for your state-room, or you may pass the night few strangers go to Quebec except in mid-sumon the floor.

mortal by W. D. Howells in "Their Wedding Journey" and "A Chance Acquaintance, and find yourself installed in "Kitty's roo.." (as you are informed by your landlady when your first enter that sacred apartment) and, opening your window, look out into the "Nuns' Garden,” which suggested so many reveries to Mr. Howells' heroine.

Imer, and, like all summer resorts where the exLeaving Toronto at 2 P. M., you have a penses for a year must be met by the profits of pleasant ride down Lake Ontario, but retire to two or three months, rates are necessarily high. your berth before you reach Kingston, the out- Being a manufacturing rather than a commerlet into the St. Lawrence. The next morning, cial center, and so remote from other cities, its after breakfast when you get up on deck, you regular business brings few visitors to its doors. find that you have already passed many of the. However, you resolve to find cheaper lodgings, Thousand Islan is and are approaching Clayton and copy from a directory all the English or Thousand Island Park. I will not attempt names you find among the boarding houses. to describe the delight of the next four hours Then you take a carriage and look these up in as you thread this labyrinth of beautiful islands, order. Soon you find pleasant rooms in abunAfter dinner you find that the islands are be- dance at a dollar a day or twenty-four dollars a hind you, but before you are the rapids of the month. You finally select the house made imSt. Lawrence, reaching, with some intervals of calm water, from Ogdensburg to Montreal, and making the afternoon as exciting as the morning was delightfully tranquil. Just above the Lachine Rapids and ten miles above Montreal, you pass under the new cantilever bridge of the Canadian Pacific, and just before you reach the city, under the famous tubular bridge of the Grand Trunk R, R. These two are the only And now, as you begin to get acquainted bridges that span the St. Lawrence from Lake with Quebec, the first thing that strikes you is Ontario to the sea. If you wish, you may stop its coolness. This summer, while the interior, over at Montreal, in which case you will find a the seaside and the mountains were almost city of 150,000 people, the east half of which is equally parched, only once did the thermometer French and Catholic and almost medieval to rise above ninety degrees in Quebec, and only our western eyes, while the west half is English three days were warm enough for our summer Protestant, modern and busy. Two lines of clothing. That white dress that makes you ocean steamers to Liverpool and one to Nova look so pretty might as well have been left at Scotia remind you that, though there is no home. You cannot wear it in Quebec. The trace of tide or of salt water, and though you explanation of this fact is, that Quebec unites are nearly 600 miles from the mouth of the St. in one combination, mountain and sea air. On Lawrence, yet that wonderful highway makes Montreal an ocean port as truly as New York or Baltimore.

Leaving Montreal at 6:30 P. M., as soon as you have had breakfast the next morning, you find Quebec in sight. At first you see nothing but the citadel, standing at the top of a perpen-, dicular cliff three hundred feet high, and looking just as the picture did in your old geography, so that you feel among friends at once.

one side is the St. Lawrence, here over a mile wide. On the other and nearly parallel to it, is its tributary, the St. Charles, only a small stream, but with a valley six miles wide. The "upper town" lies at the point of the rocky promontory that separates the two, and is three hundred feet above them.

Though the mouth of the St. Lawrence is nearly four hundred miles away, yet below the city it is from five to fifty miles wide, and hence Quebec, though a city of 60,000 people, has the tide at the Quebec docks rises from fifteen only two comfortable hotels, and these charge to eighteen feet and brings with it its own four or five dollars a day for very indifferent ocean temperature, with the cool winds that accommodations. The explanation is that very | have made the Gulf of St. Lawrence famous,

feet long, so that the driver sits upon these half
way between his horse and the wheels. In the
country about Quebec everybody is French, and
after you get five miles from the city very few
people can understand English. Here then you
have an opportunity to study the peasant life
of France two centuries ago, for old France is
more truly found in lower Canada than in
France itself.
L. B. Hall.

