n M:,^ ^/ M ■^^ ^LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.^ I [FORCE COLLECTION.] ^Ae '¥ f UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, f V^*/ / / f 6 yi:^cJtz ^i^^^^' ^j'^ DON QUIXOTS AT COLLEGE OS. A HISTORY OF THE GALLANT ADVENTURES hATELY ACHIEVXD BY THE COMBINED STUDENTS OF HARVARD VNIVSRSITY; INTERSPSPSBD with S09I£ FACETIOUS REASONINCS, V BY A SENIOR. BOSTON: SfUBLISHED BY ETHERIDGE AND 3LI»7 No. 12, CORNHILV I0& THE AUTHOR, * 1807. HISTORY, &c. To unfold the origin, and describe the progress and termination of those mighty revolutions which have taken place upon the earth, has been an employment fully equal to the greatest men. The description of those elevated characters, who, in times of commotion, rise up and take upon themselves the guidance of their feeble fellow mortals ; the investigation of their mo- tives, the explaining of their dexterous sagacity, and almost unfathomable depths of design, is a task worthy the highest native genius, matured by the most per- fect education. For our own part, conscious of our deficiency in both these respects, and recollecting the peculiar dignity and native grandeur, which the event we are about to describe, derive both from the enor- mous abilities and high station of the actors, and from the all important object which these heroes have with such splendid exertions, and unshaken firmness endeavoured to attain, we feel overwhelmed with an awe and diffidence on entering upon the present la- bours, which nothing but our veneration for those en- gaged in the late exemplary and dignified tumults at Harvard University, and our ardent desire to exhibit, for imitation, their deathless and noble deeds, could have overcome so far as to enable us to hold our pen with a steady hand. Some of the greatest and most influential members of Harvard College had, during a long period, groaned under the intolerable grievance of being supplied with food, which they often found neither so neatly cooked, 4 so f^t, nor so well roasted, as their most exquisite tastes required. It is the essential qualit}^ of great and aspiring minds, not to submit in silence to such insupportable abuses. They therefore drew, with much spirit, a re- monstrance of their grievances, and presented it to the president of die College, that he might lay it before the corporation. That body, not being accustomed to act entirely without previous deliberation, or to judge upon any matter without having first* examined it, took the remonstrance into consideration, and requested their president to inquire in what manner the griev- ances of which it complained might best be remedied. But the accuracy of experienced age, illy suited the resistless ardor and impetuosity of youthful and justly incased genius. About this time an event happened at the University, which the deep and never winking sagacity of the great and experienced leaders of the splendid scenes wc are about to describe, would not perihit them to ne- glect, because it was so evidently favourable to their designs. Toward the latter part of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, the immediate govern- ment of the College suspended several of the stu- dents. We are not acquainted with their particular offence. This insult of the government, the honour and high spirit of many of the other students would not suffer them to pass over, without taking an exemplary revenge. What student, that has the least tincture of humanity, would not feel his blood boil within him, at seeing the most severe and despotic power of the government exercised in sending into exile some of his comrads, for no other crime, perhaps, than drowning with a little noise the melancholy toll of the clock Jn the old Gothic turret, striking the ghostly hour ofmidnight, and for just sallying out, and enlivening the dreary stillness of the night, by the cheerful tink. ling, excited by the shattering to pieces a few glass windows ? Surely those, who ever engage in these innocent amusements, ought alv^ays to be rewarded, rather than punished. 'J'he high resentment of some of the students at this horrid abuse of authority in the gov- ernment, was therefore just and manly; and new lustre was added to the dignity of their feelings by the pathetic and impressive manner in which they expressed them, which was by stamping and scraping maje stically with their feet, when in presence of the detested tutors, and filling the ears of those gentlemen with the most heart rending groans and hisses. As when the tall bark glides through the evening twilight down the smooth stream of the Niger, the merchant, as he treads the deck, hears from the neighbouring shores the pleasing dissonance of the voices of a thousand golden skinned serpents expecting their pray, mingled with the hollow roar of the lion ; or, if these are silent a moment, he hears the crocodile, by the edge of the water, treading along, or preparing in the sand a repository for his young. On Saturday morning of the twenty first of March, 1807, another scholar was suspended for the trifling offence of hissing in the face of the tutors. The lofty and energetic indignation of the students now rose, like the mercury in the thermometer when brought nearer the heat. They at first determined to escort, in a long and solemn procession, the unfortunate suf- ferer from the town. But the strenuous and gigantic talents of their leaders, which perceive all the relations