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i HE 6EZGH.Published on alternate Thursdays, during the school year, by the

students of the assachusetts Institute of Technology.

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HE defeat of Har-vard's MottHaven Tug-of-War team by ourfour untrained

g:;>-and in expe ri-enced men, isth-e greatestathletic featwhich the Insti-tute has evera cc o m plished.

It is true that we haved scored many triumphsin the same line, but never when it was soentirely unlooked for, and under such unfavor-able circumstances.

Two weeks before the games, it was decided toenter a tug-of-war team from the M. I. T.There was no interest taken in it by the men towhom we looked for aid, and enough could notbe found to fill the eight places required for apull, until the first week had nearly passed.But one man, the anchor, was present during

the first week, out of the four who obtained thevictory; and it was not until three days beforethe games that they pulled together. With onlythree hours' practice together, and no prelimi-nary training, the team entered. Another dis-advantage was, that, without any training, theywere ten pounds under the limit, and so did nothave the advantage to be gained by having allthe weight allowed, every pound of which tellsin such a struggle. The efforts of that team inwinning under such a number of disadvantages,cannot be over praised.

Now, how about the other side? The Har-vard team, and Easton the anchor, have a repu-tation which is founded on years of victories.The many triumphs at Mott Haven over therepresentative teams from the leading athleticcolleges, and the former and recent victories atNew York and elsewhere, have made it knownas the champion team among colleges. Therewas one blot on their scutcheon: three yearsago, on the scene of their latest defeat, theMott Haven team was pulled by Winsor andhis three sturdy Techs. But it was but by aninch. The present score of two inches and ahalf eclipses the former record, but not theevent itself. The memory of both will becometraditional as the only times that Harvard'smost renowned anchor was ever defeated.

The Institute has always been more promi-nent in this special line of athletics than anyother. Why we should make such a showing intugs-of-war, is quite an interesting problem. Itis well to know that we have men with superiorendurance and strength, and these qualitiesshould be kept up to the standard in after years.

Every man who witnessed that five minutes'contest will remember it as one of the mostthrilling experiences he ever underwent; andthe four men who added this triumph to themany already recorded in the chronicles of our

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athletics, will, in the many years to come,receive grateful homage from all the futuremembers.

g5 HE class of '86, not willing to leave for '87all the chances for inaugurating new cus-

toms, had a class-day last year, which was thefirst real bona fide jubilee ever held on such anoccasion at the Tech. The former classes werecontent to receive their sheep-skins and departin peace, without any joyful demonstrations onarriving at the goal of their hopes. If '86 hadnot basely taken advantage of their seniorityto take from '87 the glory of being the first,our present Seniors might have burst forth uponthe world with more eclat; but as it is, they canonly follow the custom, and improve upon themanner of carrying it out.

A class-day is not, as some might suppose, acelebration of independence from college re-strictions, or expression of joy on leaving theirpast associations; rather, it is a special eventto mark the last occasion on which they meetas classmates,- the culmination around whichto gather all the pleasant reminiscences of col-lege life, and which may in itself be the hap-piest of all the many gatherings which werescattered throughout the four years; the dayon which they make their entrance into theworld of cares and sorrows, and on which theytake their last farewell of their classmates andinstructors.

'87 will go out in a manner consistent withits usual grace and dignity. A programme ofevents has been arranged, and all necessaryofficers and committees elected. The exerciseswill consist of an address to the class in themorning, by some prominent man, class exer-cises in the afternoon at Huntington Hall, anda reception to friends in the evening, followedby dancing.

The reception will probably be given in theHotel Vendome, which contains the most fa-vorable arrangements for such an occasion.Everything signifies a most enjoyable event toall concerned, and by no other means could a

more favorable impression be retained, in thememory of the class, of the Institution in whichthey have lived together for so long a time.

The Institute, in thus adopting a customwhich has been so successful in other colleges,shows that conservatism is losing ground, andthat it is growing away from its former narrow-ness. Every year shows an improvement inthis respect, and so will every year to come.

HE directors of the Athletic Club have madea wide departure from the established con-

servative principles of the Club in expending somuch money on the dinner last week. Thereare many members who think that the Clubshould have expended the surplus in a way thatwould better further the athletic interests of theInstitute. Our tug-of-war team well deservedbeing honored, and there are plenty of menwilling and anxious to give a subscription din-ner, complimentary to the men of the team.Had the Athletic Club so desired, they couldhave paid for the dinners of the Technologywinners in the games, and every one wouldhave been pleased to see the club do it; butfor the Club to give a dinner free to all menwho have bought membership tickets meansthe establishment of an unfortunate precedentwhich should not be followed in succeedingyears. There are many ways in which the clubsurplus could have been judiciously expendedfor the promotion of athletic interest or for theimprovement of the gymnasium, with betteradvantage than for feeding men who have sim-ply bought season tickets to the games.

Bt5 E would like to call attention to the com-munication in another column in regard

to the taking of notes on lectures, and writingthem up afterward, and then handing them into be marked. We think that this is a subjectwhich will bear a great deal of criticism, bothfavorable and adverse, and we should be veryglad to hear from others on this same subject.Whether there is much benefit to be derived

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from this system of note-taking, or not, is aquestion which we are not prepared to assertany positive opinion about, as our own ideas arenot fully made up on this point. It has often oc-curred to us that a man must lose a great dealof a lecture while writing notes, because, unlesshe is proficient in short-hand, it is impossiblefor him to keep up with the lecturer, andhe will thus be continually writing aboutone thing, while the lecturer is talking aboutanother. Thus his notes must be necessarily ofan intermittent sort of character, and it is aquestion whether his knowledge of the subjectis not the same; for certainly no man can dothoroughly two such things at once, as writingabout one thing and listening to another.But then it may be said, and perhaps truly, thatwhat he does get down in his note-book, makeshim have a more thorough knowledge of thesubject than he otherwise would. This is un-doubtedly the case when a man is taking notesfor his own perusal only, but it is not about thiskind of note-taking we are speaking. When aman is taking notes for the professor to lookover, his aim is to get as large and good lookinga note-book as possible; for it is pretty certainthat no professor will go carefully through awhole class's note-books, and derive his opinionof their excellence on the thoughts expressedthere alone. He cannot fail to be favorably af-fected by a note-book which is written up ingood handwriting and copiously illustrated; atleast, it would seem so to us. And here comesup the question, Is not a thorough knowledgeof the subject sacrificed to a mere mechanicalexcellence, which entails only a partial knowl-edge of the subject? As we have said before,we should not like to assert any opinion positive-ly on the subject, but would like to hear itcriticised by the students. Our columns arefree and open to aill. And also, that we mayhear both sides of the question fairly and im-partially discussed, we would esteem it a greatfavor if some of the professors would also writeto us concerning this same subject. It is onewhich deeply interests us personally, and weshould be very glad to hear more of it.