Y. M. C. A. TRAINING CLASSES.

The promontory on which the city stands, is more which wind up the same ascent outside almost perpendicular towards the south, and, the wall; but the other streets are tolerabetween its base and the St. Lawrence is room bly level, though in many places the grades for only one street, perhaps fifteen feet wide, are steeper than we allow in our cities, but five miles long, named after the daring ex- Two-wheeled vehicles are very common. plorer who founded Quebec nearly three bun- The two-wheeled buggy is called a caleche, years ago, Champlain. The surface of the is very high, is slung upon leather straps promontory is perhaps half a mile wide, and like a stage coach, and is very easy to ride slopes so rapidly toward the St. Charles that on in though not easy to climb into. The that side the cliff is not more than one hundred two-wheeled drays have shafts fifteen to twenty feet high. Toward the west, running across the whole promontory, is the old city wall, upon an average twenty feet high and twenty feet thick and pierced by three gates, through which run the only roads entering Quebec from the landward side. Toward the St. Charles on the north, and the harbor on the east, the wall is not so high inside, since it rests upon a perpendicular cliff, but outside may be fifty feet high in some places. Here are three more gateways, but every vestige of the old gates has disappeared. The western gates have been rebuilt within twenty years, and, in the interest of picturesqueness, it is to be hoped that the other three will soon be restored. Toward the St. Lawrence there is neither road nor path, neither wall nor gate, for nothing but a bird, could scale that three hundred feet of perpen-ual cases. The first consists of the study of the dicular rock. books of the Bible, learning their contents, anBetween the base of the city alyzing them and searching for their particular wall and the St. Charles, for most of the way, teachings. This work was done in accordance are two narrow streets filled with warehouses, tament Student. with the directions published in the Old TesThe topical studies are designed to factories and wholesale offices. Most of Que- bring out the scriptural teaching on particular phases bec's 60,000 people live outside the wall, either vidual cases" is the study of scriptural passages to meet of Christian truth. The work done on the "indion the promontory along the roads leading to the difficulties of inquirers. The plan of the book the west, or beyond the angle of the wall along lar college Bible classes. The work on topical studies studies has been adoptel to a certain extent in the regthe upper valley of the St. Charles. The city is necessarily very much the same as should be done in contains 6,000 Protestant and 55,000 Catholics. Preparing the prayer-meeting topies. It follows that, if the work of preparation for the college Bible classes There is one Irish Catholic church in which the and class prayer meetings is properly done, there will sermon is given in English, while the other It seems more reasonable to do this regular work well be no need of these kinds of work in the training classes. twelve or fourteen Catholic churches use, than to organize other classes for the same purpose. French. Hence nine-tenths of the people speak regular exercises of the Institution-the study of indiThis leaves but one class of work unprovided for by the French, and you hear the strange sounds on vidual cases of inquirers. This is of such a nature that it every side of you. In some quarters of the city cannot be done except by organizing classes for that special purpose. The difficulties of inquirers are such for block after block every sign will be in that they may almost 1 b classed under five or six French. heads, so that the whole ground could be gone over in six meetings.

The roads leading up from the lower town through the three gates are of course very crooked and steep, and so are two or three

At the close of last winter term a meeting was held of all the members of the Y. M. C. A. training classes. A committee of the leaders made a report time, but that during each fall term classes be organrecommending that the work be discontinued for a ed for a period of six weeks. This plan was adopted. book studies, topical studies, and the study of "individThe work taken up by the classes is of three kinds, viz.,

In accordance with this action classes will soon be entirely to preparation for work with inquirers. It has organized. They will meet six times and be given up been thought that perhaps the best results were not

obtained by having the classes led by students as be-
fore. If this impression is general among those who
desire to take up the work, it is thought that all can
meet together under the leader most competent to con-
duct the class. Announcements will be made giving
opportunity to all who wish to join.
I. W. S.

er.

DE REBUS TEMPORIS,

Five brave Juniors elected Calculus.

W. L. Tenney is preaching at Amherst.

The new students are numerous and welcome.

The Faculty are on the lookout for another Professor of Latin to take Prof. Shurtleff's old place; meanwhile Prof. Hall is teaching the Junior class in Latin.

Rev. Dr. Wallace Taylor, '67 O. C., for fourteen years a missionary in Japan, gave the first Thursday lecture, on the subject, "Some features of life in Japan."

Messrs. Sweet and Carter have resumed their places in the Conservatory after a year's study in Leipsic and Berlin. Prof. Charles Doolittle has been spending the last year in Minneapolis.

In the absence of President Fairchild, who was attending the funeral of Mr. Kinney, formerly College Treasurer, Prof. Ellis delivered the usual salutatory

Junior M. has the best of references as a music turn- at the first chapel exercises.

The Freshmen elected A. P. Howland captain of their ball nine.

Oberlin's Salvation Ariny has dwindled down to a corporal's guard.

The students were glad to see Miss F. F. Rice on the chapel platform again at the opening of the term after a year's study in Berlin and travel through the Hartz Mountains and British Isles.

The Freshmen elected C. W. Sherrill, President of Dickinson and Channon are the only representatives their class, E. H. Abbott, Vice-President, Miss Alford, of '87 in the Seminary. Secretary, and C. T. Lacost, Treasurer. The choristers

A number of society men are opposed to the admis-are G. B. Siddall and C. H. Ewing. sion of philosophical Freshmen.

