EDITORIAL.

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Dogma and Doubt in Education.
College Campus.......

Oberlin Alumni Convention........
Co-Education.....

Prof. King at Chicago Conven-
tion....

U. L. A....

Study of Psychology.

Rhetoric in College..

Senior Classes Allowed Tickets to

REVIEW as Exchange of Thought

Future of American Literature...... 98...L. L. Thompson.
Books Read Fifty Years Ago....... 100... Pres. Fairchild.
Snubbing Through China.

Dante and St. Paul..

Forty Rod Romance.
College of the Future.

College Literary Work.

Wants of Oberlin Students

When Students Should Enter Col-
lege

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Nature Study a, an Avocation....... 160... F. E. Leonard.
Alliance of Faith and Reason..
In the South..
Lucretius....

rehearsal or lecture room, con taining two grand pianos, and capable of seating about 125 persons. This is used for private rehearsals given by the pupils of the different teachers

for the Musical Union, and for lectures and other occasions which do not call all the Conservatory students together. Immediately to the right of the front door is a beautifully carved staircase leading to the upper stories, winding in and out of the large, semi-circular tower whichflinks the main entrance. Ascending thisadmiring the rich, artistic frescoing and the fine woodwork as we pass-we find on the different floors a large number of lesson rooms and practice rooms, all of which are occupied from morning till night. The lesson rooms are furnished and decorated which our College is so justly proud, is Warner Hall, according to the individual tastes of the teachers. which was erected for the Conservatory of Music. As one stands in one of the upper halls and listens Friends of the College who have been absent during the to the almost deafening roar of the pianos, he realpast year will be surprised and delighted at the im-izes the amount of the work that is going on here provement made by the addition of the north wing, and there are so many former students who have not been back since the Hall was erected, that a brief description of the building may be of general interest.

WARNER HALL.

Warner Hall is the gift of Dr. Lucien C. Warner. of New York City, whose recent philanthropic experiments in providing a home for the young women in his employ have excited much interest and admiration. In 1883 the erection of the central portion of the building was begun, with the intention of providing for the immediate neccesities of the Conservatory, which was rapidly outgrowing the meagre accommodations which were afforded by the old Morgan residence. During the past year the work of completing the north wing has been pushed vigorously on, and an addition to the library has been built at the south-west corner. Its conspicuous situation, directly opposite to the College Chapel, shows off its beautiful architecture to the best possible advantage. It is a four-story building of buff-colored sand stone, and as it now stands, covers three sides of a hollow square. When completed, it will measure 150x130 feet, and will cost not far from $100,000. The principal entrance is at the south-west, at the corner of the two streets on which it fronts. A noble archway leads through a massive door of ash, filled with beautiful opalescent and stained glass-bearing the monogram of the Hall-into a cool and spacious lobby or vestibule. At the left, as you enter, are the Director's offices, with large windows opening out into the hallway over a broad, polished counter. At the right is a handsome

every day. Every room in the building has a piano, and every piano is constantly in use. The addition to the building has come none to soon. In the fourth story is a large, finely-lighted orchestra room, where the Conservatory orchestra assembles for practice twice a week. Descending by the cosy elevator, we find ourselves once more in the beautiful lower hall, and after giving a look at the circulating library, which contains about 7,000 pieces of the best music, piano, vocal, violin, organ and orchestra, and which is open for the use of the students the greater part of the day; and after giving a parting glance at the pictures of the old masters with which the halls are decorated, we make our way into the new wing, which is rapidly completing. This contains a beautiful concert hall, which will be used for the many concerts and recitals that are given to the students every year. It is something like an opera-house in shape, with its capacious stage and lofty ceiling and balcony. The room is designed to hold about 700 people, and is admirably planned. Space is left for the magnificent organ which the Conservatory hopes ultimately to secure. Such a beautiful interior cannot fail to give additional zest to even the finest programme. The other wing will be erected in the not very distant future. As we pass out we are once more struck with the impressiveness and beauty of the external architecture. The vastness and symmetry of the structure, as seen from the north-east corner, warrants us in the opinion that when it is completed it will be one of the finest college buildings in the United States. With such a beautiful

home, the Conservatory, which flourished so bravely in spite of its early difficulties, cannot fail to enjoy an uninterrupted and well-deserved prosperity.

A FOOL'S ERRAND.

