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Vol. XIV SEPTEMBER, 1903 No. 1

CONTENTS.

LITERARY. page

A Greeting from Germany, ... - l

Sei,u, 7

Personal Liberty, 11

SOCIETIES.

Phixosophian, 14

ClJONIAN, 15

THEOLOGICAL NOTES, 16

ALUMNI NOTES, 17

LOCALS AND PERSONALS, .... 17
DEPARTMENTS,

Preparatory, ---_.._ 21

ATHLETICS, - 22

Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE AT NORTHFIELD, 23

EDITORIAL, 24

E. EDWIN SHELDON, 25

Published each Month of the Scholastic Year by the

Students' Publishing Association, Susquehanna University,

SELINSGROVE, PENN'A.

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For Catalogue and further particulars write to

JOHN I. WOODRUFF, A. M., Dean,

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Note. — There is also a six weeks Summer Term,
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Selinsgrove, September, 1903.

A GREETING FROM GERMANY.

Berlin, N. W., Sept. 11, 1903

Dear readers of The Susquehanna.

Yesterday and today my thoughts have naturally wander-
dered back to old S. U. and to the students and teachers gath-
ering- there for the winter's work of study and profit. It oc-
curred to me that a letter from Europe might be of interest
to my old pupils and friends, so during a short stay in Berlin
while it rains outside in good old German style, I'll try to
tell you something of the interesting things I have been see-
ing during the past summer. Since so much of interest has
been crowded .into the two months I have been abroad it would
be utterly impossible for me to give even a very brief account
of our trip through England and over the continent so I have
decided to confine my letter to that most interesting of cities
to the student alike of history, science or literatuee, namely,
Pompeii. Our ride by train from Rome to Naples was full of
interest. Olive orchards were on every hillside, lemon and
orange groves to right and left, fruit-bearing fig trees all
along the way. Immense oleander trees in full bloom on all
sides, while hedges of giant cacti with their strange looking
prickly fruit divided one plot of ground from another. For a
time, all these tropical forms of vegetation were of deep in-
terest to me, especially the hemp fields where we saw men and

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women testing- out the fibre and getting it ready for the mark-
et but as we drew near Naples and caught our first sight of the
smoking mountain all these paled into insignificance and we
had eyes but for Vesuvius, the great mountain of fire. Having
just come from Switzerland where mountains of snow and huge
glaciers were on every hand, this huge, fire-vomiting Titan
seemed something altogether unearthly and strange and made
us feel we might even be on the confines of Hades or some
other Dantean locality. A large new crack in the mountain
has just been formed; an eruption took place the 'day before
we arrived; during a previous eruption this summer more
than half the railway up the mountain side was destroyed,
(the charred remains of which can easily be seen from Naples)
so the volcano is at present quite active. During the day the
smoke and ashes, being constantly thrown from the mouth of
the crater can be seen for miles, while at night the effect of
the immense flaming red gash in the side of the mountain and
the leaping flames from the crater, and the lurid glow on the
sky is altogether horrifying and indescribable. One hardly
feels safe in the vicinity of the monster. Half way round the
beautiful bay of Naples, Pompeii, a flourishing city in the
days of the Roman Empire, used as a summer resort by the
aristocracy or patricians, lies at the foot of the destroyer.
After having already suffered damage from the volcano's dis-
turbances, it was burried beneath the tremendous dis-
charges of Vesuvius in November, A. D. 79. It was com-
pletely covered with lava, ashes and tufa, 30 feet and remained
thus in its buried condition many centuries. In fact its ex-
istence had been forgotten. In 1755 it was accidentally dis-
covered during the sinking of a well and since then the work
of unearthing this buried city has been going on.

On the morning of the 28th of August, after visiting the
museum in Naples where many Pompeiian statues and curios
are on exhibition, we took the train for this most interesting
city, fourteen miles away. After traveling a long passage

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way bordered by oleander trees, cacti, and other semi-tropical
plants, among - which the palm figures conspicuously, we came
to the entrance gate of this city of the past. The visitor is
first conducted into the Pompeiian Museum. Here are gath-
ered the excavated objects of interest taken from the ruins at
different periods of the work of unearthing. Our guide who
spoke English quite well, (having an American wife) had
acted as guide in this interesting city for thirty years and
had himself in his younger years, worked at the excavations,
so we learned much from him. He told us over 3000 bodies
had been found in the excavations, only a few of which were
exhibited in the museum. Their different postures were in-
teresting. One man. was found holding his handkerchief to
his nose and mouth as if trying to keep out the gas and smoke
another had his hand before his face, while the windblown
garments on the back of another were there in all their char-
acteristic folds. A dog writhing in his death agony, a hor-
rible, sight, occupies a case by itself. Among other things
in the museum, we saw T the large chariot wheels and wine
jars, finger rings, different kinds of fruit and meats, 81 loaves
of bread taken from an oven, a basket of eggs, measures for
grain, a jar filled with water, a childs moneybox, lamps, tear
bottles, water jugs, skeletons of a cat and dog and a rat. No
horses were found in the city, the chrriots haying all been
drawn by slaves. Interesting as was the museum we were
anxious to go on thro' the city so we did not linger long here.
The streets are wide enough for just one chariot, are paved
with large irregular blocks of lava, into which are worn deep
grooves by the chariot wheels. The side-walks, wide enough
for just one person are high above the chariot way and cross
it at the street corners by huge stepping stones on which the
slaves clambered in drawing the chariots. All along the
streets are public fountains, large stone basins with figures
of human caricatures thro' the mouths of which the water
flowed constantly, On the sides of these stone basins are

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deep hollows worn by the right hands of ancient Pompeians
as they leaned over to drink from the mouths of the fount-
ains withont cup or other receptacle, just as one sees the Ital-
ians doing- today in Rome. One fountain must have been
the popular watering place of the populace for the mouth was
worn by the lips of the people till half the right cheek was
gone.

Strange it seemed to us to be walking- in this silent city,
where traces of humanity were all about us and not an inhab-
itant to be seen. We saw remains of the old Forum, were
shown the Tragic and Comic theatres, both semi-circular pits
so to speak with a large open stage in the center and tiers of
stone chairs and benches one above another rising to the level
of the street, open to the sky, being provided with awnings
in the Pompeian days, for rain or sun. A. large building
with beautiful columns and ornamentations was shown call-
the Temple of Isis. In this temple was a large altar on
which bulls were sacrificed to the gods. Our guide also
showed us a statue of this god with a marble head which a
priest concealed inside made to assent to desired schemes
and plans of the people. Being there in the middle of the
day our guide found us a shady spot in the Temple of Escu-
lapius where we sat and ate our lunch while contemplating
the broken columns and frescoed walls of this once popular
sanctuary.

The shops were, as a rule, quite unconnected with the back
of the houses to which they belonged and were distinguished
by their trade sign carved over the door. These ancient
people must have been as fond of wine as the Italians are to-
day for we passed many wine shops with immense wine jars
sunken into the floors or with masonry built around them as
they stood in rows. In a money changer's shop large chests
of money of various nations was found. In a prison we saw
the skeleton of a girl, and in another over 60 bodies were
found, two being fastened in the stocks.

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We were much interested in the public watering- places.
In Rome we saw about forty women washing- and beating
their clothes about two large stone basins filled with cold
running- water and here in Pompeii we saw basins of the same
kind. In one public washing place about three hundred wo-
men could have gathered about the immense tanks and wash-
ed on the stone washboards to their hearts content. (They
are always washing- in Southern Italy and are never clean).
In this place there was a statue to the "Goddess of Washing
Women" (anew g-oddess to me with whom I was g-lad to be-
come acquainted).

Larg-e public baths were also to be seen the one for the use
of slaves interesting- us very much. Here for the payment of
about half a cent even the lowest class could have a hot or
cold bath with a rubbing down. Even here the floors were
all of beautiful mosaic designs. In the baths for the wealthy
classes there were many rooms for the various stag-es of the
bath which much resembled the popular Turkish bath of to-
day

Interesting- as all these various buildings are they are su-
perseded in interest to the average traveler by the private
homes of the citizens. "One touch of nature makes the
whole world kin" and here in this buried city that which is
connected most intimately with the lives of the people is of
greatest interest to the present day tourist.

The houses are all built of tufa, covered over with a plas-
ter and nearly all of one story. Where an upper story ex-
isted it was of wood or was only a shelf-like apartment at the
top of the house, used only for sleeping and reached by a
ladder or steps, the remains of some of which we saw. These
were the homes of the poorer classes.

The houses of the wealthier classes were built much as the
Spanish houses are built today, about a central court, turning
their outsides only to the world, jealously secluding their
private apartments from public gaze. The best example of

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this style of architecture is the so-called House of Pansa. (A
model of which is on exhibition at Saratoga, N. Y.) Its ex-
terior is not at all imposing-. At the entrance in the mosaic
floor appears the word "Salve," welcome. After a short pas-
sage one enters the central court, open to the sky, with a
large water tank and the remains of a fountain, surrounded
on the four sides by beautiful columns. Here between the col-
umns and the walk of the house was a covered promenade bor-
dered by flowering- plants and palmtrees and kept cool by
spraying fountains. All now is barren and deserted. The
different apartments open off like cupboards or cubicles from
this central court and are so small that at a casual glance it
would seem that Pompeii was peopled by a race of pigmies,
back of the house on a raised plot of ground is the garden
t emoted with beautiful walks and a wealth of semi tropical
vegetation as in the days of Pansa.

All the homes were ornamented inside by mural paintings
or frescoes many of which are still beautiful in all their pris-
tine colors. The prevailing tint is a bright red. In one
house we saw a frescoe of Romulus and Remus and the wolf.
Beautiful mosaic floors of colored marble and graceful and
classic statutes and statuettes abound in all the homes of the
higher classes. In one of the central courts our guide lifted
a large stone from a well into which we dropped a stone,
waiting fully five seconds before we heard a splash in the
water below. All the other wells were filled up, this was
covered and furnishes fresh cold water today. The house
of Glaucus made famous by "The Last Days of Pompeii" is
also very interesting. In the mosaic floor at the entrance of
this home is a large black dog, showing his teeth and quite
ferocious looking, while below is the inscription "Cave canum"
4 'beware of the dog," which shows these ancient people en-
joyed a joke as well as the enlightened people of the twenti-
eth century.

For 148 years the work of excavation has been going on in

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this city and it is estimated that only abouf one half of it
has been unearthed. Four hundred men are now employed at
the digging - . We saw them at work and walked through a
section of street which had been excavated that morning-.
The material covering- the city is very soft being- mostly ash
with pieces of black lava, and tufa from the walls and roofs
of houses. We dug- about in it ourselves and I unearthed the
upper portion and handle of a broken vase which I shall
bring- with me as a souvenir to America.

In these few words I have tried to give you some idea of
this unique city, about which so much has been written,
which teemed with life in all its forms in the time of Christ,
which, like Sodom and Gomorrah, in all its wickedness was
destroyed by fire and ashes, which later day research has
brought to lig-ht, and which is now but the abode of the glit-
tering-, crawling- lizard and the delicate maiden-hair fern.

Hoping- it maybe of interest to my friends at Susquehanna,

I am, very cordially,

Caroline Enders Young.

SELU.

Sday had once more passed, the sun had risen at early
morning-, ran its day's race, and now the great silver
shield of the moon hung high in the heavens.

Selu sat disconsolately by the brookside, her hands hy
idly in her lap and a diamond tear glittered on each olive
hued cheek.

It had been a very tiresome day for Selu. Somehow since
the birds had awakened her at early daybreak, a vague un-
easiness had held full control of her spirits; she had gone
about her work in a dazed halfconscious sort of way that
was sad to see. The river tonight sending its rippling voice
up over the breast of the brook seemed to murmur "Mineato,

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Mineato;" the very air seemed full of sadness to her and his
shadow seemed constantly near her.

But who were Selu and Mineato?

Selu was the daughter of a mighty Iriquois chieftan, the
princess of her people who inhabited this beautiful country
about the lake Seneca. From her early childhood Mineato
had been her constant companion. Together they had learn-
ed the secrets that lay hidden in nature, together they had
watched the birds till they knew just where to fine the nest
of each, and together they had learned to shoot with the bow.

It seemed strange indeed that this little maiden should
learn the art of archery so well and become so skilful that
she could compete with any of the boys in the village. And
jet it was not strange. Mineato's grand-father had been
their joint instructor and so impartially had he trained them
that when the fall contests come off the two playmates de-
feated every other boy in the contest, for Selu was the only
girl who had dared compete, and the score stood tie between
them. Then it was that that happened which surprised all the
spectators. A thin alder wand, the thickness of an arrow-
shaft, was thrown into the air, and Mineato whose trial came
first missed it by a hairs breadth. All eyes were turned to-
ward Selu as she stood with the arrow to the string ready for
her trial. The wand was thrown into the air and almost si-
multaneously two bare arms came into play, two dusky hands
dropped into line as a steady eye gleamed along the shaft,
and with a movement like the spring of a panther the arrow
was drawn back till the feather kissed the cheek of the girl
and then with a happy "whirr' as if proud of having had
this privilege, the shaft shot out and up splitting the wand
in twain. Selu had won, a girl had won the shoot!

Many a scoffing did Mineato receive from his playmates
for permitting a girl to win from him the beautiful bow and
quiver of arrows which had been the prize.

But to all these scoffings he gave no heed.

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The evening- of the meet Selu bad met Mineato by the
riverside and had said to him; "Why Mineato what was
wrong- at the match today? What made you fail in such an
easy test when you have often made this very test before?
What was wrong? To which he made reply as he averted
his face, "the sun pained my eyes and I could not make the
sig-ht." Then the truth flashed upon Selu and turning- to
Mineato she drew him close to her and taking- his face be-
tween her hands said, ** why my playmate! You have never
before told me a falsehood why do so now? The sun was at
your back. You missed that I might win:"

And in place of replying- Mineato had slipped from her
clasp and ran away down the river bank.

• But all this had happened a long- time ago and now Selu
had grown to full womanhood. Not tall and muscular like
other women but slender and graceful as the deer and as
beautiful as the bluebird. The masses of her magnificent
hair rivaled the curtain of night for its hue, the soft tender
fancies of a spring day seemed to have their fountain in her
dark eyes, and as she went about her work singing the thrush
became silent in the hedge to listen* She had had suitors
aplenty but to all she turned a deaf ear, their tales of valor
and love had naught but harshness for her ear. One bold
brave warrior had all her heart so she could give it to no
other. Yes that warrior was Mineato. Tho' he had never
come to her with his tales of valor and love though he had
never even stopped to speak to her since that day by the
brook yet Selu loved him. She had watched with pride his
growth into manhood and had often trembled with joy when
she heard the old men speak of his deeds of bravery and men-
tion him as a prospective great chieftain. Tho' he had
never told her of his love she knew it and longed for the day
of reconciliation.

But for two years no one had heard the princess sing, none
had seen her happy and many wondered at this and touched

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their foreheads sadly. Ah, could the}' only have known they
would not have thought her deranged.

From the time of the nations early days it had been cus-
tomary for small bands of Iriquois to make raids into the
Cherokee country and bring back as much booty and plunder
and as many scalps as possible.

Two years from the very night in which we find Selu sit-
ting disconsolately by the brookside she had been sitting in
the same place, on the same old mosscovered rock when sud-
denly a tall warrior decked in full war-paint and feathers
had flitted like a shadow from the trees and taking a seat on
the stone beside her had drawn her to him as he said, " Selu
I am going away. Tonight a war party starts for the
Cherokee country and I have been chosen their chief. You
know Selu that my spirit turns to you as the leaves turn to
the sun and tell me, "Mountain Rose", if I come home again
will I come to a silent wigwam or will I find my^'Corn maid-
en' ready to go with me to my lodge and make me happy?

I have not spoken to yon since the day of the shoot because
I was ashamed that you had caught me in a falsehood. But
each day has been the same to me, there has been no pleasure
in any of them. When I went to the forest to hunt every-
thing called out to me "Selu, Selu, and I was unhappy. But
now I am going away tell me my 'Hah-Hah' will my thrush
come home to my tepee when I come back?

He paused and for an answer a pair of bare brown arms
stole silently about his neck, a tear stained but happy face
was raised to his and then nestled happil} T on his bosom.
Thus in the silent night time witnessed by the silver moon
and the giant oaks was sealed the betrothal of Selu and
Mineato.

Then he had left her and oh the heartache! The hungry
longing, the hours that seemed to have no end! And in all
these many moons no word no news of him! It was once
again the moon of the ripening fruit and tonight the heart-
longing seemed unbearable. She leaned her head on her

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hand and as her long hair fell in confused masses about her
face she was the very picture of dejection and grief.

What! was it a leaf that had fallen on her arm? No, ah
no! The voice which called her back to happiness was not
the voice of the river! I am come Selu, it said. And with
that dear sound ringing in her ears once more Selu's arms en-
circled the neck of the brawny brave and once more her head
found a resting place on his breast as she whispered, "Mine-
ato, my mountain lion."

A cloud drifted over the moon and all was dark, a cricket
"chirred" by the brooksi&e, tlae b\ue \verow sptead \\et prev-
ious and soaring away left the lovers to themselves, so let us
leaye them in their happiness. Carrie

PERSONAL LIBERTY.

WHEN we contemplate the great field of space and observe
with what exactness all the heavenly bodies move in
their respective places, we are compelled to believe that a cer-
tain mysterious power pervades the universe; that there is
a force, which in a peculiar manner, forms and regulates sys-
tems. This force we designate law. From the smallest mi-
crobe and atom in the earth, to the remotest bound which
human intellect can reach, law is the governing force. All
nature is controlled by this monitor. Matter, both organic
and inorganic, yields to this universal controlling factor.
Whether this is a mere invention of the human mind and
exists no where else but in the mind, is of no consequence.
For as long as consciousness and rationality exist, so long the
fact of the existence of this stern despot will be known. It
matters very little by what term it is called, the essence is
present and is felt.

Since all things, both rational and irrational, organic and
inorganic, are under law, why should men speak of freedom,
of liberty or yet of independence? All human affairs are
private, necessarily then dependent, and if dependent limited;

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accordingly if not held by any other force they are bound by
the law of limitation. Therefore, all nature as well as all
human agencies, are not free but under law. However there
is wrapped up in the heart and soul of man something - beyond
the human which raises him out of thraldom and gives him
a feeling of freedom but it actualty makes him free. He be-
comes an independent creature. The essence of this freedom
is the spiritual nature in man. It is the immanence and
transcendence of God working in and through him; while his
human part is governed by natural law, his . spiritual nature
is free and able to dwell in realms unlimited.

There is no bound which may hold the mysterious work-
ings of this theistic freedom in mankind. But upon what
does this power in man feed? What nurtures it and how shall
this freedom be maintained -when all substance is held under
law? The only element upon which it may feed with impu-
nity and which it may assimilate, is truth. It is truth that
makes men free. From the very genesis of things truth has
been, and to the most distant and remote ages and existences
it shall be. It will be forever; it is unchangeable and cannot
be altered. Truth is eternal; it is universal. God is truth
and wherever God is there truth is also. God comprehends
and envelopes truth but truth does not comprehend God; it is
only a part of Him, an essence possessed in Him. Man, the
more nearly he is able to attain his full measure of truth, the
more liberal he will become and the more freedom he will use
in the exercise of his power. Slavery will be an obsolete
term to him, both in language and in practice.

There are two lines particularly along which truth and
freedom develope. The human mind, so gracious a gift
from the Creator, is the medium through which we attain this
liberty. This delicate organism with its various functions
reveals the true course. Rational intelligence opens the field
of knowledge where truth is boundless. In what ever sphere
of education or knowledge human intelligence is directed, it
is using one of the potent factors in freeing the race and pre-

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eminently so in freeing* itself. The works of God as they are
revealed in nature give to us a volume in which truth or per-
sonal freedom is the ruling theme. Whether the human in-
tellect will ever be able to read more than the preface to this
inexhaustable volume or not, it yet remains a fact, that in the
pursuance of this liberating* power a field of light is thrown
open in which man may move unobstructed, without fear of
bondage or dread of thraldom. The more liberal the educa-
tion the more nearly does the soul grasp the works of God.
It is when we develop our mental powers in search of knowl-
edge that we are thinking the thoughts of God or after God.
Then we are discovering God in nature. It is the Spiritual
seeking* after the things of the Spirit. It is when the soul of
man touches the great Over Soul of God that the shackles
break and it basks in the eternal sunlight of truth. Error
has always been diametrically opposed to truth. It is an en-
emy of freedom and has no part with God. Error is sin. Sin
and error bind the spiritual in man, hold it under by the car-
nality of law.

This however is not all; man will never become liberated
by discovering truth alone as it is revealed in nature. There
is a revelation more direct and supernatural which leaves no
bar to withhold anything less than eternal freedom. God in
the person of His Son has walked with men; has spoken with
them face to face; has felt the pangs of hunger and weariness;
has endured the lowest humility and suffered the deepest
agony of any mortal* Furthermore the direct revelation of
Himself as found in the inspired Word is an open highway
that leads from error and superstition into a land where the
atmosphere is clear and balmy. God through his Holy
Spirit guides and enlightens the human race. He soothes
the lacerated wounds and poisonous sores of sin and heathen-
ism; He cheers the discouraged and strengthens the week.

These two powers, God in nature, and God as directly re-
vealed, when rightly conceived and believed are the everlast-
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: .:- it : They make the soul master of the body and all :' *
; -~ .:•' - — r.s: enable it to escape the bondage of matte 1 "
i- i :i: md into the infinite. They give the soul a capacity

- . -. .-::-: love, which is not imprisoned in itself or aHj
I k soda] condition. The soul, which does not cor.: :'■"■'■

: ..:""- rlrcumstances, upon which the usurpation

: s ; .--.- iocs not have any power, is free. That mil I l*
-'r- —"-:■■: 2 >-: :essfiilly resists the binding- tendencies of habit
iri I:-- :::: enslave itself to precise rules. l *This then i s
:';: z*i7z±:v. n of freedom: and to what do we owe this condi-
-.. .- '. i-swet to the power of those laws which religion
-r.:rs - :.:: hr^rts which unite and concentrate public opin-

- i^-ii-s: injustice and oppression, which spread a spirit of
i ] i ~j and good will through the community. Thus religion
is the soul of freedom and no nation under heaven has such

inte re s t In it as ourselves.

L. W. W. '03.

Societies.

PHILOSOPHIAN.

\ V 'I. i.s members of the Philo, have again seen the opening

W :: in ::her scolastic year. We stand upon the thresh-

hold of a new era, both in our lives, and in the history of our

Institute ." As we gaze upon our ranks just recently formed.

- >tic€ _■.:: te a few vacancies. Members who have been an

.:;-:: : ;:r.-j -. cle: y. c.:\l who have Stood bj her through all

her] rf Itorj. But they are gone. Nothing remains to us

„: ::: influence which they have exerted, atul the memories

pleasaai nones spent in their presence.

Be: llthooffh, our forces have been weakened, we must
M m : .nks and press on towards the goal for which we
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The new year, just opening-, brings with it new duties
and new responsibilities, and as we realize that our school life
is passing- swiftly away, let us be watchful and industrious,
lest these golden moments pass into eternity unimproved. As
we labor for the good of our beloved society, so will be her
success. For her advancement, and therefore the betterment
of ourselves, does not rest upon the shoulders of a few, but
upon each individual member.

Let us, one and all, members of Philo, resolve that we
will make this year one to be remembered in the history of our
society, and embrace the opportunities which she offers for
the betterment of ourselves intellectually.

The first session of Philo was held Friday evening,
September 18th, 1903. A goodly number were present.
Among whom were quite a few new students whom we hope
will enlist under the banner which bears the Motto "Non
Festinats, non leessato." We are pleased to welcome, as
a member of our society, one of our new students, Miss
Garinger, Sunbury, Pa.

W. K. F. '07.

CLIONIAIN.

CLIO opened very auspiciously on September 18th, with
a goodly number present. An excellent programme was
rendered, and reflected great credit upon those who performed.
We noticed many new faces in the audience, a number of
whom are prospective members, and it is with pride that Clio
shall be able to have them join her ranks.

"Higher, yet higher," seems to be the watchword for the
coming year, and it is our intention to bring our Society up
to a higher plane of usefulness to the energetic student, and
to the College. It shall not be our purpose to take our several
parts upon the programmes for the mere sake of duty, but we
want each member to feel that it shall be to his interests,
both socially and spiritually, in that it shall lift him out of

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his narrow self, and act as a stimulus to push him forward to
a greater degree of usefulness in his literary attainment.

C.

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theological Botes.

rHE Seminary opened this year at the same time as the
College, September 8th. While all are not yet here the
class is to be larger than last year. The work is now fully
organized and our Students are getting in fine shape to do
hard work. Where and how some have been spending their
vacation will be given in what follows.

L. P. Young was looking after the Home Mission field of
North Dakota. He reports a pleasant time but is over-
whelmed with the magnitude of the work to be done by our
Church in that state. Since returning- he preached Septem-
ber 13th at Millville, Pa.

M. Iv. Brownmiller has been preaching for his father at,
and in the vicinity of Reading.

J. A. Richter spent his time with the people of Lairds-

ville, with doubtless much refreshment both to himself and
God's people in that community.

Geo. Scheese has been working at a Mission station in
a community of believers in the Northern part of Sunbury.

M. H. Fischer, under the auspices of the State Y. M. C. A.,
was doing evangelistic work in the lumber camps of Potter
County. Mr. Clay Whitmoyer, of the Collegiate Department,
assisted him. They report quite a successful season in the
Master's service. Mr. Fischer, September 13th, preached at
Lairdsville in the morning and at Cadiz in the afternoon.

L. R. Haus spent the Summer in Warren County at the
drug business, doing what he could in the mean time to
arouse the followers of Christ to their present privilege to ex-
tend his kingdom throughout the world.

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U. A. Guss, P. H. Pearson and L. W. Walter rendered
good assistence at their respective homes on the farm.

W. L. Price, while working* on the Williamsport and
Nort Branch, has a]so been preaching- at Muncy Creek.

R. Bergstresser is an addition to our Department in the
Junior class, having- graduated at Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg, class 1903.

E. M. Gerhart spent most of his vacation at home having
been sick. We are glad to have him among us again, well
and ready for work.

L. M. Daubenspeck is now with us having had an enjoy-
able Summer on a trolly line.

I. Z. Fenstermacher, E. R. Wingard and H. O. Reynolds
have not yet returned, their work elsewhere is now occupying
their attention.

Dr. Yutzy, met August 25th and 26th at Pittsburg, with
the Million Dollar Committee and reports that our institution
will receive two-fifths of all unspecified amounts. On this
account is the outlook for our Institution especially bright.

ALUMNI NOTES.

'62. Rev. M. L. Shindel, D.D., who has served the Pine
Street Lutheran Church, at Danville, Pa., and who has been
ill for about six months, has sufficiently recovered to resume
his labors. We are glad for Dr. ShindeTs recovery, and wish
his congregation, whom he has served for almost thirty years,
rejoice to have him in the service once more.

'67. Rev. K. Dutt, who has served the McClure charge
for over a year, had the misfortune of having his entire li-
brary and property destroyed by fire during the summer.
Rev. Dutt also had his face badly burned. We sympathize
with him in his misfortune.

'88. Rev. H. N. Follmer, Huntingdon, Pa., has organ-

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ized a Lutheran church at Mount Union, Pa., twelve miles
east of Hunting-don. It is in a very prosperous condition,
having- supported a pastor during- the summer months. Rev.
Follmer deserves much credit for his enterprise in that pros-
perous town.

'92. Rev. W. H. Hilbish has recently built a church at
Confluence, Pa., which is a great credit to the church and its
pastor. Rev. Hilbish is meeting- with g-reat success in the
work in that field.

'02. Rev. W. A. Wolgemuth and family, of West Fair-
view, Pa., spent some time during- the summer with the
Rev's, mother and sister at this place. He reports the work
growing- in his field.

'02. Rev. J. E. Zimmerman, of Centre Oak, Pa., has
been greatly afflicted with rheumatism, but we are glad to
note, he is much better. He has a very flourishing- mission at
a busy and prosperous-point.

'03. Rev. W. H. Derr, is now located at Montoursville
Pa., and is serving an adjoining charge of three churches.

'03. Rev. D. J. Snyder has been called to Minersville,
Pa., where he is doing acceptable work.

'03. Rev. G. W. Fritch is preaching for the Plum Creek
charge and has the good will of all his people.
We wish all these brethren God's speed.

'98. Miss Minnie Gortner has again returned to take up
her work in the Berwick High School.

'98. Miss Rose Gortuer has been elected to the corps of
teachers in the Sunbury High School.

'99. Prof. C. A. Goss is employed by the Dewart High
School as their principal.

'99. Prof. H. W. Morris has risen to an eminent posi-
tion as principal of the Oliver High School, Duquesne, Pa.

'00. Rev. F. J. Paul, who graduated from Mt. Airy Sem-
inary in '03, is the popular pastor at Camden, N. J., and is
erecting a beautiful edifice for his people.

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'01. M. B. Herman, a graduate of the Department of
Chemistry, of U. P. in '03, has secured a prominent position
as chemist with a refining- company at Marcus Hook.

'01. Prof. L. P. Young- spent his summer vacation very
profitably by teaching- and preaching- at a mission point in
North Dakota.

'01. Miss Kffie C. Breitneier has been elected to teach the
Grammar school in Washingtonville, Pa.

'02. On September 9th, at the home of the bride's mother,
Burnham, Pa., Mr. K. J. Auchmuty and Miss Cleo. Kline
were united in the bonds of matrimony by Dr. J.Yutzy, D.D.,
of the Theolog-ical department of S. U. We extend to the
young- couple our best wishes for the happiness and prosper-
ity of their life. *

'03. Prof. E. M. Morgan is engaged in teaching as prin-
cipal at Freebury, Pa.

'03. Prof. G. M. Mark is the High School teacher at
Montandon, Pa.

'03. Miss Fannie Jacobs is one of the teachers in the
public schools of this place.

'03. Prof. C. O. Frank is principal at his home High
School at Rebersburg, Pa.

'03. Mr. S. Weis is engaged in business with his father
at his place of business in Selins Grove, Pa.

'03. Mr. E. P. Sones, Lores, Pa., entered the Commer-
cial department at Susquehanna.

'03. Mr. E. H. Diehl is employed by the P. R. R. Co., at
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.

'03. Mr. F. S. Wagensiller is taking up law by entering .
the office of Hon. S. P. Wolverton, at Sunbury, Pa.

'03. Messrs. Gearhart, Shrader, Walters and Dauben-
spect have entered the Theological Department at Susque-
hanna.

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LOCALS AND PERSONAL.

The opening- of another school year has again brought
us back to old S.U. Many of the old faces are no longer to
be seen in their accustomed places, but we are pleased to note
that they are substituted by many new ones.

Many changes, too numerious to mention, have taken
place during our absence, one of which is the new Memorial
Gymnasium which is now nearing completion. A fine build-
ing indeed.

Marion Schnure Schoch is now posing as a representative
of a New Bloomfield livery stable.

It has been the custom of Paul Enders and Willie Rishel
for the past week to go boating on the river. They row up
under the bridge, and after anchoring their boat prepare to
fishf?). Let us hope that the boys may not acquire any bad
habiis in so doing. Mr. Rishel, by way of diversion, is a new
student coming from Newberry, Pa., who intends to persue
a Prep, course in Civil Engineering.

Ed. R. Wingard is at present coaching the O. N. W, foot
ball team. The worthy gentleman has met with considerable
success; his team having defeated the strong Ohio State
Normal team by a score of 37-0.

Prof. Birch preached in Watsor.town on Sunday the 13th.

Ben T. Phillips is at present in Pittsburg, some time ago
having accepted the position of book-keeper for a firm of
general contractors there. We wish him all kinds of success
in his new venture.

W. W. Heim, formerly a student at Allbright College, is
now with us. We welcome the gentleman into our midst.

L. M. Daubenspech, of Shira, Pa., has returned. He re-
ports an enjoyable vacation.

Toole's latest— Oh Scissors! Let's cut up.

Messrs \V. D. Brown and M. V. Minnick, formerly of Sus-
quehanna, spent the latter part of last week with us. We

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were glad to see the boys and hope that their visits may be
frequent. Brown is going into business, while Minnick in-
tends to read Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

W. W. Young - , who summered in New York City, is able
to take nourishment.

The board is good but it could be better.

The Messrs Uber are asrain with us, having* arrived Sat-
urday last, Sept. 12.

W. W. Houtz, a former student of Susquehanna, spent
last night with his old roommate, Errick O'Toole.

As Coach Cannon's services could not be secured until the
third week after the opening- of school, Rev. C. M. Nichols,
'01, Sem., of New Bloomfield, Pa., unhesitatingly gave his
services on the gridiron for a few days in coaching the candi-
dates for the teams. Rev. Nicholas, while at college won
a prominent name in athletics and he is now zealous to do all
in his power to strengthen Susquehanna's athletes upon the
football field. His services were valuable and they were much
appreciated by all the boys.

A. W. F. '06.

PREP. rNOTES.

We are pleased to see Prof. Young with us again.

We are glad to see so many new faces in our department.

J. A. Brosius, of Ashland is one of our number this
year.

Preps come out and show what our department can do in
football.

Many trials and dark hours confront a beginner, as we
see, but our motto is, "What men have done men can do
again," and thus these fall hours pass away.

Rube Waddel Wert, our great pitcher of last year is with
us again, he reports having a fine time during vacation.

W. C R.

22 The Susquehanna.

Htbelettcs.

Schedule of 1903 FootbaH Season,

vSept. 26 — Franklin and Marshall at Lancaster.

Oct. 10 — Lafayette at Easton.

Oct. 17— Gettysburg- at Selinsgrove.

Oct. 24 — Lebanon Valley at Selinsgrove.

Oct. 31— Mt. St. Mary's College at Emmittsburg, Md.

Nov. 7 — Bloomsburg State Normal at Selinsgrove.

Nov. 14— Lehigh at South Bethlehem.

Nov. 21— Open.

Nov. 26— Open.

1RUE education is the full and harmonious development
of mind and body — both equally developed man becomes
a mighty power, either neglected, he becomes weak and al-
most powerless.

There is little doubt but that the mental training receives
a proper amount of attention, but it is a sad fact and never-
theless a true one that the physical training- is oft neglected.
Why should this be? The Greeks were celebrated on account
of their magnificent development. Would that we too might
make the youth of America models of physical forms and
beauty.

From our college let us be determined to send outnot only a
keen intellect but a strong vigorous body with each graduate.

The season for football is here. Already 7 the training is
well on. Our teams this year promise to be the best we have
ever had, there is a greater amount of weight and a keen
lively interest is made evident by the number of candidates
for both 'Varsity and Scrub teams.

Let us as students lend a helping hand to cheer our boys
on to victory.

Coach Frank Cannon will direct our work and under his

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skillful training- we feel sure of a good strong team— a winning
team.

An excellent schedule has been arranged by Manager Whit-
moyer and we earnestly hope that our gladiators will win
many laurels on the arena — the gridiron. T. B. U. '06.

Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE AT iNORTHFSELD.

THE} conference of the Student Young Men's Christian
Associations of the Eastern colleges at Mr. Moody's old
home, Northfield, Mass., June 26 through July5, was one of the
strongest and most influential student gatherings ever held
at that place. Seven hundred and fifty four delegates from
one hundred and twenty-five instutions of learning in the
United States and Canada were present. Nineteen states
and provinces were represented. Yale, Princeton, Harvard,
McGill and University of Pennsylvania, in the order named
had the largest delegations.

During the ten days of the conference a daily program con-
sisting of Missionary Institutes, Young Mens Christian Asso-
ciation conferences, Bible classes, and platform addresses
was carried out in the morning, while the afternoons were
given over to walks, baseball, tennis and swimming. In the
evenings, life-work meetings were held on Round Top and ad-
dresses were given in the large auditorium. Among the
corps of noted men who addressed the delegates were some of
the foremost religious leaders of this country and England, *
including John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, Dr. G. Campbell
Morgan Dr,. William McDowell, Prof, E. I. Bosworth, Rev.
George Jrckson, and Rev. R. J. Campbell.

Northfield situated in the beautiful Connecticut valley,
near the point where three states meet, is an ideal place for a
conference. Anyone desiring an excellent trip as well as a
very profitable vacation will do well to attend one of the sum-
mer conferences. The Y. M. C. A. of Susquehanna was re-
presented by four of its members, Messers Walters, Barry,
Sunday and Gunderman, who all report that it was the best
trip they had ever taken as well as the most helpful place
they had ever been. Q

Zhe Suequebanna

SeltnsGtove, September, 1903*

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Archie \V. FRONTS, '06, Locals and Personals.

Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.

Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

W. H. Kempfer, '0.'), Mg. Editor. 1. W. Hingamas, '06. ) . „ # d__ ^^^

Anna K. Beaver, '06. / Asst * KUSl M »™'

The Susquehanna is published each month of the college year by the Students
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The editors solicit contributions and items of interest to the college from students
and alumni.

All business matters and correspondence should be addressed to The Susque-
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The journal will be issued about the 12th of each month. All matters for publi-
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Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
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Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
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EDITORSAL.

I HIE Susquehanna,- in the first number of this present
year, wishes to extend greetings to its patrons. You
have looked upon our pages during past years and rec-
ognized, perhaps, the effort made on the part of former edi-
tors, to give you both news of interest concerning our College,
as well as literature of our own production. If at times the
productions may not have come up to the ordinary standard
of college students, we hope that you have considered that
some of them have come from the lower class men who are
only beginning to write for publication.

During the present year we wish to encourage this phase
of college work among the students of our College. It shall

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be our endeavor to give you the best our students are able to
produce.

To the students we would say, that you are urged to hand
in productions for publication, this year. Let us have a zeal
to make our College organ more interesting.

We would bespeak for the editor of the Alumni Depart-
ment the co-operation of his fellow-alumni to make this de-
partment more prominent. Send to him any notes of interest
concerning yourself or any of your brother-alumni. May we
have this year words from you to encourage and cheer on those
who will soon stand with you out in the broad world. Let
not your college days be so soon forgotten. We need your
encouragement, we need your support.

E. EDWIN SHELDON.

We take pleasure in announcing to the public the elec-
tion of Mr. E. Edwin Sheldon as Director of Music at Sus-
quehanna University. Mr. Sheldon is a man of fine talents
which he has thoroughly cultivated by years of study. In
addition to a three-years' course at the Oberlin Conservatory,
and several years of teaching thereafter, Mr. Sheldon studied
for two years in the New England Conservatory of Music
where he graduated i n the class of 1900. Since his gradua-
tion he has been engaged in teaching music in Boston, and in
post graduate studies. He is thoroughly qualified in both
instrumental and vocal music and has been found to be a man
of splendid character and rare attainments.

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CONTENTS.

LITERARY. page

Is Life Worth Living 63

Am I Responsible for My Influence Upon My

Fellowman 67

The Grasshopper 68

The Poetic Elements of Romeo and Juliet - 70

SOCIETIES.

Y. M. C. A. 74

Y. W. C. A. 75

Clionian, 75

Philosophian, 76

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT - 77

LOCALS AND PERSONALS, 78

ATHLETICS, 80

EDITORIAL, 83

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IS LIFE WORTH LIVING..

