Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 270 of the 1907 volume:

THE MONMOUTH COLLEGE VELINGS PUBLISHED BY JUNIOR CLASS R 417s ' : t 19 7 . VOLUME XIV mlitrlr lins rrndrrrd fifty urars nf srrxiirr to its stiirirnts. the rlrtss nf 19D7 drriimtrs this «Dli:mr. OUR TRIS T. Soul dreams, foregleams the notC ' tones soft and low Come o ' er the folds of time with ceaseless flow; To ' day as a half century ago The pipes of Pan melodious blow. And kindred hearts aglow Roll back the clear echo, We grow! we grow. Drift cloud or loud --how peals the day to you? The storm-shower purples the pale earth new. The sun-gold fashions the landscape ' s hue. And the wind-wave silvers the grass with dew. Still the pipes ring true, ' There is work to do. Nor rue, nor rue. Forbears and heirs Time ' s story is foretold; The distant notes like visions backward rolled; This temple ' s rising dome will ere behold Unwearied faith and love in deeds unfold. Build, then, like those of old. Spending your life ' s best gold. As bold, as bold. L. E. R. THE 1907 RAVELINGS STAFF. EDITORS-IN-CHIEF. C. S PEACOCK. M. E. SENSEMAN, BUSINESS MANAGERS. W T TURNBULL C ARCH OWEN, JAMES McCOY. DEPARTMENTS. College- ' Carl Croson. Alumni ' -Florcnce Findley, Wallace Black. Literary- ' Nora Scanrlin, Homer Campbell, Social ' -Katherine Anderson. Athletics- -Eugene Nixon, Chrcnology--Mable Cowden, John Martin. Miscellaneous ' -Louis Reed, Wallace Turnbull, John Martin, Millie Bigger. Art--Ross Moore. John Hamilton. Monmouth College. pjHILE Monmouth Wis yet a village and five years beforethe United Presbyterian Denomination war- formed. Rev. J. C. Porter, then pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian at Cedar Creek; stopped at the court house in Monmouth on his way to a meeting of presbytery, at Clayton. While at the court house he stated that Presbytery would very likely consider the question of an academy, to be located in this part of the country, and that if Monmouth wanted such a school, she should offer some inducement. A subscription sheet was started at once and within two or three hours $1,150 were subscribed for the proposed acad.my. Presbytery considered Monmouth ' s proposition favorably, and thus began Monmouth College. The academy opened the first Monday of November 1853, with Rev. J, R. Brown as principal and twenty-one students enrolled, A few months later it was combined with a school held by Prof Jenks in the basement of the Presbyterian church. The academy grew with the town and within two years the propositicn was considered to raise it to the rank of a college, and September 3, 1856 found the school no longer an academy but a CDllege, with Rev. David A. Wallace of Boston, Mass., as it ' s President. The inaugural exercises of our first President were conducted in Brown ' s Grove which became the scene of many such great college exercises. The next college building was completed in November of 1856, and for twenty years was used for regular college work Later it served in the capacity of a factory for the Maple City Soap Works. In I860 Messrs. A. Y. and David Graham donated the greater part of the present campus amounting to ten acres, together with twenty-five acres in lots. With the money realized from the sale of these lots, a building fund was started, and June 24, 1863 a part of the present building was ready for occupancy. It was then 54 by 80 feet, four stories high containing fifteen rooms. The structure was made of brick, which were burned on the grounds. With the growth of the institution, the accommodations proved too cramped and ten years later an addition 54 by 63 feet was built making the present college building, consisting of twenty-four rooms, besides basement, and representing donations amounting to $32,500, The College campus is one of the beautiful spots in Monmouth, although as yet it has not received the touch of the landscape gardener. Its rustic beauty is an inspiration. Standing on the South East corner of the campus, facing BroadA ay, is the house built in 1885 to be used as a home for the President In 1897 a large brick auditorium, with a seating capacity of some 800. was built on the South West corner. Directly behind the auditorium is the college gymnasium erected in 1900. Thus has the institution grown in 50 years, from an academy occupying eight rooms m all. to a college with four large and well equipped buildings on a campus of about fifteen acres. Whatever may be the advantage in equipment of buildings, no school can prosper, without an able faculty and with such a one Monmouth College is certainly blessed. From a faculty of three, fifty years ago; consisting of Dr. Walllace, President; P ev. J. C. Brown, Professor of languages and Kev. Marion Morrison professor of mathmetics; the faculty has nc grown to twenty-three professors and instructors. Since the founding of the institution 1 15 professors and instructors have been employed, seventy of these have come from cur o vn United Presbyterian denomination, forty-four from among the alumni of the college. Of these Dr. S. P . Lyons, of the class cf ' 77 has served a term as president, and Dr. T. H. McMichael of the class of ' 86 now serving the college in that capacity. There have been in all but four presidents. The first administration was under Dr. Wallace, the second under Dr. McMichaei, the third under Dr. S. K. Lyons, and rhe present one under Dr. T. H. McMichael. a son of the former president. Thus tvvo of Monmouth ' s four presidents have been trained within her own walls. At present ihercare offered seven groups or courses of study, each leading to a degree of Bachelor of Arts. In each group 305 weeks of work are specified and required. In order to be graduated in any group, ihe student must add to these 305 weeks 125 weeks of elective work. In her work of fifty years. Monmouth has sent forth from her walls 1,250 graduates, who have gene cut to various walks of life. 141 have devoted themselves to the business world, 85 are lawyers, 294 are preachers, 143 have devoted themselves to teaching. 75 minister to the sick and needy as physicians, at least 23 have gone as foreign missionaries, 36 are professors in colleges and State Institutions, seven have served terms as college presidents, two as professors in theological seminaries, twelve are at present in the service of the United States Government. Others have helped govern this great nation in the capacity of congressmen and senators. One hundred and seventy have passed away, eleven of whom v ' ere killed in battle. Besides these who have gone forth with their diplomas, some 9000 have been students in either the academic or college departments. The original control of the academy from which Monmouth College grew, was by a board of trustees appointed by the Second Illinois Presbytery of the Associate Rerormed Synod of Illinois upon condition that it be raised to the rank of a college. This offer was accepted and the board of trustees increased. The synod then included the entire northwest territory. Since then the synods of Iowa, Nebraska, and the second synod, in- eluding the territory of Indiana and Western Ohio, have been identified with the maintainence of the college. The presbyteries of Keokuk, Cedar Rapids, and Le Claire in Iowa and the Alumni Association of the college have shared its responsibilities. At present the college is under the control of the synods of Illinois and Nebraska, the second synod, the Presbyteries of Keokuk, Cedar Rapids, and Le Claire, and the alumni association. At the time of the incorporation of the college, Feb. 16, 1857. the corporate powers were vested in a board of trustees. This power was, on March 12, 1869 by an amendment to the charter, vested in a senate which consists of directors outside of Monmouth and trustees who compose the local board of control. The senate convened in joint session, meets annually. The trustees meet monthly. Such in brief is the history of Monmouth College. Great as have been her achievements, still greater are her possibilities. So let us one and all. Senate, Faculty, Alumni and Students forget those things which are behind and press toward the prize of a greater and more efficient Mcnmouth College, During the past year Monmouth has been the recipient of several valuable gifts. Among these the five acre lot adjoining the campus on the north, ' as given by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Brereton. Another valuable gift vja.s that of Andrew Carnegie, who gave $30,000 for the building of a library provided that amount could be raised to equip and maintain it. Of the $30,000 necessary to receive this gift $18,250 have been received and it is hoped that the ground for the new library may be broken this summer. It is the plan at present to build it about 100 feet west of the main building. The fund for the Wallace Memorial (the girls dormitory) is being sibscribed by the classes up to ' 80 as that was the last class who entered under Dr. Wallace. The classes since 80 are giving toward the erection of a new Science Hall. Both these buildings are however some ' what in the distance. It is proposed to locate the dormitory on the Brereton lot facing North 9th St. The Science Hall will likely be placed just east of the main building, corresponding to the library on the west. The college authorities are ' seeking, with some encouragement, men who will endow difl srent school.% such as a school of music, of science, of oratory and public speaking, of art, and also the academic department. In the erection of the new buildings every class will have an opportunity to give something to the future equip ' p-ent of the college. May the work not lag. For want of funds, but long may the red and white wave o ' er cur heads and hearts, and may generations of students yet to come, swell her numbers and increase her fame. Then: — Here ' s to Monmouth College With her wisdom and her knowledge; Drink her down. Drink her down. Drink her down. down. down. MONMOUTH ' S PRESIDENTS. Monmouth ' s Seml-Centennial. |]IFTY years of work completed. This the record of Mon- mouth College. Such a record surely calls for something more than passingnotice. Who was the first to suggest a Semi-centennial celebration may be a question hard to settle. Nor does it matter much. The first formal action toward such a celebration was taken by the Senate in June 1903. THE COMMITTEE. At that time a committee was appointed to be known as the Semi ' Centennial Committee. It was made up as follows: T. H. Mc- Michael, Chairman; W. J. Buchanan, Secy.; Mrs. J. C. Kilgore, Rev. J. F. Jamieson, C. F. Buck, Miss Alice Winbigler, Miss Florabel Patterson and Prof. |. H. McMillan. This com mittee after careful deliberation announced its plans. These provided for new buildings, increased endowment and a splen- did jubilee celebration. MEMORIAL BUILDINGS. It seemed fitting that the buildings be of a memorial character, pre- serving the names of the two whom Monmouth above all others delights to honor— Dr. David A. Wallace and Dr. |. B. McMichael. These buildings have not yet altogether materialized but the Alumni have taken hold of the project with commendable zeal and already quite a fund has been raised. Indeed so hearty has been the response that ths committee confidently believes that before long Wallace Hall of residence for young Ladies and McMichael Science Hall will be part of the equipment of Monmouth College. INCREASED ENDOWMENT The more machinery the more power there must be to run it. The committee ' s plans provide therefore for increased endowment. In the carrying out of this part of the plan some progress has been made. Some half dozen endowed scholarships, each represenii.ng a gift of $1000 have been secured while the committees plans for nevv buildings were maturing there came from Mr. Andre A Carnegie the offer of a $30,000 Library Building provided $30,000 of new endowment be raised for its maintenance. Toward this $20,000 have already been subscribed. Here might be mentioned also the gift of a three acre tract of land just north of the old campus and valued at $3,000. The intention is to make this the site of Wallace Hall. JUBILEE CELEBRATION. The third feature of the committee ' s plan provided for a jubilee ce ebration to be held during Commencement week, 1 906. It has been the hope o the committee in all its p ' anning to make this the grardest homecoming time Monmouth has ever known. To this end com- munication has been ope ned up with every member of the Alumni and with old students so far as possible. Monmouth ' s children have scattered far from the old home. Many of them have attained high rank and distinction. But wherever they have gone and to whatever heights they have attained, they have remained true to their Alma Mater. As this is written, many of them, doubtless seeing visions of the old halls and the old haunts, and are longing for them, much as Goldsmith longed for the scenes of his earlier days. In all my wanderings ' round this world of care. in all my griefs — and God has given me my share, 1 still had hopes, my latest hours to crown. Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down. Indeed there lies before me just now a le:ter from one of the busiest and most highly honored of these in which he says I am afraid 1 shall not give very close attention to oral arguments that day as I know my heart will be in old Monmouth. Many VA ill be present in body, others in heart only, but however present may the influence of the old college on the prairies touch again all who have walked her halls and listened for the sound of her bell. Wherever Monmouth s children may bs on Tuesday and Wednesday, June fifth and sixth, may they pause and give a thought to and breathe a prayer for their Alma Mater. Program. CF SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF MONMOUTH COLLEGE, 1906. MONDAY, JUNE THE FOURTH. 8:00 P. M. REUNION OF CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS, TUESDAY, JUNE THE FIFTH— HISTO?,ICAL DAY, 9:00 A. M. Class Re ' jnions 2:00 P. M. Procession of Students and Alumni Old Hundred Invocation Piano Solo -,-,--,, Prof. Harry B. Keeler Roll Call of Classes ,,.,,,, Prof Russell Graham College Song Address — Monmouth ' s Founders , , , , Hon. D. P. Phelps. ' 62. Address- Dr. D. A. Wallace and His Work - Major R, W. McClaughry, ' 60. Address - Dr. J. B. McMichael and His Work - Mrs, Eva Clark Waid, ' 87 College Song Announcements Auld Lang Syne - - ,,,,,, Audience. 8:00 P. M. Class Play — Midsummer Night ' s Dream . WEDNESDAY. JUNE THE SIXTH- JUBILEE DAY. 9:00 A. M. Society Reunions 2:00 p. M. Procession of Students. Alumni, Faculiy. Senators and Guests. Orchestra Invocation Piano Solo --.-,--,- Miss Emily Thomas Congratulatory Creetir.gs — On behalf cf Higher Education President Chas. F Thwing D. D., LL. D., cf Western Reserve University. On behalf of Higher Education cf Women Miss Mary A Blood. President of Columbia College of Expression. OrcheMra On behalf of State Univeisi ties President Edmund J James LL. D cf University of Illinois. On behalf of Colleges President W. P. Kane D. D. Class of 71 of Wabash College. Solo .,.,..,..- Miss Maud Krollman. On behalf of the State of Illinois His Excellency Governor Chas. E. Deneen On behalf of the Nation Hen. T. P Shonts LL. D. Class of 76 Chairman of Isthmian Canal Commission Appointed by President Koosevelt as his Kepre- sentative. Solo .,.-,-,,.-. Royal Hughes On behalf of the Alumni Judge Silas Porter, Class of ' 79 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court o Kansas. America , , , , . , , Audience. 6:U0 P. M. Alumni Banquet THURSDAY. JUNE THE SEVENTH- COMMENCEMENT DAY. 10:00 A. M. Commencement Address President Chas. F. Thwing D. D., LL. D., of Western Reserve University. COLLEGE OF TO-DAY. THE Monmouth College Faculty THOMAS HANNA McMICHAEL Presid nr. A B. Monmouth College, 1886: A, M., ibid. 1889: B. D., Xenia Seminary, 1890: D. D„ Westmmster CoKege, 1903. P.USSELL GRAHAM, Vice President and Professor of Social Science. 513 North Ninth Street. A. B, Monmouth College, 1870; A. M, ibid, 1873; B. D., Xenia Theological Sem;na:y. 1873: D. D. Westminster College. 1893. JOHN HENRY McMILLAN. Professor of Latin, 815 East Broadway. A. B.. Indiana State University, 1874: A. M.. ibid, 1877; graduate student University of Chicago, 1894; Litt. D., Western University of Pennsylvania, 1897. JOHN NESBIT SWAN, Pressly Professor of Chemistry and Physics, 427 North Third Street. A. B., Westminster College, 1886; A. M, ibii, 1889: graduate student lohns Hopkins University, 1888 ' 89: 1891-93: Ph. D,, ibid, 1893. LUTHER EMERSON ROBINSON, Professor of English, 1032 Eist Boston Avenue. A. B. Drury College, 1894: A M. ibid, 1897: graduate student University cf Chicago. 1900. ALICE WINBIGLER, Professor cf Mathematics and Astronomy, 808 East Second Avenue. B. S.. Monmouth College, 1877: A. M, ibid, 1894: student of Astronomy University of Chicago. 1894, ibid, I89i FLORABEL PATTERSON. Law ProfessDr of History, 328 South Eighth Street. A. M. Penn College. 1896: student in Hmory Michigan University, 1891-92. THOMAS BEVERIDGE GLASS, Professcrof Greek, 715 East Archer Avenue. A B . Monmouth College, 1892; graduate student Univer s.ty of Chicago, 1895-H7 and 1898-00: Fellow in Greek, 189 ' .)- 1900. GEORGE HERBERT BRETNALL. Instructor in Biolog, ' , 304 North Mam Street A, B. Cornell College (lowa 1896; A. M. ibid. 1897; graduate student University of Chicago, 1901 - ' 02. FRED COLE HICKS, Instrucror in Modern Languages, Ph. B, Cornell College ( lowa 1 896; graduate student in German and French at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, 18S8 ' I901; University scholar, 1899- 1900: Fellow in German, 1900-1901; Ph D-, ibid. 1901. THOMAS C McCRACKEN, Instructor in Latin. A. B., Monmouth College, 1901 GERTRUDE D HENDERSON, m Oratory and Physical Culture; 10 U Columbia College of Expression, 1902; Graduate Sti dent Chicago School of Physical Expressicn. ELANCHE MORROW, Instructor in English. A. B. Monmouth College, 18 ' lOHN S. BATES, Instructor in General Engineering, Drawing. S in Engineering Department University of Illii 1902. iSASELLE FkANKIN IRWIN instructor in English. A. ' . Monmouth College, 1903; graduate student Leland Stanford Jr. University, 1903- ' 04; graduate student University of California, 1904. ■tr- ALICE JEANETTE TINKER. Instructor in Mathematics and History. A. B. Monmouth College, 1905. O. CLIFFOKD EELL, Athletic Director and Football Ccach_- University of !l!inois. W I BUCHANAN. Business Manager. WALTER FISKE BLOOD, Leominster, Mass, History Wesleyan Academy — Entered col- lege 1903, Eccritean, Eccritean president winter 1906. BEI THA BELLE CAMPBELL, Newton, Iowa. deek. Newton High School Entered col- lege 1902, Aletheorian, Aletheo- rean president, winter 1905: Cabinet Y. W. C. A ■05- ' 06: 1906 Junior-Senior banquet Com.; 1906 Ravelings ' S;tafF 1906 Oracle Board. MILDRED A. GILMEK, Colfax, 1 II. Greek. Hedding College Prep Department — Entered college 1902. Aletheo- rian; Basket Ball Team ' 02- ' 03- •04- ' 05, Captain ' 05; 1906 Ravelings ' Staff: 1906 Oracle ESTHER L ' LLIAN DAME, Princeton, Ind. Mathematics. Kings ' High School — Entered Mon- mouth 1902, A. 3. L, Phi Delta Sigm ; A 3. L president spring 1906; Associate Editor ' 06 Ravelingi ' . FANNIE CHLOE HICKS, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, English, Cornell Academy, Cornell College — Entered Monmouih 1902, Aleth- eorean; Aietheorian president ■02- ' 03- ' 04: Cabinet Y. W, C, A. ■04- ' 05, F, KAY ELDER Monmouth, III. History, Albia High School - Entered college 1902, Philo: Secretary Oratori- cal Association ' 04- ' 05; Athle- tic Board ' 04; Joint Society Com. ■03- ' 04; ■04- ' 05; 3rd Bible Rendition Contest ' 06: Class President winter ' 04; 1906 Ravelings ' Staff; Managing Editor 1906 Oracle: Class Orator. NELLIE JEAN HYER, Kewanee, Mathematics. Toulon Academy — Entered coll( 1903, Aietheorian, W, W, HICKMAN, Indianola Mathematics. Simpson College — Ent ered mouth 1905, Philo, HERBERT RENTOUL CLARK, Princeton. Ind. Mathematics. Princeton High School — Entered col ' lege 1902, Eccriiean: Eccritean Debate 1906; Toastmaster Ec- critean Peanut Danquet 1906: Eccritean president fall 1905: 1906 Ravelings ' Staff; 1906 Junior-Senior banquet Com Football team ' 02- ' 03- ' 04;Cap tain ' 04. JAMES FREDERICK LE CLERE, Zvvingle. Iowa. Physical Science. Monmouth College Prep. School ' 99, Philo: Cabinet Y. M. C A. ' 05- ' 06; Class president fall ' 05; Foot- ball Team ■01- ' 02- ' 03- ' 04- ' 05. Captain ' 05: Ass ' t. Business Manager 1906 Ravel. ngs: 1906 O.-acle Board: 1906 Class Play. ' 06. HENRY FRANK DRIEMEYER. Pinckneyville, III History. Pinckneyville High School - Entered college 1902, Eccritean; Eccri- tean president spring 1906: 1906 Class Play. NANCY MARIE IRWIN. Mcnmouih. III. Latin Monmouth Hi.i h School — Entered college 1901, A. D. L.: Kappa Alpha Sigma: A. u. L. presi- dent fall ' 05: 1906 Ravelings ' Staff: 1906 Oracle Board, FKANCES MAE LANPHERE, Kirkwood, ill. English, Monmouth High School — Entered college 1902, A. B. L : A. B. L. Diplomi president 1905; 1906 Junior ' Scnior banquet Com.; German Club president ' 06; 1906 Kavelings ' StafF. ' 06. THEODORA MAY M ' KELVEY, Allegheney, Pa, Greek. Penn. Cojleg? for Women Prep. School -Entered College 1903, A. B. L, Phi Delta Sigma; Cabi- net Y. M. C. A. ' OJ- ' Oe; A. B. L. president fall ' 05; 1906 Junior-Senior banquet Com.; 1906 Ravelings StafF; JOHN SMILEY LANT, Stronghur;t, III, Physical Science. Stronghurst High School -- Entered college 1899, Philo: 1906 Oracle StafF. CLYDE EDWIN MATSON, Mcnmcuth, 111. Mathematics. Monmouth High School - Entered College 1902; Eccritean class president Fall 1903; Joint Com.; ' 04- ' 05; Eccritean Orator 1906; Editor 1905 Kavelings. FRANK RAYMLEAN. Greek. Al :xis High School - Entered Mon- mouth 1901, Philo: Philo De- claimer ■04:Philo Dsbiter ' 05: 1906 avelings Staff: 1906, Oracle Board. LUELLA FULLER OLIVER, Toulon, 111. Latin. Toulon Academy - Entered Mon- mouth College 1903. A. B. L. ' 06. EVA MILLEN, Monmouth, III. Latin. Monmouth High School - Entered College 1901, A. B. L EMMA PIFFER, Simpson College- -Entered mouth 1905, Aletheorian. ANNA MAFkY PINKERTON, Monmouth, ILL. History, Monmouth High School— Entered College 1901. A, B, L,; 1st Place Bible Rendition Contest 1905, A, B.L, president fall ' 05, 1906 Ravelings ' Staff. ADA KATHERINE ST, CLAIR, Mt, Auburn, Iowa, History. Telford Collegiate Academy — En- tered college 1902, Aletheorian Y. W. C. A. Cabinet ■03- ' 04: Alethecrian president ' 04- ' 05, ETHEL POP-TEK, Alexis, liL Latin, Monmouth College Prep, School, 1901, Aletheorian; Aletheorian president fall ' 05: Girls ' basket ball team ' 05, JAMES RUTHERFORD RHODES, Newton, Iowa. Greek. Newton High School — Entered col- lege 1902, Philo: Philo De- claimer ' 05; Cabinet Y. M. C. A., ■05- ' 06; 1906 Junior-Senior Banquet Com.; Baseball Team ' 05; Senior President winter term; Business Manager ' 06 Ravelings; Managing Editor 1906 Oracle STEPHEN FRED SHARPE. Idaville, Ind. History. Monmouth College Prep. School, 1897, Philo: Philo Declaimer 1906: Cabinet Y, M. C. A. ' 04 05: J int Society Coin. ' 03-04. ' 06. FERN THOMPSON Monmouth, 111, English. ,Mon mouth College Prep School 1900, Alethecrian Y. W. C. A. Cabinet ' 05- ' 05: 1906 Junior- Senior banquet Com : Aletheo- rian president fall ' 05 spring ' 05. JOHN WILLIAM ROBINSON, Monmouth, 111. History. Entered College 1900 — Eccritean; Eccritean Diploma President ' 05. SAMUEL PICKENS. Monmouth, 111. History. Simpson College — Entered Mon- mouth 1904, Philo: Y. M. C. A. Cabinet ' 05- ' 06. LENA BLANCHE WILSON. Morning Sun. Iowa English. ■Morning Sun High School — Entered College 1901, A. B. L Kappa Alpha Sigma; A. B. L. president inte ' 06; 1906 Junior-Senior banquet Com. ; 1906 Ravelings Staff EDNA M WHITEHILL, Hepburn, lovva Latin. Washington Academy — Entered College 1901, A. B. L. president 1906. ' 06. STELLA MILLEPs WILEY. Dayton, Ohio, Creek. Antioch College— Entered Mon- mouth 1904, Aletheorian Cabi- net Y. W. C. A ' 05; 1°06 Oracle Board. WILLIAM JAMES STEVENSON. Monmouth, !ll. English. Monmouth High School - Entered College 1902, Eccritean; Ec- critean president vv ' inter 1906; Eccritean Essayist 1906; Athle- tic Board 1905; Track team 1905; ' 06 Junior-Senior ban- Com.; Ass ' t. Manager ' 06 Ravellings; Business Manager ' 06 Class Play. Senior History. IT IS sometimes difficult for the historian to write a pleasing narrative without recourse to fiction, yet v. here such a class as that which bids farewell to the scenes of old Monmouth, this year, is presented f or literary treatment, no such embellishments are necessary. A simple statement of the unadorned facts, will, without doubt fill the mind of the reader with awe and admiration for what has proved a record-breaking class. It would take volumes to relate the full history of our four year ' s career of conquest and glory, so in the limited space at her command, we can mention only a few of the many famous incidents. In the fall of 1902- unusual preparations were made by the faculty for ths reception of the incoming class, nor were their expecta- tions disappointed. In numbers we perhaps did not head the list of Freshman classes, but in quality — well Monmouth College congratulated herself in the fine material she had acquired. The faculty settled themselves comfortably in their upholstered desk chairs secure in the thought that as long as ' 06 was on deck, affairs would move softly and smoothly along and fair play would be assured to all. Nor was their confidence misplaced On the occasion of our first social when the Sophomores rudely helped themselves to our refreshments we did not quarrel and dispute noisily over the matter, but gently drew all of their number within our doors and treated him in so royal a way that he later determined to enter our ranks When the proper time arrived for a display of bravery and loyalty our boys were all there. Dismay entered the hearts of the Sophomore board as they saw their men vanquished, their pole laid low and their vaunted colors torn shred from shred to the accompaniment of the loyal cheers of the girls of ' 06. Many were the pleasant evenings we spent together as a class that year. The country round about re-echoed with the songs and shouts of our moonlight revels. But all these were eclipsed by the glories of our banquet, needless to say the most successful ever attended by a Freshman class. The combined efforts of all the upper-classmen were not sufficient to keep any of our number from the scene of festivities. Our Sophomore year opened auspiciously with a full class-roll and much display of loyalty of spirit The Freshmen proved a meek and quiet foe and at their first social surrendered several of their members to our chastising hand. As a class we held to the old maxim All work and no play makes lack a dull boy. The year was marked for the nnmber and success of the social happenings. Socials, poverty and otherwise, leap- year parties, moonlight picnics, and other afl airs of a similar nature drew us more closely together in the bond of fellowship. Unfortunately dread disease thinned our ranks during the year and we were left with a scarcity of warriors during the troublous times of the twenty second. But what our men lacked in numbers they made up in brain power. Strategy replaced brute force and bitterly did the Freshmen rue it. During our junior year we bravely attended to every duly. We buried the tomahawk and relegated to under-class men the paint and color pole, while we gave to the faculty that in tellectual and moral support so necessary to the succassful conducting of such a high grade institution as Monmouth College. Much of our time was devoted to getting out a Ravelings, never surpassed in the history of that publication. Rewards were conferred where deserved and roasts distributed with a just and impartial hand, Our only regret is that we caused the faculty to overwork in inscribing innumerable A ' s on those little home-going messengers in which we all take such a vivid interest. Our Senior year has been spent in meditation and study, in deep research and preparation for those mighty volumes to be installed in the new Carnegie library at our graduation. Nor has the social side of college life been entirely neglected. Our Senior dignity was rela.xed for an eveni ig at the home one of our members during the fall term. The intellectual status of the cla ss was thoroughly tested by a set of examination questions dealing with vital problems and some surprising grades were recorded. Again on the twenty- second of February, the old gym resounded with the shouts of the merry makers as we prepared and devoured the most sumptuous banquet class ever sat down to. Time fled quickly during the telling of jokes, recalling ancient history, and the performance of various amusing stunts. And now the time has come for us to say goodbye to college scenes and friends, carrying out into the world with us the memories of many happy days together. The drama of college life has been played. Only a few more weeks and we will take up our pans in that greater play where all the world ' s a stage and al the men and vvomen players in it. The play is done, the curtain falls. Hero and villains trade their parts The rich scenes change to smoky walls The lovers e ' en forget their hearts. And so it is with life — a play Made tragedy or farce at will. Who knows but as the mourners weep T ' e dead find changes greater still. IJUHIDRI Junior Roll. GERTRUDE ANDERSON KATHERINE ANDERSON MILLIE BIGGER WALLACE BLACK HOMER CAMPBELL lAMES CLARK ETHEL COLLINS MABEL COWDEN GRACE DAVIDSON GRACE DUPF ETHEL DOWNING FLORENCE FINDLEY WALTER GETTY JOHN HAMILTON THOMAS HAMILTON FRANK HILL RUTH lOHNSON WEB JOHNSTON lOHN MARTIN lAMES McCOY WALTER McMillan ROSS MOORE ANNIS MARSHALL EUGENE NIXON PIERRE NORWOOD ARCH OWEN SHELLER PEACOCK JOE PICKEN LOU;SE RE D NORA SCANTLIN ETHEL SENSEMAN THOMAS SMITH ZENAS SPICER WILL TUPsNBULL WALLACE TURNBULL THE PALMER-LIVINGSTON CUP, Won by the class of ' 07. SOPHOMORI Sophomore History. N THIS work ' a-day world of ours, we find our elves very prcne to judge indivic ' uals and or- ganizations by the number rather than by the quality of their achievements. Judging by quality or by quantity, the class of ' 08 has not been slow in contributing her share of history to the annals of Monmouth College. Doubtless it is unnecessary to recount the valorous deeds of our Freshman year, but History calls for facts, and facis you shall have. All remember the tragedy enacted en the ccrner cf Sixth Street and Euclid Avenue, v hen three worthy Sophomores nearly lost their lives. The cause was a wonby one. and we honor the manliness with which they met defeat. But we did think on them with pity about midnight of the same night. The refrain of a certain well ' known song kept coming into our minds, Where is My Wandering Boy To ' night ' Success proved herself the same trusty ally later, when the Sophomore colors were flaunted in our very faces. But by the use of brain, brawn, wire clippers and climbers, the rival colors were soon supplanted by our own loved orange and black. The Event of the year, however, was one glorious banquet, given in honor of ' George. Slowly but surely our hosts began to gather. From countryside and fireside, village and hamlet they came, each greeted with a rush of welcome from interested friends among the students, some even climbing over flights of stairs, the better to welcome the advancing victors. The plans for the evening were successfully carried out. The hours flew by in verse and song and the grey dawn soon came with admonition seen. and we realized that the event of our Freshman year had now become a part of the history of Monmouth College. With such deeds to ponder over during the few short summer weeks, sma ' l wonder that we returned Vv iih courage doubled and determination strong as ever. Friends really began to doubt our ability to maintain the reputation we had establi hed. Slo A Iy the weeks passed. Nothing doing, they said. About six o ' clock one morning students were awakened by the loud and ominous clang of the college bell Kushing to the campus, they were met by a very significant array of svarriors. Much more significant indeed, was the pole resplendent in orange and black, which seemed to be the centre of attraction, and around which presently the tide of battle surged. The evening fight was a fierce one, but at the end of the struggle the orange and black could be seen still floating triumphantly above our heads. Do not think that class afi airs alone have absorbed all of our attention. A fair share of our time has been taken up in working lessons and working the faculty on the side. We would add. by way cf comment, that either of these tasks draw heavily on the resourcesof the average college student, but practice has helped to perfect us in this art, as in all else. About the 22 of February we had a fierce struggle with conscience, but duty soon conquered and study was given up for the time being It is the littia sacrifices that we are so often called upon to make that mould our characters, and much as we missed the pleasures of the recitation room, the reward came v hen victory came, and the sight of the shepherdless flock at Murdock ' s Hall, fully compensated for It all. We must not fail to mention the literary honors which have been ours. Not only on the athletic field, and in Faculty, but in the field of letters we have taken a prominent plac2. Some of ou: members promise to become famous verse ' makers, still others are honoring the.mselves. the societies to which they belong, and ihg college whose interests are their own, in literary achievements of various kinds. Those of us who cannot shine, ar- content to glimmer, and together forming • constellation, we are sending our light down through the intervening space of future history, with the altruistic desire to give, give, give. But good-bye again. With the same hope for the future and the same pride in the past we will leave you. Will call about the