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HAY 1 9 1959 
 
 HAMiLTOK r-u.;: library 
 
0. N. C O^ilsfmas Hagazine. 
 
 HAMILTON, ONTAPIO, DCCCMRCR, Iflgy. 
 
 J. A. HcLellan, M. A., LL. D. 
 Principal. 
 
 ««« 
 
 R. A. Thompaon, B. A. 
 Vlce-Prlnclpal. 
 
 Kaculty. 
 
 W. M. LOGAA. M. A., L.ctur,r on Methods in CUmks 
 
 JGiIl B A r : ^"^■""•^'- '^" ^^^^''-'^•^- "' ^''--^-/ «n.Z Biolo.y. 
 •J. fjrll^L, B. A , Lecturer on Methodn in Physics 
 
 C. <S. ^r/r.lPF/.;,S', Z)re7; Instructor. 
 
 DR. McCABE, Lecturer on .School Hygiene, and Sanitation. 
 
O. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 O. N. C Christmas Mciciazlne. 
 
 EDITORIAL BOARD. 
 
 Miss M, K, Wilson Mk. J. H. Hancock, B.A. 
 
 Miss K. H. Wakm. Mk. W. A. Hamilton. 
 
 Mr. W.H.T.Mkgii.i., B.A. Mr. V. Sine. 
 
 Perhaps a word should be said to 
 introduce tlii.s [vapcr to its readers, 
 seeing that it is the first of the kind 
 to appear in connection with the 
 Ontario Normal College. 
 
 Contrary to the general rule in all 
 College Literary Societies, no pro- 
 vision was made, when ours was 
 organized, for a weekly sheet in 
 which articles of general interest to 
 the student body could be inserted. 
 Notice of this oversight was quickly 
 taken and a motion promptly made 
 that the Literary Society elect two 
 of its members to edit such a paper. 
 Out of this grew the " O. N. C. 
 Jottings," of whose usefulness we 
 shall leave those to judge who have 
 listened to the reading of its contents 
 from week to week. Subsequently 
 it was moved that four others be 
 elected, two ladies and two gentle- 
 men, to unite with the two editors of 
 the " Jottings " to manage the work 
 connected with the printing of a 
 Christmas Souvenir Magazine. This 
 motion met with almost unanimous 
 favor and has resulted in a production 
 which we trust will be appreciated by 
 all into whose hands it may fall. 
 
 We, the editors, have done what 
 we could to make the undertaking a 
 success and hope that the outcome 
 of our efforts may be worthy of the 
 desired end and serve to, remind all 
 interested of a pleasant and profitable 
 year spent in " The Ambitious City " 
 at the Ontario Normal College. We 
 beg to thank those who have assisted 
 us in the work by contributions and 
 
 otherwise, and especially to thank 
 Mr. Stewart, the Architect of the 
 College building, who was so kind as 
 to furnish us with the cut for the 
 front page. 
 
 * 
 
 The removal of the School of 
 Pedagogy from Toronto to the 
 Ontario Normal College in Hamilton, 
 setting quite aside the discu.ssion of 
 the advantages or disadvantages of 
 the change, presents some rather 
 unique features. It is as though a 
 meteor just thrown off from a great 
 cluster of luminous bodies, had come 
 to rest in a comparatively unexplored 
 part of the firmament, there standing 
 alone, but twinkling confidently back 
 at its fellows. 
 
 New as is the situation for the 
 school, it is just as new for the 
 students in attendance. Many of 
 them have just left the Collegiate 
 Institutes of their native towns, with 
 all their familiar surroundings, and 
 come here as total strangers to the 
 place and people; others have re- 
 luctantly departed from the presence 
 of their Alma Mater, with all her 
 inspiring associations and refining in- 
 fluences. But the people of Hamilton 
 seem to have realized the circum- 
 stances, and every one of us has been 
 made feel the pressure of a glad 
 hand prompted by a warm heart. 
 
 Espeqally worthy of mention and 
 gratitude are the various churches 
 which tendered us such cordial and 
 enjoyable receptions while we were 
 yet strangers to one another. There 
 we made friends who are not only so 
 collectively, but individually and 
 personally. We have every reason 
 to believe th.^t these friendly relations 
 will continue and grow stronger as 
 we remain longer in the city, and at 
 
0. M. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 ^ to thank 
 cct of the 
 i so kind as 
 ut for the 
 
 School of 
 o to the 
 
 Hamilton, 
 ^cussion of 
 antages of 
 me rather 
 
 thoiigh a 
 om a great 
 
 had come 
 inexplored 
 e standing 
 ently back 
 
 n for the 
 ' for the 
 Many of 
 Collegiate 
 )\vns, with 
 ings, and 
 ;rs to the 
 have re- 
 ; presence 
 h all her 
 efining in- 
 Hamilton 
 ^ circum- 
 has been 
 f a glad 
 heart, 
 ntion and 
 churches 
 rdial and 
 we were 
 ". There 
 t only so 
 ally and 
 V reason 
 relations 
 anger as 
 y, and at 
 
 I 
 
 the end of the year when we scatter 
 throughout the province, we will 
 carry with us pleasant memories and 
 glowing reports of the friendship of 
 the people of Hamilton. 
 
 IT 
 
 Thrl E months age upon the occa- 
 sion of the opening of the beautiful 
 structure wherein is situated the 
 Normal College, there came to Ham- 
 ilton students from all quarters of the 
 Province, in most cases entire stran- 
 gers to each other— a hetrogenous 
 company of human souls, panting for 
 the intellectual passport to lead them 
 into the world of thought and action 
 where each man and woman of us 
 has his or her particular duty to per- 
 form in shaping the course of the 
 world's history. In this connection 
 the hnes of James Russell Lowell 
 will appropriately stand serious and 
 thoughtful perusal : 
 
 " ^° wo?k'^ ^""^ '"*° '''^ '^°''''^' ^^'^"^e 
 
 ^' "°wo°k," '""'*'' ^""' ■ ^''"''^ ''^ '^'^^'^i's 
 And tools to work witlml, for those wlio 
 
 WUl J 
 
 And blessed are the liorny hands of toil ! 
 Ihe busy world shoves angrily aside 
 The man who stands with aims akimbo set 
 Until occasion tells him what to do • ' 
 
 And he who waits.to have his task marked 
 
 Our^Vf-lf/"'^ ^''^''^ 'V^ ''"■'•^'"J ""fi'lHlled. 
 deeds!" °"' **'*'* "''"' f°'" ^'^'•"^^t 
 
 Thus the great problem that confronts 
 us all most particularly at the present 
 time IS to find out that sphere of life 
 where each of us can to the greatest 
 advantage show forth the true man- 
 hood with which our Creator has 
 endowed us. Life is manifestly a 
 serious question, and more so is it the 
 case with the men and women who 
 are being trained in the Normal 
 College with a view to instil into the 
 young those principles which go to 
 create good manhood and woman- 
 
 hood, for on them to no small degree 
 depends the future of nations morally 
 and intellectually. Then let us nobly 
 acquit us for the work we shall be 
 called upon to do in whatever position 
 we shall be placed, whether it be in 
 the school room or in the more public 
 affairs among men. 
 
 With the commencement of the 
 term we were a vague whole and 
 unknown to each other except in a 
 few instances. But man above all 
 creatures is eminently a social being, 
 desiring converse with his fellows, and 
 thus, before we had sat many hours 
 in the now familiar ampithcatre, list- 
 ening to the inspiring thoughts o^ our 
 esteemed principal, Dr. McLcllan, all 
 began a practical illustration of the 
 discriminiting analytic process which 
 we were soon to learn was one of the 
 essential and fundamental steps in 
 the process of education and, as the 
 days glided by, this process continued 
 till instead of being isolated human 
 beings with scarcely any interests in 
 common, there soon began the com- 
 bining and synthetic process, welding 
 the indefinite whole into a homogen- 
 ous unity— one in thought, action 
 and sympathy. 
 
 But there is one small and stalwart 
 band to whom our thought and sym- 
 pathy go out upon this occasion. 
 They are the so-called " December 
 Men," who are to go up against the 
 Philistines, and for each man and 
 woman of them deep down in our 
 hearts we entertain a fellow feeling 
 that they may come out of the fray 
 successful and receive the crown of 
 the victors which shall admit them to 
 the serious conflict of life in the Edu- 
 cational arena. 
 
 It is the sincere desire of the stu- S 
 dents of the Ontario Normal College, 
 
0. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 expressed through the editors of their 
 Christmas Magazine, that our good 
 wishes for a Merry Christmas and a 
 Happy New Year may follow them 
 on their departure and that their 
 lives may be attended with success, 
 so that in after years they may IooI<' 
 back at the pleasant associations con- 
 tracted here and with the poet ex- 
 claim : 
 
 T fi 1 " ^°^, ^'**'^'" K''own in vear.s, 
 
 1 hnci youth s clreain8are hm tlie flitteriiiKs 
 
 Uf those strong wings whereon the soul 
 
 sluill soar 
 In after time to win n starry throne." 
 
 On the evening of the first of 
 
 October the formal opening of the 
 
 Ontario Normal College took place. 
 
 Dr. Ross, Minister of Education, in a 
 
 most happy speech referred to the 
 
 ceremony as the celebration of the 
 
 marriage of the School of Pedagogy 
 
 and the Hamilton Collegiate Institute. 
 
 As it is the custom for the bride to 
 
 change her name at the day of the 
 
 wedding, we no longer speak of the 
 
 " School of Pedagogy," but use the 
 
 nuptial designation "Normal College." 
 
 That there should be a professional 
 
 training for the teachers of our 
 
 primary schools has been a settled 
 
 question for some fifty years, and we 
 
 have no hesitation in saying that after 
 
 the Ontario Normal College has been 
 
 fairly tested the people of our 
 
 province will unite in declaring that 
 
 professional training for teachers of 
 
 the secondary schools cannot be 
 
 over-estimated. In order that any 
 
 training school may be efificient it 
 
 must deal with education from a 
 
 practical as well as from a theoretical 
 
 point of view. These two features 
 
 receive due attention in our Normal 
 
 College. 
 
 It must be gratifying to those who 
 have been instrumental in framing 
 
 the curriculum for this College to 
 read the comments on it by eminent 
 educationists of other countries. For 
 example, Dr. ]:)c\yQy, Head Professor 
 of Philosophy in the University of 
 Chicago, .says: " I do not think there 
 is an institution in this country where 
 the principle of instruction in the 
 values and methods of the various 
 subjects of the curriculum, carried on 
 by experts, is so well organized as in 
 that plan. The Province of Ontario 
 is very fortunate in having provision 
 of such a high order made for pro- 
 fessional study." Also Dr. Laurie, 
 Professor of the Institutes and 
 History of Education in the Univer- 
 sity of Edinburgh, a recognized 
 authority on educational topics, has 
 expressed himself concerning it in 
 similar glowing terms. 
 