DAY by day as we scan the newspapers, and the pages of
our various histories, our eyes are compelled to read the
many accounts of the fatalities that are recorded therein.
Great glaring- headlines, long columns of sensational news
meet our gaze and reveal to us the alarming number of cases
of disappointments, discouragements, murder, homicide, sui-
cide, war, pestilence, — all the ills known to mankind, which
are removing thousands daily from this sphere of life and
hurling them suddenly into an eternity of glory or despair.
Our inmost souls are made to cry out and ask whether this is
all of life, — cannot this world afford something for which to
live and be content and give one a hope of better things, or
was man destined to be born and die, unnumbered and for-
gotten as so many brutes?

The dark angel, Despair, has entered, unbidden, with all
his train of gloom and sorrow into the door of every home.
How many brave, stout hearts have shrunk beneath the bur-
den of his presence, how many homes have been shattered by
the pressure of his dread hand ? History fails to record the
number.

Is there anything in this life that compels one to live out
one's allotted days, to suffer these afflictions, and carry these
burdens, or would one be justified in cutting short one's mis-
erable career by seeking the shadow and protection of a pre-
mature grave; or, shall I go stumbling, hoping, trusting on
confident in the belief that after all there might be something
in life worth living for?

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Here below we walk from day to day amid tears and want,

sorrow and pain, and it might well appear as if human life

could not exist without this bitter accompaniment ; and yet

every one feels in his inmost heart that it cannot and will not

thus be forever ;

" I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and still must bear."

Knowing- this, that my life is not my own, but loaned to this
frail frame for a definite purpose, it then behooves me to rise
to meet the exigencies and seek out those things that are con-
ducive to its enjoyment and preservation. It is to me to look
forward to the future in which all sufferings shall be as if
submerged in a mig-hty ocean. The whole period of the
world's history to which affliction and sorrow belonged shall
lie behind us like a morning- dream, and no remnant of it be
left but that "peaceful fruit of righteousness" which is the
growth of perfection.

What is life to me ? Do I reckon it simply by the fact
that I possess bone, blood and flesh, by the mere pulsations of
the heart, that I see, hear, speak and move ? Ah no, even
the most insignificant creature of God's creation possesses
these faculties, but down deep within my inner self lies that
imponderable being called soul that impells me to deeds of
nobility and gentleness, and with his index finger transports
my gaze to scenes of better things beyond. The life of most
men is ordered for them in a way in which they themselves
would never have dreamed.

Aye, can I say this life is an empty dream, this world a
harbor of despair ? There is something beneath the mere
surface of every day living. One must reckon his life to be
the life of a man, and compute his months, not by the course
of the sun, but by the zodiac and circle of the virtues.

Life is a mission, an aim towards a definite point that
must be attained by a strenuous exercise of the will. It may
be proved with much certainty that God intends no man to

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live in this world without working 1 , but it is no less evident
that he intends every man to be happy in his work, to learn
the great art of life, by improving- the golden moments of op-
portunity, and catch the good that is within reach, for this is
the end that determines everything.

Life is a battle and this world is the battleground. Daily
must we meet the arch enemies of the body and soul, frus-
trate their evil designs, cut loose from those vicious habits
and that unruly temper that tends to drag me down to eternal
misery and despair, and I owe it to my Maker, to my fellow
man to adapt my life to moderation in all things, for it is the
channel through which the streams of g-oodness flow, and the
means by which His object is attained.

Life is a probation, our stay here is but temporary, it is
the stopping place on our journey from the cradle to the grave,
but one lesson we must learn during our sojourn here, if we
are to prosper and do good to others, is to desire to be nothing
more and nothing different in regard to our individual per-
sonality from that which God has really given us the capacity
to become, and it is expected of us to know all there is to be
known, that it may fit and prepare us for the larger life be-
yond.

This world is not a wilderness of woe, there is in it
enough to satisfy the most fastidious taste. Art, science, and
literature appeal to us, they are living ideas that claim our
highest attainments, and in our feeble efforts to fathom their
depths, to awaken to their beauties, to apply them to our
lives, we behold the day ebbing away, and we begin to real-
ize the shortness of the time allotted to us to satiate our de-
sires in a degree fully satisfactory to ourselves. We almost
crave for a greater measure of daylight in which to complete
the problems that tend towards that point when we can say
we have finished our day's work and are satisfied.

Life is a pendulum, suspended between two worlds. How 7
frail, but can we say how insignificant? Ah, no, nothing
can be insignificant upon which God has set His seal. It is

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true, life is fleeting-, the race is soon run, but can we say that
it has been run in vain ? Can I say my work has been a com-
plete failure when I am compelled to leave it half finished ?
No, my life was a living- testimony of God's purpose, and I am
removed at the appointed time to be replaced by a master
workman to carry forth my unfinished task to a more g-lorious
completion. My work is complete in Him, if cut off when
just beg-un.

As we stand on the threshhold of the farther door, and
gaze back into the hazy past, we see dark shadows of mistakes
looming up along- the narrow path, but we look again, and
behold the bright images of good erected, the influences for
the ideal life surmounting those of the evil, and we are im-
pressed with the fact that our troubles were a preparation,
and the }oys here a foretaste for the larger life beyond, that
after all our afflictions were blessings in disguise.

" Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh,
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky."

Slowly as the sun descends in the western horizon of our
lives, it finds us silently, slowly, but surely wending our way
toward the spot of our last resting place. But is that all, can
I say "I have finished my course?" No, the tomb is not a
blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight,
it opens with the dawn. We enter the sacred portals and find
that our day's work will begin again with the next morning.
But how joyous, how transcendent the employment to the
tired traveler, where with the ransomed the redeemed, he
finds the larger, the ideal life, the life eternal, where all is
peace and joy and happiness, where there are no sorrows, no
tears, for God the Father shall wipe all tears from their eyes.

G. D. C. '05.

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AM I RESPONSIBLE EOR MY INFLUENCE UPON

MY FELLOWMEN.

ALL of mankind are imitative creatures. We unconsciously
copy the traits of those with whom we come in frequent
contact. This fact proves that we all have a certain amount
of influence over our associates, or, in other words, elements
of our own dispositions naturally flow into the lives of our in-
timate fellowmen and become a part of their character. True,
because of their so-called personality or individuality, some
persons have a greater influence than others, but even the
meanest beggar exerts some influence upon a few of his as-
sociates. Paul well understood this law of humanity when
he said "For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself." What other than influence enabled John Brown
to draw to himself several hundred followers who disastrous-
ly attempted to seize illegal power in Virginia? What other
than influence enables John Mitchell to control the entire an-
thracite coal region of Pennsylvania ? What other than in-
fluence of evil companions causes the bright young man just
entering college to indulge in vicious habits which before he
even spurned in thought? Nor is influence only for wrong.
We owe our moral and intellectual light to many men and
women who have shed an uplifting influence upon those
around them. Why do we strive to be in company with the
leaders in thought and morals ? Is it not because we wish to
be subjects of their influence ?

Intuitively, we see that influence is power ; in having an
influence over one, it follows that power exists in proportion
to the amount of influence. This accounts for the power of
so many of our ambitious politicians. Possessed with a
strong ability to influence, they are not slow to realize the
power resulting therefrom. Go to the rulers of any land and
they will tell you that influence is power, for unhappy the
reign of a monarch who has not influence over his subjects.
Queen Victoria was renowmed because of her wide and mighty
influence over her court, circle of ministers, and subjects. In

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the social world the influential person is almost invariably
the leader. In college life the influential student has but
little difficulty to have his requests granted by his fellow stu-
dents.

We all love to be influential, because we are then enabled
to become powerful, but do we consider that power is a re-
sponsibility. A responsibility is a duty, a trust, an obliga-
tion, and hence the problems of responsibility are serious.
Why do we select with so much care the man who occupies
the Presidential chair? It is because there are great respon-
sibilities resting upon one in such a position. His power
bears responsibility. The pilot has entire power to steer his
ship; he may by his guiding wreck her upon the rocks and
cause the destruction of hundreds of lives. He has power,
and in consequence of this fact carries a great responsibility.
The inspired writer said, "Uneasy his the head that wears
the crown." Power bears responsibility, and that, when real-
ized, causes anxiety and care.

Am I responsible, then, for my influence upon my fellow-
men ? Influence is a gift, a talent, the interest of which some
day will be demanded. I am just as responsible then for my
influence as I am for my habits in thought, word or deed. It
is a power which may be a blessing or a curse, — a blessing, if

properly used, a curse, if misused.

C. W. '05.

THE GRASSHOPPER.

rHE name grasshopper is commonly applied to a number
of orthopterous insects of somewhat similar appearance,
but belonging to different families. As some forms of these so-
called grasshoppers occur in certain parts of the country in
such vast swarms that they do great injury to crops, and in
some instances completely devastate the ground of all vege-
tation, the family is usually regarded an enemy to the farmer.
The fact is. however, that the insects doing the most of this

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destruction are locusts and ought to be called by that name.
They agree in their forms, their habits, and their modes of
propagation with the locusts of Africa, Asia and Europe,
and are classed by scientists in the same family, viz :
the locustidae. This misuse of names is rendered more con-
fusing by the fact that what in this country is called a locust
— notably the seventeen-year locust — is not a locust al all, but
is the cicada, belonging to the order hemiptera.

The true grasshoppers belong to the family acridiidae,
and, in common with all orthoptera, possess a masticatory
mouth and four wings, the anterior pair being smaller than
the posterior and of a different texture. The posterior wings
are membraneous and are folded lengthwise, like a fan ; the
anterior wings are leathery and constitute cases for the pos-
terior. The grasshopper differs from the locust by having
the antenual long and tapering to a point, while the anrenual
of the latter are much shorter and terminate abruptly or are
even club shaped. The wing covers of the grasshopper usual-
ly are broader and slope downwards at the sides of the body.
The female is distinguished by having an exserted sabre-
shaped ovipositer. Most grasshoppers are green, and their
legs, though longer, are not so muscular as those of the locust;
they are also more solitary, never migrating in multitudes.

The family includes the familiar "Katydids" and their
immediate relatives, many of which bear more or less of a re-
semblance to that type. By far the most numerous species —
and which is sometimes found very abundantly in meadow
land upon the grass— is a small, light green grasshopper,
with a brown stripe on the top of the head and the wing
covers, tapering to the end, of a green color faintly tinged
with brown along that portion which overlaps each other.
The grasshoppers are all vegetable feeders, but usually are
not sufficiently numerous to do any considerable damage ; es-
pecially since they are most voracious in mid-summer or later,
when vegetation has gotten too much of a start to be easily
injured by them.

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Towards autumn the females lay their eggs, after which
the insects soon die or are killed by frost. It was formerly
thought that the eggs were deposited in the ground, but it is
now known that the ''Katydids" and at least some of the other
species lay them on small twigs and branches. Here again
the grasshopper differs from the locust, which always exca-
vates a hole in the earth for its eggs. The young are hatch-
ed during May and June of the following year. When first
excluded from the egg they are about the size of a flea, and
from the beginning have the appearance of a small grass-
hopper without wings. The wings, however, are not want-
ing, but are concealed within four minute enlargements which
seem to deform the sides of the insect. The grasshopper that
for twenty days or more has continued without the use of its
wings, at length prepares for its emancipation. It seeks
some protected spot beneath a dry branch or the stem of some
coarse grass, with laborious writhings and workings it breaks
open its outer covering on the head and back, and, continuing
its efforts, finally extricates itself from its old skin. The in-
sect then appears in its perfect form, but at first the body is
soft and tender, and seems quite spent and fatigued from its
exertions. For an hour or so it lies quiet and shows no signs
of life. During this time the body is drying and the wings
unfolding to their greatest expansion. The observer may per-
ceive them, fold after fold, opening to the sun, till at length
they become longer than the two hind legs. The body also
is lengthened, and the insect emanates from its metamorpho-
sis a fully developed grasshopper.

K. '05.

THE POETIC ELFMEINTS OF ROMEO AND JUILET.

AMONG the elements entering into poetry are sentiment, af-
fection, passion, and external nature. Between these two
latter, and indeed, we may say between the last and each of
the others, a high degree of relationship exists. But for our

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present purpose, we wish to deal only with the relationship
between passion and external nature. Shakespeare recognized
this affinity, if we may use so strong- a term, and used it in
all his plays. Running- through his works we find he makes
external nature an enveloping- medium of human passion. In
Julius Ccesar, when the great tragedy occurs, it is a night of
tempest and prodigy. As Cassius goes unbraced about the
streets there seems to be a very mutiny in the heavens. The
lyric love of Lorenzo and Jessica, in The Merchant of Venice,
is sung to us underneath the star-sown sky. The Forest of
Arden, with its shadows and sungleams, the deer coming
down to drink through the shade of the groves, is made to
picture to us the moods and passions of the personages in the
scene.

In Romeo and Juilet this characteristic is also very evi-
dent. The external atmosphere — the setting — of the play is
made to tit in harmoniously with the characters and the
actions, Italy — sunny Italy, the scene of family fueds and
amorous and bloody intrigues, the land of the passionate, is
where the plot is laid. The time is mid-summer when all na-
ture is fully developed, the flowers full, the forests are adorn-
ed with their thickest foliage, the nightingale sings in the
pomegranate tree. The warm, still nights are broken by no
sound but the heavings of nature, as if burdened, and the pro-
creant force seems stretched to its highest point and ready to
burst forth. This condition fits in well with the life and
action of the play. Benoolio says : ''For now these hot days
is the mad blood stirring." Likewise does this reserve of na-
ture seem but a mask of the passionate affection of the two
lovers. These elements are highly poetic and tone the whole
with high lights of poetic coloring.

Nature, passion, affection, and sentiment, we said, are
elements entering into poetry, ail of which this plays contains.
To these must further be added sweetness and melody of
sound, richness ot language, and brilliancy of imagery. These
are more evident in the words of the three characters in whose

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souls the most of the good and the beautiful seems to dwell —

Romeo, Juliet and Friar Laurence.

Friar Laurence that loveable and beneficient soul comes

us is one who is very close to external nature. And

one cannot be close to nature unless he hears her speak, and

his own sou', becomes full of poetry. Notice the imagery of

this speech of the Friar :

"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
equering the Eastern clouds with streaks of light :
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels."

Farther on he says :

•• Here comes the lady : 0,

So light a foot ne'er hurts the trodden flower."

What more delicate and beautiful strain could meet our
eye and ear ?

With Juliet's voice the poet also sings to us in words beau-
tiful imagery and pleasing alliteration,

• ; Gallop apace, you fiery -footed steeds.
Toward Phoebus' lodging; such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the West,
And bring in cloudy night immediately. —
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaway's eyes may wink, and Romeo
Leap to these arms untalk'd of and unseen." —

is what her expectant heart utters while awaiting the passing

of the tedious day.

Note too what beautiful and delicate personification in

the lines :

"Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring:
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy."

But in the utterances of Romeo, Shakespeare sets forth
more passionate and poetic elements than in those of any
other character of the play. Inspired bv the sight, the speech
and the very thought of the beautiful heroine, the young
hero breaks forth in strains of melodious sweetness and ex-

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quisite richness. Some one says, "Romeo utters himself like
a sonnet of Petrarch, with the same refined choice and the
same antithesis; there is the same grace, and the same pleas-
ure in versifying- passion in allegorical stanzas." The first
meeting- of Romeo and Juliet at the Capulet's banquet and
their farewell on the nig-ht of his banishment are scenes
which portray all the splendor and fineness of language and
the Italian coloring- and warmth of the play. Romeo's first
impression of the fair maiden is given to us in the words :

"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs on the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder Jady o'er her fellows shows."

Likewise, in the parting scene before he goes to Mantua,

the lyric lang-uag-e of the youth in response to Juliet's plea

that it is not yet near day, that it was the nigmtingale and

not the lark sing-ing in the pomegranate tree, breaks upon us

in all its beauty.

"It was the lark, the herald of morn,
No nightingale ; look love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing cloulds in yonder East :
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops."

No more beautiful figure occurs in the entire play, and
indeed, we may say, in the entire body of the poet's works
than this latter, of heaven's candles burned out and jocund
day standing tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

True poetry, if found anywhere, is found in Shakespeare;
and all the elements of affection, sentiment, external nature,
passion, sweetness and melody of sound, richness of lang-uag-e,
and brilliancy of imag-ery are bound up in the characters and
actions of his Romeo and Juliet.

L. F. G., '04

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Societies.

Y M. C. A.

"Come, for all things are now ready."

THE interest in the Y.M.C.A. does not seem to abate, and
everything indicates a healthy growth. The meetings
are fairly well attended by the students, but there are still
some faces we would like to see with us each Wednesday even-
ing at 7 o'clock in our services. Surely, the injunction "come
yc apart to pray," should appeal strongly to all the absent
students, whether members or not. The various topics are
interesting and instructive, and have been carefully selected
to meet the needs of everv fellow. Do not feel that vou are
too voting to come, the Y.M.C.A. embraces all classes and
conditions of men and there is in it that which is uplifting
and satisfying to every hungry soul. "O taste and see that

the Lord is good."

The 7th annual convention of the Y.M.C.A. vftkc4th
district meets at Blootnsburg Nov. 6-8. A helpful programme
has been arranged, and our prayers go out to all who attend.
that the Spirit may manifest Himself in power I the

sessions. Messrs M. II Fisher, M. l t . BrowModller, L. R.
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Y W, C. A.

WE are glad to have welcomed three new members this
month.
Miss Helen W. Coale, Secretary of the State Y.W.C.A.,
visited us on October 25th. Her true and refined manner won
the girls at once. She conducted a devotional meeting Mon-
day evening in which she showed the opportunities the col-
lege girl has for development in Christian life. At the prayer
circle she spoke of the joy of living near to God. We all
have been benefited by her visit and may each of us labor
mor earnestly for Christ.

The Y.W.C.A. gave a delightful social, "The Wonder-
land," on Hallow E'en. All the girls worked faithfully and
arranged in the Music Hall a number of attractive booths.
The Hall was lighted by Jack o' lanterns and into the weird
place the guests were welcomed by the ghosts. The whole
evening was a grand success and netted a neaj; little sum for
our treasury.

CLIONIAIN.

CLIO seems to be enjoying a continued reign of prosperity.
We almost dreaded, last year, to see graduation day ap-
proach, for it meant the loss of some of our leaders and pillars
in the society, those who had endeared themselves by years of
personal association to many, and whom we felt we could not
afford to lose, but they have gone from our midst out into the
active duties of life, but we do not feel wholly forsaken, for
they have left to us as pleasant heritages, sacred memories of
the past. Their absence meant places in the ranks that must
be filled with good material in order that the work may not
be retarded, but go successfully on, and Clio may well feel
proud of those who have arisen and volunteered to replace
those who have left us. Each meeting night adds a few more
to our number. Clio was glad on the 30th to receive Misses
May Guss, Margaret Rothrock, Messrs Chas. Myers, Peter

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Klick, Wm. H. Able aed P. R. Hall, as active members.
They are all new students and persons of promise.

We welcome them with the others, with all cordiality in-
to our midst, and commend them to the consideration and fel-
lowship of the members of Clio.

Many of the new members have already taken active part
upon the programmes very acceptably, and have fully proven
their value to us.

At a recent election, the following- were chosen to preside
over the deliberations of the society for the next term of office.
Pres., C. R. Allenbach ; Vice Pres., O. E. Sunday ; Sec, Jessie
Snyder; Treas., Thos. Uber.

The new committee on resolutions, are busily engaged
making out suitable programmes. This is the important
committee of the society, and the interest and success of each
meeting depends largely upon their efforts to secure suitable
material, and performers for each particular meeting. A
good committee has been appointed, and judging from the
appearance of their first programme, we have every reason to
expect highly instructive and entertaining sessions.

PHILOSOPHIAIN.

THE many public meetings and entertainments in Selins-
grove during the past month have not permitted many
of our members to attend the regular meetings and have ne-
cessitated the postponing of some of our regular sessions.
But Philo has been comparatively well attended during Octo-
ber.

The debating class has been one of the special features of
last month's meetings. The members entered into the spirit
of the questions with much zeal and earnestness and with a
determination to win the decision of the judges.

Miss Fickes, one of Philo's loyal members, left for Phila-
delphia where she expects to play her part in the great activi-
ties of the business world. Philo extends to her, her best

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wishes as she goes to put into practice the principles learned
at Susquehanna.

Miss Matthews, of Loysville, Pa., and Mr. Geo. G. Fox,
of Danville, Pa., have lately cast their lots with us as active
members of Philo. We bid them a hearty welcome.

May the members of Philo ever keep in mind that the
success of our beloved society depends upon the loyalty of her
members. Other matters may be important, but your engage-
ment with your society is one which should not be slighted.
Let us not, during the coming months, shift the responsi-
bility and duties on to the shoulders of some one else, but all
be in our accustomed places, ready to do whatever falls to our
hands to do.

^beolocucal ^Department.

Prof. I*. P. Young occupied the pulpit of Rev. F. L.
Bergstresser at Tyrone, Pa., on Nov. 1st. He has also preach-
ed several times during the month at Millville.

Eph. M. Gearhart, of the Junior class, has been spending
the last few weeks at his home in Sunbury, on account of an
attack of laryngitis.

M. H. Fischer, of the Middle class, preached at Markels-
burg, Bedford Co., on Sunday, Nov. 1st.

Dr. Yutzy assisted Rev. G. W. Sheese in administering
the Holy Communion at his church in Sunbury. The Com-
munion was very inspiring and encouraging as more than 90
per cent, of the members partook of it.

At the Reformation Festival held at Kratzeville, Oct. 31,
an address was delivered by M. Luther Brownmiller.

Charles Lambert preached at Mount Union, on Nov. 1st.

Ira Z. Fenstermacher preached at his home on Nov. 1st,

and remained over for the election.

R.H.B.

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Xocals anb personals.

Seibert Hall.

Miss Zoe French enjoyed a week's visit at her home in
Bloomsburg.

Mrs. T. K. Beaver spent Oct. 9th and 10th with her
daughter Anna.

Miss Ruth Ramey entertained her sister, Mrs. Martin, of
Phila., two days.

Miss Minnie L. Kline was obliged to go to her home in
Williamsport, because of the illness of her father. We are

glad she is able to be with us again.

Mrs. Smith spent Oct. 17th with her daughter Lulu.

We now have one less at the "Dorm". Miss Fickes' face
is seen no more amon^ our number We congratulate her as a
graduate of the commercial department.

Prep. Notes.

Now that the term is almost half gone, and everyone is
doing their best, the Professors are sending in good reports ;
surely our department is a credit to the institution.

As the weeks roll by new students are still coming in.
We are glad to welcome into our department this month,
Messrs Chas. S; Myers and Peter Klick.

Shaffer, of our department, is playing a star game at
right-guard, on the 'Varsity team.

R. W. Showers, of this department, was home last week
attending his father's business, while his father was in the
city.

Collegiate.
On Saturday evening, Oct. 31, the ladies of the dormitory
gave a rare treat to the students, and one which will not soon
be forgotten. The Recital Hall was fitted up in the real

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oriental style. The ladies are to be congratulated on their
originality.

W. H. Kempher, the managing- editor of the Susquehanna
has recently secured a government position in Texas, and will
be absent the greater part of the winter. We wish him suc-
cess. «

Calvin P. Swank spent Sunday, Nov. 1st at Ellysburg

with his parents.

Mrs. Caroline Enders Young, formerly a teacher at

Susquehanna, spent several days last week with us. Mrs.
Young, during the summer months, traveled through Europe
and while here related to the students many pleasing inci-
dents which happened during her tour.

O Wednesday of last week a fire broke out in the cellar of
Gustavus Adolphus Hall, Several Preps, seeing the smoke,
rushed upon the scene and extinguished the fire with consider-
able difficulty. The origin of the fire is unknown.

A club for the advancement of social culture has lately
been organized and the services of Miss Clare Krall have been
secured as instructor. The students greatly appreciate the
interest she shows in the work.

Mr. Emory Johnson who was compelled to go home sever-
al weeks ago on account of illness has again returned to re-
sume his studies.

The Choral Union, recently organized, is progressing
very nicely under the leadership of Prof. Sheldon.

Mr. F. W. Barry spent a few days during the last week
of October with friends at Mifflintown.

A pumpkin social was held at the "Dorm" Monday even-
ing, Nov. 2nd, under the management of Coach Cannon. The
affair was a complete success.

The first number of the Y.M.C.A. Lecture Course, given
by the Rogers-Grilley Combination Co., was a decided success.
The committee has arranged a good course for this year and
it is worthy of the patronage of all who can make it suit to
attend. A.W.P. '06.

80 The Susquehanna..

Susquehanna School of Business.

All the members of our school have begun the year's work
with ambition and great prospects for the future, and if the
students co-operate with the efforts made by the professor for
their advancement, success is assured.

This school is sorry to part with One of its most energetic
young ladies, Miss Sara L. Fickes, who completed her course
in Commercial, and left Oct. 28th for her home in Newport,
Penna. She has secured a situation in Philadelphia.

Mr. Geo. D. Clarke reports having a pleasant time at his
home in Williamsport, during a few days of last month.

Conservatory of Music.

The Susquehanna Musical Union is now firmly establish-
ed and has taken its place in the regular routine of the Uni-
versity work. As yet it is in its infancy and appears as a
small speck on the horizon, but 'ere long it will burst forth in
all its splendor and win a name for itself, of which old S. U.
shall be proud.

This Musical Union is for the purpose of studying the
Oratorios. Prof. Sheldon, the Director of the Conservatory
of Music, is Director of this Musical Union.

He is a faithful and most excellent Director and is put-
ing forth his best efforts to carry it to success. Let us, as
members imitate our worthy Director and put forth our best
efforts.

Htbletics.

ANOTHER month has passed and just before we cross the
threshold into the next let us take a glance backwards.
What do we see ?

We find that our strong, well-trained, Athletes have

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added many stars to their crown of popularity. They have
successfully met and defeated teams which easily defeated
them last season. They have played like men. They have
proved that they have the moral stamina to stand defeat if de-
feat conies because they are out-classed, and in no case do we
find them "quitters," because they fear that they can not
win.

On Saturday October 17th, Susquehanna played Gettys-
burg- at Selinsgrove, and defeated them by a score of 6 to 0.

This was the principal game of the season. Susquehanna
out-classed thern in every respect, and pushed them at will
over the field. Had Gettysburg* had the pluck to have finish-
ed the game, the score no doubt would have been much larger;
but it seemed as if they could not stand a defeat by their
stronger sister college and not unlike infants left the field.

Susquehanna. Positions. Gettysburg.

Maus Left end Bartholomew

Geise Left tackle Kaufman

Bingaman Left guard D\e\\\

Fallow Centre Bickle

Shaffer Right guard Hill

Herman Right tackle Starrick

Swank Right end Stromyer

Benfer (Quarter back Fisher

Buck Left half back Rinard

Whitmer Right half back Sieber

Pearson Full back James

Touchdowns— Whitmer. Referee— Wallize. Umpire — Rentz. Timers— Schoch and
Sprenkle. Linesmen— Klines, Holmes. Time of halves, 20 minutes.

On Saturday, October 24th, Susquehanna defeated Leba-
non Valley at Selinsgrove, by a score of 17 to 0.

Susquehanna. Positions. Lebanon Valley.

Maus Left end Barnhart

Geise Left tackle Shelley

Bingaman Left guard Kaufman

Fallon Centre Jones

Shaffer Right guard Snyder

Herman Right tackle Holler

Swank Right end Arndt

Benfer Quarter back Koler

Buck Left half back Beddow

Whitmer Right half back Epler

Pearson Full back Erb

Touchdowns— Bingaman, Geise, Pearson. Referee— Wallize. Umpire— Balbaugh
Linesman— Schocb. Timers— Young and Shand. Time of halves, 20 minutes.

82 The Susquehanna..

On Saturday, October 31st, Susquehanna played Trevor-
ton at Trevorton, the score resulting- to 0. Trevorton was
in no way equal to Susquehanna, but on account of the side
line interfering" with the plays and because of unfair decisions
our boys were unable to score.

Milton High School played Susquehanna Reserves at

Selinsgrove Saturday, Oct. 31st. The game resulting- 5 to

in favor of Susquehanna. It was a hard contest from start

to finish.

S. U. Reserves Positions. Milton II. S.

Fox Right end Meroine

Showers Right tackle Gemberling

Henderson Right guard Dauber

Hal 1 Cen tre Spo t ts

Beaver Left guard Coup

Uber, Jr. Left tackle Leopold

Schoch Left end Moyer

Qunlerman (Capt.) Quarter back Harding

Uber, Sr Right half back Tobias (Capt.)

Scholly . ..Left half back Ebbert

Price Full back Minnie

Touchdown— Scholly. Referee— Wallize. Umpire— Schoch. Timer— Hans. Lines-
man— Enders. Time of halves, 20 and 15 minutes.

T.B.U. '06.

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EDITORIAL.

WE have read the editorials and the articles printed from
time to time in the Weekly Gettysburgian after the
breaking- of athletic relations with Dickinson College, after
the severing- of athletic relation with State College and after
the Indians of Carlisle left Gettysburg's athletic field, and
supposed that the Gzttysbufgian would not rush into print
with other than th.it which was the truth; but after the
editorial and the contributed article of Oct. 21st, we wonder
whether the statements relative to the treatment ac-
corded Gettysburg by these colleges were not the results of
the same stupid blundering of innocent editors or the wilful
intermingling of half truths and deliberate misrepresenta-
tions.

(88)

84 The Ssquehanna..

It has been our privilege to hear the Baron Munchausen
like tales of the vanquished in their permissible attempts to
account for defeat and to give reasons for leaving an athletic
field, but it has never been our misfortune to know of an editor
gullible enough or unwise enough to print the conglomerate
mass of hyperbole which the defeated may indulge in at the
time when they are smarting under the sting of defeat and
chagrin, and at the same time never once intimate or state
that their team left the field upon the decision of their own
official.

This is the first time that we have been permitted to see
in collected form and reduced to print the after-game "flings"
of the defeated. This is a curio, and would be amusing if it
were not so serious a matter.

But the game was played on Saturday. Gettysburg was
out-classed at every stage of the game. The sting of defeat
went deep, and the Getty sburgian went to print on Wednes-
day. If it had been a monthly instead of a weekly, Gettys-
burg College would have been spared such a despicable at-
tempt to humiliate unsuccessfully a rival whose team played
fairly and excelled at every point of the game.

After our games with Gettysburg on our field, her Weekly
has ever sought to account for her smallness of score or loss
of games by indulging her fine superiority by claiming un-
fair treatment, to which our sense of sportmanship would not
permit us to stoop or notice in her; but the issue of the 21st
of October transcends every vestige of caution, or decency, or
truth. We quote the following:

"But these things cannot bring the g-ame into such ill re-
pute as the entrance of the spirit which means to win by fair
means or foul, which places victory above honor and manli-
ness. That this was the spirit displayed by Susquehanna's
representatives is attested by every Gettysburg man who saw
the game. From the side lines came such hoots and foul
epithets, from the coach such an outflow of profanity upon
our men, and such a proneness to slug and to jump on a man

m

The Susquehanna.* 85

when he was down was exhibited by the players, that every
element of fairness, decency and true sport seemed to be lack-
ing-. When the team arrived on the field it found that there
were no lines marked out, not even side lines. This lack was
the cause of numerous disputes during the game. Gettysburg
did not have much trouble to gain against these opponents
who outweighed our men ten or fifteen pounds to the man,
but they gained the necessary distance only to be robbed of
the ball on account of having no lines to show the distances
exactly. The dispute which finally broke up the game oc-
curred in the second half. Susquehanna had the ball. Time
had been taken out and, before Gettysburg had signified its
readiness to play, Susquehanna lined up and carried the ball
down the field, unopposed by Gettysburg, for a touchdown.
Upon their refusing to bring the ball back to its place, Get-
tysburg left the field. Having enjoyed a very invigorating
cold water bath, they set out for the station, pursued by the
jeers and hooting of the mob.

On Friday afternoon Gettysburg left for Seh'nsgrove, ex-
pecting to play a game with Susquehanna, but it did not re-
quire much time after ariving there for our team to realize
that they were not to be allowed to play, but were to be given
an object lesson in cheating and general, all-around dirty
work. Between the spectators, the Susquehanna coach and
the opposing players, our representatives were called all the
vile names in the calendar, and the ease with which these
epithets rolled off their tongues showed that this was not a
new method of rooting with them."

We have quoted the above from the Gettysburgian that all
may understand that we do not misquote, and may see how,
under the impulse of the moment, an editor may print matter
which not only we declare contained maliciously false state-
ments, but the University of Pennsylvania men, the Lafayette
mm, the Bucknell men, the Dickinson men, the old Gettysburg
who were present, at the game have since expressed their un-
bounded surprise that such statements would be made by any

84 The Ssquehanna..

It has been our privilege to hear the Baron Munchausen
like tales of the vanquished in their permissible attempts to
account for defeat and to give reasons for leaving an athletic
field, but it has never been our misfortune to know of an editor
gullible enough or unwise enough to print the conglomerate
mass of hyperbole which the defeated may indulge in at the
time when they are smarting under the sting of defeat and
chagrin, and at the same time never once intimate or state
that their team left the field upon the decision of their own
official.

This is the first time that we have been permitted to see
in collected form and reduced to print the after-game "flings"
of the defeated. This is a curio, and would be amusing if it
were not so serious a matter.

But the game was played on Saturday. Gettysburg was
out-classed at every stage of the game. The sting of defeat
went deep, and the Getty sour gian went to print on Wednes-
day. If it had been a monthly instead of a weekly, Gettys-
burg College would have been spared such a despicable at-
tempt to humiliate unsuccessfully a rival whose team played
fairly and excelled at every point of the game.

Mter our games vntti Getty sbutg on our field, her Weekly
has ever sought to account for her smallness of score or loss
of games by indulging her fine superiority by claiming un-
fair treatment, to which our sense of sportmanship would not
permit us to stoop or notice in her; but the issue of the 21st
of October transcends every vestige of caution, or decency, or
truth. We quote the following:

"But these things cannot bring the game into such ill re-
pute as the entrance of the spirit which means to win by fair
means or foul, which places victory above honor and manli-
ness. That this was the spirit displayed by Susquehanna's
representatives is attested by every Gettysburg man who saw
the game. From the side lines came such hoots and foul
epithets, from the coach such an outflow of profanity upon
our men, and such a proneness to slug and to jump on a man

A

The Susquehanna.. 85

when he was down was exhibited by the players, that every
element of fairness, decency and true sport seemed to be lack-
ing-. When the team arrived on the field it found that there
were no lines marked out, not even side lines. This lack was
the cause of numerous disputes during the game. Gettysburg
did not have much trouble to gain against these opponents
who outweighed our men ten or fifteen pounds to the man,
but they gained the necessary distance only to be robbed of
the ball on account of having no lines to show the distances
exactly. The dispute which finally broke up the game oc-
curred in the second half Susquehanna had the ball. Time
had been taken out and, before Gettysburg had signified its
readiness to play, Susquehanna lined up and carried the ball
down the field, unopposed by Gettysburg, for a touchdown.
Upon their refusing to bring the ball back to its place, Get-
tysburg left the field. Having enjoyed a very invigorating
cold water bath, they set out for the station, pursued by the
jeers and hooting of the mob.

On Friday afternoon Gettysburg left for Selinsgrove, ex-
pecting to play a game with Susquehanna, but it did not re-
quire much time after ariving there for our team to realize
that they were not to be allowed to play, but were to be given
an object lesson in cheating and general, all-around dirty
work. Between the spectators, the Susquehanna coach and
the opposing players, our representatives were called all the
vile names in the calendar, and the ease with which these
epithets rolled off their tongues showed that this was not a
new method of rooting with them."

We have quoted the above from the Gettysburgian that all
may understand that we do not misquote, and may see how,
under the impulse of the moment, an editor may print matter
which not only we declare contained maliciouslj 7 false state-
ments, but the University of Pennsylvania men, the Lafayette
m^n, the Bucknell men, the Dickinson men, the old Gettysburg
who were present, at the game have since expressed their un-
bounded surprise that such statements would be made by any

86 The Susquehanna..

reputable journal, and have expressed their unqualified con-
tempt for such nefarious treatment of one College bj another
though defeated.

Strong* words only can express our utter contempt for a
spirit which would lead a College journal to become the pur-
veyor of such falsehoods in its attempt to humiliate a rival.

We believe that in common fairness to the reputation of
the College at Gettysburg, the matter should be investigated
and the blame placed upon the proper persons.

We desire to state that the side lines were to be seen, and
that the other lines had been remarked on the morning of
the game, but that the heavy and continuous rain of the day
had blotted out many of them. This caused delay at times,
but was not in any way taken advantage of by our team.
Several times when Gettysburg questioned our securing of
first down, the distance was tneasued and found to be nearly
ten yards. The two linesmen on the side line, more than any
condition of the grounds, confused the officials, but at no time
were Gettysburg robbed of a first down by this. The ball was
in their hands such a very small portion of the time that
they could not have been taken advantage of in this respect;
and after the kick-off in the second half, Gettysburg never
had the ball. There was no trouble, whatsoever, for our
team to gain more than the required five yards.

We would not have questioned the fairness of the officials,
but we will now say that it was rather strange that time and
again when our team had made a big gain, the ball would be
brought back by Gettysburg's ofticial because it had been dead,
and our team was once penalized for 20 yards while Gettys-
burg was penalized but once for five yards; and when our team
made a touchdown in the first half, it was not allowed and the
Wall was brought back because Gettysburg- was conveniently
off-side. We conceded every such point for it looked as
though Gettysburg wanted to find a pretense for complaint.
When our team forced Gettysburg to make a touch. back, and
our center blocked the ball at the kick-off before it had gone

The Susquehanna; 87

ten yards, Gettysburg-, contrary to the rules, claimed the right
to kick again and it was allowed. After the first few minutes
of the game, all of the playing was done in Gettysburg's
territory.

It was our prearranged plan to make the game so fair that
there could not be fault found by them and when they left
the field, it was upon the decision of their own official. Our
team secured the ball on the kick-off in the second half and
kept the ball until a touchdown had been made. They simply
ploughed through Gettysburg's line for large gains, and Get-
tysburg's account of the occasion for their withdrawal is en-
tirely incorrect. Time had not been taken out, the game
was too fast for Gettysburg, and Gettysburg did attempt to
block the play, as one of their own men admitted and the
writer stood on the side-line only a few feet away and saw the
half-back with the ball thrown to the ground but helped up
by his interference and protected until the touchdown was
made. Moreover, Susquehanna did not refuse to bring back
the ball, nor did our team ever enter into the continued dis-
cussion for that was carried on by Gettysburg's captain, man-
ager and coach. The Gettysburg official refused to bring
back the ball.

All through the game Gettysburg, realizing that they
could not score, sought to prevent our scoring and it was re-
peatedly remarked that Susquehanna was being taken advant-
age of upon her own field; but it was our purpose to prevent just
what happened, a cry of unfairness.

It is our opinion that had the game been played to a finish
our team would have defeated Gettysburg 20 points to none as
our score with Lebanon Valley shows. Of course, the visiting
team is a guest, but the guest must expect to perform his part.
Onr manager met Gettysburg at the train, took them to their
hotel, secured a buss to bring them to the field, made them
before the game, two perfectly fair offers, and in every way
did his duty as a host, but, the first expression (from a Gettys-

88 The Susquehanna..

burg* man; heard by the writer) was accompanied by an oath
and was derogatory to the institution entertaining- them.

