The Messenger, Vol. 16, No. 4

VOL. XVI.

NO. 4

JANUARY, 1890. EDITORS:

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E. w. GRE A NER, Sigma Rho, { II., T. LouTH AN, B. B. ROBINSON.

J.E. HUTCHINSON, Ph ilologian, { D. H. RucK ,ER,

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B usiness Manager-W. OWEN CARVER. A ssistant B usiness Manager- W. E. FARRAR. IC I were

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If I were a voice, a persuasive voice, . That could trav el this wide world through, I would fly on th e beams of the morning light, And speak to men with a gentle might, And tell them to be true. I WllU ld fly, I would :fly over land and sea, _ . " Wh erever a hum an heart might be, Te1ling a tale or singing a song In pnn se¡ of th e right, in blame of the wrong: I would :fly over land and sea.

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If I were a voice, a consoling voice, I'd fly on th e wing s of th e air; Th e hom es of sorrow and guilt I would seek, And calm and truthful words I would speak, To save th em from despair. I would fly, I would fly over the crowded town, And drop lik e th e happy sunlight down, Into th e hearts of suffering men, And teach them to look u:p again. I would fly on th e wings of the air. If I were a voice, an immortal voice, I'd fly th e earth around, And wh erev er man to hi s idols bow ed, I'd publi sh in tones both long and loud, Th o Gospel's joyful sound. I would fly, I woulcl :fly on th e wings of day, . Proclaiming peace on my world-wide way; Bidding thi s sadd ened earth rejoice. , If I wore a voice, an immortal voice, I would fly the earth around, 0

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to ·:Nature'l!I Teaching•.

[Oration delivered by W . A. GooDwIN at the public debate of the Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society.]

Many men with eyes are seemingly be overcome. If facts do not accord as · blind as the beggar Bartimeus. • with our theories, so much the worse Th~ magnificence and beauty which for those theories; we must acknowinspir~ with rapture the poet and ledge that they are wrong, and subpainter are to very many as common- ject them to change, or· else become place as a whitewashed fence. A dis- hopeletsly entangled in the meshes of play of grandeur wrought by the un- error and confusion. In order that remitting work of countless centuries we may study aright this volume is looked upon by numbers of people written by the hand of the Creator, let us then ever remember that there with cold indifference. Inattention, neglect, and lack of appreciation, mark is a divinity that shapes the end of all their walk in life. Such men we see things, and that He is Lord of Nature around us every day. They live for and of Nature's laws. We learn much if we leariJ rightly what they can make, and derive little or no pleasure from what has been the lessons of the natural world. By , made so grandly beautiful for their careful study we are made more careful. By observing minutely the wonenjoyment. If we would form a fondness for derful development~ that are con tin uNature we should become her pupil ally being made around us, we prewhile young. I( is then that imagi- pare ourselves for other and more nation is most easily cultivated, and important researcl;ies. If we question Il.\.OtherNature, she then that our habits of thought and action are being formed. If while has ever a timely hint, a practical young we become imbued with a · suggestion to give. " Consider the fondness for nature, she will ever lilies of the field how they grow, they have for us a welcome smile and toil uot, neither do they spin," and will send us on from : pleasure yet more beautiful are they than Solomon in all his glory. These lovely to pleasure through a never-ending flowers will declare the power of the field of investigatio_n. We must, however, conform to certain re- Creator ·when the names of Voltaire quirements if we wish · success to and other infidels have perished with attend our efforts. Superficial and their blasphemy. In the animal world careless observation is productive of wisdom arJd forethought mee~ us at error and confu sion. If the attain~ every turn. How little idleness, how ment of truth be our aim, patient care much determination is there! The must characterize our seareh. We indnstry of the ant is a rebuke to the must be content to watch and wait sluggard. The skill of the little bee while nature works. Conceit must mocks the sagaeity of the mathema-

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LtSTEN TO. NATURE'S TEACHINGS. tician. The love of the woodiand songster for its mate and its care for its young .1s .a strong censure upon the man who leaves his family to destitution and distress. The playful squirrel provides for the snows of winter while ·.ye{ the forests are clothed in rich autumnal splendor, and thus teaches us the lesson of forethought. In profes.sional life the need of studying nature is imperative. How delightful · and impressive is the eloquence of the minister or statesman, who clothes his stout logic with a drapery of pleasing imagery. What a charm is added to the author's style by an apt comparison which presents distant and unknown objects to the view of the reader. The metaphor and simile drawn from nature add to the force and beauty of composition, as Dore's artistic skill has to the grandeur of "Paradise Lost." · The studE:mt of literature must have a deep and abiding symnathy for nature. As . Chaucer knelt upon the soft green grass .to see the opening daisy and to breathe its fragrance, . sb must we kneel humbly at nature's shrine if we wish to become imbued with her inspiration. W~ will not seek in vain if thus from her we seek aright. For as over the A.:o1ian harp the gentle zephyr sweeps, calling forth the plaintive harmony of music, so nature's beauties, if received with open heart, will touch the imagination with . an ever pleasing concord, and life's prose ,vill be interspersed with the poetry and music of the universe. Even Byron, reckless . and misan-

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" There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, · · By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal, From all I may be, or have been ·before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel · What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all , conceal."

Yes, "there is society, where none intrudes.'' ~ We need .never be alone; the rock though dead I yet speaketh, and the story written on · the . stony mountain side is older than the pyramids. There is indeed a ceaseless pleasure in the study of nature. The },listory of all time is written there, sculptured in imperis .hable stone by the mountain torrent as it cuts in the solid rock a channel for its course, scattered upon the mountain precipice 1 by the silent and majestic march ·of the glacier, or engraved by the frail fern leaf , upon the la~ting carbon. The fish buried long ,centuri.es ago in the sand of the sea is found to.:day entombed in the bosom of the snowcapped peak, showing that over it once rolled "old ocean's gray and melancholy waste." And _t6-day, while proud man is attempting to rear monuments to his greatness, nature is silently and truthfully car_ving for the present an imperishable epitaph. Much of this record has been deciphered, much is yet unknown. As a beautiful volume, illustrated and in-

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teresting, nature lies before us. Let face, but seeking to know creation's us, then, see more of it than the pie~ grand sublimity, go "Into 'regions yet untrod, tures on the binding. Let us not be And read what ts still unread, satisfied when we have read the _preIn th(manuscript of God."

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honor and usefulness; or at co11ege, perhaps, patiently plodding his weary way by the d1m light of the midnight Mr. W. B. Loving, of Virginia, for lamp, through the intricate mazes of the affirmative, said: science and philosophy. Around that Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- fireside they sit and talk of those who m~n,_;_For one brief moment I bid are away; but there is oneabsent from you look with ·me upon a familiar whom no cheering message ever scene. 'Tis a 'winter's evening. The comes, by whose fingers no lines are earth wears its immaculate mantle uf ever penned to cheer the hearts of snow. A~ong the leafless trees, that devoted parents and loving brothers in their mute loveliness stretch out and sisters. Out · in the cold, under their bare arms towards the silent tho snow, there is a li'ttle mound bestars, the wintry wind sighs its sol- neath which sleeps the eldest bQn1of emn dirge, for .the :flowers are dead. the family. In one - corner of that Around a cheerful fire benold a happy , cozy room there is a very small chair family circle. , There are father and that for a long, long time has been ·so young as they once vacant. As father and mother talk of mother-not were, for on those calr'n'brows glistens the absent ones, again and again they "the snow of age, that melts on'ly in glance toward that little vacant chair, the sunshine of the by at1d by." Some - arid their eyes grow strangely dim as memory brings before their mental of the children....'....children'no longerhave gone out from under the kind, vision the loved form of their firstprotecting shadEi of the roof-tree that ; born; and every word is more gently sheltered them 'in their infancy. Twb spoken, and every act of their lives ' and or three, perhaps, re mil.in. They have nrade more unselfish-brightened just received letters from the absent glorified, while their hearts are filled ones ;-a marrie 'd sister, happy in her · with higher, sweeter hopes by the renew home, where she reigns a queen, membrance of the loved and lost. But I am expected to speak, not or wielding the golden sceptre 0f .unself1 ish affection; a big.b'rother, out·in the parental affection or family ties, but of that infinitely stronger, sweeter tie world, struggling against temptation, striving to build . up a noble, manly that binds two hearts toge .ther_:_nocharacter, and to reach positions of body knows how; that wonderful [QUESTION: Resol~ecl, That "'Tis better to have )oved and lost, than never to have loved at all."]

