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SWARTHMORE PHŒNIX VolV 4 tfo. 9. Qoptei^t^. r V Editorials 225 Voices of the Winds 229 Views Atoot in the Papal States—Part IV 229 Swarthmore Presidents 231 111. William Hyde Appleton (Frontispiece) Parker Pillsbury..... 232 , ( Alumni Department. 235 Obituary - 141 ( - Personals 241 r Locals 242 Athletics » 244 Exchanges 245 Inter-Collegiate News and Clippings 246 A.M. SICKLCR fc CO.. COLLEGE PRINTERS, 014 MINOR IT,, PHIL*. -! ' v; »
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ADVERTISEMENTS. v SWHRTHMORE f COLLEGE, ffTnrl i'■ /W 1* 11 JUULUi "LMu vm KSffISSS «'y EWi • -4 g5 ■iSflteiau paisfg^s liptes hfT*"* FACULTY, OF INSTRUCTION FOR 1890-91. WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON, A. M., LL. 8., (Harvard); Ph. D., (Swarthmore), President and Professor of the Greek and English Language and Literature, ELIZABETH POWELL BOND, Dean. EDWARD H. MAGILL, A. M., (Brown University); LL. D., (Haverford), Ex-President, and Professor of the French Language and Literature • ARTHUR BEARDSLEY, C. E. (Rens. Pol. Inst.); Ph. D , (Swarthmore). I. V. Williamson Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Workshops. SUSAN J. CUNNINGHAM, (Swarthmore), Edward H. Magill Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. WILLIAM PENN HOLCOMB, B. L., M. L., (Swarthmore); Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins University), Joseph Wharton Professor ol History and Political Science, and Lecturer on Pedagogics. BENJAMIN SMITH, A. M. (Yale), Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and Mental and Moral Philosophy. WILLIAM CATHCART DAY, Ph. D., (Johns Hopkins University), Professor 01 Chemistry. SPENCER TROTTER, M. D. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor of Natural History, and Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene, MILTON H. BANCROFT, (Mass. Art School), Professor of Art and' Mechanical Draughting. GEORGE A. HOADLEY, A. M., C. E. (Union College), Professor of Physics. GERRIT E. H. WEAVER, A. M. (Swarthmore); A. B. (Harvard), Proiessor of the German Language and Literature. FERRIS W. PRICE, A.M. (Swarthmore), Isaac H. Clothier, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. MYRTIE E. FURMAN, B. O , (National School of Oratory), Assistant Professor in charge of Elocution. LUCIUS E. WILLIAMS, A. M. (Mercer College), Assistant in Chemistry. MARIA DAVIS, (Md. Inst, of Art), Assistant in Art. MARY D. PRATT, A. B. (Swarthmore), Instructor in Mathematics. WILLIAM McCLELLAN, (Phila. Man'l Training School), Assistant in Engineering. JENNIE F. WADDINGTON, B. S. (Swarthmore), Assistant in Biology. MARY J. MURPHY, Director of Physical Culture for the Young Women. J. K. SHELL, M. D. (University of Pennsylvania), Director of Physical Culture or the Young Men. EMILY HUNT, M. D. (Women's Medical Coll., Phila.), Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene to the Young Women. """ FOUR REGULAR COURSES ARK GIVEN : I. COURSE IN ARTS, for the Degrees o( A. B and A. M. 11. COURSE IN SCIENCE, for the Degrees of B. S. and M. S. 111. COURSE IN LITERATURE, for the Degrees of B. L. and M. L. IV. COURSE IN ENGINEERING, for the Degrees of B. S. and C. E. The second degrees named are given for additional study, on conditions named in the catalogue. . Swarthmore College is situated on the P. W. &B. R. R., 10 miles from Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. It is under the care of Friends and admits students of both sexes, on equal terms. It has good Libraries oi about 15,000 volumes, an Observatory, Chemical and Physical Laboratories and Machine Shops. For full particulars, apply for catalogue to WM. H. APPLETON, Ph. D., President, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, SWARTHMORE, PA.
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Swarthmore Phœnix. Vol. X. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, FOURTH MONTH, 1891. No. 9 Editorial. THE question of the presidency of the college remains in much the same condition as at our last issue. At the meeting of the Board of Managers on the ioth, ult., a letter was read from President-elect Foulke explaining his inability to accept the position at the present time and expressing a desire that the matter be held in abeyance. Since then we have learned of no change in the condition of affairs, but letters from Mr. Foulke and the expressions of those who would seem to know whereof they speak, indicate the probability that the president-elect will take up the trust to which he has been called just so soon as he can get his affairs into such shape that he may leave them. President Appleton, feeling that he needed a period of rest after the exhausting and trying labors of the past two years, has been granted a leave of absence for the balance of the year, and he is now away on his vacation. Dr. Appleton, it is hoped, will continue to serve the college as president until Mr. Foulke can relieve him, or other permanent arrangements are made. In President Appleton's present absence Professor Benjamin Smith, Vice-President of the Faculty, will act as the executive head of the college. Professor Smith has consented to take up this increased task, not through his own inclinations, but on account of his interest in the college, and his willingness to sacrifice his leisure to the welfare of the institution, and it is to be hoped that the Vice-President will be given the aid and co-operation of the students in every way, that his duties may not be unnecessarily burdensome. * * * THE improvements promised for Whittierfield should be a source of gratification to all of the students, and the Board of Managers should be given substantial evidence of our appreciation in the way of renewed efforts toward the accomplishment of the best results in athletics. A great part of the objections shown toward athletics by so many in the outside world is in consequence of the evils of dissipation and gambling which are considered as going hand in hand with athletics, and many, not being able to distinguish between the athletes themselves and the hangers-on who are responsible for any bad practices which may exist, deprecate the whole subject for the short-comings of people not directly SWARTHMORE PHGENIX. Published each Month during the College Year by the Students of Swarthmore College. S TAFK: EDITOR: WILLIAM C. SPROUL, '9l. ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Esther Haviland, '9l. John W. Hutchinson, Jr., 91. Cossie J. Brown, '9l. A. Mitchell Palmer, '9l. Henry McAllister, Jr., '92. Mary L. Wolverton, '92 George H. Strout, '93. Business Alanager : C. P. Martindale, '9l. Assistant Business Manager: H. N. Eavenson, '92. (One Volume (9 mos.) . . $l.OO Single Copies 15 Payable in Ajdvance. Persons wishing to discontinue their subscriptions should notify us immediately. Contributions of matter are requested frdm all students of the College. Ex-members and Graduates of the College will oblige us by keeping us informed of their whereabouts or of any other items of interest. Subscriptions and all other business communications should be addressed to the Business Manager; contributions of matter to the Editor.—P. O. address, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pa. Entered at the Post Office at Swarthmore as second-class matter.
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connected with it. Swarthmore, we are happy to say, has been singularly free from this objectionable element, and within our knowledge there is no athletic club or college in which the general work has been purer and conducive to better effects than in our college. We are all familiar with the published accounts—too often greatly exaggerated—of the orgies following the breaking of a successful foot-ball training or a great inter-collegiate victory. It is this which has been productive of so much of the prejudice which still exists among certain influential classes of society, but which is now being eradicated as the true benefits and good results of athletic training are becoming more generally understood. Our Board of Managers has been unusually liberal in going as far as the means of the college will permit in the matter of athletic appliances and it must be a source of satisfaction to them to note the good principles which prevail here. * * * Another, and a no less earnest, word concerning athletics concerns the immediate present. Our men are not training as they should ; many are only beginning and others are not yet ready to begin. It seems a great pity that the men do not awake to the importance of maintaining a good position in the State sports this year. It will be especially humiliating, after having held the championship, to now sink to an insignificant place in the contest. If our men would but realize and improve the material which we have, there would be no reason for fear but that our record this year would be fully up to the old-time standard. Another very important consideration, and one which has already been foreshadowed in the athletic department, is the proper trainingof a selected team to represent us at New York in the general inter-collegiate games. This year a larger sum of money, the profits of the meeting last Spring, was divided among the colleges,colleges, and the amount received by our Athletic Association was enough to aid very materially in putting the organization upon a sound financial basis. If this year's sports are successful, as they undoubtedly will be, a sum equally great, or perhaps greater, will be disposed of next Spring. Now it is very probable that this division will be made between those colleges which have won points in the sports, and our athletes must see to it that Swarthmore is counted in on this question. * * * A NUMBER of students, interested in the game of lacrosse, have formed an organization to further the interests of that branch of athletics in the college. This game has become popular in several of the larger colleges of the country, but we must confess that we cannot see the wisdom in introducing it as a regular part of the college sports at Swarthmore.. Every innovation of this kind brings with it a division of interest and a consequent increase of difficulty in concentrating our efforts in any one line. The student body here is not large enough to support the diversity of athletics which the great universities introduce, and it seems unwise, to say the least, to jeopardize our success in what we have already undertaken by giving our attention to a number of new things. Concentration of interest is what has made the success we have already had, and to maintain any respectable stand in the important branches which" are already departments in our general athletics, we must put forth our efforts in these lines. If we had three or four times the number of men that we have, it might be well to attempt to make a stand in lacrosse, cricket and other games which are not now a part of our athletics, but as it is now, with a small number of students, and with them divided in their interests, we cannot hope for distinction in anything. A concentration of interest in cricket as a Spring and Summer game has THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 4
