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1882.
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C)TTERBEIN UNIVERSI'"fY, 'WESTERVILLE,
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lTt:i DESIGN.-To furnish young men and women the advantages of a thorough education, under snch moral and religious influences as will best fit them for the duties of life. LOVATION.-The University is located in Westerville, Ohio, on the Vleveland, Mt. Vernon ana Columbus Railway, twelve miles north of Columbus, Situated in a quiet town, the University Is yet within easy reach of the Capital City and has railroad counection with all the larger cities of the State and country. RELIGIOUS DISTRUCTIUN AND GOVERNMENT.-Tbls is a Christian institution without being sectarian, Pupils of any church, or ot no church, are admitted. All are required to attend morning prayers during the week and church on Sabbath. Regular re<'itatlous are held during the week in Bible History, and N. T. Greek. The students have a regular prayer meeting once a week. International Sunday School lessons are studied by classes every Sabbath morning. A Sunday School Normal class is organized at the beginning of each year and conducted by u,~President. We seek to govern by an appeal to the student's own sen~e of right and honor. When It Is evident that a student is deriving no profit from his connection with the University,he may be privately dismissed. COURSES OP STUDY.-'fhere are two-the Classical and Scientific-which are equal to those of our best and oldest Colleges. A Preparatory prepares for lJollege and for Teaching. Instruction is given in Vocal Music, 011 Piano, Organ, Violin and in Theory; also, in Pencil Drawing, Perspective, Crayoning and Oil Painting. REMARKS.-Both sexes are admitted and recite in the same classes. The Winter Term will commence January 4, 1882,and end March 22, 1882,when there will be a vacation of one week. The Spring Term will commence March 29, 1882,and end June 14, 1882. The next Annual Commencement will be June 15, 1882. Expenses unusually moderate. Tuition and incidentals, '30 per year; rent and care of rooms from SlO to $20; boarding from S60 to $100; text books from SIOto Sl5; fuel, light, &c., $10 to $20. By economy $150 will enable one to spend one year respectably. Porspecialtnformation,addressthePreslden.t, REV. H, A. THOMPSON, D. D., WESTERVILLE,
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Suffering humanity needs help from womens' mind, heart and hand. But how will the PROFESSIOXS .1 profession harmonize with marriage, home, 1w :.11ss JOSIE JOH:sso:,;. and society? Mrs. Erxleben, who, after re The medical profession, perhaps, more ceiving the medical degree, practiced in the than any other, is the one toward which city of Que<llenburg, and was wife of the women arc looking. That women have the deacon of St. Nicholas church, wrote in her ability to study medicine, the schools to history, '' That marriage was an obstacle to which they have been admitted testify. At a woman's studies, but that her pursuit was the University of Zurich the faculty were so far pleasanter in the compaionship of an inwell pleased with the result of admitting telligent husband." Says a practicing physiwomen that in I 870 two were appointed as- cian of our own country, "I have not been ~Iy duties as such sistants. less a wife and mother. Another, "As The Universities of Moscow, Vienna, Paris,\ have never been neglected." and, in fact, all that have admitted a wife my duties have never been interfered women, give favorable testimony, not only\ with; as a mother I have been incalculably as regards their scholarship, but as regards, bcnefitted." Says another, who successfully the moral effect their presence has upon the trained her three children, â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ I think if the I male members of the school. Dr. James R. history of the families of women physicians Chadwick says, "In all ages there have been were written, it would be found they are well women who possessed qualities so pre-emi- cared for, well trained, well educated, all nently fitted to render them successful prac- this, and household duties not neglected. titioners of the art, and even promoters of Women who study medicine are watchful and the science of medicine, that they have risen careful." As a class they are healthy, encrto be the peers of the most distinguished getic, and social. It is stated over one men of the time, in spite of their early men- hundred active physicians of the United tal training and special medical education." States receive cordial, social recognition, and The large number of women, both of Europe have good influence upon society. Their inand