of a subject at one view, and which discover the best expedient at an important crisis with the rapidity of lightning, soon determined, that it was best to solicit fi-om the goWnment the repeal of the unjust sentence, which condemned a fellow student to languish several long months in the country for an offence so small that the acutest mental vision could not see it. As when the brickmaker, v-sitingthe scene of his labours in the morning, finds his smoothed yard overflowed with the rains, which had fallen during the night, he with his spade opt ns a passage for the turbid waters, and conducts them \a hithtrsoever he pleases ; so did our heroes, with indignation lowering on their brows, hold- ing high ill air the petition for the release of the inno- cent, lead the students to the house of the president; around which, while their captains entered with their paper, they hovered, as do the clouds around the vertical sun, seen by the mariner, who sails beyond the isle of Cuba, and now is past port Morant into the broad Caribean. He gazes on the sea bird rising with his putrid prey, and now disappearing behind the lurid vapours, whose deep thunders announce the approaching hurricane. The situation of the sufferer was represented to the government in such colours, as to excite their pity. They therefore annulled the decree of suspension ; upon which the multitude upsent a shout, loud as from numbers without number ; a shout, not of joy at the recovering of the person suspended, for that would have been mean and low, but a shout of victory over detested power; a shout ominous of further noble achievements. As when the traveller in the Canadian forest is benighted and overtaken by a number of noble spirited wolves, combined for the purpose of depreda- tion, he throws to them a part of his provision, which they snatch with a growl, expressive at once of their pleasure on receiving it, and of their intention of rob. bing the giver of the rest, and at last of taking him for a prey. Soon after these important events, if we remember tight, it was on the Sabbath morning immediately sue- ceeding the victorious Saturday, another event, still more interesting and important than any of the pre- ceding, happened. At about half past eight in the morning there was found among the sugar, served up at commons, several splinters of sugar cane, some of which were of the enormous length of three quarters of an inch. It may be boldly affirmed, that, at a medi- um, all those that were found, were one half of an inch in length long measure. Some even affirmed, that after drinking off a cup of coffee they found it half full of sediment, arising from the filthiness of the sugar. But this we are disposed to doubt, because we have no more than academic faith in modern prodegies. This, if true, is certainlya miracle ; for at this rate a quantity of sugar, of one ounce apothecaries weight, would, after being dissolved, leave upwards of six ounces of sediment. But we leave this subject to tlie investiga- tion of the speculative ; for we perceive that this our history approacheth rapidly toward the midst of things. At noon on the same day, (Sunday) at about forty five minutes past twelve, a large spot was discovered upon one of the tablecloths ; the superficies was thought to be about equal to that of a cent. It was said to be nearly in the form of an ellipsis. Its edges were jagged, its colour similar to that which covers a knife that has long lain in a moist place without being used. Any one of these causes would have been sufficient to justify the most potent resentment of a man, who had never re- ceived any education. What effect then must we sup- pose that these causes united would have upon the in- dignation of lofty and magnanimous spirits, enlightened by science, and strengthened by a long exercise of the powers of ratiocinatipn ? Their resentment was not now like the flash of the midnight lightning,but it nobly kindled into a flame, awful, and, perhaps, unextin. guibhable. ^^"90 ^^^^ the persevering anger of the spouse of Itjpiter. Soon afterward a number of choice spirits, who were the representatives of their injured compeers, waited upon the president and demanded the result of their former remonstrance. The president, not being aware of the high office they sustained, did not give them an answer so satisfactory, as their dignity and the urgency of the occasion required. They, therefore, perceiving every thing by intuition, immediately concluded, and with great justness, that the corporation had refused to take into consideration the heavy calamities under which the students lay struggling and groaning most pathetically. The fact, that the corporation then had the remonstrance under confideration, does not, ac- cording to our idea of correct reasoning, in the least di- minish the propriety of the conduct of the honourable committee in concluding that their petition was rejected. But we will tarnish as little as possible our splendid history, with such a pedantic thing as reasoning. Let every one follow his own feelings, and they will direct him along the right way. The president of the university not answering the committee of the students with a reverence becoming its dignity, and the importance of their mission, was the signal to the students for open hostilities. Let no one think them too hasty in this respect ; for their coun-^ sels are a great deep, whose bottom no ordinary