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"A COLLEGE FETICH."
that the results of all legitimate investigation, be it scientific or religious, must ultimately fuse into each other in the establishment of truth. We are told that the Astronomy of Ptolemy was taught in Newton's own university, at Cambridge, a hundred years after the announcement, by that great philosopher, of the principles which created astronomical science anew. The modern bigot, skeptical of investigation, bloated with ignorance and self-conceit, will at last share the fate and everlasting rest of the Dodo. And in spite of the theories and speculations of evolution, the warnings and prophesies of religion, the fact still remains, that we are here to-day.
The statistics of the progress of science and its influence upon humanity, for a quarter century past, confound the imagination. It requires a serious effort of mind to realize the intense practicality of science during this period in promoting social, political and commercial changes. The forces which have so long bound man to the soil, degraded his appetites and preyed upon his moral nature, have been unchained link by link by the untiring labor of the unassuming men in the laboratories of science. They experiment with alcohol and a simple statement of its nature out-weighs the eloquence of a Gough in putting down intemperance. They subdue the powers of electricity and steam,
and the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and the electric light, do more to promote union, peace and prosperity than all the Burkes and Websters and Phillipses of history. They direct the microscope, and the germs of disease are detected. Who can estimate the advantage to the civilized world? A ray of light is examined. Again the genius of these men discloses a knowledge of the heavenly bodies which even our dreams deemed forever inaccessible. Last of all the weather map appears, a glance at which shows the meteorological condition of a continent, nay, the world. And what can be said of the mechanical appliances, products of their energies and lives, which relieve the drudgery of labor in every department of effort, provide time for thought, reduce the actual cost and increase the wages of labor?
Honor, then, to those who have founded institutions, led revolutions and ruled nations by establishing the laws and truths of God in nature, the only basis upon which society, science and philosophy can be securely founded. All honor, again, to the men who have done so much to dispell the imp and nymph of the ancient, the superstitions and dogmas of our fathers, and are at last bringing man face to face with his brother and that great Reformer who died eighteen hundred years ago upon the Cross.
"A COLLEGE FETICH."
AGNES EMERY, Classical Department, LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
IN the education of man various influences are required. The intellectual powers must be trained and strengthened, the moral sense cultivated, the aesthetic taste gratified, the sentiment of humanity developed and broadened, high ideals of life inspired. As a study assists us in attaining any or all of these ends, so is it desirable and profitable. In this light does the so-called college fetch deserve our attention? Let us consider.
The Greek language on account of its regular and complicated structure is undeniably a valuable discipline to the intellect. Each varying inflection betrays a corresponding change of thought. Therefore the mere study of the grammar cannot fail to cultivate the memory, exercise the judgment, train the reason, stimulate the perceptive faculties, give exactness in thought and its expression. Further the effort to turn the subtile and intricate ex-