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VOLUME  2. 

...  LANSING,  MICHIGAN,  TUESDAY,  JANUARY  19, 1897. 

NUMBER  3. 

Institutes. 

A L L E G A N. 

A  very  successful  institute  was  held 
at  Allegan,  January  11  and  12.  The 
first  State  Institute  was  held  in  Alle 
gan  twenty-one years  ago, and  on Tues 
day  evening  an  anniversary  meeting 
was  held  to  commemorate  the  occa 
sion.  Dr.  Kedzie  and  numerous  others 
took  part  in  the  exercises.;  Mr.  A.  A. 
Crozier  conducted  the  institute.  Other 
members  of  the  "crew",  present  were 
Dr.  Kedzie  and  Messrs.  K.  L.  Butter-
field,  M.  W.  Fulton  and  J.  H.  Brown. 
Mrs.  Mattie  A.  Kennedy  conducted  a 
very  successful  women's  section.  A. 
J.  Braeelin,  Watson,  was  elected  presi 
dent  and  E.  J.  French,  Otsego,  secre 
tary  of  the  Institute  Association.  The 
next  institute  will  be  held  at  Otsego. 

ARMADA. 
On  the  same  days  that  the  institute 
Was  held  at  Allegan,  twenty-one  years 
ago,  another  was  held  at  Armada. 
This  winter  while  Allegan  on  one S'ide 
the 
of 
the  state  was  celebrating 
farmers' 
twenty-first  anniversary  of 
institutes,  Armada,  on  the  other  side, 
was  holding  an  enthusiastic  institute 
and  celebrating 
event. 
Twenty-one  years  ago  Geo. W. "Phillips 
was  president  of  the  Board  of  Agricul 
ture, and  last  week  his  son,  B. F.  Phil 
lips,  gave  the  address  of  welcome. at 
Armada. 

same 

the 

H O L L A N D. 

in 

One of  the  most  interesting  meetings 
of  the  series  was  held  at  Holland. 
It 
was  the  first  meeting  of  the  kind  ever 
held  at  that  place.  A large  crowd  was 
in  attendance  and  the  greatest  interest 
v\ R s  manifested,  especially 
fruit 
topics  and  the  dairy  business.  An 
urgent  invitation  was  extei  led  to  tbv 
Board  of  Agriculture  to  h jld  the"  in 
stitute  next  year  at  the  .same  place. 
Appeals  to  their  generosity,  and  sug 
gestions  that  the  Board  preferred  to 
change  the  place  so as to  accommodate 
other  parts  of  the  county,  were in  vain. 
They  were  willing  to  submit  if  neces 
sary,  but  as  this  was  their  first  Insti 
tute,  and  as  they  had  no  local  agricul 
tural  society  of  any  kind,  they  wanted 
another  opportunity  to  show  that  the 
work  was  appreciated  and  to  bring  out 
a  still  larger  attendance.'  The  atten 
dance  at  the  woman's 
section  was 
small,  but  those  present  were  highly 
pleased  and  gave  Mrs.  Kennedy  many 
demonstrations  of  their  affection  oh 
her  departure. 

P L Y M O U T H. 
R.  M.  Kellogg  conducted  the  insti 
tute  at  Plymouth,  and  large,  enthus 
iastic  audiences  attended  every  ses 
sion.  The  woman's  section,  conducted 
by  Mrs.  Mayo,  was  held  in  the  Presby 
terian  church,  and  the  crowd  was  so 
large  that  a  number  coma  not  gain  ad 
mission. 

H O W E L L. 

The  Saturday  Free  Press  devotes  a 
column  to  a  report  of  the  first  session 
of  a  very  lively  and  'instructive  insti 
tute  at  Howell,  which  was  conducted 
by  Prof.  W.  B. Barrows.  Much  of  the 
time  in  this  session  was  given  up  to  a 
discussion  on silos.  "W.  G. Smith  ['93] 
said  he  knew  that  he  could  keep  his 
seventeen  head  of  cattle  cheaper  on 
ensilage  than  on  any  other' feed.  His 
experience  showed  that  he  was  realiz 
ing  more  fertility  to  his  soil  and  that 

he  had  easier  times  now  than  he  ever 
had  before,  and  was  getting  along  bet 
ter  financially.  He  would  not,  speak 
ing  from  a  selfish  standpoint,  advise 
every  farmer  to  build  a  silo,  as  it 
would  hurt  him  by  bringing  down  the 
price  of  milk." 

F R E M O N T .' 
The  annual  institute  for  Newaygo 
county  was  held  at  Fremont  Friday 
and  Saturday  with  A.  A.  Crozier  con 
ductor.  The  Congregational  church, 
where  the  institute  was  held,  Was  lit 
erally  packed  with  farmers,  who  were 
very  active  in  the  discussions.  "J.  H. 
Brown  gave  an  address  on  the  breed 
ing,  feeding  and 
the  perfect  environ 
ment  of  dairy  cattle  for  best  results 
in  the  production  of  milk  and  butter. 
A good  feature  in the discussion  of  this 
topic  was  the  blackboard  illustrations, 
which  should  be  more  generally  used. 
Prof.  Crozier's  address  on  green  ma 
nuring  was  full  of  good  points,  well 
emphasized,  and  provoked  many  perti 
nent  questions.  M.  W.  Fulton's  talk 
and  exhibit  of  farm  fences  completely 
filled  the  bill  along  this  line." 

M 1 L F O R D. 

The 

institute  for  Oakland  county 
was  held  at  Milford  Wednesday  and 
^Thursday.  The  attendance  was  very 
large, and  a  fine  program  was  carried 
out.  The  state  speakers  were  Sec.  I. 
II.  Butterfield,.A.rM. Welch,  J.  L.Shaw-
ver  and  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Mayo. 

M U S K E G O N. 

At  Muskegon 

the  attendance  was 
large  and  '.'standing  room  only"  was  to 
be  had  at  some  of  the  sessions.  At  no 
place  I  have  visited  has  the  interest  in 
the  subject  of  fertilizers  been  so  great 
as  here.  During  the  past  five  years, 
since  the  lumbering  Interests  have  de 
clined,  fruit  growing  and  market  gar 
dening  have  received  much  attention. 
Muskegon  is  a  beautiful  city  of  some 
33,000  people  and  contains  many  fine 
residences  and  public  buildings.  For 
several  of  the  latter  she is  indebted  to 
her  public-spirited  citizen,  Mr.  Hack-
ley,' who  built  and  gave  to  the  city  a 
magnificent  public  library,  an  indus 
trial  school  and  a  public  park  contain 
ing  probably  the  finest  soldiers'  monu 
ment  in  the  state.  While  in  the  city 
we  had  a  pleasant  call  on  Arthur 
Jones,  '81, one  of  Muskegon's  leading 
lawyers. 

A. A- C. 

Special  Course  in  Fruit  Culture. 

Upon  entering  the  horticultural  lec 
ture  room  one  day  last  week  I  found 
sixteen  young  men,  special  course  stu 
dents,  much  interested  in  Prof.'Taft's 
lecture  en  the  black  peach  aphis.  The 
professor  said  that  the  aphis  was  dis 
covered  four  or.  five  years  ago  in  the 
peach  "orchards  of  Maryland  and  Del 
aware,  and  the effect  was  such  that  the 
growers  thought  at  first  that  their  trees 
had  the  yellows. 

The  aphis  works  oh  both  leaf  and 
root  in  summer,  sucking  the  juices  of 
the  tree.  The  effect  on  the  growth  is 
to  shorten  it  and  to  cause  the  leaves  to 
take  on'a  filmy  bluish" or  leaden  cast. 
Spot&  appear  on  the  leaves;  these  turn 
black,  dry  up  and  drop  out,  leaving 
is 
holes.  On" young  trees"  the'  effect 
worse,  and  may  kill  the  trees  before 
the  end  of  the  first  season. 

The  aphis  has  been  found  in  several 
places  in  this  state,  where  it  has  been 
brought  in  on  nursery  stock. 

On  the  branches  the  insect  may  be 
killed  by  applying  kerosene  emulsion 
or  whale-oil  soap.  On  the  roots  wood 
the  best  results. 
ashes  have  given 
Scrape  away  the  soil  over  the  tender 
roots,  where  the  aphis  works,  and  ap 
ply  from  a  peck  to  a  bushel  of  wood 
ashes.  Salt  has  been  tried,  but  is  not 
so  good.  Kanit  is  also  used.  A  decoc 
tion of  tobacco  stems  is  good.  Carbon 
bisulphide  poured  in  crow-bar  holes 
made  around  the  tree  is very  effectual, 
but  if  much  is  used  may  cause  the 
leaves  to  drop  off  the  tree. 

He  Warned  the  students  against  buy 
ing  trees  from  any  locality  where  the 
aphis  exists,  and  said  it  would  be  a 
good  plan  to  soak  the  roots  of  all  trees 
in  tobacco  water  before  setting  them 
out. 

Professor  Taf t  then  took  up the  sub 
ject  of  pears;  spoke  briefly  of  their 
nativity,  the  difference  between  dwarfs 
and  standards  and  the  good  qualities 
of  each;  named  some  of  the  best  va 
rieties,  gave  directions  for  preparing 
ground  for  a  pear  orchard,  etc. 

In  this  entertaining  and  instructive 
way  he  takes  up  the  various  fruits, 
their  fungous  diseases  and  insect  pests, 
so  that  the  course  of  lectures  can  not 
fail  to  be  of  inestimable  value  to  the 
young  man  who  intends  to  make  fruit 
growing  his  vocation. 

Curious  to  know  what  would  come 
next,  I  followed  the  class  into  another 
room  in  the  laboratory,  where  I  found 
Mr.  Gladden  waiting  for  them.  Here 
the  •students  enjoy  a  daily  fruit  in 
stitute,  with.Mr.  Gladden  as  conductor 
and  lecturer.  On  this  particular  day 
the  discussion  was  upon  fertilizers  for 
the  orchard,  and  many  good  points 
were  brought  out,  not  only  by  Mr. 
Gladden,  but  by  members  of  the  class. 
In  the  afternon  these  students  have 
botany  under  Dr.  Beal  and  agricul 
tural  chemistry  under  Dr.  Kedzie,  be 
sides  library  and  other  work. 

These  young  men  impressed  me  as 
being  here  for  a  purpose,  and  that  pur 
pose  is  a  desire  to  make  the  most  of 
their  opportunity. 

D.  J.  C. 

My  Summer  Holidays. 
DELIVERED  BEFORE  THE  OLYMPIC  SO 

CIETY  BY  A.  M.  PATRIARCHE, 

'98. 

When  that  delightful  season,  sum 
mer,  makes  its  appearance,  most  of  us, 
no  doubt,  look  forward 
to  the  time 
when  we can  lay  our  text-books  on  the 
shelf,  pack  our  valises,  and  go  out  into 
the  world  to enjoy  a  few  weeks  of  holi 
days. 
It  is  at  this  time  that  I  look 
eagerly  forward  to  my  usual  outing  on 
the  waters  of  Georgian  Bay. 

Imagine  it  is  summer  and  come  with 
me  this  evening.  We  leave  on  the 
Grand  Trunk  at  10  p..  m.,  travel  all 
night,.  and  arrive  at  Georgetown,  a 
pretty  village  in  Canada,  about  8  in 
the  morning.  Here  we  change  cars 
and  travel  on till we arrive at  Penetang, 
at  12:30  p.  m.  The  train  takes  us  to 
the  steamer  at  this  place,  and  soon  we 
are  gliding  over  the  blue  waters  of 
Georgian  Bay. 

The steamer  passes  out  of  the  Pene-
tang  harbor  and  makes  a  wide  sweep 
around  a  high  peninsula  into  the  har 
bor  of  Midland.  We  stop  here  a  few 
moments  to  take  on  freight  and  then, 
all  being  ready,  the  lines  are  thrown 
off  and  once  more  we  start  on  our 
journey. 

The  steamer  keeps  on  a  straight 
westerly  course.  On  our  right  and  left 
are  high  hills  thickly  covered  with 
is  a  small 
trees,  and  almost  ahead 
island  upon  which  a  clump  of  trees  al 
most  obscures  from  our  sight  a  small 
white  cottage,  which  is  the  summer 
residence  of  a  New  Yorker.  Passing 
this  island  we  soon  enter  the  main 
waters  of  Georgian  Bay.  Far  away 
on  our  left  is  an  immense  island  cov 
ered  with  a  dense  forest,  called,  from 
•its  shape,  the  Giant's  Tomb.  On  our 
right  the  water  is dotted  here  and  there 
with  shoals  and  islands,  which  make 
it  look  almost  impassable. 

All  is  clear  ahead,  but  the  steamer 
turns  her  prow  and  soon  we  are  wind 
ing  our  way  among the  islands,  swing 
ing  around  a  shoal  here,  and  now  pass 
ing  down  a  beautiful  channel  between 
two  islands  so  close  to  each  other  that 
a  stone  could  be  tossed  upon  them. 
Emerging  from  this  channel,  we  pass 
into  a  clear  expanse  of  water,  and, 
passing  over  this,  are  soon  winding 
among  the  islands  again.  And  so  we 
journey  till  4  o'clock,  when  the  steam 
er 
rounds  into  a  cozy  little  harbor 
called  Indian  Harbor. 