BORN.-On Tuesday, the 20th inst., to Mr. and Mrs. F. Anderegg, a son. Cangratulations.

The general use of the college pump in front of the chapel shows that it was greatly needed.

A young lady who contemplated joining one of the organ classes in the Conservatory, was asked which she would take, cabinet or pedal organ. She immediately replied: "0, the Estey, by all means."

The gentlemen's society room was packed with old and new students attending the Y. M. C. A. social. The cold weather has stopped the buzzing of "our Speeches were made by Prof. King and Tutor Ander esteemed contemporary" the Bumble Bee.

Mr. and Mrs. Halstead, of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, have been visiting their son, Ernest.

egg, and many new acquaintances formed.

The Juniors have elected the following class officers: President, W. J. Knight; Vice President, F. L. Allen; Secretary, Miss F. L. Billings; Treasurer, F. A: Hazeltine; Choristers, G. L. Smith and F. L. Munson.

Miss D. Hanna, directress of the ladies' gymnasium spent five weeks of the vacation studying in Boston. It is rumored that "Angel'sKisses" may be an elective H. P. Klyver, of the Senior Preparatory class, has been elected Review editor for the Preparatory depart-the rumor that a tutor has been brushing up his studies for Prepdom- at least that is an inference drawn from in that domestic line during the vacation.

ment.

Prof.-Give an example of poetry bearing directly on social evils." Third Year-"Hood's Tale of the Shirt.

SCENE.-Senior Class Room-Miss X. has just left Professor: "Miss X. may recite-oh! she's skipped!"

the room.

Phi Delta elected A. M. Hyde, Corresponding Secretary in place of C. S. Patton, who resigned on account of extra work.

The Seniors and Juniors played the first ball game(?) of the championship series. Result 17 to 0 in favor of the Jumor nine.

A Prep in Science of Government defines a limited monarchy as "that country whose ruler's reign is limited by the length of his life.

Each of the three lower college classes claims a walkover for the base-ball championship. Close and interesting games are in prospect.

The Oberlin brass band play every Saturday evening, Although they have improved greatly, there is still chance for more improvement.

Seventy-four Seniors and Fourth Years met for their first Bible class in Peters Hall last Saturday morning. President Fairchild is to instruct the class.

The Sophomore-Freshman ball game resulted in the score 10 to 4 in favor of the former. The chief features of the game were the pitching of Todd, and the catching of Freshman Howland, a veritable chip off the old block.

Last Friday afternoon the Hon. John T. Moore saw the Italian strikers near the hotel and in his speech addressed them as "my intelligent fellow-citizens of Oberlin." The "bloody Eyetalians" came near mistaking him for another contractor.

Prof. in Logic.-"Give two distinctive meaning; of the word door," Junior-"A door is either that which closes the opening or opens the closing." Junor sits down amid a silence that only the awe inspired by a giant intellect can produce.

A popular Oberlin young lady and newly fledged alumna, highly edified the depot loungers the other evening by pursuing an inoffensive and thoroughly that he was scared Prep, crying George! George! under the delusion a former classmate.

Accessions to the U. L. A. library during the vacation were excellent bound volumes of the following periodicals: The Dial, OBERLIN REVIEW, The Critic, North American Review, Century, Nineteenth Century, Eclectic Magazine, and Littell's Living Age.

The Preparatory students will hereafter go by "A Captain; and T. E. Tenney, Lieutenant. The three Straight Road to Caesar" from Macmillan's Latin remaining members were appointed a committee to Reader. Prin. G. H. White and Supt. Waite are the look up the subject of a quarter mile track on the ball authors of the new book. Unusual interest is being grounds. taken in Latin, over one hundred students beginning it this term.

The opening of Baldwin Cottage and Taicott Hall seems to have lessened the number of students who availed themselves of the cheap board at Stewart Hall. There are only forty-five table boarders. Last year there were between fifty-five and sixty. There are also two rooms still unoccupied.

The Junior class regains O. S. Kriebel, who has been teaching in Michigan. Misses Metcalf and Ainsworth enter the Junior class at Wellesley, but return to graduate with their class next year. Higgins of '89, is studying law at Terre Haute, Indiana. Bright enters Yale Theological Seminary. Matthews stays on the farm. Dick is recuperating in Colorado and Rittenberg is teaching at Coe Ridge, Ohio.