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given our'neighbors at Haverford sufficient prowess to be able to successfully compete with Harvard, and her good standing in thatone sport has done much more for the college than if her athletic strength had been divided up among everything that is suggested and a handful of men detailed for each. In our own case, the splendid records in track athletics which this college holds were made at a time when every interest was united and every effort concentrated toward proficiency in that particular branch. With these facts in view it is to be hoped that our foot-ball, baseball and track sports will not be hazarded by the introduction of a new game when there are not enough men to properly carry on what has already been taken up. If, however, the general interest in lacrosse is such that it is to become the college game, we must give up some of the other branches as the interests here are already too much divided. * * * A CORRESPONDENT in the Alumni Department does not seem pleased with our suggestion as to "the naming of the various college buildings for some of the benefactors of the institution." Well, we are sorry that the gentleman does not like our idea, and more sorry, still, that he gives not a single reason why the plan should be disregarded. His opinion, expressed with a little sarcasm, and fortified by nothing except his own feelings of hostility—more personal, perhaps, than pointed—is not a great weight against it. As the only part of the plan which the Phcenix has considered worthy of adoption, the naming Parrish Hall, has not been attacked, we perhaps ought not to notice the criticism, but we must add a little information for the writer, who, if he ever desires to "ape" anybody or anything, must have a little knowledge of what he wishes to imitate. As far as the inference that the custom prevails only at the " more widely known institutions of learning" is concerned, we would refer to Barclay Hall, Founders' Hall, Chase Hall, and Alumni Hall, at Haverford ; Radnor Hall, Merion Hall and the other buildings at Bryn Mawr, and to any other "institution of learning" in the country which is as " widely known " as Swarthmore. To be sure, at normal schools, seminaries and other boarding schools, dependent on public appropriations or wholly supported by tuition, and which are without endowments or other benefactions, there is no need for such a custom, but Swarthmore has a history, and has had benefactors, and it can do no harm to indicate the fact. The correspondent is somewhat mistaken in his man when he speaks of "sentimentality." The feeling which prompted the suggestions as to the names was probably the same as that which gave the college the name of the home of George Fox, or called this Commonwealth for the man who founded it. Our friend may prefer the Quaker School to Swarthmore, as a name, or Penn's Woods to Pennsylvania, or Muddy Flats to Washington, but the constantly recurring instances of names and facts being associated by " sentimentality," if such it is, would seem to indicate that the great majoritv think otherwise. The fact that those most interested in the college and most influential in its welfare approve of our suggestion and designate " the main college building," as Junius, Jr. loves to remember it, by its new title of Parrish Hall, is a sufficient evidence that the weight of opinion is in our favor. * * * THE staff of Volume X will not be able to follow the very commendable plan of some of the preceding years in setting aside a sum of money for some good purpose in college affairs. The explanation for this is very easily made—the money earned by the Phcenix has not been taken from the organization but has been used in enlarging and improving the journal. The staff of Volume IX, which made the first increase in THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 5
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the size of the book, used the surplus, and this year, in still further adding to the size and attractiveness of the paper the same plan has been followed. During the year just closing the Phcenix has published, including illustrations,'which have not been included in the numbering, just 250 pages, which is by far the largest volume in the history of the journal. Previous to last year the largest volume, including the commencement num. ber, fell short of 190 pages, and last year the number was brought «p beyond the 200 mark. Another quite considerable item of expense has been the illustrations, which have exceeded, in number and cost, all those published in the nine preceding years. It has seemed wisest that the funds of the Phcenix should be used in improving the journal and we have pursued that course, but leaving the affairs in good shape for the incoming staff. We do not believe that our action needs further justification. * * * THE following Board of Editors has been chosen to publish the Phcenix during its eleventh volume : Editor:—Henry McAllister, Jr., '92. Associate Editors :—Benjamin F. Battin, '92 ; Charles B. Hart, '92. Mary L. Wolverton, '92; George H. Strout, '93 5 John L. Carver, '93 ; Frances B. Stevenson, '93 ; Warren G. Boyer, '94. Business Manager:—Howard N. Eavenson, '92. Assistant Business Manager:—George W. Warner, '93. * * * WITH this number the work of the present Board of Editors is finished, and the trust handed to us one year ago is passed down the line to those chosen to conduct the affairs of the Phcenix during its eleventh year. In parting with this care we do not propose to deliver any elaborate' valedic- Tory, nor sound our own praises for the work we have done, but if our year's work has been satisfactory to those interested in Swarthmore, for whom we have given our efforts as best we knew how, we shall consider ourselves fortunate. While there have been many things in which we probably could have done better, we believe, nevertheless, that the Phoenix has made progress Tn its influence and character during the past year, and has risen in the advancing standard of college journalism. This number of the Phcenix completes the first decade of its existence, and it is interesting to look back over its progress during those ten years. It should be gratifying to all Swathmoreans, as it certainly is to those immediately concerned in its publication, to note the position which the Phcenix holds among the very best journals in collegedom. This fact does not exist merely in our own estimation nor is it reached by our investigation alone, but it is attested by the expressed opinions and comments of general college journalism. This standard has not been reached by the work of any one editor or any one staff, but is the result of the steady application of ten years of earnest work. As this standard has increased the responsibility upon each succeeding Board of Editors has increased, and those who are about to begin their work must not underestimate this fact. In laying down this trust we wish to thank the Faculty and students and all others who have assisted us in our work, and the Editor wishes to personally thank the members of the Staff of Volume X for their earnestness in work and uniform courtesy, and for the harmony which has prevailed throughout the year and has been all-important in whatever success we may have attained. Without comment or advice to those who will learn best by experience what is required of them, we hand over the management to the Staff of 6 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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Volume XI, wishing them every success, and trusting that they may derive the true pleasures which we have enjoyed in our time, and at the conclusion of their term may relinquish their task with the proud satisfaction consequent upon duty well performed. VOICES OF THE WINDS There's a wind that is jolly and rollicking, When hearts are happy and spirits gay, He is dancing ever and frolicking, And nowhere a moment will he stay; He runs you a race, He laughs in your face, And thinks this world is a weary place. He plays mad games with the wild flowers sweet, And makes the tall roses nod their heads; Through the fields and meadows his airy feet Just sway the grasses on which he treads. He seems to say"Be gay ! be gay ! For every day is a holiday." There's a wind that wails and moans, In low and sorrowing tones, Around the house on dreary Winter nights, Of joys that are long past, Of woes that always last, And every wakeful watcher's heart affrights. His mournful notes are rife With all the woes of life, With all lost hopes and unfulfilled desires: Sorrow and fear he brings, As dolefully he sings A melancholy song that never tires. But the mighty blast of the storm-wind brings a message wild and grand, Down from the boundless skies, to the souls of those who can understand; A message of a earthly power, supreme o'er all mankind, A message of the gentle strength of a wise and Godly mind. And the storm-wind song is a glorious hymn that sounds far over the seas, And is played on harps of the gnarled brown limbs of the sturdy forest trees— Come learn of the wind, and'twill lift your heart with a strength-giving exaltation From trifling cares, and for noble deeds will give a deep inspiration. VIEWS AFOOT IN THE PAPAL STATES. PART IV. THE SABINE DISTRICT AND THE ANIO. UPON reaching Casa Baldi, we found that it well deserved its reputation of affording one of the finest views in this part of Italy. Indeed, for an inland view, with no water in the landscape, it is almost unsurpassed. The hotel looks westward, and standing in the front door, directly before you opens the rich and variegated plain, separating the Alban chain on the right from the Volscian on the left, while nearer upon the right, and all along back of the house, rise the picturesque Sabine hills, seperated from the Volscian range on the left by the beautiful valley of the Sano. On the distant horizon directly in front, between the Alban and Volscian range rose Velletie (ancient Velitiae), while in the middle of the picture appears Valmentone, of doubtful notoriety of latter years, and just beyond it, perched on the steep side of the Volscians, is the crowded town of Monte Fortino, the bandit's home Further to the left, on the summit of a small hill, rises Paliano, in the ancient territory of the Hernici, whom Virgil does not forget to mention when summing up the forces who mustered to the aid of iEneas, in his struggle with Turnus. Several villages crown the peaks to the right, among the Sabine hills. I sat for an hour and gazed upon this scene, and only the necessity of our early return to Rome to deliver our friends there from the dangers of the malaria, which were now increasing made me turn away, and reluctantly prepare for our departure. This scene has been a favorite study of all the great landscape painters for centuries, and had circumstances allowed it, we should gladly have spent a week in this vicinity. In looking over the list of names of visitors, I noticed that of Bierstadt, who was THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 7
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not satisfied with the glorious views which our own Rocky Mountains afford. After dining here, we obtained as explicit directions as it is possible to give in these rugged, mountainous districts, and at two o'clock, set out on foot for Subiaco. Striking nearly east into the mountains, we found that the narrow donkey path—for there was no other road—wound back and forth around the edge of the slopes to avoid the deep ravines, in such an interminable way that for the first hour, we were a little and feared that we should at length find ourselves back where we started, or in some other spot far less desirable ; and this anxiety prevented us from enjoying, as we otherwise should, the quick succession of surprises that met us at every turn. Now a high mountain rose upon our right, and directly, on passing a projecting point, a deep valley, many hundred feet below us, richly cultivated, in the very heart of the mountains, opened at once upon our view. Now we crept along a steep rocky slope, looking far above us at a giddy height upon one side, and as far below upon the other into a green valley. All of these things we enjoyed to the full, after we were assured by some peasants at work among the vines and corn, that we were following the right path. Five miles of this mountain travel brought us to a little town called Rojate, the quaintest that I ever saw. Entering a gate formed by an excavation, apparently through solid rock, we found ourselves upon a narrow rocky street. Not a wheeled vehicle of any kind could pass anywhere, and even sure-footed donkeys and women—for they are equally beasts of burden here—could with difficulty make their way when heavy laden. The houses were small, and all of stone, built in the roughest manner, and very much dilapidated. The doors were like rude rough barn doors, and there was not a window on the street from one end of the town to the other. Some small* square holes in the walls, large enough to thrust the arm through, seemed intended to admit the light and air. The doors seemed to have once had steps built up of stone and mortar, but, in most cases, they were so worn away that they were only a dirty inclined plane from the street to the sill, which was often broken or wanting. The ground was the only fjpor, in every house into which we looked, and that was generally covered with dirt and straw. Women, and even small girls, were carrying great copper kettles or cans of water on their heads, from the fountain below the town ; and as they passed along the street, I saw other women come to the doors, and while the water carriers stooped for them to reach, they put their faces down into the vessel, and drank long deep draughts, like cattle, tossing back, afterwards, their streaming locks. On reaching a dirty little open space which was called " the square," the men and boys, as usual, were standing idle and lounging. Inquiring of the first man we met for the road to Subiaco, he started at once to show us the way over the most rugged and difficult of the mountains insisting upon carrying our baggage, for which we were thankful, for the day was now oppressively hot, and when he pointed out Subiaco in the plain far below we gave him half a franc, for which he was very grateful, as it was doubtless more than he would have earned in a day in any other way. Descending from this mountain, from which he had shown us Subiaco seemingly at the far end of an extensive plain, we found, as we might have supposed, that what seemed a plain from above, was a rugged country abounding in steep slopes and dark defiles, around and through which our narrow path wound, looking anything but the plain and easy path it had seemed from above. We followed on as best we could, climbing up these rugged ascents, which, difficult as they were, were but pigmy affairs in comparison with the great peaks, high up among which we had been THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 8
