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43THE
Trinity Archive.
Published under Supervision of the Professor of English.
It was the winter wilde
While the Heaven-born childe
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies;
Nature in aw to him
Had doff’t her gawdy trim,
With her great Master so to sympathize;
It was no season then for her
To wanton with the sun her lusty paramour.
Onely with speeches fair
She woo’s the gentle Air
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow,
And on her naked shame,
Pallute with sinfull blame,
The saintly veil of maiden white to throw:
Confounded, that her Maker’s eyes
Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
But he, her fears to cease,
Sent down the meek-eyed Peace;
She, crown’d with olive green, came softly sliding
Down through the turning sphear,
His ready harbinger,
With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing,
And, waving wide her mirtle wand,
She strikes a universall peace through sea and land.
No war, or battails sound,
Was heard the world around;
The idle spear and shield were high up hung;
The hooked chariot stood
Unstain’d with hostile blood;
The trumpet spake not to the armed throng;
And kings sate still with awfull eye,
As if they sure knew their sovran Lord was by.
—Milton.
A merry Christmas and a happy New
Year! So the phrase goes and many a
time has it just been uttered, who knows
whether with meaning or unmeaning
lips? Christmas, part and parcel of
America’s glorious inheritance from
Old England, is the sovereign festival
in the South. The North may keep
its gaudy Fourth of July, the birth of
a nation; but, as for us, we will observe
the day commemorating the birth of
the King of the Universe, a day hoary
with centuries of associations.
No one knows the dreariness of
Christmas at College but the unfortunate
wight condemned to suffer it. The
lonesome buildings and quiet streets
would bore even a well-regulated
ghost, while thoughts of home with
trains of recollections paralyze all
gayety.
By an oversight the holidays are
long drawn out. While several of the
exchanges utter touching appeals for
more time, Trinity is suffering from
too much vacation. Rumor has it
that next year will find both terms and
holiday readjusted.
44
The new year opens with some
sound financial regulations, the carrying
out of which will help considerably
to improve the condition of the College
treasury. Hereafter, tuition fees will be
collected at the end of every month.
Only sons of ministers will receive free
tuition, and time and credit will be allowed
only to such as are found to be
actually incapable of paying their bills
regularly. Students not otherwise excused,
who fail to pay monthly bills
due the College, will not be entitled to
any further instruction.
The first monthly payment will be
due Saturday, Feb. 11th, 1888.
Books and stationery will be sold for
cash only.
A discount of 5 per cent. will be
made on bills paid a full term in advance.
Superintendent Finger will lecture
on “The Public School Problem” on
the night of the 18th of January, in the
College chapel. Admission free.
Entrance examinations to the College
classes will be held in May at Winston,
in June at Morehead City, Raleigh, and
Trinity College. The Oxford examination
will be held at a date to be announced
later. The date of the other
examinations has not yet been definitely
fixed.
The President’s class in Social and
Political Science with the Seniors (elective)
engages in informal discussion
followed by systematic inquiry in official
documents and specific treatises. A
prize of $25 in books will be awarded
for the best original thesis upon any of
the assigned topics.
The Juniors begin Hallam’s Constitutional
History of England as a text,
with Green’s Shorter History or Bright’s
School History as collateral reading
(required.) The term’s work will end
with an oration and a prize of $25 in
cash is offered for the best one.
Encouraging reports are coming in
from those who went home to secure
help for the new building. There is
no doubt of its speedy erection, if the
Alumni respond to the proposition of
“Alumnus.” The students are determined
that this building shall go up.
They are ready to make sacrifices, and
are making them, to accomplish their
purposes. Contributions should be sent
to Prof. J. L. Armstrong, who will
acknowledge them in the Raleigh Christian
Advocate and in The Archive.
Several of the larger classes in the
preparatory department will be divided
on the basis of scholarship.
45
Eloquence does not always display
itself in the same form. In reading
critically the speeches of Burke and
Webster, we find quite a contrast in
their styles, yet each ranks amongst
the foremost orators of his nation.
Each moved thousands by the power
of his words, and each possessed a
style peculiarly his own.
The first thing noticeable in Burke’s
style is its remarkable clearness. He
presents his thoughts in such a plain,
simple manner that they are easily
comprehended, although he handles
the deepest subjects with which statesmanship
deals. He leaves nothing obscure.
We are never at a loss to know
what words his relative pronouns relate
to, or his conjunctions connect.
Few authors could have expressed with
such precision and perspicuity as Burke
the thought contained in the following
sentence: “This commercial motive
never was believed by any man, either
in America, which this letter is meant
to soothe, or in England, which it
meant to deceive.”
In regard to clearness, Webster’s
style resembles that of Burke. The
great American statesman seemed to
possess the happy faculty of adapting
himself to his audience. If he addressed
the Senate of the United States, he
was dignified and stately; if he spoke
to an assembly of peasants, he made
himself perfectly intelligible.
Burke frequently uses pointed satire
and bitter sarcasm in his speeches.