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emotion so often felt but never de- fastness, transforms the man of iron fined .; that mysterious and irresisti- will and adamantine heart into a ble influence that penetrates thf:)bosom faithful friend and affectionate co;mof civilized aud savage; the cultured panion; and upon the hoa,ry brow of . and the unrefined, the , illit ,erate and age, ·with matchless grace, she places a diadem of light and beauty and the learned alike. f The histo~y ·of 'this 1emotion is the glory. God pity the m·an w.ho has _ history of our race. ·: :J_'h~sweet, sweet never loved at all ! But is it "better to have loved and trembled on story of human fove 'b'.as the lips and thrilled theheart of al- ' lost, than never to have loved at all?" most every man and ,,;;man since Ask meifit is better that the sun should creation's rnorn, when the earliest ar- rise aud set, than never to rise at all; ticulate utterances of the human voice · better that the rose should bloom and gave expres 'sion to -the sentiment half fade, than never to bloom at all; betdiviue, and the balmy breezes of Para- ter here and there an oasis, thim one dise wafted the whisperings of rirntual unbroken desert. affection through all t:fre rosy bowers "Better to have loved and lost?" -of Eden; while the Alrnighty'Father Let Washington Irving answer-the smiled down on the blissful pair, an<;l'· most beloved of American · writers, sanctioned their sweetcompanionship, known and honored on both sides , of for had he not said, "It is not good the Atlantic, yet looked upon in later for man to be alone? " life as a forlorn old bachelor. · He . . . The infinitely wise anq compassion:- loved once. The object of his a:ffecate Oreato~ ' decreed, that from 'that' _tion; in early life passed outside the fair evening when first " .in the in- circle of earthly love; and he whom finite meadows of heaven bloswmed all the world loved, never 1ov~d again. · the realm · the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of But tell me where ,{ in · the angels," until that day that will and range of thought and literature " witness ·the last act in this life- can be found snch matchless portrayal tragedy, · the currents of human of human love and human woe as in , ', life and hum~n love should run the writings of Washington Irving? parallel, or .else meet and commingle And with what touching approp-riate '...· in one grand stream, to .which all , ness does he adopt the language of , 1 other streams of earthly blessing . , another: ,eetest . "I never heard of arly true 'affe~tioh should be tributary. The SM' harmonies .of nature, . the ' sublimest Bnt 'twas nipped with care th;t, · 1 symphonies of1heaven and earth unite Like the caterpillar, eats the leaves: , 1 · · 1 · 11· h } cl · f Of the Spring's sweetest book-the rose." · 10 um versa ecno w rnn t e o 1or s o .. · ,· •· · · " . · the heart are touuhed by the fairy fin·" Better · to have: loved and lost? ·",' · gers of the ·,go<;lclessof Jove. , , Let Robert Burns answer. Poor lfob- · ' 1 , The golden s~eptre of ,that -same. ert Burns! "A soul like' an ·J.Eolian ' deity, ,vith magic touch, t1m~s the harp, in whose strings the' vulgar fickleness of youth into firm stead- wind, as it · passed · through ' them,

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changed itself into articulate melody," and yet the helpless victim of cruel circumstance. Immortal Burns! . who sounded the key-note of his own undying fame when he said" Though l trudge through dub and mire, · At pleugh or cart, My muse, though hamely in attir e, May win the heart "

Matchless Burns! the plaintive melody of whose simple straine touch ed and thrilled and won the hearts of two continents. But Burns is neve,r half so grand and true a poet, never so inspired and inspiring, as when he pours out the bitter wailing of a broken heart in hopeless lament over his lo.st Mary:

rceollection of lost treasures of the heart has inspired heroic . achievements that have lent a glorious illumination to the otherwise unattractive record of dates and · events. "Better to have loved and lost?" . Let every human heart respond, that has ever at all 0experienced the magic spell, the wondrous power, the allconquering and un-0onquerabJe energy of true, untarnished manly or womanly affection. True affectior:i • is imperishable. Though its cherished objects may fade and pa ss away, yet, like the lingering radiance of an autumnal sunset, it will gild earth and sky and blackest .clouds with golden glory. ·

" Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care; Time .but th' impres sion stronger makes, As , stieams their channels q.eeper wear.''

"Better to have loved and lost? '' Let William Wallace answer-Willace, the hero of a hopeless cause, but none the less a hero. The memory of his murdered: Marion, no ·less than thoughts of , his down-trodden country, nerved him for heroic struggle against tyranny and oppression. Had . he not seen her, his own beautiful Marion, lying so white and cold and · lifeless ? Had he not looked upon that gaping wound, where the cruel dagger had -pierced her warm, loving heart? And the sight fired his soul with that sublime resolution that impelled him to those daring deeds and splendid exploits that 'have made him tpe immortal hero .of history, of romance, and of song. And .more than once the lingering

"They said that Love would die when Hope was gone, And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope; " At last she sought out ~emory, and they togeth er walked , The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope; And Memory fed the s._oul· of Love with tears."

As the majestic oak, strong in the comcious vigor it has acquired from the light and warmth of the preceding summer, fearlessly defies the rude blasts of winter, awaiting, in calm majesty and matchless grace, the return of spring, with its invigorating sunshine aud flowers; so tbe heart that has treasured up the light and warmth and life-giving power of pure affection, bravely bears · tne burdens laid upon it in after years, and though the sunshine o{ the loved one's presence . may have departed, though stormy years and dreary deserts may

INAUGURAL lie between the memory-laden present and the gl9ry-crowned past, yet, even "in the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power."

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ADDRESS. " Take the bright shell from its ~ome on the lea, And wherever it goes it will sing of the sea, So take the fond hear~ from its home and hearth, And 'twill sing of the foved to the ends of the earth."

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[Inaugural address before the Philologian Literary . C. T. TAYLOR.]

Society, January

Gentlemen,-Let me thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me, in choosing me to preside over this Society. Indeed, it is an honor to be chosen president of a body of men having such a purpose and such talent as you have. Never can I requite you for permltting me to occupy the chair, first filled by him whose

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portrait now graces our wall. But how changed its service! Soon this chair became the nest of a Hatcher. Next it was the resting place of a ¡ Boat-wright. Theri it was a stand for . a portion of a calendar and Munday was placed upon it. Not forever was it to be appropriated to such useFor ere the time when twice the sun His yearly course had duly run, Welooked upon this same old chair, Behold, a King was seated there. Then two more came and still a third, And who was this? The proud Jay Bird. Then came Shaddock, Binford, Woodfin, And not anothe<one put in 'Till Owen cam e to force the law. But after him came awful war, When North and South in conflict meet And there was strife till North bad beat. The boys return =with many_groans And choose as next J. E. L. Holmes. They make as yet a feeble start, But next they choose fleet-footed Hatt. With one so swift now in the chair, They soon do place a Province there. They struggle on, and at their will They all adopt a grand ew-bill. Two years pass by, and on this bench They seat a man whose name is French.

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Now two more years in work are spent, And Lyons to this place are eent. Now next they hie to Holland fair, But ere in peace they settle there, Must come some other e3:ger hands And place above them 0. R. Sands. So now o'er Lake and (W) right through Wood They come back West and find it good. . No,v wh_en ·the Quick wrought work is done, They find up here J. B. Lemon. · But list, yon clock now ticks a call, To wbrks which later filled this hall. A Martin perched upon this place. Next Oruik( ed)shan:ks hut no disgrace.

A -little more than a year ago we ineident to it. I trust I shall have your sympathy and assistance during chose one who styled himself "Kin to the most potent discharger." From this term. I shall probably make his administration we pasi-ed to a Far- many mistakes, but I hope you will rar one. After this we sat under the correct them with the spirit of one wat~hfulness of the Ram's-ey(e). The who may himself err. Need I say, next was one whose term was peace- what has been so often said in inaugural addresses, tha ·t the President ful and prosperous. But now, having had various bipds can not make the Society a success and animals, or parts of animals, you .. unless the memb~rs do their part? have at last chosen · the Tayl-or the When upon the floQr, I had a voice end. Yet we trust that this term may in any matter whi.ch came before the not be to the Society what the name body; but now it is mine only to hear of the presiding officer implies. You and repeat your motions, and allow have fortunately placed at my right yon to decide as you think best. hand one who, should I falter, can . . Again I thank yon for this honor, hold the reputation of the Society and ask your co-operation in making _. this term successful, and extending higher than any other member. All of you who have occupied such . the influence and renown of the Philologian Society. a position know the embarrassments

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One clay of the session '89-'90 will long be reme-q1bered by thfl students of Richmond College-Saturday, December 14, 1889. Hon. J. Taylor Ellysoa, Mayor of Richmond, took

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the students of this institution and some of the officers on a trip down the James to Duteh Gap and retnrn. Invitations were sent out some time before the appointed da.;y. The trip

THE HISTORIC was much talked of. There was a great deal of pleasure derived from the anticipation of it. .Auy one wbo has never been a student at a college, away from home, cannot appreciate the position of a student. Only a student knows how much pleasure is to he derived frorn even the anticipation of snch an excursion as this. Anything that breaks in upon the methodical, monotonous, routine way in which a student lives, affords him a great deal of_pleasure. So the proposed excursion down the river 'was hailed with delight. All who could go, at once determined to do so. The sun rose on the morning of December 14th shining as brightly as ever, but the clouds soon hid it from this, howview. Notwithstanding ever, we assembled en mo.sscin front of the college building, c.lnd promptly at 9 o'clock, when the wor<l "Forward ! " was heard, as . happy, as jolly a set of fellows a.::;you ever saw, marched oft the college campus, en There 1路011/e for the Ariel's wharf. was not a face but had its smile, not a voice but Ind something of joy in its ring. We were all happy. Latin, Greek, Mathematics, English, Chemistry, I'liilo:30pJiy, Physics, French, and German were all forgotten, and our thunghts were upon the good time that wm, coming. Various were the comments made upon us as we marched do,vn the str~ets through the eapital of" dear Old Virginia." One eornment was made by which we were vcr'y much flattered(?). An old "bofo' de ,vah" negro, who was standing 011 the corner of Bank and Ninth streets, ox.claimell a,,; wo passed: "I jes tell