An offer was made to pay all additional local expenses if
Gettysburg would remain until Monday and play the game on
a fair day, or to divide the guarantee and not play in the
rain. Gettysburg's manager refused both offers and the game
was played in the rain. Their team was conducted to a base-
ment room with a brick floor with boards upon, within which
was not a single barrel or any trash. There were two boxes
in the room and the team could not have put their garments
upon the ground if they had wished to do so. Our teams used
this room all fall, because the old baths had been torn out and
the new ones are just being completed. These temporary con-
ditions were fully explained to our guests and there was no
occasion, whatever, to attempt to make capital out of conditions
beyond our control. We will soon have gymnasium equip-
ments far better than their own which they shall most cer-
tainly have access to should they play here again.

We are sorry to write an editorial such as this, but we are
more sorry that there should have been occasion for it given;
but we could not pass by in silence, as we have passed by less
offenses \tv the past, such a malicious and unwarranted at-
tempt to be unfair to us; simply because Gettysburg was de-
cidedly inferior to our team, as the season has fully shown,
and their humiliation led them to forget the claim of real
sportsmanship. To be very frank, we would say that Gett-
ysburg should never again put its honor in the keeping of the
one who was responsible for such a show of "baby play" as a
recent graduate of Gettysburg characterized their behavior
here.

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Vol. XIV DECEMBER, 1903

No. 4

CONTENTS,

LITERARY. page:

Half Way (poem) - - 99

The Development of the Anglo-Saxons - 100

The Winecup's Victim - - - 104

Rev. Reuben Hill, D.D. 107

SOCIETIES.

Philosophian, - 109

Clionian, 110

Culture Club Ill

Y. M. C A. 112

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT 113

LOCALS AND PERSONALS, 114

ATHLETICS, 116

ALUMNI 118

EDITORIAL, 120

EXCHANGES 122

Published each Month of the Scholastic Year by the

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SELINSGROVE, PENNA.

SUSQUEHANNA^,*

UNIVERSITY,

Prks. GEO. W. ENDERS, D. D.,

OFFERS excellent facilities for a splendid education under
wholesome influences and at very low terms.
The institution has the following- departments:

L THEOLOGICAL, with a full three years' course*
II. COLLEGIATE, Classical and Scientiiic Courses.

III. LADIES COURSE, leading to a degree.

IV. MUSIQ Vocal and Instrumental, full course lead-

ing* to a degree.

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VII. PREPARATORY of three years.

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Note;. — There is also a six weeks Summer Term,
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REV. REUBEN HILL*, 1). D.

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Seltnsgrove, December, 1903.

VULF WiW.

Slow is the painful ascent up to fame,
And few the feet that clamber to the height ;
Ambitious throngs press at the mountain's base,
Filled with the love of glory ; and the path
That shines above them in the morning light
Seems beautiful, nor difficult to scale.

But further on, a little higher up,

The easy slope grows broken, and so steep

That careless feet slip back and lose their hold,

And dizzy brains reel downward and are lost ;

And those who press on to the pausing place,

A little higher stand, with weary limbs

And aching hearts, just near enough to hear

To hear the sneers and hisses of the crowd below—

The angry crowd that cannot climb at all,

Or having climbed, has fallen back again.

Half way they stand upon the mountain side

Where cold winds blow and loose rocks crumble down,

And strange birds beat them with their wide white wings.

No longer of the hurrying throng beneath,

Not yet of that immortal few above,

How lonely and how all alone are they !

Be not afraid, O toilers up the height !
The gods are very near, though out of sight :
They reach out helpful hands and say "come higher,"
All earnest souls must climb if they aspire.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANGLO SAXONS.

THIS age is the heir of the past. It is witnessing- a specta-
cle which isunparallelled in all history. If we turn our
attention back over the annals of the past, we will notice that
we are now living- in an ag-e of great advancement. Former
centuries have been contributing to the more recent ones. The
conditions, both socially and intellectually, during the middle
ages were far inferior to those of the present. Whatever might
have been the development before the dark ages,it w T as then al-
most completely destroyed. Thus, today, we view our own
degree of development as issuing from the beginning- which
had their rise in the centuries since the opening of the Middle
Ages. It is in other words, the development of the Teutonic
Tribes or the Anglo-Saxon Race.

We are told that these tribes, before they entered the Ro-
man Empire, were without fixed homes or temples. They were
a barbarous people, and in their primitive condition were littl e
better than the savages to be found in Africa today. Their
religion, if indeed they might be said to have had any, was
that of paganism. Idolitry, ignorance and superstition were
all the qualities with which they were possessed. They were
without written records of their race and their religion was
merely traditional.

The great transforming influence which came into the
Roman Empire, was the Christian religion. It appeared just
after the the empire had received its organization as a mon"
archy. Its growth was naturally slow. Its adherents were
few. The first of whom were only among the ranks of the low-
est society: — workmen and slaves. However we find it steadily
growing. By the end of the fourth century it had achieved it s
first victory. It had triumphed over pagan and skeptical Rome.
As early as 313 A. D. we find Clovis proclaiming Christianity
to be the favorite religion of the empire.

The Anglos and Saxons, however, were not converted to this
new religion until about a century and a half after their first

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landing- in Britain. It was in 596 A. D., when Augustine was
sent out by Pope Gregory I, with a band of forty companions to
teach the Christian faith in Britany. Here it was, that
in coming- in contact with some of the people in a slave-market
Aug-ustine became interested in them. Their personal appear-
ances, "Ang-elic faces" as he termed them, appealed to him
and from this instance sprang the name of the race-Angles.
He resolved to work among them and teach them his new re-
ligion. So it came that Christianity here was first taught to
our Ancestors.

Hand-in-hand with Christianity comes more advanced civil-
ization — education and culture. This we behold following the
conversion of the various tribes. The new learning and cul-
ture were introduced and the fusion of tribes and petty king-
doms into a closer and more lasting unity resulted. During
the tenth century many changes had taken place in the Teuton-
oc constitution.

Feudalism was already taking root and the King's authority
increased. Then appeared that noted religious movement — the
crusade which began about the close of the 11th century con-
tinuing on until the close of the 13th Century.

The influence on civilization rendered by this movement was
marked indeed. It opened up commerce between the different
nations and broadened the views of the people. The towns
gained many political advantages and we behold the cities and
villages making rapid strides towards municipal freedom.
Various arts, manufactures and inventions were being intro-
duced from Asia. So civilization moved on. The Renaissance
movement followed. Its effect was felt throughout nearly ev-
ery province. It inspired humanity with a new spirit, which
was destined, in time, to make things new in all realms- in
religion, in politics, in literature, in art, in science, in inven-
tion and in industry. The new art of printing which had been
discovered early in the 15th Century was beginning to diffuse
knowledge throughout the whole empire.

Then followed the Crusades. Their immediate effects upon

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the papacy tended to enhance its power. The pope was exer-
cising- absolute power over the entire ChristianChurch with the
exception of those countries where the Greek or Eastern
Church had been established. This condition continued until
about the beginning* of the 16th century. Later on, in 1517
Luther appears upon the scene with that movement which was
to be the great reforming- power of the papacy and Protestant-
ism was established. But before this time another important
movement had been advanced. It was about the close of the
15th century that Columbus made his remarkable voyage open-
ing up a new country which was destined to produce the fore-
most nation of the world. Thither came our ancestors. Some
bringing their religion with them, seeking a place where God
might be freely and reverently worshiped. Here they found-
ed homes for themselves and by the time a century or two had
rolled by we behold them banded together into thirteen col-
onies. Together they stood for the cause of independence
and liberty. It is that independence and liberty which they
finally secured at the cost of many lives that we as American
people today enjoy. This new nation now born steadily in-
creased in size and power. It advanced in civilization, educa-
tion, culture and religion. As the population grew the in-
creased demands brought forth advanced resources. New in-
ventions followed each other. Industries and manufactures
sprung up on every side. Schools were established to educate
the rising generations, and churches were organized in wmich
to worship God and train the people to a higher form of life.
So advanced civilization during the early history of our an-
cestors in this country, Soon the means of commerce became
necessary. First we see the old stage-coach becoming in-
adequate. The manufacture of iron which has been acquired
now steps to the front. With abundant resources at hand it
only awaits an invention to supply this pressing need. At
this moment the power of steam is discovered and soon the
steam engine is invented. Rude though it was in the begin-
ning, it was destined to develope and become that wonderful

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factor for commercial advancement in higher civilization.
Other like inventions followed. Franklin snatches the light-
ening from the clouds. This power hassince been harnessed and
from it comes forth the invention of the telephone and tele-
graph system. It has not stopped here but even now it con-
tinues and has become even a greater factor than steam, as a
motive power, besides containing other qualities as light and
heat. And still it is only in its infancy.

All this time where do we find education and religion ?
They too, have kept pace with the times. Schools and col-
leges, seminaries and universities have been founded ; systems
of education unequaled by any nation. The press also has
added to this cause. Developing as it did from the little be-
ginning, it now becomes one of the widest factors in the cause
of education bringing the whole world into close touch with
one another. Religion too, is aided by both the schools and
the press. Our large church universities and colleges gather
in the youths of the church and throw around them christian
influences and teachings which strengthen and build up this
all important cause of christian civilization.

Science which in early times was little known or under-
stood, today opens up new avenues of learning and reveal to
mankind the wonderful works of God. The student, today,
in whatever profession he wishes to enter is, by the aid of
science, brought right close to nature's heart. By it, plagues
and diseases are better understood so that even the fevers of
the tropics can now be conquered.

Never has been such opportunities or such advancement.
Such has been the development of our nation— the home of
the Anglo-Saxon people. Founded on pure principles she is
destined to lead the countries of the world. In religion, edu-
cation, science, art, invention and resources she is unsurpass-
ed. The other nations are looking to her as their model.
The Spanish-American War won for her the respect and
honor of every nation. Into her hands are being placed great

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responsibilities. The yet uncivilized nations are before her
and we believe that it is for her to lead in the bringing- to
every nation under the sun that high development and chris-
tian civilization which she herself has acquired.

"EUGENE."

THE WINECUP'S VICTIM

rWENTY years ago there was a very handsome and popu-
lar young man who once in a while was a visitor at the
bar. His visits became more frequent, his compan} 7 not so
much sought after. At last one cold and stormy night he
staggered along- the street, his strength all spent and he sat
down on a door step, faint and ill. The premature decay of
vice and profligacy had worn him to the bone. His cheeks
were palid, his eyes sunken and their sight dim. A cold
shiver ran through every limb of his miserable body.

Thick and fast the long forgotten scenes of a misspent
life crowded upon him. A beautiful vision came to him, he
sees before him his home — a happy cheerful and loving home
and those who composed it, who came to him for advice and
guidance then, seem now to rise as if from the grave and as-
semble about him once more, so plain, so clear, so distinct did
it all appear, that he could touch and feel them as it were.
Faces that had long been forgotten were seen by him once
more, voices silenced by death sounded in his ears like music.
Only an instant and these fond recollections departed. He
again realized that the rain was beating heavily upon him ;
and cold and hunger gnawing at his heart. Rising from his
resting place he dragged his feeble limbs a few paces farther
on.

All was silent about him ; the few persons who passed by
went hurriedly on and his tremulous voice was lost in the
violence of the storm. Again a heavy chill struck through
his frame which seemed to stagnate the blood in his veins.

Coiling himself up in a projecting doorway he wished for

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sleep that would not come. His mind wandered strangely,
but he was awake and conscious. The well known shout of
drunken mirth sounded in his ears, the glass was at his lips,
the board was covered with choice rich food — they were be-
fore him, he could see them plainly, he had but to reach out
his hand and take them. Although the illusion was reality
itself he was conscious of sitting- in the desert street ; he was
conscious that death was stealing- upon him inch by inch ;
and that there was no place for him to go where they would
care for his dying- body. 'Tis now that he realizes how dear
to him was the heart of a mother and a wife that he sent to
an early grave by his own actions and that these actions now
would cause him to fill a drunkard's grave, and leave a mem-
ory of a drunkard's life to disgrace his posterity.

Hark — a shout rises in the air and then again sounds solemn-
ly on his ear. He rises, terror stricken, he had heard his own
voice shouting in the night air he knew not why. His senses
were leaving him, half formed words burst from his lips, and
his hands sought to tear his own flesh. He was going mad
and he shrieked for help until his voice died away in a mourn-
ful murmur. The demon had departed and his senses return-
ed. He looked up the long dismal street. He recollects that
outcasts who like himself had been compelled to wander da} T
and night in those streets overflowing with vice, had often
gone distracted with their own loneliness. Old recollections
return to him. He receives new life with this returning sense
with which Satan inspires him. He recalls that years ago a
miserable, wretched outcast had been found fastening a rope
to place around his own neck and take his own life rather
than endure the endless wandering to and fro in the streets.
After recalling many other instances he quickly fled from
the spot not seeming so wretched as before, and without once
stopping he rushed to the river bank. Alas ! what now, was
the demon liquor about to claim another victory? He crept
quietly down the dark bank to the water's level. He heard
footsteps approach and crouched down in the dark, held his

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breath until the patrol was past. Never did prisoner's heart
throb with the hope of liberty and life so eagerly as did this
heart of a poor miserable wretch at the prospect of taking- his
own life. After the footsteps died away he descended still
farther and stood trembling and happy at the prospect of
being taken into a watery grave. Awful to think of — a man
happy who was about to take his own life ; was the man
really happy ? No never ! but, the devil incarnate who was
his sole control rejoiced in his actions.

The water flowed at his feet. The storm had died away
and he was covered by the blue canopy of heaven, studded
with the sparkling "forget me nots of the angels" giving to
the firament of the night a wondrous beauty. About him all
was still, so still, so melancholy, that the rippling of the
waters against the barges on the other side of the stream
were distinctly audible to him. Now stronge fantastic forms
rose to the surface and beckoned him to approach ; dark gleam-
ing eyes peered from the water and seemed to mock his hesi-
tation, while hollow murmurs from behind urged him onward.
4k I am no coward," he said, and retreating a few paces plunged
forward and leaped with all his might far out into the water.
The echoes of the splash had hardly died away when he arose
to the surface, but what a change he underwent in that short
interval, in all his thoughts and feeling ! Life — life in any
form poverty, misery, drunkenness — anything but death. He
fought and struggled with the w r aters that closed over his
head and screamed in agonies of terror.

The shore but one foot of dry ground, he could almost
touch the bank. But the current carried him on down the
stream and farther and farther from life. He rises again and
struggles for life so dear, and yet so wretched. For one brief
instant the lights of the city were visible. The dark waters
around him the fast floating clouds above, such were his sur-
roundings as he shrieked his last words that the God of all
should have mercy on him. Once more he arose and then
sunk into the grave of his own making. A few days later

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the body was washed ashore many miles down the river, a
swollen and disfigured mass. Unrecognized and unpitied it
was borne to the grave ; and there it has long since moulder-
ed away.

Young man can you have such an ending stare you in the
face — what caused it ? Nothing less than the first glass of
liquor that was taken to his lips. Beware of the demon of
unnoticed danger. Can you bear to trouble the heart of a
mother, a loving sister, a more considerate brother, by the
draining of the wine cup ? Can you picture a future home
with dear ones in it that look to you for example and advice,
and where all would be bliss if it were not for the habit of
drink to which the husband and father is tied unable to loose
themselves from its awful clutches ? Truly an awful picture
for a bright intelligent young man to face and yet thousands
are traveling this very road to death in some form, and paint-
ing the picture of destruction with their own hand before
their own eyes. Beware then of the first draught from the
oftimes fatal wine cup, lest you be added to its innumerable
list of victims. C. G., '07.

REV. RFUBEN HILL, D.D.

PEV. REUBEN HILL, D.D. was born at Hughesville. Pa.
on July 22, 1826. He descended from pious Luthern par-
entage. He was graduated from the College and Seminary at
Gettysburg, Pa., and at once entered on the active work of
the ministry. His name is held in loving remembrance by the
people of the important pastorates he served in Gettysburg, Pa.
in Hagerstown, Md., in Pittsburg, Pa., in Rhineheck, and Ro-
chester, N. Y., and Allentown, Pa. His last work was in the
location, the equipment and the financial enlargment of the
Theological Seminary at Mt. Airey, Philadelphia. Suddenly
after a few hours illness he passed to his rest, at his home at
Mt. Airey on Sunday Mar., 3, 1895.

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He united with rich culture, and trained ability as a min-

itef and rare success as a financier; a most kindly and genial

disposition. As he bad been engaged all the time of his actiye

life either in the pastorate or in the education of young men

: the ttintstrf of the Lutheran Church: when considering the

disposal of his property, he felt the claim that his church had

e will made by him in 1893 has just become operative in
:s dnal prov>. ;:;>. After declaring- his bequest to the Uni-
reisit] he assigns the following- as his reason for this direc-
:./-* — **I make this final disposition of my property because I
>el: :r. early life to the work of preaching the Gos-
pel o: my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and I desire the means
it I hav iccurcilatedl in the mean time, to be employed in
the same good work after my departing."

Tfc> bear fart . m amounting to 120,000 is deeply appreciated

- ;: ". • _> a . -. .;:'. but as coming from one so cultur-

>." ->-::...:* attat pertains to the Lutheran Church.

"~: kr; - >■; veil the spirit, methods and work that obtain

- :?i..- ~c — er. for the ministry. His deeds follow him.

i r.:> >. : will ever remain not only working according

to the "re~;:i;:;:> ?:;:;> purpose, but as a testimony of his

£ :>::u:i.:e :: this school as a factor in the work of the

.. ..: ;rir. Church in :h:s lar This gift will be indeed a last-

f h:=:. hut it should also be an incentive to
■s :: sc : i> :e >.. . great opportunity for doing good
: :: " • C ye: ru.re useful .-.:: institution already > «-
: .-i - her -s-;rk :;: the church.

J. B. F.
Se . : - S>C " : i

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Societies.

PHILOSOPHION.

WE have again arrived at the close of another Collegiate
term. As we halt in our journey and view the work of
the closing- term, we wonder whether Philo has made any pro-
gress during the past fifteen weeks. Many of us find it very
difficult, sometimes, when we view our work, to determine
whether we are advancing or whether we are retrograding.
But as members of Philo, we can close our work with a con-
sciousness that we have advanced intellectually.

Though we have progressed still there is room for improve-
ment. We all know that to attain the height of success in any
calling, we must make thorough preparation for the same. A
farmer cannot expect to succeed in farming unless he has had
years of experience along that line. A doctor does not begin
his practice, unless he has prepared himself sufficiently at some
Medical Institution. So to make a success in public speaking
we must prepare ourselves thoroughly.

The literary societies were instituted that we might better
lit ourselves for the duties that await us in life. The recita-
tion and study halls do a great work, in the making of a man,
intellectually, but it is our literary societies that do the polish-
ing and the rounding off.

It is therefore necessary that we make thorough prepara-
tion before appearing upon the rostrom, so that we may, the
more carefully, guard our language, and perform to the best
of our ability.

Let us go forth, fellow-Philo's with a strong determination
to make the best of the few remaining weeks of this year. And
may we, at the close of the coming term, feel, as we have felt
this term, that we are not retrograding.

At the recent election, Nov. 6. the following officers were
elected; Pres. Gunderman; Vice Pres. Katharine Focht; Sec.

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Enters; Treas. Fleck: Critics,Fischer and Walters; Editor,Mis>
Sooutftberger; Asst. Editor, Fox; Pianist, Marie Snyder.

Pbilo. during- the past month, has received two very prom-
.>:3g" members: Miss Grace Jacobs, and Mr. R. H. Bergstresser.
:hof Selins Grove. Pa.

: '■"•'-'.: his *r:ea: cause to regret, because of the recent de-
parture of one of her most loyal members, Mr. Robert Haven.
Milton, Pa. Mr. Haven has accepted a position in Homer
City Pa. Philo wishes him much success as he goes to play
bis part in the business world.

W. K. F.

CLIONIAIN.

Unto the fair debator now,

Much good will come to pass,
He shall not have to shovel snow.

Nor mow the blooming grass. — '■''Martha."

A Du;ch*cnan was relating his marvelous escape from
drowning. How seven of his companions were lost by the
overturning of a boat and he alone was saved. "And how
did tou escape ?" asked one of his hearers. "I tid not go in
:e r-cu;." was his placid answer.

This may have a thread of the rediculous. but there is a

:. tt its centre. Speaking from the literary standpoint.
many of us are simply drowning without a strugfgle. They

ow neglect of this matter to place them in embarassing
circumstances. Let me appeal to your good common sense.
What are you here for. if not for your fullest development ?
Does not every performance strengthen you ? Then why shirk
jour dutv and weaken vourself. Many are the men standing
M ranks of the alumni, who say. "1 wish I would have
takes a more active part in my literary society. There are

iflgs be 'r»e learned in debating that can be learned no other
wav. Your knowledge- mav some dav be indeed by vour
weakest point, to wit ; public speaking. Why do we neglect

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so vital an agency? You may laugh, but perhaps you can
borrow wisdom from the Dutchman. Be on the safe side.
Do not enter the boat of neglect, or you may have occasion to
live with lobsters all your life.

Our meetings during November, have been well attended.
Our friends seem to manifest an interest in us. The new
members have been doing creditible work. The heralds have
been spicy.

"Ra.s."

THE CULTURE CLUB.

Among the new things at Susquehanna this year is The
Culture Club, composed of members from the College and
Theological Departments.

The object of the society is the study of etiquette and the
cultivation of correct manners.

Miss Clare Krall has consented to act as Instructor, and
the earnest manner with which she has taken up the work
shows her kindly interest in the advancing of the higher
social requirements of the student.

The meetings are very well attended and the members
show their enthusiasm by the earnestness with which they
enter into the practice and the discussion of the subjects.
Meetings are held alternately in the two Society Halls every
Thursday afternoon.

The following officers have been elected : Pres., George
Clarke ; Vice Pres., Clay Whitmoyer ; Sec'ty, O. E. Snudey ;
Treas., Harry Weber.

The subjects thus far taken up are, "A Gentleman's
Actions in the Drawing Room," k< The Proper Thing to do in
a Public Place," "Table Etiquette" and "Invitations and
Gifts."

This Club fills a very great want at Susquehanna, and
well deserves the attention and encouragement of all, who
aim for the higher and better things in life. M. S. S. '06.

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Y. M, C A.

"Remember Jesus Christ

the next issue of a SUSQUEHANNA shall come into our

a«~ - another Christmas shall have passed in solemn review

re as. The silver chiming- bells shall have re-heraled to

nations of the earth the news of the birth of the Christ

Zhild.

But has the message been as sweet and refreshing to us
is I the shepherds of old. do we go as joyfully and expectant-
I His House as they to the manger, to see Him. race to
Face, are we as anxious to give good g-if ts to Him arc His
use today, as they ?
Am I fully conscious of the fact that He is mv Saviour.
Redeemer. Have I fully grasped the truth that He actual-
y came and gave His life for me — I. a poor miserable sinner.
;>ut hope, without life: and above all have I fullv acknowl-
ged Him as my personal friend. Will I own Him as a com-
panion throughout my College course— throughout the res1
I my life, or shall I forget His loving kindnesses and tender
mercies, and attempt to carve out a career to suit mvself.

Feiiow-student. you who are halting between two opin-
ions, between right and wrong, between God and mammon.
choose you this day whom you will serve. Let not the sun of
3 go down and rind you without the possession of Him
who is your friend and advocate. "Seek the Lord while he
may be found, call upon Him while He is near."

The V.M.C.A. has been very fortunate in securing- the
services of speakers who presented the Word with such power
and enthusiasm, that our hearts were made to rk>« within

—

us. and spurred us on to attain to the higher life.

The Week of Prayer. Nov. 9-13, was a season of refresh-
ing, and was pronounced by all to be the most helpful series
of meetings ever yet hold.

Monday night Or. Oinn spoke on "The Light of Lite.'"
Tuesday night. Miss Jessie Brewer, our returned Missionary

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from India, spoke very forcibly of her work, and at the same
time she added some new light to our Mission Band. Wed-
nesday, Dr. Yutzy spoke on "Personal Purity." Thursday
night, Prof. Birch spoke on "Temptations," and on Friday
night, Rev. Gensler of the 1st Lutheran church of town, spoke
on the subject "A Pleading Christ." Rev. Gensler is a strong,
forceful exponent of the Word, and never fails to command
the attention and interest of his audience.

Dr, Focht spoke on the 18th on "The Christian Ministry
as a Life Work." He told us as we never heard before, of the
great responsibility of being a minister of the Gospel. His
remarks made a profound impression upon all who were pres-
ent, and were only too sorry that all the students could not
be present that evening.

The Y.M.C.A. Lecture Course entertainments have been
a succes thus far. They have far exceeded our expectations.
Dr. Shaw lectured on Thursday night, Dec. 10, at Seibert hall.

. School of ZheolOQy*

Dr. J. Yutzy and Ralph H. Bergstresser represented the
theological department at the second triennal convention of
Young Men's Christian Associations in theological institu-
tions which was held in Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 19-22. On
Monday, Nov. 23, they accompanied a body of students to
Niagara Falls.

U. A. Guss and P. H. Pearson, both of the middle class,
preached their first sermons last month. Guss supplied at
Mt. Union, Nov. 15th, and Pearson at Lairdsville, on Nov. 29.

Charles Lambert preached at Mt. Union on Nov. 1st and
20th, and at Scranton, Nov. 15th.

L. R. Haus while attending the District Convention of
the Y.M.C.A. at Bloomsburg last month preached in the Re-
formed church on Sunday morning and in the Lutheran in the
evening.

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Hocals anb personals.'

COLLEGIATE.

Dr. Woodruff has for the last month been attending In-
stitute at Mifflintown and Middleburg.

W. W. Young- spent Thanksgiving- at Gettysburg with
his friend Samuel E. Smith, who was a former student of
Susquehanna.

Messrs Wagenseller, Whitmer, Wert, and Froutz, drove to
Middleburg on Thursday, Dec, 3, where they heard Spillman
Riggs lecture on "Musical Fits and Misfits."

Thomas Uber and Ira Bingaman spent Thanksgiving at
Troxelville with the latter's parents.

Wellington W. Wert, who spent last week at Killinger,
reports that while there, he succeeded in bagging twenty-six
rabbits, twelve quail and nine pheasants.

William K. Flech spent Thanksgiving in Kisler visiting
a friend.

L. F. Gunderman spent his vacation with his foster-
father. Rev. W. H. Derr at Montoursville, Pa.

The Alumni Gymnasium is now fully completed and the
Basketball team has been practicing every night during the
past week.

Calvin P. Swank who spent the latter part of last week at
Ellysburg with his parents, returned on Monday last.

Prof. Ambrose L. Smith of the Commercial Department
spent Thanksgiving at Green Valley with his parents, and
Friday at Williamsport with his friend Geo. D. Clarke.

SEIBERT HALL.

Most of the young ladies spent Thanksgiving vacation
at their homes and all report a good time.

Miss Whitmoyer, of Bloomsburg was a visitor at the
dormitory Nov. Sth.

Miss Ruth Ramey has returned from Philadelphia where
she enjoyed a visit with friends.

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Two more girls at the dormitory, Misses FetterhofT and
Rhineheart. New girls are always welcome.

The reading- room on second floor is being- fitted up as a
place of amusement for the young- ladies.

Miss Edna Kline was entertained by Miss Schollenberger
Thanksgiving vacation.

Miss Kessler of Sun bury was the guest of Miss Garringer
Nov. 14th.

Susquehanna School of Business.

A knowledge of business is the only safeguard for preserva-
tion of riches, and the rapidity with which inheritances melt
away when left to young men and women who have neither
training nor experience, has directed the attention of parents
every to the urgent necessity of giving their sons and daugh-
ters such a preparation as will qualify them to manage any
property left to them. This preparation insures independance
and self-support to all young men and women of energy, abil-
ity and integrity.

Robert Haven has accepted a position at Homer City, Pa.

E. C. Johnson has been unable to attend school the last
three weeks.

We are always glad to welcome new and old students.
Since our last issue three new members have been enrolled, —
Messers Phillips, Stauffer and Potter. We are also glad to
have W. C. Shelley in our ranks again.

Ira Z. Fenstermacher preached at Mt. Jnion on the 15th
and 22nd of Nov.

Rev. J. A. Richter supplied at Scranton on Nov. 22nd
and 29th. During the other Sundays of the month he preach-
ed at the Lairdsville charge.

P. H. Pearson who played the star game of the season on
the Varsity Football team this year has been elected captain
of the team for the next year. Mr. Pearson has also been
elected captain of the Basketball team for this season.

W. L. Price and Ralph H. Bergstresser were elected by

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the theological department to represent it on the Board of
Directors of the Athletic Association.

M. H. Fischer of the middle class has taken full manage-
ment of our new gymnasium. Mr. Fischer deserves great
credit for the intense interest he has shown in the building
throughout its entire construction, and it is largely through
his efforts that we can boast of having one of the largest and
best equipped gymnasium in the state.

R. H. B.

Btblettcs.

ON Thanksgiving Day closed one of the most successful
Football seasons that Susquehanna has ever had.
Never before in her history has there been such efforts to se-
cure and maintain a representative team. That these efforts
were amply rewarded is shown by the high moral conduct of
the men on trips and the number of games won.

We have just reason to be proud of our Team this year
and we hope that their fair record will remain unbroken
during the coming seasons. Manager Whitmoyer deserves
great credit for his untiring efforts in bringing our athletics
to their present height of excellence.

The season for Baseball will soon open and we are pleased
to see the unusual interest manifested by the students already
in this very popular department of athletics.

The new "Gym" is completed and every evening a large
number of fellows are on the floor training for Basketball.

Manager Sunda}' has arranged a fine schedule and we
predict a very successful season for our boys this year.

Let the student body become aroused and by their pres-
ence cheer the team on to excellence and victory.

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At a large mass meeting- in the College chapel Tuesday
evening-, Nov. 24, the Varsity "S" was given as a token of
honor to the following men :

FOR FOOT BALL,.

Whitmoyer, Bingaman, Pearson, Swank, Benfer, Her-
man, Witmer, Geise, Shaffer, Maus.

FOR BASE BALL.

Roberts, Frank, Hoch, Wmt, W&gOT»fc\\eT, ^eyno^as,

FOR BASKET BALL.

Whitmoyer, Roberts, Scholly, Camerer.

FOR TRACK WORK.

Gearhart, Bingaman, Latchla, Pearson, Witmer, Fleck.

On Saturday, November 7th, Susquehanna played the
Bloomsburg State Normal Team on Susquehanna field.
Bloomsburg won by a score of 12 to 0.

On Saturday, November 14th, Susquehanna lined up
against Lehigh's strong team at S. Bethlehem and were de-
feated 45 to 0, considering the fact that many of our players
were in a crippled condition we think they did well.

Susquehanna.

Maus

Houseworth

Bingaman

Fallon

Schaffer

Herman

Swank

Fleck

Geis

Pearson

Positions.

Left end
Left tackle
Left guard

Center
Right guard
Right tackle

Right end
Left half-back
Right half-back
Full-back
Benfer, Gunderman Quarter-back

Time of halves, 30 and 20 minutes.

Lehigh.

Smith, Duncan

Geare, Orth

Gott

Barnard, Fisher

Strauss, Hodgkin

Johnson, Buck

Herman, Dorman

Haslem, Smart

Forrej, Bailey

Butler, Kirk

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The Reserves were defeated at Shamokin on Saturday.
Nov. 21. on Shamokin's ground, 33 to 0.

S. U. Reserves.

Uber. Sr.

Uber. Jr.

Henderson

Hall

Schocfa

Showers

Swank

Gunderman

Fleck

Sundav

Price

Positions.

Left end

Left tackle

Left guard

Center

Right guard

Right tackle

Right end

Quarter back

Left halfback

Right half back

Full back

•J£ t^C

Shamokin H. S.

Klinger

J. Schoop

Cardweel

Heim

Shipe

Barr

Culp

Lee

F. Shoop

Fisher

Seise n ring

T. B. l\

Hlumni Botes..

'02. Rev. H. D. Hoover is instilling- the missionary spirit
into his people at Friedens. Pa. On Luther Day the contri-
bution exceeded S100. which was over good considering the
size of the congregation. More ministers should have the
active spirit of Brother Hoover and transmit it as well to
their people.

79 Rev. Isaac Krider is doing very successful work at
Duncansville. Pa. At the fall communion l c * were added to
the membership by confirmation. The congregation also de-
cided to make improvements for which the money is already
raised.

00. Rev. Carpenter, after extensive improvements in his
church on Brushton Ave., Pittsburg, reopened during Octo-
ber.

00. Rev. C, B. Hariuan resigned the Rebersburg charge
to accept one in Columbus. Ohio. Rev. Harman took charge
on Dd:. 1st.

'98 (Col.) Rev. C. P. McLaughlin dedicated his new

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house of worship on Dec. 6th. We are in receipt of his dedi-
cation announcement and souvenir, and it shows the good
work and excellent management of Rev. McLaughlin and his
devoted people of Chicago.

'98. Prof. W. R. Bastian was one of the instructors at
the Snyder County Teacher's Institute, held the first week in
December.

'96 (Sem.) Rev. J. Fasold has taken charge of the work
in the Muncy Creek charge which has been vacant for some
time. We sympathize with Bro. Fasold in his recent bereave-
ment in the loss of his young child.

'92. Rev. J. S. English has been elected to the pastorate
at Watson, Pa. Rev. English is an earnest and hard worker
and we predict a brilliant career in his new field of labor.

'03. Prof. C. O. Frank, principal of the Rebersburg
schools, was a Thanksgiving visitor in Selins Grove.

Rev. W. H. Hilbish and family spent some time here,
away from his work in the Addison, Somerset county charge.

"It is the duty of every man to improve his knowledge,
will and understanding. It is as great a shame to hear ration-
al, instuctive discoure, and not be attentive to it, as it is to
reject with scorn a valuable gift. Think philosophy a grea-
er treasure than immense sums of gold, for gold is apt to take
wings and fly away, but philosophy and virtue are inalienable
possessions. Wisdom is the only immortal inheritance."

I so crates.

A pessimist is a man who tells you that every rose has a
dozen thorns.

The fool is fonder of showing off than the wise man.

Zhc Suequebanna

Selinsgrove, December, 1903.

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postofiice as Second Class matter.)
Terms— 75 cents, strictly in advance. Single copies. 10 cents

Fked W. Barry, '04, Editor-in-Chief. L. W. Walters, '03, '06, Bus. Mgr.

Archie W. Frontz, '06, Locals and Personals.

Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.

Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

\V. H. Kempfer, '05, Mg. Editor. 1. W. Bingaman, '06. I .„ ct n__ «__

Geo. D. Clarke, '05, Asst. Mg. Editor. Anna K. Beaver, '06. J AhSl - ±iUS * ****•

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Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
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EDITORIAL

COLLEGE enthusaism is very often misrepresented and mis-
used even by college men. It is often the case that classes or
student bodies have the idea that a sudden outburst of mischief
or violence, or a mass meeting - where cheers and songs and
addesses intermingle, alone constitute enthusiasm. It seems
to be to them nothing but a temporary outflow of their show
of loyalty.

We have seen the student bod} 7 jubilent and enthusiastic
at a mass-meeting before some important Atheletic event, and
then if the team should be outclassed or defeated by some other
means, they turn around and say not a word to encourage their
team for future efforts. As a winning team is not always the

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team that is successful in every contest but rather one that
knows how to take a defeat like men and profit by their lessons,
so also an enthusiastic student body is one that has the school's
interest at heart, whether inatheletics or class events or what
ever it may be.

Class spirit is a good thing- and we are not writing- to dis-
courage nor break up good wholesome rivalry but everything
has a limit and enthusiasm which cannot take form in regular
class duties is not enthusiasm when the members of two oppos-
ing classes may be set up in a pitched battle against one an-
other.

The animal side of men too strongly asserts itself when
we take such a view of this subject. What is far more prefer-
able is to be found in those who try to excel rather in the higher
privileges of the college life than in the ordinary ''class rush"
or "common free for all fight."

It should not be necessary to call together the student
body before every game, in a mass meeting in oder to create en-
thusiam among them. No, rather it should be in every student
to stand up for his college, for his team, and unless hindered,
beyond his power, be at the game, take part in the cheers and
songs to encourage his team and help them win. Then if they
have fallen a little short of his expectations, don't sneak away
as if ashamed to admit that he is from the same college. Stand
together like men and turn the tide of battle for the next con-
test by your cheers and words of praise. When Sheriden found
the army, defeated, as they thought, and fleeing before the
enemy he did not slacken the pace of his noble steed but with
his brave cheer "Turn boys, turn we're going back" he turned
the tide of battle and won the day.

As the Basket Ball season is now upon us let us nerve our-
selves and keep our nerve and stand by our team whether in
defeat or victory and we will have reasons to be proud of our
team, of each other and of our old Susquehanna.

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l£i changes-

A literary and entertaining- journal — The Maryland Col-
legian.

The Purdue Exponent for November appears in a dainty
and artistic cover.

We are giad to welcome The Con rati t among- ourexchanges.

Rays of Light from McPherson College could improve its
editorial and exchange notes.

From the far west comes The Porcupine of Santa Rosa,
Cal. It brings to us splendid thoughts in its literary pro-
ductions.

The article entitled "Character," in the October Muhlen-
berg deserves our mention. The reasoning is good but the
author should have given more care to his mode of expression.
The Elizabethan of Elizabeth College, is without doubt one
of the most up-to-date exchanges that we receive. It is a
model of system. Beginning with the neat sketch on the first
page, it is attractive and interesting throughout.

Upon the farm the city-bred

Young miss sat down to tea ;
And noticing the honey said,

"I see you keep a bee."— Old Hughes.

The manner in which The Free Lance conducts its ex-
changes is indeed commendable. In criticising an article, the
strongest sentences are quoted.

An interesting sketch of the "Hoosier Poet" occurs in the
October Spectator. In the same number, the article entitled
''Mental Attitude," is evidently the product of a logical and
penetrating- mind.

We have nothing but words of praise for The Idealist of
Kee Mar College. The quality of the paper used, the style
of the productions and the general appearance attract our
aesthetic tastes.

If more of our journals would contain worthy articles like
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ord, we feel sure that the college journal would be more ap-
preciated. The writer shows a remarkable fineness of feeling.

The Haverfordian contains a little sketch on "Idealism,"

in which we find this truth — "The difference between a human

being*, with all his human strength of character, and the

devil, is that the former is always conscious of some lurking

virtue, while the devil is conscious of none."

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Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated

The bird of dawning singeth all night long

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that of twenty years ago, orders 31 Ivers
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follows :

1382 .

. , c ,o

Pianos.

1895 . . 20

Pianos.

1884 .

. 6

< 1

1896 . . 15

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IBM .

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1897 . . 12

1 1

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1898 . . 12

11

1688 .

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1 1

1889 .

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1894 .

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ESTABLISHED J89J 500 CIRCULATION.
Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1904 No. 5

Hlumni flumber.

CONTENTS.

LITERARY. . page

The Gift of Second Sight, - 133

Rev. H. C. Michael.

Address to the Graduating Class of the

Preparatory Department, - - - 134

Unnoticed Royalty, - - - - 143

Being Misunderstood, ----- 147

ATHLETICS, 151

Flowers From My Sweethearts Hair, - - 155

ALUMNI 156

EDITORIAL, - 158

Published each Month of the Scholastic Year by the

Students' Publishing Association, Susquehanna University,

SELINSGROVE, PENNA.

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Selinsarove, January 1904.

THE QVfJ OF SECOND SIGHT.

KEV. H. C. MICHAEL.

"I thought the shining sun was dark,

And dark the bending skies :
Alas ! I find the darkness all

Is in my blinded eyes."

