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#hen years have fled and we· are old Our strrdents' life we may unfold, With all the scr•nPS bro11ght in the play 'l'hatlin!{er rouud our rooms to-day. We'll think of this, whi>n we are old, A8 silver thr,,arls among the gold'l'he ti<•swe formed in a manly way Among onr schoolmates of to-day. · And then, 1 gness, a lighter theme Perhaps quite foolish then will ,eem; But, still, our natures go that way, . For all m mt love a girl some day. We'll think of he!' whom we loved best, And also of our heart's requt-st, When she declined and answered" Nay''We'll think how sad we felt that day. 'fhese hearts of ours can ne'er forget 'Till all the stars of memory set,. How hopes, like lea"e ,s of autumn, lay Fast falling "o the g,round that day·

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Her merry heart, so gay and free, Had promised smiles and joy to thee. A passing dream has flown away! We'll think of this again ~ome day. Our early youth, our boyhood's home, Our manly deed~, our colleg11 dome, A chain of golden link8 di8play, When WP,, as ol<l men, ,lrea.m some day. Our conrse on earth will soon be past, And the sun of life be set at last. Beyond the skies in heaven we may Still think of all these things some day. NOMEL.

NOW.

What now? Can such a small and fami1iar word afforil any new thoughts? Draw a line to represent time in its course. With your pen make a dot anywhere upon it, and call the east end of the line past time, and the w.est end will represent the future. If the line be a mathematical one, and the dot be regarded as a mathematical point, see l10w near the future is joined to the pas.t. Yet that .small intervening space-that inconceivably small connecting link-is the ter ,ritory .of the present, and all that now can claim. The pendulum tries to swing into the future, but with it goes the present and behind it lies the past. The ticking of the clock is past before it is hea1;d, and ere you call this moment present, it is numbered among the past. The action of the mind is past before it is expressed. Oh, then, how short is the present! Now is a little word, but it cannot be uttered in the present, for when the o is sounded, the n is past and gone, and the 111 has not come. And yet this almost inconceivably small interval is large enough for all the worlds to move in, and all the universe to exist in. For does not everything exist in the present that ever existed in a material form? '

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Yet it is the peculiarity of the .Caucasian race to Ii ve in the future. And this is right; because, in so doing, the present can Âˇ be more enjoyed. How natural to hea,r men say that a l,!OOdtime is coming! We look forwi-trd to a beautiful manhood like some weary traveller on a high mountain-top who gazes over into a rough and broken val ley, and because he cannot see the rocks and brooks, the weeds and briers, he longs for rest in that fairy land where his present annoyances do not seem to exist; or, as the daring adventurer, in exploring som1-\ great des<>rt, sees at nightfall the reflected rays of the setting sun refracted by Âˇ crystal grains of ::,and, and thinks himself about to discover a fairy land of flowers and fruit-trees. But when the sun has complet ~ly gone, and left his gorgeous attire in benighted darkness, he finds that he has only dreamed, and all has proved to be simply a delusion. So do we look anxiously forward for a blissful future, and the present joys of anticipation are sources of precious delight to even the most humble and unaspiring; and even if, when the sun of life has completely set, like the traveller. in the desert, our lives be found only a delusion to our hopeful friends, we will have chosen the wise part of life by having lived in such a dreamy existence as we borrowed from the future. Distanc ~ lends enchantment to every scene in life, so that I. suspect even our college days, characterized by such trials as they are, will some day appear to us as the loveliest of all. And when some wintry evening we sit by our fireside, our minds will revert to the scenes of our childhood and make us exclaim: ''Oh, those blissful, dreamy days of my yout.h I can never recall, and my only hope is that the flowers which bloom around the portal of the grave may be as beautiful as those that blossomed once during the reign of youth." But inasmuch as we often borrow trouble from the future as extensively as we do pleasure, some say tha,t we would enjoy more life if, like the African race, we W())Uldlive altogether in the pres-

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It is certain that we \do not possess any other time but the present. Man has very little in this world. The present is very small, but he has precious lit'tle of that. 1-Iepossesses and controls only what has been put beneath him. Above his head he possesses nothing, unless it be that he placed it there. And since the past is not his, he has no right, like the Egyptian, to live the1"e. He cannot control the smallest event that is gone. What, then, do we conclude? It is that we should liv e, move, and act now. But while we should live in the present, we should live for the futureâ€˘ The ;bearing that our present act is to have on our future should be 'weighed well in the scales of onr judgment before the act is begun. How much less crime, how many less blighted lives, and how many more pleasur~s we would have in this world, if all people would thus consider before ac.ting. Now i:;;the time to act. Many resolutions are made signifying a pm;pose to reform, but the time is so often put in the future wherein we are to begin. Now is tlie time . Every law passed in the legislature of our minds, sanctioned by the senate o_f our parents, and endorsed by the governor of our conscience, should go into effect from the day of l its passage. Bu t it is so naturnl for the slothful student to say that to-morrow he will reform. To-morrow never comes . Life closes in tlie present; now is the only time. .CANTO.