Hon. John T. Moore, Prohibition candidate for Judge At a meeting of the Preparatory Societies recently, it of Supreme Court, advocated the interests of the Prohi- was voted to postpone the first regular meeting of the bition party last Friday evening in the First church. term for one week, in order that the rooms in Society His style of delivery was conversational and although he Hall might be repaired. Cadmean appointed a compresented a number of strong arguments they were par-mittee to select and buy chairs. The two Societies are tially lost among the numerous parentheses and irrele- doing good work. New students, and all old students vant remarks. who have not done so, should identify themselves with one or the other of these Societies, as soon as their studies and time will permit.

The attendance in all departments of the institution is unprecedented. In the Conservatory there are about! two hundred and seventy-five students, thirty-five more The ladies of the class of '88 welcomed the new stuthan last year. The College proper, including the Pre-dents of the ladies' department in the Society Rooms in paratory department has one hundred and fifty more Sturges Hall on the 16th inst. Mrs. Johnston was than last year, and one hundred more than in 1883, the present. It would be difficult to tell who were the more next largest year. dazed, the members of 83 who struggled to combine new names and new faces, or the new girls, who for the of the class of '83, the question, "Is this your first term forty-sixth time, were asked by the respective members in Oberlin?" On the whole the social was a very pleasant event. We hope the new members felt the welbeen here longer. come which came from the hearts of those who have

The young ladies of the Institution now go to "Confessional" in a new commodious office at Talcott Hall, rather than in the Chapel, as was the custom last year. For the benefit of the new students and others we would suggest calling either from 11 to 12 a. m. or from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. The room is immediately at the left

of the entrance way.

It was quite a disappointment to many that Talcott Hall was not completed by the opening of the term; but the students have been very patient and considerate in waiting for the finishing work to be done. All seem very well satisfied and the promises are very favorable for a pleasant term. The dining room is full, there being 125 at the tables.

At the vibration of a musical sounding alarm in the halls of Baldwin cottage thirty-one young ladies are awakened from their slumbers to their daily duties and the comforts and delights of their chosen home. Punctually at 7 a. m. the dining room is opened. At the head of the first table to the right beams a face which we all love and revere. There ought to be and almost always are eighteen young men present. The topThe Lawn Tennis Association was re-organized Sep-ics of conversation are many and varied. From a distember 16th. Prof. E. I. Bosworth presided, and W. L. Tenney, Prof. F. G. Doolittle and J. C. McCoy were appointed committee on constitution and plans for a tournament. A. T. Hatch and A. B Spear were elected to represent Oberlin at the Toledo tournament in the doubles, and J. C. McCoy in the singles.

cussion of the delightful sensation produced by a header from a bicycle, one is transported to the art galleries and museums of the old world. One thing especially commendable is the quiet, orderly way in which the tables are served. Those who are at the cottage feel that they have found a very pleasant home.

Professor Percy B. Burnet is the new assistant Professor of German, and comes highly recommended from Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind., where he has been teaching for the last year with marked success. Professor Burnet was graduated from Indiana University in 84, and spent the two following years in Leipsic perfecting himself in languages where he will return next year to continue his studies. His appointteaching force in the department of modern languages. Professor Burnet has made a good impression and is very popular among his pupils, both as a teacher and as a man.

The north wing of Warner Hall is being built by contractor Decker, who promises to complete it by September 1, 1888. The first floor will be used as a room for concert, recitals, lectures, etc., and have a seating capacity of 700. The two upper floors will be devoted to practice rooms and will be heated with steam, supplied with elevator and other improvements. A benefit concert was given in Washington, Septem-ment looks forward to a permanent addition to the ber 14th, for Wm. Cook, whom lovers of music here will remember. The entertainment was a complete success. There were 1,000 enthusiastic people in the audience. Fred Douglass was present and Recorder Trotter introduced the young violinist. The latter sailed for Germany on the 15th to continue his musical work.

Seven out of thirty-five Oberlin wheelmen met in French Hall, last Wednesday evening, and voted each other into office. F. B. Carpenter, is President; R. S. Goldsbury, Secretary and Treasurer; F. B. Mason,

At the Toledo tournament last Monday, J. C. McCoy played against Dr. W. Coldham in the single. McCoy made use of a number of serves very puzzling to Mr. Coldham who confined himself to the drive. The score was: 1st set, McCoy 9, Coldham 7; 2nd, McCoy 7, Coldham 5; 3rd, McCoy 8, Coldham 6. In the doubles Spear and Hatch played the old net game which puz

zled the Coldham brothers who play back. On account of the lateness of the hour the doubles were left unfinished. Score: 1st set, Oberlin 4; Toledo 6; 2nd, Oberlin 4, Toledo 5. From the first the playing was close and interesting. The return game was to have been played Saturday, but was postponed a week on account of the condition of the grounds. The Oberlin boys will then stand a better chance, being more used to clay courts than Toledo turf courts.

