amination tbe very name is seen to invoive a contradic- our own trap. Then man's life will be an unsolubie tion. Tbe mystic is as a kite which soars high above the enigma. But Kant does not stop tbere. He says that if beads of the boys on the commons below. It tugs and a connection is to be made between God and man, it must strains to be free; it is impatient of its fetters. As the be in dispelling this illusion, and making it a reality. Having said this reason unaided bas done its utmost. breeze presses it and passes on, it seems as if it were In its extremity revelation comes to its assistance. anxious to, follow and be as independent as the wind. At Christianity solves the problem. Jesus is tbe embodi- last it breaks away. For a moment it pauses--for another ment of the ideal, and tbough an embodiment is infinite stili. moment it soars aioft, but soon it tumbles ungracefully Hence the illusion is dispelled, the mist of tbe ages is cleared earthward, and is taken in tatters from tbe bnancbes of a away, the outline of Kant bas received its content, the tree, or be bedrete draggled in the mine. Tbe cord which gbosts of the darkness fly squeaking and gibbering to other sbores, wben there is heard a voice fromn tbe tbrone -bound it to the eartb was also the means of keeping it in tbe air. So with the mystic. He chafes at the restraints of of tbe Eternal with, andimperiai disregard of Emerson's human neasonings. He wisbes to p art company with unnatural naturalism, disd aining to avoid tbe seeming everytbing finite. Should he succeed in the attempt hie paradox, referring to tbe man Christ Jesus as He lived -would flnd himseif bereft of ail tbat wouid make himi and died and rose again-"1 Beboid, I SHOW you tbe man, and possessed of mu.ch tbat would make bim brute. MYSTERY-God manifest!- Tbougb we must of necessity be iimited by reason, yet our limitation is our strength. CONCERMING eTrioUEWTiE. We bave noticed the illusions. We will now turn our A N eminent autbor has remarked that "no station, attention to tbe outline which Kant draws of the unknown rank or fortune can ever excuse a man for reaiity. There is no idea, perbaps, more frequently negiecting present to the minds of men generally than that wbich is the civilities due from man to man." This is a fact too contained in the words, expressed or only thought, 'It often disregarded by many professionai gentlemen, not to, migbt have been.' Engraven on tbe tables of tbe mind speak of the 017Ol À( or mixed multitude of mankind. are recollections-of oppontunities omitted, occasions un- heeded and chances lost. Tbere are many tides in the Those savants imagine politeness to be inconsistent with affairs of men wbicb are not taken at the flood, conse- independent feeling, or to indicate a disposition to yieid quently thene are many voyages of life bound in sballows and cringe to others. But such is not tbe case. Earl and in miseries. Even to those making prosperous voy- Dufferin is noted for bis urbanity, wbich be carrnes to an ages are often present glimpses of voyages more prosper- ous stili. Though man may travel fan and obtain mucb, extreme degree, but none would ever tbink of cailing in he stili asks himself the question, 1Is not the arrow be- question bis firmness, or bis feeling of independence. yond thee?' The sorrowfnl and tbe expectant both admit Men of rude behaviour, in not respecting tbe feelings of that tbey have fallen short-bave failed to, realize others, do not respect tbemseives, their very awkwardness their ideal. Tbat men sbould thus fail is a necessity of reason. That men should stili continue to attempt to showing themn to be clowns at beart, and their arrogance realize the ideal is equally a necessity of reason. Why proving tbeir intense seifishness by their endeavouring to our faîlure is always a foregone conclusion will be seen win by an exbibition of impudence what others do by con- when we understand the nature of the ideai. This ideal ciliary conduct, is an idea of an inifinite Being, infinite in ahl His attribues, of power, wisdom, holiness, &c. Men want to embody Others suppose it to be an unmistakable proof of tbis idea, It is too, vague and indefnite. Tbey must genius, or at least of a superior mmnd, to be ili-mannered bring it down to the level of human comprehension. and uncouth. They must be of tbe opinion that tbe Greeks and Romans endeavoured to realize the Thus the habitues of our city lanes and alleys are extremely ideai in their gods. They found it impossible to worship clever, an idea merely. They soon saw, howeven, that nepre- as tbey excel in such kind of manners. senting an infinite individual was just as impossible, for We bave thought the matter over profoundly, and have to represent, picture, and so limit the ideal was to destroy corne to the sage conclusion that a man may be respected QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. 121
in spite of his violating the rules of good breeding, but should be careful not to spit upon the carpets. How much that he would be doubly respected were he to observe better it would have been had these reverend gentlemen those rules. been thus cautioned in their student days, before their There is really no excuse for the exhibition of blunt evil habits had run riot over the earth, and the civilized and boorish manners, and it is a great mistake for any citizens of a city were obliged to issue such a warning. man to think that his profession is his character, and We are humbly of opinion that our professional men relying on this baseless fancy to despise, or aflect to should rather be patterns of propriety, if they would despise, the recognized rules of refined society. have the respect of the community, and studiously avoid Sometimes ambitious youths, when they behold some exhibiting conduct savouring of the kitchen or the barn- distinguished clergyman, or physician, 'or advocate, who yard. is noted for his boorish behaviour, command the admira- It is true that many of our professional men were tion of the world, by his wonderful skill or eloquence, originally of humble origin and unaccustomed to what is deem it commendable to imitate his manners, even when termed good society. They came from localities where they must know it is impossible for them to equal his the conduct here commented on would not be noticed as celebrity. improper or indecent, and it is true that when they went But a difficuity arises as to what really constitutes to college they were secluded from society within the good breeding as manifested in ordinary conduct. college walls, and altogether confined to the colnpanion- A certain living clergyman thinks it is perfectly consis- ship of youths of similar culture, so that never having tent with refinement for him to pull off his boots -in a learned the forms and uses of ordinary politeness, they lady's parlour, and to elevate his bootless feet to the sept learned not only to neglect, but also to despise them. of a neighbouring chair. Thus they acquired habits which marked them as rude, A certain physician, who prided himself in his acting if.not clownish, for life. a la Abernethy towards the public, answered gruffly in Some of them, as students with a view to the holy monosyilables, or in scowls, the humbler enquries of ministry, are regarded humanly by the Christian world trembling patients. This conduct he considered the ne as the HOPE of the church. Kindly feelings are extended plus ultra of professional etiquette. to them. They are treated well for the sake of thecalling A considerable number of clever men eschew the hair they aspire to, and they, observing this, feel themselves brush, and even make the tooth brush a subject of ridicule. at far greater liberty to receive than to bestow deference A still larger number utterly disregard all attempts at even upon their superiors in ability, education and social tables. They will smack and gulp and crunch in the standing. The indulgent public hope that experience will most alarming manner, and when the appetite is satisfied correct such blemishes, and wear away such irregularities lean back on their chairs and pick their teeth with their of conduct, but mostly hope in vain, as such kindly treat- fingers or their pocket knife. In all this they were not ment rather confirms them in their ill manners than effect aware of any impropriety. a reformation. This state of things is pitiable, for it largely arises from Addisons's whimsical description of his walk with his ignorance of what really constitutes good breeding. friend, Will Honeycomb, should have a corner in every Many of these gentlemen are most amiable and estimable student's note took, and his polite deference concerning in their lives, and all they need is sone friend to correct the lost watch he imitated. Nor less, should there be these faults, and show them a better way of conducting reserved in brief space for the story of the Scotch Laddie themselves. who was leading his callie by a cord tied around its neck, These are the men we so often encounter in the world which he did not not want the doggie to ken was there, who, notwithstanding their popularity as professional lest it would hurt his cannie feelings. What a delicate men, always exhibit something in their behaviour to excite regard for the feelings of another, and that other in this ridicule, or disgust, and thus greatly mar their usefulness. instance only a Scotch Callie. We do not write concerning social savages,rwho wan- As we cannot suppose the citizens of any city to be so tonly outrage all attempts at politeness in order to prove philanthropic, as to take enough interest in verdant themselves to be men of mark, for we consider them students, as to invite them to their houses and win their irreclaimable; but of those who affect singularity of confidence, so far as to get them to listen to a few certain manners at the expense of what is refined and agreeable, 1 ectures on how to eat, drink, talk, and behave generally. and of others who are sadly deficient in this respect from We shall venture, by way of conclusion to drop a few hints sheer ignorance. The vulgar crowd generally value such for our own benefit, as well as for that of our student men at their own price and rightly esteem them not a readers. whit superior to themselves. Imprimis. We should endeavour to cultivate the habit A few years ago a New York newspaper published a of being easily pleased. This will tend to neutralize a card of warning to all the clergymen expecting to attend tart, crabbed, censorious, mental habit, which is so apt to the meetings of the Religions Societies in that city, that grow on studious persons and make them uncivil. if they were invited into the houses of the citizens they Denide, We should seek to cultivate a cheerful state 122 QUE EN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. of mind. Ascetic and bilious men are detested. Poor DONAIO]0Ni@ TrO TU[E muslEUMw. wretches! They may have good cause for their morose- 1EPT., 1882. From Gi, Alian & Ca. Ail their speci- nesa. If sa they are the more to be pitied, although_ the ksmens of Gvpsum, ground and unground, exhibited at sad exhibition which they make of their bad feelings are the Dominion Exhibition at Kingston. This contains none the less intolerable. some fine crystais. But to be cheerful we must feel cheerful. To accom- Rev. Dr. Hanevman. A fine collection of ores from Nova plish this we must feel comfortabie in mind and body. Scotia. With tarmenting anxiety, or pallid fear, or raging anger Mr. A. Macaulay. A pig with six legs, preserved in alca- rampant it is impossible to feel cheerful. The mind must hol. be content, and the heaith must be good ta attain this Rev. R. Chambers, Erzeroom, per Dr. Wiliiamson, i ink- desirable end. Therefore, we simply sing a siight varia- horn and pen, i pair wooden sandals eievated from tion of the time-honoured ditty on frugal diet, pure air the ground by crosa-pieces under heel and tan, i pair and suitable exercise as a matter of prime importance to shoea, 3 kinds of wooden spoons, 6 coffee cups and the cultivation of etiquette, nat to refer ta any higher or saucera, beada, taoth-pick, 2 Bulgarian towels, 2 pn other consideration. Who has nat admired the cheerful- cushion coverings, i card case, i bit for bridie, and ness of a pic-nic party, or of a sleighing party, or of a i horse shoe. hunting party, which is largely due ta the fact that the In addition ta the above the museum received st june party have dismissed ail care, and have heen taking a collection Of 330 representative specimens of rocks and agreeable exercise in the open air. The cheerfuineas of minerais, and 71 fossils from the Geological Museum at same people is proverbial. Ottawa. Demigne, we should cultivate friendsbip. The warmer the affections we give forth the warmer the heart becomes. PEITIlrION 0P TruE SeNATre T LA 1There is that giveth and it tendeth to plenty. - The latent lire humas ail the brigbttr when stirred by the To the Honourahie thje Hoinse of Comimons of the Dominion of Canada, in Parliament assemhblcd: breath of friendship. Prohably no place is better calcu- lated to beget and perpetuate iasting friendship than the T Hptitonof the Senate of Queen's College andUni college. Hearts are there welded together in the fervid heat of youth, which neither time nor space can dissever. That the present tax on books is to the prejudice of Canadian literatiime and It is noticeable that the warmer the friendship the more of that deveiopment of Canadian literary talent which every Parliament that wouid encour- delicate and considerate the conduct of one ta another. age a national spirit must desire to foster. Canadian Here, then, is a sufficient motive for ail to understand the publications are already sufficientiy protected by the importance of possessing a cheerful mmnd, resulting as it Copyright Act, but, inasmuch as books written by Cana- dian authors must be pubiahed does in many blessings, and nat the least among thema in Britain or in the United States if they are ta find a market among ail the that of urbanity towards those around us. Cheerfuineas, English speaking peaples, the duty aimpiy interferes with therefare, is a sacred duty. It is essentiai to complete the sale in Canada of the best fruits of Canadian author- success in our pursuits. It is a source of true pleasure ship. ta ourselves and others. That taxes upon knowledge can only lie justifled We have indulged in this somewhat prolix lucubration when they are indispensably necessary. This has been more to stir up our editorial selves ta attend to the recognized in various ways in ail civilized countries. amenities of life a little dloser, and ta endeavour ta incor- But no tax upon knowledge can he more opposed ta porate them in our own system of behaviaur, than ta dic- national weii-being than one that burdens every student tate to others, who are probably our superiars in this of science. Almost every work required by university respect, for we are cansciaus that the beams which trans- students must for many yeara be imported from abroad. fix aur own optica are larger and more offensive to aur- At present phiiosophicai apparatus for laboratories is selves and others than the mates that dance in the sun- free from duty. Much more shouid the apparatus that beams of aur neighbours' eyes. Sat sapienti. every poor student is obliged ta use, especialiy if he de- sires to go beyond text books ta original authorities, be also admitted free. U IVEITiv DANQVIET. That the curators of university libraries wiil aiways import IT is particularly requested that ail graduates who ex- their books directly from foreign publishers. In this case Ipect to be present at the University Banquet ta be the present tax is neither in the interest of hookseiiers nor of the public. Neither is the trade the better for the duty, given on or about the 24 th of April, send their names as soon as passible ta Mr. R. V. Rogers, M.A., Chairman of nor wouid the trade be the worse if it were ahoished. the Committee. Particulars as ta the price af tickets, The duty simply takes away directiy from the coileges a etc., may be found in another calumn. considerable portion of the scanty funda which they cal- lect on behaîf af the intellectual development of Cana- dians. In vieW of the fact that there is not yet one good FRESHIE-" What is the derivation af the ward ova- public or unîversity library in Canada, the injury thereby tian ?', done ta ail the higher life and true interests of the country Senior- Ovation, my littie feliaw, cames fram the is manifest. Latin word ovam, an egg. It arose from the custam af In view of the abave and other considerations, your applying rotten eggs ta distinguished palitical speakers, petitioners pray for the abolition of the tax upan books, which was called giving them an ovation. "-Ex. should the state of the revenue warrant your Honourabie QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL 1232
The object of Queen's University is ru lay the founda- Body in making any remissions of duty wbatever.- And your petitioners, as in duty bound, xvii] ever pray. tion of a tborough education, and the examinations should Kingston, February, 1883. therefore be conducted in such a manner as is best calcu- Signed by lated to produce that thorougbness. GEO. M. GRANT, M.A., D.D., Proef. At present the energies of the majority of students are JAMFS WILLIAMSON, M.A., LL.D., Prof. bent on simply passing the final examination, and al B. MOWAT, M.A., Prof. J. work flot bearing directly on that final is raturally avoided. N. F, Dupuis, M.A., Prof. GEo. D. FERGUSON, B.A., Prof. \Vhat then is the best means to induce students to get JOHN WATSON, M.A., LL.D., Prof. up their work in a more thorougb manner ? JOHN FLETCHER, M.A., Prof. The idea suggested in the laSt JOURNAL seems to me the D. H. MARSHALL, M.A., F.R.S.E., Prof. best method of overcoming the difflculty. GEo. MCGOWAN, F.R.S.E., Prof. ALEx. B. NICHOLSON, B.A. It is needless to dilate on the benefits arising from the J AMES CARMICHAEL, Lecturer in Ch History. introduction of such a system, suffice it to say, that the JAMES FOWLER, M.A. spirit of indifference whicb nowv seems to pervade ail de- 'Hos. G. SMITH, D.D. And others. partments of study would shortly disappear, and a spirit of emulation such as had neyer yet existed woulcý be the most natural outgrowtb. In addition to tbis fresh encouragement would be given to the professors in seeing their work receive its proper not ,w1e wish it to be di8tinctly understood that the JoURNAL does attention, and the bonds of sympathy which should natur- c0nmmit itself in any way to the sentiments which niay be expressed in this departmnent. ally exist between professors and student would in a cer- tain measure be strengthened. Hoping to hear the [We have received two or three communications, whicb from lack of space have been crowded out of this number, opinion of some of the old students, I remain, but whicb we hope to be able to insert in our next issue.] Yours respectfully, -ED. U NDERG RAD.
ELOýCUTXO LCTUES nEGREUE 0FP B.A. To thre Editor of the .7ournaI: To the Editor of the Yourizal : been expectantly waiting, as 1 know many other contrary to JHAVE HE Senate bas seen fit to make an innovation hbave likexvise, since the Christmas vacation, to hear T ahl the traditions of Queen's College, in establishing a thre lectures in Elocution announced. But it would seem course for the degree of B.A. part of which is honor worlt. as if the xvaiting and watching were to be in vain, but wvhy Till the present time aIl honor work bas been additionial it should be, I cannot see, for does flot the calendar give to that necessary for the degree of BA. But the influence us to understand that such a course of lectures are to be of Toronto University bas proved too strong for Queen's, given? Does it not tell us that there is an Elocution and she bas adopted an bonor course, as well as a pass Lecturesbip, founded by the Late John Watkins? Or is'it course, for the degree of B. A. Doubtless this will enable just so many xvords put in to fr11 up the Calendar, and like more students to graduate with bonor, but they will cer- the extensive and valuable collections in the Museum, to tainly leave College with less general knowledge than tbey be heard of but not seen, although the Calendars says, would receive under the old curriculum. This change -occasional demonstrations are given to the students.- has taken place at an inopportune time, for the alumni of If this is the way the bequests of the friends of Queen's Toronto University are agitating for a change in its are to be treated, it does not seem to me that it xvill be curriculum which will make ail bonor work additional to rnch of an incentive to others to follow up their example. the ordinary pass work. Hoping that the Calendar announcement on Elocution However, as the change bas been made, and the Senate will soon appear in the trangible form of a lecturer. bas recommended a particular order of taking up the I remain yours, subjects in the several courses, I wish to suggest that as GRAY. many of the compulsory classes as possible meet in the forenoon-honour and optional classes, when necessary, To the Editor of thre .7ournal being left till the afternoon in preference to others. This JN your last issue of the JOURNAL I noticed a paragraph would leave the afternoon free for study and recreation. Iin which it was suggested that a certain standard The present arrangement of classes causes great incon- froma taken on the montblies be accepted as an equivalent can venience to students, e.g., last year I had one class tilI twelve, a pass on the final or University examiflations. The idea nine till ten o'clock, another from eleven the members of the is certainly a good one, and were it properly ventilated I tbird from three tili four. I hope arn positive that the arguments in its favour xvould he Senate will see the force of this, as the order of their sufficiently strong to induce almost ahl students to its classes is a bugbear to many students at present. Again, in support. the calendar, un.der the beading -Academic Year," the 124 .QUEEN'S COILEGE JOURNAL.
information which is Most important to a student is es tbemwell is sure ofhis ground when the 'dies irae dies illa' omitted, viz., the dates of his pass examinations. It cornes upon bim in April. To go to the rnonthlies in- would entail no extra labor on the Senate to publish this spired hy the hope of getting a book is childish. The true student bas infinitely better reasons for not important item of information in the calendar, and it evading one of thern. Having methodized bis work from time to wouild relieve the students of much anxiety. MC time, baving passed it tbrough bis mind until it bas be- corne an abiding possession. he is not taken at unawares. Thereafter, in the great college of the world, he will not IPEOGIAIW1lE VOIR TMllE ]FI?4ALS. usually get a fortnigbt's notice when called upon to speak To the Editor of the Yournal or act, or in any way to bring out tht best that is in him. Formerly, nearly a week was ailowed to intervene in W OULD it be in accordance with correct views of Quetu's between lectures and final exarninations. This education and especial]y of the purpose served b was a mistake, for it tended in the wrong direction to examinations that the programme of the finals shouid be which attention bas been called in this commpnication. made public two or three weeks in advance ? Evidently, In this year's calendar, wbat I conceive to be the true system is announced. Lectures cease on Friday a good many students think that it would. With sub- and exarninations on the whole course begin on the mission, I think that it would not, and it is just as well following Monday. This is tht rnetbod of the great to look at the subject from the different points of view. British Universities. So far as honour students are concerned, they do not What are the subjects taugbt in a University course ? know till the moment they enter the hall, on what subject tbey are to be examined. It is Not so, much those that are of immediate practical utility, feit that bonour meni shuuld be ,ready, aye, ready," It but those that are the best mental gymnastics. It is con- is expected that students corne to college, not to have 'a sidered to be of far greater consequence to train the mmnd, good time," but to study, and to study from the begin- ning to the end of the session. That by no means ex- 50 that it may work upon any subject forever after with cludes amusernents and athletics. Tht best students find precision, vigour and clearness, than to give it a number it necessary to take their share of hoth. of facts that are of merely technical or professional value. ANTI-CRAM, How shall the studen.'t get the greatest possible good then from the subjects hie studies ? By the amount of QuiD EE T mental exercise hie receives. By the formation of the best habits of studying, thinking and expressing himself. HYhdlived and loved, and walked and worked -In order to acquire these habits hie must learn the funda- Between themn and it a great.guif was fixed; it cared mental facts of each subject and their underlying princi- nothing for them, and they met its every catastrophe with pies, and hie must make these so completely his own that the Quid Refert ? of tht philosophers.'- DE LA ROGuE they shall constitute part of bis mental furniture. In Wbat care this process the great enemy to be avoided is cram, or we for the winter weather,- What care we for set of sun,- overloading the memory with mere facts or formulas with We, wbo bave wrought and thought together, the intention of unloading whenever the immediate object And know our work well done ? bas been served. Wbat do we care though glad stars glitter Now, what' would be the resuit of announcing two or For others only ? ,Tbough rnist and ramn tbree weeks beforehand the order in which the .examina- Be o'er our heads? Though hife be bitter, tions are to take place ? Simply, an encouragement to And peace be pledged to pain ? cram. There are some men whose capacities for cram What care we? Is the world worth minding,- are prodigious. In a fortnight, with the aid of notes, The sad, mad world with its hate and sin? digests, an appreciation of the examiner's strength and Is the key worth seeking for, or finding, 0f the Cretan weakness, and a good memory, they could manage to maze we wander in? "make apass" on almost any subject. They would waste Wbat care we tbougb ail be a riddle,- the whole session, and leave college with a reputat ion for Both sea and short, both earth and skies ? Let quickness which some mistake for intellectual ability, others read it I We walk that middle, and Unquestioning way wbere safety lies, yet be really as ignorant as when they entered. Such men have missed the whole object of college life. They And care not any for winter weather, And have grown in notbing but self-delusion and conceit. care no more for set of sun,- The We wbo have wrought and thought together, feW of that class who get degrees the better for the And know our work well done reputation of the university. GEo. F. CAMERON, '86. The present system of examinations is intended to guard against those evils, and to ascertain'as accurate ly IT is well known that as possible which of the students hate profited most by the the Salvation Army does not wish to allow any into itsmeetings, except non-churcb-goers work of the session. The monthly examinations are in- and people of the lowest class. Tht nicety of their dis- tended to oblige men to caîl a hait occasionally, to review crimination was shown the other evening, when two of their work so far, and to get themselves in a condition to our juniors were refused admission, but as they turned away they summarize it readily and accurately. The man who can- had the pleasure of seeing two seniors readily admitted. We draw no comparison, for 'comparisons not passthe monthlies is warned intime. The man who pass- are odious.' QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
ONE of our new Professors states that he sees no fun in -"*PERSWNAL- tobogganing, and speaks of it disdainfully as- sliding down hili on a board."
