Vol. V. HALIFAX, N. S, JANUARY 11, No. 5.

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1 Vol. V. HALIFAX, N. S, JANUARY 11, No. 5. FOOTBALL. To football, e'e the sun was low, Ou college students all did go, The citizens to be thei foe On this most famous battle day. The leades mashalled out the host, And stood aside with many a boast, Each tying who could show the most, His fealessness and bavey. Between the anks the captains went, Tne eventful coin was upwad sent, All stood with eyes and eas attent, Eage to know thei destiny. When to the foeman of the fay, *' Kick up!" " Kick up!" they all did say, His pedal foce he bought to play Upon the ball most vigoously. As when impelled by whistling beeze, The gallant bak ploughs though the seas. E'en so the leathen spheule leaves The foot that hit so focibly. On to the chage with feaful yell, Upon the ball with kicks they fell, No pen can paint, no tongue can tell The hoos of that scimmaging. Then did epotes dip thei quills, Geat Jove himself a sly look steals, The lesse gods fosake thei meals, To view the fuious combatants. The sun looked down with face benign, To peep, the clouds stopped fo a time, The wind outstipped did loudly whine, And moaned and fetted enviously. <l The combat deepens " muttes Jove, And gins with pleasue fom above, But cits and students kick and shove, No listen to his eulogy. Ye gods and fishes, 'twas a sight, To see those captains in thei might, With hai on end and fists clenched tight, Lead on thei adent followes. What though collegian buskins ply, What though they tun the ball awy, In vain! it still does onwad fly, Befoe the intepid citizens. In vain thei sleeves they upwad oll, Thei captain shouts " the goal," " the goal," The tiumph cy they hea with dole, Raised by thei joyful conqueos. As when a pokling wags his tail, And gunts with pleasue when a pail Of swill is poued fo his egale, So chuckled all the citizens. FICTION. J. H. C, ONE of the commonest objections to books of Fiction is that they ae not tue. The objectos, good people, who think that they ae by duty bound to discountenance all such witings, commonly feeling that a substitute should be given if these wee taken away. They ecommend histoy and biogaphy, saying, " Read the histoies of Geece and Rome and England, and the lives of Alexande and Ceesa and Comwell, and all about the doings of these gieat nations and illustious men." Now, we think this ecommendation a vey good one, but would by no means confine a couse of liteay eading to these. We would ead histoy and biogaphy, taking those tems in thei extensive and pope sense, What is the diffeence between biogaphy and fiction? Ou objectos would answe, " One is tue, the othe is not tue." This is not so. The two ae essentially the same. The one is paticulaly tue, the othe geneally tue. That is, the one is tue with espect to some paticula individual, the othe with espect to mankind geneally. Biogaphy tells of the chaacte of some man o woman, Fiction lays befoe us the natue of society at lage. Is fiction less tue because it has a geate field? Is a desciption tue (if you'll allow the wod) because it is witten to be coect with espect to one paticula object, than when the diffeent pats of it ae faithful delineations of life in thousands of instances? Fictitious woks possess all the excellency of " biogaphy," and we wee about to say have some advantage ove it.. How is it that the subject of a " biogaphy " is such an exemplay chaacte? Is it because all who ae witten about ae so wothy of admiation? Whethe this is the case o not " biogaphy" gives a vey one-sided view of society. The " biogaphe " is in a geat measue bound to wite in a cetain way. He is not fee. The man o woman he wites about is known, and he must be caeful what he says of them. But let the subject be a fictitious chaacte, and he is fee, just as an assumed name allows an autho the necessay feedom of speech. Would the lettes of Junius have been witten with the pointedness and foce that they wee, had the autho's eal name been appended to them? O would the eplies to them have had the teseness and enegy that they have, if they had been diected against a known peson? No, the consequence would have been that the genius of the

2 Si DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. wites would have been camped, the lettes would have appeaed without the powe they now possess, and the wites and thei poductions have been soon fogotten. Biogaphy is one of the most attactive and useful ways of witing, but it must be impatial and tue o it loses much of its excellency. Some of the finest examples of the histoies of lives ae to be found in the Bible. We do not now speak of it as a eligious wok, but as a liteay wok, and it must be acknowledged, that in many espects it stands at the head of English Liteatue. Evey one knows how much it teaches by pesenting pesonalities to the mind. In its histoies, its poems, its paables this is the caso. Pesons ae pesented, thei sayings and doings, feelings and fotunes ae faithfully ecoded, and the lesson to be conveyed stands out in bold elief. A paable is called by Docto Clake " a moal fiction," and dees not diffe vey much fom a similitude o a fable. But," says some one, "ae not the paables tue." Of couse they ae tue, and that in the widest sense; and when pesons ae mentioned in them, what is said has been tue ove and ove again. Does it take any of the beauty o any of the foce fom '* The Paables," that