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travelling and which now rose towering behind us. We soon passed another of those crowded rude villages, a mile upon our right, called Affile, and after our strange experience at Rojate, would gladly have turned aside to examine it had time permitted. Having walked nine miles from 016vano, five miles yet lay before us, but the sun was still high enough to permit us to enjoy the charming scenery through which we were passing, and reach Subiaco before night closed in. Finding a cool and abundant fountain of excellent water, we slaked our thirst, which had become intense, and sat down by it in the cool shade to rest. Looking over into the vineyards at the vine dressers, trimming the leaves from the trees, which support the vines, I remembered the various places where Virgil speaks of the vines and the elms, and the merry vine dresser singing to the breezes ; and I remembered, too, that his verses were inspired by similar scenes, and possibly in the same spot where I was observing them after the lapse of nearly twenty centuries. Passing the half dry bed of a little stream, when we supposed we were quite near Subiaco, we went down under an old stone arch, where we found some pools of the clear running water deep enough for our purpose, and treated ourselves to a delicious bath, in what we fancied to be the veritable Anio. Judge of our surprise and delight when, after painfully climbing yet another very rugged ridge, and beginning to descend, the dashing sound of a rushing stream and falling water burst upon our ears, just as our eyes were gladdened by the near view of Subiaco, at last rising steep, on terrace above terrace, from the very bank of the Teverone, or ancient Anio, for now, at last, we had found that famous tributary to the Tiber, the ancient boundary between Latium and the country of the Sabine. Edward H. Magill. SWARTHMORE PRESIDENTS. 111. 4 WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON. WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON, the third president of Swarthmore College, was born and reared in New England. The family to which he belongs has a long and enviable record, not only in the family centre, Boston, but in New England and New York. President Appleton received an exceptionally thorough preparation, and entered Harvard University in iB6O. He was one of the editors on one of the literary publications of the students, and after a very successful course he graduated in 1864. Among the members of his class were Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, United States Minister to England; S. Dana Horton, the well-known writer on finance; Edwin P. Seaver, Superintendent of Schools in Boston, and Prof. O. M. Fernald, of Williams College. After graduation, Professor Appleton studied law for a time in Providence, and afterward received the'degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Harvard. He afterward was an instructor in Greek at Harvard for two years, and then went abroad, where he studied for some time in the German universities. Upon his return from Europe, in 1872, he met President Magill, of Swarthmore College, on a train in New England. Dr. Magill had been Dr. Appleton's teacher during the latter's preparatory school career in Providence, and, strange to say, the man, whom, as a boy,- Dr. Magill had taught the Greek alphabet, years before, was induced to come to Swarthmore, and becoming eminent and learned, not in Greek nor indeed the classics alone, finally became the successor of his old instructor when the latter was ready to lay down to younger hands the work which he so long had carried on. After ten years of service as professor of the Greek and German languages, Professor THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 10
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Appleton was given a year's leave of absence, and in ISBI sailed for another period of study abroad. He was in Paris in the Fall of that year, when, happening to pick up a newspaper of that city, his eyes rested on a paragraph which gave him a surprise almost shocking. It announced, in a few words, that Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania, had been entirely destroyed by fire. No particulars were given, and the anxiety and suspense with which Professor Appleton awaited definite news from Swarthmore may well, be imagined. He spent most of his vacation ifi study in Greece, and returned in 1882 to resume his work in the rehabilitated Swarthmore. Soon after this he was relieved of his work in German, and received the title of Professor of the Greek and English Languages and Literatures. In 1888, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the college in honor of his long and eminently successful connection with the college. Probably no professor in Swarthmore has been more generally beloved than Dr. Appleton. Thoroughly scholarly and inspired with the work to which he has given his life, his classes have always been looked forward to with pleasure by those students fortunate enough to take his branches. Generations of Swarthmoreans remember with pleasure the profitable evenings spent in the splendid classical and literary readings which Professor Appleton has periodically been prevailed upon to give. Somewhat retiring in his disposition and devoted to his professorship, it was with great reluctance that he became acting-president of the college in 1889; when, after tendering his resignation, President Magill was given a year's leave of absence abroad. Their preliminary choice having received the hearty endorsement of the alumni, students and all others interested in Swarthmore s future, the Board of Managers in March, 1890, chose Professor Appleton to be permanently president of the college. His devotion to his studies would have to be disturbed by this more active and more arduous position, however, and after a thorough deliberation he declined the offer, preferring to do his work for Swarthmore in the professorship which he so long has honored. President Appleton willing, however, to aid the college in its emergency, has continued to serve as president of the college, and will probably remain as the executive head of the institution until permanent arrangements are made for his successor. PARKER PILLSBURY. IT is with pleasure that the Phoenix publishes in another column by permission of the writer an extract from a private letter of Parker Pillsbury to a student of the college.Parker Pillsbury was born at Hamilton, Mass., September 22d, 1809, but early became identified with the fortunes of the State of New Hampshire, and has for many years made the city of Concord his home. Although a poor boy, he earned by hard work enough money to procure an education and to prepare himself for the ministry; but when ready to be settled, the Faculty of the Andover Theological Seminary refused to recommend him to a parish unless he would cease speaking in anti-slavery meetings. This he declined to do, and gave up all his cherished hopes of the ministry and the immediate rewards to be derived from his hardearned education for the good of the cause he so ardently espoused. To-day Mr. Pillsbury, although a man eighty-two years of age, is as straight as an arrow and carries himself with far more grace" and dignity than many a man thirty years his junior. He is about six feet in height, has a very dark complexion ; black, snapping eyes; a full beard, and an abundance of iron-gray hair. He dresses in a manner peculiar to 11 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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men of his time, and is a figure that would command attention in any place in which he might be seen. The name of Parker Pillsbury is inseparably linked with that of such men and women as William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, James and Lucretia Mott, S. S. Foster, Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips. The latter once wrote of Mr. Pillsbury to Elizabeth Pease: "Could you know him and his history, you would value him." In a poem from the pen of James Russell Lowell, published in the " Pennsylvania Freeman " in 1846, he is referred to as follows: " Ueyond, a crater in each eye, Sways brown, broad-shouldered Pillsbury, Who tears up words like trees by the roots, A Theseus in stout cow-hide boots, The wages of eternal war Against that loathsome Minotaur, To whom we sacrifice each year The best blood of our Athens here. * * # # * * " A terrible denouncer he, Old Sanai £urns unquenchably Upon his lips; he well might be a Hot-blazing soul from fierce Judea, Habakkuk, Ezra, or Hosea. His words burn as with iron searers, And nightmare-like he mounts his hearers, Spurring them like avenging Fate, or As Waterton his alligator." Mr.Pillsbury was for many years employed as an agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, and was prominent at the New England Convention held in May, 1841, at which the clergy were denounced in most forcible language for supporting slavery. He was also one of the speakers at the famous Rynders Mob meeting, May 7th, 1850. Mr. Pillsbury was always more vigorous in his language than Garrison, and was less sanguine than his companion in the belief that slavery could be abolished without blood-shed. Mr. Pillsbury has always been a lover of Carlyle, and in a quiet way has done much to introduce young people to the works of that author. He has published many articles in pamphlet form, but the most noted production is his work entitled "Acts of the Anti- Slavery Apostles." A letter from Parker Pillsbury to a student of Swarthmore: Concord, N. H., Jan. Bth, Dear Young Friend: I should indeed love to visit Swarthmore College while you are a member. And lam glad you selected that institution. Its founders arid patrons had high and holy hopes for it, when they set its corner-stone. They had special respect to that Scripture which reads : "Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto _ A 9t me. But Slavery is not yet abolished in our country. The terrible race problem is not yet half solved. Hardly is it even apprehended, by state or church. Our Declaration of Independence was an invitation, by one oppressed people, to the oppressed of all nations to come and aid in rearing one Temple to equal and impartial Freedom, to all the created sons and daughters of the Most High God. But the very first proscription barred every gate and door against half the human race on account of their sex ! And those gates and doors, to almost all, remain incorrigibly closed to this hour ! Then we found here innumerable tribes and nations of aborigines, on whom we commenced bloody war, that is still waging, and, as is now fully apparent, is to be a war of absolute extermination until we can seize and hold the very last acre of their land, baptized, and fertilized with their innocent blood and bones. Africa did not hear, or diH not comprehend the Declaration of Independence and so did not respond to its invitation. But we know what did soon transpire. Old England had long THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 12