CHAPTER IV.

dingy looking affair, built something after the fashion of a huge bank-barn with one end knocked out. At one end of the waiting room was the customary lunch counter, where the fools refreshed themselves with sandwiches and hot coffee before proceeding to do the city. After lunch they made the most of the time they had to spend in the city in sight-seeing, and the Just as the train rolled out of Hoxie, Old Sol ap-results of one of the fool's observations is herem peared above the eastern horizon, a great red ball of written: fire, whose rays of heat and light rapidly dissipated the heavy fog that hung over the swamps in a huge white veil of noxious vapor. Before the mist had disappeared, the train seemed to be gliding along through mid-air, as neither earth nor sky were visible. We thought it serious that the fog should be so thick as to make the ground invisible from the car windows, and were puzzled how to account for the phenomenon. But it soon explained itself, for when the fog disappeared before the genial rays of the sun, we discovered that the train was running on a track laid on piles ten or fifteen feet high. This is a necessary precaution against the annual floods of the Arkansas River, which submerges the whole country there abouts.

About half way between Hoxie and the Mississippi, the railroad crosses the Teusas River, a broad and deep-looking stream, with smooth, precipitous clay banks. On the shore of this stream, a short distance to the north of the railroad, is the sporting house of the Memphis City Gunning Club. At this place annually, at the proper season of the year, the members of the club spend a short time in hunting deer, wild turkeys, duck, and, in turn are sometimes hunted by the savage lynx or blood-thirsty catamount. This lowlying country is a veritable sportman's Paradise. The thick, almost impenetrable brush, and the rank growth of weeds and grasses in the more open parts, affording excellent retreats for deer and the savage bear, while the open patches of water and the bayous and rivers are tempting feeding grounds for water fowl. I had all my love for the chase aroused within me by the sight of several flocks of turkeys and of a spotted fawn, which, as if fascinated by the flamebreathing monster, stood just at the edge of the sombre forest and curiously watched the rumbling emblem of civilization as it swiftly rolled by.

Memphis, the principal city of Tennessee, presents quite an imposing sight from the river, stately masses of buildings running along the bluff, at whose feet stretches a levee similar to that of all the other river towns. Permit me, while speaking of levees, to make a digression here in favor of them. But few who have seen or felt the force of the mighty and erratic current of the Mississippi can comprehend the vast magnitude of the attempts made to keep it in check.

The banks of the stream within the State of Louisijana, where I saw them most, are lovely, the richness of the foliage and the luxuriance of the vegetation redeeming them from the charge of monotony, which might otherwise be made against them. But no one can tell when the inconstant stream is going to cast its mighty volume of water against them and absolutely devour them. In some cases, towns that have been built on the banks have been compelled to recede before the encroachments of the river, as, for instance, Plaquemine, in Louisiana, and Napoleon, in Arkansas. At sunset, a planter on one side of the stream might be seen standing in his doorway, gazing over his numberless acres with their growing and ripening crops, and exultingly calculating the returns they will bring in the Fall markets. As if satisfied with the result, he turns and goes within, and that night visions of untold wealth float before his mind. He dreams of the pleasures in store for himself, and never once does he contrast his prospects with those of the man on the opposite side of the river, who is not the owner of a single acre in the world, and who almost curses God that he is without the means even of gaining the necesearies of life for himself and starving family. But while the planter is dreaming, a wonderful change is taking place. During the night the insidious stream has risen, and, changing its course, is swallowing in its insatiate maw the alluvial acres of the rich planter, and is eagerly lapping the It was 8 o'clock a. m. when the train emerged from very threshold of his mansion; while on the other the forest, and again the Father of Waters was in full, hand it has deposited there before the dwelling of the view, rolling his majestic current toward the sea. We squatter, the fertile land of the planter on the opposite were transferred to the Tennessee side of the stream side of the stream. by a huge ferry-boat, and in a few minutes were whirling rapidly through a cut in the bluffs that line the river at this point, and through the suburbs of the city of Memphis. The train drew into the depot at 8:30 a. m., and the fools alighted from the cars amidst a motley crowd of people, negroes, immigrants, tourists and spectotors. The depot itself is a

