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 PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS. 
 
 (SbHorial Cotnmrttee. 
 
 W. GEMMILL, D. J. WALLER, Jk., S. H. KAEROHER. 
 
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 ONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1. Editorial 5 
 
 2. Class Roll 7 
 
 3. Pkogbamme 10 
 
 4. Poem 11 
 
 5. Oeation 19 
 
 6. History 28 
 
 7. Song 36 
 
 8. Presentation Speech 37 
 
 9. Chaplain's Address 51 
 
 10. Tree Oration 57 
 
 11. Parting Hymn 63 
 
 12. Class Miscellany 64 
 
 13. College Officers 67 
 
 14. Society of the Alumni 70 
 
 15. Catalogue of Students 71 
 
 16. EoLL OF Honor 78 
 
 17. Brainerd Society 79 
 
 18. Natural History Society 80 
 
 19. Washington Literary Society 83 
 
 20. Franklin Literary Society 87 
 
 21. Secret Fraternities 93 
 
 22. Eating Clubs 109 
 
 23. Boat Club 117 
 
 24. Base-Ball Clubs 118 
 
 25. Croquet Clubs 120 
 
 26. Chess Clubs 122 
 
 27. Glee Clubs 124 
 
 28. Boxing Club 128 
 
 29. Whist Club 129 
 
 30. L O. of 0. E 130 
 
EDITORIIL. 
 
 The memory of early struggles, and the recollection of frequent 
 and long continued efforts to overcome difficulties, add intenser 
 joy to the realization of our cherished hopes. We stand at such a 
 point now in our upward progress. As Classmates and Friends, 
 associates for four years in the same pursuits and pleasures, we 
 desire as we go hence to take with us some memorial of these days 
 and times. And before we leave our "Alma Mater" we would 
 collect fuel to feed the flame of memory in coming years, and, also, 
 to rejoice the hearts of her busy sons by showing the upward 
 prqgress of our College. Such a motive prompts us to compile 
 for the class, and the friends and patrons of our "Alma Mater," 
 this humble memorial of our College life, hoping that it may 
 prove a grateful remembrancer of College days and College joys. 
 
 It will reveal much of the interior working of the institution, 
 its organizations, its many phases of social life, and matters of 
 general interest to both Student and Alumni. The highest words, 
 both under the old philosophy and the new, "Culture" and 
 " Progress," are inscribed upon her banner. Her friends are many, 
 active, and generous. The glad return of our honored President 
 we hail as an omen for good and a signal for another onward move. 
 We bid him a hearty welcome. During the past year new build- 
 ings have been finished, the old remodelled, the College grounds 
 adorned with beautiful trees and shrubbery, and pleasant walks 
 lead from East College to the other Halls. One sad change of 
 the passing year will bring sorrow to many of the former inmates 
 of Lafayette. The old CoUege steps, for so long such an important 
 
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THE EEPORTEE, 
 
 feature of the institution, are no more. The Freshmen were 
 caught tearing them up, and it was determined to remove them 
 and substitute a winding walk. 
 
 The chair of Physical Culture still remains vacant. No Gym- 
 nasium yet crowns the crest of College Hill. But the Lehigh 
 affords ample room on her placid bosom for that most manly 
 exercise, boating; and we say all honor to '72, which, with charac- 
 teristic energy, has led the van in the formation of a Boat Club, 
 which we trust is the germ of the fviture navy of Lafayette. The 
 inducements for the Alumni and friends of Lafayette to be present 
 each year at her Commencement exercises are many, and still they 
 continue to multiply. 
 
 The Class of Seventy leave her classic shades with feelings of 
 regret and yet of joy, and look forward hopefully to the time when 
 we shall return to meet each other here again, and pay our tribute 
 of respect and love to our honored *'Alnia Mater," 
 
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 ^A6eX(p6i dia rov atojvog. 
 
 DAVID J. WALLER, Jk Peesident. 
 
 JONATHAN EMMEET Vice-Pbesident- 
 
 JAMES W. PIATT Reg. Seceetaet. 
 
 TERENCE JACOBSON ' Coe. Seceetaet. 
 
 WILLIAM GEMMILL Teeasueee. 
 
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 EMBERS. 
 
 JOSEPH H. BEENSINGER Media. 
 
 RICHARD W. D. BRYAN Washington, N. J. 
 
 CHARLES K. CANFIELD Stevensville. 
 
 LUCIEN W. DOTY Mifflintown. 
 
 JONATHAN EMMERT Benevola, Md. 
 
 WILLIAM GEMMILL Milroy. 
 
 JOSEPH J. HARDY St. Clair. 
 
 WILLIAM G. HELLER Easton. 
 
 TERENCE JACOBSON Baltimore, Md. 
 
 SAMUEL H. KAERCHER Pottsville. 
 
 FRANK H. PIATT Tunkhannock. 
 
 JAMES W. PIATT Tunkhannock. 
 
 HORACE ROLAND New Holland. 
 
 WILLIAM S. RONEY Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 ALEXANDER H. SHERREKD Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 DAVID J. WALLER, Je Bloomsburg. 
 
 JAMES H. WRIGHT McSherryville. 
 
 J. RUSSEL YOUNGMAN Wiufield. 
 
 JAMES P. ZIEGLER Mount Joy. 
 
PRAYER. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 Poem H. ROLAND. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 Oeation J. J. HARDY. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 History T. JACOBSON. 
 
 S O N a. 
 Tree Oeation W. S. RONEY. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 Peesentation Speech R. W. D. BRYAN. 
 
 ]M U S I C . 
 Chaplain's Addeess C. K. CANFIELD. 
 
 PARTING HYMN. 
 
 BENEDICTION. 
 J. RUSSEL YOUNGMAN Mastee of Ceeemonies. 
 
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 ROSPECT. 
 
 Man's active life is one huge mount, and men 
 Of action all are climbers up its steep 
 And rugged sides, toward full contentment at 
 Its pinnacle. The cradled infant and 
 Supported j^outh know little of the jars 
 And joltings of the ways their guardians tread. 
 The frowning heights and yawning chasms are but 
 To them, as gentle hillocks and the gay 
 Komantic undulations of the plain ; 
 To them the jeers, the mocks, and envious tricks 
 Of men, are but as playful barkings of 
 The prairie dogs, and sicknesses are naught 
 But holidays, for rare indulgences 
 And pettings j)itiful. But when, of youth, 
 The tenderness and verdancy have fled 
 Into maturity, — which is a shame 
 . To indolence, — and when the parent in 
 The care-worn hour of age, hfts from his cot 
 Of ease, him who for years his ward has been, 
 And bids him brave, for livelihood, the toils 
 And terrors of the steep ascent ; and bids 
 Him take his stand amongst the ranks of men 
 Who make this life such as it is — how has 
 The scene been changed ! — sweet slumber's dream has been 
 Transformed to stern reality, and rocks 
 And ridges, sneers and mocks, their truthfulness 
 %^ Assume. As our long line of ancestors — / 
 
THE EE PORTER, 
 
 E'en back to Eden's exiles — stood and peered 
 
 With longing contemplation up the peak 
 
 Of life's ascent, that unattainable 
 
 Doth pierce the clouds, and kiss contentment's star, 
 
 And from the contact gleam, so even yet 
 
 The youthful worldling stands, and, cheered by hope. 
 
 Shrinks not from its dread grandeur, but presumes 
 
 To scale its heights. 
 
 O Hope ! thou gracious boon. 
 That blindfolds man to coming woes of life. 
 And comforts in their midst, and gives the balm 
 That banishes discouragement, and heals 
 Each weakening wound ; thou ambition's muse ! 
 That sings the song that stirs the soul to high 
 And noble aspirations, and fatigue 
 Doth soothe ! without thee earth were hell, and men 
 The ever tortured occupants, denied 
 Of one calm moment for a smile, and void 
 Of all that lends to memory a charm, 
 Or tips anticipation with a tint. 
 Yet Hope ! thou art a cold deceiver still — 
 For perched upon thy throne, and beck'ning with 
 Thy fascinating hand, and pointing to 
 The nectar at thy feasts, — humanity 
 Is tempted, and plods upward toward the bliss. 
 Yet reaches but to catch the aroma of 
 Thy breath, and see thee soar to loftier realms, 
 Seduction to resume. 
 
 Thus are the minds 
 Of mortals never satisfied, but with 
 One summit gained, another is in view. 
 As with the manual laborer, so with 
 The mental, for they both are human and 
 The slaves of discontent. Their difference 
 Dwells not in heart, nor aim, but in the tools 
 Employed ; and whilst through thicket and through thorns 
 Plods one, the wiser peeps and calculates 
 
POEM. 
 
 Beyond his present harassings, and finds 
 BotK happier and swifter ways toward 
 The ever chased, yet ever distant prize. 
 Thus we a youthful band of nineteen souls — 
 Just in the dawn of our- commencement day 
 Upon life's busy grade, and mirthful in 
 Our youth, and happy in our freedom from 
 The tedious restraints of many years, 
 And skipping in ecstatic prime, beneath 
 Our new, yet grave, responsibilities — 
 Will be ambition's^eager dupes, and, blind 
 To disappointing destinies of those 
 Before, wiU hope to be hope's favorites. 
 
 Four times the Autumn winds have stripped these trees- 
 Four times the Spring-day has their garb renewed — 
 Four Winters have these hills been wrapped in shrouds— 
 Four Summer's suns have roused them from their trance- 
 Since, gathered first from sundry climes, we met 
 And each gave each a stranger's welcoming. 
 Four years of kindred tasks and disciplines, 
 Beneath the same wise care and skilfulness ; 
 And four of social strolls amid these scenes 
 Of Nature's hallowing, have tempered down 
 To harmony our hearts' discordances. 
 "We met as strangers, but we part as friends," 
 Yet ere we go, we plant an emblem of 
 Our unity, on this familiar soil- 
 That when, in after days, we shall return 
 To think of those just past, the maple here 
 Will start, and move the panoramic view 
 Of memories yet green — its upward growth 
 Our upward march portray — its autumn seared 
 And falling foliage, depict our sad 
 Adversities. 
 
 We part not eagerly, 
 For parting is a solemn act, when ties 
 Of fond associations must be torn ; 
 
THE EEPORTER. 
 
 And ^^ farewell" is no fluent word, when choked 
 
 By mutual loves. Yet we are curious to 
 
 Behold the promises of flattering hopes 
 
 Fulfilled ; and for this end each will his own 
 
 Pathway pursue, for no two fancies sketch 
 
 Or paint a scene alike, and fates contract 
 
 No constant partnerships. Before us rears 
 
 The majestic mount of life-long toils, and we, 
 
 Like pigmies, creep confused about its base 
 
 To choose the most inviting ways, that scale 
 
 Its treacherous and unknown sides. Broad is 
 
 The base, and myriad crossing pathways — each 
 
 Bespangled o'er, with ignes faiul — 
 
 Delude and dazzle curiousness of youth. 
 
 "Would that from some celestial station, we 
 
 Might view with eagle eye the trials of 
 
 Each course, or woiild that from death's portal, we 
 
 Might turn vdth retrospective wisdom back 
 
 And choose fastidiously ! but such is not 
 
 High heaven's decree, for future all is dark, 
 
 And worldly wisdom ne'er such heights attains, 
 
 And preference is ne'er so shrewd, as in 
 
 That hour, when death its worth discards. Thus then 
 
 In dark and doubtful inexperience. 
 
 Each must select his solitary way. 
 
 May fates decree the random fortunate ! 
 
 To some, the educator's path will all 
 
 Its charms unfold, and they will choose ' ' to teach 
 
 The young idea to shoot ;" and they prefer 
 
 Companionship of books, to that of men ; 
 
 And they prefer the musty classic lore. 
 
 That makes them friends or foes with all the world's 
 
 Heroic chiefs, and wafts them back amid 
 
 The scenes of yore, and gifts with Babel tongues, 
 
 Or they the sanctity of nature's realms 
 
 Will dare intrude — God's secrets to possess ; 
 
 Or -will indulge a speculative taste 
 
 In vain philosophy, that skepticism breeds — 
 
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POEM. 
 
 And yet oblivious be, to glooms and woes 
 
 That coming years will weave around their choice. 
 
 For who, too high, can estimate the grave 
 
 Accountabihties of him, who for 
 
 Eternity doth shape immortal minds ; 
 
 Yet who, too low, the thanks the shaping wins? 
 
 And who too sadly wail the blighted hopes 
 
 Of those who make a vain, though life-long, search 
 
 For heaven's mysterious truths in nature's world ; • 
 
 Or who in tangled metaphysics seek 
 
 For some indulgent sacred scheme, till truths 
 
 Seem false, or true and false forever mixed ? 
 
 For others, ^sculapian ways will seem 
 
 To offer ease and wealth, and they shall see 
 
 Gay prospects in the van ; and they shall dream 
 
 Of i^alaces and royal feasts, and all 
 
 The pomp of high respect, and shall behold, 
 
 "With fancy's eye, themselves far up " the hill 
 
 Of science," perched with influential mien — 
 
 And yet forgetful be, of all the strifes, 
 
 The strains, the noonday toils, the midnight tramps. 
 
 The dolesome scenes, repulsive sights, suspense. 
 
 And fear, and conscience goads, and forfeitures — 
 
 Th' eternal debts, that such attainments cost. 
 
 O noble calling ! why such servitude ? 
 
 And some in bustling thoroughfares will chance ; — 
 Skilled in the law, or shrewd and glib of tongue, 
 They shall transcend the cramped horizon of 
 More menial minds, and fly away to fame, 
 Amazing gaping multitudes, that will 
 Kejoice, as servitors, to honor them. 
 Or they shall revel 'mid the luxuries 
 Of earth — the nation for the caterer — 
 And shall control the meditations of 
 The public mind. But are these joj'S ? Methinks 
 The trumpets of departed days, and rude 
 Experiences of those before, portray 
 
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 THE REPORTEE. 
 
 In staying tones, the calumnies and tricks 
 That rivals use in vexing eminence, 
 For eminence and enmity are twins. 
 
 And some in ministerial paths will tread ;— 
 
 Content to walk apart from worldlincss. 
 
 And flee the charm of sweet temptation's lute, 
 
 In hope of an eternity's reward. 
 
 And they shall choose to be the shepherds of 
 
 Humanity, but in their choice forget 
 
 The wayward flocks, and thankless tasks; the rude 
 
 Backbitings, ridicules, and harsh tirades 
 
 Of babbhng women in their gossipings, — 
 
 For this is but their labor's recompense. 
 
 0, high vocation ! why these stumbhng-blocks ? 
 
 And others will in divers pathways turn ; 
 
 But none uncheered by siren-gifted hope, 
 
 And none secured from hydra-headed woes, 
 
 Or clad against the piercing javeUns 
 
 Of marshalled foes — impatient to torment. 
 
 Yet each vocation can some joys afford, 
 
 That like oases on the desert waste 
 
 Kevive the fluttering hopes of caravans, 
 
 And hght their fading fancies with new scenep, — 
 
 For earth is not sheer hell, but only half — 
 
 With Heaven and Hell the wide extremes, itself 
 
 Well poised between, for our probationship. 
 
 That with impartial eye, we may select 
 
 From proffered fortunes, our eternities. 
 
 And each pursuit affords subsistence for 
 
 Each votary, since Providence is bland, 
 
 And wills no incompleteness in her schema 
 
 Just Fate has ushered us to Ufe, and wiU 
 
 Transact her faithful part, if we do ours. 
 
 In moulding, for us, gracious destinies. 
 
 But to transact our faithful part is not 
 
 An idle task, with sweet repose, and dreams 
 
 Benign, at pleasant intervals. The ways 
 
POEM. 17 
 
 That scale the steep of life are difficult, 
 And breed in many a heart discouragement 
 That hope can scarce repel; and oft in these 
 Dark, dismal moods the climber doth his hold 
 And footing lose, or make vanskilled attempts 
 To turn and tread in diverse ways — or two 
 At once, till both are lost —and retrogrades 
 To fearful depths, misfortune to bewail 
 'Mid tangled brambles, in confused dismay. 
 
 And now, dear classmates, conscious of the toils 
 
 And griefs that will beset our coming march, 
 
 Let us start forth with courage for the fray, 
 
 And girt with all the panoply of war, 
 
 Resolve to battle best what e'er attacka 
 
 And may we ever fondle close to heart 
 
 The precious teachings of those guides, who gave 
 
 Us wisdom in our erring years, and whom 
 
 We owe such gratitude and reverence 
 
 As noble lives alone can pay. And let 
 
 Us not be stirred by mad ambition's voice 
 
 To fly from reason's realm, for fickle fame 
 
 To snatch — since what is fame but mirage-like, 
 
 Or like the transient beauty of a girl, 
 
 That angels take no notice of in heaven; 
 
 That oft is ruin's harbinger on earth; 
 
 And oft bewitches for a day, then yields 
 
 Its charm to some n6w face, and is forgot. 
 
 And think not, boon companions, that the world 
 
 Will honor us when dead. A single tear 
 
 Fresh from the sincere fountain of the soul 
 
 Is all we dare expect from those we leave 
 
 Behind. The sympathies of those alive 
 
 Are but with living things, and for their sport 
 
 Will be employed our putrid carcasses; — 
 
 For death presenteth envied pocket-books. 
 
 And pomp and pageantry of burial rites 
 
 Are naught but worldly mocks, that have their source 
 
 In selfish loves, for gala-days and feasts. 
 
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THE EEPOKTEE. 
 
 We all do well remember that sad night 
 
 Of three Decembers gone, when wintry winds 
 
 In their bleak sport were chanting choruses 
 
 About the corners of yon classic walls; 
 
 And when Eolian choristers were in 
 
 The chimneys whispering doleful requiems; 
 
 And when the haloed moon shed down her pale 
 
 And ghastly light upon a sheeted world; 
 
 And when the few stray beams that flickered thi-ougli 
 
 The chapel windows never looked so sad, 
 
 Nor gave the silence there such mystic words; 
 
 When panting on his sudden couch, away 
 
 From home, away from mother's care, and yet 
 
 With a bemoaning brother near, and an 
 
 Unanswered father calling him to life — 
 
 We saw a much lamented classmate die; 
 
 And how we tried, as human hearts best can. 
 
 To reverence his soulless tenement. 
 
 And then resumed the routine of our lives ; 
 
 And how the world went plodding on, to think 
 
 Not of its loss. 
 
 So will it be with i^s 
 When dead. The burial rites complete, the sun 
 And moon will run their cycles as of old ; 
 The seasons still will change, and men will still 
 Press up the toilsome steep of life ; and each 
 Pursuing favored phantoms, still will climb. 
 Oh what a world of cheats this is ! yet men 
 Oft do desire to linger here for aye — 
 Unmindful that Mount Calvary doth yield 
 More luscious fruits, and greater joys affords 
 Than Paradise could give. So live that when 
 The last and great Commencement day arrives. 
 We shall enjoy a blest reunion on 
 The Campus of the skies, where Gabriel's Irvimp 
 And angels' lips shall be the orchestra. 
 
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 J. J. HARDY. 
 
 RELIGION AND LIBERTY. 
 
 FouK years' experience has convinced me, and a mucli larger 
 exj^erieuce, I have no doubt, has fully convinced you, ladies and 
 gentlemen, that the most distinguishing characteristic of a newly 
 fledged college graduate is supreme conceit. And it is not at all im- 
 probable that this feeling has not been wanting among the motives 
 that have prompted us to ask your presence upon such an occasion 
 as this; but since your charity and wonted kindness have forgiven 
 us our presumption, and induced you to consent to grace this occa- 
 sion with your fair presence, it becomes us to do what we can to 
 make it as pleasant and profitable as possible. And though 
 we may not presume to hope to instruct you in any great 
 degree, yet we have thought that the time might not be wholly lost 
 if we review some thoughts not new to many of you, but which from 
 the pressure of business and the cares of life are not as familiar as 
 we all would like to have them. We lay it down as a conceded 
 proposition, that man's first duty in this world is to make himself 
 better. This truth, familiar to the head, but not sufficiently familiar 
 to the heart, we get both from our religious and political creeds. The 
 repeated injunction of the Scriptures is, be ye perfect, and the bold 
 annunciation of the Declaration of Independence is that each man 
 possesses the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and by and through 
 these to the pursuit of happiness. To the good men who framed 
 
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THE KEPOETEE. 
 
 that instrument happiness could only mean the fulfilment of man's 
 highest end. 
 