Look  at  the  scene  before  you  as  we 
slowly  float  to  the  wharf.  Who  would 
expect  such  a  sight  in  this  far-off  re 
gion  where  civilization  is  so  scarce? 
Look  at  the  ladies  in  their  gay  holiday 
attire;  how  healthy  and  cheerful  they 
look.  No  cottages  can  be  seen—only 
in 
the  gray,  rocky  islands,  covered 
most  parts  With  a  rank  growth  of 
bushes,  stunted  cedars  and  weather-
beaten  pines. 

This 

is  our  destination. 

This  is 
where  I  spend  my  summer  holidays, 
Indian  Harbor,  25 miles from  the  near-
est  town,  with 
its  grand  and  wild 
scenery,  its  utter  solitude,  where  one 
throws  aside  his  city  clothes,  dons  his 
short  duck  pants  and  jersey,  takes  up 
the  paddle  or  oars  to  wander  among 
the  islands  in a  canoe  or  boat  in  search 
of  game  or  for  discovery. 

The  steamer  stops  but  a  few  mo 
ments,  and  we  start  her  off  by  giving 
three  rousing  cheers,  which  are  an 
swered  by  the  whistle.  Led  by  a  mer 
ry  group  of  girls  and  boys,  we  stroll 
along a  path  across  the island.  As Ave 
emerge  from  a  thick  growth  of  trees, 
we  find  ourselves at  the foot  of  a  slight 
incline  of  bare  rock,  at  the  top  of 
which  is  a  cottage  belonging  to  a  Mr. 
Mason.  We  pass  along  this  slope  and 
soon  come  to  a  bridge,  which  crosses 
a  pretty  little  channel  that  separates 
the  two  islands.  On  the  other  side  of 
the  bridge  we  suddenly  come  upon  the 
other  cottage,  which  is to be  our  abode. 
frame, 
These  cottages,  which  are 
a 
weather-beaten  affairs,  overlook 
channel  which 
the 
islands  and  the  mainland.  They  are 
both  on  the  top  of  a  bare,  rocky  slope, 
and  at  the  foot  of  each  is  a  small 
wharf,  to  which  the  rowboats  are  tied. 
We soon become acquainted  with  the 
people  and  join  in  the  pastimes  of  the 
region.  In  the  evenings  we  sometimes 
sit  around  a  huge  bonfire,or  go  out  on 
the water  to  sing and  chat.  During  the 
day  we  sometimes  go  on  a  picnic  or  go 
fishing. 
If  the  weather  is  bad  we  re 
cline  in  a  hammock  on  the  porch  and 
read,  or  play  games 
in  the  house. 
Swimming  is  also  one  of  the  pleasing 
avocations. 

runs  between 

Thus  I  spend  my  holidays.  Space 
does  not  permit  me  to  describe  the  in-

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T HE  M.  A.  C.  K E C O K D. 

JAWJAKY  19,  1897. 

teresting  trips  that  are  taken  in.  the 
canoe  among  the  islands,  or  the  picnic 
parties  that  we  have.  They  are  to  me 
the  most  enjoyable  pastimes. 

How  fresh  and  healthy  one  feels 
after  such  holidays.  What  a  brown 
complexion  one  wears  instead  of  the 
pale  color  lie  has  in  the  city.  How  re 
luctantly  we  take  the  text-book  from 
the  shelf  once  more; and,  as  we  study, 
how often  are  our  thoughts  interrupted 
by  visions  of  the  summer  holidays  in 
Georgian  Bay. 

At  the  College. 

R.  L.  Stoeoum  has  a  sister  in  the 

women's  course. 

J.  E.  Mayes,  '99m,  was  in  Owosso 

Saturday  on  business. 

January  28  this  College  will  observe 

the  day  of  prayer  for  colleges. 
-  C.  G.  Wing,  of  Ludington,  visited 
his  son,  G.  Wing,  '00,  one  day  last 
week. 

Mrs.  B.  J.  Nichols,  of  Toledo,  Ohio, 
is  visiting  her  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Elderkin. 

Mrs.  I.  H.  Butterfield  is  spending  a 
week  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Ben 
nett,  at  Milford. 

Floyd  Ward  and  Ohas.  Rice,  both  of 
Milan,  Mich.,  visited  F.  W.  Robison, 
'98,  last  Tuesday. 

Geo. Campbell,  '98,  has  just  returned 
from  home,  having  been  detained  by 
a  severe  attack  of  rheumatism. 

At  the  physical  laboratory  an  arma 
ture  recently  procured  in  Jackson  for 
the  large dynamo  is  being  repaired. 

About  twenty  of  the  students  par 
ticipated  in  a  skating  party  near  the 
Industrial  School  last  Friday  evening. 
The Eclectic Society was  recently pre 
sented  with  a  fine  deer  head,  a  gift 
from  Roscoe  Bradley,  of  Newberry, 
Mich. 

B.  O.  Longyear  reports  that  he  has 
heard  robins  nearly  every  day  during 
the  past  week.  The  first  he  noticed 
them  was  on  Jan. 10. 

A  new  side-table,  with  drawers  and 
cupboards  beneath,  has 
just  been 
placed  in  the  milk-testing  room  in  the 
laboratory. 
agricultural 

Matt  A.  Crosby  left  for  his  home  in 
Elbridge  last  Thursday  afternoon.  He 
Is so  well pleased  with  the  College  that 
he thinks  he  will  enter  next  fall. 

Miss  Bertha  Merkel,  of  Manistee, 
who  has  been  visiting  friends  in  Dan-
sing,  called  on  her  brother,  W.  J.  Mer 
kel,  '98m, Saturday  and  Monday. 

Francis  Browning  Owens,  a  poet  of 
some  distinction,  visited  Dr.  Kedzie 
last  Thursday.  He  was  at  one  time 
many  years ago a  pupil  of  the  doctor's. 
S. J.  Redfern's  father  and  brother,  of 
Maple  Rapids,  who  are  employed  in 
the  capitol  this  winter,  made  him  a 
short  visit  last  Thursday. 

E.  A.  Calkins,  '98, who  has  been  suf 
fering  for  the  past  two  weeks  from  a 
severe attack  of  inflammatory  rheuma 
tism,  is  slowly  improving. 

The  King's  Daughters  will  meet 
with  Mrs.  W.  J.  Beal  Thursday.  Les 
son,  the  14th  chapter  of  St.  John. 
Theme,  "Peace."  Leader,  Mrs.  M.  L. 
Dean. 

At  the  State  Millers'  Association 
banquet 
last  Tuesday  evening,  Dr. 
Edwards  responded  to  the  sentiment 
"Wheels,"  and  C.  B.  Collingwood,  '85, 
to  "Ladies  and  Gentlemen." 

H.  E.  Van  Norman,  '97,  spent  Sun 
day  with  friends  in  Jackson.  He  is 
engaged  in  Farmers'  Institute  work 
this  week  and  is  conductor  of  the  two 
days'  session  at  Stockbridge. 

The  Agricultural  College  committee 
in  the  senate  is  composed  of  Senators 
Campbell,  Lawrence  and  Hughes;  In 
the house,  Reps. Graham, Fuller, Camp 
bell,  Oberdorffer  and  C.  G.  Babcock. 

W.  N. Ferris,  of  Big  Rapids,  will  lec 
ture  at  the  First  Baptist  church  in 
Lansing  next  Thursday  evening  on 
"Making the World Better."  Mr.  Ken-
ney  has  tickets  on  sale  at  the  Secre 
tary's  office. 

The  Cooperative  Book-Buying  Asso 
ciation,  which  started  this  term,  prom 
ises  to  be  a  grand  success.  They  are 
doing  a  good  business  and  everything 
looks  favorable  at  present  for  a  pros 
perous  future. 

Our  Manistee  boys  received  a  call 
from  Robt.  Glute,  '96,  while  home  dur 
ing  vacation.  He  is  teaching  school 
in  Marilla,  Manistee  county.  He  re 
lates  exciting  tales  of  deer  hunts  In 
the  pine  choppings. 

A  new  viscometer,  made  by 

the 
American  Brass  and  Novelty  Works, 
of  Grand  Haven,  has  just  been  added 
to  the  equipment  of  the  chemical  lab 
oratory. 
It  is  for  the  purpose  of  test 
ing  the  strength  of  flour. 

The  collection  of  saprophytic  fungi 
being  made  by  the  botanical  depart 
ment  is  steadily  increasing.  Dr.  Beal 
while  out  on  institute  work  secured 
some 
the 
interesting  specimens 
northern  part  of  the  state. 

in 

One  of  the  students  presents  the  fol 
lowing  query:  "Would  it  not  be  wise 
for  the  State  Board  to  petition 
the 
weather  bureau  for  a  new  fair-weather 
flag?  Ours  has  been  up  since  the  night 
of  the  military  hop, December  11, 189G, 
and  is  gitting  a  little  ragged." 

One  of  the  boys  is  authority  for  the 
statement  that  E.  S.  Good  "will  enter 
athletics  next  summer.  He  is in  train 
ing now, for  nearly  every  Sunday  night 
he  walks  home  from  Lansing.  Occa 
sionally,  however,  he  makes  a  100-
yard  dash  down  Michigan  avenue  and 
catches  the  car." 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  Legal,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  W.  Bailey,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  E. 
Thomas,  of  Lansing,  were  the  guests 
last  Friday 
of  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Taft 
afternoon  and  evening. 
The  after 
noon  was  spent  in  visiting  the  various 
departments  at  the  College,  and  in  the 
evening  a  social  time  was  enjoyed. 

The  second  informal  military  hop of 
this  school  year  will  be  given  by  the 
cadets  in  the  armory  on  Friday  eve 
ning,  Jan.  29.  The  one given  last  term 
was  well  attended  and  considered  a 
grand  success.  The  same  officers  are 
in  charge  and  the  prices  are  also  the 
same.  Music  for  the  evening  will  be 
furnished  by  Bristol's  orchestra,  of 
Lansing. 

arrived  last  Friday.  The  lathe  is  from 
the  Hendey  Machine  Co.,  of  '"Torring-
ton,  Ct,  and  has  a  number  of  conven 
iences  not  found  on  the  other  lathes  in 
the  shops.  An  adjustable  gear  makes 
it  possible  to  cut  any  thread,  within 
reasonable  limits,  or  to  change  the 
feed  without  taking  off  or  putting  on 
attachments. 
It  has  an  automatic 
stop  and  the  German  design  tail  stock, 
fast  and  slow  speed  adjustment  on  the 
countershaft,  and  the  carriage  can  be 
run  back  without  changing  the  direc 
tion  of  the  spindle. 

•' Let  there  be  Light."—The  Story  of 
Printing. 

BY  W.  S.  LEONARD. 
(Concluded.) 

RAPID  ADVANCEMENT  OF  THE  ART. 
So  important  an  invention,  meeting 
so. universal  a  need,  could  not  be  kept 
secret.  Nor  did  the  inventors  design 
that  it  should,  except  for  a  limited 
In  a  few  years  Hamburg,  Co 
time. 
logne, 'Strasburg,  Augsburg,  and  every 
important  city  in  Europe  had  its  print 
ing  press  and  issued  books.  William 
Caxton  introduced  the  art  in  England, 
and  established  a  publishing  house  at 
Westminster  Abbey  in  1480.  Here  he 
translated  and  published  many  vol 
umes,  the  last  of  which  was  quaintly 
entitled,  "The  Art  and  Craft  to  Know 
Well  How  to  Die."  Euclid's  Geometry 
was  issued  from  the  press  of  Randolt, 
at  Venice,  in  1482,  and  this  was  fol 
lowed  by  the  works  of  Virgil.  Many 
other  educational  works  were  publish 
ed  in  different  places,  and  thus  t h e. 
printing  press  became  the  great  ally  of 
the  university. 

From  the  time  of  Gutenberg  to  the 
beginning  of  the  present  century  the 
improvements  in  printing  had  been 
comparatively  unimportant.  The  ink, 
type,  and  chase  for  holding  the  type-
together,  have  been  but  little  changed, 
even  to  the  present  day.  But  type-
making  and 
type-setting  machinery, 
stereotype,  electrotype  and  other  pro 
cesses,  developed  during  the  present 
century,  have  added  greatly 
to  the 
printer's  art.  The  perfecting  of  type 
setting  machines  alone  has  required 
many  years  of  experiment.  We  have 
not  space  to  refer  at  length  to  any  of 
these  processes  or  machines,  but  to 
some  of  the  older  professors  it  may  be 
of  interest  to know  that  Mr.  L. G.  Bar-
bor,  a  former  student  of  the  M.  A.  G, 
has  been  for  the  past  three  years  asso 
ciated  with  Mr.  Paul  Cox  in  develop 
ing  the  Cox type-setting  machine.  This 
enterprise  is  backed 
financially  by 
Earnhardt  Brothers  and  Spindler,  of 
Chicago,  where  the  machines  are  being 
constructed. 

It  is said that  on  Thursday  Mr.  Glad 
den  took  the  special  class  in  fruit  cul 
ture  over  to  Abbot  Hall  to  see  the  co 
eds  in  the  cooking  class  make  pan 
cakes,  waffles,  dumplings,  and  other 
dainties.  While 
the 
kitchen  one  of  the  girls,  not  in  the 
class,  thoughtlessly  locked  the  kitchen 
door,  making  them  all  prisoners.  The 
"long  course"  students  are  getting 
jealous. 

they  were 

in 

During 

last  vacation  the  Lansing 
laundries  entered  into  a  combine  and 
raised  the  prices  on  M.  A,  C.  laundry 
far  in  excess  of  what  it  had  been  in 
previous  terms.  Two  enterprising  stu 
dents  at  once  secured  the  agency  for 
the  Owosso  Steam  Laundry,  which  of 
fered  much  lower  rates,  and  it  is  per 
haps  needless  to  say  that  about  four-
fifths  of  the  students'  laundry  went 
to  Owosso  last  week. 