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before cast an evil eye on that Dark Continent and made it a hunting ground for human game; for a trade and traffic in immortal beings, more dreadful than had ever before blood-stained the annals of mankind. New England and the more southern colonies soon followed the dire examples and great fortunes were made by the same horrible commerce. After American Independence had been established by the Revolutionary War, then succeeded the Constitution of the United States, under which the fruits o( the Declaration were to be made manifest for the benefit of the oppressed nations of the Earth. True, men only were specified. But is was proclaimed as a " self-evident truth that all men are created equal ; and endowed with certain inalienable rights ; among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But see what interpretations and constructions were to blast all the professions and promises ! Half the human family, and far the better, if not larger half, were utterly proscribed and denied that self-evident and divinely constituted equality by reason of sex. Then the most execrable and diabolical system of chattel slavery ever before known was secured by most solemn guarantees to every State in the union of states that might see fit to adopt it. Massachusetts and Rhode Island were among the first to sanctify this frightful brokerage in human blood, African and domestic slave trade with the rest. A hundred years before the Declaration of Independence, Massachusetts was enslaving Indians and selling them to the West Indies. The first code establishing slavery in Massachusetts and New England, was dated in 1641, so, at the adoption of the Federal Constitution, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut had slavery and the slave trade already as an established institution. But the most frightful provision of all in the Constitution in the interest of Slavery was the positive assurance that the African slave trade should be continued for twenty years! That was to afford ample time to stock the slave plantations, before it could be done as it was later done, by breeding them at home, as were the horses, cattle, sheep and swine! Then by further constitutional guarantee, each State in the Union pledged itself to every other state to return to their owners, on application, all fugitive and escaped slaves, as well as to assist in suppressing, at whatever cost, any insurrection that might arise among the slaves, aided by whatever Lafayette or John Brown might appear among them. But our race problem includes also the Chinese element, and who yet dare tell what is to be done with it? So, leaving out altogether the woman hemisphere of the human race, we have still the African, the Indian and Mongolian as our race problem, baffling, to-day, all the patriotism, statesmanship, learning and religion we possess to find its solution. And what can the infant Swarthmore do with it ? Surely, it cannot study it too well. It has many reasons for its study, more and weightier than have our other institutions of learning in whatever department. If the African race can produce even one Fred Douglass or John Langston without a Swarthmore College, what may we not expect now when such are springing up on every hand. True, Swarthmore is yet in infancy. But we know who showed that wisdom may be hid sometimes from the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes! Sincerely and truly yours, Parker Pillsbury. Professor John Howard Appleton, the distinguished chemist of Brown University, a brother to President Appleton, was at the college last month. He was in Philadelphia as a member of the United States Assay Commission in session at the Mint. 13 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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ALUMNI DEPARTMENT EDITOR, W. G. UNDERWOOD. [All graduate* are earnestly requested to forward to the Alumni Editor any " Personals " that may come under their notice, as well as to make use of the department for their opinions on all subjects of interest to Alumni. Communications should reach the Alumni Editor at Elizabeth City, N. C., not later than the 18th of the month preceding the one in which it is desired to have them published.] Alumni Editor, The Piicenix: As an Alumnus and as an ex-editor of the Phoenix, I would like to submit a few suggestions with respect to the method of electing editors to the Phcenix board. I say "as an Alumnus" because an Alumnus is least likely to be influenced by partiality for those now at college. And I say "as an ex-editor," because an ex-editor is acquainted with the imperfections of the present method of selection of editors. Suggestions of this character should be publicly made because the Phcenix is, or is assumed to be, a medium for the expression of student opinion. It is the college paper and every student subscriber has, or should have, a voice and vote in the control of its policy. Concisely stated, my suggestion is : Let the choice of editors be based entirely upon competition.The editors of the University of Michigan Daily published by the " independents " (nonfraternity students) of the University of Michigan, one of the four college dailies in the country, have just finished a thorough investigation of the methods of the selection of editors in vogue at Yale, -Harvard and Cornell. We have found that in the case of all these papers, i. e., the Cornell Sun, the Yale Newst and the Harvard Crimson, competition is the sole basis of the choice of editors. We have drafted a constitution embodying the principal features of the constitution of the Yale News, but adapted to the peculiar conditions at the U. of M. There are six senior and nine associate editors of the Daily, who are chosen by the retiring senior editors, which choice is regulated by the records which have been kept by the board of those who have been competing for positions. The records are made up as follows, and it is this method which could be adopted, with advantage, by the Phcenix : any student is at liberty to hand in reports of meetings, athletic events, conventions, inter-collegiate news, locals and literary articles- These contributions are examined by the managing editors and marked on a scale of ten. The best one is published, but the writers of all the articles are given credit for their productions, whether printed or not. When the term of the present editors has expired, those who have made the best records are elected for the ensuing year. To eliminate favoritism, the articles could be signed by a nom de plume, or the literary articles at least submitted to a board of professors, a plan that might not be received with particular favor by the professors, however. This plan might be modified for the Phcenix, so that the three with the highest marks should be editor-inchief and associates. This is a mere outline, of course, but it may serve as a suggestion to the present board. Its advantages are apparent. It would not only induce the under-classmen who are already upon the board to work diligently to retain their places, but it would be a stimulant to others. A successful competitor would feel that he had won his honor by merit only. It would seem that there would no longer be the dearth of matter and contributions of which editors have complained ever since the Phcenix was founded. This suggestion is submitted for what it may be worth. It might be elaborated, and some objections answered, but the limits of a reasonable communication will not permit Ralph Stone. THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 14
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To the Alumni Editor : In looking over the columns of the Phcenix a few weeks since, I noticed an article advocating the naming of the various buildings for some of the principal benefactors of the institution. Now this idea seems to me to be more and more absurd the more I think of the matter, and I wish to pronounce my strongest objections to such a plan. Will the name suggested for the Meeting House render the place any more comfortable on First-days ? I rather think Cr»ot, nor will the name proposed for the Scientific Building render that edifice more suited for carrying on the work. The entire scheme is a piece of sentimentality, coupled with a desire to ape some of the other more widely known institutions of learning in this country. I feel sure that I am not the only one who looks on the scheme in this light, and I hope that before such a custom is inaugurated that the promoters of it will consider the ridiculous appearance in which they will place the institution if they insist on the continuance of the plan. Junius, Jr. HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 'BO.- Among all the classes that have graduated from Swarthmore, there are perhaps few so scattered as the class of 'BO. It has its representatives on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, in the Sunny South and in the great Northwest, while others still cling to the States that gave them birth. 'Bo's college career was quiet and uneventful enough as one looks back now with almost eleven years to chasten and soften the outlines. The waves of dissension and party strife in the class have diminished to the tiniest of ripples, if indeed they can be seen at all by memory's eye. Perhaps the great reputation for pedestrianism that its fair members fondly cherished for themselves has grown to be a dim and hazy legend to their descendants, and it is indeed doubtful whether any of them would now venture the thirteen mile walk, once so intrepidly begun, and alas, unfortunately ended. But enough of reminiscence ; each individual member must now claim our attention. Annie E. Constable is still in Philadelphia, where she has resided ever since her graduation. For some time she has been employed in a lawyer's office, copying deeds, etc., one of the great army of self-dependent women that every year grows larger as opportunities widen and prejudices grow less. Emily Hough Savidge was the first of our girls to change her name, having married, shortly after her graduation at the University of Minneapolis in 'Bl, Paul Savidge, a classmate at the University and a lawyer of Kearney, Nebraska. But they have pitched their tent still further west, and now reside at Pocatello, Idaho, in the midst of " sage brush and Indians." Our representative at Washington is Myra T. Hillman, who has led a quiet but busy life, making home attractive, and studying in various lines. Of late she has been engaged in the Pension Office, and who knows but that in the year 1900 our quiet little classmate may have a hand in some of the vast projects concocted in that busy spot. Georgeine Kurtz-Muhlenberg, after having yielded at last to the persuasions of the " Nich " we used to hear mentioned so often in ouf school-days, followed him to the wilds of New Mexico for a year or two, and electrified her friends with accounts of her interesting and lively adventures at the mines. To our great relief, however, Mr. and Mrs. Muhlenberg returned to the quiet city of Reading, where Georgie's genial spirit and gay disposition shed sunshine around her, and will never let her grow old, should five times eleven years roll by. Reading brings us naturally to our Lancaster girl, Ellen Preston Griest. After a few 15 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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years teaching in Philadelphia, she returned to Lancaster, and, despite her own class prophecy, married Mr. Frank Griest. A few years ago, attracted by the charms of "old Virginia,' they sold their home and bought a farm at Cedarville, Warren County, Va., where Ellen's tireless energy and indomitable will must lead them eventually to success in their farming operations, and her example ought to infuse new life into the neighborhood, if the inhabitants are capable of appreciating such a brave spirit as hers. Lawyers have seemed to possess an attraction for the fair members of 'BO, and Frances Willet Lowthorp, our New Yorker, lately left her father's beautiful home in Roslyn, L. 1., to become a Jerseyite at Trenton, N. J., where her husband, Mr. Francis Lowthorp, is a member of the bar. Frances is the only one of the class who has been honored by being on the board of managers, as one of the clerks of the Stockholders Association, and in this position she shows the earnest interest she has always taken in the cause of the college and education generally. Florence Hall represents teachers among the girls, and after some years passed at her work in Pottsville and West Chester, Pa., she spent one year in Germany