The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-03-07
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The regular meeting of the prison Pierian
Circle was held in the chapel on Sunday.
March 8. There were 2s members at roll call.
After the regular routine business. (Which in
Guided the admission of three new members
the following program was submitted:
The Louisiana Purchase. 80. Glass D.. Pierce
English Feudalism. ......... Glass B.. Gregg
Robert Burns ................C Glass c.. Hill
not,re nower of cevi pap sction Glass Blanz
Paper
Our Government ... Glass F.. Paetsch
Special Paper
State Rights Glass E.. Thompson
Following this program, the critic pro tenn.
member Crane gave an elaborate and complete
resume of several papers read. and after the
usual business the meeting terminated.
GEOLOGY AS WE STUDY II.
By member of class F.
We're asked for my definition of the word
"Geologist.' would say that he is one some
what related to those who make a profession of
roDbing cemeteries; a 'ghoul' in fact. who de-
hts in the dissertation of the stratified sepul
chres in which nature has deposited the remains
of denizens of this mundane sphere long ages
ago deceased. He is. however. well meaning
individual. and the mere fact OF his belonging TO
the genus HOMO, will be sufficient excuse for
his abnormal curiosity as regards the interior
construction OF the earth.
There is no doubt, but what we. as members
of the C. l.. $. c. would be content were we but
at liberty to view the external beauties of nature
but the only alternative left us lsthe study OF
geology and we proceed to do so in one of two
methods. One which was in vogue when we
attended the village school. in memOrising the
contents of the textbook. and filling our cram
iums with the un-lhinkable names which
| science has attached to the defunct and helpless
victims which they have captured in their con-
quest. This method cannot Recommend. I'M
less you wish to become a candidate for the
hospital at st. Peter; besides. we too frequently
cultivate the memory at the expense OF the IN
tellect. The other method is more desirable.
With textbook under one arm. and the other
| linked through imagination. unbeknOWn to any
one, we take the back trail. In this manner we
are enabled to review the work of nature, wheth-
er it lie in museum. mine. on mountain top or
/ ocean beach. But even our clrcumScrlDed pOnC
of view affords prima facle evidence OF the great
forces that nature has in hand. and toa limited
extent we can give the subject practical study
For instance: that element which last Spring
deposited car loads of mud. without effort, into
our own immediate vicinity. tells us that these
grim old walls would perish from the earth, to
rise no more forever if man. natures greatest
| enemy, did not NEEDLE in her affairs. Again,
from the material portion of the wall of our re-
treat, we would infer that this country was once
in the possession of the great deep; perhaps,
within the space inclOSed by these buildings, the
great leviathan dispOrted himself among the
briny pillows. while the sea urchinS cousin,
played hide and seek below. 1t is not impossible
that the stone of which these buildings are com
posed, contains the remains of the trees which
furnished the aboriginal natives with the thorns
which they endeavored to put into the nose OF
the ponderOus and ungainly behemoth, which
rOamed the then undiscovered American con-
tinent This is the method which we have pur-
sued in the study of geology from our limited
point of view; but limited as it is, the world con.
tains not better one for the correct study OF
the surface of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof for what is this earth of ours, and what
is man? If we could only see ourselves as the
not see us, we might arrive at q true estimate OF
this worlds insiginhcance, and mans paltriness
amid the greatness thereof