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VOL. XL • NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 23, 1907. No. 20.

Ode to Washington.'

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THOMAS E . BURKE, ' 0 7

A HUNDRED years have rolled into decay

Since thou beneath the glorious Stars and Stripes

Didst wake the echoes of a nation's heart,

And sound its iron voice across the sea—

A call lor justice and for liberty.

When winter's stiflening blast had chilled the hearts

Of this new j)eople 'neath the western skj-,

ThcA' sank oppressed

U'lDon their cotintr\''s breast,

Dvins: before the wronsrs had been redressed.

Out from Virginia's fields thou cam'st alone,

A king to be— this nation for tin- throne.

Kindled b3- thee

The blaze of libert}-

Hurled its contagious fire o'er the earth.

Warming the iced blood in ever\' heart.

Men moved and glowed and felt a new re-birth,

And rose to stand for libertj- and right

Against the world and the oppressor's might.

III.

A hundred 3-ears have gone, 3-et from the past

Tin' glor)' blows

Fresh as the rose.

And to a mightj- nation fragrance throws.

Thy spirit still dost live arrayed in light,

Crowned with the whitening beams of noble truth,

And as the burning star in sombre night

Beacons us on through dutj-'s narrow waA-,

Unto a fairer, -more refulgent da}'.

IV.

*_Read a t t h e W a s h i n g t o n B i r t h d a y Exercises .

Over the frozen fields in naked night,

Across tlie icy, star-lit Delaware

Thy spirit still is moving. Everywhere

The passion of th3' life—white truth—

Still beams.

And streams

Its glorious light across the land.

From snow-capped peak it flames into the vale

O Washington, race founder, hail! all hail!

V.

Not all might climb t h a t rocky, fiirrowed way

Up the rough mountain unto fame's abode,

Stimg by reproach in their most glorious day

Millions have sunk heart-stricken on the road.

But thou unmindful of the taunts of men,

The gold and purple of the earth laid by,

Didst toil on, up the peakless mount of fame.

Clothing thyself with purple of the sky.

YI.

Thou didst not soar along the silvered clouds

As some enchanted bird a t which we gaze

And maiA-el a t its beauty through our days;

But as the toiler, firm, behind the plow.

Burned bA- the blistering fierceness of the sun

That thou mightst cool the nation's fevered brow.

Oh, Washington, world profit, thou hast won

No. empty fame.

No idle name;

Greater than dawn or flaming mid-day. sun, .

Surpassing e'en the fairness of the star.

Tin- light bums through the darkness of ourinight

And lives and moves where - the immortals iare.

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Leatherstocking and American Romanticism."

RAYMOND A. RATH, 'OS.

'^OETRY and Romanticism, these are the t w o words t h a t con­tinue t o defy concise definition. The3^ mean the eternitj'- of the imagination and the endlessness of fancy, and thej^ demand end­

less comment. They are satiated by being .developed, and in their development become t o o unwieldy for the concise and plain-spoken tables of science. The Muse and the Blue Flower are no t of this world, are no t matter-of-fact things, bu t the w'orld is ra ther wafted in the odors of the one, and enHvened by the breath of the other. They are in substance one, and in those halcyon days of epic poetrj^ v -ere united wi thout distinction. Poetry and Romanticism are the salt and w^ater in the oceans of the IHad and ^ n e i d , and they are the w^armth and weather of the Beow^ulf and the Liebeulungenlied. In those broad, sympathetic, non-par t i san poetic v\rholes of j)rinieval life,, the epics, roman­ticism appears as the buoyancj'- and capti­va t ing constituents. I t is as yet unbaptized and unnamed, bu t i t is there in profusion as the proto type of itself and the instigation of i ts owTi future realms. The Goetterfanken (divine spark) has long since developed into most charming variat ions. The breath had i ts germs and the mystic odor had its radio-act ive kaleotechnic qualities. Like Enoch and Eliah, these twin infinities of literature, live and w^ander wdth their where­abouts unknown, bu t wi th their j)resence multiplied year by year. Thej'^ are no t w^holly here nor there, nor in this book nor in t h a t .

Scanning the surface of the romantic w^orld we behold peaks and ranges of i ts mystic blue mountains. Don Quixote, for instance, s tands in relief a t the acme of Romanticism as an exponent of i ts creative pow^ers and allow^ances and as an index t o i ts meaning. This he is because he stood face to . face wi th i t and gave sway t o his most lawful lawlessness in order t o destroy

i ts "systemless system." To the nor thward stands t h a t romantic coUosus of Rhodes, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. But we must pass over the sea t o our subject, t o Leather-stocking, who is perhaps less ethereal in namcj deed and deportment t han much t h a t has gone before him, bu t who, nevertheless, is as trufy and genuinely according t o ' romance as osij crew cast ashore by the tidal waves of the Middle Ages, or any gold sifted hj Scott.

Cooj)er, Irving and Hawthorne were no storms or seismic disturbances in the literary world, bu t they may be called the sunshine and April of our American Roman­ticism. When our fathers had shaken off " t h e winter of our discontent" and changed this land into the glorious summer of unstinted independence, i t was rife time for American Romanticism to. d r a w a consti­tut ion of i ts own also. I t T\'-as done and, Leatherstocking is Thomas Jefferson and George Washington a t once. Irving was too humorous t o be more t h a n a "Signer," and Hawthorne too melancholy and restricted t o present t o us the unlimited charm of ideal Romanticism. None of his characters s tand so immortal ly alone as does Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking." The Romanticism expressed in "Leather-stocking is n o t of the most powerful, no t of the ideal, nor even most delightful kind, bu t i t approaches the purest kind closer t h a n any other American character, because he is a creation unhampered by. so many social laws and limitations forever evident in romantic works, even as Hawthorne ' s , and usualfy destructive of those ideal liberties which Romanticism is allowed t o take. Leatherstocking is delightfully according t o "unschooled desire," and we may say according t o the untrammeled precipitancy and freedom of fancy. Nor do historical facts cumbrously infringe upon him as they do on the characters of Scott.