what is said of the chaactes in them is not tue of simply one case, as some seem to wish, but is tue in thousands of cases? Suely the lesson of the paable is just as plain, the point aimed at by the autho just as clea. And we may emak that evey such fom of teaching has a point [ but not a multiplicity of points. " By not attending to this many have disgaced both themselves and the Sciptues. The most dignified subjects, in such hands, have been endeed contemptible by thei injudicious modes of elucidation." In evey wok the thing is to see the 'point. If the matte of a fictitious witing is well aanged, it constitutes one of the most poweful of all books. The geat secet of its powe is its absobing inteest, and the secet of its inteest is its life its pes<>nae. That it is poweful all acknowledge, indeed this is sometimes alleged as an objection. This extensive influence makes a good " novel" the geatest powe that issues fom the Pess fo the beneficial instuction of mankind. This also makes a wicked " novel" the most detestible and destuctive of books. Geneally evey geat powe fo good, may also be a geat powe fo evil. Pinting is one of the most useful and beneficial inventions that was eve made; but it may also be used with the wost effects. Yet, no one on this account agues against the use of the Pess. Some object to fiction because bad " novels " ae so injuious, but we could not on that account object to the popel use of this poweful kind of witing. It is clea, then, that some cae should be taken in the selection of such woks. In the fist place a fictitious wok should be tue. This we have aleady consideed, and shown that such a wok may be tue. It may also be false, that is, unnatual o ovedawn. These ought to be avoided, but should we also eschew the not-false? Because lies ae found in books of histoy, should we avoid all histoy? Because false epots ae ciculated in the public papes, should we not ead the news? Because heteodoxy appeas in Theological woks, should we zealously eschew all theological woks? Then if not, though we avoid the false in fiction, we should puposely use the tue. Fictions, like othe woks, should be inteesting. We all know they ae geneally the most absobing books witten. Novelists make this one of the pincipal aims. And in this they do ight, if they do not cay thei object so fa as to esot to any foul means, such as ovedawn, unnatual, evolting pictues, o objectionable wit, pehaps, though the use of unseemly language. As the pincipal thing in the paables that we have noticed, is the point, so the pincipal thing in any fiction is its object. All authos should have an object, in some way o othe to benefit thei eades; and those who wield the pen of fiction, execise one of the most poweful and fa-eaching influences, and theefoe on them ests one of the geatest esponsibilities. NEMO. OUR EDINBURGH LETTER. DEAR GAZETTE, The aival of No. I. Vol. Y. of ou dea old college pape at the head quates of the Nova Scotia team " in Edinbugh, was an event of no small inteest, and if it was not eceived with a flouish of tumpets it cetainly was geeted with loud "Hollo's," "Jollies," " Bonum pofess" " lo Bacches" and sundy othe classic intejections. We ae vey much pleased with the matte and style of the fist numbe evey change noticed about it is consideed an impovement. It cetainly has athe an antique ai, looks as if it might have been ecently ediumed fom some old libay, and is liteally " sicklied o'e with the pale cast of thought." 1 tust that the hue of the pape will not be eflected in the minds of the wites, and that they will neve be found looking at things with jaundiced eyes, I set out fo a walk " to see what I could see," and befoe long was attacted by flaming postes to a lage concet given by a paty of Tyolese singes. You can eadily imagine that thoughts of class-oom No. 4 in the " old pile" at home ushed though my mind as I head those mountainees sing thei inging Alpine songs of which He Liechti told us so often. They had all the instuments, fifes, hons, guitas, &c, with which they accompany thei singing, and many of the scenes depicted in William Tell seemed epesented in the music which they wabled foth, as if still in thei native village. As the Geman wods leaped foth upon the enchanted ai I was eminded in effect of the many advices ou teache in Dalhousie offeed us touching that language, and the little attention we gave to them. In Scotland the study of Geman is consideed of vey geat impotance. Pofesso Blackie, in his classification of languages, says fist study English and Geek, then Geman, Latin, &c. In this ode he consides them pofitable as discipline fo the mind and as valuable acquisitions. Evey man hee who petends to study philosophy to any extent expects to acquie the Geman language as one of the fist pe-equisites. Geman citics ae followed, Geman woks eve quoted, and Geman authoities acknowledged. I head a Pofesso a few days ago tell his class that no man at the pesent day could lay claim to the position of a theologian who was not w ell acquainted with Geman liteatue, hence evey student who aims at eminence in philosophic o theological pusuits, pays lage attention to the language and witings of Fatheland. Duing the summe vacation it is customay fo ail who can to go to Belin, o Halle, o Tubingen, get in a Geman family, speak and ead nothing but Geman, and thus pepae the way fo the study of Teutonic authos. Fom the midst of my own egets I eanestly advise all collegianc in Dalhousie to second Pofesso Liechti's washes and to obtain a fai stat in Geman befoe leaving College. Fench can be picked up at any time and offes little difficulty, but the language of J. Paul F. Riehte demands (no little labou and is w othy of seious study. \ T I had eached this length in my musings by the time the fist pat of the pogamme was finished, and duing the inteval began to inspect the vaious stained and painted windows, cuious devices, and classic mottoes with which Feemason's Hall is decoated. Still thinking of Dalhonsie, what was my pleasant supise to see ight befoe me in gloious golden chaactes suounded by a gand flouish of mystic emblazony the well known wods, " ORA ET LABORA,"