 The grand end of life is perfect manhood. True living is perfect 
 growing. This is the grand end of each man, and this the true life 
 of each man. This is the grand end of the race, and this the true 
 life of the race. To aid this growth, to promote this end, we be- 
 lieve that the world and all things in it were made. To this great 
 end, and to this growth, we believe all human institutions must con- 
 tribute. Not the least, and certainly one of the greatest among 
 these, is government. The history of government begins with the 
 history of the race. We are wont to point proudly to the Puritans as 
 our ancestors, forgetting all the laboring generations that have pre- 
 ceded them; but science, stern in the truth, and coldly ignoring our 
 pride, points with imperious finger to the old patriarchs. 
 
 Politics has had two periods. Its minority and its majority. 
 The father first governed. His claims of power grew as his family 
 grew, and culminated in the despotism of the king. The king 
 claimed proprietorship in the people, and fortified his claims by 
 dungeons and armies, and ignorance and superstition. He stoutly 
 asserted that men were made for the State, and vigilantly main- 
 tained the divine right of kings. 
 
 This, the period of one man power, was the tutelary life of the 
 race. The history of the world is one of infinite wisdom. Democ- 
 racy then would have been wildest anarchy. The father, the patri- 
 arch, and the king has each done his part in the education of the 
 race, and though they have sometimes ruled with an iron rod and 
 punished with a wreaking sword, yet from their guardianship has 
 ax'isen an offspring brave, stout, and promising. Its earliest claims 
 were first successfully made in Britain. There in that grand old 
 theatre of great men, and great deeds, it passed its early years. 
 England was a fit nursery for liberty; but to develop its full-grown 
 manhood, to attain the full beauty and power of its maturity, it 
 needed larger room, a purer atmosphere, and greater means, and 
 
ORATION. 21 
 
 God gave it this continent. The first great utterance of its early 
 manhood was that all men were created free and equal. Amid the 
 green mountains, fertile valleys, and broad plains of this new world 
 it rapidly grew to its full stature. Its last great thought, the result 
 of its mature experience and profound reflection, was that govern- 
 ments are of the people, and by the people, and for the people. 
 
 With this announcement, there on the rocky hills of Gettysburg, 
 on the death scene of slavery, amid a people still bleeding and 
 blackened by the battles of freedom, amid the graves of dead heroes 
 and the shouts of an emancipated race, by the voice of one who was 
 destined to seal his faith with his blood, liberty threw off the last 
 shackles that bound her. To this point the working centuries of all 
 the past had brought the race, and it is one of the grandest scenes 
 in all its history. Grand in the long ages of blood, desolation, and 
 death, of struggling and revolutions in politics, philosophy, and 
 religion, that led to it ; grand in its glorious consummation, and 
 can we doubt but infinitely grander still in the mighty consequences 
 that shall follow it ? 
 
 This last proclamation of our nation was to the race and for the 
 race. It asserted that man was superior to government, and that it, 
 like every other institution, must contribute to his life or perish. 
 Up to this time, even in the freest governments, the individual had 
 been too much subjected to the State. This grand speech of Mr. 
 Lincoln's gave to the world the formula of political liberty un- 
 shackled. History, therefore, says, and reason sustains her when 
 she says, that self-government is the highest form of liberty. The 
 people must be governed by the people. Thus each man becomes a 
 votei-, and each voter a law-giver and a judge. And this had been 
 the grand desideratum of all civilized men. Of this liberty poets 
 have sung from the earliest days of Greece till now. Of this 
 orators have pleaded in words that, burning into the hearts of men, 
 inflamed them to deeds of noblest heroism. For this statesmen 
 have labored, warriors fought, and millions of patriots of a hum 
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THE REPORTER, 
 
 bier rank gladly sacrificed life and all that mates life dear. This 
 has been the great problem of the whole political life of man. 
 
 But this is not yet the end. Liberty with the masses means yet 
 but the ability to do what one pleases. 
 
 This is all that the cruelest tyrant that ever lived could desire. 
 This is all that the meanest traitor that ever rebelled did ask. This 
 is all that the wickedest man that ever delighted in sin would wish. 
 Grive every man this unrestrained power, and the world would be 
 filled with all murders, licentiousness, and all manner of abomina- 
 tions. You must not cast pearls before swine, lest they turn upon 
 you and tear you. The seat of liberty is in the hearts of the people, 
 and you must make them free before they can enjoy it ; you must 
 make them pure before they are fit for it. That man is free who 
 throws off the mantle of ignorance that blinds him, who looks out 
 upon nature, studies his power over her and over his fellows, and 
 then intelligently and deliberately uses his power. He is free who 
 throws from his mind the might of prejudice, steps aside from the 
 beaten path of authority, custom, and training, uses the mind that 
 G-od gave him to use, on every argument, opinion, and doctrine that 
 presents itself, and then fearlessly and conscientiously judges for 
 himself. He is free who cherishes the aspirations of his soul for a 
 purer, holier, higher life, takes the strong passions of his nature in 
 a firm grasp, subdues them to the power of his will, and then makes 
 them aid him in his efforts after a higher happiness. The passions 
 in men can bind them in bonds more galling than any that the 
 cruelest tyrant ever invented. We hate the tyranny that fetters the 
 limbs, that robs the poor man of his vineyard, that hangs the uncer- 
 tain sword over his life ; but who shall express our hate for that 
 tyranny, that binds the eiforts of the mind, that shrouds the reason 
 in withering darkness, that blights the aspiration of the soul, and 
 crushes to a creeping thing him that was made but a Httle lower 
 than the angels. 
 
 The work, then, that will make a nation free must be commenced 
 
ORATION, 
 
 and for a time carried on in the minds of the people. That our 
 people have a lively appreciation of the value of this truth, as far as 
 regards intellectual culture, is abundantly evidenced in the interest 
 they have always had and the rapid strides they have made in popu- 
 lar education. But this we must soon learn is only half the work. 
 The sensibilities are the main-springs of human action. The heart 
 of man is the great motive power in the world. Men act not so 
 much from reason as from feeling, interest, and prejudice. Hence it 
 becomes absolutely necessary that the public conscience be educated. 
 Philosophy teaches us conscience is a twofold faculty. That it is 
 part judgment and part emotion. It is, therefore, necessary to 
 educate not only the judgment, but this peculiar moral emotion that 
 accompanies an act of conscience must also be nourished into 
 powerful maturity. Philosophy teaches us that conscience can be 
 educated. So do our Bibles and our own experiences. As con- 
 science should be the ruling power in the life of the individual, so 
 should the public conscience be in the life of the nation. The pub- 
 lic conscience is but the aggregate of the individual consciences. If 
 then the individual conscience is right, so will the public conscience 
 be. Until the public conscience is quickened into a lively activity, 
 it is unsafe, nay it is positively dangerous to trust a people with the 
 powers of self-government. 
 
 Now there is nothing, nor can there be anything, in this world 
 so well calculated to nourish, instruct and quicken the conscience of 
 men as religion. This is its divinely appointed mission. Its influ- 
 ence falls upon the willing heart like summer showers from heaven, 
 and there spring up all manner of beautiful flowers and good fruits. 
 It subjugates the power of sense and the animal in man, opens and 
 prepares his mind for the reception of truth, quickens it in its pur- 
 suit and apprehension of it, raises him above self and enlai-ges his 
 love till he calls all men brothers, shows him all the world as his 
 inheritance, and its Maker as his own father, and makes him inde- 
 pendent, strong and brave in the right. Such men are the men to 
 
THE REPORTER, 
 
 make a nation great, and such religion and religion only can make. 
 Thus it is the life-power of the members of the State, and it is as 
 essential to its health as oxygen to the health of the body. 
 
 And history confirms this statement. Christianity alone has 
 made and preserved England, Grermany and America the great 
 powers that they are. In examples without number she teaches us 
 that without it no nation can live. For lack of it France alternately 
 runs with blood or moans under the tyranny of an Emperor, 
 Spain to-day struggles helplessly in the arms of military usurpation, 
 and Italy lay for centuries in blackest night, unsolaced even by the 
 beautiful songs of her former glory. 
 
 We advocate no union of Church and State, but a union of religion 
 and patriotism in the hearts of the people. We would have religion 
 direct the conscience, and conscience direct the vote of each citizen. 
 A democracy is made up of integral parts. If these integers are 
 healthy, the State will be strong; if they are corrupt, the State will 
 be weak and perish from its own decay. It is folly to talk of the 
 perpetuity of the Union if religious institutions can be desecrated, 
 elections carried by colonization, and Presidents elected by money 
 and whiskey. If ever the individual intellect becomes dark, if ever 
 the individual will becomes weak, if ever the individual conscience 
 becomes corrupt, then will the solemn voices of history, religion and 
 reason cry in terrible mockery of all our pride and previous glory, 
 Ichabod — " The glory is departed." Then well may the knees of 
 wicked statesmen smite together, for the writing will already be 
 upon the wall. And the danger increases as the power of the citi- 
 zen increases. Our only hope of continued political existence and 
 increased political glory is in an intelligent public judgment and a 
 correct moral sentiment. Better than walls of stone and brass, better 
 than a thousand Gibraltars, better than Demosthenes' wall of cities, 
 are intelligent and virtuous voters. It is utterly foolish to keep 
 politics apart from religion. If politics is corrupt, let religion purify 
 it. Do not carry politics into the pulpit, but religion to the ballot- 
 
ORATION". 
 
 box. But there is a reciprocal influence between the citizen and the 
 State. Not only does the character of the citizen mould and deter- 
 mine the character of the State, but the State largely contributes to 
 form the character of the citizen. And the power of government in 
 this regard should be carefully guarded and used. Whatever can 
 be done to advance human knowledge, to facilitate intellectual cul- 
 ture among the masses, to elevate the public morals, should be 
 cheerfully and carefully done. Government must itself be an 
 example to the people. In all its laws a sacred regard to justice 
 between man and man should be clearly manifest. In all its deal- 
 ings with other States, it should base its actions upon the teach- 
 ings of Christian morality. It should encourage and foster, not 
 denominations nor sects, but religion among the people. It must 
 obviously denounce and to its utmost ability restrain all manner 
 of wickedness. Stealing from the public funds, by whatever name 
 it may be called ; unjust and unequal distributions of the public 
 patronage ; bribery, whether by position, money, or whiskey, should 
 be summarily punished. Statesmen must feel that example is better 
 than precept. There is much room for fear in any government 
 when the Emperor shields a notorious murderer who bears his own 
 name, the heir to the throne is a known debauchee, or the Presi- 
 dent is an habitual drunkard. Governments should be themselves 
 thoroughly leavened by religious principles. Professional boxers 
 have not the highest conceptions of the duties of a great State ; pro- 
 fessional gamblers can hardly make laws to regulate a just people, 
 nor are habitual drunkards and profane swearers the proper per- 
 sons to represent a Christian community. 
 
 Our courts of justice especially should be beyond reproach. The 
 characters of the judges should be unimpeachable. There can 
 be little respect for justice among the masses, when courts are 
 notoriously given to favor large railroad corporations, or to turn- 
 ing out naturalization papers faster than it is possible to sign 
 them. The people to a large degree derive their morals from the 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 institutions which govern them and which are for an example to 
 them. 
 
 The sanctity of the oath should be carefully guarded. Let this be 
 lost and the power of the courts is destroyed, and all the ends of 
 justice frustrated. The voice of the Father of his Country should be 
 heard as the voice of a prophet when he speaks of this great evil. 
 
 The prevalent abuse of the divorce laws is another subject for the 
 attention of government. If the marriage relation is not kept 
 sacred from the corruption that threatens ifc, the very foundation 
 of society will be ruined, and moral decay, confusion, and corruption 
 are inevitable. 
 
 Government must guard with an impartial rigor the private 
 rights of its citizens. It must encourage and when possible aid the 
 lowly to make themselves comfortable homes. Let men see and feel 
 that they owe their homes and the happiness of themselves and all 
 their dear ones to the State in a great measure, and their patriotism 
 will be invincible. Rome made her greatest conquest when her 
 people worshipped the goddess of the hearth. 
 
 The ends of government are vast. I fear we are too much accus- 
 tomed to look upon it as an institution originated and formed 
 entirely by man ; that its end is merely to protect man against his 
 neighbor and aid him in getting rich. This is too low a conception 
 of it. It is ordained of God, not in form, perhaps, but in fact. The 
 ruler should be a minister of good to man in a higher sense than we 
 are accustomed to think. The Gospel of Jesus Christ shows to man 
 the end of life, shows him his great exemplar and instructs him how 
 to attain unto them. True liberty is freedom from restraint in the 
 pursuit of this great end. This liberty government should guaranty 
 to man. Government should aid and encourage him in his pursuit 
 of this great end. 
 
 We shall conclude, therefore, that religion is the all essential, the 
 soTil of political life. It teaches men what liberty is, it makes them 
 capable of it, and its natural and inevitable result is to make them 
 
ORATION, 
 
 patriotic and free. After religion shall have prepared men for 
 freedom no chains are strong enough to bind them. 
 
 It has been said that God gives to nations missions. The history 
 of this nation though short has been full of glory. From a handful 
 of people stretching in a narrow line along the shores of the 
 Atlantic, feeble in all worldly possessions, struggling for a political 
 existence, she has grown to a nation of thirty millions of freemen, 
 covering the richest part of a great continent, stretching from ocean 
 to ocean, penetrated by great rivers, and rich in everything that can 
 make her physically great. She has already originated and com- 
 pleted some of the grandest works in physics and politics. The 
 talent of her sons has brought England and America within speak- 
 ing distance of each other, and opened a highway across her own 
 broad territory for the wealth of the world. But above all this, she 
 has wrought out the problem of man's highest liberty, and exempli- 
 fied it in her own glorious life. She has thrown from her own neck 
 the dead carcass that bound her, and she stands to-day the unim- 
 peachable teacher of the race in the great principles of human 
 freedom. But all her power, all her wealth, all her intelligence, all 
 her glory, all her advancement in liberty, she owes to religion. 
 Christianity gave them and Christianity must preserve them. And 
 if she remain true to it, it doth not yet appear what she shall be. 
 With a population of one hundred millions, occupying one of the 
 finest portions of all the earth, gifted with every possible natural 
 advantage, with a people the boldest in enterprise, the most active 
 in education and science, the most devoted to human progress, the 
 bravest and freest ; and, fm-thermore, moved by the animating, 
 purifying, consecrating truths of Christianity, it is beyond the power 
 of man to conceive what vast achievements, to what supreme heights 
 of lasting glory, this young nation may yet attain. If we make its 
 power the soul of the republic, " eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
 neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the great 
 things that God hath prepared for it." 
 
H i 8 T o « y. 
 
 T. J ACO BSO N. 
 
 As a baud of warriors, we stand on the eve of conflict, clad, in the 
 armor of hope, awaiting the struggle of truth. Like Alexander we 
 have girded on our sword at the to^nbs where lie enshrined the 
 memories of departed heroes, and are ready to rush on to con- 
 quest. The task of recounting the incidents of our training, our 
 weapons and modes of warfare, has fallen to me. If I outstep the 
 bounds of the historian proper and deal with the imaginative as 
 well as the actual, I trust I shall be pardoned. If I thus digress 'tis 
 not because of the scarcity of facts nor the deficiency of interest in 
 the proper field ; but as a colt will leave the best pasture, simply 
 because he can, so may I, having fed on the clover of facts, leap 
 over the fence among the weeds of fiction. We enlisted in the four 
 years' service with many different motives, though all could unite in 
 saying they were governed by the same actuating principle (Prin- 
 cipal), W. C. Cattell. A few were perfectly independent, not caring 
 whether school kept or not, nor did the school care whether it kept 
 them ; being mutually agreed, furloughs were granted by which they 
 were enabled to visit their friends. Perhaps the greater part of 
 our number were urged by worthy motives to a worthy end. Forty- 
 two were entered on the muster rolls, but only forty appeared in 
 camp. A pleasant sunny afternoon of September greeted us while 
 we were seated in the spacious reception-room of the officers of the 
 
 post, awaiting a careful and thorough analysis of our rations. 
 
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HISTORY. 
 
 Evei'ytliing seemed painted green ; it could liave been naught else 
 save the reflex image of ourselves impressed upon the external 
 surroundings^ and as we snuffed the fragrance from every hand we 
 remarked : " We shall like these quarters, they smell so fresh ;" but 
 oh ! how soon we were doomed to disappointment, for scarcely had 
 we uttered this when we were ordered to march ; a pretty long 
 march too. This was excessively fatiguing and difficult. The way 
 lay through a narrow pass with overhanging precipices on either 
 side, where sat the fates to slum]) those who tried the 2^o,ss. Very 
 few pass through it without having the best conditions of mind 
 and body. If you are unable to take in at a glance the present, 
 past, and future, you can't come uj) to time, and you fall behind as 
 stragglers. If there's nothing indicative of future usefulness about 
 you, nor any redeeming subjunctive quality, you scarcely are in a 
 potential mood to stand this march. We shrunk back in terror 
 from the names that our mathematical professors bear, for we 
 early imbibed the doctrine that " coming events cast their shadows 
 before." We began seriously to think whether we had not been led 
 forth to execution. In consequence of such reflections we felt quite 
 sick ; but, being masters of a complicated evolution, we extracted 
 the juice of some roots and soon got well. Henceforth they had an 
 attractive rather than a repulsive tendency, for they stuck to us 
 nearly four years, and have often made us " see stars" while on 
 guard. Our company was formed not according to size, but age. 
 The son of Adam (Adamson) was placed on the right. We had no 
 older, nor did we well see how we could get any except we took 
 Adam himself ; whilst all those between his day and that of the 
 patriarchs followed according to their respective ages. Isaac's 
 grandson ( Jacobson) was placed on the right of the second platoon, 
 and so rapidly did they decrease in age that on the company's left 
 there was a very young man (Youngman). We had some very good 
 men, which is inferred from their rapid promotion; one soon became 
 "Major," another a "lieutenant," a third a ca(l)f, which is a cor- 
 
THE REPORTEK. 
 
 ruption for Cap., the short of captain. "VVe had a " Cone" who has 
 since been cut into quite a mathematical figvire. We ran a great 
 Pdslc in some of our first encounters, because we had only one 
 Hand; but somehow we got a-long (Long). In one of ou.r first 
 scouting expeditions we captured a Bare, but he escaped. Nathaniel 
 was with us for a while, but having caught a severe cold by remov- 
 ing some sods at dead of night, he was taken to the Asylum in 
 Bradford Co. of this State ; report says he is convalescing. The 
 names having been entered on the company's roll, quarters were 
 assigned us in different parts of the barracks, where, undisturbed, 
 we thought of the past and the future ; — the past, laden with memo- 
 ries of loved ones at home, from whom we were separated, perhaps 
 forever — at least for four years— and if a kind Providence should 
 cause us to retrace our steps whence we came, 'twould not be to 
 mingle in the scenes of our early days ; those who were our 
 associates then, would be alike affected by the march of time ; we 
 would not be the boys of eighteen, fond of the sports of youth, but 
 the college bred men of twenty-two, fond of metaphysical intricacies 
 and logical reasonings, of whom everybody expects everything. These 
 reflections could only find expression in some touching melody, and 
 for a long time the vibrations of the air through some crevice or 
 half-opened window would bring to the ear the familiar sound of 
 " Home, Sweet Home ;" whilst a contemplation of the futu.re was 
 fraught with the most cheering prospects, mingled with some anx- 
 iety; the cheering prospects beamed upon us when we considered 
 ourselves the "primi viri" of our native village, and looked forward 
 to distinction in the ranks of her veterans, while anxiety filled the 
 space between this and the exit from our Alma Mater as baccalau- 
 reated graduates. We soon became adapted to our quarters — six 
 hours i^na day enabled us to do so pretty well — and settled down, 
 determined to stick it out. Having been sworn in, we anxiously 
 awaited the issue of the catalogues, to assure ourselves of a full start 
 in the Freshman year. We were drilled three hours a day; the 
 