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yer masters yer all looks a heap het-' ter den we niggers duz." , The clouds were still thick and heavy, but we marched merrily on, and soon reached the boat's wharf. Promptly at 10 o'clock the whistle sounded and we were of[ Those ,vho were upon the shore might have heard coming floating hack over the waters shouts something路 like the following: Rah-RahRah, R-C-V, Rip-Rap, Rah-Tab, SizBoom Bee, and "What's the 路matter with Mayor Ellyson ? " "He's all right." "Who's all right?" "Mayor Ellyson." We all shouted because we felt like it, and we hope no one will censure us for it. If you had been there you would have shouted with us. We were pretty soon out into the channel, and were moving down the James. 路 Come and let's go over in fancy the route we travelled that day, and with the same company. It will indeed be a pleasure to us, and we hope to you also. Let's look around and see who are on board with us. Well, there are Prof. Harris and Dr. Ryland, of Richmond College, and there is Dr. Blanton, of the Medical College of Virgrnia. That jolly crowd over there are about fifty Medical College students. About one hundre .d and fifty of our boys are with us. Last is this quiet, happy-faced individual over here. He is Mayor J. Taylor Ellyson, tho giver of this excursion, and our very clear friend. The senior members of the party are making themselves generally useful, pointing out the places of histori~

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cal and other interest along the banks of the ·Jam .cs. Prof. Harris is over here; let' s go near and hear what he · is saying. "That piece of elevated ground ju •st above the C. & 0. RR. wharves is unqu estionably the site of one of the residences of Powhatan." " These wharves," he continuetz, pointing to the C. & 0. wharves, "consti. tute the easter~ terminus of the C. & 0. R. R. Betweell them· and the Richmond depot there is a tunnel about 4,000 feet iu length, passirig under Church and Union Hills." Dr. C. H. Ryland is e;alling us. He wants to show us a littl e book that tells us a great deal about the country we are pa':lsing. We will see if we cannot learn something from it. This place over on the right, where you ·see a framed building, is called Whitby, and ,ms sett led as early as 1620. These dykes and dams you see, are like Eads' Mississippi river jetties, and are intended to contract and deepen the channel. This place here on the right (Chesterfield) bank, about ,,vbere the old chimney stands, is the site of the former ·town of Warwick. It is a little over four miles from Richmond. The poet, Edgar Allen Poe, when quite a young man, swam for a wager agaiust a rising tide from a point near where the Ariel's wharf now is to Warwick and walked back to Richmond. The fact was attested by witnesses of it. ·well, here we are at the Monitor fleet. Let's get off with the crowd and inspect them. The officers of the fleet are very courteous to us, fl,nd

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take pleasure in showing _us around and telling us everyth ing of interest they cau. · They esteem it an honor to have the Mayor and his friends visit them. This monitor, the Lehigh, has twelve indentations in her sid e. Let's ask this officer to tell us someth ing of her history. " Well, sirn," says he, " I will, with 1-deasnn,. She got into a pretty warm engagement at Fort Monroe; became disabled and drifted ashore. When her officers found that they could not work her, they turned the solid side of her turret to the enemy, and their shots made these inde11tations in her." "What weight balls do her guns fire?" '' Abo ut one huudrcd pounds." . "How much pow(ler?" .'' About fifty po1,rn<ls." The whistle of our boat is henrd. Now that we have thanked the officer, let's get aboard _again. As our boat moves, we merrily_ sing some college song, such as "We have gaily launehed our bark upon the stream," or "My bonnie lie s over the ocean.'' Now let 's learn some more of tho places of interest. These old abutments that you see on both sides of the river a.re the remains of the Confederate po11toon bridge built of canal boats and schooners during tho seven days' battles in 1802. The dark brick honse on the right, quite a disttmce from the river, was the residence of Col. Ardiibald Gary, a prominent Rovolutio11ary patriot. On this little stream, called Falling creek, just this sid e ofDre, ,vry's Bluff,

"rHE HISTORIC was erected the first iron furnace in the colony. Now Prof. Harris calls us and points out the abutments of a Confederate rnilitary bridge, the building of which · Of course this inhe superintended. terests us. He points out Drewry's Bluff, on our left, and has many interesting things to say about it. This point, as we see, was an exceedingly strong place for a fort. Look how high the bank rises, almost perpendicular. The bluff commands a view of the river four miles up and two miles dowu. This bluff, just ahead of us, two miles fr.om Drewry's, and on the opposite side of the river, is called Chaffin's. Ar, we pass, yon will Now be aule to see the earthworks. if you will look back up the river you hav·e a fine view of Fort Harrison, to the right of Chaftiu's. "rhis stretch of · water is called Devil's Reach. Here the Confederate flag-of-truce steamer Schultz accidentally ran upon a Confederate torpedo and was destroyed. "rhree or four men ·were killed. We have passed Signal Hill, where the Confederates had a signal station. These redoubts on our right were a portiol} of the Confederate line, which extended from Drewry's Bluff to Hewlett's farm, and thence to Petersburg. Well, here we are at Dutch Gap, our journey's end. '£his gap is about 120 yards wide. Bishop Meade, writing about it in his "Old Churches and Families of Virgiuia," says: "It has heen called Dutch Gap, because there are indubitable marks of the commencement of a channel by

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the first Dutch settlers across its narrow neck, by which the water might be , let through and seven miles of travel thus saved. The channel was opened about half way across-that then abanis, about sixty yards-and doned. The city laid off here was called IIenri0opolis, or, the city of Henry." Gen. B. ]'. Butler, iu 1864, cut the caual through to the depth of .five or six feet and then abandoned it. He ·wanted to get his gunbots past Hewlett 's Bluff , but the Confederate gunboats frightened him off. In 1871 and 1879 the United States Government and the city of Richmond made the canal navigable. · Our boat has turned around, aud we are on our way back to Richmond. Now since we have informed ourselves regarding the points of interest along the shore, let's mingle with the boys and have a good time that way. Let's sing and · shout. Look at Prof. Harris and Dr. Ryland over there, and Dr. Blanton and Mayor Ellyson over here. They have all become boys again, and are joining in the shouts and songs. vVe are · having a jolly good time, aren't we? What is this Listen: crowd singing? " On my arm her soft hand rested, Rested light as ocean foam." "'Twas from Aunt Dinah's quilting party I was seeing Nel.lie home."

Let's join in the chorus: " I was seeing N"elliehome, I was seeing Nellie home, From Aunt Dinah's quilting party_ I wa8 seeing Nellie home."

We will have some rollicking, joy-

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ous, happy songs and some sweet have taken you, in fancy, over the oute we travelled that day and have hymns. J'.)id "Jesus, Lover of my afely brought you back. Soul," ever sound so sweet? vVe all Yes,aswe said in the beginning, enjoy any kind of music on the water. the · 14th day of December will long Well, here we are at Warwick Park. Our host has prepared a regu- be remembered by all who partieipalar feast of good things for us, and all ted in that excursion. It did us good. of us are pretty hungry. Let's get We came back to the college refreshoft and partake. Did you ever see ed and with new strength. We will never forget the last thi::lg that we did sandwiches disappear so quickly? leaving the boat. .As the boat before Riding on the water has giveu us a first-class appetite, but the ever glided softly up to the ,vharf, we all sang together that sweet hyrn n, thoughtful :Mayor has remembered that it would, and there is plenty here we gather at the riv er, for all of us. We have had a good "Shall,vhere bright angels' feet have trod, lunch and feel better now, don't we? With its crystal tide forever Prof. Harris ie going to call a meetFlowing by the throne of God." ing of all of us now for the purpose Oh, how sweetly it sounded! · Our of passing resolutions of thanks to were Efted up to Him who thoughts be tendered his Honor the Mayor. of every good gift. We giver the is Of course you are in favor of it. then. You would happy all were ·Now that was nicely doue, wasn't it? Did you ever hear a body vote have known it had yo~ heard us singmore heartily and with such una- ing. Our thoughts we-re turned- to nimity? Wasn't that ·a pretty little . the time when we shall be gliding up speech the Mayor made in response to the wharf on the eternal shore, and ,~e hoped that all who were singing to Prof. Harris's remarks? The whistle is blowing, so we will so joyfully might at that time also get on board. We · are off now,• and mingle their voices in oue glad anthem of praise. will soon be back to Richmond. "WRECK." ·Here we are. , Baek again. We

SCIENCE NOTES. [Editors-J. THE

BRAIN

WEIGHT

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HUTCHINSON,

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WoMAN.-The subject of the comparative weight of• the brain of man and woman comes up periodically, and almost always s.>me incorrectness of statement or inadequacy of knowledge is 'to be observed. The Medical Rec-

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ord states that the average weight of the male brain is 49h- ounces; of the difference of female, 44 ounces-a over :fiveounces. Woman's brain has a higher specific gravity. The man has a larget brain in proportion to his stature, but woman's brain is larger

~CIENCE NOTEB. in proportion to her weight. The difference between the wejght of brain of man and woman increases with civili.zation, and is the most marked in the white races. In Parisians this difference amounts to 222 grammes, or nearly seven ounces; in European nations generally, 163 gra.mmes; in Hindoos, 120 grammes; in Australians, 103; in negrnes, 62; in Chinese, 15. The greatest sexual difference in brain weight is found at birth, when the female brain weighs 337 grammes and the male, 393. The female brain begins to lose in weight after the age of thirty; that of man, not till ten or fifteen years later. But the lo~s in woman is very slight, however, and she keeps up a high brain ,veightlater than man, so that in old age the difference in brain weight is reduced to its minimum, or a little over three ounces. The limits, as a rule, below which i(liocy exists, is placed at 37½ ounces in a man and 32½ ounces in a ·womau. There is just :five ounces less of brain matter needed to keep a woman from idiocy than is needed for a man. So the average difference of brain weight of the sexes represents uot tissue necessary for mentality, but corresponds ·with the smaller muscular mass and shorter stature of woman.