He says: “By such management, by
the irresistible operations of feeble
councils, so paltry a sum as three-pence
in the eyes of a financier, so insignificant
an article as tea in the eyes
of a philosopher, have shaken the pillars
of a commercial empire that circled
the whole globe.” Again: “I
conceal the ridiculous figure of parliament
hurling its thunders at the gigantic
rebellion in America.” In this
kind of writing Burke is undoubtedly
Webster’s superior.
Burke uses connectives with more
skill, perhaps, than any other author
in the English language. This is an
art of which he was master. There
is not space to give quotations illustrating
this, but any one who
studies his works cannot fail to observe
it.
Webster, although he was not so
skilful in the use of connectives as
Burke, used them well, as the following
extract from his speech in Faneuil
Hall will show: “Do they find, and
do they admit, and do they feel, that
money is scarce and dear?——And
how in my judgment, further, so long as
this sub-treasury lasts, so long as the
tariff of 1846 continues, this state of
accumulation by the rich, of distress
of the industrious, and of the aggravated
poverty of the poor, will go on
from degree to degree, to an end which
I shall not attempt to calculate.”—Webster
is especially fond of beginning
his sentences with ‘and.’ Burke
and Webster do not use figures of
speech to excess, and they use them
very advantageously. Burke, in making
comparisons, employs the Antithesis
effectively. Thus: “Compare
the two. This I offer to give is
plain and simple, the other full of
perplexed and intricate mazes. This
is mild, that is harsh. This is found
by experience effectual for its purpose,
the other is a new project. This is
universal, the other calculated for certain
colonies only. This is immediate
in its conciliatory operations, the other
remote, contingent, full of hazard.”
Burke at times uses the Climax also.
The chief difference between Burke
and Webster, as regards the use of
figures, is that the former generally
employs the strongest Metaphors, while
the latter uses Similes more frequently.
Note this as a sample of Webster’s
style: “We shall see Carolina looming
up like one of the Southern Constellations.”
Burke, in his speech on
Conciliation with America, argues by
means of strong historical illustrations.
Webster, on the other hand, often reasons
by means of interrogations, and
then by appealing strongly to the feelings
of his audience. It is said that a
dash may be eloquent. This is well
illustrated in Webster’s speech in Faneuil
Hall.
On the whole, we may say that Mr.
Webster was a strong, forcible speaker
and writer. His style is smooth
and flowing. His arguments are powerful
and convincing. The great peculiarity
of Burke’s style is that every
sentence “grows in the very act of
unfolding it.”
H. S.
46
Whether the Roman idea, that climate
affects character be true or not,
the Orientals exhibit a character very
unlike that of the Occidentals. With
the one, impulse is the ruling power,
and all others are subordinate to it;
with the other, reason interposes to
check the uprising passions, and to
guard against the extremes of thought
or deed. No Western writer would
ever have thought of devising the inhuman
course pursued by Schahriar,
king of Persia, to maintain the honor
of his harem, and perhaps no maiden
of this hemisphere would have subjected
herself to such imminent danger
as did the beautiful and accomplished
Scheherazade to deliver her sex from
the cruel revenge of a blood-thirsty
prince. Both were acting from impulse
rather than from reason, and in this at
least they conformed to the general
character of the Orientals. Capable
of the most passionate love yet extremely
revengeful, the Oriental is the
kindest friend yet the bitterest enemy,
the most extravagant in grief yet the
most relentless in those things which
produce it in others. Such a medley
of contradictions and seeming paradoxes
are interwoven in Eastern character,
making it one of the greatest
extremes.
Again, the Orientals are more mythical
than the Occidentals. They
have chimerical ideas of life. Their
minds are shadowy and fanciful in their
tendency. There is the home of the
genii, the ghouls, and the houri. Their
literature is burdened with mythical
legends, which show that their minds,
the foundation of all character, drift
toward the fanciful and unreal. In the
literary lore of the West, we find no
such fabulous stories as that of Aladdin
and his “wonderful lamp,” or of
a Samandal, reigning over the empire
of the ocean. Where else but in the
literature of the Orientals could we
hope to find the origin of such a story
as the history of Beder presents? The
most exciting incidents of fiction contained
in Western authors appear tame
in comparison.
The Western man, on the contrary,
looks upon life as a reality. He employs
no imaginary genie to work
miracles for him, but depends upon the
strength of his muscle and the ingenuity
of his brains for his support.
Reason and intuition are the lights
which he follows, and, guided by them,
he grapples with life as with a real
entity—a something that can be realized.
M.
47
[From the French of Chateaubriand.]
One evening I was wandering in the
forests at some distance from the Falls
of Niagara. Soon I saw the day fade
out around me, and I experienced, in
all its solitude, the beautiful spectacle
of a night on the plains of the New
World. An hour after the setting of
the sun, the moon showed herself above
the trees. In the opposite horizon, a
perfumed breeze, which conducted her
from the east, seemed to preceed her
as a fresh breath among the forests.