America, who are successfully practicing come range from one to twenty thousand dolclcarly show her abitity as a practitioner. lars per annum. \\'hat shall we answer? But it is not from the standpoint of ability The profession is benefitted. Suffering huthat we wish to consider this question. manity is benefitted. The sacred duties of If women enter the profession will the con- home are not neglected. The intelligent andition of humanity be bettered? swer must be encourage tllcm. Again, to use Since \Vomens' Dispensaries have been the language of Dr. James Chadwick, "It is organized in rew York, Boston and other clearly the interest of the community to give cities, a work is being done that has never to women medical instruction in accordance been reached before. They are reclaiming with the most approved systems, and under the fallen not only from disease but from sin the most eminent teachers." and shame. The profession needs women. The law, that corrupt profession, rcprc. IGED
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sented by shrewd but altogether dishonest aside all bigotry, is it possible to say onemembers of society, so the gentlemen tell us, half the human race should be forbidden to enter upon a work that embraces the highest what can women do in that? The thousand souled Shakespeare, whom interest of every human being. you must all acknowkdge, held the key to That women can be worthy, consistent human nature, gave to whom the legal mind? ministers of the gospel, the lives of such A woman. This is a prophesy that is already women as Mrs. Blackwell, Mrs. Soule, and beginning to be fulfilled. Mrs. Hannaford show. The history of the In a number of places women have been Quakers, more than any other, show how admitted to the Bar, and are successful prac- worthy and extensive may be the work t1t10ners. In this profession, also, there is a of women in the ministry. This sect, whose special work for women. With the admis- name has become a synonym for integ,ity all sion of women there is reason to believe the over the world, exhibits the freest womanprofession will become purer and high~r in hood, and also the sweetest and truest. tone. It is stated of a lady who practiced in The Rev. S. P. Putnam has said, '' Sure I one of our largest cities, that whenever she am that the voice of women will be heard in entered the court room vulgarity and pro- the pulpit of the future, for she has many fanity ceased, and the highest respect was things to say out of the heart of God, that man does not know, and of which he cannot shown to her. She will speak things We have taken pains to examine the his- tell us men ministers. tory of one who practiced for a number of hidden from the foundation of the world. years, and find that she superintended her Eve has been too long silent. She must now own home, and spent iess- time away from tell us of her passionate experience, her her husband and children than did her sneer- hopes, her aspirations, her dreams, her longing sisters at theatres, expositions and resorts. ings, her failures, and her triumphs in the Rarely did she spend a night away from home. long, long history of the world. She has Marriage, housekeeping and law united. labored through many a generation with an \Ve venture to say the securing of more per- unspoken heroism, but now the music of her fect jurisdiction, and the benefit of home and utterance must be heard, laden with the State, require that women be encouraged to riches of a wondrous growth that has as yet been but faintly comprehended. Vast and enter this profession. Theology. \Vhen the Lord entered the beautiful arc the visions God has revealed to garden of Eden and called Adam into ac- her self-sacrificing spirit, and the world by count, it seems the good man lost all the gal- means of their expression will be delivered to lantry he ever possessed, threw the blame a diviner life, to a more tender comprehenupon Eve, and let the poor woman answer sion of the universe, and a finer feeling of its for herself as best she could. That he will imminent glory. The pulpit will never reach do otherwise at the final judgment is not to be its sublimest power until woman takes her hoped, hence we think it time that women place in it, as the free and equal interpreter begin to prepare to give a reason for the faith of God. ¡'The spirit must give way to the tender that is within them. It seems unnecessary to The enter into a discussion as to woman's fitness soul as well as the manly¡ intellect. in the ministry. We are one in Christ Jesus. desk must reverberate the full heart of huThe commandment go work in my vineyard, manity, or its eloquence will become a vanwas given to one and all. \Vhen we lay ishing sound."