T HEtown, Rev. is inGilbert the city. C. Patterson, M.A., '8o, of Summers- THREE Professors engaged in a snow-sboe tramp on the Lake, on Shrove Tuesday. We would be glad to see them THE Rev. D. Kellock of Deseronto. a graduate of at the next club tramp. Theology in '8i, bas accepted a caîl to Spencervîlle. DANIEL McTAVISH, M.A., '82, treated bis fellow theo- THE Rev. Dr. Smith, pastor of St. Andrew's Cburcb in logues last Tuesday evening to an oyster supper in bis rooms on William Street. Just think of it, the divine tbis city, bas received a caîl to St. Andrew's Church of to St. John, N.B. and saintly theologuesactually eating oysters; panderîng tbe sensuous desires of their bodies! Verily, verily, we after strange gods, even bis popularity greatly fear that they do follow WILL. Lavell,M.D., 8o, notwithstanding mentioned in Phil. iii, ig. And what is left there for Windsor, wbere after the god in Merrickville society, bas worse, one of their number, we are told, not only bowed allowed to beal tbe diseased. he hopes to be down to bim and worshipped him, but also fasted nine hours beforehand, in order that be might get the foul WE regret muçh to announce the deatb of Gilbert J. benefit of the feast. VanVlack, M.D., who dîed suddenly of heart disease in California, on the eve of bis return to spend bis remain- ing years in bis native County of Prince Edward. AT A preliminary meeting of the banquet committee, beld on Tuesday afternoon, it was decided that until it would probably be present it B.A., '77, of Smith's Falls, for several was ascertained bow many JOHN R. LavelI, be inadvisable to make any furtber arrangements of the editors of the JOURNAL, bas went and gone would years one than placing the price of the tickets at one dollar, it at last. On the sixtb of this montb be was further and done and appointing sub.committees to canvass the graduates united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Silla P. adjourn- and and students. After doing this, therefore, an Macalister of tbis city, by the Revs. F. McCuaig is composed af R. V. Two of the oldést graduates ment was made, The committee John Macalister, B.A., '65, Macdonald, M.A., Professor Mc- at the ceremony, tbe Rev. Wm. Rogers, M.A., G. M. of Queen's were present Saunders, D. 'A. Givens, B.A., Alex. Mc- M.A., D.D., who graduated in '45, and the Rev. Gowan, Dr. Bain, Leod, E. H. Britton, A. McLachlan, J. C. Anderson, A. Geo. Bell, LL.D., a B.A. Of '47. Givan, W. J. Anglin, W. J. Shanks and J. J. Wright. +' DE 4091S~ , NOBILIBUS.+ NUMBER OF STUDENTS THIS SESSION-The numnber o students attending classes in Arts is igi ; in Tbeology 20' 5; and in Medicine, at the Royal, 88. This sboved in Law AFEW days ago three Professors and a student apparently make the total number of University city players. would AVthe stanes -against a rink of the beat 304; but as 48 of the medicals and haîf a dozen the College curlers were vic- students We are glad to mention tbat and theologues attend classes in Arts, the torious. of the jurists actual total is 250, the highest number ever reacbed in Queen's. There is an increase this session in every MISS SMITH, a student in the'Royal College, we are Faculty. If this thing goes on new buildings will soon be -.sorry to) say is seriously ill. Of course we can't allow required, The ladies numnber i0 in Arts, and 7 1n medi- sucb a favourable opportunity to pass witbout saying, cine. As the Royal bas more students this year than in -we told you so.- Is this* a practical instance that any previnus year of its existence, Dr. Stewart's regime of woman's delicate constitution cannot undergo the severe course always excepted, it is manifest that the admission strain of a cèollege course , without the result as exempli- of ladies has on the whole told favourably on the attend- fled in this case ? ance. Some may have been deterred from facing the ladies, but evidently a good many more have corne be- LIST of University Preachers for the next montb; cause of or in spîte of them. L.L.D., Mon: February 25 tb, Rev. John Jenkins, D.D., Professor McLaren, Knox Col- treal. .Marcb 4 th, Rev.. CURLIANA-The pen is mightier than the sword. The Rev. R. Campbell, M A., lege, Toronto. Marcb iitb, final ties in competition for the Carruthers' gold medal Renfrew. Marcb i8th, Rev. R. J. Laidlaw, B.A., Hamil- The play had narrowed down B.D., Montreal. were played off this week. ton, March 25 th, Rev. J. Edgar Hill, being Major Short, gentlemen on it to a triangular contest, the participants This list promises .well. None of the and Mr . Dennistoun, '86, of the JOURNAL Hall., Mr. Stewart have yet preached in Convocation staff. The two first were drawn against each other, and their game was somewhat remarkable. The score stood of Queen's MR. F. C. HEATH, B.A., musical director 13 to 5 in favor of Stewart, and that gentleman was College Glee Club, bas composed an Easter Cantata, 'lying shot."' Not content with this ho threw another which ho intends to produce in Convocation Hall some stone for 14. This shot knocked alI his stones out of evening in Easter week. Tbe chorales and solos were count, leaving 3 or 4 Of the Major's in the circle. Mr. composed-by Mr. T. G. Marquis, '83, and are considered Stewart neyer made that fourteenth point, and the gai. the by those who have seen themn to be well worthy of lant Major passed him. The JOURNAL man now came author of 'Nausicaa.' The chorus will be rendered effec- upon the scene, and as a resuît bas brought glory upon tive by the help of several city ladies, some of whom will himself and the editorial circle of which he is a member. take solos. The male soloists will be Messrs. T. Cumn- We congratulate our brother editor, and hope that Mr. berland and J. Sberlock. From wbat we bave heard of Dennistoun's success will give much point to an article the first two or three rehearsals we have no besitation in which appeared in our last issue advocating the formation predicting a great success for Mr. Heath in the under- of a college rink. taking. 12~ QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
A SopH'S.- AMOROUS SPEEcH.-BRILLIANT ORATION.-- On the I 3 th inst. the train going west carried a Soph. and a Divinity student to a place called S-, where a "bun fight' was to be engaged in, and in wbich these two NE of the girls says: IEating onions flot only keeps "gownsmen" intended to participate. The entertaifiment O the lips from chappi ng, but also keeps the chaps from began at 7 o'clock in a large hall, and on a large platform lipping. "-Ex. in company 3with some distinguished personages, these two mashers, and grinders of hash, planted themselves. ST. Valentine's day has corne and gonle, Whereupon the Soph, standing upon and as a resuit bis feet, rolling bis the walls of our sanctum boast of quite a few additional eyes, stretching bis legs, opened his mouth, and spake as adornments, the bequests of generous hearted students follows :-" Hear, O ye people of S- and vicinity, the words whicb who were the happy recipients of artistic 'one-centers.' I shaîl speak unto you, for I am a Soph. of We are indebted Queen's College. to one of our exchanges for the following I wear a mortar board upon my head six specimen: days out of seven, and taking pity upon you, Il in comrany Dere Gane: witb my brother "Divine," come forth to unfold some of I ain't mutch on a rhyme, the deep mysteries, and to solve some of the problems wbich we learo in K- 1 don't no feet and tîme, For it bath lever been upon my I bot mmnd to address you upon a this valentyne fer uI subject which lies very close To tel that to this soft heart of mine, and whicb pertains I to u are tru. to the good 1 don't go mutch upon its sense; of all men, (viz.) I'Matrimony." Mine eyes have been propped wide It's just chuck full of sentîmense. open every nigbt for a long time past, So take thinking upon this wondrous theme, the farvant love of him and so I propose this Who sines hisself night to gi ve some good advice to the folk young ini years, Your Willyum tender in heart, like myself, and I trust that my remarks Jim. may flot be in vain. (At this juncture the "lDivinity Hero" rolled bis eyes, flapped bis ears, and bis knees See! smote one against the other.) He Ladies and gdnts,-I rise to address you upon the Goes wbirling out the door. subject of matrimony, and my words must have weight, Ah! for I am no stranger to either you or my subject. I know Pa wbereof I speak, for I am-a disciple of "'Cupid,' having Has lit on him once more. graduated with honours in bis school. Many a fair I damsel have 1 loved, and many will I love in the future, Sigh and as I see before me so.many of the youtb of our land, To see him used like that. 1 shaîl address not a few of my words to tbem. A young Bad man ought to be of reasonable size. He should have a Dad gond bead; if bie can grow a beard it is well, but many To spoil bis Derby bat-Ex. imagine that if they sport a few spears of a moustache tbat tbey are men. Hark and listen, O ye people!1 A MCSTAOGGRT (on bis way home, having jumped over small moustache is only second mourning for want of the shadows of the lamp-posts, etc., brought up by that brains, (at this point the Divinity Hero, with turned up of the kirk steeple). "Eh-" (Pauses.) "Ne' mnd ! eye, thanked the Gods that bie was always dlean shaven. 'Sb no help for it ! (Pulls up bis pants.) Shaîl have to His teeth chattered and bis knees smote one against the wade thish! other.) Soph continued, ,Young men, many a girl who is not afraid or ashamed to work, neyer mind the looks, HAMILTON College, on consideration of an endowment beauty is but skin deep, but, oh, ugliness goes dlean to Of $500,000, is to become a Presbyterian college, the subject bone, HE Senate has deemed it expedient that *w's o1ftgt Tf the request in the students' pet ition pray- Published INTWELVE NUMBERs during the Session by the in)g that more time be allowed at the exami- with ALMA MATER SOCIETY of Queen's University. nations should flot be granted. We bow
STAFF: submission to its decision. A. MCLACHLAN, -Managing Editor, We are glad, hawever, that it lhas been EDITING coMMIT'rEE: pleased to acceed to the-ir wishes as embodied Divinity-JAMES SOMERVILLE, B.A. in the rest of the petition, and has conse- Medicine-T. A. MOORE, W. G. ANGLIN. quently agreed ta announce the date and Arts-RODERICK McKAx', B.A. R. M. DENNISTOUN. ten days befare they cain- F. W. JOHNSTON. order of the finals J. S. SKINNER. that this A. G. FARRELL. J. J. WRIGHT. nience. We need scarcely add GEO. F. HENDERSON, Secretary-Treasurer. action on the part af tlie Senate is duly ap- TERMS:-Per Session, $i.oo; -Single Numbers, io cents. preciated by the students. Matter for publication should be addressed to A. Mc- LAcHLAN; Business letters to GEo. F. HENDERSON, P. O. ;Drawer 1'46, Kingston, Ont. press W E see from reports in the daily The Editor must be acquainted with the name of the that the Chancellor headed a deputa- of any article, whether local or literary. author tion that waited a fortnight ago upon the Fi- not delay nanceMinister to urge the remaval of theodious 0" UR delinquent subscribers need sa long in sending in the necessary. We tax upon books. Almost aIl the Colieges in the mat- do not ask that the subseriptions be paid in the Dominion wvere represented, and the Minister Manitoba lots or any such cumbrous material, ter was thoroughly canvassed, the arguments but arÈ quiite satisfied with dollar bis, which being weil acquainted with points the post office officiais are only too happy to fromthe booksellers' and the Treasury two pro- carry to us with the usuai tax. So pay Up, of view. The deputation submitted be gentlemen, and have this matter off your positions, with either of which they wauid mind. content ;-one to admit ahl books free ; an- other, to admit books for Libraries, Coileges spirit _which seems ta arn- 'T HE critical including text-books. The -~mate some of our student philosophers and Schools, less is certainly commendable. whoie revenue accruing from the duty is Friendly discussions of philasophicai ques- than $9a,aoo. The Government had therefore but tions may have their charms for the disciples of better nat make two bites of a cherry, this science, but we question if they are quite knock aif at once and forever this irritating will feel so palatabie to the generality of aur readers. and antiquated tax. Ail students They are not, however, without interest even abliged to Chancellor Fleming for the exer- ta ordinary mortals. But an editor is not tions he is making in their interest and the supposed to be a philosopher, and hence his interest of the community. opinion pro or con would. be regarded as a présumptious interference. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
T AKE time by the forelock. What are to N this JOURNAL we wish to give a seed be the colours for the Association foot- thought which it is hoped may soon result ball team next session ? The record of last in some fruit. A commendable custom ob- season makes poor showing when we consid- tains in some of our sister colleges across the er how strong the team was individually. great lakes which we would like to see intro- Let us frankly admit this and then profit by duced at Queen's. We refer to the custom the confession. More organization is needed of each class leaving a "class memorial." for next season's play. Although apparently Our efforts can not yet result in anything so a small matter, a pretty.uniform gives a great pretentious as characterizes our older sisters ; deal of tone and spirit to a team. but though comparatively small in numbers, Many of the men may be engaged in we hope we are mighty in spirit and in love athletic contests during the coming summer, for our Alma Mater. We will not attempt to and it may be will furnish thenselves with give the various forms which this spirit has appropriate suits. I.f our colors were decided taken in other places, but we may be per- upon at once members could be supplied mitted to make a single suggestion. We with much less inconvenience to themselves should have a life size portrait of Her Majes- than if the matter has to be attended to after ty adorning Convocation Hall. This would college opens. By ail means a meeting be appropriate to our name, and would be should be called'at once and this thing de- becoming, the loyal college of a loyal city. cided. Will '83 move in this inatter. believe our university'is annually WElosing numbers of students through laudable and timely suggestion A VERYis given elsewhere in re the question of not having honor matriculation examinations. establishing Fellowships in connection with There is great emulation between Collegiate the chairs in English Literature Institutes and leading High Schools for and Rhetoric, and Modern Languages. position at these examinations at other Uni- There can be but one verdict as to the ad- versities in this Province. Those who are visability of this measure. The necessity is very well prepared for matriculation have a so urgent, and the advantages so patent, that strong inducernent to go where they can no one can reasonably object on the ground matriculate with honor to themselves, even of propriety. though in other respects they might prefer We believe the primary, in fact the sole Queen's. Additional students would be at- consideration of the governing body of the tracted to Queen's if the same encouragement university whom we confidently hope will were given for passing a difficult examina- give this matter their tion as at other universities. It is the best attention, will be the students to whom such an examination would question of the revenue requisite to support be an incentive, and it is that class of stu- such an undertaking. But let the Council dents which we accordingly lose by this de- decide to carry out this measure and we ven- ficiency in our curriculum. The amount of ture to say that ways and means can be additional work thus imposed might be adopted for its accomplishment. If the sup- deducted from the ordinary, honor course, or ply is to keep parallel with the demand it it might be allowed to remain altogether seerms to us the time has come for immediate extra and appear as such in the degree. It action. What has been said in regard to English is now a propitious time to institute such and modern languages has equal force in examinations on the eve of the inauguration some other departments, where the work is of a new curriculum. quite too heavy for a single professor. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
FOR want of space we are compelled to would be benefltted also. A longer session leave out a lengthy article on "A Longer means the development of muscle on the Session." But the subject being of impor- campus, the re-organization of the rifle tance the substance of the communication corps, the formation of stronger ties of may be briefly discussed. It asks that the association and friendly rivalry in manly session be made two months longer than it games with students of sister institutions. is at present, and one reason for more time Thus more bodily exercise with less mental is that inordinate cramming could be avoided, strain would obviate broken-down constitu- if the amount of work gone over remained tions. For no matter what may be said unchanged. We can't help noticing, how- against it, it is too true that many sacrifice ever, that the inveterate cranimer would health to gain knowledge. Some may thînk only defer the evil day two months longer, a few weeks would make littie difference to and would as usual enjoy ignoble ease such, but this is a mistake, for a feV hours until within a few weeks of the exams. But less study, and a few hours per week more apart fromi the interests or benefit of this exercise, stand between robust health and an class, which, we are sorry to say, can be active mind on the one hand and a dyspeptic found in Queen's, a longer session by a few frame and an enfeebled mmnd on the other. weeks at least would be of decided advan- We hope this question will receive the tage to manv, if not al. agitation and consideration it demands, and It is a plain fact that the time is too limited that the time may be so extended that every the for the most diligent of students to get up student will be able to appreciate fully the work as he desires. And, if there was benefits of bis college training. general satisfaction given by commencing the session earlier this year than ever before, (A REPLV.) there was more time, and simply because IN the last number of the JOURNAL there appeared an hence more thoroughness in getting up the article under the titie, -Emerson, the Philosopher," work throughout, any one can see how an which, however, without particularly dealing with Emer- son, brought in quite a variety of subjects in its course. of even one month would tell on extension Stili one particular idea, to which the others were appar- the final1 exams. As Queen's extends ber ently intended to be subordinate, struggled for expression influence and raises lier standard second to throughout the greater part of the article. It manifested none in this country, we as students rejoicing itself in a very well-intentioned effort on the part of the wri ter to show that wher eas ail philosophy and religion seek to before the world, feel the in her standing solve the great prohlema of man's relatign to God, yet the need of"more time. The process of educa- Christian religion, with that pure and lofty figure of the tion is slow but sure, and a true education God-man as its centre, alone reveals that relationship in cannot be forced ; if then, our session were ail its clearness. But though the intention may have been of the most laudable character, unfortunately the longer-the curriculum of work remaining as results are of such a nature that on a reduction of the it is-the mental training would tend towards statements to coherence with each other, the conclusions the end so much to be desired. *And we are anything but warranted hy the premises-are, in would have young men whose minds are in fact, the exact opposites of what they reasonably should be. As I believe that if allowed to pass unquestioned to grapple with life's work, and full activity the statements there made, when freed fromn unwarranted not the receptacles of so many facts, for assumptions, would be injurious to the cause of Chris- which the recipient finds no value, simply tianity, and as I arn confident this was not the intention of because they passed so rapidly before bis the writer, I take this opportunity of showing where 1 conceive him to be astray. I assume at the outset not be assimilated. mind that they could that if any attempt is nmade to philosophically jus- But, the student, from. a physical standpoint, tify any position, it is thereby open to philosophical QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
criticism. Proceeding to tbe central idea at once, then, quite plain that had any other attributes been added to, 11we flnd it stated that, ,thinking men hold it beyond a these, it would immediately have shut out from the category doubt tbat God is." Now, even admitting this te be se, of 'thinking men' ail those whose God cannot be said to have any other attribute than that of existence. (altbougb it is rather a severe stricture upon the con- If, then, we go on adding attributes or qualities to this scientieus materialist,) tbe question immediately presents bare existence, until we have reached that conception of itself: What is tbe nature of tbis Cod wbo is s0 umiver- Gud which mjakes neLessary the mediation of Christ to perfect sally beld te exist ? It is found tbat unless we assume our relationsbip te him, we have shut out every philosophy or system of religion save the Christian re- him te be the God of the Bible, the position wbicb tbe ligion. The problem, therefore, whicb is stated in tbe writer takes witb reference to the solution of the problem passage wbich we have quoted, either bas no interest as te bew man is related to whatever for the philosopher as such, or else the solution this God is unaccountahle.' whicb But, that ahl tbese 'thinking men' understand by God the is presented at the close of the article, taking the problem to imply no more than is stated, bas not the God of the Hebrews, is by no means true. In fact, s0 remotest connection with that problem. Judging the numerous and widely different are the ideas expressed by problem by the ostensible solution, it is altogether beyond the word 'God' among the varieus sections of bumanity, the pale of pbilosophy ; judging the problem as stated, it has that tbere is the greatest necessity for makicg it clearly no connection witb the solution. But, as I have said, the excessive ambiguity of the word God, used indis- understood as te whicb cf these conceptions we are criminately in a general and particular sense, and very referring, and especially wben we are speaking cf any often in botb senses at once, serves to bide that want of particular God wbo is tbe centre of a particular system connection which becomes so manifest tbroughout the of religion or philosopby. In tbe present case, the fact article as soon as we begin te distinguisb the various senses in whicb tbe termi is used. The writer is altogeth- that Christ is declared te be tbe solution of the problem, er astray in supposing it te be tbe task of pbilosopby, or shows conclusively tbat it can only be the Hebrew God te any part of its task, te discover the relation existing be- whom reference is made. But just because tbis reference tween the God of the Bible-that is, Cod as he is there represented-and man; therefore i8 neyer made explicitly, tbe assumption of failure cannot the identité legitimately be attributed to any system of philosophy on between the Deity represented in tbe Bible and the God tbe grund tbat it bas cet accomplisbed that end. With who is conceived of in any ether system of religion, or by the fun.damental and cbaracteristic dogmas of the Bible any philosopher, is apt te pass unnoticed. Besides, it is pbilosepby bas nothing wbatever te do, and notbilig would se surely destroy its validity, and reduce a well known popular errer, and an exceedingly catural it to the~ servile and useless position wbich it occupied in tbe mid- one, that when reference is made te God the majority of dle ages, as any attempt to make it proceed upon such peep le in Christian ceuntries immediately conceive the foregoce conclusions. If pbilosopby is ever te be of any God of the Bible te be meant, and ini the majority of cases real benefit to Cbristianity, it must be allowed to proceed upon its own groucd, wbicb is experience, they may be correct, but along with that gees tbe belief and cet revela- tion or theological dogma, and make use of its own that if only the existence of a Ged is preved we have method, wbicb consists in sbowîng wbat are the neces- immediately proved alI bis attributes as set forth in Hely sary conditions of that experience, and net wbat is implied Writ, or at least we are entitled te deduce them from that in somne given principle or fact as its consequences, cet as its conditions. Now, altbougb, in the article referred existence. In the present case, however, we must be to, tbe relation of man te God is the problem wh.icb is set careful te rid ourselves of alI these natural preconcep- forth as requiricg solution, "the mist of the ages wbicb is tiens, and, if we would bring order into chaos, net allow still te be dispersed," acd altbougb this is the problem of wbicb aur minds te be influenced by the use of ambigueus termis. Christ is said te afford the only solution, yïet,1 tween tbe statement of it and tbe soluti 'on be- The Christian Gad ne given, nd con- doubt bas many points in cemmen tributing stili fertber te the confusion and ambiguity with ether conceptions of the Deity, but wben we came te already indicated, tbere appear certain other ideas and censider all the canceived Gods between whom and mac fragments of ideas wbicb have little or cothing to do witb a relatienship is sought te be established, tbere is foend the point at issue, or are only forced into connection witli it hy contradicting tbe starting point, te be very little cemmon ground amang them. or at least material- Even in ly altering the nature of tbe question. Codld we discover the theories put forth by those 'thinkicg mec' of the pres- no reason for tbe aggregation of these discoccected and ent day, the differences are of such a wide and radical cocflicting ideas, we should be at a loss to understand nature that their conceptions of God bave little more wby anyone sbould take the trouble of stringicg tbem together. We are than the camne in enabled te account for tbis incoberency, cammen. Hence, when the writer of however, wbec we perceive that tbe writer is evidently the article referred te makes the statement that "1philaso- proceeding under the influence of a foregane conclusion, phers new set eut frem the starting peint of the existence which conclusion, is tbat the only actual God is tbe God of -Ged te discever the nature of bis relation ta mac," wbose character is set forth in tbe Bible, tbat therefore the ocly actual relation wbicb exists between mac theuagh I cannot agree with him and in saying that that is the God is tbe relation between man and that God ;tbat. starting point of philosophy, or that philosophers do naw moreaver, every one wbe is searchicg for God and bis start from that peint, yet it is true that existence is the relation to man is, whether be acknowledges it himself or enly attribute that aIl are agreed in assigning te God. not, searcbicg for tbat God and that relation. Keeping this foregone conclusion in view, In fact, existence is the ene we can ucderstacd small categary which separates how it is tbat wbile be freely criticises ail otber positions, the minimum Ged from ne God at all. Still this is the bis own reqeires no resting place. Conceiving, bowever, only attribute which is even explicitly asserted te beleng that pbilosophy is in some way connected witb that con- te the Deîty in the article under discussion ; and it is clusion, he seeks teijudge its merits by it ; and wberever QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
of God and this relationship differ from essentially the same manner as we proceed to account for any other ideas of re- his notion of the biblical representation, he concludes their any other portions of experience. The philosophy to have lighted upon 'ghosts" and other "mis- ligion does not, therefore, proceed dogmatically, but authors sys- shapen monsters," forgetting that another, whose early critically, and is quite independent of any particular religions training had caused his foregone conclusions to tem of religion. take on a different hue, would no doubt look upon many of the biblical reprepresentations of God's nature and AS OTHERS SEE US. relationship to man as equally ghostly and monstrous. too, the writer's conclusion be foregone, in com- to a friend over the border, Unless, HE following letter, written who located in the parison with what he does declare all other ideas on T by a certain " pilgrim stranger" these points, whether belonging to religion or philosophy, city for a short time, and who seems to have been slightly to be so utterly astray or inadequate. Again, out of a afflicted with a propensity for "taking notes," (not bank- we are unable to deduce rational experience, he admits, notes of course), inay not be without interest to some of doctrines of christianity ; hence they can never be the which employed in criticism of any system of philosophy which the readers of the JOURNAL. The circumstances professes to be so established. Taking up another point, led to its having fallen into our possession are not of suf- we find it stated that such thinkers as Plato, Plotinus, ficient interest to require their statement. and Emerson sought to discover the relation between God and man, and being unable to accomplish it by means of KINGSTON, March, 1883. reason, the two latter at least sought it in the "ultra DEAR JOHN,-I have been here for some time, tiow, and rational." But to leave the sphere of reason is to leave my spare moments, being the most numerous variety in and, as he justly remarks, "though the sphere of certainty, my possession, have enabled me to make sundry observa- we must of necessity be limited by reason, our limitation is our strength." Still we are immediately informed that tions on the character of this queer old city, and, I was reason is quite incapable of determining the nature of the about to add, its equally queer old citizens, but that term blame Plo- relation between God and man. Why, then, only applies to a limited portion of its inhabitants, the Emerson, and others for passing beyond reason in tinus, others being much the same as are to be met with in the their attempts to solve the question ? If, as in the present case, the problem is insoluble by reason from the very average Canadian town or city, though, perhaps, on the nature of the case, it is plainly not a rational problem, whole a trifle slower and more dignified, (from their own method that is and hence must be solved, if at all, by a stand point), than the others. But as there is little to be rational. The writer is evidently not aware of the ultra describing things and humanitv of the every- material of which his own edifice is constructed, when he gained by thus hurls critical stones at the glass houses of others. day and every-where description, I will confine my obser- Again, it is but a vain attempt to mix oil and water, when vations as far as possible to the more unusual side of the great lack he endeavours to show that Christ supplies things, even tiough they be common in a sense. Among. system of philosophy. We might just as well in Kant's that he is not talk of the difference between mathematics and chemistry other;things which tend to assure a stranger as being a lack on the part of mathematics, as to say that in his native element here, especially the"average Ameri- the difference between a certain philosophy and Chris- can, like myself, is the peculiar character of the edifices part of that philosophy. tianity is a lack on the in certain regions of the place. In point of time their According to the Bible, Christ's primary object in coming to the world was to save man from the consequences of appearance would seem to indicate that they were erected his sin both original and actual ; but what has philosophy about the eleventh or twelfth century, while in point of to do with original sin, with the wrath of God or the love architecture they impress one strongly as belonging to the glories of a heaven to be of Christ; with the pre-Adamic age, and their existence at the present day gained, or the terrors of a hell to be avoided ? These are matters which concern the Christian religion would thus support the view that the Noahian deluge did alone, and Christ, considered apart from these and the not, as is held by many, extend over the. whole earth. Bible, and in connection with any system of philosophy, When compared with the other buildings in the city, character and mission, and becomes loses his divine there is very little' to indicate that there ever existed a simply the Ideal Man. There can, therefore, result naught but confusion from attempting to mix philosophi- transition period from the ancient to the modern styles of cal principles and Christian dogmas in that way, and architecture. There is equally as little indication of any make of them one system. It can only end in casting similarity between certain classes of its inhabitants, for I religion, and making philosophy ridiculous. doubt upon specimens which The distinctive principles of Christianity and philosophy have observed among the citizens several are obtained from such dissimilar sources, and by such have all the appearance of belonging to a very ancient widely different methods, that they cannot be assimilated variety of the race, as well as presenting a very ancient with each other. Their harmony must be sought neither look as individuals. In fact,in gazing upon some of them matter nor method, but in results. Lest, however, it in abstracted sad- may be supposed that I do not believe philosophy to have as they move about with a far-away air of any connection with religion, let me state in conclusion ness and solemnity, one is led to suppose that the category that there is a vast difference between the philosophy of of time does nQt apply to these individuals, and that a cen- any particular religious sys- religion and the doctrines of tury or two may have slipped past without their being tem. The doctrines of Christianity, for instance, are based upon the Bible, whose contents are believed to be conscious.of the fact, while their obituaries will probably the product of revelation and inspiration, and therefore never be written, if we are to judge from present indica- fixed for all time. The philosophy of religion, on the tions. I felt an indescribable feelinig of an awe-full nature is based upon an examination of man's other hand, spread over me as I gazed upon some of these relics of religions consciousness, or his religious experience, the nature and conditions of which are to be accounted for in the past, and would gladly have learned something of their 132 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. history with a view to reading a paper on them before the redolent with sweet memories for the average medical ethnological society on my return, but found them so student. The intensity of the appropriateness of that very reticent on the subject that I had to abandon my title to the place can only be realized by those who have purpose. I have bestowed considerable attention on the beheld it in all its glory. Especially is this to be accom- study of the streets in the city, with the