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SEMPER  &UKSUM. 


Vol.  I. 


Maryville  College,    Oct.     1875. 


No.  2. 


Drifting. 
Br  At^amentum  . 


The  oars  lie  silent  at  my  side, 

My  boat  floats  downward  with  ll  e  t!c'e, 
Dumb  silence  brood?  o'er  all  b3lo\v, 

And  listless  I  would  have  it  so. 

Comes  there  10  me  while  gazing  now      « 
At  th?  stars  far  beyond  the  prow. 

Bright  visions  of  my  schoolboy  days, 
Sweeter  to  me  than  minstrel's  lays. 
•  *  *  * 

I  see  the  halls,    the  classie  halls, 
The  whittl'd  seats,    the  pencill'd   walls, 

Scenes  of  study,   of  mental  strife, 
In  the  long,  long  ago  of  life. 

I  see  them  now,    the  dear  old  band 
Of  teachers,    pupils,    hand  in  hand  : 

I  hear  their  voices  as  of  yore, 

In  class-room  conning  ancient  lore. 

I  see  my  room,    the  dear  old  place, 
Ever  wearing  a  cheerful  face  : 

Here  my  chair,    and  there  my  table, 
Piled  with  books  n^  high  a*  Babel. 

I  hear  the  bell,  as  I  heard  it  then. 

Loud  pealing  out  the  hour  of  ten. 
Th  •  mandate  ringing  "Seek  thy  bed," 

Glad  summons  to  the  aching  head. 

Oh  life  !  full  of  woe,  full  of  care  ; 

Oh  life!  deceitful,  nev«r  fair; 
Then  thou  wert  to  me  a  treasure, 

Filled  with  hope  and  youthful  pleasure. 

Now  is  the  "sere  and  yellow  leaf:'' 
Old  time  to  me  has  been  a  thief, 

Stealing  my  happiness  away, 
Letting  grim  sorrow  hold  its  sway. 

But  while  I  can  in  Mem'ry's  boat 
Among  the  scenes  of  boyhood  float 

I'll  lay  asilt-  eac'i  vexing  care, 
And  revel  long  in  pleasure  t'.K're. 


Man,— A  Finder. 


By  K.  .:.  C 

One  of  the  world's  literate  cham- 
pions says;  'Poetry  is  thought 
tiung  upon  the  panorama  of  .music." 
But  the  great  idea  in  music  is  the 
beauty  of  harmony.  The  poet, 
then,  is  a  discoverer  of  harmonies: 
not  an  inventor,  for  the  true  poet 
is  a  mirror  of  nature,  and  the 
harmonious  sounds  which  reverb- 
erate along  the  avenues  of  the 
world,  "saluting  the  ears  of  its 
teeming  millions,  are  not  the  fig- 
ments of  fancy;  they  are  realities, 
which  he  looking  down  routed 
from  the  becret  of  darkness,  while 
his  tongue  of  thunder  rebuked  the 
apathy  of  earth  its  rocks  and 
mountains  uniting  w.i'h  the  bend- 
ing" heavens,  broke  their  eternal 
silence  to  publish  his  oracles  m 
characters  of  light'.  Men  turn 
their  gaze  at  the  new-comer  and 
praise  the  poet  showman.  But 
not  as  a  showman  which  he  really 
is.  but  as  a  creator.  They  do  not 
say;  "See  what  he  has  lormed!" 
bur  "See  what  l  e  hats  made!" 
With  as  much  reason  might  we 
say  that  Mr.  Nev.t  u  created  the 
laws  of  grfvitv  or  Mr.  Galileo 
the  laws  of  falling  bodies. 

But  what  to  vim  or  to  m  •  ic'  the 
creation  of  John  Miltou  {  I*  he 
has  found  something  Ion  v  hid  by 
nature  in  her  jealous  deplns.  ihen 
I.    no  less  t;t.  n  he,   am  i-uri  lie'-h 


Nature  stands  in  immediate  rela- 
tion to  yon.  and  me.  But  what  be 
makes  is  his  own,  to  which  neither 
von  nor  I  have  semblance  of  right 
or  title.  But  to  Milton's  or 
or  any  other'  man's  intellectual 
family,  ours  is  an  altitude  of  scarce- 
ly disguised  hostility.  Milton's 
creations  are  like  their  creator,  of 
the  earth,  earthy:  what  he  has 
discovered  in  the  tireless  flights  of 
imagination!  from  the  bottomless 
pr  ifound  of  Hell,  circling  the  sum 
of  created  things,  up  to  the  very 
burning  throne  of  Gmnific  Great- 
ness in  Heaven,  bear  the  impress 
of  its  proper  origin. 

