SINCE the building of our pleasant and com-

modious gymnasium, the customary ap-proach toit has been by an irregu lar an d unevenpath . A level, dry walk co uld be yery easilyprovided for the use of all passing to and fro

between the colleges and the gymnasium, andat the same time afford securer and more directaccess to the well, located midway the distance.

Besides its utility (and this would not beinconsiderable, for in wet weather the . presentpath is decidedly slippery), such a walk, wellgraveled and neatly trimmed, would add greatlyto the appearance of that part of the campus.To one, unfamiliar with our grounds and build-ings, the straggling course of turfless soil thatnow leads our feet to the gymnasium, is a veryindefinite and dubious pathway.

THE matter of .ranking is at present undergo-ing a complete revolution in many Amer-

ican, colleges. The subject is a perplexing one atbest, but none the less sho uld the surest methodof ensuring jus tice to the student , be earnestlysought. In a number of colleges, examinationsare made optional with all who attai n a certaingrade during the term, the per cent, varyingfrom 75 to 90. Clearly, much can be said infavor of a system that puts a premium uponsteady, thorough work from day to day. Theknowledge gained in this way alone, will stay.

The processes in vogue here at Colby fordetermining the standing to which .a student isentitled, are good in their way, but possibly abetter method may be discovered. There areobjections on both sides of the question , wefrankly admit, but wish a fair consideration ofthe pros and cons, and then an intelligent opinionmay be readied.

Our method brings a long, tedious test ofthe student' s acquirements, at the end of theterm when all are weary. It offers to shirksthe chance of gaining a fair rank without solidwork. Many a student has, by cramming forexamination, redeemed on the college register,a term of idleness and neglect. The vicioustendency of such a course is self-evident. More-over, it keeps students in greater or less uncer-tainty as to the result of their work, until thelast examination is past. If one is taken ill, ,oris called out of college during examination time,

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CONTENTS.V"ol. VIII., No. 7.—April, J884.

The Sanctum :Walk to the Gymnasium 89Examinations Optional 89College Customs 90Our New Professor - 90Field Day.... ... 90Commencement Concert 91Tendency to Destroy 91

Literary :Isle an Haut (poem) 91Spring , 91Murmurs fr om Mutton Hill , 93The Fount (poem) 94Porphyry Peters, Pedagogue (concluded) 94

The Campus.. — 96Colby vs. Skowhegan 99

Exchanges :The College Press '.. 100Other Oollogos '. 101

The Waste-Basket 101Personals • -. ... 102Literary NorroEs 103r j H . .. i ' i ' i —

the term's work must all be reviewed before hedare venture on mating up. Another disadvan-tage is, that the student's rank cannot be madeout in any case until vacation, prolonging thework of professors, and delaying the receipt ofterm letters by the students.

(Jn the other hand, the optional plan is agreat incentive to fai thful, honest work. Almostany student will apply himself more zealouslyto his studies if he is persuaded that by so doinghe will escape the three hours' bore of an exam-ination at the end of the term. It reduces thenumber of those to be examined, to the mini-mum, thus lightening very greatly the work ofthe professors, and allows the diligent studenttime for doing those annoying last things, thatinvariably present themselves at the end of theterm.

The foregoing is but an imperfect discussionof the question , but we hope that it will arousethought in regard to the matter. We do notmention the new plan merely for the sake of achange, but because we think it presents ad-vantages far in excess of the method now in usehere.

IN one of our exchanges we noticed the otherday, the remark that inside college walls

nothing was so potent in determining whatshould and what should not be done, as custom.There is indeed much—far too much -—truth inthe saying. If a practice is good, let it be keptup. But because a thing is customary is notsufficient reason for its continuance, whether itbe good or bad. College students are slow tolearn this truth , however. If a class departsfrom the stereotyped course, somebody immedi-ately raises the cry that the class of—r-hascommitted a great offense against the college,in that it has despised the moss-grown traditionsof its predecessors.

It is further noticeable that the questionable,or positively vicious customs are most certain ofperpetuation. The folly of such a course wasvery forcibly illustrated in the case of " falseorders," lately issued for the enli ghtenment ofthe community at large, regarding the Facultyand the class of '87. The "gutter snipe " thatdid service this , year as the customary falseorder , was an outrage upon decency. It lackedeven the salt of wit to redeem its putridity, andwas justly condemned and repudiated by the

students in general, im mediately upon its ap-pearance. While we somewhat question the 'entire wisdom of the course taken by the collegeauthorities to , pre vent, the issue of a mockorder, we do not in the least palliate or excusethe indecency of the sheet that came out. It isa gratifying evidence of the character of Colby,that among the students we have not heard oneword of approval of this latest journalisticventure.

It is devoutly to be hoped that ere long aclass will come forward that will have the moral

"courage and stamina to prevent any of its mem-bers from indulging in the violation of proprietyof which this year has brought the culmination. ,

FINALLY, after many days, the question ,"who is to be our Professor of Physics"

can be definitely answered. At a meeting ofthe trustees of the college, on the 18th inst., asuccessor to Professor Lyford , was formallyelected. The new comer is from the NormalSchool at Cortland , N. Y. Prof. Capen willreceive a sincere welcome from all connectedwith Colby, but for all that, critical eyes willbe upon him. His predecessor has ably filledthe position to which he com es, and whoeveressays to take up that task, laid down aftera long period of service, must be one of nomean ability. Our new instructor comes withthe highest recommendations of fitness for theplace, and with the cooperation of the studentsand authorities of the college, we hope to seethe department in his charge, pushed to evengreater efficiency than it has attained in thepast, and we have confidence to believe thatour hopes will be realized.

AGAIN would we jog the memory of everyable-bodied student, in reference to Field

Day. If .we believe in athletics, let us show burbelief by our works. The only way to makethe contests interesting, is to secure a larg enumber of entries for the various feats, andthen have the 'Contestants go through a courseof rigorous training. In addition to the usualfeatures, ban vve not have a fai r, well-conteste dwalking match ? Could there not also be a littlenovelty introduced ? A bicycle race, or an ex-hibition of bow shooting, would infuse a littlevariety into the somewhat monotonous programof late years. At all events, it fe of vital impbr- r

tance that the stud ents heartily second theefforts of the management, if we are to have aprofitabl e meeting this year.

AFTER some hesitation and a great deal ofdiscussion, '84 has decided that there shall

be a commencement concert this year. Wecannot hut feel gratified at the decision of theclass to celebrate the completion of their courseby a fitting entertainment. From the report ofthe committee having the matter in charge, itseems that the proposed concert will be onesuch as will please all lovers of good music.The musicians are each and all artists in theirspecial parts , and will doubtless present a pro-gram, excellent alike in selection and execution.

We hope that this will prove to be a perma-nent revival of a pleasant custom, that had , in adegree, lapsed into disuse.

THERE is apparently innate in mankind,especially young mankind, a tendency to

destroy. It is popularly supposed that this de-structive disposition is confined chiefly to boy-hood ; but not seldom, distinct traces of it areev ident in pro fessed young men. In college itmanifests itself in wanton breaking of glass,abus e of gymn asium ap paratu s, and general dis-regard of the p roperty rights of the college.Th at this sort of beh avior is foolish as well aswrong, seems too evident to need argument.The damage is usua lly wrought by a few whoare surcha rged with jollity and anim al spirit s,whose conduct must be guided by a wholesomepublic opinion.

Spon the charms of out-door beauty willtempt the average student to exchange theclassic shade of his room, for the more delightfulif less mysterious , shade of the campus trees. Ithas been customary hithe r to, to sacrifice one ortwo settees in the course of a season, to a mor-bid desire on the part of a few students towhittle. We protest in the in terest of the col-lege as a whol e, against this needless waste. Todisfigure and destroy, thus , the comforts provid-ed for the common use, is simp ly vandalism, Itis unworth y of a boy even , not to say a man.We have no doubt the college authorities wouldprovide permanent seats on the campus if therewas any assurance that they would survive oneyear 's service , but it would be monumen talcheek to ask the favor, with , the confused ideasof property righ ts now held by some of thestudents.

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3SLE ATI HAUT.Highland islan d of the d eep,

Isle au Haut ! •Where the storm -winds availing sweep,And the breakers flash and leap,

All a-row,Echoing up thy rocky steep,

Isle au Haut.