same time next year, ' 08. Freshman History. m A AIL ! CLASS of ' 09. The wheel of fortune has turned and we are at Monmcuth College. Don ' t know why. guess we just come. No class has ever entered the portals of Monmouth College with bstter prospects or higher ideals. The old students seemed to appreciate the honor bestowed upon them by our presence among their number, for day after day and night after night we were dragged out into the busy hours of society- -receptions by the dozens were given especially for us. We were not green and awkward as other Freshman classes have been, but have often proved to be an aid to the upper classmen in styles, table manners, and social etequette. At the color rush our valiant boys, aitho fev in number, showed remarkable pluck and valor and keen insight into the ways of battle. ' Ah. the battle of Bull Run was nothing but a cockfight to this. In athleti cs we are leaders. One of our number guarded the ball on the inimitable football te?m cf last fall. One of the greatest events of tho college year v as the basketball game between the Freshmen and SophomDres. The unissuming Freshies bravely faced the all too confident Sophs. Each side fought hard for the honor of its class. But alas, with drooping heads and lagging steps the Sophs left the gym for wc had beaten them two points We had met the foe and they were our ' n. Shortly before the holidays our gallant lads surprised the Freshmen girls with a social m one of the halls down town. So secretly had it all been planned that the Sophs were again baffled. Peac2 and quiet reigned unmolested for a period, but graduilly February twenty-second arose on the horizon And with the dawn came the softly stealing away into safe hiding places either in a manly or wom- anly way. Of one as he enjoyed the concert may it be said: And ne ' er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad or a Grace With likelier former lovelier face. ' Afie- mj ' i useless worry we all assembled at the appointed place which was soon made gay with gal- lant man and courtly ladies. As we gathered around the table, instead of thinking of Father Washington our minds v anderej to Eliza ' s the Goddess of eatins who had opened her arms and let fall heaps of good things. Afterwards wit and wisdom predominated and our brilliancy became so radiant that e ' er we knew it ths eastern skies reflected the light and we knew that the world was bsginning to feel th light of our presence as it will ever continue to do Wnen old Father Time loDks back over his books of the tw3ntie:h century, miy each page reveal some wonderful work of an old ' O er. ' 09. Music. i Conservatory of Music. HE CATALOGUE of Monmouth College for the year ending July 1st, 1858, contains among the list of Faculty this name, Edwin T, Barck, Instructor of Music on the Piano Forte. Thus we see that the history of music in Monmouth College is as long as that of the college itself. From 1858 to I860 the place of Instructor of music on the Piano Forte was held by Mrs E. J. Wallace In 1861 is the first mention of music in the catalogue aside from the name of the instructor Oppor- tunnies are offered in the college of taking lessons on the Piano Forte. Facilities for studying vocal music under able masters, are enjoyed in connection with the various musical organizations of the city. Mrs. L. G. Charleton, Instructor on the Piano Forte. The next instructor was Mrs. Carrie (Tucker) Stapp. In 1866 we find that Professor Lowell H. Smith with Mrs. C. L. Kendall compose the musical faculty and are prepared to give lessens in music on the Piano Forte, also vocal music to classes of twenty or more. Levi B. Davis and Miss K. Ewing form the faculty for the next year. For the two years beginning in ' 68 J. M. Van Doren was the Professor of Music. From 1869 to 1888, the year of his death, the musical department of the college v as in charge of Professor S. H. Price. In 1887 Professor J. B. Herbert, at present organist in the Second U. P. Church of this city, took charge of the vocal music of the department In 1891 owing to the widely spreading interest in music in genpral and the frequent demands for it in connection with the college course, the Senate and Faculty have established a Musical Department in Mon- mouth College. Professor C. E. Zartman was chosen director of the department Professor Zartman was a pupil of Karl Merz of the Musical Conservatory of Wooster. He was very successful here and many of our city ' s best musicians began their instruction under him. Professor Zartman resigned in 1896 in order to take a position in Heidelburg College, Tiflin, Ohio. Prof J. B. Herbert was chosen Director to fill this vacancy. Mrs. W. H. Sexton and Mrs. Carrie (Sipher) Meeker were chosen as his assistants, the former in instrumental and the latter in vocal. Upon the resignation of Mrs. Meeker, Mrs. Carrie Ash (Higgason) Schraum was chosen to succeed her. She resigned in 1898 and the work was carried on by Professor Herbert and Mrs Sexton until the year 1901 when both resigned. At this time the Musical Department became The Monmouth College Conservatory of Music and Professor T. Merrill Austin of Brooklyn was secured as Director. Professor Austin is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and has studied under Fred Sieber and Henrich Ehrlich in Berlin He is eminently fitted for the place and has been vvonderfully successful. Miss Katherine Hanna of this city, a graduate of Knox Conservatory, was chosen as his assistant The next year Prof. Louis Versel became the teacher in advanced piano, leaving Pro ssor Austin free to devote his entire time to vocal lessons. MrS ' Alice Hobart also joined the conservatory faculty in this year as instructor in violin. She also organized the College Orchestra and has conducted it with great success ever since. The gift of the pipe organ by the Misses Davidson has added greatly to the equipment of the department. Conservatory Faculty. T MERRILL AUSTIN, Director Music Conservatory, 1101 East Broadway. A. B. Thiel College, 1882, A M, ibid, 1888: Graduate of New England Conservatory cf Music Boson, 1887: fin ' shing courses under Ferd Si ber and Heinrich Ehrlich, Berlin, Germany, 1890 ' 9I. KATHERINE HANNA, Teacher of Instrumental Music, West Broadway, Graduate of Knox Conservatory, 1901. Post Graduate work with Wm. Sherwood, Chicago, 1902. B. F. Lang, Boston, 1903; Rudolph Ganz, Chicago, 1905. MKS, ALICE BEBOUT HOBART. Teacher of Violin and Piano, 122 South Fourth St. Oberlin Conservatory Student; Violin under Professors |. A. Muth and F G. Doolittle, Piano with. Letiiia Wattess. HARKY B. KEELER, Teacher of Advanced Piano, Harmony, Counterpoin ' , Co.iipositior, etc., 815 E.Broadway. Graduate from New England Conservatory of Music, 1905. Co.Tiposition and Counterpoint with Geo. W. Chadwick; Piano with Edwin L. Klahre; Har.Tiony with Benjamin F. Cutter. EMILY THOMAS. Teacher of Advanced Piano and Voice. 733 East B.-cadway. Graduate from New England Conservatory of Music, 1890; Piano with Carl Faeltyn; Pest Graduate in Piano in New England Conservatory of Music, with Carl Baermann 1900; St jdied in Berlin, Germany, with Leopold Godowsky. 1903- ' 04; Voice in New England Consirvatcry with W. L. Whitney. WYLIE STEWART. Assistant in Voice. 909 Eas: Broadway. Graduate from Monmouth College Conservatory, 1905. Conservatory Seniors. EVELYN MURRAY. Miss Evelyn Murray is graduated from the teacher ' s course. Miss Murray has made a specially of the theoretical side of music in preparation for her work as an instructor in voice. She has also made a wide study of musical literature, and is well prepared to fill a responsible position. Miss Murray has many friends in Monmouth who wish her great success. MARTHA WARNER. Miss Martha Warner possesses a strong dramatic soprano voice of great flexibility and power. Si e has excellent control of her voice and sings with ease and expression. Miss Warner has often appeared en the Monmouth platform and always receives a very warm welcome. We wish her every success in her chosen tine of Vv ' ork. JENNIE SMITH. Miss Jennie Smith has an exceptionally sweet soprano voice of mixed lyric and dramatic quality. She sings with great depth of feeling and expression, and has won great favor in Monmouth as a soloist. She will probably continue her study in an eastern school, and we predict for her a successful future. MAUDE BURR. Miss Maude Burr is one of Monmouth ' s leading soloists. She has a pure lyric soprano voice of wide range and sings with artistic expression. She is always heard with pleasure and has won for herself a place in the hearts of the Monmouth people. Miss Burr contemplates taking a post graduate course in the home conservatory. MARIE KETTERING. Miss Marie Kettering, graduate in piano with the class of 1906, acquitted herself at her recital given in the Auditorium May 10th, with much credit. She has all the qualities which go toward making a great artist and by perseverance and determination in her efforts a brilliant future is assured. Miss Kettering is to take post graduate work in piano and composition the coming year. BESS BUTLER. Miss Bess Butler, graduate in piano with the class of 1906, displayed at her recital given May lOih an individuality and style in her playing which at once captivated her hearers. Miss Butler has personal charms which added to her determination assures her a bright future. We hope to number Miss Butler in our ranks again next year taking post g.aduate work in piano and composition. THE FOURTH ANNUAL May Festival MONMOUTH COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 8 P. M. POPULAR CONCERT. MRS. MAME KUNKLE-ZIMMEFkMAN, Soprano. WILLIAM MIDDELSCHULTE, Organist, WALTER LOG. N. Violinist, MISS PANSY BELL, Accompanist. Monmouth College Choral Society, T, MEKFMLL AUSTIN, Director. THURSDAY MAY 3, 2:30 P. M., ORCHESTRAL CONCERT. MRS MARIE WHITE-LONGMAN, Contralto. MP,S. THEODOKE WORCESTER, Piano. MR. EDWARD STRONG, Tenor. MR. SVEDKOFSKY. V.olm. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, ADOLPH P.OSENBECKER, Conductor. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 8 P. M. THE MONMOUTH COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY, CHICAGO SYMPHONY OKCHESTRA. ., ' % ' ' ' ' ' ■■ •■%-, Presents Haydn ' s Grand Oratorio THE CREATION SOLOISTS, MRS. MARIE KUNKLE-ZIMMERMAN. Soprano, MR. EDWARD STRONG, Tenor. MARION GP.EENE. Bass. ALUMil. MRS. MARGARET FINDLEY THOMPSON, To whom it is our privilege to dedicate the Alumni Department Alumni Reminiscences. 1 N THIS the Semi-Centennial year of our College we think it fitting that each class should do its part toward -l the production of this year book. We regret that we have not been able to make the representation complete. ' 58. l KS. MARGARET FINDLEY THOMPSON, the only representative of the first class graduated From IX la Monmouth College extends greeting to those who have followed her into the realm of the Mon- mouth Alumni. THE YEAK 57-58 was the day of small things for Monmouth College in many ways. Not in the character or ability of our Instructors, they were the peers of any who have succeeded them. But our equipment in other ways was limited. There were three societies but our building could only afford two halls, so we A. B. L ' s- were ogt, in the cold until our brothers kindly offered us hospitality. Our society property con- sisted of a few books and a bpx for the reception of contributions for our paper. The latter restingconveniently in the hall window, was frequently the recipient of contributions not acceptable for publication. While meet- ing in Eccritean Hall, their tabic accommodated both libraries. Before changing to the other hall, our brother Philo ' s had become the owners of a bookcase, which we were privileged to share. Here we came to grief. Through the careless handling of a candle, both societies were left to mourn over scorched volumes. Commencement week in those early days was The E-t-cnf in both town and the surrounding country. As there was no building large enough to contain the crowd, a grove on the corner of 4th Avenue and B street was fitted up for the occasion. Class and society exercises occupied several evenings prior to Ccrrrr.encement prcper. It rained every day but cleared for the evening. Commencement morning |un6 30 1858. was bright and promising for the anniversary address by Dr. T. M. Cunningham, but in the afternoon just as Mr. Ccates closed his saluiaicry the rain began to pour and the crowd scattered for shelter. As it did not clear as usual the exercises were concluded in the evening in the Presbyterian church. It was a small affair in comparison with the churches of today. It stood on South Main street where is now the Opera House. M. M. F. THOMPSON. 58. ' 59. DURING ITS FIRST YEAR, BY W H.BLAIR. I HAVE often regretted that 1 did not plan to be present at the opening of Monmouth College in Septembg 1856. After casting my first presidental ballot in Ohio, 1 started for Monmouth. 1 landed early in the morning, took breakfast at the boarding hojse, after which 1 sought to find Monmouth College. The street which led to the college was provided with a new board sidewalk. But when within about three blocks from the college the boards ended and the conditions were not very inviting. However 1 reached the college in time for chapel exercises. President Wallace had appeared on the field only a few days in advance of my coming. I called on the President and stated my case — First, with re- gard to my course of study, the class I wished to enter, etc. And second, with regard to boarding, and a room mate. His first remark was the citizens of Monmouth were not experienced in boarding students, but they would in time ascertain their wants. He said there was a bright young man here fr om Fountain Green by the name of McClaughry and was wanting the same, and he though wa SAfOuld be genial companions. We soon met and set out to find A hat vvas wanted. We found a place where it said Boarders Wanted. On the same lot were two buildings, one a small frame house with two rooms and the other a log cabin with one room and a coal bin. The family was an aged lady and her daughter. Seme years after the former became my room mate ' s grand mother and the latter his aunt, and 1 wasn ' t in it. We studied and slept in the cabin and ate in the frame, and so the year passed. The first important problem we met was a very diflicult one. It was the organization of literary societies. The college building was just completed and t o rooms were designated as society rooms. There were only two students who had ever been connected with a college and knew anything about a literary society. Every- thing was to be done by inexperienced hands. There were the rooms and nothing more — not a chair not a table, not a yard of carpet, or a book — and yet, these rooms must be furnished and made to look literary. And ' that was not all. Who knew how to organize a litetary society? The probler was astounding. Two soph- omores and four freshmen were the measure of advanced collegiate students. A meeting was called and it was decided to organize one society and divide as equal as possible. Al ' students present were regarded as charter members. Cflicers were elected, a roll of members NA as made out, and the society was organized. The name of the literary society in Madison college of which 1 was a member was Philadelphian. 1 explained its meaning and proposed it as the name of this society which was ac ' epted. And, notwithstanding the many battles in which it has been engaged, it has ever remained, Loving Brothers. Before the close of the session a plan was laid to make two societies out of one, and at the first me.t- ing of the second session the society was divided by two captains chosing a man turn about. It was agreed that one division should be the successor ef the parent society, holding its name and organization so far as ac- complished. The other was called the new society, and nameless. 1 found myself in the latter. And, as I had been instrumental in finding a name for the first society. 1 was selected to manage the christening of the second. After proposing a great number of names that were unsatisfactory, 1 finally gave the word, Eccritean, as an ultimatum. It was accepted and all these years has represented another society of Brothers ' Equal Loving. ' 60. To THE Students of Monmouth College: — During the early years of its existence. President Wallace waj a very matter-of-fact man, intensely in earnest in whatever work he had in hand. He gave no encour, agement to the frivolous or anything not in keeping with the serious work of college life, and whether in c ' ass- room exercises or Chapel service the conduct of the student must be in conformity with the time and place. It was thoroughly impressed on the minds of those who entered the College as students, that the President and Faculty expected their conversation and demeanor to be that of Christian young ladies and gentlemen, and on all occasions to evidence to the friends of the College outside that Monmouth was in truth what President Wallace purposed it should be — A Christian College. While his discipline along these lines was exacting, it was exer- cised so lovingly, that even those who became the subjects learned to love and esteem him the more by reason of the discipline. ' 62. 4TX LL classes, as they come forth capped and gDwned from college halls on graduation day, look much alike to thg r casual observer. But they are not. They have all been ground through the same college mill; perhaps by the same millers; but the raw material ' the grists sent to the mill have all been widely different: and hence the finished products, at the end of the grind, are necessarily unlike and each class is in itself unique. ' 62. was the fifth class to graduate from Monmouth College. It was, however, the first class to take the ent re course, preparatory and collegiate, in connection with this institution. Dr. Wallace used to say it was the first class they took from the stump The members of the four classes preceeding it had come from other academies and colleges where they had made a beginning, and received more or less of their higher education. But ' 62, from start to finish, was made by Monmouth College. It must, therefore, have been a good class: and it was. Indeed, the faculty said, at it ' s graduation that it was ths best class they had ever graduated; and 1 presume they have never said so much of any class since. ' 62 was graduated with tw2nty-one members, eight ladies and thirteen gentlemen; twelve gentlemen and one lady graduating as A. B., and seven ladies and one gentlemen as B. S. This class, therefore, holds the distinction of having the first lady to graduate A. B., and re- ceive her A. M. in course. The lady is Miss Frances H. Smith, who still has her home in Monmouth. There were in the class eight ministers, two lawyers, one teacher, one farmer , one internal revenue officer, and three oflncersand one soldier in the Civil war. James S. Campbell, orderly sergeant, was killed in defense of Fort Donnelson, Fourteen of the class still live to fulfill their mission, while seven have ceased from their labors and their works do follow them. J. H. B. ' 63. THE CLASS of ' 63 had the distinction of being the first class in the new college building. Four years were pleasantly spent in the old Academy, but I can recall nothing of unusual note that took place in all hat time. We lived in the good old time before college pranks were invented. Of the school we can say it grew; outgrew its boundaries and by the untiring energy of our President (David A. Wallace) whom all loved and reverenced, we were provided with a new and commodious building. Right glad and proud we were the day we moved into our spacious halls. Our class was the smallest ever sent from this college, but not too small to claim perfection in numbers for we could say Sir, we are Seven ! Only three of the class are now here to sec cur beloved institution again reaeh its boundary lines and with hope look out on a larger future. M. S. D. ' 64. IN THINKING over something relative to the Class of ' 64. my memory recalls the following incidents of a period when the country was torn with civil war, political unrest, and the quiet of college halls was often disturbed by the Call to Arms or the solemn funeral obsequies of soldier students whose lives were sacrificed on Our Country ' s altar, and their bodies sent home for a sad and solemn interment. The class of ' 64 was literally turned out into the woods for the graduating exercises were held in the open air, under the trees in Mr. Brown ' s yard, on the northwest corner of B street. Five members of the class. W. H. Abrams, J. W. Brook, S. S. Findley, A. B. Struthers, and W. B. Young were in the army, the other members of a class of twenty one were graduated June 30th, and after adjourning to Dr. Wallace ' s house just across the street, they received the Doctor ' s paternal blessing and dispersed never to meet again. The last year of this class in college was spent amid the exciting incidents of the war, when the clouds still hung heavy and many things which are clear now looked dark. The men of the class in a body proposed to bolt recitations, leave college, forego the pleasure of senior vacation and the privilege of writing a thesis for the illusory attractions of army life and the glory of national service. Five of the class enlisted, and that one of the young volunteers whose coat tails caught fire from a lighted cigar which he hastily thrust into his pocket, as he was leisurely smoking when the unexpected call Attenticn! came as he was drilling in the public square, proved the bravest and most fortunate of the bunch, for he survived the perils of the one-hundred days ' service and still lives in Monmouth to recall the memory of those Savage wars and bloody days. Our class proudly joined the procession which formed at the Old College en the morning of May I2lh. 1863, headed by President D. A. Wallace and the faculty marched through the town to the new college and formally took possession of building and grounds x ith all due ceremony; it was a memorable occasion; and, a! ' though our class had little more than a year in the new college building it attached us to the present college site, and dignified us with a diploma from a real college and relieved us of the humiliation of former returning classes, who found the old college halls defiled by a soap-factory. ' 65. ( TJ IC JACET, ' 65. The class that lived in the halcyon daysof Alma Mater ' s youth, before the reign of ■L -•- clubs, athletics, feats, sororities or class organization; never had a scrap nor did anything bad. at least nothing that has clung to the memory for forty-one years. We have this distinction. Ours was the class of the great war. The Rebellion came in our Sub-Fresh year; when we were Seniors the gentle dove of Peace returned. Only one of the class stayed from be ginning to finish, and he took a five month ' s vacation, with a musket following the flag. The others finished their schooling in the field or in later classes: those of us who graduated were from other classes cr ccileges, back after serving an army enlistment, from colonels down to corporals. Nearly all the boys display to- gether the army discharge and the college diploma. The girls were iust as good; they wrote letters to the boys in blue and cheered when they rettrned. We enjoyed college, we have enjoyed life, and are leal and true to old Monmouth. ' ' And as the evening twilight fades away. The sky is filled with stars — A. R. ' 68. rr HE OPENING address September 5, 1864, besides other things said in substance: The development of JL the Great West has opened up many new channels of trade, creating desirable positions, thai call for the services of the young, the brilliant and the ambitious. This has had a tendency to draw away many young men and v omen from their studies prematurely. On the other hand, a terrible civil wa r. that respects no per son nor plan has taken away many and has disarranged the condition of all. Yet in spite of the allurements of commerce, the preserver and the exaction of war, the destroyer, cur attendance has continually grown. To-day, in our beautiful new chapel, we are greeted with the largest en- rollment in our history. Fitting therefore, is our motto — the reflection of our great thrusting and acting populace. We must educate, whether there be peace or war. 70. IT IS a difficult task to citch the modern eye and to interest the modern ear by the portrayal of old time incidents. Color rushes had not been invented, about all that we knew of hazing was the ancient fad of snipe hunting , athletics were among the undiscovced fine arts, so there A as little left for amusement and physical development, away back in the sixties, but the sawbuck on Saturday, and the odd jobs of potato hoeing, or gardening, during the week. Yes, it was a company of STUDIOUS boys and girls that in those far off days spent the hours interven- ing between recitations under the shade of the trees in Babcock ' s orchard. It was with great reluctance that the student body felt obliged early one morning to lay aside books and tablets, all that was so attractive and inter ' esting, in order to institute a search for the colored janitor who had disappeared during the night. Basemer t and attic of the college v ere ransacked, cisterns and wells w5re dragged, the surrounding country was explored, but all to no purpose; so in the stillness of the following night funeral rites were performed and a tombstone, on which was inscribed a most touching epitaph, was erected on the campus. Three days later word came from LaPorte, Indiana, that the departed was alive It was a serious breaking in upon a most interesting recitation with the class of ' 70 when one of our number— a Dane by nationality -became so inte-ested, as we supposed, in digging out the Hebrew roots that he fell prostrate on the floor. One of our famous sprinters, now a noted D. D., in an eastern city, started post haste for a doctor. It was not long, however, until the mystery was explained, and we found that the trouble was not chargeable to Hebrew at all. The Danish student came to himself , and said, Three years ago I eat pancake for dinner and 1 had a fit. today 1 eat pancake again and 1 had another fit, I never eat pancake again as long as I live. So busy were we in those days with hard work and no play that there were but few incidents worth recording. ' 71. AN APT QUOTATION. CONTRIBUTED BY A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 71. IN THE autumn of our Senior year an unsophisticated youth came to college and soon united with our literary society. From the outset he improved his opportunities but with nothing particularly noticeable about his performances excepting his own supreme satisfaction apparently in them which of course amused the society. NA hen the time came for his section to be on oration, his maiden effort in that, he selected a subject and soon wrote and committed his speech and was so pleased with the production that he decided it must be graced with a Latin quotation; but knowing nothing of Latin he took a higher classman into his confidence and from him obtained a Latin sentence that he was told would set off his oration exactly right, At length the long looked for night came and our orator was there all anxious for his turn and impa ' tiently waiting for the tiresome declamations and essays to get through. Finally the oration class is reached and in a little while his name is called. There is no trembling at the knees nor faltering of the lips. Wendel Phillips himself could not face the audience with more confidence. Hjs memory serves him no tricks and he reaches his peroration without a break, and now he caps the climax and paralyzes his audience as he utters with all his power — adding to the efl ect by emphatic pause and gesture: I — I In the words of the immortal Cicero EGO- STULTUS -MAGNUS—SUM ! ! I He took his sea in the midst of silence almost painful. Then some one snickered and the spell was broken, but what followed beggars description: — the laughter and howling and clapping, to cease only with exhaustion and then when all was quiet to break out anew, again and again. G. I. G. Or In plain English 1 74. THE EXPERIENCES of the Class of 1 74 were in the main uneventful. We had no rushes and climbed no poles. We were far enough removed from the aborigines to have no college, nor class yells , and the senseless practice of applauding vociferously and untimely everything that occurred, had not then obtained. The idea of interfering with the personal liberty of members of other classes, or with other ■class functions, would not have been tolerated, and any such an attempt would have met with belligerent op- position and broken heads in earnest. Two incidents occur to my mind which were out of the ordinary One of our professors had ignored the practice of race suicide and been favored with the advent of a new boy into the family. His futher-in-law. who lived in an other state, was promptly notified by wire The old gentleman being a Hnquist and desiring to rise to the occasion and recognize the scholastic surroundings of the proud father at once replied Laudamus. The telegraph operator not being up in the dead language and mistaking the old gentleman ' s L for a G , the professor vvas surprised and chagrined upon receiving the congratulatory reply G — d D — us. The lack of sufficient grades was not the only thing that menaced the graduation of the class of 1874. It was the custom in those days for each class to perpetuate its memory, and get a day off, and likewise em- bellish the college campus by planting a c ' ass tree. On the occasion in question the embryo D. D. ' s. statesmen, lawyers, doctors, etc , together with the ladies of the class, in a body, went to the woods near the site of the present septic tank for the purpose of selecting their tree. In those days the old mill building this side was a brewery, and some evil genius got a pony k g down into that woods. Presently the distinguishing features of oaks, maple, hickories and elms disappeared with the result that the members of the class were too tired to lug a tree in from the woods and they finally selected one already growing nicely in the campus. Like all good things the story leaked out and came to the ears of the faculty and trustees. To say they were shocked doesn ' t express it, they were red hot. The good name of the college had been blackened There must be atonement — there must be punishment. Facu ' ty meetings were galore. Every body was on the carpet. We were notified and (vvarned) that if the guilty parties were discovered they would be expelled. To be forewarned was to be forearmed. No guilty member was ever discovered. The evidence tended to show that the pony keg got there just like the manna did in the wilderness. Some of the faculty and trustees were in favor of making an example hitormiss. Conservative counsul finally prevailed, and the humane principle, since repudiated by the Supreme Court of Illinois, was adopted as the rule of Monmouth College, that It were better that ninety and nine guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer. 75. §0 BOYS, you want something spicy Of those times long years ago. When your fathers and mothers Were sisters or brothers (of the ottier fellow you know.) At first 1 thought I ' d refuse you This item you ' d have me indite. Spare moments you see. Are lacking with me, 1 seldom find leisure to write. But the sewing machine kept a-humming As 1 treaded it all afternoon, A measure of song. ' Twas not very long. But I conld ' nt get far from the tune. It brought fresh to mind the old building. And the pranks we all loved to play. The chapel, third floor: The choir, near the door. It ' s music I heard clearly to-day. I don ' t quite remember our motto. Class colors? Unknown. I confess. Class pins? Not any. Too poor— not a penny Could we spare for such foolishness. But class spirit! Of it there was plenty You youngsters of nineteen naught six Had better watch out. And hustle about. If you ' d rival ' 75; She could fix. Any class that ever was entered. Or bade farewell to the halls Of old Alma Mater, No class ever beat her. The work she accomplished appalls. ' 75 is proud of the record She has made in the cold, cold ' orld. Not one of us hung. Our achievements are sung From the house tops. Denance v e ' ve hurled At the powers of meanness and darkness. We ' ve sought for the best with our might. We ' ve dene vt ' hat we could, As every one should. For mankind: for the truth and the right. So here ' s to one class cf old Monmouth, May her members long prosper and thrive. Bless the teachers who led, Drop a tear for her dead. Give acclaim to the class 75. I C. E Alumni the Past Year. r UPsING [he past year three of our late alumni have brought honor to their college. Paul McClanahan a -L graduate of the class of ' 05, now attending Princeton University, won the phenomenal honor of leading the Princeton debate team in the great annual debate with Harvard. The Harvard Crimson speaks of Mr. McCUnahan ' s work as masterly and ranking him first upon the victorious Princeton team, Mr. W. J, Math- ews a graduate of the class of ' 03, also brought honor to Monmouth College through his literary achievements. Mr. Mathews was leader on the University of Chicago debating team in theii annual contest with Michigan Again the Monmouth man was able to lead his team to victory. The third man who has during the past year brought literary honor to his college is Tim Campbell, a graduate with class of ' 04. Mr, Campbell was leader on the Drake debating team in their annual contest with Iowa State. in which contest Drake won. These three examples give us some idea of the position our institution is gaining before the world. 