3 DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. 35 The pesent Eal of Dalhousie is one of the high and mighty mastes among the " bethen of the mystic tie," and hee was a whole window devoted to the expessions of himself and his thoughts on the ode. High up among stas innumeable was a lage pictue of the old nobleman himself. He lias quite a matial beaing, weas a huge moustache, and tims his ion gay hai to stand almost eect in a most gallant style. He is vey fit to be a paton of devoted alumni, being a jolly old bachelo, eschewing all domestic ties and finding happiness in the stene pusuits of wa and politics. A man of no little oiginality and cultue, he is well and favouably known in Bitain. He occupied, I believe, the post of Secetay of Wa duing pat of the Cimean campaign, is a staunch Whig, and among othe things an Elde iu the Fee Chuch of Scotland. I head him speak seveal times duing ecclesiastical debates, and his ollicking soldielike pithy speeches wee always inteesting, and by no means unwothy a man whose house was honoued to found such a Univesity as that to which we belong. He is a membe of the House of Lods, and, you will be glad to lean was a wam suppote of the Education Bill just passed fo Scotland in which a geat step is taken in advance of the pesent system, and an appoximation made to the common schools of Pussia and Ameica. But the music esumes, and Fiiulein Maia is caolling and wabling like a wild bid unning fom the low valleys of alto to the mountain peaks of the most belllike sopano, then ushing tilling eddying down like an Alpine toent till the voice dies away in tende tiny beathings of melody. One notices in Swiss music many of the chaacteistics of Scottish song. It is vey compehensive, equiing the widest compass of voice, owing I suppose to its oiginating when pat singing was little known, and hence each song must include low notes, and satisfy basses and baitones, and lofty flights fo the sole delight of ambitious tenos. " 0' a' the aits the wind can blaw," would find, I suspect, many countepats among the mountain melodies of Switzeland. Music as a banch of the Fine Ats eceives vey caeful attention in Edinbugh. Audiences in " Auld Reekie " ae said to be the most citical of any in Bitain, and atistes who have passed in London have fequently been condemned in the Scottish capital. Edinbugh Univesity has a Chai founded fo the special study of hamony in all its banches, filled by a Music Docto fom Oxfod. Geneal Reid, a geat love and compose of music, who wote among othe things "The Gab of Old Gaul," left 12,000 to the Univesity to be invested fo the foundation of a Pofessoship of Alusic, and 8000 the inteest of which is to pay the expenses of " the Reid Concet," which is to be held annually foeve in his memoy, and pefom as its opening piece " the Gab of Old Gaul." The old gentleman has thus clone all he could to emove discod fom the eath, and if Italian tills and gand oatoios by the fist pefomes, can ende him happy in the Elysian fields he cetainly will spot in shadowy glee and neve think of sipping Lethe. Thee is a Music Hall belonging to the Univesity with a fine ogan and othe accompaniments ; ecitals fom the Geman mastes ae given monthly duing the winte by Pofesso Oakley, to students and thei fiends, and the Musical Association, aleady numbeing about seventy, gives a gand ochestal concet at the close of each session. The Pofesso of Music while climbing though Switzeland last summe tied to stike too high a note and fell ove a pecipice into the bass depths below, sliding down the scale with geat apidity, and by the sudden close of the stain poducing consideable discod in his oganism. He is ecoveing howeve, and hopes to esume the baton in Januay. Hee we ae I obseve at the end of ou pogamme ; the Swiss have donned thei boad hats with gay feathes, the ladies ed, blue and white apons showing to advantage; the men swing thei hons to thei sides by huge chains, and now all standing they sing the fist two stanzas of ou National Anthem. It sounds stange to hea thei foeign voices floating along such well known wods ; they smile achly as they sing as if half ashamed of thei English attempt, the last temulous echo musically swells and dies away, they bow us thei good night with the pleasant looks and native gace fo which they ae well known ; and in humble imitation of thei adieux, allow me to wish you, dea old Gazette, all happiness and success as yon un you fifth couse of pleasue and pofit. Edinbugh, No. 30th, OBITUARY. SFEHTIIIAS. FOR the thid time duing this session an Obituay appeas in ou columns. It is now ou sad duty to ecod the death of FREDERICK MELCHERTSON, a Medical student of the Second Yea, who duing the ealy pat of this session occupied the