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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868), p. 28
Text: 28 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. • THE COLLEGE AIR US. COLLEGE MUSIC. Another of revengeful disposition mutters to himself as he tosses in bed, tortured by
Show more28 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. • THE COLLEGE AIR US. COLLEGE MUSIC. Another of revengeful disposition mutters to himself as he tosses in bed, tortured by Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Music ! Ho ! Music I such as charmeth sleep. the strains without, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1868. Shalcspeare. "0 you are well tuned now, It is said that music was invented by an But I'll let down the pegs that make this music." TERM_ Indian, who got lost from his tribe and One College year, (in advance,) - - - - $1.50 "The freshman with the goggles" cries out Single copies, wanted something to amuse himself with ; .10 with Shaksperian fury, • and it is defined by good authority as "a 3D 0 Pt. _ mighty nice thing." "This music mads me ; let it sound no more, H. S. CARHART, C. T. WINCHESTER, The same discriminating artist divides For though it have holp madmen to their wits J. R. CUSHING, H. WOODWARD. In me it seems it will make wise men mad." music into four kinds,—instrumental, whist- ling, brass bands and fiddling, to which What Bacon said of tuning up might very The COLLEGE ARGUS will be published once in three weeks during the collegiate year, by an Association of should be added another distinctive species, appropriately be applied to these serenades— members of the Senior Class. namely "College music." This last division "Nothing pleasant to hear, but yet it is a It will be mailed to any address on receipt of price. Communications solicited from any source. presents the greatest versatility and variety. cause why music is sweeter afterwards;" and For sale at the bookstores of McLean & Wright, E. Rockwell, and C. E. Putnam, where subscriptions will In its midnight developments it sometimes probably Tacitus had this class of music in also be received. rivals the owl, sometimes the nightingale ; Address all communications to the College Argus, Mid- view when he said "Postremo ipse scenam dletown, Conn. at one time merely strengthening the voice, incedit multa cura teutans citheram," which • at another cultivating the ear ; resembling being interpreted is, I have seen him go out "There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, thunder 'mid a flock of sheep at one moment, the back door, tipsy, with great zeal tooting And a new face at the door, my friend, and then becoming soft as the whine of love ; his tin horn. A new face at the door." now stirred by the martial enthusiasm of This class of musicians. however like Frank- Indulgent reader, the ARGUS now makes "Bull Frog," and anon melting into pathos lin often pay dearly for their whistles with its fourth and ast visit to you under the in evolving "College days for us are gone ;" the hard cash of demerits. But, seriously, management of that present "four-fold per- pouring its sweetest harmony into "Charm- no music is more pleasing and popular, none sonage, ycleped Ed. C. A." A new quater- ing little Sarah" beneath the window of more profitable to the singers and attractive nion stands knocking at the door, eager to some interesting damsel, and then at any to the hearers, than college music. But it succeed to the title of Ed. C. A.,. and to the hour distilling its love strains in a tin horn is as- apparent as lamentable that singing honors and emoluments of that high position. band, discoursing the classic air of "Fol de zeal in our University is on the decline, not- We have already begun to gather up our pa- rol" or "Drive dull care away," beneath withstanding the valuable acquisition to this pers, settle up our accounts, and arrange for the window of the dreaming freshman. Yes, branch of art of the unique "Carmina Col- our departure from the scene of our recent music is a mighty nice thing, especially in legensia." So to speak we have hung our editorial duties ; and now we come to say college ; for why shouldn't students as well harps upon the willows ; but, as base ball our good-bye. A word before we go, kind as traveling artists have music with our and boating are out of season at present, we reader ! Pleasant has been our intercourse grind.. How cheering for the lonely fresh- hope that neglected Buterpe will again re- and profitable to both, we hope, and though man, digging for classic treasures by the ceive the attention which she merits. we have not in all cases actually seen each midnight oil, to be serenaded by an admir- From the ashes of our dead glee clubs and other, yet our thoughts have been introduced ing multitude, whose notes betray the enthu- musical associations we fondly expect to see to your thoughts, our names have been spo- siasm of hero-worshippers, new ones arise as attractive and popular as, ken to you and your names to us. We He rises and soliloquizes Shaksperianly, those of other days. It is believed by many have given you news, sense, and nonsense, that it would be more satisfactory as well hoping to suit your varying moods. In short "I never heard. as more economical, if college music was we have done as well as we could. With go musical a discord, such sweet thunder," employed in some of OUF class exhibitions, this much of self-congratulation we bid you and the Sophomore remarks to his class- instead of importing extensive bands from one and all a kind—Farewell! mates in the morning, abroad. Only a foolish regard to custom and pre- It will be Observed that the interval since "Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music." cedent prevents this much needed reform. our last issue has been four weeks instead of Serenades are far less common here than in three. This being the last number of the Some of 'the more obtuse freshmen, who most college neighborhoods, not because we term, the editors deemed it advisable to de- have no music in themselves . nor are "moved have less talent or less gallantry, but for the fer publication one week, so as to include more local and other news, and at the same by concord of sweet sounds," cannot appre- want of precedent. ciate the harmonic compliments of their But we will pause. A word to the wise time shorten the period intervening between friends, and waking from their sweet sleep, is sufficient. Music, as well as murder, wilt this number and the first one of next term. No.8 will appear about the middle of January. which has been illustrated with dreams of out, and let it come, I repeat it, let it come. marks, honors and distinction, they put a "Husk ! Ho ! Music ! such as charmeth sleet." We are indebted to Dr. Johnston for the more terrific emphasis than. ever before in- prose article on our first page. The list of to that elocutionary lesson ; CAL. FISK. minerals found in this vicinity is valuable for "Methought a legion of foul fiends environed me, . (We have failed to observe any special in- reference and as a matter of information.— And howled into my ears such hideous cries Rather more space is given to science this That with the very sound I trembling waked, dications of that decline of "singing zeal" week than we usually intend to devote to And for a season after could not believe among us remarked by the writer of the any one general subject. But a at I was in Hell." above article. ED.) �
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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868), p. 29
Text: THE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE 29 LOCAL. nasium in the winter, the absence of that conduct of a few to the account of the many. We would call attention to the
Show moreTHE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE 29 LOCAL. nasium in the winter, the absence of that conduct of a few to the account of the many. We would call attention to the article, peculiar something called caloric, said calo- There will always be a few in every college " Natural History Excursion to Middle. ric being supplied in abundance by the rapid community who lack the first principles of town," in this number. It was written by oxydation of a little anthracite. propriety and honor ; but it is not therefore N. Cressy, M. D., who has recently settled just that the reputation of the respectable The services connected with the ordina- and gentlemanly should suffer. in this city. tion and installation of Rev. J. P. Taylor, G B , of '69, performed quite a at the South Cong. Church, took place The most interesting ceremony that has pedestrian feat a week ago, walking from Thursday, Nov. 12th, and were of a very in- occurred in our community, since the last is- Middletown to Norwich, a distance of forty- teresting character. The sermon was preach- sue of the ARGUS, was the marriage of "our one miles, on Saturday and returning the by Rev. E. A. Park, of Andover, and the mutual friend" Cumnock, noticed in the "Per- next day. He won his wager. charge to the pastor was by Prof. J. L. Tay- sonal" on another page. The ceremony took lor, father of the candidate. The new pas- place at 4.30 P. M., and the M. E. Church The Ayres prize, for "the highest excel- tor is a graduate of Yale, '62, and more re- was literally packed, principally with ladies, lence in the studies preparatory to admis- cently of Andover Theological Seminary. as usual. The large attendance was certain- sion to college," has been awarded this year ly a very fine compliment to the happy pair. to S. W. Kent, of Remsen, N. Y. Mr. Kent A stone weighing two and a quarter tuns, The bride was dressed in white silk, and her prepared for college at Falley Seminary, for the summit of the observatory, pier, was appearance was very favorably spoken of by Fulton, N. Y. raised to the top of the building last week, the ladies. Messrs. Croft and Porter, '69, Mr. Geo. K. Warren has been in town (some seventy or eighty feet,) and in attempt- were brides-men. The affair passed ofl'pleas- and has taken the class pictures for '69, be- ing to get it in position, through some im- antly, and the wedded pair left the church sides a very large number of the most beau- perfection in the arrangements, it fell about with the congratulations and silent "God tiful views in the vicinity. The proofs indi- four feet, partly crushing through the first bless you" of many present. cate a very fine collection of pictures for the floor. Very fortunately it was stopped there ; There is a certain period in the history of al- senior class. for had the first floor failed to check it, it most every young man, who does not become We were favored a short time since with would probably have gone to the ground, a christian in early life, when he professes in- the presence of a harpist and a violinist, both demolishing one of the students' beds on its fidelity and makes a boast of it. There are of tender years, flaxen hair and dirty faces ; way. however few young men who have any am- a "colo'd gem'man" tripped "the light fan- The announcement has been made to us bition to be considered boors, or who would tastic toe" on the same occasion. C that hereafter any student, who is absent not resent any insinuation that they were of '70, advised the Sophs to secure the from a recitation, will be expected to make acting dishonorably ; few who would like troupe to furnish music for the Sophomore it up (if excused) at the next recitation in to acknowledge that they had violated any Exhibition. that department in which the absence occurs. trust reposed in them by their fellow-citizens T. C. Jerome, of the class of '69, at Hamil- It remains with the Professors of course to or fellow-students. ton, has been here for a few days, since our last say whether an excuse for an absence be In most colleges there is a monitorial sys- issue, gathering information in regard to the granted or not. We think this quite as se- tem for the suppression of any disorder college. We understand that he is making vere as the "obnoxious" law at Williams.— that may occur during chapel exercises ; the tour of the N. E. colleges, as a corres- It is probably intended to prevent absences. but our faculty have trusted this matter en- pondent of the Utica Herald, with the ulti- So far very well. But it seems to be rather tirely to the sense of honor and moral tone mate object of publishing a series of sketches hard for a man who is sick one day to be ob- of the college community. It is not necessa- of American colleges. We like the idea, and liged to get a double lesson the next or suf- ry for us, to particularize in regard to the wish the young man all success in carrying fer a loss in his standing. It has been cus- manner in which this trust has been abused ; it out. tomary in one department to allow a recita- moor, for the honor of the college, are we will- tion to be made up any time within a week ing to do so. In every other place our stu- M. A. Knapp, one of the original projec- after the absence occurs. This plan has dents are kind, gentlemanly and obliging ; tors of the ARGUS and also a former Editor, given general satisfaction, and we wish it but this character seems to be entirely laid has been in town several days recently. We could be the plan in every department. aside by some during the brief time devoted welcomed him gladly to our sanctum sancto- to religious exercises. It may be that those rum, (which place means our respective Several gates near the college have recent- who make the disturbance are not aware study rooms during leisure hours). He is ly been removed from their hinges, by cer- that they are outraging the feelings of the evidently improving under the new "condi- tain unknown individuals, and carried some better part of the students as well as insult- tions of being" which he enjoys as an alum- distance. Last Thursday morning we ob- ing the faculty. If they are desirous of put- nus. served several rods of fence on College-st. ting themselves through a course of training The announcement was made a few days lying flat on the sidewalk. These disgrace- for New York roughs, is it not possible for since that Mr. NV eleh, the instructor in gym- ful operations will doubtless be charged upon them to practice in some less public place ? nastics at Yale, has been secured to give us the students. We have no proof to the con- We have spoken thus severely, because we lessons in the art of tumbling, &c. He will trary, and, in fact, are inclined to believe believe that this is the thing above all oth- not be here till the beginning of the Spring that the suspicions of the community would ers which calls for a speedy reformation. term, owing to the very slight interest man- be confirmed by the discovery of the perpe- We sympathise with the faculty in their hes- ifested in gymnastics by our students in the trators. But while We admit thus much to itation to adopt a system of monitors, and winter season. We would suggest, as a the discredit of the College, we put in an ear- hope that the course soon taken by the stu- ym- probable reason for the desertion of the gym- nest protest against charging the outrageous dents will render this entirely unnecessary* �
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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868), p. 30
Text: 30 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. WESLEYAN PERSONAL. REV. LABAN CLARK, D.D. buildings and other property of the Military Academy being offered for sale on favora-
