Aegis October 1902

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fflHERE has always been a great interest taken among the students of Otterbein in inter-collegiate sports, aud also in the State Oratorical contest, but we feel that some action should be taken by which arrange­ men ts might be made to have a debate with some good college each year. Some effort was made in this direction last year, but on the account of some unavoidable obstacles the effort proved futile. This should not be left until the latter part of the year, as other colleges will have their contracts made. It has not been because weI have not had an interest in this line of work nor, has it been because we lacked material. All that is needed is that it be agitated and some one be appointed to take the initiatory steps. Would not an organization similar to our local Ora torical Association be a suitable body to intrust this matter ?

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BENJAMIN KIDD in his Social Evolution has said "vVhere there is progress there must inevitably be competition of some kind."

This is demonstrated in the activities of life.

Men are competing for positions, and out of this competition and rivalry come impelling forces that send forth the best that men pos­ sess. It is due to this fact that such marked progress has been made in the past decade.

Keen rivalry and fierce competition has been the solution of all progress. We also see this cropping out in college athletics. Rivalry between schools, rivalry between classes, has

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always manifested itself by extra effort and by lasting interest. It is a necessary element in football. So is it in literary work. Otter­ bein, as well as other small colleges, has been noted for the excellent work done by her lit­ erary societies. Neither the gridiron nor ~he class room is successful in stimulating the student to greater efforts than do the societies, and we believe that much of this is due to the competition between them. To be true, at times, it has been carried to the extreme; yet, it must be admitted that it has its place, and that it has been the means of accomplish­ ing good work. However, there is one charge that is often brought against this rivalry, by the new student or by outsiders, that we believe is a false one. It has been looked upon as malice or as a personal hatred existing between the members of different societies. This it is not. It is nothing more than a competition similar to that that exists between rivals in every vocation in life.

better), and most students are aware of thit fact.

Many, however, on account of heavy worlt are compelled to stay at the steady grind Of work and necessarily have no time for social intercourse, such as attending the class par. ties, college socials and other kinds of amuse~ ment, where they would meet many people, This is not always absolutely nece!sary, fot­ by a little careful planning these overworke<:1 students could get much pleasure out of a fe\v of these gatherings and something that woul<:1 amply repay. It is always wise to remember that: "A 1 ttlc nonsense now and then, Is relished by the best of men."

It is not needful that all the nonsense going should be indulged in, but a little will add spice and variety to the otherwise days of toil and study. The timidity which is a constant iource of annoyance will be in a short time greatly overcome.

not~s from a travd¢r's Diary

()NE of the most valuable phases of a college education is that of having the J. M. MARTIN, '¢5 rough corners knocked off by coming in con­ tact with our fellow students. The awkward URING the past two summer vacations, it country boy or girl rubs elbows with a dozen I has bi:en my pleasure to travel some persons each day for every one they would five thousand miles, chidly in foreign meet were they to stay on the farm, and just lands. I have been persuaded to give to the by this constantly meeting people and ex­ re~ders of this magazine a glimpse of these changing ideas with them, the very evident lands, based upon my notes. marks of awkwardness are gradually worn The benefits which have come to me as a away and that a person begins to assume an teacher of history by these travels cannot be air of culture and freedom in spite of, and over-estimated. Traveling as I h'ave to enlarge unknown, to himself. Other students who my store of historical information and to bring are in th:! habit of meeting many people and myself more closely into the real spirit of his­ who act in the way sometimes called "fresh," tory, I have often had occasion to visit shrines find that their brand of smartness must be of history and literature; for you know the his­ backed up by something more substantial than tory of Scotland, England, Germany, France a ready answer or senseless retort, and by the and Rome is largely written upon their ancient constant wear against other people they too churches and cathedrals, upon the shafts of become cultured and refined. It seems nec­ marble and granite, in many a necropolis and essary, therefore, that students should meet upon the crumbling ruins of castles and each oth~r often and openly (the more the palaces.

OTTERBEIN A!GIS From a financial standpoint it is m!.ich cheaper to cross from Montreal to Glasgow than from New York to Liverpool.

The time, however, is three or four days longer by the former route; but there is a compensation in this, for by sailing from Montreal one gets a trip of almost one thousand miles on the St. Lawrence and across the gulf, besides the ocean voyage. On the other side one gets the trip of a hundred and fifty miles along the west coast of Ireland and up the firth of the Clyde, and the Clyde river, to Glosgow.

The cost of making this trip is not exorbi­ tant. The fare from Columbus, Ohio, to Mon­ treal is about sixteen or eighteen dollars, and the round trip to Glasgow from Montreal can be made for a little less than one hundred dol­ lars. This would give one a very excellent state room and first cabin board. Second cabin passage can be had much cheaper and is good. Both last summer and this, I was en­ abled through friends to secure a passenger's pass both going and coming on the ocean and thus reduced my expenses to a minimum.

The pass included state-room, board, and pass­ age; but even without this, traveling abroad is not so expensive as Americans are inclined to think.

The last time I traveled in Europe I went by rail to Cleveland, Ohio, took steamer there to Buffalo and from there by the New York Cen­ tral to Montreal. This gave me a trip which I had long wished to make through the pictur­ esque Adirondacks. On this trip I took occa­ sion to pay another visit to Niagara.

There is much to interest a tourist in Mon• treal. It is a city of perhaps 400, ooo people and is the com 1 ercial capital of Canada. The public buildings, banking houses, massive · cathedrals and manifold commercial interests, both marine and land, afford much to interest the student tourist. Perhaps the 'fnost striking feature of this city to a traveler is the grand and stately mountain which rises in lofty grandeur just in the rear of the city. It seems like a mighty watchman guarding the city by day and by night. The pioneers used to call

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it "Regal Mountain," from which the city took its name, Montreal.

It is not much of an event for a mighty ocean liner to leave port for a foreign land.

