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Volomk VIII.— Xt'MtiKi; 1.
THE (OUNEEE UNIVERSITY, SEETEMEEK 17, ls75.
*',E50 per Annum in Advamt.
Feint, d and Published evert/ Feidn/i, hy Students of the Seuhic nod Junior ('/usees.
uroitots for 1875-0.
good fathers who were slow in discerning some of the urgent J wants of their sons; it is possible also for good Faculties to
be delinquent. Xeither shall we be deterred from coming
J. W. Srrni>KVANT, '70,
CE P. Woodruff, '70
<>ut boldly against shams or charlatanism, unmanliness or
J meanness, whenever we find them connected in any way with
M. E. ITavilaxd, '77,
A. J. Loos, '77.
| the University. Xo fear of lessening the reputation of our I "nivcrsity with the outside world shall make us timid. If,
when all that is mean in students is told — and Ave believe no
W— itli the issue of this mmiRer a new hoard of editors institution has a manlier class — when all that is extravagant,
begins the task of publishing the eighth volume of the Eka. even if an iota should be found in the register, shall be held
Actually up the steps and on the platform, with all eves
turned toward us, we bow low our exp nsive editorial brow
anel cordially greet vou. The main purpose of this salutatory is to give t<> our read
to view; when all the superfluous dignity of those whose lead ing appellation is ussist.tnit—perhaps assistant sweeper of the gymnasium — is caricatured; when all the abandoned enter prises are arrayed— if then, any ask Where is all the boasted
ers our conception of the new work upon which we are enter ing. Y\ e lvg.ol a college paper as being in the st rid est con
glory of Cornell, Ave have but to point them to the long roll
of Professors whose names are known wherever science is
formity to the laws ed' political economy. In its publishing known, to the stately buildings towereng in the sunlight, anel
there is a concentration of facilities, a division of labor, anel a to the broad, ennobling principles upon which the University
conseejuent saving of time. Let anv student avIio questions is founded and by which the students are governed. With
these propositions attempt to keep himself in rormed upon col all these solid qualities — soliel as stone antl character and
lege topics for a single week without any aid, directly or in principle can make —need shams anel " shirks " be handled
directly, from the college press, and we think he will concede Avith gloved hands ?
their truth.
Our pieelecessors have labored well aud with merited fa
The necessity for a college paper on purely economic vor. We hope to maintain for the En.v the reputation which
grounds eoucceled, we believe, in the second place, that the' it has already attained. The Eka does not belong tons; it
duties and responsibility of its editors are of no light and un belongs to the students of the Universitv. Our part is to use
important character. All the current news of our University all means within our power to give it a place among the best
and whatever is of interest in the college world generally, college papars. We think, too, that there is a mutual obliga
mu-d be diligently gathered and faithfully chronicled. The tion between the board of editors and the students. From all
scoic< of exchanges must be looked over and the shelves of interested in the success e>f the Era avc earnestly request con
new books •• noticed.1' But more than all this are the ques tributions. These may be in the form of literary articles,
tions which constantly present themselves: — the relation of correspondence, personal notes, or University news. At least
the Trustees and Faculty to the students, the relation of stu four ed' the Fua'Ei friends (the retiring board of editors) will
dents to each other, the relation of the University to the realize the mutual obligation, anel the urgency of this appeal;
town, the relation of our own Institution to others in our own
hopewe
main' more Avill do so.
land and in other lands, and the relation of the University to
the country in general. With such questions before us we cannot say in entering upon our duties, as did one high in place, that we do so " without fear." But in all the state ments and opinions which we may give we shall try to be candid and just. We realize that often with young men, and it i.s not unl'requently displayed in journalism, impulse is stronger than candor, that rashness is more potent than rea
son; hut he-re we shall he guarded. When we see scope for
criticism in the management of the University, when we see a needed improvement or a flagrant evil, no such words as Tie have tlt.oi.iyht uf all that before, shall deter us from calling to it the attention of the "powers that be." We have known
We have made a slight change in the order in which the
matter of the paper comes, having placed the editorials first, whereas the literarv matter formerly occupied that place. This was suggested byley us those who had experienced the inconvenience of t he old oreler, under which all literary arti cle's must he so clipped as not to extend bevoiiel the third page*. This is the only e-hange thus far which the present
hoard have made.
The present year is significant in the history of the' Uni versiiy as well as in that of the nation. We confess avc feel a little glow ed' patriotism in knowing that the present vol ume will yet have upon it the inspiring figures "1870." Xo previous board of editors have had so much glory to recount.
THE CORN ELF; ERA.
Srpl. 17, 1875,
The ope ing of the Sage College and the beginning of the University sermons really increase the scope ot the Universi tv; and give to us, to say the least, some interesting and promising experiments to observe. These are the conceptions
which we have of our work. We have much to cheer us—
much for which to hope and to work.
— In this number of the Eka, it will be seen that the lit erary articles proper, Book Notices anel Exchanges are omitted. This is done to make room for the many live subjects clam orous for a place in our columns — subjects about which we
felt assured that all our readers would be anxious to hear.
In the future we shall give t<> the departments omitted their
accustomed place.
— In another column will be found the account of the no-
hie achievements of our hoys at Saratoga, and Ave feel assured that although everyone knows the story, it Avill be read once more with pleasure by all Cornellians. Fven at this day we
cannot calmly hear a mention maele of Cornell's victory — our
blood courses more quickly through our veins, and avc arc
filled with a feeling of pardonable pride. AVe experience
once more the Avild delight with Avhich we heard of the Fresh
men's victory, and with which Ave heard the still more glori
Universityous news of the success of the'
crew.
Our bovs have hael their full nieeel of praise from "friend
and foe," and uo one will deny that by their modest demean
or under such circumstances they have aeldeel to the lustre of
their deeds. They were not carried away by a feeling of con
tempt for their generous rivals, but left the' course with a full
appreciation of the difficulties of winning the race, anel with
/< Wneht um Rluiu."
1.
What magic realm doth greet mine eye Beneath ( 'ay i era's radiant skies, Where clothes the pine the deep ravine? Loud Avaters rush the- dill's between; (> lift your voice her fame to swell; It is our fair, beloved Cornell.
(.'one- brothers, conic, and hand in hand We'll wander through this joyous land,
Anel while our voices rill the air
We'll praise our Alma Mift.e fair. O lift your voice her fame to swell; It is our fair, beloveel ( 'ornell.
the determination of redoubling their efforts to insure success
next year.
Above her waves a banner bright
A very noticeable feature of the regatta, anel one upon
which Ave heartily congratulate our sister colleges, Avas the ceunplete absence of those bitter feelings Avhich characterized former contests; Yale and Harvard especially are to be com mended for burying the hatchet and smoking the pipe of peace It is our hearty wish that this regatta may be the be ginning of an era of entire good feeling between all of us, no matter in Avhat corner of the United States we may happen to be located. It has indeed always been our ielea that the lists
Of warm carnelian. snowy Avhite. So be our purpose white anel pure, Warm like the red oar love endure. ( ) lift your voice her fame to swell;
It is our fair, beloved Cornell.
4.
When life us beckons from alar, And Fortune opes her door ajar, < >ur hearts shall seek her evermore,
Reipiite the love that she us bore.
were opened for the promotion of kindly feelings between
( » lift your voice her fame to swell,
colleges, and there are certainly not so many in this country that they can afford to be at loggerheads. Anything that tends to develop a man physically at a period Avhen he is be
Hip, hip, hurrah for lair Cornell I
Ithaca, Sept. f4, ls7,->.
llfdmur Iforth 11,,,/, s, u.
ing mentally trained, materially assists in that mental train
ing, anel gives him a moral stamina well Avorthy of possession;
(LVommnuemcnt.
the regatta therefore should not be debased into a mere trial
of brute strength, accompanied liy all sorts of ill feelings, but ennobled into a friendly contest such as graced the waters of Saratoga Lake last July.
The exercises of the Seventh Annual Commencement were
held as announced in Library Hall, .June 17, \s~:,. ( )IK.t. more, and this time more painfully than ever, was experienced the want of a larger hall, for long before' the time for the first
iUisujMition.
speaker to commence, the hall was crowded and there were many unable to enter. Fortunately the dav was a cool one
EditoKs oi- Tilt. Coknei.i, Ek\ — spoke of " Bosseau as a Philosopher of the French Revolution." Mr. Smith's style Avas very good and his full, rounded words, pronounced with nhneist perfect intonation, enhanceel the value of the production, Avhich, as a deduction from his knowledge of history proves that he Avell deserves the reputation which he possesses as a historical student.
The first lady graduate that ever appeared ther members of her class. After more music Mr. Newman
explained " The Religious Tdea anel the < >bstacles to its L>evelopmeiit"'; his oration was fair as far as avc could judge from Avhat Ave heard, but he failed to give that full and clear pronunciation which is characteristic of a good speaker.
Mr. E. D. Preston was next announced. By reason of his ivgard for humanity in general, anel for Ithaca people in par ticular, Mr. Preston said he avou hi read only the introduction
to "The Mathematical Theory of Probabilities" as there was
a probability of wearying his audience, Avere he to read the
whole of it.
Again we were pleased to hear Mr. Tompkins "summoned to the front "; his oration on "The Secular Policy ed' the Ger man Empire" av.is generally conceded to be far superior to his Woodford. As usual, he held his audience in silent ad miration anel retired leaving all his hearers thoremghly im
bued with a sense of his oratorical powers.
The successful contestant for the Wooelford Prize, Mr. G.
II. Fitch, was announced as the next speaker. Although ev
erybody was weary, Mr. Fitch's appearance seemed to reani
mate the audience anel all straighteneel up anel listened to what they knew to be an intellectual feast. Every listener expected much, and the highest expectations Avere fully rea lized; if possible his delivery was better than when he spoke for the Woodford. As a whole the exercises were quite su perior to any before helel in the hall and reflect great credit
upon '7o.
(The ^avatoiia iUijatta.
After "cramming up" on the college regal ta correspondence of two New \ ork dailies for as manv weeks, and comparing
the merits and demerits of the different crews, Avith their
chances of failure or success as therein set forth, avc resolved to "do" the intrr-eollegiate regatta at Saratoga for lhe second
time. Not because we had maintained the fact that our fa
vorite's might be the winners, or even thought to de> so, but out of respect to our Alma Mater and personal interests (as every true Cornellian has) iu the 'good boys" who had trained so long and faithfulv to represent her in the coming contest.
Under the impression that the Tritium reporter Avas correct, who decided to praise the Cornell crews after the icgatta in stead of before, as he had done in previous vears, we resolved to be extremely modest in our assertions about the abilities of Cornell oarsmen, until after the race, ami to do our howling
then if there was any occasion for it. < >ur enthusiasm hael been
at a very low ebb, owing to sad recollections of last year's regatta, md the least among which, was the memory of the experimental proof, after we reached our parental roof, of that old adage "delays are dangerous," by examining the low state of our finances. But in reading the glowing accounts of the crews, and the prosneots for such rie-h sport, our enthusiasm was at "high watermark," and vidoiis of rough wtiter and delays vanished, as die! Moon's "celebrated Saratoga fried potatoes," in davs of yore. So on the morning of July 13th we found ourselves on the train, en route for the famous sum
mer resort, ioav in the possession of young collegians and their friends. Afier landing in the spacious depot at Sarate»ga, the first thing that attracted our attention, ami anticipated the days sport, was "college badges for ten cents," but "delays were dangerous," anel we pushed ahead. Sauntering down Broadway avc met a friend, wdio soon interrogateel us as t < > the whereabouts of our college' colors. We remarked that we were in need of some, ami on the next corner paid a quarter for a " ten cent badge." We passed on " wiser if not better men," fifteen cents out, anel another proof in. Broadway Avas jammed Avith pedestrians and teams, the latter seeming to predomin ate, and the former entertaining no fears of being obliged to walk to the lake, or "shell out" t a\ < > eledlars for a ride. The fare to the lake Avas fifty cents, and ;my driver found taking more than that sum Avas liable to a heaA'y fine, whereas last year thev Avere free to charge whatever the} liked, and seldom faiheel in getting it. It Avas our luck to get paOige in a tAvo sealer, behind a span ed' pacers, wdiich, the driver said, had " did" the turf in i':4o. We did not doubt his Avoid until they were off, when avc soon remembered to have left something at the hotel, anel as soon as we got around the corner emt of his range', made for a " skov train," and passed the trotters tAVO blocks beyond. While' our driver "let out" his steeds, Ave fan cied ourselves as representatives of the C. U. navy, racing against the various colors wdiich floated fremi the carriages wc left behind, and took it as a goenl omen for the success of
our favorite.
The surroundings of the lake looked different from Achat they did one year ago. The grand stand had been moved
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Sept 17, 1S75.
down the lake a quarter of a mile and the lines of buoys were a novel sight. Any chance of fouling between rival crews is now impossible. Tlu- Best, event of the day, which was a
,
,
son^, which were but half sung, died away, leaving every-
one with his gaze turned toward the seventy-eight oars hashing in the sunlight. Not a cheer was heard, and it seemed
"walkover" for Harvard in single sculls, was followed by as if not a word was said until the news came that Cornell
the Freshmen race. At half past tf the old field pice-e boomed was al.e.ad at the half mile stake. Then those C orneluans who
out from Snake Hill, telling the crews to get into line, aud at load witnessed the victory the day belore, and could articulate
!-• they were started. Princeton soon l,:ld the haul, then liar- above a whisper, joined by the new arrivals, commenced their
vard took it, but Brown quickly gained it, leaving Cornell in cheering with the new slogan, three cheers ior Cornell, ending
the rear, which place she managed to keep without much ditti-. with " Cornell! I yell, yell, yell, Corned." This they kept up
culty, or apparent effort on her part, until the first line of ilags , with unwonted vigor, until at the mile stake, when Harvard
at the lower end of the grand stand was reached.
'
Here com- was icported .as
leading
the
van.
This relieved the Coinel-
mencedthe "tremendous winning spurt," and the Freshmen lians, and the " rah rah rah" of Harvard went off' like light-
showed the result of their training. They kneAV what they ning, interspersed with the familiar C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a. \ cry few
could do, and Avere doing it; when the diininuthe group op cheers from the other colleges are heard, except the yet hope-
Conelliaus, who were hovering under the red ami white flag { fid partisans of Yale, who were quite noisy while waiting for
on the grand stand, saw this united effort on the part of their Cook's "final spurt."
favorite, they commenced to howl anel yell, and started for
W'e were not in our element unless we had that "yell"
the finish in a body, but did met reach it before Cornell had going, so Avhen Cornell was bulletined ahead at the 1 el mile
passed the line victorious, in 17::JL'-], lollowcd seven seconds point, we let it off, completely drowning the other slogans,
after by BroAvn and Harvard and Princeton in 17:4!.)]. The only stopping for breath, though some have it that Ave did
" rah rah rah," of the Harvards, Avould not go off, and the not stop at all, which is perhaps nearer comet. In a lull
shouts for Brown died away in the hearty cheers for Cornell, of the noise, we heard in aloud whisper, "three cheers tor
Princeton Avas silent for a moment, while she remembered that Cornell!" and on turning around we recognized the lamiliar
Cornell's victory Avas a repetition of their own tactics hist face of the Cascadilla caterer of yore, who was swinging his vear, then she set up a cheer for the victors which Avas echoed hat anel caue with all his remaining powers. I'm- cheers
with hearty good will all aleuig the grand stand. When the were given and the echo was taken up by the almost wild
little band of Cornellians hael yelled as long as it seemed to Cornellians, who were rapidly making their way through the
produce any effect, and until the granel stand showed noth- crowd to the finish. There they assembled as sown as possi-
ing but bare seats, the crew got into their boat and roweel off ble, ami kept on cheering with increasing vigor until Cornell
toward their quarters at Snake Hill. In the afternoon they pulled over the line victor, winning the race in lO:o'j. Here
came up to the United States Hotel, and made it their home : from the Cornellians, the victorious shout was seized bv the
until Friday morning. Thus was the first Freshman crew that l' 0,000 spectators on the granel stand, and 111 the adjacent fielels,
Cornell ever sent to the inter-collegiate regatta, victorious, au while the electric spark carried its echo to the Avaiting Coi-
event in the history of '78 that its members will ever feel nell Alumni throughout the land. .Vs soon as the crew came
proud of: and Avell they may, considering the perseverance anel up to the shore, they were taken upon the shoulders of friends,
energy they showed while organizing the crew here in the and the triumphant march down by the grand stand to the
spring. But the great event of regatta week was yet to take reel and white Hag, was received Avith renew eel applause by the
place, and the news of Cornell's victory in the Freshman race admiring thousands. With the carnelian and white waving over
increased the number of Cornellians to almost 7E> before the us; we congratulated the crew, (cacti ot/ar ami ours, tecs), over
next morning. The interest taken in the University race over and over again, until our arms anel voice's were on the point of
that in the Freshman, was marked by the crowded trains wdiich giving out. Cow els came down under different colors, all con-
were continually arriving. The streets and hotels 011 Weelnes- gratuiating Condi on her success, and upon the tact that
jday morning were much livelier than on the preceding elay she had beaten their rivals. The ent hsiastie baud of
and Broaelway had the appearance of a vast array of human Cornellians gathered in a circle, with the sun burned
beings, horses and wagons, decked in all the colors of the | backs of the crew in the center, and all the while chcei-
rainbow. Every one who pretended to be friendly to an} n.g, howling and yelling as it for the last time 111 their
college, donned a bit of colored ribbon, while many ol the existence, presented all the marked leatures of a can-
fair sex were in their favoriteEs color. When finalh the tide nibal war dance in civilized life. But the wants of the
turned toward the lake, the crowds
get-were o\ e-r two ,„,urs
, inner
„,.,„
finally persuadeel us
0 seek
better "flesh satis-
ting there. At 10:4.-., the time for line crews to -fall lnf Hue lying" quarters, so after watching the crew embark aud se.ul-
granel stand was filled to overflowing, .v bib- the narrow space „,g them oil toward llieir quarters, with three rousing cheers
.■.ii«rUiiiiRT.between the stand and lake was all taken up by pedestrians, and a tiger, we turned our faces toward Saratoga
and wagons and teams covered the adjacent I, elds. M 12 Never was a happier or more hungry baud ol Ouncll.ans seen
o'clock .Mr. Cluster asked the question ".-ire you ready T together. Two large wagons carrie'd them up to the Npriims quickly followed by "then go." And they went, all taking with the victorious Hag living from one', and a new broeun
jthe water together. When the crowds at the finish knew the decked with the victorious colors in the other.
crews were off, there was a universe! hush. The echo ed' the j
Every body along the route cheered us, and in ictuin an c
Sept. 17, 1S75.
THE CORNELL ERA.
'.)
gave them our " war wdioop," which, net doubt, was astonish ing to many of them, while others received it wdth a hearty laugh. Carnelian anel while swung from the windows and balconies everywhere, while the reign of other colors was perceptably approaching its end. The' large American flag on the
United Stales Hotel had been furled until the blue was out of
sight, leaving the reel and white' waving liefore the wind.
This was Cornell's rendezvous, so the victorious Hag and
"
sweeper" were
hung
upon
the
chandelier
in the ollice, anel
with a parting cheer Ave' went for dinner. When avc returned
the Hag was nearly covereel with congratulations received from
all parts of the country. Among the names were found those
of Andrew D. White, A. B. Cornell, and lists of the Dela
ware, Chicago, ami Ncav York City Alumni; also the names
of the Cornell representatives in the inter-collegiate contest.
About half past six, as per agreement at the meeting of
arrangements in the afternoon, Cornellians commenced to con gregate, at the north east cenner of Congress Park, where
they were soon joineel by a band of music ami the University
crew.
J. D. "Warner was .Marshal for the occasion, ami the im promptu programme commenced.
Tillinghaus' banel headed the procession, followed by the two crews, and about sixty-five Cornellians, who were all selfappointed committees on noise. Passing south around Con gress Park, the line came into Broadway, where it was met by squads from other colleges, who fell back on each side ed the walk, aud cheereel lustily as we passed by, then fell into the procession, which made its way up Broadway, through the parlors of the Granel Union and United States Hotels, and back elown to Congress Park, d'his part of the day's sport was almost as interesting us the regatta itself.
lhe Cornellians lined each side of the walk anel cheered
for the different colleges as their representatives came through. After they were till by, Cornell inn the gauntlet for the last time, amiel the most enthusiastic cheering of the elay, under the crossed flags of blue anel crimson; Yale anel Harvard hael shook hanels over the " bloody chasm," anel were on fiieiully terms again, lhe procession broke up here, anel the lrienels of the Cornell crews carried them up through the
streets and hotels to the United States, where in an hour the
proprietor spread a bounteous supper for them all. The elistribution of prizes took place at 11 o'clock, in the Congress
Hall ball room. The room was crowded anel the different
members of the two crews received their trophies amiel storms
of applause. From here some went to the balls at the differ
ent hotels Avhile most of them sought rest in sleep from the
elay's excitement.
Our limiteel space does not permit au e-xteiieleel report of
the foot-races which took place the following day at den
Mitchell. Potter was the only representative from Cornell
who Avon in any of them, though every one thought that
""
Cope
hael a
sure thing in the
one
aud
three mile
runs,
and
"Lew" saiel after the race "1 coulel not get a single bet
against him Cod, bless 'em."
"
"
Cope's
time
Avas
several
sec
onds better than it was the previous year, but the difficulty
was he found a "luster man." llie seven mile walk was Avon
by Taylor, of Harvard, and the hurdle race, the handsomest rae-e of the day, by Yale. Hastes won the seven mile walk for graeluates, which finished up the sports of regatta week,
and the most successful and best regatta ever held between
American colleges. On Thursday evening Com. Garrison gave a supper to the captains of all the crews, and the men of
the victorious ones.
Friday morning they left for Ithaca in a special train, all
trimmed up in Cornell colors for the occasion. Abe>ut the re
ception at Ithaca we will only say that the "oldest inhabit-
it ant s " confess "never to have seen or heard of the like he-
fore."
Among the many new things to greet the returning stu dent, anel one which can be seen, heard anel admired, is the new clock; pointing the time with gohlen hands; proc aiming the hours in silvery tones; ami which ere long will be chiming the quarters in as self-satisfieel a way as the cheeky sopohniore chinks the imaginary ones in his pocket.
It is not a political clock though it laces four ways, neither is it a particularly peaceable one because it is slow on the strike. It is a good clock; fourteen, eighteen, never minel how many hundred dollars given for our benefit — let us be thankful ami profit thereby.
A wise old man, probably Solomon, said that every one
should be able to read anel write — a younger man, not a Sol
omon, however, says that in this age of machinery every man should know enough of mechanics to understand the action of an ordinary clock. Therefore, ye young men, seekers after knowledge, who have assembled around this laboratory of learning, auel placed yourselves uueler the guidance of the wis dom slingers, mount the tower of the -McGraw building anel view the wondrous weak. After recovering from the effect of the polisheel brass anel steed, ami after luliy admiring the architectural structure of the framing, settle down to busi ness ami analyze the living mechanism of the animal. \ ou will find it as instructive, as interesting anel as profitable, as the study of Air. Pickwick's Theory ol Tittlebats.
Commence at the fountain head, that is the motive power; trace those silvery chords — "the wire ropes" — which encircle the massive cylinders — ''the drums." lhe ropes go up over pulleys anel carry heavy weights which slide up ami down in
the box at the corner ol the room. It is easy to understand that
the weights drawing upeui the ropes tend to revolve the drums upon their bearings. The one with the smaller rope ol the two gives motion to the time or pendulum side of the cluck. If one does not allow himself to be confused by the two note-heel wheels at the end of the drum (which is simply a mechanical contrivance to keep the train in motion while the clock is being wound-; he can easily trace through where Hie first wheel gives motion to the seconel, and that to the thirel,
anel so on to the last or the one with the steel puis on the
side, which is called the scape wheel all together constitut ing what is called the tram. The swinging arm witn the two tempered steel pieces called pallets upon which the puis of the scape wheel woik, is called the escapement. 1 hough
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TIIE CORNELL ERA
Sept. 17, 1875.
the construction is somewhat different from that of the ordi
nary Yankee clock, the principle of its action is about the
"
same, and the escapement is called a "dead beat escapement — not because it goes on tick, but because the scape wheel re
mains at rest except at the instant the pins in the scape wheel pass the inclines on the pallets. The pins on the scape wheel sliding down their inclined surfaces crowd the escapement first to one side then to the other, giving an impulse to the
pendulum just sufficient to keep it in motion. The time-keeping qualities of a clock depend principally
upon the pendulum's maintaining a constant length, as a short one vibrates faster than a long one— secondly upon the aie of vibration, and thirdly upon atmospheric resistance. The pend ulum in this clock is of wo d, not for the sake of economy but
because Avood is less affected by a change of temperature than metal, and better maintains a constant length than any metal,
except when two metals are combined in such a way that the
high expansibility of one in a short bar is made to counteract the low expansibility <>f the other in a long bar. The arc ol vibration is in all cases dependent upon the impulse it lvcc'.ves
from the train, and in this respect this clock is not of the first
class — freedom or sluggishness in the' train or wind aiting up
on the hands may make a variation of perhaps a minute a
week — but it is one of the kind wdiich is quite sure to keep go
ing. Those who reckon upon escaping lvcitatioiis on the plea
"that the clock stopped" will be likely to "flunk."
When one has mastered the- mechanism we have' been de
feet long by twenty-eight wide; the water surftue is one hun dred by one hundred and forty feet, and the depth eighteen feet. The embankments are built two feet higher than the
water line, and nine feet wide em top, six feet of which will be used for a gravel walk. The inside slope of the embank
ment is two to one and the outside one and a half to one.
The whole interior surface of the slopes and bottom is to be covered with clay puddle two feet thick. A slope Avail or poring fifteen inches thick is then laid on the inside slopes.
The bottom of the reservoir will be covered with nine inches
of concrete and the outside slopes sodded. Water for the- rescr.oir is pumped from Fall creek, by a
water engine placed on a table of rock just west of the south end of the foot bridge, which spans the creek above Trip hammer Falls, d'he engine site is one hundred and twenty-
eight feel below l he bottom of the reservoir and twenty feet
below the apron of Beebe dam. An eight-inch pipe leading from the dam supplies 1 he engine with water. The engine, built by Worthington A; Co., proprietors of the Brooklyn Hydraulic Works, is called The Duplex Water .Motor, weighs tiftv-cight hundred pounds, cost nineteen hundred dollars, ami i.s capable of forcing tliruinjli a j'tmr-i m-li jn'jn , nj> tin- liill to the n.st reo,ic, mc li itii'lrt.il pillions of ie.it> r jar ui''nat>, requirin"
at this rate about seven and a half days to fill it.
The inline-lit and effluent waste pipes pass under the em bankment at the same place on the north side of the reservoir,
and connect with it by means of a circular brick tower nine
scribing, a visit while the clock is striking will enable him to follow through the action of the striking part, except the ac tion and purpose of the snail-shaped wheel which controls the
number of strokes the clock is to strike when the hour is up. This part of the clock is different and much better than the
ordinary clock, for with this arrangement, no clock, if prop erly put up and kept running, can strike wrong. To f Hy un deistand the action of the device for keeping the clock going while it is being avouikI —the maintaining spring as it is called —-it is best to visit the clock when it is being wound; and as there are some li'o feet of rope to wind, there will be plenty of time to see it and lend a hand at the cranks.
feet in diameter and twenty feed high. The tower is divided
into two chambers by a brick wall, has a neat wrought iron
railing onto]), ami is connected wit h the embankment by a
loot bridge. The pipe connections at the reservoir are made
so that the water can be pumped elirectly into the six-inch
mains, and the arrangement of the stop cocks will admit of
any one of these mains securing the whole amount ed' water
pumped.
The filter bed is thirty feet long, six whle ami eight eleep. A layer , as assistant engineer. As soon as the sur vey was made, the plans completed and the cost estimated,
bids of construction were advertised for. d'he whole number
re-ceived was six, that <>f Leonard A: Frasier, of Svr.-icH.sc, be ing the lowest, and as they were known to hi' contractors of large experience a .el energetic and reliable men, the conn act was awareled to them on the ltith of duly. The estimated
cost ot the works is eleven thousand three hundred and six
teen dollars, d'he work of excavating for the reserv oir an I pipe trenches was begun at one o'clock, .July JTth.
The reservoir is located on Observatory hill, about live hundred feet east of Mr. William's house. lis capacity is one million and sixty thousand gallons; the bottom is sixty-eight
the effluent pipe is connected. The distribution of pipes is as follows: a six-inch main from the reservoir to a point east of South 1 nivcrsity Building; a four-inch pipe from a point
south of Mr. Williams' house to the residence of resident
W lute and adjacent houses; a three-inch to the farm house;
a six-inch to Sage College-; two six-inch in front of buildings; a three-inch to the ( 'Impel, and one' of like' dimensions to the
Sibley Pudding, d'here are thirteen lire-hydrants in all, of
which six are located iu front of the North, South and Me-
•iraw buildings, one for the Sibley fountain, one west of the chemical laboratory and one north of it, one east of the Pres ident's house, one- north of the Chapel and two al the Sage College.
It is hoped that the water works will be completed by the middle of October. Al'ler that, drawing water in wagons for
the boilers under the McOraw will cease; '7;iEs fountain will become as useful as it litis in the past been ornamental; the
Sept. 17, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
7
denizens of the hill will no longer use that implement of bar- ' .piaintances which would be loathsome to them under ordi-
barism, a hooked pole, in drawing water from that ever fail- nary circumstances. It i.s one object of the Christian Asso-
mg cistern; and next /ear at t his time, on our broad ami ex-
pansive campus, the spray of fountains will be sparkling iu
the sunlight.
Mac.
ciation to extend this necessary sympathy and fellowship to strangers, and provide a place where those who are desirous of cultivating christain manliness and christian Avoiiianliness
(TltC ^tlUVCrStty (flUiCtian ^SSOCiatiOn.
(Ladies are' equally welcome) may meet together and together
render thanks to our coinmou Master.
**
El i tors (for lull Era:
I would like, through your columns, to call the attention of those who have just entered Cornell, to the Christian Asso- Dion Kiutoks :
xO$t (1 rO))Uy.
ciation of the L niversity. To those who have been iu at-
During the procession at the reception of the Cornell crews
te'iidanee, no words are necessary, but for the strangers with-
iu our gates a brief mention of the association may not be deemed amiss.
from Saratoga in duly, a white Hag of great value was lost. I'be flag was about two feet square, of white cotton cloth, mounted on a common round stick, and the flag and stie-k
During t lie fi est year of the University, a number of young both trimmed with heavy red and white ribbons. The ribbons
men organized the "Young Men's Christian Association of were tied on the corner of the flag. This flag is the one which
Cornell I niversity." At first they held their meetings was dropped as the victorious crew passed the finish, and Avas
wherever they could fitiel a suitable room; moving about from saved and presented to the crews liy the. Judge, Mr. Sage, and
place to place without any permanent home. lJv the kind- for that reason is highly prized by the crews. Will you
ness of our late bum Dr and President White a o mi was lit- have the kinelmess le> make this known through your columns,
teel up very elegantly for the joint use of the Christian Asso- and request whoever has been the tinder of the above flag to
ciation, anel the Irving anel Philalethean literary societies, hand it to Capt. Ostrom and receive the- thanks of the Cornell
This re>om is designated as "Association Hall," and is hotted Navy. This i.s all that is lacking to make the list of trophies
iu the middle section (first th>e>r) of the Xorth Cniversity brought from Saratoga complete.
building.
Yours Respectfully,
C. W. K.
The devotional meetings of the Association are held every
Sabbath at 4 r. m., in « Association Hall." The regular busi-
ness meetings are held upon the lirst Tuesday evening of
each month.
lUnllWitlf MUlM*.
'
""
~
—There is one Hunn in '?!>. ''(Mi, Rome," is thy destiny to he
One grand aim of this organization has been, O bring to-
gether christians of all denominations and establish a chris-
".
,
,,
,
.,
turn home; a place wdiere students may assemble together,
i.
conduct
tt]hei■ r
own
■
meetings,
-,
anel
work,
..
tog° ether m a common
cause.
.
lhe association aims to exert an influence akin to
U1^'
-Seniors are glad to see- President White's name oil the schedule
lor Ilistorv this term.
— Ask
"
Doc"
Philliiis /
"
how
he
2:01
throu<=i;h,"
and
notice
the
bland
smile that steals over his countenance.
that of a christian home; tin intluence so much missed by stu-
■■
dents;
ane-l,
an -injtluence ibyJ itheiabsence
ol
w,hi• ch, many a
-
young man has been leel astray.
'
rf .
lino ol
us who have
sp1 ent four
•y' ears iu th"
university. ' .
and have been connected with the association, gladly bear tes-
timony that Ave ogard the moments s1pent in connection with
the association as among the must profitable in our college
course. We have been stimulated to higher thoughts and
—hu-vis, the boat builder near the University boat house, is building
a new " gig" for the Tom ihmhes boat club. He- Avill have it ready for
.
use in a
.
lew
Avee,ks.
— After
the
I nivcrsity '
race
at
Saratoga,
a
Harvard
man
was heard
♦to say ,tihat..
.11he
woul, d,
not
h, ave
cared,
so
,
much
ab. outwC, ornel,l,, s winning
if they had not taken it so el— d cool."
Charmingparlor.—
..
Scene
—
TItlh, aca
,
f„
N>ph.^Sub.
,,
.
r resh
.,
,
to Lnamnrcd
.
.
:
o\ow do sing • hage-rbcer Hoi-ateus"' once mure, wont you?" Soph.
grinds out the noble air of " bauriger " with ill-concealed disgust.
nobler actions and by comin°g in contact wit h earnest ■youn^g
men Ave have received :m impetus for which we shall ever feel
applicants— n1,.here are .J„o,.-i
,. , ftor ad, in.• ssi• ou .to ftlhe ,I• ni• versi•ty,.ti,n-s.leiin.
isi of them apply for entrance as Fix-dme-n, while the otlie-rs have
grateful.
certificates from other colleges, anel are admitted to advanceel standing.
jThe Christian Association opens its arms to all who are
_A ,. Sub Fresh ." was seen toiling- up the hill on Tuesday atter-
iliterested in christian work. Members of >/ll evangelical de'- noon, wilh a student lamp under one arm, and the motto, •• (;,,.! ble>s
i
cordiallynominations are
lliviteel to co-operate with us. d'he our home," under the other, both lamp and motto are tor sale at Nu.
huge majority of young men who enter a college, or a univer- s- South I nivcrsity.
sity, coao from christian homes where g »od influences are
thrown around them unconsciously. Ii/a University where
, iiii-
t/v
so many voung peo.de are gathered, .and from so many differ-
"
O* .
ent localities, and where thev are all strangers to each edher,
there are many risks to run in forming acquaintances; .and it
—Apropos of the examination in Geography, a military Fresh, eas-
ually remarked that he "could draw rations better than maps." We
are not sure but this was ihe same one we heard iiupiii ing in which
state
th, e
(bill, ...
.
Stream
is
..
..
— As a 1 reshman meeting is m order at almost auy tune, aspirants
for lhc presidem-8 chair ,lK)llld makl. themselves knowll, especially
often happens, that for mere lack of sympathy and friendship
»
»uni. u.nn meil
whu
desire
their
share
of
college honors, and
must
many resort to the worst places of amusement anel form ac- have them in a single term.
THE CORNELL ERA
Sept. 17, IS 75
— Sage College was formally apcned on the afternoon of Commence ment day. All who heard Prof. Curtis' address were iu favor of co-ed ucation, for the time being', at least. The occasion, of which the press leave a full report at the time, will lung be remembered.
— The candidate for Freshman privileges wdio .sent his biceps and
forearm measurements to Prof. Fiske as inducements to let him into
the University, has not vet arrived. We think his average must have been too low, or else the Professor's standard was too high.
— The Freshmen have had I heir share of challenges for one Aveek, They have accepted that of '77 to have a practice game of foot-ball at ft r. m. to-day. But they decline to play a game wit li the "bloody Sophs." to-morrow, on the ground that they are not yet organized.
—After the regatta at Saratoa, a Harvard student rushed up to a Cornellian Avith the exclamation, "What kind of a lake is Cayuga
ous, mortifying as they arc to the persons concerned. Such a case came lo our notice a few days since. It was an alumnus of m, rather
diminutive in stalure, who, thinking to take advantage ot the new
act on drill," and to
ry "habit," dropped itary clothes." He
" turn an honest penny" hy selling his old mihtainto Straussman 's and asked if they " dealt in milwas answer ed in the affirmative, and the clerk
thinkin- to help along lhe bargain, interrogated his customer as to
whether he had " passed his enl ranee examinations all right or not?"
The answer came, " Do you want to buy that coat? " and the military
blue was flung on lhe counter with more haste than dignity. The
clerk saw his mistake and replied, " Oh, you have been here before, I
guess." This did not help the matter any, and the Avorthy member of
'7fi said very decidedly that "lie had," and again wished to know if
they wanted to buy lhat coat. The answer came in the negative, and
he left the store with the resolve never to darken those doors again.
Lake?" After he had received the necessary information as to length,
breadth and depth, his curiosity still remained so unsatisfied that he
" belched " out, with " is it fresh water or salt? "
Todd, '74, is in (own.
personals.
Scene-— Stoddard's dinning room. Several students hurrying through their dinner unconscious of Professor McKoon's presence.
X.vsu, '77, is "rusticating" this term.
1st. Soph. "I'm going to take French under old Crane." 2nel Soph. " Guess I'll have a soft thing. I'm going to take it under old Klnerig." Professor steps out and Sophs, keep oil eating.
—The President's reception, on the evening after Commencement,
Yaoek, '7s, formerly '77, returns this year. Bradford, '7ei, has returned to the University. Wells, '70, is studying medicine in Xew York.
Avas held in the large and elegantly fitted parlor of the Sage College.
II. E. Cocelaxd, '72, is teaching in Indianapolis.
Those attending were presented to Mrs. President White after being re ceived by the President. The presence of Prof. George William Curtis
and Prof. (E K. Adams, added not a little to the prestige of the occa
sion.
—"Pete" Aylen is again mustering his hosts from Cascadilla and the
University buildings, and daily, after the evening meal, he may be seen
heading his van and marching tOAvard the campus, wdiere he indulges in his favorite pastime with all the vigor of Sophomoric days. The " dwellers on the hill" intend to make things lively for the "denizens of the valley" in the coming foot-ball campaign.
—The
prospects
are at
present
that
the annual
"
rush,"
or
"
cane
fight" Avill be done away Avith this year. The resolutions by '7s last
year seem to have been made in earnest, and the Freshman now Avears
his "plug" or cane with all the dignity becoming Ids years and experi
ence. Though it is reported that one of them got scared Avhile up on the hill registration day, by the conversation between two Sophs., and hid his cane. He is now advertising for it.
—We clip the folloAving from the Buffalo Erpeess ■
" A paper boat has won the race,
The race at Saratoga ;
I'd rather be in Cornell's ease
Tomlinson, '74, is in the Insurance business at Ironton, O.
F. AV. Simonds, '7o, is novv Instructor in Geology and Palaeontology.
Mr. T. B. Comstckk, of Clevelond, O., is made Assistant Professor of Geology.
Dewey, '7S, has gone to Paterson, X. J., and wall not return to the University this year.
A. A. Breneman is promoted from Instructor to Assistant Profes sor in chemistry.
Mr. Steciien M. Babcock has been appointed Instructor in Chem ical Laboratory Practice.
Ci:orge E. Moler, "io, has received the appointment of Instructor in Physical Laboratory Practice,
Tatnall, '75, is connected with a bridge building firm, whose office is at .".:;<), Walnut St., Philadelphia.
M.v.i. William P. Van Ness has taken the place of Major Mae-Mur ray as Professor of Military Science.
J. M( Mullen, Tii, and Iv D. Preston, '",, did the practical part of tne engineering for the new reservoir.
Than in a Roman Toga.
I'd rather be in Cornell's shell
Than that of any " turtle," Thai paddles on this side of h— 1,
For laurel or for myrtle."
Edmund Le B. Gardner, df will be Instructor in Descriptive Ge ometry, Applied .Mechanics and Draughting.
Pirnr. liARTiaev is engaged in Swallunore Colk-gx Pa., t caelum:
chemistry; he leaves many friends in Ithaca.
—The latest "dodge" as an excuse for not getting buck before re.r.
tohftheistration day, is lhat of a St. bonis Junior, who
registrar that
he "thought Friday," (he day after his return, "was regis! nil ion day " Of course the Dr. was invincible auel the penitent sought the ,,fli cost some -s7o,()0(). If the giver is in the land,
President White will hunt him up — or rather the truth of the
President's words: "For public schools'", diffusion of resource's; for higher institutions, concentration " will bring him tons. But while buildings are rising up before us, while the grounds are being aelonied, while clock and reservoir, books, apparatus anel specimens are adding constantly to the greatness of Cor nell — while these things spring in upon us so rapidly as to al
markably well, receiving high praise from all quarters. The Orchestra also was a surprise to all, charming everybody by
its sweet strains.
As a business enterprise, however, the Association was a wretched failure, owing partly to the mismanagement of the officers, partly to the inactivity <>f members and to the failure of its greatest debtor to iw settle up." We do not wish to crit icise the Xavy too severely concerning the latter matter, for it was not entirely at fault; there was considerable misunder standing on both sides as to their mutual obligations. But as the officers of the Xavy finally decided upon a sum which was satisfactory to all parties, anel even fixed a time for its pay
ment, avc think it somewhat strange that the matter was not attcneled to. We understand from the officers of the Asso
most make us dizzy, Ave see other things equally betokening prosperity, and lot to be overlooked. We refer to the im-
proA-ement in system. Professors now have hours when, and
places where, they can be found. We used to woneler that they could endure such great inroads as were made upon their time under the old system. An entering student can now fine! the place where he is to be examined; the schedule now tells
one where the various rooms mentioneel are; Professors are
coming to give programmes anel syllabi of their respective course and subjects; thus giving the student an opportunity
ciation that its existence this year largely depends upon the settlement of its affairs of last year. It is to be hoped that the Xavy Avill not consider it te>o late even now to aid them
in recommencing on a firmer basis than before— not onlv out
of regard for their own interest, but for the sake of keeping
up a good institution.
It is the earnest wisli of the originators of the movement that no pains will be spared by the members of the Associa tion to make it permanent, and they also look for encourage
ment from all other students and from the faculty. Such an
to read upon subjects in advance, and to have definiteness in his work and in taking bis notes. As te> the last, Ave refer
especially to President White, Prof. Anthony and Dr. Wilder.
One condition of efficient greatness is system. Croat external
accjuisitiems are rendered valuable by internal order, as an army is strengthened not simply by additional numbers but
opportunity should not be allowed to pass unimproved; we have as much talent as before, a large entering class can be drawn upon, and the University never was in a more prosper ous condition — everything in fact, augurs well for success, All that is needed is for the students to take hold in the right
way. Let the meeting next Thursday be Avell attended!
by additional system and discipline.
Xo one can observe the general course of Cornell for even
— Although avc live in the age of the new education, Ave
so short a perioel as two or three years, without seeing a are not entirely free from semie of the unpleasant accompani
gradual improvement in system and rounding out in develop ments of the old. Universities, like individuals, may lose
ment. If external acquirement and internal system, if beauty some of the ground which they think they have really Avon.
and strength without and order anel enthusiasm and scholar Xo Cornellian feels more proud of any one thing in his Uni
ship within keep pace, who shall venture to prophesy of the versity than he does of the principle of independent manhood
future greatness of our Universitv',
which she fosters. When he sees other institutions compell
ing their students to go in the Avake ed' mediawal monkery;
— Last year the Cornell Musical Association Avas started when he sees them suppressing the freeebmi of the college
as an experiment. There Avere those wdio believed that there press, as in instances of which we know; when he sees their
10
THE CORNELL ERA
Sept. 34, 1$76-
professors donning the garb of the policeman, he feels justly proud of his own Cornell. While Founder and Trustees and Faculty have done their part so well— while they have placed our institution where they have, has its students also chosen sys
tems as much in .advance of the old? If students have ceased
to stand in the "relation of college boys to pedagogues"; if the chapel bell is an invitation and not a command; if the students of Cornell are simply members of the community,
subject only ''to the same laws and customs which bind other members," do they perforin their part in maintaining this high vantage ground, unless, in things of which they have the deciding, they also place their stakes along beyond the
old boundaries ?
We submit the question, Is the custom of rushing worthy
of the new education? We do not ask whether or not it is
safe either on physical or legal grounds, or whether it pleases the Faculty, or whether peaceable citizens favor it ; avc ask simply whether it is Avorthy of the banner which Cornell hangs out"?—whether it is worthy of independent, self-govern ing men ? To say that the students themselves abandoned this tradition would speak nobly for them. If it be charged that it sIioavs effeminacy or want of manly strength, are we wanting in " knock-doAvn " arguments with wdiich to reply to this? Any one who saw the nude forms on the campus after
the rush in the fall of 1872, or the exhibitions in the streets of
Ithaca in the fall of 187;!, the lesser conflicts in 1*74, or the
recent rush which avc chronicle in another column, needs no
argument here to show that rushes do not offer the fairest and best test of strength, or cultivate manliness anel refine
ment, or command the respect of peaceable citizens. Xot only in rushes, but in general deportment everywhere, every student should realize that this is a period of experiment —
Cornell has had an existence of but seven years — and that much
depends upon it. America says that Spain is not ready for a uiblican form of government. English writers have niain-
o.iied that America could not long survive one. Hostile organs and foes not a few, have raised loud their clamors against the innovations which Cornell has made in educational methods, or rather the progress of which she is the exponent.
If as students Ave do not rise to the consciousness of the
importance of the drama which is quietly being enacted; if Ave fail wdiere it is for as to do, may not the question well be put: Are the students of Cornell ready for a Republican form
of government? Public sentiment rules. Let those who read
this ask if they have no duty here. Let them consider well their own intluence, and choose wisely in wdiich balance it
shall be throAvn.
(tornelian #otc$.
"These are my jewels," said the Cornelia of old, as she pointed to her stalwart sous, the Cracchi. "These are my jewels," shouted our modern Cornelia as the two crews re
turned victoriously from Saratoga. And well might she be proud of them, for they had won a double crown in a contest against the best blood of youthful America — against members of colleges which count the years of their existence by scores
and by hundreds. In the ancient and famous athletic sports
at Olympia, it must have occasionally happened that some
athlete from a petty and remote colony — from some little Greek settlement on the shores of distant Sicily, or on the
farther coasts of the Fuxine — bore away the sacred olive
branch. We can well imagine Avith what emotions the wealthy and powerful mother-cities of (heeee would see the hotlv-contested prize snatched from their bysons a native of a little-known colonial town. So it was at Saratoga. An
cient Harvard and venerable Vale and Avealthy olumbia and orthodox Princeton might well cry " Ichabod," as they wit
nessed the winning of both races by young Cornell. But in a manly Avav, as might have been expected from Youthful Amer icans of the Best Blood, they joined in cheers for the victors. But the Xew York city press could not so easily conceal its astonishment when victory crowned the representatives of a
young institution situated some three hundred miles away
from Manhattan on the still forest-clad hills of Cayuga. In fact the city newspapers, like the bankers and brokers of Wall Street, hardly seemed to know, before the news was flashed to them from the shore- of the lake, that the Empire State con
tained any other higher institution of learning than Columbia college. Columbia was looked upon by them as the only pos sible rival of the gre ,t Xew England schools, anel on Colum bia, accordingly, they pinned their faith. We tru>t that, af ter a few more Cornelian victories, the gentlemen who write
for the infallible metropolitan journals will learn that the
state of Xew York has established at Ithaca a State Universi
ty, which is not only a long way ahead of the multitudinous
sectarian colleges between the Erie and the Hudson in every
thing that makes a school great, but has an immediate future
before it still more glorious. The se»oner the}- recognize this fact, the better for their reputation as intelligent journalists. Meanwhile let them be assured that Cornelia's " jewels " did not win liy accident; nor because they were all sturdy sons of sturdy farmers — which they weren't; nor because thev all work in the mechanical laboratory— wdiich thev don't; but because thev are members of a great institution in which they are taught to use their brains and through their brains their
muscles.
— But Cornelia is adorning herself with other jewels. She
has arrived at a stage of her existence when she can afford to
decorate herself. She is beginning to vnjoy the luxuries of
life and is no longer content with its simple necessities. The
time was, Avhen she was more than satisfied with the toilsome
and noisy tolling of a bell to mark the recurrence of her lec
ture hours. \oW they must be indicated by the hammer of a
costly clock, while the quarters are chimed by a delicately
constructed piece of mechanism. The time was when
she was contented with the not always limpid water
pumped from ball creek. Xow it must be filtered through
an expensive reservoir. The time was when she vvas willing
throughLo sec her sons wade,
morasses of mud. Now thev
must needs tread ilowe.-bordered walks. The time was when bridges of plank sufficed for her ravines and streams. Xow they must be of iron and stone. In short, she is fust growing as luxurious as epicurean Oxford, and in a century oioo even
Sept. 24, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA
11
the gentlemen Avho get their education eastward of the Berk erne pipes. There are also live mechanical stops and four ped shire hills will no longer characterize her asa"hackw Is al movements.
college."
— We desire to make an appeal to the Freshmen! If Ave had been invited to be present the other day at the first class meet ing of the new members of the University — which we were' n't — we should have "rushed" at once; we should have rushed,
we mean, upon the platform ami made a stirring speech. That speech would have read as follows: — "() Freshmen, learn mu sic! You have now before you the four happiest years of your life, but they may be made infinitely happier by a knowl edge of music. This lack of the musical element is the grand
difference between the student-life of the old world and the stu
dent-life of the neAV world. In every European University every
student, unless he be an American, is a singer, anel his enjoy
ment of his university years is more than doubled. You are
young men of brains! Now any young man of brains, in a
dozen lessons, can learn to read notes by sight, (lo away
from this room then, with our blessing, and take that dozen
"
of lessems!
Such eloquence woulel have moved even Fresh
men. But in all seriousness, it is time that Ave had a score or
two of peculiarly Cornell songs, of a little higher order than nost of our American college-songs, with a quartette' to sing them which should be equal to the best on the continent, and which should be supported by a chorus of about five hundred
well-trained voices! Of all the constituents of student-life
none is so continuously pmducth'e of pleasure as song.
The various registers include all the different varieties of organ tones like open, strong anel reed tones, and in different
degrees of strength, thereby giving ample scope to the per former in which lo produce those ever varying changes in combination, which form one of the charms of the instrument. When all are combined together, the tone will be symmetri cal and Avell balanced, as well as majestic, dignified and im posing.
Gilt Ward on the gecent goat gacc.
From tine N<-w York Sun.
"I stood over by KanisdeH's and watched lhe boats with a glass almost from the first. Before they hael gone ha'f mile I had picked out one crew that, by their long clean stroE., were doing the most powerful work there. They te>Id me 'twas the Cornell crew. 'Then,' said I, 'Xew York State's ahead again. Cornell Avins this race They can't beat that.' When Cornell's oars struck the water they began to exert a force that continued uniform to the very end; anel here's one of the secrets of her strength. She didn't seem to get Avindeel once; anel I really think when those six fellows reached the finish they Avere in a condition to row two miles further in the
same way. That couldn't be saiel of any other crew there. Columbia Avas the next best in stroke. Harvard, liefore she
takes her oar out of the Avater, gives a sudden jerk, which
(Thf gku' (Drflau at §agc tfhapd.
sends the boat forward rapidly enough but tires the men toe> much. She will have to learn to take a longer, easier stroke.
The generosity of Mr. AV. II. Sage, son of the founder of Sage College, enables the Faculty of Cornell University to supply a need that has existeel in the Musical Department, and place in the Chapel an organ that shall be appropriate for their service there, and offer the advantages of a first class instrument for practice and illustration to the students in mu
sical art. After a careful examination of the schemes and
merits of the different builders, the contract was awarded to Messrs. E. &. O. arsmen,
like Curtis, with their great, swelling biceps like the old-fashiemed 'mutton-leg' sleeves that the women-folks used to wear. The real power, after alb lies in the forearm, and that's all
that ever hardens or greovs on my Avhole arm. Just feel of
that bicep there. Yem sec it isn't very large, anel it never has been, anel it's a good deal so Avith the Cornell boy>. If Os trom picks out another such a lot of fellows next year, and keeps on carrying out his principles, I, for the life of me, don't
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TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Sept. 24, 1875.
see why they shouldn't win again. It'll be a good crew that
will beat them.
"About paper boats I have a good deal of doubt myself;
bo far I don't see any reason to go back on wooden boats.
Cornell didn't win because she was in a paper boat, but be cause her crew was best, Wherever the. best time has been made, it has been in wooden boats; anel I know a paper one don't jump over the water so lightly. Still there are some
good things to be said for them. I couldn't make the college boys agree with me about sliding seats. I've tried both ways, and I know I can row faster with the stationary ones."
(treasurer's Report.
(EormpniUnw.
VOTE OF THANKS.
Editors Cornell Era:
Okxtlkmex:—The Cornell Xavy wish to express, through your columns, their most hearty thanks to the citizens of Ith aca for the aid they so generously gave, in sending the crews fo Saratoga. And especially do they appreciate the Avarm in terest that they have manifested in the efforts and success of the Xavy. They would also acknowledge their deep grati tude to Mr. Southgute, of Saratoga, for his continued kind
ness and attention to the Cornell crews.
Respectfully,
Directors of Cornell Xavy.
Last year a treasurer's report was printed in the Eka, em bracing the receipts and expenditures for the University crew through all its training and until the regatta aviis over at Sar atoga. At a meeting of the directors last Monday evening it was decided to have a similar report printed this year, in cluding the expenses of both crews. Such a leport is inter esting to students and town people, who have till subscribed more or less toward sending the crews anel are desirous to
see where the money went to; but Avhen the report was being
made out it Avas found that an account in items of the ex
penses at Saratoga could not be procured, though it was defi nitely known hoAV much money was handled. Anel while we regret that a f 11 report in items cannot be given, we feel safe in saying that the public will feel satisfied when they com pare the following short account with that of last year, re membering this inclueles two crews.
received.
Total amount of subscriptious,
-
- Sl,o-0
EXPENDED.
For Mrs. Potter's bill for Avork at home and at Saratoga, " groceries and provisions at home, - -
"
Saratoga,
-
" Freshmen's board at Saratoga, -
" boats, all expenses of transportation and repairs of
same, one set of oars, expenses ot the crew- while
sygfo
iyp> l>~,o :j(ld
going to Saratoga, and there, aside from regular board; aho expenses of two meu to Troy, etc.,
o'-M
Total expenditure, - - - -
sj li.j
It will be noticed that under receipts we have only sub
scriptions. It is known that Ave received money from other quarters, like the Xavy hop, and also from the variety show; but these sums went toward the expenditures of the Navy, anel eliel not bear directly on those of the University crow. The expense as given last year by the I'd; v report Avas over
81600, while this year the expenses id' the two crews were less
than sy.V-00.
It will be readily seen that about -soot) is needed to make
the Cornell Xavy sepi are with everybody. This sum, if di vided up among the different classes, would not be two elol-
lars apiece for each student in the Univeisiiv. I bit there are
some who are not able to do anything toward it, while those
that can help are very cordially invited to "chip in '' when
the time conies, and help to get the Xavy on a stronger foot
ing than she ever had before.
Committee.
THE OY.MXASIUM.
Editors Cornell Era:
Having been requested by one of your number to write an article concerning the gymnasium, and being acquainted with
the history of its adversity, I submit the following f^.cts :
Eor six vears the students of the University hael no avail
able means for physical culture during the winter months, al
though several gymnasiums were started during that period,
but failed for Avant of a suitable building.
Two years ago, when Prof. Byerly came to the I niversity,
he saw the necessity for a gymnasium, and, aieled by several
enthusiastic students, went earnestly to work anel raised mon
ey by subscription to erect a building.
1 he construction of a building was commenced in the fall
term anel completed during vacation. Prof. Byerly purchased
the apparatus in Xew York, and the gymnasium was ready
for use. The subscriptions were not paid as promptly as an
ticipated, anel in consequence a elebt of three hundred dollars
was contracted. In order to pay this elebt, keys to the gym
nasium Avere solel for one dollar per term.
The treasurer
found it impossible to collect the dues every term, anel this method of raising money has not proved successful, although
part of the debt was paid. The buileling was loosely coustructeel, the apparatus became disordered, and there Avas no
money in the treasury to keep it in ge.od older. The necessity for a gymnasium in connection with the
University could have been seen by visiting the building at
the hours of -t and 5 i\ m. eluring the winter season, wheu
three or more crews were at work em the rowing weights and
twenty or thirty students using the bars, clubs, Ao. Thus
the building w;is used, although it scarcely proved a barrier
against the heavy winds, and was utterly unfit for use during cold weather, notwithstanding a large furnace was kept in op eration day ami night.
To continue this method of conducting the gymnasium
would be to endanger the lives of students not having vigor
ous constitutions. We want money to reconstruct the build
ing and to buy new bars, elubs, mats, bells, Ac. This can
bemily obtained by the cooperation of :||| students desirous
ol developing the body as well as the mind.
The gyninasinni is indispensable aud must be repaired if only for its
to use
our University crew, alone, since Mr Os-
Sept. 24, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
13
trom says the result of the Sarateiga regatta depended largely upon the use made of the gymnasium hist Avinter.
Xotice has been given of a meeting te> be' held in Military Hall to-morrow evening, and it is hoped that the students will take an active interest in the undertaking.
D. E. El.vxxerv, 'Tti,
Pres. C. U. G. A.
notice Avill be given before the close of the Acaelemic Year preceding.
June 10, 187m
lUnimsitti $tnn$.
—One Freshman thinks that etymology means the " Science of In
sects."
— Camilla Urso and her Avell known troupe will visit Ithaca some
BASE HALL.
time in October.
Editors Cornell Era:
—A Senior scientific asked the other day if a certain animal were
While Corned holds such a high position in aquatic sports herbiverous or carboniferous !
at the present time, it is to be regretted that she has not a
A— Freshman Avished to know the other day, how the " military
first class base ball nine. We would not say anything against course here compared Avilh that of West Point."
the present nine to engemler hard feelings, but anyone knoAVs
— The University clock chimes the quarter hours "both day and
that if a nine would be proficient in base ball, they must keep night." somewhat to the discomfort of unsound sleepers on the hill.
at work and practice continually. This avc know has not been
done to a very great exent, for the last two years, at Cornell.
There aie men in the University who hael rather play base
ball, than to play foot-ball or row, and there are enough good ones among them t organize a nine that, by a little practice, need not be afraid ed' a y college nine in the State, at least. Base ball needs more practice to become proficient in it, than rowing, hence the great need of going to work immediately for a gooel college nine. There can lie no complaint for want of material, knoAving the players that the three upper classes contain, while it is reported that 'Tti has several ''crack1'
— Will the Senior avIio heads his note hook on French History Avith " History of France Midival," please explain the meaning of " Midival"?
— The Philadelphia Athletics are to play the Athletics of Ithaca on the Fair grounds to-morrow (Sept. XM). All lovers of base ball should be ou hand a. a fine game is expected.
A— Saratoga lad}' overhearing the remark that " Columbia lost the race by catching a crab," was very much surprised and asked " whether the crab jumpeel into the boat or stuck on the side."
—The Freshman whose father is a " manufacturer of burial cases," is the same one who asked lo have other questions "substituted" in place of those asked him in his geography examination.
players. And while the University six are hard at work to
sustain their reputation as oarsmen, a base' ball nine should
be built up to contest amateur supremacy in the diamond
field against the nines of eastern colleges. Since the days
when the
"sacred nine"''
of
'
7
1
'
—
7 "J
were in their glory, base
— There will he u meeting of the Cornell Musical Association, d'hurs day evening next, at 7:4.1, in Curtis Hall. Business of the utmost im portance is to be transacted. Everybody interested in singing or in strumental music is cordiallj' invited to attend.
— Our worthy Professor in astronomy was trying to explain to his
ball has had a season of comparative quiet at Cornell, but avc lope it may not remain so any longer, ddie Athletic nine of Ithaca would be glad to have another nine as good as them selves e»r better, so near by, so that a series of practice games might be played between them eluring the season, to the im provement of boh. But while avc earnestly urge the need of
a strong University nine, we would not forget to encourage the class nines to go to work. '7* is now champion ol the
class why the plane of vibration of the pendulum, appears to remain unchanged at the equator, when a young scientist Avho had considerable trouble in comprehending the fact, suddenly remarked, " Oh, I see it iio.v, the pendulum is attached to the equator."
A— large number of the eases iu the museum are being replaced by new ones. The cases that are to contain the Anatomical, Orinithological and Entomological departments are to be of the same general pat
tern as the old ones. Those of the Silliman collection are to be like
those which novv contain the collection of shells.
University in base ball, anel if she woulel keep that position,
let the other classes make her work for it. Pitcher.
— Co. B. electeel the following officers Wednesday evening: Capt., C. li. Parkhurst; 1st Lieut., II. Terry; 2d Lieut., D. F. Flannery; 1st seriet., II. il. Lee; 2d Sergt., 1>. F. Van Fleet; od Sergt., Perry Clark;
Notice to Students.
4th Sergt., -I. S. Monroe; .1th Orgt., CE S. Cobb; 1st Corp., H. XV. Fos ter; -M Corp., E. II. Sibley; :M Corp., F. M. Kendall; 4th Corp., F. W.
We are authorized to publish the folleiwing:
After Commencement, 1*70, no student Avill be allowed to
register for, or enter upon, the studies of the Junior or rf bird Vear, in any course unless he litis completed all the studies of the tAvo previous years in his course, except by the special
permission of the Faculty. Any student failing to pass the examinations of the First
Year iu his course will be required to pass the examinations with the class pursuing the same subject, during the next year.
For students who fail to pass the examinations of the Sec
ond year satisfactorily, there will be tin examination in the studies of the year on the Monday ami Tuesday before the Registration Day in September, of the details of which due
Mann.
— Scene. — South University building. Major Van Mess on the
stairs; a Freshman conies up in a great hurry and breaks forth with,
"Halloo, are you a, Freshman:'"
"
Major—
.Not
exactly,
sir."
Frt-sh-
„<„/<_" Well, 1 heard there was drillin' goin' on up here; do you know
anything about it?"
"
Major—
1 can 't give
you exact
information cou-
ceniinn- it, sir." Freshman—" Well I believe it's a sell, anyhow."
There was a good crowd on the Fair grounds last Saturday to
watch the game of ball between the Live Oaks of Lynn, champion am ateurs of Mass., and the ftliaea town nine. Only one score was made in the first four innings, and that by the Live Oaks, who made five runs in the fifth inning and a single run in each of the following four. The Ithaca bovs were deficient in batting "curve" balls, and did not make a run until the eighth inning. The score stood ten to three in favor of
the Live Oaks when the game closed.
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Sept. 24, 1875.
„„-"««,♦~
",..
-During
th, e
vacation
a„
new
fit
Ielis^ ssccrreeww-cuttingg lathe has been anxious"
added to the equipment of the ™»ch °e shop n «i ,d 1 a
^„ ,
to have the degree of
^ ^ ^^
_
^ .f ^ ^
Captain conferred on him. So after
^^
PP^ P^^ ^
„
^ ^^^
^
^^^ ^,„The grinding machine is near
h;ls beeu ! major then asked him to which class he belonged, how much he had
lathe that has been in course
finished and shipped to its owner—the editor of the American .1 ct/'san, and received a verv complimentary notice in his journal. A not her one of the same pattern is now in course of construction which it is pro posed to send to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.
drilled, if he ever held an office, and he gave very satisfactory answers; but when he gave a negative response to " did you drill to-night?" and was told that " if he had drilled two years he ought to know enough to
fall in wdien the command was given," his hopes of a position (except
as a private) vanished, and so did he.
—The first Freshman meeting Avas held in north Chapel last Tues day, after Professor Shackford's lecture. A. Ward, formerly '7S, was electeel President, M. LaFea, Vice-President, and A. F. Millard, Secre tary. Here the members of the class who had fidled in getting on office began to think of dinner and started for home, leaving the room vacant. We understand that another meeting "as held on Thursday at the
same place, but as no public notice was posted up, our reporter was not
on hand, and the proceedings cannot be given.
— Pursuant to a notice previously posted, a meeting of all the class es of the University Avas held yesterday in room " K," at the close of
President White's lecture, for the purpose of choosing representatives
for the Inter-Collegiate Contest, C. T. Brewer, President of '76, called the meeting to order, appointing J. W. Sturdevant, Secretary. By a motion made by C. P. Coon, and afterwards amended, it was decided to leave the selection of representatives in mathematics, Greek, and
essays, to the college's of mathematics, language and literature respect
—Miss Helen Potter, teacher of elocution and rhetoric in Parker In ively. The two orators chosen, Avere Messrs. Tompkins and Fitch, the
stitute, Brooklyn, Avho has the reputation of being the best ladv render former being first representative and the latter, second. The payment
now before the public, rivalling even the late stars, Miss Cushman and of the s.K), was divided equally between the four classes of the Univer
Mrs. Scott Siddons, is to give costume, dialect and character readings sity. The meeting adjourned to again meet in the evening, at Military with music, in Library Hall next Thursday evening, Sept. JJUth, in con Hall, for the purpose of forming a jointorgani/.ation of the four classes
nection Avith the County Teachers' Institute, Avhich begins on Monday. of the University.
From all we hear of Miss Potter, a rare treat may he expected, and we
doubt not many students Avho love fine reading will attend. mission is only 50 cents.
The ad
—Although Cornell Avon everything that she undertook at Watkins,
| except the Junior single scull race, Ave don't, feel proud enough of our
victories to give an extended account of the regatta, especially Avhen
—A meeting of the Tom Hughes Boat Club was held in Curtis Hall the glory obtained Avas so far eclipsed by that at Saratoga. The Uni
on Tuesday evening. Ten names were proposed for membership anel versity crew were sorely disappointed to find that they had nothing to
voted in. W. S. Boynton, '77, and II. Sturges, '7N, were elected direc row against, except the Watkins crew and our "scrub" crew. How-
tors in place of W. J. Thompson, '74, and W. M. Sturges, '75. J. Lew I ever they entered the race (if we may thus designate it) and paddled
is, '78, and M. E. Haviland, '77, were elected Tom Hughes directors in over the course very leisurely, not wishing to make the other tAvo crews
place of C. C King, '75, and XV. M. Sturgess, '71. A committee was feel bad by beating them as much as they could have done. The
appointed to get terms from Blakey for a neAV " gig," and if it is a pes "scrub" creAV had roAved together not more than tAvo or three times,
sible thing, the club will have one here to use in ten days. If it cannot which, Avith the wild steering which they did, left them a few rods be
be got from Blakey in that time, Jarvis Avill likely finish the one he has hind the Watkins crew at the finish. The only good races in which
commenced, so they can have it in the spring as soon as wanted.
Cornell was represented were the single scull race for which eight en
— At the meeting of the Sprague Boat Club last Saturday evening tered, Francis coming out second, only a few feet behind Robinson,
Messrs. Ostrom, Eidlitz and McGill were appointed as a committee to and the pair-oared race, in which Ostrom and King left lliley aud Leff
fix the amount of rent AA'hich the Navy shall pay for the use of the man of the Neptunes so far behind, that one jocose youth Avas heard to
Sprague gig; another committee was appointed to provide means for say that "those head felloAvs Avould have time to eat their supper be
coaching the Freshmen members of the club. Capt. Ostrom was elect fore the others got in." The boys Avere well cared for, especially those
ed director to fill the place of W. C. Hayes—resigned— and Mr. Sned- wdio stopped at the Lake View House, for the proprietor, Mr. Pur-
ecor was elected as the second director to fill the place of Mr. II. J. veiance, spared no pains te> make it comfortable and pleasant for them.
Kice. The following men were electeel members of the club: Coon and We advise all Cornellians who visit Watkins to give Mr. Purveiance a
Phillips, '77, Oettiker, Wilcox and Stephens, '7S, and Chapman, Foote, call.
Sexton, Coffin, Caldwell, Lyon, Stowe, Wilcox, Dounce, Wells, Millon, Preston, Falkner, Porter, Biekham, Ousheiin, Armour, Van Cancellos, L'ole aud Doggett, of '7'J.
—The meeting of the Sophomore class was held in Military Hall, on Wednesday evening, as every one within a radius of two squares, if they were not away from home, must have known. the entertainment
—Alter all that '78 has saiel and done against rushing, she could not lasted for an hour and a quarter, and Avas one of the richest things that
refrain from indulging in it when the Freshmen began to sport their has happened this term. Tickets were freely distributed among the
canes. And although it is well kuown that there are every class, if anything comes up between the classes
two elements in each class as a
j
crowd, for the purpose of bringiug the 'airy" minels ol cus. The meeting was called to order by Secretary
the class to a
Treman; W.
fo C.
whole is called to account. The rush on Saturday evening did not Kly was elected temporary chairman, and balloting for president com
amount to anything except to get up an excitement and bother the menced. While this was going on, vocal mii-de was kindly furnished by
" cops," who, in fact, seemed to enjoy the occasion. On .Monday ev the Juniors present, and considerable " chin music ' by the "Sophs."
ening a cane Avas smashed by '7s and '7'J in front of Andrus A; Some of the "staid" members who did not like music, moved that the
MeChain's buu.v store. One Sophomore was seized and taken to the visitors present be requested to take front seals. Of course the motion
cooler, but soon got out by paying the officer m charge two dollars, was carried, bul had no other effect on the audience. The ballots for
Avhich, however, was refunded later in the evening. The crowd then president were then counted, seventy-five in all, of which W. 11. Tie-
cooled down, and soon dispersed.
man received the majority and was declared elected. Some dissatisfac
—The first drilling of the season commenced on Monday. Several squads of Freshmen were placed under the charge of as many Sopho mores or Juniors, and were seen going through at least |wo " war like munoeuve-rs" during the hour. About a dozen Juniors were present (spectators, of course, the first time), and one of them was almost "over
tion was hen- expressed by several of the members, who had separately counted tin- legal voters present, and could not make bul sixty. " Bal lot box stuffers" were spoken of, but the tellers ti nal I v succeeded in
quieting
the
dissatisfied ones,
by
oilers
to
"set
"
up
after
the
meeting
was out. T. P. Borden vvas then elected vice president by acclamation.
At this stage of the proceedings an amusing incident occurred to disturb
Sept. 24, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
15
the memotony of the occasion. Six Freshmen came into the room, and very modestly settled down in a front seat. This Avas more than the "bloody Sophs." could stand, and loud cries of "put Lhe Freshmen out" were heard, wdiich became louder and louder until the Freshmen,
frightened or disgusted, (probably the latter.) all left the room except one. A motion Avas then made to "put him out," hut no one seemed
F. W. Cooper, '74, is at work in an architect's office in Toledo, O.
McOollin, '72, is principal of the Troy Graded School in Towanda,
Pa.
N. W. Cady, '74, has entered the Bellevue Hospital in New York city.
disposed to do so, until Bartlett offered his services, and by his oilers
F. WE WEvrtiiost, '?:!, is about starting for Brazil on an engineering
to "set up," finally induced the Freshman to he led out on his arm, expedition.
amid the triumphant cheers of the Sophs., and the " hisses" of the vis itors. The meeting returned to business and VV. V. Pickett was electeel secretary, A. \V. Smith, treasurer, and F. II. Youngs, orator. A whis tling chorus here broke the stillness Avhich had reigned at least live minutes, and effected the leaders in such a manner that it vvas moved
Tilly, '7:!, who graduated in civil engineering, is on the Washing
ton t'lieonirle.
J. I). Mkssner does not return to the University this year; Ave have not learned why.
anel carried, to request the Juniors to leave the room. But a more com
Qlinl.vn, '7:1, i.s principal of the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute
passionate Sophomore moved to get them a new Avhistle, while the new in Towanda, Pa.
fledged vice president moved they help pay for the hall. This was
Liniu:mi th, '77, wdll not return to the University; he is studying
agreed to by the Juniors, and T. P. passed around his hat, receiving six law at Greenville, <>.
cents and a counterfeit twenty-live cent bill toward the cause. Order was finally restored, and business was reopened with five nominations
S. W. Williams, '72, is Librarian and Professor of engineering in Cornell College, Iowa.
for the office of essayist. After the nominations ceased, four of the nominees arose on their feet and very respectfully declined the office, when a Sophom...re Avho had been quiet heretofore, arose and said, " I
I
NE B. Walker, '70, is united in the holy bonds, law in Biddeford, Maine.
Arc, and is studying
secoud the declinations." This left the office to A. b. K. Volkman who
F. W. Hai.sey, 'To, has accepted a position on the reportorial staff
was elected by acclamation. W. E. Yager Avas elected poet, J. Lewvis, of the Xew York Tribune.
marshal, A. W. Brown, prophet, WE C. Ely, toast-master, and H. T.
Por.ixsoN, '74, anel Lawrence, '7o, are engaged in a mapping estab
Jones, historian, which ended the election of officers. It Avas agreed to lishment iu Mead vi lie, Pa.
retain the old foot-ball committee, after Avhich Mr. Bartlett arose, and
F. B. Alexander, '74, is engaged as contractor for a manafacturing
after a very earnest appeal to the good sense of the class on the impro establishment at Clinton, Mass
priety of rushing, and in order to get their sentiments on the question, made a motion that " '7s have a rush with '79," at the same time advis
ing his hearers to vote against it. Of course the motion could not pass
Prof. Henry S. Frieze, of Michigan University, spent several days Avith President White during vacation.
under such circumstances, and it was voteel doAvn. The meeting then
A. II. Gillis, one of that noble six, has accepted a lucrative position
adj nirned after the reading of a communication from an old class-mate. in a large machine shop at Salem, Ohio.
C. B. Smith, '70, will enter the Columbia Law School in October. Good bye " Smithy," hope you Avill do well.
Darrow, '74, is teaching in New Jersey. R. B. Foster, '74, is engineering in Peru. W. H. Janney, '74, is banking in Baltimore.
E. F. P. Jordao, '74, is at present engineering in Brazil in connec tion Avith Prof. Hartt's geological expedition.
Prof. Green, of the Troy Polytechnic Institute, was one of the many visitors at the University during vacation.
Tier, '74, is engine dispatcher at Norwalk, 0. T. S. White, 'To, is engineering in Pittsburgh. Geo. Upham, 'T4, is in the Harvard law school. W. G. Farxham, 71, is city engineer in Elmira. A. T. Hyde, 'To1, is engineering in Cincinnati, O. J. T. Hciid, '74, is in business at Flushing, L. I. Kolce Preston, '7o, is teaching in Pennsylvania. Seyrolt, '7:J, is studying law at Ann Arbor, Mich. J. H. Souhtard, '74, is studying law at Toledo, 0. L. Elsbree, '7.J, is practicing law in Towanda, Pa. A. Pou, '70, is in the cotton trade in North Carolina. Durland, '7.1, i.s studying law in MiddletoAvn, N. Y. W. N. Smith, is in the paper business in Canajoharie. J. T. Nellioen, '74, is teaching at Kinderhook, N. Y. C. D. Wooden, '71, spent a few days in town this week. C. H. Lay, '74, is in the lumber business in Oil City, Pa. Wileman, '77, of pedpstrian fame, is farming in Pennsylvania. F. Parsons, 73, is studying law somewhere in the Buckeye state.
Mr. Ostrom was made the recipient of an elegant gold-headed eb-
j ony cane upon the return of his chum, I). F. Flannery, '76, in consid
eration of his success at Saratoga.
Y. S. Walsh, '71, is on the Binghamton Tinus, doing well as local editor. His accurate knowledge of history and modern languages com mends him favorably to his employer.
J. D. Warner, 72, is teaching at Albany; he was at Saratoga and helped yell during the race, and marshalled Cornell's representatives on their triumphant march through the town.
Mr. WE It. Dudley, with the assistance of Hine, '70, had been en gaged during the summer vacation in collecting and pressing the plants
| that are to be found in this and adjoining counties.
Van Velzer, '70, and Palmer, '77, will compete for the prize in an
alytical geometry at the inter-collegiate literary contest next winter, provided there be not more than eight colleges represented; in that case only one will go who wdll be chosen by a competive examination.
Geo. Vandewater, '74, is studying in the General Theological
Seminary at New York city; he paid us a short visit last week and
officiated in the Episcopal church last sabbath.
If
"
"
Yandy
can
preach as good a sermon as he can deliver an ivy oration, we are sure that
he will have an appreciative congregation.
C. C. Kino, '71, has accepted a position in an architect's office in New York; he has also joined the Neptune Rowing Association Avhose
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Sept. 24, 1875.
quarters are on Staten Island. We understand that, all around, he realizes a good salary — mete compensation for his perseverance as an
oarsman. We wish him the best of success.
C. S Francis has proven to all wdio may have doubted his abilities
as an oarsman, that he can take prizes wdiether he can row or not. On August 7th he started alone for Sodus Point, on Lake Ontario, not even telling his friends Avhere he w7as going. The next that was heard of him he was in town with a nice silver cup, which was the first prize that he had taken. He rowed against II. G. Danforth, '77, of Harvard, and James MeCabe, of Rochester, both of wdiom have recorded good time. His next victory was over six of the eight men who rowed in the single scull race at Watkins. A few days afterward we heard of his taking the second prize at Ensenore Glen, on Ovvasco Lake. One
Sonbmr's also presents an attractive table of contents. There is no
lack of poems, grave and gay. One, by J. Cheever Goodwin, entitled " Awkward," will no doubt come home to many of our Alumni. It de
scribes an interview between two former classmates. We cannot re frain from quoting the first and last verses:
And so she's engaged to be married
To one of our class! I'm afraid
That if very much longer she tarried Her degree would be O. M. -Old Maid.
" I know her?" Oh, yes, or I thought so; But I'm more than inclined to believe
I was wrong. I'm the felloAv she sought so,
But couldn't deceive.
first prize and two second taken in the three races that he rowed is not
so bad for a young amateur, especially when his opponents were all
older oarsmen than himself.
After various surmises as to whom it was that "she" was engaged to be married, comes the folloAving:
"Tub" Abbott was sweet on her. Sandy
McGillum!— he must be the one,
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The Cornell Era
" A hove all Sects is Truth.'
Volume VIII.— Number :S.
TIIE CORNELL. CNIVI-dcSITY, OCTOBER 1, bsr,.
$2.50 per Annum in Advance.
Printed and Published every Friday, by Students of the Senior and Junior Classes.
m\m tax \m-i
J. W. Stukdevant, '?!!,
C. P. WoODRlU-'l'', 'di
in the Courant are unable to prevent the people of this coun
try from seeing that the jircsfii/c gained
by
being
a
"
venera-
b'e institution" is not everything, and that work done is the
only enduring claim to greatness.
M. E. H.VVILAN1V
A. J. Loos, E
— Like our " observing " correspondent there are doubt
less many cynical moralists, exclusively "practical " men, and
"book worms" who have looked at our first tAvo numbers of
—The I idc Court/, it of last week indulges in some moral izing on the attitude ofthe Faculty of Yale College teovard
the Eka with deep solicitude for the sport-loving Cornel lian. To "Observer" we reply in the first place that Ave do
boat-racing, which much be extremely refreshing to that dig nified body : and it at the same time Avasfes much pity on the " smaller colleges " that depend on such "interpositions of
not think that there is danger of "too much attention" being
attracted to out door sports. The great mass of students of our
colleges in America to-day are as much in need of additional
Providence" as the winning of boat races, for success. They stimulus to physical culture as to mental. It is Avell known
always did wonder why their Faculty was so little enthusias tic about their victories in boat races and ball matches, but after reading of President White's " performances," as they
that it is not the number of hours that the minel is applied to study that tells; that it is md the long pull but the strong pull Avhich accomplishes most. A few hours of application Avith a
term them, '' they see it all."
fresh, healthful minel Avill accomplish more than days of mere
Well, gentlemen, we really are very much obliged to you poring with a dull sluggish one.
for your commiseration, and hope that when avc grow " big
We believe as strongly in the necessity for out door sports,
ger" our Faculty Avill not execute double-clogs on house-tops such as boating, base ball, foot-ball, &c, as avc elo in the ne
wheu our crews are successful. We ahvays did have a great cessity feu- vigorous, honest stuely. " Obsiu-ver," not regarel-
deal of respect for Yale, and it has increased wonderfully | ing very carefully the fitness of things, thinks Ave should give
since Ave have heard that its learned body of instructors don't more of our space to accounts of our literary efforts. It is
do those things. We thought the Courant was sincere Avhen, true Cornell has four Avell-sustaineel literary societies, but the
in its issue of the week liefore, it said that Yale men "could number of students belonging to each does not giAre the usual
not but acknowledge that Cornell had done splendidly and performances enough general interest to justify us in giving
deserved her double victory;" it seems, however, that after a our columns very largely to accounts of their proceedings.
week's further consideration they have come to the conclusion While on the other hand the games are such as are partici
that our victory was due to an interposition of Providence, pated in liy whole classes or by a large body of students.
and not to the exertions of our creAV. It must be rather gaU- This being so, we are not only justified, but feel it to be a duty
ing to one of The First Colleges In This Country t<> be van to give quite a considerable portion of our columns to them.
quished by a " smaller college," so avc shall have to make alloAV- On all literary matters where large numbers are interested,
ances for these after-thoughts of the Courant. Let them such as joint meetings of societies, public exhibitions, the
Avrap themselves up in the mantle of their dignity
anel
"
wax
Woodford contest,
Inter-collegiate literary contests,
Class-
great " in the sense of their superiority. We are glad that day exercises and Commencement, avc intend to be eepially
they have accumulated glory enough in times past wherewith full.
they ma}7 shine for ages to come, Avithout troubling them
"Observer" thinks, no doubt, that we should fill our col
selves about present efforts for success.
umns to epiite an extent with nice little apothegms from Solo
As for Presielent White's "performances," we confess our mon, Bacon and Franklin, or charming selections from Lamb,
Aveakness, ami admit that we are proud of having a President Addison and Emerson, or delightful peiems chosen from Ten
avIio is able to take a human interest in the doings of his stu nyson, Longfellow anel Lowell, as do several of our exchanges.
dents, and who is able to appreciate the fact- that to encour We' are not Avanting in admiration for these authors, but Ave
age them in athletic sports i.s not folly. Just such energy as have no taste for such an expression of it as this. When Ave
he exhibited in breaking into the belfry and ringing the have anything to say of an author, Ave think it far better to give
chimes is what has made Cornell what it is in so short a space our impressions of him in our oavii worels; to sIioav how deeply
of time—accomplishing in a half-dozen years what old-fogy - root e'd he i.s in our nature; how closely avc have stuelied, bow-
ism could not have done in a hundred. Such sneers as those accurately Ave have judged and howT nearlv Ave have compro-
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bended him. Productions of this kind will appear from time
to time in our columns. When, too, we have a poetic mood,
wc shall doubtless burst forth in song.
"Observer" advocates "scholarship," "sound learning"
and "true culture." So do avc, with all our heart. The dif
ference between us is that what he regards as "subsidiary" we regard as coordinate. We think that " true culture" con sists in that granel old trio of human perfections which lias formed the headings for scores of lectures — namely: mental, moral and physical culture. That Cornellians arc combining these three is proved by their success at the Academy of Music, their double victeuy at Saratoga, anel their every-elay life. The facts adduced are not accidental; the relation is more than
fanciful.
"Observer's" letter has furnisheel an occasion for the dis
cussion of topics of Avhich avc are glad to speak. His position
is the result of too contracteel a view of Avhat constitutes " true culture." We trust that before the winter solstice comes avc
shall grow enthusiastic on topics which will gain the sympa thy even of " Observer."
—We learn from the last number of the Et ciein that the
present Era board are " almost unanimously " in favor of re linquishing the custom of publishing literary articles and e»f devoting their columns entirely to college news. If "almost unanimously" in favor of a proposition means entirelt/ unani mously opposed to it, the Re dew is not wide of fact.
Cornell ^hcart—geir $ork JlouMg $0.
CORNELL, WE'LL YELL CORNELL!
"Cornell," "Colum—," " Columbia,"— "yell,
Du da, du da, Columbia second, first, Cornell!
Ho, de-du-da-day!
(Ononis.)
THIRD MILE.
The crews of other cedleges, Du da, du da,
Were counted as apologies, Ho, de-du-da-day!
An "easy first" upon the swell, Du da, du da,
With flying colors sped Cornell, Ho, de-du-da-day!
I Chores.)
FINISH.
Then ribbon, cap, and Hag and yell Du 1 la, du da,
Were flung for Avhom the prizes fell, Ho, de-du-da-day !
First for Cornell, —for New- York tAvo: Du da, elu da,
The Empire State! (foci doodle doo ! Ho, de-du-da-day!
(Chores.}
not finished.
In years to come, sire to son
Du da, du da, Will tell of this proud victory Avon,
Ho, de-du-da-day! And " old Cornell " wdll sing it o'er, —
Du da, du da, The "pull " of young Cornell of yore,
Ho, de-du-da-da}- ! (Chores.)
Oh, have you heard the Avondrous neAvs, Du da, du da,
From Saratoga's college crews, Ho, de-du-da-day!
Where oarsmen on her glassy lake, Du da, du da,
Their place in the regatta take, Ho, de-du-da-day!
ClIORES.
We're bound to have it right, We're bound to see it through;
We'll bet our money on young Cornell
And on her gallant crew !
THE START.
Time-honored Harvard takes the lead, Du da, du da,
Famed in all lands for grit and speed,
Ho, de-du-da-day! And followed hard by ancient Yale,
Du da du da, Those men novv look a trifle pale,
Ho, de-du da-day!
(OuoRrs.)
SECOND Mliac.
Columbia's blue Avell up in front, Du da, du da,
"Good second" novv her friends all count,
Ho, de-du-da-day!
>v oav and then, when wearied of appropriating the thoughts of other people, as I find them expressed in books, pamphlets anel periodicals, I take a good deal of pleasure in shutting my self up within myself, and in looking out on the rest of the world as an entirely distinct creation. If one be sufficiently considerate there will be no great danger of his becoming over-egotistical, while on the contrary he mav at such times build up a small world of his own, peopled by his own fan cies, and governed by his own whims.
Such a world will afford an excellent means of comparison
between what one is and what he would be, were he not con
stantly oppressed by that smothering atmosphere which is oiled "the world"; between what one's Cod-given impulses ™»U 1^<1 1'im to be, and what the stupidity and conceit of a -ge portion of human creation force him to" be; between that «.» «''...-l. he aspires, and that fo which the animal nature of
k'lloWVtm,.kenli,. ons.twraknoerani.sg*. i.n1 .ramdiSttihtore:ni,i' ,aa,asnnniidmm'"aa'h"lle-r' ipnW-.d |)0Vt$.
Jthey appear to people in general. Let me remark, however,
Ti1G initiating game of foot-ball for the Freshmen, and the
|that conscience, brains and individuality form no part of the fir.st match game of the season, came off on "Willow Avenue,
ingredients which supply the material for this glass. If I ]ast Friday afternoon, with the Juniors. It Avas intended on-
choose, as an individual, to look at the Avorld, and not as one \y as a practice game for '70, Avho had been harrassed not a
of a herd, I should be allowed the privilege. jI grant you little because thev would not accept the challenge of "Js. But
freely the same opportunity, and Avill gladly listen to the re- ju '77 they recognized friends, aud wished to have a trial of
suit of your view.
j their abilities Avith them before they played Avith their ac-
T«> epiiet all fears on the part of any one who may chance ! knoAvledged foes. At three o'clock, the time for the game to
to skim over these lines, that I am inclined to egotism, I will commence, the Freshmen numbered about seventy and the
entrust to him a little secret which always serves me a useful Juniors forty-five The former had imagined "in numbers
purpose when I am in this little side-world of my oavii. It is, there is strength," hence '70 must win, but '77 soon showed
that I consider individuals— myself among the number— as of \ them otherwise. The toss was Avon by the Freshmen AA'ho not the least coiiseepience— that, in a general way, one indiviel- ' took the north side, and after the usual delay warned the ball.
ual differs not at all from another—different names serving j The afternoon was epiite warm, anel foot-ball being a new onlv as indices, or as stakes to mark the course along which ' game to the Freshmen, and the Juniors being out of practice,
certain peculiar laws manifest themselves. Man, as one of it proved to be hard work for both, not much good playing
God's creatures, becomes thus 110 better, perhaps, anel often being done by either side. The ball lingered around '70's goal
jworse than many of the beautiful objects about him which are for some time, but there were so many of their men guard-
supposed to render less he r to their creator than himself, ingit, that it seemed almost impossible to get it through.
A grand old tree, standing out perfect in form, every limb A fly was finally caught by Aylen in front of the goal and having its twin-brother, its green leaves shimmering in the kicked through. Time, thirty minutes. A'ery few flies were
sunlight, itself a specimen of the wonderful perfection which caught, but the Freshmen seemed to delight in making fouls, can be attained in other objects than the only egotistical one ; and one fellow started across the field with the ball in his
in God's creation— such a tree seems to me infinitely above ' hands saying that "it hael got to go through." Considerable
the gross and corrupted forms of human creation which avc : noise was made by some '7 0 men who seemed to be commitare compelled too often to encounter. It is not an ideal tree, tecs for that purpose, and did little besides, while if they had I remember it as the only perfect one of my boyhood— a tall spent their breath in running after the ball, we think it woulel
pear-shaped maple, every limb of which appeared to have its have done more good. The next goal showed an improve-
form,'like, in length and
on the opposite side ofthe tree; per- ment in playing on both sides, and was won in seventeen min-
fectly balanced and standing as if conscious of its strength— utes by '77, Boynton making the last fair kick of a caught fly.
"justlyas if
and honestly proud of its superiority. I doubt if '
With the second goal ended the foot-ball playing for the
could'hso perfect a tree
ave grown in the forest — lor it stood afternoon, which as it soon turned out to be, was only a pre-
alone in a meadow— it would have been choked and distorted liminary to the amateur gladiatorial scene which soon toe»k
by its inferior but aspiring fellows, and the undergrowth.
I place. '
To say that the Juniors were surprised to have things
have been lead into this digression by the thought of what take such a course woulel md express the disappointment
this tree, and everv tree ot the i'-rest, would be able to relate which filled their breasts at the thoughts of having to give
to us, could its vision extend sufficiently far, and did it possess up the game, with neither an entire victory or defeat for eisome other human attributes. It would, perhaps, lessen our | ther side. But "such is life," and it proved to be only anself-oloriHeation, and suggest that possibly other objects than | other unfinished chapter m the history of >,,, which without
man equally honor their' eueator. As we may imagine an un- ! doubt would have ended in a Ulortom victory for them. Howpretending maple thinking and making comments on what is ever they seemed to forget their disappointments m the expassing about it, so I love to look out on the world, forget- citenie.it that followed, as they h ' ting self and the present as far as possible-yet probably not , whence came haul cries of '78 and
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TIIE CORNELL ERA
OU. 1, 1875.
jfor over a week that '78 and V.» Avere to have a friendly trial had the stick completely under their control several times,
of strength, and by mutual consent the time had been set on , they did not know how to get away with it. About the time Saturday morning after the game of foot-ball. But this did , it ended, the road p resented an interesting spectacle. Windnot alter the condition of affairs and whether mutual or not, ed Sophomores ami panting Freshmen were seen on all sides,
goingthe " rush" vvas
on.
It commenced in a new way for Cor-
nellians, as we teamed from an "upper" classman and student
of extraordinary Ao/A standing, who, either having been hurt
while their wrecked habiliments lay strewn iu every direction in the shape of smashed hats and torn caps, broken suspend-
ers and buttonless vests, coats without owners and shirtless
in afoot-ball encounter and needing the help of a walking buttons, and in fact most everything that is ever found in a
stick, or merely for pleasure, had adopted a hoe handle to ii 11 gentleman's wardrobe. Several attempts were made by the
jthe p lace of a cane, was making his way leisurely across the spectators to rush the contestants into the creek toward the
foot-ball ground, when he was stopped by some members of end of the battle, but Ave are sorry to say they did not suc-
'78 who wished to examine his stick. I lis stout refusal was ceed. The rush was finally stopped by the interference of the
of no avail, so "so for the looks of the thing" he appealed to '79 for help. Why he appealed to that source for aid is not known unless it was because they were the most numerous; at
upper classmen and the old "hoe handle" was carried off by
mutual consent in the hands of a Junior. All seemed satis-
tied with their work, and turned their attention foi the next
all events succor came, so did the Seniors, Juniors, and the o'OI.LEOE SPOKTS.
contestants at the beginning were a little timid, hence com paratively mild in their exertions, but when the Freshmen in about half an hour hael monopolized the stick simply by a su periority of numbers, the Sophs, sailed in, and oh! how the
sophisticated and unsophisticated wretches changed positions, looks, anel even dress, for many were compelled to elon na
Editors Cornell Jfra:
While I admire the stirring tone of your paper anel the manly spirit by which it is characterized, I am forced to think that the students of your University are more awake to col lege sports than to sound learning. Do you not think that
ture's garb from necessity, Avhile others did it for econoniv your recent victory in boating will direct so much attention to
The Freshmen were working under the usual disadvantage of I a'luatic ll,ul ,,ther sl,orts as t0 ^'l:ird Ingress in true, zeal-
not knowing their men and were often seen struggling with and against each other. Diminutive Sophomores threw biu,
Freshmen, while little Freshmen demonstrated the fact that
ais scholarship 'i For my part, I should rather see account;
of your literary efforts than of your physical accomplishments.
I think selections from Addison would be more valuable than
Sophomores do not always stand on sure foundations. Jun from (fill Ward. Kemember, young men, that all else should
iors and Seniors who got too near the whirlpool of strife were seen trying to regain vertical positions with dignity, but gen erally failed in the attempt. "Moke" was seem in hand to
be subsidary to advancement in true culture.
Oi^ekvek. •
[A reply to '• Observer" will be found among our editori
als. I
hand combat with several Freshmen at once, and several times a "war between the races" seemed inevitable. Crowds
of three or four woulel get separated from lhe main body, and
after fruitless endeavors to throw each other would <-et ex
hausted, fall down anel roll off and over each other in everv
MEET1NO OFTHE AVOKKINU MTOKVls' A-o>< IATON.
