The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-05
ON COLLEGE HuQl.
Local and Personal at Maryvllle
College as Seen by Our Special
Correspondent.

College as Seen by Our Special
Correspondent.
Mr.. l.. r. LETTERS who went home
sick few days ago has returned
to school,.
Tine Athenian Society will de-
bate the third party question next
Friday night.
DIR. Boardman filled the pulpit at
the Southern Methodist church
Sabbath morning.
New students are still arriving.
Among the latest arrivals are J. G.
Tuck and George Petty. Nearly
three hundred students are now
enrolled.
VIM. Everett and George Hafly
visited friends at Porter Academy
last Saturday.
A match game of base ball vas
played Friday afternoon between
the town club and the college boys
resulting in a victory for the college
boys by score of thirteen to eleven.
Alex Lindsay preached at Clover
Hill last Sabbath. He wants it un.
derstood that no accident befell him
this time.
w. D. Malcolm was on the hill
Saturday. Will is now acting as
colportem for the American Bible
Society. He is very much pleased
with his work. He expects to be
In school again next year.
Some very interesting meetings
were held in the chapel on the day
of prayer for colleges. The usual
chapel service at o'clock was omit.
ted and all came together at 1890.
Short talks were made by DR..
BOardman, Profs. Crawford and
Cate and Rev. Mr.. Akers. At two
O'Clock the Y. M. G. A. and Y. w.
G. A. each held a devotional SER
vice. The meetings are still in pro.
gress and will be continued through
this week. The friends of the col.
'lege are cofdfaIIy invited TO attend
these meetings.
The young ladies assisted by
some of the young men burned the
grass off the campus Saturday af.
ternoon. The fire got into a fence
and very exciting time was had
in extinguishing it. Will Graham
and Sam Sheriff. engineered the
work, Will taking one side of the
fence and Sam the other. One
young man said that he put out the
fire with sun umbrella at the dis.
lance of one hundred yards but as
this young man is well versed in
the sciences he was probably only
philosophizing on the beauties Of
nature. All enjoyed themselves
we'll and we are only sorry that
there is no more grass to burn.
The writing Of poetry still contin.
ues and it is certainly a mistake to
say that the poets are all dead
Here is one Of the latest productions
Two tall boys both bright and fair
With dark blue eyes and curly hair
So charming SO confdiug 80 loving 90 tru,
For what one does the other does too.
Their thoughts soar up u the heavens high
| They talk about stars the SUI moon and ok!
And out on the campus they stay all nj hit
Polar stars and eclipsss they view will
| delight.
The ten commandments they want to revise
lam sure it viii givesll the world surpr's
To hear o. the wonderful changes in creed
OF all 10 theology they must lake the lead.
AcOmmittee OF reference they have formed OF
| the hill.
For bosh aud nonsense it Just fills the bill
Astronomer and poet or whatever they he
They are Just com mon boys like you an,
like me.
Prof. Wilson has been kept away
from his classes for several days BY
an attack of la grippe. He expects
to be able to meet his classes in
day or two.
Mr.. NEFF:-I see in your las
issue that you recommend the Al
liancec Ompany to build a steam
mill at Maryville instead of pur
chasing my water power. Now a
far as myself is concerned am op
posed to the steam power on &C
count of its being more expensive
than water power. In the frs
place it costs about a thousand dol
lars to get a tOiler and then it take