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Impressions Received from Reading George | we rejoice and sorrow with them. A trial comes to one

Eliot's Novels.

RK. & BARER, PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY.

To the lover of fiction there is, perhaps, no author
more pleasing in style and more subtle in depicting char-
acter than George Eliot. It is a continual source of
delight to read the pure descriptions, wise sayings and
almost perfect narrative of her works. They make a
lasting impression upon the reader, and he is held en-
tranced by their power until the characters have been fully
developed, and, the web of narrative spun. Then he
drops the book with a pang of regret—almost sorrow—
to think that so much reality has dropped from his life,
Yet the impressions have been indelibly traced on his
memory, where they will ever after act as a powerful
influence in shaping his ideas,

George Eliot's power as a novelist does not lie in any
one peculiar characteristic of style. There is an intri-
cate combination of wisdom, descriptive power and
philosophy, intermingled with bright flashes of humor
and subdued pathos. Many authors have criticised her
literary work on account of her rather awkward and
heavy attempts at sarcasm. It is true that her heart
was too open and her nature too frank to admit of her
‘making a success of irony, and her later works show
little of this style. The author who asks her readers,
with all the kindness of gentle womanhood, not to
grudge poor, stupid Amos Barton his beautiful wife;
the “large, fair, gentle Madonna” could hardly be ex-
pected to excel in hard, cold sarcasm.

We take up one of her larger works with a feeling
of admiration almost amounting to awe. The admira-
tion is the same whether we have previously read any of
her books or not, and the old reader has the advantage
of being eager to further acquaint himself with the
wonderful power of a master hand in the literary art.

The interest of the reader may not at first be fully
absorbed on account of the rather lengthy introductions
which most of the novels contain. Yet as one charac-
ter after another is introduced to us the interest deepens,
At first we do not know them very well, but, as we
note the features and appearance of a newly made
friend, so we read here a vivid description of the char-
acters. Then the plot deepens and the narrative be-
comes intense, We are ina spirit world, with people
before us whose motives are like ours, and who are
impelled by desires and propensities which we can read-
ily understand, Their very souls are open to us, and

see olace

of our favorite characters. We unconsciously reason
concerning what we should do in a like circumstance
and then try to infer what this one will do, but in vain.
The author has chosen these circumstances with won-
derful genius, and so placed them that they reveal to us
ina flash a new characteristic of the character, the exist-
ence of which we had never suspected, In this way we
get a glimpse into the very minds and thoughts of the
characters, who have now become our friends or ene-
mies, as may be. We follow eagerly on, and are not
disappointed. A life’s ambition is being wrought out
before us and our whole nature settles upon its success.
Thus it is with the description and the narrative. They
impress the characters indelibly on our minds, and lead
us upward on the road to culture, and enable us to pen-
etrate more clearly the characters of those around us,
and exercise charity for the failings of others,

Yet the character paintings and narratives are not all,
George Eliot intermingles with her stories many wise
sayings and much very pleasing philosophy. Some
critics have contended that these parts hinder the narra-
tive by making it heavy; yet when we look back after
reading the work we can see no part that should have
been left out. This philosophy seems to harmonize the
other parts of the production, and bring forth a more
perfect whole. Indeed, to many readers these sayings

/ are among the choicest parts of all of George Eliot's

writings.

We appreciate the beauty of style of these novels
more and more by re-reading many times, and the depth
to which the characters may be developed in our own
minds is something wonderful, In fact, as a cultivating
and enlightening influence, there are perhaps no literary
works in the English language more valuable than
George Eliot's novels,

Longfellow and His Worlks.

F. He WALL, UNION LITERARY SOCIETY,

The tendency toward transcendentalism which marks
much of the poetry of recent years has influenced many
of the critics to assume a severer tone toward Longfel-
low. They attempt a disparagement of his work
because of its simplicity, its lack of that deep, obscure
study of motives which is the chief feature of the tran-
scendental school, and the absence of marked origin -
ality in character and ideas, But to those not elevated
to this lofty realm of mysticism and introverted reflec.
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tion to the middle classes of society, he will continue to
be the most popular of all poets, and his work will still

master.

Chief among the causes of his lasting popularity is
the clement of human sympathy which pervades all his
writings, and secures for them a cordial reception where
the most polished lyric or loftiest didactic poem, lacking
that element, would be laid aside as soon as read. Long-
fellow may not possess that philosophical insight which
can analyze human action and trace the obscure motives
which govern men; but he does have that kinship of
humanity which strikes deeper than thought, which
makes the reading of his poems seem like grasping the
hand of a trusted friend, and receiving from him sym-
pathy and sweet counsel, We do not miss the philos-
ophy in the deeper, richer, fuller tide of revealed exper-
ience Which flows to us through his verse, Moreover,
the experience which his song reveals is not of limited
character, lighting up the workings of a few emotions
with the intense fame of passion, but it attains almost to
universality, spreading upon all the nobler qualitics of
man a mild but steuly glow, which imparts a quiet
beauty.

While Longfellow did not search for themes which
abound in beautiful pictures, or strive to fascinate with
loveliness in any of his works, he did select all that was
beautiful in even the humblest subject. Touched by
his pen, as it produced image after image of peculiar

fitness, couched in words of most delicate shade, the sim-

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great lessons of quict, whole-hearted acceptance of duty

| to God and man, of patient resignation, and of cheerful

exert a greater influence upon the thought and life of the | effort to make our way pleasant by a search for all that

great mass of American people than any other metrical | is beautiful even in the darkest spots.

Longfellow was not original in this, that like those
reat pocts, Virgil and Milton, he drew freely upon the
stores of learning and literature, but unlike them, he
so changed and individualized the thought that where-
ever found it seems like direct inspiration. In this
change to his own style there was no straining for
effect, no effort to make the thought appear his own,
but the thoughts of others joined his as a brook joins a
river, without leaving a ripple.

Of artistic ability, the power “Of combining words
so that they make music to the soul as well as to the
ear,’ Longfellow had perhaps as great degree as any
of the later poets untess it be Tennyson. His vivid
imran and refine | taste enabled him to select the
tletuils of beauty; his aptitude for literature and con-

istint study of other ton@ucs cave a master’s command

of fitting words to express the picture, and the harmony

plest scenes of life become veritable oases of beauty |
fortunate in the choice of meter, as the constant repeti-

in the desert of every day experience. This exquisite
taste, which rejected every clement of harshness or
crudity of thought or word, served to make him the
first great exponent of the “ School of the Beautiful”
in American literature. The artistic sense of the west-

ern world, restrained by asceticism, the old Puritan idea,

“ Beauty is a strange God,” was quickened by Long- |
fellow’s teaching, by his adaptation of European |
grace and refinement to western sentiment and convic- |

tion. He showed that loveliness and holiness co hand
in hand; in his works the streams of moral and religious
sentiment first Howed between lovely banks, in beauti-
ful curves and with bright ripplings, while the purity
and clearness of their sources were retained,

It is often said that each of Longfellow’s poems was
intended to convey a moral; but so great was his tact,
and so cultivated his artistic taste, that the lesson never
intrudes, but springs so naturally from the handling of
the subject that we retain it rather as a truth our own
reasoning has developed than as the result of the author's
efforts toteach us. Some of his most popular gems,
though the morals are evident, and in other hands would
be commonplace, made instinct with new life and energy

by his skillful touch, become living powers, inspir-.

ing us who read with higher resolves and to nobler
efforts. His writing and his life strongly enforce the

aul melody of his own soul furnished the music of
rythin and meter.

The forms in which Longfellow'’s poetic thought
found expression are almost as varied as the themes he
treated,

Ditheult as itis te use the hexameter in English poctry,
Longfellow applied it with the ricatest suceess im the
story of Evangeline, and the slow, steady lowing of the
with the
pathetic curnestiess of the story its would no less stately
verse,

lane, measured lines seems to harmonize

Iu his other semi-epic [liawatha, he was less

tion of the short, unvarying lines, gives a sense of
monotony; yet, even this seems appropriate to the
simple life and uature of the “Son of the Forest,” and
corresponds in some degree with the range of sounds ~
that greet the dweller in the untamed but peaceful
woods,

Our poet's range extended through all the lighter
forms of versification, and all were handled with taste
amd skill, but in only a few of them did he excel the
former masters; his sounets were exact and characteris.
tic of his genius, his lyrics were melodious and pleasing,
and his balluls attractive; but we can say of none of
them that they are unequalled.