IT has been finally decided that we are to havea nine this year. A great deal has been said

in opposition to it, but at the meeting of theBase-Ball Association, Saturday, it was unan-imously decided to put a team into the field.Most of the opposition is due to the fact thatthere is only such a short time for us to play induring the spring, and that the best part of thistime is so near examination-time as to precludeany possibility of success. We think this is ina great measure true, and that the Institute cannever be renowned for its ball nine. But weshould be able to put a nine into the field thatwould do better than the teams of the last twoyears, who so distinguished themselves that theywere called the Bijou team, in derision. Wethink it would be well, also, for the manage-ment to limit the expense as much as possible,and only play nines in the neighborhood of Bos-ton. There is no reason, this year, why weshould not put in a nine that would at least tryto win a game. The half-hearted play of lastyear should not be tolerated again; and if thenine shows a disposition to repeat last year's tac-tics, they should be at once disbanded. We donot expect the team to win all, or even a major-ity, of the games they play; but we do want tosee more earnestness in the players. Withsuch players with us as Nichols and Smith, ofthe Harvard 'Varsity team of '86, and Clementand Ayer, of our own last year's team, we thinkwe can reasonably expect this, and trust that weshall not be disappointed. And the students,too, should remember that the nine can donothing without money, and so subscribe liberallyto its support.

(ESSRS. JORDAN, '88, Robb, '88, andFinch, go, have been elected members of

the board of editors of THE TECH, and begintheir duties, with the present number. Theyare a welcome addition to the board, which iseven now smaller than it should be. We arepleased to say also, that since our last numberwe have received a few contributions.

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A Strange Story.

ILATE one evening I arrived in one of thoseold Italian towns famous in our days for

pictures and statuary, but in the days of the Re-publics of Northern Italy, famous as not leastamong the cities of the time. Here the family ofBernardino lived and flourished, and for yearsexercised a protectorate over the city, holdingthe title of Dukes of the same. The hotel towhich I went had once been the palace of thisfamily, but had long since passed out of theirhands, and had been bought a few years ago bya company, who had turned it into a hotel.About this palace there was one rather curiousstory which my guide-book told me of; howthat years ago one of the family, a young manof great promise, had disappeared during apopular tumult in which the palace was stormed,and with him disappeared also his young wife,whom he had just brought from Venice, andher father, a senator of that noted city. Thenext heir, a distant cousin, succeeded him, andwas generally supposed to know the secret ofhis disappearance; but people either did notcare, or did not dare to ask, much about thematter.

But to return to my story. Having comefrom a long journey I did not care to sit up long,and so went to my room. It was a huge room,hung with damask. The ceiling was vaulted,and adorned with quaint frescoes. My onesmall candle scarcely served to light one cornerof the room, and threw dark shadows into thedimly lighted, far-off corners. After I hadlocked my door, feeling somewhat curious, Ithought that I would look around the room. Inone corner, completely hidden by the hangings,I found a small door. This I opened, and onlooking out I saw a small marble staircase,lighted by candles held in branches along thewall. I also found that there was no means offastening the small door, so I thought that I wouldsee where the staircase led to. Unfortunatelythe marble was very highly polished, and afterI had gone down several steps I slipped, andfell what seemed to me a long distance. I got

up feeling rather sore, and looked around me.Behind me were the stairs down which I hadfallen; in front of me a perfectly dark, narrowpassage. I determined to explore; so takinga candle from one of the branches on the wall, Iproceeded down the passage. The pavementunder foot soon gave place to plain dirt, and thewalls and ceilings became of rough rock, throughwhich the water dripped in many places, showingme that I was in an underground passage; prob-ably, I thought, one of those so common in oldplaces,as a means of escape in time of danger.I must see, though, thought I, how and where itends. To this end, however, I thought that Ishould never come; but at last the passage beganto widen, and I found myself in a good-sized cave,in front of which flowed a rapid stream. No waycould I see of getting out of the cave except theone by which I had entered, unless one were in-clined to trust themselves to the stream in front,which might be shallow, or it might be deep.But then, my examinations were made by thelight of one poor flickering candle, and theremight be many things that daylight would showplainly, which could not be seen at all by such alight. Promising myself another visit, I startedto return. I had gone but a short way whenI came face to face with the solid rock.Evidently there was more than one passage,and I had unknowingly got into a blind one.So back I went until I found a turning, thatwent off in what I thought was the right direc-tion. I continued along this for some time,until my way was again blocked; but this time itwas a door which stopped my farther progress.I tried to open it, but it was locked; I tried topush, thinking that perhaps it led out into thestairway from which I had started,-and thewhole door, rotten with age, came tumblingdown, almost extinguishing my candle,and awak-ening deafening echoes in the narrow passage.In front of me there was now a curtain; this Ipushed aside, and found myself in a room ofmoderate size, hung round with tapestry. In amoment my light burnt more brightly, and asight met my eyes which cannot easily be de-scribed. On a long couch, clad in the gorgeous

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robes of a Venetian Senator, his long, bony fin-gers clasping an ivory crucifix, lay a grinningskeleton. On the floor near by lay anotherfigure, evidently that of a woman, the skull sur-rounded by what might almost be called a haloof golden hair, while the rest of the figure wasclad in a dress of yellow brocade, with a jeweledgirdle. On the breast there was a dark stain,from the middle of which the jeweled hilt of adagger, protruding, showed by what death shehad died. In the corner, kneeling in front of alarge crucifix, was another figure, clothed inarmor, but with no head-piece or gauntlets. Forone moment I stood not knowing what to think ofthese horrible skeletons, when all at once athought came to me. This, then, was the expla-nation of that story which I had read. Therecame into my mind a series of vivid pictures ofhow it had all happened: how the young Duke,wishing to provide a place of safety for his wifeand her aged father, had brought them there;how they had been locked in through sometreachery; how the old man, weak through age,died first; how his daughter, unable to bear thehorrors of a death by starvation, perished byher own hand; how the young Duke was left tomeet his miserable death alone; and how he re-mained faithful to the end, and died, at last,sinking exhausted before the crucifix....

