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"The aim of this treatise has been the construction of a true system of political philosophy, the determination of the ultimate nature of the State and the grounds upon which its authority may be justified. Philosophy has been defined as a criticism of categories, and thus, in the present work, the task has been to subject the principal terms and concepts of political science to as careful an examination, and as rigid a definition, as is possible. Beyond all previous periods, the present century has been prolific in the creation of new and complex political conditions. With the appearance of the modern constitutional State with its functions and organization reduced to definite written statement, with the formation of the greatest variety of federal unions between States formerly independent, with the rise of international relations into technical definiteness, with the clearer distinction between public and private rights, between moral and civic obligations, -with all these new phases of political life, problems in theory have arisen, which require for their solution the keenest of philosophical analysis, and the highest degree of accuracy in the application of the terms used. It is, therefore, with the greatest diffidence that the present work is offered as an attempt to afford some slight assistance in this direction. By no one better than by the author, is it appreciated that deficiencies may appear, and that his work will be subject to criticism from many sides. From the nature of the case, this must be so, where, as in the following pages, positions have been assumed that vary so widely from those held by other writers. Lying, as this inquiry does, within the field of pure political speculation, the introduction of historical or descriptive matter has not been necessary, except for purposes of explanation and illustration. The only departures from this have been in the treatment of the Composite State, where the importance and complexity of the subject seemed to demand a somewhat particular description, and in the last chapter, where have been considered some of the political tendencies and problems apparent in modern life. With the Art of Government, or Politics properly so called, there has likewise been no concern"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

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The Alumni and ex-members of the College will favor us by sending information concerning their whereabouts or any items they may think would be interesting for publication. All subscriptions and business matters should be addressed to the business manager. Matter intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor Address, THE COLLEGE MERCUKY, Gettysburg, Pa. CONTENTS. ABSTRACT OF BACCALAUREATE SERMON, - - - - 85 ABSTRACT OF Y. M. C. A. ADDRESS, 87 CLASS DAY PROGRAMME, - - - - - - - - 89 CLASS PROPHECY, 89 SCIENTIFIC Srmrr, - - - - 92 IN THE CONFLICT, - - 94 IVY POEM, 9s LOCAL GOVERNMENT, - -96 JUNIOR ORATORICAL CONTEST. - 98 OUR MENTAL LIVES, - - - - 9S ROLL OF HONOR, 100 COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMME, - - - - 100 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES, --- 100 COMMENCEMENT NOTES AND COLLEGE LOCALS, - - - 101 ALUMNI, 103 TENNIS, 104 SEMINARY NOTES, - - - 105 ABSTRACT OE PEES. MoKNIGHT'S BACCALAUREATE SERMON, Matt., 17:14 : "Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Ellas." Peter was one of the three disciples who were permitted to be with Christ on the Mount of his transfiguration. The glories of that scene which was like a sublime coronation hour dazzled and entranced him. He was awe-struck—dazed by the strange magnifi-cence. It was to him a moment of supreme privilege, and the very place where he en-joyed it was converted into sacred ground. IvOngiug to remain and to continue the vision, and experience he uttered the request: "Mas-ter, let us build and stay here, let us make a resting-place of this mount of vision, and not go down again to the valleys of common ex-perience where toil and tears and weariness and suffering await both thee and us.'' It was a natural request which he had thus expressed, but, for his own good and that of the great and needy world to serve and help which he was being prepared by that very vis-ion, it conld not be granted. Instead, Jesus led him and his fellow-disciples down the slopes of the mountain at whose base a stricken boy and his heart-broken parent awaited them, and where a miracle of mercy and deliverance was to be wrought. By his act, therefore, He taught Peter and teaches us that, while privi-lege is good, duty is better; that the valleys of waiting and watching, of toil and sacrifice are to be preferred to the summits of ease and re-ceptivity and enjoyment; that privilege, the highest and most transporting, serves its true purpose only when it acts and re-acts upon daily duty and ordinary life, transfiguring all that we are and do. No doubt, my young friends, you are able 86 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. to sympathize with Peter this morning, and are ready to breathe his prayer: "Let us j stay.'' You have been on a mount of special i privilege, enjoying what is permitted to but few. The years of liberalizing study you have spent here have afforded you opportunities of growth and enrichment beyond the possibility of exact calculation. And now that they have ended, and you are to go out from us and be, in the old sense, of us no more, there must be ' a quickening of 3'our appreciation of what you have enjoyed. As others crowd you out of the places you have held, and forward to the scenes of stern and responsible action, you may feel like drawing back and pleading: "Let us stay." But believe me when, speak-ing to you in the name of those who have been . your instructors and friends, I say to you, in these parting words, it is better for you to go. God himself commands you away to duty, and ' in the service to which he appoints you. Your { gains will be greater and richer than they can be on any heights of mere receptivity and ease. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." This truth so hard to ap-prehend and appreciate in advance, we wish to emphasize and illustrate for your encourage-ment and guidance as you now face outward towards your respective spheres of experience and activity. The superiority of service over privilege or of productive energy over mere receptivity was then shown in the discussion of the following points : i. In its relation to the right and full development of God-given powers, and fa-cilities. 2. In its relation to character. 3. As the condition of all true greatness. 4. As the source of true blessedness. After discuss-ing these points, the Doctor addressed the class as follows: "My young friends of the class of '94: We have sought thus, in a practical way, to impress you with the dignity and im-portance of earnest and unselfish work. It is more needful than any circumstances or special privileges for the best and fullest development of your powers and faculties. It bears a vital relation to your character, calling.for the^exer-cise of those gifts and graces which are es-sential to a worthy manhood and womanhood. It must form the basis of all true greatness you can ever achieve, and condition the enthrone-ment you would gain in the esteem and confi-dence and love of your fellow men. It is the real source of the blessedness which sweetens life and gives foretastes of "the joy that is un-speakable and full of glory." We have sought to impress you with the truth that in entering on an earthly, you are in reality entering on an eternal career, and to set before you aims which belong equally to the life that now is and to that which is to come. Let not the gains or pleasures of time obscure and hide your better portion. Let not the engagements of earth so absorb your attention that you shall forget the claims of heaven, or your cares so overshadow you that the light of a better world cannot reach you. Let yours be the holy am-bition which filled the heart of David and con-trolled his aims and actions—"to serve your generation according to the will of God." Let the thought, not of ease or pleasure, or posi-tion, or gain, but of usefulness determine your occupation or profession in life, and control you in it. Not what you do, but the spirit in which you do it shall fix the actual and abid-ing results of your living and working. This spirit—the spirit of all right action—has been forcefully indicated in the device and motto on the seal of a well-known Missionary So-ciety. The device is an ox standing between a plough and an altar, and the motto is: "Ready for either." Readiness for service or sacrifice, or for both! What noble spirit can control a human life, or give impulse to human activity! God himself has approved this ideal, and marshalled all the forces and agencies of the universe to it. It makes the music of the spheres, and gives harmony and majesty to the ceaseless song before His throne. Serve or suffer in the spirit of that holy enthusiasm which made Christ's mission to Him "more than his meat and his drink," and, whatever may be your allotted sphere, humble or high, THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 87 it will be found at last that you have neither lived nor labored in vain. Your glory and joy will be, not that you have possessed talents and had high and peculiar privileges, but that you have used them aright. Let this spirit of service be carried into the commonest of duties and minutest details of the spheres you ma)- fill, for, if you reach for the stars, and forget the flowers that bloom at your feet, you will miss much, perhaps all. He, who waits for great occasions tq display his talents and prove his serviceableness, neg-lects the real conditions of success, and his plans are likely to come to naught. Little tilings, common duties, ordinary occasions con-stitute the larger portion of every life, and he who despises these, misses the choicest oppor-tunities for filling his mission and serving the world. The world's greatest servants and most honored chieftains have been wiser and nobler. In business, in literature, in art or in war, they have been distinguished for their conscientious attention to details. Carry a similar spirit of fidelity into all that you do. Serve in everything, if you would reach the only distinction that men will lastingly recog-nize and God eternally approve. "He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much, and he that is unjust in the least is un-just also in much." Fidelity to all your tal-ents and opportunities, whether they be few or many, great or small, only can and surely will gain for you the plaudits of the skies—the ulti-mate welcome: "Well done, good and faith-ful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord Thou has been faithful over a few things. I will make thee, ruler over many." ABSTRACT OF Y. M. C, A. ADDRESS BY REV. FISCHER, OK EASTON. I .Tollll -2 : l(i Solomon says "the glory of young men is their strength" and we are born with an in-stinctive admiration for ph\'sical power. It was the primary glory of the race. The first picture the live boy hangs upon the walls of his room are not those of apostles and martyrs but of athletes and heroes, so in the world's pic-ture gallery, we find Hercules, Theseus, Sam-son and David. Although the days of giants and Olympian games are past, time will never destroy man's admiration for strong muscle and mighty sinews. The popular idol to-day is the pitcher of the champion nine, the rusher of the winning foot ball team, the bowler of the eleven that holds the cup, or the stroke oar of the successful crew. But Christianity has lifted and proposes still more to lift these things to a higher plane. She recognizes that physical culture is conducive to mental health. Hence she has equipped her gymnasium with every apparatus to accomplish this purpose as a means to an end. She desires to subordinate the material to the mental. Brain not brawn tells in this age. The prize-fighter is an out-law and plies his business in barns and unfre-quented places. "There is nothing great in the world but man. There is nothing great in man but mind." Three elements are in the strength referred to in this message: 1. That zvhich character-izes the period of life here addressed '' Young men," those who occupy the golden mean be-tween childlike weakness and the period of wakening manhood. "Fathets": There is a strength peculiar to young men to which is at-tached a corresponding responsibility. This is the period of life never affected by drought. The channels of vigor run bank-full with the greatest force of life. The growth of a year is soon accomplished. Little growth is made in the branch after the spring days are gone. But this stream must be regulated or it will ruin. Man is God's workmanship, hence his life dare not tear its own channels or spread in miasmatic waste over this period of his being, but flow in channels of divine ordering. This is the strong period of life because it has not yet felt the chill of disappointment. They have not yet been the victims of betrayed con-fidence. The child-like spirit of trust marks every approach. Their future has no failures in it. When Napoleon asked for 100 young men out of a regiment who were ready to die, THE COLLEGE MERCURY. all stepped forth. They never doubted their ability to take the battery or their readiness to die. This spirit is not to be despised, for con-fidence is the very essence of achievement. 2- Second element of strength is Education. The Greeks soon discovered that physical de-velopment was not the true line for a man to follow. In this the brute was his superior. Soon the glory of the athlete was conferred on the poet and philosopher and the school was sought as eagerly as the arena. The college is more than a ' 'crew," a ' 'nine'' or a "foot-ball team." Mind rules the world and education is the great social equalizer. As you cultivate your minds you add to your strength and give breadth to your sphere of usefulness. 3. Tim de lement is strength of soul. '' Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might." This lifts man above self and unites him to an unfailing source of power. Religion gives sight, direction, trend to what you have by natural endowment. Seneca says: "No mind is good without God." The world recognizes the superiority of this. To keep your body under places you in the final and real conquest way above the athlete and the mental genius. "Ye have overcome" does not mean that you can neglect watchfulness and lay aside your armor as if all life's work were done. No! But as the acorn contains the oak, so your faith has in it all its fruit, "For this is the victory that overcometh even your faith." That faith made Luther a conqueror. All the liberties of our day, civil and religious, were wrapped up in germ in the faith of that one man. Without this new life in Christ you will only be a sort of refined, highly developed animal. The' electric car will not budge an inch unless connected with the power-house. Man is a creature of two worlds. Your spirit can never grow by sticking its roots in the soil that nourishes your flesh. Without a sun this world would be an iceberg revolving in space. Your spirit must be warmed by the Son of Righteousness. A living, growing faith is neces-sary, for life without faith is an earth without a sky. Your institution has not neglected this part of your training. Education and Chris-tianity are sisters. It is more important for the student to practice virtue than to decline virtuse; to form his character along the lines of righteousness than to demonstrate all the prop-ositions of plane geometry. What now is the duty that arises from this trinity of endowments f Blessed with trained bodies and minds and added grace, what will you do with them? "Stand fast in the faith." "Quit you like men." "Hold fast what thou hast, lest any man take thy crown." You must call up all the power you can command in order to hold the advanced posi-tion which by nature and grace you occupy. You dare not waste an ounce of your strength. Only the fittest survive. You must have the whole armor or you will go clown. Do not tamper with evil because you want to know something about it. "Only once" has ruined many a soul. Let God direct your steps into the right track and keep them there. Keep yourselves pure. You may repeitt, but a whole garment is better than a patched one. "The greatest spiritual strength is born out of that moral strength which has never been broken by vice." Ireland's great leader, Par-nell, from lack ot moral strength, was ruined in the very hour of victory. Meeting his De-lilah he was shorn of his locks, and his strength departed from him. Great self-denial is required. To be any-thing you must deny some part of yourself. To be a ttiie man you have only to deny that part of yourself which is unworthy of you. You must live for others. This is best done by a consistent life. We need not less preach-ing but more practice. The professor makes the college more than does the curriculum or the library. The teacher is often of more value than his teaching; no name is more fra-grant in the long list of teachers of this cen-tury than Arnold of Rugby. His tenderness of conscience, his sympathy with the heart of youth, his self-forgetfulness, his hatred of the mean, his love for youth and God made him the great teacher of- our time. Not Hopkins THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 89 I the teacher or philosopher, but Hopkins the man formed the character of the graduates at Williainstown. Nor can we refrain from re-ferring, in part, to a late vice-Pres. and Pro-fessor in our own Alma Mater; whose sweet, courteous Christian life did more to mould character, and kindle aspiration for a nobler and truer manhood than all the sines and tan-gents of his department could do to strengthen the mind. And "being dead he yet speak-eth." Such is the power of a true life every-where. Do not lament that the professions are over-crowded. The world is not'overcrowded with such men. There is room in the business world for men who despise a false balance and love a "just weight." There is room in the political world, swarming with a hungry crowd, for young men whose back bones will not bend though a whole party try to do it; whose knees will not bow to the "boss's" will, though ejectment from office and political ob-scurity be threatened. There is room for more than "four hundred" in society, where the Christian Sabbath is degraded into that of the continent, and where men through intem-perance are dammed body and soul by "dtce process of law.'' There is not only room but need for you in the sphere of the pulpit where a rationalizing tendency is seeking to rob relig-ion of its faith, into which secularism with its blighting influence is slowly creeping, and which is being changed into the platform, the sermon into the lecture and the preacher into the lecturer. We need ' 'not echoes but voices.'' This is God's message to you. Will you heed it and find your true strength in Him or waste even the strength you have ? Your suc-cess, position and usefulness depend upon the characters you are forming now. Be true men. Do not disappoint the God who made you and the Redeemer who bled to save you. Live for God and humanity. Such a life will be beset by dangers, but also arched with flowers and palms of victory. By living it boldly and in faith many a sweet blossom and green palm will be shaken down to gladden you by the way, and the joy and safety of your strength will be to you a taste of that great reward that awaits the victor when the final goal of this earthly life is reached. _ ♦ ♦ ♦ CLASS-DAY PROG-RAMME. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNTE 19. 1804. 0 P. M. Maser of Ceremonies. - - W. O. NICIILAS. IVY EXERCISES. Iny Poem, Ivy Oration, Miss HAKTMAN. R. W. MOTTERN. CLASS EXERCISES. Class Boll, - - - - C. F. KLOSS. Class Hi.stoty, - JOHN HOFFKR, JR. Class Poem, - Presentation Oration, Pifiphecy, Miss HIMES. F. BARNDT. J. S. ENGLISH. CLASS SONG. CLASS PROPHECY. To write a prophecy a man ought to be a prophet. To be a successful prophet he should be inspired; but we lay claim to inspiration neither infernal nor divine, and we are just going to run off your futures in grind organ style. Now, we might begiu this prophecy by making some allusions to the old Greek and Roman Gods, but this thing of referring to the mythological dieties has become so old and chestnutty, so antiquated and mossbacky, so kindergarden like and so universally prev-alent among the would-be crack orators of to-day that we raise our hands in holy horror and say, begone, vile thought begone! You know I might say that I laid my Adonis like carcass down on the banks of a beautiful sylvan stream and as the crystal waters danced musically over the beautiful pebbles Minerva scratched my scalp with the point of her helmet and lo and behold prophecy seethed from between my teeth in a perfect stream. But we are not going to indulge in any such nonsense. To some extent we are going to draw upon our imagination, and if we don't predict future greatness from present indica- ^^^^^^■^^^^^^^■■■H ^^^^■■■■^■l^H^^^^H^H ■■UHB^^B 9o THE COLLEGE MERCURY. tions yon can draw all the hair from our heads with a pair of tweezers and make switches for your wives. (Bush please take notice.) Now there are the ladies. What future too grand or brilliant can be predicted for those who have extended such a beneficial influence upon the masculine element of " '94?" Even now Miss Hartman is looking wistfully toward the Seminary, and in the near future, present indications will be realized. The marriage bells will proclaim the bliss of two more mor-tals, and after that will follow a life of great usefulness in teaching poor fallen humanity what is best for their own eternal interests. Miss Himes will be the possessor of a beautiful home in sunny Florida and will set the world on fire with the products of her literary genius, and Julius won't be in it at all. In the near future Allison will no longer kick the stones from off the country roads in Adams county with his copper-toed boots. He will become the 20th century Ward McAllis-ter, of New York City. He will be distin-guished far and wide for his social ability and will be nightly sought after during the but-terfly season to lead the Germans. The future Oscar Wildes will be laid under the willow trees mud-pies at Call Piatt. The reformer will then begin to admire himself in his usual style, and say: '' What a dandy good looking fellow I am! Don't I have a dandy personal appear-ance?" The native Chief observing this will say: "Him makey heap ob good soup." Put him in de kettle, and lo and behold the calcium light of Bastian's intelligence will be extermi-nated forever. Bloomhardt will write a book entitled ' 'The World and Freddy Bloomhardt.'' It will con-tain three chapters of a thousand words each. Chap. I. Why Bloomhardt was born and why the world was made for him. Chap. II. Why all creatures should bow the knee to Bloom-hardt. Chap. III. What's the matter with Fred Bloomhardt becoming the ruler of the Universe. The work he will affectionately dedicate to himself, the only man fit to live. He will finally metamorphose into a bird of Paradise, and will be placed on public exhibi-tion at the Phila. Zoo. Bush will become a Professor in the Chicago University, and will make his fortune by writing a text book on International Law. He will squander this same fortune in seeking a divorce in the Chicago courts, and will finally settle down to collecting rags and when this Adams county farmer with his i bones in the streets of Gettysburg. silken mustache shall spring into prominence. Now there is that man Barndt. Ah, ye iron Fates and Chinese Gods, please deliver us! Once crazy, always crazy. He will study medicine but will be expelled from the pro-fession because of his attempt to saw the toes off the feet of a club-footed man. He will then join a wild-west show in the capacity of a clown, and when the circus monkeys die he will take their places and ride the ponies. Here is a sample of his circus jokes. A trained dog will come in the ring with a piece of stove wood on its back and Sumneytown will say: "You would better take that off." He will die in the Montgomery county insane asylum. Bastian will go to Africa as a missionary and immediately on landing, the natives will throw Duttera will become business manager of the St. Louis Fake Opera Company. In at-tempting to introduce his company to a Phila. audience he will make so many breaks that the gallery gods will shoot a volley of anti-quated eggs at him, and he will retire in dis-gust to a Home of the Friendless for the rest of his natural life. Fickinger and Fair will enter the ring as champion prize fighters and hair pullers. Jimmy Gladhill will sprout a great pair of wings and will be so anxious to get to the Golden City, that he won't take time to die, but will fly there. Hoffer will be employed by all the leading colleges and universities of both this and the old world, to teach the young students how to recite. The first lesson will consist of a drill, THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 9i in teaching the young student how to sprawl his hands all over the face of the young man directly in front of him, when he is called upon to tell what he knows. Lesson No. 2 will be to teach the student to say everything the Prof, says, in a regular parrot style, and then when he does make an attempt to say something of his own accord, to so jumble his words together, that no earthly man can un-derstand what he says. Ibach will study for the ministry, but will give that up, and make his fortune pla3'ing a hand organ. Kemp will spend his whole life-time in writ-ing a book, entitled "A Proof that the Human Species is capable of Hibernating." The facts will be deduced from his own experiences while a college student. Kloss will be the fond possessor of a sheep ranch in New Mexico, and will make $20,000 the first year. He will never have enough music in him to be able to call the sheep, so he will get an old Mexican Shepherd to sing in his graphophone, and after that you will be able to see ' 'Shorty'' strolling over the pasture with his talking machine on his back. Kohler will go West as a Home Missionary, but he will fall away from the straight and narrow path;will take to stealing Indian ponies "and will finally be hung as a horse thief. Count Lantz will become a noted lecturer on Geology. He will pick up wrinkled potatoes and use them as good examples of sea urchins. However his crack lecture will be on the Archegosaurus. The following is an extract: "Gentlemen this is a wonderful thing. Some say it is a magnificent tree, 50 feet high, in the branches of which the Bald Eagles build their nests. Others say it is a big animal with a heteorical tail with a curve on the end, and that it had big feet; which is proved by the foot-piints which it has left in the sands of time. It has its habitat in a con-duit and feeds on that custard material known as ice cream. Lutz will study for the ministsy under the direction of your worthy President, and will some day become an awful factor for good in the world. Miller will work 011 a farm for 50 cents a day, and it will keep him scratching to get that. . Mottern, the fiend of originality, will in-vent a perpetual motion machine, and in mak-ing experiments with it will be carried to the moon. There he will be encased in a great thickness of ice, and in the 30th century will be dug out and exhibited as a crank. The day after his departure from earth the Presi-dent will issue a proclamation, stating that a day of rejoicing will be observed on account of the nation's deliverance. "I don't think this here man," Billy Nick-las will make much of a lawyer, but Dr. Martin has promised to will him the German Chair when he dies, and Billy will make a howling success as a teacher of Dutch. Big Nick will make a reputation as an orni-thologist, and his hobbies will be the dear lit-tle wren and the cute little sparrow. Although Stahl is old and gray there is still time for him to become a Mormon preacher. The subject of his discourses will be the Ark. 1 'And the sides thereof were tight as unto a dish, and the top thereof was tight as unto a dise, and the ends thereof were peaked." Dearly beloved Julius, the idol of his class-mates and the pet of the College at large, will metamorphose into a foxy detective and champion leg-puller of the world. He will be-come the satellite of dark schemes, and will breathe his last in Sing Sing. Sorrick will publish a book entitled "The Bitter Experiences of a Man pursuing a college course and at the same time burdened down with household cares.'' Clyde Bill Stover will become a Chauncey Depew, after dinner speaker and a golden ton-gued orator. Further he will become a female heart-breaker and woman fascinator and will finally turn his brain in trying to make an im-provement on Edison's graphophone. Dave Van Camp will become a foreign traveller; but the curse of his cast iron walk Q2 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. will finally be the death of him. While walk-ing through the streets of St. Petersburg he will be mistaken for the Czar of Russia and will be blown to atoms by a dynamite bomb. And now our melancholy task is ended. May the fates be with you—you monsters of "94" and may the divinities smooth the rough road of your future experiences. SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT. When we speak of the sciences we generally mean the natural sciences such as geology, chemistry, natural history, and the like; but when we speak of a scientific spirit we mean more. The idea it awakens is a comprehen-sive one. It includes the idea of method and purpose and is the animating spirit not only of the natural sciences but also of philosophy, history, the languages, and indeed of all the prominent branches of learning of to-day. In all of them we find the student observing, com-paring, classifying. The spirit of this age is truly scientific. The so-called rivalry existing between the classics and the sciences is not a justifiable rivalry. It is only the result of bigotry and short-sightedness and we are glad to see that it is gradually disappearing. Both are neces-sary but it was through the proper study of the natural sciences that we have been led to apply practical methods and practical purposes to all branches of learning. The scientific leaven has permeated and modified our entire system of education. That it should have done so is but natural on account of the sub-ject matter with which science deals. "And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good." This is what science offers to man for contemplation, and is it not infi-nitely better than what man can offer? By studying the imperfect works of man we may be led into error, but the close observation and proper interpretation of nature, God's work, cannot help but lead us to the truth. The methods and purposes of science are such as will naturally lead us to good methods in all our work and inspire us with the true spirit of progress. Science takes us directly to nature where we find progress stamped on every side. The purpose of science is ever the same. The watch-word is truth, truth, truth. This may be seen in the character and meth-ods of the men who pursue scientific investiga-tion. They are beyond a doubt among the most honest and truthful of men. One of our leading educated men said a few years ago that he never heard of but two cases where a scientific man willingly said in scientific re-search what he knew to be untrue; and this was in regard to the classification of two shells. Can this be said of other professions? The scientific man is required to put aside all pre-conceived notion and theories and prepare his mind for the reception of the truth. He has no more victory to gain; for so long as victory and not truth is the primary object the contest is sure to be bitter and unjust. In his experi-ments he works carefully, he observes closely, he interprets according to the best light and knowledge that he has and announces the re-sult to the world whether it agrees with a the-ory that he may have advanced or not. If the facts do not sustain his theory he rejects it and turns to what the facts seem to justify. Thus he approaches nearer and nearer to the truth. This may be seen in the long series of experi: ments made to establish or overthrow the the-ory of spontaneous generation. And in giving the arguments in favor of a theory the scien-tist also gives its objections, and indeed some of the strongest objections came from the very men themselves who advanced the theory. And again, the methods of science are such as lead most surely and directly to the object sought; to express the unknown in terms of the known; to lead to a truth not before realized. "Science above all things demands personal concentration. Its home is the study of the mathematician, the quiet laboratory of the ex-perimenter, and the cabinet of the meditative observer of nature." Science realizes the truth that to accept a fact on mere authority means intellectual death. Man has been THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 93 termed, "Das rastlose ursachenthier," the rest- \ less cause-seeking animal. The intuition of causality is in man and will assert itself. Rec-ognizing this fact, science is ever striving to bring to man's notice secondary causes which, when viewed aright, point us on and on to a great First Cause which true science not only requires but demands. Scientists have also had to learn many things by experience, and one of these is not to form a conclusion until the facts justify it. They have made many errors in this way and have been taught that there are times when the judgment must be held in suspense, the data upon which the decision should be based may be just what is wanting. The high aim of scientific work, its practical methods, and the high order of subject matter with which science deals have furnished a suit-able basis for the growth and development of scientific spirit. It began to manifest itself very early but its progress for a long time was slow. It was thought to lead to error and for this reason stifled and suppressed from the be-ginning. Probably the greatest and most act-ive agent in suppressing scientific research was the church. The conclusions reached by science seemed to contradict the teachings of the Bible. The theory of the antipodes was not found in the Bible. Evolution contra-dicted the doctrine that the world was created in six days, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. The ideas of scientists with respect to these were looked upon by the church as false. But it may be said of them in the words of Gamaliel: "If they be of God, ye cannot overthrow them; if they be of man, they will come to naught.'' The victory thus far seems to have been on the side of science. The re-sult of this attempt to suppress the searching after truth has been just the opposite from what was expected. Instead of restraining it by the rigid envelope thrown about it they in reality gave it explosive force, and when it did burst forth it was with a power that was con- ! vincing. And to-day we find these very theo- \ ries advocated by many Christian teachers, j Indeed they are no longer looked upon as the-ories but as facts. It is also often urged that scientific research leads to atheism. While it is a fact that many of our leading scientists were not professed Christians, yet is science entirely to blame for this ? May not much of the blame lie with the church rather than with science ? The church was at variance with what science knew to be true. Her conduct toward these was such as would drive them to renounce the church and make them hate religion. Bruno, for believing in the doctrine of Ca-pernicus, was burned at the stake. Galileo, thirty-three years later, to save himself from the same fate, was obliged to abjure, on bended knees and with his hands upon the Holy Gos-pels, the heliocentric doctrine which he knew to be true. No wonder that these men were led to hate the church and through the errors of the church to spurn Christianity. It put science and religion at war with each other. But to-day we are glad to see that this difference is gradually disappearing and the church is willing to accept many of the teach-ings of science as in harmony with the Bible. And in turn we find that many of our leading scientists are now professed Christians. Kep-ler gave voice to the true scientific spirit when he said: "Oh, God, I think thy thoughts after Thee!" Science is ever striving to know God's thoughts as expressed in nature. Although the growth of scientific spirit was slow until quite recently, yet its practical ben-efits have been many. It has been applied to the study of history. By its methods we are enabled, as it were, to get back of the histor-ian. We wish to learn his character and his methods of working; we wish to know whether he used the best material at his command, whether he suppressed any of the facts or took them out of their connection, thus giving them a wrong interpretation. We wish to know whether he had some political purpose in view or not; whether he told the whole truth as he saw it for the truth's own sake. It has also been of advantage to history indirectly through 94 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. the comparative study of language. By its methods we have been able to bridge over chasms between nations, thus establishing the nation's origin which would otherwise have been imposssible. It has also been of value to the church. A proper application of scientific methods tends to eliminate many of the errors which man has read into the Bible. Sin has dulled man's per-ception and a struggle is necessary for him to regain his lost position. To accomplish this man's nature requires that science and religion •go hand in hand; that scientific methods be complemented and enlightened by Christian revelation. We can thus see scientific spirit playing an important part in every department of daily life. It is the motive power of the age. It brings about invention after invention. It enthuses the age with its true progressive spirit and urges us on and on to a higher state of civili-zation. E. M. STAHL. IN THE CONFLICT. Perfection is the aim of all true manhood; perfection is the moral, intellectual, and phys-ical qualities which we possess. We turn over history's pages, and we see tier upon tier of anxious faces in the arena with eager eye set upon the gladiator, physically perfect, as he strains every muscle to win the conflict. Year after year he has trained those brawny arms for the final encounter. At first it seemed that this would be a fitting representa-tion of the "Conflict of Life," into which the class of '94 is to enter. But second thought suggested (with no intention of making any plea for athletic sports,) that the modern ath-lete as he contends for glory and victory is more fitting because a more familiar represent-ative. 