It is Longfellow’s poetry alone which gives him his
enviable position in popular opinion; but his work as
translator and prose writer enhances the literary value
of his life, Mis prose is marked by the richest imagin-
ation, clothing the humblest life in picturesque robe and
finding under the somber colors of the beetle, + filmy
wings to lift him from the dullness of the ground;”
genial humor, too, pervades the prose to a much greater
extent than it does his poctry, humor not boisterous or
harsh, but quiet, and marked by the author's own. ear-
nestness.

As a translator, he brought to his work so much of
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sympathy, and used so much of poetic taste and skill,
that his interpretations of foreign masters possess all of
their beauty and sentiment, although they may some-
times lack a little of the original strength and fire.

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mind seems to be engaged in reflecting on some one’s

else faults, and then try to think of him as of a happy
disposition, And your failure to think of the two natures

Even in translation the thoughts seem to spring fresh |
from his own great heart, and not worn and dusty as |

with a long journey of use and change.

indifference to the great works of others, but do fit us
better to appreciate the beautiful, wherever found; give
ataste for higher ideals; but most of all ennoble the
mind, and lead to a happier, purer, nobler manhocd.

Gossip.

W. E. DAVIS, OLYMPIC SWE TY.

Little has been written, and little said, on the subject
of gossip. This term needs no defining.
its effects, are too familiar to us all. Bnt too much can
not be spoken or written against this evil, which exists
in all communities to a greater or less extent. No one
has lived where it does not exist, and few have not suf-
fered either keenly or slightly from the ever-present
effects of it.

Perhaps it should not be said that those who are deal-
ing out so freely all that they know, or think they know,
against their neighbor, are willfully injuring him. ‘Wet
the effects remain the same, and come as surely as do
the effects of a violated law of health, no matter whether
the law was transgressed through ignorance or neces-
sity. Itis not a difficult matter to understand how those
who really mean no harm, may tell things which are
not actually true. It is a well-known fact that no two
feel, hear, or see things in the same way. Hence when
they undertake to impart what they know to some one
else, that information undergoes a change as marked its
is the difference ia the perception of the two persons.

as existing in the same person will show you how incon-
sistent are the two natures. Hence, the man who allows
the thoughts of other's misdoings to dominate his

mind, is surely paving the way for a sour and unhappy

by his continual rattling.

As a whole his productions do not fill the reader with | disposition,

His mind becomes narrowed, his intellect
stunted by the overruling feeling that he has been chosen
as a special person to tear down every one’s reputation
He may not know into what

a habit he is falling. But it is certainly a habit that will

| grow upon him, and, day by day, he finds himself gos-

He

siping, seemingly with increasing satisfaction,

imagines that when he is lowering some one’s clse rep-

‘utation, his own is being exalted in the same degree,
| Nothing, however, can be farther from the truth We

do not honor suck a person. George Eliot says, “ Gos-

| sip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco

It, or rather |

pipes of those who diffuse ity it proves nothing but the
bad taste of the smoker.”

The great harm, however, in gossip, is in its effect on
those invelved in the idle tales. .A man’s reputation is
his capital. His whole prosperity depends on how he

is looked upon by other men, A man may suffer for

' years from bodily pain and not complain; or he may

lose his property through accident and still be hope-
ful.
earned reputation, he feels, and justly too, how bitterly
With the loss of reputation

But when he has been deprived of an honestly

he has been wronged.

eames a loss of influence; and thus what power for

When we hear the word “ gossip,” it immediately |

brings to our minds a little thin-visuged person, whose

long nose and pointed chin, can not fail to indicate the |

prying nature of their possessor. Yet those answering
to this description are not the only ones whose sharp

tongues are working untold mischief at all times, There

are very few people who do not say behind one’s back |

what they would mot say in his presence. “But,” some
one says, “Are we not allowed to vive another warning
of an evil person?” But in doing
it we must remember that no one has established us as
judges of our associates. We have no right to say,
because some one’s actions do not appear right to us,
that he has committed an unpardonable sin. The rule,
“Judge not that ye be not judged,” applies as truly now
is when first spoken.

Certainly you are.

One who is constantly engaged in tale-bearing can
not enjoy himself. Imagine a person whose whole

good be may have hal, his been checked. His honesty,
also, will be questioned, and hence his business may be
hindered and even stepped.

A great share of the trouble caused by gossip, is the
result of ignorance. People whose minds are not filled
with useful knowledge, naturally allow their minds to
tend in this direction, Qur minds cannot be blanks, and
so long as they are not filled with useful anc elevating
thoughts, so long will there be a tendency in the oppe-
site direction. How, then, shall we prevent this evil?

Tro those who have passed through college and en-
joyed a good education there will be litthe danger in
But this class is small as compared with
We may

this respect.
those who do not enjoy a liberal education,
establish in every community, small circulating libraries,
which, by small assessments each year can be supported
and enlarged. We may organize literary and debating
societies, Whose purpose shall be to turn the minds from
the channels of idle talk. How strange it is that peo-
ple will stop to gossip when they, through books, may
talk with the most learned men who have lived.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying
to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but
in what we agree with them, and the moment we find
we can agree as to anything that should be done, then
we should do it, We should push the work together.
We cannot quarrel in a side by side effort; but the mo-
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ment the best men stop pushing and begin talking, they
mistake their inclination to fight, for piety, and the work

crasns,

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A Paper Garden.

BY Le H. BAILEY,

A garden is half made when it is well planned. The
best gardener is the one whodoesthe most gardening by
the winter fire, Brains usually count for more than
muscle. Definite study evolves a definite plan of prac-

tice. The plan considers the requirements and capaci-

ties of the soil, the exposure of the land, the rotation of |
_wenitke apple orchard,

the crops, the succession of crops in the season, the
methods of culture, the battle with insects and adverse

distribution of labor.
full success, yet it must be Hexible. Conditions vary
Some plantings will likely fail from
Such fail-

with the seasons.
poor seeds, depredations of insects, or frosts.
ure may require a general shift in operations,
well to plan for contingencies.

The college garden for the coming season is analyzed
below. Those interested in gardening will do well to
follow the operations throughout the year.

Phat i. Jifvcé bed north-west of the forcing -hause
& reds éy 72 rods, ‘To be double-cropped. First crop,
Cauhflower, —Henderson’s Snowball and Early Dwarf

Erfurt—set 3 feet by 20 inches, requiring 5,000 plants, |
| berries.

and 4 oz. seed; radishes in rows between the cauliflow-
ers, many Varieties, sown thickly, requiring about 5 Ibs,
of seed. Second.crop, White Plume celery—set 3 ft,
by 6 in,, requiring 17,000 plants and 8 oz. of seed.

The drainage of this plat was not completed until last
fall, and it has never been cropped. It is therefore not
known how the land will behave, and the first year's
crop will be of necessity an experiment.
is wet and backward it may be impossible to put on
the first crop. In this case the cauliflowers will be set
in a reserve patch east of the apple orchard. The cab-
bage maggot works great injury to cauliflowers and
cabbages, making the cultivation of these crops hagard-
ous in this vicinity. The same, ora very closely related
insect, works in the radish. Madishes are to be sown
thickly between the cauliflowers with the hope that
they may attract the insects from the cauliflowers,
Many experiments are in mind for the outwitting of the
maggot.

Pravin “Loam, first plat east af the forcing-house; :
2 rods by 27 reds, First four rods on the west to be
set to strawberries, Next two rods double cropped;
6 rows early peas, 3 feet apart, requiring 20 quarts of
seed; 4 rows snap beans, 3 feet, 10 quarts; 2 rows early
beets, 3 feet, 15 oz. seed; these followed by turnips or

It is even |

tribe. This “ Brassica Corner”

kohl rabi. Next three rods, shell and field beans, Next
three rods, Hubbard squash, 6 feet by § feet, § oz. seed,
Two rods on the south end of the squash plat are to be

devoted to samples of the various plants of the cabbage
will be an interesting

planting.
PLAT Ul

and south drive; & rods dy 27 road's,

west, next the drive, summer squashes, 2 oz,

Loam, east af plat u, deyond the north
First row on the

seed,

| Next 24 feet to be devoted to roots, in rows 3 feet

| peas, beans and cucumbers,

| being used for nursery

conditions, the demands and extent of the markets, the | fruiting, the strawberries will be turned under
Although the plan is essential to | ground set to Goklen Dwarf celery, requiring over

2 rows carrots, 6 ox,
2 rows salsify ith. seeds; 1 row
—Long Blool—g oz. seed. Next four rods,
Next six ros, tomatoes, many varieties,

3 rows parsnips, 6 o#. seeds
and scorzonera,

apart;
seed ;

late beets
late potatoes.

| Racdishes will be sown with the parsnips and carrots te

mark the rows.