studying the German language. Since her return from Europe she has taught at'the Friends' School, 15th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, with the exception of one year, as a non-resident graduate student at Bryn Mawr College. Three of the men of 'BO have also taken teaching as their life work, and our youngest member bids faic- to become our most distinguished one. Edw. H. Keiser, after having been assistant in chemistry at Swarthmore, took his degree of M. S. in 1881. The fall of the same year he went to Johns Hopkins University where he continued to pursue his special studies, and was fellow in chemistry for two years, receiving the degree of Ph. D., in 1884. One Summer was spent abroad at the Royal School of Mines in Freiburg, Saxony, whence Dr. Keiser returned, to take a position as assistant in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. In 1886, he accepted the chair of associate Professor of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, where he has since become full Professor, and enjoys ample opportunity to carry on his original investigations, and to add his valuable quota to the world of science. D Albert R. Lawton, taught for some years, after leaving college, in New York City, returning to his Alma Mater as instructor in French and German, and taking in 1885 the degree of A. M. The winter of 1886-7 was spent by him in Paris studying at the College de France, and since his return he has been Professor of French and German at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J. By his marriage with Emily Wilson, '82, the class of 'BO is still more closely united to its congenial associate class. Our other Professor is Arthur Coleman Dawson, who did not take his degree of B. L. until 1883, though being with us until our Junior Year, when he left the college to return later. He passed two years abroad, studying in Paris and Hanover the French and German languages and literatures, and other modern languages. After his return, Mr. Dawson spent two years at Swarthmore, as assistant in French and German, and two years at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, as Professor of Modern Languages. In 1887, he was appointed to a similar chair at Lake Forest University, Illinois, which position he still holds. Professor Dawson has also done something in a literary line, both in translations and original work. Our civil engineers are widely separated, Henry S. Wood being permanently settled in San Francisco, Cal. Like many other young men, he used the profession of teaching for one year as a stepping stone, and took the degree of C. E. in 1883. Four years were THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 16
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passed with Wilson & Bros., Architects and Bridge Builders, in Philadelphia, at his engineering profession, and six months in a Philadelphia Trust Company. Then, after the fashion of civil engineers, he went West, spending a year at abridge works in Youngstown, Ohio, until the burning of the said works deprived him of a position. Since the Summer of 1886, he has held a responsible position with the San Francisco Bridge Company, as designing and estimating engineer and director of construction. sln this work he has had part in the invention tDf a huge excavating plant which is performing marvels of irrigation by digging and finishing at one operation a canal, 100 feet wide and 20 deep, at the rate of 4000 cubic yards per diem. Mr. Wood married Miss Gertrude Hoffman of Pasadena, Cal., in 1888, and will most probably make San Francisco his permanent home, representing Swarthmore on the Pacific coast. Our other engineer, Robert L. Marsher, has worked on various roads in New York State, being at one time employed on the Poughkeepsie Suspension Bridge, and later at Syracuse, N. Y. At present he may be roaming over the hills and dales of New York State, according to his usual custom at Swarthmore, for ought we can find out to the contrary. If so, he no doubt finds time amid his labors to look for the first appearance of the arbutus, that favorite harbinger of Spring. Should any reader of the Phcenix know his present address, he is earnestly requested to send it to the Alumni Editor, as it is a source of great regret that we have been unable to ascertain his whereabouts. Our great athletes, our Maryland and New Jersey boys, have performed other feats than those of physical strength since their college days, though I doubt not but that they could even now put the shot and make the standing broad with good effect. Our six-footer, Thos. L. Moore, was engaged in the fire insurance and banking business at Sandy Spring, Md.t until the Fall of 'B9. In 1885 he married Miss Allison, of Richmond, Va., 2nd in the Fall of 'B9 "Tom," as he will always be known to his classmates, entered into partnership with Mr. Warner Moore, of Richmond Va., where they operate a large flouring mill and do a wholesale business in building supplies. Thus he seems to be on the way to become one of our wealthy men, and no sne is more deserving of success than our sturdy, kind-hearted classmate. Our class president, Robinson Pound, did not take a degree with us, as he pursued a special course, but any sketch of our class would be incomplete without him. After passing a year or more in an office in New York, and acting as travelling salesman for the firm of Conrow Bros. & Co., in Philadelphia, Robinson was called home to Plainfield, N. J., by his father's ill-health, to assist the latter in his business. He has ever since remained in Plainfield, marrying, in 1887, Miss Mary Griffin, and the same uprightness and kindliness of character that made him such a favorite with his fellow-classmates characterizes the man and citizen to-day. John Tustin is the junior partner in the firm of John Tustin's Sons, city dealers in naval supplies, New York City. His fondness for drawing pictures of boats and yachts must receive each year added impetus as he travels between New York and Charleston, in which latter place he spends mostof his time. The class motto, nrj fcvye 7rovoi», " Shun not toil," seems to have been in very truth the watchword of each member of the class, and if the names of but few are known to fame, all are doing their best in a smaller or greater degree to help on the world's great questions. 'BO is to hold its reunion in 1893—thirteen- thirteenyears from graduation, and not so far off now —but it looks as though the World's Fair in Chicago would be a more central point than the halls of our Alma Mater. May all be present at that reunion. 17 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '8l. On the 2ist of June, 1881, there issued from the halls of Swarthmore, fourteen young people, who considered that the class of 'Bl was the most important class that had ever spent its four years in college. Not that rumors of this had not reached us, but how could it be otherwise to us. Although through our course we had endured the usual trials that come to a college student, and had at times longed for the day when we might spread our wings and fly into the great world ; yet when the final day came, it was with a feeling of sorrow and anxiety that we bid farewell to that we knew so well, and went to that "we knew not of." While at College we had worn a maroon button with a grey star upon it as a badge; in our Junior Year we all had little blue caps with a silver cord and the 'Bl worked in silver upon them ; these were made after the mode] of a large cap which had fallen into our possession from the class of '79. In our Senior Year the idea of badges was seriously considered, but after mtfch discussion we all grew weary of the subject, and finally selected one proposed by a member who had taken the most active interest in it. To-day, he alone is adorned with it, and as it has been ten years since my eyes have rested upon it, I remember little, excepting that it is a gold shield. Our motto was and is Esto quod videris, and as in our college life we tried to carry this out, so I trust that the individual members have also since tried to live up to it. In these ten years we have been much scattered and none of us have acquired such fame that it has been spread abroad. The link which usually keeps the class together, a Corresponding Secretary, has failed to do so in our case, and thus it is with difficulty that I have gathered up the threads which were allowed to drop several years ago. Therefore I would beg the pardon of any member in whose history I have made any slight mistake, and would say that I have endeavored to obtain the most accurate accounts in the short time which has been allowed me to prepare this sketch. Wm. Canby, Jr., our member from Baltimore, has finally cast his lot in the West, being now engaged in the real estate business in St Paul, Minnesota. He enjoys the dignity of a married man. Charles B. Doron, we are told, is married and living in Rochester, New York, and just here the curtain drops and hides him from our view. He was at the recent Eunomian reunion, it is said, looking prosperous and happy. Mary J. Elliott has proved herself a most efficient instructor of the young. She obtained a position at once on leaving college as teacher in the "Friends West Philadelphia School." She arose in importance and efficiency until in 1886, she was deemed fitted to fill the vacant position of Principal, although being younger than some of the other instructors. She still fills this position and continues to stamp the impress of her character upon those with whom she comes in contact. Emma Kirk has been leading an out-door life upon her father's farm near Bryn Mawr, and although devoid of incidents, she tells us it has been a pleasant one. Gertrude B. Magill, for several years followed the profession of teaching first in one school and then in another, until within the last year she has decided that her mission is to assist in the Unitarian movement. She has therefore gone to Madison, Wisconsin, at which place she assists a Unitarian minister in filling pulpits throughout Wisconsin. Eugene Paulin, Jr., on leaving Swarthmore went to" Harvard" from which, after gradua ting in three years, he went to "Oxford," England. His health unfortunately suffered, and he was forced to live an open air life. He THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 18
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married Emma Sidney, of Philadelphia ; has one little girl, and is at present leading a happy life upon a ranch at Bloomfield, New Mexico. Martha Reinoehl is no longer the Mattie ReinoehlDof college days, but is now the wife of the Honorable Francis A. Osborne, who has been Senator in the Pennsylvania Senate for many years. She has one little girl, and is now living at 1329 Jefferson Street, Philadelphia. She first taught primary lessons in a little country town, and later became the assistant teacher at the High School of Lebanon, until she married, in 1886. Edward C. Rushmore, M.D., for awhile after leaving college followed the profession of teacher, but finally studied medicine, and is now the physician at Tuxedo Park, New Jersey. I have heard that he is doing very well, and we trust that some day he will shed lustre on the class by his scientific discoveries. He also has joined the ranks of the married ones. Henry B. Seaman has been engineering since 'Bl. He has been employed at different times by the Pennsylvania Railroad, by the Wilson Brothers, bridge builders in Philadelphia, and is now the bridge engineer for the Erie Railroad, 41 East 23d Street, New York City. Charles E. Sharpless was engaged in the preliminary survey and location of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Phillipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, for several years. Since then he has been employed by a large coal company at that place; he has gradually risen in importance until now he has charge of their works and mines. He married two years after graduation and has now a little boy. Alvin T. Shoemaker was in the shipping business for a year or more after graduation, and since then has been engaged in the iron brokerage business, Illinois Steel Co., 54 Wall Street, New York City. He has been married, but is now a widower. I. Byron Thomas has married a member of the class of 'B7, and has now two little boys, who it is hoped will follow their father's example and enter Swarthmore. Byron has been engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers, now having his headquarters at Woodbury, N. J., and now at Cheyney, Pa. Ernest F. Tucker, M.D., went from Swarthmore to the Harvard Medical School. While there he showed great interest in his work, and was appointed to a position in the hospital. After leaving Harvard he practiced awhile in New York, being also here connected with hospital work. Within the last two years he has joined Eugene Paulin, Jr., in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and now owns a ranch there. And now I have tried to give an account of the other members, but it yet remains to tell of myself. During the first few years after leaving college, I spent a simple society life, but the last three years I have been engaged in studying at the Biological School of the University of Pennsylvania. In closing I would say, that if our members of 'Bl have not acquired much fame as yet, and their history is simply interesting to themselves, we must remember that we are comparatively young and hope that in the next decade we may have done something for the advancement of the intellectual or moral life of the world. Martha Bunting. ,» '75. John Broomall Booth, formerly an instructor in the college, but now a prosperous Pittsburgh business man, was married on the 2nd, inst., to Martha Mary Nevin, daughter of Mrs. Hannah Nevin, of Sewick- ~ ley, Pa. The wedding was quite a brilliant affair, the bride being of high social standing at her home, and a number of Mr. Booth's friends were present from the Eastern part of the State. 