Thee we watch from far away,Isle au Haut,

Giant guardian of the bay,Bidding ocean 's onset stay,

Heedless, th oughDeep thy woods are drencled with spray,

Isle au Haut.

Utmost outpost of the Jand,Isle.au Haut,

Mountain-walled on every hand ,With thy frothed and broken strand,

White as snow,And thy lake tie fairies planned,

Isle au Haut.

Miles away I see thee shine,Isle au Haut,

Sunset on those cliffs of thine,Rosy flushed thy darkling pino,

Whil e, below, '.Sbip-lights glimmer on the brine,

Isle au Haut !H. L. K., '80.

L I T E R A R Y . [

YES, for this, the oldest of them es, is newagain once more, and vernal breezes bid us

welcome once again the latest arrival in the cy-cle of years. Spring extends astronomicallyfrom the middle of March , the vernal equinox,to the middle of June , the summer solstice.Popula rly, however , it end s with th e first of thelatter month , but the summer tide continues torise till after the solstice, and not till then do thebuds and tender shoots begin to harden or thegrass to lose its greenness.

March ia always boisterous and deceptive.The flood tide may have commenced, and , in-deed , during pleasant days in March we alwaysloolc for the first ' signs of budding vegetation ,bu b there are so many counter currents of thewinter 's ebb yet left , that they render these en-deavors abortive , and the month is persistent innothing save its variableness.

Sturd y old Boreas and the gentle South Windwage contin ual warfare, the one sweep ing down

SPRING.

across the Canadas, fresh from regions of per-petual ice and snow, the other up from the Gulfof Mexico, laden with the warmth and rich-ness of the tropics, gentle but sure to be victo-rious. But its ascendency is very limited atfirst , and results in a negative blessing, giving usthe slosh, the mud, and the mire so characteris-tic of the month.

It is.not all thus, for there are many pleas-ant days in March , when one longs to be out ofdoors, if only to watch the breaking up of theice, crystal by crystal, or the tiny rivulets in theirjourney seaward. This is the surface-watermonth, and furnishes a golden opportunity forthe study of the erosive power of water. Nowis the time to search in these rivulets for chan-nel and flood-plain, rapid, fall, and cafion , forthey are each perfect miniatures of 'those largerrivers which figure so prominently in theearth's physiography.

Here are the canons of the Colorado, withall their intricate windings and side canons,better for purposes of study than even the orig-inals themselves, because embraced in the spaceof a few yards, and yonder is a miniature Niag-ara, pouring its turbid flood down through rapidsabove into the pool below, and eating its wayslowly backward hour by hour and inch by inch.

After watching these little streamlets, it doesnot seem so incredible , nor indeed so wonderfulthat the mighty river can wear its way centuryafter century into the solid rock till it has madefor itself a chasm whose precipitous sides rise5,000 or 6,000 feet above the swollen flood.

This is the period , too, which marks the re-turn of the birds, with whose first utterancethe spell of winter is , broken. Each stage ofthe advancing season gives prominence to a cer-tain species of plant and bird life, and we arenaturally led to associate the two. In warmsouthern exposures, during the last few days inMarch , may often be found the hepaticas, whose

. delicate blossoms inaugurate vernal vegetation,and whose coming has been heralded severaldays earlier by the robin , himself the pioneer ofhis race. Next appear the nodding bells of theadder's tongue, proclaiming the arrival of thesong-sparrow, whose winning strains soon glad-den our hearts.

; With the phoebe-bird come the white starredflowers of the blood-root, while the trillium doesnot associate with the bird, from whiolj it derives

its popular name of wakerrobin, but rather with 'the bluebird.

But now March has gone and April 'is athand, pre-eminently the month of birds. Andthey are all engaged from early dawn till darkin an unceasing warfare on every thing inseetilethat lives upon the earth , burrows in the soilbeneath, or flies in the air above it... In thispursuit they all prove themselves arithmeticaland physiological wonders. The robin , for in-stance, so universally reviled by horticulturists,but if the truth were known their greatest aux-iliary, weighs usually about three and a half troyounces. Yet he both can and does eat morethan that weight of insect food every day, andto crown all he actually weighs less when hehas finished than the food he has eaten. Im-possible as such a feat may seem it has beenproved by careful experiment again and againtill it has lost some of its original novelty, butit still remains as an au thentic phenomenon ^setting at defiance all known laws of additionand subtraction.

April is a busy month , for there is the wholeof the summer machinery to set in motion.Every invisible agent of Nature is silentlyweaving a drapery of verdure for the monthsthat are to come. The first faint odors of springgreet us the latter part of the month , from theunfolding buds. Those of the balm of Gilead,when the scales fal l from them at this season,afford most gratefu l fragrance , and are, perhaps,the most characteristic part of the peculiarincrease of spring.

And so April with its. famous variety of sun-shine and shower, like a lingering extension ofthe dayspring of life, ushers us at last into May,the flower and color month of the year.

To the lover of nature , the ever changingaspect of the woods is always a delight, and atno period of the year is it better , displayed thanin May. Autumn has more varied tints, moregorgeous combinations, but is all overshadowedand darkened by melancholy,—the decay of theyear being suggestive of the decline of life .

Not so the merry month of May, for the un-folding of the leaves, and the conseq uent ripen-ing hues of the landscapes, are suggestive ratherof powers yet to come, than of powers that havebeen .

May opens withi,. the few flowers al readymentioned, bub .after May-day every night-fall

MUTTON HILL,— that is, the town ofMutto n Hill, differs from Rome of old.

(The reader should be careful and not confoundancient Rome with modern Rome, an adjoiningtown.) There are just six hills difference, a cir-cumstance which all true hearted, loyal , andpatriotic Mutton Hillers (care should also betaken not to give «', in this word, the sound of e),regard as an exceedingly singular coincidence.So much for a description of the town. TheEcho reporter ascended last week, for thepurpose of making professional observations byway of interviews and the like, the result to begiven to the public through the literary columns.He dined at the Metropolitan Hotel, goingthrough with all the fashionable courses, frommutton soup down to hulled corn , after whichhe wended his way down the avenue to the sec-ond selectman's office , hoping to gain an inter-view. He found him in , and at the same time,very loquacious, as will be seen. After makingknown his business, he asked about the presentprosperity and future prospects of MuttonHill. ' The "second on the board," who wasrather a portly gen tleman but rather pale, owingto the close confinement caused i>y the arduous/duties of his office , went over to the town safe,

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unlocked the time lock by his watch , pulled outa paper bag, and offered the scribe a cigar, re-marking at the time, something about last fall'scabbage crop. He then seated himself and be-gan:

"Wall, neighbor, the present prosperity ofMutton Hill is dew to a rather curus combi-nation of sarcumstances. In th' fust place, hercitizens is loyal and united , and the harmonywhich co-exists between each and every man onthis 'ere lofty eminence, is somethin 'of whichwe feel proud; somethin' that yer don't readso much about in these days of municipo-political quarrels. Why every man up herelives not for his own agrandizement, but for hisneighbor's. This is our patent motto, an' we'vegot it posted in every public place on the Hill ,'Every man for his feller, an' all fer MuttonHill.-' Why, friend , we cal'late that we is jestoutshinin' our neighboring towns, in a mannerthat would make the sun look pate—metaphori-cally speaking, ye know. Now thar's Rome, lookat her !—Rome was all right once, ye know. Why,Ben Butler said in one of his great speeches,' to be a Roman in that later day, was greaterthan to be a King.' But things is changed andRome ain't what she was ; she's below MuttonHill in more senses of th' word than one. Andthere's Belgrade. Why, she ain't nowhere,now. One of our senators says once, when somemean little- office was offered him ,-—' Gentlemen,I'd rather be third selectman in the town ofBelgrade than take this office.' Yes, friendBelgrade, with Rome, has fallen into the shadowof Mutton Hill. Our futer prospects is indeedbright (and he arose to his feet and burst intoa flood of eloquence). The star of Mutton Hillis in the ascendency, and while I do not wish tobuild up our future greatness upon the ruins ofBelgrade and Rome, yit I dew hope, and sin-cerely trust, that at no distant day that starmay flash forth an' show th' world that MuttonHill is the center of civilization , intelligence,morality , and wealth. Mutton Hill, my friend ,Mutton Hill, forever 1 May she long—long mayshe—but try another cigar, ma'be that's tewstrong fer ye " " '' '/ '

The reporter allowed that there wasn't theleast shadow of a doubt in his mind as to the qual-ity of last year's cabbage crop, but he guessedhe wouldn't smoke any more just then, and ueinquired about the improvements of the town.