PLariv, Clay foam, south of main garden drive,
Most of this ground is now
occupied by strawberries, 3 rods by 15 rods. After
and the
In the south-east corner
Tig ronds,

7,000 plants, and 4 ox, seed.
of this plat is an unoccupied area, 4 rods by
which will be planted with various cucurbits.
PLAT v, Sand, worth of horse barn, and jest cast
af asparagus bed. A very small area now sown to
spinach, which will be followed by various cucurbits,
PLAT vic Saad, worfhewest of horse barn, extend-
ing west to spruce hedges £5 rods éy so rods, This
area is to be set aside as a permanent nursery and exhi-
bition ground. A strip about a red wide along the
west side, directly opposite the forcing-house, is now
occupied by nursery stock, The next 4 rods is in straw.
These strawberries will be plowed under as
soon as the fruit is harvested, and the land used for late
The remainder of the plat,
lo rods square, will be divided into halves, the west half

‘ purposes, The east half will

| this your be devoted te novelties ancl uncommon veret:

| ables.
If the spring |

Among the interesting plants to be grown here
ave the following: Strawberry tomatoes, Arizona and
Mexican potatoes, ornamental-leavedt beets, chard, pei
nuts, New Zealand spinach, egyg-plants, peppers, gesse,
okra, artichoke,
Japanese corn, self-husking corn, sorghum, basselle,
asparagus bean, teosinte, kaftir corn.

sardoons, quinoa, nitrEy nia, maskurtin ms,

Poat vin, Mack soit, between farm house and arse
barn; 6 rods by 4 reds. Onions—Yellow Danvers,
Yellow Cracker, Red Weathersfield, and some odd
sorts—requiring about 2 lhs, seeds, Also 1 row leeks.
Cucurbits about the borders,

PLAT Vil, THE WASTE KASKET. Sandy énoll, south-
east of forse darn, To he used, asheretofore, for adds
and ends, Among other things will be grown onion
sets, catly lettuce, early cucumbers, corn salad, celeriac,
varieties of beans, carly kohl rabi, lentils, ete.

PLAT Ix, Sand, naéive plum orchardeast of horse
darn, Sweet corn, first planting, 3 pints seed.
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Prat x. Yhree acres east of apple orchard. One
thousand early cabbages, followed by horse-radish;
'g,000 late cabbages; corn and potatoes; cucurbits.

PLat x1. Foung peach orchard back of Professor
Fohnson's. Cucurbits, potatoes, and tomatoes grown
for seeds,

Oak Galls.

RY Cc. P. GILLETTE,

Most readers of the Speculum are familiar with those
peculiar growths on red and black oaks commonly
known as oak apples; and known that they are caused
in some way by an insect. Nearly every ‘one has
observed this much, but probably few can tell whether
these peculiar excrescences occur on leaf, twig, or branch,
or what sort of an insect it is that produces them,

Nearly one hundred and fifty species of galls*occur-
ring on our native oaks, have been described and named,
The majority of these are found on leaves, but many
grow from buds and twigs. In size they vary from
those that are no larger than a small pin head, to those
that are an inch and a half,or more, in diameter. Nearly

all oak galls are produced by a single family of insects, |

the Cynipida, belonging to the order Hymenoptera.
It is to this order that the ant, the bee, the wasp, and
similar insects belong. Many of the insects in this
order possess most wonderful instincts and not least
among these are the Cynips.

It is a curious fact in the habits of these gall produc-
ers, that they confine their attacks almost exclusively to
the different species of oaks. The exceptions are, a few
species that attack the rose bush, one that attacks the
potato, and a very few that attack plants belonging to
the Genus Rubus, to which belong the raspberry and
blackberry. Not only do the Cynips confine their ope-
rations closely to the oaks, but each fly has a favorite
species of oak to work on, and seldom, or never attacks
any other. WhenaCynip does work on more than one

oak, these oaks are very closely related botanically, #. ¢., |

no Cynip that attacks one of the white oaks ever attacks
the red or black oaks, and vice versa. Indeed, closely
allied species of oaks have been determined by their
galls, when botanists were unable to determine their
position in any other way, So it has been truly said
that insects are often better botanists than man,

On our six common oaks, the white, swamp, burr,
chestnut, red, and black, there are not less than forty
described species of Cynips, each producing a gall dif-
ferent from the other, Of these, about twenty-five
occur on leaves, and the rest on twigs and buds.

I am glad to say that a large majority of all the
named galls of N. A., are now in the college collec-
tion to be seen by anyone who wishes to look at them.

But what is a gall? Is it an insect secretion or a veg-

| gone into a gall.

a plant, and is produced to furnish nourishment and pro-
tection to the insect that grows to maturity’ therein.
Galls, are therefore purely vegetable. The food they
| supply is perfect; that is, the larva grows to maturity
and deposits no excreta in the cell.

It seems wonderful that in response to the sting of
an insect that is a parasite on a plant, that plant should
begin to supply food and protection to the grub that
preys upon it and is injurious to it.

Such is the case however, and the twigs often die
because the nourishment they should have received has
More wonderful still than this, is the
fact that the gall is as dependent for its development
upon the health of the growing larva, as the latter is
dependent upon the growth of the former. If for any
reason the little gall maker dies before itis fully grown,
the gall at once ceases to develop and also dies.

Some galls, as those that occur in buds, are composed
of a single capsule, or thin walled cell, appearing like
a miniature egg. In this the grub feeds and grows.
In others, as in the case of large oak apples, there isa
large outer shell inclosing the inner one where the grub
feeds, and the space between the two is filled with a
spongy or corky substance, or with radiating fibers.
Galls containing this outer thick part, often have within
their substance numerous little white larva that draw
their nourishment from the gall and grow just as the
one in the central shell. These are also Cynips and dif-
fer from the latter in size, being smaller. These are
| known as guest flies because they live and feed in galls
produced by other insects. If these guest flies ever did
produce their own galls, they have now lost the art, just
as the cow-bird has lost the art of nest building.

Although the Cynips that produce our oak galls have,
in most cases, a very close resemblance, the galls they
produce are exceedingly varied, and in every case the
gall is as characteristic of the fly that produced it as the
fruit of any plant is characteristic of that plant.

These are a few of the characteristics of this family

| of insects that make them of so much interest to the stu-
| dent of natural history.

A Botany Club.

In Washington some young people, including teach-
ers in the city schools, government employes, and others,
have organized a club for the study of botany. They
meet every two weeks from house to house, and make
occasional excursions to places of interest near the city.
At each meeting one or two papers or talks are given,
and freely discussed. Some plant is analyzed each time,
by all present. A question is also proposed, to which
each gives a written answer; these replies are examined
by some one appointed for the purpose and commented
| on at the next meeting. A spirit of investigation is

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Witu this number, the publication of the SpecuLum
as a monthly begins. The change has often been sus-
gested and discussed by both students and alumni, and
we hope that it will meet the approval of our readers.

The change seems necessary for many reasons, Much
of the interest that alumni feel in the paper, depends
upon the amount and freshnese of college news and
Humni personals. When issued quarterly, much muat-
ter that should appear in those departments is unavoid-
ably crowded out, and much more can not reach our
readers till after so long a period that it is of litthe value
to them.

The increase in the number of subscribers and the
lively interest in the welfare of the paper, as shown hy
the expressed sentiments of many students, induced the
hoard of management to undertake the change,

At a meeting of the Students’ Orvanization held
March 26, the necessary changes were made in the con-
stitution governing the manigement of the Paper, and
we were authorized to begin the publication on the new
plan, April roth.

The paper will be reduced in size, and fewer literary
atticles will appear in each issue. The various societies
will be equally represented in this department as hereto-
fore, Other departments will have nearly as large a
space as in the quarterly.

To lessen the work of the business manager he is to

have an assistant who takes charge of all matters per-
taining to the circulation of the paper. Mailing can be
done more promptly under this arrangement, ancl it is
hoped that fewer SpecuLus will fail to reach the par-
ties to whom they are addressed.

Subscribers should bear in mind however, that this
will not remove the necessity for them to notify promptly
when addresses are changed, Almost all complaints of
non-arrival of the paper in the past
that cause.