Little by little the queen of night majestically
mounted the heavens, now
following peaceably her azure course,
now reposing on a group of clouds
which resembled the tops of high
mountains crowned with snow. These
clouds, furling and unfurling their sails,
rolled around in transparent zones of
white satin, dispersed themselves in
light, foamy flakes, or formed themselves
into gigantic banks of dazzling
aspect, so agreeable to the eye that one
seemed to feel their softness and elasticity.
The scene upon the earth was not
less charming. The blue and velvety
light of the moon descended at intervals
among the trees, and cast islands
of light into the blackness of darkness.
The river, which flowed at my feet, now
lost itself in the shadow of the woods,
now re-appeared all brilliant with the
constellations of night which it reflected
on its bosom. Upon the vast prairie
on the opposite side of the river, the
light of the moon slept immovably on
the turf. Some birch-trees, dispersed
here and there in the savannah, agitated
by the breeze, formed isles of floating
shadows upon an immovable sea of
light. Near, all was silence and repose,
except the falling of some leaves, the
brusque passage of a sudden wind, or
the rare and interrupted hooting of an
owl; but at a distance was heard, at
intervals, the solemn roaring of the
cataract of Niagara, which, in the calm
of the night, prolonged itself from plain
to plain, and expired in traversing the
solitary forests.
The grandeur, the wondrous melancholy
of the picture, could not be expressed
in human language; the most
beautiful night in Europe cannot give
an idea. In vain, in our cultivated
countries, the imagination seeks to extend
itself; it meets everywhere the
habitation of man; but in those desert
countries the soul delights to sink into
an ocean of forests, to soar over the
gulf of cataracts, and, as it were, to
find itself only in the presence of God.
B. T.
CHORUS.
From Translation of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusæ.
BY W. L. COLLINS.
They’re always abusing the Women as a terrible plague to men:
They say we’re the root of all evil, and repeat it again and again;
Of war and quarrels and bloodshed; all mischief, be it what it may;
And, pray then, why do you marry us, if we’re all the plagues you say?
And why do you take such care of us, and keep us safe at home;
And are never easy a moment, if ever we chance to roam?
When you ought to be thanking heaven that your Plague is out of the way,
You all keep fussing and fretting—“where is my Plague to-day?”
If a Plague peeps out of the window, up go the eyes of the men;
If she hides, then they all keep staring until she looks out again.
And for ways and means,
Trust us, there’s nothing cleverer than a woman.
And as for diplomacy, they’ll be hard indeed
To cheat—they know too many tricks themselves.
Ecclesiazusæ.
Correspondence.
49
To the Editors of the Archive:
All of your readers ought to feel interested
in the erection of the proposed
new building which you mentioned
in the December number of the Archive.
No one will question the necessity
of such a building. The only
trouble now arises from a lack of funds.
This seems strange when we look over
the list of Alumni, who could furnish
the money with little, if any, inconvenience
to themselves. There are one
hundred Trinity graduates in North
Carolina to-day who could give fifty
dollars without having to borrow the
money. We are indebted to our Alma
Mater for a great measure of our success,
and I think we have at this peculiar
time a rare opportunity of making
a substantial demonstration of our
gratitude. I offer this plan to your
readers: Let one hundred Alumni
send in their names and pledge themselves
to the amount of fifty dollars, to
be paid as soon as the hundredth man’s
name is received. I am ready to give
my name.
Yours very truly,
Alumnus.
To the Editors of the Archive:
Soon after Conference I was conversing
with a minister in high standing in
our State, and during the conversation
he spoke these words: “Every preacher
in North Carolina who heard President
Crowell’s Report, thinks that
Trinity has got the biggest man in the
State.” This did me good—much good.
Still, I should not be altogether satisfied
to know that you had but one man
in Trinity. I have heard just as many
good things about the Faculty and
their untiring efforts. The boys, too,
have done their part this session. I
have had the good fortune to be at the
College once or twice since the new
administration began. I can safely say
(and I don’t mean to disparage the former
order of things) that a new life
exists around old Trinity. I met many
of my old friends; they seemed glad
to see me, but did not have time to
talk much with me. They were busy.
Such administration as that needs no
comment. I am glad to see that the
two societies have consolidated the
Libraries, and that they are determined
to put up a new building. Every
Alumnus who doesn’t send some money
to help you all out in this matter
ought to be ashamed of himself. It
would be worth fifty dollars to every
old Trinity boy to see that fine building
every Commencement. If all the
Alumni would club together and come
to the rescue, it would be as easily
built as an air castle. I am not making
much money, but I am willing to give
ten per cent. of what I make until I
see the project completed, if I am encouraged
by all the brethren. Some
time soon I will tell you the impressions
made upon me by my second
visit to Trinity. For the present,
enough has been said.
A Trinity Boy.
50HOLIDAYS.
ON ARRIVING AT HOME.
The old homestead looms into view.
How sweet the dear old salutations
sound! The hackneyed sound of the
college bell has been transformed into
the lovely echoes of a sister’s voice.