19 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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OBITUARY. A more surprised or more sadly shocked body of students would be difficult to imagine than those who returned to Svvarthmore at the close of the Spring holidays and learned for the first time of the death of Amie C. Willets, of the Sub-Collegiate Class, who passed away on the 2nd, inst., after a very brief, but terribly fatal illness. She had parted from her classmates and friends here only a few days before to go to her home at Roslyn, Long Island, for a cheerful season of rest, and only the evening before she was seized by her fatal illness she had been in company with her friends and gave but little indication of any lack of her usual health and spirits. Her beautiful disposition and winning ways, together with a character combining the best qualities of life, made her universally beloved, and her death has thrown a pall of sorrow over the college. RESOLUTIONS OF THE SUB-COLLEGIATE CLASS. Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst our classmate, Amie Christina Willets, and Whereas, We, the members of the Sub-Collegiate Class, sincere'y mourn the loss of one who, by her personal attainments did honor to her class, and by her high moral character endeared herself to us all, therefore be it Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathy be hereby extended to her bereaved family, in this hour of their affliction, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our classmate, and published in the Swarthmore Phcenix. I Jane C. Shaw, Peter A. Steffian, Martha C. Valentine, I Lloyd R. Blynn, [ Cora A. Brightson. W. C. Sproul, '9l ; C. P. Martindale, 'gi, B. F. Battin, '92, and C. B. Ketcham, '92, were representatives of the Swarthmore Chapter in the District Council of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, at Meadville, Pa., on the Ist, 2nd and 3rd, inst. PERSONALS. Prof. Edward H. Magill lectured at Moorestown, N. and London Grove, Pa., on the 18th and nth, ultimo. His subject was " Recollections of Pompeii." Dr. Magill spent a portion of the vacation in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and other western cities. Prof. George A. Hoadley, delivered his lecture on " The History of before a Wilmington audience, on the evening of the 20th, ult. Dr. Spencer Trotter has recently published a syllabus of his six lectures on " Animal Life," delivered before the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. The roll of honorary membership of the Delphic Literary Society has recently been enlarged by the election of Dr. William Hyde Appleton, Dr. William C. Day, Dr. Spencer Trotter and Prof. Milton H. Bancroft.J. Russell Hayes, 'BB ; E. Lawrence Fell, 'BB ; Alice S. Palmer, 'B9 ; George H. Bartram, '9O; Morris L. Clothier, '9O; Josephine Ancona, Ex'9l, and Laura M. Smith, Ex '92, were some of Swarthmore's Alumni and exmember visitors during the past month. Ex-'77, Mr. Elwood Birdsall was one of our recent visitors. This is Mr. Birdsall's first visit since leaving college, over fifteen years ago. He was the guest of Supt. William J. Hall. 'B9, Ralph Stone, a member of the Phcenix staff of volumes eight and nine, is assistant managing editor on the new editorial board of the University of Michigan Daily. '9O, George Ellsler, Professor of Greek and Latin at the Huntingdon (Pa.) Normal School, which, although a co-educational institution, has in the past allowed very little social intercourse among students, recently inaugurated a social reception, having many features of the Swarthmore reception. THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 20
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Ex-'gi, Helen P. Barnard visited college on her way to Newport, Rhode Island, where she has entered the Woman's Hospital as a student. Ex-'92, Mary R. Price recently visited her many friends in college on her return from a visit to May Hart, Ex-'94. '9l. Eliza R. Hampton has recently received notice from Professor Richard T. Ely, of Johns Hopkins University, chairman of the board of judges, that her essay, submitted in competition for the vprjze offered the college students of America by the Women's Christian Temperance Union for essays on the subject, "The Relation of Temperance Reform to Political Economy," has been given second place in point of excellence. The winner was F. S. Dietrich, of Ottawa University, Kansas. Dr. Emily G. Hunt closed her lectures to the girls on Physiology and Hygiene on the 14th, ult. LOCALS. Professor Cunningham has offered the senior class a handsome ivy which she secured at Vassar College. She will take an interest in the plant and will care for it during the Summer. The '93 base ball team has several games in prospect for this season. They should try conclusions with the Haverford sophomores.Earnest training on the track began on the 7th, inst., and Whittierfield presents an active scene these Spring afternoons. The matter for the Halcyon, '9l, is in the hands of the printer, and the book will be placed on sale at the Spring Sports, the sixteenth proximo. Although the price has been raised to seventy-five cents, several new features are promised, which will probably warrant the additional charge. THE STUDY OF THE SCIENCES. To those who have tried To learn how the sciences May be practically applied, Witness one of the appliances. There was a maiden, Who was right fair, Hut bright, bright auburn Was her hair; And one dull morn In chemistry class, When almost napping, Was this lass. She heard professor Say, " 'Tis true, This liquid will turn Red to —" The rest she heard not, But she dreamed That her hair was not What it seemed. And often after She would say, " Yes, it turns red to —, I'll try some day! " She tried—it turned, And then, alack ! She wished that she might Turn it back. But she knew not how For poor maid, She'd slept in chemistry, And blue it stayed. And after that she Often said, "Ah, me ! I wish I'd Left it red !" And though you may not Think it true, That maiden's hair has E'er since been blue. The Instrumental Club is scheduled as one of the attractions at an entertainment for the benefit of the Swarthmore Local Improvement Association in Union Hall on the 24th, inst. There should be an interesting class base ball series for the Childs cup this Spring. Phoenix locals are few this month—the local editor has been sick. THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 21
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A Doubtful Compliment.—Professor, in class reading Shakespeare: " I think the part of the fool was especially well taken." Swarthmore now h*as four mails for Philadelphia and general forwarding. They leave at 8.17, 10.00 a. m.; 1.49 and 8.02 p. m. trains. The mail is taken from the boxes at the college at 7.40, 8.45, a. m.; 1.10 and 5.10 p. m. The mails close at the post-office a quarter of an hour before the departure of each train, except in the evening, when the office closes at seven o'clock. Swarthmore village is now mainly supplied by water from the works of the Springfield Water Company, pumping from Whiskey Run. The Somerville reunion was held on the 11 th, inst. Johnny Haym'an is now auxiliary mail carrier between the college and the post office. The Swarthmore railroad station has been considerably improved lately. The laying of the double track necessitated cutting away much of the old- platform and the narrow space remaining has been widened by decreasing the size of the porch. The station has been repainted within and without and is to be lighted by electricity. The president's house on the college campus, has been renovated within and without, in anticipation of the coming of President-elect Foulke. Prominent Freshman Athlete (to track manager): " Yes, I think that I have divided my attention too much in the past. Hereafter, I intend to confine myself to the one hundred yards and the two-twenty-yards dashes, the one hundred and twenty and two twenty hurdles, and I suppose that I shall also have to go in the running broad and high jumps pnd putting the shot. I think that I will not try the pole vault or the hammer throwing until next year." The flags of the State Signal Service have not been displayed from the dome of Parrish Hall since the halyards on the pole were cut last Fall. It is said that a new evening express train, with Swarthmorc as one of the regular stops, is an improvement which we may look for when the Spring schedule goes into effect. There are now twenty daily trains each way. Class in Zoology.—Prof.: "Of what is a sponge made up ?" Student: "A sponge is composed of a mass of holes." The announcement of the good showing made by Eliza R. Hampton, '9l, in the W. C. T. U. essay contest was warmly applauded by the students. Professor in Natural History (to Soph): "Name one of the most important animals peculiar to Africa." Soph : " The zephyr." A few days ago one of Swarthmore's prominent fielders was telling his fellow players what part of the field he would play in in order to "put out" some of the players of the team which was to oppose them on the succeeding day. After placing himself in several positions in the out-field, one selfesteeming young gentleman spoke utpf saying: "And where would you stand to put me out ?" " Behind the bat," was the quick rejoinder, and the conceited individual disappeared behind the track bank. A Special meeting of the Directors of the Swarthmore College Alumni Association was held on the sth, ult., at Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. President Verree appointed a committee of arrangements for the Alumni Banquet in Sixth month. The committee consists of Joseph T Bunting, Elizabeth M. Holcomb, Caroline B. Hall, Herman Hoopes, and J: Russell Hayes. W. H. Ridgway, '75, was unanimously chosen to represent the Alumni in an address at the inauguration of President-Elect Foulke. THE SWARTHMORB PHCENIX. 22
