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left helpless. There is much suffering among them ami
assistance is needed. Thus has it been shown that the
theories of Bellamy and of the Nationalists arc not practical
and consequently will not succeed in this age which calls
only for the practical. Even as a literary work it is not of
merit enough to perpetuate the author's nam.; but as a plan
which can be used with advantage by scheming men it may
live. Yet inspired humanity will continually rise up agains1
it and its failure must be the ultimate result. . s
An incident is related which most excellently illustrate
the necessity of "keeping posted." It is indeed to be regret
ted that this fault of neglecting to become familiar with the
events which are going on in the world at large, is so
universal. It is an error on the part of the student and as it
seems often of the professional man outside of college. It is
a mistake to let the important political and social happen
ings of one's own time become nistory befoic they arc made
the subject of consideration. A Nebraska lawyer, well known
to many, was talking not lung ago with a prominent Texan
concerning financial affairs ol tbc day, when the latter alluded
to the panic tlut might be the result of the failure of the grea1
mercantile esta bl'shment of Baring Bros. The lawyer
looked somewhat puzzled and asked if that was a firm in
Texas. The Texan was naturally nstor.ished at the lawyer's
ignorance of the prominent London firm and it is quite
certain that his opinion of him was not an exalted one
The lawyer in qucston is a good one and would undoubtedly
have understood him if he had spoken of some circumstance
in history, but he is deficient in the occurrences of the
present.
Our students aie frequently heard complaining of the cor
rections they arc forced to make in their essays and orations.
They say that their best sentences are spoiled by the endless
repetition of prepositions, adverbs, articles, etc., and by the
the prohibition of and, can, which, etc., so strenuously insisted
upon by the department of English. Of course their com
plaints arc exaggerated, and more than that, nonsensical.
Sound should always be subwervicnt to sense. But apropos
of this, we arc tempted to publish an article sent us some time
ago in response to our appeal for contribution, which purports
to be an extract from an essay as it sounded after the requited
changes had been made. The changes do, indeed, seem
familiar to all of us.
ENGLISH AS SHE OUGHT TO BE WROTE.
"A PLEA FOE THE LAND OF THE 1CEUEKC, AND FOR THE
LAND OF THE I'OLAIi BEAR."
An essay re-written and corrected according to the rules, and
according to the canons of the department of English.
George Washington, the great man that might not tell a
lie, is dead. He did not live in vain. Through him, three
millions of human beings were set free, 'from those three
millions of human beings, has sprung a great nation. That
nation is one of the great nations of the world.
There arc thousands of human beings in the 'and-of the
iceberg, and in the land of the polar bear, that know not the
name of freedom. They hunt the seal. They hunt the polar
bear. Tlicy are oppressed, and they arc trodden down by
navigators, in search of the northwest passage. Shall we,
that are the descendents of those that George Washington
made free, permit this? Shall we suffer these simple children
of the Arctic snows, and children ofthe idacier. reared under
the midnight sun, and reared under the Aurora Borcalis1,
thus to be ground down beneath the sledges of Arctic
explorers; and thus to be ground down beneath the keels of
polar navigators? Shall we suffer these children of the
Arctic snows, and these children ol the glacier to be tram
pled upon by the dogs, and to be trampled upon by the
reindeer, and to be trampled upon by the other beasts of
burden of explorers; and to be trampled upon by the dogs,
and to be trampled upon by the rcindceis, mill to be tram
pled upon by the olhcr beasts of burden of navigators?
I cry out, and I rcmonstraic against the oppression of
these people, that may not resist it, and of these people that
may not withstand it. Who may tell the wrongs of these
humble sons of the polar seas? Though I were to write
double the eight hundred words allotted to me, I should not
tell them all I might not tell them all.
Let one arise! Let one arise, and let one hasten to the
aid of these suffering beings! They arc one's kinsmen.
They arc one's brothers. Then shall one iccognizc the great
principle of the brotherhood of man. Until one does so,
one may not recognize that principle.
EXCHANGE.
The Wesleyan Prelude requested the students to give
Jheir views as to the advisability of opening the college
library on Sunday. Many of them complied with the rcjuest
and their opinions hae been published. It was found to be
the universal desire to have the library open on Sundays
because that is the day when students have the most time
for outside reading. ".r.
We arc glad to see the Eeritean again among our
exchanges. Its appearance after a slumber of two terms is
significant. It chows that with the demise of the Eeritean
the journalistic spirit did not die out altogether among the
students at the Wesleyan. On the whole, the paper presents
a very creditable appearance. We notice a few articles con
tained therein are somewhat rank, but this is doubtless due
to ignorance in regard to facts and may be excused in this,
the first issue of the Eeritean. We think that the Wesleyan
is perfectly able to support a paper and hope that it will not
let the Eeritean collapse again. Wc would suggest that it
is about time for Cotncr university to start a college paper.
Wc would gladly welcome such a paper among our exchanges.
Wc clip the following from the Chronicle-Argonaut. It is
an extract from an address delivered bc'fore the alumni of
Michigan university at their banquet held, not long since, in
Chicago. The address was given by President Angel!, who,
it will be remembered, delivered the charter day lecture in
our university a little over a year ago. The extract will be
of interest to those interested in university work.
"Last June, Michigan graduated the largest class ever
graduated at any American university 547. This year in
the collegiate department alone about 550 new students have
applied for admission and 498 have been actually received.
The total attendance in the university is larger than ever
known in any American university and larger than that in
several renowned Get man universities. It is 2,420. Among
them arc students from every state in the Union except
South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisana, from some of the
territories, and from the following foreign states: Ontario,
New Biunswick, England, Japan, Porto Ric6, Mexico, Cota
Rico, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, Lyria. Where will
one find a more cosmopolitan institution? They come from
all parts of the earth because they find here the education
thcy-nced. It is an education itself to live in such a com
munity of students."
Oratorical notes arc still in the ascendent in most of our
exchanges, and they will in all probability continue to be
'until after the inter state contest. Countless wails and other
wails are constantly coming in, complaining of injustice on
the part of judges, and plagiarism on the part of certain
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