Show more30 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. WESLEYAN PERSONAL. REV. LABAN CLARK, D.D. buildings and other property of the Military Academy being offered for sale on favora- [As we intend to make this column a specialty, we Some men's lives epitomise a'voluminous solicit information from all quarters in regard to our ble terms, he urged and secured their pur- history. Trace the developments of the Alumni.] chase for this object. He was thus the fath- events and institutions, the schemes, coun- er of the college.. In its early history, by sels and diplomacies that began with them, OLIN, '66—S. H. Olin has returned from his enterprise and sagacity, by soliciting and you have the history of epochs and gen- Europe and is engaged in the law in New subscriptions for its benefit, by becoming erations. They touched the springs of the York, 43 Wall street. responsible in emergencies, by advocating future and the slow years have wrought out FULLER, '57. H. J. Fuller is practising its interests on all proper occasions, he was — the..great results of their prophetic touch. law in Taunton, Mass. of great service in carrying it through its It is rare that a single life covers such a most arduous struggles : and in proportion PHELPS, '64. G. N. Phelps is engaged in history, and is stamped upon so many impor- — to his wealth he was its most munificent the South Brooklyn Chemical Works, Brook- tant institutions as that of Dr. Clark. The patron. From year to year at the com- lyn, N. Y. historian of American Methodism could al- mencement season the returning Alumni of most construct its entire general history HOAGLAND, '66. W. L. Hoagland is at even the oldest classes of the institution. — from the events of his life. In its extent it the law school in Albany, N. Y. have looked upon his grey hairs and venera- nearly equals the century of our denomina- ble form, and rejoiced in the good provi- BAYLIES, '46 Rev. Henry Bayliss of Prov- tional existence. His active agency in pro- — dence that spared the man who carried in idence, R. I., has accepted the Presidency of moting the welfare of the Church began himself its entire history. The memory of the Western Iowa Collegiate Institute, at nearly seventy years ago. All the great all the hundreds who. have graduated from Glenwood. enterprises and institutions that have ren- these halls will link his name with that of dered the Church so efficient for good and BEACH, '46. — S. F. Beach is practising law their Alma Mater. are to-day its pride and glory, were com- in Alexandria, Va. Dr. Clark died November 28th, in the 91st menced during the period of his active life, TROWBRIDGE, '67.—S. H. Trowbridge is and owe their origin or moulding largely to year of his age. His funeral was attended engaged as a Professor in Drew Female Sem- his suggestive mind. The Book Concern, on Tuesday, December 1st. A large audi- inary, at Carmel, N. Y., G. C. Smith, '56, the Missionary Society, the Wesleyan Uni- ence, including the faculty and students of Principal. versity, perhaps the most powerful agencies the University, prominent ministers from under God, in making the Church what it is, abroad, and citizens of the place, testified by ENGLAND, '62. Rev. Geo. A. England was — their presence their regard for the honored felt his shaping hand. Dr. Bangs was his in town three or four weeks since. His home cordial fellow worker. Their heads and dead. Bishop Janes, assisted by Dr. Curry is in Milwaukee, Wis., and he is East for his hands united wrought great things for Metho- and other eminent clergymen, conducted the health, dism. Dr. Clark excelling in suggestive services. The venerable Heman Bangs, read thought and Dr. Bangs in executive ability, the solemn words of the burial service at the Bownisn, '65. Married in George street — - they were well thatched for accomplishing grave : and as the grey headed pall-bearers M. E. Church, New Haven, Oct. 20th, by wise and great things. In the Councils of with trembling hands lowered Father Clark Bishop Janes, Rev. W. W. Bow dish, of the the Church, on Conference floors, in special to his resting place, we felt that a great and New York East Conference, to Miss Jennie and important committees and trusteeships, good man in Israel had gone. E. Campbell, of New Haven. they stood among the foremost, and were HALL, '62. Married in the Pearl-street — looked up to for advice and counsel. "OLD CONICS." Church, Hartford, Nov. 5, by Rev. Mr. Gage, In the foundation of the Wesleyan Uni- Hon. Ezra Hall to. Miss Fannie T. Pease, versity he had more to do probably than Years ago, when our college was younger both of Hartford. any other man in the Church. To his efforts than now, but when the professors who in its incipient history, and his continuous taught the "young idea," &c., were just as CUMNOCK, '68. Married at the M. E. — self-sacrificing labors in after years, the col- witty as at present, a pleasant little circum- Church in this city, Nov. 25th, by Rev. Dr, lege is greatly indebted for its present pros- stance transpired, which is worthy of record. Cummings, assisted by Rev. J. H. Knowles, perity. His interest in it ceased only with A venerable white horse, named "Old Con- Prof. Robert McLean Cumnock, Jr., of the his death. He disposed of his little property ics," from his angular dimensions, had been North-western University, Evanston, Ill., to for its benefit. His conversation in the last turned out to die in a field near the college. Miss Lottie A. Nye, of Middletown. years of his life, and his suggestions con- One day a cunning Sophomore drew a pic- SKILTON, '3. — Julius A. Skilton writes to cerning a cabinet of relics and antiquities ture of "Old Conics" on the blackboard, la- Dr. Johnston from Mexico. He is a physi- relating to Methodism, to be collected here, belled him properly, and sat down to see cian by profession. many of which he could himself furnish, what effect such an "apparition" would have showed how near the college lay to his heart. on the professor of mathematics. CLARK, '65. The Springfield Republican — And it was one of his dying comforts that Very soon Prof CATLIN entered the room, says that Rev. Allen Clark, of Seymour, the willing hands of its students ministered and took a quiet survey of the singular draw Conn., recently took part in three weddings to his care in his sickness. Other strangers ing. Singling out the guilty Soph., the Pro- on the same day—in two as officiating cler- were not desired, but the students of the fessor carelessly remarked : "J., won't you gyman, and in one as bridegroom. University were welcome attendants at his please take a dry cloth and rub 'Old Conics' CUMMINS, '6 7.—George 0. Cummins, for- bedside. In 1828 he introduced a resolution down ?" It is needless to say that the Soph- merly of '67, is practicing medicine_at Hack- in General Conference for the establishment omores never drew any more profiles on the ettstown, N. J. of a University. A few months later the board.— The Hamilton Campus. �
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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868), p 31
Text: THE COLLEGE ARGUS. 31 ill1=1■••■•••■••■•■■••••■••■ •■dorta. NEW -YORK. PELTON & SON, Book and Job F. D. BREWSTER & CO., C • Printers, No. 136,
Show moreTHE COLLEGE ARGUS. 31 ill1=1■••■•••■••■•■■••••■••■ •■dorta. NEW -YORK. PELTON & SON, Book and Job F. D. BREWSTER & CO., C • Printers, No. 136, Main-Street, Middletown, Conn. Orders promptly attended to. Manufacturers and Dealers in BOOKS! STUDENTS, Ministers, Sunday Schools and Fami- C. E. PUTNAM'S Custom alld heady-Made lies are informed that we have opened in connection with our Sunday School Trade a Bible Department. We have the best assortment of Pulpit, Family, and CHEAP BOOK, MUSIC, Small BIBLES, in the country. Also a Picture Gal- AND STATIONERY STORE, CLOTHING, lery of Maps, Chromos, Steel Engravings, &c. N. B. Agents wanted to sell " Outlines of the AND CLOTHS AND FURNISHING GOODS, Laws and Government of the United States," one NEWS DEPOT, of the best books ever canvassed for. Price, $2.00. 70 MAIN STREET, DOUGLAS HOUSE BLOCH, " THE PLACE" N. TIBBALS & CO. MIDDLETOWN, CONN. 37 Park Row or 145 Nassau Street. To buy your NEW BOOKS received as soon as published. Neck-Ties and Paper Collars. BENEDICT BROTHERS, • NEW MUSIC. The Largest Assortment of Writing. 691 Broadway, - - - New York. Papers,—Letter, Note, Foolscap, Legal, &c. Envel- PAPER COLLARS opes, of every style and size; the finest and cheapest JEWELERS. in the city. School, College, and Text Books ; KEEPERS OF THE CITY TIME. large supply at low prices. 100 for p.-0- All kinds of Society Pins and Badges prompt- PUTNAM wilt not be undersold. ly made to order. Clergymen, Teachers, Students, and Dealers, will No, 104 Main-Street, find it for their interest to trade with me. I can and will suit you. IVHDDLETOWN, CONN. YOU CAN SAVE All orders promptly filled. Square dealings guar- From Ten to Twenty-Five Per Cent. anteed. All are invited to make this Store their • 33 head-quarters. Respectfully, FIEEIVRT 1/ FERREE, Purchasing lyjel0 C. E. PUTNAM, Proprietor. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN DR GOODS, HENRY WOODWARD, CARPETS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, 124 Main Street, FRUIT & CONFECTIONERY, SHADES, DEAL-EE IN AND TOYS, NUTS, FANCY GOODS, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. AT PAINTS, OILS, ETC. LADIES' & GENTS' EATING SALOON. MITCHELL'S, PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES. 122 Main Street, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Opposite the Court House. CHOICE BRANDS At short notice. HENRY D. FERREE. MOONEY & WELLS, IMPORTED & DOMESTIC CIGARS, 158 Main-Street. MERCHANT TAILORS, AND DEALERS IN PURE WINES AND LIQUORS. BLISS' CATARIUI SNUFF. MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, 116 Main Street, MIDDLETOWN, - - - - CONN. R. J. MANCO, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN TRIED! IT WILL RELIEVE THE WORST CASES A. MOONEY. E. H. WELLS. IMPERIAL HAIR CUTTING ROOMS, SOME BAD CASES HAVE BEEN CURED BURR BROS. Under the McDonough House. Made and Sold by MATHISON & BLISS, DEALERS IN for sale. POMADES AND PERFUMES Apothecaries & Druggists. je10 No. 58 West Court Street Some of the best CIGARS in the City on hand. Also that famous Perique Tobacco and other CHOICE GROCERIES, brands. 154 MainStreet. WOOD AND WILLOW WARE. —ALSO,— 1NTo. 134, KEROSENE OIL of the Best Quality. No. 100 Main Street. OPPOSITE MIDDLETOWN BANK, GOETZE '7,13—We will not be undersold. Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of Can always be found a large stock of the CHEWING & SMOKING TOBACCO, T. CAMP, 138 MAIN STREET. LATEST STYLES OF • Dealer in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &c. BEST UNIVERSITY BRAND SEGARS, First quality of KEROSENE OIL, WICKS and Crum- HATS AND CAPS, MEERSCHAUM & BRIER, ROOT PIPES, neys always on hand. CALF, Km AND CLOTH BOOTS AND SHOES, And everything that is to be found at a First Clads ENRY S. STEELE'S Of the best material acid make. Segar Store. A. H. GOETZE, je 10 99 Main Street. H LIVERY, HACK, & BOARDING STABLE, No. 28, Center Street, MIDDLETOWN, CONN. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,Tauxrcs, BAGS UMBRELLAS, &C.;All of which will be sold at the FIRST-CLASS r A. PELTON, DENTIST, „ 119. Main Street, first South of Court House, Middletown, Conn. lowest Cash prices. jel0 HENRY WARD. .LIVERY STABLE HENRY HANITSCH, Nos. 33 & 42 Centre St., T S. FAIRCHILD, Dealer in BOOT-MAKER TO THE COLLEGE. MIDDLETOWN, CONN. WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTA- All work done with the Best Materials, in the The best of Horses and Carriages, Double or Sin- CLES, SILVER WARE, CUTLERY, A.c. best style, and with promptness. furnished promptly, with or without drivers. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry neatly repaired at To make yourselves sure of a good foundation, Carriages to and from the Cars and Boat. short notice. call at 41 Centre Street. je10 AU on the most favorable terms jel0 . 164 Main street, opposite Central Block. �
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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868), p. 32
Text: 32 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. AWL, r) tt WRIMIEET, McDONOUGH DRUG STORE, E. ROCKWELL, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, BOOKSELLER STATIONER NEWSDEALER , , , BOOKSELLERS
Show more32 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. AWL, r) tt WRIMIEET, McDONOUGH DRUG STORE, E. ROCKWELL, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, BOOKSELLER STATIONER NEWSDEALER , , , BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS. Selected from Fresh and Genuine Stock. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC, BOOK-BINDER, BLANK BOOK MANUFAC- PATENT MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, TURER, PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES, By calling on MCLEAN & WRIGHT you can find a FANCY ARTICLES, PERFUMERIES, AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS. SODA WATER, OUR facilities are complete for supplying every- FIRST CLASS ASSORTMENT thing desirable in the line of SCHOOL & COLLEGE PURE MEDICINAL LIQUORS, TEXT BOOKS and . General MISCELLANY, NEWS- OF GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. PAPERS & PERIODICALS, American and Foreign. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. all at the lowest rates. Our Stock comprises a full assortment of every- All the NEW BOOKS as soon as issued, and old thing pertaining to the retail Drug business. and rare Books procured to order. We aim to keep on hand all Your patronage is respectfully solicited. D. C. TYLER, STATIONERY.—Note and Letter Papers, plain and TEXT BOOKS USED IN COLLEGE. Successor to L. C. VINAL. fancy, of various patterns, with Envelopes to match, 151 Main Street, Middletown, Ct. and Initialled with any style of Letter or Mono- VERY MODERATE CHARGES TO STUDENTS. gram, Embossed or printed in fancy. colors, and all other goods in the line of Plain and Fancy Sta- tionery. BINDING of all kinds done promptly. INITIAL PAPER on hand, or stamped to order. DAVID J. NEALE, ENGRAVING.—Card Plates, Monograms, Dies for We can supply Sunday School Libraries at the low.. MERCHANT TAILOR, Seals or Mottoes, engraved to order. Hand and Copying Presses at manufacturers' prices. est New York prices. 159 Main Street, BOOK-BINDING.—Magazines, Newspapers ; Music, and Books of all sorts bound to order in any de- MIDDLETOWN, CONN. sired style and warranted to suit. SERMON PAPER,— Blank Books of all kinds in stock or made to order. Qom` FineGoods Exclusively. ARTISTS' MATERIALS.—Canvas, Paints, Oils, Var- McLEAN & WRIGHT, nishes and Brushes, &c., &c., including everything SMOKE !..SMOKER ! ! SMOKIST ! !! needed in the line of Oil or Water Colors. 118 MAIN ST. , Middletown. je101y PICTURES.—Oil Paintings, Chromos, Photographs, LE MS DECKER, Engravings and Lithographs. PICTURE FRAMES. — Plain Gilt or Elaborately WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Carved and Ornamented in Gold. Plain and Carv- A LL KINDS OF EXPRESS BUSINESS . Promptly attended to at reasonable rates. Orders may be left at McLEAN & WRIGHT'S, or at FINE DONIESTI1.1 &IMPORTED SEGARS. ed Rustic, Walnut, Oak and Rosewood, as also ev- erything in the line of Frames, Mouldings, Picture Glass, Cord, &c. 108 William Street. All of the above will be sold at the lowest mar- 1yje10 ALL the favorite brands of Smoking and Chew- ket rates. F. J. HACHMAN. ing Tobacco constantly on hand. Middletown, June, 1868. A Superior lot of Havana Cigarettes of unequalled flavor just received. B. R. BENHAM, MEERSCHAUM PIPES & SEGAR HOLDERS a COAL ! COAL ! COAL ! specialty. Having selected them myself with much On Hand, of the MERCHANT TAILOR, care I can affirm their superior quality and style. • BEST QUALITY AND LOWEST CASH BRIER-WOOD and other PIPES, in every shape, PRICES, AND DEALER IN style and price. At the Coal Yard of Remember, at DECKER'S, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, j el G2MainStreet. EVAN DAVIS, Corner of College and. Water Streets. (No. 126 MAIN STREET, EDWARD PADDOCK & CO, KEEPS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, constantly on hand a FRESH and VARIED As DEERS S. STEARNS & SO1N SORTMENTof FRENCH, ENGLISH & AMERICAN GOODS, 'STOVES, DEALERS IN From the most celebrated manufacturers, which he BEDS, BEDDING, HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, will make up in the LATEST STYLES, and at the Low- est Prices. Students will consult their interests by HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. ordering of him. D. R. BENHAM, jelO ' 126 MAIN STREET. No. 44 Court St., two doors East of Main. MIDDLETOVY , CONN. MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, J. P. }-IOFFORT'S Trunks, Valises, Traveling B171‘_\TI)Y, ARTIST. Bags, Umbrellas, &c. FANCY AND DOMESTIC BAKERY 146 Main-Street, FINE P HOT OGR APHS, CORNER OF MAIN AND WASHINGTON STREET ALL KINDS OF Directly opposite the Post-Office. VIEWS Middletown, Conn. CONFECTIONERY AND PASTRY, OF ' PAPER HANGINGS, FRUIT, NUTS, ETC. SCENERY & RESIDENCES. WINDOW SHADES, CURTAIN FIXTURES, IC -P1 CREAM+ PICTURE FRAMES, CI ITZOMOS- – CLUBS and PARTIES supplied at reasonable rates, CORD, TASSELS, &c. at short notice. At the Lowest Prices, at FRAMES TO ORDER. LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS REFRESH- H. FOUNTAIN'S, lyjel0 MIDDLETOWN, CONN. MENT ROOM. jel0 1yje10 Opposite Central Bank, MAIN STREET. �
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Title: The college argus (December 3, 1868)

Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 33
Text: VEIL. II, No. 5. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 14 1869. WHOLE No. 8. AQUILO. Movet, movet, immo vero movet I but alas, those who knew no
Show moreVEIL. II, No. 5. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 14 1869. WHOLE No. 8. AQUILO. Movet, movet, immo vero movet I but alas, those who knew no better that the college alas, the motion has been one constant re- was retrograding in morals, as well as schol- The cold winds ont of the Northland blow trogression. arship, the end has in a measure been gain- Filling the frosty air with snow, Sweeping the white flakes to and fro, This disheartening spirit seems, in a great ed; and friends far away have been mortified O'er the moorlands dreary. measure, to have imbued an article on "Po- by a flippant statement of serious evil. My lord, he wills that the flames .burn higher, nies," which not long since appeared in our It had been our opinion that statements My lady, around the glowing fire so transparent hardly demanded refutation, college periodical. Draweth her crimson cushions nigher, Calling it cheery. The "golden age" which is so much laud- but having met those so unsophisticated as ed in the opening lines of the effusion, seems to credit and be annoyed by them, we took I am out in the gardens old, to have closed at the same time that '69 first this method of placing them in their true Out in the bitter, stinging cold, Smiling to see the gathering mould entered these classic halls. light. On the brown leaves lying ; Those were the happy days when, as we Drinking with joy the breath of the breeze, are told, all who ponied were "very careful That sweeps through the boughs of the leafless trees— COLLEGE GOVERNMENT. to keep quiet about it," and when "the well- The breath of the wind from the Northern seas— To the dead flowers sighing. ridden steed was never displayed." The Nation of the 17th ult. contained an If this be the case, (and who will deny article on "University Reform," written by a Let them bar the door to the North winds bold, that it is ?) in the midst of such secrecy no correspondent at the U. S. Naval Academy, Round them tighter their garments fold, Shudder, as when a tale is told one could speak with certainty of equestrian Annapolis, Md. Of the dead and dying ; expeditions other than his own. Thus we The writer, after condemning the '.mark- The doors of my heart I open throw, see, in the opening sentences, a frank confes- ing system" heartily, and making several sug- Through its empty portals come and go, sion utterly at variance with the general gestions worthy of consideration, proceeds to O wild North winds, for I love ye so, spirit of the article. As the author progress- treat of college government and asserts that With a love defying ! es the confession is made specific, and for the the college code now in force "treats young Were ye not born in that land of mine, benefit of a class of notorious workers, Pla- men of the nineteenth just as boys of the six Rocked in the arms of the Northern pine, to reasons in English. This mania for "own- teenth century were treated ;" and further, Kissed by the leaves of the Upland vine ing up" seems to increase even more, and that it "works through a perfectly organized Which icily glisten ? Have I not come in the gloom to-night, having quieted the conscience of his class, system of police, of which the president of Out in the gloom which yet is bright the author proceeds with commendable hon- the college is the chief, and whose spies are With the fitful gleams of the Northern light, esty to confess the sins of others. But here to be found in every department of the Uni. To lovingly listen ? he allows his zeal to run rampant, and, like versity. It is a legal presumption that a sus- Blow on, wild winds ! ye are singing to me, Topsy, he confesses sins that were never com- pected man is innocent until the contrary is A song of the Northland, strong and free, mitted. Seventy is said to have expended proved ; but at Cambridge, at least, the To powers of earth or powers of sea more pocket money in the purchase of ponies counter presumption generally obtains. It No tribute owing ; than any preceding class. And it is further may even be said that a suspected student And in thy strange weird undertone, I know that I catch the breath of home :- alleged that of the Greek of Aristophanes, is supposed to lie until he proves that he Who asked if I ever felt alone and the Latin of Tacitus, many of us have speaks the truth. The result is as natural With the North winds blowing ? very indistinct ideas. How many ponies "70 as it is deplorable. Espionage is met by had on Aristophanes, '69 should know with cunning, and accusation by equivocation. JUSTITIA FIAT. great exactness ; for they all came to us by In the Nation for Dee. 31st there is a re- Among the many infirmities of human na- a hereditary descent as distinctly marked as ply to this article. The writer, who signs ture, there is, perhaps, none so disagreeable the apostolic succession. In regard to Taci- himself "P," says, "In one capacity or anoth- as that which fetters a man to the past, and tus the statement is simply false. Investiga- er, as a student, as a tutor, as a professor, as denies him all mental faculties save a most tion shows that since the days of '64, no class a trustee, or as an executive officer, I have distorted memory. Persons thus afflicted, has been more faithful in their Latin, not ev- been connected with colleges for more than are ever sounding in our ears the praises of en excepting '69, who (we are told) have thirty years. If the statements of your cor- those halcyon days when their heads and never shown a disposition to shirk their tasks. respondent quoted above are generally true hands were busy with duties such as we now The design of such an article we are at a of our collegiate institutions, I think I should strive to perform. loss to determine. It is not calculated to de- have been likely to have discovered their In speaking of the world, they aver with ceive for a moment a single individual of our truth. I have never discovered anything 04 all the dogmatical fixedness of a Galileo, community. If the object were to convince the kind." �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 34
Text: 34 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. In the further consideration of the subject They were governed .each by a master, as- stead of bolts and bars, we have invoked
Show more34 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. In the further consideration of the subject They were governed .each by a master, as- stead of bolts and bars, we have invoked he writes as follows, and we commend his sisted by one or more tutors as necessity penalties : instead of substantial brick and might '•require. It was the business of the mortar, we have built our reliance on a bar- opinions to the careful attention of our read- tutor to see that the youths duly attended ricade of paper. What wonder that the ers. the lectures, and to interrogate them upon merest breath sometimes bears down the bar- Candidates for admission to college often what they heard—that is, to hear them recite. rier before it! apply at the early age of fourteen years, and It was also his business to give them reli- It thus appears that between the condi- many enter below sixteen. On the other gious instruction, and to "do all that in him tion of the student of the sixteenth, or even hand, not a few attain, or have nearly attain- lay to render them conformable to the Church of the eighteenth century, and that of the stu- ed their majority before becoming members of England." In addition to this, he had dent of the present day, as it respects the of a college , and the consequence is that we the further rather troublesome charge of form of government to which he is subject- have a community very heterogeneous in "containing his pupils within statutory regu- ed, there is scarcely a point of resemblance. character, very unequal in power of self- lations in matters of external appearance, And the reason of the existence of that pe- command, very widely different in degree of such as their clothes, boots, and hair ;" with culiar relation between the governors and manliness, very unfit to be all subjected to the unpleasant liability, in case the unman- the governed of the academical body, of the same uniform regimen. In the younger ageable urchins evaded his vigilance,express- which mention has been made, is to be found classes we find a majority who have come ed in this clause, "which if the pupils are partly in the heterogeneousness above ex- directly from the schools, where their con- found to transgress, the tutor, for the first, plained of the student body, which makes it duct has been subjected to the restraint of second, and third offense, shall forfeit six and inevitable that. there will always be some in- immediate and constant supervision. Such, eight pence, and for the fourth shall be inter- dividuals who will be deficient in manliness, even if they possess the power, have not yet dicted of his tutorial functions. " [It may and who will delight to create confusion , acquired the habit of self-control ; and the be observed just here that we have not, ev- and partly in that traditional principle of almost irresistible propensity of juvenile na- en in our own day, wholly discontinued the solidarity universally recognized in colleges, ture to avail itself without consideration of practice of punishing the officer for the of which permits the vicious or the turbulent every acccidental opportunity to give way of the student ; only that instead of few to use the exemplary and well-disposed to frolicsome mirthfulness on the slightest re- fining him six and eight pence, we simply many as their invulnerable shield and inex- laxation of the severe vigilance of school su- speak disrespectfully of him in the newspa- pugnable defence. pervision, is carried into the college, and is papers.] " Corporal punishment was inflict- Whoever, in discussing the difficult ques- not laid aside until familiarity with freedom ed in the English universities so late as the tions connected with college government, neutralizes the temptation to extravagance. time of Milton, who himself is said to have overlooks these two capital facts, will arrive It is a very great disadvantage to college been subjected to this indignity. The same at no conclusions worthy of attention. The government that it can provide but one sys- appears to have been true in the early years expedient proposed of separating the gov- tem of discipline for all varieties of subjects ; of Harvard and Yale in this country. Down erning from the teaching body, while it and that consequently the stringent system to the commencement of the present centu- would involve a largely increased expendi- which the more volatile—those in whom the ry the fagging system survived in both these ture, would afford no adequate solution of boy spirit still predominates—require is felt colleges—a system which rendered the stu- the problem—a truth too obvious to require to be unreasonably oppressive and galling to dent during his freshman year the drudge argument. the graver class, who disdain even the sus- of his fellow-students above him and to In conclusion, I would observe that, while picion of puerility. The popular idea of the quite as late a period the whole body of the there is doubtless room in our colleges and college student is drawn much more from the students were compelled to observances to- universities for many improvements, no true latter class than from the former ; and hence ward the college officers which would now friend of higher education in our country the strictures on college government which be held to be degrading, and could then on- will speak of those institutions in terms cal- we so frequently hear carry with them ly consist with the idea that the student is a culated to shake the public confidence in the among the people an appearance of weight mere school-boy. In those primitive days wisdom of their management, or to bring and reason which they would hardly possess nice questions of casuistry as to how far a their governors into contempt, until at least were it remembered that this system does student may or may not, by his testimony, he has sufficiently investigated the subject not exist for the supervision and restraint of rightfully or honorably criminate his fellow, to be quite sure of his facts. those who need no restraint, but on account were unknown ; but the youth who refused of those who do need it, yet cannot possibly to testify if that phenomenon ever occur- — be separately reached. red—was neither remonstrated with nor dis- CORRESPONDENCE.—The Fall Term of It is a curious fact that, while the popular missed, but simply, I suppose, 'licked.' How- idea of the college student at the present ever we have changed all that, and very.prop- Dickinson closed on the 22d of December. day invests him very much with the charac- erly ; but so far has the change gone that The Belles Lettres Society celebrated its ter of a man—though many individual stu- nearly all attempts on the part of college Eighty-third Anniversary on Monday even- dents are in fact but boys—in the early his- faculties to use coercion of any kind, if not ing, and the Union Philosophical its Eight- tory of colleges, both in this country and resisted in limine, are at least met with re- abroad, the case was completely the reverse, monstrance and complaint. ieth Anniversary on Tuesday evening. The and the college or university student was From the foregoing statements it is am-Jo,- exercises were very interesting and reflected looked upon and treated as a. mere school- parent that the American colleges have as- credit on the societies. boy. It was this fact indeed which, if it did sumed to themselves the double duty which, The President, Dr. Dasliiell, presided on not determine the erection of colleges and some centuries ago in England, was divided both evenings and, although a graduate halls in the universities, at least suggested between college and uni v ersity—the du- the form of their organization. The univer- ty of instruction and that of government . member of the Union Philosophical, appa- sities of England taught only, and assumed But, in undertaking this two-fold re,>sponsi- rently forgot distinction and considerately no responsibility for the deportment or mor- , bility, our colleges have failed to copy from blended the red and the white, representa- als of the students. The lecturers—ultimate- their models the devices by which they se- tive colors, together. The Seniors have not ly styled 'professors—did nothing, and do cured the ability to discharge it. Our col- yet filled the offices for Class-day exercises, nothing to this day, but lecture ; they heard lege officers neither live in the same build- no recapitulations of the subjects by the stu- ing nor eat at the same table with the stu- but will do so early in the next session. dents—that is, no recitations. But boy learn- dents, nor are the college premises shut in One of Wesleyan's students of last year, ers require both moral control and mental by walls or secured by locks and bolts. In Mr. Watson, met with a warm reception in drilling, The colleges and halls were erect- the absence of these material safeguards, we Dickinson, and we would be happy to ex- ed to subserve these purposes. In these es- have spun around our colleges a cobweb 'of words : instead of immediate and constant tend our greetings to others who would seek tablishments the students were boarded, lodged, and kept under close supervision. supervision, we have substituted law ; in- a less rigorous climate. �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 35
