de qu1busdam rebus

VOL. III. No. 9. GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, JULY, 1S75.

POETRY.

■SOIL IT DOWN.

Whatever you have to say, my friend, Whether witty, or grave, or gay,

Condense as much as ever you can, And say it the readiest way;

And whether you write of rural affairs, Or of matters and things in town,

Just take a word of friendly advice— Boil it down.

For if you go spluttering over a page When a couple of lines would do,

Your butter is spread so much, you see, That the bread looks plainly through;

So, when you have a story to tell, And would like a little renown,

To make quite sure of your wish, my friend, Boil it down.

When writing an article for the press, Whether prose or verse, just try

To settle your thoughts in the fewest words, And let them be crisp and dry;

And when it is finished, and you suppose It is done exactly brown,

Just look it over again, and then Boil it down.

For editors do not like to print An article lazily long,

And the general reader does not care For a couple of yards of song ;

So gather your wits in the smallest space, If you want a little renown,

And every time you write, my friend, Boil it down.

[The above lines, quoted by the Brooklyn Journal of Education from the N. Y. Tribune, convey so much salutary counsel, that we cannot forbear giving them a place in our columns. ]

TIffE COWSEOI.

O thou monumental wonder : Scars of ages on thee lie Since, thy massive arches under, Victims issued forth to die !

Mighty witness of the power Rome’s imperial line sustained, Thou could’st tell us of the hour When her pristine glory waned.

Tell us, thou, whose walls have echoed To the tread of cent’ries past, When the flame of valor flickered: Did it truly die at last ?

Would that I could hear thee mutter ’Mid this solitude-supreme, What thou’st heard the Martyrs utter, Pouring out life’s crimson stream !

• See! the sun is now declining Far behind yon western hill; On another land ’tis shining But its traces linger still.

So wift thou, in future ages Far thy ancient glimmer shed; And wilt linger on our pages E’en though numbered ’mong the dead !

W. J. W.

DE QU1BUSDAM REBUS. II.

ME. EDITOR: I cannot but express to you in this the second of my epistles, with how much pride I look upon my last article. Sir : ’tis a beauty in print: there’s a uniqueness about it that is simply surpassing. I think the type a little larger or at any rate more distinct than in the rest of the paper : it looks so to me. 0 ! if it were only two or three pages longer, and had some wise title or other, I would match it against any thing written before or since the morning when every one in London walked the streets with a copy of the “ Spectator” in his hand. Let Mr. Kene- lm Chillingly exclaim—he was just starting in in the world, which accounts for it,—“victory or Westminster Abbey:” when the former is so near my ambitious grasp, and all my incli- nations running so resolutely towards it, I cut the ancient burying ground from my motto, and cry simply “ victory.”

But sir, I feel the necessity of a change : of somewhat varying my course, and however fascinating it may be up here, upon this self- asserted eminence, I must step down to my wonted level and take up some definite subject, in order to carry out my promise of writing something.

I remember, very well, an article which appeared in your Journal about eighteen months ago upon the subject of the “Gentleman,” signed I think by “ W. S. P.” I thought it— and am still of the opinion—a very dangerous theme to hit upon. A genileman ethically, does not admit of description. The more I considered the article, the more I became aware that the author was treading upon grounds especially to be avoided. Ilis manner of treating the subject was perilous in the extreme ; I imagined • the pen must have been bound to his hand, and that, like Lucretia Borgia, he must pour out the draught which was to be death to his own offspring. But it was a clever composition, or, probably I had

better call it, essay. The style was more that of the essayist: there was something of the formality of essay-writing about it : the same sententious turn of thought. As a satire, the article was more of a success, and the author should have inserted the first letter of the alphabet between the first and second of his initials. Yet I have an idea the piece was not intended as a satire : there was only very little of the genuine wasp or bee about it, and by examination, one could see it was a stingless insect, such as we people in the country call a borer. W. S. P’sgentleman was no doubt what inordinary parlance we call an “honorable man.” You would have enjoyed hearing of him: have taken great pleasure in meeting

him on the street: but I dare say, neither you nor I would care very much to be any length of time in his company.

It is worthy of remark, that in discussing a subject of this nature, our natural tendency,— which my friend above mentioned has followed religiously,—is to revile that harmless and peaceful class in society, known as beaux. This is unfair : ’tis but a side-issue which leads us kindly away from the discussion of a subject not so easy to treat. Ye Satirists, who give vent to your spleen in reference to a class of men, who are conspicuous for mere peculiarity in dress, or cut of beard, let me say that there are among them, hearts as true and natures as noble as among any other class. If my dear sir, we knew the truth, nine times out of ten, our judgment of men, of those super- ficial creatures—as we think them—whom we laugh at as they pass us, are ‘‘ as false as dicer’s oaths.” But allow me to take your favorite, a workman, your sturdy fellow from the country. Give him the charming characteristic of ‘ ‘ nature’s nobleman :” lavish upon him all those transcendant qualities we poetically ascribe to the sons of toil: I grant him what only one in ten thousand has,—honesty : still he is not a gentleman. Curl your moustaches, and wax them too, if you like, my abused friends, the beaux, you have as fair a chance for the title as any. When we want a companion, those of us who have correct taste know very well whom to select as the most agreeable.

But here, Mr. Editor, I had almost forgotten you, and imagined, for a moment, I was lectu- ring the public. When we want to write down our ideas upon the subject of a gentleman, we sketch a character we are no more likely to meet than we are one of the celestials of old,

98 GEORGETOWN paying one of those fabled visits ; and were we compelled to entertain this model of ours for half an hour, we should take good care not to be caught again in a like situation.

X suppose, after taking the liberty of differing with your correspondent on this subject, you expect in return for my not admiring hishouse, another better built. It takes no Solomon to judge in this case. It is easily seen you have no right to demand it. Should I be generous enough to give it of my own free accord, all very well: and assuredly I would have no hesi- tation in gratifying you, did I not think that in doing so, I should attempt an impossibility. All of us recognize the gentleman when we meet him. He has those characteristics which we know to constitute the gentleman. You, my thoughtful reader, who may get a chance to see this letter, should my friend, the editor, publish it, pray do not understand me to say, that we know a gentleman as soon as we see him : no, not by any means. If—as I doubt very much—you can lay down any infallible rule in the matter, it is this : that a gentleman never makes any “ first impression.” Why sir,—lam now speaking directly to you,Mr. Editor, having ceased my talk with the public, —were you, on a pleasant afternoon, to stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue, or along any other thoroughfare where less peculiar people are seen, do you suppose yourself capable of pointing out any particular individual, and being able to say “ That is a gentleman ?” I do not mean to be cynical, or to imply that there is a scarcity of gentlemen. I’ll wager, I find two in this world where you will find one. Ho sir : you would have no more assur- ance that you are right, than were you, out of a flock of swallows, to attempt to point out the one which flies best. In a true gentleman, nothing comes conspicuously forward : he is resolutely expressive of nothing, not even of his own gentility. Byron says, in an exquisite passage of Don Juan :

“ Tho’ modest, on his unembarrassed brow, Nature had written, ‘gentleman.’”

This strikes me, as being a description easily misinterpreted, but the correct meaning I take to be this : that however slight or modest the exterior indications, still the “ gentleman” was there. You could not perceive the fact at first; it did not obtrude itself upon the chance gaze of every passer-by, but was something found out by closer examination. How true it is, when once we discover the gentleman, that we do see the word written in every movement of his body, in the fit of his collar, in the modest combing of his hair: and from the light of his eye the character, “ gentleman,” sparkles forth. Let us convince ourselves on this point, and then, what to a careless observer may appear unworthy of remark, we shall regard as having the greatest weight in determi- ning our estimate of the person as a gentleman.

Although the wisest of us cannot describe a gentleman, you or I may claim to know one or two attributes of his character. Tennyson says,

11 Noble manners * * * the flower And native growth of noble minds.”

That is one of the attributes. Yes, those little actions which we wiseacres contemn, are the reflection, the outward indication, of those priceless qualities innate in a gentleman. Let’s bring the matter home, Mr. Editor, there is no use talking of the great world : it is too big, and, besides has a sufficient number of lectu- rers. How many of us are there who seem to think the role of “ gentleman” is one we are to assume later on : and that the prologue of life may be played in any manner, however dis- graceful. On the “mimic stage” the actors, when the prologue was a part of the play, were very careful to perform it well. We could do nothing better than profit by their example. I may now bring my letter to a close by a few wise remarks mainly intended for your more youthful readers.