honouable position of Vice Pesident of the students. M. Melchetson was a native of Antigua, Bitish West Indies, whee his fathe is Danish Consul. He had been studying fo the Medical Pofession in this city fo about two yeas, both in College and in the office of one of ou City Physicians, when the sad event occued which caused his death. Some days befoe the beginning of the Xmas Vacation he had cut one of his finges while dissecting and had applied the usual emedy caustic. This, howeve, failed to pevent the spead of the poison, and on Satuday, the twenty-fist of Decembe, he was taken ill, complaining of violent pains in the heat On Monday a physician was called in, who not knowing of the cut, ponounced his disease Eysipelas, and it was not until Thusday that his sickness was attibuted to poison. On Monday, the thitieth of Decembe, he died, being within two days of completing his twenty-thid yea. On his bith-day New Yea's Day he was buied with Masonic honous in the Camphill Cemetey. At his funeal about ninety Feemasons wee pesent, and thity students of both faculties as mounes, (all the est being at thei homes), followed by a lage numbe of townsmen. Although his death took place in a stange land, and no elative was at his bedside to close his dying eyes, he eceived evey attention that the affection of fiends could bestow, and his IOSS was egetted by all his acquaintances in T College and in the city Little did* we think when we saw ou Vice Pesident in the Chai at ou last students' meeting, that within a few days we should see his emains in the coffin. Tuly in the midst of life we ae in death! We sinceely sympathise with the beeaved paents in thei fa off home who, pehaps, even now know not thei loss. At The Goe, Hants County, on New Yea's Day, died a fome student of Dalhousie CREIGHTON HAMILTON, who was in attendance hee befoe the " time" of any one now in College. He had fo some time been in the Southen States, and had to all appeaance ecoveed, but on his etun he was again postated and afte a long illness he was numbeed among the victims of consumption. THE Swiss histoical society has declaed the stoy I William Tell to be a myth. Ex. " The only college exchange we have outside of the Union lis the Dalhousie Gazette, and we hope ou acquaintance wdll 1 be long and pleasant. We can assue them that we take a J deep inteest in the college news of the Bitish Povinces. Viginia Univesity Magazinet of

4 3G DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. HALIFAX, N. S,, JANUARY 11, 187$. < 3 EDITORS. A. I L MCKAY, '73. J. C. HERDMAN, '74 C. D. MCDONALD, '73. W. A. MILLS, '75. FINANCIAL COMMITTEE. L. I I. JORDAN, '75. F. I I. BELL, '76. D. S. FRASER, '74, Secetay. CONTENTS. Football 33 fiction,,, 33 Ou Edinbugh Lette.,,, 34 Obituay 35 Editoial 36 Dallusiensia 38 Pesonals 38 College Items 38 Chips 39 Exchanges 39 Editos Table 39 THE beginning of a New Yea and the middle of the tenth winte session of Dalhousie is a fitting time in which to compae he pesent with he past condition and to fom anticipations of he futue pogess. Ou incease in numbes duing the past few yeas has been vey apid. In the yea I860 when Dalhousie fist gave the degee of B.A., two gentlemen only wee capped, and the total numbe of students was fifty-six. The Faculty compised six Pofessos, and a Tuto of moden languages. Since that time anothe Faculty -the medical has been added to the Univesity. In Apil last those eceiving degees wee nineteen in numbe, ten Bachelos of Ats, fou Mastes of Ats, and five Doctos of Medicine and Mastes of Sugey. This swells the list of ou Gaduates to thitynine B.A's, ten M.A's, and five M.D.C.M's in all foty-fou. The attendance this session is in Ats seventy-nine, and in Medicine twenty-six in all one hunded and five. The Faculty now compises sixteen pofessos and a tuto. But not only in ou numbes is impovement to be seen. A Couse in Natual Science has been added, and the Ats Couse has been so much modified that in the last two yeas a student can, to a geat extent, study what he pleases. Honou-Couses ae pescibed in each banch of study, and to those competing fo honous cetain emissions ae ganted. Thus a man who is fond of Classics is not compelled to ack his bains ove the highe Mathematics ; and the adent Mathematician in the Fouth yea can omit both Latin and Geek. The amount of Classics and Mathematics equisite fo an odinay degee (B.A.), has been consideably lessened, in fact in the Thid and Fouth yeas Geek can be omitted altogethe. But whilst those on the Pass list have ead a compaatively small amount of Classics, the man who takes honous in that banch at Dalhousie has eceived a classical education supeio to any to be acquied in the Dominion except at McGill College, Monteal. The same may be said of honous in Mathematics, and the othe banches. We ae also on the theshold of establishing a couse of study fo ladies. Duing a pat of last summe popula lectues on Botany wee deliveed by Pof. Lawson with geat success. His class numbeed seventy-fou, chiefly ladies, who posecuted thei class wok with geat zeal. Duing this week a couse of popula lectues on Chemisty was begun by the same Pofesso, ladies again foming the lage pat of the class 1 A yea ago ou B.A. degee was ecognized by the Senatus of Edinbugh as equivalent to thei M. A. Duing this session ou M.D. has been ecognized by the Royal College of Sugeons, London, and a yea of study hee as equivalent to a yea in any of the Bitish Medical