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For the sake of herself, for the sake of had they come, learned and illiterate, old and humanity, women must be encouraged to young, to witness this strange event. No enter the ministry. advantage was given to her. Her opponent We fail not to see great dangers and diffi- in the test was a former master. She passed culties in women entering the profession, but successfully and received a degree. Stranger we see no other way to remedy some of the I yet, she received a professorship in the Unievils that are. Only when all things shall be versity-a privilege which the equal right free to women, when they shall be inspired spstem of 0. U. has not been able to give to by a purpose and encouraged to carry out Iany women, even in this the 19th century. that purpose, can they reach the develop- This position she occupied for over twenty ment of which they are capable, and which years, noted for her able instruction and home, society, and State demand of 1 brilliant lectures. But the history of Laura them. Bassi is not yet half told. She was married Women, as yet, have received no real too at t,~enty to a Dr. Bareti, superintended encouragement in anything. Even in music well her own home, and took the principal they have been encouraged only to execute charge of twelve sons and daughters. and not to compose. But granted that a profession is inconsistent vVhat mines of wealth could be opened with marriage, what about a poor, hungry, by the women of affluence in science, art, snubbed, ill-tempered class, who c1_1idcntlJ medicine, law, and theology. \Vhy should from no fault of their own are not married? there not stand in women's type a Mozart, a Surely these ought to be encouraged to bless Beethoven, a Raphael, a Micha!l Angelo? the world through a profession. We give one more example to show that. When we say women should be encourâ&#x20AC;˘ a woman can, consistent with home and mar-I aged to enter the professions, we do not riage, follow a profession, and that with mean that these public pursuits should be advantage to both. Laura Bassi, an¡ Italian continually held up to girls. We give to girl of the I 7th century, learned to do all the home the first and highest place, but if work belonging to the women of her country women fill that place as it ought to be filled and time. She was fortunate in being the they must go out in thought to every departdaughter of an intelligent father whose home ment of life, and if need be, be free to exerwas frequented by the most learned of the. cise their powers in them. Not that they age; more fortunate in being encouraged to should become the leaders. We cheerfully listen to and so take part in the conversations recognize in man the leader, the stronger, the of these. Private instructors were procured one to whom women must ever look for profor her. \,Vhen she had reached the age of tection. \Ne have no patience with these twenty she had made such wonderful progress I ranters of woman's ¡wrongs who forget how both in the study of language and science , men have labored with hand and brain for that she was proposed as candidate for the comfort and happiness of woman, forget examination in University of Bologna. She, how often their strong arms have been raised agreed to pass the examination with a view in her defense. Again, we have no sympato securing a degree. The day came. A thy with these superficial thinkers, many of great one it was for the village of her home. them women, who arc ever ready to say, Branches were stre\\'n in the way, flags waved '' Let women improve the privileges they from the housetops, banners were carried, have before they cry for others." Men and and bands were played. From far and near women are complements of each other. The 1
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and mind, but all of these may be triumphed over, and the man made the stronger by the victory gained. \Ve see young men who have two or three hundred dollars, and who are fully convinced that they ought to go to college, yet they fear to begin on this, lest they should spend it, and have to quit college without finishing the course. One year is better than none spent in college, and the student is often surprised to see how the way opens financially from year to year. Many men have gone to college with only enough money to land them on the campus; they have persevered unto graduation, and under the blessing of God, some have done, while others are now doing, a good work. An honest student will find plenty of friends among his fellow students and the professors who arc ready and glad to assist him in the GOING TO COLLEGE"-THE HOW way of learning, or selling cheaply to him BY J. F. S:.trTH. books and other conveniences he may In a former article we noticed the wltcrc of need. going to college, ;nd in this we wish to noBy sacrificing the pleasure of attending tice the !lO'w; i. r., by what means a student many entertainments, which those who have may support himself financially while in col- money can support, he will thus curtail exlege. He has to make provisions for about penses. During the time of this seeming forty weeks of expenses. To those who sacrifice he can read a well-selected book have the income of money, either from from the library, and thus deepen and widen O(ten an arrangement can resources of their own or from parents, this his knowledge. task is comparativdy easy. But to the stu- be made by the student with some person dent who has to start college life with only a who has work needing to be done, which few dollars, the undertaking assumes a dif- may not take much time from study, while ferent aspect. His muscles may be strong, it gives exercise, and often nearly, if not his will determinate, and every resource of quite, enough to support the student. It strength within himself at his command, yet would take volumes to write the history of for the lack of proper opportunities to make men who have thus acted as hostler, sawed money he will at times experience great diffi- wood, chored, and tutored for their board culties. But it is safe to say that no one in and washing. If any one is above doing health, as a rule, should fear to begin a such work, then to be in college without college course. money is unwise. A friend may often be The experience and work of many now in found who has money and will lend it to a positions of usefulness and honor, is a testi- deserving young man with little or no interest, mony in favor of the success of such a begin- payable on easy terms. In this way a part if ning. True it brings toil of the severest not all of the expenses of the course can be kind, deep anxiety, aches and pains of body ¡ met.