WOMAN. Every once in a while, in glancing through the pages of the Messenger,we see "a monument more lasting than brass" dedicated to woman. Ah! poor fellow, whoever you be, we pity you from the inmost depth of our heart, for we see you have become an unhappy victim of her wiles. We would fain give you advice upon this subject, but we know it would fall on ears that hear not, ,and upon an understanding that understands not. ' Forgive our seeming ego-

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tism in thus daring to advise you, for you know we Lave had experience-perhaps yon may think sa<'I experiencein regard to the fair creature styled woman. FirRt, let us look at the composition of the word wonw.11. Analyzing the word, we find it componnded of woe and man ~ that is , 11 woe to ma,n. How sad, yet how trne ! She bas, indeed, been from the foundation of the ·world, a \.voe uuto man. But for lte1· subtle influence, we ,vonld now be enjoying the blessings of Par-ailise, whence \Ye were expel1ed on account of the weakness of poor Adam in not being 1ble to resist lier cl1arms an1cl influence. vVe do not deny sl1e iH beauUful and fascinating, for to do tllis we ,vould take away her power over urnn. Jf she were Rorne ugly old ha)!·, devoid of charmR ,' her power would be g-oJJe forever AR the fascinating· wine-cup steals our sent"e s a,nd removeR power of self-contrnl, so t11e charms of ·woman take away onr common sense, and leave in its ~tead a poetic hnagina ,tion, as we see in the case ot our poor friend, "G. G. l{." Truly has it been said , " Tlie l11natie, tl1e lover and the poet are of imagination all compact;'' but we can i-a,y of the lover what ca1111o t be sajd of the voet and lnnatic: when a man is so unfortunate us to become a lover, he becomes the poet and lunatic - especially the latter. "Goel macle man first, and woman after him, and 1-l1e ha8 been after !Jim ever since ." Thjs sentiment is w·urthy of a, Socrates or of a Cicero, for no truer ·words have been spoken sine!' the foundation of the earth. She is co11ti11ual1y after him till she gets him tied to her in bondR of matrimony, and ('Olltinues after hhn with her tongue and broom-stick as J011g as he is an in1iabitant of this mundane sphere; but, ·thank goodness, we can truly 8ay, none has ever been aJtnr us, and hope tl1ey never will! We have but little conrnge, but we can trnly sa,y we would rather face a whole battery of ~n,pnlenn's grenadie1·s, with empty ~-nns, at a distance -of forty feet, tlian Jacp the battery of a woman' s tongue Truly did "G. G. R." state that

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she contends for her way, th~·ough adversity as well as prosperity, where man, the strong and brave, pale and affrighted, shrinks away and hides in\ the straw-stack until lier wrath has cooled off and she lays aside the broom-stick. My friends, we need not entreat you to beware of woman, for we would a-R well beg the moth to leave the candle which burns off his wings, for it would be as useless; but we would tell you, in tones of thund!3r and blazes, to pciuse, to consider, before you enter upon this rash act. We would beg you to reflect, as did Hamlet upon suicide; and we hope you will agree with us in regard to matrimony as Hamlet thought of suicide. · To 111arry. or 11ot to 11,any ! t.lrnt is the qne~tion; Whether 'tis nobler in the mincl to sulf,·r 'l'he slings and arrows . of single blessedne~,, Or, by marrying, end them? 'l'o be si11gle · No more; and by marrying to say we end 'l'he heart-ache, and the thonsand natural shocks 'l'hat eingleness is heir to, 'tis a consummation By no means to be wished. 'l'o court, to marry ; To marry, perchance to be beat with a broom-stick And by a woman's tongw•,-aye, thert·'s the rub; J<'orin . that state of matrimony what quarrels may come -When we have shuffled off this ~ingle state, Must give us pause; there's the respect 'l'hat makes a sin11:lestate of so long life. For what fool would bear the whips and scorns of time Under the leadership of a fair, fussy woman, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's celay ill giving a divorce, and tl1e Fpurns That the poor hmband from las fair wife takes, 1 When he him.•elf might liis quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels Bear to grunt and sweat under single blessedness, But that the dread of something after marriage, The inextricable condition from whose bourne No traveller return~, puzzles the will, Aud makes us rather l:>ear the ills of singleness Than fly to others we know not of? AMATOR,

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LADY MACBETH. Shakspeare's genius in depicting female character is wonderful. His pre-eminent position among dramatists is in no little measure due to his unexceptionable success in this direction. The female character iR a difficult one to understand, and -urnch more so to reproduce and portray. T o many men , woman h, a grnat mystery . "She is the greatest conundrum of any age, ' said a man who had not SU(\Ceeded in solving her. "Yes," said Victor Hugo, "but we'll not_give he1Âˇ up." Shakspeare diil not despair even , of solvi~g- the female nature; but notwithstanaing this, it is said his companionship with a woman, Ann _Hathaway, his wife, was not altogether a pleasant one. And although he did not live as lovingly with her as it migllt have been desirable, yet there seems to have been no misunderstanding of her character. .He was perfectly well acquainted with her nature. He called her Ann Hath-her-way; a i-;olemn joke to him, no doubt. Some men are ruled by women without knowing it . Not so with the author of Macbeth . What he failed to understand in the female character, let us despair of knowing. Shakspeare's women have been immortalized. Lady Macbeth, the subject of this short article, is by no means a typical woman; and it is well that this is true, for she adds little to any one of those jewels with which woman has so beautifully bedecked the world. Lady Macbeth was the wife of a successful general, and was exceedingly ambitious. Women have a peculiar kind of ambition. It is not so selfish an ambition as that which characterizes men. The success and preferment of a woman's husband, or of her sons, not of herself, seems to be her highest ambition. being aware that she will be partaker in their glory. If her lot in life has brought her neither husband nor son, she has no stronger ambition than that her lot should be otherwise. Eve did not alone eat of the

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apple that she berself might be as a god, but gave to Adam that both together might "be as gods." Lady Macbeth's husband had just returned from a successfu l .encounter with tbe enemy. She .,vas proud of him for his success ; but more, on his way homeward, the " weird sisters" had liailed him, ·' Thane of Cawdor" and " King thou shalt Qfl hereafter." What could kindle warmer his wife's ambition and his own? Macbeth had great ambition already, only surpassed by that of bis wife. There was, however, the difference mentioned above-viz., Macbeth was ambitious for his own glory, and, perhaps, thought little of the advantage to be reaped by his wife ; she sought for honor througb the glory of her husband. But they both had that ambition which Macbeth himself describes as •' Vaulting :imbitio 1i that o'er leap, it;;elf A 11cl falls 011 th•· other."