Text: THE COLLEGE ARGUS. 35 In looking over a collection of College er with diagrams, executed h: chalk, on two speech of the presiding officer. Mr. Merwin
Show moreTHE COLLEGE ARGUS. 35 In looking over a collection of College er with diagrams, executed h: chalk, on two speech of the presiding officer. Mr. Merwin Pamphlets I find the following 5, It was is- blackboards, 36 & 70 inches in diameter re- concluded by proposing the first toast— sued at the time of the construction of the spectively, by Paddock. "Alma Mater," to which Dr. Cummings re- small octagonal building, of questionable For obvious reasons, the Library will, like sponded. The Doctor spoke of the progress character, which stood until 1866, on the that of the College, consist of works in Low- of the institution during the past year, the present site of Rich Hall. We can afford Dutch. increase of its endowment by the munifi- to laugh at this squib, though, at the time, Arrangements have been entered into with cent donations of Messrs. Rich and Drew, it was too true to be particularly amusing. the proprietors of the McDonough Restau- the new buildings and other improvements G. rant, a scientific institution in the city, by on the college property, and the important ZO the gatrono of $rieotifir gorarch. which pupils will be enabled to perceive additions to the scientific apparatus and col- stars in all kinds of weather. lections. A suitable tribute was paid to T HE fRUDENTIAL FOMMITTEE OF ESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The situation of Swamp st. (Egypt) with the memory of the late Dr. Clark, the father reference to the University, causing the in- and the life-long friend of the University. would inform the Scientific Public that the habitants of that locality to cross the cam- The Doctor also called the attention of the Small Octagonal Observatory, capable of re- pus in their daily travels, a rare opportuni- alumni to some proposed changes in the con- volution on a ten-penny nail, connected with ty will be afforded for observing the transits stitution of the corporation. It would be, the College, having become inadequate to of VENUS. of course, impossible to report the speeches the demands of modern science , (the pupils The faculty will be assisted in their obser- which followed. The wit and humor and having to climb over a board fence to reach vations by Messrs. C , V—, & others, good fellowship and kindly feeling which it, & there being room for but two of them gentlemen thoroughly fitted, by natural ge- bubble up and sparkle so richly on such an in it at any one time) and being, moreover, nius & careful education, for their position. occasion, are too delicate to be preserved. worn out by constant use, they have resolv- Subscriptions are earnestly solicited, as After-dinner speeches must be taken while ed to erect another & more imposing edifice otherwise the expense of the Observatory still effervescing. Heartily indeed was Dr. in its stead,—being the "new building" so will be included in the charges for inciden- Johnston greeted by his former pupils. His long expected—in which the processes of as- tals & Commencement Dinner, on the stu- professional experience has been nearly co- tronomical research may be conducted as dents' term bills. extensive with the history of the college, heretofore, but with augmented facilities. MIDDLETOWN, CONN., NOVEMBER, 1856. only one alumnus having been graduated The structure will be of the Canal-st. or- SUBSCRIPTIONS. before the commencement of his labors. A der of architecture, with an emblematic or- Names. $ Cts. Mills. toast in grateful acknowledgement of the namental cornice, imitative of small potatoes munificence of patrons was intended to call & having the walls frescoed with designs out Mr. Rich ; but, as that gentleman had representing the discovery of the fixed stars unaccountably vanished, Mr. Sleeper, also by Galileo, the discovery of the (flag) pole, honorably known as a benefactor of the in- & other great astronomical events. MEETING OF THE BOSTON WES- stitution, gracefully responded to the senti- The Apparatus has been procured at an en- LEYAN UNIVERSITY CLUB. ment. One of the best things on the pro- tirely fabulous expense, mostly at auction, The second annual dinner of the Boston gramme was a poem by Rev. Nelson Stut- except the chronometer, which was won at Wesleyan University Club was held at the son. Fanciful, elegant, playful, it was just the Gift Book Sale, in this city, by Professor Revere House on the evening of December the thing for the occasion. The muses were Lane. It includes a refractory telescope, :30th. About fifty gentlemen were present, uncommonly gracious, having condescended adapted for the convenience of the Assistant mostly alumni residing in the city or its to inspire two poems. The other one, by Director to make observations with one eye ; immediate vicinity. Among the various Rev. Gilbert Haven, was full of pleasant re- an alarm clock, by the Jerome Manufactur- professions represented, the clerical element miniscences of college-life—reminiscences ing Company ; a thermometer, brass mount- somewhat predominated, including a large often pleasanter than the reality. F. M, ed; a magnificent pair of compasses, corn number of the leading men of the Methodist Stone, Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts, plete with the exception of one leg ; a tape denomination in that section. The religious spoke of the educating influence of the measure, graduated on cotton to inches ; press was represented. by Rev. Gilbert beautiful scenery of that valley, where lies kaleidoscope, &c., &c. Haven of the Zion's Herald. Of the Bos- our college home. A letter was read from In the immediate vicinity of the observa- ton Theological Seminary there were pre- Hon. A. B. Calef of this city, suggesting that tory, & connected with the University, is a sent Profs. Warren, Lindsay, and Patten. the meeting of the Club should be an occa- chain pump, of the most improved modern The Faculty of the University was repre- sion not only for kindly greetings and construction, by W. and B. Douglas, im- sented by President Cummings, and Profs. pleasant memories, but also for serious mersed in an animal, mineral & vegetable Johnston and Rice, besides ex-Profs. True thought in regard to the measures necessary spring, rendered positively electrical by an and Lindsay. Besides the alumni, there for the advancement of the interests of our infusion of lime and horse-hair, also Russel's were present a few honored guests, among Alma Mater. Mr.' Calef then proceeded to Magnificent Planetarium, otherwise known whom should be mentioned Isaac Rich, Esq., urge the necessity of increased facilities in as the College Elephant, which can be set up and Hon. Jacob Sleeper of Boston, and the department of Natural Sciences. Of the at a moment's warning in ten days, & illus- General Clinton B. Fisk of St. Louis. Elias spec general tenor were the remarks of trates the movements of the heavenly bodies Merwin, Esq., presided, and prayer was of- Prof. Rice. But we have not time even to when they are in a state of rest. fered by Rev. Dr. Thayer. Ample justice mention all the speakers by name. The Besides these, "astronomical maps" con- was done to the material part of the feast, toast-master, Mr. Osgood, exercised the sisting of an antique atlas, and a view of the after which the other exercises of the even- functions of his office most acceptably, get- sun, on a reduced !,‘'%1 n, will be used, togeth- ing were introduced very felicitously by the [Continued on page 38.] �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 36
Text: 36 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE COLLEGE ARGUS. with those of his native Troy, and was struck about thirteen and a half inches in front of with the contrast
Show more36 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE COLLEGE ARGUS. with those of his native Troy, and was struck about thirteen and a half inches in front of with the contrast presented. But whatever your anterior pedal extremities, did you ever Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. may have been the cause of these peculiar notice the very picturesque manner in which THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1869. emotions in the breast of LEneas, we cannot the many-shaped blocks and boulders are fail to observe how near the subject lay to laid, and haven't you seen stars on the TERM_ the heart of the poet. He describes the city cloudiest evenings ? Many a time have we One College year, (in advance,) - - - - $1.50 being built by Dido. He first speaks of the gone down the street, and many a time have .10 Single copies, magnitude of the work ; then, having con- we found ourselves involuntarily using 9 IJITOR.S_ ducted you through the gates, he points at "words that have no relation to the rest of J. E. ABBOTT, J. H. POWERS, once to the pavements and the sidewalks, re- the sentence," as our foot was brought with A. F. CHASE, H. A. STARKS. garding as of secondary importance the a smart concussion against some immovable walls, the citadel, and the senate-house. geological specimen, and our upper parts, The COLLEGE ARGUS will be published once in three weeks during the collegiate year, by an Association of The Romans, enthusiastic admirers of the obeying a natural law whereby a body has members of the Senior Class. great poet, acting upon this suggestion not no power to stop itself when once in motion, It will be mailed to any address on receipt of price. Communications solicited from any source. only paved the streets of their city ; but the hastened forward by a uniformly accelerated For sale at the bookstores of McLean & Wright, E. Rockwell, and C. E. Putnam, where subscriptions will roads that extended for. thousands of miles motion to a prostrate and probably inert po- also be received. sition, illustrating forcibly those other words Address all communications to the College Argus, Mid- throughout all parts of their empire were dletown, Conn. laid with stones of regular shape, forming a of the poet, "Facilis descensus Averni ; sed kind of mosaic work, and upon each side of revocare gradum, hoc opus, hic labor est." The beginning of the present term was de- "Ah me * * * * ." the via proper was a regular sidewalk. (Vide ferred from Dec. 31, to Jan. 5 vacation be- Lecture on Roman Roads, by Prof. H.) Quantity is sometimes made to atone for ing lengthened to include New Year's day. This subject has engaged the attention of quality. Not so here. Some of the walks The fall term closed with little variation the great, in modern as well as in ancient are extremely narrow, and be the evening from the regular routine of cramming and times. In Galena, Ill., a few years ago never so fair, the moon never so bright, grinding, of fizzles and successes, of the anx- might have been seen the sign "Grant & would you promenade with Dulcinea it is nec- iety that precedes and the dismay or rejoic- Son, Leather Dealers." Ulysses, the junior essary to march, like a corporal's squad, by ing that follows thereport of examinations. member of the firm, then stated that his single file. Yet these walks sometimes serve To the three upper classes this was peculiar. highest ambition was to become mayor of a good purpose, and bashful lovers, loth to ly gratifying. The Freshmen, however, seem- the city, in order to secure the laying of a unlock arms, are brought to a closer acquain- ed to have signally failed in their apprecia- sidewalk to his residence. tance. This, however, is mere conjecture, tion of college duties, half their class being U. S. Grant has proved to be a man of but the writer sorely regrets his inability to conditioned or exceptioned. There was sterling qualities, but his sound common speak from experience. Like the author of much sorrowing in '72 over this expression sense, displayed thus early in reference to "College Engagements," he can only think of its standing. We heard one rueful-coun- sidewalks, no doubt paved the way to his of what might have been. tenanced member of the class desperately at- future success. tempting to ward off the thursts of a vicious But poor as are the walks themselves, neg- Our object in the present article is to call ligence renders them still more subject to Soph., and finally saying that he passed with- the attention of the public to the condition criticism. Snow is apt to fall in winter. out exceptions. "Yes," soothingly remark- of the walks of our beautiful city. We dis- Where it is left upon the walks and well ed H—, of '70, "and that's quite an honor like fault-finding : it is disagreeable to all trodden, ice is formed, and that, too, of slip- for a man in your class." parties ; but the sad experience of the past pery characteristics. In our Sophomore year In point of scholarship, the scheme of three years, and the frequent perils we have we purchased a tall hat—i. e., got trusted for Sophomore Exhibition presented a marked encountered on the "narrow and, rugged it. Like others of our rank we were diss contrast. The class numbers thirty-six men, wayside," impel us to write. With Jonah, playing it one day at the commencement of of whom but five rank below first class. It "We do well to be angry." the winter term. Some ladies were ap- is said that no class of the Institution has ev- er had a better average on the merit-roll. Such walks as are at the sides of our streets proaching. We raised our eyes from the Fifteen appeared upon the stage. The ora- make smaller the soles of those who walk earth for a moment, elevated our head to the tions, in composition and delivery, were thereon. When we refer to the sidewalks proper position, when we found our feet sud- of this city, it must be understood that we denly slipping from under us, and, in spite praiseworthy ; but the music, credited to the Germania band, was inferior to that general- speak ironically, for sidewalks they are not ; of unusual agility, we fell-0 lamentable ! no man, unless he have nerves of iron and disgracefully fell upon the slippery sidewalk, ly provided at such exercises. heart of steel, would venture to walk there- our new, tall, silk hat rolling into the ditch "MIRATUR PORTAS, STREPITUMQUE on. A sidewalk should present to the fi;et beside us ! In lingua immortalis W r, ET STRATA VIARUM." a smooth, passable surface ; but our walks "multi groans, multoe imprecationes went up Virg. LEn., Book I, Line 422. are hindrances to the peripatetic philosophy. from that dirum ground." We speak from The poet very beautifully describes in our What undertaking requires more skill, cour- painful experience, and we feel that we have quotation the sensations of his hero on first age and philosophic coolness, than to walk, a right to express our indignation. approaching the Carthaginian city. "He or attempt to walk, from the University to There was one righteous man in Sodom wonders at the gates, the bustle, and the the Post Office ? Body and sole are en- (but he couldn't stay there. And, if long pavements of the streets." Why especially dangered at every step. parentheses were not objectionable, we he wondered at the pavements, we do not As you have gone down street, with your should say that Lot's pillared consort gives read ; but we suppose he compared them eyes, for precautionary reasons, directed unmistakable evidence that Sodom was de- �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 37