The grim countenances of college professors
are, in our minds, readily replaced
by the piercing glances and
approving smiles of lovely maidens.
The dark pages of textbooks give way
to the cheery bonfires of Christmas
Eve. Our boyhood days flash into renewed
existence, and we seem to live
over again the scenes of our childhood.
We are wafted back on the wings of
imagination to the time when, long
before we had heard of college, we
used to hang our stockings by the
chimney and await with impatience
the coming of Santa Claus. O that
we could all live and die without learning
too much of this kind old man!
This “ignorance is bliss.” We are
again in the family circle; the benevolent
face of the father is before us;
the tender words of a loving mother
sound again in our ears. But in this
time of great rejoicing we pause and
say, May God bless the Christmas of
our kind faculty, who so willingly
granted us the great privilege of spending
Christmas at home.
CHRISTMAS IS OVER.
Although joyful was Christmas, and
although charming were its scenes, the
flying moments could not be either
lengthened or checked. The great
wheel of time continuing to turn has
carried us from the jolly days of Christmas
into the calm days which always
follow. If to see friends, if to be with
loved ones, if to eat turkey, if to have
a good time, is a big Christmas, we
can say that, if possible, we have had
more than our share. Although we
have been greatly refreshed and invigorated
for the work of the ensuing
term, yet, so pleasant was our stay at
home that we are led to approve the
sentiment of the old darkey, who said:
“Oh! what a blessin’ it would ‘a’ been,
If Santa had been born a twin;
For then we’d ‘a’ had two Chrismusses a year,
And prob’bly one would ‘a’ settled here.”
But, recognizing the fact that pleasure
is always sweetest when it follows
duty well performed, we readily loose
our moorings, and with purer motives,
with nobler aims, set sail for our summer
vacation.
R. R.
Letters from Trinity’s Alumni are
invited. If you would like to hear
from a college friend of days long
gone by, a few lines in the Archive
might reach his eye.
Editorials.
51
J. S. BASSETT, Hesperian, } Editors.
G. N. RAPER, Columbian, }
This is an age of steam and electricity,
of specialties and of cranks.
There are many unjustly called cranky
by those unable to appreciate enthusiasm
and persistent effort, but there is a
tendency among too many men of the
present age to neglect everything except
that and that alone which pertains
to one narrow subject. This tendency
is becoming more prevalent, especially
among American students. A man
can make a better success in a special
line of work, provided he has made a
deep and broad foundation upon which
to place his desired vocation in life.
But how can a man be a scientific investigator
of the wings of bugs without
a knowledge of bugs, or a successful
geologist without a knowledge of Botany
and Zoölogy?
Why do boys spend so much money
for cigarettes? Some do this to gratify
their appetite for smoking paper, others
for the illustrations of art found within
the packages. It is contrary to every
idea of decency and morality to strive
to lead boys into the gratification of
an appetite, which is, to say the least,
useless, by appealing to one far more
dangerous in its nature, to one which,
if aroused, may be the cause of their
eternal ruin.
The greatest need in Southern Colleges
is a well-equipped gymnasium.
Every institution of learning ought to
have this requisite, and to compel all
its students to use the advantages
which a gymnasium affords. If a boy
shines forth by brilliancy of intellect
while at College, it is too often the
case that before he has reached the
prime of manhood, before he has done
one-tenth of what was possible for him
to do, his constitution becomes a mere
wreck, and he soon becomes the victim
of untimely death. Now, while the
South is striving with all her might to
establish Colleges for intellectual and
industrial training, why should we
neglect physical culture? It is like
building a house upon the sand. When
the burdens and cares of active life assail
a weakened constitution, it is compelled
to give way, and there is no
more happiness for the unfortunate
victim.
The time has at last come when nations
begin to realize that “man’s inhumanity
to man makes countless
thousands mourn.” But a few weeks
ago Chickering Hall in New York was
densely packed to receive the three
members of the English parliament
who have come to America, not as
deputized commissioners but as humanitarians,
to arrange with the United
States the necessary preliminaries for
establishing an international court of
arbitration. These men are on just as
noble a mission as the missionary who
carries christianity to the heathen.
Even Gladstone and Bright, together
with many members of both Houses of
parliament sanction this move for “the
glorious parliament of man and the
federation of the world.” How much
better it is to settle international disputes
on common sense principles than
by means which, in the language of
Cicero, are characteristic of beasts!
War always implies wrong action on
the part of one nation at least, and in
the majority of cases both parties are
in fault.
The announcement of the death of
Dr. Burkehead in Fayetteville, Dec. 1,
1887, was a painful surprise to his
friends in Trinity as well as in other
places. He died, as he had lived, actively
engaged in the work of the
Master.