Our departure was very unostentatious; two nervous little tugs steamed up to our steamer and pulled her into line in the river for the start. No one seemed to notice us except a few who had been engaged in placing the cargo and baggage on board.

The trip down the St. Lawrence from Mon­ treal to Quebec seemed more like an excursion than the beginning of a trip across the Atlan­ tic. The scenery is beautiful. Sometimes we pass lofty crags, and again along green hills, shaded groves and fertile valleys. Familiar to me as though it were yesterday are the scenes which greeted my eyes as we neared the his­ toric old city of Quebec. I shall not soon for­ get, how, with feelings of reverance, I stood on the forward quarter deck, close to the taff­ rail, marine glass in hand as we approached this pioneer city of Canada.

As we passed under the shadows of the mountain and cliff that rise in mighty grandeur far above the glassy surface of the river, I felt an impulse to lift my hat that I might pass the "Plains of Abraham" with uncovered head. Look! you imagine you can almost see the very path by which General Wolfe scaled the rugged heights with his army and surprised General Montcalm the next morning by having his army drawn up in battle array upon the plains.

We are indeed approaching sacred ground.

History rolls over me with a thrill as I pause a moment to gaze upon this picture and to think of the struggle and sorrow and bloodshed which this city and its environs have witnessed.

Our steamer stopped at Quebec long enough for us to go ashore and pay this city a visit in­ cluding a trip to the beautiful Montmorency falls a few miles from the city.

In two or three days more we found our­ selves at the eastern side of the gulf.

I could not feel that an article of this kind was complete unless I had referred to some of the interesting features of the ocean trip. In

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--------------------------------h" nge behind the deck to see the s'tln take is P1u had

the gulf and in the straits of Belle Isle icebergs .

Th haze that e le are very numerous. One day I counted forty the western horizon. gathered on the horizon had changed to p~rp 'r at one time. They are of all sizes. Some are nd10 0 but above there was a harmonious ble g two and three hundred feet long and thirty or .

Th ky did not e s d forty feet high above the water; and only the blue and golden tmts. about one-eighth of the mass above water. have that fiery hue which it had at n~on- a:d nd111 gs a .

They float majestically southward toward the The scene the hour, and the surrou ' A ol breeze is sublimity to the picture. co f Gulf Stream where they finally melt.

0 blowing over the deck.

The clear canopy It is very dangerous to navigate among these icebergs at night; they carry no signal heaven still dimly lighted by the sunset glo;, lights or fog horns and great care has to be seems cool and blue. The slanting rays of t e sinking sun flash over the silver cre 5ted waves taken to avoid them.

Life on the sea is very different from life on creating myriads of diamond sprays. Even . . k 1 er and lower. land.

On the sea our thoughts and sym­ while we gaze the sun sm s ow . ' · · l t from sight, pathies cannot roam as on the land. Strangers Then ' lo! tn a moment 1t 1s os h. d the . do not seem strangers. All seem to have a It has indeed taken its plunge be in But long after it common interest.

At night, when one is gilded horizon of the west. th e a thousand miles from land and mist and is lost from view, the sublime beauty of gloom settle around us it is a satisfaction scene lingers; the golden orb of day has left nd to feel that everything possible is being behind his robes of crimson and gold. By a done to promote our safety and comfort. by these colorings are lost in the deeper shad~s Each night the signal lights stream out brightly of night and all is over. Later, I stroll agatn nd upon the surging billows; the lanterns gleam at upon the deck and find that a cool, quiet a various points on the vessel, and all night long refreshing twilight has followed the gorge~us The shadows of night are caS t tng can be seen the dark figure of the watchman sunset. pacing to and fro upon the deck at the bow. their shifting images upon the bosom of the The officer of the night, ever keen and alert, is sea. The sheets of fire and the crimson clouds at his post upon the bridge, and the engineer which I saw with the sunset are lost to view. is at the throttle in the bottom of the ship, The wide expanse of water which glowed and watching for signals from the officer on the sparlded in the sunshine, has been mellowed bridge. Thus when danger threatens, no mat­ by the moonlight's gleam. But for the meas· ter when or how, it cannot come unawares. ured thump of the engine below, the silence of These brave seamen have hearts loyal to duty, the night would reign supreme. It is, indeed, and rugged bodies, and no matter how arduous a solemn hour for the reflective mind. An the task or how hard the struggle they are occasional passenger can be seen pacing to and fro upon the deck, gazing upward to the starry arrayed to meet it.

Among the bright spots which shall linger flag of heaven which God constantly floats long in my memory, is the recollection of the over us. Perhaps he is lonely. Perhaps he is evening of the day, when we drew near the thinkin~ of friends he left at home from whom blue hills of the land of Scott and Burns. he is separated by the surging billows of the Long afterward in the busy round of my pro­ Atlantic. In this almost sacred hour, I linger fessional duties, often I live over again the ex­ long at the taff-rail, and, with my eyes raised periences of that hour.

Day after day the to the great jeweled dome above, gaze far into its mighty steamer had been plowing her way starlit depths. The sea which but a few hours through the viewless waste of water toward before glistened and sparkled in the sunshine, It had been an ideal day. A is now softened by the light from other worlds.

Scotland.

By and by comes the dawn. Then it is that number of passengers had strolled out upon

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OTTERBEIN AiG/S my eyes catch their first view of the shores of Scotland. In my notes I find I have jotted down a few lines in the form of an ode. I give them with an apology, just as I wrote them on my knee while sitting on the? deck, with the dim outlines of Scotland in the distance. I remembered how the year before I had roamed 0ver that same land, visiting the haunts of men who have helped to make the history and liter­ ature of a great nation.

Beautiful Scotland! How I love i.bee, With thy rivers, rocks and rills, Otten, in my heart I've longed, For a jaunt upon thy hills.