eye can discover ; and, besides, it is a maxim, as incontro- vertible as the most simple demonstration in mathe- matics, that, when such a number of brilliant literary characters are united, it is utterly impossible for thera to do wrong ; for any one of tii^m, singly, is almost infallible ; if, therefore, they are combined, they are necessarily free from all error. More than all this, they had lately been farther incensed bv a dinner of fish, which had been most mortally bruisIS by being brought from Boston in a waggon, over a tremendous rough road, and which had been served up with butter; which, though sweet enough to an uneducated nostril, had, nevertheless to the scientific olfactory nerve, a most insupportable rancidity. The various consider- ations above mentioned, which indeed were enough to have made an oyster spring with anger from his bed in the channel of a river, forced the students to prepare with all diligence for the commencement of hostilities* ^ Early on Monday morning, thirtieth of March, eigh- teen hundred and seven, a most illustrious day, a bril- liant advertisement was erected in the lofty passage ^ which leads to the dining hall, ordering the students to assemble immediately after breakfast in that spacious apartment, to hold a consultation concerning commons. Tiie sight of the advertisement filled every breast with irresistible ardour. Its effect was like that of the rolling beat of the drum upon the soldier, announcing to him the houj: of battle and of honour ; or, like that of the hollow sound of the fishmonger's horn to the inhabit^ ants of some inland village, who have lived during sev- eral months upon no other animal food than slaugh- tered quadrupeds. The scholars soon flock toward ihe hall of meeting. The chilling dampness that reigned through the room ; its lofty ceilings ; its venerable ap- pearance of antiquity ; its two niches now empty, where the pictures of their majesties the king and queen of England formerly were placed — Sad emblem of revolu- tions ! the tables, where the students had been so often forced to eat what nb man could devour, except he Was hungry ; the emaciated forms of those who were met ; the heart touching langour with which they lolled 10 with folded arms upon the tables ; the contrast between their pale visages and their eyes, now sparkling with hope, now flashing ^vith anger; the all important occa- sion which had collected them ; the solemn and melan- choly step of the kitchen women, as they moved in succession out of the hall, tottering beneath a load of cups and saucers, all contributed to render it one of the most interesting and pathetic scenes ever recorded in history ; a scene which an Hogarth could not paint, nor the astonishing powers of a sir Richard Blackmore adequately describe. We had an intention of favouring posterity, after the manner of some of our brother historians, with the brilliant speeches which this meeting occasioned ; but, as we have not the originals in our possession, we think it best on the whole not to attempt, after the ex- ample of some of our brother writers among the Ro- mans, to substitute our o\Yn harangues instead of the real speeches of the actors ; since we utterly despair of equalling them, either in loftiness of thought, or in bril- liancy of diction. At this meeting of the students, how- ever, the spotted tablecloth, the fish jolted in the wag- gon, their ill health, arising from their commons,* and all the other insufferable grievances, were, no doubt dwelt upon in such touching strains of eloquence, as to draw tears from every eye. The result of their deliberations was, 1st. to enter the hall at noon, wait at their places while the blessing was asked, and then, with a firm and undaunted step, * We would propose to physicians the following qtiestions ; Is nothealth injured by inebriety ? by suppers of roasted meat, &c. eaten at mid- night? by unrestrained lust ? by the v 1 disease ? by envy ? by dis- appointment ? by close and unremitting- application to study ? We offer the consideration of some other questions to those who are acquainted with human nature. Do we not often ascribe our ill health to a wrong cause ? Are we hot sometimes deceived with respect to the motives of our own conduct ? 11 immediately to retire. 2d. To proceed directly to the kitchen, attack boldly the provisions it contained, and strew them with indignation over the College yard. These are two resolutions, which, considering those W'ho formed them, and the occasion of taking them, may, both on account of their manly firmness, and their dignity, challenge a comparison with any resolution ever made by any body of men. This was the time for business. Another meeting immediately succeed- ed the one just mentioned ; in which it was determined, to defer the assault upon the kitchen until the next morning after breakfast. The first resolution stood. Noon came. The commons bell tolled. Then might a Garrick, had he been in the College yard, have learned from the countenances he would have beheld, how to have expressed the features of Harry the fifth when addressing his men at the siege of Harfleur. He would have seen the stiffened sinew, the dreadful aspect of the eye, the teeth set, the nostril stretched, the breath held hard. With such features did the students enter the dining hall. But who can describe the lofty de- meanour, the undaunted firmness, the grandeur of spirit with which