MUR MURS PROM MUTTON HILL.

of dew leaves the earth greener than it found it,and every morning sun witnesses the unfoldingof a host of new blossoms. As the foliageripens the various shades of green become blend-ed into one uniform tint , but before this isthoroughly accomplished the fruit trees haveblossomed. Apple, and pear, and cherry trees,with their white blossoms enveloped in tufts offoliage, persuade us that the hopes of spring, solong delayed, have been at length fulfilled.Though the color month of the year, the pre-vailing tints are delicate, the prominent colorsbeing green, yellow, and white, with the lightershades of blue, purple, and lilac. Scarlet isseldom seen till after midsummer.

Odors and sights and sounds, have now be-come so grateful and tranquilizing in their effecton the mind, that we can no longer regard themas the mere pleasures of sense, but rather asbenisons of Nature , freely given in her spring-tide of life, and suggestive of all the bri ghtperiod of youth.

C. B. W., '81.

"Wall thar, neighb', if thar's one thing weHitlers is proud of, its our numerous introduc-tions of modern improvements. We've gut thetelephone, the electric, light , and above allthings we is proud of our pavements. Theyain 't gut the regularity 'bout 'em that them'sgut over to Smithfield , but there's somethin' pe- 'culiar 'bout our pavements that makes 'emnoted all over the State. And then ther 's ourelevated railroad, the most elevated of any inNew England, exceptin', perhaps, that on theWhite Hills. Why, we've gut a fire departmentthat wakes up by electricity, runs to the fire byelectricity, and puts it out by electricity—won-derful is the power of electricity. And thar 'sour base-ball club that 's cleaned out the Horn-

. villes, the Smithfields, the House P'inters, andthe North Belgrades. But thar's one thingI'm glad to say we ain 't up to, and that 's skatin 'rinks. I can stan' most anything, but jest assoon as a skatin' rink moves onto this hill,thar'll be a vacancy on the board of selectmen.

" Enterprisin ? wall, I should say we was.Look abou t and see the stir and bustle, such asis consistent alone with .an enterprisin' place.Don 't yer see that factory down thar ? Wall,they cure sheep skins thar for college di-plomas. They 've gut a process that they put'era through and they come out all writ andsigned. Big demand for 'em every summer."Look at the newspapers we support, and all on'em with a big circulation. Thar's the MuttonRill Mutterer, our leadin' daily ; thar's theSheep Shearers' Review, devoted to the woolgrowing interests; the Rambler, devoted tosheep raisin'. Thar's the Lampoon, the funnypaper, and the little Lamb, th e children 's paper.Then thar 's the Cf amp MeetirC Chronicle, our "—

"What are the political preferences," brokein the reporter , "and how does the Hill standon the presidential question ? "

" Wal l, I'll tell yer, and as a representative ofthe Mutton Hill aristocrasey, I speak with nosmall amount of confidence. If Solon Chasewould only accept, and Mutton Hill had thewhole say, he'd tie up ' them steers ' in theWhite House barn next fall, or else I don'tknow the feelin's of the old Mutton Hill ring.I think the second choice of the Hill is BenButler. Thar was a man up here who declaredhimself for Blaine, but they took him down tothe Insane Asylum, last week."

"What is the predominating religious so-ciety in town? " was the next question.

"The what?"" Is the Hill strictly orthodox, or does it use

some freedom in its interpretation of Biblicaldoctrines and ecclesiastical dogmas?"

" What ! want another cheroot? ""Which church has the largest congrega-

tion : the Unitarian , the Baptist, the Episcopal,the Methodist , or the Congregationalist ? "

" Wall, we was speakin' 'bout politics, yeknow "—

" Do you ever have any pr ayer-̂ meetings" uphere?" -

"Wall, ya'as — that is — camp meetin'swould come under that head , wouldn 't they ?Wall , they have camp meetin's down to thecorner everv other summer, and then I heer.edthat they held spirit meetin's into some of thehouses once in a while, but—but "—

At this point, the reporter relieved the gen-tleman, by calling a herdic and departing.

Sweet the pearly spring is breathingOdors from the flowers that, wreathingGarlands all so gracefully entwining,Deck a case of gems full gleamingWith the golden sunlight streaming,Captivating every claim of Art's divining.

AH around the leaves are hoveringAnd the sky, an azure covering,Nestles o'er the water's fai r outlining ;Whilst the woodland warblers, perching'Mid the branches, slyly searchingCosy bowers a future home denning.

As the crystal fountain, springingFresh from .beds of blossoms, bringing •Cheer and comfort from fair radiance glowing,Be our lives in likeness castingFair reflections, true and lasting,On Time's mirrored water's ceaseless flowing.

THE FOUNT.

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¦•TT does beat all how Mr. Peters makesi- them children, learn this winter," said

the widow Barstow to Mr. Brunell one day, asshe mot him in the post-office. " I never seethe like of it. Why^ there's ray Tom, I thoughthe never would get through fractions, and npw

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he's way over in interest, doing sums that Ican't begin to do, and he brings his books homeevery night and studies as if he'd kill himself.He says he never did like to go to school so well

. before in his life.""Well , I knew when I engaged him that

he'd keep us a good school," said Mr. Brunell ,straightening up and looking around at thosewho were waiting for their mail. " I saw it inhim when I hired him. I can tell a man that'sfit to teach our school, as soon as I see him , everytime."

It was rumored that Mr. Brunell wished tobe school agent the next year, and it is possiblethat he raised the tone of his voice when hemade this statement, with the intention of con-vinci ng' others beside the widow Barstow thathe possessed exceptional qualifications for theoffice.

It was true that Porphyry was succeedingwell in his school. His government had beengood and he had succeeded at the same time inwinn ing and keeping the good-will of his pupils.He liked teaching, and the work of directingand managing the affairs of a school just suitedhim. At the same time, he had nob failed tonote and appreciate the laughable and humorouswhenever it presented itself in connection withthe school work. He had, for example, found adeal of sport in the discomfiture which he pro-duced in the minds of some of his large boyswhen he found occasion to bend over or to sitbeside certain of the large girls in order to assistthem in their work, and he sometimes madethose periods of assistance even longer thanwas necessary, so keen was his appreciation ofthe fun.

And thus the weeks went by. The Christ-mas holidays had come and gone. Porphyryhad received at Christmas the regulation num-ber of pen-wipers and book-marks from the girlsof the school, and of jumping-jacks 'and chinaimages from'the boys. There was no disrespectto Porphyry intended in these gifts, but it wasmerely one of the opportunities which the boysof Swathboro always used to play a good-hu-

. mored joke on the teacher.A beautiful Christmas card which had come

to Porphyry through the mail had occasionedmuch curiosity on the part of the people. Thepostmaster had studied the wrapper carefullyand decided that the address was in a young

lady's writing, but the postmark he could notmake out. If it was a young lady's writing, ofcourse every, one knew who the young lady waswithout a doubt ; and Porphyry was so incensedat the inquisitiveness and impertinence of thepeople that he would not gratify a single one bytelling them the simple fact that the gift wasfrom none other than his sister.

Since, to use the words of Mrs. Brunell, 'there wasn't much going on at Swathboro thatwin ter, Porphyry fell into the habit of attendingnearly all the village gatherings in the shape ofsociables, pound parties, singing school, dona-tions, and prayer-meetings. He liked to gosomewhere for a change, he told himself, and heliked to study the people. But after a while hewas compelled to acknowledge to himself thatthere was another reason back of that ; he foundhimself disgusted with the evening wherever itwas spent, if all the people were not there whomhe hoped to see. The whispering of the gossipsabout Ella Farnham kept increasing, and therereally did seem, at times, to be some groundfor it. Porphyry found himself looking with agrowing dislike at the picture on his dressing-case, and he grew more and more vexed at thefix it had got him into. The scowls and ejacu-lations which were directed towards the poor,innocent picture became very frequent and nu-merous.

Oh, if we could only know what becomes ofthose pictures of ourselves which we scatter sofreel y among our friends and chance acquain-tances ; if we could only overhear a small partof the remarks'which are made regarding themand ourselves, we would hesitate more than wedo to send them forth. And if this is truein the ordinary case, much more so is it true ofthe picture of a young lady which falls into thehands of a college boy.