With thy people I found a welcome, Which my heart with joy thrills.

Beautiful Scotland! Can I forget thee While above there shines a sunbeam, And the moonlight on the waters Brings to mind a happy dream; And the lingering thoughts oft tell me Of past glories thou hast seen ?

Beautiful Scotland! Tenderest memories Cause now and then a tear to start; Whilst the memory's lovely visions, Still are lingering near my heart; Ofmy wanderings in thy highlands Ere the time had come to part.

Beautiful Scotland! Come once again With thy visions pure and sweet, To a life of care and struggling, With a word of cheer to greet.

May the visions of thy highlands Linger till again we meet.

The trip up the Clyde to Glasgow is a de­ lightful one.

From the steamer's deck on either side can be seen the quaint Scotch homes with farms adjoining. The square fields of green pastures and growing grain with an occasional clump of spruce or beech trees, and the substantial buildings, indicate the healthy thrift of the peasantry.

Now and then the shores are cleft by dim valleys which seem to suggest to me that endless romance and mys­ tery are hidden in their ·sombe, depths.

The first stop in the river is made at Greenock, the boyhoqd home of James Watt, and the burial place of "Highland Mary," mentioned in Bum's works.

Later I shall

write something of my pilgrimages to the shrines of men and to places that have figured in English history and English literature, and subsequently in a similar way concerning France and Italy.

tbt Jlwaktning EMMA .E . BARNETT,

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LL of us are more or less conscious of a constant impuh,e which urges us on to expresss feelings which arise within to continually endeavor to make others share our thoughts, our experiences and our emotions.

The written expression, which is the out­ growth of this impulse, we call Literature.

In so far as it expresses the emotions of the soul, Literature is an art, and the writer who is able to feel the emotions which touch human nature hi general and to express them ad­ equately, is a literary artist. True literature must, therefore, deal with what is typical in the sense that it touches, the possibilitie of all human nature.

While it is true that genuine personal feel­ ing must lie behind all real literature, and no work can be great which does not rest on the experi~nce of a writer as a basis yet this feel­ ing must harmonize with the experience of mankind in general, for man is interested and C(i)ncerned in the emotions of men only in so far as they throw light on the nature and pos­ sibilities of life. "The great artist," says one of our writers, "is he who embodies emotions, not in terms of his own life but in those which make it equally the property of all man­ kind."

Such an artist was Ellen Sturgis Hooper when she gave to the world her little poem ''The Awakening." Some others have em­ bodied the lesson they wish to teach in long poems of narration; others after lengthy dis­ cussion have given it in a few closing lines; while still others have expressed a great truth in a few short, terse sentences. To this third

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class of writings belongs "The Awakening."

It appeared in the Dial, and though etrbracing but six lines, the beautiful thonght and phil­ osphy which it contains will make for it a per­ manent place in our Literature.

"I slept and dreamed that life was boouty, I w oke and found that life w a s duty.

Was thy dreaming then a shadowy lie?

Toil on sad heart, courageously And thou shalt find thy dream to be, A noonday light and truth to t hee."

William Wordsworth expresses the opening thought of this poem when he says: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The seul t hat rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar."

Childhood, the dreaming-time of life is truly asleep to the sti>rner realities. It is the time when fancy has full sway, and paints for the mind glowing visions until life seems one con­ tinous dream. It is the time when imagina­ tion is keenest. The child's eye needs no horizon for its prospect. He endows all nature with life. Who has not, in his childish trou­ bles, gone to the brook and there heard words of consolation and sympathy whispered to his broken heart? or in times of unsual happi­ ness, who has not heard the same brook, as it played over the pebbles and retlected the sunlight from its ripples, sing songs of glad­ ness which spoke their messages as plainly as words could have done? Or perhaps it was an old apple tree which served as the burden­ bearer and as the one friend to whom we might safely entrust our secrets.

Then the undoubting mind is characteristic of childhood. What four-year old philosopher ever questiones the power of the wand which opened the dark eyes of Sleeping Beauty?

What boy's heart has not been completely won

by Jack the Giant Killer?

It is the time when the whole world exits for the individual. What air castles are built and what plans for the future are concerned, "When I'm a man a man?" I'll be a lawyer, a statesman, or perhaps a doctor, if I can, and I

can! This is no stranger to the intelligent small boy. He never thinks of failure. "The impossibilities of fifty years are the common places of five." ''This is the period," as Wil­ mont so beautifully says, when no smoke of busy life has darkened or stained the morning of our day. The pure light shines about us. lf any little mist happens to rise, the sum beam of hope catches and paints it.

The cloudy weather melts in beauty, and the brightest s,dles of the heart are born of its te.irs."

But this period is not always to last. With age comes a power which sheds its light upon the sleeping soul and rouses it from its slum­ bers. The dreams and visions begin to vanish as the soul awakens and becomes enlightened, until it finally steps forth in the broad light of reason. Now life looks very different. The things which were once so marvellous, now are commonplace.

Wordsworth has truthfully said: Heaven lies about us in our infancy , Shades oftbe prison house begin to close Upon the growing boy.

But he beholds the light and whence it flows.

He stces it in his j oy .

The yout h who da ily farther from the cast Must t ra vel still is Na ture's priest.

And by the vision s plendid Is on liis way attended.

At length the mau perceives it dies a way, And fad es in t o the lig ht of common day.

But has it gone forever with its cheer and in­ spiration? Not from the soul which has culti­ vated its fin er st nsibiltie~, and this privilege be­ longs to each 0f us. The beauty which we once found in nature is still there if we but train our eyes to see it, and to the sensitive soul may come that same thrill of joy from things which seem to others so commonplace.

If in our pursuit of knowledge we do not neg· lect to devdope the sensibility as well as the in­ tellect, we ,,hall be able to say with Thomas Moore, "Let fate do her worst; there arc relics of joy Bright dreams of the past which she canuot destroy That come in the nighttime of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear."

