Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-07-18
IRVING COLLEGE.
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your correspondent, in company with
a friend, set out for Spencer to attend
the commencement exercises of Bur-
rift College. We arrived there about
9 O'Clock p. IN. 1t was now four years
since / had visited the place of my
school life, and during that brief pc
Rod many were the changes that
time had wrought upon Spencer and
its surroundings. But many of the
changes were highly indicative of
Improvement and progress. New
houses had been erected, the old ones
repaired and beautified by the paint
er's brush, and the streets and side
walks greatly improved. Only the
college buildings and grounds were
unchanged. These familiar and sa-
cred haunts, filled with new and
strange faces, opened the floodgates
of memory and meditation. Hun
dreds of familiar faces passed before
my mind, each characterized by its
own peculiar course of conduct in the
capacity of a student. BY the "fOOt-
prints left upon the sands of time," |
follow those students out upon the
arena of life. / find some in almost
every department of life well up on
the ladder Of fame others more easily
satisfied and less ambitious are plOd-
ding along the humber walks Of life ;
and some, oh! sad to be told have
gone down to infamy and disgrace.
] find none in disgrace and dishonor
who held in reverence those princi-
pies Of right and morality so earnest
ly and faithfully advised by our wOr-
thy presidents. But many of those
who set at defiance the regulations OF
the college 'just to have little fun, y
many of those who INDUCED in the
use Of Intoxicating drinks ''just be-
cause n social dram never hurts any.
thing" and many of those who car.
ried pistols 'just to defend them
selves" are already disgraced. Some
of the former class have been tried il
the courts for various petty offences
some of the second class are drunk
ards for whom there is no hope, anC
a few of the last class are stained will
the blood of murder, who have eithe
been held amenable to the law or are
refugees Omjustice in a strange land
In consideration of these truths, it il
strange that we do not the more seri
ously consider, that as lCe SO,C $50 shat
Ue reap.
The examination of the classes wa
to me highly interesting, and the ex
ercises of the literary societies-thei
reunions and banquets-were enjoya
BILE almost beyond measure. Their
were several graduates, all of whom
acquitted themselves cam moga
l0ude.
Upon the whole, my trip was high
ly enjoyable, which l hope to repea
at some future day.
Last Lords day Judge Burger, {
Manchester, preached two lively, il
teresting discourses at Hebron, one
the morning and the other in tn
evening.
The Rev. Mr.. Boyd will preac
next Lords day morning at Smyrna
and in the evening at Hebron.
]. Fetch Woodward today can
into this community and is setting u
his tent gallery. He proposes to mai
pictures true tolife-tOrehect nature
own image, as it were, in miro
and that too at prices astonishing
cheap. And if those getting pictur
are not satisfied with a true likene
then he will, by the assistance of
well, it matters nOt-make you
pretty one at the same price.
Mr.. a. ID. Nunley has grown d
cidedly worse and his recovery
hardly expected, though by caref
nursing he may recover.
Among the provisions of an A
wise providence none harmoni
more perfectly with the demands
the human system than the alterr
ton of day and night-the day fOrr
BILE action, the night for refreshi
sleep. And | am Of the opinion tn
that person should have been sleC
ing the other night instead of heari
youth of this vicinity while {
gagged in a doorstep tete-a-tete,
"that young lady" that she chad
heart to do with it whatever :
pleased" Selah.
-Four months ago my predict
was there We're destined to be so
lost souls in this part of the mo
vineyard. Blessed are they who {