76. OMING events cast their shadows before them, but the class of ' 76 cast its headlight before it, irr vS the illumination of x hich our BELOVED PKESIDENT WALLACE read its history ere it was written, for soon after the class orations had thrilled nnd inspired the public, he came into the class room and said, ' Ladies and gentlemen your orations were either so deep I could notfathom them, or they were so opaque 1 could not see bottom; behold what profundity of thought in Freshmen to so perplex the penetrating mind of that immortal educator. Professor Wilson had great expectations of this class, for when ons of its ideal members, astride a home bred literal pony, made a gallant and successful charge upon a special examination in Greek, he said, Your translation is good, but your syntax is horrible. The good humor of even Dr. Hutchison was no match for this class wit, a lady having made a perfect recitation, thought herself immune for the rest of that period, and withdrew her finger from between the lesson pages of the text book, when an unexpected question was fired at her, she said, Why, Professor, you called on me before, with his genial smile he answered, Yes, but a gentleman loves to call a second time on a young lady, v ith flashing eyes, she immediately replied, That is true. Sir, but I did not invite you to call again. Her perfect grade mark remained undiminished that day. The class of ' 76 has lassoed the brightest gems of theology, law, siatemanship, healing art. and practical business methods to the chariot of progress, making the world brighter, and better, and promises through the leadership of its honored Shonts to unite the Atlantic and Pacific as one gigantic water route of uninterrupted comTisrce. Somewhere in the old vv ' orld there is said to be an echo dom , which transforms harsh and discordant sounds into sweet and helpful music. Monmouth College is such an Echo Dome used of God to transform many souls through the Gospel Jubilee. This centennial class promises to do its part in making the path oj its Alma Mater to be like that of the shining light, u hich shineth more and more unto the perfect day. MEMBER OF 76. 77. TES, those college days were the jolliest care-free days of one ' s whole life. How does the editor of - — Ravellngs expect a fellow to see the details of a memory picture, when his eyesight is dimmed by the futility of thirty years of professional and cortimercial stargazing? The lenses are out of adjustment and it is difficult to get the focus. As well try to recall the conjugation of a Greek irregular, which one has not per- mitted himself to think of for a quarter-century, as to elaborate the funny phases of student folly, filling the days when one had little sense and large estimate of one ' s mental assets. Those records were n ' t written in the indelible ink of gall or acid, but in th fading pigments of boyhood fancy or girlish romance. The mental record to-day is lacking in distinctness. Who would not rather have a diary of that period than of any other before or since? Romances, we had. Three of thetn were first chapters of a continued story completed in later years. Our class was never so stirred as when one of our number in the Junior year, deserted us to marry a college sweetheart. The crepe trimmed procession which accompanied the wedding party to the depot, afforded an llustrated article for the Police Gazette. Glimpses are recalled ofplantinga class ' ivy. and tn ' nfi;-[o plant a Class-stone (that of ' 76) ' of attempted waist-measurings of the gentle-spinster-professor of German by rash classical seniors — of elongated Thauks ' giving vacations, made compulsory upon the faculty, while donkey students presented, with much burlesque oratory, unwilling professors with live, thanksgiving-fowls arrayed in splendid artire — of the desperate dis- tractions of the Vice President and professor in Chemistry in endeavoring to check the mad foolery of forty-five members of ' 77 while the President was abroad in Europe— of the midnight trip to Crier ' s melon patch- they were great events then, but now the flotsam and jetsam on a receding beach- Yes, 1 still love Monmouth, don ' t you? In the language of Prof, hlutchison ' s lines, (vintage of 1877). I recall the chorus of the class-song he composed for us, — hlere ' s to Monmouth College, Drink it down, — She ' s so fine and full of knowledge, Drink it down --etc, W. J. F. 78. IpJOT every child resembles its parents. Not every college class bears distinctly in habits of thought and J- mental characteristics the likeness of its Alma Mater, The class of ' 78 wasof this negative character. It marks almost an interval in the continuity of class history. For years before and years after, large classes, enthusiastic and impressionable, went forth moulded after the college formula, bearing distinctly the college stamp, in all the orderly achievements of life to reflect glory on the institution. The class of ' 78 was neither large nor impressionable. Borne by fortuitous currents to one common meeting place, the chapel, class rooms, and society halls of Monmouth College some of us only for the Senior year, we quietly fell into our places in the class organization. The chief characteristic of the class of ' 78, as 1 look back upon it, was the profoundly sad respect in which we held one another. We all felt that our life lines had crossed in some former stale, ages gone by. That each life was burdened by mysteries for whioh we were sadly waiting the solution. As a natural consequence we have no memory of class pranks or escapades. When at the suggestion of McCoy and Henderson, we did cut chemistry recitation it v as not because we had any heart in it, but out of respect for precedent. The class of ' 78 had only two sisters and sisters indeed they were. Many a class gathering was pleasantly entertained in their homes. Their sympathy and tact cov ' ered a multitude of social shortcomings in their class. They were ideal sisters and will ever be a precious memory. Twenty-eight years have passed and we are iust twenty-eight years younger than on the day we graduated. What if the brow is whitening, what if that face whose love light made life ' s every moment a jewelled joy be darkened by a shadow that may never lift this side the grave. What though souls that looked into ours through faces lustrous with a child ' s loyalty, have heard the call and gone forth as generations have ever gone before. We are not lonely Every day is bright with the glad companionship of every happy day. Around us is the love of hearts so leal and true. The sympathy that cheers us in our work is youth ' s unfailing fountain. A few more years and we will be as young as the four of our class who already have received their crowns. As the years go by we think more of the old college, and we are proud of its new history and new work. While other classes, larger, more famous, closer in touch with the college life, on this anniversary occasion, lay their splendid chaplets on the brow of our Alma Mater, the class of 78 presents her modest tribute, full of a love and loyalty that will never fail. J. C. C. 79. THE first change in the presidency of Monmouth College occurred during the days of the class of 79. Years of overwork had stolen Dr. Wallace ' s health. He sought it in a trip abroad. It was not re- stored enough on his return for him long to continue in college work. In 1877 he ended his eminent services as a great college president. A ' ' ith others, the class of 79 felt keenly the loss of that experienced educator and born teacher from the president ' s chair and the class-room. Dr. J. B, McMichael began his successful administration as the second president of the college in the vacation of 1878. He was inaugurated on Sept. 5th, 1878. The class of ' 79 was therefore t..e first to graduate under his regime. The relations between him and the class were always cordial. Very few inci- dents disturbed the smooth current of their confidence. Often a characteristic remark by him would end a troublesome affair. It was one of his remarks that averted bitterness and strife over an affair on the evening of Washington ' s Birthday, 1879. The entertainment given by the Freshmen in the college chapel was a burlesque of Commencement Day 79. The Faculty and graduating class were well impersonated. The Seniors planned as the final take-off of the evening to receive the diplomas of the burlesquers. Near the close of the farce, the Seniors with the ladies of th class at th h3ad of t vo columns marched up the aisles toward the platform to receive the sheepskins. Some of the spectators mistook the movement of the Seniors for a riotous assault on the performers. Their outcries raised an uproar. Some cried one thing and some another in denonncing and in upholding the advancing columns. The commanding voices and menacing motions of the Faculty warned the Seniors to stop. The curtain closed on the burlesque. The Seniors asserted their harmless intent in their advance. The audience vvas in a tumult. The Seniors forced their way to the Eccritean Hall. In the combat with the lower classmen for possession of the Hall some damage was done to earing apparel. Some blo s were given and taken. Some persons were urging severe action on this occasion against the students by the college and civil authorities. To them Dr. McMichael remarked: This is only a pillow fight among my boys. They are past ' ' boll. Don ' t start them up again. This humorous reply set the smiles a-going and the public and college took the Doctor ' s key to the situa- tion It averted trouble. ' 80. IT IS upon the friendships formed that memory loves to dwell, and around the social events and amusing incidents rather than hard work of college days our thoughts cluster in after years. The class of ' 80 was especially noted for its sociability. In fact so manifest was the spirit of unity that we were at times referred to as the class of brotherly love. A regular series of class socials were early inaugurated which soon became an integral part of our college life. As there were more boys than girls in the class, we adopted as social members several girls from among those classed as irregular, but who recited a por- tion of the time with U3. Then by a secret ballot system of choosing company for all class events, the brother ly love was kept fairly wveW distributed. We soon became socially intoxicated and various special meetings were sandwiched in at any odd time. But Dr. McMichael ' s watchful eye was upon us and one day as we assembled in his room for recitation, the Doctor said: 1 believe in class socials and always encourage them, but eight nights in a week is one too many. We toDk the hint and the rest of the faculty never knew the secret of the sudden rise in recitation grades. One of the amusing events occurred one day in Prof. Hutchison ' s recitation room. One of the boys took a little music box to the class room, which was wound up and carefully concealed. J. G. Kennedy v ' as the first to recite, just at he arose the music began, but its source w.t.s a complete mystery. The profejsor was so intent on discovering the source of the tinkle tinkle that I doubt if he knew afterwards whether Mr. Kennedy was reciting astronomy or Shakespeare. F. M. Johnson was call on to recite next. By this time the machine had run down and just as Johnson arose the music stopped. One moment of silence, followed by an outburst of laughter, and the professor said, Now give us some music, with your mouth. Mr. Johnson looked guilty, although he was absolutely innocent and afterwards duly exonerated. On another occasion a boy was in the hall u ay distributing hand bills for a shov in the opera house. .As we passed through the hall, j. S. Colvin took a handful of the bills and during the next recitation carefully folded them up and sent one to each of the girls in the form of a note. Presently one by one returned notes were passed back to Mr. Colvin and to his amazement each girl had formally accepted his invitation to the show. Here was a predicament, but the strong arm of our brotherly love was stretched forth and he was rescued from being kidnaped. These are only samples of the spice that gave zest to the real work and caused no harm in the U ' ing. The one event of our college days upon which memory specially delights to dwe ll was the annual Thanksgiving dinner, every preparation of which was made by members of the class. In a word it vv ' as a royal feast and the social enjoyment was akin to the reunion of the family circle around ihe paternal fireside. ' 81. IT WAS NOT A MIKACLE 1 SOMETIMES wonder if Philo still has the old copper water can that did duty twenty- five years ago, I -•- may be different now, but in those days when a four hour session was not unusual, it was customary for the marshal to pass the water. One night in the long ago, sometime in the days of golden Octob r.thare was a litde mysterious whispering among a few of the good fellows and a quiet understanding with the president. Two or three of the boys slipped out of the hall, returning in about an hour, and carefully bringing in the water can. Someone immediately suggested that the marshal pass the water and that functionary started with the can. You should have seen the expressions on the faces of the first who drank. The water had been turned to cider. It was no miracle, but was as 1 recollect it. mighty gccd cider. There was ccnsiderable inquiry as to whe. e it came from, but the question deterred none. There was trouble brewing next day and for a week following. The other society, not having had sucl-i a treat, was horrified. The W. C. T. U. was prevailed on to take up the matter and they appealed to the faculty. It looked for a time as though there would be an investigation. I do not intend to be personal, but at the time mentioned a retired farmer named Gibson lived on East Broadway and kept a few student boarders. Among them was W W. Logan, noA pastor of our church in Los Angeles, J. A. Thompson, now Dr. Thompson, president of Tarkio; E. E. Elliott, professor of Agriculture in Pullman, Wash, Possibly one of those now distinguished gentleman gave awav the fact that Mr. Gibson had brought from his farm a barrel of cider, and some of the bad boys did the rest. Being vice president at the time was the only thing preventing me from being one of the aforemention ' d bad boys. R. B. W. ' 82. 0URING our Freshman year we decided to inject a little variety into the Annual Washington ' s Birthday Social and to this end we plotted deeply and toiled laboriously for several months When the evening arrived and the performance was ready to begin the chapel doors were unlocked and as the highly expectant crowd thronged up the stairway, the were handed p. ' Ograms announcing the Class Day and Commencement Exercises of the Senior Class. The proceedings which followed were quite devoid of the usual commencement day monotony. The class motto suspended over the platform announced that A change of pasture makes fat calves. Music v as furnished by a full band which used every species of instrument from a hair comb to a brass horn. It had been our aim to select members to represent the seniors, who ' by physical contrast a id choice of subjects would most deeply harrow their feelings. Our married member, a colored man, represented the only married senior with the subject That wife of mine. The topic of the smallest freshman who represented the biggest senior was The Exorbitant incomprehensibleness of magniloquent Eloquence. Our fat man with a pillow stuffed under his vest presided. NA hen the time for delivering diplomas arrived, the seniors moved forward to attack, and the freshmen formed to repel invaders. The seniors were repulsed and adjourned to Eccritean Hall to plot revenge. A freshmen member of ' he society, being refused admittance, kicked in the door and the real entertainment of the evening began. The jinitor. ably seconded by the faculty, finally cleared the hall, and the Chicago papers the next day announced, RIOT IN MONMOUTH COLLEGE. FRESHMEN BURLESQUE SENIORS AND HAND TO HAND CONFLICT ENSUES. TWO SENIORS NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER. VICTORY FOR THE FRESHMEN! As a result of this pleasant and entertaining affair one freshman was given a premature diploma by the faculty who thereupon adopted a rule whereby all future shows were to have at least one member of the faculty in the cast of characters. M. C. ' 83. ' FEW days ago when busied with household tasks, I came across a worn little volume half hidden J- 1- among the books upon a shelf The very existence of the little book had been almost forgotten, but all at once a rush of memories came over me, and for a while that spring morning, 1 was in Dr. McDill ' sroom, con- sidering the various kinds of propositions and arguments, and deciding questions according to the weight of Pre- sumption, as against the Burden of Proof. Upon the fly-leaf 1 found the names of various possessors. Evidently the little black bound book had gone through alternate experiences of active and passive life, reposing at times with others of its kind upon the second hand shelf of McQuiston ' s book store, then entering upon the more strenuous life at each September opening of the college year, when for a small consideration it had become the property of its successive owners. Upon the yellowed flyleaves besides the names of the different possessors, are various penci!ed scribblings, lines of poetry, dates of history, and underneath all, another date which at that time seemed a most importantone in our little college world. I found this: The dark days, Oct. I9and20. 1882. Kapidly and vividly the scene of those eventful days came before the mental vision and Dr. McDill ' s room and Whately ' s Rhetoric, were forgotten. Although twenty ' four years have passed since that date was recorded, doubtless all who passed through ' he days of the College Trouble have distinct recollection of those stirring events, for the agitation was all the deeper because of the narrowed confines of the circle in which it occurred. Concentration of youthful intensity magnifies college affairs out of the right proportion, and while the student is within college walls, outside hap- penings appear unimportant and insignificint. We remember the days of anxiety, the meetings in Red Ribbon Hall, the troubled appearance of the students, the ca ' eworn faces of the faculy. the almost deserted class rooms Two of the Senior girls will never fo.-get the call at D.- McMichiel ' s hom2, when with hearts burdened with the state of afl airs, they skipped across the campu; after nightfall to see The Doctor. In the long tilk which followed, his tender sympathetic nature was befte.- underitnod, and the deep affection which he cherished toward the young people under his care revealed. But the dark days were of short duration. The chapel bell never sounded out more joyfully than on the following Monday, when all gathered together again in the college halls. All misunderstandings had been - cleared away, and the usual tasks were to be resumed. Thus ended the effort on the part of the students to celebrate one of Monmouth ' s victories in an Inter- State Con test. M. M. G. ' 84. THE CLASS OF ' 84 ON TKIAL. THE night was Tuesday, June 27th, 1 884, The place was the Monmouth Opera House. A vast audience A as assembled. Friends and relatives had come from far and near. The feeling was intense. In breathless silence sat the class of ' 84, Its fate hung in the balance. For years its members had been delving into Greek and Latin roots, and solving weighty problems of school, state and nation, it was now within a few hours of Commencement Day, the great event toward which through all the picnics, parties, excursions, entertainmentS ' --all the tragic and exciting scenes, all the precious and cherished pleasures of a college course, each member had turned his inmost thoughts, when, lo! a dread and fearful spectre spreads his black, foreboding wings over ' 84. For In the Court of Criminal Correction of Monmouth College , the State of Illinois has brought sui against this class- the charge being that its members did unlawfully, falsely, fraudulently, maliciously, and willfully combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together to Injure, abuse, and offend the common law of said college which provides that — Every class shall have a poet , and this class had not appointed one. Who can forget the events of thit night? Even yet the curtain seems to rise and many scenes pass be ' fore my wandering eyes. There is Oskie Allen Frye. the sheriff, stern and austere, and Lydia H. McKelvy he clerk, exact and sedate. There is the Formidable array of witnesses. Again we see Mabe! Pepper on the stand and hear the questions Are you engaged? Quick and eager comes her response — No, but ! could have be ' in — followed instantly by a thrilling dissertation on that momentous theme, until the judge commands silence. Margaret Oliver is summoned, whose wit and humor flash and sparkle like diamonds. Many power ' fdl witnesses appear. Yonder stands the prisoner at the bar, John M. Pvoss. Picture, if you can, the tremendous responsibility which he faces— of proving himself a poet. How bravely he battles on through the raging storms of opposi- tion, and condemning evidence, with the courage of the heroes of old, and still soars and soars away in flights of of poetic genius. As to the Attorneys, words fail m to describe the terrific anxiety, the billows of despair and an- guish, which surged through my tempest- tossed heart and brain, while listening to the powerful appeals and philippics of my honorable opponent in the case. Bruce F McCullough. But look! See yonder star of hope shines above that great man ' s head, Geo. W. Morrison, f os tl re ever such a Jitdgel One look from that eye, one stroke from that gavel, and order reigns supreme. NA hat dignity sits enthroned upon his brow — equalled only by the stiffness of that large white collar which well-nigh covers his benign countenance. What wisdom and justice are his. We honor thee, oh! wonder- ful man. Who but thy noble self could have rendered a verdict so marvelous as to bring peace between all contending foes — reconciliation between Illinois and this horror stricken, sorrow-laden class; convince each attorney, witness and interested party, that his side won; adjust every difficulty, until now, with beaming countenance and triumphant mien. ' 84 stands in the long line of our beloved Alma Mater ' s classes, with her fair name redeemed. All hail! Historic night! Glorious indeed are thy inspiring memories. E. M. S. ' 85. IN the early ' 80 ' s, the month of May, Four students of Monmouth are wending their way Towards Pottery Pond , our famous resort For those who like rowing and things of that sort. Now, Emma and Henry were both very large. On Four Hundred pounds they left little marge; While Cora and Will were so small, it was said, S ' :arce Two Hundred Thirty, the balance read. The water was yellow with pottery clay. The old tub of a boat was unsteady, but say! — What odds did that make to this jolly Four? They settled themselves, and pulled from the shore. Laughing loud at the boys ' persistent endeavor In that muddy water, their big oars to feather. l  -VW ! r When lo! pzrhi-ps no one will ever discover Just what caused that clumsy old boat to turn over. And now the great weight of Henry and Emma Added much to the graveness of their sad dilemma: For while Cora and Will trod the water with ease, This unfortunate pair sank in mud to their knees. But in union there ' s strength, and the plans of the four At last brought them ail safely out to the shore. Then weary, bedraggled — no time now to laugh — They sneaked through back alleys, a mile and a half — At Chapel next day, it chanced that a guest Was called on to speak , and we listened with zest While in eloquent words he spoke of the joys To be had in schools of both girls and boys. He warmed to his subject, soared high in the air. And carried us up to that atmosphere rare — w. With similes strong, and metaphors true, Co-ed vantages pictured, comparisons drew. Evermore in our favor as a climax at last, He fittlngi quoted this gem from the past: — Sink or S -vim, Live we heard not the rest — Todd! Tcdd! a voice shouted, Lyon! Todd! passed the Test!! t ILIJ L I ' ' 1,, IP. ' !ji fe ' ' |l, iif l M ' , f||| m ' ' I , i mMm v.i-fiit ' 87 1 J as never surely known but it was often surmised, that Professor Wilson knew more about college pranks than his quiet exclusive devotion to Greek would seem to indicate. Certain members of the class of ' 87 can testify concerning this. It chanced that an unwise husbandman in the vicinity of thecol ege left a luscious melon in his garden one night longer than was safe, and behold in the morning it was not! Also, on that same night, a group of young men feasted royally on a melon bearing great resemblanc3 to the lost treasure. The next day in Greek class, when the reading was over there was a gramatical review and much joy filled the heart of the sole feminine member when Prof. A ilson turned his attention to a group in the corner and in suave tones asked, Will Mr. M. decline nic as for us? Mr. M rose but the first wc ' A?; was his finish and he sat down only to be followed by one and another hose feelings served to overcome them. And (he hour closed with Prof Wilson ' s dry remark 1 see none of the young gentlemen seem able to ' ' ' ■ melon. E. C. W. 89. TT was the day before Thanksgiving ' 86 — Turkey Day it was called and each class had provided for its ■ ■ class professor a suitable bird with which to celebrate the national holiday. The Sophs had p esented theirs the day before, as this was a holiday granted them for appearing upon exhibition a few nights previous and some of them had wished to go home. However a number of the class were loitering about the halls, ready agents for him who always finds work for idle hands to do. An opportunity wss not long in presenting itself. It was learned that the Freshies had their turkey concealed in Philo Hall with the Rev. A. R. Paul as guard. A key to the hall and one to the belfry being secured the Sophs admitted themselves into the hall. Tho ' mischief was in their hearts, their guileless appearance disarmed Paul of suspicion and he unguardedly per mitted Ure to take the turkey in his hands. A quick pass, a hurried opening and closing of the door by con- federates who prevented Paul ' s egress and the turkey disappeared, Paul knew not whither. When sufficient time had elapsed to permit its being secreted the Sophs yielded to his tearful entreaties and permitted him to bear the news to his reproachful classmates. The Freshies being disposed to be decidedly disagreeable over the matter, the Sophs thought it well to attend the presentation by the Juniors to Dr. Hutchison, All was in readiness and the committee bearing ihe gift v as momentarily expected when Bun Ewing threw open the door and yelled, ' The Fresh have stole the turke). All rushed to the front of the college to see Douglas, the embryo Des Moines pastor, waddling across the campus impeded by a twenty pound gobbler. The handicap was too great, he was soon overtaken, the turkey recovered and duly presented, the Dr. responding with the customary poem. By this time the Freshmen had located their turkey in the belfry and were trying to break down the door leading thereto. The coveted bird had in the meantime been given into the hands of the Juniors who had a crow, or rather a turkey to pick with the Freshmen. The belfry door was now thrown open and an attempt made by those in possession of the fowl to carry it through the mob of howling Freshies that blocked the stairs. A battle royal raged from the belfry to the second landing, turkey feathers filling rhe .air. At this point the President thrust himself into the thick of the fight and awarded the prize to its original c ' aimants who bore it away to Prof. Rogers. Recitations were now broken up for the day and all went their vay feeling that Turkey Day had been fittingly observed according to the custom of the old regime. J. E. B. ' 90. TOU ASK from the class of ' 90 a bit of history that will be of interest and spicy. The unde ' yours. Evidently a serious mistake has been made in the selection of the one to furnish this history. Such tasks by unanimous consent were always assigned to an Ohio youngster, no one ever knew how young, by he name of F, O, Ross, commonly known as Funny Old Koss. The bit of history ' out of the large amount of most interesting material furnished by this famous class, may be for present purposes just as well selected with this same ' sedate P Oss as one o its prominent actors. He established his reputation which retnains to this day, when a Freshman It was upon the occasion of presenting a Thanksgiving turkey to the patron professor of the class, known in those days as Tommie, but whose dignity, ability and worth called forth from our better :elves his real and more respectful title, ' Pro- fessor Rodgers. This turkey presentation was following an Lid time class custom. But this particular day was to wirness events that would put a termination to the time-honored and popular practice. A fine bird, of the genus Meleagris, had been purchased and placed under guard in Philo Hall until the the third hour should arrive, when the Freshmen expected to deliver their gift to the occupant of the chair of mathematics. But in an evil time certain of the baser sort. Sophomores and Juniors, overpowered the guard whose sur-name was Paul, now the chief apostle of the U P ' s in Cedar Rapids, captured the innocent turkey and locked it in the college belfry It was soon noised abroad among the Freshmen, who were filled with indignation and resolved upon revsnge. A reconnoitering party of thres lonely Freshmen made an ill-prepared attack upon the Junior committee who were just entering their class room with an eighteen pound fowl already dressed for Prof. Hutchinson ' s table. No sooner had a Freshie seized this trophy, than the Junior Committee sounded the alarm, and the three braves rushed the full length of the hall for the front entrance and the campus, followed by about forty yelling, excited and exasperated Juniors. A capture was inevitable and was speedily efl ectedby the overwhelming force of numbers. This skirmish over with a sort of Harper ' s Ferry result, the whole Freshman class now thoroughly aroused, rushed for the college belfry, and stormed the door guarded by a mass of Sophomores who were soon re-inforced by the Juniors. It is safe to say that no cane-rush or foot- ball scrimmage ever equaled in severity, magnitude and magnificence the bat.le that waged in the re-siezureof that unfortunate fowl. For nearly thirty minutes on that eventful November afternoon, 1887, the old college shook from turret to foundation stone, as the indomitable Freshmen regained their lost prestige by recapturing against fearful odds their precious bird, and inch by inch fought their triumphant wiy back down four flights of stairs to the door of the mathematical chambar. A cufFless, coatless cordon of Freshmen, panting and perspiring, surrounded Ross and the turkey while the former made the speech of his life amid the smiles and shouts of the victorious class and the sullen silence of such of the defeated horde as were able to drag their battered and bleeding frames into the outer circle of on- lookers. The n_xt year a decree went forth from the poweri that no turkey was to be brought about the college premises. Some fertile brain thought a compromise might be aceeptible if some other kind of fowl was brought, and therefore smuggled an old goose and a rather diminutive chicken into the sacred precincts of the college halls. The perpetrators were so summarily dealt with that it was never attempted again. And for nearly twenty years, so far as the writer knows, the professors of Monmouth College have been under the dire necessity of purchasing their own Thanksgiving fowls. O, the shame of it I ! A, C. D. ' 91. BEAR SIR: — You struck the wrong fellow For the relation of amusing and spicy incidents in the career of the class of ' 91. The funniest things always occur A hile a class is green and soft, namely in the Freshman and Sophomore years. 