 *** 
 
 For a long time there has been a 
 felt need in the Public Schools for a 
 text-book to treat the subject of 
 Arithmetic in a strict line with the 
 true idea of number, viz.: 2& measure- 
 ment— s. process, that is, by which the 
 mind makes a vague whole of quan- 
 tity definite. We are pleased to be 
 able to ascribe to our worthy Prin- 
 cipal, Dr. McLellan, the honor of 
 supplying this great need. His 
 •' Public School Arithmetic" has been 
 reviewed by Dr. Dewey as follows : 
 '' I have looked over the ' Public 
 School Arithmetic ' with great pleas- 
 ure. Naturally I am pleased with 
 the extent to which it bases the 
 treatment of fundamental operations 
 of fractions and ratio upon the idea 
 of measure, and of numbers as units 
 of measurement. In addition I may 
 say that I am particularly struck with 
 the fact that the pupils' attention is 
 definitely called to some special 
 
> College to 
 it by eminent 
 Juntries. For 
 sad Professor 
 Jniversity of 
 >t think there 
 )iintry where 
 :tion in the 
 the various 
 n, carried on 
 janized as in 
 i of Ontario 
 ig provision 
 ade for pro- 
 Dr. Laurie, 
 itiites and 
 the Univer- 
 recognized 
 topics, has 
 rning it in 
 
 has been a 
 :hools for a 
 subject of 
 e with the 
 as measiire- 
 ' which the 
 'le of quan- 
 ased to be 
 irthy Prin- 
 honor of 
 2ed. His 
 " has been 
 IS follows : 
 le 'Public 
 reat pleas- 
 ased with 
 bases the 
 operations 
 1 the idea 
 rs as units 
 on I may 
 ruck with 
 tention is 
 : special 
 
 0. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 quantity or whole which furnishes 
 the object of attention, and within 
 which, so to speak, the numerical 
 processes take place ; also with the 
 clearness and conciseness of the 
 method of treatment; the logical 
 order of the selection of topics ; and 
 the exclusion of useless and irrelevant 
 matter. The simplification of treat- 
 ment due to sticking close to funda- 
 mental principles, must recommend 
 the book to teachers and pupils who 
 have been bewildered bv the great 
 number of topics treated in" the 
 ordinary Arithmetic— topics which 
 do not differ at all in their logical or 
 arithmetical basis, but are simply 
 different practical expressions of the 
 same principle. I wish the book the 
 success it deserves." 
 
 *** 
 
 Our Societies 
 
 Nowadays, in almost every educ- 
 ational institution, an important part 
 is played by the Students' Societies 
 It is recognized that, apart from their 
 mtellectual, social or religious value 
 they offer a training in public speak- 
 ing or m executive work, which is 
 exceedingly useful in after life The 
 Ontario Normal College has its full 
 complement of live up-to-date soc- 
 ieties. Owing to lack of space we 
 are unable to do more than give the 
 names of the officers of the different 
 organizations. 
 
 The Literary and Scientific Society. 
 M A°"t ^'■^^'■dents, J. A. McLellan, 
 
 B A ■' P ; ■' ^"r'^ i^- A. Thompson 
 B.A.; Patron, J. J. Mason, Esq ' 
 President, C. E. Race, K. A • 7s 
 Vice-President, Miss E. R. McMic'hael, 
 B. A. , 2nd Vice-President, G. S. Bale 
 ^•A. ; Treasurer, G. F. Colling. B A • 
 Recording Secretary, J. T. Luton,' 
 ii.A. ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss 
 
 J. . Brown J. A.; Councillors, R. 
 
 '5;^. '^''•^>^. :• H. Spence. Mis.s K. J 
 , "'f'"' • •.•''■t<;rs of weekly college 
 P/M'^'-. luiitor-in-chicf, F. Sine- As 
 ■Mstant lulitor, VV. H. T. Alcgill,' H A.' 
 
 The Athletic Association. 
 
 Hon. President, Hon. G. W. Ross ■ 
 Prcsulcnt, J. T. Crawford. B. A. st 
 V.cc- resident, B.French, li. A -'and 
 
 V.cel>.-csKient,M.G.IIunt,,Collegfae 
 ns.nute,. Secretary-Treasurer^ K 
 
 C.Shaw B.A.; Foot liall Committee 
 J. R. Buhner, VV. J. Scott. F l.'ast- 
 ">an 'Collegiate In.stitutc*; Ha.sket 
 
 alKomm.ttee, VV.A.Wiismi. BA 
 <• p. .Joiiffe. B.A.. II.T. W'allaee' 
 (Colleg.ate Institute) ; Gsninashun 
 Cominittee, G. VV. Keith, B.A I R 
 
 hHp.F.Clappison.,Coli;.,iateU: 
 tiitc;. General Committee Man-iw 
 
 ■ncnt,M.Garvin,(Collegiatcln.stitK 
 
 The (ilee Club 
 
 Hon. President, W. U. Logan, M. 
 A., 1 resident, J S. Martinp B A • 
 Secretary, L. R Graham, B A • 
 
 Mi^i^'^'-'^f^^-J^Kecr; Accompanist! 
 M.S..,. M.Graham,]- \,; Librarian 
 
 VI- ,-,\^''^""- J^--^ ; Committee 
 M>ssJ.I.VVood,J.H.Ha,,eoek.B.A 
 Coiulnctor J E. P. Aldous of the 
 Hamilton School of Music. 
 
 Religious Societies— The Y. W. C. A 
 
 Prcsklent Miss A. R. Rid.lell, M. 
 A. Vice-President, .Mi.s.s E K 
 
 ; McArthur; Recorch'ng Sec- 
 
 retary, M.ssE. M. McDermicl. B A • 
 Ireasurer C. E. Peacock; Con. Miss' 
 Com., Miss M. Hills, B. A • (on' 
 Mem^Com MissE.'j.Mci'hail,";;' 
 
 Wood; Councillors, Mi.sscs 1 C 
 
 ^/'"^'';?"Vt'^-^- ^- Grant, I. ^^ 
 
 BA., L. H. Ward. 
 
 The Y. n. C. A. 
 
 President, W. A. Hamilton ; Vice- 
 f resident, R. W. Anglin, M A 
 Secretary, VV. D. Dixon Craig, B a" ^ 
 Treasurer, J. R. Ph.-j ^'o^n. on' 
 
 Palen, 
 
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 0. N. C. CHRfSTMAS MAGA/INE. 
 
 RclifrioMs Mcctin^rs, G. E. Pentlaiul, 
 Vy. H. Hccr, VV. H. T. Alexin 15.A. 
 A J. Madill, J. S. Martin, H..\. i 
 Mem. Com., N. Black, T. M. Wilson 
 B.A., C. E. Race, H.A.; Com. on 
 Wiljle Stuily, J. T. Luton, Ji.A., .M 
 R. Rcid, B.A., M. N. Clark, \\.\.\ 
 rm. Com., A. II. Brown, G. .\ 
 Lucas, B.A., J. H. Hancock, B.A. ; 
 Miss. Com., J. A. Banni.ster, I. H 
 Dolan, B.A., R. B. I'a-c, \\.\. 
 
 Ethical Value of literature. 
 
 EXIHACr FKOM AN Al.liKKSS UKLIVKKKI. HHIOKI- 
 
 TFIK o. N. (■. l.lTliKAKY SOLIIiTY, »Y I A 
 
 M'l.l-.I.I.AN, M. A., LL.l), 
 
 ITHOUT attempting to de- 
 citlc at what point in the 
 scliool courses tlie formal 
 teaclimcr of ethics should be<Tin, I 
 am convinced that there should 'be 
 "regular lessons" in morals; and 
 especially that the ethical spirit 
 should quicken the whole life of the 
 school— that the ethical aim should 
 be poyamouiit and kept conscioiislv in 
 viciv; and that therefore all methods 
 of mstruction and all subjects of in- 
 struction, pre-eminently History and 
 Literature, should make for this 
 supreme end. I still cling to the 
 doctrine of formal discii)line though 
 not perhajxs in its extreme form. 
 Every subject has its value even for 
 moral discipline. I mean that every 
 subject when rationnlly taught and 
 learned has a distinctly ethical effect. 
 On the other hand, every subject 
 badly taught— taught so as to thwart 
 the normal action of the mind— is, I 
 will not say iiiiimmil, but certain'ly 
 u/imonilm its effect. Such teaching 
 tends at once to benumb the intellect 
 and to arrest moral development. I 
 believe that different subjects, ac- 
 cording to the character and com- 
 plexity of the relations with which 
 they deal, have different values as 
 instruments of training, and especially 
 as means of moral training. I see, 
 for instance, that mathematics, a pro- 
 cess of extreme simplification dealing 
 
 only with space and time relations, 
 IS simpler than physics, physics than 
 chemistij', chemistry than |)hysiology 
 pliysiology than sociology, .sociology 
 than i)hilosoi)hy ; and I cannot con- 
 vince myself that each of these de- 
 partments has precisely the same 
 effect in intellectual and moral dis- 
 cipline. 
 
 Many evangelists of the newest 
 education preach the doctrine that 
 all subjects are of equal value as 
 instruments of both moral and in- 
 tellectual education. A noted college 
 president declared not long ago that 
 there is as much ethical value in the 
 study of an oak plant as in the study 
 of the life of Washington. This is 
 one more instance of how a half truth 
 may become a mischievous falsity in 
 the hands of an injudicious enthusiast. 
 Ihe assertion ignores the nature of 
 ethics and contradicts plain common 
 sense. Moral ideas, moral relations, 
 moral character and conduct have to 
 do with the actions of self-conscious 
 bemgs. I don't believe that an oak 
 has any moral character. When with 
 Its great trunk and v.'ide spreading 
 branches, it "robs" a little iJant be- 
 neath It of its sunlight and food- 
 elements till it dies away, can we 
 charge it with any crime, or say that 
 It ut'erlv lacks "the quality of 
 mercy . We shall leave the dis- 
 tmguis.i d professor, to whom refer- 
 ence has been made, to bring an 
 indictment against the forest king, 
 to provide the tribunal, to quote the 
 law of evidence, to cite precedents in 
 the case, and to execute the penalty 
 if the accused be found guilty. 
 
 I cannot for my part believe that 
 all subjects are alike for purposes of 
 moral culture. The .solution of a 
 differential equation, or a difficult 
 chemical analysis, or a delicate phjsi- 
 cal experiment, while sharpening and 
 strengthening the intellect, leaves no 
 increase of humanism in the heart. 
 These subjects have no direct bearing 
 upon human relations. But the study 
 rS some heroic deed as recorded in 
 literature, or of a profound analysis 
 of some universal human passion, or 
 
 % 
 
ne relations, 
 physics than 
 1 physiolo^fy 
 y, sociology 
 cannot con- 
 of tiicsc de- 
 ' the same 
 1 moral dis- 
 
 the newest 
 actrine tiiat 
 al value as 
 ral and in- 
 uted college 
 ng ago tliat 
 laluc in the 
 n the study 
 )n. This is 
 a half truth 
 us falsity in 
 j enthusiast. 
 s nature of 
 in common 
 il relations, 
 uct have to 
 If-conscions 
 hat an oak 
 When with 
 : spreading 
 le jlaiit be- 
 
 and food- 
 y, can we 
 or say that 
 quality of 
 e the dis- 
 horn refer- 
 
 bring an 
 )rest king, 
 I quote the 
 ;cedcnts in 
 he penalty 
 ilty. 
 
 ilieve that 
 urposes of 
 ition of a 
 a difificult 
 rate phjsi- 
 'cning and 
 leaves no 
 the heart. 
 ct bearing 
 the study 
 corded in 
 1 analysis 
 •assion, or 
 
 N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 of some great moral problem that 
 heait, touches the moral clement 
 
 w!lh"tV"' '"^^■•'^V'*'^''* "'y kinship 
 VMth the race. In the one case there 
 
 ■s mere mtellectual identification with 
 he. physical world ; in the (,ther there 
 
 den?m r'"""''"'!' =^"'' •'sympathetic 
 dentification with the world of 
 liumamty. 
 
 Contrary to the opinion us.iallv 
 held, I believe that literature de- 
 velops the Intelhytual factor, thoii-h 
 of course pre-eminently the/iw,V/,W 
 factor of the Will. Every sn ect 
 that demands the e.xerci.se of tl'e 
 finuhwwntnl activities of the intel 
 ect, contributes to the training of 
 hewill and so far aids in the develop- 
 ment of character. Voluntary atten- 
 tion depends upon the will- is the 
 wil controlling the movement of 
 Ideas by the concc,)tion of some 
 definite end It follows that e'Try 
 realization of a conceived end is but a 
 series of external acts unified and con- 
 ^ ? '«' by the will, and therefore ,,a . 
 alleled by an antecedent movement 
 of .deas. The power to drive oe 
 iceaorser.es of ideas from the field 
 of consciousness, thereby arresting 
 the action towards which they tencl 
 and to put another idea or series of 
 Ideas in full posse.ssion, is the essential 
 phenomenon of Will, and , -; indis- 
 pensable requisite in the giou'th of 
 character. For the development o 
 h.s essential factor, literature in al! 
 Its forms IS a powerful means. No 
 one study, it may be admitted is 
 capable of producing the best possible 
 all-sided culture, the best possible 
 energy of intelligence, the best pos^ 
 sible tenderness of conscience, the 
 best possible strength of will ; but if 
 compelled to confine myself 'to one 
 
 W P'-^t.'-ence to literature. 
 