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ATHLETICS. ATHLETICS during the past month have felt the natural depression due to the inclement weather, but now that Spring seems fairly upon us, and to be out of doors in the open air is a pleasure instead of a trial, there can be no excuse for any inactivity on the part of the various athletic interests at Swarthmore. The weather has affected baseball more seriously, possibly, than any other branch, and the time already lost should be regained by constant and vconscientious practice. Before this issue of the Phcenix there will be a game with Haverford, and the glory we have achieved in foot-ball with that college should not be dimmed in the least by our base-ball men, and we believe it will not. Manager Bond has a number of dates already arranged, and more pending. The schedule is at present as follows : April 15, Haverford, at Swarthmore. April 18, University, of Pennsylvania Reserves, at Philadelphia. April 22, University, of Pennsylvania Reserves, at Swarthmore. May 2, West Chester Normal School, at Swarthmore. May 6, Haverford, at Haverford. May 8-9, University of Virginia, .at Charlottesville. . 4 May 30, Ursinus, at Collegeville. June 6, West Chester Normal School, at West Chester. It will be noticed that but three of the games are on our own grounds. Any comment that this may provoke will be stayed when we realize that to bring teams here requires money—a very scarce article in Swarthmore athletics. From the present prospects it appears that we should have a good team, and we will iif the men realize that there is scarcely any other game where practice plays such an important part in the ultimate success. A word to the wise is sufficient. There were a number of inquiries upon the return of the students to college in regard to the fence which is to enclose Whit.tier field. We take this opportunity to state that the management do not feel warranted in beginning the work until a sufficient amount of money is on hand. It was expected that the money which would come to Swarthmore from the division of the I. C. A. A. would have arrived some time ago, but it has been delayed by the difficulty of obtaining pfficial knowledge of the competitors in the last sports. As soon as this is done the money will be sent. So we shall have to have patience yet awhile. 1 i t D It is too early in the season to prophecy the outcome of any of the athletic meetings. No one college can be said to be certain of the championship, either in the national or State Inter-collegiate circles. It looks, however, as if Harvard had the best chance in the one, and Pennsylvania alreadyoclaims the State Inter-collegiate cup, but, as last year, " the result may surprise somebody." The track is getting into first-class condition, and the men have begun training for the college and Inter-collegiate sports. 'the contest for the 'Phoenix Cup this Spring promises to be very spirited, and, strange to say, is confined almost entirely to the Sophomore and Freshman classes. It would be a brilliant record for '94 to be able to say she had won the Phcenix Cup in her Freshman year, a thing never before accomplished, but '93 must work hard to save herself from disgrace, and repeat the precedent established by her allies of *B9 and '9l, in winning the Cup in the Sophomore year ; '92 is doubtless waiting to follow the example of 'BB and '9O, and have possession of the Cup when in Senior year. Riggs» '92» has resigned from the captaincy of the Princeton foot ball team and Warren, '93, has been elected to the position. 23 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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EXCHANGES. The Brunonian, whose principal claim to distinction seems to rest upon the superior character of its poetical effusions, is really one of the best of college papers in all particulars. Being a weekly, it devotes considerable portion of its space to news, and its local department appears to be very complete, as far as a person at this distance is able to judge. The alumni department is superior too, always containing interesting bits about old Brown men. The editorials during the present volume especially, have been of high merit. The editorial writer clothes his bright thoughts in pleasing language, which should claim for them the consideration of the Brunonians readers. The fact that the Phcenix scarcely publishes a number in which some little gem of verse from the Brunonian does not appear, will serve to show our opinion of this feature of the paper, for we endeavor in our college column to cull the best poetry of the month. A recent editorial on a subject often spoken of, but too frequently disregarded, is too good to let pass. It follows : " A word or two of advice to the Seniors who have been appointed to write orations. We give it with all due respect to those famous and enthusiastic specialists who have already given advice to their favorite pupils, with the verv highest regard for the wide-awake student with political aspirations, and with a humble bow to the sciences,of the stars, the crucible, the museum and the mind. Our advice is simply this: Don't elucidate an astronomical problem, or solve some mystery of the elements, or discuss the origin of man, or dish up some school of philosophy, or finally settle the questions of tariff or silver. Leave these to the class-room or the magazine. Bear in mind that you are writing for a mixed audience, a crowded house, and a hot day in June. Strive to please as well as to instruct. It is not necessary to be dry, in order to be thoughtful. We are ready to take oath that there is not a member of the present Senior class who has thoughts too deep for utterance in the most easy, graceful, rhetorical language. We have listened to hundreds of orations since entering college, and we venture to say that not over ten or fifteen ever arose above the level of abbreviated essays. We tfave heard commencementcommencement orations when we have been ready to weep tnat our colleges were turning out men so foolish as to think that the little learning they displayed upon the mighty subjects they took, could possibly interest a mixed assemblage of sweltering humanity. With another bow and scrape we would suggest that also those who do the appointing bear in mind the time and place. We have long since abolished the pedantic oration; may we soon get equally far away from scientific hash or metaphysical mince-meat." The last issue of the Georgetown College Journal contained the conclusion of a scholarly article upon "Wordsworth and the Poetic Interpretation of Nature." The subject is one of peculiar interest to all admirers and readers of the Lake poets, and the writer in the Journal handles it exhaustively. The Chevron, of St. Paul's School, Long Island is, we think, one of the neatest school papers which it has been our privilege to see. When the enthusiasm for pleasing and profitable newspaper work begins so early in a young man's school life, college journalism will not suffer. The authorities of every school should support and encourage the journalistic attempts of their pupils, for there is no work of the school course which better fits them for the experiences of college, and finally of the world. We were pleased to see the prompt denial by the Red and Blue, University of Pennsylvania, of the three statements which we brought to their attention two months ago. The " theatre for the use of students," turns out to be an Alumni Hall projected; there is no " Chair of the Irish Language" at the University and the " $200,000 dormitory " is but a castle of the air. The University of Pennsylvania will make a great effort this year to regain the championship of Pennsylvania in track athletics, now held by Swarthmore. Dr. Randolph Fairies, ex-champion mile runner, is training the athletic team. THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX. 24
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COLLEGE NEWS AND CLIPPINGS. Henry C. Lamar, Princeton, 'B6, who made the famous run by which his college won the foot-ball championship from Yale in 1885, was drowned in Augusta, Ga., last month. He was one of the best known of all college athletes The alumnae of Vassar have raised $40,000 for the endowment of the chair of astronomy. The alumnae of Swarthmore should be able to raise half that sum for the SomVrville Hall. An attempt is being made to reform the athletic management of the University of Pennsylvania. The different departments of sport will probably be associated under one head, with special committees in charge of each. The course at the Columbia Law School has been lengthened by a year and will in the future be a three year's course. An International Law Club has been formed at Harvard whose object is to supplement the work of the regular course in that study. • The first official utterance of the presidentelect of Chicago University, Professor W. P. Harper, was made in New York at a meeting of the Baptist Social Union. He said: " The new university will be in some, and we hope many, respects the model university of the future. Once opened, our university will never thereafter be closed unless the funds give out. We will not try to build up a large college in Chicago, but will leave other colleges in neighboring cities and states to do their share of the college work of that section. In connection with our works of affiliation, we will lend or give our professors to neighboring colleges for certain periods. The University of Chicago will adopt the plan of university extension and we will teach thousands—mainly ministers and teachers who never did and never could attend a college—by correspondence and otherwise. We will teach everybody from the broadest point of view, and physical culture will not be neglected. Stagg, the Yale pitcher, will be in charge of that department. We now have $3,000,000, but we want to take the first step with $ 10,000,000 in hand and the second step with $20,000,000 in hand." A UNIVERSAL RULE. There's a rule which they tell me for tennis was made, Hut applies just as well to all gamts that are played; In the letter in some, in the spirit in all; Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the ball. But not to games only this motto applies, To all of life's problems a key it supplies; And the soundest advice is whatever befall, Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the ball. The ball is the prize which you're striving to win : * The ground is your capital—talents or tin; And the gate to success has inscribed on the wall, Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the ball. —Exchange. Franklin and Marshall College has begun the publication of a new paper, known as the Weekly. One of our " wild western " exchanges contains the following advertisement: "Russell & Akers, Prop's—Russell House—Covers three Akers—The only Hotel in Ohio that does." The News and the Blue and White, both of Columbia, have consolidated under the name of the lattejr, and will henceforth appear in magazine form. Lehigh will again make application for admission to the Inter-collegiate Foot Ball League. She bases her claim on the fact that she is the strongest foot ball college outside the Association. A telegraph line operated by scientific students at the University of Michigan, has two miles of wire, and connects with the Western Union. " The youngest Professor in this country is Arthur S. Abernassy, Professor of Ancient Languages, Rutherford College, N. C. He is eighteen years of age and has won quite a reputation as a classical scholar."—Exchange. This interesting bit of news first appeared at least four years ago. Will Professor Abernassy never become of age ? The Amherst Base Ball Nine has been asked to play the West Point team on the Academy grounds during Commencement week. 25 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.
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ADVERTISEMENTS. vii Jl *-v DON'T BUY YOUR Fur Gapes OR Sealskin Jackets Until you examine my stock. It will be to your advantage. J. B. AGNEW, (Late of Agnew & English) FURRI6R 1206 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. DREKA Fine Stationery and Engraving House 1121 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, College Invitations Wedding Invitations Class Stationery Visiting Cards Fraternity Stationery Banquet Menus Programmes Diplomas and Medals Steel Plate Work for Fraternities, Classes and College Annuals. All work is executed in the establishment under our personal supervision, and only in the best manner. Unequalled facilities and long practical experience enable us to produce the newest styles and most artistic effects, while our reputation is a guarantee of the quality of the productions of this house. Designs, Samples and Prices sent on application.WE ARE THE LARGEST RETAILERS IN AMERICA OF GENTLEMEN'S, LABIES' CHILDREN'S Hosiery * Underwear ALSO A COMPLETE STOCK OF Gents' Furnishing Goods SHIRTMAKINO A SPECIALTY. COOK & BROTHER, -49, 51 and 53 North Eighth Street, Philadelphia. tiOanamaker'B There's a hint of Spring in the Sporting Goods store. All the gear for playtime and outing is beginning to come to the front—long counters for Gymnasium goods ; for Tennis fixings; for Base Ball, Cricket and such like traps ; for Fishing tackle; for anything that a healthy or health-hunting man wants in those lines. Wanamaker prices, of course. Only a litde time back fancy prices were the rule. We put an end to that sort of business. Think of it! Nearly three thousand Tennis Rackets sold here last season! In the extravagant-price time the number might have reached 300. John Wanamaker.
