eel to Agriculture ancl the Mechanic
Arts,” ancl thus acquiring a “liberal and
practical education' as a basis to the
“several pursuits ancl professions of
life.” We rejoice that our merits ancl
demerits (insufficient means) have been
inquired into, ancl that at last a body of
the representative intelligence of this
great State has passed a favorable judg
ment upon us.
comparatively few hours during
which our library is open each
clay is a source of much inconvenience.
Of all places which should be open
from morning till night, college libraries
are among the most important. Stu
dents ancl professors are ever and anon
obliged to have recourse to books other
than those which they have in their own
libraries. The college library is sup
posed to provide the needed books;
but unless it is open throughout
the clay, so that the books will be ac
cessible when needed, it will fall short
of doing the best service possible for
all interested. We call attention to this
matter, hoping that it will be favorably
considered by those in whose power it
lies to make the necessary improve
ment.
HP H E recent address of President
X Atherton before the Senate Com
mittee at the College affords an exam
ple of the power, as well as the beauty
of brevity. If, at all times, "brevity is
¥HB PRESS LANCE.
the soul of wit,” it was here, in addi
tion, the soul of conviction. In five
minutes time, were laid before the com
mittee a history of the College, a syn
opsis of the federal laws in regard to
the establishment of State institutions,
ancl an exposition of the past indifferent
attitude of our State, some very forci
ble injunctions making up the conclu
sion. Attention was written on the
face of every senator; ancl so con
vinced were they that, when remarks
were called for, they appeared rather at
a loss to know how to reply. Compre
hensiveness ancl brevity are rarely so
combined ; but when they are, we have
the very jewel of oratory.
ALL the work that is done in the world, ex
cept mental work, consists in producing
motion. From the inertia and the systemic
relations of matter, this requires an amount of
effort that is irksome to man, and that prevents
him even by the utmost exertion of his own
powers from producing all those changes and
arrangements and forms in matter that his well
being and desires demand.
By a very wonderful constitution of matter,
to a partial knowledge of which man has slowly
attained, there may be obtained from it unlimited
ability of doing work, energy. Groups of parti
cles and groups of bodies, under certain condi
tions, constitute systems that are not simply geo
metric, or geometric and somatic, but whose parts
have dynamic relations, and interact by certain
laws. From these dynamic systems, whether
molar (moles, mass) or molecular, by proper
WORK-AGENTS.
liV PROF. I. THORNTON OSMOND, M. S., M. A,