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abound in such localities, and li.e hucl_ clled in bunches like eggs in a nest. Distributed on a floor or other level surface, at distances not exceeding two or three feet, they immediately commence moYing tovvarcl a common centre with amusing celerity, canse(l, doubtless, by the material of which they are composed. It is needless to add that they are 't1sua1ly devoid of rnoss.-Scfrntijfr Ame1'ierm.

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A NEGRO MATHEMA'L'ICIAN.-Sam Summers, the negro proLligy, ,vas in towu recently, and, as usual, eutertained a large crowd, who were testing him with all kinds of mathematical problems. Summers is a negro 34 years old, without the slightest education. He canuot read or write, and does not know one figure from another. He is a common farm hand, aud to look at him and watch his actions he seems about half-witted, but his quick and invariably correct answer to any example in arithmetic, 110 · matter how diffic?lt, is simply wonderful. · With the hundreds of tests that he has submitted to, not a single time has he failed to give the correct answer in every instance. Somo examples given him were as follows : How much gold can be bought for $792 if gold is worth $1.65. Multiply 597,312 by 13~. If a grain of wheat produces seven grains, and these be sown the second year, each ROLLING S'l'ONES OF l'{EVADA.-These stones are spheroidal, about the size yielding the same increase, how many of hickory nuts, of magnetic ferrugi- bushels will be produced at this rate 110us composition, and are found in in twelve years if 1,000 grains make comparatively level regions where tl1e a piut? If the velocity of sound is surface is of rock. They collect in 1142 feet per second, the pulsation of the bottom8 of shallow basins that the heart seventy per minute, after

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seeing a flash of lightnin g th er e a re 1831, and by :May it had spr ead to tw enty pul sation s count ed befor e you western Europ e ; but it only re ach ed h ear it thund er , wh at distanee is th e thi s · conn t ,·y in J a11uary, 1832, and cloud fr om th e earth , and wh at is th e th en p1·cn ,il ed b ut slig htly. A noth er and seve r e epid emic st art- . tim e aft er seei ng th e :fla~h of li g htnin g until you h oar t he thnn<l er ? A com - eel in R ussia in D ecemb er , 1836; mi ssion m erc hant receiveu seventy within a month it app ear ed in Lonbag:::iof wh eat , em:h cont ainin g thr oe don , and rapidl y spr ea d over Eur op e. bu shels, thr ee p eck s, and t hr ee quarts : Thi s tim e, again, A meri ca wa s not how m any bu shels di d h o receive? aftecte d. A n epid emi c of con sid era ble ex tent pr evail ed in th e U nit ed A nd so on. vVith R obin so n's, Ray's, and other States ab out ton yea rs ag o, a nd th ere hi gh er arith me ti cs befo 1·e th em, th ose h ave Leon var ious mil<l m anifestation s , who ha ve test ed him , as yet have b ee n of th e disease. On th e wh ole, howumtbl e t o find any examp le tha t with eve r, No rth A merica does uot see m a few m ome nt s' th ough t on hi s pa rt to be very favora bl e to th e develop m ent of ep id emi c influ enza in it s h e is not abl e to co rrect ly answer.wo rst for ms, a ud it is unlik ely th at L onisril1e Commcn·irrl. we sh a11 h ave a seve r e visit ation, if LUEN½A.-Th o epid emi c we h ave any at a1l. . EPIDE M [C l N:b' Th e di sease is not dan ge rou s, exch wo h ave alr eady whi enza ot influ some tim es t o ~hildr en or th e cept referr ed to as occurrin g-in R ussia h as spr ead in to :Finla nd and easte rn P rn s- age d , whil e th e form er oft en show a · sia , and is not unlik ely to spr ead clooicled exe mption. Th ere is no doubt th at thi s new thrnn 6·h out li:ur ope, and eve n r oach thi s <:onntr y . Th e disease tra vels epid emi c will prov e · a boon to bacterapidly, and h fts b een kn own to mak e riology , for Sei fert 's iT1icro coccus ha s all Eur op e sneeze ,vi.thin six weeks, not quit e sati sfied patholo g ists, and so th at we ma y exp ect an ·arriv al h ere ,vo an xionsl_yawait the annonn cement b efor e o ur wint er mo nth s are ove r. of th e <liscovery of th e influ enza baIt used to b 0 thon g ht th at thi s epi- cillu s, only r eg rettin g for th o sak e of d emie m ove d in definit e cycles of on e Ame rica n science that th o mi asm alhundr ed y ear s. A lth ough i;;ueh au ways beg in s in th e Ea st and travel s id ea lia s lon g bee n ab andon e<l,it is ·a vVest. Th e ba cteri ologi cal laborato (:Urious faet that th e influ enza pr e- ri es of E urop e wil1 th erefor e h ave th e vailed in A meri ca on e hundr ed year s fir st chan ce. Th e di sease is und oubt edly du e to ago, and Dr. John Warr en, in a lett er to D _r. L ett som , says th at " onr some micro-or gani sm which float s in belov ed Pr esid ent vVas hin gto ri is but th e air , and whi eh infect s the hu _mau now r eeovering from a se vere and system, but is generally kill ed in so dangerou s attack of it. " doiu g . For influ enza is but slightly In 1830 an epid emi c sta rt ed in if at all contagiou s. vVe observ e that som e feeling of China, it r &ach ed Ru ssia in January,

SCIENCE a Jann prevails lest this epidemic be a precursor· to cholera, as was the case in 1831 and 18-17. There have been, however, plenty of cholera epidemics without a prece. ding influenza, and a great many influenza epidemi<'s without any assoThe micro-organisms ciate cholera. of the two diseases are as essentially ditlerent as are the diseases th~rnscl ves. The · cholera germ _lives in water and soil, the influenza germ in the air. The relation between the two diseases has been, we belieV-e, purely acoidental.-Ml'1/1/"ld Rr'(;(m/. GERMANEMIGRATlON".-Of the persons emigrating from Germany to the United States, nine hundred out of every thousand are titted to enter the various walks of active .Arncl'icun life . tha11 fifteen pet' . Few emigrants-less under ten years, sixty-:tiv.o ccnt.-are per cent are between twe1lt_y anrl :tifty, but by far tho larger part nearer Tho emigrants arc, _a::;a r:ulo, twenty. strong, healthy, well trained, aud inThe thing tliey lack most telligent. is a kno,vledge of tbo English lan'fhey have a good eclncatinn, guage. and one which bas specially fitted them for that branch of business or labor in whieh they usually continue when they go to tho United States. Of those emigrnting, fodory operntives constitute 25 per eent., clay laborers 12 per cent., small farmers 25 cent., commercial men 10 per ce11t., professkilled laborers, including sional men, 12 per cent., miners ·6 per cent., and 10 per cent. with no <lctinite trade or occu patio11, make up every hundred that lea\·o Gorman

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ports for the United States. No artisans or tradesmen go to the Uniterl . States except to stay there. Emigrants · go ont to better their conrlition and make the Lest possible use of their Not one in a time and strength. States with United the to goes dozen any other itlea. With the Germans their going is a voluntary act, a free choice. They know well just ·what tliey are doing, what to expect. They know before going, for they have lJeon toltl that they must work, and they are willing to, aml do so. No golden visions haunt their healthy sleep, nor do they have clay dreams of fortunes They know ma.de by doing nothing. that a competency in America; a_ living hetter than the one enjoyed in Germany, is to be pnrchasctl by hard labor. And they know also, for it has become a proverb he1·e, that they must do almost twice the amount or work in a clay in America a::;tl1cy have had exacted from them lierc. The land where" time is money" is known ~6 them by letters and newspapers. On the whole, German immigrant::; wore always, are now, and always will be, so long as they prcsen·e their rat..:e drnracteristics, a desirable class. They are, as a rnle, honest, healthy, thrifty, intelligent, .and of goo<l habits. In a11 immigrant, what more to be desired? They always were and are today good citizens. Their faults they have in common with other men. , Beiug i_11tolligont,tliey naturally prcfei· the United States to all other educated, they know a countries; good deal of its history, it:i tendencies, and what it offers. If some have gone Southward to the lower half of

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the eontinent, it was because efforts were made to direet the stream from The emigrant of the United States. to day looks upon the United States as no El Dorado, but as the best country under heaven for a mr,n or family 路willing to work, and Germans are "vYorkers.-Jw :-ob Mu eller, Cunsul-General, R epurt tu. 8tiltc D epal'tnie1d. UTILIZING NIAGARA FALLs.-The to~vn of Niagara Falls, Ont., has ill course of construction a new system of water worlrn. The work 路 is interesting from the fact that a greater part of it is being done near the briuk of the HM.;eshoe falls. A tnnnel 125 feet long, 6 by 7 feet in size, the mouth of which is 35 feet below the brink _ofthe precipice, and which has now reached a depth through solid limestone rock of about 50 feet, is made to serve as a tail race from the wheel-honseto the pump-house: These buildings will stand just beyond the

MESSENGER.