'Tis a perfect day in autumn on which the final contest upon the field of manly sport is to take place. Thousands of anxious faces are watching for the heroes of the hour. In that great throng are friends and relations of each participant, who have come to cheer their favorite on to victory. But they need not wait long, for here comes that well-trained band led by its alert Captain, who thinks thoughts worthy of a Napoleon or a Washing-ton, while planning for victory in the struggle. Can you faintly hear those words of exhor-tation from the lips of that captain, as his men are gathered about him, drinking in those final words intended for no other ears than theirs: "My men, we must win. Glory, honor, supremacy, lie in victory, while these will all be lost if we lose. I want every man to do his very best; remember what you are contending for, never give up until the last moment is gone, and if it brings defeat, I want to feel that every man has done his duty. This is all I can expect." I dare say those noble words of Nelson, "England ex-pects every man to do his duty," awakened no nobler sentiments, no truer courage. But the conflict begins, yet it is not one of brute force, for these are gentlemen who con-tend to-day for victory and for nothing else. The great masses of human strength heave to and fro. But see! At the moment when every man's best is needed, the one from whom much was expected, lags behind or makes a blunder, because he is not the true athlete, because he has shirked some duty or scorned some word of advice. The conflict intensifies, victory is seated on the banners of neither contestant as yet and the precious moments are flying. Ere long, the contest must be decided; if hopes are to be realized, now is the time. Summoning every particle of strength, and the whole power of will, they make one grand movement, one united effort and the victory is won. The hour has brought reward for toil. "This is the only part of an athlete's career of which the public knows anything, this brilliant climax of half a year's daily work and sacrifice." People know nothing of that self-denial, which has given up pleasures in-numerable, which has declined solicitations THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 95 to self-indulgence, which has given up things which made College life what it is. There is no more room for the indolent man in athletics than there is for the lazy bee in the hive. He is stung by the piercing words of ridicule until life is made a burden for him. But energy alone does not make the victors. Mental discipline is no less a factor to his suc-cess than physical power. Brawn and will, a cool, calm intellect, these are the requisites. Were I making a plea for athletics, I could point you to example after example, where the man who led his team to victory, also led his class; where the fingers which pitched the winning game, penned the grandest words which won the prize. Manly self-respect and refinement are im-portant requisites in an athlete's training. Evil habits and wrong ideas, which mar many a life, have been given up, because it was ab-solutely necessary. These having been given up, and the man having been made a man, cruel appetite and seemingly irresistible desire .lost their sway and he remains a man forever. Many harsh words of criticism have come to his ears from the lips of superiors, who have shown him his faults, and who have plainly told him just what was expected of him. But these only give a tenderer tone, a sweeter sound to the final words of exhortation and are forgotten in the moments of victory. If there is one thing which towers high above everything else, it is courage. The coward, no matter what other qualities he may possess, is not wanted. He is a hindrance. It takes a Heffiefinger to stand by a poor, for-lorn man, who is at the mercy of an angry lynching mob and defy them to carry out their awful purpose. It takes a Frederick Brokaw to plunge into the angry, roaring waters to save a servant girl and to give his own young, promising life in the attempt. These are some of the stages of the athlete's training. I trust that you have been able to see the analogy of our own lives, but a few words of application may make it plainer. Not unlike this training has been our own. For four years we have been in preparation for the conflict upon which we enter to-day. As the true athlete learns to receive the kindly criticism of his superiors, so we, too, have learned to be grateful to those who point out errors to us. Although it is not pleasant to stand up to be criticised, yet when we think of it, we really ought to congratulate our-selves, every time we learn of a new fault, not because we have such a fault, but because we have now discovered it. For the discovery of a fault is to anyone who is living worthily, an opportunity for fresh conquest, and for a new advance in the evolution of a noble character. In our preparation for Eife's Conflict, refine-ment in word and manner, has been an im-portant factor. "True nobleness is always gentle. Eove is the law of life, and whatever is unloving is a blemish." We may not be familiar with the rules of etiquette, may not be able to appear gracefully in a drawing room; and yet we may have a grace and gentleness of heart, which will give to our bearing and acts the truest refinement. Have you ever known a true athlete to be a coward? Has the true man ever shown cow-ardice ? No, it is he who can bear the scorns and sneers of those who oppose him in his de-fense of truth and right. Energy. especially has been a part of our training. Some men who never get on in life blame their failure on unfavorable circum-stances. They think if their conditions had only been different, they would have been suc-cessful. But the way to make the most of life is not to get easy conditions, it is to take the conditions we have and by energy, faithful-ness, indomitable courage, and unsparing, un-relaxing toil, to make our conditions and circumstances serve Us in doing the work of life well. The ambition to win the contest has been a powerful influence. Without enthusiastic am-bition, we are not worthy the lofty name of men. God did not make us to grovel like worms. He made us to rise to glory. The world has neither .use nor room for men who 96 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. are without energy and persistence. They can only be dropped out and left behind while the conflict rages. People do not dream them-selves into grand characters and lofty posi-tions. And there never was a time when it was grander to live than now, when true men have larger opportunities to do noble deeds and make a worthy record for themselves. The ambition of the athlete is to win. "The desire of every true-hearted and worthy young man is to reach that vision of beauty and nobleness which he himself earnestly desires to attain. It is radiant and spotless." Some one says "God never yet permitted us to frame a theory too beautiful for his power to make practicable.'' The conflict is not to be won in a day; a lifetime alone is sufficient. Yet the victory should be kept before the eye all the time, and the effort to obtain that victory should never faint nor lag for an instant. Through all experiences, through trial, temptation, discouragement, opposition, defeat and failure, the eye should rest unwaveringly upon the goal and the purpose to conquer should never be abandoned. "The thoughts of victory dawning on the soul Are glorious heaven gleams; And God's eternal Truth lies folded deep In all man's lofty dreams. F. H. BLOOMHARDT. IVY POEM. BY COKA B. HAKTMAN. oh, green twining Ivy, true emblem of friendship, That friendship which lives through all sorrow and care, That spurns the rude thrust ot the blast of misfortune And grows still more dear, be the sky dark or fair. Oh, bright glossy Ivy with silver-veined foliage, ' That ever is green and ne'er becomes sere, How like to fond memory thy very existence, Hemembrance of life and of things that were dear. Oh, small Ivy sprig, with thy dainty young tendrils That tell of the ties of devotion and love, We look on thy beauty and think of the future. We trust thee our sentiments nobly to prove. By the side of this hall, the Chapel Memorial, We plant thee with joy and an uprising prayer That dear mother Earth may love thee and cherish. And give thee the best of her motherly care. Grow onward and upward, dear plant, on thy mission, Cling close to the wall with a gentle embrace, Heed not the loud threat of the nearing dread tempest, Nor clouds darkly hiding the sun's smiling face. Enshroud this high wall with thy evergreen mantle, Adorn every part with thy tap'stry of life; Preserve from decay and shield it from ruin, Protect from the storm and from time's ruthless strife. Then, emblem of friendship, remembrance, devotion, Speak fervently, lovingly, words sweet to hear, Recall to the mem'riesof those who shall follow The class '94, the class of this year. Tell how all its members are faithful and earnest In the struggle of life as onward time runs, Tell how they are loyal to dear Alma Mater, Now devoted to her are her daughters and sons. LOCAL G-OVERNMENT. It is our favorite boast as American citizens that we are the freest people on the face of the globe. And such, indeed we are. This is the sentiment of the political philosopher, as well as the patriotic citizen, filled with a par-donable pride. Here liberty, in the truest sense of that much misused term, has found a secure abode. Our government was "conceived in lib-erty." This was the spirit that animated even our pilgrim forefathers who, to secure it, left home and country to brave the mighty deep. This was the spirit of the heroes of the revo-lution who poured out their life-blood upon the altar of their country. This was the spirit of the framers of our Constitution, which was established, as they said, "to secure the bless-ings of liberty to ourselves and our poster-ity." In the government of a people so jealous of their rights, so filled with the love of liberty and self-government, it is natural to expect that they would keep a large part of the power of government as near to themselves and as directly under their own immediate control as possible. So we find it in our coun-try to-day. A local government has been es-tablished in our midst, forming a most im-portant part of our governmental structure. It is not the purpose, at present, to point out the wisdom of this course on the part of our ancestors, to show how necessary this step was to the securing of real liberty, but rather to point out the importance of this branch of our government to the welfare of the citizen THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 97 to-day, and the necessity of a wise and eco-nomic administration of our local affairs. It is the function of local government, broadly speaking, to administer the laws. These the State government for the most part enacts while with the local government it re-mains to carry them out. In other words, the State Legislature enacts laws for the benefit of the people, the local authorities determine how much benefit they shall be to the people and how much such benefit shall cost the peo-ple. The local government thus has virtually under its own control, matters that are of vital concern to the welfare of the people, matters that are of practical importance to the every-day life of every citizen. Education, high-ways, the care of the poor and taxation to pay the expenses incurred are some of the matters in the hands of the local authorities. Educa-tion, for instance, is mostly in the hands of school boards, who erect and furnish school buildings, employ teachers and exercise a gen-eral supervision over the schools. The high-ways are in the hands of road supervisors whose duty it is to keep the roads in repair. The care of the poor is in the hands of poor directors whose duty it is to see that those un-fortunates among us, who are no longer able to care for themselves are comfortably fed and clothed. And so through a long list of officers and duties to describe, which would be ex-tremely tedious and at the same time unnec-essary for the present purpose. The impor-tance of the local government, as seen in these offices, is unquestionable. It is concerned with matters that are of immediate interest to every citizen, and it follows naturally, as be-ing of importance, that it should be adminis-tered well. It is important, in the first place, that it should be administered efficiently—that the ends for which these laws were designed should be accomplished. We see the impor-tance of this in the school management of the borough or township where the condition of our public schools depends largely upon the in-telligence of the school board. We see it too in the care of our public roads where, upon the intelligence of the supervisor—only too often a minus quantity—depends this most im-portant factor of civilization and progress. It is important, in the next place, that it should be administered economically; that the expense connected with such administration should be as little as possible. This consider-ation has been left for the last because it is the one that perhaps most needs emphasis at the present day. We hear, occasionally, of the im-portance of limiting our State and National expenditures "to the necessities of govern-ment, honestly and economically administered. And that is right. But if it is true of our State and National governments how much more is it true of our local government ? It is to the citizen, by all odds, the most expen-sive of all. To the National government we pay no money in direct taxes, and to the State government we pay comparatively little. It is to the local government that we pay the larger part. While economy in our State and Na-tional affairs, it is true, is highly desirable, in our local affairs it becomes essential to the welfare and progress of the citizen. Taxation, though necessary to the carrying on of all government, is none the less a burden, and if a heavy one, may seriously cripple the welfare of a community. Especially is this question of taxation of importance in boroughs and cities, where the burden of taxation often be-becomes almost unbearable and often proves a serious menace to business prosperity. There is economy in government as well as in the home, and it should be practiced as rigorously in the one place as in the other. Extrava-gance in government is robbery. If, by reck-less expenditures on the part of our local of-ficials, the citizen is compelled to pay taxes for which he receives no benefit, he is no less being robbed than if he is met upon the highway and made to give up his money un-der the threat of death as the alternative. Ex-travagance in government is a baneful evil that should be removed as speedily as possible wherever found. As a means of checking reckless expendi- BSBKBHT 98 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. tures on the part of our local officials the local office-holders should be made to feel that he is directly responsible to the citizen for every dollar that he expends. The spirit of those local papers which are disposed to acquaint the citizen with the manner in which our local affairs are being carried on is highly com-mendable. The citizen has a right to know what his money goes for and at the same time the honest, conscientious official will not fear publicity. Above all, that our local affairs may be ad-ministered well, we must place good men in charge. To this end let us use our best ef-forts. Let us not stay at home on election day under the mistaken impression that our local affairs are of little importance. But let us go to the polls and vote. Political apathy has no right among a self-governing people. Let us throw aside party prejudices. "Principles, not men," may be a good motto for a Na-tional election but it certainly is not for a local one. Let us vote for the best man regardless of party differences. Let the men who have charge of our local affairs be the most honest, the most intelligent, the most energetic that the commvmity can offord. H. A. ALLISON. * ♦ ♦ JUNIOR ORATORICAL CONTEST. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 18 ♦Progress and Triumph of Democracy, tThe Courage of Conviction, - *Our Present Peril, - - - - tThe True Shekinah, - ♦Ships that Go Down in the Night, - ffrue Greatness of Man, - *Our Mental Lives, - tSeeking the Goal, - J. E. BYERS. W. A. HARTMAN. M. G. L. RIETZ. H. E. CLARE. • W. A. KUMP. W. D. MAYNARD. - H. M. WlTMAN. A. R. LONGANECKER. •Phruiiiikoxmiiill. tl'llUumatlitoan. OUR MENTAL LIVES. "In the world there is nothing great but man; In man there is nothing great but mind." This is an aphorism of Sir William Hamilton. What sublime truth! But we may go yet further and say that man is the world. All forms of matter and of life were created for him, to serve his ends. The world is his, he rules it—he is the world. Again, we may as-sert that the mind, or more strongly, the soul is the man. By natural conclusion, therefore, the mind, the soul is the world. And truly, indeed, is the soul man's real world. We are to treat of this world, more particu-larly of the mind. What a symbol of power in very grandeur! Crowning endowment of man, God's noblest work! The image of the Divine mind, its faculties and powers approach those of the Creator. Designed to comprehend and interpret His thoughts and His laws as written on the tablets of nature and in man himself, it thinks over again these thoughts of the great uncreated Thinker. Vast and ex-haustive sciences and philosophies has this thinking mind established, wherein are re-corded its analyses and explanations of the laws of nature, of man and of God. Un-checked by the narrow confines of the world, the bounds of space, or the limits of time, it may wander at pleasure amid empires and wonderlands of its own creation, and even pierce the woeful borders of Hell or enter the blissful gates of Heaven as did the inspired soul of Milton. Reason, Understanding, all the capacities for thought and for knowledge! What pro-found powers are these ! Dominating influ-ences of the world! Imagination, Memory! What wonderful and delightful kingdoms! Girt in such robes of majesty, with a dignity both grand and sublime, adorned with almost angelic graces, the lofty soul of man, acknowl-edging its Lord and Maker and gaining its mighty power from that divine source, by its soul-quickening, soul-inspiring personality, has conquered the world and reigns supreme in its vast realms. What wonder that Plato called the faculties gods and that France was led to worship Reason! In the infinite wisdom of God, and in the divine harmony of the creation, all minds were not endowed alike, but each with its peculiar talents and capacities. Again, Mr. Emerson says: "It seems as if the Deity dressed each THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 99 soul which He sends into nature in certain vir-tues and powers not communicable to other men, and, sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, 'Not trans-ferrable' and 'Good for this trip only' on these garments of the soul." Each soul, in its sov-ereign freedom and in the exercise of its di-vinely appointed prerogatives, may use and develop its talents for its own betterment and the good of mankind, or it may consign them to decay and death, abandoning itself to sen-sual pleasures, the glamours and enchant-ments of the world. Man's talents are the gifts of God, the signature of Divinity written on his soul. To despise them is to despise God Himself. What cowards, what robbers we are! What very pigmy souls in compari-son to the grandeurs possible to us? What soul has ever attained to its highest possibility? Yea, how many attain to even a middle de-gree ? What a world of wasted power! No less a mind than that of Mr. Emerson thus observes: "There is an American dis-ease, a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country, as soon as they have finished their college education, which strips them of all manly aims and be-reaves them of animal spirits; so that the no-blest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides to uphold the temple of con-vention. Is there not room, then, for a most serious consideration of our subject? Mental j paralysis, mental lethargy, mental loafing are diseases which have blighted and ruined the powers of many thousands of minds. From non-use, disuse, as well as abuse of the facul-ties of the mind, men become intellectual sui-cides and the evil is a most prevalent one. De-based and degraded, the soul is dragged from its throne, the sceptre, which is conscience, is broken, and the crown, which is reason, is thrown away. We make our lives the fulfillment or the failure of a grand purpose. According to his individual concept of this purpose so will each man fashion his life. Some merely live, es-teeming only health and bodily sustenance; others esteem wealth; others worldly power; others social distinction; and of a great major-ity pleasure is the highest aim. With such use the higher faculties of the mind must be-come dwarfed and well-nigh lost. How many mere sentient beings there are in the world, who go by the name of men, but who know not the higher intellections of the soul ? Says Bovee : '' Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed." And Spenser : "It is the mind that makes good or ill That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." Our lives, then, are truly our thoughts. If we have beautiful and happy thoughts, our ' lives are beautiful and happy. If the resources of our souls are marked with richness or pov-erty, our lives are virtually rich or poor. It is in the quality of our pleasures not in the amount that the soul is truly and lastingly happy. Oh, the dignity and joy of the true life of the soul! Happy indeed was Sir Wm. Byrd, who could muse thus : "My mind to me a kingdom Is; Such perfect joy therein I And, As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God and nature hath assigned." "Every mind,", says Channing, "was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. We owe it to ourselves, our fellowmen and our God to cultivate and develop our indi-vidual powers. The responsibility is tremen-dous, and, in contemplating it, even souls that are most brave in the heat of life's battle grow coward. Were it possible to resign this life for that better, even without having accom-plished anything in the world, how many of us would have the courage to stand forth and say : I will live out and accomplish the pur-pose for which I was created ? What miserable courage we have-! It is said of Michael Angelo, that, when he had finished his statue of Moses, and the figure stood there in its perfect form and beautiful S3'mmetry, seeming to beam forth a living soul, yet lifeless, in his desperation he struck it on the knee with his hammer, saying in the intense feeling of his soul : "I can do every-thing for you but give you life." And we IOO THE COLLEGE MERCURY. can well understand his despair. Oh, man that hast life, that art "so noble in reason, so infinite in faculty, in form and moving so ex-press and admirable, in action so like an angel, in apprehension so like to God, the beauty of the world, and the paragon of animals," shalt thou not be more than statue, not more than caryatide ! If there is no other reason why we should develop our individual powers of mind, then for a defense: If we would escape a life of comparative blankness and loneliness, of con-tinued dissatisfaction and endless despair, we would lay up in our own souls stores of knowl-edge and truth, that we might ever find in their rich resources an abundance of wealth and precious stones of inestimable worth, of ever newer and more delightful form, and in our own noble and beautiful thoughts most pleasant and congenial companionship. Let each fact which we attain be, as Mr. Emerson calls it, "a fulcrum of the spirit," and let the will in its purity be the lever by which to raise the spirit higher. Let each expansion of the soul be as an invitation from heaven to explore loftier regions of thought. Finally, we are each of us writing a book of our lives, which shall be opened on that Great Day in the presence of the angel hosts and the multitudes of earthly souls ranged before the Judgment Bar of God. In it shall be found a strict record of the soul as to every thought and every deed. Shall its pages be filled with beautiful and refined thoughts that shall shine forth in characters of living light ? Shall the pages be written in dull monotony ? or shall they be blank ? We are each day numbering them. H. M. WITMAN. BOLL OF HONOR. FIRST GRADE. MARGARET R. HIMES, DAVID W. VAN CAMP, - HERBERT A. ALLISON, JULIUS F. SEEBACH, FRED H. BLOOMHARDT, - SECOND GRADE. FRANK E. FICKINGER, PAUL W. KOLLER, Gettysburg. Plainfield. Gettysburg. Waynesboro. Altoona. New Bloomfield. Hanover. GR^FF PRIZE, For best Essay on Tennyson's '-Princess." CORA E. HARTMAN, - - - - Mummasburg. HASSLER GOLD MEDAL-Junior Latin Prize. NATHANIEL C. BARBEHENN, - - Gettysburg. WITH HONORABLE MENTION OF WALDO D. MAYNARD, - - - Schoharie, N. Y. M. G. L. RIETZ, - Amsterdam, N. Y. HERBERT F. RICHARDS, - - - Zanesville, O. BAUM SOPHOMORE MATHEMATICAL PRIZE. LUTHER P. EISENHART, - - - York. DAVID E. RICE, - - - - Chambersburg. WITH HONORABLE MENTION OF EDNA M. LOOMIS, . - Troy. MUHLENBERG FRESHMAN PRIZE, For best general Scholarship. HENRY WOLF BIKLE, - - - Gettysburg. WITH HONORABLE MENTION OF GEORGE F. ABLE, - Philadelphia. ELKANAH M. DUCK, - - - Spring Mills. REDDIG PRIZE IN ORATORY. HORACE M. WITMAN, - - ' - Harrisburg. WITH HONORABLE MENTION OF WILLIAM A. KUMP, - - - Hanover. HONORARY DEGREES. Doctor of Divinity, Rev. Frank Richards, Zanesville, Ohio. " " " " J. A. Singmaster, Allentown, Pa. " " " " J. L. Smith, E. End, Pittsburg, Pa. " " " " M. G. Boyer, Aitch, Pa. " " Science, Prof. Geo. W. Gross, York, Pa. Master of Arts, Clarence J. Reddig, Shippensburg, Pa. Doctor of Philosophy, (on examination) Rev. M. M. Kinard, Columbia, S. C. COLLEGE C0MM2NCENENT PROGRAMME. THURSDAY, JUNE Latin Salutatory, - Scientific Spirit, - . - - National Sentiment, The Retirement of Gladstone, The Benefits of Opposition, The Lesson of the Mountains, Lynch Law, its Cause and Cure, - Local Government, - The Academic Atmosphere, In the Conflict, with the Valedictory, 21ST, 1894. - DAVID W. VAN CAMP. ELMER M. STAHL. - WILLIAM F. LUTZ. BENJAMIN R. LANTZ. - FRANK E. FICKINGER. JULIUS F. SEEBACH. - PAUL W. KOLLER. HERBERT A. ALLISON. - MARGARET R. HIMES. - F. H. BLOOMHARDT. CONFERRING OF DEGREES. H. W. MCKNIGHT, D. D., LL. D., President of the College' CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES. Rev. John M. Axe, " Thomas B. Birch, Garnet Gehr, Esq., Rev. Samuel G. Heffelbower, Rev. John E- Hoick, " Albert O. Mullen, " August Pohlmann, " William G. Slifer, MASTER OF ARTS. Rev. Stanley Billheimer, " Wilton C. Dunlap, Robert N. Hartman, Ph. D., William Hersh, Esq., Rev. J. B. Markward, Luther C. Peter, M. D., Rev. Charles L. Ritter, William L. Smyser, THE COLLEGE MERCURY. IOI Rev. George F. Snyder, Charles W. Walker, Esq., Rev. Robert B. Wolf, F. P. Whitmer, '90. Rev. Martin L. Tate, " Edmund J. Wolf, " Noah Yeiser, '90, BACHELOR OF AKTS. Herbert Allen Allison, - call Platt Bastlan, - Fred Herman Bloomhardt, Frank Barndt, - Luekctt Ashton Bush, William Babylon Duttera John Super English, John Sherman Fair, - Frank Flcklnger, - James Whit e Gladhlll, Cora Elizabeth llartman, ■ Margaret Rebecca Hlmes, William Oscar Ibach, - Matthew Kemp, Charles Froneileld Kloss, Paul Warren Roller, Benjamin Eelgle Lantz, William Filler I.utz, Richard Warren Mottern, Jacob Crayton Nicholas, Julias Frederick seebach, Samuel Blddle Sorrlck, - Elmer McClellan Stahl, Clyde Bell Stover, David William Van Camp, - Gettysburg, Pa. Maple Hill, Pa. - Altoona, Pa. - Sumneytown, Pa. Harney, Md. - Gettysburg, Pa. Harrisburg, Pa. - Altoona, Pa. New Bloomfleld, Pa. - Jersey Shore, Mummasburg, Pa. - Gettysburg, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. - Hazleton, Pa, Tyrone, Pa. Hanover, Pa - Hagerstown, Md. Bedford, Pa. Watsontown, Pa. - West Falrvlew, Pa. Waynesboro', Pa. Willlamsburg, Pa. - Hay's Mills, Pa. Hagerstown, Md. Plain Held, pa. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. John Hoffer, Jr., Ralph Eaton Miller, William otterbine NIcklas, Harrisburg, Pa. Plnegrove, Pa. Chambersburg, Pa. COWIMENCEWIENT NOTES AND COL-LEGE LOCALS. The old officers of the Alumni Association were re-elected, at the meeting held in Brua Chapel, on Wednesday evening of Commence-ment week. The annual address before the alumni was delivered by George J. Benner, '78, of the Gettysburg Bar. His subject was: "The Signs of the Times.'' H. M. Clabaugh, Esq., '77, was elected alumni orator for next Commencement. Rev. Daniel Garland was re-elected alumni editor of THE MERCURY. Notices were read by the chairman of the obituary committee, of nine Alumni who died during the year: Rev. W. H. Lilly, '71; Rev. Dr. C. A. Hay, '39; Rev. J. Phillip Willard, '39; Rev. C. G. Focht, '87; Rev. H. M. Bickel, '48; Rev. A. C. Stup, '91; Rev. Henry Baker, '41; Rev. Henry L- Ziegenfuss, '66; J. Cassatt Neely, Esq, '56. FOUND.—A gold watch chain, the owner may procure the same by calling upon or ad-dressing Dr. P. M. Bikle, Gettysburg, Pa. The beautiful new flag that now wave from our dormitory merit and receive the admira-tion of every college man. The purchase of these flags is the accomplishment of a general student's movement. It is gratifying to see the patriotic spirit of the boys manifested in this way, especially here where all the sur-roundings call forth the highest and noblest feelings of patriotism. The college wishes to extend its thanks for the following contribu-tions:- From the Faculty, $7.50; class of '94, $5-Oo; '95. $4-5o; '97, $5-oo. The Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity held a banquet on Wednesday evening of Commence-ment week. The large and beautifully fur-nished halls of the new "Eagle Hotel" were used. Rev. D. Frank Garland, the alumni editor of the MERCURY was toast-master for the evening. The following toasts were pro-posed and ably responded to: "Welcome,"—E. H. Wert. "The Fraternity Idea,"—Rev. H. C. Alle-man. "Our Fraternity,"—Sterling Valentine. "The Early Days,"—Prof. E. S. Breiden-baugh, Sc. D. "Reminiscences,"—E. G. Miller. "The'Alumni,"—Geo. J. Benner. "The Active Chapter,"—F. H. Knubel. "The Ladies,"—L. A. Brewer. Some other addresses by the visiting Alumni followed. A very pleasant and enjoyable time was had by all. The annual banquet of "Philo Debating Club" was held on Thursday evening, June 7th, in Minuigh's parlors, on Baltimore street. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by all pres-ent. About 10 o'clock, were served, in a very tasteful and inviting manner, all the rich deli-cacies that go toward adorning the tables of modern Epicureans. After the voluptuous re-past was enjoyed, Mr. Rietz, President of the Club and toastmaster for the evening, called fe 102 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. upon a number of the boys, who kept the merry ball rolling for more than an hour by their witty and much appreciated responses. The boys then returned to College highly pleased, and with a secret vow to be more faithful and to do better work for old Philo. in the future. On Tuesday evening, the 19th inst., the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs of College, gave an entertainment in Brua Chapel. A new programme was rendered upon this occa-sion, and the performance throughout was es-pecially fine, meriting and receiving much praise from all who were present. The organ-izations are much indebted to Messrs. Nicho-las, Seminary, G. C. Baum, '93, for their act-ive interest in, and highly appreciated serv-ices for the several clubs. The second annual banquet of the Peisel-fannish Deitsch Gesellschaft was held in Min-nigh's parlors, on Chambersburg street, on Thursday evening, June 14th. The attendance was large and the evening was pleasantly spent by all. Toasts were responded to by a number of the members. The President, Mr. E. N. B. Erb, acted as toast master. The organization is in a nourishing condition. The President's reception was held on Thurs-day evening. It was a brilliant and successful affair. The recitation Hall was beautifully deco-rated with flowers and palms. The attendance was larger this year than it has been for a long time. The large number of Alumni and friends present was a gratifying feature. The Metronome Orchestra of Harrisburg furnished the music for the occasion as well as for the other exercises. They have received many compliments for their fine music. The Junior Annual, "The Spectrum," was put on sale last week. The book is the finest annual ever published here. The artistic finish as well as the nature of the matter has been deservedly commented upon. The class is to be congratulated upon its success in getting out such a meritorious annual. We hope other classes will meet with the same support from our loyal Alumni and friends, and that succeeding annuals will even surpass this one in beauty and elegance. The Board of Trustees met on June 20th 1894. Pres. McKnight's report was read and was very satisfactory, showing the college to be in a flourishing condition. The recommendation of Principal Klinger for the appointment of C. B. Van Ormer, as Tutor in the Preparatory Department was con-firmed by the Board. Rev. C. M. Stock, Rev. H. B. Wile, Mr. T. B. Patton and M. G. Boyer were elected members of the Board of Trustees to fill va-cancies. Mr. Benjamin Kunkle and Rev. Dr. Conrad were re-elected. Mr. McPherson succeeds himself as a mem-ber of the Executive Committee. The question of considering the advisability of establishing additional courses of degrees was referred to the Executive Committee to be reported next year. Among the visiting Alumni who were pres-ent at Commencement are the following: '46. Rev. W. M. Baum, D. D. '47. Rev. L. E. Albert, D. D. '48. Hon. Edw. McPherson, E. E- D. '50. Prof. M. Valentine, D. D., E. E- D. '51. Hon. David Wills. '55. Jacob Rinehart, M. D. '56. Robert E. Sibbet, M. D. 57. Rev. Prof. C. E. Keedy, M. D., Rev. D. McC. Gilbert, D. D. '58. Rev. E. S. Johnston. '59. Rev. J. G. Goettman, D. D. '61. Andrew T. Kistler. '62. Rev. M. L. Culler. '63. Prof. E. J. Wolf, D. D. '64. Rev. Frank Richards. '65. Rev T. C. Billheimer, D. D., Rev. M. G. Boyer, Rev. J. C. Roller, D. D. '66. Rev. H. S. Cook. '67. Hart Gilbert, Esq. THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 103 '68. John W. Hay, M. D., Prof. J. W. Richard, D. D. '70. Rev. J. T. Gladhill. '71. Rev Charles E. Hay, Rev. D. T. Koser, Rev. John Wagner. '72. George N. Acker, M. D., Rev. J. A. Koser, S. McC. Swope, Esq. '73. Rev. E. H. Leisenring, Rev. J. A. Singmaster. '74. Rev Chas. M. Stock, G. E. Titus, M. D. '75. Rev. E. D. Weigle, D. D., Rev. M. L-Young, Ph. D. '77. Rev. W. M. Baum, Jr., H. M. Cla-baugh, Esq., Rev. Harry B. Wile. '78. George J. Benner, Rev. J. A. Hart-man, Rev. J. F. Mackley. '79. J. F. Graff, Rev. Luther Kuhlman, H. C. Picking, A. C. Wentz, M. D. '80. Rev. A. H. F. Fischer, Rev. J. A. Metzgar, Rev. W. E. Stabler, Sterling G. Val-entine, Ph. D. '82. C. S. Duncan, Esq., Rev. M. H. Val-entine, Rev. H. H. Weber, G. M. Walter, Esq. '83. L. A. Brewer, Esq., J. B. McPherson, Esq., J. E. Musselman. '84. Rev. A. S. Fichthorn. '85. Rev. Edgar Grim Miller, Rev. Ed. Everett Hoshour, Rev. C. Reinewald, Rev. R. Stare. '87. Rev. H. C. Alleman, Rev. Amos A. Parr. '88. Rev. L. S. Black, Rev. D. Frank Gar-land. '89. Donald P. McPherson, John Reed Scott, Esq., Ira L. Tipton. '90. Rev. H. Anstadt, Rev. H. C. Bixler, Rev. E. E. Blint, Rev. F. S. Geesey, Rev. J. F. W. Kitzmeyer, George B. Kunkel, M. D., Rev. W. G. Minnick, Wm. B. Small, M. D. '91. Rev. Stanley Billheimer, Rev. T. B. Birch, Rev. S. G. Hefelbower, Wm. Hersh, Esq., Rev. E. J. Wolf, Rev. R. B. Wolf. '92. H. E. Berkey, C. G. Bikle, M. T. Brown, W. K. Damuth, D. P. Drawbaugh, Frank Hesse, C. H. Huber, G. J. M. Ketner. '93. G. C. Baum, J. J. Brallier, G. M. K. Diffenderfer, H. E. Gettier, A. A. Kelly, F. H. Knubel, J. R. Plank, A. J. Rudisill. Many other Alumni were present whose names could not be obtained. ALUiviNl- '68. Rev. J. W. Richard, D. D., of the Seminary, delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class of Kee Mar College, Hagerstown, Md., on June 3rd. '71. Rev. Dr. E. F. Bartholomew, of Au-gustana College, Rock Island, 111., will spend a year abroad for study. 'Rev. W. E. Fischer, of Shamokin, Pa., de-livered the Baccalaureate to the graduates of the High School of that place on June 3rd. The class numbered twenty-six and their com-mencement was a most creditable and delight-ful affair. '75. Rev. E. D. Weigle, of Altoona, Pa., received the title of D. D., when degrees were conferred at Selins Grove, Pa. '76. Rev. Prof. Jacob Yutzy, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church, of Selins Grove, has issued a "Memorial Jubilee Volume," con-taining a history of the church for the past half century. The work is a valuable acqui-sition to the history of the Lutheran church. '78. Mr. George J. Benner, Esq., of Gettys-burg, delivered the address before the alumni of the College on Wednesday evening, June 21st. '82. Rev. A. R. Steck, of Indianapolis, Ind., who preached a trial sermon lately in St. James church, has accepted the call extended to him by the congregation to be the successor of Dr. Swartz. Mr. Steck will soon enter upon his duties. '86. Rev. Prof. O. G. Klinger, Principal of the Preparatory department of College, deliv-ered the annual address before the Irving Col-lege C. E. Society, Sunday evening, June 3rd. '90. Rev. S. T. Nicholas, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church, of Allegheny, io4 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. was married to Miss Elizabeth Spangler, of Areudtsville, Pa. '90. Mr. George P. Kunkel, who has been engaged in the Reading Hospital for the past year will now set up practice for himself in Harrisburg. '90. Rev. W. G. Minnick, who was with us during commencement, is meeting with good success in his new field of labor, Harney, Md. Mr. Minnick had charge of the exercises at the dedication of the new cemetery in that place. '90. The many friends of Rev. J. W. F. Kitzmeyer, were glad to welcome him here again. Mr. Kitzmeyer has been engaged in Davis, W. Va., for the past year as a Lutheran pioneer and has been so successful that he has built a beautiful church. '91. Rev. W. C. Dunlap, of the graduating class of the Seminary, was married on June 6th, to Miss Irene Beck. Mr. and Mrs. Dun-lap will reside at Duncannon, Pa., to the pas-torate of which Mr. Dunlap was called. '91. Rev. C. L. Ritter, of the Senior Class J at Gettysburg Seminary has accepted a unani-mous call to the Fayetteville charge in Frank-lin Co., Pa. '91. Rev. A. O. Mullen, of the Seminary, has been elected pastor at Altamont, N. Y. '92. Mr. Maurice T. Brown, who is mer-chandising with his brother in Waynesboro, Pa., visited his many friends here during com-mencement. '92. Rev. G. Albert Getty, of Baltimore, was married to Miss Alathea W. Bernard, of Harford Co., Md. Rev. Milton Valentine per-formed the ceremony. '93. Mr. W. H. Ehrhart, of the Theological Seminary, is supplying a mission charge at Red Lion, York Co., Pa. '93. Mr. George Baum, for the past year a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of their Banjo Club, was with us prior to commencement coaching the Instru-mental Clubs for the concert. '93. Mr. Wm. J. Gies, of Manheim, Pa., who has been a student at Yale for the past year, acquitted himself so well that he has been awarded a special scholarship by the University as an inducement for him to con-tinue his studies there in the cause of Biology, leading in two years to the degree of Ph. D. In addition, he has been offered the position for the coming year of assistant to Prof. R. H. Chittenden, the greatest Physiological Chem-istry expert in the United States and Professor in the Biological Laboratory of the University. '93. Mr. Wm. F. Bare, of the Seminary, will supply the mission charge at Greenmount, York Co., Pa., during the summer vacation. '93. Mr. Marion J. Kline, of Frederick, Md., a student in the Seminary, recently preached a very able sermon in his own church, of which Rev. Luther Kuhlman is pastor. Mr. Kline will supply St. Paul's Luth-eran church, Washington, D. C, during the absence of Rev. Dr. Domer. We congratu-late Mr. Kline on this excellent opportunity. JENNIS. DOUBLES—FIRST SERIES. Bloomhardt and Wheeler vs. Stover and Keffer. Dloorahardt and Wheeler: 6-1, 6-3. Barndt and Forney vs. Graff and Danner. Graff and Danner: 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Baum and Byers vs. T,oudon and Stup. Baum and Byers: 6-4, 6-4. Fair and Monath vs. Carty and Bixler. Fair and Monath: 6-3, 6-4. Gladhill and Kain vs. Wiest and Hollinger. Gladhill and Kain: 6-4, 7-5. Kloss and Wolf vs. Hoffer and Feldman. Kloss and Wolf: 6-1, 6-4. Herr and Apple vs. I^antz and Heindel. I^antz and Heindel: 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Fickinger and Moser vs. Keefer and Enniss. Fickinger and Moser: 6-1, 6-2. Crilly and Brosius vs. Eckels and Auckerman. Crilly and Brosius: 7-5. 