 More thoroughly than any other 
 department of study it trains memo y 
 magmation, thought, and l.st biit 
 not least, cxpremo,,, the nccessirv- 
 cm^plement and co-ordinate of 'all 
 these a„rf therefore secures a more 
 extensive as well as more intensive 
 
 cu ure of mind. Literature deals 
 ' h sometlung highn- than mat he' 
 "latical re at,o„s an,l mat<.ial plicn- 
 oniena. Its subject matter i t^ L 
 complex- moral and spiritual phcn- 
 omena which make up human life 
 and human history-, a ul u hich ev ^ 
 
 p ainir";;,""^ w ''^' ■ '''^>'-'"'^«' "•"■•'<'■ 
 
 llanl\ then the intellectual and 
 ar .st,c an^dysis of a noble piecJ 
 
 I'teiahu-e affords as good an -xercisc 
 of -nm.l as a mathenutical <lemon 
 
 vh leTt' Z " ''''''^'^ e.xperimen . 
 " hilc It far .surpasses both in culture 
 of.^the .esthetic and moral sen" 
 
 IReat. 
 
 iiv s. A. M()Hi;an. II. A., II. i.,,.:ij. 
 
 inO^day was lo.,«. ami weary WHS tlie 
 The iKxii's'drewslowivoii- 
 .^ticiiyth almost Koiic •' 
 
 i^utnow.i,ulovvnwanl.o,n.s..t).o]inHVinK 
 Sinks in the distant west; 
 
 L,utlKsbm-,lened mortals struggle on, and 
 For rest at last. 
 
 "nidit,"""'' '^' •'''"^^'^^ «f welcome 
 Clue's lonjr-awaited guest • 
 And .he^worn spirit homeward takes its 
 
 If is the day of rest. 
 
 Christmas in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 •nOOHUIO K. MKKKI.KV, „. A. (oXON), ,.,.. 1,. 
 
 HERE i.s no more fitting place 
 m London to spend Christmas 
 
 Abbey of Westminster. I„ England 
 
 t, rn« >r^ "' ^'^'^ y^^' '^'^ mind 
 turns With a singular reverenre to 
 the past, and the services of Christ- 
 mas day take a peculiar interest from 
 tlm venerable and august building 
 arounu which cluster the traditions 
 
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 O. N. C. CHRISTMAS AhlGA/JNE. 
 
 and associations of so many centuries. 
 As you move aliout amid tlu: tondjs 
 ill tiiL' ^ray, old ciiaix'ls and tlu: lon^,', 
 dim aisles which seem to converj^e in 
 the distance, }'ou are at one time in 
 Saxon Mn^dand, and a^^ain in the 
 ICni^dand of the Normans. Yon pass 
 in a ^>^\\ steps from the toudi of Kinj^ 
 Sebert, ulio was huried liere nearly 
 a^ thousand years a^'o, to that of 
 Temiyson, the last of that lon^r Ime 
 of poets whose ashes nnn<(le with the 
 dust of ICtii^dand's noi)lest dead. Men 
 have come and j,'one, t)ut the old 
 .Abl)e\- staiuls as a connecting litd< 
 between the I'"n<,dnnd of to-da\' and 
 the England of b\'-jfone centuries; 
 and thus it is that at ( 'hriitmas w hen 
 tlie mind naturally turns to the {)ast, 
 there is a peculiar fitness in wandering; 
 amid this wilderness of tombs. 
 
 The music m the .Abbey on Christ- 
 mas day is always one of the chief 
 attractions of the British metropolis. 
 Perhaps there is somethin<,r in this 
 statelj- and \ enerable lniildin<,r that 
 ^ives a special charm to the services. 
 The resonant echoes of the mi<>[hty 
 or^an as they reverbrate ainonj^ the 
 tombs seem not of this worltl, but 
 rather like those wandering- melodies 
 of heaven which the fer\' id fancy of 
 saints has toltl us of in so.ijr and alle- 
 gory. The full-voiced choir reminds 
 one of a chorus of angels siiifrin;.^ an 
 anthem over the mournful remainsof 
 departed p^randeiu" which appeal to 
 the eye fror i the sculptured marble 
 on all sides. 
 
 Chri.'-tmas of last year was cele- 
 brated in Westmin.ster Abbey by the 
 usual choral services in the morning 
 and the more elaborate cathedral 
 services in the afternoon. All i)arts 
 of the Abbey were open to the public 
 during the day, and were thronged 
 with visitors. Just before three 
 o'clock the vergers in tlieir long, black 
 robes went flitting about from chapel 
 to chapel to gathe; the visitors into 
 the transepts of the Abbey for the 
 evening service.. At least two thou- 
 sand people were soon brought to- 
 gether. Poets' Corner was crowded, 
 and men and women were sitting 
 
 above the graves of the hundred 
 poets from Chaucer down to Tenny- 
 son. 
 
 The sweet-toned bell of the Abbey 
 struck time. Then the confused 
 bustle which pervades a vast audience 
 was hushed. A tlistant "Amen" 
 arose from the chorister-rooms. It 
 echoeil amid the tombs and died 
 away in the distant recesses and 
 chapels of the nave. Then the 
 organist struck the keys of that peer- 
 less instrinnent and played a soft 
 voluntary --so soft that the distant 
 foot-fall of the choir boys and men 
 could be heard on tlu; stone floor. 
 The audience knelt in silence as the 
 choristers, followed by the officiating 
 clerg)', marched up the aisle with a 
 flutter of u hite siM-jjIices and flowing 
 robes. They fileti into the rows of 
 stalls which run along both sides of 
 the centre aisle of tiie nave. Then 
 a ^Kiw nu)ments of that "eloquent 
 silence " followed, as all were bowed 
 in ])rayer. Soon the organ burst into 
 a full, strong tone, and ciioir and 
 audience arose. Then followed the 
 com])let-e choral service. In the 
 singing ol the psalms the two full 
 choirs responding and chanting in 
 turn kept the vast edifice filled with 
 the sacred melody. After tise third 
 collect came the Christmas Anthem — 
 this was the crowning glory of the 
 service. It was one of Handel's 
 masterpieces, " And there were Shep- 
 lierds." In no European cathedra! 
 is music rendered more accurately 
 than in Westminster Abbey — the 
 perfect blending of the voices with 
 the sweet tones of the organ, words 
 and meloily wafting away through 
 the dim corridors and sculptured 
 aisles. Now a sweet clear voice 
 breaks ujion the ear in the beautiful 
 strains of" And the angel said unto 
 them, fear not, for behold I bring you 
 good tidings of great joy." Now 
 high, now low, the voice follows the 
 intricate windings of the sweet melody 
 in perfect harmony till one is borne 
 away to the wintry hills of Palestine. 
 You forget time and space, and see 
 only the shepherds wrapt in sacred 
 
the hundred 
 VII to Tetiiiy- 
 
 ^f the Abbey 
 he confcsed 
 vast aiidicnte 
 nt "Amen" 
 sr-rooms. It 
 )s and died 
 ecesses and 
 Then the 
 of that peer- 
 ay ed a soft 
 
 the distant 
 )ys and men 
 
 stone floor, 
 .ilcnce as the 
 he officiating 
 
 aisle with a 
 
 and flowing 
 the rows of 
 >oth sides of 
 nave. Then 
 t "eloqiurnt 
 were bowed 
 an burst into 
 I choir and 
 ollowed the 
 e. In tiuj 
 he two full 
 chanting in 
 e filled with 
 :er tiie third 
 IS Anthem — 
 lory of the 
 )f Handel's 
 i were Shep- 
 n cathedral 
 : accurately 
 Abbey — the 
 voices with 
 rgan, words 
 ay through 
 
 sculptured 
 clear voice 
 le beautiful 
 jI said unto 
 I bring you 
 )y." Now 
 follows the 
 k'eet melody 
 )ne is borne 
 if P.ilestine, 
 ce, and see 
 t in sacred 
 
 0. N, C. CHRISTMAS MAGA/JNI, 
 
 av^^.u;l,ilc the an^,.l of the Lord bids 
 
 of h. ^K."*"* I He entire scene 
 oi the subhme mvsterv i>r,.c„.,f . 
 If-I'^ while, with a \:^. 'o 
 
 ^lory to God i„ the highest " a 
 
 earthly .scones are lost in the matrmfi- 
 
 tlie sr ; T"" ^^^"^•>^-'*« and ease 
 tlie scene changes again to earth 
 
 a child iTf""" •"'^''"'■"''' " ^^^' ""t" us 
 achndisborn, commences soft and 
 b ending with the subdued to es f 
 the organ, gradually rises to a mos 
 S"''^r '^""^"^ tennhat/^ 
 Wonder^, ir"'""'M''''''^" ^^ ^'"^"^^l 
 God t u k"""'^^'""'-' the Mighty 
 
 though the walls must burst to let'] 
 escape. Yet in this grand ere cendo 
 |n the en.re service there w^nS': 
 
 SuT^waT ::;r>,:^;;rb°'-^°""^' 
 
 to the end of the se v 'V h'"'""'"^ 
 not the slightest iarnnV *>'''^"'=»s 
 nnt-n « ^ ' , J^'^> "ot a (Jiscordant 
 note-everythmg was perfect, 
 i'erhaps, as has been suggested 
 
 h'armTo h"'^ '"''^'-'''^ T.ay'fen fl' 
 charm to these services. Yonder in 
 
 Th^ I ?■'■"'''■ '■'^ Handel's tomb 
 There he hes buried. One miX h^ 
 
 o'?te"ereIr '^"-^^'"^ thrt^J^' 
 
 h.s sublime anthem. The^X ghf 
 of the wmtry sun streaming through 
 the wmdows fell upon the statue of 
 the musicmn. and as the se vie/ 
 
 n the distance until they glowed 
 with more than earthly light. 
 
 The Heavenly iMusic* 
 
 BY NORMAN PEKGUS BLACK. 
 
 %^ym^ '^i'." KoldI7^e.s forever eone bv 
 
 ^^"' 'III; ';:;r:''''''^' '""'''^ ""'' ^'"■"'''«^'' i" 
 
 '^'''' ';",;;;;;';;''-''''" '"•''I'es of heaven vvoul.l 
 \VI..I,>tl.e^i,e,..eofecstacyoerthevo.l.i 
 
 And th.,IWl« of Heaven swu,.Ks-„ in 
 And th..^sHd, .silent Bingers the „ui«ic sheets 
 
 ^"' 'S;;e::;tt^'K« '^'^ ^--- °'- -" 
 
 ' fu/ 'SS" ''""^«' ^'- --' ^>-uti- 
 VVhen^the heavenly nu,,sicwa. listened to 
 
 '' ''"of 'ji::te!:r ^^'^ ^'•°'" "■« -"- of 
 
 brawl """'*' ^''"''''"^ '» '^i^^ord and 
 '"'°"^l,?/lfe'^»' ''""««• ^'--ost beau. 
 Once had been that same music inspired in 
 
 -''^^'^^?>"^^>«'t3-et!but the morn shall 
 
 7'"' wMotes ™'*"'^'""' ^^^'^" «-« 
 .t;'l'.:^«tor.r'^'^'^''''^''"-'-«^-com- 
 
 '""ti';hf:i°:d*"-"'""«^'='^-^«^-wed 
 
 For of^beautiful things, the most beautiful 
 '^"wd^;:^L^f*»---once 
 
 harpf P'* '"°"^''>-'- ^"d heavenly 
 
 ''''"SloXS^°^'^^™"^-'^-y 
 
 ^^^''on''cT!::t°^^^^^-^"^^-'---«-de 
 And ofjbeautiful things tho most beautiful 
 Will yet be that old music anew in the air. 
 Musik.'"-'"' °" ^'^^^^^'^ Traumerei. Dei Him.nlische 
 
to 
 
 O. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 riowers. 
 