Colleges. Oa Medicals ae allowed to go up to examination fo the degee L.R.C.S., London, on showing thei M.D. fom Dalhousie, o cetificates of fou yeas attendance hee. This geat pivilege is enjoyed by only five othe Medical Schools on this continent: Havad, Bellevue, Philadelphia, McGill, and Queen's College, Kingston. Ou Alma Mate's medical school is thus anked with these old and celebated institutions. The eligious denominations in this Povince which have thei own colleges ae gadually beginning to find out the supeioity of the education impated by unsectaian Dalhousie, and the consequence is that nealy all these sects ae epesented among us. Seveal of the medicals ae Roman Catholics, and in both faculties ae to be found Methodists, Baptists, Univesalists and Episcopalians. The Faculty and the Govenos also embace Episcopalians, Catholics, Methodists, Lutheans and Pesbyteians. What fact can moe plainly show the gowing populaity of ou Univesity than the above? Ou Gaduates ae taking pominent places wheeve they go. They ae to be found in diffeent walks of life, as ministes, physicians, lawyes, pincipals of academies, business men, and enginees. Othes ae still pusuing thei studies in the Pesbyteian Theological Hall in this city, in Glasgow, Edinbugh, Havad and Pinceton. Seveal who studied hee with but little success have taken high places in othe colleges as McGill, Glasgow and Edinbugh. This fact seems to show that the standad of education hee is not much infeio to that in these institutions. While we have eason to congatulate ou Alma Mate on he apid pogess, we have yet some cause fo gief. The hand of the spoile has not been unfelt in ou anks. Within the past fou yeas eight have gone the way of all living. Consumption, the most deadful of all diseases, has caied off six : Wylie and Chisholm, Feshmen '69-70, Pake, a Geneal student of Class 72, Geo. McKay a Medical, Ceighton Hamilton, and McRae, M/D. C. M. of 72. Pollock, B.A. of 72 the jovial, cheeful Pollock, met his death by downing at Pot Hawkesbuy last summe. And on the fist day of this new yea we consigned to the gave the emains of Fedeick Melchetson, the Vice Pesident of the students. Pehaps it would be w ell to compae Dalhousie with othe educational institutions in the lowe povinces. In Nova Scotia thee ae nominally five Colleges, St. Fancis Xavie's, Antigonishe, and St. May's, Halifax, which ae both Roman Catholic; King's College, Windso, -Episcopalian ; Acadia

5 DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. 37 College, Wolfville, Baptist, and Dalhousie College, Halifax, < Unsectaian. Of these the fist two have dwindled down to^mee schools whee Classics is the chief study. New Bunswick boasts of two, " Mount Allison," Sackville, Wesleyan, and " the Univesity of New Bunswick," Fedeicton, which is, as fa as we can ascetain, unsectaian. We have aleady shown what Dalhousie is, we will now ty to give a bief account of the othes. King's College which, to use the wods of its own calenda, was " the fist Potestant Univesity established in Bitish Noth Ameica," still lays claim to the fist position in Nova Scotia. The justice of this claim we shall soon see. Fou pofessos and twelve students constitute the Univesity. The Royal Chate of 1802 says : " At ou town of Windso, in ou said Povince of Nova Scotia, thee shall be established fom this time, one College, the mothe of an Univesity, fo the education and instuction of youth and students in ats and faculties to continue foeve." A polific mothe she has been indeed! To copy again fom the calenda " The Univesity of ' King's College ' is the authoized epesentative of the Chuch of England in Nova Scotia, and its highest duty is to educate young men fo Holy Odes, but it extends its pivileges to pesons of all denominations and equies no eligious test." This paagaph shows the eal natue of King's. It is eally and confessedly a Theological College intended to tain young men fo the piesthood of the Anglican Chuch, but allows men with othe views to be educated within its walls. Its attention is thus distacted fom giving a geneal libeal education, to which such colleges as Dalhousie and McGill ae entiely devoted. But aside fom all this, whee can we find poofs to show that the education impated at King's College is eally of as high an ode as it petends to be? Take up the calenda; what do we find? Assetions that such and such subjects ae taught to such and such an extent. Of couse we ae not disinclined to believe these assetions, but at the same time we should like to have poof theeof in black and white, i. e. in pinted examination papes. Let us now tun to Mount Allison. This institution does not declae its sectaian chaacte as openly as King's, but is nevetheless a Wesleyan College impating Theological instuction to those intending to become ministes of the Wesleyan Chuch, and suppoted fo the most pat by the Methodists of New Bunswick and Nova Scotia. The Faculty contains five Pofessos and the students numbe thity-nine. Any one ove fouteen yeas of age is allowed to maticulate iespective of sex. The Ats Couse extends ove fou o thee yeas, accoding to the capabilities of the student. Studies ae pusued only by means of text books. The examinations ae patly oal and patly by means of witten papes, but no examination papes ae published. Acadia is a Baptist College. As fa as we can ascetain it publishes no calenda. We have head, and fom petty good authoity, that a degee is to be obtained at Acadia