The  mechanical  department  is  plac 
ing  a  new  Hendey-Norton  lathe,  which 

IMPROVEMENTS  IN  THE  PRINTING  PRESS. 
Referring  to  printing  machines  prop 
er,  the  press  constructed  by  Guten-^ 
berg  was  a  very  simple  device.  Two 
upright  beams  were  held  together  at 
top  and  bottom  by  cross-beams. A  large 
screw,  fitting  a  threaded  hole  in  the 
top  beam,  carried  a  flat  board  or  platen 
at  its  lower  end.  Below  this,  and  sup 
ported  between  the  upright  beams,  was 
the  type platen.  The form  of  type  was 
placed  upon  this  platen  and  inked  by 
"sheep-skin 
stamping 
balls."  The  paper  was  then  placed 
over  the  type  and  the  upper  platen 
forced  down  upon  it  by  means  of  a 
lever  and  the  screw.  A  strong  man 
could  print  on  one  side  about  50  sheets 
per  hour. 
THE  FIRST  ROTARY  PERFECTING  PRESS 
NOT  A  SUCCESS. 
No very  radical  departure  from  Gut 
enberg's  press  was  attempted  until 
near  the  close of  the  18th  century. 
In 
deed,  it  was  deemed  impracticable  to 

dabbers 

or 

do  good  printing  otherwise  than  be 
tween  two  flat  plates.  In  1790 William 
Nicholson,  of  England,  patented  a  ro 
tary  perfecting  press.  In  his  machine 
there  were  two  type  cylinders  around 
which  the  type  forms  were  secured, 
and  two  Impression  cylinders.  The 
paper  was  fed  by  hand  over  the  first 
cylinder  and  between  the  first  pair, 
where  it  was  printed  on  one  side. 
It 
was  then  automatically  conveyed  to 
the  next  pair  of  cylinders,  where  it 
was  printed  on  the  second  side.  Cen 
trifugal  force  caused  the  type  to  fly 
from  the  cylinders,  and,  being  unable 
to  overcome  this  difficulty,  he  failed 
to  make  a  successful  machine. 

In  1806,  Friederich  Koenig,  of  Sax 
ony,  devised  a  machine  in  which  a  flat 
bed  with  form  of  type  was  caused  to 
move  back  and  forth  under  a  revolving 
cylinder,  the  impression  being  effected 
by  rolling  contact  of  the  type  forms 
with  the  cylinder. 
In  1814,  Koenig 
built  for  the  London  Times  two  presses 
the  double-cylinder  design,  each 
of 
having  a  capacity  of  800  sheets  per 
hour  printed  on  one  side.  He  also  ex 
hibited  a  double-cylinder  press 
for 
printing  on  both  sides  of  the  paper  at 
one  operation.  All  of  his  presses  were 
of  the  flat-bed-cylinder  class.  A  great 
many  machines  embodying  the  flat 
bed-cylinder  principle,  but  differing  in 
detail,  have  since  been  constructed; 
and  to such  a degree of  perfection  have 
these  machines  been  brought  that,  to 
day,  the  finest  book  work  is  printed  on 
machines  of  this  class. 

Among  the  flat-bed-cylinder  presses 
built  in  America,  the  Hoe,  the  Camp 
bell, the  Potter,  the  Cottrell,the  Miehle 
and  the  Duplex  are  worthy  of  mention. 
But  I  am  more  familiar  with  the  his 
tory  of  the  Duplex  press  than  that  of 
the  others.  The  inventor  of  this  ma 
chine,  Mr.  J.  L.  Cox,  commenced  his 
experiments  when  a  mere  youth.  His 
mother's  rolling-pin  served  as  his  first 
impression  cylinder,  and  a  table  an 
swered  for  the  type  bed.  The  use  of 
such  devices  would  naturally  suggest 
the  employment  of 
stationary  beds 
and  reciprocating  cylinders  as  a  basis 
for  his  subsequent  experiments,  and 
Mr.  Cox  assures  us  +hat  such  was  his 
intention.  But  for  reasons  not  neces 
sary  to  state,  his  first  practical  ma 
chine  was  constructed  with  one  recip 
rocating  bed  and  one  impression  cylin 
der  revolving  in  fixed  bearings.  Later 
he  built  newspaper  presses  having  two 
impression  cylinders  and  two  recipro 
cating  beds.  These  machines  were  so 
constructed  as  to  feed  automatically 
from  a  roll  of  paper  and  printed  both 
sides  of  the  sheet,  but  required  a  sep 
arate  folding  machine.  The  first  one 
of  these  presses  was  purchased  by  the 
proprietors  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Dem 
ocrat,  and  printed  that  paper  for  sev 
eral  years.  Mr.  Cox,  backed  financial 
ly  by  the  Duplex  Printing  Press  Com 
pany,  conducted  numerous  experi 
and  built  ^^Single  cylinder, 
ments, 
double  cylinder,  stcipj cylinder  and 
stereotype  presses. 
THE  COX 

FLAT-BED  WEB PERFECTING 

MACHINE. 
Following  out  his  original  ideas,  Mr. 
Cox  in  1889,  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  con 
structed  a  machine  having  stationary 
beds  and  reciprocating  cylinders.  This 
design  proved  a  great  success,  and  the 
first  machine  was  set  up  in  the  office 
of  the  Rutland  Herald,  Rutland,  Vt. 
Previous  to  this  the  Duplex  presses 
had  been  built  by  contract.  Encour 
aged  by  the  success  of  the  new  ma 
chine,  they  established  a  plant  in  Bat 
tle  Creek,  Mich.,  for  the  manufacture 
of  these  presses.  So  great  was  the 
demand 
some 
months  worked  night  and  day,  and  in 

that  the  factory  for 

JANUARY  19,  1897. 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  R E C O K D. 

3 

1892 forty  of  these  machines  were  sold. 
The  Duplex  company  still  continues  to 
though 
build  presses  of  this  design, 
much  improved;  and  at  the  World's 
Fair  they  received  the  highest  award 
for  flat-bed  web-perfecting  machines. 
Speaking  generally, 
flat-bed  presses 
print  from  cut  sheets  and  require  a 
feeder.  They  also lose a  large  percent 
age  of  the  bed  travel,  very  much  in 
the  same  manner  that  the  table  of  a 
metal  planer  does.  The  great  capacity 
of  the  Duplex  press  is  due  to  the  fact 
that  it  not  only  feeds  automatically 
from  a  roll of  paper,  but  prints  on  both 
•sides  of  the  sheet  during  both  the  for 
ward  and  return  movement  of 
the 
In  short,  the  press  prints, 
cylinders. 
cuts  to  length  and  width,  pastes,  folds 
and  counts,  four,  six,  or  eight-page 
papers  at  a  rate  of  from  4,000  to  5,000 
per hour.  Outside  of  the  United  States 
the  Duplex  company  have  sold  presses 
in  Canada,  England  and  Johannes 
burg,  South  Africa.  Under  the  super 
vision  of  Mr. Henry  Eeckman  the  com 
pany are now making experlmentsf  rom 
which  they  expect  important  results. 

THE  FLAT-BED  CYLINDER  PRESS. 
For  fine  book  work,  and  for  news 
papers  having  a  small  circulation,  the 
flat-bed-cylinder  press  is  used  almost 
exclusively;  but  these  machines  are  en 
tirely  inadequate  to  the  requirements 
of  the  large  metropolitan  dailies.  The 
great  circulation  of  these  journals  ne 
cessitates  presses  built  on  the  rotary 
principle.  The  experiments  of  Nichol 
son in  1790 were  in  the  right  direction; 
but  as  stated,  he  was  unable  to  over 
come  the  tendency  of  the  type  to  fly 
.  The 
the  revolving  cylinders. 
from 
failure,  in  1837,  of  Napier's  ten-cylin 
der  press  was  due  to  the  same  cause. 
In  1846 this difficulty  was  overcome  by 
the  Public  Ledger  in  Philadelphia. 
In 
R.  Hoe  &  Co.,  who  commenced  build 
ing  these  presses  in  sizes  varying  from 
four  to  ten  cylinders. 
These  latter 
were  grouped  around  one  central  type 
cylinder.  The  first  machine  construct 
ed  was  purchased  by  the  publishers  of 
1848  one  was  set  up  in  the  office  of 
La  Patrie,  a  Paris  journal.  Lloyd's 
Weekly  London  Newspaper  was  printed 
in  1856 on  a  six-cylinder  machine,  and 
,in 
ten-cylinder 
presses  were  set  up  in  the  office  of  the 
London  Times.  These  presses,  being 
hand  fed,  were  limited  by  the  capacity 
of  the  feeders,  and  the  ten-cylinder 
machine  required  ten  feeders  to  pro 
duce  20,000  sheets  per  hour,  printed  on 
one  side.  Thus  every  paper  had  to 
pass  through  the  press  twice,  and  then 
through  a  separate  machine  to  be  fold 
ed.  Nevertheless  they  were  great  ma 
chines  in  their  day,  and  were  called 
the  "Hoe  Lightning."  A  correspond 
ent  of  the  Neio  York  Tribune,  writing 
about  1870,  gives  a  vivid  description 
of  the  operation  of  these  presses.  The 
article  is  quoted  in  full  in  Emily  Pear 
sons'  "From  Cottage  to  Castle."  The 
following  portion  is  taken  from 
that 
work: 

the  same  year  two 

Deep 

imaginable. 

"The press  room  of  a  great  metropol 
itan  journal  now  begins  to  present  one 
of  the  most  picturesque  and  bustling 
scenes 
under 
ground,  and  extending  far  beyond  the 
line  of  the  sidewalk—generally  to  the 
middle  of  the  street—were  the  lofty 
vaults  occupied  by  the  complicated 
machines.  Here  were  three  of  Hoe's 
The  ten-cylinder 
lightning  presses. 
machine  towered  aloft  like  a  house. 
Eighteen  feet  in  height,  thirty-one  feet 
in  length,  and  nine  feet  in  width,  it  re 
quired  the  space  of  two  entire  floors. 
It  was  approached  by  stairways  and 
galleries,  and  platforms  were  built 
around  it  for  the  workmen. 
In  the 
center  revolves  the  huge  cylinder. 

the  tiers  of 

"The  press  ready,  about  midnight  the 
plates  of  the  first  side—the  four  pages 
which  form  the  inside  of  the  paper 
when  folded—were  lowered  from  the 
stereotype  room. 
Instantly  the  press 
room  started  into  life.  The  four  and 
twenty  feeders  threw  off  coats,  rolled 
up  sleeves,  ran  and  clambered  to  their 
places  beside 
shelves. 
Scores  of  gas  jets  began  to  blaze.  The 
metal  plates-^four  for  each of  the  three 
presses—were  quickly  lifted  into  place 
and  secured.  The pressman  stood  hold 
ing  the  starting  rope,  and  the  distant 
engine,  impatient  for  the  past  half 
hour,  got  in  motion.  The  shafting  un 
der  the  vaulted  ceiling  began  to  turn. 
There  was a  cry  of  'All  ready!'  and,  as 
the  rope  was  pulled,  the  three  great 
machines,  slowly  at  first,  but  with  ac 
celerating  speed,  set  off  on  their  great 
revolutions." 

introduced  by 

The  stereotype  plates  to  which  the 
Tribune  correspondent  refers  form  an-, 
other  important  step  in  printing.  This 
Jacob 
process  was 
and 
Worms,  of  Paris, 
in  1849, 
adopted  by  Hoe 
afterward  was 
and 
&  Co. 
build 
ers. 
this  system  curved  plates 
In 
are  cast,  each  containing  one  or  more 
pages  of  matter,  and  these  plates  take 
the  place  of  the  type.  The  plates  are, 
however,  originated  from  the  type,  the 
latter  being  "set  up"  first  and 
the 
plates  cast 
impressed 
thereby. 

from  molds 

other 

press 

Such  a  machine 

THE  FISST  SUCCESSFUL  WEB  PRESS. 
In  1835  Sir  Rowland  Hill  obtained 
letters  patent  for  a  machine  to  print 
both  sides  of  a  paper  from  a  roll  at 
is 
one  operation. 
technically  called  a  web-perfecting 
press. 
It  is  one  thing  to  conceive  a 
theory  and  quite  another  thing  to  con 
struct  a  practical  machine;  and  to  Wm. 
Bullock,  of  Philadelphia,  belongs  the 
credit  of  having  constructed  the  first 
successful  web  press.  In  this  class  of 
machines,  instead  of  using  hand-fed, 
cut  sheets,  the  paper  is fed  from  a  roll 
automatically.  The  first  one  of  these 
machines  was  set  up  in  1861 in  the  of 
fice  of  The  Times  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  had  a  capacity  of  11,000  perfected 
sheets  per  hour.  The  Walter  and  Vic 
tory,  English  presses,  both  nearly  con 
temporaneous  with  the  Bullock  press, 
accomplished  substantial 
results,  as 
did  also  the  ' Alauzet,"  the  "Ingram," 
the  "Augsburg,"  and  the  "Marinona." 
Mr.  Bullock's  career  was  suddenly 
brought  to  an  end  by  an  accident,  in 
which  he  was  crushed  to  death  in  his 
own  machine.  His  experiments  had 
been  watched  with  great  interest,  and 
his  untimely  death  was  deeply  lament 
ed  by  his  friends  and  admirers.  For 
tunately  for  the  printing-press  world, 
Mr.  Bullock's  assistant 
thoroughly 
and  appreciated  his 
comprehended 
achievements.  This  gentleman 
took 
up  the  work  Where  Mr.  Bullock  left 
off,  and  so  successful  was  he  that  in 
1877 the  improved  Bullock  press  print 
ed  20,000  perfected  papers  per  hour. 
Walter  Scott  also  built  presses  involv 
ing  the same  general  principles; and  as 
early  as  1881 had  produced  a  machine 
that  would  feed,  print,  cut,  fold  and 
deliver  32,000  eight-page  papers  per 
hour. 

in 

these  machines 

The  ten-cylinder  press  of  R.  Hoe  & 
Co.  met  with  much  favor,  and  they 
sold  150  of 
the 
United  States.  In  1871 this  firm  began 
experimenting  on  a  rotary  perfecting 
press,  and  later  on  a  rotary  folder.  In 
1877  they  brought  out  their  double 
supplement  press,  embodying  the  ro 
tary  folder  and  other  late  improve 
ments. 
This  machine  "turned  out 
either  four,  six,  eight,  ten  or  twelve-
page papers at  24,000 per hour, and  six 

teen-page  papers  at  12,000  per  hour, 
the  odd  pages  being  in  every  case  ac 
curately  inserted  and  pasted  in,  and 
the  papers  cut  at  the  top  and  delivered 
folded." 