Lingurn Skidmore Burkehead was
born in Davidson county, N.C., May
17th, 1824. At the age of twenty-five,
he joined the Methodist Conference at
Oxford, and then began a life of such
firm and able devotion to his duty that
he was advanced to all the positions of
honor within that body. He was an
able speaker, a kind friend and a genuine
Methodist. Trinity College found
in him a staunch supporter, and the
Board of Trustees, of which he was for
a long time President, lost in him an
energetic member. He actively exerted
himself in securing the present administration,
and now that he is gone we
indeed feel that Trinity has lost a
friend. He died about a year later than
his wife, and has left three daughters
and four sons, one of whom, L. L.
Burkehead, is a member of the Junior
class. To all of these The Archive
extends its heartfelt sympathy.
Just as the Archive goes to press,
we learn that ladies from the Greensboro
Female College have kindly consented
to come to Trinity the latter
part of this month and give a concert
for the benefit of the new building
fund. The students appreciate this
interest in their efforts, and will manifest
their appreciation by giving the
ladies a full house. Such treats are
rare and greatly enjoyed. Due notice
of the exact date will be given through
the newspapers and through circulars.
Reviews.
53
G. T. ADAMS, Hesperian, } Editors.
D. C. ROPER, Columbian. }
American Statesmen: John Quincy Adams.
By John F. Morse, Jr., Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin & Company. 1886, 16 mo. pp. 315.
Of Mr. Morse’s series of Biographies
of men conspicuous in the Political
History of the United States, this
volume treats of the life of a man
much abused and cruelly misappreciated
in his own day, but whom subsequent
generations already begin to
honor as one of the greatest American
Statesmen. The author presents this
book in three chapters. In the first of
these divisions, the precocious Adams
is taken from his infancy, through the
varied scenes of youthful life to the
end of his diplomatic career in Europe.
Next, the author graphically traces the
life of Mr. Adams as Secretary of State
in the Cabinet of James Monroe (where
he was instrumental in forming the
famous “Monroe Doctrine”) on through
his Presidential career, which terminated
in 1828. The latter days of the ex-President
were spent in representing
the Plymouth (Mass.) district in the
national House of Representatives.
The same accuracy of statement and
scholarly vigor that characterize the
other editions in this series are exemplified
with emphasis in this work.
The diction is simple and pure, the
style is clear and direct, fitting the
book for its high place in the already
brilliant series of “American Statesmen.”
Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its
Present Crisis. By Rev. Josiah Strong, D.
D. Published by the Baker and Taylor Co.,
9 Bond St., New York. pp. 229.
No duty devolving upon American
citizens is of more importance than
the defence and perpetuation of the
principles upon which our government
is based. That perils of no small import
are now menacing these principles
is evident to intelligent minds. The
most dangerous of these evils it is the
object of this work to point out, and
by an accumulation of verified facts to
prove that these perils do really overhang
the government and should be
averted. Among the most serious are
mentioned Mormanism, Romanism, Socialism,
Immigration and Intemperance.
Each of these subjects is treated
in a masterly manner. The author
has exercised rare skill in collating
the facts which are corroborated by
the testimony of men whose veracity
cannot be doubted. The central idea
enforced by this volume is crisis in the
destiny of the United States and,
through it, in the destiny of the world.
The author’s argument reaches its climax
in viewing the relation of this
country to the world. The present is
considered the “nick of time.” He
shows clearly that the evangelization
of the world depends largely upon the
progress made in evangelizing this
country. It is a powerful book and
should be read carefully by every one
who has an interest in the welfare of
our country.
By good fortune, the publisher of
the “Series of Brief Grammars of the
Germanic Dialects,” invited Professor
Sievers, then of the University of Jena,
now of Tübingen, to prepare the Old
English member of the series; and,
by as rare good fortune, Professor Albert
S. Cook, of the University of California,
became the translator, or, more
properly speaking, the American editor.
The first edition was immediately
received as highest authority on both
sides of the ocean, and the second edition,
which enriches the former with
the result of recent investigations, is
all that can be expected for the language
from the sources at command.
The grammar was written for beginners,
but it presumes an age and an
acquaintance with the theory of language
not found in the class of students
in our colleges who begin the study
of Old English. It recalls the experience
of two American students at
the University of Leipsic, who, when
they saw the announcement of “Lectures
for Beginners in Sanskrit” by
Professor Windisch, made up their
minds to take the course. Seats were
reserved and the first lecture came on.
The Professor dashed into the alphabet,
swirled through declension, called
a halt in the verb, and, when he departed,
left them in a state of bewilderment
whose uppermost idea was
that there must be, away down below
“beginners,” some place where they
belonged.
The extent to which comparative
philology has thrown syntax into the
shade is exemplified by the fact that
one half of the “grammar” is devoted
to phonology and the other half to inflection,
while syntax gets not a word.
True, it may well be said that many
MSS. must yet be edited before a satisfactory
syntax can be written. That,
however, does not affect the proposition
above. One hundred years ago,
with the same material, the order
would have been almost reversed. It
must be this passion for philology that
has drawn the best minds away from
investigations in the syntax of modern
English and consigned our grammars
to the care of third-rate men
who continue to mangle “English as
she is wrote.”