 IIV MISS II. RAVCROKr. 
 
 ,MERSOX, i„ his Essay on 
 Nature, makes the statement 
 ^ that were the stars to shine 
 but once in a thousand years, men 
 would preserve for many generations 
 tlie remembrance of the city of God 
 which had been shown. He might 
 have said the same thing of the 
 flowers whicli are the "stars which 
 in earth s firmament do shine " If 
 the flowers bloomed but once m a 
 thousand years, the memory of that 
 one year would be cherished bv 
 generation after generation down 
 through the ages. With what de- 
 hght, what awe, would man regard 
 each flower in meadow, moor or 
 glade, as for the first time it stood 
 before him, like Ruth amid the golden 
 corn, to charm with its fresh beauty 
 his soul, aweary with the dull things 
 ofhfe! His Idea of the Creator, his 
 whole soul would expand with each 
 unfolding bud, his hopes would be 
 brightened, and his fears assuaged 
 by the radiant loveliness of the new 
 creation, and his life would be made 
 redolent with the delicate and ravish- 
 ing odors for the first time floating 
 upon the tremulous breeze. 
 
 But the stars keep their appointed 
 vigils every night, and by day the 
 flowers unfold their blossoms in the 
 sunny wilds. From one end of this 
 vast continent to the other the earth 
 
 IS carpeted with multitudinous flowers 
 each coming in its due season, living 
 IS pure life and passing away. From 
 the stunted pine bending beneath its 
 burden of almost perennial snows, to 
 !:he gracefu palmetto, flourishing 
 Dcneath an almost vertical sun ; from 
 the slender poppy, which braves the 
 boreal climate of bleak coasts and 
 dreary barrens, trodden only by the 
 Esquimau.v, to the delicate soutliern 
 orchid daintily clinging to oak or 
 cypress, the continent of North 
 America affords such a variety of 
 plants, that not even one who makes 
 
 them a life study, can hope to know 
 
 It is in some respects surprising, 
 but none the less true, that while man 
 IS thus surrounded in this favored 
 land by such a variety of flowers, he 
 's, in many instances, like the idols 
 mentioned in Scripture, which "have 
 eyes yet see not." The cultivated 
 flowers of gardens and hot houses 
 are known to some whose tastes and 
 wealth enable them to make a hobby 
 of this branch of floriculture, biit 
 hose whose duties are too e.xacting 
 to allow hem such pleasures, do not 
 sufficiently realize that nature has 
 planted for them myriads of wild 
 flowers, as beautiful and interesting 
 as their pampered cousins, and 
 Nature asks in return for all her work 
 nothing but that we should keep our 
 eyes open. ^ 
 
 The dome of her conservatory is 
 the boundless azure, and the sun 
 Itself supplies the necessary warmth 
 and light. A hundred cenuiries are 
 not too long for her to devote to the 
 development of a single plant, yet 
 she will bend her whole energie.s^o 
 the perfection of a blossom which 
 lades an hour after maturity. No 
 bolt, no bar shuts out even the 
 poorest from the enjoyment of 
 Nature s floral creations. Surely so 
 generous a giver is entitled to man's 
 appreciation of her bounty. 
 
 One requires no special education 
 to enjoy the beauty of flowers As 
 we .stand in our Canadian forests, 
 which are literally carpeted with 
 beautiful wild flowers, or as we gaze 
 on rare productions in hot houses or 
 
 t^f w' .r'^u^ '°^^y- ""speakable 
 thoughts thrill our souls, and in our 
 intercourse with flowers we learn not 
 less our greatness than our littleness 
 A deep study of nature hushes the 
 voice of flattery and censure, and 
 causes us to realize better our true 
 place in the universe. 
 
 But though the beauty of flowers 
 influences tlie most heedless soul to 
 some extent, one must be a lover and 
 a student of flowers to enjoy them to 
 
lope to know 
 
 ts surprising, 
 lat while man 
 this favored 
 )f flowers, he 
 ike the idols 
 which "have 
 lie cultivated 
 
 hot houses 
 'e tastes and 
 lake a hobby 
 culture, hut 
 :oo exacting 
 Hires, do not 
 nature has 
 ads of wild 
 
 interesting 
 3usins, and 
 all her work 
 lid keep our 
 
 servatory is 
 d the sun 
 ary warmth 
 inturies are 
 :vote to the 
 
 plant, yet 
 energies to 
 som which 
 turity. No 
 
 even the 
 yment of 
 
 Surely so 
 :d to man's 
 r. 
 
 education 
 Jwers. As 
 an forests, 
 eted with 
 IS we gaze 
 
 houses or 
 ispeakable 
 snd in our 
 ! learn not 
 
 littleness, 
 lushes the 
 sure, and 
 ■ our true 
 
 3f flowers 
 ss soul to 
 lover and 
 \' them to 
 
 0. JV. C. ChRISTMAS MAGAZINE, 
 
 II 
 
 the full. As the ardent lover of 
 music IS charmed by harmornes 
 which escape the ear of one uninter- 
 ested or uninformed, so the student 
 and friend of flowers finds grand 
 harmony and marvellous beauty 
 where the ignorant or indifferent 
 observer sees nothing of interest. 
 
 We should not then rest satisfied 
 with a mere nodding acquaintance 
 wi h the gems studding our forest, 
 fields and shores. 
 
 brought to a belief in Nature's God 
 through the study of Nature. Tennv- 
 son says : ^ 
 
 Hold ,-ou there, root and all, i„,„,.i,ana. 
 
 L,„eHovver!burifIcou]du.u[e..stand 
 
 What thou art, root and all and all in all, 
 I should know what God and man is " 
 
 A knowledge of flowers will bring 
 Its own sweet reward. Every glimpse 
 of country brings one among a he 
 of friends ; in every drive along t, 
 road, hosts of flowers nod a kind 
 greeting. The mosses and ferns 
 once in bygone ages, giants in the 
 land, inspire us with keener interest 
 while the humble marestail lifting its 
 sharp spear reminds us of its noble 
 f"^f^''y'.^^hose huge bulli swayed 
 in the moist warm air of the carboni- 
 ferous period, when enormous plants 
 sp>-ang up and died, forest ' after 
 orest, leaving to man the fossil sun- 
 beams, which to-day as coal drive the 
 oom, the ocean greyhound and the 
 locomotive. The summit of some 
 coud-p.ercingmountain, where plants 
 but n th ^T'"^ '^'^' ^'^""^ "o'vhere 
 
 ot an age when the continent was 
 over-run with rivers of ice, and har 
 
 bored none but boreal flowers Cut 
 off long since from retreat, by the 
 
 ™th ofthe valleys, the.se remnats 
 of a once glorious army now stand at 
 
 clo^udTand"'"'"^ IT'^'^^^' -"'"^ t'- 
 c ouds and crags. Many less hardy 
 
 plants may try to reach up to tin's 
 
 distinguished height, only to'be fl ng 
 
 back again dwarfed and vanquishecf 
 
 InLZr "''^"^ ^"^^^-^^ '- '^"o ' 
 
 torZ/t /""'■"'"'■ °f the rushing 
 torrents below, scarcely ascends 
 
 plant, to lure on the seeker of the 
 trange and beautiful, into who e 
 wondering ears it could pour a tale 
 morestrange than any of'fairy land 
 
 of rnn'^"'',"'""^^"''^ ^'^ the thoughts 
 of God, and many a person has been 
 
 An old lady was one day admiring 
 a large .nd beautiful Calla Lily She 
 gazed on its snowy whiteness for a 
 i^.w moments fairly drinking i„ its 
 beauty, and then exclaimed, " And 
 then to think that some people wiU 
 persist m thinking there is no God •• 
 
 As^ Wordsworth .says, " The world 
 
 mde o'ld"h V"V • "^'"^"^ "^-" 's 
 made old before his tune by the wear 
 
 a.icitearoflife.thebaffled'amb'ton' 
 
 .^^, ^^'■'■°^^ of ideals unrealized, and 
 
 Idols proved unworthy ofrespec and 
 
 for this d,ere is no earthly pirysic'ia,;-' 
 balm But on every hand the Great 
 Physician offers a cure for the mind 
 diseased in the myriads of beauties 
 and wonders to be met with hie 
 flowe,. world. There is not a flower 
 
 ot faith and hope to teach. There is 
 
 not one which does not present to us 
 a view of the Creator and H s 
 creatures, that will lead to spiritual 
 ejc^Utation, humility and biitherly 
 
 use^of''fl'''"''°'''°f'""^^-^'^^'""al<e 
 use of flowers to cheer and comfort 
 the sick and lonely. There Z I 
 world of comfort and consolation in 
 flowers, and many a dark cheerle " 
 room and perhaps darker riore 
 cheerless heart has been brightened 
 and cheered by gifts of flowers. We 
 
 -strew blossoms in the pathway of the 
 bnde, u-e scatter garlands over t e 
 last resting place of the loved one 
 vve decorate the Max-pole with gar- 
 lands gay to express our joy and 
 g adnes.s; we cheer the sad lone y 
 places of earth with the same flowers 
 Th.wT"'' °"'' ^>""l>athy and love 
 Thus the messages of the flowers may 
 be varied but are all full of love to 
 God and man. 
 
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 O. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 II \ 
 
 The Ocean. 
 
 BY MISS M. E. WILSON. 
 
 ^HE ocean wiilTb^fore me lay, 
 
 liU at la«t I knew its wayward urace 
 As a lover knows his lady's face 
 When darkening clouds o'eiluuig the skv 
 Sullen, grey, with many a sigh, ^• 
 
 The waters moane,l and restless cried 
 L.ke^ a^creature in pain, whose hope has 
 
 But when the Storm Xing held his sw« v 
 And peace, and order Hed aw y ^^ ' 
 
 The darkness fell o'er the soul^of the sea 
 And the voices died that whispered to me • 
 And ni their place, fierce demons came ' 
 
 ^^^r.l^l'"'^^ ^^^^'-'^^^^^^^^ 
 The billows tossed, the waters rose 
 Th .^'°"»:fiends shrieked at unseen foes 
 iid th^ ''•M * '^'^^'^ *•'« Ocean's face ' 
 place ^''''''' ^^^' *'»^"' ai'Poi"ted 
 
 |^^9^t£tS:^-|^-S^' 
 
 raged ''' ^°' ^'^^^'''^ ^^i^'"" hi>» 
 
 When tie mT "^^"^ °"* ^'■*'' '^ «tf"l '"oan, 
 
 ^Ve^t/ri^-'^-^-'^--^^^ 
 
 And the ocean now, did softly move 
 And^showed ,„ its depths, "^he Spirit of 
 
 Then silent it lay, like the quiet land 
 Calmed by the touch of its Maker'" hand- 
 And peace did rest, like a broo ling ove 
 On he waters that mirrored the bl e^ ove-' 
 As ti.P t ■ MI"' '■'•"",'■• ■"°^t '^'"l Jo w ' 
 
 T^fi^t^ttKi^sis--^^:-' 
 
 The sunlight lay, a glorious wav, 
 
 the'*;iv:^''^'" °' ''■"■'«* H''"-'f' o" 
 
 Lik^hrb:H''''\"''V"'''^'''«^«''' to leave, 
 J^iKe tlie ladder Jacob saw in his dr^un 
 Met bought how, like the restless sea 
 
 The'stf 'f'r' ""■«''"^'' -'«•■>' ""free': 
 iiie soui of man must ever be 
 
 And ho ^in .'"'■?''':ttl>e Heaven above. 
 Ana holds in its depths, the Spirit of Love. 
 
 The StudenTs Dilemma 
 
 BV BESSIE H. NICHOLS. 
 