intention of discov- plished on those occasions when they are celebrating the ering, if possible, the original plan according to which ceremonies connected with their favourite assembly, these streets were designed, and have come to the con- which they term a 're-union" or "pic-nic," a species of clusion, after very careful deliberation, that there was no entertainment which would require a special description original plan or scheme, but that they were laid out by to give anything like an adequate idea of what it includes. an intoxicated person on a dark night, or, perhaps, by The opening ceremony, however, invariably consists in two such persons, the darkness and intoxication in one introducing into their mouths that particular enemy whose case being exceeding great. The effect produced on one duty it is to steal away their brains. This introductory in wandering through one part of the city in particular, performance is gone through with that neatness and is such as to induce a feeling of indèscribable meanness, despatch which characterizes the average medical student occasioned by finding oneself ever and anon coming to a in such matters. The enemy performs his part of the halt in a vacant lot, or some private individual's back contract with equal thoroughness and celerity, and then yard, where the greater number of the streets seem to those mysteries begin, the adequate description of which terminate. Such an experience is calculated to remove would tax a Dante's powers. In reference to the celebra- every trace of dignity which a person possesses, in an- in- tion of these "re-unions" the place was named the "den." credibly short time; and the more one happens to have It is here, then, that they meet to "expatiate and confer of that article, which is both useful and ornamental in their state affairs." Having, at any of their business ordinary circumstances, the quicker does it seem to dis- meetings, formulated their united will upon any matter, appear in these regions; and then some difficulty is the secretary is instructed to forward the same to the experienced in persuading oneself that he is not a tramp faculty and the matter is settled. One of their number, in quest of cold fowl and lemon pie. Altogether the sight who is of a mathematical turn of mind, bas disovered of these streets in all their complexity, is one to be remem- some interesting relations to exist between the time re- bered,-to be stored up in your recollection, and brought quired to come to any decision, and the state of the meet- out in old age, on those occasions when you take pleasure ing itself, which are perhaps worth mentioning. From in recounting to your wondering grand-children the mar- the comparison of a large number of observations he has vellous scenes and strange experiences which it has been been able to deduce the following law, namely, that the your lot to pass through. [Here a few sheets of the let- time taken to reach any definite conclusion is inversely ter have been lost. The next one in our possession is as proportional to the square root of the percentage of those follows.] Among other places of interest, I visited the Uni- present who can successfully walk a crack in the floor ten versity, incorporated by charter from the Queen, I am told, feet in length, and directly proportional to the amount of and named after her-Queen's University. The College talking done. It has been represented to me as an actual buildings are among the finest in the city, and are rather fact, that when the students allow any of the professors pleasantly situated in a position which commands a good to take a holiday, which they are often so generous as to view of the harbour, from which also the buildings appear grant without its being requested, they do not deduct to fine advantage. There is a gymnasium in connection anything from their wages, but allow them to count full with, the college, where the students repair in considera- time, all of which tends to exhibit the amicable relations ble numbers, to exercise and develop their muscles, prin- existing between professors and students. During the cipally those of their lungs and larynx. In the same present session, however, certain difficulties have arisen building there is a medical college in affiliation with the which would seem to indicate that the professors bad University. It is rather a peculiar institution in many presumed too much upon the good nature of their em- respects, and I have taken the trouble to investigate ployers, and had thereby involved themselves in trouble. those peculiarities to a considerable extent. Its system It appears that a year or two ago the faculty undertook of government, and the principles in accordance with to give a course of instruction in medicine toa number of which it is conducted, are of so novel and unique a char- ladies, upon the understanding that the course was to be acter, that you will no doubt be interested in learning of guite as full as as that given to the gentlemen, though a them. In the first place, it differs from all other institu- separate one. From some cause or other they found that tions of the kind, of which I have heard anything, in it wouid be inconvenient to fulfil this engagement; so the being under the control of the ,students instead of the ladies had either to give up their course, already entered professors. The general method of conducting its affairs upon, or attend lectures with the male students. Unwil- is of the following character. When the students wish to ling to'do the former, and believing that the latter, though issue any instructions to the faculty, they meet together a decidedly unpleasant course, would only be a temporary for the purpose of deciding on these in a special room of arrangement they entered the classes without any oppo- the building, which they love to call the -den," a word sition on the part of the male students. Still it seems QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
ladies to her classes and degrees, the faculty had taken this step on their own respon- Queen's College admits that that institution being under the ordinary system of of the students for but sibility, and without the authority government the students have nothing to say in the mat- such action. This liberty on their part, however, was not ter. I attended an entertainment given in the main hall then resented by the students; but when the ladies were of the college, by one of the student societies, I believe. and seemed to be an undue preference for the:foremost It was a very good one of the kind, found to be evincing by the public, and especially by that awoke to fairly patronized positions on the examination lists, the students species of citizen whose occupatian consists in maintan- the consciousness that their interests were being seriously a position at, or near, a street corner during the day, and interfered with. They therefore assembled themselves appearing as a "gallery god" or a saloon frequenter during I had not expected to find this class of the about the middle of the session, the immediate the evening. together community attending college entertainments, but, al- cause being a complaint on the ladies' part of the rude though ftom my position under the gallery where they manner in which they were being treated by the male invariably locate, I did not actually observe them, there students, and instructed the faculty to dismiss those was no mistaking that well known miscellany of indescrib- through which this type of The faculty, however, hav- able and unearthly sounds audacious females instanter. individual is in the habit of expressing his feelings, and ing pledged theniselves to give the ladies a full course, also the complimentary manner in which he refers to the could not comply with theselinstructions without bringing peculiarities of any one in the audience, which is of to a themselves within the clutches of the law, and this they course calculated to induce in the person so referred state of mind. The number of to the students in council assembled. calm and peaceful humbly represented students, who attend these entertainments is very small, But that august body was not to be trifled with. The no doubt owing to the fact that they were busy preparing faculty had no authority for their action in the first place, for examinations, as I have been given to understand that and if they got themselves into trouble over it it was the passing of these examinations is absolutely necessary of a degree at this university, and if were particularly irate that their for the attainment their own fault. They that be so, college life must be a much more serious mat- demand should even be questioned, and indignation meet- ter here than with us. ings were held daily, at which speeches were made Tell Robertson that he is quite mistaken in supposing against foreign aggression in the shape of females, which, Kingston to be the name of a country post office. It is, and of no little importance in many orator of the as I have said, a city, if directed against the Chinese by a hudlum respects. Thus endeth my discourse for the present. Pacific coast, would have caused him to be applauded to Yours fraternally, the echo ; as indeed many of these orations were in the BROTHER JOSH. famous den.' Whether the profanity indulged in by a POWER IN4 PREACHING. hudlum audience is equal to that which found expression in certain portions of the den,' I am unable to say, as I to my mind while antitle article suggested on "Preaching, itself the Great Work determined with exactness the ordinary T HEreading above have not yet of the Christian Ministry," contained in the first number hudlum capacity for profanity. At any rate, the students of the Knox College Monthly. In that article the writer speedily gave the professors to understand that they had shews clearly that preaching should be the aim of every main oh- either to obey orders promptly or they would dispense minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ; but his of a more thorough train- how- ject is to shew the necessity with their services for the future. At this juncture, ing in " Homiletics" and " Elocution"; which training ever, several of the city fathers lent their influence, and seems to be neglected in Knox as it is in Queen's. He modified.thd students to such an extent that they actually seems to have become acquainted with the fact, patent every observant mind, that there is a deplorable lack deliver, or pretend to deliver, to permitted the faculty to of power in much of the preaching of the present day. separate lectures to the ladies; though they exacted from It is not easy to define power ; but we get an idea of them a solemn promise never to try such tricks again, what it is by thinking of it according to the impressions and never to make another contract to teach the mysteries made upon us by its various manifestations. Ina the forces of nature, and in the phenomena of mind we have profession to women, on pain of immediate of the medical illustrations of physical and intellectual power; but dismissal from their employ. Ihe separate course for power of the highest kind is not physical and intellec- ladies, however, turned out to be a mere sham, so that the tual, but spiritual. It is spiritual power, that power boys breathe freely once more with regard to the results which in a peculiar sense is from God, and which all that is in opposition to God's is one fact which I think enables us to overcome of the examinations. There will, of which we wish to speak particularly. Such must be admitted by every one, and that is, that, consid- power must be possessed by every preacher of the gos- ering the relation in which the professors stood to the pel, or else he must inevitably fail. Why so? Because students,,they acted very rashly in taking upon them- the enemy with which he has to contend is tremendously to labor in a "devil-pos- the college or its powerful. The preacher has selves to decide any matters relating to sessed" world. The command of the Master is, "Go classes independently of the students, and the fact of such ye into all the world-this "devil-possessed" world-and conduct nearly costing them their positions will -no doubt preach the gospel to every creature; and the gospel be a warnng to them in future. I might just add that which he has to preach lis the power of God unto sal- vation." The first ambassadors of the Lord obeyed this to compete with the students of the final year, not having command, and the result soon became manifest to all. the ladies, though they had equally to attend lectures Peter's sermon was a thunderbolt from end to end, a with them, did not take any active part in securing their mighty avalanche which crushed the enemy's power, and dismissal, which was, of course, quite natural. laid three thousand conscience-stricken sinners, crying QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. for mercy, at the feet of the Son of God. The enemy preaching. We seem to forget that our great work is to is just as powerful to-day as he was then. Are we as witness for Christ, and thus our testimony is altogether powe-ful? I fear not. Are not such occurrences the different to that of the apostles. As Saphir puts it, "The exceptions now rather than the rule ? In shame we must one is testimony; the other is an exposition of another confess it. Sone one says, "Are you not looking at the man's inspired testimony." "Paul preached Christ; our dark side of the question altogether ?" Well now, fellow tendency is to preach that Paul preached Christ." Oh, students, let us ask ourselves a question. What has for another Whitefield to search us, who attempt to been our power for God ? The preacher's aim is to preach, with his piercing question, "Art thou a master in glorify God in the salvation of souls. How many souls Israel and knowest not these things ?" Christ's life was have been saved through our instrumentality, since we one of obedience to the will of the Father. Now here, commenced to work for God ? How many lives have we I think, is just where we fail. Instead of being filled been instrumental in revolutionizing? After labouring with the Spirit of God we are filled with the spirit of in our mission fields for a considerable length of time, self. We will not make full surrender of self. We will how many of the persons who heard our preaching were not give ourselves over into the Lord's hands, and enabled to say, " I have eternal life, because I know Thee therefore the Spirit cannot work through us mightily. the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast Christ's life was one of prayer for all the gifts and sent ?" Some one says: " I did not have the pleasure of helps of God. He spent whole nights in prayer. What seeing much fruit ; but I tried to do my duty, and I we want is more importunity in prayer. Some one has believe that the seed sown will take root, and bear fruit said, " Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe." in God's own time." Well, my friend, I am sorry for Prayer is telling God all our wants, and getting from him you ; for instead of consoling yourself in that way you all our supplies. Men who have done wonders for God ought ta be right down on your knees asking God, by have frequently talked to God in prayer. Would that His Spirit, to search you and show you wherein you we had more of the spirit of Knox when he cried, "Give have failed to do the work committed to you. We should me Scotland or I die." look for fruit and not be contented until we see it in Christ's life was one of devotion to God. And if ever abundance. There is something seriously wrong with us. God uses us that must be the alpha and omega of our We are apt to think that after acquiring a general existence. Oh, to be filled with the Spirit that brought knowlenge of classics, science and philosophy ; when we the Lord Jesus Christ from His throne to this sin-deluged have finished the regular course of study in theology, world; that caused Him to weep over poor fallen men we are prepared to preach, with power, the everlasting while living among them; and that caused Him to give gospel. Now, it is necessary and advantageous for the the last drop of blood in His veins to redeem man from preacher to pass through a careful training in the above sub- sin and glorify God. If we were filled with that Spirit jects; but it is only a means not an end, as some, from their we would have power over ourselves and the enemies of actions, seem tothink. There are meninthechurch to-day God. Well, what must we do to get this power ? We tolerably well acquainted with all the important branches must just surrender; we must have honest dealing with of knowledge, who as preachers are failures; whereas, did God about ourselves; we must stop telling God what we they possess the true element of power, they would be do not mean, and say, Here I am, Lord, to be used for exerting a.mighty influence for the glory of God in the Thy glory. salvation of souls. What is this power so absolutely Now, what are we going to do about this ? Some of necessary for successful preaching? The early witnesses us will soon be leaving college for good to spend our lives for the Lord possessed it. Our risen Lord appeared ta preaching; others will soon be starting out ta witness for the disciples and said: " Ye shall receive power after Christ during another vacation; are we going to have the Holy Spirit is come upon you." In a short time this power from on high? Is our influence going to be that promise was fulfilled, for "they were all filled with felt for God; or are we going to settle down and make our- the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the selves comfortable ? I shudder when I think of the con- Spirit gave them utterance." And a glance at the his- dition of so many of the ministers of this land. They are tory of those who, in apostolic times, accomplished great settled down with a vengeance. They have got a church, things for God, will convince us of the fact that they and if they manage to get up a sermon each week, run the were all "filled with the Holy Spirit." What was true orthodox tea-meeting, and raise the finances, all seems of them must be true of us if we want, like them, to be to be well with them ; but there are no souls saved and successful soul-winners. Now, we all know that the God is not glorified. Thank God the feeling regarding Christian is indwelt by the Holy Spirit; but something our condition is one of dissatisfaction. Let us not rest more is needed; we must be "filled with the Spirit." until, by the power of God, self is lost; until our aim in We must be entirely under His influence and power. living is to glorify God ; then we will have power for good. All our faculties must be prevaded by Him, engaged by UPWARD. Him, and under His divine influence. The Lord Jesus Christ, our pattern, was thus "filled with the Spirit." Christ did not preach until he could say, "The Spirit of PROF. in elocution-(Explaining Delsarte system of God is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to gesture)-" The head, held on one side, denotes affection." preach the gospel." Now it is to believers as sons of Anxious Sophomore-" Which side, Prof.?" God through whom the Spirit manifests His presence and Prof.-" That depends somewhat on the surroundings." p:wer, and therefore it follows that whatever Jesus did Sophomore subsides.-Ex. ta fulfil His mission in the power of the Spirit we must do also. Now we find that His life was a life of faith HERE is one in the present power of God. That is what we want. from one of our theological seminaries: Professor in Systematic Theology: " Where is the lesson How can the Spirit exert His migh'ty power through us to-day, if, when we are addressing our gentlemen ?" Student: "It begins at good angels fellow-men, we doubt and goes to the Devil." '-Ex. the truth of what we are saying. Christ said, " We speak that we do know." There is so much so called ",ionest doubt" at the present time, which, in nearly every PROFESSOR-"Can we conceive of anything as being out instance, is nothing but hard-hearted, God-dishonouring of time and still occupying space ?" Student-" Yes, sir, unbelief, that there is no power in nine-tenths of the a poor singer in a chorus."-Ex. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
->-GORRESPONDEllgE.+~ To the Editor of the Yournal: again in ROM references to the Museum again and *W wish il to be distinctly understood that the JOURNALdoes not F your columns there would seem ta be a hurning de- commit itself in any way to the sentiments whjch may be expressed in tbis departinent. sire on the part of some students ta get more light on naturai history than they get in the ciass. It cannaI be To tse Editor of te Younal that they xvish simply ta gaze upon dried plants, rocks, of his 0OU answered 1 Gray " in part, but one sentence and fossils xvith the ignorant gaze of the croxvd. They Y letter is so offensive ihat it cails for remonstrance. crave for -occasional demonstratians." In order ta He says, speaking of the Watkins lectureship, -'Ifthis is gratify this very proper desire, the private rgom of the the way the bequests of the friends of Queen's are la be Professor of Nalural History was fitted up iast summer treated, it does not seem t0 me that it xviii be much of an \vith great care, and suppiied with ail the best specimens incentive to others ta foiioxv up their exampie. " Il seems -botanicai, geologicai, and zoologicai that the museum to me that before insinuating breach of faith against the contained, sa that hie could bring forth ta the class from Trustees of bis Aima Mater, the writer 7might have made day ta day illustrations of bis lectures. I learn, on en- himself acquainted with the facts. The late Mr. Watkins quiry, that not one of the students bas applieq ta him for did not found an Elocution Lectureship. He left a sum further "demanstrations." They gel, in fact, brought of money ta the coliege. The Trustees could have put it before them ail tbat they need, and in the only xvay ta generai endowment, but being anxions ta perpeluate iikely ta do any good. The Museum is aclually his namne in cannection with Queen's, they estabiished an brought ta them in condensed form, for an expianation Eloculion lectureship, without the siightest piedge that of one specimen is of more value than a stare at a there was ta be a lecturer every year. There are good thousand. reasons why one shouid flot be appointed at present, and There is another reasan why the Museum itseif is flot "Gray" can ascertain these by mnaking enquiries at the lhrown open at ail times. It is certainly flot closed, be- proper quarter. I trust that hie may np.w see his way cause il is shown la every one who appiies ta the lecturer clear to foliow Mr. Watkins' exampie. on Nalural Science. But it bas been staled again and Yours, again, at- Convocation and in public reports, thal the A TRUSTEE. Museum is not yet in anything like a complèted stale, IELLO4Wamilps. and certainiy nal in a stale la be sbown ta the public. not built in a day, but passibiy a University To the Editor of the Yournal Rame was sbould befinîsbed in ayear. Since the uew building was noble efforts HE authorities of our coilege are making banded aver by tbe contractors, and classes were opened T and we believe success- 10 keep abreast of the limes, in it, workmen bave been engaged on ane department or last six years the number of students fuiiy. During the other with scarcely an intermission. The Library bas Arts has doubied-lhree additionai pro- in attendance in been reorganized, the Cbemistry and the Pbysics Labora- have been added ta the teaching fessors and two lecturers tories have been equipped, a select Museum bas been bas been purcbased. For staff, and much new apparatus arranged for the use of the Naturai Hislory class, and of students in attendance, our coliege is the nunriber other impravements bave been made, ail cosling time, equipped ; almost, we say, because it almost campleteiy thought and mnoney. Last summer $500, were spent an the working of our is evident to anyone acquainted with the work of dividing the Museum int two stories. Next are stiii overworked. college, thal some of our professors summer shelving and cases wiii be provided, and some of Hislory and This applies particularly ta the Professor steps may be taken towards arranging specimens. No ta the lecturer in Engiish Language and Literature, and doubl all this couid be done with vastly greater rapidiîy is also assistant la the professor Modern Languages, who if the University were provided wiîh more men and in eacb of in Classics. A Feliowship couid be establisbed money. But in view of what bas been accomplisbed, and with these departments at a smaii cost ta the coilege, and in view af ail the facts set forth whicb show that no one and the assistance we great advantages ta the students, bas suffered and tbal there is no reai grievance, same- are sure would be heartiiy welcamed by Professor Fergu- lbing more tban mere byper-crilicisma migbl be expected. son and Mr. Nicholson, whom it wouid relieve of the CURATOR. most tiresome part of their work. It wouid be a great incentive ta students taking holiors in those subjects ta DOC'rOR-"Weil Pat, bave you taken that box of pilis 1 have such positions in prospective. Even were the salary sent you? Pat-Yes, sir, be jabbers, I have, but 1 don't oniy barely sufficient ta pay necessary expenses, say $500, feel any belter yet ; mnay be the lid basnlt came off yet 1" and the position tenable for two or tbree years, many wouid be eager ta accept it for the advantages il would afford for attending lectures in the college. There is Mas. A. T. STEWART is building a new College in New much work in English and in Modemr Languages whicb York, ta cost $4,000,000. Il will*be the iargest in Ameni- an bonour graduale couid do as weil as tbe regular pro- ca, non-sectarian, co-educatianal, and the expenses wili fessor. What objection is tbere ta, sucb a course? be put at a law figure. MAC. 136 QUE EN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. *POETRY.+ ->PERSONAL.4-
W. J. KIDD, '85, bas returned ta collage with bis baalth fully recovered.
'44\UST unto dust ?" No, spirit unto spirit JAMES Ross, M.A., B.D., '81, bas received a caîl ta St. J)For thee beloved! for thou wert ail fire, Andrew's Church, Ottawa. Ail luminous flame, ail passionate desire, Ail things that mighty beings do inherit, DR. R. W. GARRETT, a distinguished graduate of last Ail things that mighty beings do require. year, bas commenced the practice of medicine in this city. 'Dust unta dusi ?" Ah, no! Thou dids't respire and baiy atmosphere, In such a high M.A., lecturer last year are, not, but calms, and ail things clear, THE Rev. T. F. Fatheringham, Where clouds accepted a caîl ta St. John's Cburcb, Not one like ours, but purer far and higher. on Apolagetics, has Thou dids't flot know of dust. How -dust ta dust"' then St. John, N.B. here ? H. H. CHOWN, B.A., M.D., 8a, bas permanently locatad in Winnipeg. We can wisb him nothing better than that Spirit ta spirit, be it! Thou wert born he may be as successful as be was a student. An heir-apparent to the throne of mind. It lessens flot thy right that some were biind, RtJFus K. Ovens, ex-'83, gave his friends a pleasant And iooked on thee and fi xt a lip of scarn, surprise last week, by coming down and spending a .And tbrew on tbee the venom of their kind, couple of days visiting among us. Tbe juniors will Thou wert a brother ta the sun and wind, have a good man added ta their number, if be is able And it is meet that thou art of them naw. ta corne back, as we hope ha will naxt year. 1 see tbee standing with thy godlike brow High-arched, and star-lit, upwardly inclined, THE Rev. 'John Ferguson, M.A., B.D., '76, Cbesley, an Wbile at thy feet the singers of sweet sang do bow. the 2gth uIt., was prasented by bis Monday evening Bible Ili. class witb an address and a bandsome copy of Wabster's Unabridgad Dictianary, as a mark of the affection and For spirits are not as men: these did flot know esteem entertained for him, as pastor and teacher, by the An angel had been with them on the eartb. inembers of ýhe class.-Canada Presbyterian. A singer wha bad caused a gloriaus birth here below,- Of gloriaus after-singers J. S. SK is becoming quite the thing in this It was with feelings of genuine delight and heartfelt COLLEGE journalism of a certain country. Every college worthy the name has now its pleasure, that we noted the appointment and much to be desired newspaper, and these publications are as various in merit senior, to the highly honorable from which they come are position of Trumpet-Major to the renowned Rifle Com- and general style as the colleges too young numerous. Ontario boasts nearly a dozen, three of which pany of Queen's, Dianthus Barbatus is a too Colleges. The International News man, and makes a capital tooter, and his marked musical emanate from Ladies they a list of these papers with their circulation. abilities being recognized by the gymnasium club, Bureau gives contaning sheets Queen's College JOURNAL is conceded have also secured him and his excellent troop, Of Ontario and instru- first place' with a circulation of 800. The Sunbeam flnds several well known stars, to give daily vocal gym. The use of its way to the same number of readers. This must be as mental concerts on the steps of the among the members of the gratifying to our lady friends, 'as it is merited. The tobacco is strictly prohibited Varsity, of Toronto, takes next place, with a circulation brass band. of 500, though its eminent ability deserves a much larger support. THE other day upon entering the library we discovered to our intense astonishment two of our sweet girl under- CLASS cries: Seniors-"Are you going to graduate ?" grads nearly buried among several piles of books, which Juniors-" Will you pass in Philosophy ?" they were examining with anxious mien. We felt sure that some hidden treasure, some pearl of great price, was boon was about WHY have some freshmen annual mouths? Because about to be unearthed, and some lasting That the glory -and they reach from 'ear to 'ear. to be bestowed upon mankind! lustre of the female mind was at last to burst forth, daz- zling the world with its brightness, and awing it with Snatches of ditties the boys are singing about college: its grandeur. It was with the greatest admiration and AiR-Old Grimes (to be sung ver) slowly and with pathos. deepest respect that we watched them leave, well ladened the dusty tomes of their choice, and high (fully time has come, with Examination 50 cents) had they risen in our estimation. We stepped The saddest of the year, to get an inkling of the "bum," up to the counter, hoping When "cram" is substitute for when what met our startled and oil" for beer. coming masterpiece, And "midnight horrified gaze ? What were these volumes ? Third class AIR-Salvation Army Song, (with more spirit.) igth century novels, gentlemen, the refuse of a domestic library which had been donated in toto to the college. When the Final's over we shall wear a crown, hopes, too late we remembered the adage: crown, &c. Ah, blasted We shall wear a crown, we shall wear a "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Moral -Put not your trust in girls. THE other day while two seniors were testing each others knowledge of grammar, one of them asked the other to parse the following sentence; "An old woman lived in THE decorous, the gentle, the righteous theologs ! where This simple sentence our worthy senior accur- are they ? No longer as of yore canst we draw the line of a garret." herd of Philis- ately parsed, paying strict attention to all the rules given distinction between them and the common him in the best of Canadian High Schools. tines. Truly they have become as other men are. For A third senior who was listening to the profound behold, didst we not lift up our eyes and discover them, knowledge of his two classmen, volunteered to parse the in the gentleness and festiveness of their nature, with cries according to the method taught in the parish of Mo(o)re, and nothing more, cast one, even one of their sentence which schools of Scotland. As he considered it a more philo- own, to the off side of the counter in the library, a railing of pure sophical method, his two classmates gave him an oppor- hath circled around about its summit of proving it, and he forthwith parsed the sentence brass? Didst we not see them, from the exuberance and tunity we wean, in the following manner: sportiveness of their saintly characters, moved, exhilerating effect of oys- suppers, commit an an incomprehensible article. by the thoroughly demoralizing antics, before the children of old a tough adjective o' a venerable degree. at such desecration, sometimes masculine, but never men, who, with righteous indignation woman a noun feminine, ? Then didst we not behold neuter, for her tongue 's aye waggin'. charged upon their fold the fright that was depicted; upon the ashen-hued faces lived a dear verb governed by circumstances. breed, for she 's whiles of these holy men? How their knees knocked together, in a preposition o' a mongrel quivered, as an aspen leaf ? an' whiles oot. and their trembling frames in elocutionist clutched in noun at the top c' an ancient stair How their vaunted philosophical garret a rickety neuter back seat, while the cold clammy by the old woman wha lives in 't. mortal terror the governed sweat of anguish stood in beads upon his brow? Nay, O man, that we sawst not also thy T(h)om- with absent-mind- think not, NOTIcE.-A student who is afflicted foolery in a distant corner. And still further, didst we edness wishes us to insert the following:- the dim religious light of the dust a sum of not see, through " Will the student who loaned another student just as two theologs didst try, in the language fact, kicked up, money some time ago please remind his debtor of the divine, to wipe up their hall, with a dearly it." of a learned as he bas forgotten from whom he got beloved senior, who nevertheless was successfully using one of their reverences as a mop, the astonishmeut, IT'S the old, old story. Even theologs, irresistibly grief, horror and indignation, that mingled themselves drawn by the seductive allurements of the weird and in the countenance of the entering Prof. Alas! alas ! mystic strains that float upward from the unfathomable such are the dtsappointments of life. All is vanity and and gloomy depths of Hades, are enticed to our sanctum vexation of spirit. in these lower regions. More than one of such deluded tasting of its bitter sweets, have fallen, completely men, reading-Where the treasurer is, there the cash fallen, intoxicated by the exquisite beauty and delcacy Nzw is also. of our F. E.'s touch. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
THE faculty seem determined tu enforce the law pro- To crib, or not to crib-tbat is the question- hibiting the use of tobacco about the cullege. Some of Wbether 'tis nobler in a man to suifer the boys, however, have become su addicted to its use The severe tortures of successive trials, that they can't refrain from indulging even during class Or to take arms against a crowd of Profs, hours. Only the other day one of the professors, after And by cribbing, oppuse them ? To crib-to pass- eyeing a student suspiciously during the greater part No more; and with a slip to say we end of the hour, noticed hîm disgorge the refuse of bis 'idol' The headache and the thuusand other shocks on the flour. Starting frum bis rostrum and pointing to That we are heir tu-'tis a consummation the discarded weed, he charged the.guilty offender thus, Devoutly to be wished. To crib-to pass- "Quid est hoc ?" Student (very complacently) "Hoc est To crib! perchance get caught; aye, tbere's the rub quid." Glass fall in. -Ex.