The necessary Table-Rock House. vrnter to operate the works will come to the wheel-house through a wooden tube 6 by 8 feet in size, and about 600 feet -long. A shaft is being snnk thruugh the rock to allow of the diseharge of the volume of water coming through the tube on to the waterwheel and into the tail race or t111111el. At the upper end of the wooden tn be will be an open cut 12 feet wide and 11 feet deep, extending about 150 feet outwar,l toward the northern end of Cedar Island, where the water is deep. Outtii ,lo or i11sido tltc wooden tube will be placed a 14 inch pipe, the end of which will extend some few feet beyond the month of the open cut 11e'.tr Cedar Islan,1, antl through this pip e will come the water that will be the town for throughout furnished g e11cral use. Work on the tnnnel is carried 011 night and day. The works are expected to be in路 路 opcratiun by Jnne next.-S cientific Ameri can. ~

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E. HuT CHlNSON, D. II. Ruc1rnR.]

It is with plea irnre that we learn that Mrs. James Thomas has given $1,000 to begin t,he work of museum in the lJeantifnl Jame s mounting 'l'homas Memorial 1[all. The Literary Societieti ~re doi11g good work. They have a larger rnembershi p than usual, and much interest is manife,-,tecl by the new students who barn eo11nocted themselves with tlw Sorieti, !K,

One hundred and fifty-eight students have matriculated for thesession thus far. Their average age is Sixty-eight twenty and a half years. of the young men have the ministry in view. A large number of the stndenti:; arc professed Christians, and arc engage<l in active Christian work.

'l'o irn _E1.,1,;cTED.-The Trustees of the College at their Dccem ber rneeting llecidecl to elect at the annual

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meeting in ,June a Professor of Mod- imitable Thomas Nelson Page is the ern Languages. The geptleman who orator of the Societies. We call this now fills · that chair so acceptably is an unusually strong team, and with not a full professor, but" instructor." other attractions thrown in, vYe have Wo are informed that the way is open · the promise of a brilliant week. We to any who may apply, and there will have no doubt many of our · co-laborno doubt be a lively contest for the ers in the classics, math., ·&c., will French and German school. give eela.t to · the ·happy occasion by their'splendid successes. .

A

VERY

KIND

AND VALUABLE

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The College Library has received from Rev. C. A. G. Thomas, now of Elizabeth City, N. C., bound copies of 1'/ie Monthly Musings, the first paper published by the Literary Societies, and the Messenger. We learn from Dr. Ryland, · Librarian, that these pa- . pers supply what had heen a serious break in the files of these publications, and are invaluable. We unite with the Societies and the entire College in thanks to our honored former student. His men;1ory is cherished here and he will always be welcomed. THE

NEXT

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doubt some wil1 say it is too soon to speak of Commencement. The Intermediates and Finals loom up and hide even the great events of the week ending June 20th. But as good chroniclers of Ollr daily doings in College, we must call attention to the fact that Dr,- John A_.Broadus, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who is regarded as seconcl to no preacher in th.is country, is booked for the Commencement sermon; Rev; Dr. rl'u!Jper, of Louisville, is the Alumni orator; L. R. Hamberlin, the witchery of whose "Marble Heart'' last June ·so charmed his audience, is the poet; 'and our ovvn in-

ShoulJ the wishes of the students be consulted, there ·would he ·discovered a decided objection to the contern plat eel a cloption of co-educationat Richmond College. However, it . is hardly to be expected that this aniJOuncement will have much influence in deciding the question. Indeed, we are heartily of the opinion that the students' judgment unfortunately has little weight in college legislation. This aversion to co-education at · Richmond Coliege is not imaginary. There is a strong conservative element which will be reluctantly driven away from college should tho co-educational movement be successful. This statement is not based on rumor, but on the declaration of several students. Let us be understood. vVe do not purpose to write an essay against coeducation in general, to deny that there are any benefits accruing from the system in its entirety; we simply wish to•discuss the question in regard to its adoption at Richmond College, and to ask the question; Is it expedient to have co-education at Richmond College? We say, No! In the first place, we can see no neecl of it. · In those districts · where the female · scho6ls are of inferior grade, the necessity of the case might

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clemand,the opening of colleges to the fair sex. But, in Virginia, the seat of the finest female semiuaries in the South, there surely can be no strong popular desire for opening male institutions. As a fact, there is no class of young ladies clamoring for admission into Richmond College. We naturally surmise that the movemont is not the result of ~n external pressure, but an endeavor to keep abreast of the timesa device to attract a larger number of students. Would not such an action intimate defection and incompleteness in the standards of such institutions as Hollins, Miss Baldwin's, &c.? As a result: students would be drawn from these institutions to swell the number _at Richmond College. Every one's good judgment appreciates the superior advantages of educating the sexes separately. Believing, as we do, in educating the sexes separately, a11clthat the existing female institutions are competent to give higher instruction, we

cannot see the need or' the move in Virginift. Now, in case, as has been urged by some, none except those desiring to . take special studies are expected to tajrn advantage of this move, the step will manifestly be impolitic; for then, in the place of several students whom she loses, the College only gains a number (perhaps smaller than her · loss) of special female students. If we are to enter again upon our public school life, let us have it in its is, hold out induceentirety-that mef\.tSto a number of young ladiee and not stop with a few specialists. · A certain spirit of respe ct a11<lgallantry has forbidden us the use of the common argument that the standard of the College would be lowered by the admission of young ladies. However, our gallantry wiJl not hinder us from expressing our c_>pinionof the best interests of the College, and we hope the Board of Trustees will look at the question from our standpoint, and we are satisfied o'ur• opinitms will m ntually agree. 0

LOCALS. [Editors-HENRY

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smells like it's been raining."

Give us the'' grip," old boy.

"It

What's the matter with the bell?

What's become of Mr. Cookshanks?

Would you say that was a mule of Oh, those good old Christmas boxes . . a word or a horse of a word ?-Prof. Pollard. Blessed is the man that does'nt know he has a sfomacb.-Professor Mr. D. (on excursion): "Professor, is that Drue-Hill-Bluff!" Th:ornas.

LOCALS. Nothing will so surely destroy a public man as to let him severely alone.-Mayor J. T. Ellyson. Mr. M., of Louisa; "Next year I will get my B. A. .Soon after I hope to be a PA." Mr. H. : "How much 1s the triculation fee for February ? " Mr. Y., of Tenn. : " Where is Chinbone-razor Park?" Prof. P. : " Why do you call this the Voltaic Pile ? " Mr. B., of Culpeper: "Becau se Voltaire invented it."

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Mr. S. : " Where can I get some Mu Sigma Rho visiting cards?" A Rat: " Can I get my hair cut at Cohen's?" Mr. L. (reading Latin):" Professor, shall I scan this?" Professor: "If you can. " (Laughter.) · Mr. H. to M. : " What does the word sqwm' mean ? " Mr. M. : " It means a negro womau." Professor : " Congegate Bonleuo.'' Student: ")3ouleuo, blueyes, blueye." Professor: " Next." Mr. C.: " Blue, bluer, bluest." Medical student (at the monitors): " I would hate to undertake to patch

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up a mau that got stri1ek by one of these cannons." . " Did you ever ham the henflewend ways? ,," Joy and Temperance and Repose . Slam the door on the doctor's nose." Billy : " I tell you, boys, my girl ha s eyes as beautiful as Michael Angelo ever painted." A teacher in a Western town, who asked one of .her pupih, ·to procure a grammar, received the following note from the girl's mother : "I do not desire that Mattie shall ingage in g·rammar as I prefer her to ingage in more yousful studies and can learn her to speak and write proper myself. · I have went through two grammars and can't say as they did me no good-I prefer Mattie to ingage in German and drawing and vokal music on the piano." The Christian is not a manakin, but a man.-Dr. W. W. Landrum. You flunk, I flunk, Don't you flunk, old pard; Everybody flunk 'cause I flunk, But don't you flunk so hard. Mr. Y. : "I got a dandy Christmas card to-day. It cost me three cents." ·" What 's the matter with the 0. K.'s?" They're all right !

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Bro. H.'s library on the "Second" Mr. W. (on excursion), seeing an old chimney' standing alone at some is open to the boys at all hours of the distance, remarked that likely it had · night. a hi~tory. . Professor : "No clonht that onee a " She has two eyo8, so soft, and br~nvn, Take care! house stood with it." (College yell.) She gives a side-glance and looks down, Mr. J. F. Carpenter has submitted Beware ! Beware ! the following solution to the problem published in the last MESSENGER, Truet her not, She is fooling thee!" which is the closest yet received : 9

7 3 1 9-9 (fraction)

21 Go to the head of the class, pard . A note handed by Mr. -: "December 20, 89. . Mr. Hase. Pleas fix thes pant8 and Nead." · I will setle for it.