But am I never to get out of this place ? AmI to share their fate ? Twice have I tried to getout, and each time I have failed; now I must tryin earnest. With that I turned toward the door-way, and hastened along the passage. In sucbhaste was I that I forgot to take proper care ofmy candle, and a sudden puff of wind blew itout, leaving me alone in the dark. But I did notstop for all that; I fairly ran, for I had for themoment but one desire, and that was to getaway from what I had seen. At some momentsI almost thought that I heard some one comingafter me; at others, there seemed to be someone in front of me, and all the time it was cold,and damp, and dark, and very rough under foot.How long this continued I cannot say,-it seemedinterminable to me,- but at last I saw a lightahead, and in a minute more I was back at the

foot of the staircase from which I had started.I ascended several flights; on, each story was asmall door, but on only one had this been leftopen; into this I went. Yes! it was my ownroom. Tired with my subterranean wanderingsI went straight to bed, and did not wake till latethe next morning. The first thing which I didwhen I got up was to look for the little door.Sure enough, there it was. When I was dressedand had had my breakfast, I told my story tothe manager of the hotel. He only shruggedhis shoulders and said, "Impossible," but gaveme permission to investigate; but nothing couldI find, howsoever much I tried. The staircasetruly was there; everybody in the house knewof it. It was used by the servants to get at therooms on the different floors with which it com-municated, by means of small doors, such as hadaroused my curiosity the night before. As tothe existence of my mysterious passage, however,I was never able to satisfy anybody but myself;for no indications of any kind could I find alongthe apparently solid stone wall which would leadany one to believe that there was a secret pas-sage behind it. Nevertheless, I shall alwayscontinue to feel that I really found the explana-tion of that strange disappearance which happenedso many centuries ago.

A Narrow Escape.

T was in the year of eighteen hundred andfroze to death, that I, Lawrence Mitford, ran

away to sea in the good ship Gaspee, undercommand of my uncle, James Mitford.

The Gaspee was a clipper-built vessel, es-pecially designed for blockade running; andalthough registered and owned in Thomaston,she was fitted with papers and passports (howobtained I know not) that enabled her captainto baffle any ordinary attempts to prove herreal identity, which was of a somewhat ques-tionable character at that period of ill feelingbetween the North and South.

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been repeatedly crushed when I suggested theidea of my going to sea, the brilliant plan oc-curred to me to conceal myself in one of theempty hogsheads which the Gaspee was carry-ing South, to bring back, if successful, filledwith a well-paying cargo of molasses.

My plan having worked to my entire satisfac-tion, on the second day out I emerged from myhiding-place, with fear and trembling as well as avery empty stomach, only to be rewarded withreproaches from my uncle James.

At my earnest request he finally put me"before the mast," and it did not take a weekto convince me of the unpleasantness of thereality which all tales of privation had only in-creased my desire to experience. For I canassure my readers that

"A life on the bounding deepIs sot the life for nie,"

when one has to subsist on the hard-tack soakedin train-oil and "plum-duff" (on Sundays),which an "able seaman" has to put up with ona hard trip. At first I could not come underthe above head, being entirely tizable to getaway with my share of the foot-ball like mixtureof plum-duff.

But to pass over my intermediate agonies ofstarvation, sea-sickness, and home-sickness, andcome to the point: The 4th of September inthis same eventful year found us safely loadedwith the coveted cargo of rum and molasses,as well as a deck load of cotton, and with all theconditions of wind, weather, and season mostfavorable for a successful attempt to pass thevessels and forts then guarding the entrance tothe port of Charleston.

At ten in the evening our pilot came on board,and with but little delay we cleared the dock,and as we floated slowly with the tide, gaveourselves up to anxious watching for indicationsof danger, as well as for the signals of our ghost-like guide, who, dressed completely in white,paddled his white canoe far ahead. This guidewas an old hand at the business, and had adopt-ed white because he found that although moreconspicuous at close quarters, it was, unlikeblack, totally invisible at a moderate distance.

"Thank God, we're out of that wasp's-nest,"murmured my uncle with a sigh of relief, as weheard the watch on the last man-of-war cry outover the water to the sentinel at the front, hisregular "6 All's well ;" and as we spread our sailsto the breeze and parted with our guide, camethe seeming mocking reply from the fort, " All'swell."

My uncle, thoroughly exhausted with his re-cent anxieties, went below, leaving the helm incharge of" French Johnny " (so called, as far asI could make out, for the reasons that he wasneither French, nor was his cognomen John),while I with the rest of my watch kept himcompany. I was also very tired, but beingobliged to stay on deck, I crept on to a bale ofcotton, and was soon fast asleep, and dreamingof home. I must have slept for two hours, andwas just sliding down the hay-mow at home,with little Bill Sedgwick, when I was rudelybrought to my senses by arriving simultaneouslywith a bale of cotton in the chilly water.

In less time than it takes to tell it, I rose, andclinging to my companion in misery, I took inthe whole situation at a glance. It was day-break. The Gaspee was running, with all sailset, in and out among the channels which threadthe reefs on the Southern coast, while a Confed-erate cruiser (which afterward proved to be theAlabama) was taking a parallel course outsidethe reefs, just out of range, to be sure, but un-comfortably near.

Evidently a sudden lurch, caused by puttingthe helm hard down unexpectedly, had shiftedthe badly stowed bale which had shared mymisfortune, and had placed me in my presentuncomfortable, not to say dangerous, position.Having revolved all this in my mind in an in-stant, I shouted for help, and "French Johnny"at once responded with," Howly Mother, there'sa mon overboard!" and as quickly as possiblebrought the Gaspee up into the wind, and sent along-boat to rescue cargo and seaman.

When the schooner "lay to," the Alabama,supposing we had at last obeyed her repeatedsignals to stop, lowered a boat, and sent thesecond officer to examine our papers. The

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two small boats arrived together at the sideof the Gaspee, and I cannot say which wasmore plainly depicted on my uncle's face, joy atmy recovery, or vexation at the delay and dangerwhich delay entailed. The officer was shownthe papers which he demanded; but being dis-satisfied with their form, he said he should beobliged to return with them to the-ship, to havethem certified by his superior.

My uncle, to my great surprise, cheerfully as-sented, but warned the young officer on his de-parture that a shot from our single howitzerwould greet any display of hostile intentions,and that to avoid mistakes he was not to attemptto signal the Alabama, under pain of instant de-struction.