Thrice happy he
Who joys to see

The world as it was meant to be !
Preverted vision doth obscure
The good, the beautiful and pure,
And change the glory of things seen
To something bestial and mean.
To see and judge the truth aright
Is to be blest with second sight;
For facts are oft misunderstood
When they are clothed in flesh and blood,
Or when beneath the thing you see
There lies encased, Reality.
To judge a man
You needs must scan
More than his superficial plan :
Not his vestures,
Nor his gestures ;
Not the color of his hair
Nor his manners debonair ;
For these things are but the sheath
Of the character beneath.
To see and judge the truth aright
Is to be blest with second sight.
Some there be with vision marred,
Who ignorantly disregard

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The work of artist and of bard ;

Who many pictures may recall

But miss the beauty of them all.

Oh for the seer's gift we yearn, —

A Raphael who could discern

The hidden beauty of each line ;

And from the features of a face

That other men deemed commonplace,

Delineate a form divine :

Or like the youth

Who saw a truth

Within a marble shaft uncouth ;

And while some looked,

And others laughed,

He carved an angel from the shaft.

Heavenly Father, hear my cry !

Bless me with a gifted eye,

Bless me with this second sight,

Let me judge the truth aright.

"I ask not that the outer world

Another face may wear ;
But that myself, myself be changed,

1 make my daily prayer."

•£• •£* «J*

ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE

PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF SUSQUEHANNA

UNIVERSITY, JUNE 13th, 1903.

kk THE SCHOLAR'S SELF ASSERTION IN THE WORLD

OF AFFAIRS."

BY BRUCE A. METZGER.

MR. CHAIRMAN, Members of the Graduating Class of the
Preparatory School, Ladies and Gentlemen, I confess no
small pleasure in being- called upon to speak to you upon this
happy and interesting- occasion. I was altogether surprised
to receive a letter from your Dean asking me to attend these
Commencement exercises and deliver the address to the Gradu-
ating Class of the Preparatory School. I could not help turn-

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ing over in my own mind what reason must have determined
this choice, fortunately I was not unfamiliar with the diffi-
culties your faculty likely have had in securing- a sufficient
number of speakers to round out the program, and forsooth,
after many disappointments, it may have occurred to them
that here is one who having- but recently come to the Law can-
not honestly decline for want of time. This may have been
sufficient warrant for your faculty, but my own conscience de-
manded some plausible reason aside from my vanity to justify
me in undertaking a task fraught with so much significance
to yourselves and the dignity of the University. It occurred
to me not to be inappropriate for one whose full blown rose
of school days has scarcely been succeeded by the budding"
first impressions of practical life to come back and speak to
those, who no doubt look forward to, and I trust will enjoy
like privileges.

Thus in the sly humor of Benjamin Franklin "So con-
venient a thing is it to be a reasonable being since ouo, caw
iind a reason for anything he may desire to do."

It is not the purpose of your speaker to discuss with you
tonight any important question of state, politics, industry,
history, or of scientific research. I take it to be more in point
and appropriate to the occasion to speak about those things
which concern the members of this class more directly and
personally.

Tonight you and I are resting by life's great highway.
The difference between our relative progress is measured by
a period of nine brief years. College, University, and prac-
tical life indicate sharp abrupt sub-divisions of that period.
I am looking backward you are looking forward as the spec-
tator with the aid of the opera glass draws the actor on the
stage toward him, so you impelled by your youthful impetu-
osity, with the glass of hope are peering into the future and
endeavoring to understand and enjoy beforehand what time
and patience alone can make sure to you. I am, as it were,
reading from the sketchbook of memory, if observation and
experience have revealed to me anything of value the occa-

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sion demands that I yield their treasures for jour enlighten-
ment and encouragement both as to things done and things
to be done.

Although you have but completed the first period of jour
academic training, you have already accomplished much of
which to be proud. Compared with the great masses of our
people, advanced as is our civilization, jou alreadj have a
liberal education. The great armj of workers — laborers,
farmers, mechanics, and clerks — maj T have more of this
world's experience but less of that training which yields life's
sweetest joys and makes jou masters of the physical forces.
You may start later in the race of life than the companions
of your youth bat your running will be the swifter. After
all the youthful years you spend in college would likely yield
you little of permanent value in the world of affairs, and your
starting will be quite as timely as that of those who volun-
tarily or of necessity forego such privileges. The results of
your work is a permanent self improvement. An accumula-
tion which can be reached by no process of legal execution,
or sunk in hazardous speculation. Self debauchery and de-
generacy alone will rob you of the value of your accomplish-
ments.

The foundation of all your education is laid, the hardest
part if you have been faithful has been done. Tonight you
do not realize the force of the words I am speaking to you,
their significance will be better understood after you will have
had time to rest and assimilate what you have been compell-
ed to acquire under pressure, and sometimes not without feel-
ings of utter confusion and despair. Study is hard work, as
hard probably as any you will be called upon to do, with how-
ever, this difference the graver feelings of concern, anxiety
and responsibility are absent, which probably accounts for
the proverbial mirth of student life.

You now occupy an unique position in society. Many
there are who are more able and more learned than yourselves,
towards these you will be respectful and deferential avoiding
the embarassments which come to less informed persons being

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too assertive in the face of their superiors, and thus among-
strangers you will always be on your guard for until better ac-
quainted you will not know who is your superior. But your chief
duties are toward those who are less fortunate than yourselves.
Do not taunt them with an air of superiority. Let charity and
condescension grace your demeanor. The advantage is all
yours. You can adapt yourself to them but they cannot adapt
themselves to you. Do not make a vain display of your learn-
ing-. Keep it for useful purposes. The greatest satisfaction
that can be yours is to realize that you are the possessors of
a power that is always accessible, and can be drawn upon
when occasion demands. If you dissipate this power in vain
display it will fail you when it should stand you in a good
stead. The consciousness of having- attained in part the
possibilities of the human mind will be the greatest satisfac-
tion that will ever bless your efforts and the increased service
you will be able to render others is the only way in which you
can discharge your debt to society and those whose beniticence
has made your education possible.

Most of you no doubt look forward to continuing your
studies either here or elsewhere. In your happy surround-
ing's it would not be desirable or acceptable for me to pre-
sume to prescribe for yaur future conduct in college life. It
has gone on before your very eyes, you have already been
a part of it. Let this be said in passing". You will prob-
ably find it more satfsfactory in the end not to attempt to em-
brace the whole round of College activities, but rather select
those for which your talents and physical natures are peculiar-
ly adapted, and thus distinguish yourself in one or two rather
than be mediocre in a greater number or absolutely obscure
in all. Also take it kindly if I advise you to leave your
faculty run the institution. The sugg-estions you are likely
to make will be with a view of lig-htening your burdens or re-
laxing* your discipline, both to your ultimate damage and the
generation of a spirit of insubordination. The great thing
in your school life is the pursuit of knowledge. The arraign-
ment of minor details can neither make or break your pro-

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rrets. They are matters ol merest convenience and comfort
an<l will have little influence on your ultimate success

Some o! you may be about to take up the bu _ —of jour
permanent careers, others may still face from foflf *' -even
rears of student life. Vet, as has been said, roar ere is even

now cast to the great beyond, and the question, "How will I be
able to assert myself in this great world of affair-." mustdi--
turb your more sober moments as being after all the ultimate
object of your industry, the crucial period in jom 1 -tiny.
though the way thither be through life's most charming ex-
periences. That truly will be life's great testing period.
Sometimes the kind hand of a sympathetic frier I has

gone before stretches back and clasps hands with you. thu<
steadying your first efforts and supplanting your anxious
thoughts with confidence aud gratitude. Others pass through
this trying period with no other stay than their own indom-
itable steadfastness of purpose and inherent strength o:
character.

Friends, opportunities, scholarship, all these cannot take
the place of personal energy and the ability to adapt yourself
to conditions and circumstances. The great complaint today
against our College and University training, especially that
of the professional schools, is that it is too theoretical. For-
tunately this assertion is forceful to the causual observer only.
In the very nature of things it must be so. Though the most
practical methods of teaching be adopted, yet principles alone
can be taught and learned. The art of applying them to the
practical exigencies of life must be left to the ingenuity and
experience of the individual. It is not to the discredit of our
institutions of learning that thev are theoretical. They can
honestly profess to be no more. If their students intelligent-
ly understand the principles as taught, the art or applying
them will be readily acquired by the person of average ability
and normal mental poise. The fault is not so much in the
theories as in our dispositions. Hamlet the dane and student
of Wittenburg was charged with the task of avenging the
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duty and despaired of achieving- his purpose. His complaint,

"The time is out of joint : cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

fitly describes the way in which some of us approach the
problems that confront our lives. And herein may be found
the reason that college bred men too frequently suffer in com-
parison with those who come up from the ranks with nothing-
other than a stout heart and unfailing industry to commend
them to success. The scholar is too apt to shrink from and
desist the struggle with the shock of disappointment when he
discovers for the first time that the facts of life are not ready
made to fit his theories, instead of varying and adapting his
theories to the exigencies of the occasion, only to find after a
long experience that the fundamentals which he learned in
school life are after all the backbone and at the bottom of all
the detailed variations he becomes acquainted with in this
great world of facts. The one trained in the school of affairs
has unconsciously learned by bitter, painful experience much
that the college man knew before hand, and the advantage is
all with the latter if action were his watchword instead of
bitter complaint that things are as they are instead of what
they should be. Truly the period when you begin skirmish-
ing with the world is a hard one, your anxiety for its outcome
is both pardonable and commendable. All you have of courage
and strength must be summoned and concentrated upon the
contest. The warning I would have you take is that your
diploma is not a passport to success ; it is only a certificate of
things done, and of itself will be inefficatious to produce
wealth or renown, unless supplemented by your God-given
strength and energy bestowed upon the condition that they
be employed in useful pursuits. Let this however be your
hope and assurance, that if you are as industrious, as assid-
uous and attentive to your calling as you probably have been
and will be to your studies the result will never be in doubt,
and you will receive the world's diploma written on the hearts
and lives of your countrymen conferring the degree of re-
spectable and useful citizenship.

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Grave as may be the question of jour prospects of a suc-
cessful career. There is a correlative and associated thought
which strikes deeper and goes to the very root of your char-
acter itself. Reared as you have been in an institution that
stands committed to religious teaching, importuned to right-
eousness by friends, teachers and your own conscience, as
well as inspired to lofty noble thoughts by the very studies
you pursue, success which involves the compromise of your
convictions will be enjoyed in the bitterness of your soul. As
the high minded maiden disdains the suitors hand tendered
on any condition save the plight of mutual faith, so you will
be justified in declining fortune and favor on any terms save
those consistent with your own intrinsic worthiness. Fortu-
nately their coexistence is not uncommon or impossible, yet
your more serious moments must have suggested to your
minds anxious consideration for the final outcome in the
struggle between the ideal and the base in mankind, between
virtue and evil in your own lives. For each of you there is a
principle of strength begotten in your very natures. Deep in
your hearts are convictions of right and wrong that you
scarcely dare breath to yourselves to say nothing of asserting
them openly as the precepts of your life's activity. Yet with-
al I beseech you to hold fast those principles which though
usually common to mankind are more peculiarly jour own be-
cause in you they are more perfect and prominent. They are
the things which become the secrets of success in life. They
are the leaders, the peculiar traits, instincts or intuitions
with which God has endowed you, and which will receive
their highest development and amplification in your life. It
is the dwarfed but irresistable out-cropping of such innate
virtues that compells us to see some good in even the most
debased of persons. If you maintain a normal equipoise of
head and heart faculties the emphasis of your special trait
will distinguish you as an interesting and original character.
The plant flourishes best in its native clime and so the soil of
your heart will give most luxurious growth to the God im-
planted seed. It was more than passing popularity that

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placed Roosevelt in line for the presidency. The foundation
of his greatness is manifest throughout his whole career.
Patriotism, intensity of purpose, and ability to believe in the
triumph of right are qualities not developed in a day. They
are born in the man, his honor comes in their preservation
and cultivation. Thus our nation is ruled by one whose char-
acter preserves him pure from all the temptations of office,
neither wealth nor ambition can swerve him from what he be-
lieves to be right, God bless our happy land in such hands it
is safe ! Mistakes may be made but they are honest mistakes.
Ten thousand times better thus than that we be compelled to
view with just suspicion every executive act and see therein
the taint of personal or party corruption. Like his, your life
and mine to stand the tests of the world must be intrenched
in truth as it were from the cradle to the grave. For the sake
of utility we can feign virtue and strength but they are not
real virtue and strength. Unless our lives sound of sincerity
and truth, unless they ring of honesty and integrity we will
classify ourselves with that unfortunate number who have
lost faith in themselves and faith in humanity because they
have failed to vibrate truly the note to which God attuned
their lives. They have sullied and blackened their charac-
ters by a compromise of honor for the purpose of serving a
deceptive temporary advantage, the intensity of whose suf-
,ering is aggravated because it is self inflicted and against
the protests of an unerring conscience.

For you my friends the struggle to keep uppermost in
your lives those principles which your whole being designates
as right and truth will be the more severe for your moral
sense is better developed, keener and more delicate than that
of many persons with whom you will come in contact. In
this too you are apt to be discouraged and disappointed when
first you begin to drive bargains and transact the affairs of
life. As in the exercise of your moral principles, tact and a
keen insight into human nature will be necessary for their
firm dignified assertion. It may seem and the causual ob-
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cess — the term including all vocations — are inconsistent and
incompatible. I admit the temptation is great but deny that
resistance means either obscurity or bankruptcy. Our
opinions are too frequently formed under the impulse of first
impressions or inferences drawn from isolated cases. The
average man of affairs preaches little but does much. He is
not a causist weighing with Pharisaical fineness the distinc-
tions between right and wrong. Yet on the whole he lives
honorably, pays his debts and earns his bread in the sweat of
his brow. Surely contact with such men need not to be fear-
ed. The obscurity of unprincipaled persons is a sufficient
commentary as to the permanent value of their methods. Yet
they will be your tempters, short-sighted, narrow r -minded,
unthinking persons will betray you into wrong doing for their
own advantage. Resistance means strength, strength victory
and first victories will pave the wav for you to realize the
grander inborn principles which to you are more than prin-
ciples which to you are ideals. The assertion of what
vou know to be truth and righteousness will receive an
astonishing 'response from those with whom you are thrown
in contact. True the manifestations of the degrading
influences in humanity are all too common to satisfy the
impatient student of social progress. Yet withal there
is little malicious wrong doing, most people are victims
of their own weakness, held bound in the chains of habit and
environment, the essence of uprightness is still in their hearts,
could their wills be recorded at the proper moments all would
agree to a reign oi absolute moral and religious perfection,
that so the aspirations of their better moments might be real-
ized and fulfilled. This accounts for the refreshing hopeful-
ness that possesses the heart and mind when we see and hear
another assert the same deep convictions which well up in our
own souls, but which through fear and timidity we hesitate
to stand upon and act upon.

Fear not that the world has no place for the man or
woman who attains to realize the ideal in his or her life.
Our lives, liberty and property are largely in the control of

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other people, such trusts require the security of purest hearts
and noblest minds, be this your glory, that to know you will
be to trust you, and to trust you find you true. Once establish-
ed as a clean irreproachable character you will be sought in-
stead of compelled to seek. Your intrinsic value will be
determined and certain. Others can depend on you for they
will know what you are worth. Go to you studies, go into
the world, go with your might. Follow the leadings of your
better nature. Be pur:, be clean, be just, be honest. Let the
attainment of character be your ambition. Set your heart on
its perfection and life's secret will be laid bare to you, life's
treasures at your command. The world may crown you with
its laurel wreaths, but it cannot add the sanction of your own
soul. Crown yourselves, like Napoleon crown you yourselves,
but crown yourselves with a satisfied spirit and a conscience
void of offence, then you will be happy to have lived and the
world will be happy to have had you live ; then will life's bur-
dens be most cheerfully born, life's sweets most deeply quaffed
and the joy which passeth all understanding of a race well
run and of a life well lived be yours for time and eternity.

ifT* ^r* ^r*

UNNOTICED ROYALTY.

EVIDENCES of power in whatever field they are displaj r ed
have always commanded admiration. We admire brawn
and muscle, not for its physical form or beauty but because it
shows marks of imminent power. We respect grand intellects
that are able to drink from the fountain of universal knowl-
edge ; whose sowers not only master the concrete complexities
but also show how fascinating the realms of the abstract are.
Science and philosophy are ever opening new avenues for ex-
ploration.

We admire physical power, respect and cherish intellec-
tuality, but we experience a deeper devotion when the soul re-
veals its powers. When the heart pours forth its fullness in
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felt that is well expressed by the word, love.

Royalty and nobility are not inherited as crowns and
kingdoms are, magnanimity is not transferable in titles and
degrees. A good family name is no guarantee of virtue and
heroism, but these noble graces are essential to its perpetu-
ation. Manhood or womanhood does not reside in bodilv
beauty or mental brilliancy, but its home is in the depth of the
soul. And if there is one virtue above another which we adore,
yea which the world adores, it is the heroic in the soul of man.
While the world is so eager to do homage to heroism, yet its
eyes are half blind to the wavs in which it occurs in the lives
oi thousands, yes tens oi thousands of ordinary men and
women.

History sings and shall ever keep repeating the praises
of the illustrious few. whom it portrays as having been
martyrs for humanities good. It pictures them as martyrs ;
but if the whole truth were told, in nearly every instance
they were martyrs, not to science and humanity but to their
own ambitions. They, influenced by their love of fame, by
their love of conquest, flattered by common applause, and en-
veloped in no grander mantel than the emotional greed and
avarice of pure selfishness, rushed on in their mad career.
This was the spring and this the working motive in their
lives. On the other hand its pages are blank concerning the
heroism and the unseltish enthusiasm of multitudes who have
nobly suffered and died in a quiet way for what they believed
was a righteous cause. It ia silent with reference to these
true heroes. But because of this very reticence their names
are the more sacred. This silence throws around their lives
a more hallowed consecration. We bow in quiet reverence,
shedding sympathetic yet sacred tears over the graves of un-
known heroes.

There is no place where royal courage is shown more
plainly and thrown open to public gaze more completely than
on the world's great battlefield. It is here that the immanent
energies that otherwise would have remained dormant take
form and shape. Here the private, the ordinary soldier, is

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looked upon as a mere mechanical tool ; a collective body of
soldiers as a mighty war engine, to be used to the best ad-
vantage by some shrewd and masterful mind. The general
and the leaders because of their mental superiority and tact
are the turret and the minarets to which all eyes are turned.
They love public adoration, it is only human that they should.
When victory is the reward of their supposed efforts huzzas
gush from a thousand throats as if upon them alone had de-
pended the issue of the conflict. But have those in the ranks
contributed nothing to victory? Yea they have done all that
they could do. The greatest general that ever moved among
men could have done no more. They, truly, have borne the
brunt of the carnage. With no hope of reward or of pro-
motion nor yet courting or even desiring the praise and lauda-
tion of future generations, like the maddened Cossacks they
have rushed into the face of defeat and snatched victorv from
its jaws. And when inevitable defeat has stared them in the
face, they have stood unmoved by their post ; and with grim
determination have gone down before the raining shot and
shell, like snowflakes melted by the warm southern zephyrs,
forever to be silent and never again to raise their stalwart
right arms for their family, their home, and their country.
The very reason that they were privates and could never hope
to have their names mentioned in the annals of history the
more royal their deeds and the more worthy their heroism !
Heroes do not spring into life only in time of war when
great danger threatens. In the ordinary walks of life at arm's
length from us and often touching our very elbows are the
truest kings and queens in the world. Is it possible that our
eyes are so heavy that they should pass by unnoticed !

In an inconspicuous building in Cuba, a group of patient
physicians and a number of humble men and women have
written a page in history. They have tried to discover the
means by which yellow fever is transmitted. They volun-
tarily put their lives to the stake for the interest of humanity
and science. Of these true martyrs, a large number endured
the torments of the fever. Their names have not been pub-

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3iis3»i aVroaid- E*en the physicians were a mtotaed to speak
j^aic h ens* number one/ and "case number two."

es to the work v.itb no thought of honor and no
* - - - But day after daj and ni^bt after mgbt

-<- -- .■■ with quiet courage and suspense wbichisoften
v.-. ib.br tnaintv, and when tbej were -icken th wf-

■.--.■: wi tb out complaint. The names of these heroes kserre
-.. -.* V"-' and honored. Surety their d^ed wart wweliisii

- : n-c^rranimous. Jt was grandly heroic.

Th* gravest and most desperate strugg'e- that -i v -
, --,. c": ever will occur have not. or ever can :* >een by
- : - 1 1 •: ' Across the battlements and upon the plains 0*

•. -_- be art the most deadly conflicts are tc.>::r^ : "- : ~ '----;•'
] :-. ceet anguish experienced, when ambittor:. : .ssi.r. ar
: .~. ant ripation meet conscience and lutv r'ace •- :-----"
'r' rebellion, cannot be measured by bodily suntr:::^ -~-
esMtaranre. Mental agony is the severest of human tortures.
> :-.--. truggles of the will the wildest grar-p.:r:gs -a&e
- ::•: And nowhere are these encounters - rumer.u- r-r.c
- -, - : contended as among 1 the great mu'.titviie ■:•: "r.u'-c.c
~er and women. A soul that is thus sorely trie.: 7 the on-
sV g t ts of the enemy, one that is clouded and discouraged.
su fj ] and bleeding*, and vet remains true to the rig"ht and
:. that soul belongs to the highest nobility and the
est royalty.
Heroism is universal ; it beats in the heart of every moral
man. It is not acquired nor is it bought, or sold. It is born.
[forge* the individual to speak the hidden thought, to do
. npopular deed though it lead to the stake ; not for the
I honor nor yet because it is heroic but because it is
right, because it is truth. Accordingly we see that right and
truth are the pervading power, the potent factors Terming the
heroic in man. Every man that is not morally deformed and
feels a sense of duty is permeated with the heroic.

I can conclude with no more fitting words than those of
Dean Farrar : "There is a vet harder and higher heroism — to
live well in the quiet routine of life: to till a little space be-

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cause God wills it ; to go on cheerfully with a petty round of
little duties, little occasions ; to accept unmurmuringly a low
position ; to smile for the joy of others when the heart is ach-
ing- ; to banish all ambition, all pride, and all restlessness in
a single regard to our Savior's work. To do this for a life
time is a greater effort, and he who does this is a greater hero
than he who for one hour storms a breach or for one day
rushes onward undaunted in the flaming front of shot and
shell. His work will follow him. He may not be a hero to
the world, but he is one of God's heroes ; and though Nineveh
and Babylon be forgotton and unknown, his memory shall
live and be blessed."

L. W. W., '06.

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BEING MISUNDERSTOOD.

TO the man who is honest and true, to the man who is aim-
ing- to accomplish the greatest good for his fellowmen,
who looks beyond the self and its petty interests, and who
not only longs to do but who does some positive service in
this world in which he lives, there often seems to be but a
menial recompense. Time and time again it has been the sad
fate of many a truly great and noble man to live, to wear
away his life, and to die, unappreciated, unesteemed, and un-
known. Truthfully was it said, not long since, that one of
the hardest and bitterest things to endure in life is to Vive,
knowing that you are being misunderstood. True it is com-
mon, but nevertheless how many a life has been darkened,
and how many a spirit driven almost to the verge of despair —
all because sincere characters and noble hearts are and have
been so often misunderstood.

Whether it is necessary for such a thing to be or no, is
rather difficult to say, but the fact remains, and is witnessed
to by the past and present, that men are not appreciated until
after they have been placed in their graves. Did Athens
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and that he would be spoken of as a "martyr to truth ?" Did
the learned men of Athens know this when they condemned
him to drink the fatal hemlock? And with sadness if not
with tears we read the story of Columbus, the Genoese wool-
carder's son. Though surrounded with difficulties, though
ridiculed by the children of the streets, thoug-h for a long-
time unable to secure means to test his insane project, and
then thoug-h accompanied by a crew of criminal sailors, yet
he pressed on and proved himself to be the great man that he
was. But was he recognized by the people of his time ? No,
he was not. He died with little more respect and recognition
than a common worthless beggar. And how eagerly the
schoolboy of today reads the story of the "railsplitter" of
Illinois, "Old Honest Abe". But could we but have known
him in his inner life during the trying times of the Civil War,
we might have great reason to admire and esteem him the
more. Though ridiculed and censured by the North and by
the South — both of whom he loved — he guided our nation
through one of the critical periods of her history, he was
moved by a great principle which the many did not under-
stand. These are instances of men of repute but many such
may also be found in the common ranks of society. How
many ties of friendship are broken, how much injury is done,
how much evil results from being misunderstood, no man can
tell.

Since it is a fact that men are so often misunderstood we
may rightly enquire what are the causes. Why is it that
true greatness is unrecognized ? Is it not because partisan, sel-
fish feelings are too frequently given place in our minds ? Are
we not sometimes very reluctant in rating each man at his
true value? Is it not the general tendency to belittle noble
qualities and to magnify faults ? Would it not oftimes be
better to say nothing at all if we can say nothing good of our
neighbors ? Again, is it not also true that the world panders
to the transient things of the present ? Are we not too often
attracted by the giddy, gaudy, empty phantoms which excite
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not so much literary culture that is wanted as habits of
thoug-htfulness, reflection and conduct. But nevertheless the
chief cause of all this misunderstanding- may be traced to the
lack of adequate knowledge. We think we know when we do
not. Our knowledge must not only be clear, and distinct, but
it must be adequate. Yes, we know but the trouble is we
don't know well enoug-h. Consequently we fail to see good
and fail to understand. Let the pure white ligfht of knowl-
edge shine forth and dispel the darkness and ignorance from
our sluggish brains.

But what are the effects of being- misunderstood ? As
we have intimated it is that which throws gloomy shadows
on an otherwise bright and happy life. Instead of being free
and easy and ag-gressive, one is careworn, anxious, and some-
times inactive — throug-h fears of being- misunderstood. Then
too, on the other hand it is that which tries one's principles.
It is sometimes easy to do rig-ht in prosperity but not so in
adversity. To press on to attain one's end in spite of op-
position makes one not only careworn but thoughtful as well.
And further he who bears the test and endures the hardships
is made more and more determined and selfreliant in his efforts.
It will enoble him to say as did Kepler, the great scientist,
who, after seventeen years of labor, discovered and explained
a great physical law : "The die is cast, the book is written to
be read either now or by prosterity I care not which. It may
well wait a century for a reader as God has waited six thous-
and years for an observer."

Now let us g-lance at the effect upon the cause or principle
which is advocated. If a man be jeered at, persecuted or even
killed for the sake of a noble cause, does that kill the cause ?
It may hinder but it cannot distroy, for ''truth crushed to the
earth will rise again." Was the cause of Wallace, the Scottish
Chief, the cause of Washington, the cause of freedom lost be-
cause the world understood not that man was to be free ?
Were the great principles of science to be left undiscovered
because Bruno, Galileo, Kepler and Newton were so shame-

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fully treated and misunderstood ? Did itinjnfcShalK^^a*- s

Tririrtsrs to be so little read for - ; ; .- ' ' - '^

to be undiscoved because Columbus '.ivtc '-'z--'- r - '■'■ .-■~t-.rr.-_-
arc was therefore misunderstood? ' T ,V- . •: ^-'- : -' ::

dotted out because Luther, Calvirt. Z^:-^" l ' : • : '- r - vr - re
>a:c to be heretics? Has the cause of Christ beei iefeatec

rriuse the Saviour of the woro. wa- ~ -, r :■;."- " -' : : 7r --~ —
v; : ;.;•:; among" men? Can we not a^re^ with Err erst':: ~i.~~.
ae s-2. vs. "To be great is to be misun _erv.:»:«- '

Having- considered the effect on th t : - : . . - '-'-■ ''- ' - '-" '■ '
,i>:. may we not with reverence ::::V ;: «:i* *-^ tree:
mast be upon Him who created the :n::v. :_;_.' a- : ' uT ~ : :s i-tn-
rr".: the causing- cause? To hirn — ';; . :s '-.- Z '■'-- -'^ a --
-.^hteousness. and all power, who zreate-i *•"-•- :ta trs anc
the earth, who causes the beautiful, tender, littk loweis U
cr.::'.i their dainty petals, and who ■_">■: s~arrs tae ::-":. ess
v'.arets and stars in the immensity of space. ~ " '-'■ '-'-~ : '~ ~ : '■'-
lz rearabae and what more grievous thar. '■' >- -■-" '-'■-"
^norec misrepresented and misuncerstooa :y tat rreatares
o»f nis own hand ?

But what shall we do. or what >'.-.;.;.; :o . ~: itf.tait :r
recarc to being" misunderstood. It tsttet t~at ~r sa:_.: seei
:: be misunderstood in order to be great : .:t that -•= fit :.;.:
at a.'.', times "do rig-ht because it is r-cr.t" ar.a tt tat great-
~:ss take care of itself. It is not that we sit: .. : :* ::~~:ast
r.or discouraged, but that we shou'.d ever ::te-er:-'..T ana t>e:-
s.stfr.t'.v strive to do our best. It is oar's :; «: _; - the path
of duty, and not cater to the whims of ethers. And

"VS. as uniting at.u to the oh:v . :■... :■;■;. ; :. res
Where life and its ventures are laid,

The dreamers who £A?e « hi'c t« r .-;, : : . : - ; a ;. ■ : •
Ma\ see us in sunshine M shade,

N . tl true to out vvu:><\ '.ho. _;':■ . s « pvv : ; ■

Well trin qui hvo.nl nil ^- . .

UrfttMHd by the ruddei that.cov; ■..< . ; ;.;.-k
No: .iSN hvM\ «e look t-.o-.v :':•. shore '

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151

"There are those who delight in gathering the Olympic dust in
the race course. — Horace.

SOME of you will say that Athletics is a strange text for a
minister of the gospel to use as a basis for a message
from the ranks of the Alumni to the college world. But while
your humble servant was "one of the boys," there were at one
time six candidates for the ministry on one of the best teams
Susquehanna has ever sent forth and as many more of the
same on the "Scrub" team. The baseball team, as well, con-
sidered the services of a number of these self same embryo
preachers well nigh indispensible. So then, we believe that
aside from their warm interest in athletics the ministry has
also an inherent claim to the attention of the athletic world.
You remember the words of that old preacher, Paul to his
student Timothy, "take heed to thyself," so that we have also
some scripture authority and encouragement for what we are
about to say. Trusting that, if nothing else, I may have the
ear of some young Timothy who is preparing for the ministry.
I hope you will excuse this unwonted familiarity of literary
style. Let me come down from the stilts of the editorial and
literary "M," the "Miter" etc., and be one among you. Let
me have my pulpit on the green sward, or as it now is, on the
icy slush of the athletic field and in the words of the time
honored and much quoted Anthony, "lend me your ears" — I'll
return them when I am through.

The first division of my theme is this, Every one should
take part in athletics. I always did feel more or less of a men-
tal repugnance for the slender feather-blown youth, the limit
of whose athletic desire and accomplishments as well was a
voice which could drawl "play ball ! play ball !" from the side
lines or bleachers. An athlete is one who is trained to con-
test in exercises requiring bodily strength and agility. The
word athlete, is not the measure, of so manv cubic cemtimetres

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of muscle or brute force or of a certain degree of proficiency,
but finds its incarnation in whoever is willing - and able to con-
test. The idea that certain types of exercise are only forcer-
tain physical types of men is indeed a most pernicious fallacy.
The one regret of the preacher's athletic sense is the fact
that a fancied lack of time on the one hand and the fear ot
inefficiency on the other prevented him from adding- to five
years experience on the gridiron the same number of seasons
on the diamond.

Again, or secondly, we say, be natural Now that we all
rejoice in the near completion of our g-ymnasium you will be
able to develop athletically according* to the latest and most
approved style and pattern. But remember that the true idea
of athletics is to get as near the great throbbing- heart of
nature as possible by training- and developing- both mind and
body after nature's model and requirement. Don't despise the
day of small thing's for I doubt very much if the new and
most excellent paraphenalia will have power in themselves to
develop more sturdiness of brain or brawn, higher minds and
cleaner bodies than did the boys in the days of old when the
only remedy for the sweat of athletic toil was the cold shower
bath. Many excellent and well equipped gymnasiums and
natatoriums have I seen but none that inspired with a greater
relish for the bath or personal cleanliness than the little room
in the basement of Gustavus Adolphus Hall. In the face of
all others I somehow never felt ashamed of the place where
night after night twenty to thirty husky lads gathered to re-
move the stain of mother earth from their faces and the soil
from their matted hair. For much theory and not enough of
nature reminds me of the two fishermen who all day long, by
every modern device sought in vain to allure the sportive
trout. On the way home empty handed they met the not un-
usual combination of a small boy, a hickory rod, a piece of
twine with a rusty hook and a string of the speckeled beauties.
"Hey there boy," cried one of the men, "why did you have
all the luck ?" After a brief moment of contemptuous survey

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the boy said, "youse fellers has too much paint." Paint is
all right in its place, but then we should not be afraid of it.
Perhaps the same condition was responsible for the incident I
am about to relate. One of the members of a team which
hailed from a place where all the latest equipment was sup-
plied took it into his head to "guy 1 ' our big "Milt." Said
he, "is it true that you fellows wear suspenders when you
play football ?" "Yes," said "Milt" as he drew himself up
to the full height of six foot one, "but just you wait till you
see us play." And when that evening Susquehanna came off
the field with the scalp of the questimen team hanging by a
hook of 35 to 0, he was doubtless inclined to give the mythical
"suspenders" more than their due mead of credit. How well
do I remember coming back from vacation when approached
by our young friend W. C, who told me he had been training
hard for the football team. He had all the latest appliances.
He had copied all the latest styles. In his den, he had by the
latest system of weights and pulleys developed his muscles.
He knew all about the rules and aspired to the position of
half-back on "The Varsity." But after the first rude contact
with the brawn developed in Nature's school and hardened by
the battle of life under the burning heat of the summer's sun,
down went rules, theories, training, style and all, and our
friend's ambitions melted clean away. You see, he was not
natural. He tried to develop by rules that which nature has
said must follow her inexorable law of growth. We are all
proud of the new gymnasium. We are proud of the spirit and
self-sacrifice which built it but that pride can feed only on the
true manhood which develops beneath the shadow of its walls.
Another division of my strange text is, keep at it the diction-
ary word fa persistence. Well, let that stand for the benefit of
the Greek Professor who loves latin derivatives. But persist-
ence is the watchword of athletics. And now you will in-
dulge me while I speak in living characters. Some of the
"oldest inhabitants" will remember the time when our friend
R. W. first came to college. How the boys who love the green

154 The Susquehanna.

hailed his advent with delight! I remember when in much
solemnity the midnight procession of hooded monks moved
with doleful chant around the Dormitory to his hazing, a voice
from an upper window said prophetically "he will, in twenty
years outstrip them all." On the football field he was for
years the first and last candidate for honors. Comparatively
light in weight, his movements were quite erratic as well.
He would mix up the signals and when all the rest were bang-
ing- the center, he was the flying interference for an imagin-
ary runner around the end. But he persisted, and thereby
hangs a tale. He stuck until he learned the signals and in-
tricacies of concerted action. At one time, he was one of two
members of the "Scrub" team who came out into the face of
a driving November rain to give the first team practice. He
was always at work — and he won. Before he left college those
who had laughed at him saw him the leader in all depart-
ments of athletics. Not only this but the same indomitable
spirit of persistence won for him first place in his class and
made him the leading light in his own literary society. This
is only one example of thousands whose path to success has
had one guiding star, keep at it. The case aforesaid is in
strong contrast with one I have in mind. It recalls to memory
the case of one who came to college with every promise of
athletic success. His career soared upward like a rocket at
Susquehanna and went down in like manner in another college
wither vaunting ambition and a false pride had drawn him.
What I say to individuals is true of the college and of the
student body today as a whole which constitutes that invisible
power known as the esprit de corps. Never give up because
the team or teams are not winning games. Some victories
are more than defeats and many defeats are far better than
victories. That is a despicable and selfish spirit which has
for its all and only object to win. Winning is not the real
end to be sought but only the spur to the proper use of the
means in seeking the end — the development of the highest
type of manhood.

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Finally, treasure what you gain on the athletic field, you
will have need of it through life. Life is like a game of ball.
In it you will need the manly courag-e developed on the ath-
letic field. You will need the cool head and the quick, dis-
cerning judgment. You will need the knowledge of the fair
means, aye, and the foul also, by which your opponent would
try to thwart you. Many a day in the heat and rush of the
battle of life is upon you, in later years, you will in fancy be
struggling on the green sward for the honor of your Alma
Mater. Then will the experience gained on the athletic field
prove of real, practical value in winning the day which means
success in life and a crown which not only a grateful Alma
Mate but the world in general and later the judge of all hearts
shall bestow.

The Preacher, '98.

FLOWERS FROM MY SWEETHEART'S HAIR.

Alone! Alone with thee tonight!

Naught but thy presence here

To cheer my lonely plight

And yet, — and yet with thee so near

My lips can touch each petal dear,

I kiss thee as I'd kiss her now

As, with each earnest murmured vow

I kissed her then. It seems long ago.

Oh speak ! Speak out mute lips tonight !

Breathe but the words I love to hear, —

Speak in that peaceful calm delight

As she would speak, — "I love you dear."

I need not bid thee flowers dear,

I hear the message thou woulds't bring

A message fit for any king, —

The words that to thy petals cling.

I know. Ah yes, I know tonight

Her own dear lips to thee were pressed,

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156 The Susquehanna

As with a true and pure delight

She kissed each flower. And she caff - 1 '

Thee o'er and o'er and thus expressed

Her thanks to me for sending thee

Love's messenger to her to be

My love to bear dear one to thee.

Alone? Ah yes, alone it seems
Yet not alone tonight,
The soul of all my dreams,
My life,— is with me here tonight.
For she who loves me with her might
Has bid thee bear her love to me
In thy dear heart has whispered tree
A mvriad love notes all for me.

And soon 1*11 lay thee safe away
To cherish for all time.
To love each passing day.
For thou do'st give me thoughts s»
And messages from time to time
From her I love and who loves me
To whom I sent my love thro thee
And who thro thee sends love to me.

Yes love, my love thine own dear lips

Have touched each petal fair .

Tonight in eager sips

1 sip, — I drink the nectar rare

Gained from thy lips and lingering there.

And now good-night my flowers dear.

Good-night my love, my sweetheart dear,

Good-night, — God guard th\ slumbers

••Anon."

Rlumni Dotes.

"99 Rev. H. C. Michael, who has been laboring earnestly
in the mission at Wildmenlin^, Pa., has plans in hand to
build a beautiful church during the coming- spring. The
edifice is to cost $8000,

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'87. Rev. J. M. Stover, of Kittany, Pa., has been elected
to the Sardis charge, Westmoreland County, Pa.

'90. Rev. S. E. Bateman has resigned at Calvary, Phil-
adelphia, to accept the position of Secretary of Y.M.C.A.
work in that city, for which he seems to be adapted.

'91. Rev. H. Clinton Salem, has been elected to the Rock-
wood pastorate and took charge of his new work on Feb. 1st.

'94. Rev. Chas. R. Streamer is supplying the St. Paul's
mission, Camden, N. J., in connection with his regular work
at Lionville.

'00. Rev. Jno F. Stabley is doing excellent work at Jen-
nerstown, Pa. During the Xmas season his kind people pre-
sented many valuable gifts as an expression of their love and
esteem of their worthy pastor.

