-TRIFLING INJURIES.-Foot-ball player, (feebly).—“ Did we win?” Foot-ball player, (excitedly)" Never mind that dislocated thigh, doctor. Take these broken teeth out of my mouth so I can holler!"-Chicago Tribune. - Brunonian. What is it like?" Here they come 'round the Like a drove of horses on a trot, but I don't see any." "It's the Young Ladies' Seminary out walking. corner."-Epoch. -The dying embers faintly glow, And ghostly shadows flit Around my chamber, where alone The wintry winds around the eaves And from the beach the crash of surf Is borne upon the gale. But, spite of driving sleet and hail, I gaze on visions bright; For memory's book has ope'd to me Its fairest page to-night, And sweet, long banished thoughts of love This stormy night are mine, As mid the flickering firelight, I dream of Auld Lang Syne. SO LOUD THEY WERE. The professor's brow was sad, the professor's soul was vexed, Then hushed the busy class-room its wonted undertone, -Tech. Then up rose Jones, embarrassed, and then he whispered low: "Beg pardon, pro-professor, it's me trousers, don't cher know." The good professor paused, then said with withering glance, 'We'll excuse those trousers, Mr. Jones; when you come again, wear pants.” -Ex. A QUESTION OF GENDER. They met at a church reception; He came from o'er the ocean In the course of the conversation You ought to know each other." Up spake the foreigner then, His English rather loose, A blush o'erspreading his features, -Cornell Era. EXCHANGES. While looking over the college publications from north and south, east and west that monthly fill our table to overflowing, there is one idea which always strikes us forcibly, and that is the vast difference in the kinds of material used by the different monthlies. Of course there are some features common to all, but even these differ in some respect. Take, for example, the editorial departSome monthlies, as the Williams Lit. for instance, take the ground that if anything wrong exists in the college it is the duty of the college publication to disclose and criticise it, even though the disclosure would injure the college to the outside world. Others deal only with what is praiseworthy, and if they criticise at all, do it in a manner that suggests an apology for so doing. ments. Again there is quite a dissimilarity in the literary department of our exchanges. We can always expect some good poetry in the Brunonian and interesting fiction in the Amherst Lit. Our own publication has been recently criticised for too much heavy matter, such as orations and essays, and too few stories and poetry. Other monthlies devote much space to general collegiate news, alumniana, and again we find in some very little, if any. Now the question naturally arises, what should the ideal college magazine consist of? The magazine derives most, if not all, of its support from the students of the college; should it therefore contain only what pertains to them, or should it strive to be of interest to the college world in general? Should it endeavor to entertain only by confining itself to fiction, or preserve the best literary productions of the students, and so show to other institutions and the alumni the literary standard of the college? It seems to us that the answer to these questions is moderation. As the best educated man is he who has the best all-around education, so the ideal Lit. would be the one which would embrace, to some extent, all of these qualities; a Lit. which would not devote itself to any one characteristic, but to all; a Lit. which would contain some fiction, some poetry, some solid matter. Its editorials should praise where praise is merited, and condemn where condemnation is needed. It should contain inter-collegiate news and alumniana, and so be of interest to other colleges and to alumni. The great trouble with the collegiate publications at present is that in the majority, if not all, one of these branches is cultivated to the exclusion of the rest. If we could embrace in our monthlies all of these phases to a moderate degree, we would have the ideal college monthly. ALUMNIANA. Τί πρῶτον καταλέξω; ἐπεὶ πάρα μυρία εἰπεῖν. -FRANK D. ALLEN, '85, has removed from legal practice in Malone, to 32 Nassau Street, New York. --Rev. CHARLES F. Goss, '73, sailed for Europe, with his wife and