Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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T1 I K COM FT. 20 Horace, Virgil, Cicero and all others of that great company who have been called the litres and the P iwt s of the study-table, from a teacher’s point of view; but from the standpoint of the average school-bov they are the evil genii, the awful fates, the unlucky stars of at least a part of this earthly pilgrimage. They assume various shapes, specters rising up Ik fore our benighted vision, and like that ghost told of by .......sweet bard of Avon. will not down at our bidding. At times they stand out like awful silhouettes, dark and threatening against the sky of graduation—sad, stern, stonily realities, upon which is too often shattered the good ship loaded with expectant A. Iks or A. M.s, striving for a Haven of Kternal llcst, where Creek. Latin, Mathematics, etc., shall be no more forever. Amen.

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Ti 11 : • m K r. H) liitcrvjrif TTc|iurtmonf. •• trini Literary Department at tin head of this article is hardly pr«»p«T. for under it one must include the sciences in so tar as they enter into the regular academic decrees. Beginning then with the Sciences, we would have you enter a chamber darkened with the blackness of midnight. The silence of death reigns, broken only by the labored ex- pectant breathings of two rows of dusky lignres. but dimly outlined against a sombre background. There is a dash of light. It has the unearthly glitter and jagged «alges of light- ning. By this pah- beam ejected from a Holts’ machine, one can distinguish two lignres like unto those mythical astrolo- gers of old, concocting diabolical alchemies from nature's lab- oratories. This is tin- 1‘hysic’s room, and these two lignres are Dr. Garland and Mr. Schott, illustrating tin- laws of Natural Philosophy. Dr. Satlbrd. assisted by Mr. Campbell, is the presiding genius of the Department of Natural History and Geology. Dr. Salford loves a fossil or a specimen” with all the ardor of a boy in Ins lirsi love. He fondles it, •• bills it up tenderly, Ihtnilli'H with «arc; Revivifies it with its former life, and clothes it with its real habiliments; grows eloquent on its failing beauties, and «■veil quotes poetry, rare and classical. Next in order is the Chemistry Department, with a laboratory magnificent in generating noxious odors and rare fumes such as man nor beast “wot not of.” Drs. Dudley and McGill are the especial manipulators in this department; and besides being great chemists, the are said to l»e proficient in other directions—both being members in good standing of that Croquet Association whicti holds forth under the shadows l the first mansion beyond the Gymnasium Space will hanlly let us go into detail and t 11 how Prof. Tigert makes life miserable with bogie and Moral Philosophy (Sehwcgler). or Dr. Baskervill with Knglish, Dr. Smith with Greek. Dr. Kirkland with Latin, Dr. Vaughan viih Mathematics, and Prof. Zdanowicz. with Modern Languages, but w simply make our invocation to Homer. Demosthenes, Thucydides,

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r 111«; • i kt. ■2 -»■ ■ ©Jaeuffy I. CAIil.AXIi. . M.. 1.1. I»., 'liuneellor. THOM S II. M A I.ONK. M. A.. Kim iilus Professor of ....non ;iikI Statute l uv. W. |{. UKIvSK. M.A.. I «-;»» :iiiiI Professor of Coniinoii ami Statute Law. Ml». ISAXTKK, Professor of 1111 Laws of Plrailin , Pnutiee ami I'.viilenee. W. MILLIKKN. Professor of ('oimiieivial Law ami Kipiity.