H I S T R Y. 
 
 remainder of the time was spent in keeping our armor bright and 
 getting rested, and, as Fred. Douglas says, " We were great on the 
 rest." I never saw a company which, when the order "In ph^ce, 
 rest," was given, obeyed better, though perhaps they obeyed fully 
 as well when it was out of place. We began drilling in the cellar, 
 because we were thought to keep better there, owing to our liability 
 to decay. The first thing to learn was that " an idea is not a quan- 
 tity." " That must be a great idea that you can't increase, and a 
 pretty small one that you can't diminish. I wouldn't give a six- 
 pence for the man who couldn't add up a few ideas and give you 
 the sum on paper, or for him whose brain is so sterile that ideas 
 will not multiply there and yield rich and abundant products, or 
 for that idea which, if divided, or from which if anything be sub- 
 tracted, is so poor as to leave no remainder." Such was the 
 haughty language with which, as objectors, we attacked the first 
 redoubt in Algebra. Yet ideas must often be of such a nature, else 
 we could not have men of one idea. When we had the j^oicer to 
 form a square (a very difficult thing to do in our "evolutions"), we 
 then lost all control of ourselves and became "irrational quantities;" 
 having no root, we were capable of little increase, but great decrease 
 — in fact, we were " radically" inclined to continue our " progres- 
 sion" into an "infinite series" of "terms." Livy was our early 
 historian (I wish he had lived to be such now); he taught us to lay 
 out a camp and plough the furrows of its boundary (I would say, 
 however, that he did not lay out this Campus). We liked him very 
 much, but thought he did not talk very plain sometimes, and found 
 it much easier to understand him when he employed an "inter- 
 preter." Cyrus was too young for us ; we being men of seventy, 
 could have little affinity for so juvenile a hero. We were all " com- 
 posed" in Latin, and carefully obeyed the injunction of the lecturer 
 on health, not to have much to do with pi>, so that when the Greek 
 instructor asked us for the vocative case of the word for boy, we 
 unanimously exclaimed "pies" (this may not be the proper pro- 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 nunciation, but we were afraid to make any hissing sound at the 
 professor). We were able, before leaving the Freshman year, to 
 tell the condition of " Greece" when " Ham" was in it. We had 
 enjoyed a dead see (sea) in the land of Palestine. Could circum- 
 scribe every angle in the building, and subscribe every petition to 
 the Faculty. Could get over the ground that Herodotus travels 
 with amazing velocity, if we did use "inanimate agents." Had 
 formed such a fondness for "Horace" that we have kept him 
 constantly with us. Thus qualified, we were eager for the second 
 degree, and were gratified, after accomplishing the most impressive 
 transaction of our first year. The first of April dawned upon us 
 with all the beauties of a spring morning. Tired of winter's attire, 
 we changed our garments and assumed the dress of fantastics. 
 Bound to commemorate the day with due propriety, we turned 
 inside out and outside in, representing various nationalities, sexes, 
 professions, and trades. Bent upon making fools of ourselves, if of 
 no one else, we entered the presence of the grave professor, who 
 was nearly as much disfigured as we, but from a difi'erent cause. 
 Having allowed us quietly to take our seats, he said : " Owing to 
 our general disability this morning, the class is excused." We were 
 not a little surprised to know that while we were cutting up, the 
 Faculty were " cutting down," for our conduct grade was ninety- 
 five instead of one hundred. The excitement of this affair having 
 somewhat subsided, we were made " wise fools," and gladly accepted 
 the position with all its concomitants. Our ranks this year were 
 enlarged by three recruits, who were welcomed and admitted to 
 a full share of the dignity. One of these was soon taken from us. 
 He remained long enough, however, to become endeared to us all. 
 Amiable, unassuming, faithful, and diligent, with a deportment 
 unimpeachable and a character irreproachable, who of us does not 
 this day remember the Christian and scholar, Edward K. Meigs, and 
 regret that he is not here to participate in the festivities of this 
 occasion ? While we would be pleased with his company here, we 
 
H I S T R Y. 
 
 would not call him down from the joys above, but rejoice in the 
 assurance that he is awaiting our arrival, to celebrate an eternal 
 class-day in the Celestial City. 
 
 The hardest work of this year was to dig through a deep trench 
 (Trench), do good acts (Acts), "walk beside the loud-resounding 
 sea," and as lager (logar) was prominent among the many ithms 
 that we had to deal with, there arose a necessity of knowing how to 
 "navigate" and "survey." We meditated a grand finale to this 
 year, but were disappointed in this, as in many other things, by the 
 intervention of the Faculty. And for the benefit of those that 
 intend coming here (if any such there be), we would say that you 
 are not always able to have your own way. Your plans may be well 
 matured and on the eve of execution, when a gentle yet stern voice 
 whispers, "Think of the consequences, beware of hud precedent," and 
 you drop it suddenly. We were determined not to be altogether 
 out-generaled ; so at its close we sang, for the benefit of ourselves 
 and the amusement of our professor in the recitation-room, a few 
 verses of a solemn, pathetic, and sentimental dirge, which began as 
 follows, viz. : 
 
 Old Homer's dead, that poor old man, 
 We ne'er shall see him more ; 
 
 We've often tried his lines to scan, 
 Till our poor eyes were sore. 
 
 As we got up higher we wanted the " crown," and received it into 
 our hands, but found it a bad fit for our heads; so we returned it 
 to Demosthenes with memorable presentation speeches before the 
 Athenian assembly. We were by this time such admirers of nature 
 as to study her philosophy, and spent much of our time in rolling 
 " Connecticut stones" up an inclined plane for the sake of seeing 
 them come down again. By this exercise our " constitution" was 
 strengthened so that we could tell a long " Story" after it had been 
 just told us, even before we had much time to think of it. We 
 chained Prometheus to the cold rock without the slightest emotions. 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 and cared little whether he ever got unbound. This year we trav- 
 elled a great deal. Among the Saxons we learned that the wife was 
 the "spindle half," and the husband the "spear half." It is vic(^ 
 versa nowadays, the women do the hunting and the men get 
 caught in the fowler's snare. We stayed in Great Britain a long 
 time; saw Milton and Shakespeare ; thought it necessary to study 
 a little German before going on the Continent. While engaged in 
 reciting this favorite language one delightful afternoon, the serenity 
 of the occasion was disturbed by the fluttering of a bird let loose 
 from its seclusion in somebody's coat-tail. While the x^rofessor was 
 getting reconciled to his new pupil and muttered quite inaudibly, 
 "Are you coming any more?" quoth the pigeon, "Nevermore," and 
 jumped out of the second story window. Before he would come again 
 he must be assured that " Der professor ist nicht tsu hause." We 
 travelled in the region of the " Romans," looked at Julius Csesar, 
 got into the careless style of Tacitus, so that it was impossible to 
 read what we had written. We spent the last days of this year 
 in Harmony, under the shade trees, and in singing the " Psalm of 
 Life" without any discord or dissenting voice in the College chapel. 
 This last performance took so well that it brought the Seniors to 
 their feet. But it's no use to get your back up in college, for when 
 you get up to do anything desperate, the Faculty always give you 
 an easy grade to run on. We thought we would retaliate • so when 
 they began to address us we got up, but were in like manner taken 
 down. Having had so much to do with gravity, of course we were 
 ready to be grave seniors. This year we returned, and as we sailed 
 into our own Haven we began to "reflect." The "reproduction" 
 and "recognition" of friends exercised our memory. We did not 
 know whether to believe our senses, everything had changed so. We 
 were taught to rely a great deal upon our "imagination," therefore 
 we naturally made use of this in other studies besides mental philos- 
 ophy. We were splendid " economists," because we knew a man to 
 be better off when rich than when poor, for he can gratify more 
 
HISTORY. 
 
 desires ; good logicians, because we knew the beginning and gener- 
 ally the end of our " terms ;" good morahsts, because we thought it 
 wrong for an ass to stand between two equally good bundles of hay 
 and die, rather than show partiality by eating of either ; good 
 geologists, because we understood boring and getting bored for 
 kerosene oil — ^boring, when we borrowed of some one else ; but get- 
 ting bored when the converse took place. We were so proficient 
 in Butler's Analogy that we only needed a start, and from the 
 " analogy" we could easily infer the rest, so that our first lesson was 
 carefully prepared, and the rest drawn from it by " analogy." We 
 looked at the stars and were greatly elevated above the other classes ; 
 knocked "spots" out of the moon and her son (sun), and got 
 pretty near " luna ;" were conversant with " Saturn " and his boys, 
 " Jupiter " and " Neptune," and considered it essential, before we 
 became good astronomers, for us to pursue the "higher" studies. 
 Such has been a hasty review of the inner life of '70 during our 
 sojourn within this classic retreat. Its history is blended, in com- 
 mon with that of other classes, with much that marks an era of 
 progress in the history of our Alma Mater. Its object has been to 
 sustain her growing reputation, in the faithful discharge of duty. 
 Its annals are filled with items of interest peculiarly its own, the 
 recital of which time forbids. The incidents above mentioned 
 appertain to the past of '70, and will, I trust, prove refreshing to its 
 members as they journey thi'ough life's desert, as well as interesting 
 to you who manifest interest in our welfare. May the prospective 
 be brighter than the retrospective. 
 
 .AS^ 
 
^^y 
 
 Air,— "AULD LANG SYNE." 
 
 When children from their mother part, 
 
 A farewell they should give, 
 The language of a grateful heart, 
 
 The wish that she may thrive ; 
 So now a few of Seventy's band 
 
 Would high our voices raise, 
 To crown her queen of all the land ; 
 
 'Tis Lafayette we praise. 
 
 The Bible for her corner-stone, 
 
 God's precious gift to man, 
 With hallow'd garments overthrown. 
 
 Defile her, oh ! who can ? 
 She's founded on the lasting rock. 
 
 Set high upon the hill, 
 Majestic 'mid the tempest's shock, 
 
 Her mission to fulfill. 
 
 To those who labor in her walls, 
 
 Who teach her doctrines true. 
 On whom a heavy burden falls. 
 
 Ten thousand thanks are due ; 
 For you have shown us wisdom's ways. 
 
 And how to walk therein ; 
 Of you we'll think in after days, 
 
 As we fresh laurels win. 
 
 Classmates ! as we have four years been, 
 
 So ever let us be, 
 A magic unit of nineteen. 
 
 And never disagree. 
 Then when Life comes, however lono' 
 
 Or short may be the strife, 
 Our song shall be the victor's song. 
 
 Our crown the crown of life. 
 
 36 
 
m^tmntMim ^f tttl^ 
 
 R. W. D. BRYAN. 
 
 We are in the midst of gayety and excitement. Everything 
 around demands, from us, joy and mirth. How inconsistent are 
 these with our j)osition ! We are now saying farewell, and, per- 
 haps, for many of us a final farewell to scenes, faces, and associa- 
 tions with which four years' acquaintance has made us familiar. Is 
 it natural for us to be gay, lively, or happy ? Why then should we 
 restrain our natural impulses and assume a deceptive appearance ? 
 It is for you, my friends. You are all doubtless ready to rejoice 
 with us if we rejoice, but few, very few, would weep with us if we 
 wept. This is a season of festivities for you. Sorrow does not min- 
 gle in the cujd of your mirth. What are we, mourners, among so 
 many joyous ones ? It is fitting, then, that we should draw the 
 cloak of secrecy over our private griefs and array ourselves in a 
 wedding garb of gladness. 
 
 I have been honored by the class with the duty of formally pre- 
 senting to the members such gifts of remembrance as each has been 
 deemed worthy of receiving. Whom should we reward first ? 
 Why, obviously the one who has proved himself of the greatest 
 service to the class. Who is he ? Why, he who has excelled his 
 fellows in chivalrous devotion to the fair sex. Our Ladies' man is 
 the one whom we delight to honor. We hold him greatest, not 
 from forced flattery or that it might be apparently adventitious 
 adulation, but from the firm conviction that he, above all, has true 
 greatness of soul, mind, and heart, and is the complete gentleman. 
 
 The tree is known by its fruits." 
 
 4 37 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 We met to elect some one; but so eager were we all for the honor 
 that, Avithout nominations, we voted, and each one received one vote, 
 except Mr. Waller, who was president, and could not vote. No one 
 was elected; yet as none were defeated no one was not elected, ex- 
 cept Mr. Waller. So that I have the pleasure, ladies, of presenting 
 to you the whole class as good, sterling, ladies' men. The pinnacle 
 of our hope is that you will receive this, our public offer, in the 
 same spirit that you have or will receive the private offers of many 
 of our individual members. 
 
 But, in the strictest sense of the possessive case, we have a Lady's 
 man, Mr. Charles Keeler Canfield, our married man. When a man 
 marries he is usually expected to settle down ; his preparatory work 
 is then supposed to be complete and his life-labor then to begin. 
 You have demonstrated by your example, Charles, that it is infinitely 
 better for a young man to marry before he has commenced his 
 studies. Oh ! fellow students ! What countless benefits and mani- 
 fold good might have been ours had we sacrificed oui'selves on 
 Hymen's altar ! Think only that we would have had no buttons to 
 sew on, no stockings to darn, no beds to make, no washer-woman to 
 pay, and no bad coffee or sour bread, and at once the vagrant vam- 
 pires of regret will run rude ruin, and raise rare riot in your self- 
 satisfied minds. Yet, perhaps, it was not your fault. Such things 
 sometimes happen. We can never, Canfield, thank your wife too 
 much for the care, oversight, and anxiety which she has saved us. 
 Under her guardian care we doubted not your safety. No tempta- 
 tions lured you into paths of sin and vice. No shutter, borne by 
 weary hands, carried your besotted frame. No prying busy-body 
 presumed, for Faculty promotion, to search your room at dead of 
 night in quest of drunkenness. For this you have your wife to 
 thank ; for this we thank her. , Take this thimble, for a little thumb, 
 and give it to your better-half as an intimation of our gratitude 
 and our sincerest wishes for an uninterrupted course of domestic 
 felicity. 
 
^ry ■ 
 
 f* PRESENTATIONSPEECH. 
 
 Closely allied to, and often synonymous with, the Married man, is 
 the Old man. Mr. Terence Jacobson, a Norwegian by birth, a Cos- 
 mopolitan sojourner and guest, an Oxonian pedagogue, the great 
 Western Biblical reformer, the hero of Harper's Ferry, the success- 
 ful Staten Island navigator, is beyond doubt the old man of the 
 class. Jake, you have all the accompaniments of riper years, and 
 these have been to us inestimable blessings. How often have we 
 fondly gathered around you to catch the words of wisdom which 
 dropped as nimble and as numerous as the fairy child's toads ! 
 This superiority in years, and consequent superiority in practical 
 experience, held you not a recluse in the embrace of self, but right 
 heartily did you enter into all the jural ramifications of our juvenile 
 rampancy; for as "Waller poetically puts it : 
 
 " Clouds of affection from our youthful eyes, 
 Conceal'd that emptiness that age descries." 
 
 For the laudable purpose of enhghtening your darkening optics, 
 of enabling you to wear the semblance of a highly refined and edu- 
 cated gentleman, and to start you staring, to note and enjoy the 
 embarrassment caused thereby, we give to you these spectacles with 
 the liveliest wishes for your welfare. 
 
 As effect to cause, so ia the Old man connected with the Regular 
 man. Besides which, our regular man, Mr. Lucien Wilson Doty, was 
 associated with our old man in the character of the great Occidental 
 evangelical debater, attracting the notice of Chicago and Cincinnati, 
 by traversing their streets in heelless slippers, which thing he shall 
 not have occasion to do, thanks to his lady, any more. Lucien ! 
 Early one morning as we were fiercely cogitating to discover some- 
 thing to say to and of you, we found, much to our surjDrise, your 
 diary in Paradise. We propose to epitomize one day's record : 
 " Rose betimes at 5 ; washed and dressed in 10 minutes ; devotions 
 tm 5.20; a run till 5.30; read 'Life of Choate' till 6.30; break- 
 fasted till 7 ; looked over morning's recitation till 7.35 ; went to 
 
40 THE REPORTER. 
 
 chapel till 7.45 ; chapel till 8 ; recitation till 9 ; studied till 10.50 ; 
 went to recitation till 11 ; recitation till 12 ; dinner till 12.30 ; base- 
 ball till 1 ; walk down town for the mail (?) and back by 2 ; studied 
 till 3.50 ; went to recitation till 4 ; recitation till 5 ; chapel till 5.15 ; 
 supper till 5.45 ; exercised till 6 ; either loafed or went to prayer- 
 meeting till 6.30 ; walked till 7 ; studied till 9 ; read ' Hazlitt's 
 Table Talk' till 10 ; wrote diary till 10.15 ; devotions and asleep by 
 10.30." This order is varied on the regular nights when he enjoys 
 himself in ladies' society, and seeks his bed at 11.30 exactly, an horn- 
 later. This speaks for itself and for your regularity, Lucien. The 
 class, proud to recognize such abilities in one of their number, here- 
 with present you this ruler, trusting that you will fill the measure of 
 your days with satisfaction to yourself and credit to all. 
 
 "We have another regular man, our Kegular Scientific — Mi\ James 
 W. Piatt. Our friend James deserves especial praise. He is the 
 first and only one who has passed through the entire four years of 
 the regular Pardee Scientific Course. The Faculty and Ti'ustees 
 will of course be proud of you, Jim, and say and do many jDretty 
 things to you ; but we must not on that account shirk our duty. 
 Your studies have had their proper effect upon you in rendering 
 your senses wonderfully sharp and acute. These naturalists see 
 more, hear more, smell more, taste more, and touch more delicately 
 than any unsophisticated person could possibly imagine. One 
 instance, James, will sufficiently illustrate your optical attainments. 
 You were strolling leisurely along, and suddenly your whole atten- 
 tion was directed to a diatomic plant some ten yards off. UjDon 
 inquiry it appeared that you were watching the evolutions of a pre- 
 dacious ichneumon preparing for a descent upon an innocent para- 
 sitic aphis busily engaged in gormandizing the life-giving element 
 of the plant. When the curfew crieth, the " wangdoodle" waileth, 
 or the " hampus-rampus" roareth, the delicacy of thy senses causeth 
 a poignancy of grief surpassed only by their astuteness. This bot- 
 tle contains a preserved cockroach which the class gives to you. 
 
PRESENTATION SPEECH. 
 
 believing that its habits will often call to 'mind the pilfered cup- 
 boards of earlier years, and hoping that, unlike it, your deeds will 
 not be such as to cause you to " love darkness rather than light." 
 
 The idea of an old man always associates with it in our mind the 
 idea of street corners, hotel porches, club-rooms, shady nooks, ease- 
 giving swings and sedans, the resorts of loafers. Have we a loafer ? 
 There were several candidates for this position and quite an exciting 
 election. We had good reasons for believing that some of the 
 fraternities had effected a coalition to elect one of their number, but 
 they failed in accomplishing the object of their nefarious negotia- 
 tions, and the honor was bestowed upon Mr, David Jewett Waller, Jr. 
 The amount of loafing, Dave, that you can take charge of is truly 
 wonderful. The fame of your exploits in masticating loaves pre- 
 ceded your advent into Easton and your connection with our vener- 
 able Alma Mater. For immediately upon your arrival the mutually 
 beneficent organization of associated Bakers and Barbers, -oassed the 
 following : "Resolved, That we learn with pleasure of the intention 
 of Mr. Waller to dwell in our midst, and while we commiserate our 
 afflicted brothers in Bloomsburg we can but congratulate ourselves 
 upon this prospect of an immense increase in the demand for our 
 labor." Several letters from persons who have boarded you are in 
 my possession, and all alike complain of the remarkable increase in 
 their baker's bills during your stay with them. Receive this loaf as a 
 recognition of your powers by the class, and if you keep on friendly 
 terms with it, the good goddess Panacea will eversmile upon you. 
 