The  creature  is  not  mightier 
than  the  creator.  What  the  poet 
makes  belongs  to  him  and  must 
die  with  him;  he  cannot  transmit 
bis  offspring  to  posterity,  for  none 
would  own  it.  What  man  discov- 
ers belongs,  not  to  him,  but  to  hu- 
manity, and  is  immortal  as  its 
.Maker  God.  The  poet's  inven- 
tions are  his  whims,  his  fancies, 
hie  conceits.  Thus,  "daughters 
of  men"  are,  not  unfrequ  entry, 
gaudily  attired,  petted  and  caress- 
ed by  the  poet,  to  the  neglect  of 
the  more  modest  "-sons   of  God." 

Here  is  found  no  place  for  the 
port's  own  creations.  This  world 
is  a  mighty  music  box,  attuned  to 
all  symphonies  by  the  Master  Ma- 
ker. He  who  discovers  to  the 
listening  crowd  an  implicit  melody 
is  the  poet.  Who  would  close, 
insert  or  modify  a  single  note? 
The  gift  of  poesy  is,  then,  not  the 
gift  of  invention,  hut  of  discovery. 

He  that  lifts  the  veil  from  Na- 
ture  v.nd   shows  her  Heaven  de- 


scended beauties,  manfully  (in  the 
strictest  meaning  of  the  term), 
shall,  as  the  sun  of  existence  dips 
in  declining  lustre  behind  the 
visible  horizon,  — to  him  the  re- 
motest hills  of  earthly  vision —  be 
seen  rising  and  culminating,  not 
as  here,  and  now,  but  in  another 
and  nobler  sphere,  in  all  the|  liv- 
ery of  undying  splendor.    R.H.  C. 


Silent  Influence. 


By  G.  S.  W.  M. 


To  exert  the  greatest  and  best 
possible  influence  over  mankind, 
should  be  the  aim  of  every  one, 
and  to  do  this  we  must  exercise 
the  greatest  possible  circumspec- 
tion. That  man  wields  a  mighty 
influence  in  this  world  is  a  self- 
evident  fact,  which  we  can  not 
question,  but  which  is  recognized 
by  every  rational  being.  Every- 
one must  necessarily  exert  a  good 
or  bad  iflnuence.  This  controlling 
power  of  man  is  as  various  as  the 
opinions  concerning  the  origin  of 
the  world.  It  is  a  lucid  and  potent 
fact  that  it  is  incumbent  upon 
every  one  to  bring  about  a  moral 
reformation  by  repressing  the  evil, 
and  educing  and  encouraging  the 
good  in  himself  and  others. 

The  man  of  influence  is  a  man 
of  power.  He,  like  "Providence 
moves  through  time  as 'the  gods 
of  Homer  through  space."  He 
restricts  not  his  influence  to  nar- 
row bounds.  He  exerts  every 
faculty,  every  power,  every  capac- 
ity for  the  elevation   of   mankind 


Man  can  possess  this  controlling 
power  only  by  the  shrewdest  dis- 
crimination. True  motives  must 
govern  his  every  act.  To  be  a 
power  in  the  world  our  every 
habit  and  custom  must  meet  with 
the  approbation  of  good  men. 
Conscience,  if  not  seared,  will  be 
a  true  guide. 

Man  must  know  himself  before 
he  is  capable  of  exerting  a  good 
influence.  ''Know  Thyself"  was 
written  over  the  portal  at  Delphi. 
It  was  inculcated  by  Socrates,  and 
all  the  preeminent  teachers  of 
practical  ethics  regarded  this 
maxim  as  the  summary  of  wisdom. 
How  beautiful  to  influence  others 
to  "moral  though tfulness,"  which 
Dr.  Thomas  Arnold  defines  as 
"the  inquiring-  love  of  truth  going 
along-  with  the  divine  love  of 
goodness."  In  our  every  day  acts, 
shall  we  be  governed  by  unreason- 
able judgments  1  Shall  we  do  that 
which  we  know  will  destroy  our 
influence?  Every  act,  every 
thought  has  its  effect.  As  we 
perambulate  the  rugged  and  me- 
andering ways  of  life,  we  are  un- 
concious  as  it  were  that  we  shed 
an  influence  over  others  for  good 
or  evil,  but  nevertheless  it  is  true. 
May  it  not  be  said  of  any  christian 
that  his  example  is  pernicious — 
that,  he  has  made  others  dupes  to 
his  insidious  artifices,  and  thus  in- 
curred the  maledictions  and  anath- 
emas of  any  of  God's  creatures. 