No sooner had he departed convinced thatwith one shot we could wreck him, than myuncle gave the nec.-ssary orders for instant de-parture, and thus we sailed swiftly but calmlyaway, while the commander of the Alabamastood and watched us disappear on the horizon,not knowing until we had accomplished that de-sirable end, that he had been duped.

Concerning Electric Lighting.

N one of the recent numbers of THE TECH,mention was made of the application..of the

force of electricity to the lighting of railway cars,and especial attention was called to the recenttrials of the system on one of the cars of theBoston and Albany Railroad. In this article Idesire to add a few words on this branch of our"Youngest Science," as electricity may betermed, as well as to offer a few suggestionsconcerning its application to domestic lighting.

A few days ago the Boston Herald publishedsome facts in regard to this electrically lightedcar. During the daytime the car is run ontothe siding near the Columbus Avenue railroadstation, and has its storage batteries charged bya current from the Weston Electric Light Co.'sdynamos.

The storage battery, after being charged, willsupply electricity to 24 lamps of I6-candle power,

for ten hours, at an average daily cost of elevencents per lamp. No allowance, or next to none,need be made for the care of the lamp, since thepressure of a knob or the turning of a switch isall that is required to light a whole car.

The objection may be made that the elevencents per lamp, when the great number of lightsthat any railroad runs is taken into considera-tion, for electric lighting, will cost more than thelamps now in use. In answer to this, the agentof Mr. Edmund Julien, the inventor of this sys-tem, claims that the elements of the battery andthe lamps will, in reality, last much longer thanthe time for which they are warranted. In thiscase, and taking into account the fact thatequipping a large number of cars will materiallyreduce the cost of individual lamps, the expenseof electric lighting in railway cars may becomeless than that of the present method. At allevents, the Boston and Albany Road have or-dered the system to be put in all the through Bos-ton and New York expresses, and before longwe may expect to see the cars on all the trainssafely and brilliantly lighted.

One word more on this subject before wepass on. I just said "safely and brilliantlylighted." Did it never occur to any of the readersof THE TECH, that the oil-lamps in use on ourtrains are nearly as dangerous as the alreadycondemned stoves? In the recent and much-talked-of accident on the Central Vermont R. R.,the rapid spread of the fire was due, in a greatmeasure, to the oil which had run out from theoverturned lamps, and had saturated the seatsof the cars and the clothes of many of the ill-fatedpassengers.

The adoption of electric lamps will do awayentirely with all danger from this source; for ifan incandescent lamp is broken, the air rushingin to fill the vacuum will break the fine fila-ment into bits, and at once stop the flow of thecurrent through the lamp.

There is another application of electricityclosely allied to the one I have been speakingabout. I refer to the electric lighting of ourprivate houses. In large cities this is not adifficult thing, and indeed it has been done to a

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small extent here in Boston. The danger lies,first, in the admission of electricity to the house;and, secondly, in the running of the wires inthe house. It is true that lightning-arrestershave been invented and put in use, but they canall be improved. If the wires could be run un-derground, and introduced while undergroundinto the house, the first danger would be obvi-ated. In order to avoid the second, there mustbe perfect insulation of the wires, and the mostscrupulous care must be taken in running them.Any carelessness, or ignorance on the part ofthe workman or electrician, would have the mostdisastrous consequences. Fires have occurredfrom this source, and have as a result greatlyincreased the prejudice of the public againstdomestic electric lighting. We who are study-ing here in a scientific school, and who arefamiliar with the workings of these great forces,cannot perhaps fully appreciate these preju-dices. We must remember, however, that peo-ple who are ignorant of a great power, are notgenerally willing to intrust their lives and prop-erty to its keeping: one or two fires or accidents,that can be directly traced to an over-heatedwire or a poor insulation, will have an influenceon the public, and greatly retard the progress ofthe electric lighting of our houses.

To sum up, then: we need systems of lightingfor cars that will reduce the cost to a minimum,and appliances to render the electric lighting ofhouses absolutely safe. The Institute of Tech-nology claims to give us a training which willenable us to compete with inventors and elec-tricians, both at home and in Europe. Many ofthe men who have acquired money and reputa-tion in this science, have not had the advantagesof such a course as is here placed before us; butthe scientific men who are most widely known,and who have seen most clearly how to makescientific inventions profitable, have been menof education, if they did not graduate from theM. I. T. Our aim, then, as students of electricalscience, should be to make the most of our pres-ent opportunities; and who can tell what glorywe may one day bring upon our hard task-mas-ter, the TECH ?

Noticeable Articles.

A GREAT stir was occasioned in the English literaryworld by the publication, in the October number ofthe Quarterly Review, of a savage attack on a re-cently published volume, entitled " From Shakspeareto Pope," by Mr. Edmund Gosse, Clark Lecturer onEnglish Literature at (English) Cambridge. The bookis roundly condemned as so inaccurate and super-ficial as to be a disgrace to the university whichtolerates such a lecturer. A melancholy picture isdrawn of the decline of English literature in theeffort that goes on continually to catch the popularear. "The writer of a single good book is soon for-gotten by his contemporaries; but the writer of aseries of bad books is sure of reputation and emolu-ment," especially if they become the subject of adegrading system of puffery, which everywhere pre-vails." Mr. Gosse's book, the writer thinks, is anevidence that this decay is attacking the universitiesthemselves, and that the so-called modern reformsare reducing even their standard to the popularlevel. The writer then proceeds to a detailed ex-posure of Mr. Gosse's inaccuracies and blunders,and, though there are signs that he is actuated bypersonal hostility, he apparently makes out a prettystrong case.

The article had one good result apart entirelyfrom the question of the merits or demerits of Mr.Gosse's book. It called public attention to thewider and more important question of the teachingof English literature in general, and to the fact thatit was in a wretched state of imperfection andneglect. The enterprising Pall Mall Gazette pro-cured and printed a great number of letters on thesubject from eminent scholars and men of science,many of whom gave their opinions as to the trueremedy for the present state of things. The con-tention of the writer in the Quarterly was, that therecould be no sound and genuine study of English lit-erature that was not based upon a previous study ofthe Greek and Roman classics, and he went into anelaborate investigation of the debt which the greatmasters of English owed to their classical training.Conceding that the study of English literature hadbeen disgracefully neglected at the English univer-sities, he saw no possible remedy save that of main-taining the standard of classical culture as high asever, and connecting the study of English as closelyas possible with the time-honored study of the liter-ature of Greece and Rome.