Cooper had manj ' qualities of a poet, such as a keen eye and picturesque sympathy for nature . Unconsciously these qualities w^ere strengthened by the w^holesome envi­ronments of a fresh and primeval nature , a new world t h a t was as yet very young, and wherein he beheld t h a t rare and romantic figure, the melancholy Indian. Such im­pressions, added t o the accumulative force

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deriyed from European Romanticism, ren­dered his mind eminently fit.to accomplish a renaissance, Leatherstocldng is the suc­cessful result, and beside him stands the red-man, immortalized, poetized, idolized. Leatherstocking s tands unrivalled in the American Romance of the forest, bu t he is n o t noble and exalting, he is mereh^ inter­esting; forest romance has i ts purest ring and splendid uniqueness in this character. Those who haye at tempted t o imitate Cooper—and there were no t a few—have a lways failed t o charm us like his magic atmosphere charms. He embodies, as i t were, the medisEYal substance of Romanticism wi th the shell and accidentals annihilated and replaced. Leatherstocking's sympathies are versatile and manifold; he speaks like the hear t of the Indian to-day, to-morrow-he is simply a royal subject, and again he is in a world alone, free—^nature and I. His

" career of love was not ephemeral, bu t four­score and ten years in duration, and the object of his love w a s Dame Nature. His belated regard for Mable Dunham is a t r a i t t h a t only makes him more romantic and emphasizes his human individuality; i t reminds us t h a t he is no t merely a type for adventure as the types of old.

Balzac has said t h a t he who revolts is the Romanticist. Leatherstocking is forever a t w a r and shaking his head in doubt and unbelief, and, as i t were, emphasizing his own singular logic. He could weep over a "c lear in" ' or a felled tree. Civilization and settlement, in his estimation, were things t h a t disturbed tranquil na ture and "made game scarce." He is a wanderer and searcher, no t dissati'sfied, bu t given t o a species of " t o be or no t t o b e " as t o the expediency of all surrounding progress and destruction of scenery. His romantic ideal was undisturbed nature wherein all things and. every life should take their gradual course, except indeed such life as his gun w a s pointed a t . Bu t according t o all Romanticism he was n o t t o enjoy his. ideal, bu t only t o enjoy i ts sweet hope.

He did n o t fail, however, in winning the hear ts of his fellowmen, bo th the red and the white man. In this he w a s alto­gether unlike his olden prototypes, who were in no case, individuals, bu t ra ther merely ravishing cynosures. He w a s so

simple and genial and homespun as almost t o be unromantic in his brotherly love. I t w^as a love w^hose probabili ty and natural ­ness point out plainly how transformed the quondam romantic hero "type had become, and how individuality had pro­gressed and replaced it . Bu t we should fail in our search if we w^ould detect senti-mentalitj^ in his philanthropy. He is n o t related t o "The Gardener's Daughter ," and though he is a man of blood and warfare, he display's not the language of a Rizpah a t auA^ time.

Leatherstocking is much less weird, less unearthly and less marvellous, t h a n his prototype of those other days ; bu t still he remains improbable, charming and dwells in an atmosphere enchanted by his OWTI

presence, hallowing the American forest and scenery forever more. Recognition of him escapes us, yet we feel and detect his hidden Americanism. He is romantically picturesque in his reaction, in his enterprises, in his dealings, and in his subjectivity. He possessed a trinitj^ of natures embody­ing those of the red and pale face, and one distinctly his owm, which is only defined by his entire career - including his death. His life is hke a dream dreamt in a semi­conscious state , and his death is of the rarest kind, being a mere withering away , and as deathless as is possible t o conceive. To Leatherstocking of American Roman­ticism may be applied the words of the poet, when he says : " T a k e him for all and all, 3^ou shall no t look upon his like again ."

A R e v e r i e .

IK Tvantry twilight hours Beside the hearth-fire's glow.

When tiny frozen flowers Against the windows blow,

I often sit and hearken To each bright blazing tongue

Whose spectral shadows darken The paths whereon they're flung.

I t lisps its virgin history Into my patient ear.

And seeks to clear the mystery Of its existence here.

So, too, t h a t God-like creature Whom mortals style the mind.

Becomes a world-wide teacher Ere prestige i t can find. F . J . W.

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32S /v07^J^£ DAME SCHOLASTIC.

King Winter.

T COME from far, and with i w magic wand I decorate the withered leaf and flower;

With cr_vstal jewels I mantle o'er the pond— A verv king am I in swaA- and ]30wer.

I shake nn' robes and from their countless folds The snowflakes fall. A niA-riad gems of white

O'erlaj' the semi-sphere my sceptre holds. I, Winter, am a verv king in might.

G-J F. •*^*'

No Grudge Whatever.

FRANCIS T. .M.\IIER, 'OS.

"Mornin ' , Silas," said Hugh Jones as he stopped his sleigh for a short ta lk with his nearest neighbor, " h o w do vou like the w e a t h e r ? "

" G r e a t ! " responded Silas Brown. " I t s the healthiest kind of weather. And the sleighin's mighty fine t oo . "

"Say , Silas," continued Farmer Jones, " I hear t h a t you go t took in bad dscj before yesterday. The boj-^s down t o the store say t h a t 3' ou took a bob load of apples t o t own and a gang of fellers boarded you and took 'em all awa^'^ from you, and you had t o turn 'round and go back home wi thou t goin' further. I told 'em i t must be t h a t you gave the apples away, for you alw^ays w^ere ext ra kind-hearted."

"Now, Hugh," replied Silas, " d o n ' t make i t any w^orse t h a n i t is, for the Lord knows i t ' s bad enough. You see, day before j-^ester-day I hitched up Jack and Billy—^them t w o colts of mine—to take a bob load of northern spies t o town . Well, j u s t as you say, a s I w^as goin' pas t the F o u r t h Street stat ion, which is a regular hang-out for a crowd of loafers of all ages, about forty,of them boarded my bob for a ride. Among them were t w o little fellers t h a t looked cold and hungry. I reached under the s t r aw and blankets and pulled ou t t w o fine apples and says t o them. 'Here, sonnie, have an apple.' Well before you could wink, more t h a n fifty hands were drivin' down beneath the straw^ and every hand t h a t come up was liftin'apples."