Mr. H. (at monitors): "Great goodness, boys, a fellow could crawl into that cannon, turn round and come · out." Professor to Mr. W. : "How is it that we come to be studying deriva~ tion? " Mr. W. : "Bei.;anse we are studying Bain." "

I'rofossor : "How -i"vouldyou take , hold of a sword to wield it?" Country boy: "I deGlarn they have Mr. vV.: ." Of it·s ha1.1dle." the mummy covered with phosphate ' sacks." . " Old bell! thongh soundest not, And the Chairman he is hot." The Chairman (at Christmas): "Pat, your daddy will whip you for cutting The following was found on the tato-day." Pat : " I don't care if he does. That ble of zemma 28: "Mr. Whit, you will last only a little while, but a re- must observe the Rules of the Library while 'quilling.'-C. H. R." citation will last a whole hour."

Mr. Y'.s soliloquy on being made to pay for a broken glass and tho repainting of an injured window-facing: :Farewell to Richmond and the College, I bid yon both adieu, I may emigrate to Greece flOille day, But never back to you,"

Business Manager of F. B. T.: "I just threw my foet up ·on the Lee monument, dmwe<l my chewing gum, and watuhed our boy8 wipe out the R. M.s." , Mr. J., of Surry: Gray's Elegy? "

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Mr . ·w., of Texas (morning after Mr. S., of Orange: "Did you ever hear the chimes at the Centinel Meth'' Taffy Pulling" at MeRs): "Boys, : o<list church?" what's good for a blister?" Miss N.: "You mean the Central, A hyperbola is an ellipse that ha.i don't yon ? " run around in a wash-tub until it has broken itself in two, and then turned "Where .does Church Hill begin? ." wrong side outwards.-Professor E. At 19th street, of course.

B. Smith.

A thought suggested bJDr. W.W. · Landrum: January is the first jewel in the crown of our opportm1ity. As each . succeeding jewel is presented, Richmond College. let us put it to the highest possible Report of Mr. -----for the u,:;e, so that when our beautiful earth month of December, 1889. shall have again p{tssed through her Stand- Sid( ExNot orbit, we may each have one grand Classes. rng . . cusod. excu'd royal diadem. . Rat: "I Christmas."

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Who was the Benedict Arnold in the Christmas camp? Prof. '1'.: "What will you do with before his reasoning poewrs are developed ? " Mr. T. : " Spank him." a child

Temperance : "I wonld not eat a chicken that roosts in a crab-apple tree." " The horns 'were all right, And so were the hours for lecture." '' At tafty and sugar stews, Though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, · There'lil no place like home."

The following officers were elected January 3, 1890, by the Literary So-· cieti es in College : Mu Sigma Rho.-Final Orator, E. vV. Greaner; President, J. H. Whitehead; Vice-President, J. E. Noft- · singer; Censor, W. F. vVarreu; Recording Secretary, N. H. Harris; Cor_ responding Secretary, W. A. Goodwin; Chaplain, F .. C. Johnson; Treasurer, J . . H. {Franklin; Critic, J; 0. Harwood; Sergeant-at -Arnrn, M. W. Thomas; Floor M:-inager, R. vV. Hatcher; Monthly Orator, A. F. Dean. Philolo.9ian.-Fina1 Orator, H. F. Williams; President, 0. T. Taylor; Vice-Presid ent, ;J. E. Hutchinson; Censor, W. M . Jones; R.ecor'diug Sec~ ~etary, C; 0. Crittenden ; Corresponding Secretary, E. E. Dncllej; Chaplain, G. F. Hamble~on; Treasur ·er, Gahiett Ryland ; Critic, D. K. Walthall; Sergeant-at-Arms, W. B. Mc-

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Garity ; Floor Managers, T. L. Light and E. P. Wright; Monthly Orator, W.R. Keef. Mesers. A. and D., calling on their best girls at the Institute, went to the back door. They were there asked whether they had cabbage or Rweet potatoes for sale. Prof. Edmund Harrison's lecture on " The Roman Forum _" was given in the College chapel on Tuesday evening, December 10th. We give on another page a few of the Professor's thoughts. We would like to publish his whole lecture. . He was greeted by a large and intelligent audience from the city. An interesting feature of the evening were the stereoscoptic views of !' Scenes in Old Rome," which were prepared by Mr. .J. B. Winston espe<jally for the occasion. Heaven is where the long parted part no more.-Dr. W. W Landrum. " Mayor's · Office, Richmond, Va., Dee. 10, 1889. I shall be pleased to have the pleasure of your company op a visit to the monitor fleet and Dutch Gap on the morning of Saturday the 14th of Decembe. The boat will leave the Ariel wharf promptly at 10 o'clock, and returning, will reach the city' .by 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Yours very truly, 'l'Anoit ·B:1,1ssoN." The above kiud invitation was tendered to all the students and officers both of Richmond College and the Mcdieal College of Virginia. Promptly at 10 o'clock the whistle blew and we were on our journey; the

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respective college yells .were frequently heard, and more frequently was it heard, "What's the matter with Mayor Ellyson ? " " He's all right." "Who's all right?" "Mayor Ellyson." It was often heard in chorus, ." My bonnie lies over the ocean," "Down on the Suawanee river," and many other selections. We soon arrived at the monitor fleet, where the Mayor and his party were heartily greeted. The oflieeril of the fleet seemed to take pleasure in instructing the students. We did not slack speed again until passiug through Dutch Gap. Here the students kept his Honor the Mayor ancl the Professors busy answering questions. Soon we were reversed, and by the skill and good management of Capt. Cunni~ ·gham, Sr., the ,tug's power was tested, and within an h<_rnr we arrived at Warwick Park. Here the Mayor had bounteimsly prepared a delicious dinner, whieh was partaken of boun.... tifu1ly. After dinner, Prof. Harris called the excursionists to order, and upon a motion made by Dr. Ryland and carried, 11-rpoiuted a committee to draw up resolutions. The committee · retired and soon produced the following, which was unanimously ftdoptecl: '· Whereas on this tho 14th day of .December, 1889; in compliance with the invitation of the Hon. J. 'raylor Ellyson, Mayor of Richmond, about two hundred officers and students of Riehrnond College and of the Medical College of Virginia, have enjoyed an excursion by boat down the James river to Dutch Gap aud return, stop-

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The Patres sat in the Curia-this was the Roman Senate, which \Yas the foundation ofRome's greatness . From the Curia went forth decrees that decide<l the fate -of kings and princes, Near here was the small bronze temple of Janus, through which the armies must pass in goiug to war. Now we see the beautiful temple of Vesta, ·where the sacred :fire was 'kept. The mother of Remus and Romulus was a vestal, and as such was doomed to qie. Vest~ presided over the :firesides. The Vestals were six in number-they were spotless virgins, robed in spotless w bite. They were ehosen by the Senate when they were between six and ten years ofage. Thoy were to serve for thirty years-ton yearii as novitiatef;l, ten in active duties, and ten in teaching the younger members. ·The Vestals were consulted on state occasions. The fourth ee11tury B. C. they passed out of • ex. istence. · · The Rostrum was the place where the orator stood, from whose lips fell the burning words which decided the fate of many men. No Roman could hope -to attain to prominence who ·was unacqua,inted with -oratory and law. To this place was brought the noble dead to have their funeral oration Here Augustus Cresar pronounced. delivered his great oration over the dead body of Cresar the Great. Rome owed her greatness as mueh to the customs of her people as to the force of her arms. Family life was of the greatest ;noment to the Roman. The weakening of the rn_arriage bond was one great cause of the downfall of the empire. ·

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A new Institut~ Miss, not knowing that 10 o'cloek was the hour for retiri ug, became deeply absorbed in her studies. The gas was suddenly turned out, and throwiug her hands up to her eyes, she exelaimed, shrieki.ngly, '' I'm blind, I'm blind, I'm blind." We are told that s-ince then, it lrns been almost impossiple to persuade her that she can see. Mu SIGMA RHo PuBLIC DEBATE.Another ray of suushine comes to cheer the wintry life of the hard-working student. Another brilliant display oflogic, wit, and humor. ·Again the old Mu Sigma Rho Society covers herself with glory. Flowers and female loveliness grace the occasion. Music lends its enchanting charms. And Richmond appreciates it all . Her gallant sons and ~fair daughters crowd our halls. The annual public debate of the Mu Sigma Rho Literary Society of Richmond College was held in the College chapel on Friday night, December 13th, 1889. The committee of arrangements, consisting of R. E. Chambers, of Maryland (chairman), J. l-Inrt Whitehead, of Virginia, and J.E. Etchison, Jr., of Virginia, had displayed much skill and taste in the performance of _the task assigned them. At 8:15 P. M. an appropriate prayer by Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. · D., turned the thoughts of the audience · to the Supreme Souree · of blessing, and prepared the minds and hearts of . all for higher appreciation and fuller enjoyment of the privileges and pleasures afforded by the occasion . .