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The article has been followed by another, in theJanuary number of the Quarterly, just re-published,entitled "A School of English Literature," presumablyby the samle writer, in which that portion of the lettersin the Pall Mall Gazette which supported his view hasbeen utilized in a very interesting manner.

The list of letter-writers contains a remarkablearray of eminent names, dignitaries of the churchand of the law, professors and head-masters, men ofscience, and men of letters. The oddest thingabout the whole discussion is the unanimity ofopinion as to the disgracefulness of the present stateof things. As Prof. Huxley says, "That a youngEnglishman may be turned out of our universities'equipt and perfect,' so far as their system takes him,and yet ignorant of the noble literature which hasgrown up in these islands during the last three cen-turies, is a fact in the history of the nineteenth cen-tury which the twentieth will find it hard to believe."The reviewer being, as we said, a strenuous advocateof the plan of basing the study of English literatureon the existing course of study in the ancient clas-sics, makes his extracts entirely from the letterswhich sustain this plan; but it may be suspected thatsome of the writers are a good deal actuated by thefear occasioned by the declining popularity of Greekand Latin as instruments in the higher education.Chief Justice Coleridge even goes so far as to callthe classics "a lost cause;" and the master of Balliolsays " classical study is getting, in some respects,worn out, and the plan proposed would breathe newlife into it," which is clearly making the Englishstudies a very subordinate matter; while Mr. Glad-stone, Lord Carnarvon, and others roundly protestagainst English literature being recognized by theuniversities as a subject of study at all, unless associ-ated with the Greek and Roman classics, " on theground that if divorced from the study of ancient lit-erature, its introduction would tend to disturb andweaken the present classical system." Ancient lit-erature must indeed be in a bad way when its defend-ers have to fall back on such arguments. We do notbelieve they are at all needed; but apart from theinterests of classical studies themselves, the questionfor the promoters of right methods of study of Englishliterature is, whether this time-honored training in theancient literatures of Greece and Rome is an absolutenecessity as a preliminary to the study of modernliterature. This is the ground taken by other emi-nent writers like Matthew Arnold, Froude, and John

Morley, and by Bulwer, the present Earl of Lytton,in a long, and, in some respects, excellent letter,printed here for the first time.

It seems a very preposterous thesis to maintainthat nobody can enjoy, or even understand, his Shaks-peare unless he has previously mastered Homerand the Greeks, and that a true appreciation ofEnglish literature is really confined to that five percent or thereabouts of all the students of the ancientclassics who ever really do master them. It mightbe suggested that Shakspeare himself had "smallLatin and less Greek;" and then, if Greek andHomer, why not Sanskrit and the Bhac;avad gita,which would seem to be still more fundamental?It is well to remember, too, that this unsurpassedGreek literature was not itself the fruit of any suchtraining in foreign literatures, for the Greeks had nosuch foreign literatures to study. In truth, it seemsto the present writer that there is a confusion of argu-ments here.. That to the thorough and systematicstudy of the English language, there goes a not incon-siderable study of Latin, and a less but still a sub-stantive knowledge of the elements of Greek,* cannotbe doubted, any more than that a similar and even morecomplete knowledge of the Old English, that is com-monly called Anglo-Saxon, is quite as essential. Thata good knowledge of German and of French are alsovaluable to the students of English is equally true.But the required knowledge of Latin and Greek maystop very far short of that thorough mastery of theirliteratures, which, however seldom achieved, is whatis really meant by a classical education. To say that,in this latter sense, a classical education is an abso-lutely necessary preliminary to the study of Englishliterature, is the height of absurdity, however desir-able and enviable an accomplishment it may be initself. Even if life were not too short to study every-thing, it would seem as if a far more hopeful way topromote a genuine study of English would be to makethe study of all these other languages strictly subsid-iary, rather than to degrade the study of the mother-tongue, and of the greatest of all modern literatures,into a mere appendage to an obsolete system which,by the confession even of some of its advocates, is" worn out," and no longer suited to the educationalwants of the day.

*Prof. Goodell's recently published little book, "'TheGreek in English," will be found a very convenient help tostudents who merely wish to understand the Greek elementin the English language.

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The Quarterly contains a clear and vigorous polit-ical article entitled "The Coming Session," the key-note of which is struck in the following sentences:"What we have to do is to maintain the Union andinsure the supremacy of the law. .... It is now gen-erally admitted that Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy has,from first to last, been a gigantic failure. .... Mr.Gladstone looks on at this failure with supreme com-placency, and assures us that if we allow him torepeal the Union without describing it in that un-pleasant manner, all will be well; but the nation hasmade up its mind not to be led any further on thatroad." We are inclined to think that this is verynear the truth. The party now in power must notbe confounded with the old Tory party, which isdead. It is emphatically a Union party, and it isvery noticeable that the corresponding article in theWhig Edinburgh is as strongly Unionist and Anti-Gladstonian as that in the Tory Quarterly. In fact,old political party names count for as little, or evenless, in England to-day than they do here.

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HE open meeting of the Athletic Club, heldon March 5th, may well be said to be the

most successful that the Tech has ever known;and this is saying a good deal, considering thequality of our past exhibitions. About elevenhundred people witnessed the many excitingcontests; and though, on account of the variedcharacter of the audience it was impossible toplease all, we think that none can regret thetime passed in our modest gymnasium.

The events were contested in the followingorder:

Running High Kick.- G. A. Armington, '87,E. C. Wason, '90o, and D. Fernandez and H. F.Cook, of B. Y. M. C. U. Armington and Cooksuccumbed early. Fernandez reached 8 feet and7i inches, but Wason kept on and beat the Tech.record of 8 feet and 8 inches by an inch and ahalf, thus winning the event and the specialprize of a gold medal for record breaking.(Great applause.)

Fence Vault.- G. A. Armington, '87, W. L.Dearborn, '88, H. G. Gross, '88, D. Fernandez,B. Y. M. C. U., and J. H. Slade, Jr., H. A. A.Dearborn won, with a record of 6 feet, 8' inches.Armington and Gross tied for second place at 6feet 41 inches.

