we call them dormitories or quadrangles, no cam pus. There is no rallying place of all the profess ors and students where one can stand, and letting his eye sweep around on every side say, this is the University. In Goettingen the University buildings are scattered all over the entire town j the ones in the Neustadt being generally fine stone structures situated in the midst of a beautiful gar den well planted with flowers. These buildings* collectively, form the famous “Georgia Augusta” founded by George 11, in 1734. It is a Universi ty famous for the great men who have lived and studied within its walls. ’Twas here that Gauss deduced, his celebrated mathematical formulae; that the brothers Grimm discovered the famous Law which in Philology bears their name j that the Philosopher Loetze conceived his idea ofthe soul; and here it was that Wcehler worked out that fa mous synthetical preparation of Urae, which so startled the entire scientific world. The Labora tories of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Zoology are complete in every detail, each department hav ing a new and extensive building. The Universi ty Library is found on the Alle Strasse, and con tains more than 500,000 printed volumes and over 5000 manuscripts; among the later are some of the most valuable papers in Germany, Connected with the Medical department is the new and ex pensively built Government Hospital for the Prov ince Hanover, having a capacity for many hun dred patients; here is found also the famous Blum enbach collection of skulls. Since all the German Universities are cared for financially by the Government, one is certain of finding there every facility for study, and every encouragement for work that perfect instruction and good example can lend. THE AMERICAN HOME. If I stood here to-night, to tell you the story of Bunker Hill, of Yorktown or of those dreary pov erty stricken winters at Valley Forge, I should touch a sympathetic chord in every heart. THE FREE LANCE. Were I to depict the scene of that pivotal con flict on the first days of July '63, at Gettysburg, or the occurrence at Appomattox Court House, near ly two years later, your every sentiment and sym pathy would vibrate in harmony with the text. Or again were I to eulogize the name of Washing ton, Jefferson, Lincoln, or Grant, the English lan guage could furnish no commendation too extrav agant. And why ? Because we recognize our indebt edness to their influence for what we enjoy of na tional freedom, prosperity, and happiness. However we shall consider but one factor in the foundation and safeguard of our well-being and prosperity, that is the American Home. The happiness of home has ever been a theme dear to poetry and eloquence. It has called forth sweetest strains of fancy and feeling. Have we not all felt with Jno. Howard Payne “the homeless bard of home,” who from child hood’s happpy memories sang? There’s no place like homo 1" Cowpersays “Home is the only bliss of Paradise that has survived the fall.” Like the bird of India, which by means of clay fastens the glow worm to the branches above her nest that it may afford her and her little ones light through the dark night, so man may by industry and sobriety attach to his home an abiding sun shine ; making it the centre of life, its solace and its refuge, around which may cluster every endear ing association. Let us glance into the homes of some of Ameri ca’s most gifted sons ; homes made famous by the name of a Clay, a Webster, a Lincoln, a Grant or a Garfield. There is influence exerted for the good of incalculable value. We meet plainnesss but not commonness. Recall the men and their early surroundings and I need hardly tell you that worth of home depends not upon damask, or ma hogany, mosaic tilings or marble ornaments. Who can fail to see the nation’s future, in her homes ? “Bo It ever 90 humble
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