'03. Prof. K. M. Morgan, principal of the Freeburg
schools was in town on Saturday night, Jan. 16., and umpired
the Milton-Susquehanna Basket Ball game.

'93. Rev. H. P. Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y., is at present
visiting friends and relatives in Selinsgrove.

'03. Rev. D. J. Snyder is doing excellent work in his
pastorate at Minersville, Pa. At his mid-winter communion
eight adult members were added to the church and a liberal
offering was received.

'03. Rev. W. H. Derr is meeting with great success in
his charge just on the outskirts of Williamsport. The White
Church was recently renovated and presents an altogether new
appearance.

'02. Rev. H. D. Hoover has been elected to an East
Pittsburg mission and will take charge on Feb. 1st. Rev.
Hoover is leaving a loving people and many dear friends, and
goes only because the Master has called him to this field.
May God's blessing attend him.

mm

Zhc Susquehanna

SelinsQvove, January 1904.

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postoffice as Second Class matter.
Terms— 75 cents, strictly in advance. Single copies. Id cents

Fred W. Barky, '04, Editor-in-Chief. L. W. Walters, '03, '06, Bus. Mgr.

Archie W. Frontz, '06, Locals and Personals.

Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.

Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

W. H. Kkhpfer, Wk Ug. Editor. LW. Bi^gama>-. 'DO. | . „, Pllc .-,

Geo. D. Clarke, '0i, Assf. Afg. Editor. Akna K. Beaver, '06. \ Amu B ®*" M ^ r>

The SrsQUEHANKA is published each month of the college year by the Student*
. ublishiug Association of Susquehanna University.

The editors solicit contributions and items of interest to the college from students
and alumni.

All business matters and correspondence should be addressed to The Susque-
hanna, Selinsgrove, Pa. Exchanges should be sent to the same address.

The journal will be issued about the 12th of each month. All matters for publi-
cation must reach the managing editor on or before the first of each month.

Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
manager at once.

Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
and all arrearages paid.

EDITORIAL.

Alumni Edition. This issue of the Susquehanka is devoted

entirely to publications of articles received
from members of our Alumni. For the past two years the
management has given one issue of the year to publishing-
contributions received from members of the Alumni. This
has been done for two reasons. First, that there might be
created, if possible, a greater interest, on the part of those
who have gone out from our College walls, toward their
Alma Mater and its official organ, and again we believe that
their words of good cheer and encourag*ement will inspire

158

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The Susquehanna 159

those of us who are here, to greater activity and devotion to
our College. Besides this special issue, each month a depart-
ment of every issue is devoted to Alumni Notes. Mr. Chas.
Lambert, of the Seminary has charge of this department and
we bespeak for him your co-operation in making- this part of
the Susquehanna as interesting as possible by an occasional
report concerning yourself and your work or that of some
brother or sister Alumnus.

Gettysburgian "In our issue of October 21 appeared an ac-

Apology. count of our football gamewith Susquehanna

and also an editorial of the same subject.

Both these articles contained very strong statements relative

to Susquehanna's treatment of our team and her honor as a

college was attacked in uncompromising terms. The Susque-
hanna for November devoted a long editorial to the discission
of the game and to a severe criticism of the articles in the
Gettysburgian, saying that great injustice had been done to
Susquehanna by them and that they contained statements
entirely untrue.

It may seem strange that we have kept silent on the sub-
ject until now. We have been making an honest effort by
correspondence and otherwise to get at the exact facts and no
statement could be made before the close of the last term. As
a result of that investigation we have to say that an apology
is due Sesquehanna from this paper. On some points our
statements are incorrect and misleading and with regard to
others, while we may not be able to bring ourselves to see
them exactly as Susquehanna does, yet our present view of
the facts would not warrant the severe terms then used.

Let us say in explanation of our former articles that they
were not the result of "wilful intermingling of half truths
and deliberate misrepresentations." They were based upon
what then seemed to be the facts resulting from the best in-
vestigation possible at the time. Evidently, however, matters
were misrepresented to us, whether intentionally or not, we
cannot say. The Gettysburgian would condemn in as severe
terms as the Susquehanna or any other paper, intentional mis-

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representation of one college by another, and in this case we
affirm that it was far from our purpose to publish anything-
but the facts.

This statement may be a surprise to Gettysburg- men. To
them we would say that the honor both of the paper and of
the colleg-e demands it. In personal relations false statements
though unintentional, call for an apology, and we cannot see
why the same principle should not hold w 7 here colleges and
their representatives are concerned, and in this case the Get-
tysburgian has been the offender. It aims at advancing the
interests of the college, but this end would not be reached by
covering up falsehood and by failure to acknowledge wrong."

The above article appeared in the issue of the Weekly
Gettysburgian of Jan. 13th, and was sent direct to the Editor
of the Susquehanna. We have thought it proper to publish
the entire article as it there appeared, that our student body,
Alumni and subscribers in general might read for themselves
and know the present attitude manifested by our sister Col-
lege toward us.

The Susquehanna herewith wishes to accept the gentle-
manly apology of the Gettysburgian and to commend the Edi-
tor's manly and courageous spirit, and his careful and sincere
efforts to adjust matters.

We therefore would again say that in behalf of our Col-
leg-e the Susquehanna accepts the apology of the Gettys-
burgian in the same gentlemanly spirit in which it has been
offered, and we hope now to cement such fraternal relations
between the two Colleges as heretofore have not, perhaps, ex-
isted.

We might add that in all our future athletic contests, we
shall make such arrangements (as the securing of impartial
officials from other colleges, etc.) as will remove every ele-
ment of unfairness.

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Vol. XIV FEBRUARY, 1904 No. 6

CONTENTS.

LITERARY. page

Character, - ------ 173

SOCIETIES.

Philosophian, 176

Cuonian, 177

Y. M. C A. 179

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 180

LOCALS AND PERSONALS,

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CHARACTER.

IN looking back through the past ages we recognize the fact
that while the brute creation has made no progress what-
ever, man has taken great strides in almost every direction.
Man's progress, however is due to the fact that God
created him with an immortal mind, which, in these days of '
great educational facilities is being wonderfully developed.

But the mind alone is not responsible for all this advance-
ment and improvement. There must be something more ;
there must be something which enables a man to surmount
difficulties ; something that refuses to be defeated by obstacles.
This "something" is the theme of our essay. It is "Char-
acter."

Character, without a doubt, is one of the most interesting
subjects for thought. Someone has well defined it as "the
fruit of habit, 1 ' and none can doubt the truthfulness of this
definition.

The growth or formation of character is of the most
subtle nature, and few of us realize this fact until we have
indulged in some pet habit day after day until it almost im-
perceptibly but firmly fastens itself upon us. It so weaves
itself into us that it becomes a part of our very selves, and
can scarcely be shaken off.

It is said, too, that the character one forms during the
first twenty years of life will cling to him throughout his re-
maining- years and largely influence his success. But its in-

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fluence does not stop there. We meet men day after day and
by our words and deeds leave an impression upon them which
inspires them to nobler deeds or drag's them further down the
scale of life. And they in turn exert a like influence upon
others that we do upon them. Thus our influence is brought
to bear upon those whom we, perhaps, never knew or saw.
We may compare influence with the ripples caused by drop-
ping a stone into the water, which never cease to expand un-
til they have reached the opposite shores.

Many say that it is only a man's deeds and words which
leave their impression upon the minds of men, but they lose
sight of the fact that the deeds and words are only evidences
of the character.

Now, if we realize that our influence is almost entirely
dependent upon our character, we are brought face to face
with the fact that great responsibilities rest upon us ; for
God permits us to live together that we may be mutually
elevating and helpful ; so that, if we fail to realize our re-
sponsibility, if we fail to develop a character that reflects
God, we are defeating His great purpose.

There are, moreover, those who deny that any such re-
sponsibility rests upon us, but these only endeavor to shift re-
sponsibility or ignore iit entirely, but it is upon us and will
remain so despite all efforts to shift it.

Character influences to a greater extent than we are will-
ing to admit our success in life. There are many who resort
to business tricks, and succeed in accumulating wealth, and
are considered successful. But this question arises, "If we
have not lived honestly, if we cannot look back over the day's
deeds with a conscience undisturbed by recollections of dis-
honest acts committed, have we succeeded ?" The only an-
swer is "No." In the end these things will become evident
for some one has said "You can deceive all the people part of
the time, and part of the people all the time, but you can't de-
ceive all the people all the time."

In order to prove equal to our responsibility we must de-

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velop a character which will not permit us to pretend to be
anything- other than we really are, for "Character is what we
are, reputation what we appear to be," and it is character
that counts for success and determines one's worth.

Every man, woman and child possesses character; some
in a higher stage of development, it is true, but all can be de-
veloped.

Character in a child, up to the time he is old enough to
think and act for himself, is the result, largely, of his en-
vironments, but upon reaching the age when he realizes the
necessity of curbing the passions, of holding in check hasty
thoughts, and of living, not for self alone, his ideals exert a
powerful influence upon his character. Therefore, to get at
the root of character-building we must begin at the ideals.
If wrong conceptions are formed, weak characters must in-
variably follow. This, then, should lead us to be careful in
selecting examples, for even the best human pattern is not a
safe guide. Jesus Christ has been the only one whom it is
safe to imitate.

Our closing thought is concerning some of the ways in
which our character is disclosed.

We have already said that it is shown by our words and
deeds. It is invariably written upon the face. How often
we see those who are strangers to us who show by their half
closed, averted eye that they are dishonest. How often the
gait, by its stealthy stride shows forth treachery, or by its
firmness and deliberateness evinces stability and determina-
tion. It is both interesting and instructive to be placed in a
position to observe throngs of people, and how by dress, gait,
etc., show forth clearly many different phases of character.

The subject of character-building is well worthy of our
best and deepest thought. It is one we can well afford to
consider thoroughly and deliberately, especially as we are
preparing for the labors and responsibilities which shall rest
upon us when we shall go forth to battle with life's stern re-
alities.

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We need to be deeply impressed with the fact that we
will have great battles to fight, consequently great victories
to win or lose. We will have problems to solve, difficulties
to surmount, obstacles to remove ; and to accomplish these
things we must prepare now. We are only preparing for the
great tomorrow as we live today. Therefore, unless we live
well today, unless we improve every opportunity, unless we
develop decision of character, unless we are pure and true in
every thought, word, and deed now, we will find ourselves
sadly deficient when duties press upon us, and we will ulti-
mately fail of fulfilling our great mission and of achieving
success.

G. G. P., '07.

Societies.

PHILOSOPHIAIN.

Into eternity another vacation has gone and February,
1904, finds us well on our way towards the close of the present
term, and also Commencement.

We are happy to state that few of our members are miss-
ing. Almost all have returned to "Old S. U." to take up
their labors, both in the recitation room and in society.
Though we are sorry for the loss of a few, yet we feel glad
that others joined our ranks.

We welcome to our society, as active members of Philo,
Miss Mary Burns and Mr. Samuel Stouffer, both of Selins-
grove, Pa.

The election of officers for the ensuing six weeks occurred
Jan. 29. Result was as follows: Pres. , Mr. Bergstresser ; V. Pres.
Edna Kline; Sec, Miss Briemier ; Treas., Geo. G. Fox;
Critics, L. F. Gunderman, L. Walters ; Editor, Miss Grace
Jacobs; Asst., Mr. Ralph Showers; Pianoist, Miss Shollen-
berger ; Monitor, Mr. Heffner.

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The officials, whose term has just expired, deserve much
praise and commendation for interest shown, and the effort
made to uphold the standard of our beloved society.

May the remaining- weeks of this term mark much ad-
vancement along all the lines of our literary, and may we all
remember that the success of our society, and thereby the
betterment of ourselves, depends upon the interest taken by
each individual member.

"Billy."

CLIOINIAIN.

The stamina of our literary evening- is the debate. All
other numbers cluster around it as the petals of a blossom,
but the stamen alone contains the propog-ating- vitality. All
are needful and not one part could be omitted without injuring
the whole, but the debate is eminently valuable, both for its
preparation and delivery.

Of the two, the preparation is by far the greater part,
yet we consider it often the one of lesser importance. Speak-
ing of preparation here, we mean not so much the argument,
but the manner of preparing it.

Oh, the folly of neglecting a debate until the day it is to
take place ! We think our lessons must be done and the de-
bate can wait.

Fellow Clionian, if this be your creed, you are missing
something' every bit as valuable, and perhaps more so, than
your lessons. Preparation just an hour or two before debate
stuns the vivacity of a debate. In such cases, we become in-
terested and get our points when the debate is over.

We take from a sack what we put into it ; we are nourish-
ed by the food we assimilate, not by the amount we eat. It
is much the same in debates. We receive literary culture and
mental development in exact proportion to the amount of
preparation we put into it.

It is not alone the number of debates that makes the de-

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bater, but the manner in which he gets his argument and ar-
ranges it.

The argument is composed of thoughts. The only way
to prepare well is to begin a week or two previous to the de-
bate. Let the thoughts "soak in," as it were. This is based
upon psychological principles and will result in more points,
more logical argument and better delivery.

If a few thoughts are allowed to rest quietly in the mind,
others will arise from these by associating them with their
environments. They multiply spontaneously, apparently.
While these points are revolving in the mind a little time will
help them to coalesce and crystallize into logical form.
Having been once together in the mind, the thoughts, with
their phrases, will flow for the speaker spontaneously and
make his delivery more effective.

For the mind to fully understand the points and thoughts
and to entirely sympathize with them requires time. We well
know that we first must understand and sympathize with our
subject before we can make others believe and feel it. Who
can deliver an effective argument when he must put forth all
his efforts to recall the thoughts and words. It is when these
thoughts have been thought and settled that they will spon-
taneously come and enable the speaker to put feeling back of
his words, and thus impress his listeners. Words without
feeling lack persuasive power. They are to the audience as
artificial flowers which appear beautiful but do not appeal to
the senses. Thus it is with feeling-less words. They sound
wise, but do not appeal to the individual.

Clio is progressing now more rapidly than ever along the
line of debating. Now and then it is necessary for the presi-
dent to impose a fine. This is not the work of a healthy Clio
and each one should avoid it and consider it a blemish. // is
your duty to be there, if possible.

Our old member, Mr. R. Z. Burns, was with us on Friday
evening. We welcome him and are thankful for the interest
he manifests in us. He gave us a valuable and interesting

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discussion on the "Four Flusher." We are also glad to see so
many friends present at our meeting's and extend welcome to
them again.

Y. M. C. A.

"Speak unto them that they go forward."

That the Y.M.C.A. has proved its worth in the College
cannot now be questioned by anyone. It is no longer a mat-
ter of experiment, but is recognized as a necessity in every
school for the training of young men for truer and nobler
manhood. There is in it that which appeals to the heart
of every right thinking young fellow, there is in it an in-
fluence which commands the respect and admiration even of
the thoughtless and indifferent. The Y.M.C.A. movement is
destined to live as long as the world shall stand, and through
its medium thousands of young men will be redeemed from
sin and degradation into a life of purity and usefulness.

The Association at Susquehanna has reached a height as
has never been attained before.

All of the resident students with but 2 or 3 exceptions
are now enrolled as members and are earnestly endeavoring
to lead an exemplary Christian life. Messrs Shaffer and
Job of Homer City, and Weist, of Berrysburg, are new mem-
bers of our Association.

We have been very fortunate in securing able speakers
for all of the regular services, and through them the altar
fires have been kept burning brightly, thus keeping alive and
warm a devotion that will tend to lead all into the deeper life
of love for the Master.

We are sorry to lose from our circle the kindly help and
influence of Dr. Yutzy. Never can we forget his last message
to us as a student body, exhorting each one to seek to know
the Master's will, and knowing it, to do it.

The citizens and students of Selinsgrove, were favored
with a genuine treat on Jan. 28th, when Dr. R. H. Gilbert, of
Berwick, lectured on the subject, "Brains, plus and minus."

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The Doctor proved himself a lecturer of no mean ability, and
instantly won his way into the hearts of his audience. We
hope to have him appear in the Course next year.

The Y.M.C.A. Hall was recently renovated and beauti-
fied, and the first and only meeting- was held in it on the 20th
of Jan., the fire which broke out on the Sunday following-
threatened not only the destruction of the Hall, but the
whole building as well. By great heroic work upon the part
of the students, the flames were soon extinguished before
great damage was done, but not until it had eaten its way in-
to our Hall. It will require very little repairing- to replace it
to its former beautiful appearance.

The State Y.M.C.A. Convention meets at Scranton, from
the 17th to the 21st of Feb. Many speakers of note will be
present to inspire the sessions with Gospel messages, and it
is hoped that many of our fellows may take advantage of the
low rates and attend the sessions of this noble body of Chris-
tian workers.

The Universal Day of Prayer for students was observed
on Sunday, Feb. 14th, by Colleges all over the world. The
day was fittingly observed by our University and we are con-
fident that it will result in untold good for the Master.

School of Zheology..

THE REV. JACOB YUTZY, D. D.

The Rev. Dr. Jacob Yutzy, Dean of the Theological De-
partment, and German Professor of Susquehanna University,
has tendered his resignation to accept a call to the mission
church at Peoria, Illinois. The announcement of his resigna-
tion, coming at this time, was a great surprise both to the
student body and to the friends of the institution, and ex-
pressions of the deepest regret were heard on all sides. As an

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instructor Dr. Yutzy has few equals. He possesses not only
the rare faculty of imparting the most profound truths in
clear, concise language, but above all infuses his students
with his lofty ideals and holy aspirations. His ideal Chris-
tian character and child-like faith inspires all who come in
contact with him.

Dr. Yutzy has been connected with this institution for
twenty-three years. During this period the institution has
made great strides both educationally and financially. When
he first entered upon his work, there was but one building
upon the campus, — The Old Selinsgrove Hall ; today he leaves
the University with five buildings including the Alumni
Gymnasium, just completed. Twenty-three years ago the
Missionary Institute as our University was then called, offered
one course of study ; today there are eight departments each
leading to a degree.

On Wednesday evening, Jan. 27th, the students of the
Theological Department met in the chapel and tendered a
surprise reception to Dr. Yutzy. The meeting was opened
by singing the old familiar hymn, "How Firm a Foundation. "
Then all the members individually offered a short prayer ask-
ing God's speed for him in his new field of labor. Following
this; Rev. L. P. Young, of the Senior Class, in a very im-
pressive manner, delivered the farewell speech, in which he
presented him with an American Revised Bible as a token of
our appreciation of his work among us.

The following day a special meeting of the Theological
Department was called, and the following resolutions were
drawn up and adopted :

Whereas, Our beloved and honored Dean, Dr. Jacob
Yutzy, has declared it as his solemn conviction, after prayer-
ful consideration of the whole matter, that the call to Peoria,
Illinois, is the call of God, and that it is his duty to under-
take this work ; Therefore, be it

Resolved, That the members of the Theological Depart-
ment of Susquehanna University desire to place on record

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their deep regret at the departure of their Honored Professor,
Dr. Jacob Yutzy, Professor of Hebrew and Greek and Syste-
matic Theolog-y

Resolved^ That while regretting- his removal, we rejoice
in the good work which he has accomplished ; his noble ex-
ample of Christian faith and sacrifice, and the modest Chris-
tian spirit in which these were exemplified

Resolved^ That while we are reluctant to part with him
as Professor, we bid him g-o with God's blessing, and com-
mend him and his work to the Master's keeping-

Resolved^ That a copy of these resolutions be placed up-
on the records of the Department, and printed in our three
church papers and in the Susquehanna.

Xocate anb personals-

College.

Prof. L. P. Young spent a Sunday with his parents in
Bellville.

Clay Whitmoyer and W. W. Young- spent, Saturday Jan.
23rd. at Lewisburg-,

Arthur Dimm, formerly of Susquehanna spent Sunday,
17th, in Selinsgrove. He expects to be with us ag-ain in the
spring-.

Wilson D. Brown, who completed his course here last
year, spent a few days with friends here.

Homer W. Hard, a former student of Susquenna, who lately
accepted a position in Norfolk, Va., spent Sunday Jan. 31,
with his old room-mate Walter Young-.

On our return from our Christmas vacation we were sorry
to find that Clarence E. Toole was no long-er with us having -
a short time before received an appointment to Annapolis.

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He left for that place on Jan. 14 and from all reports is
getting- along- nicely. We wish him success.

On Tuesday, Feb. 2, our Basket Ball team defeated the
strong- Bloomsburg- team. The boys are certainly to be con-
gratulated on their work thus far.

On Friday evening-. Jan. 29th, a sleighing party from
this place drove to the home of Mr. Fred Schoch at New
Berlin, where the evening was spent very pleasantly.

On Sunday, Jan. 24, a fire broke out in Selingrove Hall,
and which after a short time was extinguished but not until
it had done considerable damag-e. The student body are to
be congratulated upon their prompt action and cool-headed-
ness. The origin of the fire is not positively known.

SBIBBRT HALL.

Vacation over and all have returned together with two
new girls, Misses Luella Werkheiser and Edith Longacher.

Miss Ruth Lyter was entertained by Miss Garringer at
her home, Jan. 17.

We welcome our new music teacher, Miss Star who is as-
sistant to Prof. Sheldon in the Conservatory of Music. Miss
Star comes to us very highly recommended.

The Ladies' Basket Ball teams have organized and are
endeavoring to learn the game. Only one person, so far has
met with an accident. * We hope to amuse the public some-
time by playing a public game.

Miss Ruth Ramey left Jan. 26th to attend a Conservatory
of Music in Philadelphia.

Misses Zoe Trench and Werkheiser were entertained at
Danville, Jan. 30th.

Miss Isabelle M. Robison, of Mifflintown, Pa., a former
student here in the Conservatory of Music, was visiting her
former classmate Miss Margaret Arbogast and other friends
here, a few days in January. She was a guest of the "Phi
Kappa Sigma" girls at Seibert Hall, Jan. 13th.

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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

Students of the Conservatory of Music, in response to a
call made by the Director, met in Seibert Concert Hall, Dec.
loth. '03, for the purpose of organizing- a society whose object
should be to further the interests of the Conservatory in gen-
eral, strengthen the organizations associated with the Con-
servatory and assist students individual!}- in their musical
studies. The following officers were elected : President —
Miss Margaret Arbogast. Vice Pres. — Miss Margaret Roth-
rock. Secretary — Miss Bertha ML Meiser, Treasurer — Miss
Ada M. Lau. Royal Purple was chosen as the Conservatory
or. A sample copy of the Yell maybe obtained by passing
through the Conservatory corridors on an}- school day.

Miss Zoe Trench visited at her home in Bloomsburg, Pa.,
Jan. 50th.

Miss Ruth X. Ramey, of Altoona, Pa., formerly a student
of the Conservatory, visited friends at Seibert last week.
Miss Ramey is spending the Winter with her sister in Phila-
delphia.

Miss Lillian Stetler, prominent in musical circles in Mid-
dleburg and vicinity, has been enrolled as a student of Piano-
forte and Voice.

Miss Gertrude Rine attended the wedding of her cousin,
Miss Blanche Rine, Beavertown, Pa. in January, playing the
wedding music for the occasion. Miss Bertha Meiser was also
present at the wedding.

Miss Luella Werkheiser spent three days recently at her
home in Danville, Pa.

Miss Minnie I. Starr has been added to the Conservatory
faculty. A notice of her previous work is given in another
column of this issue.

Owing to illness Miss Adah M. Garinger returned to her
home at Asherton, Pa., Feb. 2nd, 1904.

At the Students' Thursday Evening Recital, Feb. 4th, a
musical program was given by the following persons : Misses
Ada M. Lau, Luella Werkheiser, Margaret Arbogast, Edith
Wittmer, Marie Snyder, Margaret Rothrock, Estella Zimmer-

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man, Anna May Guss, Gertrude Rine, Bertha Meiser, Zoe
Trench, Mrs. Birch, Wallize, and Mr. Wm. Phillips.

Thursday evening-, Jan. 21st, the Misses Minnie Kline,
Zoe Trench, Anna Beaver and Lulu Smith tendered a recep-
tion to the Musical Union and members of the faculty of
Susquehanna University. On account of the inclement weath-
er many of the members were unable to attend and they miss-
ed a rare treat for all present spent a thorough^ enjoyable
evening-. Not a moment was allowed to drag-. From the
time the seven o'clock bell rang, calling- the g-uests to the en-
tertainment, till the warning bell sounded at 9:40, sending
them reluctantly to their several rooms and homes, the hours
were filled with merriment and g-ood cheer. Game followed
g-ame and when the time for leaving- arrived the g-uests re-
luctantly bade their hostesses good-night and joined in thank-
ing- them for a pleasant evening and voting them the best of
entertainers. It is little social events like this that build up
our standing- as a co-educational school and we look forward
with pleasant anticipation to more such delig-htful evenings.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.

Abraham Lincoln made a parting speech to his neighbors
just before leaving his old home to become President of the
United States, and concluded his address by saying, "Neigh-
bors, g-ive your girls and boys a chance."

Misses Laura Gemberling-, Edith Potter, Ada Garinger,
Messrs Geo. Jarrett, Howard Burns and Wellington Wert
have enrolled as students of this school. We wish them a

successful future.

Miss Mabel Gemberling- completed her course in Steno-
graphy, Dec. 22, 1903.

Robert Haven is g-etting- along very nicely in Homer City,
Pa.

Miss Martha Dimm has accepted a position as steno-
grapher for Eisenhuth & Co., Selinsgrove, Pa.

Miss Grace Machette resig-ned her position in Boston and
has recently accepted a position with the Paragon Coal Min-
ing Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

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The second annual banquet was held at the Washing-ton
House, Middleburg, Pa., Feb. 4, 1904.

Messrs Sones and Sholly represent our school on the Var-
sity Basket Ball team. Their playing- is of such a nature
that it is creditable to themselves, the school and the univer-
sity. "Fellows, we are with you every moment of the games. 1 '

Through the kindly efforts of our worthy instructor, Pro.
Smith, we had presented to us a Standard Dictionary (two
volumes) and a stand. DeWitt Bodine, Esq., Hug-hesville,
Pa., presented the dictionary. The following persons
presented the stand. Messrs Harvey Fague, K. W. Michael,
Jacob Per, LeonRobinz, A. Rohrhirsch, Jeremiah Kelly, J. J.
Malony, Peter Reeder, C. F. Johnson, Frank Reeder, Chas.
Bug-h, Hug-hesville, Pa., and Georg-e Schoch, Selinsgrove, Pa.
We appreciate these gifts very highly. We will use them to
the very best advantage possible to the furthering of our
education. We extend to the above persons our most hearty
thanks.

CULTURE CLUB.

The Christmas vacation is now past and we are again
busy with our work at Susquehanna.

Our very able instructress, Miss Krall, has been highly
honored by being elected a member of the New York Culture
Club of Fifth Avenue. She has received a very fine set of
books from them on the subject of Social Culture. All the
society leaders have aided in compiling these books and have
made them a master-piece. The class congratulates Miss
Krall on being elected to a club to which only ladies of the
character of our instructress are eligible.

The class has suffered a great loss in the departures of
Messrs Tool and Weber, the latter was compelled to leave
college on account of his health, while the former has had
the good fortune to be appointed to Annapolis. All Mr.
Tool's friends wish him the greatest possible success, and
hope Mr. Weber will soon recover.

Our student Frontz distinguished himself by the great
teats which he performed in extinguishing the fire in Selins-

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grove Hall, Jan. 24. Archie will someday be a chief of one
of the fine fire companies atHughsville.

On January 26th the following officers were elected : W.
W. Young, Pres. ; Chas. Giese, Vice Pres. ; A. W. Frontz,
Sect; I. W. Bingaman, Treas.

MISS MINNIE IDELLA STARR.

It is with pleasure that announcement is made of the ad-
dition of another teacher to the teaching- force of the Con-
servatory of Music. Miss Minnie Idella Starr, who has just
entered upon her work as Instructor of Pianoforte, graduated
in pianoforte and organ at theOberlin Conservatory of Music,
Oberlin, Ohio, with the class of 1895. After two years of
teaching in Klyira, Ohio, Miss Starr resumed her studies, this
time with Charles E. Clemens, the celebrated Berlin organist.
In 1900 she took post-graduate work in Boston with J. Albert
Jeffrey, Mus. Doc, one of Boston's well known teachers of
pianoforte.

Miss Starr's broad musical education and experience as a
teacher of pianoforte and organ bespeak much for her success
at Susquehanna.

Htbletics-

ANAGKR SUNDAY ha\> arranged the following schedule
for Basketball during the season :

Team. Place. Date.

Milton Selinsgrove Jan. 16

Williamsport Williamsport Jan. 21

Lock Haven Normal Lock Haven Jan. 22

Bellefonte Academy Bellefonte Jan. 23

Bellefonte Academy Selinsgrove Jan. 30

Bloomsburg Normal Selinsgrove Feb. 2

Steelton Y.M.CA. Steelton Feb. u

F. & M. Lancaster Feb. 12

Millersville Normal Millersville Feb. 13

State College Selinsgrove Feb. 16

Wyoming Seminary Selinsgrove Feb. 20

Lehigh University South Bethlehem Feb. 27

Bloomsburg Normal Bloomsburg Feb. 29

F. & M. Selinsgrove Mar. 3

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The opening game was played with Milton at Selinsgrove
Jan. 16 resulting- in a score of 42 to 11 in Susquehanna's favor.
Line-up :

Susquehanna. Positions. Milton.

Stutzman Forward Grier

Pearson I orward Dickerman

Sholly Centre Oberlin

Sones Guard Roat

Benfer (Shaffer) Guard Reimensnyder (Houseworth)

Referee— Morgan. Goals from field, Stutzman, i; Peason, 2 ; Sholly,
11 : Sones, 3 ; Benfer, 1 ; Shaffer, 2. Goals from fouls, Pearson, 2.

Susquehanna was defeated by Williamsport on Jan. 21,
by a score of 37 to 15. Line-up :

Susquehanna. Positions Williamsport.

Shaffer Forward Turner

Pearson Forward Vanhousen

Sholly Centre Jackson

Sones (Benfer) Guard Speaker

Stutzman Guard Harman

Goals from field— Shaffer, 1; Pearson, 2; Sholly 2; Sones, 1: Stutzman, 1
Turner, 8; Vanhausen, 2; Jackson, 6; Harman, 2. Goals from fouls— Will-
iamsport, i; Susquehanna 1. Referee — Hoagland. Timers, Mursina and
Benfer.

On Jan. 22, Susquehanna defeated Lock Haven Normal
by a score of 16 to 10. Line-up :

Susquehanna. Positions. Lock Haven.

Stutzman Forward Logan

Pearson Forward Fish

Sholly Centre Bunnell

Sones Guard Stevenson

Benfer Guard McCarty
Goals— Stutzman, 5; Sholly, 2; Pearson, Logan, 2; Bunnell, McCarty.

Bellefonte Academy defeated Susquehanna at Bellefonte
by a scoTe of 20 to 6, Jan. 22. Line-up.

Bellefonte. Positions. Susquehanna.

Burns Forward Stutzman

Weaver, John Forward Pearson

Sharpe, Lander Centre Sholly, Shaffer

S. Bongi Guard Benfer

Thomas Guard Sones

Goals — Pearson, 1; Shaffer, 1; Sones, 1; Sharpe, 9; Weaver, 1. Referee
— Mewbaker. Timer — Reese.

Susquehanna defeated Bellefonte Academy at Selinsgrove
on Saturday evening, Jan. 30, by a score of 41 to 4. Belle-
fonte was no match for our team when basketball is played.
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ball rather than basketball was played there. Line-up:

Susquehanna Positions. Bellefonte.

Sholly Forward Weaver

Stutzman Forward Burns

Pearson Centre Sharpe

Benfer Guard Landis

Sones Guard Thomas

Goals from field — Pearson, 4; Sones, 4; Sholly, 5; Stutzman, 5; Benfer, 1
Burns, 1, Goals from fouls — Pearson, 3; Weaver, 2. Referee — Morgan.
Timer— Schoch.

The most interesting game of the season was played with
Bloomsburg Normal Feb. 2nd. It was a hard contest from
the very start. Susquehanna won by a score of 21 to 16.
Line-up :

Susquehanna. Positions. Bloomsburg.

Stutzman Forward Brown

Sholly, W. Forward Weimer

Pearson Centre MacAvoy

Sones Guard Ruloft

Benfer (Sholly J.) Guard Putnam

Goals from field — Sholly, W. 4; Stutzman, 2: Pearson, 1; Brown, 3; Mac-
Avoy, 2; Putnam, 2. Goals from foul — Pearson, 7; Weimer, 2. Referee —
Morgan. Timers — Schoch, Young.

Tom.

basket ball team feasts.

Manager Sunday is to be congratulated in securing the ser-
vices of Clyde Stutzman, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as coach
of the University basketball team.

Mr. Stutzman is a lover of the game, and was formerly cap-
tain of the strong Y.M.C.A. team of Williamsport during the
season of '01 and '02.

He has won the respect and good will of all the students, and
is turning out one of the best teams that Susquehanna University
has ever had upon the basketball arena.

Thursday evening, Jan. 21, after the game, which was
played in Williamsport, Coach Stutzman invited the members of
the team to his home, to spend the evening, where, when we ar-
rived, we discovered that his people had prepared one of the finest
banquets that was possible for fair maidens to serve. After
making the acquaintance of his father and family, and friends,
we were invited to surround the table which awaited our arrival.
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the ancient Greeks and of the feasts of the Romans, but their
banquets could not be compared with what we enjoyed. Such
was the delightful reception tendered us while in our beloved
coache's home, and after feasting our hungry appetites, we were
entertained by several very beautiful piano selections, while rest-
ing ourselves amid all the enjoyments and amusements of the
evening. Soon the old clock tolled away the hours of parting,
and we strolled away towards St. Charles. We shall never forget
the banquet, and the lovely reception given us by the coach at
his beautiful home on Lockawanua street.

But we, as a team, wish to extend our most sincere thanks
to Mr. and Mrs. Stutzman and to the ladies who took such a
prominent part in making our short stay so pleasant and delight-
ful, and we shall ever entertain sweet memories as we recall the
name of our coach, Mr. Stutzman.

The religious statistics of the colleges of North America re-
veal that out of the seventy thousand young men students, forty
thousand are church members, of whom more than five thousand
are candidates for the Christian Ministry, the noblest of all call-
ings, and that seventy -eight per cent, of the professors in the high
institutions of learning in the United States are Christian men.

The world is full of people who w r ant to do good, but who
are in no hurry to begin.

Any coward can fight a battle when he is sure of winning,
but it takes a plucky boy to fight when he is sure of losing.

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Selinsarcwe, ifebruarp, 1904.

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postofflce as Second Class matter.)
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Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
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EDITORIAL.

THE recent fire in Selinsgrove Hall and the lack of water ap-
pliances in the building, brought clearly to view the fact
that immediate steps should be taken by the management of our
College to provide adequate means for fighting fire. The very
fact that lamps are exclusively used by the students and the
building throughout lighted by the same unsafe means, points
directly to the need of such water accommodations. A fire plug
with hose attached should be placed on each floor, attic included,
and the fire escape which is in very bad condition should be re-
paired. Those rooming in Selinsgrove Hall feel the great need
of these improvements, especially since the recent fire and hope

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Still, through our paltry stir and strife,

Glows down the wished Ideal,
And, Longing moulds in clay what Life

Carves in the marble Real. — Lowell.

IT is a fact that many of our college and school magazines do
not make proper use of the space allotted the exchange de-
partment. Some journals have no exchange notes at all, while
others have the column filled with local or warmed over jokes.
If jokes must appear, they should have a distinct place in the
paper, and should not be scattered through what otherwise might
be entertaining and instructive material. Use your exchange
pages for fair criticisms and just comments on the journals you
receive and you will profit by your task as well as the paper
which you mention.

The author of "The Beauties of Nature" in the December
Comenian proves himself an ardent admirer of the lovely in na-
ture.

Greetings to The Black and Red from Wisconsin. It is at-
tractively bound, and its articles reveal careful composition.

Rays of Light is a small but progressive journal. "Think
About It," is the title of an article in it suitable for solid thought
and meditation.

The following exchanges deserve mention for their handsome
Christmas number covers, The Herald, The Purdue Exponent,
The Tahoma and So To Speak.

We congratulate the Otterbein Aegis on its excellent foot-
ball cuts in the December number.

"Human Friendships are Better than the Friendships of
Books," is a unique and sensible article in The Forum of Leba-

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non Valley College. By careful reasoning the author arrives at
the conclusion that human friendship is far superior to that of
books.

The Touchstone is of true literary worth and certainly re-
flects credit upon its staff in representing Lafayette College so
well in the college journal world.

We think that fewer jokes and more literary material would
greatly improve The Cherry and White.

Welcome to The Purple and Gold of Ashland, O. It is a
wide-awake little paper.

The January number of The Dickinsonian contains an article
entitled "Thoughts of Milan/' written by Dr. Prince. Many in-
teresting facts and comments are given of that ancient and re-
nowned Italian city.

The well composed contents of the Stylus of Newberry , S.C.,
deserves note. Its exchange department is especially well con-
ducted.

T/ic Albright Bulletin in the January number has an article
entitled "Ancient and Modern Oratory." The following is one
of its sentences, "It is not the age of peace and prosperity that
is best suited to develope the hidden power of oratory, but rather
stirring time and thrilling events * * * Oratory has
not declined, the soul of the orator is not lacking, but the themes
which fired the ancient orators are lacking."

Journals of the woman's colleges, which arrive at our ex-
change table are indeed above par. The Lesbian Herald of
Woman's College, Frederick, Md., is full of good articles some of
which are quite valuable as historical compositions. "Parsifal,"
in the January number splendidly reveals many facts about that
fomous musical drama of which all should know something.

"Politics vs. Patriotism," as it appears in the January num-
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suffrage. Note the following paragraph, "The ark of covenants
was held in the highest veneration by the children of Israel. It
was the oracle through which God communicated his will to the
people. The wings were over it as sacred guardians. Is not the
the ballot box to us as the ancient ark was to the Israelites ? Is
it not for us the oracle of God, the voice of God proclaimed by
the rules? Then let justice and truth, like twin cherubs, guard
this sacred instrument, and whosoever lays profane hands upon
it be made to feel that he is guilty of a grevious offense against
the stability of the government, the peace of society, and the
majesty of God." C. W.

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LITERARY. page

Prince Hamlet, ------ 203

The Enotional Side of Man, - 206

The Treatment of the American Indian, - 210

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PRINCE HAMLET,

HAMLET is a young- man well on toward thirty years of
age who has spent a great part of his life at the univer-
sities. His father has died, and the opening- of the play finds
him home from school to mourn his father's death, and per-
haps receive the Kingdom. But he rinds affairs at the Court
in a very questionable state. His mother married his father's
brother almost on the eve of the funeral, moral disorder was
rampant, and the general atmosphere of the place filled him
with presentments that injustice and foul play attended his
father's last hours. He soon realized himseif alone in the
midst of a world of shame and dishonor, and the weight of it
so overshadowed him that it is difficult to understand him in
several particulars. Whether he is rnad or on\y feigning mad-
ness? what is the character of his madness? is his will weak
or is he capable of strong- action? are questions that in some
respects seem very hard to answer.

