Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-16

the selection. Tha, basis Of all education
should be this broad general culture, that
ourstatesmen may be scholars as wdll th1l
lawyers should know NOT. only Blackstone,
by Thucydides, Aristophanes and Horace
and that doctors Of medicine should
have knowledge of all the
fair humanities. Without this, states
will wane. The eclectric system must
lead to superficial training and der.
Ogation Of true learning Turning to his
toast proper the doctor said he could d.
NO better than to meet it with some lines
which he generously attributed to the
poet laureate Of the college, Prof. Nevin
We may live without bOoks-that Is true as
the books are.
We may live without hope-whatever life's
But to i've without dining. whatever ou,
trade ie.
Is as foolish as trying to live without ladies.
"Alma Mater-Past and Present.
"Die and cndow college,"
was the toast to which A. c. ReinOehl, A.
NJ. of the class Of 1860 was asked to re-
spond and he did it in his usual felicitOus
manner. He said he arose with his usual
and unexpected emotion at
being called upon for an impromptu
speech of which he had only notice last
Monday. But lie had always followed the
rule, when an extempore speech was to be
made, to write it out and commit it to
From twenty years ago the
echoes that come down the corridors of
time to him were those of brass baud.
a
and, If it wasn't for little boy o. two
along with them, the graduates Of twenty
years ago might pass for the classman Of
to morrow. Two decades have borne
lightly upon chem, big as these years have
been with events for tho country. Then
We stood across tho Red Sea Of war, now
we have passed through it Othe Promised
Land of peace. Money is so cheap that
can get it-for good security
and an assignment of his fire insur-
snce policy. Our country stands
respected in the presence Of al nations,
our flag floats triumphant from the dome
of the federal capitol, and butter sells at
eighteen cents a pound and strawberries
two boxes for a quarter, Notwithstanding
Roscoe Conkling has resigned. No other
country could have stood such strain
without cold sweat breaking out upon
the whole body polite. See how the col
lege trees have grown, like itself
Twenty years ago they hardly furnished
shade enough to accommodate a junior en-
gagged in sending up notes to sOphOmOres
wrestling in the agony of ''test," and what
a campus is here for moonlight flirta-
tiOns 1t was q cause for general con-
graduation that the college is freed from
financial embarrassment, but it can stand a
little more endowment. We don't want a
rich man to die specially to cndOw it, but if,
having to die, he should make his death
easier by such q benefactiOn the alumni
will attend his funeral with more cheerful
alacrity.
Hon. JOhn Cessna "PrOvided he don't
die thirty days after making his WILL.
Mai. ReinOehl: I accept the amend
ment. Rather than in the language of the
toast be it said to the rich men, "live and
endow a college" SO that they may reap in
their lifetime the golden harvest of the
seed they SOW.
"The Alumni These my invinciblc
Wolfe. esq, of Philadelphia, of the class
IF 1870, who spoke Of the high regard
for the college by its old stu
1ents and of their profound obligation to
it for the mental and moral equipment
which made them invmcible in the battle
If life.
The dinner was tOothsOme, elegant in its
letails and reflected credit on the whole
The speeches were brief,
pointed, and very happy, their telling
features being punctuated with laughter
md applause; and never company dis
,ersed in mcrrier frame of mind than these
quests when DR.. Davis proclaimed the end
If this feature of the days entertainments.
Tho Alumni Grafton.
The chapel was we'll filled at 3p. m: by
IN audience gathered to hear the address
If Rev. j. Spanglcr Kieffer, A. NJ, before
he alumni association. He was intro
luced by Vice President j. H. Dubbs and
delivered a scholarly and philosophical aGl.
lress, of which full abstract will be
ound on our first page, and which will be
published complete in the Reformed
Church Quarterly.
Tho Alumni Meeting.
Pursuant to adjournment tho alumni
ssOciatiOn met Immediately after the ad-
lress. Tho committee on orators for next
ear reported and tho association elected
Ion. Thos. c. Boyd, of LewistOwn, ILL.,,
and Hon. Matt. VanLear Nc.
of St. Louis, seeundus. The COM
nitteo on alumni prOfessorship reported
nd were instructed to embody their views
q an article for College Student.
Mr.. Hensel offered the following which
vere adopted:
Resolced, That the thanks of this asso-
iatiOn arc rendered to Rev. J. Spangler
lieffer, A. NJ, for the scholarly address
his day delivered and that in the judg-
nent of this society it should be published
q full in the Reformed Church Quarterly.
g Res0lued. That the thanks of this as.
Ociation arc rendered to the editiOnal
nd business management of the College
'tudent for their successful and highly
efforts to establish a college
aper and that the Student be recommended
0 the patronage and encouragement of
be alumni and friends of the college,"
The committee on the centennial anni-
ersary of Franklin college and the semi
cntennial of Marshall in 1887 were con-
inued, with instructions to secure speak
rs and prepare q history of each college
rom its beginning, as we'll as history of
he united colleges.
The society then adjourned, and some
wcnty five members of it met informally
t the residence of Mr.. Hensel last even
lg, where Goetheans and DiagnOtheans,
hi Kaps and Chi Phis, Mercersburg and
"Old boys" and "young fel.
,ws" smoked the pipe of yeace and
hOwed how fields were won in their ''day."
A number of the members of the class
f 1860 met informally and revived the
good old times"
Gov. Hoyt and Gen. Latta, after a