"Sure we'll have a,n apple," they shouted.

and thcA'- stuffed their jDOckets and hollered t o some more boys, 'Come and have an apple on Uncle J o s h ! ' "

" I 3';elled t o them t o stop and t h a t the perlice were a-comin', bu t t h a t didn' t do aii3'- good. When I could get the horses stopped I cltim back over the load and tried t o keep 'em off, bu t a lot of the biggest of 'em rolled me in a snowbank and some more unhitched my horses from the bob ; and all the time more boj' s kept comin' and more apples kept goin.' I don ' t think a bo}' in t o w n kept awaj'- from the picnic; no, sir, I don' t . Well, a t las t some perlice did come up and the crowd scattered, leavin' me with about half the aiDples I started w^ith. And all t h a t happened r ight in the middle of the citj'- wi th all the people lookin' on and laughhi' as though thev w^ere a t a circus."

" H a ! h a ! h a ! " laughed Farmer Jones. " H a ! ha ! ha ! Well, t h a t ' s one on jovi, I guess, Silas. Tha t ' s the best joke I've heard since the time Harvej'- Leach, t h a t was near­sighted, mistook old J im Bludso's bull for a * milch cow. But j'-ou don ' t hold anj^ grudge agen them boy^s, do you, Sile? You know tha t ' s onl\^ boys' ftm."

"Oh, no, n o ! I don ' t hold any grudge agen 'em a t all. Tha t ' d be un-Christian; but I doubt prettA^ much if thej'" have the same kindly sentiments t o w a r d me."

"Why, how's tha t , Silas? You didn' t say there \vas a sequel t o your s tory."

"Well, as 3'-ou say, i t w a s only their fun, and so I thought I might do a little some-thin ' t owards helpin' along the innocent sport. AVith this idea in mind I stopped a t several stores in tovra and made some purchases. On the ^^scy back home I g o t my plan workin ' clear in my head, and couldn't help chucklin' t o think of i t . Well, the next mornin' early—that M^SLS 3'-esterda3'-momin '—I loaded up my bob agen wi th the finest apples in the cellar. Then I rigged up a copper wire all 'round, the bob on the edge of the t o p board making i t ra ther loose and jus t fine for a feller t o g rab hold of I drove t o t o w n then, prepared t o give lots of hilarity t o any young fellers who were spoilin' for it. I turned into F o u r t h Street, goin' a t a good clip, and i t w a s n ' t a minute till the gang sighted me, and knew m e too . They came dow^n on me

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like a cloud of locusts wi th the intention of eatin' up my apple crop. I whipped up somewhat, no t hopin' t o escape bein' boarded, but jus t t o sorter make things a little bit more excitin". Well sir, no less than thirty'- of them' fellers jumped onto the bob, all holdin' fast t o the wire. Before thej could g rab an apple I dropjDed the lines and go t busy with the little machine down in the stra\Y in front of me. I helped them t o lilDcral doses of electricity^, as generous as thcA^ had helped themselves t o apples the day before. Well, 3'ou never saw a gang of fellers so utterh'- surprised, so taken back, a s ' i t were. The current w a s too s trong for them t o let loose, so they jumped around and hollered and cussed, till the air was black. I kept the crank of the old machine goin' jus t as though I'd been turnin ' a grindstone.

"Help 3'ourselves t o apples, boj 's! ' ' saA s I ; don ' t be any more bashful than you were A'^esterda^^"

But thex only kept on hollerin' and tellin' me w h a t theA'-'d do when the\ ' go t loose. The people on the street were wonderin' w h a t kind of a picnic we were havin', bu t w e were going too fast for any interference. I kept the fun up for three blocks and a half; then I stopped the machine and thej^ all dropped off as if thej were powerful wear}-.

" W o n ' t you ride back t o t own with me boj'-s?" I SEcys, when I had turned the team 'round. Some of 'era tried t o fire chunks of ice and snowballs a t me, but the\^ could no more use their hands than the man in the moon. I drove back slow!}-, stoppin' now and then t o wa tch 'em t r \an ' t o pull the kinks out of themselves. Oh n o ! I don ' t hold any grudge agen 'em a t all ; bu t I suppose when I go t o t o w n after this I'll have t o tal<e some other way than Four th Street.

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Trifles.

Good Night.

THOM.^S E. BURKE, *07 .

r^ OOD night, the shadows fall beneath the hall.

The moth-grey ashes choke the .livings coals,

KnA o'er 3-our e\-elitls heavy sleep tmfbldsl

Good night, dear friend, good night.

Good night, the mom shall find us far apart .

The mid-daj- sun shall shine upon our ways.

In toil and heat, oh cherish these fond days.

Good night, dear friend, good night;

Good night, until white day, the harvester.

Shall gather us into the golden west,

Until our lingering spirits are a t rest, .

Good night, dear fritnd, good night.

Hyperbole.

FK.V.\K DERRICK.

/ ^ N E tiny flake on a stormA- da^-— Onh' a bit of white,

But haply thou hast a par t to plaj' In a vision of pure delight.

One little soul in a cit\''s swarm— Only a smiling face;

But thou dost ,a loving p a r t perform In the running of life's race. E. C.

Qy Ford ' s reputation was a t stake. This may no t seem a serious ma t t e r tmtil 3'-ou understand t h a t Cy w a s the best story-teller and drawer of the long-bow for miles around the little t o w n in which he lived. 1

I t came about t h u s : One evening saunter­ing, as was his custom, into the corner grocer^^ a t which he_ held ^orth^ Cy encountered a rival in the person of a lean, hairj ' , dark-skinned sailor. The bystanders^ addressed him as captain. When-Gy entered the captain vi^as jus t completing a marvel­ous "3 ' am," a t which the listeners- stared so astonished t h a t the entrance of t h a t lesser light, C3'- Ford, passed unheeded.

The sailor kept on talking. The subject was fogs. He discoursed eloquently upon their nature, thickness and- impenetrability: Finalh'-, presuming t h a t his hearers had, most probabh' , never seen a real fog he said: "AVh3 , once we ran into a fog off New Zealand t h a t w a s so thick we were forced t o cut through i t wi th shovels t o get t o land a t all ." _

At t h a t Cy began t o sit up and t a k e notice. After the sailor had finished he remarked, feeling t h a t his reputat ion must be saved: - •

330 NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC. i " P r e t t y thick, w a s n ' t i t ? " To w^hich the sailor, comprehending t h a t

he had a rival, answered: "Yes, you don ' t have t h a t kind on land." This in a scornful and supercilious tone.

