The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-13

that the spirit OF rest and quietness has
not yet fell upon II. The college had adj
justed itself TO the existing conditions. IL
the students lived in the aesthetic atmos-
phere OF books alone, they would be at
sea when forced to face the stern reali-
ties. Very fortunately our college sys-
tenn Is such that II Is comparatively easy
TO step from the college yard into the
public highway.
our colleges have two fields of instruc-
ton. As primary principle Il Is realized
that "A man comes to college 10 learn. A
man must acquit himself creditably in
scholarship, for I'm the Interpretation OF
this dea OF education our system fnus
its justification.
VARIED COURSES OF STUDY.
The courses OF study pursued by the
average student are varied and irregular.
one hour finds him In the machine shop:
during the next he may be reading from
Horace. Another man spends his morn
ing In the biblical seminary and his after
Moons with Noltaire. Tis time is as mucn,
and even more, at his own disposal as It
may ever be when he is out OF college.
After he has prepared his regular STU
dent tasks he is left TO devise means
to employ his other faculties
His second field of work. then. is the
organizations demanding the support or
every sort OF men. which an American
college teens with. The justification OF
such two-fold system Is evident
One is as essential as the other I'm a
broad education. 1t is the exceptional man
who becomes a recluse under such con-
ditions
BY this system many a hidden faculty
is brought to light. So the life at college
is growing more and more complex. This
work Is but play I'm comparison with the
world outside. but IT appeals earnestly to
most OF the underpraduates
FOR LIFEs STRUGGLE.
Finally II gives a man the chance to
prepare his plan OF action for the future.
He learns what II Is to be free to come
and go. and what IL is TO be pressed on
all sides by duties In a word he leads
the strenuous life" while yet a student.
So each year the college makes its con-
tribution TO American life With its grad
ua tes should be found the balance wheel
in the administration of affairs They
have the finer side OF life. and are eager
to take part in public affairs.
Coming forth from an institution plum
cd with Independence and sincerity"
they may be trusted to live accordingly,
deplorinE narrow -mindedness I'm whatever
form IL may appear. And in the end.
whatever the result may be, each one OF
these men shall have the supreme salts
faction of saying 1.-The things to which
have aspired and have not attained COM
fort me-"
THE CLASS POEM
The class poem. by Charles Raymond
Austin. followed and Is written in vary
ing metres The title is Before the
Dawn Mr.. Austin mas been on the
Brunonian board, Is the head of Brown
Verse" this year. and belongs to Delta
Tau Delta fraternity. The poem opens
with the following lines, I'm "vers libre:'
Night. gloomy and abhorrent, with wings
cloud-capped, wrought in the womb
OF the universe,
Chaos born and chaos bearing
The unspeakable night holds us in net
manifold inescapable.
Before us. silent, the sullen sea. surround
ed I'm phantom. mist. stealthily
brenthes the eternal mystery.
In ceaselcss whispering. ages IL seems.
Tie feeble moon that long had guided us
Flickered awhile amid the fitful fog.
Then fell a prey 20 night insatiate,
But now no light I'm the gloom. save
where there shine seven stars In
west
And, 10. I'm the east are seven stars
emotions the people struggling In
IT, darkness feel before dawn, so
have the old creeds fallen.
So shaken what once was strong. so are
the barriers broken.
Till right now becomes the wrong. mar
row the paths we are treading.
Now wide Is the way we go. fallen the
hedges that shut us,
Away from the friend or foe, now that
talk together
And suffer beside the sea.