Porphyry s calls at Mr. Farnham s becamemore and more frequent. He always seemed to .be welcomed, and the free , kindly bearing whichMiss Farnham ever maintained towards himcontinued unchanged. No reference was evermade to the picture, however, or to the prevail-ing opinion in Swathboro regarding it. Por-phyry had several times resolved to discloseuthetruth regarding the matter, but the habit of de-ception which he had practiced so long held himback, as also did his fear that Miss Farnham'sattitude towards him would be greatly changed

when the truth was known. He was enjoyinghimself now ; if the truth was disclosed, he .feared for the result.

It was one evening in the middle of Feb-ruary when Porphyry, after thinking the matterover for the five hundredth time, resolved thatcome what would, he would not occupy a falseposition any longer , and made preparations tocall at the Farnham 's, with the determination ofexplaining the whole matter. He was receivedwith cordial greetings, and the evening waspassing so pleasantly that Porphyry half decidedto postpone to another time the object of hiscall. Finally, however, he said with some hesi-tation that he had an explanation to make whichhe supposed would occasion Miss Farnham con-siderable surprise, but which he fel t that truthrequired him to make ; and then followed theWhol e story of the picture, why he had broughtit to Swathboro, and the deception which he hadpracticed upon her and all the rest of thepeople.

When he had finished and turned toward MissFarnham , imagine his astonishment to find herwith difiiculty suppressing her laughter. . "Andnow , Mr. Pe ters," said she, as soon as she couldcontrol her voice, "I will make an explanation also,since you have set such a good example. A fewdays after you came to Swathboro I happened tocall at Mrs. Brunell's, and Sally brought downthe picture from your room and showed it tome, telling me her opinion regarding it. I, how-ever, instantly recognized in it the features ofa young lady with whom I became acquaintedat Bar Harbor two summers ago, and whom Iknow to be now married and happily settled.I suspected your joke, however, and so saidnothing, and I think I have enjoyed my secretfully as much as you have yours." .

Porphyry's school closed successfully the fol-lowing week, and he has returned to college.His chum tells us that he often has a sort ofdreamy, far-away look which is new to him. Noone has been able to get a direct answer fromhim as to how he liked Swathboro, but whenunexpectedly questioned about it he blushes,laughs, and says something about its being afai r sort of a place, and quickly begins talkingabout something else. The velvet frame maystill be seen in his room, but the picture itcontains is not the one . which it held atSwathboro.

u Men feel the influence of spring,It makes them whistle, it makes them sing."

. Suspense > suspension.The old railroad track is ready for the sum-

mer campaign.Putnam , '84, will play right field on the nine

during the coming season.The 2 chapter of the d K E fraternity had

an initiation and banquet on the night of April4th, Mr. Fred G. Dunn, '86, being received intothe society at that time.

Cannot the now dead and dying pine treeswhich were set out last year on the south sideof the campus, be replaced by others, before itgrows too late for transplanting ?

The transition stage from winter to spring ispast, and the board walks have laid away theirlong battery of squirt guns, and no longer re-mind the pedestrian of the moisture-laden clamflats.

A certain Senior, possessed of a keen appre-ciation of the- plain, unvarnished truth , whilereciting in Political Economy, classed the sup-port of a wife under the head of " comforts andluxuries."

Prof. Warre n has laid in a new stock of sur-veying apparatus, and the procession of embryosurveyors, armed with barber pole and tripod,now marcheth down past the campus, to thesound of horn music.

It is necessary for those men who last yearappeared on the campus in the role of "TheJibbenainosy," to be practicing up again ontheir little speech, which they were wont touse on such occasions.

The rivalry for the best sites for tenniscourts is becoming fast and furious. An '85 clubhas secured the site just east of the chapel andis having the grounds graded and returfed atthe expense of the college.

.. What makes one smile is to see the so-calledtheological division burst out of Prof. Foster'sroom in the afternoon , and join in the triumphantchorus of " I'm a rambling rake of poverty, andthe son of a gambolier."

The Oracle will, in all human probability,be out on the 10th of May* It promises to bethe spiciest, as it will be the most elaborate

THE CAMPUS.. .

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Apublication ever issued at Colby. The LewistonJourna l office , where it is printed, declares thatit will be the finest piece of such workmanshipthat has ever left their hands.

The cabinet has just received the gift ofsome rare carboniferous fossils, sent by twoScotchmen, as a mark of gratitude for a servicerendered them in the New Brunswick woodslast summer by Prof. Elder.

The majori ty of the Seniors have had theirpictures taken by the Portland photographer,Hearn. He succeeded in arousing the bitterjealousy of the entire class, however, by histhoughtless remarks concerning Estes. q. v.

By a change made in accordance with theirown desire, the Seniors will have Political Econ-omy throughout the entire term , instead ofdevoting the last six weeks to the cataloguecourse of lectures on Constitutional History.

The view of the river in the rear of the col-leges was particularly fine this year at the timewhen the ice was going out. An ice-damformed a short distance below the campus, andwhen finally it broke, the rush of water andsolid ice that followed was magnificent.

The Seniors have voted to have a class con-cert on the Wednesday evening of commence-men t week, as has been the custom in yearspast. Musical talent of the highest grade hasalready been secured , and a concert may be ex-pected more than usually attractive in certai nof its features.

A fine painting of the Rev. James T. Champ-lin ,. D.D., who was Professor of Greek and Latinat Colby from 1841 to 1858, and President ofthe college from 1857 to 1873, has lately beenpresented to the University by Mrs. Champlin.The pain ting is the work of F. B. Skeele, and issaid by those qualified to judge to be an excel-lent likeness of Dr. Champlin.

The old-time custom of class receptionsseems to have been discarded for the more novelmethod of extending receptions to membersfrom all four of the classes. The last of a seriesof three of these Wednesday evening receptionsby the President was given on the evening ofApril 28d. It is hardly necessary to say thatthe kindness and hospitality of Dr. and Mrs.Pepper is nob unappreciated by the students.

A Freshman was heard, the other day, in-quiring if recitations were suspended on May-day.

A pleasing and much-needed innovation hasbeen made in the morning chapel services, bythe introduction of a cornet to aid in the lead-ing of the singing. Bickmore, of '86, is thecornetist. It is to be hoped that this additionmay be a permanent one, and that the collegemay at no time in the future be without aplayer to take the place of his predecessor.

At the time of the inquest upon the inciner-ated Frenchman, at the town hall, the Fresh-men received a severe reb uff in the person ofone of the members of their class. He was en-deavoring to gain admittance to the ball incompany with some upper-class men, when thedoor-keeper, singling him out as a member of'87, stolid ly remarked , "Boys not allowed," anddropped him just outside the door.

At a meeting of the trustees, held on the18th of the present month, Prof. F. W. Capen,a graduate of Rochester University, '68, waselected to fill the chair of Natural Philosophyand Astronomy, left vacan t by the resignationof Prof. Lyford. Prof. Capen has had growingsuccess sis a teacher, first of the Classics andthen of Mathematics, and has for the last fiveyears held the position of Professor of Mathe-matics in the Normal School at Cortland , N. Y.He will probably take charge of his departmentin the corning fall.

It has been reserved for one of the Facultyto perpetrate the most undilutedly rich joke ofthe season. It was when he was walking downtown in company with a Sophomore. He hadbeen discussing one or two recent occurrencesupon the campus in a manner that showed hisknowledge of the circumstances to be morecorrect than the students could have supposed.Moved by the revelation, the student exclaimed :" Well, I'd like to know how all these thingsget to the knowled ge of the Faculty." " Ah I"replied the Professor, " you must remember thatthe Faculty have long ears."

A certain Freshman was endeavoring, -theother day, in Prof. Warren's recitation room,to demonstrate a proposition , by means of asomewhat shaky figure upon the board. Hehad been tentatively feeling his way along for

some minutes, until finally coming to a com-plete halt which threatened to be his last, heremarked despairingly, " I am hung up, Pro-fessor." "Yery well, you may h ang thereawhile ," was the reply. It will be scarcelynecessary for the- professor in question to repeathis statement that he does not relish the use ofslang expressions in the class-room.

It was expected that General Chamberlai nwould deliver an address before the college onthe evening of April 7th , but an accident to thetrain in which he was coming to Waterville pre-vented him from filling his engagement. Dr.Larkin Dunton , the well-known educationist ,was paying a visit to his Alma Mater at the time,and kindly consented to address the audiencewhich had assembled. The lecture was an in-teresting and highly practical address upon" The Science of Education ," and was deliveredwith special reference to those students who hadtaught or who intended teaching school.

