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’XJTUMtJ /<- tp 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.