Editors Cornell Era :
Permit me through your columns to call the attention of all laboring students of the University O the nieetino- of the
direction with apparent ease. After resting for a while some Working Students' Association, to take place in X,room next
would again renew the attack by taking a standing or run- ^1"" Priding its members with work so far as it can, by moele of attack was to throAv one arm around the neck of the s,'«'llimg to employers through its officers, reliable work-
foe and pull. Such a course was always successful, and the time it took anyone to relinquish his hold under such induce
ments, was in inverse ratio to the number of times he had
"J''11' :iml !EV ]>''oteet ing the interests of its members gener-
ally, d'he efficiency of the association has to sonic degree al ready been proved. The meeting should be well attended.
been operated on in a similar manner before. The "rush"
La no hick.
began on the north side of the ball ground and ended near the
mieldle brielge across Cascadilla creek, in the Avenue.
Jfrcconcl Annual (fontcst.
It lasted two hours and surpassed und '7 7 in everything but tactics, f oi
the "rush" betwa-en '7t;
annougii tiie rieshnicn
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21
tor-collegiate literary contest, we have decided to publish the following lately received circular, Avhich avc hope will give all
desired information in regard to it :
I. No College shall participate which has not, before October 12th, 187.1, officially announced to the Chairman of the Executive Committee its intentention of entering in said contest.
II. No College shall participate which has not, before < >etoher 12th, IM?."), paid in to the Chairman of said Committee the sum of Fifty Dol
lars.
III. All Essays anel names of competitors in each hranch must lie sent to the Chairman of said Committee on or before < >ctober 12th, 1S75.
^ 'Contest in Oratory to be hold in the Academy of Mi sic of New York City, January 4th, is?ii.'
Examinations to be lielef in New York City on the two days previous to Thanksgiving day.
A supplementary Circular Avill be sent in the Autumn, informing Colleges to how many representatives they are entitled; and the exact time anel place of holding the examinations.
I. II. Polhemus, Chairman. Address Willaims College, Williamstowu, Mass.
COMPETITIVE ESS.VYS — 187.").
Snbjtets for Essays : I. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Uni versal Suffrage. II. Dickens and Thackeray, compared.
I. Each Essay must bear a cipher or feigned name, Avhich must be
also endorsed on a sealed letter accompanying the Essay.
This letter must also bear the name of the College from which the
Essay proceeds. II. By the rules of the Association, " Each College shall select at
its discretion, three representatives; if, hoAvever, the number of Col
leges competing shall exceed eight, each shall be restricted to two rep
resentatives." Should an}' College send three essavs, it will be neces
sary to eledgnate which of the three shall be left out of the competition,
in case it shall be fouuel that more than eight Colleges are competing.
III. The length of each E-say is strictly limited to 0,000 words;
this beimr equivalent to about six pages of Ilarpu-'s Magazine.
IV. The Association shall be entitled to a manuscript copy of each
prize E--ay; but the Essay shall be at the author's disposal, should he
wish to print it.
Thos. Wkntwortu Hiooinson, j
JamksT. Fields,
*■ Judges.
Riciiaku Gk.vnt White,
)
mathematical examination — 1st.").
Analytical Gauntry.
C. H. Davis,
j
Simon Newcomb, - Examinees.
P. S. Miciiie,
\
OKEEK EXAMINATION — IN?.").
I. Sophocles' CEdipus T vidimus. Besides accuracy, facility and elegance of translation, the exam ination will include — 1. Etymology. 2. History, '.i. An tiquities. 4. The Drama, its theatre, constitution and metres.
II. III. libra.
Exercises in Greek Composition. Translating from some easy but unfamiliar book ad aperturam
T. W. Chambers, )
C. P. Lewis,
[• Examiners.
W M. R. DlM.MoCK, )
PRIZES.
A prize of £200.00 is offered by the Association for the best Essay on each of the given subjects. Honorary mention will also be made in each case of the second best Essay.
The Association offers $300.00 as a first prize, and $20000 as a sec ond prize, in both Greek and Mathematics.
The Association offers $200.00 as a first prize, and $150.00 as a sec
ond prize, in Oratory.
*tmm$itti gtems.
—The Nepl unes claim Courtney, King, and Ostrom, of Cayuga Lake, among their members.
—The annual rush between Yale students was given up this year. The Faculty have tried for a long time to break it up, and finally suc
ceeded.
—The time for sending names of representatives and money to NeAV York for the inter-collegiate literary contest lias been postponed until
Oct. 12.
— It seems customary among the Seniors this term to read their ora tions, instead of committing them and delivering them in the proper
manner.
—Cornell has ls4 new students this term, of whom lei are ladies.
The whole number of students in the University is -lij.j— 428 gentlemen
and '■',! ladies.
— "The cloudy morning has prevented us from seeing the eclipse," remarked a Junior the other morning, Avho got down to breakfast at eight o'clock.
— Hobart college had five applications for admission this year, and they were all accepted. How strange I More business for the faculty and professors.
— "We are glad to see the base ball committee at work, and hope that practice games will be kept up all the full. '70 lias set a good example and let the ball be kepi " flying."
—On Wednesday two Freshmen started for the state fair at Elmira by way of the "shoo fly." We hope they enjoyed their ride, since they took pains to go the longest Avay around.
—The Philalethean and Irving societies -will hold their union meet ing Friday evening, (Jet. Nth, in the botanical lecture hall, Sibley build ing. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
—The Rev. T. 13. Conelit, D. D., Avill preach in the Sage Chapel on
Oct. o. The exercises will lie held at 10 a. m., and 2 p. m. The stu
dents anel public are cordially invited to attend.
— The classes that are renowneel for foot-ball proficiency at Cornell
and Amherst correspond exactly, as avc see that '78 has challenged '7(J for the championship of the University at Amherst.
— Several students who came here from other colleges with certificates of honorable dismission, thinking to enter the Sophomore or Junior classes without being examined, are now going through that trying or
deal.
— Prof. Shackford's lectures upon Comparative Literature, in which he treats of the ancient, allegorical, and mythical literature, are very in teresting and often contain veins of humor which "bring down" the
class.
A— Senior av;.s heard to say that "it seems to me that 'it seems
to me' seems to be a very favorite expression with one of our Profes sors, judging from the number of times that it was repeated during one
lecture."
— One feature of the rush that vvas interesting to the spectators was the case of a Junior attempting to separate two Freshmen who were struggling violently Avith each other, Avhen both of them turned upon the peacemaker anel left the impression of their boots upon his shins.
— One day last Aveek, after the Freshman crew had pulled away from the float and were waiting for a start, >ome one on shore gave them a hint to wet their hands. Every oar dropped immediately, and twelve hands Ave re plunged into the water, to the immense satisfaction
of all on shore.
A— member of the class in French History hearing that Charle-
mao-ne Avas crowned on the eve of Christmas sou, asked if it was 800 B. C. Unless we knew that Freshmen were not allowed to take those
Oct. 1, 1875. oo THE CORNELL ERA
lectures Ave would immediately pronounce that man a Freshman; as it
is he must be a Junior.
;—The proprietor of a gents' furnishing house in town was not a lit
tle surprised last Friday P. m. when several students entered his estab
Z In "is^on'tlishment with overcoats on and wanted to buy some underclothing.
^1T£Of course their backs were rigged out with a gooel shirt apiece, but the
jclerk is still wonelering why it happened so.
| re^g!un!of-Next Sabbath the Universitv sermons commence in the new I ni-
versity chapel. The Rev. Dr. Condit, of Auburn, a Presbyterian min
ister of very high reputation, will preach two sermons on that day-
10i./one at
a. M. and the other at 3 p. m. One is to young men and
the other to young women. All students should attend.
—The readings and impersonations given in Library Hall on Thurs day evening, by Miss Helen Potter, were excellent. Miss Potter has a very good voice and she has perfect control of it. In our opinion the first piece read deserves the most credit, although there was very little occasion for criticism in any portion of the entertainment.
—Edwdn Aelams, the renowned tragedian, supported by C. W. Couldock and a superior dramatic company, will entertain all who desire to attend, by presenting Tennyson's Enoch Arelen as dramatized by M lie Marguerite, in Wilgus Hall, on Monday evening, Oct. 4. All who want
his boat, the water being onl> about o ,, the shore, carried his boat across he p
nd ..8truck» for home.
^^
IIe , coking finely an ,s sa
™ s ^^ a rest
[A mor.
cut recitations to practice for the
base ball between the Ithaca Athletics and their
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and the Ithaca boys had two substitutes from the visitors nine, wh.eh n.ade more even sides, as the score showed, which stood « to 4 m favor
of the Professionals. -We are indebted to Mr. Lazenby, '74, for furnishing us with the
following list of entries which were made from the University farm at the County Fair held in Ithaca week before last: From I nivers-ty garden-twenty-five varieties of vegetables, including Kahl Rabi, Baocole, Brussels Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, and a remarkable specimen of Western corn which had attained the height of fourteen feet; and from the Farm-three thoroughbred Ilobtein cattle, and Berkshire
to hear a good thing should attend, for it received the highest com mendation from several students who heard it in Elmira on Wednesday
j
and Suffolk swine. others made from
These entries compared very the county, although they were
favorably with the not placed in com
evening, —The regular Sabbath meeting of the Christian Association will be
petition for the premiums.
cies.
Among the vegetables are .several new spe
jomitted Sunday, October :!d, owing to the delivery of the University
sermon at Sage Chapel. Tuesday next, a business meeting will be held at Society hall (room M, North University), at 7 P. m- Candidates for admission will be received. Important business demanding imme
diate attention will be transacted. It is desirable that every member be
I
—Noav that the subscription papers for aiding the gymnasium are
being circulated, let every one give all that he or she can possibly spare. eV good gymnasium in which the e-rews can work during the cold weather b absolutely necessary if we would hope for success ut Sarato ga again next year. The above consideration in itself should be suffi
present.
cient to induce all to give liberally; but when you add to that the ne
—Mr. Parker, the artist employed by the University, has lately in cessity of a suitable place for exercise in order for physical culture, and
vented a camera which can be used Avith either wet or dry plates. It in order that those who have already proven themselves good athletes
also possesses an advantage over anything heretofore used, in being so
constructed that it can be made to occupy less than one half the space
of an ordinary camera. This adds another weighty reason to provethat Mr. Parker is a genius, an appellation which he receives from all
who know him.
may keep iii training, it is easily seen that all money given for this pur pose will be well invested and will go directly to benefit a large num ber of students. Let all give freely.
—At the meeting of the Musical Association, last evening, there was
—The game of base ball on Thursday p. m. between '78 and '7'J, at the Fair ground, was the most interesting of the season. The nines were very evenly matched, but the score ran up to eighteen to thirteen in favor of the Freshmen. The Sophomores have nothing to say in
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considerable enthusiasm manifested, especially by old and new members
of the orchestra, Unfortunately but feAV of the vocalists were present, but there is no doubt that they will do their best also, ddie Association has been very fortunate in acquiring as new members, Geo. F. Ward,
base ball now, anel the Freshmen remain champions of the I niversity. Smith, St owe, Albert Buchmau, A. Faulkman, M. Curtis, II. WE Sny
We have not seen so much excitement over a game this fall, and the ! der, and S. P. Sturges, gentlemen who have considerable experience in
game was worthy of a much larger crowd.
conducting orchestras and in remit ring classic music, due board of
directors were instructed to make all necessary arrangements for a con
— President White devoted his hour yesterday and to-day to his cert, to be held sometime during this term. The orchestra meets this
celebrated lecture on the Growth of Scien -e. This lecture is founded
(Friday) evening for preliminary practice in Curtis Hall, at 7.4.">.
ou his former lecture delivered in New Vork and elsewhere, entitled
The Battle-held of Science. The enfranchisement of human thought
A— Freshman's troubles are as numerous as thev are varied; the fol
after its enslavement iu the supposed interest of religion, is admirably lowing is found among the many: One magnanimous member of '7!' con
depicted. All the statements which formerly brought out such a blast ; sun ted to escort home a young lady w ho Avas visiting at Ids hoarding
of denunciation from some of the old sticklers, are now strongly forti place; another, more magnanimous, but less susceptible, after disguis-
fied by numerous and careful references to original authorities.
I ing himself in a long coat, hat, etc., followeel the pair until they
— Last Saturday evening Prof. L. A. Wait delivered a lecture on "Modern Greece," before the Philalethean Literary Society at Associa tion Hall. It being a rainy night lie did not have as large an audience as he would otherwise have had. He spoke wilhoul the aid of notes
aud held the close attention of his hearers for about an hour. Those
who had the pleasure of listening to him gained a better idea ol (lie Greece of today than they formerly had, and those who were not pres ent lost a rare opportunity to inform themselves about that country.
separated, taking care to arouse no suspicions; hut when Freshman
No. 1 started for home, the disguised tiguoe kept so close as to arouse
suspicion in the poor fellow, which soon developed into fr ght, and he look lo his heels for all he was worth; however he was closely pursued and finally became sufficiently frightened loeall "police," but as no aid
came he "made" for his room and reached the door, only to find it locked; but nothing was so had as the thought of being caught, so he smashed in the door and entered his room, where he sat tor a long time thinking over his narrow escape."
Bartlett, the celebrated single sculler of '7s, while out for a prac tice pull last Weduesday morning, iu his new boat " Kismet," got
— At the Navy meeting Tuesday ev
g, it was decided to have the
Fall K egatta on Oct. «J, provided it be fair weather. The University
Oct. V 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
23
six will pull Avith the class crews, giving them a handicap. Each class will be represented in the race by a crew, and all substitutes in the Uni versify crew are allowed to row in the class crews if they wish. This
will make a fine race, and the class that wins the Cluck cup will have
to work hard. A single scull race also is to be on the programme. II. Russel, A. L. Iv. Volkman, II. Sturges, und C. Wason were appointed as Regatta committee, who will see that a train will be chartered as usual, from which the race can be seen with the greatest advantage. A special coach for lathes will also be on hand. All those who wish to see good rowing should attend. The regatta will take place in the fore noon, and in the afternoon there will be fool races and jumping matches on the Fair ground, in addition to a game of foot-hall, which will be played between '70, the champions of the University, and '78, who stand next in their renown for elevating the sphere
Scene. — South University building. 1st Junior, who "never uses tobacco in any form," reclining on a bed smoking some villainous con coction or other for the catarrh. 2nd Junior reclining on another bed smoking a cigarette. 2nd Juuior: "Does that stuff taste as badly as it smells'?" tst Junior: "Try it and see." 2nd Junior does try it, and while doing so, steps into the other room, empties the contents into the stove, and surreptitiousl}- introduces some Obaeeo in iis place, cover ing it over wdth some of the "fumigator," lights it, and hands it back to 1st Junior with the remark, " I believe the taste is a little better than the smell." 1st Junior smokes away very placidly for a time, but soon remarks, "I believe some one has been smoking tobacco in this pipe." However he srnokes on till the pipe is finished, and then rises from the bed, but with the remark, " I don't see why this stuff should make me so sick, it ne\rer did before. lleyv Give me air!" Up goes the win dow, and out goes the Junior's head. Grand finale. Curtain falls.
—The meeting of the C. U. G. A., held in Military Hall, Sept 2Sth, was called to order by the President, D. F. Flaunery. The first busi
ness was to choose a secretary. F. XV. Mann, '78, was elected by accla
mation. Prof. Byerly was called upon to instruct the meeting as to the
history and liabilities of the gymnasium; he also spoke about its utility in general. Mr. J. NE Ostrom, '70, was also called upon to present to
he meeting the necessity ot the gymnasium for our boating men. The
constitution was then drawn up by Messrs. Mclntire, Sutherland, and
Howard. Mr. Mclntire read the constitution, after which it was adopt
ed. Mr. J. N. Ostrom was then elected Vice President. A motion was
made and carried that the President shall secure assistance to canvass
the town and University for funds and initiation fees. It was also
moved and carried that whatever amount any one has paid for the gym nasium go so far towards the initiation fee, which is two dollars A
vote of thanks was gi\ren to Prof. Byerly in consideration of his ser
vices to the gymnasium. Adjourned.
F. W. Manx, Secretary.
— The game of base ball between '77 and '70 was a complete walk over for the Freshmen, as they have a very strong nine, and with a lit tle practice could easily beat the College nine, if there is such a thing in existence. 'Williams, '70, Avas the only scorer present, the Juniors not having any need of one, as they surmiseel before the game com menced. The first two innings were played quite evenly, three runs being made by each nine. The next inning resulted in a "goose e^ix" for '77 and two scores for '70, while the remaining six did not alter the score of '77, but raised that of '70 to 10. At the end of the eighth in ning three of the Juniors Avere compelled to leave and the game ended. '79 did the best playing in every respect, and their batting was heavy. The Juniors need more practice before they accept another challenge, and it is to be hoped that they can scare up a better nine than they had on Monday. Most of the Freshmen have been practicing more or less all summer and in that they have the advantage. They will undoubt edly be the champion class at this sport before the fall campaign is
ended.
—The game of foot-ball betAveen the Sophomores and Freshmen, which Avas so much dreaded by the latter, came off last Saturday morn
ing, and was an easy victory for '7S. The challenge was class against class, but at the time for the game to commence, only about forty Freshmen and fifty Sophomores were on the ground, ddie rush on the previous afternoon no doubt was the cause of the general scarcity of Freshmen, who thought it advisable to stay at home to doctor sore shins,
sew on buttons, and do general mending. AVe are not sure that some Sophomores were not engaged in the same occupation as their appear ance after the disaster seemed to call for it. All hopes of another rush had been given up by the Sophomores, as it was epiite certain that '70 diel not care for another dose. Russel was chosen as umpire for '78 and McGill for '7'.), while Aylen acted in the capacity of referee. '70 had the first kick off, and at half past nine the ball was warned by Church. Pickett caught it and a number of fair kicks by '78 placed the ball very near '70's goal, when it was rushed through in four minutes. No time was lost in getting ready for the next goal, and at twenty minutes to ten the ball was again kicked off by Church, '7s. This game was bet ter contested than the previous one, and the Freshmen did some fine playing. Two or three attempts to rush the ball, on the part of '78, were fruitless, but they finally put it through '70's goal for the second time, in twenty-three minutes. The third goal was a short one and was won easily in eight minutes by the Sophomores. If the Freshmen had been out in full force, or even had as many men as the Sophomores, the game would have been more interesting. As it was the Sophomores got nearly every fly catch, very few being caught by '70. Pickett, Thompson, and the Borden trio distinguished themselves by the num ber of flies they caught, while Bickham, Gokey, anel Babcock "took in" the flies on the Freshman side. The Sophomores felt so good over their victory that they challengeel the field to play them. Of course it was accepted, anel a sufficient number of Juniors and Seniors fell in with the Freshmen to make the sieles even. Victory crowned the twro sides alternately, the field playing the best game. Only four games were played, as it took nearly two hours for that, and the crowd ad journed to dinner.
— We are happy to be able to give the following account of the sec
ond game of chess played between the Yale and Cornell Philador chess
club, wdiich resulted in the defeat of the Yale club:
Cornell (white).
Yale (black).
1. p_K 4.
P— K 4.
2. K. Kt—B 3. :j. B— B 4.
Q. Kt— B 3.
B-B 4.
4. p_Q Kt 4. r». P—Q B 3.
0. Castles.
7. P— Q 4.
H. P— K 5.
B takes P. B—R 4. Iv. Kt— B 3. P takes P. P takes P.
0. P takes Kt.
P takes P.
10. R— K sq.
11. Q— Q o. 12. Q takes B. 13. B—Q 3. 14. B— Q R 3. IS. Q— K R 5. 10. B— Q7.* 17. C>— K's R. 0. *Very strong move.
Kt—K 2. Tastier.
P— Q 4. P— Q o. P— Q Kt 3.
Kt— Kt 3. B— KKt 5.
Resigns.
—The following appeared in the Elmira Advertiser; the sentiment is better than the poetry:—
VICTORY AT LAST! CORNELL FOREVER !
O joyous times! ring louel the chimes!
The Cornell crew forever!
Set flags afloat and sing and shout,
Cornell for aye and ever!
Columbia gay, stand out of the Avay, Aud Harvard strike your colors;
'Tis young Cornell against the world, 'Tis Cornell 'gainst all others.
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Oct. 1, 1875.
Hurrah! for the crew who won so true! Hurrah! for the boat that bore them!
Hurrah! again for every man
Who lent a hand to aid them!
W. L. Sprague, '73, is in Naples, NE Y.
Howe, '7."), is at present in Elizabeth, N. J.
S. D. Halliday, '70, is traveling in Europe.
V. L. Davey, '7S, is teaching in Groton, N. Y.
W. T. Payne, '74, is traveling in Switzerland.
T. C. Reed, '78, will enter Harvard Law School next term.
XV. M. Stcrgess, '7"i, is in his brother's store in Mansfield, 0.
Prop. Barnard and wife spent a few days in town last week.
N. A. Gilbert, '75, wdll enter the Columbia School of Mines this fall.
C. F. Millspacgh, '75, is among the "Bulls and Bears" of Wall St.
Ehrick Rossiter, '75, attended a scientific school in Cleveland, O.
H. L. Sprague, '73, is in Wm. M. Evarts' law office in Ncav York.
G. J. Witiiington, '75, is in the jewelry trade in John Street, NeAV
York.
James I. Younglove, '76, is in the lumber business in Johnston,
N. Y.
Conklin, '75, an ex-ERA editor, is in the coal business at Youngs-
town, O.
"Hod" Waters, '75, is engaged in a broker's office in William St.,
New York.
I. P. Bishop, '77, is principal of the New Berlin academy at NewBerlin, NE Y.
Miss Josie Craig, formerly of '77, is office comptroller of currency at Washington.
W. F. Duncan, '73, M. D., is practicing medicine in Bellevue Hos pital, New York.
CE Babcock, '76, is married, and is in the wholesale grocery busi ness in Cleveland, O.
H. Swain, '70, is attending Eastman's Business College at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
W. A. Kellerman is Professor of Natural Sciences in the State
Normal Sehool in Oshkosh, Wis. Instructor 0. A. Derby, '73, expects to leave the University Oct,
23d to join Prof. Hartt in Brazil.
D. W. Boav.aian, '72, is first assistant engineer of the N. Y. &, L. I. Bridge Co., and is noAV in New York city
A. B. Van Fleet, '70, who graduated from the Albany Law School last year, will practice laAv in Burlington, Iowa.
I. N. Cook, '75, holds the position of Professor of mat hematics and natural sciences in the Newark Academy, at Newark, NE J.
J. A. Thomi-son, '76, spent a few days in town this week; he ex pects to enter Harvard Law School at the opening of the fall terra.
G. WE King, '7s, leaves Ithaca this week for Ann Arbor where he will continue his medical studies. Michigan dogs arid eats beware!
Julius Cn.vMBEits, '70, has been appointed the London correspond ent of the New York Herald; he succeeds George Sanes, Es,,., lately in charge of that office; his address i.s No. 46 Fleet St.
mv (Changes.
The Bdoit Monthly is no more, having been changed into a semi
monthly under the title of The Itound Table. We wish it success, and hope it may continue to stand among the best of college journals. Its
first literary article " The Romance of Quindville," contains a descrip tion of a student's room which could only have been written by one
who has "been there." We quote the folloAving: "In one corner
loomed up the black visage of
what our
hero called his
'
patent clothes
press,' an umbrella with its long black arms outstretched and throwing
a compassionate shadow of doubt around wdiat might lie beyond them;
more light on the subject would have revealed a ragged mountain of
rubbers, " dead" shirts, pieces of books, a feAV newspapers, superannu
ated collars and what not that might seem best to their owner to be
1 heard and not seen.' Neighbor to this improvised apartment stood a
dropsical wash stand, to the cleanliness of which— a seeming paradox-
soap and water had not conduced in the least. About it a weary towel
drooped from a ten-penny spike, plated wdth rust and fly-specks."
Alas! such rooms are only too common, and although we are filled with
a sense of the ludicrous Avhen we see them, avc cannot but deplore that
such things should be. And when the student is obliged to board him
self, these evils are increased a hundred-fold. The inhabitant of the
dormatory cannot always be blamed for his shiftlessness, for Nature has
unfortunately not bestowed on the majority of the sterner sex the gift
of neatness. A student has too many other things to think of, besides
wasting his time in sweeping, dusting, making beds and the like; how
ever good his intentions may be, he, in nine cases out of ten, becomes
slovenly before the end of a single term, lhe writer of the Romance
of Quidville is better in his descriptions than in arrangement of plot,
wdiich is very loose and incomplete. We hope the author of the verse "Might We " Avill publish a translation of it in the next number into less involved English. As a puzzle it is a success.
The University Press for September is made rather dry bv a too free
use of the scissors. We should think its readers would get tired of a
lot of old saAvs, jokes, and clippings from scientific papers, and demand
something more suitable to the taste of a college student, who can o-et
such readings elsewhere. The Dartmouth apologizes for introducing a
column of sayings, and says it is not done to "fill up." We hope it
isn't. The poem on Byron is a complete catalogue of the excellences
of that poet.
One poet says :
Vie the voices of the nation, As they bow 'fore Byron's shrine."
We do not exactly see how the voices can bow— perhaps they did it by dropping. The figure is equal to one perpetrated by a member of one of our literary societies, who said that something " hung like a black pall over the nation, sucking its life's blood." The Bates S: u dud has its
full share of "heavy" articles. "The Higher Education of Women " is
a sensible article arguing for the education of woman to be man's com
panion and equal, and condemning ihe practice of making- music and
painting the only studies worthy of her. The review of the poems of E. C. Stedman shows that the writer is well acquainted with his sub ject. The Yule Courant has two and a half pages of college items, and
thingsis altogether a lively sheet. About the " heaviest "
the editor
ial on the attitude of the Faculty toward boat-racing. The Yak h\card
seems to be decidedly on the feme in regard to the matter of rushing
It says: "V\e neither justify nor condemn the practice That the
rush exists proves thai lhe majority justify it. and tha. is its excuse.
Nor do wo claim any benevolent intention on the part of the Sopho-
mores. noo-ecognize their right to carry out such intention if fhey have
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The Cornell Era
" Ahoir all Sects is Truth."
Volume VIII.— Numhi-.k 4.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER s, 1*7.-,. Printed und Published ceery Friday, by Students of the Senior and Junior CU.
se3. r,(> ni.n Annum in Advance.
tf-Mtors for 1875-1}.
J. XV. SruuDi-evAvr, *T*», M. E. Havilanp, '7
(E P. WOUDRUKF, '7li A. J. Loos, '77.
less he is the right man and can stand his ground outside as
well as inside of the lecture room, he can have no place in the
University. * * * 1 hope I shall live to see the time- when
all the old colleges Avill draw fresh life from this young Uni
versity; when they will remodel their obsolete methods anel
ceune up to the mark.
* * To-day a imw era lor pub
lic educatiein opens.
These are the thoughts with which not only Agassi/., but
many others who were present upon that inaugural day, re
—The history of Cornell University is to be written some day. The struggles which it took to lay anel to maintain the broad foundations of our University will be given. Such is the promise incidentally made by President White last week during his lecture on the Growth of Science. Cornell has, from the first, met stnmg anel bitter opposition from "men whose consciences" says the President, "should have taught them better.'' Probably no chapter in the proposed history will be more interesting than the one on the University's re ligious status. Weapons hardly less shameless than those used against science in its earlier days have been employed against the progress of truth in ours. Cornell has been called
"godless"' and "pagan"*; her students have been called "re
cruits for satan." Senile men could not or would not under
garded the new enterprise. Let it forever be remembered that "non-sectarian" does nut mean "ungodly." Ceirnell has now a beautiful Gcdhic chapel — ye sccdl'ers, be not astounded
— anel within it there is a christian Uible. Anel more than
this, a noble idea, which hael its birth much earlier in the Uni versity's history, is now being carried enit. Men of the best talent from among those who preach Cod's truth to men are to come here from time to time, and Avithin these Avails present to the students of Cornell lrni ccrsittj the highest thought which christian theology has yet attained to. It may be, after all, that true Christianity has no stronger fortress in any college
than it has in ours. If there is any one who has not reflected on this era in education, let him do so; for these things consti
tute as important a chapter in human progress as elo the more
stand the difference between "non-sectarian" and "ungodly."'
Early in Cornell's history, hoAvever, there came forward
"
strong
men
and
mighty."
It is refreshing to read, for in
musty annals which he studies and calls history. They should make every student proud of his position and appreciative of his opportunities.
stance, the address of Agassi/., delivered at the inauguration
of the officers of Cornell University just seven years ago this
month. The address contains such deep truths and so much
of prophesy that Ave cannot refrain from quoting the folloAv
ing:
.There is rising an institution of learning such as never ex isted before. J bave been a teacher long enough to know what schools, colleges, academies and universities are, anel what they can do. and what thev have done, but I trust that this University Avill do something more. It starts on a firm basis; it starts with a prosperity which the world has not con templated before. Here we plant, for the first time, an insti
tution that is to come into life free from all the trammels
which have heretofore hindered the progress of the human in
tellect. Tins Eiiin rsitij ]ms n Iu ,ji i, ,,i mj without a n fii/'otis qualification. Tbe professor of chemist iw is not to be asked what his creed is, but Avliother he is a good chemist; the pro fessor of anatomy i.s not to lay before the community his sect arian predilections before he i.s allowed to go into the dissect ing room anel teach liis students the structure of the whole animal kingdom. And yet there was a time, anel there are
still numberless institutions where the student and the schol
ar, the man who has devoted a whole life-time to stuely, must boAV to another authority before he is alloweel to teach what he knows, and what he knows well. This University is inde pendent of these impediments. It Avill go to its work free from all such hindrances, anel the picd'essor Avill feel that un
—Among the things upon which the glory of our University rests, we pointed to the ' broad, ennobling principles upon which it is founded and by which its stutlents are governed'. As sa
cred as these words are to us, as much head Avork anel heart
work as it hael cost t bring into existence an institution which rendered these words possible, the Yale llccord does not hesi tate to quote them with the greatest degree of levity.
The gentlemen of the llccord evielentlv are not informed
upon the record of Cornell AVe are glad fei have you quote
the Avords ' broad, ennobbng principles,' Sic. Appreciate them, anel seriousness Avill take the place of levity. Yes, sound them from the house-tops; the AVorbl will be glad to hear them.
— Wc can publish no communication Avhich is not accom
panied bv a responsible name. d'his is a rule Avhich has be
come general, being found necessary for protection against
impositions. The name will be published or withhclel as the
contributor may wish. We solicit contributions. If any one
in the University Avishes to advocate a cause, our columns for
correspondence are open to him.
We
have heard
•
strong ex-
pressions of opinion on such subjects as Student's Labor, Woodford Coaching, " Cramming," etc.; ami we shotihl be
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pleased to ;ive more of our space to the discussion of th
subjects.
Then the words, "Are you ready':" fell like a death wail
On my ear, then a stillness like that of the tomb.
Then flash! boom! and off like a flock of fall quail
— We request each subscriber who fails to get his Ki:.v at
any time, to inform us of the same, when, if possible, avc will
furnish him with the missing number.
Flew the quivering shells, while the cannon's eleep boom Went in search of Old Echo, but strange 'tis to tell
Even- pint of the shore seemed to echo, "Cornell!"
Then wild grew the struggle, each boat seemed to go
As if borne on the Avings of a mid-winter gale;
$he (Cornell Outcry.
From the Yale Courant.
(The manuscript of this effusion is said, though on doubtful author ity, to have been found among the papers of one of the famous Cornell crew of 1*75. In one corner is the following- note: " Told to my grand children after our Christmas dinner, December 2'Ah, 1017.")
A story about the regatta? All right. Well, Harry, you give that old back log a poke,
And Polly you draAV up some chairs, while 1 light Another cigar and prepare for a smoke —
Yet the line of advance seemed to Avave to and fro
Like a flock of wild ducks, when in autumn they sail Through the air in their mystical U's, Y's and Y's, While their canvass backs dip in the blue of the skies.
Thus we passed up the lake fully two miles or more And our shells like swift arrows were Hearing the goal.
When up from the shore rose a terrible roar
Like a pack of wild maniacs, calling the roll —
Ilarvaid! Columbia! Dartmouth! Cornell!
All mingled and muddled in one mighty yell.
Yes, children, a bad little habit, you see, I contracted just after that great victory.
But O! I have never heard music so grand As I heard in that bedlamite shouting and yelling,
For, we youngsters, were really stark crazy that day, We whooped and hurrahed from noon until night;
Then all took cigars, for it seemed the best way To show off our colors, carnelian and white;
My oar seemed as light as a straw in my hand, Anel our boat, but a feather the gale A\Tas propelling,
Only twenty feet more! one stroke, one recover, One more for good measure, and boom! all was over!
For the red of the light and the white of the ashes
Could be seen when Ave couldn't see ribbons and sashes.
But then. O how frantic, how fiendish the yelling! It rose from the lake and it rose from the land,
Well, Avell, 'twas a jolly bright day in July, Just one of those days which the good fairies make,
That is, not a cloud could lee seen in the sky, And all was serene, save a wind on the lake;
From tree top and hill-top the chorus was swelling, From even the ladies who filled the grand stand;
And it rolled through my soul like a sweet sounding bell, It was victory's music — that shout for Cornell.
Yet this kept our hearts, like the water, uneasy, For wTe couldn't help fearing 'twould prove rather breezy.
They told us we spurted in exquisite style In fact won the race by superior rowing;
But we had to keep cool, so I smothered my fears
(Not Avith smoke, for they wouldn't let boating men smoke) But I studied the annals of previous years,
Which of course avc received with as modest a smile
As we could, though I couldn't help inwardly crowing; For I felt like a cock avIio, with effort inteuse,
The weights of each crew and the style of each stroke, How7 Amherst, " Old Yale," and the boys from Xew York Had each on a sudden proved cock of the walk.
And I hoped— but hold on, you must know of our boat 'Twas a paper one, actually made out of paper,
Twas twenty pounds lighter than any afloat, And when we got started, great guns! how she'd caper.
I couldn't help thinking each time we got in her
She flew too near Heaven to be safe for a sinner.
Well, hours dragged by, till at last we were told To embark and pull leisurely down lo the start,
When lo! what a sight to my vision unrolled! All kinds of conveyance from carriage to cart,
Fine buggies, old wagons anel hacks by the score, Were dragging all Christendom down to the shore.
Has flown to the very top rail of the fence.
Some said 'twas a triumph of muscle and mind, While some even gave a good share to the soul;
So all, with good will and good voices, combined In another loud shout for Cornell as a whole,
And shouldered us after we came to the land, And bore us in tiiumph before the grand stand.
But heigh! my cigar has gone out while 1 spoke. Yes, talked it to death— Harry, get me a light V
All, thank you my boy; and now 1 will smoke To the balmy old days of carnelian anil white,
For the red of the light and the white of the ashes
Were the favorite colors for ribbons and sashes.
* * S.
And then see the ribbons! ye stars, how they shone! Carnelian and purple, blue, crimson and white,
In short all the colors this bright world has known Were playing eiueer pranks on the honest daylight,
Till it looked like great rain hows cut up into slices And twisted and tied in a hundred devices.
But while I was gazing, boom! went a great 'Oin Which you know was the signal to draw up in line,
And then from all epiarters oars flashed in lhe sun
As the boats took position. I tell you 'twas fine To see the men sitting with iron-clenched hands
Waiting the cannon's deep-chested commands.
Vacation on the |hut$on.
The admirer of lV'Es ".Ms. found inalb-ttle," will find
Idtle in my plain, unvarnished tale to .-ratify a ,,assi(IIl lor the
marvelous; the lover of "The Marble loun " must look else-
vh^' l«»'H p-'^dering to the antione; while the devotee of
tiles Verne will hide his 1'cad in shame at mv small stock of
scient do- mystery. Yet the
n. uies of a summer vacation,
too quickly past to note its swift m •o prompt me to make rec-
>'d of those happy days and joyous niu|,ts in so tne imperfect
way-
Fort Lee is seldom visited on account of its historic asso-
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ciations. The average school-boy, however, will hold forlh hoAV the Father of his Country stood — he could not lie— op posite Fort Washington on the eastern bank of the Hudson, watching the well-concerted attack of Cornwallis, in the haze of an afternoon sun. But your regular New York excursion
ist cares little for the traditions of the soil. He never Avasted
charmingly secret, nook. The legend runs that this hoary rock could many tales unfold of brave gallant and ladv fair— that many a maid has here plighted her troth with none but the stars to wit ness, and the golden moon that struggling through the masses of cloud, fitfully revealed '"the shimmer ing glimpses of the stream."
his hours on the "Field Hook of the Revolution," and would
Our home for several weeks was an antique cottage, that
stolidly maintain, a college professor to the contrary notwith boasted of the presence of Washington and his staff. Person
standing, that the latest publication of the Beecher scandal is al investigations revealed the fact that this spot had Indtir
infinitely spicier reading. And what is the attraction of Fort Lee and vicinity ? Is it the imposing scenery that skirts the river on either side, or the silver stream itself? Is it lhe drive
claim for the historical presence than any other in the neigh borhood. It is a melancholy fact, however, that every other house of appropriate age contests the same honor. This
to the little village of Knglcwood, a perfect picture of Knglisli proves conclusively that Washington spent his time inputting
life, or the sail to Pleasant Yalley? Is it, elo you ask, oh reader, gentle or sav age, the lovely girls " with the spirit of
the dance in their sandals"' that lures the wearied student and
the ennuied metropolitan within these enchanted precincts? Not one alone but all together make Fort Lee a land like the Lotos-Eaters', where one may forget the joys of home along with the ambition^ of college life.
Leaving the trim little steamer " Flora," or its stately com petitor "The Pleasant Valley,"'' "Bluff (Trove'' is the nearest point to take observations. The ascent to the Pavilion Hotel
is soon reached. You are on the summit of the cliff in a few
up at the mansions of the place. Certainly, he would have hael time for nothing else.
Our bouse is built in the style of a liunelred years ago. The double deiors, the winding staircase, and the peculiar slope of the roof, suggest most vividly the rustic architecture of revolutionary times. The wide, spacious porch is trellised Avith clambering vines. The fresh, vigorous flowers of a sum mer of to-day softening in graceful festoons the hoary frame work a hundred years old, form an appropriate companion picture to the throbbing life Avithin, that sings and laughs and
dances over the same floors that echoed Avith the tread of for
moments. Heedless of your heavy satchel anel your irrever
ent escort, you eagerly drink in the beauty of the scene below. You are only a feAV hundred feet in air yet the hazy atmos
phere displays in dimmest outlines cottages elotting hill and
dale. Away to the south, a pleasure party in a boat are faint
ly distinguished. Your irreverent ctuii/ntt/iton de voi/mje de
clares they are a flock of 'geese. North, the Palisades, whose
imposing grandeur and forbideling aspect at a elistance repel the spectator, are now mellowed in the afternoon sun. They
look like genii of old, holding watch and guard over the tiny
craft plying at their base. But the finest vieAV of all is taken from "Flat Pock,"' not
far av est of the Hudson. Up a mountain you go, whose as
cent patronizes an angle of '."mi deg., more or less, by means of the most irregular stone steps in all the world. They could not have been erected by the hand of mortal man— it's a libel on a human being to charge him Avith such "irregularity." If
nature herself is responsible, she must have shaken all the stone steps in a dice-box made for the occasion, anel then dis tributed them promiscuously on the side of the hill. After some tall tumbling that Avouhl have delighted the souls of the Japanese troupe; after barking a limb or tAvo and emphat. ically thinking how ajiropas to the case Avould be certain sul phurous expressions, you reach " Flat Pock" in a state of com plete exhaustion. But the inviting scene speedily restores you. It is a repetition of the view from Bluff bnive—but grander and softened by the greater distance. Noav you can look over the eastern hill and see the waters of Long Island
Sound laughing beneath the gaze of the setting sun. J let ween— highland aud lowland. The rock itself is wide enough for a dozen or more to spread the festive meal and dance on the spacious surface. One side is totally shielded from casual ob servation—the other, opening on the river, makes in reality a
mer generations. The generous hall extends the length of the house. On one of the walls hangs what seems to be a black board of gigantic dimensions. Your curiosity is quickly aroused. Approach, a el the illusion is dispelled. It is a pic ture of the last supper, tarnished in the lapse cf time. < Eare-
ful inspection reveals the exquisite grouping of the figures— boldness of outline is relieved by perfect symmetry. The pic ture has manv charms Avith all its experience of neglect. "Well
repaid is the patient observer undaunted by its forbideling as pect. Throughout the mansion —for such it is —no matter Iioav gay the parties in the parlor making the rafters ring with merry laughter, the same quiet spirit broods over the quaint, old gables, making itself felt in the breast of every occupant. You think continually of Hawthorne's "Old Manse," and fan
cy that here might be culled many mosses. II«»w many tales of hardy daring and patient sacrifice if the spirit of the muses would disclose the treasures so secretly hidden in the tradi
tions id' the past. What materials for poem and romance
remain locked up forever in obscurity, but whose mystic pres
ence hovers through the chambers by day and haunts them by
night.
On the first floor of the mansion, the windows are so near
the 'ground that one may step out of doors with tolerable faeilitv — if he is sufficiently tall. Of course the inhabitants of Fort Lee hold honesty as the chief jewel in their crown of vir tues. OtlierAvise, a closed window every night would be a decided necessity. I always raised the sash in my room, not only to invite the evening breeze, but especially to fall asleep to the music upon Bluff Rock where merry dancing parties tripped the light fantastic until the diminutive hours. One evening the air was deliciously quiet. In the words of Fran cisco, "Not a mouse stirred."' My dreams were of heaven — and Sarafee.-a. I awoke with a start. Through one windoAV
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the moon poured a stream of silv.-r light. The shutter at the other was struck by quick, successive blows as from a dull in strument. Robbers, no doubt. Fear paralyzes every motion.
Why an intruder should labor so carefully at a closed window when one is open near by, is passing strange. And then the
peculiar character of the noise. All is shrouded in inexplica ble myster. At last, throiih the opeiiig, slowly rotruelsgyepn a shaggy head. Shade of Socrates! Is it the minotaur of mythology ,,r his lineal descendant? or have the forests of l-Eu-t Lee yielded up a jovial bear for a jolly night's ramble? I can be, n- it no longer. I lea]) from my couch and seize a cane made of Charter oak, which shall again play a valiant
part in the struggle for liberty. The monster reaches his
head farther— far inte> the room. Horror? Not a bit of it.
tl,ll Era,\i\t would insert the following communication in
its columns:
The editorial board of the Cornell ITriiw for lsT.Oi offers
a prize of twenty-live dollars, f. be called " the Com,ft Recine prize," for the best article contributed to the Cornell Re. ri,w during the year 1.-75-0 by an n ml, njradiiatc of the Cor nell University; such contributor being a subscriber for the Recicw, and such article not having obtained, previous to its publication in the If edw, any prize whatever. The subject of the contribution is at the option ed the writer. The Com
mittee of Award will consist of Professors Shackford, Corson
and Boyesen. The prize will be awarded at or before com
mencement, l*7«i.
Yours truly,
Tin-: Editors ok the Cokxeix Review.
Intense disgust, rather. The moonlight streaming in the room reveals the sadly ludicrous, sadly pathetic countenance of a wandering donkey! dust then he added to our placid medita tions l>y evolving a cheerful bray. On his benighted head fell the maledictions of the house. Likewise bootjacks multitudi
^roi)tammc for cio-movtw's Sports.
We have received the following programmes from the committees on aquatic and athletic sports, which we pub
nous. Old boots and shoes. In fact, any convenient article likely to make an impression. The spectre departed with a
generous share of the sash. I retired to midsummer-night'' s
dreams in which I fancied that all the inmates of the mansion
lish, hoping that the Aveather to-morrow will not prevent their
being' carried out. The regatta Avill come off about nine
o'clock, and the train Avill leave the depot perhaps a few mo ments liefore. The following are the names, positions, etc.,
played the part of Bottom Avhile I Avas in reality the greatest of the different crews:
donkey of all. Although the pleasures of out-door life claimed many
hours, still within doors our circle was composed of many con genial spirits. The gloomy days as Avell as the long summer evenings, Avhen avc were weary of the sail ami the drive, passed most delightfully under the shadows of the "Manse." The presiding genii were music ami literature. As Crusoe ages ago, amused himself on that deserted island with only parrot and cat for company, so in this wild, secluded spot were two divinities of most companionable nature. The clas sics of Mozart and Handel, of Beethoven anel Wagner as well as the popular music of the day, filled many an hour with happiness supreme. The ivories rippled to "The Song of the Book"; sang most joyously the strains of " La C ramie Duch-
ixiveusitv ckeaa
CAliXEII.VX AM) AVHITE.
Name
J. XE Ostrom, stroke, J. Lewis, J. L. Jarvis, D. W. King, D. o. Barto, J. S. Waterman, bow
Residence
East Randolph,X. Y.
Ithaca, X. Y. ("Ymasiota, X. Y. Chautauepra Lake, NE \ Jacksonville, X. Y. Cumberland Hill, R. I.
Cla-r
'?o
•);J 11
25 20 20 20 21 24
Wr
180 155 loo 160 155 150
158 147 150 loo 135 145
esse"; trilled Avith perfect abandon "Reuben and I"; whis
77 CLASS ( I'.I.VV — DAUIv ULCE.
pered the melancholy splendor of " Flee as a Bird." "As by IE Clark, Stroke,
Forestville, X. V.
one common impulse, the tones rushed together into a warm embrace, wound their soft spirit arms around each other, anel
waved and rocked anel floated onward on the delicious billow
ing rhythm of a Strauss waltz." Our quartette Avas com posed of excellent amateur talent and many were the evenings that Ave sat by the Avindow looking out on the Hudson, its waves tipped with starlight, shining through the trees, and listened to those old, familiar songs that find an echo in every
XV. M. McGill,
T. IJ. Peck, VY. S. boynton, WE J. Sherman, R. II. bee, How,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Bristol, Conn. St. Jolmsbury, Yt. Norwalk, <>. Harlem Springs, ( ).
'7S CLASS CUKAV— MiY lll.IE.
A. W. Smith, stroke, J. F. Ilixson, J. Borden,
Westmoreland, X. Y. Ithaca, NE V Chicago, 111.
breast anel will endure as long as hope and home.
R. II. Treman,
Ithaca, X. Y.
[Cotu-liidnl m.it ircj.:]
SlCI'l IMl'S.
I R. IJ. Finch, L. Palmer, bow,
Ithaca, NE Y. Plattsburg, X. Y
24 170 21 150 20 170 oo 150 20 150 2(1 153
l!i 160 17 165 IS 145 i; 163 IS 13S f'.l 140
'?!! CLASS CKKW — OKI'.KN.
^orvcspomUncc.
Editors Cornell Pf
The editorial board of the Cornell E, cine woulel holel
themselves greatly indebted to the editorial board of the < 'or-
J. P. Mason, stroke,
T. II. Trumbull,
J. W. Warner,
I'E W. Wilcox,
K- J. Hamilton,
NE
A.
Randolph,
l»,.v ,
blmira, N.Y.
Washington, 1 ). i '. Uoek Stream, NE Y. Ithaca, NE V.
l'.rooklyn, b. I.
Chaltsl'ord, Pa.
21 155 20 150 i; 153 t:i 153 17 142 IS 140
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SINGLE SCULLERS.
C. S. Francis, '7(i,
Troy, X. Y.
E. M. Bartlett, '78,
WEirsaw, X. Y.
H. Russel, '70,
Ithaca, X. Y.
Referee to be chosen by Judges.
22 15(1 1!) 144 21 135
.irnnKs.
XV. E. Byerly,
L. A. Wait.
REOATTA COMMITTEE.
H. Russel, '76,
II. Sturges, '78,
A. L. KE Yolkmnn, '7s, ('. Wason, '76, Chairman.
ATHLETIC SPORTS.
The athletic sports will take place Sat unlay, Oct. 9th, at
2 o'clock p. m., on the Fair Ground. Students wishing to en
ter any of the contests will notify any one of the committee
personally or by mail before l'J o'clock on that diy. The
events will take place in the following order :
1st, three mile walk; 2nd, loo yards dash; 3el, quarter
mile run; 4th, two mile run; 5th, half mile run; 9th, sack
race; 7th, three leg race; Nth, throwing hammer; 9th, hurdle
race; loth, running bases; 1 lth, standing jump; 12th, throw
ing base ball; l-'Uli, running jump; 14th, hop, skip and jump;
15th. wheel-barrow race, blindfolded.
E. Copklaxh, '70, C. W. ltAYMONT), '70,
D. F. Flanxery, '70, (7. E. Bo.VKDMAX, '78.
I
\ ,,
JfCom'
Pusoleed, that we realize in this the loss of a faithful friend and up right, earnest man.
Pcsoleed, that we deeply sympathize with his bereaved relatives.
WE J. Berry, B. II. Grove,
A. WE Smith,
)
l Com. )
lUnivnsitij tytms.
— Drilling with guns began on Wednesday.
— '76 is the champion foot-ball class at Yale.
— Yassar college has four hundred and forty students.
— Don't fail to attenel the regatta and foot-races to-morrow. — The Senior class at Yale numbers one hundred anel twenty-five.
— Coleridge's edition of WEdlenslein is in great demand with stu
dents of German Literature at present.
— Why is " WE J.'s" moustache like a Harvard match game of foot
ball? Because there are eleven on a side.
— President White is absent in Albany on University business, and will not return to lecture until Tuesday next.
— Students avIio attended the Kedpath Opera last winter will be glad to hear it is to vbit Ithaca again in Xovember.
— In the recent preliminary examination in Physiology, four ladies and five gentlemen passed perfect examinations.
A— Freshman reads, "the original Bryant minstrels next Wednes day eve," and wants to know if it is Cullen Bryant.
2Uxt $und2iH'0 ^readier.
The Rev. Joseph II. Twichell, the second University preach er for this term, is a graeluate of Yale of the class of 1H59. Like the author of " Tom Breovn at Oxford," he has kept green the memory of his student elays, and has preserved unchangeel his fondness for college sports. lie rowed on the victorious Yale crew against Harvard in the AYorcester Citi zens' Regatta in lso'.t, and still frequently serves as umpire in the Yale regattas at Lake Saltonstall. As a speaker he i.s noted for a simple, frank, hearty eloquence, wdiich makes him perhaps the most effective orator, before atuliences of young
men, in this country. lie is one of the trustees of Yale Col
lege, an office which he holds by a unanimous vote of the alumni. But his natural devotion to his own college has not prevented him from evincing his warm interest in Cornell— an
interest which he has manifested from the Aery outset of our
career. Immediately after the late Saratoga races he wrote to a member of our Faculty a glowing letter of congratula tion, which he closeel by saying, " Hug every one of the vic torious boys for me!" Mr. Dean Sage accompanies Mr.
Twichell in his visit to Ithaca.
(Obituary.
Frank \V. Eastman, of the class of '7o, died at his home
in Lodi, N. Y., September 16th. The funeral was held on Saturday, the 18th. He was a member of Beta chapter of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, by whom the following reso lutions have been adopted concerning his death:
Whereas our beloved brother, Frank W. Eastman, has been removed from our Fraternity by death,
— It Avas not a Freshman, but a Junior, Avho did not propose to let
two Avomen sit wdth him in a car seat on his way home from Elmira.
A— Freshman on seeing the picture in room T. representing the re mains of the Coliseum, asked if that was "the base of Babel's tOAver."
— Freshman reading over the programme of the joint meeting of the literary societies for this evening. "Essayist, S. H. Coon, Philadel phia."
—Lyman C- HoAve, the celebrated inspirational speaker, wdll deliver a lecture in Library Hall, on Thursday evening, Oct. 14th. Admission
ten cents.
—Professor Wilder has a live Avhite Avoodchuck in his laboratory, und by the way its box is gnawed one Avould think it was not a peace
able tenant.
— Xot long since one of the lady students was heard to express the wish that the ladies could drill as well as the other students; we refer
her to the Major.
— The name that stands highest among the students is that of a lady;
her name is carved on the railing of the McGraw tower higher than lhat
of any of the boys.
A— Freshman
bought a "quarter's" worth of
"
"
Sapolio
the
other
day to clean his clothes with after a foot-ball rush. a dyer anel cleaner since.
He has been to se-
— Professor to Junior— " Well, sir, if you should fall off from the world would you go up or down?" Junior—" Up." Professor— "Well, you might in one sense."
— Thee Sophomores think their crew have "a soft snap" on the class race to-morroAV, but if they don't improve on their last yearEs time the Freshmen Avill surely beat them.
— Some parlies have been trying to get up a potato match for to morrow. It is hoped that they will succeed, for it will be a humorous
addition to the afternoon programme.
— So far we have heard of but one ease of rushing at Sage College; that was not for the table, although there i» no table iu town where the indncement to do so would be stronger.
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Oct. 8, 1875.
—Some of the members of the class in French History find consid erable trouble in agreeing with the book, but are not slow to change
glish Social Institutions. 8. Mathematics in Xature. Let all aspirants commence their orations early and give us something good next spring.
their minds when the Professor quotes Martin or Crowe.
The Camilla Urso concert troupe will appear at Wilgus, Hall Oct.
— At the Junior class meeting last week, the chairman lost his digni ty for a moment during a noisy discussion, and Avhen two members be gan to speak at the same time, he told one of them to "shut up."
—It is a source of pleasure to see that those huge ditches through the campus are being filled; we hope that we shall before long have the campus' original beauty restored, as well as an efficient water system.
21st. Wdth the exception of the pianist the troupe is entirely new, and numbers among its members Mr. Oaston Gottschalk, younger brother of the eminent composer. He came to this country from Italy, where he met with great success in the opera, expressly to join this troupe.
The troupe wdll leave this country after this season to make a several years' tour in Europe.
— Boatime.- men were happily surprised to find XV. J Thompson
— Scene on the drill ground:—" Company count fours !" Half way down the Hue an unattentive Junior, being hunched by his neighbor and hearing " four," quickly says " five," and the company count fours
coaching the Freshman crew in the gig last Saturday. He Avas on his
way to Xew York to enter the Columbia School of Mines, and could not go by Ithaca without calling on his many friends. Of course his
again.
great interest in boating took him to the boat-house, where he trained
—A Freshman who resides in the X. U. B., after laborious and pro longed research and mature eleliberation, has come to the conclusion
the Freshman crew so faithfully a year ago, who won the Cluck cup. He left Monday morning with the best wishes for success of all his
that "Saxon differed from modern English in being an effective lan friends.
"
guage
A— Freshman ou receiving a letter from one of our Professors,
—The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, D. D., of Hartford, Conn., will studied some half an hour or more in the vain endeavor to re-ad it; final
preach to the students and citizens of Ithaca, in the Sage Chapel, on l}r he gave it up, all but the signature. Avhich he thought he would
next Sabbath, Oct. 10, at 11 .v. m. and 3 i\ m. All are cordially invited make out and go and see the man and find out what he AYanted; but
to attend.
here he was puzzled worse than ever and only succeeded in finding it
—Freshman— "How do you like our class color?" Sophomore — " I don't know, what is it?" Fresh. — " Why green of course, what do you suppose?" Soph. — " Oh, very well, but it don't seem as if there Avas
out by the aid of several sympathizing friends. Although the Professor is one who teaches the nature and relations of curved lines, he produces some very irregular ones in his letters.
enough contrast."
— At the business meeting of the University Christian Association
—The steam engine that took the first prize at the State fair this last Tuesday evening, twelve neAv members Avere received; about as
year, was built under the supervision of Mr. C. M. biddings, '7."), who had shown himself proficient as a mechanical engineer while he was in the University work shop.
many more are expected to join at the next business meeting. This in crease in the membership of the Association indicates an enlarge ment of its sphere of usefulness. The time of the Sunday afternoon
—A two-inch iron rod has been passed through from the north to the south side of the McGraw tower directly above the front door; its object is to prevent any farther spreading apart of the tower Avhich has already separated about three-fourths of an inch.
—A Senior in chemistry on being asked wdiat he had been doing in the Physical laboratory, replied, "I've been calibrating a brunette." His alarmed questioner on inequiring more closely, found that it was a
burette that he meant, and Avent away much relieved.
meeting has been fixed at 4 d."i, or immediately after the closing of the services at 'the Sage Chapel. Meet ing for Bible study, and prayer, Tues
day evening, at 7 ei'clock, in Association Hall.
—The game of base ball between the Ithaca and University nines last Saturday, resulted in a heavy defeat for the latter. This was the first time the University nine had played together, Avhich accounts for some of the poor playing on their side. But we hardly think it is fair to take two. of the regular University nine off to play with the Ithaca nine. It can not be called a very good trial between the
—At the last Freshman meetim: a Senior asked a verdant what offi- ! nines, and Ave hope soon to recount a winning game for the University cers were to be elected, and was told among others that "an orator for The score stood Oo to (> in favor of the Ithaca nine.
the Inter-Collegiate Contest Avas to be chosen." That was the way he understood it when he paid his money to send the University delegate.
—Scene.— A dwelling house on Mill street Avhere several students room. 1st Soph, (who goes to call on Ond Soph, and his Freshman
—A petrified log, about six feet long and two feet through, has been received at the University from some of its friends in Kansas. It is a
fine specimen and we should think it ought not to be allowed to lie where it is a great while. Petrified tree specimens will be plenty in a
Aveek if it does,
—A citizen in town requested us to advise all persons who have a fondness for helping other people gather their fruit, not to leave their letters scattered so promiscuously about the vicinity of the grapes and pears, as there might be some suspicion aroused the next morning when they are found by the owners of the fruit.
—The following bit of conversation, which took place a few even
ings since at a party where Professor Potter was a guest, is quite
get"amusing when you imagine how the Dr. would
his part off
Student -"Professor. I hear Hobart has five new students this term "
Professor, (who is a graduate of Hobart) with a laconic smile on his
countenance—" Ves, yes, between five and six I Mipposc."
—The subjects for the Woodford Orations for l*76 are as follows1. The Old Prometheus and the Xew. ± The JO-iproeal Influence of Nations. 3. 1776 and 1*70. 4. Xational Vanity. .V Marv Somcrvillc 6. Charles James Fox as an Orator. 7. The Sacrifice of Genius to En
chum, finels them both out, and for the want of a better card fills, as he
supposes, "chum's" boots wdth water. Calls to the next door and finds
Xo. 2.) "J ley, ( 'ully, I have got a bully joke on vour Freshman." 2nd
Soph.-" Good, what is it?" 1st Soph.-" I was' just in his room and
filled his boots full of water." 2nd Soph.- "Why, vou darned fool those were my boots; git out o' here." Curtain falb, and Xo. 1 bor rows some arnica of his landlady when he gets home.
—A meeting of the Junior class was held in .Military Hall last Tues
day evening, and the following officers for the ensuing year were elect. <'> . Vloyu-miss, of,o,,n..e. o nlhe l. on-moM eng dicers
Oct. 8, 1875.
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31
of America. Mr. Evans was the engineer of a viaduct in Peru, which is the highest in the world; he i.s now employed at railroad engineering iu South America, Australia, and India. Prof. Fuertes lias generously allowed the students to use the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of which organization he is a member. The officers of the society this term are A. E. Maltby, President, A. F. Eidlitz, Sec retary, and M. It. Conable, Treasurer. A I the next meeting two mem oirs will be read, one on the Metropolitan (Jas Co., by T. L. Mead, '77, aud the other by E. D. Thompson, '7(i, on a Bridge across the Delaware
River.
— It was a Junior, anel, by the way, one of the editors of one of our local exchanges, who telegraphed to President White, on Wednesday, concerning a room in which the union meeting of the literary societies will be held; upon receiving a telegram in ansAver, he read it to some others who were interested in the subject, and was about to consign it to the flames, when another of that noble class suggested the idea of pre serving it for the sake of the autograph, Avhereupon Junior Xo. 1 says, " Yes that is so; it will save me the trouble of calling upon the Presi dent for it." He is a smart Junior, but Avill occasionally alloAv a joke to be perpetrated at his expense; if we are not mistaken he is the same
man who once slacked his chum's room. Later: And noAV he says he
did it purposely so that it could go into the Berime.
— Not far from Heustis street is a pear orchard Avhich enjoys a high
reputation among the students of that vicinity. Last Tuesday eve. a
"man" of the Junior class Avith Ids Freshman chum, decided to pay it a
visit, and after rigging themselves out with the articles necessary for such an expedition including a "dark lantern," they started. On the
way they called on some neighboring students and tried to induce them
to go. But on the plea of "too much Avork on hand," they declined,
and the former pair Avent tor pctmi
Soon after their departure
one of the "working" students produced a pistol and with his chum also proceeded to the " pear" rendezvous. They met the first named pair at the orchard fence, returning with "dead loads of fruit." "Jack, let the tlogs loose," and the firing of the pistol were followed by a fall of the dark lantern, tAvo pillow cases full of pears, and the Junior
and Freshman all in an instant. But the latter soon recovered from the
first shock, picked up their traps and started forborne on a run. About hart Avay up the steps the pistol Avas again heard; this was more than they could stand and down Avent the pears, but the owners did not stop until they had locked the door of their room behind them. Here the curtain falls until half an hour after, when a student called and invited
them to his room, Avhere he said he had some fine pears and wanted his
friends to try them.
—All students who attend the union meeting of the Irving and Philalethean this evening in the botanical lecture room at Sage College Avill spend their time profitably. The programme is as follows:
Oration - -
E. L. Wagner, Philalethean.
Essay
-
-
-
--
H. W. Foster, Irving.
DELATE.
Question: — Risolod— That political corruption is not the necessary outgrowth of Republican institutions.
Affirmative.
}D. J. Wdlcox, / Pt,h, l•l,al,
/• ITrvi• ng.
E-say
-
-
-
Spencer II. Coon, Philalethean.
Oration
-
-
-
-
F. P. Smith, Irving.
Exercises commence at H o'clock.
— An account of the game of base ball betAveen the Kappa Alpha
and Psi Upsilon fraternities, wdiich Avas played Sept. 'la, Avas carelessly
overlooked, which accounts for its not appearing in our last issue; the
game
Avas called
at
!>:e!0
a.
m. ,
ami Avas
witnessed by
several Professors
and town people who were interested in the players. During the first
part of the game the score was very even, but iu the latter part the
Kappa Alphas gained considerably, so that at the end of the ninth in
ning the score stood Is: to 14 in favor of the Kappas. There was some
loose playing upon both sides, especially the riglit-fiehler for the Psi U's
had a faculty of letting the ball pass him several times when he should
have stopped it. The game was enjoyed by all who participated in it,
and undoubtedly Avas a means of fostering friendly relations between
the tAvo societies. It is hoped that the return game mav- be played be.
fore the base ball season has passed.
A— new era has dawned on "The Struggle," antl the members of
that time-honored and famous institution, now have a representative at
every entertainment given in the Forest City. The representatives are chosen by lot. Every member pays five cents and draws a slip of paper from a hat, there being as many slips as members. On one slip the
name of the entertainment is marked aud the Struggle who is so fortu
nate as to draw this, attends the circus, lecture, or whatever it may be;
and the next morning gives a Avritten account of the same, extending
over at least four pages of foolscap. The lucky man who attended the
circus and reported it, was a " grave and reverend." WTe suppose it
was all fair enough, but lu was the man who manipulated the hat. For
the
benefit of the
uninitiated
we
would say
that
" The
"
Struggle
is
the
name of a club, existing within the shadoAV of the President's house, and that its destinies are swayed by an individual knoAvn to every den
izen of the hill as "The Boss."
J. Harvey Peirce is in toAvn.
Bcrr, '73, is engineering in Pennsylvania.
G. F. Dvdley, '73, is visiting friends in Ohio.
Mesick, '7:J, is clerk in a bank in Brooklyn, L. I.
Jack Hill, 'I'd, is teller iu a bank at Rome, N. Y.
Russel Hadley, '12, is practicing laAv in Newburgh, N. Y.
A. A. Smith, '7o, is in business with his father in Xew York.
F. Hatch, '7.7, Avas in town on Wednesday visiting his friends.
I. E. Hutton, '75, is in the lumber trade with his father at Xanuet,
X. V.
Doerflinoek, '7o, is in the United States Hydrographical office in
Xew York.
Si'offokd, '1'2, is in the employ of Mr. Bancroft, the historian, at Washington.
C. IE "Winston, '74, is Professor of Literature in the Cniversity of
Xorth Carolina.
C. F. Lyman, '7o, is in the office of the Equitable Insurance compa
ny in Xew Vork.
Faulkenean, '7:J, is connected with the Erie Railway company; his
office is in Xew York.
W. R. Dudley, '74, the instructor in botany, has been making a tour to the Kattskills, and home.
IE T. Betts, '70, is with his father iu the manufacture of machinists' tools, etc., at Wilmington, Del.
Tatnall, '7.">, is in the draughting room of J, A. Cofrode «fc Co., bridge-builders of Philadelphia, Pa.
Puinney and Hoppock, both of '7'.f are engaged in the manufacture of varnish; their establishment is in Xewark, X. J.
Lavvson, "i-i, called upon his friends in Ithaca this week; he has regular engineering work at mapping in Xew York.
Jackson, '7."), the sphere elevator, is iu the draughting room of the Harlan A* Ilolliugsworth Co., iron steamship builders of Wilmington,
Del.
L. Davey, '7a, is iu town; he was seen showing the wonders of the University to several young ladies Avhom we judged to be "school-
mams."
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Oct. 8, 1875.
Chas. Levinos, '73, is assistant engineer on the state canals of Uli" nois, and is considered one of the most promising young engineers in
the state.
Rice, '7fi, has returned to the University antl brings with him the reputation of a single sculler. We hope he wdll demonstrate the fact
to-morrow.
Jarvis, of the crew, is found in our midst again; he will row iu the regatta to-morrow, after which he will return to his home in Canastota;
he promised to be wdth us again next term.
Captain Cook has been unanimously re-elected by the students of Vale to command the University crew for 1S7C, and a screes of resolu tions was adopted expressing confidence in his ability and faithfulness.
W. K. Sinton, '77, met with a serious accident last Wednesday. While gathering chestnuts a limb broke on which he Avas standing, let ting him fall from a considerable height. His right leg was broken, but it was promptly set by Dr. Brown, and is now doing well. Wc
hope to hear of his speedy recovery.
he had better make himself scarce, or he'll count it money in his pocke if he never Avere born. Here, too, is not a faultless man—he has a weakness for mild cigars, but, in the words of one of our professors,
" Let him laugh who never fails." Xow comes forward for inspection ye Sporting Editor, Adjutant
Itemizer and Fighting Editor— all combined in one individual, who can> by a kind of lightning transformation, assume any of these characters at
a moment's notice. He has even been knoAvn to become invisible when
too hotly charged by a belligerent victim of his pen, or too closely
pressed "for "copy." We do not wish to lay any imputation on the
courage of our brother editor— far from it. In the game of foot-ball he alwavs leads the van, Avith a sublime indifference to the fact that he is
possessed of a pair of shins, Avhich is perfectly heroic, and when the fickle bag of wind comes anywhere within fifteen or twenty feet of him he generally secures it, in violation of all known laws of gravitation. On the lake his Apollo like form may be seen urging backward and for
ward the oleaginous sliding-seat, his brawny arm bending the stout ash en blade as if it were a reed, his voice ineainvhile inspiring his compan
Dr. John WE Hoyt, of Madison, Wisconsin, the author of the edu cational report on the Paris Exposition of 18i>7. and the advocate of a national university, was in Ithaca on Thursday. He has visited nearly every university and technological school in the world, and is now com pleting a personal investigation into the higher institutions of learning in the United States, having already traveled through thirty states for
this purpose.
ions and inciting them to new elforts. As soon as a few more -ubscribers pay up, the Board is going to buy that second-hand pair of "»0 lb. Indian clubs— just to give him something to amuse himself with at odd
moments.
Lastly comes the Exchange Ed., assistant writer of heavy (?) editorals, and general scissors and paste-pot man. He rejoices in the melodi ous sobriquet of Muck, which was bestowed upon him in his infancy, and which (the name, not the material! clings to him to this day. He
(Editors' ZMs and tfxrtomgfs.
O ye sanctum walls! Had ye but mouths as well as ears, wdiat terri
ble tales would ye not tell of bygone corps driven to madness by the ghould-like demands of Satan for mon, moke copy! How eager eyes gazed upon ye, seeking inspiration in your grimy whitewash, or stared
likes to read anonymous poetic contributions marked "original," and to
discover the microscopic traces e>f originality therein contained. He
has endeared himself to his room mate anel neighbors by " playing like
a fiend on the fiddle " at untimely hours of the night; they feel such a solicitude for his welfare that they have often commended him to a bet ter world, but he has as yet not taken the hint.
listlessly out of your unwashed windows into the dusty street, with per
We thus stand unmasked before the world, our manifold virtues and
chance a faint hope of extorting an item from some unconscious victim weaknesses exposed to its critical gaze, and our sanctum sanctorum
below! But ye are silent, and seem to gloat over us as the next victims thrown open to all who may Avisfi to enter. Friends will find it to be
of the Evil One, with whom Ave believe ye to be in league. We defy an oasis in the desert but those inimical to us enter at their own risk.
ye, however, and Avith good reason, for we propose to throw off our
The Amherst St uden t deserves credit for its admirable contents and
mysterious mask, that undefined, phantom-like ave, and make ourselves neat typographical appearance. It opens with a sketch of Richard
known in our respective individual capacities.
Wagner, the great German composer, showing what almost insurmount
And Avho deserves to stand first in the honorable roll than he who able obstacles he had to overcome belore achieving that fame which is
wields the "editorial" pen par excellence? 'Tis his caustic sarcasm and about to reach its highest consummation in Bayreuth. The article is well
subtle logic which causes enemies to turn pale, Avhether he be mounted written and shows in the Avriter a thorough appreciation of the value of
on the rostrum, or seated at his table with a fresh quire of quarto and a the divine Art. The students of Amherst have drawn up resolutions bottle of ink before him. True, his sides command more respect than expressive of their sympathy for the difficulties under which their crew
his size, but Avhat of that? In China, for instance, to be corpulent is to labored while at Saratoga, at the same time commending them for their
be a truly great man, while among Xorth American Indians, he who spirit in combatting them. Amherst certainly has done well in send
has the greatest number of scalps is looked up to wdth the most admir ing crews in spite of so little support and so manv natural disadvantages.
ation. What is to prevent hair from becoming the standard with the We wish them better success iu the future.
more civilized inhabitants of America? But our editorial Ed. possesses
The editors of the Madisonensis are surprised to find themselves in
other attributes than those of sarcasm and logic — he can bend the tur their responsible position; they did not seek it, but found themselves in
bulent mob to his will by his fiery eloquence, and even reduce the wild it "by reason of the onward progress 0f ideas," and hence accept their
and untamed Sophomore to meek submission. Possessed of such a man work cheerfully. They say: "Friendly criticism weshall.no doubt,
in such a place, we await Avith calm expectancy for something to turn receive and return; but, did gentlemanly bearing admit, we have no
up that Avill test his powers. But all men are not perfect; we must place for partisan quarrels which hinder that free intercourse which
confess that our favorite has one fault — we wish it were not so, but he should always exist between men engaged in common pursuits." In
is— he is a betting man. He- trill bet the oysters for the Board about the most trivial things, and if he loses it only stimulates him to try again.
another column il growls at the En v for howling alter victory instead oi before, and parenthetically enquires whether howlin-- is "a clue to
species, (ove that call more rope.
Next in importance conies the Item and Business editor. We pause before undertaking the task of recording his multifarious points (we do not mean at the billiard table), but shall do our best. If we were asked
to give a formula expressing work done by him, we should say it was
This is the way the Vale P,e„r,l obliterates the editors of a rival pa
per: "One of them is a cracked-voice warbler of prematurely wrink
e'rectled brow; another is a dapper little fellow, who. with nose
and
breeches retreating Irom his shoes, communes with the Universe and
in inverse proportion to his size. He has but to look at a man, and that man i.s immortalized in a peestniul or in an item. It is useless to resist
him — if there is an item in you, out it conies. But ii is as a business
man that he has acquired a Mutuai-A fame, and if there breathes " a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said," " I'll take the Eka, or I'll leave the land."
believes the college benefitted by his presence; another hails from some stagnant len in New .lerscy, a cornet-tooler, a man of puerile jest, whose cloth shoes and nd necktie indicate .he calibre of his mind; while the "Irrepressible" Acrobat, ,ht. ubiquitous meddler, with leer ing face and spasmodic gesticulation brings up the rear." We com mend this to the attention of all future journalists as a model of deli-
eate insinuation.
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth."
Yoi.lME VIII.— XCMIIEU
TIIE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER la, 1S75E
$-2.50 per Anniai in Advance.
Printed and Published erery Friday, by Students of the Senior und Junior ('lasses.
("Mors for 1875-0.
J. W. Sn i;oea-.vnt, '7(!, M. E. Havilvno, '7i
CE P. WOODIMI'F, '7(i A. J. Loos, '77.
— The
prospects
for a good " musical
,"
season
at
Cornell
are very encouraging. The orchestra of last year is being
thoroughly reorganized under the able management of" Mr.
Falkenaw, "To, who proposes to introduce light classical music
in place of the dance music and potpourris of last year. The
members are Aery much in earnest, aneT are hard at work
practicing for the concert which is to be given at the end of
the present term. The orchestra at present numbers thirteen
performers, but will probably increase te> sixteen. The vocal
ists also have a good opportunity for improvement. Signor
Max Piutti, Professor of Music at Wells College, has gener
ously offeree! to instruct a class of beginners and an advanced
class once a week, asking nothing in return but the payment
of his expenses Avhile here. Signor Piutti i.s a gentleman
thoroughly in love Avith his pred'ession, anel thinks it a pity
that among such a large body of voting men as are here gath
ered together, there should not be a respectable glee club.
The thanks of all students are due to the Professor who has
so kindly volunteered to help us out of our difficulty. There is no reason why, with regular training, we could not organize a glee club equal in every respect to the far-famed ones of other colleges. The only thing that has kept us in our pres ent barbarous condition, as regards vocal music, i.s the lack of just such systematic training, and it only remains for us to prove it by accepting the offer and shoAving what avc can elo.
A special meeting of the -Musical Association is to be called to consider the matter, and it only remains for everyone interesteel to be present and lend his hearty support. We have enough faith in our "singing men'1 to predict that they Avill not need a seconel invitation, anel that ere long the songs of Cornell Avill be sung- in a manner that Avill bind us by a new
tie of love to our Alma Jft/,r.
— Never before have avc been so strongly impressed Avitli
the need that exists for the formation of a general student
organization. The Kiev last year advocated the formation of such an organization, and in the meantime it has been c-onsidereel by some of the most thoughtful students. It Avas next brought up September last at the meeting of the students held to select delegates for the Inter-collegiate Literary Contest.
There are certain quest ions which come up from time to
time requiring the' action of the students as a whole. Among those that will probably be constant are those oi the Intercnllygiate Literary Contests, the Jul er-colbegiate Regattas and ovations to distinguished men who .shall conn- heie from time to time to lecture to the students of the University — men Avhoni the students are pmud thus to honor, as in the cases of James Anthony Froude and Payard Taylor during
the past three years. Pesieles these there arc from time to
time other questions of general interest to the students requir ing their united action. These latter may be termed cases ex traordinary. As examples during the past three years, there was the meeting wdiich changed the management of the Era, that which passed resolutions in regard to Horace Ureeley's death, anel that Avhich denounced military inllietions, which last ought to have been held, but wasn't.
The usual way ed transacting the business of general inter est has been to ha.e the president of the Senior class call meetings and preside thereat without any expressed sanction
whatever from the students. The result has been that the at
tendance has been small and interests of the highest charac ter have been neglected. Sometimes no meetings have Leon called for Avant of sonic one who felt responsible for the call ing of them.
It is wTell known that Cornell is entitled to three essayists
at the coming Inter-collegiate Literary Contest, providing not more than eight colleges compete, and that she is entitled to
tAvo in that event ; but it is a fact that Ave relate Avith not a
little pain that, although her number of good Avriters is large. she Avill have but one representative in essays. This thinoshould not have been, and, although we cannot mend it iioaat, avc can prepare for obviating aneither like occurrence. The present deplorable result came, as all will agree, from pure neglect —from having no one Avho felt responsible for making the neeelful arrangements at the proper time, which time wa: last spring; anel Avhen this fall came it was too late to writ-
essays.
Now, just wdiat seems to be needed to attend to these vari
ous questions named, is a general student organization Avith a chairman who should feel it to be bis especial duty to see tha no business ed' importance is neglected, d'he plan proposeel i having no new machinery except a president, the other chnofficers of the four classes tilling the offices of vice-president secretaries, treasurers, etc, seems a pood one'. This qiiestien however, anel that ofthe manner of electing the president, t> gether with some other questions, such as having an annu: / meeting of the students Avith a definite' order of business, et< are simply details. If there arc a sufficient number of student -
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who think that such an organization should be formed, it is not worth while to obscure the grand, central thought by the un important details of organization. We want some one to be responsible where now no one is responsible. We want an organization where the word Freshman, Sophomore, -Junior
or^Senior shall not be heard, but that of Student. Wo want
an organization whose decisions will not be tardily and reluc tantly accepted by the lower classes. We want an organiza
tion such that those who act for the students as a, whole will
know that they have the support of at least a majority of tliem. And finally, avc want an organization whose decisions shall
have Aveight with the Faculty. Various other beneficial out-growths might come, such as
having an annual address in which the students' interests
should be set forth, but Ave will not be Utopian. There are reasons which are solid without bringing in any that are fanci
fill. Let this subject be duly considered.
Nation as the grass waved in the evening wind; we drank
in the music of the dance anel watched with interest the rap
idly whirling figures. Presently the full moon appears. She
spreads on the river a silver path. She touches with beauty the dripping oar. In the elistance, looms up an Albany steam er so dark and gloomy you fancy a pirate ship. It crosses the path. It is transformed in an instant to perfect Avhite. The staring letters of "Daniel Drew" stand out in bold re
lief. It is as quickly gone into the darkness again and you know its presence only from the wheel's monotonous dashing and the waves that come tumbling across the river for their
own amusement, but to our boat's temporary confusion. The
moon rises higher and higher and Hoods us with her mild ra diance. Through the air come strains from "The Shaug-
raun," and the tender quiet of evening see-nis to grow more quiet as avc listen to the sad Avail of Okk Con, why did you die." Sunday at Fort Lee is the liveliest of the Aveek. A fa vorite day for excursionists; the steamer lands every hour
crowded with passengers. The river is noisy with sounds of
revelry. I barges pass our door, their decks tilled with dancers. The music is .piiek and cheerful, d'he dance grows merrier and merrier. Often the monotony of sound is broken by the • ■ry of " dan overboard"— considered a capital joke by the smaller liy. d'he joke grows stale when a poor wretch does
lake to the water- not an unusual occurrence on these over
crowded vessels. One Sunday I remember a musical genius, T'ilo loud of "the rosy," ami addicted to "(be cheery,'' while' playing the banjo, played his own re-piiem. In his musical enthusiasm he lost his balance to disappear in the blue waters. Doubtless his spirit is still playing to tbe infinite amusement of mermaids and dolphins. The song and the dance never
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tarried. Jovial life and rollicking gayety above. Cold death below. The repeated cry of "Man overboard," was believed too tardily for rescue, and the dancers danced the hours awav in happy oblivion of their companion's fate.
Among the celebrities at Fort Lee are Thos. Dunn Knglisli, whose charming song " Ren llolt " ligures in every musical repertoire, and Lev. Ralph Hoyt, the poet, avIio is best known by "The World for Sale." One evening, created for walkingonly, our party enjoyed the hospitality of the lloyf mansion, as well as the perusal of many poems whose familiar faces re called the pleasure of years ago. Our hostess, Mrs. Hoyt — forgive us ye Penates— embraced the feminine portion of our party with motherly kindness. After Avitnessing the cold sal utations of city life, this warm mode' of greeting seemed the most natural thing in the Avorld. Then how refreshing to en
joy a wait/ in a minister's house with none to molest or make
us afraid, as Avell as the last opera and popular ballad. Rev. Ralph Hoyt, unfortunately, was in the city that evening, and I feared we Avould not see him during our stay. Rut the gods
were more propitious and as we sailed down the Hudson one day on board the "Pleasant Yalley," the observant eye of the Literary (renins marked a stately figure on the upper deck. He disclosed to me his diabolical plot Avhich was nothing more or less than to introduce himself and inveigle the poet into a literary conversation. The plot Avas successful. The poet proved genial and communicative. The Avorld i.s soon to be
treated to a new volume entitled "Poems of Life and Laud-
scape." Hoyt is now at work on a mathematical poem of a novel character. Its success — let posterity determine. Mean while, he is hale and hearty and can conduct the Episcopal service as vigorously as ever. The Literary Genius returned to receive my compliments. I admired his cheek and praised his pluck. We enjoyed between us the literary tidbits, then turned to the pleasant scenes on either side of the river.
Even the story of Eneas, the Trojan, ended although Queen Dido could have listened until early dawn. So the
merry davs on the Hudson met an untimely enel at the ap proach of September. The Literary Genius vanished with the
first breath of fall, seeking the excitement of Gotham after
the summer's quiet. The Musical Genius fiew also, and the
places that knew them shall knoAv them no more. Gone are
the social hours whose presiding spirit was good humor, whose
divinity was gooel cheer. Anel with the cry of "all aboard,"
the
" Pleasant
"
Valley
carried
me on
my way
to the
Forest
City, Avhere, amiel the varieel scenes of college life, the niteni-
ories of summer Avill never lose their freshness, anel Avhose
presence, like some penetrating perfume, Avill hover around
me forever.
Siotimius.
(The fall itcptut.
The Fall regatta of '7"> is numbered among the events of
the past, and the participants in Saturday's races have re turned to the sterner duties of college life, after their six day's training, Avith a sigh of relief. One year ago the Fall regatta took place under less favorable circumstances, but ul timately with the same result, and '7 s iioav claim the class cup
for the second lime in their existence with the outlook of do
ing the same thing for two years to come. The weather Avas
all that could be; desired, and Saturday morning founel a crowd of about four hundred persons at the depot waiting for the expected departure of the train at 8 ;:!(). Nine o'clock came and the train vvas still at the depot. Something had happeiieel to the engine, and another one was procured, which, however, was not much better, for it did not have enough steam up to
draw the train. After waiting about a quarter of an hour, and making half a dozen stops, it made the corner of the lake
at the same time that the 10:30 train from Cayuga did. ."Most
of the passengers got off and both trains ran back to Ithaca.
We would have' it distinctly understood that this delay was entirely unlooked for, consequently it coulel not be helped. Superintendent Grant anel the committee were doing all they could to hurry things along, and the blame for the delay must
not rest on their shoulders.
At eleven the train had returned, and the single scullers were in position. Rartlett had the insiele, Russel second,
Francis third, and Rice fourth. Francis gave them a handi
cap of :;.V min., fl min., and 4.5 seconds in the order named above. Rartlett Avas started first and pulled off in a hurry toward the middle of the lake. Forty-five seconds after, the others wore started. Francis gained the lead in a short time
closely followed by Russel, Rice bringing up the rear with his long, easy stoke. -Vt the half mile point the positions had not altered much, but at the mile point Francis was several boat-lengths aheael anel had passed Rartlett, avIio Avas pulling
a tiresome stroke and seemed to lie headed for the cider mill
near Garrett's point. Francis kept near the shore while both
Russel and Rice took clear Avater in the middle of the lake.
On the last quarter Francis kept gaining on Russel, anel Rus sel on the other two. The three latter lost quite a distance by poor steering, and Avhen they crossed the finish avcic near
ly half a mile from shore. The time was not fast as will be
seen below: Francis, 14:513-4; Russel, 1.5:40 1-2; Rartlett, lN:o4; Rice, 17:24:!-!. Francis did his finest roAving on the last quarter, Avhile Russel and Rice seemed in too much of a
inury to feather good, and did m>t row as well as at the mid
dle of the race. The judges gave Russel the race as he had a handicap of a minute and a half. The class crews Avere soon in their boats, the Freshmen having the position next to the shore. Juniors second, and Sophomores third, with the Univer
sity crew on the outside. The dark maroon gear of the Fresh
men presented a fine appearance, while the single blue scarf in the '77 boat hardly told the class color. The Universitycrew alloAVed a handicap of 40 seconds to the other crews. At the word go the class crews were off, but with some confusion.
'70 caught a crab before thev' had taken a dozen strokes, and were making for the middle of the lake, and the stern of oS's
boat missing the latter by about six feet only. '77 and '7S came' near fouling, and t<> lay the blame on some one, they
say that the rudder got away from " General," and feu a
short time was unmanageable. Ry this balk '77 fell behind half a length, much to the satisfaction of the Sophomores on the train, avIio had an organized band of senile twenty-live tin horns and began to blow them with all their might. This was
30
THE CORNELL ERA
Oct. 15, 1875.
kept up during the whole race, and many, ignorant of the musical talent tints displayed, thought it was a steam whistle, and it really sounded like one, though it blew longer than any steam whistle possibly could. '77 were pulling the fastest stroke, and did not row in as good form as '7s. In forty-five seconds, instead of forty as it was intended to be, the Univer
sity crew started with their usual slow stroke, slow recover and sharp catch, and their boat, bore doAvn on the class crews
as if victory was cert-iinly theirs. The presence of the two
new men on the ci-cav, King, '77, and LeAvis, '7s, Avas plainly
thing else, and it Avas not a little amusing to see the profess ors assume the common level by sitting on the edge of a car with their feet hanging off. We are glad to note the pres ence of so many lady students at the race, and also the large number of citizens. Rut Ave Avere sorry to learn afterwards
that the reporters for- the Wells College (flcronidc failed to
get places on the train, and Ave haA'e heard that they said "the Cornellians woulel be sorry for that some time," when really they were to blame themselves for getting tiff at the station as
thev did. We expect to hear from them when their paper
perceptible, as they hael not got accustomed to Ostrom's comes out.
" SAving," and did not pull as evenly as the others. The race
betAveen '77 anel '7s Avas evidently to be a tight one, as their
ATHLETIC SF'OKTS.
boats kept about in the same position with regard to each oth
The athletic spends commenced at 3 p. m. with a smaller
er for three quarters of a mile. '77 got to pulling and steer crowd of spectators than there was at the race in the morning.
ing a little Avild at this point, and fell right in behind '7s'.s boat There were two entries for the one mile walk, F. Phillips, '77,
for nearly an eighth of a mile. This put them back some, anel Poggett, '78. Poggett took the had at the start and
and at the mile point '78 was fully a boat length and a half kept it until the end, though the race was given to Phillips,
aheael. The Juniors on the train began to lose their hope, the Avalking of the former being decided by the judges as un
while the Se»phomores blew their horns Avith more Avinel than fair; time of Phillips, 8:40]-. For the 100 yards race there
eA'er, Avhich seemed to encourage their creov, for they made a were three entries : Tiffany '77, Conant, '7s, and Me-Oravv, '79,
fine spurt and were plainly increasing the distance betAveen and Avas avou by the latter in ICf seconds. The quarter mile
their boat anel '77. Here the excitement was intense, for the race came next Avith five entries: Simons, '70, Borden, '7*
University creAV were most up Avith them, anel at the mile and a half point it passed '77, gaining rapidly on '78. It was iioav plainly evident that '77 could not close up the gap between
Cahlwell, '77, Cook, '70, and Kerr, 70. byThe' race was won Simons in l:do£, the others following in the order of their
names above. The two contestants for the twro mile Avalk.
herself and '78, so the excited crowd turned their attention
to the latter and the University creAA\ Meanwhile the Fresh
men avc re coming, away back in the distance, evidently in a hurry, but not very evidently Avith much speed, having the course all to themselves, wdiich they seemed to appreciate fully, judging by the Avay they steered from one side to the
other over it. The race now lay between '78 and the Univer
sity crew, the latter slowly but surely lessening the distance betAveen the tAvo boats. Roth crews were doing all they coulel, and rowing finely. For a moment the "Sophomore band" was silent, but only a moment, and '78 crossed the line tAvo
seconds ahead, while '77 followed twelve seconds and the
Freshmen tAvo minutes and seventeen seconds afterwards,
Rut before the Freshman crew had cosseel the finish '78 had
drawn up to the shore and were receiving the congratulations of their friends, avIio satisfactorily disproved the saying "you can't elo two things at the same time" by cheering and blowing their horns with the same breath. The time of
the different crews, as given by the judges, was as follows : Sophomores, 12.10.}; University, 11.2.5-}; '77, 12.22}-; '70 14.27:}-. Ry this it is seen that the Cniversity crew really Avon the race by three seconds, and it was decided so by the judges. After the customary congratulating and hand-shak ing the different crews pulled off for the boat-house, and the hungry crowd boarded the train for home.
The regatta, as a whole, passed off very satisfactorily, both in a social and a financial point of view, and though the
delay of the train in the morning at first seemed annoying, we feel certain that the number i.s few, who regret the tinm there spent in singing and visiting together. The absence of seats on the platform cars gave more dissatisfaction than any-
Francis, '76, anel Gutheim, '7s, Avere unevenly matched, and
was wron by Francis in ] 2:4s], Gutheim crossing the finish in
13:46. The latter showed consielerable pluck in entering against such a formidable enemy. Crandall, '7s, won the half
mile running race in 2:15, against Rueppele, '76, Woodruff", '70, McKay, '7S, and Lucas, '70. The next event, the three leg
race, excited considerable merriment among the spectators.
The entries wTere Rarto and McGill, both of '77, Dounce and
Roberts of '7s, and Francis, '76, with Lewis. \"S. It was easi
ly Avon by the latter, only one of the other two triplets cross ing the score. McGraw won the running jump over Church, '7s, and Vanstone, '7o, making in his second jump 17 feet, 1^ inches. The same three entered for the hop skip and jnmpi McGraw winning by a 38 feet stride. But the real fun of the
afternoon proved to be centered in the sack race. The entries
were Falkneau, '70, Carpenter, '7s, and Lewis, ':s. The sacks
were too short to go over the shoulders e',an1st
b. ,ml
b_
Knapp, :;d b.
Iv i no-, s. s.
Boardman If
llyT' :> 5 4 5 3 o
5
>u/%( . 2 Perk, ins, p. 2 Baker, c. 2 Johnson, l*t b.
._, Hoyti oI1(1 b. :i Walker, 3d b.
4 Me Master, s. s.
2 Tarrett 1 f
Pl.lns' 3 <» 2 t <» 2 2
n'U' 1 4 3 4 5 3 3
itv,
even
laA'ing "
"jioinfs"1
ova-r
the
Sophomores
or
Freshmen
in
,* ,, . ,
4 -i i
ii
n
••
the use of their lungs. And they had gooel reason to rejoice,
Foot, c. f. Bickam, r. f.
0 U Grilhth, c. f. 2 4 Heed, r. f.
31 23
iieing the first Seiiieu class in the University that ever accept-
Totals,
2!) 27 Totals,
lo 27
eel a challenge for foot -ball, auel leaving° the best recoiel, never |
.
having been beaten since they Ave re r reshmen.
Cornell
1st.
s
ixxixa.s.
2d. 3d. 4th. 2 5 '■',
5th. 0
fitti. 2
7th. 3
8th. 5
9th. 1 —20.
Hamilton,
2 () 3 5 0 12 1 1—15.
gasc gall.
eeUlXELL VS. HAMILTON.
Umpire, Sandy Burns.
(•Tarrt of (Thanhs.
The Universitv nine were somewhat surprised Monday
We, the committee (d the regatta, wish to tender our thanks
morning at receiving a tele-gram from the Hamilton College to Fresident J. L. Crant, lor his personal supervision in the
nine stating that they would be in Ithaca that r. m. to play a j running ol the train, the delay of which was purely an acci-
rnatch game. They came ou the morning train and put up at 'F'.it, and one for which no one was accountable.
the Clinton House. During the forenoon they visited the j'
,
,,
, ...
,
L
.
niversity
grounds
and
seemed
te>
be
very
much
pleased
with
,
lL H<"s^. A. S. K. Volkm.vn,
CHn- .vSs.TlW'J.":V^:ossox,
Chairman.
the surroundings. (Juite a large crowd had assembled on the
fair grounds before three oV-Iock to witness the game. Fart
lUnU'fr.Sittt ^tNUS.
|ofthe University nine -lid not put in an appearance until
_Synu.use Universitv has an enteri,tg class of sixty "raw re
late, and the game did nut commence until after three. Ham cmits/, (;(M)(1
ilton won the toss, and Cornell went to hat. Perkins' pitch- ,
_rph( ],,l(_.t..llaure.UL. SL.rmon before '7C will be preached by Dr. Pea-
ing Avas "just the thing," and our boys made eight scores the , 1)0(ly> of Harvard.
first innings. This rather astonished the spectators, and the .
__why didn't yon push it? It is easy enough to push a heavily lad-
visitors also, for neither were used to such things. Hamilton en traul 0f ears
succeeded in making tAA'o runs though IhnchEs delivery both-
_The Juniors have challenged the Sophomores to a game of foot-
ered them considerably at first. The next innings was played i,all on Saturday.
better by both nines, Cornell making only two scores and
—Three head of Jersey cattle arc soon to be adeleel to the stock of
Hamilton going out with a blinder. In the fourth innings | the University farm.
38
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Oct. 15, 1875.
—A certain Senior thinks that the practical use of Zoology consists
iu teaching how to raise artificial fish.
A— certain Freshman thinks that alimt ntary should be elementary,
at least he has it so in his note book on Physiol". gv.
—Prof. Roberts will read a paper on "breeds and Feeds" before the
State Dairyman's Association, at Norwich, on Dec Sth.
—ddie net proceeds from the regatta were about slo, and the com mittee are to be complimented for their good management.
—Russel and Ilixon say they were " taken in " up at Wells last Wednesday, and if you don't believe it, ask them yourself.
— Mr. A. II. (fregghas presented the University farm Avith a very fine patent chilled plow, which took the first premium at the state fair.
—The new University reservoir is fast approaching completion; in a few weeks we may expect to see the buildings all well supplied with
water.
—Prof. Law has applied for the skeleton of the American Cirl to place in the museum as a specimen of the typical trotting horse. The request has not, as yet, been granted.
—If fear causes a blue tinge to repose upon a frightened person's face, Ave Avould say that the Freshmen Avere very thoroughly frightened during drill on Wedncolay afternoon.
— Wells College has sixty students this term. We saw forty at the
regatta,
Wednesday
r.
m ,
and can
only account
for the
other
twenty
as having to stay at home on account of bad conduct.
—Rev. Mr. Twichell and Mr. Sage remained in town during the early part of the week and spent their time during the day in hunting, at the same time admiring the beautiful scenery of Ithaca.
—Before another week passes, the majority of the students will be asked for a subscription for the Navy. AVe hope they w ill respond liberalty, and, with the help of the regatta proceeds, soon pay off the
debt.