 Father (who has been helpinrr h,-, 
 
 son ,nh,s school woik)~Whar did 
 the teacher remark whenvou .showed 
 him the translation ? Jolin-He said 
 1 was gettmg more stupid every day 
 
 !_ I IE student Jike most other people 
 i know, IS between the horns of 
 a d.lemma. The lives of the who^e 
 human race always have been, st H 
 are, and ever will be the products of 
 a perpetual balancing of motives as 
 the universe is the result of a perpet 
 ualbaUncmg of forces. Inthe^jffie 
 
 man, but man is the field wherein 
 
 against hate, wherein the noble 
 wres es to overthrow the ignoble 
 
 on tb '^'i '""""''■'"' '^y^ violent^Eands 
 on thedomam of the ideal. 
 
 "a're^wJ rV"*^ ''"disdainful tones, 
 
 a(?a,n? Th'''u" ^'^" ^''^ treadmil 
 again? The Practical versus the 
 
 estssS ' '^^ thought thd? 
 restless ghosts were securely laid bv 
 our lectures a month ago!" Well \ 
 si.ppo.se they were, in a theoret ca 
 ^^ay. yet every single student o? 
 has to make a definite, particular 
 ,7,;?^?,"^ °f'-^'-0'-hirnseIf,knd solved 
 
 All of us, as students, have taken 
 as a recent writer on Oxford puts i^' 
 
 a dose of Idealism which will las? us 
 all through life." For those of us 
 who have lived four years in a Uni 
 
 rtt-dle^d ^"••^"!'"''-' by " a world of 
 studied simplicity and beauty, a hand 
 
 made univer.se" breathing i'n'alUhat 
 uas be.st and highest in the thought 
 of past ages, the dose has been some 
 ."•hat larger. But our time for -Xr 
 HH,; the .sweets of knowledge is now 
 l^l\ '''^,.^''^^^^ the threshold of the 
 actual VVe are henceforth to spend 
 a great portion of our days in t le 
 routine work of the schoolroom n 
 practica bread and butter gaTn^ng 
 downright hard work. ^' 
 
 tasS'fn/"'"qr'?-''' '"■°^^^'>' ""^ ^'S" 
 Usteful. Shut in. as we have been 
 
 s?";S?,f7"'-d stress of the ou": 
 vv ^b . ; ^T-" ^'''-' " ^^tual struggle 
 with actual things which so tempers 
 and toughens, and strengthens^the 
 
ilemma 
 
 : other people 
 the horns of 
 Df the whole 
 'e been, still 
 : products of 
 f motives, as 
 of a perpet- 
 In the Battle 
 ight against 
 sld wherein 
 nation, love 
 the noble 
 'le ignoble, 
 olent hands 
 il. 
 
 linfiil tones, 
 d treadmill 
 versus the 
 ought their 
 ely laid bv 
 !" Well, I 
 theoretical 
 dent of us 
 particular 
 nd solve it 
 
 ave taken, 
 rd puts it, 
 will last us 
 ose of us 
 in a Uni- 
 world of 
 y, a hand- 
 in all that 
 e thought 
 pen some- 
 orgather- 
 ?e is now 
 3ld of the 
 to spend 
 's in the 
 ■room, in 
 gaining, 
 
 not dis- 
 ve been, 
 
 the out- 
 strugglc 
 tempers, 
 lens the 
 
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 character of us mortals," we share in 
 the longing of the boy who sees the 
 lights of London gleaming in the 
 distance " and his spirit leaps within 
 him to be gone before him then 
 underneath the light he looks at in 
 among the throngs of men." 
 
 Men, my brothers • men. the workers, ever 
 
 reaping .something new ; 
 That which they have clone but earnest of 
 
 the things tliat they shall do. 
 
 The force of enthusiasm acts in the 
 direction of the practical. There is 
 a second and stronger force that 
 comes to its aid. The bread and 
 butter question must be solved before 
 Idealism of any kind is possible in 
 any degree. And above and beyond 
 these, IS the third great force of the 
 spirit of the age, of this hard-fisted 
 
 buymgand selling nineteenth century' 
 which demands something that is of 
 market value, that can be turned into 
 dollars and cents. 
 
 n 
 
 M Taine sneers at the practical 
 
 El^o f '"?^'-''^ ^ resolution." I 
 
 ahfecHnTh. '" ''" '"'^P'-cation con- 
 tained m the sneer, and infer that M 
 
 kISen^"'^","'^"^'■'^•^"d^vhot 
 judgment may therefore be relied 
 upon in such matters, would not con 
 -sider It necessar, for an article in the 
 O. N C Chnstmas Magazine to sugges? 
 a jesolution-wherefore mine ^d'oes 
 
 The December Wen. 
 
 BY A. C. BKRNA TH. 
 
 The only counteracting force is 
 that dose of idealism our .student life 
 has given us. Which is to prove the 
 stronger, motor impulse, plus neces- 
 sity, plus the spirit of the age, or the 
 mustard seed of faith in ideals ? How 
 tar are we to be one of the " Men, mv 
 brothers, men, the workers " ? How 
 far to espouse the life of contempla- 
 tion, and hug to us Wordsworth's 
 lines: 
 
 " ^s™^*^ '' '°° ™""'' ^''^'' "«' l«te and 
 ^"'pofvers." ^^'^"<^'"^'' ^^e Jay waste our 
 
 Says Olive Schremer: "It is a 
 
 question whether it were not better 
 
 o be the shabbiest of fools and know 
 
 he '\ZZ T ''"'■•■ Z^ '■'"^^'■"^tion to 
 the land of dreams.than the wisest of 
 men who see nothing that the eyes 
 do not .show, and feel nothing thatthe 
 hands do not touch." We a^swe ed 
 hat ques. on long ago. Our problem 
 not whe her the student is not 
 happier to have the back stair, bu 
 how uiuch time ought he to spr A in 
 climbing t, when there is dinr ■ o 
 pt in the kitchen, or kindling waiting 
 for the splitting out in the wSodshed 
 
 the a N. c. class of 97.98 
 
 and one which accordiTifr to 
 
 recently adopted regulations wil'^io" 
 be repeated, is the presence of a 
 body of stiidents known as "The 
 December Men," who, on account 
 of previous attendance at The 
 Normal School, are eligible for 
 the final examination at the end of 
 the present session. They number 
 n all about twenty, and by tSeTime 
 this appears from the press will 1 ave 
 made their attempt "to go p and 
 possess the land." Thosf o^them 
 
 °ve^'wd? 'd^,;Sl l".'"°"°- 
 viui vici — will hail sucrpBB 
 
 tne value of intellectual training and 
 culture, and despise the utimadan 
 maxim which says that " t me i" 
 rnoney to the poor," may To'ace 
 at^d";r'''l/" '^^ ^'"y °^ Hdver fty 
 !m I r"^H'^ ^° ^'^^' ^^feat with a 
 smile of welcome, at least do so with 
 out bitterness. And no doubt a ' 
 whether victors or vanquished wj 
 re am pleasant memories of tl e 
 
 intercourse with the people of Ham 
 >Iton, and from their college woTk 
 
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 O. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 subject, which, it may be stated, 
 Uirnished the motive for this brief 
 article. In the matter of accomod- 
 ation, of special instruction, and of 
 privileges consistent with school 
 economy, everything has been done 
 that could in any way facilitate the 
 progress of the candidates in question 
 1 hey are neither ignorant of nor in- 
 different to this fact— and beg to 
 assure the Principal, the Vice-Prin- 
 cipal, and the teaching staff of their 
 hearty appreciation of these endea- 
 vors ; and also that in the event of 
 Croliath being victorious, they will 
 cast no imputation u])on the character 
 of the educational missiles SLi])|)lied 
 them for the encounter, but will 
 attribute defeat to the weakness of 
 
 .V^^'mM-^™' "^ '^'^'^ to the guile of 
 the Philistines. 
 
 Since not all defeats are so disas- 
 trous as that by "Trasimcnus Lake," 
 It may be assumed that a few L-ar- 
 marked veterans will return from this 
 December encounter in the jubilation 
 of triumph, and that therefore the 
 main body of students may find the 
 unity of the cla.ss broken by the dis- 
 appearance of these birds of passage 
 Should they regret these dei)artuPes 
 —as It is hoped they mav in some 
 degree— upon grounds of sentiment, 
 they will doubtless from a sanitary 
 point of view be led to regard the 
 matter of a few " vacant chairs" with 
 at least partial equanimity. 
 ^And .so, donning the habiliments 
 
 °'a ," ' ^^'^ J°'" '^'^"^^^ '" raying, 
 A long pull, a strong pull, and a 
 pull together, and may success be 
 with us." 
 
 ¥^¥ 
 
 An Oration on a Distant Prospect of 
 The Normal College. 
 
 «V I.. A. 
 
 jAMILTON is a mountain with 
 a city and a Normal College 
 _ . in connection with it (groans). 
 One day as I stood on the mount.-u'n 
 (order please), and beheld the modern 
 towers of the O. N. C. rearing them- 
 
 •selves aloft through fog and sunshine, 
 a Hood of memories o'erwheJmed me 
 but the tear-drops that I longed for 
 never came. (Cheers;. I recalled 
 the clear student friend who died of 
 a surfeit of psychoses and the con- 
 sequent neuroses. (Sighs). The doc- 
 tons called It psychology on the brain 
 and the post-mortem revealed the 
 Jact that that organ was completely 
 dried up. This was the only respect 
 m which the disease differed from 
 water on the brain. (Lai^ghterj I 
 recalled the amphitheatre with its 
 seething sea of faces— an interesting 
 s'k'ht— graduates strutting forth from 
 College with a bacchelaureatc halo 
 around their heads, sniffing the air as 
 they went, and raising aloft their 
 heads, full of mighty intellect and 
 cheek And the mighty deeds they 
 have done, and the noble words they 
 have spoken, and the great thoughts 
 they had evolved, behold, are they 
 not written in a book, yea, on a blank 
 page thereof (Hear, hear). 
 
 I see First C's fresh from the 8 x 
 lo schoolhouse and the back section 
 where they were lords of all creation, 
 and where no one dared question 
 their opinion as to the number of 
 square rods in an acre, with the 
 please master" still in their ears, 
 and the metaphorical hayseeds still 
 m their hair, strong in the might of 
 the first reader and the multiplication 
 table. (Applause). 
 
 Again the spring of memory gushes 
 up in my heart like a mineral spring 
 end I see, as in a vision, a piece of 
 paper with an inscription, and in a fit 
 of abstraction and generalization mur- 
 mur: "When will the girls be aweary 
 of saying, please pass the pole ' " 
 (Great applause). I see the galaxy 
 of youth and beauty on the left and 
 their long drawn faces whenever love 
 or kKsses are mentioned, though down 
 ni their hearts they murmur "Oh 
 what must it be to be there." I see 
 the " pomes " on the board anr faintly 
 hear the morphine— rivalling exposi- 
 tions of the same. I see vague 
 whoes to the right of me, vague 
 wholes to the left of me, vague wholes 
 
and sunshine, 
 
 whelmed me, 
 
 I longed for 
 
 1 recalled 
 
 who died of 
 iiid the con- 
 >)• The doc- 
 on the brain 
 evealed the 
 s completely 
 only respect 
 iffcred from 
 ■a'jghterj. I 
 :re with its 
 n interesting 
 i forth from 
 lureatc halo 
 ig the air as 
 
 aloft their 
 itellect and 
 deeds they 
 words they 
 at thoughts 
 d, are they 
 , on a blank 
 r). 
 
 oni the 8 x 
 ick section, 
 all creation, 
 d question 
 number of 
 
 with the 
 their ears, 
 /seeds still 
 e might of 
 Itiplication 
 
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 ''" Jo"* of me, and vainly sigh for a 
 definite hole to crawl into ami pull in 
 after me. 
 
 In fancy I tremble, awaiting to hear 
 my name called, to hold forth on some 
 psychologic problem, about which 
 what I didn't know, could not have 
 been contained in all the books that 
 ever were written. I wander along 
 the corridor and read tlie same notice 
 for the hundredth time. I go to the 
 gymnasium and mark time with both 
 my feet and watch, and when the 
 command to turn comes regret that 
 I have not got the directions right in 
 Hamilton. 
 
