The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26

Pub1fc Performances Of the
ssass ef sse.-Oshcr News and

Notes.
The public performance of the
class of sc, in Chapel Hall, last Fri
day evening, was not very well at
tended. Even many students and
half of the Faculty were not there.
But the music was good, being fur
nished by violin and guitar orches-
ira, and the audience was an appre-
ciative one. The following program
was rendered:
The Spirit of Inquiry" w. N.
Berkeley; The man of Practical
Sentiment" R. w. Dawson; Bar
tholdi's Statue of Liberty" T. r.
Shepherd; Modern Idolatry," n. NJ,
Waters, and The Study of the An
cient Languages, z. F. Yost.
The first four were orations; the
last was an essay.
Berkeley's voice is good, he makes
a good appearance on the stage and
his performance was evidently pre-
pared with much care
Dawson's delivery was monoton-
GUS, but his Grafton was full Of good
things.
Shepherds style and manner of
delivery suited his theme.
Waters thinks that the modern
idols are Fashion, Wealth and Skep-
ticism. His performance was forci-
BILE and his delivery good. He
brought down the house with one or
two "breaks" which he made on the
Fashion part of his discussion.
Yost's essay was well written but
read too hastily and in strained
key. He gave the classics q black
eye.
OUR REGULAR LETTER.
Vacation is here, going to stay two
weeks. He and DR.. Dancer, during
this time, will occupy together the
University buildings. The recita-
ton rooms are silent, and the halls
echo no more to the tread of I'VE Prep"
The few lone, lorn, lonesome boys
who remain, look as though they had
lost their last friend--as though they
had been kicked by mule. They
spend their nights devoid of ease in
pacing the desolate streets and in
dreaming "when the roses come
again. Their still more miserable
days are spent in sleeping, yawning
and pulling their mustaches and
writing home for money. Those who
have gone are now happy in the So
ciafxy Of ba,na and fr;anJo The nna /
class will be more tired when school
opens than when it closed, the other,
fresh and invigoratcd, will gladly re-
new their duties.
c. f. Grafton, of 80, is in town.
Granny" always finds hearty wei
come when he comes to Morgan
town.
President Turner secured for the
students special rates on the b. Il o.
r. r., for the trip home and to re
turn.
Quite number of boys, without
geed excuse, attempted to get per-
mission to &c, home few days be-
fore vacation began. But all their
attempts proved futile. The new
administration believes in law strict
ly enforced, with it an inch don't
mean mile, two weeks vacation
don't mean four.
The new books for the library will |
be on hand by the time school opens.
The list of those to be ordered con
tains many very valuable works
standard works that are up with the |
times. Each school in the Univer-
sity will have its share of them.
However, there will be no new ones
added to the department of fiction.
This part of the library is rather
full at present. Some of the stu
dents read nothing but novels
the loose, lax, superficial habits of
reading, acquired by perusing two
or three volumes of light fiction will
counterfeit all the careful habits of |
study, acquired by month of hard
study.
A large number of students took
in the Mite Society, on Saturday
night. They all report big crowd
ana good time.
Scene in Senior Metaphysics class:
Suddenly it becomes dark, the
Professor can no longer see the book
the students can no longer see
each other nor the pencil marks
upon their cuffs. The Professor,
after trying to divine the cause of
this apparent eclipse of the sun, and
after instituting various inquiries
about the cause Of aforesaid phe-
nomenon, steps down out of the
chair. After cropping around in the
darkness for some minutes, stumbles
over something All at once there is
low scrambling noise and then a
food of light bursts into and fills
the entire room. Then was found |
out the cause of this strange occur
renee. The Professor had fallen
over a Senior and had upset his
chair, thus causing his Seniors
highness to remove his pedal ex
tremities from the top of the bench,
which sat just in front of the win
dow, which had caused the dark
ness. Moral Build colleges big
enough for Seniors.
Major premise: All boys who re-
manned here during vacation have
girls here.
Minor premise Emmert remained.