But what of the early visions of life?

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He grows to manhood. Is crucified, dead and buried.

Then the unsurpassable joy and ecstasy of His ressurrection in this glad Easter tide.

Now it wears a tender, tuneful prelude, and the choir, as one magnificent voice, unites in carroling an anthem so powerful, so perfect, so grand that it lifts me out of life up to Heaven on the wings of its song.

About the alter are white Easter lillies, em­ blems of the Easter gladness, banked high, making a perfect cloud of purity. Around the shrines and alters, to@, are myriads of candles, flashing and sparkling, and adding brilliancy to the scene. The three priests in white silken And thou shalt find thy dream to be vestments come forward, devoutly dropping to A noon-day light and t.rut.h to thee. their knees, each crosses himself and faces the crucifix. The priest drawls out in a sing-song, though melodious tone, long sections of prayer in Latin. From the organ there peals a chord Dtsrna,tton and all the devout ones drop to their knees, clasping their rosaries, quickly slipping the MARY WEINLAND beads along the strand, and chanting their ABBATH stillness!

Easter peace I reply in low, sonorous monotones. A moment Stealing through the sacred quiet of the of quiet, and the priest again takes up his cathedral, falls one high, sweet and prayer, the organ responds with the chords as trembling note. Tenderly it breathes of love, before, and once more the chanting.

One tranquility and faith; searching into the hearts little old woman, evidently worn out from of its hearers, and blessing them with an infi­ the length of the service, hobbles out of nite calm. Imperceptibly the strain changes her seat, and previous to leaving the church, and another note is woven into the melody, drops on her knees before the shrine, as does the union of hope. Then low, rich chimes are every devout Catholic. There is a shrine at added-deep minor chords with tender mean­ at each side of the alter. Images are placed on ing fraught.

Slowly the harmony dissolves immense brass brackets of exquisite workman­ into a wild, weird minor.

The spirit of the ship. One is a life-size figure of Christ, robed organ cries aloud in its anguish; it clashes in a in flowing garments, the eyes looking down­ clanging discord, it rebels. Then gently it ward, and the whole face is most benign and again takes up its minstrelsy, speaking once beautiful. The other is a likeness of the virgin .more in tones of endearment, note after note is and the child. added, rich minors, and light silvery cadences, There is something very sacred and awe-ln­ until all is combined in one grand sublime :;piring about these figures, and the reverence chord. Roll on, 0 organ! Roll on your and respect which the parishioners pay to them grand harmonies. Sing ever, and bless men's is remarkable. But in them is also something hearts with your sweet concords. which is a little gruesome and startling. We The soul of the organ is revealing to us the do not like to think of our Lord and Master story of the Christ. How as a little child, he being portrayed in ordinary clay. But what a lived in his father's house, a sweet, happy boy. power this church is. Rough men are here,

they but idle dreams never to be realized and never to have a place in our lives? No, they are but in centives to nobler things and glimp­ ses of future possibilities. Guided and stimu­ lated by these visions of life as they come to us, we may press forward, the vi!'>ions ever in­ creasing until we find at last our early dreams not merely realized but far surpassed.

When we have fully awaked we shall find that the beautiful life of whidh we dreamed is realized only in life wholly devoted to duty.

If a worthy vision of life has come to you, no matter how many difficulties may appear in the way, Ellen Hooper would say to yo11, "Do not reject the vision, but toil on, courageously,

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men who surely mu~t have been gamblers, sa­ loon keepers, the roughest of the rough, and they speak not a word during the service, and some bowing on their knees, telling their beads with tears glistening in their eyes.

And now four little boys, consecrated to the church, come before the altar. The first scat­ tering incense, then one bearing aloft a golden cross with figure of the crucified Christ upon it, and on each side of the crucifix bearer are two tiny urchins, holding mammoth can­ delabra.

But listen! From above there sifts one note from the organ, and then a marvelous voice, so exquisite in its plaintiveness, iiO powerful in its richness, floats down, bearing to us in notes almost sublime, Gu nod's Ave Maria. As the voice rises higher and higher in its entreat­ ing a ray of glad and glorious sunlight falls on the innocent young face of the singer.

Way up in the choir-loft she stands, scarcely visible till the lustrous littie sumbeam, lured by her glorious singing, comes and kisses her lips and brow as she sings. A solemn waning of ma­ jestic sound, then silence, vast, -profound.

Oration...ntgbt Brings Out tbt ·stars JOHN W. FUNK,

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N the arena of the world every man has his own character tested. He is given com­ bat by every foe to which the human family is heir. When our perfect forefather, Adam, was overcome by his enemy he had only his own weakness of decision to fault.

We, in this great era of the progress of the civilization of mankind, have a great many more obstacles to overcome. We have the errors of a thousand judgments to contend with, while we have their good qualities as well.

But it is not by the good or by the faults of our ancestors that we are to be judged by the world, or by the great judge above. It is by the prog ress which we ourselves make either toward the good or

toward the evil that the good qualities or worthlessness of our lives is to be determined.

The poet Edward Rowland Sill writes: This I beheld or dreamed in a dream; There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath a cloud or in it raged A furious b a ttle, and men yelled and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A Prince's banner Wavered, Then staggered backward , hemmed by foes.

A Craven bung along the battle's edge, And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steelThat blue blade that the the king's son bea rs, but this Blunt thing"-! he snapt and flung it from his hand.

And lowering c-rept away and left the field.

Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword Hilt buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it and with battle shout Lifted afresh, he hewed bis enemies down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.