without passing any examination. The student's meit is detemined by the manne in which he ecites daily. The Univesity of New Bunswick comes neae to ou idea of what a college should be than any othe in the Lowe Povinces, ou own Alma Mate of couse excepted. Its pofessos ae six in numbe students fifty-one. The Couse is of thee yeas in length. Like Dalhousie it also gives a degee in science, and, as fa as we can discove fom its calenda, is unsectaian. The student's place on the pass list is found by combining his witten answes and his position in the daily Registe. But again comes in the geat objection, No examination papes published. Now Nova Scotian paents in sending thei sons to College should not be influenced by denominational pejudices. Evey man in this enlightened age is supposed to look out fo "numbe one," and giving his childen the best education that is to be pocued in his county is cetainly to evey man's inteest. Whee then is the best system ot education to be found? Acadia, Mount Allison and King's loudly cy out and claim fo themselves the fist place, and the adheents of cetain eligious views without stopping to think whethe these colleges teach as they pofess, send thei childen to them, simply because these Institutions ae connected w ith the seveal chuches to which they belong. This is suely blind folly. Dalhousie claims fo heself no indulgence and wants no man to believe he- pofessions without sufficient poof. What she pomises to teach she does teach thooughly, and this he examination papes pove beyond all dispute. They ae open to public inspection, and evey man in giving his son as a foste child to Dalhousie knows exactly how that son is to be tained, because he has poof positive. Still Episcopalians go to King's,Baptists to Acadia, and Wesleyans to Mount Allison. Why? Because King's is Episcopalian, Acadia is Baptist, and Mount Allison is Wesleyan, and fo no othe eason. We say nothing of the much-squabbledove plan of a Cental Univesity of which Dalhousie is to be a nucleus. Let men of all denominations who wish " to get a sheepskin " go to some thooughly unsectaian Univesity, such as McGill o Dalhousie, and then if thei intention be to become ministes, let them study Theology unde the guidance of thei own peculia College. But enough of this question. We have gown, ae gowing, and will gow in the vey face of sectaian opposition. What is ou futue to be? Aleady ou college buildings have become inadequate to the comfotable accommodation of all who " thong the hall." In less than five yeas we must have new buildings and moe money o else we'll " bust." We have a gowing a apidly gowing Medical Faculty which is foced to content itself with the use of thee ooms. What will give us new buildings and geate conveniences? Money. How can money be obtained? By the Govenos showing a little moe push. About a yea ago the Govenos " laid thei heads togethe," and afte a geat deal of palave" secued by subsciption the immense sum of one thousand dollas pe annum. " Montes patuiunt et nascitu RIDICULUS mus." Geat wee the ejoicings. So full wee its hands that the Woshipful Boad scace knew how to spend this " God-send." In the United States evey day ich men ae giving thousands, yes, hundeds of thousands of dollas towads the endowment of educational institutions. Hee in Halifax pehaps the ichest city in Ameica in popotion to population Dalhousie has to go a begging and is expected to be w ell contented with the palty contemptible sum of one thousand dollas pe annum. Why,

6 38 DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. thee ae numbes of men in Halifax who could give that amount fom thei pivate puse and miss it no moe than a Dalhousie student would a half dolla pehaps not so much. It may be asked what is to be done with this money? Money is needed to keep us up with the spiit of the age. We want new college buildings which shall be a cedit to the Povince and the city. We want highe salaies fo ou Pofessos. We want moe Pofessos. We want appaatus, additions to the libay, a museum, in fact eveything that othe colleges have and we have not. Give us money and we'll go ahead. While it is cetainly tue that Canadian geneosity is infeio to Ameican, nevetheless we think that if the pope foce wee applied moe cash could be squeezed out of the Halegonians than we have yet eceived. Some shae at least of the fault must lay at the Govenos' doo. Let " the Boad " do thei best to get money fo Dalhousie and a gloious futue is in stoe fo he. We can see, not vey fa away. Dalhousie as a Cental Univesity a National Univesity with Faculties of Law, Medicine, Ats and Science, and means of instuction in Engineeing, with sepaate cuicula fo females with appopiate degees in shot, as an Institution anking among the fist on this Continent. THE wheeabouts of JOHN COOK, a Geneal student of '69-70 has at length been discoveed. He is enjoying " Home Sweet Home " at Gay's Rive, Hants County. JOHN ESDAILE, ARTHUR MITCHELL, and JAMES THOMP SON, Geneal students of last session, and ARCH. SINCLAIR, Soph, have voted Dalhousie a boe. Esdaile is at home Datmouth. Sinclai is leaning to be an honest lawye in the office of McDonald and Rigby, in this city, and Mitchell and Thompson ae somewhee about town. MARRIKD. On the 28th of Novembe, at Sunnyside, Baddeck, C. B., M. WILLIAM DOULL, son of John Doull, Esq., of this city, a fome student of Dalhousie, to JENNIE, only daughte of Chales Campbell, Esq., M.P.P. Ou congatulations