A true gentleman, as the very name imports, is one in whom that do-and-dare spirit which we call manliness, is toned down, softened—I had almost said, set to music—by a milder spirit, which for want of a better word, we must call gentleness. It is just what your favorite poet hits off so nicely, when he speaks of “ manhood fused with feminine grace.” Mr. Editor, I think this a perfect way of expressing the thing,because it gives a death-stroke to that hideous kind of behavior which we so fre- quently find in persons who assume to be gentlemen,—that thing which we call “ swagger.” Your swaggerer is very dignified with servants, —awfully so. He dwells on a different level from them and seems bound to make them feel that he islo oking down upon them, and that they, poor devils, ought to be very thank- ful for the condescension. Rudeness to servants is something nearer akin to barbarism than anything I know. The bully who prac- tises it,—for he is no better than one,—may of course have that manliness which is synony- mous with brute force or animal courage, but where, I pray, is the female grace, needed to make up that rare character we call gentleman? Alas ! he is utterly wanting in it. Just like some blustering friend of ours, perhaps, who loves to have a slap at his meeker neighbors, and who prides himself on his total dis- regard of the little conventionalities and by- laws of society. ’Tis all very fine for his friends to say, “ Oh! you mustn’t mind him,— he’s a good hearted fellow—that’s his wav ” Yes, Mr. Editor, ’tis his wag, but then, it is not a gentleman’s way. A hog has his way, but it don’t humanize him, nor civilize him, after all: he is still no more nor less than a hog.

W. D. P. S. “ Eno,” I perceive from aportion of

the present paper which happened to come un-

der my notice, makes reference to my first article in a manner that smacks suspiciously of something else besides compliment. Well, —that is his way.

The Mecklenburg Celebration.

The proposed centennial celebration of the Mecklenburg (N. C.) Declaration of Indepen- dence on the 20th May has elicited a discussion as to whether such a declaration was ever made, and as to the day of the month on which it is

alleged to have been issued. This is not the only centennial of the year which has given rise to controversy. It will be remembered that the late centennial celebration in Massa- chusetts led to a spirited discussion between Lexington and Concord as to which fired the first shot of the revolution. It was finally celebrated in both towns. As to dates, where an event is worth celebrating at all, the date is not a matter of vital importance. Some of the greatest events that have ever occurred in'the world have been celebrated on days which were not regarded as the exact anniversary by all who celebrated them. In fact the independence resolution introduced by Richard Henry Lee was formally adopted the 2d of July, 1776 a date Which in the strictness of historical chronology should be recognized as the real natal day of American independence, for the declaration of July 4 was but the publication and popular justification of an act which had been fully and duly consummated by the Con- tinental Congress of all the Colonies on the 2d of July. As to the date and fact of the Meck- lenburg declaration, it is undeniable that the traditions in North Carolina of a hundred years point to the 20th of May, 1775, as a day when an assemblage of the people of that State met m Mecklenburg and declared independence of the British government. These traditions were derived from the statements of participants in tne meeting, and preserved by their descendants in North Carolina, Tennessee and other States to which the North Carolinians had emigrated. 1 hey were also strengthened by local anniversary observances through a long series of years, and fortified by documen- tary authorities of undoubted weight.

The historian, Bancroft, wrote in 1848 to Governor Swain, of North Carolina, that he had found a copy of the Mecklenburg Declare- tion of Independence in the British State paper office, and says the first account of “ the ex- traordinary resolves by the people of Charlotte I own, Mecklenburg county,” was sent over to England by Sir James Wright, then Governor ot Georgia, in a letter of the 29th of June, 1775. The paper thus transmitted is still preserved. A fact which gives color to the Meek- lenbuig declaration is that the people of that State had always been peculiarly restive under arbitrary rule. No one denies that the first blood ot the revolution was shed near Alle- mance creek, North Carolina. On the 16th of May, 1771, four years before the Mecklenburg declaration, North Carolina fought a battle with a force of loyal troops, killing some twenty-seven and wounding many. It certainly devolves upon skeptics to produce some new proofs to overthrow all this evidence, and this they have not done.

1 he argument against the historical veracity of the Mecklenburg document is chiefly based on the alleged ground that it is impossible to account for the occurrence of sundry similar

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phrases in it and in Mr. Jefferson’s draft of the national declaration, except on the assumption that he had plagiarized from the Mecklenburg declaration, or the writer of the latter from him. The phrases involved in this discussion are as follows : “ Dissolve the political bonds which have connected,” &c; “are,and of right ought to be, free and independent States,” &c; “ absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British crown “ we pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor,” &c. There is not the slightest reason, however, to infer from this that there was plagiarism on either side. These phrases were common for- mulas of a time when the whole public mind was agitated with the thoughts which they expressed. A universal spirit of patriotism showed itself in words all bearing the same im- port. Even the county meetings of that day were in the habit of pledging their “ lives and fortunes” to the cause. Legislatures did the same. New Hampshire used that phrase in a resolution of the 15th of June, 1776. On the 15th of May of the same year the Virginia pro- vincial convention, then sitting at Williams- burg, unanimously instructed the delegates representing that colony in the general Con- gress at Philadelphia “ to declare the United Colonies free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence on the crown or Parliament of Great Britain.” These instructions were laid before the Continental Congress on the ensuing 27th of May, but it was not until the 7th of June following that the Virginia delegates, in obedience to their instructions, brought this proposition formally before Congress in the shape of a resolution, draughted by Richard Henry Lee, and con- ceived in the following terms :

“ Resolved, That these United Colonies ar’, of right ought to he, free and independent States ■ that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved.”

This was the language of Richard Henry Lee, and the literary integrity of Mr. Jefferson cannot be put in question because he embodied in his declaration the very words of Mr. Lee’s resolution, suggested to Mr. Lee, no doubt, by the manifesto of the British Parliament in 1660, when it declared that “according to the ancient and fundamental laws’of this kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, King, Lords and Commons,” as well as by the patriotic expressions so general at the time.

The great fact that the people ol Mecltlen- burg N. C., declared independence of Great Britain on the 20th of May, 1775, cannot be invalidated by the use of phrases which were not only common to that and the national de- bates, bat were, and long had been, the current coin in the language of freedom in those days. The North Carolina Legislature made a thorough investigation at the session of 1830-31, published the result in pamphlet form there m 1846, and prefixed it to the revised statutes ot the State by legislative enactment in 1854. The testimony of Bancroft clinches the whole matter. We trust the Charlotte celebration will be a grand success, and the North and West, as well as the South, ought to be represented there. Maryland has reason to be in- terested in the celebration, not only from general patriotic motives, but from the fact that Abram Alexander and John McNitt Alexander, and probably Ephraim Brevard, signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and leaders of the movement, tvere natives of Cecil county, Md., where many of their descendants now reside.

The above article, set up for our last number, was excluded from it, as mentioned at tlie time, by the pressure of other matter. The celebration took place at Charlotte, N. C., May 20th, with all the eclat possible. The number in attendance was estimated at from thirty to forty thousand. Independence Square, the site of which was formerly occu- pied by the old court house in which the citizens of Mecklenburg met and resolved upon their famous declaration in 1775, was gaily dec orated with flags, as were other parts of the town. Prominent among the gala devices were hornet’s nests, in allusion to the designation given to the town by Lord Cornwallis, as being “ The Hornet’s Nest of America.” _

The Centennial proceedings took place at Carolina Park, a beautiful grove, one and a half miles from the centre of the town. Thither a brilliant aud lengthy procession took its way, embracing military volunteer organizations of N. C., and Va., numbering twelve hundred men, under the command of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, foimerly of Maryland ; fifteen fire companies, numbering two thousand men, from North and South Carolina, chiefly from the latter State, and a number of civic organizations, besides. Among the guests were Ex- Governors Graham and Vance of N. C., Gov. Chamberlain of S. C., Ex-Gov. Walker of Va., and Ex-Gov. Hendricks of Indiana, the sole representative of the West. Northern men were conspicuous by their absence. Besides these, were some Southern Senators of the U. S., and a number of distinguished military men and civilians. Nor should we omit mention of the presence of a centenarian who was ten years old when the Mecklenburg Declaration was adopted, James B'elk of Munroe, N. C., now 110 years of age, and sound in his mental and physical faculties, except that he is slightly deaf.