The great factor in the battle for success is the seizing and using of the opportunities we possess. Opportunities are given to us for a purpose. The purpose being the furtherance of some providential dealings, the ultimate result of which our finite mines have no com­ prehension. If we permit the opportunity to pass unheeded, we do not thwart the decrees of the Almighty, but we fail to do our part in the completion of some great good. Courage steadfastness of purpose and honesty are very necessary in acquiring the ends we seek. The ends we seek are varied and just, as varied as is the meaning of the word success to those who aspire for its royal throne.

The success of a carpenter is different from that of a brick­ layer. So with all vocations of life, no level of success can be established, but each craft has a goal distinctly to itself.

The stars which we see at night we cannot see in the daytime when everything is light, and we see clearly the world in all its beauty.

It is when the sun sinks behind the western horizon, tinting the clouds with colors which artists can not reproduce, and when Vesper comes and closes the gates, leaving the world in twilight soon to be shrouded in darkness, it is then that the first star is seen in the east.

The stars are above us whether we see them or not, even at mid-day. Men who have gained

OTTERBEIN AICIS success are visible stars in the heavens of our ideals of glory. There are those who do not shine in our firmaments of greatness, since there has been no contracting force, nor testing power to make them selfluminous.

When in our lives peace and joy reign supreme, no darkness obscures our pathway. And they far exceed the brilliaHcy of the stars, who have characters and ambitions which merit the great­ est fame. The stars are ever present with us, but it takes development, night and trial to make them shine with rays of everlasting honor.

The battle of lite is being waged. The con­ testants are man and the aid given for ennobl­ ing himself, while arrayed in a great phalanx are the forces which tend to tear him down, such as procrastination, self-indulgence and a host of others, the leader of which is defeat.

Defeat gathers his forces together, while the world looks on with interest as each opponent lays hold of opportunities, the seizing of which is hoped to be a crisis. Finally the great strategic move is made. The move is the tak­ ing of an opportunity which is compartively small. But victory has come to the man who has been relieved of a burden of care by the overcoming of the torces which bound him.

While the burden is lost in oblivion, does not burdenbearer, the man at our door whose home is mortgaged, or the general who faces an en­ emy, or the financeer who combines the the wealth of the earth, or the school boy who does his first iium correctly, do not those re­ ceive the praise of the world, at least, the little world in which they live? Do not those who are successsul in the struggle for supremacy in the battle of life shine as the stars in the gal­ axy of heaven ? And as the marine looks to the north stars for guidance, so we must look to our ideas as the stars which illuminate our pathway when the night of trouble surrounds us.

Dr. Whitney gave some advice to the stu­ dents the other morning as to the proper care of one's health.

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Otterbein opened her foot-ball season of by holding down the heavy 0. S. U. eleven to five points. Handicapped by lack of weight, practice and material, Otterbein made a game up hill fight against a team which has the best of training and equipment. Every man played well, and but for the lack of a punter the game would have been o-o. 0. S. U. scored in the first half, when they had secured the ball after two uneffectual attempt at punt­ ing on the part of Otterbein. After eighteen minutes of play the ball was finally pushed over the line, in spite of the stubborn resist­ ance by the cardinal and tan. During the sec­ ond half the play was confined to 0. S. U. ter­ ritory. Their attempts to advance the ball were futile in face of the charging of their lighter opponents, and they wereunable to get beyond their own forty -five yard line. Otter­ bein continually got the jump on them and 0.

S. U. finally had to punt in order to keep their goal from danger. The features of the game were the works of the officials, latest uses of the deaf and dumb alphabet introduced by Coach Hale, and the aggressive work of Bates and Bookman.

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Otterbein met the heavy 0. M. U. team in her second game and was defeated by an ap· parently large score. The game was played by electric light, and to this, more than anything else, 0. M. U. owes their overwhelm­ ing victory. With a back field as heavy as the line, on the average, and aided by the shadows and frequent periods of darkness the doctors were enabled to advance the ball at will. Nevertheless Otterbein played a good game and in the daytime the score would cer­ tainly have been di tlerent.

Illegal passes, off-side and rough playing generally characterized the work of tr.e Med­ ics. In spite of the fact that Otterbein was

OTTERBEIN JIGIS compelled to use men who had never been in a game before, they gave the professionals plenty to do, and from a spectators point of view the game was interesting from start to finish.

Otterbein started with a rush and advanced the ball steadily to the center of the field only to lose it on downs. After this 0. M. U. had t,hings about their own way and touchdowns were of a frequent occurrence. McLeod, Shively and VanAuken played well for 0. U. O. U.

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"And saddest of all it might have been."

Otterbein played her third game of the season on a muddy, slippery field. Nevertheless the boys put up a good game from beginning to end. It was clearly 0. U.'s game from start to finish and only the punting of Cromley, of Kenyon, saved tht: team from Gambier from defeat. Both elevens were evenly matched in weight and struggled stubbornly through­ out the thirty-five minutes of play. Otterbein showed marked improvement in offensive play and would not be pushed back when Kenyon had possession of the ball. Otterbein put up a magnificent defense and end runs were fre­ quently broken up by Beeson and Cowen.

Their mass plays on the tackles were unpro­ ductive of gains owing principally to the work of the back field. The team work shown by the home eleven, was the best see~ here for so early in the season, but is not yet 1 what it should be.

During the first half the ball was in Ken­ yon's territory for the greater part of the time, and Otterbein once had the ball within 6 inches of their goal line on the fourth down.

If another man had been with Yost the game would have been won.

In the second half the ball was in O. U. territory owing to the punting on the part of Kenyon, but during the last S minutes of play 0. U. reeled off play after play in rapid suc­ cession and the game ended with the ball on Kenyon's 35-yard line. Shively and Bates

played their positions in an excellent manner and Captain Worstel did fine work against Carlisle the mainstay of the Kenyon team.

Flick took Bookman's place at quarter and put up a very fine game both offensive and defensive.

