* * At the examination for the Baccalaureate
degree, the Professor of Physics asks the candidate :
“What is the best insulator known ?" “Pov
erty,” was the reply.
# » Wlmt If tliy yestordays bo Badly fraught
With disappointments, hcart-ncheß, failures, gins ?
Touch not tliy gloomy past with word nor thought,
To-day another chatico for theo begins.
—Emma C. Dowd,
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The Historical Journal for November is at
hand, containing interesting accounts of the lives
of those whose names are well known in this part
of the State.
The University Mirror aims this year as be
fore to cover all the ground of a “good and hon
est” representative journal. Mirror, did you not
make a mistake in changing your publishing
house ?
——The Pennsylvania Western comes to hand
with its columns well filled. Would not, how
ever, a column of college news add to the range
of the Western ? In the article “Advice to
Freshmen,” is a sentiment which we cull and de
sire to repeat to the higher college classes: “The
object of an education is. to widen the field of
knowledge, to make one consider more deeply
the things that are taking place around him and
to so expand his views that he may be able to pass
a common sense judgment upon all matters of
importance.”
The Swarthmore Phcenix makes its way
forward among sister journals this year with its ac-'
customed grace. The Phoenix doubtless means
to inspire enthusiasm at home on the subject of
field sports. Its manner of doubling every flank
of the home question, as it were, is suggestive of
the attitude of a college journal attempting to
exercise a sensible influence at home in a given
direction. We compliment the variety and excel
lence of the literary department, and also the
local department
We are happy to acknowledge the late Cor
nell Era. It meets the requirements of excel
lence which a journal published with its advan
tages and backed by its support of ability might
expect to attain. We wish most heartily to sec
ond the Era in the condemnation of the.Sophs at
Williams. We never could understand how any
young man having any respect for himself could
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so utterly lose respect for the rights of others as
to engage in such despicable outlawry. . It is a
move in the right direction for such journals as
the Era to fearlessly protest. *
——The College Student is before'us. The -SV//-
dent, in speaking of the Y. M. C. A. reception
held at the beginning of the college year, says
“A reception of this kind welcoming the students
among us at least presents quite a contrast to the
former custom of initiating them by‘stretching’ ”
The Student shows further by the space and at
tention devoted to the Y. M. C. A. that the As
sociation is an acknowledged feature of Franklin
and Marshall, as well as of all colleges, and we
welcome this element into college life as the prob
able remedy to the odious practice of “stretch
ing ”
After an absence of some issues the Pennsyl
vania College Monthly again makes its appearance
among us. We do not? know the cause of the
Monthly's absence, but we heartily welcome its
return. We. wish to quote the following from its
article on “Ideal Education” as expressing sound
principle which deserves more attention : “To
enlarge and sharpen the intellectual faculties,
without at the same time throwing over them the
restraints of a quickened conscience, and of wisely
directed religious intuitions, is a curse to man
rather than a blessing, and consequently no State
can afford to estab. ish schools of a purely secular
character. ’ ’
Tho whole seating capacity of tbo house was occu
pied, and tho aisles and lobbies were choked with people.
Thoy even sat on the bellows of the organs, and swarmed
on the gallery stairs.— Philadelphia Dress.
Every inch of standing room was occupied to hear
the original, talented, eloquent and aggressive young
preacher.— rniladelphia Times.
Seldom can there ho seen a larger audience beneath a
roof than that which greeted llev. .viadlson 0. Peters. Eve
ry inch of room was taken, and even the pulpit was en
oroaehed upon.— Philadelphia News.
Spicy, original, remarkable, and progressive.—Philadel
phia Inquirer.
Original, striking, abounding with genulno humor that
convulsod his crowded audience with laughter,— Allentown
Dally Item.
Rev. Madison C. Peters,the eloquent young divine, rais
ed storm after storm ofappluusoby his genuine eloquence.
—Lafayette Daily Journal,
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