The sugar-camp in Winslow has ' this yeardrawn to itself an unusual number of enthusiasticstudents. The Seniors were so overcome bythe reports that reached their ears of its attrac-tions, that hearing of the ancient custom ofgranting a cut to the students that they mightvisit the sugar-camps in the nei ghborhood , they,with one accord , sent their president to Dr.Pepper to beg a renewal of this forgottencustom. It is a significant fact that no efforthas been made to ascertain the answer of theFaculty, but it is understood that upon Prof.Elder's assurance that excellent sugar made ofglucose could probably be obtained in town,the Faculty voted to disregard the petition ofthe class.

There is nothing about an institution of thiskind in which the students justly take morepride than in a naturally beautiful and well-kept campus. We have the naturally beautifulcampus, but so far as we have any share in itsproper keeping no attempt is made upon thepart of most of us to maintain it in even decentcondition, Papers are thrown down or strewnabout on the grass, orange peels are carelesslytossed upon the walks, and sardine cans andbottles are thrown from the windows, without athought that they must be picked up by someone, and that until picked up they must remain

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an eye-sore to the passers by, and a rebuke tothose who have thus disregarded its appearance.We can all afford to put ourselves to an occa-sional slight inconvenience, in order that thisabuse may become a thing of the past.

The Sophmore prize declamation took placein the Baptist Ch urch, on Wednesday evening,April 9th , the followin g program being pre-sented :

MUSIC .—PRAYER. —MUSIC .Republicanism.—Garfield. Charles C. Brown.Washington.—Lothrop. Judson B. Bryant.The Volunteer Soldier.—Ingersoll. Randall J. Condon.The Boston Mob.—Wendell Phillips. George P. Phenix.

MUSIC . . .Banishment.—R. C. Trench. Albert M. Richardson.Tent Scene between Brutus and Cassius.—Shakespeare.

Charles P. Small..Eulogy on Wendell Phillips.—Joseph Cook.

Appleton W. Smith.MUSIC.

Address at Yorktown.—Winthrop. Herbert W. Trafton.The Diver.—Schiller. Stephen E. Webber.A Description^! Webster's Reply to Hayne.—March.

W. Wilberforce "Whitten .MUSIC .

The music for the occasion was furnished bythe college trio. . The firs t prize was awardedto Mr. Condon , the second to Mr. Phenix, whilehonorable mention was given to Mr. Small.Like the former exhibition of the same class thedeclamation was of a high grade of excellence.

The following document was unearthed theother day from the archives of the college. Itis an agreement between the prudential com-mittee of Waterville College and the proprietorof the Commons House, as to the fare thatshould be furnished the students at a stipulatedprice.

BILL OF FARE.For Breakfast .—Coffee, with Molasses and Milk,

and Bread and Butter.For Dinner. —Meat , served up in various forms, as

best convenes the Steward ; except once a week, Beans,once a week, Fish, and occasionally Puddings, withCold Water. "

For Supper.—Tea, with Sugar and Milk, Bread >and Butter, and occasionally Cheese, Apple Sauce, orPics.

The , Steward, is to turn Isu the above fare at onedollar per week, when paid in advance, in sums notless than six dollars at each payment. When not paidin advance, the sura of one dollar twenty-five centsper weok will be charged.

Signed :—Peudential Com. oit Waterville College,

Waterville, April 7, 1835.

A new chapter of a secret Greek-letter* fra-ternity was established at Colby, on the nightof Tuesday, April 1st, through the insfcruiuen-

tality of Mr. C. P. Bassett of Lafayette Col-lege, Easton, Pa. The -fraternity is the PhiDelta Theta , and the new chapter will be knownas , the Maine Alpha Chapter , of the Alphaprovince. It is the second chapter of this fra-ternity established in New England, the otherbeing at the University of Vermont. PhiDelta Theta is especially strong in the West andSouth, but it is at present making an endeavorto obtain a foot-hold in the Eastern colleges.Its chapter roll embraces over 50 chapters, andabout 3,400 members. The fi aternity organ iscalled the Scroll, and has been issued' as amonthly since 1878. The badge consists of ashield with an eye in the upper part of thefield , and a scroll bearing the letters " # A 8"in the lower part/ From the nombril point,attached by a chain , is a sword. The colors arewhite and blue. The. members of the Colbychapter are 14 in number , the names being asfollows : Dudley and . Moulton , '84, Barton ,Carroll , and Fuller, '85, Bruce, Frentz, Googins,Metcalf, and H. A. Smith , '86, and Bradbury ,P. N. Burlei gh, Parr, and Watson, '87.

The Freshman Prize Beading occurred onWednesday evening, April 16th, at the Baptistchurch. The following is the program :

MUSIC—PRAYER. —MUSIC .Hervd Riel,—Robert Browning. Samuel C. Brooks.The Famine.—Longfellow. ' Hoi man F. Day.The Lamp on the Prairie.—Carey. Winifred BT. Brooks.The Story of Some Bells.—Anon. Walter B. Farr.

MUSIC .Morte D'Arthur.—Tennyson. Edward F. Goodwin.Mother and Poet.—Mrs. Browning. Maud E. Kingsley.The Polish Boy.—Stevens. Roscoe W. Harvey.King David's Lament ,—Willis. Stanley H. Holmes.

MUSIC .The Lady of Shalott.—Tennyson. Bessie A. Mortimer.The Painter of Seville,—Wilson . Maurice H. Small.Jephtha's Daughter—Willis. Mary E. Pray.At the Smithy.—C. F. Woolson. William F. Watson.

MUSIC.

The exhibition did not belie the reputation. that the Freshman reading has al ways borne forbeing the most interesting public college exer-cise that takes place during the course. Anexceptional interest was given to the presentreading by the fact that all of the four youngladies of the class participated in the exercise.The audience was large, and with the single ex-ception that there was nothing whatsoever uponthe program to enable one a year from nowto tell what class gave the exhibition or whenit occurred , the arrangements were well con-ducted. The first prize , for the ladies, wasawarded . to Miss Kingsl ey, the second to MissPray. Of the gentlemen , Mr. Watson receivedthe first prize, Mr. Small the second.

The repetition , in one of the rooms of southcollege, of a frequently recurring accident,ought to be a sufficient warning to the trustees,or the prudential committee, or whoever elseare concerned , that the provision for extinguish-ing fire in the college buildings is wholly inade-quate for the purpose. In the room in question ,an open grate stove was left for some time withall the drafts open, the owner of the roombeing absent. When he returned, the stove wasat a white heat, the paint near by was burnedentirely off the wood-work, and the heat was sointense that a pair of wax candles on the otherside of the room were melted. This same thing hasoccurred a number of times, in one or two casesthe door being burst open from without by thosewho^ could smell the burning wood. In thepresent case, had the fire continued a littl elonger so that the wood-work about the chim-ney could have caught, or had the grate-barsmelted out, letting the coals down upon thethin bottom of the stove, or had a spark of firein any way reached the floor or the wood-work,the room heated to such a pitch would havebeen ablaze in an instant. It is taken for grant-ed by those who know nothing whatsoever aboutthe matter that there is always plenty of waterin the rooms:—it would be more likely than not,however, that in all the occupied rooms of thedivision together there would not be more thantwo or three pailfuls of water available, andthis amount would in such a case be almostuseless. It is argued that the stude nts have noright to clamor for " conveniences." We leaveit to those who are interested to decide whether,in view of the facts as stated above, a fire-extin-guisher in the divisions or a set of the newlyinvented glass hand-grenades, should be re-garded as a convenience, ©!' a necessity.

Colby 32, Showhcgan 13.

The nine opened the season, April 26th,with a highly creditable game with the Skow-hegans. Goodwin and H. L. Putnam led thebatting, while Mathews, Larrabee, an# T. P.Putnam did fine work in the field . T'he baserunning of the entire team 'deserves the highestpraise. The score :

COLBY.a.b. it, In. T.B. P.O. A. II.

Doe, p., . 6 8 1 1 8 • B 2S. Mat hews, 2b. and o., . . 7 8 2 2 8 8 0

COLBY vs. SKOWHEGAN.

