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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1883)
òhìììstì A n V ------------------- --------------- -—---- est men in the Presbyterian church and a thorough Scotchman though he comes from Ireland here. Prof. Raymond, President of the Boston school of oratory read Twelfth Night one Saturday evening and the next morning Rev. Noah Por- There are better places in the world than Revere Beach to gather specimens, but there at least was the glorious blue sea, coming higher on the sands with each wave that was little more than a ripple it came so softly and broke along the tîfeftALÔ and large fans, after them the large class of freshmen representing daisies. They wore short white dresses hanging loose from the shoulders, a bunch of daisies at the throat and white parasols with yellow centers above and green be- Spanish piazza, musing over the confusion .of. tongues and of trade below, it occurs to me that I ought to give somebody an account of myself and my surroundings. Colon was formerly a small coral island very near the isthmus on the At- * many on the beach as the gay preached in the chapal. Both are seniors looked sober in black and with the mainland by the railway season will not begin for several old men but as different as mortals red. Visitors are not expected on company, and is now, to give a weeks, so like a band of merry could well be. It seemed impossible Tree day and only few guests were brief description, a railway station children we made the most of our to get the lamps and everything [»resent. You will be interested in in a swamp. If you take a stroll liberty?” NO’ lun^ •'just right“ fbF"Prof. Raymond, buVfhearing thaf among IKTIew “w^ from the north-east end around the the ...... reading 80 well as that we unpacked from .... ° was magnificent - n ..... when ......... . 1)r-. Duryea, Dr, McKenzie^ PxoL. . ae a front , y xm.wi 11 pass th& .h oa p i..-——. those tin botany boxes, no rooms he once began. Mr. Porter is tall Harsford and Oliver Wendell tals, the dormitories or club-houses ever seemed half so nice as ours and spare and looks so stern that Holmes. Dr. Holmes has been ex belonging to the railway company, when we came back to Stone Hall we at once drifted back to the pected several times before, but a handsome little Btone chapel, so tired and sun-browned that Puritan fathers whose hearts were this is the first time he has really built by the same company ; then evening and no 95 cts. ever went perhaps tenderly human under a been present. The senior crew their Shops, depot, arid other build- more gladly than that we each paid mask of flint: Decoration Day, took him boating after the cere ings; after these the wharves of for the day’s instruction and those who we're but of recitation monies. The crews were all’ out the various steamship companies, ■ attended the ceremonies in the with their banners and in full uni and finally the shops, wharves, pleasure. There has been much hard, con village church. The Lotus Glee form after dinner. The sophromors store-houses and dormitories and stant work this term, but the Club of Boston and a quartette have a blue boat decoraled with other buildings of the canal com shadows have only been cast by from the college furnished the yellow stars and a uniform of the pany. Back of all these are the ’ 'Funnnrr"ckTnds; -a nd th e m os t d e- -music, but-th e ch i ef attraction was- 4- samo c o lor» —Drr McK e nzie was ill ■ shops, Btu r c y ,"hotelsa nd" lodging- lightful things have followed close a poem by Julia Ward Howe; not their boat and appeared especially houses of the eight or ten thousand the hardest hours. This week and so much the poem either, as the pleased when they shipped their ‘inhabitants. Whatavariety show! last have been especially full. dear old lady herself who will oars and sang their class boat song. The sjght and sounds Aud smells n ever again stir th e "hw r i'ts Ul* tflB" Hut m iw tiro TO... mu TH Tuc i.iious. A mongrel Tuesday'WMTffl'g MISS people as she did when she gave and the summer darkness hedges mass, rough men, slovenly women, ant, the famous contralto singer of them the “ Battle Hymn of the us in while with you it is not even naked children, profane [»arrots, New York City, gave a song recital, Republic. ” She was presented with ing yet, but then we_ have the runty rooting pigs, and filthy streets singing twelve selections, no one of which cbuld be sweeter than.. “ The. a beautiful basket of wild blue morning first which equalizes the and