—The Harvard Crimson says, in regard to Harvards Avithdraw ing from the Rowing Association, that "Harvard, being once in the associ ation, she cannot honorably leave it until she has won a race." So
think Ave all.
—"Not a peal was heard nor a funeral note" for the Sophomores had their tin horns in their deepest pockets when they returned from the fair ground on Saturday; and yet they are not willing to admit that
'?fi is invincible.
—The Junior Avho read an epitaph on a tombstone the other morn ing while on his way to the University, anel said it was from Poe's "elogy on a country church yard," has been reading auto-biographies of the poets since.
—The Free Hollow cider-mill has opened for the season and we pity the studenls who live in the University buildings; we hope that the next pail of cider maybe devoted to a belter cause than lcakiii" down the side of the budding.
—Last week the Freshmen held a meeting for the purpose of elect ing a secretary and transacting other business. After electing a man to permanently fill that office, they came to lhe conclusion that, they hadn't a quorum and so adjourned Avithout transacting their oilier business.
—The entomological specimens are now on exhibition in the large museum; they have heielofore been kept in cases in ihe laboratory antl now that they can be seen, we advise all to pay the museum anoth
er visit, as we are told that "there are some Bra/.illian hulterllies in the
collection that are perjectly gorgeous."
—Scene—Poslollice. Dramatis Personal— "T. P.," "Cope." and bystanders. "T. P.," loquitur— "Cope, don't you think I will make a Saratoga runner in time?" "Cope." very earucd/y. — "Yes, when you
«-et so you can make your legs go as fast as you clo your mouth, you will "scoop things" at Saratoga." Exeunt.
'I'll,, remains of a huge mastadon were lately discovered upon the
farm of Mr. Miller at Center bislc, Broome Co. A part of the skeleton
was brought and shown to Prof. Wilder on Tuesday, and to-day the Professor and a few students are (engaged in unearthing the remainder of the skeleton, which will be secured for the University museum.
\ Freshman who received his remittance in the form of a money
order, asked of his nearest neighbor "is this an advertisement or what':""
WE' beg leave to snocsl to that Fre hman or any other man that we would be happy to receive such advertisements, in exchange for which
he can have as many copies as he desires at the rate of xgod per annum.
—Every student should hear ( 'amilla Urso next Wednesday evening,
"the musical treat of the season." Her troupe is stronger than ever, and is drawing immense crowds wherever it goes. Wo understand
that she appears in Ithaca through student enterprise, which is saying considerable for the managers. < bet your seats early, for there Avill be a
crowded house.
A— certain Professor, while illustrating the extent of learning among ancient philosophers, remarked that one of them invented the theorem to prove that the square described on the hypothenu.se of a right-angled triangle is equal to the square or the smu ome slio-htly, and others quite severely. Mr. Beardsley and Mr. Forbes are now on
the recovering side of quite a hard run of the typhoid fever. It is thought that the water used at' the club may have been the cause of the
sickness. Some of it is in the hands of Dr. Caldwell for analysis and we shall soon know whether this supposition has any foundation or not.
A— student in French History wdio attempted to find the book re ferred to yesterday liy his professor as "Kirk's History of Charles the Bald," says that he has "balled up" himself. He even asserts that the professor recommends his elass to read a book which has no existence. For he has learned -that the subject of the work written by Pioeott's private secretary is Charles the bold, duke of Burgundy, who died in 1 C just litllj brief summers after the lime of lhe Ibild-headetl Carlo-
vin
_S. r.NK.-Soulh Hall, north Building. Sentimental Junior to war
like Senior: " How ,lo you pronounce the French word A,/,, '" Sen-
mi-" Most any way exeepl O,,,,
p is om, of „K. ^^ somuHn,v
way'wools ,n the French language, and should not be murdered that
1 also thmk ,-,-/„,, ,s a most, beautiful Cerman word." Sen, imen.al Jun-
|;,r ('''l"'^f '7> ."Ho,, .„•„,, I, .ease and si.hin.O" Mcthinks
h« m»sl. _i...„l..ri ,l,.l...,.n.s, s..i.|...|,.-,r.nhiK wor,l in the whole Cerman
mo-ua.e ,s-,s ,„„/,,,. „ .,. Sl.n!llI. is ;lsMM(.(1 |iu( of
n.en.al.buuor's chum, who is of a more earthly, ,bL
VuJ'h'o'v ?*Tnr i'"Auioia
last
Wednesday
and
l,,i"" SlMm-S r"wi»^»» -s held at
Thursday. , >„ Wet.nesda, about a dozen
Oct. 15, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
39
students went up on the morning train, among whom Avere Francis, and talked on as easily as a perennial fountain bubbling in eternal mono
Bartlett, with their single sculls, intending to take part in the races. tone, but out, of a source unlimited and pure; how Coon compared
Only four of the intended races came off. The single scull race was "Alastor," and " Excelsior" after lhe approved manner of the critics,
called at 'J o'clock. The lake was as smooth as glass, and when the five using all their adopted words and phrases, ami leaving everybody to won
participants took their positions they presented a veiy fine appearance. iler whether it was good or poor, antl scarcely impressing anybody; and
Myers, of the Union Springs club, won the race in 14:o."i. Francis linnally how Smith had added travel to his study of " Christian Art,"
came in second in 14 >!S. The next race for Senior sculls, hut there be i and art criticism, and had actually felt of the bumps of the Seim-lie and
ing only one entry, Courtney rowed against a double scull, and made Aryan heads, ami had found Ihe former subjective, and the latter con
the two miles in l;5:14, the best time for a turning race on record. The crete — all this it would be easy lo say; some of it would be true. Mr.
sludents returneel on fhe five o'clock train having enjoyed the day very Smith however made the most pretentious effort of the evening but
much.
lacked inspiration. Me. Wagner's oration showed work, and it was well
— bast vacation the " Boss" Avas horrified by discovering a little in delivered. Mr. Foster had the merit of having chosen a subject wdiich
sect basking in the rays ot the sun on the floor of his room. It was could be understood. Bul, saying thai energy and perseverence and
not the terrible appearance of the animal that made him start, for it honesty are good things, and then instancing John Howard, Christo
looked quite harmless. But he knew Irom bittw experience that be pher Columbus, anel George Washington, the Niagara Falls, the Atlan
neath that peaceful exterior raged an insatiable thirst for his life-blood. tic Cable, ami Nature, to prove it, is a very easy kind of composition
He thought a moment, antl then, trembling with excitement, pounced ! and has become a little trite, but all writers have to pass through it.
upon his unconscious victim antl imprisoned him in an empty collar box. Then he sped down town, dashed into the first drug-store, called
Mr. Foster is iioav being nietaniorphosi/.ed. There is so much of shoddy in literaiy criticism that we should have to do more than merely to
for " three pounds s— sulphur, you know." Scornfully declining the change he rushed back to his room, locked the door and made the nec essary preparations for torturing the innocent "critter." Emptying the sulphur into the coal-scuttle, he applied the fatal match, at the same
hear a production upon this subject to feel able to decide justly upon its merits. Mr. Coon, however, read his essay well. The debate— always the easier part to prepare— although it was not Avantingin inter est, anel did not fail to draw out some practical thought, showed lack
time opening the collar-box aiiel exposing its inmate to the deadly fumes. The cruel inquisitor stood it himself for about half an hour, and then looked to see ihe ruin he had accomplished. Behold, instead
of economy in lime and want of careful preparation. The exercises, as a whole, were pronounced a .success; but some of us who listened to the exercises, and especially to the essay of Mr. Buckley last spring,
of the expected lifeless corpse, an exceedingly lively bug! Exit Be>ss, coughing and voAving vengeance on the man who gave him that recipe.
could not help but think that the present meeting Avas, in excellence, many percent, below that held by the two societies hist spring. The great reason for this seems to have been that the performer , for the
—There are ue> men so successful in this world as men of observa most part, had too much time to prepare, having been appointed last
tion. There is no curative for burns, cuts, bruises, etc., etc., so effect spring. These meetings are certainly profitable, and Ave look for some
ive as sticking salve; and when we have the man of observation antl thing better next spring.
the sticking salve well stuck together, what a combination that is to se
cure Avorldl}' success. Now there is in our University a man of obser
vation, by name, Foster's chum. Anel in the house Avhere he rooms,
there is an old lady who understands the make of sticking salve much like molasses candy in its looks anel texture. The other day, the heal
bovKTT, '77, is in business at Aurora.
ing mixture avus in preparation aud while the olel lady sat before her
Oram Ccktis, '7'J, is in business in Brooklyn.
kettle dexteriously "pulling" it with greasy hands, our friend looked on with watering mouth, no doubt thinking of the many "candy pulls" in
XV. <)• Pates, the poet of "io, is in Indianapolis.
which he has nobly filled his part. He had not long to wait for a taste.
I!. F. H.vllock, '74, is gardening on Long Island.
Soon the old lady rose from her occupation and the salve lay in tempt ing sticks on tins. Our friend approaches; " Molasses eauely?" "Yes, Avont you have some?" " Yes, thank you,'' and the man of observation
Ckokoot, '?J, is reporting on the Cleveland Luider. J. I). Waknek, '72, spent last Friday night in Ithaca.
steps back feasting his eyes on the golden stick in his hand. He bites, a good, big bite; but ah! he spits. " What's this?" He turns and Hies with mouth shut tight amidst a roar of laughter. They say that the
E. P. Mt bio.vN is practicing dentistry in Halifax, NE S. W. II. Ci i)i)i:i;Aciv, '74, is reading law at Goshen, N. Y.
sticking salve has entirely healed Ins mouth from the usual Sophomoric noise, a disease just now quite prevalent, d'he old laely has kindly offered to cure all Sophomores so atllicted.
L. 3b Fulton, '74, has entered the Columbia Law School. C. E. Lite, 'To, is in the Remington agricultural work shops.
—The Union nice-ting ol the Irving and Philalethean societies took
II. J. Binoiiam is in an architect's olliee at Santa Barbara, Cal.
place as announced in last week's hi;.\. The evening being pleasant, aud the Botanical Lecture Boom being an at.tractive place for holding the exercises, the audience was comparatively large. As to the exercises,
Sacke'it, 'T."i, is teaching Mathemathics and Greek at Monlieello. W. R. Fitch, '74, i.s in the city engineer's ofiice at Elmira, NE Y.
we could very easily devote our paragraph to lauding them in the usual manner. We could begin by telling how Lilly Wagner had drunk in the "Character of the Reformation anel of the Reformer;" what energy
Tiur.r.TTs, '77, is teaching school at Campbell, in Steuben county. Ames, ds, coulel not return to the University on account of sickness.
Foster displayed in showing " The Need of Energy;" how Wilcox con
II. D. Stephens, 'To, is one of the editors of the Indianapolis Senti
densed an incredible number of incredible arguments into the space of nel.
fifteen minutes, and how that in manner and elegance he rivalled the
preacher of Flat Creek in The 1 Ioo-ier Schoolmaster; how Sturdevant showed fully as much condensation as Wilcox, and argued with all the fairness and fury of a police lawyer, anel had scarcely finished the^roratiou of his mighty argument when Piof. Shackloid, the President or the evening, brought the end of his pencil repeatedly against hard
A. WE Bit.ki.ev, 'To, is teaching in the public sehool at Yonkers,
N. V.
C. A. Pkeston is teaching in the young bathes' Seminary at Utica,
N. Y.
Jonx Moffat, "io, is studying medicine with his father in New
jwood; how Pickett was calm even after the above; how Parkhurst York.
40
THE CORNELL ERA.
Oct. 15, 1875.
Tiicmiull, 'TS, is teaching in the Union School at Sandy Hill, New
York.
,1. L. Stone, '74, has assumed control of his father's hum at Wavei ly, Pa.
Chandall, '77, intends to enter the Brooklyn Academy of Design next January.
F. P. Wiieeleh, '74, is in Brattleboro Avaiting for the wheel of for
tune to revolve.
C. D. P.vtiE, '7o, is doing good business in a law office at Grand Traverse, Mich.
MooiiE, 'To, is Professor of German in the Minnesota State Universi ty at Minneapolis.
Ai.DKicn, 'Ts, was home last Aveek attending a Avedding. He looks
"fuller" than ever.
B. C. Wakely, Ts, will not return to the University this year on
account of poor health.
E. H. AVells, 'Tel, is in the Homeopathic college of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
J. T. IIikd, '74, has left his business in Flushing and is now study ing law in New York city.
Watts, Oi, has gone to his home in IoAva where he is going to Avail for "something to turn up."
E. J. Preston, '7-">, says he has been king on his father's farm at Wing's Station since last June.
Ostei.man, '77, will not return to the University this year, anel in
tends to teach school this winter.
Hadley, 'TS, has been sick at his home nearly all summer, antl will not return to the University this year.
Henky CE Johnson, '7o, has accepted the chair of Latin anel (.beck in the Ury House Sehool at Philadelphia.
II. E. Coi-ei and, '7J, has charge of the Natural History department of the city schools of Indiana; his salary is si, 500.
Randolph, d'.i, the bow oarsman of the Freshman crew, is If! years of age instead of lb as it was given in our last issue.
W. Swaty, '74, the wellknoAvn second hand book vender, is in the mercantile business with his father at Ahnopee, Wis.
Pkof. O. A. Derijv will sail for Brazil on Oct. 2Jd, where he will join Prof. Hartt, who has charge ofthe Brazil survey.
E. D. Pkeston, '7">, engineer on the University Avater-works, was
called home last week to attend the funeral of his brother.
II. L. Coffin, 'T'.i, avIio has been confined to his room for about two weeks, has so far recovered as to be able to take short walks.
Fkeo. II. Jackson, 'To, has just been appointed Lieutenant Colonel and assistant adjutant-general of the ."Hh division, N. G. S. N. V.
Rifis Andekson, 'To, who did so much while in Cornell, and since he graduated, tor our Navy, is in business in PomdiUecpsie, N. Y.
Bakti.ett, of 'Ts, innocenlly asked one of the visitors yesterday where Hamilton college was. ()n being scornfully told that it, was al Clinton, he endeavored to salve bymatter over inquiring whether that was near Clinton prison. — Journal.
J. E. B. Sante,;, O", of Hornellsville, is the Republican candidate
for the Assembly ,„ the second district of Steuben Co 'I'he poliiie-,1
competent'"organs pronounce him as "young, lalented, energetie, and
and as he is a " line speaker and ready debater," fie will, if eleeled rep
resent the district with credit to himself and his constituents
Our table is covered as usual this week with college journals, and Ihey in turn are crow tied with matter—good, bad, and indifferent. We are filled with dismay at the idea ot reading them all, but shall not fail to do so for lack of good intentions. It is said that everything has its use, and that "good intentions" are pressed into concrete paving-stones for a certain nameless place; so if avc fail in one direction we arc sure
of success in another.
The Yule Lit. presents a decided contrast to those lively " organs," lhe Courant and the Iheard.. It evidently represents the gigantic intel lects of Yale, its editors being all grave and reverends. We clip the following from its department of Notabilia: "It has been the annual custom for the editors of the Lit. to offer for competition a gold medal. In point of tact the medal has been awarded but once: the successful man either having preferred cash, or the editors being indisposed to be at the trouble of having the medal made. This medal was aAvarded to Andrew D. White, iioav President of Cornell. It Avas circular in form, nearly tAvo inches in diameter. On the obverse, surrounding a beauti ful picture of the college library, avc re the AvortB: 'Awarded to An drew D. White. Merito ac Jure. Yale College, IsO.' On the reversei a balance is represented in which the pen weighs tlown the s-word, be neath the cap of Liberty. Around this are the words, ' Yale Literary Magazine. Merit i Praemium.' "
The Fuiviisity Bccncd reprints an article from the Wdisti-r Ihcunkr,
written by Prof. Norman Robinson, in which that gentleman loudly bewails the tendency of students to lake part iu the "unseemly exhibi tions " at Saratoga. After a careful perusal of the article, Ave have come to the conclusion that it must be dyspepsia that the Pro;'e.--or is suffer ing from. A three-mile run before breakfast and total abstinence from heavy pastry would, no doubt, be beneficial. We take the liberty of quoting a few of his ravings, feeling quite sure that he av ill smile at them when he recovers: "Let the six biggest simpletons in a college
get up a 'club 'of some kind to air their mu>cle> anel exhibit their
brawn, anel an appreciative public -will come by thousands, and the newspapers will devote Avhole columns of the choicest reportorial En
glish to glorifying the transaction!" Hoav nice: " Six biggest simple tons!" The Professor says they are, and it no doubt must be so— it is prima facie evidence that any man who pulls in a crew is a simpleton! Furthermore: "A race-track has not usually been considered an emi nently beneficial institution. But it can at least be said in its favor that
the morals of the horses themselves are not involved in the matter.
They elo not bet or gamble or drink whiskey or quurivl or shoot each other or do a thousand absurd or bad things, in which, em such occa sions, their masters so freely engage. But in these inter-collegiate con tests all are upon one dead level of "sportime" equality, and it is not too much to say that the demoralization is, if possible, more radical and more complete than of the racetrack itself." It's a mercy any one came away from Saratoga alive— many at least must have been dead-
drunk.
The Wesleyan Argus makes its lirsl appearance' this week. It is a bright, paper and deserves a large subscription list. Its advice to the Freshmen is excellent; we agree in everv tiling except what it says iu regard lo struggling for good marks. I here are better ways to gain the esteem of proles-ors and stutlents t ban placing a mark of ! 100 or more opposite oii,.'s n,.mu. ull ,|„. Kegistrur's books. TiK. man who tries too hard for thai, degenerates into Ihe "dig." We believe in devoting a fair amount of time to getl ing lessons, ami when that has been con scientiously done, do not wish lopass the remainder of our time in wor rying about marks.
The Co/leg, .Mercury heads its "item" column Avith the following ap propriate quotation:
"II there's a hole in a' vour co;ds, 1 rede vou tent i|:
A chiel's aiming you takin' notes,
And faith, he'll prent it."
The Cornell Era
" A bore all Sects is Truth."
Yon vie VIII — Ni-mkei! li.
TIIE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER 'JJ, is?."..
$2. oil pei; Annum in Advance.
Prin fed and Published eeery Friday, by Sludents of the Senior and Junior Class, s.
tutors for 1875-11.
J. XV- SiM-KOEVAN T, '7li, M E. Haviland, '77,
Vo P. Woodiuiff
A. J. Loos, '77
— On taking the chair at the recent Union meeting of the
[rving and Philalethean societies. Prof. Shackford gave utter
ance to the following suggestive remark: "Tbe benefit a
student derives from belonging to a literary society is equal
to that
derived from
any erne
",
study.
We have frequently
heard the same view expressed by students in their farewell
speeches before societies of which they were members. Nev
ertheless in our University there is a great discrepancy be
tAveen this estimate placed upon the value attainable from lit-
eraiw societies and the extent to which the advantages they
offer are embraced. It is entirely safe to sav, avc think, that
not more than one-fourth of the students of the University are
in any way connected with literary societies. There are three
reasons by which this may be accounted for. In the first place there is with many a misconception as to the purpose of
a literary sucietA'. It is regarded as holding the same rela
tion to a course of literary study as a natural histeuy society
does to a course of natural history study, or an engineering
society to a course in enoineering. Now' this is a mistaken
view. The purpose of a literary society is to cultivate not
thought upon literature, natural historv, or engineering, ex
cept indirectly, but expression of thought upon any subject. It aims to cultivate universal expressions. More and more
eloquence is 'giving wav to the well-expressed argument, to
the argument that Avill stand printing. The second reason
for the want of interest in literary societies is that with. some
students, what are termed secret societies, are thought to be
sufficient to take their place. However good secret societies
may be in a social point of view, their nost ardent advocates
must admit that it is injudicious to allow them to crowd out literary societies preiper, for secret societies do not, except in very rare instances, attempt to fill the place of literary so cieties. We have no grudge against secret societies, bul in accounting for the causes of lack of interest in literary so cieties, we think that this is an element which must not be omitted. The next and greatest reason why literary societies
do not receive more support is that a large number of stu dents are indifferent to the benefits to be deri.ed from them,
some alleging that they have not time to prepare perform ances required, and others that they do not like tu speak in
public. To those who are thus indifferent or timid we can
only say that no opportunity after leaving college Avill afford
you the chance for cultivating expression that belongino- to a
literary society during your course here will. In the literary
society you have the sympathy of your audience, your errors in expression and manner are kindly pointed out to you. Your
errors in thought can do no one harm. The first speech is called the "maiden effort,'" even " somebody else and Avater," if all appearance of that lowest of literary sins plagairism is ab
sent ; and if the expression be yemrs and be passably elegant, is
called a good feast. The outside world will not alloAv begin
ners any such scope as this for practice. And who expects to live in this Pepublic and not give utterance t<» his views on
questions in which, as a citizen, he is bound to be interested,
and upon which he may have great influence 'J.
With the decline of the study of the classics there is, as
has been urged, danger of a decline in good writing. Wheth
er this be so or not rests largely with the scientific and tech
nical student to determine. We do not doubt that among
those students who d<> not belong to literary societies there are
many avIio are carrying on private courses of reading and
improving themselves in literary culture in various ways.
Yet, even then, they lose the spur to exertion that conies from
being obliged to prepare a production for an appointee! time.
That there is an increased interest in literary societies the
history of the Irving, the oldest society in the University,
shows. This is evident to anyone who has made observations
upon this subject for the short space of two or three vears.
The recent Union meeting of the Irving and Philalethean so
cieties, shows that there is no want of external support. The
literaryformation ggcel in its work by too large a
membership. We ask all t<> deckle Avhether Prof. Shackford's
words are true or not, and to be guided by that decision.
— The three upper classesliave been canvassed for rueuiev to
reconstruct the gymnasium and have respondeel admirably, but the Freshman class has not done its duty in this respect, notwithstanding the fact that the upper classes had contrib uted largely toward the original cost of the building. As
seiiin as the Freshmen contribute and the other contributions
are paid in, the Avork Avill go on anel the University crew Avill commence their winter practice. Pemomber that our repre sentatives at Saratoga next year (the Freshmen as well as the University six) neeel practice in the gymnasium during the season Avhen they can't row.
42
THE CORNELL ERA.
Oct. 22, 1875.
—The term is nearly half gone. Everybody is at work, or ought to be so. Everything i.s going on prosperously so far as avc can see. The Freshmen have just had a chance to
place) entered them in a blaze of fire; and they are heard there yet, answering to the invocations of the high priests or medicine men, who consult them when they are visitors to this
hear President White. Some of the upper classmen are til-
ready talking of beginning to cram a little. May the day speedily come when cramming shall begin so early in the term that it shall not begin at all. The year bids fair to be one of entire prosperity.
sacred place." It presents a sublime exhibition of one of Nature's grand con
vulsions, well calculated to inspire awe in the minds of the In dians, Avho venerated the place, and were accustomed to visit it for the purpose of obtaining the stones out of which to fash ion their pipes; always leaving a ping of tobacco and other
—The second and third pages of our covers appear as trifling articles as a peace offering to the Manito or Great
blanks this week from an accident; the form was "pied" by ac Spirit, in accordance Avith custom. The Indian detected in
cident when it was too late to reset it before going to press. guiding a white man to its sacred precincts Avas subject to in
We trust that the " ads." will be perused with more avidity than stant death. Indeed the exact location of the mound had
ever when they appear in our next issue.
been kept a profound secret among the Indians, until a few
years ago, when a party of surveyors, choosing a dark dismal
Mt Pfluntaitt of the gratrtc.
day as best adapted to the undertaking, determined to find it,
if within the range of possibilities. At one of the camps thev
In the eastern part of Barron County, Wisconsin, about fell in with a young Indian, whom they bribed to conduct
fifty miles north by west from Chippewa Kails, mav be seen them to the spot, which he did, but by a very circuitous route,
an irregular oblong mound, rising some three hundred feet above the surface of the surrounding country. It possesses a peculiar interest as being the identical Red Pipe-stone quarry of the Ojibways—the "Mountain of the Prairie" in the Song
in order to deceive them as to its location. This Avas only as
certained, when upon their arrival, one of the party consulting his pocket compass, discovered thev had deviated some eigh teen miles from the direct course; which, as he now became
of Hiawatha—Avhere
i aware, had been, at a certain point, just six miles from their
" Gitche Manito, tbe mighty, Calls the tribes of men together,
Calls the warriors to his council."
| destination. Having procured specimens of the stone, the In| diaii, who all this time had been in a trembling state of anxie
It is situated among the lands located with college land scrip, some years since by the late Ezra Cornell, and is now the property of the Cornell University. It is described as sloping
down from the summit in bold declivities on the north and
Avest, assuming a concave form on the south east, indicating that at some early period a portion of the hill had lost its foundation and sunk, one third of it breaking off in a curved perpendicular line.
ty, lest he should be discovered, most carefully and complete ly obliterated all traces of their visit. Casting his eyes to-
Avards the last rays of the setting sun, just then appearing from behind a heavy mass of clouds, and with an expression of the most abject fear depicted upon every lineament of his
countenance, he eagerly implored them to depart, and started
to reconduct them to the place whence they came, by the same circuitous route. The owner of the pocket compass,
"As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn
A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne;
however, now fully, aware of the situation, declined the pro posed route, telling him that his party intended going in a di
From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds,
rectly opposite direction, but that he was at liberty to go his
At every shock the crackling wood resounds;
own way. They further intimated to him that they no longer
Still gathering force, it smokes; and, urg'd amain,
Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain:
There stops
"
In Mr. Catlin's " Letters and Notes on the Man
ners, Customs, and Condition of the North American
Indians," is an interesting account of the Peel Pipe-stone q ar-
ry taken from the Indian traditions. He says: "The Great
Spirit at an ancient period here called the Indian nations to
gether, and, standing on the precipice o1' the red pipe-stone rock, broke from its Avail a piece, and by turning it in his hand, made a huge pipe which he smoked over them, and to the North, the South, the East, and the West, and told them
needed his services, and explained to him where they were by the compass. The Indian, fairly astonished, glanced at the instrument, and seemed to comprehend he had revealed the dread secret to the white man. Realizing the enormity of his offense, anel the certain punishment that awaited him, a thrill of horror seemed to run through his frame, and, with a sud den bound, he disappeared into the thicket. He was never
seen after; from which fact, aud in strict accordance with the
tradition, it may be inferred that he was consigned to the fiery oven presided oyer by the two old women, I so-.nec-cos-
tee and Tso-nie-cos-te-won-dee, the guardian spirits of the
mountain.
that this stone was red— that it was their flesh that they
must use it for their pipes of peace— that it belonged to them all, and that the war club and scalping-knife must not be raised on its ground. At the last whiff of his pipe his head
went into a great cloud, and the whole surface of the rock for
several miles was melted and glazed; tAvo great ovens were
opened beneath, and two women, (guardian spirits of the
Before its upheaval, this mound undoubtedly consisted of
a mass of very Hue red clay, which has become hardened into
a compact, beautiful sto,,,., nearly seamless, out of which pipes
sire
the
easily whittled with a knife. It is admirably adapted purpose, as it hardens on being exposed to the air, and
to
is
miperv.ous
hne polish,
to the oil of tobacco.
like marble, and can be
1, admits, moreover, of a
used for slabs and articles
Oct. 22, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
43
of furniture, Avhere red should be the fancy instead of white.
Indeed there can be no doubt that in the course of modern
progress, when the highways of commerce shall have been opened up in that region, this beautiful and substantial ma terial, easily wrought into elegant forms by the hand of the skillful artist, Avill contribute its quota to the wants and
tastes of civilization.
The poet Longfellow has beautifully interwoven the tra ditions of the place in "the Peace-Pipe''' of the Song of Hi awatha, which might aptly be quoted here in full, did space allow. A feAV lines, however, Avill suffice:
" On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitehe Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending,
On the red crags of the quarry,
Stood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.
*****
Smoked the calumet, the Peace-Pipe As a signal to the nations.
Down the rivers, o'er the prairies,
Came the warriors of the nations.
All the Avarriors drawn together By the signal of the Peace-Pipe, To the Mountains of the Prairie, To the great Red Pipestone Quarry.
*
*-
*
*
*
1 Break the red stone from this quarry,
Mould and make it into Peace-Pipes,
Take the reeds that grow beside you,
Deck them with your brightest feathers, Smoke the calumet together,
And as brothers live henceforward!'
*****
And in silence all the warriors
Bioke the red stone of the quarry,
Smoothed and formed it into Peace Pipes, Broke the long reeds by the river, Decked them with their brightest feathers, And departed each one homeward, While the Master of Life, ascending, Through the door-ways of the heaven, Vanished from before their faces, In the smoke that rolled around him, The Pukwana of the Peace-Pipe."
It is an interesting feature of Class-Day exercises, when the graduating class
" Smoke the calumet together,"
and as true sons of a noble Alma Mater go forth into the
world
"And as brothers live henceforward."
Whether the interest of that special occasion would be height ened should the pipes used, be fashioned from the red pipestone of the University on " the Mountain of the Prairie," is a
matter resting solely with those whom it may concern.
Pustoflisi—grate*.
When one confronts me with the statement, "you are a liar," I am inclined to believe that he is in earnest, and is in dependent in the expression of his opinion. For this I am forced to respect him. The probability is that he has consid ered his ground carefully and has discovered fair reasons for his views. But if he begins to laud what he is pleased to call my sound judgment, my clear reasoning, my accomplish ments or my beauty, I am on the alert and suspect immediate ly that he is talking of that about which he knows nothing, that he is biased, or that he is indirectly paying court to his own conceit. The last is probably the true reason for my sus picion. In truth, the entire subject of praise presents itself to me in this light.
To begin loAvest in the scale, politics as noAV conducted. Neighbor Jones is a good democrat, reads only democratic pa
pers antl vows with strong oaths that he will ever remain true
to their teachings. Neighbor Thompson is similarly disposed. So these two worthy neighbeus meet together of an evening, praise the great and gootl principles of the democratic party,
and go into raptures over the noble democratic chiefs. Hav
ing satisfied their proclivities in this direction, they next pour out the most bitter vituperations upon the republican party, reviling its tenets and its leaders until one would imagine that only burning sulphur antl brimstone could meet their require ments. Where each of these parties is, no one has yet discov ered. I believe, however, that if a sufficient number of demo
crats or republicans can be conceived of, the conglomeration is called a " party." Not muddling our heads with this phan tom, Ave find that these conversations of neighbors Jones and
Thompson are nothing more nor less than mutual admiration entertainments. Neighbor J. has seen something to admire— or rather, his father has seen it for him. This is precisely the case with neighbor T. They meet. Fortunately they have learned to admire the same thing. They each fall into rap tures over it, and thereupon shake each other by the hand, smile benignly, pat each other on the shoulder, take a little hot toddy perhaps, and then Avith placid countenances return to their virtuous couches, happy in the heaven-inspired principles of the democratic party, otherwise, tilled with their own con
ceit— and toddy. Well, this is entirely proper, and all the vexatious political
problems of the day would thus be easily settled, if there did not dwell near by tAvo more worthy neighbors, York and Hol low, who are as profoundly impressed Avith the pure principles of republicanism as the former two are with those of democra cy. York and Hollow form a second society—or party—for self-glorification, and for the condemnation of all not thinking
as themselves.
Being now evenly matched, our good neighbors can—in the classic sense— damn each other as much as they please and no one will be especially hint. Praise is met with praise, slander with slander. Just over the hill, however, lives neighbor King, a blustering, hot-headed old fellow, Avho often comes to " the centre" to discuss logs and polities. His presence at once changes the state of affairs. Being a good republican
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THE CORNELL ERA
Oct. 22, 1875.
and a mighty talker, the democratic brethren are completely ' Jones, Thompson, etc., are but types, and are everywhere en routed and thereby the principles of the republican party are gaged in mutual praise or condemnation. There was a time forever vindicated. Henceforth the republican sentiments are when men heaped praises on each other for prowess in Avar.
the only holy and < b.d-given ones- all that is democratic is In those days there worr ideals and visions of glory held up born of the devil and begotten in sin. Now, if providence before men which were in strange accord with their own state
would kindly send along two democrats, we would at once of civilization. Men were stimulated also by rewards of gold,
see the divine origin of democracy. If a principle can but re tinsel, and other attractive articles Avhich satisfied their ideas
ceive the good- will of a majority of pure-minded, unbiased ego of the recompense due for virtuous deeds. In this enlightened
tists, oue may immediately see it written in the heavens, and age the form is somewhat changed, yet the principle does not
hear it proclaimed by the voice of (bid.
seem to have varied greatly. Instead of decking each other
Ah, well, like is ever repeating itself One has certain 1 with silver, tinsel, and similar baubles, because of the number
thoughts, and if a sufficient number of his fellows hold the of our fellows whom Ave have slain, we pass enconiums for
same views, the ''finger of God" is seen at once -the seal of what is termed well-doing, righteous living, etc. — although it
heaven is brought forth, and all avIio dare believe otherwise is said that a few uncivilized tribes still decorate themselves
are consigned t-> eternal punishment. I fear that if an inven with medals. It may seem somewhat strange to the unsoph
tory were taken of the "fingers of God, " the result would be isticated, that men should laud each other to the skies because
appalling.
each carries out the ideal of the other, yet Ave have fortius
Thus it is we praise our neighbors and, indirectly, ourselves; the authority of our ancestors, and no one questions authority,
avc go into ecstacies over their darling beliefs, avc howl our at least practically. This is the manner in which our admir
selves hoavse in their behalf, and all because they think and act ation operates; — I love and obey my parents —supposing the
as avc ourselves. Then if anv dare have a different view of af case. My neighbor says I am a noble young man anel will
fairs, avc go mad over their follies, their evil natures and their undoubtedly go the way of all the good! Why? Because I
heathenish propensities. We kindly give them over to the am a dutiful son! Now the fact is, if I am such, it is because
devil, heave a labored sigh, and call all this " charity."
such a state is in perfect accord with my idea of propriety, to
This spirit is not confined to political life. It is found per say nothing of right —it affords me happiness, and fortius I
vading literature, art anel science. If we do not go into ecsta am praised! "Oh most excellent judge! a second Daniel!" I
cies over the Avritings of some famous author—that is, one who think Ibis example is enough. If not, then I shall never suc
has a large majority of reaelers in his favor—he is set down as ceed in making my meaning clear. However, if you Avill look
ignorant, uncultivated, of no taste, and his acquaintance is not through my glasses, I will show you a strange sight. For
desired by his would-be judges. Perhaps it might surprise some of those self-appointed critics were they to know Iioav gladly the excommunicated retire from their presence. It would be a pity, however, to bring them to a consciousness of this, for their chief pleasure Avould thus be wrested from them and they would be left on the sea of life Avithout helm or
rudder. bod forbid that men should ruthlessly take from
others that Avhich is their comfort and joy, however ignoble it
may seem.
Again, if one be not profoundly impressed with a piece of sculpture wdiich "the world" has declared to be carved by a
miles away —encircling all the habitable part of the globe, in fact —extends a. strange conglomeration of people, each pat" ting his neighbor on the back, or engaged in evolutions strik ingly in contrast Avith this. You cannot see it ? Well, I can. Will you tell me it is false — that it is an hallucination, to ex press it mildly? Who is to judge between us? Please bring out your authority. Remember, however, that I have on mv glasses, and after all I may be only a lunatic— that is, one
who is so unfortunate as to be the sole supporter of his own views, with the rest of mankind against him.
II ex n v.
hand inspired of heaven, one's most charitable sentence is
that he is a poor, wretched mortal, incapable of appreciating the beauties of life, whereas there is always the probability that he possesses in his own soul, elements which bring him into harmony Avith attributes of the Infinite, and which areas beau tiful and as much imbued with the spirit of (bid as those Avhich alone are discernable to his remorseless judges. In this man ner the so-called cultivated portion of the world bring their fellows to judgment before a court where its own conceit is at
"11<,(-' judge, jury, and advocate. If the accused be guilty ac cording to the coile here adopted, ostracise him; if not, if he be in perfect harmony with the laws of the court, receive him to your bosoms, pet him, call him one of heaven's own chil
dren, and teach him to repeat with reverent mien
"A Daniel came to judgment! yea, a Daniel1 (.) wise young judge, how do I honor thee:"
Thus, unexpectedly, perhaps, we see our good neighbors
(forrcsiHrndcnrc.
We clip the following from a private letter, from a Ham ilton student, which will explain the late "bolt" of the Fresh
man class at that college:
"The Hamilton Freshmen are in trouble. About two weeks
ago they were aching for some mischief, ami finally conclud ed to play a trick on the President, so they took his wagon and placed it on top of the observatory. Then they went af
ter a calf that belonged to a neighboring professor, and were
gp<»mg to put. it in the chapel, but, one of the faculty was
aroused
by
the
disturbance,
got
after
one of
the
'
Freshmen but
failed to catch him. The class resolved,' if. any were "called
over" lor the disturbance, to answer by saving, " we prefer to
say nothing about il," and that if one was sent they should all go. In a couple of days four of (he fellows were summoned to
appear before the faculty, which resulted in the suspension of
Oct. 22, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
4.1
two of them. One of them remained faithful to his p' ledg*e
Av•i+tih ,tihe cli ass.
tHte
was
•
innocent.
looprrmlhe
,
other
did,. ,
,
md
his p1 ledg^e.
The faculty say
•
tiiev sent
the first
one for n"Uotl
. .•
answering their questions. After these were suspended, the
with thee anpi,pi,iro„vv.a.il oof resi■ di ent and consent of the Facul-
ty, are announced, viz:
p.,,.i-i,„.C' '"n1l"c-iCc.
tK> •laikhurst, *to ibe
,-.
Captain
(company
"15 "i
" D. F. Flannerv " " " ( " "(■».
class rame together antl sent a note to the President to the
Ir
^ •
Kappes
""
"
(
"
"D.")
effect that the punishment was unjust, but asked that thev
("' 15 ^vlu',,lock to be 1st Lieut, and Arljutant.
should all be suspended, and if this was not granted t hey
'
Twoul,d-a,bs,e.n.t ,themseli ves rIrom
•. •
recitations
unti•l,
the
other two
members were taken back. The paper was signed by all the
crbert l.-ny
(<- '*• M-uideville
,,,; t• ■
., ...
" D. F. Van Vleet
leomp ,i in- "R."i and <,) lr. -master. (comp;my ' "A. "j (
class but one, and he was out of town. The request was not i
" LE D. Sherman
( "D.")
complied with, and part of the class left on the next train; so
' M Cooper
( "A.")
the next morning the faculty suspended all the members of
the class whose names were on the paper, and said that they
might come back if thev would apologize. *
Thev say they
• 77 will
never go
,back,
...
without
th, e
man
'
wh,o-i•s innocent,'
••
and hUavHe
al,l ,lef,t ,th.e ,co,ll,eg„e.
J|; ^ '"' °
W. II. Culvei
( (
F. M. Stearns
("
Tihi,e,, a..tbove namedi of^ficers wi•ll ■be .,ib,ev,e,el and
ttlh„e, ,p>e,rofoormance otv ^thei■ r m-i,l-itary d-, uti■es.
-
onimandant,thel,», v
,
order
..
or
,
,,
( .
,
"H."l V.") "IV;
re'spected
in
P/•a/t/tors /<■ o/ntUn Jrtiti..
FOOT IIAI.L.
ugned)
(E B. Wiieei.o. k.
1st Lieut, and AdJjutant.
About two weeks since an item from a Boston paper ap- !
i-outical.
peared on the bulletin board under the head of " W amino "
°'
•
wihichi
a„ttract»edi
ttihe
attention
,
of
al„l
students
.
interested
m
foot
ball. It stated that,' "At a meeting ot the Harvard College
to
.....
toot ball club, to take
,. . .
into coioderation
a
challenge to plav
with the eleven of Yale College, the Avhole matter vvas referred
it
L1"
l>"ihilisiln■ ng
.t,he
*fol,,lowing
s,hort
notice
,.,
which
Ave
re-
,c.e,;i,A. ed,i ft-o„r.
;insertf-ion, we d-> o
'• not wish,
■
to give
our
readi ers th, e
'
o,
u«p,l'ssl,,n
,'h, atf
ttlhe
hT,it a
is
to
,become
an
organ
„
of
ei. th, er
polit-
[vn\ lnitv _y ,s i
KJitors ( 'ornell Fra-
to the executive committee with [power, not onl°v to aaruruann^oce
-tor.U,k,j .1 ,ale
,
match,'
,
but
a
so
tor matches
with
Coliummiiboiiaa, Cvooir-
..
.
uell
and
T1
,
liiitgers.
Althoug°h the football season is nearly ■
Halliday, aiul is a Tl,,stL>l, l|f 0,rnell
elected t0 that of.
disagreeable to play at all, it seems as if something ought to
hynw
(ll(1 Ah[mni two vears ^
H(J was um, of the fomul.
be done about the matter, for in case a challenge should be : ers „f «TllE Cul!XKM. Era," and is now o„e of the ablest law-
received from Harvard Ave have no one to attend to it
Tahiiel ver.s.0111. TI«tha aca.
supported bya\\v e 1have no d1o1u*bt1he Av-inll 1be
L 11
t.1he
"8tnaentsCornell toot ball Assoei .tion was reorganized in the winter of ;
lo a man.
/~
'74-,75, soon after the challenge was received from Ann Ar- ! '
bor, that created so much excitement at the time because
President \> lute refused to let u forty men go four hundred !
- ------- - —
j, ^
j .^ ^
miles, just to agitate a bag of wind." The president of the!
( hi Wednesday President White summoned all the stu-
assoeiation at the time, K. Bausch, ^(i, is not in the Universi- 1 dents to meet him at Sage Chapel at 12 o'clock. The curios-
ty now, and such a thing as the Cornell foot ball Association hy of the Freshmen was aroused to know what was to be
does not exist. It is not necessary t<» say that avc should have ' done, while the majority of the upper classmen anticipated such an organization in running order, for everv body will see the annual " talk," which really came when avc were finally
at once, who has read the above notice, that we cannot get gathered in the chapel. Same " boors," and that name is too
along without it. The sooner it is reorganized anel new offi- good for them, knew no more than to commence stamping,
cers elected the better it will be, for no doubt the challenge 1 Avithout any occasion, before the talk h d commenced; avc
to play the Harvard eleven will be along sometime this fall or hope that the President's remarks, with regard to such per
early next spring. We understand that the Columbia eleven sons, may have caused some of those present, to reflect upon
are practicing up for a contest with the Yale men which comes their ridiculous actions. The remarks were commenced by
off next
month,
and
that
W.
J.
Thompson, '74,
is
to
be
one
of {
several
reasons
being
stated
why
the
University, its
friends
the number. If Cornellians go to work, we are confident an and patrons, have a right to congratulate themselves; the
eleven can be picked that will not be beaten very badly by most important of which is the fact of there being a larger
any of the eastern colleges.
Bixx. entering class than before, since the standard of scholarship
! has been raised, the opening of two iicav buildings Avas also
( dkxell cadets.
' shown to be an indication of increasing prosperity. Then af-
Genekal Ohders, /
-\r
o
c
lb,C, , oKXKLI. TiN^ IA'E„R„S.,I.T„A,- , (O\ cat. ic i1«8-o-,.
ter being=" told that Ave did not come hereto be educated,' but that we came te> educate oursclres, we were again advised to
read John Froossteerr'ss eessssaayy on " Decision off Character.'" SNoome
The following appointments in the Corps of Cadets, made j good advice was given in regard to fluctuating between cour-
46
THE CORNELL ERA.
Oct. 22, 1875.
ses, and the necessity of energy, thoroughness and concentra tion of power was made plain to all. Next a reference was made to college literature, and had the same been said of col lege journalism, we would have felt as though our mission was anything but honorable and profitable. Every thought ful student must concede that "outside politics are mean, but college politics are infinitely meaner," especially if he has
ever run for office and been defeated. The remark " manners
maketh men," was sIioavh to convey a great deal of truth, es pecially when applied to young men who tire apt to be boor ish in their habits. Athletic sports, especially rowing, were recommended very highly, and although the President Avould not have the Cornell crew win every year, out of regard for the feelings of some others, yet Ave feel sure that he would do his share of rejoicing about once a year, if the occasion per
mitted.
The talk was closed by the Avish that all would succeed in their endeavors to become learned, and the Freshmen departed, having learned something iicav and profitable, Avhile the other three classes received advice, which though heard before, nev
er becomes trite.
\lnim;$itt! %Uvn$.
— The Senior who talked with a "co-ed" at Sage College for half an hour one evening last, week, and gave her the impression that he was a Freshman, is searching for his dignity.
—The following is an extract from a Freshman's essay: "The Hin
doos were not an untutored, uncivilized race; they had some knowledge
of medals and gods which they worshipped."
— T. Tilton asked in his lecture, " Who among you can compute an eclipse e" Had his lecture occurred a month later we should have heard a deafening sound from the Juniors of "I," "I."
— (Juite a number of students who have more than seventeen hours of recitations find they have to drill, because they did not register for the two hours extra at the beginning of the term.
After a rigid competitive examination between Mr. Palmer and Mr. Van Velzer, Mr Palmer has been appointed to represent Cornell in the
mathematical examination at New York next winter.
A— discontented Sophomore wanted to know, the other day, it the ladies were obliged to take two hours extra in order to get rid of drill ing. We refer him to the Dr. who.is posted on such matters.
— Dr. Bridgeman, from Albany and of the Baptist denomination, will deliver the next two University sermons at Sage Chapel on Oct. 24, at 11 a m. and :] p. m. All are cordially invited to attend.
A— rib and the left arm bone of a mastodon found by Mr. Millen at Centre Lisle, N. Y., are on exhibition at the Anatomical Lecture Room. Workmen are novv engaged in exhuming the remainder of the skeleton.
— Duns for tuition are in vogue these times.
— Senior plugs are about as prevalent as Junior moustaches, and are
much more visible.
— Lafayette College has a newly-founded Law School; the inaugural
exercises were held Oct. fi.
A— Freshman on seeing a barouche on tbe hill Tuesday asked, " What is that hearse doing up here?"
— Captain J. N. Ostrom received, last week, a handsome, new sin gle shell from Waters & Son, of Troy. AVe would be pleased to see Mr. Ostrom become as good a single sculler as he is stroke on the Uni versity six.
— Nearly the whole of the Sophomore class at Lafayette were sus pended at the beginning of the term for hazing; upon receiving a prom ise from them to abstain from such practice the faculty has again ad
mitted them.
—Dartmouth College has among its Freshmen a Japanese, a Cher okee Indian, and a clergyman who is fifty years of age.
-*A Freshman being asked the number of the house in which he lived replied, " It has no number except a number of children."
—A. P. Loring, captain and stroke of the Harvard Freshman crew this year, has been elected captain of next year's University crew.
— The Freshman Avho tried to persuade some fellow students that he
belonged to the
"
Sprague
Hughes boat club,"
failed in the attempt
—We expect to see the military companies filled to overflowing af ter the advice given by the President is appreciated to its full extent.
—We are sorry the error crept into our local column last week, that the proceeds from the regatta were only x40. ft should have read £140.
—Professor Comstock, of Cornell, can hardly be said to "make no bones " about that mastodon discovery in Broome County. — fVtu- York
World.
—A Freshman, after listening to President White's address to the students last Wednesday, said that college literature is defined as "some body in the water."
—Milton was asked whether he would instruct his daughters in the different languages, to which he replied, "No, sir; one tongue is suffi
cient for a woman."
— Where ignorance is bliss, etc. — (Prof, in A
): "And the name
isV" (Capt. Cook)-"K. J. Cook, sir." (Prof.,-" Has your name been
in the catalogue."— Record.
-Dr. Wilder suggests that instead of students cheering by clappin.r their hands and stamping, that they use the word "good." We think this is certainly a good suggestion.
A— modest Sophomore in the French class the other morning, after translating "J'embrasse M. de Grignay," Arc, literally, it sounded a little strong to him, so he added in a low tone "metaphorically of course.'' His cheek is developing.
A— card from the secretary of the Inter-collegiate Literary Asso ciation informs us that Cornell will be allowed the following number of representatives: in oratory, two; in essay writing, two; in mathemat
ics, one, and in Greek, two
—A Junior in chemistry spent half an afternoon trying to dissolve what he supposed to be some fused potassium nitrate, and was intense ly disgusted when he found he had been fooling with that "darned old piece of broken evapraotor."
—An inquisiiive Freshman inquired of a Senior what the President was lecturing about this term. The Senior informed him that he had been lecturing on- Erasmus and Luther. "<>, I see," savs Freshie, "he is lecturing on biblical characters!"
—A delegation from Sage College visited Free Hollow, the other evening, ;U1,1 W(T(, v,.,.y mnc\x pleased with its surroundings. It is ru
mored that the cider mill was the center of attraction as some of them
carried pails in their hands on their return.
—The collectors of autographs kept tbe Preident's secretary busy last Wednesday morning, putting up "notices extraordinary," and the Junior who saved the telegram from the President for the sake of the autograph ou it, has now obtained the bona Jide article.
—At. the Tom Hughes meeting held at No. 4, Hawkins A- Finch block, last Tuesday evening, the following were elected members ofthe club: C.S.Cobb, '77, S. M. Smith, '77, W. S. Edwards, '78, F. H. Severance, 'pi, <}(>(). p„,ardman, '?s, R. 15. Finch, '7S, \Y C Ames, "77, R. B. Keiit. '7!i.
Oct. 22, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA
47
—The Redpath English opera will be in Ithaca on the 3d and 4th of November; special trains will be run on the Cayuga Lake R. R. to ac commodate those from Wells College and the Howland School. The sale of seats commences next Monday at Finch A- Apgar's. All who want to attend a good opera and get a chance to see the Wells College
maidens had better attend.
A— Freshman who is not taking the course of physiology lectures, having heard his chum say that Dr. Wilder recommended to his stu dents who were in the habit of studying hard until a late hour, the reading of some light literature before retiring, in order to rest the brain, laid down his "Chauvenet" at half past nine and read the Fireside Companion until eleven, lie slept well that night.
—The "Board," last Tuesday evening, were highly pleased with the serenade which was being given them under their " sanctum" window by the Ithaca band, antl were going to give them a vote of thanks and perhaps an " Eka" apiece for their trouble, when some one came into the room and asketi them up to the Republican meeting on the next floor. The propriety of giving the vote of thanks was reconsidered.
—At a meeting of the Sprague Boat Club, last Tuesday evening, the folloAving names were elected as members: Mason, '7!t Trumbull,'?!), Millard, '7it. Bissel, '7S, Clark, '7!), Martin, '7!i, Mt-Mackin, '7!!, Ran dolph, '7t>, Lehman, '7'.». The following set of resolutions were adopt ed, similar ones having been adopted by the Tom Hughes Club at their last meeting: 1st. Resolved, That no person shall be considered a mem ber of the Sprague Boat Club, Avho has not paid his initiation fee of $5.00. 2nd. R< solved. That no person shall be admitted to membership in the Sprague Boat Club, Avho shall have been expelled from the Tom Hughes Boat Club. 3d. Iu solved, That the above resolutions shall have force only in conjunction Avith similar resolutions, passed by the Tom Hughes Boat Club.
from everybody, Avhile the remaining walls were covered with choice engravings of the masterpieces of statuary. The brilliant light from the chandelier was toned down by the fragrant smoke into a mellow glow that lent an Eastern charm to the scene. After a few moments spent in pulling the weed and in general conversation, a song was pro posed. This proposition was at once followed by a song and chorus to the effect that one of the chief properties of cider was to increase the width of a person's abdominal cavity. The General did not need a sec ond hint; he hastened to his wine-cellar, but soon returned Avith his genial countenance somewhat clouded, to inform the thirsty multitude that his cider keg had mysteriously disappeared. After a prolonged search it was found in an out-of-the-way corner, anel happiness Avas again restored. The sparkling liquid was passed around in generous bowls, and soon nothing was heard but the hiss of cigarettes being ex tinguished, and a gurgling sound as of Avater flowing from a bottle. When all had been satisfied, the room was cleared for dancing purposes; the "ladies" were distinguished from the gentlemen by having handker chiefs tied around their coat-sleeves. We cannot speak too highly of the graceful forms of the trippers of the light fantastic, nor of the be witching music. After this amusement was exhausted, a scientific setto with the gloves took place between two gentlemen of '77, who pro voked much mirth by the playful manner in which they damaged each other's proboscises. The entertainment closed with a couple of songs charmingly sung by a sweet-voiced Senior, and everybody went home feeling that this would lie one of the bright spots of college life to be afterwards recalled Avith a smile, when the sterner duties and hurlyburly of the world leave but little time for such careless gaiety.
iVrsonals.
Shackford, '7(i, is in Grand Rapids, Mich.
—The game of foot-ball between '77 and '7S, that was postponed last
Saturday on account af the rain, vvas played Thursday afternoon. The
game was called at
2:30 i*.
m. ,
but the usual delay
was experienced, and
Jonks, '7fi, has just returned to the University. L. E. FuimEii, '77, is in business in Crete, Nebraska.
at 3:30 the game was started after choosing " Senator" referee, P. Ay len umpire for '7s, and Flannery umpire for '77. The Juniors Avon the toss and took the north field. Rice sent it off and it approached un comfortably near to '7s' s goal, but was finally driven back and after a hot contest of 6b minutes was put through '77's goal. The second goal was played in 8 minutes and resulted in another score for the Sopho
F. D. Strati;, '7. The above data may be useful in choosing our best players in case we should ever have a chance
to play Avith any other college.
—Last Monday evening the " < b-neral's" room was the scene of an unusually brilliant affair, and one which will long be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to receive invitations. As a member
Bn kii.v.m,
'7!>,
has given up college life,
and returned to his
"
pater
nal roof " last Tuesday. He was very active in college sports aud '79
will miss him very much.
F. E. Manx, '77, is not in the house of correction, as was prophesied of him, (as overseer) at the class meeting in June, but has gone into lu
crative business with his brother-in-law at his home in Wisconsin.
of the reportorial staff of a leading weekly, we, of course, received a
"comp." We shall never forget the impression that ihe gorgeous sight
,§>ris$orinkum$.
Avhich burst upon our gaze maele upon us, as we were ushered into the
hospitable room of our host. The walls were hung with wreaths of smoke which issued from the mouths of the assembled guests; on one
wall were displayed the arms of the General, arranged after an artisticdesign, suggestive of his exploits in flood and field; on a bracket was
—A paper innocently asks if there is any harm in sitting in the laps(e) of ages? Ceorge thinks it depends upon the kind of ages selected. Those from seventeen to twenty five are extra hazardous. — Btcieic.
—History Class.— Siudent— Professor, are kings aud queens always
exhibited the model of a skew arch which drew admiring jcomments the highest ':
48
THE CORNELL ERA
Oct. 22, 1875.
Prof.— Certainly, whv do you ask such a nonsensical question?
Stud.— Because I noticed that in a game of railroad euchre, the
editorial department is especially Avell conducted, discussing all ques tions of inteiest to students in a manly, straightforward way. In an ar
ticle on "Friction and Friendship" it says: " In college Damon and
joker Prof.— Leave the room, sir!— fS'iaguru Index.
—Prof.— "The farmer is dependent, upon the state of his crops." Junior—(sotto voice) "so is a hen."— Boirdoin Orient.
Pythias are no idealities; they are real beings. You find them sitting over their cigars, Avith their feet mounted on the stove, recounting the
experiences of " last vacation," pleasant and otherwise. You find them bruising each other's faces with the gloves. On the street they call
—On the occasion of the late disturbance in East College, one of ihe | each other all sorts of abusive names. And all the while they are cul
Freshmen came out in Hying colors. Color— white.— Mudismu „s,s.
tivating feelings of friendship strong and deep as are their natures.
—If it takes eight professors six months to build a cistern that will not hold water, how long will it take an ordinary man to build one that will? Cive it up? Why, it will take him about three wwks.—CoUigian.
When the four years are over, and they must separate in more senses than one, it will cost violent struggles to retain the same bluff, unfeel ing manner that has characterized their friendship in college." We
[There is some exquisite humor hidden in this item Avhich we fail to have still ringing in our ears the words of our President, when he gave
appreciate.]
his annual "talk" to the students. Among the greatest benefits that
—Prof.—(looking at his watch) "As we have a few minutes, I should like to have any one ask questions, if so disposed." Student—" What
time is it, please?" —Ex.
—A Freshman rushed frantically into a store and asked for "cast iron right-angles." After a lengthy discussion with the padded clerk he departed with a pair of brackets. —Ricord.
—Prof,
to
innocent
"
Soph. —
Air.
X—,
have
you
blown a horn this
he enumerated as possible to be obtained by us Avas the formation of a few friendships, or even one, which would be a source of infinite pleas ure in after life, bet us not esteem lightly these " flowers by the way
side," but carefully plucking a few. preserve them a.- lasting noumdm
of these our happiest days. The Senior class of Wesleyan University have taken some action
with reference to the ladies and class appointments, whereupon the Col
lege Argun is tilled with dark forebodings as to what the secular and re
term-."
Soph. — " Ves, sir, just once, only once, you know."
Prof. — "Well,
Mr.
X— ,
do you find
any
fun
in
it?"
Soph.— " Well, there is no fun, but it's awfully amusing."— A rgus.
—Irate Subscriber (excited, and pointing to objectionable article)—
" What does that mean? Every one of those statements is false." Ed
itor (gazing
reflectively at
article
in
"
question)—
I
shouldn't
wonder
if
the whole article were a typographical error." —Ex.
ligious press will say. To show that their fears are not avithout foun dation, we clip the'following from its editorial on the subject: "In our Freshman year a few of us were anxious to do lhe handsome for the four ladies of our class; so Ave gathered under their Avindows one
night antl gave them about such a serenade as one could expect from Freshmen. The next day a notice of our intended courtesy appeared in one of the leading journals. of the East, and around that little item as a nucleus something less than four hundred othei versions gathered,
A— Freshman wars asked if he had a room-mate yet, to which he re gradually varying in tone, until Ave were represented as smashing in the
plied: " Yes, got one for life."—Ricord.
ladies' windows with cobble-stones to the accompaniment of fish horns
A— Senior told us the other day that Avhile playing blind man's buff at the house of a friend he invariably caught Miss Smith. We pon
dered over it and tried to recall to mind the laws of " attraction of
and horse fiddles." It was the same spirit of the press that two years ago gave to Cornell students the name of " candidates for Satan," and which tilled the pictorial papers with illustrations of initiations that
molecules," etc., we learned Freshman year, but before coming to any had no existence except in the fertile brain of the "artist."
conclusion he stated that his friend's name Avas Smith, antl that he had
seven daughters. Satisfactory. — Coumnt.
— Class in Physiology. — " Mr. BroAvn, you will take up and explain the process of nutrition." Brown— " Can't do it, Professor, I board in
a club." — Ex.
d'he Crimson has a sensible editorial on the university colors. It com plains of the diversity of colors worn at Saratoga. " from bright scarlet to maroon," all purporting to be "crimson." "We have the same diffi culty here, and would do well to follow the plan suggested by the Crimson, viz., to appoint a committee to select the color, and have them
—The two largest mixed colleges in the country are Oberlin and Michigan University. Of the 1,33d students at Oberlin. 033 are women; of the 1,191 at Michigan, 10U are women. — Tripod.
employ some reliable dealer to supply it. The -ime tlealer could also keep the different class colors on hand, and thereby save much trouble and confusion. The Harvard men evidently mean business, judging
—The Tripod informs its friends that "all communications antl con tributions should be addressed Tun Tripod Co., Evanston, 111.
from the following remarks on the new captain of their University crew: " The election of a man who has never rowed on the University crew to the position of captain of the crew, marks a new departure in
<0ur <#xrtoui(jc!5i.
; our boating affairs. The leaf Avhich we are about to turn will, we trust, be brighter than the last one. For the new captain of the crew
Another week has slipped away, and it is once more our pleasant duty to meet our brother and sister editors from afar around our table.
We fear some of them would lake exception to its littered-up condition, and to the general dreariness of the sanctum, but we find consolation in
the thought that others are no better off than we are. For instance the
Wells College Chronicle speaketh thusly: " We do not open our sanc tum Muctm-u/u to the public gaze as one of our exchanges. Il is far too
sacred to be seen by the outer world. No eye hath vet seen its pic tured (?) walls and other belongings." There must be some terrible
mystery connected with that sanctum, or the fair editors would not be
so fearful 0(f its being seen. Perhaps that is where thev keep the chig
nons captured from the Freshmen in the annual rush, or the inhiatiii" apparatus of the (,>. keep out of either of the contests is very like the silent boy's silence for the silent bovEs reason.
J. W. Sri koev.vn r, '?(!,
C. P. WOODRUFF, 'di
M. E. H.vviLVNo, '77,
A. J. boos, ';;.
—The Ithaca Journal publishes a communication purport ed to be from ''A would-be student voter," Avhich calls forth
our supreme indignation. The correspondent, be he Journal
— Harvard, after much discussion of the subject, has de
cided not lo withdraw from the Inter-Collegiate IbiAvino- As sociation. According to the Adcocat, Yale lias been waiting to see what Harvard would do. Many of both the Harvard and Yale men seem desirous of returning to the old single contest like that held by the tAvo colleges annually from lsf>4 to 1*71 on lake Quinsigamond at Worcester. This desire to withdraw can hardly conic from a longing to return to the
good old days when victory alternated from Harvard to Vale and from Yale to Harvard, and Avhen rejoicing by both the colleges was much more frequent, for all the classes now in these colleges have entered since the last Harvard-Yale race
editor, or politician, or student, says that he is "credibly in
formed though loth to believe1' that the editors of the Eka
received --sloo. for inserting the correspondence concerning the candidate lor member of Assembly. Thai no charge of eva sion may be brought against us we deny, in the iirst place, having received one cent in any way for inserting the notice referred to. In the second place ve do not believe that the writer is in possession of a particle of such "credible" infor
mation. In the the third place avc dare him to affirm —for
he has only made a dastardly in.-inuation — that we have
received one cent for making the insertion. If he
does md de> so, avc and the world shall then know that
was rowed. Doubtless tradition has handed down to them
some glowing pictures of the better days, but as an Alumnus
of Harvard asks, "Would not the old style of regatta
seem tame iioav?
We talk of the old enthusiasm of
the men from the tAve> colleges backed by their friends; but, seriously, Iioav can they compare with the excitement where a dozen boats are urged on by the cheers of their re
spective colleges, re-echoed by spectators from north, south,
east, and Avest ?" Harvard men weie the first to aid in
establishing the present system; and as not a race has been won by them during its five years existence, thev very
properly think thev could not AvithdraAV from it hoav Avith any credit tei themselves. If anything like an aristocratic feeling has entered int<» the recent consideration of the subject of
he has no such "credible" information.
Take your
choice. Five hundred students whom you have indirectly in
sulted are looking for your answer. Be direct. Let those
who read the reply — for you must reply or hide your dimin ished head and retire — notice one point, viz., whether vou de
clare boldly that we receiv ed money for the insertion or not.
To evade the point is easy; but silence or evasion, when one
has "credible'" information like this, is equivalent to an ad
mission of pure ami malicious fabrication.
Let every reader notice closely Avhether the purported
" wemlel-be student
"
voter
comes sij_i.iari.hj
up
to tin: point,
or,
like a hunted sheep dog, detected in his attack, sneaks bv a
round about road to his dirty kennel.
withdrawing, that must take care of itself; but if any humil
—Whether students have a right to v ede in Ithaca or not
iation comes from being repeatedly beaten by harliaria,is_ the is a question which must be decided by the laws of the
humiliation is not our fault; you should not have placed such state interpreted by the proper oflicials. Nudciits have been
an estimate upon us as you elid. AVe shall always be glad to alloAveel to vote here as they have been at other similar insti
enter into the friendly contest Avith you, and to meet you tutions, as for instance at Yale, and it seems but just that they
when you desire it, on eeptal terms. Vou have at present a should be alloAveel so to do. Friends of the University, all
jirtstitjt such as none of the rest of us possess; what you do other things being equal, Avill of course have the preference
is thus doubly conspicuous. I bit you must rise to the rea with students. A few weeks ago wc inserted a notice in our lization of the fact that wherever there is good brain and columns respecting a republican candidate in another part of
muscle and facilities that there must also be good men, and the state; and last week, one in regard to a democrat in Itha
that the best of these men Avill be found leading the van ca. We regard these insertions as bearing on the interests of
whether the contest be muscular or intellectual. They will the University. There is a strong presumption in favor of
not ahvays be found at Harvard, nor at Yale, nor at Columbia, an}' candidate Avho is a graeluate of Cornell Universitv. We nor at Cornell, and it is but sensible to acknowledge this fact. ,. trust that the students who care to do so will present them-
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selves at the polls next Tuesday, and, in the language of Artemus Ward, vote just as they " darn please."
Wishing information as to how the laws bearing upon this subject should be constructed, some able lawyers have furnished us with the following conclusions :
Conclusions:—The right of a student to vote is a mere matter of choice to be determined liy the student himself. If
he has been here the requisite length of time and is twenty-
one years of age, and clumscs to exercise the elective franchise
in Ithaca, he has a perfect right to do so. The fact that a man is a student is no bar to his becoming a citizen and voting
in Ithaca if he so elects.
And never sun, and never star, To guide my roving gleamed afar; Nor cared I where my course might be, But let the rude Avinds buffet me
As pleased them best across the sea.
Out! out, at sea! But golden hair Sends sunshine through the sparkling air; Bright smiles the deep as cloud and spray Together melt in blue away. How fair the day! and through the night Two bright eyes cheer with beck'ning light. Then swift across the fav'ring deep To haven safe, with eager leap, Speed thou my bark, nor waiting keep.
'78.
A— report of President White's address to the students Avas made last wTeek in a local paper by a correspondent who sio-ned himself Freshman. After giving quite a readable ac count of the address for one who has not yet passed his first term's rhetoric, he savs, "the Pres., as usual, was a little sar castic upon college journalism." Freshmen are proverbial for
their mistakes. Our Freshman has made one, for the Presi
dent did not refer to college journalism at all. Farther, hael he referred to it, Ave have every reason to believe that he
would have done so in the most friendly manner; for he rec ognizes in the properly conducted college paper— as does ev ery live educator— an influence for what is good and a cor recting power for what is uiiAvorthy more potent than a whole faculty armed with a policeman's authority. It was the " somebody else and water " literary productions to which
the President referred.
[We avc re req ested to find if possible the following song anel publish it in the Eka. We believe it has never before been published. — Kos.]
Air: — My Lust Cigar. The soldier loves his general's fame,
The willoAV loves the stream, The child will love its mother's name,
The dreamer loves his dream.
The sailor loves his haven's pier, The shadow loves the dell;
The student holds no name so dear,
As thine own name Cornell.
Chorus.
We'll honor thee Cornell, We'll honor thee Cornell, While breezes blow, And Avaters Aoav,
We'll honor thee Cornell.
—As yet nothing has been done about reorganizing the foot ball association referred to in our last issue by " Binx." It is hoped that the subject "will not be alloAved to drop Avith out an effort by the proper authorities to place such an asso ciation on firm footing at Cornell. There are plenty of stu dents interested in the matter, but they do not seem to knoAv what to do about it. Our suggestion would be, to have the foot ball committees of each class meet together at some ap pointed place, and form an organization, or what would be
better still let them meet and make arrangements for a subse
quent meeting of all students interested in foot ball. At the latter meeting an association might be organized and perhaps it would suit the majority or students better than the first plan. Let something be done about the matter immediately.
—The account of the foot ball game betAveen 'Tij and '77
was prepared by a correspondent, from the fact that three of the board were engaged in the game, which rendered it impos
sible for them to take such notes as are necessary in ovim.- a
report of the game.
©ut, mt at ,$ca.
Out! out, at sea! Above the sky Was blackness all, and tossing high The snow capped waves from crest to crest Hurled light my bark with ne'er a rest.
The soldier with his sword of might, In blood may write his fame;
The prince in marble columns white, May deeply grave his name.
But graven on each student's heart
There shall unsullied dAvell;
While of this world we form a part, Thine own dear name Cornell.
(Chorus.)
^ psychical problem.
Like a traveler returned from foreign shores to his native land, who has not visited many a spot for the first time with
the conviction that he has tarried there belore? Who has not met strange laces that bear no resemblance
to friends, living or dead, who sometimes on closer acquaint ance awake, as it were, a sleeping memory of a former friend ship with those very persons who have certainly never met us
before?
Lost in the mazes of an intricate romance, who has not
been startled with the suggestion that this combination of cir cumstances, weird and wonderful though it be, is part aud
parcel of our own existence? That although we have never seen the Yosemite Valley, nor climbed the Himalayas, the recollection of such experiences obtrudes itself with singular
distinctness.
Plato calls this freak of the imagination a clear proof of
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earlier existence. What avc knew in another life is here re
called by the laAv of association of ideas. A feAV years ago, Septimius visited for the first time, a vil
of former years and with which they are morally certain the
slightest connection cannot be traced.
SieoiMius.
lage in the far West. The surrounding country was moun
tainous, abounding in forests and rich vegetation. The streams Avere as other streams only larger, more sparkling and vivacious as they leapt doAvn the hill-side. A country of pleasant prospect, he had never seen its equal nor any spot that bore resemblance to it. One summer's day, watching the trout as they played about the gnarled roots of a tree over turned in the stream, the conviction flashed through his brain
that he had sat before on this very mound antl dreamed away
an idle afternoon. He looked around. Mountain, hill, and dale shone warm and bright like the faces of old friends. The tree itself that could not have rested long in the bed of the brook held him Avith the spell of olden time and recalled, like "The Talking Oak," many scenes of the forgotten past. As he departed, the impression vanished. Ever afterward, he
[W t dtp the following poem, by Professor Boyesen, from Scriim, fs for Nov., thinking it well worth reproducing.]
Wake, my beloved, the young day is treading, Blushing and fair, over forest and lake,
Flowering life in its footsteps outspreading— Wake, my beloved, awake!
Break the dull sleep; while love's spring-time is dawning, Let us drink deep of its fleeting delight!
Under our feet at this moment is yawning Dark, the compassionless night.
Love, with its turbulent, mighty pulsation, Thrills through my veins like a cmickening heat;
And all my young life with its strong aspiration, All have I thrown at thy feet.
knew the spot only as a chance acquaintance. A similar experience with a new face occurred later. The
stranger, although prepossessing, did not at first sight resem ble any friend. The days went by. As Septimius knew him
If the wild visions of glory should blind me, Reach me thy hand, lest I stumble and fall;
Darkness before me, and darkness behind me, Thou art my life and my all.
better he was convinced be had met him before —had lived
with him on terms of peculiar intimacy. Inquiry, however, discovered that the fact was a physical impossibility. The
stranger had never lived nearer America than the shores of
Sweet 'tis to breathe in the balm of thy presence,
Sweeter to feel the warm gaze of thine eye,
While the fleet moments with bright effervescence Whisper their gladness and die.
England, and Septimius had never wandered in that direction. These facts, curious in themselves without veneering, sug
gest equally curious reflections. In his "Mental Physiology," Dr. Carpenter defines mem
ory as a reproduction of past states of consciousness supjdemented by recognition of them as having been formerly experi-
enceel. And as our ideas are thus linkeel in "trains" or "se
ries," which further inosculate with each other like the branch lines of a railway or the ramifications of an artery, so, it is considered, an idea which has been "hidden in the obscure re
Then in the depths of my soul as in slumber, He;ir I great voices of world-shaking deeds,
And the pale day, with its cares without number,
Far from my vision recedes.
Ere I had seen thee, how tardily flowing
Stole from my breast the faint notes of my song;
Now, like spring freshets, their gates overthrowing, Roll the strong toh'ents along.
Pale was my life, and the white mists above me Dimmed to my sight the soft splendor of May;
Now, but a glimpse of the hope that you love me
cesses of the mind" for years, perhaps for a lifetime— anel
Lights and illumines my way.
which seems to have completely fadeel out of the conscious
Darkling I stood; and tumultuous fancies
memory (having never either recurred spontaneously, or been
Surged through my soul like black billows of night;
found capable of recall by volitional recollection), may be re produced, as by the touching of a spring, through a neciis of
Now, the wide future, in sun-lit expanses, Radiant bursts on my sight.
suggestions, Avhich Ave can sometimes trace out continuously,
Dost thou not see lhe tlawn's beckoning finger,
but of which it does not seem necessary that all the interme
diate steps should fall within our cognizance. Adopting this scientific dictum as final, the associations re
Hoav the young light, like a full-SAvelling tide, Breaks through its flood-gates '; Oh, why dost thou linger*?
Wake, my beloved, my bride!
called of places and persons we can prove to a demonstration
were never seen by us before, must have their connecting links
in a previous existence according to the theory of the Grecian
philosopher. In that immortal Avork, Ue S.iaetute, Cicero
says: There is a strong proof that men know many things
before they are born in this. When they learn difficult arts in youth they acquire the numerous points with such rapidity that they do not seem to receive them for the first time but to
recall them te> mind and memory. Instances abound in fic
tion suggesting the same theory. "David Copperfield " at a crisis of Lhis life, and Dame Durden in "Bleak House," think of the strange similarity of their novel experiences with those
'77 ykijsus '76.
Ktlitors Cornell Era:
In response to a challenge from '77 the "twenty-fives" from the classes of '76 anel '7 7 met "to kick the fugitive ba«- of wind," on the Wiflo-to Avenue [/rounds, yesterday af ternoon. '76 had the north goal anel led off with a fine kick by Parkhurst, For ten minutes the contest was hotly waged by both sides, and finally the goal was avou for '77 by a fine play by IIoAvard who was borne over the turf on the shoulders
of his excellent classmates.
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After a few minufes' rest the ball was once more set in all.
It may be objected that I am using false premises by as-
motion by I {ice, '77. < >ne of the nost interesting features of sinning thaf a poor player will, by this test, have a better rec
goal*ti. is
and at the same time one of the most amusing inci- ord than a good one. I admit that it is not generally the case,
dents' of the whole game, was a tussel for th.' ball between but it is very frequently so and it really amounts not to a test
the Aylen fr>,;s, who struggled in warm fraternal embrace of the good qualities of a player, but a test of the good luck a
over the "bag of wind" which, for the time, was anything player may have A much better method would be to au-
but "fugitive" Flannerv, Uranihall, and Cobb did good ! thorize tAvo or three of the crack players to select the eleven.
'thiswork in
goal, which was gallantly won for 7 correspondent has evidently not a very clear idea ()f -what lie is attempting to prove. To begin with he will
fi,),] t]ie wun] nlai/ where he thinks he found should in our rej)(„.t anj we siju jnsjst that such a list of men who catch the
„-r(.;itest number of fly balls could be used to advantage in seluting any number of men for a game: no poor players are found among the last mentioned. Ko. ]
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ovAiN.vsnwr kxkikim;.
Ifditors Cornell /fra:
The Pr-sidenCs advice, the other day, in regard 1., the benefits to be derived from drill, was very gooel, considering the little attention that is paid to gymnasium exercise by our students. Many take no other exercise than that involved in 'f"Uilf through the " manual," or in executing the intricate ev«»luth>iis «>f "fours right," or " about face." And now since drill has, to a certain extent, become optional, even this mild exercise has been abandoned by our more lymphatic students.
I think that if the authorities had gone a step farther and
made gymnasium work compulsory, they would have done a
The tin band with characteristic impartiality, struck up " Hail to the chief," and lo the inspiring strains of this well-
known air 77 marched up te.vvn with one of their number
bearing the so-hotly-contested-for ball, while others bore in
W'S(-' thing There are many cases that could be cited of students who have utterly ruined their health by neglecting to attend to this matter, which was more important to them, if they could only have been made to see it, than all their cram-
majestic pride the " broom that svveeps clean."
ming. Some will resist all the entreaties of their friends to
77 has abundant reason to rejoice over this victory since .-" ""t to join in an occasional game of foot ball, or in a pleas-
they took the first game that 76 has ever lost since they were flllt Avalk, and only realize their error when they are obliged
Freshmen. The tidal number of flies caught vvas f:75 of tu heave their books anel return home. Such cases, and thev
Avhich 77 had sixty-eight and 7n fifty-nine,
are not feAV, can onlv be cured by compulsory gymnasium ex-
>i'i:< T.vioi:.
ercise. The plan has been successfully carried out in other
colleges, and it can be here. Class exercises with Indian-clubs
viioe -i i ooi cvij..
hlilors Cornell hra :
In concluding the description of the game of foot ball betvvecn 77 and 7s; which was played last Thursday, a list of
and dumb-bells could be made very attractive, and would be
far moRl i)Cnerieial than what has been dubbed "baby-drill." There would then be no complaint of the lack of support for the gymnasium, and pale-faced, round-shouldered students
the men who caught the greatest number of fly balls is given; would be unknown.
Mio i.emav,
so far there is im objection; but when you farther intimate
that such data should be used in selecting the players to meet
en am kno
those of any other college with whom Cornell may have to lfdit,,rs Cornell Era :
plav, I think
,,
vou will *•,,,.
find an
overwhelming maaJiJo,,rLi.t>v oulf
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iieol,. Ih, .,",.:,i,I,». (' olr lroot, bi alnl, .t'wenty-l,■ive
_th. e class oi,. men on a si-d, e,
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morning at <>.', oYlock.
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f
order
t,. ouiniit tee,
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77 to a on ™^~d,-
theless, in comparison with the first, he will have no record at '
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Sectarian 'jtfntrlUgrnri.
Kacli member of the Junior class at Hamilton College has received four warnings (six warnings are equivalent to expul sion) for making an unauthorized visit to Trenton Falls. * * The whole Freshman class at Hamilton College has left the institution in consequence of a difficulty with the Faculty, ff.c
The entire Freshman class at Lafayette College was sus pended the other day for hazing. The Faculty has, however,
since relented and the class has returned. — Ff.c.
—A Freshman who saw Del. after an artist's name, says, " Is Mr.
from Delaware? I thought he was a New Yorker."
—It was not a " verdant " who, u-hen purchasing his ticket for the
opera, wanted to get a seat in the section marked Aurora.
-bled ion comes next Tuesday, and the stuelents are wondering whether Ihey can vote or not {,'. e. those who are not minors).
— ?s have not accepted the challenge of '?? to row a boat race Avith them, thinking, no doubt, that " it is better to let well enough alone."
Some students at Yale College have attacked an Odd Fel lows' procession. Stones ami other missiles were freelv thrown by the assaulting undergraduates. The officials in the proces
sion drew their swords and many were wounded on both sides.
The Faculty ofthe college has expressed i's regret at the oc
currence. — ff.c.
We reproduce the above from late exchanges for the ben
efit of those solicitous parents who refuse to send their sons to
a non-sectarian university, lest the lax discipline and the ab
— 'Til vs. '?s at foot ball, to-morrow, on Willow Avenue. The Fresh men think they can make it warm for the Sophomores, at least they
say so.
—Two ladies from Howland School and one from Wells College visited their friends at Sage College between Friday evening and Mon day morning.
—Sherry's New
Nov. 4th and ."ilh.
tend a good thing.
York theatre will be in Ithaca on lhe evenings of It is worthy the patronage of those who wish to at
sence of religious control should injure the nieuals of the ten der youths. Let all such anxious parents anel guardians pat
ronize one of the sectarian colleges mentioned in these items.
— Prolessor Kussel delivered a lecture before the Irving Literary As sociation at Havana on last Saturday evening His suhject was not previously announced.
There is no morality like sectarian morality.
General (Allege iletfji.
— One of ye noble corps remarked to a companion when a lady gave them a Avide berth on the sidewalk, "What a gentlemanly lady that is!" Rather a— /////'joke, that.
— The latest excuse for leaving the recitation room before the hour
— Six 'To men are taking P. O. courses at Vale.
is up, is lo lay your hat on the window sill on a wind)* day and Avait for
— It is ruin .wed that a race is to take place between Courtney and the gentle breezes to arise.
AVilbur Bacon, stroke of the Yale winning crew in '('4 antl '<>.").
— Ex" Sophomore Jim" thinks that our autograph man would have
A— game of base ball between the Senior law and Senior literary classes, at Ann Arbor, resulted in a score of 12 to 11 in favor of the laws.
had a genuine article, had the President adopted d'asimis method.
the shades of Casselli defend us!
May
A— Junior at Monmouth College who hael detennined to marry a graduate of the institution, only succeeded in keeping his classmates
— The students thought '77 had "a gootl deal of cheek" to challenge '7(i to a game of base ball, but it was afterwards found out that the base ball committee did not put up the challenge.
from carrying him away from the marriage ceremonies by barricading the door aud then guarding it wilh revolver in hand. The ceremonies were finally siiceessfully performed, but when he started for the train the next morning- the whole class escorted him, each with his hat and arm heavily draped in mourning. Ch for co education!
—'I'he next University sermons will be delivered in Sage chapel on Dei. :!1 at 11 a. \i. anel o p. m. by Bishop K. C. Andrews, D. D., of Omaha, Neb. .Vs usual, all are invited to attend.
— All interested in matters pertaining to a Kitle Association are re quested to meet at C. W. Raymond's room, 4lh floor Andrus A- Mc-
— Mr. Carlyle declines with scorn the decree of h. b. 1)., conferred j Chain block, Saturday, Oct. oUth, at 11 o'clock v. m.
by Harvard Universiiy. American universities, he says, are "sem
blances"; their degrees the "silliest sham feathers"; and that he should
— '77 was caricatured the other day on the bulletin board as a little
be asked to "join in heading your long line of I). D.Es and b. L. D.'s— a line of pompons little fellows hobbling down tie posterity on the
crutches of two or three letters of the alphabet, passing on into the ob-
boy crowing over his first pair of boots. Some of the Juniors present said they failed to seethe application of the joke if it was meant for
liAdon of all universities and small potatoes" — is more than he can hear. one.
—Lire-pool Daily Post.
— Each member ofthe Senior class, and especially those (both lathes
The above notice is s(J good an imitation of Carlyle's ranting anel gentlemen) who are taking the President's Ilistorv this term, are
style that we supposed it to be genuine. Of course we were incensed cordially inviteel to meet, socially^ at his house Saturday evening from
and were about to tell Mr. Carlyle and the world, in becoming words, 7:o(> to 10:o0.
about our lexicographers and our scientists, what we thought of him, etc., when the following appeared in the Harvard A'icoea/,-: " We stati on authority that the report of the Liverpool Post, amplified by the Manchester , Caldwell, Pickett, I'.ramhall, and Howard each s. There were over UK) liy catches made during the game.
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[Wc publish the following foot ball rules agreed upon by Harvard and Yale, to guide them in their match games. They will be of interest to our foot ball agitators, although we do not think any of them Avould like them in place of our own.
They are laken from the ^ ale .Rceord~\:
CONCESSION. VUV RULES.
I. The grounds shall not be more than 400 feet nor less than :'.0tl feet long, and one-half the length in width.
II. The goal-posts shall be 00 feet apart.
III. The number for match games shall not. exceed in nor be less than 11.
IV. Time of game shall be left to the discretion of the captains, but
shall in no case exceed two hours, and that side shall be declared victor
which, at the end of the allotted time, shall have secured the majority of goals. To secure a goal the ball must pass between the goal-posts and over a cross line 10 feet high.
V. After a goal has been won sides shall be changed and the losing side shall kick off. In the event of no goal being won at the lapse of half an hour, ends shall be changed.
VI. A ball may be caught on the bounce or Hy, antl carried; the player, so carrying the ball, may be tackled, or shouldered, but not hacked, throttled or pummelled. No player may be held unless he be in actual possession of the ball. No batting Avith the hands is allowed.
VII. When the ball pssses out of bounds the player lirst touching it shall advance to the point Avhere the ball went out and throw it in at right angles to the line.
VIII. Every player is on side, but is put off side if he enters a scrimmage upon his opponents' side, or, being in a scrimmage gets in front of the ball, or when the ball has been kicked, touched, or is being run with by any of his own side behind him (that is, betAveen himself and his goal line). Every player when off-side is out of the
game, and shall not touch the ball in anjr case whatever, or in any way obstruct or interrupt an}' player until he is on-side.
IX. A player being off-side is put on-siele when the ball has been kicked by, or has touched the dress or person of any one of the opposite side, or when one of his own side has run in front of him either Avith the ball or having kicked it when behind him.
X. In kick-offs, the winners of the toss shall have the choice of side or kick-off. The ball must be fairly kicked, not babied, from a point—(to be decided by the captains).
XI. Until the ball i.s kicked off no player shall be in advance of a line parallel to the line of his goal and distant from it—(to be decided by the captain).
XII. The two judges and a referee shall be determined upon by the two captains of the contesting sides.
XIII. In match games a Xo. ml lor
po(.„,s. We sympathize with those r"l'.v, .ind hope the translations will
editors in their
be forthcoming.
wild longing
We cannot
guarantee dial Ihey will lend to increase their sub cription list.
little more life into your paper, gentlemen.
Put a
The Cornell Era
" A hove all Sects is Truth."
Voiu-mk VIII.— Ni mbku S.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, NOVEMIIEH 5, i «?-,.
.frj.r.o pek Annum in Advance
Printed und Published every Fe'uluy, hy Students of the. Senior aud Junior Classes.
editors for 1875-G.
J. WE Sll KDEVANT, '7l'i, M. E. Hvvn.vND, '77,
C. P. Woodruff, '7(! A. J. Loos, '77.
— The lltt/istt,- is out on somewhat better time this year
than it was l.io Of course members of the entering class are very happy to see themselves immortalized in having their names within its covers; anel the mails arc rapidly bearing it tt) dear friends east, west, north, and south. The Sophomore is delighted to find himself one remove f rther on. The Jun ior begins to think he will soon be somebody, while the .r of last year was ■loll. The Junior class one year ago numbered 01; it now be comes tbe Senior class numbering *\. The Sophomore class
one year ago numbered 109, ami it now becomes the Junior
class numbering 1 <>•_'. The Freshman class one year ago num bered 103, and now becomes the Sophomore class numbering l'JS. The Freshman class numbers 17*. Those taking the post graduate curse number 10, as against 13 of last year. Under the head of military drill last year's Jitjistcr reads, "At the opening of the Academic exercises each year the students
are formed into a military organization." The new Register
reads, "All stutlents just entering upon the first term of the first year are especially advised t<> take drill instead of offer ing any substitute for it." The two quotations express a vital
difference the difference between fore-ordination and free will.
The only other important change that wc notice is the abolishing of the President's prizes in History, Essavs, Mechan ic Arts, and Natural History, amounting in the aggregate to s.'ioo, anel of the Pounder's prizes in Agriculture and in Me chanic Arts, amounting to -SliO. K. K. Rossiter, '7o, oJl'crs a prize of sc:o. for the best design by any member of the Senior class in Architecture. Under Religious Instruction the Tice/istir says, "In the University Chapel religious service's are held in connection Avith discourses to be delivered by clergymen of the various Christian denominations, selected from time to time in such a Avay as fo give the best representation of the religious thought e>f the age, and to exemplify the influence of Christianity upon the av oriel. There are, also, daily chapel services to which stuelents are invited, although none are com pelled t<» attend."
— Electieui is oyer. Stutlents who desired to vote and
were otherwise qualified, were not prevented from voting by the mere fact of their being stuelents. The Journal intimates that the Era, being the "students' organ,*1 must of necessity advocate whatever might appear to lie the students' interests, as against all other interests, without regard to right and jus
tice. We know not what the Journals motto may be—Ave have hael many strong hints of late, however— but ours is
that Aboce all facts is Truth. If, as editors, any benefit comes to us from this our first experience, more than all else, it is the acquiring of a habit of dealing fairly, candidly, and, so far as possible, thoughtfully, with Avbatever interests we have occasion to discuss. There are a few great examples of such kind of journalism—examples from which even while avc vieAV the petty trickery, the small and despisable resorts sought in journalism all around us, we can still take strength.
The election over, we can now perhaps discuss the stuelents' right to vote without having any of the wrong motives Avhich
narrow-mindcel and sellish men stippeise all other men to pos
sess, attributcel to us. The Jouraal devotes a large space in its columns to proving just what the Era stateel last week in a single sentence, namely, that the fact that a student is a voter is no liar to his becoming a citizen ami voting in Ithaca if he so elects. Of course it follows, as a consequence not to be eiyerlooked, that if a student does elect to become a citizen here, as many elo, eluring the larger part of their University residence, he must forfeit his right to vote elsewhere until he has again regained a residence, as any other citizen changing
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 5, 1875.
|his residence from one place to another would be obliged lo proposed to have a good rink in sonic convenient place in
elo. When a student is a citizen of another state this becomes town and to have it kept in good condition throughout the win
quite an important matter. This appears to us to be the al pha and omega of the whole question.
The Journal both editorially, and through its " Would-be student voter," avIio since our last issue has not once ventured into daylight, made some silly attempts to frighten students awav from the polls by citing the law pertaining to fraudu lent oting. It is not the design of the Kk.v to cutter the po ■ litical arena. From the little squabbles and tricks which are
there resorted to Ave are happy to hold ourselves aloof. ^ ct
if we are unsophisticateel in political jugglery, as the old trick
sters regard us, Ave arc not tlisposeel to be intiinielateel by wooden guns or bamboozleel by a politician's logic. Ihere is
certainly need of more examples of a press that the people
ter. The pleasure and profit that can be derived from this
healthful exercise is so apparent as U> commend the under
taking sufficiently to insure its success. The cost of the course tickets will not exceed live dollars, ami all that is re quired to start tlo enterprise is a sufficient number of names.
— We hope lhe attention may be given to the suggestions. of our correspondent, who speaks of forming a rifle association, which the real worth of the enterjn-i.se merits; our exchanges tire full of accounts concerning the formation of associations at their respective colleges and the jirospects for an inter-col legiate rifle match are very fair. Let the movement be com menced immediately; it is deserving of heaity suj»port.
can trust, a press whose opinions are conscientious auel whose
utterances are made with care, a press where stieuig convic
goctnj ami fiction.
tion shall supplant .selfish motives, anel arguments shall be
maele to prove truth anel not "a case."
A new poem by a singer unknown to fame has attracted unusual attention in the literary world. Its author is Richard
—The college student, wherever he may be, differs from every other kind of rational being in his "wav s," which, it must be confessed, are often dark. 'lhe desire to relieve the
ennui of study by so., e kind of amusement is often satislieel by his indulging in playful antics which arouse the wrath ed
the more staiel portions of the community in winch his lot is
cast. While wc know that the opinions which many of the
citizens of Ithaca have of the .sludents ed this University are
unjust and harsh in the extreme, we cannot blame them lor resenting an organized attack on dicir property. It cannot be an agreeable joke lor a man to spend halt a dav in looking for his gate or in repairing other mischief done to his property.
Nu doubt the I niversity has done much to build up the town,
but the people arc surely not tuieler such obligations as to meekly submit to being lnipeised upon. They in turn have done much to make it pleasant for students here, have liber ally subscribed Avhen any paper for our benefit has been circu lated, anel show their genei al interest in many ways. It is
the same strong desire for "fun" that led to the recent troub le at Vale between the students anel the Odd Fellows proces sion, which created such au uproar in the secular aud religious
press, and gave them such a tine opportunity to bowl at the wickedness of students. About the worst development of sucii fun is reported as having recently occurred at Harvard where an unoffending Japanese is said to have been hazed by his '"christian" fellow-students. \\re can .scarcely believe
that any young men could be so far lost to every sense of
honor as to indulge in such meanness, and venture to express the opinion that the rcpoit is untrue.
In conclusion wc would repeat what every student knows
as well as we do, that there are many ways of sal ist \ in ..- the natural craving for excitement which would neither in jure any man nor any uianEs property, and which would leave no oppor tunity for student-haters to pick Haws.
—Papers are being circulated for mimes of those who Avill take eour.se tickets for the contemplated skatiim rink. It i.s
Watson Odder, the assistant editor of Scribner. The poem is
entitled " A XeAV Semg."
The reader of the Aut ion the _
Jfct.niiaj Tost, antl the Tribune is surprised at the fulsome
praise accorded so generously to this new comer and turns to
the neat little volume of one hundred p.'iges with suspicions of
dis.qqiointment. And the disappointment is most agreeable,
for the poem is entirely classical. Woven on the slenderest
thread of a plot, it tlejiicts with artistic skill the joy and pain, the doubt and agony of a love so purified from human pa»iou that it might be the love' of an angel having "no taint from touch of mortal or of earth." It is a le>ve that is experienced
but once in a life-time and one that rare natures only can ex-
jiericnce. The elevated character of the poem Avill be its
greatest enemy among our average reading classes. If it does
not become a general favorite, the reason will be because it is
not ajq.reciated. Put the leading critics have set the seal of
ajqiroval and from this there i.s no appeal. The construction
in songs and sonnets is a happy one, as the latter species of
metre requiring the nicest skill is generally avoided by Amer ican poets. Except the sonnets of Shakespeare and Lowell, Keats and Mrs. ProAvning, our literature cannot claim manv
perfect specimens. The u New Poem," however, >parkles
with so many sonnet-gems that any selection seems sacrileg
ious:
x.
I.oVli's .IKAI.Ol'SY.
" Of other men I know no jealousy,
Nor of lhe maid who holds lliee close, oh close. But of the June red, summer scented rose, And of the orange streaked sun-et skv
That wins thee lliroiieh lliy deep eye; And of the liree/.e l.y thee beloved, that iocs O'er thy dear hair ami lirow; Ihe some, that IIoavs
Into thy heart of hearts, where i1 may tiie.
I would 1 were one moment that sweet show
Ol Mower; or breeze beloved that toiielieth all; Or sky that llirou»h the summer eve doth burn.
1 would 1 were the sonie thou lovest so,
Al sound of me to have thine eyelid full: But I would then to something human turn."
Nov. 5, 1S75.
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
59
the JiinnoR.
"That I should love thee seemeth meet antl wise, So beautiful thy beauty he were mad Who in thy beauty no deep pleasure had;
Who felt not the slill music of thine eyes Fall on his forehead, as the evening skies
The music of the stars feel and are glad. But, love, this thought doth make me wondering sad —
! this rapid outline is only a lithe of the wealth. Every epoch in fact has equally full resources.
Dotes not the general student of history undervalue the Jia
ges of romance? Are not the novels of Scott read for the
amusement of the jiassing hour instead of the light thrown on the historic, past? d'he realistic scene of the miser's death in
"The Fortunes of Nigel " is certainly entertainii)"-, but is not
Lost in sweet pain of gentle reveries:
That thou shouldst love me is not wise or meet.
For like thec, Love, I am not beautiful. And yet I think that haply in my face
Thou findest a true beauty — this poor, dull, Disfiou'cd mirror dimly may repeat
A little part of thy most heavenly grace."
t he consciousness equally jileasant that this is a truthful delin eation of James L and his time? The fiery Bridgenorth and
the devoted Fenclla in "Peveril of the Peak" are jiersonages
of unusual interest. Is not the consideration equally gratify ing that here are revealed the intrigues of Buckingham, the Catholic Plot, as well as rivalries of lloundhead and Cavalier?