The Declaration was read by Major Seaton Gales of Raleigh, file opening address was made by Gov. Graham, and the speech of the day delivered by Hon. John JCerr, judge of the fifth judicial district of N. C. He was followed by Hon. John M. Bright of Tenn ; and a few words from Gov. Vance closed the proceedings at that point. In the evening, alter a dis- play of fire-works, speaking was resumed in Independence Square, the orators being Gov- eraors Chamberlain, Hendricks, Walker and Vance. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson of Rich mond, and Gov. Brogden of N. C., also made remarks. IVc regret we have not room to quote some of the eloquent and inspiring sentiments uttered on this occasion, the key note of which is afforded in the following words uttered by Gov. Chamberlain: “Let us go forth with the voice of Mecklenburg, proclaim- ing the new union more glorious even than the old, because tested by harder trials, planted in deeper foundations, and springing from a broader faith in the immortal principles of

American freedom.” Among the incidents mentioned by Judge Kerr, as illustrative of North Carolina patriotism during the revolu- tionary period, was the fact that the people on Cape Fear river, anterior to any such action on the part of the people of the colonies elsewhere, threw a cargo of tea into the river, and refused to submit to the Stamp Act, compel- ling the officer who had been appointed to en- force it, to repair to the market-place and there pledge himself under oath, to an assembled multitude, that he would forego the discharge of his official functions. In what school-history of the United States, framed, as they mostly are, by Northern book makers, will we find this incident recorded ? The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun from whose very full and graphic account we have drawn our statements, adds that there was no disorder, and that the sobriety was a great feature of the occasion, the contrast in this respect with the centennial celebration at Concord and Lexington, being highly in favor of Charlotte. In conclusion, we quote the following claims of our Southern sister to historical eminence among the states of the Union.

The first Englishman who ever planted foot on the American continent, landed on Roanoke Island in the month of July, 1584-.

The first child born of English parents on American soil was Virginia Dare, who was born on Roanoke in 1585, and after whom the county of Dare is named.

The first resistance to the Stamp Act, was at Wilmington, N. C., in 1765.

The first blood that was ever drawn in de- fence of the people’s rights and in resistance to tyranny, was at Alamance, on May 16,1771. )

The first meeting that was ever held in any 1

of the colonies to declare separation from British command, and to organize for armed resistance, was in North Carolina, in the Coun- ty of Mecklenburg, in the month of May, 1775, nearly fifteen months before the national \ Declaration.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION. When we published in the STANDARD of April 17th the sound and 1 able thesis on this subject, delivered at George- town College, we omitted stating that the author was Mr. Thomas E. Sherman, a son of General William T. Sherman, a graduate of Georgetown College, and now prosecuting, his studies at the Sheffield Scientific School, at New Haven, Conn. We are glad to say, too, from information received from a source entirely reliable, that he is a young gentleman of exemplary morality, a practical Catholic, and as thorough in his religion as he is in every other respect.—Phil. Cath. Standard.

Our young essayist being too modest to subj mit his writings to the public of his own accord, it has been done for him in this case, by a Georgetown friend, without asking his per- mission, ED.

100 GEORGETOWN THE CHRISTIAN MAN OF SCIENCE. A Lecture delivered at Georgetown Col-

lege, April 30tli, by Wm. Allen, Jr., of the Class of Physics and Mechanics.

Ever since the time of Archimedes, Science has advanced, gradually enlarging its scope, until, to-day, it occupies the lofty position as signed to it by universal consent. Amid all the ages that have added to its triumph, our own nineteenth century claims a most impor tant part, so that it may with truth be considered preeminently the age of physical science The theories that our learned predecessors ad vanced, have, through the agency of genius and study, become affirmed facts, and many of the errors into which their ardor was wont to lead them have been blotted out forever. Dis- coveries, little valued at the time, and that seemed but the idle theories of visionary phil- osophers, now taken up with eagerness by the minds of our day, have formed the basis of inventions that are of incalculable aid to us in our every day life. The electric bond that connects our continent ivith Europe ; the en- gine of fire that whirls us with such rapidity from place to place ; the ocean-steamers that scorn the fierce tempest and proudly ride the mountain-like waves,—all are evidences of the growth of science in our own age, and of the devotion with which it is cultivated.

But not in great and startling inventions alone is this growth apparent. The exactitude which science has now attained is something marvellous to behold. The modern scientist will tell us that a musquito, to produce his shrill note, must flap his wings some fifteen thousand times a second ; he will tell us that the blood which courses through our veins, re- ceives its color from solid- particles of such small dimensions that it takes thousands of them to form an object large enough to be seen by the eye ; he will describe to us insects still smaller than these particles, with parts as perfect as those of larger animals, insects withal, which devour others still smaller than themselves ; and when we ask in wonder how these things can be known, we are told that it is by the investigations of science. We cannot but think how surprised the past generation would be to step from their cold graves and witness such great and rapid progress : to see the many forces which have been rendered subservient to man, and the great and won- drous changes worked thereby through the whole civilized world.

Besides the other benefits derived from this powerful agent, there is one most profitable use to which science has been wisely put. This is in the training of the minds of youth. Great is the service of true and genuine science for this particular end, for, coming before the student’s eye with all of its fascinating theories and beautiful explanations of the most common events of his every day life, it naturally wins him to a careful study of the many phenomena

of nature, and stores his mind with useful in formation in regard to the beauties of the visi- ble creation of God. Students are, by its useful agency, instructed in all the wonderful de- tails of the material world, and are moved to admiration of the Being who keeps in the ex- actest order this grand universe. Who can help reverencing the Power that is continually revealing itself in the beauties of His handi- work ? Who can study the truths of science, follow its deductions, and examine its beautiful illustrations, without feeling his heart swell with admiration for the wonders that are set before him ? What appeared to us, before, a merely useful agent-, is now endeared to us by its power .of interpreting the perfections of God, as He manifests Himself to us through his works.

But in this age of ours, there are men who, led astray by their own natural abilities, will allow of no other interpreter than their own unassisted reason. They have assumed to themselves the authority to establish a new religion, and they are daily striving to create confusion in the voices of nature, where, before, none existed. They now with all bold- ness assert that a Christian cannot be a man of science, for the simple reason that Religion and Science are in direct opposition. Taken up entirely with the sequence of cause and effect in nature, they have forgotten tne Author of nature, and have not hesitated in their impiety and foolhardiness, to use the very creations of God to argue that there is no God. Because they are unable to discover their Maker by means of a puny microscope, they draw the conclusion that there is no God save Mature. Thus speaks one of the high priests of this new persuasion: “ I have searched everywhere for God, and have found him nowhere.” They wish to put God and revelation out of sight; and witii this object, everything that seems to prove His government of the world,—which they say is quite capable of governing itself,— must be denied.

Hence, the ground for their assertion that the Church, the one great spiritual organization which is endowed with vitality, must, to preserve itself, oppose the progress of science and modern civilization. In fact, they wish for the downfall of all dogmatic religion, and the substitution of the worship of nature in place of the worship of God; and the Church is in their way. It is their belief that Christi- anity, like paganism, is but a transient phase of human thought, through which mankind is passing on its way to that perfect and true religion which is to be found in nature and science alone. How utterly unreasonable such assertions are, I leave to your good sense to see ; but, that religion and science must naturally be antagonistic, I deny as a gross absurdity. The Church, far from opposing science, was the first to hold out to its struggling infancy a helping hand, and she still continues in many

ways to help and promote its cultivation. She is aware of its utility, from the simple fact that everything that comes from God is useful and beneficial if rightly employed. But, because tlie Church delivers her judgment as to the sphere proper to the sciences, immediately we hear the false assertion that it is her desire to crush and blot out from existence these valu- able agents.

The truth is, she , is a sincere friend of science, and her wish is that its cultivation be pursued to its utmost limits. She does indeed oppose and condemn in a most strenuous manner, the scientific man who wanders from the realms of strict sciehce into lands unknown, amid conjrctures and hypotheses, and who claims to set up his every whim as gospel truth, even against the very laws of nature and the certain revelation of God. And what more reasonable than that she should condemn a manner of action of this kind, and those who uphold it ? If there appears to be any antag- onism between religion and science, it arises chiefly from the fact that either the dogmas of faith have not been understood or explained according to their established and undoubted sense, or that mere theories have been put forward as certain decisions of right reason. A Christian can be a man of science; for there is no opposition between revelation and reason. As a man of science, he is not a theologian; his only duty is to examine and explain the phenomena of Nature and their secondary causes, beyond which he cannot wander. But as a Christian, he believes the truths of revelation and refers everything ultimately to its Creator.

