UBRARY ONLY FOR USE IN THE Guilford College Library Class 'Boo v ' 5 Accessio n \S4o3 Gift FOR USE IN THE LIBRARY ONLY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.archive.org/details/guilfordcollegia05guil : ' .' •/ ;: ''"V W . r<V iL •<£$%• i - -—-: | tei T'H E - i?i%i^sr r i '' THE GUILFORD COLLEGIAN. OUR TRADE IN Improved New Lee and Patron Cooking Stoves AND NEW LEE AND RICHMOND RANGES Has increased to such an extent that we are now buying them in car load lots. THEY ARE WARRANTED TO BE FIRST QUALITY. Our prices are on the " Live and let live plan," and they account, in part, for the popularity of these Stoves. WMIPCILB!) H)ARP;WAfti <$®» GREENSBORO, N. C. SUMMER VACATION. ILIFF'S Every college man will need to take away in his crip this summer one or two of the latest college song books, which contain all the new and popular University airs We give here the complete list, and any volume will be c ent, postpaid, to any address on receipt of price. THE NEW HARVARD SONG ROOK— All the new Harvard songs of the last three years, with some old favorites. 92 pages. Price $1. 00 postpaid. _ College Songs.—Over 200,000 sold. Containing 91 songs- -all of the old favorites, as well as the new ones: "Don't Forget Dar's a Weddin' To-Night," "DiHe who couldn't Dance,'' "Good-by, my Little Lady," etc Paper, 50 cents. University Songs.—Contains songs of the older colleges — Harvard, Vale, Columbia, Princeton, Rrown, Dartmouth, Williams Bowdoin, Union, and Rutgers Cloth; $2.50. I armiiia Collegensla.—A collection of American College songe with -.elections from English and Ger- man universities Clnth, $3.00. American College Song Rook.— A contribution from 50 leading colleges ot tour of a eir choicest songs, n-arly all original; comprises about 250 seleciions. Cloth $2 00. College SongS for Guitar.— Choice college songs and for the Guitar. jU.50. ballads Cloth, GRAND WORLD'S FAIR EDITION. College Songs A new collection of for Ranjo.— Official Maps United States and World. over eighty choi ;est college songs, with banjo accom- Official Census United States and World 18S0. paniment Paper, $1 00. Cloth, fj 50. Student SongS— Moses King Collection. Paper, Grand Panorama Worlds Fair Buildings. 50 cents. ENLARGED. REVISED. TO DATE. Complete with New Railroad M:ips of the States and Territories of the United States, North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, with illustrated descriptive matter of the same brought down to April, OLIVER DITSON COMPANY 1801. Full page maps of the principal Cities of the United States and Canada (81 in number). Diagrams 453-463 Washington St., Boston. «f Population, Manufactures. Industries, Debt, Wealth, Nationalities, etc., etc., together with a cum- p!'te index of all the Cities, Towns, Villages and Hani- C.H. DITSON & CO., J. E. DITSON & CO., lets of the States and Territories of the United States, giving the population of each. 867 Rroadway, N..Y. 1228 Chestnut St.. Phila' THE STANDARD AUTHORITY. THE REFERENCE BOOK OF THE CENTURY. THE COLLEGIAN IS PRINTED BY Price, bound in Embossed Cloth, .... $4.25 Price, bound in Half Morocco, 5.60 Price, bound in full Russia, 7.50 THOMAS BROS., Job Printers, Agents wanted in every Town to whom Liberal Terms will be given. FRANKLIN PUBLISHINC CO., Publishers, (iHEF.XSr.ORO, N, C. 157 York St., SAVANNAH, GA. The Guilford Collegia n Vol. V. SEPTEMBER, 1892. No. 1. And when He putteth His own sheep forth, He goeth before them. —John X:4. My Father worketh hitherto and I work. —John V;iy. Oh Shepherd of the sheep, And dost thou go before, Along this narrow steep, Where weary and footsore, For many nights and days I press along? Treading the untried ways Without a song. My soul is o'ercast With many a doubt, "The petty done, the undone vast" Drives courage out, As mountain-like sin towers Above my aching head, And like a cloud wrong hours Above my poor hopes spread, Like violets on the plane In spring-time's fickle hours, Pelted with hail and rain, Torn leaves and tattered flowers. A remnant sad, forlorn, Of youth's bright hope, Plans, of the fair ideal shorne, Left with bare fact to cope. — —— — THE GUILFORD COLLEGIAN. What is it for ? Why need we make The battle of the vanquished ours ? Far better might it be to take Our pleasure in the sun and showers, To sit at ease and stop our ears To cries for help and sore distress, The widow's moan, the orphan's tears, And darker woes, without redress. We