commons; hammers, engines, bells, whistles, bands, organs, songs, Better Land.” The chapel seemed violets when she took her seat over hours of sunshine as they fly. M ary S tump . onths, curses, cries, quarrels, winds too small for her voice which at which she seemed much pleased. --------- ------------------ — There were perhaps twenty or more and waves; tar, rum, tobacco, salt times wa.s low and sweet, then full Central America. old soldiers present and a number fish, cess-pools and morasses—such and grand as organ tones. She is TH£ PANAMA MISSION. a conglomeration of slum is Colon a very large woman with the car cemetery back of the church. We or Aspinwall. Can any good dome riage of an empress, and makes no TIIE VOYAGE. wandered about them after the out of it ? We shall see. exertion in using her voice, while O, how terrible to me Mrs. Heuschel who gave a concert lengthy address by Col. Albert But why am I here ? I will Is that sickness of-the sea 1 Clarke and plucked some wild pink here with her husband sometime How I ache, and groan, and shudder arise and explain. A tide of emi phlox from an unknown grave, to As I lean above the rudder, ago is like a little fluttering bird gration from the West Indies, es- I Casting bread upon the waters that bends and turns and trembles take a place in our herbariums as a pecially from Jamaica, has flowed Whare the skulking sea-gull loiters. with every change in the quavers souvenir of the 30th of May in a into ¿hia place for a long time, and O, the heaving and the bile, and trills. Horace E. Scudder of Massachusetts town. And now we of late years there has been a flood And the headache all the while I Cambridge, famous among other have come back to this perfect in the stream. To say that this What a straining for so little, June day, Tree day at Wellesley What a nasty sort of spittle. things for the Bodley books, which flood has brought down a quantity College. Recitations were closed What a stnpid sort of dizziness, are sent out so beautiful from the of trash is to state a fact which What a losing sort of business I at J 2 m . and the afternoon was oc Riverside Press, has given us four concerns us more hare than in All you ’ ve eat for weeks before, cupied with exercises by the college lectures on Childhood in Literature Jamaica. But there is too much of All the captain has in store, classes upon the college campus. and Art of all Ages, finishing with intrinsic value in the great mass of All is lost, despised, forsaken, The seniors taking leave of their a talk about how to write for child fifteen thousand souls to be neglec And your very hopes aro shaken As to eating any more— ren and how to select books for tree planted when they were fresh ted or abandoned as worthless. them. He is not a pleasant reader men four years ago and the fresh Ever eating any more. Tradesmen and laborers of average men planting theirs. There was an IN COLON. honesty and frugality by the score ------ and one is better content to know oration, jioem, and address to the Here I am, on the narrow strip have come down with their wives him only through his books. We undergraduates by the senior class, of earth which connects North and and children, and have come to have also been permitted to hear Dr. John Hall of New York City these exercises taking the place of South America, the Isthmus of stay. Like the rest of the world on the Inspiration of the Bible. a regular commencement program. Panama. On reaching it from the they are ostensibly laboring for a He towered above everybody so as It was a beautiful sight, the fresh West Indies, one feels a little as fairly good living, and not unlike he came up the aisle that we in men especially attracting attention Mark Twain felt when he came to others they are ready enough, stinctively were reminded of the by the? quaintness of their costume. the grave of Adam, " the grave of a possibly too ready, to take what Vikings of the North from whom The juniors came first inf white relative in a foreign land.” I said, ever advantages their opportunities he is descended or of king Saul crowned by oak and ivy leaves, with mixed emotions, “ True, it is a offer; but for all that, they are none who stood so tall and majestic that each carrying a black spade marked distant shore, but still my native the less fit subjects of human sym pathy and as worthy as the com- 1 the people did him reverence at “ 84,” then came the sophomores in shore.” white also, with blue trimmings As I sit here, perched upon a mon run of philanthropic aid. They poce. Dr, Haiti is one of the great- I