In  1887  R.  Hoe  &  Co.  set  up  in  the 
office  of  the  New  York  World  their  first 
quadruple press.  This  was in  many  re 
spects  similar 
to  the  double-supple 
ment  press,  but  had  a  greater  capacity. 
It  printed  48,000 eight-page  and  24,000 
of ten  to  sixteen-page  papers  per  hour, 
all  delivered  in  perfect  form  ready  for 
the  carrier  or  the  mails.  This  was  fol 
lowed  by  a  "sextuple"  machine,  the 
first  of  which  was  built  for  the  New 
York  Herald  in  1889.  The  "sextuple" 
press  has  a  capacity  of  from  24,000 
twenty-four  page  to  72,000  eight-page 
papers  per  nour. 
It  is  surpassed  only 
by 
the  "octuple,"  which  brings  us 
down  to  1896, and  to  the  great  climax 
in  printing-press  engineering.  We  will 
let  the  New  York  World  describe  this 
mammoth  machine.  The  following  is 
taken  from  the  issue  of  that  journal 
of  May  10,1896: 

"Three  great  presses,  each  of  which 
will  have  a  capacity  for  printing  and 
folding  about  one-third  more  news 
papers  than  any  other  machine  ever 
built,  are  being  added  to  the  mechan 
ical  equipment  of  the  World.  One  of 
them  is  already  set  up  in  the  great 
press  room  under  the  Pulitzer  building, 
and  the  other  two  are  in  course  of 
construction  in  the  shops  of  R.  Hoe  & 
Co. 

"The  three  new  machines  are  what 
are  known  as  the  octuple  presses. 
Each  press,  with  a  single  revolution  of 
its  cylinders,  will turn  out  eight  news 
papers  of  eight  pages  each,  printed  and 
folded  as  the  World  is  printed  and 
folded.  As  the  cylinders of  these  ma 
chines  when  run  at  full  speed  will 
make  200  revolutions  a  minute,  each 

of  them  will,  therefore,  be  capable  of 
turning  out  1,600  eight-page  papers  a 
minute,  or  96,000  an  hour,  all  folded 
and  ready  for  delivery. 

"When  the  three  new  machines  are 
running  at  full  speed 
they  will  be 
printing  and  folding  288,000  eight-page 
papers  per  hour.  *  *  * 

"With  the  three  octuple  presses  ad 
ded,  the  World  will  have  12  presses  in 
operation,  with  a  capacity  for  printing 
and  folding  744,000  eight-page  papers 
per  hour.  *  *  *  The  papers  will  be 
fed  to  each  machine  from  four  rolls, 
each  73  inches  wide.  The  press  will 
draw  the  papers  from  the  roll  at  the 
rate  of  32% miles  an  hour.  Were  the 
rolls only  the  width  of  one  page  of  the 
World, the  paper  would  be  run  off  at 
the  rate  of  130 miles an  hour." 

What  a  mammoth 

superstructure 
has  been  reared  on  the  foundation  laid 
five  centuries  ago!  What  would  Gut 
enberg  think  could  he  behold  the  mar 
velous  transformation? 

But  the  printing  press  of  today  is not 
confined  to  the  serious  and  weight}7 
works  that  issued  from  the  press  of 
Gutenbei-g.  Every  pulsation  of 
this 
modern  oracle registers  events  varying 
from 
the  ridiculous  to  the  sublime— 
"trifles  light  as  air,"  and  revelations 
as  far  reaching  as  the  aetons  of  eter 
nity.  The  newspaper  needs  to  be  puri 
fied  and  dignified  and  lifted  to  a  high 
er  plane.  We  need  more  of  those  ed 
itors  who,  scorning  the  temptations  of 
a  large  circulation,  will  publish  only 
such  matter  as  tends  to  chastity,  and 
truth,  and  the  uplifting  of  the  people. 
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the 
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T he  place  t h at 

religious  -sentiment 
a nd  observances  occupy  within  a  col 
lege  is thoughtfully  studied,  both  wuth-
in  a nd without  college  walls.  Less of 
a  character,  perhaps,  to  display  their 
w o r ks  t h an  a re some  other  college ac 
tivities,  t he benefits  from  religious  in 
stitutions  a re  none  t he  less  positive, 
t h o u gh  so quietly  achieved. 

At  this  place  much  favorable  com 
m e nt  h as been  made  upon  t he encour 
aging  vitality  of  some  of o ur religious 
organizations.  Solely  "'for t he  good of 
t he  t h i n g"  a  great  deal  of  effort  from 
t i me  to time  h as been  p ut  forth  to pro 
mote  religious  life  in t he M. A. C,  a nd 
some  of these  endeavors  should  not go 
unmentioned. 

Not  counting  the  various  chapel  ser 

vices,  there 
;were  for  religious  work . 
six  associations  during  the past  term. 
Among  t he  most  i m p o r t a nt  of  these 
were  t he Y. W. C. A. a nd Y. M. C.  A., 
each  doing  creditably  its  s h a re  of the 
religious  work  of a  college.  T h e ' Y. M. 
C.  A. is  probably  t he center  of  all  t he 
religious  activities  of  t he s t u d e n ts  at 
t he  College,  a nd h as come  to  r a nk  in 
equal  importance  a nd usefulness  with 
t he  best  of  other  student  organiza 
tions.  Outgrowths"  from 
t h is  j asso 
ciation  were  t he s t u d e n t s ' ' B i b le  class 
three, 
es,  n u m b e r i ng  t w o, sometimes 
conducted  by s t u d e n t s,  a nd held  each 
Sabbath  of  the:  term. 

T wo  Bible  classes  led by  members 
of  t he faculty,—one  meeting  during t he 
week,  the other  on Sunday,  a nd an e n 
thusiastic  Sunday  school  for  t he  Col 
lege  children,  t a u g ht  by  two- ladies, of 
the;  faculty,  complete  t he list. 

| 

We-belief e  t h at  work  of  this j sort  is 
of  much  use to the  College,: and.should 
be  encouraged  a nd enlarged. 
In o ur 
opinion,  more,  affiliation  between  these 
various  associations  would  be  bene 
least  give  the 
ficial. 
strength  t h at  union  is said  to-form,  a nd  : 
which  c an be so  iHy  'spared. 

It  would  at 

W o r k ed  H is W ay  T h r o u gh  College. 

" He  worked  his  w ay  through  col 
lege."  T h at  a  successful  business  or 
professional  m an should  be  proud  of 
having  worked  h is  w ay through  col 
lege  is  a  healthful  sign  for  t he de 
It  also  be 
mocracy  of  our  country. 
s p e a ks  a  liberal  patronage  for- those • 
institutions  of  learning  w h e re  no  hon 
est  work,  however  menial,  is  consid 
ered  degrading  for  a  student  earning 
his  education.  A n d, t h e re  a re  many 
such  institutions: in t he United  Stated. 
The  Sunday  Times-Herald 

s a y s: 

' 

"Classical  education  at E y a n s t on  de 
pends  as  m u ch  on t he snow  shovel  as 

the  Greek  book.  T he l a wn  mower  is 
as  potent  a  factor  in  a  liberal  educa 
tion  at  Nortwestern  University  as.-is 
Latin,  a nd the knowledge  of  t h e . s a w-
buck  a nd t he curry  comb  a re as  essen 
tial  to  a  thorough  collegiate 
training 
as  a  passing  m a rk  in  geometry  or in 
differential  calculus. 

"While  a  few  receive  money  given 
with  nothing  in  return,  by  f ar  t he 
greater  n u m b er  prefer  to take  employ 
m e nt  a nd t h us  earn  their  w ay  without 
becoming  objects  of  charity. 
In the 
wealthy  families  t he  student  h as  taken 
t he  place  of  t he  coachman  a nd t he 
gardener.  He  cares  for  t he  lawn, 
mows  i ts grass,  pulls  its weeds*  rakes 
a w ay  t he  withered  leaves,  t r i ms  t he 
trees,  a nd thus  keeps  E v a n s t on  bright 
and  green.  He feeds  a nd curries  t he 
horses,  milks  t he cows,  drives  t he car 
riage  a nd t he coupe,  tends  the  furnace, 
keeps  a w ay  t he  snow,  w a s h es  win 
dows,  b e a ts  carpets,  r u ns  errands, and, 
without  t he  slightest  stigma  of  dis 
credit, 
t u r ns  from  his  labors  of  t he 
d ay  to  a t t e nd  t he  brilliant  p a r ty  re 
ception  at night  where  a re gathered  to 
gether  t he sons  a nd daughters  of t he 
rich—even  t he very children of  those for 
whom  a few  hours  before  he m ay  have 
mowed  a  lawn  or  tended  a  furnace. 
He  w a i ts  oh t he table  "for  his  board, 
washes  dishes  for  his  lodging,  clerks 
in  the book  store  for his books,  works 
in 
t he  university  for  his  spending 
money,  wrestles  w i th  all kind  of  work 
and  conditions,  a nd hies  himself  a w ay 
to  college  to  occupy  t he s a me  bench 
with  t he  sons  a nd  daughters  of  mil 
lionaires." 

While  we h a ve  not, at t he M. A. C, 
all  t he a d v a n t a g es  for  working  one's 
w ay  t h at  a  large  city  affords,  yet there 
is  plenty  of  work  for those  who  desire 
it,  a nd the variety  of  "jobs"  is  almost 
as  g r e at  as t he above  writer  enumer 
ates.  H o n e st  toil  is never  looked  upon 
as  degrading;  a nd t he earnest"  student 
who,  upon  entering  college, 
immedi 
ately  goes  a b o ut  finding  some  work  to 
do  t o ' h e lp  defray  expenses  is  encour 
aged-in  every  w ay possible,  not  only 
by  t he  faculty,  b ut  by  his  fellows. 
"And.this  is  notVall;  we expect  such  a 
student" to  m a ke  a  m a rk  in  t he world. 
Experience  h as shown  ws  t h at  many 
of  o ur alumni  who  h a ve  gained  great 
est  distinction  were 
students  w ho 
worked  t h e ir  w ay .through  college. 

G e r m a ny  H e a rd  F r o m. 

A  LETTER  FROM  ALTON  C.  BURNHAM,  '93, 

GOTTINGEN,  GERMANY,  DECEM-" 
BER,  28,  1896. 

To  the  Record: 

Six  years  ago, as an M. A. C.  fresh-
^man,  1  would  tiaf  e hf i&d'Jwith  de&giit 
t he CoppoEtunit^to  w r £ t e a | e t t pr  for t he 
jjowejr 
M.  A.  CT RECORD  (had s u c ha 
for  t he good  of  M . ' A. C. and,  as"  well, 
of  our  great  State,  Michigan,  as the 
RECORD  can  and- should  be,  t h en  ex 
isted),  a nd  never  doubted  an  instant 
my.ability  to interest  its readers.  Now 
• m y ' h a pd  shakes-like  t h at  of af bridej 1^ 
ing  led to the altar,  or of  a  freshman 
delivering  his -first  declamation  some 
where  on  the'fifth  floor  of  Williams 
Hall.  F or six  weeks  I  have  delayed 
this  letter  in  t he hope  of  receiving  an 
inspiration,  which,  of  course,'  never 
came;  a nd  now—because  ;it is  vacation 
here—lonesomeness,  I fancy,  more  t h an 
patriotism,  impels  me to a s s u me  to  oc 
c u py ^your'space. and! time.  Yet I am 
not  unpatriotic,  a nd M. A.  C. h as  no 
smaller  place  in my h e a r t;  and—much 
to  t he  credit  of  M. A.  C—that  w a rm 
larger  a nd . w a r m er  as  I 
spot  g r o ws 
: t r ay el;  from  p pe University  or  college 
" to  another,'  not  only  in  free  America, 
b ut  in  foreign  lands. 