cannot stem the evil tide At every turn grim terrors lurk And yet, with hate on every side, My Father worketh and I work. He said, who knew all sin and loss With Him must first be crucified, Borne by Himself upon the cross Ere earth were purified. It is not our's to answer, why This work is given to us below 'Tis part of His who came to die That all, of Life might know, The remnant left for us to share A burden precious for His sake, Which, if we rightly take and bear, A gloiious heritage He'll make. What if the clouds are thick above What though the evil seemeth strong Beyond it all Our Father's Love Shall trample out the wrong. With Him our work is not in vain, Though oft we feel it small, He garners up the golden grain, Driving the chaff from all. H. THE GUILFORD COLLEGIAN. A SKETCH OF JOHN G. WHITTIER. BY DR. NEREUS MENDENHALL. John Greenleaf Whittier, who the stockade, relied for defence on died at Hampton Falls, New just and kind treatment of the Hampshire, at 4.30 on the morn- Indians. They found their peace ing of the 7th inst, and whose principles and their habit of deal- body was deposited at 2.30 on the ing justly with all men a more ioth inst. in the Friends' Ceme- sure guard than muskets. On the tery, at Amesbury, Mass., where still winter nights they could hear was his home—was born at Hav- the Indians at the windows and erhill, Mass., on 17th of Decem- sometimes see a red face and ber, 1807. He was known as the fierce eyes at the window pane ; Quaker poet, and was one of the but though their neighbors were most popular and representative murdered and their property de- of American poets. His ances- stroyed, the Quakers were never tor, Thomas Whittier, came from molested. Southampton, England, in 1638, The poet, when quite young, to Boston, and ten years after was sent to school to a queer old moved to Haverhill and built the pedagogue, who received the pu- house in which the poet wr as born. pils in his own house, and who The family, for some years back, did not succeed in governing his were Quakers, and to that con- wife, however wise he may have nection he adhered up to the day governed his scholars. Like Oli- of his death. On his mother's ver Goldsmith, who gave his side, in Stephen Bachilor, first pupils ginger bread and told them minister of Hampton, N. H., he stories, this easy man took the had a common ancestor with persuasive method of keeping or- Daniel Webster. der and giving instruction : Haverhill, when the Whittiers "Through the cracked and crazy wall settled there, was a frontier town, Came the cradle-rock and squall, And the good-man's voice at strife its and the Indians burned houses With his shrill and tipsy wife, and carried unhappy Hannah Luring us by stories old, With a comic urchen told, Dunstan into a long captivity. More than by the eloquence But the Whittier family, refusing Of terse birchen arguments " the protection of the garrison and He had but few books in his THE GUILFORD COLLEGIAN. early years. But nature was to ! carry him through a term of six him a continual poem. His early months at the Haverhill Acade- life on the farm, and various mem- my. Next winter he ventured to bers of the family, are described teach a district school, and made in Snow-bound— stimulated by a enough to pay for another term. copy of Burns, which his old The next winter he spent in Bos- school-master, Joshua Coffin, -had ton writing for a paper. Return- lent to him. This was about the ing to his farm work, he was sur- first poetry he had ever read, ex- prised to receive an invitation to i cept that in the Bible, of which take charge of the Hartford Re- he was a close student, and it had view, in the place of George D. Prentice, to a lasting effect on him. He began i who had removed to express his feelings in verse. 1 Kentucky. After about two years The first effort in this way which he was called home by the de- was printed was written with blue mise of his father, took charge of ink on coarse paper and sent to the farm and had hard work to the Free Press, then published by "make both ends meet." i W. L. Garrison, at Newberry Port. As a Friend, of course he re- it When Garrison found on the I garded slavery as a great and floor of his office, where it had dangerous evil. By his intimate been pushed under the door by acquaintance with Garrison, who the post boy, his first thought was through his various publications to throw it into the waste basket.