Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 4-1891 The aB tes Student - volume 19 number 04 - April 1891 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 19 number 04 - April 1891" (1891). The Bates Student. 2025. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/2025 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IBLTTE STORE, ©ewisttn'fi • ^apgesfe • ©I©6hiR@ • If ©use. Young Men's Nobby Clothing a Specialty. We Carry the Largest Stock. We Name the Lowest Prices. BLUE STORE, - - - Lewiston's Only One-Price Clothiers. MRS. C. 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VOL. XIX. APRIL, 1891. No. 4. THE BATES STUDENT EDITORIAL. A MAIiAZINK PUBLISHED MONTHLY DOBIHG TIIK _ miB7/\ • i N OOLLMMTI YEAH BY TBi H 1 "O [)aiticuhits, at least, Bates, CLASS OF '92, BATES COLLEGE, * ai"0n8 the C0,le«e8 iU,(l ^aUed universities of New England, stands LBWISTON, MB. ° almost without a rival. EDITORS. 'p|,e gr8t 0f these is our course in SCOTT WILSON, N. \V. HOWARD, rv -n I i.. ■ a u i i iv i* 0—.-. , tr ^ «r Ornithology.OJ It is a foolish student w. H. SKKLTON, H. E. WALTER, . W,1 is slow to R. A. SMALL, V. E. MKSKRVE. ° appreciate the value of Business Manager, C. N. HLANCHARD. this course. Our collection of birds is Assistant Manager, A. P. GILMOEB. generously supplemented from Pro- ^TKRMS.-tl.OOpor year, In advance; slnglccopy ft,SS(),. staiilou's own large collection, nr99 tJ hich hold8 ,ll( l:ll,k of the 8eoond t£SS^&^SS^SS^^ ^ * ' SSSS^S^^lnS%x^ should be8t Private colleotio New Eogland. he addressed EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT, BATKK The instruction and lectures we receive STUDENT, LBWISTON, MAINE; business letters io u. N. BLANCHAKD, MANAGER OP STUDENT, LEW. in this department, to speak in the ISTON, MAINE. ■ ' dialect of the Senior tribe, is " second Entered us Second Class Mail Matter at Lewiiton Poit-OAIce. to none." Every spring, the students I'rinted at the Journal Office, Lcwiston, Maine, , -, . ., , — of Bates, more especially the early 002TTENTS. risers, receive a double inspiration, VOL. XIX., No. 4.—APRIL, 1891. from the birds they have learned to Q0W aQ BOITOBIAL.. 87 k i d fi'oin tlio genial Professor, LITBRABT: who makes the woods and fields his West Pitch from Main Street Bridge ......... 93 U re. room' John Boyle O'Reilly M Again, no New England college, so Weariness Qd j-.(|. ^ W(1 ftre [nforme<J w\i\x the possi- nystery <H; . ALUMNI DEPARTMENT: Me exception of Dartmouth, can boast Communication 96 of a live college hand of twenty pieces, Alumni Athletic Association mi m LOCALS 101 practice, and ready to play anything PBBSONALS 106 from a dirge to a waltz. That a col- I KXCHANGBS 107 le, e no l ' ,i i» , 11 i COLLKGB NOTES ,.IOO S htrger than Hates should be MAGAZINE NOTES no able to support such a musical organi- BOOB NOTICES iis ,• t c ■, i i POSTS'OOBNEB us nation out of its own members alone POT-POURBI H4 is quite remarkable. The two great 88 THE BATES STUDENT. reasons for its existence here are, first, thing of the sort. He will expatiate that it receives the practical sympathy on purity of language and allow him- of students ami faculty alike, and, self to coin words of everything from second, that its members buckle down Japanese to Volapiik, while expressions to four solid hours of rehearsal to- and phrases will be used that would gether every week. stagger the mutilated remains of an It might take much longer to name Egyptian mummy. But worse than all over the special points of our deficiency, the other faults incident to letter writ- but, in these two particulars, we cer- ing is the constant violation of brevity, tainly have it very much our own way the tendency to keep on writing after among our college neighbors in New one has got all done saying anything, England. under the deplorable delusion that suc- cess as a letter writer is measured by MBITIOUS for literary excellence, the number of sheets used. This is the student devotes hours to the no more true here than in any other study of abstract rules for composition. form of composition, and should be Hut how does he apply these principles strenuously avoided. Neither tongue in practice? Not to that inexhaustible nor pen was ever created to kill time, subject, essay writing, do I ask your and he who spins out to an indefinite attention, but to a more glaring source length what might have been said in a of harm,—what might be a more de- few words, be he talking to friend or cided source of benefit—letter writing. stranger, is as culpable as the con- IIere, he breaks every law of good com- temptible old maid who employs her position and generally produces simply time and hideousness in discanting a miscellaneous aggregation of facts on the vices of her neighbors' hus- and ideas, put together like the patches bands. on a beggar's pants. Rules for clear- While none of the faults pointed out ness and precision are carefully conned can fail to be recognized, there is dan- during study hours and so thoroughly ger of underrating their costliness. A forgotten in this place of daily practice failure to do one's best is a failure to that it often becomes doubtful whether make the .improvement possible, but the writer is referring to himself, a that is not all. In some way every heathen Chinese, or the British lion, man makes his own style, and these while individual words are so used that mistakes, constantly allowed, are going they might with equal propriety be to be incorporated in that style. Thus, assigned to any one of the nine parts one's best becomes absolutely less. of speech. He can bore you with the Then students should avoid this slip- whole list of Bain's injunctions relative shod, bombastic method of doing that to writing, and yet his letter would read which forms the greater part of their like a comic almanac, whose only vari- literary work, not because it is a failure ation from a mere jumble is its con- to advance, but because it is a direct stant reference to Ayer's pills or some- retrogression. THE BATES STUDENT. 89 C\ Y\l feathered songsters will soon be tents of the lectures when out among W here in great numbers, and another the birds, and to learn to depend on season's opportunities for bird hunting one's own eyes and ears, rather than will begin. What those opportunities those of the professor, in identifying are at Hates will be cherished in the the birds. Only too soon the time memory of every upper-classman or given to this study will pass, and then, alumnus, who has made the most of the as in the case of most studies, the ma- bird lectures and bird expeditions of jority of students, if they pursue it at the Sophomore year. To him, the all, must do so without special instruc- warmth and sunshine of the spring- tion, and in this, certainly, it is wise time is made doubly pleasant by the to lay a good foundation while in col- sweet and familiar notes of favorite lege. Then, if you are a Sophomore, birds. Each returning season brings study the birds faithfully. Go out to him more interesting friends and teaches look for them every time there is a him more thoroughly to read their chance. Do not take your gun, but go language and study their habits. out without it, and try to become able Hut Ornithology admits of more prac- to distinguish every variety that comes tical uses. It is of no small advantage to our region. If an upper-classman, to many students to become interested recall and improve upon past attain- in something that takes them out of ments. Kven those who have this part doors, especially for an early morning of the course still to anticipate, may walk. This exercise has advantages well begin this season to notice these over the gymnasium for those to whom visitors and to learn their sonsjs. it affords more enjoyment. The teacher finds a more extensive, if not more VTO ONE denies that every man has practical use for this science.