Through Lady Macbeth's mind, in an instant of time, there flashed yisions Qf royalty, her husband wearing the · crown and swaying the sceptre, a11d herself his wife, and lier children ruling after him. If all ambitions cherished by men and women of the world could be suddenly reaJ lized by them, what a wurld we would have? Would it be worth living in? I think not. Had the skill and contriving powers of Lady Macbeth been directed in different and more upright channels, what a power she would have been! She seems herself to have made all the arrangements for the terrible crime of Duncan's murder, only Macbeth was to commit it. At ihe very beginning she told him, "You shall put this night's busiJ ness into my despatch." And he did so. Macbeth began to shudder at the prospects of the awful deed; it was Lady Macbeth who had all the presence of mind. And when the deed was done and Macbj3th came trembling out, unwittingly bringing the fell instruments of deistruction with him, she asks : " Why did you bring the daggers from the place? They must lie there." When he, in his fear,

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refused to go again to the frightful scene of his own making, she says : '' Give me the daggers." She smears both them and Duncan's grooms with blood to bide her husband's guilt. She was a skilful artificer. Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo, whom he bad caused to be slain, seated in his chair at the feast, and cries out in bis mad frenzy: "Who has done this ? " " A vaunt, and quit my sight." 'Âˇ Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me." Yet Lady Macbeth, even at this involuntary intimation of guilt on the part of her husband, is undaunted and equal to the emergency. "My lord is often thlis, and has been from bis yon th." Lady Macbeth, like other women, could faint. She, when the necessity of the time required tt, made use of this form of stratagem. Women will faint, they may as well be humored in it. All that one can do or say about it is what Macbeth said, "Look to the lady, and take her out." Lady Macbeth exhibited boldness and daring to an extent which few women ever show. Women . are by nature neither very bold nor very daring, nor cari they be said to be pre-eminently courageous. There is a wide distinction between boldness and courage. A bold woman is admired by no one, but a wonmn of courage is honored by all. Nature knew best when he made woman of a retiring disposition. On the other hand, there is no one quality in man which woman exalts more than true courage. No man ever won the hand of a woman by being a coward. Macbeth was a man who had boldly fought and successfully vanquished the enemies of Scotland. He had, unpisrnayed, rushed towards death itself, yet at the last, when lacking courage to commit the direful deed of destroying his master and king under his own roof, and doubtingly asked, " What if we should fail ? " his wife replies, '' We fail! but screw Âˇ your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail." Some women, as well as some men, constantly imagine they see grim failure staring them in the face. Lady Macbeth could not see failure beforehand-. 3

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Often much can be learned from very wicked people, or even from the Devil himself; the art of screwing the courage "to the sticking place," is what is wanting to a great many good people. In Lady Macbeth we have the strange anomaly of the cruel woman. What poisonous blood must have coursed through the veins of the woman wlio could pray that she might be filled "from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty," or "come to my woman's breast and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers." Strange spectacle, to behold one of those creatures whom Scott calls "ministering angels" to be invoking "murdering minister s !" Lady Macbeth was of the genuine Jezebel stamp. She was more ultra than her husband in carrying out ' the deed of death, and she does not show that remorse which be exhibited after it had been committed. Macbeth grieved because Banquo and Fleance still lived . His wife suggests, by way of reminder, "But in them, nature's copy is not eter.ne." How could one murder a bad man? But Duncan had '' borne his faculties so meek," and had "been so ~lean in llis great office," that surely this would disarm his murderers. But, no; how cruel is ambition! It unarms reason, quiets pity, and blunts the sensibilities. We cannot, for our part, resiet the belief that woman, to be very bold, or daring, or cruel, must do great violence to her nature; but the belief is equally irresistible that it is exceedingly easy for her to be deceptiYe. Not that sincerity is a trait of character with which female nature is unacquainted, or that with it candor and straightforwardness is infrequent, but simply that woman seems to be so I much better able to deceive than man. Whether endeavoring to conceal "a love flame," or to hide the "outrages of time," she is equally successful. - But as for man in the former he is a failure, and about the latter, he is not' so careful. In the art of deception L~dy Macbeth eclipsed her sex. When the countenance of her husband betrayed 1

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that the crime which he was about to commit was repulsive to - his better nature, she put him on his guard with such advices as "sleek o'er your rugged looks" and" look like the flower, but be the serpent under it." The little deceptions practiced by women, especially those on the opposite sex, might perhaps be palliated as one of the means remaining to them for self defence, but who can approve the woman of the snake-in-the-grass order? Such is the character of the subject of this sketch. Young man, beware ! There are not many such, I trust, but beware of sucli a one, even though to her name there is affixed the assuming title of "lady." , In the play of Macbeth, among other things, we have an illustration of j;he extent to which a man may be influenced by his wife. Macbeth was undoubtedly a bad man, but his wife made him to be worse. Aided l:)y her influence, he became the daring demon that he was, for tl10re were times when his "senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek," but at last he _had gone so far as t.d " forget the taste of fears." Her jaunts and sneers at his hesitancy, caused by a sober, second thought, had its mighty weight. , "Art thou af'eard?" and Âˇ" wouldst thou live a coward in thine own esteem?" were words which he could . not withstand. The sneers of a woman only the brave heart can resist. Lady Macbeth had a sleek tongue that was the whip which lashed his lagging resolutions into actions. Force of character and strength of purpose is to .'be admired wherever found, but it is their misuse that is to be censured and deplored. They are like a huge gun, which may be usefulwhen directed aright, but which becomes a curse when directed at the wrong object, or so handled as to recoil on him who handlesit. '