Tug of War.- M. I. T. team: F. L. Pierce,anchor; R. M. Clement, H. G. Gross, P. H.Tracy. Roxbury Latin team: H. Tallant, an-chor; R. B. Hale, H. S. Wilkinson, J. A. Stet-son. The M. I. T. got a drop of six inches, andeasily won by i i inches. The next tug was be-tween the Harvard team: J. H. B. Easton, an-chor; Gorham, Boyden, and Pease; and the B.Y. M. C. U. team: G. E. Fay, anchor; J. J.Riley, A. B. Lyon, W. J. Cogan. Harvardgained slightly on the drop, but Fay soon had3 inches. Easton caught him coming up toofar and easily recovered the advantage, winningfinally by I5 inches.

Standing High rump.- R. Devens, '88, E. C.Wason, '9o, and F. H. Rodgers, H. A. A.Rodgers is the celebrated runner. He won at4 feet Io¼ inches; Wason second, at 4 feet 8Jinches. Great things were expected of Wason,but the referee found fault with his style ofjumping, and thereby prevented him from equal-ing his accustomed record.

Putting the Shot.-J. C. E. deBullet, 'go, S.F. Tuckerman, 'go, and J. D. Ryan, Y. M. C.A. Ryan easily won, as was expected, at 35feet 9- inches.

Running High Yump.- W. L. Dearborn, '88,R. Devens, '88, Wason, 'go, N. Doherty, Y. M.C. A., W. G. Irwin, B. Y. M. C. U., and J. H.Slade, Jr., H. A. A. Dearborn and Irwin tiedat 5 feet 5 inches, and Irwin won jumping off thetie at the same height.

Final Tug-of- War.--Harvard vs. Technology.Harvard anticipated an easy victory, and wasthereby considerably surprised. On, the dropthe Tech. team had an inch and a half, whichwas immediately increased to 3 inches. Bydesperate heaves Easton brought the ribbonhalf an inch on his side, but Pierce regained'it, and Technology won by 2 x inches and wereborne off in triumph.

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Feather-weight Sparring.-- First bout: G.Whitney, '87, and F. P. Clement, H. A. A.The rounds were close, but not very exciting.Clement acted entirely on the defensive, andwon. Second bout: H. H. Bailey, B. Y. M. C.U., and H. P. Flagg, Y. M. C. A. This wasvery uninteresting. Four rounds of tame spar-ring were necessary to decide it. Bailey, win-ner.

Light-weight Sparring.- W. C. Hildebrand.and W. Austin, both from H. A. A. Four hotrounds, which abounded in clinches and half-armwork, decided Austin the better man.

Middle-zweight Sparring.--G. M. Ashe, H. A.A., and W. A. Shockley, M. Bi. C. This was avery pretty contest,-- each man striking cleanblows, and improving every opportunity. Ashewon.

As Clement withdrew, Bailey and F. J. Kel-ley, B. Y. M. C. U., fought the deciding boutfor the feather weight. This was quite severe,- Kelley boxing with a battered nose, andBailey being floored by a right-hander. Baileyled on points in all three rounds, but the knock-down gave Kelley the cup.

The final contest in the middle weight wasbetween Ashe and F. G. Curtis, H. A. A. Ashehad decidedly the best of it the first two rounds,but the fine showing of Curtis in the third madethe audience surprised when it was announcedthat Ashe was the winner.

The Institute will keep seven of the twelvecups which were so universally admired. Onerecord broken, and the defeat of Harvard'schampions is sufficient cause for exultation. Itwill be necessary next year to obtain larger ac-commodations for the large audience, as we mayexpect even more, after the complete success ofthis year's games.

Officers of Meeting.- Referee, W. A. Davis;Referee of sparring, Dr. Wm. Appleton; Judgesof sparring; Wm. A. Morrison, T. R. Kimball;Clerk of course, T. D. Brainerd, '87; Stewards:G. O. Draper, '87, H. D. Sears, '87, W. C. Fish,'87, G. C. Dempsey, '88, W. L. Dearborn, '88,R. Robb, '88, and N. Durfee, '89.

GOMMUNIGATIONIS.

The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for opjinions

expressed by corre.spondents.

To THE EDITORS OF THE TECH:-

WITH the admonitions of our Freshman instructorsas to the qualities of a good note-book, its concise-ness and brevity, still ringing in our ears, the some-what disproportionate attention paid to notes takenin the latter years in some courses, is rather exas-perating to one who feels that he has at lastattained the habit and practice of taking downthose points of a lecture which experience hasshown him to be most needed.

The method of enlarging upon these notes whenwritten up at home, may have been feasible duringthe first year; but it is practically impossible whenthe lectures become so full of important points as torequire the utmost dexterity in following it withnotes at all, especially in those subjects almostemancipated from any text-book or parallel author-ity that may be used for reference. It may not berealized by the professors that few lectures are giventhat do not require at least an hour to write up, andthat, too, when the effort required to take notes fastenough in the class detracts considerably from theattention it is possible to bestow upon an immediateconsideration of the subject in hand.

It might be assumed that in the third or fourthyear a student could be trusted to take such notesas he had found most useful, and to sacrifice someof their neatness for the great saving of time whichmight be employed in their perusal; for notes mustbe copied up, whether or not they are studied, oreven understood.

From this point of view some impatience mightbe expected when books are returned, as some are,with a mark, and report which details inaccuraciesin spelling and failure to number pages, and thatthe appearance of notes thus transcribed should betaken as any basis for rank and standing seemsunfair, and to put a premium excellence in meremechanical work, which, in fact, usually receivesmost attention from those whose deficiency in theterm's work renders them anxious to make up forits natural effect.

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The 2G met at the Thorndyke Wednesdaynight.

The Herald says nothing more about a "dis-puted contest."

The S O F 4 Freshman Society dined at theTremont House last week.

'89 will hold its annual class supper at theQuincy House next week.

The '87 Class-day reception will be held atthe Vendome.

The next Fraternity dance is announced forSaturday afternoon, March 26th.

The first annual reunion of the class of '86 washeld at the Revere House, March 9th.

The Society of '88 held its regular monthlymeeting at Parker's, last Friday evening.

The C B A entertained Mr. Minturn Wright,formerly '89, at dinner last week, at Young'sHotel.

The members of the Senior Ball Committee,from 'go, are Messrs. Machado, Spaulding, and R.G. Brown.

The dozen alligators imported from Floridafor the Biological Laboratory has dwindleddown to five.

Francis L. V. Hoppin, formerly '88, was inthe city last week, and gave the Institute a callwhile here.

The Hammer and Tongs Club held itsmonthly dinner at the Hotel Vendome, last Sat-urday evening.

The winter meetings of the Harvard AthleticAssociation will be held on three succeedingSaturdays, beginning this week.