It may be well at this point to give a sum­ mary of the season's work. The team is faster than it ever was before. The backs and line work better together and above all the whole team show marked improvement in play. A lack of cheering was noticeable at this game as well as at 0. M. U. The college must show more spirit than this if they wish the team to put forth their best efforts. In order to have a winning team this year every man who has a suit must be on the field each evening and do his best. If this is followed out, when we have finished, Otterbein will have a team which she can be proud of, and a better standing among the colleges of the state than ever before.

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For the benefit of all who are interested in the study of mission work, a class will be organized with Prof. Cornetet as teacher.

We are glad to see so many girls attending the Y. W. C. A. meetings. The large attend­ ance and gooJ interest are very encouraging.

Yet there are others who should be in the Associati on. No girl can afford to absent herself from these devotional meetings.

Mrs. Keister-Harford, well known to all

IEG1s readers, was present at our Y. W. meet­ ing September 30, and gave us a very interest­ ing talk on City Association Work. She is president of the City Ass -.ciation at Omaha, Nebraska, and is greatly interested in her work.

We were very fortunate in having with us the evening of October 7, Miss Mary Murrel, who is under appointment to Africa by tlt-e

OTTERBEIN .AJCIS Woman's Missionary Board. Miss Murrel was one of our former graduates in the class or '97. Her short talk was helpful and in­ spiring and she will be kindly remembered by the Association girls. She expects to sail October I 5.

Three Bible classes have been organized and are ready for work. The following work will be givt:n: "Women of the Bible," by Mrs. Miller; •'Old Testament Characters,"

by Miss Jessie Mumma, and "Character Studies in the Old Testament," by Miss Elsie Lambert.

1st, That we may know the need of the world; 2d, That we may feel the need of the world; and 3d, That we may administer to the need of the world. T"enty-six men enrolled in mis::,ion study, and we are expecting many more. Any others who wish to take up this study will please notify Mr. Ward as soon as possible that he may send for your book, "Effective Workers in Needy Fields. Price in cloth 50 cents, paper 3 5 cents. The work is a valuable addition to any library and will be very helpful to all who will study it.

Many of the Y. M. C. A. men this year have begun the plan of giving as much for Y. The Ohio state convention of the Y. W. C. A. will be held at Wooster, October 23 -26. M. C. A. as for athletics. They have not cut Let our Association be represented by as down their athletics subscription, but have large a delegation as possible. Ltt us look brought the other up to it. Some have in­ forward to this convention praying and ex­ creased both. This is a wise plan and is what pecting that it may be a source of real benefit every man in 0. U. ought to do. Men, when the solicitor comes to you, give him your and power to us all. hearty support and send him awa1 feeling good.

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There are only a few new men who have not yet joined the Association. We are still hopefully expecting every new man to be with us as soon as possible.

The finance meeting held September 25th, was led by Mr. Judy, chairman of the Finance committee. From an attendance of about forty-five, there were pledged for the work between $89 and $90. This is more than double the amount secured last fall in a simi­ lar meeting.

A good attendance and an interesting meet­ in•g resulted from our mission study rally Oct. · 9th. Mr. Ward, chairman of the Missionary committee, conducted the service. Four five­ minute speeches were given on the life and work of Livingstone, Mackay, Hamlin, and Miss Thoburn, after which Professor Cornetet who has kindly consenter' to teach the mission' study class this year, presented a few good reasons why students should study missions.

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.Rlumnals Pearl Kilbourne, '02, is visiting friends at Westerville.

W. C. May, 'or, has gone to Sugar Grove, Pc1., where he is teaching in the seminary.

Mrs. Olive Morrison Jones, '88, with her little daughter, has been visiting her parents at Westerville.

Samuel Zechar, '99. who has formerly been Y. M. C. A. secretary at Newark, is now in similar work in Cleveland.

Herbert Hall is studying medicine at the North Western University, Chicago. He is a member of last year's class.

H. S. Gruver, 'ol, superintendent of Worth­ ington schools, has been elected president of Franklin County Teachers' association.

J. 0. Ervin, '02, is principal of the high school at New Bremen. The people of this

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----------------------------------. g day were ens, of Germantown, the fol 1owin ! the place must be well pleased with men from Otterbein, as this is the school of which W. T. Trump, '01, is superintendent.

Frank Clements, '96, a successful chembt for the Pennsylvania railroad, has been visiting his mother and friends at Westerville.

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the leading social events of the fall Miami Valley.

F. H. Rike, '88, has become th e bap~?s father of a daug-hter. Fred says that he ';'a to furnish his share of students for Otterbein.

Mary Elizabeth Murrel gave the students a short address last week in chapel. Miss Mur­ rel is of the class of '97. She starts for Africa in a few days.

Rta4 Wbat Studtnts sav of nus Dtpartmtnt

The many friends of Dr. 'N. Laurence Mathers, '88, will regret to learn of his death, while visiting friends at Fostoria. This is the first break in the class.

J. I. L. Ressler, '76, and S. W. Keister, '77, who have been appointed as presiding elders of Allegheny conference, spent a few days in Westerville visiting their sons and daughters.

Rev. D. I. Lambert, formerly pastor of Presbyterian church at Wapakoneta, has de­ clined an offer as pastor at Columbus, and has accepted the pastorate of a P. esbyterian church in Cincinnati.

William Langham, '60, a former professor of languages in Western College, and now living on his farm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spent sev­ eral days visiting Otterbein. This is his first visit here since his graduation.

E. D. Ressler, '91, formerly superintendent of schools at Eugene, Oregon, has been elected as president of the State Normal j:\Chools at Monmouth, Oregon. Ed is one of Otterbein's sons who is pushing to the front.

Medway Long, '97, captain of the '95 foot­ ball team, Frank Moore, '97, V-./. C. Teter, '98, attended the Kenyon Otterbein game Oct 1 r. It was evident that they have not lost any of their former football enthusiasm.