Words. 

By  Contribtjtoi: 


As  the  season  of  partios  and 
balls  approaches,  boys  begin  to 
feel  gallant  and  huoyxat. 


"Words  are  things  —  a  small 
drop  of  ink  that  falls  like  dew 
upon  a  thought  producing  that 
which  makes  thousands,  perhaps 
millions  think." 

In  nothing,  perhaps,  is  less  care 
shown  than  in  our  use  of  Avords  in 
our  ordinary  conversation.  Owing 
to  this  negligence  provincialisms 
creep  in,  the  language  ic  corrupted 
and  low  expressions,  slang  phrases, 
and  the  murder  of  the  Queen's 
English,  become  the  rule  rather 
than  the  exception.  Every  person 
spcaking^English  has  a  deep  per- 
sonal interest  in  preserving  the 
purity  of  his  mother  tongue.  A 
people  tolerating  the  corruption 
of  its  language  is  already  upon  its 
decline.  Words  are  the  vehicle 
and  drapery  of  thought.  As 
coins  serve  for  the  exchange  of 
values  in  the  world's  traffic,  so 
does  language  serve  the  far  more 
important  use  —  the  exchange  of 
thoughts.  "Speech  is  the  bodv 
of  a  thought,  without  which  it 
were  not  seen."  If  it  be  important 
that  the  commercial  value  of  coins 
be  accurately  ascertained  and 
generally  understood ;  still  more 
to  be  desired  is  it  that  the  signifi- 
cant use  of  words  and  phrases  be 
understood,  and  that  too  by  the 
many. 

Reputable  use  is  the  standard  of 
appeal  where  language  is  concern- 
ed ;  and  this  being  so,  it  must  be 
unfortunate  when  we  find  it  diffi- 
cult to  draw  the  lire  between 
what  is  reputable  and  dii  reputable. 


4. 


si.-]     ever    be 

ords,  like 

mT  panes,  should  ever  be  so 

f    the 

ittract  no  part   of 

our  from    the    object  at 

b  we  woi  •'.     lie  i 

"■   . 
Lage  is  to  conceal  his  mean- 
ing.    Queen  Elizabeth,  it  is  said, 
(  n(  q   ordered   her   sheriff  to 
cute     •      :  .   but  framed  her 

senten*  :"'     that    ifl 

execution  si  own  that  the 

order  would  admit  of  a  quite  dif- 
ferent ( -o  u  struct]  on . 

But  c<  and  a   vii 

mrpters  of  a 
,.■■  .     Our  nature  _,..-■  verily 

gralty  in  this  matter.  '    Low    ex- 
sions  and  slang  phrases  greet 
v\s  everywhere.     Not  unfrequently 
will  a  member  of  Congress  violate 
grammar  in  a  way  as  painful  to  a 
correct    taste    as    is    the  harshest 
discord  to  the  most  exquisite  mu- 
sical  ear.     Even    students,    while 
making  grammar  their  study,  dis- 
•;'    its  canons.      Not   seldom 
do     we    hear    among    them    such 
as  the  following:    '-It 
;ang  time   since    I   have    saw 
him;"     "Him    and     me     are    old 
friends ;"  ''That  is  sad  news  to  you  . 
If  ltI  have   done  recited   my 
:i."'     Then,   too.  a  few  adjec- 
3.    such  as  smart  and  mighty, 
lly  compelled  to  serve 
•.' imre  they  do  not  belong  —  and 
this  to  the  discomfort  of  ail    who 
wish  "le   see    ■■■■■■  rds,   like  men,  in 
their 

correct 
intense   value  j 


to  any  -young  person.  It  has  a 
powerful  reflex  influence  in  mak- 
ing one  a  close  and  accurate  think- 