EVERY time John receives the JOURNAL flow be asks, COURTSHip and marriage.-A poem in two Gantas: -What do the students want nuw ?" He thinks they Canto I. had better petition the Senate to have the final papers A little kiss, published ïor general distribution a few weeks. before A little bliss, that great and notable day of the exams. corne. John, of course, intends that as sarcasm of the most withering A little ring; 'tis ended. kind, but some of our students bave become so demor- Canto II, alîzed as to tbink it would be a good thing. That A little jaw, wrong inferences may not by drawn from this, we will A little law, say that we did not bear any of fhe theolugs make such And Io! the bonds are rended.-Ex. remarks. THE COLLEGE FOP. The swell stood in the college hall, His watcb-guard, purest lead, The fumes tbat left bis cigarette Rolled round bis empty bead. STUDENT (translating): And-er-tben-er--then-er -be-er-went-and----r- Yet pitiful and green he stood, Tbe class laugb. As born to be an ape: Professor-Don't laugh, gentlemen; to crr is human." A creatufre of infernal cheek, A proud though childlike shape. CO-EDUcATION-In tbe United States, go per cent. of The fumes rolled up, yet there he stood, tbe Colleges and Universities, and 6o per cent. of tbe Ghuck-full of self-conceit: Higb Schools adhere to the principle of co-education, His scented bair, bis big brass ring. with beueficial results.-At the Iast Examinatiuu fur the His sleek, but ill-formed feet degree of B. A., at tbe University of London, 73 per cent. of the female candidates were successful, as against 42 Impressed us aIl that this thing's Mind, per cent. of tbe male candidates. (0. Mi, forgive a joke!) Was made of air and chlorophyll, She leaned alone upon tbe fence, And thickened up witb smoke. And then she hove a sigh, And for bis footsteps down the lane There'l be a day-not far away: Sbe waited patient-lie. The fop-wbere will be be? *Ask you tbe winds, that, far abroad, And presently he came to view, Upon the wintry sea, And then she yelled a yell; Hold revel with the crested wave; A heavenly howl of joy she bowled, And rend the sbips of oak: And ber bosom swelled a swell." A strange weird answer tbey will give- -Translatedfrom the French. -He bas gone up in smoke. "-Ex.
',You are as sweet as a peach," he said, patting ber "VERSIFIcATOR :"-Pope is not tbe autbor of the lines softly on the cbeek. "Yes," she murmured, snuggling you mention. Tbe most correct version is as follows: still nearer to him, "I'mn a cling-stone. '-Ex. 1 The noonday gongs their thunder now begin; Tbe cause is dinner the effect is din. IST SoPH-Say, fellows, bave you beard the latest on Thus may we see, if sagely we refiect, a corset?" That cause is always greater tban eifect. "-Ex. Zfld Soph-' No, what is it ?" ist Soph-"Wby, a waist basket." A LADY, about to make ceremonious calîs, sends ber 3rd Soph (of journalistic inclination(- 'The only dif- footman for ber cards. Later-'Pat, bow maniy cards ference is, that what gets into the waist basket neyer gets have you left ?" Pat-The ace of bearts and the ten of into the press. See ?' -Ex. spades, mum." (Lady faints.)-Ex.
A CITIZEN went into a Norwich hardware store the THEY sat by the tower of Pisa, other'day and enquired ;-" How much doo ask for a And he did what be could for to plisa, bath tub for a child ?" ",Tbree dollars an seuventy-five He laoked in ber eyes, cents," was the reply. "W-h-e-w 1" whistled the cus- He beard many seyes, tomer. "'Guess we'll have to keep on washing the baby Then stuck ont bis arm for ta squisa.-Ex. in the coal-scuttle till prices corne down." QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
VOL. X. KINGSTON, CANADA, MAY 1, 1883. No. 12.
follows: Dark-red stockings, wvhite knicker- bockers and dark-blue jerseys. We are flot Published IN TWELVE NUM13ERs during the Session by the going to talk about next year's conquests, ALMA MATER SOCIETY of Queen's University. but only hope the boys will do thernselves STAFF: justice. The Rugby men have not as ' yet de- A. McLACHLAN, - Managing Editor, cided their costume. Judging ftom, last EDITING COMMITTEF year's beginning they can take care of thern- Divinity-JAMFS SOMERVILLE, B. A. selves and are going to make a lively scrirn- Medicine-T. A. MOORE, W. G. ANGLIN. mage to corne out near the top. The colors. Arts-RODERICK MCKAY, BA. R. M. DENNISTOUN. .of both teams when chosen should at once be J. S. SKINNER. F. W. JOHNSTON. A. G. FARRELL. J. J. WRIGHT. registered. GEo. F. HENDERSON, Sccretary-Treasurer. students TERMS:-Per Session, $î.oo; Sirigle Numbers, io cents. T a meeting hield by Canadian AIkin Edinburgh recently it was unani- Matter for publication should be addressed to A. Mc- agreed that a club should be forrned LACHLAN; Business letters to GEo. F. HENDERSON, P. O. mously Drawer t 146, Kingston, Ont. for the purpose of gathering together in a rý The Editor mnust be acquainted with the namne of the social manner the Canadian students in author of any article, whether local or literary. Edinburgh and thus to cultivate a feeling of friendship among them, and, above al], to be surprised reader will doubtless strengthen the common ties that bind al Tj7HEthat this article- did not appear earlier to Canada. It was strongly feit that the con- It will be remembered that in the session. stitution of such a club would enable new issue of the JOURNAL for '82 the in the laýst comers, on their arrivai in Edinburgh, to dollars was offered for the sum of twenty-five find friends at once in a strange land, and to for publication this best essay given in meet with a h.earty and home-like greeting, failuire of hlm who session. Owing to the as also to learn that in leaving Canada they the JOURNAL bas been promised to fUlfil, had not left aIl things Canadian. The Club position of being placed in the unenviable is called "The Edinburgh Canadian Students' with that announce- unable to keep faith Club." We wish it every success. ment. At the time we received the promise we loaded the giver with thanks, which have T HE Professor of Physics, in closing bis proved rather precipitous. Next time we class this session, stated that in future will count out chickens WHEN they are he would make an attendance on the monthly hatched. examinations in his classes a necessity to the successful passing of the finals. He did not explain what bis method or plan would be, SO Etirne ago our Association footballers menscanty conclave and decided in but we have full confidence in its successful what colors they would nex t session appear working, and its beneficial results. Any before anl admiring world. The suit is as thing that will lessen the evils of cramming QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
and will induce systematic daïly study is a Tf HE Finance Minister bas answered the step forward in our educational system. We Spetitions in favor of remitting the tax would like to see it introduced into ail the upon books presented hy the University classes. authorities, the professors and students, and T HIS is the right article put in the wrong the friends of public libraries throughout place. Lt would have been unjust to the whole Dominion by advising Parliament our contem.poraries and unthankful on our to allow the importation of old books. Any part to have closed the present volume of the book published xithin seven year .s of its JOURNAL without some reference to the many arrivai in Canada must pay the penalty of kindnesses and honorable mentions we have being new. If professors read new editions, received. The article is in the wrong place or students study new text books, they must because we have no exchange coiumn. To pay fifteen per cent. and submit to the usual wbatever reason our. friends may assign this custoin-house impediments with ail the at- we hope they will flot put it down to the fact tendant expenses. A finer example of asking that we think such a column a mark of child- for bread and getting a stone couid flot be hood in journalism. Such is flot our opinion desired. The Finance Minister may get of a well managed exchange department. twenty or tbirty thousand dollars by this tax, There is no more difficult part of an editor'sý though after deducting the payment of the work than to write a j ust criticism of a paper custom-house officers he may have a minus in different circumstances and perhaps witb sum to add to his surplus. But he will have a totally different object from his own. Much shown how higbly he estirnates the intellec- ridicule has been cast on this part of our tuai deveiopment of Canada and the sacri- work and much annoyance felt by the course fices he is wiliing to make for principle. The some college papers (?) have persisted in principle of course is the N.P., in plain taking. These sheets print some of the Engiish, a brace or so of smnail printing wiidest and most unjust criticisms with no establishments in Montreal and Toronto that other reason than the hope of being snubbed are aireadv sufficientiy protected by the and therefore "mentioned" by some big guin. Canadian Copyright Act. Wherever this narrow nothing-if-not-critical spirit is forever cropping out, we set down the TEappointment of the Rev. Donald institution to which it belongs a&ý pecuiiarly Ross, M.A., B.D., to the Chair of necular and local. Our Canadian coilege Biblical Criticismn and Apologetics is another are very free papers and the best Arnerican proof that Queen's Coliege, like John Brown's we extend from this spirit, and to aIl these soul, is stili marching on. A better appoint- our hearty hopes for contînued success next ment could not have been made. Mr. Ross session. We welcome two new arrivas- distinguished himseif, wbile a student, in al- Knox College Monthly and Astrurn Alberti- most every department, and notably in we were long both of which supply a want classics, rnathematics and philosophy; and surprised to find existing in these coileges. We gladiy take the baud of friendship offered since his ordination, he bas, unlike too many by the Varsity and congratulate it on its very who leave college, increased bis scholarship marked improvernent during this year. We and k ept himself weli abreast of the thought, like the esprit de corps, which Acta Victoriana learning and spirit of the time. He bas acted given seerns charged with. Our thanks are as lecturer and examiner here and in Mon- to ail our other exchanges, some forty in number, which of course we cannot review treal, and bis testimony at the banquet to separately. Professor Mowat's students was very signifi. QUEEN'S COLLEC4E JOURNAL.
finger thought even for a student in Senior Latin to discover cant. He is a University man to the what was meant by "lDemigne" on page 122; and in the tips, and is animated with that intense ioyalty samne article one might try in vain to make out what were the 1'cannie feelings" of a dog. In fairness also we should to bis own Aima Mater, which the ancestors no doubt ascribe the confusion in the first sentence of the of ail Giengarry men feit for their chiefs. editorial on the Study of Philosophy, as well as in the first sentence of Undergrad's. letter, to the samne source. We cannot forbear adding a word of con- But in the second place we have errors which are in al probability the work of the writers themselves. These gratulation on the increasingly Canadian are in order: aspect that.Queen's is assuming. Nothing 'attitude against the christian world,' ... . p. ii8. 'mnillenium,...... P. 119. shows more clearly that the country is pass- 'loveable,'...... p 120. ing out of the merely colonial condition. 'to receive than to bestow deference upon,'. . P. 121, 'exhibition are,' and conduct to,'...... p. 122. While recognizing to the full the wisdom that 'course of lectures are,'...... p. 123. philosophy from Glasgow, our 'to either you or etc' for either to you etc, 'p. 126. brought our There is also on p. 123 the word 'final' used flrst as an ad- ciassics froin Oxford, and our science from jective and immediately afterwards as a noun. ý Most of these mistakes are no doubt due to oversight, but we should Edinburgh, it is nût unpleasant to students make a point of being exceedingly careful, for very few to know that a majority of the Arts Faculty, errors of this nature are sufficient to mar a production .wbich but for tbem would bave been in ail respects credi- and ail the Professors and lecturers in table. are Canadians, and most of them In the third place we bave a large number of construc- theoiogy tions which, tbough not grammatically incorrect, are far Q ueen's men. The Senate at present con- from being elegant. To these 1 wisb to make special re- ference, as with a hasty perusal they migbt easily escape sists of those two Facuities and the Registrar, our observation. and the Registrar is not the least honored of (a) It is not usual amongst good writers to close a sen- tence with a preposition. Bunyan makes use of tbis construc- our graduates. The Trustees of the Uni- tion, but hie, altbough noted for bis vigorous Anglo-Saxon, ample proof that, other cannot in a case of this kind be considered a safe authority. versity are giving (b) 'Not so much .... but' would be better 'not so much things being equal, no son of Queen's need .... as' p. 124. (c) In prose undue prominence sbould seldom be given fancy that he will be overlooked. Oniv, to any particular sound. Alliteration and rhyming sylla- other things must be equal. We beiieve that bles, inasmuch as they draw our attention away from the subject matter, should be studiously avoided. We have in the case of Professor Ross they are a little the following- more so. 'seeing-hearing-pleaging,' ...... 116î 'average percentage,'...... p. 116 'lovable-honorable,'...... P. 120 'feet-seat,'...... P. 121 ->-gONTRIBUTED.*+e- 'amiable-estimable,'...... p. 121 'civilized citizens of a city,' ...... p. 121 JOURLNALI NO. xo. 'citizeois of any city,'...... p. 121 WRITTEN FOR NO. II. 'sad exhibition of bad feelings,' ...... p 122 I-HAVE this session read the journal with considerable 'raging anger rampant,' ...... 122 interest, and perbaps witb greater interest than in former 'alI care-open air...... P. 122 years because I have been more closely connected with it. 'why it should be 1 cannot see,' ...... p. 123 For tbis reason I amn always glad when the students agree 'seeing their work receive,'...... 123 in pronouncing any issue a good number; and arn also 'classes causes,' ...... P. 123 pleased to notice in the exchanges favorable comments 'tended-attention,'...... 123 upon a particular article or upon the journal as a whole. 'direction, attention, communication,' ... - P. 123 But notwitbstanding the deservedly hîgb place whicb the Some of the above are more reprehiensible than otbers,but concensus of opinion bas accorded us, we can scarcely yet every one migbt be altered witb advantage. lay dlaim to perfection. Even the partial eye of one who It may not be out of place under this head to note that is a defect in prose may be a beauty in verse. We as a rule reads our paper with rose-colored spectacles, bas wbat detected a fiaw or two, and thinks that, if possible, they have consequently nothing to say against Mr. Cameron's should be removed. In thus assuming the role critic I do lines- flot pretend to any unusual capacity for the position. I "IWe who bave wrougbt and thought together ;" only regret that, as I consider sympatbetic criticism a and "The sad, mad world with its hate and sin." matter flot only of importance but of absolute necessity if Perbaps Tennyson bas used this construction with effect any progress 'is to be made in the art of composition, no more frequently than any other poet. Examples can be one more worthy bas been induced to undertake the task, found on almost, every page, or at least in every one of his Since most of the students bave tbe last journal still larger works :-e.g. in tbeir possession we will confine our remarks to No. io. "To break my chain, to shake my mane; There are, in the first place, a few typographical errors "4sbattering in black blocks the results of which in one or two cases are rather amus- A breadth of thunder;" ing. Only the initiated will ever understand wby the let- ",Hungry for honour, angry for bis king," ters "ýbedrete" occur on page 120. It would require some takes and breaks,".l...and 142 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. and the well-known Uine from Merlin and Vivien, P. 124, 'This wýas a mistake, for it tended in the wrong "lLost to life and use and name and fame.- direction, etc.* tautological, for, if it were a mistake, it When Macaulay on the ather band was away on bis would certainly have a wrong tendency, and if it had a travels, and bad been inspecting the sireets of Genoa, he wrong tendency it would certainly be a mistake. Lastly, wrote in his diary for the 31st Oct., 1838, that be was the sentence, 'If this is the way the bequests of the friends greatly excited and deligbted. His biographer, Mr. Tre- of Queen's are to be treated, it does flot seem to me that velyan, remarks that this was prohably the only jingling it wjll be much of an incentive to others to follow up their sentence that be ever left unblotted. No one will deny example,' on p. 123, is quite irrelevant, for the writer is flot that Macaulay was remarkably free from flot only jingling discussing bequests to the Museum, but 'Elocution sentences but also from unbappy combinations of every lectures.' kind. But we rernember one other occasion when he left You will, 1 trust, pardon my now giving my own unblottad a .phrase wbich might admit. of improvement. opinion with regard- to the whole matter. * As to style in It is to be found in tbe llrst paragrapb of bis article on general that always is the best which is the most faitbful Hallam's Constitutional History, "and now they hold expression of the thought. Words spoken or written are tbeir respective portions in severalty instead of holding only the means by which mind holds communion with the whole in common." mind. Accordingly they should be transparent in order (d) The same word or pbrase should flot be used twice that we may behold the life hehind them. A peculiar ir- unlesa in the second case there is implied a close connec- dividual will naturally have a peculiar style. Ugliness cf tion with the first. If only one expression would convey heart will display itself in ugliness of speech and deed, and the precise meaning intended then this regulation would the pure thought wiIl have a pure expression. We can have to be set aside. The following words are perbaps see from this how absurd it is for young writers, gener- unnecessarily repeated: ally speaking, wholly to adopt the style of any author. In tbougbt-tbougbt'...... P. ii8 most cases the coat will prove but an ili fit. Not until sometimes-some'...... P. 121 we have forever shaken off all borrowed clothing, and 'men-men' ..«...... P. 121 appear in the dress woven by and from ourselves alone, 'Iearned--learned ...... p. 121 will we be true to the best that is in us. The advice we ,that-that-that'...... P. 122 have to offer to him, who is not afraid to look inside and ,in view of-in view of'...... P. 122 examine his spiritual stock, is that be should be him- 'give-given ...... P. 123 self and flot another. If he knows what truth is, let him 'further-further ...... P. 125 be true to himself and others will recognize in him a work- 'matter-matter ...... ~p 12 man who has a thorough understanding of his craft. Moreover, the word 'of' occurs four times in a single If we follow out the same idea now with reference to sentence, p. 117, and 'tO' five times, P. 124,andagaineight subject matter we will see that manner and matter are not two different times in a most remarkable sentence on p. 122. There is things, but are in aI] respects one. With re- in this last also a peculiar repetition of the word 'beam,' gard to each thought as it arises in our minds we should wbicb, it bappens, is used in these two very distinct ask the question, Ils it true?' Truth in its widest mean- senses, (a) any large piece of timber, and (b) a ray of light. ing is always beautiful. If we are true to ourselves then What makes it ridiculous is tbe fact that botb kinds of the embodiment of truth will he fair to look ujon. 1_The beam are ta be found in the buman eye. Once more color of the universe is the same with the color of our poetry shows itself superior ta the rules, wbicb are bind- day-dreams or our day-tbougbts. An unhappy man can suck ing on prose, and once more also Tennyson is able ta melancholy out of a wedding procession or a con- furnisb us witb illustrations, sucb as versazione. A happy mnan sees nothing but brightness in the bare rock or the frozen ground and is jubilant "Ring out wild belîs wbile ta the wild sky,"' walking through puddles of muddy water, If we are in "that noble breast harmony with ourselves, the Whicb expression of that harmony heaves but wîth the heaving deep."- must be harmonious. If there is discord "These within us, then, unwitty wandering wits of mine." no matter what we attempt to say, our words xvill be like But there is a line in ",Tbe Pincess," viz., 'Took the the monotonôus creak of the sign that swings in front of face-clotb from the face,' the beauty of which it is bard ta the tavern door, and will remind us of Milton's "Grate on discover, and the difficulty is increased wben we find their scrannel pipes of wretcbed straw." If, then, we are almost the same words again in " Guinevere," able at least in thougbt to begin our article with "Verily, (e) There are still a few defects that I would like to notice verily,- if our words are in accordance witb eternal truth, whicb do flot readily admit of classification. Perhaps, huw- we have laid a sure foundation and need flot fear that the ever, an inclination to exaggerate may account for tbree of scorn«of any critic will shake our superstructure. them. These are to be found in tbe use of the words 'immeas- urably,' p. 116, 'completely,' P. 129, and 'run riot over the earth,' p.121. If in tbefirst of these a Canadian should NEXT we shall be having a coat tail write a better book than tbe one in question, wbat adverb flirtation code. Having the tails covered with mud will mean, I don't like would be fortbcoming ta express its influence; in tbe ber father. second, if tbe Divinity's nasal organ sbould also be hid, baw is tbe concealment then ta be described; and if tbe language of the third with regard ta ministerial breacbes 'Il think the goose has the advantage of you," said the of etiquette is quite appropriate, in what way wauld yau landlady to an expert boarder who was carving. I'Guess refer ta the spread of open or secret crime. Again, the he bas, mum-in age,' was tbe quick retort. clause on p. 123, 'banour and optioiýaI classes, wben neces- sary, being left till tbe afternoon in preference to others' IT was a joint class meeting, and tbey were discussing would bave been more clearly stated tlîus: 'honour and the advisability of printing the names of the orators on optianal classes rather than otbers.being left. wbheh neces- the commencement invitations, wben a sister timidly re- sary, till the afternoon,' for the preference is flot meant ta marked: 'But wbat about the essayists, Mr. President ? be given to the honour classes, but, as is.plain £rom thle '0f course it is understood that the oratars embrace the sentence immediately following, ta the 'others' e., ta those essayists,' was the reply, amid the applause of the broth- which are compulsary. We cansider thé sentence on ers and the blushes of the sisters, QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. 143
canada was a free country in which students might travel from one college to another the samne as other people. The Canadians must be copying Russia in placing re- distinctly understocd that the JOU-RNiALdoes not V'Wecomt itseltwisb. in it anyto be way to the sentiments which inay be expressed in strictions on students. Please tell me in your next if they this departmnent. hang students who dare to leave one college for another. To the Editor of the Yournal: Those lady students, who you say are so clever, must be they associate with such drunk- SIR,-A letter appeared in the last issue of the lacking in modesty when BEAR you represent the maie stndents to be, and they JOURNAL purporting to be to ' John,'' from "-brother ards as the notoriety which they havle gained for Josh.--If "John" is a gentleman the following wîll, in seem to enjoy tbemselves, to judge by the persistency with which they My opinion, ýe the tenor of bis reply to that letter. 1 Why in the naine of common sense do they flot hope you and your readers will pardon the strong language1 remain. United States and attend a Medical College which I arn compelled to use, but severe diseases require corne to the for ladies ? You state that attending lectures severe treatment. expressly or, MC with the maie students was a 'Idecidedly unpleasant DEAR BROTLHER JOSH,-I was much pleased at the course"' for the ladies. Forsooth they would make good re- receipt of your letter-till I opened it. What was then martyrs for tbey follow an 1'unpleasant courset' with my surprise to flnd that your letter consisted cbiefly of markable tenacity when the remedy which I have abuse which I presumne you intended for sarcasm, and of suggested is in their own hands. Perhaps they are such misstatement which I can scarcely believe you meant for loyal British subjects, that they object to coming to the truth. I received also the copy of the JOURNAL, which United States, if so they are more loyal to their country you sent me, containing your letter. It is there introduced than they are to the traditions of their sex. I cannot by some remarks which represent you to be a "1pilgrim understand bow seven young ladies who are represented stranger' in Kingston. Now when you determined to in the press as 1modest and unassuming"' can have the publish that letter for the benefit(?) of the students and consummate self-complacency to walk into a roum whern the Medical Faculty, you should not have allowed it to there are sixty male students who strongly object to their appear under such false colors. I am sure everyone about presence. What would you think of a gentleman who forced the College will recognize that you are a student, and himself into the company of a number of ladies, against wbat student you are ;then your position will assuredly the wish of the ladies even supposing hie had a legal be not a pleasant one, for if the students bave any spirit right to enter ? they will heartily hafe you. In conclusion I wniuld advise you to con over carefully Vour description of the Medical College is surnly over- what your worthy Principal once said to the students, drawn, you have represented the Medical Students as 1wash your dirty linen at home.' You have not only washed it S. congregating in the "den," getting drunk and using taken the dirtiest linen about the College, profanity comparable with that of hoodlums, and publicly and thrown the dirty water over the Medical you assert that the Professors are ruled by decisions Professors, but you have gathered up aIl the filtby rags arrived at in such meetings. This is insulting to the you 'could find in the back yards of which you speak in à Professorp, for whom at least you sbould bave some re- your letter. You say besides, about straying into these spect, and besides it is flot true ;you as a student back yards, that ',such an experience is calculated to re- must be aware that it is an untruth. How did you dis- move every trace of dignity which a person possesses," cover these facts(?) about the Medical Students? Have you you must have had more back-yard experience than most been in the habit of attending those orgies whicb you so people, for in yoi.r letter you display a remarkably small graphically and maliciously describe, or do the lady share of dignity, and I fear you lost much of your truth- medical students give you your information ? Again in Ifulness and gentlemanliness at the samne time. The next reference to those students who attend the College time you have a college grievance to make public, assert The what did occur, and how and when it occurred, and do li1 entertaifiments you bave spoken very disrespectfully. students at such entertainments occupy the gallery, and not think that misstatement is justified, by being clothed of this fact you as a student must be perfectly well aware; in sarcastic language, and written over a nom de Plume.- it must then have been a very mean spirit which prompted Yours paternally, JOHN. you to characterize themn corner loafers and saloon P.S.-By the way how is that fair lady student of whom frequenters. If you consider that their morals are in a bad you spoke so highly in a former letter to me ?She, doubt- condition, you.should take some other means of elevating less, is the indirect cause of your onslaught on your them than that of making odious and misleading coin- fellow-students. JOHN. parisons. In regard to the late difficulties between the con- Medical Students and the Professons, you say that the IN a Deadwood church, the other day, the large gregation were devoutly kneeling in p rayer when an students attempted to domineen the Professors and in fact irreverent joker quite audibly whispered: ",Here cornes did so. Now fnom aIl I can leann negarding the matten, an Eastern. detective." In seventeen seconds aIl of the through r the students threatened to go away themnselves instead of congregation except the chief elder had slipped sending the Professons away. ] had always supposed that the windows. 144 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