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During vacation time often enough money men who are now dreaming away days of can be made to at least meet one-half of the opportunities, having possession of a horse and buggy, or a ¡small amount of property, expenses for the year. This, with economy and what may be wliich ought to be converted into money and gathered in different ways while in school, used for acquiring brain power, which will be The testiwill make the accounts balance at the end the basis of a truly great life. of the year. It is a mistake to suppose that mony of the ages is that poverty or want of no one should begin a college course without money to begin a college course is not a barmoney enough to carry him through. It rier to success, but oftentimes the steppingHow? The question is would be just as wise to say, never begin stone to greatness. business in life without a fortune. But it solved by him who has the purpose of will to may be said the beginning of business on begin and persevere. small capital is often necessary and will lead SHAKESPEARE OR BACON? on to fortune. No more so than the beginning of a college course with small capital is A quarter of a century has passed since necessary to open up the field of work and the first attempt to rob of his glory the reveal the powers of the man to think and brightest light in the literary world. For two act properly, so that by this means money hundred and fifty years Shakespeare had may be obtained and his education com- been accredited with the authorship of the pleted. He who carefully toils on to-day greatest literary works ever produced by will find it easier to do more and better work man. But in this age of idol-breakers, it to-morrow. is thought by a few persons that he has held A few years of battling with poverty and this honor long enough and should surrender adverse circumstances, will bring him to the it now to Bacon, or some one else. We have end of his course with disciplined mind and collected a few facts about the history and skilled powers for the work of life. And as merits of this attempted robbery, which we he stands with classmates on the college submit to our readers. campus to sing their farewell song, he holds To Miss Delia Bacon, a sister of the late in grateful remembrance the person who Dr. Leonard Bacon, belongs the distinction gave direction to his youthful aspirations, of first conceiving and announcing the opinion turning them towards education. that Lord Bacon was the real author of the Liberal¡ men have provided for needy stu- Shakespearean dramas. She )Vas a lady of dents in many colleges, but all cannot, if genius and fine culture. This theme finally they desired to do so, avail themselves of became a mania with her, from the effects of these privileges. It is to be hoped that men which she died, September 2, 1859. Her who have more money than will keep them views were first published in Putman's Jvlagaand their families comfortably through life, :::inc of January, 1856. Afterward these will see the value of seeking out worthy veiws were published in I 8 57 in a book entiyoung men, and send them to college, or tled "The Philosophy of the Plays of help them to an education. Shakespeare Unfolded, by Delia Bacon, with There is no better way than this of start- a preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne." The ing healthful influenees, and scattering light opinion is an American one, and its existence and knowledge which will lift up humanity, is almost limited to America. However, an and bring an answer to the petition, '' Thy Englishman, William Henry Smith, soon folkingdom come." There are many young lowed Miss Bacon and published his first
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work in September, 1856, and then in 1857. forever, raises a strong presumption against Mr. Smith's book is the only one of any the existence of any such secret as any other merit England has produced on that side of hypothesis implies. the question. The most able work on this 2. The contemporaneous testimony rehypothesis is by Nathaniel Holmes, entitled, ceived without question for two hundred and "The Authorship of Shakespeare. New fifty years raises a strong presumption in authorship. York: 1866 and l 8 76." Another valuable favor of their Shakespearean anti-Shakespearean work is '' The Shakes- The tribute of Milton, who was eight years pearean Myth, by Appleton Morgan. Cincin- old when Shakespeare died, and the testimony I 88 I." Mr. Morgan advocates the of Ben Johnson, Leonard Digges, Hugh nati: hypothesis that Shakespeare only edited the Holland, and Shakespeare's old playfellows, dramas. The arguments of all the writers Heminge and Condell, associated with the on that side may be included under the fol- folio of 1623, cannot be explained away. This edition was published only seven years lowing heads: after Shakespeare's death. I. What little is known of Shakespeare In Johnson's forbids belief in his ability to write these preface occurs the following lines: '' To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. dramas. 