Yes, 

lonesomeness;  for M. A. C. dur 

ing  t he  winter  vacations  of  former 
y e a rs  w as never  more  lacking  of-life 
t h an  Gottingen 
seems,  to. ;me n o w. 
Think  of  a  city  of  25,000  souls  being 
lonesome,  a nd t h at  at  Christmas  time, 
j u st  because  1,000 students,  more  or 
less,  have, left  for a  d ay or  a  month! 
B ut  such  a 
t o wn  is  very 
lonesome 
easily  found  in .Germany,  as  easily  as 
poor  coffee—and 
t h at  one  h as  every 
day.  B ut  t h at  you  form  no  mistaken 
ideas,  I  must  a d d - t h at  such  a  t o wn is 
only  about  one-fourth  as large  as  Lan 
sing,  or  even  smaller,  a nd reminds  one 
very  much  of  t he poorer  quarters, of 
a  large  American  city,  except  t h at t he 
colors  are. a ll  those  of  dingy  brown 
walls, or  bright  r ed roofs..  I  live  in  t he 
very  southernmost  house  a nd  w a lk 
through  town  almost  to t he very  north 
ernmost  house  to lectures  every  morn 
ing;  it is only  33 minutes'  walk,  a nd yet 
in 
t h at  compass  dwell  25,000  souls. 
The  streets  a re n a r r ow  a nd dirty, due 
to,  t he  compact  m a n n er  in  which  t he 
people  live,  though  I  u n d e r s t a nd 
their 
s e w e r a ge  system  is  good.  All  streets 
are  paved  with  rough  cobble-stone; t he 
sidewalks  a re stone  a n d.  very  narrow, 
so  t h at  often,  right  in t he middle  of t he 
city,  w h en  t wo  people  meet  two, at 
least  one of  t he four,  a nd  sometimes 
two,  m u st  g et into  t he street.  E v e ry 
where  the stores  occupy  the  first  floor 
and  t he people,  or at  least  people,  live 
up  stairs.  These  s t a t e m e n ts  t h at  I am 
now  making  apply  to G e r m an  cities in 
general,  in  some 
respects  Gottingen 
is  .better  t h an  t he rule.  E v en  in  Ber 
lin,  in  t he  very  busiest  portions,  it 
would  b e ' h a rd  to  find  a  house  t h at did 
not  h a ve  i ts i n h a b i t a n ts  either  In t he 
cellar  or up under  t he roof. 

Surrounding  t he older  a nd  business 
portion  of  Gottingen  is  t he old  wall, 
p e r h a ps  30 feet  high  a nd 20 feet  broad, 
now  used  for  a  promenade.  T he  old 
m o at  h as become'a  sort  of park.  These 
changes  have 
taken  place'  gradually 
during  the  past  200  years  a nd a re 
features  of nearly  every  G e r m an  city, 
large  or  small.  Outside  of  this  wall 
and  "Rarkehen"  (it  cannot  really  be 
Called  a  park,  being  only  a  few  rdds 
wide  a nd h ot extending  nearly  round 
the  town),  lies  w h at  m ay be called t he 
residence  portion.  It  is, however,  very 
meagre.  T he surrounding  country  is 
very  beautifuL-a  quiet  rolling  coun 
try  with" long  a nd  deep  swells,  studded 
everywhere  with 
patches  of 
wood  a nd smaller  towns  whose  main 
feature  is  houses,  barns,  barnyard's, 
mixed  'indiscriminately 
together,-  the 
whole  seemingly  covered  by  one  vast 
red  tile  roof. 

large 

r 

-

place 

For" educational  a d v a n t a g es  (purely 
theoretical)  Gottingen  is  not  to!  be 
beaten."  S he  h as t h r ee  excellent  Folk-
schools, one  •'Realsehule" of  the'highest 
order,  a  higher'school  for girls,  an  ex 
cellent gymnasium  for boys intending to 
proceed  'further  with  their  education, 
and  one of'the-best  universities  in  t he 
world, 
besides  a"  library'  of  be 
t w e en  400,000  a nd  600,000  ; volumes. 
She  has-  also  ' a 
r e m a r k a b l y'  good 
theater  building,  w h e re  plays  h a ve 
t a k en 
six  nights  a  w e ek 
since  about  t he  first-  of  October, a nd 
Where  operas  will  be given  every  night 
for  six  w e e ks  in  t he  spring,  a nd  she 
h as  Gasthouses  a nd  beer  gardens''in 
numerable.  T he  latter  would'  hot, 
from  our s t a n d p o i n t , ' be  Considered ed 
ucational,  b ut from  t h e ' G e r m an  stand 
point  t h ey  a re  very  i m p o r t a nt  educa 
tional  a nd social  a d v a n t a g e s.  Of  these 
schools,  especially  t he  lower  schools, 
a  great  deal  can be saiid.  • L a t er  I  shall 
yisit'  them  with  a  view  to  comparing 
them  w i th  o ur lower  schools.'  If  t he 
Germans  excel  us in  educational  mat 
ters,  it is in these  lower  schools.  I do 
not  think  t he a d v a n t a g es  of  their  uni 

versities  over  ours  a re at  a ll so .great 
as  some  Americans,  who have  taken  a 
P h.  D. in Germany,  would  like  to  h a ve 
us  think.  B ut to  these  specific  ques 
tions  I  will  come  later  if t he readers,of 
the  RECORD  wish  to  hear  of  them. 
.  B ut you a re without  doubt  impatient 
to  h e ar  something  a b o ut  t he  students 
themselves  at  a.  German,  university. 
To  this  end, we will  t a ke  a  look  at the 
German  counterpart,  for  t he  literary 
socieites  at  M. A.  C.  T h e re  a re  here 
about  1,200 students,  a nd . t h e ir  so 
cieties  ("Vereine,"  "Oours,"  etc.)  m a ke 
a  complex  machine.  There a re  p e r h a ps 
150  so-called  "Cour-studenten."  They 
are  the s t u d e n ts  who  fight  t he  G e r m an 
student-duels,  w ho a re  k n o wn  by t he 
ghastly  scars  across  t he  cheeks,  of 
which  scars 
they  a re  very  proud. 
They  mostly  have  money  a nd a re  very 
careful  not to  injure  their  health  by 
overstudy.  These  Cour-studenten  a re 
to  be  seen  about 
t h e - s t r e e ts  at  all 
hours,  d ay or  night,  with  little  round 
caps  of  various  colors,  colored  b a n ds 
t he  shoulder  a nd  across  t he 
oyer 
breast,  canes,  scars,  a nd  dogs  tied  to 
strings.  Then  there  is  another  s et of 
societies,  which  resemble  t he  Cours, 
but  do not fight  duels.  T h en  there a re 
the  so-called  Wissenschaf tliche  - Yer-
eine,  which  a re the counterparts  of  out-
literary  societies,  a nd then  still  other 
societies,  with  which  I  am as yet  un 
acquainted. 

These  Wissenschaf tliche  Vereine a re 
divided,  however,  according  to  course 
of  study.  T h e re  is a  m a t h e m a t i c al  so 
ciety,  a  medical  society,  a  Greek  so 
ciety, 
t wo  theological  societies, etc. 
T he  s t u d e nt  in  o ne of  these  societies 
forms  his friends  in  it, a nd is  k n o wn 
little  outside  of  it.  T he papers  per 
tain  to the particular  line;  nothing  out 
side  of  t h at  is ever  discussed,  a nd  t he 
student  becomes  from  beginning  on, 
even  in his society,  a  specialist.  ''  T he 
meeting  takes- place  from  8  o'clock- in 
t he  evening,  S a t u r d ay  night, 
until 
some  time  t he n e xt  morning,  a nd in a 
private  room  in some  hotel  in t he town. 
I t - i s - a b o ut  as  follows:  They  all sit 
around  a  long  table,  t he president  at 
t he  upper  end.  E a ch  m an  h as a  'glass 
of  beer  before  him, a nd most  of  them 
a re  smoking.  T he president  calls  to 
order,  a nd  t he  business  p a rt  is  con 
ducted y  no  m an speaks  without  per 
mission;  This  lasts  half  an  hour  or 
more.  T he scientific  p a rt  now  comes; 
the  m en c an n ow  assume  easier  posi 
tions,  a nd perhaps  order  a  fresh  glass 
of  beer.  A  single  paper  is  presented, 
which  m u st  be from  30 to 45 minutes 
long;  this  is then  discussed.  T he presi 
dent  now gives  w ay to  another,  w ho 
has  c h a r ge  of  t he social  part,  which 
lasts  as  long  as  a n y b o dy  wishes  to 
stay.-  They  sing  songs,  drink  beer, a nd 
smoke  cigars  or  their  long  pipes, a nd 
things  gradually  grow  more "and  more 
lively,  a nd  m a ny  a re t he  jokes,  t h at 
occur  during 
this  "gemutliehe  Theil." 
These  are,  however,  t he steady,  ear 
nest,  plodding  j students,  w ho  become 
t he  noted  scientists  of  scientific.  Ger 
many. 
I  have  found  t h em  polite,  kind 
a nd  e a r n e st  men. 

•. 

. 

Of  the G e r m an  m a n n e rs  a nd customs 
social  relations,  t he general  character 
of 
t he  country,,  weather,  crops,  t he 
peculiarities  -of. their  university  meth 
ods,  etc., etc., I  h a ve  said  nothing.  To 
these  m a t t e rs  I  m ay come  later,  if t he 
s t a r t :I  have  m a de  be not too  discourag 
ing. 

"  W h en  t he  penniless  .lordling  to g et 

rich, 

With  his o wn nationality  fails, 
He  crosses  t he ocean  with  h e a rt  light 

•  a nd  gay, 
And  robs  the United  States  males." 
—Ex. 

JANUARY  19,  1897. 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  R E C O R D. 

5 

, -v 

"Wheels." 

of 

. and 

to'  run 

shrieks  of  agony 

the  -  day 
utility."  From 

[ Toa^t^ given  at  the  banquet  of  the 
State  Millers'' Association,  January  12, 
by  Dr. .Howard  Edwards,] 
1897, 
Wheels  are  usually  round:  rarely  do 
you  find  them  triangular,  as  on  the 
to 
that  'Used 
street  cars 
the  College.  They  have  shared  in 
; both 
the  progress 
in 
the 
form 
old  poetic  over-shot  mill  whe«l  "to 
the  modern  turbine  is  a  great  step. 
Likewise  in  its  moral  disposition  the 
wheel  has  improved.  Today  its  gen 
eral  appearance  is  mild-and;  pacific;  i 
but  laid  up  in  the  museums  of 
the 
oid  world  are  wheels  that  possess  a 
grim  significance. 
There'  are  upon 
them  still  the  dark  stains  of  human 
.bjood,  and  a s. we  survey  them  they 
still  seem  to  vibrate  with  long-drawn, 
from 
quivering 
mangled  forms  bound  to  their  circum 
ference.  Let  us  rejoice  that  the  evolu 
tion  of  the  wheel  has  been  morally  as 
well  as  physically  upward. 
,  The  . wheel  is  found  everywhere  in 
our  civilization. 
In  your  occupation 
we  set  it  to  work,  and  with  human  in 
telligence  it  removes  the  various  en 
velopes  of  tin* grain,.separates  and  dis 
integrates  the  various  parts,-and  we 
get  as  the  product  a  powder,  white  as 
the  driven  snow,  smooth  and  even  as 
velvet,  and  nutritious  as  the  God-given 
manna.  The  wheel  revolves,  and  the 
skins  with  which  the  savage  covers 
his nakedness are  transformed  into  the 
clothing  of  civilized  men.  We  put 
them  under  our  cars  and  in  our  boats 
and  go  whizzing  over  land  and  sea 
with  the  swiftness  of  the  wind.  They 
make  ..possible  our  books,  Our  news 
papers,  our  houses,  our  furniture,  our 
wooden 
false 
teeth.  The  toy  wheel  whirls  for  the 
delight  of  our  infancy;  mounted  on  the 
romantic  tandem,  the  lover  and  the 
maid  distance  the "flying  hoofs  of  the 
old  man's  horse,  are  married  and  live 
together—after  a  fashion—ever  after. 
The  slow  revolving  wheel,  with  nod 
ding  plume  and 
trappings 
bears  us  to  our  last  resting  place. 

legs,  glass  eyes  and 

sombre 

But  there  are  other  kinds  of  wheels 
and  other  kinds  of  work  that  they  do. 
In  people's  heads  they  buzz  and'  whirl 
and  roar,  and  fill  the  world  with  noise 
and  confusion.  No  class  in-society,  no 
occupation,  no  rank,  is  free  from  the 
man  with  wheels  in  his  head;  but  he 
has  an  especially  congested  representa 
tion  in  the  lunatic  asylums'  and  in  the 
United  States  senate.  Against  the  lu 
natic  asylum  there  is  nothing  to  say. 
The  poor  inmates  mutter  and  jabber 
and  shriek,  and  nothing  is  hurt  by 
their  noise,  But  in  the senate  there  is 
the  raving  of  howling 
danger  that 
dervishes,  like- Cameron  and  .Chandler 
and  Mills,  et  Ja"  omne  genus, "may  be 
taken  as meaning something,  and  there 
fore  bring  to  the  country  serious  in 
jury. 
In  their  mad  frenzy  these  peo 
ple  seem  ready  and  anxious  to  plunge 
the  country  into  war  with  half  Europe 
to  do—heaven  only  knows 
in  order 
what—concerning  'Cuba.  There  is  no 
evidence  whatever  that  the  Cubans  as 
a  class  are  ready  for  self-government. 
Certainly  there is not  the  faintest  trace 
of  an  already  organized  government 
to-recognize;  and  yet  these  senators 
are  willing  recklessly  to  encounter  the 
gravest  possible  consequences—to  enter 
into  complications  before  which  the 
strongest  nations  and  the  wisest  men 
would  stand  appalled  and  which  only 
the  weightiest  consideration  of  nation 
al  honor  and  integrity  could  justify-
to  bring  to  a  few  .hundred  thousands  .. 
the  questionable  blessing;: of.  a  pre, 
carious  and  ;doub£fui  ie'gair  autonomy.' 
A  man  can  have  no  more  dangerous 
wheel  in  his  head  than  the  idea  that 

ALWAYS  ON  TOP 

DAVIS  6e  G O. 