The crow^d waited for Cv t o redeem himself. " O h 3'-es," answered he, " w e do have them

sometimes, bu t no t often. I remember"— Here the bystanders settled down on their

soap boxes in expectation. " I remember back in '72 along about the

middle of April, I go t up one morning about j5.ve o'clock and noticed quite a thick fog. In an hour or tw-o i t settled dow^n over the ground so I couldn't see the ear th a t all.

" 'Well , ' I says, 'here's inj chance t o have a real nice protection for my vines later on,' so I went out and cut t h a t fog out in a square jus t the shape of the field, rolled i t up and p u t i t in a corner. I t saved mj cucumbers from a hard frost a month later ."

The bystanders gazed a t Cy admiringh'-. The coolness wi th which he had accepted •what seemed defeat and had turned i t into a victory astonished even them, accustomed though they w^ere t o hearing his marvelous tales. The sailor was silent for a few moments, then w^ent out and has never been seen since. The silence w a s broken by one of the audience:

"Well, Cy," he began, " a n d w h a t became of t h a t fog? Have you go t i t y e t ? "

" N o , " replied Cy, " a n d worse luck. The blamed th ing caught fire one day -when the kids were fooling around i t w^ith matches and burnt n p ! "

This is the t rue a n d . authentic account of how Cy Ford lost and won his reputat ion in a single evening. I know it is true because Cy told me himself.

To t u rn the young into orchards filled with w^holesome, bu t also, wi th poisonous fruits, wi thout careful directions as t o which they should choose and w^hich avoid, v?ould be criminal; yet th is is w h a t we do when we open to them the w^orld of letters without forming in them the discernment and dispositions which will enable them t o take the good and leave the evil. Reading is a means , not an end; and for the most i t is little bet ter t h a n idleness or the company of the vicious.—Spalding.

Varsity Verse.

"yHOUGH winter's icy blast may blind, Within, tlie heartli-fire gives good cheer,

And there all pleasure you may find Until the leaden sides shall clear. Let not the chilling hand of fear

Lay frozen fingers on your mind. Though winter's icA- blast may blind.

Within, the hearth-fire gives good cheer.

Though times be dark, 'tis but designed To make our pleasui'es seem more dear,

And though Care's gnawing teeth may grind, No evil shall your fortunes sear.

Though w^inter's icy blast may blind Within, the hearth-fire gives good cheer.

H. L. HER IDEAL.

Young Raymond is a handsome boy, You'd know him b\- his smile;

Just notice when he looks a t you. I t reaches 'bout a mile.

His nose is quite a nobbj'- one, And fits his face real well,

Like stockj^ards fit Chicago; I t even has the smell.

His hands are just the dearest things, So baby-like in size,

.Almost too small in summer time, To keep away the flies.

His feet would do quite well for this, For they are big I say;

But aAvkwardness prevents their use. They're always in the way.

His ears are geometrical. Just of the latest style;

Exactly marking off the arc Of one big homely smile.

FLIRTATION.

W. J. H.

There once T\' as a wdse young Green Islander, Who said, "Watch how easily I land her."

He caught the girl's eye, And t h a t is jus t "why

The people all called him an eye-lander. W. J. H.

J. B.

There was once a j-^oung fellow named Will, Who could never sit down or stand still;

He opened a till. Tried his pockets to fill.

But the till w^ould not keep still until—!

There was also an ofiicer Joe Who was known as a "snoopy old crow."

He stepped o'er the sill As Will opened the tiU,

And Joe to perdition did go. W. H. M.

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rr,i TT- f ^ f T- . . < "With Euripides i t took the place of an i he Hippo lytus 01 huripides. 1 ^. si j . ^ . T X T - T T - -I 1

' explanatory n rs t act. In the Hippolytus Euripides used the prologue t o s ta te the

WILLIAM p . CORCORAN. cxact si tuatiou in which he means t o pick up his characters. F rom the lips of

I t w a s in the year 4 3 1 B. C. t h a t Euripides Aphrodite we learn the aforesaid plot first dealt wi th the motive of t ragic or of Hippolytus. We might compare th is baffled love, which he afterwards made prologue, which is distinctly characteristic peculiarly his own. The Hippolytus is the of Euripides, t o the exordium of the orators, first of those wonderful women-studies by In the prologue t o the Hippolytus we are which Euripides dazzled and aggrieved his n o t told all. Indeed the element of surprise contemporaries. He has been called a is no t revealed. The death of Hippolytus woman-hater, and justly so, becaiise some is as sudden t o the spectator a s - i t is t o of his plays, the Hippolytus among them, t h a t you th himself. We may say then that are based on questions of marriage-breaking, Euripides follows the same rule for the in which, as Gilbert Murra3r has said, the development of the d rama as Lessing laid heroine acted t o Hippolj'-tus as Pot iphar ' s down in his "Drama tu rg i c " (Art. 48 ) . " I wife t o Joseph. Certainly the poet has shown am far from sharing the view of mps t of us w^omen, women as in the case of Phiedra, those who have wri t ten on the drama, w h o betrayed an innocent man ' s life away, t h a t the development] mus t be concealed This is why Aristophanes makes the women from the audience." of Athens conspire for revenge against him. The prologue of this play makes clear the

The plot of this play turns on the criminal entire p lo t ; when t h a t has been spoken by love of Phaedra for her stepson, Hippolytus, Aphrodite, the you th Hippol3rtus, the main the Joseph of classical mj^thology. In this character in the play, appears on the stage, play the scorned and passionate woman accompanied hj a merry t roop of admirers, seeks the ruin of the chaste j ' oung man, The picture of this chaste and noble youth b u t in this instance she also commits suicide, s tanding on the verge of destruction, ye t The father, Theseus, is induced t o believe no t knowing t h a t his life has been lied his son's guilt. The innocent hero is borne a w a y on account of a woman ' s unrequited t o death by his owm steeds, who are passion, is indeed inspiring. This youth, frightened by sea monsters sent against pure in body and soul, is the grandest them by Neptune. His death thus efiected character t ha t Euripides has portrayed, by the malice of Aphrodite and the blind F o r a pagan author , the character i s a accomplice of the sea-god, the chaste god- beautiful conception. There are few char-dess, Artemus, appears, ex machina, t o do acters in modem drama t h a t can compare poetic justice t o the innocent victim, wi th t h a t of Hippolytus. Excelling in all

In reading the Hippolytus the first manly exercises, he is a lover of the chase, peculiarity t h a t we notice is the mechanical and consequently he adores and worships opening or prologue. There is no action the goddess of the.chase, Diana. in this . Hence critics have found i t flat ^^ ^ ,„^ ,^^^ ., ^^-^ „f , - ^^^ ^^^„ „„„„„.