-->THE+PRIZE,POEM-<- But wben the fourth year opened Edgar said, 'See, brother ! full tbree years are dead and gone, And Minna sends ail others from ber side ADnillpuR. Awaiting one of us; you will flot go love and truth and bonor gone ? To speak her, nor will I alone, now let F R ATERNALAil faith divorced from life? If this be s0 Us go togetber, hand in hanri, and say, Man's star sinks westering, and the world lie walks- IWe love you, cousin, each of us, su choose Uutoucbed of any ray of future hope, Wbich one of us shahl add you to his joys. Past ail redemption, dead indeed in sin, By your decision, be it what it may, Bearing the burden of the primai corse, We pledge our honour we shahl rest content.'"I Reels on to ruin, and ber ancient dusk- And Albert rose and cried, "So be it then! Wbeels tbrougb the darkness to bier final time! And forth they went and bade hier take hier choice. But is this so? I tbink it were in me Then she, sweet Minna, of the golden hair Tbe veriest beresy to bold it so, And perfect form and face and starry eyes, Wben 1, not seeking, stumble once, evun once Said only ever when they came to her, In a wbole lifetime, on a love like that Being weak, desiring, but not knowing right, 0f Edgar, and of Albert, Henderson- "lAgree between yoorselves, I love you twain; A love beyond the love of woman's love, By your decision, be it this or that, A love beyond the love of woman far. I pledge my maiden faith 1 will abide,- Two brothers, one is living stiil-from hlm Now had she spake in other wise, and said, I beard the story,-Edgar Henderson, When Albert came-I1 love your brother!"-then And Albert, older by a year or two, Edgar had won ber; ur wben Edgar asked Loved one, and the samne maiden, Minna Vane, Had she, 'Il love your brother Albert 1" said, The toast, and boast of aIl the country round, Albert had had ber; but 1I love you twain, As fair as stariight, sweet as sommer moro Go settie the affair between yourselves, In tropic isles, and pore and good witbal. And I by your decision will abide." She was their cousin, and from infancy Perplexed tbem mucb, and tbey could not agree. Had dwelt beside them, mingled in their sport And so another year was born of time, WhIlst tbey were chidren, and when tbey bad grown Was stricken witb extremne old age and died, To manhood, in their sober stodies joined, And slumbered with its parents of the past, Till she became (and not unconsciously) Wbile Minna knew not who should be ber lord. A part and portion of the life of eacb, But when the second summer closed Uts buds Wbiie tbey in tomn became as dear to ber. And on eacb calyx prest a parting kiss; To neither brother gave she preference; Wben Autumu came with cooler winds and showers, Or, if she preference gave, it was not marked; And lowering ciouds foreboding Winter's reign; And if she preference bad, she told it flot. Wben late green leaves were tinting to their fali, W'ben Edgar saw that Albert ioved the girl And Nortbern birds were looking tolards, the South, He would flot speak to hurt bis brother's hope; And sighing for its suns and genial fruits, Wben Albert saw that Edgar also ioved Breaking the seal of silence from bis lip, He would flot throw a peblile in bis way; 'For the last time, my brother, she is yours, When Minna saw that she was loved of botb, So answer, will you wed ber-yes or no? Not dreaming wrong she fed themi botb on love. Said Albert. 'She is J'ours," was the reply, Yet envy neyer crept between them; tbey 'For you ber beart bath waited many days; Were formed of proud materiai in the wbicb For you she pots aIl other suitors by; No dross was mixed. Tbey only wrangled thus, For you she hoards the honey of bier hip, (In bail or bunt, an ever ready theme, Wooed, as you know, by many a vagrant bee; Which made ahl others servant to itself): For you she bopes to wear her orange wreatb; "'Now Edgar go to Minna, make her yoors, Now, this being so (and weil I know it is), She loves you vastly; you bave but to cal I pray you, by the love you have for bier, And down the bird wiil flotter to your hand." And by the love I bave for bier, make not And thos: 11Nay, Albert, yoo who love bier most, A winter of bier life, as you will do And are the eider, as the better man, Not taking ber unto your beart, for see! You shahl go to lier; you shahl make bier yoors." Being flxt, beyond ail change, or chance of change, Eacb cbided each so twenty times a day, I swear I will not wed ber wbilst you live, And were it forty times 'twere ail the samne, And, swearing, wish you three score years and ten; Each loved bis brother more than bis desire. Nay, more, so that they be not bordensome, Once Albert souglit and asked ber secretly, A golden age witb golden joys annexed, "'Do you love Edgar, cousin-yea or nay ?" Nor think that I will envy you your bliss, But she made answer with a rose-red blusb, That sbe will be my sîster is enougb.- (Which Albert miglit interpret as bie wouid), Then Albert ieaned bis bead upon bis bands, 1,1 love you botb Z" And Edgar also went, And knit bis brow, and bit bis nether hip, Unknown to Albert, and desired to know As if be rolled tbe matter to and fro, Whetber she loved bis brother; but the maid' Wbicb Edgar marking, tbougbt "He yields at length, Replied as ever, -"Ido love you botb! " And hie wili wed ber; but lie knew bim flot, And wben lie fain woold press hier barder still Aibeit bie was the brother of bis soul. For certain knowiedge, in bier woman-way, At lengtb, IlWell leave me for an bour alone; She led him on to talk of other things, An hour ere this bas settled weigbtier things; Till lie forgot bis mission, and went home An bour shahl loose, or cut, this Gordian knot. Wise " lie was the day before hie asked. Come at its close, your answer will be bere." So many suris set circling, many moons Tben Edgar, witb a laugli upon bis lip, Increased and waned, tbree summers came and went, And yet anotber rippling round his beart, And stilh the matter doubtfuihbung in court. Rejoicing iu the sacrifice lie made, QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
And quaffing in anticipation from .~MN&GgER EMON1E.I A cup of joy bie thougbt should soon be full, of Queen's Uni- To Minna went and told hier ail was weil, H-E formai closing of tbe 4 2d Session They having settled it in quiet wise. T versity was attended with imposing ceremenies. But scarcely had the word fallîn fromn his tongue, On Sunday afternoon, tbe 22d uit., the J3accaiaureate When one came to him running. Calling him preacbed te tbe graduating class in Cenvoca- Aside, with trembling speed hie told bis tale: Sermon was -You bad but left the Park when Albert came tien Hall by tbe Rev. Dr. Cochrane, of Brai.tford. Igod- Into the armory, biting at bis beard, erater of the Generai Assembly of the Preshyterian And muttering ever strangely through its maze, Cburcb. I was watcbing him tbe wbile- Not dreaming evening Lecturettes were given in the 'lt is the enly way, the oniy way, On Monday And being the only way it is tbe best.' Chemnistry and Science Rooms. Piucked from its rest a rapier, and ere 1 his purpose sheathed it--in bimself. Divined as Chancellor, 1 ran, and caugbt. and laid bim down, wben hie of Sandford Fleming, Esq., C.E., C.M.G., With gentlest smile said, Maurice, you are late. took place at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon in the Hall. tbe only way; It was the oniy way, After the usuai. declaratien had been made then followved Tell Edgar 'twas the only way, and best, ARDRESS. % And tell bim that I ioved him to the last, THE CHANCELLOR'S Far more than life, and more than my desire; Mr. Vice-Chancellor aiid Memebers of the ConveoaiiL, And tell him farther, 'tis my will and wish, Ladies and Getlemienz And hie wiil work it seeing it is miy last, of ago, wbhen first elected Cancellor That hie should wed bis cousin.' Here the blood, QeensTbre Colegeyears and University, 1 bad no little besitation Wbichleft bis wound, as water leaves its fount, in assuming the duties of the office, for 1 h4ve a keen sense Cboked otber utterance , and bie drooped bis bead, of my own deficiencies. Again chosen for a second termi And wiith your nrame balf-spoken, gasped and died." of tbree years, 1 renew the feelings 1 tben experienced, Then Edgar, groping as a blind mani migbt, and I find extreme difficulty in acknouwledging tbe bigb And bending 'neatb the burden of the blow, bonor conferred upon me. The bitter burden of a new found pain, My lite-long experience in an active profession bas net Waiked tbrougb tbe stillneas of thse. starry nigbt, connected me closely witb academic studies, and I am And tbrough the giant sbadows of tbe elms, weli aware that there are many wbose endowments and Unto bis bome and knew it aIl toc, true. scholarsbip suggest far greater fitness. for the bigh posi- Witb funerai rite, but naugbt of pageantry, tion of Chancei'o: tban 1 can dlaim. I cannot but think Albert was laid to slumber with bis sires, that tHe selëction of any one of tbe distinguished men who And Edgar sorrowed for bim many days, were nominated instead of myseif, would bave hetter ad- And Minna sorroweel witb bim for bier friend: vancel tbe interests of tbe University. If, howver, it be And wben the accustomed time of mou rning passed- considered that tb3se interests do flot greatly suifer hy (Aibeit bie mourned bim ever in bis beart.) the cbeice made, it is manifestly incumbent on me te per- Hol ding bis dying wisb in due respect, form tbe duties of tbe office as best I am able, and wbiie He went to Minna, none bis rival now, asking your indulgence, te endeavor te, my fuilest power And took bier to bis beart and hearth and home, te fulfil the obligations 1 again assume. To love and cherish ber for evermore I need scarcely assure yen tbat I highly value tbe As one wbo had been purcbased witb a price. honor you have conferred on me, and wbile asking yen te Sucb is the story as it came to me accept mny sincere tbanks, tt is proper tbat I sbouid refer Nor wrapt, nor wvoven, in cunning word or phrase, te the past and acknowledge tbe unfailing support and the But unadorned, unvarnisbed, simply ciad. genuine kindness wbicb bave at ail times been extended It may not cap your confidence in man, te me by every member of the Senate and Council, and Nor rivet fast your mind to tbat I held, by tbe graduates of tbe University. XVitb tbese recollec- But yet 1 boid, above the voice of ail, tiens 1 feel greatly encouraged te tbink that whatever my Thougb tbrice a tbousand rise denying it, misgivings as te my own qualifications, 1 can stili confi- That noble faitb is not divorced from life, dently count Queen's U niversity ;and tus the claims which the cause of giving te those te whom they were granted, rights and '1higher education" have established in Canada to just privilege, and imposing upon themn certain responsibili- and honorable recognition. ties. They constituted the connecting links between the By our by-laws Convocation for conferring degrees is scattered seats of learning in Europe, and graduates of held upon the last Wednesday of April in each year. It universities enjoyed the advantage of being members of a may flot be wholly unprofitahle, and I trust it will net be great intellectual corporation with establishments in considered inappropriate, if 1 offer some remarks on thjs every civilized country. phase of university life, which according to the established We have te some extent the explanation why degrees regulations is appointed specially for to-merrew. were conferred in the came of the Pope as ruling 1 beg leave to preface the few words which 1 propose to authority. The cburch was the maiespring of intellec- submit to you on points of educational interest, by asking tuai action, and, acting through the universities, pene- you to bear in mind that I arn in no way authorized to trated the constitution of each ccmmunity. There was formulate the views of the Senate or University Council, thus throughout Christendom, amidst aIl the national and that the responsibility of any opinions 1 may express, diversities and struggles for supremacy, a unity cf learn- extends to myseif alone. ing diffused wherever the sway of the church extended. Whatever the origin of university degrees, whether they The formn of admission to a full degree was from the may b traced to a single controlling circumstance or to commencement marked by great form and ceremeny. the pulic exigencies, which from time to time have arisen, in England the distinction bas always been higbly prized. it cannot be doubted that the practice of granting such At one time it was attended by scenes cf feasting and re- distinctions and the usages connected with themn are of jeicing. Any one having attained the position of a g reat antiquitý. The period wben degrees were lirst con- graduate assumned a higber rank and status. In Germany ferred cannot be distinctly stated, it has, however, been the Doctor ranked hefore the untitled Nebility and next to traced back generally to the foundation of unversities, the Knights. The Doctor of Laws enjcyed the saine privi- and although there is much which is traditional with re- leges as Knights and Pr.elates. ln Elizabeth's time the gard to the earliest of these institutions, we have in this Academic Degree was given te a great number c f dis. circumstance a dlue to the history of the long established tinguished men. By special statute its attainment was usage. rendered as easy as possible te the favored and the Admitting that academic degrees are coeval with uni- nobility, and thenceforth a University education became versities, and there seems to be little doubt on this point, a mark of a gentleman, and it bas ever since remained an we can trace the ceremony to be celebrated in this hall ernament and recommendation te the best seciety. , to-morrow far back among the centuries, certainly te the Througbout ail the changes which have taken place in middle ages, if flot to a remeter period. the werld since the dàys te which 1 refer-through alI the Talking the four universities of Scotland, the oLdest, St. revolutiens, the rise and faîl cf dynasties, the differences Andrews, was founded by Bishop Wardlaw in 1411.- In in matters cf faitb and the increase cf general education- Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin. was founded under the the academic degree bas lest nothing in individual value. authority of Pope John XXII. in 1320. In England, The schelar stamped with a university distinctio con- Oxford, the oldest was performing the fonctions of a uni- tinues te be held high in popular respect. versity before the end of the 12th century, wbile the The university bas been transplanted frem Europe te university of Paris and ether European continental Amnerica. It bas taken root in the genereus virgin soul on schools were marked by great activity at even earlier the nerthern shore of Lake Ontario. A few years ago the dates. jspot where we are now assembled differed fromn ne other On this continent we do flot dlaim any great antiquity place in the primeval forest whicb clcthed the face cf in scholastic establishments; but if we take a general view nature. First it was La Salle who but Fort Frontenac of Europe we flnd a distinct historical record of antece- ce the site cf the Limestone City. Promn a collection cf dent scholastic life durîng whiçh we are warranted in for traders' buts around the Fort, it passed into a village, assuming that the ceremony of conferring degrees has te a tewn, te a centre cf commerce with the marks cf re- been observed. We fled that this record extends in Scot- finement whicb wealth can purchase, and with alI the la'id, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and accesseries our modemn civilizatien demands. The build- Sweden, over four and a-half centuries. ings cf this universiti bave sbprung into existence and In Germany and Austria, over five centuries. In Portu- stand eut preminently in the architecture cf the city. In gal over six centuries. In England, France and Italy, this hall we perpetuate in a modified forma the usages and neryeight centuries. ceremonies Ivhicb, yeai by year for many centuries, have If credit is te be given te tradition the great institu- been practised ie the schoels cf Europe-and to-morrew tions of learning may be carried back to much earlier we will send te the world yeung men cf Canada dis- dates, although it does not appear that the terni university tinguished by the graduate's degree, te seal themn as was ýpplied to them. According te some authorities the scholars accerding te ancient usage. venetable Bede obtained the doctors degree at Cambridge We still observe the ancient ceremoey cf matriculation, in the 8th century, and the degree of Master of Arts was by which a youth becomes affiliated to the university. conferred on St. John of Beverly at Oxford, in the 7th Having passed the preecribed examieation and success- century. Other historians connect the University of fully matriculated, the student is priviledged te wear the Bologna in Italy with a school established there, after the academic gown, a distinguishing mark given te us by complete downfall of Paganism and the general adoption medioeval Europe-and in itself represeetative cf the of Christianity. This school, founded by Theodosios Il., philosophic robe in which the student of classic anti quity in the 5th century, was revived by Charlemagne in the was clothed. At different stages cf student life the dress 8th, and somte centuries later wgs attended by many bas been diversified te denote the rank and scholustic thousands of students from aIl parts of the civilized world. status of the wearer. The title of Bachelor was intro- Bologna is famed as being the oldest university in Europe duced in the 13 th century by Pope Gregory IV., te denote where, in ahl prehability, regular academic degrees were a student who had andergone bis first academical trial. first instituted. At that- period the Bachelor's title was net of the same The Emperors and Popes of the middle ages gave te value as it bas since attained. It bas always been the the Universities the right of conferririg degrees in their lowest step in university honore, but at fir.st it simply im- name. The degrees se conferred became universal titles, plied an imperfect or incomplete graduate. The very QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. term was held to be synonomous with scholar, and the stately edifice of which the ground floor-the very founda- distinction between a Bachelor and Master has been de- tion and basis of all-was Arts. The walls being repre- fined that "a Bachelor is a man who learns; a Master is a sented by Law and Medicine, while Divinity formed the man who is learned." roof or superstructure, which crowned the whole. The qualifications of a Bachelor's degree were subse- I have alluded to the Professors. I may also refer to another important personage. In the Elizabethan Statutes quently raised. After the middle of the 13 th century it became a regular academic degree and it has always been (1570) it is prescribed that "the Chancellor shall have pre-requisite to the second or higher degree of Master or authority to adorn deserving men with scholastic degrees, Doctor. On the distinction of Bachelor becoming ex- and to reject and repel the undeserving;" that it shall be clusively a university degree, the formalities of the his duty 'to punish idle strollers,.spend-thrifts, sulky and Master's degree were multiplied by way of giving it dignity disobedient, by suspension from their degrees and by im- and solemnity. prisonment at his discretion." Fortunately we live in The degree of Master was granted to those who had times more propitious for both students and Chancellor. satisfactorily completed their university course and who The latter is never compelled to exercise his power in a were found capable of teaching others. A diploma or way which would reflect on the good conduct of the license to teach was given under express Papal former. In fact, offences of late years have becomè so privileges as a testimonial or attribute of the academical rare that the laws relating to punishments have become dignity. The candidate at the same time received a bat obsolete. In other respects, the responsibilites of this as symbolic of his admission among the graduates, and high functionary have undoubtedly grown to be less grave, from' this circumstance no doubt has sprung the ceremony ard his duties in every respect happily more a'reeable. of "capping" the student observed to the present day This is evident, when we read the record that during the when degrees are conferred. century in which Henry and Elizabeth reigned, Cam- The title of Doctor was held to be in no way superior bridge lost no fewer than five Chancellors by the axe of to Master. However the sound may differ they were the executioner. nearly synonomous. The term Doctor signified a teacher, Such was the University in past centuries-such the and the degrees of Master and Doctor were conferred in system of degrees, their antiquity, their origin, their the first instances only on those who were qualified by value, their uses and some of the customs in conferring study and training and had naturally the power of com- them. But before the typical seat of learning became municating knowledge. The distinction was merely in known and recognized as a university, and as such was the application of the terms. Those learned men who established throughout Europe, in every land where taught theology and philosophy were commonly desig- civilization and religion penetrated, we have a record of nated Masters, while teachers of law and medicine were schools of an analogous character. Schools at which styled Doctors. thousands of scholars met and studied under teachers re- It was this system of which I have attempted to draw a nowned for their learning and the doctrines they taught. faint outline that bas given to universities the perpetual Throughout the world's history there have ever been life which they have enjoyed. The training of men quali- natures who'had felt that life had higher aims and possi- fied to. teach others, the conferring on such men the bilities than mere material success. In the 9 th century degrees of Master or Doctor as a guarantee of efficiency our own Alfred revived letters and gave a stimulus to the bas indeed been the means by which the institutions of schools of England, which the Danish invasion had almost learning have reproduced themselves from generation to extinguished. In the 8th century Charlemagne established generation as the centuries rolled on. schools in which the course of instruction embraced all Although all who received degrees were considered the learning of the age. In the 7th and 6th centuries the qualified to act as public instructors, and those who ac- Irish monasteries surpassed all others in maintaining the cepted the distinction were at one time bound when traditions of learning, and in the 5th century, schools called upon to perform the duties of tuition, the practice were founded in Italy which have been continued up to became general in course of time to select a certain num- the present day. ber of Masters and Doctors remarkable by their powers Chronologically as well as geographically we are thus and attainments to act as authorized teachers. Such as drawn nearer to associations connected with the golden these have been designated Professors. days of Greece and Rome, and to the famous schools Academical degrees, originating as described for the presided over by the old philosophers; those sages whose purpose mainly of securing competent teachers, after- recorded wisdom enriches the literature of every age. The wards became distinctions which were highly prized, and schools referred to foreshadow the University and in men competed for the dignity who had no wish or inten- some of them may at least be traced the germ of the tion to teach. academic degree. The universities of the middle ages comprised four dis- The Atheneum of the Capitol, together with other tinct Faculties-Arts, Law, Medicine and Theology. establishments of learning throughout the Empire, were The Faculty of Arts was held to be fundamental, and the recognized as important elements in the arrangements of Master's degree was insisted upon as a necessary pre- the State. They received the highest patronage, pro- liminary condition for all who designed to take a place in fessional chairs were founded by the Emperors and they any one of the other Faculties. Thus the Faculty of Arts were perpetuated by princely endowments. The princi- formed the basis of academic instructions, and it was, in- ple was recognized that the future influence of the State deed, the type and mould in which all professional and was based on the education of the youth of the country. technical education was set. The rule may not be rigidly If Rome had the Atheneum of the Capitol, Greece enforced under the altered circumstances of to-day. The gloried in the most perfect training schools at Athens. necessities of life"the pressure of competition, the claims Those of Plato, Isocrates and Aristotle appeared to dis- of individual effort all intervene to give a practical form charge the functions of a university in giving to the most to technical education; bitt in the early history of high distinguished men of the time their mental training. It education the preliminary study of Arts was held to be in- is held by some writers that even the external organiza- dispensable; and it may be said that no one who has tion of the university dates from this period in the history followed the same course in modern times has ever found of Athenian culture,' and that the educational plan and that his labor has been given in vain. The typical Uni- discipline of these schools represent an early form of the versity, with the four Faculties, has been compared to a modern Faculties. 148QTQUEENS COLLEGE JOURNAL