id  a  logical  reasoner.  Much 
of  the  benefit  coming  from  trie 
study  of  such  subjects  as  Law  and' 
Geometry  results  from  the  careful 
use  of  words  which  is  there  indis- 
pensable. No  word  is  there  em- 
ployed for  its  own  .sake.'  "What 
does  not  help,  hinders.''  This 
rule  holds,  virtually,  everywhere 
else.  The  witty  Sydney  Smith 
said  that  most  compositions  would 
be  greatly  improved  by  driving  a 
pen    through    them    and    erasing 

other,  or  at  least  every   third 
The   criticism   was   rather 
too  severe  but  is  worth   remem- 
bering. 


Study  Itself  a  Pleasure. 


Br  Contributor . 


If  the  youth   is   to  succeed   in 
his   studies    his    success    will    de- 
pend   quite    as    much    upon    his 
enthusiasm  as  upon  the  quickness 
or  strength  of  his   mental  endow- 
ments.      The   reason  for   this   is 
evident.     Advancement  must  de- 
pend upon  earnest,  persistent  exer- 
tion, and  there  is  nothing  external 
which  can  urge  the  mind   to  that 
earnest  and  patient  effort  which  i3 
needed.  Parents  may  express  their 
wishes   in    the    premises;    prizes 
may  be  offered;    but  unless  there 
be  a  q  actual  delight  in   mental  ef- 
fort, all  will  be  in  vain.    "Where- 
fore is  there  a  price   in   the  hand 
of  a  fool  to  get  wisdom,  seeing  he 


5. 


hath  no  heart  to  it?" 

The  lad  who  cannot,  after  a  fair 
trial,  evoke  an  inbred  enthusiasm 
for  his  books,  had  better  sue  ou1 
a  release  from  the  bondage  and 
the  expens  x  of  a  college  course. 
The  attempt  on  his  part  to  become 
a  good  scholar  will  result  in  spoil- 
ing a  good  farmer  or  a  good 
hlacksmitb:  and  blacksmiths  and 
farmers  are  both  needed  in  their 
places  as  are  savans  themselves. 
Every  boy|has  a  masterpiece — an 
employment — in  which,  if  not  in- 
cn  re  ably  lazy,  he  would  be  sure 
to  succeed.  There  is  a  providence 
in  this  variety  of  talent  and  tend- 
ency, which  is  everywhere  observ- 
able. "All  nature^  difference 
keeps  all  nature's  peace."  The  de- 
partments of  human  effort  are 
already  very  many,  and,  as  society 
advances  they  must  advance  in  a 
more  than  arithmetical  ratio. 
There  is.  work  for  all,,  and  there 
can  be  no  excuse  for  standing,  or 
rather  sitting  idle  in  the  market- 
place. 

Much  will  depend  upon  our 
finding  our  appropriate  work 
"Give  even  a  dunce  the  employ- 
ment he  desires  and  he  will  find 
the  talent  it  requires."  But  what- 
ever one's  disinclination  toward 
books,  he  owes  it  to  himself  not  to 
stop  short  of  a  knowledge  of  the 
Branches  taught  in  a  good  com- 
mon' school.  Every  boy  and  everv 
girl  in  thin  broad  land  ought  to  be 
able  to  read,  write  and  keep 
accounts,  and,  if  possible,  they 
should  all  know  something  of 
Grammar  and  Geography.  An 
acquaintance  with  these  is  indis- 


p  nsable  to  the  hod-carrier  even, 
if  he  would  be  a  man  among  men. 

But  what  we  would  urge  upon 
the  student  .  who  has  ,1  college 
course  in  prospect  is  this  —  get 
an  enthusiasm  in  study,  else 
abandon  study  for  Some  work  in 
which  he  can  be  both  more  happy 
and  more  useful.  It  sometimes 
happens  that  a  lad  finds  it  difficult 
even  with  hard  study  to  keep  up 
with  his  class,  and  he  becomes 
discouraged  and  leaves  study  to 
engage  in  some  manual  labor. 
Not  a  few  have  erred  in  thus  doing. 
Where  there  is  enthusiasm  joined 
with  a  willingness  to  study, 
patiently  and  continuously,  suc- 
cess is  well  nigh  certain.  An 
ounce  of  industry  is  worth  more 
practically  than  a  ton  of  genius. 
It  is  patient,  industry  that  wins  in 
a  long  race.  The  tortoise  out- 
strips the  hare. 