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THE COLLEGE PRESS.During the vacation , a number of new exchanges

made their appearance, and among the rest, we par-ticularly notice The Oxford and Cambridge Under-graduates 1 Journal. It comes from across the water,as its' name indicates, and for that reason we hardlydare to offer comments ; for what , in England, may bea paper which comes up to the average college' boy'sidea of what a paper should be, may, to the Americanstudent , be a somewhat uninteresting publication.This conclusion we do not draw from a reading of theJournal; we simply state what might be the case, notwhat is, in this instance, the case. We mark a dis-tinction , a pre-eminently notice-able distinction be-tween this and the American college papers in thecharacter of the advertisements. Our foreign friendis very profuse in advertising bar rooms and other con-venient places where students may obtain all kinds ofliquors. This is something that we all know is omittedin the college papers of this country, especially inMaine. But then, there may be a reason for.our mak-ing such omissions. It may be that such advertisingin the papers of most colleges of America would berather .superfluous. The Journal m its general make-up is business-like, and from a rapid glance at thecover, one would judge it to be a publication devotedentirely to the interests of mercantile pursuits. Butto look within , one would see at once that it is de-cidedly college-like. Instead of long, literary articles,its columns are filled with short editorials, and a largenumber of short items of college interest, and.then therest of the paper is devoted exclusively to sports. Itis an active paper, and a littl e more devoted—at leastfully as much—to its own college interests as the col-lege publications on this side of the Atlantic."

But among our old exchanges, we particularl ynotice our misguided contemporary and neighbor theBowdoin Orient. Since the well- nigh mortal blow wereceived at its hands last fall , we have hardly daredto look at that sheet. But last week we summonedthe fortitude to read the following editorial:.

" The schedule of.bal l games of last year proved soeminently satisfactory that a similar schedule shouldbe made out for this coming season. Until last yearthe result of the summer's work on the diamond wasalways left in uncertainty. While the State champion-ship was not decided as wo had hoped :Jt would- be,yet it was much more preferable to know where it didbelong."

Wo do not presume to correct what to us is badgrammar, for possibly the B, 0. man may be governedby different rules. But it is the sentiment of theabove that especially attracts, our attention. If/thereis one topic above all others concerning which the, B.0.—strange as it may spem—is and always has beenloquacious, it is base-ball. And it is a subject aboutwhich wo, up here, like to talk also. We agree withour foliow-scrlbe ; the. -schedule of last year's- gameswas eminently satisfactory. Bat we are sorry, verysorry that he should have remained in ignorance bo

E X C H A N G E S .Emerson, Id., . . .. . . 7 5 3 3 11 0 2H. L. Putnam, c. f., . . . 7 2 4 6 0 0 0Whitten, 1. f., 7 2 2 2 0 0 1T. P. Putnam, r. i. , . . . . 7 2 3 4 0 2 0Larrabee, s. s., 7 4 3 3 1 6 1E. F< Goodwin, c. and 2b., 7 5 5 5 3 3 1Boyd, 3b., . . . . . . ' . . 6 4 1 1 1 0 0

Totals, 61 32 24 27 27 19 7.. SKOWHEGAN.

A.B. R. IB. T.B. P.O. A. E.W. Mathews, 2b., . . . . 5 1 1 3 3 3 2Peters, c. and s. s., . . . . 5 4 3 4 7 0 2Dugan, 3b. and 1. f., . . . 2 2 0 0 1 1 4King, p. and 3b., . . . . 5 0 0 0 1 8 2_W. Goodwin, s. s. and c, . 4 1 1 1 3 0 *2Additon, 1. f. and p., . . . 3 2 1 2 0 1 0Patten, r. f., 5 2 1 1 3 1 2Lumsded, lb., 5 1 1 1 8 2 2Simpson, c. f., 5 0 1 1 1 1 0

Totals, 39 13 10 13 27 17 18Earned runs—Colby, 3; Skowhegan, 1. Three-base bits-

EC. L. Putnam, V. Mathews. Two-base hits—T. P. Putnam,Peters. First base on errors—Colby, 9; Skowhegan, 4. Firstbase on called balls—Colby, 4; Skowhegan, 6. Balls called—on Doe, 110; on King, 85; on Additon, 8. Strikes called—offDoe, 9; off King, 10; off Additon, 1. Struck out—Colby, 4;Skowhegan, 2. Passed balls—E. F. Goodwin, 6; Mathews,3; Peters, 2; W. Goodwin , 2. Wild pitches—Doe, 4; King, 5;Double play—Patten and King. Time—2 'hours, 18 minutes.Umpire—E. P. Burtt.

SCORE B"S INNINGS :1 2 3 4 5 6 7 " 8 9

Colby 2 5 0 4 4 4 8 3 .2—32Skowhegan, . . . . 2 0 0 0 3 2 2 4 0—13

At Columbia, it is reported that it has beenfound necessary to appoint officers to remain onwatch continually in the library, to prevent thestudents from mutilating and otherwise damag-ing the books.

It was a somewhat noticeable fact, that,after the recent fatal accident to one of the stu-den ts in the Yale gymnasium , the editorial col-umns of the daily papers were not filled withthe customary inv ectives agaiiist athletics. Butit may be that they are waiting for the base-balland boating season to open.

All the college teams that are included inthe Inter-collegiate Base-Ball Association , exceptHarvard , have obtained professional trainers fortheir preliminary exercise and practice. Allexcept Harvard , have arranged to open the sea-,son by games with various league professionalclubs. Yale opens the season at Philadelphia.

Washington , Jackson, Van Buren , Taylor3Fillmore, Lincoln and Johnson did not go tocollege. Jefferson and Monroe entered Williamand Mary College, but did not graduate.Grant was educated at West Point. Madisongraduated at Princeton, Polk at the Universityof Carolina, the Adamses at Harvard , Harrisonat Hampden, Sidney College, Pierce at Bowdoin ,Buchanan at Dickinson , Hayes at Kenyon Col-lege, Garfield at Williams, and Arthur at Union ,Polk ,' Buchanan , and fj ayes, graduated withfirst honors.

long, as to where the championship helonged the sea-son previous. However much in doubt he may he asto where the championship did belong, we are quitesure that there can't be the least shadow of an uncer-tainty as to where it didn't belong.

Our Baptist brother, the Bmnonian, seems toreally think that the Echo editors have offered thetwo prizes—twenty-five and fifteen cents—for the besttwo literary articles, as was stated in. the local columnsof our February issue. For his edification we will saythat the offer has been withdrawn ; the two amountscould not be raised, and the project was abandoned.

Dr. Haanel, of Victoria University, has madea wonderful discovery in blow-pipe analysis.Instead of dirty charcoal , plaster of paris tabletsare used in the. work of assaying.

'A preliminary vote in the Harvard Facultyon the question of keeping Greek among therequiremen ts for admission, is said to have re-sulted 21 to 18 in favor of some change.

Th e will of the late President H. E. Packer,of the Lehigh Yalley Road, leaves the bulk ofhis proper ty to his wife. At her death twentytwenty-thirds of it goes to the Lehigh Univer-sity at Bethlehem, which was built and liberallyend owed by his father. The estate is estimatedat over $4,000,000. Lehigh University bidsfair to be the wealthiest college in the country,outranking Columbia.—Ex.

Dr. Charles Walderstein , a member of theJunior year of the class of 1883 at ColumbiaCollege, is the newly-elected director of theFitzwilliam Art Museu m, Cambridge Univer-sity, England. There were six competitors forthe place left vacant by Professor Sydney Cal-vin's" transfer to the British Museum, and thecry against the choice of a foreigner was raisedin this case as with Mr. Lowell.—MoQ-ill Uni-versity Q-azette. ,

By the death of Wendell Phillips, Harvardloses another of those great men , of an oldergeneration of graduates, to which Emerson andSumner belonged. Mr. Phillips was a member oft,he class of 1881. He is said to have been thebest soholar and best general athlete in college.

Although our elective system is in its in-fancy, it is already tending to confound classdistinctions ; several Juniors recite with theSeniors, and some of the latter take French with'85, while one, at least ,;proposes to begin Ger-man with the Sophomores,

OTHER COLLEGES.