If there were no academic dignities precisely similar to whose day the institution was founded. Our awn uni- our modern degrees, bestowed at those schoois of antiquity, versity enjoys its privileges and its rights and exercises we may be sure that the students hailed with no little its powers under the Royal Chartet of Her present satisfaction the announcement that they had passed the Mai esty, granted at the beginning of ber long and bappy Trivium or the Quadrivium; and we know that in those reign. days, as at present, it was an object of ambition to dlaim In this as in ahl modemn universities the degrees con- as their Aima Mater, a school which had established the ferred are of two kinds. The first are scbolastic distinc- bighest reputation for excellence. tions, denoting the grade of the student and the rank Turning to. Egypt, we find at a period wben internai wbich he bas reacbed in educational progress. Each animosities and political discords were disturbing ail degree is a guarantee and certificate of the attainments of other cauntries, when the other nations of the worid the graduate. It attests tbat the university authiorities were ravaged by war and were sinking from its effects; have satisfied themselves, tbat the holder bas been a literature and science were drawn ta Alexandria, regular attendant at the lectures and tbat in the examina- and a famous school was founded which kept alive the tions periodicaliy held, be bas been found competent ta embers of know]edge and preserved mankind from relaps- receive it. These degrees are granted as a right ta wbicb ing into barbarism. Alexandria, founded nearly tbree the quaiified student is justly entitled in recognition af centuries before the Christian era, became the repository bis proficiency. The second order of degrees is con- of ail the learning of the civil ized world. The library of the ferred only on men wbo bave distinguisbed themselves in Ptolemies destroyed by Caesar haif a century before Christ, literature or. science, or wbo bave become eminent in pro- was the finest in existence. It is said to have contained fessional life and bave gained the world's gratitude. Such 7oo,ooo volumes. This library was attaclied to a magnifi- bonorary degrees are granted witbout examination. Tbey cent establishment for the cultivation of learniiig, in wbicb are based on the common faine of the persan ta wbomn teachers and scholars were maintained at the king's ex- tbey are given and tbey are esteemed according ta the- pense. This establishment, known as the Museum, had judgment and justice exercised by tbe university by wbich a sub-division into departments or schools, wbere the tbey are accorded. Queen's bas always been sparing of different branches of education were taugbt, as in the bier bonor. The number of bonorary degrees at present faculties of a modemn university. The schools were beld from this universîty are, of Doctors of Law 12, and Matbematics, Literature, Astronomy and Medicine, of Doctors of Divinity 24, while tbe total number who Minor branches were classified under one of these gen- have graduated is over 800. eral headings, and the scbools were presided over by men As in madern universities wbicb dlaim ta bave in view of great distinction. Euclid was at the head of tbe the bigber educatian of youtb, the Facuity of Arts witb mathematical scbool, wbere bis elements of Geometry us retains its supremacy and ta some extent it is beld ta were first studied-a work whicb bas beid itsground as a be tbe basis on whicb special knowledge must rest.' 1 0' text-book for neariy twenty-two centuries. Pre-eminently here appraach a question on wbich opinion bas long been the school of medicine acbieved great renown, and the divided. It bas led to discussions between men of ad- reputation of baving passed as a student at the Alexan- mitted learning and abiiity, of different vîews, and, it may drian Museum was regarded as a sure passport to pro- be added, witbout in any way, leadîng ta unanimity of fessional success. Late events have particuiariy directed opinion. It seems to me that tbese differences are not un- the attention of the Englisb speaking family to this natural and that tbey must for some time continue ta ancient seat of iearning. A few months ago our flag was exist, for tbey depend on tbe tone of mind and particular borne ta Alexandria, and the British sailor directed the training of those wbose attention is given ta -the subject. grandest engines of destruction ever produced by human On a former occasion I bave referred ta this disonance of skill ta silence a people but a few degrees removed from opinion. 1 did so witb extreme diffidence; and witb barbarism. Such are the vicissitudes of time. When the similar hesitation, 1 revert ta the question for it bears people of the British Islands were painted savages, and directly on tbe degrees in Arts-Bachelor and Master, centuries before they ceased ta be barbaric warring whicb We are now considering. tribes, the commerce and civilization of ail nations con- The basis of the Faculty of Arts, indeed of the wbole verged at Alexandria. Alexandria was then tbe intellec- scheme of academic education, bas long been the language tuaI metropolis of tbe warld, and it presented an example and literature of the ancient Greeks and Romans. No of a systema of education from which it may be said.. the one questions the necessity of these studies at a periad university of to-day has been modelled. sonme centuries back when there was no modemn literature 1 have in a few words dwelt on the antiquity of the wortby of the name, and when a man, ignorant of the ceremony to, which every undergraduate looks forward as classic languages, bad no key ta tbe recorded wisdom of the step which is indispensable ta taking bis place in life. the world. In tbe middle ages Latin was the language Whatever form the conferring of degrees may have as- of the Churcb, of Law, of Medicine, of Diplomacy, of sumed, there cannot be a doubt that for upwards of two Courts even ta some extent, and a knawledge of it ta any thousand years some certificate of attendance at a scbool one entering any of these spberes of life was indispensable. or college, somne mark of proficiency in learning, has been But the times in wbicb we live are no longer the saine. held in reverence. This university strives to follow the Principles of Goverilment, new sciences, scbaols of principle by wbicb the degrees it grants may have value thougbt, powers of movement and means of intercaurse in the world's estimation. It must be plain that for any then undreamed of, comforts and canveniences at one honor to be attacbed ta degrees the standard of educption time utterly unknawn.in palaces are naw found in some of should be high and the distinctions shauld be awarded the humblest homes. These and a thousand changes only ta those whose diligence and attention have made have step by step, modified aIl the features of life and them wortby recipients of them., Queen's University with themn its necessities and requirements. The learned presents an example o f an institution of learning complete professions and their accessaries have nat remained in the four Faculties, and in this *respect it is almost stationary. Theological, medical and legal warks are no singular in the Dominion in retaining in its teaching al longer written and read only in Latin. The laws of aur that was held to be valuable in the middle ages, so far at country bave largely sprung from sources whicb it re- followed. I have least as the course can now be beaitbily quires no classical erudition ta, penetrate. Other pro- mentioned that the early universities obtained their fesions have grown up that are by no means classical, authority from the civil or ecciesiasticai sovereign in and yet they are nat necessarily or in any case wholly un- QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
have brought forth a study forms the best means of attaining culture. They as- learned. The modern languages the best mental There is much of little value, sert that the study of classics furnishes most varied literature. that it is preferable to any other training which is ephemeral, but there are numberless discipline, and much for the permanent beneficial influence which it exercises works on every subject which will endure forever. In- volumes already on the character of the individual. The argument is as deed no one life can compass the standard equally command- own tongue, and day by day valuable powerfully contradicted by authorities written in our that a training in the laws and are made in every sphere of thought in science ing respect. They contend additions principles, and known facts of science, exercises'an equally and literature. on the mind, and that for the purpose Then as to the literature of. antiquity. What is valu- benefiicial influence true culture a familiarity with modern litera- as a record of the past as history or philosophy, of attaining able ture and with the various branches of practical and theore- and what is pleasing and charming as the works of the translations. The retical knowledge is as efficient as a classical education. imagination and fancy, can be read in meaning of the the English reader for It may be asked what is the precise English rendering should place and hence may be under- purposes on a level with the classical word culture? It is indefinite, all practical forms. But be the meaning what it may scholar. stood in different if unnecessary, is it wise ? in must it not depend to a great extent on individual capa- Is it then necessary? and, is required to student to devote so much of city and power of mind which the effort the case of every individual peculiarities of one and valuable years of his life to develop and direct ? May not the the most impressionable will derive advantages from of two dead languages. It is stated, mind suggest that it a grammatical study of classical studies, while i» another perhaps, fairly, and with reason, that translations do not the pursuit writings. It is case they point to the benefit of making modern disclose the full beauty of,the original to construct? no better .idea than plaster researches the key stone of the arch we wish urged that translations give two people in every way sculptures. Let us judge by Physically how rare it is we see casts afford of the ancient Mentally the diversities are per- of comparison. Any one who has seen the resembling each other. this standard Do we not find natural aptitudes and ir- renowned marbles in the richest collections of the world- haps as great. in the Ufficio of capacities in the same individual, which cannot be materi- in the great galleries of the Vatican men any one who gazes ally changed by any effort of education? We meet Florence and t he Museum of Naples; place in one of ancient art must confess in the possession of powers which find their upon these priceless trea~sures another direction. Some and disappointment. Disappoint- sphere-marked by weakness in to a feeling of regret philosophical and contemplative to that the originals before his eyes are so little better natures are logical, ment gift of fluent speech is denied. Scotchmen are than the casts with which he is familiar. The surface of whom the time-it is blurred and laughed at by men of vivid imagination for their tendency the work is injured by the tooth of are gifted sculptures are defaced and not to indulge in metaphysical speculations. There blotched; in some cases the perception of all that is repaired. Hence it happens that men and women who have a keen unfrequently clumsily ear, in form or in sound, others to the carefully formed artistic casts by pleasant to the eye or the mind reverts sense of the beautiful in colour or in words, who which we have learned to know and estimate the original, have a high ideal. Who have no relish or capacity for the solid attractions of forming, as it would seem, too high an in stainless modern re- science. Our experience tells us that there are natures amongst us bas seen those pure and are weak or brought out with all the care and whom some or all these delicate perceptions productions, faultlessly kind predominate. How would say they are in point of real wanting, and faculities of another taste of patient genius, appreciation of music ? John- inferior to the originals. There are many of us are deficient in beauty in any way to it is well known. Luther delighted casts quite the opposite to those I describe sold by itiner- son's insensibility in the shops in it. But in accordance with the beneficient law of com- ent vendors of cheap goods and to be found may be I speak of are the work pensation, minds constituted like.that of Johnson of the image makers. The copies We have only artists, distinguished by great intellectual power. of educated that proficiency in music was made the test of Similarly with ancient literature. Is it not quite possi- to suppose Passing a matriculation examination to conceive the diffi- blè for a'well executed translation to reveal to the ordinary and to set be- culties that would result. Men such as Johnson would reader the obvious meaning of the original, music as a in much of their vigor and undoubtedly be rejected. The Greeks taught fore him the author's thoughts in Greece up to classical scholar of the highest at- science, indeed the main subjects taught beauty ? It is only the music and gymnastics. Of enter into the delicacies and fine the days of Artistotle were taiuments who can that music with the Greeks implied of the language in which the creations of course all are aware peculiarities more than with us, but the illustration is the same. antiquity are given. Such scholars are exceptionally much the rendering Whatever it implied its theory and practice were regarded few. These translations must far surpass and in ad- who have devoted years to of the first importance in training the intellect of the enerality of students to have a humanizing possible to find in the reproductions vancing morality. Music was held the study. Is it not in performing all the social and public learned men a direct path to the learning, the effect on the man of these Such was the Greek theory. Suppose poetry and the history of the past? A path, which the duties Of life. themselves in Greek or music again obtained the same distinction and was placed many who can never distinguish which classics follow. in the prominent position in the curriculum Latin, may easily would there be to many a brilliant If this be possible we must enquire for another reason hold. What shipwreck of high endowments and deep feeling, but weak in why the Latin and Greek languages continue to bold a youth studies. the perception of harmony ? Indeed, had music in mod- fundamental position in academic classics have all that educationconsistsof twoparts: eru days been raised to the supremacy which It is evident to us would have been which the mind and character of man are long held, the portal of the uuiversity First, that by men who have become which he is taught habits of thrift, or self con- practically closed against many formed, by of their country. of industry and effort, by which he is fitted to fill an illustrations in the annals trol, said that a defect in one faculty is compen- honourable place in life and become a worthy member of It has been of a calling by sated by a redundancy of power inanother direction. One society. Second, the technical knowledge perception his bread and live. man may be colour-blind, but have the keenest which ie may have to get have a gift for of the ancient languages appear to me to of form-one unimpressed by music The advocates k third to whom the study of a rest their argument principally on the ground that their mathematical analysis. 150 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL' lauguage 'is weary and unprofitable, may be an untiring tare of this and other early civilized races? If the Greeks devotee of science, Men are flot mentally uniform. It is were uncoxncerned about the aIder civilizations of the wisely ordained that we differ in our tastes, in our capa- ancient world, if they studied no language but their own, cities, in our power ta undergo différent kinds of mental would they in aur circumstances adopt the course which labour, and it seems ta me that these differences dlaim we have followed ? if such as Plato,, Isocrates and Amis- fuller recognition from universities. No man or class of tatie and others who moulded the minds of the youth of men should be placed in a disadvantage by the course of Greece, lived amongst us ta-day; if snch men were in fact studies prescribed for them. The ~curriculum should be Canadians, wauld they teach languages no langer spokçn equallyjust ta all. Sa far as it is practicable ta do so, the by any people? Would they insist upon every Canadian scheme of studiesshould be framed with a view of bring- youth, whatever bis pawers, going through a campulsary ing out the best mental endowments of the students, and drill in the language of two pagan nations who flourisheQd academical degrees should be cQnferred in accordance with 2,000 yeams back ? Does nat the wisdom of such men, this principle. did flot the practice of the ald philosophers dictate that In this University, the Arts course, in addition ta the the reading of the ancient languages in the original should ancient classics, includes the study of modemn languages be entirely aptianal, and that it should generally be left ta and English literature, mathematics and natural science, those students wha have a marked taste and talent for the physics and chemistry, mental and moral philosophy, study ? histary and political ecooomy. An ample range of subi ects If I be permitted ta remamk, personally I wauld deeply for a liberal education. The days are not the samne when regret ta see any change attempted in the teaching of this classics comprised the education of a gentleman, and when University, which wauld in the least lower the standard it was held that if hie knew nothing else but Latin or Greek of education. Rather it should be aur effort ta widen its even in a perfunctory way-the individual was educated. basis and raise the structure ta a higher elevatian than The traditional system of centuries back is departed ever before. The Arts course as it now exists, need in no from here, The teaching of this-university establishes way ta be interfered with. In my judgment it is inex- that the value of science and modern thought is recogni- pedient at this time ta make any radical change. zed, and the staff has been strenghtened in that view. The Arts course shauld be maintained in its integrity in Even since last Convocation two professors in science have order that every student whose tomn of mind leads him ta been added ta aur number-men of high attainiments, the study of the classics, should have an oppartunity of trained. iq the best schools of Europe. The Senate is step, perfectinig himself in ancient literature as fully in Queen's by step removing the embargo as the new calendar about University as in any sister institution. I believe, however, ta be published wîll show. Men reading for honors in equally the interests of the university would be consulted Mathematical or Physical, or Natural Science, will. here- and benefit extended ta many among the youth of Canada, after be obliged ta study classics only tbe first year, and if another camplete course was instituted. The caurse even in that year they may take Latin, French and Ger- suggested should be at Ieast equal in rank and status ta man instead of Latin and Greek; hence it follows that men the Arts course; in it the study of the ancient languages of this class may take Latin and no Greek. should not be enforced; it should be marked by the Looking at the advances which have been made in the special study of modemn languages and modemn literature praper direction and the spirit of progress which bas been and modemn science, and it shauld embrace all subjects evinced, I feel warranted in saying that the determination calculated ta accomplish the abjects of a genuine and of this University is, that it shaîl in no way be behind the generous education and fit a man, intelligently and honor- demands of the time and the needs of the country in ably, ta perfarm every public and private duty in the which we live. That the great aim is ta maintain a high tweiitieth century, now so soon ta dawn upon us. standard of education, and as speedily as it can safely be The practical effect of this proposition would be the done ta introduce ahl proper and desirable changes ta division of the scheme of teaching inta twa main funda- render the teaching as unrestricted, as liberal and en- mental branches or twin faculties; "Arts Classical' and lightened as possible. "Arts Modemn." In considering what further change it may be wise tov The former with Latin and Gmeek as its right arm introduce, or if any further modification in the teaching would carry with it the prestige of centuries and the tra- be called for, it may be well ta ask ourselves the question; ditional excellence and influence of its teaching. The what course would probably be followed under like cir- latter need not necessarily exclude ancient literature, cumstances by the Greek philosophers themselves? In either in the original or in translations; but the supremacy this we can only judge by the course which they actually of classics would not be asserted and the acquimement of followed in their own day. Did the Greeks enforce the the ancient language would be entirely optional. The stu- study of the languages and literatures of nations which dents without aptitude for the study, who derive no appreci- flourished before them? Where in their writings do we find able benefit from the efforts given to its pursuit would no the annals and histories of the Chaldeans, the Assyrians, longer be compelled ta pass what they hold ta be so much the Babylonians, the Medians, the Persians or the Egyp- unprofitable time of callege life in the attempted acquisi- tians ? Have the Greeks transmitted remains of the tion. They would have an appartunity of knowing their literature of these old civilizations or the still older civiliza- own language thoroughly instead of being imperfectly tians of Central Asia ? It is left ta the distinguished acquainted with languages no langer spoken or used in scholars of this age ta decipher the papyri of Egypt and daily lîfe. The time gained by the abandonment of this the tile-libraries of Babylon, and ta exhume from, the study '.uId be profitably turned ta more congenial mains of dead empires a rich mine of litemary treasume. efforts and, by concentration of attention, lead ta a higher' Bythe cuneiform deciphemments of late yeams we are carri- standard of excellence. There is a wide range of choice eback as fàr before the Greeks as the Greeks are anterior in the biological sciences and in.the new fields of thought ta ourselves, ta learn of the existence in prehistoric tinmes which the mental activity of the hast fifty years have of a great Turanian civilization in the plains of Mesapo- opened up for cultivation. Modemn languages may dlaim tamia; ta learu of the «IAccada," a people allied ta the attention, but. I venture ta, express the opinion that they Fins and Laplanders, who laid in Central Asia the founda- should be held in secondary place. The student should tion of a high civilization; who jnvented the most complex be led thoroughly ta master his mather tangue-that systemi of writing that humaft ingenuity bas ever devised. laneuage which in schools of Northemn Europe is naw Isthee any mention made by the classicwritrs ofthe litera- taking the place-of Greek and Latin; that language, in the QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. 151
gmound into which I shaîl not than the for professions is debatable words of Macaulay, 'Iless musical indeed although, for my part, 1 have no hesitation in in ichness,,in apti- 00W enter, languages of the south, but in force, confessing my inability to perceive that even the mysteries tude for ail the higher pupses of the poet, the philoso- be concealed from them. Be that as it to that of Greece alone." of medicine should pher and the orator, inero possessed with common justice, would urge the student's enquiry in may, Who, No limait would be imposed to that if the object of study be to inspire the mind with Arts Modemn. Philosophy could be studied side by side of goodness and truth, the in- which relates love of wisdom, of heanty, with the book of nature aud the knowledge spiration should be withheld fmom women? If the object' to the phenomena of the universe. History, Art, Juris- it may be a courteous compli- and the whole of education be culture, prudence, Political Science, Philosopby, graceful sex to say that they need it not; it moral and physical, would ment to the circle of the sciences, mental, certainly cannot be urged that a monopoly of it should he be made open to him, and his attention would be speciallyi or daugbters desire in- splendid and retained by men. if our sisters directed to '1that noble literattire, the most they seek to enrich their minds of England." tellectual discipline-if most durable of the many glomies the treasume house of leamning, sumely they should of teaching, the one based on fmom These two, main branclw's have open to tbem equal opportunities and advantages to the modern, the other on the ancient learning, would, and sons enjoy. I know of no by side, those which our brothers although perfectly distinct, mun in barmony side the women of Canada should not aim as high of the one loving meason why as twin sisters under the nurturing care equal privilege acceded to them as in ocher conserve the venerated and bave motber. Their institution would countries. Not long since I read the announcement that literature which has corne ideal of culturb, the ancient a woman had won for herself an academicN degree at down to us encircled with a mystic antiquarian halo. Many learned women have to be valued University College, London. The classics would be studied and continue distinction as teachers in the University of scholastic accomplishments acquired as they have always been, as Bologna, and some of them have occupied the Chair of of great intminsic worth. Free scope and opportunity women have shared the to develop Anatomy. ýn Germany learned would be given to every variety of intellect Doctorate in Philosophy and Medicine. It wbich is becoming of bonors of the itself. The newer knowledge would be exceedingly appropriatè if this institution, bear- greater importance year by year as the world rolîs on, noble in hiem womanbood, and the ing the title of our Sovereign, would receive full and complete recognition part in the higher education of the to meet every should take a leading whole fabric of tuition would be calculated Majesty is s0 illustmîous an example. It practical age-in this sex of which Hem possible demand in this intensely will be an event pleasing to us ahl if this t.4niversity be the essentially practical country. sex among its gradu- I trust fimst in Canada to enroîl the gentle I bave dwelt at some length on this topic, but day for the Chancellor of higher ates. It certainly will be a proud the interest generally taken in the question to encircle the head of some faim peculiar circum- when hie is pivileged education with special reference to the laureate wreath as the emblem and me- with an earnest desire to student witb the stances of this country; together wamd of hiem academic succeas. increase and extend the public usefulness of this institu- tion, may be accepted as my justification. I am satisfied that the greatest elasticity possible in the teaching must good to the largest on Tuesday vn undoubtedly result in the greatest HE conversazione of the Chancellor of students. A university cannot bring into exis- T number past, but it is a repeti- tence those gifted beings who now and then appear upon popular at the University for years earth to exercise mighty influence and s4ed lustre on the tion that neyer tires. The halls were crowded-it was a Shakespeare or a Burns, human famnily. It cannot create a crush in places-but the warm welcome of the many unrivalled, Admirable Crichtons , it cannot send out adjusted itself gmacefully to its enlarged it can cail into action the mental faculties of ordinary entertainers but essentially reunions mortals, and the attainment of their highest capabilities opportunity. These gatherings are should be its aim. of university men and those in sympathy with them, with class In this'institution we have a staff of pr.ofessors ibut tbey also draw together representatives of evemy and on a level with sound principles, high attairiments, that year by year more knowledge of the day. It will be their n the city. t was again noticed the most advanced are attracted fmom a distance. The roll of stu- into activity the mental endowments of the visitors aim to call expanding and students and direct them to the highest and noblest dents and intereÈt in old Queen's is yeamrly efforts. In unfolding the beauties of literature, the tmuths with this grows the importance of the closing Convoca- of science and the lessons of history, these learned and by high ideals tions. enlightened men will always be animated Among those present at this or other of the closing to inspire. the mind with of true culture. The cultutre Moderator of the General of the infinite Being who has placed us ceremonies were noticed: The lofty conceptions B.D., here for a brief moment in endless time. The culture to Assembly, Bishop Cleary, Revs. A. Young, J. Burton, lift the veil which conceals our own imperfections, and D. J. Macdonnell, B.A., Prof. McLaren, M. W. McLean, insignificance. The which opens our eyes to our own M.A., E. D. McLaren, B.D., Dr. Kemp, Dr. jardine, broadens our vision of humanity and en- culture which F. McCuaig, Dr. Smith, Dr. Bain, Dr. discern the merits of others, and gives us a Father Twohey, ables us to M.A., living sympathy with our fellows, in whatever station-of Wardrope, E. C. McColl, B.A., M. McGillvray, whatever race or faith. R. Campbell, M.A., Donald Ross, B.D., R. J. Laidlaw, I cannot venture to, detain you by saying much about a J. C. Cattanacb, M.A., J. Stuart, B.A., J. Curnberland, not unprecedented feature in somewhat novel, although B.A., Hon. 0. Mowat, LL.D., Hon. A. -Morris, M.A., pursuits. I refer to, the higher education of scholastic M.A., Q.C., D. B. Iyaclennan, women, and the experiment which has been made in this D.CL., James Maclennan, institution, I am glad to say, with a measure of success. M.A,. Q.C., Dr. Bell, F.G.S., P. C. McGregor, B.A., Judge The objects of institutions like this being twofold- Macdonald, A. G. McBain, B.A., A. T. Drummond, general and technical-the one tocultivate and enrich the LL.B., J. McIntyre, Q.C., R. V. Rogers, M.A., G. M. qualify for professional life-they intellect, the other to Macdonnell, B.A., A. P. Knight, M.A., etc. should be considered separately. The training of women 152 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