1 escaped that period in Monmouth by entering in the last half of the Junior year. However there were some remarkable Facts in the later hi;t3ry of the class of ' 9 1, Every member of it has reason to remember Hov Ruby Played, They will not forget the pleasure of drawing bones in the depart- ment of Natural Science a pleasure that came near bringing on war between the Prof, and the class. We had length and brevity in our midst which arrived together at the Senior reception, much to the amusement of those who had made the arrangements. The ■vvricer was length and the shortest girl in the class was brevity. Our Senior year was characterized by a serious war the cause of which was never definitely known, it was not a chivalrous war because it was between the sexes. The result was there were few matches made within the class. In this respect the class was remarkably unlike ihe one which preceeded us which was re- nowned for its love-making and love-giving qualities. However most of the class have been quite successful since graduation and are now married or still hoping to be- So far none of the class has been elected governor or senator of any state, though several of thtm studied law and put themselves in line. On the other hand no one has bsen sent to the penitentiary or been elected a life insurance president. So we are hoping that the Class of ' 9 I vvill live out her days with great glory to Monmouth and honor to herself. Sincerely, P. T. ' 93. A REMINISCENCE. TTvlSTANCE lends enchantment Yes. a dozen years makes a difference. They touch the landscape up L ' with many a rosy hue and make a picture rarely seen on land or sea. But this picture enriched by the retrospect still hangs in the rugged frame of truth far removed from fables and parables and the wild wanderings of zealots and fanatics — seein ' things in the dark ' , confounding them with facts. For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the class of ' 93 was never noted. That honor went elsewhere. They never followed the Son of Nebat who made Israel to sin. Innocent as a sunbeam, pure as a lily, sweet as a berry, strong as a Briton the class abides as a model. Humility was also theirs. Like silver to Solomon it was not much reckoned with in those strenuous days But ' 93 set up a new order of things -planted everywhere the rare flowers of humility. To this very day they may be seen in the campus — if you search for them with a miscroscope, You ask for the greatest mystery that ever overhung our class? Listen, Whether Walter Hopping and Will Sawhill ever paid for that turkey our class presented to Prof, Wilson. We all paid our quota fcr that enterprise. They were our committee on fowl. They got him all right, a noble bird, 18 pounds, 3 feet high in his stocking feet a handsomer fellow never ruled a roost, h became noised abroad however that it was a foul procedure, that the bird had been confiscated and the two boys with their girls had numerous ice cream celebrations down at Hodgens ' at our expense, Tainted money was not a burning issue in those days. But the mystery lifted The report was false. The boys were guiltless. The way they both now preach the 8th commandment argues volumes of credit to early training. Our greatest expedition was our class journey to Kirkwood. We were guests of Ella McCoy. With Walter Davidson, a master at the harp, and Clint Huey presiding genius on the floor, it was a great event and leaped into immortality. For once the Michigan girl was queen in Kirkwood. But while music and song and laughter reigned within, some ignorant upper classmen changed the wheels of our buggies and carriages. It has come down with the traditions that many couples came home that night and never realized that their buggy seals were on a 15° slant. This was never proved. The days under review were days of glory and strength. They were the days of McMichael and Hjtchison and Rogers and Wilson and Maxwell, These personahties with others now in the faculty, are all held by us in tender and grateful recollection. At the utterance of their names ' 93 removes the hat and itands to do them honor. They were the days too when Hunter ' s Point stood in its glory presided over by that quick mind and great heart and weariless hand that brought joy and gladness for a multitude. Mother Hunter was not in the faculty but she was enthroned in the heart of the student body. She lived to make them true and generous and strong. Her soul was poured out as an offering and her very life was laid down as a sacrifice. A fragrant evergreen Vs reath is her name, and no flower of mine can add aught to its beauty or its worth. ' 94. Says your orator. Here ' s to the class of ' 94, Steeped in ignorance And superstition galore. Two practice medicine. Eight the Gospel preach. One defeats justice, Three have learned to teach. One is counting money. Another deals in grain. One is a manufacturer, And all are making gain. The others chase themselves about Doing various stunts. May be on the ragged edge. But wear the best of fronts. Fourteen wear petticoats. Silk, rustling and gay. The sixteen bread winners, — Nothing at all to say. Twenty- four are married. Some, infants now obey: Six would like to contract. None, alimony pay. Of the six unmarried ones. Four, leap-year await, To hypnotize some fellow. While hanging on the gate. The other two, faint hearted. Inadvertently, no doubt. Failed to pop the question ' Til their chances faded out. NOBODY. ' 95. Yes, Ninety ' five remembers Monmouth College campus, The halls, the v alls, and e ' en the gal! Of the men who tried to flunk us. Yet ever the fairest picture Of which we are posessors. Is that of our Alma Mater And her beloved professors. In Koger ' s room we ' ve often stcod With fear about to smother; And stumbled through a problem. Then, Um-um not quite. Take another. Or, surging on o ' er hill and dale. We ' ve followed Maxwell ' s lead, A hunting for a craw-fish. Or some peculiar kind of weed. E ' en now, through all this lapse of time, How well we can recall The sound of Knox ' s dying shriek. When Monmouth won foot- ball. And if we were as deaf as posts. We still could hear the mutter Of the folks at Jacksonville Who were not able quite to cut ' er. We still can see just as of old The scenes at Omstead ' s Mill, Those hayraiks and those broad-brimmed hats- Most any heart would thrill. Eleven years have passed since then. — How swift the years have sped Since McMillan marked the graJes While we our Latin read. And well we recollect the stairs By which we used to climb To chapel, where we ' ve wandered through Old Hundred many a time. The happy liours, like birds, flew by As lightly and as free. But now those happy college days Are passed for ou and me. Land, ho ' we v orked! Bnt since those days We.ve had to work heaps harder We ' ve doctors five and preachers eight. And five to care for the larder; One runs a bank, and one a store. Our lawyers two, at justice aim. Five maids old Cupid ' s darts have shunned But get there just the same. And thrice upon our roll occurs The star that tells the story Of a life that has finished it ' s work on earth And entered into glory. So one by one we shall be called To enter our home of love. But each pearl that leaves the broken string. Is set in Friendship ' s crown above ' 96 THE class of ' 96 was remarkable in at least two respec:ts:--First in the smill percentage of ladies in the class, and second, in the large percentage of gentleman entering the ministry. Nova do not understand me to say that these two facts have any relationship, the one to ths other, I speak of it only as a coincidence. Speaking of coincidences, it is related ihat Kimmelshue once wandered out Lover ' s Lane in the days of apple-harvest, and with his heart throbbing in the same old way, halted for a brief, blissful moment under The Old Apple Tree. It was then that an inspiration cams to him. Perhaps he remembered a lesson he had not yet mastered, or a friend whom he had promised to see. At all events he tore his way thro the orchard and with not the slightest hesitation cleared a hsdge-fence fully six feet high. Such moments come to one but once in a life time. They should not be neglected. As some one has said There is a divinity which shapes our ends ! Perhaps you will remember Judge Stuart ' s dog H3 is reported to have had an unusually morose and grasping disposition. But do not understand m2 to say that these facts have any association with eaoh other. I mention it merely as an interesting coincidence Perhaps you will remember also that in the autumn of ' 95. October, possibly, Prof. McMillan had some delicious grapes, which while promising well, early in the season, proved disappointing to the Dr. in the later - yield. The students all sympathized deeply with the Dr. in his disappointment, and hoped the yield might be better next year. And it v as a disappointment, for grapes wer exceedingly fine that year. I remember that my good friend Hann um called me in one night to sampU a case v hich he had just solicited, and upon my word, they were truly Escholian. They reminded one of the Grapes of Naples, fruited and flavored on the ashy slopes of Vesuvius, or grown in some Horatian vineyard under the walls of Rom,. But I vA ' ander from my theme. Doubtless it was only a coincidence. Of one thing ' 96 may v ell be proud. We produced for Monmouth College her first great foot ball player, the Ivan-Terrible of that dreadful gime. With all his gsnerous kindness of heart, he had the strength of an ox and could endure longer than them all. I remember ). T, well. We used to eat at the sams club Those were strenuous days. They v ere days of v restling and prevailing. What could not be done today was put off till tomorrow, What could not be disposed of s-ms ptnir was disposed of p ' it ii pen. or mere sordidly, olla p:u{nd,i ' But we thrived on it, and who can tell of the strength of character which developed under such discipline. Surely there is here more than a coincidence. Bui they do say that once when Bert and J. T. were rooming together that Bert got up at twelve o ' clock midnight, and dressed for breakfast. I have heard it said that ]. T. was out that night, but as he was ever in- nocent and guileless, I suppose it was only one of those curious coincidences. But I see the college world a nodding, and the editor reminds m? that three hundred vvords are enough. 1 have already written more. Another nod— a curious coincidence only, I trust! F. E. ' 03. @NE OF the funniest recDiUctions of my course at Monmouih Co ' lege. that com s to mind now. is an inci- dent connected with a contested election over the office of shsrifF of Warren county. The election had gone Republican by a narrow majority of about thirty votes. All the college boys who were of age, about thirty in number, had voted at this election, and it was surmised by th Democratic managers that practi- cally all these votes were Republican. Hence they argued that if they could contest the election and throw out these college votes on the ground of non-residence, or for other reasons, it would give them a majority and place their man in office. Accordingly all the students who had voted were subpoenaed to appear at the court house, and show cause why they should or should not be allowed to vote in Monmouth, The summons caused consternation in some manly bosoms, and some of the boys consulted lawyers as to what they had better do when on the wit- n;is stand. Thsy ' .ere advised that the could refuse to an w r any qjestion and plead either personal privilege or that the answer would b self-mcriminating. One of the students, who for the purposes of this narrative shall be nam3less, ascended the witness stand determimed to balk the prosecution by refusing to answer almost everything asked him. In reply to the lawyer ' s inquiry he told his name, but when asked his father ' s name he replied, 1 decline to answer. The lawyer said. Why do you decline to answer? and Jim raised a roar of laughter by saying, The answer might tend to incriminate me, Had Jim ' s father been present his reply might have sadly incriminated him in the paternal eye ' 04. THE PRESENT college administraJion has yet to return thanks for the mighty salvation which was given it on the momentous day of its inauguration, !t failed to come into being in the proper fcrm but the if ' regularity in procedure can be overlooked in view of the catastrophe which was averted- That the climax to the whole of the inaugural program, the presentation to the incoming President, Dr. T. H. McMichael. of the Monmouth College Seal, never took place is not generally known. The mystery whereof is now set forth. The College Seal is very heavy. It is moreover rather cumbersome. On that account the Pov ' ers ' in arranging the details of the inauguration ceremonies decided to use something much lighter, One of Buck ' s rubber stamps with the word paid on it as chosen for this purpose. In the presence of the thousands who were expected to be present, it was planned to perpetrate one of the worst impostures imaginable. The new president was to be made the victim of this nefaric us deal, and he was to take his cffice clothed only with the . authority vested in a rubber stamp. In some manner the trick leaked out and the Seniors, members of the class of ' 04. were quickly to the rescue. Wouldn ' t their diplomas lock nice with a Paid mark on them? Future generations, too, seemed to cry for salvation. A meeting of the Faithful was called and it was decided to risk the utmost in order to avert the impending humiliation. The salvation of Monmouth College from the usurpation and dominion of the Rubber Stamp was planned. The day of the inauguration arrived. The auditorium was crowded and the exercises were being carried off without a hitch, Hon. ]. Ross Hanna rose to present the College Seal. It was a solemn moment. Thousands bent forward to witness the crowning event of the day. But no seal was to be found. Search failed to reveal it. An embarassing pause ensued, but Mr Hanna in a most clever and resourceful manner spoke the words without the seal. And but few ever knew. But to this day President McMichael has no been presented with the Monmouth College Seal. Thus the danger of the rubber stamp v as destroyed. No diplomas could ever be marked ' paid. ' 04 had saved to herself and coming classes all the glcry and credit which attaches to a Mcnmcuth College diploma, meritorously v on and properly given But what of the rubber stamp? It had. at an opportune moment, been carried away captive and sen- tenced to be divided among it ' s spoilers. Since which time it has been seen no more. But the real seal of Monmouth College still holds sway, the pride of thousands of her alumni and friends, marking the upward path of knowledge and starting hundreds out into life ' s battle better prepared for service. ' 04 When ' 05 was Young. THE CLASS oF 1905. when still an infant in college life, decided thai the Dark Red and Blue shoulj float from some lofty spot of college property as a signal of the prowess of the stalwart sons of ' 05. Accordingly a number of the boys one night ascended to the auditorium roof and proceeded to fasten a banner in a secure position and preparations were made to guard the same. Two of the classmen on guard below, impatient with delay, decided to assist in the proceedings on the roof. They made their way to the first floor from the basement and were just entering the west room off rhe stage, when the president pro ' tern of the college was presiding, officially, at the electric switch board. The presiding official, an unwelcome guest at our midnight ' itunt , an once gave chase to the retreating freshmen and with a mighty grip he pulled one of the two up from the small cellar-way into the intense light of the main room. To picture the appearance of the freshmen who had been captured, is impossible. Standing on the stage with bowed head he was catechised by the faculty representative and after promising to have nothing more to do with the affiair he was turned loose, to be later placed on probation. And. as f r the boys on the roof, in a most .lever manner they succeeded in giving the slip to the offi- cial and a county sheriff who had been called in. and with one exception went free without capture. But, when all was said and done, two freshmen appeared on the carpet , the colors were not flaunted from the lofty position, yet they had not been trailed in the dust before an adverse fate, an interrupting president and a county sherifi . and the Dark Red and Blue lived to adorn the roof another day. BY THEIR FKUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. Monmouth ' s sons and daughters all Since fifty years gone by: Praises have to Monmouth brought, hier name has lifted high But why comes fame? vv hat signifies High honcrs, wide renown ' ! ' Why should her name be lifted up Above the common ground? Why greater Monmouth ' s name today Than ' twas in fifty-six? Nor her fame in years to come Can we the limit fix. Monmouth stands today wide known. Who has famed her so? Whai mysterious messengers Has made the world to know? How could her name obscurely lie Against eternal laws? Her greater fruits have made her great; Results surpassing cause. Like poer ' b hymns that outward flow, Bring praise from near and far; lust so Monmouth ' s children. She Is praised because they are. You— oh men and women, who In Monmouth ' s halls were (rained. Do owe her thanks and give them too. And have her name proclaimed. And you, oh Monmouth, see how much On these you do depend. Do you appreciate their worth. And many more such send C EccRiTEAN Roll. Lawrence Allen. V alter Blood, Robert Bryson, Cloyce Beard. Homer Campbell, Herbert Clarke, Robert Clarke, James Clarke, Frank Cowick, Bert Cowick, Arthur Clendening. Carl Croson. Paul Calhoun, Joe Calhoun, Henry Driemeyer, Lawrence Fulton, Robert Gamble, Walter Getty, Kenneth Gordon, John Hanna. John Hamilton. Fred Hickman, Willard Jones, Web Johnson, Elmer Johnson, Roy Linn. John Martin, Clyde Matson, James McCoy, John Millan, Chas Monteith, Will Morrison, Ross Moore, Wm. Moorehead, John McAllister, Harry McClellan, F red McClain, Chas, McCracken, John McGeoch, Mac McMillan, Eugene Nixon, Glen Parsons, Shellar Peacock, Edwin Pierce, Chas, Pollock, Royal Hughes, Robert Rhea. John W Robinsoi Geo Sawyer. Leslie Sherrick. Chester Smith, Thomas Smiih, Razor Smiih, Zenas Spicer, Will Stevenson, James Stevenson, Wiley Stewart, Wm. Turnbull. Wallace Turnbull Earle Vincent, Harold Watt, Earl Wells, Fsobert White, John Yost. Philo Roll. Wallace Baird, Henry Brown, Bruce Biddle, Wallace Black, William Cole, George Cunningham Harland Duncan, Kay Elder. Earl Elder, Harry Eldridge, Bryce Ferguson, Dalton Galloway, Thomas Hamilton, Samuel Hamilton, William Hickman, Frank Hill, William Hoyman, Robert Kerr, Ralph Kyle, John Lant, James LeClere, Charles McConnell, Frank McLean, Homer McKay, Matthew Neill, Carl Nelson, Arch Owen, Arthur Owen, John Parshall, Alfred Philipps, James Picken, Joseph Picken Samuel Picken, Hugh Khodes. James Rhodes, John Robinson, Frederick Sharpe, Arthur G. Smith, Carlton Smith, Arthur Sprague, Everett Stewart, William Warnock, Don Wherry, Amateur des Belles Letters. Maude Allison, Gertrude Anderson, Katherine Anderson, Sadie Archer, Eleanor Austin, Louise Austin, Bessie Bailey, Millie Bigger, Maud Blair, Grace Brownell, Mabel Burns, Ethel Collins. Carrie Colthurst, Mary Cooke, Mabel Cowden, Clara Coyner, Esther Dame, Grace Duff, Florence Do ' , Michal Earp, Florence Findiey. Beth Graham, Ella Griffith, MauJe Hood, Nancy Irwin, Blanche Johnston, Rurh Johnston. Ada Kreig, Jennie Kinsman. Mary Ky!e Carr e Hamilton. Merle Jewe ' , Frances Lanphere, Leila Logan, Annis Marshall, Helen McClanahan, Fredrica McDougall, Bessie McCoy. Doiha McKelvey, Carol McMillen, Eva Mil Ian, Nona Nesbit, Ethel Nichol, Edith Olliver, Luella Olliver, Jennie Pearce, Jessie Pearce, Anna Pinkerton Nettie Pratt, Bessie Renwick, Lena P odgers, Louise Reid Nora Scantlin, Ethel Senseman Maria Spicer, Wilma Spicer, Jennie Smith, Laura Wait, Leota Warwick, Nancy Warwick, Rachel Weir, Elizabeth Whiteman, Lucile White, Blanche Wilson, Lucile Wilson, Ethel Downing. Aletheorian Roll. Fannie Hicks, Berlha Campbell. Ada St, Clair. Ethel Porter. Grace Davidson, Bertha Weakley, Mabel Weakley, Nellie Hyer, Feme Thompson, Mildred Gilmer, Belle Hamilton, Ethel Lowery, Grace Miller, Lois Buchanan, Margaret Weed. Georgia Weed, Sadie Dungan, Agnes Watson, Agnes Young, Maude Powell, Emma PifFer. Gertrude Fort, Margaret F obinson, Eva Spicer, Stella Wiley, Stella Kyle. Madge McLain, Margaret Bihimeier, Agnes Furgeson. Elsie French, Ada Maskrey, Ella Downie, Ethyle McCoy, Alice Elder, Margaret Downie, Lillian Hardy, Elizabeth Baldridge. Philo-Eccritean Contestants. DEBATERS. HEKBERT CLARKE. From Princeton. Indiana, will represent Eccritean Society on the contest platform as Debater. Eccritean Society is very Fortunate in being championed by such a man as Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke is both a natural and a trained debater His natural style of address is forceful and direct. His mental ability aided by a strong athletic stage presence makes him a man of force upon the platform. WALLACE BLACK. Phiio ' s debater, entered college in 1902. He took second place in Philo declamation in ' 03 and first place in Elliot ' Cieland the next year. He represented Philo as orator in inter-society contest in 1904. A keen, forceful thinker, he believes in athletics as an accessory to logic, and has been a member of the baseball and basket ball teams last year and this. He will graduate next year. OKATORS. ARTHUR SMITH, Orator for Philo, is a native cF Illinois coming from Somonauk, so many of whose son have been on the Philadelphian roll. He is one of the most polished speakers in college and has an enviable record for his four years here, He won 1st place in Elliot ' Cleland in his freshman year and second place in Preliminary oratorical when a junior. He has also represented his society on Philo-Eccritean as ceclaimer and essayist. In addition to his open meeting work, he has been prominent along social and religious lines, and is now president of the Oratorical Association. CLYDE E, MATdON, A resident of Mcnmcuth will represent Eccritean Society as contest cater. Mr. Matson is a man of literary culture. His training has well equipped him for the position he has the honor of filling. In High School Mr. Maiscn commenced his literary career and throughout his college course he has maintained a high standard cf platform work. Mr. Matson has a deep, rich voice, an easy stage presence and an earnestness which win him the confidence of his audience. Mr. Matson was Declamer for Eccntcan last year. ESSAYISTS. W.LLIAM STEVENSON, A resident of Monmouth, vill represent Eccritean Society as ccn est essayist. Mr. Stevenson is a man of keen intellectual ability, speaks with a smooth, deep voice and is able to hold the attention oF his audience by his simple directness. Eccri- tean Society IS Fortunate in having such a man and who is willing to put forth every effort to do his socieJy credit. ALFRED PHILIPS. Philo essayist, is one of her Far western members, his home being in the mountains of Washington A graduate of NA aitsburg Academy ' 04, winner of Philo declamation contest in ' 05. and a faithful performer on Philo platform. He is a man of more than ordinary promise, and well deserves the hcnor conferred upon him. He is a member of the Sopho ' more class. DECLAIMERS. FP.ED SHARPE. Philo ' s declaimer, entered Monmouth in 18 7 From the Hoosier State, and wkh many interruptions in his college career, he is now a Senior. He has merited his position as declaimer by consistent work; winning second place in Phiio Elliot ' Cleland oration contest, also second in the Preliminary Oratorical in ' 04. His voice has a remarkable carrying power, and his performances on open meeting, both in declamation and oration, have been well received. LAWRENCE ALLEN. Will represent Eccritean Society as contest declaimer. Mr. Allen merits his position from his record in the past. Having represented the Monmouth High School upon declamation plat ' form and having been prominent during his two years in Eccritean upon her literary platform. Mr. Allen ' s experience and natural ability make him a desirable man to represent Eccritean upon contest platform. Oratorical Association. OFFICERS. ARTHUR SMITH CLYDE MATSON CARL CROSON President. Vice President. Secretary and Treasurer. At ojr preliminary oratorical contest, Shellar Peacock was chosen to represent Monmouth College in the Inter-Collegiate Contest. The Inter-Collegiate Associa- tion consists of six colleges: Knox, of Galesburg: Illinois, of Jacksonville; Blackburn, of Carlinville: Eureka, of Eureka: Illinois Wesleyan. of Bloomington. and Monmouth College, of Monmouth. These schools meet in the next annual contest at Eureka on October 5, 1906 SHELLER PEACOCK, At the meeting of the Inter Collegiate OratoricaF Association this year Monmouth College was represented by Kobert M. Kerr. Mr. Kerr is a man of singular ability in literary composition as well as an orator of strong delivery. Mr, Kerr has appeared for Monmouth upon the contest platform upon several occasions and has always maintained or strengthened the high standard at which Mon- mouth College is acknowledged to stand. Monmouth College appears as one of the few institutions of our land which possesses a talesman of fortune. Although in number of students she ranks below the average of her competitors, yet the position as determined by points won in the Oratorical Association places her 4th among the nine colleges and universities belonging to the Inter State Oratorical Association. Two of her men have conferred upon their institution and the State of Illinois the highest honor attainable in the college literary world. )ohn Ross in 1884 won first and C. F Wishart in 1894 was the second man from Monmouth to win this contest. A. C. Douglass of the class of 1890 and Fred Elliott of the class of 1896 brought to Mon- mouth the honor of 2nd place among the colleges of the Inter State. Two other Monmouth men have repre- sented Illinois upon the Inter State platform. |. S. E. Erskine of 1881, and Neal McClanahan of 1905. At this time the close of the first fifty years of the life of our college, we may justly feel proud of the position we have attained in the oratorical world. And may the students who are yet to come upon the platform of our college seek to place Monmouth first among the colleges of this land. ROBERT M. KERR. MONMOUTH-COE DEBATE. l ONMOUTH ' S second debate with Coe was held March 30th at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The question I ' J-ls debated was: Fkesolved, That Party Candidates for all Offices Within the Stale Should be Ncmin- ■ated by Direct Vote. Monmouth supported the affirmative. The men representing Monmouth were Robert M. Kerr, Carl Croson and Arthur Sprague. Coe ' s debaters were Wm. Phelps, Arthur E. Larimer and Clyde ' C. Knight, speaking in the order named. They were men experienced in debate. They attacked the question from its practical side alone and drew their conclusions from present existing laws. The affirmative, however, devoted their main speeches to the principles underlying the proposition and then clinched them by bringing in an unanswerable mass of evidence as to its practical operation. Our debaters are to be commended for the enthusiastic and energetic way in which they tockhold cf this debate. They are three men who know hov to work hard, and they spared no effioris in this debate. The .le ader, Mr. Kerr, went to Minneapolis and St. Paul, where the direct primary may be best studied in operation and learned first hand of its good and bad qualities, while the team also sent out hundredsof letters to prominent men over ihe country in order to ascertain the facts about the direct primary. Few debating teams have ■conducted such a thorough, original investigationof this question as this team did. They also had a firm grasp of the principles involved. The iudges were Judge W. S. Witheron of Ml. Pleasant, Iowa, Prof, Bitts of Cornell College, and Prof. H, H Free of Cornell college. The decision was two to one in favor of the negative. The vote of the judges shows that the contest was a close one. Unfortunately one of the judges was a confirmed machine man, making the decision somewhat unsatisfactory. Y. W. C. A. n HIS YEAR the work of the Young Women ' s Christian Association has been directed JL largely along lines of organization and the systematizing of the several departments of the field. The spring term of 1905 was given very definitely to the outlining of policies and to the formation of the various committees. During the summer months the membership committee, under the most eflicient direction of Miss Feme Thompson, extended to the women students, who were to take up work in the college this year, a cordial wel- come by personal letters. With the opening of the new term the fall campaign work was pushed energetically and about sixty new members were added to the roil. At present there are 113 active members and four associate members, making a total of 117. The Association was represented at the State Convention held at Decatur by Miss Ada St. Clair and Miss Bell Hamilton, who brought back excellent reports. In March, Miss Jennie Kinsman from the Association attended the Student Volunteer Convention at Nash- ville, Tennessee The regular Friday evening circle meetings have been continued during the year, and a marked increase of interest in the study of missions has been manifest, both by those who expect to take up active work in the field and by many others who realize that an intelligent knowledge of such work is demanded of every well informed young woman. The work this year has been somewhat crippled throughout the State by the lo ' s of our most valued secretary. Miss Vose. but the new cabinet have taken up their duties in a way which promises large successes for the year of 1906 ' 07, p: Y. M. C. A. KVr ANY consider the college man merely as one who is out for a good time. Bur - their estimate is limited, for beneath the students ' atmosphere of frivolity is a vein of seriousness. In fact, this paradoxical union of the enjoyment of present life with a proper apprehension of its gravity and of its relation to eternity is a distinguishing charac- teristic of the real college man. Th3 one side of the student ' s nature is well known; to know the other, one must study the operations of the various Christian organizations, and ' first of all the Young Men ' s Christian Association. Monmouth ' s Y. M. C. A. has ever been a vital force in promoting the spiritual life of the college, and especially effective has been the work of the past year. This is prob ably largely due to the initiation of the young men ' s meetings on Sabbath morning. The nature of the meetings has been as practical as possible. As a result the men have becom- more sincere; their religion has assumed a more practical bearing on their lives. Another step in advance has been the introduction and continuance of Bible Study classes, which have been very valuable in encouraging the systematic study of the Scriptures. The Association was represented at the summer conference at Lake Geneva by K. M. Kerr, S. C. Pickene and Jas. F. LeClere. Paul Calhoun and F. R. McLean were delegates to the State Con- vention in October. Through the Association, two delegates were sent to the Volunteer Convention at Nashville. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS. -sti-= DRAnATlC (( As You Like It. PRESENTED BY SENIOR CLASS ' 05. CAST OF CHARACTERS. The Duke Living in Banishment WM. M. PORTER Frederick, his Brother and Usurper of his Domains - - GLEN B. PORTER Amius ( Lords Attending on the - - - - WILEY STEWART laques ( Banished Duke ( MILFORD E BARNES Le Beau, a Courtier Attending upon Fredrick - HAROLD McCLANAHAN Charles, Wrestler to Fredrick , - , . DAVID W. CHERRY Oliver 1 Sons of Sir Rowland - ( MILLS J. TAYLOR Orlando ■ de Boys - - . . CHARLES P. BLAIR Jacques I HAKOLD McCLANAHAN Adam, Servant to Ol.ver FLETCHER GARDNER Touchstone, a Clown W. GRAHAM BRYSON Corin ( -,,, ( ALFA B. WHITE Sylvius f Shepherds ( JANETTE A. TINKER William, a Country Fellow in Love with Audrey - - WM. P. GORDON Hymen NEAL D. McCLANAHAN Rosalind, Daughter of the Banished Duke - - JESSIE E, GRAHAM Celia, Daughter of Frederick . . . . , EKMA A. BABCOCK Audrey, a Country Girl MAY F. HENDERSON Phcebe, a Shepherdess EDITH E. CALHOUN Attendants---Wilda H. Barnes, Mary B Clark. Nora O. Corrette, Graoe McKinley, Joanna Mitchell, Edna A. Pollock, Olive L. Sprowl. Director of Orchestra Director of Play Business Manager Mrs. Alice B. Hobart - Gertrude D. Henderson ' Mills J. Taylor PROGKAM The Dilemma. Presented by the Kinior Class, ' 07, CAST OF CHARACTERS: Dan Gillespie, a bachelor, - - HOMER CAMPBELL Jorkins Jobson, his gardener, - - - ARCH OWEN Deacon Smith, his aunt ' s trustee, - - ROSS MOORE Sally, his cook, ETHEL SENSEMAN Miss Camson. his housakeeper, - - FLORENCE FINDLEY Louisiana, a dark brune;te, - . - - MILLIE BIGGER 1 MABLE COWDEN Triplets - ■ WALLACE TURNBULL KATHEKINE ANDERSON Director of Play, - MISS GERTRUDE D. HENDERSON Manager of Play, WM. TURNBULL McBeth ECCRITEAN HALL. AP1 :L 20. 1906. CAST OF CHARACTERS 10. II. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17-18. 19-20. 21. 22. 32-24. 