Newspaper Page Text
4
ATHENS, GA._
Saturday Morning, Nov. 26, 1870.
üblish 'd by the Literary Societies of the University.
EDITORIAL CORPS.
G. R. GLENN,
Term Editor from tiie two Societies.
Phi Knppa Society. Dei.iotthenian Society.
r. L. HAND, J. L. HARDEMAN,
». H. MELL, JR. P. W. MARTIN.
Executive Committee.
I. L. BERNER, | R. H. GtETCHIUS,
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
Single copies, one year $ 2 50
“ “ six months 1.50
[“ “ three months . 1.00
Clubs of five, one year 11.00
“ “ ten, “ “ 20.00
" “ twenty, one year 40.00
And an extra copy to the one who gets up a
Club of 20.
jSSf' Remittances should be mado by regis
tered letters or P. O. order.
Address all Letters to "Georgia Col
legian," Athens, Ga.
INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS.
Any one who constitutes himself an agent,
and gets us 5, or more than 5 subscribers, can
have the advanta e of our club rates. Thus
one who gets 5 subscribers (at $2.50 each), need
remit us only $11.00; if 10 subscribers, he need
remit only $20.00.
JO®*’ Contributions solicited from the Alumni
of the College, the students at the institutions
of learning throughout this State and other
States; and from the friends of the University
generally.
Vacation.
Two weeks more, and our winter
.vacation begins. The Seniors get
out on the 7th of December, the Ju
niors the Bth, and the Sophs and
Fresh the 9th. All our thoughts
now turn upon the final examinations
and the ensuing holiday. We will
Boon be at home again. Changes
have taken place since the last vaca
tion. There will be a change at some
of our homes. Some of us will find
a vacant chair. One face will be
wanting to cheer the group round
the evening fireside. A Grim Mon
ster has taken away the idol of a
household, and 1 saddened a home.—
But it will be the same dear old home,
though draped in sorrow—and the
disappointments of College life will
ba forgotten as we are welcomed
again by the hearts that call us back.
There will be only one more issue
of the Collegian this term. The new
editors will spend a portion of their
holiday in getting up matter for the
third volume. We are glad that the
doubts in regard to the continuance
and success of our paper have been
dissipated. It has grown rapidly in
circulation aod popularity. It will
still continue to grow.
...Congress has appropriated $50,-
000 for the purchase of anew tele
scope for the National Obseivatory
at Washington. It is to have an ob
ject glass of 20 inches diameter, and
will require 4 years for completion.
...Yale has a navy of 23 boats.
THE GEORGIA COLLEGIAN.
Leaf from a Journal.
Once more I have listened to that
dear old song, “ Rock me to Sleep,
Mother;” and my heart has gone
back again to the dreamy days of my
boyhood. The song rings in my ear
and carries my thoughts away into
the sacred memories of the past. 1
again stand by the bedside of her
that gave me birth. The shadows of
the evening are closing thick and fast
around our darkened home. A sol
emn stillness—the stillness of the
heart before it cries out in anguish,
reigns everywhere. My mother is
dying. I hear the death rattle as it
breaks up her last words; I feel the
cold, clammy hand—the hand that
had so often been laid, warm with
affection, on my brow. Her pulse
becomes fainter and fainter—her
breath growsshorter and shorter,and
as the final gasp stills the breast, 1
fall upon her bosom to imprint a final
kiss on the lips now closed forever.
We wake from a terrible dream,
wondering if it was a dream. Our
fevered brain calls back the vision,
and our hearts still ache.
1 now stand upon the threshold of
opening manhood ; but a dark night
gathers round mo as I feel that lam
still an orphan. I have tried the
showy pleasures of this world, and
found them hollow. I have reached
out after the dazzling things of time
and grasped but gilded baubles. And
tired and weary, my yearning heart
goes out with the words of the song,
Mother come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to jour arms as of yore.
Answers to Correspondents.
110 :—“ The Pilot’s Grave contains
some beautiful thoughts. The vein
of pathos which runs through it
shows that you have a warm and
sympathetic heart. But—ah ! that
terrible prohibitor!—we are com
pelled to reject the poem because it
is out of measure.
“ Friend”-^— The interest which
you manifest in the success of our
paper, does not pass unappreciated
We hope that you will continue to
bo our staunch “ friend.” We are
heartily sorry that the Mss. you send
us is not suitable for publication.
Litiionos :—Your lines were ‘ Sun
day night Meditations’ ? We suggest
that this is the reason why you made
a “ bust” in the poetry. A man has
no right to bo in love on Sunday.—
You ought to have gone home to
think about the sermon you beard,
instead of “ meditating” about a wo
man.
...$30,000 has been obtained for
the endowment of the Missouri Pro
fessorship of Applied Chemistry in
Washington College. Can not the
friends of the University of Georgia
do something for her ?
...The United States has 287 incor*
porated colleges.
Exchanges.