Text: 37 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. stroyed in the Salina period, and hence a man, French, Italian, Spanish, Anglo-Saxon, WESLEYAN PERSONAL new argument for the
Show more37 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. stroyed in the Salina period, and hence a man, French, Italian, Spanish, Anglo-Saxon, WESLEYAN PERSONAL new argument for the great antiquity of Gaelic, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Irish and man) and there are a few good citizens in Welsh languages. Editor Orientalia Anti- [As we intend to make this column a specialty, we solicit information from all quarters in regard to our Middletown, who lay good walks by their quara Heroditi. Engaged upon a Bible Alumni.] dwellings, and always keep them clean— commentary and a book of synonyms. A emblematical, as Father Bunnell has well frequent contributor to Meth. Quar. Rev. GRIFFIN, '68. M. H. Griffin, for a time a — said, of clean hearts. LL. D. Dick. Coll. D. D. 014 Wes. Univ. member of '68, is studying law with Hon. In the language of some illustrious pre- 1857. Nichols, Monroe ; born 1834, in Richard 0. Gorman, N. Y. City. decessor, "We wish there were more of Thompson, Conn. ; died Jan. 17, 1868, in TOWER, '63. Rev. F. P. Tower of Meri- — them." JOSH. St. Paul, Minn. A teacher till the begin- den, Conn., recently preached a temperance ning of the rebellion; raised a company of LOCAL. sermon, at the close of which he announced volunteers ; commissioned Lt. Col. ; woundS We hear many regrets that vacation should that hereafter, only wine which has been ed at the battle of Winchester ; a prisoner have been selected by Bro. Millard for the deprived of its intoxicating qualities will be at Libby ; a member of Conn. legislature. interesting ceremony noticed in the personal used in his church (the Methodist) for 1865. Richman, William Henry, born column. One said, "A student of four years sacramental purposes. Sept. 3, 1843, in Salem, N. J. ; died Jan. 22, standing ought to have remembered that we 1868, in St. Louis, Mo. Studied at Albany DEXTER, '63. E. K. Dexter is practicing — should have rejoiced in a half-holiday." Ma- law school. Practiced in Leavenworth, Ks. law in Leavenworth, Kansas. ny members of the college, for other and bet- and St. Louis, Mo. ter reasons, would have preferred a day in MARCY, '46. Prof. Oliver Marcy of the — term time. The weather was somewhat un- The following named gentlemen are ex- N, W. University, Evanston, Ill., is to de- favorable, but the church was well filled. cused from college this winter to teach the liver a course of lectures on Natural Philos- Among the friends present we noticed Mes- young idea. We give the places in which ophy at Cincinnati Wesleyan Female Col- srs. Olin, '66, and North, '67. Messrs. Croft they are employed : lege. and Chase, '69, acted as ushers. Class '69. E. W. Davis, Torringford; D. STONE, '68.—G. H. Stone writes us from E. Miller, Deep River. Chicago, Ill. His address for the present is Prof. R. G. Hibbard, of the Wesleyan Uni- Class '70. Darius Baker, Cheshire ; W. 246 W. Jackson st., Chicago. Business, "plu- versity, has for several seasons given highly popular readings in the principal towns of E. Dwight, Durham ; S. P. Hammond, Chase- ral and miscellaneous-" Connecticut and Eastern New York. Prof. ford, N. Y, ; C. E. Hawkins, Middle Had- PHILLIPS, '65. W. H. H. Phillips was — H. takes rank among the very first men in dam ; A. J. Palmer, Allamuchy, N. J. ; A. elected Professor of Natural Science in Gen- his profession. His recitation of the "Bells" S. Roe, Rose, N. J. ; R. W. Smith, Potsdam, esee College, instead of Professor of Mathe- of Poe, is an elocutionary marvel ; his read- N. Y. ; M. W. Van Denburgh, South Farms, matics, as was stated in a former issue. ing of the "Chimes" of Dickens, "Buried (Middletown) ; J. Welch, Cromwell. Alive" from VictorHugo, "Snowbound" and MILLARD, '67. Married Dec. 29th, 1868, — Class '72. J. N. Holt, East Hampton. at the Baptist Church, in this city, by Rev. "Hiawatha" cannot be surpassed. Rev. F. To the list of our exchanges we are pleased J. Millard, of New Castle, N. Y., assisted by L. Russell, himself a distinguished elocution- to add The Union Literary _Magazine, from Rev. L. M. Gilbert, Rev. Charles W. Millard, ist, recommends him in terms of the warm- Canton University, Canton, Mo., and The of Rhinebeck, N. Y., son of the officiating est admiration. He has an exceedingly rich, University Reporter, from Iowa State Uni- clergyman, and Miss Hattie A. Prior, of Mid- flexible, and highly trained voice, excellent versity. dletown.—[The Editors gratefully acknowl- taste in selection and delivery, and is totally devoid of theatrical exaggeration. Let us Received. The thirty-sixth Catalogue of edge the receipt of cards and cake.] hear him in Boston. It should be said in ad- Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y. ; SMITH, '56. Prof Geo. C. Smith, of the — dition, that Prof. Hibbard, by his enthusias- Prof. Herbert M. Fisk, A. M., Principal. Drew Female Seminary at Carmel, N. Y., tic devotion to his department at the Uni- The faculty consists of eight gentlemen and was in town last week. versity, shown both in the public and private six ladies. This institution has a preparatory training of the students in elocution, has collegiate course ; an academic course ; a McKowN, '49. Rev. J. L. G. McKown — made this a highly popular and profitable de- commercial course ; a department of music, of Milwaukee, Wis., has removed to Cincin- partment, and made our University, in this and of drawing and painting. Summary of nati, O., to take charge of Union Chapel respect, worthy to be compared with any in students in the departments—gentlemen, (M. E.) the land.—[Zion's Herald.] 241 ; ladies 257. Total, 498. , KELLOGG, '37. George Kellogg is engaged — An article on College Libraries, in a late in manufacturing at Birmingham, (Ct. Miss NECROLOGY OF WESLEYAN UNI- VERSITY FOR 1868. number of the University Chronicle, accred- Clara Louise Kellogg, the celebrated singer, ited to the Hamilton Campus, was written is his daughter. 1839. Johnson, Herman Merrills, born by one of our students, and first appeared in SANFORD, '65. Rev. E. B. Sanford of Ply- — November 25, 1815, at Butternuts, Otsego No. 5 of the College Argus. mouth, Conn., has received a call to the Co., N. Y. ; died April 5, 1868, in Carlisle, Congregational church at Cornwall, which Penn. Prof. Anc. Lang., St. Charles Coll. The Alpha Club has removed from the cor- he will probably accept. Mo., 1839 42 ; in Augusta Coll., Ky., 1842- - ner of Broad and Washington sts., where it 44 ; in Ohio Wes. Univ. 1844 50 ; Prof. of - had been located since 1858, to No. 20, Broad WINO-ELL, '47.—Prof: Alexander Win- Phil. and Eng. Lit. in Dickinson Coll. 1850- st. The Chronometer, formerly at No. 2, chell, LL. D., is lecturing Sunday noons in 60 ; Pres. of Dickinson Coll. and Prof. of Wyllys Av., succeeds the "Alpha" at its old the Methodist Church of Ann Arbor, on the Moral Science 1860-68. A student ofthe Ger- quarters. first chapters of Genesis. �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 38
Text: 38 TUE COLLEGE ARGUS. ting off capital hits on the honorable, vene- The Royal Academy of Science of Sweden The new telescope has been received, and
Show more38 TUE COLLEGE ARGUS. ting off capital hits on the honorable, vene- The Royal Academy of Science of Sweden The new telescope has been received, and rable, and reverend men whom he made his has elected Henry C. Carey, the Political the workmen are busily engaged in mount- victims. Lauriger and Gaudeamus and two Economist, of Philadelphia,to fill the vacancy ing it. In an early issue we hope to give a original songs were sung in true college-boy occasioned by the death of Lord Brougham. full account of this fine instrument. Har- style. The penultimate toast was a greet- vard is the only college in this country that ing to the embryonic New York Club. The There are twenty-nine universities in Ger- has a better telescope than ours. many, with 21,542 students, and the number last sentiment was received in silence—"The memory of Father Clark." of professorA engaged in lecturing at them The Peirce Prize will be awarded, this The officers elected for the ensuing year amounted in the last term to 2,194. year, to the Senior who passes the best writ- are as follows :— IOWA and Indiana State Universities both ten examination in Chemistry and Geology. President—R. C. Pitman. admit ladies to all the college courses, and Vice Presidents—I. W. Lindsay, F. M. the propriety of the measure is now being DEVILISH. Stone, E. 0. Phinney, E. Cooke. favorably considered by the authorities of Secretary—H. W. Parmenter. Michigan University with reference to that We are our own devil. This statement Treasurer—C. F. Gerry. institution. bears some resemblance to the familiar asser- Committee of Arrangements—L. W. Os- tion, "Every man is his own worst enemy," The college of the City of New York has as well as to the declaration of Milton's Sa- good, G. L. Roberts, W. F. Mallalieu, S. F. never granted an honorary degree. tan, "Myself am hell." Reference is not in - Upham, J. C. Rand, Gilbert Haven. It is confidently expected that the Club tended, however, to be made to humanity in will become a permanent institution. Such Numerous letters have been addressed to general, but to the Argus firm of We, Us & gatherings have a noble use in reviving Prof. Goldwin Smith by young Englishmen, Co.; and the allusion is not to that ubiquitous hallowed memories and strengthening the "who are desirous of advice as to the expe- individual, hoofed, horned and tailed, who ties of old associations. Great must be the diency of coming over to America for the often has to answer for such a deal of mischief benefit to the University, for in a body of purpose of entering at the Cornell Universi- justly chargeable to others, but to the tradi- alumni united and zealous for the interests ty." In reply lie sends a note to the Lon- tional printer's devil, whose breath smells of of Alma Mater lies a large measure of don Daily News, in which he tells them how Cavendish instead of sulphur, and who seeks power. incomplete the arrangements still are, and not souls but copy. Though, as we are hap- 4.4 "would not therefore advise any Englishman py to say, the circulation of the Argus is COLLEGE NEWS. at present to turn his thoughts in this direc- rapidly increasing, its receipts are not yet tion." A proof of the increasing popularity sufficiently large to allow the luxury of a We give the names and ages of the presi- of American Institutions. genuine imp of the genus just mentioned. dents and ex-presidents of American col- The ancient College of William and Mary, This will explain why we are our own devil. leges who have died during the past year. located at Williamsburg, Va., and at which It is a figurative expression for a solemn fact, Wm. Allen, D. D., LL. D., aged 84. Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James that we are compelled to hold our own noses John P. Bachelder, M. D., aged 83. N. Y. Monroe, Winfield Scott, and many other il- to the grindstone. Just as the printer was Academy of Medicine. lustrious men, received the better part of "making up" the last columns of this issue, H. L Baugher, D. D., aged 83. Penn. Col- their education, now appeals for aid, through we came into his office to inquire whether lege, Gettysburg. her President, Benjamin S. Ewell. The the amount of material was sufficient. We Hon. Henry Halsey Childs, M. D., aged college suffered severely and wantonly dur- hoped to hear the welcome word enough ; 84. Medical College, Boston. ing the civil war, and only asks to be placed but it must be confessed that there was a Rev. Herman M. Johnson, D. D., S. T. D., where she stood before that secession which fearful uncertainty about the answer which LL. D., aged 53. (Wesleyan '39,) Dickinson she did not abet. Her appeal is a strong would be made to our query. To pervert a College. one, and we trust it will be generously re- beautiful quotation to our present use, "Our very hopes belied our fears ; Rev. George Jenkins, D. D., LG. D., aged sponded to. Our fears, our hopes belied." 78. It is hardly necessary to say that, in this in - Rev. J. H. Linsley, D. D., aged 78. Mari- LOCAL. stance, the fears were well founded. Driven wtta College. The course of -lectures before the Middle- to compound off-hand the requisite amount Rev. Joseph Smith, D. D. Franklin Col- town Young Men's Christian Association of copy, there was small opportunity to dis- ege, 0. opens with a reading by Prof. Hibbard, on play nice taste in the selection of material. Hon. David L. Swayne, LL. D. N. C. Uni- Thursday, Jan. 14. Profs. Newhall and It is our purpose to make the Argus both lersity. Rice will each deliver a lecture before the "useful and entertaining." We would glad- HARVARD COLLEGE has received a bequest Association. ly have imparted some valuable information f $10,000 as the foundation of a fellowship ; If the reading and the lectures are as on scientific subjects ; but, not being able his is the first one ever founded in America. good as those which have formerly been to consult the authorities, we judged from A young lady has been admitted as a stu- given by the Professors, it is safe to predict sundry facts connected with former attempt- ent to the law school at Washington ITni- that the audience will be more than satis- ed recitations in natural science, that it might ersity, in St. Louis, by a unanimous vote of fied. be safer to let the sciences remain undis- {le Faculty. turbed for the present. The Trinity Tablet gave us a Christmas '69 has received from Mr. Warren, of Cam- If our compound is either insipid or nau- upplement, showing the Valedictorians and bridgeport, Mass., the class photographist, seous, we can confidently assure those who S alutatorians of Trinity since 1827, and its $1,100 worth of photographs. This is the are obliged to take it, that it is a perfectly latembers of Phi Beta Kappa. first installment of the class pictures. . harmless mixture. �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 39
Text: THE COLLEGE ARGU - R-. 3) NEW -YORK. H. PELTON & SON, Book and Job F. D. BREWSTER & CO., C• Printers, No. 136, Main-Street, Middletown, Conn.