104  W a s h i n g t on  A v e.  N o r th 

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-•OVERCOATS,  ULSTERS,  BICYCLE  OVERCOATS 

PEA  JACKETS  AND  VESTS,  SINGLE  AND  DOUBLE  BREASTED  MELTON  SUITS 
ALL  UP  TO  DATE. 

Also  Full  Line  of  . 
Furnishings  and  Hats 

the  form  of  government  determines  the 
character  pf:  that  government.  Some 
forms  are  better  than  others,  but  after 
all  it  is  the  character  of  the  people 
that  in  the-long  run  determines 
the 
chracter  of  their  government.  No viler 
crimes  against  humanity  have  ever 
been  perpetrated,  no  more  oppressive 
tyranny  ever  existed,  than  under  the 
forms  of  popular  sovereignty.  The  re 
cent  accounts"of  despicable  cruelty,  of 
brazen,  heaven-defying 
; criminality, 
practiced  under  the  forms  of  law  in 
our  own  cityT of  New  'York  read  like 
tales  of  ..travelers  amid  the  festering 
rottenness  of  Bagdad  or  Canton.  On 
the.  other  hand,  ho  nation  was  ever 
more  respected  abroad  or  more  peace 
ful  at  home  than  England  under  the 
absolute  rule; of  Cromwell,.  The  cry 
for  liberty  is  one  that  will  always  pos 
sess  a  peculiar  thrill  for  Americans; 
but  it  is  high  time  that  we  were  learn 
ing  that  this  cry  is  not  always  uttered 
in  good  faith,  and still  more  frequently 
is  not  properly  understood.  We  have 
good 
the 
reason  to  doubt  whether 
transition  in  Brazil  from  an  emperor, 
Dom  Pedro  II,  to a  president,  Fonseca, 
was  a  movement  toward  real  liberty  of 
government.  It  is a  remarkable year in 
deed  when  no  revolution  takes  place in 
some  one  of  the  petty  South  American 
republics;  and  in  every  such  revolu 
tion  it  is  somebody's  private  ambition 
that  is  being  gratified,  not  for  a  mo 
ment  the general  prosperity  of  the peo 
ple  that  is  being  considered. 

indignation 

inexperienced 

So,  when  we  come  to  ask  ourself, 
'What  are  we  getting  into  all  this 
commotion  about  Cuba  for?" 
l e t ' u s. 
not  be  stampeded  by  the  men  with-
wheels in  their  heads. 
It  is a  beautiful 
thing  to see a. whole nation moved  with 
in  behalf  of 
righteous 
others,  but  how  if  our  indignation  is 
merely  an  aid  to  one  form  of  tyranny 
against  another?  Who  will  be  re 
sponsible  to us  for  the  character  of  the 
banditti  we  are  helping  to  gain  con 
trol  of  a  whole  people?  Who  knows 
the  secret  springs  that  are  moving  the 
so-called  patriots?  Have  the  Span 
iards  misgoverned?  The  patriots  are 
in  government 
totally 
and  offer  us  ho,  credentials  of  char 
acter.  Have  the  Spaniards  been  eruel 
same 
in  warfare?  On  exactly  the 
authority  —  newspaper 
reports  —  we 
know  that  the  Cubans  in  the  conduct 
of  their  campaigns  have violated  every 
usage  of  civilized  warfare. 
If  we  are 
to  intervene,  let's  not  do  it  under  false 
pretences.  Let's  not  fit  out  a  piratical 
expedition  and  sail  it  under  the  Red- -
Cross  flag.  If  Cuba  is hecessary  to  our 
wellbeing, to our pockets  or  our  vanity, 
-let's proceed,  in  the  most  statesmanlike 
way  possible,  to  take  her.  But  let's 
not  use  as  our  war-cry,  "Duty  to  hu 
manity! 
Freedom  and  liberty!  op 
pressed  and  downtrodden  Cuba!" 
.  This  is not, the  only  case  in  late  years 
where  the  United  States  senate  has-

Gome in and  see  us anyway 

revelled  in  the  frantic  ravings  of  de 
mentia,  or  in  something  of  a  still  more 
sombre  hue.  It  has  become  the  stage 
where  small  men  keen  for  personal 
gain,  men of  merely  rudimentary  moral 
development,  men  of  disappointed  am 
bition,  with  brains  corroded  with  envy, 
masquarade  in  the  pestilential 
rags 
and  tatters  of  a  senatorial  privilege 
that  was  once  the  stately  robes  of 
courtesy  and  dignity  worn by  the  giant 
fathers  of  the  republic. 
Indeed  some 
of  our  best  and  most  earnest  thinkers 
are  coming  to  look  upon  the  present 
constitution  of  the  senate  as  the  most 
feature  of  our  political 
threatening 
life. 

Unfortunately,  however,  all  the  buz 
zing  heads  are  not  in  congress  or  the 
lunatic  asylums.  A large  overflow  was 
found  on  our  street  corners  during  t h^ 
declining  months  of  the  just-dead  year. 
And  they  knew  even  more  than  our 
senators.  They  knew  the  number  of 
the  stars  and  just  how  many  ounces 
of  gold  and  silver  there  are  in  each 
one.  No  old  woman  hid  a  dime  in  the 
toe  of  her  stocking  but,  lo,  they  knew 
it  and  reckoned 
together. 
They  went  back  to  savage  ages,  and 
with  the  ej-e  of  the  seer  revealed  to 
us  the  ruinously  low  price  of  human 
tenderloin  steak  in  Africa  from 
the 
year  B.  C.  6742 to  B.  C. 3631—the  very 
exact  time  during  which  the  Fee-foo-
funis,  the  reigning  dynasty  of  the  Can 
nibal  Islands,  entered  into  a  vile  con 
spiracy  to  limit  the  coinage  of  ivory 
tusks,  thus  contracting  the  currency 
and  reducing  the  poor  warrior  man-
hunter, to  the  verge  of  absolute  ruin. 

it  all  up 

They 

In the pulpit we sometimes  hear these 
wheels  going,  and  there  they  buzz  out 
death  and  destruction  to  all  those  who 
do  not  or  cannot  come  into  a  certain 
little  eight-by-ten  ark  called  my-doxy. 
They  are  those  who  consume  so  much 
time  and-  energy  in  tithing  the  mint 
and  annise  and  cummin  of  doctrinal 
Pharisaism  that  they  have  little  left 
to  inculcate  justice,  and  mercy,  and 
truth.  They  are  those  who  are  ready 
with  opprobious  epithets  for  all  whose 
God  is  not  such  a  one  as  their  petty 
are 
imagination  compasses. 
those  who think  it  more a  revelation  of 
an infinite  immanent  God  to know  Him 
as  suddenly  halting  the  very  course  of 
this  great  ponderous  planet 
that 
sweeps in  beautiful  harmony  and  won 
derful  speed  around  our  sun,  in  order, 
forsooth,  that  somewhere,  in  some  lit 
tle  fold, -one  tribe  of  semi-savage  ma 
rauders  might  have  daylight  to  kill  a 
few  more  wretched  fugitives  of  other 
semi-savage  tribes;  than  to  conceive 
him  as  knowing  the  end  from  the  be 
ginning,  as  planning  all  things  with 
absolute  inerrancy,  as  needing  not  to 
i  repent,  to  experiment  to  reverse  pro-
:  cesses  once  set  on  foot,  or  to  mar  the 
'his  universe, 
i Happily  the  preachers,  as  a  class,  are 
in 

beauty  and  order  of 

sane,  broadminded, 

singularly 

telligent  and  charitable;  and  the  man 
with  the  wheel  is  the  exception  in  this 
part  of  the  moral  vineyard. 

in 

type 

so-called 

The  question  naturally  arises  at  this 
point,  does  woman  never  have  wheels 
in  her  head?  Does  she  never  have  one 
fixed  idea  beyond  which  she  never 
goes,. and  to  which  she  clings  with 
desperate  tenacity?  Not  often,  and 
yet  there  examples.  Now  I  know  your 
thoughts  naturally  revert  to  the  so-
called  "new  woman," but  'tis not  of  her 
that  I  wish  to  speak. 
I  may  remark 
incidentally,  however,  that  I  see  no 
new 
"new 
the 
woman."  She  has  the  same  vitriolic 
tongue  that  in  Puritan  days  used  to  be 
punished  with  the  ducking-stool;  she 
has the same  plentiful  lack  of  decorous 
modesty  that  St.  Paul,  in  his  days,  re 
proved  with  the  words,  "I  suffer  not 
a  woman  to  teach  nor  to  usurp  author 
ity over the  man."  Those  "pants," too, 
that  she  wears,  are  still  her  husband's 
—only  they  have  been  much  enlarged 
to—well, meet  the  necessities of the  situ 
ation.  O, she's  a  HOWLING  success,  this 
new old  woman  with  the  strident  voice 
and  the  brazen  face,  and  the  roomy 
bloomers;  only  she  isn't  new.  From 
shrewish  Sarah,  with  her  Turkish 
trowsers  and  her  poor,  hen-pecked  hus 
band  Abraham,  on  down  through  the 
ages  to  our  own  Mary  Ellen  and  him 
whose  modest  worth  is  unknown  to 
fame  except  as  Mrs.  Lease's  husband, 
we  have  always  had  her  with  us.  But 
it  was  not  the  new  woman  that  I  in 
tended  to  cite  as  an  example  of  the 
woman  with  wheels  in  her head.  There 
is  a much  more  serious  and  widespread 
ease. 
It  is  that  of  the  woman  who, 
with  streaming  hair,  flushed  cheeks, 
startled  eyes  and  reckless  tread,  rude 
ly  awakens  her  dreaming  husband 
from  wellearned  slumber  with 
the 
announcement—that—the 
stratling 

idea—the 

commercial 

baby  has  cut  its  first  tooth.  From 
wheels  like  this,  good  Lord  deliver  us. 
It  would  be a  long story  to tell  all  the 
varieties  of  wheels  in  all  the  heads. 
There  is  the  victim  of  the  advance-
agent-of-prosperity 
republi 
can  politician  who  preached  that  the 
depression, 
present 
brought  about  as  it  has  been  by  the 
most  profound  and  far-reaching  social 
changes  that 
the  scientist  has  ever 
been  called  upon  to  study,  was  only 
the  outcome  of  want  of  confidence; 
and  that  the  election  of  McKinley 
would  be  the  starter's  word  "go"  in  a 
frantic  race  of  prosperity.  As  well 
might  one talk  of  a freshet  in the  Miss 
issippi  being  caused  by  the  presence 
of  a  tree  floating  on  its  surface,  and 
expect  the  removal  of  the  tree  to  bring 
the  water  to  its  normal  height.  There 
is  the  walking  delegate  who  feels  an 
indefinite  but  intense  and  growing 
hatred  toward  the  capitalist;  who,  not 
satisfied  with  the  healthy,  steady,  and 
turn  the  whole  existing  fabric  of  so 
resulting 
ciety,  hoping 

in  the 

that 

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T HE  M.  A.  C.  E E C O E D. 