In every country, we see the evil effects ari- sing from the oversetting of this true princi- ple. Those resources which were given us as a means of benefiting the human race are now, in the hands of our modern scientific infidels daily tending to the destruction of the morals and the peace of society: and even lead the way to religious wars. For to what other issue do those theories point, which oppose the existence of God ; which assert that all religion must be swept from the earth by the forces of unrelenting progress ; that man must follow the dictates of his will, unshackled by any religious principles, and acknowledge as his God, Nature,—in truth a very convenient deity? The most respectable reviews are teeming with such and even worse articles of faith, which, sad to say, are not the productions of merely a few fevered brains, but the principles, if they may be honored with such a title, which great numbers of men have resolved to push to the last extreme.

The few Christian scientists of our day— would that there were more of them—are bravely struggling against this advancing tide of error, and to them we must look for the de- velopment of true science. They are confident that the truths revealed by God cannot be an-

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tagonistio to true reason, and believing so, they never shrink from an encounter with the false theories of our modern materialists. When the Christian scientist hears any new theory given out in the name of science, and directly opposed to Revelation, he knows at once that it must be a mere ill-grounded hypothesis, and he sets himself to overturn it with facts and ar- guments drawn from science alone. The Christian man of science has a grand field before him in opposing the increasing scientific infidelity which threatens to undermine faith and morals, and his is a calling in which he may render the greatest aid to the cause of truth'and morality. The Church of God, indeed, can never fail. It is of Divine origin and has been promised Divine protection to the end of time, but the apostles of science may steal from its fold many whom the Christian man of science might preserve to it.

They who will protect the purity of science, by discountenancing unscientific, irreligious theories, showing that they rest on mere as- sumptions, and are not legitimately deduced from established facts, will, moreover be true friends of humanity ; for, by so doing they will render this powerful agent a benefit and not a curse to our civilization. We need Christian men of science tc^ stand between us and the chaos which would follow, if religion and its influences should be banished from society. We need their leadership in exploring the wonders of nature; in scrutinizing the different phenomena; that, with a spirit of reverence towards the Creator, we may recognize in all things His wisdom and power. We need them to battle down false theories upon the field of science itself, and to show to the world that Reason can never be opposed to Divine Rev- elation.

Science, heretofore studied for its own sake, should in this hour of danger, be taken up with renewed zeal, as the means of confounding the enemies of God by holding to the light the tattered theories upon which they wish to found a new and destructive religion. With such an incentive before us as the defending of the faith, the sciences should have a twofold attraction in our eyes, and it should be our most cherished hope to make of ourselves true Christian men of Science.

REFLECTIONS ON ENGLISH FIC- TION.

It has been some time, my dear JOURNAL,

since I had the pleasure of being one of your contributors. This silence does not result from any lack of interest in our paper, but I have naturally some hesitancy in thrusting myself upon the public ; and it is always with fear and trembling that I do so. Yet, were I meditating such a step, I could not have chosen a more favorable opportunity than the present : if my article is totally devoid of attrac tion, I feel sure your readers would not be dis-

pleased with its occupying space given—when short of matter—to “ mysterious correspondents” and severe critics.

Perhaps, a few reflections upon English Fic- tion would not be too profound a subject for your general reader,—did it prove so even to one. I take your answer for granted, and shall give but a brief account of the moral change in the literature of England, from the reign of the Second Charles to onr own time. Here, 1 am forced, out of my honest heart, to confess I envy the author of De Quibusdcnn Rebus, that I am not able to write a succession of articles upon a subject which so demands it.

The literature of the Elizabethian age is well known to us from our acquaintance with Shakspeare, and some few of the lesser lights that struggled into existence even beside the one great star. The standard of morality then prevailing, continued with little change, for better or worse, in the dramas of Massinger, Ford, and their successors until the Restora- tion. That we may appreciate the twofold revolution which took place at this time, wherein monarchy succeeded anarchy, and in literature, complete anarchy succeeded some show of order, let us recall, for a moment, the condition of society when the Puritanical yoke had been shaken off, and Charles II became the exemplar of social morals. A wild beast, long restrained from the gratifications of its passions, and suddenly loosened, would seem to exhibit a parallel to the conduct of individ- uals in private life. Rank indecency charac terized everything. Every novel, every play, was but a mass of lewdness. Still, this was a gr at era in English literature, as certainly as it was the climax of its immorality. As yet, the English novel had not appeared, and En- glish fiction was represented by the play alone. After this time ’tis most interesting to watch the gradual change which took place in the morals of literature. Through two hundred years, they slowly grew better, until now, a first-class novel has scarcely a breach of good manners.

After the last of the dramatists of the Res- toration, who seems to have been Vanbrugh, lost foothold in public estimation, a most im- portant event occurred in the history of En- glish literature; the birth of the English novel. And the real English novel is now so much of a success amongst us, that we imagine we sur- pass in this class of works at least, all other nations. In the first half of the eighteenth century, then, Henry Fielding “ laid bare to the world a mine of heretofore undiscovered wealth, in the production of his first novel, Joseph Andrews.” I would not claim for this work, nor for its companion works from the same hand, any very high moral tone. But I have no doubt that there may have been some old—and she need not have been a very old- dame, who, after having read Tom Jones and thought it best her daughter should not, rec-

ollected having seen a play of Congreve’s or Wycherly’s, and said to herself, “ ’Tis better than theyJ’ ’ She might have done so, were old people always honest about such things. Smollett, the great contemporary of Fielding was even more licentious still; but the next in order of time, the author of Pamela, showed a great improvement; and this tendency to de- cency became more plainly marked, by the ap- pearance of the Yicar of iVakefield.

During the subsequent twenty-five years, women reigned in the world of fiction, and, up to the time when Scott quietly ascended the literary throne, literature abounded in a kind of novel, the present dearth of which is not a very serious loss to posterity. Still, they had their effect; and woman’s hand, though weak, is ever felt. You are astonished in reading the writings of Mrs. Radcliffe, that a woman could stoop to such indecent writings, and in this, she is a worthy imitator of Smollett. Her illustri- ous sister authors, Hannah More, and Fannie Burney, were of an entirely different stamp : nothing could denote a greater change in literature than the straight-laced creations of Mrs. More, or the “ prudish” heroines—as Hazlett calls them—of Madame D’Arblay, (Miss Bur- ney.) Had Evelina or Cecilia, indeed, met one of those rakes of Fielding’s, she would have had some cause to be chary of her charms. But on the contrary, she had o ly to deal with very nice people all the time.

With Scott, the next light of English Fiction, we are all acquainted. He was a “ bright particular star” in the firmament, yet had he lived fifty years later, would not have written some scenes that are now to be found in “Wood- stock,” or “Kenilworth.” Scott gave a new impetus to the dignity and refinement of the English novel, and his influence is plainly marked in those fictions immediately following. Bulwer evidently shows the effect of his great predecessor’s example, in a certain high bred polish, though in his first novels he is. far from imitating Scott’s almost faultless purity.

We have now come to our own time, and perhaps by rather a hurried journey—I hope it has not been a night trip. Here we are among familiar friends. A pure English novel is a true friend,—we can bow to our acquaintances David Copperfield, or Ethel Newcome, Mr. Pecksniff or Mrs. McKenzie; they are our neighbors,—especially the two last. You have read with infinite satisfaction, I am sure, the scorpion strokes of Thackeray when Pelham or the Duchess De Yalliere came out, and again how earnestly and sincerely he lavished praise until it became almost fulsome—when he read My Novel. Dickensisour household god.. The ordinary reader worships him ; the intelligent are carried away by those masterly strokes and touches, in which he seems to use some magic wand to strike thesprings of human sympathy. Of George Eliotl have little to say. I acknowledge her wit, but her books smack of that Posi- tive theory which I am not bound to endorse. Middlemarch is clever, but there are one or two chapters that remind one of a certain class of French novels. With all the obscenity they have not the wit nor honesty of Tom Jones.

I wish I could live long enough to see posterity’s certain approval of the opinion to which I cling,—that Thackeray and Dickens share the honors of English fiction. Many wise heads have attempted a comparison between these novelists, in which individual prejudice turns the scale. But ’tis unwise to estimate their comparative merits at this time, and this task had better be left to posterity. Sometimes I imagine I can look in the far hereafter, and discover that Dickens is most talked of; Thackeray most read. ENO.

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Our Journal having reached the ninth number of the third volume, another number is still needed to complete the year. This number, as announcedin our last, will be published during the vacation, and will contain a sum- mary of the best notices that the daily and weekly journals may give of our Commence- ment exercises, and the incidents attending them, besides other matters of interest. The College will have _been canvassed, before this number appears, for the addresses, during va cation, of our student subscribers, so that they may not fail to get the concluding number to which they are entitled. Subscribers residing outside the College will please attend, without further solicitation, to the rectification of their addresses, if any change is to be made.