 We have, however, a bona fide loafer — the gentleman of the 
 class, Mr. James Patterson Ziegler, of Mount Joy, Lancaster 
 Co., Pa. Jim, if you were not born with a silver spoon in your 
 mouth, you were born with all those qualities of mind and body 
 which would best fit you for taking advantage of such a preg- 
 nant prognostication. You should have had an unlimited income, 
 so that all those extreme gentlemanly quahties might have had full 
 swing, without placing you in embarrassed circumstances. Being 
 
42 THEEEPORTER. 
 
 thus freed from the painful necessity of labor, and consequently of 
 developing unnatural powers, you would have had leisure, unlimited 
 by the provoking demands of neglected duty, to enter fully into all 
 the recondite mysteries of spiritualism and the inexplicable enigmas 
 of clairvoyants. You have abilities. Jim, which, if directed aright, 
 would confer upon you "crimson glory and undying fame." Your 
 power of grasping and handling psychological and other intricate 
 theological questions, point to the ministry as your field of action. 
 Your skill in giving excuses, at which you were never known to fail, 
 as our worthy professor remarked, and your decided disputatious- 
 ness, single out the law as your proper pursuit. Your dexterity in 
 hoodwinking all classes and conditions of beings, and forcing them 
 to place full and implicit confidence in all you say and do, would 
 presage for you an enviable success as a physician. As we are sure, 
 Jim, that you will always be able to get along, no matter what you 
 do, or whether you do nothing at all, we bestow upon you this laurel 
 crown. You can thus claim to have been laureated, the Faculty to 
 the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 A diametrical contrariety exists between a loafer and a lean man. 
 Who ever saw lean loafers loitering languidly along, like lazy lovers ? 
 Lean and lazy are antagonistic ideas. This, in a measure, favors 
 our lean man, Mr. Joseph Johnson Hardy. " Yon !" Hardy, " hath 
 lean and hungry look ; he thinks too much ; such men are dan- 
 gerous." Mindful of your safety. Ladies, we have guards placed 
 who will protect you from all danger. Joe ! you have never gazed 
 upon the beautiful orb of day, or admired the varied scenes of 
 Nature, except as a lean man, yet upon none did you lean ; but 
 your greatest ambition has been to have all lean upon you, never 
 cautioning them of the leanness of the support. Joseph ! thou art 
 the very incarnation of a critic ; captious, caviling, and petulant, 
 thou hast no equal. An examination of the diagnoses of eminent 
 ^sculapians convinced us that you were diseased. To cure you, 
 then, occupied our whole thought. We concluded that if we could 
 
PRESENTATIONSPEECH. 43 
 
 but make you laugh you would grow fat. To accomplish this, we 
 spent much time in collecting suitable jokes, and here we have them 
 collected in a box, which we give to you, confident that by using 
 them you will, in a short time, be "fair, fat, and forty." 
 
 We might have cured Mr. Hardy in a diiferent way. We might 
 have placed him in the delightful company of our Joker, Mr. John 
 Eussel Youngman, but we feared his constitution would break 
 under such rigid jesting. Our friend John is very facetious. John, 
 if Hobbes is right in his definition of laughter, either you are a very 
 superior person or your conceptions are outrageously deceptive. 
 My friends! it don't amaze me that such streams of "concordia 
 discors" should flow from such a prim, nice, unassuming young man 
 as you see before you. Do not, however, think that he descends to 
 punning. His is that superior wit which elevates and refiiies, while 
 it imparts life and vigor to the mental organism, jaded by its con- 
 stant exertions. In the "double-entente," the burlesque and the 
 sarcasm " that sparkles while it wounds," his inimitable talents best 
 display themselves. His fame has gone abroad, as will be seen 
 from the following letter, which he received from IVIi'. Harrison, 
 agent for the sale of the "Celebrated Compound Concentrated 
 Catholicon" for the State of Pennsylvania, and which, with his per- 
 mission, we will read : 
 
 Phil , May 2Ut, 1870. 
 Mr. J. E. Youngman : 
 
 SiK, — I propose to take a trip through the state this summer, and 
 wish to procure the services of a Merry Andrew. Knowing that 
 you would soon be released from your College duties, and having 
 the fullest assurance from both Mr. Van Amburgh and Messrs. Carn- 
 cross and Dixie, that you wei'e an excellent and zealous zany, I 
 hastened to wi'ite to you. I am willing to give you your board, all 
 the almanacs and comic newspapers, and one-fourth of what I make 
 on the bottles, in exchange for your services. Address soon 
 
 Benjamin Haekison, M.D., 
 
 No. 87 tSoutJl 5lh St. 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 The class, Russel, appreciating your powers and judging tlie 
 probable effect upon your future career, deemed it prudent to 
 advise you to cultivate sobriety, and to further this they have 
 bestowed upon you this pickle. 
 
 Not far enough removed from the idea of a loafer is the idea of a 
 base-ball player ; besides, as we are situated upon this terraqueous 
 ball, expected to bawl for all to hear, it is but just that we should 
 have a ball man. No one would presume to think of any one as our 
 ball man except Mr. Joseph Henry Brensinger. Joe ! you have 
 been called "Eeliable"; though, to tell you the truth, the title is any- 
 thing but complimentary. If you had been but a thing, of you, we 
 would have said no-thing. The great efforts you have made to 
 sustain the dignity of the College nine, as well as our class nine, 
 victorious so often, and mainly by your pre-eminence, demand this 
 public recognition of our gratitude, as well as some token by which 
 posterity may be apj)rised of it. We determined upon this peri- 
 spherical article, known in common parlance as a ball, as the fittest 
 gift. Its periphery and diameter are according to the regulation 
 requirements, while it bears upon its perimeter the significant 
 words: "Fidissimus me habet." Your past history, Joe, shows 
 three successive eras of successful ball-handling — as a printer, as 
 an athlete, and as a soldier. Ladies ! " Five balls have pierced that 
 noble breast, but — they ivere codfish balls !" " You see you can't most 
 always tell when you least expect it most." 
 
 By contiguity in place, whether we call it one of the primary laws 
 of association with the many, or of suggestion with Dr. Brown, or 
 of conception with Mr. Haven, it matters not, a ball always brings 
 to our minds the idea of a belle. It is perfectly natural, then, since 
 we have a ball-man, that we should have a bell-man, and here he is, 
 in the person of Mr. Jonathan Emmert, of Benevola, Md. During 
 our Freshman year, Jonathan, you undoubtedly "bore the bell" in 
 our class. In the second year, unfortunately, you "lost the bell" by 
 the budding of latent talent in some of your illustrious colleagues 
 
PRESENTATION SPEECH 
 
 However, in the third year, you " rang the bell " of the College, and 
 have continued till now to execute the duties of that office with 
 remarkable regularity, though justice compels us to say that we 
 often had " to shake the bells" to arouse you from your endeavors 
 " to bell the cat," in the shape of some abstruse metaphysical inves- 
 tigations. Your fast faithfulness, and your proneness to promptness 
 in the discharge of duties, merits our admiration, and makes you 
 worthy " to bear away this bell," whose tiny tintinnabulations, we 
 trust, will often lead your mind back to the pleasing associations of 
 your College life. 
 
 From time immemorial it has been noticed that the dandy follows 
 the belle, and why should we change the revered custom. Have we 
 not then some person fitted to fill that position ? No nice young 
 man ? The heart of our worthy Master of Ceremonies yearned to 
 be so considered, but the class thought differently and decided in 
 favor of Mr. William Gemmill. Now, Mr. Gemmill, in appearing 
 before this audience, do not make extra exertions to appear fine, 
 though your not having an opportunity of speaking debars you 
 from making the fullest display of your finical inclinations. We 
 can say for you, however, that you are more spruce than foppish; 
 yet we think that outward circumstances, rather than your own 
 disposition, tended to this result. As a last counsel and sad warn- 
 ing the class give you this coxcomb, in order that in after years it 
 may be a perfunctory admonitor cautioning you of the danger of 
 imitating its emblematic peculiarities. 
 
 As species to genus, so is the intensive belle related to the exten- 
 sive dancer. Mr, James Hervey Wright, of Chanceford, York Co., 
 Pa., has been unanimously pronounced the best and most extensive 
 dancer in the class. Hervey! when we have praised you for the 
 agility, grace, and ease of your motions, we have little thought of 
 the long weary years of patient persevering practice that were 
 necessary to make you such an adept. The rude rollicking of rural 
 regimen made the fjalop your favorite, though in speaking yoit, as 
 
THE KEPORTEK. 
 
 the Engiishman would say, put " li'l" in it and performed it upon the 
 back of a plough-horse. When you came to College you began to 
 consult your ease, and then the polka was praised by you, though 
 you always said it was "poker'' you preferred; at this, not fully under- 
 standing you, we were between the Scylla of tears and the Charyb- 
 dis of laughter. When you had acquired for yourself the Senior's 
 dignity, and had laid aside that natural admiration of gaudy colors 
 for a true delight in softer, milder hues, a flaunty show of glaring- 
 glow called from you in disgust the exclamation, " Eed ! Oh ! Ah !'' 
 (redowa), which showed at once the high culture of your aesthetic 
 nature and the rapid progress of your pedestal accomplishments. 
 As a token of our appreciation of your remarkable skill in this art, 
 we have selected this little work entitled, " The Dancer's Assistant," 
 and we believe that by a proper sttidy of its contents you will be 
 able to whirl through all the intricacies of the Chanceior d-waUs{z). 
 
 But what would balls, belles, or dancers be without music, since it 
 alone "has charms to sooth the savage breast?" What can the class 
 of '70 do in the music line ? Mr. William Shippen Roney is the piper 
 of the class. Will ! there is no use in your denying it, you use the 
 2Jipe more than any of your classmates. During your whole course 
 you have been noted as an inveterate smoker. So far has your 
 reputation extended that even our Professor has been known to cite 
 you as an example of the injurious effects of that nauseous weed of 
 which " the Devil sowed the seed." We can unhesitatingly say that, 
 as true friends and warm wishers for your future well-being, we 
 have frequently urged you to refrain from contact with that which, 
 if persisted in, will certainly ruin your health and lay that fine, 
 robust, manly form upon the languishing bed of sickness. As we were 
 satisfied that no words of ours would sufiS.ce to draw you from your 
 pipe, while the meagreness of your corporeality made it impossible 
 for us to draw a pipe from you, we determined to give you an oppor- 
 tunity to draw this pipe from us. We can only venture the hope 
 that often in his sanctum, at Andalusia College, the Professor, in the 
 
PRESENTATION SPEECH, 
 
 midst of the fumes of the narcotic in it, "will hold in memory his 
 College days. 
 
 In saying that Mr. Roney was the piper of the class, the whole 
 truth respecting the musical capacities of the class was not told, for 
 did you not hear the soothing melody and rhythmical cadence of the 
 Heroic of our Poet ? Yes ! Mr. Horace Roland, you are one of 
 " those unfortunate individuals whom nature has made poets." 
 Everything is done by you in the strictest poetic manner. Pressed 
 for plain j)rose, you are placed in a preposterously peculiar predica- 
 ment. You talk, sleep, study, walk the campus at night, and eat 
 shad at breakfast in the most poetical manner imaginable. Are not 
 the distinguishing peculiarities of the true j)oet so unmistakably 
 stamped upon every lineament of his countenance, and in the extra- 
 ordinary symmetrical ordonnance of his contour, that you are forced 
 to admit the truth, " Poeta nascitur non fit ?" To mention any con- 
 siderable number of this individual's idiosyncrasies — and what true 
 poet has them not in abundance ? — time will not suffice. He grows 
 inspired, however, not on the summit of the Aonian Mount, but at 
 the base of the "hill of life." This little vial, containing concen- 
 trated essence of Hellebore, mixed with Poppy-juice, we give to you 
 with the request that you use it whenever 
 
 "Moon-struck madness, moping melancholy," 
 
 hypochrondria, or ,insanity, attempts to lead you in the path beaten 
 by so many of your predecessors. 
 
 However inconsistent it may seem, the character about to be 
 introduced has made more music, though of a peculiar kind, than 
 any other member of the class. Mr. Samuel Huntzinger Kaercher 
 has been named as the Tutor of the class. It may seem rather 
 singular, Sam, that we should select you as our instructor, yet it is 
 undoubtedly true that you have tutored more than we. You were 
 elected unanimously, and no wonder, for {teat (Lat. que) yap) you 
 have the essentials in a pre-eminent degree; severely conscientious in 
 
THE EEPORTEE, 
 
 the discharge of duty; anxious to put forth superhuman endeavors 
 to discover crime ; and, though young, crafty in unravelling par- 
 tially disclosed mysteries, and remarkably adroit in eliciting infor- 
 mation by ingenious insinuations or querulous questionings. You 
 have disjolayed your tutoring abilities on several occasions. By 
 roaming at night disguised, you have been the cause of Freshman 
 fears. In consideration of your valuable instruction, we, your 
 dutiful pupils, preserst you with this article, known at sight as a 
 most necessary appendage to the complete outfit of a student. The 
 Horn! It has often been your companion, Sammy! If it would 
 but speak, what strange adventures, startling tales, fierce encounters, 
 and narrow escaj)es could it narrate ! Oh ! Horn ! the ruthless hand 
 of authority has attempted to darken the sky of thy glory. The 
 glorious " Sun of Liberty" crossed thy path annuaUy, and made it 
 radiant, but thy course has been changed, and hereafter nothing- 
 save fitful meteoric flashes will serve to lighten the dull concave, 
 unless thy patrons prove true and permit thee to enjoy the brilliant 
 light of the bright orb that traverses the "hallowed" November 
 sky. Students of Lafayette ! to you we commit this responsibility. 
 Neglect not to perform this duty. Take it, Sam, and may its 
 brightness be a symbol of thy future. 
 
 We have just presented the idea of an uncivil tutor engineering- 
 affairs for himself ; we have now to present our civil engineer, Mr. 
 William Gray Heller, with this signal staff, symbolical of his profes- 
 sion. Bill! you were particularly happy in the choice of your 
 calling. That eagle eye, that steady nerve, that indomitable will, 
 bespeak for you a glorious future. One requisite, however, is want- 
 ing- : you can't swear hard enough. It is utterly useless to even 
 think of becoming a successful engineer if you can't emphasize in 
 that way. It won't do, Bill, to say ''Gosh dast it," or "Gosh hang it," 
 or any of those milder colloquial expletives. You must come out 
 stronger. We need not be very anxious about you, however, as jon 
 can, with a very little practice, become an expert. Our friend 
 
PEESENTATION SPEECH. 
 
 William has sliown his talent by a recent discovery of a standard 
 by which landscape gardeners can lay out footpaths. He i-easoned 
 thus. The curve is the most perfect line. Hogarth's line of beauty 
 was a ciu've line. Man is the most perfect animal. Man stands 
 upon an arch, a curve. Will he then walk a straight line? Of 
 course not. This standard is to be the equation of the average of 
 a number of lines made by different persons in going to a fixed 
 point. This grand truth, when known and appreciated by the 
 world, will alone crown with glory and honor thy head. Oh ! 
 William Gray! take and stick to this stick, don't peg down, keep 
 level, mind your sights, and you will have at last a safe transit. 
 
 Associated with our topographer as fellow-worker and friend, is 
 our Long man, Mr. Frank Hammond Piatt. Several reasons, which 
 need not be mentioned, point to the aptness of applying to you, 
 Frank, Washington Irving's simile of the tall masculine tree and 
 the delicate feminine vine. Make it rather a lopped bean-pole, 
 standing apart in its manly strength, and giving support to the 
 legumenous butter-bean. A prospective furnishes a picture of 
 beauty and rural happiness. A tall spare-looking man, seated on 
 the veranda of a rustic cottage, his Teutonic consort rendering 
 him happy by ingenuous confidences and practical exhibitions of 
 affection, while the dusky servant busies himself in obeying his 
 master's frequent order, "Zwei lager for two." Such a prospect 
 ought to rouse all the dormant enei'gies of your nature, and lead 
 you on to higher resolves and nobler endeavors. To encourage and 
 aid you as true sympathizing friends, the class give you this ring, to 
 grace your lady's hand, wishing you all joy and prosperity. 
 
 Who can think of a long man without also entertaining the idea of 
 a short man ? Our short man is Mr. Alexander Hamilton Sherrerd. 
 Your shortness, EUick, favors you since you have no difficulty in 
 passing for a mino(e)r, which is of immense advantage when travel- 
 ling. You will be one of those square, fat, jolly, aldermanic fellows, 
 whose sole object is to get as much enjoyment from the pleasures of 
 
THE EEPORTER. 
 
 this life as possible. You have frequently brightened our College 
 days by your sparkling wit. Your jokes, however, have first to be 
 explained, and then acted out, before fully appreciated. You would 
 have been the class jester had not the jovial joker, John, received 
 more votes. You ought to be prosperous and rich since you can 
 look upon the scene of your future labors and say, " 'Tis(a)niine." 
 In short, short one, if you don't cut short certain little irregularities 
 you will at last fall short, though you will do that at any rate, for 
 " can'st thou add one cubit to thy stature ?" The class presents you 
 with this bag of shorts, and hopes that you will strive to be unlike 
 it in its relation to the coarser bran, and aim at a point far above 
 mediocrity. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, we have gone over "the long and the 
 short" of the class, and yet have not given presents to all its 
 members. Your humble servant is the only exception, and for 
 very good reasons will remain the exception. It would not be 
 seemly for me to compliment and say nice things about myself 
 before such an audience. Moreover, self-praise produces a very dis- 
 agreeable effect, and a very highly esteemed Professor has impressed 
 us with the policy of waiting for others to sound our praise. 
 
 The next presentation will be to you all, and we doubt not will be 
 more acceptable than any previous one. It will be in the form of 
 one of the most delightful of our orchestra's performances. 
 
CHARLES K. CANFIELD. 
 
 "When the Hebrew children were about to graduate from the 
 school in the wilderness, in which they had been disciplined for 
 forty long- years, they became aware, for the first time, of the debt 
 of gratitude which they owed to Moses, their teacher. Not until 
 called to bid him a last farewell, did they learn fully to ai^preciate 
 him. They were about to cross the river which should mark a new 
 era in their history. No longer were they to receive their bread 
 gratuitously from heaven, but must earn it, like the rest of man- 
 kind, by the sweat of their brow. New fields of activity were to be 
 opened up ; new conquests and triumphs, new trials and defeats 
 awaited them. The long-sought land of promise was, after all, a 
 land of work and war. As they stood thus on the banks of the 
 Jordan, mourning over the separation from their teacher, how 
 analagous their situation to the one which we now occupy. We 
 have come to the very brink of that unseen river which must soon 
 separate us from our Alma Mater. Just beyond its further banks 
 lie the fields of active life, diverse as the persons who are to occupy 
 them, and , all chequered with their paths of duty. Long and hope- 
 fully have we looked forward to that promised land, and now that 
 we have come to its nearest boundary, it is fitting that we pause 
 ere we pass into it, and, while we pay a parting tribute to old 
 Lafayette, ask ourselves whether we are prepared to meet the foe, 
 which sooner or later we shall find marshalled on life's battle-field. 
 We can do no better, on this occasion, than consider briefly a 
 
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THE REPORTER. 
 
 portion of the advice which, on that other occasion, God gare to 
 Joshua. The advice to which I refer reads thus : " Only be thou 
 strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do accord- 
 ing to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee : turn 
 not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest pros- 
 per whithersoever thou goest." Joshua i., 7. 
 
 Doubtless, the strength here referred to is moral strength, but 
 what are its analogies ? To be strong physically, is to be vigorous 
 and hale. Strength implies vitality. The oaken beam is strong, 
 only because it retains some of the vitality which its roots drank in 
 from the mountain side. Our- minds are strong just in proportion 
 as they are animated and vitalized. Strong intellects may be slow, 
 but never sluggish. 
 