Mind  work  within  anything  like 
reasonable  limits  is  healthy  work. 
It  is  as  conducive  to  longevity  as 
it  is  promotive  of  the  nobler  enjoy- 
ments of  life.  And  for  the  en- 
couragement of  the  desponding 
let  it  be  said  that  the  cases  are 
but  rare  where  the  determined  and 
industrious  student  fails  to  devel- 
ope  into  the  useful  and  respected 
man.  Native'  talent  is  not  distrib- 
uted so  unequally  as  we  are  wont 
to  assume.  There  is  no  such 
prodigy  as  a  universal  genius. 
Every  one  has  a  talent  which  it  is 
his  duty  .  and  should  '  be  his- 
delight  to  improve.  ''Wisdom 
is  the  principal  thing,  therefore 
get  wisdom,  and  with  all  thy 
gettiug  get  understanding.'' 


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Study. 

Two  months  have  flown  by  since 
we  gathered  together  after  our 
vacation,  took  down  our  books 
from  their  dusty  shelves  and  pro- 
posed' to  spend  another  year  in 
stifdy.  At  first  it  seemed  hard  to 
fix  our  minds  on  our  books,  but 
we  have  now  got  well  under  way, 
and  those  who  have  come  here  to 
work  arc  filling  the  store-houses 
of  their  minds  with  the  knowledge 
of  books. 

But  before  we  proceed  farther 
with  our  studies  let  us  stop  a  mo- 
ment, and  ask  ourselves  why  all 
this  expenditure  of  time  and  mon- 
ey. Are  we  endeavoring  to  cram 
our  heads  with  Greek  and  Latin 
only  because  it  is  fashionable)'? 
Are  we  here  merely  to  go  through 
a  certain  number  of  books  that  we 
may  have  the  satisfaction  of  say- 
ing we  have  been  through  college'? 
No,  we  come  here  to  fit  ourselves 
for  the  great  battle  of  life  which 
we  are  now  about  to  bearn  m  real 
earnest. 

Our  country  is  calling  for  men- 
men  of  action-men  of  brain,  and 
as  soldiers  about  to  go  to  the  wars, 
are  subjected  to  a  strict,  disipline, 
and  instructed  in  the  use  of  arms, 
so  we  must  now  train  ourselves  by 
study  if  we  wish  to  make  good 
soldiers  in  the  struggle  which  is 
before  us.  And  to  do  this  we  must 
improve  our  opportunities  and  "'not 
idle  away  our  time,  or  spend  it  in 
ureless  gossip  or  idle  dreamings  of 
the  future. 

But  hard  study  alone  will  not 
make  men  of  us,  and,  in  truth,  it 


is  not  so  much  the  amount  of 
knowledge  winch  we  cram  into 
our  brains  as  the  quality,  and  the 
manner  in  which  it  is  kept;  for  if 
we  fill  our  heads  with  a  confused 
mass  of  rules  problems,  dead 
languages  and  scraps  of  history, 
and  do  not,  keep  them  in  order. 
and  ready  for  use,  we  arc  perhaps 
no  better  prepared  for  the  duties 
of  life  1han  we  would  be  bad  we 
never  obtained  t.'iat  knowledge. 

The  student  should  not  make  a 
hermit  of  himself  and  attend  to  h's 
books  and  nothing  else,  but  he 
should  take  a  lively  interest  in 
everything  around  him,  and  ap- 
ply hij  knowledge,  to  actual  oc- 
curences in  life.  Debating  societies 


but  these  do  not 
place    of   other 


help  him  in  this, 
entirely  fill  the 
tilings. 

We  wisii  to  pursue  such  a 
course  as  will  benefit  us  in  after 
life,  and  to  do  this  we  must  mix 
with  the  world  as  far  as  our  time 
and  judgment  will  allow,  cultivate 
the  acquaintence  of  our  fellow 
students,  and  obtain  a  practical  as 
wrell  as  a  theoretic  knoVledge  of  men 
and  thing's;  nor  should  w7e  entirely 
despise  pleasures  cf  society,  but 
should,  as  far  as  it  will  not  inter- 
fere with  our  other  duties,  be  alive 
to  everything  around  us,  and  by 
so  doing  we  will  be  better  enabled 
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The  Freshman  class  at  Harvard. 
it  is  said,  will  number  over  two 
hundred.    ' 

Two  hundred  and  fifty  students 
present  at  opening  of  term  at 
Hillsdale. 