 Suddenly the dread spectre, Exam 
 thru.sts himself unbidden on my siVht' 
 and affrighted I fall over the south' 
 side of the mountain. (Cheers) I 
 picked myself up, arriving at the 
 conclusion by the analytic-synthetic 
 discriminatory-unificatory, interijret- 
 atory-assimiiatory, particular-univer- 
 sal process that man indeed was 
 made to mourn. (Great cheers) 
 
 IS 
 
 The Importance of a lofty Ideal in 
 Education. 
 
 BY AGNES R. RIDDELL. 
 
 ON G, long ago, it is said, there 
 lived a boy called Ulric, who 
 , could play so sweetly upon the 
 harp that even the beasts and birds 
 were enchanted by his strains. 0„e 
 day as ho wandered, plaving by the 
 riverside a large white swan came 
 towards hnn on the water. Seized 
 by a sudden impulse, he stepped 
 upon Its back and was borne down 
 the stream to another country. There 
 he was welcomed by two strangers 
 who conversed with him about the 
 T^A "['"V^'^- All at once, as they 
 talked, the horizon was flooded with 
 a glorious light, and in the midst of 
 the radiance there appeared a golden 
 
 Tf^L u': ^'T^^ '" ^vuncicrment 
 at the sight, and as he looked and 
 
 Jrom the brightness and sw.pt the 
 
 Iiarp once and yet again, so that the 
 ■sound was hke the mu.sic of the 
 heaven y city. "Thou hast heard 
 
 the highest ".said one of the .stranger 
 o Line; "aim at that!" Then the 
 bo)- took up his harp once more and 
 WHswaftecilKicktohisnativesfc 
 His companions came out to meet 
 hmi, but would not believe at first 
 that It uas he, so matchless were the 
 chords that fell from his fingers He 
 
 "^f ''r'" "■'^"'■'^P'-'-ccI, and from 
 hat tune forward, played as no one 
 
 '1 he world could play, because 
 Ik 1 ad Iieard the music of the angels 
 
 lliis .story is a parable of the 
 power of the Ideal-a power which 
 's so generally recognized in many 
 'lepartments of life, that there i.s 
 perhaps no need to dwell upon it 
 here. Yet, although most people 
 allow the general principle of the 
 potency of Ideals, they are slow 
 sometimes to aj.ply it to the matter 
 of education. The teacher too often 
 makes hispi-ofcssion merely a stepping 
 stone to some other calling, while the 
 parent insists upon it, that his child 
 shall cam nothing that cannot be 
 turned into dollars and cents. Such 
 
 l^FT^i!' M^/'' *° '■■"^ education, 
 which should have as its object the 
 symmetrical development of all the 
 various powers and faculties of our 
 many-.sided nature, in all its Individ- 
 nal and social relations, so that not one 
 shall be wanting when ^ve are weighed 
 m he balances. Surely, ifthe teacher 
 but realizes that he is moulding men 
 and \vomen for time and for eternity, 
 he will set before him.self the very 
 highest standard of which he can 
 conceive. 
 
 whVrr'i'"ii"''''^'' '" ^^'''^ a Standard 
 which shall spur us on to a correspon- 
 J ng degree of attainment, several 
 things are necessary. The tearhpr 
 
 '"-t, first ofall,have^ firm be, effn 
 he possibilities of human nature anS 
 
 ^ermsV^^'r V^^ '"""^'""t for those 
 germs of good which may be discoy^ 
 
 dudIi H '" "'^'"°"^ unpromising 
 pup 1. He must haye a love for his 
 
 tZni '"' T^' ^^^^'^° P"^ himself in 
 the place of his pupils, in order that 
 
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 he may bring to them the best and 
 the truest kind of help. He must 
 a so follow a loftj- ideal in his personal 
 character and conduct, for as a man 
 cannot rise hij,dier than his own ideals 
 neither can he lead others where he 
 cannot climb himself. The influence 
 of the teacher over the pupil, especi- 
 ally in the case of younger children, 
 cannot be too often nor too strongly 
 emphasized. Would it not be ter- 
 rible if this influence should make for 
 evil instead of for good ? 
 
 It is not the pupil alone, however 
 who will j)rofit by a lofty conception' 
 of education. The teacher, too, will 
 derive benefit from it. It will save 
 him from the deadening influence of 
 routine, by shewing him always some- 
 thing ahead to strive after It will 
 encourage him amid the thorns and 
 briars of the work-a-day world of 
 teaching, by reminding him that "'tis 
 not what man does that exalts him 
 but what man would do." Above 
 all. It will animate him with the hope 
 that, if he earnestly tries to do his 
 best, he may hear some day the voice 
 o'JJie Great Teacher Himself, say ing : 
 Well done, good and faithful ser- 
 vant : thou hast been faithful over a 
 few things, I will make thee ruler 
 over many things : enter thou into the 
 joy of thy Lord." 
 
 Things. 
 
 " "^rnu^ **? in 'iffish thouKht he stood. 
 Ihe Jabbei-wock, with ej'es of flame, 
 Lame whifflingthrough the tulgey wood, 
 And burbled as it came." 
 
 j[HERE be funny things in school. 
 Also there be funny boys. Also 
 girls. It is of these I would speak- 
 reverently, if need be, but withal 
 hrmly, and with a keen eye to mani- 
 fest defects and not so evident excel- 
 lences. Nor yet, peradventure, is it 
 unseemly that I should declaim in 
 crude unpolished words the doings of 
 the embryotic man and woman • for 
 are they not we ? Were we not they? 
 And why should years and the ror- 
 rodmg touch of Time blunt our sym- 
 pathies for future men. Also women 
 
 Boys have I seen with skulls so 
 dense that Roentgen's ray was baffled 
 in attempt to pierce its way into 
 the tiny nook where lingered traces 
 ot Jatty matter— remnants oferstwhile 
 brain. No ting^^ of ^r,-ey was there. 
 
 Girls have I known— yea, talked to 
 —whose only claim on man's atten- 
 tion lay in the vacant laugh that 
 speaks the cheerful idiot. Oft have 
 1 sworn when ujjon my tender tym- 
 panum smote that sound of vocal 
 chords stirred by the rushing breath 
 through trachea of sweet sixteen— 
 oft have I sworn, I say, that— but 
 why particularize? Oft have I sworn 
 And yet there is a i)Iace for each 
 l^rom the school the paths lead all 
 ways. To home life and roam-life, to 
 business and pleasuic, some one road 
 some another, and the lad groweth 
 up and droppeth into his hole, though 
 It be square and he so round and 
 pudgy. And the girls grow up and 
 mature and marry— all bar one. 
 1 he giggling girl she marrieth not 
 Her days are, "long and lank and 
 lean. 
 
 And yet, methinks, that in the 
 sweet hereafter as we pass, you and 
 1, adown the fields of asphodel, we 
 shall see the .stupid lad and bubbling 
 lass,hand in hand,amid the everlasting 
 flowers, thinking in sweet dual com- 
 munion of— nothing. What matter 
 to him now that in the days of vore 
 he turned the bo,mc leges Cacsaris 
 into Caesar's bony legs, and saw in 
 cornucopia nought but plenty of corn 
 He stands again, as he would sav, on 
 terra cotta, nor thinks of all the shat- 
 tered wrecks behind. And hark' I 
 hear that artless laugh. O angels, "let 
 me swear again. 
 
 And as I mu.se the eye of mental 
 vision travels back along the ways 
 that I have trod and once again I see 
 the man grown young, plodding 
 along with step reluctant and despon 
 dent heart, wishing the weary years 
 were by when he might be a man 
 and achieve fruition of his heart's 
 de.sires. Oh, stupid lad ! And when 
 he s grown old he wishes him a boy 
 again. Oh, stupid man! The fruit " 
 
 •as* 
 
with skulls so 
 ray was baffled 
 its way into 
 ingered traces 
 itsofcrstwhile 
 y was tiiere. 
 
 -yea, talked to 
 1 man's atten- 
 it laugh that 
 Jt. Oft have 
 ' tender tyni- 
 und of vocal 
 jshing breath 
 eet sixteen — 
 ly, that— but 
 have I sworn, 
 ace for each 
 laths lead all 
 
 1 roam-life, to 
 me one road, 
 lad groweth 
 hole, though 
 
 5 round and 
 grow up and 
 11 bar one. 
 larrieth not. 
 nd lank and 
 
 that in the 
 iss, you and 
 sphodel, we 
 nd bubbling 
 
 2 everlasting 
 t dual com- 
 ''hat matter 
 ays of yore 
 ?■« Cacsaris 
 ind saw in 
 ^iity of com. 
 )uid say, on 
 til the shat- 
 nd hark! I 
 ) angels, let 
 
 of mental 
 the ways 
 
 again I see 
 
 , plodding 
 
 nd despon- 
 
 eary years 
 
 be a man 
 
 lis heart's 
 
 And when 
 
 him a boy 
 The fruit 
 
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 beyond our touch is ever sweetest. 
 Ihe distant forest looks so fair and 
 pleasant, and when he enters it the 
 path IS gone, brier and bramble hold 
 him back and all is trouble, till his 
 heart grows sick. 
 
 And still again I hear the merrv 
 ha! ha! of that dimpled maid weary- 
 ing the ears of men and gods, till one 
 day Jove, unpatient, lifts and hurls 
 his bolt and cracks that laugh, nor is 
 the maiden any longer young. And 
 so from off her tree of life the leaves 
 all one by one till few are left For 
 leaves must fall and life must fail. 
 
 How soft the moonlight falls on 
 
 yonder Bank! And on its steps how 
 softly sleeps the hobo ! How softly 
 falls the policeman on the beat from 
 whose awakened lips the curses softly 
 tall. And once he was a boy, and 
 loved a girl-the girl with chronic 
 cachinnation. 
 
 And as I mused I slept. And eke 
 1 dreamed, and looked and saw the 
 maiden and the hobo young again 
 It was my stupid boy and giddy girl" 
 and arm in arm they prattled down 
 the vvalk and dropped huge chunks 
 of adolescent converse into the mid- 
 night air. 
 
 ■ ^y^}l^ ^^ vvatching strange the 
 sight that came. ^ 
 
 for^'.^' ^J'^'-^^ "P°" that female 
 torm, the figure seemed to change 
 and shift and take such shapes thS 
 
 co° U^. ',? '^.^'^."^ ^"^ blend tT none 
 could tell their number. And were 
 there three or two or two and three 
 
 t'rathr; ^"1 f "■■^'^ ---d ds' 
 y ^fu f P^^'^'ed, all at once the 
 ltettf.t„^r"?--r.^houghT 
 
 »7 
 
 mist I looked on such a chasm as 
 might hold a world, the dept!!), of 
 "hich my vision could not reach 
 And could It be? Atla.st! At last .' 
 Dream of my youth! At last the 
 VAGUK HOLK yawned before me 
 
 And then again I heard that curd- 
 Z. ''•'^^':', ^i"* °'^' *'^^ h°'-'-o of 
 staring eyes that could not shut 
 
 ;^m.T'"Vfi'"""^'.'^"Scrs bunched"; 
 squads of five, with convulsive effort 
 and inf^ernal hate thrust her hands 
 down, down into Its murky depths 
 
 that ^^n^a'r^"'^ ^"^'^''"^ -'-- 
 
 sRf to^^r^ItVsSr^ut""^'^ ^'^^ ^'^'^ 
 I can no more. 
 
 To Keats 
 
 ^ BY MISS M. E. WILSON. 
 
 il, ^itUSED, at midniKht, on the shore 
 « Upwards gazinff to the sky ; ^' 
 
 And. ,n tlie dark of Heaven's floo^ 
 One star shone bright and clear.' 
 