The subscription price has been raised to seventy-five
cents per annum, payable in advance. It has been

vaced as low as the increased expense of publication
will admit, and all subscribers whose terms of subscrip-

vive been traced to

| tions have not yet expired will receive the proper credit

on the books,

Amona the various improvements that have been
made during recent years, one that has been often sug-
rested, has not yet found a place. The need for a col-
lege hospital has never been more apparent than during
the present term, With the crowded condition of our
dormitories it is impossible to secure suitable accom-
mocdations for those who are ill, No matter how good
the general order, the quict that must be preserved in
cases of severe illness cannot be secured in either Wells
or Williams Flall.

The system of steam heating too, though well adapted
for general use cannot be so regulated as to afford a
temperature surted to the needs of the sick room,

Recovery from slight ailments would be much more
speedy andl in cases of severe illness the invalicl’s chances
of final recovery would be greatly increased if we hada
separate building for the accommodation of the sick,
Much of the interruption in college work that has
occurred this spring could have been avoided if there
had heen such a building on the college grounds.
sunucl
mumps that appeared would haye saved many students
from the vexatious loss of time that they have had to
endure.

A cottage that would meet the needs of the insti-
tution in every respect need not be either large or
expensive. One that would answer every purpose
could be erected for a few hundred dollars, Then
good nurses could be secured and care of the sick need
not be left to fellow students, whose efforts, though
kindly intended, are often productive of, bad results.
Such a building must be provided, in time, and should
not be neglected another season.

Ea a

In the death of William Freeman Gilbert, which
occurred March 2g, the Specu.um records for the first
time in nearly five years, the death of a student at this
college, Again we have been called upon to mourn the
loss of a member of our student family. Though he
hal been with us but for a littl: time, we feel that his
hopes and aspirations led him towards the future that
each one of us is striving to attain.

During his whole life he had carried a heavier bur-

Prompt isolation of the first cases of measles
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den than falls to the lot of most of us. Constant ill
health had made his efforts to obtain an education doubly
hard, but he was not discouraged, and bravely took up
the tasks assigned him.

Having entered college in August, 1887, he remained
. till the close of the autumn term in November, He
then returned to his home, and though suffering from
frequent attacks of illness, was ready and anxious to
take up his college work at the opening of the spring
term. This he did, but after attending classes during
one weck, he took a severe cold, and on his eighteenth
birthday, which occurred Mareh 5, he was too ill to
attend to college tluties, The best of medical attend-
ance was at once secured, and all that the tender care of
a loving mother could do was done for him, but to no
avail,

To most of us he was only known as “a student of
M. A.C.” College duties and customs prevent most
of us from forming intimate acquaintances outside of
the class or society to which each belongs, But as we
stood with uncovered heads and watched the passing
of the sorrowful procession that bore his body home-
ward, there was not one but felt he had lost a friend.

| Prof, Bailey.

Qur sympathy flowed out toward the bereaved par- |

ents and thoughts of their grief stricken home crossed
many a mind in that sorrowful assembly.

His life was short, yet it was long enough to prove
the purity and steadfastness of his purpose. He did not
shrink from either toil or trouble. He put on his armor
and died at his post. May we from his example gain
some lesson for ourselyes, so that when the dread sum-
mons comes, our memories may be as fondly cherished
as is that of our departed brother.

THE experiment station, frequent mention of which
has been made in these columns, is at last well under
way. On the first day of February, 1888, President
Cleveland signed a bill appropriating $15,000 to each
State for conducting experiments during the fiscal year
beginning July ist, 1887, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Hatch bill, passed at the last session of
Congress.

Under the Hatch bill the appropriation is payable in
quarterly installments, October ist, January tst, April
Ist, and July ost. There was therefore due, at the time
of the signing of the bill, by the President, $7,500.
That amount has been paid to the Secretary of the col-
lege and the third payment is expected in a few days.

The experiment station has been organized as a de-
partment of the college with the following officers:

Director.— Pres. Edwin Willits.

Sec’y and Treas.—Sec'y Henry G. Reynolds.

The line of experiments to be conducted here has
been divided into six departments with the following
professors in charge.

Chemistry and Meteorology, Dr. R. C. Kedzie,

Entomology, Prof, A, J. Cook.

Botany and Forestry, Dr. W. 1, Beal.

Agriculture, Prof. Sam’l Johnson.

Horticulture, Prof. L. H, Bailey, Jr.

Veterinary Science, Dr. E, A. A. Grange.

The professor at the head of each department is te
have charge of the work in that department and will be
aided by assistants as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made. In selecting men to fill these positions
post-rraduates will have the preference in all cases
where special fitness for the work is manifested. Stud-
ent labor will be utilized wherever practicable, but in
such way as will not interfere with the established work
system.

Besules the work at the college, a series of experi-
ments on the “pine barrens” is to he carried on under
the supervision of Dr, Kedzie, aided by Dr. Beal and
Enghty acres of land has. been secured, by
gift, near Grayling, for this purpose. Twenty acres
will be cleared and plowed immediately and it will be
cropped this season to subdue and put im condition for
tests of grasses and other crops.

The entire eighty acres will be fenced at once andl
will be protected from forest fires by clearing A strip
around its boundary line.

‘Dr. Beal has been authorized to contract with farmers
in other parts of northern Michigan, to test grasses
under his direction, he furnishing the seed.

Experiments relating to the dairy interest are to be
under the direction of Messrs. Chamberlain and Horton
of the State Board of Agriculture. These gentlemen
will visit other states and, after investigating the subject,
will decide as to the nature of the experiments. and
the best location for making them,

An experiment station library, to contain the scien-
tific works needed in the various departments will be
established.

For these special objects the following appropriations
have been made for this year:

Pine barren experiment . - - - $2,000.
Dairy - - - . - = - - 1,000.
Library = - - - . - < “ 1,000,

The remaining $11,000 will for the most part be
divided among the six departments and will be used in
securing ap peirat is and steck for Future experiments,

The station is to be so conducted as not to interfere

in any way with the regular work of the college, and if
properly conducted, cannot fail to be a valuable acqui-
sition. We look for important results from this new
venture.

THE exchange list of the Srecuty has recently been
overhauled, and several new college papers are now
received, Students will find much to interest them in these-
papers. They give a fair representation of the literary
work done at the colleges at which they are published, =
and in their news columns display the general trend oF
social and stuclent life.

These publications can be found in the reading room
at the library, and will repay perusal by every student,
Glance at them occasionally and learn what students: are
doing and saying at other colleges,

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ATHLETICS.

Sports are receiving a decided “ boom” this spring,
and the prospects are that athletics, which have held so
high a place in our college, will be more than usually
interesting this season. Organized power is always
more effective than unorganized power, and the local
and State college. associations, that have been formed,
foretell more satisfactory results from athletic contests
than have heretofore been realized.

i

G, J. Jenks from this mstitution met representatives
from Olivet, Hillsdale and Albion colleges at the latter
place on March 24th. The committee drew up a con-
stitution, and formed an organization, to be known as
the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association. The object
is to do away with the small field-days, and have one
annual field day, with representatives in the contests
from each of the colleges entering the association. The
expenses of the organization will be much less than they
were in the old methed and will be defrayed by per
capita assessments on the male students enrolled at the
different colleges. The place for holding the first field
day has not been determined on as yet.

Something that the college has been agitating for a
number of years, and which now seems a certainty, is a
gymnasium. The State Board have appropriated two
hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00), to be used in get-
ting appliances, and Secretary Reynolds and Liecuten-
ant Simpson were appointed to purchase and put in the
apparatus. The drill-room in the armory has been
selected as suitable for the purpose, and the fixtures as
far as obtained, are: parallel and horizontal bars, trap-
eze, rings, knotted ropes for climbing, parallel, hori-
zontal and vertical ladders, dumb bells and Inclian clubs.
Other appliances will be put in as soon as possible, No
regular training class will be organized until next fall
term, when the Lieutenant proposes to organize the
Freshman class, and give them a regular course of train-

to volunteers from one tll six o'clock, r.
when regular military exercises are progressing,
Lieutenant will be there a part of the time, and has
kindly consented to give instructions to those whodesire
them. Now boys, let us patronize this effort for our
welfare, moderately at first, for too violent exercise is,
as we all know, detrimental, Let us use the means thus
provided, and in doing so build up a strong physical
structure, without which our intellectual attainments
will avail us little.