to the happy pai. WE hea that ALBERT QUINN is to be maiod. Is it tue? THE gaduates of Ameican colleges numbe thity-six thousand. Ex. SCENE in Ethics Class Quiz Pof. " How is this system applied M. R? How can we ascetain what is the geatest good fo the geatest numbe?" Dead silence eigns Pofesso goes on to explain his question taking some time at it, and again asks, Can you not answe this M. R? I think its quite clea.", Pauses a while and silence still eigns. Pof, again "M. R?" Membe of Class, " M. R 's absent si." Silence boken consideably. WE have two new Geneal Students Townies. PROFESSOR LAWS ON began a couse of evening Lectues on Expeimental Chemisty on Thusday eveninglast. The lectues ae open to the Public. THE lads ae all back, slightly toubled with indigestion fom an ovedose of Xmas fae. A geat many had to walk fom the vaious stations on the line to thei homes, in some cases a distance of twenty miles. Seveal valises which wee left behind " to be fowaded" w ee not fothcoming, to the intense disgust of the ownes. Although the Xmas was spent without clean linen we hope it was a mey one. Xmas Essays supposed to be in a flouishing state. SCENE at the Box. Time Last Session PERSONAE Junio (anxious to acquie a good ponunciation of Geman), and Geman sausage mechant (who has stayed into the Hall). Geman S. M. " You vants to lean to spechen Deutsch does you, veil now, say dis vot afte vot." " Ich Ich, bin bin, em ein, dumme dumme, Esel Esel. Geman " Now den, say it all, so '* Ich bin ein dumme Esel. " Junio " Ich bin ein dumme Esel." Is that ight? Geman Ja. Now den you know vat you say? You say, " I be ein shtoopit shaekass," Ha, Ha, Ha, I dinks you vas solt, mein junge Feund. Exit Junio much disgusted. AN ex-student the othe day made his fist essay in caving. Having successfully dismembeed a tukey, befoe taking his seat, he ubbed his hand ove a beadless chin, majestically exclaiming, none but the bave deseve the fae. OXFORD UNIVERSITY has ecently eceived a valuable collection of paintings. Ex. THE Chinese have founded a College at Pekin. The Mathematical woks of Pofesso Loomis have been tanslated into Chinese. Ex. A FINE featue of the Univesity of Stasbug is a new libay of 175,000 volumes. Ex. THE teaching staff of the Univesity of Belin is to be stengthened by two new odinay pofessos of law, a pofesso of Sclavonian languages, an histoian, an achaeologist, a pofesso of at and a physiologist. Col. Heald. PROF. AGASSIZ has been elected one of the eight foeign associate membes of the Fench Academy of Science, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Si Rodeick Muchison. Ex. FOUR Colleges in New England. Conel\ Univesity, Swathmoe College, Obelin and Antioch ; Univesities of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kansas have opened thei doos to young ladies this yea. Ex. CORNELL COLLEGE is to have an addition of two pofessos. This will make twelve Chais occupied in this institution. Ex. \ COLBY UNIVERSITY has been opened to young women on the same tems as to young men. Ex. MIAMI UNIVERSITY has abolished all honous and pizes* Ex. MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY is to have a school of Technology and the Ats. WILLIAMS COLLEGE has opened he doos to ladies. Ex. THE Govenos of McGill College, Monteal, have pesented the Medical Faculty with a new building fo thei sole use. The building is of stone and is an onament to the city. HARVARD lost $200,000 by the Boston fie.

7 DALHOUSIE GAZETTE. 39 IT is pleasant to obseve how students pofit by thei studies. They ae vey logical in all thei dealing, and eason with tadesmen by the i. o. u. pocess. MRS. JARLEY has funished a new note on achaeology to the Pofesso of Latinity. The ancients when they wished to save the life of a fallen gladiato, wee said to pollicem vetee. Ms. J. says it meant, in ou moden phaseology, to " call in the police f A VASSAR senio was lately caught smoking a ciga, and gave as he eason fo the act, that it made it smell as if thee was a man aound. Ex. ADAM'S nativity has at last been discoveed. He was, accoding to Dawin, a Gem-man. -Cap and Goivn. MOTHER EVE'S bich is mentioned as the fist Ex. huy-cain. A FIRST division Junio being vey desious to explain a peculia constuction called " Constuctio ad sensum" said that it was a kind of constuction called, " Seductio ad absudum. Ex. STUDENTS in Histoy no longe dig out thei lessons, as fomely. They now ex-hume them. Havad Adv. SCENE. Examination Hall in a Sectaian College in the Lowe Povinces. Occasion. -Oal examination in Natual Histoy. Pesonae. Two examines. Fist examine (addessing class) " Stange effects ae poduced upon wild animals by domestication. Take fo example the wild boa. This animal, if domesticated, will lose those tusks which make him so fomidable." Pothe incedulous smile passes ove faces of class and examine No. 2. Second examine (ionically) " Oh yes! and if you would take that same Poke up to a house top, suspend him in elastic bands, and keep him bobbing up and down fo a yea o two he would aise a fine pai of wings and fly olf. Lo! the effects of domestication." Fist examine coks vp and almost busts. Second examine and class do bust out laughing. STUDENTS, ead " Reminiscences'! in the Williams Vidette, page 85. You'll find it in the Reading Room. Also the " Stoy of Dolly Vaden" in the Packe Quately. SCENE. Geek class-oom Pof, calling oll. Membe of class, pominent society man, deaming he was in his