After the conversation with the ghost of his murdered
father, he undergoes a complete change. His actions become
strange and he appears as if crazy. Throug-hout the play he
does and says many thing-s that are plainly the expression of
a morbid mind, yet there are other things done and said which
seem to be only feigned. But that he is mad and needs judi-
cious medical treatment seems to be the unaminious opinion
of several eminent physicians who have made a special study
of him, among whom are Doctors Ray, Kellog, Conolly, Mands-

(203)

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ley, and Bucknill. All the other personages of the play, with
the possible exception of the king- whose evil conscience may
cause him to suspect that it is only assumed for some purpose
against himself, also believe him to be really mad. And it is
no wonder that he should be crazy; no mind could remain nor-
mal having* all the disgraceful doing's of the family and court
and the ghost's disclosures weighing upon it. We believe,
however, that his madness is only partial and occasional since,
for a great deal of the time, he has such command of his fac-
ulties of intellect and reason; only a part of his faculties is de-
ranged at a time and this not all the time.

Then, at first, we are led to believe that he is a man weak
in will power and somewhat inclined to procrastinate. The
fact that he has been a university man for many years and
used to philosophising- and reflecting- on thing-s and has never
been called upon for active service would tend to strengthen
this belief. He is, indeed, inclined to understand things rath-
er than accomplish any practical service, and this seems to be
what he does under the conditions of the play. He under-
stands the situation of things perfectly, seems to take in the
whole at one grasp, but yet appears to be reluctant to act.
After his conversations with the ghost; his seeming aversion
to action is expressed in the words —

"The time is out of joint:— O, cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"

But all this is only a seeming weakness of will, a procrast-
ination on the surface. When we inquire into his reasons and
motives, we find that it is because of his strength of will that
he does not strike. It is the part of prudence and self-control
to forbear. He had excellent opportunity to carry out his
purpose on the king, but it would have been but the rashness
of passion to do so at that time^. He was almost fully per-
suaded in his own mind that Claudius murdered his father,
but yet he had only the testimony of the ghost, and this would
not have availed with the whole people of Denmark. A whole

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nation was concerned; Claudius was their legal king", and to
carry out his purpose Hamlet must have absolute ^roof that
would stand before a court of justice. If he had had this he
would not have been inactive That he was not destitute of
executive ability, of tact, and of prompt corageous action, but
was strong in these, is shown by the fact that he was the first
to board the pirate ship, by the killing of Polonius, by alter-
ing the sealed commission and sending Guldenstem and Ros-
encrantz to the headsman, and last of all, by executing justice
upon the king.

In starting out, we spoke of Hamlet soon finding himself
solitary in a world of moral confusion and obscurity, of shame
and dishonor. But was there none to help bear the great load
of weariness? Was there no Juliet to draw him from his med-
itation and gloom into the cheerfulness and sunshine of day?
Our thoughts immediately turn to Ophelia. He loved her,
and there were small tokens of love passed between them, but
there was no real communication of spirit with spirit.
His great nature sought a response from her, but there was
none; heart did not answer to heart. Her tender nature was
but a fragile flower of simpliciy which was soon caught up in
the deceit and espionage of the court. The only one with whom
Hamlet had exchange of soul was Horatio. From him came
all the comfort Hamlet received, and after he had received no
help or comfort from Ophelia, the young prince went to his
old school fellow and his heart overflowed with gratitude and
love for his friend's faithfulness and devotion to him.

But we have said enough about the relations and condi-
tions which are so prominent in the life of the hero, and must
turn to those inner qualities and characteristics which made
him what he was. He was, indeed, a man of the profoundest
intellect; strong in reason, judgment, and prudence, lie was
ever quick to grasp the whole situation of affairs and keen to
penetrate the purposes, plans, and divinings of others.

But Hamlet was not all intellect; he had also an emotion-
al and a moral nature. He suffered dreadfully from shame,

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dishonor, grief, indignation, and horror. All the greater was
his anguish because he suffered silently and with little show
of grief. In his moral nature, the beautiful flowers of virtue
shone forth as the blossoms of springtime. He was strong in
courage, honor, reverence, tenderness, a sense of truth and
right, humah-heartedness, generosity, self-restraint, abhor-
ring that which is evil and clinging to that which is good.
vSincerity and self-sacrifice seem to be two of his deepest char-
acteristics. He is averse to all that is false, affected, and ex-
aggerated, and a lover of truth and honesty. All his plans
and asperations he gave up to set the times right. The goads
of rash passion were stiving to force him to an untimely issue,
and though it would have been easiest and happiest for him-
self to smite the king and sacrifice his own life by the untime-
ly blow, he wills to fulfill his task and let his mighty impulse
of justice run its course. "For indeed, to his mind," says
Hudson, "it is not of the slightest consequence, how much he
suffers in this world, so he does his duty, his whole duty and
nothing but that; and he is so all intent upon that as to have
no time, no heart, for self-commiseration." L. F. G., '04.

THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF MAIN.

THE world admires great intellects. Men spend years of
earnest toil in cultivating correct habits of thought,
while philosophy and religion are ever encouraging mortals to
become possessors of strong wills. But there is a powerful
faculty of the mind lying between the intellect and the will —
the faculty of feeling or expressing emotion. So important
are the emotions in the psychical life that without them both
intellect and will could not exist. The intellect has no sig-
nifigance if it does not influence the will, and it cannot influ-
ence the will and hence prompt action unless it does so through
that curious medium— the emotions. Again, nothing can be
even perceived, imagined or remembered without an impulse

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first prompted by the will and itself influencing- action through
the emotions. Thus in the intricate and mysterious mechan-
ism of the mind, the emotional side of man is the foundation
of his very being-. By our other mental functions we are
mere spectators of the machinery of the universe, living and
inanimate; by our emotions we are admirers of nature, lovers
of men and adorers of God.

The emotions constitute the complex, agreeable or disa-
g-reeable side of any mental state and they must be distin-
guished from the mere simple, sensuous feelings induced di-
rectly by the physical organism. A ringer may be crushed
and a feeling- of pain follow, while a higher and more com-
plex feeling mig-ht be aroused which would tend to go out in
sympathy toward some person having met with a similar ac-
cident. This latter mental aspect would be emotion. Again,
emotion in man is the state which distinguishes him from the
universe and gives him individuality. As all units of nature
differ so individuals differ, and hence their feeling-s or emo-
tions must differ. Nor is each individual always the same in his
mental condition; now he experiences the emotion of love, now
the emotion of hate; today he is content and in harmony with
his surrounding-s while yesterday he was dissatisfied.

Such being the nature of the emotions, their complexity
becomes obvious at once. The springs of human action lie
here. We find here a clue to the study of human nature. To
understand the complicated and curious problem of human
life, to understand history, society, nations and ourselves, we
must understand well the nature of the emotions.

Probably this class of emotions which are among the first
developed is the product of feelings of adjustment. Every
adjustment involves various elements and these elements
stand in varying relations to each other. They may agree
and allow a harmonious adjustment to occur, or they may
be discordant, so that they offer some obstacle so complete
that it prevents adjustment, or of such a character that the

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adjusting- activity must be largely expended in reconciling the
opposed elements. With the variations of activity go, of
course, variations of feeling. These feelings of adjustment
may be of the present, of the past, or those directed towards
the future. Thus emotions of present adjustment include
harmony and discord, triumph and depression, clearness and
confusion, suspense and peace, drudgery and ease. Emo-
tions due to past experiences may be obstinac} 7 and volatile-
ness, melancholy and gladness, monotony and brightness and
terror. Lastly, those emotions directed toward the future
embrace hope and anxiety, courage and timidity, success and
failure, satisfaction and disappointment. The right combi-
nation and unity and variety calls forth the best energy and
the most successful adjustment, and hence results in the great-
est pleasure.

In these emotions of adjusment we consider feelings so far
as they are the result of the form of the activity which they ac-
company, without reference to the object of activity. We may
feel alarmed, bored or anxious about almost anything; but in
thus considering feeling we have laid aside the fact that activ-
ities are always called forth by, and are directed toward, cer-
tain objects. Hence the emotions experienced in this class are
interest, like, dislike, love and hate.

As the emotions prompt action, why is the student so
zealous in his pursuit of knowledge? Why does he find so much
pleasure in solving the hard problems of science? Is it because
he is constantly looking into the future when his present labor
will bring him money, fame or honor? We believe that the lat-
ter is seldom the case, but he has developed within him a class
of emotions which are prompting the will to action and this
action brings pleasure which in turn further intensifies the
original emotions. Such let us call intellectual emotions.
The dry college curriculum is by no means a cause of drudg-
ery to him who has the intellectual emotions developed.

In frequenting prominent art galleries where the fine pro-
ducts of the brush and chisel are placed, one sees only a few

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of the many thronging thither really enjoying- the results of
genius. The few evidently possess something which the many
do not. An exquisite piece of music is rendered before an aud-
ience. Some are held breathless while others restlessly await
its close. Wherein is the difference? In each case those enjoy-
ing the beautiful, do so because of the aesthetic emotion ex-
cited within them.

The highest emotions by man are personal emotions.
These are characterized from others in that they arise from
the relations of self-conscious beings to each other. There is
the feeling of others in relation to self and the feeling- of self
in regard to others. The first condition gives rise to emotions
of pride and humility; the latter generates emotions of sym-
pathy and antipathy. As an outgrowth of these the moral
emotions exist. They appear on the perception of the Tight-
ness or wrongness of human action, and, in addition, thej'
carry with them a feeling of oughtness possessed by no other
emotion. It says, "Thou shalt," or "Thou shalt not"; and
accompanying obedience or disobedience of its commands,
there comes also a pecular feeling of approval or disapproval,
a truly moral emotion tends to develope into a religious emo-
tion, the sublimest and grandest in the possession of man. It
involves a feeling of dependence on a higher power, a feeling
of peace and a feeling of faith. With this emotion in his
possession man approaches upon the boarder of Divine psychi-
cal life.

Every emotion follows a thought; emotions are either
agreeable or disagreeable; hence, as we can control our thoughts
and are, consequently, responsible for them, we are likewise
responsible for our emotions. The habit of emotional feeling
is, at the outset, the result of intellectual habit. Summon
different ideas into the mind and notice how the emotion
changes with the idea. Emotions then can be cultivated as
can the other mental faculties. Our lives are as our emotions,
and how important it is then that we develope and cultivate

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the emotions, as joy, love, courage, brightness, faith and
harmony. With these, life is dear in any walk of life; with-
out them, the existence becomes hard and machine-like.

C. W. '05.

THE TREATMENT OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN.

UPON examining the history of the civilized world you will
find that the wars which it has witnessed have been
brought on by "man's inhumanity to man''. One nation has
arisen and by its strength, sometimes by unfair means, has con-
quered its weaker neighbors, and has made itself the tyrant
until some still greater nation has forced upon it the bonds of
servitude. So it has been in the history of the inhabitants of
the United States. Before 1650, from shore to shore
this fair land of ours was the dwelling and hunting grounds
of hundreds of American Indian tribes, each having its own
tribal government yet held, in a certain degree, in subjection
by a neighboring powerful tribe. The North-eastern tribes
were in constant fear of the Irquois, the Central tribes, of the
Sioux, the North-western tribes of the Apaches. And so
throughout Columbia, the powerful tribes held sway, each
bearing in the record of its reign, deeds of cruelty and inhu-
manity.

As to the history of the treatment of the Indian by his
neighbors, we have little or none, nor does that concern us.
But the treatment of the Red-man by the more civilized pale-
face is the subject which we now wish to consider.

The first Europeans to come in contact with the Indians
were the Spaniards. Anyone who has studied the character of
the Spaniards knows his mode of dealing with his fellowmen.
He lost none of his cruelty and greediness in his travels on
this side of the Atlantic. He had scarcely landed on these
shores until he came into conflict with the natives. His great
purpose was to find the great Eldorado of which he was told;

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and he was determined to reach it, no matter if he did sacri-
fice his honor and many lives in the attempt.

His dealing's with the Indian have been a succession of
crimes and atrocities; his paths through the country were
marked by destruction and slaughter. Wasted grainfields,
fruits, burning buildings, and bleeding- corpses marked the
pathway of the Spaniard. Still that is not all. Those whom
he did not kill were carried into captivity, chained in Spanish
slave-marts, and made to serve their lives under the galling
lash of the task-master.

Even though he did receive the best of treatment by the
natives; even though he was furnished with provisions, shelt-
er, and guides, yet his barbarous nature was not appeased.

His treatment of the Indian throughout all hisexpeditons
has surpassed the dealings of the non-civilized man himself.
Of all the European explorers, his hands bear the largest
stains of native blood.

Close upon the foot-steps of the Spaniards came the Eng-
lishman. He, being of a more gentle nature, was quite differ-
ent in his treatment of the savage. His policy was to settle
this land which flowed with milk and honey, and make it an
instrument whereby the beloved Kingdom of Great Britain
might fill its coffers, and extend his powerful dominion.
Though his dealings with his native brother was, to a certain
extent, good, yet he sometimes o'er-stepped the bounds of just-
ice and right, and caused some of the bloodiest massacres the
world has ever witnessed. Though he established courts where
the savage might obtain justice; though he punished the crim-
inals; yet his history is marked by frequent blood-sheds.

Much of the trouble may be laid at the door of the savage,
yet the greater share belongs to the Englishman. Many
times he obtained lands unjustly from the Indian. Many times
his policy was not in accordance with the laws of right, and
therefore he had to bear the results of a bloody Indian treat-
ment. So long as the Englishman conducted himself proper-

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ly, so long- as he allowed the Indian his rights; so long did the
hatchet and the scalping-knife remain burried. But as soon
as the savage was imposed upon, as soon as he was unjustly
treated, so soon was the warhoop heard, and the peaceful
woodland hunter turned into a howling demon.

Although many believe the early Indian wars were brought
on by the Indian making a last attempt to recover his hunt-
ing ground which was fast passing" from him, vet tew are the
wars which can be traced to such a source. When treated fair-
ly by the Englishman, for he had more dealings with him than
with any other paleface, he was ever ready to yield his lands
to the setler, and live in peace with his palefaced brother.
Scarcely^ had the origional English settler, of fair Columbia,
sunk to his last sleep when his descendent, the enterprising
American, stepped foward to take his hand in the treatment
of this great problem, Already the redman had been forced
to small reservations, or driven west of the Alleganies. West-
ward the tide of immigration was moving. Westward the
redman was taking his way, and soon the young American
was facing a problem that was going to cost years of toil and
a sacrifice of many lifes. West of the Ohio and the Mississip-
pi, dwelt the ot\g\tva\ owners of the soi\ in a\\ their power,
and soon the retreating Eastern savage found himself between
the fierce Sioux, and the Shawnees, on the west, and the fast
approaching immigrant, on the East. Swiftly his lands were
going from him; the new Republic was not giving the proper
protection, and no resource was left save the annihilation of
the encroaching white. So, embracing this resort, he descend-
ed on to the homes and villages of the settler, and caused the
cries and groans of the murdered whites to be heard all along
the border.

The government, after terrible experience, saw its mistake,
and, buying lands in the West, has established reservations
where the fleeing red-man might rest from the encroachments
of the white. Now the Indian dwells in peace and comfort in

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his western home, and woe to the ambitious settler who now
attempts to gain unjustly the lands of the redman.

But the treatment of our brother does not stop there.
Churches and schools have been established where the descend-
ant of the once roving- savage may enlighten and prepare him-
self to cope with the great problems which confront each in-
dividual citizen of a great nation like this.

And so after many years of severe experiences the daunt-
less American has solved the problem which has caused many
wars, and shed much blood. Through his perseverance he
has turned the howling savage into a quiet and peaceful citi-
zen, of which every American is proud.

W. F. '07

Societies..

CLIOINIAN.

The interest in our society is being increased week by
week. Good programs and faithfulness on the part of the
membership will always enable us to keep our high standard.

Clio has chosen Messrs Thomas Uber, I. W. Bingaman
and Clay Whitmoyer to represent her in the contest prelimen-
ary to the Juniata debate.

A motion was recently passed to procure "Reed's Rules of
Order," and adopt them as our parlimentary standard.

Mr. Peter Klick had his name placed on Clio's roll during
the past month. Mr. Harry Holshoe, one of our last year's
students had his name re-instated on our membership list.

The following are questions which have been ably discus-
sed in debate:

Resolved, That the study of Latin and Greek is a waste of
time, and Resolved, That the Teacher's College Course is equal
to the regular College Course.

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Miss Schollenberger and Mr. Walters from our sister soci-
ety, responded under voluntary performances Friday evening
last, Feb. 19th. We would say that we are always glad to
have our Philo friends give us a visit.

The following officers were installed Feb. 19, 1904.

Pres. — Barry; Vice Pres. — Bingaman; Rec. Sec. — Sunday
W.; Fin. and Cor. Sec. — Schaffer; First Critic — Swank; Sec-
ond Critic — Guss; Editor — Uber, J. M.; Pianist — Miss Roth-
rock; Factotum — Clarke.

PHILOSOPHIAIN.

On Saturday evening, February 13, the friends, ex-mem-
bers, and members of Philo, assembled in Philo Hall where
was held one of the most enjoyable receptions in the history of
our society. The Hall was beautifully decorated with S. U.
pennants, also, pennants of other institutions, and red and
white crepe, suitable for the occasion. The evening was spent
in a very enjoyable manner, after which refreshments were
served. The reception tends only to strengthen within those
present the bonds of friendship, and awaken a greater interest
in the welfare of our beloved society.

"We aTe pleased to note the strong interest that is being
taken by the members in all the matters relating to her wel-
fare, during the past few weeks. Programmes of the best
quality have been prepared and rendered. We feel pleased
that many Philos are awakening to a sense of their duty.
May the good work go on.

Mr. L. F. Gunderman, Katherine Focht, and G. G. Fox
have been chosen to represent Philo in the Preliminary de-
bate. This contest is to select the three debaters to represent
S. U. in the coming collegiate debate with Juniate College of
Huntingdon, Pa.

We are glad to welcome to our ranks, as active members
of Philo, Misses Edna App, Mary Burns, May Boyer and
Messrs App and Stouffer of Selinsgrove.

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The productions of the select reading-, debating- classes,
also the society papers, have been the much noted and appre-
ciated articles of the past month. We wish to commend very
highly the performers. May the members of the other classes
strive to raise their classes up to an equal if not above the
standard of quality and excellency set by these.

SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.

One of the most interesting phases of our college work is
that which deals with the natural sciences. It is not only
fascinating, but opens our eyes and fills us with wonder at
the great truths and secrets imbedded in nature. In the
curriculum of the classical course, it is possible to give only
enough of each branch of the sciences to create a thirst for
more and to make us regret that we cannot devote more of our
time to them. The Society of Natural Sciences exists for the
purpose of keeping- up interest in the sciences and learning of
and discussing the different discoveries and questions that
come before the scientific world from time to time. All stu-
dents from the Sophomore class up are eligible to membership
and are earnestly asked to identify themselves with the society.

On the evening- of February 18, Mr. S. M. Smyser of
Selinsgrove gave a very interesting address before the mem-
bers of the society and friends on "Gold Mining in Califor-
nia." Mr. Smyser, who spent nine years in the western gold
fields, prefaced his talk in a very charming manner with
stories of personal experience and of big- gold "strikes" of
several prospectors and adventurers. He then discussed at
some length the history of gold mining and the various kinds
of mining in vogue throughout the West.

During the remaining weeks of this term two more meet-
ings of the society will be held. At the one, the subjects of
"X-rays," "Radium," and "Colored Liquids" will be discussed,
and at the other, "The Geology of North Dakota."

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Y. M. C. A.

The tissue of the life to be
We weave with colors all our own,

And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown.

Whitter did not write these lines until he had grown old.
and the weight of experiences rested heavily upon his shoul-
ders. He was one of the few great men who was endowed
with the special gift of reading human nature, and could pen-
etrate into the hidden depths of man's heart and reveal his
true motives and result with delicate accuracy. His words of
warning and kindly advice shall live down through the ages
long as the streams sna/i flow.

Wbittier has departed, but he still lives in the hearts of
men, he still stands as a beacon light to the erring, a great
compass pointing to the higher and nobler life, and we can
honor him no more than to commend his writings to the
serious reading and thoughtful study of Christian and sinner
alike.

The Y. M. C. A. was an unknown orga::::-::on in his
day. but he did more in his meek way for planting it in
\mcT\ca tnan one may imagine. With LongieV.ow anc Brv-
ant, the literature of their later period exertcc" I fai reaching
influence upon the hearts of the young men. and created with-
in them a burning desire to sow the seed of the Gospe" in a
more attractive and profitable manner. The me*. is have
been greatly improved Upon, and today the Y.M.C.A. organi-
sation stands as a monument to the piety arte. ;.-. ;: :*::r>r
learned and Godly men.

It is the world-wide prayer that vonug men may rx c -
verted from the error of their ways, and enlist in the ^:eat
army of the Cross. Susquehanna is well represented with a
company of volunteers lot service in the Holy v - . .:: we
must not feel that «v ire on dress parade, or perhaps gaged
in a sham buttle, "far from it." we haw :\\s t€ If, it, no-
torial to he won ami there ts a perpetual cal' CC-irc ;.:: for

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volunteers to fill up the ranks of those who drop out year
after year.

The work here is good that has been done, but we have
not reached the point where we cannot do more.

At a recent election, the following" officers were chosen
for the ensuing year : Pres., Clay Whitmoyer ; V. Pres., W.
K. Fleck; Sec, Jos. Shaffer; Treas.. Geo. Fox; Monitor,
Albert Brosius. They are men of sterling- worth, but they
need your and my co-operation and prayers, and with one
grand united effort we can make the Christian influence of
Susquehanna a mighty power for good, and a defense against
the inroads of evil.

The last number of the Lecture Course was given Feb.
16th, when the Jansen Carnival Company appeared before a
large and appreciative audience. The company proved them-
selves artists of a high class and gentlemen of excellent quali-
ties.

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School of UbeolocjE..

Rev. John A. Richter of the Senior Class was elected pas-
tor of the Lutheran Church at Tremont, Pa., to succeed Rev.
J. Luther Hoffman. He has accepted the call, and will take
charge of the work on April 1st.

Chas. Lambert of the Senior Class, preached at the fol-
lowing places during the past month : Feb. 7th, at Lock
Haven ; Feb. 14th, at Friedens ; Feb. 21st, at Oak Grove.

Rev. Levi P. Young, of the Senior Class preached at
Millville during the month of Februarv.

Luther R. Haus, '05, spent the 22nd, of February at his
home in Milton.

Ira Z. Fenstermacher, '04, visited his parents at Lyon's

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Station during- the past week. During the month he preached
at Danville and Mt. Carmel.

M. H. Fisher '05. -was a delegate to the Y.M.C.A. Con-
vention which was held at Easton. Pa., Feb. 17-21.

L. W. Walters, '06. spent Sunday, Feb. 21st at his home
in Middleburg. Pa.

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Btblettcs.

While we rejoice over the fact that our Basket-ball team
has been so very successful, we would not forget him. who by
his untiring efforts has been instrumental in bringing the team
to its high standard of excellence.

Mr. Clyde Stutzman. our worthy coach, has been among
us only a short time, but during this time he has won the hon-
or and respect of every one by his quiet and unassuming man-
ner. He has proved himself to be a gentleman in the highest
sense of the term and possesses a character unimpeachable.
He has not only showed excellent judgement in discharging
all his duties relating to the team, but we have observed that
he makes the standard merit without fear or favor.

We find that while he is an excellent player himself and
thouroughly understands all the points of the game, he also
possesses that faculty of showing others how to play and
teaching them to become efficient.

The student body and faculty highly appreciates his ser-
vices and we believe the success of our team is laro-elv due to
his skillful coaching.

We hope that he may long remain with us, but if it hap-
pens that he cannot, we wish him success wherever he mav be.

Monday February 15th State College played Susquehanna
at Selinsgrove and won by a score of 34 to 7. Our boys play-
ed a fine g-ame but were outclassed bv State.

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Susquehanna lost to Steelton Y. M. C. A. on February

11th by a score of 31 to 11 at Steelon. Line up:

Susquehanna. Positions. Steelton.

Sholly Forward Housman

Stutzman Forward Zimmerman

Pearson Centre Meg-ary

Sones Guard Cox

Benfer Guard Yoder, Shade

Goals — Sholly. 3; Stutzman, 1; Pearson, 1; Yoder, 2; Me-
g-ary, 5; Zimmerman, 7; Housman, 1.

Fouls — Pearson, Yoder.

Susquehanna played F. and M. February 12 at Lancaster

and were defeate by a score of 33 to 19. Lineup:

Susquehanna. Positions. F. and M,

Stutzman Forward Schaeffer

Sholly Forward Witmer

Pearson Centre Schoch, Killheffer

Sones Guard Apple

Benfer Guard Kwing - , Sharp

Goals — Stutzman, 1; Sholly, 3; Pearson, 3; SchafTer, 2;
Kwing", 5; Killheffer, 5; Sharp,3; Witmer, 1;

Fouls — Pearson, Sharp.

On February 21st Susquehanna defeated Wyoming- Sem.

at Selensgrove by the score of 31 to 24. Lineup.

Susquehanna. Positions. Wyoming*.

Stutzman Forward Herman

Sholly, W. Forward Williams

Pearson Centre Evans

Sholly, J. Guard Chamberlain

Sones . Guard Willoby

Lehigh defeated Susquehanna on February 27th by a score
of 34 to 13 at South Bethlehem. Line up.

Susquehanna. Position. Lehigh.

Stutzman Forward Powell

Pearson Forward Pfahler

Shoup Centre Begg-s

Sones Guard Berg

g en f er Guard Becker

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Susquhanna Reserves played their first game of the sea-
son on Sat. Feb. 13. with Shamokin Y. M. C. A. at Selins-
grove and won by a score of 31 to 16.

S. U. Reserves played a very interesting game with Dan-
ville High School on Sat. Feb. 27 but were defeated by a score
of 36 to 30. Line up.

S. U. Reserves. Positions. Danville H. S.

Uber, J. M. Forward Welliver

Price, Rinehart Forward McHenry

Shaffer Centre Peters

Sunday, W. E. Guard Barber

Stauffer Guard Lawrence, Bedea.

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locate anb personals..

COLLEGE.

Messrs Fischer, Swank, Whitmoyer, Uber, Jr., and Fleck
attended the State Y.M.C. A. Convention which met at Scran-
ton.

On Monday evening, Feb. 22, the D. A. R. Essay Contest
was held in Seibert Hall. A goodly number of the residents
of town together with a fair number of the student body were
in attendance. Only two members of the Senior Class enter-
ed the contest. It was regretted that more of the class did
not enter. The prize of ($10.00) ten dollars was awarded to
Mr. Louis F. Gunderman. The College is very grateful to
the members of the D. A. R. for this prize which they have
made an "annual event." It is hoped that the future classes
will be ready to take up this contest and more of them be
entered, not for the sake of the winning of the prize alone,
but for the beneiit it will do them individually to write upon
some such subject as may be chosen by the committee. This
year the subjects were confined the Revolutionary Period.

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The Executive Committee of University met in session on
Monday, Feb. 8th, at which time Pres. Enders made a short
visit to our College. We are sorry that we as a student body
do not always know when our President comes. We would
be gratified to have him look in upon us at Chapel occasion-
allv.

The Juniors are busy preparing the "Lanthorn" for this
year. Their work has been somewhat delayed owing to the
burning out of the company employed to print the Lanthorn.
The company was one of the victims of the late Baltimore
disaster.

A new boarding house has been organized. This new
boarding house is known as the "Elite" and is being run on
the meal ticket plan which proves most satisfactory. The
boys have secured the services of Mrs. Brown, who is a model
cook and who is giving them entire satisfaction in providing
good home prepared meals.

Profs. Sheldon and Smith were guests of the "Elite"
boys on Sunday, Feb. 28th, and partook with them an elegant
dinner.

Mr. Geo. Fox, the Managing Editor of our Journal, was
compelled to go home on Feb. 24th, on account of sicklies.
We are glad to see him back again.

Preparations are being made for the annual Debate with
Juniata College. The preliminary debate was held Friday
evening, March 4th, at which time the regular debaters were
chosen to represent our College in the coming event. The
time for the debate has been set for the first Friday after the
opening of the Spring term which will place it April 8th.
The debate will be held at Selinsgrove, this year.

PREP. NOTES.

We are glad to see new men come into our department,
we are glad to enroll the names of Earnest Job and Clyde
Shaffer on our already large list.

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The Junior Culture Club and their friends were entertain-
ed at the home of Charles Rhinehart near Sunburj.

Mr. Harry C. Holshoe, of McClure, who was with us last
Spring has returned to resume his studies at Susquehanna.

The Prep. Basketball team defeated the strong- Susque-
hanna Reserve team on Washing-ton's birthday by the score
of 32 to 16.

Paul M. Enders was called home to attend the funeral of
his uncle, Rev. J. W. Lake, D.D.

SEIBERT HAI,L.

Miss Martha Schollenberg-er spent Feb. 14th at her home
in Montgomery.

Miss Ida Kline was a welcome visitor at Seibert Hall
Feb. 20th.

The question now agitating the minds of the 'angels" is
—How to play "Pit" after light bell.

Mrs. Grey and Miss Kline took a trip to Catawissa to see
the ice-gorge in the Susquehanna river this month.

Our sick list— Mrs. Haines, Misses Kline and Werkheiser.
We are glad to see them improving.

Miss Zoe Trench spent Sunday, Feb., 21st, with her par-
ents at Bloomsburg.

Miss Flo Sieber of Mifflintown visited her niece, Miss
Beaver for a few days during the month.

Misses Margaret Rothrock and Rhienheart enjoyed short
visits to their homes.

Miss Luella Werkheiser was a Danville visitor Feb. 20th.

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.

"There is a great gulf to be crossed before success in life
is reached. You may try to jump across by speculation or
chance rentures, but this is extremely hazardous, and nine
times out of ten ends in failure. The surest and the only way
is to erect a solid bridge, using for the arch those solid quali-
ties of character that stand for strength and high moral pur-

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pose. But these qualities alone do not complete the structure.
Thej need to be united and kept in place by the keystone of
Business Education. With such a passage over the gulf, a
safe journey is assured and the goal is reached."

Arthur Dimtn enrolled as a student of Stenography Feb.
16th.

Miss Jessie Snyder has* resumed her work in Stenography.

Albert W. Potter, Esq., delivered before the class a very
interesting and thoughtful address on Contracts.

Wilson D. Brown, an ex-graduate, gave us a very pleasant
call the latter part of February.

Geo. D. Clarke, our instructor in penmanship, made a
very pleasant call in Williamsport, Feb. 24.

Miss Grace Machette writes she is getting along very
nicely with her position in Philadelphia.

Ralph Wagenseller, an ex-graduate, is doing excellent
work as a teacher in the Union Business College, Philadelphia.

D. H. Leitzel, a former student, is getting along very en-
couragingly as bookkeeper for one of our worthy directors,
Charles Steele, Sunbury, Pa.

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

The man that hath no music in himself,

Nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds,

Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils." — Shakespeare.

The conservatory is by no means the smallest factor of
the University. The number of students has been increasing
to the extent that a new instructor had to be added. The
prestige of this department is due to the efficient director
Prof. K. Edwin Sheldon.

Miss Bertha Wittenmyer, Middleburg, Pa., and Mr. A.
M. Dimm, Lewistown, Pa., have lately been enrolled as stu-
dents.

The students are well pleased with the new A. B. Chase
piano. The re-stringing of the Grand piano in the auditor-
ium improves the Thursday evening recitals.

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The conservatory has adopted as it color, "Royal Purple ;"

as its emblem, "Fern ; " as its motto, "Thoroughness ;" as its

yell :

Whole note! Half note!
Quarter note ! or Grace !
Soprano ! Alto ! Tennor ! Base,
Conservo ! Conservo !
Conservatory I

The following- program was rendered on the evening- of

Feb. 25, 1904.

Preludes, Op. 35 No's r, 2 and 8
xMiss Margaret Rothrock.

My Marguerite
Miss Estella Zimmerman.

Valse Onduhnte

Miss Winifred Stevens.

Dear Heart

Miss Marie Snyder.

Sonata Op. 28 — Adagio

Miss Ada M. Lau.

If All the Skies Were Sunshine

Miss Zoe Trench.

Berceuse
Miss Lillian Stetler.
Badinage
Miss Edith M. Wittmer.

Come Live With Me
Mr. William G. Phillips

Beautiful Night
Misses Snyder and Lau.

Miss Minnie I. Starr of the Conservatory faculty has been
a victim of the La Grippe and confined to her room for two
days.

The Pianoforte Recital by Miss Minnie I. Starr has been
indefinitely postponed.

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BlNET

Mattei

Beethoven

Hastings

Schytte

Dreyschock

MlNETTI
GOUNODE

Pianoforte

Song
Pianoforte

Song
Pianoforte

Song
Pianoforte
Pianoforte

Song
Vocal Duett

Exchanges.

T seems to be a general mistake among- Hig-h School journals
to allot much of their space to local jokes and othe nonen-

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tities. Why not use the paper for fostering- literary effort of

students by publishing more of their products of deliberation
and serious thought.

College Chips from Luther College, la., contains editorials
of meritorious type.

The February number of The Washington Jeffersonian has
an attractive cover, but the contents of the paper do injustice
to the outside appearance. The material consists largely of
scraps of literary matter.

"Mathew Arnold," is the subject of a well thought-out
article in the January College Student. The writer empha-
sizes the noted author's ability to write poetry, althoug-h the
public generally knows Arnold by his prose works.

The subject "Why a Teacher Should Know His Bible,"
is nicely developed in the January number of the Normal
School Herald. The author gives three reasons why the
teacher should have knowledge of the Book of books — first,
because of its literary existence; second, because a multitude
of our every-day references are to the Bible and to Biblical
characters ; third, because it is the Word of God.

We always expect a treat when we open the covers of
The Idealist and very seldom are we disappointed. "The
Utility of the Beautiful," is a splendid article in the February
number. The following is one of its beautiful paragraphs :
Beauty to be of the highest use must be incorporated into our
souls and incarnated into our lives. If not, it will be like the
golden ore of California, hid in the mountains with the rocks
concealing it, the rivers flowing over it and the forest tower-
ing above it; but let it be brought to the surface, separated
from the sand and changed into the currency of the nation,
then what immense business, enormous wealth and great com-
fort it will bear on its boundless stream, for in such manner
the beautiful exists only for those who seek it in truth and
faith. As Emerson says : ''Though we travel the world over

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to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it

not."

With stammering lips and insufficient sound

I strive and struggle to deliver right

That music of my nature, day and night

With dream and thought and feeling interwound,

And inly answering all the senses round

With octaves of a mystic depth and height

Which step out grandly to the infinite

From the dark edges of the sensual ground.

This song of soul I struggle to outbear

Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,

And utter all myself into the air :

But if I did it, — as the thunder roll

Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there

Before that dread apocalypse of soul. — Mrs. Browning.

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A STUDENT'S REVERIE.

"Patience there is a hand that guides."

It is a winter's evening. He is sitting- by the radiator in
the gloaming listening to the winds surging- without. It is
one of those times when thoughts go far away in time and
place. He is thinking of home and distant loved ones. He
looks at life. He asks himself who he is and how he happen-
ed to be here; where he came from and whither he is going.
He looks at tne past — its memories. There are sweet and sad.
There are some he cherishes and there are some perhaps that
he would blot out if he could.

There are joys and tears.

He peers into the future. It is dim. There is but a
glimmer. It is the place of dreams.

There are hopes and fears.

He views the present which is and is no more.

Past and future meet.

There are joys and tears, hopes and fears. A.

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Selinsarove, /IDarcb, 1904,

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postoflice as Second Class matter.)
Terms— 75 cents, strictly in advance. Single copies. 10 cents

Fred W. Barry, '04, Editor-in-Chief. L. W. Walters, '03, '06, Bus. Mgr.

Archie "W. Frontz, '06, Locals and Personals.
Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.
Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

George G. Fox, '07, Mg. Editor. L W. Bingam.an,'(&. \ . _. u __ %«-«.

Ueo. B. Clarke, '05, Asst. Mg. Editor. Anna K. Beaver, '06. j ASMj ' DttB * i>lgrs -

The Susquehanna is published each month of the college year by the Students
iiiblishiug Association of Susquehanna University.

The editors solicit contributions and items of Interest to the college from student*
and alumni.

All business matters and correspondence should be addi'essed to The Susquk-
hanna, Selinsgrove, Pa. Exchanges should be sent to the same address.

The journal will be issued about the 12th of each month. All matters for publi-
cation must reach the managing editor on or before the first of each month.

Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
manager at once.

Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
and all arrearages paid

EDITORIAL.

With this issue closes the work of another term of the
College Year. The Editorial Staff has not been satisfied with
the past issues. We have had great difficulty in securing - the
proper material, at times, to put into our issues which would
hold it in the high standing- of a College Journal. The liter-

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ary standing- in Colleges in general, to-day seems to be at a
low ebb and our college is no exception. More attention needs
to be given to the literary work. "More Essays and Orations"
will be the only means of raising our standing along this line.
Write for publication, for in so doing* you will acquire care and
develop the ability to present your thoughts to the public.

We again call attention to the offer made by the Phil-
matrian Society to the undergraduates. Enter this contest.
There are but two months remaining for this competition.
Make good use of the time and the opportunity.

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ESTABLISHED J89J 500 CIRCULATION.

Vol. XIV APRIL, 1904 No. 8

CONTENTS*

LITERARY. page

Midnight of the Revolution, - - - 241

An Estimation of Jonathan Swift, - - 248

SOCIETIES.

Y. M. C. A. 253

Y. W. C. A. 254

Clionian, 254

Philosophian, ---...- 255

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 256

ATHLETICS, 256

LOCALS AND PERSONALS,

College, 258

Seibert Hall, ------- 259

School of Business, - 260

Conservatory of Music, 260

EXCHANGES 261

EDITORIAL, 263

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MIDNIGHT OF THE REVOLUTION.

(The D. A. R. Prize Essay. By L. F. Gunderman, '04.)

IN reading- the story of the Revolution, we are often led to
believe that all was righteousness, perfection, and infalli-
bility. There arises no thought in our minds but that the
whole country was at the time aflame with patriotism, and
that no clouds darkened the hearts and homes of the patriots.
Of course, the great cloud of war overhung- the country in
general, but this the fires of liberty enlightened, and so the
w T ay was smooth and clear. But scarcely has a revolution
ever taken place in which there were no mistakes and absurd-
ities, and that history is untrue that exempts our own Amer-
ican Revolution from them. The path of the patriots was
rough and thorny; the unpleasantries, many and bitter, and
the cause oftentimes almost obscured in darkness and despair.
Such was the state of affairs during the winter of 1777 and
1778, the times that tried men's souls, when the whole sky
seemed to be wrapped in the blackness of midnig-ht and the
spark of hope, even in the true patriot's breast, was almost
exting-uished.

The reason for such a condition was not simple, but very
complex. The utter defeat of the armies in the field might
have produced it, if utter defeat had been encountered. Wash-
ington's army was meeting with reverses in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, it is true, but not very many weeks before, Bur-
g-oyne's whole army had surrendered into the hands of the
Americans. Thus the cause of such gloom was not in the

241

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soldiery. The weakness lay in the internal organization of
the government and the conduct of the war. Political cor-
ruption was prevalent then as now. Greed and jealousy and
personal interest marked the dealings of many of those who
had the conduct of the inside affairs. Schemes and intrigues
were resorted to and, as a consequence, the soldiers had to
suffer. The commander-in-chief was the special object of at-
tack, and the treatment he received, both at the hands of Con-
gress and some of his subordinate officers, was very unjust.