6-2. SECOND SERIES. Graff and Danner vs. Kloss and Wolf. Kloss and Wolf: 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. Bloomhardt and Wheeler vs. Crilly and Brosius. Bloomhardt and Wheeler: 6-2, 6-1. Fair and Monath vs. Gladhill and Kain. Gladhill and Kain: 63, 6-4. Baum and Byers vs. Crilly and Brosius. Crilly and Brosius: 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 105 RECITATION HALL LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY GETTVJ5URG, PENN'A y A DeMPWOLF. ARCH'T. YORK, PENN'A. VIEW mOM THE NORTH THE NEW SEMINARY BUILDING. THIRD SERIES. Kloss and Wolf vs. Fickinger and Moser. Kloss and Wolf: 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. Crilly and Brosins vs. Gladliill and Kain. Gladhill and Kain: 6-i, 6-2. FOURTH SERIES. . Bloomhardt and Wheeler vs. Kloss and Wolf. Bloomhardt and Wheeler: 6-1, 5-7, 4-6, 6-1. 6-2. FIFTH SERIES. Bloomhardt and Wheeler vs. Gladhill and Kain. Bloomhardt and Wheeler: 6-2, 6*1, 9-7. SINGLES—FIRST SERIES. Gladhill vs. Barndt. Gladhill: 6-3,6-2. Lantz vs. Crilly. Crilly: 6-4, 6-4. Bloomhardt vs. Graff. Bloomhardt. (Forfeited.) Fair vs. London. Fair: 6-2, 6-0. Fickinger vs. Kloss. Fickinger: 6-2, 6-4. SECOND SERIES. Gladhill vs. Miller. Miller: 12-10, 6-4. Fickinger vs. Crilly. Crilly: 6-2, 6-8, 6-0. Bloomhardt vs. Fair. Bloomhardt: 6-0, 6-4. THIRD SERIES. Bloomhardt vs. Miller. Bloomhardt: 6-4, 6-2, 6-i. FOURTH SERIES. Bloomhardt vs. Crilly. 1 Bloomhardt: 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. INTER-FRATERNITY TOURNAMENT. Phi Delta Theta vs. Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Gamma Delta: 7-5, 6-3. Phi Kappa Psi vs. Sigma Chi. Phi Kappa Psi: 6-1, 6-0. Phi Kappa Psi vs. Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Gamma Delta: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Phi Gamma Delta vs. Alpha Tau Omega. Phi Gamma Delta: 6-0, 6-0. SEWIINARY NOTES. We are pleased to present to our readers a view of the new Seminary building, taken from plans submitted by the architect. The view is from the north-west side. The esti-mated cost of the new building and re-mod-eling of the old is sixty thousand dollars. On Sunday, May 27th, Rev. Dr. M. Valen-tine preached the baccalaureate sermon, tak-ing as his text: "The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee." On Monday evening the Rev. Frank Man-hart, of Selin's Grove, delivered the annual lecture on "Christian Worship, its Forms and Spirit," and on Wednesday evening the ad- io6 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. dress to the Alumni was made by the Rev. E. D. Weigle, of Altoona. Thursday evening the regular graduating exercises were held in Christ church, and ora-tions were delivered by the following: "Ap-plied Christianity," John E. Hoick, Oswego, N. Y.; "Spener and his Influence," Harry Anstadt, York; "Christianity's Conquest of the World," G. Albert Getty, Baltimore. Dr. Valentine then delivered diplomas to the fol-lowing graduates: Harry Anstadt, York; John McM. Axe, Bellville; Fuller Bergstresser, Middletown, Md.; Johannes S. Braren, Brecklum, Ger-many; Stanley Billheimer, Gettysburg; Thos. B. Birch, Bloomsburg; Milton C. Dunlap, Pine Grove Mills; George Albert Getty, Bal-timore, Md.; S. Gring Hefelbower, Newville; William W. Hess, Gettysburg; Henderson N. Miller, Salisbury, N. C; Albert O. Mullen, Baltimore, Md.; Robert E. Patterson, China Grove, N. C, Charles E. Ritter, Keysville; William G. Slifer, Rohrersville, Md.; H. E. Sloop, China Grove, N. C; George F. Sny-der, Port Royal; Martin E. Tate, Everett; Robert B. Wolf, Edmund J. Wolf, Centre Hall. Nearly all the members of the graduating class have received calls and many have al-ready commenced their work. At a special meeting of the Board of Di-rectors, held on Thursday morning, the con-tract for the new building was given to Geo. S. Yinger, at $34,240. The following propositions, which the com-mittee wished the Board to consider, were recommended by them: I. The plans and specifications for re-modeling and re-constructing the old building. It is to be turned into a dormitory with 59 rooms, steam heating introduced, the middle stairway taken out, roof replaced with slate, and walls and chimneys repaired. These re-pairs to cost not less than $8,000. II. The completion of the dormer story of the new building. There are to be nineteen rooms in it and the sum is to be $3,559. III. Plans for the heating by steam. The time for opening bids was extended. IV. The erection of a boiler house, the bid of C. H. Stallsmith being the lowest at $2,- 591-93- V. The placing of steel shelving in the li-brary. The price is $2,550. VI. The water supply for the building and the houses of the professors. It will be neces-sary to get water from the town supply or pump it from the well to a tank, to be placed in the old building. VII. The erection of a house on the Sem-inary grounds for Prof. Richard, who has been living under discomforts and disadvantages, the cost not to exceed $4,500. Rev. P. G. 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The College Metcuty. VOL. IV. GETTYSBURG, PA., JUNE, 1896. No. 4. THE COLLEGE MEftClPRY, Published each month during the college year by the Students of Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) College. STAFF. Editor: ROBBIN B. WOLF, 97- Associate Editors : LEWIS C. MANGES, '97. ED. W. MEISENH ELDER, SAMUEL J. MILLER '97. CHARLES T. LARK '98. JOHN W. OTT, '97. CHARLES H. TILP, '98. EDMUND L. KOLLER, '98. Alumni Association Editor: REV. D. FRANK GARLAND, A. M., Baltimore, Md. Business Manager: HARRY R, SMITH, '97. Assistant Business Manager: JOHN E. MEISENHELDER, '97. m™™./One volume (ten monflhs). . . . $1.(10 1ERMS-tsingle copies 15 Payable in advance. All Students are requested to hand us matter for publication. The Alumni and ex-members of the College will favor us by sending information concerning their whereabouts or any items they may think would be interesting for publication. All subscriptions and business matters should be addressed to the business manager. Matter intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor Address, THE COLLEGE MERCURY, Gettysburg, Pa. EDITORIALS, 47 MUNICIPAL REFORM, 50 MEDUSA WITH GORGONIAN TERROR GUARDS THE FORD, - 52 GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED, 53 COLLEGE SLANG, 54 COLLEGE LOCALS, 54 ALUMNI NOTES, - - 57 ATHLETICS, 1 - - - - 61 FRATERNITY NOTES, - -.--.--62 Y. M C. A. NOTES, --- . --- 63 TOWN AND SEMINARY NOTES, 64 LITERARY SOCIETIES, - - --- 65 EDITORIAL. WITH this issue the new Staff takes charge of the MERCURY. Our first number is un-avoidably a rather inferior one, but we will endeavor to improve with experience. We feel the responsibility resting on us and enter-tain some fear as to our ability to properly rep-resent so great an institution. We recognize the fact that it will be no easy task to keep the MERCURY up to its standard. During the past year the MERCURY has compared very favor-ably with all its sister monthlies. The most we can hope is to do as »well as last year's Staff with little or no idea of being able to improve on it. To this end the Staff asks for general co-operation and assistance. The MERCURY is called the College paper and"? it cannot be such without the hearty co-opera-tion of the Faculty, Students and Alumni. Notwithstanding the few thorns which may spring up in our path, we have undertaken the task in the hope that you will join in with us and make the MERCURY a splendid success. Let us endeavor to make this year's MERCURY the best possible. If you give us such assist-ance as is due from you, it will be a very cold day when the MERCURY drops. If you have any suggestions which you think will help us, they will be cheerfully received and most care-fully heeded. *** AFTER many months of hard labor by the class and several more of anxious expectation, the Specif um has at last appeared. The Fresh-men and others can no longer torment the editor with the question, '' When will the Spec-trum be out ?'' The book is a grand success and well worthy of notice in our columns. It was an agreeable surprise to everyone to see such an excellent college annual. Its beauty 48 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. starts with the cove, blue with the lettering and seal of the college in gold. Contrary to the maxim, the beauty is deeper than the sur-face. The half-tone engravings and the line drawings are far better and far more numerous than in any of the previous numbers. The reading matter also is very creditable. Wit and humor abound throughout the book. Some of the class histories are very spicy. A number of funny drawings represent the comic societies, such as the "Deutsche-Gesellschafft" and the "Brother's Cohen." No doubt the Faculty were able to solve the names of the whist club. The Spectrum is very appropriately dedi-cated to John E. Graeff, Esq., President of the Board of Trustees. In this the Staff has given an illustration of the eternal fitness of things. Mr. GrEeff has done so much for our institu-tion that he deseryes our respect and admira-tion. In no way could the boys have shown their appreciation of him better than by this dedication. The advertisements are especially numer-ous. Nearly all the business houses of G. as well as many of other cities and towns are represented. This department of the Spectrum is so essential to its success that the manager and his assistants should be congratulated on it. The editors also deserve great commenda-tion for uniform arrangement of the book. Surely the book is an ample reward for the labor expended. The '98 Staff has already been elected and we would advise them to make the '97 Spectrum a model by which to gauge their work. * * * THE six Juniors who elected Greek, have just finished the famous so-called tragedy of Euripides, known as "Alcestis." It is, how-ever, improperly called tragedy. It is more of a melodrama, partly comic and partly tragic. The translation was very easy and the class was able to take quite long lessons and thus see into the play much better than when the translation is difficult and the lessons short. These long lessons were asked for by the class in order to finish the book before the hot weather. A great deal of satisfaction is to be derived from reading Greek in this way, the class having elected Greek because they liked it and not because they had to do it. Having finished the book, the Faculty has excused the class from the Greek periods the rest of the term. We are glad to see this. One of the best ways to stimulate students to better work is to reward them for it. The play much more than any of the classics heretofore read portrays human life very well. In Admetus we see fickleness and hypocrisy. In him we see how dear human life is, he even wishing his aged parents to die in his stead. Having failed in this he asked and persuaded his wife, Alcestis, to die for him. Then when she has consented he goes around bewailing a thing of which he was the wilful cause. He reveals his wickedness by his disrespect for his aged parents merely because they refused to die for him. The Greeks generally thought it was only fair for the old people to die for the young. His parents' refusal to die for him shows that life is sweet, even to the very aged, when King Death comes. The reception of Hercules into the palaces of Admetus, then in mourning, shows that the law of hospitality was held sacred at all events. In Alcestis we see extraordinary woman-hood. How manj' women to-day would sub-mit to death in their husband's stead? How many women would be willing to part from their young children ? It is around her that the play centres. She is unrivaled in history and incapable of being surpassed by anyone. How beautifully she reveals a mother's love for her children. The last words spoken by her all pertained to the children's welfare. She is so anxious about their bringing up in her absence and anxious lest Admetus marry a step-mother over them, who, through envy will harm them. Some parts of the play seem a little queer to us now, but they were the custom in that time. The play, on the whole, is surely one of the best of the classics remain-ing to us. THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 49 WE notice in the Dickinsonian that the Fac-ulty and students have resolved: "that no col-lege or preparatory student shall be allowed to play on any team of which the}' are not the ma-jority." Also, ' 'that no person shall be allowed to play on the college team who does not take six periods a week in the law school or twelve in the college.'' This last is an admirable and commendable action. There is so much of a tendency of late to introduce professionalism into college athletics that people are losing in-terest in various college teams. If a college has a so-called "stuffed team" and wins a vic-tory, it cannot rejoice or boast of it because the college boys did not win it, for the victory was solely due to the professionals. As long as this evil continues there will not be the right college spirit in the various institutions and the MERCURY congratulates Dickinson on these resolutions and hopes that other colleges will follow this lofty example. THERE will be an inter-collegiate oratorical contest at Mt. Gretna on the morning of July twenty-ninth The contest is under the au-spices of the Pennsylvania Chatauqua Society. Our College is invited to participate in the con-test. The Literary Societies should take timely action on the matter. We have much reason to regret that the College was not rep-resented in last year's contest. Considering the fact that last year's contest was the first one of the annual intercollegiate contests, it was considered a great success. Music and other forms of entertainment will be provided to diversify and enhance the success of the contest this year and G. should certainly aid in the advancement of a cause as valuable as this one. "GIVEN A SOLID FOUNDATION," says the Troy Times, "the pupil can go on developing mentally, even after the school days are over. With a smattering of much, and an accurate knowledge of little, the years of school train-ing may prove scarcely better than no educa-tion at all." The paper thus quoted speaks not from any theoretic opinions, but from its observation of life. Out amid the busy world, it observes and says this. Moreover those who follow the smattering method in the time of their school days, come to realize the sentiment expressed when it is late, if not too late, to do better. Even those who were diligent, busy students and attained a fair education and have won a good position among educated people, only lament wherein their preparation was poor and that leniency toward them allowed them to take a position in school beyond their entering standing. What they may have thought, at the time, kind in teachers, their later judg-ment, chastened by experience and observa-tion, does not approve, and they now regard their early treatment as mistaken kindness and wish there had been exercised toward them the truer kindness of strictness in require-ments. Those who are just through and have gone no further than the "Commencement," may say to inquirers after a college course, that they "got in" and "got along" on less than the stated requirements, and were able to "make up," and may try to encourage like deficient applicants; but, after these same persons have been out among men and in the conflict of life, taught by experience and ob-servation, they will be very slow to encourage such a course. Rather will they advise every one to be sure of his foundations, that they be sufficient and solid. For foundations are the first things, both in time and in importance, and first things cannot be done last nor lasting things secured unless the first things be prop-erly done. "A solid foundation" is for life ; man can build upon it. "A smattering of much and an accurate knowledge of little," may see one through college, but from that time on it will prove more and more unservice-able, and become the object of the severest condemnation and remorse on the part of the one who at last awakens to realities. Education is a building. Lay well the foun- 50 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. dations, if it is to be a creditable and abiding one. Our whole college course is only a lay-ing, of foundations ; afterwards we begin to build. * * * ALUMNI PERSONALS.—To an alumnus this is the most interesting feature of a college journal. To this page he turns first of all. Somehow we are all fond of a little gossip and like to talk of one another. Here however we say only pleasant things of the "boys." We trust this year to make this column of still greater interest to the Alumni than we have been able to make it in the past. Our men are in the front rank, at the bar, in the halls of legislation, in the pulpit, in the medical profession, and indeed in all the walks of life. Pennsylvania College can be proud of her sons. It is our purpose to tell one another what is being accomplished by these worthy sons of Alma Mater. We must have help from the Alumni. Can we not expect that each man will feel it his duty to post the edi-tors of any mark of achievement in the life of any brother? Send us marked copies of papers containing interesting items of news in reference to the work and the advancement of Alumni. Or send a postal. We shall be much obliged for this help and we promise to do our share of the work in making this page worth the price of the paper. G. DR. GILMAN AND THE HOPKINS UNIVERS-ITY.