 And'hidX'^-'\^^' ''•"•'^ clouds rolled 
 Ana hid the light, so pure, serene- 
 
 "/ "'g »t t'owiLdropped he.- curufn'-folrl 
 
 And blotted out the star of li ht ' 
 
 On I went, but, in mv hoart 
 
 A radiance had entered there- 
 A light that would no more depart 
 
 Had come from that lone star 
 
 T I ir o "pu'i iiiy rnouffht. 
 
 I knew that figure now. It was the 
 figure FiVE^ How had I hoped to 
 comprehend her? f^u lu 
 
 And while her figurative beauty 
 held my eyes my boy had gone and 
 'n his place wavered about a mSv 
 shape that I could not define U 
 
 and"'vl' ^^"''^''"^ *^^* ^^^^ there 
 whlh^ • ^'^^\^:r^^ that something 
 ^t \ ;f ^"Pf^'^. J-et seemed to fiU 
 the field of sight? But while I 
 
 Degan to break, and through the 
 
 W^= fliF°f •• i^^*?" ^'i°«e life so brief 
 
 Was filled with love divine. 
 Whose human pain, and human grief 
 
 Were borne with faith sublimef ' 
 U thou, whose every word breathod love 
 
 Whose every thought took beauty's fom 
 Who shone as that fair star above ' 
 
 And, as It vanished evermore • 
 
 The wnv^' '^f^ '=^°"i'« «^««P between- 
 Thv fnm.=.V^ coward inhur^an men 
 Nnl f TAV^"^" ^^^y '"*'i not seen, 
 
 Iheu words were swords in brutal hands 
 J**? P'®!;''^^ thy noble heart, ' 
 
 u^pH^H"'^ *^y «o."I in iron bands, 
 But &y «^ • .th^ir t'-eacherous part. 
 
 Ti;,rf-/^^ ^p',":'*' ^^^"^^ "o* thou 
 
 ihy life was hved in vain, 
 
 ilas lulled away the pain. 
 Ueath came, but your short life has left 
 
 A ray of warmth, of love, of peace 
 The source is gone, 'the star awa^ fs ^wonf 
 
 Whe^ ?h-« ''" ^'t' ■ I* 5«'«>- will cea"se.^*' 
 When this great earth does no more roll 
 
 ImmS.?f %r*,* ?^°'"y fi"-" the soul. 
 Immortal Star ! thy message ended then 
 
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 O. N. C. CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. 
 
 Individuality and Authority. 
 
 BY V. F. MACl'irEKSON. H.A. 
 
 HLRE is no more important 
 qiicstion to an earnest student 
 than how far it is necessary to 
 submit to authority in kno\vled<rt 
 and how much he should trust to his 
 own individuahty. I choose this, 
 therefore, as the subject of an article 
 for the O. N. C. Chrtstmns Magazine 
 in the hope that I may draw the 
 attention of its student readers to a 
 consideration of the question and 
 perhaps aid them in seeing it in a 
 clearer lij^fht. 
 
 There have always been, and most 
 
 certainly always will I e, a great 
 
 many in the world who insist on 
 
 limiting the beliefs of men in all 
 
 branches of knowledge to what has 
 
 been formulated by earlier men of 
 
 genius. We find also others who 
 
 reject all authority and wish that 
 
 every man should strike out a new 
 
 path for himself. Parties so opposed 
 
 as these can never, of course, be 
 
 reconciled, nor can they both be 
 
 right, and as is usually the case the 
 
 safe and I believe the true, course 
 
 lies between these extremes. 
 
 To accept without enquiry the 
 dogmas and decrees of earlier gen- 
 erations is to destroy, at once and 
 completely, all hope of advance in 
 any direction ; to reject and deny all 
 the fruits of our ancestors' labor and 
 to go over the whole ground again 
 would just as surely leave us stranded 
 on the shores of time, for men no 
 longer live to the age of Methusaleh. 
 Vet It is one of the most encouraging 
 signs in this era of progress that 
 slavish trust in accepted beliefs is 
 giving place to a bold originality 
 which " proves all things " and "holds 
 fast that which is good ! " 
 
 There is still a great deal of dis- 
 honesty in education, though the 
 present aim is far higher than for- 
 merly. How often does it happen 
 that some brilliant student, for whom 
 a high career of success was predic- 
 ted, has in a few years fallen into as 
 
 deep obscurity, and left uswonderine 
 why! Hovv often again are those 
 who have lived comparatively un- 
 known in their student days, the one«» 
 who rise to high places of trust and 
 show more than ordinary ability 
 where only mediocrity was suspected! 
 Hie reason is plain to one who has 
 known both well : the first was a dis- 
 honest student, "reaping where he 
 had not sowed." building his know- 
 ledge on the unsafe foundation of 
 atahortty; the second did not reap at 
 all in student days, being busy with 
 sowing; they built their house of 
 knowledge on the solid rock of per- 
 sonal comnctioti, and when life's duh'es 
 were begun, the revolutions of opin- 
 
 !u" ^1°"!'! "°* ^'^^y them, because 
 they had learned to be true to them- 
 selves. 
 
 As things go now, a iew such men 
 ^^these supply the world with ideas 
 which the many appropriate without 
 a shadow of intellectual claim. What 
 the world calls a man of original 
 ideas IS simply one of individual 
 honesty, and rare enough such a one 
 is although all men should be origi- 
 nal even in universally accepted 
 truths, by having personal conviction 
 of them. But alas! the God of 
 fashion rules everywhere. In educa- 
 tion he goes by the name of text 
 book; in religion, of orthodoxy; in 
 law, of precedent; in dress and 
 manners, undisguised; in commerce 
 —but there is one place he never 
 comes. Why, our present status in 
 K ij r^ things is reached by some 
 bold, honest one saying or doing his 
 own thought; and only by men who 
 wi 1 break through the accepted 
 beliefs of to-day will the world ad- 
 vance to a higher plane. Once it 
 was the fashion to beheve that the 
 sun revolved about our earth, till 
 there came a Galileo bold enough to 
 atlirm the contrary, and even before 
 his fingers let go the pen that had 
 signed a recantation which was to 
 save him from a worse fate, to ex- 
 claim, " E pur si /««wf ,"— nevetheless 
 it moves. 
 
 The root of this dishonesty is the 
 
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 insane desire to appear to have /.-wza- 
 i^dge. Education should never aim 
 to give facts for their own sake, but 
 by showinjr how the generally ac- 
 cepted truths arc reached, to train 
 the mind in the way of searching for 
 tiiiths. I his aiming at appearance 
 ot knowing ruins the faculties which 
 give knowledge. As George Mac- 
 iJonald so neatly puts it: "When a 
 man spends his energy on appearing 
 to have, he is all the time destroying 
 what he has, and therein the very 
 means of becoming what he desires 
 to seem. 
 
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 This phase of the question cannot 
 be better emphasized than by quoting 
 
 t^^'Tl^ °^ ^'■. "^"difield Jones, 
 who defines genius as the highest 
 
 n "''i"[ ";d'^id"^^''"«>". and thinks 
 that while {i,^^^ human beings reach 
 genius, no human being is without 
 his share of individualism and he 
 only need be true to himself to de- 
 velop It. Every man can either 
 
 T?^ T? "^^ -"^^^ '"^terials of 
 facts and idea.s as they are presented 
 to him by others, or he can digest 
 and reproduce them, stamped with 
 the seal of his ou n individuality A 
 
 vX. hVr''^^ tremendous siride 
 when he has learned to have the 
 courage of his own convictions, and 
 ^hough he may have all due re pect 
 
 and reverence for great names, ^Hl 
 lie has not reached the first stage of 
 progress until he has subordin'ated 
 that reverence to a profound respect 
 for his own individual opinion. Thhk 
 weigh, analyse, rathe^ than repLat 
 LV"oXrs'.'-'''"""'^'P°'-^^^--S 
 
 of bookT"^ rr '' '° ''^" '■^^' ^^'"e 
 ot books. There is no essential need 
 
 for books, provided one can always 
 find material enough around him K 
 
 ffi Lt h^-^P"'' ^°°^ ^^-^ h's mind 
 Ih s not being possible, on account 
 of the narrow range of the average 
 experience, books arc necessarv ?^ 
 
 should they be treated, "j^ooks a - 
 ant i;:;'"'" ^'?"^'^^^- -q-sition. 
 uals whom every one cannot know 
 
 personally Could we but know the 
 
 !":"^^-^["'g'^t possibly di.spensevv?h 
 the book, though usually we can 
 gather a man's thoughts better fror^ 
 h's writing than from his words 7 
 books come to be considered any- 
 thing beyond this, if what they con- 
 ain IS taken for truth because iund 
 
 arenT/'^''^?''^"''^^''*-^*'''^y''^P'-c"« 
 mtcllect and feeling.s-that moment, 
 bus 'a '^" 'V" ^^•■''^' become inju -' 
 before ^."ohT'^f ^''''^'''^ '^''^ ^ook 
 we are h °'^""'' "^^'" i^'tig'^ent, 
 
 oritv fn^ "° ?""^"^ claiming super- 
 iority to a writer, because if we do 
 
 truth "[hr'''^' - •^'•^icr and greater 
 truth than we can reach to what 
 does ,t profit us ? There are khvays 
 three verdicts we can pass upon a 
 book-true, not true, and not yet 
 
 are not the best students who are 
 most dependent on books ; hence 
 
 wh; kno°'^'^°" laying that the S 
 who knows one book thoroughly is 
 better educated than hewhoknovJs 
 
 got°::;; Th'^t"^- ^'^^^ -"be 
 hf.f ^\ ^^ books IS at best only 
 material ; a man must build his house 
 
 o'bmrf • ^r^ '=^" build fast r 
 or build larger houses than others— 
 so need more material ; or, to change 
 he figure, some plants need more 
 "ounshment than others becaus^of 
 larger and quicker growth, but ever' 
 one, to use a Scotch phrase, "shou d 
 beagrowin'stalk.notawin'lestrae." 
 The.se remarks may fairly be 
 
 hre'"s'or^^^r"^'''^^'^^boj?d 
 have so much faith in authority as 
 shall make us repeatedly observe and 
 attend to that which is safd to Ce 
 right, even though at present we may 
 not feel ,t to be so, and in the rS 
 mmghng of this faith with the op?n 
 ness of heart which proves all tK 
 les he gr-at difficulty in the cul' 
 t.vation of the taste.'' The right 
 temper is one which dwells on all 
 
 'tZTi '° "^.' ^-trustnd of° I'se 
 o as to be read . to believe and try 
 all things and ycc so trustful of itself 
 that It will neither quit what it has 
 tried, nor take anything without try! 
 
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 ing. It cannot long be held by what 
 is unworthy, for " it clasps all that it 
 loves so hard that it crushes it if it be 
 hollow." 
 
 ♦♦♦ 
 
 College Life In the Eastern States. 
 
 BY B, MAUD GRAHAM, B.A. 
 
 CERTAIN things seem to be 
 characteristic of college life 
 everywhere, and make the 
 graduate feel at home in American 
 college halls whether of the West or 
 of the East. In all there is the same 
 jolly good-fellowship which makes 
 the whole college world kin. There 
 is the same round of orgatnzations, 
 with local variations; the same old 
 jokes with new faces ; the same slangy 
 vernacular, unintelligible to the Phil- 
 istine ; underneath, the same endless, 
 futile philosophizing about the prob- 
 lems of the universe. 
 
 Dovvn East there are various differ- 
 ences that stand out from the general 
 similarities with more or less distinct- 
 ness. Some appear to the stranger 
 at once. Some impress themselves 
 gradually, and, though more funda- 
 mental, are so intangible that it is 
 almost an impossibility to make them 
 clear to an outsider. 
 
 Of the former class, the first differ- 
 ence to be noticed by mo.st of us is 
 in the yearly expense. It is no exag- 
 geration to say that in any of the 
 leading Eastern colleges it costs a 
 student just double what it does here 
 for any given standard of comfort or 
 pleasure; in many cases the ratio 
 being greater. Of course this is 
 partly caused by the higher cost of 
 living and the large fees, but another 
 great influence is the extravagant 
 example set by the sons and 
 daughters of wealthy people, who 
 are given allowances far beyond what 
 Canadians deem wise. 
 