The river is forever making land on one side and tearing it away on the other, the bends in its course not permitting the current to wash both banks with equal force. The farmer on the alluvial bottoms sees with dismay his corn-field diminish year by year, acres slipping into the dark current. Yet the ease with which corn, cotton and sugar are raised in their respect

ive localities, is such that they willingly run the risk. me some way in which I might learn a greater number The stream is so crooked that in some places a distance of English words, and finally Prof. - my teacher in of twenty miles has to be traversed by a steamer in order ―, recommended to me a work to which I owe all my to make one mile actual headway. At this the pilots present fluency and accuracy in speech and writing. I bitterly complain, saying that the stream might, by refer to the enchiridion called Roget's Thesaurus. He artificial means, be made to bear against the rocky advised me to keep it adjoining me, and whenever I was shores. Sometimes the river gets tired with such a in doubt for a word to refer to that. I was enchanted roundabout way, and itself brushing away the promon- with the idea, an Iscuttled along to put it in execution. tory, the pilot, the next time he comes along, is From that day to this I have never been without my dumbfounded at the new passage opened before him. unparagoned Roget at my side, and I never fail to find From Baton Rouge to its mouth the surface of the in it many words which would not occur to the unassistMississippi is above the level of the country bordering ed memory of even a native Englishman. Even my proon it, and it is here that the hardest fight is ma le fesssors are frequently at a loss to understand many of against its encroachments. The people of the South my most expressive words. I am continually surprised have shown rare pertinacity in maintaining the levee at the small number of words used by the average college system. Like the Datch of Holland, they doggedly student, even in his most ambitious compositions. I assert their right to the Lowlands, in which they are do not view them with jaundiced eyes for it. It must always braving inundation. They have built, and en- be that they have never become acquainted with the deavor to maintain in repair, more than 1,500 miles of merits of this mestim ble work. In this case, the nalevee, or 51,000,000 cubic feet. The work of levee tive, with his astringent hoard of familiar words is building has been pressed forward, even when the com- really at a disadvantage, and hides his diminished head monwealth has been prostrated by a hundred evils. when compared with the foreigner who has to make Detailed surveys are constantly required to insure the everything new and sets to work with diligence to encountry against inundation. The cost value af the sys large his vocabulary from the starting post. I have tem at the present time is estimated at $25,000,000, therefore taken the liberty to address these few sugand before there can be anything like perfect security gestions to my fellow students, not so much to display against overflows, it is asserted that as much more will the off-shoots of the system, as to heartily recommend it be required. as the best means of sprouting one's resources. With such a pecunious language as the English there is no excuse for resting satiated with a word that expresses the idea imperfectly or inaccurately. My plan is very ingenuous. At every salient and eggregious word in the sentence, I turn to my Roget, and carefully select My friends in this vicinage have expressed such a out the phrase which seems to be the most effective in ray of comfort at my thorough expugnation of the En- the location, having much approbation for the phonetic glish lingo in such a twinkling of a bedpost that I beauty, and for the rhythm of the composition. For inthought that possibly it might le useful if I should stance, I desire to say that the space remaining to me insinuate to the numerous readers of the REVIEW the is short, but I have already used that little word once gait which I adopted to secure that result, and par and desire a more impressive one. I open my Thesexcellence the wholesale vocabulary upon which I pride aurus, and fin the following delectable list from which myself exceedingly. I have seen the statement that to choose; short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, Shakespeare, the great cock-of-the walk of the English stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, tongue possessed a lexicon of only 15.000 words, and squab, -by, squat, dumpy, httle, etc., curtailed of its that no one else has equalled him. The latter aver- fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, ment I myself wot to be false, for m the very paltry narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, etc., time that I have written in the English tongue I have finespun, tap r, slim, slight-mide, scant, -y, spare, have already used more than that number myself, and delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded, etc., am imbibing new words every day, thanks to the salu- slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meagre, gaunt, tary system that I have adopted. It is that system that macilent, lank, -y, weedy skinny, starv -ed, -eling, atI have now set out to describe. When I first initiated tenuated, shrivelled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barethe study of the English language I was much embar-bone, raw-boned, herring-gutted, worn to a shadow, rassed by the paucity of my vocabulary. I had great lean as a rake, thin as a -lath, -whipping post, -wafer, difficulty in expressing the commonest thoughts, and hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed. particularly when confronted by a volatile young lady, A man must be very hard to suit if with such copious I had great impracticability in mastering enough words resources he is not able to find a word which perfectly to hold my own in conversation. In the midst of my satisfies him, and he ought to be content with no less. bad job, I besought my friends and companions to show | lu this way it is seldom necessary for us to use the same

MULTILOQUOUS ENGLISH.

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