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viii ADVERTISEMENTS. HARRY A. WEBB, » /Irl * iKolo^r&plier, 112 & 114 N. Ninth Street, PHILADELPHIA. \ SPECIAL RATES TO COLLEGE STUDENTS: Cabinet, One Dozen, $2.00 cabinet, Two Dozen, 3.75 Particular attention given to Class Groups. PORTER & COAXES, Largest and Finest STOCK OF BOOKS Also, a FINE STATIONERY DEPARTMENT. Elegantly Engraved Wedding Invitations, Fine Note Papers, Crests Monograms, Address Dies, Engraved Invitations for Colleges and Com mencements, Programmes, Menu Cards, Guest Cards. PORTER & COATES, NINTH AND CHESTNUT. NOBBY * HATS For Young Men, IN ALL, STYLES AND COLORS $3.00 to $3.50. Silk Hats, $5 to $7. C. J. HELLER, 823 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Oil and Water Colors, Paint Boxes, T Square Ruler, Mathematical Instruments, Drawing Boards, Drawing Papers, etc. 49-C /PaXC*,ARTISTS' Jwjli " /MATERIALS '32 So //th St.P/i/Lflß'A WAX AND PAPER FLOWER MATERIALS. All orders are filled at 132 South 11th Street. A New Illustrated Catalogue is just out. HENRY VEIT, - and = (^terer, 36 NORTH ELEVENTH ST., PHILAD A. Un Special attention given to WEDDING, FAMILY and SOCIAL PARTIES. ICE CREAM and FRUIT ICES of all flavors to be had at any season of the year. -e=OYSTERS IN SEASON == ENGRAVING, Commencement and Class Day Invitations, Wedding- Invitations, Plate Printing-. Visiting Cards. FRIENDS' MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES. Friends' Book Association, S. W. Cor. 15th and Race Sts., Philadelphia.
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ADVERTISEMENTS. ix A. H. SICKLER & CO., PRINTERS, Blank Boob Manufacturers, Lithographers if Engraoers, Nos. 514 3c 516 Minor St., PHILADELPHIA. College Annuals, Magazines, &c., a Specialty. W. CURTIS TAYLOR & CO. 13th St., next door below Chestnut, photographic +poitfeiC&iki,B OF ALL KINDS. ROOM AND OUTDOOR GROUPS. J. ROTHSCHILD & CO., OF FINE FRENCH TRIMMED BONNETS, r»u"° «"s. 1022 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Thompson's ~ . Well Cut Garment. Interesting to all men to know where to buy good garments at a moderate cost. Full Dress Suit, Satin Lined, $3500 Business Suit, Trousers, $20.00 $6.50 Robert J. Thompson, S. W. Cor. 11th tP Chestnut Sts. GILBERT'S QelC?bratC?d ptyoto^rapf^ ONLY AT 926 CHESTNUT STREET. Recognized by all students as the Leading Studio for Groups, Cabinets and Photographs. GILBERT STfcIDIOS, 926 CHESTNUT STREET. S. DUFFIELD MITCHELL, A ttorney- at-Luw, 406 New York Life Building, ST. PAUL. MINN. ROOKING GUM-ELASTIC ROOFING* FELT costs only $2.00 per 100 square feet. Makes a good roof for years, and anyone can put it on. Send stamp for sample and full particulars. GUM-EfcASTIC ROOFING CO., 39 and 41 West Broadway, New York. LOCAL AGENTS WANTED.
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ADVERTISEMENTS Newman's Art CD Engravings, Etchings, Water Colors, Pastels, Mirrors, Easels, Onyx Top Tables, Frames, Etc., Etc. C§D 806 Market Street. GEO. C. NEWMAN, ADOLPH NEWMAN. HUGH GRAHAM'S SON, Florist M Decor&for, No. 1204 CHESTNUT STREET. The Finest Flowers for every Occasion. STAR BANJOSD|fIP Musical Instruments, Sheet Music, &c. LOUIS HAAS, 136 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia. S. S. STEWART, LUSCOMB AND L. HAAS FINE VIOLINS, GUITARS AND ACCORDEONS Strings, 75c. per doz. Wire Striags, 30c. per doz. REPAIRING IN ALL BRANCHES,"^ FINEST STOCK OF Music&l * Instruments OF ALL KINDS IN PHILADELPHIA. A special line of Banjos, Banjeaurines, Guitars and Mandolins. FINE STRINGS FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS. —0 W Send for our New Illustrated Souvenir Catalogue—Free. F. H. GRIFFITH & CO., 1102 CHESTNUT ST. -PHILADELPHIA BADGE DEPOT. JACOB SOMERSET No. 722 CHESTNUT STREET, First Floor Back. PHILADELPHIA. SPECIALTIES: Masonic Marks, Society Badges, Military MedaU, School Rewards, College Badges, Monograms, Police Badges, Engraving, THE OLD ESTABLISHED STAND.
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ADVERTISEMENTS. xi 33, 35 and 39 Sth. Tenth St., Cor. Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA. Mathematical and Optical Instruments and Supplies, Sole American Agents for R. & J. Beck's Microscopes and Photographic Lenses. Prints made from Amateurs' negatives by all processes.. CHARLES ZEHNDER, Merchant Tailor 33 South Orange, Street* MEDIA, PA. EMIL HOLL, Watches and Jewelry, N. E. Cor. STATE and ORANGE STS., MEDIA, F»A. Repairing of Fine Watches and Jewelry a Specialty. WARDLE ELLIS, Prescription Druggist MEDIA, PA. Drugs and GShemigals. Full liine op ©oileip Jhe J-argest Old Jtook Store IN AMERICA. INVITATION. If you want a book, no matter when or where published, call at our store. We have, without exception, the largest collection of Old Books in America, all arranged in departments, each department under the charge of an experienced person, who is always willing and ready to give any information in relation to our immense stock which our customers may desire. Any person having the time to spare is perfectly welcome 10 call and examine our stock of from two to Ihree hundred thousand volumes, without the slightest obligation to purchase. Learvs Old Book Store, No. 9 South Ninth Street, First Store below Market St., PHILADELPHIA Drugs, medicines, toilet FANCY GOODS. ~ Prescriptions a specialty AT LOW PRICES. gODA WATER WITH FRUIT SYRUP AND CREAM ON DRAUGHT ALL THE YEAR. W. E. DICKESON, Ph. G., ORANGE & WASHINGTON STS., Telephone No. 59. MEDIA, PA. For absolutely everything in the way of Music and Musical Instruments, go to the store of J. E. DITSON & CO., 1228 CHESTNUT ST., -PHILADELPHIA— It is a branch of the great Music Publishing House of Oliver Ditson Company, - the largest in America.
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ADVERTISEMENTS. ii Special lips IN CLOTHING. WE have secured the property adjoining our New Store at Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets, and will begin the erection of a large building. In the Spring we shall remove our business in the Ledger Building to the New Store, which is the most centrally located in Philadelphia. Great Bargains for Men and Boys before removal. This large stock of Suits and Overcoats will be sold at a Great Reduction in Prices. A.C.Yates & Co. 6th and CHESTNUT 13th and CHESTNUT LEDGER BUILDING NEW STORE THE FASTEST TRAINS IN AMERICA RUN VIA Baltimore&Ohio R. R. BETWEEN NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON. -PULLMAN PARLOR CARS ON ALL TRAINS- A complete express service is also operated by B. & O. R. R. between PHILADELPHIA, Cincinnati, St. Lonis and Chicago. —PULLMAN VESTIBULE SLEEPING CARS— are run through, without change to all points. AH TRAINS RUN via WASHINGTON* J. T. ODELL, CHAS. O. SCULL, General Manager. Gen'l Passenger Agent BALTIMORE, MD. Bglycewnejelly The most elegant preparation for keep • lng the akin velvetj soft. Cores ai.d prevents chapped skin, lips and all ronghnesa caused by cold winds; used by Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Potter, Miss Ellen Terry, etc. Onsaleby alldruggluts or by mall, 25 cents. lO N. Broad St., Phllad'a. i Peptonized Soda Mint Pellets, cure Dyspepsia.
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ADVERTISEMENTS Iter Fine Writing, No* 303, 604, 1. For Ladies, No. 170. For General Writing, 404, 332, 390, 601 tc Falcon—B7B, 908. For Broad Writing, 294, 389, 849. Other Stylet to ruit all hand*. SOLD BY ALL DEALEBS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. JOSEPH CILLOTT A SONS, 91 John Street, MEW YORK HENRY HOE, Sole Agent. GO TO 202 W. State Street, Media, 'FOR EVERYTHING IN THE DRUG LINE. *•-*/ - • F)''.A • "V *A, C•: \"p vy •• v». /\ ••. GEO. C. WEBSTER, APOTHECARY. A. G. SPALDING & BROS. T|/T ANUFACTURERS of everything in ATHLETIC AND /*| SPORTING GOODS. Wh X X Sole Agents for the REGULATION "J" FOOT /CV ' /rTL y BALL. Uniforms and Clothing for all Out-door Sports and Gymnasium \ 1 S*L uses,to order or ready made. GYMNASIUM APPARATUS OF I \ \J_J~Z / \vf EVERY DESCRIPTION—the New SPALDING CALIFOR- / 'y/ vkl NIA BOXING GLOVES—the finest ever made. Sole Agents for 11 \ the GENUINE SHAKER SWEATER. Use the SPALDING ! H \VU line of Athletic and Sporting goods, the standard and the best. / vAiiS\ Prices always reasonable. Illustrated Catalogues Free. / y"—. \ Chicago : , New York : Philadelphia : 108 Madison Street. 241-243 Broadway. 1032 Chestnut St. ROBERT W. LIPPINCOTT, Swarthmore Agent. Queen & Co., HO. 924 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Drawing * Instruments AND MATERIALS. DRHWINC + PHP6RS. -MAScrAcrcms £C* i nceri rig ing £ nsbrumcvits
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