Hundreds were presented ta the Chancellor and Mrs. The ceremony of laureation was then proceeded with, Fleming, and were also warmly received by Principal Grant, Rev. Dr. Williamson presenting.the respective graduates Miss Macdonald, Mrs. Grant and other ladies and gentle- ta the Chancellor for "capping," and repeating the men prominent in the, circle- The Band of ,Battery regular form on submitting each one. The graduates were '1B" occupied the museum and put forth its best pro- addressed by the gramme. The entrance, stairways a'nd lobby up stairs REV. DR. COCHRANE. were decorated, so that under the flood of light the hand- He said: The day was amornentous and eventful one. some and impasing building, with its moving panorama of They and their friends had been looking forward to it for bright faces and still brighter costumes, presented an years and now they testified that they had flot studied in attractive and prepossessing view. vain, having secured the honors given ta successful CONVOCATION HALL students. He had a number of.practical points ta touch and its platform were the centre of attraction. The room, upan, and they were: (I) Seek the highest attainments already handsome, was decorated with colored waves of possible in the profession you are. ta, enter upon. ,Dr. clath, festooned here and there, which brightened it up Cochrane spoke of the failures that had occurred in pro- greatly, but did flot improve the acoustic properties. The fessions. In the ministry there were tao many preachers Chancellor presided, and a charming musical programme without churches, in law too many lawyers without was rendered under the direction of F. Heath, B.A.: briefs and in medicine ton many .doctors waiting for Solo and Chorus, "Sailing' -H. Rathbun and Glee patients. (A voice-Amnen.) In politics there were flot Club. enough men of independent principles. He hoped the Solo, "My Queen' '-J. Sherlock. and that wherever Piano Due-Msss Snook and Agnew. motta of ail would be "Excelsior" Solo, "Ave Maria' -Major Taschereau. their lot was cast the graduates of Queen's University Sang Valse, I'Magnetic-Miss M. Bamford. would tower over ail others, in their profession. (2) Quartette and Chorus, "O"--Glee Club. They should endeavor ta seek celebrity in the professions "II amn Content' -Mr. Twyning. Solo, their ears String Qùiintette-Tfelgmann family. chosen. They should become specialists, keep Solo, "«Rhymes and Roses' -Miss Bates. and eyes open and learn everything by which they can This programme was interspersed with short addresses corne dloser ta men. There were many failures, flot by the Hon. 0. Mowat, Dean Baldwin, Judge Macdonald, from a lack of knowledge, but because they knew not how Rev. Mr. Burton, the Principal and Rev. J. C. Cattanach, ta handle men in the affairs of life. They should under- M.A. stand human nature. (3) Regard ail professions as on the The museum was turned into a refreshment room and ground of equality. This was necessary for the growth thrown open throughout the evening. In two of the class- and stability of the country. The ministry was looked up rooms the ubiquitous reporter declares that dancing was ta as the highest profession, yet, he thought, legal and indulged in ta the music of the band. medical men were oniy a niche below it. While they did Experiments were conducted in the Chemistry and not preach Christ they fought for ju"stice against oppres- Physics rooms, the electrical exhibition by Prof. Mar- sion, for truth against error, and what was grander than ta shall being a rare treat. Prof. Dupuis and Dr. Max be able ta offer consolation ta the afflicted ? They must Dupuis gave one of their fine exhibitions of views by regard each lother as working for the permanency of this calcium light iu the mathematical room. great country. Dr. Cochrane spoke of the University as The entertainment, which commenced at 7 P.m., lasted one of the noblest in the land, w here aIl denominations till midnight, and the evident reluctance with which the met together and a spirit was propagated that ail were brath- visitars left the pleasant halls was the best testimony ta ers working together for the good of Canada. He urged the excellence and the success of ail the arrangements. the graduates ta bear a strong love for the University and its COP4VOCÂTirON. professors. In no university was there such esprit de corps an ON Wednesday afternoon CovAto Hall was packed the part of the graduates as in Queen's University. (Cheers.) .with a fashianable audience. They wouid not fail if they followed in the footsteps, of The students were seated in the gallery, and were more their predecessors. He urged the graduates ta look up ta than usually enthusiastic, giving snatches of glees and the College and "lsend your sons when you have themn ta choruses before the proceedings began and afterwards, be educated here."- (Cheers.) The mere fact of being which were much appreciated. identified with Queen's would lift them high in the esti- The members of -Convocation arrived in procession, mation of the people. ,Do' not disgrace your diplomas,"' headed by the Chancellor and took their seats on the he said, "lbe men of honour, purity and integrity." The platform. The Chaplain, Dr. jardine, Opened with devo- speaker condluded by urging the graduates ta give themà- fionai- exercises, and then foilowed the -distribution of selves ta God. and when ail the strife and turmoil of life prizes ta the successful students in the varions classes, by was a',er the best of ail judges would say, "Well done the professori. thon gooct and faithful servant, t.hou hast been, faithful 'The winners of schalarships were announced, and gold over a few things, I will make tbee ruler over many medals presented. things; enter thon inta the jay of thy Lord," 153 QUERN'S COLLE 2GE JOUALL.5
pile tu the north of us. There where the knife bas suc- the graduating clasa J. V. Anglin then On bhaîf of ceeded the lexicon we spent our freshman days. 'Twas, gave the following then, air, we heard of your election to the Chancellorship. VALEDICTORY: Now we have seen your installation again, on wbich we us often, some only once. The Some things are given congratulate you, proud to receive our degree at your again, bringing back the same seasons return again and hands. We saw the first ladies venture on the campus occasions. But the emotions we now on round of memorial after the forhidden fruit. It is yet early to pronounce day alune. The sun rises every morn- feel belong to this the succeas of the departure. Perhaps we have the dis- of us asleep; but in Lapland, after a ing and finds most tinction of heing the last .class to go bence in whicb nu the hardy trihes fiock tu see theF six months' eclipse, ail sweet girl graduate shaîl be. Tbough tbe few fair under- our lives, the consummation of sunrise. To this epoch in graduates have in cases heen keen rivais for honora there of Queen's, have looked- for- days of toil, we, graduates is nu aeed of alarm, since it is flot likely the women will years. N'ow, that it is ours, ward through our youtbful corne in as a flood. The majurity wishing a higbeý educa- shall ever revert as une of the red we prize it, and to it we tion will seek sometbing more conducive tu their future unmixed. Honored byi letter days. But our joy is not bliss than a B.A. course. Doubtlesa it would add to with the duty, I present the valedic-1 my class-mates the pleasures of life to have a wife able to deqcribe the is our covenant of life. tory of '83. A ve et Vale ! anatomy of the uyster in tbe soup, or give the chemiçal to part; some of us, .Hail and farewell 1We have met ingredients of your pudding, but if thîs be at the sacrifice other's society again. mayhap, neyer to enjuy each of good bouse-keeping then woe is me! for the cloud cornes. Alternation of Even on this bright day We may live without books; wbat is knowledge but shadow with sun is the law for us as for the physical grieving? Rains Nvbat is hope but deceiving? world. We are not without consoliflg, .however. *We may live witbout hope; without love; what is passion hut, pining? and fertilize; scenery is enhanced by clouds. We rnay lîve beautify Bot wbere is the man that can live without dining! ourselves in a degree frum colle- We to-day separate deserves the credit due to those wbu scene of a four years' Queen's certainly giate associations. We leave the brougbt a large and prove a thing good or bad. Each faîl bas victorjous struggle. "Here we have fought together freshman cîsass, and witb the increased numbers w~e manhood grown." That one's college days are his into gladly see an enthusiastic college spirit. is true. in after life there may corne serener happiest, Many changes bave been made on the teaching staff. fiowing from success in greater duties, but the i happinesa, Several lectiurers have been added to it. Mure prominence joy of college life is neyer surpassed. One exuberant Iis heing given tu science, shuwing that the University en- seema to forget, uphorne by the sympathy of his chums, deavors to uffer the heat facilities for the pursuit of every soon enter a broader, sterner conflict, single- that ho must knowledge, giving nu undue prominence tu une, historic city, beautiful hranch of handed. We say farewell to this with a fictitious virtue. Fwhich tradition may have invested situation. To the citîzens of Kingston, to the ladies, for Vet some Professors are overworked. Tbough, doubt- tu the students who remain, tu the officers of the institu- leas, time will produce necessary funds to meet present which, perhaps, is the most painful tion, to each other, should greater advantages be offered loyers means anything wants. Especially necessity. But farewell between A dignified D. D. Ffor the mastery of our own language. of valel1 valel1 So we have sornething but the ejaculation Iexplained ',epitorne to a Sunday-schuol thus- By epi- reached a halting place and pause to to add. *We have 1 mean-tbat is, it is synunymous with On this occasion tomne, chil1dren scan the past and look on to the future. who, converse in Greek of sýynop. Hu w rany are there thoughts take a sweeping range. With the brush our derivatives, yet -cannot interpret themselves in Anglo- canvased before us. kor some the rnemory the past is is su strong in its simplicityli the picture is not al Saxon, whicb retrospect is a bright one; for others training should be at a Witb a more thorough Englîsh light. We recali the first instillations of knowledge permanent attention to elocution. If Whitfield by a word knee, the encuuraging smile and more subgtan- mother's could meit the listening thrung; Booth hy the repetition plum," the dreaded school, the dog- tial 'confectionery hring sneering voluptuaries to their the tears su often of the Lord's prayer eared grammar, the classic legends, training.. a knees, they did not gain the talent without su quickly dried, the first prize, the longings tu be shed, Considering the efficiency tu which we approach, soun at last the pruud day when we were sent tu college, man, to uise above rnediocrity, the student wilnot have to the saucy soph, the junior, careless the meek freshrnan, years in Britain or Germany. with its gravity, and spend some and free, then the year of seniority .resigned active our One Prufessor, whorn we loved, bas now the red is rent from our guwfls The years of dte.Aoher is nu mure. It is an honor that we are quadrenniuma have been must fortunate in the University's the last class that was under the late Prof. Mackerras. been spectators of, or co-operators in, history. We have know nothing personally of this inspir- assume their stately Those following us many changes. We saw these walls for the existence seat of ing teacher. Neyer can he be forgotten, formn, a monument that Kingstonl appreciates this of Queen's is a monument to his memory. This is the last gradua ting year that knows of learning. To-day we set sail on the voyage of life, out of the the. good old college days as they were in the respected 154 QUJEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. building yard of early years, streamers flying, but before get out of the groove that led him to misfortune, being us what changes; some too light, may tip over with the liberal and versatile, not hidebound. For a mercantile first wind; some go down hattling bravely in the wild life a higher education is beneficial, for the man's capa- sea, others reach the haven, grey and weatherworn. That cities are enlarged; even if he break stone he has the ad- desired haven is 'success.' Some may return hither, to vantage of his illiterate neighbor. Imagine the delight he learn of the saving of the soul, or of the body; for others may derive froin the crystals, or speculating on the date the scene of noble labor may be the school, others may when the rocks he is pulverizing were formed. follaw a mercantile calling; but whatever our life purpose Without persevering toil we gain little. Though we we have one common end. Since each has his own ideal, have just finîshed a "1year's grind" we shaîl have to rest sucçess is hard to define. The only success worth the ourselves as the Indian who YThns when he tires walking. naine is when a man gets what he desires, he it wealtÉ or There is no elevator Io take us up ta the pinnacle of suc- faine or power without paying too dearly for it. If the cess. How often in college have we seen work outstrip gain be at the price of physical, intellectual or moral lazy talent ? Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. "A health we give, like the ignorant negro, pearîs for a good poet is made as well as barn." Biographers dis- bauble. Though the future is an impenetrable curtain courage youth, extalling the gifts, underrating the toil, which ho human being can draw aside, success is rightly giving.shrewd sayings of the child. Any mother could to be expected. Just as morning opens with painted clouds repeat striking speeches of her boy. Some, ta shirk work, sa does life. seek the ,liberal professions.' Such is the listless stu- 'Youth is a breeze mid blossoms straying dent who spends his nights in pleasure, crains up 40 per Where hope clings, feeding like a bee." cent. of nehulous ideas, tells you college would be a fine The best of men have failed, however, in trying ta suc- place only for exains. Every step of another upwards he ceed. Macaulay's college poem missed the prize. Cob- .attributes ta luck instead of ta wark. ,It is just My luck," den's first speech was a total failure, Than Bulwer he says; "1there wasn't a question I knew anything about. Lytton few have won greater distinction, yet his first, a I crammed up conics and logarithins and we got solid poetical eftort, was a failure, his second, a novel, a failure geometry. I was always unlucky." tao. Misfortune causes some ta sink, foolîshly, ta listless ,,The fault, dear Brutus, is nat in aur stars, depression, but it is often essential ta success by stimulat- "But in ourselves, that we are underlings." ing to renewed efforts, the sinking into the.earth ta lay a It would seem that obstacles ta be surmounted is the sure foundation. Some students entering life stumble be- indispensable condition of success. Garfield, teaching ta cause they expect the homage due asenior, whereas, as at pay his fées; Burns, a day lahorer; Demosthenes, im- college, they must begin as freshrnen in the world. peded hy natural defects, conquers them. See him de- Let us consider saine apparent factors in a life that claiming by the sea with pebbles in his mouth ta correct ends well. Firstly, considering my platform, is a higher his utterance; practising with naked blade above his education essential to success in life? Scotland 200 years shoulder ta check an ungraceful motion. What re- ago was, perhaps, the poorest country that could lay dlaim sults ? Magnificent eloquence overpawering all who hear ta civilization. So degraded were the common people it, s0 that when Demosthenes spoke fia sound was heard that it was proposed ta make thousands of thein slaves. in Athens but the echoes of his voice. But, instead, the Parliament established schools, and Towering above other factors for success is à~ group what followed? Let Macaulay answer: ,Soon, in spite centring about the will power, the faculty separating of the rigor of the climate, in spite of the sterility of 'the man frain nature, giving - him personality. Such are earth, Scotland became a country which had no reason ta self-reliance, 5trength of determination, energy of purpose. envy the fairest portions of the globe. Wherever the In saine strength of will seems inherent; others have but Scotchinan went (and there were few places he did not the germs. But it may be cultivated. A man of con- go), he rose ta the top as surely as ail rises ta the top of sumîmate talent, devoid of character, is like a steam-engine water. And what produced this revolution? The Scotch without a driver. "Where there's a will there's a way." rocks were still as bare, the air as cold as ever. The The French praverb says "One gets the standing he State had given humeducation."1 Thus the better instructed dlaims.' Gambetta, whase sensational death has lately the higher will the nation rank, and the national is the re- been gassip, haw did the great Frenchman rise frain a flex af the individual character. True, many a successful poor shop boy ta be the idol of the mab that gave hum man neyer had opportunity for higher éducation, for edu- power? He is characterized as having fia refinement of cation alone is insufficient. A man might have ahl the mi, and little of conduct, with moral and physical learning any eollWge ever taught condensed into, his head, strength used up 'Twas his aver-mastering will power and yet prove a foal, Old Plato first expressed the idea that kept him above his fellows. Napoleon would have that slowly obtains, that the accumulation of facts is not the word "impassible banished fram the dictionary. education. Discipline is the grand end; training and flot When told the Alps staod in the way of his armies, smattering. Therefare the better one is instructed the 'There shaîl be fia Alps, " he cried, and a road was made, less liable is he ta fail; but if he daes, he will more easily Some mistake other gifts for strength of character. QUEEN'S COLIEGE JOURNAL.
but that be did bis best. There is a deep meaning term, a synonym for audacity, viz., Icheek," wjthout which some say we cannot prosper. -Tis not in mortals to command success, The less one bas the better, tbough for a time it has sway. We will do more-deserve it.' The full head of wbeat hangs iow. Yet each should have DEGREE 0F D. 1). proper self-esteem. It is as injurious to underrate as to overrate one's self. Aristotie ranked the vain and tbe The Vice-Principal read the foliowing: in accordance mean man together. Some mistake obstinacy for manly witb their minutes the Senate resolved to confer and decision, and blindly self-confident reach the ditch. Men bereby do confer the degree of D. D. upon Rev. W. witbout self reliance are like trees in sand, with roots in Grant, MA., of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, and upon every direction, but with no grip, the sport of every wind Rev. XVm. McLaren, Professor of Theoirgi in Knox that blows. To prosper allone's efforts must be 'llevelled College, Toronto, the degree of LL.D. on Robert Bell, at one common aim." Dryden says no man need ever M.D., of the geological survey of Canada, fear refusai from a lady if he only give his heart to the Prof. McLaren was presented to the Chancellor* by possession getting her. There is no blessing equal to the Principal Grant in tbe following terms: Pluck is a grand belper. 'ýIfwe should of astout heart. I bave the bonor to present to you the fail I' suggested the conscience-stricken Macbeth. 'Wei Mr. Chancellor, wife ;"but screw your Rev. William McLaren, Professor of Tbeoiogy in Knox fail,' echoed tauntingly bis bim the point and we'll not fail." College, Toronto, and to ask you to confer upon courage to the sticking In this case the While stresg bas been put on the inteliectual, moral bonorary degree of Doctor of Dîvinity. Our name, like Coesar 's Senate desires to honor, as far as it lies in théir power, character is no less important. for it is oniy above blame but above suspicion. not only Dr.' McLaren, but also Knox College, wife, must be not past and present, unani- without Christian faith tbere cornes a well known tbat its students, And, further, bim a worthy representative of that sister paleness on the lustre of the proudest fame. It becomes monsly declare non-faith to take a stand when theological institution wbicb bas done so, mucb for the a man in these days of Dr. McLaren's society is being undermined_ by anarcby and nihiiism establishment of the Cburcb in Ontario. bis ordination, was marked by that flow from agnosticism, wbich recognizes no God, no ministerial career, from pre-eminent success as pastor, preacber and teacher or life beyond. activity and large Tbis day formally ends our education under guidance. Doctor. The evidences of bis faithful Queen's graduates bave happy powers of organization are to be found to this day in tbe We go to a wide field. of bis in other lands, some rnaking tbeir mark at the congregations to wbicb be ministered. On account homes acquirements in the speciai antipodes; but what a widening field bave we at home! abilities as a teacher, and bis more than ever. Were I departrnent of systematic theology, he was appointed Here educated men are needed the ex- of July" oration, there would be as Professor in bis Aima Mater, Knox College, and capable of a ,Fourth have been amply fulfilled. In- a theme in my native land as any American bas. pectations formed of bim inspiring the hast ten years be bas discbarged ail the Wbile we may laugh at the Republican's innocent egotism. deed, during bis ine3haustible patriotism. We functions of a true doctor of divinity. His publisbed we cannot but admire possessed patriotic, since ours is the task of build- treatises on important themes prove bîm to be sbould be equally and ripe and accurate ing up a nationality in wbicb justice and freedorn, arts and of a logical and vigorous mind, to cause of Foreign government and domestic bappiniess may scholarsbip, wbile bis devo'tion the sciences, good is interested in the uncbecked. Let party be second to a passionate Missions shows bow deeply bis beart grow Tbe Senate believes love of country! To Canada's crude soul is coming tbe grandest of Christian enterprises. Irisbman, the stolid tribes of that tbe conferring of this degree will commend itself to sturdy Britain, the restless Cburcb the old continent, and even the olive-browed native of ail the ministers and members of the Presbyterian Soon will ber broad acres resound in Canada, and trusts that it shail be considered to tbe '1gorgeous east." of friendship the tread of millions. symbolize in some measure tbose sentiments witb by tbe Senates of institu- tbe pride of the deep, it is said, was caiculated and esteem wbicb are cherished England, have so mucb in common. to be the'seat of a migbty race, on account of its immense tions wbicb minerai resources. May not the same be propbesied of DR. McLARIEN'S REPLX'. wben we consider its natural wealtb, its our Dominion, be was received forests, its virgin mines, its boundless garden, enriched by As Dr. McLaren advanced to speak only the lone Indian scoured the with loud cheers. After returning tbanks for the bonor wastefulness, wbile bad been Witb a soul so suitable for the best of cereals, conferred upon him and the kind words wbicb plains. institution witb wbicb wîth a sterfi climate, there must grow up a vigorous race. spoken concerning bim, and of the work or perish. Men wbo bave but to he was connected, he said be accepted the honor, flot oniy Here a man must the to make it fruitful, wbo sit beneatb tbe sway- as a valuable academic distinction, but as a token of tickle the soul Knox Coliege. He ing palms, enjoying nature's unsougbt bounties, these are kind feeling tbey cberisbed towards flot the bigbest types. 'Tis bere wbere necessity .bids us boped that the two institutions, baving s0 much common, work of Christ labor or die that men deveiop. In thîs land wbicb reaps would work barmoniously to advance tbe of monarcby witbout its caste, wbere tbe and for the advancement of tbose wbo attended tbem. ahl tbe benefits for nuptiais between liberty and order are solemnized, The speaker referred at lengtb to tbe requirements and knowiedge fix tbeir abode along its teacbing theology and tbe great amouut of work requisite wbere civilization conferred fertiiizing rivers, may be developed a pride of race bolier to make tbe ministry successfui. The degree than Rome or Sparta knew. upon birn he would look upon as a new cali, and be would As a son leaves bis fond mother, so do we now part make additional exertions to sustain the favourable our Aima Mater, wbo bas nurturei and trained us. opinion tbey had of him as a cburcbman. He was proud witb it We go to pusb tlbrougb tbe throng to the crowaq of success. to be connected witb Queen's University and wisbed shall we become tby decus et tutarnen. Like oak and prosperity, and at tbe same time boped that its influence Then of îvy shahl we ever grow. We shahl promote tby glory as in wouid widen and deepen witb eacb new accession us lies, loving thee as a Roman tbe city of the seven bis, graduates. (Cheers.) pass where fare- tili dust to dust conclude our work, and we read tbe following, but the gentle- wells are neyer known. And wben the end shahl corne, The Principal tben man to whom it referred was absent in bis distant borne: fnay it of eacb in '83 be said flot that bu did wehl or iii, 156 QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
Mr. Cbancellor,-I have the honor to present ta you oring whom the students honored tbemselves. Mr. Flem- the name of the Rev. Wm. Grant, Minister of Sbaalhaven, ing, though flot to the manner born, had lived so long in New South Wales, as one adjudged by the Senate warthy Canada, had done so mhuch for it, that Canadians claimed of the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Grant graduated him as their own. He bad stretched the ribbons of steel in 1829 as Master of Arts at King's Callege and Univer- wbich hold the panting, puffing, steaming iron horses as, sity, Aberdeen. He was ordained Minister of the Parisb they rush from Toronto towards the North, from Halifax of Tenanddy in 1837, and in 1853 offered bimself for the to Quebec, from Winnipeg towards the setting sun. He Colonial field. For the last 30 years be bas rendered bad made himself a name in literature, in science and most valuable services ta the cburcb in New South Wales. in the history of the day, and the fame be bas gained bas His bretbren esteemn him for bis elevated and refined redounded to, the glory of Canada. The College, ber in- manner, bis scbolarsbip and thealogical attainmets, bis terests, her weifare, ber advancement, have at ail times wisdom in council, aud bis ministerial labars, wbile he been in bis mind and beart. He bas worked for ber on bas won the love of bis people by bis fidelity, ability and botb sides the Atlantic, in Ottawa and in Wasbington. unbounded goodness. During the negutiations for tbe He bas given of bis own freely and he bas begged and union of churches in New South Wales, bis weigbty borrowed from otbers for ber. Mary Tudor said that character infiuenced many wba would otherwise have upon ber beart after deatb would be found the word stood aloaf, and bis selection as Moderator of the Gen- ICalqis," but upon Sandfield Fleming's larger and softer eral Assembly in 1869, sbowed how bighly be was re- beart tbere is even now imprinted the words 1,Queen's spected by the cburcb generally. Collega." Tbe toast the speaker proposed was received with great entbusiasm. OEGREE 0F LL.0. in the following words:- statement: The Chancellor responded Professor Williamson read tbe following .1 only wisb I was able ta acknowledge in suitab]e 'Robert Bell, assistant director of the- geological survey termas the extremely kind compliments wbich you of Canada, is one of the few native Canadians wba bave bave paid me. devoted their entire lives tascientific pursuits. He cames If tbere is anytbing ta lessen tbe very great satisfaction froma a family, the members of wbicb bave always been which I experience on the present occasion it is my remarkable f or the interest wbicb they bave taken in tbe inability ta express witb sufficient earnestness bow bigbly abjects of natural science, and the valuable geological I appreciate the honar which bas been conferred upon me and mineralogical collection presented by his late father by making me se, conspicuous a guest at this splendid enter- formed the nucleus of the museum of this University. Dr. tainment. Bell graduated witb distinction in McGill Coliege, Mon- I am well aware that it is not s0 mucb to the humble in- treal. Wbile still a very yaung man be was employed on dividual as to the exalted position wbicb be occupies that sa the Geological Survey, and enjoyed for many years the many gentlemen are met around the banqueting table ta teacbing and example of the dîstinguisbed geolagist, Sir pay a tribute of respect. 