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ITNITERSITY REPORTER.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OB' THE UNIVERSITY OB’ GEORGIA.
VOL. VI.
ATHENS, GA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 6, 1886.
NO. 4.
THE VOICE.
There’s a voice at my window pane
That bid’s me listen and hear ;
It calls to me through the icy rain.
And the darkness chill aud drear.
It calls, and it will not cease,
While the black night wears away ;
Like the moan of a heart that knows no
peace,
It sobs till the break of day.
It tells me of the souls at sea
In the beaten, storm-tossed ships,
And speaks through the long, sltll hours
to me
With cries of their blanched lips.
It follows me everywhere,
Though the shutters are tightly barred.
And hisses loud through the troubled air.
That the night is “evil starred.”
Oh, that the voice might die !
Is the cry of my weaty mird;
But it jeers at me with its mocking cry,—
The voice of the winter wind.
—Clinton Scollard.
OUR A THLETIU ASSOC/A T10N.
As Will lip ct-^n in onAUior or I'y**-*
our Athletic Association has been
re-organized and started on a new
basis. *
The officers chosen are all well
qualified to fill their respective po
sitions,'and in addition are all en
thusiastic lovers of athletic sports.
And it may be safely said that they
will devote their utmost efforts to
make this association a complete
success. But they cannot do this by
themselves; they must he sustained
and upheld by the students of the
University.
Athletic sports are as important
to us as our studies. For physical
and mental culture go hand in hand,
and the absence of one, is as great a
misfortune as the non-rxistence of
the other.
We all agree as to this, and great
ly deplore the fact that we have no
gymnasium to aid us in our physical
growth.
The Reporter regrets this state
of affairs as much as any one, and
has labored zealously, and will con
tinue to labor, for a fully equipped
gymnasium, where the students of
the University of Georgia may have
the same advantage that boys in other
colleges have, of strengthening their
bodies and fortifying constitutions
by systematic exercise.
But why sit idle and wait for the
wise and liberal Legislature to give
us an appropriation for this purpose?
Why not do something for ourselves?
Why not form an athletic associa
tion, and let every man in |college
contribute a small sum towards its
support, so that the continuance of
athletics among us would be as
sured?
Now th is association has already
has been organized, and only awaits
our support to become a success.
We are aware that, hitherto, this
association has been more of a farce
than anything else, but believe us,
it will be quite otherwise this year.
The officers and the different com
mittees have gone into this measure
with their whole souls, and are de
termined, if sufficient encourage
ment is extended to them, to make
it not only a source of pride, but a
real blessing to every student in the
University. If sixty boys will join
this association, and each pay an
inialien fee, of not more than one
dollar, they pledge themselves to
make it an association second to
i one i’u our INortfiirn colleges.
Splendid base-ball and foot-bali
teams have already been selected—
but they do not propose to stop
here. On the contrary, all kinds of
sports, such as running, jumping,
wrestling, boxing, putting the shot,
throwing the hammer, sack-races,
potatoe-races, throwing a base-ball.
<fec., will be encouraged and promo
ted.
And sometime in May of next
year, a “grand field day,” as it is
called up North, will be given at the
fair-grounds, or some other suitable
place, and handsome medals will be
given to those who excel in each of
these.
This will certainly be a new de
parture for a Southern college, and
will herald such an era of progress
ion for our grand old University,
that the eyes of the world will be
turned upon us. and, perhaps, even
our great Legislature will be made
aware of our existence.
So then, let us all come together,
and heartily co-operate with each
other in this matter. Let us freely
give this association our earnest
support, and truly, “the bread that
we cast upon the waters, will return
to us again.”
COLLEGE WORLD.
Texas University has an endow
ment of over 2,000,000 acres of land
valued at $2.00 an acre, and some
$600,000 in bonds.
-
Yale is to have a new $10,000
chemical laboratory.
There are more colleges in Ohio
than all Europe put together.
Students at Harvard have now a
choice among 189 courses.
The University of Pennsylvania
is the oldest institution in the coun
try bearing the legal title of Univer
sity.
The corner stone of a new ob
servatory has been laid at Carleton.
It is to cost $20,000,
The attendance at the German
universities for the last summer
was 28,021. The University of B"rei
burg led the rest in the humber of
attending students, which was
9,319.
On account of late demonstrations
of the students, the Board of Trus
tees have passed the following reso
Be it r esolved—
1st, 'ij’hat no student shall set fire
to any of the college buildings, or
blow up said buildings, or any part
of campus, either with dynamite or
giant powder.
2nd, That under no provocation,
shall ajiy student kill an}' member
of the faculty.
The Senior Class of Emory Col
lege wasorganized last Monday, and
elected tle following officers: HT
, dux; F S Johnston, histo-
' Dixon, prophet; J E Mays,
poet; J G Jeff'coat, chaplain; HL
Gray, elorister; R L Oliver, secre-
treasurer.
Ethridg
rian; J 1
tary and
Mondfr is Harvard’s two hundred
and fiftiqh anniversary. Great pre
parationj have been made for the
celebratiii. James Russell Lowell
will delijbr the oration, and Presi
dent Cleveland will be among the
spectator,
EXCHANGES.
Among the old exchanges that
have cone in this week are the “Le
high Bujjr,” the “ Pennsylvanian,”
the “University Courier,” and the
“ Aegis.”
We wefome the “ Cap & Gown,”
from Suweee, Tenn.
The “Cillege Student” comes to
us from F inklin and Marshall Col
lege. Tak n as a whole, we look
upon it as iteof our best exchanges.
The “ College Student” is greatly
worried because Dickson College re
fused to let a negro enter his son in
that institution. This magazine
evidently favors an equality of races.
It is a curious fact that those who
fall so dreadfully in love with the
idea of negro equality reside in por
tions of our country where a negro
is seldom seen. The editors of the
“ College Student” should send for
the negro who was refused admission
at Dickson, and enter him in their
own dear college.
He was the son of a worthy Chi
cagoan, and he had just returned
from college. The father was a
brusque, matter-of-fact man, who
had no liking for anything dudisb,
and had noticed with sorrow that his
son returned with bangs and various
other insignia of dudedom. The old
gentleman surveyed him critically
when he spnenred in his office anil
then blurted out: “Young man,
you look like a fool.” Just at that
moment, and before the young man
had time to make a fitting reply, a
friend walked in. “Why, hello,
George, have you returned?” he
asked. “ Dear me, how much you
resemble your father!” “ So he had
just been telling me,” replied the
youth. And from that day to this,
the old gentleman has found no
fault with bangs.—Chicago Ram
bler.
Growth of a Big Book.—When
Webster’s Unabridged was first pub
lished in one volume, it was com
paratively a small book. Some
years after an edition was made of
1500 Pictorial Illustrations, a Table
of Synonyms, and an Appendix of
New Words that had come into use.
A few years later came an entirely
new revised edition of larger size,
with 3,000 Pictorial Illustrations,
then, after an interval of a few years
a Biographical Dictionary of nearly
10,000 Names, and a Supplement of
nearly 5,000 New Words were added,
and now there has a new and most
valuable addition, A Gazetteerr of
the World, of over 25,000 Titles.—
The work is not only the Dictionary,
par excellence, but a Biographical
Dictionary, a Gazetteer of the
World, and a great many other good
things in its many valuable Tables.
—Ex.