Show moreTHE COLLEGE ARGU - R-. 3) NEW -YORK. H. PELTON & SON, Book and Job F. D. BREWSTER & CO., C• Printers, No. 136, Main-Street, Middletown, Conn. Orders promptly attended to. Manufacturers and Dealers in BOOKS! BOOKS! C. E. PUTNAM'S Cilstom allq lintlado STUDENTS, Ministers, Sunday Schools and Fami- lies are informed that we have opened in connection with our Sunday School Trade a Bible Department. We have the best assortment of Pulpit, Family, and CHEAP BOOK, MYTHIC, C L 0 11 11 I N G , AND STATIONERY STORE, Small BIBLES, in the country. Also a Picture Gal- lery of Maps, Chromos, Steel Engravings, &c. AND N. B. Agents wanted to sell " Outlines of the CLOTHS AND FURNISHING GOODS, Laws and Government of the United States," one NEWS DEPOT, of the best books ever canvassed for. Price, $2.00. 70 MAIN STREET, DOUGLAS HOUSE BLOCK, " THE PLACE" N. TIBBALS & CO. MIDDLETOWN, CONN. 37 Park Row or 145 Nassau Street. To buy your NEW BOOKS received as soon as published. Neck-Ties and Paper Collars, BENEDICT BROTHERS, NEW Music. The Largest Assortment of Writing 691 Broadway, - • - New York. Papers,—Letter, Note, Foolscap, Legal, &c. Envel- PAPER COLLARS opes, of every style and size; the finest and cheapest JIH:WELERS. in the city. School, College, and Text Books ; KEEPERS OF THE CITY TIME. large supply at low prices. 100 for One Dollars All kinds of Society Pins and Badges prompt- PUTNAM wilt not be undersold, ly made to order. Clergymen, Teachers, Students, and Dealers, will No. 104 Main-Street, find it for their interest to trade with me. I can and will suit you. MIDDLETOWN, CONN. YOU CAN SAVE All orders promptly filled. Square dealings guar- From Ten to Twenty-Five Per Cent. anteed. All are invited to make this Store their head-quarters. Respectfully, BY HEN Ye ERR, Purchasing 1yje10 C. E. PUTNAM, Proprietor. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEA_LEB. IN DIRTY- GOODS, HENRY WOODWARD, CARPETS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, 124 Main Street, FRUIT & CONFECTIONERY, SHADES, DEALER IN AND TOYS, NUTS, FANCY GOODS, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, DRUGS,, MEDICINES, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. AT PAINTS, OILS, ETC. LADIES' & GENTS ' EATING SALOON. MITCHELL'S, PERFUMERY AND' TOILET ARTICLES. 122 Main Street, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Opposite the Com t House. CHOICE BRANDS HENRY D. FERREE. At short notice. MOONEY & WELLS, IMPORTED & DOMESTIC CIGARS, 158 Main-Street. MERCHANT TAILORS, AND DEALERS IN PURE WINES AND LIQUORS. BLISS' CA.TARRII SNUFF. MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, 116 Main Street, MIDDLETOWN, - - - - CONN. R. J. MANGO, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN TRIED ! IT WILL RELIEVE THE WORST CASES A. MOONEY. E. H. WELLS. IMPERIAL HAIR CUTTING ROOMS, Under the McDonough House. SOME BAD CASES HAVE BEEN CURED BURR BROS. Made and Sold by MATHISON & BLISS, DEALERS IN POMADES AND PERFUMES for sale. Apothecaries & Druggists. No. 58 West Court Street. jo10 Some of the best CIGARS in the City on hand. Also that famous Perique Tobacco and other CHOICE GROCERIES, brands. 154 MainStreot. WOOD AND WILLOW WARE. —ALSO,— At INTO_ 134, KEROSENE OIL of the Best Quality. No. 100 Main Street. OPPOSITE MIDDLETOWN BANK, GOETZE .pEit-We will not be undersold. Can always be found a large stock of the - Keeps. constantly on hand all kinds of CHEWING & SMOKING TOBACCO, T. CAMP, 138 BEST UNIVERSITY BRAND SEGARS, S co MAIN STREET. Dealer in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &e. First quality of KEROSENE OIL, WICKS and Cure- LATEST STYLES OF HATS AND CAPS, MEERSCHAUM & BRIER ROOT PIPES, neys always on hand. CALF, Km AND CLOTH BOOTS AND SHOES, And everything that is to be found at a First Class TTENRY S. STEELE'S Of the best material Aid make. Sega.r Store. A. H. GOETZE, LIVERY, HACK, & BOARDING STABLE, 99 Main Street. je 10 • No. 28, Center Street, MIDDLETOWN, CONN. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,TnuNEso, BAGS UMBRELLAS, &C. ; All of which will be sold itt the LA 0 V- =4 A_ 1\1" 7D S T A. PELTON, DENTIST, lowest Cash prices. FIRST-CLASS • 119. Main Street, first South of Court House, jel0 HENRY WARD. Middletown., Conn. LIVERY STABLE HENRY No 38 & 42 Centre St., ER, TO, TnE COLLEGE. T S. FAIRCHILD, Dealer in MIDDLETOWN, CONN. The best of Horses and Carriages, Double or Sin- T WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTA- CLES, SILVER WARE, CUTLERY, &c. All work done with the Best Materials, in the best style, and with promptness. • gle, furnished promptly, with or without drivers. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry neatly repaired at To make yourselves. aura of a good foundation, Carriages to and from the Cars and Boat. short notice. call at 41 Centro Street. jel0 All on the most favorable terms jel0 164 Main street, opposite Central Block. �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869), p. 40
Text: 40 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. McDONOUGH DRUG STORE. •■.S/r . ROCKWELL, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, BOOKSELLER,STATIONER,NEWSDEA LER, Selected from Fresh and Genuine
Show more40 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. McDONOUGH DRUG STORE. •■.S/r . ROCKWELL, DRUGS AND MEDICINES, BOOKSELLER,STATIONER,NEWSDEA LER, Selected from Fresh and Genuine Stock. BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC, BOOK-BINDER, BLANK BOOK MANUFAC- PATENT MEDICINES, TOILET ARTICLES, TURER, PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES, FANCY ARTICLES; PERFUMERIES, AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS. By calling on McLEAN & WRIGHT you can find a SODA WATER, OUR facilities are complete for supplying every- PURE MEDICINAL LIQUORS, FIRST CLASS ASSORTMENT thing desirable in the line of SCHOOL & COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS and General MISCELLANY, NEWS- GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. OF PAPERS & PERIODICALS, American and Foreign. all at the lowest rates. Our Stock comprises a full assortment of every- BOOKS AND STATIONERY. All the NEW BOOKS as soon as issued, and old thing pertaining to the retail Drug business. and rare Books procured to order, Your patronage is respectfully solicited. We aim to keep on hand all D. C. TYLER, STATIONERY.—Note and Letter Papers, plain and Successor to L. C. VrNAL. TEXT BOOKS USED IN COLLEGE. fancy, of various patterns, with Envelopes to match, and Initialled with any style of Letter or Mono- 151 Main Street, Middletown, Ct. gram, Embossed or printed in fancy colors, and all VERY MODERATE CHARGES TO STUDENTS. other goods in the line of Plain and Fancy Sta- tionery. . DAVID J. NEALE, BINDING of all kinds done promptly. ENGRAVING.—Card Plates, Monograms, Dies for INITIAL PAPER on hand, or stamped to order. Seals or Mottoes, engraved to order. MERCHANT TAILOR, Hand and Copying Presses at manufacturers' prices. 159 Main Street, We can supply Sunday School Libraries at the low. BOOK-BINDING.—Magazines, Newspapers, Music, est New York prices. and Books of all sorts bound to order in any de- MIDDLETOWN, CONN. sired style and warranted to suit. SERMON PAPER,— Blank Books of all kinds in stock or made to order. :CF- Fine Goods Exclusively. ARTISTS' MATERIALS.—Canvas, Paints, Oils, Var- nishes and Brushes, &c., &c., including everything SMOKE! SMOKER ! ! SMOKIST ! ! ! McLEAN & WRIGHT", needed in the line of Oil or Water Colors. PICTURES.—Oil Paintings, Chromos, Photographs, 118 MAIN ST. , Middletown. je1Oly LEWIS DECKER, Engravings and Lithographs. PICTURE FRAMES. — Plain Gilt or Elaborately WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEATY.H IN Carved and Ornamented in Gold. Plain and Carv- ALL KINDS OF EXPRESS BUSINESS ed Rustic, Walnut, Oak and Rosewood, as also ev- erything in the line of Frames, Mouldings, Picture FINE DOMESTIC & IMPORTED SEGAR& Promptly attended to at reasonable rates. Orders may be left at MCLEAN & WRIGHT'S, or at Glass, Cord, &c. 108 William Street. All of the above will be sold at the lowest mar- ALL the favorite brands of Smoking and Chew- ket rates. ing Tobacco constantly on hand. lyjel0 F. J. HACHMAN. Middletown, June, 1868. A Superior lot of Havana Cigarettes of unequalled flavor just received. MEERSCHAUM PIPES & SEGAR HOLDERS a B. R. flEtiltitni, COAL ! COAL ! COAL ! specialty. Having selected them myself with much On Hand, of the care I can affirm their superior quality and style. MERCHANT TAILOR, BEST QUALITY AND LOWEST CASH BRIER-WOOD and other PIPES, in every shape, style and price. AND DEALER IN PRICES, Remember, at DECKER'S, At the Coal Yard of j el 62MainStreet. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, EVAN DAVIS, Corner of College and Water Streets. (No. 126 MAIN STREET, EDWARD PADDOCK & CO, DEALERS IN KEEPS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE l'HE COURT HOUSE, constantly on hand a FRESH and VARIED As S. STEARNS & SON, STOVES, RNITTTRE , SORTMENT Of FRENCH, ENGLISH & AMERICAN GOODS, DEALERS IN BEDS, BEDDING, From the most celebrated manufacturers, which he HATS CAPS, BOOTS will make up in the LATEST STYLES, and at the Low- AND AND SIIOES, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. est Prices. Students will consult their interests by No. 44 Court St., two doors East of Main. ordering of him. D. R. BENHAM, MIDDLETOWN, CONN. jel0 126 MAIN STREET. MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, Trunks, Valises, Traveling J. P. HOFFORT'S B UNDY, ARTIST. Bags, Umbrellas, &c. FANCY AND DOMESTIC BAKERY 146 Main-Street, CORNER OF MAIN AND WASHINGTON STRUT FINE P HOT °GRAPHS, Directly opposite the Post-Office. ALL KINDS OF VIEWS Middletown, Conn. )ONFECTIONERY AND PASTRY, OP PAPER HANGINGS, FRUIT, NUTS, ETC. SCENERY & RESIDENCES. WINDOW SHADES, CURTAIN FIXTURES, ICE CREAM, PICTURE FRAMES, and PARTIES supplied at reasonable rates, CHROMOS. CORD, TASSELS, &c. CLUBS short notice. FRAMES TO ORDER. At the Lowest Prices, at LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS REFRESH- H. FOUNTAIN'S, j010 1)1'0.0 MIDDLETOWN, CONN. LENT ROOM. lyjel0 Opposite Central Bank, MAIN STnnzr. �
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Title: The college argus (January 14, 1869)

Title: The college argus (February 4, 1869), p. 41
Text: WHOLE No. 9. VoL. II, No. 6. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. THE OLD FASHIONED CHOIR. HAWTHORNE AND THACKERAY. nish their defects
Show moreWHOLE No. 9. VoL. II, No. 6. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. THE OLD FASHIONED CHOIR. HAWTHORNE AND THACKERAY. nish their defects with pride. And so, all • his life long, he fought one foe, and that foe 33. F. TAYLOR. Four years ago America lost one of the was sham. I have fancied, sometimes, the Bethel-bent beam greatest romance-writers, England one of His pictures of society are as true as they 'That trembled to earth in the patriarch's dream the greatest satirists of the age. The char- are humiliating ; his satire was keen and un- 'Was a ladder of Song in the wilderness rest, acters of these two men present some strik- sparing and yet never morbid and misan- From the pillow of stone to the blue of the Blest, And the angels descended to dwell with us here, ing points of contrast. Among the elements thropic. There was nothing Byronic about " Old. Hunclrel," and " Corinth," and " China" and of genius most perceptible in Hawthorne, him. He laughs, but he never laughs like Mea•. was a marvelous insight into character ; he Swift, with a bitter scorn for human weak- knew the human heart as few men know it ; ness and frailty, and his tears flow sometimes AU the hearts are not dead, not under the sod, That those breaths can blow open to Heaven and no other American writer ever possessed too, but his tears are sacred, for they come God ! half his inner power of analyzing motives, from the heart, and that great heart was full Ah, " Silver Street" leads by a bright, golden road- of looking deeply into the springs of hu- to the very brim of love for all mankind, of 0, it is not the hymns that in harmony flowed— man action. Thackeray, on the other hand, sympathy for the weak and charity for the But those sweet-humored psalms in the old-fash- has far less of this' power, he is observing erring. 'lie never thought our world past ioned choir, To the girls that sang alto—the girls that sang air ! rather than reflective, he looks at actions praying for. We say it reverently, but rather than at motives. Hawthorne was a Thackeray felt as deeply the demands of "Let us sing in his praise," the minister said. worshipper of the ideal, Thackeray of the Heaven upon him as any preacher that ever AU the psalm-books at once fluttered open at real Hawthorne was a lover of the beauti- preached Heaven's gospel to a fallen world. "York''; Sunned their dotted wings in the words that he read, ful, Thackeray of the true ; Hawthorne was He had heard the voice, " Inasmuch as ye do While the leader leaped into the tune just ahead, gifted 'with a weird and sportive fancy, and it unto one of the least of these my breth- And politely picked out the key-note with a fork, a powerful imagination. Thackeray with ren ye do it unto Me." And the vicious old viol went growling along the soundest common sense. Hawthorne's And so, while the works of Hawthorne At the heels of the girls in the rear of the song. fancy was like the light that falls from some benefit only indirectly, by the refinement of I need not the wing—bid no genii come, richly stained window, tinged with a thou- the taste and the cultivation of the sensibil- With a wonderful web from Arabian loom, sand flitting tints; beautiful as it was it dis- ities, the novels of Thackeray are sermons, When the world was in rhythm and life was its colored everything ; the hue was rich but as eloquent as were ever preached. rhyme; not natural. But Thackeray's unerring Lookino, into the works of these two au- Where the streams of the years flowed up noiseless good sense and loving warm-heartedness thors, we find in each remarkable skill in the and narrow, That across it there floated the song of a sparrow were like the sun-beams that stream straight portrayal of character, but the personages For a sprig of green caraway carries me there, from heaven. of the one are entirely different from those To the old village church and the old village choir. The talents of these two men, then, being of the other. The characters of Hawthorne so essentially diferent, those of the One can are natural but they are placed in unnatural When clear from the floor my feet slowly swung, And timed the sweet praise of the song as they sung, hardly be said to be greater than those of positions. You feel that if such persons Till the glory aslant from the afternoon sun the other, but for one reason does Thack- ever could be placed under such circumstan- Seemed the rafters in gold of God's temple begun ! eray seem immeasurably nobler than Haw- ces they would act just as these do. His You may smile at the nasals of old Deacon Brown, most consummate skill is shown in depicting thorne. Thackeray wrote to benefit, Haw- Who followed by scent till he ran the tune down ; And the dear sister Green, with more goodness than thorne to please. While Hawthorne stood the struggle of conflicting passions in the grace, serenely apart from the world, the priest at hearts of those oppressed by some secret . Rose and fell on the tunes as she stood in her place, the shrine of the Beautiful, Thackeray grief or burdened by some mysterious sin. And where " Coronation" exultingly flows, preached fearlessly to the multitude. He Arthur Dimmsdale, Hester Prynne, Miriam, Tried to reach the high notes on the tips of her toes! showed them that goodness and truth are Donatello, there is the same wildness about To the land of the leal they went with their song, Where the choir and the chorus together belong. holy things wherever you find them, and them all. 0, be lifted, ye gates! Let me hear them again— that evil however masked by fair pretence But the characters of Thackeray are real Blessed song, blessed Sabbath, forever, amen! is foul and unseemly ; he saw that meanness men and women, never perfect, with all the and vice are respected if they wear fine frailties to which our poor huMan nature NEW EXCHANGES RECEIVED.—The Packer clothes ; that wealth and rank may cover a is heir. Quarterly, College Days, The Ionian, and multitude of sins, and that, from Jeames the The number and variety of his characters, The Literary Messenger. All very wel- coachman to My Lord Steyne, men cloak too, is astonishing, and there is a wondrous come. their meanness with respectability and var- vividness about them, only heightened by �
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Title: The college argus (February 4, 1869), p. 42
Text: 42 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. by their defects. Poor loving Amelia, Becky most distorted memory," and very gener- " YE POOR '72." Sharp
Show more42 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. by their defects. Poor loving Amelia, Becky most distorted memory," and very gener- " YE POOR '72." Sharp and her swaggering husband and ously accused, on the evidence of my own In the last issue of the ARGUS, speaking little Bawdy, wretched old Ledley, Sir article, of ponying. I do not propose. to at- of the results of last term's examination, Pitt Crawley and the buttermilk faced rec- tempt a refutation of the first charge, but there is the following statement regarding will abide by the decision of my acquaint- tor, Beatrix, Father Holt, Philip, and a hun- '72: "The Freshmen seem to have signally dred others, we know them all, they are re- ances, merely remarking, however, that he failed in their appreciation of college duties, alities to us. might have suggested the propriety of my half their class being conditioned or excep- There is a deep pathos to be found in the removal to an institution of a different char- tioned." works of both these authors, but in those acter from this, not far distant, and designed. We had lived in blissful ignorance of this, of Hawthorne it is the pathos of the stage, for persons in my assumed mental condition. fact through vacation, through several days, in those of Thackeray the homely tender- of this term, and only were wakened to its The insinuation that I have ever made use full reality by its appearance in the ARGUS. ness of real life. Both might have been po- of a translation the author must certainly ets, but the one would have been the poet Then " there was much sorrowing in '72 have well known to be unjust and utterly over this expression of its standing." For of the fancy, the other the poet of the without foundation. Such I most emphat- heart. we did not like to have such a misstatement ically affirm it to be. Is it necessary for a go out from college. Not that we cared for The styles of these two authors also, are man to pony in order to assert that those it here, but we knew the paper would reach widely different. About that of Hawthorne who did were " careful to keep very quiet those who would be grieved by such a re- there is an exquisite finish, a sylph-like about it ?" Is it a very difficult thing for port. So through these columns we wish to grace and ease. It is a perfect artistic one who has " ground " out an obscure pas- correct the above. model. The prevailing characteristic of that sage to discover in the smooth renclering of To get beyond question the number of '72! of Thackeray is familiarity ; it is a talk with a classmate unmistakable evidence of pony- conditioned or exceptioned, one of our class you. ing ? It might appear so to one whose prac- went to the President and he read from the. But Hawthorne and Thackeray are dead. tices have never put him in condition to Secretary's report of the examination , of last In Hawthorne America lost the first of her judge, but I never found it so. term the following,—that ten fell under con- writers of fiction, whore powers of imagina- As to my statement in reference to '70 I dition or exception. Probably this is as- tion, strange beauty of thought and style have only to reply that my information was reliable as any information possessed by the none of his countrymen have equaled. obtained from a credible member of that ARGUE, still if gentlemen call ten half of the But in Thackeray the world lost a man. class: Another . equally credible member of class of '72 they are referred' to a recent edi- That night, when from the peace of his '70 bore witness to the truth of my state- tion of Quackenbos' Analytical Arithmetic. sleep the angels led him up to the crown of ment after the publication of the article. Of course we do not know whether this his reward, the shadow of a great sorrow The author of " Justitia Fiat " informs us statement in the' ARGUE was made through fell over the world, for a heart whose every that '70 obtained their ponies on 'Aristopha- ignorance or malevolence, or rather to make throb had been a prayer for humanity was nes " by hereditary descent " from '69. 1 a sort of stepping - stone for the very sharp. still. They both have left behind them am very willing to admit that he is better joke that follows. As Freshmen we cannot " names which the world will not willingly informed as to the source of them than I am; expect much will be known about us in the let die." As long as men admire the beauti- inasmuch' as /never had occasion to inquire other classes, still the fact that a scrap of ful they will remember Hawthorne ; as whence they might have. been obtained. It sheepskin with A. B. marked on it begins to long as _ they reverence the true they will might be a matter of speculation, though, assume definiteness through the misty fu- love the memory of Thackeray. how he is able to speak so positively on the ture, ought not so to captivate as to allure They have gone where the Beautiful and subject. from all knowledge of other men. the True are one. He professes himself' at a loss to di's -cover Like all other classes we have had to en- the design of my article. It seems to me, ter as Freshmen. We- are willing to fight a PONYING AGAIN. Messrs. Editors, that to a man possessed of year out on this line.. We only wish not to ordinary perception the title of my much be libeled,—not asking to be let alone, even, MESSRS EDITORS :—In No. 6 of the ARGUS, but only to be reported fairly. No doubt abused article ought to be sufficient to indi- under the title of " Why are ponies used ? " '72 has the ability to take due care of its cate clearly its design. The question is I took occasion to express my views on that laurels, and these never looked brighter than asked, " Why are ponies used ?," and the subject, and to answer that question as I to-day. While we do not underrate close natural inference would be that the design sincerely believed. Some statements were and critical drill, nor " fail to appreciate was to answer that question. The proclaim- made in regard to the practice here, and college- duties," we- have either heard or er of the " fiat " has been so skilful in dedu- among others the class of '70 was men- dreamed of an adage that runs something cing inferences from some passages in my tioned. In the last issue of the ARGUE I ob- like this, " All work and no play makes Jack article, by a circuitous method of induction serve that some brave defender of the fair a dull boy." As we hope to verify the re- perfectly incomprehensible to common minds, fame 'of '70 has undertaken, in an article en- mark of one of the Faculty, that '72 will that it appears somewhat strange he should titled " Justitia Fiat," a professed refutation come out all right, we point with pride to have failed to draw so evident a one. of what he has been pleased to term " a Our motto, In via ardua felix. V. flippant statement of a serious evil," by I make this reply because it is well known ♦ .4 making a personal attack on me, at the same in our college community who was the au- The candidates for admission last year to time in a very chivalric manner shielding thor of the article which this unknown jun- the University of Bombay numbered 500 himself by enjoining on you entire secresy ior has essayed to demolish, and because he and to that of Calcutta, 1509. This cone_ as to the author of " Justitia Fiat." I am descended to unwarrantable personalities. prises 1228 Hindoos, 103 Christians, 58 Mus- in. effect denied " all mental faculties save a H. S. C. '60. sulmans, and 120 of othei. &nominations. �
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Title: The college argus (February 4, 1869), p. 43
Text: 43 T i-1 14] COLLEGE ARGUS. COLLEGE NEWS. portion of each year, perhaps of each term, pie may be educated ; and thirdly, that there here, and give
Show more43 T i-1 14] COLLEGE ARGUS. COLLEGE NEWS. portion of each year, perhaps of each term, pie may be educated ; and thirdly, that there here, and give instruction to all who may may be such an outpouring of liberality that Pardee College has instituted a new de- desire it. Prof. C. is a man of fine culture, the officers and professors may be better gree, "M. A.," "Maid of Arts." a graduate of Wesleyan University, Middle- compensated. town, Ct., and thoroughly qualified and ac- The first examination for admission of complished in the department to which he Instead of Woodbury's German Grammar, ladies to Cambridge University, England, devotes himself. Lawrence Collegian. Prof. Van Benschoten this term substitutes is to take place on the fifth of next July. the German Grammar of Prof. Geo. F. Com- MOVING YALE COLLEGE.---111 his speech fort of Alleghany College. This grammar The Latin and Greek professorships of at the Yale alumni banquet lately held in is being printed, and the class in German IOWA College have been endowed by Aaron New -York, President Woolsey said :- will be under the necessity of using un- 13enedict and the late P. W. Carter of There has been a great discussion about bound sheets, until bound volumes can be Waterbury, Conn, moving the college from its present place obtained. Prof. Comfort graduated at Wes- B. F. Taylor, author of " The River Time" to another which possesses great advanta- leyan in '5'7. .and many other beautiful poems, and who ges. As Galileo said, that in spite of the gained much credit for his brilliant letters Inquisition the world did move, I say, that Since our last issue '69 has received an- other installment of pictures from their class 41uring the rebellion, as war-correspondent after all the Inquisition that we have been • a western paper, graduated at Madison able to bestow upon the subject, the college of photographer, Geo. K. Warren, of Cam- University in 1839. His poem in this issue didn't move. So far as my feelings are con- bridgeport, Mass. Some 6,000 portraits and is taken from The Indisonensis. cerned, I should like to have the college views have now been received, and more are moved. What were the reasons that led called for every day. Views of the most in- The University Chronicle of Jan. 23d ap- wise men to debate the question at all ? In teresting localities in the city and surround- peals for aid to the Michigan Legislature. the first place, there is scanty room. If the ings, as well as pictures of the college build- New buildings, new professorships, and va- college ever contains 1,000 or 1,500 students, ings, and the faculty, may be obtained of rious improvements, are greatly needed. like souse of the universities in Germany, it Mr. J. D. Weeks, at thirty-five cents each. The professors are poorly paid, and the fear will need very much more accommodation ; Mr. Warren, if equaled, has certainly no su- is expressed that many of them will be and we are pretty firmly of opinion that it is perior in his art in this country, and he has compelled to resign unless their salaries better to have a considerable part of the given the best satisfaction of any artist ever are increased. The Chronicle says : " It students within the college walls, rather employed by classes in the University. would, beyond question, be greatly benefi- than to have them dispersed over the town. vial to the University if the alumni were to Then it is a noisy place. Every circus and We make room for the class elections of have a voice in the government ; and we every elephant passes there ; and we shall '69, just received : would be much rejoiced should the legisla- be more troubled in future with the increas- President, J. H. Powers. ture enact a law granting them the right, at ing growth of New Haven. There is an- Vice President, A. G. Jepson. . least, of participating in the election of pro- other place situated on the hill, commanding Cor. Secretary, S. E. Holden. fessors, or of delegating this power to some an ample prospect on every side, giving Rec. Secretary, W. F. Crafts. body chosen for that express purpose." ample accommodation, a clean 'place, free Treasurer, F. E. Porter. from what an honored fellow graduate, Dr. Historian, Gaybert Barnes. Harvard College needs funds to increase Poet, J. D. Weeks. Bushnell, called "animal importations and the college library, and the salaries of the Prophet, C. T. Winchester. human importations." It was a charming professors. The highest salary paid is picture ; but when we considered what our $2400, and, aside from certain moneys re- Garibaldi speaks fourteen different lan- present colleges could be sold for, we find it stricted to the purchase of books in particu- guages. He composes verses in ancient and would require a very large sum for build- lar departments, only $400 a year is availa- modern Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French, ings worthy to stand for all time. The ble for the increase of the library. A com- and Italian. English is the last language he graduates have never yet done much for the mittee, acting for the various classes from has acquired, having learned it in America college. Thirty-six graduates have even 1817 to 1868, has lately issued a circular in 1850 and 1851. given it over $5,000 ; and a gentleman here making known the needs of Harvard. Each present, not a graduate, has given more than It is not likely that the regatta between class is requested . to give a fixed sum every all put together. Is it likely, then, we asked Harvard and Yale will take place at Wor- term for ten years, to be invested and kept ourselves, that we can move our college, and cester, this year. The Yale college term as a fund to be called " The Class Subscrip- provide suitable buildings for it, and that ends some weeks later than that of Harvard, tion Fund; " and the income of this is to be endowments can be raised which are more and it is doubtful if the New Haven crew used for the same purpose as the general than brick or marble ? We therefore re- would be permitted to go so far for racing fund of the college. It is hoped that at lnctantly came to the conclusion that it was purposes before its completion: If possible least $500,000 may be raised in this way. a thing impracticable. Now, in closing, I they will propose to meet the Harvard crew • PROFESSOR OF ELOCUTION. — We under- will say I wish for the future of Yale three in this city. Failing in that they will chal- stand it is contemplated by the Faculty to things : first, that she may be always a lenge Harvard to a contest on Lake Salton- make a permanent arrangement for instruc- Christian College, not in any denomination- stall, near New Haven, a fine sheet of wa- tion in elocution and vocal culture in the al sense, but in a sense that rises above all ter, well adapted for racing. University. Some negotiations have already denominations, and comprehends them all been made with Prof. R. L, Cumnock of in a common Christianity ; second, that it Hawthorne's daughter, Rose, is a promi- the Northwestern University to spend a may be a college where all classes of peo- nent art student in Dresden. �
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Title: The college argus (February 4, 1869), p. 44
Text: 44 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE COLLEGE ARGUS. to us here at Wesleyan. We think there is the simple indicative present—amo—enrich no institution of the kind
Show more44 THE COLLEGE ARGUS. THE COLLEGE ARGUS. to us here at Wesleyan. We think there is the simple indicative present—amo—enrich no institution of the kind where the system her heart, or even if she rehearse to the ple- Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. of government is less complicated, and the beian the imperative passive of sundry verbs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869. code of laws briefer and less irksome. With like regere, regimini, etc ? the marking system which is in vogue After all, blowing soap bubbles is just as TERM B_ among us there is not the same satisfaction. good fun as building aircastles. If he is One College year, (in advance,) - - - $1.50 Some favor the present system ; others would like the Merry Soap Boiler of Hagedorn, Single copies, .10 prefer the one which prevails at Amherst, the old German bard, then blessed is Sarah, M JD '11 1=1. viz : having a fixed standard to which all for who attain are considered of equal rank in "A steady and a skillful toiler, J. E. ABBOTT, J. H: POWERS, scholarship ; a few would do away with John got his bread as a soap boiler. A. F. CHASE, H. A. STARKS. Earned all he wished, his heart was light, marks entirely. The interest felt in the sub- ject at present, however, is not sufficient to He worked and sang from morn till night." The COLLEGE ARGUS will be published once in three weeks during the collegiate year, by an Association of warrant any prospect of speedy change. There is a certain undefined Round Room members of the Senior Class. It will be mailed to any address on receipt of price. There are two points of Professor Porter's in the temple of social life, called by anxious Communication solicited from any source. explorers, woman's sphere. Behold the so-. For sale at the bookstores of McLean & Wright, E. article, (the latter of the two mentioned Rockwell, and C. E. Putnam, where subscriptions will above,) which all the students of our college lution of the problem as given by Sterne also be received. Address all communications to the College Argus, Mid- would do well carefully to consider. One "I must always have some Dulcinea in my dletown, Conn. head; it harmonizes the soul." And yet. is in reference to the difficulties under which our colleges labor, owing to the imperfect his sad, cruel, profligate career Igives the lie As little has occurred in our community preparation of so many who enter them ; to his theories, and makes it quite unsafe since our last issue of sufficient importance the other suggests a change in the method for unsophisticated juveniles to so enthusi- to deserve special attention, we turn our of instruction whereby we should have astically endorse the words of their erring eyes to the College world at large, hoping more translation and less grammar, losing brother. The "complacent smile" with to discern the "signs of the times." We thereby, possibly, something in critical which the mature "engaged man" is repre- have noticed with pleasure the deep and scholarship, but gaining greatly in general sented as watching the "first stages of sen- general interest which has been manifested familiarity with the language and literature. timental affection " , recalls an article in a of late in the important subject of College It is in our power to work reformation in magazine, nineteen years old, wherein these Reform. We say College Reform because these respects, if on careful examination, we words, relating to the Alumni of Wesleyan this expression covers all those numerous conclude that reformation is needed, and we University, occur : "They came to college in and varied plans for change and improve- think it hardly possible to fail of such a con- their teens and verdancy, looking up, except ment which are now under discussion. These clusion after a thoughtful perusal of Prof. in cases of early blooming vanity, to every- plans and suggestions may be divided into Porter's article. thing. Growth destroys these illusions. three general classes, the first relating to 4.0 Grown up graduates career with facility systems of government, the second to sys- CHIVALRY. from respect and deference to the borders of tems of marking, the third to systems of The burden of the ARGUS. Alas, alas, contempt. They are Fisks and Olins them- study. These subjects are by no means the women ! the " golden haired " women ! selves—at least in their own estimate--and new, but events have transpired within a Their eyes shall be turned in vain towards regard the institution they once thought an year or so which have greatly increased the the modern Mount Parnassus. Oxford or a Cambridge, as a clever high- interest in them. The opening of Cornell Can you imagine with what infinite amuse- school for the boys whom they see smoking University under circumstances which have ment and contempt Margaret Fuller would and flouishing ratans on the college campus." attracted the attention of all interested in have read the article in the November AR- Query. Did the great pioneers of Chiv- colleges, the late difficulty at Williams Col- GUS on " College Engagements," when, thir- alry, the Swabian courtiers of the thirteenth lege, and the resignation of President Hill ty years ago, she swayed the minds of Em- century, ever call the city of their educa- of Harvard, these and other less important erson, Charming, and Parker ? To a stran- tion, wherein dwelt maidens noble and fair, causes have conspired to awaken a new life ger in a far country there is something about a "desert island" ? Fie, sirs ; the first in the consideration of topics which vitally it so exquisitely ludicrous, that we can but principles of gallantry require you to be affect the higher educational systems of our repeat, " Come let us reason together." agreeable at home. country. Our essayist must certainly have failed to Engaged collegians fulfill the rash pledge The discussion which is going on and the count all the eaput-al scars made by the of their boyhood if they "whittle down small expressions of opinion that are drawn forth mittened hand of the soap boiler's wife be- and turn teacher," sometimes if they preach ; cannot, we think, fail of producing benefi- fore he chiselled the "hie jacet." And Sa- but if they expand into the "law or busi- cial results, and we recommend to our rah, " charming little Sarah !" In the olden ness," there's no chance at all. Now whether readers a glance at least at some of the im- days when she wrote in your Latin Gram- it be greater to live the life of a Fisk and a portant articles which have lately appeared. mar "Pensez a moi," and your voice respon- Simpson; or to swallow the whole disputed In the last New _Englander, "The system sive recited , " amabo, amabis, amabit," you "fat oyster" of the fable, and measure mo- of Instruction at West Point," and "The really meant it, didn't you ? But now, hav- lasses by the quart and tape by the yard, American Colleges and the American Public" ing compared the collegian with the manu- judge ye ! are both full of valuable information, sugges- facturer, and chosen the certain "bread, You remember Tiglath Pileser, the Syrian tion, and argument on educational subjects. butter," and soap of life, instead of the silver bear, and his astonishing career at The question of govenment is not one of barely possible "fame" (0, Wesleyans, I Oxford. Beecher makes Hiram Beers say special interest so far as it relates directly Wouldn't have told of it !) what matter if of his horses, "They're just as near human �
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Title: The college argus (February 4, 1869), p. 45
Text: THE COLLEGE ARGUS. 45 ..soomr.erzs■I•W....■tmcaMl.aielln as is good for 'ern. A good horse has the unto themselves ? Let all such make good for
Show moreTHE COLLEGE ARGUS. 45 ..soomr.erzs■I•W....■tmcaMl.aielln as is good for 'ern. A good horse has the unto themselves ? Let all such make good for the opportunity of contesting for the best 'pints' of a man without his failures.' " speed to tell the story of "changed feel- Rich, and vice versa. Why could not Chapel But Tig. had a "failin" or two in common ings" (?) With a complacent sigh of re- orations, instead of Olin prize articles, be with some other collegians. The poor beast lief receive the package of letters so full of made the text ? This would react favorably had an idea—which grew upon him, you little "white lies"; then, with one last pity- upon the character of Chapel oratory, and know—that he was of more consequence than ing murmur, turn Dulcinea "out in the be a juster standard by which to prove the all the world beside, and, human like, con- cold." "She will never darn socks for these ability that entitles men to the privilege of ducted himself accordingly. All dainties feet, that shall press the high rounds of the competition. were for him ; he doted especially on muf- ladder of fame." fins and ices, and even helped himself liberal- Finally, brethren, farewell. A famous On Thursday Evening, Jan. 28th, Prof. ly to the old ladie's sugar candy, when he bachelor ! An old, gray, rusty, dusty, for- Newhall lectured to a fine audience in the 1,ias rusticating in the country, as is the cus- lorn, forsaken, antiquated, dilapidated, fa- Y. M. C. A. Rooms, on " The head, the hand tom of collegians, during the long vacation. mous bachelor ! The life, perhaps, of a and the heart." The lecture was the third But, alas for Tig ! Great was the downfall Dean Swift—pray God not his death. in the series of entertainments which the of Mr. Buckland's bear ! His common but When you stand on the topmost round of Association is furnishing to our citizens, and no less noxious "failins" at last drew upon the tall ladder, at the end of the "career," was esteemed a rich treat by all who heard it. him the keen displeasure of the authorities, with no tender hand to wipe the sweat off The head represents the world of thought; and Tig. was unanimously expelled. He went your brow, no little fingers to dust your coat the hand, the world of action; and the heart, to the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, collar, may I be there to rejoice in your the world of feeling : and the object of the to exhibit his accomplished and educated glory. Qui ? lecture was to show how, since the head, self, but, like some of his comrades, pursuing the hand, and the heart quarrelled centuries LOCAL. ago, they had been working each in its own the same "career" outside of a college, he '69 have engaged Gilmore's Band, of Bos- sphere, striving to accomplish that which was nothing but a bear. Without the ton, for Commencement Exercises. Gilmore will only be attained in that period of per- charms of the University, and the congenial is to be present with twelve of his best per- fect development, when the Grecian head, society of its inmates, he pined away and formers. Arbuckle, the unrivaled clarionet the Hebrew heart and the Saxon hand com- died in his den of a broken heart. We chant player, is to be one of the number. bine their powers in performing the great mounfully over the martyr "Great Tiglath • •• Pileser ! Thy genius was unappreciated." The class elections of the present term, so duties of humanity. The broad, substantial "Ambitious young man of twenty-five" far as made, are as follows :- thoughts of the lecture were clothed in such entering on a "career of fame," please take CLASS OF '70. a rich drapery of imagination, wit and cul- warning. There have been bears in Syria, President, L. C. Field. ture, as held the audience in a spell-bound true silver bears, born on Mt. Lebanon, the Vice President, Benj. Gill. wonderment at its beauty. According to Shakespeare and Bunyan and Keats of Cor. Secretary, C. W. Gallagher. the printed catalogue, Prof. Rice should bears, who never went to college. Another Rec. Secretary, C. S. Edgerton. have lectured on this evening, but Prof. N. idea. Without Dulcinea, who might possi- Treasurer, E. J. Howe. kindly filled his place, while he lectured be- bly in these Amazonian days earn her own Poet, F. W. Clarke. fore the State Normal School at Westfield. "bread and butter," (you, I believe, don't Historian, R. W. Smith. eat ;) without her aid, your delicious, typical The present term inaugurated a new era CLASS OF '71. in some important particulars. Up to this dreams of mountain heights and laurel President, T. E. Hancock. wreaths might fail to find their solid ante- Vice President, W. E. Knox. time, though Physiology has demanded its fair allowance of attention, still its position types in the realities of the future. Madame Rec. Secretary, J. R. Wood. has been in a measure quite subordinate. Roland was greater than her husband and Cor. Secretary, S. G. Cushing. made him a Girondist. Victor Hugo, says Treasurer, G. S. Wentworth. Now, however, by a happy combination of George Sand, would never have gained his Historian, the text book and lecture system, even the N. J. Squires. great name, but for the sweet, low voice of " dry bones" of our study are invested with CLASS OF '72. a degree of interest which to most of us his sunny spirited, talented little wife, whis- President, S. W. Rent. bears the charm of novelty. pering in moments of discouragement and Vice President, F. M. North. The lecturer unites a most lively enthusi- gloom, "Persevere" I Well, then, after Rec. Secretary, C. S. Woodruff. asm with a complete mastery of his topic, leaving college the "doomed" man "gen- Cor. Secretary, C. F. Rice. and either one of these topics would insure erally breaks the engagement." Seriously Treasurer, D. B. Hubbard. interest in his hearers. Dr. Cressy's lectures now, supposing this startling assertion to Historian, L. M. Hubbard. have been attended by a number of others be true, why is it so ? Is it because these Poet, J. A. Cass. same "golden haired" women are intellect- besides the class for which they were de- ually or morally unfit to be companions for The list of Contestants for the Rich Prize signed, and the pleasure derived must insure men of genius and condition ? Is it because was announced last week. They are as fol- investigations more extended than our leis , there is no youthful Harriet Beecher and lows :—J. E. Abbott. G. E. Reed, J. E. Rich- ure at present allows. One great impedi- Sara Clarke and Lydia Huntly in our land, ards, A. Starks, J. D. Weeks, C. T. Win- ment in the way of our full appreciation of no Amelia Coppuck and Sara Willis to be cheste•. the lectures, is the necessity of using those won, no Margaret Fuller to be tamed Or The present method of selecting these con- technical - terms " of learned length and is it not rather that some collegians so over- testants, six in number, is not altogether sat- thundering sound" by which anatomists whelmingly appreciate their new pledged isfactory. There are many men who would have seen fit to designate and disguise the precocity, that, like Tig., they are sufficient write for the Olin prize who care nothing various parts of the human body. �
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