25. Macbeth , , , , WILLIAM JOHN McAllister. Lady Macbeth - - KENNETH PHELPS GORDON Ptes. Duncati . . . . JAMES ROBERT BRYSON McDufF , . , , EARL HAMILTON WELLS Milcom - - WALLACE JOHNSTON TURNBULL Banquo WALLACE lOHNSON Fleance—Banquo ' s son . . . , BOBBIE |AMES Ross EARL WALKER VINCENT IstW.tch RICHARD PHELPS 2nd Witch JAMES BRYSON 3d Witch - - - ROBERT HAMILTON WHITE Porter EARL WALKER Gentle Lady - - - MISS WALLY TURNBULL Doctor VINCENT WALKER Sexton JAMES ROBERTS Steward KENNETH PHE LPS 2 Murderers - BUCK HAMILTON, REDDY VINCENT 2 Servants to Duncan - BOB HAMILTON. EARL WALKER Servant to Macbeth , , , , LITTLE BUCK ' ' Servant to Lady Macbet ' i - - - EARL HAMILTON Messengers -,..,. BUCK ' BOB Ghost . , , , STRANDED IN PEORIA ' IF there had been others A e should have told you. ' PROGRAM Mid Summer Nights Dream. SHAKESPEARE, Comedy in Three Acts, Presented by Senior C!; CAST. TIneseus, Duke of Atlnens WALTER BLOOD Lysander, Lord of Hermia JAMES RHODES Demetrius, his rival - CLYDE MATSON Egeus, an Athenian noble, father of Hermia - HENRY DRIEMEYER Philostrate, master of the revels - - - - W. W, HICKMAN Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons . . , - NANCY IRWIN Hermia, daughter of Egeus, and in love with Lysander, FRANCES LANPHERE Helena, in love with Demetrius - - - FHRNE THOMPSON ( ADA ST. CLAIR Amazons in attendance on Hippolyta - - ANNA PINKERTON STELLA WILEY THE HARD HANDED MEN OF ATHENS Nick Bottom, the wearer . . . , WILL |. STEVENSON Joince, the carpenter F. RAY ELDER Snug, the loiner JOHN W. ROBINSON Flute, the bellows mender SAMUEL PICKEN Snout, the tinker FRANK R. McLANE Starveing, the tailor JOHN S. LANT FAIRIES, Oberon, King of Fairyland . - - . ARTHUR G SMITH Titania, Queen of Fairyland , - , - BLANCHE WILSON Puck, or Pvobin Goodfellow JAMES Le CLERE Peaseblossom BEKTHA CAMPBELL Cobweb ESTHER DAME Moth - ' LUELLA OLIVER Mustardseed NELLIE HYER Rose petal EDNA WHITEHILL ( JENNIE SMITH Singing Fairies BESS BUTLEK MAUDE BURR Music MENDELSSOHN ' S. Philo Peanut Night. @N Friday evening. November third, the Phiiadelphian Literary Society held their annual Peanut Banquet which was to celebrate the election of their contest team. • Those elected were, Wallace Black, ■debater: Arthur Smith, orator: Alfred Philipps, essayist: Fred Sharpe, declaimer. A reception was held in Philo Hall. About one hundred guests were present. The entertainment of the evening was very unique, each guest being privileged to have an expert fortune-teller give him a glimpse into his future After this, an excellent musical program was given. The guests then retired to an adjoining room where an elegant five course banquet was served. The banquet hall was beautifully decorated with Philo colors, red and gold, and autumn leaves which added much, to the attractiveness of the room An interesting toast program closed the evening The toasts were as follows; TOASTMASTER-GEORGE M. WILSON. To Monmouth College ROBT. M. KEKR To New Members THOMAS HAMILTON. Response WILLIAM HICKMAN. To Our Ladies FRANK E. HILL. Response MISS ETHEL LOWRY. To Our Contestants FRANK R.. McLEAN. Response CONTESTANTS. To Philo ARTHTR SPRAGUE EccRiTEAN Peanut Night. @N THE evening of the third of November, Eccritean Society held her annual banquet in honor of her representatives for the Philo-Eccritean contest. The following were her contestants: Herbert Clarke, debater; Clyde Matson. orator: Will Stevenson, essayist; Lawrence Allen, declaimer. The event proved to be one of the most successful of Eccritean ' s many pleasant social functions. The reception was held in Eccritean Ha ' l where her guests were entertained v ith a very pleasing musical and literary program. The guests we ' e then Invited to the gymnasium where an elegant banquet was served. The gvmnasium had been completely transform ed by abundant decorations of corn-stalks and pumpkins which entirely hid the walls. The balcony was draped in pink, the society co ' or- Peanuts in decorated sacks, tied with pink ribbon were given as souvenirs. The toastmaster of the evening was Herbert R Clarke. The following toasts were given; PROGRAM OF TOASTS. Toastmistress-FLORENCE MAY FINDLEY. To the Semi-Centennials, . , . - SHELLER PEACOCK. Tales of the Semi-Centennials, - , . , CLYDE MATSON, • Sit Lux. NANCY IKWIN. Piano Solo -MARIE KETTERING. ■■Lest We Forget, - - , . . MABEL COWDEN. ■■He Slumbers not nor Sleeps. , - . . ARCH OWEN. The Cupola by Moonlight, , . , . KUTH JOHNSON. Vocal Solo— JENNIE SMITH. Bible Stones. HEKBERT CLARKE. Piano Solo— BESS BUTLER. ' ■Gliding Down the Waters of the Dear Old Mississippi, ESTHER DAME. Astronomy — In the Spring a Young Man ' s Fancy Lightly Turns to Thoughts of Love. , , , , HENRY DPslEMEYER. Beefsteak at its Best, BERTHA CAMPBELL. Keys to the West Door, WILL STEVENSON. JUNIOR QUARTETTE. The Freshman Banquet. WEBSTEP v ' S unabridged dictionary does not contain adjectives which would adquately describe the splendors and eloquence which prevailed at our banquet. The scene was one which will long be remembered by all those present. The artistic arrangements of flowers, and of our class colors, the glorious purple and white, was a fitting background for the grace and beauty everywhere prevalent. We cannot close this phase of our history without a word about our Sophomore friends. Strange as it may seem it is true that it required the combined efforts of the entire Sophomore class to capture our President. Their ingenuity was taxed to its utmost in devising a plan to secure him and at last succeeded in doing so by bribing his guards. However he arrived in time to partake of our sumptuous feast and to enjoy one of the most pleasing features of the evening, the toast programme. This can not be passed over lightly— the wit and humor displayed in the toasts, their scholarly composition foretold that the class of ' 09 would rank in the history of M. C. as the most brilliant class that ever graced her lovers. After hearing the class phrophecy which filled our minds with visions of the greatness to which our class would attain, we danced the light fantastic till the wee hours of the morning. Reluctantly did we depart for our homes, knowing that had the honored George been present he would have smiled approvingly upon a class which was to make the future history of M C. Peanut Night EUGENE NIXON. Our Contestants THOMAS SMITH. Response - - - ECCRITEAN CONTESTANTS. Our New Members WALTER BLOOD. Response JOHN MILLEN. The Ladies KENNETH P. GORDON. R.sponse NORA SCANTLIN. Monmouth College , , , , WM. J. STEVENSON. Old Eccritean CLYDE E MATSON. Response JAMES PORTEPs. Football Banquet. The football season of ' 05 was brought to a fitting close on the evening of Dec. 15. when the business ■men of the city entertained the victors and their coach at a banquet in Armory Hall, Two hundred guests enjoyed the pleasure of sitting down to an elegant turkey dinner The banquet constituted the first half. The second half was called, after a fevv ' minutes intermission, by Hon. Thos. B. Camp, acting in the capacity of head lineman. His introductory speech was full of fun and common sense. Toasts to the team and coach were proposed by Rev. Burnett and judge Grier. Prof. Graham, as the faculty member of the athletic board, eulogized the members of the team as students and proposed giving the seeker game a trial. Coach Bell and Captain LcClere responded in a very pleasing siyle. After the prepared program had been exhausted, a number of the guests were called on for involuntary speeches. A noticeable trend in the majority of the speeches was the emphasis placed on the need of college and business uniting more closely. One feature, only, marred the pleasure of the evening. Our good Doctor, the royal supporter of the boys was missing. Here ' s to the business men. May their cares be few, and their pleasures great. Junior-Senior Banquet. e_ MONO the closing social functions of the college year is the Junior ' s farewell banquet to the Seniors. - - ■ ■ This year the members of the Junior class entertained their Senior friends on the evening of the twenty-third of May. The following toast program was given ; O CLIFFORD BELL. Director of Athletics. Athletic Board. GEORGE PATTON, President PROF. RUSSEL.L GRAHAM, Treasurer IVORY QUINBY, JOHN MARTIN, ARTHUR OWEN. The Football Season of 1905. DUKING the season of ' 05 the honor of Monmouth College was upheld by a football team without a peer in the history of the institution, which has produced so many winning teams. The Monmouth team during the past season, by an unbroken succession of victories over the strongest college teams in the State, won the undisputed title of College Champions of Illinois, The team passed through a schedule of ten games with but a single defeat, and that at the hands of a university team early in the season. In all these games the superiority of the Monmouth team was never for a moment doubted, and every game was won by straight clean football. The success of our team the past season was due to several facts. One of the most prominent factors in producing our championship team was Coach Bell ' s care and training of the team, and his power of inspiring his men with the true football spirit. Tco much praise can never be given Mr. Bell. The management of the team by Mr. Peacock was of the highest order in every respect, and to him the team and college owe a Hebt of gratitude. Also the leadership of Captain LeClere and the example he set his men were ever inspir- ations for victory. Much also is due to the hearty support given the team by the students and friends of the college. But perhaps the strongest factor in our success, was to be found in the character of the players them- selves. All were experienced players, knowing the game thoroughly, and playing it as they knew it, — men with brains as well as brawn. The team was perfectly balanced in weight and the men were fast. From men of these characteristics, a team A as developed, the equal of which in speed, endurance and machine-like play, has rarely been seen among minor colleges. The season was opened at home on Sept 23rd, by a practice game vA ith Biggsville and Burlington High School! , Vi hich we won by a combined score of 49 — 0. The team met its only defeat during the season at Iowa City, on Sept. 30th, at the hands of Iowa University, by a score of 40 — 0. Our team had not yet deve ' oped its strong offense and was unable to gain ground against the h ' -avy Iowa team. The feature of the game was the plucky defense of the Monmouth men, in which Cap ain LeClere was the star. On Oct. 7th. we defeated the Keokuk Medics, at Keokuk by a score of 49 — 0. ' n a game lacking in team NA ork. but noted for spectacular runs by the Monmouth backs. On Oct. 1 4th at Monmouth. Lombard was outplayed at all points and beaten by a score of 36 — 5. Lombard scored near the end of the game by blocking a punt. In this game our team showed the true championship form, which it continued to display throughout the season. On Oct. 21st at Mt. Pleasant, Monmouth defeated Iowa Wesleyan by a score of 22 — 0. This game was marred by the unsportsman-like conduct of the Iowa team, officials and spectators, Monmouth met her old rival, Knox, on Oct. 28ih, at Monmouth, the game resulted in a score of 12 — 6 in favor of Monmouth. Our team waa not in the best physical condition, but the result of the game was never in doubt, except for a few minutes in the second half when Knox made a desperate attempt to recover the game and scored one touchdown. In the game with Coe College on Nov. I 1th, the Monmouth team gave one of the finest exhibitions of football ever seen on the Monmouth field, defeating Coe 62 — 4, Coe scored by a place kick which was a feature of the game. On Nov. I 8th Monmouth met Millikin University at Peoria, and playing their usual high class game, defeated Millikin 35—0. The game with Illinois College, at Jacksonville, on Nov. 24th, was played on a wet field which hindered the fast play of the Monmouth team. Score— Monmouth 22, Illinois College 0. The last game of the season was played at Monmouth on Thanksgiving Day, with the strong team frcm Lake Forest. During the first part of the game the Monmouth team was put on the defensive by the terrific plunges of the heavy Lake Forest backs; but the Monmouth machine-like play and their speed and endurance soon began to tell, and after one of the fiercest games of the season Lake Forest was defeated 28- 0, and- the Monmouth team was declared the undisputed Champions of the State. Foot Ball 1905. SCHEDULE. Sept. 23, Monmouth 27 and 22 — Biggsviile and Bu Sept 30, Iowa Wesleyan 40 Oct. 7, 49 Keokuk Medics 0. Oct. 14, 36 Lombard 5. Oct. 21, 22 Iowa Wesleyan Oct. 28 12 Knox 6. Nov 11 62 Coe4. Nov. 18, 35 Millikin 0. Nov. 24. 22 Illinois College 0. Nov 30, 23 Lake Forest 0. C. S. PEACOCK, Mgr. LECLERE, ( Capt. ) Center KOBINSON, Right Guard. PICKEN, Left Tackle. COWDEN, Mght End. McMillan, Half. CLARKE, Left Guard. HILL, Right Tackle, NIXON, Left End. NORWOOD, Half PEACOCK and OWEN, Full JAMES LECLERE Captain Championship Team i905. JAMES LECLERE, Captain. Class ' 06. Position Center. Age 25. Height 5-10. Weight 190. ROBERT CLARKE. Class ' 09. Position R. G, Age 20. Height 6 feet. Weight 170. JOHN ROBINSON. Class ' 08. Position L. G. Age 23. Height 6-3. Weight 175. JOSEPH PICKEN. Class ' 07. Position L. T Age 20, Height 6. Weight 190 RALPH CCWDEN. Class ' 07, Position R. E. Age il. Height 5-10. Weight 153. FRANK HILL, Class ' 07, Position R. T, Age 23. Height 6 i. Weight 170. EUGENE NIXON. Class ' 07. Position L. E. Age 21. Height 5-1 I. Weight 153. PIERRE NORWOOD. CUss ' 07. Position R. H. Age 23. Height 5-8, Weight 147. CHESTER SMITH Class ' 08. Position Q. B. Age 20. Height 5-8 Weight 130. WALTER McMillan. Class ' 07. Position L. H. Age 23. Height 5-9. Weight 145. SHELLER PEACOCK. Class ' 07. Position F B. Age 20. Height 5-11 Weight 165 ARTHUR OWEN Class ' 07. Position F, B. Age 23. Height 5-9. Weight 165. Thanksgiving Day. HY DO I tremble now today, questioning my Form! w :°° 1 he dull, cold sky sends through my bones a dread of tables turned Lest we should lose the championship, now so nearly earned. Through the season we have come, nor suffered one defeat. The roaring Bleachers now affirm, to-day we ' ll not be beat. And I will play: aye. play ! must, on me depends the game. Well I know that every man regards it just the same. What bumps and breaks await me there, now gives me no concern, One thing alone 1 know or care: ' tis Honest victory earned. I ' ve played it all while waiting here, and nov must play again For thare sounds loud the call oF Bell, game ' s called my hardy men. ' Basket Ball 1905, JONES, Left Forward. WATT, Center. McMillan, Left Guard. SMITH. Right Forward. BLACK, Right Guard. TURNBULL, Sub. WALTER McMillan, Capr Nov. 30, Monmouth 26 Jan. M. Jan. 12. Jan. 19, Jan. 27, Feb. 2, Feb. 6, Feb. q. Feb. 15, Feb. 24, Feb. 27, Mar 3. Mar 7, SCHEDULE, h 26 Y. M. C. A. 30. 30 Peoria Y. M. C. A 31 Eureka 47, 54 Illinois College 13 22 Augustana 13, 33 Lombard 32, 71 Hedding 19. 48 Illinois College 19. 29 Y. M. C. A 19, 38 Lombard 25, 42 Hedding 20. 34 Eureka 23, 27 High School 25. HAKOLD WATT, Mgr, GiRLS ' Basket Ball. LINE UP. MISS RENWICK, R.ght Forward MISS COWDEN, Left Forward, MISS GILMER, Center. MISS MARGARET PsOBINSON, Right Guard MISS JEAN ROBISON, Left Guard. MISS KINSMAN. Substitute. BESSIE RENWICK, Captain, SCHEDULE. Jan. 23. Monmouth M Seaton. 6. Jan. • ' 0, •• 7 •■ 3. Feb. 21, ■■ 24 Hedding. 12. MABLE CCWCEN, Mgr, Base Ball i906. ELDRvEDGE. Catcher. JONES, (Capt) First Base BLACK. Short Stop. HAMILTON Left Field. McCOY, Right Field. LINE UP. PICKEN, McMillan. Pitchers. GLENN. Second Base. McMillan, Third Base. NIXON. Center Field. RHODES, Substitute. WILLAPsD lONES. Capt. WEB JOHNSON. Manager. SCHEDULE. April 1 7- Blackburn University at Monmouth. May 21 — Knox at Monmouth. 24 — Bradley at Monmoutb. 27 — Eureka at Eureka. May I — Iowa Wesleyan at Monmouth 4 — Parsons at Fairfield, 9 — Knox at Galesburg. II— Millikin at Monmouth. 14 - Parsons at Monmouth. 16 — Knox at Galesburg 1 8 — lllinoisWesleyan at Bloomington 19 — Bradley at Peoria. 22 — Illinois Wesleyan at Monmouth. 25 — Eureka at Monmouth, 28— Iowa Wesleyan at Mt Pleasant. 30 -Knox at Monmouth. June I — Lake Forest at Monmouth. Track Team i906. SPRINTS WEIGHTS NORWOOD PICKEN, McQUIGG. HILL, MILLER, OWEN. HAMPER, GILMER, JUMPS STEVENSON, NIXON, HAMILTON, PAFkSONS, DISTANCE RUN POLE VAULT ROBINSON, SMITH, PHILLIPS. JOHN ROBINSON, Mgr. SCHEDULE. May --Carthage College at Monmouth. May 18 — Triangular — Knox. Illinois and Monmouth at Jacksonville. May 26 — Lombard at Monmouth. June 4— Millikin at Monmouth. The ' Varsity M Men. WALLACE BLACK, Base Ball ■04--Basl et Ball ' 06. FRANK HILL. Foot Ball ■04- ' 05. JAMES F, LECLERE, Foot Ball, ' 02- ' 03- ' 04- ' 05. WALTER McMillan, Foot Ball, ■02- ' 04- ' 05-Basl et Ball, ' 04 ' 06. Base Ball, ' 02 - ' O} -■04- ' 05. EUGENE NIXON, Foot Ball, ' 04 ' 05— Base Ball ■04- ' 05 -Track ' 05. SHELLEK PEACOCK, Foot Ball ' 05. JAMES PICKEN, Base Ball ' 05, RALPH COWDEN, Foot Ball ' 04 ' OS-Base Ball ' 05. RALPH KYLE, Foot Ball ' 04. JOHN PIERRE NORWOOD. Foot Ball ■03-04-05 - Track ' 05. JOSEPH PICKEN, Foot Ball ' 04- ' 05 Track ' 05. RAY SMITH. Basket Ball ' 05. EDWARD GLENN, Base Ball ' 05, SCOTT HAMILTON, Base Ball 05. WILLARD JONES. Base Ball ■04- ' 05-Basket Ball ' 06. ARTHUR OWEN, Track ' 05-Foot Ball ,02- ' 03- ' 04- ' 05. JOHN KOBINSON, Foot Ball ' 05. CHESTER SMITH, Track ' 05— Foot Ball ' 05. ROBERT CLARK. Foot Ball ' 05. HAROLD WATT, Basket Ball ■04- ' 06, HERBERT CLARK, Foot Ball ■02- ' 03 ' 04. JAMES RHODES, Base Ball ' 05. Zeta Epsilon Chi. FOUNDED la SOROKES INCOLLEGIO. MARY ETHEL SENSEMAN ' 07 MABvY LOUISE REID ' 07, ELIZABETH THOMSON GRAHAM MILLIE ELIZABETH BIGGER ' 07. NETTIE MORTON PRATT ' 08, EDITH MEKLE JEWELL ' 0«, ADAH BLANCHE KRIEG ' 08. FLORENCE ELIZABETH DOW ELLA RUTH JOHNSON ' 07. CHARTER SORORES. ISABELLE COOPER STEWART 1900, DELIA CHLOE DAVIDSON ' Ol, ELIZABETH BLACKBUKN ' 02, JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON M ' CAUGHEY ' 03 LOUISE ANDERSON FREE 1900. JUNIA POLLOCK BROWN ' 01, MARY BKENT BATES ' 02, NELLE FRANCES POSTER, HARRIET TYLER HAMILTON, HELEN DU BOIS McGOWN. SORORES EX COLLEGIO. MARTHA lANE HANNA 01. LUCIA BLAKE WILSON ' 02, ELIZABETH GAKVIN THORNTON, ISABEL RANKIN IRWIN ' 03, THERESA McCONNELL, CLARA WORDEN PRATT ' 04, ELIZABETH GOWDY SPEER, Colors — Green and Gold. MARGARET OWENS. OLIVE BELL, JESSIE EDITH GRAHAM 05. MARY FRANCES HENDERSON ' OS ' ALICE JANETTE TINKER ' 05, LOUISE GKAHAM. LILLIAN BROWNELL. Flower — Yellow Chrysanthemum id Kappa Alpha Sigma. SORORES IN COLLEGIO. NANCY IRWIN, 06, ELEANOR AUSTIN 08, JENNIE SMITH, ' 06, LUCILE WILSON ' 09, HELEN McCLANAHAN ' 09, CARRIE HAMILTON ' 0 ETHEL COLLINS ' 07, MAUDE ALLISON ' 07, MARGARET LORD ' 08, BESS BUTLER ' 06, LENA BLANCHE WILSON ' 0 SORORES EX COLLEGIO. ERMA BABCOCK ' 05. GRACE McKINLEY FIROVED ' 05, JOANNA MITCHELL 05, NORA CORETTE ' 05, PAULINE COLLINS ' 04, HOPE ANDREWS 04, EDNA FOSTER THUPsSTON ' 03. CORA BRUNNEMER ' 03, LUCY HARKIS SPEEP. ' 02, HELEN DUNBAR EAKIN 02, MARY HAMILTON, BEULAH STEWART, NELLE FISH, ISABEL DUNBAP , LORA SYKES, NANCY RICE. MAKY EAKIN, MARGAPsETTA uUTTS, lESSlE ARNOT, PEARL LOVE. BEP THA ALEXANDER, ALETHA SOULE MORROW, EDITH MUNFORD MOSER, MABEL PACKARD ROBINSON, MAY WALLACE GIBSON. Phi Delta Sigma. SORORES IN COLLEGIO. •ESTHER LILLIAN DAME ' 06. THEODORA MAY McKELVEY ' 06, GRACE ELIZABETH DUFF ' 07, •FLOKENCE MAY FINDLEY ' 07, NORA WALLACE SCANTLIN ' 07. FLORENCE MAY BKADY ' 08, MAUDE SHERIFF ORTH ' 08. MARIA CATHARINE SPICER ' O: LAURA ARMENIA WATT ' 08, RACHEL MYFkA WEIR ' 09. SORORES EX COLLEGIO. JENNIE WARD KINSMAN, FLORA TUKNBULL, EMMA LYTLE, MABEL MARTHA MOORE ' 05, MABEL LYNN, EDNA McCLURKIN. 1 i i Success. ' HE TWENTIETH century is an age of progress, of culture, and a striving for success. If one should ask, Is there any single thing which everybody desires , we could truly answer, ye?, it is success. Then come to us the queries; What is success and who is successful? How shall these be answered? Some one said, To be successful is to find your sphere and fill it, to get into your place and master it. But what shall our standard of success be? Shall it be aocumula ' tion of wealth, shall it be intellectual development and self- culture, or shall it be for the benefit of humanity? To most persons, success means the ingathering of gold, of stocks and of bonds; to others it means to reach the topmost rung of the educational ladder, to be a leader in a literary world. These are not the highest standards. There should be a nobler motive in a man ' s life than his occupation The supreme object of life, whatever the vocation, is to honor God and aid men in the development of their better nature. Seneca said: God divided man into men that they might help one another. Many men have lived successful lives yet failed in business. Pestalozzi died poor, filled with the deepest disappointments and failures. He sacrificed all thar he might found in Switzerland a public school which should give to the world a new system of education. What IS worth Success ' name, unless it be the thought. The inward surety to have carried out A noble purpose to a noble end Although it be the gallows or the block ' Tis only falsehood that doth ever need These outward shows of gain to bolster her. In the other hand men have been eminently successful from a commercial standpoint, while their lives were failures. Think of an unprincipled man who has amassed billions; not by his own honest labors but from the pockets of others. Inheritances rf widows and orphans have been swallowed up in his overvalued stocks and estates. Would you call such a truly successful man? The greatest problem of the ages and the all important question of our own times is how to succeed. Every generation of the past has been confronted by this problem and everyone to-day is asking the same ques- tion. The hopes of men are all alike. All desire happiness and all want success, yet each may strive for his own ideal Singleness of aim is a vital factor in attaining success. Before beginning a building, the carpenter makes his architectural plan of it, and then in the erection uses only the materials needed. So in life, the man who succeeds has a program; he fixes his course and adheres to it; he lays his plans and executes them; he goes straight to the goal. Here and there is one who thinks that if he keeps everlastingly Lt it he will succeed. Not so. Work without a plan is as foolish as going to sea without a compass. A ship with a broken rudder may keep on a full head of steam bu t it never reaches anypoit except by accident. The poorest scholar in college often in practical life far outstrips the class leader because what little ability he has, he employs for definite objects, while the other never concentrated his powers. A good character is the sure foundation of success. Character is the capital, the working force; and if v ell invested increases rapidly in power and develops into immeasurable worth. Good character cannot be developed under the shadow of a low aim. A man who constantly schemes to get the belter of his neighbor will never attain the grandeur of true manhood. Can success be gained in a moment, or with one bound? Things destined to endure are long in maturing. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. Each must begin at the bottom of the ladder and work up. He will find difficulties, dissappointments, often failures all along the way. But each difficulty overcome gives renewed vigor for the next; each failure will teach what to avoid in the next venture. So we must work ever wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Another secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. The more opportunities we utilize the more are created Thousands have made fortunes from the trifles others. passed by. As the bee gets honey from the same flower from which tbe spider gets poison, so some men may get a fortune out of the commonest things, as iron filings, cotton waste, and scraps of leather from which others get only poverty and failure. Why wait for great opportunities? Sieze common occasions and make them great Fine opportunities have been lost through lack of tact. Friends have been offended and influential patrons lost. Tact is skill; and to possess knowledge, wealth, or power without knowing how to use it is next to possessing neither of them. Success, whether of education or of principle, is power; power is influence and causes action. So one who is successful exerts an influence over those about him. If he makes a success of life he will do them good, if of business alone, his influence may be either good or bad. Many of the best things in our lives are due to the success of others. What v ould the vA orld be with- out the work of Edison, Morse, Bell, Howe, or Noah Webster! As the success of Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden inspired others to try to imitate their style and form of literature, so the successful things in our lives wil help others who are striving for success Go make thy garden fair as thou canst Thou workest never alone For another whose plat is next to thine May see it and mend his own. JENNIE WARD KINSMAN ' 07, The Chapel Organ. I STROLLED one evening late Through the chapel ' s squeaking door. The slanting sun assured me An hour of daylight more. Down I sat to rest me. And saw on the stately wall A beam of sunlight, filtered Through the leafy maples tall. As slowly climbed the s ' -adow, That patch of light arose. Like it preferred to linger A bit before it goes. I too, would like to linger. But like a luckless lover, I must face it boldly — My college days were over. Methought a man approached me Thus reflecting sadly; Nor welcome was his coming But stirred my temper badly. Not me he cared to see. Nor knew that I was there. But walked down to the organ Past my enquiring stare. Half angry was 1 then I wished to be alone: And not to be disturbed By that organ ' s groan. The stranger calmly seated. At once began to play I thought not to listen But quickly go away. What ' s that! a low long sighing And then the minor chord Seemed fitting to my spirit: ' Twas pretty, ' pon my word. And as the notes swelled higher. Down again I sat; For why should I be leaving Such melody as that? Who was this stranger playing? That was no common touch. None yet performing grandly Had moved my soul so much. He played my four year ' s over. The days I had forgot Were painted in that music Recalled what I could not, He told all the misgivings 1 had at startng in. And showed of how much value Those emerald days had been. I heard my mother crying To see me leave the home. I saw her running gladly When back again I ' d come. Vacation days he pictured In colors fast and light. The hard lines of my studies Were by far less bright. He played all through the terms Of my too short four yeart: The chapel and the campus. The college yells and cheers. He played my aspirations. My chosen course and all. He played some other episodes That college men befall. For I was no exception To the co-ed rule: I surrendered to that archer My second year in school. Now he played the closing Of my college days: When college chums must part And go in different ways. Just when he reached his climax I ' m sure I could not tell, I only knew the music Suited me full fe . The sunbeam now had vanished. The harmony had ceased. The stranger left the organ As night-fall was increased. He passed in silence out. Nor saw me sitting near. I breathed a thank-you to him In the shape of a manly tear. The Broken Idol. RUTH SA as crying. Ruth alsvays cried when she fell down, whether because it hurr, or because sympa- thy is sweet, no one ever knew. But what little girl wouldn ' t cry when she fell down and broke her very nicest doll? Wouldn ' t Celia Lawrence feel good when she heard about it, for had ' nt all the girls on that street just turned green with envy when they had seen her new baby. And now it was broken! No doll sur- geon could mend it, and her darling child was disfigured for life. Hova ' she did long for sympathy. Nurse was busy, mother was gone. How she wished that mcther had taken her along instead of Fido. But there is Fido! Mother is coming. But will mother have time to listen to her sorrowful story, for surely mother is tired. She had had so many places to go, for she had told Ruth so. Yes, mother, would be tired. But once mother had kissed Ruth, and told her not to cry when the burns had hurt, O, so bad ! To be sure, this had happened when mother did not have on society gown and society manners But the aching heart cried out for mother and to mother she would go. Mother would listen and feel sorry. Mother, mother, look at my doll 1 fell, and she broke. Her sentence ended in a wail. O, run away, dear, Mother answered impatiently. Go find nurse, and tell her how tired and hungry you are. Mother is busy, but maybe if you are good, mother will find a new baby for you to-morrow, A new doll! Just as though she cared if she ever saw another doll. Why couldn ' t mother understand that she wanted mother, and mother ' s sympathy, and not a new doll. But mother, she persisted, hold me. Your dress feels so nice and soft, and Ruth ' s head is so tired. Take you on my lap. The idea ! A big girl like you sitting on mother ' s lap, and besides you have been crying, and your tears might fade my dress. Now, do as 1 tell you, and go find nurse. Ruth ran sobbing from the room. She had not the least idea of where she was going, or whom she was looking for. Nobody heard her, not even mother. Why, she had forgotten all about cook. Hadn ' t Nancy given her a cake once, and besides one day last winter, hadn ' t she hauled Ruth clear down to the house across the tracks? She would find Nancy. Maybe Nancy would tell her what to do. Nancy ' s mother loved her, and would tell Ruth what Nancy had done. She would run away to Nancy ' s house, and ask all about it. She would go right now. Mary ! Yes, ma ' am, I ' m coming. Tell Ruth to come and see what 1 have for her. A look of surprised inquiry flitted across the servant ' s face. Ruth! W hy, isn ' t she here? She left the house an hour ago, and I supposed that she was with you. Then noticing the startled, half frightened look, she hastened to add, She is probably with the gardener. That ' s where 1 found her yesterday. Go and tell her that mother wants to see her. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed, and Ruth did not come. Fear, elusive and intangible, yet taking an added struggle at every heart beat, prompted Mrs. Win-ilow to go and look for the child, leaving Fido howling dismally in the middle of the floor. Meeting Mary just outside the door, she exclaimed impatiently, Mary, what is the matter? did you tell her? I can ' t find her. Mrs. Winslow started. Can ' t find her? Wasn ' t she with }ohn? No, none of the servants have seen her, and I can ' t find her. Her new hat is gone too Surely the child had not left the house alone. Inquiry failed to yield any information, and in despair Mrs. Winslow hurried to the phone. No. 1284 Is this the police station? — - — - My little girl is gone, lost - — — Six years old, dark hair, and brown eyes red hat She surely has not A andered far, because she would be afraid. Dropping the receiver, Mrs Winslow went to the door, looked anxiously up and down the street, then with a despairing look, came back into the hall. Servants rushed here and there, attempting to carry ou the orders of their distracted mistress. Mary spied Fido and thinking to quiet Mrs. Winslow for a time, brought him to the sorrowing mother. But Fido was pushed aside impatiently. How could a dog relieve the awful anguish, the intense suffering ? Back and forth she v alked, Fido barking at her heels, but failing to gain any recogniiion. Another long half hour passed, and still no news. Going to the nursery, the woman looked at the tiny hole in the pillow where the dear head had rested, then picked up the broken doll lying on a chair near by, and returned again to her position by the window. Listen I A carriage had stopped at the gate. She rushed to the door, flung it open, and with a glad cry caught up the child that stood waiting on the threshold. Ruth had come to her own. and mother was — just mother. ' 08. Abt Vogler and Criticism. (After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention. ) Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build. Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claimingeach slave of the sound at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk. Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, — Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name. And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved! Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine. This A hich my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise! Ah, one and all. how they helped, would dispart now and now com- bine. Zealous to haiten the work, heighten their master his praise! And one would bury his bro A with a blind plunge down to hell. Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things. Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well. Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. And another would mount and march, likethe excellent minion he was. Ay, another and yet another, and crowd, but with many a crest. Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass. Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest: For higher still and higher (as a runner tips with fire. When a great illumination surprises a festal night— Outlining round and round Rome ' s dome from space to spire ) Up ,the pinnacled glory reached, and the pride of my sou! was in sight. In sight? Not half ! for it saemed, it was certain, to match man ' s birth. Nature in turn onceived. obeying an impulse as 1; And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth. As the earth had done her best, in my passion to scale the sky; Novel resplendours burst forth, grew familiar and dvv elt with mine, Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its v andering star: Meteor, moons, balls of blaze: and they did not pale nor pine; For earth had attained to heaven, there was no more near nor far. Nay more; for there wanted not who walked in the glare and glow. Presences plain in the place; or. fresh from the Protaplast, Furnished for ages to come, when a kindlier wind should blow. Lured now to begin and live, in a house to their liking at last: Or else the v onderful dead who have passed thro ' the body and gone. But were back once more to breathe in an old world worth their new: What never has been, v as now; what v as. as it shall be anon; And what is,— shall 1 say. matched both? for I was made perfect, too- All thro ' my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of my soul. All thro ' my soul that praised as its wish flovv ' ed visibly forth, All thro ' music and me! For think, had 1 painted the whole. Why, there it had stocd, to see. nor the process so wonder ' Worth. Had I written the same, made verse— still, effect proceeds from cause. Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told; ' t is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws. Painter and poet are proud, in the artist enrolled: — But here is the finger of God . a flash of the will that can, Exiitent behind all laws, that made ihem, and, lo, they are! And 1 know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frames, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is naught; It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said; ■Give it to me to use I 1 mix it with two in my thought. And, there I Ye have heard and seen; consider and bow the headi ' Well, it is gone at last, the palace of music I reared. Gone! and the good tears start, the praises that come too slow; For one is assured at first, one scarce can say that he feared. That he even gave it a thought, the gone thing was to go. Never to be again ! But many more of the kind As good, nay better perchance, is this your comfort to me? To me, who m jst be saved because I cling with my mind Tothe same, same self, same love, same God: ay, what was, shall be. Therefore to whom turn 1 but to Thee, the ineffable name ? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands ! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same ! Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good ! what was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, to much good more: On earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance but itself; no b;auty. nor good, nor power A hose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist. When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the ,eroic for earth too hard. The passion that left the ground to love itself in the sky. Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard itsu.-e: we shall hear it byand-by, And what is our failure here but a triumph ' s evidence For the fulness of the days? Have wi withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence; Why rushed the discords in but that harmony be prized? Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear. Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of weal and woe; But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; ' Tis we musicians know. Well, it is earth with me, silence resumes her reign. I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones, till I sank to the minor, — yes. And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground. Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting place is found. The C major of this life; so, now will try to sleep. 1 ' Music in its combination v. ' ith thought is the medium through which the finite being seeks to unite itself with the Infinite. The poets ' s vision typifies the highest aspirations of the human soul. The musician, seated before his organ, wishes that he might rear in fancy a fair palace of music. The wish is for an instant suspended as he t-ecalls and idealizes the obedience of the keys. As soon as the wish is completed, the organist lays the founda ' tion of his structure brave, building it broad on the roots of things. hlere he strikes the deep, sonorous chords, the asso prof undo of life. Slowly the mystical palace rises; walls, towers, ' pinnacles appear. It ' s gothic ' like spires seem to touch the very sky. The music bursts forth in a grand crescendo: earth is left behind, and the glories of Heaven are revealed. The vision reaches its climax in the poet ' s realization of his ideals, in his attainment of perfection; every spire of his palace fixes its wandering star; every unsatisfied wish and longing of his soul has found its complete fulfillment in the spiritual world. When the vision of fancy vanishes, the poet becomes absorbed in meditation. His reflection is con ' troll cd by one great idea, the immortality of good. This truth is the keynote of the philosophy of the poem. The fantastic vision illustrates it; the poet ' s subsequent reflection expounds it. Good is a positive quantitity, relatively increasing with the progress of the htman icul.. But evil is null, is nought, a purely negative quantity decreasing as the soul advances. Good is eternal; it is the essence of our spiritual selves. On earth are the broken arcs; heaven, the perfect scund. Now we see through a glass, darkly, then, face to face. Were our conception of life broad enough to comprehend the whole of which we are but a part, we would see clearly that ' all partial evil is universal good. Browning sums up the meaning of the poem in these words; All we have willed, hoped, or dreamed of good shall exist, not its semblance but itself Every noble thought that we have, whether it be unexpressed or whether it be embodied in action, is music sent up to God. The higher and nobler our a5pirations are. the more beautiful v ill be the palaces of music we rear, and the sweeter will be the harmonies of our souls. Our failure to attain perfection on earth is an added assurance of the fuller life to come. Life ' s dis- cords are necessary that we may prize life ' s harmonies; pain, that we may appreciate pleasure; sorrow, that we may value joy. In fact, the principle of contrast is involved in our whole mental progress. There are many theories concerning the problems of evil and of good, but Browning ' s philosophy is. whatever is, is right. He believes this because he feels it; he knows intuitively that it is so. We may dream, we may aspire, we may mount on wings with the ' ethereal minstrel of the skies, ' but, like Wordsworth ' s Skylark, we must be true not only to Heaven but to Home. A e must learn to adjust ourselves to our environment, and through adaptability enlarge our soul ' s capacity. Let us be contented though never satiified. Let us, like the poet, seek our true place on earth, striking the common chord, the C Major of life. NANCY IRWIN, ' 06. Sunset From The Campus. THE SHADES of night ware gently closing down that memorable night in June when I took my farewel ' trip across the campus. Past the audito,-ium, recalling many a sacred thought and alas, many a thought ' less prank, beneath the spreading trees, past the dear old college building, past the sheltering porch, that Mecca of so many hearts, on down the slope 1 wandered over the bruised grass that yielded up the incense of the day ' s warm breath to the cold embrace of ths night-shades. More than all things else in that moment, the desire to be alone rose in my heart, to live over again in quiet the memory of four happy, happy years in Mon- mouth College. Yet soon upon my spirit stole soothingly the sweet influence of Nature and my thoughts were lifted far above to the drama enacting in the celestial sphere. The sun, draped in his wondrous, trailing garments of gleaming gold and molten crimson, A as just mak- ing his farewell curtesy to the drowsy world. Faint chirps and twitterings, the finale of the day ' s grand chorus fell lightly on my listening ears. The pearly sky took on delicate azure tints, heralding the approach of a lovelier, gentler mistress. A great hush fell on the expectant world and then stately, gently, she glided slowly above the horizon attended only by one gleaming courtier. The sun. gallant to the last even though it cost him his last effort, flung Raleigh like, his trailing robe of crimson across the pearly pathway her royal feet must tread. Supremely unconscious, accepting the sacrifice as her due, the Queen of Night advanced proudly and haughtily to a commanding position, showering her luminous beams in a benediction upon the waiting earth. As my thoughts wandered vaguely outwards, the drama of the heavens resolved itself into a counterpart of the tragedy of human life. An irresistible feeling of sadness and longing came over my soul, my thoughts wandered into the future in a vain endeavor to bridge the chasm of the years Aroused by the feeling of op- pressive solitude. 1 came back to the present with a start. Through the interlacing trees, twinkling lights gleamed brightly from neighboring windows. A com- forting sense of the hospitality and peaceful rest so near, replaced the vague longings of the by-gone hour. I rose to go out at the genial call of life, yet 1 lifted my eyes once more to fix in my memory the vision of the glorious queen enthroned on high and attended by her myriads of twinkling courtiers. FRANCES LANPHERE ' 06. Fraters et Sorores. [r ' . ' ,WT ' 7 ' ' HO does not admit the value of the fraternal relation? Even the small brother, swinging on the H V ' I front gate and whistling, and the brother of the girl across the street, a youth engaged in putting ' m M r ' f pulverized charcoal into his sister ' s powder box, are they not important factors in the growth j 47J 7T ' ' Ai-?- ' 4 ° ' ' sister ' s happiness? The girl who is blessed with a big brother has not on!y a constant source of supply for neckties, studs and collar buttons, but she has a constant and unflinching critic, in this same superior creature she finds an always ready antidote for overdoses of flattery. The Brother Bob who is accustomed to look his little sister over when she is bound for parties, finds the maiden surveying herself with much satisfaction. A masculine Umph! falls from the fraternal lips. ' Yes you look all right, need some more powder on your neck. Say, Sis, why don ' t you wear black gauze stufi at night instead cf white? Black would make you look fair, and ycu wouldn ' t have to go out all over four like a miller, you know. ' Somehow the star and moonbeam smiles of sister ' s admirers, the rest of the evrning quite fail to turn her head. After what she considers a particularly vivacious evening, the brother ' s voice is heard enquiring, Say. what made you so hysterical to-night? In this manner the flattery on her airy style of conservation, which preceded the fraternal criticism is generally counteracted. Or. the next morning in the candid, unlovely breakfast hour, Sister hears Brother Bob, snort as he so;ts his mail. She recognizes a feminine hand writing and knows by a few diplomatic questions and undiplomatic replies that a certain friend has asked Bob. for the tenth time to play tennis or to come up to tea. ■ ' Why does a girl want to bother a man to death for, he demands, and sister learned thereby a lessen concerning the pursuit of man. But twice blessed is the man who has a sister. Sisterly criticism is not to be underestimated by the light minded, for one has only to study the sisterless young man to realize how valuable it is. The sisterless youth is probably wearing flowing red neckties because he thinks he has an artistic soul and loves pure color. Or he is wearing green ones in blissful ignorance of the effect of that color upon his ■complexion, because he thinks he is esthetic and loves subdued colors. Perhaps this unfortunate youth talks too much or too little. He either flows on in a fashion which shews that he has never heard a wholescme Oh! do shut up Bob from sister ' s lips, or he may be mute, after (he manner of the oyster and of those to whom it has never been said, Good gracious! can ' t you wake up and talk a little! Sisterless youths take their own opinions with amazing seriousness. They sit in the scat of the instruc ' tive and discuss what they know and believe and think. They regard their criticisms as the final settlements of all debated questions. They have never heard in sweet feminine tones. Why Bob, aren ' t you over nineteen? That is the age when the critical faculties are at their best you know, and yours are in such excellent condition. Who does not admit the value of sisters? THE Representative of Order. ' OW IS the time of the year when the schoolboy, in his first glare of limelight, bravely dilates on the great march of civilization. Progress, everything is Progress, he says, Yet what is this thing called Progress? With confident air the embryo Demosthenes points to uplifted domes and storied temples, to league upon league of railways, to harnessed steam and eJectricity, all these are its form, says he. But are they? What matters it whether we live in caves or in palaces of hewn and polished stone; whether we eat with knives and chop-sticks or with forks and spoons, if the change be limited to the material? if this modern complexity is a form of Progress, then their philosophy gone, the preachers of the simple life must change their calling or their song. The only value of all these in- ventions and discoveries must be found in greater human happiness and comfort. Or, the relation of temporal change to Progress is its contribution to spiritual development. Thus, while the material may i ' !. ' pi-i.-Scnl Pro- gress, Progress itself is spiritual. It is a spiritual growth ending at last in Social Order. But still we are not much ahead of the school-boy. for the attributes are themselves abstract. Social Order, a world-and-time-embracing term! What does it mean? It is as vague as the men and times of the ancient myths; and as tempting of investigation. In our analysis of Social Order v e are apt to continue the narrower meaning of the word, oriL ' i and conceive of a state of society where men exist as in a sort of universal harmony, — in a magnificent system, as it were. We think o9 man not as an entity, but as a cog in the ma chine; society becomes a grand socialism. Did 1 mention socialism? — Booh! Shades of the immortal % : oo o9 ifitssez fijittS Banish the idea to antipodes — It savors of socialism. Speaking sanely, however. Social Ord.r can not mean mere methodical arrangement of human beings; rather the opposite. For it is the result of a movement, not toward homogeneity, but toward heterogeneity, toward individuality. The essence of Progress has always been the increasing assumption by the citizen of more power and responsibility. A $ individual expansion is the evidence of Progress, the individual expanded vitalizes the mystic dream o Social Order. Broadly considered, then, Social Order is the state of the individual ' s translation of the phenomena of the universe into his spiritual life. Knowledge is the germ of Order. Interpretation is the fruit ripened for the millenium. Let Order be such in the abstract; what is it in the concrete? Where have we seen the working out of its principles? The young orator has startled us with the intelligence that even nov we are living in an age of P-r-r-ogress, and so declaimed the youths of every age. Somehow though, we forget their oft-repeated truth that Progress is universal, and spurning the more prosy periods, choose only the big, unmistakable events as exar pies of the movement toward Order. In fact it is in these great steps of Progress, militant often, world - affecting always, that we see such concrete evidence as to call forth the general definition. In them all are in- dications of the great principle; the lines of individual expansion are easily traceable. A Reformation substi- tutes private interpretation for hierarchial dogma; makes religion personal rather than purchaseable. Through a Pvenaisaance learning becomes free, no longer the property of caste. A French Kevolution transforms Louis XlV ' s I am the state, to Liberty. Equality, Fraternity. But ihese concrete examples disclose more than the general truth; there is in each a singular association of a M in with the Movement. The mere mention of the Reformation suggests Luther, Cromwell ' s name is linked inseparably with Puritanism. This Man for the crisisl Peculiar indeed is his position. With him success, without him a reign of terror. Kightly we call him Great, and reverence him as divinely inspired, He is that leader of men necessary for a movement But our comment ends too frequently with mere extravagant praise or bitter censure; and the real relation that the leader bears to Order is still obscure. As the traveler gazes most at the towering peaks of the distant mountain range, so the savant, in looking at the massive formations of the past, colossal social upheavals, is wont to become absorbed in those men pre ' eminently great, the Mt. Everests of society. In some such way, Carlyle picks out the leaders of the movements for Order and calls them Heroes. However there is a possible distinction between the Hero and the Leader. The hero, according to Carlyle, creates the movement for Order, it arises in the thought-concept of the great man and prevails when its wisdom is finally recognized by the masses —The hero is a character then, necessary but exteinal. Now the leader is he who sees through their look and utterance, the need of the masses, and pro- ceeds to supply the want The origin of the movement is in the masses, of the method in the brain cf ihe master-mind, The leader thus is not external but functional. The hero is extraordinary because of his task; the leader because of his rarity. Carlyle ' s hero is a man apart from society: the leader is a part cf scciety 1 he hero is thought of as the source of Order; the leader as the representative of Order. On the other hand some men consider the leader as the product of his time , merely the mouthpiece through whom the issue happens to be presented. This is a beautiful mirage indeed, and it may be dispelled by a closer inspection of the work the leader performs To use the words joined together by Carlyle, the leader gives a universal, inarticulate clamor, a voice and gains a remedy for it, When Luther was roused by the flagrancies of the Church, he saw the famished countenances of the millions of Europe, spiritually starved, and proceeded at once to procure for them food The first requirement for the leader is that he get an insight of men oppressed with the burden of darkness, of repeated gropings after the light, aimings always repressed strivings, blind perhaps, but nevertheless real and vital to the movers. He must become the very soul of the universal clamor for something better. More than this though for this alone would associate him with a spe- cies of anarchy, not Order; the second duty of the leader is to satisfy the clamor, to gain a remedy for it. The old Anglo-Saxon word l(U iau means ( ' cause to ;■ ' . And the idea still continues as the test of leader- ship. With weapon bpnr or crudely carved, vv ' ith friends lukewarm or disaffected, sucking ever the bitter gall of defeat, the man whom the world has afterwards canoiized has had to encounter innumerable difficul- ties, sometimes apparently superimposed, has had to fight men and always that silent, strange but potent, force of Conservatism, before he has been able to cause the movement for Order A ' ;■ ' ( ' . Such a task makes up the constructive work of the leader. It is hat separates him from the mere clamor, and thus distinguishes him from the demagogue; it is what binds him w ith Order and thus wins him the title of Great. Suggesting and developing the means for man ' s increased liberty, the leader of the Crisis is truly the representative of Order. The French Revolution illustrates, and with vividness, the varying points in the study of movements. The grewsomeness itself is attractive. There is beauty in the blackness of the clouds; through the mists which seem to shroud the arena break flashes of light suggestive of the newer day. The people of France had been robbed not only of spiritual liberty, but of daily bread; individual vitality was stultified; the only answer to their cry was the tightening of the grip; no leader appeared to take command of them. That grip might crush but neve kill and at last the people acted for themselves. The Revolution was the gigantic assertion of individualism over the absolutism of the kings, but it became a Reign of Terror, mere indiv idual licentiousness, — not a move- ment for Order, but anarchy, disorder. A leader was lacking. Why, a Genevan watchmaker and a sol- dier of fortune led the mob in storming the Bastile. But halt! The thundering cannon from the steps of Sf Roche announce that dissolution has ceased, that the temporary chaos has ended, that Order has been inaugu- rated. Embodying the cry of the masses because he was of them. Napoleon Bonaparte, in a characteristic way, strides upon the scene, seizes the reins of government, and assumes the task of leader. Napoleon, unconscious- ly perhaps, or rather subconsciously, saw the need of France and of Europe, and with his hand upon the mili- tary, acted. On field and In council chambsr he toiled A few years saw him master of France and umpire of Europe. Then the united force of outraged monarchy, wolf ' like, turned on him Coalition after coalition he crushed; army after army he beat back. And although his colors struck at Waterloo, his principle prevailed. Napoleon laid down his arms, having forced individual expansion on Europe and curbed individual libertinism in France, He championed Order. I do not justify Napoleon; he became too intensely selfish. At the same time the blood he shed was only in proportion to the degree of Disorder into which France and Europe had fallen. Blood alone could bring remission for the sin. But 1 do say that Napoleon, coming forth and control- ing things, of necessity with an iron hand, was the leader finally born for the French Revolution, He was. subconsciously perhaps, the representative of Order. Leadersl Men who control! They have been telling us that ' .e may be presidents of the United States. Iff ' vvhy no, we can ' t, — only that queer boy over there, or the one looking out of the window and dreaming instead of getting his lesson, only they can be Presidents of the United States. We are smarter, of course, and really deserve the place, but some way or other, the people forget our special qualifications and elect 5ome one else for President. No, r. ' t ' can not be leaders or presidents; there wouldn ' t be any such persons then. But we have a place; we are the people, the common people. We are the plebiscite whether you like the term or not. And it is our business to distinguish and support the leader. Let us then, with due sense of responsibility, not of suspicion and iealousy, pick out. in politics, in society, in religion, men who can lead. For inasmuch as the leader is the representative cf Order, so we in a degree, measure for ourselves our ex- pansion and our Progress. ARTHUR P. SPRAGUE ' 08. Cicero vs. McCracken. Ha ' tit ' i in campm Liher prima. HOW LONG, O McCracken. will you continue to abuse our patience? How long will those tests of yours mock us? How long will your unbridled audacity hurl itself? Does the burning of the mid- night lamps move you as to nothing? Does the glowering of the faculty and the blank expression on our faces move you as to nothing? Who among us do you think to be ignorant of those things? Do ycu net see ycur plots to lie open and your plans to be held bound in the knowledge of all of us? What ycu told last night at the Faculty meeting, what you told the week before, what plans were broached by you that ycu think us to be ignorant of? O the times! O the customs! The Senate is aware of these things, the Advisory Beard see them, yet still he lives! Lives did I say? Nay. he assumes an important part among ihe Faculty, and takes part in the Chapel exercises. He notes and designates with his eyes each and every one of us to failure. And we. tortured students, seem to do enough for our welfare if we escape the frenzy of his exams. You really, O McCracken, ought long ago to have been led to deaih by command of the Senate, the - same disgrace to have been conferred upon you which you plot against us. I will not mention at this time the fact that Faculty members in times past have been slain when only slightly disturbing the student ' s peace. There was once such bravery among us that unruly Faculty members were given more cruel punishment? than ■offending students. There is a sentiment, O McCracken. against you, deep and strong, through the college. The wisdom of the Senate is not lacking, nor the feeling in the Advisory Board, I say it openly, we. we the students are lacking, O ye Immortal gods! where on earth are we? In what city do we live? What laws do we go by? There you are among the most learned and dignified men of the whole world meditating our complete destruc- tion. Until now we have not even dared attack with words, you who ought long ago to have been compelled to teach in the fourth grade. Two Latin Ponies w ere found to deliver in a measure us from our pain, in order that we might seek -our beds before daybreak. You found this out almost before we had translated a sentence. We strengthened and fortified ourselves with Interlinears and refused admittance to those visitors who came in the morning to visit us, but in vain. Can the light of this life or the breath of this atmosphere be pleasant to you when you know there is no one ignorant of your adacity and madness? We ipeak to you influenced not by hatred which we ought to feel, but by fear which is not your due. Is it nothing to you that all shun and fear you? By Hercules! if the Faculty feared and dreaded you, and you could by no means pacify ihem, you wojid, we think, get out of their company. Now the students both fear and dread you, and why do you not leave them in peace? The Gates are open! Go! Wherefore. O conscript fathers, let the tyrant be gone. We promise you O fathers, that there shall be such gratitude among us and such diligence, that all flunks shall be checked by the departure of McCracken. The Summer Girl. W different pictures flash through the minds of each of us, and what difl erent ideas we have as to the summer girl. Some say she is merely a frivoloui flirting creature. Or were the poet to describe her he might begin by saying, She was just the prettiest little creature that you ever knew, with her golden hair and laughing eyes of the deepest, huest blue, etc. Or perhaps it is the fond lover as he sits smoking in an easy chair before the grace fire in his luxuriant bachelor apartment. How like a dream it all seems to him now, that one short, SNA eet month spent at Newport. His thoughts run back to the first time he had ever seen her. as she came tripping down the stairs in a white muslin gown made entirely of ruffles, a strand of amber beads around her neck, from which hung an amber cross, made the gown look richer in its simplicity. This picture fades away. It Is the next morning while in swimming that he suddenly sees her sitting on a rock with the waves lashing up against her. Was there ever a more beautiful sight, thought he, as she sat there in her scarlet bathing suit and the first rays of the morning sun glistening upon her golden hair. He immediately swims toward the shore but upon reaching it finds that she has disappeared. Then he sees his summer girl, as he had learned to call her, on the golf links. What a striking picture of the typical athletic girl she made! He could see her in her riding habit and he drew this sketch full of grace and ease. He well recalls the afternoon he strolled along the cliffs, when the shrill toot of a gabriel automobile horn awakens him from his reverie. He turns, and lor.it is she who drives the machine, with skillful hand past he cliffs. She was gowned in a frock of immaculate wh te linen and her violet veil waved him a fond adieu over her shoulder. There was a turn in the road and she was gone as swiftly as she had come, but still ' ingered with him the sweet aroma of the gasoline. Why she had always avoided him he could not comprehend. But it was all quite plain to her, for she- had heard what a brilliant man he was. how he had been first in his class in college, and taken high honors in ' aw school, and now he was the youngest senator in Congress, but the worst rumor of all was that he had; never been knov n to care for girls. Now Christine, for this is our Summer Girl ' s name, had been graduated from one of our eastern colleges for women, and although she did not stand at the head of her c ' ass. she had been considered one of the mosr popular girls in school. She was keen, wi ly, pretty, jolly and always in for everything It was not until the last evening he was there that he met her at a ros:; leaf dance given in her honor. He danced with her, ihen proposed a stroll during the next, for he had been careful to cross ofl two dances together on her program. He talked to her on every subject cf which he rhcught would be of interest to her. Why wouldi t bhe talk? HHer only response was yes and no. At last he mentioned school. Oh, what a grand, glorious time I had at my dear old Alma Mater. she fairly cried. He breathed a 5igh of relief. At last. thought he I have found a subject on which she will talk How grand. said he, the study of the modern languages. Oh, I think them so stupid. she replied. Were you fond of mathematics or the different sciences? he ventured to inquire. Oh how I hated them she answered. Well, ah, did you make a speciality of elocution, art or music? No, said she, They took too much of my time and were too much of an exertion. Too much of your time. he fairly whispered. He was at his ' wits end to knov ' what to do or say next, and for some time he was lost in thought. At last in desperation, he said, . - ay I a;k in what ycu were graduated? And for the first time during the ccnversattcn. e seemed to be enlhusiastic, her face lighted tp. fairly beaming, and she smilingly answered — White organdie over satin. FLORENCE DOW Eternity, One day I watched the clouds float by. And thought, as light they drifted over me That they were only pictures in the sky; But hen I saw the rain and then the sea. I knew that they were units of a whole: The raindrops were the travelers, their home the sea. Next day I saw the clouds drift by again; They now were souls in Plato ' s world before The souls which we, perfecting bit by bii. Will show exactly where we set our store. But when I saw the restless, rolling deep. Boundless in limit, blue from shore to shore, I watched it long; then said: It is Eternity. And now I realize how short is life: How great the future is and how unknown, hiow three- score years are but a transient drop To God, who kno A €th us and knows our Home. ARTHUR K. OWEN, ' 07. An Hour of Luxury IT WAS four o ' clock and school was dismissed. A bitter January wind was doing all in its power to make the children scamper home early that night Tommy Kilday stuck his hands into his pockets and pulled his sweater up about his ears. Tommy seldom allowed the disagreeable things of life to ruffle his cheerful disposition, but tonight, as he thought of the fifteen blocks bstween him and home, something of the gloom of the evening entered into his feelings. To-night Tommy and the other boys did not loiter along the way, in hopes of catching a bob ' sled or fighting out a mimic battle in the snow. Even a warm coat and mittens could not keep out the bite and sting; and Tommy, with no mittens and only a ragged sweater, shivered as he ran along. As Tommy turned the corner into Broadway, he was meditating on his cheerless lot, when his eyes fell on a closed carriage drawn up on the opposite side of the street. On the seat, in front, was a large bundle of robes, from which a mouth and nose alone protruded, as evidence of its contents. Hov Tommy envied that coachman and wished that he were in his place! What if the wind did whistle and sting around him, what wind could penetrate those heavy robes? And yet, it would be still better to ride inside the carriage. One would not even need to be bothered with robes, if he were inside. What luxury to tell the coachman where to go and there you were, as warm as when you started. To look from the windows and watch the people who had to walk and see them look back at you and envy you. Such a speculative mood developed a plan in Tommy ' s ever fertile brain As soon as he was opposite the carriage Tommy took a careful survey of the situation. The coach- man with his eyes and ears entirely buried, was apparently as unconscious of his surroundings as if he were asleep in his bed. There were not many people on the street, owing to the disagreeable weather, and v hat few there were, were so intent on reaching a warmer place, that they paid little attention to this small rag ' a-mufiin. The situation pleased Tommy immensely. Walking quickly over to the carriage, he opened the door and, jumping in, closed it quietly. The coachman, thus aroused from his nap by the noise, heard a sweetly pitched voice from within say to him. Drive to Field ' s Shoe Store Ashamed at being caught in a dose, he started ofi at a quick pace. As the carriage rolled away. Tommy cast one half-penitent glance at the house and then settled down in the soft cushions, lost in perfect contentment. The atmosphere of warmth, cleanliness, luxury, and the sweet odor that tilled the whole carriage, v as entirely new to Tommy and the very novelty of it filled his heart with delight. He had not dreamed it would be so nice as this. As he turned the corner of Cottage Avenue, he saw his next ' door neighbor, andy Saunders, trudging along in the snow, and a strange feeling of pity and exultation thrilled his heart. He thought of looking out of the windovv and attracting her attention but the remembrance of the coachman restrained him. At length, they reached Field ' s Shoe Store and the carriage stopped. Tommy ' s brief hour of luxury was over, but its charm was to keep his heart warm for a much longer time. The coachman was just disentangling himself from his robes and blankets, in order to descend and open the carriage door, when a small lad with a beaming countenance, presented himself before him. The astonished driver could scarcely believe his ears when the ragged apparition thanked him sweetly for his ride and then, with a tantalizing whoop, took to his heels down the street. ETHEL NICHOL ' 08. A BACHELOR ' S Soliloquy. To wed. or not to wed:— that is the question; Whether ' tis nobler in a man to suffer The slings and sorrows of that blind young archer. Or fly to arms against a host of troubles. And at the altar end them. To woo to-wed — No more; and by this step to say we end The heart ' ache, and the thousand hopes and fears The single suffer - ' tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To woo ' to wed: — To wed-perchance repent, aye. there ' s the rub; For in that vA edded state, what woes m?,y come When we have launched upon that untried sea Must bid us pause. There ' s the respect That makes celibacy of so long life; For who would bear the quips and jeers of friends? The vacant hearth, the solitary cell. The unshared sorrow, and the void within? When he himself might his redemption gain NA ith a fair damsel. Who would beauty shun To toil and plod over a barren heath? But that the dread of something yet beyond — The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No bachelor returns — puzzles the will. And makes us rather bear the ills A e have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus forethought doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o ' er with the pale cast of thought. And numberless flirtations, long pursued. With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of marriage. As A Man Thinketh so is he. (Favorite quotations of the Senior class.) Walter Blood — Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way. But to act that each tomorrow Finds us farther than to-day. — Longfellow. Bertha Campbell — Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the throne Yet that scaffold sways the future And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his own. James R. Lowell. Herbert K. Clarke — Don ' t flinch, don ' t grin; hit the line hard and you are bound to win. — Roosevelt. Esther