—The time has disappeared when the stigma " he is a nov In "Ouy Mannering," the sujiernatural character of Meg Mer-
el reader " possessed considerable pungency. If the fashion i ri lies and her tragic death in the cavern together with the
able -Miss McFlinisey of the last century dragged out her un "very facetious" Dominie Samjison, have untold literary
important existence dozing oversee Irate fiction there is no charms. L there md an equal delight in resurrecting the as
excuse for her sister of to-day avIio has any tasle for the world trological belief of the eighteenth century revealed through
of fancy and imagination. But for the student of history, the medium of Mannering himself? No enjoyment is com
fiction is a necessity. In fact, the truest history may be parable lei this: alter acquiring a general knowledge of an
called, paradoxically, fiction. England is not delineated to historical epoch, to read a standard novel on that epoch or
best advantage in the jiages of Froude, Lingard, and Macaulay some leading character in it. The impression will last through
but in the dramas of Shakespeare. Of Hawthorne's stories. life. Its vividness will dejiend on the author anel the mood
Whipple tells us; They contain important matters which of the reader to some extent. But the symjiathy with the
cannot be found in Bancroft or even Winthroji. They exhib past, the insight into its life as into the life of friends of ev
it the inwarel struggles of New England men and women ery day association will lie present with a power ami vigeir
with some of the darkest problems of existence, anel have unequalled by the most diligent perusal of whole historical li
more vital import to thoughtful minds than the records of Inelian or Revolutionary warfare.
Two kinds e>f truth meet the student of history. The truth
of fact and the truth of emotion or idea. The former is the
braries. In his "Englisli Humorists," says Thackeray: out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the jileasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society; the old times live again,
ghastly skeleton with nothing to relieve its native ugliness: and I travel in the old country of England. the latter, a living form of beauty, Avith warm, pulsating historian elo more for me?
Can the heaviest Septimus.
blood. A knowledge of leading events is very desirable, but
the student who penetrates no further beneath the surface
will be so superficially informed that he Avill dro]> the study
from lack of interest outside of college walls. How to awak
en enthusiasm in historical study is the question of the day
'
with everv instructor in this department. One o the greatest
aids is given by fiction. Take English history as an admir
able illustration. The workshop abuses and thieves of Lon
don receive sharji treat inent in "< Hivor Twist "; the schools
of Yorkshire and the preiv incial theatres figure in "Nicholas
Nicklebv"; the sandary condition of* dwellings in "Martin ChuzzleAvit." Among the pictures of provincial towns " Middlemarcb" stands easily first, while "Adam Bede " is a f country lib-. The Roman < Eutholicisni of England is
delineated in "Lothair." The university and public school life in Tom Brown at Oxford and Rnghv. What formal
statement could do justice to prison abuses as "Pickwick" and "Never Too Late to Mend"? What bare history relates
more graphite-ally than "Hand Cash," the frauds of private insane asylums? How could reform be agitated to better ad
vantage than in the pages of "Little I boil" and "Put
Yourself in His Place "? For the changes in social life Thack eray's novels are unexcelled. As for Trollope, "his fiction," says Hawthorne, "is as English as a beefsteak." Of course
(Tarhilc anil Emerson.
From the Revue des Dev.e Monties.
In Emerson there is a two fold manifestation; he is at the
same time a skeptic and a mystic. This union of two contra
ry tendencies in the same mind may excite the astonishment
(,f many— namely, of all those who think that a philosojihei' must be a sort of walking formula, that diverse systems ex ist outside of man in some sort of a jihilosophical rejiository,
where eaeh has its distinct place, its jieculiar language and spee-ial costume. Such jiersons should learn that systems have no reality ajiart from the man himself; that the most mystical theo;y may be traversed, at moments, by the skejilical spirit;
and that the most stoical system may be modified and inten-
eraled by influences from the jihilosopherEs own soul. I have often thought thai the same revolution must take jdace in philosophy that, has already been brought about in literature;
that all the old systematic formulas must lie shattered in
pieces; that those old divisions and AVorm-eaten categories bv which the thoughts and movements of the greatest souls are ranged like goods ujion one shelf, must be demolished. Instead of teaching youth that there are four, five or six sys
tems, would it not lie better te> say to them: "There is no
system, antl therefore I cannot point you to any sjiccial one;
f,0
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 5, 1875.
Ut Ithere is, independent of yourselves, no system which I can im-
to you
the absolute truth; but the life which you shall
live and the thoughts which shall germinate within you,
and hinder ourselves from being encioached upon d,In , wo,
skepticism is a means of defending us from the foolish beliefs of others, and from the.r contagious fanaticism.
will lake upon themselves the task of showing to you that philosophy which your soul shall be worthy of receiving, in-
asmuch as nature will avenge herself of the wrongs inflicted
\n j,s turn, also, mysticism is necessary in order to deliver
us from skepticism ; not from skepticism such as I have deS(.n|,ed, but from that which I shall call the skepticism of dis-
upon her by the doings of each, or will reward the services C(Hirage..ieiit, At what period has it existed in more potency rendered to" her, by giving us the knowledge adapted to our than j„ the present ? Parties engage in the contest, and are
state. I cannot give youUiis knowledge, anel all my teaching crushed; while the combatant, saying to himself that the
is limited to this sirnjde direction: Live in such a manner as , trillj, js undoubtedly with the successful party, marches on
to obtain by your life a philosophy the most elevated, and a i with the victors. The politician watches the tendency of
morale the most complete."
minds; but as he has no institution to uphold, no belief to
There is, then, no fixed system, nicely se|>arated from other \ command respect— knowing well that in such times the only
systems. What truth is there, then, in this world? Life, j p.irt reserved for him is to aim at directing the movements of
and the thoughts which flow from life. All philosophy re- pa,.ties— he goes where the wind blows, and where the future
duces itself to these two rules of methodical treatment, to sc,(.,ns tu open. The constitutional expounder, perceiving that
which we are obliged to have recourse— namely, think for : there is no longer anything certain among social institutions,
yourself, desjiise systems, for there is no traditional formula ' tj,.lt customs are no longer law, that there is no longer any
for Avhat is Avithin us. Change your desires rather than the sl(Ji,J earth, and conscious that traditional formulas no longer
order of the world—respect social laws and established ens- Upplv to the present time, makes ofthe triumjthaiit exception toms, for in things external t<> us, tradition is sovereign. a general and absolute law. The philosopher, seeing the
Thought sjuings uj> Avhen it can, and combines Avith other thousand follies of human thought bestirring themselves
thoughts as it may be able to coalesce Avith them, and not always according to a fixed rule. This is a deep point of psychology, which it is only necessary te> touch upon in passing, in order to show hoAV it is jiossible to unite in one self the most ojiposite thoughts. Emerson, we said, was both a riiystic and a skejitic. It is unfortunate, in our time, for any one
who does not unite in himself these two characteristics. Well
underst 1, skepticism is not uncertainty, hesitation in regard to all truths; it is md a disease of the soul, it is a weapon of
amidst the shreds of beliefs, contemplating the countless trifles
uf the juissions, hearing the discordant din of conflicting voices, pr,, claims this world a great hospital of lunatics, and sets himsojf apart, in a sad or a jesting mood according to his temper anient, this one thing being certain, that he is full uf doubt. But the politician, the publicist, and the jdiilosojiher is each true, each sincere in tints conducting himself. At a time when
everything is brought under discussion, what is there to be
don0! but to folhiw the current anel let one's self be carried
the spirit. Skepticism is especially useful in our epoch; for
if in all periods the part of a dupe is a most wretched one, it
is yet more so in the present time. Let us then value skep-
ticism, that philosophic distrust which can preserve us from
manyJ errors ami crimes. I go further, and sav that the more
..
belief one has, the more necessary is skepticism, in order to
protect ane-l,-d, ef,.end-,h,is.,b,e.li,e.f,
mlhi e
soul, ,
,to-d1 av,
■
byis assai-leidii
a thousand and one supplications, petitions of intellectual beg-
gars, threats, anonymous letters, visits of foolish bores, and
importunate loafers. If we turn aside to reply to them all, to
bestow alms from our intelligence upon the first mendicants
who come along, to gossip Avith and inquire into all the svs-
tems pressing for our notice, Iioav Avill it fare with our char-
acter and our life ? It is a good thing, then, to have skejdi-
cism, not for an habitual guest, not for an intimate friend,
but for a sen-ant, ready at any moment to refuse or grant an
ahuig with it? At a time when nothing is established, it is,
Sll to Sj»eak, legitimate to base oneEs self upon success; for, for
tiie moment at least, success is the legitimate truth. It is
permissible to regard the exception as the rule, since the law
i•„tsel,,f-
,has
.
not
,been
i -i
propounded.
himI.>
i
or
•
av,Io
ihas
no
ibelrieff
iu that, all chances are eqnual and all hy• pl otheses admissible.
II is the religious man abme, he whom Ave call the mystic, wll° comprehends these epochs of anarchy and is not terrified;
lu' ''arries within him the infallible criterion: while his con-
temporaries are amazed at the sudden overturning, he knows that society —that is, the moral huvs and their orderly organNation— is anterior to humanity, in the same way as physical
hiwsare anterior to their embodiment in nature For him
nothing is formidable, for lie is certain that it is only the external lorni ot things which can by any possibility change.
entrance into the soul. What good will result from casting Fjiheld by this criterion, he knows more of them than the j»hi-
that soul into the melee and arena of combating systems? losopher, the politician and the publicist, lie thus not doubt,
What good purpose will it serve to make it lead, so to sjieak, es "°t hesitate, does not accept success, and disquiets him-
a revolutionary life, or the life ed' a worldling? Our intelli- , s,,'l little to know where the future tends; he is the true judge geiice, strongly armed with skepticism, is able fo hinder this. ' °t his time, for he alone knows what is imperishable ami what
In external life, in assemblies, in crowds, except at rare and ls susceptible of change, while his contemi»orarie>, anticipat-
stuted moments, let us take with us our own mind. That 'm'A ;| total change, an entirely dill'erent humanity, another which is called coininon sense in juactical life may be denom- world, deceive themselves in regard to the really essential iuated skepticism in the intellectual life. It is a means of de- l»«»iiil,. It is this conlidence iu t he highest ideal, iu the eterfence, and <-ven an aggressive weapon, to auticijiate attack, , »al order of the world, this faith in the stability and perennity
Nov. 5, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
61
cdiamjiionshi17of"theof the invisible, which gives the tone to the » Kepresenf ative Seniors, have a.lmitted the
la.t..tcerr. ff.or by
Men " of Emerson.
the •regulla--ti:ons of'- al"l amateur or professional org;
purturbable confidence. Involutions and reactitms do not
intimidate him, and do not take from him the least of his eon-
victions; he sacrifices nothing to the spirit of the moment; he sjieaks of Swedenborg and of Plato at the moment when the Avhole universe has ears only for l'roudhoii and Louis Blanc. lie commends the skepticism of Montaigne just as he Avould speak of it if he himself did not live in an age which boasts of having absolute philosophies and systems jiroof against all ass.ault. He ju-aises Montaigne for his prudence aud his reserve, in an age the most headstrong, and amidst minds the most besotted by systems as ultra as have ever been witnessed All seems te» him equal and indifferent. But occasionally, a vein
ecause he could not get his men to jihiy. rPhe refusal
contrasts strangely with the howl which the Juniors set up when a mere rumor was afloat about 'TO not accepting their
challenge.
\y- >-,.
kiflk asmii-iaiko.
Editors Corn, II /fra:
d'he question " Shall we have a rifle club?" is one that has
been asked many times since the success achieved by the
American team; and many clubs have been formed; but the question of forming college clubs is a still newer erne and one which is likely to meet with ajproval. In every college in the country there are many, I may say a majority of the stu-
siiong-e.\j>ittitr >\ inei »> neu 11c nas "uec
e^.se" i uimoeii
m
toe
est terms, and serves to correct possible mistakes and to reus-
shootingThatiii.ii. ruifnlee' snooting iiss a hlieeaailLthIlflUull sjpiorilt nHOo oOnile!' wW i1l1l1 qqiulCeSstion; that it requires a steady nerve and strong arm is atlinit-
stire the reader as to the real meaning of certain thoughts. A ted as a fact, thereby obliging the contestant who hopes to philosopher has need, more than any other writer, of this sort Avin to lead a regular and temperate life; that it is a jdeasure
of skepticism; he needs it not only as a corrective, but also as one needs but to try to find the truth of the assertion. As
a means of casting a charm over his Avork, anel rendering it in regards expense, it may be made expensive, or it may be
a degree less solitary, and less of a monologue. The demo- made otherwise, according as one chooses. The principal ex-
.eratic tendencies of Emerson are very decided; yet in order to I jietise will consist iii the purchase of a rifle, as a jierson camor
relieve us as t<> the real nature of his thoughts, do we need : lojie to be a successful shot if he has a poor gun to shoot
anything more than a passageJike the following: " They cry with; and that one may be a good shot he must have a good
up the virtues of (reorge Washington; — ' Damn Ceorge Wash- gun. A military rifle cannot compete Avith a target rifle as
ington,' is the jioor Jacobiifs whole sjieech and confutation, the records show, and as stands to reason. The finer the gun
But it is human nature's indispensable defence. Every hero ' the greater the expense. A good sjiorting rifle'(Bemington)
becomes a bore at last."
S. which from 100 to 6<>0 yards Avill shoot as well as the finest
tf ttYrftiWfttttlettCt
foot ball mketino.
Editors (domett Era.:
target gun, can be purchased for from -s.'-p; to ^loO; this cost c:m 'R' i1K'r<';is<-''l UY t'1(J addition of graduated sights and oth er careful accessories. To lessen this, two or more persons L.;iu purchase a rifle together, using the same by turns. There
; 1ms been some talk in reference to the use of the University
Will you please insert this notice: There Avill be a meet- Sjiringfield rifles. This is however uncertain; but as far as
in" of all students interested in foot ball, at room K, at 1 p. .ai.,
the
V .
S. is
concerned, the
interest it
has taken in
rifle mat-
Tuesday Xov. 9th for the purpose of electing a foot ball tiers indicates that md only no objection Avould be raised re-
committee to superintend the foot ball interest of the Univer-
sity and to select the men Avho are to represent us in our match-
es with other colleges. Let every one interested in foot ball
be present as important business is to be transacted.
(E
garding the use of the guns, but assistance might possibly be
had from the government towards the maintenance of the us
sociation. Major Yan Xess has jiromised his hearty co-i.peration in assisting and helping the organization. Let us lupe then, that Cornell, the first to suggest the formation of eol-
foot ball.
legiate rifle clubs, anel inter-collegiate rifle association, mav
Editors Cornell Era:
not W' l""""S the kst to form :' S°°a Mk Aml w]^'n °"r
,
jThe Juniors in refusing to accept the challenge of the boating contests take place, may Ave see our rifle six coming
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 5, 1S75.
out as succ■essfully as did our boa. im-.six. The idea of send-
ing
a
com
ictiOr
to
the
"
.,
Centennial
V,
,has
been
suggest. edi, .a,n„
I'iographieal; they have sketches of Byron , buskin, Dickens, and Timet cray." Eel. No. '2— " Oh thatEs nothing; you can get them out of anv
-
Compendium of.- iL. n„gnJ-iisohoot;et,i.ar.t,tu,,i,eo. »
idea which is <>-ood. As foi a range up1 on which to j' iractice, I think the Iihaca Rifle Association would be glad to allow us
.
—The Seniors have challenged the Juniors for another match Tame
^ ^ ^ ^ (.hampionship to ,„. 1)layed to.morrow morning on Wil-
for the present, at least, the use of "Fail-moor"1 as it is called. , ]qw ^venuCJ) wjnj iUUi weather permitting. They say they are pre-
(E W. K.
; pared for a fair and square victory or defeat,
.x
'ilUU'Cl,Slill ?lu 1115.
-The albahsoi-hino- (,nestion anion- the Juniors at present is, " When are we going lo cremate."'
—The Avorkmen have finished ceiling up the gymnasium and now there will he no complaining of being cold while exercising during the winter if the heater is kept running. The apparatus will soon be in or^r and ™"h' fo1' th(' "^' of a,! wh" have Paid their dues-
—Thanksgiving comes three weeks from yesterday. then expect a holiday and perhaps two of them.
jSludents may
" —
Turtle
Dan,
or the
Romance
of. Snake-
Hill,"
is to
be the title of
the novel to be issued under the auspices of the the last University crew.
-Lottie as Topsv at Wil-us ] [all next Monday evening. tainment is worthy of the patronage of students.
I [er enter- We hope soon to receive the advance sheets of the necessarily interest. ^ work. For further particulars inquire of any of the " Good Boys."
— On dit students of the Democratic persuasion have such long faces
—A Freshman who overheard his Senior chum say that they would
that Ithaca barbers charge them twenty-five cents a shave. Fact!
not allow him to vote was unite astonished, and wanted to know the
reason- On be hue; told that lie was a minor the verdant looked per-
-The Juniors have declined lo accept the challenge of 'PI for the . ^.^ aml mnul.ked that he ^bought all working people had a mlit
return game ot foot ball which was to lie played on Saturday, Nov. ■ >.
,„
—Tin iv were some- disappointed faces seen at tiie non arrival of the
—We have received a programme of the athletic sports at McGill
Wells College students last Wednesday evening. Who can explain the College, and it is are got up in line style, quite exceeding lhe invitations
matter-'
—Sherry's theatre Friday and Saturday evenings.
j to the Junior ex at our institution. There they send invitations instead
" Led
"
Astray
I
of charging a sum for admittance,
which
leads us
to think that
money is
will be rendered Friday evening and " Innocence Ahmad " on Saturday no object to them.
eVL'mn.g
— "Ts has accepted 'Til's challenge to a match game of foot ball on Saturday afternoon, and the Freshmen are feeling quite strong in their
weakness.
—The last out door drilling for the season was done on Monday, The companies will drill but once a week in the future and that in Mil-
itary Hall.
—College sports have been extremely quiet since last Thrusday owing to the cold weather, and the prospects are that they will remain so until next spring.
A— specimen tool of quite a peculiar quality of steel was brought
\et0 prof. Morris j,y Hackney, '? for three nights successively." Junior (sympathizinglv) — " Have you been sitting up with anybody V" Senior—" Yes, I wa.s sitting up with ' Woodbury on the Arch.' "
-One of our Professors commencing his morning lecture said, Y\ el, gentlemen, you will remember that yesterday morning you who were here, we wo talking alien, " A:e.
—lhe library was closed on Monday and TueMlay on account of the cold. The thermometer indicated lhat the temperature was below ,Vi;
-A studious Freshman wishing ,o keep his numerous frientb out of
bis room one evening "
wrote the following
notice and pinned
it on the
outside of ]ljs dun,.
^^.. cvpry ^
^.^ ^, ^ , ^
enter into the kingdom id Freshmen. Ask and ye shall not get in.
Knock and il shall not be opened unto vou.''
steps have been taken to prevent its recurrence.
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re , erred,'
, ,E
to
.
a
certa"i"n
, -
~~ e water pipes have been led as far as Prof. M-^omrris' huo.uuse and
»tu»n^cttiioomnou-yv ,o,ft a■. ' .tih.re si-di e walnk ihas ibeen d-, ug up l.n a, last time (we hopei to allow them
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.
previous
lo the
i
elect), m a deep
problem
, lllL P-^«g<-' «>t one ot lien, is verv annoyin- to lhe rive hundred pedesregarding the fran- trians who have to go over it several lino a dav and it should be re
cluse presented lO-lt to a Freshman, calling forth from him the follow- moved.
ing question, "Can those d/O^.s- up at Cascadilla vote?"
j!—The Fiohman who would read a paper before the Mechanical En-
— S^«,,.'-VMI, ..-(, .,hiss
.
i„
M„ ine,
d, e
Srvigne.
(Soph, translating.)
"J'ai
trouvi1' "" -T"s l^O'iel de vos lellres. 1 have found a fat package of
certainly.gineenng Association, "if you will listen tome and my knees don't •vm,r k'tu'ls" Ihof. (with senatorial l'rowni-" A fat man
shake," succeeded in his attempt bei'.er than lie had ani icipated.
' hut not il tilt P'xko,
]),, Vl)U
kllmv ,,,.„
|ho k,U(,r>
wm>
l-
„R,.lsy
-One of our South American friends after a recent eveni,,, peram
halation about Ithaca's suburbs, h.,, ,„,.,„„,. int(.ns(.ly interesied in the
wo„Vvo!,V' n'1;,U,;U'tl)-" man""Y"» "»»" »»« oall every fa,
greasy,
succumbs. \ ast subs,an,ial .smile by the class
natural history of aquadruped who.se technical name is Abmika Seynnku. .
-^'H'--mis has a new "yell "- ' led,: Pah! Rah! Willvums-yams.
-AFredmian hearing o„e of his friends fllin- of a c-,11 that he
niadeatSa,eronege,ne,klyasked,"eanyougoupn,ere witliout'h-iv-
mg to eat?"
Ib-
was
under
lhe
impression
that
only
residents"
■
'UK
I
lioarders were allowed there.
T'liS '"'^ "" ""' 'NiM Im,ian l,owli"-!l w'' CVCF
T^ ^v'r""""«»•»•»« will wan. to introduce a ••medicine dance" next, 1!,'".!' i ^-' K '"'1'S "' ""'"' l,;"C liv*' "" West India yan. s, and frescoe their
,L'n,,ni<'ats of clay "after lhe lalest ('omauche patiern. Talk about
^''''^"^nls-look-Said a Freshman lo a director of ,he Muic-,1 V
„! ir^z ;;:^ "**. i wa,„ yo„ ,o pL
y
ie
„
,
at Williams:- /,> Tins outsirips by far the noisy "m nl r,,n,,,n in ,,,nak" "•," ""« »« ™^
■!: h1;:ulien ,t begins. My chum says that
it I d only learn how to u,- it."
I've got
a
lio-rate allc^vtlo voir,.
,
<
,
~X S,''''rS of ,w,,|v«- k'r,,m's "» A^tmnomv is
,b-uell Ii,s,i,n,e |,v Uiebard Anthony Proctor, F.
lo be delivered at the R. A. S This is Mr.
-Ed.
(looking over a copy of
the Nassau Lit )-" Well
' ibis "is• ,q.,u,;i,te
i
,'n)C,,ol''s s"r"1"1 k'(lu,v ,n,»- '" Am.-riea, and among the verv interest-
„,g subjects that will be considered are the following; "The Past and
Nop. 5, 1875.
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
03
Future Transits of Venus," " Nebula'," " Structure of the Universe,'1 " Metric Astronomy," and "The Planets." We wish that some ar rangement could be made Avhereby the students of Cornell University might have the privilege of hearing this -distinguished scientist and lec
turer.
— "Come on, lets go over to the "Shoo Fly" depot," says a Senior to his friend. " What elo you want over there?" " Well, come on and
you'll see." As soon as the proper official is found, Senior asks —
"What time does the train leave for Geneva?" Friend — "Oh, I see,
you have just commenced boarding at Sam- College, and have already
counneneeel to run on errands for
." "Go on, what's the matter
with you?" " billy," next time go alone on your errands, and permit
us to inform you that the
"Shoo
"
Fly
doesn't
convey
passengers
to
Geneva.
— Some of the students tried to renew " the olel-lime customs of gate
eve" last Saturday night and one of their number came to a sad end in
the attempt,
being seized by a
"
"
peeler
just
as he
was " lifting" a gate
and hurried oil to the police station. Ou the payment of five dollars
he was released. Another one of the party was caught but made his
escape, aud it is said that now he crosses the sireet to 'avoid going by
the police station. One of our local exchanges thinks they (referring to
the students) ought to have been shot for their contemptible mischief.
which would lead a person to think that someone hail failed in the
attempt.
—The President's reception given last Saturday evening was a pleas ant anel brilliant entertainment. The invitations were extended beyond the Senior class to the extent of the members of Sage College. There
were more present than an ordinal)' entertainment would entice from their rooms on Mich a stormy night, liy far the pleasantest part of the affair was the privilege of examining the many rare and valuable, books which adorn the President's library. The beautiful historical pictures illustrating stnne of the most important epochs of history are well cal culated to inspire the student with a stronger love for its study. Xo pains were spared to make it entertaining antl pleasant for all those present, and again the relations between professors and students were realized to be more frentlly than heretofore.
—The Seniors seemed to take their defeat at foot ball oc Thursday of last week as a streak of ill luck, and showed that they still had con fidence in their abilities as •' kickers," by immediately challenging the Juniors to a return game to be played on the following [Saturday. It was accepted, though a little reluctantly, by the Juniors, who did not want to hazard their reputation. The weather did not permit the game to be played, and the sudden change in temperature has had a cooling effect on the foot ball fever which has been so high for a few weekpast. The Seniors can honorably mourn their loss of championship, havim: the best record of any class at present in the University, never having lost a game since they were Freshmen, and being the only class that ever condescended to play a match game of foot ball in their Sen
ior year.
have tears prepare to shed llieni now. A bevy of "front seat orna ments" enter the room— very fond of libraries, especially .second hand ones. Furtive glances at the novel piece ot furniture are the the order of the day. Would that ye noble Junior could have seen the dtnoiumt nl of his little plan. The enterprising librarian was too obfuscated to ex plain the mysteries of his wares. The lair Minci vas bolt lor the door. d'he air lakes on a sulphurous hue. And now lhat Junior is .>aii.-)iirti lhat his room is equal lo hi., dignity. No lunger waves he lu chemist from
its ancient rampart. The canary chimes in with lhe music of the
breeze, which is uo more redolent wilh tin- mellifluous odor of the gol
den flowers.
—They had just taken possession of their new rooms and the novel ty of the surroundings aided by the lethargic influences of tbe god of sleep, caused them lo merit the reproval oi their Piolessois on several mornings for their tareliness to recit aliens. They came to the conclu sion that something must be done, sj the next altenioon they re paired to a jewelry shop aud impiired for an ahum cl.eek. " E\ol any on hand at present, but expect .some in tv\ o or lioee days. \ ou may take this one home," said the proprietor, " and use it until the others corne." The customers did not like lhe idea of going home without the object of their search, but made up llicir minds ihey would make
lhe loaued article serve their purpose some way. lhe means of wind
ing the clock was by a chain that ran around a drum and hung down below it several feet, the weight also extending toward the floor as the clock ran down. An ingenious idea presented it.self lo the inventive minds of the persons concerned. '1 hey went lo work and with the principal of the fulcrum ami lever in their heads constructed wilh three Indian clubs, a pair of dumb bells, a draughting board, four chairs, a sofa, a study table, a false eloor, two coal scuttles, ami a pair of tongs, an apparatus that thev thought would answer their purpose. They
made calculations to have the clock weight strike the first ot the above
named articles so lhat lis weight would cause lhe whole mass to tall over anel possibly wake them up about ..- -V'-u o'clock. So far so good, but their calculations as to the lime were not practical!}' correct, and the resuit was that the next morning about diree o'clock both we-iu ;tioiee-d by a crash that seemed to shake the building. A single bound brought them from their bed into tiie middle 01 the room, one crying "lire" and the other " niureler and help." After walking around the room once, and falling over the coal scuttles and chairs, both got into bed as quiet ly as po»ible for fear some one would hear. They were on the hill in time thai morning.
Kent, '72, is practicing law in New York cit}-.
Henderson, '7'1, is teaching in Westchester, N. Y.
"Ben" Miller, 'To, is studying law in Binghamton.
Canfikld, '7'i, is practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio.
—La Chemise has figured largely in the history of the world. The
Uiuii'iiAiir, 'TH, is reporting on the New York Tribune.
Crusader, the Irish Brigadier, Henry IV. of Germany, and (ben. Kil patrick, have immortalized their use of the shirt. In it was wont to robe
Fosri-a;, To, is on his father's farm in Canterbury, N. II.
the ivory form of a noble editor. Its usual resting-place in the dewy
Bowman, 72, has gone to St. bouis to engage in business,
morning hours Avas a Universiiy window whence il caught the passing breeze. It Avas a darling shirt, and ye Junior would not allow even the
IEnsion, 'TO, is improving antl is able to take short walks.
winds of summer to visit it too roughly. Now this Junior's room was comfortably furnished in a way to delight the- heart of any Era editor. But like Napoleon, " he was not content." To add another charm to the sitting-room vvas the ambition of his life. After eating a whale to strengthen his brains, a la .Mark Twain, he cried " Eureka," one fine morning this week. His shirt should give the needed charm. So he
hhONn, 'To, is with his father in their new Palace Hotel, San Fran
cisco.
Aveiiy, To, is married and is in business in the lir?t national bank at Petroba, Peun.
Bellows, "A, is studying medicine at the Homeopathic Medical
spread it gracefully in a conspicuous part of the room and patronized
the lecture with overflowing soul. The autumn breeze as it enters the
window gently lifts caught on the breeze
the and
graceful delights
folds. The perfume of flowers is the sense of the passers by. If you
|
College in Boston.
McKeciinie, 7-,', spent a few the early part of the week.
day? with
his friends
in town
during
64
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 5, 1875.
(Exchanges ami $oofc Ittviws.
It is the universal opinion of all who have carefully read Mr. Hol land's story of "Sevenoaks," that it is "a good thing." In addi tion to its having been published in Scribner's Mugazine (concluded in November) it has recently appeared in book form published by Scrib ner, Armstrong & Co. The scene is well placed and the spheres in which the characters move are eminently suggestive of the extremes of vice and hell Mines* as well as of simplicity, honor, and true manhood. The power that the wealthy, heartless wretch can exercise over the honest, poor laborer could not be more clearly shown or bitterly de nounced. While the brutality and unlimited selfishness of " Belcher " is constantly kept before the reader, his business tact and shrewdness relieve us when on the border of disgust and prevent us from conceiv ing anything worse than a strong hatred toward the subject. As we see Benedict reduced from a fair financial position to a mendicant and
escaped. Nevertheless it is an urgent and practical question. For, al though the influence of science cannot be escaped by society, it can be and it is extensively evaded and escaped in education. In this our
schools and colleges do not represent the age; they are out of harmony
with it; they are far behind it. The genuine universe is not the su preme object of study; it is only partially recognized or not recognized at all. The spurious universe is still in the saddle. It has not been displaced; it has hardly been disturbed. Science is still begging of our colleges for a few crumbs; and, when snubbed, is trying here and there
to organize schools of iis own, which are generally looked upon as mere
technological shops where needy youths are apprenticed to bread andbutter occupations a grade or two above the Avorkshops of artisans and mechanics. The dignity of being liberally educated, the honors of
scholarship, and the prestige of culture, are reserved for those who, passing by all the grand results of modern science, give themselves to the study of the, spurious universe."
then so abused that he Es driven to desperation and madness, our deep est sensibilities are touched and our sympathies aroused. In "Jim Fenton" is shown a brother's heart united Avith a helping hand, both of which are consecrated to a cause which he recognizes as humane and at the same time glorious; in him can be observed also the changes wrought by the intercourse with men upon an open and honest heart, Mike Collins, ever ready with his assistance, and from whom a great deal of advice could be had gratis, forms a subject for many very healthy flashes of humor; his arguments in trying to influence his friend
to keep a pig, are characterized by the one honest yet appealing expres
A Yassar girl contributes the following article to the Mt»lis<>nei,m, which may be interesting as a picture of the inner life at that peculiar
institution:
When a young woman at Yassar sees another whose appear-
auce, general style, talents, or eyes (especially the latter), she admires, instead of seeking her acquaintance in an orthodox manner, straight way she announces to her friends and cronies, with most mysterious and confidential air, that she is hopelessly, completely, entirely, utterly " smashed"— in fact, " dead gone." Then follows a series of the most
sion, "Ye might give 'im that little shtoop to lie on, an' let 'im run idiotic performances. "Smash" notes are written; elegant flowers, under the house to slape. That wouldn't be bad now, Jim?" The re boxes of candy, costly books, etc., are sent by the ">ma>hee" to the
formation of Mrs. Dillingham, receiving its start from the purity and sin "smasher;'' appointments are made in dark corridors to kiss each other
cerity of a child, harmonizes so closely with nature as to be. truly sym good night; smirking and ogling are in vogue in the dining room and
pathetic. The final trial and escape of the convicted man is a perfect in the chapel. This state of affairs is kept up for some time—length of realization of the expectations of the reader. The whole stor}- is well time depends upon the violence of the attack. The " smash " develops
calculated to give a correct picture of a huge piece of subtlety com into an astonishing friendship, or the parties drop one another by mutu
bined with the worse forms of vice that can proceed from a brutal al consent.
and debauched character. The moral is good anel the lesson which it
It is not uncommon to hear some bright girl say,
"
(.),
I am su
teaches is practical as well as useful.
smashed on Miss So-and so. I just adore the ground she walk* on. I
The first number of the Brunonian for the current year appears up
on our table this week. It seems to have struck the golden mean be tween being too dry and too much devoted to college news. Its ex change editor sits down with a determination to be lavish of praise and chary of criticism, and then uses up several college journals in the most savage manner. If this is what he calls praise, Ave fervently Avish that we may be permitted to "stand from under" when he sharpens his goose quill to criticise.
have the 'palps' so Avhen I see her that I can scarcely stand up." I have known girls whose great power of intellect could not be denied, avIio stood at the head of their classes, to make absolute fools of them
selves over other girls. I have seen girls cry themselves sick because their loved one smiled more favorably on some rival than on them. I have known of xi; boxes of confectionary and O") bouquets being sent through some zealous friend, by the victim to the victor. And speak ing of these tokens of pure, unadulterated affection, reminds me of something quite funny. These offerings are often more practical than
The Penn Monthly, a magazine devoted to literature, science, art, and politics, published in Philadelphia, is filled with a number of highly in teresting articles. A paper on " Educational Reforms and Reformers "
is especially' valuable to all who wish to see the progress our country has made in education. The political articles are well written, and
poetical. Dishes of pineapple, hot lemonades, fried oysters, etc., are common, and one young woman of an intensely practical turn of mind sent to her adored one a hot boiled sweet potato! I apprehend that iu a few years it will be no uncommon thing to express this holy emotion by means of a raw onion, or, more appropriately, a cabbage-head.
touch upon topics of lhe times.
The ptijiii/ur Srie,,e, Monthly for November is up to its usual standard of excellence. Prof. Youmans, than whom there is no one more con versant with the needs of the " new education," contributes an excel lent article under the title "Which universe shall we study y" We clip the following extract from it for the benefit of our technological
students:
"The question of scientific education, then, undoubtedly the great est question of our time, is simply this: ' Shall we study the genuine or ihe spurious universe? Shall the minds of sludents be developed and moulded by direct exercise upon the phenomena and problems of Nature and present human experience, or shall they be cut oil from the living world and trained in the acquisition of old knowledges, just as if science had never arisen?' This question may seem to many a futile one, as they will say that in this age the influence of science cannot be
It is quite the thing at Vassar to have the reputation of being a suc cessful " smasher." One enterprisiug young woman boasted of her bit) victims. She was a Maine girl, and her charm lay in the fact that she was ijuite gentlemanly in appearance. But she was a notable exception. Very few reach the zenith of Oo dozen, and if one were to successful ly aspire to more than that I think she might say, " Now let thy servant depart in peace." 1 think abo that under the circumstances it would be the most laudable petition she could possibly put up.
Now, Mr. Editor, that 1 have shown the ridiculous side of this mat ter, f mi.idil continue to discourse in mournful numbers of the serious
side, of its cause and effects, of the argumeuts it furnishes for co-edu cation, but I have some spark of kindly feeling left your readers. Therefore I will spare them the ghastly recital.
A Vassar GlRL.
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth."
Volcmk Vllb-NiMUKH i).
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER C\ is;.",.
fi.oO per Annum in Advance
Printed and Published eeery Friday, by Students of the Senior und Junior Cluss.s.
(ftiitors for 18754.
J. W. Stikoev.vnt, "?ii, M. E. Havilvno, '77,
(E P. Wooduufp, '70, A. J. boos, '77.
— From the Co/leje An/as we learn that Wesleyan Univer sity is a soil in which co-education yields a poor harvest. The
system of coeducation w;is introduced into Wcslevan Uni versity about the same time that it was at Cornell. We are told that there are four ladies in the Senior class, two in
the Junior, one in the Sophomore, anel one in the Freshman.
The An/us continues, "The fact is, this innovation was made
to meet no want of the age or of the college. It is maintain
ing a precarious existence and Avill yet die for want of practi cal support. Seven-eighths of the graduates and undei'-grael-
uates are opposed to the system. Out ofthe twenty-nine men belonging to the present Senior class twenty-seven voted against co-education, anel two had no settleel ooiivictieuis on the matter We would not, however, let the matter drop here without trying t < > re-tnler justice to the four ladies of '7b. The
wisdom of the innovation made three years ago could not have
failed of establishment through any lack in these ladies. They
have Avon the lasting respect of every member of 'Tb, both for
their ability, their energy, and above all for their lady-like carriage. We are glad that the innovation has hael just such ladies as these to speak in its favor. Their very virtues have
made the unadvisedness of co-education the more apparent. They are spending tour years of their life here first, in order to gain culture for the mind, and second, in order to establish
a precedent favorable to co-education. They will measurably gain the first point, yet we freely assert that there is not a prominent ladies' institution iu the laud which would not have given them a course of study much more conducive to culture than is ours. The professional course, and vears of study in more juicy subjects than Creek and Mechanics, awaits the male graduate. Society and home awaits the woman, and there the culture of a Yass.-ir is vastly to be preferred to the discipline of a Wesleyan. v
The Art/as further informs its readers that it docs not pub
lish the above to invite controversy for it has no- space for such matter in its columns, it makes no attempt at argument,
but it says enough to let one into its creel with which its con
clusions accord. The professional course and years of broad study await the male graduate, "society and home awaits the woman." Different kinds of occupations awaiting the two,
different destinies before them, they need different kinds of culture. The male needs the deep basal studies of institutions like Wesleyan upon which t< » build; the woman needs the general culture Avhich the lighter studies and accom plishments taught at female seminaries can give. Afier all, whether one belicAcs in co-education or not depends very much upon his conceptions of how society should be constituted and what the position of both the man and the woman should be in it. We have trod to state the case of Wesleyan fairly. To us, who see no reason in the nature of the position which wo man may occupy antl has a right to occupy in subsequent life, why she should not be entitled to the best and broadest foun-
dation of academic culture which the country in which she
lives can provide, the position that the A ejus takes appears erroneous. The Argus claims, however, that a college has a right to be exclusive if it chooses to do so, or more exactly, "If any man can furnish an argument against the right of every family to regulate its own affairs acceirding to the will of its members we are ready to listen to him." While we have no intention of discussing the subject of co-education in the sense of arraying the arguments which seem invulnerable to those who support co-education, anel which led to its adop tion here, avc would answer the statement quoted above with this, that if avc start Avith the basis that Avoman has a desire for, and a right to, the best academic education of our age and land, that it is not just to close the means of its acquisi tion to her. The particular view of an under-graduate upon this subject is worth just as much as the reasoning by which it is deduced is gootl. Many have a bias against co-education
Avithout any defined reason. Others knoAv that it is an inno
vation upon earlier college systems anel on this account decry it. Others again have' been accustomed to it at various pre paratory schools, anel at Normal schools, anel look upon it as something Aery natural. Others still, decide favorably or un favorably by a process of reasoning from what, are to them
first principles. Statistics of the Senior class at Cornell, last year, showed
that ofthe Avhole number of its members— something over fif ty—about two-thirds were opposed, to co-eelucation. Statis tics ofthe Senior class at the Michigan University last year— numbering about one hundred — showeel that more than two-
thirds were in favored' cei-education. It seems, too, that among
educators seuiiethiiig ed' the same diversity of opinion obtains. Probably the most formidable oppeuieiit to co-eelucation that has yet arisen is I Jr. Clark. If the grounds taken in his So in.Education- are proven, by actual fact, to be erroneous, co-ed ucation has little to fear from a. priori reasoning, of which na ture most ofthe other arguments brought against it are. Ac-
(Jli
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 12, 1875.
tmil trial is the best otall tests for opinionative questions. Co- the universe, secret forces of the world, ami physical and
education is bavin;'- a fair test at Cornell. The number of op- moral laws. Other men have passed some particular object a ponents are constantly decreasing, as we think the statistics of hundred times, and have taken no note of it; they have been, '7b will show next spring. The number of lady stuelents is a hundred times, spectators of some particular phenomenon,
constantly increasing, and we have n<> doubt that by anothm | and it has appeared to them of too little importance to be de-
year the lictjisltr will contain at least fifty names of lady stu- scribed. J bit this man passes and examines it attentively, and dents. Those avIio are interested in this subject ought to feel ; henceforth one object more, one phenomenon in addition to
"lad at having such a fine opportunity to verity theory by others, will be inscribed upon the catalogues of human sci-
fact. If, in five years from now, it is found that Cornell is be- mice. Faeh thing Avaits, since the creation, for its human rehind the exclusive institutions in scholarship and in good or- vealer. Each must be disenchanted. These interpreters of
der, or if it is found that the lady stutlents have incurred last- things, these living .symbols of nature, are Avithout doubt
ing inju ies to their health according to Clark's theory, then it great men; but this title ought especially to be reserved for
will be sale to sav with ihe A.rjus, that the " age and college" those who are the representatives of ideas. It is natural to
tlo not neeel co-eelncatioii. If the opposite state- ol' things is believe in great men, for the seeking after greatness is the
shoAvn fei be true, then a priori reason, the reasoning brought dream of youth ami the serious occupation of manhood.
against the system of co-education, will have one more error Those are great men who make of this world a wholesome
recorded against its deductions.
eaith. Those Avho live with them find life glad and nuti itious-
and the nation that is destitute of them is a nation of begins, — .Inferring to the prospective completion of the Academ- lol- jt ), -lS 1R, clV(lit wjt], ,,t]lel. liatj()lls.
ic Theatre at alemorial Hall, the Harvard HoowA, makes a
Whence conies the worship of great men . It comes from
gooel suggcoion as to the nature of the initiatory exercises fo tiK. disparity between them anel us, and from the services they
oth".be held in it. It popo.es that the Antigone of Niphocles be u.ll(p.,. u, us> wllK.h aru moK. c.p.vaUjj tl)au t}1(,se ()1 any
played just as it formerly was at /aliens, and among other aiguments in favor of this plan, says that "on general grounds ar.ytl.mg which tends to dispute the iiidifeie no- and sluggishness ot a large portion of the under-graduates should be
rendered',us. [f Wc, ,Mllnak. miiU ^eordiiig tu services
what
:lll estimate ought we not to put upon great men ! The orvu., ,adl mau reUlllM.s is in yirtU(, „f t)) E ^^ ,,„,„„.,;„„ t(j
llim_ilis owu intrinsic force. Fach of us has an end which
welcomed with open hands; and, without much doubt, the ho c:lll !ltlaill wilh 1;K.ility ;lil(l iu sl,01.tj lloWuver mueb it
student woulel enter heartily into the plan." We can conceive
of no better means than the reipresentation of the ceilaa.sssiict pnil.'iivvss
be impossible to others. Thence proceed two consequence.,
qualities'nj |.K..,
horst<.-
;.
is,
othai,
,t.he
•• .
intrinsic
,■ •
,.
of
th, e
great
man
,.
beino-
ot any country to avsaken in the student a love for the liaam.^oinu,e,!'e.
,he
mav
,be
.
,
studwng,
.
anel
to
' °f
°give him a tl ruuee ii die.aa o. fi
int>s ssnpiurnit,
lhe to a
digging ?
student,
out
,but
ol so many lines
. ..
just as often is it
of a [nla•vo/o/J/ be 1i>,Kle--1isSi1nI<1>&-
looked upon as a drudging
a|]5 the,,ttne musti, lalv,
t,.,,,,,
,..,,.
r
n ,t1|R1 services 1he rond1 el s are al, so
i
most
el1 evat, ed1.
t1ihe
secondi
■
is,
th, at
th, e
,
task
. -,
assigned
.
is
.
simpl le
and
easy
,to
-
,hmi,
t.,hottgl,i
...
impossible
to
oth, er
nieii.
,.
And it is this
impossibility that makes his greatness.
tadv. It was
proposed Fnierson,play\ftlhl att
s. om, e
•
snort
"
in one ol the Oernnin sections last •vUo'i"r
sli iouh,,l ibe read
tins
year
h,
wo
a
vow
to
'
]"oli('1' -^l'liere thought,■itt s representtatt-ion on th, e stag"e.
,
t was a mere poiroopooossiittiioonn,
know, difficulty. Everyhowever,,
and, so t,ar as we
.
no further st~elps have been
ttaki en in th, e matter.
Thisr|11.
.
is
milch
to
be
re^e,L-rLeltLteUd' a-iss w"Le 'alrue
posi-t,-ive ,t,hat, alMl s,tud, ents woul,d,
,
meet the pro. ess.. rs half
way
^iI
]
count
•
h, im
a
great
man,
savs
•' who inhabits
;1, 1 ; 1
1 ote i
\■ ■ , into which other men rise wilh la-
1bor .andi vuj
>
,,
one can do his
best
thii.es ~
easii*e-.s. ti.
'if,I 11(-
;is. gr, eat,
•
whi o is wihat
ihe
•
is
rfrom
n,aaitlulrlte o"a»n«-di wu hnoo nneev\eeir Kre
•
nnndis us of,- othi ers."»
rT,„he
■.
orig n
of our honia.-e
to
ooit
men
r
i . ,,„o tl, t
•
i .v
,
in furthering a plan so much for their own bench, and , ■
and' f, Tthat could be earned out with so Httle trouble
en
N"^ ^ ^""^ '""T^The
preparation
of
a Creek drama
would,>
of
'
,„l",^,, nivolve
,
L /considerable expense, Out we can make a beginning with the
,T 7* "T""'' ^modern
languages,
anel
test
the
pocticabilu v -
o'Mt,llae
lp,l, an-
btlt 7 '^'"e V'There was once such a thing as a (.erman soceiieedtyv hheerree, but for
flomTo, reHel' ^^some reason ,t did not
and now the o""nl.bv relief.f^ the
i„'!„ ,,,;,,",student of oeinller gets from his task, is to" imn ^ ™^c, us ad-
"inine and even envv
,,,, i' m,,„lliz(, ;
them; bin in this theor' y of facile
the ^^^ ^i t
,
"""
.
"'
.
.
'a"r"ca"t'
W"W'
the mail of leenitis n tbe m"". .,!,"..'-".. ^"^.. .,,...
] ,.ilu "0t ,WSnize'
liowever, t I w,'"■,' ^^' ^-nnnates the hero, d'he great
man, s^uch ^ K,,,,"'S,", ,,!,S d^'ivWd h"»» is tIa P«S«» /""' »■«-
,;tl,n/,"-t'', '"\\"\ ' "l;1" Nvll° 'lenv.-s his grace from nature.
For
fl"' •~'Vilt "1:lM 'S 'U> xvl'" l,:ls '^i^'ive.l his mission from
ll,,;1Vl'"' u l|n lllllsl with .-ill pains cypress it to others, and at all hazards cause it {,, triumph. The theory of oasy great ness,
(Cai'UlU dlUl tflUC^On.
"'."''! ''lS K"u','su|1 l»«»ftrays, exists tu.ly l(, a limited extent since
[i''i-llmilw.u-«e(/,s/ee,c.ifo,w,,J
< h list ,an it y . Liberality, niagnauiniity, great ness of soul, and
According to Fnierson, all things in the world are symbols
,,,,,'Jand men are in turn representatives first of thiims aml ''
tl-!ct\of ideas. Fad, man, by his temperament his eh
''^ "T" ?U "° IO"^''; f°r' *"XVV ^hr^^f ^ ""»™1
'" ,""'vl'll,'lv ll;ls enveloped the soul on all sides, man feels him'""'' ',"<1 l"""1'U'- ln ,no,k'1" t»»^ "ian is not great by
ceri-i,,,' \"\ '""ehis nature, has mysterious relations with
]VX^n'ViUwul b'v*
<
\''J-'ts
«d (
mcessant
:""1 ll:l1'1^- ^' " ^"^ hy labor performed, toil, by duty. What, does it proiit him to show hiS
Nov. 12, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA
great soul?
It is only a symbol, as Fmerso,, says;
if
is
'«
only
Put," one savs to ,„e, « if terror had
not
shed
blood
in
tor-
a shadow ot the ideal, while m ancient tinms if was a reality, rcls, if the people had not with loud cries .-ailed for a master
empire'At the present dav, thanks to Christianity, th,
humblest
:
and would
Xapoleon have ever bee,, possible v
W.,uhl ihe
poorest of men has an ideal more elevated than the soul of have ever existed?"' What does all that ^mil v ' Does d. Our great men have, besides, is this which has given birth to magic, to sorcery, to divina-
soniethiiig of the maniac in them; the burden of their respon tiem ; it is this Avhich is the basis of the contrat social • it is
sibility seems te> weigh them down, the consciousness of their
freedom crushes them. Thus they have always something about them disagreeably painful. The internal torment, the moral m irtyrdom, the strife of good and evil appears in their
this which peeps through, at every moment, in the aberrations of socialism. It is, perhaps, by reason of this error that the most hypothetical sciences are just those which propose to be the most directly useful, as medicine, for example, which has
countenance, in their we>rds and acts. They seem always ore- arrived at such doubtful results as it respects the art of heal-
occupied ; ami this character i.s common to them all, irrespect- ing. < hi the other hand, the indirect branches of this science,
lve of sect and class, so that whether they are catholic or chemistry and anatomy, are less illusory anel less sterile, and
potestant, Avarriors or statesmen, they all make Avry faces.
have rendered more special, real services. This generous error
This theory, however, seems to us infinitely preferable to gives rise to the notion so common, that virtue is nothing un-
our systems in regard to the same subject. In making the less it is a sort of current coin made to pass from hand to hand. hero a revelation of himself and of invisible nature, Fnierson But, on the contrary, you have no neeel to fret voiirself he-
preserves, at least, the rights of human dignity. There is a cause all men are not virtuous; you have no need even to
doctrine with which we have been satisfied during the last know that, lb- yourself mor il and virtuous as if all others
fifty years, based upon a belied' in the power of circumstances were so, live as yon would have to live in the midst of a peoto create great men. The authors of this theory unfold to pie of gods or of kings, Avithout troubling yourself to know
you learnedly how by means of this circumstance and then of that, a great man has been possible. This is the most mateii-
alistie theoi-y that has been broached on this matter. It is
whether the people that surround you are the vilest rabble or
not.
ddiis book of Fnierson is much inferior to the book which
not circumstances which create the' great man, for facts and Carlyle has Avritten on the same subject and has called "Hero
events at the best only determine and define exactly the ob- Worship." Emerson attaches himself especially to men of
ject of his mission. A great soul is always a great soul, genius — lo Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, whatever may be the conditions imposed upon bim. Without Coethe — and loves to contemplate in them the different and
this avc should necessarily despair of human dignity and free- prominent types of humanity, the men who represent most dom anil deliver ourselves up blindly to accidents and events, vividly the variems intellectual forces ofthe human mind. He The splendor thrown around L'reat men dazzles us too greatly : admires the skeptic Montaigne no less than the mystic Suo and hinders us too much from observing their true light. ! denborg. lie does not incline to the side of the one or the
GS
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 12, 1875.
oiher. With him, the prominent and opposite faculties of there was a debt of some six hundred dollars that mast be
these men are the weights which hold in e.piilibrium the bal- paid this month. In addition to this, repairs to the extent of
ance ofthe mind. He loves to search out the hidden point of fifty dollars must be made in order to render the boat-house
affinity where these dilfereiit gifts unite to form the unity of the human spirit; he loves to speculate upon the actions and reactions of I hKiiight, which, however, change- in no respect the
sale .luring the winter. Some weeks ago subscription papers
Avere circulated through the different classes for the purpose of raising this money, but they have failed to meet with a
original identity ofthe soul and of life. Carlyle goes more di- Avarm reception. But little more than half of the necessary
rectlv to the reality ; the here." is a hero at the same time by amount has been subscribed. Fvidently the enthusiasm of last
his life and by his aim; and more especially so by the diffi- July is forgotten by many. Let us sustain the honor and
culties he nmsl encounter in order to accomplish his work. , credit of the Cornell Xavy by paying our debts as well as by
He is the man who has received a divine mission, and must I winning victories.
D. O. Barto.
make it triumph through all perils — in captivity, like Moses; in the deserts, like Mahomet; in the depth of cloistral soli-
^ • M- '• A-
tudes, like Luther; in the midst of battle fields, like Cromwell '■ Editors Cornell Era :
and Xapoleon. With Carlyle, the intelligence of the hero is
At the annual convention of the Y. M. C. Association of
of little account; the mission he has received is higher than all : the United States and British Provinces, held at Richmond,
intelligence. Without this mission, the hero would no longer ; Va., last May, it was decided that special etftirt should be be a hero, and the glory ofthe saints would be eclipsed before ' made to render the observance of the "o/,- of prai/i r as <<-en-
that of Plato and of Aristotle. It is moral power that eonsti- \ oral as possible.
tutcs the hero ; it is the manliness he expends in accomplish-,
Act-ending to established usage, the second Lord's Dav in
ing his work, that is Avorthy of admiration. Emerson, howev- Xovomber opens the week of special praver for association
er, notwithstanding his almost exclusive love of genius, does j work, and upon that day, as upon the succeeding davs of the
not fall into an intellectual fetiehism. Intelligence is to him a week, those interested in the progress of Christianity through
mirror in which is reflected the conscience, the moral life, the the labors of the Christian \ssociation of our land will unite
internal faith of man. He has written these fine words : '' The ' their prayers heartily.
answer to these questions, whence do we come, where do Ave i
At the Seventh Triennial Convention of \r. M. C. Associa-
go, why do avc live, ought to be in the life and not in a hook, tions of all lands, held at Hamburg, Cennany, last August, a
A drama or a poem are only oblique answers to these ques- similar observance of the day and week was resolved upon,
tions; but Moses and Jesus give us directly the key to the and thus, associations in seven different nations are engaged.
problem." Wise Avords are these, and well worthy of consid-
In Ithaca, sermons will be preached to the young men Sun-
eration iu a time which places intellect above conscience, and day evening, Nov. 1-4-th, by the Rev. Dr. White at the Pres-
abstract culture above the realities of life. Our age has loved byterian church, and die Rev. M. S. Hard at the Aurora street
too much merely speculative men; it is now time to love Methodist church, and upon the evening of Sunday Xov. -j Ist,
those Avho make their lives a poem or a moral system.
S. similar sermons will probably be delivered at the Baptist and
: :— — —
Congregational churches. During the coming week, the Uni-
(£0WC£l)0tttlmfC.
i versity Christian Association will meet with the town church-
ioesiiaiax eitEAv.
Editors (for u it during the year. A strong interest has Editors Cornell Era:
oyeralbeen manifested by
members of the class, and a num-
In your last issue appears an article Oaring the signature
"strangeber have expressed their willingness to tram lor the crew dm- « W. '70") the audacity of which is at the same time
ing the winter, but are waiting tor some one to organize the
and amusing, and
coming as if
does
from
a
would
be
'«
grave
crews anel set them at work.
,.
,.
»
■",eiend,Now let sonic '7't m< 'ecn,. ww hnoo aariee aanndd rle,.vv,...,.,,j " ,r. entliers it st,-ilnl more so.
A» person
Ti
would
ibe
interested in this matter,
,
form
as many
•
crews as lpossible,'
and lleudl
i
tl(o> tthinionlk-,
aOfote.,r.
,r. ea, di;i„ng '
•-
it,
.tihat.
.t.he writer
,had,
,
been
,bewai.l,-
appoiut some fixed hour ior them to row at the Avehdits Some
V,ot
the
t-
L
ni• versi-t. y
crew
wi-lnl iblie th. ere
to
coach
them.
The vvaill-
ue of,
/.
+t1ne training to
ihe ,haied,
■
n.
,
the
gymnasium this
winter
vei-eseiinaieo and the small anion,,, of time re-
quireel will lie well
; talking about,\ , Jmug°- ot
tthl-is
.
term
a
repaid. <>ne word mure-
.
statement av as mad, e by the
'Uvt tlthicelH1 g,h„,-
trea"s"urUer"c,non"
.
impliescerning
tthhe
f.i.n.„anci;a1l
condVitt.ion
of,
tt.he
Xn.iv\v),
sslh.ooAwAbiin<>g-
ttlh.naft
.
|
nmi■
,
tjiiantities. As he
the case to have been, his coomnclu-
Nod. 12, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
69
sions seem very plausible, but a statement of two simple facts will give the matter a different aspect. He says, "The Jun iors in refusing to accept the challenge of the Seniors," etc. Now the Juniors have md refused to accept a single challenge of the Seniors to play football, and there has been no chal lenge posted on the bulletin board for a match between the two classes since the one appeared which named the :;,)th ult. as the date for the game. As every one knows, the weather prevented the game's being played, but if the Sen iors were so anxious to have the game come off why did thev not put up another .challenge ? As they did not, I cannot see
the least occasion for the appearance of the above named ar
ticle, which neither does credit to the writer nor reflects the sentiments of the class which he professes to represent.
football.
'?!• eersus '7s
The result of the match game of football between the
Sophomores and Freshmen last Saturday afternoon excited more surprise among the foot-ballists of the University than anv previous game of the season, and indeed, the Sopho mores can hardly recognize the fact yet. At three o'clock the opposing parties Ave re in position. '79 had the north field and the kick off. McCraAV started the ball which vvas barely al lowed to strike the ground Avhen Pickett caught the first fly, and sent it back in fine shape. The ball crossed the center of the field once, but was quickly returned by the Freshmen. The Seiphomeues seemed unable to change its position, and for five minutes it remained in dangerous proximity to 7s's goal, when it Avas finally put through by three successive fair kicks bv Sinum-, Boyle, and Huntington. Time, eleven minutes. This was more than the' majority of the Freshmen had antici pated, and thev cheered a ociferemsly while the Sophomores were trying to account for the way it happened.
Church warned the next ball for the Sophomores, who seemed to take to their Avork with some misgivings. A fair kick alternately by "70 and '7s, folloAved by four in succession by '79, placed the ball very near '7s's goal. Thence it re turned to the center of the field, though it was evident that it could not stay there, for '7(a was doing some tine playing, and caught, by far, the nost balls. After a contest of seventeen minutes'it was rushed through '7s's goal for the sec 1 time. The Sophomores seemed to have lost their " knack " forget ting fair kicks, but their fielding was superior t<» that of the
Freshmen.
7« now roused themselves to the "duty of the hour," and the next goal Avas the longest one of the game. After being warned by Newton, '79, the ball was taken across the field by '78, and a fair kick by Fleming, '7s, would have ended the goal, but Jackson, 79, luckily caught the ball inside the goal and kicked it out again. The S. .phomores now kept their field well guarded, and were working hard for the goal. Pickett, 78, caught the ball directly in front of the goal and fouled it by an unlucky strike, " but still it lingered near." A fair kick by Chapman, 7s, finally sent it flying over the goal where it was caught by Dounce, 79, who, by mistake, threw it instead
of kicking it, hence it was deeided foul and had to be thrown up. It next settled into the hands of Knapp, '79, and from there to Boardman, 7s, who quickly dropped it, thereby win ing the goal for 7s in fifty minutes. Sonic stray horns now made their appearance, by means of which the Sophomores gave vent t<> their joyful feelings.
No time was lost and the next goal was started by a kick from Treman. About fifteen of the Sophomores took a stand ing start from a line after the ball, Avhich was kicked clean
over their heads and taken across the Held in less than two
minutes. It was as soon returned I <• the center of the field
where it remained for some time, ddie better playing of the Freshmen Avas again showing itself and the ball was taken t<>-
Avard '7s's goal, when a hue kick bv Cook, "7'.t, and a bat by Knapp sent it through '7s's goal for the third lime, thereby closing the game in favor of the Freshmen. Time of the last
goal Avas sixteen minutes. This was a sore defeat for the
Sophomores, and the Freshmen did what no other class ever
did before them. On the side of the Freshmen Knapp, King, Newton, Boyle, and Simons distinguished themselves by fine plays, while Thompson, Borden, Church, Finch, and Albertson, for the Sophomores, kept up their old reputation. Though the result of the game was a sntiare defeat for the Sopho
mores, we think that if the latter had had all of their best
players on the ground it would have ended differently, but the question Avill not be settled until next time, Avhen no doubt
the Sophomores will challenge the Freshmen for thirty on a
side.
(Obituary.
Mr. John M. Curtis, a member of the Sophomore class, died of typhoid fever at the residence of his grandfather in Maine, Broome Co., N. Y., on Sunday, Oct. 31st, aged about 2 'J years. Mr. Curtis was a very promising student, antl one whose loss is deeply felt by his numerous friends on account ofhis genial character and many estimable qualities. He was prepared for the University at the Rochester Business* ollege, and had taught writing tor se oral terms, being a penman of unusual skill and grace. The n 'W\s of his death was a surprise to all, as it was not supposed that his illness was of a danger-
ems character.
The class of 17s held a meeting in the chemical lecture room on Tuesday of this week, when the folloAving resolutions
Were adopt eel :
When at it has pleased Almighty < bid to remove from our midst by the hand of death our beloved friend and classmate, John M. Curtis,
therefore
Resolved, that we, the class of '7S, while bowing in submission to the dictates of the Divine Will, feel that we have suffered an irreparable loss and have been deprived of an able classmate and a genial compan
ion. Ristdvol, that we tender to the afflicted relatives and friends out
most, heartfelt sympathies in their great and Midden bereavmeut.
Itesolred, lhat copies of these resolutions be printed in the Cuknkll Eka and the Ithaca Journal, and sent to the relatives of the deceased.
WE P. Pickett, £. M. Ellis, H. L. Stevlns,
) '- Com.
)
70
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 12, 1875.
'MlUVn'SitM ^ftflHS. " ~"
—Scene: astronomy class. Professor after telling how the beautiful lady fassiopea is supposed lo have been sitting in the same place in the
—The Tennesseeans to-night; go and hear them.
heavens for over three thousand yenrs, onncs to the subject of stars
-A Senior spelled E/.ekicl, the other day. Iv/.-k-i-l.
<> rP>erk, i■ ns., that never set in our latitude, of which the above named star is one
prfjfes;Juuior_,ipr((f,.ssol. di(1 you s,y tl);i, Cassiopea never scts?.,
where art thou?
sor—" Yes, sir." Junior— " Why, a few minutes ago you said she had
—During the next two weeks Prof. Shackford will occupy the pub ||(,(M) sittjJ1L,. tlll.ce thousand years." The Junior received enlightenment
pit of the Unitarian church, Ur. Stebbins being absent.
; Qn the snh^(.{ an,i tnr. (.]ass " COmes down."
—A sp' rained nose and a broken one, are reported as two of the ef-
fects
of
the
,
late
,
match
,
between
,
the
,,
Sophomores
audt
I',-. reshi men.
.
—The interest taken in regard to the foot ball -
ass ciation was ma,duee
apparent by the large number or sludents who assembled at room K
—The dwellers ou the hill es. the denizens of the valley at foot ball ]asj Tuesday. The meeting was called to order by Crim, T7. Flan-
to morrow afternoon at 2 e. ai., on Willow Avenue; fifteen on a side.
j nery, TU, was elected chairman, anel Aldrich, Ts, secretary, pro tem.
— Or. ne „Fresh, man /(ev•idi ent,ily not a Ftt,renchisichiolar) wri-t. es iju//eh/ osi
+t■o-, r
'
FLilannervJ ,>
TU. >
Milford, '77,
and Treman,
Ts,
were app' ointed a c^omm-
_
t.,he
-Fcrench, ,
•
meaning
somettlhi■ ng
or
•
anytohing
,(you,
ihave a, ,m„•ind,, ,tAo ,m„„a,k„e,
mitlee to draw upl a constitution lor the association.
After a short dis-
cussion on various subjects the meeting adjourned to meet at the same
' -" Mac " remarked the other thy that if he had a gun that kicked ' Place in one w0,'k- II is ll0P''(1 that t,,e »tt«-ndance will be as large at
like the General's, he would hold it about three inches from his shoub the second m""tiu- as il Avas at th" ,irst' Wause the bus,n"ss wil1 be of
der when he fired.
more importance.
—Prof. Fethers, who delighted large audiences with his fine read-
— Engineers have plenty to do now days. The other night we
ings during the session of the 'I'eaeliei-s' Institute, will read in bibrary dropped in on one, a Junior, about 1'2 e. M. Hi- books were open on
Hall on Tuesday evening, Nov. •_.'!.
the table, and he was on his knees —easting bullets into a mould; the
—Some recent developments alfirni the fact that "smashing" is not ; sweat was ^''''"miu-' from llis manly brow, and his whole appearance
entirely unknown at Cornell, and that both the " smasl.ee " and "smash- denoted a gauntl state of exhaustion. He had joined the Rifle Associa-
er" do not necessarily belong to the " fair sex."
tion, and in ,he true spirit of Tn. was converting his last pewter spoon
—tT, wo
-Fcresh, men
coming
,
from
.t,he
L,.
.
niversity:
"p.ie-s
into ammunition. The next day he was brought home more dead than
run a
cltub,.-1..„
,. xl~es. „
llTIs
..
it
a
co
ed, ucat,i. on
cl, ub. ? „
O ,, .,
i alive by a crowd of students, who saw his faithful Springfield rifle
l es. ( Eagerly) "Are
•
there auy it?women♦i,„™ „., .
t,-™,„
in -,.<<
•
Hue is waiting .t-or an
answer t.oi-hi's,*last ones-
literally go back on him ami hori/.oiitali/.e lib perpendicularityJ .
He
.. now mourns the loss ot a pewter spoon antl two eye teeth.
-Several Seniors think that the " Golden Rule " as given out for an
essay means one of VA hately's laws; even one wanted to bet five dollars
thatWl.ately was the author referred to. better look up your cafechism, "Jim."
—The astronomy class have commenced reviewing, and this time the work will be practice instead of theory. All students who are registered for five hours of astronomy this term will need to be quite punc-
tual in their attendance.
_.. Halloo ' Billy,' where did you get that goosey" savs a Junior upon
entering his Senior neighbor's room. " I had the good luck to shoot it
t0.day/. r(jplied the S(.ni„„ .. Whilt aru you ^in t0 do withit?-
lirnT.hrow
..
it
away,
Tf guess,
TI d, on t
want4
. ,,
it.
.,O,,h,,"d, on
o
t
,t,hrow
it
away,
why don't you have it cooked?" "Well, I can't bother with it, I
haven't time." " Then give it to me and I'll see that we have a good
dinner of it." " Yes, you can have it." Junior (in a gratifying tone)—
' ' I'll take it over to Sage ( 'ollege and have it cooked." It being Satur-
—The attempt to excite a rush between Ts and Til while they were coming from the ball ground last Sat unlay did not amount to much.
day ^e was tolcl tlmt jt lie would have it until Monday he should have
""
some g°ose
f°r
dinner.
The Junior departed with an anxious ex-
The provoking stick was sent over the fence by a Freshman, after which ' pectation of enjoying his Monday's dinner. When Monday came and
T'.i declared themselves victors.
' brought no goose, the Junior tin being told that his goo-e was a loon,
—During the last lecture in physics before the Juniors, while the : CamP l° the ,onclusion that " m> "aniral history is a little rusty."
Professor was showing the different effects of heat on water and mer
cury, a scientific astonished his neighbor by telling him that "water
absorbs more heat than any other metal."
^\T$0Udl$.
-Prof. Crane's child, aged is months, died Tuesday afternoon It
was not supposed to be dangerously ill nutil the tine- of its death, hav-
^VMuCK- >l< "^ '» ,l,w» '»» Monday.
ing been taken ill Sunday evening. Prof. Russel has had charge of
Cakvkii, TE is studying law at Warren, Mass.
Prof. Crane's classes during nro of the week.
i
— Tlhoe nnexvtt Universitytt„;,. „•ser,m•ons„wil,l be preached the coming Sabbath
S-r.VNO.vun, '7:!, is studying medicine in San Francisco
t]K.at the usual hours, If A. m. and 3 e. m., by Roy. Dr. Hill, of
fnita
s"-vw. Ts, is studying law at Dixon, 111 , in his uncle's office.
rian church. Dr. Hill is an ex-president of Harvard ('< 1 1'.-.. ,'. -.,'„»,di th,„as, aaitttdaiinneecdi lniii-e...I-il.dfliis-tinini,e.ttiwonn a, s a prof. ound, writer and an elfeel ive preacher
V— -v nnooubilee Srseennii,,oi-i, ttli.ioe ro,tthi„err di ay, remark, ed, ot■■ a !,,'< new editor's shoes
"
rC,,o,loVn,
•—
<-,
ihas
oone
I, om,-,
having
been
Ihreatned with
the diptheria.
Gii.i.is, one of I he "good boys," has written to us from Salem, Ohio.
(size No. 10) that ihey should be preserved as a fittim.- moment., of the
Jvuv's. '7s, has returned and is ready for work in the University
sanctum saneetormni.
This is the
same
one
who , .sod
the word
' f'n'Wpro-
moxity for proximity. Perhaps he has been pn,-s,,u,g Me,. I'artiioon's
Montao, ,.;, T,, has an interes, in the tire brick works at Ol.at.ai.oo-
works too much ot late.
"a, Ten..
~*XSIT.1 o"0".'1'moils
on
last
Sabbath
to
"' N"W V"rk' '1"liV"'"'1 "'" l;,liv'-^'.v ser
large congregations. 1 le understands 1 1„- needs
Pl{'""- IlKWKrr was unable to meet ids classes during the early par.
<»'' H'« week.
previou^sp.alo-r'who on"of students, being himself a gradualc of Harvard
him think thai he has not been excelled by any
Tho e
I,
i All'
Ih.uil
Ohi' ""' ^ ""' ^^ °f i,,S,M',,,,,r °f ,0,,°,U0,iveS "'
has come among us.
We did no, get a noiiee of the sermons h, ,im,to !
insert it in our last week's issue.
'' .,
v" „'- '- via ock, '7S, has gone into lhe dry goods business with his
| father at Monmouth, 111.
Nov. 12, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
71
OsTKAMiKit, Tti, of foot ball renown, is principal of a high school in '
—A Soph, has finally concluded lhat a Classical I)i«-tionary is a swim
Berkley, Alameda Co., Cal.
' die. He looked into one the other day lo find out Avhere the Apostle
Terry, TU, having been threatened with typhoid fever, went to his Mark was from and il didn't say. — Mud
home in New Bedford, Mass.
^—
e
Si'.V,
b
your
rudder
wire
stretches
one inch
(and your crew
_
,
,.
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•
\. L. D.vv rev lectured m Oroton last Wednesday evening; his sub-
■i' ect was " Past, Present, and luture.
chines in Jifth) hold up that wire to the interested (?) world until it has
st,,i.ci.c.i,ie,tf, a, l,•oot. .
,,.
11 a
memb, er of
your crew has
a
sore
linger (and vour
*
•
lust) make-,< ..".,,„u. ,c,,im„,i,e,s. in ,
, ,
,
,'.. . .
,
printers
ink do
.
what
niio-l, e
an'd",s,k.i,l,l
,,
could
Randolph was called home last week on account of his mother's ill- ' ""h even though you are- laughed at for your generous zeal. If your
ness; he has returned with good tidings.
crew sweeps ahead so grandly as did Cornell's, last summer, then we
say, )', //..'—Fr.
Gii.lis, '74, was in town yesterdav calling on his old lricntls. Al
present he is teaching iu Ontario county.
-Tutor-" Did you report unprepared to-day?" Fresh.-" No, but
would to heaven I had."
Ei.snmeE, T:i, has been admitted to the bar and is practicing Uiav in
. .'.,.,
™
..
,.
long—xO- il. ,
ago, at a mansion
„
on Murray
TT...
Hill, a sentimental
young
p1 artnershipl with his father at lowanda, N. 1.
huly, , ,
[
st. art, ed, wi.t..h a gent,l, eman, on wh, om sh, e ,had,
,.
her eye, into the con-
Moksk, '7:5, is studying law at No. (i'.l Wall street, New York city, servatory. booking up pcnsbely into his face, she said with tears in
and is to be admitted to the bar next May, if — &c.
her voice, "Ah, no one loves nie, Mr. Barnes" "Some one does."
Loa'ELL, Ti>, is attending Mayhew's Business College at Kalamazoo, Mich., preparatory to starling in the banking business in Iowa.
" \ es?" said lhe lady dropping her head and pressing his arm ever so little. " Ves, Miss Nellie," said the wretch, "God loves you."— AV.
Hoppock, To, is iu the Chemical Paint Works at Newark, NE J.,
— We learn that a (herman chemist, has .succeeded in making a firstrate brandy out of saw dust. W'e are friends of the temperance move-
with Mr. Phmnev, a former instructor ot chemistryJ at t ornell.
,
,
ment anil
want,
•.1,
,
to
succeed, ,
.
but
,
what
ch, ance
wi•ll i,t ,ha.ve,w,hen
a
man
" Hod" is Avith us again; he says he has been in the woods fourteen can take a rip-saw and go out antl get drunk with a fence rail. —Ex.
miles from a pr ost-olt'ce or barlier shop' ; his looks corroborate his state-
meu '
Darrow, '71, writes from Hoboken, NE J., and says that he is " teaching the young idea " at that place and pursuing the mysteries of Blackstone under the direction of L. C. and C. 1!. Ashley, of ft!) Broad way, New York city.
.
A—
T.
.Junior,
wl, n.l,e returning
,.
from
supper
t.h, e.
oth, er
•
evening,
i
passed
the end of the building occupied by the Rector, when the agreeable
0,lor ()f eoil'ee and batter cakes was wafted to his nostrils. Turning to
hjs companion he observed with a melancholy smile, "let's stand here
ami smell 'em." — ('ol/et/e Mercury.
A— man who was about to be hanged in Alabama, sang, as he stood
with the noose around his neck, " Oh, the bright angels are waiting for
£ri$.sonnlutm$.
me," whereupon the local editor fiendishly wrote: "Auel then the an gels stirred up the lire and looked brighter."'— Fx,hange.
A— Sophomore was asked in Bible recitation what Adam antl Eve did after eating the fruit, and blandly answered, " Sliel down the tree,
sir!" — Xasxau Lit.
— Scene, aa examination. Tutor sees a mysterious anel suspicious looking paper fall to the floor, fie also sees an opportunity to distin guish himself. Cautiou-ly he advances to the attack and captures the
A— lady applying for admission to the Junior class at the Sem, be- paper. lie reads: — "Sold ugaiuf — Dartmouth.
ingc ouestioned by the President as toher a standing°, rep' lied: " I ain't much of an
qualifications
arithmeticker
for so adcunced but 1 am an el-
'
..
— An Irishman was brought up before a j' ustice ot
.
,
charg" e
ol
vagrancy,
and
was
thus
questioned:
W hat.,,,,,
,
■
the peace on a
, ,.
trade are youi
e=gant g= rammarist."— Tone-- ■et,,/.
,
"Sure,
now,
yer
', honor,
,,
1 in a
sai-,lor.",,
seafaring\„ v ou
in
tt,he
.. .
,l.ine?
A— student attempted to vote at the last election and his right having been challenged, "a clash of mighty intellects " was the result:
f question whether you have ever been to sea in your life." "Sure,
now, and does your honor think I came over from Ireland in a wag-
Judge — " Where is your home?"
gin?"— >. C.
Student— " I haven't any." Judge—" Wdiere elo you expect to make your future home?"
—Scene.— Recitation in Astronomy. Prof, asks a question. Junior _.. p. that iu t.i1(J book?" P.of.— " No sir; but the book does not ex-
Student—" Heaven, sir, if possible."
haU!:it th(. >u|,ject." Junior—" But it exhausts me." —yuduit.
fudge — "How long have vou been here?"
',rS.ttudent —• ...S..ix
', weeks,
■ E,
sir.
Judge-" Where do you have your washing doner" Student — " Haven't had any done yet."
— Never too late to learn! It is'repl orled that there is a Freshman at
old^So.OO.^Dartmouth .V.) years
{
Judge— "You may vote."
('klKiat tfoUCCjC ^CU'S.
Query:— Was the man permitted to vote because he was a land holder ?— Teunserijit.
—Columbia has fifty-three Freshmen.
tional on entrance examinations.
All except eight were condi
-Prex (who preached in the Methodist church las, Sabbath, to Soph-
_A ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ,^ q[ Cohimhia_ is t,n,ri|,ri,(L Grown
omorewho presents him-elf at headquarters Monday morning to ac- W(,ary of ;l ,;,,,,.,, ,,,,,// |,e lu,.ters :l ■- pnlr-ourf and henceforth intends
ing yesterday.'couut for his absence from his regular seat at the Baptist church)—
"Ww eelnl, ssiirr, wwnhaatt wwiilnl jyoouu havev" "An excuse." " What for?" "(b)-
° to hear yJ ou pv reach J
"Mr. R 1 ... sony
" Snoo am Ii, Pi rleessiitdieeniut. "
i/-
Soppihomore was excnsetl. — nx.
you
went.
i
t0 pun his oun stroke. — d. C.
policeman who arrested a citizen in one of the southern cities
because ,he
h, ad, some
■
Purot, oxidi e of.-
Hn ydi rogen„
st, or, ■edi
;in,ohois ^ce.ilil,a,-i, lOiass
'
^^
(<)
s|udvin,,
ci1(.mjstry
and
is
O' moiirning
over
,
the
expense
■ ,
his
lguor-
— Scene First.— Freshman's room. First Fresh, to second Fresh.— ,uict, i)10Uoht Up0n the city.
" Shall you go into examination to-morrow? You know the Prof, for-
_T[^ Jrf( (Uumh[lUin oll- ,r> ., v_._./x. for tlu, ,)l>t .,rticle on any sub.
got to give notice of it." Second Fresh.—" Yes, sir; I believe in acting
like a man." Scene Second.— Examination room. Second Fresh, pass-
'
.^
•
^ gcncRll
iutL.,.L.sti
ex,.t.pt
r,,jiolun
and
politics.
ing examination with one eye on his book and the other on the Prof.,
-Wesleyan has a new L mversity song of which the following is the
acting like a man.
) c 101lls'—
72
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 32, 1875.
Then hail Wesleiana, Throned by the river, Throned by the river's silver tide, On Wultuna's leafy side, ( )f her stalwart sons the prick, Shrined in our loyal hearts forever.
—Dr. Cyru- D. Feiss is the iicavIv elected President of Wesleyan University.
—The Freshmen lately tried the temper of the Sophomores at Wes leyan by "swinging a ' banger' in chapel." The result was a nice lit tle rush, and novv the President would like to have some neutral drag out the piece of timber over which the contest waged.
—The Calli.gc Argus proposes the idea of giving their grumblers free leave to get up a little heue, u ( ?) of their own prodded they will contin ually occupy it.
which was unutterable in prose. We tremblingly offer our first attempt for the inspection of the Lit. :
Listen to the watch dog howling, threatening the distant moon, Whilst the glorious sun-orb rises, o'er the city of Rangoon! How my heart within me throbbeth, " as I list enchanted here," Thinking of my sweetheart cruel, and the rising price of beer.
Wierd and ghostly flit before me shadows of a distant past, W hen my lov'd one met me smiling, and her brow was ne'er o'ercast; But there came an interloper— no! his name shall not be written!— And she gave me, sweetly smiling, what I'm told is called a mitten.
Deep Avithin my heart lay buried mem'ries of this cruel wrong, Wdiich at last are resurrected in these burning words of song; Now their resting place is lighter, as I feel them far off flitBut it will not long be lighter, if you're captious, dearest Lit.
—The Wesleyan foot ball twenty are practicing with a view to chal lenging some other college twenty— just what Cornell should be doing.
—Twelve men are training for the University crew at "Wesleyan.
— Yale has challenged Wesleyan to a game of foot ball; the chal lenge Avas not accepted on account of a previous engagement of t Inbase ball club with the Trinity nine.
— In the fall regatta at Wesleyan Til won the race; their only con testants were the Juniors who broke an outrigger which threw them
out of the race.
—The Williams Seniors have had their class pictures taken; hope they'll all graduate.
—At a boating meeting the students at Williams recently raised s7.En in a single hour; Avould that such a spirit could be infused into the un dergraduates of Cornell !
From the Acta Columbiana.
Come sons of old Columbia
And sing the praises now Uf our noble captain, Goodwin,
And of Sprague, our gallant bow, And of the four good men and true,
Who with them once did strive
For our Alma Mater's glory, In the crew of seventy-five.
Come join my humble ditty, To Columbia I belong:
Whose sons are taught with mind aud limb To labor and grow strong.
To kick the bounding foot ball, To pull the bending oar,
To cheer, and have such jolly fun As they've never had before.
Exchanges and #oofc iUviniM
The Xnssuit Lit. finds fault with our poems, because they contain such orthodox rhymes as "eyes :,nel skies," " afar and ajar," antl lhe,, publishes some exquisite verses in which the poet first selects, such rhymes as " hark aud dark," "moon and tune," "light and night," and then fills up the line to suit said rhymes. The following is one of their
unorthodox rhymes:
"There the blessed stars of 1 icaven sloop to meei the sea-whal wonder At the song of storms forgiven that the winds bring back from yonder?" It is not as hard to write poetry as we thought it was- since rcduc
brr-^the Z* we have felt a mighty commotion within the editorial tli-.land a passionate desire to pour forth through the medium of verse
Now again the sullen watch-dog, loudly baying, frights my soul, For 'tis said that thus he heralds Death, the all-destroying ghoul; As my dying lamp doth flicker, shadows loom and fill with dread; And a voice within dolh mutter, "Chum! Wdiy don't you come to bed?"
surely this will delight the heart of the Lit. man; we had to circum
navigate the globe to get that rhyme for "moon," and "soul and
"
ghoul
cannot
be
too
hackneyed for
him.
In an editorial on the lectur
ing system the Lit. says: " It requires a special talent to note a lecture,
for out of a class of one hundred, it is doubtful whether more than thir
ty full and connected sets of notes are taken in any one branch. The
other sixty are so imperfect that, to a casual reader, the disconnected
and incomplete sentences would give no intelligent idea of the subject whatever." Now we should like to knoAv Avhat they do wdth those oth
er ten men at Princeton — there must be some terrible mystery connect ed Avith then, which they are afraid to talk about. Are ten bored to
death at every lecture? or are they whisked away mysteriously through
some trap door and afterwards served up as Smiths Celebrated Prince
ton Yeal Pies? An expectant world demands a clearing up of this
matter.
Schedlcr's M.i laud for th, use, of the Globes. Published by E. Stciger. 22 aud 2± Frankfort St., New York. Price io cents.
This little pamphlet of about 40 pages contains much information that will be fonnd useful by the tyro in the science of Astronomy. It gives brief and clear explanations of all the important astronomical terms, and a large number of problems with rules for their solution. It contains in addition a valuable article on the " international date line," with a map illustrating its course, showing how it is possible for it to be Monday on one side of a street and Sunday on the other, in a town iu Kamtsehatka. A knowledge of this line would be invaluable to any gentleman wishing to live where he could conveniently prove an alibi. We advise all members of the class in astronomy to invest.
Phe Comprehensive Sj„„her. By Henry T. Coates. Published by Porter A: Coates, sjj Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The book bearing ihe above title is one for which there has been a long fell need in our advanced schools and colleges, and one that will be gratefully welcomed by teachers who l,aVe been compelled to listen to the worn out seleelioiis in so-called "standard speakers," until they are thoroughly sick of ihem. Mr. Coates has left the beaten track made lo his predecessors and taken a new departure into hitherto unexplored helds, thus giving a freshness to his book which will be appreciated both by teacher and pupil. Thackeray, Dickens, Hugo. Ingelovv, W liitlii-r, hongfellow, Ibvanl, antl Kiel Harte are all drawn upon, while many of our old "speaker" acquaintances are represented by new selections from their works. The book is introduced by a short M'ealise on bxpression and ( bsture, and many useful hints from the best authorities are quoted. The explanatory notes are collected at the
end of the volume.
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth."
Voi, oik Yllb— Ni-miii i; Id.
THK COBNKbb UNIYKUSITY. NnVKMBKR 1!i, is?.-,.
s:O>0 pi.it Annum in Advamk.
Printed und Published er, ry Friday, by Students of the Senior und. dun,',,,- Class, s.
^tutors for 1875-6.
,1. WE Si 1 KDKVANT, '7li, M. E. Haviland, '77,
(E P. Wooouri F, '7(i A. J. boos, '77.
to see such a lack of enthusiasm about the matter among the
majority of students, besides it is not doing- lhe lair thing by them after thev- have done so much during the past vear to promote the boating interest at Cornell. There is a debt of
some six hundred dollars which must be paid before the end of next month, and there is not enough money in the treasiyy at present to pay one-sixth if it. As the matter stands, a
,,..,,
,,
, ,• i small number of -students will be held personally responsible
— I>r. mil s sermons last Sunday were extremely profound.
.
', „
..
" , i ii the money is not paid by that time.
Hence
.*. it is
absolutel, y
His morning senium on Science antl b aitb must, at least, have
"
•
..
,,
, , ,.
matle those who are in the habit ol
'. ,
,.
,,
,,
..
...
, ,•
speaking flippantly ot
'
.,
f.
.
necessary that that, amount should be raised immediately. ■
.
.„..,,
.,
It is a lamentable state of affairs it that sum cannot be found
raith as something plaved out, reconsider their views. "
..
.
1
.,
,
■.■,-,-,
i
lying around loose in the pockets ol five hundred students.
_
It neither looks well or sounds well that a Navv whose crews
— He
hope that
these' cold
,.
davs aviII .",
suggest to ' ',
you the .
,,
,
,,
T
,,,--,-."
, -. ,
, avou the laurels at the last Imei-< ollegiate Regatta, should, be
nearness or the time when it will be cold enough to make .
,
......
. ,,
rn,
„,
"-ood ice tor skating.
m such a Ioav condition financially.
\\ e can
have
a
good,
,
ample,
and
con-
.
"
I lie reputation ol the
.
.,',,.
.
venient rink it those av1,o //-/// skate will help insure its success
Navy is at stake:
'
let every t ornellian come to its rescue.
..
1 erliaps avc are taking too sermiis a view ot the case, but it
by putting- their names down for course tickets, the cost of
-
.
.
•r
^
has
become
a
serious matter to
•
some
there is only one
which Avill md exceed s:,.iiii, A hundred names are necessary
' . ..
•
.
to start the Avork, and as that is less than one-fifth of the
...
whole number of stuelents, Ave see no difficulty m obtaining
them, if those who are interested will take the trouble t<> leave
Avav for them to get clear. It the students are indifferent ''
prosperity,
..
.
..
,
to
the
cital
point
ot
itlhe xN, ovv,s
'
.
,
and
,to
^the
.
honor Avhich it must sustain, what can we expect from the
men who are to represent us al Saratoga next year:
their names vvitli some one of the men who are endeavoring to
..
start the enterprise
Of the crew Es successes we av ere all justly proud. The '
..
college press has brought us congratulations from eveiT quar-
—The next time that a g Uy number of stuelents are to- ter. The interests of the University have been advanced.
gether, and feel like 'giving vent' to their feelings by yelling, Truly the students1 appreciation must be short lived and their
o we know they are wont to do, we would strongly advise I patriotism ephemeral if they do not place the Xavy on a firm them to practice the Cornell yell, which is: Cornell, I yell— foundation at once, without putting us to the further embaryell—\v.\ i.— < ornell. After doing more vv<.rk in the race rassment of being obliged to make another appeal.
than any other crew at Saratoga, last summer, our boys found
themselves incapable of making as much muse as other
A— letter from J. C. dEuuliiison, who has been appointed
crowels of college representatives. We doubt whether the peo- s0,.retarv ()f the Inter-collegiate Literary Association eluring
pie Avould have known that Cornell had any men there if }[,. Polhemus' absence in Kurope, informs us that " From the
they had not had a surer demonstration of our existence j);,jH.r ieft in my hands by Mr. Polhemus, I can discover only
and presence. We may have occasion to yell next year, at tWl) ,1!Um.s of gentlemen whom 1 know to be connected with
least we should be prepared, for in case of defeat we would Cornell University. " Some one has evidently committed a
then let the people know that wc tried, as did their pet col- I „.,.,, ss blunder. The essay from Cornell was sent and received
leges this year. Kverv student should feci proud of the priv- l,c.fore Oct. 1 1, as an acknowledgment <>f its receipt from Mr.
ilecre of sounding the praises of Cornell in the words which Polheinus testifies. The names of our representatives in the
were so aptly chosen during such atimeot rejoicing as thai in eoinpetitiv e exaniinat i form some standard by which the kind of criticism to be employed shall be determined is certainly a subject Avorthy of thought. Contrary to an opinion expressed by a local ex change, avc think that the college papers in general arc more disposed to praise than to find fault with the literary produc tions presentee! in public at the respective colleges which the}
represent. Indeed, we had looked upon this as one of the
most deplorable faults of the college press; for in the scores of college exchanges that Ave have looked over, both prepar atory to our present eluties and since entering upon them, we have almost alwavs found under this department praisicism (if we may coin the word) instead of criticism. We conclude, therefore, thai the writer who thinks that a check is needed
here must, to say the least, be a tyro in college journalism. Although he says very truly that just criticism is like a mir
ror reflecting our imperfections that we may correct them, he shows further on, as do too many others, that the college ed
itor, like the photographer, instead of producing a true image finds his work much better appreciated when he makes every body look as well as possible.
But let us sum up this writer's views, as he is himself con
siderably given to verbiage. lie is not opposed, he says, to just and honest criticism. For a college editor to think him
self competent t<> decide upon the merits of the exercises to
which he listens is to be conceit}'. lie will overrate his own
abilities and underrate the abilities of those whom he criti
cises. His criticism will do great harm, d'he criticism is ex
pressed in general terms rendering it "next to impossible" to
obtain any benefit from it. If an editor is conscious of pos
sessing faults himself he should be, on that account, tolerant in criticising others. Adverse criticism js |-,„. (|H. iM,riM(S(,
of seeking an unworthy eminence by drag"in<>- others down In view of all the above, college editors should dispense with literary caviling. In this summary, although the writer in the first place states that lee is not opposed to just criticism we are shown that no just criticism can be made by a college
editor; for the editor is never certain that he is competent
to criticise fairly, he cannot criticise to any purpose with "gen
"
eral terms
(no college
paper has room
for any
other), and
adverse criticism must be prompted by unworthy motives.
Were we disposed lo be captious we could show the absurdity of several other statements made and positions taken. How
ever, we Avill give our views upon college criticism without
discussing further in detail the views ofthe writer referred to. We believe that every college and every person connected
with every college should have a sufficient number of strono-
points to be .able to endure all just criticism Avithout receiving
any permanent injury to character or influence. Let the col lege or the person that has not such points go to the Avail—
the sooner the better. Sich Avere the views wo expired in
entering upon our present duties. (I.) All criticism made upon au undergraduate is made at a
time when he is developing. A fault now does not necessa rily mean a fixed fault, for it mav be remedied. Therefore let criticism cut its bigness, the wound will soon heal. Not so a
criticism upon a person in active life where habits are fixed and fortune is at stake.
('_'.) A college editor ought lobe capable of pointing out the merits and defects of an ordinary exercise of a fellow stu
dent. We believe the presumption is that he is qualified
so to do, that he can criticise fairly and impersonally,
that he Avill do so, and that he has shown to those who have
placed him in his position sonic aptitude for such a task. (:.;. i That in criticising, \\j\y weekly papers having room
even for a brief analysis, that the critic should aim to gather
the predominating feature into some distinguishing word, be
that feature commendable or otherwise, and thus by a species
of generalizing approximate to the benefits of a more extend
ed analysis. If a speaker shows want of interest in his sub
ject, very little animation, requires prompting, and his audi
ence are listless, say he lacks inspiration, and similarly of the
trite man anel the rest. Instead of discouraging criticism in
college journals let it be fostered.
^V freshman's Complaint.
1'oui \n tOtr iiiijiMinn
Oii vouilr.-ii. clcO'V >a \oix?
Kucha, Athalie.
Confiding and guileless a Fiediman may lie, Vet even a Fresh has his rights I maintain,
Though Sophie presumption be slow to agree, Which 1 think is the case, as I'll try to explain
At the risk of a little puhliciiv , That Freshmen, you know, like Stoics disdain.
Now this is lh' adventure that happened to me, And I'll tell it in language straightforward and plain,
Wdth all in \ Freshinannieal modesty, bor flourish and bombast is not in my vein—
When I've finished mv rhetoric perhaps it'll he! — (.'hum antl myself Had just ended a game,
Thai develops the iiit'llecl ama/ingly, And Euchre, I think, is its Hebrew name.
The cards had lieen settled hack tenderly
In a nice little case, gilt-lettered and plain— I'cuyt.c-boo/,- hint the letters quite soberly,
But within you would look for prayers iu vain:
Nov. 19, 1875.
TIIE CORNELL ERA
'Twas a mere mistake in the binding, yon see! — Chum thought it high time to go out and obtain
A little fresh air— with a pitcher went he: Free Hollow air's best he will fiercely maintain
(And few are around in the twilight to see!) — But I, like a hero, resolved to remain
And wrestle with Plato's Apology — A living in Arts I am trying to gain.
Well, lighting the lamp, 1 dippeel manfully In rorni, o t'Aeror fair, (Jis, xt'U1',
When suddenly unceremoniously The door was kicked open — 1 wish he would sprain
His villainous pedals eternally!— I refer to the Soph (I'll not publish his namei,
A brute engineer, who undoubtedly Thought learning a sham and breeding- a banc.
Well, chucking his tile ou the table, quoth he: " Ho, Freshy, the devil! what, heating your brain
With old daddy Perkins' gay niyslery!" And then I'm afraid he grew somewhat profane,
And took to damning promiscuously, And casually mentioned his Maker's name,
Though I own the connection 1 could not see. i I've P-rkins three times every week, but I claim
His hinting- the fact wasn't gentlemanly.) He flopped in a chair with a terrible strain
On the poor rush-bottom, that piteously Went squeaking; but Sophy, abandoned to shame,
Lazily drawleel: " My young chickadee,
Where are your maiches? I'd have one fain!"
But ere f could answer, high-tonedly
He tore up a paper and lighted the same,
And on it my work in geometry For the next Monday — 't went rough 'gainst the grain!