they deserted the hall after the asking of the blessing ? We can only saj^ that this exploit was gallantly achieved ; its actors covered themselves with glory ! None of them attended commons at evening. The next morning information was given, that no more commons would be provided at present. It was thus the impending attack upon the kitchen was fi-ustrated. This would have been one of the most brilliant engage- ments which has been witnessed these fifty years. We venture to affirm, that the fame of Marengo and Hohen- linden would have faded before it. When we consider, on the one hand, the garrison itself strongly fortified ; the discipline of its defenders; their warlike stores, and ex- 12 cdlent ammunition, which consisted in cuh'nary instru- ments; the supplies of provision laid up in the fortifica- tion, sufficient to maintain the garrison during a long siege, in case the enemy should not be able to make a breach, and carry it by assault so soon as was expected; the probability of frequent sorties during the siege ; and when we take a view, on the other part, of the numbers of the besiegers ; their firmness not to be shaken ; their extensive knowledge of tactics ; tht ir able and experienced leaders, wc find it exceedingly difficult to determine on which side the victory would have turned. This may be a subject of interesting specula^ tion to military gentlemen ; for ourselves, we are hur- ried by the rapid succession of great events to other scenes. We shall only pause for a moment, to con* sider what would have been the appeanance of the for-- tress and the surrounding fields had the assault began and been immediately successful. The kitchen would have been empty and in ruins ; clouds of flour, floating on the winds, would have overwhelmed the neighbour- ing buildings, the besiegers, and the besieged, in un- distinguished whiteness ! Innumerable pieces of beef, scattered around, would natdVally have invited the birds of prey, if they were not frighted away by the ex- ulting shouts of the conquerors and the lamentable groans of the vanquished. The sun from his meridian tower, beholding the majestic spectacle, would have entirely forgotten the scenes of European carnage, over which he had recently passed. As when — (thou seest, reader, we are not sparing of delectable similies, for they are certainly a very great ornament to this our immortal history) — as when the winds, that, during the day, raged and roared through the woods, grow fahit toward the time of evening, liil 8t length those that love to wander in the twilight 13 along the side of the forest, hear nothing but the low whispering of the dewy breeze among the leaves ; but when the sun again reddens the morning clouds, the strong winds rush from their caves, and excite a deaf- ening noise among the groves. So our heroes, after their energetic retreat from commons, were content, for a short time, to feast upon the silent contemplation of their deathless exploit ; but their desire of action soon returned, and they found cause to achieve new adventures. They were called upon to choose committees from each class, to explain to the corporation their grievances. The day appointed for making the explanation, was Friday, April third, eighteen hundred and seven. The result of this day's adventure to our heroes, ap- peared, on the Saturday morning ensuing, to be, that the students, having grossly insulted the immediate government and the corporation, by their late high and extraordinary exploits, were required, those of them who achieved these adventures, to sign a paper expres- sive of their regret of their past conduct, and promising better behaviour for the future ; otherwise their con- nexions with college would be dissolved immediately after the ensuing Saturday, April 11. For the corpo- ration to attempt to resist the omnipotence of the main body of the students in this manner, was the most un- exampled piece of audacity ever recorded in the pages of history. What right had they to pass such a decree, consigning to everlasting ignominy, those who had recently covered themselves with immortal honour ? What hc^e could they have of its taking effect ? After the torrent has swelled above, and poured its sheeted waters over one barrier, impiously raised across its channel, does not the dam below, hearing the victori- ous roar of the distant floods above, tremble, and nat- 14 urally submit to be swept away to the wild ocean by th^ irresistible fury of the approaching freshet ? Cer- tainly, the corporation ought to be governed by the scholars ; and we shall now prove it &s strongly, as any demonstration in Euclid can be proved, by giving some of the leading steps of a long demonstration, which now lays upon our desk, and which is built con- formably to the rules of our new and improved sys- tem oi scholastic logic. The proposition is, the scholars ought to rule the corporation. Demonstration. 1st. The scholars are older than the corporation ; for, their number being two hundred and eighteen, and suppo- sing the age of each student to be on an average fifteen years, the sum of their ages will amount to three thou- sand two hundred and seventy years. Therefore, they are almost three thousand years older than the corporation. 