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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-
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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
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..... 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.
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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