A great deal of credit is due to Messrs.Draper and Durfee for their unceasing energyexerted in organizing and training the tug-of-war team.

The '87 class dinner will be held at Young's,.next Friday evening. Frank E. Shepard willpreside, and Hollon C. Spaulding will officiateas toast-master.

General Walker's History of the SecondCorps in the army of the Potomac, has beenvery highly praised by the various reviews andperiodicals.

The '89 Senior Ball Committee consists ofMessrs. Gilbert, La Rose, and Ranno. Messrs.Pierce, Russell, and Pike, are a committee toarrange for a class nine.

Messrs. Herrick, '88, Simpson,'89, and Tracy,'9o, have been initiated into the Sigma Chifraternity, and Mr. Granger Whitney, '87, intothe Theta Xi fraternity.

Mrs. Rogers will sail for Europe on March30th, and consequently, after this month, herpleasant series of Wednesday evening recep-tions will be discontinued until next fall.

The Senior Ball Committee has formally or-ganized with the following officers: chairman,L. A. Ferguson, '88; secretary, Richard Dev-ens, '88; and treasurer, J. P. Gilbert, '89.

The Glee Club concert at Association Hallto-morrow night, promises to be an artistic aswell as financial success. There is no doubt butthat the club will be greeted by a crowdedhouse.

President Walker delivered a lecture at YaleUniversity, March 2d, on the "Origin of Busi-ness Profits." This was the opening of acourse of business lectures to be delivered bywell-known men.

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At the meeting of the Society of Arts lastThursday, Mr. Stuart M. Buck, of West Vir-ginia, read a paper on Coal Mining, with a re-view of the more recent experiments on theaction of dust in colliery explosions.

Professor Wells' new work on Geometry,which has lately been issued, is a book welladapted to the needs of the classes at the Insti-tute, and elsewhere. With the exception ofthe calculus, a complete set of mathematicaltreatises, by Institute professors, is now usedhere.

A memorial entitled "The Example of theLife of John Chipman Hoadley," by Mr. HiramF. Mills, has been published by the Corporation.No better example can be set before Institutestudents than that of the life of one who so con-tinuously strived to advance the Institute intoits present prominent position.

The Photographic Society will hold a com-petitive exhibition, during the latter part ofApril, of work done by its members. First andsecond prizes are offered in two classes. The firstclass comprises instantaneous photographs, sub-ject unrestricted; second class is limited toviews of Trinity Church or the Rogers Building,not necessarily instantaneous.

The fortunate men who have been elected toposition for '87's class-day celebration, are asfollows: Orator, Walter C. Fish; historian,Hollon C. Spaulding; prophet, Quintard Peters;statistician, T. D. Brainerd. The programmefor the day as at present determined, consists ofan address by some prominent man in themorning, the class exercises in Huntington Hallin the afternoon, and a reception and dance inthe evening. The custom of giving spreads, orfive o'clock teas, will be introduced by some ofthe clubs and societies.

A truly representative assembly of Institutemen met at Young's Hotel on March ioth. Itwas the occasion of the dinner given the victo-rious tug-of-war team by the Athletic Club.The evening was passed in a very pleasantmanner, and the toast list was much more inter-

esting than is usually the case at more formalmeetings; which was principally owing to theimpromptu arrangement of the toasts, and thefact that no one knew who was going to becalled on for a toast. Mr. G. C. Dempsey, '88,officiated as toast-master, and performed hisduties in a very acceptable manner. At thehead of the table sat the officers of the cluband the trug team. The meeting broke up at avery late hour, the rejoicings over the victorybeing so great.

A meeting was held last Saturday noon todecide upon the question of putting a nine inthe field this spring. After the question hadbeen discussed, it was decided to try base-ballagain this year, and officers of the Associationwere elected as follows: president, QuintardPeters, '87; vice-president, G. O. Draper, '87;secretary and treasurer, F. L. Dame, '89; man-ager, R. M. Clement, '89; executive committee,Carleton, '87, Richard Devens, '88, N. Durfee,'89, and Beals, 'go, with the manager. Thenine will be selected by the manager, subject tothe approval of the executive committee. TheAssociation has posted a notice asking all whowish to try for the nine to hand in their names,with playing position, to the manager.

On Friday evening, March i i th, the Class of'9go had its first class-dinner at the TremontHouse. About eighty joined in the festivities ofthe evening, and made it one of the most mem-orable evenings of the present college year, onaccount of the good feeling which prevailedthroughout. After dinner numerous toastswere responded to, under the direction of Mr.Finch, who filled his position admirably well astoast-master.

The first toast, to "The Class of 'go," was re-sponded to by Mr. Johnson, the president of theclass; after this came a very neat reply to the toastof "The Society of 'go." The following toastswere also responded to, namely: "The Class of'89," by Mr. H. B. Roberts; " THE TECH," byMr. J. H. Towne; "Athletics," by Mr. L. C.Wason. Then followed a toast to " The Supers,"

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which was responded to in a very amusing man-ner by Mr. E. B. Stearns, who told his first ex-periences during the last national opera season.The next toasts were "The Senior Ball,"' byMr. H. P. Spaulding; "The Battalion," by Mr.D. Campbell; "The Ladies," by Mr. H. W.Kern; "Base-Ball," responded to in a verypleasing speech by Mr. E. M. Beals; "ClassEnterprise" was answered by Mr. E. B. Ray-mond. The evening closed with a recitationby Mr. E. M. A. Machardo, and an informalministrel show. In the latter, Mr. Finch andMr. Roberts acted as end-men, Mr. Raymondas middle-man, Mr. Poland and Mr. Preston asbanjoists, and Messrs. Machardo and Heywoodas "chestnut-crackers."

On Monday, March 7, the Executive Com-mittee of the Photographic Society met, anddecided to hold a competitive exhibition in oneof the buildings, in the week of April I7-23.There will be three prizes awarded, namely, forinteriors, instantaneous work, and time expo-sures. In the latter, the subjects are limited tothe Tech. buildings or Trinity Church. Any-body may enter their pictures for exhibition bybecoming a member of the Society, the entrancefee of which is one dollar. All names may behanded in to either S. R. Bartlett, '87, or J.H. Towne, '9go .

Mr. J. L. Mauran has been elected toast-master for the annual dinner of the Class of '89,which is to come off shortly.