Thereupon with plenty of lion esprit His feet on the table he threw, where they came
With a crash in too close a proximity
To a bottle of ink: — with a broad black stain
Over cover and books spread a mournful sea,
And over a bilbd-tlou.i — do you verstthu ?
oge College, sAveel -scented and tender! — but he: " Better take it away or I'll do it again!"
I wiped up the table quite savagely, But still my passions f tried to restrain —
By the way he was somewhat bigger than me — (Bad grammar excuse, if my meaning is plain. j
Then I smuggled with great ingenuity A pony or two from a sight so profane:
Though ponies are all well enough, you'll agree, And many a poor sinner they've helped to obtain
His stately A. M and solemn I>. I).; But still I didn't have time to explain
My methods of study, and people, you see, Have a prejudice 'gainst superior brain
Out of sight I kicked abo mosl innocently
The latest dime novel, by no means tame: " Brimstone Jake or Old Nick on a Spree!"
By this time my visitor started again: " I can lick any Freshman in town," said ho;
And then, overflowing; with lofty disdain, He spits on the carpet ri.u'ht juicily
And squirts ou the wall a fine-drizzling rain; Who'd think e'en a Soph so nasty could be?
But still I endeavored not n> complain,
(For pa -don is sinful decidedly,) Though he richly tie-served to be mauled; when again
With an oath he commenced -onn -what boozily,
As the weetl began to affect his brain (For he was learning to smoke most evidently,
And thai it didn't agree was plain): " I'd like lo set eyes on the Freshman," says he,
'EWll dare in my presence to fool with a cane'"
"There's many a thing," I said bitterly— I couldn'l from irony ipiiie refrain —
"That ere you grow wiser you'll have to see'" Whereupon my feelings he greatly did pain
By an oath extended most, horribly, — For swearing, whatever its form, 1 disdain.
.\nd then he hopped up like a wild Pawnee, And whooping blood-thirsty with might and main,
bike a legion of demons he made for me! My hours were numbered, I thought I was slain;
But still I struck out in my agony, And lo! a wonderful change there came
In my mild fellow-citizen's bravery:
" Freshy, I'm glad lo see .you so game; ('Jive us your paw like a man," says he.
An excellent hint from his words did I gain, And kicked him down stairs full gracefully;
For the hint, you may bet, had not been in vain:— A coward, like every Soph, was he,
As they showed in the rush when we captured the cane! Wherefore I repeat here more solemnly,
That even a Fresh has his rights to maintain, Which I trusi 1 have proved successfully,
F'en at the risk of beholding my name In the glare of print's notoriety,
eVn honor Avhich Freshmen are slow to claim!
An Unprotected 7! i Orphan.
x£t\Ux$ from an ^Uumnus.
i.
My Young Frieial : You write that you have been reading I>< (duince;/ and I
know you must remember his charming illustration of the
waste of time. I Avill not use his words, but the image is that
of a lady asleep in a boat. From her hand is hanging a string
of oriental pearls.
As she sleeps
they fall off
byone
one in
the depths below. She awakes to tind her treasure irrevocably lost. Thus is it, says 1 >> Qui,,,; f healthy physical existence: in short, I learn
that vou are fast becoming that anomaly of all human beings,
the intellectual mole, familiarly called "the dig."
Is it not strange that you should neglect physical exercise
who are reading the Phacdo of IMato ? Can you forget how
much the intellectual wealth of antiepiity is indebted fo the
hardy health of Socrates? You construe the Greek text with
dilio-ent care, but you arc blind to an essential element of the
philosopher's success.
7b>
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nor. li), 1875.
Is it not strange that you read with delight the Iloratian odes that sing of life on the Sabine farinas well as Soiacte draped with snow, the wiles of deceitful l'vrrha and the Bandusian fountain V That good nature! philosophy of 'k the man
of Ai-pinum" vvas not extracted from his generous library
man face divine and all the sweetness and light of existence,
he lives a monk and dies but half a man. From which sad
fate mav vour own good sense deliver you. Sincerely your Friend,
SlJ'TIMU s.
alone. The companionship of Brutus and Attieus was cpially dear.
With the plainness of old ae-(piaintance, let mc sav that
ikxt .Sunday's Treacher,
The I niv ersity sermon next Sunday will be delivered by
your isolation from the social world, vour abandonment ot the Kt. Ho Thomas March (.'lark, I). I>., Bishop of Bhode
healthful recreation result from ignorance rather than a wise Island, ofthe I'roteOint Kpiscopal Church. Bishop Clark is ambition. Vou do not know the vast scope of the intellectual j a graduate of Yale College, about fifty years of age, and holds life. You do not know the immense space enclosed by the rank among the li ist three or four bishops of the church to circle of human knowledge if you think to become monarch which he belongs, as a scholar and as a preacher. He belongs
of all your ambition surveys. One science, one language, one to what is known as the Broad Church school, his religious
literature demands the whole of one man's talents if he would
enjoy marked success. And can you hope for this success who dilute your powers by a shallow expansion over several Holds of knowledge? This serves to show what wrong you do yourself as a social being. I low much wiser, then, is the policy of thrift that Avorks with well-directed earnestness than the policy of avarice that \v>uld grasp all the learning of the
ideas having that liberality and largeness which has given
such power t<> men like Maurice, Thomas Arnold and Dean
Stanley in Knglainl, and Washburn, Fhillips, Brooks, Osgood and Huntington iu America. His discourses have been re
ceived with great favor at the centres of thought in Xew
England, and perhaps m> American bishop of the Kpiscopal
Church litis been received with more favor abroad. His ser
universe, and at the last leave the impiirer destitute of the best things of life, some of which, by the way, can never be
transferred to books.
Look over the list of successful students iu any college. Vou will find that it is (pialitv not <|iiantitv of work that tells.
Have you never spent several hours over your lexicon when a
clear brain would have solved the mystery iu half the time?
Whenever the blue devils haunt your study remember the ad mirable example of Luther, ami hurl your inkstand at them. Abandon your task and tramp for half a day until every nerve
is instinct Avith energy and the brain is clear as a bell. So
when you tell me how much vou purpose to accomplish by Avorking thirteen hours a day, I reply that your work Avill have abetter quality if you waste more time. " For the work of the intellect to be clear anel healthy," says Hamerton, "a great deal of free play for the mind is absolutely necessary. Harness trains us to the systematic performances of our work and increases our practical strength by regulated exercise, but it does not supply everything that is necessary to the perfect development of the mind, ddie truth is that we need both the
mons combine the scholarly and thoughtful character with an earnest ami practical application of truth fo life, and it is in view ed' this fact that he has been selected as one of the preach ers liefore the University.
Certainly our students cannot be Oo often reminded of
their privilege in listening te> such a series of discourses by such a bodv of men as those presented in this course. Apart from all religious considerations, as an intellectual training these sermons have tin enormous value to every thoughtful
student. To see how leading men of various denominations
grapple with the great fundamental problems of Christianity anel the means thev use in presenting their views of truth, is in itself a benefit of the highest order. Even from the point of view of mental devolopnieiit ahum, probably in no way can
the attention of an hour be so richly rewarded.
But there is mure than I his. Xo one can hear these ser
mons without being stimulated t<> higher and better work ami
thought, and here is iheir crowning advantage, coming as they do at the beginning of each week's cares and labors.
discipline of harness and the abundant nourishment of the free pastime. " It was the theory of St. [h-iive that whether he
^V iUHr of (f-.sra tfurncll.
Avorked in his study at continuous labor, scattered himself in articles, spread himself about in society, gave his time a way to troublesome callers, fo poor people, to n ml ;;rous, in the street, no matter to whom or to what, he ceased not to do one and the same thing, O read one and the same book, the infi
nite book of the world and of life that no one ever finishes and in which the wisest read the farthest.
I have said that 'Mho dig" is an intellectual mole. I re tract. The mole would not try to reach the stars by burrow ing through the Christian. Many people will remember one
anecdote which he used t,, tell. Il vv as of a ."Methodist church
somewhere, which, perhaps on the occasion id' a revival, prayed lustily for the conv ersion of >v(h:il sinner, K/.ra Cor-
Nov. 19, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
77
nell" '
calling»
up' on < b.,1 to save " his
sinful
soul."
Not hum _
after, the leading members of the same church, desiring to
erect a new house of worship, went with a subscription paper
to Mr. Cornell. He gave thein a t htnisand dollars. "Since
then," said Mr. Cornell, in his caustic way, "lhe}' hiivend
prayedi
•
it.-or my sinfcul\
souli. "
We have written the above to introduce a relic of Mr. Cor-
Hynell which we have lately come across. On the
leaf of a
presented by ladyrB>-iibli e
. ,. i o. m.M„r. /I ' or,.n,, elnl ,to a ii
ol,- /O' oiieva
•
in
.thi-is
State is inscribed, in theneat han.lwi it ing of the donor, the
folloAviim:
" While down the stream of life I sail
\— .v
-
mM..( . ,k,<-,,.i. a.,,l-t,c,.i,. ,t,h,,e, ,t,r.u,,t,h, ,,
•,
wishes
, ...
t, o know it
.t.he
.
constitution
of
die loot ball association recognizes the --eO/O" as members. Wc don't
""''' '"nv '• '" " U is °"'-v
''" ' '" l'lil(,,; ot ,iv'' ^",-"
Christ be my Ship, and Crace my (bile, Hope be my Anchor while 1 ride, This Book my Compass o'er the Title."
—The .Junior who, last Tuesday, expressed the wbh lhat three hours a week could he devoted lo keeping lhe roof of tin- South University in repair, evidently had an eye lo the wellEiv of Hue t niveidty.
lo
'
NVith lhe 1Vs)H.,.,sof
l-E/.irv Counku,.
thing. ,
Such a
....
..
is a better evidence
on tllu lli11 U(jxt lr,'day. The only thing lacking- to make it a facl
is that the decision of the faculty shouhl coincide with custom
—Prof, boyesen must have l.eeii very busy for the past month judg ing from the articles from his pen which the Dee-ember magazines eon-
lain. Sc,-ibn,-c's has two; the Atlantic one, and St. Xidiolas one.
1llUin.5lUt altllbS,
—Are you going home Thanksgiving?
"
—
JO''".
"
the
foot
ball anel give it a rest.
—The gymnasium has l)Cen thoroughly repaired and is now wanned ' :ul^ provided with lights si that lhe students can practice in the even
ing as well as during the day. 'the shoulder weights are a valuable ad
dition
— "New girl" is the latest cognomen for a "coed "
-Wanted! A loot ball for the " dwellers on the hill."
—The new Register has it " in Freshman or fourth year studies," etc.
— Nol long since a Freshman was heard to ask, "which is the high
,'' d'"^f M" S ur V>' S' ''" Thi* is ,llL' same "m" who thou-ht tbat th"
degree b. li. \. ('. was conferred upon graduates in the course of vet
erinary science.
—Prof. Sweet sprained his ankle quite badly last Tuesday while
—ft is reported that there has been a ease of hazing at Sage College.
working!- at the tome.
, ^ '' is a ,aif- ll,e matter has been kept, so close for fear of the faculty's
—The .students in Mechanical Engineering are having their exaniiu
ation in Willis' Mechanics.
finding it out that the particulars are not known. of good living.
Such are the effects
™.
— There
are
seven
or more <
oruel,,h- ans
•
in
•
AAN.- asl, iingtf on wh, o
are
ab, out
i
A— Freshman who took pl art in the ritle pl ractice last Saturday•' ,' hav-
to f,orm.a l,ocal.ass.oci„ation o,f alumni.
ing been ^
told
lhat
on shorter
ranges
only •
seventy •
grains of
p* owder
j would he used, remarked that it would take a long while to count them-
'
A— checker tournament is the latest novelty, and the player who lie soon saw his mistake.
loses the largest number of games has to " set up" for the crowd.
_pmf piuUi js ^..^ gQod satisf;„,ion ils a singiug te;K.her anf]
—The term examinations commence three weeks from next Monday. I has a class of about twenty-five beginners. The advanced class sing
Who does
not long
for the time
when
"
"
cramming
will have been over ?
'
b'om the Collegensia; thus a tine chance is afforded for all to learn, how
ever far they may be advanced.
— The Dartmouth foot ball eleven have refused to accept the dial- j
plav,leiige tfrom tT, ut,t.s .to ,
a
mat, ch,
,
game
accor,. d,•ing. ,lro
,tih,„e ti„aftft,e,r.'s „ru,.lies,.
,
— Freshman to Junior— " Is ihis the tirst or third term of the Junior
I year?" Jim. — "What kind of a man are you, anyway? the first term,
—Prof. Shackford has been absent during the week attending the , of course." Fresh.-"! knew it was my lir>t lerm, but l have not had
funeral of his father at Portsmouth, X. II. He is expected lo return | tjmc. (0 ]nok \\w other classes up."
to-morrow.
-Instructor J. II. Comstock having engaged to lecture in Marathon
—The article which lately appeared in the Ko u ing Post had a ten-
this evening
sent
his
"
.subject—
Insect Arehilects and Architecture";
dency to make some of the Sage College ladies vain of the influence , ne w;ls. startled on Wednesday by hearing that the handbills gave the
that is ascribed to them.
! subject as "Pr,s,„t Architects and Architecture."
j-A Junior, wishing to vary a demonstration in Astronomy, took the
vernal equinox as the zero point of Aries. IP- has a pom- opinion ot
_ ^ t.h.inil,ioMS al ,Kl„. ,,.,„ ;md lM,ali|l,. a| Yak. lh(. Freshme„ ^ ^ Junioi.s a, lou, u-nh, and the Seniors are champions at the latter
the procession of the equinoxes.
sa]m, A] rorni;U the i;ulR,]s ;m, n,ore evenly distributed: 'TH being
—An undergraduate walked up to the ex officio wearer of the beaver champions al base ball, '7s in boaling, and 'Tfrat loot ball
'
in the Senior class and inq1uired " When will the class be rich enough tt. -
„
—A neat
little pamph,le,t.,ed-ite,d,by
Purot»■. "»i h »as vacant. Moral: Never rut.
Later. -The Freshmen are lhe victims thisttiune. The Vice Presi
—A Freshman who had some ti ible in lindiie.
<-ht/j,eu„_ all,.,.
dent came into u,ic room yesierdav where ihey were wailing for Prof
M'ackford, took his pla< e al U,e desk and taking out some manuscript
Nov. 19, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
79
he commenced his speech very slowly. " < Jenllemen: Owing — to— the
continued— absence — of Prolessor Shackford there will be no lecture
to-day." The hundred note hooks were closed by the time the last word dropped from the speaker's lips and if vvas with difficulty thai the latter kept from laughing until he had finished. The notes taken
were few and loud cries of " Sold' Sold! " ended the lecture.
—The second game of base ball between Harvard and Rrown result el in a score of 10 to A in favor ot H,,. former.
—The Seniors ai Vale are talking of having the trophies won by II. em photographed. The articles number twenty-nine.
—The results (,f the athletic contests at the different college-, are as follows:
Coom-a;, TT, is sick with die diphtheria.
Die An oki ,os, '71, is practicing law in Utica.
J. f). I'iuiam, 'TL is in town visiting his friends
Hi'KO, 70, was in town in the early par', of the week.
Finsi.kk, 'To, is registered in the Middle class at Vale.
Mooiikuoi si;, 'To, is driving the law business in Utica.
Panoiu'kn, Tii, is teaching school in the town of Ulysses.
boxn, T"i, is in the lumber business with his father in Michigan. 111 Kimi'KT. '">, is assistant book-keeper in the first national hank of
Utica.
Wn io'TT, has been quite sick with the diphtheria, hut is on his feet
again. Daw, '7a. lectured in Groton last week on the " Pasi, Present, and
Future."
Mem, en. 7'.), sprained his ankle quite badly while playing foot ball on Thursday.
His name is Van Auken; he graduated in 'To and is now a lawyer; his office is in Utica.
Vansionk, 7'.), who has been sick for about three weeks wdth the
typhoid fever, is slowly recovering. Wn.Mor, 'TO, has recently been admitted to the bar, and is in the law
office of II. D. Donnelly, Esq.. in New Vork.
Wesleyan — HMl yards dash, Hi-, sec; half-mile run, OJ T ; mile walk,
!':(i4; l'JO yards hurdle race, P.M.t see., three mile walk, 2*-:Wp, two mile run, P,»:0l; three-legged race, L! sec.
bowdoin— Half mile walk, LOIV, throwing base ball, :J04 ft. A in. ; PHI yards dash, If sec. ; half mile run, -Jd'.i; two mile run, 11:11): run
ning long jump, hit;,-, ft,.; hurdle race, six hurdles, forty feet apart, three and one-half feet high, lose.-.; two mile walk, 18:15; standing long jump, i):?,") ft.
Harvard— .Mile
run,
."iO
'■ ,
mile walk,
T:oo-,;
running high jump,
',
feet 1 inch; Hill yards dash, 11 see.; half mile run, 2 :li); quarter mile
run, .".io sec. ; hurdle race, b.Ml yards, oy^r ten hurdles, 2<)i4 sec
Vale— loll yard dash, 1(0, sec.; mile walk, s:i:;; half mile run, 2 -.10;
three mile run, ls::i!); p>u yard hurdle race, UB4 sec. ; 440 yard dash,
."is sec. ; one mile run, ."L'JU; running hig-h jump, a ft. '■', in. ; standing
long jump, It ft, l1., in.
—Tin- total property of Cornell University amounts to hut S',»,.">*)'.',, ■ IM). — Transcript.
—The Yale Faculty have decided that no secret society shall hereafler exist in the Sophomore class.
— brown University is lo have a library building which will cost nearly sl()l),0(lli.
—In the Fall Kegatta al Vale, the law school won the three mile
race in I!) min :;T see. The Freshman barge race (two mile) was won hy the Academics in \:);.Y.\ 1-1. A barge race between 'TT, 7s, and the law school, was won by 7T in i:J:ls:j-4.
— Harvard has beaten Vale at foot ball four to one. The game came
off last Monday and was played with fifteen men on a side on Vale's grounds.
II H. SKwioru, 74, has recently returned from his second trip In
— The Freshman class at Vale this year numbers '2(.!!i; at Harvard,
Europe and i> now practicing law in Nunda, NE V
2'A2: Cornell, l?s; Princeton, l'.'il; .Michigan University, 10(»; North
Coffin, 'T'.i, not having fully recovered from his attack of typhoid fever, has decided not to enter the University again this term and has
gone to visit his friends in .Maine.
Hendrix, 'To, now brooklyn editor of the New York Sim, was mar ried on the 2sih to Miss Alice Bathboneof Norwich, Conn. Success to the Sun, and to Hendrix and his family.
Western, Kill; Dartmouth, !"»i; Amherst, sf; Bulgers, TO; Union, ">; Brown, pr Wesleyan, (iir Syracuse, lid; Williams, 44; Bochester, 41 ; Colby -lit; bowdoin, 2'.r. Wells, 27; Trinity, --"J; Tufts, IT; llohart, o. — /,'ochester Cuieirsity Jh cord.
— .V high schoeil for girls has been opened in Oxford, England. An
examination for women not under is years of age is to be instituted
in the University.
F. W. Fkost, 'T',\ spent a few days in town among his friends. lie is at present engaged in the department of the Interior, and has been
$ri$$orinhum$,
for the last two years in the government surveying employ.
— Professor — " What governs ceinelcry visibility?" Senior— "The
luminosity of the comet's tail." — Courant.
(funeral (ToUcqc 3\t\\%
" —
My
son,"
said
a
strict
and suspicious
father,
"
why do those
Jun
— The students of Ann Arbor have organized a boat club, and the Chronicle in good humor says: "Never again shall we censure lhe choice of doting parents, who send their oll'springs to Cornell because six of her sturdy heroes .-o increased her educational advantages by pull ing a boat a trifle faster than any olher six."
iors come up lo your room and stay so late, sometimes even Avhen you are nol al homo"
" Why, 1 suppose they come to talk," replied the hopeful youth,
somewhat confused.
" Ves, but who is this Petlero or Pedro they mention so often?" Son, with beating heart — "Oh! he is a strange character in history
—Boating matters at Harvard are lively, ddie men for the Univer who became wealthy by gambling, and we wish to avoid his course of
sity crew have been chosen and row daily in the following order: Lor- j life."— 7.WO Table.
ing, '7s, stroke and captain; Bancroft, 'TS, ■„»; Jacobs, 'TH, :}; Warden, 78, 4; James, 7s, a- Le Moyne, 7s, bow. Over twenty Freshmen
have come forward as candidates for the Freshman crew, and are tak
— Scene, recitation in Psychology. Pres. do Senior)—" Are there
"
not times in which you are perfectly holpless in your —
Man on back
bench
"
tinlerrupling) —
Not
when
there
is
anything around
to
eat. "-Ex.
ing regular training. —The Yale twenty heat the Kutgers twenty at foot hall four to one.
—In the annual rope pull between the Sophomores and Freshmen at
Bowdoin the latter were victorious.
— Very sad. Loomis' Astronomy tells us that the comets are grad ually losing their tails. This alarming prospect for the cometary feud alities is enough to bring tears to the eyes of a stump-tail cow. — Cour
ant.
80
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. ]9, 1875.
-Come into Ihe garden, Maud,
Willi a brick bat and a stone;
lb-re's lhe biggest cat you ever sawed, <) nawing a chicken hone;
And hurry like the dickens, Maud,
I'm here with the beast alone
t 'ou runt.
—The dignified man of 7.cf„rd ,,,,,/ Cumbrulg, TJntb egraduult's Journal.
It seems a little odd for two such universities as Oxford antl Cambridge
to have but one paper between them, but they doubtless had good rea
sons for the union of the two journals that were formerly published
into one. As the dournul says, the elitterence be. ween English and
American college papers is ipiite startling. Il has a " sermon depart
"
ment
in whieh
sermons thai
have
been delivered at
the two
universi
ties are published, which gives if a very solid appearance. It does mil
boast of any of the s0 called " literary mallei" that is so prevalenl in
its American contemporaries, bnder 'Vanity Tattle Talk ithasafew
short articles thai might be called editorials, referring to local matters
Of interest. Reports and nol ices of literary and philosophical societies, foot ball, bicycle, boating, and chess clubs, ,„ki, ,,p considerable mom The do,,, nol says of its American exchanges: "Thov is a spirit and strength in the young blood of America, which seems to start and bound, where our blood only Hows and gurgles; the poelry of Ihe Amer ican amateur is certainly more vigorous and graphic than that of his
contribute greatly to the interest of this number.
The (tu/uxy presents an attractive table of contents. Miss Annie T.
Ilovvelb, sister of W. I). Hovvelb, commences a novel in the present num ber entitled " Reuben Dale." It promises to be an interesting serial.
"Dear Lady Disdain," by Justin McCarthy, is continued. Richard Crant White uses up some of his would-be critics in an amusing article entitled " Cynicasterism," a word coined by himself, which he defines as being "the name of the meanest and most contemptible occupation
ofthe smallest human mind.'' There are many other articles of inter est which we have not space lo notice, but which we can recommend
as worthy of perusal.
'• \ot,s on th, Manufacture of /'oil, ry among Sua,/, Eaas" is the title of a liltle work by Ch. Fred. Darn, A. Al., Chief of the Ideological Com mission of brazil, and professor ot Oology in Cornell I'niveisitv The subject of the manufacture of poll. ay .-unacted Prof. Hartt's attention during his former visit to Brazil The results of his observations then
were embodied in a lecture, " Evolution in Ornament," which was af terwards published in the Co/mbi,- Sena Monthly. During this second os'u h.' has carried hi>. observations further, antl has collected his ma terial into book form. The accounts ol the various kinds of pottery in South America are highly interesting, and are written up in averv readable manner. Prof. Hard is a most inthd'at igable worker, and de serves t he highest praise fo, contributing a work lo Ihe world which will throw so much light on lhe civilization of pre historic times, while
busied with so many other Ihings, The pamphlet is printed and pub
lished at the office of the " South American Mail." Rio Janeiro.
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth.
Voia'mk VIIT. — Ni'Misr.u 11.
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Printed und Published every Friduy, by Sludents of the Senior mid Junior Cla.ss,s.
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person on the Avinning side in any future game LetAveen "70
anel '77.
Since Avriting the above avc have received ;i communica tion from .Messrs. Wall A: Bates, which we publish under cor respondence. We trust that this offer of Messrs. Wall it
Hates will result in leaving' all claimants satislied.
—The Journal deserves tile thanks of its reatlers for the
comparatively full ami accurate reports which it usually gives of the University sermons. Instead of giving less space lo them, as we see it elitl in the case of Bishop Clark's able discourses, we would he glad to see them made longer. There are many readers who are glad of an opportunity of being able
to preserve in convenient form some of the best sermons that
it is their privilege to hear.
—The gentlemen who have charge of the Inter-collegiate
Literary Contest seem to delight in keeping those interested
on the ragged edge uf anxiety, for n<> sooner elo they fix upon
a date for the contest, than they take it into their heads to
postpone it. The very latest advices are to the effect that
the contest in Oreek and Mathematics will begin next
Wednesday, Dec. 1st, anel that the prizes vcill be avvareled
with the prizes for < )r;iti<>ns anel Kssays after the conlest for
the
latter,
which
takes
place
Jan'y
4th,
71 s « » .
—The Juniors were a little premature in awarding the "prize shoes " to one of their number for his meritorious playing against the Freshmen in the late game between the two classes. In order to satisfy the students in general, and in particular the writer of the lengthy article in Wednesday's Journal, who signed himself '' Fair Play,11 a weird of explanation through
our columns will not come amiss. It seems that the firm of
Wall it Bates, after hearing about the game of foot-ball
played Oct. -'* between "7b and '77, ami that a return game was to be played on the folleiwing Saturday between the same classes, generously offered a pair of shoes to the man on the
winning side who should be declared by bis class to have
played the best in that game. As the matter stands the game not having been played, the shoes can not be rightly claimed by any one. Thus it appears that the Juniors were- laboring under a wrong impression as well as the writer of the above
named article. Both should have learned the facts of the case
before they said or did anything about conferring the prize. But especially " Fair Play " should have looked up the matter before racking his brain in producing such a senseless appeal. We understand that the shoes still remain as a prize to sonic
—The Acta (foluinliiana publishes a letter from Ithaca by " Fabricius " which is written in a very friendly spirit, and Avhich gives the main facts in regard to the University with considerable accuracy; yet there are some minor points about
Avhich u Iobricius " is in error. We regret very much to
state that the following is one of these, namely: that the li brary " is kept open from early in the morning until late in the evening, and affords the students good opportunity for reading and study." We wish this were the case, but from s
a. .ai. until 5 r. m., with often au hour deducted at noon, is hard
ly " from early in the morning until late in the evening; '' nor do the imperfect system of cataloguing and restrictions in the giving out of books give such good opportunities for reading anel stuely as might be desired. The wish has often been ex pressed by students that the library would be opened eluring the evening, as that is often the only time when they can make use of it. The libraries at Michigan anel other univer sities are thus available— why cannot ours be? Manv have
been the murmurs at the rule which forbids the student roam
ing through the alcoves " at his oavii sweet Avill," but they have as yet been of no avail, as the Faculty seem to be quite firm in granting this privilege to none but Post-graduates. If this rule'cannot lie done away Avith, the student should at least
lnue the benefit of a catalogue which he can take home with him anel consult at his leisure. It surely would not be very expensive, as such a catalogue coulel be prepared during the summer vacation by stuelents who woulel be glael to get the work, and the proceeds from its sale Avould go far tOAvards de fraying the cost involved in its publication. The authorities woulel receive the thanks of every student if they would give to these matters the attention which they deserve, and if a speedy 'k reform '' shoulel be instituted.
— Of course it takes time. But the University is getting old enough now so that some steps ought to be taken toward perfecting' the facilities for the stuely of astronomy. Although
Professor Potter's enthusiasm goes a great way towards mak
ing the facts anel principles of this stuely interesting, yet no thing can supply the place of the needed apparatus with Avhich to illustrate the principles which we elisciiss, and to verify the facts which we stuely; antl no amount of imagination can give
8L>
the CORAi ELL ERA.
Nov. 26, 1875.
the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn the reality that a, good telescope can. To compute on eclipse may be a line mathematical exercise, but aside from :i few of the general principles it involves it docs not lead the student very far in to the living interest < if the study of Astronomy. Perhaps there is no other study calculated to awaken in the minel such sublime thoughts anel to inspire such a belief in an All-rulmg
Power as is this study. So much is this so that it has become
a common saying, that "the undcvout astronomer is mad." HoAvever, it is not our present purpose to dwell upon the ad vantages of the study of astronomy, but to urge that the stu dent who comes here should have tin opportunity of studying
this science Avith the aid of good apparatus.
During the present term the class succeeded in getting a
crippled gyroscope, and, by repeated efforts, also a sextant lor a short time. It has been reported that the jarring from Fall
Creek would interfere Avith the workings of the apparatus,
were an observatory to be erected, but Prof. Cotter informs us that this is all a delusion. We hope sonic M-draAV or Sib
ley or Sage may, before long, become deeply imbued with the truth of the statement that tin loartus die/art the ijlonj of
(rod, and give to the University an observ aOry which shall
place the astronomical department above begging, and give to
its students opportunities worthy not only of the noble science
itself, but of our institution anel age.
out invariably. In regard to this Ave "could a tale unfold " but such is m>t our present purpose. We hope that students will find it desirable to express themselves through our col umns whenever they see anything that appears intolerable
upon Avhich any considerable number agree.
But to the point before us. The lecturer designated, if we are not mistaken, is one Avhose sound judgment and sterling qualities are beyond question. It is possible that his class are afraid of "the details " through what may be termed prudery. Doubtless the professor thinks these details necessary to an understanding of the general principles involved. Or again as some suggest, perhaps he may be unusually fond of such details from his OAvn peculiar constitution. It is said, by a most eminent English critic, of Oibbon, than whom no English historian has attained higher renown for scholarship, perse-
vereiice and faithfulness, that " he' had in common with Vol taire a peculiar anel most offensive delight in dwelling upon
scandalous and immoral stories."
It may be, some one else Avill have a suggestion to offer
upon the " etheical and asthetical value" e.f the details to
Avhich our correspondent refers. Our columns are ahvays open lor honest, truth-seeking discussion.
w- and ill sounding expressions; but ller'n a\ the editors mention the literary societies in a manner
CHieveelo
cannot be
accused
of
being an
obscene
'
or dangerous
which
is
calculated
to
mislead
people
not
acquainted
with
the
Avriter. We may, however, say that in these cases his iniinit- facts, and which at the same time does injustice to many stu-
able Avit disarms the critic.
dents, who, from choice or otherwise, are not members of the
We may attribute his fecundity as a writer to the rigorous societies which publish the R< ricir. For under the head of
jdistribution that he made of his time.
Xo reason
Avas suffi-
the "literary
"
societies,
the'
tl
Curtis,"
'•
Irving,"
and
" Phila-
ciently strong te> disturb his hours of study. To avoid the dis- lethean," are mentioned in such a way as to imply distinctly
turbaiice of domestic details he lived in a hotel, where even that they are the only literary societies in the Cniversity.
his intimate friends could see him only at appropriate times. Now this is not true for several of the secret-fraternity
He studied while walking or riding— taking notes on every chapters have literary exercises as regularly as the three s.ocie-
point anel circumstance surrounding his daily life.
ties mentioned, and hence are just as really literary societies
Chievedo was born in Madriel in losn. His father was Sec- asthesi three, ddiere is also ;( chapter of a fraternity not se-
retary to Anne <>f Austria, fourth wife of Philip II, and his cret, Avhich has regular weekly literary exercises, and is as
mother Avas Camarisia to the same queen. Having lost his much a literary society as either of the three mentioned. Then
parents at a tender age, Queveelo received his early teaching there is also i'he Adelphi, a secret literary society, not a fra-
from a tutor, anel entered the famous University of Alcala, ternity, that has regular weekly literary exercises. The fact
the youngest of his class. He was graeluated in Theology lie- that all of these but the Adelphi are something more than
fore he A\ras fifteen years old, and obtained the mark ''sum- mere literary societies, does not make them anv less literary
mum cum laude" in sacred auel profane letters; leaving the societies.
university a jurisouistilt in canonical, civil, and municipal
< >n what grounds then d<> the editors of the Ta cieu- claim
law. At tAventy-three, he became the correspondent of Lipsio that their societies are the only literary societies in the Uni-
and other eminent humanists, being then able to write elegant- versity V .As shown above it cannot be the fact of having recIy the Latin, Greek, HebreAv, Arabic, French, and Italian ular literary exercises. Nor can it be because thev alone are
tongues. Early in life a duel drove him into Italy Avhere he became secretary to the viceroy of Sicily. While in Naples, his talents and purity of character earned for him the favor of the king; but the noisy fall of the duke of < Isuna brought upon Quevedo many trials and persecutions. He vvas three and a half years a prisoner in his tower of Ju:iI1 Abad, and was treated with so much rigor that he feared that he had been sentenced to die of cruelty.
At last Chievedo was set at liberty in 10:5:.'; but his feeble health, the death of his noble wife, and the loss of all his prop-
erty filled with sadness the remainder of his cheerless
life. In 1641 he was again imprisoned at the instigation of Calumniators who attributed to him the authorship of a satire upon the government, and he left the prison tower to die, broken hearted, like Columbus and Cervantes.
Over forty e.f his works in prose and in verse have been published. Cf these the most prominent are his « Deicse of Homer," and the admirable translation of Ana.-reante written at the request of Bernardino Mendoza. All his writings are so original that only .a detailed study and exposition of ,|,eir
merit could do p.stu-e to the memory of a poet win. possessed the power of a geums under the control of vast erudition.
It is beyond my present purpose to give other than a hasty sketch of an author whose works should be studied by all lovers of literature. Some of his most accessible writings may be found, translated wrth fair success into French, by U,m,, m 'Espagne po-tupie," (I Pans, i*,„,
' Co,!"m A"
tfOTOtyOtUUttrC.
Editors Cornell Ifr,r
exclusively literary societies, for the Adelphi claims onlv to
be a literary society; and one of those fhr,, makes much of
the social element (giving parties at least once a term), and
shows the same clique tendency and jealousy of other societies
Avhich are among the objectionable features of fraternities.
Neither can it be because they are the only societies that are
not secret. For the Adelphi requires nothing to be secret but its initiations, and T understand that the Delta Upsilon re-
quires no secrecy of its members at all, but is anti-secret
(though perhaps md aggiosiv ely so , : and one of the thrc, so-
'defies requires a part of its exercises to be secret, and has been
known to compel a lady to leave the room during- this part of
the%roundthe meeting.
'canNeither
the claim rest on
that
my"knowledgethes, three only are open to the public. F.r to
students md members attend both the Adelphi and Delta Up-
silon, and have remained through „// the exercises of the lat-
ter. And though these aiv private societies, students sihiic-
times attend both without invitation; while one of th, three
expect all visitors ,„„ specially invited, to leave immediately
and'after its literary exercises,
makes them feel this -,s I can
testify. Xeither can it be that thev only are not exclusive in
their membership, for one of ,hem (implvino- nothin- as to
appliJantsthose who are members . has refused
for admission
wl.ns, ability and respectability woe beyond .piestion show
ing I ha, they choose their members according to the same pol-
icy as the fratcnit ies, though thev may not have anv stand-
ai.(1 „f ,,,„„,„„„„, !ls Sllll
t tW u.f_[erm,^ ,,, V,^
ran H"' '■'I''"'"* »-''sl their claim on the superiority of their soCU'tirs "V('r 1,K' u,ll,'ls- ,l"E j»f the three soci eties mentioned in the Rcru te\ they are doing good work and are very probably as free from harm as literary societies can reasonably be expected to be. Neither do I Avish to imply anything concerning fraternities, secret, anti-secret, or nonsecret, or concerning secret local societies. If thev present
attractions stronger than those of tin three mentioned in the Reviitr, anel thus draw to themselves many of the best men in
the University, it may be unfortunate for those t/in e, but not necessarily for the men themselves, nor for those Avho thus have the privilege of more intimate association with them than they woulel have in a mere literary society. I only desire that this feature of the University be represented as it is, if at all,
and that the men of these other societies be not denied credit
for the work thev do.
Octavos.
[Although not ceincuriug in all the sentiments of our cor respondent we publish his communication, for it may be re garded as representing quite a large number of stuelents. The arguments being directed especially to the Rt ric a- Ave leave the answering of them to it Avhich avc have no doubt Avill be
ably done. — Ens. I
Vice president Wilson.
In beginning his lecture last Wednesday, President White said: It seems very appropriate that avc should best oav a lew moments'' thought upon the great man who has just stepped aside from the active duties of state. From the char acter of Vice-President Wilson we may all take strength. The story of his early hardships and want of educational advantages, which I have had from his own lips, is indeed pathetic Perhaps he is the most American of any statesman we have had for the hist fifty years. His active life extends over a period which covers all the space in political affairs
which lies within the memory of most oi us. His able services
at the head of the military committee of the Senate during
the 1 Rebellion were of the greatest value to our country. Al
though deprived of the advantages of higher education him self, he has always been among the foremost in forwarding measures to aiel others in obtaining it. With a meagre edu cation, with little of the brilliant, but Avith sterling qualities, he weighed his ability, and, as Bishop Clark said all men must, do who succeed, put it Avhere it was useful. No mire is now thought to cling to his garments from the Credit Mobelicr plot. On the contrary he could often have maele himself wealthy by mere silence when certain bills were before Congress. He dies, however, a poor man. lie was not of the white-kid-glove class who eliscuss politics from a high moral or abstract vieAV, but never come down among the people to soil their garments. He stood before the people. A leader of the people, he was one of them, and was not afraid to gt. among them. He was a politician, neit in the bad sense of the word; but he was more, he was a statesman of integrity, who did good work for his country and for humanity.
I'lliisK I'Kl/.E slOKs.
^nivmity gtmis.
Editors (for n di Era :
— Only one more Eiia this term.
In vieAV of the misunderstanding iu regard to our prize, Ave
cheerfully make the following offer:
As the game of foot-ball of the classes 'To vs. '7 7 was not
played Oct. :30th, .and the class of '77 won the championship
over '7s, and the class of 'T'.i also claims the same, Ave propose
to give each of the classes, '77 and '7!t, a pair of shoes; and at
any time the champion classes Avish to play the " rub" avc will
have another pair for the best player. Send in your direc
tions.
Yours respectfully,
Wall A lbvi io
—There was skating on the pond above Cascadilla on Thanksgiving.
—Another rod is being put through the McGraw tower to prevent its further spreading.
—A Freshman on being asked if he had read Milton's Paradise Lost, replied, ■" Yes, splendid novel, isn't ite"
—Prof. Schaeffer has given the class in Chemistry a syllabus which will undoubtedly aid them in passing their examination.
—A young Freshman told his German professor the other clay that there were two kinds of conjunctions in German —co-ordinate anel inor
dinate.
oi i-;i:y.
Editors ( 'or n ell Era:
Will you, or will any one answer the billowing query ? What is the ethical or testhetical value of all the disgusting
details of the career of the vilest characters, of the insurrec
tions of the loAvrest dregs of humanity, of the devastating Avarfares and outrages of robber hordes, when presented in lectures on history, and dwelt upon, and continually repeated ?
Man With a Xoti; Book.
[Feu- reply, see editorials. — Eos. J
—"This book was last used by a lady." remarked a co-eel. Professor upon finding a hair pin used for a hook-mark in one of the books in the
Library.
A— Linn St. Freshman innocently inquired of his chum the other Sunday, if he might have substituted the course of sermons on the hill
for drill.
—An extended report of the size and value of the University Libra ry has recently been sent to the Bureau of Fducalion, which will be in
cluded in the next annual report.
S— (_' -Cheek. Mr. G. (hurrying through his meal)— " Oh,
my gracious!
I bit a piece out of my cheek."
Miss
B. " —
Never mind
it Mr. G., you have enough left."
"
—
Professor,
I
think it
is
the desire of
the
majority of
the
members
sn
THE CORNELL ERA.
Nov. 2S, 1875.
of the class to hear you read more and lecture less," was the plain sug gestion of a Junior lo one of our Professors the other day.
A— 'T'.l man from the West varied the usual mode of demonstration
of problems in his Algebra class the other day, by remarking that " to
make this thing
'
pan
'
out
well,
f
must
add
X-
to
both
sides."
— The members of the University and Freshman creAvs who were at Saratoga last summer, took supper at Sage College last Sunday evening at the invitation of Mr. E. Le B. Gardiner, one of their number.
—The Rev. J. II. Twitehell addressed the meeting of the New York Yale Alumni Association held in New Vork last week. His subject
was the same as he spoke on here, vis. : \\ ung Wing (nci Wing Wang.)
feature of it is, that if left t'o iis self it will always keep "straight," and when pulled out of position, if allowed to, will instantly go back. This will be a great help to the steersman and will lessen the num
ber of broken rudders considerably. It has been tried on the Saratoga
shell and works admirably.
A— Junior who. boards at Sage College was -o confident of the abil ity of his class to beat the Freshmen at foot ball, that " the happy gfrl " offered to bet her Sunday "desert " that the Juniors Avould be beaten. The " venture" was accepted by the former and he won. Suffice it to say that one of the party went without " desert " on " honor," and the other, because an overdose of An CI on his plum pudding and apple pie was not agreeable to his exquisite taste.
—The frames for Carpenter's new paintings of James Russel Lowell
—Sage College is gelling notorious. A Freshman, who, by the way
and of Louis Agassiz are completed, and we may soon expect to see the has a place at one of the co-ed. tables, as he entered upon the arduous
south end of the library as artistically adorneel as the opposite end now duties of getting through his first meal, surprised himself and all who
is. saw him by plentifully distributing cream and sugar upon his scolloped
"
—
Soph."
who
evidently
takes but
little comfort
in his Comfort's
oysters, which, either in his confusion, or else because his eyes were
German, after considerable hesitation remarked the other day in ansAver dimmed with tears of gratitude at being so fortunate as to be thus nice-
to the oft repeated question, "where is Berlin?" that
' thought it ] ly located, he probably took for oatmeal.
was in Germany. "
—'77 are now champions at foot ball, having beaten this fall every class in the University. The item last week which asserted that 71! had that honor was a mistake in fact, but not in the intention of the young Senior who read the proof.
—At the Navy meeting last Tuesday evening, A. M. Ensign and J. N. Ostrom Avere appointed delegates to the Bowing Association of
— The new
"
"
peg pole
in
the gymnasium
was almost
the cause of a
serious accident lhe other day. One of the students hail ascended to
the top, and by not inserting one of the pegs enough it slipped, causin"
him to fall to the lloor. Two or three such accidents have happened since which prove that the apparatus i< not constructed as it ought to be. Whoever has charge of the gym. should see to the matter immedi
ately before anything of a more serious nature occurs.
American Colleges to be held at Springfield, Dec. 1st.
present holds the office of secretary of the convention.
Mr. Ensign at
—The mock trial in the Irving society last Friday evening attracted as hu-ge an audience as could well be accommodated. Although con-
A set of double windows have been placed in the west side of i tinning for nearly four hours, it afforded a vast amount of amusement
room K. They are effectual in keeping the wind from making such a I the profuse display of wit frequently eliciting hearty laughter. The
direct passage through the room as it has been wont to do. A similar witnesses, on whom much depended, performed their part excellently
addition to the windows of North Chapel would be duly appreciated.
The pleas of the lawyers, Messrs. Humphrey, Rohde, and Patrick, al
—The American College Songster is
the name of
"
a
handy
and in
expensive edition of American students' songs," for sale at Finch A:
Apgar's. This little book will fill the wants of a great many students who are familiar with college tunes but who seldom know the words to
them. No doubt it will find a ready sale.
though largely humorous were also truly eloquent. Mr. Patrick's ef fort was regarded as far surpassing any former one made by him before the society.
-Even Seniors are subject to the failings of ordinary mortals at times. The other day one wrote a postal card and seeing some one out-
—The Crane-Norton combination Friday, Nov. -j-j. at Wilgus Hall.
William Albert Crane, supported by a powerful caste, will present " Othello." The troupe has a well known reputation for the excellence
of its actors, comprising such as John S. Norton, Mathiloe Medina, frene Curtis, Edmunds, Mack, Holmes, and Arlington. Rare chance to hear
Othello.
side who was going down town, rushed after him, to ask him to mail
it. When he reached his man, he found he had a pipe in his hand in stead ofthe postal; rushing back, he laid down his hat, picked up the
card, and .started off again, not discovering the absence of his hat until
he hael gone quite a way. Once more he rushed frantically back this time securing pipe, hai, and card, which latter he handed over to his
— Sckxe.— J. AE Hall. Harvard man slightly "braced," address ing the chair: " Mi/./er pres'd'nt, t lc-art-ity tharnk you for the efflu vium you have conferred upon us this evening." Second Harvard man
friend, spee.hless from want of breath. Willyum! Willvum' Hast thou succumbed to a pair of bright, sagacious eyes, that thou shoulds, fail thus m thy memory y
likewise mellowed, affectionately saluting a classmate: "No longer shall you be called I), Fay; forever more hereafter vou shall be called
DeFuncf."
— And now the ' 'ex oficto " ha- become a usurper; his dodges are as follows: A certain professor proposes that the elas nominate tAvo men
to act as a committee t"<>» the
,,pon the name proposed, but second gentleman is nominated
purand
considerably.
—A new set of heliotype-s have recently been received at the Univer sity Library. Among the collection may now be found verv good por traits of Melancthon Erasmus, O.Mavus Adolphus, and many oilier noted historical characters. Those desiring copies of anv "'' Hi- samples can leave their orders for Ihe same during the first hour (N lo '.n each week day, and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
—Mr. Waterman, bow oar of our Universitv crew, has eoioructed j, new kind of a rudder which is termed "self-adjustable." The great
Bui " Mr.
_ j consider myself as chair-
-in oi th.s meeting," h,VVons n, he herd ^n {hc l^ ,nd the'dx"
,
'^-•■ll,,.,tones i mm t he usurper. your pardon "is heard ,„ proceed in plaintive
N —l.^.W,of.tomAr .sceCvioetronakl,livn"e, «aSr'sli>i, InMwi.vi,-le.li,,,iscu.,i,oiv«lr,-ev,imel ruoynf velrahaleutiaoMbnle,enhasoapseercsiieemnoet fnlsoC, etehnhetireaaflni aPloa"rmk-
;;:::P^,nr,,;,11a.Oi(,h(,|,, 1"rams .,„ ,,,
, ml.
cics from which Mntiu„ ||u.im ]i;m, ^
aiKK-onda:vvolvi
-1 foxes, a, itdel, ama; many numlo-ys; voung
Nov. 20, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
87
heads of a lynx, elk, prairie wolf, deer, etc The last, and in some re spects most valuable gift, is a seal whose brain Prof. Wilder has long ehesired to examine. All the viscera have been preserved in alcohol; the skeleton will be mounted, and the skin stuffed by Mr. M. J. Boberls. Mr. Conklin should have the thanks of every friend of the University, and especially of those in the Natural History department.
-The following is the programme of the Philalethean society for
NE
Reading
MI'sic.
J. A. Richardson.
ina; vn:.
Ihsolctl — That trade Unions are beneficial to lhe laboring classes.
Appointed disputants:
Affirmative, \/J?.',CP JIv^euVnedev.
Negative,
<
/
NV' A' ,J«'i'"i'»' R. II. Lee
mi sic
\V . A. Winoatk, 77, is in business in San Francisco, Cal
IiVymoM), 7li, visited his sister al Yassar during the recess
Brown, 'di, accompanied Jarvis home during lhe intermission.
Watkuman helped Smith "gel away" wilh those bipeds on IheJ'ith
Ci;o. Bovuhman, 7<>, is quite sick at the North University Building.
Hawkins, 7s, has been visiting his friends in town for a few days
past. Lawkknce, ex-prex of 7'.E ate turkey Avith his Ithaca friends yes
terday. C. H. M.vi.t.i'.rr, 77, has a paying government office in San Francis
co, Cal.
Knapp, 7(i, was in town last Tuesday. At present he is teaching-
near Geneva.
Autobiography
II. B. Skkij.y
All are cordially invited to attend.
[We shall be glad to publish the programmes of any of the literary
societies whenever they are sent to us. — Los.]
— ."d, S. H. N. U. B., was the scene of a lively circus the other day.
" Van," wishing to ornament himself with what Nature has denied
him, put on a false beard, and was admiring the effect in a glass, when
a knock was heard at the door.
"
"
Billy
shouted
"
come
in,"
the
door
opened and Pickett appeared. Seeing a stranger, he hesitated, but
Billy, noticing his embarrassment, introduced him to the "stranger"
whom he christened Mr. Van Volkenstein. Pickett blushed at the hon
Parke, '70, the Universiiy organist, spent Thanksgiving at his home in Binghamton.
Bnrs Andkuson is not in business in Poughkeepsie, but is at pres ent in Peekskill, NE Y.
DritLAXD, formerly of 75, is at Middletown, N. Y. ; he expects to re-enter the University next year.
Clark, 77, had his left foot hurt quite badly while playing foot ball with the Freshmen last Saturday.
C. WE Raymond, 70, made the best score in the recent rifle match between the Ithaca and Waverly teams.
or, and spake in general terms of the inclemency of the weather and the situation in Spain. After he had kept up polite conversation for a Avhile, he inquired of Billy where Van was; about that time an explo sion of laughter was heard, antl the sepulchral voice of Van issuing from the depths of the beard said: " What do you want, you cussed fool?" Pickett sloped.
A— certain Junior, a dweller on the hill, who had tin- Decalogue "dead" once, but who has forgotten one or two of the minor points, secured a goodly number of pears when that mellifluous fruit was in season. It would not do to expose him by telling how he took a walk one eA'ening about midnight, and put a pillow-case in ids pocket instead of a handkerchief, by mistake, and how he accidentally stumbled against a pear tree and shook some pears down, which he put in the pillowcase, " just to keep them from spoiling," as he said. At any rate, he had the pears, and hid them carefully away from his chum, who might feel uncomfortable if he should have to eat of them and yet know that they were stolen. But murder will out, and a noble Senior. a mighty Nimrod. discovered their hiding place and carefully put them away in the pocket- of the kleptomaniac's various garments. Now this gentleman weekly arrays himself in the chaste antl elegant costume of the C. LE Cadets, in which warlike hotly he holds the commission of 1st Lieut. Not long since' he proceeded to adorn himself with this suit, it being drill day. After strutting around a while with all the dignity becoming to his responsible position, he thrust his hand into Ids coat tail pocket, as he wished to draw tin- attention of some passing "co eds." with his pocket handkerchief. Imagine' his horror when, instead of into the soft folds of his handkerchief, his hand was buried deeply into a mass of matter of the consistency of -oil soap. Drawing it quickly out, he beheld the "decayed ruins" of his pears dripping therefrom. He did not say much, but just say " pears" to him, and see the look of malignant hatred which he bestows upon you. The coat had to be divested of its pockets, which could not be freed from their fruity odor, and its owner now does without a handkerchief when he utters the sounding word of command.
" Dick" B.o on, 7:>, arrived in town Monday and spent the week
among his friends; married life seems to agree with him.
" Dix. uv" is with us again; he Avas subject to the attractive power which brings the boys around when they want a good time.
Haviland, of the corps, has gone home to attend the funeral of his
grandfather. In addition to this misfortune he has been quite unwell
from the effects of a severe cold.
(General Collnje iVcu$.
— There are about thirty candidates for the Freshman crew at Har vard; the men run half a mile three times a week and pull one hundred strokes daily at the weights. The class has subscribed about S4-U0 to ward sending the crew.
— d'he American Wesleyans, to save their college at Wheaton, 111., from the auctioneer's hammer, invited the Congregatioiialists to share in its management and support. A Congregationalist is President of the institution, but owing to his opposition to secret societies he has, it is claimed, alienated Congregational support, and the college is left to struggle with a heavy debt. — Herald..
— The Yale University crew for 1*7j has been selected as follows: Herman Livingstone, class of ls7s (bow): E. C. Cooke, class of ls?7 : WE W. Colton, class of ts;7; C. N. Fowler, class of ls7. H. Kel logg, class of ls?ii; R. J. Cooke, class of ls7ii, captain and stroke.
— In a College meeting at Williams sl.-JUO were subscribed in the interest of boating, and Cyrus Field, Jr., offered to present a six-oared
shell to the Freshmen on the condition that both Freshman and Uni versity crews be sent to the regatta. — Herald.
—At Syracuse the term bills amount in a year to sail), at Dartmouth to s7o, at Brown ss,",, at Williams sun lo st »•"">, Yale slfil, and Har vard X\r,0.—IIcru.td.
—Blakey says "he'll have nothink more to do with them Vales uo-
howsumever." — Courant.
Jara^is, 78, took Dunning home with him. Roy, 70, went home with Jarvis to help eat turkey.
—The successful Lit. Prize Essay was written by a Freshman of Al bany; this is the first time that that honor has fallen to a Freshman since the prize has been established,
88
THE CORNELL ERA'.
Nov. 26, 1875.
-The Centennial Regatta Committee announce that the boat races at
the exhibition will be international, and open to all regularly organized
boat clubs in the world. They will be rowed in accordance Avith the
rules of the National Amateur Bowing Association of the United States.
They will consist 0f an international college race for four-oared shells, open only to undergraduates, and an international graduates' race for fours, open only to graduates of colleges or universities. Professional races will be held, open to all crews throughout the world, for four-
" The object of this paper is to develop the literary tastes of the stu dents."— OH". Wc should judge so from the following poem in the last
number:
sparkino sindav niout.
Lips with nectar flowing close up to your face, Set so nicely, showing for your own a place; Fire burning dimly, eyes a glowing bright, I {less me, don't it pay well sparking Sunday night.
uared and single-scull shells, for suitable prizes. The amateur races will be rowed one and a half miles straightway. The professional races
After six days' labor in the field of life, After one day's leisure, free from care and trite.
will be rowed three miles— one and a half miles and return. An en
trance fee of SO."") will be charged for fours, SU for pairs and doubles,
aud .SfO for singles.— Post.
,
—The Freshmen at Bowdoin have a glee club.
At one of their |
practice meetings the Sophomores entered and commanded each to sing
a solo, the penalty of refusing being a toss in the blanket; only one re
fused whereupon he Avas tossed and let fall to the floor and received
When old folks are snoring loud enough to fright, Bless me, don't it pay well sparking Sunday night.
Wdiat a bliss to hold, in the circle of your arms, A damsel that can hold you by her witching charms; What a world of pleasure in one eve's delight, Bless me, don't it pay well sparking Sunday night.
such severe injuries that he was compelled to return home; and yet this
Talk of wine and coffee, and everything that's good,
happened under sectarian influence-
Talk of pie and taffy, and every kind of food,
—Judge Elbert Herring, of New York, is said to be the oldest col
Still they give no pleasure that can equal quite
lege graduate in America. He belongs to the class of 17'.i"i of Princeton.
The ecslacy of sparking— sparking Sunday night.
—If rocks ever bled, they Avould bleed quartz. — Daubury At, vs. What a gneiss joke!—Botvdoiu Orient. Rather shal(e)low, though.
This takes place al Marietia College, Ohio. Comments are useless. The Atlantic for December brings the continuation of AY. D. How
tfxehangrisi ami iBoofc %mtm.
ell's novel, " Private Theatricals-," and the conclusion of Henry James, Jr.'s "Roderick Hudson" Prof. Boyesen contributes a valuable and
The MeCill tiu~ette. after a long nap of eighteen months, has waked
up and promises to do great things in the future. The Gaz, (te is largely
devotee! to the interests of athletic sports, and especially of foot ball,
for which latter game Canada has always had a great partiality. The
eelitors say in the Salutatory that " we do not consider that Ave have a
providential mission to circulate those 'yearnings after the infinite/
soul stirring appeals to man's inner consciousness, and thrilling poetical
effusions in which the spirit of rhapsody oversteps the trammeling ex
igencies of rhyme and metre, which occupy so large a space in the col
umns of some of our collegiate contemporaries." This plank in their
"
"
platform
alone
ought
to
insure their
success
in
the
future.
That
spirit of rhapsody can't be choked off any too early, for if once allowed
to escape, it will assume the vast proportions of a full grown Arabian
Nights genie, and be the destruction of paper, editors and all.
The Aiut/ueii Index waxes justly wroth in a well Avritten editorial, at the manner in which sectarian exchanges peck at its "Romanism."
Some of its remarks are rather severe, but not any too much so for the two-penny sectarian editors who think that any deviation from their
particular little, narrow line of belief must indicate a condition of total
depravity, or something worse. The contributed articles in the Index are evidently prepared with care, and are above the average of college literature. 1 here is of course a poem on " Autumn Days" — all college
papers have them — children cry for them.
The Cornell Collegia,, has only been able to find one article in the Era that dees not touch upon boat-racing; it is remarkable how men in colleges that have no boating facilities will continually find fault with those that have. They thank their blessed stars that their minds are not
filled with such nonsense as -onu- people's whom thev could mention; their precious time is spent in Moral and Intellectual Inprovement, and in furthering the interests of the Mutual Admiration Society. The Col. ajim, forgets to credit Boswell's Life of Johnson with the remark about
making the argument, but being unable to furnish the brains necessary Lo comprehend it.
highly interesting essay on the Herman Romantic School entitled "Novalisand the Blue Flower." Charles Francis Adams, Ir., Edgar Fawcett, and J. J. Piatt, are among the other contributors. The pros pects for the Atlantic next year arc very bright; it will continue to em ploy the best essayists, novelists, and poet- of this country.
tiie Cmip.iest if Europe. A poem tf tl,, Futon. In foirtun short cm,. tos. By Confucius, Is'/ii.
This little book dropped into our sanctum last week, gives no clue whence it came, nor any more definite clue to its authorship than that it Avas entered, according to Act of Congress, etc., by John Smith. Its object is to warn Western nations to awaken from the lethargy into which they have fallen in regard to the Eastern question. We are teaching the Chinese the arts of an atlvanceel civilization, and are thus
placing ourselves at the mercy of a vast horde of men who are only
awaiting the right time to elcscenel upon antl conquer Europe at one "fell
swoop. He does not suggest any remedy to prevent this terrible catas
trophe, but sees from the amalgamation of conq.ierers and conemered
new and mighty races arise, that the faith of Christ will be universal,
and that peace will reign once more. Although not thoroughly con
vinced that these events trill come to pass, the v\ riter places them among the " strongest of probabili'ies." To say the least, the ideas brought for
ward are rather fanciful; the poetry, however, is not bad, aud was evi
dently written by no unskilled hand.
speciWe
ipi
.ie two
••
verses as
men bricks ":
"Think not, () man! lhat in the mighty womb
Of future years lie not events as grcal As those which now are buried in the tomb
Of vanished years; aye, historv will relate,
In coining ages, deeds of glory and Of virtue bright and generous as those
Which on her pages lie, traced by the hand
of all the years now drawn unto I heir close."
One of the best feat iocs of the Lafayette Volley,- Journal is its person al department, which is very full in its reports of the whereabouts antl
doings of graduates, ddie subject of boating is being agitated at La fayette, and hopes are expressed of her having a crew at the next inter
collegiate regatta. They have a novel way of studying Astronomy there; each student selects some particular planet, and learns all he
can about it; it is a remarkable coincidence that nearly allot' them
choose Vtnus.
"The very earth will IremMe 'neath their tread
As to the West ihey turn their long array; The mountains, too, will quake, as tho' in dread,
As swift Ihey march upon their cotiqif ring wav. And like the seas that high -built dykes restrain,
Which, burst ing through, the hapless countries Mood, From out lhe Ural passes to the plain,
These hordes will pour and deluge all iu blood."
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth."
Yoli'me VIII.— Ni muku 10.
TIIE COBNKLL UNIVERSITY, DECEMB.ER ::, Iht.1.
£e>.:>0 no Annum in Advance.
Print, d mill Published every Eridny, by Students of the Senior und Junior Chissis.
editors for 1875-G.
FALL TFR.M, 1.s[7.-,|.
FALL TERM, ls[7o|
hVOtrml [Sept. lf>l, ISO,.
(W. D. VV ], Registrar.
All claims ngiiiust him in Un- Tn :i-iiiu the inside of the cover.
( OHNKI.I, Un IV RUSTY,
St pt, tuber, 1N7V
After Commencement, ls7(i, no student will be allowed to graduate
unless he shall have passed on every one of the studies of his course'
or on equivalents accepted therefor, nor unless he shall have passed cred
itably on two-thirds, or honorably on one-third of all his studies; the
calculation to be based on the number of hours per week in each study.
In the technical courses, in order to graduate, each student will be
required to pass creditably in all the studies characteristic of his course.
those studies to be determineel by the several Fauculties,
Each student is required to procure a course-book, similar to thai
whose sample pages have been presented to the Faculty, in which he
may write term by term the studies he pursues; anel with such a book
so prepared he may call on the several Profes-ors, or on a committee at
the Registrar's (jllice, at times to be appointed by them near the begin
ning of each term, and obtain a statement of the report of his examina
tions for the previous term.
No student wdio shall neglect to keep such a course-book and record
of his standing in the University, will be allowed to claim the benefit of
having passed any exaininai ion otherwise than as entered in the oflicial
record; nor will any student be allowed to claim b>r himself a report
different from the one given him liy the Professor or the committee,
unless he shall call their attention to the supposed error immediately
after receiving the report.
'
do ( '. ( m.hwi.ij,,
Sieretary.
It Avill Be seen bv these resolutions that the arrangement
does not .'ipply to the present Senior class. The book is ruled and paged so as to cover each term of a
full course of four years. Wc print below as an example of the plan, the page for a single term. What is in included in
the brackets is ours.
! IB. <■:. W-J
1 51
1131
ruder the column marked "Subject," the subjects studied
are Avritten. If the student passes a studv with a mark of
three or between three and three and a half, the Professor under whom he studies signs his name in the column marked
" Passed." If the student passes with a mark of three anel a
half or bet ween that and four, the Professor signs his name in the column marked "Passed Creditably,*" and if the stud ent passes with a mark of four or upwards, I he Professor sons.
his name in the column marked " Passed Honorably. If a
student pusses below three no record is made.
In the page given as an example we have arranged in brackets names as it may be immagined some fortunate Fresh-
manEs book will appear at the end of the Fall term in lo."..
Referring to the rules as found on the inside of the cover, he would know bis standing for the term, and similarly all ofthe
other terms.
The U: urse Hook contains twenty-six ruled pages, and is tastily ami durably bound. It Avill be for sale on Saturday at Finch A: Apgar's. d'he arrangement goes into effect the
present term. Students can have their books written up at
once for all the previous terms.
— During the past year the subject of changing the edel
style of Commencement, overeises to something entirely differ
ent Avas strongly agitated among the members of the Senior
class at Michigan University. Si far did this go that it Avas
only with difficulty that the Faculty prevailed upon those ap
pointed fo deliver orations t<> appear on the Commencement
stage. When the statistics of the Senior class were taken this
subject was made one of the <|iiest ions. The result showee!
that eighty-five were in lav or of abolishing commencement
speeches, tAVelve were not, ami live did iwt care. We have
been informed through a private letter that it is ipiite proba
ble that Commencement speaking will not survive many more
years, and perhaps md even one, at .Michigan Pniversity. The
idea of the .Michigan boys is that delivering ceiinmenccment
speeches is little more than idle " spouting," ami that the time
devoted to them could be much better employed in having
addresses delivered by some able speakers.
From Williams College there also conies up a voice de
manding a change from the old order of things. '• If it be no
longer considered
""
rational, says
the
Ath< ,,f vaunting- themselves, to appear in the g.ary
Daylight of public applause); and this henWas the- purpose thev had, and I hope it wont scare ve:To get a reliable Home Missionary, Appointed among the Urcdnnen io bear the
Light of religion: Of course it was clear That thus they might possibly cone- to hear
That Freshmen, however frisky and airy, Must doll' their sombreros when Soph'more-s are near
My piety th' ollice upon me did lon-e, And I'll take lhe occasion, my |„,Vs, ,,, i|v,lin, V(. That the best «|ualiib-.l in all ways lo allure the
Sin-beset Frediman I > enter Hi,, cour-o
Of virtue— the best, f repeat, u, enure the Raw and unsavory reeruil of old Fury, With humble respect, and honor, demurely To bow to the Soph as the supreme boss fThough my modest self mier lhe fad i, was of course The uiidei-seiibed ;s, who will surely Teach Freshmen lo be less profuse of their sauce
The first that needed reform, as 1 heard, (By the way f take all these fads from my diary.
Which of course proves their truth, for no one could hirn me
To sully its page with a lie), was this bird: Who was apt when Sophs were around lo be iry, And often he'd grow exceedingly fiery And threaten them all with his vengeance direly;
Which deeply within me my anger si bred, And I boldly decided at once to gird
.Myself for the bailie, to crush the miry
Anel wild and uncultured Freshmannical herd.
To knock at a Freshman's door, you will say, Is very absurd— in fact, il is dearly A breach of good manners, ami therefore I merely
My pedals applied in a mild sort of way, And entered very sedately, lo cheer the benighted soul in its ignorance dreary, Wilh the light that'll make ii acknowledge that we're the
Class they must honor and love and obey — And if they don't do it the devil's to pay!
Their experience they'll purchase so dearly, As they'll never forget to their dying day.
With his feet in the window lhe heathen sat,
And he whistled: " Dost thou then love me, my Janv'"
Distorting his fact1 in a way most ungainly— And pretended to study his Plato at that
Thinks 1 to myself, "(tie boss, I will tame thee, Though now, as it seems, thou scarcely Avilt deign me A ilecent respect " (which 1 inu-t say did pain me). But 1 showed my high standing by throwing my hat On the table, anel then I began lhe chat
And graciously asked, as hi- says, if his brain he Was heating with spelling, or something like that.
And then f prepared to enjoy a smoke, Helping myself— as a Sophomore ought lo— To lights and the like; while the Freshman he sought to
Scare me, by looking as though he woulel choke Mc gladly, if ever lit- could. But 1 thought lo Soon impress on his mind that the Fresh must be taught to
Honor his betters, as every one ought to.
Well, thinking it o'er, my moustache I did stroke, Which the Fresh seemed to think was a wonderful joke:
But Freshmen, thought f, in time will be brought to, And to that effect I accordingly spoke.
A few things more look place, f believe; But, as f have said, I'm afraid 1 shall bore ye,
And therefore will conic to the end of mv story.
My feelings at last he so rudely did grieve. That f thought it high time to -end him lo glory; And swoopetl fiercely down on the cailitf, belore he
Had time e'en to pray and 1 battered bim sorely.
But slill he attempted your trust to deceive. By wickedly saying he helped me lo leave
With a lift of his boot; though a whole week be bore the Marks of lhe licking he I here did achieve.
But a Fresh ain't expected lei lell what's true, Or e\er, in short, to state a case fairly; Wherefore 1 warn all lo be shy ami warv
In taking their word, although there's a lew
As once in a while— b\ accident barely -
Stumble on to lhe Irulh, but exceedingly rarely!
I would add lo co, i, -bide, that, as Home' Alissiona.y
Of ',S, in a week or l wo
I shall si art a revival amongst thai crew, To leach Ihem once and for all, thai we air the
Class Ihey must honor and humbly look to! "I IU IM, Ib.VIK Mlss.oNAKY OK '7SS.
Dec. 3, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
91
(the ileal ^masons.
We are all familiar with the stories handed down from an
cient times of a warlike female race who eh'lighted in the chase anel ruder pastimes, rearing up their female children to a similar life, while the males were left O follow out their
own devices and live a life of ease.
It is curious to remark how exactly true these stories are, though in a sense .piite different from lhat in which they were accepted in ancient deece. For on tin- .Mediterranean shores there really lived a pigmy race whose daily life vvas ordered precisely in this way. W'e read, in some ancient authors, of this race: indeed, Herodotus, among' his other marvelous sto ries, ascribes to sonic of the tribes the bigness of foxes, com bined Avith extraordinary strength ami agility. However this may be, our Anm/ous are still found in villages and cities of from perhaps a score of inhabitants to as many thousands; wherever they may be found they continually work in the ut most harmony, though different tribes are endowed with va rying degrees of intellig megand the social condition and pros perity of ihe communities differ very widely. In all, the fe males perforin all the labor anel the males lead a happy, care less life, being ministered to by the other sex with the utmost loving kindness.
The elifferent coininuniiies, with their various surroundings, have different tastes and habits; thus, soine are tillers of the soil, planting their seed in prepare.! fields, carefully rooting out all noxious weeds, and in due time gathering in the har vest. < >ther< are pastoral, and carefully attend their herds; sometimes bringing them from their pasturage to the city to be milked, and at other times bringing the nourishing fluid iu receptacles provided for the purpose. At all times those tribes are ready to resent an injury to their herds as one offered to themselves, auel woe to the marauder who thinks with impu nity to kill anel eat their milch cattle. His punishment is summary and meted out without legal form or ceremony.
There are other communities of haughty slaveholders, who rather than work at any other occupation than that of war, would starve, ami in fact do live a life of ease and luxury, du ring the greater part of tin- year, attended by their faithful negro slaves. During one ortAvo appointed months, however, thev prepare for predatory excursions, and urged on by their slaves, rarely fail to capture and bring home great numbers of the voung negroes, who, under the skillful training of the
slaves, become as devoted to the welfare of their masters as
though this weie their native state.
Some tribes have their sacred cattle, which it is. sacrilege 0 use for food, though neighboring tribes have no such scruples regarding them.
Perhaps by this time the readers will have guessed who, and what our pigmv Ania/.ouians art — the insect representa
tives of man, having dominion over the beasts of the field, and in their highest types as far above the other insects in in
telligence, as man is over the rest of the mammalia, though not differing more in their siriicture than man does from the highest apes.
The Ants are really stinging Hyinenoptera, allied to the
bees anel wasps, bul em a higher plane of intelligence. Occa sionally, as in our most common donicslie species, the sting is absent, the poison gland, however, being present, ami abun dantly secreting for ic acid, which gives fo ihese insects their
not unpleasant tart Ha v or. The lowest of ihese ants are solitary, and display little of
the intelligence of the higher forms ; they are parasitic in the
nests of bumble bees, devouring lhe bodies of their young.
All the social ants are pretty good architects, or at least mining engineers, and construct arched |i;i-sigiis and apart
ments with considerable skill. At the Xorth, ants are under no
necessity of providing a stoic of food for the winter, as they lie torpid during the whole cold season, however, in warmer climates, as iu Italy, and our own >out hern states, they remain
awake, .and the seed-eaf ing species accordingly store up au
abundant supply in their granaries.
With Attn si motor, fifty-four kinds of seeds have been
counted, in fact they seemed fo relish almost any kind they were able to secure, ddiis grain as collected is stored away,
but seiiiKetiincs in the height of the harvest, .season a larger ipiantity would accumulate than could be immediately stored away in granaries protected from excessive moisture, so after
heavy rains these ants have been seen to carry out considera
ble quantities of seeds and lay them in heaps fo dry in the sun.
Thev seem, however, to exercise a very curious power oi
preventing the germination of seeds of till kinds, although the amount of moist lire by Avliich they are surrounded is always one very favorable to their germination. This power seems to be exercised voluntarily by the ants, as most of the seeds in a granary to which their access was shut off, began to sprout within ten davs, although the ants manage to keep their stores
in good condition for nine months or more. They always malt their grain before consuming it.
These European harvesting nuts lay up a quantity of seeds equivalent to one pound, Avoirdupois, for each well stocked
nest, but in separate storehouses, each of about the size and
shape of an ordinary watch. It is probable that the tropical species lav bv much greater stores, as regulations ceuicerning the ownership of such ant accumulations have been found in
the law codes of some Eastern nations.
Many species are in the habit of making forays on the nests of other species, for plunder, which sometimes consists in these stores of food, but more usually the object is to carry off the voung into slaver}'. Curiously enough, the slave-ants belongto black species, while the enslavers are red or variously col
ored, ddie more common slave holding ants are industrious
workers themselves, but one species, _/'<>l,/t r./ts, has become thoroughly demoralized by this iniquitous custom, anel, deprived of the attentions of its slaves, perishes miserably of hunger, even in the midst of plenty.
ddue slave-s seem to know their moral and intellectual supe
riority over their warlike but ignorant masters, and never al low them to make a foray mi a community Tuiu.
cannibals.
The p1 astoral ants have Hocks ami herds of Ap' hides, which
.
thev sometimes guard in their natural position on shrubs ami
..
.
Ou their
,
prepared
pavement
every
"
,
plant except
A, ri.stn. l,a
...
..
..
.V/-0-O, a gram bearing grass, is rooted out, and further
..
plies
".
,.
ot tins
grass
'.,,.. provided tor
.
by
.
,
.
,
planting the seed.
sup' -
The
trees, attacking the aphis-lions and other enemies with •-
great
. ....
' , crop is carelullv
,
,
,.".'.
attended lo, and in due time is gathered and
ferocitv. •
Avhen
thev come across a
■
S,/c,'l,us larva thev
;
.
the
...
stubble
rooted,
out.
,.,,
.
..
I he grain is separated fro iu the chaff
shake him as a elog shakes a woodcJitick and then let him . .
.
,
..
..
,.'..,
■ , •■ i
.•
drop' ,
alwavs
'
fatally injured.
Sonic species build commodious
stables of
clav
'-.',• around their
ni ocki s ,
pasiure
,
ground, going out
t,K' laUer is thrown aside and the former stored in the oana^
,. ......
rv ''"' ul|ber coiisiiniption and for planting the next year
to collect the honey dew, carrying it home in natural reccptaeles and then disgorging it for tine young, while other species
-herding to one recent author, the religious sentiment s,",'l"s Wi'U "1-1' '"" v,,,s;i1 ;""«"^ the higher ants, it taking the
bring in bark-lice, wait for them to 'elaborate their sugary se- ,"rm "f atk''" "'" ;""1 l','lll''l- worship shown to a variety of
grounds"cretion and then return them to their pasture
"tller illsecl i"l»"l>'t.-mts of the nest, im-s, ,,, , he.,, being bee-
^The teneler care Avhich the ants take ..f the rising genera-
;l",1 1Uall-V ^''"".^''tf '" the family of Staphyliniehe.
tiouis probably familiar to all our readers; o„e ant after Tll,'s^ heed les occur exclusively in ants' nests and receive ev-
losing its abdonieu, litis been seen to carry ten pupa- back ^''^ attention from the inmates, though making ajiparently no
into the recesses of a disturbed m-st, finally expiring in the at- Ietl,n)-
tempt to carry in another.
^,le tercel eattle of one mO, however, if introdm-ed into
When the pupa is ready to emerge, the nurses carefully a""thc'r arc* 'l"'ltv UkiAy to 1,e butchered and dev.mred like any
assist the baby out of its silken cradle, wash and clean up the ;"mm"" inlets, *<> that the forbearance on the part of the
|(lulatersyoungster and then attend sedulously to her education f.»rs<-\-
,1,"'s "(,t :insr i'r"m "'»}' distaste for the flesh of the
eral days, teaching her till the various winding labyrinths of i 1Perhaps. h„,,,, „,c most wonderful of :,,. tll, ,lIIlilv ,
J^:;, i|Ml'is the so-called Agricultural Ant of Texas
Tin. hi
"• -'
»'*«* «■..- vigor i„ argu-
' ",t;" "," "' '"^'^ ^ -,d whether
,
other species reap where thev have ,,ot sown, and
^^
v/ritablegather where they have no, strew,!, but this ;i„t is „
ho ,
busbandman. For a year aud a half after the founding of a s„„.
Z' T ^-' t1_ T'"">
' "U' "^
-
(
d — . — us .-,„ intellect ,s that of P,,,f. John-
colony, nothing unusual ap|,e.-,rs. Hut .-,1'ter the lapse of that
,,'„,time they appear .... the surface, ch,,,- ,,;i,y tll(. ,,,,ss
'.' '^Tl
,,,,
"""
wl-U,, ,W ^>^ M]>
*W the His, time.
[*,pay'einen,other litter and build a paved ,,i.V;.l„.
extemlim,- ! w,„
,,::;:,s xz:^z\:^:z:a- - *- f- f- ^
— - «»»■ t-„ with
,
'^^ " l>r"f- Sl"^...., of Aul,,,,-,,,
,
""^ as - " tiw u^™
Dec. 3, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
93
(forrrgpondenrt.
which had been conceived by other historians? Finally, do
"lllK I'M VKKslTY SEIIMn.VS.'1 Editors ( 'orinll Jf,-a ;
Will you please insert the following?
we reverence the sublime teachings of Christ because the phi losophers of (ireece and India -had promulgated them before, but with an effect for good infinitely smaller? Do we hive the philanthropy and life of St. Adncent de Paul the less
The above is the title of a recent editorial in the Cornell ( because others before him had been philanthropic and led lives
Rci'ii.ie which to us savors with a liberalism verging on rad of virtue? No! Wc say a thousand times no! ! That his-
icalism, and displays a tendency bordering on the anti-Chris thrian, that poet, that teacher, is. to u> most original who
tian.
For these reasons we don't like the tone of the article,
bymoves men
the manner aud power he puts forth
the truths
antl because our sentiments differ materially from those there he feels, who makes the most striking and lasting impression
in expressed, we feel compelled to join issue with the R< ci which the term " ^//original " can be more appropriately applied than to it, .and so we wemld here warn
their calling — that preaching was not their forte, liut hoping it against all farther ranting and canting on other people's
that neither Dr. Comlit, nor Dr. dVitchell, nor Bishop An lack of originality.
drews Avill not be frightened by such astounding pretentions
To take up another point, d'he AE >d, ,r says: " Bishop An
as the Rerit a- puts forward as a critic and as a philosopher, drews ,-isserts that all philanthropy owes its existence to Chrir-
let us examine the R< vii ufs idea of originality about which it , tianity, that if you destroy all faith in Christianity and estab
prates so much.
lish in its stead a belief in materialism or the scientific con
We wish Ave knew exactly Avhat its idea is, but as we do ception of the universe, all philanthropy and philanthropic in
not, we will endeavor to approximate. We hael supposed that stitutions would be at au end." Who her the Bishop said this
the Fiiiversitv sermons displayed the usual amount of original or md avc don't care, but what we do take exception to is the
thought. But according to the R,ci, a- we are mistaken. idea which the Reri, u- would have Us take stock in, that Lib-
These sermons are not original. The Rtcitie's idea of origin eralists are more philanthropic than Christ iaus. d'he Recittc
ality, therefore, differs from our own. According to the Rt - does not sav this in so many words, but it does say so by im
view, to be original, one must conceive something that has plication in the query, "Whv this ocat difference as regards
never been conceived of before. We suppose, f hen, that the philanthropy between the life of the Christian and that ofthe
man who first said the moon was made of green cheese was an Liberalist ?" d'he course of reasoningwhich the R' cieie fol
original thinker. But iu all earnestness, whai are we to un derstand by originality? ii it means that which has never
been conceived before, then all historians from .Moses to Buck
lows to show the difference and to prove that the Liberalist is
more philanthropic than the Christian, has about as much
force as a water wheel without any water and the causes
le, all poets from Virgil to Longfellow, all moral teachers which are educed have as much relation to the subject in hand from Christ to St. Vincent de Paul, fail in this respect. Do as the harmony of the heavenly spheres to a railroad. The
we rea el the books which .Moses wrote the less because we can If rieic makes use of the a /iriori method, at least we suppose
see traces of Egyptian thought? Do we admire Buckle's historv of civilization the less because we can read thoughts
it does for it does not bring up any lads to pro a e that Liber
al ist.s arc more benevolent than Christians. We should like
94
THE CORNELL ERA.
Dec. 3, 1875.
to enquire of the Re rie,c what great benevolent institutions
liberals have fountietl-what .adversities, what colleges, what
asvlumns what hospitals, what great sums of money have thev expended to lift their fellow men out of barbarism, out of deoedation, ...it of ignorance? We don't think its catalogue
wid be very full in this respect. It is needless here M repeat what Christians have done because it will suggest itself fo the
founding the instinct of religion with any of its myriad forms
of theological expression, nor suppose that all that is worthy
of the name of religion *
* is embraced in
lhe term Chr.stian.ty." It wanted to say that there were re-
ligions as good as the Christian, but thought that this would be a little too radical. So ,t would have been, but the insin-
nation which it makes to this effect is md less false and eon-
|mintl of every person and because we need the space for other tlemnable than the direct statement of the meaning the Renin,?
thin:
intended to convey. To show that the R>ci,u- has fallen into
Bv the way, the Red, u- brings up the Turkish Molianimc-
kins as an example of a people which, though md Christian, m aintain benevolent institutions. Perhaps they eh.. Bul there
a very gross error and to prove how much modern civilization
is indebted to Christianity, would be a very easy task. But we will not. We think we have said enough to show that
is one thing quite certain that there is no country under the the Ridac is not infallible in religious matters even if its ed-
heavens where misery, poverty, and degredathm is more gen- it«>rs are "noted ministers," as ihey say they are.
eral than among the Mohammedans. Mohammedan streets
and highways are filled with beggars afflicted with all the diseases to which the human fiesh is heir, and all crying for
"backsheesh " to keep them from starvation. Yet tiie Rt ca a-
[We wish it distinctly understood that we do not i-niii-nr
wjt], au ,f ()Ur correspondents views. We think that the
writer in the lticieu- shows equally as much vigor of thought
;|S ()Ur correspondent. — Eos. |
Asti-:kisk.
takes evident satisfaction in painting to them as a people where benevolent institutions exist. The Tu• cine forgets that if it were not for the pious Christian monks of Palestine and
^
_ ._
Htmver.situ %\m%.
Syria that it would be next to impossible for the traveler to
-No more Eu.vs this year.
go though those countries and find a hand that would md sooner rob and murder him than help him. As to the Paio-es
_Th(; Senior whose name is not '' N-e/r//,'' wants to know why Dr. wn>()n di(1 not writl. ;l sm:llj metaphysics/^/- buys.
we know nothin°g; but think that if the'ir benevolent itistitu-
tions compared with those of theChrist.au we should have
heard more of them. The Rt rice must bring forward better
,,
,
Ar
,
,
,,
,
examples than the Ale.haniinedaiis te> preive that there are other
..
.,
..
religions wdiich foster more than the Christian, or even as much,
benevolence, charity, and all those virtues which distinguish
the civilization of the Christian nations from that of all other
,„,
— (,)uerv: — \\ hy
,
does
the
freshman ,know
al.,l
,
about
,
the
.
vineyards
arouild Ithacav Ans-]Jeea,.se he is a Whitman.
— The prios for the successful eontedants in the Inter-cnllefriate ex-
..
animations
are
-Soil"
,f. or
m-st
and,
.
soiii
,.
for
second.
.,JL'en~Vn,L 1Jo-vc'>en has
llllile umveI1 for the l,ast few lhi^; he is
now feeling better and is as busy as ever with his Avriting.
nations.
—— T^h'ie next Convention of the Rowing Association ww ill be held in
Anel finally the Rt,d,,i;\n concludim-', calls attention to ^ew York on January 4th. lsTti, the same day that the rhetorical con-
"
, ••
,
.,,,..'.,.
..
,
test comes off.
the omission or casual oversight m the stipulations which
u"precl,udtes
.i
those
con.trolnl-ing
t.i,n-
,
endowment
f.. und,
to
,
employ
,
A— Junior, hearing that the members of the French clas- were to
, ,.
any oth.er,th,an,C.hri.stian
'.' .
ministers, thereby
o lj(i examined on their
excluding the ex- written examination
pronunciation, wanted
to know if
it would be a
p1 onents
of
all
other
religious ■
or&ganizations."
We do not
think there was an -omission or casual oversight" iu this
matter. We do not believe that the authorities and friends
—1m,fie
Pu,hi-l,-id, or
.
(
„hess
C. „lub,
are
at
present cmraimd in a
game with
the Harvard Chess Club by postal card. For some .-,,,>„„ the game
with Yale has been postponed indefinitely.
of
Cornell Universitv '
have
become so liberal
that
thev
•
p' lace
,(
hnstiainty
ou
a
par wi. th,
other
,.
.
religions
.-.s the
R> idea-
seems
to have done. They acknowledge the superiority of Chris-
-f-vi,isi,
-
capt. ain— - iI
ihave
got
O
o
d, own
,
and
..
drill
iho-e
Freshmen this afternt,,,,,."
Seeond captain tcoiw.lingly,- "
er mind, we'll go to Spain in -,\ ft tr min, it, .-.-."
d-n Xev-
tianitv over other religions and for that reason they see fit to " -
.
employ only representatives of Christ .anity. Probably they would be willing to call a Jew a Mohammedan, a Pa.sec, a
Hindoo, etc., but from the mere fact that none of these relig-
—
.,
a .minor,
,loo,k.ing
over
a
strap
book,
.
in a friend's room
came across
a notice , hat had been captured Irom the bulletin board announcing Dr. Bridgeman's sermons, i, mark. -.1, " lie hum have been here last year,
wasn't hey"
ions can furnish as able, as intelligent, as soul inspiring men,
as Christianity. Ami this one fact is sufficient to prove to
any person whose mind is not warped double by the "semi,-
.•e
titio
,.
conception ot
,t,he
.
,,
universe,"
wh, o scout
at
E.
,
faith
without
--Mr. IE 1. .Moore has Uen< -i-ously oll'ered to uive the University
n',;W ||'SMII1S in Indian club .-.wing-in-- once a week during the coming
win,,'r- Mr- 'M(,l,,v is :m :,,i,'l" »' die art, and the ••six" will gain a
great
deal
both
in
i henry '
and
l' uaeiiee
knowing what reason is, who have just enough of Mill and
Spencer 0, make Ihem most pit iable represent :iii\ ,, ,,( th,. so-
called "advanced thought "of
modern times '
we s-, v
I bis one
■
,
factt
■
is
■
M
sumeierit
O
prove th, e
superiority of
Christianity over
other religions.
We know what the /^o,,, wants, o sav and u ha, ,, , nu,„,s
w,hen it savs:
,•,' L, et us nut mak, e th.
ininon m"oissit.oamke ooif cioonn
— I'i'of. in Ast ronomv — " Mr .( it yon have studied Anal\ lies, please
lakt' "''* lm,l,|,'m" ^lr r ■■--•' I have not had \nal_vi.cs. Proles-or,
^'"" "* '
^^ "' ''""vale. , ihree hundred hours laboratory
l.raciice, | -ness 1 can ,1,, the problem."
-Idol. Corson will give a reading in the botanical lecture room in
*"{?_ / I1Si,,;,r,,i,-\'"""-" .""
'^"^ ' ■""•'"«■"'■"* "« -<>. The reading
will be principally Irom Tennyson. No one should miss , Hemce of
IiM,,,.u,,i,n, o
,tihe
Io,rof.-essor
rend, er
■
h, is
■l■ avonte
auth, t.r.
Dec. 3, 1875.
THE CORNELL ERA.
iff.
— The students seem to appreciate lhe efforts which the gymnasium al the Academy of Music on the night of the oratorical contest, Jan
directors have made to render the apparatus serviceable antl the build uary -4th, 1ST,;.
ing comfortable. An unusually large number are taking regular prac
tice antl the prospects are that Ihe number will increase next term.
--An attractive course of lectures and musical entertainments has
been arranged for tthaca ll.is winler, called the " Centennnial Course,'
77 mourns the loss of 1. P. Bishop, who on the -J4t.il ult., led to the hymenial altar Miss J. w. Allen, of New Berlin, NE Y. The "coed."
proclivities of the late Mr. Bishop were well known, bul his chum fondly hoped that lie would not commit nialr'nnony until after gradua tion. We hope he has gone to a better world. 1,',,/ni, scat in pace.
as follows: Wallace Bruce, Dec l?th, subject, " Landmarks of Scott ;" Mis. Ann Eliza Young, Jan. \2, subject, " Mormondom;" the Barnabee concert company in January or February; the Mendelssohn Quintette (Jul., Feb VI; Hichings Bernard, comic opera, (fourteen performers) in February; Miss Minnie Sway/.e, Feb. or March. Course tickets for sale at Finch A: Apgar's, Saturday, Dec. 11. Price SJ. En for single tickets;
— The singing classes will meet as usual next Thursday afternoon and evening in Curtis Hall. The attendance yesterday for some reason
two or more, .VeEOO each. ticket for course, Sgim.
Ib-served seals, -J.", cents extra, or reserved seat
was smaller than usual, but it is hoped that all persons interested will be on hand next week. The beginners especially should not lose a sin gle lesson, for their success :is singers depends altogether on how thev
start at first.
— Si km-;. — Astronomical recitation room. Prof. — " Well, can any one explain why there are no tides in Lake .Michigan?" Silence prevails for some time when an experienced Junior peals forth with " There are tides there, Profe — or, f have seen them." Prof. — "Are you quite sure
— Now lhat we have the beautiful clock and the elegant organ, il is rumored that either Mr. Sage or Mr. McGraw, or some other benefactor,
they were tides that you sawe" .inn. — " Yes sir, 1 feel quite sure they
were tides."
Prof,
"
(inquiringly) —
Xow
Mr.
are
,
you also
quite
is about to present us with sonic lovely statues for the University sure that you were in such a condition that you could intelligently de
grounds. In the meanwhile, on every windy day, the University Li cide wd.et her you saw tides or something else?" The Junior's answer brary is so cold that it is necessary to close its door and exclude alike is lost in the "din." Later. Prof. — " Well, you all look very intelli
prote«or and siudent. Won't some of our benefactors lay in a copy of Jeremy Bentluun's works and read theme
gent this morning; Mr. K
, will you tell mc what is the cause of the
difference in the length of days?" K
"On account of the inclina
,
— The Struggle maitlen has left, and the boys are disconsolate; she
had cast her affections upon "the Boss" and the Freshman, confessing
to a confidential Iriend that "she knew not which of the twain she
loved the best, and fearing to see their fond hope blasted antl iheir be
'
coming blighted
beings',"
she has
packed her
trunk
like a good girl
and silently stolen away; whereupon some one has perpetrated the fol
lowing: — Why is the Struggle maiden like a plane geometrical figure?
Ai.s Because she is a Polly gone.
— We clip the following from the World for Thursday: " Mi-Oo sephine Thomas, of Cornell, was the next who appeared before the ex aminers. They arose deferentially to receive her, and Dr. Chambers kindly asked if she would rentier, inclusively, the lines from !(.">< I to !l."iii of the Oedipus, in toues as ge.il ly entreating a* he woulel employ in ask iug for a cup of tea. Miss Thomas rendered fluently and answered in telligently, antl when she hael finished the examiners rose again to their
feet and boweel her out of the room"
tion of the sun to the ecliptic.'' Prof. — "Oh, Mr. K it hard, and it is a bad thing to have."
, you have got
— About three years ago the executive committee of the University passed resolutions to the effect that during the second term of the Sen ior year, each Senior would be required to pursue a course of military instruction occupying two hours per week. Hitherto the instruction has consisted of ph\ sieal exercise Mich as bayonet exercise anel sword practice. The same requirement Avill be in force next term, viz., that Seniors must either take two hours per week of "military tactics," or
a substitute for it; however, the course of instruction will be varied
hereafter, and .Major Yan Ness will deliver twa, lectures a week giving in detail the instruction necessary for organizing, and for the general man agement of a company or battalion The lectures will undoubtedly be very interesting and instructive, and we hope that the majority of the Seniors will take them in preference to an extra two hours in some oth
er department.
— On Wednesday and Thursday many of the recitation rooms were
—The Trustees of the University have been sev.etl with tie- centen not sufficiently warmed; room T especially was so cold that students
nial ardor. They have voted to erect lamp posts along the University who remained there for an hour's lecture were really endangering their
roads— when the University celebrates its centennial. In preparation h.ealt h. We heard a great many students remark that if the executive
for that interesting event, ihey will meanwhile permit all professors antl committee were compelled to sit there they would soon have steps
students who are obliged to tread those gloomy ways by night, to sup taken for warming lhe room properly. By the way we nol ice that the
ply themselves with lanterns and revolvers. Ii is gratilying to know, however, that the d'rustees profess themselves willing, in case of acci
Faculty room which is used by lhe Faculty once a week, anel is less ex posed than room T that is used every day at least tAvo hours, is supplied
dent, to pay the clergyman's fees and furnish the coffin.
with double windows and a good stove so that the room can be kept
— NE A. Kmdolph, a member of the physiology class, has given the Anatomical Laboratory the following standard works on micro scopy: IIoiC to Wtteh irilh the Mn-io.s,;,/,, (Brail), The .)fi,-,;,sc,,/„ and Mi eroscoyie '/',ehnology(V\cy), and The N, ,-,-,, say, iCarpenteri. Along wilh these he abo gave several copies of the Mu-i os,-,,j,ie dournu'. Dr. Wilder, who never fails to appreciate even the smallest aid given to this depart ment, regards liie-se books as a very nice adelition to those which are- alreaely there; and we imagine we beard him repeat a text with something
in it about likeirise.
comfortable. Does this look like equality? We don't blame the Fac ultv tor providing for themselves a well furnished and comfortable room, but we do blame them for allowing, or rather obliging students to sjt in a mom when by so doing they endanger their health and per haps their lives
— Professor Shackford requires an essay to be written on one of the four topics in each of the three divisions here given. These are to be handed in as the examination in Comparative Literature.
i.
1 — The Laws of Epic antl Tragic Poetry as laid down by Aristotle
]— Eleven colleges were represented in the Inter-collegiate cxamina- in his " Poetics."
inations last Wednesday, held at the University of the city of New-
2— The " Poetic Art" of Horace.
York. In all there were nineteen competitors, eleven in Mathematics
:i — Boileau's Art of Poetry.
and eight in Creek. There were sixteen printed epiestions in Anylitics, the first ten of which were to be answered in three morning hours, and
the remaining six within three afternoon hours. The examinations in Greek were both oral and written, four hours being allowed for the lat
ter. The announcement of the successful competitors will take place
4 — Pope's Essay on Criticism.
u.
1— Matt lie w Arnold's Theory of Literary Criticism. ■J — Sainle Beuve's Essay on what constitutes a great or his Pantheon of great Poets,
Classic Writer,
lib"
THE CORNELL ERA
Due 3, 1875.
;?_Taine's Criticism of Paradise Lost,
4_(;iadstone's estimate of Homer and Virgil
in.
1— Tennyson's Idyls of the King as an Epic.
j_The Ancient a'nd .Modern Fable as illustrated by .Esop and La
Fontaine. Ij-Oharacterislics of Hebrew, Hindoo, Persian, and Indian Poelry.
4 — Different Theories of Epic Poetry.
