Softly sings the silvery river
Of its source amidst the snow.
Languid lowings from the cattle
Hastening to their even rest;
Tuneful tollings from the chapel
Answering echoes in the breast.
Whispered vows find willing credence
In the beating, bursting heart.
Heavenly, holy tears, uncalled for,
In the azure fountains start.
Darkness, deepening o'er the picture,
Drops the curtain on the scene;
Vows and cattle, bells and river
Fade into the evening sheen.
Grinding for History VI.- 1st SENIOR. "When was the war of 1812?"
2d SENIOR (after meditation). "By Jove, I've forgotten that again! I'll put it down and ask my tutor."
THE following members of the Senior Class have Commencement Parts to deliver: E. F. Fenollosa, W. R. Tyler, F. J. Stone, T. L. Sewall, C. F. Withington, G. Wigglesworth.
SOPHOMORES and Juniors, anticipating required studies next year, have for the basis of their examinations the ground gone over this year. Sophomores may anticipate History, Political Economy, Physics, Rhetoric, and French. Rhetoric and Philosophy may be anticipated by Juniors. The examination in History will include Freeman's Historical Outlines (Chaps. VI. - XIII), and Guizot's History of Civilization (pp. 61 - 237, omitting pp. 189 - 192). The books on Political Economy are Mrs. Fawcett's Political Economy for beginners, and Alden's Science of Government (Chaps. VI. - XVIII., and pp. 262 - 264). In Physics the books are Balfour Stewart's Lessons in Physics (pp. I - 263). In Rhetoric there is required Whately's Elements of Rhetoric (Part III.), Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric (pp. 162 - 268, omitting pp. 185 - 186, 216 - 218, 227 - 237). In French a fair knowledge of Grammar and some ability to translate easy French. In Junior Rhetoric the text-book is Whately from the 56th to 388th page, omitting the chapters on Presumptions, and the Lectures on the Professions. A short Outline to be had at Sever's contains all the required amount.
OF the four courses in Chemistry we would advise the student to study well his tastes before making his selection, for the courses differ materially in object. Sophomore chemistry gives a good average knowledge of the province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental work, it takes him a step into the field of theory and gives him a foretaste of its higher branches. The laboratory work is confined to the study of the most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists of lectures on the most prominent bases and acids with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight of the compounds studied. It requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above noticed. Lastly, organic chemistry carries us into the higher fields of the science. It is but a step, yet enough to get some glimpse of its extended prospect. It is almost wholly theoretical, the course of lectures being illustrated by experiments performed, at need, by the student. On it is based all of the advances made by the science in our day. It requires rather an inquiring and philosophical mind than delicacy of manipulation, as it has to do with the theory of chemistry.