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FUTURE. The future, to the mind of a young man, is something vague and indefinite. Each one has in his imagination a fanciful future, which carries with it the idea of pleasure and happiness, soothing many pains and dispelling the gloom which now surrounds him. Who has not on a pleasant summer day, beneath some spreaJing oak, while listening to the sweet songs of merry birds, pictured to himself a future filled with brightness and prosperity, and doubtless across each fanciful picture floats the face of some human being. Or what college hoy, in the silent hours of midnight, after the lights are all out, has not lain' hour after hour, as it were in a trance, while there coursed through his mind gilded images of the days that are to come after his college days are over, al,ld when he shall be thrown out into the world to search for fame and honor. It is plea,;;ant thus to muse, building castle after castle which crumble to pieces, furnishing material for others, or gently fade from one into another. But the world rolls on and the future is fast becoming the present, and the present the past. The present is the ship ; the past, the maps and charts which help to guide it as it moves steadily on into the future. The astronomer, observing the motions of the heavenly bodies throughout long ages, lays down laws by which lie can determine the positions and motions of these bodies hundreds of years before they come to pass. The historian, looking back int.othe past and observing the rise and fall of nations, the appearance and disappearance of races, the change and 'counter-cha~ge of language, places before us facts, by closely studying Âˇ which the s_tatesman can tell in which direction his native land is tending, and by adopting suitable means he may avert its ruin and raise it to a state of the highest prosperity. For history is but a cycle of events repeating itself after intervals just as the moon goes regularly around the earth and the earth around thf) sun. The future of man cannot be predicted with as much certainty as

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the eclipses of the sun and moon, being endowed, as he is, with a will peculiar to himself, which has the largest share in shaping 路 his end. His surroundings, if left to themselves alone, just as the attraction of ,matter for matter draws the whole solar system around the sun, would bend his course in somy regular 路 curve. But he, by the exercise of his will, can so change its direction and modify it, that but few traces of the former curve cart be discovered. A man who ;ould be successful in the world, must have an eye to the future ; for though he lives in the present he lives for the future. The wise.man, peering through the gloom and darkness which surrounds the future, deciphers outlines of the dim figures which it ~ontains, and aided by past experiences adopts means suitable to obtaining those ends. The fool, thinking only of the smooth sea all around, lies lazily dozing upon the deck, while he is gently borne along by the zephyrs, nor does he see the dark cloud towards which he is steadily going, until it breaks upon him and he is overwhelmed in a sea of.troubles. The man of business who, gliding along under full sail, does not look ahead, is sure to be wrecked, however skilful he may be at the helm. The statesman who has ceased to see anything in the future for his country, but sees before him a canvass bare and blank, has served his day and generation. The old man, with but a few sparks of life left, sits in his easy chair and thinks over the journey which he has come. For him the future has no charms, for a few more brief moments and his future on earth is over. He has now no mark to make, no fame to win; that is a thing of the past. But his counsels are the more valuable on account of the distance he has come. " Improve the present," says he, "for on it hangs the future." Let n,ot a moment pass unimproved. It may be but a small link in the chain of events, but being weak, it impairs the strength of the whole chain. Some having their minds filled \Vithgrand achievments,think that they have nothing to do but sit and wait, and that in some distant day, by some magic power they will accomplish their aims with little difficulty. Let no such thought as this find lodgment in our 路路 minds. There is only one fairy in the land to-day; but the magic

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power of this one, is even more powerful than that of all the fairies mentioned in ancient legends. The name of that fairy is harcl worÂˇk. Then, let us each day go about our tasks, hard though they be, picking up here and there rare jewels, and carefully. stow them away where we can find-them ready for service in the future. MAJOR.

COURSE OF TRUE LOVE IN THE CONIC SECTIOlâ€˘~-One bright June morning the young knight, Focus Ellipse, was riding leisurely over the green slope of a semicircle, which was shaded by sturdy tangents and grey normals up whose erect trunks ran flowering cissoids and conchoids flaunting with delicate asymptotes, whilst the ground was bright with the b]ue eyes of the Witcl1 of Agnesi. ,Just as he turned the top of the ascent, he heard from the right a most grief-speaking shriek. Spurring at once through the underbrush in that direction , he came upon a scene which stirred his blood from centre to circumfe~ence. He beheld the lovely Parabola Jenkins being borne 'away by the gi,.gantic Quadratrix of Tschirnhausen. Instantly drawing his jewelled-handled radius from its conicoid scabbard, he rushed upon the ravisher and with a curvilinear sweep hit him a perpendicular blow full on the vertex of his helmet, and the good sword weut throu gh, severed the giant's Jacobian, and filled at lea:a:t one quartic with his blood. The lovely Parabola fainted in the arms of her hero, who made haste to carry her home to her stern father, old Hyperbole Jenkins. Hyperbole thanked him with that fluency of language for which he was noted, and then asked him to dinner at no particular time. And the reason is plain. Old HyperJ:>ole wiehed the noble old Lord of Cubics for a son-in-law, and the lovely Parabola did not. She indeed preferred, if she were forced to make a c110ice, her young knight, the gallant Focus. Focus agreed with her

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perfectly, and they came without difficulty to a mutual understanding . So determined was Focus on this point, that it is no strain on language to say he was , in that respect a determinant of any number of rows . That is, he did not care a vani:shing fraction how many rows he might have to encounter in securing Parabola. Time passed Âˇ on as it has been known to do on other occasions, and on e dark night Focus stood be~eath the window of his beloved, as she was dres sing for the bridal, and he was registering an infinite number of vows to the effect that, come what might, she should never become a Cubical Pa;rabo1a. Hyperbole had pressed matters to a crisis. He would stand no negativ'e for Cubics. He was very positive about that, and raised such a power of noise over it that rather than be discussed to death, Parabola had consented. But her arrangements with Focus were intended to make that marriage come on when she was off. And here was Focus equal to the occasion, though his eye was glaring with an irrational qua~tity of joy, and his mind unbalanced by tremendous 1Âˇeductio ad ubsurdum. As thus-to prove there is now tq be no marriage at this place. Let us suppose there is to be one; if there is to be one, Parabola must be at this place . But Parabola will not be at this place (not if I can help it ),- hence this 'Yill be no marriage,-hence a marriage is no niarrfage-a manifest absurdity, if not an alibi as well. Down 1 a wire rope of ellipitical shape slid the excited Parabola, dressed to Âˇ death. A inomentary osculatory contact, and a,way went this pair of conics to a good magistrate. But Cubics' dog Quadric raised a howl as long as the hypotenuse of the nuptial diagram, and Cubics rushed out in time only to see his Parabola cantering off at a maximum rate on a minimum mule. With a yell as trem endons as the common logarithm of infinity, he ,~t;irt ,ed .i~ pursuit. ~ut Focus ~as not fire-place or' the kind to be easily caught. His brother, the left-handed