The Echo board had convened in the mana-ger's room, to confer upon mutual interests andconsider the work of the year th us far. Mana-ger smiled in a placid manner as he rolled theleaves of his ledger between his fingers, and hisbright eves danced as he murmured, " Treasuryis in a healthy condition , and we shall get oiit-of this all whole as far as finances are concerned.""We ll, that's good," said Sanctum ; " a cleanfinancial record is fine, but how about us poorfellows who have to shed our intellectual bloodfor the rabble to feed upon—we're getting faint."" By Jeerns !" exclaimed the ex-ed. " I' mglad I have my rations provided Jx>r me; Post-Office box is a first-class soup-plate, a regularinterminable hash-hopper." Campus was medi-tating. Some one had dropped a monosyllable—merely a single word—about "Perk ," and hewas evolving from this mustard-seed, a luxuri- ^ant, half-column article. But Where were wemeanwhile. No opportunity to moralize oncollege politics—no local hit to work up—no P.O. box belching forth material for two columns,no—nothing. We were in the Slough of Des-pond. But succor came to the despondent.A bou ncing step was heard upon the stair, thedoor quickly opened , and a merry voice ex-claimed : " Ye crags and peaks, I' m with youonce again!" "What, M'Gin nis!" And for.the moment confu sion reigned supreme. Yes,it was the same old boy, come back again tocomplete the few remaini ng weeks of his P. G.course. Toughened and bronzed by his visit tothe balmy Sou th, freed fr om all consumptiveindications, he was with us again, and we of the .seats within the penetra lia, enjoyed a richrepast of laughable and- interesting tales andspicy comments, of which you, dear reader, maysoon receive an extract.

Church music is sold by the choir. Drummusic and much of the piano kind, comes bythe pound ,—Ex. Midnight serenades generallycome by the yard. . Street music comes by thefoot.—Phoenix. But the sweetest of all—fid-dling—comes by the stick.

"Greek ? do I undershtandt Greek?" said ajolly German. "Veil, I schoost can sohmile. .Vy, ven I vas leedle boy, I alvays svim in dotgree k ihshteadt of dot riffer."—JKu.

THE W A S T E - B A S K E T .

• [The alumni are earnestly solicited to furnish items

for this column].At a special meeting of the Board of Trus-

tees, held at the Elm wood Hotel on Friday, the18th inst., there were present seventeen mem-bers : Hon . Hannibal Hamlin , Hon. J. H. Drum-mond , Rev. Drs. G. D. B. Pepper, Joseph Richer,G. W. Bosworth, N, Butler, B. F. Shaw, andA. K. P. Small, Rev. F. W. Bakeman, C. V.Hanson, Prof. C. E. Hamlin , Dr. J. H.Hanson, Hon. Percival Bonney,. Moses Gid-dings, William Wilson, and E. F. Webb. Mr.Frank S. Capen was unanimously elected as Pro-fessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, to

. succeed Prof. Lyford on the first day of Julynext . Prof. Capen is a graduate of RochesterUniversity, and for several years past has beenteacher of the above branches in the State Nor-mal School at Cortland , N. Y.

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Jeremiah Chaplin , son of the first Presidentof this University, is preparing a volume offamily reminisences.

'35.Dr. Mathews is writing a series of articles for

The Watchman, enti tled "London Preachers."'37.

Rev. Franklin Morrison is now pastor atBow, N. H.

Died—At his home in Lowell, Charles Mor-rill , for many years Superintendent of Schoolsin that city.

'38.Rev. M. J. Kelley has recently settled at St.

James, Minn. ,' 43.

Rev. Lyman Chase, M.D., has resigned hispastorate at Kennebunk port, on account of fail-ing health.

' 49.Rev. John Rounds has resigned his pastorate

at Northfield, Minn.Dr. Mitchell has* delivered a course of lect-

ures before the Lowell Institute, Boston , Mass.'5 9.

A. E. Buck is delegate-at-large from Ala-bama to the Republican Convention at Chicago.

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' 62.George A. Wilson of South Paris, has been

appointed by the Governor to the position ofJudge of Probate for Oxford County, Me.

' 63 .Rev. S. L. B. Chase has recently left Free-

hold, N. J., and is now settled at Methuen ,Mass.

George ' Giffor d has been appointed U. -S.Consul at Basle, Switzerland.

Charles Dana Thomas occupies a responsibleposition in the large publishing house of VanAntwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati.

' 64 .Harrison M. Pratt is teaching in "the High

School at Lewiston, Me.Ira Waldron occupies an excellent position

on the Toledo Blade.

'6 5.Henry M. Bearce is President of the Nor-

way National Bank.'66.

Rev. F. W. Bakeman of Auburn has resignedhis pastorate thereto accept a call ' to the pulpi t .of the First Baptist church of Chelsea, Mass.

'68 .Rev. E. F. Merriam of the Missionary Union

is preparing a history of the Baptist foreignmissions.

' 7 2 .Rev. E. B. Haskell returns from Dakota to a

pastorate at Hope Valley, R. I.Rev. Horace W. Tilden has resigned the pas-

torate at Augusta.' >77.

Charles D. Smith is City Physician of Port-land , Me.

W. H. Lboney has been re-elected City So-licitor of Portland , Me.

' 80.L. M. Nason has graduated from the Jeffer-

son Medical College with the highest honors ,

' 81.J. H. Parshley has resigned from the Bap-

tist pulpit at Westboro, Mass.Susie B. Dennisori died at her home in Port-

land, on Saturday, April 19, 1884. .• •" :¦

PERSONALS.

The Continent for May has as a frontispiece an ele-gant engraving of the Hon. Jos. R. Hawley. Mr.McCook continues his delightful entomological papers," Tenants of an Old Farm," some of the illustrationsof which are ludicrous in the extreme. The serial," Dorcas, the Daughter of Faustina," receives generousadditions. Helen M. Campbell's story, " The What-To-Do Club," is concluded in this number. The largenumber of short articles are diverse and attractive incharacter. Among the pieces in verse, " The Lampof St. Just " is the longest and best, though the shorterones are good. The departments, a really valuablefeature of the magazine, are of the usual interest. The

. Continent, single number 35 cents ; $4.00 a year. OurContinen t Publishing Co., 27 Park Row, New York.

rlTo their already large and excellent list of Latintext-books, Eldridge & Brother have added a gram-mar by President Chase. The book is meeting withmarked favor wherever used; It is more concise instatement than most of the grammars in use, and em-bodies the latest* results of philological research. Thoauthor's aim at compression is particularly , evident inthe space devoted to syntax. In some particulars thetreatment of the subject is new, and it seems to us,improved. -

2From Ginn fc Heath we have a neat little volumeentitled "Latin Grammar and Exercises." The bookis designed especially for beginners in the language,though the principles stated are numerous and explicitenough to guide a student through the usual collegecourse. The great feature of the work is the surpris-ing condensation and precision of statement.

^ The May number of the Magazine of̂ Art is consid-erably above the April number in point of interest.The frontispiece, " Home, Sweet Home," from a paint-ing by Phil Morris, is a fine conception and well ex-ecuted. Our attention was especially drawn to \

( ASilent Colloquy, '' from a picture by Paul Stade. Thepicture represents the interior of-a German student'sroom, in which a jovial student with jaunty air andirreverent posture, is interrogating a skeleton. Hismanner N indicates that he has just returned from acarouse, and wishes , for the moment to amuse himselfwith philosophy. The skeleton apparently has nohorror for him , but he does not seem to get furtherthan his text , which is evidently cogito ergo sum.The volumes tumbled around him do not aid him anymore than does the skeleton grinning before hira.Other illustrations of especial note are, " By the Fire-side," representing the interior of a Dutch dwelling,by J. H. Melis; " Paddy's Mark ," by Erskine Nicol j" Green Leaves among the Sere," by Geo. H. Bough-ton ; and "Return from Sport," by J. S. Noble.Among articles of interest in this number are an illus-

AA. Latin Grammar. Thoraan Oliaso, LL.D, Olotli , pp.313. Eldridgo & Brother, 17 North Seventh Street, Philadel-phia.

9Th(j Essentials ol Latin Grammar. F. A. Blaokburnj pp.146. Latin Exercises, Introductory to Caesar's Gallic War.V. A. Blackburn , trn. 114. Cloth ; the two bound in one.Frioo ftl.lO. Ginn, Heath # Co,, Boston, Mass,

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trated article on "The Lower Thames," by AaronWatson , and " Pictures at Leeds." Published by Cas-sell & Co., 739 and 741 Broadway, New York. Terms,$3.50 per year; single number, 35 cents.