 What is moral strength but to have all our moral faculties keenly 
 alive, and to be quickened in the inner man ? It is not simply 
 restraining from vice ; it is bringing into requisition all those vigor- 
 ous and active qualities of manhood which were never made to lie 
 dormant. 
 
 The true development of moral, like physical power, consists in 
 exercise. Moral strength is the momentum acquired by doing good. 
 The puny child, by suitable labor, gTows into the stalwart man ; so 
 the moral faculties grow strong by exercise in the right. The arm 
 unused becomes powerless and soon withers and droops ; a faculty 
 of the mind unemployed becomes enfeebled ; but he who neglects to 
 develop his higher nature, will not only find it weakened, but the 
 avenues of approach will be opened to corruption, and before he is 
 aware the stealthy serpent vice will creep into his soul. We read of 
 many physical and intellectual giants, but how few that are strong 
 in heart ! And why ? Because man seeks to cultivate his physical 
 and intellectual, but leaves his moral nature a prey to inactivity, 
 which is the parent of disease and decay. 
 
 No moral powers can be strong when they are festering with dis- 
 ease. Even the seeds of corruption, though unseen by mortal eyes. 
 
CHAPLAIN'S ADDRESS, 
 
 will, like the roots of thistles and vile weeds in a field of flowers, be 
 ever springing up to choke and weaken all that is beautiful, and 
 true, and good. Moral corruption is the worm that gnaws the roots 
 of manhood's tree, and saps it of its strength. 
 
 There is another essential to moral power. It is novirishment. 
 It was food for his spiritual nature that Christ meant when he said, 
 " I have meat to eat that ye know not of." John iv., 32. If we 
 would be spiritually strong we must feed on the word of God, which 
 word is milk for babes and meat for strong men. That our moral 
 strength decay not, we must make use of all the means of grace 
 which God has given us. Prayer is as necessary for the soul as food 
 for the body. There is a longing within every breast which can 
 only find satisfaction in God. The voices of the soul cry from 
 thirst, and they can only be answered by the " water of life." We 
 hunger, by the very constitution of our immortal natures, and our 
 spiritual appetites give no peace till we eat that " bread which com- 
 eth down from heaven." The means are within our power to attain 
 these ends, and so become strong according to the fullness of human 
 strength. 
 
 "Only be thou strong and very courageous." If ever there is need 
 of courage out of actual danger, it is when, looking down the plains 
 of life's uncertain conflict, you are unable to distinguish danger 
 from safety. Events are about to transpire whose success no human 
 foresight can calculate. Courage is the armor which enables you 
 successfully to meet them. It is the essential concomitant of success. 
 No shuddering, half-dismayed sj^irit can expect to succeed in life's 
 great battle. Manly fortitude, single-handed, sometimes overcomes 
 hosts of enemies. Bravery, fortitude, valor, are all commendable, 
 but moral courage is the noblest of them all. Courage to do the 
 right, under all circumstances, is more difficult to attain than the 
 physical fortitude to meet a regiment of foes in open battle ; but if 
 its possession is more difficult, its value is more transcendent. 
 Even though we fail in the efl'ort, the sting of reproach is taken 
 
THE REPOETE E 
 
 away by the consciousness that we dared to attempt what was right 
 and noble. 
 
 Do we ever think that moral strength and courage have anything 
 to do with our abihty to observe as well as to do what is right ? The 
 Scripture tells us so. " Be thou strong and very courageous that 
 thou may est observe to do according to all the law." To one weak 
 in faith and faltering in courage, the keeping of the law is a burden- 
 some task ; to one strong and courageous, though unable perfectly 
 to keep it, trying is not irksome. How provident that for each duty 
 there are corresponding means of fulfillment ! While God requires 
 man to keep his commands, he gives him both strength and courage; 
 and could he use them as not abusing them, temptations might 
 be as numerous as sands beside the sea, and they would only cause 
 his armor of defence the brighter to shine. 'Twas by keeping these 
 weapons unimpaired by the rust of human passions, that God's 
 incarnate Son was never known to yield a victory to sin. Oh ! who 
 would not be like him, that he might " observe to do according to 
 all the law ?" 
 
 It is not sufficient to keep God's law occasionally. Steadfastness 
 is necessary to prosperity. " Turn not from it to the right hand or 
 to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." 
 How many fail in life's mission, because they think that a few noble 
 and charitable deeds will suffice to carry them to the end of earth's 
 journey, forgetting that of doing good there should be no end. 
 
 The law of God is a pathway leading always to success, and he 
 who would walk in it must neither stop, nor turn to the right or to 
 the left. To the right are the thorns and briars of disobedience, to 
 the left are the quicksands of dishonor. Duty is a constant com- 
 panion, and ever and anon whispers with the gentle voice of inspira- 
 tion, " This is the way, walk ye in it." Isaiah xxx., 21. But more 
 than aU there is a hand, a pierced hand, still fresh with blood from 
 Calvary's cross, that reaches down from heaven, and helps over the 
 arduous places in the way all those that grasp it ; yea, all the weak ^ 
 
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CHAPLAIN'S ADDRESS. 
 
 are lifted above the obstacles which they are unable to overcome, 
 and so are brought on their way, which grows broader, and easier, 
 and more beautiful, as they approach its glorious end. 
 
 Classmates, the exercises of to-day will soon be over, our College 
 duties will soon be done ; but when their memory shall have faded 
 away, may you not forget the counsel which God gave to Joshua, 
 ere he crossed the Jordan, " Only be thou strong and very courage- 
 ous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which 
 Moses my servant commanded thee : turn not from it to the right 
 hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou 
 goest." 
 
 Do you see the leaves on that tree, how they all are united through 
 one common trunk, and draw their nourishment from the same 
 common sources ? But when the autumn frosts return, the wind 
 shall scatter them into a thousand pathways. When once they 
 leave the parent tree, who can tell where each may light ? So it 
 shall be with us. Though the same cherishing hand has dealt out to 
 us our portion of knowledge, no mortal can teU in what diverse situ- 
 ations we shall use it. Like the leaves, some adverse gale from ill- 
 fortune's quarter may put us down in ungenial climes, 'mid darkness 
 and discouragement, and sadness and sorrow be our lot. If such 
 should be, how we shall need to be " strong and very courageous." 
 
 Let us, then, put on all the strength which God has given us ; let 
 us summon all the moral courage which mortals can command, and 
 let us go forth, like strong men armed, to lay claim to our portion in 
 the promised land of active life, upon whose confines we are now 
 about to enter. With our armor bright and truth as our standard, 
 it will be noble to battle for the right. Oh ! that we might all 
 acknowledge the same Captain in life's great struggle. Then cer- 
 tain victory would be held up as the same glorious reward to us 
 all. 
 
 With strength of principle, and our hearts filled with love to God 
 and man, what a power for good in the world our little band might 
 
THE REPORTER, 
 
 become. Who could tell what torches of reformation, to light up 
 this dark world, we might enkindle ? Aye ! who could say but that 
 the fires we might kindle would burn till the end of time, and on the 
 Judgment day would light up full many a face with radiant joy? 
 Classmates, shall this be our destiny ? Would to God it might, but 
 alas for fallen human nature ! how few of us will ever even resolve 
 to make it so ; and how few that make the resolution will resolve it 
 otherwise than in their own strength. " I can do all things through 
 Christ which strengtheneth me," said Paul. How glorious would it 
 be to be able to do all things, and to come off conquerors and more 
 than conquerors in this worldly conflict ; and then to meet, on that 
 great reunion day, at the right hand of the throne of God, and 
 there, as one unbroken band, to be,, in the language of our motto, 
 " 'AdeA^ot d'la rov aiGJvog." 
 
ATiOW. 
 
 W. S. HONEY. 
 
 In the old Bohemian town of Prague stands the tomb of Tycho 
 Brahe, the father of modern astronomy, and upon it are inscribed 
 the words, " Esm potius quam videri," be rather than seem. This 
 motto, so pregnant with true counsel, and so wide in its ajoplication, 
 is yet so often \dolated, that 
 
 " This one maxim is a standing nile, 
 Men are not what they seem." 
 
 Not only is the mask of deception worn before the world, but even 
 
 from themselves do men hide the innermost workings of their heart, 
 
 and interpose between the mind and soul the visor of deceit. To 
 
 all men, indeed, but to us particularly, who have yet to make our 
 
 trial stejjs upon the strand of life, it behooves that not only the 
 
 appearance, but the intention be fair, and especially that we de_ 
 
 ceive not ourselves as to the judiciousness of our aims, or our ability 
 
 to execute them. 
 
 On this ground upon which we stand, for four years have we been 
 
 preparing to meet the shock and encounter of life, and now. Time, 
 
 the ruthless consumer of all things, armed with his keen scythe, and 
 
 having eaten his children as fast as they were born, is about to cast 
 
 us upon 
 
 "The world 
 
 All ear and eye, M'ith such a stupid heart 
 
 To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue 
 
 To blare its own interpretation. " 
 
 * Tills Oration was received too late for insertion at its proper place. 
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THE REPORTER. 
 
 Upon its tender mercies are we thrown, and by ourselves must we 
 either rise or fall. As the rising sun lightens up the horizon with 
 roseate hue, and shadows forth the coming splendor of midday, so 
 is shadowed forth the future to those about to spring upon the great 
 eternal battle-field. Fancy paints triumphs and trophies, laurels and 
 bays, upon the rosy vail that floats between them and the great 
 unknown. But brave thoughts and high aspirations are to noble 
 achievements only as the acorn to the oak, containing, it is true, the 
 germ of their existence, but, if left unnurtured and uncared for 
 upon a rocky soil, they slowly waste away and become as if they had 
 not been. The world, so quick to see faults and fi-ailties, sees not, 
 or notices only with a laugh of scorn and derision, the bravest inten- 
 tions, unless accompanied by corresponding deeds. To be about to 
 be is well, to be is better ; or, as a gifted American author has said, 
 " Posse must be put into a pipe, and blown into an illustrious bub- 
 ble, before the world perceives the esse." 
 
 If of us our college training has developed nothing but book- 
 worms ; if we are mere imbibers of other men's lore and learning, 
 and, like the sluggish and stagnant canal, give up only what we have 
 received, it has failed in its great object. To become acquainted 
 with the great actions of past heroes and leaders, to imbibe 
 the wisdom of by-gone sages, to drink deep draughts from the 
 never-failing wells of science and art, are grand achievements ; but 
 if not to these we have added the power of thinking, yea of acting 
 for ourselves, our education has but just commenced. 
 
 " Show me the man 
 Who, leaving God, and nature, and himself, 
 Sits at the feet of masters, stuflfs his brain 
 "With maxims, notions, usages, and rules, 
 And yields his fancy up to leading-strings, 
 And I shall see a man who never did 
 A deed worth doing." 
 
TREE ORATION. 
 
 Around us and about us, from every nook of nature and of life, 
 start up the food for never-dying thought, whose vv^or kings may 
 startle a world and shake the earth to its very center, and from every 
 class and condition of life comes up the cry for action. If we pass 
 over the journey of this world, enriching only the minds of ourselves, 
 and dropping no crumb of good by the way-side, we might as well 
 have been a chi-ysalis and died in the cocoon of our own spinning. 
 He who measures time by the ticking of the clock, or the years of 
 his life by the summers and winters that have passed over his head, 
 has counted wrongly. It is by our deeds and thoughts that we 
 should measure the flight of time. 
 
 "He most lives 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." 
 
 The soldier, from dawn to eve of the battle-day, lives a whole life, 
 or, we bhould rather say, has condensed into one day's action the 
 experience of ages of a more sluggish life. In itself, a single thought 
 may contract into one short moment the deeds of a lifetime, and a 
 single deed may leave its lasting fruit, for good or evil, for pleasure 
 or sorrow, upon a long life. 
 
 To-day we plant upon this thrice-revered soil, hallowed by so 
 many almost sacred reminiscences, this tree, as the connecting link 
 which binds into one chain the hearts and hands, the minds and 
 feelings, of the Class of '70. We have chosen from among trees the 
 maple, as the fit emblem of that pure and abiding spirit of friend- 
 ship toward each other, and of good will toward their fellow-man, 
 which we trust pervades the heart and soul of each one of us. 
 Shapely and comely above all trees, yet strong in its interlacing 
 branches mutually sustaining one another, with its manifold leaves 
 and buds, and beautiful green, with its shade, so grateful to the 
 weary traveller worn by the heat of the noonday sun, it stands 
 pre-eminent, the beautiful among trees. 
 
 As first the little germ, fallen from its parent stock, and nourished 
 
THE REPOETEK. 
 
 by the gentle rains and vivifying light of the sun, sprang into exist- 
 ence, a tender plant struggling with adverse storms and winter's 
 cold for its life, so started into being the Class of '70. As it has 
 gi'own and increased in strength, until now it has become so 
 vigorous that it can be transplanted from the soil which has 
 nurtured it from infancy, and can uphold itself, so, as a class, 
 through four long years, we have been drawing closer and closer 
 the bonds which bound us to each other, and, we hope, have in- 
 creased in mental strength, and in attainments which will fit us for 
 the great conflict in which we are about to engage. 
 
 As we look back over the years spent together so pleasantly, 
 we see lights and shadows, trials and joys, closely interwoven in 
 the warp and woof of our College life; but as we gaze, the shadows 
 grow fainter and fainter, and at last entirely fade away, and 
 naught but the hght remains. In after years we will form other 
 friendships and connections, but none which will ever take the 
 place of that so firmly fixed by our years of communion here, so 
 enduringly rooted by the participation in the same joj^s and sorrows, 
 in the same struggles and successes. In a short time we leave this 
 loved spot, some of us probably never to return ; j)erhaps, as a class, 
 never more to meet again. We will be scattered far and widely 
 over the fair face of the earth, some of us never again to join heart 
 and hand in the grasp of friendship. But a few flying moments, 
 and the Class of '70 will be among the things that were, except 
 in the hearts and souls of its members, as at least the one bright 
 spot in memory. In their innermost souls will be embalmed a 
 precious casket, containing the sacred reminiscences of happy days 
 gone by. 
 
 If, in years to com'e, we return to this hallowed place, the first 
 spot we visit will be the maple which bears the name and glory of 
 '70. In its welfare we will ever feel a lasting interest, as almost the 
 sole memento which will remind future classes and generations that 
 such a class existed. 
 
TREE ORATION. 
 
 \ 
 
 In Spain they have an old proverb, that " He who plants an olive 
 tree leaves an inheritance to his children." We, more selfish than 
 the Spaniards, by planting our tree, leave an everlasting inheritance 
 of remembrance to ourselves, and only a slight reminder to future 
 classes that we were. Soon the places which have known us so long 
 will know us no more, and to the class of '71 will be delegated the 
 honors and dignity of Seniorism. 
 
 In the summer of life, when j^rosperous and full of joy, let us 
 remember that the winter soon follows, and may leave us, like our 
 maple, stripped of leaves and to all api:)earance dead and fruitless, 
 and so, warned by our emblem, we may turn our thoughts to higher 
 and better things. In the dreary winter, when stricken with the 
 weight of sorrow and trouble, we may remember that though we 
 may be like the bare and leafless maple, yet soon the pleasant spring 
 time will come to reinvigorate us with its soft showers and life-giving 
 sunshine ; and so, again, remembering our symbol upon the heights 
 of College Hill, we may not be cast down by despair. 
 
 And now, O classmates and comrades dear, unsustained by each 
 other's cheer and comfort, we must travel the path of life, be it 
 strewn with roses or with thorns, alone ; by our own unaided 
 strength, must we succeed or fail. 
 
 Life is before ye ! and as ye now stand 
 
 Eager to spring upon the promised land, 
 
 Fair smiles the way where yet your feet have trod, 
 
 But a few light stejis upon a flowery sod ; 
 
 Eound ye are youth's green bowers, and to your eyes, 
 
 Tho' horizon's line but joint the earth and skies, 
 
 Daring and triumph, pleasui-e, fame, and joy. 
 
 Friendship unwavering, love without alloy. 
 
 Brave thoughts of noble deeds, and glory won, 
 
 Like angels, beckon ye to venture on. 
 
 Life is before ye ! from the fated road 
 
 Ye cannot ; turn, then, take ye up your load, 
 
THE EEPORTER. 
 
 Not yours to tread or leave the unknown way; 
 Ye must go o'er it, meet ye what ye may, 
 Gird up your souls within you to the deed, 
 Angels and fellow spirits bid ye speed ! 
 What though the brightness wane, the pleasure fade, 
 The glory dim ! Oh, not of these is made 
 The awful life that to your trust is given, 
 Children of God, inheritors of heaven. 
 
m 
 
 In life's untrodden path we stand, 
 
 And cast a hopeful eye 
 To Providence, whose mighty hand 
 
 Shapes destinies on high. 
 
 May all life's ways, as yet unseen, 
 
 Like Canaan meet our sight, 
 Through fertile fields all robed in green, 
 
 Conduct us to delight. 
 
 But that the Lord would make us strong. 
 
 We will the rather ask, 
 And give us hearts to war with wrong. 
 
 And courage for the task. 
 
 'Tis good to battle for the right, 
 
 With God's sure armor on; 
 We know he'll help us in the fight, 
 
 To conquer through his Son. 
 
 And though for " Seventy's " band there bd 
 
 No palms of earth's renown. 
 May all in Heaven meet, where we 
 
 Shall each receive the crown. 
 
 God grant us all an entrance there. 
 
 Beyond cold Jordan's shore, 
 And then no starless crowns to wear. 
 
 While " Brothers evermore. " 
 
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«^$ 
 
 Names of Persons Associated with the Class, 
 
 AT ANY TIME DURING- THE COURSE. 
 
 W. B. ADAMSON, 
 
 C. H. BALDWIN, 
 
 J. V. BARE, 
 
 J. H. BISSELL, 
 
 J. H. BRENSINGER, 
 
 E. BRYAN, 
 
 R. W. D. BRYAN, 
 
 C. K. CANFIELD, 
 
 J. W. CLARK, 
 
 N. H. CONE, 
 
 ERANK DOREMUS, 
 
 L. W. DOTY, 
 
 J. EMMERT, 
 
 W. S. EVANS, 
 
 T. M. FARQUHAR, 
 
 W. GEMMILL, 
 
 S. J. GRUVER, 
 
 J. A. HAND, 
 
 J. J. HARDY, 
 
 J. M. HARRIS, 
 
 W. G. HELLER, 
 
 T. JACOBSON, 
 
 S. H. KAERCHER, 
 W. S. KENNEDY, 
 G. R. LATHROP, 
 J. V. LONG, 
 
 E. K. MEIGS, 
 N. P. MOODY, 
 
 D. G. E. MUSSELMAN, 
 T. C. NELSON, 
 
 F. H. PIATT, 
 J. W. PIATT, 
 F. S. RICE, 
 
 C. H. RISK, 
 H. ROLAND, 
 W. S. RONEY, 
 
 F. F. ROWLAND, 
 M. P. SELTZER, 
 A. H. SHERRERD, 
 
 D. J. WALLER, Jk., 
 F. J. WASHABAUGH, 
 J. H. WRIGHT, 
 
 J. R. YOUNGMAN, 
 T. W. YOUNGMAN, 
 
 J. P. ZIEGLER. 
 
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iTATlSTWi m ^fi. 
 
 Number at Graduation, 19. 
 
 Number on Entering, 42. 
 
 Entered 2d Year, 4. 
 
 Left College, 19. 
 
 Entered Lower Classes, 6. 
 
 Died, 1. 
 
 Expelled, 1. 
 
 Number Petitions sent to Faculty, 43; Number Granted, 17. 
 
 Number conscientiously opposed to signing Petitions, 3. 
 
 Age at Graduation— Oldest, 27 y. 4 mo. 20 d. 7 h. ; Youngest, 19 y. 4 m. 27 d. 
 17 h. Total Age, 4 cen. 34 y. 10 m. 23 d. 14 h. Average Age, 22 y. 4 m. 29 d. 
 15i^ h. 
 