2d. They have more knowledge than the corporation ; for, having recently studied the first authors in all the sciences, their acquirements are fresh in their memory ; whereas a long time having elapsed since the corporation graduated, that body may reason- ably be supposed, as happens with most scholars after leaving College, to have forgotten all which they once knew. 3d. They are more sagacious than the corpo- ration ; for, they can judge, and judge rightly, upon the most intricate subjects in an instant ; whereas the cor- poration are accustomed to examine and weigh a mat- ter well, before they come to a determination. 4th. They are more wealthy than the corporation. By wealth, we do not mean the possession of integrity, but of money. 5th. They are far more numerous than the corporation ; and we hold it to be an incontroverti- ble maxim in politics, that of two communities, that which contains the greatest number is the strongest. Therefore the scholars ought to govern the corpora- 15 tion ; which is the proposition that was to be proved. But, allowing the corporation to have a right to gov* ern, and it will require the utmost stretch of imagina- tion to conceive of it even for a moment, it cannot then be shewn that they had a right to require our heroes to sign a paper acknowledging that they had offended ; but the contrary may be proved to the satis- faction of every reasonable man. For, according to the new scholastic system of logic, 1st. a combination of the students against the government, though forbid- den by the law, is not a breach of the law; because the law being a rule of action, is a thing which has none of the qualities of matter, and, therefore, is immate- rial. Now, every one knows that an immaterial thing cannot be broken to pieces, like matter ; consequently no law can be broken. Therefore our heroes have broken no law, and so have committed no oifence. But allowing them to have committed an offence, which no one can believe for a moment, still we can prove that they ought not to confess it. For, 1st. such a confession would be agreeable to the doctrines of Christianity. 2d. It would be contrary to the princi- ples of modern honour. 3d. In a moral point of view, no one can be said to have committed an offence until he confesses it. 4th. Men of learning, especially when to their knowledge is added the possession of astonish- ing genius, and the recent achievement of glorious adventures, have a right, derived from prescription, to commit any offence they please, without being called to an account for it. The learned reader is, by this time, prepared to agree with us in extolling the justice and firmness of the subsequent conduct of our heroes. On the same morning (4th April) that they received the information of the vote of the corporation concern^ ing their gallant conduct, they again assembled at the 16 aecustomed place, and unanimously voted, 1st. not to sign the paper required. 2d. To combine indissolu- bly for the protection of each other, and mutually to promise to act in concert. At the same time our invin- cible band of heroes was augmented by a strong bat- talion oi infantry^ comprised of a detachment of those students who lx)arded among the inhabitants of the town. And these arrived in a lucky hour ; for, soon after their junction with the main body, two of the government entered the hall of meeting, and ordered those who were holding consultation to disperse. As when a person, taking his morning walk in summer along the margin of the meadow, in front of a rural house, perceives beneath a bush a litter of kittens, lay- ing close to each other in the sun, whose rays sparkle on their glossy backs, these children of the bird loving puss, unaccustomed to the sight of man, are startled,, shew their ivory teeth, give a short hissing sound, and immediately disappear among the herbage; or, as when the traveller in the forest comes suddenly upon a brood cf unfledged quails, these taking affright, hide beneath the .dry leaves of the oak, and suddenly hushed are their chirping ; or, finally, as when a number of snakes in spring-time, when the sun rides with the hulU crawl out of the crevices X)f the rock, that over* hangs the lucid stream, and lay beside each other upon the stony ledge, their new skins burnished by the sun» if, by chance, a gay pleasure boat comes floating down the current, the dash of the oar alarms the hissing sly serpents, and they hastily roll one after the other into the water. Thus did our heroes withdraw from the hall, hissing, and manfully striving with each other to elude the eye of authority. This is the best conducted and most splendid retreat that has happened since the time of Xenophon. Its leaders, by their masterly v 17 arrangements and skilful manoeuvres on that occasion, covered themselves with a new mantle of glory, far more dazzling than that which they acquired by their former achievements. Our brother Plutarch, whom we should hold in much higher estimation, if he were not so moral and humane, if we remember right, informs us, that the ancient Cimbri and Teutones were accustomed, when about to enter on the field of battle to bind themselves together in their ranks with strong cords, wound around the body of each soldier, and uniting them all by an indissoluble tie. Our heroes, ever ready to imitate the tactics of polished nations, now bound themselves and their forces together, by something similar in its effect to the cord of the Cimbri. Rightly judging, that the mere voting for the resolutions they had lately passed, was not sufficient to bind any one of themselves, or their soldiers, to