Time rolb
and in its res ist lei
-ourse, brings changes sad and
drear, and sometimes good and desirable withal. Such was ihe case
wheu Yirgil eclipsed his former efforts with lhe Aeneid, and when the Iliad supplanted the strangling line- of Homer. A similar instance now gladdens the hearts of the dwellers on the hill; for their poet will soon render the Struggle immortal, and clearly demonstrate that his met a
morphosis from Sophomore to Junior Jim. is complete. While look ing over his MSS , prominent among which were " Apostrophe to the Tunnel," and "Ode to Unknown Ladies of the Gorge Walk," a friend
came upon a poem in six cantos, dedicated lo the Struggle. He had
copied but eight lints when the poet entered, antl though reluctant, he
quickly desisted. The part copied is as follows:—
To-night the muses bid me sing
The Struggle and its glory,
The memories that round it cling,
The place it has in story;
For many years had come and gone
And not a bard has praised it;
While its stewards with skillful art
instantcr. 1st Capt. produces a bottle and fills it before the eyes of 2d
ditto, avIio retires to his room to compose a little presentation-speech.
Meanwhile 1st Capt. slyly substitutes a bo, Lie of cider, well salted down,
in place of the original one, but acts so mysteriously when ^d Capt.
comes after it that the latter smells "a mice" and refuses to take it. He
goes empty-handed to his supper, and after a slight (ahem) repast, tells the whole story, in the fullness of his heart, to his table companions.
Thev utter little feminine: shrieks of delight, antl command him to go
forth immediately anel return with some t idei , imposing the severe pen
alty of l heir displeasure if he does not obey. He says he will do so if ^^ wj]] fh,.)ik .( fjn t|)(, 0lllsK](. sU.ps, which they promise to do. He
hastens ,o his quarters, but finds ihat all the cider has been hidden from
him. lie storms, he raves, but all to no purpose, until at last he finds
about a pint in a huge pitcher. Vowing vengeance on his persecutors. he decants it inlo a smaller pilchcr anil hastens to keep his appoint
ment with the expectant damsels, composing hi-* disturbed countenance
and wondering if tbe eider will go around. He looks at his little pitch
er and sighs— but that does not increase its size. At last he reaches the
huge caravansary and summons his tormentors to the. door; they ap
pear quickly and the cider disappears more so. Our hero mournfully tears himself away and when he reaches his home finds a melancholy
satisfaction
in
claiming
the
"
"
quarter
from Nt Capt.
To his rage he-
found his hall once more bountifully supplied with Free Hollow wine,
and he Avent and meditated on the vanity of all earthly things, includ
ing Grecian noses and dimpled chins.
personals.
To wond'rous fame have raised it — (Snu'ooiaos. )
A favorable reception for the volume is predicted when it makes its debut in the literary world, which will probably be early in the spring
"
"Copk
is teaching a
high
school
at
Indianapolis.
Cn ask, 70, has returned lo the law school at Ann Arbor.
Sr.vMi.vitD, do, is studying medicine in San Francisco, Cal.
— The sixth annual convention of the Rowing Association of Amer ican Colleges was held in the parlor of the Massasoit House, Spring field, Mass., Dec. 1st. Delegates from fourteen colleges were present. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Oliver
Stkvkns, 'To, is on lhe Indianapolis Sen/mel: he has a family to
share his fortunes Lawton, Leland, and Standard have formed a Cornell Alumni asso
ciation in San Francisco.
Stevens, of Bowdoin; Vice-President. B. E. "Warner, of Trinity; Secre tary, Y\E W. Caldwell, of Hamilton; Treasurer, J. H. Hayne, of Will
V vxstonk, 'Til, has gone home; he was unable to walk any, having
been unwell tor several weeks.
iams. It was resolved to row the next race in heats, if the course on
which the regatta will take place is not wide enough for the fourteen crews to row abreast. A motion to have coxswains in the next regatta vvas lost by a vote of lb to 4. This will be a source of disappointment lo the Yale crew, as it is understood that they have been training a cox
Skki.kv, 'di, was calWl home on Wednesday" to attend the funeral of a friend; lie will not return until next term.
Enmgn will remain at Springfield to represent < 'ornell in the athletic sports convention which will be held on Saturday.
swain all the fall, thinking that he would be needed next summer. The
Bo.vud.vian, 'TC, went home on Tuesday, having been quite unwell
Kegatta Committee for is;, i will consist of Bees, 74, of Columbia, Eus for nearly two weeks and with no signs ot immediate recovery.
tis, '7i>, of Wesleyan, and McCall, of Daiimo.ith. Hon. Tom. Hughes, of England, was chosen as umpire of the next regatta, and Mr. Ohilty, of the London Rowing Club, as his alternate. The convention no, be
ing able to agree on Hue place of holding the next regatta, decidetl that
sealed proposals be- received by the Regatta Committee from the Springfield, New London and Saratoga Rowing Associations. The committee are to make all possible investigations and report at the next convention which will he held al the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Xew York City, on the 4th of January nexi Amotion was unanimously carried inviting the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, and of Trinity, al Dublin, lo row a race with the winning crew during next Summer, the race to be rowed in six-oared shells without coxswains, on the .ourse
selected for the next regatta. The time for the next race was fixed as
July 111th, ls7,i. . A Her deciding thai each college be required to send only one delegate to the special meeting in .New York, the convent ion
Mil. .1 T. Di'Ncan, '7v.\ residing at Godcrich, Ontario, has met with
a sad loss in the death of his mother, one of the noblest and best of
women.
Si v.moi n, '7C, is not practicing law in N inula, N. Y., but is about to move his office to P.ulValo. While on his hist trip to Europe he was the attorney for the H. NE A: Pa. R. B Co.
Stkvkno 77, who is attending the Rochester University, called on his Cornell friends last Wednesday. lie was on his way home, beiug
obliged to leave his studies for a short time on account of ill health.
b. B. Boor, '7li, was the hero of an elopement at Port Byron, last Sunda\ evening. Miss Ida Lege is ihe heroine. The happy pair has gone lo Goshen, Ind., where Be •I has been teaching for more than a
year.
adjourned.
(General (ToUuk 1Uu\$.
—This is lhe wa.V it happened FilO'aplaill bets second Captain
'.'•"i cents that he is afraid to take over to the lair inmaies of a certain re
uowued structure where lie •• hashes," a bottle of cider, of which genial beverage there has been an ample sulliciency on the hill lately. See
-- It is intended to send Hobart College lo lhe Centennial Exhibition
as a specimen of an American university.
bad for th e ], llipose.
A special car will be char-
-Princeton is thelalest "strictly religious" college in which a most
that his heait is as invineihle as his arno a„d thai he will lake lha, be,
students.
ion of the
Educational orthodoxy is nothing if not dis, apPi"maiv
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Grftitors for 1875-1},
J. W. Stihdevaxt, '7f publishing a costly paper,and the inconveniences of having the resources upon Avhich we de pend longer withheld.
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tions.
— It is known te. most scholars that Layard, in making ex cavations in the mines of the palace of Seiimcharit on the site
ing of the muddles of the regatta of '74. Some of the evils of the Powing Association, which Yale and Harvard have pointed out, other colleges in common with them recognize, anel desire to see removed. The idea which gives interest to
any contest is that of victory. In the future there will be
two annual Powing Paces of interest; one betAveen the col leges of the Powing Association, which will be for the cham pionship of American colleges, and one between Yale and Harvard, for the championship of—Yale and Harvard.
Whether these colleges Avithdrew because they thought thev could not stand their ground Avith the other colleges or
not, is not our present purpose to argue. The metropolitan journals have shown that there is not a little interest upon this subject. The thought that must come te> the friends of Yah' and Harvard is that these colleges must always take a second place in the college boating of this country; and the other colleges of the boating association, of course, are sorry to lose the prestige- which such renowned institutions as Yale and Harvard give to their annual races.
of the ancient Xinevah, found the remains of a library com posed of small terra cotta tablets written in t lie arrow-headed
character of that age. The tablets are now very much brok
en and mutilated, and seem to defy all efforts at reconstruc tion. Plarelluison, Ilinck, and (onrge Smith attempted their restoration anel translation. Enough was done to sharpen cu riosity aud strengthen hope. Important scraps t»f history
-The " < h'dine degli Stadi della Pegia Universita di Bo
"
logna
for the past
academic year
is a
quarto
of
fifty-three
pages. The Italian University of Bologna claims to be the
oldest of the great sche.ols of the world and even attempts to
trace its history back to the days of the Peunan Empire. In
the Middle Ages it was among the nost famous centers of
OS
THE CORNELL ERA.
Jan. 14, 1876.
scholarship and it still retains something of its old renown Accordiio to the annual just mentioned it is divided into four
faculties—that of Letters' antl Philosophy, that of Jurispru-
dence, that of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
and that of .Medicine and Surgery. The University possesses
that would base the value of the Course Book upon the incen-
five given by it to scholarship, would be the same in kind as that in favor of the marking system proper. Yet it cannot be denied that the Course. Book is an inceniive to harder study, whether as a whole such an incentive be thought desirable or
about seventy-live chairs. The lectures are all given between not,
'eightthe hours of
and four; they begin on the Lath of No-
After one leaves college his Course Book may serve him
vember and continue until the 1st of July. Entrance oami- to good purpose as showing what he has done. Especially
nations are held from the 1st to the ir.tli of November and the must it be valuable to that class who eh. not come to college final examinations for the year occupy the whole month of ' to take a full course, but to remain, perhaps, only for a single
July. The courses extend over four years, with the exception year to pursue some special study.
of the medical, which embraces six years; the mathematical
The amount of extra work caused the Faculty must be
and civil engineering course, Avhich
is live years;
'
and the phar- something,
but it is evident that in
regard to some thingscon-
maceutical and notarial courses, which are each three years in nected with the plan, labor and vexation is spared them.
leno-th. Each faculty has its Jf, side or Dean; the Pector of i Under the present system there will probably be fewer disap-
the University for the year 1*74-5 was Giovanni Capellini, pointments in future Senior classes and less vexation of spirit
jthe Professor of Ecology. The number of students was 4*1 in hunting up unrecorded claims.
and of uditori (persons admitted to the lectures Avithout ma
triculation) 7o— a total of 5E>4. These were divided among the faculties as follows:— Philosophy, L'O; Jurisprudence, 14.~>;
Site tfnenantment.
Sciences, 107; and Medicine, 17:1. The officers of the Univer sity md belonging to the faculties are a secretary, a treasurer ,
The sun had brightened, one December day,
And all the Avinds of Avinter fled the land.
and four clerks; four beadles or pmcte>rs; a porter, a keeper and two servants. A large number of officials, however, are employed in the library, museums and other scientific estab
lishments.
Then o'er a quiet beach of sunny sand, Along the Ioav lake shore I took my way Where light was languid as the skies of May,
Reading a poet's volume held in hand.
Across the silent lake from strand lo strand
— In regard to his success in examinations for several years it has been" possible for the student usually to get only just three precious bits of information. The Do< too well known "passed, sir," or "didn't pass, sir,'" or " passed very Avell, sir," constituted these. In those by-gone days an over curious or under scrupulous student die! sometimes steal a glimj.se of the fate-telling mark from the IJu.tok's book, or some professor,
A cloud upon the waveless waters lay, Where, as my eyes I lifted from the book, Strange imageries were shapen in the air, Floating from earth, as dreamland's fancies roll; And all the misty morning landscape took Weird loveliness— for Shelley's Avords were there, Breathing the charm of his own beauteous soul!
H. T.
'SO.
when hunted down too fiercely, revealed the result; but the
rule has been that students1 eyes must not penetrate the holy
of holies. But now the new Course Book reveals nearly the whole secret ! There are now just two recurring periods of
She Mnter-tfoUeiiiate Xiterant Contest.
On Tuesday evening, January 4th, there gathered in the Academy of Music a brilliant audience to listen to the second
anxiety in the student's life. The first is to see what is on his oratorical contest of the Inter-Collegiate Literary Association.
examination paper when he enters the examination room, and The' large stage was occupied by literary and scholastic nota-
the second, Avhat is on his Course Book when the elie is once bles, among whom were Profs. Boyesen and Hewett. Scat-
cast. Just at this time many a Junior, Sophomore and Fresh- | tered about in the audience Avas a goodly number of the ad
man are concerned with the latter.
hermits of the Peel and the White, who had conic down to see
The Course Book seems to be received with general favor by the students. Indeed, Ave have not heard tin objection, of any weight at all, against it. The greatest advantage seems to be the business like character given to the student's work
by its use, anel the eletiniteiiessthat if gives to his standing ami
their chosen orator bear away the laurel, and to applaud whatever else might reflect honor on their University. The
judges in oratory, who occupied orchestra chairs, were the
same as last vear, Messrs. Win. Cullen Bryant, Ceorge Wil
liam Curtis, and WhitehiAV l\eid.
prospects. When one pays money he gets a receipt; a busi
Promptly at eight o'clock Dr. S. Grenaeus Prime, who
ness man .-an tell by looking at his accounts just what his re presided, are.se and after a few general remarks, introduced
jsources aud liabilities are; in the same manner the Course the lirst speaker of the evening. Were it possible I would
Book is the student's ledger. The marking system, or keep- , mention and criticise each of the speakers, but as there were
ing account of the student's daily exercises, h;,s always been j eleven representative's from as many colleges it would be idle
opposed by the Faculty at Cornell. It is believed t hat good to at tempt to give, within the space to which this article is
results have thus come. The trinicstcial marking of the necessarily limited, anything like an accurate deseriptitm of Course Book should not be confounded wilh the daily marking the style' and delivery of each. The following is a list of the
appeareefupousystem practiced in many colleges. Any argument, however, , speakers given in the order that they
the stage:
Jan. 14, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
DO
"The Identity of Different and Distant Eras," Clearfield Park, Lafayette.
"Thiers," Harry K. Davis, Princeton "The Deformity of Uniformity," .1. Howard Corvvin, Wil
liams.
"Xapoleon and Goethe at Erfurt," D. J. Tompkins, Cor
nell.
"Two Scenes in a Life," W. II. Taylor, Kutgers. "The Heroes ofthe Putli," Baldwin C Cooke, loiiversitv
of the City of Xew York.
"The Heroic Element in Modern Life," Julien M. Elliot,
Hamilton.
"William the Silent," J. Duane 1 'helps, Syracuse Univer sity.
"Hunger," Prank M. Bristol, North Western Pnivorsity. "Xational Manhood," Louis Werner, College of the City
of Xew York.
"The Poet's Mission," A. J. Myers, Jr., St. Johns.
The speaking continued until about eleven o'clock. The au
composition there was not some merit. They have decreed the first prize to Julien M. Kllioft of Hamilton College, the second to D. J. Tompkins of Cornell Pniversity.
The two successful competitors were borne off on the
shoulders of their friends amid hmd cheers and huzzas. While
the judges iu oratory were deliberating, the announcements of the other prizes were made. Seven colleges were represented in essays, Cornell, Williams, Princeton, College of the City of \evv York, Hamilton, North Western University, University of the City of Xew York. The judges of essays were Thos.
Wentworth Higginson, Pichard Orant White, and James T.
fields. Col. Higginson reported for the committee; he said: A prize of omio for the best essay on the subject, "Dickens and Thackeray Compared," has been awarded to the author
of the essay signed "York." He then took up the sealed en
velope from the table, opened it, anel announced that " York"
Avas Prank E. Heath of Cornell University. Cornell was ap plauded to the echo. Robert James Kent, of Williams, receiveel honorary mention.
dience was epiite attentive throughout the long three hours,
The prize of -SL'oo for the best essay on the subject, "Ad
showing little, if any weariness, and following the last "sin vantages and Disadvantages of Universal Suffrage," was equal gle skuller's " flights into the oratorical empyrean as closely ly divided betAveen Nelson S. Spencer, of the College of the
as it diel the footsteps of the first into the remotest eras of an City of Xew York, and IE A. Hills of the Xorth Western
tiquity. The orators all did fairly, none lacking in self -posses University.
sion, and some appearing quite at ease on the platform. All
The special prize of -Sfoo offered by Mr. J. A. Gregory, of
were applaudeel as they made their entra ices and their Marblehead, Mass., for the best essay on "Arbitration as a
exits, some were interrupted by applause Avhile speaking; Substitute for War," was awarded to Wilbur Larremore of
but as a general thing the hearers displayed no desire to re the College of the City of Xew York.
spond to the appeals of callow orators. Of two <>f the repre
Eleven college's were represented in the mathematical ex
sentatives it becomes necessary to speak more particularly, be amination: Princeton, Williams, Cornell, University of the
cause to them were awarded the prizes: Julien 31. Elliott, a City of Xew Y'ork, Hamilton, Lafayette, Syracuse University,
member of the Senior class at Hamilton, obtained the first College of the City of Xew York, Xorth Western University,
prize of *2("n. His subject, "The Heroic Element in Modern and St. Johns. The examination was held in Xew York on
Life," he treated Avith clearness anel force. His oration was the "first of December last. The examiners were Admiral C.
more complete and rouneleel than any of the others, and his II. Davis, Prof. Simon Xewcomb, anel Prof. Peter Michie.
ringing voice with its magnetic tones brought out every sen Their report suggests the possibility of improving text-books
tence to the best advantage. Mr. Elliott proved himself to of the higher mathematics and does md express the greatest
be of the stuff of Avhich orators are made, anel the announce satisfaction in the general character of the examination as the
ment by Mr. Bryant that the prize had been awarded to him folio Aving report shows;
met with the approval of all. To D. J. Tompkins, Cornell, Avas awarded the second prize
of §150. Of Mr. Tompkins' merits as an orator it is scarcely necessary to speak here. His oration on "Xapoleon and Ooethe at Erfurt," Avas delivered in his usual excellent style, and hael it been as well planned and Avritten as Elliott's it
The Committee deem it proper to make some remarks suggested by the general character of the answer given by the competitors. An ex amination of these answers make il painfully evident that the majority of the competitors studied the subject only as it was taught a century ago, and Avere entirely imaequainlcd with the modern improvements in the mode of presenting it. The questions wer.e purposely framed so as
to require a general grasp of the subject and a clear comprehension of
might have gaineel the first instead of the seconel place. His voice was in fine condition, his gestures well timed anel grace ful, lie created a good impression and was second to the Hamilton man only because the oration of the latter was su perior in composition to his.
Mr. Bryant, in giving the decision, said: Mr. President,
elementary principles, rather than a mere perfunctory knowledge of what Avas contained in the textbooks. It was, however, evident that the competitors were strongest in the latter class of knowledge, and had been more successful in remembering the processes and formulas of the text-books than in mastering the fundamental principles on which those processes depend. Although the first question was of the most elemenary character, not one answered it fully. Several knew that the angle
Ladies and gentlemen : The committee constituting the judges x was that made by the line with the axis of X, but none gave the cri
of oratory have consulted together, and have' made their awards, and I am coniinissioiieel to make the- announcement. They have been very much pleased with the exercises in ora tory from beginning to end, and there is not one of the per
terion for determining which of the several angles was to be taken, and how they were to be reckoned. Another question not answered by any of the competitors was that of the paraboloid of revolution; yet, to one who knew how to Avrite elown the distance of a point from a given plane, this question was of the simplest character, since it was only
|sons who have appeared on this occasion in whose oration or necessary to express the condition that each point of the surface should
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Jon. 14, 1876.
be eouallv distant from the "iyen foes and from the directrix plane, the requisite stimulus applied in the way of prizes, scholarships, or
Thisresult'isstron-lvsie^estiveof l he possibility of improving our | special courses of instruction, our colleges would produce such Grte-
text-books of the higher mathematics generally. While our elemenlary cians as would be a credit to any country.
works on al-ebra ^eonie.ry and trigonometry, those in fact in which ,
Afier a careful consideration of the results o, the competition the
ire consideredQuantities
only a- constants, are verv good, wc find that Committee unanimously award the first prize to Mi.ss Julia J. Thomas
branch...;when we take those
in which quantities are considered as va- of Cornell University, and the second to Henry Yegf.te of Rutgers Col-
riable or indeterminate, the text-books most widely in use are quite im- Ice. The examiners also find such general excellence in the papers
perfect One deficiency consists in a lack of logical clearness and vi.g- , submitted by E. II. Crosby of fhe I niversity ot the City of Xew York
jor of explanation and of fulness of explanation; and another, in the ab- -one of those who .suffered by the accident before referred to-that
sence of what we may call the modern improvements in the mode of ! they regard him as deserving of honorary mention in this report.
presenting and treating these subjects. Every opportunity to call the
We conclude by calling atleni.on to the fact that the only lady
attention of educators to these imperfections in the instrumentalities of among the eight competitors succeeded in carrvnig off the first prize-
our mathematical instruction should, we think, be taken advantage of- | a gratifying proof that the recent efforts to elevate the standard of fea view which must be an excuse for supplementing our award by these male education have not been without fruit. It is also proper to add
remarks. Very respectfully, your obedient servants,
i that although Miss Thomas passed lhe best examination, yet, owing to
Simon Xkavcomu,
a change of her relations, it is Mrs. Julia J. Irvine that receives the
C. II. Davis,
prize.
Tvi.nox WE Chambers,
Washington, Dec. 14, 1873.
Peter S. Michie,
f o.oon T. fn.wis,
_
„
To E. H. Palmer, e,f
..
Cornell,
was
.,
unanimously
awardt edn
William K. Dimmock.
the first prize of -S30O; the second, of om>0, to O. Ik Ilalsteael,
This ended the exercises of the second annual contest of
suc-e^isof Princeton; honorable mention was made of Thomas < 'raig, the Inter-( E.llegiate Literary Association. Its
grat-
of Lafayette
' ifying to those who take a lively interest in broadening the
Eight college's were represented in Creek: Cornell, Wil- culture of our American colleges; for it stimulates the best
liams,Vniversity of the City of Xew York, Syracuse Univer- among our undergraduates t<> a research and study far more
sity, Kutgcrs, St". Johns, North Western University, and Col- thorough than that usually developed within the narrower
lege of the City of Xew York. The examiners in this subject limits of a single institution. It increases the friendship be-
'
were Dr. T. AV. Chambers, Dr. Wm. R. Dimmock, and Chad- tween
the
various
colleges,
and
works
beneficial
results in
ton T. Lewis; the following is their report:
many ways.
The Committee appointed to adjudge the prizes for proficiency in
We> of Cornell, have special reasons for congratulating our-
thestudy of the Greek language respectfully report as follows: At an selves. Each of our four representatives won a prize. Of
early period of the year the "Oedipus Rex" of Sophocles Avas an- the five regular first prizes, our representatives won three.
subjectnounccd as the theme of examination, and due notice was given of the There was no
included in the contest that we were not
other matters included in the trial. On the 1st day of December last,
eight competitors appeared, representing the following institutions:
UmversityTT
.
City ork,of(
.,
the
r( ,.l(ty
ot«.
XAT ew
,l-ork, ,
,C, ol,,lege
*
ot
t.,lie
,,-,
oti
^vew
^l
,
represented,
-■
■
m,
and-,
•
in
Av, h• ic,h we dvid-,
imt,
.
win a prize,
rlph. e
..
.
sweelping° victory Avith the oar at Saratog-^a in last duly.' is supi -
St. Johns College, F irdham; Rutgers College, Williams College, Cor- ' plemented by this victory of culture in January. Thus step
nell University, North Western Cniversity, Syracuse University. The by step our University advances toward the high position she
competitors Avere subjected one by one to an oral examination, Avhich,
however, constituted but a small portion of the tests that were applied.
A series of printed questions was furnished to each student, and he was
required.
,
,to
prepare
wri.t,,ten
answers
wi.,t,hout.
any
ott1her ai.d,,t,han
.
such
as
his memory supplied. These questions were prepared with the view
must eventually occupy if AVe\ as students, are true to our-
But'selvL.s and tQ p^..
now we wish to take our honors mod-
,
, T,
„.
estlv, not vaiintinglv.
In
the
course
of
time
pi eopi le
may
.
come
to know th;lt Coniell University is not of the monohippie or-
of making a reasonable but by no means severe demand upon the at- I der, and that it does not bear so striking a resemblance to the
tainments of the contestants, since, this being the first examination of succulent mushroom.
XlMlNio
the kind, it was not thought, best to begin on too high a scale. The pa-
pers required the writers to show their knowledge of some of the nicer points of etymolo-v, of the Greek theater, of the history and mytholo-
(L WC (Ol'dtlCUt.
gy involved in the play, and of the principles of prosody. They fur- J
!ther contained selected passages of the play for literal and others for
WU 1hen
,
the
news
that
<-unK'll
had
covered
herself
with
glo-
jfree translation, an English sentence to be rendered into Creek, and al- r-Y 1'eaehed Ithaca the next morning after the Inter-Collegiate
eo short extracts from Plutarch, Hesiod, and Plato, presumed to b. — as Contest, ,,f course glad hearts found expression ill joyful fa-
they doubtless were— wholly monniiar to the students, who were to ces and warm congratulations. At twenty minutes before ten
translate them off hand as a test of their general acquaintance witli the
vocabulary ot the language.
1- ive hours were al.,lowed, ,lor th, e wntni"'"
requi• redi, buit b.y ain ,unlo.timate accid, ent one or two of Ihe students
!
oniva,tt lD„edllI ip„e.a.,lbe.d1 bl" u,.t1h,
,Lillc'
i
booming^
,.
ed
, ,,
cannon showed that
.
ttlhe the
gll adl news, firstl ruePnooirri
andiilat. er
bli-aida b1>eLe<-nU
.
were not
informed of
the limitation of
time, and hence
' <'onhl'"l('(^ failed to com-
According t,, the precedent formed last year, the
plete all the papers.
lormal ovation was left, to the citizens of the town. Money
The examination as a whole showed very failhful study of the " Oedipus" and Of all the matters directly connected with it, antl so far
the result is very encouraging. Put shortcomings in other respects lead
extraordinaryus tto ffea, r othat, othe
,
i-
prominence
■
given
to science
•
in
th, e
,
last
quarter of a century lias in some degree limited the lime allowed for
"the humanities," and especially for lhe study of Creek, lhe noblest
was liberally subscribed by the citizens to purchase l.res-
to'cuts for lhe victors and
meet other expenses The time
,,|"w"lowlnll
'.':"-V'
founderevening thethe„w..a, s,, i,
,
•
ot■• . ,
,,
,,
,
s day '
t"h"e
Il"1 1"h o01f,1J.1a1n1
•
.
"U ,,c'i"lv ,ll(' ''Xercises began, Library Hall was
ll"L'<1 '" lls "tniost capacity. Sonic could not find room in the
vehicle for thought known to man. The Committee feel assured Irom ball and turned away disappointed. F.nli veniii<>- music was
the ability displayed in this contest that were further time allowed aud j furnished by Dr. Howe's orchestra
Key Dr St dnY
Jan. 14, 1S76.
THE CORNELL ERA.
101
chosen President, and nine of the prominent citizens of Ithaca Vice-Presidents of the meeting. Of Avhat was said during these most interesting exercises which continued for more
than three hours we can give but an epitome. Dr. Stebbins, who showed admirable taste in conducting the meeting, gave direction to the occasion by his own genial manner and over flowing good humor. On taking the chair he said: Co sum mer when the glorious news readied Ithaca, I had the misfor
tune not to he present, but nevertheless I heard the tremors
of your shouting in the air, -ruo\ saw the gleams of your fire works although seven hundred miles awav. Ilovv appropriate
in unity. Stanton's Shakespeare was presented to Mr. Heath, the complete works of Daniel Webster to Mr. Tompkins, Goethe's complete works to Mr. Palmer, and Curtiiis' Greece
lo Mrs. Irvine, once Miss Thomas. Mr. Tompkins replied in behall of his associates in a few appropriate although not oyer niodesl words, saying that they entered the contest imbued with the idea that while they were getting, it was best to get all they eoiTld, that their laurels should grace none but their
Alma Mater and that when, late in life, some of us shall as
cend yonder slope with dim vision and unsteady step, these
laurels will still be green.
the day upon which avc now extend our enngra.tulat.ions to
the heroes in Cornell's last and greatest, victory! If it is per
mittee! the departed to know what transpires here in our
midst, how the Founder of our University must be gratified,
joyIioav his ceiuntenance' must shine with
at this scene. It
was settled last summer that Cornell's sons had sound bodies,
anel iioav this victory testifies that they have sound minds in
sound bodies. The greatness of the victory, he said, could be
Mrs. Irvine not being present, Prof. Pussd received the
present, for this lady in a very ailed ing speech. Prof. Russel said: I thank you from the bottom of my heart, having de voted a long service to the cause of womanhood, to her right to educate and elevate herself, for now being allowed to rep resent a won, an. One year ago when the ovation took place,
it was remarked that in the report of some future examination
we might find the words Miss someone, from Cornell, took
judged when it is remembered that there were eleven colleges the prize in, Arc. That prophecy has been fulfilled. A wo-
in the contest, and that such renowned scholars and men as man, continued he, has brought honor upon our college, and
Bryant, Curtis, Reid, Chambers, Dimmock, and XeAveom'b upon every one in it. He then spoke of what Miss Thom
were among the examiners and judges.
as had done to prove that women, as well as men, have ability.
The victors now took their place upon the stage, greeted Indole coining to Cornell she used the leisure hours she
by the Avarm applause of the audience. Mr. Tompkins then hael Irom the work of the com] losing desk, in improving her
delivered his prize oration Avhich was listeneelto with the closest mind. After graduating here last June, when requested to
attention. The oration will doubtless appear in .me of the represent our Cniversity at the examinations in Givok, she
■college publications, anel will speak for itself. Although Air. put off her marriage for six months, and devoted herself to
Tompkins has a good voice and is master of gesture, avc still severe studies to advance both woman's interests anel those of
think he lacks the magnetic power to kindle others, which is her chosen college. Prof. R. thought no girls' school could have
the greatest possession of the successful orator. Mr. Heath's given the culture that it is possible to acjuire at a co-ed
essay Avas read by Professor Cm-son in his usually entertain ucational institution like Cornell. He further continued, If
ing manner. The essay shows a large and accurate knowl a man wants a companion whose society he can enjoy, whose
edge of novelists and their works, and an unusual analytic counsel he can ask, he wants an educated woman. Anel final
power in treating of them, d'he production containeel not one ly, what is more than all, as is expressed by Mrs. Browning,
attempt at a striking <>r extraordinary sentence, but was love conies best to those of equal degree. Of course, these
marked throughout by perfect simplicity.
sentiments elid not escape the hisses of some opponents of co
In a letter to the chairman Mr. Heath spoke in this very education in the gallery.
modest manner: As the office of thanking the Association
President White, whom Dr. Stebbins termed a Leyden-
belongs to the orator of the Inter-Coilegiate, I shall only call Jar ready to discharge, was next called. His address was
attention to the fact that while all belongs alike to the I 'ni marked by his usual intense earnestness. He would take up a
versity, those who enter a competitive examination in Greek new line of thought. There was an undercurrent to all this.
and mathematics have a far more difficult duty than an essay It was a triumph of principles. First, the Cniversity is non-
ist who merely submits his essay to a ce.nimittee of judges. sectarian. One clause in its charter declares that the govern
An essay on mathematics ought to be reepiired of Mr. Parmer, ing body of the Cniversity shall never be composed exclusive
said the President, but like the Scotch lady who admired her ly of any body of religionists, or of any boely of non-religion
minister's discourses so much, and who, on being asked about ists.
With
the
vast
majority
< »
institutions which
go
them "wael nae hae the presumption to understand them;" by the name of colleges this is not the case. Harvard, The
so he, for a similar reason, would excuse Mr. Palmer. The University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia, were
point Avas admirable made. As for the maiden Thomas, con tinued the speaker, Ave should be glad to hear from her, but
she is not.
mentioned as noble exceptions. However good a religion may be, it should never be made the basis of the qualifications of a professor. To succeed in education, no college charter must
The prizes Avere presented by Rev. Dr. White Avho made shut out such men as Curtis, Agassi/, Tayb.r, and LoAvell, some well-timed remarks. He spoke, among other things, of men whose influence and help we have hael here. The next
the perfect harmony existing between ''the te.vvn and the gown," so exceptional in college history; behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together
principle which has its Aveight here, is that of concentration of resources for higher education, giving in this case very su perior advantages to our contestants, especially in the men
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THE CORNELL ERA.
. Jan. 14, 1876.
whose influence they have been under, and above all, in hav- Amherst 0, Princeton 10, Hamilton 11, Dartmouth 12, Union
ing the use of a librarv at least not excelled by more than two 13.
college libraries in the United Slates. We then spoke of the
The judges for the regatta were selected as follows: Geo.
choio' of studies. In the President's class in college, of the \ F. Roberts, Harvard, '71; Richard K. Cross, Princeton, '63;
one hundred and seven who pursued Greek and Latin, not Robert CE Cornell, Columbia, '74; E. M. Ilartwell, Amherst,
more than ten did so from choice. This could never lead to '73; Unfits Anderson, Cornell, '73.
hiodi scholarship.
Hamilton White, of Cornell, was chosen as one of the re-
&A11 could not win prizes in New York, but all who will, gatta ball committee. The effort to change the constitution,
jmay win prizes somewhere in life. Professors Shackford, allowing it to admit only those persons who were candidates
Flag-, and Oliver would have been called on but for the late- for the degree of B. A. or 11. S„-was crushed by the intima-
ness of the hour. Professor Potter was vigorously called for. tion that Cornell and Columbia would withdraw from the asso-
As the meeting was declared adjourned, he said, " Students ciation if it were done. The next convention will beheld at the
of Cornell! In the annals of history this nation has two great same place, Dec. 3d, '70.
battle fields; Saratoga and Yorktown. In the annals of Cor
nell we have two great victories; Saratoga and York, own.
(I'd ft? SDOIUlniCC.
Never allow your colors to be dishonored."
SCIENCE VS. CLASSICS.
H\\t ^rgatta (fam^ntioir.
Editors (orn ell Era :
Gentlemen: — Allow me, through the Ei:a, to correct
The adjourned meeting of the annual convention of the ROme misstatements in the leading editorials in the Cornell
Rowing Association of American Colleges was held at Fifth Ecriew for December. Time allows me to notice them only
Avenue Hotel, Jan. 4th. There seemed to be about as much briefly, and I think a numerical arrangement will not be un-
interest manifested on the occasion as there was at the eon- just to the writer, since, in doubtful cases, I shall incorporate
vention, especially on the part of outsiders. Quite a delega- the main statement. My answer is 1 : It is not "a fact" that
tion of citizens from New London, including the Mayor, was the former low standard "has given the University an unen-
there to lend its influence towards having the regatta at viable reputation abroad as being little more than an acade-
that place; but it did not succeed in its efforts. The my," and the writer can bring no proof of his " fact." If nee-
president of the association, who had so much difficulty in essary, I will engage to disprove it. After some "nod and
"themanaging the former meeting, was. absent, and vice-president gratuitous advice to the authorities in control over
Uni-
W arner, of Trinity, took the chair. J. N. Ostrom and A. M. versity, in the spirit of the benevolent man who recommended
Ensign were Cornell's delegates. The regatta committee, con- gentle exercise to a loaf-crew, we find the animus of the as
sisting of Lees, of Columbia, Eustis, of Wesleyan,and McCall, of Dartmouth, submitted their reports to the meeting, the
c]e, to which I reply, 2: That there is "doubt of its utility, and of the discipline which it gives the mind " when it is
former two being in favor of Saratoga and McCall of New claimed that Latin enables the mind "to eras,,
London. The advantages and disadvantages of the courses I higher than othenvise and with greater ea^se."
subjects far
The writer
were presented to the meeting in the two reports of the divid- ^ ,ni not prove this 8tatement. :i: «Th„,e who have gtudied
ed committee. The New London course presented several de-
cided disadvantages which were weighty and could not rea-
Latin and Modern Languages" do not « know that greater discipline can be gained in the same amount of time from Lat-
sonably be left out of account. It was affected by the tide; in than from the Modern Languages." Considering the wide
and, being navigable water could not be cleared long enough
effrontery* educatesto make a regatta practical, e. The buoying of the course,
difference of opinion on that sulked among
noted, the statement is cool
It
is
and ed-
par llel d,
behu the race, which vould not give the low oars time to
accustom themselves to the chang*e. The breadth of the
ssturecaamm AAvvromuiledt .n„ee'coe.ssiittatt e ttihe rowiinr ofa tl, .u ;.,vo,.,, l,
*
stupid to understand the truth, or too kmuish to tell it could
wriditee
that
«,p„i• o,tfessors are abi le to
•
point out
•
in their
classes,
r
.1
■
,:;.:• r t]fff^-r;which „„„,* dimini,h tl,, i,, , ,
t0
,,tr ff '"'""T'EThe hotel accomodations iin. utMy insnffi io
Im e
'
al'lavs Z Z^f f^ff """! '""Efort of the immense t.ro„,, „ hie,,
A„ •
fidisadvantages wonl... I,, done awav witi, l.v O,,.,,.,,,., „„ s , "
,
,'E' '"' < , '
"••*■ «■»» - «...u-...«f .^ .,»«. i,,
"' ''"'"'" ,,!,v0 ""^ "° WMOn 'M ^ ~ '""^
f la""'":'S"'s "' lm"'1' "'»re re»Jil>'
E f •'"'.toga eo»,,e, and many „ther adv:
Coo f '"""", 7 'T'On a furmal ballot hohm taken Ssrnt
,,
rf 7a '. I 7'" f "T1-la.o to hold the next
taI
E
ivorofXew London being .A, I ,s, , „ oE, 7Dartmouth. The ,«,, „ul] I
t„7 ,,nl ',. ffZ" °'.'-i"* Cand regniations a,
l' "^sitions resulted as follows- Harvard
V
on,
. Idn
»
.
""' ,""1,"l"ir ^!"'"S' ■•"M'1'U-..t 1l..tli..r...y " has made tho stalcment for
I, ""
•
"^^
"
«'"™K>''>." !.,« .1,,,. has
,u, hearing „„
the
"'
r
"•"' '" "
' Uti" "
« "'" l""l—0 ><>">- '- .ho
E ' M'"'","i'' '"""'*"• ,''"' """■""*'"'- '" »■•<■ .vaehe.l in studying
'" "'"" ™'™ '
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"
—;
.
pelent authority » .an
' '" ' '"" """" ''"' ""' I"""1"'.--11'".- "f ridienlons opinions .,f anv kind
Cornell' M,' 7- "-"',. ".'"EWilliams 4, -Wesle5yan
5>.
1-.U1
(<•-,
(Cnhnnlna 7,
"'
U„nl.,m 8,
"l,r ll-"'-1"''1- «: Ir"hss the Latin students „„»■ at Cornell
are m„, h l,e„er t.n
,y l.ef.ne ...gether, they will Hnd a faif
Jan. 14, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
103
percentage of the "slow ones" among themselves. 7: It is
not a fact that " Latin gives a quicker insight into mathemat
ics
ami
"
sciences,
and
I
will
bring
the
proof
for
my
statement
when the Red,-w wishes. 8: I will undertake to prove that
the scientific st wlent is aided "in the memorizing of the clas
sical terms which he constantly meets" much less by Latin
than by (divek hence the latter, if either, should be taken as
the preparatory study. The Avhole argument is finally swung forth at once on the rusty hinge "that the student will un doubtedly be more ab'e te) grasp thoroughly any subject which he undertakes." lie calm! It is possible all the weap ons of warfare are not forged at your shop, and bad results do not .always follow Mr. TappertitEs humor for "grinding up all the tools." It Avill be quite time for Latin to be made a
requirement for entering the course in science, when students
in science generally believe it necessary. At present thev
hold another belief.
Hi:i;r.Ei;T E. C<>im-:i.ani>.
".'20 Ash St., Indianapolis, Intl.
SUnuwitjj 3i(tcm$.
— On Wednesday a Senior claimed that a Professor had insulted him by calling him a Sophomore.
—The petrified stump that was obtained by the University last term was placed in the museum during vacation.
—The corn stalks that were placed around the young evergreens about the University buildings left with the first violent wind.
— When one of our Professors tells his class that a piece of music is written in the key of H, it is time we have musical instruction.
— After the examination in Piccolornini, last Saturday, a Senior was
heard to express a desire that he could read Wallenstein's toad.
— Dr. Hans Von Billow, the celebrated pianist, accompanied by Miss Lizzie Cronyn and full orchestra, appears at Wilgus Hall, Jan. 20. The sale of tickets commences Saturday morning at Finch A; Apgar's.
—The hydrants on the campus are- very convenient. At present they are nailed up so tightly that in order to attach the leo it will be
necessary to go someAvhere and get a hammer or some other instrument and remove the caps.
—A Pocket Atlas of Historical < k-oirraphy, containing sixteen col oured maps, is just the thing for students who are taking Roman History and want something for reference with them during the lectures. It is ou sale at Spence SpeneerEs.
—Prof. Piutti will meet his singing class next Thursday afternoon, Jan. '2nth, at 4 o'clock. This change- in time is made on account of the Von Billow concert in the evening. It is important that every member should be present at the appointed time.
—During the holiday vacation Professor Anthony delivered a lec ture in Steinway Hall, New York, on " electricity as a motor." It vvas one of a cour-e of free lectures delivered there by different persons for the benefit of mechanics and the laboring classes.
—At the reception Tuesday evening, a Freshman, whose thoughts were deeply inspired with the spirit of the occasion, thought the sur roundings should correspond, and wauled to know if the monogram on the shield that hung directly over the stage did not stand for " enter collegiate contest.''
—At the second day examination in chemistry, last term, each stu
dent was recmired to tell what he knew about any one substance, to he chosen by himself. A group of Juniors were discussing the diffi culties they encountered with certain substances, when a Freshman
said, " If I could have my choice I would take HO'2."
— We Avould call the attention of students to Mmc. Corson's French
readings and conversations, which have for their special purpose the pronunciation of the French language and the training of the ear for its ready reception when spoken. A circular giving terms, time, Aec, may he had ai die University Library and at the bookstores.
— Although a man from Williams College had the audacity to pub
lish a statement in a boston paper, to the effect that some members of
our victorious crew were ineligible to row, we notice that when ('apt. Ostrom, at the convention in Xew Vork, olf'ered to prove the eligibility of every man, no one seemed to desire that his proof should be given.
A— meetiim- of the Tom Hughe- boat Club was to have been held last Wednesday evening in Curtis Hall, but owing to the non-arrival of all bul five of the members of the club, the meeting will be held next .Monday evening, at s o'clock, at the same place, unless notice to a dif ferent effect be given out. Tliere should be a full attendance at this meeting as all the officers for the ensuing year are to be elected, includ ing a president of the club and five Navy directors.
— One of our Professors, whose duties necessitate his presence in South Chapel not less than five times a week, had no doubt imbibed somewhat freely the spirit of the times, which fully accords with the sentiment expressed in the last Fecit to under the head "a needed im provement," when lie declaree) epiite emphatically before the Senior class, the other morning, that "if the room were not better warmed he would raise a row." This is a step in the right direction. It sounds like business, and we hope he means it.
— Considerable surprise was occasioned, not long since, by the re port that ten feet of water had leaked from the reservoir in a single night. After diligent search no possible place could be found by which the water could escape, except by the supply pipe. The pipe was ac cordingly examined, and no valves being found to prevent the return of the water as soon as the engine stopped, it was concluded that the leak was discovered. Anel now that one of our professors, who is enthusi astic in all reforms, walks eleven times around the structure each day. On dif that he has been appointed to watch over its destinies.
— ddie extreme silence which the New York papers have maintained
in regard to the result of the Literary Contest is quite remarkable, and one of them, in a not exceedingly benign maimer, remarks of their prophecy in reference to the Creek prize as follows: " Between any
number of young men or any number of youug women, we should have
been wholly without data upon which to ground a guess of the result; but when we knew that the eonte-t lay between a number of young
men and one young woman, it was clear to us that in the very nature of
things the young woman must win. For is not language, or, to speak in colloquial terms, talk — the especial province of woman v"
— Prof. Wilder and Mr. Gage spent the vacation in " taking account
of stock " of the collection. We find that of vertebrates tliere are about
l,:JUi) species represented by about 4,:JOO examples, stuffed or in alcohol. Besides these are l,(i(iu anatomical preparations, of which 'JOU are brains and ">iit( embryos, the remainder being skeletons and viscera. Among the recent acquisitions are a [.air of mounted buffalo heads; a f.etal kangaroo; the stomach of a porpoise with four separate compartments; the brains ot two seals; and the brain of a porpoise, which weighs five pounds, two pounds more than the average human brain, and one pound more than that of Cuvier. Mr. (J age has photographed some of the uni.jue and more interest hue: specimens and preparations; as the Amphitlyus, Lampreys, beial whale, anel manalie, brains of many fish es, and of a child, A'C, many of which have never been figured in any works on natural history. Those desiring duplicates can get them of Mr. Cage at the Anatomical Laboratory.
A— summer school of geology will be opened early in July next, under the auspices of the University and under the supervision of Prof. Theo. B. Conistock, provided a sufficient number of students Avish to pursue this course of study. It is proposed to commence instruction
104
THE CORNELL ERA.
Jan. 14, 1876.
early after July 4, anel to extend it over six or seven weeks. A neatly printed pamphlet, obtainable at the business office or by addressing Prof. Comstock, gives all necessary information concerning the enter prise. According to the announcement, the first and last quarters will be spent in the lahoratoiy among the fine collection of fossils in posses sion of the University, wilh frequent excursions to the neighboring glens noted for geological interest; the second and third quarters will be devoted to field work, with headquarters in an encampment in a
mountainous region chosen for its fitness in illustrating geological sci ence. From the plan presented, the course promises to be pleasant as well as instructive, and will provide a rare chance for geological students to spend their vacation profitably anel pleasantly. Prof. J. H. Comstock
informs us that a summer school will al.-o be started in connection with
the department of entomology, and that the circular of information is
now in press.
gest as one improvement that the paper be cut and sewed. form makes it difficult to get at the contents.
Its present
The Found 'I'u.ble deplores the prevalence of personalities in the ex change column of college papers. To say that the Tale Faord -'has lost respect among most institutions" for indulging in such personali ties, is a mild way of putting it, when it is remembered that the Record never had any respect to lose, even at Yale, where it is barely tolerated. We find the following queer sentence ic the Found Pubic in the report of the Junior exhibition: " Mr. Burdick, his clear sentences, definite
inllection, and almost perfect enunciation, make it a pleasure to listen to him." Perhaps it is a " typographical error."
The College Mercury, in criticising an exchange, says: "The Round
Table has some
well written
editorials, also
the
article
'
Wipe your
Spectales,' is well told." We fear that this could not have emanated
from any thing less than the brain of a Sixth Form boy.
Smitit, '76, is studying law in New York. Hakoiiave, '72, is teaching at Livonia Station, N. Y.
We have rarely seen anything more refreshingly infantile than " My Paper f lolls" in the Packer tfiarlerly. It is a complete exposure of some of the most sacred mysteries of the nursery. "Our Society" re lates how live young ladies of Packer " in an advanced state of raggedness" formed a society for mutual support and sympathy, entitled the
(Evdt, '74, visited his Alma Muter during the holidays. Knight, 'To, is iu business with his father at his home. Beat tie, '?•">, is acting principal of the Knox Academy. Waller, '74, is princ ipal of the Skaneateles high school. Ciikene, '74, is teaching in a deaf and elumb school in New York.
" Mutual Bag Society." The literary exercises of this society consist in reading the Canterbury Tales, and composing idiotic verses, of which
latter the following is a specimen:
" Pin an ijit; oh! I'm an ijit. I can tarry, f can tarry but a night; Do not detain mc, for I am going To where the ijits are ever bowing.
Carpenter, 'Vo, is studying law in his brother's office in Cleveland. Bi i,ki.i:v, '7a, has finished teaching in Yonkers, and is now at his
I'm an ijit; oh! I'm an ijit, etc."
(Repeat the refrain.)
For genuine
"
"
amoosement
commend
us
to
the
tpmiterly.
Compared
home.
with it, Fox's Book of Martyrs is dull and prosaic.
Terrv, '7H, who left the University last term on account of his
The Fuiott t'olhge Magazine is one of our best literary exchanges.
health, has returned, is looking finely, and will graduate with his class. The prize essay on Coleridge shows careful study and original thought;
Koi.oe Preston, who graduated with do, and has since been assist the article on Hubert Burns is also worthy of special commendation.
ant principal in the high school at York, Pa., died at his father's house " Spirit vs. Matter," however, is too much for us. We Avrestled long
on Jan. 3d. All who knew Mr. Preston, both as a student and as a and patiently with the following proposition, but were finally compelled
man, will be grieved to hear of his untimely death. An extended no to give it up: " If tliere be a right state of spirit, then there is a vital
tice of the late Mr. Preston will be given next week.
reflex action backward throughout the combined system of the mental
and physical." Mind, we don't deny it, but it does seem a little queer
tfxdiamKSi.
to have a vital reflex action waltzing around in that reckless manner;
we hope it is not dangerous, and that everybody is not liable to be taken
Since last wc met our editorial friends around the Exchange board, that way. At Union all students were required to -drill four times a
many startling events have taken place— tbe Centennial year has been ushered in with firing of cannon and ringing of bells, the Inter-Collegi
week during part of the Fall term. " This healthful and invigorating exercise," says the Mug,rciuc, " was entered into with much spirit, the
ate Contest has taken place, and, last and least of all, Yale has with Seniors assisting Capt. Ward in instructing the under classmen both in
drawn. Any .of these events woulel furnish a theme upon which we marching and in th* manual of arms." ft is curious to notice the dif
could dilate nd infinitum, but our readers shall be spared Our private- ferent e-t iniat ion in which military di ill is held at different colleges.
opinion in regard to them can be had by sending address and three cent stamp to Era lock-box. We find many old friends' on our table— we
The average Cornellian, for instance, " shambles " through the evolu tions with a very bad grace, many only taking drill to avoid the disa
might even say very many and not exaggerate. The fact is we spent greeable alternative of two hours' additional recitations.
our vacation at home, not without some misgivings as to Avhat we had
to expect on our return. We found our fears mure than realized— ev ery available inch of space in the sanctum was occupied by exchanges.
A loiigsull'eriug correspondent of the Volant, eases his mind by the following remarks „,. the professional sponge. Perhaps such experi
n""1,1"'We distractedly proceeded to sort them, and worked away for several
hours without finding two of a kind. When at last we did come across
one which looked familiar, we couldn't fiml its fellow, and had to start anew "pile." This plan not working very well, we thought of ar ranging them geographically, and stand with California. This was
highly successful, and we finally landed, " metaphorically speaking, ot course." in Delaware, with a journal that looked like two postage stamps fastened together with hinges. W'e should like to give a more
,
ences are not unknown at Cornell:
" When one is busily engaged during study hours at some Ion- les
son which must |,e learned then or m-vcr, and when one is lookin- for
ward lo an evening to be spent happily or unhappily, , his depending <>n lhe speedy completion „f the present task, how consoling to have < '•' P.'oless,o„al spnnge p,„ ids beaming and self-sat, stied countenance tl'iough the door and in a most di*g.iMi,udx familiar tone ask if vou
1,1"aM''1 "' lli,V1, ll,s '■"■<>P:>"v in smoking up vour own tobac-
extended notice of our friend from Delaware, but it unforl utialely fell
into the inkstand and was lo-a.
The ]'„cki.lt yo,, H 'ulifornia ) for December is a good specimen mini ber of that paper; it is the last issued by the present board of editors. If their successors do as well, we shall nut complain. We woulel su"-
decency'<>■ II, perchance, out of ,,.111111,11,
you consent, you are mor-
yxeeed.ngly'""■•1
by the nauseating tone of his conversation, i„ whi,h
-endeavors ,,, ,he ,„,, of his ability ,0 bring you down ,0 his own
"^ ■
"-■'■"»<
A Hl,r.s a, dignity are ielluw has gone, boiling
of no avail, and v t.u over with ill-na.ure
fiml yourself, afand heapin.- vitu-
peratiun on yourself antl everything with which vou come in contact "
The Cornell Era
" A hove all Sects is Truth."
VotXME VIII.— Ni'.viimn 14.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, JANUARY •„'], 1n;u.
$2.50 per Annum in Advance.
Printed und Published every Friday, by Stu, lets of the Senior and Junior Classes.
(tutors for 1875-0.
J. W. SriKiu-evAXT, '?(!,
C. P. Woodruff, '76,
G L. Knapp; Treasurer and Secretary, G. W. AVells. The work of canvassing has already begun, and every member of the class Avill be asked to contribute. rJ he spirit Avhich the
class has shown thus far would seem to guarantee a liberal
and generous response.
M. E. Havilano, '77,
A. J. Loos, '77.
— We ask our delinquent sul.seriliers to pardon us for not being more specific in our remarks to them in our last num
ber. It is doubtless from this cause that several did not re
spond te. our request. We should have stated that subscrip tions may be given or sent to the editors, or left at Miss Ack ley's where receipts may be obtained. We hope avc may be spared the task of going about and making personal demands, but if Ave resort to this it Avill be only because pleasanter
means met Avith m> success.
—The class of 7ti are preparing to do the first great act of this great year in electing class officers. There Avill probably he more true patriotism shown, more fine maneuvering clone before this important work is accomplished than was required
one hundred years ago in the centennial congress to launch
forth upon the stream of history, that immortal Avork, the Dec laration of Independence. Hut have not other classes had the same important Avork to do — have imt the deeds of the class of '74 become fixed in the undergraduates1 traditions? Shall '70 go forth to disappear like drops in the ocean of mankind, without rivaling the career. >f 7-1 '! Ye men who want offices,
ye friends of men who want offices, meditate upon this. Here
is a glorious opportunity to begin that brilliant career Avhich American politics has in store for you, if yw:
CONDITIONS OF RIFLE MATCH.
1. The prize to be called the Pernor and Stream Inter-collegiate Challenge Plate.
-,E To be shot for by teams of not less than twelve, composed of un dergraduates from any regularly charterted university or college in the
United States.
'•)■ The distances to be 200 and ..OO yards-, seven shots at each dis tance, Avith two sighting shots; position, standing at 2ho yards, and at oOU yards, but the head of the man to be towards the target.
4. Weapon, any military rilie, in actual use in the United States Army, or in the National Guard of the Stale to which the college team belongs.
a. Members of such collegiate teams must have been matriculated in their university or college at least six months prior to the match.
li. The prize lo be awarded to the team making the highest score. The prize to be subsequently shot for by the members thereof at such time and place as they shall decide upon, and the prize to be finally awarded and to belong to the member of the winning team making the highest score.
7. The Inter-collegiate Match for the Forest and Stkeam Inter collegiate Challenge Plate to be shot at one of the Centennial Matches of the National Rifle Association, and at such time and place as they shall prescribe.
—Two articles in regard to meetings of the Christian As sociation were placed in our hands near the close of last term by the executive committee of the Christian Association, for insertion in our columns. Through an oversight, the notices
did not appear. A communication has been sent to us from
that committee asking if we do not recognize the Association as a part of the University, and entitled to consideration in our columns. The further request is made that we give briefly our editorial platform. For our platform we must refer the
committee to the first number of the present volume of the Ki;a. Whatever any individual member of the Fi:a board
may have said, we can assure the committee that the majori ty of the board do recognize the Christian Association as be ing fully as much entitled to the use of our columns as other undergraduate societies of the University. We are well ac quainted Avith the fact, as stated in the communication sent us, that "of all undergraduate societies among us, tliere is not one so purely benevolent in its Avork among the students, as
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is the University Christian Association," and "that the Pres to Philadelphia, early in May, to visit this department, for ident, Trustees, and Faculty of the University do not hesitate one of the subjects for the prizes is College Journalism.
to notice it, or fail to recognize its value." In the help it has
College journalism has a barge and growing influence. In
extended to neAV students coining' to Ithaca, unacquainted with proportion, as a college periodical is entitled to confidence
the town, and in its readiness so often shown to do its utmost , will it receive confidence, the same as with any other period-
where help was needed in cases of sickness, we take pleasure ical. Willi the majority tliere is vast room for improvement.
in saying that Ave have seen the above statements amply verb ; The tAvo nost effective methods for their improvement, we
tied. We trust that a recollection of the notices published in may be allowed to say, is to choose the best men to be had for
other numbers of the Era under the present management, and editors, and to give them a more hearty support.
this statement of our present attitude in regard to the Asso-
A more remote benefit to be derived from placing our own
ciation, will serve to convince the executive committee that periodicals where they will be preserved, is the furnishing of
they need have no fear of not beino- recognized in our columns. materials for a history of our University in case they should
be wanted. The first Eka avus published in November, 1868.
—The correspondence in regard to the correct etymology and orthography of the word Corncllian, found in another col umn, may lead to the settling of a question of no little per plexity. At present, in regard to the spelling, usage seems to be quite equally divided. Whether Corncllian or Cornelian
We dare say that if all other means of restoring the history of Cornell University avc re destroyed, that it could be done very satisfactorily from the pages of the Era. It is true that the University possesses nearly a complete set of the Era but
it is not bound; it is being worn out, and maAT be de
shall be the term to denote a Cornell student, is a question stroyed; but if a complete set is placed in the hands of the
jgrowing directly out of this; for the editors of the " Cornel- Bureau of Education, Ave need have no fear of its being de-
litm" state that the change is made not only to denote their J stroyed. Especially must the editors of the respective vol-
publication, but "all persons and things connected Avith the • times named with the list of missing numbers, published in an-
University." The " Corp, Man" in its publication last year, ! nther column, be desirous of seeing their volumes made corn-
adopting the former, gave some quite plausable reasons for j plete. Wc extend our thanks to Professor Pussel for the in-
so doing. Many use the old method probably more from hab- , terest he has taken in this matter. To procure the numbers
it than from anything else. jBut the Era and the lie view have tltiat are missing we propose this plan, namely, that anyone
also adopted the method of two Ts. Doubtless the strongest ' having a number mentioned in the list, which he will con-
reason most persons have had for adopting the iicav method is ' tribute, send it to us. If more than is needed are sent us, we
jthat they like the av or el that ends in two lEs, and that they like wi" select those that are in the best condition, and return the
to retain it in this important derivative, if regarded as a others to the donors thereof. We will also publish a list of
derivative. That there is the word Carnelian does not prove j the numbers supplied from week to week, till the set is made
at all that the Avord denoting a Cornell student is derived from j complete, if it be possible to make it so. We trust that those
!it, or has any necessary connection with it. The word Cornell who can aid us in filling out the missing numbers will do so.
is from the name of our beloved Founder. Cornellian can be Outside of Yale and Harvard there is no weekly college paregarded as formed directly from it, allowing for euphony, per published except the Era, and we are presiimptous enough the same as the word. Wesici/an is derived from Wesley, I to be willing to have the Era placed by the side of periodicMalthusian from Malthus, and scores of others by joining ' ids even of these institutions.
!the suffix. However Ave hope to see the linguists take up this
subject and give us more light. Our correspondent's attitude
towards co-education is intimated in no mistakable manner.
^uiUctUuul
It should be remembered that in the earlier classes of Cornell
Switzerland has grown up a free Pepublic in the midst of
this feeling was common, and that even now it is far from be the most hostile despotisms She has perfected her own lib
ing the exception.
eral institutions by the aid of the most seemingly unfavorable
-VSe are glad to know that the Era is to be represented
at the Centennial Celebration. However humble the work of
one's hands and brains, he is pleased to see if, such as it is, re ognized. We are assured that the volumes furnished the Bu reau of Education will be "bound and preserved for future
influences. Shu has niaint aineel her independence in spite of
i,dugt-ln r^inthe most persistent attempts o e„„trol and subject her 'polity
She is a point of
island of hope,
g out ot an
ocean of political ami ecclesiastical despotism. She is a unit
composed of t|R, llUlst diverse and apparently heterogeneous
elements and materials.
reference." Among the immediate advantages to be gained thereby, will be the pleasure afforded every college editor on attending the Centennial Celebration, of seeing college jour
nalism represented in its various forms, d'he editors for next
year can be benefitted by spending some time in examini,,,,
this department, the same as is the agriculturalist in his de
partment. Perhaps, too, some candidate fe
It is not. merely as the land of William Tell that Svvitzcr'.'"id is a point of interest. There are two phases of freedom.
the one the resi.H of an instinctive desire to throw off repress
ive bonds; the other, the carrying out of great principles into ■dl lhe social relations, so that all shall enjoy that degree of liberty which is essential for the dev elopnicnt of ca eiw legiti-
desirable' ! T' ^77' ^^ ^*dent's prizes in Literature will find it
"' ^
'"" ^ ^ "* {™*™
tu maakkee aa ttruipo j the symbols, hints and images for the latter; but while in-
Jan. 21, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
107
stinctive freedom enlists most the superficial enthusiasm, the freedom of reason ought to enlist the deepest feeling of inte rest and sympathy. Put the one is a noble outburst of sun light after a storm, while the other often appears as a cloudy day struggling with mist and fog ami lingering darkness. We know Switzerland in the first phase much better than in the second. A real work has been going on tliere for half a
century, Avhich makes but little external show, but which is
real, earnest and deep. Comhn-cet said, very truly, that it was
" a country where all the governments preserve the appear
and wholly deserted by man and beast. These are the early spring and autumn stations of the herdsmen and their cows,
when lhe higher pasturao is covered with snow. The people have improved to the utmost the summits, inaccessible except in mid-summer, and these stations prolong the season for the
manufacture of cheese. A much of the richest pasture land
remains unfilled ! But avIio shall say that this is but for hu
manity 't The Swiss proverbially love their rough and rocky
cies and democracies, its natural and social divisions into home.
manufacturing, agricultural and pastoral peoples, and its he
Cue evening after crossing the lakes of Thim and Zug,
reditary differences of race, institutions and language, Avith and passing directly oyer the place where at (roMan, five hun
some portions preponderantly French, others ( ierinan and oth ers Italian; with some purely radical and others conservative; with some isolated and independent, others directly connected
dred persons found their sudden burial, Avhen the whole vast mountain side, came down upon them and covered their
graves I found myself Avith more than a hundred others f them at his option.
it Avas daylight below, the distant mountain peaks stood out
The works offered by "The New Shak^pm-e Society," are
white, clear, dazzling, in their pure effulgence, typical of the the following:
infinite spirit of purity and holiness. What wonder that the children of men have Avorshipped from the hill-tops the Lord
of day and the Lord of life 'i
In Switzerland there are the distant and the near views. The
near views almost always disappoint as to the appearance of size and height. By getting too close, one loses all standard
"Plays. Romeo and Juliet, Reprint of Cf, 1) 1-V.lT. Edited by P. A. Daniel." "Romeo and Juliet. Reprint of O" ,
Containing exact
unblemished surface, for thousands of feet, and having the reprints of the following rare works: ' Creene's 0r„ah,r,a1h of Wit1
sky only for a background, does not appear to be higher than ordinary summits. One must be educated into the apprecia
tion of size, distance, and height. The judgment, the associa tions of daily experience, must come to the aid of the eye. Those apparently small ice-humps and pinnacles, which, from
1 Chettle's Kind Harts Dream.' ' ( 'hettle's Fogbindes Mourning Gaenuid.1 El Mournful Ditti,-.1 'Gabriel Harvey's Third Filer.' 'Five Sections of Mere's Wits Tntisnrijf AVdlobie lis Aeisuf Extracts from Clark's
PalilUttntt.itl, A'C.
The prize offered by the Early English Text Society, will
be awarded to the author of the best Dissertation on the En
a little distance it seems possible to jump over, are in reality
nearly a hundred feet high. Those rocks, which you think you could reach in a short hour's walk, are towering cliffs
glish of Dan Michel's " Ayenbite <-f Invvit," for the model of which, the student mav take Hock's Analysis of the gram
matical forms of the Ancreii Kiwi*-, contained in the Transac
which only the wings of the bird can surmount, and which it takes a day's hard driving to reach. That small level space of ice extends miles away; and that seeming thread of snow which runs down the mountain side, like a rill from a springlet, is an avalanche Avhich would sweep an army into oblivion,
tions of the Philological Society, for Im;."., and in my Hand book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English.
The prizes Avill be awarded at next Commencement. Very truly yours, etc.,
Hiram Cordon.
burying it deep umber the piled up mountain of frost. It is
THE Kit A FOR TIIE CENTENNIAL.
no small accumulation of matter that can fill the whole all-
around with the noise of reverberating thunder, and roll on- I Editors Cornell Era:
Ithaca, X. Y., Dec. .'s, fs75.
ward, and swell around like some ocean Avave breaking upon
(omleaiex: — The Bureau of Elucation at Washington,
the sand. At one place, the traveler passes along at an eleva
tion of about ti,o()o feet, and opposite is a mighty wall of bare
rock rising still six thousand feet more, almost in perpendicu
lar ascent, as if some superhuman cleaver had cut down and
through the solid rock. The fleecy clouds visit it, and caress
the rugged form, and the fleecy clouds alone. There are, too,
summits, white and dazzlingly beautiful. lVnetrating the
clear azure, stainless, unlleeked, glistening in the sun-light, as
with innumerable pearls, changing Avith the change of the at mosphere around, now frowned upon by the dark storm-cloud and now enfolded in the soft drapery of the mist, or the thick covering, as of linest swan's down, of gathering cloud;— they are ever new and ever fresh objects of wonder and of beauty.
se
in preparation fe»r the Centennial celebration, ask us to send
them among other things our college periodicals.
I am going to send iheni all the numbers of the Eka that
I have, but my set is very incomplete as you will see by look ing at the accompanying list of missing numbers. Will you assist the Bureau by sending nie what vou can t«» supply the deficiency and bv inserting a notice in vour next number ask ing your readers to send nie what they can to complete the series, d'he officer in charge of the educational department of the Centennial Exhibition promises 1 1 1 at these papers shall be
bound and preserved in the lhireau for future reference.
Yours very respectfully,
William C. Kissel.
Jan. 21, 1S76.
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
109
The following is a list of the missing numbers:
Yol. I— All except Nos. 1 and 10. " II— X... 1 to VI, both inclusive, No. lit.
" III— No. A\.
« IY— Xo. LE
" Y— Nos. 1, •_', i:>, 20, ;to, ;OE " A' I— Nos. 21, 2::, 2o to :u, inclusive.
may have changed all'that and a due regard for the feminine element of your University may demand the double /.
Il, on the other hand, the principles of philology remain
unchanged, and your professors are slid your teachers, I trust
the editors elect of the Cornelian may preserve the old name
and the old orthography. Yours,
S. S. Aveio.
NO HE.
COKNKI.LIAX .u: ( olIN la.l.VN.
Editors Cornell Era:
Editors Com, II Era:
The editors of the "Comedian," so-called, for Is; i-.",, in explanation of the change of name, from Cornelian to Conn II inn, say: "In consideration for those who may lierchance re gard with disfavor our step and flee substitution of "Cornell ian" for Cornelian, we will, at the outset, explain our course.
I would beg leave to make a statement in regard to the ticket which appeared yesterday, headed by the name of C. T. Brewer, and bearing my name as a candidate for Ivy Ora tor. My name vvas put on that ticket without my knowledge
or consent, and after I had once refused. C. li. Pake ii i ior.
The latter term seems to be an entirely arbitrary one, and if submitted to any test but that of custom, must be pronounced
(Obituary.
a fraud. The principle vet remains undiscovered in accord
Koi.i r: Piiioro, of the class of 7'!, died at his home in
ance with which it can be properlv derived either from Car nelian, the name of the color which we as a Cniversity have selected, or from the name of the University itself. The cor rectness and propriety of Cornellian, on the other hand, must be evident at sight. Wheresoever it appears it must natural
Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday the 4th inst. There are probably very few in the University at present
who were personally acquainted with Mr. Preston, but among the graduates he had many friends. They, and the professors under whom he studied, will remember him as much for his
ly suggest its relation t<> Cornell, and direct thither at least a kindly genial nature as for his abilities as a student, the one
passing thought, thus perhaps in a humble way serving as a winning him their good will, the other their respect and es
means to an end. Upon us, influenced by such considerations, teem. Mr. Preston was graduated in civil engineering Avith
it has fallen to inaugurate this departure from the practice of high honors, representing that department on the Commence
preceding vears; it rests with those around us to abandon or ment platform. Soon after graduation he obtained a position
sustain it."
on the city engineering corps at Pittsburg, Pa., but his eyes
I AA*". s, of Yol. I, of The Kka, the same author says— "What shall be the University color? Why md the bright red of the (for, a /in,, / This precious stone, sometimes Cornelian, sometimes Carnelian, but ahvays pronounced in accordance with the former orthography, is of a very clear
and beautiful tint, and nothing c.uihl be more appropriate than its adoption as the badge of the University, Cornelian hues then, for the Cornelian University."
This was our authority, and in those days we were Avont to regard our professors as sufficient authority, but six years
iting bv the instruction to be obtained at the great universi
ties of the old world, and in the study of its literature and
precious monuments of the past. lie had determined, as he said, "to make his mark in the world"; and having the abili
ty and the determination, Avhat more save a strong const itu-
ti.m was wanting? d'he week before Thanksgiving he was
obliged to give up his work only for a little while as he
thought, and as his friends hoped, going home then to re
cruit. One who saw him on the night of bis arrival, said,
"The weary lookin his face seemed to contradict bis cheerful
manner."
dayIn a
or two he was
confined t«> his room, and
for more than a month became Aveaker day by day until the
body could no longer hold the spirit.
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An incident was related at the funeral by Lev. Mr. Pice
in regard to Mr. Preston's appointment as assistant principal
at York, which gives the key to his whole character— to his
life and to his death also. When the vacancy was made
known, Prof. Shelly, principal <»f the High School, received twenty-five applications for the position. The applicants were all unknown to him, but in looking over the letters, he Avas struck by a clause in Mr. Preston's letter, which decided the
matter. It Avas this, " I am not afraid of Avork." The following notice of the impressive burial services is
taken from the Wilmimjton Commercial :
Yesterday afternoon, the funeral of Professor Kolce Preston took place from the residence of his father, Seymour Preston, on Tatnall Street. The deceased was a young man of very fine talents, a graduate
of Cornell University of the Class of 1S70, aud since that time assistant
principal in the High School at York, Pa. A special mark of appreciation was paid the memory of the deceased
in the attendance upon the fuueral of some twenty-five ladies and gen tlemen of York, including teachers, members of t lie Board of School Control, and others, including Rev. W. II Rice, of the Moravian
church of York, and Prof. Shelly, of the High School. At the house,
at the hour of the funeral, Rev. Mr. Israel, of this city, preached a very
completion. It is expected to have it ready as soon as it is wanted for
spring use.
—Prof. Potter will deliver his lectures on Roman Law at the rate of
one a week; they will be delivered in Curtis Hall on Monday evenings, commencing at 7 p. .«. The first lecture occurs Jan. 24.
— Il is announced that Prof. Cor-on will give a reading each Satur day evening, during the present term, in the botanical lecture roam at
Sage College. <— luery: Was it for the want of a (Iv )//"/'( p.) that the future Com
modore allowed a Freshman to display bis ignorance the other day in the gymnasium, by trying to coach him up in rowing matters ?
—At the conclusion of the second examination in "Die Piccolomini," one member of the class was heard to say as he handed in his pa per, " Prof., when will we have the next examination in this?"
—Some persons attempted to show their skill at canonnading, last Saturday night, by running the University cannon down the hill from the top, where they were placed to celebrate the victory at the InterCollegiate. They were fortunately uninjured.
— One of our Professors has such a lecturing mania, that he at
tempted to keep the floor and lecture to the class in military science on Monday, but was tiually induced to yield when he learned that the class
had not assembled to listen to a lecture on literature
eloquent sermon. At York, on Tuesday, the Board of School Control held a special
meeting, and adopted a memorial testifying to the high character of the deceased, appointing a committee to attend the funeral, and fixing a special memorial service to he held on Wednesday, at 2 o'clock. Al that time Rev. Mr. Rice preached from the words " He hath finished his course," in an impressive discourse.
®Uc president's prises in literature
The President of the University offers the foil; wing prizes in Literature for the year ls75o>: Fifty dollars for the best essay, and thirty dollars for the second in merit. The sub jects are: —
— Professv.r Shackford delivered an address before the Irving Lite rary Association at its first meeting this term (the evening of the 7th inst;. His subject was The American Idea. It is sufficient to say that the address elicited the highest praise from those who heard it.
—Not the least interesting feature connected with getting up the re ception for the victors at the contest, is that there was s2.su left, over
and above all the expenses, which is to be turned over to the Cornell
Navy. The Navy treasurer is requested to call around aud collect.
—At the Freshman meeting, last Saturday night, some wary Sopho mores initiated a neAvly arrived Freshman into the mysteries of '7'.); he enjoyed the hearty grip of the Freshman class two or three times around, and finally protested in a coaxing tone against further shaking, as his finger was suffering from the consequences.
1. German Shakespearian Criticism.
2. College Journal ism.
'A. The Prose Writings of Walter Savage Lander. 4. " Aurora Leigh " as the Metrical and Feminine ( omplement to Thackeray's " Peiidennis."
a. The Kelation of a Nation's Literature to its Ilistorv. ti. The Influence of the Saracens on the Intellectual De
velopment of Europe.
7. Satire in Ancient and in Modern Times.
8. English Epistolary Literature.
ittnuTOini litems.
—A Senior was heard to ask where he could find room K last Mon
day.
—Goldwin Smith desires notice to be given that his lectures on En glish History will commence soon after .May 1st.
"
—
Autograph
"
wants to
know
if
Dorothea got
her .Maun!
get a condition al answer at the end of the term.
He will
—President While lectured in Syracuse, last Saturday evening, hefore the Art Club; his .subject was Michael Angelo.
—The election of Commodore takes place to-morrow at three o'clock, in Military Hall. According to a resolution lately adopted by the two clubs, no member is eligible to a vote at such an election unless he has
paid his initiation fee. The treasurers of the clubs will be at the polls to receive bot li fees and contributions for the Navy.
— The result of the second examination in Piccolomini was, without
doubt, far inferior to what the result ot life other would have been, if it had not been declared invalid. Notwithstanding the fears which the Peview expressed on the subject, very little cramming could have been done by anyone during vacation judging by the average of the class.
— Sludents who would take the President's ath ice about protecting their health by guarding against damp feet, would have failed utterly during lhe past, week, for the walk from the University to the Casca dilla was for a share of lhe time a gootl specimen of a mud puddle. Give us our old plank walk or else a gravel one iu place of the substi
tute which we now have.
'Hie gymnasium is now the rendezvous for the athletes and sport ing port ion of the students. The University crew have begun to take regular I raining, and row every afternoon between five aniKk o'clock. The crowd of .students present at that hour is quite encouraging to the gymnasium directors, and shows that their etl'orts to rentier the apparatus serviceable have been appreciated.
—There are fifteen new students this term who enter '7!l, and about
ten who return to the University alter abscees of dilferent lengths.
-The new gig for the Tom Hughes Boat Club is fast approaching
— The Senior class decided, at Ibeir meeting on Jan. 12, lo hold its annual election on .Ian. 22, provided the examination in historv does
not take place then; in case it does, lhe election will be postponed one week. The usual amount of wire-pulling has been done by those Avho
Jan. 21, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
Ill
are noted for such business, and cigars have been plentifully circulated and thoroughly enjoyed by the undecided voters.
— An excellent chance is given, this term, to students who desire to read Faust. Professor Boyesen has a section Tuesdays and Thursdays at eleven o'clock, lie does the translating himself, explaining at the
not accept. Gokey was the first one found who would not decline.
The other officers are as follows: Vice President, II. Hoxie; Secretary, A. S. Hathaway; Treasurer, J. (E Kennedy; Orator, C. L. Knapp; Toast Master, II. WE Kappes; Prophet, (has. A. Gould; Poet(ess), Miss Weed; Essayist, Miss Grohs; Marshal, J. IE Oliver.
same time all the difficult, points, thus giving a person a better idea of the subject than he could possibly get by his own translation. In addi
—It should be a matter of congratulation among the students that they have the opportunity to bear so much first-class music this season.
tion, the historical notes which he gives are exceedingly interesting.
On Thursday evening, Jan. 21, we are to be favored with a concert by
— The annual meeting of the Sprague Moat Club for the election of the Boston Philharmonic Club, consisting of six performers, assisted by
officers, was held in AV. J. ShermanEs room, Jan. 1 7th. The election a talented soprano, Miss Laura Scbirmer. They rank as one of the best
|resulted as follows: For President, A L. K. Volkman; Vice President,
J. Bordeu; Secretary, W. J. Sherman; Treasurer, WE P. Pickett; Cap
musical organizations in the country, and are so called by Von Billow, who played with them six nights in Mo-ton. The leader is Mernhard
tain, D. O. Barto; Club Directors, WE II. Foster, N. A. Randolph; Na Listemann, for many years first violin of the Thomas Orchestra. The
vy Directors. D. O. Barto, WE M. MeOill, A. L. K. Volkman, J. Bor den, WE P. Pickett.
admission to -their concert is at the unusually low price of .10 cents. Reserved seats, 7-"i cents, the sale of which begins at Finch A: Apgar's
bookstore to morrow (Saturday). The Philharmonics come as an addi
—In reply to a letter from a Harvard undergraduate, suieoesting that tion to the Centennial Course, comprising the Caroline Riehings-Ber-
sporting rifles would be more acceptable than military rilles to college nard < >pera, the Barnabee and Mendelsshon concerts, and Minnie
marksmen, the For, st und Si ream says: "The use of a military rifle Swayze's lecture— the whole for si. 7.1, or :;1 cents each.
would not prevent the riflemen from using any other weapon for amuse ment or practice. We should be glad to hear the sentiments of college men on this subject as applied to our badge, and stand ready to so amend the conditions as to make them satisfactory to the greatest num
ber." — Crimson.
— We do not blame Vale overmuch for withdrawing from the College Rowing Association. Vale crews not unnaturally like to win an occasional race. It is not wholly pleasant for Vale students to be tuck ing the vanquished blue out of sight after four races out of five. The
—The annual meeting of the Tom Hughes Boat Club for the elec tion of officers, was held in Curtis Hall last Monday evening. The re sult of the election Avas as follows: President, L. <>. Howard; Vice-
President, J. L. Jarvis; Secretary, AV. C. Ames; Treasurer, II. Sturges; Captain, II. W Bingham; Lieutenant, WE E. Lape. Tom. Hughes di rectors, J. Lewis and 31. IE Haviland. Navy directors, J. L. Jarvis, J. S. Waterman, J. Lewis, II. Sturges, and L. Palmer. E R. Moore, '7U. H. Giflford, '7'J, and W. Hoagland, '?'.>, avc re elected members of the
Vale University Boat Club has a boat house lavishly furnished with all a college boatman could ask— except the crossed Hags of honorable victor}\ Vale has not many of these. In fifteen years of racing she has won three. She is not likely to win more- unless she can return to a re gatta in which nobody but Vale can lick Harvard and nobody but Har vard can lick Vale, a task which Harvard, to do her justice, is very well able to perform. Vale cannot win Hags, and very prudently she decides to pull a losing race no longer. Her a priori objection to the smaller colleges in a race was that she was sure to leave Ihem in
Club.
the rear. Her a posh eiori objection is that they leave her in the rear.
— Students who did not drill last term, or specify a substitute for it In either case Yale finds no fun in the racing, and has wished herself
are now reaping the reward of their disobedience. A company has well out of it for some time past, fn the association, with the excep
been formed of such delintpients. which is drilled three times a week in tion of a single brilliant year, her success has been neither gratifying
Military Hall by a Senior captain. The company will be obliged to de nor reputable. She sulked in her boat-house iu 1*71, she was last in
fray the expense of hiring the hall and drill master.
They are all
the
race
in
1 s 7 '2 ,
she
disgraced college boating by language and conduct
agreed that they missed it in not drilling last term. The Si niors are singularly unworthy of college boatmen in 1*74, she was out-pulled and
having lectures twice a week on military tactics. Wdth these two ex out-rowed in 1*71. It is not strange that she retires from an unequal
ceptions, no other students are required to drill or take substitutes for contest in 1*7.1.—A'. Y. World.
it this term.
— Comstock's Geology of the Wyoming. This report is to be found, in Captain Jones' Report upon the Reconnoisance of North Western Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park, made in 1*7:). The portion by Theo. B. Comstock relates to the structural geology of the country passed over, and contains new matter regarding the celebrated hot springs and geysers of ihe Yellowstone Park, with archaeological and philolological notes relating to the Indian tribes, particularly lhe Shoshoiies. The report is accompanied by a large colored geological.
map. — American AtUm idist .
—Members of the cn-px get a little "off" occasionally. The other day one dropped into the room ol a co ed. (" wich is co editor") to look out his lesson in II, rmaun und Do roth , a. After consulting a dictionary
lying on the table for some time without being able to find a single word, he began to anathematize its author, calling him by anything but complimentary names. His collap.se was very .sudden when the co-ed. coolly informed him that it was a French dictionary. It was the same member of the corps (ihe fighting editor) who was going to send to a Gentleman's Furnishing store in New Vork for a set of boxing gloves.
—The Freshmen held a meeting for the election of officers in Mili tary Hall, on Friday evening. Alter several parliamentary ('!) tactics, the class proceeded to ballot for president. Knapp was elected but de clined the honor. Wells was the next successlul one. He, too, de clined. Others were in turn elected, but following the precedent, did
gcrsonals.
Upham, '74, is in the Harvard Law School.
Cooper, '74, is in an architect's office in Fremont, Ohio.
Jones, '7U, is teaching in Utica. He will join his class next term.
Hayes, '7-1, is in the second-year class at the Harvard Law School.
E. A. Leyi.en, '74, died at Atlanta, tea., on Dec. 2'i, of consumption.
Knsion, 'TO, has got a position as reporter on the New York limes.
Filler, '77, fills the position of reporter for the Wtrren Constitution, Warren, Ohio.
Di-.wsN.vi', formerly '77, has returned to the University after an ab
sence of one term.
C.vmpuell, '7 wlK'n "'*-' varry out two or three victims on a shutter. The
Crimson.
smiling editor gleefully counts the mil ortunates. and calculates how
The sublime manner in
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which Harvard
by the modesty
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"""^ Colum,ls hc' can w'"'k UP °» "1:" outrage.— But this i.s a digresS1°" '"^ Wh,<"h "" " m' 'L'(1 al'U'r R':ulin~r "l"' exchanges this week.
in the following extract from an editorial letter:
''The contest in oratory in the Academy of .Music did not seem lo me quite up to the standard of Dartmouth, and I think the Judges were
not altogether satisfied. The newspapers I know were not. There are still grave reasons for questioning whether it will be expedient fur Dartmouth to enter conteO in which none of the prominent New Kugland colleges are represented, and where a victory, if we should obtain one, would mean ridiculously little, as any one will admit on reading the reports, of the Judges, (.■specially those «„. mat hematics. \\ v ,„•,.
not yet committed further than that we have joined the association and have a vote. We cannoi send contestants next year until we have paid a fee of forty dollars. The matter should be carefully considered be fore definite action is taken."
Ihe Amherst oy„,/,7,, keeps up its reputation as one of the best of
college papers; its litem y articles are .good. and 1( ,ive, ^^ new§
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Cornell gained three firs.
PH/es;md one second prize a. New York, the S,,„l,llt savs- O\ow
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" Above all Sects is Truth.
Volumk VIII.— Niimhku 15.
TIIE CORNELL UNIVERSITV, JANUARV 2<.l, 1K70.
$2.10 per Annum in Advance.
Printed and Published every Friday, by Students of the S,„ior and Junior Classes.
dftitors for 1875-6.
J. W. Srruimv ant, '7ii, M. E. H.vvii.vno, '77,
C. P. "Woodruff, '70, A. J. Loos, '77.
The result is one of Avhich a veteran philologist need not be ashamed. Not only have the best works on the subject been thoroughly read and mastered, and a clear knowledge shown oS the principles of compara tive philology, but Mr. Schwerdtfeger lias also displayed a good prac tical acquaintance Avith Anglo-Saxon and the povver of thinking for himself. IJ such results can be produced in America, why should they not be in England? Perhaps if a little of the time at present devoted
by our rising youth to athletics and Latin verse-making could be spared
for their own language, grammatical blunders would be less common,
— "We hardly know what more to say to those of our de and Shakspere aud Chaucer cease to be mere names."
linquent subscribers who have paid no attention to our recent
We trust that such a recognition, from so high an author
requests. We suppose some of them think that the mention ity in literary and philological matters, Avill be an additional
of " publisher's Bills " is an old dodge, and not to be regard inducement to stuelents in the department of Anglo-Saxon
ed. If those of that opinion will call at our sanctum avc are and English Literature, to compete fertile prizes that are noAV
certain that we can satisfy them to the contrary. Indeed, it offered by "The New Shakspere Society " and by "The Ear
would not be a very culpable act to request our delinquents to ly English Text Society," the subjects for Avhich were an-
pay up at this time in the year, even if avc should not be so i nounced by Professor Corson in our last issue.
fortunate as to produce an acceptable apology for so doing.
It should be remembered that our terms read, " in advance." In reply to our first request to delinquents, which Avas not
made till this term, one subscriber writes: " Please find en
closed the amount of my subscription for the current volume of the Era. Your appeal for funds Avas stated so courteous
— In these editorial columns such an act as delaying the distribution of a college paper for a single hour for political purposes — even for such momentous political purposes as those that grow out of a class election —can find no exculpa tion. Yet the distinction betAveen subverting a college paper
ly, and so entirely at variance with the usual bullying tone of such reminders, that I trust it Avill find a quick response from your ' delinquents.' "
to the political purposes of one of its editors directly, or the preventing of its working against his interests by witholdiug its distribution for a time, must be made. A case could occur
To any fair minded person Ave know of nothing except de in which an editor's political enemies might try to use his pa
tailed statements that could be more successful in gaining a per to subserve their oavii interests. We maintain that the response than to say that Ave cannot be deprived much longer preventing of that should be distinguished from an editor's
of our dues without great, and perhaps serious, embarrass subverting his paper to his own interests directly. This pos
ment. Whether we are compelled to fill any more of our sible fact, in connection Avith the heat of excitement during
columns with this sort of matter— matter as uninspiring to an election like that of last week, while by no means satisfy
the writer as previous appeals appear to have been to several ing the editorial board of the propriety of sAverving one jot
of our readers—remains with our subscribers to determine.
<>r tittle for personal or political purposes, may nevertheless
be regarded as extenuating circumstances. A board of editors
—The Dissertation on the "History and Development of the English Verb," by Mr. Emil Schwerdtfeger, of the class of 77, which took the first of the prizes offered by the Early Englisli Text Society, has been honored with the following notice, contained in the (London) A<-f the meet ing of the Inter-collegiate Literary Association, held the day following the oratorical contest, we learn that in addition to the general subjects for
examination last year those of Latin and Mental Science have
been added for the coming year. What particular topics will
be considered has not yet been determined.
Having had several inquiries in regard to the subjects up
on Avhich examinations will be held in connection Avith the In
depends upon the character of the men chosen to conduct the contest. We trust that the suggestion, made by us in regard to the need of having the committee of examiners on Mental Science constituted of men representing different schools, will
not be overlooked. We would like to see three men as un
like in views as, for instance, Lewes, Carpenter, and McCosh, chosen for this committee. As soon as anything further in regard to the Association is determined, we will present it to
our readers.
ter-collegiate Literary Contest for next year, anel being una
ble to get any knoAvledge from our delegate, Mr. Tomp kins, Ave wrote to Mr. Crosby, the chairman of the Inter-col legiate Association, asking for information upon the folloAving
&Ue J>y whom are the judges and examiners in the vari
The clouds are whirling, the oak wood roars,
ous studies selected for the next contest to be chosen? (2) When Avill the choice be made? ('■*,) It reads in the report of the hist meeting of the Inter-collegiate Literary Association, held in Xew York Jan. 5, that the standing committee, in con nection Avith the judges to be selected, Avill determine what topics in the different branches of study will be taken. When Avill this determination be made 'i (4) Allow us to ask, fur ther, if there has been any consideration of the question of
The maiden strays on the verdant shores, The billow is breaking with might, with might, And sings out into the gloomy night, Her eyes bedimmed with weeping and woe.
The world is empty and dead in my heart, The world can nought more to my wishes impart. Thou Holy One, call back tli3r child again; Ofthe bliss of this earth I have once parta'en,
I've lived and have loved here below.
appointing the examining committee in Mental Science, se. as to have different schools of thinkers represented ? This '
(In the above translation my chief object was to be literal, at the same time retaining the metre of the original, so that it might in all re spects become worthy of being placed amongst the most cherished po nies of the wily Junior of future generations. How far I have succeed
so few_fundamental principles upon which all agree, some ed may be seen by a comparison with the original, here subjoined:)
mental philosophers treating the science almost Avholly as an abstract one, and others, including many of the best modern investigators, pursuing the study principally upon a physical
basis.
The following is the reply of Mr. Crosby.—
" The Executive Committee of the I. L. A. is entrusted
with the entire arrangement of the examinations and contests
AA'hich will be held under the auspices of the Association next winter, antl has full power either to determine the topics of
the various examinations or to leave the whole matter to the
Der Eichwald hrauset, die Wolken ziehn, Das Magdlein wandelt an Ufei> Gri'in, Es bricht sich die Welle mit Macht, mit Macht, Und sie singt hinaus in die fiustre Nacht, Das Ange von Weinen getrlibet.
Das Herz ist gestorben, die Welt ist leer, Und Aveiter giebt sie dem Wunsche nichts mehr. Dur Heilige, rufe dein kind zuriiek! Ich babe genossen das irdis.he Gliick, Ich babe gelebt und geliebet.
Cu.vs. E. Morris, '77.
judges who will be appointed by the committee. Precedent
and common-sense will probably cause it to choose the latter
tfhangc.
course.
" No .scheme of examination in Mental Science has yet
been adopted. It will perhaps be confined to a general histo
rical and critical review of the most prominent theories. How
far originality will be expected in the competitor I am unable
to state. These subjects will be settled at the next meeting
of the Executive Committee, which lias adjourned, subject to the call of its chairman, Mr. Elliot of Hamilton College.
"I must add that my statements arc made from memory,
no copy of the revised constitution being in my possession.
A pamphlet containing the constitution of the Association and
other information will soon be issued."
i
(Front th, C, rm, in.)
With the flowers to-day the fanning wind plays,
sways";To-morrow, the oak like a light reed il
To-day, from the air foul vapors ii trees. And to-morrow, a pest is borne on by the breeze; At evening it cools the wanderer's brow; At initliiight-a terrible storm rages now!
In the morning, the glittering sunbeams unfold The loveliest blossoms, in meadow and wold; Al eve fade away these colors so bright, And the blaze of the sun sinks down into night; Here, it warms ihe numb limbs of the old man and gray;'
day."There, poor pilgrims droop, in the bright glare oi"
Jan. 29, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
11 :.
Lightly floats the brave bark on its passage away O'er the mirroing ocean in sunshiny .May: — In Autumn come back, at stern lE-.te's aweing beck By wild storms torn asunder, only planks from the wreck; As corpses, return the brave sailors to land,
While wail the poor wives on the desolate strand.
men entirely independent of one another—each claiming it for
his own. It is a natural consequence, that at the same stage:
of invest io-:, | inns, the same thought should suggest itself and the same conclusion be reached. Every kind of thought de pends on observation; and original thought requires original
When the fair hopes of life seem just at their height, Then their props fall away, and joys take their (light. The lord of a people to-day rides in state, But to-morrow, to sleep in the grave is bis fate; Aud before, into earth, he well might have sank, Since poison alone, from life's goblet he drank.
The wind is delusive, comes the storm with the hour, Gilds no longer, the sun, the cross on the tower; The smooth sea is troubled and its waters wild hurled; Like dust in the tempest, earth's greatest are whirled; Safe from change and from ruin, alas, there is naught Save the heart that can pity, and its God given thought.
C. C W., '7-1.
observation. Whoever forms his ideas and opinions from his own observation will sometimes see the most hackneyed sub ject in a new light; and this is what may be considered orig inality of thought.
Expression depends upon thought. Originality of expres sion only requires that natural thoughts and genuine feelings should be expressed in their own language. When we have ideas of our own, we naturally express them in our own lan guage unless we have adopted an artificial standard of style. Many writers of the last, century endeavored to follow after the manner of Dr. Johnson, and even Madam D'Arblay's novels
are written in that unsuitable style. It does not follow that
there should be an imitation of any particular author — per
(Drifj inalit ii in (Senilis, Shomiht, and (fxinr^ion.
Genius is commonly taken to mean high intellectual pow er; in this sense, the word itself implies originality; but in the phrase, orii/iuulifi/ of ft ni us, it has the sense of mind, or char acter. We may therefore consider or'n/i nalitij of genius as merely equivalent to orit/iualit// of mind. Independence and self-reliance are the first characteristics of an original genius. Under the influence of others, originality is impossible. It must see with its oaaui eyes and think for itself. To do this, requires more than an average intellect, and hence the idea of strength becomes associated with that of originality. An orig inal minel has the broad insight and independence of judg ment which often renders a man superior to the prejudices of his education, and to the narrow conventional rules of life. He will not be disposed to receive ready made opinions upon subjects in which he is interested. A man of original mind often holds narrow views on a question which he has never
fect imitation is as rare as originality — yet a large portion of writing is far from being orijinal. In newspapers, set forms of expression like — arrest tin spread of tin devouritaj element, iiicitdc, ,1 in financial con/jdicatiot/s, etc., have become so com mon that their use is almost invariable; so that an entire ar
ticle may be made up by a combination of such current phras es. Plagiarism of thought is more common than imitation of style. A stolen idea may be effectually disguised by a new form of expression; but could all such thoughts be again transformed to the language in which they were first ex pressed there would result an absolute identity in many pas sages novv widely separated. But besides taking from an other, it is also important that a writer should not continually repeat even his own statements. Though there are abundant instances of this in sermons, Shakespeare " who never repeats" is a convincing example to the contrary.