When Burgoyne surrendered, Gates, who had but recently
been given command of the northern army and to whose
generalship no credit of the victory is due, totally ignored
his superior officer and sent his report to Congress direct. His
unmerited praise was heralded throughout the country, and
the victory at Saratoga was held up in contrast to the reverses
at Germantown in order to disparage Washington. Further-
more, General Gates, with head turned because of the
victory, refused to send relief to the commander-in-chief when
urged to do so by him. If he had done so there is little doubt
but that the British would have been driven from Philadelphia
and the capital saved. Just about this time the control of the
war was placed in the hands of a Board of War composed of
men outside of Congress, and officers were placed in responsi-
ble positions by Congress who were most officiously antagonis-
tic to Washington. On the sixth of November, 1777, General
Gates was made President of this Board, and General Mifflin,
withdrawn from his duties as quarter-master-general, was
placed npon it, still retaining, however, his full rank. It was
about this time that the army was in dire distress, suffering
the effects and hardships of a campaign. The absence of
General Mifflin from his post and his total neglect of duty
as quarter-master-general "caused,'' says Washington, "the
want of two days' supply of provisions, and thereby cost an op-
portunity scarcely ever offeredlof taking an advantage of the
enemy." Congress was ever exacting and paid little heed to
the commander-in-chief's wishes. It promoted officers for non-

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military reasons, and utterly disregarded his recommenda-
tions. On the twenty-eighth of December, Congress appoint-
ed Conway Major-General and Inspector-General contrary to
Washington's wish, and placed him in communication with
the Board of War to act independently of his commander-in-
chief, while Benedict Arnold, who had been recommended by
Washington, was not recognized. Such was the attitude of
Congress toward the man in whom it should have put its most
implicit trust and in whose hands it should have placed free
reins in the conduct of the army.

But this was not all. It seemed as if nothing was too
exacting as a test of the commander-in-chief. The culmina-
tion came when a cabal of officers was organized to displace
him, and put Gates at the head of the army. Conway, the
Irish adventurer, whose promotion over senior officers Wash-
ington had strongly opposed, was the instigator of this, and
associated with him were Gates, Mifflin, General Charles Lee,
and even many members of Congress. They sought by cre-
ating sentiment against him and wounding his feelings to
get the commander-in-chief to resign, but, fortunately for the
country, he remained firm. Slights and selfish cabals could
wound the sensibilities but not affect the conduct of the pa-
triotic leader. Throughout the whole trying ordeal, the
great and good man preserved his lofty bearing and made
no complaint. In the end, however, the best men implicitly
trusted Washington. After the schemers failed to win over
the brave Lafayette, and their plot gained publicity, it re-
coiled on their own heads. Just such insubordination and
conditions in the internal conduct of the army contributed
much to the darkness of the period and foreshadowed the
terrible gloom that was to follow. For there are more dan-
gers in such intrigues than in an exhausted treasury, a half-
starved army, and a defeat on the field.

Turning to the Continental Congress, we find an expla-
nation for more of the gloom that was fast settling upon the
country. Franklin, Jefferson, Jay, Henry, and Rutledge,

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who had been the backbone of that body in preceding years,
were now serving- in other capacities ; and deprived of them
it was fast falling into disrepute. Looking too much for
foreign aid in the triumph of their cause without serious self-
sacrifice on their own part, the members neglected their prop-
er work, but nine being present at some of their meetings,
and rarely more than seventeen. The whole country suffered
for want of organization, and at this time, though a confed-
eration of states had been sought, the union was weaker than
two years before. Under these conditions it is not strange
that the people should begin to lose faith in Congress, espec-
ially that its plans and deliberations were at this time so
fraught with mistakes and absurdities. We have seen how it
heard and harbored the enemies of Washington, and as a re-
sult of this nearly always differed with him on questions of
policy and principle. He sought to have all enlistments for
the whole war ; Congress favored short enlistments. He de-
sired one Continental army; Congress permitted practically
thirteen armies in the field loosely joined. He longed for
one union ; they were content with separate independencies.

In its policy in regard to the army, Congress was always
niggardly, and in its methods caused much trouble and dis-
organization. At the same time that the control of the war
was placed in the hands of the Board of War, a change was
also made in the commissariat. Two commisary generals
were appointed instead of one, the one to superintend the
purchase of supplies, and the other the distribution ; and their
subordinate officers were made accountable to Congress, not
to their superior officers. This caused an utter demoraliza-
tion of the department: unfit men were appointed officers,
and dishonesty was prevalent.

At one time the regulation of the staff of the army was
shaped by Joseph Reed and he managed to have General Greene
made quarter-master-g-eneral with two of his relatives as
assistants. These three succeeded in dividing among them-
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censured for the desire of gaining- wealth from his office,
Greene made the excuse that as he made sacrifice of his com-
mand and of chances of glory on the field, he had a right to
be compensated by large emoluments. Just such officers were
many because of the methods of appointment, and often tried
the very soul of Washington. He wrote to one governor that
the officers he sent him were not fit to be shoe-blacks. They
were dishonest with the soldiers and quarreled about their
respective ranks and positions. John Adams wrote in 1777:
" I am wearied to death by the wrangles of military officers,
high and low. They quarrel like cats and dogs." Thus the
darkness gathered, and as the days were growing shorter and
the nights longer with the oncoming of winter, so the light
was gradually fading and the shadows lengthening in the
minds of the true patriots.

These trying days also saw the administration without
the one thing indispensable for the maintenance of government,
namely, money. The war had disturbed the trade with out-
side countries, especially Newfoundland and the West Indies;
and this, with the great waste and extravagance brought on
by the ignorance of conducting the finances of a war, left Con-
gress deep in debt. During the early part of 1778, paper
currency amounting to over $60,000,000 was flooding the coun,
try. As there was nothing behind this paper but a timid
Congress which was at the lowest at this time, so the Conti-
nental money was at its lowest and almost worthless. It is
said that four months' pay of a private would not buy a single
bushel of wheat. Such was the financial condition of the country
that many were compelled to resign from the army in order to
make a living. As a consequence, during the campaign at the
close of 1777, Washington's army was in a wretched condition.
But this financial status of the country is not the only reason
the army suffered. There was often lacking the will as well
as the way to support it. Its real support was by requisitions
made on the different states for provisions, equipment, and
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gan to husband their resources for a long struggle. As far as
crops were concerned the people were in a prosperous condi-
tion. In the South thej were unusually large and safely
gathered. In Pennsylvania and New England the harvests
were also abundant, but little of it went toward the support
of the army. Instead it was hoarded and exchanged for
British gold.

The number of tories or loyalists was unusually large.
It is estimated that at times one-third of the people of the
country was loyal to Great Britain, while half of the
remainder was altogether indifferent to the progress of the
war. The tories conveyed their produce to the British army
by secret ways kept open for that purpose and would rather
burn their harvests than let the American army get them.
Selfishness characterized the indifferent class who sold their
produce to the highest bidder, which was, of course, Great
Britain. People who favored the patriot cause still continued
dropping out, and soon after the battle of Brandy wine, many
became altogether hopeless. Rev. J. Dutche, a brilliant cler-
gyman favoring the Revolution, became so disgusted with
things in general that he wrote a letter to Washington, im-
ploring him in the name of God to put an end to the absurd
contest for independence, and at the head of his army nego-
tiate some sort of a compromise with England. This letter
was widely circulated, and shows very vividly the conditions
of the times. Like the mighty thunder clouds in the forefront
of the advancing storm, these intrigues of the officers, the
apathy and unfitness of Congress, the wretched state of the
financed, the indifferentism and disloyalty of a great many of
the people bore down upon the country and made the first days
of 1778 the darkest period of the war.

But in narrating these things, our object has been not to
show up all the absurdities and corruption of this period of
the Revolution, but to paint a true picture, and, principally,
to indicate to whom the credit for our liberties is due. At no
time does the true friend and patriot shine forth in greater

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contrast than in the darkest hour of distress; and so at this
time we see a few statesmen and a handful of soldiers bearing*
the torch of liberty alone.

The tnidnig-ht hour came. The g-loom was indescribable.
Almost all that was existant of the American Revolution
marched with half starved bodies overhung- with the rag-s ot
weary campaigns to the wintry fastnesses of Valley Forg-e.
Had you been able to follow in the rear of that army of noble
souls, you could have seen the indelible marks of liberty stamp-
ed on the snow in drops of their life-blood. Reaching their
destination cold, weary, and hungry, they saw nothing before
them but the bleak hills and the barren woods. Worn and
starved as they were, the} 7 became as beasts of burden hauling
log-s for huts and fuel. Thus conditions remained throug*h
that long- and terrible winter. Congress provided no magazine
of stores and provisions, and so often made the soldiers live on
promises that they were severly tasked to maintain life and
love of life. Many a time there was danger that the troops
would perish from famine or disperse in search of food. Many
a picket dropped over at his post starved and frozen, while the
people of Philadelphia were entertaining Howe's army in royal
fashion. Balls and parties in regular Parisian style were in full
force, and everything" there was in the height of gayety.
Shortly after reaching winter quarters, Washing-ton reported
that he had 2898 men unfit for duty because they were bare-
footed, and otherwise naked. This left but 8200 in condition
for service. At times scarcely 2000 could have been gotten
under arms, and by March, 1778, there were only 4000 men at
Valley Forge. Thus the little army, the indispensible hope,
was beginning- to thin out, and this, with the finances in a
desperate state; with nine hundred American vessels captured
by the enemy; and with the apathy which had fallen upon the
country, presented a dark, dark picture. But though all else
was underneath the blackest cloud of hopelessness, the fires of
liberty still g-lowed under four thousand tattered blouses at
Valley Forge.

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Though suffering- the want of all things, these never per-
mitted their just discontent to get the better of their patriot-
ism. "No order of men in the thirteen states" said Washing-
ton, "has paid a more sacred regard to the proceedings of Con-
gressman the army; for, without arrogance or the smallest de-
viation from truth, it may be said that no history now extant
can furnish an instance of an army's suffering such uncommon
hardships as ours has done, and bearing them with the same
patience and fortitude. Their submitting without a murmur
is a proof of patience and obedience which in my opinion can
scarce be paralleled."

These are the men who, like the consecrated virgins in the
ancient temple of Vesta, kept the coals glowing when the fires
on Freedom's altars were burning low. These are they, the
sacrifices to political corruption, mismanagement, and disloy-
ality, who endured the most intense physical suffering in the
face of the deepest national gloom, who, out cf it all, came
forth more than conquerors, stronger in orgination and spirit
and fired with hope by him who was ever their friend and
example in suffering, their beloved Washington. "To the
Soldiers of Washington's army who sleep at Vallev Forge"
are the simple words graven on that monument of granite
erected just a little over two years ago by the Daughters of
the American Revolution. A most fitting memorial! But long
after that obelisk has crumbled and formed part of the sands
on the Atlantic's shores, the smouldering embers kept burning
on Pennsylvania's hills during the winter of 1777 and 1678 will
still be burning brightly amid those flames of liberty which
will then have enlightened the whole world.

AN ESTIMATION OF JONATHAN SWIFT.

IN every period of the world's history there have been men
who wore discontented with the existing order of thingfs.
Oftentimes their complaints never reached the ears of the
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tumult, and they passed away unknown and unheard. At
rare intervals, there is a hush in the busy world; the people
pause and listen to what someone is saying* — someone who
has spoken with the force of genius and inspiration. Unwill-
ingly, they must listen to the merciless sarcasms which are
poured upon their life and character. The voice ceases; the
people, regardless of the warnings, continue in their course,
and only when it is too late do they realize that a genius has
been among them — a genius so rare that a nation in its whole
history scarcely ever gives birth to more than one. Greece
produced her Archilochus, Rome her Juvenal, France her
Rabelais, Italy her Giusti and England her Swift.

In studying the literature of the Classic School which
consisted of Dryden, Swift and Addison, we must not expect
to find that portrayal of human nature which we find so su-
perbly set forth in Shakespeare, or those lofty ideals for the
guidance of man depicted in Milton; but we must bear in
mind that a great chang-e had taken place in the morality and
tastes of the people. They could no longer endure the so-
called vulgarity in forn of the poets of the Elizabethan Age.
Dryden says of Shakespeare, ''Many of his words, and more
of his phases, are scarcely intelligible. And of those which
we understand, some are ungramatical, others coarse; and
his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that
it is as affected as it is obscure."

To understand Jonathan Swift, we must know something
of John Dryden — the head, and in many respects the master
mind of the Classic School.

It is easy for us to realize how repulsive the Age of the
Restoration must have been to a man of John Dryden's tem-
perament. The vice and immorality which for sixty years
had been kept in check by the strict rules of Puritanism, sud-
denly burst upon the people in all its filth and degredation.
John Dryden, a professional litterateur, was compelled to grat-
ify their depraved tastes. He wrote twenty-seven dramas,
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read. There is only one which reveals to us a glimpse of what
the man might have been in a more propitious age. I refer
to his "All for Love" — the only drama which he confesses to
have written entirely to please himself. In his portrayal of
the noble Octavia, he has given to the world such a pure con-
ception of womanhood and wifehood, that he is only equaled
by Shakespeare in his Imogen.

It was his poetry, however, that brought him success.
His sarcasm has not the impetuosity or irascible temper of his
followers, but it possesses the stately tread of the heroic me-
ter. There is studied carefulness and deliberation in every
line which enables him to launch his shafts of deadly irony
with unerring aim. His "Absalom and Achitophel is consid-
ered the best satire in the English language. He places his
personal enemies Shaftesbury and Buckingham upon the rack
of torture, and slowly and calmly, without betraying his own
hostile feeling, inflicts upon them the utmost pain of which
he is capable. Bryden is the most polished writer of his time,
but he gained his polish at the expense of his originality.

In this condition of affairs, when everything is artificial
and polished, Jonathan Swift appears, the most original and
at the same time the greatest analytical writer in the English
language.

History has given to us one of its strangest characters
in the personality of Jonathan Swift. When we study his
life, we know that there are many things about him which we
can never understand. We do not know the secret motives
and influences which directed and controlled his actions. The
most scrutinizing search has been made of every detail of his
life, and inferences have been drawn from isolated facts which
are unjust and unkind. There are somethings in his life over
which he has drawn the curtain of secrecy, and it is not for
us to penetrate behind the veil.

We do know, however, that Swift had a very sensitive
disposition. The slightest affront was to him a deliberate in-

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suit. His vanity and self-esteem were normally developed,
and, when with advancing* years, he saw his fondest hopes
doomed to disappointment, his friends in ruin or exile, he
looked at the world through the eyes of a cynic. To him
nothing was real. What we see is but the thin coating of
veneer and hypocrisy which covers the inward deformities.
Judging the world by the stanard of self-perfection which he
gradually came to see in himself, he imagined the imperfec-
tions of the world to be greater than his own. At first he was
content to jeer at its weakness, then he grew to hate it.

In considering Swift as a satirist, we must remember that
many of his best productions are invectives against the evils
which existed during his own age — many are political tracts
of transient importance which lose their force when the ob-
jects for which they were written have been accomplished or
forgotten. His cruel, unerring shafts of personal spite tipped
with venom have now lost their sting, when the unfortunate
beings at whom they were aimed have long since returned to
the dust. Born in an age of great depravity and wickedness,
witnessing a revolution in the prime of life, much of his work
assumed a narrow range of thought. His times did not per-
mit him to ascend to heights of nobleness and grandeur, but
like Andromeda, he is bound to the earth — a victim to his
country. But to understand Swift's power as a satirist, we
must note the effect his writings had upon the times in which
he lived. We see him by his own unaided efforts gradually
rising in power until during the age of Queen Anne, he had
the whole country under his control. The highest men in
the state became his most abject subjects and the political
history of that reign is but the expression of his own ideas.
His party (the Whigs,) is overthrown; he goes to Ireland.
There during his latter life he becomes their champion and
protector. Under the stimulus of his skillful pen, the indus-
tries of Ireland take new life and it has been truly said that
Ireland dates her prosperity from the time of Swift's Drapier
Letters.

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Swift possessed a mind of great analytical powers. It
was impossible for him to admire the beauties of the visible
creation as an entity, but he is content only when hunting- out
and dwelling upon the imperfections. He is not satisfied with
the outward appearance but must tear away the delusions
from the objects about us, which alone saves them from the
commonplace; he must reduce "the felicity and enjoyments of
mortal man to a mighty level, by tearing- down the artifical
mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish and tinsel."
He recognized that he was making his own life miserable and
wretched, and with a passionate yearning- for a happier state,
he tells us that "credulity which converses about the surface

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*s far preferable to that wisdom which enters the depths of
things, and then comes gravely back with the informations
and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing."
What a punishment for a man to know how to attain a thing
and yet by nature being disqualified from ever attaining it!
He could never become happy because his conception of it was
imperfect. To him "happiness is the perpetual possession of
being well deceived,'' but his disposition could never allow
him that privilege.

Jonathan Swift wrote many works, but let us remember,
that we cannot always judge the man himself by his writings.
It was Swift's one purpose in life to deceive the world in re-
gard to his actions. He was supremely indifferent to all its
opinions. Thus it is we find in his writings all the coarseness
and brutality of a libertine, while in his private life he was
pure and modest. He willingly bared his breast to the charges
of skepticism and infidelity by the levity of his religious
works, yet in the sacred recesses of his heart, he was God fear-
ing and reverent. He was considered as a misanthrope, vet
he was one of the greatest philanthropists of his times. Swift
is the modern James, the one face which is turned towards the
world is hateful and unlovely: the other turned towards his
private life is kind ami gentle. He had his feelings, but no

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better eulogy can be given than that of Dr. Delaney, who,
speaking of his writings, said: "They will bear to be consid-
ered as the sun, in which the brightness will hide the blem-
ishes. He lived a blessing, he died a benefactor, and his name

will ever live an honor to Ireland. 1 '

R. H. B., Sem. '06.

Societies.

Y. M. C. A.

The second term of the school year has closed. It has
truly been a term of educational and spiritual enrichment.
It is inspiring to look back over the past months, and say that
we did not have one dull service, but all were visited with the
power of the Spirit, and were uplifting and helpful, and filled
each one with a greater desire to take a firmer stand for the
Master.

Drs. Woodruff and Dimm, loyal friends of the students,
were present during the month and gave us rich messages of
grace. Dr. Woodruff was present at the Religious Educa-
tional Association which recently met at Philadelphia, and
in his address he referred very interestingly to the great move-
ment on foot among educators, to lay greater stress on the
religious features of our colleges, by improving the chapel
services and encouraging the various colleges to establish
systematic Bible study in their regular curriculum, and stu-
dent voluntary associations.

The religious Educational Association is comparatively
new, but it has back of it men of intellectual power who are
deeply concerned in the devotion of young men and women to
higher planes of influence and usefulness. Its sole aim is to-
ward a practical application of the life and teachings of Christ
as revealed in his Word.

Two students, Messrs. Lloyd W. Waters and George D.

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Clarke, recently volunteered for foreign missions, and conse-
quently are new additions to the Student Volunteer Mission
Band.

The Bible Classes are well attended and the interest in
them has not abated, but rather an increased interest is man-
ifested bv the students.

Y. W. C. A.

A piano has been placed in the Girls Reading Room which
has made that room a very suitable place for holding- the
meetings of the Y. W. C. A.

During the term the meetings have been interesting and
helpful. Each girl has tried to do her part well. May we
ever be earnest and faithful in our work for the Master.

We have welcomed as members of the Association Misses
Mary Rinehart. Rosa Fetterhoof and Edith Longacre.
Time was — is past, thou cans't it not recall.
Time is— thou hast, employ the portion small:
Time future — is not, may not ever be.
Time present is the only time for thee.

CLIOMAIN.

Clio, as most other organizations, welcomes the approach
of spring. Its pleasing effectscan be seen. The contrast with
winter seems to lend inspiration to our literary talents.

Pres. Barry appointed the following officers: Chaplain Clay
Whitmoyer: Seargant-at-Arms, Chas. Geise. The chair also
appointed Swank, Uber Jr. and Myers as the Program Com-
mittee.

The following questions have been debated: Resolved that
the atheleticsof a college do more to advertise the college than
does the alumni, also. Resolved, that the average moral con-
dition of the factory girl is better than that of the society
girl.

The latter question was very warmlv discussed, both in
regular and general debate.

A new feature hasbeen added to our program, that of

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Current War News, Miss Guss gave us a very interesting- and
instructive discussion on the Russia and Japan War.

On the evening- of March 4, '04 occurred the debate pre-
limenary to the intercollegiate debate with Juniata Colleg-e.
Mr. Clay Whitmoyer was chosen from Clio, as first speaker in
coming" debate.

Clio had no session on Friday evening March 18, since the
annual Gymnasium Exhibition came on that evening.

Misses Rothrock and Lau on the evening- of the 21st favor-
ed Clio with an instrumental duett.

The intercollegiate debate with Juniatta Colleg-e occurs
on April 15, '04. The question will be: Resolved, that the ed-
ucation of the negro will be the solution to the race problem."

PHILOSOPHIAN.

Since the last issue of the Susquehanna Philo has not
been able to hold her regular meetings on account of other
important events. But the one meeting which we were en-
abled to hold was one of interest and of benefit.

Many of Philo's members are ardent lovers of James Whit-
comb Riley's works. Accordingly on the 4th of March the
regular program having been laid aside, Philo, in company
with a number of friends spent a very pleasant evening with
the noted poet. The program consisted almost entirely of
recitations written by Riley. Every one present felt that the
program was one of pleasure and profit.

We wish to thank the friends who so kindly assisted us
both in the preparation and presentation of our entertain-
ment.

We bid all present a hearty welcome to all of our meet-
ing's in the future.

At the recent preliminary debate Mr. L. F. Gunderman,
and Miss Katherine Focht were chosen as the second and third
speakers in the coming intercollegiate debate between Juniata
College,, Hunting-don, Pa., and Susquehanna. Philo extends
to them congratulations.

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School of £beolo0£.

A now feature which has been recently introduced into the
rheological Department is a series of weekly lectures on prac
tical subjects, and delivered by the foremost men of the Luth-
n Church.
The following - lectures have been given;
C .—"How to use the Lutheran Almanac."

Rev. G. W. Enders. D.D.
,r. 4.-"The Pastor," Rev. J. H. Weber. D.D.

. 11. — "Home Missions." Rev. Stewart A. Hartman. D.D.
Mar. 18.— "Practical Sermonizing-."

Rev. J. M. Reimensnyder. D.D.
Rev. Levi P. Young-. '04 preiched at Millv.lle, Mar. 6th.
and at Saxon. Mar. 13th.

Rev. J. A. Richter. '04, preached at Tremont on Mar. 13th.
Bro. Richter will assume full charge of this pastorate on April

>:.

Ira Z. Fenstermacker. "04 supplied at Mt. Carmel on Mar.
6th. and 13th. He also preached at North Hope on Mar. 27th..
and spent two weeks at the home of his friend L. M. Danben-
:k of the Junior Class.

Chas. Lambert supplied at Oak Grove. Mar. 13th: at
Freidens. Somerset Co.. Mar. 20th.

H. A. Reynolds of the Middle Class preached at Milton
Ma:. 13th. and at Berwick Mar. 20th.

Eph. M. Gearhart of the Junior Class gave an elocution-
ary recital at the Tuscarora Academy. Academia. Pa., on Feb.
26th.

Htbletics-

The Basket ball season closed Saturdav. March 12. This

has been the most successful season Susquehanna has ever

I in basket ball. We have met successful! v more teams of

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our class and more out of our class than in any former season.
We won all the games on our home floor but the State game.
No large scores were run up on us. Our men have certainly
demonstrated the fact that they can play clean, manly, suc-
cessful basket ball.

Manager Sunday deserves much credit for his tact and
skill and untiring efforts in the management of the team.

We wish to express our appreciation of the services rend-
ered by Mr. Fleck, Assistant Manager. We believe this was
a noble step taken when the Association granted each mana-
ger an assistant.

Again we feel like making honorable mention of Coach
Stutzman. Every student was sorry to see him leave; he has
won a place in the sympathy of every one. Almost every
man of the student body was at the train to bid him farewell,
and such singing and yells was never given to one occupying
a similar position before in the history of the institution.
We hope he will come again.

On Thursday, March 3, Susquehanna defeated Franklin
& Marshal at Selinsgrove by a score of 19 to 11.

Goals Stutzman 3; Pearson 1; Sones 3; Benferl; Schaef-
fer 2; Shock 1. Fouls, Pearson 3; Shaeffer 5.

On Saturday, March 12, Susquehanna easily defeated the
Danville team by a score of 69 to 9.

Since Basket ball has been so very popular we wonder will
this same spirit enter into base ball. We have every reason
to believe it will. Manager Bingaman is exerting every ef-
fort to secure a good team. Already many good men have
signed and without a doubt Coach Canon will be here to train
the men. With him as Coach our success is assured.

Already a very good spirit of enthusiasm is felt among
the student body. The team will have good support, and
with the following schedule as arranged by the manager we
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had in the past. Base ball is our weakest sport. Let us
strengthen it this year.

April 16, Wyoming- Seminary at Selinsgrove.

April 23, Bloomsburg S. N., at Bloomsburg.

April 28, Williamsport A. C, at Williamsport.

April 29, Bellefonte Academy at Bellefonte.

April 30, Lockhaven, at Lockhaven.

May 6, Juniata, at Selinsgrove.

May 7, Lebanon Valley, at Annville.

May 13, F. & M., at Selinsgrove.

May 20, Jnniata, at Huntingdon.

May 21, Burnham, at Burnham.

May 26, Villanova, at Villanova.

May 27, open.

May 28, Albright, at Myerstown.

June 4, Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston.

June 13, Bloomsburg S. N. S, at Selinsgrove.

Xocals anb personals.

College.
Geo. Clarke spent his Easter vacation in Berwick and

D. B. Moist, a former student at Susquehanna returned to
act as a Judge at the Gym Exhibition.

F. W. Barry, Editor-in-Chief of the Susquehanna was a
guest at the home of Mifflintown friends during the recent
vacation.

W. K. Fleck was entertained at Port Royal during the
latter part of the Spring vacation. He reports a ' 'Royal" time.

On April 6, the Y. M. C. A. met in the hall for the first time
since it was partially destroyed by fire some time ago.

The hall presents an attractive and inviting appearance
since it has been repaired and improved.

On March 10, L. W. Walter discussed "Colored Liquids"

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and performed the experiments of changing- water to wine and
wine to water before the Society of Natural Science. At the
same time Prof. Fisher gave a very interesting- talk on "Rad-
ium and Radio Activity." The discussion was full and clear,
setting- forth the plain facts in regard to radium without g-loss
and overenthusiasm with which the subject is discussed in
some of the magazines.

On Friday evening, March 18, the new Alumni Gymnasi-
um was the scene of a very interesting Gymnasium Exhibition.
The exhibition was very largely patronized and proved a suc-
cess in every respect. Those who participated are to be high-
ly commended for their work as is also Mr. M. A. Fisher, the
Physical Director, who had charge of the preparations.

The feats of the Gym Team, Guss, Dimm, Barry, Gun-
derman, and Stutzman attracted the attention of the entire
audience, while the Club Swinging of Stutzman was lustily
applauded.

The Championship U S" was awarded to Guss, and Dimm
received honorable mention.

Prof. Sheldon presided at the piano during the evening.

Seibkkt Hall.

Grip and spring fever have been at the Dormitory.

Miss Sue Kline visited her sister Edna several days this
month.

A number of the young ladies were pleasantly entertained
at the home of Miss Hilbish Mar. 19th.

The yound ladies of the Hall who played basket-ball are
to be congratulated on the fine game at the gym. exhibit.

Many an evening- has been spent discussing "What would
the young ladies do if there would be a fire?" What the dor-
mitory needs is a fire escape.

The young ladies of the dormitory took many a stroll to
see the ice-gorge, one morning starting at six o'clock and
spending the greater part of the day on the river banks.
Everything comes to them who wait — they waited — the gorge
came.

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School of Business.

the universal need of a business education.

It will be noticed that the opinions of eminent men on the
value of a business education bear upon its general rather than
on its restricted value. They do not commend it so much for
its use in preparing- young men and women for profitable bus"
iness positions as for the general preparation it affords for the
practical duties of life that all must encounter. They take
the broad ground that a knowledg-e of correct business prin-
ciples is essential to all, and that the diverse relations of hu-
man life and the employments that must absorb human ener-
gies must be regulated and controlled by the best business
methods. The school of experience is a dear teacher, and
many of its lessons can be secured at far less expense and trou-
ble in a good school where the cirriculum of studies embraces
branches that are essentially the product of human experience.
Because business principles are so universally applied in hu-
man affairs, a business education is of universal value.

Conservatory of Music.

A new "Chickering Grand" piano has been ordered for
the auditorium. It will be in the hall ready for the spring
term's work.

Miss Gertrude Rine visited the home of her friend May
Arbogast, Freeburg, Pa.

Miss Luella Werkheiser, enjoyed a Sunday at home, Dan-
ville, Pa., March 13.

The illness of Mrs. T. B. Birch has kept her from her
duties at the Conservatory during the past week.

Two members of the "Quartette," Misses Meiser and
Rothrock, visited the latter's home Sunday, February 21.

Miss Ada Lau was called home Saturday, March 19.

During the quietness and solemnity of the Saturday morn-
ing hours, some "rude" gentleman made some practical dem-
onstrations of harmony and technique on the door of Prof.

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E. E. Sheldon's room. Photos of the tragedy can be had at
room No. 37.

Have you seen the new Conservatory pin ? They are
very neat and pretty.

The last recital for the winter term was given on the eve-
ning- of March 17, at 8 p. m., as follows:

Tarentelle, Pianoforte, Miss Luella Werkheiser.

Sunset, Song, Mrs. T. B. Birch.

Menuet, Miss Margaret Arbogast.

I Mind the Day, Song, Miss Bertha Meiser.

An Open Secret, Song, Miss Lillian Stetler.

Sonata, (Moonlight) Last Movement, Pianoforte,

Miss Margaret Rothrock
Do you Remember, Vocal Duet, Misses Snyder and Trench.
Waltz in D. flat, Op 70 No. 1, Pianoforte, Miss Ada M. Lau.
With Verdure Clad (Cieation), Rec. and Aria, Mrs. A. B. Wallize.
Come and Trip it, Song, Miss Ada M. Lau.
2d Mazurka, Pianoforte, Miss Edith M. Wittmer.
San Toi, Song, Miss Luella Werkheiser.

What from Vengence (Lucia), Sextette, Mrs. Wallize, Birch, Messrs.
Fischer, Phillips, Allenbach and Sheldon.

1^* off* iffi

Exchanges.

"O wad some Power of giftie gie us

To see oursels as ithers see us!" — Burns.

What is our conception of criticism? If it is simply of a
destructive nature it is of no benefit. Any one can make such
criticisms. But real criticism first points out weakness or er-
rors and then carefully advises a line of procedure. Why not
assist the journals of your exchang-e by your fair, frank, con-
structive criticisms.

-The Muhlenberg' has certainly attained to a very high de-

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gree of excellence in all its phases. Much care is especially
shown in the literary productions.

The Anniversary number of The Gleaner has several
good poems and two well written articles on "The Story of
a Singer" and "Abraham Lincoln."

We wish to congratulate the Shamokin High School Re-
view on its attractive cover of the Februray number. The
paper has a well conducted exchange department, but its lit-
erary articles do not come up to the average of High School
Journals.

The Amulet contains a column entitled Mosaics of
Thought." It contains gems taken from the great poets.
The poets of some particular state or country are considered
in each issue. This we consider one of the strong phases of
the paper.

The editor of the Spectator seems to be in close touch with
every phase of college activity. He views his subjects in a
broad manner commenting and advising sensibly. Would
that more of the editors of the college journals would follow
his example.

The Midland for March contains a neat little article on
"How to Listen to Music." The author first states that the
listener must give absolute attention to the performance, for,
unless by attention the ear has learned to catch harmonies,
the music will lose its effect. Again, the listener should
think what the composer meant when he wrote the piece.
Many compositions, most beautiful and inspiring, are merely
the folk-songs arranged by a master hand, but there are other
works portraying moods or great emotions, and the careful
listener must imagine for himself the love, sorrow, peace, joy
or passion that is voiced.

C. W. '05

Zhe Suequebanna

Seltnsotove, Bpril, 1904,

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postoffice as Second Class matter.)
Terms— 75 cents, strictly in advance. Single copies. 10 cents

Fred W. Barry, '04, Editor-in-Chief. L. W. Walters, '03, '06, Bus. Mgr.

Archie W. Frontz, '06, Locals and Personals.

Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.

Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

George G. Fox, '07, Mg. Editor. I. W. Bingaman, '06. ) Aoct T, llt! M< __.,

Geo. D. Clarke, '05, Asst. Mg. Editor. Anna K. Beaver, '06. j ASSl - ^ us - m »"«

The Susquehanna is published each month of the college year by the Students
r ublishiug Association of Susquehanna University.

The editors solicit contributions and items of interest to the college from student*
and alumni.

All business matters and correspoidence should be addressed to The Susque-
hanna, Selinsgrove, Pa. Exchanges should be sent to the same address.

The journal will be issued about the 12th of each month. All matters for publi-
cation must reach the managing editor on or before the first of each month.

Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
manager at once.

Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
and all arrearages paid

EDITORIAL.

The Teachers' The Teachers' College Course, which for
College Course, the first time is being inaugurated in our

College this Spring Term, is established
for the purpose of affording to young men and young ladies,
who during the year are employed throughout the the adjacent
counties as teachers, the opportunity to secure for themselves
a thorough College education. This course commences with
the opening of the Spring term each year and will be con-
tinued after the June Commencement, for several weeks
during the summer. Students entering this course can take

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the regular Classical or Scientific College Course and by fol-
lowing year after year this Teachers' Course will be able in
about six years to complete a regular College Course and in
the meantime can teach during the fall and winter months.
Many persons can thus earn sufficient to carry them through
College without contracting any debt. We believe this course
will be found very helpful to teachers and we hope that many
more may be added to the already large enrollment of this
term. For further particulars we would suggest that any
persons who are interested in this matter would write to the
Dean, Dr. J. I. Woodruff, who will be pleased to furnish in-
formation along this line.

In such a time as we are living, it is possible for every
person to have a thorough college education. Not only is it
possible but it is becoming a. necessary requirement for young
men and young women. Everywhere the business world is
asking for educated young men and young women. Many
are falling into the ''American custom" of making a "short
cut" into a profession. They are specializing on one particu-
lar branch. We would ask you, reader, to stop and consider,
if in the end it would not be far better to develop an all-round
intellect. The athlete does not develop but one set of muscles
in order to become a champion. He developes the whole
body. Why should we expect to become mental champions
by only developing along one individual line. Four years
spent in hard, faithful study in any college will be looked
back upon by the graduate as time well spent and with a
greater satisfaction will he go out into the world to take his
place in a profession or a business because of the four years
training he has received within the College walls.

Let us urge upon our readers to consider early this mat-
ter of education and let our regular college classes be enlarged
and may the next few years show a growing interest in edu-
cational lines by larger and more interesting graduating
classes. Don't be satis^ed with a "short cut" into a business
or a profession. A few more years of preparation will doubly
pay you for the time spent.

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W A ARBOGAST;

! 299 Pianos.

The New England Conservatory of
Music, Boston, whose premiership
among institutions of its class is a
matter of common knowledge, when in
the market for pianos twenty years ago,
after exhaustive trials of the then cele-
brated makes, decided upon the

Ivers & Pond

Shoes, Ladies' Radcliffe and] , , , m . ^ , . .

P A "R /> ano - ordered 50. That the decision was

rreeo r>ros. wise would be implied from their sub ..

Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars* sequent purchases of this make, until

; lately 268 had been bought. Now, when
moving into its beautiful new building,
the Conservatory looks over the piano
market again, and finding its choice still
that of twenty years ago, orders 31 Ivers
& Pond Pianos, making a total of 299 as
follows :

Dry Goods and Notions.
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Rippers

Studios

536 Market Street,
Sunbury,

1882 . . 50

Pianos.

1895 . . 30 Pianos.

X884 . . 6

11

1896 . . 15 "

1886 . . 17

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1897 . . 13 «'

1887 . . 3

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1898 . . 13 "

1888 . . 6

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1899 . . 13 "

1889 . . 13

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1900 . . 15 "

1890 . . 73

11

1901 . . 3 "

1894 . . 15

11

1902 . . 31 "

For AH the Latest

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Vol. XIV MAY, 1904. No. 9

CONTENTS.

LITERARY. pagk

A Story of the Pioneers, - 275

The Birth of American Liberty, - - 282

Springtime, - - 287

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 289

SOCIETIES.

Y. M. C. A. 290

Y. W. C. A. 291

Philosophian, 292

Cuonian, 293

SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, 294

LOCALS AND PERSONALS,

ALUMNI NOTES, - - - - - - 295

COLLEGE, 296

Seibert Hall, 296

Preparatory School, 297

Conservatory of Music, 297

ATHLETICS, 298

EDITORIAL, 300

Resolutions of Respect, 302

Published each Month of the Scholastic Year by the

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UNIVERSITY,

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OFFERS excellent facilities for a splendid education under
wholesome influences and at very low terms.
The institution has the following departments:

L THEOLOGICAL, with a full three years' course.

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A SORY OF THE PIONEERS.

IT was in the year seventeen hundred and sixty, that Jane
Smith and her husband settled along- the west bank of the
Susquehanna about five miles south of where the North Branch
joins the West. They came from Berks county in quest of
new land. After spending some time in exploring along the
river they followed one of the tributaries west into the hills.
By the time they had gone about five miles up the stream,
they came into the beautiful Middle Creek valley. They re-
mained here for some time and after having chosen land, went
south to persuade some of their friends to go north and join
them in the beautiful valley, they had seen.

Four months later five families arrived. These were the
Stucks, Hendricks, Millers, Kreamers and Smiths.

When all had decided where they wished to live, Smith
called a meeting- of the people to adopt certain resolutions
concerning the Indians. It was decided that they conquor
them with peace and not with war.

Smith, who had already become freindly with chief Run-
ning Dog-, then went to him, and as he could speak the latter's
tongue, had no trouble in telling- him what resolutions they
had drawn up and that he hoped Running Dog would be freind-
ly and help them in keeping the peace.

The chief consented to it. These savages under Running
Dog were always friendly to Smith's men and kept the pledge
their leader had made.

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These Red Skins became very fond of the settlers' fire-
water and on one of the chief's frequent visits he examined very
closely the gun which Smith had. Next day he came again
and said to Smith "Do you know what I dreamed last night,"
Smith replied that he did not. "Well, I dreamed that you
gave me your gun." After some little hesitation he gave it
to the chief.

The next day when Running Dog came, Smith asked him
if he knew what he dreamed last night. The Indian did not
know. "I dreamed," said the setler, u That you gave me and
my people all the land we could clear in the next five years."
The old chief remembering the favor of yesterday, complied
with the request. So it was that Smith and his people acquir-
ed their land on friendly terms with the Indians.

A few years after these people had settled, Running Dog
came to Smith's house one day and seemed very much down-
hearted. This was not his usual way for as a rule he was
very jovial.

When he entered, Jane Smith was alone in the house.
"Good morning chief" said she.

The old man did not answer but took a seat by the open
fireplace. All day he continued in the same mood and in the
evening just before John came home, he departed.

^le continued inese actions ior three days, before Jane
Smith said anything to her husband. One evening she said,
"John I believe there is something troubling Running Dog or
else he is sick."

"What makes you think so," he asked.
She then told him of the old man's strange actions.
"Well, if he comes tomorrow and acts the same, tickle his
palate with a little soup and I am sure you will find out what
is wrong with him."