oom. Pof. " M. J. Jones." -M. J. Jones " Come in." Pause by pofesso then applause by students. EXCHANGES. WE have eceived No. 2 Vol. I, ot the Tyo, published by the students of the Canadian Liteay Institute, Woodstock, Ontaio. The Gazette is thus no longe the only college pape in the Dominion. The Tyo is published thee, times a yea in Magazine fom, and in appeaance compaes favouably with Ameican Magazines. Thee-fouths of the matte in No. 2 is witten by Pofessos, and thus the students do not deseve as much cedit as we of Dalhousie. The Dalhousie Gazette is now in the fifth yea of its existence and has neve yet published an aticle fom any othe pen than that of a student o gaduate. We hail the appeaance of the Tyo " mit shoy und not mit kief," and hope soon to see othe college peiodicals published by Canadian students. THE " dalings " of Ms. Cuthbet's school, St. Louis, Mo. have sent us thei " poduction," Leaflets of Thought. It has now eached its sixth volume. What ae the United States coming to? Not only has evey college of any size in the land its one o moe papes, but even school gils and school boys go into the business with Leaflets and Acons. If thei example is geneally followed such a foest will gow up that College papes will have to hide thei diminished heads and collapse. One-fouth of the pape is devoted to an " Essay and Valedictoy Addess" deliveed by Miss Lillie Finney. The Finny tibe seems'to be in foce at Ms. Cuthbet's school. An " In Memoiam " filling a whole page, thee o fou columns of poety chiefly selected, a lette fom anothe boading school devoted to the vey inteesting subject, "Bothe Tom's Moustache," a "Legend of Autumn," with a page o so of pointless jokes and wetched puns complete the Leaflets of Thought. As a whole howeve it is highly ceditable to school gils, and we ae vey glad to exchange. WHAT has become of the Lafayette Monthly1 We have eceived the Octobe numbe only. We hope it has not suspended. THE most extaodinay attempt at poety that we have eve seen appeas in the College Couie fo Decembe, " The meeting of Venus and Aeneas,' liteally tanslated fom lthe ieneid, Book I, Lines , by T. Eeb, and dedicated to the subfeshman class. It begins thus " But pious Aeneas the whole night though Was acking his bains about what to do"." What elegance of expession. Fiend Eeb! give it up. WHERE does the Havad Advocate get all its excellent poety * We can scace believe that undegaduates compose it all? * The Flight of the Swallows" in No. VI, Vol. XIV, is by fa the best poem that has appeaed in any of ou exchanges. Advocate! we envy you you poets. Fiend J. C. G. go on and pospe, you'e a second Longfellow! THE " Tu-whit tu-whoo" of the Owl has been bead in ou Sanctum. The Owl has new feathes all " Geen," and appeas in daylight once a month, scaed fom its noctunal haunts by the boys of Santa Claa College. Santa Claa, Califonia. EDITORS TABLE. W E have befoe us the Xmas numbe of " The Favouite," an illustated Magazine published weekly by Geo. E. Desbaats, 311 to 319 St. Antoine St., Monteal. It takes the place of the " Heathstone," and is a geat impovement upon it. Issued Weekly in numbes of sixteen pages, and Monthly in pats of sixty-fou o eighty pages. Tems Five Cents pe Week, Twenty Cents pe Month, and Two Dollas pe Annum. The "Favoite" is cetainly the cheapest weekly magazine published on the continent. We uge ou eades to take the " Favoite" in pefeence to publications of the same stamp in the United States, because it is not only cheape and bette, but it is Canadian, and Canadians should suppot a Canadian pape. We eget that want of oom pevents us fom inseting M. Desbaat's advetisement. He also publishes the " Canadian Illustated News;" " L' Opinion Publique," and " L' Etendad National." THE Twelfth Volume of "Wood's Household Magazine," published by S. S. W ood & Co., Newbugh, N. Y., appeas emodeled. Pice T $1.00 yealy. Its liteay notices ae full. "Ou Housekeepe" is a useful column to the nymphs of the cooking stove. To cown all, two columns ae devoted to "Love Thoughts" (quotations fom vaious authos) fo the benefit of "spoonies" of both sexes. THE "AMERICAN FARMER'S ADVOCATE" is devoted to the Business Inteests of the Fame and Plante. Published Monthly. Tems $1.00 pe annum. No fame should be without it. Issued by the "Advocate Publishing Company," Jackson, Tennessee. NEW EXCHANGES eceived since last issue : The Tyo (Ti Yealy), Canadian Liteay Institute, Woodstock, Ont. Leaflets of Thought (Monthly), Ms. Cuthbet's School, St. Louis, Mo. LETTERS eceived since last issue : J. G. McGego, B. A., and II. M. Scott, B A., Edinbugh ; Rev'd D. MeR e, Hopewell, Pictou Co.; W. Pollock, Fench Rive, Pictou Co.; J. M. Camichael, B A., N. Glasgow. The GAZETTE is issued evey altenate Satuday duing the Session, by the STUDENTS of Dalhousie College and Univesity. TERMS : One Collegiate yea, (in advance) $0 50 Single copies (each) 05 To be had at the Bookstoes of Messs. Connolly & Kelly and S. T. Hall. The " GAZETTE;" is fowaded to.all Subscibes until an explicit ode is eceived fo its discontinuance, and until all aeas ae paid. Payments to be made to D. S. Fase, Financial Secetay, and all communications to be addessed to A. H. McKay, o " Editos DALHOUSIE GAZETTE," Halifax, Nova Scotia. Anonymous communications can eceive no attention. Pinted by the "NOVA SCOTIA PRINTING COMPANY," cone Ganville and Sackville Steets, Halifax, N. S.

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