a compliance with their determinations, they drew up two instruments contain- ing their two noble resolutions, viz. not to sign the gov- ernmental paper, and to act in concert, and carried them round diat their subjects might sign them. Many, to their disgrace, hesitated, but at last wiped off the stain by complying. It is the iate of all those who climb the steep of fame, and crown their iieads by virtuous deeds with never fading glory, as our heroes have done, to feel sometimes the aspersions of envy. Accordingly, some metaphys-" ical heads, imagining themselves to possess a small share of sagacity, have had the audaciousness to affirm, that the late glorious combination at College, arose not from badness of commons, but principally from the intrigues of our heroes, whom they have ever attempt- ed to brand with the appellation of unprincipled dem- agogues. Stand forth, ye infamous assertors of these 18 falsehoods, and receive a' few discharges fromthe cannon of our new logic, and ye will be silenced for ever. 1st. Could any human . being live upon such commons, as we have had ? Answer us that. Ye only sneer. Commons, therefore, was a sufficient cause to produce the phenomena recorded in our history, and, according to the great rule in philosophy, we have no right to assign any othej*. Do ye say, 'that many, espe cially in the lower classes, joined the College coalition through fear of losing their popularity ? Allowing they did, do ye not know, metaphysical gentlemen, that the College com- bination is all powerful, both in numbers, knowledge, and genius? That their tremendous influence in society could crush a Cato, were they hostile to him ? Admitting, that those who joined the confederacy through fear that our heroes would frown upon them, had possessed the audacity not to join it, and, under such circumstance, might have obtained a little credit in a vicious world, what good would this do them while labouring under the everlasting displeasure of our upright, perfect, and immortal heroes I The fear of ~ these great men's displeasure, was, therefore, a justifi- able reason for any one to join the coalition, although he had no indignation against commons. Nevertheless, such as did join it through this motive, the impartiality^ of history will not suffer us to praise. We weave the laurel wreath only for the principal actors ; the others are virtuous. Do ye say, gentlemen, that the senior who opposed our heroes, as the child tries witba shin- gle to obstruct the cataract, and who utterly refused to enlist inider their victorious banners, is nevertheless not entirely deprived of his merit ? What, have not our "elevated heroes past their decree, that he never shall be suffered to find any reputation in this part of the country ? and have they not the power, the aliility 19 to carry their edict into execution ? If ye do hot admit this to be true, ye know nothing of reasoning. We shall close this our brilliant history, after the manner of our brother Gibbon, with a few general observations. If those who have the superintendance of Harvard University suffer our heroes to leave it, the credit of the College will depart with them. As for the mighty geniuses whom we praise, their inherent cen- tripetal force Will inevitably conduct them to their proper stations in society, without the aid of the pro- jectile power of a degree. But, alas, for the University ! she will be no longer enlivened by the greatness of their exploits, and there will be danger lest sobriety, a taste for literature, morality, and science, finding her at rest, and inviting contemplation, will again shed their mild radiance upon her, as they did in the days of our fathers. April 8th, 1807. sac April 13th, 1807. To prove that our heroes are not infatuated, we mention the following fects, which we, this day, heard from two of our respectable classmates ; gentlemen whose veracity is unimpcached. On Saturday, 1 1th April, one of the leaders collected a large number of scholars at No. 20, Stoughton, and there persuaded about twenty of them to swear, calling God to witness, that they would sign no governmental paper whatever. Two of those who took this oath, it is said, afterwards signed the corporation's paper. One of the leaders, on the evening of the fame day, hearing his intimate friend reason coolly upon the pro- 20 priety of signing the government's 'paper, told him that he would never speak to him again, burst into tears, and loud sobs, dashed a chair upon the floor, and walked the room with every appearance of frenzy. Another classmate invited him to his room ; but he stopped at the door, and said, I cannot rest, go to your room, I wish to walk. His classmate informed some others of this, and they all agreed, that this influential leader was gone to commit suicide* They searched, but did not find him. It was now eleven o'clock at night. About one o'clock he was heard to return. The next morning a classmate went to his room, and asked him how he did. He answered, that he should not continue long ; that he returned the night before to burn his paper*; hehadbuoitthera. . He told another person, the same day, that on the preceding evening, he went and stood upon a tomb, and thought that if he was on a bridge, he should leap into the river. - Is our College to be destroyed by such persons ? Are the days of witchcraft returned ? LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 934 666 3 #