2. What is known of Bacon inspires the William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us. belief that he could write them. "To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name 3. Parallelisms in time, thoughts and lanAm I thus ample to thy book and fame: guage between Bacon's known works and While I confess thy writings to be such these d~amas. As neither man nor muse can praise too much." 4. A passage in one of Bacon's letters 3. It is much easier to allow that Shakesspeaking of himself as a '' concealed poet,'' peare wrote these dramas than to find any and two or three passages in contempora- other one who could write them. Allibone, neous authors, construed to fit this hypoth- in his dictiona1y of authors, under the article esis. '' Shakespeare the most illustrious of the sons The best works written in favor of Shakes- of men," in which he gives an index of over peare are, "Bacon 'US. Shakespeare. By one thousand printed volumes of ShakesThos. D. King. 1875;" "Shakespeare peariana, aside from the editions of the from an American Point of View. By Geo. works, besides giving references to more Wilkes. 1877. (New Edition 1882.);" and than five hundred editors, compilers, and "Did Shakespeare Write Bacon's \Vorks?" translators, says: " \Ve have earned the by James Freeman Clarke, in Nortlt Ameri- right by hard labor to assert that there is not can Rcvie-,11 of January, I 88 I. (There are in the I roo pages of Delia Bacon and Judge about twenty other books, pamphlets, and Holmes the shadow of a shade of an argumagazine articles of less value on both sides ment to support their wild and most absurd of the question.) hypothesis. Bacon was as little capable of The following is a summary of the argu- writing 'Shakespeare's plays' as any other ment in favor of the Shakespearean author- man. ship of the dramas bearing his name: '\Vi thin that charmed circle none durst walk hut he.'" I. The literary rivalries, jealousies, and James Freeman Clarke logically shows why, gossip of those times, in the absence of any if one ought to be credited with the works known motive for the persons who are sup- of both, that one should be Shakespeare. posed to have known the secret to keep it He says:
THE OTTERBEIN "When we ask whether it would have been easier for the author of the philosophy to have composed the drama, or the dramatic poet to have written the philosophy, the answer will depend on which is the greater of the two. The greater includes the less, but * * the less cannot include the greater. Great as are the thoughts of the "Novum Organum," they are inferi"or to that world of thought which is in the drama. We can easily conceive that Shakespeare, having produced in his prime the wonders and glories of the plays, should in his after leisure have developed the leading ideas of the Baconian philosophy. But it is difficult to imagine that Bacon, while devoting his main strength to politics, to law, and to philosophy, should have, as a mere pastime for his leisure, produced in his idle moments the greatest intellectual work ever done on earth... 4. In the last place, we introduce the testimony of experts-men who have made Shakespeare or Bacon the study of a lifetime; and all this class of persons, so far as we know, are against the Baconian hypothesis.
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And in writing to Mr. W. H. Smith on the same subject, Mr. Spedding says: "Could you not make out, by the way, that Bacon wrote Ben Johnson's and Beaumont and Fletcher's plays as well? I will be bound they contain as many parallelisms. Joseph Crosby, who has been a critical student of the poet for thirty years, says: •• Tlzcrc is not a particle of reason for doubting tlzat Slzakcspcarc wrote tlzc books attn·butcd to lzim. The opposite theory is mostly the offapring of ignorance and conceit-a desire to say something noval and bizarre for the sake of sensation.'' l'rof. Henry N. Hudson sums up the case thus:
'' 1 · Bacon's ingratitude to Essex was such as the a1,1thorof Lear could never have been guilty of. 2 · Whoever wrote th e plays of Shakespeare was not a scholar. He had something vastly better than that-but he had not th at. 3. Shakespeare never philosophizes. Bacon never does anything else. 4. Bacon's mind, great as it was, might have been cut out of Shakespeare's, and never Mr. Spedding, the latest and most indus- have been missed . ., trious biographer of Bacon, in a letter to Judge Holmes says: oticing the above, Dr. ' Ingleby adds a '' Among the parallelisms which you have fifth reason: collected with such industry to prove the "5. Bacon excelled all writers of his day identity of the two w"riters, I have not in prose; but the very best of the verses observed one in which I should not myself attributed to him (not all his, by the way) are have inferred from the difference of style a fourth-rate; while Shakespeare's verse is difference of hand. Great writers, especially everywhere incomparably better than his being contemporary, have many features in prose; and he thus excelled where Bacon common ; but if they are really great writers most faulted." they write naturally, and nature is always Other testimony might be added, but these individual. I doubt if there are five lines persons are of the highest authority and suffitogether to be found in Bacon which could be dent. Fifty years hence this controversy mistaken for Shakespeare, or five lines in will be one of the curiosities of literature. Shakespeare which could be mistaken for But Shakespeare will occupy his seat as PresiBacon, by one who was familiar with the dent of the Republic of Letters, and his several styles and practiced in such observa- immortal dramas will be more and more loved and studied as the ages go by. . tion. u
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THE Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivared by the President on Sunday morning, A MONTHLY COLLEGE PAPER. June r 1th, at ro:30 o'clock, in the College Subscription price, $1.00 per year, postage paid. Chapel. The annual sermon will be preached in the evening by Rev. B. 1\1. Long, of Galion, 0. MANAGINGEDITOR, .. REV. J. s. MILLS. T H. SoNEDECKER, A SUGGESTIONwas recently made that it W. C. REBOK, would be a grand thing to have, in connec{ Associate Editors, T. FITZGERALD, tion with the course, occasional lectures by Miss ETHLINDAJARVIS. some members of the faculty. President Business lvlanager, . . LAWRENCEKElSTER. Thompson's recent lectures may have given rise to the idea; but however this be, it is MAY, 1882. certainly a good one, at least from a student's point of view. Of course teachers have about CONTENTS. as much work as they can do, yet they could SHOULD \Vo~rn:-; BE E:sCOURAGED TO E:XTER THE PRornssro"'s ...........•••.........•..•.... 1 3 1 certainly arrange to give several talks, during the year, on subjects of general interest Gor'\'G To Cou.H;E ............................. 134 to students. \Vould it not be the means of SHAKESPEARE OR BACO'\'? ....•. ,,,,,,,,,,, · · ·,,, 135 wakening an interest in new fields of thought, EnrTORIAL .......•..•.•............•........... 138 of imparting information not easily gathered, LOCALS ..•........... ,., .. , .... ·,·············· 139 of giving new zeal and energy for study?
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: A NEW feature of commencement week this year will be a promenade social, which takes the place of the usual society banquets and reunions, and which will be held on the campus after the lecture before the four literary societies. It is to be hoped the experiment will be a success in all respects. Good music and ice cream will be mixed in with speaking, etc. THE new catalogue will show the courses of study revised and fully abreast of the requirements of the College Association. The two courses leading to degrees will be equal in length and amount of study. The completing of one will secure the degree of Bachelor of Arts; of the other, the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In the latter course French or German may be substituted for Greek. A shorter course without a degree has been provided for those whose time is limited.
PROF. JOHN MOFFATT,at present Traveling Passenger Agent of Louisville & Nashville Railway, is. proposing at the close of the term an excursion of ten or fifteen days in length, to the Sunny South, for the benefit of students, professors, trustees, and any of our friends who may \\'ish to accompany us. It will stop at the Monteagle Springs, on the Cumberland plateau, a few miles this side of Chattanooga, and a noted resort for Southern people. The distance is 500 miles from Columbus, and the fare for round trip will be about $1 5. Hotel charges while at the Springs, about $1 per day. Tickets good to visit Chattanooga, and for fifty cents additional, Lookout Mountain. Those desiring can stop over at Nashville. More definite arrangements will be made and announced in a few days. If undertaken it will be an Otterbein Cni11ersi/_J1 Excursion, but all our friends are invited to accompany us. For further particulars parties will please write to President Thompson or Rev. S. M. Hippard.