JANUARY  1,9 

1897. 

c h a o t ic  c o n f u s i on  be  m ay  c o me  o ut  on 
filled  w i th 
t o p;  w ho  h as  h is  m o u th 
p h r a s es  a b o ut  an  a l l - m e r c i f u l,  a l l - w i s e, 
a nd  a l l - p o w e r f ul  social  machine  w h i c h, 
u n s w a y ed  by  h u m an  g r e e d,  or  v a n i t y, 
or  w e a k n e s s,  w o u ld 
i n f a l l i b ly  m a n u 
f a c t u re  h a p p i n e ss  f or  e v e r y b o d y. 

of 

s t i ll 

r o ar 

u p on 

d e e p, 

A m id 

w h e e l s, 

w h e r e in 

a ll 
w h e e ls 

I  s t a rt  a w ay 
t h at  h a ve  so  f ar 

t he  s i l ly 
a nd  r a t t l e.  W h i t h er  a re 
f r om 

t h is  c o n f u s i on  a nd  n o i se 
w h e e ls 
w h e e l s, 
of 
c a t ch 
I 
w i t h in 
t he 
t he 
p e r s i s t e nt 
w h e e ls  of  d e s t i ny  a s,  r e s t l e s s ly  a nd  r e-
s i s t l e s s l y,  t h ey  b e ar  f o r w a rd 
t he  g r e at 
l i t t le  w h e e ls 
c ar 
t h ey 
flutter 
t he 
b e a r i ng  u s? 
t a k en 
t h i n gs 
p e t ty 
my  a t t e n t i on  a nd  a t t e m pt  to  p e er  o u t 
s i de  i n to  t he  b e y o n d.  B ut  a ll  is  n i g ht 
t he 
a n d.  d a r k n e s s,  a nd 
r u s h. 
e t e r n al 
r o a r,  o n ly 
is  g u i d 
W h i t h er  a re  we  g o i n g?  W ho 
t h r o u gh  t he  " w i de  w o mb 
i ng  o ur 
flight 
of  u n c r e a t ed  n i g h t ?" 
I  g r ow 
a f r a id  a nd  t u rn  a nd  a sk  t he  s c i e n t i s t s, 
" Do  y ou  h e ar  t he  r o ar  of  t he  w h e e l s? 
f o r w a rd 
Do  y ou 
A nd 
s u r g e? 
w h i t h er 
t h ey 
o n ly  l o ok  at  me  r a t h er  v a c a n t ly  a nd  go 
on 
a nd 
t a l k i ng  of  e t h er  a nd  w h o r ls 
p i ' o t o p l a sm  a nd  e v o l u t i o n. 

r e s i s t l e ss 
t he 
it  d r i v i ng  u s ?"  B ut 

t h e re 
t he  o n w a rd 

f e el 
W h at 

t h at 
is 

is  o n ly 

f o r c e? 

A nd 

is 

A nd 

t he  d e ep  r o ar  g o es  o n.  A nd 

a sk  t he  t h e o l o g i a n s,  " Do  y ou  h e ar 
w h e e ls  of  d e s t i n y?  Do  t h ey  m e an 
t h e o l o g i a n s, 
or  d e a t h ?"  B ut 
M i l t o n 's 
h i gh 
" Of  p r o v i d e n c e, 

t he 
f a l l en  a n g e l s,  a re 

f o r e k n o w l e d g e,  w i ll 

I 
t he 
l i fe 
l i ke 
r e a s o n i ng 

F i x ed 

a nd  f a t e, 
f a t e, 
a b s o l u t e. 

f r ee  w i l l, 

f o r e k n o w l e d ge 

A nd 

find  no  e n d,  in  w a n d e r i ng  m a z es 
l o s t ." 

s i n g s: 

A nd  t he  d e ep  r o ar  g o es  o n.  A nd 

t h en 
a w ay  off  in  t he  m i d st  of  t he  j a r s,  a nd 
w h i r l,  a nd  j a n g le  I  h e ar  a  s t r o n g,  c l e ar 
p o e t 's  v o i c e,  w h i ch 
" T he  y e a r 's  at  t he  s p r i ng 
A nd  d a y 's  at  t he  m o r n; 
M o r n i n g 's  at 
T he  h i l l s i d e 's  d ew  p e a r l e d; 
T he  l a r k 's  on  t he  w d n g; 
T he  s n a i l 's  on  t he 
G o d 's 
in  h is  h e a v e n— 
A l l 's  r i g ht  w i th  t he  w o r l d !" 
A nd 

t he  w h e e ls  r o ar  on,  b ut  I  am 
c o n t e n t. 

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t o n,  P r e s i d e n t.  C.  W.  L o o m i s,  C o r. 
S e c r e t a r y. 

Y.  W.  C.  A.  r e g u l ar  w e e k ly  m e e t i n gs 
f or  a ll  l a d i es  on  t he  c a m p us  T u e s d ay 
e v e n i n gs  at  8  o ' c l o c k,  in  t he  l a d i e s'  p a r 
l o r s.  M e e t i n gs  on  S u n d ay 
w i th 
M c D e r m o t t, 
G e o r g i a,  C o r.  S e c r e t a r y. 

t he  Y.  M.  C.  A .;  M i ss  E d i th  F. 
P r e s i d e n t;  M i ss 

e v e n i n gs 

A l i ce 

M.  A.  C.  G r a n g e — M e e ts  e v e ry 

t h r ee 

N a t u r al  H i s t o ry 

w e e ks  on  T u e s d ay  e v e n i ng  in  t he  C o 
l u m b i an  S o c i e ty  r o o m s. 
P r o f.  C.  D. 
S m i t h,  M a s t e r.  H.  W.  H a r t,  S e c r e t a r y. 
S o c i e t y — R e g u l ar 
m e e t i ng  s e c o nd  F r i d ay  e v e n i ng  of  e a ch 
m o n th 
t he  c h a p el  at  7:00..  H.  C. 
S k e e l s,  P r e s i d e n t.  W.  R.  K e d z i e,  S e c 
r e t a r y. 

in 

B o t a n i c al  C l u b — M e e ts  first  a nd 

t h i rd 
F r i d ay  of  e a ch  m o n th  in  t he  B o t a n i c al 
L a b o r a t o ry  at  6:30.  T.  G u n s o n,  P r e s i 
d e n t.  W.  R.  K e d z i e,  S e c r e t a r y. 

S h a k e s p e a re 

C l u b — M e e ts 

e v e ry 

W e d n e s d ay  e v e n i n g.  D r.  H o w a rd  E d 
w a r d s,  P r e s i d e n t. 

M.  A.  C.  A t h l e t ic  A s s o c i a t i o n — C.  B. 
L a i t n e r,  P r e s i d e n t.  G.  B.  W e l l s,  S e c 
r e t a r y. 

e v e ry  S a t u r d ay 

C o l u m b i an  L i t e r a ry  S o c i e t y — R e g u l ar 
in 
m e e t i ng 
t h e ir 
t he  m i d d le  w a rd  of 
W e l ls  H a l l,  at  7:00.  T.  A.  C h i t t e n d e n, 
P r e s i d e n t.  A.  J.  W e e k s,  S e c r e t a r y. 

e v e n i ng 

r o o ms 

in 

E c l e c t ic 

f o u r th 
S o c i e t y — M e e ts 
floor  Of  W i l l i a ms  H a ll  e v e ry  S a t u r d ay 
at  7:30  p.  m.  D.  M.  M c E l r o y.  P r e s i 
d e n t;  T.  H.  L i b b e y,  S e c r e t a r y. 

on 

F e r o n i an  S o c i e t y — M e e ts  e v e ry  F r i 
in  H e s p e r i an 
d ay  a f t e r n o on 
r o o m s.  M i ss  P e a rl  K e d z i e,  P r e s i d e n t. 
M i ss  H a t t ie  C h a s e,  S e c r e t a r y. 

1:00 

at 

H e s p e r i an 

S o c i e t y — M e e t i n gs 

h e ld 
e v e ry  S a t u r d ay  e v e n i ng  in  t he  s o c i e ty 
r o o ms  in  t he  w e st  w a rd  of  W e l ls  H a ll 
at  7:00.  A.  T.  C a r t l a n d,  P r e s i d e n t.  D. 
E.  H o a g,  S e c r e t a r y. 

O l y m p ic  S o c i e t y — M e e ts 

f o u r th 
floor  of  W i l l i a ms  H a ll  e v e ry  S a t u r d ay 
e v e n i ng  at  7:00.  W.  R.  G o o d w i n,  P r e s i 
d e n t.  E.  R.  R u s s e l l,  S e c r e t a r y. 

on 

L e a v es  M.  A.  C.  f or  L a n s i ng  at  8:30  a.  m. 
l e a v es  L a n s 
a nd  1:30  p.  m.  R e t u r n i n g, 

i ng  at  10:30  a.  m.  a nd  4:30  p.  m. 

P a c k a g es 
p r o m pt 

left  at  E m e r y 's  w i ll 

a t t e n t i o n. 

L i v e ry  or  B us 

r e c e i ve 
for 

p i c n i cs  at  r e s o n a b le  r a t e s. 

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you  every  year.  Why  continue  an  inferior  system 
another  year  at  so  great  a loss?  Dairying  is  now  t he 
only  profitable  feature  of  Agriculture.  Properly  con 
ducted  it  always  pays  well, and  must  pay  you.  You 
t he  B E S T , — t he 
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t h an 

e v er 

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N o t h i ng  b ut 

r e l i a 

b le  q u a l i t i es 

find  p l a ce 

in 

my 

s t o c k. 

STUDENT'S  PATRONAGE  SOLICITED. 

ELGIN  MIFFLIN 

THE  OUTFITTER. 

six and five  dollar 

shoes ^r gentlemen 

We  are  now  closing  all  broken  lots  of  fine  English 
Enamel,  Patent  Leather,  Cordovan  and  Winter  Russia 
Shoes  at  the  uniform  price  of  THREE  NINETY-FIVE  a 
pair.  We  do  not  agree  to  furnish  all  sizes  and  widths 
in  all  of  the  kinds,  as  some  are  sold  out,  but  what  we 
have  are  yours  at  the  price  named. 

C.D.WOODBURY 

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5.00  English  Enamel,  Round  Toe 
5.50  French  Enamel,  Pointed  Toe 
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" " " T H R EE  NINETY-FIVE 

JANUARY  19, 

1897. 

T HE  M.  A.  C.  K E C O E D. 

News  from  G r a d u a t es  a nd  S t u d e n t s. 

F r ed  P.  Clarke^- '93, 

is  one  of 

the 

senate  committee  clerks  in  Lansing. 

N a t h an  Mussey  entered  t he  College 
in  1857  from  Romeo,  where  he  still  re 
sides. 

W.  G.  Smithy 

the  institute  at  Howell 

'93,  took  an  active 
last 

in 

p a rt 
week. 

A.  J.  Bracelin,  with  '68,  is  president 
t he  I n s t i t u te  Society  for  Allegan 

of 
county. 

G.  M.  Wardwell,  with  '98m,  is  rewir 
ing  t he  agricultural  laboratory  for  elec 
tric  lights. 

A.  L.  Bemis,  with  '83,  occupies  the 
chair  of  a  representative  in  our  State 
legislature. 

T.  E.  Drayden, 

r e t u r n ed 
from  I o wa  and  is  now  in  business  in 
Grand  Rapids. 

'79,  h as 

Geo.  A.  True,  who  took  t he  special 
course  in  dairying  here,  w as  secretary 
of  t he  institute  at  Armada. 

H e n ry  F.  Buskirk,  '78,  Wayland,  is 
one  of  the  representatives  in  t he  State 
legislature  from  Allegan  counts'. 

'88,  spent 

H.  B.  Gannon, 

several 
days  of  last  week  at  M.  A.  C.  He  g a ve 
the  students  a  short  talk  in  the  chapel 
F r i d ay  morning. 

'97,  has  a 

K.  B.  Jewett,  with 

fine 
f a rm  near  Allegan.  He  h as  moved  in 
to  t he  city  for  t he  w i n t er  to  give  his 
children  better  schooling. 

J a m es  Satterlee,  '69,  M.  S.  in  '74,  is 
spending  t he  Avinter  in  Lansing  and 
the 
will  be  at 
time.  He  is  at  work  on  a  thesis  on 
nut-bearing  trees. 

the  College  much  of 

Prof.  J ay  McColl  ['90m]  of  Knoxville 
University,  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  h as  been 
in  t he  city  during  t he  week,  looking 
over  t he  c a m p us  once  more.  He  is  a 
son  of  Rob't  D.  McColl,  of  Webster.— 
Ann  Arbor  Oouricr,  Jan.  13. 

Tracy  Gillis,  with  '94m,  who  w as  em 
ployed  as  stenographer  in  Hon.  H.  S. 
Pingree's  office  for  nearly  a  year,  w as 
on  Tuesday  formally  appointed  by  the 
Detroit  council  as  mayor's  stenogra 
pher,  with  a salary  of  $1,200. 

A.  R.  Maynard,  with  '97,  is  now  a 
e;>roporal  in  Battery  M,  5th  U.  S.  artil 
lery,  and  at  present  is  located  at  F o rt 
Slocum,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.  During 
an  illness  since  leaving  F o rt  Presidio, 
San  Francisco,"'  Cal.,  he  w as  reduced 
in  weight  61  pounds. 

to  a t t e nd 

O.  S.  Bristol,  with  '83  for  t wo  years, 
came  with  his  wife,  13  miles  from  Al-
mont, 
t he  institute  at  Ar 
mada.  As  Mr.  Bristol  has  been  rais 
ing  peaches  quite  extensively  for  some 
y e a rs  past,  he  w as  especially 
inter 
ested  in  the  paper  of  R.  M.  Kellogg  on 
small  fruits. 

A  recent  letter  from  Prof.  L.  H.  Bai 
ley,  '82,  s a y s:  "This  is  t he  southern 
most  railroad  station  in  Florida. 
It  is 
a  boom  town.  L a st  year  there  were 
only  a b o ut  25  people  here.  Now  there 
a re  2,500.  Many  living  in  tents.  Sum 
mer  weather."  The  professor  is  much 
improved  in  health. 