During September, then, if no impediment occurs—and none is anticipated—we shall pre- pare the first number of our fourth volume, which will accordingly bear the date of the succeeding month, October, and be published, as usual, before the first of said succeeding month. We own to some degree of pardon- able pride at having been able to carry the paper through three years, which, considering the difficulties attending the starting of the project, the novelty of the undertaking, in our circumstances, and the possible interruptions that might easily have occurred by the way, we look upon as quite a respectable age. The paper has now grown to be a kind of necessity : at least, it would be very much missed here at College and elsewhere, should it not go on ; we therefore trust that it is to be a permanent institution among us, whoever may conduct it; and, as we have said, we foresee no impedi ment to its continuance. But, to assure this result, so far as a pecuniary support is concerned, we cannot too strongly impress on our subscribers the importance of renewing their subscriptions before the succeeding volume is

GEORGETOWN begun, those who can conveniently do so now, are therefore exhorted to save us the trouble of asking for this small amount a couple of months later. We are not in need of it at present, as the year’s expenses are covered by the year’s receipts, with a small balance lef; over; but any lessening of the trouble we experience every year, after vacation, in getting renewals, will be highly appre- ciated at this time.

For months after a new volume is begun, we have to wrestle with our subscribers, or many

of them, to get them to pay up. Herein Col- lege and elsewhere, it is only after repeated ap- plications that we can complete our collections : and the process of dunning has lost us more than one friend among those whose sensitive- ness is limited to themselves, with none left

over for the attitude of dereliction which they may occupy towards us. Those, therefore, who may not find it expedient to renew their subscriptions at this time, are requested to do so, without delay, after the receipt of the number succeeding this. It is necessary for us to know, before the beginning of a new volume, the number of subscribers we have to serve, in order that we may give orders to the printer

for the number of papers requisite. We hope to be spared the necessity of alluding to this matter, therefore, in several successive issues. Appeals of this kind do not furnish agreeable reading to the general public, (or to that small portion of it we address,) and they are certainly not an exhilarating species of writing for the editor.

There is a phenomenon connected with our subscription list, of which we should like to have an explanation. It is the sudden drop- ping off every year of those whom we always looked upon as staunch friends of the paper and the College, without a complaint having been heard from them, or an explanation being offered afterwards. Such conduct as this, if exhibited towards a paper of low repute or of indifferent interest, would need no explanation or apology. But employed towards a paper occupying the respectable position which judi- cious friends- assign to ours, and occurring in the midst of the praises and compliments which are constantly flowing in upon us from all sides, we own that the thing seems inexpli- cable. It is a first-class riddle, and as we are not able to solve it, we feel no sentiments of good-will towards those who set it before us, and oblige us to study it unavailingly. If our pen grows atrabilious at times, it is under the stimulus of slights such as this, which we feel more than we do the loss of the dollar’s subscription. But we shall defer any complaining remarks until we take up the case of our old students in a succeeding article.

In general, we have reason to thank our friends for the support they have given us, and congratulate our students on the increase, this year, of our subscription-list among them.

This circumstance, we think, shows the growth of public spirit among us, which this paper particularly undertakes to foster. Why all do not take it who could as well do so as not, is another of those subscription riddles, which we cannot undertake to fathom. But, as in every community of men, there are some who live only to themselves, and seem to have no part or lot in the movements which interest other men, so, we presume it must be among a com-

munity of boys or young men. Besides, in an old place like Georgetown, one must expect to find fossils, even among its collegians of the rising generation.

If it were possible for our friends to extend our circulation, so that we should have no need of depending on advertisements to help pay expenses, we should feel greatly relieved. In spite of the generosity of some of our advertisers, there are others who dispute or postpone our bills, or even refuse to pay at all, and thus deliberately cheat us of our dues. Before we employed a regular collector to attend to our bills, the difficulties that our Business Mana- gers met with from this class of people, and the insults they received in the prosecution of their duty, caused two or three to resign in succession. We could not be blamed, therefore, if we desired to be independent of advertising altogether. We should not refuse a place in our columns to reputable advertisers who desired it, but, besides that we begrudge the room our advertisements now take up, we should like to be spared the humiliation of feeling dependant upon any except those for whose benefit the paper was got up, and for

whose pleasure and advantage it is carried ori. These are our subscribers, especially those in College. With the good-will that they have towards us, we suggest to them, therefore,

that to be consistent, they should make it a point to be prompt in their renewals, so far as they themselves are concerned; and, not con- tenting themselves with this, endeavor to ex-

tend our subscription-list far and wide among their friends.

OED STUDENTS.

Our Commencement exercises will attract hither, as they always do, a considerable number of graduates and other old students. The pleasure that their presence affords is indeed mutual : they revisit with delight the scenes once so familiar to them, and perhaps still discover among the residents of the College many iriends of old ; on the other hand, they are welcomed on these and all other occasions when they appear in our midst, with all possible cordiality and hospitality on the part of these friends and the authorities of the Col- lege. We wish our old students to feel at home among us, and we desire our present students to take note of this fact while they are still under our roof, so that when they

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shall have finished their course, they may understand that their Alma Mater once is their Alma Mater always, and that she expects from them a continuance of the cordial relations which may have existed in the past.

It is a source of regret at Georgetown, and will be the source of considerable embarrass- ment to the future annalist of our College, that so many who have made their studies here, whether as graduates or not, have suffered all trace of their subsequent career to be lost, so far, at least, as we are concerned. Doubt- less, some specific bond of union was needed. Certainly, it seems as if the sentiment of attachment felt by so many, and energetically expressed by succeeding generations of students, towards their old scholastic home and the friends they left behind, here, hardly sufficed as this bond. Like other sentiments, it was liable to decay or deterioration : or like the good seed in the Gospel, has been choked with the thorns and cares of life. The Alumni Association of Georgetown University has therefore been framed to meet the want. It is the most effective instrument that could be employed for the purpose, and ought to claim

the immediate recognition of all old scholars who have not yet united themselves with it. By its means, we hope to see a more perfect union cemented between Alma Mater and her children. Although we have given full accounts of the organization and of its purposes, and published a list of its officers, we repeat again, in order that no pretext of ignorance may be alleged, that application for member- ship is to be made to Eugene D. F, Brady, Esq. Secretary, 460 C St, Washington, D. C., and that the first annual meeting of the Alumni and other members of the Association is to take place in Washington, in January next;

and we trust that a goodly number of our old scholars will be in attendance on that occasion.

We think we perceive the beginning of a more frequent and cordial intercourse between former students and the College, and we tiust that our little paper has not been without its influence in bringing about this result . Cer- tainly , it has kept alive among those former students who have taken it, their interest in the College and its affairs. For all who have

left us, it is the only living voice which speaks to them of what is passing here, of what is about to occur or likely to occur, or which re- produces souvenirs of their times and of the friends whom they knew'. On this ground, independently of the merits people tell us it possesses in other respects—largely due, no doubt, to the ability and pains-taking of its student-writers—the JOURNAL commends itself to their liberal support . It is absurd for old scholars to come here and speak of their affection for the place, and their interest in its welfare, and not to be willing to subs cribe a paltry dollar to secure the reading of the only organ of communication that exists between the Col-

lege and the outer world. We have seen not a few of that class here, from time to time, and we must own that we conclude their affection for Georgetown to be of the most attenuated sort, and their interest in her welfare to be of the most shadowy character. This, too must be the class of persons who, as described in the preceding article, drop their subscriptions, if they ever made any, w'ithout notice or apology. They “ die and leave no sign.”

Sustained as we are by the cordial co-oper ation with us of so large a proportion of our present students, whose confidence we feel assured we enjoy,—encouraged by the friendly and sometimes enthusiastic words of our ex- student subscribers,—looked upon kindly by the authorities of the College,—we feel that an injustice is done us by the large number of old students who abstain from giving us their support after a full knowledge on their part of the existence of the paper. We have expressed ourselves to this effect, before, but we deem this a fitting occasion to renew our protest against the indifference of so many who ought to be found side by side with the friends whose warm interest in our behalf emboldens us to speak as frankly as we do on the subject.

CONFERENCE OF COLLEGE PRESI- DENTS.