54There is coming a time when all
teachers of English Grammar will have
to be versed in the language and its
history from the time of Alfred down,
but to confuse pupils by bringing into
the grammar Old English words is
worse than useless. In spite of this
blot, Prof. Meiklejohn (“The English
Language.” Boston: D. C. Heath &
Co., 1887) manages to explain some
things clearly; yet a man who still
calls the infinitive a mood is not to be
trusted. The author seems to have
emulated Mr. G. W. Tarbox’s “Album
of Universal Information,” for he has
within the lids of one book a Grammar,
a Rhetoric, a History of the
Language, and a History of the Literature.
The machine made to wash
clothes, run the sewing-machine, rock
the cradle and spank the baby, failed
for reasons too obvious to need mention.
Exchanges.
55
M. C. THOMAS, Hesperian, } Editors.
W. A. BARRETT, Columbian, }
The last number of the Binghamite
shows decided improvement.
The December number of the Wake
Forest Student is the best number of
this excellent magazine that has yet
been received. The articles by contributors
are of a high order. The
Archive extends its congratulations
to the Student’s editors upon their success
in College Journalism.
The Haverfordian, for December,
has arrived. Its contents are calculated
to be of special interest to those
who are enamored of athletics. It has
a very sensible editorial on the study
of Political Economy. The magazine
does credit to the institution which it
represents.
The receipt of the Randolph-Macon
Monthly is acknowledged. It exhibits
literary merit. Fifteen or twenty of
its pages are filled with advertisements,
and upon this remunerative source depends,
no doubt, in a large degree the
success of the magazine.
The last number of the Davidson
Monthly shows considerable signs of
improvement on former numbers.
Stick to the “Boycott,” as it is nothing
but fair to those who support the
magazine. Every College magazine
would do well to adopt the same plan.
The Monthly is getting to be one of
the best among our exchanges.
In the Roanoke Collegian’s latest
number is a very pertinent article relating
to Exchange Departments. It
deals the “exchange man,” whom it
terms the “mud-slinging politician of
the future,” a well-directed blow.
There is a disposition existing in some
college journals to point out the defects
of their neighbors and acquaintances,
seemingly blind to the merits
of the magazine criticised, and uttering
only the venomous sentiments
generated by a fault-finding disposition.
There is a happy medium between
a servile, insincere adulation
and a withering, malicious criticism.
The magazine that offers critical remarks
sincerely, and for the improvement
of the one criticised, has found that
medium.
The Vanderbilt Observer is on our
table. Its pages are pregnant with life
and original thought. Among other
articles, the one entitled “Edgar Allen
Poe” deserves mention. The author
proves, by means of unquestionable
authority, that the base slander which
has been asserted against the fame of
the author, whose productions have
been translated into more languages
than those of any other American
writer, and who has been the most
brilliant star in American literature,
was wholly undeserved.
The Statesman, a periodical published
at Chicago, Ill., and devoted to the
cause of prohibition, and the December
number of the University Monthly
have arrived on the eve of going to
press.
Locals.
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D. C. BRANSON, Hes., } Reporters.
J. C. MONTGOMERY, C., }
Examinations are over. “Did you
get through?”
Endowment now reaches about $40,000.
On his return from Conference, Dr.
M. L. Wood spent a few days with his
friends in Trinity.
Capt. Arthur Frazer, conductor on
the Western road, spent Sunday with
relatives in our town.
Rev. A. D. Betts came by to see his
son and preached for us the Sunday
before Conference. His friends were
glad to see him.
Dr. McCanless is making preparations
to build a residence just above
Prof. Gannaway’s.
Rev. V. A. Sharpe, Presiding Elder
of this District, will make Trinity his
home this year.
Mrs. James W. Ward, of Greensboro
is spending a few days here, visiting
Prof. Carr’s family.
Misses May Carr and Nellie Edwards,
who have been attending the Lexington
Female Seminary, are home enjoying
the holidays.
Miss Linton and Miss Minnig of
Penn., are visiting the President’s
family.
Prof. Armstrong spent several days
in Greensboro during the holidays
visiting the family of Dr. T. M. Jones.
Mr. Dred. Peacock and wife of Lexington
spent Christmas with us. They
are visiting Prof. Carr’s family.
Rev. Mr. Rush has retired temporarily
from itinerant work and will remain
in our little town this year. His daughter,
Mrs. Bost of Concord, is visiting
him.
All of the examinations except those
of three or four small classes, were held
in the old chapel. It is the general
opinion that it is harder to cheat one’s
way through than to make proper
preparation and stand fairly.
Mr. Eshelman, of Lebanon, Pa., is
here prospecting with a view to permanent
location. He wishes to embark
in the mercantile business. We
hope that he will find it to his interest
to cast his lot with us.
Friday night before Christmas, about
a dozen boys went over to Thomasville
to the entertainment given by the young
ladies of the Female College. The
occasion was one of enjoyment, especially
after the public exercises.