•The article in the Atlantic for May which 1 will per-haps attract more attention than any other is " TheAnatomizing of William Shakespeare, " by RichardGrant White. The article .is an interesting study ofwhat the author claims are the facts regarding Shakes-peare's life, and . is intended to dissipate some of theillusions which extreme Shakespeare worshipers havecreated. Au article of especial interest to scholars ison "Linguistic Palaeontology," by Prof. E. P. Evans.Miss Harriet W. Preston has an interesting essay on"Matthew Arnold as a Poet.',' Henry Cabot Lodgewrites of "William H. Seward," and Dr. Geo. Elliscontributes a paper on "Gov. Thomas Hutchinson."E. W. Bellamy has a pleasing short story, enti tled"At Bent's Hotel." The serials are continued withincreasing interest. The poems of the number are .byT. B. Aldrich, H. H., and Edith M. Thomas. Severalimportan t books are reviewed, and the Contributors'Club is a fitting conclusion to this welcomed magazine.Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston , Mass. Terms,$4.00per year ; single number, 35 cents.

Lippincott 's Magazine for May, opens with an illus-trated article on "The Hill Suburbs of Cincinnati."Though chiefly descriptive and historical, the articlethro ws some light on some of the questions suggestedby recent events. The illustrations are very good.Another timely article is au account of a journey fro mBerber to Suakim , extracted from the diary of an Eng-lish officer , who was the last European to travel thisroute , closed shortly after by the revolt of the Arabs,under El Mahdi. "Shakespeare's Tragedies on theStage " is the first of.two papers , of- which the presentgives the writer 's views as to the style of acting mostappropriate to Shakespeare's plays. Prof. Win . P.Allen concludes his interesting article on " How theRoman Spent His Year." Among the stories of thenumber are " The Perfect Treasure," by F. C. Baylor ;" At Last," by Annie Porter ; " Retaliation ," by LiuaRedwood Fairfax , and " Tho Rev. Nahura," by M. R.Francis. Tho other departments will be found inter-esting as usual . J. B. Lippinoott <te Co., 715 and 717Market Street, Philadelphia; Penn. Terms, $3.00 peryear ; single number , 25 cents.

We turn with pleasure to the May number of TheManhattan , " Although this magazine has not yet com-pleted its third volume, it is rapidly winning for itselfa high place among our leading magazines. The front-ispiece of the number is an illustration of "Trajan ,"the new novel , which begins in this number , and whichbids fair to bo of considerable interest. The leadingarticle is a finely illustrated paper on " Tho GunnisonCountry," by Ernest Ingersoll. A paper by AppleffonMorgan, entitled " Whose Sonnets f " will be read withinterest by Shakespeare scholars, since it is a criticalattem pt to prove that the sonnets commonly attributedto Shakespeare, were not writte n by him. '' Ch ildrenin Fiction," is an interesting articl e^

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Van Renselaer. A short, but appreciative, illustratedarticle on "Ulric Zwingli," is by Charles H. Hall.u The Latest News. About Keats " is a gossipy, butinteresting paper, by Joel Benton. Alfred Ashton hasa finely illustrated article on "Rimivi and the Nala-testos." Chapters XII. and XEII. of Edgar Fawcett'sstory, "Tinkling -Cymbals," e mtinue the story withunabated interest. The number is enriched by nu-merous short poems, and "Salmagundi" is as attractiveas ever. The Manhattan Magazine Co., TempleCourt, New York City. Terras, $3.00 per year ; singlenumber 25 cents.

The May number of GasselVs presents the variedand excellent table of contents that we have come toexpect in that monthly. The frontispiece is an artisticengraving : " Simply Sweet." There are long andinteresting installments of the serials, " Within theClasp," and " Witness My Hand," besides severalshort,coinplete bits of fiction. " Healthful Recreations "contains some excellent practical suggestions regardingthe recruiting of wearied minds and bodies. Thearticle deserves more than a cursory reading. Itshould be thought o»f, and its hints acted upon. " Our

• Garden in April " does not meet fully the wants of theaverage horticulturist of this' latitude in America.The writer of that department gives up nearly thewhole space to the treatment of one flower, and that a

, hot-house denizen. "The Family Parliament " is anew feature and one that we think will become popu-lar. It is for the discussion of questions of practicalhearing by the readers of the magazine. The questionthis month is: "Ought the State to provide healthyhomes for the poor? " Cassell & Co. ; limited. 739«te 741 Broadway, New York. 15 cents monthly ; $1.50per year.

The Eclectic for May comes with a wisely culledassortment of reading. The number opens with anextreme article, entitled " The Ghost of Religion ," inwhich the author , Mr. Frederick Harrison , both criti -cises and lauds a late essay, by Herbert Spencer,which was the agnostic ultimatum on the question ofthe origin and development of religion. Mr. Harrisongives the Positivist view of the matter. A very timelypaper is u Chinese Gordon ," the review of a recent lifeof that veteran campaigner, from All the Year Mound.The Nihilists have an opportunity to give their viewsof the present and future of government, in " Terror-ism in Russia and Terrorism in Europe." Sir LefelGriffin pays his respects to our political system, in anarticle entitled "The Harvest of Democracy." Amongoth er ar ticles of note are " Mr. Hayward," a biograph-ical sketch by T. H. S. Escott ; " The Literature ofIntrospection "; ei About Old and New Novels";"Platform Women," and "Italian Studies." The otherart icles are interest ing and va luable, each in its way.Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street, Now York.Single numbers, 45 cents. Yearly subscription, $5.

0 From that indefatigable publisher of good and , atthe same time, cheap books, John B. Aldon, we havereceived three daintily printed volumes of Raskin'sworks, They aro " Ethics of the Dust," .'/ Sesame and

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Lilies," and " Crown of Wild Olives." All of them aremade up of lectures delivered by the celebrated criticand author, and are so well known as to require noreview from us. We would, however, call the at-tention of our readers to the excellence of this newedition.

The Foreign Eclectic for May contains a variety ofshort and interesting reprints from the French andGerman periodical literature of the day. Its contentsconsist chiefly of light reading, in the way of stories orentertaining character sketches. The French part ofthe present number opens with the concluding chapterof a serial story, "Le Doctenr Marchand." It is in-tensely French in its character, and ends in the mostapproved style of a French love story. There followsa short article from Michelet, ostensibly written in theway of a review of a lately published volume of hismemoirs, and in addition to several bits of poetry andan entertaining romance, a curious story "Le Chat deGretry," taken from" the Figaro . The German partof the Eclectic has, as its main article, a long, but in-tensely interesting chapter of a novel by Zimmerman n ,"Die Hoffuung von Stavo." It contains also two lit-erary articles, the one on "Goethe and Heine," andthe other an extract from the Deutsche Mundschau ,devoted to "Personal Recollections of Edward Lasker."The German part , like the French , has also a sprink-ling of poetry, and concludes with a miscellaneouscolumn upon various matters of current interest. TheForeign Eclectic monthly in three parts—Part I.,French , $2.50 per year; Part II., German , $2.50 peryear ; Part III., French and German , $4.00 per year.Single copies, Parts I. or II., 25 cents ; Part III., 35cents. Foreign Eclectic Company, post-office box1800, Philadelphia.

"What and Why " is a finely printed and uniq uelittle pamphlet upon 'cycling matters. The contentsare made up of information which is of special interestto wheelmen, and within the' pages is an "ocean ofmatter in a bucket." " Some Common Questions " areconcisely answered in a way th at gives one a completehistory of 'cycling, its growth , use ful ness, and popu-larity. A chapter enti tled " Legal Lifts," cites allbicycl e cases that have ever been brought before thecourts , and explains the rights of wheelmen. Besidesall this, many hints are given to the 'cycler in otherchapters, and the comparative best records in walking,runn ing, rowing, skating, trotting, tricycling, andbicycling. In short, it is a little volume full of interestto any sportsman .

Massachusetts.* Aug. 17, 1881.—I deem it verydesirable that every public school in the Commonweal thshall be supplied with a copy of Webster's UnabridgedDictionary , to be used as a book of reference bothby teachers and pupils.—J. W. Dickinson, SecretaryState Board of Education.

8" Ethics of tho Dust," pp. 158,'• Sesame and Lilies," pp. 87."Crown of Wild Olives," pp. 102. John. Rankin, M.A.

Uniform binding in embossed, cloth, burnished edges. Priootwenty-five cents eaoh. J, B, Aldon, New York,

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