daughter, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, for a six months' vacation. -Dr. JOSEPH McChesney, '80, follows his profession in Quincy, Cal., where he has gained a high reputation by his skill in surgery. -Dr. GEORGE M. DILLOW, '68, of New York City, has been elected president of the New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society. --Among the new directors of the Utica Y. M. C. A. are Rev. DANA W. BIGELOW, '65, EMMETT J. BALL, '75, and CHANNING M. HUNTINGTON, 84. -Hon. ALFRED C. Coxe, '68, of Utica, is announced as one of the lecturers before the Law School at Cornell University. His subject will be "Admiralty.' -The February number of Christian Thought contains an article on "Realism," by Prof. CLARENCE U. CARRUTH, '89, of Highland University, Kansas. -There was no opposition to the re-election of Hon. ELLIOT P. KISNER, '67, of Luzerne, Pa., as chairman of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee. -Six months ago Rev. GEORGE M. Janes, '66, entered upon the duties of a new pastorate at Andover, N. Y., and already many signs of encouragement are seen. -At the Farmers' Institute held in Boonville, Feb. 15, JAMES F. CONVERSE, '48, of Woodville, Jefferson County, read a paper on "The Management of Dairy Cows." -ALBERT R. HAGER, '86, has resigned the position he has held for eighteen months in the department of State at Albany, and returned to the practice of law in Rome. -Among the sterling articles of the Homiletic Review for February, none are better than “ 'Rhetorical Training for the Pulpit," by Rev. Dr. A. J. UPSON, '43, now of Glens Falls. -J. E. MASSEE, '73, recently of Albany, is now connected with C. W. Bardeen's Teachers' Agency in Syracuse, where graduates who are looking for vacant schools will find help. -Rev. WALLACE W. THORPE, '58, of Wellington, Kansas, has accepted a Presbyterian call to Deposit, where he succeeds Rev. STEPHEN G. HOPKINS, '63, who is now preaching in Palmyra. -Rev. Dr. DAVID R. BREED, '67, of the Church of the Covenant, and Rev. Dr. M. WOOLSEY STRYKER, '72, of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, are named among the lecturers for 1889-90, before the students of the Chicago Theological Seminary. -As one of the local editors of the Hartford Times, FREDERick G. Perine, '87, illustrates the text of his articles with designs prepared by himself, and, though a self-taught artist, his portraits of local celebrities are said to be strikingly life-like. -Rev. J. J. COWLES, '75, in getting out of a carriage, caught his foot in the blankets and fell on a curb-stone, breaking a rib. Mr. Cowles had scarcely recovered from his severe hemorrhage of the head, not having yet occupied his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church of Adams. -Rev. ARCHIBALD L. LOVE, '76, has resigned the Congregational pastorate at Putnam, Conn.; Rev. PLATO T. JONES, '85, has been called from Red Wing, Minn., to Escanaba, Mich.; and Rev. THOMAS C. MILLER, '86, has accepted a Presbyterian call to Woonsocket, So. Dakota. -W. H. DESHON, '70, succeeds to the editorial position on the Utica Herald, made vacant by the resignation of F. W. JOSLIN, '81. Mr. DESHON has been telegraph editor for about 15 years. This place will now be filled by ERWIN L. HOCKRIDGE, '89, of the local department. -In Speaker Reed's appointment of congressional committees, Hon. CHARLES J. KNAPP, '66, of Deposit, is placed on "Coinage, Weights and Measures ;" and Hon. JAMES S. SHERMAN, '78, of Utica, is chairman of “ Expenses in the Department of Justice," with a place on 'Judiciary," and "Census." -HENRY C. MAINE, '70, of the Rochester Democrat, who is known in the editorial fraternity as the "Sun-spot Expert," has scored another triumph for his theory of storms. He predicted the meteorological disturbances that occurred in January last, as he did those of January, 1889, and in both cases the predictions were fully verified. -Rev. GEORGE S. WEBSTER, '78, has accepted a call to the Chapel of the Covenant in East Forty-second Street, New York City, where he will be co-pastor with Rev. Dr. J. H. McIlvaine. For eight years Mr. Webster has been the assistant of Rev. Dr. J. M. Ludlow, in East Orange, N. J. He will begin his new work in March. -On the 19th of January, Rev. WALTER S. CARTER, '79, received forty-six new members (thirty-eight on confession) into the Presbyterian