As the old year is passing away, it
is pleasant to look back upon a term
so well spent. Both Faculty and students
have worked faithfully, and this
co-operation has not failed to produce
the desired result—mutual confidence
and affection.
If we may “size up” the morals of a
place by the number of preachers it
contains, Trinity can say Adsum when
its name is called on the last day. We
have only eleven licensed preachers
with us at present.
Most of the boys spent Christmas at
home, but a great many have already
returned in order to do some special
work before the Spring Term begins.
Several did not intend leaving college,
but did so for the purpose of raising
money for the new building.
“Yowzer” went out to see his “best”
girl the other night, and about 10:30
o’clock he was found in a newly dug
ice-house “making night hideous”
with his unearthly yells. We are not
prepared to state who is responsible
for this sad dilemma, but madam rumor
hath it that the fair Dulcinea was implicated
in the plot.
On Wednesday evening, Dec. 21st, a
small circle of friends met to witness
the marriage of Capt. Jefferson Davis,
Class of ’86, now of the Davis School,
La Grange, N.C., to Miss Mamie B.,
daughter of Prof. Gannaway. The
ceremony was performed at the residence
of the bride’s father, Rev. F. H.
Wood officiating.
First Student: “Where is the President
this morning?”
Second Student: “He went to Greensboro
last night to attend a meeting of
the Executive Committee.”
First Student: “Yonder he comes
now.”
Second Student: “Well, sir, he can
be in more places at one time than any
man I ever saw.”
The average small boy still finds
pleasure in bean-shooters, pop-guns,
and sling-shots. It amuses him yet “to
perform such tricks before high heaven
as make the angels weep.” Yes, it is
even so, and “Cub” is not an exception
to the general rule. A few nights
since he decided to try his skill in
throwing by seeing how many window-lights
he could break out of Duke Harris’s
store. About the time he had
broken two or three, and was secretly
congratulating himself on his grand
success, one of the Faculty fell upon
him like a vulture on his prey. The
marauder was taken before the “city
fathers” and fined $3.10, to be devoted
to the road-improvement fund. “He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Saturday evening, Dec. 24th, the
ever hospitable Mr. Hundley gave a
supper complimentary to Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff. Davis. Several friends were invited
to participate in the festivities of
this pleasant occasion. The festal
board was loaded with such delicacies
as would tempt the appetite of the
most fastidious. The host was running
over with good humor, and the social
feature was by no means the least enjoyable
part of this happy time. In
the presence of the young couple,
there was another whom we have not
yet mentioned. Yes, he was there and
did his work. His name was——Cupid.
Mr. Tom Finch, a member of the
Board of Trustees, died at his home
near Trinity, Saturday, Dec. 10th.
Mrs. Martha Robbins, widow of the
late Ahi. Robbins, died at her home
Saturday, Dec. 3rd.
Alumni. — AMONG THE COLLEGES.
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E. L. MOFFITT, Hesperian, } Editors.
W. H. RHODES, Columbian, }
—E. J. Kennedy, ’75, a successful
lawyer at Chesterfield C. H., S.C., is a
member of the legislature.
—B. N. Bodie, ’81, is merchandising
in Leesville, S.C. He is also ticket
agent of the R. & D. R. R., and mayor
of the town. Mr. Bodie is a firm friend
of Trinity.
—W. A. Allen is a very promising
young lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C.
-Y. P. Ormond, ’78, is farming near
Hookerton, N.C. He married a daughter
of Rev. J. E. Mann, and is now
the head of a family.
—W. P. Bynum, ’83, one of Trinity’s
most thorough students, having practiced
law in Charlotte four years with
his uncle, Judge Bynum, moved on
the 25th of last October to Greensboro,
where, in partnership with Bartlett
Shipp, Esq., he is destined to become
one of the first lawyers in the state.
—D. B. Nicholson, ’75, after graduating,
returned to Duplin county, and
taught school a year and a half. Dec.
20th, 1876, he married Miss Katie Powell,
of Sampson county, and spent several
years in farming and teaching.
He was admitted to the bar Jan., ’80,
and after practising law in Duplin two
years moved to Clinton, where he
taught in the Clinton Collegiate Institute
one year. Since then he has devoted
himself to law and journalism—is
now one of the editors of the Weekly
Caucasian, published in Clinton.
During the session of ’81 he represented
Duplin county in the legislature,
and last winter served as Reading
Clerk in the State Senate. Mr. Nicholson
has five children. Four of them
are boys whom he will some day send
to Trinity. The Archive sends
Christmas greetings to the Caucasian,
and takes pleasure in placing it on the
list of exchanges.
—L. J. Best, ’86, completed his course
at the Dick and Dillard Law School,
Greensboro, N.C., and is now practicing
law in Goldsboro, N.C.
—J. C. Pinnix, ’86, having completed
his law course at Greensboro, and having
been admitted to the bar, is now
located at Yanceyville, N.C.
—S. M. S. Rolinson is in charge of
the Hatteras school. He has enrolled
this year a large number of pupils.