— There is a possibility that Dr. Gilman will tender his resignation as President of the University to accept the Superintendency of the public schools of New York City. Pres-sure is now being brought to bear on Dr. Gil-man by the leading men of New York, among them Mayor Strong. But the Trustees of the University, the Alumni and the business men of Baltimore are doing all in their power to re-tain their president. Just now the institution is financially embarrassed on account of the condition of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, in who^e stock the University has large holdings. The business men of Balti-more have met and made a very successful ef-fort to tide over the difficulty. Subscriptions amounting to $150,000 were made in one even-ing, and it is expected that more than double this amount will very soon be subscribed by those who feel that the cause of education is the cause of the people and must be maintained at any cost. The Alumni have spoken with no uncertain sound in reference to their Presi-dent's withdrawal from the institution, and it is now believed that Dr. Gilman can be re-tained. Might we not sa5' just here that Dr. McKnight's withdrawal from our institution, at this time, would be equally unfortunate with the withdrawal of Dr. Gilman from the Hop-kins. We have heard the expression of many Alumni and it is the unanimous verdict that Dr. McKnight cannot be spared now from our beloved institution. We suggest that the Alumni, as many have done, send in their in-dividual appeal to the Board, expressing their conviction in this matter. Dr. Gilman has been twenty years with the University and has led the institution to its commanding position. Our president has been with our institution but twelve years, and we feel safe in saying his success in that position is not less marked than that of Dr. Gilman. Let these men be shown that loyal support and undivided inter-est in their work will be given them, and then wefeel sure that both institutions can retain their honored and successful leaders for many years to come. Baltimore city and the trustees and alumni of the Hopkins University have spoken for Dr. Gilman. Now let the Trustees, the Alumni, and all the friends of our college speak for Dr. AicKnight. The institution needs him now as much as it ever needed him. G. MUNICIPAL REFORM. From that eventful time when our first par-ents, hy their one disobedience, "brought death into the world and all our woe," it has been habitual with man and all human institu- THK COLLEGE MERCURY. 5i 1 tions to corrupt themselves—to aim rather at selfish, transitory things than at the high and noble. But at the same time that this evil principle entered the world there also entered a counteracting influence for good in the I prophecy of enmity between Man and Satan. ' Hence, from the foundation of the world, we have had. these two opposing influences or powers running side by side in all human his-tory. In individuals, we see them present in varying proportion ; there never was a man so base that he had.not some good in him, nor one so devout that he had not the stamp of the fall upon his life. Likewise in respect to sys-tems, institutions, or influences extending throughout the land, the same principle ob-tains ; if we see an evil tendency exerting its influence in nation, state and city, it is natural that there should be—Nay ! we are often sur-prised if we do not find—some counteracting influence, some positive effort made to oppose it. One of the greatest national, state and mu-nicipal evils, which eats at the very vitals of our country, is the corruption into which poli-tics has been degraded. The republican prin-cipal of politics, a principal of the very loftiest character, which makes of the individual a king and of his right of suffrage a sceptre, has been brought down almost, we might say, to the brute-level of cupidity and avarice by a class of political bosses, office-seekers, and their overwilling dupes. We are proud to call ours "The Government of the People," but we are forced to confess that, at some times and in some sections of the country, the gov-ernment no more represents the people than does some foreign power. The picture—far removed from reality though it is—of each man going to the ballot-box and .there deposit-ing a mandate which is in perfect accord with what he conceives to be for the best interests of his country and good citizenship ; of honest election officers counting these ballots each and all exactly as they were meant to be counted ; and finally of the candidates elected by them performing their duty in accordance with their sworn oath and without fear or favor, need not be, as we are compelled to confess it now is, an ideal picture. Yet why in the name of republicanism, of justice, and of personal honor, is it not reduced to practice ? Simply because the vote of the individual voter does not represent his conception of duty ; and be-cause every individual in our country's vast political system does not do his individual duty. The only true reform is the reform of the in-dividual : these vague, general reforms will accomplish little or nothing. You may cry Reform ! Reform ! till you are hoarse, but if you do not aim at the individual your energy is wasted. In our own day much is made of the cry : "Educate the masses ! ! " Educate the individuals and the masses and every other class will take care of themselves. We are also accustomed to say that in this country there are vast systems, trusts, syndicates, monopolies, corporations, etc., as though these terms represented single and indivisible powers, whereas none of them is • possible save through individuals. Municipal reform aims decisively at the re-form of the individual ; perhaps no reform ever instituted has this principle more inherent in it. Some one says that "the weather-vane of popularity is pointing in the direction of Municipal Reform ; '' and who can deny that it is the burning need of the age ? At a time when political corruption exists in so many forms that it is impossible adequately to enum-erate them. Nor need we go outside of our own commonwealth to find abuse of public trust; where the last schedule for State sup-plies included seal card cases, four-dollar pocket knives, twenty gallons of fine bay rum, and many other luxuries for the State officials and their clerks, all of which is furnished at the expense of the tax-payer, of course ; and where, as in one instance of which we have heard, a man may secure a position and then hire some one to do his work for less than his own salary, thereby making a neat little mar-gin. It seems, sometimes, that ours is no 52 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. longer an age of "push" but an age of "pull." Pull, political pull, is a great thing to-day, and oft-times it seems that the man who has none of it has but a poor chance. There seems to be a premium placed upon vice and underhand methods rather than on good citizenship. As the young mayor of Syracuse has well said : "Silence and the power of the almighty dollar are often mistaken for statesmanship." The apparent failure of a new movement in certain localities or along certain lines is no proof of its real failure. This principle of Municipal Reform has existed in politics ever since there has been corruption, we may say, but never in such an organized form as it is to-day ; in this sense, then, it is a movement entirely new, and therefore that it should meet with obstacles is but to be expected. Often hinderances in a movement of this kind serve but to establish it more firmly. At a recent election, in a neighboring city, a reform candir date was overwhelmingly defeated ; instead of giving the movement a deserved set-back, as some newspapers wished it to be believed, it had the effect of establishing it more firmly. If any one man deserves more credit than another in starting this reform, it is Dr. Chas. H. Parkhurst, of New York : he it was who first put the reform into active practice and took such an important part in the Lexow in-vestigations. Mayor Strong, Theo. Roosevelt, and others, might be mentioned as prominent men in the movement; the latter of these it was who said : ' 'The man serves his party best who-serves his State well. The man who has to be bribed with office or promise of patron-age, is a curse to the party to which he be-longs." Since first started, the movement has taken on definite shape and there are associa-tions in New York City, Brooklyn, Chicago, Buffalo, St. Louis, Syracuse, Harrisburg, and other cities. Their establishment has had the effect of raising the standard of political candi-dates. Their purpose is not necessarily to an-tagonize the old parties, but, if these fail in their duty to nominate good candidates, to run an independent ticket into the field. These associations are known under various names, as the "Taxpayers' Eeague," "Citizens' Re-form League," etc. The Taxpayers' League of St. Louis recently served an injunction on the mayor of that city preventing him from obtaining salary for some time during which he was absent from the city. It cannot be denied that this reform is a real power for good, and not a hollow machine, as many other political parties and organizations; that it is an offspring of good citizenship, is thoroughly American, and is resolved "that the Government of the People, for the People and by the People shall not perish from the earth." C.,'97. "MEDUSA WITH GORGONIAN TERROR GUARDS THE FORD." "They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment, And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe, All in one moment, and so near the brink ; But fate withstands, and to oppose th' attempt Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford, and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight, as once it fled The lips of Tantalus." —Paradise Lost: Book II, lines 60U-61U. The torments of hell are here described. The damned, with parched lips and burning brows, are permitted to approach to see that which would relieve their sufferings ; but to touch and experience that relief is strictly guarded against by the Gorgonian monster, Medusa. Here it was the punishment of the damned which furnished the excuse for their exclusion. We find the same decree of fate expressed in ancient Pagan history. The ancients were wont to say. "The gods have placed a price on every good and noble pleasure," thereby conveying the idea in our homely expression, "that he who dances must surely pa)' the fiddler." And further, we find that in our glorious day of free governments, free schools, advanced civilization and advanced scientific investiga-tion and discoveries, none has arisen to re-lieve us from the certainty that just punish- THK COLLEGE MERCURY. 53 ment will follow evil doing ; that just and logical results must follow every cause ; that reaction is equal to action and opposite in di-rection in both moral, mental, and spiritual, as well as in the physical ramifications of na-ture's workings. Evil doing to-day receives its punishment as it did in days of yore—as it did in the darkest dajs of superstition. A wrong act leaves a diseased spot on the in-dividual or the social fabric, or perhaps both. Action is imparted, and reaction is a resultant of the forward movement. Sin begets sin just as surely as it did when Adam disobeyed the laws of God in Eden's paln^ garden. There is a line of demarkation between good and evil; there is a limit to any activity of mind, body, or soul, where the human being must stop and gaze and wonder, for "Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards the ford." Every one of us desires to go beyond. We desire to know more and see more of the mys-teries of nature. One cannot follow the pro-gresses of political science to-day without recognizing and paying tribute to the enor-mous intellectual energy directed in these channels. There is a magnetism in mystery. We watch the astronomer of to-day with his hand upon the modern telescope, and with the data of Herschel, Kepler and Tycho Brake as his alphabet, step from one palace chamber to another of God's domain and, with flushed cheek and bated breath, look upon the opening fields where human eye never gazed before. But who has followed the trend of our scientists and has not found that every one of them, in his highest strain, oversteps the boundary of the natural and attempts to pass into the domain of the unknown and the mys-terious and, like the damned of Hell, to be met by the horrid head of Medusa ? A man can go but a short distance among the phenomena of nature until he finds other and new laws flashing athwart his mental vis-ion— laws whose origin and the majority of whose operations lie beyond his faculties. They are like the comet which comes sud-denly within our field of vision and as sud-denly disappears, while we realize that, ex-cepting the small arc its vast parabola lies far beyond our glasses. It is here where these changeless laws from a realm beyond counteract, hold in check, or co-operate with the equally changeless laws of the realm of our acquaintance, that a man's philosophy either makes or unmakes him. It is here that a scholarly man becomes either the firmest and most faithful of Christians, or the saddest and most dissatisfied of sceptics. It is here that a finer set of faculties, more delicate, more finely poised than the merely intellectual, is either crushed and held under foot, or expands and blossoms into the full majesty of perfected humanity. It is here by the ford of Medusa's guardian-ship that man must recognize that the human mind is so constituted that a sin against that constitution and legitimate mode of thinking is fatal to all righteous conclusions. The man who pries into the domain of nature anywhere will find that to repress any inquiry which the constitution of the mind demands, is done at the cost of intellectual freedom. Even among the most hidden things of earth's fauna or flora, or of the composition of her inorganic crust, or the record of her rock bed, so strangely, yet we can not help thinking, so truthfully written we dare not repress the question of "how" and "when" and "why." The day is not far distant when the world will open its eyes upon a perfect calculus, a diviner science, a complete and responsive philosophy. That day will the world read the law above all the enactments of human codes, the same in all times and in all circumstances. It is the law written by the finger of God upon the heart of man. This, then, will be the line of demarkation—this, the guardian of the ford, not the horrid, snake-haired Gorgon sister. G.W. E./97. GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED. The girls that are wanted are pure girls; Pure from the sole to the crown ; Pure as the lily which white and fair, 54 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. Sheds its sweet fragrance everywhere. The girls that are wanted are girls of sense, Who will do the right at any expense ; Girls that are loving, girls that are true, These are the girls for me and for you. The girls that are wanted are good girls ; Good to their sisters and brothers, Good to their mothers who give them advice Desiring their daughters to always be nice. The girls that are wanted are girls of heart; From whom the truth shall never depart, Girls that are pretty, girls that are fair; These find lovers most everywhere. The girls that are wanted are wise girls ; Wise as old Solomon King, Wise that they know what to do and say To drive the wrath of the household away. The girls that are wanted are girls of wit; ' Upon whom malice and pride find no fit, Girls that are clever, girls who are kind These are the girls we leave not behind. The girls that are wanted are ready girls ; Ready and anxious to please, Ready and willing unto others to do, The same you'd have others do unto you. The girls that are wanted are of intellect; At least enough for self-respect. Girls who are prudent who understand For these there's a constant and steady demand. J. W. W., '99. THE following poem was written lately by our friend, Major Robbins, at a small social. The poem, no doubt, will be much appreci-ated and especially so, as coming from its author: The flower I like is the beautiful dogwood, I am not very sure a Theolog would : To call that a rhyme is a silly pretense, But perhaps it may answer to save my five cents. We have in this room quite a bevy of girls With their roguish eyes and their graceful curls, And every bright eye is shooting a dart That pierces some helpless Theolog's heart. Every now and then from these clustering curls Love sallies out and his banner unfurls, And each Theolog cries, while gasping for breath, Oh ! give me a sweetheart or give me death. I tell you when love and Theology mix, It puts a fellow in a terrible fix; The only relief is to steal a sly kiss Which quickly transforms all the trouble to bliss. W. M. R. COLLEGE SLANG. At Columbia University a few members of the American Dialect Society have undertaken the work of collecting information about col-lege slang as found in the different colleges and universities of the country. Among the many expressive words belonging to this class, the following are a few which seem to be in general use among college students : Balled up—Meaning to become badly con-fused. To have a cinch—To enjoy special favor or advantage. Co-ed—A female student at a coeducational school. Ctam—To study hard immediately before, and for the sake of an examination. Crib—To plagiarize, and to use a help in ex-amination. Flunk—To make a failure. Frat—Abbreviation for fraternity. Fresh—Forward or meddlesome. Also.short for freshmen. Grind—To study hard and continuously. Also to make fun of. Horse—To use improper helps, to plagiarize. Also a noun, meaning an improper help. Jolly—To tease or jest with. Plug—To study laboriously. Also a per-son who is generally disagreeable. Phase—To embarrass, or disconcert. Pony—Same as hotse. Pull—To gain favor from. Also as noun, same as cinch. Prep—Preparatory student. Also the pre-paratory department. Queer—To ridicule or jest with. Ride—To use a hotse in examination. Roast—As a verb, to assign a difficult task. Also to guy and to censure. Also to treat un-fairly, as by an umpire in a ball game. As a noun, an easy task. Sheepskin—Graduating diploma. Trot—About same as horse. COLLEGE LOCALS. EDMUND W. MEISENHELDER and EDMUND L. ROLLER, Editors. The trip to Millersburg on Saturday, May 23, is one that will be long remembered by the boys of the musical clubs. Leaving Gettys-burg at 11, A. M., after a two hours' wait at Harrisburg, we arrived in Millersburg at 5 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 55 o'clock, Saturday afternoon. The town, we found, was some distance from the station, and on an elevation considerably higher than we were used to. We went immediately to the church to practice, and, after practice, were assigned our places of entertainment. From this on, our pleasant times continued unbroken until we left. The boys can never get done talking about the royal and cordial way in which they were all entertained by their hosts and hostesses ; and it went very hard for some of them to come away on Monday morning. The concert, in the evening, was very suc-cessful in every way, and an audience of about 400 greeted us. A natural delicacy, of course, forbids us to dwell long upon the success which attended everything connected with the con-cert, but let it be said that whatever reputation ,the Gettysburg College Glee Club lost at Han-over and York was doubly regained at Millers-burg. The fact that the manager received numerous requests for a repetition of the con-cert on Monday evening shows how the peo-ple appreciated it. The boys were pressed into service while there. On Sunday, at the morning service, they sang "Come, Said Jesus Sacred Voice," and assisted in the singing of the hymns. In the evening, at the Young Peoples' meeting, the Octette and the Violin Quartette led the music. A reception was given the clubs on Satur-day evening, after the concert, by Mr. and Mrs. Lark ; and one on Sunday evening, by the Misses Freck, and both occasions were the source of considerable enjoyment. In fact, we were royally entertained, all the time and anywhere we went, by the Millersburg people, and the boys will always remember and appre-ciate it.' SOME NOTES CONNECTED WITH THE TRIP. Miss R., from Irving, characterized Ott as "sweetness long drawn out," and our man-ager, Louie, as "concentrated sweetness." Coming along Market street, in Harrisburg, S.,'99, was observed to tip his hat on several occasions to the wax figures in the milliners' windows. As we came through Harrisburg on the re-turn trip, some of the club were inveigled into the Russ restaurant on Market street by the proctor, and it was only by the heroic efforts oflsettthat they could be gotten out again. The sandwiches were 10 cents a piece. Although the Glee Club may have gotten a little "flat" on Annie Laurie on Saturday night in Millersburg, they were sharp enough when they sang Fanny Laurie going down Mulberry street in Harrisburg. S., '99, in Harrisburg tried to "shake" the rest of the fellows and slip into a saloon, but he was too closely -watched. Mr. O., '97, (at our reception Sunday night, holding a hassock under his arm)—"If any-body has a quarter they may have this.'' Miss F.