communion in Waterloo; and on the 9th of February Rev. J. WILFORD JACKS, '68, received eight new members into the Presbyterian communion in Romulus, where he has been the pastor since 1872. -Last year GEORGE H. DECKER, '66, was nominated by Governor Hill to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Wilkin, one of the trustees of the State Homœopathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown, and the nomination was duly confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Decker was made a member of the Legal Committee," and the "Visiting Committee." -Rev. W. H. BATES, '65, of Clyde, is drawing large Sunday evening audiences by holding a unique service of song. Members of the brass band, under the skilled training of Mr. Bates, join the choir and organ with their instruments, and thirty or more voices raise a volume of song from Gospel Hymns, by which the worshipers are greatly inspired and helped. -The election of Hon. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS to succeed Hon. HENRY R. PIERSON, as Chancellor of the University of the State of New York, was worthily followed by the election of Rev. Dr. ANSON J. UPSON, '43, now of Glens Falls, as Vice-Chancellor. His eminent qualities of scholarship, wisdom and very successful experience as an educator made it a welcome duty for his fellow Regents to confer this honor. -In his first annual report Hon. WILLIAM H. H. MILLER, '61, United States Attorney-General, recommends that provisions be made for a United States penitentiary and a United States reformatory, the latter for the confinement of the milder criminals. It is also urged that a prison bureau be established in the department of justice, where could be gathered and recorded the criminal statistics of the United States. -The Troy Times has made a good hit in securing the editorial services of FRANK W. JOSLIN, '81, formerly of The Observer staff and recently of the Utica Herald. Mr. Joslin has done some excellent journalistic work. It has attracted attention, and brought him the invitation to join the Times' staff. The Troy Times is a strong and able paper, and such an invitation distinctly implies a high compliment and a considerable promotion. -The Central New York Association of Hamilton Alumni has been organized in Utica, and these are its officers: President, Hon. WILLIAM M. White, '54; Vice President, PUBLIUS V. Rogers, '46; Secretary, FRANK S. WILLIAMS, '81; Treasurer, LOTUS N. SOUTHWORTH, '79; Executive Committee, George E. DUNHAM. '79, JOHN H. CUNNINGHAM, '66, Prof. Asa G. BENEDICT, 72, RUDOLPHUS C. BRIGGS, '73, EDWARD D. MATHEWS, '73, FRED M. CALDer, '82. -Sunday afternoon, Dec. 1, Hon. HENRY J. COOKINHAM, '67, lectured before the Y. M. C. A. of Utica on The Personality of the Christian Religion." The argument was that while other religions are founded upon principles and precepts, the Christian religion is founded upon the personality of Christ, who promulgated and taught a perfect code of morals. He was the one matchless character to whom the good and bad, wise and ignorant of all ages had pointed, and if His name were taken from the Bible there would be no salvation. -L. N. SOUTHWORTH, class secretary of '79, has just published a class history, entitled "The Story of a Decade," which includes a history of the decennial reunion, and a personal history of each member of the class since graduation. It shows that the members of '79 have not been at all slow in winning both professional and domestic honors, and is a credit to the compiler. It makes a neat pamphlet of forty-one pages, with full page artotypes of George F. Crumby, Frank W. Dwight and James S. Spencer, stelligerents. It is worthy of imitation by other class secretaries. -The Evening Post, of Hartford, Conn., publishes the Thanksgiving sermon preached in the Pearl Street Church, by Rev. WILLIAM DE Loss Love, '73, with the added remarks that Mr. Love is a vigorous thinker, a clear writer and an enthusiast in a field of research in which patriotic New Englanders ought to take an especial interest. Perhaps at some future time this thorough and valuable contribution to early New England lore may be woven into an expansion of the subject, in the form of a book, with critical notes, published for the general public. It certainly deserves such recognition of its merits.” |