—J. A. Bell, ’86, after teaching a
while, began the study of law in Statesville,
N. C., and speaks of going West.
How is this for Carolina, Jim?
—E. S. Gunn, ’84, is taking a theological
course at Vanderbilt University.
—T. N. Ivy, ’79, taught several years
in Western North Carolina before joining
the N.C. Methodist Conference.
He is now stationed at Lenoir, Caldwell
county.
—S. Leffers says he is still “invigorated
by the gentle breezes of the North
Carolina coast.”
Mr. John D. Ezzell, class of ’85, has
been principal of the Belle Voir High
School, Sampson County, N.C., since
the summer of his graduation. He was
seen at Conference by a representative
of the Archive, and he reported his
school in a flourishing condition.
—Among the most prominent applicants
for admission at the recent
session of Conference were Messrs. J.
W. Clegg and L. M. Chaffin. The
Archive wishes them abundant success
in the work of the ministry.
—Cyrus P. Frazer, ’77, soon after
leaving Trinity, graduated at Haverford
College, Pa. He is now one of
the principals of the Archdale High
School. A few years ago he had at
the same place one of the most flourishing
high schools in the State, and as
he has taken hold of it again, Archdale
is indeed to be congratulated.
—J. L. Tomlinson, ’72, soon after
leaving Trinity graduated at Haverford
College, Pa. A few years after
this he went to Germany, but soon decided
to return to the old North State.
Ever since his return he has been actively
engaged in the educational
cause. He has been principal of Santa
Barbara College, California, also of
the Wilson Graded School. While in
Wilson, he was fortunate enough to
win not only a good reputation, but
also a good wife. He is now and has
been for some time, the Superintendent
of the flourishing Winston Graded
Schools.
—R. H. Skeen, ’58, for several years
successfully conducted a high school
at Mt. Gilead, N.C., and sent boys to
Trinity well prepared to enter high
college classes. He is now principal
of the Concord Female Institute, and
has one of the most flourishing schools
Concord has ever known.
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Chautauqua University graduated, in
1886, 4,624 students.
Haverford might appropriately be
called the “College of Athletics.”
Harvard will this year distribute
$66,000 among her needy students.
Roanoke’s Endowment Fund has recently
had an addition of $20,000.
Randolph-Macon’s Gymnasium was
formally opened December 5th, with
much eclat.
Davidson’s students have “boycotted”
those merchants who will not advertise
in their periodical.
Several Colleges wish their weekly
holiday to be changed from Saturday
to Monday.
The male students of the University
of Mississippi have asked the removal
of the female students. The girls are
bearing off all the honors.
Columbia proposes to institute a new
grading system, so that those students
who attain a certain high standard
shall be exempt from examinations.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TRINITY COLLEGE,
TRINITY COLLEGE, N.C., U.S.A.
Faculty.—Separate chairs in History and Political
Economy, Latin and French, English and German,
Greek and Metaphysics, the Natural Sciences,
Mathematics and Engineering, Business and Pedagogy.
Departments.—Collegiate, leading to Degrees of A.B.
and Ph.B.
Preparatory, preparing for admission to college.
Business, five months’ training for business life.
Pedagogics, lectures and special work for teachers.
Theological, preparatory training for the Christian
Ministry.
Expenses.—Tuition, $3 to $5 per month.
Board, $8 to $12 per month.
Tuition should be paid in advance, and books at
the time of purchase.
Special Lectures are given weekly to all who may
wish to attend, free of extra charge, on topics of interest.
The lecture program of prominent speakers
for the weeks will be announced later.
Examinations.—Examinations in course are held
twice a year or at the completion of any particular subject.
Examinations for admission to college in 1888 to
any of the regular classes will be held in June on the
day following Commencement, and in September on the
day before the opening of college. Students are admitted
to the Preparatory and Business Departments without
examination, but to no other.
The requisites for admission to the Freshman class in
1888 are Arithmetic, including the Metric System; Algebra
to Quadratics; U. S. History; English Grammar
and Analysis; Geography, Descriptive and Physical;
Natural Sciences, Physiology and Hygiene; Latin, three
Books of Cæsar and Latin Grammar, including Prosody.
An extra year’s work in Latin and Greek will be required
for admission in 1889 to the classical course only
(A. B. degree.)
Location.—In Randolph county. Reached via
High Point, N.C., over the Piedmont Air Line. Healthfulness
and quiet location render it peculiarly safe and
well adapted to the education of youth and young men.
Information.—Special circulars issued quarterly,
and the regular annual catalogue will be sent or any desired
information given respecting the Institution, upon
application to
JOHN F. CROWELL, A. B. (Yale),
President.
Dike Book Co.,
Opposite National Bank, GREENSBORO, N.C.
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Books of great value, including History, Biography,
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Latest Publications of Lovell’s Library, Munro’s Library
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Holmes’ New Readers, Maury’s Geographies, and
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
Typographical errors were silently corrected.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant
form was found in this book.