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Focus, and his cousins Major and Minor Axis, were there ready to stop Cubics or any other man. They brought his career suddenly to a limit, and closed his mouth with one energetic ramphoid cusp. The spirits of Cubics were so reduced .by this rough treatment, that they led him without resistance to the scene of the marriage about to occur. Need we say more? Need we tell that during the canonical evolution of the ceremony, Cubics' ideas were so involved as to leave him in doubt wh~ther he was standing on a conjugate point or his vertex? Anyway a partition set in; his seminariant suddenly vanished, his diameter pierced his centre, and C1:1bicsfell to the earth an indeterminate ruin, a mere zero divided by zero. QUINTUS

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The following preamble and resolutions were adopted by the students of Richmond College at their regular weekly prayer-meeting, Thursday night, December 11th, 1884 : Whereas it has been acco1ding to divine providence t"othrow arouud us the mantle of sadness, and cause us to lament the loss we sustain in the removal by death of our friend 'llld fellow-~tudent WM. LATANE. 1. Resolved, That in this our affliction. we bow submissively to this dispensation of Him •• who doeth all thingi;:well"; and while we deeply lamPnt our loss, we reverently say "'l'hy will be done, ·o God." 2. Resolved, 'rhat in WM. LA'l'ANE, we recoguizecl the elements of a pure Christian ·gentlemar,; a character rna1·kedby its simplicity of man ru~r, pnrity of intentions, and whoRe example was worthy of imitation. · 3. Resolved, That we do attest that hP, in his connection with Richmond College, as a gentleman. stuclent, and as~ociate, was worthy to be, and was ranked among the first by the professors and stuc..lcntsof this institution. 4. Resolved, That in our own affliction, we still more deeply sympathize with his bereaved relatives and friends in the loss of a loving brother, a dutiful and faithful son, and a lovable friend. o. Resolved, '.fhat we believe that the Christian ministry has sustained the loss of one, though perhaps, less demonstrative than some, yet, whose purity of character, fixedness of purpose, love to God and zeal for his cause, would have guaranteed him success in that great work.

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6. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented Âˇ to the family of the deceased, also, that they be published in the Religious Herald and

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The following preamble and resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity: Whereas a Supreme Being has seen fit to remove from our earthly fraternity our beloved brother, WM. LATANE, and to initiate him into the great fraternity of the redeemed, in wliich Death's chilly fingers are never felt, and where those once united never part ; be it 1. Resolved, 'l'hat although feeling deeply our loss, we bow submissively to the Divine will. ,,, 2. That the Kapva Alpha fraternity at large, and Eta Chapter m0re especially, s1:1stainsa great loss in that dispensation of providence which called home our brother, whose cheerful disposition, sturdy application, and gentlemanly deportment, to which we, who knew him as a brother can testify, gave evidence of that success which would reflect honor upon his fraternity. 3. 'l'hat although the cloud of sorrow hovers around us, enveloping us in its gloom, we realize that around the home of our departed brother it is even more dense, al)d in our bereavement we tender our heartfelt sympathy to the grief-stricken family, relatives, .and friends. 4. That we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 5. That these resolutions be inserted in our minutes, published in the ltlesseng,er, and ~ copy of them be sent to the bereaved family. W. A, HARRIS, 8. W, HUFF, \ A, H. HILL, Committee.

At a regular meeting of tpe Mu Sigma Rho Society on Friday night, December 19th, 1884, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove from out of our midst, our frienq and gifted member, WM, J,A'l'ANE, of King and Queen; therefore, be it 1. Resolved, That by his death our society feels a void, and our hearts a gap, which time can with diffloulty obliberate.

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2. Resolved, That WM. LATANE was a man whom we esteemed, courteous, kind, and .good ; and that the society will miss him from its deliberations. · 3. Resolved, That judging from his daily walk among us, we feel a confident assurance that he .has been translated into that everlasting society of the blest in heaven. 4. Resol11ed, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of our departed member. in~erted in the minntes of the society, and given to the ']Jichmond College Messenger for publication. ' EDWARD B. POLLARD, R. A. '.DUCKER, ,, D. H. KERFOOT, 'Committee.

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Since our last issue, a gloom has been · cast over the college by the death of one of our fellow-students, WM. LATANE. He was a son of Dr. Thomas Latane, of King and Queen county, who in company with his daughter and one of his sons, administered to the last wants of his devoted son, and our esteemed fellow-student. Officers and students united in doing everything that would promote his comfort. We will not allow ourselves to deal in eulogy, for the resolutions found elsewhere express more directly the esteem in which he was held by his fellow-students here, than anything which we might say. But we may simply say that his unobtrusive, gentlemanly manner is, and will continue to be missed here. Those of the students who have been sick are now improving, and it. is not probable that there will be any more serious sickness here.