J. N. Estabrook, B. K. Canfield, A. E. Bulson, Jr,,
and A. B. Cordley, of this college, met representatives
from Hillsdale, Albion and Adrian colleges, at Jackson,
on the 17th of March, and held a meeting for the pur-
pose of organizing an Inter-collegiate Base Ball Associ-
ation. E. D. Palmer, of Hillsdale, acted as chairman

g

te

and J. N. Estabrook as secretary. A constitution
Was drafted, which is to be submitted to the several
clubs for approval. It provides that the name shall he
the “ Michigan Inter-Collegiate Base Ball Association.
Two games are to be played by each club during the
one on its own grounds, and one on the grounds

year, |
One director is to be elected from

of each opponent,
each club, and these shall have entire charge of the

affairs of the association. While there, the Secretary
received a telegram from the University, saying they
would not enter the league this year.

The University nine have lately been negotiating for
a game with M. A. C,, but as they did net join the

| association, the probability is that we will not play them

this season on account of other games mn the association,

The officers and players of our ball team for the com-
ing season are as follows: Manager, R, C. Carpenter;
assistant manager, J. N. Estabrook; secretary, A. FE.
Bulson; steward, O. C. Hollister. Players: B. RK, Can-
fielil, ps N.C. Smith, ec. ]. L.. Morris, 1 bay A. E. Bul-
son, 2 bo: L. Burnett, 3 b.; G. L. Chase, 5. 8.5
—, 1. £; F. B. Stockwell, c. £.; A. B, Cordley, r. £,
The uniforms for the ball team are to be of dark
brown color, with old gold trimmings, and brown stock-
ings. The mew suits will be of the finest quality of
goods, and we think the boys will present a fine appear-
The old uniforms will go to the second

ance in them.
nine, and the * blue” uniforms to the third nine.

aaa

The committee on football report a full organization
with thirty members ready for practice as soon as the
The will get new canvass

weather permits. besins

suits,

Are you “on™ to the “Racket”? The “ Racket”
is the name of a tennis association recently formed here
for the purpose of getting a reduction on tennis sup-

: . a1 plies, to have system in games, and to select and train
ing for twoor three terms. The gymnasium will be open | contestants for the annual field day.
M., except —

The |

The organization
has alopted a constitution and elected officers. It is
divided into four classes, cach class having a member on
the Board of Control. The officers are: Chief, E. KR.
Lake; recorder, G. 5S. Jenks; umpires, A. L. Waters,
and D, A. Garfield; scorer, Ben, L. Jenks; committee
of control, Miss Chippie Harrison, "88; Miss Mamic
Smith, "89, H. F. Hall, "go, Weideman, *91. H. W.
Baird, Sub. faculty.

Da eed

A. base ball nine, composed of old players from Yale,
Harvard, Williams, Michigan and Northwestern, will
go east from Chicago, in April, and play the teams of
Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania and other colleges,

Pry

The Harvard freshmen have declined the challenge
of the Yale freshmen for a boat-race next summer,
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COLLEGE NEWS.

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Mumps! tieasles |! misery!!!

Prof, Cook lectured at Farmers’ [nstitutes lo Wisconsin.

Dr, Grange lectured at Farmers’ [nstitutes in Wisconsin,

Two hundred forty-seven students here at the middle of the term.

L. H, Dewey took a Civil Service examination at Lansing, March
agth.

Prof Mac Ewan lectured at Fariers' [natitutes aud read Brown-
ing.

The third installment of the Hatch appropriation is expected this
week,

Why is the mew dornmitery like a savings bank ?
Baird.

Ask Harry

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K,C, Carpenter investigated strength of buildimg materials at |

Cornell.

Mrs. Ella Kedzie af (Mivet, spent the Easter holidays with Dr. R.
C. Kedzie.

5, Crandall and C. PF. Gillette worked at micro-photography at
the college.

Irof. Bailey delivered a course or lectures in Horticulture at Cor-
nell Uuiversity,

President Willits and wife and Dr. Kedzie spent part of the win-
ter i California.

Amew gas niaichite has been put in at the Mechanical Laboratory
since our last issue.

The annual cattle sale will occur April rath.
head will be disposed of,

The “littl: folks" of * Faculty Row " formed a literary society
during the winter, known as the “5, A. 4S."

About twernty-live

The armory was utilized as a tennis court during the winter. It

proved a fine place for playing ; alse for taking cold,
After his return from California, Dr. Kedsie was given a birthday
party, by the young people and faculuy members, on the grounds.
Dr. Beal will have three stations for testing grasses, ome on the
@ast shore, ove on the west shore, andl one in the center of the state,

The “co-eds "are taking a course in gymmastic training under | Statistician, J. €. Stafford; Toast Master, W. J. Hinkson,

Lieut. W. 1.. Simpsan
day.

Look out for further developments on field

Every alumous should attend to getting up a good stery to tell
the historian who will soon be around. Particulars are wanted, the
hore the better.

New leooks to the amiouratt af hoo will be placed in the library
this term. One thousand dollars will be invested im books for the
EM[PEPLNeI takin,

Work on the foundations of the new buildings has begun. The
dormitory will be heated by hot water, as the expense will be less
than steam hearing

Prof, Patlengill looked after the interests of Michigan school teach-
ers, and boomed the Sctoo! Moderator, He builds a fine residence
it Lansing this season.

Mr.and Mrs. A.W, Stanley, Brooklyn, N. ¥., distant cousins of
Stanley the explorer, and brother and sister of Theo. and Robt,
sanley, visited the college Nov. cath,

The State Board has appropriated two hundred fifty dollars for
By tinastic apparatus, Much of it will be made here, hence a larce
Mtit can be provided with that anvount.

Misses Carpenter, Heal and Smith represented various states in
an éxercise utider the direction of Prot Pattengill, before the mem-
bers of the National Grange, in November,

J. B. Cotton studied law, W. L. Holdsworth draughted in Traverse
City, E.R. Lake studied in the Hotanical Laboratory, P. B. Wood-
Worth spent the winter at Cornell studying physica.

The Horticultural building will have a new forcing-house, heated
by sleam; also, a recom for photegraphic purposes. Records of the
DOM parative forme of fruits will be kept from year to year, by means
af photographs.

L. G. Carpenter and wife spent the winter at Johns Hopkins, “L,
("studied pure mathematics. “Mrs. L. G. " visited pleture gal-
leries. Both visited Mount Vernon and Washington.

Prof, Beal spent most of the winter on Vol. Il of his work on
Grasses, He attended the meeting of the National Grange, The
Forestry Convention, and declined offers to lecture in New Jersey
and Wisconsin.

W. Petrie, H. F. Hall, A. B. Cordley and L. A. Bregger, spent the
winter on the grounds, They roomed in College Hall, and tell
stories of wonderful success in the culinary art, They will doar
next winter, however,

A Draper's selfrecording thermometer hangs at the north door of
the Chemical Laboratory, A new two-light dynamo has been added
tothe apparatus. Sunshine recorders have been placed in position
near the south entrance.

Orators for the commencement were selected by the faculty, March
goth. They are H. B. Cannon, Miss Mollle Carpenter, L. C. Cal-
burn, Miss (hippie Harrison, F. H. Hall, W. M. Munson, W. A.
Taylor and Geo. L. Teller.

The Hbrary building is undergoing a thorough renovation. The
President's office has been papered and decorated, with an orma-
meéttal frieze, The ceiling ofthe reading room has been calcimined,
and frieze and moulding added.

Prof, Bailey's gray established its reputation as a trotter during
the winter, Miss Smith held the reins during two trials of speed,
and A, B, Cordley was “apilled out" of the cutter while making a
third test. The horse can be had cheap.

The Detroit Lpenteg Mees of March 28th, published a list ofover
fifty graduates of this college who have occupied, or now hold, posi-
tions in the various colleges of the country. They are distributed
anlong seventeen states and territories.

Junior clasa officers: Pres., Win, Lightbody: Vice Pres., G. J,
Jenks; See'y, E. N. Pagleson; Treas., W. L. Rossman. Literary
ificers ; Praphes, G. J. Jenks; Historian, E. N, Pagleson; Statia-
tician, D. FL. Anderson; Toast Master, 0. A. Garfield.