L. Dame — Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure, -—Robert Browning. Henry F. Driemeyer — ' Tis pleasant sure to see one ' s name in print. A book ' s a book, although there ' s nothing in it, Byron. F. Ray Eider— hlelping some one else is the secret of happiness — Booker T. Washington. Mildred Gilmer - Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life. — Anerback. Wm. Hickman — Eternal vigilance is the price of success. Fannie Hicks — Silently one by one, in the infinite mead ' ows of heaven blossomed the lovely stars thefor-get-me-notsof the angels. — Longfellow, Nellie Hyer— When we refuse to become our brother ' s keeper, we become his Cain, — Mrs Browning, Nancy Irwin — Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Mathew Arnold. Frances Lanphere — Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old time is still aflying, And this same flower that blooms tO ' day To-morrow will be dying. John S. Lant — Act well your part, there all the honor lies. ' — Pope. James LeCIere — As unto the bow ihe cord is As unto man is woman: Though she bends him Yet she obeys him. Though she draws him Yet she follows: Useless each without the ether. — Longfellow. Clyde Matson — A man ' s a man for a ' that — Robert Burns. Theodora M. McKelvey — God ' s in his heaven — All ' s right with the world, — Robert Browning. Frank R. McLean - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been. —J. G. Whitiier. Eva Millen — Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. But in ourselves are triumph and defeat. — Longfellow. Luelia F. Oliver — Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv ' st, live well. --Milton. Samuel C. Picken — Needs must t here be one way. one chief Best way of worship; let me strive To find it. and when found, contrive My fellows also take their share! This constitutes my earthly care; God ' s is above it and distinct; For 1. a man with men am linked And not a brute with brutes, no gain That I experience, must remain Unshared. ' ' — Bro ning. Emma PifFer ' ' There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; there is that withholdeth more than is meet but it tendeth to poverty. — Solomon. Anna Mary Pinkerton — True dignity abides with him alone A ho, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still respect, and still revere himself, in lowliness of heart. — Wordsworth. Ethel Porter — For tho ' from out one bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, 1 hope to see my Pilot face to face When 1 have crost the bar. — Tennyson. James R. Rhodes — Optimism is the faith that leads to achieve- ment. Nothing can be done without hope. — Helen Keller. John W. Kobinson — So nigh is granduer to our dust. So near is God to man. When duty whispers lovk , ' Thou must ' , The youth replies. ' I can. ' — Emerson. Stephen Fred Sharpe — Let U6, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. — Longfellow. Ada St. Clair — To thine own self be crus. And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. — Shakespeare Will am J Stevenson- - ■My ove is like a red. red rose — Burns Fern« Thomson — ■All ' s well that en ds well. ' ' — Shakespeare Edna M. Whitehill- I count this thing to be grandly true. That a noble deed is a step toward God — Lifting the soul from the common sod To a purer air, and a broader view, Heaven is not reached by a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies. And we mount to its summit round by round. —J. G. Holland. Stella Wiley- - No day without a deed to crown it. — Shakespeare. Lena Blanche Wilson — Be simply yourself, taking all possible care to make yourself what you should be. -J. G. Holland. Whimlets. THERE are always leisure moments even in our humdrum lives when we seem to have no inclination or energy For work or study. We feel as if we couldn ' t possibly direct our minds on any deep thought. but juit wanted to think about something, anything- nothing in particular. It was in one of these unsettled moods a few days ago, that I impatiently cast aside some puzzling mathematical problems, and in their place, picked up a small copy of Whimlets that lay on my desk. Whimlets I wondered what that could contain. Aimlessly, thoughtlessly, I turned over a few pages until my eyes were arrested by this little paragraph, rather quaintly put: The greed of mankind oft is shown In ways that v e deplore The man with ' troubles of his own ' Goes out to borrow more. There was philosophy in that. Did you ever notice how the girl who thinks she has so many troubles of her own is just the one who is always looking for more? In a fit of passion she will rush up to a group of her friends, and in a woe-begone tone of voice, will tell them about all her troubles. Some one of her unthinking friends will perhaps chide her for her mix ' Ups, and she returns some sarcastic remark, only to re- gret it after it is said — She has found more trouble. Or, this same girl with her many troubles, some day over- hears a slighting remark made by some one in a group of girls she chances to pass. She didn ' t hear whom it was about but she just knows it was about her— what greed there is in man. Just following this litde stanza in my book of whimlets, 1 noticed this fitting little composition: Fortune came and loudly knocked At my door with cheery hail. But alas for Fortunes labors, I was over at my neighbors Pouring out a ' hard luck ' rale. And I thought how very often we miss the very best fortune has for us simply because v e are brooding over past misfortunes. By ' gones are by-gones and brooding over them never did any one good. It is the one who watches for fortune ' s next opportunity that finds happiness and believes life to be v orth living. While 1 vs as thus reasoning, my eyes fell on this little verse and the train of thought was somewhat changed: Tvv ' ixt pleasure and duty We all take our choice, But pleasure ' s loud calling Drown duty ' s small voice. This seemed to have a more serious phase to it and ! fell to thinking — ' Tis true we do take our choice between pleasure and duty and we think we choose rightly: but I vs onder if it is true that it is because of pleasure ' s loud calling that we so seldom hear duty ' s voice. If pleasure ' s voice is so much louder than duty ' s it is because we have allowed it to be so. We all love pleasure so much, and duty is not al A ' ays pleasure, that it becomes the easiest thing in ihe world to hear the voice of pleasure above that of duty. We take our choice twixt pleasure and duty but too oFten we hear the call or pleisure far above that of duty. The next little Whimlet I read over and over. It see.nsd to express a rather strange sentiment but still, perhaps there was more wisdom in it than folly, it read thus: Assume a virtue tho ' you have it not. When you are cold, pretend you are hot: When you are hot, pretend you are cold; When you are broke, pretend you ' ve lots of gold; When you are flush, pretend you are broke; When you are saddest tell a funny joke.. The world takes man for what man seems to be So )ust assume a virtue and you ' ll see. After all we are just what we make ourselves and the world takes us for what we appear to be. But is it not true that the laugh or joke when we are sad will soon become real if continued, and we not only think we are happy but we are happy. The assumed virtue soon becomes a virtue indeed. And even though our hap- piness should not be genuine to us some one else is happier for our seeming happiness, ' Tis best of course to be what you are, but think you are something and something you ' ll be. 1 dropped my book a moment and picked it up agiin, and this suggestive verse yva.s written where the book opened. Everything comes to those who wait And the lazy man waits to greet it, But success comes on with a rapid gait To the fellow who goes to meet it. I gazed at the clock. ' Twas time for me to go and meet success. After all these were only whimlets ' and the mathemitical problems were unsolved, but I was wiser for the hour of musing. September Sept. 11. Sept. 12. Sept. 13. Sept. 14. Sept. 15. Sept. 16. Sept. 17. Sept. 18. Sept. 19. Sept. 20. Sept. 21. Sept. 22. Sept. 23. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 30. Campus looks green. ' ' Herbert and Nora meet all trains. Old friends meet again — old foes ditto. Fifty-seven varieties arrive. Lant swears that he is going to get a wife this year. Y. W. C. A. Eeception. Vigilance committee ' ' plan to play Ball. Dates for Peanut Night in order. Calhoun and Allen. First come first served. Y. W. Y. M. reception. Kerr and Annis sit out all si.Y stunts. Sept 10. Services at Auditorium. Austin spreads himself — steadies all out. widows look lonesome. Adah says: I ' d look all right with Bob it I was only little and sweet. Blood and Beth Graham buy new Bibles to enter McMichael ' s class — for shame! Skin-game. Rhodes and Elder get a job. Freshman -Sophhmore scrap. Sophs show that they are true ( ' ?) sports. Annual Board election. Nothing doing today. Mrs. McMichael says: 103 pounds of her is A. B. L., the rest Aleth. To which does she belong ' ? Gertrude Fort has her first beaux. Frank Morris: Yes, indeed! I like lobsters. Bob White; That is self-conceit isn ' t it? Kappa ' s walk on tiy paper. Vigilance committee play ball. Kerr and Annis take their napkins to Johnson ' s drug store. Gathering around the rock for the usual performance. Junior meat roast. Pat and Lowry have to promise that they will be good. Freshman social. Soph ' s slow. Sadie Archer says: We don ' t need to see her sister, because Fm a great deal prettier than Mame is. Band concert at Presbyterian church. Juniors meet and discuss the Invasion of the Barbarians. Cigar hold-up. The Bad gang. Freshmen capture Prof. McCracken — they mistake him for Charlie. Prof. Keeler ' s recital. John Mac gives Jean Robinson a free press. Prof. Graham: Miss Wilson how does your future appear to you? Miss Wilson: Very bright, thank you. Boys play Iowa University. Annual Board meets and decides to put out a book that even the profs will buy. ' ;■ ' .f ' Oct. 10. Oct. 11. Oct. 13. Oct. 14. Oct. 15. Oct. 16. Oct. 17. Oct. 18. Oct. 19 Oct. 20 Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Oct. 23 Oct. 24 Oct. 25 Oct. 26 Oct. 27. Oct. 28. Oct. 29. Oct. 30. Oct. 31, October Oct. 1. Elder goes to sleep in choir. How is such a thing possible? Dr. preaches hour and a half. Oct. 2. Nora ' s washing is sent to Herbert ' s room. Oct. 3. Aleth open meeting. H. S. shows College how to play fast ball. Oct. 4. Sophomore girls gives the boys a dance. Cowiek arrested. Nixon and family move to Orr ' s. Oct. 5. Cowiok is going to write a book, City Prison Life or All are not pigs that live in a pen. Oct. 6. Eccritean Open Bleeting. Oroson discusses The Aban- donment of Eastern Policy. Z. E. X. notify boys that their Friday evenings are taken. Oct. 7. Monmouth vs. Keokuk 49-0. Every little bit helps. , Oct. 8. Everybody cuts church for a stroll. Kenneth sleeps right through a date. Oct. 9. Kerr gives his oi-ation in chapel. Dr. leads Johnny Mac home from prayer meeting by the ear. Kappa ' s take hay rack ride. Coach Bell makes debut as lecturer — one of those heart to heart talks. Philo Open Meeting. Driemeyer has a date. Monmouth vs. Lombard. Joe says: First time •! ' ever played Lombard and we beat. Lourie has new girl. Query: Did any one ever pay tor that hundred feet of sidewalk? ' A. B. L. Open Meeting. Where was May bell when the lights went out? Adah and Dr. Hicks organize the Dutch Company. Prof, Keeler gets rash and attends College Dance — Driemeyer vs. Graham. Class won ' t recite for a week. Question: Do Nixon and Kerr get family rates for boarding? Juniors decide on headgear. Monmouth vs. Iowa Wesleyan 22-0. Tom Smith, etc.. attends Street Fair in Galesburg. Yost and Fluffy get sporty at Mt. Pleasant. Concert at 2d U. P. Church. Yost is at last a M. C. student. He learns to smoke. Freshman get back less credits than they deserve. How does it seem to be a freshman ? Graham follows bad example of the other teachers and gives a test. Mass Meeting. Nickles surprise Nancy on her birthday and incidentally John Millen. Mass Meeting. Prof. Glass makes his reputation as a stump speaker. ' ' Wouldn ' t you like to see him play foot ball? Monmouth knocks the socks off of Knox, 12-6. Elder goes to sleep in choir. We would suggest a rattle. The trim on Prof. Bobbie ' s mustache betokens a test. Hallowe ' en. Webb to Pete: Down with Rum. Zetas and Fidos celebrate with blow outs. .W ' p- Nov, Nov, Nov, Nov, Nov. Nov. Nov, Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. November Nov. 1. McKinleyFiroved wedding. Students hold gallery. Nov. 2. Nora says it ' s no use for her to say she ' ll be an old maid, that we all know better. Nov. 3. Peanut Night. Nov. 4. Ain ' t it great, the morning after? Nov. 5. Yost and Monteith scared out of back seat. Nov. 6. Herr Hicks fails to appear. French class regret their ina- bility to air their acquired knowledge. Nov. 7. Another M. C. grad. comes into prominence. Mr. McKinnv goes to Congress. New Telephone system on Campus. Nov. 8. Dick and Pierre go to sleep in History. Nov. 9. Bispham Concert. Something great. Nov. 10. Bob Gamble says he heard the Dishpan concert the night before. Dr. McMichael, Girls will hear the report of the Y. M. at Circle tonight. Nov. 11. We knocked the dough out of Coe, 62-4. ■ { Nov. 12. John Martin loses a Belle on N. 3d st.: Skot finds it. 13. Pi-of. Graham says that putting a lead nickle in the collection box is not laying up treasures in Heaven. 14. Bob Clarke, ' ' Sagen Sie weider Herr Dr. Hicks. 15. Nora. I begrudge the time I spend with Herbert. Maybe Herbert does too. 1(). Ralph Cowden, - ' That dress of Bessie Eenwick ' s has as many colors as Joseph ' s pants. 17. Blanche W. in A. B. L. : The course of true love never did run smooth. 18. Milikein vs. Monmouth, 0-35. We knocked the skin off of Milikein. 19. Chester stays in Peoria for a Wtonder. 20. Paul McClanahan and Shonts bring honor and money to College. Which is pre- ferable ' ? 21. .John Me. has to call in landlady to light the gas. We advise the Cartilagvi System. 22. First Meeting of Dutch Company. Prep. — That Driemeyer acts like he was in love. Those innocent Preps, they will soon learn. 23. Camp makes hit in Chapel. After seeing Elias Day. Helen McClanahan decides to go on the stage. Wonder why ' ? 24. Jacksonville vs. Monmouth. 0-22, Florence Findley. My love is like a rep. EFD rose. 25. Ethel Senseman entertains the whole ' dam family at a ' dam ' affair. 26. Ni.xon gets hold of old time-table. Misses train. War. 27. Juniors sport new head gear. Swell ! 28. The mercury falls but Chapel stays warm — hard luck. 29. Blass Meeting. Pecley — What you fellows want is to get some -enthusiaz. ' 30. Lake Forest vs. Monmouth, 0-23. Turkey. Basket Ball game and Dance. Dec. 1. Dee. 4. December Dee. 10, Dec. 11. Dee. 12. Dee. 13. Dee. 14. Dec. 15. Dec. 16. Dec. 17. Dec. 18. Dec. 19. Dee. 20. Dec. 21. What is like a good clean record in foot- ball? Champions of Illinois. Dec. 2. Everybody goes skating. Dec. 3. Dr. preaches on borrowed armour. Won- der if that could mean a pony. Vacation. Everything comes to him who waits. ■■ The versatile Guy Carleton Lee lectures. Stand walks back but no Bible appears. Skot spends 50e for seat. Who was by? Holy City Recital. Prof. Austin nearly has a tit. Cut society and go skating. Seniors start cap and gown agitation. We wonder if those Seniors will always be kids. Seniors after three and a half years of de- liberation decide to wear caps and gowns. All young men urged to attend Y. M. C. A. Special music — Miss Bessie Butler has consented to sing. McGreoch calls Croson a bigiamist because he goes with so many girls. Bretnall and Physiology Class have a contest in lying. Bretnall takes the dog. Yes, girls in the house are nice but they are hard on the gas bill. — Prof. Graham. Peacock elected football manager. Bay E. — Miss L won ' t you come into Ihilo ball c;nd study next hour? Aside, maybe I can get h er vote today. Sunday on Friday. Two a week isnit bad when it means a vacation. Leaders discuss not letting the girls vote tor athletic managers. Sabbath. Freshman, A week from today we will get to see our old SaVjbath School Teacher. Cram! Cram! Cram! Exam! Exam! Exam! Flunk! Flunk! Flunk! Home again with the folks. - w: January Jan. 8. Jan. 10 Jan. 11 Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Jan. 14 Jan. 15 Jan. 16 Jan. 17 Jan 19 Jan 20 Jan 21 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 Jan. 30. Jan. 31. Wipe off the slate and begin again. Webb spends the night meeting trains. Flossie appears on the 6th. McKee-Nevin Contest. Bay Smith, When Grace came I tried to give her a good start and told all the boys how rich Uncle is. Jim Khodes admits that he is in love. Millie says she has gone to dinner with two famous men in her day — Capt. Hobson and Coach Bell. Prof. Glass. The Ancients won their brides by force of arms. Frank Hill, We haven ' t changed our tactics much yet, have we? Boys receive their M sweaters. Joe s and Chester ' s hair is a little too red. Prof. K. to Millie: It contuses me to look at a cross-eyed person. Lecture by Hopkins. Number of New Year samples appear. Katherine P. is in the city. Bill Jones fears robbers and seeks to protect himself. Class Play practice degenerates into a faculty dance. Study on Sunday — Plunk on Monday. Bible Song books seek the Bible. Mary Cooke buys book of stamps because of bargain day. Song books return and report that Bible is doing good work among the Barba- rians. Prof. Glass, What kind of a condition is this, ' you will not marry if you have sense ' ? ' Jim Khodes, Contrary to fact. Will T has another date. Basket Ball with Hlinois. 54-16. Harold Watt. The Iowa Central train will be on time unless there is a heavy dew. The beautiful rest of this Sabbath is appreciated. Just one more month, Freshman. Annual Board now meets at Peacock ' s. Prof. E. — Good board is necessary for good study. No wonder the club people flunk. Girls beat Seaton 14-6. Miss A wishes to meet Earl Wells because he is so pretty. Too bad they took Tom away from you. Florence. Katie Prugh gets a chafing dish. O. K. T. gives first official smoker. Augustana vs. Monmouth. 13-22. Cliff Bell severs all athletic connection with Augustana. Will T makes wonderful advances in society. Hue McC I wish I knew her well enough to call her Kate. Bookies spring Salvation Hats. Girls beat Seaton again. ■Jim Khodes elected Senior president. Anything else. .Jim? February Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb, Feb, Feb. Feb, Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb, Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb, Feb Feb, Feb Feb, Feb. Feb. Feb. 1. Joe Pickens, Ive got a women back in Iowa bigger than Doc ' s. Feb. 2: Philos make an awful noise in society. Freddy McDougal hunts for CO in laboratory; says she can ' t And any. Feb 3. I never smoked until I came here. Cale, did he ever ride horseback? Feb. 4. We all go to cnurch and recu- perate. Feb. 5. Don Burnett, --I ' m in the Ju- nior play because Fm John Burnett, Jr. Feb. 6. Dr. and Mrs. MoMichael enter- tain debaters and girls (?) Boys beat Hedding. 7. Class meetings by the Freshies and Sophs. It is nearing the 22d. 8. Juniors Class Play. ' 07 scores another success. 9. A.. B. L. spread. What became of the prophecy ? 10. Freshies beat Sophs. Sophs meet the enemy and they are theirs. 11. Doe Sherrick thinks seriously of entering the ministry. 12. Mrs. S . - ' Yes, Florence is breakfasting in bed; she is learning to be a lady. You know she is to marry a rich man. 13. Freshman paint the college green. 14. Nora 8 , I read that article but I don ' t know where. (It was in the Sunday Kecord-Herald, and, Nora, the President of the Y. M. C. A. ) 15. Freshman Bob disappears. Y. M. C. A. vs. College. 19-29. Pickens elected Track Captain. Another - ' S. M. BI. 16. Sophs capture Chandler and Warwick. Monteith at Mrs. H. ' s door. ' -Please give me a drink, I am so hungry I don ' t know where I ' m going to sleep tonight. 17. Vincent captured — but oh, my! 18. Slim attendance at church. No Freshmen. No Sophs. 19. Louis XIV, L ' etat c ' est moi. Chester Smith, Who is the Sophomore class? ' ' 20. Dr. Mc , Yes, the ' Procs ' were pretty good but slightly forestalled. 21. A lull before the storm. 22. George Washington ' s birthday. 23. How many unexcused absences take off credits? Query of underclassmen. 24. Monmouth vs. Lombard, 38-27. 25. Everyone gets out to dinner after sleeping all morning. 26. Chester goes a visiting. 27. Parsons holds Miss Downie ' s hand in Elocution. 28. Elsie French ' s pony gets foundered. She flunks. Prof. McMichael. -Never thought that of you. Elsie. Vq March 3. lL:r;Mareh4. March 5. March 6. March 7. March H. March March March March Mai ' ch March March March ' March March March March March March March March March .Alarch March March 1. Doc would like to know who rolled the big shot. March 2. New Skating Rink. Take heed lest ye fall. Sophs ' dummy dies a peaceful death. Eureka vs. Monmouth, 23-3-1. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman take a walk. Frank Dixon ' s lecture. He looks like Webb. Athletic Board meet and discuss Taxation without Representation. Monmouth vs. High School, 27-25. Miss Henderson, Be ready to fly whenever necessarj ' . Prof. Glass, There seems to be a hot time in the old town tonight. Fidos assume a new dignity. March 9. Bill TurnbuU loses his can opener. March 10. Y. M. C. A. cabinet has picture taken. Root loses many photographs March 11. Eva Millen smiles; a snowstorui the result. March 12. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman take another walk. March 13. F. Findley and Esther Dame need lessons in hostelry. Why did the horse go in a circle? 14. Vandals destroy organ; $100 damages; expert from Chicago, etc. 15. Austin wildeyed. Monte Carlo begins. 16. Jim McCoy feels his age today. Cigars! 17. Wiley S. meets Miss Lee at skating rink. 18. How much did Expert Sam Hamilton get for repairing the organ? 19. Monte Carlo. Really it ' s better for the boys to be in school. 20. School. Is Buck asleep? 21. First time in 50 years the students beat the College. 22. Dr. asks donations from the honest ones. 23. Shellar gets so excited he forgets to take Merle home. Miss Winbigler enter- tains Philos after contest. 24. Sir Dan of the Belt is visiting frieuds in tne city . 25. Rev. Pollock — Dog eat Dog aud still there is one dog left. 26. Nixon has sister at the skating rink. Sister— ! just love those eyes. 27. Marbles in Chapel. Doctor announces that some are going to be asked quietly to leave. 28. Kerr, Sprague and Croson pack up and leave. 29. Nixon and family move Bob White to Adah — Please skate with me, but you ' ll have to hold me up. 30. Bob Stewart and Miss Cooke study Domestic Economy iu the Library. .Ju- niors go on the road. 31. Faua Calvin goes home. Wells treats Nixon ' s sister. April 3. April April 8. April 0. April 10. April 11. April 12. April 13. April 1-1. April 15. April 16. April 17. April IS. April 19. April 20. April 21. April 22. April 23. April 24. April 25. April 26, April 27. April 28. April 29. April 30, Hickman and Miss Elder have a quarrel but it was only a joke. Camera fiends get busy for the Annual. First Spring ' day. Campus class organizes. Mabel Burns mistaken by an agent for Mrs. Hicks. Poor Mabel, we had hoped for better things from her. Fannie Hicks in town. John ' s face wreathed in smiles. These moonlight nights are distracting. Astronomy becomes a popular science. First interrupted cupola party. Dr. and Wylie have a little face to face talk. Did Katharine know how far it was when she jumped? Grace Duff and Ralph Kyle discovered reading love stories out in the woods. Too bad to interrupt such little romances. Rev. Pollock preaches on Love. We probably love some even more if they are far away from us. Katherine P. shrugs her shoulders and Fred Sharpe has a far away look in his eyes. Charles McCracken makes dates for two weeks in advance. Bob isn ' t a very big man but evidently one to fear. Rev. Simpson: We a;re often so interested in college life that the very man or woman, for whom we are looking, escapes us. Captain Taylor makes a hit at chapel. We will all remember Kruger ' s fiery fate. Joe Calhoun takes girl to a show but forgets to ask her her name. John Lant loses out in his date with Miss Graj ' . Foiled again. Here ' s to the one we buried Out on the Campus green ; We wept for him, we mourned for him. But, alas, his grave was never seen. Easter- Everyone attends chui ' ch to show off their new bonnets. Bill Jones actually seen to run a few steps. Nothing doing. Doc even turns in early. Dr. Wells loses his tulips and incidentally his temper and good manners. Eldridge plays to grand stand and stops a buggy. Local McBeth hits town. What ' s the matter with the Athletic board? Monmouth beats Knox 6-5. Poor work though, boys. Band concert at Presbyterian church. Some couples get separated. Library rotates. Monmouth vs. Bradley, 3-0. Library retuims to the old system. Colonel Carr in chapel. Juniors win the Palmer-Livingston Cup for the third time and celebrate with the memorable cupola party. Pickens takes his Browning to Eureka. Eureka beats, 7-6. Papers take a soak at Bell ' s machine. Chronology editors prepare to commit suicide. They kick the bucket and cross The Great Divide. Song on May Morning Now the bright Morning Star— day ' s harbinger- Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who, from her green lap, throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale June rose. Hail, bounteous May, that does inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing. Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. —Milton. WHO? Who runs the College and the Town? Doctor. Who steers the proud Papas around? Doctor. Who makes the grass green in the spring? Who tells the little birds to sing? Who does, in fact, most everything? Doctor. Who tells the Athletic Board what to say? Doctor. Who calls some one most every day? Doctor. Who walks the campus with a stride. And quickly by a freshman spied. Is always named The Village Pride ? Doctor. Who told the world to move around? Doctor. Who did the stars and moon astound? Doctor. Who told the trustees you are nil, You ' re in the valley; I ' m on the hill. When I ' m around you must keep still ? Doctor. Who knows all about the ping ' pong game? Doctor. Who is our v alking hall of fame? Doctor. A ho is it. The All, The Best? Who far surpasses all the rest? V ho by the gods is surely blessed? Doctor. ■ Alfs ivell that ends ?re , — Seniors. One day in McCracken ' s room, by the powers, A fellow got up to recite. He had studied his lesson for fifty hours. And he thought he knew it all right; But Tom said in his sweetest voice You will give me this part of the text The thirteenth word on the twentieth line On the eighteenth page of chapter nine. The twenty-first word from the pronoun cook. The twentv ' five pages from the rear of the book. What ! you don ' t know it ? Next ! .s yo2i like it. — Juniors. The Culture Club. An organization conducteJ for the delectation and edification of those members of the Freshman, and other classes who are naturally ignorant concerning the rules and regulations of social etiquette. Address all inquiries to The President of ' The Culture Club, Monmouth, 111. All inquiries requiring personal attention must be accompanied by a two cent stamp. All other inquiries will be carefully con- sidered and answered in these columns. To the President of ' The Culture Club — Sir — ( 1 ). How shall I answer an invitation from Doctor to call upon him if the note mentions visiting the college after night? (2). How shall 1 act? (3). A hat is the nature of such a function? H. W. S. (I). Ansvver the note as follows: — M . T. Willie Pitcoe regrets that no possible engagement can prevent his accepting the Presidenc ' s kind invitation to call. (2). Keep your nerve. A good impression would b? made if you carried a Bible and copy of the Bible Songs. (3). It is purely informal. Others will probably be present and refreshments will be served. Do not, however, stay more than two minutes as your host may run out of topics for conversation, To the President of ' The Culture Club — Sir: — (I ), A young gentleman of pleasing appearance, v ho is employed in a bank in our town, has an intense desire to mak my acquaintance. Ho a should 1 go about it to make myself known to him? (2). Do you think he loves me? (3). N ' Vould it be wise for me to turn dovvn a Sure Thing for a Good Prospect, since I am now separated many miles from my Sure Thing while there are many Good Prospects near at hand? K. P. (I). NA hy not get some mutual friend to take you down to the bank at once and introduce you, as you cannot afford to let this opportunity pass. If you can ' t manage it this way make it a point to be walking ahead of him on the street and drop your glove. If he is the gentleman you consider him to be, he will most certainly strike up an acquaintance. Above all things if at first you don ' t succeed, try, try. again. Try anyway you think of. (2). Undoubtedly. (3). Consider the matter carefully before you take any definite action. Why not try developing a Good Prospect and holding on to your Sure Thing at the same time? To the President of ' The Culture Club, -_; Sir:--1 am a freshman and 1 love a sophomore girl. We are to hold a freshman banquet in a short time and, as 1 have vowed to keep no secrets from her. xA ould it not be the proper thing for me to tell her our plans? C. M. Muck Ado About NotJiing ' — SojJhs. No, C. M. I do not think it would be wise. She might possibly pass some of your plans on to her Soph, friends. To the President of The Culture Club — Sir:-- Some tirr.e ago I purchased a new spring hat with a green feather in it. My gentleman friend does not like the green feather and has refused to walk with me as long as I wear it. What am I to do? Mv heart is breaking, still the hat is so sweet. A. E Why not hold out for about a week— not longer — and then if he does not relent. 1 would suggest another hat or, at least, a new feathe,-. Hats are plentiful but as for fellows -well you had better get a new hat. Note: —In answer to the communications of K. W. A., W. J. M . N. P., and P. C, we would refer them to the letter of H. W. S. MOl ' ICH ' EGO ' l. MOTTO- ' I am the man, watch me. OFFICERS: J. OTIS BALL, |. O. BALL J. OTIS BALL, J. O. BALL, President. Vice President. Secretary. Treisurer. ' Coniedij of Errois — Freshmen. DO YOU KNOW THAT- Ethyl McCoy is J. Clyde McCoy ' s sister? Jay Bali is going to Harvard? Chandler is tough ? Pershin is getting $85 (?) per on the Q? Charlie Montieth is a politician? Charles McCracken is a brother of Professor McCracken ? Homer Campbell doer not owe his literary society a cent ? Bob Gamble is to be Prof. Robinson ' s successor ? Miss Morrow is not going to teach long? Miss Henderson is cute ? Prof Hicks has been abroad ? Bill Morehead is hungry ? Ray Smith is an athlete ? Jim Rhodes isn ' t a grafter? Flossie Dow goes with Web? IF NOT THEY WILL SOON TELL YOU. ■ ' Love ' s Labo) ' Lost — Faculty. Minutes OF THE FACULTY MEETING. 0OCTOR starts the knocking by calling the meeting to order. After reading the scriptures Doc. asks Prof. Bell to lead in prayer, McCracken objects. Objection sustained. Motion made and carried that McCracken lead in prayer. Koll call responded to by verses of scripture. Reports of Professors called for. Dr. Graham reports that he has worried through forty-two pages and has. to a certain extent, succeeded in keeping the students awake during recitation hours. Miss Patterson reports all bluffs in her classes have been called. Two girls out of their seats in chapel and one boy ' s head out of line. Miss Winbigler reports freshmen still cowed but recovering. Will land on them again this week. Some fruiting done in Soph, note books, but this easily detected. John Henry reports that Phoenix catsup bottles make best ink stands. Inter- mittent 10 per cent skip-hazard system beginning in the middle of the roll and going to the two ends, works to perfection. Swan reports increasing mortality among test tubes. Acknowledges receipt of check for $29.00 from Aluminum Ware Co., for boosting their wares. Bretnall reports that the remains of the Guinea pigs found a ready market and acknowledges receipt of check for $29.69 from None-such Mince Meat Factory. Skeleton bshavmg well lately. Students in Anatomy 1 to 20 hours ahead in their laboratory work. Canned goods keeping well. hiicks reports that, by request of his pupils, he has quit smoking just before recitation periods. Has spoken to three (3 ) students this week. Flunked a few out of spite last term and rejoices that they are doing much worse this term Reports 3 pupils conscientiously attending his lectures in Mediaeval Sarcasm Glass asks that he be appointed official supreme judge for all future contests, in the auditorium. Cokes Dandruff Cure a fake. McCracken reports flunking 89 this week. Charles received 4 As and I B last term. Applies for advanced standing in faculty. Application laid on table. Miss Henderson asks permission to conduct dancing school on the side. McCracken objects. All sustain objection except Glass. Kobbie reports that |otis Bawl and K. M. Cur are the only prodigies thus far this year, with Chas. McCracken and Mac McMillen striving hard to be. Prof. Bell calls the attention of the faculty to the fact that he is making good. Reports that student body has not yet gotten next to the fact that he is planning for eventual complete control of Monmouth athletics. Prof. Buckanan reports an Iowa farmer about to kick the bucket, whose will can probably be contested in favor of Monmouth College. Also reports $2.50 paid in so far on the $1.00 conscience fund. Dr McMichael reports that those perpetrating chapel disturbances are easily detected by the spotter method. Reports being accepted, miscellaneous business called for. Sharp ' s applica- tion for a 1 years extension to his life scholarship heard and granted. There being no more business, meeting adjourned, Were silence golden, I ' d be a millionaire. — Millie Bigger. W- The Classes. His wondering gaze, his downcast eye. His look of awe jyhen a senior ' s nigh. His awkwardness, so scared, so shy. These show that he ' s a Freshman. His haughty, over-powering stride. His sneer, which says, I can ' t abide These Freshies and his awful pride. These prove that he ' s a Sophie. His air, which says, Another year When no superior senior ' s here. We ' ll have things lively, don ' t you fear, These show that he ' s a Junic His Dignity so grand and cool. His egotistic wish to rule. His air, which says, I run this school, These mark him for a Senior. ' Love me, Love Bill. — Mabel Coicden. u o a!. u O o u X H ID O s o a: 15 ?e in° 5 I 2 iooe (5tcw ' o;fiio ( , ?; jn i ! OU! y?! ' n The Equestrians. AN ORGANIZATION FOR SELF-PRESERVATION. Motto — We ride, let others walk. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I — Member of three classes 1st Novitiates, 2nd Knights in Ordinary,. 3rd Knights of the Fiery Charger. ARTICLE II — All Preps shall be considered Novitiates and shall practice the eques- trian art under the supervision of the Exalted Master of the Horse, ARTICLE 111— Novitiates, by riding boldly and fearlessly and by escaping the vigilance of that arch-enemy Tommie, shall thereby win the spurs of Knights-in-Ordinary. ARTICLE IV — Few, indeed, can hope to become Knights of the Fiery Charger. This honor is conferred only upon those Knights-in-Ordinary who have ridden the gauntlet fearlessly in the face of John Henry and have thereby proved their perfect control cf their steeds. ARTICLE V — Government of clan shall be vested in a Grand Mysterious conclave composed of Knights of-the-Fiery Charger. OFFICERS. Most Artful Knight of the Fiery Charger- C, M ' CRACKEN. Most Noble Exalted Master of the Horse -HOMER CAMPBELL Chief Burnisher of Trappings— BURNS AND M ' QUISTON. Most Honored Keeper of the Stables- HINDS AND NO ELE. KNIGHTS-IN-ORDINARY. lOHN M ' ALLISTER, LUCILE WHITE, ETHEL M ' COY, MABEL COWDEN, MILLIE BIGGER. LESLIE SHEKWCK. TJiou art iveighed in the balance arid found not wanting. — Sam Hamilton. Our Good Example, MOMER CAMPBELL never gets No dirt on his hands or face, Ner his clo ' es — he never sets On the grass, er any place Where there ' s leaves, er mud, er dust. An, his pants is never tore — He ' s afraid ' at he ' ud bust If he slid a cellar door! ' Do like hlomer Campbell does! ' At ' s the on ' y thing 1 hear. Seems as if it alwas wuz Hollerin ' right in my ear. Homer Campbell ' s in my class — Al ' ays has his lessons right, Never gives no one no sass: Al ' ays answers up polite. Notice Homer Campbell, boys ' Says th ' teacher, ever ' day, Homer never causes noise, Ne ' r disturbs in any v ay. Ma says Homer is so good — If all other children here Would jest do like him, it would Fill their parents full of cheer. Do like Homer Campbell does! Pa an ' ma an ' ever ' one Says so much, it seems to buzz All around ' , and spoil my fun. Sometimes I jest sneak away, ' Nen they think ' at I ' m ashamed ' But 1 go ' way off, an ' say: ' Homer Campbell be dadblamed! —Wilbur D. Nesbit. Manners are the debts ice oice to others.— Prof Hicks. The Team of i906. THIS IS THE TEAM OF 1906. This is the man who fame deserves. Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks, In the team of 1906. This is the man who played in the box, And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. This is the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase. When throvA n by the man who fame deserves, Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. This is the man who stood on second, Who jumped and hollered and wildly bickoned After the man who held first base; Who after the ball gave merry chase. When thrown by the man who fame deserves. Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. This is the man that sat on third When the ball went by and never heard The yell of the man who stood on second And jumped and hollered and widly beckoned After the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase, When thrown by the man who fame deserves. Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. This is the man who played short stop. And chased the ball with a lively hop When it passed the man who sat on third When the ball went by, and never heard The yell of the man who stood on second. And lumped and hollored and wildly beckoned After the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase When thrown by the man who fame deserves. Who caught the A ild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906, This is the man who fielded right And markes the ball in its winged flight Over the man who played short stop And chased the ball with a lively hop When it passed the man who sat on third When the ball went by and never heard The yell of the man who stood on second. And jumped and hollered and wildly beckoned After the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase When thrown by the man who fame deserves. Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. This ii 11 ic cenrer heldmg mari Who catches the ball whenever he can When it ' s mufFed by the man who fields in the And marks the ball in its vinged flight Over the man who played short stop And chased the ball with a lively hop When it passed the man who sat on third When the ball went by, and never heard The yell of the man who stood on second, And jumped and yelled and wildly beckoned After the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase When thrown by the man who fame deserves. Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fello ' vvs out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. ight This is the man of left fielding fame Who lost the ball and ended the game. When it passed the center fielding man Who catches the ball whenever he can When its mufFed by the man who fields in the right And marks the ball in its winged flight Over the man who played short stop And chased the ball with a lively hop When it passed the man who sat on third When the ball went by, and never heard The yell of the man who stood on second. And jumped and hollered and wildly beckoned After the man who held first base. Who after the ball gave merry chase When thrown by the man who fame deserves, Who caught the wild and terrible curves Of the man who played so well in the box And cheated the fellows out of their knocks. In the team of 1906. BOSTON MASS., May 9, 1906. PROFESSOR L E. ROBINSON, 1032 E. Boston Avenue, Monmouth Illinois. DEAR SIR: Enclosed please find draft for $40.39, the final payment on our contract of Aug. 23. We find that you have faithfully fulfilled said contract in every particular, having introduced ten new text books, while the contract called for but six. We would say that we would be glad to renew the agreetnent for the coming year making your com- mission 15 per cent, instead of 10 ' per cent, as in the past Thanking you for many favors in the past, and wishing you a pleasant trip abroad, we beg to remain. Yours sincerely, GINN AND COMPANY. HOW THE COLLEGE MEN LOOK DOWN ON LIFE, Hoiv very lucky is my lot, I ' m happy as a clam, For whether I am right or not, I always think I am. — Homer Campbell. MONMOUTH, ILL., October 26, 1905. TAK. JAMES RHODES, Monmouth, Illinois, DEAR SIB.: Enclosed please find your contract for one full page ad. in the Oracle for the year 1905-1906. 1 would remind you of the verbal contract which was made between us, that this ad. was given to you with the distinct understanding that there were to be no roasts whatever on the faculty in your paper. Yours sincerely. W. J. BUCHANAN. AND WHAT HE SEES THERE. Nature hath fonned strange creatures in her time. — Biddle. TELEPHONE SCENE. CUPID ON THE WIRES. A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. CHESTER CHESTERFIELD An Adventure GWENDOLYN JONES . . . . . Miss Firefly ' s Friend FANNIE F1P.EFLY TheHostess (Owen is visiting Fannie. Telephone rings, Owen answers and finds Ches at the Phone. ) Ches— Hello Is this Firefly ' s? Gwen — Yes. Ches — Is Fannie Firefly there? Gwen — Yes, I ' ll call her. Fannie — Hello! Ches — Hello Fannie, this is Ches, wouldn ' t you like to go to the entertain ' merit with me tonight? , Fannie — Yes, but — Ches — But what! Fannie — But why didn ' t you ask Gwen, she answered the phone? Ches — The deuce she did — x — x — x — x — ■They offered him a copper crown and he could not refuse.— W. J. Stevenson. THE ANCIENT ORDER OF. Moonlight Prowlers. Password — ' Smack. Crip — Five minutes and repeat if necessary. On the Way to the Altar - - W. W. HICKMAN and ALICE ELDER Prowlers in Chief . . , , , HERBEI-kT and NORA K=in or Shine KOBT, KERR and ANNIS Weekly SHELLER and PEGGY When Circumstances Permit - PETE and PEGGY, SHELLER and MERLE Promiscuous ,,,,,.,,, CHESTER The same yesterday, tO ' day, and forever, one and inseparable HENRY and FLORENCE Semi-Occasionally BETH and CHESTER After the lights go cut - WEBB and FLOSSIE Alone PRINCE ALBERT A bad case BOB and ADAH Headlights WILL and FLORENCE Two of a kind - - - ' - TOM SMITH and FLORENCE B. IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME. ' The soul of this man deals ivith naught 6«f his clothes — Tom Smiths What They Go By. Ralph Cowden Williard Jones Walter McMillan Ethel Senseman Bess Butler Leslie Sherrick Earle Wells Laurence Fulton Eugene Nixon Fred Sharpe Clyde Matson Kenneth Gordon Louise Pveid Harry McClellan Jim Pickens Katherine Anderson W. J. Buchanan Prof. McMillan Prof. Graham Prof. Robinson Prof. Hicks, Prof. McCracken Miss Patterson Miss Winbigler Doc ■•Butch Pete Peggy Betty Doe Buck General Nick Stephen ■Pike ■■Dick Cheesii ■■Culley -■■Pick ■■Kitty •■Buck John Henry ■•Ten ■•Robbie ' ■■Hicks ' ■ ' Tom ■•Pattie ■•Alice i .] kiuk M IN THE GOOD OLD WINTER TIME. ON AND AROUND THE CAMFUS. We ' ve roasted some. We ' ve toasted some. And some we ' ve fairly baked. Freshies and Sophs, Seniors and Profs., Over the coals we ' ve raked. You find your name They do the same. Just lemember it ' s to make you laug !f you think it ' s a sin To so rub it in. Go )ump on the Ravelings Staff. The end. For this relief much thank ' The Business Managers wish to call your attention to the following ads. For those who have thus shown their interest in the ' 07 Ravelings we bespeak your patronage. Copypi B. Kuppenhei The Best Dressed Students are customers and friends of SOL SCHLOSS BRO. SOL e:i_i Andrew H. Frandsen JEWELER OPTICIAN SOUTH MAIN ST. pj C I K TOjiw--- -v ' -D oj -Ij B HH «nK ' : ' .; ' • a g mW i O Wmlwm a.) U — U ' ' 9S V f ■.- M( (U H W Bi ' ' This store stands for the best in Jewelry, Optics and repairing. WE AKE IN BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH. Fancy College Stationery OF ALL KINDS, THE MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT IN CITY. AT Johnson ' s Drug Store, BROADWAV Johnson ' s Red Cross Pharmacy Monmouth College The world is full of people who do things fairly well. It sorely needs people who can do thing ' s Supremely Well. It offers large rewards to those who can meet the exacting requirements of this most strenuous age. Business, Professional industrial life, each has its high demands and if the crown is won, the success- Monmouth College ful contestant must be well prepared. The first thing needful for young people who have the ambition to strive for first places in the world is a good education. Practically Monmouth College no one not well educated need apply. It is folly to hope to succeed and to succeed comfortably and constantly without a thorough education. Every year the demands and exactions of life are in- creasing and he who knows has the advantage. Monmouth College has now for fifty years made a speciality of fitting men Monmouth College and women for successful careers in life. Our students have in the large majority of cases been most successful. There have been enough of high principles inwrought into the lives of Monmoiith College students as a rule. Monmouth College to make them ambitious for the best things of life and in these they have been successful. Monmouth College offers many advantages to the student seek- ing a good school, A clean, temperate, beautiful city. Elegant homes open to th ; student body Earnest Christian Standards among Faculty and pupils. Faithful work in class room and literary hall. High examples set by former students and alumni. Fifteen thousand were in attendance du.-ing the last fifty years. We hope to touch the lives of thirty thojsand in the next fifty years. Write for catalogue. Central Lyceum Bureau FRED PELHAM, Manager 415 Orchestra Biiildin. 168 Michig-an LIST OF ATTRACTIONS. CENTRAL LECTURERS. Judge Geo. D, Alden. Hon. I. Adam Bede. Dr. Frank Bristol. Hon. Phil P Campbell. Prof. Cho-Yo. Prof. J B. De Motte. Senator |. P. Dolliver. Judge Alfred Ellison. Dr. Thomas E. Green. Col. H. W. J. Ham. Rabbi Leon Harrison. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis Capt. Richmond P. Hobson. Frederick E. Hopkins. Hon. C. B. Landis Prof. Guy Carleton Lee. C. E. Maxfield Dr. Eugene May. H. S. Martin, Geo. L. McNutt. De Witt Miller. Prof Willis L Moore. Edward Amherst Ott Spillman P iggs. Col. Robert S. Seeds. Dr. Frank G. Smith. Dr. Edvvard A. Steiner. Gen. Z. T. S A ' eeney. CENTRAL AUTHORS, CARTOONIS TS AND IMPERSONATORS Bertha Kunz- Baker. Fred Emerson Brooks. Max Ehrmann. Gilbert A. Eldredge. Mary Flanner. W. D. Nesbit. James Francis O ' Donnell. Adrain Newens. R. F. Outcault. Alton Packard. Tel— Hamson5266 .• ve., Chicag:o. Leiand T. Powers. Opie Reed. Chas. F. Underbill. CENTRAL COMPANIES. Victors Royal Venetian Band. I Twenty players and a vocal soloisO Campanari and Company. Bostonia Woman ' s Orchestra. International Grand Con ' t Co. Wunderle Trio. Manning Glee Club. Katharine Ridgeway Co. Whitney Brothers Quartet. Juanita Boynton Company. Temple Ouartet Company. The Clare-Vaughan Wales Con ' t and Comedy Co. Harmony Concert Company. Hawthorne Musical Club. Durno (Magician) Company. The Floyds, Magicians and Mind Readers. FIRST-CL.ASS IN EVERY RESPECT Fred ' s Barber Shop Under National Bank of Monmouth. lam IcKinley Farm Implements Buggies, Harness, Etc. Agents fou the oldsmobile. MONMOUTH, ILL. THE CUTS N THIS BOOK WERE MADE BY ' ELECTRIC CITY ENGRAVING CO. BU FFALO , N Y. ' ' L.f tome:. made, f-or u.s.naval Academy Snappy Clothes for Young Fellows It has come to be a special feature with our store to show styles for young fellows that are right up to the second in every little detail — built on entirely different lines from either men ' s styles or youth ' s — in short thev are ii College Styles for College Men Typical collegian clothes and as such we know they will appeal to your fancy. Special attention is directed to our Yorkshire system, the finest clothes made. Ready to wear or made to measure $22.00 to .$40.00. Hart Schaffner Marx Varsity suits and overcoats $15.00 to $25.00. Yorkshire System 106-108 S. Main St., Monmouth, 111. Better Clothes J. B. SIMON, Mgr. BFkOWN £r SOULE, Lawyers, Quinby Block, Monmouth, J. B. Bn POLLOCK ' S MILLINERY Special attention to Students. 203 East Broadway. DR. A. G. PATTON, Physician and Surgeon. Office, Patton Block. Res. 2 1 8 South A. St. Phone Ind. 102 Bell 189 Phone Ind, 158 Bell 139 R Office Hours: 10 to 1 I a. m.; i to 3 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. J. M. THOMPSON, Express and Package Delivery, 501 South Seventh Street. Ail orders telephoned Monmouth Central promptly attended. Residence P: ' one, Ind. 2262. SPRIGGS ■ SON, Prescription Druggists. Drugs and Medicines. PATTON £r CO. Flour, Feed and Seed Store West Side Square. Phone 1 3 Garden and Field seed; in bulks. Salt, Building Material, Poultry Feeds and Remedies, etc. ). CLYDE McCOY, Lands, Loans and Insurance, Office 1 lOi South Main St. Monmouth, 111. MRS. ELLA BALL, Headquarters for the latest styles i East Broadway. ESTABLISHED 1873. THIRTIETH SEASON. UHE SLA:yTOJV General Office: St Henry L. Slaylon. Peesidei Wendell Slayton, Treasui Long distance ' phone, Harrison 3149. iaay Hall Chicago. III. Charles L. Wagner, Secretary. The Monmouth Lecture Course is furnished in its entirety by THE SLAYTON LYCEUM BUREAU; H. L. Slayton, Presi dent; Charles L. NA agner, Secretary; Wendell Slayton, Treasurer; Stein A ay Hall, Chicago. Their list is the best in the country including the folloxwing attractions: J. Lincoln StefFens, Hon. Robert M. La Follette, Hon, W. ]. Bryan, Hon. J, Frank Hanly Hon, Henry Watterson, Ex- Senator Charles A. Towne, F, Hopkinson Smith, John KentJrick Bangs, John T. McCutcheon, Lorado Taft, StricklantJ W. Gillilan, Edmund Vance Cooke, Maud Ballington Booth, Dr. Herbert L. Willett, Hon. Walter M Chandler, Frank Dixon, Dr. E. B. McDowell, Isabel Garghill Beecher, Montaville Flowers, The Bostonia Sextette and Shanna Gumming, Chicago Madrigal Club, Leonora Jackson Company, Bohumir Kryl Company, Cleveland Ladies Orchestra- The Only Dunbar Company, Slayton Jubilee Singers, Rogers and Grilley Company. As one of the really good J. H. Hanna, thing-s of Monmouth THE Morton Cafe Notary Public owes it to the generous patrons and the public generally, to be Justice of the Peace represented in the Annual. Supported by the best class of trade in the city, its growing popularity is the best evidence of its excellence. Whole attention turned aor EAST BROADWAY. to collections. Sharpe ' s 1 Vent y- ' l hird Psalm. 1. Doc is my shepherd: 1 shall not flunk. He maketh me to hide around the campus and lie r« - 3 SKmU KO M •k j jBKk nSR HH B H H in wait for the doers of evil; he leadeth me t l SBKB M beside the still pluggers. - K m fMSi 3. restoreth ihe stamped envelope and he leadeth me ■ ■ iHp PR 8E|H in the path of goodness for my parent ' s sake. i . f 4. Yea though 1 walk through the valley of the shadow of flunking. 1 will fear no gassy Prof; for thou. O Doc, art with me: (hy hot air and thy soft k Hh J h soap they comfort me. v BfetaiH Thou prepares! a tin medal for me in the presence of my classmate:, thou anointest my head with Pi H praise; my laughter runneth over. l g n Surely D ' s and E ' s shall follow me all the days of i H my Monmouth life; and 1 shall dwell in the college of Doc. forever. The Monmouth College Conservatory of Music. T. MERRILL AUSTIN, Director. The special catalog of the Conservatory ' describing; in detail its courses of study, equipment, prices, teachers, privileges may be had upon application COURSES. VOICE, PIANO, PIPE ORGAN STRINGED INSTRUMENTS HARMONY AND COUNTERPART HISTORY OF MUSIC SIGHT SINGING EAR TRAINING NORMAL WORK IN PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHING. ADVANTAGES. COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY OF 110 Trained Voices College May Festival Bi-Weekly Recitals of Students Faculty Recitals Students Term Recitals Music Elections Credits in College Work Music Library Free access to City Library College Orchestra of 12 pieces Elegant $5,000 Organ Six beautiful Studios Seventeen fine Pianos Six experienced teachers 268 students in the Conservatory. For further information, write Monmouth College Conservatory of Music, Monmouth, Illinois. J. U. MARTIN ARTIST THE NICOL STUDIO Opposite West Park POLLOCK ' S Banquets Receptions Social Events a specialty Pure Ice Cream Ices Crushed Fruit and Soda Water Fancy Box Candy Weir Cycle and Gun Co. 110 WEST FIRST AVENUE BICYCLES BASE BALLS and GOLF GOODS PHONOGRAPHS and RECORDS GUNS ' , Etc. Complete Repair Shop in Connection The Ne v Monmou th Trust £ Savings Bank Brings to Monmouth and its vicinity its First Savings Bank 4 per cent, paid on all savings ac- counts 4 per cent, paid on time certifi- cates of deposit Fire- and Burglar-Proof Safety Deposit Boxes Free Open for business Tuesday and Saturday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 FRESH CUT FLOWERS ALWAYS ON HAND Designs for Funerals a Specialty Palms and Ferns Decorating Hewitt ' s Flower Store EAST BROADWAY If You Are Particular about your you will go to an exclusive shoe store where you can get the latest styles in sound, ser- viceable goods. We guarantee our shoes to fit. EG. BOWMAN The Allegheny Theological Seminary This institution Is located in the princi- pal center of the United Presbyterian Church and of Presbyterianisni In the world. The opportunities it affords are unsurpassed. Its buildings are new and area model of adaptation to the work to be done. The course of instruction is that in use in all the important semina- ries of the Presbyterian family. Mis- sionary work Is assigned to each member of the junior class. Opportunities are afforded for students to earn a portion of their expenses. No tuition is charged, only a small incidental fee. Single, double or triple rooms may be secured. The next session begins Oct. 3. For catalogues or information address the Secretary of the Faculty, PROF. D. A. . HcCLENAHAN 2432 Maple Avenue, Allegheny, Pa. Men ' s and Young Men ' s Cloth- ing That is Best to Buy ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION is what you derive in wearing our Young Men ' s ' ' CLUBDOM ' ' CLOTHES For a Stylish Shoe Buy HANAN ' S BEST ON EARTH The Model CLOTHING COMPANY This is a modest store and we are satisfied witti modest prices McCullough Lumber and Coal Company Hogue Jamieson The Place to Furnish Your Home Furniture, Curtains and Rugs Go to R J. IWIG The Leading Shoe Man 109 South Main Street Prices Al ' ays the Lowest FOR SHOES OF QUALITY STYLE AND FIT G. N. HAWLEY Dealer in CHICKERING, PA CKARD, GABLER, STARR, CHASE, SCHU- BERT, RICHMOND _-_ rr d AND THE KNABE PIANOS 92 PUBLIC SQUARE HODGENS ' RESTAURANT ; k % IBU ■ ■• Km. ' m The place where the students go for their ICE CREAM and SOFT DRINKS To Our Many College Friends Our business relations during the past year have been pleasant. We have appreciated your many favors and have tried to give you the best of service. To you leaving our city for new fields of study or labor, we wish you the greatest success. To old and new students who enroll next fall, the 216 EAST BROADWAY GROCERS want to be of service, not only in supply- ing your bodily cravings, but to give you any help or information that we can. VOGT ROBERTSON THE QUICK DELIVERY GROCERS fflONMOUTH, ILLINOIS College of Physi- cians and Surgeons OF CHICAGO College of Medicine of the University of Illinois Collegiate Year, September to June Investigation of advantages cordially invited. Four years ' course. Students permitted to specialize in electives. Completely equipped laboratories. For catalogue and information address DR. FRANK B. EARLE, Secretary Consress and Honore Streets, CHICAGO Horsman Tennis Rackets FOR 1906 Stand First in Design, Workmanship, Playing Qualities and Durability HORSMAN EXPERT ' ' NEW The CENTAUR. double fra MODELS ' i ' ' =- The Al MODEL, p.it Send for illustrated catalogL d mesh. The SEABRIGHT, cane han- ntral stringing. The B MODEL, extra The HYDE, patent knotted stringing. The HORSMAN is Handbook containing Official Rules, E. I. HORSMAN CO., 354 Broadway, New York People ' s National Bank Capital $75,000.00 Surplus and Profits $70,000.00 OFFICERS GEO. ARMSBY, President J. C. DUNBAR. Vice-Presiden H. B. SMITH. Cashier E. D. BRADY, Asst. Cashier We -would be pleased to have your business The Pioneer Meat Market H. J. KOBLER V holesale and Retail Dealer in MEATS 104 South Main St. Both L Phones «-lri -i SHELLENBERGER ' S LIVERY 115-117-119 NORTH FIRST STREET BOTH PHONES 25 Xenia Theological Seminary One Hundred and Thirteenth Year Opens October 3, 1906 DORMITORY — Commodious and comfortable, steam heated, modern conveniences. NEW BUILDING— Containing beautiful chapel, large library and reading room, fine recitation rooms, etc. A thoroughly equipped modern building. LIBRARY— Of 6,000 volumes; free access to Public Library of 8,000 volumes. READING ROOM— Well supplied. THREE TENNIS COURTS— On Seminary grounds. The Course of Study is That Pursued in the Best Seminaries Public Speaking and Reading of (he Scriptures under a competent instructor — this in addition to the work given in these in the Department of Homiletics. Our Church Music will be regularly studied. Missions receive much attention. Practical Christian Work sufficient to occupy all the time which can proper!} ' be spared from the study. Excellent Boarding may be had at $3.00 a week. Room Free. Tuition Free. The Sem- inary charges you nothing. For information about financial aid or for catalogue, address PROF. JOSEPH KYLE, Xenia, Ohio. WHEN YOU ARE IN NEED OF College Books Tablets Pencils, Etc. FOR YOUR COLLEGE WORK, CALL ON W. H. McQuiston Son SOUTH-WEST CORNER SQUARE TRESHAM BREED (The Little Tailors) Make clothes that have style and wear to them at prices that are right Suits $15 to $30 Candy Kitchen Our ICE CREAM will always satisfy in qual- ity and price. Come in and try our ICE CREAM SODA, HOME-MADE CANDIES and FINE CHOCOLATES. FRESH PEANUTS and BUTTERED POP CORN always on hand. H. L. SPEAKMAN Hugh IMarshall Prescription Druggist Kodaks and Supplies 102 South Main St. Otto Fowler Retail Deale lyTeats Oysters and Poultry 205 East Broadway Bell Phone 126K Independent Phone 142 Established 1892 Stephen Lane Folger Watches, Diamonds and Je welry Club and College Pins and Rings Gold and Silver Medals 180 Broadway New York A. D. IREY Star Livery Livery, Feed and Boarding Stable First-Class Turnouts Hack for Parties and Theatres Finest Private Rigs in the City 200-206 North Main St. Both Phones No. 20 Photo Post Cards We have sold 2,500 of them in this good old town this year. You will find them at BURNS ' BOOK STORE w hich is much the best place to buy all college goods. We offer 50 vie ' ws of interesting things in town, and many of passing interest, such as ball games, etc. These cards are photos from original negatives. They sell at 5c, and altho you can buy inferior cards else- where a trifle cheaper, those we offer, your friends -will ap- preciate and ans ver. COLLEGE PHOTOS, LARGE OR SMALL DEVELOPING AND PRINTING Agent for KRUXO Paper and Chemicals J. M, HAMILTON, JR. 413 LOVERS ' LANE National Bank of Monmouth Capital and Surplus $360,000 A GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS 4 PER CENT. PAID ON ALL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS G. S. TUBES, President W. H. FRANTZ, Vice-President W. C. TUBES, Castiier J A. TUBES, Asst. Cashier Lends Neatness and Permanence to Notes and Correspondence It is an essential part of the equipment for European or other vacation travel. The best pen and the least trouble. The Ideal Clip-Cap — an exclu- sive feature — is a neat, permanent ornament, positively preventing your fountain pen from falling out of the pocket. The Spoon Feed marks the genuine. Sold by best dealers everywhere. ' L.E.Watermem Co., 173 Sroadway.N y. ' Officers W. D. BRERETON. President Monmouth. 111. P. E. ELTING, Vice-President Macomb. 111. A. D. PHILPOT. Secretary Chicago, 111. GEO. E. PATTON, Treasurer Monmouth. 111. Western Stoneware Company Largest Stoneware Man- ufacturers in the World Capacity 30,000,000 Gallon or 5,000 Cars per Annum Factories Monmouth. 111. Macomb. 111. Clinton. Mo. Ft. Dodge, Iowa A Good lan Well Clothed —and there you are. The same man poorly clothed would not create the same impression. We would be pleased to ad- vise you -what you want in any matter along this line. W. P. GRAHAM Tailor Toddy the Tailor lyiakes most of the boys their clothes. I suit others, $ $ I can suit you. Cleaning, Repairing and Pressing Searles Building South Main St. ROOT ' S PHOTOS Are Loud Talkers Not for the cheapest, but for the best, go to Root ' s Studio Satisfaction Guaranteed Fish or Cut Bait Is only another -way of saying get busy. We -want every reader to busy themselves buying some of the good things we have to eat. Our best wishes go with departing stu- dents, and those returning will al- ways find a ■welcome at Scott Bros. Co 202 East Broad vay CORRECT PRINTING Promptly furnished is always desirable. We are doing busi- ness on the merits of our work, and would be pleased to receive your order. In our fine new quarters we have best facilities for supplying high grade Printing without delay. Programs, folders, announcements, stationery, are among our specialties. HUTCH INS Searles Office Bid., Second Floor. MONMOUTH, - - - ILLINOIS AUTOMOBILE and BICYCLE REPAIRING J. M. HUMPHRYS PROPRIETOR 203 SOUTH MAIN STREET J. R. EIGHME SON LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLE UP-TO-DATE RIGS OF ALL KINDS EAST SIDE NORTH MAIN ST. MONMOUTH, ILL. RUSSEL GRAHAM, President McKENNA CLELAND, Vice-Preside . E. WHITE, Treasurer United Presbyterian Mutual Benefit Association General Office at Monmouth, Illinois 3,300 Members, Inclu ding Prominent Ministers and Laymen $2,850,000 of Insurance in Force . Write for Information Good Solicitors Wanted HUGH R. MOFFET, Secretary ;nONA OUTH, ILLINOIS MILLINERY INEZ BAKER 209 East Broadway, Monmouth, Hi. Mattison Severn BARBERS Under Western Union STUDENTS ' TRADE SOLICITED BASE BALL UNIFORMS SWEATERS AND JERSEYS TRACK AND ATHLETIC WEAR FIELD EQUIPMENT COLLEGE HATS AND CAPS FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL GOODS SOLD DIRECT AT WHOLESALE PRICES CATALOGUES AT REQUEST MCLEAN HOLLAND GALESBURG, ILL. Our Ne v Home The following well-knoNvn brands are manufactured here: SELF- WASHING SOAP SUPERIOR GERMAN SOAP HARD MAPLE SOAP MONDAY MORNING SOAP FOUR MAPLE LEAVES MAPLE CITY MECHANICS WHY NOT HAVE YOUR LAUNDRY WORK DONE AT THE Monmouth Steam Laundry BEST OF WORK GUARANTEED 110 WEST FIRST AVENUE BOTH PHONES F. A. ARTHURS, Proprietor HERE IT IS! FOR Class, College, Con- servatory Pins OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. WE SHOW YOU THE ASSORTMENT. CALL AND SEE OUR NOVELTIES IN THIS LINE. WE WOULD LIKE TO BE YOUR JEWELER. JOHNSON McCRAY EVERYBODY ' S WATCH INSPECTOR Sam T. Smith ' s __CHAIR=— BARBER SHOP Under People ' s National Bank, corner of Square and South Main Street. Call and see us. SAM T. SMITH, Prop. BIJOU Short Order Rest- aurant and Meals Open Day and Night N. E. Corner Square H. W. DREDGE, Prop. ESTABLISHED 1874 Second National Banli Capital and Undivided Profits $175,000.00 FRED E. HARDING D. S. HARDIN F. W. HARDING __ E. C. HARDIN E H. H. Pattee John S. Brown C. E. Torrence President Vice-President Cashier Assistant Cashier D. S. Hardin C. D. Hardin W. G. Thompson Fred E. Harding All business entrusted to us will re- ceive prompt and careful attention and will be appreciated. Students ' Club Headquarters The Pure Food Grocery C The best to be had in Groceries is under the FERNDELL brand Court House Corner, Monmouth, 111. R. F. McCONNELL. Prop ' r SAFE! It is always safe to buy College Books and Supplies of BURNS It ' s the Students Store LONG S BROADWAY STUDIO for Platinum and Carbon Photos 216 East Broadway WE BELIEVE That it is the desire of every honest, live, up-to-date scholar to be the best in his class. This is a noble desire and will surely have its reward. OURS IS A HIGH POSITION The highest position a mercantile house can have is to be the best in its class in the community. The confidence of the public is gratifj ' ing, and is justified by our method of doing business. Every yard of fabric, every garment and every article that is offered at this store is thoroughly reliable and the best to be had anywhere for the price we ask, which readily proves that It ' s Economy to Trade at the Big Store We show only Exclusive Millinery, Reliable Carpets, the very best quality Shoes, dependable Dress Goods and Silks, serviceable and seasonable Hose and Uud?rv ear, the latest styles in Cloaks, Suits and Furs, the best Table Linen, imported and domestic China and Glass-ware, the very newest nov- elties in Ladies ' Haberdashery, and a Dressmaking Department, which will please every individual taste. 35 DEPARTMENTS FOUR FLOORS ELECTRIC ELEVATOR The Students ' Trading Headquarte E. B. COLWELL CO. THE FASHION CENTER OF WARREN CO. 50 Salespeople Daylight in Every Dept. nF you go in to swim you need only nature s footv ear. If you Nvant to be in the swim you need Faultless Footwear Cook With GAS and do it with a FREE GAS RANGE Light With GAS Piping, Fixtures and Lamps cost you nothing. 1906 is FREE YEAR. Come and help yourselves. Monmouth Gas f Electric Co, North Side Square The Monmouth College Grocery Ours is a real up-to-date store. There are Groceries and Groceries. Ours are GROCERIES. The following large variety of STALE and FANCY Gro- ceries and FRESH Vegetables have just been received from our extensive farms in Podunk County and are now on our counters at Bargain Prices. PEACHES Bessie Butler, Merle, Ester Dame, Bob White. PEACHES (Dried) Clara Ethel, Nora, Merle Davis. PEARS Bob Gambel and Adah, Dick and Ruth, Rhodes and Lo-wery, Mon- teith and Ethel, Nixon and Maude, Bill and Bessie, Buck and Faun. PEARS (Dried) Henry and Florence. Webb and Florence, Tom Smith and Florence, Herbert and Nora, Hickman and Elder, Parshall and Hicks. PRUNES (An Dried) Hickman and Sharpe. LOBSTERS (Fresh) Chandler, Warwick, Cunningham, M cKinley and MofFett. LOBSTERS (Canned) McGeoch, Lant, Blood, Picken, Arthur Owen. NUTS (Cracked) Jay Ba 1, Elder, McCracken, Biddle. SOUR GRAPES Tom Smith, Hill, Joe Picken. BEETS (Dead) Doc Co ' wden, Jones. Hugh McCoy, Scott Hamilton. CLAMS McCracken, Getty. CABBAGE HEADS Croson, Kyle, LeClere. SOFT SOAP Gamble. STOGIES Rankin, Cowden, Sherrick, J. Calhoun. DR. L MARKS ORIGINATOR OF The MARKS ' SYSTEM of Examining tlie Eyes for Glass- es for Eye Strain, Headaches. Consult me about your eyes. I have made a special study of Ocular Gymnastics and can give you relief. Lecturer of Modern Optics. OFFICE HOURS— 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Morning appointments preferred. Reports to all physicians upon repuest. The first nine days of each month at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. SOUTH SIDE SQUARE MONMOUTH, ILL. INDEPENDENT PHONE 2400 WARRANTED PATENT COLT IS THE ONLY THING FOR PATENT LEATHER SHOES. WE CARRY THEM. BUY NO OTHER. THE NEW- EST THING OUT. 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