 Height — Longest, 6 ft. 1 in. ; Shortest, 5 ft. 5 in. Total Height, 6 poles, 6 yds. 
 1 ft. 6 in. Average Height, 5 ft. 9-i"c,- in. 
 
 Weight— Heaviest, 173 lbs.; Lightest, 118^ lbs. Total Weight, 1 ton, 7 hun. 
 lOi lbs. Average Weight, 142 |f lbs. 
 
 Length of Leg — Longest, 3 ft. \ in. ; Shortest, 2 ft. 5 in. Total Length, 3 rods, 
 1 yd. 10^ in. Average Length, 2 ft. 8f in. 
 
 Length of Arm — Longest, 2 ft. 7k in. ; Shortest, 2 ft. 2^ in. Total Length, 2 rods, 
 8 yds. ft. 5f in. Average Length, 2 ft. 4f f in. 
 
 Length of Foot — Longest, 11 in. ; Shortest, 9|^ in. Total, 5 yds. 1 ft. 2f in. 
 Average Length, lO-j^iX/ in. 
 
 Length of Thumb — Longest, 2^ in. ; Shortest, 2^^ in. Total Length, 4 ft. ^ in. 
 Average Length, 2||- in. 
 
 Length of Little Toe — Longest, 2 in. 2^ lines; Shortest, 1 in. 1^ lines. Total 
 Length, 2 ft. 5 in. Average Length, 1 in. 5-i% lines. 
 
 Number of Corns — Greatest, 12; Least, 0. Total, 76. Average, 4. 
 
 Length of Transverse Axis of Mouth — Greatest, 3^ in. ; Least, If in. Total 
 Length, 3 ft. 6| in. Average Length, 2-,^a% in. 
 
 Number of Swimmers, 17. 
 
 Number of Skaters, 17. 
 
 Number Spectacled, 3. 
 
 k Number having False Teeth, 3. 
 . 5 ' 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 Number Bandy-legged, 1. 
 Number Pigeon-toed, 2. 
 
 Circumference of Head— Greatest, 1 ft. 11^ in.; Least, 1 ft. 9 in. Total, 2 
 perches, 2 ft. 2^ in. Average, 1 ft. 10-^ in. 
 
 Color of Hair— Brown, 13; Black, 2; Light, 2; Flaxen, 1; Auburn, 1. 
 Curly Heads, 5. 
 
 Color of Eyes— Blue, 8; Brown, 3; Gray, 6; Hazel, 1; Variable, 1; Green-eyed 
 Monsters, 4. 
 Classical, 14; Scientific, 5. 
 
 Where Eooming— East College, 13; Blair Hall, 2; Martien Hall, 2; Newkirk 
 Hall, 2. 
 
 Number of Parents Living— Greatest, 2 ; Least, 1. Total, 35. Average, 1\^. 
 Number of Grand-Parents Living— Greatest, 2; Least, 0. Total, 7. Average, -,\. 
 Occupation of Fathers — Ministers, 3; Lawyers, 3; Physicians, 1; Gentlemen, 3; 
 Farmers, 4; Insurance Agents, 1; Weavers, 1; Miners, 1; Iron Dealers, 1; Un- 
 known, 1, 
 Number of Brothers— Greatest, 7; Least, 0. Total, 46. Average, 2-,^ 
 Number of Sisters— Greatest, 3; Least, 0. Total, 25. Average, 1-py. 
 Distance from Home— Greatest, 850 m.; Least, ^ m. Total, 2,607^ m. Average, 
 137-32, m. 
 
 Number of Lady Acquaintances in Easton— Greatest, 120; Least, 2. Total, 576. 
 Average, 30-;^. 
 Female Suffrage— Pro, 5; Con, 11; "On the Fence," 2. 
 Politics — Republicans, 12; Democrats, 7. 
 States Eepresented— Pa.. 14; N. J., 3; Md., 1; 111., 1. 
 
 Personal Habits— Lazy, 6; Neat, 8; Enthusiastic, 3; Eccentric, 1; Indpendent, 1. 
 Subjects of Discipline — Reprimanded, 4; on Probation, 2; Suspended, 1. 
 Whiskers— Thin kind, 7; Full, 2; Moustache, 2; Goatee, 1; Burnsides, 1; Prom- 
 ising, 4; Presbyterians, 1; Microscopic, 1. 
 
 Matrimonial Prospects — Married, 1; Engaged, 7; "Chances tip-top," 1; "Dim," 
 1; Unsusceptible, 3; Susceptible, but Hopeless, 1; Never Exposed, 1; Exposed, 
 but Escaped, 2; Heartless, 1; Uncertain, 1. 
 
 Intended Occupations — Ministers, 6; Lawyers, 7; Tutors, 3; Teachers, 1; Min- 
 ing Engineers, 2; Civil Engineers, 1. (One has " two irons in the fire.") 
 
 Nick-Names — Loppy, Rasp, Francis Train, Lieutenant, Critic, Jim C, Kaph, 
 Joe, Shat, Jake, Dunch, Jont Patcher, Major, Reliable, Ru.dy, Brenny, Joe, Toad, 
 Jim, Huntz, Horry, Dave, Doc. Hervey, Bustor, Skinney, 'o 6s, Kleine Georg, 
 Biancus, Bill, Silas, Jack. 
 
T 
 
 RUSTEES. 
 
 Hon. JAMES POLLOCK, LL. D., President Philadelphia. 
 
 Key. S. M. ANDREWS, D. D., Seceetary Doylestown. 
 
 Eev. SEPTIMUS TUSTIN, D. D Washington City. 
 
 Rev. DAVID J. WALLER Bloomsbnrg. 
 
 Rey. ROBERT HAMILL, D. D Boalsburg. 
 
 WILLIAM C. LAWSON, Esq Milton. 
 
 JAMES McKEEN, Esq Easton. 
 
 MATTHEW HALE JONES, Esq Easton. 
 
 McEVERS FORMAN, Esq Easton. 
 
 Rey. SAMUEL F. COLT Towanda. 
 
 Rey. AARON H. HAND, D. D Bloomsbury, N. J. 
 
 Rey. WILLIAM C. CATTELL, D. D Easton. 
 
 Hon. JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN Philadelphia. 
 
 Rev. MILO J. HICKOCK, D. D Oxford, Ohio. 
 
 A. PARDEE, Esq Hazleton. 
 
 ALFRED MARTIEN, Esq Philadelphia. 
 
 Rey. J. H. MASON KNOX, D. D Germautown. 
 
 JOHN F. McCOY, Esq New York City. 
 
 BARTON H. JENKS, Esq Philadelphia. 
 
 THOMAS BEAVER, Esq Danville. 
 
 JOSEPH H. SCRANTON, Esq Scrauton. 
 
 JOHN WELLES HOLLENBACK, Esq Wilkesbarre. 
 
 Hon. JAMES MORRISON HARRIS Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Col. WILLIAM DORRIS, Jb Huntingdon. 
 
 MORRIS PATTERSON, Esq Philadelphia. 
 
 JOHN CUEWEN, M. D Harrisburg. 
 
 WILLIAM ADAMSON, Esq Philadelphia. 
 
 T 
 
 REASURER. 
 
 X Pkof. JAMES H. COFFIN Easton, Pa. 
 
 ^^v- 
 
MeMBEI^ of the 'pACULTY. 
 
 Kev. WILLIAM CASSADAY CATTELL, D. D., President, 
 And Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 
 
 TRAILL GREEN, M. D., LL. D., 
 
 Adamson Professor of General and Applied Chemistry. 
 
 JAMES HENRY COFFIN, LL. D., 
 
 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 
 
 FRANCIS ANDREW MARCH, A. M., 
 
 Professor of the English Language and Comparative Philology. 
 
 Ret. JOHN LEAMAN, A. M., M. D., 
 
 Professor of Human Physiology and Anatomj'. 
 
 Rev. JAMES READ ECKARD, D. D., 
 
 Professor of Historj' and Rhetoric. 
 
 Rev. LYMAN COLEMAN, D. D., 
 
 Professor of Latin and of Biblical and Physical Geography, 
 
 Rev. henry STAFFORD OSBORN, LL. D., 
 
 Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. 
 
 Rev. THOMAS CONRAD PORTER, D. D., 
 
 Professor of Botany and Zoologj'. 
 
 AUGUSTUS ALEXIS BLOOMBERGH, A. M., 
 Professor of Modern Languages. 
 
 HENRY FRANCIS WALLING, C. E., 
 
 Professor of Civil and Topographical Engineering. 
 
 ROBERT BA.RBER YOUNGMAN, A. M., 
 
 Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 
 
 Professor of Phj'sical Culture, 
 
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY HITCHCOCK, Ph. D., 
 
 Lecturer on Geology and Mineralogy. 
 
 SELDEN JENNINGS COFFIN, A. M., 
 
 Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 
 
 JAMES W. MOORE, A. M., M. D., 
 
 Adjunct Professor of Mechanics and Experimental Philosophy. 
 
 EDWARD STEWART MOFFAT, A. M., M. E., 
 
 Adjunct Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. 
 
 JOHN BOYD GRIER, A. M., 
 
 Tutor in Modern Languages. 
 
 WALTER QUINCY SCOTT, A. B., 
 
 Tutor in Ancient Languages. 
 
 CHARLES McINTIRE, B. S., 
 
 Assistant in Chemistry. 
 
 ABRAM PASCHAL GARBER, B. S., 
 
 Assistant in Natural History. 
 
 SAMUEL L. FISLER, 
 
 Superintendent of College Grounds 
 
 W. L. BECHDOLT, 
 Janitor. 
 
UNUS IN AMOBE, MORE, ORE, RE." 
 
 #ffiars far t\it ^mxtnt ||eEr. 
 
 PEESIDENT. 
 
 WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq Carlisle. 
 
 VIOE-PKESIDENT. 
 
 Peof. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D Chicago. 
 
 TKEASUEEK. 
 
 ELISHA ALLIS, Esq Easton. 
 
 SECEETAET. 
 
 Peok SELDEN J. COFFIN Easton. 
 
 CLEEK. 
 
 REUBEN HAINES Elkton, Md. 
 
 The annual meeting is held on Tuesday afternoon of Oommencement week, at 
 which an Oration and Poem are pronounced. The Association is composed of 
 graduates, and such of their classmates who left College before graduation, and in 
 good standing, as may have been elected. 
 
 Subscriptions, confined to one hundred dollars each, to the fund for endowing 
 an Alumni Professorship, have been made to the amount of $11,000, of which 
 f 6,000 have been paid in. This is in addition to numerous gifts of larger sums, 
 from members of the Association, to the general funds of the College. The recent 
 eflfort to secure five thousand dollars for the erection of a Monument to commemo- 
 rate the services of those who fell in the late war for the Union, is nearly complete. 
 
 A Register of the post-office address of all who have been matriculated at Lafay- 
 ette, is kept by the Secretary, who is anxious to receive early information of all 
 changes, and also to be furnished with Biographical Sketches of all alumni, copies 
 of their works, and their photographs, card size, to be preserved in the archives 
 of the Association. 
 
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F. GUTELIUS President. 
 
 G. K. McMUETRIE Vice-Peesident. 
 
 JOHN MEIGS Reg. Secketabt. 
 
 A. S. SWARTZ CoE. Secbetaet, 
 
 WM. WIELY, Jb - Teeasueeb. 
 
 O. J. HARVEY HisTOEiAN. 
 
 A. S. SWARTZ, 1 T. ^ ^ oj m T • XT 
 
 ' I Poets for 3a Term, Junior Year. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD, j 
 
 H. P. GLOVER, I p^g^g ^^j. jg^ rpgj^^ ggjjjQj. Year. 
 
 W. WIELY, Je., j 
 
 J. A. Mcknight, ] r. + ^ o^ t^ t • ^ 
 
 ' L Orators for 3d Term, Jumor Year. 
 
 J. E. WATKINS, j 
 
 J. T. HOUSTON, I Orators for 1st Term, Senior Year. 
 
 J. F. POLLOCK, J 
 
 M.EMBERS. 
 
 J. S. AXTELL Sulphur Springs, Ohio. 
 
 L. H. BARBER Mifflinburg. 
 
 M. H. BRADLEY Mercersburg. 
 
 E. BRYAN Washington, N. J. 
 
 A. BRYDEN Pittston. 
 
 N. H. CONE Towsontown, Md. 
 
 J. COWAN SadsburyYiUe. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Herrick. 
 
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THE REPOKTER. 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD Herrick. 
 
 B. DOUGLASS, Je New York City. 
 
 S. H. EASTON Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 F. W. EDGAR Easton. 
 
 T. McK. FARQUHAR Easton. 
 
 W. S. FULTON Menittstown. 
 
 H. P. GLOVER Hartleton. 
 
 R GUTELIUS Mifflinburg. 
 
 J. M. HARRIS Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 
 0. F. HARVEY Wilkesbarre. 
 
 O. J. HARVEY Wilkesbarre. 
 
 R. M. HAYS Chambersbtirg. 
 
 J. T. HOUSTON Olivesburg, Ohio. 
 
 J. B. HUDSON Howard. 
 
 W. ST. G. KENT Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 
 D. B. KING .Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 B. W. LEWIS Spring Hill. 
 
 A. W. LONG Point Pleasant. 
 
 J. McCARROLL ....". . .Claysville. 
 
 C. McCAULEY Altoona. 
 
 H. K. McClelland Gap. 
 
 J. A. Mcknight Chambersburg. 
 
 G. K. McMURTRIE Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 W. McMURTRIE Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 J. MEIGS Pottstown. 
 
 F. T. OLDT New BerUn. 
 
 W. B. OWEN Wysox. 
 
 J. R. PAULL. Connellsville. 
 
 J. F. POLLOCK Fall Brook. 
 
 C. A. SANDT Easton. 
 
 J. SCOLLAY Westminster, 
 
 T. L. SPRINGER Loveville, Del. 
 
 W. SPRINGER Loveville, Del. 
 
 A. S. SWARTZ Kulpsville. 
 
 J. E. WATKINS Richmond, Va. 
 
 W. WIELY, Je Downington. 
 
 J. W. WILSON Easton. 
 
 J. M. YOUNG Easton. 
 
OPHOMO 
 
 J. E. SHULL Pkesident. 
 
 W. S. AYRES Vice-Peesident. 
 
 E S. DOTY Secretakt. 
 
 D. H. CAMPBELL • • Treasubeb. 
 
 E. L. HILLIS Historian. 
 
 M.EMBERS. 
 
 J. B. ANDREWS Agricultural College 
 
 W. S. AYEES AUamuchy, N. J. 
 
 W. D. BABCOCK Evansville, Ind. 
 
 J. M. BIRCH Claysville. 
 
 J. G. BOLTON Philadelphia. 
 
 W. C. BROBSTON Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 A. D. BROWN. Pottsville. 
 
 B. H. B. CAMERON SeUnsgrove. 
 
 D. H. CAMPBELL Antistown. 
 
 E. S. DOTY Mifflintown. 
 
 W. A. DOUGLASS New York City. 
 
 A. S. ELLIOTT Callensburg. 
 
 T. FASSITT Philadelphia. 
 
 J. FOX Easton. 
 
 W. P. GAINES Columbia, Texas. 
 
 73 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 J. S. GANTZ Hagerstown, Md. 
 
 J. I. GOOD Reading. 
 
 J. A. GREGORY Alexandria. 
 
 A. E. GROVER Richmond, Va. 
 
 J. J. HEINEY Easton. 
 
 E. L. HILLIS Herrick. 
 
 S. H. HOUSER Mauch Chunk. 
 
 L. HOWELL Greenwich, N. J. 
 
 C. T. KRATZ Freeland. 
 
 J. B. LAW Pittston. 
 
 W. S. LONG Point Pleasant. 
 
 S. K. McBRIDE New Alexandria. 
 
 N. M. Mccracken Slate Lick. 
 
 R. Mcdowell Slatlngton. 
 
 J. Mcpherson Hernckvllle. 
 
 J. A. MENAUL Tyrone, Ireland. 
 
 F. G. MORROW Herrick. 
 
 J. T. NOBLE. ClaysYiUe. 
 
 A. J. PILGRIM Columbia, Texas. 
 
 J. H. RITTENHOUSE Georgetown, D. C. 
 
 J. E. SHULL Martin's Creek. 
 
 H. A. SMITH Chestnut HiU, PhUa. 
 
 H, F. SMITH Lyons, Iowa. 
 
 S. C. SMITH Essex, Conn. 
 
 W. E. SMITH Hammonton, N. J. 
 
 R. P. SNOWDEN .Philadelphia. 
 
 J. SNYDER StonersviUe. 
 
 J. S. STEWART Alexandria. 
 
 W. S. SWEENEY Easton. 
 
 C. G. VORIS .Danville. 
 
 W. P. WILSON Huntington. 
 
 W. L. ZEIGLER Mount Joy. 
 
'^^ 
 
 J. G. DIEFENDERFER Pkesident. 
 
 H. M. STRCBLE Vice-Peesident. 
 
 E. M. KILLOUGH Seceetaet. 
 
 A. R. READ Teeasueee. 
 
 S. G. BARNES Chaplain. 
 
 A. T. SMITH Poet. 
 
 N. TAYLOR Oratob. 
 
 D. W. BRUCKART Histoeian. 
 
 L. E. WALLER Maeshal. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN Asst. Maeshal. 
 
 J* 
 
 EMBERS. 
 
 W. 0. ANDERSON Youngstown. 
 
 E. J. ANGLE Herrick. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN Bloomsburg. 
 
 E. A. BARBER West Chester. 
 
 S. G. BARNES Perth Amboy, N. J. 
 
 E. S. BARRICK Croton, N. J. 
 
 J. R. BENNETT Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 
 ENOCH BENSON Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 J. C. BERGSTRESSER Mt. Carmel. 
 
 G. N. BEST Pittston, N. J. 
 
 F. P. BILLMEYER Bloomsburg. 
 
 CICERO BROADHEAD Delaware Water Gap, 
 
 D. W. BRUCKART Silver Spring. 
 
 H. P. BUCKLEY Easton. 
 
 J. A. CANAN El Dorado. 
 
 75 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 E. K. CASE Frenchtown, N. J. 
 
 B. CHAMBERS, Jk Chambersburg. 
 
 W. C. CLINE Harmony, N. J. 
 
 M. L. COOK. Merryall. 
 
 A. H. DAVIDSON. Augusta. Ga. 
 
 J. G. DIEFENDERFEE AUentown. 
 
 F. DRAKE Easton. 
 
 T. C. ENGLISH Liberty Corner, N. J 
 
 J. FRACE Hecktown. 
 
 H. C. FROST Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 T. 0. GALBREATH Pylesville, Md. 
 
 W. B. GEMMILL Fawn Grove. 
 
 A. K. HANNEN Philadelphia. 
 
 W. H. HULICK Easton. 
 
 E. M. KILLOUGH Harrisburg. 
 
 CYRUS KNECHT Easton. 
 
 G. M. LEWIS Wyalusing. 
 
 W. R. LITTLE West Chester. 
 
 J. H. LOTT Easton. 
 
 T. McNINCH Pottsgrove. 
 
 A. K. MICHLER Washington, D. C. 
 
 W. MORGAN South River, N. J. 
 
 J. R. McINTYRE New York City. 
 
 J. NOBLE Easton. 
 
 A. R. READ Clearfield. 
 
 W. B. REED.. . Chambersburg. 
 
 J. M. ST. CLAIR Indiana. 
 
 W. H. SCHUYLER Bloomsburg. 
 
 W. M. SHANKS New York City. 
 
 J. R. SHIMER Martin's Creek. 
 
 A. T. SMITH MarshaU, Texas. 
 
 C. K. SMITH Chestnut Hill. 
 
 A. SNYDER. . .^. Easton. 
 
 H. A. STEES. Easton. 
 
 W. C. STERLING New Derry. 
 
 W. J. STEWART, Jk Duncannon. 
 
 R. M. STOCKER HamUnton. 
 
 H. S. STRUBLE Pleasant Valley, N. J 
 
FRESHMEN. 
 
 NATHANIEL TAYLOR Mooresburg. 
 