1 regret the more therefore that William Logan, its first director. He is naw the oldest I am not gifted witb the eloquence necessary to speak in memaber of its staff, baving been appainted mare than a fitting terrms an the present occasion. No une knows quarter of a century ago. Dr. Bell is a practical natura- better than I do bow unable I am to fill as 1 would wish list, geologist and geographer. A large proportion of the distinguisbed position I bave been called upan ta wbat is defmnitely known of the geology of Canada and of occupy. No one knows better than I do bow imperfectly the topograpby of tbe mare remate parts of the Dominion 1 bave performed the duties of Chancellor for the past is due to bis assiduaus labors. His accaunts of these in- three years, and nu une I fear will sa mucb need yaur vestigations contained in annual reports of tbe Geological mast generous indulgence during the tbree years naw Survey, and bis numeraus articles on zoology, botany, entered upon. geolog0y and mining, published in other forms, have You have referred ta the fact, Mr. Chairman, that it added greatly ta the credit of Canadian science. Dr. bas nat been my good fortune ta be born in Canada. In Bell is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and the kid and cordial remarks wbich bave fallen fromn of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the your lips you have alluded ta a land beyond the sea. variaus other learned sacieties, but bas been deemed That land wbere I.first saw the ligbt is indeed very dear peculiarly fitting that be sbould receive fromn tbis Uni- ta me. There my happy boybood was spent among versity in which be was formerly one of the professors, scenes of legendary interest; but this thougbt takes me back the honorable academical degree of Doctor of Laws. ta pre-historic times as far as Queen's University is con- The proceedings were brougbt to a close by the Chan- cerned, and I will nat therefore farther allude ta it. If celior's Chaplain pranauncing the Benediction. the remembrance of the land of bilI and beather brings fromn tbe spring time of life a fresh sweet fragrance, BA?4QUET.I TrO ISa often experienced at the and the abundant space and re- hospitality which hie had wealth of aur Dominion Kingstonians, and the latter gave some gaod sources for the averflowing millions of Europe. hands of and that in a brief sentence, allude ta one advice ta the students. I shahl anly, Macdonald in taasting 'The Trustees' paid an advantages wbich we are privileged ta en- Judge of tbe many cloquent tribute ta the services rendered by these gentle- jay in this country of ours. 1 refer ta the peculiarly bappy1 conditions which obtain. men ta Queen s Univcrsity. and promising etbnalogical replied on their behalf. Canada, we find in' this very raom A. T. Drummond. LL.B., We find everywbere in in replying ta the toast of "The Uni- of ail tbe grcat Eurapean races--Englisb, Principal Grant, representatives versity,- said:- The abject of a University is ta develap French, Irisb, Scotch and German. Hcre wc bave men hatred, mind, in order ta tbe developmcnt of character ta ail its wbosc forefathers were separated by feelings of in the or in peaceful rightful issues. That abject may be expresscd meeting and intermingling sacially several conclusions as and mast important kind word, culture. From that abject, emulation. There is a peculiar of universities follow. Universi- an inside and autside of univcrsitics in ta the nature and scope of educatian gaing have self-government. Thev sbould be charac- this country. We are ail sprung from races wbicb, in the tics sbould and tcrized by the utmost catbalicity, including ail types of past centuries, continually warred against eacb other should aversion. Here men and making.ail feel at home. Every science looked upon each other with the bitterest and therefore if in the -college, in the be studied in a opceuniversity, wve came inta peaceful contact, curriculum counicils, in the legisiatures and be a science, itstexclusion from the market, in tbe-mîunicipal theologythe institution in a truncatcd condition. %Again, a in the social gatberings. leaves otbcr and nat shut out fram the benefits of cul- Educatian leads us ta feel respect for each uni versity should war]d on the the hostile cie- ture one haîf of the number of minds in the gives mutual confidence. It meits down anc knew that Qucen's effaces the enmity of crecds, it mere ground of sex. Every ments of former times, it of bier histary, that she antipathies, the anixnasity of races, gloried from the first ta the last destroys the national had been truc ta those cbaractcristics. and slowly, yet certainly, the antagonism once wide as the pales, is entirely lost sigbt of. Rcv. Dr. Jenkins gave "Our Guests." Bisbop Cleary, by of the toast, Tbe character of men becomes more powerful for goad wbao bad been cal]ed upon by the proposer of diverse elements, and we are warranted in was grected with cheers: He said that bie represented by the mingling but tbinking that the blending of races amongst us will result bis presence, not bis own feeling and sentiment o -ly, in incalculable benefits. The vcry différences in the dle- those also of bis Catbolic congregation in Kingstan, wbo ments will be sources of strength ta the peaple of Canada- would nat be a littie plcascd by bis expression of good different characters, different traditions, différent faitbs wiladsmpatby witb the labars and literary triumphs coin- say tbat, un- and différent ruling qualities will give variety ta the of* Quens U nivcrsity. He would furthcr ponient parts, and striking and distinguisbîng characteris- wortby tboug hble was ta be numbcrcd among the Bisbops tics ta tbe wbole. of the Cbnrcb, hie officially rcprescnted an ancient and the A generaus education will greatly pramate the blcnding gloriaus bierarcby, wbo throughout ail ages and in process and assist in combining ahl the best qualities of midst of gravcst difficulties attcnding educatianal efforts each of the races whicb go ta farm aur population. Sucb bcfare tbe Northern bardes of barbarians wbo bad settled an education as Qucen's aims at, must grcatly aid in upon the plains of Europe had submittcd ta ber civiliza- breaking down the barriers wbicb no langer should cxist tion or tbe art of printing bad yet been invented, bad among men cnjoying, in comman, the samne blessings and planncd and encouragcd cverywbere scbaols of sacred and breathing the free air of Canada. profane lcarning with a measure of succcss that can be I am imbued with the idea that this University bas im- apprcîated hy none sa well as by the students of înedioeval portant public functions ta perfarm in burning ont preju- history. Yesterday bie had listened with extreme gratifi- dices and aId hatreds. Its abjects will be ta create catian ta tbc learned address of Chancellor Fleming in humanizing tastes and give risc ta feelings of confidence which was traced the origin and progress of high educa- and friendsbip between the gaod and noble minded of tion from the renowned scbool of Alexandria in the first cvery race and crecd in the Dominion. four centuries, ta tbe learned sanctuaries of Ireland in the Our population in anc respect resembles the great St. sixth, seventh and eigbtb, and thence ta the formal inst'- Lawrence which fiows in front of ns. It cames from vani- tution of universities in the period immediately follawing ous remote sources, separated by broken wilds, by ruggcd tbe establisbment of the Cbristian Empire of the west rocks, or by dark and deep morasses. The streams may under Charlemagne. Tbe Chancellor gave just and gen- have foamed from maniy a cataract; tbey may be.laden erous praise ta tbe Papes and Bishops for their admirable with sediment and be tinged by dferent hues. Unitedi zeal in the interest of thase grand centres of intellectual in a broad and placid bod ipurities scttle down and the activity and virtuans training of men in Christian char- wbolc sparkles witb brilliancy. The varions waters acter. He (the Bisbop) was praud ta say that the bis- together forma a noble expanse ta float on its basom the taric robes bie wore that night were the cynasure of industrial wealtb of haîf a continent. learned.spectatars at the ceremiony of blessing and laying Again, Mr. Chairman, I thank you most cordially. the foundatian stones of twenty universities between the I tbank the Counicil and graduates and friends of Qucen's days of Charlemagne and Charles tbe Fiftb. University for the reception tbey have given ta the toast, Principal Grant bad specified two cbaracteristics of this and for ibis crowning mark of their kindness and University wbich attracted the Bishop'sattention. Thefirst regard. It will be my earnest endeavour in same degree was the, 'catbalicity of sentiment"' pervading the institution. ta prove deserving of wbat bas been said and donc. It He begged ta say that bie was there that nigbt because of bis will be my bigbest ambition ta be able faithfully ta serve belief in the reality of that sentiment and ta mark his the University in the exalted office in wbich I bave been recognition of it. The Principal would bear witness that placed. My deepest regret is that my ability falîs so far on the occasion of bis soliciting voluntary aid fromi the short of my desire ta fill my obligations. public ta erect this noble pile the Caýholic people af cordial encouragement. The "Sister Institutions" was proposed by Rcv. Dr. Kingston extended ta bim Major Walker, distinguished Principal declared a wbile ago the supreme Williamson in an cloquent speech, and and Royal Military Coihege. necessity of maintaining the rigbt of religion ta, direct R.E., responded on behaîf of the and was proposed by Rev. Dr. Cochrane and control and sanctify the wbole order of education, "The City" affirms this principle as the basis responded ta by tbe Mayor. The former referred ta the that Queen's University QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURINAL of its charter. To tbis truly catholic declaration the fessors, to which Professors Fletcher, Sullivan and Saun- Bisbop heartily subscribed. It is a dogma of bis faith. ders replied. It is an beirloom of bis office. For it bis churcb bas Other speeches followed from Rev. Mr. Cattanach,Rev. fought against the powers of this world, and shaîl con- D. J. Macdonnell, Dr. Bell, A. Shortt, B.A., W. G.Anglin, 'tinue to fight evermore. It is because Queen's Univer- M.D., jas. A. Brown, B.A., A. McLacblan and others, sity embodies this sacred truth he took bis place, as a tili about one o'clock, "God Save the Queen" concluded Catbolic Bisbop among the Senate, professors and gradu- the ceremonies. ates. Secularism is the cry of the age. It. is modemn Paganism. It is the war-cry of unbelief against Christ and His Kingdom. It is a preamble to the oppression of R]ESu][T 0F JEXAIINAI0NS. religion, the corruption of, the Christian conscience and the destruction of human liberty. In illustration- of bis 1Pasemen ln Art@. position the Bishop adduced the religions and political JUNIOR MATHEMATICS. theories of tbe philosophers of tbe pre-Christian period and those of tbe Voltairian scbool of the last century, who H. Horsey, J. McKinnon, J. V. Anglin, O. Bennett, S. were men of mighty intellect indeed, the bighest types of Gardiner, E. Corkhill, E. Elliott, J. Armour, F. Young, human reason, as the guiding power of society, apart, T. W. R. McRae, M. G. Hamilton; J. G. Dunlop. G. R. from the influence of religion. Their main principle bas Lang, equal; H. Folger, W. McClement, equal; J. Miller, been formulated by Plato, "The evils of States will neyer H. H. Pirie, equal; N. S. Mullan. be remedied tilI philosophers become kings, or kings SENIOR MATHEMATICS. philosophers.'- The maxim is, at alI times, true in the J. M. Dupuis, A. E. McColl, equal. abstract, -tnd now-a-days, more truly than at any former period of polit ical history, it is practically realized. For .JUNIOR ENGLISH. now "philosophers are kings."' That is, ideas now govero A. McLachlan, J. Rattray, W. G. Bain, J. C. McLeod, the world, and men of ideas determine the fate of minis- D. W. Stewart, G. F. Cameron, G. Chown, J. Skinner, tries and dynasties. Hence the greater necessity of im- H. Pirie, J. P. McNaughton, J. Ashton, Miss F. Britton, pressing upon the youthful mind in our universities true M. S. Hamilton, R. Whiteman, J. M. Sbaw, S. H. Gar- and juat and lofty ideas, lest the false and glittering diner, F. W. Kelly, R. J. McLennan, M. H. Folger, A. D. pbilosopby of ancient Paganism or modemn Free Tbougbt Cartwright, E. C. Shorey, A. E. McColl, H. Halliday, sbonld usurp the functions of royal wisdom. See bow W. J. ýDrummond, N. M. Grant, H-. Westlake, D. J. fatally it acts upon the life of mankind when pbilosopby Hyland, R. J. Gordon, J. Macnee, J . F. Carmichael, divorces the wisdom that comes from above, from Gordon Smith, E. Ryan, F. M. Young, M. Dupuis, J. Him wbo glories in His titles of "Lord of tbe Dow, D. M. Robertson passed a special examination. sciences,"~ and ,the Father of ligbts.' He referred to the religions, moral and political debasement SENIOR ENGLISH. of the individual man in Athens and Sparta and Rome W. Clyde, J. E. Duclos, M. McKinnon, R. Gow, J. under the legislation of philosopby. He quoted the Henderson, W. Wright, R. J. Sturgeon, J. Milne ,W. P. "Divine Plato' and bis pupil Aristotle. the preceptor of Chamberlain, W. J. Kidd. L. Irving. G. R. Lang, W. G. Alexander, who utterly ignored the dignity of man, as Milîs, J. Armour, G. Mitchell, J. McNee, F. W. Johnson, man, and subordinated bis intellectual and moral rights, J. McNeil, I. Newlands. bis very right of existence, to the supposed rights and JUNIOR LATIN. utility of the State. Man was allowed no sphere of bis own, no liberty to develop bis own energies of mind or W. G. Bain, J. Rattray, R. Whiteman, O. Bennett, E. body, to choose bis own walk in life or regulate bis own Elliott.dJ. J. Ashton, E. C. Shorey, J. G. Dunlop, J. C. family and the education of bis cbildren. Is it not an ap- McLeod, J. McKinnon, H. E. Horsey, Miss Greaves, palling evidence of the deptbs of infamy to which dialec- N. M. Grant, H. H. Finie, E. Corkill and J. Foxton, tics without religion would degrade society, that master equal; M. G. Hamilton, W. McClement and J. Miller, minds would insist upon dlaims of State to absolute and equal; E. Ryan, N. S. Mullan and J. M. Dupuis, M.D., irresponsible power over eacb individual's life before bis equal; D. G. Munro, L. Irving, E. W. Rathbun, T. W. birtb, at bis birth, and tbrougbout bis wbole course of ex- Kelly, G. J. Smith, D. M. Robertson, F. M. Young, J. C. istence? In the days of pbilosophy uncontrolled by reli- Booth. W. J. Sbanks, passed a special examination. gion there was no dignity in individual man, no personal liberty or right, no sacredness in family life, nor any poli- SENIOR LATIN. tical freedom of tbought or action. After seventeen cen- J. M. Snowden, G. W. Mitchell, Miss J. A. Houper, turies of Christian enligbtenment Philosopby again raised W. J. Drummond, W. Clyde, R. M. Dennistoun and its proud head in Europe, and bas not the world witness- M. H. Folger, equal; J. Henderson, A. D. Cartwright, ed tbe revival of tbose shanieful theories and their deplor- H. V. Lyon, E. H. Britton, J. J. Douglas, M. McKinnon able results ? The Bisbop referred to the teacbings of and J. J. Wright, equal; I. Wood, J. McNeil and S. Voltaire and Rousseau, and the frightful muin worked by Crawford, equal; G. R. Lang, J. R. Shannon, R. J. them in France and all over tbe continent of Europe. Sturgeon, S. Cbilderhose. G. G. Marquis and A. Mc- Wbat polîtical liberty did tbey allow to individuals, or Auley passed a special examination. sacredness to religion, or decency to tbe order of public JUNIOR GREEK. morals, The best blood of cîtizens flowed in torrents under thic4,uillotine; thrones, sItars and scbools were W. G. Bain, E. C. Sborey, J. C. McLeod, R. White- swýept away or perverted to infamous uses.; snd the vot- man, H. E. Horsey, O. Bennett, J. Henderson, J. Mc- aries of education witbout religion saw the full develop- Kinnon, E. Ryan, J. Kennedy, J. J. Wright, D. G. raet of their systemn solemnized in State rejoicing, wben Munro,. Dow, H. P. Tbomas, D. M. Robertson, W; J. th ,élobscene goddess was entbroned, under the titie of Kidd. W-. J. Shanks and J. A. Grant passed special Roeson, upon the Altar of Christ in tbe Cathedral of examination. Notre Darne in Paris, and Sardanapalus slept upon the SENIOR GREEK. coucb of St. Louis. A. Gandier, J. M. Snowden, G. W. Mitchell, W. Jas. MacLennan, Q.C., proposed the bealtb of the Pro- Clyde, W. J. Drurnmond, J. W. H. Milne, H. V. Lyon, R. QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL. qGow, M. McKinnon, F. W. Johnston, N. Campbell. HONOR LIST. E. H. Britton passed a special exarnination. History, Yst Class-A. Gandier and A. L. Smith. Mathematics, ist Class-A. Givan. JUNIOR FRENCH. Chemistry, ist Class-W. Nicol. Shortt. E. Elliott, Miss L. Mowat, Miss H. E. Philosophy, ist Class-A. J. G. Dunlop, ist Class-D. McTavish, H. W. Foxton, Miss J. F. Britton, John Miller, R. M. Political Economy, Mowat, J. Westlake, 2fld class. Dennistoun, JE. J. Macdonnell, J. C. Booth, E. WV. Rathbun. Special examination, E. Dupuis. GOLD MEDALISTS. Mathematics, A. Givan. SENIOR FRENCH. Philosophy, A. Shortt. M. H. Folger, Miss J. A. Hooper, G. F. Henderson, Political Economy, D. McTavish, M.A. J.R. Shannon, 2E. J. Macdonnell, J. F. Carmichael. Chemistry, W. Nicol. History and English, A. Gandier. JUNIOR GERMAN. 1pasen lu Trheology. J. G. Dunlop, J. Miller, T. W. R. McRae, E. Elliott, Miss A. Fowler, R. M. Dennistoun, Jas. Foxton, 2E. J. Biblical Hermeneutics-JOhn Hay, jas. Murray, John Macdonnell. *Special examination, E. Dupuis. Robertson, A. R. Linton, R. C. Murray, A. K. McLeod, John Young, P. M. Pollock, W. S. Smith. SENIOR GERMAN. Greek Testament Exegesis-J. Moore, A. à. tinton, M. H. Folger, Miss J. A. Hooper, Miss Jennie Greaves, P. M. Pollock, D. McTavish, John Young, P. F. Langi, J. E. Duclos and G. F. Henderson, equal; J. R. Shannon. J. A. Brown, John Hay, J. C. Anderson, L. W. Thom, W. A. McLeod passed a special examination. Hay, W. S. Smith. Hebrew, jun. div-P. F. LanguI, J. Hay, P. M. Pollock, HISTORY. R. C. Murray, J. Young, N. -Campbell, A. McAuley, W. W. Nicol, H. V. Lyon, H. Halliday, Miss A. Fowler, Hay. Jno. McLeod, James N. Grant, H. R. Grant, A. Mc- Sen. div. do.-J. Murray, 1. Robertson, A. R. Linton, Lachlan, J. Henderson, J. M. Sherlock, J. E. Duclos, jas. D. McTavish, J. Moore, J. Somerville. P. McNaughton, A. G. Farrell, W. McNee, jas. F. Car- Apologetics, sen.-A. R. Linton, J. Murray, D. Mc- michae1ý A. Patterson, Jno. McNeil, G. R. Lang, D. J. jTavish, J. I3ennet, J. Moore, P. M. Pollock, J. Robertson. Hyland. junior division-John Hay, B.A., R. C. Murray, B.A., NATURAL SCIENCE. J. C. Anderson, W. Hay, John Young, B.A., P. F. Lan- A. gi, B.A., A. K. McLeod, J. A. Brown, B.A. H. R. Grant, John McLeod, R. J. McLennan, J. D. D. Kennedy, Systematic Theology, senir-A. R. Linton, B.A., Goold, John M. Shaw, A. McAuley, J. B.A., equal; James A. Brown, W. Hay, W. Spankie, McTavish, MAand jas. Murray, Isaac Newlands, J. Somerville, B.A., John Moore, B.A., E. H. Britton, A. Patterson. Bennett, B.A., James and John Robertson, equal. JUNIOR PHYSICS. junior division-John Hay, B.A., R. C. Murray, B.A., W. Alfred Gandier, G. Y. Chown, A. G. Farrell, A. E. J. Young, BA., P. F. LanguI, B.A., J. C. Anderson, McColl, Robt. Gow, W. P. Chamberlain, I. Newlands. Hay and A. K. McLeod. Church History-James Murray, B.A., P. M. Pollock, SENIOR PHYSICS. i B.A., D. McTavish, M.A., John Hay, B.A., James B3en- J. C. Connell, A. Givan. nett, B.A., L. W. Thom, John Moore, B.A., R. C. John Young, B.A., P. F. Lan- JUNIOR CHEMISTRY. *Murray, B.A., Wm. Hay, guI, BAk., J. C. Anderson, A. K. McLeod, A. R. Linton, Miss Fitzgerald, J. Cooke, J. M. Snowden, J. J. Ashton, B.A., John Robertson. Corkill, N. M. Grant, W. McClemnent, G. F. L. Perriù, E. iwedicilne. Henderson, N. S. M[ullan, Miss J. F. Britton, Miss, H ooper, J. R. Shannon , R. M. Dennistoun, R. M. Gow, HONOR LIST. F. W. Johnson, A. Hobart. J. F. Kidd and J. Young-Certificate of Honor for hav- SENIOR CHEMISTRY. ing meritoriously discharged the duties of House Surgeon W. Chambers, D. E. Mundell of the Hospital. A. Shortt, J. V. Anglin, in cash of #6o and S. Skinner, equal; Miss Greaves, D. W. Stewart W. G. Anglin and T. A. Moore-Prizes J. as Demonstrators of Anatorny. and H. E. Young, equal; J. Shaw, H. B. Rathbun, A. J. each for their efficiency Goold, H. M. McCuaig, 1. Newlands, A. McAuley. jas. A. MEDALISTS. Brown passed in the ist division, organic chemistry. J. F. Kidd-Gold medal for excellence in the subjects JUNIOR PHILOSOPHY. of the final examination. W. G. Anglin-Silver medal for excellence in the sub- Miss Fitzgerald, J. Connell, G. Y. Chown, W. C. final examination. Mc- jects of the Chambers, A. McLachlan, D. E. Mundeil, R. J. Alice McGillivray-Silver medal for excellence in Lennan, H. Halliday, JE. J. Macdonnell, D. W. Stewart, anatomy, histology and physiology. W. Nicol, J. Cooke, J. P. McNaughton, I. Wood, J. M. Sherlock, H. M. Mcuaig, L. Perrin. ARTS. METAPHYSICS AND ETHICS. Senior C. J. Cameron. W. J. Drummond (St. Andrew's Church, Toronto) Greek. ECONOMY. POLITICAL A. Gandier (Toronto, with honor of St. Andrew's, J. V. Anglin., Toronto), Junior Physics. SENIOR PHILOSOPHY. i.McKiýnnon (Glass Memorial), junior Mathematics. Mathematics. Alex. McLeod, Jacob Steele, Alex. 9mith, ~.M. Dupuis (McIntyre), Senior S. W. Dyde, No. i), junior Greek. S. Childerose. R.Whiteman A. McLachlan (Church No. 2), junior Rhetoric and Eng. TRUOTrElE MIEETrIrNG. Literature. held on T the meeting of the Trustees of the College S. W. Dyde (Buchan No. i), Senior Philosophy. A the 26th, Rev. Donald Ross, M.A., B.D., of Lachine, W. G. Bain (McGillivray, with honor of Church No. i), .junior Latin. was appointed to the Chair of Greek Exegesis and E. L. Fitzgerald (Grant), junior Chemistry. Apologetics. As to the Chair of Chemistry the appoint- Hugh R. Grant (Ni-kle), Natiiral Science. mjent of a Professor therefor is to be made flot later than W. Nicol (Cataraqui), History. the ist September by a Committee. M. H. Folger (Kingston), Senior French and German. John McIver was made Treasurer, and the appoint- THEOLOGY. ment of Dr. Bell, as Registrar and Librarian, confirmed, Examination in John Hay (Anderson No. i), Sessional The following Trustees were selected for four years: flrst year Divinity. Peter M. Pollock (Hugh Maclennan), Church History. D. B. McLennan, M.A., Q.C., Rev. R. J. Laidlaw, Paul F. Langill (Churcb of Scotland NO. 3), Sessional Sandford Fleming, C.E., C.M.G., N. J. McGillivray, Examination in flrst year Hebrew. B.A., and Dr. Neil. 2), Sessional Examination in D. McTavish (Anderson No. Hon. A. Morris 'was unanimously elected Chairman of Senior Divinity. J ama-s Bennet (Anderson NO. 3), Sessional Examination in the Board. It was resolved to equip the museum and the Senior Divinity. laboratories, The financial statement showed a small John Moore (Mackerras Memorial), Greek Testament balance to the credit of the College. Exegesis. and J. Murray (Spence, with the honur of the Maclennan cOLLEýVGE SOCIEIEFS. Anderson NO. 3). A. R. Linton (Leitch Memorial, with_ýhonor of Anderson Y. M. C. A. No. 2). R. C. Murray (Church of Scotland NO. 4.) was held in T HE annual meeting of this Association ]Prlae lEssayists.- Divinity Hall on the i7 th of March. Reports were -The Spectroscope and Spectrum Analysis' W. Nicol. heard from the conveners of the different committees. '-Recent English Psychology' -A. Shortt. The work carried on in the city and vicinity by the Committee is in a prosperous condition. Gradluate@. Religious Work The new station opened on Ontario street can be made a DEGREE OF B. A. success by prayer and visitation. The Friday evening V. Anglin, Kingston. JA. Brown, Beaverton. prayer meetings had been well attended. More life and Neil Campbell, W. C. Chambers, Kingston. earnestness had been manifested than ever before. The S. W. Dyde, Kingston. Bible Class on Sabbath mornings had been Most instruc- A. M. Ferguson, Kingston. tive, and had impressed upon the students the necessity of A. Givan, Campbellford. Ai. Goold, Kingston. private bible study. Robert Gow, St. Thomas. The retiring officers reported: The President stated H. R. Grant, Halifax, N.S. that our meetings had been characterized by a great deal N.S. Wmn. Hay, Alex. McAuley, Halifax, of enthusiasm. He believed that a noble influence was A. McLeod, Manitoba. ohn McLeod, Charlottetown, I'.E.I. exerted in the University, even upon those who were flot bE. Mundell, Kingston. members of the Association. The evangelistic meetings Wm. Nicol, Cataraqui. held in the Opera House had been a means of blessing to . H. B. Rathbun, Deseronto. many. J: M. Shaw, Kingston. A. Shortt, Walkerton. The following officers were elected for the coming year: John S. Skinner, Kingston. PRFSIDFNT-S. W. Dyde. A. L. Smith, Cornwall. VICE-.PRESIDONT-D. Munro. J. Steele, Tatlock. RECORDING SECRETARY-M. McKinnon. W. H. Westlake, Montreal. TREASURER-J. Brown. H. E. Young, Napanee. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY-J. W. H. Milne. DEGREE 0F LL.B. LiBitARIAN-O. Bennett. DELEGATE to Intercollegiate Convention held in Mil- John Strange, B.A., Kingston. waukee-A. Gandier. DEGREE 0F M.D AND C.M. DELEGATE to Dominion Convention held in St. John- A. McAulay. W. G. Anglin. C.'Clancy. S.Cryan. L. Davis. Mr. D. McTavish bas agreed to send a circular monthly M. Froiland. D. C. Hickey. to each of the students engaged in mission work who will J. F. Kidd. G. S. McGhie. send him any items of interest bearing upon the work. A. McMurcby. T. A. Moore. T. Page. R. A. Smith. His address, tilI further notice will be Chesley, P.O., W. J. Young. County Bruce, Ont. During the. summer would each member of the B.A., '70, of this city, bas been visiting T. H. McGuIRE, Y. M. C. A. who desires to, see the work of the Associa- during the month at Grand Forks, Dakcota, and we hear that he has hàd a caîl to the bar there. tion prosper next session send.to the convener of the De QUEEN'S COLLEGE JOURNAL.
Senate may see its way to add at least three Committee one topic (with passage of Scripture), trust the votional more to the session. Be it understood, however, also make any wNeeks for a Friday afternoon prayer meeting; that we do not advocate a lengthened session if that suggestions as to the best manner of conducting the means more work. Our idea is that we should have seven now Sabbath morning Bible Clasa? With such assistance the months at the very least to prepare the work which is If the Senate should think well to make the will be able to prepare a suitable programme done in six. committee change suggested above, as also to print an outline of the of religious meetings, and will have it ready for distribu- suhjects to which we have frequently referred, we could tion at the beginning of the session. Address-Alfred scarcely say that ail our wants and wishes were satisfied letter day Gandier, Fort Coulonge, Quebec. but xve would certainly regard it as a red in our Collegiate history. Additional subjects for examina- OSSIANIC SOCIETY. tion have been added to the matriculation examination work for those who wish to take honors, and as an incen- in Divinity meeting of this Society was held tive to students to take this course after this year, honora T HE annual on the continued resuit Hall on the î7 tb of March. Professor Nicholson and scholarships will be awarded of the pass and honor examination. gave an interesting and spirited address on the object and working of the Society. was appointed for the The follouwing staff of officers Prizes in books were given at Convocation by those comlng year: in whose classes there stili are Istudents of M.P., and Rev. N. McNish, Professors PATRONS-M. C. Camneron, varied abilîty. The binding of the books was more hand- LL.D. some and expensive than that of former years. It was BARD-Evan McCall, Esq. morocco instead of calf. The work reflects much McDonald, Esq., Found. In. Turkey HON ._PRESIDENT-J. S. credit on H. Staleraffe Smith, of this city, the binder. soc., Wis. PRESIDENT--James Brown. VIcE-PRESIDENT-R. C. Murray, B.A. The following of the medical grads of '83 passed the SFcy.-TREASURER-M. McKinnon. Council examinations: W. G. Anglin, J. Cryan, D. C. LiBRARIAN-D. M. Robertson. Hickey, J. F. Kidd, A. McMurchy. EXEcUTIVE COMMITTEE- Profs. Nicholson and Harris, and J. McLeod. W. G. ANGLIN, M.D., a distinguished graduate of this ATHLETIc ASSOCIATION. year, and a member of the JOURNAL staff, leaves sbortly for England and the Continent, where hie will continue for 1883-4. T HE following officers were elected the study of medicine for a year or more. HON. PRESIDENT-Prof. McGowan. SEc.-TREA5URER-R. J. McLennan. '84. ALEx. G. FARRELL AND JAS. P. McNAUGHTON, both of ExEcuTîVE COMMITTEE-Diviity-A. Linton,BA '84, have received appointmnents on the Government's Arts-G. Mitchell, '83; J. Booth, '82. Medicine-A. surveys in the great Northwest. They left for their posta Forîn , '84; T. A. Bertram, '83; W. F. COY, '82. lait Wednesday. Donald M. Mclntyre, B.A., '74, received a similar appointment and left to join bis party at Winni- peg the early part of the montb. +- DE êNOBIS NOBILdBUS. IT is with much regret that we announce the death of Andrew Moore, M.D., '65, of Cartwright. He died at bis of students to the adver- WTEWtîsement would caîl in thethe attentionadvertising columns of the Public home on the 8th of this montb. Schooi journal Teachers' Agency, Cincinnati, Intending teachers may gain considerable by sending for the circular THE Rev. T. G. Smith, D.D., bas accepted the caîl of of this firm. St. Andrew's Church, St. John, N.B.
YE GOTHS, -Prof:-, Wbat does Condillac say ARISE Nevada, about brutes in the scale of being ?" Student- He says DR. A. J. THIBODO, M.A., '51, of Tuscarora, man." Prof.- And what is man? was lately in the city visiting bis friends and relatives. a brute~ is an imperfect ____v Lady Student-' 'Man is a perfect brute." (No applause from the male students.) REv. J AmEs Ross, B.D., B.A., '78, bas decided flot to accept t he cal! extended to him by St. Andrew's Church, in Perth. DONATIONS TO THE MusEum.-Mr. Isaac Newlands, Ottawa, much to the loas of bis congregation one small snake preserved in alcohol; Mr. Daniel Mc- of ores (principally silver) and min- Tavish, a collection very sorry to hear that the Rev. jas. W. erais from Colorado and Wyoming. WE are Mason, B.A., '78, after fifteen months sojourn in Colorado in search of health, bas returned to Providence, R.I., in a IN the..extracts from the Calendar for the coming precarious condition. For the benefit of bis many frienda session, whîcb the Senate bas printed for the special use and class-mates we may add that bis address 15 24 of intending matriculants, there are several changes that Jewett street. are gratifying to us, not only because they are in the tbey are partly due right direction, but because we tbink is meeting with markeçl tbem tbrougb the columns REv. A. H. SCOTT, B.A., '75,* to our continued agitation for Sound. His congrega- Anotber week bas been added to the success in bis pastorate at Owen of the JOURNAL. in the Presbytery and the largest and though we have flot as yet had ail we want, tion is now the largest session, section, of' Northern Canada. still we do flot despise the day of small tbings, but we in that PAGE
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