Two of our Western exchanges, the College Message of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and tire Notre Dame Scholastic, have lately revived a suggestion made a year or two ago by the N. Y. Freeman’s Journal, that the heads of American Catholic i olleges should confer together with the view of arriving at uniform- ity in points affecting the moral, material, and scholastic interests of the institutions under their control. Georgetown being the oldest Catholic college in the country, her sentiment on the subject may naturally be looked for, and this being the only paper published at the College, it may be supposed that the views of the authorities will be conveyed through this medium. But as our paper is exclusively the affair of the students, and the College authorities have never made it their organ, we cannot expect them to do so, now. No members of the Faculty have ever inspired anything in it, or written anything for it, and we hesitate to ask them to go out of their way to deliver them selves of their opinion on any subject which involves action on their part. We must remit our Western friends, therefore, to the Faculty themselves, if it be expected or desired that the latter should give any opinion or take any action in the premises. If it be asked why, then, we mention the matter at all, we reply that if we abstained from all reference to it, our silence might be misunderstood. But we repeat,—since it seems difficult for some journals to understand who and what we are,— that the COLLEGE JOURNAL, while it takes great

pains not to misrepresent the authorities of the College, and indeed does its best to co- operate with them, and to deserve their approval in every way, is only the representative of a generation—or rather of several generations—of schoolboys, if we may use so undig- nified a term in reference to our collegians. If the editor is not a school-boy himself, it is simply an accident over which he has no control. But at any rate he does not belong to the governing authorities of the house, and has no commission to speak in their behalf.

mount St. Mary s Commencement.

The Commencement at Mt. St. Mary’s, Em- mittsburg, Md., will precede our own by one day, and will be a grand occasion, Cardinal McCloskey and other Bishops, Alumni of the Mountain, intending to be present. The good feeling that has always existed between that College and our own, makes us rejoice in her welfare and in the eclat she gains. If a students’ paper were published there, doubtless it would express the same good wishes towards ourselves, notwithstanding that the Jesuits have robbed the Mountain from time to time of some of its choice subjects, two of whom reside at Georgetown at the present time, in the persons of our Treasurer and our Professor of Rhetoric. By way of partial acknowledg- ment, Georgetown long ago conferred the Doctorate of Divinity on President McCaffrey and of Music on the eminent Prof. Dielman : but four besides Dr. McCaffrey having ever received a degree similar to his from George- town, and but one other besides Dr. Dielman, the degree of Mus. Doc. Perhaps our list of courtesies is not yet exhausted. We only regret that as nobody at Mt. St. Mary’s takes the COLLEGE JOURNAL, our friends there are not likely, in the ordinary course of events, to know what we say about them.

Amateur .Tournalists in Council.

The convention announced in our last, to take place July 7th is to meet, as we learn by a notice since received, on Saturday, June 26th 1875 at 10 A. M., at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New York. Those of our Journal writers or stockholders who reside in that city or who may be there on that day, en route for then- homes, beyond, should try to be present.

Georgetown College Commencement.

On account of the early period at which we are getting out this number, the printed Pro- gramme of our Commencement exercises appears only as this page is being finished. It will therefore be found on an inner page. The speaking on this occasion will be confined entirely to the graduates, Messrs. Wm. Allen, Jr. Wm. H. Clarke, Ansel B. Cook, J. Percy Keating, J. Caldwell Robertson, and Louis R. Thian.

104 GEORGETOWN THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

The little world of College, generally so quiet and uneventful, was stirred to its depths on Thursday, June 10th, by the intelligence that an Athletic Association was to be organized similar in plan to Associations of the same character in most American Colleges. A notice on the now oft referred to Bulletin Board, soon filled the Study Hall with athletes in em- bryo. Mr. C. Manly one of the prime movers in the enterprise, took the chair by acclama- tion, and the Society received the name at the head of this article; the constitution or rather its frame work, was read and accepted, and officers were elected. Nothing was said in the afore-mentioned frame-work about the Boating Club, which was omitted by the framers,because, until next September, a rowing Club cannot be organized, and if it should be, then, it can easily be admitted into the Association. Those who have for years dis- cussed, with a zeal worthy of a better cause, the organization of a rowing club, were surprised at not hearing their favorite mentioned as one division of the Association. A few of the ardent lovers of aquatic sports propose buying, next September, a four-oared gig and using her independently of the Association. The Gym- nasts and Billiardists of the College seemed to be the only ones who perceived the benefits that would accrue from a union of forces and funds. The former well knew that without money, the Gymnasium, already near comple- tion, could neither be repaired, nor without censors preserved from destruction at the hands of the heedless.

A minority of the Base Ballists seemed to be under the impression that the consolidation of the Base Ball Clubs in the yard would destroy that spirit of rivalry, which at present is the life of the game. This objection was sufficiently well answered by one of the Base Ballists themselves, who asserted that the present pros- perity of Base Ball in the yard was entirely owing to the cause which some of the gentlemen in the hall seemed to think would destroy it. For tlie last ten months, the Gymnasium, Billiard Boom, and Base Ball Field have been virtually under the rules of an organization. Then the economy of the measure would be very great, because the Base Ball Clubs could get their bats and balls at half price by send- ing on for a quantity' at a time. Altogether, the scheme of organization, thus far, meets general approbation, and there is every pros- pect of success before the enterprising men at its head.

There was one clause in the Constitution accepted, which I think should be inserted in the Constitutions of every Society in the College ; it directs that the confirming of fines imposed by the Censor, shall be done by three arbiters elected by the Society semi annually. Their duty is to remain after the adjournment of the Societies, hear the fines read by the Censor,

hear the excuses of those fined, and a majority of one shall either acquit or convict. This reg- ulation , if adopted by the Societies in the Col- lege, would prevent that inevitable wrangle which occupies so much time and causes so much ill-feeling.

The officers elected to preside until next Sep- tember are Mr. E. F. Hill, S. J., Gen. Presi- dent ; C. Manly, Gen. Vice President; A, Hood, jr., Gen. Treasurer ; J. C. Payne, Vice President of Base Ball; J. F. Roberts, Vice President of Gymnasium ; J. P. Keating, Vice President of Billiard Room ; F,. A. Dolan, 1st Censor of Base Ball; J. Dolan, 2d Censor of Base Ball; J. H. Scaife, 1st Censor of Billiard Room; P. P. Echeverri, 2d Censor of Billiard Room; Enoch B. Abell, Treasurer of Base Ball; J. J. Griffiss, Treasurer of Gymnasium ; T. P. Kernan, Treasurer of Billiard Room.

J. F. R.

1AW COMMENCEMENT.

The fourth annual Commencement of the Law Department of Georgetown University was held on the evening of June 3d, at Ford’s Opera House, Washington, and brought together a large and brilliant assemblage, in which the ladies preponderated, as usual. The stage presented a gay aspect with the profusion of floral gifts displayed before the foot-lights, while the Marine Band, with their scarlet coats, made another brilliant parterre in the orches- tra-seats. After the overture, “ Jolly Rob- bers,”—which seemed a very significant selec- tion,—the curtain rose, and displayed the President, professors, graduates, alumni and distinguished guests, all in their seats and leady to proceed with business. Judge Pas chal, the presiding officer of the Law Dep’t., was introduced by Judge McArthur, Hon. B. H. Bristow being unavoidably absent, and delivered the Annual Address, a sound and sug- gestive production which we shall doubtless see in print. He was followed by Mr. F. J. M. Daly, (A. B. of Mt. St. Mary’s) for two years past a member of our corps of teachers, who delivered with fine effect the Class Vale- dictory. As an expression of graceful thought and independent opinion, the Address did our friend the highest credit. Our Rev. President, after delivering the diplomas to the eleven graduates, made them an address of encour- agement and congratulation, which, short as it was, was only half reported in the Republican, and that half badly mangled. Will the repor- ter do the like, here, on the 24th ? After lis- tening to the closing strains of the Marine Band, the audience then slowly retired. Our notice of the occasion, if short, is necessarily so, at this stage of the paper.

LAST WORDS. Paper finished up, June 18th. Deferred, the conclusion of J. M. H’s piece ; also a piece by L. J. M ; also, compliments to the Choir and Band. These and other omis- sions will be supplied in our vacation number.

Our Own Commencement,

The elegant four-paged Programme got up for our fifty-eighth Annual Commencement, June 24th, announces the hour at 10.30, A.M., which will be punctually adhered to. The peculiarity of this Programme is that it repre- sents more fully the Class that is to graduate than any preceding one has done, the words “Class of ’75” being conspicuous on the first page, and the names of the Class Officers being given in addition. Nor will there be any speakers except members of the Class. The Salutatory will be by Wm. IJ. Clarke of Wash- ington, D. C. The succeeding order, with in- tervals of music by the Marine Band between each address, will be, J. Caldwell Robertson of Columbia., S. C., on Centralization : Ansel B. Cook of Albany, Ga., on American Science: Louis R. Thian of Georgetown, D. C.,—a day- scholar of ours since his earliest school-days, having entered in 1864, eleven years ago— “Life,” a Poem: J. Percy Keating of Phila- delphia, on the Losses and Gains of our Civili- zation : and finally, the Valedictory by Wm. Allen, Jr., of Henrico Co., Va. The Confer- ring of Degrees and the Distribution of Prizes will follow. It is not known, at this writing, by whose hands the Prizes will be delivered. The exercises will be over at 1 P. M., or there- abouts. During the day, the Museum, Libra ry, Philosophical Cabinet and Chapel will not be open to visitors.