The  Freshman  class  in  academy 
department  at  .Dartmouth  numbers 

eighty.      Twenty-seven  applicants 
admitted  (o  Scientific  department. 


Both  Harvard  and  Williams 
now  require  Sophomores  to  sign 
pledges  that  they  will  obey  the 
laws  of    the   college   and  refrain 


from  hazing. 


The  number  of  American 
colleges  is  reported  by  the  Nation- 
al Commissioner  of  Education  to  be 
323.  Male  students  attending  the 
same,  25,000,  Female  students. 
2,349. 


The  study  of  the  elementary 
geology  of  Tennessee  is  to  be 
added  immediately  to  the  public 
school  course  of  this  state.  A 
suitable  text  book  has  been 
prepared. 

The  interest  in  boating  seems 
to  have  died  out.  None  of  the 
crews  we  had  in  college  last  year 
have  reorganized.  The  crew  of 
the  '76  class  seem  *o  think  it  below 
the  dignity  of  Seniors,  and  sever- 
al members  of  the  crews  from  the 
Sophomore  and  Preparatory  classes 
did  not  returnj  University  Monthly . 


Yale  College] 
seventy-five  \ cars  old,  and  during 
:  ■•   time  h  is   had  t< 
Dr.  Woolsey  occupied  the  presi- 
dent's   chair    for  "a    quarter    of   a 
century. 


The  Sophomore  class  of  Lafay- 
ette College,  numbering  seventy- 
five,  turned  out  in  masks  and 
white  <gowns,  with  torches,  for 
for  a  '  horn  spree.'  They  entered 
the  old  college  building  and  the 
several  halls  hunting  for  Freshmen. 
The  doors  of  the  rooms  of  Profs. 
Hart,  Owens,  Baker  and  Stillman 
were  broken  open,  as  also  the 
doors  of  a  number  of  Freshmen, 
not  only  in  the  College  building, 
but  out  in  the  town.  The  Fresh- 
men were  dragged  from  the  beds 
and.  submitted  to  the  greatest  in- 
dignities. The  faculty  made  a 
descent  and  captured  four  stu- 
dents, two  of  them  in  the  act  of 
depredation.  On  Tuesday  these 
were  'indefinitely  suspended.'  They 
were  taken  to  the  depot  in  a 
barouche  4rawn  by  four  white 
horses,  escorted  by  a»  band  and 
the  whole  Sophomore  class.  The 
class  adopted  and  handed  the 
faculty  a  letter  in  which  they 
asked  the  same  treatment  as  was 
given  the  suspended  men.  The 
faculty  is  in  session  to-day,  sus- 
pending the  whole  class  as  fast  as 
they  can  be  heard.  A  son  of 
Governor  Hartranft  and  a  son  of 
Cyrus  L.  Pershing,  the  Democrat- 
nominee  for  Governor,  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Sophomore  class. 

— Exchange. 


IPBRSCDNA] 


On  the    night   of  the  thin 
October,  Prof.  Crawford  became 
a   father.  in   be  tail"  of  the 

students      \tend   most     heart-felt 
congratulations  and  sy  es  to 

the  happy  couple.      I        a  me   is 
John  Calvin. 


'74 

E.  A,  Elmore  is  at  Un 
ological  Seminary  New  York. 

J.  M.  Goddardis  Prof. 
ematics  in  the  East  Tenn.  Wesley  - 
an  University,  at  Athens. 

S.  S.  Grimiell  is  studying  theol- 
ogy at  Oberlin  Ohio. 

A.    M.    Rook   is    t       •  at 

Danville  Theological  Seminary. 