 The next point to interest a new- 
 comer is naturally the system of 
 study. In deciding on his' course, a 
 student going from a university with 
 the Honour System to one with 
 
 Elcctives, either free or in groups, 
 will find the Calendar a veritable 
 Chinese [)uzzle. The Elective Sys- 
 tem seems to be still in the experi- 
 mental stage. Free Electives, as 
 found in Harvard, allows absolute 
 freedom in the choice of subjects, 
 requiring from the student only a 
 specified number of hours of lecture 
 work in the week. This has bitter 
 opponents who claim that Freshmen 
 are utterly incapable of knosving 
 what is best for them, and will de- 
 velop in a very one-sided fashion if 
 left to their own devices. Johns 
 Hopkins, representing this opinion 
 amongst the men, and Bryn Maur 
 amongst the women, have idopted 
 the system of Elcctives in Groups. 
 That is, if certain subjects arc chosen, 
 certain others are compulsory with 
 them. It is practically an up-to-date 
 form of the old Honour System with 
 options ; more of original research, 
 however, being done by under-grad- 
 uates in the seminar classes. 
 
 These seminars bring the students 
 and professors into closer individual 
 relations than the lecture room possi- 
 bly can. Yet, for some reason or 
 other, the Faculties are much more 
 autocrat'- than here, and the students 
 submit .lietly to regulations that 
 Canadians would not tolerate. Im- 
 agine, for instance, what a si)ectacle 
 It would be to see all Toronto Uni- 
 versity hastening to chapel at eight 
 o'clock every morning as the Yale 
 men are compelled to do. There is 
 not the same consideration shown in 
 the matter of examinations as we 
 are accustomed to. Aegrotat certi- 
 ficates seem to be wholly unknown. 
 Sometimes, however, special examin- 
 ations are allowed. 
 
 It is pretty generally known how 
 the professional element rules ath- 
 letics on the other side. The rank 
 and file of the students are loosing 
 all personal ambition in athletics, and 
 are content to watch their rather ex- 
 pensive substitutes perform. Super- 
 fluous energy is worked off in 
 shouting. 
 
 Among the intangible differences 
 
•r in groups, 
 ■ a veritable 
 i^Iective Sys- 
 thc experi- 
 -Icctives, as 
 us absolute 
 of subjects, 
 lent only a 
 rs of lecUire 
 s has bitter 
 t Freshmen 
 of kno>ving 
 and will de- 
 d fashion if 
 es. Johns 
 his opinion 
 Bryn Maur 
 ve idopted 
 in Groups, 
 arc chosen, 
 ulsory with 
 1 up-to-date 
 iystem with 
 il research, 
 under-grad- 
 
 2S. 
 
 he students 
 r individual 
 room possi- 
 ! reason or 
 much more 
 :he students 
 ations that 
 erate. Im- 
 a spectacle 
 )ronto Uni- 
 )el at eight 
 3 the Yale 
 There is 
 n shown in 
 ons as we 
 rotat certi- 
 ' unknown, 
 ial examin- 
 
 nown how 
 rules ath- 
 The rank 
 are loosing 
 iletics, and 
 rather ex- 
 T!. Super- 
 id off in 
 
 differences 
 
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 the first to be felt will probably be 
 
 the students as a class. In most 
 cases they are looked upon as a 
 necessary evil, a nuisance, a little 
 better than tramps. One does not 
 hnd special rates for students, stud- 
 ents tickets, or similar concessions. 
 
 Materialistic skepticism is much 
 more ramijant down east than here 
 Ihis should scarcely be noted per- 
 haps as a student characteristic 
 being ratner the natural outcome of 
 the mental attitude of society. 
 
 In spite of all differences of sur- 
 rounding and training, the American 
 students at heart seem to be of the 
 
 T'\S^"^^ r'' '''°°^' ^« the rest of 
 us. We find amongst them the same 
 division into hard^ thinkers, spores 
 plugs, good-for-nothings, and lastly 
 but not least, the gay. clever, ve^.' 
 
 ro ll!.^''rP'' ''''° '^'^^P the wheels of 
 college life running smoothly, and 
 form after all the typical college men 
 and women. 
 
 2t 
 
 A Study in Moods. 
 
 A liberal Education, 
 
 liberl^^,^"' ^ *'''"'^' '^^« had a 
 
 iberal education, who has been so 
 
 trained m his youth that his body's 
 
 the ready servant of his will, and 
 
 work ;r? '"'' ""^ J^'^^^""-^ al the 
 aMe of ■ f ^ 'T^^^''^"'-^'", it is cap 
 able of; whose intellect is a clear 
 cold, logic engine, with all i's paS 
 work^n^' ''7"^'h, and in smoot 
 
 eni^to°h 'V '■'"'J^' '"^'^ ^ «team 
 eng.ne, to be turned to any kind nf 
 
 work, and spin the gossamers as w el 
 as forge the anchors of the mhid 
 whos. mind is stored with a know: 
 
 S. If ^ ^'^^^ ^"^ fundamental 
 truths of nature and of the laws of 
 
 her operations; one. who, no bunted 
 ascetic, is full of life and fire but 
 rofc,r"°'"^^^*r--dto;ome 
 
 to heelbyavigorous will, ti,e servant 
 of a tender conscience; who hL 
 learned to love all beauty, vvhether 
 of nature or of art, to hate al viSs/ 
 Huxky '"'P'"' '''^^'' ^' himself.'-- 
 
 HE great actress reclined on 
 scented piles of precious cush- 
 ions and listened, halfslceuilv 
 
 louJrCnl'^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Be ' Svlfif "^ afternoon it was : '• La 
 hp;^r;,, ^ f u ha^' Ji'«t finished a 
 htary meal that took the ulicn nf 
 breakfast and luncheon ' "'^ 
 
 So old La Vere liked me in that 
 SV°'\^'"'' •^^- -^-he old foolihe 
 might have knc wn I hated it ! Jk-rton 
 vv. maKe me keep it now I s p, ose 
 and there s another year i„ horrlri 
 
 senumentaldrama.'ai^doh.-l °S 
 to be Joan the Maid-I wish th^t 
 fool La Vere were dead," i nd "e 
 language of the beautemis Sylv a 
 droj^^ed mto slang and several oVhe? 
 
 •'Jean dear," she said aftera while 
 and m a sweet and gentle voice the 
 very opposite of whtt it had been 
 
 an-d Re n*"' ''"' ^""'^J' ^^"'^^l to-day 
 and Bertilon and— oh the nth,.. 
 
 and did they all leave 'cads a.ci fi I 
 your faithful head with on<. t^' 
 
 nTS :7^e-rk;r^^?"^-b- 
 hateitalla"'dlrw;ou'rh'r.C 
 back m sea-swept Brittany again a„d 
 listening in homely puntv to ^ ' 
 music of the woods in.;tearof°ilvtr 
 bugles and the opera orchest a and 
 hovv you long to hold your own 
 sister Sylvia again in your an s I 
 
 ;^^ti[:'^--^h^-'>-c;;ite 
 pna^^tpL:^^- - j-i.ir 
 
 donna laughed and in her soulTS 
 shame and scorn of self. 
 
 " P"ly Ruby Lawson^ dearest and 
 he brought von Mn"^ " , ^'7' and 
 
 la petite as her sister's worshippers 
 were wont to call her-laid a ' f 1 1 e 
 box in her sister's hands, a bo- ,0'^ 
 carefully tied with dead blark^lKk 
 and sealed with dusky tat ""iJlnt" 
 the porter too! Must all the word 
 bow down before La Sylv a i-but 
 opcnit sister." The lid iroff and 
 
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 imthing was inside. " \\ ';o has sent 
 jipi«thts ? Who trifles with .i v oinan'M 
 ^-^1 i|'y ? Find Mie the fool tliat with 
 iny eyc:. f 'lay craze him, tliat with 
 my charms I may enslave him, that 
 with my heart 1 may lure liim to 
 destruction, that, in the end, my lips 
 shall drive him to the tjrave ' and 
 the hot Hreton nature, stung by 
 fancied slur, lifted this (jiieun of 
 women in ])assion to her feet. "Ah ! 
 what is this — the lid— why poetry !" 
 — a lauj^h — so full of scorn that muses 
 well might weep the slur on muses' 
 language — and she held it at arm's 
 length and read ; and, as she read, 
 her voice lost its scorn, her eyes their 
 mocking smile, her lips their burning 
 sneer : — 
 
 " The love tliat once tliou yavest nie 
 
 I .send it back to thee ! 
 Thy voice that once did breathe on nie. 
 
 To me must ever silent be ! 
 
 Thy smiles that once like waking day, 
 Have cluised for nie the gloom away, 
 
 Thy kisses of that long-dead day. 
 Have passed like rainbow in the spray ! 
 
 This hollow .space, this em))ty space, 
 Contains tlie aslies of the grace, 
 
 Weep ! for my soul this silent space ! 
 Is winging to its resting place ! " 
 
 "Oh Robert, tender Robert, Rob- 
 ert my own, come back, come back 
 to me " — the white arms reached 
 .ippf alingly toward the door as if a 
 vision stood before her, and the per- 
 fect eyes gazed beseechingly as if 
 the vision faded from their sight, and 
 the sweet voice dropped pleadingly 
 till it scarce passed the snowy lips in 
 accents soft and coaxing, and, in her 
 grandest mood, La Sylvia, of many 
 moods, sank fainting in her sister's 
 arms. C. H. N. 
 
 Nint ■ i>even — 'Varsitv. 
 *^* 
 
 f'A.%- '.■? i: S.j-.vjiroom. 
 
 There .^iC': j.>.'.t'ic school teachers 
 who cariiu>i t-i' sc^me amusipt. stories 
 about what the\ have seen or heard 
 in the schoolroom. Here are two or 
 three of these stories which are fair 
 samples oftho.se we frequently hear. 
 
 One teacher in taking up a lesson 
 on the character and life of James I, 
 
 told the pu[)ils that Green's History 
 states that James was " the wisest 
 fool in Christendom." Some days 
 eftcr this the class were given an ex- 
 amination on history, one of the 
 tjuestions being about the character 
 of James I. In answering this ijucs- 
 tion one boy started out with the won- 
 derful statement that James was " as 
 wise as the lool that christened him. " 
 
 A teacher of a primary class was 
 drilling on the wortl " cat ' which she 
 had placed on the blackboard, and 
 she took i)articular pains to have the 
 pupils see that that which was on the 
 board was not a real cat but merely 
 the written word "cat." Next day 
 in review lesson the teacher placed 
 the same word on the board, and then 
 asked an innocent looking little girl 
 at the foot of the class to tell what it 
 was. Hesitatingly the answer came: 
 " That is the writings of a '.at." 
 
 Sonnet: Alive. 
 
 BY NOKMAN FEKGUS HLACK. 
 
 To be alive, O Living God ! alive ! 
 
 To know the ecstacy of manly might 
 The joy of all sweet sound, each glorious 
 siglit . 
 'Tis this, O Living God, to be alive ! 
 
 O Living God ! to be alive ! alive ! 
 
 To feel the pulsings of exultant Pride, 
 Of Hope, of Faith, all hindrance to 
 deride : 
 
 O Living God ! 'Tis this to bt <ili\ 3 ! 
 
 Alive ! alive ! Livi'...^ '-o ', i.hv • ! 
 
 To tremble at the s. ..."■ ...imeiiaity ; 
 
 To rest in action mid.st eternity : 
 Alive ! O Living God ! Alive, alive ! 
 
 To Love and Live, O God ! To Live and 
 
 Love ! 
 What state more high in Earth or Heaven 
 
 above ? 
 
 William & Walter Stewart, 
 
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 Heating and Ventilating Engineers and 
 Practical Superintendents, 
 
 Offices 
 
 in Provident and Loan Building, Cor. King 
 and Hughson Streets. Hamillon, (hit. 
 
 Architects tor Collegiate Instltuti and Ontario 
 Normal College.