Christmas morning, at 9:30, upon the ringing of the college bell, thoBeboys wh? were still at college assembled in the Latin lectureroom, and Mr. A. J. Dickerson, in a very _appropriate address, pfe,sented Professor Puryear with a handsome buggy robe, made of four Canadian wolfskins, as au inadequate testimony of the esteem, in which he is held by the students. Professor Puryear, on receiving the gift, made a few very h[!,ppyremarks. He said he valued

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the present for its inti:insic value, for it would add to his Âˇcomfort by keeping out the winter's cold, but he prized it far more for its associate value; and that he, like other men, had his troubles, yet he eould truly say that not one of them was caused by the students of Richmond College. It is rumored that Professor Puryear expects to sever his connection with, the college. This testimony of love on the part of the boys may be looked upon as an expression of their feelings in regard to this action. It is a sad fact, but true nevertheless, that two thirds of all Âˇ the article~ offered the present staff of editors for publication, were but various avenues for giving vent to love. Why this is,the case, we cannot see. Is ff Calico" the predominant ticket of Richmond College this session, or is it that only those who are affected by this solace of life, have it in their hearts to write for the Messenger? Arouse yourselves, ye men of History, of Philosophy, and of native wit. Give us historical sketches, clear and connected essays, and short, witty articles. An action like this on your part would not benefit the present staft of editors, as this will be the last copy of the MessengeiÂˇof which they will have the arranging; but we feel for our successors, we fear the consequences of such a siege of love as the present staff has been subjected to. They locked their hearts, and waded through the loving effusions, and are now cherishing the hope that they are safe. But who knows but what in the far future, when all trace of this trying ordeal has been obliterated, one of those little sweet phrases may come stealing through their memories, and th~nce to their tongues, and thus prove their destroyer? We would not, however, discourage the writers of sentimental articles; we would suggest that you adopt some other style; but if you cannot write any other kind of ar.icles, write sentimental ones, and we feel sure that the incoming editors, like the present ones, will publish all that are suitable. We hear that our Exchange editor has raised a storm around his head by his innocent inquiries for news from the R. F. I. He

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"hopes some one will give him the desired information." We would suggest that a way of getting the desired information would be to go down and inquire from some of the young ladies ; but as a brother editor, we would advise him to" Wait till the clouds roll by." His questions arose, no doubt, from a desire to see the R. F. I. represented by a magazine, for which (if the truth were known) he looks with higher expectations than his language would imply. We hope now the Gazettewill come forth in a neat form and able style which will be emP,hatic answers to our colleague's questions.

At the beginning of this session a change was made in the boarding arrangements of the Education Board. Before that time, most of the students on the Board had been boarding at the Mess-Hall, but as it was essential to the success of the messing system that it should be run strictly on a cash basis, and as the financial condition of the Education Board was such that it could not pay the board promptly when due, it was thought best to board them where the Board would be given more time for payment. Accordingly, arrangements were made to board those of the students who are on the Education Board at a private boarding-house near the college. Soon the students felt that they had cause to coinplain of the fare, which they made to the Education Board by means of petitions and committees, and being satisfied that these were not effecting any material change, they notified the Board that arrangements would have to be made for boarding them elsewhere, or they would have to leave college. That day circumstances happened which determined them not to go to this boarding-house again. Accordingly, they engaged supper at the Mess-Hall. There they awaited the action of the Education Board, which would decide whether they were to go home or have another boarding place. The Education Board promptly appoi~ted a committee to investigate the matter, which committee, we learn, has completed its work, and the boys will board at the Mess-Hall. This is a brief statement of the f1tetsin this matter, as far as we can learn them.

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The Jeter Memorial Hall is now heated by a furnace placed · in the basement; reading hours have been announced, and the stll'dents are now at liberty to spend a portion of each day in this quiet, comfortably-warmed hall, reading the most, prominent magazines of the present day, such as Harper's Weekly,ScientificAmerican, f,~ntury, EclecticMa,qaz-ine,Harper's Magazine, and Populctr· Science Monthly. We hope no student will let this opportm)ity for keeping himself informed as to the progress of the present age, pass by unimproved. Most pf the <Jtudents who went home for the Christmas holidays have now returned, apparently much refreshed. Thf>approaching examinations will soon compel them to lose sight of the past, which is just at present -'being so often recalled, and once more that searching question, "How much reviewing have you done?'' will be on e\·er,y tongue. ,

The present staff of editors have had a shorter time in which to do their work than usual, hy reason of the Messengerbeing nearly a month late when it was handed over to them. This has forced them to the necessity of urging their contributors, the effect of which, we fear, is evident in our matter. e believe it is customary, on leaving this office, to give some of our experien_cesand feelings for the benefit of those who expect to hold the office in the future. The effect of our adventures in this line upon our future lives is too enormous to even guess at. The Literary Editors, as l'ltatedelsewhere, have been sailing through a sea of sentimentality. How impossible it would be to determine the effect of this upon their future, •is evident. The Personal and Ex<ihange Editor has incurred the displeasure of the fair sex; and what must be the lot of that man who has woman's wrath fur his portion through life ! The Editorial and Local Editor has, for the past three months, been carrying the news bag for the college,,and he fears it will result i11his having a decided tendency to be newsy in the future. One thing, however, he has learned while collecting 6

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Locals; and that is, that it is not always the man who looks to be the biggest fool who says the most fool things. The "fighting editor" now kicks off the boots, the spurs of which are rusty, as, in fact, they were when we received them ; for although several of om predecessors were forced to the necessity of strutting around in them, yet the spurs were uot used. ,,re so far have not even fournl it necessary to don those "weighty honors." And so, with these various experiences and feelings, we bow ourselves out, leaving the incoming staff alone in their glory, with our best wishes.