The Quarterly is getting along very success-fully now. A good deal of the material to bepublished in the first number is in, and the restis all accounted for. Messrs. Mott, '88, andGreene, '88, have been elected on the board ofeditors.

IHIEZ COUIDEDGED WOIIDD.

HARVARD.- The expenses of the AthleticAssociation for the past year were $2,300.- Acontrivance for starting a tug-of-war has beenplaced in the gymnasium, to be tested.- Old

graduates of Harvard will be astonished tolearn from the Chicago Herald that the song"Fair Harvard" was written by the poet Whit-tier, and first read at the late Harvard celebra-tion.- Exr.

YALE.- At the winter games, Shearmanbroke the college record in the running highjump, clearing 5 ft. 7 in. At the second mass-meeting Yale decided not to join the new base-ball league.-The average age of the freshmenis 19 years, average height 5 ft. 72 in., averageweight I32 lbs. 9 oz.- There are 30 candidatesfor the Freshmen nine.- The first winter meet-ing at Yale was held in '73. There were twelveevents and twenty performers. There was noboxing or wrestling, the events being mostlyacrobatic in their nature.-Over fifty men are intraining for the three crews, the 'Varsity, theSophomore, and the Freshman.-The averageage of students at Oxford, England, is one anda half years greater than at Yale. Each candi-date for the nine bats ten minutes a day in thecage.-The nine will take thirteen players onthe Easter trip. Eleven games have alreadybeen arranged.-The new Kent laboratory willcost about $75,000ooo.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.-There are tenlaboratories in constant use by advanced stu-dents in chemistry, geology, mechanics, miner-alogy, and physics.-The brain of the late Prof.Edward Olney weighed 6I oz. The averagenormal weight of the human brain is 49 oz.Webster's weighed 56 oz.-The 50th anniver-sary will be celebrated this spring.

UNIVERSITY OF PENN. There has been re-ceived a gift of $io,ooo toward the erection ofthe new library.-The annual "bowl fight"between the sophomores and freshmen will nottake place this year.

THE Intercollegiate Athletic Association de-cided, at its convention, that hereafter onlythose records shall be intercollegiate whichare made at the annual intercollegiate games.The field meeting will be held this year on thegrounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club, May28th.

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PRESIDENT GATES of Rutgers has refused per-mission to the students to give a minstrel enter-tainment for the benefit of the Athletic Asso-ciation. President Gates thinks it beneath thedignity of the students to blacken their facesand appear upon the stage.- Ex.

A CAREFUL statistician reports that there arein America I,8oI institutions devoted to highereducation. Attending are I63,570 male and30,587 female students. In I88o, 154,375 ofour 227,710 schoolteachers were women.

PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard, PresidentMcCosh of Princeton, and President Gilman ofJohns Hopkins University, have rowed on theirrespective 'Varsity crews.

SEVERAL games of base-ball have already beenplayed in New Orleans under the new rules,and much dissatisfaction is found with them.

THE "student cards" given to students enter-ing German universities, admit their holders tothe theaters at half price, shield them fromarrest by the civil authorities, and give free ad-mission to many of the galleries and museumsof Europe.--Ex.

THE Williams nine will take a trip South dur-ing the Easter vacation. They will play theWashingtons April 8, 9, and IO.

IN GENERAL.- Princeton, '89 has a fencingclub. Columbia has graduated almost 9,ooomen.- The Dartmouth College grounds willsoon be lighted by electricity.-At Columbia'srecent theatricals, over $500 was cleared forthe benefit of the University crew.- Teemerwill coach the Cornell crew from May Ist toJuly 5th.- In the Princeton games 4 ft. 8 in.won the standing high jump, and 5 ft. 5 in. therunning high jump.- Oxford University has anannual income of $I,ooo,ooo.-Johns Hopkinshas just celebrated the eleventh anniversary ofits establishment.-One of the largest endowedcolleges of the West is the Utah State College,a Mormon institution.-The largest library inthe world is the national library of France.It was founded by Louis XIV., and contains1,400o,ooo books and 300,oo000 pamphlets.

TIHE BOX AND THE BALLET.

There's a lady in one of the boxes,She's dressed in a manner aufait,

Which those who are posted on fashion,Denominate decollete.

There's another one there in theWhose attire is quite comrne il

Reversing the cut of the other,It's decollete down below.

balletfaut;

If you take the two dresses presentedAnd combine them, when you are done,

You will find that the new combinationWill result in your having but one.

Now, what shall we say of the puzzle-One garment, with women for two,

And both of them dressed in the fashion?WVe don't understand it. Do you?

- Wasthi,olton CriLtic.

There is a sickly, miserable,WVilting word called "'mash,"

Although not found in WVebster,It has taken like a flash.

In general, weak sistersGet "mashed" upon a brother;

But sometimes tender schoolgirlsAre "mashed" on one ano/her.

-Lasell Leaves.

O TEMPORA ! O MIORES !

With ruddy gleams the sun was touchingThe quiet river's breast,

And saffron clouds formed downy pillowsSWhere tired earth might rest.

As darkness, swift pursuing twilight,Made everything obscure,

I lay there, thinking of my Dolly,So quiet and demure.

But quickly to my peaceful dreamingA rude awakening came,-

For see! a sprite glides near the riverWith one bright eye of flame?

A bound-I neared the airy spirit:No phantom form I met;

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S., '90 (who has not yet heard from 7. P. M.): " WELL, I DON'T KNOW BUT THEY WORK TIHE FIRING RACKETPRETTY OFTEN."

TE3IPORA AIUTANTUR,

Long years ago, in the days of old,Ere men had learned a thirst for gold,Each poet sang from out his heart,And sang of Nature, not of Art.

But in these days 'tis all for Art-From the head they sing, not from the heart;And as for Nature,-the story's old,-Poor Nature's left out in the cold.

-Harvard Adcvocate.

"Chestnuts! " yelled several persons in thegallery at the minstrel show. "That's right,gentlemen," responded Bones; " if you don't getwhat you want, ask for it.-Pittsburg Dispatch.

The average woman is considered too delicateto shoulder a musket, but nobody questions herright to bare arms.--Life.

A shower of mud fell at Lincoln, Neb., re-cently - a rain of terra, so to speak.-PittsbuzrgChtronicle.

REVENGE.

Hello, Charley, have you seen the Prince ?No, what Prince --Footprints - Ta-ta. -Lampoon.

We cannot conscientiously express wonder-ment that the French and Germans are atloggerheads. The Germans generally are atlager-heads.--Life.

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