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The witty and ·popular -President of the Society, Mr. M. W. Thomas, of Maryland; then welcomed ·the aucli~nce'in · an address that sparkled with goins of thought and jewels of phraseology. "Snch _occasions are the oases in the desert of · student life." He spoke -of the objec-ts ·of literary societies a~·d'of public debate, and referred to ·the frequently trnr\'.icognized value of the training afrurcled by the various feat.ures of our institutions of learning. · when "As · the morning-glory, touched by the genial rays of the morning sun, opens its lovely petals, attracting the admiration of all behdlders, who never think of the silent but indispensable force that gave it its beauty and fragrance, so the men \.vho go out from oollcge halls equipped for their life-work, command the respeet aml admiration of the world, while · the instittitions · to ' which they owe their puwer are too often forgot'te'n ." He ' hoped that all present \voul<l kindly an~ constantly remember Richmor:ld College. " A n6vel and attractive feature of the occasion was an original oration by Mr. W. A. Goodwin, of Virginia ' . a B. A. of Roanoke College. Sub_ tu re's ·Teachings,'' Jedt': ·"·List' .to "The beauty of fhe lily will proclaim the glory .of its Maker when the names of infidels and scoffers shall have perished "'ith ~heir blasphemy." .·' ·" , The ,· !ltory written on the mon n_ 'tain precipices is' older than the pyramips." · Mr. Go0dwin is a graceful and ef fective speaker, aud his oration · ·,,·as · '· tnlich cnJ.l>yed.

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designed for the protection of person and property, and those who possess both should have the largest share in the government. , · The speech of Mr. H. T. Louthan, of Virginia, second on the affirmative, abounded _in happy illustrations and . humorous bits, and pleased the audience more than any other speech of the eveui ng. " Thomas J eflerson answered this question in the affirmative when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.'1 . · He spoke of Nihilism in Russia and revolution in Ireland and Brazil as re·sults of unjust and unnecessary restrict.Ion of the popular voice in public affairs. The discussion · was closed by Mr. w. o"'Ten _Carver, of Tennessee, for the negative. This gentleman is quite skilful and forcible in argumentation, and enjoys an enviable reputation as a debater, having won the '• Debater's Medal" iq the Mu ·Sigma Rho Society last session. Though it was quite 'late when he came upon the stage, his speech was well received, and ·elicited liberal api)laus.e. He empha:;ized -the fact that all ·men are not e·qual, and made effective allusion to the race pri)blem . of the South, a1111 to the perils that threaten our national prosarising perity and progress-perils from the privileges granted to the .hi,rge number of foreigners coming to our shores, who have no knowledge of or interest in our form of govern_ment . . The strains of sweet music furnished· by one of Richmond's best bands _died ~way on .the night a~ri the stars .

smiled brightly down upon hopeful youths and fair maidens bidding each other a tender a<lieu, and the Mu Sigma Rho public debate of 1889-90 was registered on the record of the past. The last two games of foot-b~ll played by our team in the old year, were between V'lake Forest and Ran. dolph-Macon teams. Both games were free from dispute and very pleasantly witnessed by a large crowd. The first was with Wake Forest. This team is eomposed of a fine lot of students. We have not played a more pleasant and interesting game this season. We are always glad to greet gentlemen here; So will say, Come again, Wake Forest.. The score was 14 to 32 in favor of the " visitors. . The last was with tpe RandolphMacon st • dents. Wa can say no less than the above about them. The score was 42 · to O against the visitors. They had or'ganized only a short time before this game, and had not sufficiently trained to play well together.

With AT COLLEGE.-" CHRISTMAS the thought of Christmas cam(;)tho · thoughts of good cheer.'' So here we tell Who treated us well . By the 24th, most of the boys h~d gone hvme, and" for a time it was thought onr " Old Alma Mater" was going to witness her first and only quiet , ,Christmas 1 but far from such · · unhappiness. . · At an early hour on the morni~1g

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I stood on the campu s at midnight, , As the horns wer e tooting the hour, And the boys muflied the bell, Upon th e dark co11~g e tower. I saw the bell's refle ction In the gravels 11ncler me, .Like a, caught l ala t humperfalling - An<l sinking upon hi s knee. And far in the hazy distance Of that . lovely night in December, ·The twang of the wrappin g cord We will long, long remember. · Among the high, dark towers The rnnfliing carpets lay, And bu sy fin g er s twin ed 'thern around And took the souud away. And forever and fore~er, . .A~ lo~ g as th e·.roo ster crow s, · As 16ng as the stud ent ha s string s, as th e " Rat" ha s toes; ' . Asblong ' The ell its muffl ed tongu e In its silen _ce ishall apvear, "As the ~ymbol of love at Chri stmas For our · Chairman so dear. 0

Why, it this co-education business. would b e. impossible t:o study, with one of tho ;; sweet creatures ' for a day Rtuden t." ·

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Mr. B., · of Culpeper (on Bro '.1d street): '' Mr ., can you tell,me wher e . Pizzy's ~onfectionery store is?" " Time pa sses. A short twelve months ago '89 honn rled ·into . lifo, bright and buoyant with hop<l; but, like the best, it bas pass ed into oblivion. "All the riv ers rn11 into the sea; yet th e sea is not full: unto the place from whence the river a come, thither they return." So with the years. They pass on to th e great octian of eternity lad e n with the good and bad-the our pledg es k ept and broken-of lives . H er e the stiow .covers the ground · and the chill ' of death is in the air; there Nature smiles; there is verdure on hillside and in valley, arid all thing s auimate and inanimate seem to " prai se Goel, from all blessings · flow." Th e "horn of plenty" is over all the land, .and the new year is plethoric with prais e. We therefore expect r ealiza tion to follow gr eeting when w e ·wish all our reader s a v(.1ry "Happy New Y:ear."

Di~ you say pretty? W ell, I shou.lcl just say so. They wer e ju 8t as pr etty Dec. 924, '89. A. 111:, as pretty could b e., an4 they were r , ·1 sweeter by far thau the taft:r they as.. ·,Old student; "I don't believe ~u sisted us fo pulling. They .

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THE INSTITUTE.-Our boys are always glad te see Miss Sallie B. Hamner and the young ladies ofthe Richmond Female Institute present at our pn blic debateH. We are told thl:1,tthe "Mu Sigs" who took part in tbe "debate" of last month felt about six in(hes higher as they looked from the rostrum . and saw that they had the presence of these "little jewels." As they spoke of the Goddess of Liberty smile and merry the encouraging twinkle ot the eye made them feel lik _e they were lost among the ·stass, and w<nildn't find their way out if they could . Fair representatives of our '' Sister Institution," we will ever say to you " W elcorne," yea, " Thrice Welcome to our Halls."

WAKE FoREST.-On Tuesday evening, December 10th, it gave the .mern- . bers of the 'Mu Sig!lla Rho and Philologian Literary Societies great pleasure to give a joint reception · in honor of the Wake For(!st students who . W(lre then in our city. In the after~ noon they met our boys upon the football field, but now they have their canvass suits laid aside. Prof. Ohas : ;E. Taylor, President of Wake Forest, was the first of their number to address us. The Professor was once a Richmond College boy, and we suppose used to play foot-ball with Dr. W. E. Hatcher and Prof. WD. Thomas. Then the ball began to roll. 0Be tall brother "'l'ar Heel" arose, and at :first the "Old Dominion" boys thought be woukl '.' throw ' trp tqe •E\pOr)ge,"but not so. · In a. !e.w

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Fellows of the yellow Roanoke and minu ·t~~ he· ~~~e ~~:ery he~rer by his distant Peedee, the boys of the silvery humor, pathos, and eloquence. White and Riddick imule most excellent · Shenandoah and historic James will · talks. When brother Andrews arose · ever think of your viRit as o·ne of the -:wi_th the scars of ·' the battle" upon brightest seasons during their college -him, and complimented our Team so course. You will ever be v;elcome to our b~gbly, w_e almost felt that we were somewhe17e down in our beloved sis- · halls. ·ter State of North Carolina.

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Y. M. C. A. Work aglow at Richmond . The following Y. M. C. A. officers were elected January 4th, for the ensu- College.- The Y. M. C, A. decided at its last meeting that there should be .a ing term: President, W. B. McGarity; Vice-President, R. . E. Chambers; Re- · suitahle hall in which to meet, and the . cording Secretary, W. 0. Blair; Trea- President accordingly appointed the following committee, with E. E. Dudley . sui·er, C. T. Taylor; Organist, C. T. Kincannon; and Assistant, E. E. Reid. The • as chairman; · R. E. Chambers, W. B. following gentlemen were chosen as the McGarity, W. L. Hayes, W. B. Loving, W. A. Goodwin, and J. D. Hart. Association choir: Dudley, Hart,Wright, The committee hn:ve-discU:ssedthe best Taylor, Chambers, and Ramsey. methods for raising funds and deterRepo.rt of Devotional Committee.-The · irite1;est among the students has been mined upon the following plan. '.l'oraise kept up very we11. Attendance, with the all tba,t they possibly can at home . ex·ception of one or two nights, w.asgood. among the stndents, then to work with the d{fferent churches..,of this city. Our members have shown their interThe committee, with .the valuable aid . est by an increase of short talks. of the President, have gone t,o work with Thi s we would encourage. Let the leader r.nake a short talk, then i.. vim, and alr eady have raised among the as many others follow as desire, each students one third of the amonnt desired. So they are much encourag ed, for they . speaking not longer than two minutes. feel that they can say to the churches · Your committee would also suggest that the meetings commence promptly at that they have done all they cou ld at _ 7:$0 P .. M-.,and by all means close in one home. Engene Levering has offered twenty hour. thousand dollars to promote the .work of · General Relioious Work.-Services the Young .\1eri's Christian AHsociation at State prison every Sunday afternoon at 3 o'olock. Average attendance of stu- at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Last·month we had Rev. S. C. Clopton dents 18 Preaching at Soldiers' Home at 11 A. M. Sunday morning. Average at- with us at our Missionary · meeting. tendance of students 4; of inmates, 30. Brot ,her Clopton is a Richmond ColServices held at the city almshouse lege "hoy," and we are always glad to every Sabbath afternoon. Average at- have him spe::ik to ns. . tendance of students, 8. On Sunday a,fternoon, January 5th, Cottage prayer meetings are held down 1890, we were fa,vored with a visit by a · _in the city on Monday night at 7 o'clock. graduate of Union TheQ]ogical S.emin~i:y,, . 20. Rev, Frarik PricE:J,himselfa)missi9n~.1,1y Attendance of st\ldents 41 ·of visitor1;1 ' '