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Hacks! Right down! What sort of a Christmas did you have? Did you bring anything good to eat back with you? Mr. P. went into a clothing st~,re and wanted to know of the merchant whether he kept reflexibl~ brim hats. Professor of Chem. : "Mr. B., how many metals are used in Grove's battery?" Mr. B. : " Two, sir." Prof. : '' Well, what are they?" Mr. B. : "Sulphuric acid, and --" Mr. W. was heard to murmur in a most suggestive tone, as he leaned over his coal-box, "Heat is the absence of coal (cold)." Mr. H, alias Solomon, who has been vehement

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nunciation of the tendency of the young men of the present age to wa~te time upon "Calico,'' ha;; been (to use a slang _phra,se) '' cralled up on." One of the students, in passing through a little town not far from here, came upon H., a fit illustration of how completely a woman can humbly the man who thinks he is proof against the darts of Cupid. We are told H. received some nice presents from Christmas trees One was a huge cob pip~. He was not much pleased with this, as he is very much averse to the use of tobacco. He" didn't do business that way." The other present was a box of gr 0 en persimmons. We " don't know so well about this," but suppose it was more appropriate and con~equently more appreciated. Mr. H. says in ~rder for him to write a speech he must have a seluded place to compose. Decemder 3d, the students assembled to hear .the first .lecture of the course of biblical lectures for the present session. P1Âˇofessor Harrison, after stating that there would be a lecture every two weeks from th(l,t time, intro .duced Rev. Mr. Da,vid, a well-known missionary to Africa, as the first lecturer. Mr. David took for his subject, Africa-Her Needs and her Prospects. He spoke of the knowledge of African geography at the J;Jresent day as compared with that one hundred years ago. He thought it showed the wisdom of God to keep the interior of Africa a secret to explorers until civilized nations had learned not to abuse Africa. He said the Africans were not large monkeys, as many supposed, but were i,ntelligent beings, as their skill in mining and other pursuits evinced. This lecture wa~ somewhat different from the general character of the lectures in this course, yet it abounded in interesting information, and was much enjoyed by the stu-

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dents. Mr. David has collected some valuable c nriosities, in the shape of African idols and games, for our museum.

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The Editorial and Local Editor being (unfortunately both for himself and the soqiety) elected to take part in the exercises of the public debate, one of the other editors, who is not a member of the Philologian Society, kindlr consented to report the exercises . Although the weather on the 12th of DecP-mber was very bad, the hall of the Philologian Society was well filled with the beaming faces of the '' first and fafrest sinners." Our public debates are always well attended by the fairer sex. But such was the state of the weather on that night., that even the boldest trembled for the success of the debate. Some (who had engagements) even wished to postpone it; but it was held, and they h.ad to put in a plea of sickness, hire hacks, 0â€˘r with overshoe and umbrella to wade through mud and water to her rnansion . It is needless to say that the latter plan was adopted with almost universal consent, as most of our boys are strictly moral boys, and are always opposed to anything that looks like cruelty to animals. But this is the dark side of the picture, and we will dwell no more upon it, as it may cause unpleasant thoughts to arise in the . minds of our fellow-students. When once in the hall, both he and she soon forgot the mud, so eloquent were the speeches made upon that occasion. The programme was served somewhat thus: . After a song by the octette, the president, Mr. G. W. Quick, arose and addressed the audience, welcoming them to the public exercises. After another song he introduced Mr. I. B. Timberlake, who declaimed the "Course of Regulus" Following him came Mr. S. W. Huff, who read a selection called "John

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Plowman' _s Talk." vYhen the sweet notes of another song, had ceased to reverberate, came the event of the evening/ the debate. The debaters~ contending over the question, : '' Resolved, That the contributions of Science to the World have been more Valuable than those of Art", were drawn . up iri battle array, as follows: On the affirmative, E. P, Lipscomb and 0. L. Martin; on the negative, E. W. Stone and J. B. Lemon. These gentl(;lmen · engaged warmly in the contest with pointed wit, impressive rhetoric, and irresistable logic. Each one strained every nerve to gain the smile of approbation from the fair audience and to place victory 4pon his side. The rounded periods of Lipscomb, the oratorical flights of Stone, the humor of Martin, all mixed with the essenceof Lemon, made quite an ·enjoyable occ·asion and refle~ted credit upon the Society. The Literary Societies, at their regular :rµeeting Friday night, January 2d, elected for the second term the . following officers : PHILOLOGIAN,

President, J. B. Lemon, of Botetourt; Vice-President, E. P. Lipscomb, of Nelson; Recording Secretary, M. B: Pierpont, of Georgia; Corresponding Secretary, W. J. H. Parker, of Pennsylvania; Treasurer, J. H. Willis, of Orange ; Critic, 0. L. Martin, of Henry ; Censor, C. F. McMullen, of Madison; Chaplain, H. W. Jones, of Washing~ ton; Sergeant-at-Arms, J. G. Paty, of Tennessee; Editors of the Messengei·, J. W. Mitchell, of Franklin, and E. W. Stone, of Montgomery; Hall Committee, T. R. Corr, of Gloucester, and E. J. Woodville, of Orange. Mu SIGMA RHo. President, B. S. Redd, of Mississippi; Vice-President, M. E. Parish, of Botetourt; Censor, W. A. Anderson, of Norfolk; Editors of the Messenger,L. L. Pritchard, of North 7 .

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Carolina, and E . B. Pollard, of Richmond ; Recording Secretary, G. H. Edwards, of South Carolina; Corresponding Secretary, N. S. Groome, of Warwick; Chaplain, P. G. Elsom, of Nelson; Treasurer, R. A. Tucker, of Amherst; Hall Committee, J. F. Savell, of Florida; Critic, D. H. Kerfoot, of Clarke; Sergeant-at-Arms, E L. Guy, of Norfolk. The following Final Orators were elected: Mu Sigma Rho, J . O. Alderman, of North Carolina; Philologian, G. W. Quick, of ,Loudoun county, Va. PERSONALS. L. R. Thornhil1, former student of R. C., we are glad to hear, has accepted the call of the First church of Manch ester. We congratulate the members of that church on their wise choice, for, in our opinion , th f Y could have chosen none better than L. R. Thornhill to attend to their spiritual welfare. J. L. Coker is attending the School of Technology in Long Island. We are glad to hear his eyes are much improved. T. J. Shipman is preaching .near Staunton, and we hear is d~ing very well. We wish you much success, Tom. Notice! _Was married not many days ago our fellowstudent, Rev. P. G. Elsom, to the lady of his choice. We would give with pleasure the details of this important event, but as P. G. was married outside of the city it is impossible for ns to ootain them, but it is undoubtedly a fact he is married. "Sic semper tyrarvnis." L. D. Shumate is' head-ma ster of a school in Giles county . Good news; but better Atill, he was married not long since. One more soul made happy! S. W. Dorset paid us a visit during Christmas. We were glad to ~ee him looking so well, but we do not understand how it was that he and his girl should land in Richmond at the same time. Strange coincidence ! W. C. Barker, M. â€˘D., of Richmond Medical College, is