Senior class officers: Pres.. |. MN. Estabrook: Vice Pres., 0. A.
Smith; Sec'y., C.D. Lawton; Treas., A.B. Goodwin; Marshal, W.
EF, Staley: laterary officers: Crater, N. 5S. Mayo; Poet, Henry
Thurtell; Historian, H. E. Harrison; Prophet, A. B. Cordley;

Sophomore class officers: Pres., F. EB. Stockwell; Vice Pres., J.
H. Hooper; See’y, C. E. Ferris; Treas., E. G. Cooney; Marshal,
W. Petrie, Literary officers ; Crater, F.G, Clark; Historian, H. J,
Hall; Statistician, Hen. L. Jenks; Prophet, F, 5. Robinson; Toast
Master, WoW. Morrison.

Freshman ¢lass officers: Pres., R. WW. Blake; Vice Fres., E. E,
Gregory ; G. (. Monroe; Treas., & K. Boyd; Marshal.
Harry Hunter. Literary olhcers: Orabor, (©. L. Crandall; Poet,
Miss Ida Hooker; Historian, A. PF. Gordon: Prophet, L. Burnett;
Statistician, |... Potter; Toast Master, H. [—, Lazell

Sey

The statement has been made by many newspapers, that tile
drains have greatly augmented fowls and droughts, by the sudden
removal of water after rains. Experiments will be made by Dr.
Kedzie and Prof. Carpenter, to determine the relative amounts of
rain fall and drainage on the college farm.

Faculty lectures have been given in chapel as follows: Prof. R.
C. Carpenter, Wed., March 7; subject, The Coal Fields of Pennsyl-
vania, Prof. Sani'l Johmson, Wed, March 2t; subject, What Does
Agriculture Offer to the Educated Young Man. Prof. E. J. Mac
Ewan, April 4; subject, Robert Browning and his Poetry.

The oratorical contest between the three literary societies was
held im the chapel Friday evening, April6. The following speal.-
ers took part: W. A. Taylor, H. B, Cannon, L. C. Colburn. D. A,
Anderson, N.S. Mayo. The decision of the judges had not been
announced when we wentto press. Fullreport in our next,

The “ pine barren" experiments will be made with view of find.
ing a foliage plant that can be used for green-manuring. All the
warleties of clover, vetches, peas, and grasses will be tried, both for
forage crops and for turning under. Particular attention will be
paid to methods of cultivation, especially in such operations as roll.
ing and other processes for compacting the soil and preventing
drought. No manures will be tried except marl, salt and plaster.
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The addition to the Mechanical Laboratory was completed during
the winter. Theinside work was done by foreman Campbell and
Mr. Petrie. The ground floor will be used for wood working machin-
ery, The east room contains a testing machine with power of 52,-
ooo pounds, The blacksmith shop Is fitted up with power blast fires.

The experiments on agricultural chemistry under Dr. Kedzie,
will be made on corm ensilage. Beginning im August, specimens
will be analyzed before putting into thesilo, and this will be contin-
wed at intervals of one week till corn is dead ripe. Comparison of
analyses will determine at what stage corn should be put Into silo,
to secure best results.

The experiments of this season in the garden will be made upon
Cucerbifacess to determine, if possible, the immediate effects of cross
fertilization, The experiment will include all the known varieties
that can be obtained, and will be the most extensive experiment of
the kind ever made in the United States. The tomate experiments
begun last season will be continued.

Work on the /farro for "85 is well under way. The class of go
have elected the following board of editors to conduct lt; Editor-im-
Chief, H. M. Williams ; Poetical Editor, A. L. Waters; Literary
Editor, Geo. 5. Jenks; Art Editor, H. F. Hall; Statistical, Editor,
H. L. Bunnell; Historical Editor, J. R. McColl; Sporting Editor,
W. W. Morrison ; Business Manager, F. G. Clark.

The horticultural branch of the experiment station will devote
its work to the originating of new fruits and vegetables. Fart of the
Parmalee farm north of the college grounds willbe secured as a site
for a nursery in which seedlings of all the hardy North American
wild fruits will be grown. The best of these will be selected as a
foundation upon which to base desired improvements, All known
cultivated varieties will be grown and distributed to the various
horticultural societies throughout the State.

The members of the Freshman class mourn the loss of their class-
mate, W. F. Gilbert, who died at the college March 2gth. The de-
ceased was born in Ontario, March §, 1470. Had lived at Sterling,
Arenac county, for some years, and entered with the clase of ‘92, in
August, 1887. The winter vacation he spent at his home, and atthe
beginning of the spring term he returned to college. About March
tst he tock a severe cold, which speedily terminated in quick con:
sumption, The body was taken te his home for interment.

PERSONALS.

Now that the SPECULUM isa monthly, we more earnestly than ever
request of all persons interested, information concerning graduates,
or under-graduates who have left the college. Give ws your assist.
ance and we will endeavor to make the personal departinent a reli-
able and interesting source of information as to the accomplish-
ments, whereabouts, and occupation of former students.

Kizo Tamari is Prof, of Agriculture in the Imperial Agricultural
College at Komoba, Tokio, Japan,
Edgar Dudley, of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester,
Eng., visited the college during the winter.
Dr. W, J. Beal was unanimously elected corresponding member
ofthe Torrey Botanical Club, of Columbia Collere, in October last,
Hon. Mr. Freeman, member of the Ontario Parliament, was at the
college during the sickness and death of his nephew, W. F. Gilbert,
‘Oz.
(. A. Jewell has returned from Missouri, and is now farming at
Medina, Lenawee Co,
"68.
Prof. 5. M. Tracy, formerly Professor of Botany and Entomology
at Columbia, Mo., spent the winter in the Department of Botany at

Washington. He is now director of the Mississippi Agricultural
Experiment Statlan,
iq,

zB H, Bradner and wife are engaged im the Christian Science
Mind Healing in Sacramento, Cal, He considers himself greatly
benefitted ina recent severe illness, by this mode of treatment.
- ‘JO.
Chas. W. Garfield apent two weeks during the winter lecturing on

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Horticulture for Farmers’ Institutes in Wisconsin. Perhaps this is
a good precedent for Michigan.
ron,
E. M. Shelton is director of the Kansas Experiment Station.
Dr. H. F. Halsted spent the winter at Bellevue Hospital, New

Jersey.
B.D. Halsted spent part of his winter vacation at Passaic, N. J+

74s

C. L. Bemis is superintendent of lonia county schools, and is well
fitted for the position. In 187o be was teameter on the Horticultural
Department, with hardly a thought of entering college,

Prof. C. L. Ingersoll of Colorado Agricultural College, delivered a
powerful address on the value of co-operative and concerted action
among farmers, at a farmers’ picnic near Fort Collins, Col., in Octo
ber.

he

F. J. Annisis doing active work as secretary of the Colorado
Board of Agriculture.

Chas. Goodwin, who has spent a considerable time in Kansas,
writes that he is much better, and will soon return,

rh.

J. D. Stannard sold his farm in Wisconsin, and has gone to Col-

orado to engage int the same occupation,
‘7?

WO, Fritz was married during the winter.

Wo. Latta, James Troop, ‘76, and T. 0. Hinebauch, "85, are
members of the experiment station board, at Purdue University,

‘74,

We have the pleasure of introducing to you, Miss Margaret Helen
Breck, of Paw Paw, born Feb. roth, i888,

Prof. James Troop, is a member of the agricultural experiment
slation board, at Purdue, He is alsoone of the directors of a young
daughter of six weeks or more.

Eugene Davenportis to take a special course in botany at this
college anc assist in the experiments in that department during the
Summer.

c. C, Georgeson is now Professor of Horticulture in the Imperial
Agricultural College of Japan, instead of Professor of Agriculture,
as formerly,

Dr, Joel S, Pardee will change his residence from New Troy to
Three Oaks, where he will contitue the practice of medicine,

‘74,

Born to Mr. and Mrs, ©. 8, Charles, a daughter, April 3d.

CP. Cronkferaduated in medicine from the Columbian University,
Washington, recently. He has a young child,

Chas. EL Summer ts one of the law firm of Collins & Summer,
Toledo, ©. He graduated from the Columbian Law School at
Washington im 1886, and was admitted to practice in the Ohio
Supreme court and the U.S, courts in saz.

A. A, Crogier, frecently assistant in the department of botany at
Washington, has accepted the position of botanist in the Iowa Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. While in Washington he took on
active part in local botanical cipcles, organized the American Botan-
ical Club, and was secretary of the Washington Biological Society,

"So
F, AcGulley is director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station.
1,
C, D. Phelps is teaching at Manton,
C, W. Clark is studying medicine im Detroit,
Dy. ALL. Seeley, Mayville, for two years with 'd1, has a young
child.
kK, B, Barber, for three years with ‘81, i4 in the ink business at
Atchison, Kanaga.
C.W. McCurdy was on the grounds recently.
dent of the Sand Beach schools.
W. H. Burgess, attorney at law, Croswell, Mich., is prosecuting
athorney of Sanilac county.
Howard M. Holmes has left Lansing and is now editor of the
Ann Arbor Register,

He is superinten-
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SPECULUM. LI

W.5. Delano has left the signal service and is engaged in fruit
growing in Nebraska.