—"Oh, wait, I'll go and ask Pa. to buy you for me." O. will not admit he was sold. The Sons of Hercules are not in it with the Glee Club when it comes to carrying a piano up a narrow winding stairway to the second floor of a church. Such was the experience of the octette on Saturday evening. The Sophomores have taken up surveying and, as far as we know, like it. Dr. N. has plenty of fun at their expense, especially when they strike a new instrument. The matches for the preliminaries of the Tennis Tournament have been arranged and will be played off in the coming two weeks. Philo Debating Club held a banquet on Fri-day evening, May 29, at Hotel de McCul-. lough. The occasion was one of much enjoy-ment. The Class of '98 have elected their Spectrum Staff which is as follows: Editor, E. W. Meisen-helder, Jr.; Ass't Editor, Charles T. Lark; Associate Editors, Miss M. Naomi Myers, Miss Effie E. Hess, C. M. Nicholas, C. E. Fleck, Charles H. Tilp; Business Manager, S. M. Lutz; Ass't Business Managers, Chas. T. Fite, Robert W. Woods, Paul F. W. Kuen-dig, Herbert Finch, J. A. McAllister; Illus-trator, E. L. Koller; Assistants, Robert M. Culler, A. G. Fuss, H. B. Erdman. During the visit of the Chester Cadets to Gettysburg, they were serenaded by the Col-lege Octette at their quarters in the Hotel Gettysburg. The cadets expressed their ap-preciation of the serenade in more ways than one. We were glad to notice, also, that dur-ing their visit, the flag was floated from the cupola of the dormitory—a "good thing"—it ought to be there oftener. Dr. N.—Mr. E., what is the cube of four? S. of a P. M.—Forty-eight. 56 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. In speaking about the food of the Romans, in the Sophomore class the other day, the gen-eral sentiment was against garlic; but "B. A." T whispered to his neighbor that garlic May be all right under certain circumstances. We suppose he has tried. Dr. B. (In Private Life of the Romans)— What are neat cattle ? N.,'98—Why, pretty or graceful ones. Dr. B.—What is pleurisy ? "Meadow" L.,'Q8—Heart disease. (He had just returned from Millersburg). L.,'98 (who teaches English Grammar in Prep.), was making strenuous efforts to form the passive voice of the verb "to be," but he did not succeed. Eddie, '98, was seen hurrying up town, and upon being asked the reason of his haste, re-plied that ' 'they did their pressing together.'' There is 110 occasion for alarm, for the Sopho-mores are studying botany. Mr. E., of Prep., whose attempt to get an American wife was noticed in the last MER-CURY, was walking up Baltimore street the other evening, carrying a basket for a young lady, and, looking around in all directions, told the young lady that he was afraid the MERCURY staff would see him. T.,'98, astonished the class the other morn-ing by translating a passage in Greek "Arouse, ye hotse-bearing Trojans!" It looks very suspicious, he must have had such a subject on the brain. The way in which the class base ball games have been played lately remind one very much of the way in which the recent prize fights have been fought off—by talk. One class will chalk in large letters its exploits all over the buildings on the campus, and the other will chalk all over the town their exploits. This practice is nothing short of vandalism, and there should be an end of it. The "flittings" in college have become the fashion, it seems. The last man to have his possessions removed was "Sam," of the first floor east. Who'll be the next ? Prof. H.—Was there ever any sectional party spirit in the United States ? Mr. B.,'96—I don't know of any. Prof. H.—How about the war? Mr. B.,'96—Oh, yes, I remember now. There was. Quite a give-away of your age, Bruby. Dr. B.—While there is life the chemical forces help to build up the body, what do they do when the body is dead ? Eddie,'96—(In a hurry)—Kill it. Dr. H.—Mr. K., why did Moses ascend Mt. Nebo? Mr. K.,'99—To see the Children of Israel. Mr. D., '99, recently asked one of his fel-low classmen, "Where are the capillary veins ?'' Dr. S., '99—"Now, Mr. T. will you please describe to me the course of the blood through the body. Supposing a chip to be in the blood, where would it go after it enters the aorta ?'' Mr. T.—"Down." Dr. S.—"Pshaw, no ! It would go up." Mr. T.—"Well the chip, to which I refer, would go down." Recently, a young lady of town was heard to remark to another lady, "But his arms are so short." On inquiry it was found that the per-son under discussion was Mr. S., '98. We surely expected better things from you "Sivy-" Mr. F., '98, who is now studying Homer's Iliad, asked a fellow classman recently whether there wasn't also a VitgiV s Iliad. Mr. K., '99, recently requested Mrs. "Gov" to iron "wrinkles" in his pants. The pants were creased to suit Joe. Ask Mr. W., '97, about the efficiency of the University police. If "Billy" didn't see all of the relay race, he saw the police and the man-ager of the events. We are sorry that he could not be present with his men, as we are sure that it would have inspired them to greater efforts. "Stocky" is said to be in doubt whether he wishes to be a Lutheran minister or a U. B. minister. It is, however, a fact that he has been up to visit at the U. B. parsonage every night for the last week. Mr. E., '97, remarked in the class-room that it wouldn't do to send the Indians west to the reservoirs. Mr. N., '98, sings with the poet, "Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep." but for reasons given by Dr. H., the sleeper must not snore in balmy sleep. Mr. D., '99, is very much in love, for on the night of April 4th, he laid everything at THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 57 the feet of his young lady friend. "Well, the idea!" she exclaimed. Thus repulsed, Robert took up his bed and walked; the burden on his back only exceeded by the varied emotion which filled his heart. A very interesting lecture was delivered on Thursday evening, May 7th, by the Rev. F. W. Staley, of Middletown, Pa. The subject of the lecture was "An Hour's Ride with Sheridan ; " and it was delivered in a masterly manner. The lecture was worthy of a much larger attendance. Mr. C.,'98, says that women cook eggs with hour glasses. Dr. N. (drawing a small circle on the board)—Now, Mr. Z. ('98) how can I get in? Mr. Z., it is needless to say, was unable to answer. Mr. T./98, remarked that a certain young man was well /^versed in the Bible. At the wild-flower show, on the night of the 12th of May, a- young lady remarked to a "Sem." that she was going to write a poem on his mustache. He replied that it was all right, but he would first make a good impression on her with his mustache. Mr. F., '98, says "I am and am ashamed to own it." We are in doubt whether Charlie means that he likes frogs so well or whether he means to confess that he crawled on the bed when he saw one. Mr. S.,'99, has made a new discovery. He says: "The skin is an organ of the body, both of exphation and presperation. There are a few Spectrums left. If any are wanted, notify the business manager immedi-ately. Ask Mr. E. (1900) whether he likes soda-water and whether he carries only a nickel at a time. Recently Ralph left two young ladies standing on the street, while he glided into a neighboring drug store and regaled himself with soda. It is needless to say that he made a favorable impiession on the ladies. Nick suggests that when you come to a large tree, which is in the way while survey-ing, you sit down and rest. Mr. F.,'98, told us that to obtain the num-ber of yards all you would have to do is to multiply the number of feet by three. Mr. C.,'98, tells us that a tonsorial artist, in I is the white-the days of Rome, was one who took care of the nails. Dr. B.—Now, Mr. R., it says here that pea-cocks were considered as the ne plus ultra of table luxury, what does that mean ? Mr. R.,'98—Oh ! that means that they never were used as food. Dr. M. (correcting Mr. W.'s translation in German)—"Mr. W. place the hind legs after the object, since you will rarely find them in front." A Sophomore wit recently propounded the following problem to one of his class-mates : "Mathematically speaking, how many are there in Pop's family? " His class-mate was unable to answer and he replied, "Two and one to carry." Dr. B. to Mr. S., '97—Which gate more easily found on a dark night, a washed one, or one not white-washed? " Mr. S., '99—A white-washed one, but I be-lieve I can find any kind of a gate after dark." Dr. B.—"But Mr. S., you know that little boys ought not to be out late at night." Dr. B.—"Now Miss W., what was the ques-tion I asked ? '' Miss M., '98—"I don't know." Dr. B.—"He that hath ears to hear let him hear." Mr. C, '96, recently asked whether "tur-nips were not about ripe." From the ques-tion one might think that he was not from the country but his appearance gives him away. Mr. F., '98, will soon develop into a fine base-ball player. His strongest position on the team is left field. In this place Herby covers everything outside of the foul-line. No previous class has ever made a greater success of psychology than the present Junior class. So bright are they that Dr. McKnight generally permits them to leave the room long before the period is over. ALUMNI-I,. C MANGES and CHARLES H. TILP. Editors. '44. Messrs. P. Anstadt, D. D., and Sons, of York, Pa., have just issued a very conveni-ent and suitable "Teachers' class-book tor Sunday-schools." '50. M. Valentine, D. D., ED. D., has been 58 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. .elected President of the Board of Control of Maryland College, Lutherville, Md. '57. Rev. H. L. Baugher, D. D., president of the General Synod, will be one of the speak-ers at the reunion of the Lutherans of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan, at Witten-burg College, Springfield, O., June 3. '57. Rev. D. M. Gilbert, D. D., of Harris-burg, delivered the Baccalaureate sermon at Maryland College, Lutherville, Md., on May 31st. '61. Rev. J. B. Remensnyder, D. D., of New York city, at the 200th anniversary of the Collegiate Reformed Church of that city, represented the Lutheran church. Dr. Rem-ensnyder said that the Lutherans did not at first meet anything save opposition from the Dutch, but he added that this opposition could the more easily be forgiven since it arose from an excess of zeal for righteousness. The speaker briefly outlined the early history of "the Lutheran Church in this country and her devotion to orthodoxy, and ended with an appeal for.Christian unity. '63. The Rev. George U. Wenner, D. D., who for twenty-two years has been one of the secretaries of the Evangelical Alliance, has been appointed delegate to the Jubilee Confer-ence which is to be held at Mildmay Park, London, from June 30th to July 4th. He has accepted the appointment, and expects to sail on the 17th of June. The Alliance was or-ganized in 1846, at which Dr. S. S. Schmucker was one of the delegates from America. ''63. Rev. E. J. Wolf, D. D., will be the principal speaker at the 20th annual conven-tion of the Lutheran S. S. Association of Somerset county, to be held in Trinity Church, Somerset, Pa., June 9th and 10th, 1896. '66. Rev. W.' H. Gotwald, D. D., of St. Mark's, Washington, D. C, has resigned. '67. Rev. C. S. Albert, D. D., was on the program for a paper on ' 'Sunday-schools in the Lutheran Church," at the recent conven-tion in Washington, of the Society for Relig-ous Education. '68. Rev. Dr. J. W. Richard, of the Gettys-burg Seminary, Sunday, May 17th, preached the Baccalaureate sermon to the graduates of the Waynesboro, Pa., High School. '68. Memorial Lutheran Church of Harris-burg, Pa., Rev. Lee M. Heilman, D. D., pastor, will dedicate a fine organ the latter part of June. Rev. H. H. Weber, '82, of York, Pa., will preach the sermon. '68. Rev. A. S. Hartman, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Home Missions, lately made a trip through the Pacific States. '69. The repairs and renovation of St. John's Lutheran Church, Charlestown, S. C, Rev. E. T. Horn, D. D., pastor, cost over $8,000. '70. The Rev. G. F. Behringer, of Nyack, N. Y., has been appointed one of the "uni-versity preachers" for the fall term.of Cornell University, by President Schurman. '71. Rev. Jno. Wagner, D. D., of Hazleton, Pa., will deliver the annual alumni address on Tuesday of Commencement week. '71. Rev. D. T. Koser, pastor of the Arendtsville Lutheran Church, at a recent communion added thirty-three persons to his church. '71. Rev. W. H. Dunbar, D. D., delivered the annual address before the Y.- M. C. A. of Maryland College, on May 31st. '72. Judge S. McC. Swope held court in Chambersburg on the 26th of May, for Judge Stewart. '72. Rev. J W. Poffenberger, of Leech-burg, Pa., is looking up the interests of our .church at Vandergriff, Pa. '73. Rev. E. H. Leisenring, Rev. H. F. Kroh, '84, and Rev. H. C. Alleman, '87, all of Chambersburg, Pa., have been appointed an executive committee to arrange for a Luth-eran Reunion at Mont Alto in September. '73. Rev. John A. Wirt, D. D., of Des- Moines, la., has been elected President of the Ministerial Association of that city. The ser-mons of Dr. Wirt are very much appreciated and are frequently requested for print. His Easter sermon was printed in pamphlet form and 900 copies were distributed among the members of the congregation. '73. An article on "The Roman World in the Times of Christ," by Rev. Jeremiah Zim-merman, appeared in the April number of the Lutheran Quarterly. '73. Rev. Philip Graff has become con-vinced that the proper way to fish for men is to go out into deep water. So it seems. He has left us and accepted a call to a Free Will Baptist congregation in Oakland, Cal., quite THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 59 near the Lutheran Mission with which he once was connected. '74. St. Mark's Lutheran church of Han-over, Pa., Rev. Charles M. Stock pastor, has decided to build a parsonage for the Cold Springs mission in Adams county, Pa. Rev. Mr. Stock became greatly interested in the work, and now has interested his people. This is a most unselfish and charitable act. '75. Rev. M. L. Young, Ph. D., of Meyers-dale, Pa., a member of the Board of Control of Maryland College, attended the first annual meeting of that body at Lutherville, Md., May, 13th. '75. Rev. E. G. Hay, pastor of the Red Hook Lutheran congregation at Red Hook, N. Y., added 22 new members to his church at his Easter Communion. '76. Rev. W. F. Rentz, is having splendid success in his work as pastor of the Lutheran missions in Atchison, Kan. '76. T. C. Sanderson is and has been train despatcher 611 the H. & B. T. R. R. for over twenty years. '77. H. B. Wile, of Carlisle, Pa., was one of the judges at the Philosophical Oratorical contest held in Bosler Hall, Dickinson College. '77. Rev. W. L. Seabrook, of Winchester, Va., will preach the sermon at the 30th anni-versary of the pastorate of Rev. J. S. Snyder at St. Matthews Lutheran church, New Market, Va. '77. We are very glad to note that Dr. John J. Young's article, "The Lutheran Church in Relation to the Inspiration of the Holy Script-ures," first printed in the Lutheran Quarterly, has been published in a separate pamphlet. It is certainiy an instructive article. '77. Rev. J. A. West is having success in his work as pastor of the Lutheran church at Bryant, Ind. '78. H. Max Lentz, of Florence, Ky., is the editor of the Boone County Banner, a live monthly devoted to the interests of the Luth-eran churches in Boone county, Ky. Several numbers have found their way to our reading rooms. '78. Rev. and Mrs. O. C. Roth, of Grace English Lutheran Church, "will soon move into their new parsonage, purchased by the church a few days since. Their new home will be on East Baltimore street, near Patterson Park, in a very pleasant section of the city. The house is large and commodious, and will be a pleas-ant home for this hard-working pastor. It is now undergoing repair, preparatory to the re-ception of the pastor's family. '79. Dr. A. C. Wentz, of Hanover, Pa., was recently elected one of the vice presidents of the State Medical Society. '80. Rev. M. P. Hocker, of Steelton, Pa., visited the college for several days about the 1st of the month. '80. The Golden Rule for April 16th contains a portrait engraving and sketch of Rev. M. F. Troxell, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Springfield, and vice-president of the Illinois Christian Endeavor Union. '80. The Baltimore Herald of April 9th pub-lished a poem for Arbor day by Rev. G. W. McSherry, of Taueytown, Md. '80. Rev. W. Stahler, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Lebanon, Pa., recently delivered his lecture on "Travels in Europe" before the people of his former charge at Shippensburg, Pa. The pictures thrown npon the canvass, and the descriptive sketches of the incidents of travel, were of the most interesting character. '80. Mr. Sterling G. Valentine and family were guests at Dr. Valentine's recently. '82. Rev. Chas. R. Trowbridge, pastor of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore. Md., has been granted a vacation from May 1st to September 15th. During this period his address will be Lutherville, Md. '83. R. M. Linton, editor of the Somerset Democrat, attended the Democratic State Con-vention recently held at Allentown, Pa. '83. Rev. W. W. Anstadt, of Bedford, Pa., preached the Baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Bedford High School. The address is highly spoken of in the Bedford papers. '83. Rev. C. W. Baker, missionary secre-tary of the York county conference, in giving his sixth monthly report to the missionary committee, added the following summary of his first six months' work : Families visited, 375, containing 1,600 souls ; business, social and pastoral calls made. '83. St. Mark's Lutheran church, of York, Pa., Rev. P. Livingston, pastor, has resolved upon providing for the extinction of the debt ^resting on the church building. 