He ever hears the TOice ot nis ovm. virgiii queen j a n d unnecessai-y. B u t if g iven a chance He hears what others hear not, and sees her though

-Euripides could have justified it . His unseen; theory'- w a s , a s Prof. H a r r y savs , t h a t t h e He holds his virgin purpose in freedom nnbegniled, s p e c t a t o r o u g h t t o k n o w more a b o u t t h e ^o age and death advancing, in innocence a child, circumstances t h a n • the characters in the And so he shuns the snares of love -and drama. As there" were no play bills a t wedlock. He knows t h a t his stepmother t h a t time, i t was well t o let the audience has been smitten wi th love for him, and yet k n o w w h a t Saga, the play, w a s t o t r e a t ; he will no t Adeld; and why ? Because the and still more necessary was this prologue, desire t o love and t o be loved, in any sense if Euripides intended t o choose little-known whatsoever, is entirely strange, t o him. He legends or unusual versions of those t h a t will have nothing t o do wi th Aphrodite, as were well known. Besides this function," he says, " I salute her from afar." But even the prologue suggested better advantages, more , h o w nobly Hippolytus rejects the vile

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propositions of the nurse w^ho has come t o him in an endeavor t o have him return the love of Phsedra.

Phgedra, her love unrequited, determines t o commit suicide, bu t no t till her thirs t for revenge has been quenched hy the death of her stepson. What subtlety and delicacj'- ot argument is shown from line 900 t o 1100. Hippol3''tus returns t o find his father stand­ing over the dead body of Phccdra and reading the tablet which contains the accusation against him. He does no t know the content of the tablet, bu t he can guess why Phjedra died. He appears unnatura l in his manner, and i t seems for the moment t h a t he is guilty. Shortly after when HippoK^ius has t o defend himself against the vile slanders of his father, and has sworn not t o tell the one thing t h a t will save him, he appears guilt^^

Hippolytus a t first almost breaks down under the terrible accusation, bu t he speedity gains control of himself. He knows he is innocent, and believes his father's anger, when he curses his son, is only a half-meant anger, bu t the reputat ion of Hip­polytus is a t stake. And wi th this feeling he begins t h a t excellent speech (line 983 t o 1035) which w-ould do justice t o a.ny orator . He asks : " W h a t motive could I have had for the deed? None, for I w^ould ra ther be the first and best a t all the games of Hellas, bu t second in the state . Dost see yon sun, this earth ? These do not contain, for all thou dost donj it, chasti t j ' sur­passing mine." Still more do we see and wonder a t the noble character of this 3'^outh when he saj-^s:

" T o reverence God I count the highest knowledge, and t o adop t as friends no t those w h o a t t empt injustice, bu t such as woud blush t o propose t o their companions aught disgraceful or pleasure them by shame­ful services. To mock a t friends is no t my w^ay, father, b u t I am still the same behind their backs as t o their face. The very crime thou thinkest t o catch me in is jus t the one I am untainted with, for t o this day have I kept me pure from women, so pure my virgin sou l , ' But Theseus, blinded by anger, pauses n o t t o think t h a t he could find out where the guilt Isty if Hippolytus only had a witness, or if Phaedra were still

- ; • (^Concluded on page 337.)

Roosevelt Hall.

JAJIES COKBETT.

In the fair cit^^ of Newport on the 5 th of Juh'-, 1891, the societj^ leaders of Ameri­can aristocracy assembled in Mrs. Po t te r Parker 's residence t o make final arrange­ments for the mothers ' congress t h a t w a s to be held on the afternoon of the morrow^ in Theodore Roosevelt Hall . The ladies w^ere anxious to make the event unique, so the following clause w a s inserted in the program. Each mother unattended by maids must wheel from her residence t o the hall one of her babies dressed in plain white silk. The next day between the hours of 1 1 a. m. and 1 p . m. magnifi­cent hahj carriages emerged from the different mansions and were pushed hj graceftil women along the asphal t pave­ments to t h a t massive structure of masour\'-wherein the correct rearing of those babes was t o be. carefully discussed. Theodore Roosevelt Hall is surrounded by a high brick wall wi th only a wicket entrance in the front, and within this enclosure is a small park. The city marshal, Mr. Forke, took uj) his pos t a t the entrance t o this park on the eventful afternoon of Juty the 6 th and permitted those only t o enter, who had fulfilled all the required conditions for admission t o the congress. Outside, the day vk as very pleasant ; so i t w^as proposed and adopted t o leave the little infants remain in their carriages t o enjoj'' the delightful shade of the park while their mothers sa t in the ho t assembh'- hall discus­sing abstruse problems concerning them.

After the bell • r ang for, all t o go inside the hall, each of the fiftj- mothers in her -tu rn had t o tell the officer how t o take care of "he r darling." All this time the colored porter held open the wide iron entrance a t the t o p of the staircase and when the last rustle of silk had swept across the doorway and the por ter had closed the entrance wi th a bang and a half-stifled exclamation. Officer Forke began worrying about the dryness of his th roa t . He could^hot leave the babies alone, like­wise he could no t remain for t w o more

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long hours wi thou t wet t ing his th roa t . Jimmie Brady had a conscience. Every Across the avenue he s aw a barefoot boy morning he studied the face of Officer Porke rolling a hoop and he called hira over, t o see if the joke had yet been found

"Here , boy, will you mind those kids out, b u t when a week rolled by and ever}--until I ring up my a l a r m ? " body else seemed ignorant of w h a t had