A well known production of a little boy — an essay on the
cow— concludes as follows: " If I had to be either a coav or
taken the trouble to investigate. Dr. Johnson's belief in a sheep, I would rather be an ox !" Now whatever we may say
witchcraft is a striking instance. < h'iginality is not essential of the loo-ie of the essay it is remarkable for one quality to
to the highest eminence in life. (.Treat as he Avas, it may be which its reputation is due. The first sentence, "the cow is a
doubted if George Washington was original ! A man of orig useful animal," is taken from the Primary School Header, but
inal character is liable to disagree with public opinion. As a all that follows is purely orit/imd. Had the little boy been old
statesman, or journalist, he is often greatly esteemed, but at eiioiu'h to read up on the cow, he would have produced a
times is very unpopular. Such were Charles Sumner and more correct composition, but it would not have been origin
Horace Greeley. Genius is such an indefinable quality that al, and certainly avou Id not have been so widely circulated
there is no test for it. We do not claim that either of these and copied by every newspaper. Though it may be doubted
was a genius, but merely give them as notable examples of if reading up <»n a subject is conclusive to originality, it is im
what may be understood by originality of genius.
possible for any but the editor of a village newspaper to write
Originality of thought naturally follows that of genius. ^Absolute originality of thought is very rare. "There is noth ing new under the sun." Though a thought is hackneyed to the world, it may be new to the individual. Every child has
such original thouo-hts. We should conclude then that the
upon a subject of which he has no knowledge. A knowledge of many subjects can only be obtained by reading; and the most extensive reading can only be beneficial to those who are
careful to ask information ami not to borrow ideas. 1 et a
very brilliant piece of composition is often made up entirely
originality of a thought depends on its being spontaneous and genuine rather than new. The same idea is often original to several minds. The theory that the skull is lhe continuation of the spinal column occurred almost simultaneously to both
Avith matter taken from many widely different sources and united so skilfully that its original identity is lost. The more finely divided the materials of such a composition the closer Avill be their combinations and the more perfect the effect of
Gothe and Oken. Many a discovery in science is made by . the Avhole.
110
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Jan. 29, 1876.
The first essential of good Avriting, is indeed the value of
the ideas; but it is very important that they should be clearly conveyed to the reader. Xo one can be sure of a thought till he is able to express it in words. Vague notions and senti
ments are not thought; general sentiments, dim fancies, and
romantic images are worthless. Many persons have poetic
feeling, but very few can Avrite poetry. Walt Whitman's Avrit
ings are examples of perverted originality; of rare poetic ma
terial utterly marred by crude and lawless expressions.
Originality is to be distinguished from novelty Avhich is
often extravagance. The value of a thought .Iocs not consist
merely in its being new. In conversations with Voltaire, a
sensational French writer was obstinately defended by one of
his friends, who finally exclaimed, " After all, you can not de
ny that he has Avritten many good and original things."
"Yes," said Voltaire, "but what is original is not good and
what is good is not original."
Junior.
and sometimes actually rash and cruel in his actions, yet Avhen compared with those whom he fought against, he was liberal
and generous.
Having been driven from Caraccas by the Spaniards, Bol ivar repaired to Xcav Grenada, where lie found a new field for" work. After aiding in placing the patriot cause upon a firm. basis there, he again hoisted the flag of freedom in Venezuela, marched triumphantly upon Caraccas, a d, on the 4th of Au gust, lsi-3, entered in triumph his native city. But an in crease in Spanish forces reduced hirn once more to an outcast. Still his indomitable pluck urged him forward to another at tempt, and this time he succeeded. Marching in triumph through Xew Grenada and Venezuela he united them into one great state — Columbia— and became its president. He was
now hailed as the father of his country. Three millions of
people looked to him as their liberator. Still the tireless Bol ivar was not satisfied. He marches into Peru, throws from her the Spanish yoke, gives her a gov eminent of her own, and
§imon bolivar.
Bolivar is one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, name connected with South American history. Our present limits prevent our taking more than a hasty glance at his great ca reer, hardlv less full of interest and excitement than Napole
on's or Washington's. Simon Bolivar Avas horn in Caraccas on the 24th of July,
1783. His parents were of noble families. At the time of
presses into other states still which he also frees. It Avas then
that a people full of gratitude named their land Bolivia, and electeel Simon Bolivar as their first president. Bolivar was now at the head of three great states which he had freed, and the
constitutions of which he had made. With the power of he-
coming emperor, and of making himself the head of a roval family, he displayed the noble motives governing his whole actions by quietly retiring from public life, like a Diocletion
Simon's birth his father owned a rich estate near Caraccas, or a Washington, and returning to what little remained of his
and also held a lucrative Office under the Spanish government. once rich estate. But the incessant struggles of twenty years Hardly had Bolivar acquired the rudiments of an education, had left him a body Avell nigh worn out, and on the 2 th of.
when he was left an orphan; not being satisfied Avith the ad vantages for study offered him in America, he was permitted by the government to go to Europe, a privilege granted only
December, 1830, he died.
As a general Bolivar was very successful, imitating XTapoleon in his manner of prosecuting campaigns. But as a states
to few. After spending a short time in travel, and Avitnessing, among other things, the last scenes of the French 1 revolution, he settled at Madrid and spent a few years in careful study.
man, though he Avorked ardently and honestly for what he be lieved to be the best interests of his people, his success may well be questioned. From the very first of his career he Avas
But Bolivar Avas eager to meet the active scenes of life; and ahvays frank in expressing his political opinions, maintaining
at the age of nineteen he left Madrid and returned to Amer throughout his life that a form of government like that in
ica, bringing with him a young and beautiful Avife. His in England Avas best adapted to the South American States. He
tention Avas to lead a quiet and peaceful life upon his rich estate has been censured for this opinion, and even accused of aim
near Caraccas. But this sweet dream he ntever realized; the hand of death soon deprived him of his fair bride, and to al leviate his grief he sought again the continent of Europe. Af ter traveling through Spain and Italy he returned to France just at the time Xapoleon Avas in his glory; and what he wit nessed there, no doubt influenced him in his after life. In re
turning to Venezuela he passed through the United States and saw, for the first time, the workings of free institutions. He Avas thus well prepared, on arriving in Caraccas, to take sides with the patriots who were then rising against the tyranny of Spain. He took part in the revolution of lslo, and was one of the foremost in the production of the declaration of inde
pendence, which the patriots issued on July 5th, Ik 1 ]. Boli
ing at absolute power. But when avc consider the ignorance which prevailed in those states we cannot help thinking that
lie was wise and honest. Though jealous rivals and'siispicious
historians have attempted to stamp him as a second Xapoleon in motives, his actions and words, through which alone we
can judge his heart, are worthy of a Washington. He spent bis fortune in the cause of his country, and though he was of
fered millions for his services, and had for sonic time, unlim
ited control of the revenues of three great states, he died with
out a dollar of public money iM his possession. Monuments
have been raised to perpetuate his memory, ami he bears to
day the proud title of creator and liberator of Columbia, Peru,
and Bolivia.
n
var was now twenty-eight years of age and fully enlisted in the patriot cause. From this time forward he sacrificed prop erty, comfort, and health to the cause of freedom. Through
twenty years of incessant struggles he did not once lose si" lit
of his object. '1 hough many times accused of selfish designs
tfoiTOiioiulcnrr.
l-'UKMIMAN i IOAV.
.
Fit, tors ( 'ormll Era :
An editorial in your last issue states (hat definite action
l«:is finally been lake, by the class of <;., [n IV,,iml to SoIuliniX
Jan. 29, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
117
|a crew to Saratoga next summer. Judging from outside ap not be .mt of place. It seems to be the settled opinion of a
pearances, it could be said that such is not the case; for as yet large number of the class that the courses should be repre no definite action has been taken to organize a crew and get it sented in the coming exhibition. This can readily be done to work in the gymnasium, which part of the business is abso by theses, representative of the several courses. But this
lutely more essential at present to the sending of a good crew would make the programme too long, and to obviate the diffi
to Saratoga, than finding out the means for raising (he requi culty I would suggest that an essay or thesis be received from
site amount of money. This is all well enough, and not that the course in Science, one from the combined courses of Arts,
it is being done a day
too soon, but it would
look much bet
'
Philosophy and Literature, and one from the courses in En
ter if the efforts to organize a crew were in keeping Avith
those to raise money. Xo one doubts but that there is enough
material in lhe class from which to choose a superior crew; every one knoAVS that, as yet, that material is exceedingly raw. The Freshman crew last year had a bow oar and stroke, at least, to depend on by this time, ami enough other men in training to make out a full crew ; '70 is far behind in all these re spects. To be sure, they cannot tell now who will make good men for the positions, but they ought to have at least a dozen good men to choose from, and unless they go into training immediately such cannot be the case. The Freshman crews of Harvard and one or two other colleges have been in training
since the middle of last term, and if our Freshman crew in
tends to win laurels at Saratoga next summer, thev can do it only by hard and persistent work, and more of it than the other crews have done. The crews that Avin will be, as they always have been, the best trained ones, and the victories of
the Cornell crews last summer, as well as their defeats in for
gineering, Mechanic Arts, Architecture and Chemistrv. Then in addition to these three theses there would be the oration, poem and essay, and whatever else is desired. The expedien cy of having debate is questioned by many, but that Avill un doubtedly be discussed thoroughly at the next meeting of the class. By allowing three essays from the courses, and bv making everything competitive, the best talent of the class
will be called out, and everyone will have a chance to do some
thing toward making the Junior Ex. a success. It seems to be the opinion of all that an orchestra should he engaged. It
is said that a first class orchestra can be engaged in either
Binghamton, Auburn or Rochester at no great expense, and it would add greatly to the interest of the occasion. As a meeting will shortly be called to take action on matters per taining to the Ex., these suggestions are presented for the
consideration of the class; as, from present prospects, the ex
hibition will eclipse anything of its kind ever held at Cornell.
Junior.
mer years, will bear Avitness to this.
The action taken by the class in regard to raising money,
KESK, NATION.
is worthy of the nost hearty approval. The idea that one Editors (forncJl Era:
class alone can raise enough money among its own members
Gentlemen: — Will you have the kindness to state to those
to send a crew, has lost its force since the experiment of last , concerned, that, believing the change conducive to the best
year, which only amounted to the fact that the Xavy sent the interests of the association, I have resigned the leadership of
Freshman crew, and 'Ts subscribed more liberally toward de the orchestra in faA^or of Mr. Wm. Doggett.
fraying the expenses of the Xavy than any other class. Some
Arthur Falkenau.
parties have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the so-
called liberal offer of the Xavy.
onlyIf such ones Avere
ac
Z\xt "(Srccft" [?] Juanl ^vom.
quainted with a few facts, they would soon decide that the liberality lies in the class, which accepted the offer of the Na
The following note fully explains itself:
vy, thereby implying their willingness to raise -S500 as their
804 Iniuan.v Avenue, Ciii.oo, 111., 21st Jan., 1870.
share of the Navv expenses.
This is over a third more than
To
Rufus
P.
St chid, is _
D.
D.,
and Prof
Z.
II.
Pdf,r:
was received from the class of '7s last year, while the sub
Gentlemen: — I received from Professor Bussed, a few
scriptions of the three upper classes and Alumni combined did days ago, a copy of Curtius' Greek History, bearing an in-
!not amount to more than sci.io. Xo doubt this will be a scription signed by your names. Allow me in return to ex
source of surprise to many, but it will account in part for the press my sincerest thanks to you, and through you to my
debt of se2.->o which still hangs over the Navy. If '7'.» suc friends in Ithaca, who have thus given me a proof of the es
ceeded in
be doing
raising s.'.dd, as they
what no other class,
seem
with
determined to do, it Avill one exception, has done
!
teem
mt-.
which,
I
assure
you, is and always will lie very dear I ani, very truly, yours,
to
since the University opened. The exception is the present
Julia J. Irvine.
Senior class, who, it is said, raised *<;<)<> in their Ereshman year. Whether it is best or not to exhaust the liberality of a
University sterns.
class the first year they enter the University remains an unde
— Will somebody shoot that Aof.
cided question.
^-
— Smoke Vanity Fair. See advertisement.
■I UN ior ex.
Editors Corn ell Era:
As the time for making arrangements for the Junior is near at hand, perhaps a few suggestions in regard to it
—Tliere were seventy-one votes cast at Senior election. —There are six ladies in 7(1, and they all voted at Senior election. —Prof. Ch. Fred Hartt will furnish the article on Brazil for the new
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
118
THE CORNELL ERA.
Jan. 29, 1876.
—President White is in Xew York; his examination in History oc curs on Saturday, Feb. •>, at 10 ,v >i.
thousand pounds intensity. It has been placed in the old Botanical Lecture Room, and is well worth a visit. The Department has also
—A collection of plants lias been received by the Universiiy from Mr. Branner, '74, avIio is now in Brazil.
been presented with one of Newman's Emery Planers, through the lib erality of the Tanite company — the general agents for the machine—of Strondsbury, Pa.
— Wanted: A side walk from Cascadilla to Sibley .which shall be passable and suitable in all kinds of weather.
— Not less than forty students attended Prof. Potter's lecture on Roman law, held in Curtis Hall, last Monday evening. They seemed to
—Prof. Fiske is engaged on an article treating of the Swedish Lan be very much interested in it, and the prospect is that there will be a
guage and literature for the new American Cyclopa'dia.
good attendance during the remainder of the course. Some of the fu
— Prof. Potter's lectures on Roman Law will hereafter be held in
the Academy, in order that all can attend who feel disposed.
ture admirers of Blackstone submitted to sitting on the floor with good grace, but a second grievance may have a different effect upon them. A decrease in the attendance, or an increase in the seating capacity of
—The circulars are out announcing the Summer School of Zoology the Hall, must inevitably follow.
under the management of Professors Wilder, Barnard, Mr. J. II. Cornstock, and Dr. Elliott Coues
— The question for debate before a certain literary society last Fri day evening, was something in regard to Amnesty. After the regular
A— reply to '• Antioch," in the Ithaca Democrat for Jan. '.'7 should speakers had finished, a noble youth, and a member of 'TH, arose to his
be read by all who are interested in the discussion arising from Presi feet and expressed a desire to say a few words on the subject. To il
dent White's speech at the ovation.
lustrate the condition of the South he intended to use the parable of the
—At the election, last .Saturday, a Senior persisted in putting a class
ticket into the box in which votes for the Commodore were cast. II. wanted to get rid of the ticket real bad.
—There will be no more dividends in Skating Park stock until the
prodigal son. He commenced his speech in this manner: " Mr. Pres
ident and gentlemen of the society: You have all heard of the prodigal calf— " (loud cries of No! No!j. He was finally allowed to proceed and conclude. The critic, in his report, said : "Although we have never heard of the prodigal calf, Ave have heard of the prodi
weather becomes colder. Owners of stock to the amount of So or less, gal ass, etc."
will please straighten up their accounts.
—The excitement Avhich has prevailed for the last few weeks in re
—The item in our last issue giving a report of the Freshman meet ing, was furnished by a member of that class, which will no doubt ex plain the mistake in the name given them for Marshal.
—The first meeting of the new Cornellian Board will be held in Jas. Parmlee's room on the third floor over Spence Spencer's bookstore, next Monday evening, for the purpose of organization.
—A billiard association has been formed among the students of Cas
cadilla. A table, rented for the remainder of the year, has been placed in Green Parlor, where it is kept in almost constant use.
—Mr. Straussman wishes it announced that students who desire uni
forms must leave their orders within ten days, otherwise it will be im possible to furnish them by the commencement of next term.
gard to Senior election, arrived at its climax last Saturday afternoon, in
Military Hall. The final efforts had been made by the contending par ties, and the result of their work in a measure, was to be made public. About three o'clock the presence of the fast arriving numbers of "grave
and reverends," and their immediate division into knots of three or
four, showed that tliere was something brewing. The election of Com
modore, which came off at the same time and place, helped lo increase the crowd, and in a short time Military Hall was comparatively full. The small bauds of Seniors gathered in different parts of the room gave proof of a lively campaign, and the arrival of hacks with the tardy members of the class, showed that nothing Avas being left undone by either side that would help the prospects of their favorites. Rival can
didates appeared on the field, advancing the interests of their respect ive parties with due consideration (.) to the feelings of their hearers.
—Seniors who feasted on the good will and affections, to say noth ing of cigars and oysters, of so-called friends last week, are now pining
defor another election. Let such ones wait a year; they are ahvays in
mand.
—The trial of the man who stole the "Struggle's" barrel of cider which occurs Saturday evening, Jan. '.".), at Society Hall, in the Xorth L niversity Building, commencing at s n. M., will undoubtedly be inter esting.
-Prof. Derby arrived in Rio after a voyage of thirty-three days
Soon after his arrival Prof. Hartt arrived in Rio with a la.-e and valu able collection of Crefaeeom fossils which will be placed on exhibition at that place. The collection includes a number of new Ooials -md
other Radiates. The Geological commission i.s in a prosperous condi tion, and the parties were to enter the field in the middle of January.
-"Are avc going to have a Junior ex?" is ,|.e ,1U(.rv ,hat ;„rit;lU.s
the mind of the to hold such an
Junior just at entertainment
present, in their
and well it should if Junior year There
ihey
is „o
intend
reason
why they should
should that need
not hold an exhibition, and many reasons why tl,eV not be stated here. The precedent, has I,,,,, estab
lished and should not be allowed to cease. The class will hold a meet-
ing m Military Hall, Saturday afternoon at r, o'clock, ,„ decide the mat-
-The Mechanic Arts department has recently procured a machine
oi
ly
testing the strength of materials. It is
weigh, crushing, tensile, and breaking
lilted strains
to apply,
of from
and ac, uratezero „, i'0 - y
One good feature about the election was that every voter was obliged
to square up with the class treasurer before he cast his vote. At five
o'clock the tellers adjourned and consumed an hour in counting the
votes which gave the following result: President, W J. Berry; Vice
President, I). F. Flannerv; Pecording Secretary, J. Cady; Correspond
ing Secretary, W. K. Boy; Treasurer, F. IE Taylor; Orator. C. R. Park-
burst; Ivy Orator, CE II. Esty; Poet, S. P. Sturges; E»avUt, R. Ya-
tabe; Historian, S. H. Coon; Prophet, H. B. Seely; Toast Master, W. M. Sturges; Marshal, M. M. Garver. The result of the Navv election
was the choice of C. W. W:
n for Commodore for the ensuing year.
— Twas midnight's holy hour. A solemn silence reigned o'er the earth, unbroken save l.y the mutlled roar of the waters as thev leaped adown theCianfsSiaircase. The last n-linmierime; light had been ex tinguished in the halls of H„. sagas, and the most diligent votaress at the shrine of Science had succumbed to the drowsy god. Suddenlv there arose a wail of agony, as though bedlam had been let loose. A thrill <>l horror passed like an electric current through the inmates of the tem ple, who were awakened hy the very (list wild note. Some turned pale at the horrid suspicion that the spirits of Thomas eats who had been
saci-ilieed lo furnish material for their dissect in- knives were eoniiuo- to
:»ve,,oe tlit-ir wrongs. 1J,„, doubt and fear were turned to joy whe.Uhe
harsh sounds suddenly changed into tuneful melody. The "soft strains
ol a Strauss waltz rose and fell up,,,, (he keen midnio-hi air, and then »»1«'<'1 Ihey knew it was ||,e spirii of Thomas hoverim;- in the air. The
music suddenly ceased, Im. soon recommenced, this Hum a succession
ol college airs delighting ,i„. „ow thoroughly aroused demoiselles.
Jan. 29, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
119
The "spirit" was not partial, all sides of the building were visited, even the unoccupied side being favored with some of the most ravish ing strains. Waves of rarefaction and condensation once more im pinged upon the west side, this time accommodating themselves to the air "Goodnight, Ladies." A sigh of regret was wafted down from above, and was heard. The spirit relented, and the inspiring air " Yankee Doodle," was rendered. Once more silence held universal
sway, and the fair ones sunk once more to rest.
A— few days since one of the professors perpetrated a practical joke upon himself worthy to be cherished in the archives of the institution. He had occasion to visit a small closet, in which the janitor keeps his tools, situated in the basement, near the engine. Not wishing to be dis turbed while there, he locked himself in and slipped the key into his pocket. During his manipulations he forgot that be had the key in his possession, and upon trying to get out, imagined himself the victim of some malicious physicist, lie waited some time for his tormentor to repent, ami then became exasperated. He pounded the door, kicked, Avept, and swore through the key-hole, but in vain. The janitor had
gone down town, and there was none to hear or heed his cry. In the
course of the afternoon he returned and accidentally discovered the mighty fallen into a sullen fit of distrust, and destitute of all confidence in humanity. When the professor sat down to his newspaper after sup per that evening, and happening to put his hand into his pocket, found the key to that closet, he immediately went out into the back yard and
ran a wheelbarrow back and forth over himself for hall an hour.
tories, apparatus, museums, libraries, diagrams and other facilities fo
instruction.
In accordance with the above the programme will be as follows:
Session of six weeks commencing Friday July Tth, and closing Thursday August 17th.
Thirty-six day lectures antl laboratory exercises with nine evening
lectures.
Protozoa,
\\,,• onus,
'A |
|2,i
Radiates,
'-' ,
Mollusks, :; |
Molluscoids, A
Prof.
Barnaul
Crustacea,
-
It nsects,
-
Birds, -
-
Other Vertebrates,
2 u8
O- Mtr.
J
rC, omstock.
."i Dr. ('hies.
17 Prop. Wilder.
gcrsonalisi.
Rick, '7fi, is teaching at Bordentown, N. J. L. B. Root, '7i>, is teaching in Goshen, Ind.
Ciddinos, '74, has returned to the Cniversity. J. A. Thompson, '7."i, is in the Harvard Law School. Reel, '77, is studying law in the Harvard Law Sehool. Head, '7!», will be absent a few weeks from the Cniversity. Jackson, '7s, is in Germantown, Pa. ; she will not return to the Uni versity this term. Tompkins, '7"i, delivered his prize oration before a Watkins audi ence last Saturday night.
A— Summer School of Zoology is to be opened on July 7th, under the auspices of the University, and under the direction of Professor
Wilder. The session is to continue six weeks. As with the summer
school in geology so here the carrying out of the plan depends Avholly
R. B. Foster, '74, has just returned from Peru, and is now at his father's house in Flushing, N. Y.
II erupt Spencer, Peter Payne, and C. II. Lewes are about to start, in London, a new philosophical magazine, to be called "The Mind."
upon whether or not a sufficient number of students wish to pursue the
Ouson, '77, was married, Jan. lo, to Mary A. Schobey, daughter of
proposed course. The number to be admitted is limited to fifty. A Dr. E. W. Schobey, at Cnion Springs. "And thus endeth his career," or
very full circular can be obtained by applying to Professor Wilder. perhaps it should be "and thus coiitmenectit his career."
From a note to this circular we see that it is also proposed to start sum mer schools in Botany, Chemistry, and Drawing. We quote the fol lowing from the circular:
We see that the schedule, in giving the exercises, etc., of the dif ferent Professors, states that "Prof. Arnold has no duties this term."
It is also rumored that he has resigned his Professorship.
" The Professor of Zoology in Cornell University proposes to con duct a summer school of zoology under the auspices of the University and with the aid of the following naturalists:
Waterman, '77, bow oar of the Cniversity crew, took "French leave " and started for home on Thursday evening. He has been feel ing unwell for some time past, antl will spend a few weeks in recruiting
Prof. W. S. Barnard, Protozoa, Worms, Radiates, Mollusks and up.
Molluscoids.
Mr. Lute E. Filler, just returned from Cornell University and a
Mr. J. H. Comstock, Insects and Crustacea.
son of the late Judge Ira L. Fuller, is noAV connected with this paper in
Dr. Elliott Cocks, Birds. Prop. B. G. Wilder, Vertebrates excluding birds.
au editorial capacity, and any favors shown him in his researches for news will be duly appreciated. — Warren Constitution.
Each inst.uctor -will have a competent assistant in the laboratory. Prof. Barnard lectured on Protozoa at the Anderson school in is 74, and on the Invertebrates generally at the summer school at Normal, 111.,
While walking down the street lasl Saturday, we were agreeably surprised by discovering the genial countenance of a former " Cornell "
friend of ours, Mr. C M. Conklin, of the class of 'To. Mr. Conklin is
in lsTo.
now connected with the P. & Y. R. R. at Xiles, and is one of those jol
Mr. Comstock is instructor in Entomology in Cornell Cniversity and ly souls whom it always gives us pleasure to meet. — Warren Consiitution.
gave instruction in that subject in the school at Peoria, 111., in IST.j. Dr. Coue-s is author of Key to Birds of North America and of nu
merous other ornithological works and papers.
The Director was connected with the Anderson school in 1N7:> aud
— B. F. Pees, Secretary of the Regatta Committee of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, has received the following letter
from Thomas Hughes: Xo. so Park Street, London, Dec. 30, ls7o,
1S74 and with the schools at Peoria and Normal in is 7a.
His experience with these schools, confirmed by the opinion of oth
Dear Sir:— I received your letter a week ago announcing to me the fact that 1 had been elected umpire for the Cniversity Regatta of
ers connected with these or weth other schools, lead-* him to include the 1 s 7 1j by the unanimous vote of the Rowing Association of American
following features in the programme:
Colleges. 1 beg you to assure the Committee that I prize very highly this honor, anel thank them and you most heartily for the very kind way
1. Separation of Zoology from other branches of -cience
I iu which it lias been bestowed and the news of it conveyed to me. I
2. Prominence of laboratory work over lectures. 'A. Systematic study of one group of animals at a time.
delayed replying in the hope that 1 might possibly see my way to ac
cepting the "post, but this is, I am sorry to say, quite- impo-sible. It
woulddiave been a high honor and great pleasure for me to have acted.
4. Combination of the laboratory work with lectures upon a single Believe me always, with all gooel wishes of the season to you and all
group on the same day. o. Restriction of the systematic work to the for.euoon. 0. Supply of material for dissection, fresh or in alcohol, at no extra
cost.
7. Location at or near an institution of learning containing labora
member* of the Association, most truly yours,
B. Frank Pees.
Thomas Hughes.
Mr. Pees thiuks that tliere is a good prospect of an international
collegiate regatta, notwithstanding Cambridge aud Oxford, in their re
cent letters, held out no explicit encouragement.
lt?o
TIIE CORNELL ERA
Jan. 29, 18Y6.
olxchauflcisi.
The Fnivirsity Reporter opens with a " sAveet " poem dedicated to a certain heavenly being christened Ada. in whom
" dwells again the primal preciousness, And here again the holy halo glows, Which evermore enwraps the maid," etc
The alliteration is especially fine-so suggestive of prunes and prisms. The gentleman, who is evidently a "sn.ashee" of "this human flower which all admire and bless aud pray for," comes to the conclusion that he will not be tbe happy one upon whom she will look with favor, and is thankful for the privilege he has of gazing into her "star-clear eyes." He has our heartfelt sympathy, and we advise him to stop gazing, or if he cannot do that, perhaps she would kindly consent to wear green goggles. No harm in asking. "National Holidays " is a good essay for one so young as J. CE must be. On holidays, he says, " all classes forget for a while the rigorous duties exacted by reason of their exist ence." New Year's day is the time when a man remembers " that at the beginning of the year just past he entered upon life's bosom with a conscience pure and free, with ' hope effulgent,' and with joy disport ing itself around his pathway." We are told that on Thanksgiving clay dinners are in order, and that the Fourth of July is devoted to the ora tor whose "fertile imagination revels in luxury," and who "soars aloft," For all of this let us be truly thankful.
" Every man is as his concept of self. If he includes in it the body and its appetites, he is the slave of lust. If he regards all sensualities as objective, and yet recognizes as central subjective elements, the finer mental and .esthetic sensibilities and desires, he is the servant of Pas sion, active or passive. If he segregates from self everything unvolitional, leaving only that sublimest attribute of the triune personality, the poAver to choose, and the moral law Avithin to regulate it, then be is
a man fetterless and free."
Exchanges please pass tbe above around. It is from the Collegian, but that makes no difference; tliere is a piofundity in that paragraph which is perfectly overwhelming, while the thought is clothed in such poetical language that one is lifted into the seventh heaven " la Mahom et, " by the hair of his head."
subscription paper. With a large membership extending among the
town people, the yearly lax would be light.
The Ch con ide. which is the representative of an institution favor-
in''- "co education," moralizes on the uncertainties of things in this life, and uses as an example to prove the fact the falling through of a "leap
year hop," which was to have been given by the ladies of the College
city.'and
We are sorry that we cannot say as much as that, or even
that the subject has ever been broached at Cornell. Truly it is a sub
ject of considerable interest to many students, and persons upon whose shoulders such an enlerprise naturally rests should be sure that their
consciences are entirely clear on the matter, before it is too late to do
anything ab< nil it.
^^
(!4oUc0c Cto.s.sip.
—A Yassar girl wrote home: "Dee Paw-Paw, we study Latin fo' owahs a day. Fvvench seven up and science evah so loung. The good matrons nevah let us go ouet. Won't you send me my leggins and skates for a poo' little girl who lives in the village Don't forget the
heel straps. — 7-Ee
— Mit uici.VN Univeksity— The University of Michigan has lately completed iis gymnasium, which includes bathing room, bowling alley,
billiard hall, and dancing hall.
—A lady of the Senior class being asked by the professor in physics as to the " duration of a spark," replied, (perhaps from experience,) " ( >ne evening.'' — Ex.
— Prof. —(giving a long sentence in English) " Please translate that
into German, Mr. C." Mr. ( '. — "There are three words I don't know."
Prof. — " Which three-'" Mr. C — (who is disponed to be accommodat ing,) " Oh, any three you wish."
A— Junior who has been taking his landlady's daughter for an ex tra study, received from her as a holiday present apiece of perforated pasteboard with the following motto worked on it with red worsted: "I knead thee every hour." We don't consider it anything wrong for him to receive it, or her to give it, provided the sentiment expresses the truth. The fault lies in his allowing his chum to find it out. "Hine illae lachrymae ." — Ex.
The College Mirror is an ingenious compilation of floating newspaper paragraphs, and of aged Almanac jokes, too old to float. "The Le gend of Alexander the Great" is thrilling in the- extreme. A fitting conclusion would be: "and then he shut up his jack-knife and put it in his pocket."
The Brunonian publishes an affecting poem which relates the story
of a man who anchored his mother-in-law, Karigmarole, a thousand
fathoms deep under the ocean, and ever afterwards lived happily with his wife, Katerpilla. The sentiment is very pretty, and justifies the re
printing of the poem which appeared several years ago from the pen of
a student of Brown. " Pickle-Juice" is a sensible article in which the
writer complains greviously of those library-pests who fill the margins of books with their pointless comments. We have never seen a library
yet that has escaped the merciless pencils of these fiends. Ages ago, when we read the Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, etc., we were once
requested by a marginal note, to seep. 57; on p. a 7 another note re
ferred to p. li!); we were thus referred from page to page until we were
writhing with curiosity. After an hour's search, we were told on page 2H> that we had probably strayed from an insane asylum. This was the
beginning of our experience with the Look-Marker. May he be made up into a one cent lead pencil and sharpened for endless cycles with a dull knife, is our cordial wish for his future. The Brown students
have
adopted
the
"
( 'bib
"
System
for
raising the money
necessary
to
equip their crew. The Club is an organized body whose members pav
a yearly tax. For this year the tax levied on HI members will be SKI
per man. Why cannot such a club be formed at ( 'oruell? The plan seems to haye many advantages over the old way of sending around a
—Scene before Examination. — Prof. — " Are you prepared for exam ination?" Student— " I am not feeling well; think I shall have to go
home."
Ob! come where the cyanides silently flow, And the carburets droop o'er the oxides below; Where the rays of potassium lie white on the hill,
Aud the song of the silicate never is still.
Come, oh, come!
Tumti, turn, turn! Peroxide of soda, and urani-um!
While alcohol's liquid at thirty degrees, And no chemical change can affect manganese; While alkalies flourish and acids arc free, My heart shall be constant, sweet science, to thee!
Ves, to thee!
I'itltlletluni dee!
Zinc, boriTx and bismuth, and 11. O. plus (E
— Dmdon Fun.
-Co education has been adopted in thirty colleges and institutions
in the I nited Stales. — Ma dis,,,,, /On
—The Ohio Slate Oratorical Contest will be held at Springfield,
Thursday evening, February Kith. The ft.llowi
ntleinen have been
selected to act as in.].
Pent. T. W. Harvev, Paiiiesville; Lev. Lv-
man lOlier, P,,,,,,,-, |',,,f. K. ]-]. White, Columbus The Association of
the colleges represented in the contest ( onvenes on the following dav.
— Oberlin 11, eitip.
The Cornell
" A hove all Sects is Truth."
Volume VIIL— Nimp.ek 1(1.
THE COBXLLL UNI YLBSITV, FLPKCACV 4, 1870E
£2.50 PEn Annum in Advance.
Print,,/ und Published every Friday, by Stutlents of the Senior und Junior Classes.
editors for 1875-0.
those present, and all but three or four out of t vve-nty-seven voted in favor of the exhibit ion. This makes the want of in
J. W. Stikoevant, '7li, M. E. Haviland, '77,
C. P. Wooi.Kt vv, '70, A. J. Loos, '77.
';
—
How
long,
oh,
Iioav
long
"
Avill
those Avindow solos be
allovveil to annoy stuelents who are obliged to attend lectures
in the A. L. Uooin ? For more than a week they have been
kept up, and we think that without seriously discommoding anyone they might be dispensed Avith. Aside from distract ing the student's mind from the otherwise interesting lectures,
they seriously affect the nervous portion' of the house. It has been suggested that some of the victims of chloroform, lying
around in the lab. or immediate vicinity, be stuffed into the cracks. This Avould certainly lessen the noise, and likewise, perhaps, the disagreeable odors that scini-occasionally infest that portion <>f the building.
—There is a need at Cornell for .something new, or rather
for the revival of an old institution — and that is an amateur
terest manifested in the matter, last Monday, all the more un accountable. Wc hope that the matter will not be allowed to drop here, and that those timid croakers who tremble at the very name of Sophomore will permit the question to be brought squarely be-fore the class, and not force a meeting to such an unceremonious end again.
—AVe notice with pleasure that the members of the Music al Association arc under the intbiciice of quite a revival. In spite of the bright prospects with which it resumed its work last Fall, the interest <>f the members soon flagged, and the meetings were but poorly attended. It was soon apparent that the concert that hael been proposed would have to be given up, and the few av1o practiced regularly began to feel discour aged. This term the Directors announced that a concert would be given on the L'otli of this month, hoping thereby to arouse the members from their apathy. The result seems to have been successful, and the meetings are once more AATell at tended. Mr. Falkenau has resigned the leadership of the or chestra to Air. Doggett, believing that the change would be
conducive to the best interests of the association. His violin
dramatic association. Although debating societies are very good, still there are some who, after a while, tire of their ex ercises. This fact is recognized by these societies, and there is consequently introduced, as a "■ change," a mock trial, under the insane plea that this will refresh the mind wearied by long debates and heavy essays. We believe' that if lien jainin Franklin or Solomon had figured in mock trials they would have made asses of themselves, and their names would have
been handed down to universal execration. We arc confident
that a short drama could be prepared with no more trouble than that involved in arranging one of the aforesaid abomina tions, aud that the effect on the audience and actors would be enlivening rather than suggestive of suicide. Several of our professors are interested in amateur dramatics, and would no doubt lend their support in reviving this amusement.
— "I guess Junior Ex. i.s pretty well Hat teiied out," re marked a Sophomore after the spiritless meet ing last Monday in the Physical lecture room. It is well known that there were Juniors present at that meeting who were very anxious that some expression of opinion of the whole class should be taken, and yet the feAV opposed to the Ex. succeeded in having the meeting adjourned without having a time and place ap pointed for a discussion of the matter. At the meeting held Saturday afternoon, in Military Hall, a test vote was taken of
is a valuable acquisition to the orchestra, which now numbers eighteen instruments. Sig. Piutti has given it as his opinion that the concert had better not be given until the early part of next term, in order to allow of greater perfection being reached by those under his charge. The Directors will there
fore probably postpone it until that time.
.Vs tliere are no out-door sports to call away the attention
of members at this season, there is no reason why every one cannot spare one evening in the week for practice. The stu dents of Amherst and of Lafayette recently gave orchestral
concerts that Avere very successful loth from a musical and
pecuniary point of view. Our success this year will depend, as it did last, anel as did the success of Lafayette and Amherst, on the faithful attendance of every man at the appointed time appointed I"1' general practice, and on enough practice at home to prevent vexatious delays at rehearsal.
— Most. <>f the Harvard and Vale papers have taken our re
marks made in a late issue, on the Powing Association, A'ery
thingsmuch to heart. We did not say near as hard
as some
plausible const ruction of the fads would have allowed. AYith
everything to our credit what need had wc to say hard
things? Yet facts are not to have any weight with papers
whose editors roil the pool by stirring up their own sediment —
just to hide themselves— whenever their honor is imperilled.
122
THE CORNELL ERA,
Feb. 4, 1876.
'
It is a stubborn fact—American colleges understand it— Ox- over the scores of college catalogues before us we are able to
ford mid Cambridge are not to i.e bamboozled either that the sec no necessary connection between the amount of the prizes
palm in boating has been taken from Harvard and Yale by given and the general character of the work done by the stu-
other colleges and remains Avith them. Stir up the scdimc.it dents. Of the considerable institutions, Princeton is one of
if you enjoy it, hide yourself thus if you like it, wc will see the most " prized " and Cornell is one of the least <: prized;"
truth'that this
"asclear
noon-day, is not lost sight of.
We but at New York the conditions were entiiely reversed. Dai,
did not intend to discuss the subject of the withdrawals any \ ly "marking" is a system which is pernicious and belittling
further, but we seem forced now, to point out the way in in any college. It is an artificial stimulus to study. It must Avhich Harvard and Yale meet their humiliation. It is no new deaden largeness and independent research in everything method, it is simply to fall back on their general stock of aside from what will yield good " marks." Put in its essence, greatness. Their intrenchment is their prestige as colleges, how much does the prize system differ from it V All stimuThis they invariably fall behind. Were we chairman of the bis to study aside from attaining proficiency for practical ends meetiio, and in the midst of a warm discussion on boating I or knowledge for its own sake, is artificial. A student ought they were to sOp suddenly anel begin to discourse on the pres- not to hav<- too much to divert his attention from his regular tige of their colleges, we should as suddedly call them to or- studies. No one expects that a prize will produce a performder. Put that is just Avhat they are doing. Instead of stand- ance in any department that will be a contribution to either
ing to the subject they throAv out sneers— ihey " whisper and literature or science, but simply a performance which shall be
chuckle and grin." Poys, did it ever occur to you that you a little better than the standard usually attained.
arc responsible for yourselves? Your muscle and your brain
Cornell is justly proud of the absence of the marking sys
are at stake. The rusty shields of your ancestors simply tell tern, of her non-sectarian character and of her non-police char-
that you are of gootl blood. Only the field in which you fight acter. She gives no honorary degrees to anyone, not even to
can tell for you. It is not startling to us to be told that liar- young ministers, nor any "soft" Ct) professorships, not even to vard and Yale are respectable and venerable institutions, old ministers; but she still gives prizes to the " good boy " who
Boys, it is with your muscles and your brains that in all com- can remember the most technical words or produce the most
parisons and rivalries as students, we have to do. In the polished sentences. It may be that prizes act as healthful
realm of sneering you have readied great perfection, but is it stimulus in a grammar school, av here true ends are not yetap-
not the roof that sneers after all? When Saratoga is spoken predated, yet avc doubt it. 1 he Acad,ani/ or the Royal Society
oi, you mount the roof. If Ave invite you to the Academy of may give prizes for earnest investigation in new fields, or for
Music, you shout down to us from the roof. Most of the arti- better investigation in old ones, but with the University stu-
cles in the exchanges are answered from the roof i'he dent the conditions are epiite different. The ideals of Cor-
picture of the big dog and the little dog could have been con- nell in many respects exceed the practice. We talk much of
ceived of only by one who had been boosted upon the roof the manliness of students, but we know that the ideal is often
Still Ave must not forget to put ourselves in your place.
I sadly marred. We talk of an absence of pedantry in Profes-
We suppose if Ave Avere at Harvard or at Yale we should sens, but Ave could go any forenoon t<> exercises where pedant-
be tempted to do the same. What else could we do t We ry is still found— where the delinquent student is reprimanded
might knoAv that muscle or brain is good for just, as much as as a " bad boy," Avhoni his dear Prof, hopes will be more "in-
it will do, but we should still know that if we could not prove dustrious." — Perhaps prizes can still be used here Avith ad-
that ours was best by trial we could reason from the prestige of our institution that it ought to be the best, and with many, ourselves included, the argument would be conclusive.
We intended to let Harvard and Yale depart in jieace, but
you went away too saucy and boastful. Wc have no more
vantage.
Vet m :i ""iversity, as in society, there arc found enough
U) sl;md ±ur »'HM-1 principles to maintain them. Though sal'rm1 thi,los he profaned by some, golly men will still l,lvwl'Vl' tlle'm- A sent inieiif dies only because it does not have
space, forthis discussion. Whenever you have anything to say of your muscle or brain, all wc have to reply is, conic down
lriL'mls- To Cornell's ideals add siiilicieiit pecuniary resources ai1'1 slie muist leave «»ther college* behind. But without the
to Saratoga or New York and test it. Once for all, at the ' Pecu"laiEV resources (she can still add new strength to the great
risk of rivaling congress in delicacy of expression, with the 1,I'II"'1P1<-'S '»y winch she is supported. One way to do this, is,
pestered sporting-man Ave say, "Put. up or shut up."
w<" '"-'lieve, to abolish the prize system. We are far from be! ing ungrateful to the President for offering these particular
—In a recent issue we published a list of subjects for the ' Pn/A's> hilt we take this occasion to avow that we disbelieve
iPresielentEs prizes in Literature. Offering these prizes seems "' ^ =V"clul P'l'K'.ple'.
jto have been an after-thought, produced perhaps by ll.c-
I »r. Sfeblnns has s.artcd a movement which deserves
result ot the \orktotcn victory. \\ henthe P,,„si,c tirst came ; praise and support. A lew vve'eLs since, he proposed that a club
into our hands last fall we were pleased to see indications that the prize system was dying out at Cornell. Put now students
I
i
be organised for the study
ni.glitly m the basement of
of American lliMen v , meeting tort-
the L'nita.ian church. At the iirst
are again tempted to clip oh a few hours a week, perhaps from j meeting ,|,e subject of the discoveries and setllemcnts of the
some favorite study, and bend their energ.esprizewards. We do ; N orthmen in America was given out.
not believe that this can advance scholaislup. ]„ looking AUonday evening tins subjeca was cpute
At the meeting last
fully treated by Dr.
Feb. 4, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
123
Stebbins himself, some Sagas being read and numerous author
—-We notice that some of ourexehanges are debating the ques
ities named. For our part we can see about as much conned ion between
the Northmen in America, and our civilisation as we can be
tion, " How is our Cniversity going to celebrate the Centen nial?" It is indeed a very natural question in these times and one
tween the inhabitants of Jupiter, if it has any inhabitants, and that should not pass by unnoticed at Cornell, as young as she
our civilization. If the Northmen ever were in America, they is. No one can hesitate for a moment to see how various are
did not leave a settlement or an institution, or even an identified the ways by which Cornell might celebrate the 100th anni
relic. Yet in speculation or in poetry the old tower of New versary of the year of Independence, if she only had money.
port and the skeleton washed upon the beach are interesting, For instance let '7^'s fountain be put in order and kept run
as the poem of Longfellow, read at the last meeting of the ning, on the Campus through the Centennial summer season,
club, slows. We suppose that the object is to begin at the or let the Avater works be effectually repaired so that the Uni
beginning. We should say that the object is more than ac versity buildings will not lack a constant supply of that ne
complished. .V better Avay, it seems to us, would have been cessity of life MO. "< biod things come slow," to illustrate t<> have spent the same time in discussing the condition of so-. —the contemplated walk to the University, but minor things
ciety in Europe at the close of the fifteenth century —the so ciety from which America was t<» receive its future inhabit ants. At the next meeting the subject of the French discov
eries and settlements is to be discussed. Afterwards are to
did you say ?
Well, we have a chemical laboratory, good of its kind, but
the demand for increased facilities calls for a more extensive
building. The drafting and engineering rooms, located in the
be discussed the.se of the Spanish, English, Ac. But we hard ly see how the subject can be logically and intelligibly treat ed without beginning Avith the Spanish and Portugese discov
second story of the north wing, surely are not what they
should be, either in arrangeiiieut or location, and the walk
from the laboratory to Sibley, but
.
eries first.
Then there is that little building on the outskirts (clear
It is, however, not our purpose to be critical. We would out) of the campus — in other words, the diminutive structure
rather see something done, even though the method be differ called the Cornell University Oymnasiurn. Small to be sure,
ent than avc would purpose, than to see nothing done. If the but nevertheless worthy of notice and patronage (especially
present enthusiasm continues, the centennial year Avill be Avell pecuniary patronage). What a subject for metamorphosis !
honored by this club. Every attempt to popularize the study The location is good in a hygienic sense, but in what other?
of history should be encouraged. No one thing can do more By economical arbitration it might be sold (donated) to the
for this, than to have those Avho are able take hold themselves Shoo Fly If. If. for a baggage room, or serve the purpose of a
aud lead the movement. We see that a general vieAV of the passenger depot, if the ticket agent could be accommodated
French discoveries and settlements is to be given by Profes ou the second floor. With the addition of another story and
sor Bussed at the next meeting.
a telescope, possibly, it might do for the future observatory
It may not be out of place — it may even serve as a help to but we would suggest that the views of our professor in As
some— to state concisely the principal divisions made, and tronomy be consulted before definite action is taken in this di
susceptible of being amply illustrated, shoAving the purpose rection. To say that it is a gem of architectural design is
of the stuely of history. We offer the following as being gen needless; it speaks for itself. The inside is somewhat better
eral, neit forgetting that the present course is established in in quality than the outside, but minus in quantity. If it can
honor of the centennial year: (1) History has a value to the not be enlarged, or another cannot be procured which Avill do
statesman, and to him who takes part in governing; (2j honor to the institution, let it serve for a centennial bon-fire
History has a value to him Avho attempts to solve great ques on the 4th of- next July.
tions, social, scientific, etc. ; (3) History has a value iu help ing one to understand all branches of literature; (4) History has a value to the orator and writer, and to persons taking
part in literary and debating societies, as furnishing facts,
Last, but not least (except in height), is the Navy boat house, which deserves a passing remark. There are some hopes of a change taki ig place iu this structure. Not that
the late snow storm will crush in the roof, for there Avas an
analogies, illustrations, themes, and above all, principles; (.">) History has a value in general culture, being capable of fur nishing good discipline, and like foreign travel, a breadth <>f culture; (ti) History has a value in furnishing culture to the moral nature, there being no sermons more effective than
extra prop placed in the building a short time ago especially for this occasion. But plans for a Si (>,<>00 boat house have actually been drawn up, and are only Avaiting for a financial boost to develop into one of the finest boat houses in the country; and this it certainly should be to correspond Avith
wort liy examples. Marking a cycle in our national existence, as this year
does, what can be more fitting for any lover of free institu tions than to examine the history of his country in the past,
and to resolve to aid in expelling the evils that have crept in
to the national life, t<> admire the noble, and to hold fast to the good? We wish the movement here the best of success, and we hope that by thus calling attention to it to find for it
imitators elseAvhere.
the crews that use it as a rendezvous.
No one Avill dare say, after having all these things brought
to his mind, that Cornell has not ways enough to make the
year 1*76 celebrated, for her continued generosity, while the
avenues for increasing fame are numerous as ever.
The year
was ushered in with victory for Cornell in New York. We
take this as a gooel omen of success for the Avhole year, and
hope that it will prove to be such a one.
I'M
TIIE CORNELL ERA.
Fob. 4, 1876.
,M<
-*V'
'
lOonn! majestic, with vine-hung walls,
As far as Princeton is concerned, the matter has of late as-
! sumed a new phase. The nost important of the associations
i
^, p^^.^,, ()11 Alumni— that of the city of New York— has
Stately, wilh mosses -.ecu grown; ilenl and solemn her ancient halls,
Hnaa.immitee.al hnee.r tieemmp|mless l,,ojnn,e_,, "With the footfalls of ages flown,
(
•
.- . 0]i)11 HlSed the action of Dr. Mcdsh, and the other of-
_
' fic- ials of the College oi New Jersey, in attempting to suppress
,
with the ghosts of t]R,se s,„..ieties. But the Alumni have done this not so much
glory none.
because they maintain the hannlessness of the Creek-letter as-
Her columns, all scarred with the traces of time, Rise o'er the Oalabrian lea,
sociatioiis, as because they condemn the policy of exacting
J from students at their matriculation any pledge of such a char-
Where notes of T-E.lian melody chime
acter as that now demanded at Princeton. 'I hey assert that
With the rolling rhythm of the sea,
particularA\ssiihnee ssii.._rihiss(o>fi Parlheiionl e blend with the hilloAVs' boom
'
|
't
]v^„r
i
11()t
to
o;„
•'
.,
.
rnoraliziii"' as the promises
to
kind
.
abstain
of organization
Irom the use of
is as detobacco
on the sea.
..
j and wines which are still, we believe, required by some of the
The haunt of the lone wild bird is here,
^^
.it.ink. alleges from those who enter their halls.
Antl the home of the redolent rose;
The
,
lowland
,.
plain
,l.ies
,l.istl, ess
and
sere,
Like a land of enchanted repose-
i-
M.u.aunivv
„
o
,
those
wh, o
woulidi
o.t1herwise not*
tocare, ,,..
+
smok1 e or
drink feel an irresistible desire to acquire these habits as soon
Like a dream of departed days, Avhich never awakening ;IS they become forbidden luxuries. A man ol any independ-
knows.
rlu.e ,,f mind or character almost naturally chafes against any
White-armed Selene, ethereal Queen
J restrictions of this sort ; be feels his shackles and can scarcely
Of the opiate realm of night,
avoid an impulse to break them. This simple instinct of the
Upborne on the air of her empire terrene,
better kind of human nature seems to be illy understood by
Enshrouds the dark ruins with while—
many
,,
,-
faculties
,.
of
colnleg.es..
Tl lI,.,c,,a- ,e1le„Avlksde amn, „elt.ailo„o,ii-aitte„ aonn.al imn-
Enshroutls the dim phantoms of eld with the mist of her i
•
' ,
,....,
spi. ri.t,-l, and, ,l.igh, t. .
-
A--oen"ious code ot
hues,■> each
statute commonly .
be^ginningt> with
: the same phrase, " No student Avill be permitted " to do this
And nothing of earth but her cruel decay ,.
or that, and,1then-s1igh ,a1t the perverse drisposition manif<.-est*edj
Remains on the moon htten lea;
1
Oh! nothing of earth but shall crumble away
''V the students to do just what they are commanded not to
Like the temples enthroned by the sea;
! do. But such a code is almost sure to have the very effect
Oh! nothing of beauty may stay but its destiny's dark- upon the student AA'hich Bluebeard's prohibition produced up-
nesstosee!
on the female members of his family ; anel a very natural ef-
And the glow of the noon and the misCof the moon O'er the plain of Calabria flee— O'er Parthcnope's haunted lea,
.
By_, th, e mam ot„,t.he mystic sea!,
„
1.
fL.(.t t}iati AV;iSj f,,r whn would feel the slightest interest in La-
(ly r,hl(,beai,j if sllc had not entered the mysteriously prollib' '
..
ited
c,hamnber
.
:
,,
. ,.
Alanv years ago an instance ot
th, e operation
-*
-
of this principle occurred at a certain educational institution
£row urn! Dorothea.a
u w.
*..„*.» *...,.
....a
n^..^it^.. "
iwrmann
—
~
She went into the field
That, with its wide expanse, crow. l'd all the hill.
joyedrS.t,i„ll
ftro1d 1sh1e bei
1
own ground,
and1
•
,
.
to see
The crop of rye and nobly waving wheat
i
,
in this state.
Durings
a
Faculty *
,
code ot,
v r.
disciplinary
.
,
regulations
meeting the . =\
con+tained no
fact that the
cl, ause
, ,.,
torbicf-
dving
t,,he
,
playing
,'1 of chess
alnl
at
once
jHas1hed1
upon
•
.t1he niindi
0^1f
one
.
of
th, e
most
..
rig^orous y moral members of
the cg- overningc
' body. Cards were stringently prohibited, but by some over-
That in ov'd itself, like gold, along lhe slope.
ss i -g 1 1 1 no mention had been made of chess. SlraightAvay an
Going between lhe ridges, on the path
Sle-
bad
the
ironillyJ
p' ear
live
in
her
si Leelit ^ ,'
^ hicli stood upon the hill, — the boundary
...
e«>"er was the new law
'
lished than a chess fever set in; the general demand for boards I and men astonished the dealers in those articles; multitudes
„r (,ssavs ,,,, <,„. llist()n% the ulj|uv, :uu\ {}w l,t.autv uf chess
*
weekly\
were
read,
,
at
,t,he
\, ,
. ',
.
.
rhetorical exercises; ami more than
. „..
(LOrnelUm ilOte^.
ole half the students suddenly felt irresistible urgings to
m.lk(, ].,liIilloI,s (l|- ,i,(,n,S(.lvrs.' Something similar W hap-
Most students now attached to the leading American col- pencil in the history of Princeton itself. li is md very long
leges have doubtless read, with a greater or less degree of in- since the authorities of that institution forbade the practice of
terest, the reports of the recent steps taken by the Trustees t he game of billiards. They eit her tried to close or succeeded
and Faculty of Princeton in regard t<» the Creek letter socio- in closing all the billiard-rooms in town, and even went so far
ties of that institution. Not a few have very likely waded as to enter into negotiations with the railroad companies for
through the abundant mass of corres|
h-nce and discussion f an incident in the history of Cor nell. During the UniversityEs first year the undergraduates voluntarily chose anil wore a Cniversity cap — a light and rath er graceful affair of carnelian and white. But very soon the Faculty decreed that every student must constantly appear in
a military cap — a form of headdress certainly neither light nor
especially graceful. Then began the famous "military cap difficulty;" anything like a distinguishing covering for the
this feeling was common, and that even now it is far from be
ing the exception.'" So far as the " earlier classes " arc con cerned, I am sure you are iu error. While there were some who objected, "this feeling v was far from being "common," or, as you would have it inferred, the prevailing opinion. Having been a student at the Cniversity during the first three years of its existence, I feel at liberty to request you not to place these "earlier classes'" iu a false position by endeavor ing to use them to bolster up an opinion based upon prejudice and not in harmony with the principles upon which our Uni
versity is founded.
head became at once odious to the undergraduate mind; no
I remember that an expression was taken at a session of
student was ever happier than when he was evading or dis- the then leading literary society, when tliere was a large at
obeving the obnoxious rule; and the ceremony of "burying tendance of students of all classes, and the result showed that
the cap" was performed one dark night on the Campus Avith they were nearly unanimous iu favor of opening the doors to
ovo-i-ohusiastic delight. MeaiiAvhile, of course, the feelings all who were cpialitied, without regard to sex. Again in a
of the Faculty were very much harrowed, but at last the law, voluntary discussion of the subject by a large number of stu
which it Avould have been far easier, as well as far wiser not dents in the University Chapel, the great majority took the
to make, was repealed —to the great relief of all parties. We same position.
remember that while this difficulty Avas at its height a gentle '
And I think the facts warrant me in saying that, as a gen-
man now prominent in public life, visited the University. eral rule, those students who were themselves earnest seekers
When told about the matter he said to one of the Institution's after knowledge were willing that others should have the same
officers: — -'The cap y<>u have adopted, as I happen to know privileges which they enjoyed. While the exclusive few were
bv experience, is both uncomfortable and unhealthy ; but your as a rule, either afraid that young ladies could not attain to
method i"»f action Avill not be likely to induce your students to the same standard of scholarship, or were fearful that their
Avear anv cap, however convenient or healthy it may be. The own dignity i ':) might, in some way or other, be compromised.
only wav to govern undergraduates is to make them constant The result has shown that m. fears need be entertained in re
ly believe that they are doing precisely what they want to gard to scholarship, since it is acknowledged that the standing
do.'" And there was not a little Avisdom in this last remark. of the lady students is, on the average, higher than that of
— In regard to the other phase of the Princetonian matter, the young men, while those gentlemen who have the right the good or evil influence exerted by the Crock-letter societies kind of " dignity *' seem to be able te. retain it even in the
—but that subject must be reserved for a future note.
presence of young ladies of culture and relineiiieiit. Those
— An American student has just carried off one of the young men whose heuior and reputat hm are so much endan
highest honors at the Cniversity of Oxford. This is the Tay- gered, sCmld be- granted a leave of absence and return to their
lorian Scholarship, which was founded in the last century by mothers for further "bringing up," until they have acquired
Sir Robert Taylor, an eminent architect. The examination more stability of character. It reminds me of the position
for this scholarship, the date of which is always announced a taken by a sub-tutor during the winter of ls7d-71, when a read vear beforehand, began on the 'J'.Jth of last November, and ing circle had been formed at Cascadilla, by members of the
Avas attended by a huge number of competitors. The subject for this year was the Italian language, and among other things the paper recpiired an original essay to be written on
the spot in Italian. One of the three examiners vvas Profes sor Max Miiller. When the result was made known it was
Faculty, of which Ooldwin Smith vvas president. Several of the leading professors, including the chairman, were in favor
of inviting the Senior class to meet with them. The young
gentleman who had been recently called as an appendage to the Faculty earnestly protested against such action, and
found that the coveted prize had been won by Mr. Louis Dyer of Balliol College. Mr. Dyer is an American by birth, and a resident of Chicago. lie first entered the Cniversity of Chi
claimed that it would lower their "dignity'" as professors.
Those who are least in honor and true manliness are oft-times
most fearful of being contaminated.
126
THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 4, 1876.
As to the opinions of the students at the present time, I am not so Avell informed; but judging from the number of
hisses the young man received last commencement who spoke disparagingly of the lady students, I conclude that all are not governed by prejudice. Iu conversing recently with one of the students who is an out-spoken opponent of co-education,
I endeavored to ascertain what his reasons were, and called
his attention to the fact that the lady students maintained a
higher average standing in their studies than the young men. He acknowledged this, but said the reason was that they stud ied more than the young men did. Noav, Messrs. Editors, it
seems to me that the University can better afford to spare a
certain class of young men avIio take pride in "bolting" reci tations and in answering " not prepared" when present, than it can those young ladies who " study more."
I did not intend to enter into any extended argument up
on the subject, and would probably have said nothing now
had it not been for the repeated attempts t<> slur those who
have thus far so nobly borne their part. If you have argu
ments, bring them forth; otherwise, "let us have peace." If
Cornell
is
"
an
institution
where
any
person can find instruc
tion in any study," don't attempt to bar the doors or to epies-
tion the right of any who can pass the examinations, to pur
sue therein a liberal course of study. It is better to act in ac
cordance with the spirit of the living present than to cling to
the memories of the dead past.
Even Avhile the opponents of co-education have been sow
ing broadcast their time-worn theories, Michigan University,
Cornell, and others have been practically solving the problem. I, for one, feel prouder than ever of my Alma Mater since she
has said to the young women of America, " Come unto me
and I Avill aid you in attaining to a nobler womanhood."
Yours,
S., '71.
—The Navy Ball comes off Feb. 18th, at Ithaca Hotel.
found V" Mr. M— " In the genitive." world is it found?" Mr. M. (who has ently surprised) "(), I don't know."
Professor— " In what part of the passed up in geography, appar
A— Freshman who takes the Era, suggests that the Fevieie be kept in, until Commencement, acid then appear as a memorabilia of the past college year. A good suggestion, perhaps, but hardly practicable enough to make it a financial success.
— Old Proh. has got over intimating that spring has arrived. In oth er words he is on his ear again, and skaters are enjoying themselves ac cordingly. The skating park down town and the pond above Cascadil la are both frozen over. Skating park stock is rising.
— The Cornellian board for the following year is as follows: X. $. C. (E Coan; J. A. /.'., E I). Sh.-rinau; Z. W., O. II. Phillips; (=j. A. AE, J. C II. Stephenson; l. A. 4>., J. Parmelee; AE A., Theodore Stanton; 'P. A. <-)., J. KE Cady; A. 2?. AE, IE D. Thompson.
— The remaining others of the Navy elected at the last meet ins are: Vice Commodore, II. Sturges; Secretary, A L. KE Volkman; Treasur er, L. Palmer. The following gentlemen comprise the committee on Navy Ball: (E Wasson, C. S. Francis, ( '. W. Raymond, J Parmelee, S. IE Sturges.
A— wily Junior asserts that the world is going too fast, and said that " the gentle breezes, escaping from the icy shores of Cayuga Lake, lhat were wafted, and wafting, across the Campus last Wednes day morning, substantiated the fact." He advocates the theory that the world is "running down."
—The rumor is a false one that the idea of sending Hobart College to the Centennial Exhibition as a specimen of an American University, has been given up on account of the resignation of its President. An other man has been chosen to fill his place, and the contemplated pro ject will undoubtedly be carried out.
—It is reported that "Captain Cook, of Yale, intends to transport a brace of Saratoga mosquito* to the Centennial Exhibition next sum mer and illustrate how their effects ou the English stroke do not make it a profitable one to follow." [No doubt his personal experience in the matter will be of considerable value. — Eds]
— Sckxe. — Supper table on Tioga street. Several students eating.
Mr. S. (sarcastically referring to an essay)—" Mr. Y-, when are you go-
ing to publish your next work?"
Mr.
Y. ' —
Next
Friday."
Mr. S. —
" Do you intend to have it bound in calf skin?" Mr. Y.—" Guess not, un
less your decease takes place before that time." Mr. S. — 2d.mu'ia.t.
—The Junior avIio translated " llitb nc irretc iud)t," " And she did not ball up," did not have as good fortune as she did.
—J. S. Mcintosh will make a second attempt to Avalk fourteen miles
in two hours, at Journal Hall, Saturday evening, commencing at eight
o'clock.
— i'he Seniors will not forget to attend the examination in modern
history to-morrow morning, over which they have worked and read so long. Some of them wish the examination had not been put off. Thev say it. lias been a source of anxiety to them too long, aud this is the gen eral opinion on examinations that run on from one term to another.
—A favorite expression by many in leaving the gym., now-a-days,
is, " Who the D
took my dinner basket!" Lcho answers, " Who
took mine? "
—A stranger, on visiting the Anatomical Lecture Room, wanted to know if that was the code of morals of the room, which hung by the
entrance door.
— Mendelsohn Quintette Club at Wilgus Hall next Friday nHit Students who have heard them will be sure to atttend, and those who
have not, should not miss the chance.
-The advanced class in vocal music will hereafter meet ,„i Tues.
days, at half past four, in Curtis Hall. The beginmng class will be dis
continued owing to the snmll attendai.ee.
-One more of those fourth year characteristics i,ils discovered itself to the student world, and a Senior member of the En.v hoard is the f-' t
vored one. Who says editing a college journal does not pay! Ile.v? -Scene in a German section. -Professor-" Where is Strasburg
—The prospects for a Junior ex. are tout umally diminishing. Three meetings aud no decision on the matter seem to anticipate a failure. Perhaps there is something they like better, foot ball for instance. But as il is to,, ,-old weather for that, we would suggest a Junior hop. Let something be done by then, to make the third year of their course fa
mous.
— Arrangements for the second annual Tournament of the Philidor •'hiss Club have been made, and the committee has decided upon the following plan:
Each class in the University (the Post Graduates being considered as
ur.e class) is entitled to one represent at ive (live in all). These shall be chosen by competition between t he members of each class, in the club, viz: When tliere are two competitors in any class, live games shall be played; when three, three games wilh -v,h. when more Hum three, two games wilh each.
Each of these "class champions" shall play three games with every other of Ihe live; and the one w inning the greatest number of games shall be declared champion of the Iniversity,
Feb. 4, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
127
A " tie" shall be decided by the next game won orlo'st. If any play er withdraws from the contest before completing the required number of games, no games played with him will be taken into account in de termining the champion.
A formal report of all games must he handed to the Committee.
The Tournament will close on the day of the second regular meeting
of next term.
All wishing to take part should hand their names to the Committee
immediately.
,1. c. n. s,i;\ i-.nson, Chairman,
S. McKee S virr ii,
D. It IIokton, ex-ollieio,
Cornell I niveusity, Jan. Js, isp;.
Committee.
—For future reference we publish a list of the Senior class commit
tees, as given us by the President:
C.l,,ssl),,y.— c. T. Brewer, Chairman; J. H. Stubbs, F. < >. Young, S. P. Sturges, D. F. Flannerv.
Music. — CE 11. Esty, Chairman; C. B. Coon, II. Terry, S. II, Coon,
CE S. Francis.
Parker, and certain "garments and habiliments," said to be his, were also produced as well as quite a sensation in court. Also the identical
cider barrel, all of which articles were shown to the high minded jury lor inspection. The general dignity of the court was well sustained, es pecially the high bearing aud integrity of the jury which pit-served all its traditional reputation, and who would not be comforted in their
waking moments except by a pack of cards with which they played " Blue Peter." The 2d counsel for the defence, Mr. Graves, spent bis time mostly in huiTtig endearing aud heart rending epithets to the jury, evidently lacerating their feelings somewhat, and Mr. Manny, in his
closing speech, made some excellent remarks on society in general and nothing in particular. Mr. Beahan dosed the case for the prosecution, said little about society in general, but more about nothing in particu lar The judge, iii his address to the jury, succeeded in making a very
ambiguous speech by combining both qualities of the speeches relerred
to. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to set up cider to the
Struggle and go Avithout ids pancakes at Sage j,,r one week. After
more music by the orchestra tbe court adjourned nine die.
Z.
Printing— IV Russel, Chairman; W. II. Parker, J. T. Brown, J. W. Sturdevaut, C. A. Van Yclzer.
DaU.-S. P. Sturges, Chairman; II. Russel, F. W. Noyes, H. S. White, CE 11. Esty.
Manorial.— C R. Parkhurst, Chairman; W. G. McDowell, R, Yatabe, J. Parmelee, CE H. Willmarth.
Photographs.—F. O. Young, Chairmrn; J. M. Ashley, F. E. Heath, J. Cady, S. H. Coon.
Acaims. — li. c. Tilden, Chairman; E. L. Crandall, R. L. Moore, F. E. Taylor, J. II. Stubbs.
Halsey, '70, is in business in San Francisco. Andrew, '77, is Notary Public at La Porte, Ind. Rice, '74, is in an architect's office in New York. Stout, ",7, has been led to the altar and made happy. .Miss Bartlett, '70, bas gone to Florida for her health.
Conctct.—F. W. Noyes, Chairman; C. T. Brewer, H. Terry, E. A. Wagner, CE B. Coon.
Class Prt'zi*.—J. G. Snedecor, Chairman; J. M. Ashley, M. R. Con able, H. B. Seeley, C. CE Coan.
>' /,,Oog—J. W. Sturdevant, Chairman; A. E. Mallby, W. K. Roy, C P. Woodruff, J. McMullen.
G. B. Upham, '74, is iu the last year of the Harvard Law Sehool.
Hiscock, '75, an ex-En.v editor, is in a law office in Syracuse, N. Y.
Hackney, 'TU, will not return to the University; he is at present in Bayview, Wis.
Ramsey, '7:;, visited his friends iu Ithaca last week; since leaving Cornell he has graduated from the Albany Law School and is now in business in Albany.
—The moct court conducted by tne members of tbe Philaletheian
Harmon, '7.3, is principal of a sehool about seventeen miles out of
Society, last Saturday evening, passed on quite pleasantly and success Chicago, and is doing well.
fully. After music by lhe Philaletheian Orchestra, order was pro claimed by the crier, antl the clerk, Mr. CE A. Caldwell, read a list of cases on the doekett. Among these eases, one was an indictment of
Mr. Kenned}' for heating the South I hapel comfortably warm. Anoth er called Mr. Perry ( lark to answer lor attending Chapel service three
D. L. Davis, '7s, lias been obliged to return to his home in Salem, Ohio, on account of ill health.
S. H. Coon, '70, returned from New York this week where he has been spending the centennial holidays.
mornings in succession, aud still another inquired into Mr. William
Sidney Davis, formerly of '70, is novv atteuding the Medical Col
Keith's conduct iu obtaining from a lariner by the name of Snyder, po lege of tbe University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, Pa.
tatoes and apples under false pretences. Finally the case of People vs.
W. H. Parker for stealing a barrel oi eider from the Struggle bash club was called and acted upon, Mes-is. Beal.au aud Pickett prosecution,
(toUanflfisi.
and Meos. Graves and Manny detei.ce. I'he prosecution stated that
It has rarely been our pleasure to see anything so exquisitely face
they would a tale unfold, and brought lorlh three witnesses with that tious (e; as has appeared in line editorial columns of the Yale Commit
purpose iu view. Information was elicited from Mr. Mandeville that and in lhe exchange department of the lueord. Tbe "gentlemen" in
the cider was stolen on the night ol the loth ot Nov., ?."., (oiderial lime, charge ot these departments have evidently spent several weeks in draw
also that among the various committees on shows, base ball, music, etc , ing upon their apparently inexhaustible stock of billingsgate, and now
of which the Struggle is composed, Mr. Mandeville was chairman ot pomt with pride to the result. The passages supposed to be witty are
one of tbese committees. On beo.g hard pressed he was obliged to an printed in large caps. We never knew belore how they conducted tri
swer that it was the coumnilee oi lhe (wjl.olc, presumably lhe bung- umphal processions at Yale, until we read of this one, the scene of
hole. Various other witnesses appeared, among whom were Mr. CE B. which has been ingeniously transferred to Cornell b}' that member of
Tompkins who was mistaken lor Seely B- Tumpkms, and Mr. Miller, wdio the " Fancy,'' the lucord muii. The intimate knowledge ol the can-
pretended to be a student, but vvas so Lono-j minded that he couldn't I can displayed by this fellow was uo doubt acquired when he sneaked exactly inform the court what the initials ot his name were. Iu the ' into the New York theatre with UO Yale Seniors, under the pretence
testimony it was lurther discovered that there is a certain rendezvous in South iiall, NE LE B., called the Parker House, much patronized by
that he was one of them. Indeed, lhe vvbole tone of his vivid deseriptiou of a Yale procession smacks of the green room ot a third rate the
the "denizens of the hill." Tracks had been seen in the road coming atre. It is no doubt due to the enormous amount of 40 rod whiskey
from the direction of tbe club house, and the print ol a barrel was eoi.ounied by him and his compeers that the Yale Faculty re.u ed to
plainly visible, and Irom the unusual size ot the tracks it was at once pay the bill ot the class during iheir little trip. In a repoil ol lhe play concluded that they could have been no other than those of said WE H. I ol Julius Ca-sar, to which u whole valuable page of the Idcord is devot-
158
THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 4, 1876.
ed we find the follow',!,- superb En-lish: "Mr. Hangs was immense. : an's rights, laws, or pr.v, leges. Clothed in the proud dignity of South-
Hi's j.i-Mdialori-il propor.ions appeared to great advantage in his cos- em women, they Irust the gallant spirit of southern men; conscious of
tume° and ,lis exeeedinglv vigorous though rather crude rendition of the power Ihey wield they wish no greater." Further on: "We be-
"
his
role
.,
carried
,
the
aud,.ience
,by
,,
storm.
The Courant publishes i,na"iiiarv extracts from various papers, de-
lieve, in all sincerity, that the want of mental exertion on the part of the young ,lad,i-es "wo,ul.el,have a refalex i■ nf„luence upon young men.",, Una
nouncm. the recent swiii-im- 'round the circle of the- Faculty and Sen- young writer is out of his sphere. He should attach himself to the
ior class of Yale, during which Ihey visited seven il.cntres in New court of lhe Sultan of Turkey, whose belief is about the same.
York, and their Prex. made seven speeches before the (oolliglits. As
The Popular Science Monthly. The leading article in this number,
the Courant was the author of these extracts, Ihey must be true.
])V prL.sijL.nt Andrew D. While, on the " Warfare of Science," cannot
JXow that Yale has withdrawn at the suggestion of that pseudo-am- );(jl {q .a|I,u.t pui,i;(. attention by its Avealth of learning, and by its bold
ateur, Bob Cook, who knew he was nol entitled to row any more, she m<[ vi,,()r(ms arL!li,neniation in defense ofthe freedom of science. Pres-
''y1'takes every opportunity to cast slurs upon Cornell and to vt,nt
| joent AYhilc allirnis that in all niodern history, interference vvith science
spleen upon "small" colleges in general.
They
still
have
t-1"11 II1 '
}n ti,c supposed
interest of
religion has invariably
resulted in
disaster
poor mosquito-bitten Btibliy, and swallow his doleful tale about poor (() ,J0(ll on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation,
boarding and lodging last summer with mouths wide open and eyes 1|()WC,VI,|. ,].,„,_,,. ,.()Us sume {)\- jts stages may have seemed, has invariably
shut. Bob is at present engaged in ;. calculation by which he is going R.sulRl(l in )hu hi„.ll(.st „.ood „f rL,]jL,ion antl of science. To this rule, in
to prove by the theory of probabilities that if Yale were nowhere lor
two years she could win every race for the next ten, if she wanted to.
Then he will triumphantly add as a corollary, " Put she don't ivunt to.'"
^ opillion ,)f the author, there is not a single exception. He main^.^ ^ p((silion Avi(h „reat force) presenting a historical survey of the ^.^.^ ()f sci(.nC()> aI1(1 th(. la,e of i(s nK)Sl eminent cultivators, who at
As au expression of the opinion of an impartial paper, we quote every step of their career have usually been combatted in the supposed from the Amherst St ml, id, of Jan. EU, its opinion of the lb cud: "It is interests of ecclesiastical authority. The same subject is treated in a
not enough for this paper to say (hat 'Tons the whole performance powerful article by the lbev. Dr. Deems, who urges that the prevailing seems most ridiculous,' and to give its grounds for such views; but it is tTV 0f ,[ie o-onthet between religion and science" is fallacious, and in
only satisfied Avhen, after a completely unsuccessful attempt al witty the very nature of things, can only be of an ephemeral character. The writing, it insults all the competitors collectively, and the gentlemen criticism on the part of religious men is injurious to scientific progress, from Cornell and Hamilton individually, not omitting to show its gal- , as W(q] ay t0 (iK, progress of religion. No man, Dr. Deems avers, lantry by slighting remarks upon the young lady who took the first should be charged with being an atheist who does not distinctly avow Creek prize. The article is entirely characteristic of the Ihcrd. Hy himself to be such. A scientific man may be driven away from the its expressions of contempt for all other colleges than the one it is sup- ; Christian faith, if convinced that the Christian faith is hostile to free
posed partially to represent, and its abuse and ridicule of everybody | inquiry. Dr. Deems makes a pointed distinction between religion and and everything, it has done anel is slill doing, all in its power to degrade tiK. Church. In his view, they are by no means synonymous terms.
college journalism."
What is disastrous to the Church may not be detrimental to religion.
Many of our exchanges are suffering from an overplus of biographic- There may be religion and no church, and tliere may be a church and
al sketches. All the heroes, poets, and authors of ancient and modern no religion, just as there may be an aqueduct without water, and water
times are in turn exhumed and forced to perform their parts once more, without an aqueduct. Water was before aqueducts, and religion be-
urged on by that merciless manager, the biographical student. The fore churches. Cod makes religion, and men make churt lies. There
Williams Attn mu u in, however, scorns such "padding," and fills out are irreligious men, says Dr. Deems, in every church, and there are tru-
with a column antl a half pull' of the Troy andt Uoston R. R. "The ly religious men in no church. Every visible church is a mere human
sensation one feels when riding is much like lhat one feels in gliding institution. It is uselul lor the purpose of propagating religion so long
over a crystal lake the first morning alter it is frozen, when the ice as it confines itself to that function. But the moment it transcends
bends in smooth, graceful folds." Paradise is nothing to the T. A IE that limit, ii becomes injurious. In either case it is merely human, and
It. R. The cars are so luxuriously furnished that passengers actually i it is a wrong both to the religion and the ( hureb, when it is claimed
wish for an accident, in order that ihey may bee watted into eternity out tor the latter, that it is not human. The whole of Dr. Dee-ms's paper,
of elegantly carved chestnut berths in sleeping apartments upholstered [ although somewhat discursive in its character, abom.ds in weighty sugwith silk velvet. The editorial department of the Ath, tun tint is well gestions, many of which, as may be seen above, are adapted to provoke conducted, as iistial. Il makes a pi otest against the custom of admit- controversy. — A. Y. Tribune.
ting men lo advanced standing from other colleges with little or no ex amination. As they say, it is an injustice lo those who are rei|uired to pass the regular examinations. AYillianis students are wild with joy at
We have received ihe following: Harvard Advocate, Yale Record, ^ 1i1l' JjU' ^1;I-:,Z'1K'. The Courant. Yale Atheiueuin, College Mercury,
the recent abolishment of Sunday morning chapel. This sounds strange j Yolante, Trinity Tablet, .Madisonensis, The Tripod, Vassal- Miscellany
t<> the heathen Cornellian.
\V-;li,.g,,n;,,n;a.. .L-,m,;,\.,e.,i.s.i:t,\,.
Mm agazine, J, ournal..u.l
, .,
.
Chemistry,
,„
.
lull s Collegian,
The Mississippi Lino csdy Mnyuzteu is a recent addition io our list
Four of its valuable edoirial pages are devoted to furthering ihe in'er-
„,= ^^^ ^cnn. m777\ Ole'v Oho^Brunonumestsof Miss. L'niv., which is u,,:,,(lill„ „, lhe ,.,„„„ ..a
„. 1„.(,1,|(,
;
llbaea Daily Journal, Popular Science A|,„ithly, Monthly, The Oalaxy, Appleton's .1 ournal,
^ .^ ^^^
Cornell Kc\ iew, AllanChristian Union, The
ClsYo,le"e Chronicle'uiisectarian inOtution ot the ,, lobes, .rade." 1. „,e peopie o A,,, ; ,11, iazeMe, 1 0 kC, an, M ills , ,,e.,i ,cO, AA
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}eais a hundred ,o,k, w„l make M ,ss,s-,pp, , „,g with the huh,!
ot eloouenee; and when the mighty voices ,,i kamar Lowrv I looker '
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in immortal honors,, ,,yw,,M,es
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their ilbonous picecessors have hegiinE
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>L 77 l^Zln^|their bosom the deorn.es of Mrs. Cady Stanton. They need no won.- American Journal ol Education,
lW^V'
The Cornell Era
" A hove all Sects is Truth."
Volume VIII.— Ni-mhkk 17.
TDK COHNKBL UNIYKRSITY, FKIJUFARY II, is?,;.
jf2.r,0 mm Annvm in Aovame.
Printed and Published every Friday, by Students of the Senior and Junior Cl,iss,s.
ittntors for 1875-6.
the writerEs own words. We are aware, however, that such a condition would be impracticable; but avc still think that the thought implied should beat least approximately realized.
J. "WE Sri kim;v.vnt, T(i, M. E. Haviland, '77,
0. P. Woodruff, 'id A. J. Loos, '7 7.
—That frosty old man, Father Winter, has been unusual
ly kind this year, and we have scarcely felt his icy breath
tingleAvhich Avas wont to make our ears ami noses
in former
years, (duly once or twice has he favored us with "cold waves," and they were of short duration. This neglect of his
has been disastrous to us in throe respects, viz., our ice-houses
are nearly empty, skating-park stock is decidedly dull, and
the walks around the University buildings are more suggest ive of the Dismal Swamp than e,f the Elysian fields. The first tAvo evils cannot be remedied, but the thirel can, or at least
might have been, by a proper system of grading and drawing. If this cannot be done let us have a line of boats making trips
everv fifteen minutes to connect the different building's. Can
didates for the creAvs Avould no doubt be willing to propel said
boats in lieu of .skimming oyer an imaginary lake in the gym. A "stilt club" has also been proposed, and will no doubt be formed if some one will suggest a method for keeping the
fickle and evanescent umbrella over the head of the stilt-walker.
— The old English worthies are being extemporized upon by the Seniors in a way most edifying. " New acquaintances ''
are being formed in great numbers. Why our friends Chris topher North and Francis Jeffrey should be neglected in the
list, anel whv several obsolescent Avriters should be so honored,
we have not been told. Doubtless the good of the speaker
was consulted in preference to that of his audience. The method seems to meet Avith general favor. To determine
what a writer's intluence has been, to seize upon the salient
points of a voluminous author, to express one's views thereon forcibly, and that extemporaneously so far as ihe language is concerned, ought to be a disciplinary exercise of the high est character. The danger of the system seems to be that the student does not put enough of himself — of Ids own thought, into the exercise. We remember of hearing «>ue speaker, a
speaker from whom we expected much, talk for nearly half an hour without venturing otic thought on what he had found in his subject that impressed him. Although this is an excep
tional case, we could almost wish that a condition of the exer cise were that the speaker must md consult any critic's views upon his subject, but that he must draw his conclusions from
— The Freshman class seems to think that a verbal agree
ment with the Navy, in regard to raising money t<> send a crew, is not sufficiently important. At the Navy meeting, last Friday evening, they presented a document to the consid eration of the Navy, wishing them to sign it. AVe- see no oc casion for such a proceeding, unless, perhaps, they meant to gain something by so doing, as one of the conditions of the
agreement was to be that the boat in which the crew rowed at Saratoga should be, after the race, the property of the class
of '70. Fndoiibtedly they intended this for a sharp move on their part, and if the thing had been carried through at that meeting, they would have succeeded in their purpose. As it stands the matter was left Avith the Navy directors and they Avill settle it Avith an eye to the best interests of the Navy. The agreement so called is undoubtedly a good thing in that it will be a stimulus for the class to keep their word. Of course avc except the condition therein relating to the ownership of the boat, unquestionably it should belong to the Navy. This question in regard to classes OAvning boats Avas settled a year ago, and although there is nothing in the constitution that can debar a class from buying and owning a boat, it does not pro vide for the Navy's buying a boat for any class, to be used at the disposal of said class. If such an agreement is worth any more than the name, we venture to say, from past experience,
that the class of '7'J Avill be the first to break the contract, not
from any intention on their part, but from a lack of the—
irfiert tfithal.
—Having sufficient room at our disposal in the editorial columns this week, Ave Avish to notice briefly a communication which appeared in our last issue, from "S.,'71."
Notwithstanding " S." charges us with encleaA'oring to bol ster up prejudiced opinions, antl notwithstanding he chal lenges us to bring forward arguments against co-education. we still like the man. In the first place, we trust lie Avill al low us to forgive him for misunderstanding our position, for we have no such opinions to bolster up as he was too hasty in
inferring, and as an editorial article in No. 9 of the Eua for
this year (in which we gave some statistics) should have con vinced him, if he was in doubt as to the remark on the "earli er classes.'" And in the second place we have no arguments,.)! the kind he asks for to bring forward. The remark of our.to which " S." refers was intended to be, in a sense, an apolo gy for the unfavorable allusion made to co-education by a cor
130
THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 11, 1876.
respondent in the same issue. ror by taking a second look.
We think " S." will see his er the Tribune has its Ripley whose criticism tells for the fate Since the subject of co-educa- I of mauy a book; but alas! where is the Era's poet? Echo
tion "has been generally discussed among students, statistics answers where V College prose literature (heavy editorials
show that the feeling of opposition has been the more com and light items of course excepted) is for the most part a
mon. We are quite certain, however, as we expressed previ shabby affair. Indeed avc have yet to see a real contribution
ously, that this feeling is on the decline.
to literature from an undergraduate. We often read an article
As to the question of lady students maintaining a higher because Ave are interested in the Avriter, or the occasion on
average standing, it seems but just to remark that if repre which the production was presented. The writer is benefitted, sentatives of equally good previous preparation and equally notwithstanding; and it is he who should appreciate the op
high standing in the preparatory schools were compared, the portunities of being able to avail himself of the college press,
"
"average
argument would,
doubtless,
lose its force;
nor is it
enabling him to put himself in print.
We maintain that it is
necessary to the support of the cause of co-education.
he alone who is benefitted, for when he puts a production in
—In view of the fact that Cornell is to be represented at
the Centennial exhibition, it may not be uninteresting to state to our readers the plans of Prof. Sweet, whose depart ment is the one mainly concerned. One hundred and fifty
square feet have been secured for his use, and from the sub
joined list it Avill be seen that no mean display Avill be made, especially when it is remembered that everything has been turned out by student labor in the Mechanic Arts department. 1. Engine of VI horse poAver, Avhich has a large number of original and valuable features. Designed by Prof. Sweet. 2. Gramme electrical machine, the first constructed in this
country. Designed by Prof. Anthony. 3. Screw cutting
print he is anxious to do his best. One can never see so well his own mistakes in writing as when his production appears in print. Those at Cornell, during the past three years, who have been acknowledged the best writers, have been those who have contributed much to the college press. We think the same is true at the present time. We solicit, therefore, contributions from students, believing that the writer is there by more blessed than the reader. But Ave hope also that our poet Avill turn up somewhere. Several times Ave had thought
we had found him but he either sang us one song and then
" Like the foam on the wave,
Like the snow on tho river,
Like the ripple on the lake,
foot-lathe; this also possesses many original features. 4.
Was gone and gone forever,"
Measuring machine, which measures from t> to F_' inches by .0001 of an inch. Made by J. S. Waterman, '77. 5. A series of standard gauges, ranging from \ to 1 inch. If possible the range will be made from ^--to 4 inches. 0. A show-case con taining surface-plates, straight-edges, angle-plates and squares.
or else we had to set him to writing prose. A Canadian exchange advises us to give up the search for
him, and insists that the college poet is not wortli the expense of rearing, or something like that, but we think the following
from the Harvard Adrocytte — and it is not an isolated exam
The location of the space allotted to Cornell is in Machinery
Hall, B, -.», um. Prof. Sweet has made plans whereby students in his de
ple of the poetry the contrary. —
of that
paper — very conclusively proves
partment will have an excellent opportunity to visit the Ex hibition with but little cost to themselves. He has engaged a room conveniently situated to the buildings, Avhere those
They stood beside the little gate That toAvard the cottage led:
For something still he seemed to Avait, Though not a Avord he said.
wishing to assist him in exhibiting our goods are to lodge, two at a time, each "set" of two students remaining tAvo
The sweet-brier drooping o'er the path, Its watch no longer kept;
weeks. The two students will be on duty alternate days, so
And columbine and primrose rathe
as to give them ample time to see all the "sights." As the
In dewey quiet slept.
vacation continues VI Aveeks, VI students can be accommodated
The window, through the cool night air,
in this way. In case more than this number of students in
the department apply, the time can be shortened to 10 days
for each tAvo, giving room for f (J. No charge will be made
for room rent, and as the fare to Philadelphia from all parts of the country Avill be reduced one-half from May to < h-t.ol.er
the expenses of such students will not be Aery great. The
average charges in private lodging houses will be sej.00 per day, including breakfast and supper. Booms Avithout meals
will range from about #7.oO per week upwards. The suviiioof room rent for two weeks Avill therefore be quite an item.
Prof. Sweet will b»- found at his stand in Machinery Hall, where he will be glad to see all Cornellians and give them all
the information in his power.
Leaned forward on its m11, And wondered, with a vacant stare,
Why he should linger still.
He turned to leave, the hour was late, Yet, parting, kis wise "se
cret societies " in the ordinary acceptation of that term, al
though this misnomer, applied to them by their members as well as by outsiders, has given rise to a good deal of ridicu lous talk. No sane man, however, would think of condemn
ing them for the same reason that the Catholic Church con
demns the Freemasons, or for the same reason that the Ger
man governments, half-a-ccntury ago, condemned the Burscheiisehaften of the universities. They are never likely to inter fere Avith either the church or the state. That nothing very
bad ever goes on inside the doors of the " close " Greek-letter
societies is shown liy the fact that graduates of long standing
—bishops, judges, professors, governors — do imt hesitate to
attend their meetings whenever they happen to visit their Alma .Mater. They d<> this Avith exactly the same feelings of pleasure with which an old Century man finds himself, after
some years of absence in Europe, surrounded byonce more theovcll-remeniberc'd associations. It is quite true that they do not invite all the world to their meeting* — an act of uni versal hospitality which few human organizations can afford
to indulge in —but neither does the Century, as any outsider, who should venture to intrude upon its business meetings, would speedily find t<» his cost. The mistake, therefore, has been iu ever giving to these student clubs the obnoxious and
inapplicable title of "secret" societies. ."Many of these re
marks
apply
also
to
(he
"
"open
class of
Greek-letter
societies
.
These -open" associations, although they style themselves
"anti-secret," would hardly venture to imply by this cogno men that they place themselves in violent antagonism to the
" close " societies, o r that t he one class has not just a* good a
light to exist as the other. Our advice to all the ( ireek-letter
societies, if we may be permitted to offer it, is that they drop
''"' meaningless adjectives "secret " and "anti-secret;'" that
•'aeh society strive l<> give its own organization as elevated a
position as possible; that each society keep in mind the rapid-
Feb. 11, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
13b"
ly changing character of Universiiy education in this country,
and endeavor to throw off any childish customs which may
have come down from the childish days of American colleges; and that each society, in its intercourse with every other, and with the Philistine world, be constantly guided by the simple rules of gentlemanly honor. They may then teach even the
obtuse Princeton authorities that their own traditional organ
izations are much better than the merely temporary and less restrictive associations which, for lack of them, the students
of the College of New Jersey will be sure to form.
—One of the largest countries in the world has hitherto
been unblessed with a university. This deficiency, however, is about to be supplied, for next year the University of Irkutsk will commence its existence. The Siberians hope that the new institution will do much towards developing the resources of their country, since its Faculties of natural history and of technology are to be made very strong. It Avill also embrace
philosophical, medical and legal Faculties. The Bussian gov ernment has appropriated large sums for the purchase of books
and for the endowment of chairs. The city af Irkutsk, the
seat of the iicav educational establishment, has about 130,0on
inhabitants.
University sterns.
" —
Julius
Caesar."
- Senior moustaches are in order.
—Another Senior has been ol ..served laboring to make himself seem
natural in that article which Seniors must get accustomed to; he ap
peared a little top heavy.
—The interesting ai tic-he descriptive of medical college life in New Vork, which recently appeared in the Journal, over the signature ' < >wl," vvas from the pen of X. WE Cady, '74.
-An Albany exchange says: "Mr. Halliday, of Tompkins, is a graduate of Cornell Univcr-ity. His speech in the A-semlily on Tues day i.s regarded as another victory for Cornell."
— Professor Corson read a part of the Merchant of
the class in Junior Literature, last Tuesday morning. the play at the next reading on Tuesday next.
Venice, before
He will finish
A— youth, somewhat uninformed in the ways of the world, was heard to remark after reading Kappa Alpha upon a door plate in the Finch block, "That must he a Brazilian's room."
—Tliere is a four-column sketch of the life of Professor Roehrig, by Karl Theodor Eben, entitled " Ein deutches Sprachgenie," in the Sun
day edition of the A- Y. Slats-Zed ung for Jan. 2A, 1*70.
— The examination in Acoustics for the Juniors, contrary to their pe tition, will be held at the end of the present term, with examination of that part of Optics which thev will have been over by that time.
—A Junior was somewhat startled at reading, "My Cod!" at the end of his returned theme; and felt much relieved when a classmate af
ter fifteen minutes' close study, deciphered, "Veiy Good." — Ex.
— That, maun who shares his umbrella with a lady during a violent shower until they come to his place of turning off, and then lets her go the rest of the way in the rain, must, be a matgmanimous fellow.
— Are you going to the Navy Hop ?
—Brace up, '?!», and raise that *."»<>< I.
-There has been an addition to the Chemical Department.
— Prof. Sweet is, as yet, unable to walk to the University, but at tends regularly to his University duties; he has a carriage to convey him to and from the University; we hope to hear of his complete recovery
soon.
— There are over eighteen men training for the Freshman crew.
—Ithaca has a Mozart club with quite a number of student members.
— About a month and a half before the crews will be rowing on the
lake.
—Look out for an examination in advanced and economic Geology, anytime.
—Next Monday is St. Valentine's day. Friends of the Eua please address < 'ornlll Era, Lock Box &.).
—Every reader, prejudiced or unprejudiced, should carefully di
gest the " Cornelian Notes" found on another page
"
—
Co-education
is
the
thief
of
time," is the motto
which a certain
Senior has hanging in a conspicuous place in his room.
—The second edition of the University Pcgistu- for ls?."i-ii is out, and gives a'A2 as the number of students at. the University.
A— Senior, in answer to the question " how did you like the Histor}r examination," replied, "I never had a great propensity for remem bering dates." This feeling seems to be prevalent in the class since the
President's examination.
"
—
I
sigh
for
more worlds to
conquer, like E raxmux,"
exclaimed a
Freshman after demolishing one of Simpson's oyster stews and a plate
of eggs on toast. The President's lectures on Modern History would
be appropriate for said Fresh.
— On Tuesday the Seniors had a test examination on the lectures that have been delivered on Military Science since the commencement of the term. The examination was so long that many were unable to
finish their papers in the time allotted. About one-half the class was
present. — After a Senior roll call, the other day, one of the stars of the class
said to the Dr.: "I did not recognize my name when it was called."
A hint for him to be awake ou such occasions would not have been out
A— number of students have been attending the protracted meet ings on Aurora street quite regular. " Cause why? "
— There was more than "one more river to cross," in the walk from the University buildiugs to the Cascadilla on Wednesday.
—Prof. Hartt, of Cornell University, "did" Brazil for tbe new Encyclopiedia Brittanica, according to tbe New York World.
— We hear reports that sTou.immi worth of University land is about to be sold; hope it's so. The Professors are getting happy.
—Cromwell's Art Entertainment at Library Hall every evening next week. "The stereoscopic effect is wonderful." —T. ({. Whittier.
of order, and would apply eepially as well to several other members of
the class.
— The committee on contributions for the Cocmlliuu is as follows:
Then. Stanton, J. K. Cady, and E. D. Thompson. Anjr contributions in the line of hash clubs {/.. e. names of members), ball clubs, boat crews, A'.-., Ac, should be handed to some one of the above named gen tlemen immediately.
— The invitations for the Xavy Hop have been received from New Vork, and are in the hands of the committee. Sludents or others wish ing to attend can procure the invitations from either of the following gentlamen: C U. Wason, C. S. Francis, C. W. Raymond, J. Parmelee, S. IE Sturges, II. A. Winton.
Freshman crew No. 4, straighten out that back, keep the shoul ders well back, and don't get out of time rilore than three times out of
five.
— Scene,
dining hall. Professor seated next to a Fresh
man whose audacity and cheek combined make him a formidable " crit
ter. " Professor (who has just finished reading a letter of invitation) —
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Feb. 11, 1876.
"I don't know whether I shall or not." Freshman-" What, Profes sor! has Barnum engaged you to exhibit in connection with Ins centen.
nial show next year?" -The President's examination in History was not such as the most
of the class expected. No questions were asked upon the subjects
about which most was said in the lectures, such as Erasmus, Luther,
and lhe Jesuits. The questions were quite general but such as to re quire a very good knowledge of the subject in order to gel that....,
which is so important to the Senior. -Prof. Corson's readings, at Sag,' College, are very well attended;
there were more than a hundred listened very attentively to his reading last Saturday evening, when he completed " Aurora Leigh," and many
had supplied themselves with copies of the poem and kept along with
him, thus deriving more benefit thau the mere listener. The reading next Saturday evening will be from "King Lear."
