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expressed self-abasement and mortification; it was only a coarse woollen shirt, and a hermit's mantle. His mode of living was abstemious, but his qualities did not consist of those selfish penances which are the usual virtues of the recluse. He distributed among the poor those gifts which gratitude showered upon himself; he reclaimed the sinner, terminated disputes, and saved the germs of virtue. His exhortations to vengeance. on the Turks were heard with rapture, because they reflected the religious sentiments of the day."

Such was the man who incited nations to send their warriors to fight the enemies of Christendom. It cannot be astonishing that those expeditions failed, when we come to consider the want of unity, the unbridled insolence, the unabated licentiousness, the unprincipled ambition of the Christian leaders.

Although fanaticism is an evil that is justly to be hated and despised, still it would be very unfair to charge a religion with falsehood, simply because fanatics are to be found in its bosom. It would not only be devoid of justice, but even of policy; because there never has yet been found a religion exempt from staunch and bigoted as well as enthusiastic adherents to its cause. If we were to desire to crush fanaticism, we would have to aim still higher, yea, even at the religion itself; because its seeds, which have spread themselves so successfully, can be discovered in the bosom of every church. Nor ought any religion to be condemned because it has them; but what we find fault with is, that religion condescends to lower itself by urging them on, and offering them many inducements to continue.in that line of conduct. Human nature, we are aware, is replete with fanaticism; every step we make in the investigation of science and the human mind, convinces and assures us more and more, that at the bottom of human nature we find an abundant source of it.

The remedy for this evil is unknown; it cannot be exterminated. As long as the cycle of years rolls on, so long will every religion harbor fanaticism, and nestle it closely and fondly in it's bosom.

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FROM THE FRENCH OF MILLEVOYE.

His feeble lamp, now flick'ring low,

Lit up a dying poet's brow.

He, like the flame, about to depart,
Wailed forth the sadness of his heart:
"Withered for me are all life's flowers-
Alas! how swiftly pass the hours!
All cloudy was my natal morn:
The shades of twilight touch the dawn.

"A lone tree stands on a distant river,
Where death and pleasure sort together.
Beware! unhappy traveler:

Who sleepest there, sleeps forever!
Pleasures of love thine image see!
Alas! too near the fatal tree
Unwary trav'ler, I reposed,
And so have merited my woes.

"Break, break, my ever tuneful lyre,
Survive not the poet's holy fire!
The singer and his songs, unknown,
Shall gently slumber in the tomb.
Before the throne I shall not stand,
Where dread posterity's command
Will judge the glories of the land,
Like Egypt, as the poet sings,
Once judged the manes of her Kings.

"Dispersed companions of life's way,
Ye that my comfort was and stay,
Collect my legacy of song:

O save it from oblivion!"

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E congratulate our fellow-students and all our wellwishers that the COLLEGIAN, relieved from the pressure of debt and aided by its friends, enters upon its thirteenth volume with fair hopes and renewed prosperity. With the hearty coöperation of those who may be chosen to aid us in the work, we will strive to uphold the reputation which it has already won, and, so far as we may be able, to enlarge the sphere of its influence and usefulness. Under our management the COLLEGIAN shall still continue to be a medium through which all proper feelings and sentiments of the students shall have an outlet, and one in which their interests, so far as we may know them, shall be advocated. Whatever abuses, therefore, we see fit to raise our voice against, whether in the case of individuals private or corporations private, we shall do so with that freedom which the state of the case seems to require, and which honesty impels us to observe. We are aware that there are certain feelings and sentiments which ought to be suppressed in their very inception, and others which it were best to lock within our own breasts. But we apprehend that this is not a matter about which such obnoxious opinions are liable to be entertained; and we think that concealing our real views, while flattering our superiors with orthodox confessions of faith, is the worst form of crafty ser

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vility, and liable to lead to even worse consequences than a free and open avowal of our thoughts. We shall, therefore, unless the Board of Trustees, at the recommendation of the Faculty, abolish our periodical as they have abolished the medals of the Societies, continue its publication in the same spirit that prompted its establishment and has since pervaded its pages, which spirit of freedom and independence alone can insure its permanence and vitality.

This is, perhaps, the proper place to invite our friends to aid us by their subscriptions, and to recommend to the members of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, in particular, that such of them as were subscribers last year renew, and such of them as were not, if such there be, hasten to add their names to our subscription list, so that, if we are to be condemned, we shall at least have first a fair and impartial hearing. For the rest, the work itself will be our praise or condemnation; and our sole ambition, however we may be judged to have performed our part, is to be placed among those of our editors that have tried to do their duty.

ATHLETICS.

HE interest in foot-ball cannot, and indeed there are rea

sons why it should not, be kept up for the whole term, so that the students find themselves obliged to provide some other means of recreation. What better than gymnasium exercise? This revives the recollection of a long train of experiences. We contrast the brilliancy of the gymnastic performances previous to '77, the splendid apparatus, the great interest awakened in strangers and visitors at Commencements, with the supineness manifested in that direction of late years, the broken apparatus, and the general neglect and contempt with which this sport is now treated among us. But it may be objected that only a few wish to take any regular exercise, and that for them boating and base-ball is sufficient. Now, that only a few. wish to take exercise is no reason why the

many should not. Against this sophistical reasoning we have, in addition, the strength and more perfect physical development which must result. The second part of the objection is even more untenable than the first. In the first place, no one will say that gymnasium exercise is detrimental to the baseballist. Then, too, the boat crews must have a place and means to go in training. It is true that they must have a place for running elsewhere; but it is also true that for the greater part of their training they must depend, as they have hitherto, on the gymnasium and the apparatus found there. It is, then, to the interest of the boat crews more especially, and, as we have before shown, to that of the students at large, that the gymnasium should be put in order. Let some one, therefore, take the lead, and let us convert the material which we possess in posse in the frames of so many robust young men into gymnastic skill and vigor in actu.

EDITORIAL WORK.

T would, assuredly, grieve those who first instituted the COLLEGIAN for the improvement of our students, as well in abstract thinking as in the expression of thought, to see the manner in which it is at present conducted. We will say nothing of the irregularity in choosing persons on the staff, and of the obstacles which intervene to prevent many of the editors from performing the duty required of them, so that the greater part of the work devolves on a devoted few; but we simply remind those that seem to be ignorant of the fact, that the COLLEGIAN is not established in the interest of a favored few, nor yet designed to contain only the productions of those few, but that it is published in the interest of the students at large, and that its pages are freely open to all. We do not mean that every composition written as a Junior English exercise will find ready publication; and literary excellence, up to a certain degree, is indispensable; but we do say that every essay or other composition that may justly lay any

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