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During 0hr.istmas many old students seems to he much pleased with the Mili., visited us. They were Mr. 0. W. Train- tary Academy there. Mr. J. W. Harris, ham, of this city, who has been attend- of Virginia, who fa · attending 0rozer ing the Southern Theological Seminary, Seminary, at Chester, Penn. · Mr. Segar t=1,t · Louisville, Ky.; Mr. A. F. Hunt, of ·Hargrove, of Norfolk, and Mr. A. R. Richmond, now a,t Chester, Penn. He ,Bowles, of Richmond, who are at present

RICHMO'.&"b 'C•tLE(¾':EME~SENGER. in Ba:ltimore studying Medicine. · Mr. county; A. J. Ramsey, Upper Zion, Wil'liam Harris, now at Johns-Hopkins · Caroline county; S. D. Hart, at ReserUniversity; Mr. Louis Puryear, now voir mission; R. ,E. Chambers, at Tar traveling for Owens, Minor & Co., of Wallet, in Cumberland county; J •. S. this city; Mr. Herbert Harris, who is Ryland, Dinwiddie county. IL F. Cox, M.A. of '85-6, i's n'Owa ih business here; Mr. Frank Puryear, ,principal of the ' Cleveland High-School professor in the High School in th i's city. Alfred Bagby, B. A. '84-5, is now atat Markahn, Virginia; and Mr. William Harrison, of Richmond. It gave us tending Johns-Hopkins University: • much pleasure to have the above-named George Y. Bradley, of '85-ti, will finish his course at the 'l'heological Semi~ with us during holiday. We have the following students who nary this year. 0. M. l-fazen, M. A. of '84, is managpreach regularly: ~- F. WilliamR, at Fourth-Street Baptist chapel; E. W. ing a successful graded school at Bon · Greaner and W. B. McGarity, at How- Air, Va. M. E. Parrish, M. A. '87-8, is a proard's Grove; W. 0. Carver, at Concord, Caroline county; 0. •r. Clements, at fessor of Latin in Savannah, Ga. · · -·•.· Beech{)nbrook; J. J. Wicker, in Caroline

EXCHANGES. [ Editor-E.

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GREANER.]

of keen satisfaction, but withal we could not dismiss the feeli,_ngthat somet'hing Forthwith we oasis in the arid desert of collegBjournal- important was lacking. ism. It is neatly arranged, clearly proceeded to put on b-ur thinking cap, printed, and comprehensive in its gen- and gradually ·concentrated our weakened mental energy ( we had just ilaid eral aspect to college life. The literary department cannot be Rside the Niagara Index;) upon the itasl\' ~orril_Ilendedtoo highly. 'l'here are more before us. We finalty cl3me to the con• dusion that a literary department was tha:n twenty pages or literary matter. The example is a bright one, and should needed. Now, if a college paper :is the !be, followed by m'any exchanges that, organ of the students, dt indicates the ala,s ! betray an inexcusabl:e poverty in literary ability of those students ,; ·hence your paper proclaims that - 'you have it1ii's 'direction. ' · , We commend 'especially the article placed all your students of ability ,upon "Y Mng Man, .go W_est." It is well writ- the editorial staff. This ought not to be. Yon need a literary department, and ten and indicates careful preparation. · The editorial1;3also invite favorable com- the students who feel an interest in their ment. They embrace topics of real li,ve_ paper should supply the need. interest, and are especially pungent and pointed. Altogether we consider the ,The Sp ~culum, of the Michigan AgriWake Forest Student an excellent ·speci- cultural College, publisbeK a thoughtful .men of.what genius and energy may ac- ·· article upon "The Future Land . Policy complish. 'of the UnitedStRtes." "For the purpose of promoting internal improvement, , ._Th~ _W~shinfton City High &hool Re- Congress ga-ve-to railroad corporations view, 1s,a Jou,rnal of twenty-four pages, over two hundred million acres of land." and we per1,1sedits neatly printed col"The time is rapidly approaching ·u'mhswith · an eyedf in·terest and a feeling when the entire tiilal::irearea of the' counThe · Wake Forest Student, a thorough-

'1ymodel .journal, com.esto us as a bright

a poem entitled "The Old Man by the Churchyard" appeared, which the Iiidex c):aims is a '• crib" from a so caUed song " Y 0U11gOharlo .tte."As arule we .publish poems of a1J.thors, other than our students, and this poem belonged .to that class. As to the resemblarrce, mark you we say resemblance to "Young Charlotte," we have nothing to say except · that it is a resemblance, and what does that prove? The Index insinuates that all our articles are resemblances of this character. Behold the utterance of this renowned critic! "We call attention of the college press to the low device the The FiHk He;rald, of Nashville, Tenn., has reached us, bringing with it the editors of the Messen1erhave resorted to 4 ' Wail from Waildom." . We join you ir1 order to get out a college paper." So in " bidding farewell to the bustle, " but the editor at one sweep would denounce we are reminded that unlike the busLle,. the columns of the MESSENGER in '7hich no modificatio1i could beau tity, their entirety. Surely this is the very t~ Herald would be 1mproved were easense of prejudice, for by his own adLet us in mission he did not look farther than the certain changes effected. fraternal feeling enumerate a few. The second page. "We had intended to locals could be im,Jroved and wisely added criticise the whole paper, but to the secto; the exchrwge department could be ond page is as far as we wish to proceed. more comprehensive and critical; the We have seen enough on that page t-o personals could and onght to be more convince us of the quality of the rest." ,condensed. We am plea,ood, howevAr, with When a critic so far forgets himself as to criticize witliout examining thoroughthe editorials. We like their uttennces ly that upon which he renders his critand the spirit of pleasure they indicate -0ver the propitious prospect with which icism, he has descended from those hight.he <'.ollege is greeted. May the Herald est priuc iples Truth and Justice which We are unbe the recipient of many benefit.':i pro- erstwhile be occupied. certain whether the editor in question mised by that prospect. An unpleasant task is bnfore us. It is . ever possessed these :tttributes, but of .alw,tys unpleasant and annoying, nay one thing we are certain, and that is that .absoluely painful, to read such lc,w, con- for a long period, iudging from his profL:iency, he hits been a devoted suppliant temptible criticisms, or rather slanders, as those that :fi,nd expression in the ex- at the. shrines of Falsehood and Mischange department of the Niar,ara Irt- representc1,tion. dex. In a recent issue c,f the lrlessenget

t ry will be under cultivation." " Various theories have been proposed advocating .an equitable solution of the question of .the Lw.downership." "'Agriculture fur,nishes by far the largest portion of the The writer wealth of this country." -concludes that these facts are important, ..and refers the fut1J.re s1,lution of them to ,Congress instead of the fanciful schemes -0f Socialism and kindred doctrines. 'l'he .SperYulumis neat in appearance, interesting in contents, and an ornament to the -college which it represents.

COLLEGE NEWS AND NOTES. [ BcWor-E. vV. GREANER.] Mrs. Garfiel1l has g1\·en $10,000 to Excited Senior, describing the footthe Gar-field lY11iversity to be f,m11dt>cl ball ga ,ne : "Yes, they carried Hum:at ,Vichita, Kausas, in honor of the m ell off the grounds groaning like a dea<l man l "-.E.c. late Presidcut.-E:e

RICHMONDCOLLEGEMESSENGER. Mr. Gladstone has onlv three fingers on his left hand. ·The index finger was shot off forty-seveu years ago by accident in the hunting field. Ex. P-e: " October has got 30 days." B-ggs : " I will prove it has 31 by the calendar." (He proves his assertion.) · P-e : "But that is la.st year's calendar! "-Ex. John S. Hopkins, the founder of the university that bears his name in Baltimore, entered the same eity at the age of 19, with sixty-two cents in his pockets, and died worth $7 ,000,000. He worked hard er to make the first $1,000 than he did th make all the rest.-E x.

Senior Y onng L ·tdy (looking at designs for cla--s pin)-" Now, I don't like this big 90, do yon? · Only suit .able for a cabman." · Modest -Youth: "I see, and therefore unsuitable for hansom men.-

Ex. The sermon of Archbif:,hop Ryan, at Baltimore, in which he supported the rights of Catholie writers to criticise the faults of pri ests, has caused a sensation in the city of Mexico, where a number of persons have been excommunicated for this reason.-E x. yrel1esley is to have a college yell. It 1s not to be a masculin e cheer, but a · " mild, exqnisite, lyrical crystrong, but distinctively feminine."

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