6o THE COLLEGE MERCURY. '84. Rev. Huber Gray Buehler, professor in the Yale Preparatory School at Lakeville.Conn., accompanied by his wife and several students, will make a tour of Europe, sailing from Bos-ton on the last of June, returning to America the latter part of September. '85. The Homiletic Review for March, which is the embodiment of the best homiletic litera-ture, contains a sermon on "Christ's Teaching Practical," by Rev. Edgar Grim Miller, of Easton, Pa., from the text : "Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven ? '' This text is treated under the three following divisions: Christ's significant silences ; the harm that has come from the dis-regarding of the manifest principle of prece-dence that runs through the Master's teach-ing ; and our clear duty as followers of Christ. '85. Robert Horner, wife and son, of Phila-delphia, are- guests of his mother, Mrs. Caro-line Horner. '86. Rev. O. G. Klinger attended the Sus-quehanna Synod, at Danville. '86. Franklin Manges, Ph. D., delivered the address at Fairfield at the Memorial services on May 30th. '86. Rev. Win. F. Berger, of Gettysburg, Pa., a graduate of our institutions at Gettys-burg and Springfield, is now a member of "The Trumpeters," the successors of the cele-brated Silver Lake Quartette. The company is now on a tour of the whole United States. Mr. Berger makes stirring addresses on tem-perance. '88. Rev. W. H. Harding, of Maytown, has been called to Port Royal, Pa. '88. Rev. Silas D. Daugherty, of Sharps-burg, Pa., has been unanimously elected pastor of Grace Church, the new congregation lately organized in Altoona, Pa. '89. Rev. W. L. Rutherford, pastor of the Lutheran church at Montoursville, Pa., has issued a parish paper bearing the title The Messenger. It has sixteen pages, double col-umn, with cover, and is to be published quar-terly. The first issue gives promise that it will prove helpful to the pastor in his work. '90. The Lutheran church at Aspinwall, Pa., is soon to be dedicated. Rev. H. C. Reller is the pastor. '90. Work has been begun on the new church at Johnstown, Pa., Rev. F. S. Schultz, pastor. The same will cost when completed about $7000. '90. Geo. W. Rowe, who is engaged in the life insurance business in Millersburg, Pa., was in town on business during the last week in May. '90. Rev. Henry Anstadt was in Gettysburg I recently. '90. Rev. U. S. G. Rupp, of Ft. Washing-ton, Pa., reports great progress in his work. He will try to build a new church in the near I future. '91. Rev. August Pollman recently gradu-ated from the Baltimore Medical College with the honor of being Valedictorian. Rev. Pohl-man will circulate among the churches until October next, when he will sail for Africa. '91. David A. Buehler has accepted a posi-tion with the Van Dyke Brothers, who are the largest druggists and manufacturing chemists in Northern Philadelphia. '91. Rev. C. L. Ritter, of Fayetteville, Pa., has accepted the call' to Burkettsville, Md. formerly served by Rev. S. E. Slater. '91. Rev. S. Gring Hefelbower's address has been changed from Berlin, Germany, to Newville, Pa. '91. The Minersville Messenger of May 2nd contains the full sermon on "Doubts and Doubters," by Rev. M. L. Tate. The publi-cation of such sermons is always calculated to do good. '92. Rev. J. W. Ball, of Los Angeles, Cal. was installed pastor of the First Lutheran Church of that city on the 26th of April, Rev. H. L. Yarger and Rev. C. W. Maggart officiating. '92. Rev. G. J. M. Ketner, of New Chester, Pa., will be ordained very shortly in his own church. '92. The; new church at Red Lion, Pa., Rev. H. E. Berkey, pastor, was dedicated on May 24th. Revs. H. H. Weber, of York, Pa., and J. W. Richard, D. D., of Gettysburg, Pa., preached the sermons. '92. On Wednesday evening, May 6th, af-ter prayer-meeting, the pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church,' of Baltimore, Rev. George Beiswanger, was given a pleasant surprise. The first catechetical class presented him with a handsome silver-plated private communion THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 61 set. The presentation was made by a mem-ber of the class. The pastor responded with a few words of appreciation. This is but another token of appreciation for work done in the Master's name. '92. The Adams County Conference of the West Pennsylvania Synod met in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, McSherrystown, Pa., Rev. Ferdinand Hesse Pastor, from Apnl 27th to 29th. The opening sermon was preached by the president. Rev. S. E. Herring. '93. V. R. Saylor has lately finished his third year's work in. the schools of Somerset, Pa. He is now conducting a local normal school at the same place. '93. Frank G. Turner, of Lutherville, Md., graduated from the Law School of Maryland University, June 1st. '93- J- J- Brallier, of Elklick, Pa., who just closed a successful term of school work took a business trip to Pittsburg during the first week of May. '93. W. H. Deardorff graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and has received an appointment in the Meth-odist Hospital. '93. Merle Boyer received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Medico Chirurgi-cal College of Philadelphia. Mr. Boyer was historian of his class. '93. J. Ransom Plank was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia at the last commencement. '94. Win. O. Nicklas was among the boys at college on the 10th and nth. '94. C. F. Kloss is canvassing the State for students for Gettysburg College. He began his work the first of the month. '95. The name of Geo. H. Eckels appears in the Philo Review as an instructor in Latin and Algebra in the Cumberland Valley State Normal School. '95. C. H. Hollinger, who is reading law at Harrisburg, paid a visit to his old friends at college and seminary May 24th. ATHLETICS. CHARLES T. LARK, Kditor. With the completion of the new athletic field, an increased interest in all branches of athletics seems to have taken hold of our students. The athletic spirit of this institu-tion never was at a higher pitch or more uni-versal. During recreation periods, pole-vault-ing, shot-putting, hammer-throwing and jump-ing contests hold full sway. The number of base-ball enthusiasts is unusually large this year, and our many tennis courts are alive with players. The various classes are organizing teams to represent them in the annual athletic games to be held here during Commencement week. We anticipate some very excellent showings in the coining contests. We have much excellent material for field and track athletics, which is as yet undeveloped. There is no reason why we should not have one of the finest athletic teams in the country. The home team defeated with ease the Col-gate University nine on May 7th. The game was called at the end of the seventh inning to enable Colgate to reach the train. The visiting team was at no time in the game. Burns, besides striking out fourteen men, had a home run and a two-base hit to his credit. He is indeed "the hero of Gettys-burg." Tate made three hits one of which was a home run. The following is the score in detail : GETTYSBURG. R White, 3b 1 Sheely, ib 2 Tate, c 4 Burns, p 1 Brown cf o Hartzell, If o Misenh'd'r, ss. 1 Hutton.rf 1 I^icht'b'ger, 2b. o Total ro 10 21 H PO A E 4 14 COLGATE. R Carpenter, 3b. o Sheldon, ss o Ford, S. J., a. o Hodge, ib o Ford, W. S., cf. o Wood, 2b o Hudson, rf o Frame, If o Suuderland, p. o 3 4 5 1 Total o 4 21 9 5 Earned runs—Gettysburg, 3; Colgate, 0. Two-base hits—Get-tysburg, 1. Home runs—Gettysburg, 2. Stolen bases-Gettys-burg, 9; Colgate, 1. Base on bails—Gettysburg, 2; Colgate, 1. Hit by pitched ball—Colgate, 1. Struck out—by Burns, 14; by Suuderland, 5. Time of game—1.45. Umpire—Paul Buendig. Right after the Colgate game the Freshmen defeated the Sophomores in a one-sided unin-teresting game. The victory was due to the hard training of the Freshmen before the game. The score by innings is as follows : Sophmores 2 4 0 0 0 0 0—6 Freshmen 4 9 3 4 4 9 4—27 Batteries—Sophmores, Nicholas, Culler and Geesey ; Freshmen, Roehner and Manges. The Freshmen defeated the Gettysburg Junior team on the morning of May 14th. The game was a very uninteresting one, and resulted in a score of 19 to 9. The batteries 62 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. were : Freshmen, Roehner and Manges ; Get-tysburg, Hartzell and Sheeley. On the afternoon of May 14th a very large and enthusiastic crowd witnessed a game of ball on the home grounds, in which Ursinus received a crushing defeat at the hands of our team. It was a real pic-nic for Gettysburg. Burns received excellent support, for our boys played an errorless game, made fourteen hits and twenty-one runs. Abel and Leisenring, each, made three hits. The Ursinus team went completely to pieces. An entire lack of team work characterized their playing. They made but two hits and many times that number of errors. The following is the score in detail : QBTTYSBURQ. R II ro A URSINUS. Hunson, SS o Cadwall'r, 2b. o Trook, ib o Rahnn, c o Zimm'rm'n,3b o Kugler, If o Scats, cf o Ehler, rf o Laros, p o Ensminger, p. o R H PO A i 6 o 14 White, 3b 3213 Shecly, ib 3080 Leiscnring,2b. 3 3 3 4 Tate, c 4 2 14 1 limns, p 3 1 1 1 Abel, ss 1302 Hutton, r.f 2100 Hartzell, If. 1000 Herman, cf.,. 1 200 Total 21 14 27 11 Total o 2 27 10 17 Earned runs—Gettysburg, 3. Three-base hits—Gettysburg, 1. Stolen bases—Gettysburg, 9; Ursinus, 1 Bases on balls—Gettys-burg, 3; Ursinus; 4. Hit by pitched ball—Gettysburg, 1; Ursinus, 2. Struck out—by Gettysburg, 14; by Ursinus, 12. Passed balls— Ursinus, 1. Time of game—2.20. Umpire—Paul Kuendig. A somewhat interesting game was played on May 16th between the Freshmen and Good Intent. The opposing pitcher had rather more speed than the Freshman were accustomed to and, as the game progressed, his arm seemed to grow stronger. The Freshmen were ahead during the first half of the game, but then by a bunching of hits, Good Intent obtained a lead which '99 was not able to overcome. The Freshmen exhibit the right kind of spirit and deserve credit for their showing against this team. The score by innings is as follows : Freshman .10 331001 1—10 Good Intent 0 0 13 2 12 2 0—14 Batteries—Freshman, Boehner and Manges. Good Intent- Plank brothers. On May 16th, for the first time since conclu-sions have been fought for on the base-ball field, has Gettysburg suffered defeat at the hands of her friendly rivals, the Carlisle In-dian boys. The game was played at Carlisle and had to be called at the end of six innings to allow our team to catch the train. It was a pitcher's battle from start to finish, and in-tensely interesting. Burns did excellent work, striking out thirteen men, while Jamison struck out eleven of our men. We lost the game by our inability to hit the ball at the right time. The batting of Tate was the fea-ture of the game. The score by innings is as follows : Gettysburg 0 0 0 10 0—1 Indians 3 10 0 0 0—4 Batteries—Gettysburg, Tate and Burns ; Indians, Spense and Jamison. The game with F. & M. on the home grounds, May 23d, was somewhat similar in score to the previous game at Lancaster. It is very probable that the score would have been much smaller had not Tate been injured in the first inning. Manges, '99, took his place and although he played well, the. team seemed to be demoralized. Notwithstanding these misfortunes Burns pitched an excellent game, striking out 13 of F. & M.'s heavy hit-ters. Sheibley led the batting for the visitors and Cremer's work behind the bat was of a high order. The tabulated score is as follows : GETTYSBURG. Sheely, ib o i Leisenring, 2b o o Tate, c i o Manges, c o o Burns, p o o Meise'h'd'r, 3b o o Diehl, ss o o Herman, cf o o Krafft, If o o Hutton, rf o o H po A E 1 7 1 o F. & M. . R H PO A Hanibright, 3b. I 11 2 Cremer, c 1 1 10 1 Criswell, p 2005 Graybill, 3b 1 1 1 o Sheibley, 2b I 2 I 4 Gillan, cf 0100 Hosterman, ib. 1 o 14 1 Harr, rf 1000 Kready, ss 1 1 o 2 Total 9 7 27 15 Total 1 1 24 9 Earned runs—P. and M., 2. Two-base hits—F. and M" 1. Stolen bases—F. and M., 5. Double plays—F. and M., 1. Bases on balls—Gettysburg, 4; F. and M., C. Hit by pitched ball—Gettys-burg, 1. Struck out—By Burns, 13; by Criswell, 10. Passed balls—By Gettysburg, 5; by F. and M., 1. Time of game—2 00. Umpire—Paul Kuendig. Unusual interest is being taken in tennis this spring. The courts are in constant Use and a larger number than ever before have en-tered the tennis tournament. The drawings have been made for the tournament and, as the teams are quite evenly matched, we antici-pate many interesting games. Some of the preliminary games have already been played off and the rest will be played off between now and commencement week. The prizes are very fine and everyone is doing his best to win them. FRATERNITY NOTES. PHI GAMMA DELTA. Bro. Wert, '95, of Harrisburg, Pa., recently spent 10 days in our midst. Bros. McConaughy, '80, and Martin, '90, are visiting at their respective homes in town. THE COLLEGE MERCURY. 63 Bros. Stahle, '89; Miller, '85, and Bliut, '90, were lately in town. Bro. Knuble will return from Europe to his home at New York, about the middle of next September. Bro. Fickinger, '94, was recently elected Borough Superintendent of the public schools of Chambersburg, Pa. This is a very impor-tant and desirable position, and Bro. Fickinger was elected to it over seventeen other appli-cants. Bro. Smith, '97, was called home May 23d by the sudden death of his aunt. Bro. Smith, '99, accompanied the musical clubs on their recent visit to Millersburg. Bro. Neudewitz preached at Post Royal, Sunday, May 17th. PHI KAPPA PSI. On the evening of May 15th, the Chapter was most royally entertained at the home of C. S. Duncan, Esq., '82. White, '97, and Lark, '98, who accom-panied the musical clubs on their recent trip, report a fine time. Hart Gilbert, '67, will edit the Star and Sentinel under the new management. We were pleased to meet Bros. Cremer, Gillan, Criswell, Sheibley and Nauman, of the F. & M. team. Reitzell, '96, was called to Pinegrove by the death of Mrs. Farquhar, daughter of Bro. D. R. Miller, '56. A. S. Garver, '56, is at present enjoying a trip abroad. SIGMA CHI. John B. McPherson, '83, has retired from the editorship of the Stat and Sentinel, a weekly town newspaper, after a successful period of six years. He will now devote his entire time to the practice of law. John R. Scott, '89, and William Hersh, '91, are contestants for the Republican nomination for District Attorney. As they are Brothers, we can't show partiality for either's success. The Phi Phi Chapter at the University of Pennsylvania, which has been defunct for a number of years, was revived on Saturday, May 9th. Lawyer, 1900, spent a few days at his home, Westminster, Md., recently. Erdman, '98, spent a few days at Carlisle, recently. He also played with the musical clubs, which gave a concert at Millersburg on the evening of the 23rd ult. PHI DELTA THETA. E. O. Keen, '92, graduated from the Re-formed Seminary, on the 14th of May, being one of five speakers. E. A. Linhart, '89, was elected president of the Pennsylvania Alpha Alumni Association for the ensuing year. F. B. Shaw, '96, is superintendent of the mines at Six Mile Run, Pa. G. H. Kain, and D. J. Forney, spent a few days the beginning of the month with G. H. Eckels, '95, at Shippensburg, Pa. F. W. Friday and J. E. Meiseuhelder spent the 24th of May at their respective homes. ALPHA TAU OMEGA. W. O. Nicklas, '94, spent a few days re-cently with the Chapter. C. H. Spayd, '99, spent Sunday, May 17th, with his parents at Harrisburg. R. L. Smith, '98, who was compelled to go home on account of his injuries, will return to college to take his examinations. M. R. Zullinger, '98, has not improved in health and will not return until next Sept. The Chapter will hold its annual banquet on Wednesday evening of Commencement week at the Hotel Gettysburg. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Messrs. Ritter and Doty attended the dis-trict convention of the Y. M. C. A. at Cham-bersburg, May 1st and 3d ; they were pleas-antly entertained by Mr. Samuel Garver, an ex-member of the class of '42. Mr. Ritter read a paper on the "Influence of the Summer Bible Conferences at Northfield. On Thursday evening, May 21, Mr. David McConaughy, Jr., spoke to the Association of the Organization of the World's Students' Federation. This is one of the most signifi-cant movements of the age, uniting the stud-ents of the world in aggressive work for Christ. 64 THE COLLEGE MERCURY. The "Students' Hand-Book" will soon be out and ready for distribution. From the en-ergy of the committee, we are led to expect a book worthy to be sent in exchange to other institutions. If the students could but realize the inesti-mable privilege of attending the Northfield Conference, more would go, or would con-tribute liberally to send representatives. Three have decided to go. We should send at least five, and even more. It ensures faithful and efficient workers for the ensuing year. It is, too, a more far-reaching advertisement than the victories of our athletic teams. ToW|\l /\ND SEWIINARY NOTES. S. J. MII.I.KR, Editor. TOWN. Many improvements are being made through-out the borough. Old buildings are being re-paired and new ones erected. The Battlefield Hotel, which had been de-stroyed by fire last fall, has been rebuilt and is again open for guests. Monday, May nth, about twelve young ladies of the graduating class of Wilson Col-lege, Chambersburg, were here viewing the Battlefield. About one hundred cadets of the P. M. C. of Chester, accompanied by a number of friends, arrived here 011 Tuesday evening, May 19. . Wednesday evening a camp-fire was held in the Court House and a concert was given by the Cadet Banjo and Mandolin Club to which the students of the College were invited. The program was excellently rendered. Col. John P. Nicholson presided. Col. Hyatt wel-comed the audience to the entertainment and an address was made by Major Robbins of the U. S. Commission. On Thursday evening a drill and dress parade were given on the Pre-paratory campus. They left for home on Fri-day morning, via Washington. Saturday, May 23d, about ninety members of the Union League, of Philadelphia, includ-ing manj' prominent Philadelphians, arrived and spent that day and Sunday on the field. Sunday evening, May 24,the "Trumpeters," a male quartette formerly known as the Silver Lake Quartette, rendered some excellent music to a large audience in the M. E. Church. The gentlemen are engaged in temperance work. After the singing Rev. W. F. Berger lectured 011 "The Power of Christ's Name." A new schedule went into effect on Sunday, May 17, on the P. & R. R. Trains arrive and depart as follows: Arrive 10.05 A. M., 2.05 and 6.05 P. M.; depart 6.40 and 11.05 A. M. and 4.10 P. M. On Sunday the train arrives at 10.25 A. M., and departs at 5.00 P. M. The Commencement exercises of the Gettys-burg High School took place on Thursday evening, May 28th. The graduating class consisted of nine members. The equestrian statues of Generals Meade and Hancock were dedicated on the 5th of June. An excellent program was rendered. The exercises at the Meade statue began at 10.30 A. M., with prayer by the Rev. J. G Walker, of Philadelphia, and at the Hancock statue at 2.00 P. M., with prayer by the Rev. Dr.- H. W. McKnight, of Gettysburg. The State Convention of Sons of Veterans was held in Gettysburg this week and a large number of delegates attended. An excellent program which had been arranged for their entertainment was very creditably carried out. SEMINARY. Rev. Harry B. Stock, of Carlisle, a member of the graduating class, has received a unani-mous call to the Second German Lutheran church, Carlisle. Rev. A. J. Rudisill has .accepted a call to New Bloomfield, Pa. Mr. H. D. Newcomer, of the Junior class, will engage in mission work at Strinestowu, Pa., during the summer. The graduating class consists of twenty-one members. Fourteen out of the class have ac-cepted calls. Mr. J. E. Heindle, of the Junior class, will engage in mission work at York Haven, Pa., during the summer vacation. On Friday evening, May 22, the Rev. Dr. Seiss, of Philadelphia, delivered the annual lecture on "Christian Worship" in the Semi-nary chapel. The discourse was an able and logical one and was well attended, both by the citizens of the town and the students of the College. At the Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest be-tween the Prohibition clubs of various colleges held at Philadelphia, Rev. J: T. Huddle was the successful competitor. His subject was, THK COLLEGE MERCURY. "The Destroyer of the Nation." Prize re-ceived was thirty dollars. Revs. G. C. Cromer and M. J. Killian will engage in supply work in Illinois and Virginia respectively, during the summer vacation. LITEFJARY SOCIETIES. JOHN W. OTT, Editor. PHRENA. The following have been initiated into Phrena Society : Miss Amanda E. Bennett, Oscar Neviu Diehl, Miss Gertrude Frey, Miss Mattie B. 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