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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.