E.  D.  Partridge,  '96m,  w ho  is  teach 
ing  in  t he  Brigham  Young  Academy,  in 
"I  h a ve 
P r o vo  City,  Utah,  writes: 
s t a r t ed 
twenty-three 
term  with 
hours  a  week,—geometry,  algebra,  in 
t e g r al  calculus,  theology  and  mechan 
ical  drawing. 
It  keeps  me  quite  busy, 
b ut  I  guess  I'll  m a n a g e ." 

t h is 

it  as 

In  passing  through  Washington,  Ma 
comb  county,  I  w as  interested  in  re 
calling 
residence 
of  Dr.  Cooley,  w ho  m a de  a  large  col 
lection  of  p l a n ts  of  t h at  neighborhood. 
T he  herbarium  long  ago  came  into  pos 
session  of  M.  A.  C.  N e ar  here  also 

former 

t he 

lives  t h e re  on  a 

the  Cannon  boys.  H.  B.  Can 
lived 
fruit 
non,  '88,  n ow 
farm,  while  his  brother,  W.  A.  Can 
non,  with  '93,  is  a  junior  at  Stanford 
University,  Palo  Alto,  California. 

H i gh  School. 

towns  where  F a r m e r s' 

Some  of  the  high-school  principals, 
Institutes 
in 
a re  held,  h a ve  adopted 
the  plan  of 
sending  a  delegation  of  pupils  to  t he 
institute  to  m a ke  a  report.  Prin.  Sin 
clair  of  Gladwin  sent  such  a  delega 
tion,  and  t he  result  is  a  column  write-
up  of  t he  first  session  in  t he  Gladwin 
Clayton  B u r ge  a nd 
County  Record. 
Miss  Millard  Wrote  the  report,  and  it 
is  a  good  one—complete  a nd  well  writ 
ten.  T h is  is  not  only  good  practice 
for  t he  pupils,  b ut  it  will  h a ve  a  tend 
ency  to  a w a k en  in  the  minds  of 
the 
young  a  greater  interest  in  the  prob 
lems  t h at  confront  our  agriculturists. 

It 

looks  n ow  as 

though  we  would 
h a ve  no  new  base  ball  rules  to  learn 
next  season.  Manager  Hanlon,  of  Bal 
timore,  says  no  changes  in  t he  present 
rules  will  be  made.  T he  only  change 
in  the  rules  discussed  at  Chicago  w as 
t he  proposition 
to  abolish  coaching, 
but  coaching  is the  life  of  the  game  and 
will  not  soon  be  abolished. 

Mrs.  Grover  Cleveland,  with  several 
of  her  classmates,  is  to  m a ke  a  present 
of  a  beautiful  stained-glass  window  to 
Wellesley  College,  where 
she  w as 
formerly  a  student. 

Board  of  A g r i c u l t u r e. 

Hon.  F r a n k l in  Wells,  President 

Constantine. 
Hon.  Chas.W.  Garfield.  . G r a nd  Rapids. 
St.  Clair. 
Hon.  Chas.  F.  Moore 
Hon.  C.  J.  Monroe 
South  H a v e n. 
Hon.  H e n ry Chamberlain. Three  Ooaks. 
Delhi  Mills. 
Hon.  W.  E.  Boyden 
Gov.  John  T.  Rich 
Ex  Officio 
T he  President  of  the  College..Ex  Officio 
Hon.  I.  H.  Butterfield,  Secy..  . 

Mich.  Agr.  College. 

F a c u l ty  a nd  O t h er  Officers. 

J.  L.  SNYDER,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D.,  Presi 
dent. 
R O B E RT  C.  K E D Z I E,  M.  A.,  M.  D., 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  a nd  Curator 
of  t he  Chemical  Laboratory. 
W I L L I AM  J.  B E A L,  M.  S.,  P h.  D., 
Professor  of  Botany  and  Forestry,  and 
Curator  of  the  Botanical  Museum. 
E.  A.  A.  GRANGE,  V.  S., 
Professor  of  Veterinary  Science. 
L E VI  R.  T A F T,  M.  S., 
Professor  of  Horticulture  and  Land 
scape  Gardening,  a nd  Superintend 

ent  of 

t he  Horticultural  De 

partment. 
H O W A RD  E D W A R D S,  M.  A.,  L L.  D., 
Professor  of  English  Literature  and 
Modern  Languages. 
H E R M AN  K.  V E D D E R,  C.  E., 
Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Civil 
Engineering. 
H E N RY  H.  B A N D H O L T Z,  2d  Lieut. 
6th  Inf.,  U.  S.  A., 
Professor  of  Military  Sciences  and 
Tactics. 
I.  H.  B U T T E R F I E L D, 
Secretary. 
CLINTON  D.  S M I T H,  M.  S. 
Professor  of  Practical  Agriculture,  and 
Superintendent  of  t he  F a r m. 
CHAS.  L.  W E I L,  S.  B., 
Professor  of  Mechanical  Engineering 
a nd  Director  of  the  Mechanical 
D e p a r t m e n t. 
W A L T ER  B.  B A R R O W S.  S.  B., 
Professor  of  Zoology  and  Physiology, 
and  Curator  of  t he  General 
Museum. 
F R A NK  S.  K E D Z I E,  M.  S., 

Adjunct  Professor  of  Chemistry. 
W I L L I AM  S.  H O L D S W O R T H,  M.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  D r a w i n g. 
P H I L IP  B.  W O O D W O R T H,  B.  S., 
M.  E. 
Assistant  Professor  of  Physics. 
ALVIN  B.  NOBLE,  B.  Ph., 
Assistant  Professor  of  English  Litera 
ture  and  Modern  Languages. 
C H A R L ES  F.  W H E E L E R,  B.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  Botany. 
W I L B UR  O.  H E D R I C K,  M.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  History  a nd  Po 
litical  Economy. 
W A R R EN  BABCOCK,  Jr.,  B.  S., 
Assistant  Professor  of  Mathematics. 

E D I TH  F.  M c D E R M O T T, 
Professor  of  Domestic  Economy  and 
Household  Science. 
MRS.  L I N DA  E.  LANDON, 
Librarian. 
H.  W.  M U M F O R D,  B.  S. 

Assistant  Professor  of  Agriculture. 

v 

G A G ER  C.  DAVIS,  M.  S., 
Instructor  in  Zoology. 
A.  L.  W E S T C O T T,  B.  M.  E., 
Instructor  in  Mechanical  Engineering. 
D I CK  J.  CROSBY,  B.  S., 
Instructor  in  English. 
M E R R I TT  W.  F U L T O N,  B.  S., 
I n s t r u c t or  in  Agriculture. 
B U R T ON  O.  LONGYEAR, 
Instructor  in  Botany 
CYRUS  C.  P A S H B Y,  B.  S., 
Instructor  in  Mathematics. 
GORDON  H.  T R U E,  B.  S., 
Instructor  in  Dairying. 
C H A R L ES  E.  M A R S H A L L,  P h.  B,. 
Instructor  in  Bacteriology. 
H.  E.  S M I T H,  B.  S. 
Instructor  in  Mechanical  Engineering 
K.  L.  B U T T E R F I E L D,  B.  S., 
Supt.  F a r m e r s'  Institutes  a nd  College 
Field  Agent. 
D.  B.  B A L D W I N, 
Engineer. 
T H O M AS  GUNSON, 
F o r e m an  of  Greenhouse. 
F.  C.  K E N N E Y, 
Assistant  Secretary. 
E R N E ST  W I T T S T O C K, 
F o r e m an  of  the  F a r m. 
W.  S.  L E O N A R D, 
F o r e m an  of  Machine  Shop. 
T H O M AS  D U R K I N, 
F o r e m an  of  the  Horticultural  Depart 
ment. 
C H A R L ES  E.  HOYT, 

and 

f o r e m an  of 

t he  Wood  Shops 
F o u n d r y. 
E.  S.  GOOD, 
Clerk  to  President. 
C H A CE  N E W M A N, 
Clerk  of  Mechanical  D e p a r t m e n t. 

S t a t i on  Council. 

Clinton  D.  Smith,  M.  S 

Director  and  Agriculturist. 

J o n a t h an  L.  Snyder,  P h.  D.,  P r es 

L.  R.  Taft,  M.  S 
Robert  C.  Kedzie,  M.  A.,  M.  D 

Ex  Officio. 
Horticulturist 

I ra  H.  Butterfield, 

Chemist. 
Secretary 
and  Treasurer. 

Advisory  a nd  A s s i s t a nt  Staff. 

A.  A.  Crozier,  M.  S 

Assistant  in  Agriculture. 

H e r b e rt  W.  Mumford,  B.  S 

Assistant  in  Agriculture. 

H.  P.  Gladden,  B.  S 

Assistant  in  Horticulture. 
M.  L.  D e a n.  .Assistant  in  Horticulture. 
Thorn  Smith,  B.  S 

Assistant  in  Chemistry. 

E.  A.  A.  Grange,  V.  5 

Consulting  Veterinarian. 

G.  C.  Davis,  M.  S . . .. 

Consulting  Entomologist. 
Botanist. 
Librarian. 

Chas.  F.  Wheeler,  B.  S 
Mrs.  L.  E.  Landon 
T.  T.  Lyon,  So.  H a v en 

In  charge  of  Sub-Station. 

R.  L.  Taylor,  Lapeer 

In  charge  of  Apiary. 

Sub  S t a t i o n s. 

deeded. 

Grayling,  Crawford  county,  80  acres 
. |  f 
South  Haven,  Van  Buren  county,  10 

acres  r e n t e d;  5  acres  deeded. 

M.  A.  C. 

S P E C I AL  R A T ES  ON 
P H O T OS  AT 

SHARFSTEEN'S  STUDIO. 

New  Grand  Hotel 
EVERYTHING  NEW 

Special  Rates 

to  M.  A.  C.  Boys 

R.  RENNER, 

Proprietor 

The  Farm  Home 

Reading  Circle 

OF  T HE 

M I C H I G AN  S T A TE 
A G R I C T J I / f U R A I,  C O L L E G E. 

THE  AIM OF THE  FARM  HOME  READINC  CIRCLE. 

The  fundamental  purpose  of  the  Agri 
cultural  College  is  to  educate  farmers' 
sons  and  daughters  toward  the  farm  and 
not  away  from  it.  She  is  doing  this  and 
in  addition  is  making  it  possible for  those 
who  cannot  afford  a  college  course  to 
topics 
become  posted  on  agricultural 
through  the  Farm  Home  Reading  Circle. 
One  of  the  objects  of  the  F a rm  Home 
Reading  Circle  is  to  recommend  the  best 
books  for  the  farmer,  gardener  and  stock 
breeder  to  read,  and  at  the  same  time  to 
furnish  an  opportunity  for  the  farmer  to 
buy 
reduced 
prices. 

those  books  at  greatly 

The  course  of  reading  outlined  has 
been  prepared  by men  who  are  authority 
in  their  special  lines.  The  books  offered 
in  the  course  are  thought  to  be  as  good 
as  can  be  secured  at  a  reasonable  figure. 
The  privileges  of  the  F a rm  Home 
Reading  Circle  are  not  limited  as  to  age 
or  occupation.  Anyone  who  is  a  resi 
dent  of  Michigan  may become  a  member. 
One  of  the  most  commendable  features 
of  this  course  of  reading  is  that  you  can 
read  alone. 

You  do  not  have  to  organise  a  society. 

MEMBERSHIP  COSTS  NOTHING. 

ADVANTAGES  TO MEMBERS  OF THE FARM 

HOME  READINC  CIRCLE. 

1.  An  opportunity 

to  pursue  a  sys 
tematic  course  of 
the 
direction  and  with  the  aid  of  all  depart 
ments  of 
the  Michigan  Agricultural 
College. 

reading  under 

2.  The  publications  of  the  Michigan 
State  Experiment  Station  are mailed  free 
to  members  of  the  F a rm  Home  Reading 
Circle. 

3.  You  can  secure  standard  books  at 

greatly  reduced  rates. 

4.  You  not  only  secure  the  benefit 
yourself,  but  you  get  a  certificate  on  the 
completion  of  each  book  which  cannot 
fail  to  be  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  you. 
5.  You  can  receive  a  prompt  answer 
to  any  question  in  regard  to  farm  topics 
by  applying  to  the  college  through  the 
Secretary  of  the  F a rm  Home  Reading 
Circle. 

Full  information  in  regard  to  how  to 
join  and  the  different  courses  offered 
will  be  furnished  promptly  upon  appli 
cation  to  the  secretary, 

H E R B E RT  W.  MTJMJFORD, 

Agricultural  College,  Mich 

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The  Fame  of  Our  College  Has Gone  Abroad 

Our  last  Catalog  s h o ws  t h at  WE  HAVE  S T U D E N TS  FROM 
J A P A N,  SIBERIA,  S W E D E N,  S C O T L A N D,  ENGLAND,  ARMENIA, 
Q U E B E C,  ONTARIO,  NOVA  SCOTIA,  ELEVEN  S T A T ES  AND  T HE 
DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA  IN  OUR  COUNTRY,  BESIDES  F O R T Y-
NINE  C O U N T I ES  IN  MICHIGAN. 

We  number  among  our  post-graduate  students,  men  and  women  from  the 
University  of  Michigan,  Amherst,  Oberlin,  Olivet,  The  State  Normal,  and  many-
other  institutions  of  learning. 

But  our  most  laudable  pride  is  in  the  work  our  graduates  are  doing  — they  occupy  positions  of  honor 

and  trust  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  and  their  work  is  a  proud  monument  to  the  training  received  here. 

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T he  MECHANICAL  C O U R SE 
TJTT^rWOMEN'S  C O U R SE 

If  you  wish  to  know  m o re  a b o ut  t h e se  c o u r s es  you  can  get  o ur  catalog 

by  writing  to. 

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President  J.  L.  SNYDER, 

AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE,  MICH. 

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