II.    H.    Hook  is   a*  present  at 
home. 

W.  M.  Mundy     is   at    Dam 
Theological  Seminar;/. 


ILCD'BMaio 


We  •   much   to   state 

•    ■  n  Alumna 

\  ery  ill     She, 

how<  '      better   as    we    go    to 

. 

tion      that     there 
Id  be  no  more    walks   in   the 
air  ones  of   I 
Win  Hall,  tilled  t1-.:    hearts  of  our 
male                   with  grief  and  dis- 
may.   

in    Drawing    under 
commenced 
as.      All  who  desire  to  be- 
come mai  of  fchi        seful   and 
ornamental    art    should    join    the 
class. 


A  little  base-balling,  a  little  nut- 
ting and  a  deal  of  studying. 


There  is  very  interesting  Union 
prayer-meeting     in     progrcs 
town. 

The  Animi  Cultus  Society  paper 
will  be  read  Friday  eve,  Nove 
the  twelfth. 


A  student  is  talking  about  bring- 
ing a  suit  of  damages  against  the 
President  for  a  boot  and  foot  cut 
while  assisting  him  in  the    wo 


There  are  oases  in  a  students 
life.  Such  are  Thanksgiving  Day, 
Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges, 
Christmas  and  vacation.  Wc 
have  been  having  a  small  rest 
some  of  our  books  while 
the  teachers  were  gone  to  Synod. 
The  Juniors  however  were  egre- 
giously  disappointed  when  Prof. 
Bartlett  announced  his  determina- 
tion not  to  go.  The  prayer  of  the 
students  now  is  "O  for  another 
Synod!" 

Some  of  our  students  who  were 
gallant  enough,  and  had  the  time, 
shouldered  their  axes  last  week, 
and,  under  the  direction  of  the 
relied  into  the  woodq, 
cut  down  and  hewed  off  some 
trees    wherewith    to    make    walks 

li'ch  the  ladies,  and  they  too 
if    they    wish,     n  ierambulaJ,e 

..n    and    church    during  the 


10 


At  the  last  monthly  election  of 
the  Ladies'  Society,  Miss  twiddle 
was  elected  President  and  Miss 
Crawford  Vice  President.  The 
■Society  is  still  minus  a  name. 
Can"!"  one  of  thofe  Juniors,  who 
know  so  much,  furnish  one? 


Prof.  Crawford  proposes  to 
build  a  residence  on  College  Hill. 
The  site  selected  is  between 
Prof.  Lamar's  Mid  Prof.  Bartlett's 
houses.  If  any  more  Profs,  lot-ate 
on  the  hill  we'll  be  afraid  to  vent- 
ure out. 


The  Spelling  of  Friday  evening 
the  15th  served  to  revive  the  sub- 
sided interest  in  that  field  of  let- 
ters. Two  of  our  Juniors,  C.  C. 
Hcmbree  and  J.  B.  Porter  were 
Obtains.  The  first  '•  spell"  of 
half  an  hour,  in  which  the  misses 
were  registered,  resulted  in  a  tie 
of  18  to  18.  The  second  in  which 
"spelling  down''  was  introduced, 
resulted  in  a  victory  for  Mr. 
C.  liembree.  The  exercises  were 
spiced  with  games  etc.,  thus  mak- 
ing the  evening  pass  most  agreea- 
bly.    Long  live  the  spelling! 


Prof.  Crawford  has  introduced 
a  new  plan  into  his  Rhetorical 
Class  which  meets  with  general 
approbation.  He  has  appointed 
a  number  of  his  class  as  debaters, 
relieving  them  in  the  meantime 
of  all  other  rhetorical  duties. 
Orators  are  also  appointed,  all  of 
whom  have  ample  time  to  prepare. 
The  young  ladies  are  also  varying 
the  exercises  by  introducing  dia- 


logues. The  debaters  discuss  at 
their  first  debate  '"Whether  or  not 
declaiming  is  beneficial."  Our 
President  has  taken  charge  of  the 
Collegians'  Rhetorical  f  Class  so 
long:  under  the|[charge  of  Prof. 
Iiartiett.  All  the  classes  show 
signs  of  increased  interest. 


The  Athenian. 