The boj ' happity consented, and while the been done, the b03^ g o t qualms of conscience, policeman went around the corner little I t didn't take him long t o make up his "Chimmie" Brady hopped from carriage mind w h a t t o do. He went beneath the t o carriage gazing into each baby 's face, sidewalk in the front of his house and pulling this baby's nose, nearh'- upsetting pulled out of his " s l i p " or hiding-place a another, making horrid contortions of his handful of pennies and nickels. Wistftilly dirtj'- face and performing all sorts of capers he counted them, jus t ninetv'-five cents, and to the great delight of his baby audience, soon he was speeding along the street t o The boy's eyes were sharp and he soon the editor's office of the Newport American. noticed t h a t all the babes were dressed This bareheaded and barefooted dirty-faced alike, this suggested to him the put t ing youth rushed into Mr. Hears t ' s sanctum ever\" babj-- into a different carriage. Five threw the money down on a table and said minutes after the bo3^ go t the suggestion he wanted an ad. pu t in the paper. L a t e the deed was done. t h a t evening all Newport w a s startled by

When Officer Forke returned he gave the the cries, " E x t r a ! ex t ra ! No mother has boy a nickel and told him t o "skidoo." At her own child." five o'clock the wide iron door a t the top Indignation was rife, and little Jimmie of the s ta i rway was again opened b^^ the Brady had t o fly t o Mendota from avenging grinning negro and silks and satins rustled societ3''. Another caucus of society leaders down the marble stairs and over the grass was held, and i t was decided t o have jdl t o where " t h e dear dar l ings" laA' in state, the mothers and nurses get "together on the Each mother t o show her maternal love morrow, July 14, in Roosevelt Hall t o undo kissed her baby. Whj'- t h a t indignant tone " t h e diabolical work of t h a t monstrously, in the conversation? Ah! within all had not depraved b6\ ' . " Minister Talmage was t o been harmonj"-, for one of the members had act as a second Solomon. He stood in the very imprudentlj'- and unjustly said: "Our front of the stage before an ordinary look-best American mothers should become better ing table, ten feet above which w a s a bulb acquainted w^ith their children." Two little of fifty incandescent lights. On this table blue e3''es were much disappointed when all each baby in turn was placed and held the carriages had left the place wi thout any by the minister until a decision w a s made of the mothers noticing the change t h a t had as t o whom the child belonged. As each been made. The next morning a t 11 a. m., babe w a s held beneath the great glare of jus t after each ot these fifty matrons had lights, silks and satins would rustle as arisen and taken her coffee, faithful Annie opera glasses in everA'- p a r t of the hall were appeared, and strange were some of the raised aloft, bu t t o the nurses was left the stories t h a t the noble nurse had t o tell work of identification. When the nurses in some mansions of Newport on t h a t disagreed Talmage settled the controversy morning of July the 7th. Clothes wouldn ' t by giving the baby to the clothes t h a t fit: the thin baby had become fat and the fitted" i t best. After some compromises fat baby had become thin. The girl was everything was amicably settled, and all now a boy and the bo3'- had become a girl, returned t o their homes—but this tin:e But the maid w a s dismissed with, "Don ' t the nurses had the babies.

you think I know my own child ?" and when the maid was forced t o go back laughed a t t o the nursery, the mother of " W H E N we recall all the things for which Young American aristocracy returned t o men have fought, tortured and murdered the newspaper account of the latest divorce one another, a pessimistic mood comes over, scandal wi th some remark about the wild, us and w e are tempted t o doubt whether fantasies of her maid's brain. life itself be wor th fighting for,"

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ments of loyalty, love and The patriotism. So much has

Nation's Father. been said and wri t ten about the immortal Washington

t h a t w e find .ourselves pausing t o think of something new^. Origin^,lity in an appre­ciation of a man like him is a task. F o r out of the big comer he occupies in history, there beams on all men the same impressions: impressions of himself, of his greatness, of his calm and yet dignified severitj'-, of his love and strength. And so we find ourselves merely appreciating the things in him t h a t all others ha^ve.

I t is a mark of the bigness of some men t h a t for all time they, outline themselves against history, and challenge inspection. To be sifted down through a century and three-quarters is a tes t for any man. And yet his name has stood t h a t test, while each year only adds lustre t o the qualities discovered by his first admirers.

•He stands among our heroes a colossal monument. T ime and history ,playing i ts scorching rays on the monumen t tarnish i t not , b u t ra ther add. B u t t o us he seems

more t han a monument, more t h a n a great pyramid, whose only claim t o notice is its massiveness; more t h a n a silent sphynx standing out soHtary and alone. If history is a desert wherein we find few real ideals, few real heroes, he seems t o be an oasis in t h a t desert; and often will the searcher in quest of an ideal pause a t this oasis t o drink of i ts clear waters and rest beneath i ts shading palms and there gather s trength t o pursue the journey. F o r there are few ideals, and history, a t best, is bu t a reproachful witness t o the fact.

T h e Making of a Newspaper.

Mr. Little did no t probably overstate a fact when in his lecture, Thursday, the 14th inst., he expressed his opinion t o the effect t h a t there are few things concerning which the general public is more curious, and about which i t knows less, t han the inside of a metropoli tan new^spaper. T h a t he guessed quite accurately the prevalence of a "cur ios i ty" w a s proved strikingly evident fi-om the intentness wi th which his words were followed; and i t is the smallest praise t o offer Mr, Little t o saj'- of his ability as an instructor t h a t none of his hearers on Thursday afternoon can ever belong t o t h a t general public t h a t knows no t concerning the genesis, g rowth and influence of a grea t Daily.

Mr. Little 's address is tj'-pical of the newspaiDcr man. He succeeds well in pre­senting the facts of the case and does no t bother wi th non-essentials. He is seldom allured into the idle excursus, which is merely entertaining. His aim w a s t o give information in an at t ract ive manner, and he succeeded—^perfectly, w^ere his articulation somewhat more distinct. We may form some idea of the scope of Mr. Litt le 's theme when we remember t h a t the Declaration of Independence, adopted by Congress a t Philadelphia, July 4, w a s n o t published in the chief paper of the t o w n until the 13th ; and did no t appear in a Boston paper until the 22d of July. Mr, Little 's lecture on "The Alaking of a Newspaper" suggested the lines, of journalistic development, and illustrated, wi th comparative fulness, the progress achieved.

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Final Debates.

The final t r you t for the Yarsity team, t h a t will debate University of Iowa on March 14, was held las t Sa turday evening in Washington Hall. The contest w a s spirited and more hotly contested than were either of the preliminaries; and several of the speakers who were given low rankings in the semi-finals, came t o the front. The first team will be made up of Messrs. W. Donahue, W. Bolger and. T. Burke.