If ever there was a thoroughly busy and enthusias tic body of men, it is the Faculty of the Seminary. The attendance has trebled in three years, growing from 39 to 90. Not only has the growth been marvelous, but it has also been solid and not induced by any claptrap or lowering of the standard. On the other hand the standard in the Classical course has been raised. There are 30 Juniors in this course. Prof. Bosworth has charge of the 20 Juniors in the English course, and his work in this department cannot be too highly commended. If appearances go for anything the men in the "short-cut" course have an abundance of the two chief qualifications necessary for entrance to that course, namely, consecration and hard common sense. Prof. Leadingham is having equal success in the Slavic department. Ten men are now in this department as against six last year. Eight of these with unpronounceable names, are recruited from the Bohemian and Polish emigrants to this country and were sent here by Dr. Schauffler, of Cleveland, the other two Mr. Musil and Mr. Wrbitzsky have had a course of three years at the evangelist at St. Crishona near Basel, Switzerland.

PERSONALS.

WHAT HAS BECOME OF '87.
Classical.

Atwater was in Oberlin during the summer. teaching Greek and Latin in Ada Normal.

Is

Baker is secretary of a ship-building firm, West Bay City, Mich.

Channon went to Union. Will study in Seminary. Clark was a carpenter. Will study in the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland.

Clapp was sick; became a railroad man and "got sick" again. Studies civil engineering at Cornell this year. Comstock became a railroad man but the hot weather made him succumb. He is now at his home.

Currier went up the lakes. Will become book-keeper of the Decatur, Ala., rolling mills.

Dickinson is studying in the Seminary.

Dubs is still in Germany.

Fairfield and Hendee edit the Eaton Rapids Journal,
Wisconsin.

Chamberlain studied French and German at Oswego,
N. Y. Will teach in the College and study theology.
Howland was a book-agent (for a week).
Harvard this year.

Lambright is teaching in Prescott, Arizona.
Martin is studying theology at Yale.

Goes to

Nichols has farmed it during the summer but will

study medicine in Cleveland this winter.

Rowe farmed and visited. Went into a railroad office in Illinois and at latest report intends to study theology at Yale.

Sheldon was in the School for Christian Workers,

Mrs. Grace Smith nee Miss Allyn, is in Oberlin.
Miss Barnard is teaching in the public schools.
Miss Bell goes to Africa as a missionary.
Miss Cahill teaches near Elyria.
Miss Cobb is teaching in Columbus.
Miss Conant, doing housework at her home.
Miss Dudley, teaching at Kidder, Mo.
Miss Harwood at home, San Diego, Cal.
Miss Hildrup is in Oberlin.

Miss Lewis has moved to Columbus.

Miss McClelland is teaching at her home, Barnesville, Ohio.

Miss McLennan teaches at Courtland.

Miss McWade teaches in Columbus.

Miss Mead is "playing." Will teach in the spring.
Miss Morley is at home.

Miss North is teaching in Minneapolis, Minn.
Miss Spear is at home.

Miss Todd teaches at Wakeman.

Miss Treat is at her home.

Miss Wells is a missionary in Turkey.
Miss Whitlock teaches at Chagrin Falls.

Conservatory.

Miss Hamilton and Miss Johnson have charge of the
Galesburg, Ill., Conservatory.

Miss Pierson is teaching at Altoona, Pa.
Miss Harrington is teaching at Lebanon College, Ky.
Miss Potwin is studying in Europe.

THE WHATS AND WHERES OF '88.
Classical.

Abbott-Sedentary occupation.

Brown-Worked six weeks and bummed eight.
Bennett-Registers as S. O. T. Son of Toil.
Case-Walked over Tennessee.

Chamberlain-Mineralogically engaged.

Dennis-Tamped dirt, Bowers says.
Fuller-Pleasant work.

Hayes-At Heyse's in Cleveland.

Hyde-Variously employed.

Love-Standard Oil Company's work.
Luethi-Summer school.

McRoberts-Lubricated his valve de throttle with

Springfield, Mass. Has charge of the Cleveland Y. M.Summit county ozone, et cetera.

C. A. gymnasium.

Smith was at home during vacation. Goes to Johns Hopkins to study chemistry.

Phillips-Sick, study, read, worked, ate some.

Stevens-Taking in Dakota and health.

Waller-Nobody's business (Receipt book.)