The  Athenian  Society  had  a 
Public  debate  and  reading  of  The 
Athenian  the  29th  of  this  month. 
The  question  under  debate  was. 
vTs  ambition  a  virtue  or  vice?" 
The  debaters  were  as  follows: 

Affirmative:]        -     Negative: 
J,  A.  Silsbyj       G.  S.  Moore, 


T.  N  Brown, 
A.  E.  Draper. 


C.  CJHembree, 
S.  T.Wilson. 


The  affirmative  gained  the  ques- 
tion. After  the  debate  "  The 
Athenian"  was  read  by  the  Editors, 
T.  N.  Brown  and  C.  C.  Hembree. 
The  Pa  iter  was  a  complete  suc- 
cess, one  noticeable  and  very 
commendable  feature  being  the 
absence  of  pieces  which  wolud 
wound  anyone's  feelings.  After 
the  paper  the]  regular  [election  of 
officers  tool:  place.  The  result 
we  append: 

President,       W.  E.  McCampbell. 
Vice  President,  J.  A.  Silsby. 


J.  W.  Rankin. 
G.  S.  Moore. 
J.  C.  Lawrence. 
<  W.  H.  Franklin, 
I  C.  C.  Hcmbree. 
Editor  of  The  Athenian,  W.  E. 
McCampbell. 


Secretary, 
Treasurer, 
Librarian, 

Censors. 


11. 


"Whittier's  genius,"  says  the 
Golden  Age. -'was kindled  by  read- 
ing Burns.'' 


A  man  may  as  well  expect  to 
grow  stronger  by  always  eating,  as 
wiser  by  alwa\s  reading. — Collier. 


The  Chinese  have  an  aphorism 
very  similar  to  our  '-Man  proposes, 
but  God  disposes.''  It  is:  "Jen 
schwoo,  sbo-tre!  soo-tre! '*  .  Tien 
scwo,  wei-jau!  wei-jau!"  "Man 
says,  so!  so!  Heaven  says,  no!  no!" 


An  old  lady  describes  a  genius 
as  '-a  man  what  knows  more'n  he 
can  find  out,  and  spills  vittels  on 
his  clothes." 


The  following  sentence  of  only 
thirty-four  letters  contains  all  the 
letters  in  the  alphabet:  "John 
quickly  extemporized  five  tow 
bags.'' 


"Eh,  doctor,"  said  a  bailie  of  a 
small  Scotch  town  to  a  friend,  k,he 
maun  hae  been  an  extraordinary 
man,  that  Shakspeare;  there  are 
things  hae  come  into  his"  head  that 
never  would  hae  come  into  mine 
at  a'." 


It  is  said  that  in  Scotland  one 
man  out  of  every  1,000  goes  to 
college:  in  Germany  the  propor- 
tion is  one  in  every  2,600;  in 
England  it  is  one  for  every  5,800. 

Whittier  being  asked  for  his 
autograph,  at  once  complied  by 
penning: 

The  name  is  but  the  shadow  which  we  find 
Too  often  larger  than  the  man  behind. 


Wear  your  learning,  said 
Chesterfield,  like  your  watch,  m 
a  private  jjocket,  and  do  not  pull 
it  out  and  strike,  merely  to  show 
that  you  have  one.  If  you  are 
asked  what  o'clock  ^it  is,  tell  it, 
but  do  not  proclaim  it  hourly,  and 
unasked,  like  the  watchman. 


A  student,  undergoing  his  ex- 
amination, was  asked  the  mode  of 
action  of  disinfectants.  He  replied: 
"They  smell  so  badly  that  the 
people  open  the  windows,  and  the 
fresh  air  gets  in.'' 


A  teacher  was  illustrating  the 
compass  to  two  pupils.  "Now, 
what  is  before  you?"  "The  North, 
sir,"  said  John,  who  was  an  intel- 
ligent lad.  "Now,  Tommy,*'  said 
he  to  the  other,  who  had  just 
donned  a  long  coat,  "what  is 
behind  you?"  "My  coat  tail,  sir," 
said  Tommv. 


The  phrase  "put  a  head  on 
him"  is  said  to  owe  its  origin  to 
Shakespeare,  who,  in  Titus 
Androuicus,  calls  upon  the  people 
to  "put  a  head  on  headless  Rome. " 


Professor  in  Political  Science — 
What  can  you  say  of  the  right  to 
reputation]  Senior  B. —  No  man 
can  injure  my  reputation.  Pint. — 
A  rather  ambiguou.s  answer.  Do 
von  mean  trial:  your  character  is  so 
bad  that  no  one  can  injur'-'  it! 
Senior* stammers,  blushes,  and  sits 
down.  f  ( '■  ward. 


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