The Lafayette Monthly is published
by th e Senior Ciai-s of Lafayette Col
lege, Easton, Penn. It is as yet, a
young magazine, its second number
now being before ns, giving promise
for the future, and alf-eady compar
ing favorably with other periodicals
of the kind. “My pipe and 1,” al
most tempted some of our editorial
corps to enjoy t his luxury. Only one
out of the seven connected with the
Collegian , uses tobacco in any form.
The Denison Collegian omes to us
from Denison College, Granville,
Ohio. From it we learn that “ the
Junior class was highly delighted
with the enlivening influence given
to its recitations by the fair presence
of one young lady. Tho boys are on
their dignity and recite a great deal
better.” It may bo so there, but were
a young lady to honor our Senior
class with her* fair presence,’ instead
of better recitations, most of the
‘dignified’ would spend their time in
gazing at her, if she was pretty —be
cause Bho was pretty; and if she was
ugly, because she differed so much
from the young ladies that are seen
by the University students.
The Owl, from Santa Clara College,
California, introduces to the world
“ Young Grimes,” who surely must
be related to tboso two brothers
“ Who went to a saloon
To see what they might chaw.
The first, he called for fried iceoream,
The second ate his raw.
“ Then went they to the skating rink
To skate with upright pride;
The one he slipped and broke his hip,
The other skinned his hide."
These words are from a member of
our Senior class, who is too modest
to send them as a contribution to us,
so having compassion on him, we
here insert them.
The Southern Times and Planter ,
published in Sparta, makes its ap
pearance in anew dress, much larger
and neater than heretofore. It de
serves all the patronage that can be
bestowed upon it.
Tbe Southern Watchman , of Athens,
has a larger circulation than four
fifths of the Georgia weeklies. It is
the channel through which all North
East Georgia speaks to the rest of
the world. It is a thorough Demo
cratic organ, being owned and edited
by Col. J. H. Christy, who has twice
been elected to Congress, and whose
democratic principles alone prevent
ed his taking bis seat. The Watch
man is a paper that Georgians should
support.
The Banner of the South has passed
into the hands of the “Chronicle
Publishing Company,” with Messrs.
Moore, Wright and Walsh, as editors.
Its name has been changed to tbe
Banner of the South and Planters’
Journal. Profs. W. Leßoy Broun
and Win. Henry Waddell, of the
University, are among its regular
contributors.
College Personals.
Michael DeKalb Charles Mont
gomery Summerlin, class '7O, is stu
dying medicine at the Medical Col-,
lege of South Carolina, at Charleston.
W. C. Beeks, class of’7o, is study
ing Law under N. J. Hammond, in
Atlantu.
J. M Goss, class of’7o, is also stu
dying law in Atlanta, under Judge
Loch rane.
I. F. Dortch, class of ’7O, is study
ing law in Goldsboro', N. C.
J F Bonnell, who passed through
first term Fresh, with tho present
Senioi class, is in the Senior class at
Emory College. He was recently
elected Orator of the Phi Gamma Sos
ciety, for 22d February
C D Camp, who left the Sopho
more class in tho winter of ’67, to
marry, is now in business in the office
of the Southern Cultivator, Athens.
R. B. Hodgson, class ’6B, is in the
warehouse business in Athens—the
firm being Sparks & Hodgson.
A. S Campbell, Ist honor, of ’7O,
is studying medicine in Augusta.
J. B. B Smith, 3d honor, of'7o, is
pursuing the studies of tho engineer
ing department.
C L. Bartlett, class ’7O, is study
ing law in Monticello.
T J. Jones, class ’7O, is reading
medicine in Rogansville.
Mr. H. H Huggins, Sophomore of
1868-’69, is now engaged as book
keeper in the store of J H. Huggins,
Athens, Ga.
Mr. W. D. Sparks, Junior of 1869,
has for some time past been engaged
as a merchant and Post Master at
Pryor’s Station, near Rome, Georgia.
A Grem.
A modest maid returns tbe follow
ing upon the reception of an “ exqui
sitely superlugious boquet”:
Yet as you are now a stranger to nee,
I cannot decide what to do or to be;
The flowers are charming, and if you’ro
the same,
If you never get married, I'll not be to
blame.
My heart is so troubled, I cannot bo gay,
If you wish to propose, just name the day;
Your choice of a wife you’ll never regret,
You shall never he angry or get in a pet.
P S.—No. 1.
I want to know if you can plow
When I go out to milk the cow—
If you can sweep and wash the dishes.
While I make up your homespun
breeches.
P S.—No. 2.
Shoo fly, don’t bother me,
For I will soon be Mrs. B.;
He is here in College too,
Don't you think it might be you ?
“B. E.”
...The average age of the last Se
nior class at Lafayette College, was
22.
4
Notice !—The Phi Kappa Library
will be open on the follawing days :
On Monday, from &to 6 P. M. On
Saturday, from 11 to 12 A. M.
P. H. Mell, Jr., Librarian.