Next day the old chief came and acted the same. In the
evening, when he started to leave, Mrs. Smith asked him what
was wrong. He said nothing but continued walking toward
the door.

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"Are you sick?"

The old man only grunted and made no distinct reply.
kk Be seated," she commanded, "And I will make you some
broth for you are sick and this is very bad weather for people
like you."

After he had consumed his broth, she continued her ques-
tions as to his melancholy spirit. Finally he told her that
the Seven Nations of the North had combined against the
Whites and were about to descend upon them. After he had
said this, the Indian seemed to be very much alarmed as if he
had given away the secret of his life.

The next evening* when her husband returned she told
him all that Running- Dog- had said. That very night he
spread the word among- the neighbors, and the next day all
with the exception of the Stucks assembled in the meadow
south of Smiths to build a fort. They chose a spot where
there was a very fine spring and over it built a log fort.

As soon as this was finished, the men moved their wives
and children to Berks County. When they had comfortably
arranged their families, the men returned to their possessions
in the north. There were still some cattle on the new land to
be guarded.

On their return from Berks County the setlers went to the
Stucks in a body and pleaded with them to take their families
south as they had done. The Stucks only laughed at them
and said it was a scheme of Running Dog's to get them outoi
the country.

At this the men departed and went to their farms from
whence they drove their cattle to the fort. Provisions were
stored there for a long siege.

It was on the fifth of May eighteen hundred and seventy,
when one of the company was away from the fort, that he
found the dead body of Running Dog. Then he advanced
further into the woods and saw a great body of Indians on the
north side of Penn's Creek. This was in the evening and as
there was no apparent commotion among the savages, he did

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not expect an attack until the morning at the least.

The scout made all possible haste to the Stuck family and
told them what he had seen. They did not think that it was
true as they had become very unfriendly with the men at the
fort, because they would not take part in the erection of the
fort and help to protect the property. They only laughed at
him and with many jeers told him to leave the house and not
try any more of his false rumors.

That night all was excitement at the fort. Smith and
his men were collecting the cattle in a shed, butchering others,
laying in a supply of wood, and making all necessary arrange-
ments for a long siege.

That night they kept an extra vigil but the next morning
dawned with no signs of action from the Indians. The men
did not risk going very far from the fort during the morning.

Things were different at the Stuck house. The men left
early in the morning to make a clearing at some distance from
the house. There was no one at home to defend. Mrs. Stuck
and her daughter-in-law were the only ones there and they
had no fire arms.

At noon the men returned for dinner and, after having
made great sport of Smith and his rumors, they departed for
the fields.

Hardly had they gone, when Mrs. Stock noticed a band
of Indians swooping down over the hills and making direct
for the house. She knew only too well what it meant. Be-
fore they reached the house, she killed her own daughter with
a butcher knife, for she knew what it was for a woman to be
taken alive by the Indians. Then just as she was calling to
her daughter-in-law to kill herself as she was going to do, the
Indians broke in the door and seized her in their deathly grasp.
The other woman ran out the door to attract the attention of
the men. As soon as she uttered her faint cry, the Indians
on the other side of the house hearing it swooped around and
caught her.

She was taken into the house and compelled to see her

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sister sufferer tortured most horribly and scalped. After this
was done the Indians took all the provisions they cared to
have and left with their captive.

The shouts had been heard by the men in the fields and
they hastened towards the house. As soon as they came up,
they saw the savages leaving- with their captive and rushed
for them in a vain effort to retake the woman. The Indians
made a rush for the men, after one of their men were killed,
succeeded in taking the two whites captive. Then they were
scalped before the eyes of Mrs. Stuck.

The report of the terrible massacre soon reached the fort
and the men hastened to the scene with all possible haste.
When Smith and his men walked into the house the sight that
met their gaze was horrible. Mrs. Stuck lay there mutilated
in a horrible manner and her daughter dead in another room.
When they had hunted thoroughly for the others, they sought
them in the fields.

Then they started after the scalpers. A search was kept
up all night. The men were about to give it up, when one of
them saw a bright light in the sky. They started in the di-
rection of it. Soon they reached (Shilallimy) bluff. Here
they saw that the Indians had assemdled where the two
branches of the Susquenanna River join. They were having
a war dance in the celebration of their success of the afternoon.
The Indians were drinking very heavily. The camp, which
was composed of fifteen men with Smith as leader, waited un-
til they saw that the liquor was taking hold on the savages.
Then a canoe was brought from a secret place, which
Running Dog had revealed to Smith. As the canoe was small,
they were compelled to make several trips before all the men
were on the other side of the river. After they were landed
Smith waited until the Indians' excitement was subsided, be-
fore he made an attack.

About an hour later they saw their chance and swooped
down upon them. The Indians were taken by surprise and
three killed, before they were prepared to give resistance.

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The battle which ensued was very fierce. Smith lost three
men before the twenty Indians were killed.

He then returned to the other side of the river and waited
until daylight. On the way to the fort they searched the
woods thoroughly for some more of the enemy but found none.

On their arrival at the fort Smith ordered two men to ac-
company the one, who had seen the dead body of Running-
Dog-, with orders to return it to the fort. At one o'clock the
next morning-, there was a band of searchers coming- over the
wood at a little to the north of the fort. They had three pine
knots for lights and on their shoulders could be seen a large
black object. This afterwards turned out to be the body of
Running Dog.

That night they buried their friend a little west of the
fort. The service was partly christian and partly heathen.
The chief's fighting-outfit was buried with him but the bible
was read at that service and a prayer went up to the living
God that this true friend might spend a happy future in the
happy hunting grounds.

Next morning they went out again in search of the enemy.
When they were within about one mile of the Stuck house,
they heard their dogs barking very loudly at some distance
from them. One of the party went to see what caused the
trouble.

He then called his comrades. When they arrived there
they found the dogs chewing at the dead body of a woman,
who was soon identified to be that of young Mrs. Stuck. On
their way to the Smith house with their body they found the
other two Messrs. Stuck. All were taken to the homestead
and buried.

Smith and his men returned to the fort and kept guard for
two years until the Indian troubles in Pennsylvania were set-
tled.

At the end of this time a chief came down from the north
and sent a messenger to Smith to meet him on the west bank

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of the Isle of Que where Middle creek runs into Penns. He
said he wished to make peace with him.

Smith and his men went there the next day and found the
chief and about five hundred men waiting- for him.

The Indian then advanced to the west side of Penn's creek
to meet Smith. He then g-ave his name as Kosciusko and
said he wished to be friendly to the white man. He then took
Smith across in his own canoe. After the white leader circu-
lated among- the Indians for some time, Kosciusko called him
to where he and some other Indians were seated. He lit the
pipe of peace and after taking a few puffs himself handed it
to Smith, who did the same. When all the whites had smok-
ed they returned it to the Indian Chief, who g-ave it to a few
of his men and then finished it himself.

He said he was from the north and had heard of the death
of his comrades here two years before. He further stated that
the Indians who lived here had nothing- to do with the war,
as Running- Dog- had said he had a compact with the Whites
and would kill himself before he saw any of them killed by
his race.

The chief then asked Smith that they make a mark to be
a token of peace between them. It was then decided that they
split a larg-e pine tree that was standing- near them. This
was done and both parties lived by the compact. They then
smoked another pipe of tobacco and as the sun was setting- in
the west parted never to meet again.

Smith next day started tor Berks County and brought
back his family as the rest of the men did.

The day they arrived was Christmas. The people col-
lected in Smith's house and thanked God for Him who g-ave
his life on the cross that they might be spared the terrible
eternity and they thanked him for that one who of his own
accord had g-one to the happy hunting- grounds that their lives
might be spared.

M. S. S. '06.

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THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN LIBERTY.

THE stars and stripes, loved and esteemed by us ail and
honored by every Nation on the face of the earth is the
ensign of Liberty and Independence. A Nation such as the
United States "conceived in liberty," as the immortal Lincoln
said, springs forth only as a result of the true patriotic
actions of her sons and daughters.

"The American Independence," says a writer of history,
•was not an act of sudden passion nor the word of one man
or one assembly." It was a topic for many years, discussed
in every part of the country, by all classes of people : farmers
and merchants, mechanics and planters, by the fishermen
along the coasts and the woodsmen of the west! It was dis-
cussed from the pulpit and in town-meetings. It formed a
subject ioT conversation in sociai circles. Tbe newspapers
and other perodicals were filled with the subject, and conven-
tions along with the Continental congress and assembles had
it as their chief topic under consideration. It was first, last
and always in the minds of the people in other countries.
But what were some of the causes which led to such a move-
ment ?

We would mention as the first cause, "The claim of Great
Britian to exercise the fight of arbitrary go vernm ent* — which
right was resisted by the colonies; "The natural disposition
and inherited character of the colonies." They had never seen
a king and did not w T ant one. The growth of public opinion
in the colonies tended to independence ; 3rd., "The personal
character of Geo. III." He being one of the worst monarchs
of modern times. But the more immediate cause which
brought on the Revolution was "the passage by Parliment of a
number of acts destructive of colonial liberty, 11:: the Importa-
n Act, passed 1733, a supplimont to the old Navigation Act
of 1651. The celebrated Stamp Act, passed in I7b5. The
news of this hateful stamp act swept over the American Col-
onies like a thundercloud. The people were at first grief
stricken, then indignant and finally became wrathful. Pat-

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rick Henry of Virginia, drew up hastily a set of fiery resolu-
tions declaring* "the Virginians, Englishmen with English
rights, that as the people of Great Britain had exclusive
privileges of voting their own tax, so had the Americans ;
that the colonists were not bound to yield obedience to any
law imposing taxation on them and that whoever said the
contrary was an enemy to the country." Although these
resolutions were not adopted as they originally were framed
yet they went out before the country as the formal expression
of the oldest American commonwealth and had effect upon
the other colonies. Similar resolutions were adopted by New
York and Massachusetts. At the meeting of the Continental
Congress, Oct. 7, 1774, the Declaration of rights, was adopted
setting forth in unmistakable terms that the American col-
onists, as Englishmen, could not and would not consent to be
taxed but by their own representatives. Here we see Ameri-
can Liberty first being conceived.

Parlitnent continued to pass other acts ; one in 1769 de-
claring the people of Massachusetts rebels. Then it passed
an act repealing all duties on American imports except on tea.
Following this act we have the celebrated "'Boston Tea Party"
showing the attitude of the colonists toward that act. March
31, 1774, Parliment passed the Boston Port Bill, forbidding
any kind of merchandise to be landed or shipped at the
wharves of Boston. Gen. Gage was sent to reduce the colon-
ists by force and on April 19, 1775, on the common of Lexing-
ton the first gun of the Revolution was fired. Thus began
the fight for the Liberty and Independence for the American
Colonies. Even before the army was fully organized we see
the colonists bravely struggling for their rights and freedom.
The Battle of Bunker Hill though a defeat for the colonists
rather inspired than discouraged them.

On the same day as the capture of Ticonderoga at a Meet-
ing of the Continental Congress then assembled at Philadel-
phia, George Washington, of Virginia, was nominated as
commander-in-chief of the army. On the 15th of June Con-
gress confirmed the nomination.

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After fruitless attempts by the Continental Congress to
receive proper recognition of the colonies from King- Geo. Ill
nothing was to be done but "to fight it out in battle."

It was at a meeting of Congress assembledJune 7th, 1776
that Richard Henry Lee. of Virginia, offered a resolution to
Congress declaring that the United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent states.

The consideration of Lee's resolution was postponed un-
til July 1st. Meanwhile, on June 11th, Thomas Jefferson,
John Adams. Benjamin Franklin, Rodger Sherman and Rob-
ert R. Livingstone were appointed a committee to prepare a
formal declaration. This committee reported on July 1st and
on the following day. July 2, Lee's resolution was adopted.

The time for the birth of Liberty of the new nation was
soon to take place. Throughout the 3rd of July the formal
declaration was fully debated in great spirit and the dis-
cussion was resumed on the 4th. At two o'clock in the after-
noon of the fourth of July 1776, the Declaration of American
Independence was adopted by a unanimous vote and the loyal
old bell on the State House, rang out the notes of liberty and
freedom to the nation. The new birth had come to the thir-
teen colonies and multitudes caught up the signal and answer-
ed it with shouts. Everywhere were seen demonstrations of
jov. At Philadelphia the King's arms were torn down and
burned in the streets. In other towns were bonfires. In Bos-
ton the Declaration was read in Faneuil Hall, and in Xew
York the people pulled down the statute of Geo. Ill and cast
it into bullets to serve as weapons to gain their freedom.
Time and space forbid the quoting of the entire declaration
but we mention as the principles upon which it was based
these few extracts. "That all men are created equal ; have a
natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

The Declaration of Independence, the Birth Certificate
of American Liberty was not officially signed until August 2,
177o. Out of its fifty-five (55) signers. (9) were from Penn-
sylvania, the largest representation of any of the states of the
Thirteen.

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The American colonies were well prepared to receive the
declaration. The writing's of the Adamses, Otis and Jeffer-
son had educated them in the doctrines of political freedom
while the celebrated pamphlet on Common Sense written by
Thomas Paine had sapped all the foundation of any remain-
ing loyalty to the British crown. No sooner was the declara-
tion of liberty given to the people than they proceeded to
pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to
support it.

The long- history of privations of the soldiers and of their
bravery throughout the battles of the Revolution prove their
loyalty to their vows for the support of the declaration of
Liberty. With Washing-ton as commander-in-chief of the
army, with his great heart set on American Liberty and his
brave soldiers enduring privations untold, the youthful off-
spring of patriotic loyalty survived and grew under the thick,
dark clouds of war.

The effects thus produced upon the colonists served to
bind the thirteen colonies into a closer union as the war
for freedom advanced.

George III seemed to realize, only in part, the situation
existing in the Colonies, and England thought to be able to
finally overcome the rebelious colonists and bring them to
submission. Early in July, General Howe landed a force on
Staten Island. He had been instructed by the King to try
conciliatory measures with the Americans. He sent a dis-
patch to the American camp addressed to Geo. Washington
Esq., which Washington refused to receive because it did not
recognize his official position.

The effects on other countries were marked indeed especi-
ally those in France. Prom the beg-inning of the war the
people of France had been friendly to the Americans. She
supplied money and ammunition to aid the Colonists. Re-
publicans of France finally began to embark for America
among whom came LaFayette. Fitting- a vessel at his own
expense and eluding the officers, because he was forbidden to

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sail, he landed at South Carolina in April 1777. He entered
the army as a volunteer, and the following July was appoint-
ed Major-general.

To be able to enumerate all the results which came from
the declaring" of the Thirteen American Colonies, free and in-
dependent states, would require a volume in itself. However
we mention a few of the most important.

By the terms of the treaty of 1784, there was a complete
recognition of the independence of the United States and all
the remaining- territory east of the Mississippi was surrender-
ed to them. There was also fee navigation of the Mississippi
and of the lakes of America, given to the American vessels.

Up to this time the government of this new nation was
vested in the various State legislatures. Congress voted
the Articles of Confederation which were not fully adopted
by every state until 1781. The government or the United
States even under this confederation was a loose union of In-
dependent Commonwealths. The need of a stronger govern-
ment was quite evident to all.

At a meeting of the Congres in May 1787, at which Wash-
ington presided, Edmund Randolph, offered a resolution to
set aside the articles of confederation and adopt a new con-
stitution. A committee was appointed to revise the articles,
which reported early in September of the same year, their re-
port being The Constitution of the United States. It was not
until June 21, 1788, that a sufficient number of states gave
their ascent to the adoption of this new Constitution. The
remainder of the states, however followed soon afterward.

In 1789 the Government was fully organized with George
Washington unanimously elected by the people to be the first
president of the United States.

Thus, today as we, who in the light of freedom glory in
the stars and stripes, our ensign of Liberty, can join with
Webster in saying :

"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last
time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the

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broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union,
on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent
with civil feuds, or drenched it mav be with fraternal blood.
Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the
glorious ensign of the Republic, still full high advanced, not
a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured ; bear-
ing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as : " What
is all this -worth ?" nor those other words of delusion and folly,
" Liberty first and Union afterward" but everywhere blazing
on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the
land, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart:
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

F. W. B., '04.

SPRINGTIME.

IN a few short weeks the howling winds will cease to rage
up and down the valleys, carrying before them the ice and
snow. And the now snow-covered fields will be gently un-
covered by kind Old King Sol. Only here and there will re-
main a few white spots where the wind in its winter fury had
piled the pride of winter, unusually high behind some old
fence or in a deep ravine. The balmy air comes floating in
through the window and fanning your brow, sends your
blood rushing with delightful throb throug your veins just
as the water from the many little springs in the hillside goes
leaping joyously through the veins of old Mother Earth. It
is then we say with a sigh of relief "Spring has come at last."
Like a newly launched ship returning from her first trip
in search of treasures. She comes. Her sails filled with the
calm east wind and as she draws her prow closer to our shores
he throws her wrves in gentle April showers upon the land.
Is it not pleasant to listen to the patter of the drops as they
fall from the skies ? Not torn from the clouds by the fierce
winds, but as it were, melting into a gentle spray.

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Does it not seem like a mother's voice gently awakening
her slumbering children. It is then that the gray and solemn
curtain of winter is drawn back and the beautiful green stage
is displayed upon which we are about to unload the cargo of
this ever welcomed vessel.

First the millions of feathery creatures with their songs
all sacked in their breasts, and their breasts, and their voices
all tuned in an equalled harmony are let go to herald the glad
tidings of springtime into every part of the beautiful theatre.
While they are yer in the beginning of their performance the
dandelions put in their appearance popping their heads out
through the carpet of the stage. And then with a joyous
trip out goes the innocent little moiden to entwine the golden
wreaths of the blossoms and make the small curls of the
stems, now and. then stopping to pull the petals from a blos-
som, one by one, to see if the sturdy school boy still loves her,
or to blow the downy seed bulb to see if her mother wants her
at home.

The reddening maple next comes into view. In the for-
est also the dogwood and juneberry trees, with their pure
white blossoms, aid in the decoration of the woods. Soon
the bare trees will be covered sufficiently for the busy little
songsters that have been affording us unparalled and never
ceasing music, to begin building their miniature homes for
the summer. This they do swiftly and carefully, lovingly
weaving each little twig into the nest, with a song. But all
this time w T e have not noticed the farmer and gardner appear
on the stage for action, the one w T ith his plow and spry team,
fresh from their long winter's rest ; the other with his rake
and spade turning up the fresh ground, which gives off an
odor telling of a rich and bountiful harvest and lovely flower
beds.

But ho! what is this we hear? a sound coming from a
nearby pond which imitates very closely a heavily loaded
wagon passing over a stony road. We pause but a moment

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to listen to the green coated minstrels, the frogs, as they too
ring in the happy spring- chorus.

Along the fences down the load we see the round plump
cherrey buds bursting forth into full bloom, and hundreds of
busy bees swarming around the tree sipping the honey from
the delicate blossoms.

And now as we have our vessel almost unladened and our
actors and scenery all on the stage fresh for action and al-
ready in action, we leave the birds to finish their nests, and
their remaining songs, the bees to fill their hives with honey
old Mr. Frog sits on a water lily leaf and winksat his com-
panions. The maidens are now picking violets and arranging
them in nosegays. The farmer and the gardner are busy with
the planting and the swollen stream has now settled down to
just a quiet but ever merry little brooklet: It is amid all this
peaceful harmony that we would ring down the curtain as
Spring wears on into Summer.

Feb. 23, 1904. J. W, S.

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S. M. Morgan, Dr. A. F. Myers, Mr. D. B. Moist, Rev. I. H. McGann,
Mr. P. H. Pearson, Mr. W. L. Price, Miss Blanche Peters, Rev. W. M.
Rearick, Mr. D. K. Ramey, Esq., Mr. Chas. Ruhl, Rev. J. A. Rich,
ter, Miss Isabelle Robison, Mr. Ira Schoch, Mr. C. O. Strieby, to June
1905, Mr. Chas. Steele, Rev. J. Stonecypher, Prof. W. W. Stauffer, Mr. C.
P. Swank, Mr. O. E. Sunday, Mrs. Saraa Sell, Prof. A. L. Smith, Mr. F. G.
Schoch, Mr. E. W. Snyder, Mr. Geo. Schoch, Mr. Chas. W. Slager, Prof.
E. E. Sheldon, Mr. Ralph Showers, Mr. Geo. Seyler, Mr. J. W. Shaffer, Mr.
W. E. Sunday, Mr. Geo. R. Ulrich, D. D. S., Mr. M. L. Wagenseller, Mr.
E. R. Wingard, Prof. B. M. Wagenseller, Rev. J. H. Weber, D. D., Lloyd
W. Walters, Mr. Clay Whitmoyer, Miss Grace Weller, Prof. A. B. Wallize,
Mr. G. H. Weber, Rev. Jacob Zutzy, D. D., Prof. L. P. Young, Mr. W. W.
Yonng, Rev. I. P. Zimmerman.

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Societies,

Y. M. C A.

"They shall go from strength to strength."
The opening of the spring term has presented a golden
opportunity for aggressive Y.M.C.A. work. Never has it
been our privilege to greet as bright and promising set of new
students than those who came this spring. There were a few
familiar, and many new faces among them, but like true men,
they sought their place and found it, so that already the lines
of strangeness have disappeared, and they are as earnest in
the development of the Christian life about the School, as
are the older students. The following are the new members
recently received: Messrs E. L. Noll, Emory Johnson, Geo.

B. Fry, H. A. Rossman, I. S. Sassaman, W. G. Bingaman, J.

C. Hoover, John Reish, Earl Musser, W. W. Ridge, L. A.
Fuhrman and H. H. Flick. We welcome them as brothers
and fellow workers into our Association, their presence fills
our hearts with cheer, and rekindles within us a burning- zeal
to put forth still greater efforts to persuade all to accept the
Lord while He may be found.

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Our President, Claj Whitmojer, was in attendance at the
Presidents Conference which met at State College, Thursday,
April 28th, and continued until Sunday following-. Here-
ports helpful and inspiring sessions.

C. P. Swank conducted the service on April 20th, and
gave us an excellent talk on "Prayer." It was one of the
best meetings we have ever had.

Mr. Hebner, Secretary of the Sunbury Y.M.C.A was pres-
ent on the 27th and addressed the Association on "The Y.M.
C.A. secretaryship as a life work." He pointed out very clear-
ly the deep responsibility of such a position.

Dr. A. Pohlman, a returned Missionary from our Africa
Mission was present on the 12th of April and gave us two ex-
cellent addresses. He is ever a welcome visitor to old "S. U."
At the Bible Study Rally, members of the various classes
spoke of the beneficent results of systematic Bible study as
conducted each Monday evening. Four classes, composed en-
tirely or new students, have been formed, taking up the "Life
and work of Jesus, as found in St. Mark."

We congratulate the Y.W.C.A. in the selection of their
new President. She is a young lady of excellent qualities,
and possesses good executive ability, and we bespeak for their
Association, greater achievements and more blessed results in
the Master's cause.

Y. W. C. A.

"Find thou always time to say some earnest word, between the idle talk."

The opening of the spring term brought a number of
new girls to our school. It is a pleasure to say that already
most of them have joined us in our Y.W.C.A. God has rich-
ly poured his blessings upon us in our services. With the
aid and sympathy of our new members we are anticipating
better and more helpful meetings.

At our regular business meeting the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Pres., May Guss ; Vice

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Pres., Zoe Trench; Sec, Margaret Rothrock ; Treas., Lulu
Smith ; Pianist, Ada Lau.

PHILOSOPHIAN.

Once more the g-ates of time are about ready to close on
a year of great opportunities for the development of us in-
tellectually, morally, and physicially. What remains to be
done for ourselves, so far as the collegiate year of 1903-04 is
concerned, must be performed soon, for time waits for no
man.

As we glance over the progress which our society has
made during the past year, we feel that our labors have not
been in vain. Though weakened in the beginning by the de-
parture of many of our most loyal Philos, yet those who re-
mained, and those who have entered our ranks since, have
put their hands to the plough and have endeavored to make a
history for Philo of which she need not be ashamed.

How well we have succeeded is known to us all. The
success of our society is an excellent indication of the amount
of interest taken by her members for her welfare and advance-
ment. Her success has been our success, if we have made
much progress along the line of debating, reciting and public
speaking in general, then Philo has not been losing ground
during the past months. And each member who had been
earnestly working during the year can truthfully testify that
they have been greatly benefited by the experiences received
upon the rostrum.

Though success has crowned our efforts to a great extent,
yet there is much that remains to be done. Because prosper-
ity has been our lot, let us not rest on our oars, but with renew-
ed determination, let us pull for the glittering goal that awaits
us, and towards which all, we hope, have set their faces.

The work of the Debating Class has been one of the
notable features of our program. Some of the questions de-
bated are as follows: Resolved, "That the United States

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should take the initiative in restoring- peace between Russia
and Japan ; " Resolved, "That the United States should as-
sume the responsibility of preserving order in the South
American Republics."

Messrs Sasserman and Dale, and Misses Walters, Hoke
and Mitchell have cast their lot with us during the past
month.

We are glad to welcome back to our society a former mem-
ber, Mr. Mitchell.-

CLIONIAN.

April has been a very productive month for Clio. Her
influence and sympathies have broadened and many of our
new students have chosen Clio as their society home. The fol-
lowing- have been recently elected as active members : Misses
Werkheiser, Trench, Yeag-er, Sheesley, Schwenk, Seely and
Sealy, also Messrs Rush, Musser, Fry, Lau, Hamme, Ridg-e,
Coleman, Flick, Bing-ernan, Rossman, Wag-ner, Baker, Wagner
and Lentz. The following have been re-instated : Messrs
Johnson, Gearhart, Fuhrman, Persing-, Leitzel and Latsha.

Misses Lau and Trench have favored Clio with vocal
solos. Misses Rothrock and Lau gave us a piano duet on
April 8th.

Our old bell has been broken. A new one has been
purchased.

The past month has been characteristic by its good warm
debates. The following are some: Resolved "That the ten-
ants of East Side, N. Y., are unjust in their action toward
their landlords ; Resolved "That woman is doing more toward
the propogation of Christianity than man.

The following officers were elected April 30th : Pres.,
Swank; Vice Pres., Miss Beaver; Secty., Miss Rothrock; Critic,
Whitmoyer; Asst. Critic, Miss Guss; Editor. Schaffer; Asst.
Editor, Houseworth; Pianist, Miss Lau; Factotum, Barry.

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School of Zheology.

One of the most profitable and enjoyable features of our
Seminary course has been the institution of weekly lectures
on vital questions, by Lutherans who are prominent in every
sphere of life. During- the first month of the Spring- term
the following men have lectured :

Dr. E. D. Weigle, "Means of Grace in the Lutheran
Church."

Dr. Pohlman, "Our Missions in Africa."

Dr. Wm, E. Fischer. "The Man and His Messag-e."

Dr. Charles S. Albert, "The Lutheran Literature."

Rev. Charles Lambert supplied at the following- places
during the past month: April 10th, Oak Grove ; April 17th,
Friedlens ; April 24th, Berwick.

Ira Z. Fenstermacker of the Senior Class, preached at
North Hope and Anandale, Butler Co., April 3rd and 10th.

M. Luther Brownmiller, '04, preached at St. Mark's
Church, Reading, March 28th, and at Emmanuel's Church
near Williamsport, Pa., on April 24th, for the Rev. W. H.
Derr. Bro. Brownmiller also had the pleasure of a visit from
his father, the Rev. Eph. S. Brownmiller, D. D., Reading-, Pa.
for a few days during- the month.

M. Hadwin Fischer, '05, preached at the Trinity Luther-
an Church, Milton, April 10th ; Memorial Lutheran Church,
Harrisburg, April 17th; Northumberland, April 24th.

P. H. Pearson, '05, assisted at his home church, Stone
Church, April 10th, and supplied at New Berry, Pa., Apr. 17.

L. R. Hans, '05, preached at Danville, Pa., April 17th,
for Rev. S. J. Ulrich, and at St. Paul's, Williamsport, April
24th.

W. L. Price, '05, conducted a special Wednesday evening
service at Hughesville, Pa., March 20th.

H. O. Reynolds, '05, supplied at Lairdsville, April 3rd
and 17th ; Elysburg, April 10th, and at Oak Grove, April 24.

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U. A. Guss, '05, preached at Yagerstown and Reedsville;
April 10th, and at Berwick April 17th.

L. M. Daubenspeck, '06, preached at Millville, Pa., April
24th.

Ralph H. Bergstresser, '95, spent a few days in Harris-
burg- during the Easter vacation, and had the pleasure of
meeting some of his old Gettysburg friends.

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Alumni Notes.

'89. It affords the Susquehanna pleasure to note the re-
markable distinction won by George W. Wagenseller, class of
'89, in the world of literature and business. For the past ten
years he has been the editor and publisher of the Middleburg
Post, and during this period he has writen and published
"The History of the Wagenseller Family in America," "For-
rer Genealogy," "Orwig Genealogy," "Snyder County Mar-
riages," a collection of 7500 nuptial unions making a volume
of 226 pages; "Snyder County Tombstone Inscriptions," a
book of 275 pages; "Theory and Practice of Advertising," the
first and only text book on advertising in the world. The
second edition has already been published and the book has
been sold in every English speaking country on the globe.
He is also author and instructor of the "Wagenseller Course
of advertising Instruction," and is now preparing a large
volume for a prominent publishing- firm on the subject, "The
Art and Science of Advertising,"

Owing to the extensive sale of "Theory and Practice of
Advertising," Mr. Wagenseller has attained a world-wide
reputation as an author. On the strength of the product of
his pen and a special Post-graduate Course, the American
College of Law, by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trus-

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tees, conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on Mr. Wagen-
seller.

During the past few months Mr. Wagenseller has been
prominently mentioned by the metropolitan papers as a candi-
date for congress from the 17th district of Pennsylvania.

College.

Dr. J. I. Woodruff, our worthy Dean, has ieturned from
an extended trip in the interest of Susquehanna.

The male Quartette of Susquehanna, composed of Prof.
E. E. Sheldon, Clay Whitmoyer, M. H. Fischer and C. R.
Allenbach gave a Sacred Song Service in Rev. Botsford's
church at Northumberland on Sunday evening, April 24th.

Mr. Clay Whitmoyer, Pres. of our Y.M.C.A., returned
on Monday, May 2nd, from State College, where a conference
of the Presidents of the Y.M.C.A. in the various Institutions
throughout the State, was held. The conference lasted from
April 28 to May 1.

On Friday evening, April 8th, the annual Intercollegiate
Debate with Juniata College of Huntingdon, took place at
Selinsgrove. Juniata's debaters were Messre Yoder and Curtz,
with Mr. Peoples as alternate, Susquehanna was represented
by Messrs Whitmoyer and Gunderman, with Miss Focht as
alternate. The question was, Resolved "That the education
of the Negro is the Solution of the Problem of the Colored
Race in the United States." Juniata defended the Negative
side of the question, and Susquehanna supported the Affirma-
tive. The debate was full of spirit throughout, and the
speakers reflected credit upon their respective institutions
and won for themselves great applause. The Judges render-
ed their decision in favor of the negative.

SEIBERT HALL.

The last term of our scholastic year has come and with it
many new students. Almost all the rooms of the dormitory
are now occupied. Our new lady students are Misses Mabel
and Bertha Reitz, Gilbert, Seal, Boutz, Seeley, Cordel, Shees-

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ley, Yeager, Strickler, Rhine, Swank, Furman, Alverna Wal-
ters, Louise Walters. •

Owing to severe illness, Mrs. Haines, our perceptress,
was unable to return until the second week of the term. Mrs.
Haines is a lady of refined nature and is highly esteemed by
all under her control. She was gladly welcomed by the ladies.

Mr. A. Lyter, visited his sister Ruth during- the month.

Misses Lau and Fetterhoof have ceased being "Preps,"
and are now taking the Normal course.

Mrs. Rothrock spent a Saturday during the month with
her daughter Margaret.

Two arbutus parties left Seibert Hall April 23rd, each
going in different directions. All reported a good time, but
came home with only a little arbutus.

PREPAKATOKY .SCHOOL.

At the beginning of the Spring term we received many
new men into our department, among these are Messrs Leitzel,
Sassaman and Ridge.

Messrs Sassaman and Ridge represent our department on
the track team.

Mr. Paul M. Enders, our worthy President's son, was
compelled to go home on account of sickness, we hope he will
soon be well for his presence is missed very much by us.

Wm. Rechel and Wm. Sunday, represent our department
on the Baseball team, and are both doing good work.

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

The following program was very acceptably rendered on

Thursday evening, April 28th, in Seibert Hall.

i. Beethoven. Sonata Pathetique. First Movement. Pianoforte

Miss Lillian Stetler.

2. Haydn. My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair. Song.

Miss Marie Snyder.

3. Schubert. Menuetto. Pianoforte.

Miss Edith M. Wittmer.

4. Concone. Judith. Scene & Aria.

Miss Luella Werkheiser.

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5. Chopin.

6. Lotti.

7. Campana.

8. Mayer.

9. DeKoven.

10. Buck.

11. Vogrich.

12. D'Albert.

13. Chopin.

14. Barney.

Polonaise in C sharp minor.
Miss Margaret C. Rothrock.

Pur dicesti.
Miss Lillian Stetler.

Row Us Swiftly.
Masses TAmmeYttmv, Trench and Mrs. Wallize.

Romance Italienne.
Miss Luella Werkheiser.

Poppies.
Mr. Will G. Phillips.

Sunset.
Mrs. T. Bruce Birch.

Staccato Caprice.
Miss Grace E. Brown.

The Thrush and the Finch.
Miss Estella Zimmerman.

Nocturne. Op. 55. No. 1.
Miss Bertha M. Meiser.

Voice of the Western Wind.

Pinaoforte.
Song.
Vocal Trio.
Pianoforte.
Song.
Song.
Pianoforre.
Song.
Pianoforte.
Part-Song.

Misses Zimmerman, Duck, Ludwig, Trench, Werkheiser and Mrs. Wallize.

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Htbletics.

'Varsity Team— Cannon, (coach), Benfer, (captain), Neary, Wert>
Rechel, Gunderman, Sunday Jr., Cornelius, Dimm, Subs. Pearson, Swank

The baseball season is now well on. We have every
reason to believe that we will have a very successful and win-
ning team. Although the weather has been extremely un-
favorable, yet the spirit of hearty work has not lagged in the
least.

Coach Cannon is exerting every effort to bring the team
up to a very high state of efficiency.

Every evening the "Scrubs" give the 'Varsity a good
strong practice, which is greatly improving the skill of the

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former. Dimm and Wert are pitching- fine ball.

Manager Bingaman was much disappointed in having-
several g-atnes cancelled on him, thereby losing- a fine trip, on
account of heavy rain.

We notice with pleasure that every evening almost the
entire student body attends the practice game. This is a good
thing and we would encourage it. It helps much to strength-
en the team. It assures the players that they have the sup-
port and sympathy of the students.

The opening game was played with Wyoming Seminary
at Selinsgrove April 16. The score was, Wyoming 4; Susque-
hanna 1.

Susquehanna was defeated by Bloomsburg Normal at
Bloomsburg, April 23rd. The score was Bloomsburg 5; Sus-
quehanna 0.

On Saturday April 30, Susquehanna Reserves crossed bats
with the Sunbury Athletics at Sunbury. The Reserves won
easily by a score of 9 to 2.

Tuesday May 3, the reseves played a game with the Var-
sity. It was a very interesting line up. Varsity won by a
score of 4 to 2.

T. B. U.

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Qellnegvovc, /JDap, 1904.

(Entered at the Selinsgrove Postofflce as Second Class matter.)
Terms— 75 cents, strictly in advance. Single copies. 10 cents

Fred W. Barry, '04, Editor-in-Chief. L. W. Walters, '03, '06, Bus. Mgr.

Archie W. Frqntz, '06, Locals and Personals.

Charles Lambert, '01, '04, Alumni.

Clay Whitmoyer, '05, Exchange.

George G. Fox, '07, Mg. Editor. I. W. Bingaman, '06. ) . mmt R , 10 .,__-

Geo. D. Clarke, '05, Asst. Mg. Editor. Anna K. Beaver, '06. j ASS1, ^ U8, Mgr *'

The Susquehanna is published each month of the college year by the Students
irublishiug Association of Susquehanna University.

The editors solicit contributions and items of interest to the college from students
and alumni.

All business matters and correspondence should be addressed to The Susque-
hanna, Selinsgrove, Pa. Exchanges should be sent to the same address.

The journal will be issued about the 12th of each month. All matters for publi-
cation must reach the managing editor on or before the first of each month.

Any subscriber not receiving the journal or changing address, should notify the
manager at once.

Subscribers are considered permanent until notice of discontinuance is received
and all arrearages paid

EDITORIAL.

Our Library. One of the most helpful aids to an education

is the access one may have to a well regulated
and equipped library of reference. An individual, especially
a colleg-e student, can not be expected to possess such books
of reference as his course requires him to use. His only
source then must be a public library. In large cities, where
some colleges are located, it is possible for the school to get
along- without its own library of reference, for here the stu-

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dent often has the advantage of the large city library which
has been placed there by the generosity of Mr. Carnegie, who
seems to know the great value of books, or by some other
like-minded philanthropist. But in a college like our own,
situated as it is, in a small town, the student often finds him-
self greatly at a loss to find in our library the information
often required to make his production of material worth. We
have experienced this as writers on scientific and historic sub-
jects. Few indeed are our books of reference along these and
many other lines. The student, thus handicapped cannot be
expected to do satisfactory literary writing.

Besides this we have felt that something more is needed.
Even the books we do possess are not known to the student
body. To find a book on a particular topic often requires
many precious minutes hunting on the part of both the
librarian and the student. This we would add is not due to
the inability of the librarian, nor do we lay the fault at his
door. The fact is this, the room, in the first place is dark
and unattractive, besides being- small, and this adds a new
difficulty, since to economise space the shelving must he run
up to the ceiling. Then the system of index is very poor.
If in place of the book which is used, there could be a case
containing a card index, then the student, without bothering
the librarian every time he desires to find a book on a certain
subject, could look for himself and save much valuable time
and labor.

We only give the above as suggestions gathered from
members of the student body and ask if something cannot
speedily be done to ofset these difficulties.

We might add, in closing, that perhaps the establishing
of a "Book Day," in our College callendar, at which time
books of standard editions could be received from members of
the Alumni and other friends, might increase our resources
for acquiring the knowledge for which we often seek but seek
in vain.

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RESOLUTIONS OF RFSPECT.
Alpha Phi Alpha.

Whereas;— The great and supreme Ruler of the universe
has in his infinite wisdom removed one of our members, Lewis
Roberts and, whereas, the intimate relations held with him
in this Fraternity makes it eminently fitting that we record
appreciation of him; Therefore,

Resolved, That the spirit which he manifested while with
us will be held in grateful remembrance.

Resolved, That the sudden removal of such a life leaves a
vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply felt by all the mem-
bers of this Fraternity.

Resolved, That with deep sympathy with the bereaved
relatives of the deceased we express our hope that even so
great a loss to us all may be overruled for good by Him who
doeth all things well.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon
the records of this Fraternity, a copy be printed in the The
Stjsotjehanna and a copy be forwarded to the bereaved family.

Committee, L. P. Young,

W. W. Spegelmyer,
A. W. Frontz.

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536 Market Street,
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For All the Latest

1882
1884
1886
1887

1888 .

1889 .

1890 .
1894 .

50 Pianos.
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12
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