 L. E. WALLER Bloomsburg. 
 
 J. G. WILLIAMSON, Jr Sidney, N. J. 
 
 SPECIALS IN EMINEEKING. 
 
 W. S. KENNEDY Greencastle. 
 
 S. M. NELSON .Chambersbun 
 
MUxm in (S^alleij^ wlto Served guving iUt ^tMlimu 
 
 SENIORS. 
 
 J. H. BRENSINGER . .Private 124:th Pa. Wounded before Petersburg. 
 
 C. K. CANFIELD Private 141st Pa. Wounded at Chancellorsville. 
 
 WILLIAM GEMMILL Lieutenant 148tli Pa. Wounded at Chancellorsville. 
 
 J. J. HARDY Private 45tli Pa. 
 
 T. JACOBSON Sergeant 5th N. Y. Art. 
 
 JUNIORS. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Musician 14l8t Pa. 
 
 F. GUTELIUS Sergeant 150th Pa. 
 
 JOHN SCOLLAY Private 25th Mass. 
 
 SOPHOMORES. 
 J. B. ANDREWS Private 148th Pa. 
 
 78 
 
^^ ORGANIZED 1833. ^^ 
 
 ^^ 'y/^*/ c^<^cL^ t\t ^y (^V,c0y^U.''' 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 C. K. CANFIELD President. 
 
 T. L. SPRINGER Vice-President. 
 
 WM. WIELY Treasurer. 
 
 J. I. GOOD Recording Secretaby. 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD Corresponding " 
 
 F. GUTELIUS Librarian. 
 
 D. B. KING, \ 
 
 W. C. BROBSTON, V Executive Committee. 
 
 W. H. SCHUYLER, ) 
 
 Number of members, sixty-five. 
 
 Ihe objects of the Society are, to diflfuse a Christian spirit throughout the 
 College, to collect information, and to awaken an interest in respect to Missionary 
 work. 
 
 Under the auspices of the Society there is held, at 6 p. m., 
 
 About fifty of its members are engaged as Superintendents and Teachers in the 
 Sabbath-Schools in and around Easton. Seven of these Schools, and several 
 weekly Cottage Prayer-Meetings are conducted almost wholly by them. 
 
 The Society maintains the only Reading-Room in College, and has a Library of 
 five hundred volumes. 
 
 Many Clergymen and prominent Laymen have been connected with this organ- 
 ization in past years. Its anniversary is held on Sunday eve preceding Com- 
 mencement. 
 
 79 
 
Officers. 
 
 Eev. W. C. CATTELL, D. D Peesident {Ex Officio). 
 
 Key. THOMAS C. POETER, D. D 1st Vice-Pbesident. 
 
 ABEAM P. GAEBEE, B. S 2d Vice-Pkesident. 
 
 W. GEAY HELLEE Eecoeding Seceetakt. 
 
 Eev. HENEY S. OSBORNE, LL. D Coeeesponding Seceetakt. 
 
 JAMES W. PIATT Teeasueek. 
 
 NOEEIS H. CONE Libeaeian. 
 
 Eev. THOMAS C. POETER, \ 
 
 EDWARD S. MOFFAT, V Cukatoks. 
 
 NORRIS H. CONE, ) 
 
 J* 
 
 EM BERS. 
 
 W. B. ADAMSON, 
 W. D. BABCOCK, 
 E. A. J-5ARBER, 
 
 A. P. BECHDOLT, 
 ELI.JAH CASE, 
 
 W. C. CATTELL, 
 N. H. CONE, 
 
 B. DOUGLASS, Je., 
 THOMAS PASSITT, 
 A. P. GAEBEE, 
 
 J. A. GEEGOEY. 
 TEAILL GREEN, 
 HUGH HAMILTON, 
 J. A. HAND, 
 W. J. HELLER, 
 
 R. J. HESS, 
 
 W. J. HOGG, 
 
 J. B. JUVENAL, 
 
 W. E. LITTLE, 
 
 J. H. LOGAN, 
 
 J. Y. LONG, 
 
 C. McINTYRE, Jk. 
 
 H. D. Mcknight, 
 
 W. McMURTEIE, 
 
 E. S. MOFFAT, 
 J. W. MOOEE, 
 H. S. OSBOENE,. 
 
 F. H. PIATT, 
 J. W. PIATT, 
 T. C. POETER, 
 
 80 
 
NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 
 
 A. H. SHEEEEED, J. E. WATKINS, 
 
 HOWAED SMITH, S. G. WILSON, 
 
 W. S. SWEENY, A. H. SKINNEE, 
 
 H. F. WALLING, J. P. ZIEGLEE. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Dk. JOHN CUEWEN Harrisburg. 
 
 Dr. J. H. SLACK Bloomsbury, N. J. 
 
 Mk. CEEVELIN Bloomsbury, N J. 
 
 W. H. STULTZ Easton. 
 
 De. J. MEIXSELL Easton. 
 
 CALVIN BETTEL Easton. 
 
 EICHAED CHEIST Nazareth. 
 
 De. JOSEPH LEIDY Philadelphia. 
 
 Hon. J. P. WICKEESHAM Lancaster. 
 
 S. S. EA.THOOM Lancaster. 
 
 J. S. STAUFFEE • -Lancaster. 
 
ashington fitcrari ^ocietg. 
 
m 
 
 w(b 
 
 .,.*%^ 
 
 
 M^ 
 
 I, 
 
 .- *r 
 
 
ESTABLISHED 1830. 
 
 D. B. KING Pkesident. 
 
 W. M. SHANKS 1st VicE-PBEsroENT. 
 
 W. C. STERLING 2d ViOE-PREsroENT. 
 
 W. B. REED Secretaet. 
 
 A. H. DAVIDSON Asst. Secretary. 
 
 I. McPHERSON Treasurer. 
 
 B. W. LEWIS Librarian. 
 
 W. C. ANDERSON Asst. Librarian. 
 
 J. C .CRAWFORD, ) 
 
 >■ Corresponding Committee. 
 
 W. C. ANDERSON, ) 
 
 M.EM.BERS. 
 
 IST'O. 
 R. W. D. BRYAN, F. H. PIATT, 
 
 J. EMMERT, J. W. PIATT, 
 
 W. GEMMILL, W. S. RONEY, 
 
 J. J. HARDY, A. H. SHERRERD, 
 
 W. G. HELLER, J. H. WRIGHT, 
 
 S. H. KAERCHER, J. P. ZIEGLER. 
 
 J.Q'YJ-. 
 I. BORTS, R. M, HAYS, 
 
 F. BOYLE, F. B. HECKMAN, 
 
 M. H. BRADLEY, J. B. HUDSON, 
 
 E. BRYAN, • D. B. KING, 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD, B. W. LEWIS, 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD, J. A. McKNIGHT, 
 
 B. DOUGLASS, Jr., J. F. POLLOCK, 
 
 T. M. FARQUHAR, C. A. SANDT, 
 
 85 
 
THE KEPORTEE. 
 
 J. M. HAKEIS, 
 0. F. HAEVEY, 
 
 0. J. HAKVEY, 
 
 J. B. ANDREWS, 
 W. C. BROBSTON, 
 A. D. BROWN, 
 D. H. CAMPBELL, 
 W. A. DOUGLASS, 
 W. P. GAINES, 
 J. A, GREGORY, 
 
 1. McPHERSON, 
 J. A. MENAUL, 
 F. G. MORROW, 
 
 W. C. ANDERSON, 
 
 E. J. ANGLE, 
 
 S. G. BARNES, 
 
 E. BENSON, 
 
 D. W. BRUGKART, 
 
 J. A. CANAN, 
 
 B. CHAMBERS, 
 
 M. L. COOK, 
 
 A. H. DAVIDSON, 
 
 T. C. ENGLISH, 
 
 H. C. FROST, 
 
 137 
 
 J. SCOLLAY, 
 
 T. L. SPRINGER, 
 
 W. SPRINGER. 
 
 A. J. PILGRIM, 
 
 J. H. RITTENHOUSE, 
 
 H. A. SMITH, 
 
 H. F. SMITH, 
 
 E. L. HILLIS, 
 
 S. K. McBRIDE, 
 
 N. M. Mccracken, 
 
 S. C. SMITH, 
 J. S. STEWART, 
 W. S. SWEENY, 
 W. L. ZIEGLEE. 
 
 13 V3. 
 
 T. C. GALBREATH, 
 W. B. GEMMILL, 
 A. K. HANNEN, 
 E. M. KILLOUGH, 
 G. M. LEWIS, 
 A. R. READ, 
 W. B. REED, 
 J. M. ST. CLAIR; 
 W. M. SHANKS, 
 A. T. SMITH, 
 C. K. SMITH, 
 W. C. STERLING. 
 
 SPECIAL STUDENTS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. 
 W. S. KENNEDY, T. M, NELSON. 
 
Iiianklin Ittcrarii locietu. 
 
FOUNDED 1831, 
 
 "i^vxTj Kapdia ^p?/i'. 
 
 Officei^s, 
 
 W. B. OWEN President. 
 
 L. H. BARBER Vice-Pkesident, 
 
 A. W. LONG Secketaby. 
 
 G. K. McMURTRIE Rec. Secketaky. 
 
 W. B. OWEN Cor. Secretary. 
 
 J. E. SHULL Treasurer. 
 
 W. H. SCHUYLER Librarian. 
 
 J. COWAN, ) 
 
 „ „ y Orators. 
 
 W. WIELY, Jr., f 
 
 J. G. DIEFENDERFER Scriptor. 
 
 W. S. FULTON Poet. 
 
 M. E M B E F^S . 
 
 J. H. BRENSINGER, T. JACOBSON, 
 
 C. K. CANFIELD, H. ROLAND, 
 
 L. W. DOTY, D. J. WALLER, Jr., 
 
 J. R. YOUNGMAN. 
 
 18^71. 
 J. S. AXTELL, A. W. LONG, 
 
 L. H. BARBER, G. K. McMURTRIE, 
 
 A. BRYDEN, W. McMURTRIE, 
 
 N. H. CONE, J. MEIGS, 
 
 J. COWAN, F. T. OLDT, 
 
 S. H. EASTON, W. B. OWEN, 
 
 7 89 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 F. W. EDGAR. 
 W. S. FULTON, 
 H. P. GLOVER, 
 F. GUTELIUS, 
 J. T. HOUSTON, 
 W. St. G. KENT. 
 
 W. S, AYRES, 
 
 W. D. BABCOCK, 
 
 J. G. BOLTON, 
 
 B. H. B. CAMERON, 
 
 E. S. DOTY, 
 
 T. FASSITT, 
 
 J. FOX, 
 
 J. S. GANTZ, 
 
 J. I. GOOD, 
 
 la'T'a- 
 
 J. R. PAULL, 
 A. SWARTZ, 
 J. E. WATKINS, 
 W. WIELY, Je., 
 J. W. WILSON, 
 J. M. YOUNG. 
 
 S. H. HOUSER, 
 J. B. LAW, 
 W. S. LONG, 
 
 R. M. McDowell, 
 
 J. E. SHULL, 
 W. E. SMITH, 
 R. P. SNOWDEN, 
 J. SNYDER, 
 0. G. SNYDER, 
 
 W. P. WILSON. 
 
 1 3 V 3 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN, 
 E. A. BARBER, 
 
 E. S. BARRICK, 
 J. R. BENNETT, 
 
 J. C. BERGSTRESSER, 
 G. N. BEST, 
 
 F. P. BILLMEYER, 
 C. BRODHEAD, 
 
 H. T. BUCKLEY, 
 
 E. R. CASE, 
 
 W. C. CLINE, 
 
 J. G. DIEFENDERFER, 
 
 J. FRACE, 
 
 G. L. HUGGINS, 
 W. H. HULICK, 
 S. H. JACKSON, 
 C. KNECHT, 
 
 W. R. LITTLE, 
 
 J. H. LOTT, 
 
 T. McNINCH, 
 
 A. K. MICHLER, 
 
 W. MORGAN, 
 
 J. NOBLE, 
 
 W. H. SCHUYLER, 
 
 J. R. SHIMER, 
 
 A. SNYDER, 
 
 H. A. STEES, 
 
 W. J. STEWART, Je. 
 
 R. M. STOCKER, 
 
 H. M. STRUBLE, 
 
 N. TAYLOR, 
 
 W. THOMPSON, Je., 
 
 L. E. WALLER, 
 
 J. G. WILLIAMSON. 
 
.^.lii^aoiiilliOll^^ 
 
 JUNE 38, 1870. 
 
 €>xniot before Sottelics. 
 Pkof. CHARLES ELLIOTT, D. D Chicago. 
 
 WASHINGTON. 
 
 GEORGE R. KAERCHER Orator. 
 
 R. W. D. BRYAN Valedictorian. 
 
 L Mcpherson respondek. 
 
 J. B. ANDREWS, | 
 
 I Marshals. 
 
 W. P. GAINES, 1 ■ 
 
 FRANKLIN. 
 
 J. A. LIGGETT Orator. 
 
 L. W. DOTY Valedictorian. 
 
 JOHN FOX Responder. 
 
 J. S. GANTZ, I -^ 
 
 \. . Marshals 
 
 C. G. VORIS: 
 
 
 91 
 
93 
 
94 
 
j^i lappa §igma. 
 
 GAMMA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1853. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 H. D. LACHENOUE, '59, CHARLES F. CHIDSEY, '64, 
 
 H. L. BUNSTEIN, '64, J. WHITFIELD WOOD, '66, 
 
 HENRY W. SCOTT, '67. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 2.QVO. 
 J. H. BRENSINGER, LUCIEN W. DOTY. 
 
 W. S. FULTON, J. R. PAULL. 
 
 1372. 
 T. FASSITT, J. S. GANTZ, 
 
 R. M. McDowell, j. e. shull, 
 
 W. A. p. WILSON. 
 
 C. C. HOMMANN, G. L. HUGGINS, 
 
 W. H. HULICK, S. H. JACKSON, 
 
 ARTHUR SNYDER, W. H. THOMPSON. 
 
 95 
 
tlt'ii Sappa Sp5il0it, 
 
 RHO CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1855, 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 SAMUEL FKEEMAN, M. A., JOS. MARTIN, M. A., '59, 
 
 Prof. J. W. MOORE, M. A., M. D., '64. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 SAMUEL H. KAERCHER, WILLL^M S. RONEY. 
 
 1871.- 
 
 JAS. C. CRAWFORD, CHARLES McCAULEY, 
 
 OSCAR JEWELL HARVEY, JAMES A. McKNIGHT, 
 
 DAVID B. KING, JOHN SCOLLAY, 
 
 BRADLEY W. LEWIS, AARON S. SWARTZ. 
 
 18713. 
 
 ALGERNON D. BROWN, ELISHA L. HILLIS, 
 
 WILLIAM P. GAINES, ARTHUR J. PILGRIM, 
 
 JAMES I. GOOD, JEFFERSON SNYDER. 
 
 1873- 
 EDWARD M. KILLOUGH, GEORGE M. LEWIS, 
 
 AUGUSTUS T. SMITH. 
 
 97 
 
%tiK 
 
 61. 
 
 TAU CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1857. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 WILLIAM W. MOON, '61, 
 
 *JOHN H. BUCKLEY, '63. 
 
 S. V. B. KACHLINE, '63, 
 
 W. S. KIRKPATKICK, '63, 
 
 FRANCIS REEDER, '63, 
 
 W. HACKETT, Jk., CoU. of N. J., '63, 
 
 HOWARD R. REEDER, '63, 
 CLEMENT STEWART, '64, 
 GEORGE T. KELLER, '66, 
 ROBERT J. HESS, '67, 
 CHARLES I. RADER, '67, 
 A. B. HOWELL, '68, 
 
 H. D. Mcknight, '69. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 levo. 
 
 TERENCE JACOBSON. 
 
 OLIN F. HARVEY, JOHN MEIGS, 
 
 GEORGE K. McMURTRIE, WILLIAM B. OWEN, 
 
 JOHN F. POLLOCK. 
 
 isr72 
 
 J. BOYD ANDREWS, 
 DAVID H. CAMPBELL, 
 
 WILLIAM C. ANDERSON, 
 HERBERT T. BUCKLEY, 
 
 levs. 
 
 JOHN M. BIRCH, 
 JOHN FOX. 
 
 E. J. ANGLE, 
 JOHN A. CANAN. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
 99 
 
100 
 
(lljftii Mtltii j|]^i» 
 
 PHI CHARG-E-ESTABLISHED 1866. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 E. D. DOUGLASS, W. N. STEM, 
 
 F. W. STEWART. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 IB 7 0. 
 ALEX. H. SHEERERD. 
 
 1S71- 
 B. DOUGLASS, Jr., J. M. HARRIS, 
 
 J. B. JUVENAL.* 
 
 lava. 
 
 W. A. DOUGLASS, HARRY A. SMITH, 
 
 HOWARD F. SMITH. 
 
 18'73. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN, J. H. LOTT, 
 
 F. P. BILLMEYER, , W. H. PARKER, 
 H. C. FROST, C. K. SMITH. 
 
 * Left College. 
 
 101 
 
m 
 
 m 
 
igma for. 
 
 PHI CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1867. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBER. 
 
 JOHN D. MAXWELL. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 18 VO- 
 E. W. D, BEYAN, J. KUSSEL YOUNGMAN, 
 
 HOEACE EOLAND, JAMES P. ZIEGLEE. 
 
 18^1. 
 EDWAED BEYAN, J. ELFEETH WATKINS. 
 
 1872. 
 
 SAMUEL H. HOUSEE, JAMES H. EITTENHOUSE, 
 
 EOBEET P. SNOWDEN. 
 
 18^73. 
 EDWIN A. BAEBEE, EOBEET W. MAHON, 
 
 CICEEO BEODHEAD, A. KIETLAND MICHLEE. 
 
 "^ 
 
 

 
psilon ^^ta. 
 
 THETA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1868. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBER. 
 LAWRENCE P. MYERS. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 IS'T'O. 
 
 FRANK H. PIATT, 
 
 JAMES W. PIATT. 
 
 18 71. 
 SYLVANUS H. EASTON, HARRY K. McCLELLAND. 
 
 1872. 
 B. H. B. CAMERON, JOHN B. LAW. 
 
 18^73. 
 WILLIAM MORGAN*, ABNER LLOYD ROCKWELL, 
 
 WILLIAM J. STEWART, Jb. 
 
 105 
 
*****^*»»»*** 
 
 106 
 
. ^ 
 
 CO 
 
 l^r ^'appa fsi. 
 
 THETA CHAPTER-ESTABLISHED 1869. 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 L. H. BAKBER, H. P. GLOVER, 
 
 A. BRYDEN, S. G. WILSON. 
 
 C. G. VORIS. 
 
 la V3- 
 
 J. C. BERGSTRESSER, D. W. BRUCKART. 
 
 107 
 
O 1* 1 © « 
 
 FOUNDED ANNO DOMINI 1867. 
 
 3. 
 
 SYLE M^ THONE mARAN HLAF. 
 
 'E4,opo, J. K- YOUNGMAN. 
 
 UETE^opoi J. K. PAULL. 
 
 Tpa,,ar.., THOMAS FASSITT. 
 
 A^^.,-,, JOHN SCOLLAY. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 A. D. BROWN, 
 
 B. H. B. CAMERON, 
 THOMAS FASSITT, 
 W. P. GAINES, 
 
 J. S. GANTZ, 
 G. L. HUGGINS, 
 
 R. M. McDowell, 
 
 F. T. OLDT, 
 J. E. PAULL, 
 JOHN SCOLLAY, 
 A. T. SMITH, 
 J. E. WATKINS, 
 W. A. P. WILSON, 
 J. R. YOUNGMAN, 
 
 W. L. ZIEGLER. 
 
 109 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 l-iA^AlTBI^-'^-'E 
 
 SERO VENIENTIBUS OSSA. 
 