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TnE Prudential Committee have taken ac- eral names and dates he yet knows nothing tion recommending the addition to the fac- that will be of much use to him. He knows ulty of another teacher. The finances of the nothing of the character, the associations, and Institution are such as to justify tlie Board of the life of the author, or of the character of Trustees in employing another teacher, and his writings. Rut it may be urged that we the new course of study makes it almost nee- can study the works of our English authors essary to increase the number of instructors. at any time. Why not submit the Latin and The new instructor will perhaps teach the Greek to the same risk of being read? Are modern languages and assist in the depart- they so superior to the works in our own ment of science. language that we must devote several years WE are glad to learn from letters received to th e st udy of them and neglect our own? from alumni of the Institution, that the It seems to me that a class reading ShakesRECORDhas been the means of keeping alive perc, Milton, Spenser or any of the greater a commendable interest in Otterbein. \\Then au th0 rs, under a skillful professor would find rrraduates receive their diplomas and enter in them much that would otherwise escape :ctive life they are apt [0 forget their alma th eir. attention. The field of English literamatcr unless their minds are in some way ture is too large to be passed over profitably called back to the scenes of their college Iin twenty or even forty weeks. But if the days. But it ¡is not only the Otterbein of the same length of time were devoted to it as is past they should think of but also the Otter- devoted to Greek or Latin, there would be bein of the present, actively engaged in train- no necessity to cram, but there would be an ing the minds of young men and women. opportunity to learn something of English R.. P. They should seek to learn and hear with literature. pleasure of every improvement in her facilities and methods of work.
The Study of English Literature. In many of the colleges of to-day there are several years devoted to the study of Latin and Greek, taking up author after author, and studying his style and thought, while but a term, or at most but two or three are given professedly to English literature. Then usually a text book is used, which in attempting to tell all in so limited a space, succeeds in telling nothing. It gives the names of the authors of each literary period with about as much information concerning each as is to be found in a city directory concerning the inhabitants. Authors of the first, second and third rank, are all jumbled together and passed so rapidly before the mind of the student that but an indistinct impression is left. But even if the student should succeed in remembering sev-
-Commencement. -Alumnal banquet. -Promenade concert. -The seniors are loafing. -Lecturer-] udson Smith. -'83, get out your plugs again. -Public --Senior
of the 4th div. on the 27th. speeches-eight minutes long.
-President Thompson chapel on the 7th.
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-A prep says that the oratory of Ingersoll has never been '' equalizPd." -On the 25th ult. Rev. Mr. Hahn, of Delaware, lectured in the Presbyterian church.
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-The Seniors arc sending out their invitations. -Private rhctoricals for the juniors and seniors are over for this year. -The lecture committee of this year will leave the association about $40.00 in debt. -Hon. Geo. \Vendling lectured on ''Voltaire " in the chapel on the c\'ening of the 15th. -The Orphean Quartette sang at the temperance meeting in the town hall on the 2nd. -The gentlemen's societies have decided to have no banquets this commencement. A wise decision. -The faculty have determined to enforce the requirement of regular attendance at morning prayers. -H. F. Williams, State Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., paid us a visit a few weeks since. -We anticipate the attendance of a large Come number of alumni at commencement. and renew old friendships. -Miss Sue Bovey is commencement President of the Cliorethean Society, and l\Tiss Jessie Thompson of the Philalethian. -Quit smoking, quit playing cards, go to church every Sunday and to prayer meeting once a week, and make a " point" for commencement. -The juniors are getting some extra work this year, with the promise of more next, in the "English Classics.·• Our course of
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-Not long since the Thalian Club entertained a number of their gentlemen friends at the home of the Misses Rosecrans. Music, recitations, social chats and refreshments made up the order of the evening. -The following officers have been elected by the 0. U. L.A. for the coming year: President, T. H. Toncdcckcr; Vice President, C. X Queen; Secretary, Emma Burtner; Treasurer, L. M. Fall; Executive Committee, T. H. Soncdeckcr, Emma Burtner, II. Stauffer, B. T. Jenkins, Stella Krohn. -The pamphlet lately published by the Philophronean Society contains the constitution and by-laws, forms of diplomas, and history of the Society and the inter-society regulations. It is reported that the Philomathean Society will also publish a sort of historical sketch. -Junior Oratory, April 29th. As the exercises were lengthy we will merely mention performers and their subjects: B. T. Jen kins, Can and \Vill; Jessie Thompson, A Crown Worth Wearing; L. 1\1. Fall, Who Are Our Safeguards? Alice Dickson, Public Opinion; R. P. :Miller, The Law of Progress; 0. L. Markley, The Despised Jew; Sue Bovey, Small Potatoes and Few in a Hill; E. B. Grimes, Who are Called? C. Hall, Mind, not Independent; W. Z. Kumler, One Hindrance to National Progress.