Arthur Jones, Chas. McKenney and ©. C. Lilley, 'Sg, while attend-
ing the meeting of the teachers’ association at Lansing during bholi-
days, visited the college. McKenney is taking a course at Olivet.

Herbert Bamber has principal charge of ome of the U. 5., liglit-
house districts with headquarters at Philadelphia,

E. C. McKee is engaged in farming and raising short-horn cattle
at Laingsburg. He is married and has a four year old daughter,

Jason Woodman, lecturer for the State Grange, was at the College
recently on his way to deliver a lectute al Okemos. His work as a
lecturer is receiving much favorable comment.

Harvey A. Price, aged 27, died of consumption at Detroit, March
ard, after an illness of two and one-half years. He was a graduate

of the law department of the University, and practiced law at!

Muskegon till taken sick.
Mich. He leaves a wife and many friends to mourn Tis loss,

J. L. H. Knight visited the College in November, He isanexten:
sive breeder of short-horn cattle and Poland-China swine, amd look
the sweepstakes on swine at the Custer county, Neb, fair; reports
having raised 159 bushels of Pride of Nebraska potatoes from one
bushel of seed, and yet it was a poor year for potatoes, He is mar-
ried aud has one son and two daughters.

"Sa.

T. F. Millspaugh is studying law at Lyons,

E, D. Millis fails to see the practical use of the M. A.C, course.
We are sorry.

The remains were taken to Locke, |

. . he Capital City Wagon Works, |
J. E. Coulter, book-keeper for the Capital City a | holidays.

married Miss Alice Weed, ‘82, during the winter,

E. N. Ball is at present secretary of the Michigan Merino Sheep
Breeders Association, and has in charge the responsible duty of
making up the Michigan Merino Sheep Register.

W. T. Langley has completed his third year as principal of the
St. Ansgar, lows, schools, where he will remain till June, He taught
in the Mitchell county normal institute during its three weeks:
session last fall, and has been tendered the same position this fall
with advanced wages. He has not lost faith in agricultural col-
leges yet.

W. H. Coffron graduated from the medical department of the
Georgetown University recently. He has left the signal service aid
is now at the College making some special investigations in alumi-
num. Mr. Coffron has been appointed chemist for the American
Aluminum Company and is fitting up a laboratory for his use at
Findlay, O, He has a wife and a young son.

‘a3,

W. F. Hoyt is practicing medicine at Grand Rapids.

C. M. Weed is entomologist for the Ohio Experiment Station, He
was married during the winter.

A... Redding, Professor of Chemistry and Physics in Findlay
College, rejoices over their rapidly growing institution. He hopes
to be with the old M. A. C. boys in August.

Herbert W. Collingwood was married April 5th to Lulie 1. Sul-
livan, of Chicago,

"Hy.

E, ©. Bank rejoices over a new baby.

F.J, Hodges graduated from the Chicago Medical College in
March.

J. J}. Bush was recently married to a lady from Milwaukee.

C. P. Gillette has been induced to remain for a time a5 assistant
in entomology by a substantial increase in salary. .

Charles Baker is now druggist at Oscoda. He is a graduate of
the pharmacy department of the University, and is a great favorite,

Llewellyn Bonham is in partnership with his father, on his father’s
farts at Oxford, O., and has great promise of success,

Miss Alice Johnson has been at home during the spring vacalion. |

She is teaching in the Lansing schools.

C. A. McDiarmid takes an active interest in the grange, as well |
He has for some time been acts |

as in the management of his farm.
ing as secretary of Pomona Grange, of Manistee county.
W.. Stryker and his brother D. J. Stryker, "Bs, are engaged in
the real estate business in Los Angeles, California.
te,
Harry Gladden taught in Clinton county during the winter.
ES. Antisdale taught the Nottawa school near his home,

Watkins and Leonard with ‘Ss, are in Los Angeles, California.

T. 0. Williams, once with "85, returned from Kansas during the
winter and soon after was appointed county surveyor of Allegan
county,

C. B. Collingwood has gone to Arkansas as chemist under the

Hateh Experiment Station Bill, He taught at Howard City dur-
ing the winter.

Henry Jenner bad a petroleum refinery in operation im the win- _

dow of his drug store in Allegan, during the winter, which attracted
much attention,

E. A. Bartmess resigned his position as teacher in the Tippecanoe
achools and started, about the first of January, for Lowell,” Mass.,
where he intended to engage in real estate business. He also
accepted a position as tenor ina Lowell church choir, with a £t,oon
salary.

A. E. Brown is in Chicago Medical College.

E. A. Whitney is practicing law at Frankfort, Benzle county.

A. L. Nichols was married March toth, to Miss Carrie Jessup, of
Orangeville, Barry county, his home,

WG. Evethart spent the winter with Rand, McNalley & Co.,
Chicago, He will survey during the summer.

G. L. Spangler positively refused to run for Lansing city clerk this
spring. He has been acdhmitted to practhoe in the circuit court and
passed a very creditable examination, .

"hs

ae

Hume, Sanson and Wheeler were at the college during the

Harry “MeArdle is teaching in the grammar department of the
Homer schools.

H. L. Chapin is at home. Will engage in railroad surveving dur-
ing the summer,

W., Hall frequently visits the grounds. He is teaching a ten

)omomels school at DeWitt.

E. A. Burnett is on his father's farm in Shiawassee county. He
presented a paper on forestry at the Owoseo institute,

J.C. Duffey was married to Miss Maggie M. Holmes, of Homer,
in March, and soom after left for Brooking, Dakota, where he will

| become foreman of the Agricultural College grounds,

child,

E. W. Redman, with his young wife, started for Cuba in October
to take charge of an aplary. Not finding prospects for pay very
promising, he only remained about five weeks, Did not think it a
yery pleasant place tolive. Is now farming at home,

oO. C. Wheeler and 0, 5. Whitmore, both farmers of Ingham
county, were recently elected respectively to the offices of school
inspector and township clerk. They are also active members of the
Lansing Grange.

Bert. Travis has been teaching near Elm Hall, Gratiot county,
during the winter.

Arthur K, Collins is teaching at Walton. He has a wife and

Paul M. Chamberlain was forernan of the
Dakota Agricultural College during the winter.

J. A. Thompson is in the employ of the San Diego Lime and
Marble Company, San Diego, California,

cC.M, Hemphill has been elected captain of the Ypsilanti Light
Ciards.

J. A. Wheeler has gone to Tellurite, Colorado, where he expects
te clerk in w bank.

E. N. Pagleson was foreman of the iron shops at Dakota Agri-
cultural College during the winter.

‘gn,

Miss Jessie Beal spent the early part of the winter at Somerville

School for young ladies.

wood shops at

The Freshman class at Cambridge University, England, num
eight hundred and thirty-seven. bers

It is reported that Harvaril is making offers for the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, for the purpose of making it her own scien-
tific sichicwal.
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COLLEGES.

EXCHANGES.

Ser Se re

Trinity's new gymnasium contains a theatre,

The Harvard boat club is over $1,800 in debt.

Girard College educates 1,000 orphans annually.

Dr. McCosh of Princeton, will receive a pension of $2,500 a year.

At Williams the glee club has beén installed as the chapel choir-

Only four per cent of the Yale Seniors take Latin and Greek elec:
tives.

The tuition fee at Yale is $140, at Columbia $100 and at Harvard
$150.

Yale's professors have published fifty-one books in the last six
years,

At Harvard there are 271 men in training for the various athletic
teams,

Twenty-six Cornell freshman failed ta pass their mid-year @xam-
ination.

Rev. David Lathrop Hume, aged 93, is the oldest surviving grad-
wate of Yale.

There is an advance of five per cent, in college attendance, this
year over last,

Cambridge University, England, contains about one hundred dis-
tinct colleges,

Princeton's new triennial catalogue contains the names of over
hoo zraduates.

Three Harvard professors are said tobe possible presidents of the
new Clark University.

The United States has 364 colleges and universities, with 4,ifc in.
structors amd $9,594 studemts.

Andrew D. White, ex-President of Cornell, has presented his pri-
vate library to that institution.