New Features.

The new features in our Exhibition, as the old students call it, or Commencement, as we are learning to call it, will be the distribution of so many new prizes ; so that Elocution, En- glish Composition, Drawing, Music, Penman- ship, and other arts and accomplishments for which Prizes have heretofore been awarded, in addition to those which are earned by the regular classes, will now be supplemented by- medals for Debating, Historical Essay, Alge- braic Problems, Natural History and COLLEGE

JOURNAL Essays. In regard to these last, although but one writer can receive the elegant medal which has been offered by the liberal and public-spirited gentleman who stands sponsor for the Prize, the Judges, our Profes- sors of Rhetoric, Poetry and Chemistry, who examined the compositions, express the highest appreciation of the essays of all the four contestants. The competition for the regular Declamation Medal took place May 25th before Messrs. R. T. Merrick, Chas. W. Hoffman and Tallmadge A. Lambert, who, also, were enthusiastic in their praise of the great majority of speakers who appeared before them. On this occasion, two of the young gentlemen who were handled so roughly by our correspondent on the occasion of the Readings, May 20th (on which day we were in Baltimore) viz: Messrs. J. F. Gallagher and W. E. Jones,were conspic-

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uously meritorious,—to say nothing of others who fared better than they at the hands of our critic.

The number of students enrolled in the Cat- alogue for 1874-5 is 203, which is an increase over the three preceding years. In our next, we shall furuish statistics of the classes to which they belonged, the localities whence they came, the Colleges at home and abroad, which they attended before entering here, &c. The students in the Medical Department during the past year, were 72 : in the Law, 34: making, with those of the Classical Department, a grand total of 309. Our graduates of ’75 are 6 in number, of Medicine, 6, of Law, 11. Total graduates of the University for 1874-5, 23. —

Books Receined.

We have from Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore, two of their recent elegant publications, admi- rably suited for premiums, and written by authors whose names are guarantees of the excel- lence of their productions: viz : The Fire of London, or Rosemary, by Lady Georgiana Ful- lerton, and Hubert’s Wife : a Story for Youth, by Minnie Mary Lee. The binding of these books is remarkably handsome. A good book, n fact, is worthy of a good cover.

From John Murphy & Co., Baltimore we have copies of the Library edition of Lingard’s England, Burke’s Abridgement, with a concluding chapter which was prepared for the work here in Georgetown College. This is a stand ard work in schools, and the Library edition, got up in first-class style, and with a portrait on steel of Dr. Lingard, should he in every household. As now supplemented, the History is brought down to 1872.

BASE BAlJt.

The following is the Record for May, which was excluded from our last number, for want of room.

The Base-ball season began late, this year, on account of the protracted inclemency of the weather. Indeed the past winter is the first within the remembrance of many here, when out-door sports were utterly impracticable. So, May came before any regular match was entered upon. On the 2d of that month, a game between two of the College Clubs, the Suburbans and the Monticellos, resulted in favor of the former, by a score of 43 to 5. On the 6th, the Suburbans appeared in their new white flannel uniform, with blue trimmings, in order to play the Columbia University nine. The result was a score of 32 to 6 against the Columbians. This game was followed on the same day, by one for the class championship of the house, between First and Second Gram- mar. The former class was the champion last year. On this occasion, though not composed of the same members, it was beaten by Sec- ond, by a score of 23 to 17. On the 11th, the first game of the annual series between the

Quicksteps and Stonewalls was played, and again victory remained with the Quicksteps by a score of 25 to 13. On the 13th, a game was commenced with the Eagles, a Washington club, by the Surburbans, but on account of the late hour at which it was begun, only four innings could be played, and the record is incom- plete. On the 20th, the Monticellos beat the 2d nine of the Socials, a town club, 17 to 13 in seven innings. On the 27th a game took place on the Olympic grounds, Washington, between the Nationals, (Washington amateurs,) and the Suburbans. The Suburbans were defeated by a score of 21 to 11. This completes the record for May. We have no room for the full statement of the score, but wherever this is omitted, it will be supplied in our vacation number, if application is made, in the mean time, through J. G. Agar.

On the 3d of June, a second game took place between the Stonewalls and Quicksteps, the latter being again victorious, by a score of 19 to 13. The Quicksteps therefore remain the champions far 1874-5.

The other games of the month between Col- lege clubs were, of the Monticello and the Alert, 16 to 11 : Monticello and the Angola, 19 to 3 : Monticello and Suburban, 18 to 8. Games with outside parties were, Columbia

The following are the exploits of the Angola B. B. C., an organization on the small boys’ side. They defeated the Independents, a town club, by a score of 20 to 5 : and again, by 17 to 11. Also, the Trinity School Nine of George- town, twice : 11 to 8 and 27 to 17. Also, the Alerts, large boys, 7 to 6. On the 8th of June, they played the 2d Nine of the Socials, a town club, with the result of 18 in their favor, against 17 for the Socials. It was very interesting, as they were obliged to play eleven innings. The following is the report of the scorer, Leonard Johnson :

ANGOLA. SOCIALS

R. O. R. O. 3 3 Mulligan

Horne Milligan Alcorn E. Mulligan Clarke Johnson Freeman Payne

Total

Dodge Alvord Letch Welch Sanger W. Welch Bangs Dodson O’Brien

18 33

2 4 3 3 3 2 0 5 0 6 2 4 2 4 3 2 2 3

17 33 The Angolas now claim, with justice, the

championship over all clubs in the District, the members of which are under fifteen.

Among the humors of Base-ball may be . .. it .. .3 ..i-A I'orl lin irn/1

College Preps and Monticello, 12 to 10 : Mon ticello and Socials, 17 to 13. The great game of the month was between the National, (Washington Amateurs) and the College Nine, June 10th at the Olympic grounds. Of this we furnish a special report. “Major” of the Nine was an outsider who replaced Timmins on that day.

The game played on the Olympic grounds, between the National B. B. C. of Washington and the College nine, was the best the two nines have played for several years.

There was some fine individual playing on both sides. Thomas Malian must be compli- mented on his good delivery, for the Nationals found some difficulty in batting his balls. The fielding of C. Payne on 1st Base, of Dammann at Short Stop; and of McMeal in left field was almost faultless.

Up to the 8th inning the College Nine led the game. Their opponents gained on them in the 8th inning on account of several flies being muffed by one of the fielders. The players were

COLLEGE NINE. R. O.

McMeal 2 2 Major 2 2 Malian 2 3 Payne 0 4 Dammann 2 3 llagan 0 2 Arnold 0 4 Dolan 0 4 Lamkin 1 3

Total 9 27

NATIONALS. R. 0.

Lawill 3 1 Cupt 2 3 Hough 0 4 Trott 1 4 Stevens 3 2 Chambers 1 4 Lusk 0 4 Witherow 1 3 Joy 1 2

12 27 L. J. M.

men and the black-haired men, and between the “Tow-heads” and the “Sorrel Tops,” the latter chiefly the red heads again. The reds, J. Dolan, Manly, C. Walsh, E. Dolan, W. Bo disco, II. Walsh, O’Farrell, Milliken, and Gil- tinan, beat the blacks, Malian, Lamkin, J. Roberts, Scaife, W. Willcox, O’Connor, O’Neill, Rnz and Arnold, 14 to 12. Umpire, J. M. Hagan, Scorer, A. de Bodisco. Time, 2 hours, 20 minutes. The “Tow-heads,” B. W. E., Hagan, J. Kennedy, Jo. Johnston, AValter Clarke, Patterson,Means, O’Brien, and Sweeny were victorious over the “ Sorrel-tops’ by a score of 26 to 12.

The Bulletin board recently displayed the following joke at the expense of some of our Marylanders who do not belong to any club.

