soiling is found in Huxley’s definition when
he says, “ Follow your reason as far as it will
take you without regard to any other consi
deration.” By this we understand him to
mean cold scientific reasoning, simply that
which man can deduce from nature, which
throws out any consideration of the Bible.
How can we reason in a justifiable manner?
How can we arrive at the right conclusion ?
unless we take everything into consideration
which affects our subject. Again, “Do not
pretend that conclusions are certain which
are not demonstrated or demonstrable,” in
other words do not believe what.you cannot
prove. How can we hope to prove a proposi
tion after rejecting the axiom upon which its
solution depends ? This we virtually try to
do when we reject the Bible and then send
Reason forth to find us a God and religion.
It is simply an effort upon our part —if we
look at it as a scientific problem—to give a
finite demonstration to a proposition infinite
in itself. If the agnostic would search scrip
ture as thoroughly as he is supposed to inves
tigate science, agnosticism would soon become
a creed of the past and the agnostic either a
Christian or non-believer according to the
amount of faith exercised, By faith we do
not mean something inseparable from reli
gion, for faith is as much a function of man as
reason and the perfect development of both
are necessary to make a perfect man, and the
sooner we come to look on it as such the bet
ter for mankind. Hence an agnostic or a
non-believer is not the highest type of man
and as we are progressing continually, time
itself will remove agnosticism together with
the more pronounced beliefs of the faithless.
Miss V. C. Fries, of Harrisburg, has been
appointed instructor of music. Miss Fries
entered upon her duties on the first of May.
She has previously been in Shippensburg,
and has a wide reputation both in instru
mental and vocal music.
THE FREE LANCE.
JUDGING from what we often hear and
read, we are led to believe that the
masses look upon the college world as com
posed chiefly of young men giving four years
to a good time, with little attention to study ;
a set of fellows who are chiefly interested in
spending their father’s money. These people,
however, are invariably persons who have
never attended college and know nothing of
the existing state of affairs. They claim
their belief substantiated by certain reports
which occasionally appear in our daily papers.
In other words they take the action of a few
as indicative of the whole. True the collegian
TRAILING ARBUTUS.
A drift of perfume
Up from the meadows
Thither finds its way.
O, rare, pnle blosoms
Breathing incense,
Tinged with the sunset's ray !
As pink ns the heart
Of a whispering seashell
Down by the sounding sen,
As sweet ns the breath
Of tlie dainty maiden,
Who sends these flowers to me.
What do you here,
O, tiny blossoms,
Here, ’mid the city’s din ?
Yon have strayed away,
From your native sunshine,
And the woods you blossomed in,
You bring to me
A whiff of tire breezes
Soft ns tbe air of June,
That kissed your cheek
’Mid yon native grasses
Laden with perfume,
O, rare, sweet blossoms,
You’re as fair, not fairer
Than tire little winsome maid,
Who sent you out
On your errand of mercy,
Out from your woodland shade,
MORAL TONE OF UNDERGRADUATES
Alice Mcli.roy,