The weddings of L. A. Thompson, '94, to Miss Margaret Houck, of Dayton, Oct. 1, and of Orion L. Shanck, '95, to Miss Nellie Stev-

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To Wltom This 1Way Concern: . 1s . to cert!·ry t h at M r. B · E · Parker, Th1s Principal of Otterbein U ~iversity DeJ:Jartment · · f r me as of Business, has secured a pos1t1on stenographer in the above office. .

I take great pleasure in recommen d'ing his school, and can truthfully say that while _a student in the school Mr. Parker and his assistants did all in their power to make it both profitable and pleasant tor me.

Yours truly,

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W. F. CELLAR, COLUMBUS, Omo, Sept. 27' 1902.

To Whom Tltis May Concern: I have taken a course of business at Otter­ bein University, and take great pleasure in recommending the Departnient to all who contemplate taking a business course. The Department is constantly growing, and being in connection with the College, the students have the same advantages as do those of the College.

Mr. Parker, the Principal of the Depart­ ment, is a man ot honesty and integrity and his method of teaching bookkeeping I believe is such as will give the student a thorough knowledge of every detail connected with that branch.

Mrs. Parker, instructor in shorthand, is not to be excelled in her knowledge of that study.

Her method of teaching the Pitman system is

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OTTERBEIN AJGIS so simple that an attentive student could not help but understand it. Of course if a stu­ dent becomes careless and will not obey their instructor, they cannot expect to succeed. I have found that patience, p erseverance and obedience are the guide-posts on the road to success.

Prof. Frankham, the instructor in Grammar, Arithmetic and Commercial Law, is a man of intelligence who is a 1ways ready and willing to assist the students in every way possible.

Thanking Otterbein Business D epartment success, I remain, Very respectfully, MAUDE TILLY.

J:ocals What happened to the Chmch Choir?

A delight to get Fresh Groceries of MARKLEY.

Dr. Scott turning to Freshies. "When you people quit talking I'll announce the hymn."

Business Department last year and while in school made many warm friends, all of which unite in wishing them a successful life.

A pleasure to buy Tie - that are carefully selected both as to style and comeliness, of MARKLEY.

0. H. Charles, who was prevented from en­ tering at the beginning of the term, has enter­ ed and also assumed charge of the Frank Club Worstell, our fo ot -bal l Captain, has made for himself a reputation in 0. U., and will hencefore be the "director" of music on all public occasions.

The two Ladies Literary Societies held in­ stallation on Thursday evening, Oct. 2, and excellent programs were rendered. A large number of visitors were present and &njoyed the evening.

The S ophs :ire practicing basket ball and g etting in shape to win the class Champion­ ship this y~ar. While they are alive along this line they have not as yet even organized for the year.

Mary Appenzella, of Dayton, stopped over · with some of her friends on her way home On Monday evening, Oct. 13, the Academic from the C. E. convention, at Zanesville. students met at the gymnasium in the capacity of a poverty social.

Sourkraut and dutch Say did you see that broad smile on E lsie's cheese were the refreshments of the evening. face a few weeks ago? Well Okey came back A good and luxuriant time was reported. to college, and the familiar strolls are resumed.

Seniors and others who contemplate teach­ A large crowd from 0. U. attended the foot ing next year, should register with The Cen­ ball game at Neil park on Monday, Oct 6, tral Teacher's Agency, 57 Ruggery Building, and for the first time saw a game by electric Columbus, Ohio. This Agency has been very light. All seemed to be delighted with the successful the past season in placing College game.

Trained Teachers in good p ositions.

The Chemical Labratory is a scene of activ­ The second number of the Citizen's Lecture ity this fall and Prof. McFaddt n is kt-pt very Course wiil be on S.-tturd ay evening, Nov. 8, a busy. He has one of th~ largest chemistry lecture by A. W. H awks, better known as classes in the history of the Institution. There "Sunshine Ha VI k ,," on the subject, "Peopl I are enrolled in this class thirty -three niembers.

H ave Md ." ' ' In the en tntai nment given by Rev. F. P. Sanders said the words which A. W. H ,twks the la uiJ1 ing Philo~opher, tears made Charles McBride and Miss Lizzie Woe sch, follow laughter. He tells f u , ny stories, re­ both of Mansfield, man and wife, in the par­ counts pathetic incidents. Hr is without a lors of Mr. Sanders. Mr. McBride was in the peer; his facial expression is wonderful; no cos-

OTTERBEIN .JlGIS tume, no make up. He wears his store clothes and makes his own faces." The single admis­ sion is 25 cts. Course tickets $1.00 Still better to get a pair of Rubber Buots for the football games, of MARKLEY'S DEPARTMENT STORE.

Mr. R ow nd, on Tuesday evening, October 14, gave a social for the football boys. Light refreshments were served. Music was fur­ nished by Marguerite Rownd and Mary Cook.

Just before going to press, we were sur­ prised by the report that the Suphomores had summoned enough class spirit to organize by electing the following officers : President, F. 0. Van Sickle; Vice Pre!:,ident, C. W. Wise; Treasurer, B. F. Shively; Historian, Eliza­ beth Sherrick.

Mrs. B. Friend entertained the Freshman class at her home, corner of Main and Grove streets, on TuesLlay evening, October 14.

The evening was spent in progressive games.

First prize, for stringing m0St needles on a thread, was won by Charles Lloyd and Mary Shauck; conc,olation prize by Ben Baily and Mary Baker. The hostess is a friend of the students and knows how to entertain.

The Degree of A. M. will be given to all, who have the B 1chelors Di>gn:e and prtst"nt a satisfactory Thesis, in three w.iys.

1st. By the completion of a professional course.

2nd. By one year's resident study in Otkr bein. and 3rd. Non resident w<,rk, a course of study laid down by the college. This will be espec­ ially helpful to those who engage in teach­ ing, 0r work of a similar nature.