The question, "Resolved: That , the cities of the United States should seek the solution of the s t reet - ra i lway problem in private ownership," was chosen by Iowa s ta te for the coming debate, and Notre Dame, having choice of sides, took the affirmative. Of the eight debaters t o qualify for the finals, Donahue and Burke were the only t w o argu­ing on the Municipal Ownership platform.

Mr. Donahue's "speech was of surpassing excellence and his rebut ta l was , if anything, still better. Most of the affirmative men seemed t o fear him more t h a n they did Mr. Burke, and t o t h a t end spent a great p a r t of their time t rying t o refute his arguments, bu t Donahue had the par t ing shot and used his advantage t o the king's tas te . Mr, Bolger's line of argument was entirely changed from the phase of the question he had taken up in the tr ial debates. Bolger lacks Donahue's oratorical delivery, bu t his wide knowledge of the question and his convincing presentation of facts did much toward disconcerting bo th negative speakers. The third member of the team, Mr. Burke, showed remarkable improvement over his former Municipal Ownership speeches. With his colleague he had an up-hill fight against six affirmative men, and t h a t he won a place against s t rong odds is in itself grea t praise of his ability. Burke is the only new man on the team, the t w o others having debated I o w a Sta te University las t year and Oberlin and DePauw in 1905, all of which debates were Notre Dame victories.

b u t the teams shall exchange sides. Brown-son and Corby shall uphold the negative, and Holy Cross and St. Joseph the affirma­tive. The same rules in regard t o length of speeches, main and rebuttal , shall pre­vail as in the las t debates, and the same limitations pu t upon the question. FoUow-ing is the schedule:

Holy Cross YS. Corby, April 5th. St . Joseph vs. Brownson, April 6th.

The t w o winners of these debates shall then hold one final debate for the Inter-Hall championship and the Inter-Hall banner.

April 22d has been the date selected for the In te r -Hal l Oratorical Contest. Each Hall shall be represented by one orator , and he shall be chosen by preliminary contests in the difierent Halls. The final contest shall be held in Washington Hall, and the winner thereof be donated a solid gold medal, t he gift of the University.

All preparatory and freshman students are eligible. Those desiring t o contest should get t o work immediately on their orations, and they shoidd submit their manuscripts t o their English Professors for correction. Remember t h a t the orations shall be judged both upon composition and upon delivery. This is a chance for oratorical aspirants t o get a little experience, and pave the w a y for the signal opportunity of representing, the University, and perhaps the s ta te of Indiana in ora tory on some fiiture occasion.

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Athletic Notes.

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INTER-HAIvL DEBATE AND ORATORY.

The next Inter-Hall Debates shall be held on April 5 th and 6th. The question of Municipal Ownership shall again be debated,

Notre Dame defeated the Michigan Agri-culttire College in a dual t rack meet -last Sa turday by a score of 7 1 t o 42 .

The work of Smithson s tands ou t and above the outcome of the meet as i t w a s little less than wonderful. Although the record will n o t stand, Smithson broke the w^orld's record in the 40-yard low hurdles, running them in five flat, b u t as he was timed by only three men, and all local, the record wall n o t be aUow^ed. Not content wi th this, he equalled the world's record in the 40-yard high hurdles and came within a fifth of a second of t h e record in the 40-yard dash. Smithson proved beyond a doubt t h a t he is one of the fastest indoor men in the country, and as his " r e p " w a s made on a n outdoor

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t rack there can be no doubt t h a t he will be a contender in Western athletics tliis season. Too much can no t be said of the magnifi­cent showing made b^^ Smithson, and although he s tands alone in his class there were others of the team wortln^ of mention.

Scales proved t o be the highest individual point winner of the meet, running Smithson a close second in both hurdles and wnnning the high and the broad jump, making a to ta l of sixteen. Cripe won one of the prettiest races of the daj'- when he led the entire field in the 440-3'ard dash which he ran in 56 3-5 seconds.

Keefe, w^ho was supposed to be out of condition, w^on the half-mile in 2.09 3-5 and could have done i t in five easih^, as he was never in danger and w^on all the ^va3^ An accident marred the half-mile run which spoiled the race w4ien Graham and Bignell collided under the stand, both men tak ing a fall which pu t ihem out of the running. Bignell w^as supposed t o be the s ta r man for the "Aggies," and has a mark close t o t w o minutes in the half.

Bojde and Gilbert had a hard fight in the pole, vault, the former finalh^ w-inning the event a t nine feet eight."

Wliite was the s ta r point-winner for the Farmers, winning both the mile and two-mile, the time in the mile being- a most creditable performance.

The most exciting race of the daj- was the relaj'j each man running- t w o laps. The first tw^o m^n who ran for the "Aggies" won their laps, and. wdien Cripe took up the third race he started six yards beyond his man. Little b\" little he gained on the flying Farmer until bu t t w o 3'ards separated them, and when Keefe took up the last t u rn for Notre Dame he star ted about t w o yards behind. The first lap w-as w^on \yy Pearsell, and when they started on the last round the grand stand rose up like one man and wnldh'- cheered for Keefe. For a time i t looked as though the visitors had •won, bu t inch hy inch came Keefe until they turned into the stretch running side by side in the las t ten yards. Keefe pulled aw-ay and won one of the greatest relaj^ races ever seen a t Notre Dame.

Coach Draper's men all show^ed up well and give promise of developing into a team t h a t will win the s ta te meet this Tear. The work .of Keach and Schmidt look good for the-future, Keach w^on his heat in the 220-yard, dash in the same time t h a t the event w a s w^on in, but in the final Keach drew the inside. track, and as he can no t take •the •turns there he lost out. Schmidt's work in the relays -marks him as a comer, th ' s w^as his first appearance. Graham won second in both Ms races and looks good for a t least a point in each race in the s ta te vno-^t.

Draper is going t o send four men t o the Firs t Regular Meet in Chicago the first of next month, and if thev continue in the form t h a t theA'- are in now thej^ will undoubtedlj" carry awaj"- a good share of points. The dopesters are picking Smithson t o rejDcat his w^ork of las t Saturdaj'^ in the regular meet, and if he does he will annex a world's record t o his belt. After the meet in Chicago comes Indiana, and it is hoped t h a t the Varsit3^ will atone for the numerous defeats in t rack which thev have suffered bv the down-s t a t e school. Summary:

40-Yard dash—Smithson,N.D.,1st; Yatighan,M. A. C , 2d; Pearsell, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 43-5 seconds.