}?rrs011nls:. (This column is gi,·en to notices of graclun.tes, old students, n.nd those now connected with the Uni,·crsit). \Ve earnestly solicit the assistance of graduates and olcl students, by sending us notices of themselves ancl others. in order that it may he full ancl interesting.)
study is growing. -The performances for class day stand as follows: Salutatory, Ethlinda Jarvis; Historian, L. D. Bonebrake; Prophecy, C. E. '61. Prof. Garst is the alternate for the Bonebrake; Greek Oration, M. S. Beard; Address to the Freshmen and the Sopho- Philomathean Society. '7 I. Mrs. Laura (Gardner) Shrom is mores, J. B. Phiney; Address to the Juniors and Seniors, L. Keister; Oration, \\'. Fenton expected to represent the Cleiorhctcan Society at anniversary. Hatfield.
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'58. Mrs. L. K. Miller is the alumna! poct. She delivers the annual address of the Woman's Missionary Board, which will hold its meeting at Lebanon, Pa. '65. J. 1\1. Strasburg is teaching at Richmond, Ind. '6l5. Mrs. Mary E. Benton is very feeble from consumption. '65). G. S. Browne has moved to town. His health is poor.
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'81. A. E. Davis will be here at commencement with somebody. '82. \V. D. Reamer and a few others were in the region of Grove City on the 7th and 8th inst. '82. J. B. Phinney was engaged with a civil engineering company of Columbus two weeks. He is now in school, and M. S. Beard has taken the Âľosition for a few weeks. Mr. Phinney takes the position after commencc-
'69. J. P. Landis is the orator for the ment. '83. R. P. :\Iiller is the alternate of the alumni. '72. l\Irs. L. R. Keister will attend the Philophronean Society. Missionary Board at Lebanon, Pennsylvania. '84. Miss Fannie Beal has been appointed '75. L. K. Power, mayor and attor- alternate representative from the Philalethcan ncy at Mt. Gilead, was married last Society for the coming anniversary. month. Rev. \V. J. Shuey was in town on the I 1th '76. J. N. Frier taught a graded school inst. at Harrisburg, Va., last winter. Prof. Judson Smith, of Oberlin, will give "I K M'll I 1 b the commencement lecture. ¡76 . 1\/f 1rs. .v . . 1 s, w 10 1as ccn '81. C. B. Dixon will be here commence visiting her parents in Pennsylvania for a ment week. few weeks, is expected home this week. '76. ]. A. Loos, who has just finished a T. N. Funk 1s in town, as his school is out special course at Yale, is visiting friends in for the summer. town. J. A. Willoughby and his family are in 79. J. F. Smith is the representative for town at John Knox's. the Philophrcnean Society at the an111- About thirty of the alumni live 111 and vcrsary. about Dayton. 79. Vv'. A. Shuey will be here i1\ a L. H. Keister is still 111 the grocery busifew days and will remain until commence- ness at Union City, Ind. ment. H. C. Platter was here on the 5th and 6th '79. \V. 0. :\liller came to town on the inst. I I th. Tho;,. Bonser has secured a school for next 'So. E. S. Lorcnze and J. F. Smith will winter. soon be back from Yale for this year. C. G. Judy wa;, in town last Saturday and '81. Mrs. May (Gardner) Funk has been Sunday to sec how things were going about secured as alternate for the Cleiorhetcan Saum Hall. Society, in case of absence of chosen rcpre. . sentative, for anniversary. Pres. Thompson dcl1_vc~cd the dedicatory Miss Alice 1\1.Jarvis, a former member of s.?ee~h of the new buildmg o~ the U. B. class '82, will complete a course at the ~emmary at Dayton on the 3d mst. Normal Academy, Mansfield, Ohio, this It is said that Rev. \V. l\I. Beardshear 1s year. asked to come back to Dayton.
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