Undoubtedly the fi11est piece of furniture in Westerville is the grandfather's clock, over eight feet high, being of a solid walnut and handsomely carved case, and which stands in the library of Pres. $cott, the property of Miss

Grace Wallace. Miss Wallace, who graduated in the Art Department in 1901, did all the carv­ ing on this magnificent clock, and is to be con­ gratulated on the same. The design, which is the work of Wm. H. Fry, of Cincinnati, is in scrolls and borders of the acanthus leaf with panels of lilies, and very graceful in its outline.

The works which are of the best modern man ­ ufacture enhance its beauty and m,.,ke it useful as well as beautiful, while the strike is a charm­ ing Cathedral gong which can be heard all through the house. The face is handsome and must be seen to be appreciated. All who have seen it have pronounced it excellent.

Dr. Means, of Ohio Medical University said this fall that he has been so well pleased wit h the work of Otterbein and with the charactet-­ of her students who have entered 0. M. U . that he advised his nephew from Pennsylvania. to take a course in Otterbein. This is cer­ tainly gratifying to all who are interested in O .

U. At present three of her sons are in 0. M. U. Ohio State University can say th e sam~

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OTTERBEIN AIGIS thing, because among those 0f her young men who are pushing their way to the front, the graduates of Otterbein stand second to none.

The reason for this is that here a good founda­ tion is laid for one's life work.

ago, was a Cartoonist for one of the Chicago D ailies. They occupy some rooms at Rev. Rymer's, corner State and Winter Streets.

Miss Amy Esterline, of Shelby, was a wel­ come visitors in the town, Sunday, Oct. 5.

Miss Grace Wallace accompanied her to Shelby.

Miss Mary Best, who is pursuing a course in vocal music in Chicago, delighted the Congre­ gation on Sunday morniAg, Oct. 5, with a beautiful solo, ••Face to Face." We bespeak for Miss Best a bright future becanse of her excellent voice.

The streets of Westerville have been in a ter­ ible condition for several weeks, and there is no indication that they will be much better this winter. With the streets dug up for the

We are to glad welcome into our midst Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Pace, of Hartford Junction. Mr. Pace is a member of the Southeast Ohio Con­ ference and an efficient worker in the church.

He is skilled with the pencil, and while pursu­ ing a course of study in Chicago a few years

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scription Agent; C. M. Good, Assistant Sub­ scription Agent; Grace Lloyd, Local Editor; Georgia Scott, Art Editor; Josephine Mark­ ley, Asssistant Art Editor; Alice Keister, Fac­ ulty Editor; label Moore, Association Editor; Edna Moore, Society Editor; Lorain Ulrich, The familiar face of C. 0. Altman is seen president ot the board. Everything is har­ again on the football field, and the way he monious in the class and we may e~pect a fine went after his man in the O S. U. game shows Annual. that he has lost none of his foot ball en­ thusiasm. "Bucke} e" is one of the star ends As was indicated in last number, the Fresh­ of 0. U. men have at last organized into a class, and un­ The Junior class has decided to issue an An­ doubtly the largest class in the history of Ot­ nual this year which will have some new feat­ terbein, a total of fifty-four.

On Monday ures. The following staff has been elected: night, Sept. 30, they held the first regula r C. M. Bookman Editor-in-Chief; Louis Wein­ "push" of the season, in the Town Hall. The land, Associate and Atheletic Editor; U, B. Hall was artistically decorated in the class col­ Bruker, Business Manager; D . R. \Vilson, Sub- ors, golf red and green. Tht" fifty-four lively

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OT7ERBEIN A!GIS Freshmen spent th e evening in games, conver­ sation and getting be tter acquainted with each other. This was follo wed with dainty refresh­ ments. (?) Leaving the hall at a late hour they prominaded the streets, and by their class yells and the exquisite music, disturbed the peaceful slumbers of many, making all reali2'e the great.an_d important fact that "There is a Freshman class in Otterbein." Long live the freshmen.

The most unique affair this fall, and in fact \

for several years, was planned and carried out my members of the Junior class on the morn­ ing of October 10. In tbe "wee sma," hours of the preceding night, about 12:45 a. m., they met at Saum Hall where they enjoyed a banquet in Dr. Whitney's lecture room.

From here they proceeded to the campus wh ere a small graveyard was soon made.

Graves with headboards on which were appro­ priate inscriptions, were made for the Faculty, Seniors, Sophs. and Preps. During chapel

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they themselves can do much to infuse a proper spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm; 2d, To constitute a medium for the literary im­ provement of the students in attendance at the institution as well as a mirror of curre nt college life; 3d, To serve as an advertise­ ment to bring new students to the colle ge.

Its value for the last purpose will depend entirely upon the faithfulness with which the first two are carried out. For such a paper is both a reflection of the standard of literary culture in a college and at the same tim e a n index of the interest taken in the institution by those who have in former years gone o ut fro m it. These things being true, is it not the The ••Wittenberger" furnishes some fitting plain duty of every one, whl'ther stude nt or suggestions in an editorial regarding the ob­ alumnus, to devote some of his talents to the ject of a college paper and the:: attitude of both elevation of the standard by whi ch others student and alumnus toward it : "The ob­ measure us ?" ject of a college paper is broadly three-fold; 1st, to serve as an organ by means of which The 0. S. U. "Lantern" is to be com me nd­ the alumni are not only kept in close touch ed for its brief and clear-cut articles. They with their alma mater, but through which also arc:: quite interesting to read .

exercises the class formed in solemn proces­ sion ·in front of tl:e Association building and marched to the graves, just as the other stu­ dents and teachers emerged from the main college building, surrounded them and as­ sisted with a very impressive service. It was a novel sight, the girls dressed in black with mourning bonnets, and the boys with crape on their hats. Altogether the joke was well planned and carried out to perfection, occasioning- much enjoyment.

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