—The demand for umbrellas last Wednesday, on the hill, would have exhausted all the down town supplies if they had been at the Uni versity buildings. As it was about " ninety-nine out of every ten " (in the words of one of our Professors) were obliged to descend the hill in the rain. AVe saw a Junior frantically rushing around after a paraplin; at the same time he appeared extremely generous as he said it
was not for himself that he wanted it.
—A blissful event, occurred in Milwaukee on the eve of Feb. 0, hi
the marriage of Hackney, '7(1, to Miss Mary L. Todd of the same city.
The many friends of the groom at Cornell will wish this union all the
happiness and length of days that can be meted out to it. The good fortunes of Mr. Hackney have not come single-handed. Since last term he has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Milwaukee Iron
Co., whose Rolling Mills are the largest in the West,
Verdi, Mrs. Carter, -Miss Ilolbrook, Mr. Winch, Mr. Barnabee. 2. Vio lin soi(J_Seventh Air, IF Uc-iot, Miss Bell. A. Song—Bird of Love, Lei us, Mrs. Carter. 4. Duett— Trust her not, Balfe, Mr. Winch, Mr. Barnabee. ■"»■ Song— Absence, Pease, Miss Holbrook. 6. Yeoman's Wedding Song, Poieiatotrski, Mr. Barnabee. 7. Quartette—a. Serenade —In this hour, Pinguti, h. Volksl'ied— Come my dearest, AM, Mrs. Car ter Miss Holbrook, Mr. Winch, Mr. Barnabee. h. Song— When we are old and gray, Dolby, Mr. Winch. !). Ballad—The Bailiff's Daughter, Mncfnrren, Mrs. Carter. 10. Quartette—II Carnovale, by request, Bostui Mrs. Carter, Miss Ilolbrook, Mr. Winch, Mr. Barnabee. 11. Vio]-ul [snio—Air et varie, Alard, Miss Bell. 1'2. Song— Alonzo the brave, Cntrell, Mr. Barnabee. VA. Quartette— Good night, Fbtow, Mrs. Carter, Miss Holbrook, Mr. Winch, Mr. Barnabee
—The Cornell University Rifle association was formed Oct. :10, 1875. The constitution was accepted, and the officers were elected at a subse
quent meeting. The Association numbers novv some thirty-two mem bers. At the last meetiug of the Association, Tuesday. Feb. s, 1870, it was decided to send a team to compete for the Intercollegiate cham pionship—during the coming season. A correspondence Avith other col
lege associations was ordered in reference to the formation of an Inter
collegiate Itifle Association. A discussion took place in reference to the "plate" offered by the Forest und Slceum. Objections were raised to Creedmoor and Philadelphia as the ground on which the contest should take place, all the members favoring Saratoga as the place and regatta-week as the best time. A committee was appointed to make ar rangements for contests during the season, and for the purpose of se lecting the best men for the team. The present officers of the Associa tion are: President, C. W. Raymond; Vice-President, H. W. King;
Secretary, G. A Bounce; Treasurer, C. Tompkins.
— Scene in the Library on a rainy day. — First Student — " Have you got an umbrella?" Second Student— " Yes." " Is it up here?" "Yes." "Are you going down town?" "Yes." "Within half an hour?" " Yes." "When I started this morning I did not think I Avould need an umbrella to-day; can f walk down with you when you go?" " Yes."
"Thank you; I will wait then." First student waits half an hour to
walk down under an umbrella with his friend. Second student lends
—Last Sunday four frisky Cornellians took a Avalk along Six Mile
Creek. During their ramble they struck the new branch of the Shoo
Fly Ii.
R ,
on which a hand car
was standing.
Here wa's a chance for
a ride which could not be lost, so they boarded the car. They went
along swimmingly at the rate of ten hours a mile until they came to
another hand car standing alongside the track. This appeared to be a
better one, so, with much toil, they placed it on the track and flew
his umbrella
to
some
""
sage
friends
and No 1 finally
concludes to go
down town alone.
along once more. The car was pretty heavily ballasted with tools, and, to increase their speed, these Avere dropped off one by one. One of the
A— meeting of the Navy was called at Military Hall, last Friday party thought he saw trouble brariu' ahead in consequence of this high evening, but only about forty members were present. The object of \ handed waste of property, and left the car, determined to find his way the meeting was to take final action in regard to sending a Freshman home alone. The others kept on their way to the depot on University
crew. A communication from the Freshman class was read, accepting hill, as they supposed, but were dumbfounded at finding themseh-es ap
the offer of the Navy (to send the Freshman crew providing the class of proaching an unknown city. About this time the man on piclatt duty
'7'.l gave them Kami) on certain conditions, one of which was that the was surprised by the appearance of a Paddy running towards them
boat in which the crew rowed at Saratoga should, after the race, belong with a drawn— spade in his hand. A hurried consultation was held,
to the class of '7'.». This point met with considerable opposition, and which resulted in a determination to walk briskly in the other direction.
finally the matter was left to the board of directors to be decided Avho When they looked around and saw Paddy quite near they thought they
made the proposition in the first place. A statement in relation to the would see if they could run— just to give them an appetite for supper,
financial condition of the Navy, read by the ex-treasurer, showed that they said. Paddy was finally distanced, and the party once more as
the Nav)- was still in debt to the amount of SJ"iU
sembled after its violent xectruuee from the hand car. They prowled
around the town, and finally, after it Avas quite dark, entered and found
A— certain Junior living on the hill, was somewhat mixed las| it to be Varna. The peaceful inhabitants were just returning from
Thursday. At \2 o'clock he rushed over to the Physical lecture room, where he took a back seat, growling to himself at those cheeky Sopho
church, and, seeing our friends, hurried home io count their spoons. One of the students trembled and turned pale when he heard a man
mores who had all the best seats. The lecture commenced, but the Jun call out " Schneider!" in a loud voice, but was relieved wheu he found
ior could not trace the connection bei ween I l'olt/.'s machine and the last it to be ihe name of a big bull dog who had been eyeing them suspi
lecture on Acoustics. Afier about half an hour had passed, and he had ciously. " Boys," said one at last, "let's go home." About ten o'clock
been driven nearly mad, he found out that it was a lecture on Electrici ty, lb- slipped out crest fallen, conscious that he had been cutting a lecture on Metallurgy. Determining to make the best 0f it he went to the chemical laboratory, but was so confused that he put Ihe hot end of a blow-pipe in his mouth and singed oil six of the lines) hairs in his
moustache. And yet he says he isn't smashed!
;
,
the tired and hungry trio reached home, where they retired to their downy couches, supperlcss and surly. The other one, after wandering over miles of unexplored country, finally found his way to Ithaca, and had just enough life left to crawl to his room. They all belong to a Bible class now, and each has contributed an old pair of boots to the
poor heathen.
—The following is the programme of the Barnabee Concert Compa ny next Wednesday evening: 1. <.Juart.et.io— Bella Figlia, (Higolelte)
— The Juniors will loHtl a meeting to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock, in Journal Hall, to decide the question of holding a Junior Ex.
Feb. 11, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
135
gei'Sonnls.
[We respectfully solicit contributions to this department.]
Hays, '7(1, is in Columbus, O.
Ames, '78, will return to the University next lerm. Cluck, '74, is studying law in Lauing's otfice in Bull'alo. Turner, '7:!, is secretary of au Assembly committee at Albany. "Tom" Bkown, '74, is employed on the Louisiana State lhgister. Hill, '7'J, will return and enter the University in the spring lerm. Parker, '71, is practicing law in Buffalo; he was in town Wedncsday. Altaian, '7:!, is in partnership with his father in a law office in Buf
falo.
(iVncat (CoUrfle #ru$.
—There is a great revival at Princeton.
—Hamilton college recently received a gift of xlo.uoo to be used for completing the endowment of the Maynard Professorship of Law, His tory, Civil Polity, aud Political Economy.
—The University at Berlin has four hundred dislinct lecture courses.
—Brown University is erecting a library building which is to cost
seventy thousand dollars.
—Dartmouth College is one hundred and six years old.
—The Senior Class at Yale visited Booth's Theatre, with their Pro fessed s, to witness the play of Julius Caesar. — Ar. Y Smc
Brown, G. NE, '7ei, is foreman in a large manufactory in Hartford,
Conn.
Odson, J7. was in toAvn early in the Aveek; he is going from here to
Texas.
Carlii.e, formerly of '7o, is roughing it on a ranch near Los Ange-
los, Cal.
A— Ncav Jersey female institution contains thirty-four red-headed girls, and the Principal dispenses with gas and all other superficial light.
— Aoceislmvu Herald.
—The Alumni of Amherst College number 2,171
—A Hebrew College has been opened at Cincinnati. — Qui Vive.
Mfoni;k, '7i>, is with Homer, Lee A Co., engravers, i>0 Liberty St.,
New York.
Phillips, '7i>, the renoAvned bag-of-wind lifter, expects to be Avith
— The Freshmen drag the clanking chains; the Sophomore plucketh the dandelion; the Junior squinteth at old Sol; and Senior doeth noth ing and looketh busy. — Williams Athenu urn.
us again next term.
Warthorst, '74, has returned from Brazil and is now the city en gineer of Massilon, O.
— Shakespeare said: " Tliere is a tide in the affairs of men," but the University Missouri, m thinks " that in the affairs of women it is all tied
back."— Ex.
MacMillan, '70, is managing clerk in Lauing's office in Buffalo; he spent a few days at the University this week.
McMillan, '78, has returned to his home, AVaverly, Iowa, where he
—Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to hold services with the students of Princeton College on the 'J 7th of January, the day appointed for prayer for schools and colleges. — A. Y. Post.
is connected with one of the local papers. He hopes to return to the
University next Fall.
tfxrttanges.
Parke, '79, was obliged to leave for his home in Binghamton, on Friday, on account of illness; a telegram received from him says he will
soon be able to return.
The man who wrote that the editor's life a week before publication was " one demned horrid grind," should be immortalized; let him be put on rile with the college papers at the Exposition next May, where
Tucker,
formerly '7-., took
his
degree of
B.
A at ,
Berea College,
editors who have been ground and expect to be ground for a j-ear to
Ohio, and is now studying law in Cleveland. Sathard, '74, is studying ! come may grasp the hand that penned that truth, iu grateful apprecia
in the same office with him.
tion of the mind thai could express their woes in such appropriate
One of the most formidable out-growths of co-education is the al ready announced and generally known engagement between Prof. Sim
ons and Miss Norma Wood, both of '7">.
Commodore Wason started for New York last Saturday. On lr.s return he stopped at Saratoga to see about the quarters for the crews next summer. He reached Snake Hill with the help of a horse and cut ter by crossing the lake on the ice.
D. J. Tompkins, Cornell's successful orator at the Inter-Collegiate Contest, has taken up hi- residence in this city, and will study law with the firm of Sedgwick, Kennedy and Tracy. —Syracuse Journal.
Tompkins, Flint, Smith, '72, and Hiscock, '7."i, all room in the same
block.
words. There is for example the editor of the Volante; the printer tells him that a full page poem must be ready the next morning. When morning dawns he is found asleep in his chair, with the following "fragment" before him:
MIDNIOIIT. — ODE TO THE MOON.
O, Thou that with thy rays celestial Dost watch the Earth when mortals sleep. vestal,
weep.
Guard well the couch of sleeping beauty,
Coy;
duty,
Look out for John Robson; he was formerly of 'TE has for some
time been attending the New York Medical College, and will soon call
on his Alma Muter.
p s.— lie will shower his benedictions and benzines upon his nu
merous friends in Ithaca; he will then pass West.
Jordan, '7:2, Copeland, '7-i, and Copeland formerly of '7"., are go ing to start a " Summer School of Science and Physical Culture." It is intended to be a traveling and self-supporting (Tor floo ) school. The route of migration will be from Mammoth Cave to Lookout .Mountain. " Cope" is general manager antl bill payer of the expedition, which be tokens success to that department. Prof. Jordan was an instructor at Penikese in '74, and Prof. Copeland is teacher of Natural Sciences in the schools ot Indianapolis. For further information address Herbert
E. Copeland, M. S., A20. Ash St., Indianapolis, Indiana.
And let her visions be of joy.
Sleep overtook him ere those beautiful rhymes could be backed by the necessary "tilling," but the stony-hearted printer published them, as well as several others in the same fragmentary condition. Imagine the feelings of that editor when his process of poetry-manufacture was ex posed to a body of delinquent subscribers! Would they be likely to pay up after that? Not if they knew themselves. He is ruined forever, and the sooner he shuttles off this mortal coil, the better. With the ex
ception of the poetry the Volante is a good paper.
The Aiugara Index is afraid that all those unfortunates who attend other than Catholic colleges will become infidels. "These are true premises, auel the consequences legitimately follow. Youth, therefore, who are inoculated with the infidel doctrines of Protestantism, must, as
time goes on, and they advance in years, learn to look up
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THE CORNELL ERA
Feb. 11, 1876.
liberalism of the age as fitly conduciug to the satisfying of every sensu al desire." The "false liberalism of the age" is evidently quite dis tasteful to our Catholic friends. Liberalism is always inimical to sec tarianism; the two cannoi go hand in hand, and it is this which makes
the Iml.x tremble with fear for " infidel " Protestants. In order to re
move Catholic stuelents from any possible contagion of infidelity, the Imbx proposes to .substitute for the "pagan" classics the writings of the Christian Fathers— Augustine, Jerome, and Chrysostom! We sug gest as a further improvement, that all Catholics migrate to Van Die-
man's land, or to some other secluded spot, where "false liberalism"
cannot taint their undeliled minds.
The Adrian Collage Record, r congratulates Cornell ou receiving fire prizes at the I. L C. Thanks. How "distance lends enchantment" to the view! The "story" part of the Fteonbr is good. It is fortunate in having M. Ouad as a contributor. We mildly object to Gulick's trans lation of Frau Wirthin, by "Dame Wirtl.cn," in Uhland's song.
The Universiiy Moju-iue (Pa.; is one of the latest additions to college journalism. It is a bright paper, but makes the mistake of publishing two articles on each of two different subjects— two on the marking sys tem, and two on Angels (Philadelphia term for co-eds).
The Vassar Mis. for January is an excellent number. The first two articles, "A plea for the Cynic," and " fs Dickens to have lasting pop ularity," are especially praiseworthy. We do not agree with the au thoress of the latter article, however, that Dickens will take a place
with Marryat and other mere story tellers. His characters alone, to say nothing of his humor, are sufficient to keep him out of such obscurity.
Alumnae Associations bave been formed in Iioston and New York re
cently, and efforts are being made by them to found free scholarships
at Yassar. The Mis. says of the contest in New York: "Now comes
the announcement we are proud to write. The prize in Greek was won
by a woman. It brings more honor to our sex than twenty victories in writing or oratory could have clone. In the first place the Avritten pa
pers afforded no clue to their authorship, aud the committee could not haA'e been biased by " feminine arts." Secondly, it is just such hard,
scholarly work as this of which we are trying to prove ourselves capa
ble. One such victory goes a great way toward establishing our point."
It now only remains for Yassar to enter the lists and prove that it is the
woman who wins the victory, and not the college, as is claimed by some.
candidates in Greek and mathematics is not a matter of favor, nor is it
one which, under such examiners as those of the recent competition, is likely to be superficial. Indeed, one of the good results of the contest was the discovery, announced by the examiners in mathematics, that the examination showed the methods of instruction pursued in the com peting colleges to be antiquated and obsolete. This is a fact that would scarcely have been ascertained without such a competition. Certainly it would not have been so widely and authoritatively published as by
the report of the intercollegiate contest in mathematics, signed by Pro fessor Simon Newcomb, Admiral Davis, and P. S. Miehie. The Greek
examiners, Messrs. T. W. Chambers, Charlton T. Lewis, and William
R. Dimmock, reported that their examination showed faithful study
upon the part of the contestants, and that, with time and a fair stimu lus of prizes, our colleges would produce the most creditable Grecians. In such examinations, assuming the capacity and the fairness of the
judges, of which in the late contest there could be no question, there is no chance of shirking, and lhe award is made strictly upon proved mer it. The public prestige is an incentive to application and study, like that of the fellowship or the special honor in the English universities, and the kind of objection that is urged against the competition in ora tory can not be alleged against that in hard study and actual, measur able acquirement of knowledge. If it shall be found, as now appears probable, that the contest offers a higher stimulus than that of the ordi nary college course, it will be a real service.
It will not have escaped attention that both the muscular and mental
honors of the last year were borne off by one of the youngest universi
ties in the country, and one which, for many reasons, has been the
subject of harsh, and even of jealous and illicit criticism. The award of the national land fund to the Cornell University and the unsectaritn
provisions of its charter, have not fostered a fraternal feeling for it in
the breasts of other institutions. But its accumulated honors of this
year have been by common consent honorably and legitimately won.
On the day before the Saratoga regatta last July a Harvard rowing man of great knowledge and sagacity, after carefully watching the crews,
their methods and their performance, said, ruefully bul unhesitatingly,
" Cornell is going to beat us all." It did not win by any chance or good luck, but with perfect and acknowledged fairness. This was true in
the recent literary competition, in which Cornell carried off the first
honor iu Creek, the first in mathematics, a first prize in es>ay writing,
The Mich, c/ieoniele bus a wonderful musical critic. According to him Yon Billow can shake "divine harmonies from his finger-tips like wreaths and sprays of undying flowers." His ringers "can rest upon the keys as lightly, yet firmly as the butterfly upon the bosom of the rose." "The key-board was often swept with bewildering rapidity, yet with faultless precision." What does the Chronicle think of Beet hoven, unyluni- .'
and the second in oratory. This is a remarkable and most creditable result for the university. And it is the more si because Cornell is not exclusively nor even especially given to classical or rhetorical studies.
Should the contest hereafter extend so as to include competitions in chemistry, organic and inorganic, the calculus, physic*, civil and me chanical engineering, German, French, >panish, or Italian literature, general literature, and constitutional history— studies which, as we
The Rev. Klisha B. Andrews, in bis late inaugural address as presi dent of Denison University, Ohio, made a vigorous defense of seetari
know, are pursued Avith great thoroughness at Cornell— there can be little doubt that it would add to its honorable list of first prizes, and
and colleges, contending that to put higher education in the hands of assert the excellence and variety of its course of study still more plainly.
the government is not only impolitic but wrong in principle. The ad We remember seeing last year the remark that l'n ->'nK ni AYhile had
dress was doubtless intended as an answer to the one delivered by Pies. done more to injure advanced education than any man in the country.
White, of Cornell Cniversity, at Detroit, about, a year ago, advocating He did nol answer. But this year his boys seem to have answered for
state institutions, in which Ohio colleges were severely handled. — Uni him.
versity Press.
And his girls. We spoke last June of the opening of the Sage Col
Ajijitt/on's Journal maintains its standard as the best weekly journal in this country. All of its departments are equally excellent.
lege for the female students at Cornell; and it is "Mrs. Irvin, late Miss Thomas, of Cornell, who bore awav the first prize in Greek in the late
IJue/ne'x Mugiaiiu: for February is unusually interesting.
competition.
It contains
The committee state in their report that their purpose
a fifteen page article on Yassar College by Anna C. Bracket!, selections was to make "a reasonable but not severe demand" upon the compet-
from the autobiography of that sludents' friend, the Kev. John Todd, antl the first installment of Oenrgc Kliol's new novel " Daniel Deronda," he-sides many oilier articles of interest. There are sixty live illustra
tions.
,
iters. But we venture to believe that had they applied a higher test of linguistic philological anil textual criticism, "the female mind" would
not have shrunk from the trial. For all the colleges engaged, and for all who ask simply anil only fair play for women by providing them the
rut: i .ati-: intf.i; coi. 1.1:01 vrie j.iii.kakv contkst.
Although Harvard, Yale, and Columbia lake no part in the inter collegiate eonlest of study, it can not be said that it is because the effort
absolute equality of opportunity which men enjoy, the result of the late intercollegiate eonlest was peculiarly gratifying and encouraging.—Ilar/ice's Wiekly.
is unworthy the attention of the besi students. The examinations of
—Ask your dealer for Vanity Fair; see advt.
The Cornell Era
"Above all Sects is Truth."
Volume VIII. —Number 18.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, FEBRUARY 18, 1870.
$2.50 per Annum in Advance.
Printed and Published every Friday, by Students of the Senior and Junior Classes.
<&V\\axs fax 1875-1}.
J. W. Sturdevant, '?(!, M. E. Haviland, 'i
C. P. Woodruff, '76, A. J. Loos, '77.
— We feel constrained to express our regrets at not receiv
ing a poem of some kind in relation to the fall of snow on Tues day last. However we repress our feelings on the subject, and take it for granted that the snow muse was frozen up by the sudden change of temperature on the following evening, or blown away by the accompanying gale of wind. If it thaws out the coming Aveek, our obligations will be due to the per son who presents us with any of its productions.
— Prolessor Wilder, in his recent investigations, has been able to homologize the brains of the (bmoids so as to clear up some very puzzling points, giving a new interpretation to facts which had formerly led to great confusion in the classifi cation of Fishes. He will present his investigations in detail at the next meeting of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science. The proceedings will lie published, when we shall know more of this undoubtedly important dis
covery.
A— new organization has just been started among the students, called The Medical Association. It begins with thirteen members. The object of this organization is to dis
cuss the rudiments of medical science. As yet it is not per
manently located, but it expects to remain a permanent organization. As Cornell has no professional schools in Di vinity, Law or Medicine, avc do not see Avhy organizations among those who have chosen these as their prospective pro fessions cannot be sustained Avith profit. Perhaps, too, there might be added an organization of Journalists. Nearly all classes of men have their organizations now-a-days, and college men seem by no means to be an exception.
— In another column we publish a communication, from one of the Navy Directors, which, to say the least, is eminently encouraging. We congratulate the present Board upon their taking the step in regard to procuring a char ter lor the Navy. Although it will be an additional expense, the time may come when a charter in their possession Avould be worth many times the original cost. In speaking of the ex pected subscriptions from different sources, ouv correspondent
has failed to note that the Alumni in several places have prom ised to do more than ever before. And especially is this the case in New York city, where tliere are more of them perhaps than in any other city in the United States. The reply which the Xavy Hoard received in response to the petition Avhich it
sent to the Faculty, will insure them a complete recovery from elebt. The efforts of the new Board, thus far, bespeak success for the Navy the coming year, and we hope the end will
prove it.
—The communications on Junior Ex. are getting quite nu merous. We are glad to see the subject awakening so much interest. It seems to us that if the Juniors are going to t study from which her ing in all of their studies, and the slur on "this woman"' was
students freely choose. In reference t<> non-sectarianism it savs: entirely uncalled for. The Record seems to be carried away
" We believe that President White's mode of selecting professors to with the idea that they Ave re occupied with the prize studies
fill the chairs in a university is a good one, for Ave clo not think that they should be chosen upon sectarian principles. The best man should deserve the best position always, whether lie obtains it or not, but tliere
j
and nothing else, and bases its conclusions
of Cornell upon that mistaken idea. AVe
as to the "injustice" hope it Avill see what
are appearances and modes of order of vital importance Avfiich can be injustice it has done to Cornell.
kept up and still have the rule enforced."
That is just where avc differ from the llccord; -we do not pro fess to be non-sectarian, and at the same time desire to "keep up appearances" by enforcing chapel attendance. To our
mind it is more ruinous to a man's morals to submit to the in
fliction of chapel attendance against his own inclination than
it is to stay away, for it ically incites opposition to, and hatred
for, the teachings tliere inculcate. A man derives no good
from a daily bolus of religion that is forced clown his throat.
This fact is recognized in the common saying that "minister's
sons are always the greatest scamps." We fail to see how
"such a careless system" produces a "lack of care for the
every-day class-room recitations." Those who desire to learn
will have their lessons prepared, chapel or no chapel, and Ave
think that our recitations prove this.
If thev are not
equal to those of any sectarian college we will "step down and out." Of course croakers will always have it that we are
so many "candidates for Satan," but we have hitherto sur
vived that terrible epithet, and probably shall in the future.
Meanwhile Ave would suggest that "moral " sectarian colle«-e.s
look to the beam in their own eyes.
Of the other cause of our success, freedom in choice of
study, it says:
"Wc wonder if the several successful competitors from Cornell
have, during their stay at the college, devoted their time to Ihese ,,rjZ(.
,,,,-il'istudies respectively because they were especially suited to their
ties, tastes and aims; if so, Cornell has no reason to rejoiee over her
victories, and Prcsidnit White has no just right to ,-ite such victories -,s suitable examples anel outgrowths of his views, We think that th
causes are due vastly
'-■ ■from Cornell than io
m0re to the personal exertions of the ee„o,-„„s' President AYhitc's system of education.
\A after devoting bix months to
^ftadrigal.
Cold the clouds, ah! cold and grav, Drifting, tossing all the day;
Thick the mists that settle down
O'er the valley bare and brown.— But what care I for mournful sky,
And what care I for mist; The darkest sky, when thou art nigh,
With golden sunlight's kissed.
'78.
$Uchad .^nfltlo'isi 2Mght ami ^Horning.
In the chUrch of San Lorenzo, in Florence, whose architect
was Filippo Brunelleschi, are to be found many noble works of art, and especially in the Xew Sacristy, the mausoleum
which has furnished the pattern for all modern works of this
sort, but which itself has never been surpassed. It has also been called the Medieean chapel of Michael Angelo. Leo X. gave to Michael Angelo, in 151:., the commission of complet ing the unfinished front of the church of San Lorenzo, aud he
devoted himself to the task with characteristic energy. But
obstacles of every sort arose; the Pope was carrying on war m upper Italy, and the treasury was exhausted in the pay ment of soldiers. The completion of the entire facade was giv
en up in l .vo, and in order to compensate the "Master" for
such an unpleasant suspension of his work, he was ordered to Imild a memorial chapel for two of the Medicis who had died
a short time befoi-e. This was the Xew Sacrist v, begun on
the .'list of March, 1520.
This chapel is in the form of a square. A lofty dome is sprung over it, and a small apsis extends beneath— a very com-
Feb. IS, 1S7G.
THE CORNELL ERA.
139
mon architectural feature at that time. Fight panels with niches are introduced, so that a perfect symmetry is preserved. The monuments are on the right and left sides, antl opposite to the apsis three other statues are placed, the middle one be ing an unfinished Madonna from Michael Angeh.'s own hand.
While Michael Angelo was occupied with this work, he received the new commission to erect a splendid building ad joining the church, for the reception of the famous Bim.it>theka Laurextiaxa. And this undertaking also was left unfinished. The new Pope, a Medici, summoned Michael .An
gelo to Borne in l.v.O for personal consultation in regard to
these buildings; but in 1527 the people, weary of the growing tyranny of the Medici, drove them from Florence. The Pope, threatened Avith the OA'erthroAv of all his plans, called to his
assistance Charles V., and Florence must be put in a state of
which give an excellent completion to the whole artistic group ing. The forms of Morning and Evening, of Day and Night, are symmetrically arranged in regard to the pose of their limbs, and yet of necessity without anv respect to geometrical proportions. The master has made the two masculine forms of Herculean size, Avhile Aurora appears like a maiden, and Night like a mature woman; but both arc gigantic and col ossal. The wrinkles and folds on the body of Night, and the appearance of the breasts mar the beauty of the figure; but we must not forget that Michael Angelo could hardly give that character of maternity, which has from the earliest ages been ascribed to night, in any other Avay than by giving to the body the marks of having been a mother. It is a bold at tempt, and no one but Michael Angelo would have ventured it.
But who avc re those two men, lor whom the family erected
defense. Michael Angelo, appointed one of the commission so costly a memorial chapel, and who have had the fortune to
for this purpose, laid aside his artistic labors and superintend receive immortality in the master-piece of the great sculptor?
ed the erection of forts and Avails. Xotwithstanding the pop They both died young, and died in coiisecpience of their vices,
ular enthusiasm and a heroic defense, the citv was given up without having accomplished anything deserving of renown. on the 12th of August, 1530, to Pope (.'lenient VII. Michael • duliano, the brother of Leo X, was made duke of Xemours
Angelo had become the enemy of those for whom he Avas by Francis I, of France, and died in 15 Ki, while his nephew
erecting the monuments in the church of San Lorenzo, and he Lorenzo, created Duke of Urbino by the Pope, followed him
feared that the vengeance which fell upon the heads of others three years afterwards To this Lorenzo, Macchiavelli dedi
would fall upon his own. He concealed himself in the small cated his book of '-The Prince."
bell-tower of San Xiccohi, and search Avas made for him all
These works are known to all friends of art from copies
over the city in vain. At last Pope Clement announced that and casts; but how vast a difference betAveen seeing these, and
his safety would be guaranteed, and Michael Angelo quietly seeing with one's own eyes originals themselves in the sculp
left the bell-tower and Avent to work in the Sacristy of San tured marble, in the place and with the surroundings Avhere
Lorenzo. This was in November, 1530. We must suppose the Master places them! Nothing can give any idea of the
that his mallet and chisel had not been wholly idle during the life which the marble possesses: the artist's haul can be appre
period of the Avar, for in Sept., 1531, the tAvo female forms ciated only here in all its delicacy and power of touch. The
were completed. It may be that he brought these tAvo figures solemn character of the place, also, contributes to that concen
in ten months into their present state of completion, for avc tration of thought and feeling se> essential for any deep im
know that he threw himself into his work with fierce and pas pression; for the interior of this chapel, contrary to the orig
sionate eagerness in order to forget Avhat must have been to inal intention, is white, and only the architectural projections
him, as a patriot, a source of infinite pain.
are gray; and the impression produced by this absence of dis
He slept little, took scarcely any nourishment, and became tinct color and by the white marble monuments i.s entirely
so reduced that his life was in danger. The Pope exhorted different from that of other Catholic churches in Italy.
him to think of his health, and forbade him to work in the
There is indeed a Avant of proportion betAveen the colossal
Saerhtv during the winter months. In the years lf>32 and figures and the small sarcophagi; anel betAveen the two statues
1533 he finished the statues of the two dukes and brought the and the niches in Avhich they are seated; but this very contrast
reclining male figures to the state of completion in which avc now see them. The other figures, as for example those of Heaven and of Earth, Avhich Avere to have occupied the niches at the side of the two dukes, were apparently but just begun,
and were left in that unfinished condition.
may contribute, perhaps, to the general, impressive effect. But he who considers this work with love and true feeling has no time for critical reflections. The artistic energy irresistibly chains his look to these figures. Yet he sees clearly that no copies, no casts can cause that the four forms, Morning and
Pope Clement VII. died on the 2oth of September, ].r>34, and Michael Angelo, avIio was then at Pome, fearing the ven
geance of the duke Alexander, did not return to his native city, and his labor on the church of San Lorenzo was there
fore brought to a close. He declined all the invitations Avith
Evening, Day and Night, should represent the eternally
changing time as it awakens out of sleep and sinks into sleep aoain. These figures are assuredly, therefore, in the fitting place, representing .'is they do the fleetingness of our davs on earth, from the first painful awakening to the last deep sleep.
which he Avas pressed to return, choosing to leave his work They Avould say this, and this alone: That time is the con-
unfinished rather than to behold Florence in subjection to a .pieror of man. And as this had been represented on monu
duke.
ments in an unartistic manner by the skeleton with scythe and
Each of the monuments consists of a sarcophagus, on the ' hour-glass, Michael Angelo desired to embody the same very
top of which a male and a female figure are reclining, and in simple thought in human figures. Some have said that this the niches above are the sitting figures of the two dukes, thought AA'as not worthy of so great an artist, that it Avas too
140
THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 18, 1S76.
common-place; but it is the great glory of Michael Angelo, as " Smith's Leading Cases;" the date of its publication was
that he has exalted into a higher sphere the common, the most the beginning of a new era in the literature of the profession,
simple and universally comprehensible thoughts, by his trans- it having formed the model for a large and increasing class of
figuring poAver as an artist.
law books, valuable alike to the student and practitioner.
But instead of adopting this simple thought of the terrible This Avork consists of a number of leading cases, each upon
and necessary power t<> which all human, earthly existence must separate and distinct subjects, to which are subjoined corn-
bow, the deepest and most subtle meanings have been attrib- ments, citations, and quotations from other similar decisions.
uted to the artist, and of course a great many inapt theories
The plan and arrangement of our text-books of select cases
have been brought forward. Tliere are those, too, who from is materially different; they treat of a subject as a whole, and their point of view cannot enter into the artist's feeling and each chapter is made up of a series of cases designed to eluci-
thought; but since the time that they came from the hands of < date some principle, or series of principles, and to show the
the mighty genius these forms have been objects of admiration, very growth of the law itself. To this end the cases, English and they will remain such as long as they endure. Condivi said and American, are arranged chronologically, beginning with "that if Pope Clement VII had done nothing else worthy <>f ■ perhaps the oldest to be found in the reports and continuino-
commendation, this New Sacristy of S. Lorenzo Avould be suf- down to the present time. The student is thus enabled to
ficient to counterbalance all his defects. And these defects, trace the origin and growth of principles which have been ar
not to say crimes, were not a (ew.
rived at by slow degrees, by processes of reasoning oftentimes
The Sacristy of San Lorenzo is especially worthy of atten- i extending through centuries.
tion as being the last creation of real Florentine art, and at
It is obvious that the value of books like those depends al-
the same time subserving the end of giving a magnificent most entirely upon the care and judgment exercised in the se-
splendor to
of Florence
tyranny. No one of the rich and noble families
has left for posterity so incomparable a memorial
J
lection of the cases, the
useless, even worse than
vast majority of those reported being
useless for anv purpose of systematic
church as have the Meici
onl'v,longs to those wonderful
in the church of S. Lorenzo. treasures of art in that new
It beAthens
,
study. To select those, and those
which are best adap-
ted to illustrate the fundamental principles of the law, to show
which flourished in splendor on the banks of the Arno.
their rise and growth, to present them from a variety of points
= °f view, and at the same time to avoid useless repetition, is a
(£0lW|)OUtUnCC.
task wllicl1 ^"ires the mind and training of an able jurist to
haeaord laav school.
i.perform. These cases are generally reported in full, containjng tae pleadings, facts, arguments, and opinions. The text-
±„.d,.d,ors
Lr,ornel„l
„
±ra
:
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 14th,
1S76.
PC,hi• ef, JTusti.ce
'. .
Abbott,
(, af, terward, s
Lord
Tenterden)
in
\
hook on
•
con*tains
contracts, for instance, a volume of a thousand ol a°os"'
a■b, outL
th, ree
h, und, red.,
,
and
„„
fifty
cases
in
chapters
upon
an : Mutual Consent, Consideration, and Conditional Contracts.
action aid
that it
against an attorney for negligence, is reported to have \
No man ts bound o know all the law; God forbid1 should ever be imagined that an attorney, a counsel, or
This may be said to be contracts considered as ties to them
the whole law of contracts proper, of
imposing an obligation in,, , tl e ,lar-
even
a ho
a judge is
enters he
bound to know all the law." To the
library of Harvard Law School and
student
contem-
!
;
Each and then
case is briefly stated bv some member
follows a general discussion of its merits
of the class T lie t at
iio^-eno judge however eminent, or jurist
1 ar i ed
becoL ^^1 tZ ZJ^£%£ ^ihl ^ ^.plicitly .lied upon, he
more and
Tt b
.
'
t!
'i ^^ "^ ^ ^^ ^ n«'thi"«
TL^£at the Harvard Law School: The reputation
tion is more than national, many of its professors and oadu-
Jcates having ranked among the ablest jur sts of the
The
wal 0,0.10,^1,1method of stu ly formerly pursued
by
he-
tares; the method now pursued is by lectures and the discus-
sionof select eases. The subjects treated in the latter wav
ZrT^^X* ^ t^ "7""^ ™ ^ "^ P,'01,t,,': 1',r sudl a
subie
a
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ft. r mstance, in which the points decided
Z 2 3^
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rc'uhnlli
The Ualu,= '1
legal bytt,H'
■
Vi,,'"l,,s
,
, treatises is
no means
are Contracts, Torts, Common Law Pleadiim, E.mhv PI a
ingo^A,, and ./;///.,
.,",Xot,S; those by lectur s ,, .
7>ruL,Property, Evidence, Criminal haw,
j\,„Mercantile
7fT^T'\ "T™*U"
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" **"*"* ^ -1'1'l—ntary to The value derived from the rapid and
™*""™* ™wi]™ *«*»"« ™ "<>l to be overlooked, but the
at',"'and the AE ,c Yorf (fo,t,. This course of study is desired to
Take I i ? '"i 7extend over two years, each student being obliged to
it
Italic^,, d^ ji '?least ten hours a week. The subjects i„
known' 7 ,/ ^The first compilation of select cases was the wAvoorikk known
'
,
ous
I
one,
,"°
'
,
that life
" ^"^ *"*> '** that ^ vi«'w " »\* <» ^ ""* vonti"non*> "» »^'> so that verv lit-
"' ^^
Jt'C' t,,at t,,is 1"'f the arrange
ments for the "Ex." The papers at present bear the names
of a little over one-third of the Avhole number of the class.
capitulation, and are left to your oavii judgment. If this sug
gestion meet the approbation of the class, it would be Avell to
hold a meeting as soon as possible, and appoint a committee
of arrangements who should be empowered to select the play
and the performers, all of whom should be subject to the final
vote of the class.
Junior.
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 18, 1876.
Editors Cornell Era:
"Jr. Ex." seems to get along but slowly thus far. The
_"No whispering or talking in the Library, please." -Can't we get Moody and Sankey to come up and revive our rink?
meetings held to consider the matter are more like Quaker
—The " General " says his chum is a Freshman who claims to be a
meetings than anything ebe, and when the spirit moves any one, he "moves to adjourn." The present Junior class will go down into history celebrated for its "masterly inaction." Some one suggested a supper—the class has at least spunk enough to "feed," and perhaps that would do as the bright,
particular occasion of the Junior year. Several Sophomores have kindly volunteered to get up an exhibition for '77, but no "meetings" have yet been held to consider the matter; perhaps they will do it Avithout any consultation. It is very
evident that if there be an exhibition it Avill have to be un
dertaken by a few, at the risk of gaining the opinion of others that they want to thrust themselves upon the public. Papers
have been in circulation for the purpose of getting the opin
ion of the whole class; the indications are that the active
opposition is not as great as is the don't-care spirit. For one,
I wish to see some definite action token. If '77 carries out
the proposal to have a Junior Ex. it should be done with more vigor; if she gives it up, it should be done with more vigor.
Sophomore.
-Prof. Corson will read from Bret Hart's prose works next Satur
day evening. —Prof. Wilder lectured before Syracuse University last Tuesday;
his subject Avas " Fishes." — Professor Anthony commenced his course of lectures on Optics
before the Junior class last Monday.
—The Faculty has very garrulously responded to the petition of the Xavy Board, and will soon give the Xavy a benefit of $300 cash.
—The corps is getting notorious; one Senior member has immor talized himself by allowing a lady student to walk in his tracks through
a snow bank.
—Xext Tuesday is the twenty-second of February, 1870, Washing ton's birthday, and above all what is more interesting to students, it is a legal holiday.
—The match game of chess between the Harvard club and the Phil
idor is still in progress, but as yet with no great advantage for either side. It is played by means of postal cards.
—The suggestion of the Review, to have more chairs in the Library,
(Obituary.
Mr. Herbert J. Macdonald, a member of the class of 1871, of Cornell, died at Boston, Mass., the 11th inst.
Mr. Macdonald Avas well known to the men of his time at
the University, among whom, as Avell as among the people of Ithaca, he made many friends, who Avill learn Avith deep seni-oav of his death, thus almost at the outset of what promised to be a useful and honorable, as well as successful business ca reer. A man of sterling worth, possessing many fine qualities of heart and head, he was known as a most agreeable compan ion and valuable friend. His love of scientific study and re search led him to join the expedition to Brazil under Prof. Hartt in 1870. The opportunities which this expedition af forded he thoroughly improved, while he rendered efficient service by his assistance in gathering the valuable collections brought back by the expedition. The climate of Brazil and the exposure perhaps, to Avhich he was there subject, impaired his health, Avhich was never afterward restored. The strength attendant upon good health being thus denied him, he was able to accomplish but a small part of Avhat, had he been Avell,
was well timed, and the need of them is clearly evident to all, and pain fully evident to a great many every morning.
—The Junior class are almost in a state of bankruptcy, and Avant to borrow money to pay off debts for hall rent incurred by holding meet ings to decide tbe question of holding a Junior " Ex."
— Our readers, avc doubt not, Avill be glad to hear of the opportunity they arc to have of again hearing the Reilpath English Opera Company, on Thursday evening of next week; they will play "Martha."
—The amusement loving student can not complain of a scarcity of entertainments during the past week, ending Avith the grand Navy Ball this evening. It is not often that Ithaca is favored with such a treat.
— "The members of the Univeisity crew are each furnished with a complimentary ticket to the Xavy Hop. Editors have none because no report is wanted," said a brother editor the other day. It must be true.
— Stolen, from the Physical lecture room, on Monday last, a paper with the names of thirty Juniors favoring a Junior " Ex." The finder will do anyone of the subscribers thereto a favor by handing it to him.
—The Philalethian Literary Society will not hold its regular literary exercises to-morrow (Saturday; evening, but a short meeting for busi ness will take place immediately after Professor Corson's reading at Sage College.
he would have done, with the powers of mind ami the rare
—Mr. 11. W. Sage was in town on Tuesday. He is so afflicted with
activity and enterprise which he possessed. A avcII defined rheumatism that he has to ire crutches. He appeared well satisfied
individuality Avas his, and an inherent manliness a]. parent to vvitli the way in which the building, which he so generously donated,
all who came in contact Avith him; while a pleasing manner, is being conducted.
winning address, and fine personal appearance served as an at
—Professor Corson will read selections from Julius Ca'sar before the
tractive setting to his more substantial merits.
class in Junior Lit., at the usual hour, a week from next Tuesday. His
Much might be added to the above, were it within the pur
pose of this article to do more than convey the news of Mr.
readings draw quite a number of students who usually spend that hour in study in the Library.
Macdonald's death to his college associates, and at the same
" —
Xow
don't
put that
in
(lie
Emv,"
said a seeley looking
Senior, the
time rentier a slight tribute to the worth of a beloved friend.
other day, after sliding down the icy steps of the South University building, and scattering his draughting instruments all along the snowy
Sttnuwiti) litems.
I route of his rapid and unlookcd for descent.
— Navy Hop to night. —President White returned on Tuesday. —Tuesday was a good day for co-education.
— Major Van Ness lias made the announcement that students who
drill, but do not wish to, if they can play any kind of a musical instru ment suitable for a Universiiy hand, will he allowed to do so next term, as a band Avill he organized before that time if possible.
Feb. 18, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
143
—Prof. Corson will give a public reading in Library Hall, next Tues day evening, at the invitation of the Adelphi Literary Society. Profes sors and their families and students are cordially invited to attend. Tickcan be procured without expense at the bookstores.
"
—
Catch
my
hat!"
exclaimed a prancing Junior to a classmate, last
Wednesday during the customary gale, after the former had picked
himself up out of the snow-bank twice, antl just in time to see the latter
grab fcr the passing hat, miss it, and fall headlong into a snowy couch
also.
—There was a meeting of the trustees of the Iniversity, on Friday, not for the purpose (as some may suppose) of disposing of the money from the reported land sale, for no sale amounting to seven hundred thousand dollars has been effected. The professors are again disconso
late.
"
—
Leonarda
era
la
que
habia
servido
el
nectar
a
aquellos
dioses in-
fcrnales," translated, reads, Leonarda was she who had served the nec
tar to these infernal Cods.
says it should read
:;'
But one of our post-graduate instructors
* served the nectar in infernal
small doses
— The Seniors are very busy this term; the exercises in American History with Prof. Russel and the essays and orations with Prof. Shack ford, give them an unusual amount of writing. A leading editorial, suitable for a metropolitan newspaper, on The Administration of Presi dent Grant, is the exercise for Friday, Feb. 20.
narrow, two young ladies were seen passing from one building to the other in double file with a huge umbrella in front of them. They oc cupied the whole of the walk and compelled all whom they met to step out into the snow or stand close, in which case they were sure to be hit by the umbrella, but were consoled by " Oh, my!" from the dainty lips. .Vn observer heard that "Oh, my" no less than six times Avhile the usurpers were passing from the Soutli Building to the M-Craw. How
would such conduct from the other sex be looked upon?
— At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, on Wednesday, they vo ted to appropriate three hundred dollars to the Cornell Xavy. This is the right kind of a movement and wc hope that by it a precedent will be established that will he adhered to in succeeding years, except that the amount may be increased. But while they were upon the subject they should have been reminded of the " barn," as an old farmer called it, that the students are compelled to use for a uymnasium. Of course all the students are thankful for the three hundred, yet they have good reasons to expect something for an instituti >c whose existence is only maintained by the exertions of a few energetic gymnasts. An appro priation of a few thousand dollars for a good gymnasium would be the wisest thing that could be done. For although Cornell's physical excel
lence is above par at present, there will come a time when the interest will subside among the students if their efforts arc not seconded by the
action of the Trustees. AVe repeat that a good, large, well equipped gymnasium is among the greatest needs of the University.
— Scene. — German recitation Monday morning. Professor calls on Mr. D. to recite. "I'm not prepared this morning, Professor." ' Mr. CE" " Not prepared, Professor." " Mr. G." " I have not read the les son out, Professor." " Mr. M." " You excused me this morning, Pro fessor." Professor discouraged — " I'll read the lesson this morning.''
— Wanted — A Cornell Revieiv containing the prize essay of F. E.
Heath. For sale — A Cornell Revieic with two articles in it each of which
is headed M Taine ou Milton. We can endure criticisms for a change, but protest against duplicates of that sort in the same number of a Lit erary Magazine. Was it for want of puddling or Avas the binder a little
off?
— We see from the catalogue of the Medical School of Bowdoin Col
lege, Brunswick, Maine, that a chair of Physiology separate from An atomy has been established, and that Professor Wilder has been chosen to fill it. He left Ithaca, last Tuesday, to enter upon his course of lec tures there for the present year, and will not return till the beginning
of next term.
— The Cornell University Rifle Association has taken steps towards the formation of an Inter-Collegiate Rifle Association, and the secreta ries of rifle associations of other colleges are requested to communicate with the President of the CE U. R. A., C. WE Raymond, in order that proper steps may be taken towards organizing such au association be fore the shooting season begins.
— Professor Cromwell's Art Entertainments, in Library Hall, this week, arc exceedingly instructive. We doubt whether seeing the real Venus of Melos of the Louvre-, or the Laocoon of the Vatican, would add much to the vividness and accuracy of the impression received from seeing them on the screen. The scenes chosen for this evening are in England, and for to morrow evening in Ireland.
— We clip the following from the Wunric'e Advertiser of Jan. 10th. It is from the report of a meeting of a literary society, at which we are glad to see a fellow student distinguished himself. " Mr. James Mon roe, of Cornell University, was then loudly called upon for a speech. He took the floor, and in his usual happy and easy manner delivered a little impromptu speech that brought down the house. He gave a brief resn mc of the history of Cornell, Avith characteristic modesty, however, touching but lightly upon his own career there. He dwelt iu glowing language on the advantages of co-education. ' In the words of a West ern poet,' lie said,
' Of all the institutions Avhich a fast age has fixed, There's nothing that compares with a college that's mixed.'
He concluded Avith a touching appeal to the young ladies present to
'come one, come all' to Cornell. When he sat down tliere Avas not a
dry eye in the house. After this the meeting adjourned, well pleased with the evening's entertainment."
— The following appeared in the account of the Moody and Sankey movement in the Hippodrome, before two thousand people, ou Feb. 15:
" When Mr. Sankey took his seat at the organ, he seemed to inspire the congregation with new vocal life, and they opened the services vig orously by singing the twenty-second hymn. Then they bowed their
heads in silent prayer while the requests from afflicted persons were
read. The Rev. Dr. Vail prayed aloud, asking in compliance with a re quest, that there might be an abundant outpouring of grace upon the students of Cornell University. Then, as the rain began to fall upon the roof Avith a sudden accession of vigor that sounded like a deluge, Mr. Sankey sang:
Temperatures for the tceek ending Feb. Villi.
—We have it from good authority, that the fighting editor (no
other than the far famed "autograph" man) of our local college ex
change, had the audacity in sangfroid to ask Prof. Cromwell's agent for thirty-six tickets to the Art Entertainment, < >n being interrogated as to the constituency of it and the reason why, he worked out the little prob
lem "0X0=30 ergo, »tc." Whether the ticket agent was a man of mus
cle,
or whether the supply of
""
comps
had
been
previously
exhausted
we are not informed. But the sequel was that he who attended the en
tertainment, went home a quarter less.
—Co-education is a nice thing. One Tuesday, Avhen the snow was blown into drifts about the University buildings, and the path was very
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141
THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 18, 1S76.
Lord, I hear of showers of blessings Thou art scattering full and free."
Moody and Sankey might move their "stony hearts" to make editorial work equal to two or three hours per week of some light study!
Undoubtedly the Kev. Dr. Vail woulel find less occasion for praying particularly for Cornell University, if the veil of ignorance and prej- I
Amherst drops, at last, the Englisli pronunciation of
tion is raised from SOU per annum, to $1(10. — Transcript.
Greek.
Tui
Judice which seems to surround him could be removed; and his prayers
Avould avail more if they were breathed in favor of the small sectarian
Good Heavens! Ten dollars a drop! The Transcript publishes "A Prep's lamentation after Hood's Shirt." It commences as follows:
jcolleges which flood our land and whose professors are bigoted and
whose students are often effeminate and unmanly in consequence of the
With a system racked and torn, And eyelids heavy with grief,
verv sectarianism.
but we cannot sec the slightest reference to Hood's shirt in the whole
dogoercl. Besides, we don't think that Robin even troubled himself
gmonate.
with that inconvenient article of clothing. How could he ever send an arrow "a cloth yard long" through a bird on the wing, if he were tor
Kennedy, '74, is in town visiting his old friends. Smith, W. M., '74, is at Smilhtown Branch, L. I. Sollby, '74, is doing Avell at teaching, at Goodrich, Mich.
tured by a sharp piece of starch cunningly placed right between the shoulders of that garment by a fiendish washerwoman. They always
elo it— but we can't devote any more of our valuable space to washer-
women; we should, however, like to write up the article on that subject
Woodford, '72, is teaching the youth at East Selakeis, L. I.
for the new Encycloptedia,
Lamoreaux, '74, is at Avork in Geo. P. Powell's printing establish
ment in Xew York.
j
Moiovn, formerly of '77, who has been attending the Xew York Medical College, is home on a visit.
Almy, '73, is teaching at Port Jefferson, L. I. ; he intends to re-enter Cornell next year and graduate with '77.
Fokd, '74, is chief book keeper in a large leather establishment on the eastern border of Maine, at Veniccboro.
Matciiett, '77, has gone home. He is threatened with the consump tion, anel Avill probably not return to the University.
Weeks, '72, the celebrated foot-bull player, is studying law in Xew York in the office of Deforest A: Weeks, at 120 Broadway.
Will Younos and Ned Kent, both of '72, are practicing law in New York under the firm-name of Youngs & Kent, at 200 Broadway.
Hallock, '73, has become a farmer, and is working out agricultural theories learned at Cornell, on the paternal acres in Lake Grove, L. I.
G XE Brown informs us that he is not foreman in the establishment
in Avhich he is situated, but that he is merely perfecting himself in the
use of tools.
A subscriber to a Soutlnvestern newspaper died recently, leaving four years' subscription unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave and deposited in the coffin a palm leaf fan, a linen coat, and a thermometer. — Colby, dtt<> Re.hrig AATas born at Halle^on June f !» 1 sin. He was sent t<> an infant-school at the age of three,
and from tliere to an elementary school, where he attracted the notice of Dr. Wilhelm Selmtt, the celebrated Professor of Chinese and Tartarian. When he was scarcely six his mother
died, and at the same time he vvas compelled by sickness to leave school. After his recovery he received private instruc tion at home, especially from his uncle Georg R.'.hrig, Avho was then studying at Halle. When his father married again he
was sent to the institute of Prof. Kruse and then to that of
Rev. Abel at Gross-Monra, a village near Colleda, between
Weimar and Erfurt. He communicated but little with other
boys, employing all his leisure time in secretly studying math
ematics and Hebrew. Three years later he entered the gym-
mtsiitm at Eisleben, but soon after he left t<> go to Franke's
famous school at Halle, where he distinguished himself in
mathematics. Here he began his literary career, writing a
small volume of poems and a historical essay. He also com
posed several pieces of music, among which some of his small er sonatas attracted the attention of the Director of Music,
Dr. Nairn, who caused them to be published by Helmuth in
a considerable time devoted to studies Avhose purpose is gen Halle.
eral culture. AVe note, for example, that in the Agricultural
Soon after he left the institute at Halle Avithout his father's
Course, Avhere one would expect to find the smallest number knowledge, and applied for admission at the gymnasium at
ocf
i
such
st. udvies,
.
two
.
years
<•
of
German,,i
..,„„„
one
ote
\h>h\ et+ori• c andoH; albersta.lt,'
where
he
was
subJjected to
an unusuallyJ
rigcid
,C, oinposi■t.•ion, *,..4tA.,v„o-wte. rms ofr
Historyuo
anel,.,-
1„.,
Lawi ,,-
a,n,od
on„ e
+term
,-
of
|[
examination,
which
he
liassed
>■
successfully and -
thereupl on en-
Political Economy are required. In general of the Technical tered the highest class. But he drew on himself his father's
Courses it may be said that the amount of mental work re displeasure, who took him aAvay from the gymnasium, and
quired is fully as much as that in any of the other courses. told him he Avas to prepare for the army. His father Avas in
Of those great subjects, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Zoolo timately acquainted Avith several high officers, who employed
gy, etc., which in general interest —-may we not say in general all their influence to further the young man's military career.
culture?— are coming to have equally as high a place as His principal studies were now directed to his future profes
Belles-lettres, the general student often gets, at most, but an sion, but as he did not conceal his repugnance t<> it, his father
outline, Avhile the Technical student becomes thoroughly ac at length permitted him to choose another, but wished him to
quainted Avith some one or more of these studies.
devote himself to diplomacy.
The discussion admits of a much more detailed presenta-
While Rohrig was still a child he had come across several
tion, but if this serves to show that Technical Courses are for I books in foreign languages in his grandfather's library. His
something more than merely teaching ordinary trades, and curiosity being excited he closed)- examined them. In Dutch,
are worthy of entire respect, our purpose is accomplished. Danish, and Swedish works he soon discovered words and ety
President White puts it like this: " Brain work in one direc- mological forms like the Geiman, and the knowledge he had
tion is worth as much as brain work in another." Upon this acquired in school, of Latin and French, enabled him to make
principle degrees, graduation and positions on Commence out Spanish anel Italian words. He procured grammars and
ment programmes are given to students without any discrim dictionaries, with the aid of which he made himself acquainted
ination on account ofthe name of the course pursued.
with the contents of these books. Interested by the similari
Due more step must be taken, however, before the Technical Courses shall virtually be entitled to the same respect as mt.st of the General Courses, viz: to make the amount of
ty betAveen the diflerent languages, he made a thorough studv "' their grammatical structure; but his father viewed this
very unfavorably and gave him no encouragement. He soon
preparation for admission to the University — not in kind, by any means, but in quantity — equal to the greatest amount. required in any General Course.
—According to the printer's " devil," another verse of Mr.
Sankey's song on "temperature
for
the
week
ending
"
—
ap
pears in our present issue.
turned his attention to Oriental languages, and mastered one alter the other Hebrew, Chahlaic, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Fthiopic, Armenian, Georgie, Persian, Tartaric, Cahnuck, Mo golian, and Mautshu. About this time some of his rela
tives visited the fair at Leipzig, and took him with them. Among the strangers he noticed Turks, Persians, Giccks, Ar menians, Tiflisians, etc., whom he approached as soon as he
Feb. 2o, 1876.
THE CORNELL ERA.
147
could and adtlressed them in their native languages. He ' Islamilic priests made himself familiar with the Koran and
found to his joy that they understood him and he could un- i Mohammedan derstaml them. He was invited to the " Greek House," where , but remained
theology. At
only fourteen
length he returned to Germany, days in his fatherEs house A
the merchants from the Levants topped. They all spoke Ro- great-aunt, August.- Roll, whom he was visiting, one day
ma.c, and the conversation at table was held in this language, showed him an old portrait, that hung oyer a door, and told
Many of his friends after this urged his father to permit him
him it was
her great-uncle, George Freiderieh '
Handel, whose
to continue his linguistic pursuits, but the elder Holing con- only living desecmla.it she was. Ibr family was still to re
turned adverse, and in his son's presence spoke contempt u.nis- ceive 115(10 from the administrators of the deceased, and she
ly of his studies. But the latter, in secret, continued his re- gave him the testament and the necessary documents to sup-
'shesearches, which his father a year after accidentally discovered, port his claims t<> the money in London
also gave him
|An unpleasant scene was the result, in consequence of which several of Handel's letters, an autograph duplicate of the par-
Rohrig for some time left his father's house.
, titure of the "Messiah," and an old piano on which he had
Pie went to Leipzig, Avhere he called on all the Professors learned to play. R.'.hrig at once went to Fngland, and depos-
and Tutors of language, and request ed them to subject him to ! ited his papers with the proper authorities. These were found
a thorough examination and give him certificates as to the re- to be correct, and soon the report of his arrival Avith many in sult. His application being granted, Prof. Fleischer exam- foresting documents of his relative, the great composer, went ined him in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish; Prof. Schmidt in | the rounds of the London papers. The Surrogate Court deRussian and Romaic; Prof. Rathgeber in Portuguese, Span- : elared, however, that as Handel had died ninety years before, ish, aud Italian. He was then re-examined by the Archiman- bis property could no longer be claimed. Rdhrig remained
dride Kokanzi, the clergyman at the Greek Chapel, in Roma- some time longer in London, and finally decided to make a
ic, and by the learned Lichomanoft' in Russian in the presence trip around the Avorld. The ship on Avhich he had taken pasof the Uussian Consul-General Yon Kiel. Armed with these j sage proving to be a slaving vessel, he preferred losing his certificates he returned home, and his father at length gave passage money and Avent to Paris.
consent to his studies.
Financial misfortunes iioav assailed his family, and for the
He entered the University as student in philology, devof- j first time in his life he was forced to look about seriously for
ing himself especially to Oriental languages and comparative some means of subsistence. He betook himself to the study
philology. After he obtained his degree of Doctor of Philos- of medicine, and after four years passed his examination as
ophy, he wished to become Private Tutor, but his father re- Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. He eked out his scanty in-
turned to his old idea of making him a diplomat. He went come by teaching languages and by translations. On October
with his son to Berlin, where his reception Avas very flatter- -5, ls-fs, he received the great Yolney prize of the Institute
ing, both on account of his father's influence aud his own lin- of France, a golden medal worth 12oo francs, for linguistic at-
guistic attainments, besides a book which he had published in | tainments and comparative philology. He obtained the hon1 reiich on Turkish Idioms. To ascertain the extent of his ac- orary citizenship in France, but becoming tired of the country
quirements the Minister of the Exterior and of Instruction he emigrated in ls5:i to the United States.
gave the necessary orders for a searching examination, both ,
Through the influence of the then Professor of Oriental
oral and Avritten. The result was perfectly satisfactory, and , languages at the University of Ncav York, George Bush, and
the King thereupon appointed him to a position in the diplo- i on the recommendation of Washington Irving, he Avas ap-
matic service at a salary of six hundred thalers. At the same ; pointed assistant librarian of the Aster Library. But the sal-
time he Avas informed that he must study law and Avhat else ary Avas so small that he soon after resigned the position, and
was requisite for the diplomatic service. lie did so, and hav- again took to practicing medicines. His expenses exceeeding
ing passed the government examination, was assigned as at- his income, he sold all he had and Avent West, where he spec-
tache to the Prussian embassy at Constantinople. The Sultan < ulated in land, traded Avith the Indians, journalized, and car-
commissioned him with a statistical Avork on the Russian Em- : ried on various other occupations. He soon became Aveary of
pire and a political geography of the same country, as Avell as this unsteady life, and for some time taught in a medical col-
a Avork on the ancient history of the Osmanic nation to be , lege in Philadelphia, and afterwards as Professor of foreign
Avritten in Turkish. Titles and orders now rained down on ! languages at different institutions. < >n the breaking out of
him, when he was incautiously involved in the Do L'Or affair. ' the civil war he Avas appointed assistant surgeon in the Union
De L'Or, an intimate friend of R.'.hrig, was a superior officer army, retaining his position for six years. He was stationed
in the Turkish army, who had publicly cowhided Count for three years at the West Philadelphia militaiy hospital,
Stiepowitsch, the first Dragoman of the Prussian embassy, and afterwards transferred to South Carolina and from there
Rohrig took sides with his friend, which was reported t<> Ber- to Dakota, Avhere he became familiar with the languages of
lin as insubordination. Lie succeeded in honorably extricat- various tribes of Indians, especially those of the Sioux and
ing himself, but his stay in the Turkish capitol became so irk- Chippewas, Avhich he spoke fluently. Receiving a call to
some that he resigned his office.
j Washington he was for eighteen months in the bureau of the
He next travelled through Africa and Asia, studying the Surgeon General. He then left the service of the government,
languages, customs, and religious rites of the nations Avith | and Avent to New York, where he became director of the
whom he came in contact, and under the direction of high | Polyglot Bureau. At the same time he speculated in land,
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THE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 2:>, 1876.
but so unsuccessfully, that he was glad to return to his old Extremely interesting and instructive is the appended excur
pursuits. He was appointed to the assistant professorship of sus em the law of polarity in language, in which the author French at Cornell University, and at the same time authorized attempts to show that in the genesis of language the same du-
to give instructions in Chinese and Japanese, and was then alistic principle is active, which in accordance with modern
made Professor of Asiatic languages, a position he still re scientific and metaphysical speculation, runs through all na
tains. During the summer vacation of 1*7.3 he made a voy ture. Competent judges have declared that this work marks
age to Europe.
a new era, and it cannot fail to be popular, as it succeeds more
This is the checkered, almost adventurous life <»f this gen than any other in removing the difficulties experienced by
ial, and at the same time wonderfully amiable and modest Americans and Englishmen in learning German.
'77.
man, whom none can approach Avithout becoming prepos sessed in his favor. Notwithstanding the many storms of for
(The ;Uani -gop.
tune, met so courageously by him, he still retains his youthful
vigor and indefatigable activity. In his leisure hours during the past feAV years Prof. Rohrig
has been occupied Avith the study of the North American In dian dialects, and his dissertation " On the Language of the Dakota or Sioux Indians," published by the Smithsonian In
stitute, surpasses everything that has hitherto been done in this field. Since the death of George Gil.bs, he has been en trusted with the editing of the manuscripts relating to the In
dian languages collected by him, and there is a prospect that several of these dissertations, with commentaries by Prof.
Rohrig, Avill shortly appear in the "Proceedings of the Smith sonian Institution." RohrigEs original Avorks have appeared in various countries and in various languages. The principal ones are: " Idioine der tiirkischen Sprache," Breslau, 18:1*; "Ueber BennaEs arabische Gedichte," Ls43; "Tiirkische Fer-
mans und andere orientalische Curiositaten," 1x44; "Recherchen fiber die Sprachen von Central Asien," 1x4s; "German
Student's First Book or A General Introduction to all German
Grammars," Baltimore, ls.5s; " De Turcarum Lingme Indole ac Natura," Philadelphia, lxoo. Lie is also cited as authority in Pott's " Quinare Zahlmethode "; Kellgren's " Grundziio-e der Finnisehen Sprache"; Bohlenyi's " La Hongroie Pittoresque"; B.'.htlingk's "Sprache der Jakuten"; Dubeux' " Grammaire Turque"; Dubeux' " Compte Rendu d'un Ouvrage inedit de M. Roehrig," Paris, 1x50. Contributions and reviews by him are to be found in the " Journal Asiatique," the "Ausland," and other periodical magazines. As a physi cian and especially oculist Dr. Deval refers to him in his
" Trait.' de l'Amaurose."
The latest work of Rohrig is "The Shortest Road to Ger man. Designed for the Use of both Teachers and Students," 225 pp. Published l.y Andrus, McChain it CE.., Ithaca, N. Y. This excellent textbook is an enlargement of "The German Student's First Book," which at its publication was received
The fourth annual reception of the Cornell Xavy took
place at the Ithaca Hotel, last Friday evening. The attend
ance, perhaps, was not quite as large as usual, but numbered
about one hundred and seventy-five. The ball room was very
tastily but not richly decorated. The champion flags belong ing to the Navy, several national flags, a set of oars, and two
single shells adorned the walls, besides a heavy border of ev
ergreens that extended nearly around the room just below the
ceiling. The windows Avere hung Avith lace curtains, and the
floor, as usual, was "crashed" instead of heing waxed. Alto
gether the ball room presented a very atttractive appearance
in its plain but extremely appropriate decorations. The mu
sic- was furnished by Dresher's orchestra of Svracuse. Their
position was at the left of the main entrance, and at one end
of the room. The programme, published in our last issue, was commenced about nine o'clock, and fully carried out.
The most noticeable feature relative to the appearance of
the guests, Avas the predominance of the gentlemen. Several theories have been advanced to explain the cause <>f this, but evidently the reason i.s that the party in the minority were minus invitations, notwithstanding the fact that it was Leap Year, and they had the right to choose their own company for the occasion. Professors Byerly, Boyesen, and Major Van Xess were in attendance, the latter appearing in civilian's dress. There were quite a number of strangers present, the majority of them from Syracuse and LYiioii Springs. After the first part of the programme Avas finished a splendid supper was served in the "ordinary," not in the ordinary style, however, for such a thing under the management of .Messrs. Sherman means more than ordinary. The party, unevenly made up as it was, passed off very pleasantly, and every one seemed satis fied with the evening's pleasure. The dancing continued until about four o'clock, when the delighted guests departed, all Avishing the Xavy increasing success and more victories.
Avith great applause liy all thorough teachers. In its present enlarged and revised form the work comprises the results of
CurrcsiJomlcncc.
many years' instruction of Americans and Englishmen in Ger man. It is not designed to take the place of a regular "ram-
mar, but it is rather to prepare for it. The method pursued
is based on the relationship and similarity of the two lan guages, and in the very beginning the pupil is practically in troduced to the principles of Grimm's Law. For teachers the
book is very valuable on account, of the numerous notes, which
unite in a small compass the results of comprehensive re searches in the ancient and modern languages of all countries.
SIlolM-HAXi) FOR THE .ItUKNOIWI
Editors Corn,// lfra :
President White, in a speech delivered two years ago in
reference to the proposed OSehool of Journalism," said, '" Be
lore any one can receive a certificate stating that he has passed lus course, he must for two years have had practical instruc
tion in phonography t„ such an extent that he is able to report
as fast as a man can speak."
This seems fo he an unnecessa
ry requirement, The fact is that very U^s of the journalists of the country us,, short-hand in any form. The tendency of
Feb. 25, 1S76.
THE CORNELL ERA.
149
the modern newspaper is to publish all the news in as brief a form as possible. Take up any of the journals of to-day and it is rarely that you see a speech published in full, and if such be the case, as a rule, the "copy" is furnished by the author. It might be mentioned that such men as Stewart L. Wood
ford, Blaine, Garfield, Bout well, in making campaign speech
es, furnish the copy sometimes a week in advance of its deliv
ery. The system of teaching by lectures employed here, af fords an excellent opportunity for the Avould-be journalist to prepare for his profession. It enables him to single out the main points of the spenkcrEs remarks and jot them down. If by means of some simple system of stenography, one could Avrite at the rate of from seventy to ninety words per minute, and Avas practiced in taking notes, there is no rea son why lie cannot got the substance of Avhat he hears. It is
certain that he would write faster than nineteen-tAventieths of
the newspaper nun of the country, ddiere is no doubt that
a system of verbatim reporting would be useful to any one, and is necessary to those who report for legislatures and
courts, but it must be' remembered that the verbatim reporter
must be in constant practice to be successful, must have more practice than the profession of a newspaper reporter affords.
Let the Faculty require the student, in the "Course in
"
Journalism, to learn some simple style of short-hand, enabling
him to write from seventy to ninety words per minute, and
not compel him to spend at least two years in mastering a ver
batim style Avhich he Avill not have practice to keep up and for
which his profession does not call.
Tliere are so many "standard" systems for the beginner to
choose from that it will be well to say a word in that direc
tion. -V few years ago, phonograph}', or the system invented
by Isaac Pitman of England, was the best. Many found fault
with it, however, and made improvements, but Mr. D. P.
Lindslev, of Andover, Mass., thought it useless to attempt
any improvement, and accordingly set to work and invented
an entirely new system, in reference to Avhich Horace Mann
said Mr. Lindslev had " phonographied phonography." The
system bases its claims for superiority upon the folloAving
facts: " It uses the simplest possible signs to represent the
sounds of our language and these signs are so arranged as to
give a /inc'tr direction to the writing, thus avoiding that stiff
ness so objectionable in other systems of short-hand. The
vowels are distinguished by farm instead of ' position ,' and,
bein"- joined with the consonants in their proper order, a word
can be fully written Avithout raising the pen. The discarding
of ' jiositious'' renders it as easily Avritten and read on unruled
as on ruled paper, Avhile the facilities for phrase Avriting are
greatly increased. There are no equivocal forms, word-signs,
or contractions, to burden the memory and retard the progress
of the learner; and it is not burdened in any of the styles with
the anomalies, exceptions, and make-shifts that characterize
other systems." The fact that a word may be fully written
without raising the pen should alone convince any one of its
superior speed, and then again it is so simple that it can be
easily learned Avithout a teacher. It is the only purely Amer
ican system, the other "standard" systems being based upon
that of Pitman.
G. H. W.
SECRET S. — What animal in Scripture i.s said to have spoken? Ans. — The whale, n. — To whom spake the whale? A. — To Moses in the bulrushes, if — What did the whale say? A — Thou art thee, man. (f — What did Moses reply? A. — Almost thou peisiiadest nie to become a Christian, if — What was the effect on the whale? A. — He rushed violently down a steep place into the sea and perished
in the waters.
from one of those members, Mr. H. WE King, which warrants us in
— In a Convocation to be held on Tuesday, Feb. loth, it will be pro
saying that if Mr. King be taken as a specimen of the new members the posed that the provisions of the statute be suspended, and that the Elec
society has every reason to be proud of them. After Mr. Phillips and Mr. tions to the professorship of Comparative Philology proceed to the
Tompkins had succeeded in convincing the company that they were not nomination of a deputy, to be approved by the Vice Chancellor, the
foreigners, the party broke up, each convinced that nothing could have said deputy to receive one-half of the salarj- of the present Professor, in
added to the enjoyment of tbe occasion.
order to allow Professor Max Muller to devote himself without inter
Temper, i tuns for th, tree/,- c, ding F,b.2'Anl.
ruption to the studies on the Ancient Literature of India, which he has hitherto prosecuted with so much success and with so much honor to
the University. — Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Jounud.
— Emulous of Coleridge, Mr. K
has written an apostrophe to a
young ass. Mr. K. believes that the true success in writing poetry lies
in the secret of ideiititying yourself with your subject. — Ex.
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— The University of Berlin has 400 distinct lecture courses. — Ex.
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quotation,
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gained.'
Prof. — " I'll not trouble you further, sir." — Ex.
— That Freshman who said the German Diet was composed of " sauerkraut, schnapps aud lager beer" ought to live on oat meal and
ashes.— Mad.
—The Northwestern Inter- Collegiate Association represents fifty colleges and 10,0011 students.—/;.-.
Miss Waldo, '78, is teaching at Willamantic, Conn.
Hill, '77, went home, last Saturelay, for a short visit. Waterman, '77, is among us again after an absence of about three
weeks.
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vised quotation. " I'll steer out of them," said a puny Junior. — Urn id.
You'll stereotype that shortly, but I'll stir you up and learn the hull
story. — Chronicle.
Wno'll stray from the path of virtue to get off a whole string of such
wretched puns? Pass it on.
152
IHE CORNELL ERA.
Feb. 25, 1876.
(•.'xcUanrjrisi awl 3n\\ itcvinvs.
Principia or Basis ,d S>ci,d Science. Being a survey of the subject
from the moral and theological, yet liberal and progressive, stand-point.
By R. J Wright. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippmeott A Co., 18m. In cloth, s2.t)0.
Principia or Basis of Social Science is a work in which the author, as the title indicates, explains the principles upon which such a social system can be erected as shall tend towards the greatest happiness and well-being of mankind. Mr. Wright has evidently made Social Science his life-study, antl this work is the condensed fruit of his labors. But the work is so entirely different from those of other writers on the same subject that, though it belongs to the same class of literature, it stands alone, stti generis. One of the most striking differences betAveen Mr. Wright's work and those of Mill, Spencer and Comtc is, that while those writers entirely ignore Christianity in their Sociology, the Principia is avowedly written in favor of Christianity. But not in this alone does he differ from other writers on the same subject, In many other
respects his work is so original in its conception, theories and general argument, that it can be seen at once that it has been Avritten not only for the philosophers, but also for the people; and the general style of
the work is at once so simple, direct and forcible that every ordinarily intelligent reader can readily understand it. Mr. Wright has left the beaten track of writers on Social Science, and will, no doubt, draw up
on himself the dire vengeance of some critics who cannot understand
how any man dare thus to hew out a path for himself. But to the fact
that he has clone so we are indebted for a work of refreshing orig
inality, wherein no hackneyed views are represented. To some,
his theories may seem impractical; to others, premature; but every
one who calmly and without prejudice reads and studies the book
must come to the conclusion, that the principles Avhich Mr. Wright
lays down are a better and safer foundation for a social system than
those of most original writers on this subject.
The Author divides his volume, which is a large one, into five Books.
I. — Summary Introduction to Social Science. II. — The Precinct. III.
The Nation. IV. — Corporation. V. — Communism. In his preface Mr Wright states in terse but comprehensive terms, wherein he differs
from other writers on Social Science, and the object of his work, " to
contribute his mite to the Christianization of politics, the promotion of real freedom, and the improvement of society."
In the Summary Introduction, the author shows the influence of
Social Science on other sciences and the use of it, which is, " to point out how really to benefit mankind by law and voluntary benevolence; * * * to point out the natural rights and duties of all, and how really to accomplish them." Further on he shows how all the
mental and moral sciences are necessary as preparatory studies for the mastering of Social Science; and that the promoters of this science can
only be those who are willing " to receive light from all sources." As a specimen of the author's original generalizations, he maintains that there is a tribe-principle at work in human society in all ages, from the beginning to the end of history. Antl this tribe-principle, he holds, is resolvable into three fundamental elements : Social Circle, Precinct and Political Corporation.
In book II. The Precinct, Mr. AVright advocates the theory of ar ranging nations into small precincts insteads of large States; every pre cinct to have lhe utmost internal liberty and self-government, only being restrained by a national government from tresspassing on the equal liberty of other precincts. In the numerous and minute divisions antl sub-divisions of this book, the author treats all the relations of families
to society and of society to the nation, with such a breadth and depth and profound reasoning, as shows that this part of his work is the fruit of long-observation, careful study and deep thinking.
In book III. The Nation, which is the smallest ofthe five books, Air. Wright treats of the Relations of Nations to Mankind. International Law, and the Doctrine of Naturalization, in all of which can be seen proofs of patient and well -direct eel thought and the most pains-fakin-investigation, and some views quite different from those of either the state-rights men or the centralizers.
Book IV. Corporation, is a form of Civil Society Avhich we think
Mr. Wright is the first to treat as an essential element of Social Science
and of society, and he evidently considers it as something radically high er and better than any of the usual forms, and the full development of which can only be reached when mankind shall be further advanced in the understanding of Social Science than they are at present. Corpora tion, he maintains, is something entirely different from Precinct or Na tion As members of the same church belong to different localities, so it may be conceivable that there might be different civil governments for different individuals in the same Precinct, and that Corporations
for civil self-government may embrace members from two or more pre cincts. The members of Corporations would select themselves on the
ground of metaphysical and moral resemblances or adaptations. There would be a free intercourse between all classes and individuals, but the civil government for each individual would be administered by the civ il or political corporation of which each was a member. Corporations would manage most all affairs except those which strictly refer to the geographical concerns of localities, whether of Precinct or Nation. All foreign affairs must be left to the Nation.
In Book V. tne author advocates a limited communism. Not a com
munism of capital, but one of labor and incomes— in fact, a commun ism which partly resembles Fourier's system, and the differences from
which he briefly points out. We have thus lengthily called attention to the work of Mr. Wright,
because we think that it deserves careful study from those who are in
terested in Social Science and who desire better social systems than
those which prevail at present. #
The students of Princeton are being highly edified by a revival; ac cording to the Lit. tliere have been about ninety conversions. It sees strong proof that the work is genuine, in the fact that tliere is little or no excitement. To prove that it is genuine, we quote the following
items from the Lit. : 'If we could discover those individuals who so
fittingly displayed their gentlemanly traits to a late audience at the Ar cade Theatre in Trenton, we Avould express to them our undying grati
tude for having so faithfully represented us to the outside Avorld." < >n the occasion of the delivery of two temperance addresses before the Princeton students iu the 2d Presbyterian church, some "had the bad
taste to be guilty of ungentlemanly and indecorous conduct. Their
purpose seemed to be to break up the meeting. To say the least it was
a downright insult to the honored gentlemen who by our own request
addressed us." What the conduct of the stutlents was tnfai they were
converted is difficult to imagine. Probably they danced a war-dance
around the pulpit of the 2d Presbyterian church and scalped any stray minister who had the temerity to address them. Consequently we do not feel quite crushed when they call Cornell "that famous fraud of the Ithaca Lake." According to the Princeton " organ," the onlv thing they fear at the next regatta is " that the weight of our theology, super added to the weight of our crew, will greatly affect our boat's speed." Their theology is indeed the "heaviest" thing on record, and we also fear that these Princetonian lh-v. Mr. Siiggiiws will quite swamp their' boat, unless it be one of their traditional Jersey mini scows.
We cull the following choice extract from the Gutnil Collegian; it is remarkable for its peculiar grammar i_?) and spelling: "Away in mid ocean a frail little bark is contending with the raging billows. The briny spray is lashed to the veiv heavens, and the deep, dark caverns beiieaih, every instant threaten lo engulf in their terrible abyss the courageous vessel and its dependent crew. As the despairing- sailors behold in yon impending cliffs the speedy termination of their career, what must be their unuterable anguish, for they are launched upon the mighty deep, far distant from any visible assistance and at the pitiless mercy of the tempest. Suddenly around the fearful gloom, the wel come rays from a light house meets their anxious gaze,"— We must leave them in this critical position for want of space, but hope that our ingenious readers will help them out.
—Buy Vanity Fair for a Sunday smoke; Yant keeps it
The Cornell Era
" Ahovc all Sects is Truth."
Volume VIII.— Nimuf.u 20.
THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY, MARCH 3, 187G.
$2.50 per Annum in Advakce.
Printed and Published every Friday, by Students of the Senior and Junior Classes.
(tMt.ors for 1875-1}.
this subject of late. As a remedy we would suggest the em ployment of a skillful stenographer by those of the boys Avho have a pocket full of " rocks."
J. AVE Stukpevant, '7G,
C. P. Woodruff, '7G,
—An event of no small importance to the educational in
M. E. Haviland, '77,
A. J. Loos, '77.
terests took place recently in Baltimore—the inauguration of
I). CE Gilman, of Yale, to the presidency of John Hopkins
— Risking the fact that snme of our readers may think avc have been " rush in 2; the season'" a little, avc do not hesitate to
state that our editorial noses have had the exquisite pleasure of sniffing the sweet perfumes arising from a beautiful bouquet of anemone, /. e., the first boquet of spring flowers.
University. The opening of this University, which takes place next October, has long been looked forward to with cu riosity; it is to be managed on a somewhat different basis from the so-called American Universities, which are often on ly such in name. Like Cornell, it Avill be non-sectarian, but unlike it, a four years'' course Avill not be necessary for a de
—Professor Corson and his class were very much annoyed,
at his last reading, by the arrival of a great number of stu dents coming in late. He spoke of the matter at the time, and we hope in future that visitors coming to hear his readings, or the usual tardy members of his class, will be more punctual. Almost ten minutes had expired before the reading ould be commenced. Although this is not the first time that the thing has happened it should be the last. He will continue his read ing, next Tuesday morning, on portions of Julius CEesar.
gree. Like the German Universities, it grants a degree when
the candidate is lit for it. It will haA'e the usual courses in
language, mathematics, and natural science, and also advanced courses in medicine, civil and mechanical engineering. Its faculty Avill be composed of men eminent in their respective departments, including non-resident lecturers on the A'arious specialties. With a competent man at the helm and Avith am ple means, the experiment cannot but have a fair trial, anel it is to be hoped that its success, which is almost certain, may con vince people that a true university can flourish on American
— Under the circumstances the class of '7!» have certainly soil.
settled on a Aviso policy in having no class supper. They have 8500 to raise to send the ci-cav to Saratoga, and that Avill make enough taxation iu hard times for one year. " Xo debts and no supper" Avill be a good record to begin with.
We heard one strong advocate of retrenchment and sturdy puller of the oar demand that the "feast and song" should come after the race, and not before, — Avhen liabilities are few
er and tliere is more to celebrate. A class made of such stuff
will be heard from again.
—In another column will be found a communication from
the treasurer of the Sprague Boat Club. The idea of making such a statement is a good one, and no doubt Avill be of ben efit to the club, as Avell as to the delinquent members. Xo thing has been done about this matter among the directors of the Tom Hughes Boat Club. If they abide by tiie resolutions passed by both clubs during last fall term, no names can go
into the (formllian as members of said club unless the per
sons have a receipt from the treasurer of the club that their
by— We are no means opponents of the lecture system, for it has been amply demonstrated by some of our professors
that it can be made a success, if conducted in a proper way.
But Avhen an extra study is given to students, upon which they cannot spend much time " reading up" Avorks of refer ence, and the lectures are rattled off se. that taking notes is a physical impossibility, avc do object. If a course of lectures is worth anything, it is certainly Avorth a delivery Avhich will give a listener a chance to "take in" some of the facts, and not cause his head to swim by "lightning changes " of topic
and of scene. Too much outside leading up in an extra study
of this kind would make recitations from a text-book far more
desirable. We have heard a great many " cuss-words " on
dues are paid. Tliere are members, or rather persons who have been elected for membership, avIio have not paid their elites because they have never been asked for them. We knoAv
this to be the case in several instances, and more particularh
in the Tom Hughes Club. We hope the resolutions will be
lived up t<>, for it is certain that nothing will insure prosper ity for the club to such a degree as to not recognize in anv particular as members those who have not paid their initiation fee. The question as presented by our correspondent is :i momentous one. Will you pay five dollars for having yen: name put in the Cornellian^ or will you not? Perhaps i would not come out of the way to state here that W. S. Boyn
ton is treasurer of the rl om Hughes Club.
i:>i
THE CORNELL ERA.
March 3, 1S76.
— From a communiction published in the N. E. Journal oi Education, signed by B. G. Northrop, Chairman of the Con necticut Centennial Educational Committee, avc are pleased
to learn that in the educational branch of the International
Exhibition at Philadelphia, it is proposed to place a complete set of the works issued by the Officers, Alumni, and former
members of Yale College in all its departments. Pamphlets, reports, sermons, messages, printed papers, and discourses of every kind in form suitable for binding are solicited. Mr. Northrop says very truly that the frequent laudation of selfmade men is often turned to the disparagement of college ed
ucation. The influence of liberal culture may be seen in the
authorship which it prompts. Hooks have been a leading agency in forming American character and history. Hence a complete collection of the works written by the Faculty and graduates of one of our oldest colleges will be a demonstration of the value and influence of college training. The Directors of the Exposition approve this plan. Other colleges arc pre paring to illustrate different features and results, and some of them Avill make a very imposing exhibition at Philadelphia. Probably no other college will be fully represented by its au thorship. As a long period of time is necessary to develop such results, this test is most appropriate for one of the oldest colleges of the country.
Mr. Xorthrop asks the cooperation of all former members of Yale Avhether graduates or not, and especially those who are authors, are respectfully invited to aid in collecting these books. Many avIio left before graduation received tliere an essential part of their education, and their works therefore should be included. At the close of the Exposition, this col lection will be presented to the Library of "> ale College, and deposited in the "Alumni Alcove." Xo student will visit
Philadelphia next summer without being interested in this col lection of works Avritten by college men. At least one look in this collection will recall pleasant thoughts to Cornellians. We refer of course to President White's Syllabus on History.
—The letter in another column from an Alumnus, and written upon a subject of interest to many, is well Avortli the perusal of our readers.
The French Academy, founded by Bichelieu at the birth of modern French literature, though established to advance the cause of letters, has el nie much to narrow and belittle the scope of French poetry, which stands to-day shorn of much grandeur that might have been its own, if the rules of the Academy had been broader and less stringent. France was early taught by the Academicians, that no poem could be ac cepted into the thesaurus of French literature, unless it con
formed to certain fixed rules. That was to say, every drama
of worth n.ust observe ArisOtleEs dictum concerning t he three unities of time, place, and action. A true classic play, accord
ing to the Academy, had to transpire within twenty four hours, must take place within a very limited teiritory and must subordinate all its episodes to the grand finale. They
even go so far as to command the poet to div ide his drama in
to five acts, neither more nor less being allowable. So Ave find Corneille in his old age endeavoring to make his tragedies—
the outburst of natural genius— conform to these convention
al rules. His explanations of this apparent mistake and his
excuse for that unavoidable fault are sometimes very amus-
in<>', and often even pitiable, Avhen Ave consider the neglected old author lovingly defending the children of his brain against the attacks of narrow-minded scribblers. In the Cid, the cap
ital of Spain is moved down into the south of the peninsula in order to observe the unity of time; but even after this desper ate means has been resorted to it is found, by a careful calcu
lation, that it would take many more than twenty-four hours
lo perform all the actions of the piece; and so the Academy fulminates an anathema and poor Corneille bows his hoary head in humble submission. In another tragedy, in order that
not only his critics, but even his hearers may not be shocked by a disregard of the unity of time, one of the actors, at prop
er intervals in the course of the play, announces the hour,
which has occasioned a French annotator to remark that the
actor seems to speak Avatch in hand. But let us turn to an
other poet. Boileau, Avliat a sad picture of fettered genius does he present. Instead of bequeathing his countrymen a
legacy worthy his brilliant intellect, Despn'aux has heft only a gooel paraphrase of Horace. And Boileau, " a good hater" of the Academicians as he Avas, pinned himself clown to the nar
row rules they imposed and lived and died in classic chains.
But Racine Avas the prince <»f this school. The favorite au
thor of Louis XIV, and a strict follower of the classic rules,
we Avould expect to find him first among the poets of this
golden age. But such is not the opinion to-day; Moliere and La Fontaine have entered upon the scene. They were never thoroughly imbued with the ideas of the ancients, and had but little to do with the gentlemen <»f the Academy; consequent ly their Avorks Avere not held in high esteem by their contem poraries; but to-day IM ole iiv and La Fontaine are the repre
sentative French poets while Pacine and Boileau have sunk to
a secondary rank. Such is French literature under the classic
regime.
But progress was made. In the Dictionary of the Acade
my, published in 1001, a classic author is -aid to be "an an
cient author highly approved, and avIio is authority in the matter he treats." By this definition we see that Greece and Pome furnished the only classics for France at the beginning of the eighteenth century. But in Is:; j the 1 >ictionary has become more catholic, anel says that classic authors arc those "who have become motifs in any language whatever." But
the breadth of the deiinition is very much narrowed in the fur
ther explanation of the ten. is which follow, where such ex pressions occur as rides established for coinposit ion, strict rut, s "f art to which one ought to conform, etc. When the great authors of Fngland and Germany, some of whom could not read Latin or Greek, much less feel cramped by the rules of antiquity, became known in France, her men of letters mew ".ore liberal, and saw that genius ought not to be controlled l»y Imi.ia.i laws, not even by an Aristotle. Hut this came too late for poor France. Her Eli/abethian Age vvas passed and no Shakespeare was left behind. ^ainte-Bcuvc, tho most
March 3, 1S7C.
THE CORNELL ERA.
15o
acute and liberal of French critics, sa\v this, and in his essay
on What Constitutes a Clastic ? laments it and prays his country to shake oil' from its literature these restrictions which
have dwarfed its past efforts and may do the same in the fu
ture. The general French idea of a classic, says Saiute -Beiivc, is an author who has regard to the choice of his words and to the shades of meaning, to an ornamented but temperate style. He offers several objections to this idea of a classic. In this
sense the classics par e.rcefh nee would be authors of middle
rank, correct:, not extravagant, elegant, pure, imbued with a noble passion and a force well-restrained. It subordinates the
imagination and the sensibilities to cold reason; neither can be fully developed if checked by rules; mediocrity is exalted above real genius, secondary writers become primary, Shakes peare gives place to Pope, Moliere to Pacine. It is a notice
able fact that the first great writers in modern literatures
shocked this theory, and in consequence avc re looked clown up on, yet as time passed they became the classics of their re spective literatures. " d'here is no recipe for making classics," boldly exclaims Suinle-Bcuve in the face of the Academicians. But the best idea is given of Saiute-F-euveEs dislike for this theory by reading his substitute for it. Here is his definition of the word classic : "A true classic, as I Avould like to have it defined, is an author who has enriched human thought, who has really enlarged its treasures, avIio has advanced it one more
step, who has discovered some indubitable moral truth or has
seized out some eternal passion from that heart where all
seemed known and explored; who has expressed his thoughts, his observations, his inventions in no matter what form, if it only be large and grand, delicate and full of feeling, healthy and beautiful in itself; Avho has spoken to all in a style that is his own and which, at the same time, is theirs, in a style which though new is not neologistic but modern and yet an tique, contemporanious with all ages." Such is Suinte-Heuve's idea of what a classic should be; and he quotes Goethe, avIio looks at the question in the same way, after this Avise: "I call the classic healthy, the romantic unhealthy. I think the poem of the A'ilulungen is as classic as Homer; both are healthy and strong. Books of the day are not romantic be cause they are new but because they are feeble, weak, or un healthy. The Avritings of antiquity are not classic because they are old, but because they are energetic, fresh, and active. If avc woulel only consider the romantic and the classic from
these tAvo points of view we would soon all agree."
These broad liberal vieAvs of Suinte-Beuve must be echoed
by all who admire grandeur and originality in literature, and
dislike conventionalities that check grandeur and originality.
And coming from a Frenchman they are all the more to be
welcomed, for France is still a great nation and is building up
a great literature, whose foundation, though narrow in the
past, by means of such ideas as Sainte-Beuve has spoken, may
be broadened and rendered more capable of supporting a
grand and glorious super-structure. Moliere, La Fontaine,
Racine, and Boileau are great, but if the spirit of Sainte-Beuve
once takes possession of France, she may be able to place be
side Shakespeare and Goethe a worthy representative of her
own.
T. S.
(L'lUWllOIUlClUf.
RRAZIh.
Editors Cornell Era:
Rio de Jaxeito, Jan. 'J 4, IsTG.
Some account of the Brazilian Geological Survey, r>v Geo logical Commission, as it is called here, in which Cornell is
considerably interested, may prove acceptable to many of
your readers. When Prof. Hartt arrived here about a year ago, he found
the country fully alive to the importance of a Avell organized geological survey. The Emperor, a most progressive man in all respects, and many of the most prominent statesmen, had for some time been desirous of instituting such a work, and the arrival of one avIio, by his previous studies in Brazil, had shown himself best qualified for the directorship of a survey, at once decided them to begin it. They accordingly proposed to Prof. Hartt that, instead of a private exploration of a feAV months, such as he hael projected, he undertake, at govern ment expense, a regular survey of the Empire. Such an ad vantageous offer could not well be declined, and he at once set about arranging his plans of organization, which Avere sub mitted to the government, and, after the delays incidental to all governmental affairs here as elsewhere, were accepted, and active work commenced. Assistants were sent for, and pend ing their arrival the Professor, with a small corps, commenced
work at Pernambuco.
To understand the plan of operations, a short sketch of what is known of the geology of Brazil is necessary. The central portion of the country consits of an elevated plateau of gneiss, margined toward the sea by high mountains of the same material. Abutting against this plateau on the east and north are the more recent paleozoic and secondary formations. The geology of the gneiss region is not of sufficient interest and importance to require detailed examination except where valuable mineral deposits are known to occur. Of this region general reconnoisances Avill be made, with more careful study of the mining districts. In the coast region, Avhere the geol ogy is more interesting and where the bulk of the population is, the Avork will be more detailed, the distribution, stratagraphical relations and paleontology of the stratified beds be ing carefully Avorked out, and special attention being given to the recent formations, A'iz., the stone and coral reefs that
abound along the coast and are of great scientific and econ omic importance. The geology of the coast north of Rio de
Janeiro is known in a general Avay. The most interesting feature is a series of Cretaceous basins placed at intervals at
the base of the coast range of mountains. This region is the
first to be explored. The basin at Pernambuco has already been mapped and an enormous collection of fossils represent ing hundreds of species, many of them nevv, has been collect ed. The stone and coral reefs of the vicinity have also been very thoroughly studied, anel a survey has been made of the lower part of the river Sao Francisco, including the region of the Xiugura of Brazil, the cataract of Paulo Alfonzo. It may interest those who intend to visit Philadelphia this year to know that a series of the photographs taken on this explora tion Avill form a part of the Brazilian exposition.
ir>n
THE CORNELL ERA
March 3, 1S76.
The members of the corps now in Bio will take the field
in a feAV clavs to continue the Avork along the coast north of
Rio. This will constitute the work for the present season.
Attention will then be turned to the coast south of Rio, in
cluding the coal fields of Santa Cuthurina and Rio Grande d<> Sul, and to the northern and central provinces. The corps is
not yet completely organized, as several iicav appointments are
to be made. At present it consists of the Americans, and I may add Cornellians, .Messrs. Derby, Rathbun, Branner and Smith, and the Brazilians Sis. Ferrez and Freitas, the former
photographer, the latter engineer. Through ill health which prevented active field work, the Commission lost the valuable services of its engineer, Si-. Jordao, so avcII known at Cornell. Dur