The. Sartore’ is said to have the largest circulation of any col:
lege paper. vig.: 1,100 per issue.

The salaries of the professors, officers and employes at Michigan
University amount to $148,000 a year.
Harvard's trustees have agreed upon the establishment of an oly-
a -
servatory in the Southern hemisphere.

The U. of Pa. is about to send an expedition to Babylon for the
muirpose of archeological and literary research,

One hundred and seventy-five, out of three hundred and sixty-
hyve colleges tn the United States, publish papers.

Mr. A. 5. Barnes the publisher of New York, has viven &50,q00
to erecta V. MM. C. A. building at Cornell University.

Creat interest ts slrown at Cornell in Heory George an lis thec-
ties and a" Henry George Club" has been formed,

Leyden University im Holland is said to be the richest in the
world. Tt possesses real estate which is worth #4 000,000,

it is said that $3,000,000 have been subscribed by an American for
the purpase of founding a university of learning in China.

Weat College, where Mr. Cleveland graduated, has become sud-
denly popular, and can hardly accommodate its students,

iM thirty-two candidates recently examined for the admission to
West Point, only nine were judged to be physically sound.

iaov. Foraker, in an address to a body of students said: | would
rather be a sophomore in college than be Governor of Ohio.”

Yale is to have a new recitation hall, An unknown friend of the
college has given $125,000 towards it, and a site has been selected,

By the will of the late William Hilton of Boston, Harvard, Am-
herst and Williams each receive $50,000 to aid meritorious students
in getting an education,

views on the tari? question and the reduction of the surplus are
sound economically, sagacious politically, and thoroughly patriotic,"

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class colors have
been chosen, which each class is to keep through its course and to
hand over to the incoming class at graduation, thus making the
colors a permanent institution,

As once more we look over our exchanges, we find a large
number accumulated during the winter, and hardly know where to
commence examining them. It would be impossible for a stuclent to
do justice to each of a long list of exchanges, even pre-supposing him
capable of justly erfticising and commending articles that appear in
the different college journals, As we make no pretentions to ability
in this line, let the criticisms when they appear, or the commenda-
tions of that which meets with our approval, be taken in the spirit
in which they are given.

Many of our visitors appeared in new dress for Christmas tum-
bers, andl seme of them evidently went to great pains to make the
issue attractive.

The Yaeter once more donned a neat cover, more in accordance
with its uniform, carefully prepared contents.

The Mental Mews presented to its readers a plate of photograplis
of the teaching force of that institution.

The Fordham Moutily has also adopted a new cover, and with its
improved outward appearance, it docs not disappoint us with its
contents. In the holiday number there appears an article “ Yule-
tide Merry making.” the evolution of Christmas; a very readable
essay, and one which shows considerable research inte the customs

loaf different countries regarding that so-called anniversary.

The Sartmonth is well worthy of its wide circulation, and pres-
ents, aside from the matter which is of interest especially to the
students and alumni of Dartmouth, much interesting reading in the
form of short stories which in their way offer as much valuable prac:
tice to students, as would more practical subjects. An editorial an
this same subject im their November niumleer is well worth the
altention of our western college journals. “In looking over
exchanges we ore struck by a marked difference in) the charac.
ler of the literary arhieles ii college papers published im the
east and im the west. Speaking generally, the castern jour-
Nals fill their columns with light stories fancilul sketches, and
hitthe trifles of verse, while our western exchanges give place to
more solid articles ow historical and industrial subjects, amd were
less given to fancy ane more lo thought, At random we pick up
two peipers for illustration. Here isthe Feet, Its literary depart:
‘Atshost Story," "A Tale of Ancient Rome," ane
“Along the Lazy Belt,” Wenexttiake upthe Aovad Taéle, from
Below College, The three subjects treated are “ Socrates, " "What

ment coatalas

) Stanley has deme, and can do for Africa,” and “ Landlordisen in
) Amertca.” The former school seems to require more power of im-

| agination, the latter, more study and exact knowledge.

Though

| would not disparage the literary work of our exchanges, the Dart:

mautit is more than content te remain on the side of the fence which
our birth place has alotted to us," Is it not a fact that the more inex:
perenced the writer the greater questions he grapples with? Is it
not a poor plam to attempt that which, before we commence we
know is beyond our scope? How many readers of a college journal
care lo read whata boy, of from sixteen to twenty, has tosay about
“Can the finite grasp the Infinite," or even more terrestrial sub-
jects, such for Instance The effects of socialism on the laboring

classes of America? "'"—none but the boy himself and a few intimate
friends.

The College Sindent for January contains a very good article
" Nature Worshippers.”

fhe Messachorean and The Palmary are both new journala which
would be improved with fewer silly expressions in their local col-
inns. [tis taticable among our exchanges that the younger jour
tails seem al a lows for local tems, and fill the space With flat expres:
sions, Which give readers a poor impression of the institution from
whence they come,

- The Centra! Coffegion is especially noticeable for the caustic erit-
cams of the exchange editor. Inthe December number he scores
the frac and Meiienger tor criticisms on an article," Home Rule
for Treland," which appeared in’ the Collegian, as being prompted
by narrow ideas, He is also very desirous of ascertaining the pen-
der of the editors of these papers, judging from the following: “Sa

do you people have any names? fsa, why don't you let the world
know who your editors are? 1 should like to know their genders.
Is the exchange editor ade ora she? | have been calling ‘it’ Ae,
because I have no way Of finding out what‘it' is." Such matter
as this, and that which precedes and follows this paragraph referred
to, may be excellent practice in invective and sarcasm, but it hardly

- fulfils our conception of the mission of an exchange column.
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In the State. We do all kinds of work known to the art, and always try to excel all competi-
tion. We shall not allow any photographer to undersell us.

We offer Special Inducements to all connected with the State Agricultural College.

CHEN EY a4 Ch RISTMAS.

College Text Books iM Stationery Constantly on Hand.
A Large Stock of Miscellaneous Books, Albums, Paintings, Engravings,

Gold Pens, Wirt’s Fountain Pens, Picture Frames and Wall Paper,
At Reduced Rates to the Students.

Pror. McEwan's S100 LIBRARY in stock.

A. M. EMERY, 113 Michigan Avenue.

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Miekigan ® , State e Agricultural » College

P. 0. AGRIGULTURAL COLLEGE, NEAR LANSING, MICH.

This institution is thoroughly equipped, having a large teaching force ; also ample facilities for ilustration
and manipulation, including

Laboratories, Conservatories, Library, Museum, Class-Room
Apparatus, also a large and well stocked farm.

FOUR YEARS ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE COURSE,

EMBRACING ———

Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Veterinary, English Language and Literature, Military Tactics,
and all other branches of a college course except foreign languages,

Three houas’ labor on cach working day, except Saturdays. Maximum rate paid for labor, eight cent
an hour.
Rates.—Tuition free. Club boarding, from $2.00 to $2.50 per week.

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CALENDAR FOR THE YEARS 1887-8.

February zoth Spring Term begins. May 11th Spring Term ends. May zist Summer Term begins.

4a August roth Summer Term enis ; August 14th Commencement. August 27th College Year begins, ana

ends November 16th.
For Catalogue apply to EDWIN WILLITS,-Presivent, or HENRY G. REYNOLDS, Secretary.
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GENTS’

ARE HEADQUARTERS For

FURNISHINGS,

BATTS AND CAPS.

SPECIAL PRICES GIVEN TO STUDENTS.

113 Washington Avenue, North.

BEST GOODS!

*RIeEs THE Lowrst.

J. A TURNER,

Successor to A. Turtier,

GROCERIE

1ig Michigan Ave, Lansing,

Gentlemen, you will fed the Largest Assortment of

Fine Boots and Shoes,

AT H. A, WOODWORTW's,

215 MN. VWrashingten Ave

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WHEREIS

J.T.Conn’s Shoe Store:

He does Work for the College Bays.

IT 18 THREE DOORS WEST OF CHAPMAN HOUSE,

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We advise all who want good work to call and see |

him.

Druss,

Ciry Hare Brock,

H. LEDERER & SONS, the Clothiers.

SEELY.
PERFUMES,

SPECTACLES.

LANSING, Micn,

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CANNELL & EDMONDS,

Saddlery Hardware,

HARNESS AND TRUNKS,

And Everything im tineir Line.

| Complete Stock of Travelers’ Goods anil

(rents’ Driving Gloves.

oy WasHincron AVENUE, Sourn.

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