Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY OLLA PODRIDA. Q The Glee Club, always active, enjoyed a prosperous year, and this season proposes to take an extended trip through the Central and Western States. Their success of the past in all their undertakings, is a sufhcient guarantee of coming triumphs. And now that our labors are done, we leave you to meditate upon our work. If it is worth anything-buy it-if not- We are your humble servants, THE EDITORS. Careless of censure, not too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike, to Hatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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8 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY OLLA PODRIDA. T he different alumni associations arouse each year new interest, and tend to unite more closely the friendships of years ago. Associations have been formed in the Northern, Western and Central States, and before long our YVashington Alumni will doubtless organize. But Wesleyan friends are numbered outside of her graduates, as has been shown recently by the princely gift of Dr. Daniel Ayres. A sum which, added to her present fund, places the college among the best endowed in the country. A renewed interest in all the branches of college work seems to have taken place, and encourages both instructor and student to more thorough study. The courses in Evidences of Christianity and in Ethics are this year conducted by our able president, Dr. Raymond. i Professor Wilson's department is even more popular than last year, the junior Elective in American History being especially attractive. Professor Wilson is now absent from college, but during his absence a special course in reading is being taken up. Professor Atwater has spent a considerable portion of the year in Washington where he is busily engaged in experimental work. Dr. Bradley, our newly elected instructor in Chemistry, has already won the friend- ship of his students. Professor Prentice, in addition to his lectures in German, is instructing the class in Hebrew, while Mr. Kuhns has taken the department in French. Mr. Kuhns is a thorough student, and under his instruction the elected classes are making great progress. The lecture course will be continued this year and will no doubt be very interesting, as a number of well-known speakers have been secured. At last there really seems hope for the gymnasium, and belore long the old building will have to go. Already the necessary money is being subscribed, and before the end of the year We trust the plans may be adopted. In athletics we have been especially fortunate. Our foot-ball team, though apparently. weak and unscientific at hrst, rallied sufficiently to defeat the enemy. The prospects for base-ball, too, are bright. Although Wesleyan has never reached the standard of the New England colleges in this line, yet, with the generous support of students and conscientious training on the part of the team, there is no reason why we should not be successful in our spring game.

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IO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY OLLA PODRIDA. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES. HON. GEORGE GREENWOOD REYNOLDS, - PRESIDENT REV. EDSON WYLLYS BURR, M. A., - - SECRETARY WILLIAM HOYT, ---- - TREASURER EEEEIQXMEE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. REV. BRADFORD PAUL RAYMOND, D. D., LL.D., JOHN HUMPHREY SESSIONS, SIMEON SERENO SCRANTON, SAMUEL TALCOTT CAMP I'ION. DAVID WARD NORTHROP, M. A., CHARLES LEE ROCKXVELL, MARK HOYT.