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practicing medicine in Fredericksburg, and we hear he is doing well. Why don't you drop in to see us sometimes, Doctor? , J . .G. Field is still at the Ric4mond Medical Colleg~, aud is expecting to be an M. D. at the end of the session. Maxey Field is farming in Albemarle cou1c1.ty. Are you still afraid of the girls as ever, Max? Jeemse's Creelc! ! W. A. Parish is engaged in business in the city with his father, and is doing well, we hope. Harvey Thorpe ,is practicing law in Tennessee, and we hear he did excellent service for Cleveland in the last presid!=)ntial election and gained quite a r'eputation, at which ' we are not at all surprised. May success ever attend thee, 1Iarvey. W. C. Mercer ) s attending the Medical College of Richmond, and, after i;raduating there, will take Dentistry in the school of Baltimore. M. McFaddin is now a student of the Leipsic University, . Germany . Sprichen Sir Deutch, Mac? A. G. Miller and G. W. Kinsey are both taking calico in Rappahannock county . F. F. Fowler, where is he? Ask of the winds. Lewis Huff paid us a visit a few days ago, and will soon start for Leipsic Germany, to engage in philosophical researches. Âˇ A. M. Harris . a former student of R. C., was married just before Christmas, and left with his bride for Texas. T. H. Edwards was compelled to leave college on account of ill-health ; We are glad to hear his health isimproving. J. M Whitfield paid us a visit during Christmas. He is looking well and likes the University of Virginia very much. G. E. Hatcher would have returned this session but for sickness. We look for you next session, and perhaps other eyes would be glad to get a glimpse of George once again.

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EXCHANGES. Among our exchanges, some bore URexceedingly in read ing, but o~hers afford us great vleasure as ,vell l'LS infonnation. Among the latter pre-eminently stands "The Album." 'We were pa,rticularly struck by the criticisms on the tradeg-y of Othello, The Moor of Venice. Not many school-girls of this our modern age ar .e there, who can bear the sight of a copy of Shakespeare, much , more to read it carefully; but in this piece we perceive not only careful study of Othello, but a true appreciation of the genius who cnmpoRed it. So surprised are we at knowing the author to be a school-girl, that we are constrained to say she belongs not to this modern age, that her existence was delayed at least a generation, and she stands alone, a monument of the olden times. With pleasure we receive into our" Sanctum" the Randolph-Macon Monthly. This paper had almost become a stranger to us, not because it was forgotton by any means, but on account of its long non-appearance; but this was explained within iti:-columns and we hail with delight its advent, and would cry to its worthy edit.cm,, "Long live the Randolph-Macon Monthly.'' We read with pleasure the gems of thought contained in its pages, but there was one piece, entitled "Female Power," we dared not read, for fear it was somewhat on the style of an infinite number of .pieces written by our own poor fellows. Indeed, so many pieces have come to us written on the subject "Woman" that the mere name acts like an emetic, and we could not trust ou.rnelves to ·read this excellent piece, no doubt upon th 'e same subject, somewhat. · The Bethciny Collegian is a very excellent paper, and we enjoy very much the Literary department, especially the piece entitled "Home." We recognize in its perus1ti "tha,t none but a German mind could have composed it. The weird and strange effect produced in reading the " Legend of the Lake " is worthy of the power of a Schiller. The piece8 written on Socrates and Galileo, contained in the Star Crescent, are very interesting and instructive, but according ·to our mode of thinking, the editors made somewhat of a mistake in putting the cart before the \

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horse-that is, they have placed their Exchanges, Locals, &c., first, and put the literary matter las.t. It seems to us the reverse would be a more natural arrangement. If the wood of the collep:e,whence we receive a few " Chips;, once in a while, is of the same quality, the students of the college of Decor;1h, Iowa, undoubtedly have blazing fires, for the College Chips, though a small paper, i8 well worthy of any college. The piece headed "A Summer's Dream," contained in The Alarno and San Jacinto Monthly, strikes us very forcibly. If the in~ cidents related are trne we have no remarks to make; but we are inclined to believe it to be the imagination of a lover who had given himself up to reverie and weaved within his poetic brain this fanciful episo,de, and himself the hero of the story. Nevertheless it shows an exalted case of the lover's imagination rather above the poor fellows who inhabit our walls. / The Colkge R ecovd is a very worthy paper, and we earnestly request the editors to state in their paper where it is published-that is, where Wheaton College is-and they will ·please excuse our ignorance, for our knowledge is not very extensive on any ~ubject; therefore it must necessarily be limited as to where the principal seat5 of knowledge are located. Excellent advice is given in the Peddie Institute Chronicle in the piece entitled '' The Art of Cooking." If m.ore of' our young ladies of the present day would study this art, and fewer the art of being pretty and all such tom-foolery, they would make better wives for the lager-headed youths who go strutting around "diked up" in a dude suit of clothes, with no more gumption in their noddles than in an empty molasses jug. The editurs of " The ·J urnal of ,. Amerikaw Ortbrnpy " will plees USS verry much iff thay will sen ~USS no moore ov thar jurnals, fur wee donn't want inny sich tonie speling, eufonic wurdz, and fitnes of words en our vokabylerry of Richmun Kollig_e. F01 ..ant of space and time a good many of our exchanges have been left out which will appear in our next. , W.W.

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