“We, the Maryland Nine, challenge any other State nine of this institution to play a match game of base-ball, for a pair of silver skates. Horsey,C. O’Donnell, P. Shafer, 1 B. Smith, 2 B. L. B. (Little Bull) Roberts, 3 B. Mudd, S. S. Jo. Jenkins, L.F. B. B. (Big Bull) Roberts, C. F. Griffiss, R. F.” The joke was supplemented by naming as Foul Flags, on account of their brilliant hair, Giltinan and Harry Walsh : Milliken as Umpire, A. Bodisco as scorer, John Daley (hired boy) as water- carrier, and Malian, policeman. Sign of a lager-beer mug over the notice with inscription “ In hoc signo vinces.” Also “ Refreshments on hand,” and “ Admission one cent, ladies free. One-eyed people two cents, because they can see more.”

P. S. June 17th,while the above was being set up, an exciting game took place on the small boys’ grounds between the Angolas and the Socials, which attracted everybody in Col- lege and some from without. The Angolas won by 16 to 8. George Johnson, the 2d Base of the Angolas, on account of his excellent play, was carried in triumph on the shoulders of the large boys.

106 GEORGETOWN Publications Received.

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Report of the Xavier Union of the City of New York. This successful and commend- able society, formed for joint literary and re ligious purposes, occupies elegant rooms ad- joining St. Francis Xavier’s College, 15th St. N. Y., where, we are sure, any of our students visiting the city will be cordially welcomed, and where, we are equally sure, visitors will be delighted with what they see and hear. Our Chas. N.Harris, of ’70,is one of the Direc- tors. The Union, we see by the daily papers, lately gave a grand reception to Cardinal MeCloskey and the Papal envoys, together with a large number of Bishops and distinguished laymen.

Vick's Floral Guide, No. 3 for 1875. Such pretty little publications as this, which render gardening so enticing and apparently so easy a pursuit, almost induce us to drop the pen, and take to garden-hoes and watering-pots.

New York Almanac, 1875. This beautiful pamphlet inspires us with great respect for tlie New York Life Insurance Co., which gets it up, and sends it to us. Yes, insure with the N. Y. Life by all means. .Brooklyn (N. Y.) Journal of Education,

No. 1. The literary tone and*external aspect of the new Journal, seem to indicate that it is designed to fill a prominent place among educational publications. Of course, however, it wishes well to the compulsory movement in education, a piece of despotism urged by some bigots with a plausibility which lias doubtless entrapped many well-meaning persons.

Our Sick Man, or the Educational Problem in the Cotton States, by Dexter A. Hawkins, N. Y. This gentleman is the most industrious of the propagators of the Compulsory scheme. And now he wants to bring this Bismarckian project into the Southern States. We are glad to believe that the instincts of freedom are too powerful there to promise it success. Ilovv much better would it be to be just, and to distribute the educational funds collected by taxation, pro rata for each child, wherever gratuitously educated! Let education be free, as religion is free, in this home of liberty.

Die Katholische Presse. Leo Woerl, Wurzburg, 1875. This pamphlet, devoted to the interests of the Catholic press, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and containing a list of the Catholic papers in those countries, is transmitted to the JOURNAL by the author and publisher.

School Festival Songs. Dayton, Ohio : J. Fischer & Bro. The thirteen trios and chor- usses comprised in this book are well adapted to their intended purpose, for use at exhibi- tions, academy commencements, parlor en- tertainments, &c. Our musical critic approves of them.

“ Silver Threads are often Seen," and “ Sadie Darling,” are two songs from F. W.

Helmick, 278 West Sixth St, Cincinnati, 0. Our critic, above, rather admires the latter and thinks but little of the other.

Addresses at the 26th Annual Commence ment of the Medical Department of George- town University, March 16th 1875. We are indebted to our Dr. D. J. Kelly, who graduated in medicine on this occasion, for a copy of this pamphlet, which contains the Addresses of Prof. Benj. S. Hedrick, M. A., Ph. D. ; J. M. Green, M. D. and Joseph Taber Johnson, A. M., M. D. The JOURNAL for May contained a notice of the exercises at this Commencement, and also some strictures on Dr. Johnson’s suggestion in regard to a National University, in reference to which, the Philadelphia 11 Literary Society” was even more severe than we. But, as the suggestion reads in the printed Ad- dress, it seems rather to indicate that our Medical gentlemen might make their College a National College, in a sense apart from its being a government institution. If that is the idea, we say to our friends, “ Go ahead!” For our part, we shall try to do the same at this end of the District, in our Department of Letters. But we don’t want any government officials to help us run the machine, though the Faculty would probably not reject any gifts the government might make, if uncoupled with onerous conditions. Still, we are not under any immediate expectation of thanking Uncle Sam for anything.

Catalogue of the Law Department of the University of Va , for 1874-5. We are indebted for our copy, to our last year’s graduate, Mr. W. S. Perry, now a student of law at tlie University. From some striking articles in the University Magazine which we attribute to Mr. P’s accomplished pen, we judge that, as usual, he turns his leisure hours to profitable account.

Boston University School of Law. Cata- logue for 1874-5. Thanks to some official of this institution for its transmission.

American Journal of Phonography, from Burns & Co., 33 Park Row, N. Y. The ’Rapid Writer, Chicago, 111., and Andover, Mass. These useful publications reach us regularly.

The Vox Humana, published monthly at one dollar a year, by Geo. Woods & Co., Cam- bridgeport, Mass. Any musician or lover of fine music, who does not take this deserving monthly, hardly deserves the name.

P. S. These notices should have appeared in our last, but were excluded for want of room. Book-notices elsewhere.

Big' Invention. Lloyd, the famous map man, who made all the maps for General Grant and the Union army, certificates of which he published, has just in- vented a way of getting a relief plate from steel so as to print Lloyd’s Map of American Continent—showing from ocean to ocean—on one entire sheet of bank note paper, 40x50 in- ches large, on a lightning press, and colored, sized and varnished for the wall so as to stand washing, and mailing anywhere in the world for 30 cents, or unvarnished for 25 cents. This map shows the whole United States and Territories in a group, from surveys to 1875, with a million places on it, such as towns, cities, villages, mountains, lakes,rivers, streams gold mines, railway stations, &c. This map should be in every house. Send 30 cents to the Lloyd Map Company, Philadelphia, and you will get a copy by return mail.

SPEECHESOF DANIEL W. VOORHEES,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. Defense of .Tohn E. Cools. Argument

delivered at Charlestown, Va., Nov. 8tli 1959

3. Tlie American Citizen, Address before the Literary Societies of the University of Vir- ginia, July 4th I860 1 vlr

3. The liberty of the Citizen House of Representatives, Feb’y. 18th 1863. e 01

4. The Conscript Aet. House of Represen- tatives, Feb’y. 18th, 23d, 1883. -nepresen

5. The State of the Union. House of Ren resentatives, March 5th 1864. “ep

6. The 13th Amendment. House of Ren- resentatives, January 9th 1865. P

fT- Defense of Mary Harris, for Murder Washington, 1). C., July 18thl86'5.

8. Reconstruction. House of Representa- tives, January 9 th 1866. cpiesenta

9. Reconstruction of Georgia. House of Representatives, April 7 th 1869. 10. Enforcement of the 15th Amendment

House of Representatives, Feb’y. 15th 1871. 11. Defense of Harry Crawford Black

tor murder. Frederick City, Md., April 21st 1872

13. IMunder of eleven States by the Re-’

Ma!>cht2M,lS72,,‘'y- H™Se °f Representatives, 13 American Relations with Spain and Cuba. House of Representatives, Feb’y. 23d 1872

14 Reply to Senator Morton. Terre Haute, Indiana, August 1874.

15. Financial Condition of the Country Green Castle, Indiana, Sept. 24th 1874. ’ ’

16- Tribute to Judge John Law Before the Terre Haute Bar, Indiana, Oct. loth 1873.

17 Influence of the Physical Sciences on the progress of civilization. Address be-

Jiine^22dlS74ary Socletles of University cf Missouri 18. Tribute to Professor Samuel F B

o?iprU16?hl8S72.°fEePreSentatiVeS “ the~® HOUS0 °f Represen-

TVTHWTEr!4F0ECEr1SENT 0F THE >«h AMEND- 1VLLJNT. House of Representatives, April 6th 1871-

A HT?n>AT?THGTI0N PS AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. House of Representatives, Jan. 6th

TTNCT^BFE

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JHSJ

EELISHA M. HUN- TINGTON. In the U. S. Circuit Court at Indian- apolis, Indiana, May 7th 1863.

33 THE NATIONAL DEBT. House of Rep- resentatives, Jan. 28th 1870. 1

34, RECONSTRUCTION OF GEORGIA House of Representatives, Dec. 21st 1869.

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