 J. J. HARDY Pkesident. 
 
 J. A. Mcknight vice-Peesident. 
 
 J. L. SPEINGEE Tkea-sueeb and Commissakt. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 W. C. ANDERSON, 
 M. H. BRADLEY, 
 B. CHAMBERS, Jk., 
 J. J. HARDY, 
 
 E. M. HAYS, 
 
 S. H. KAERCHER, 
 W. S. KENNEDY, 
 
 J. A. Mcknight, 
 
 T. M. nelson, 
 
 F. H. PIATT, 
 
 J. W. PIATT, 
 W. B. REED, 
 H. ROLAND, 
 W. M. SHANKS, 
 J. E. SHIMER, 
 J. E. SHULL, 
 T. L. SPRINGER, 
 W. SPRINGER, 
 J. M. ST. CLAIR, 
 W. WIELY, Jk. 
 
EATING CLUBS. 
 
 Ill 
 
 SSOOR A^'IO 
 
 And briNgad aN fset styric and ofslead^; aNd utoN etax, 
 and gepist'full'iaN. 
 
 W. B. OWEN President. 
 
 J. F. POLLOCK Vice-Peesident. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Teeasueek. 
 
 M. L. COOK, ) 
 
 J. , 0< aaipiaTOi. 
 
 J. G. :B0LT0N, j 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS. 
 
 E. l. hillis, d. b. kino, 
 
 B. W. LEWIS, W. GEMMILL, 
 
 J. H. WRIGHT, J. H. BRENSINGER, 
 
 l. w. doty, J. Mcpherson, 
 
 JEFF. SNYDER, E. S. DOTY, 
 
 A. S. SWARTZ. 
 
 
THE REPORTER. 
 
 ||]^il0S0pljers of i\t §lat-0 U^con ^c\}ooL 
 
 CONSIDEEE OffiNa; FACILE, DIFFICILE SURGEEE. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN Geav-E Member. 
 
 F. P. BILLMEYER Chekub of the Lasses. 
 
 C. McCAULEY Spillek of Liquids. 
 
 O. F. HAEVEY Ye Shovist op Dessert. 
 
 D. J. WALLER, Jr Agitator of the Carving Knife. 
 
 L. E. WALLER Shad-o-w-t One. 
 
 J. P. ZIEGLER Champion Dumplingist. 
 
EATING CLUBS. 
 
 It|e 5fogof)l]^go^^leiroo^fi(lrqne 61^!). 
 
 
 HASH EATERS. 
 
 COWAN, ' 
 
 ANDREWS, 
 
 KILLOUGH, 
 LITTLE, 
 
 CASE, 
 McINTYRE. 
 
 
 SOUP SWILLERS. 
 
 GUTELIUS, 
 
 BRYDEN, 
 
 CONE, 
 
 W. B. GEMMILL, 
 BERGSTRESSER, 
 McMURTRIE, 
 
 
 AYRES. 
 
 
 FISH MONGERS. 
 
 BARBER, 
 
 VORIS, 
 
 EASTON, 
 
 BRUCKART, 
 
 GOOD, 
 
 SCHUYLER. 
 
 
 PIE TEARERS. 
 
 JACOBSON, 
 
 GLOVER, 
 
 DAVIDSON, 
 
 MEIGS, 
 
 FOX, 
 
 ENGLISH. 
 
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 THE REPOKTER. 
 
 DB£aSO^A8£« 
 
 KEEP YOUR JAWS GOING, BOYS 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 JONATHAN EMMERT Peesident. 
 
 J. T. HOUSTON Vice-Pkesident. 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD Secketaet. 
 
 A. JULIUS PILGRIM Teeasubee. 
 
 FREYING MEMBERS. 
 
 JON. EMMERT, D. H. CAMPBELL, 
 
 J. T. HOUSTON, G. M. LEWIS, 
 
 J. A. CANAN, E. J. ANGLE, 
 
 J. A. MENAUL, T. C. GALBREATH, 
 
 J. S. AXTELL, S. G. BARNES, 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD, W. C. STERLING, 
 
 A. JULIUS PILGRIM, A. R. READ. 
 
EATING CLUBS, 
 
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 n^EAETON (AWFUL-EATING). 
 
 VIVIMUS EDERE. BUM VIVIMUS VIVAMUS. 
 
 Venimus, 
 
 Vidimus, 
 
 Vicimus, 
 
 Exaiurabamur. 
 PRIOR TEMPORE, PRIOR JURE. 
 
 CAVERNOSORUM DENTItTM.* 
 
 A. H. SHEKKERD Pkimds intee pakes. 
 
 J. H. RITTENHOUSE Secundus intee paees. 
 
 R. W. D. BRYAN Beneficioeum solicitatoe. 
 
 J. B. LAW Vis comioa. 
 
 H. A. and C. K. smith Pae nobile feateum. 
 
 W. McMURTRIE Soebillo oee. 
 
 C. BRODHEAD Alii index. 
 
 W. D. B ABCOCK Jentacttlo oaenis advocatus. 
 
 FIRMORUM DENTIUM. 
 
 A. K. MICHLER Seevus ad manum. 
 
 E. A. BARBER Seevus ad pecdnias. 
 
 H. C. FROST OSTEEI ADMIEATOE. 
 
 E. BRYAN DocTUS dispxjtatoe subtilis. 
 
 A. K. H ANNEN Lantoeum scaivus hellus. 
 
 R. P. SNOWDEN EiiEPHANTis Caeptoe. 
 
 S. H. HOUSER PisTi CKUSTi amatoe. 
 
 * Charged double board. 
 
116 THE REPORTER. 
 
 ]^UrRSK A 
 
 NOS CONVIVIA CANTAMUS. 
 
 J. G. DIEFENDERFEK Regtoatoe. 
 
 W. S. FULTON. Stamp Coi^lectok. 
 
 V/. E. SMITH Chaplain. 
 
 W. MORGAN AuiHOK of Table Talk. 
 
 J. G. WILLIAMSON .Buffalo Eater. 
 
 W. J. STEWART ... Chief Pudding Eatee. 
 
 HASH CONSUMERS. 
 J. B. HUDSON, J. M. BIRCH. 
 
 PI(E)OUS DIVISION. 
 
 w. c. CLiNE, H. K. McClelland, 
 
 H. M. STRUBLE. 
 
OFFICERS. 
 
 J. BOYD ANDREWS Captain. 
 
 THOMAS FASSITT 1st Lieutenant. 
 
 ROBERT P. SNOWDEN 2d Lieutenant. 
 
 J. S. GANTZ 3d Lieutenant. 
 
 WILLIAM P. GAINES Pubseb. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 H. A. SMITH, R. P. SNOWDEN, 
 
 S. H. HOUSER, 
 
 A. J. PILGRIM. 
 
 Four-oared Spanish Cedar Barge 
 
 "N E T T L E," 
 
 Thirty-eight feet long, four feet wide. Uniform— Blue and White. 
 
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J. E. SHULL, '72 .._....... Pkesident. 
 
 C. G. VOEIS, 72...... Vice- Pkesident. 
 
 H. A. SMITH, 72 . . . TBEAsxmEE. 
 
 J. W. WILSON, 71 Secretakt. 
 
 J. H. BRENSINGER, 70 Captain. 
 
 FIRST NINE. 
 J. H. BRENSINGER, P. J. R. McINTYRE, C. 
 
 H. A. SMITH, 1st B. W. S. SWEENY, 2d B. 
 
 E. S. DOTY, 3d B. J. E. SHULL, S. S. 
 
 J. S. GANTZ, L. F. J. W. WILSON, C. F. 
 
 C. G. VORIS, R. F. 
 
 Substitutes. 
 J. M. CRAWFORD, S. C. GALBREATH. 
 
 The College nine during the past four years has played five matches, winning 
 four, one being a tie. 
 
 Lafayette vs. Belvidere Club. 
 
 Warren Co. Fair, N. J. September, 1866. Score, 23 to 7. 
 
 PRIZE— A SILVER BALL. 
 
 Lafayette vs. Chintewink. 
 Jersey Flats. May, 1867. Score, 52 to 19. 
 
 Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 
 
 Easton. October, 1869. Score, 45 to 45. 
 
 Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 
 Bethlehem. October, 1869. Score, 31 to 24. 
 
 Lafayette vs. Lehigh University. 
 
 Easton. May 14th, 1870. Score, 50 to 34. 
 
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BASE-BALL CLUBS. 
 
 ^fl. 
 
 NE PLUS ULTRA. 
 
 FIRST NINE. 
 J. C. CRAWFOBD, Captain. 
 
 H. K. McClelland, istB. J. w. wilson, 2dB. 
 
 A. SWARTZ, 3d B. JNO. POLLOCK, S. S. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD, P. J. M. CRAWFORD, C. 
 
 J. COWAN, R. F. W. S. FULTON, C. F. 
 
 G. K. McMURTRIE. L. F. 
 
 E. BRYAN, ScoBER. 
 
 FIRST NINE. 
 
 W. S. SWEENY, Captain. 
 J. S. GANTZ, 2d B. C. G. VORIS, S. S. 
 
 E. S. DOTY, C. J. SISfYDER, 1st B. 
 
 J. E. SHULL, L. F. W. S. SWEENY, 3d B. 
 
 H. A. SMITH, P. J. FOX, C. F. 
 
 W. A. P. WILSON, R. F. 
 
 FIRST NINE. 
 H. C. FROST, Captain. 
 J. R. McINTYRE. C. L. P. APPELMAN, 3d B. 
 
 T. C. GALBREATH, P. J. G. WILLIAMSON, L. F. 
 
 H. A. STEERS, IstB. A. H. DAVIDSON, C. F. 
 
 C. KNECHT, 2d B. F. P. BILLMEYER, R. F. 
 
 H. C. FROST, S. S. 
 
Pioneer Cro qjj e t Club. 
 
 SCABIES OCCUPET EXTREMUM. 
 
 D. J. WALLEK. .Peesident. 
 
 JOHN SCOLLAY Vice Pivesident. 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD Secketaby. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Tbeasuree. 
 
 W. GEMMILL, 
 J. H. WRIGHT, 
 D. J. WALLER, 
 W. B. OWEN, 
 F. GUTELIUS, 
 
 ;* 
 
 EM BERS. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD, 
 E. L. HILLIS, 
 JOHN SCOLLAY, 
 B. W. LEWIS, 
 J. M. CRA.WFORD. 
 
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CROQUET CLUBS. 
 
 A4)0APTON. 
 
 ANIMI RELAXANDI CAUSA. 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 J. A. Mcknight president. 
 
 W. p. GAINES Seceetaky. 
 
 E. M. HAYES Teeasueeb. 
 
 B. CHAMBERS Fiest Captain. 
 
 J. R. PAULL Second Captain. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 M. H. BRADLEY, 71, BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, 73, 
 
 W. P. GAINES, 72, R. M. HAYES, 71, 
 
 W. S. KENNEDY, J. A. McKNIGHT, 71, 
 
 J. R. PAULL, 71, W. B. REED, 73. 
 
 The Arch Players of 'j^ 
 
 PER OSTIOLA AD PAXILLOS. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 L. E. WALLER Dux Lusobum. 
 
 T. McNINCH Homo Cum Lebeo. 
 
 W. 
 
 J. 
 
 W. 
 
 H. 
 
 L. 
 
 A. 
 
 T. 
 
 E 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 H. SCHUYLER Semper pabatus sed nunquam secundus. 
 
 A. C ANAN In pugna toementum bellicum. 
 
 C. STERLING Peaepinguis pulsatok. 
 
 A. STEES lU^E PUliSAT ET teeea tibbat. 
 
 E. WALLER DocTus in longis ictibus. 
 
 T. SMITH Faber qui nihil faciat. 
 
 McNINCH Ille pulsat et successus sequttub. 
 
 BENSON Ijule pulsabe cessat et ostiola stimulantue. it 
 
 1 ^ 
 
Senior^. 
 
 SH-^A^H lsA.j^T. 
 
 J. H. BEENSINGEE President. 
 
 W. S. EONEY. Vice-Peesident. 
 
 S. H. KAEECHEE Secretaey. 
 
 J. W. PIATT Teeasubee. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 J. E. YOUNGMAN, 
 D. J. WALLEE, Jk., 
 JAMES P. ZIEGLEE, 
 A. H. SHEEEEED, 
 J. H. WEIGHT, 
 L. W. DOTY, 
 
 E. W. D. BEYAN, 
 C. K. CANFIELD, 
 W. GEMMILL, 
 S. H. KAEECHEE, 
 J. H. BEENSINGEE, 
 W. S. EONEY, 
 
 JAMES W, PIATT. 
 
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CHESS CLUBS. 
 
 The Chess Club of '71. 
 
 VENI VIDI VICTTJRUS SUM. 
 
 J. MEIGS Champion. 
 
 A. S. SWAETZ King. 
 
 J. M. ORAWFOED Qtjeew. 
 
 W. SPRINGER Castlk 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Bishop. 
 
 H. P. GLOVER. : Knight. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD, 
 J. M. CRAWFORD, 
 B. DOUGLASS, Jr., 
 H. P. GLOVER, 
 
 F. S. OLDT, 
 W. SPRINGER, 
 A. S. SWARTZ, 
 J. MEIGS. 
 
 Theta Delt' Chess Club. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1869. 
 
 B. DOUGLASS King. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN Knight. 
 
 H. A. SMITH Bishop. 
 
 W. N. STEM Pawn. 
 
 MEMBERS. 
 
 L. P. APPELMAN, 
 F. P. BILLMEYER, 
 B. DOUGLASS, Jk., 
 R. D. DOUGLASS, 
 
 J. E. LOTT, 
 A. H. SHERRERD, 
 H. F. SMITH, 
 W. N. STEM. 
 
 h 
 
ORPHEAN "WARBLERS. 
 
 To 6ev6pa yeXCi>vra yovvTcerovat iig aipat ojkovol avrdv. 
 
 TEKENCE JACOBSON, 70 Treble. 
 
 S. H. KAERCHEK, 70 Alto. 
 
 J. J. HARDY, 70 Tenob. 
 
 HORACE ROLAND, 70 Basso Peofundo. 
 
 i®¥©«iFai^® ®mi®«Bawl ilrai. 
 
 KEEP TBE BATFI^ A-GOIJVG. 
 
 , J. M. CRA.WFORD (Tune), Pitcheb. 
 IsT Tenor •) 
 
 " S. HOUSTON, Assistant Pitchek. 
 
 f J. K 
 I J. S 
 J. MEIGS, Catcher (of the Pitch). 
 
 2d Tenoe , 
 
 T. M. FARQUHAR, Assistant Catchee. 
 
 Alto .S. H. EASTON, Shoet Stop. 
 
 M. H. BRADLEY, 1st B. 
 
 i 
 
 ^^"^^^^" ' J. F. POLLOCK, 2i> B. 
 
 ( W. B. OWEN, 3d B. 
 
 2^^^'^'' |w. S. FULTON. 4th B 
 
 /J. C. CRAWFORD (Flute), R. F. 
 
 Insteumental Accompanists -| J. M. YOUNG (Flute), L. F. 
 
 ( F. W. EDGAR (Melodeon), Steikee, 
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GLEE CLUBS. 
 
 125 
 
 imm 
 
 "We'll Sing the Savagetiesa out of a Bear." 
 
 JAMES L GOOD Leader. 
 
 ( JOHN B. LAW. 
 
 i«^ ^'^^«« I E. Mc. Mcdowell. 
 
 f J. S. GANTZ. 
 2^Tenob I JOHN FOX. 
 
 f E. L. HILLIS. 
 ^^■^ ^^^^ I W. S. AYRES. 
 
 ( J. BOYD ANDREWS. 
 ^° ^^^^ I W. LOWRIE ZEIGLER. 
 
 ♦-»-» 
 
 W aiMtt^Ism tmatieil© ilmi* 
 
 J. M. CRAWFORD 1st Tenok. 
 
 J. J. HARDY 2d Tenoe. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD 1st Bass. 
 
 E. L. HILLIS 2d 
 
THE REPORTER, 
 
 n© llmmtmi iimri^ii®^ 
 
 A. K. E. 
 
 "Wili ihou have Musio? Harh! Apollo plays, 
 And ivieniy oaged nigMingales do sing." 
 
 A. S. SWAETZ, 71 1st Tenoe. 
 
 J. J. GOOD, 72 2d Tenoe. 
 
 E. L. HILLIS, 72 1st Bass. 
 
 J. C. CEAWFOED, 71 2d Bass. 
 
 J. I. GOOD. Pianist. 
 
GLEE CLUBS, 
 
 1®' 
 
 T. JACOBSON SoPKANO. 
 
 JOHN MEIGS Tenok. 
 
 W. B. OWEN 1st Bass. 
 
 J. F. POLLOCK 2d Bass. 
 
 Piano Accompaniment. 
 H. T. BUCKLEY. 
 
 J. L GOOD Leader. 
 
 J. MEIGS Tenoe. 
 
 J. S. GANTZ Tenok. 
 
 J. C. CRAWFORD Bass. 
 
 J. S. HOUSTON Bass. 
 
 T. JACOBSON Treble. 
 
 J. B. LAW Treble. 
 
:|i 
 
 M' 
 
 Kliti 
 
 ''A orozarij or else a glorious iorrib ; 
 A. sQepire, or an eariKly sepulchre. 
 
 CoEPSE J. R. PAULL. 
 
 Undebtaker , C. McCAULY. 
 
 Heaese Deivek J. S. GANTZ. 
 
 Sexton 0. F. HARVEY, 
 
 ( J. SCOLLAY. 
 
 Pa(u)ll Beaeees 4 
 
 ^ ( W. A. p. WILSON. 
 
 Property — three pairs of gloves and a coffin. 
 
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SUCCESSUS SIL.ENTIO SECURUS. 
 
 1st Honoe J. H. BEENSINGER. 
 
 2d " J. P. ZIEGLER. 
 
 3d " R. W. D. BRYAN. 
 
 4th " J.W.PIATT. 
 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1868. 
 
 J. M. HARRIS Lone -Jack. 
 
 H. A. SMITH Meeeschaum. 
 
 F. W. STEWART Viegin's Choice. 
 
 W. N. STEM Long Clay. 
 
 J. H. LOTT KiLLEKENICK. 
 
 H. C. FROST Shoets. 
 
 W. H. PARKER Beiak Root. 
 
 C. K. SMITH POUNDEE. 
 
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 (INDEFECTIBLE ORDER OF OPINIASTROUS EVANICS; 
 
 Ooaaca-itTJi.s ^^. XJ. O. 2623. 
 
 Si quceris fraternitatem amoenam, circumspice . 
 
 "We are gentlemen, 
 That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes. 
 Envy the great, nor do the low despise. " — P. P. T. 
 
 "oL Kmrponoi. 
 
 Dtnastes 0. J. HARVEY. 
 
 LiBEABius B. DOUGLASS, Jk. 
 
 Thesauki Ctjstos J. M. HAEKIS. 
 
 Magistee Cebemoniaeum '. B. W. LEWIS. 
 
 TERTITJS, aut gradus oculi et catenae. 
 
 B. W. LEWIS, Q. R. C Naturalis Historicus. 
 
 B. DOUGLASS, Je Le Diable Boiteux. 
 
 ( (Long-Les;sed Dynastes, Knight of 
 
 O. J. HARYEY, L. L. D. K. G. Q \\r.\. %^ -n . 
 
 ( the Goose-QuiU. ) 
 
 J. S. GANTZ Quoter of Endearing Epithets. 
 
 130 ^ 
 
I. 0. OF 0. E. 
 
 SECUNDUS, aut gradus clavis. 
 
 J. M. HAREIS Contortor villi- 
 
 E. L. HILLIS ^ Batellite of Venus. 
 
 E. M. KILLOUGH Ye mighty Masticator of Pindar s, alias P. Nuts. 
 
 C. McCAULEY Confector herbte Nicotianis. 
 
 PRIMUS, aut gradus librorum. 
 
 M 
 
 W. p. WILSON Hellus librorum. 
 
 W. M. SHANKS Explicator Scriptorum. 
 
 O. F. HAEVE Y " Animal implume bipes. " 
 
 W. P. GAINES " Tom," or the Texas Ranger. 
 
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