40-vard low hurdles—Smithson, N. D., 1st; Scales, N. D.', 2d; Small, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 5 seconds.

40-Yard hiofh hiirdles—Smithson, N. D., 1st; Scales, N. D.;^2d; Small, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 5 2-5 seconds.

2-mille run—Waite, M. A. C , 1st; Graham, N. D., 2d ; Carr, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 11 seconds.

SSO-A-ard dash—Keefe, N. D., 1st; Oviatt, M. A. C , 2d; Bignell, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 2.09 3-5 seconds. ~ Hig-h jump—Scales. N. D., 1st; Allen, M. A. C , 2d; McDonouiih, N. D., 3d. Pleisht, 5 ft. zt^h inches.

Shot put—Woods, N. D. , ' l s t ; Burrough, M. A. C , 2d; Bei-ve, N. D., 3d. Distance, 37 ft. 114 inches.

220-Yard dash-^Vau^han, M. A. C , 1st: Griffin, y\. A. C.. 2d; Keach, N.ID. , 8d. Time, 24 3-5 seconds.

Pole Yault—BoYle, N. D., 1st; Gilbert, M. A. C , 2d; Gongwer, M. A. C., 3d. Height, 9 ft. S inches.

One-mile run—Waite, M. A. C , 1st; Grahani, N. D., 2d; Carr, M. A. C , 3d. Time, 4.55 2-5.

440-A-ard dash—Cripe, N. D., 1st; Keefe, N. D. 2d; Oviatt, M. A. C , 3d. Time, o'o 3-5.

Broad jump—Scale, N. D. , l s t ; BoA-le, N. D., 2d; Small, :\r. A. C . 3d. Distance, 19 ft. 3^2 i'nches.

RelaA' race won bA- Notre Dame. Shmidt, Keach, Cripe and Keefe.

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PENN. CLUB, 26; MISHAWAKA, A. C. A., 24.

For the second time, the champion A. C. A. of Mishawaka went down t o defeat before the s t rong Pennsj^lvania Five hy score of 26-24. The game was the fastest ever seen on t h a t floor. A. C. A. started wi th a rush, and scored seven points in the first t w o minutes of play. The Pensv-lvanians then had their inning, the score a t end of first half being 14-12.

In the second half Hogan 's team w a s on the ofifensive. I t s team work w a s superb. Time and again Mishawaka at tempted t o break i t up, b u t t o no avail. A. C. A. also played fast ball, i ts team w^ork a t times being phenomenal. • As usual Werder pla3''ed a s t rong game, being all over the floor. -Zimmerman shone for Mishawaka. The team work of both teams was the br ight feature.

Wishawaka (24) Zimmerman Neusbarum Shirety Harris Seymour

Field goals—Heyl (6); Hogan (2); Werder (3); Shirely ( 4 ) ; Zimmerman ( 3 ) ; Neusbarum. Free throws— Werder (4) ; Zirhmerman (8 ) . Referee—Fraunheim. Time of halves—20 minutes, • R. L. B.

Penn. Club He3-1 Hogan Werder Kennedy Eschef

(26) L. F . R. F .

C. L. G. R. G.

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{Continued from page 332.) g I t is hard t o realize the effect t h a t the alive. " Had I a witness t o a t tes t my purityW^presentation of this character would have, and w^ere I pitted against her still alive,|f.w^ere i t produced on the modem stage. facts w^ould show thee on enquiry'- vv'ho the £1 Although Euripides was first and l a s t a culprit w a s . " %• poet of realism, still in this he can n o t be

The father's onl3'' argument is the letter compared with modem natural is ts . True, he found on the dead body of Phaedra; he will chooses the commonplace, b u t he does not , no t listen t o other arguments. Hippolytus, like Zola, give his hearers stories elaborated untried and condemned w^ithout Emy evi- wi th suggestive details, wdth every detail dence, is banished from his father's roof, t h a t will onh^ bring out the vileness and The 3''Outh appeals t o the gods but in vain, baseness of it. He ra ther chooses, as in "Staj'- me, ye gods! rob me of name and the case of Hippolytus, an every-day reality honour, from home and cit3'- cast me forth, of life, the unrequited passion of a woman, a w^andering exile o'er the ear th! nor land and touches i t here and there, appealing nor sea receive mj'- bones wdieii I am dead, t o the S3'mpathies of our nature unti l we if I be such a miscreant." know no t w'hether i t be the ideal. In the

Twice i t seems he will give way under character of Hippolj-tus he is ever bringing his father's accusation—and i t would be home t o us how deeply the ideal penetrates r ight for him t o do so. The oath was forced from him bj'- a trick and he rejected it. As he says : "Mj^ tongue ha th sworn; there is no hand upon mj'- hear t ." Nevertheless he keeps silence, as his tongue had promised, appeals t o the gods for justice, and goes forth convicted, goes forth to death, a youthful martj^r, because he would not soil his soul or bodj^ with impurit3'. Whose heart is no t stirred bj ' the sight of t h a t noble, innocent j'-outh a mar ty r to chastitj^ ?

the common life. Our Euripides, the human,

With his droppings of warm tears And his toxiching of things common .

Till thev rose to touch the spheres.

H o w many modem dramas t a k e t h e commonplace, and instead of raising i t t o the ideal, lower i t t o the grade of a sugges­tive and immoral drama. The presenta­tion of a character like Hippolytus .would benefit the stage and also the people. W h a t the3' w a n t is the commonplace exalted^ n o t

Certainly the hearts of the spectators who lowered, in their imagination. In a -modem saw Hippolytus pla3'ed in ancient times must have been touched with pit3'-.

Not onty does Hippoh'-tus die a mar tyr ' s death, bu t even his grea t friend among the goddesses, Diana, she whom he adored

drama Hippol3 tus would have ^yielded t o the love of his stepmother, and the drama­t is t would have gone on t o justify the . impious deed. Only recently w e had had a notorious example of this in the case of

, . , , . 1 , ^ c "Salome," a desrrading and immoral opera and worshiped during the purest years of p^-^^^^^ ^^ New\^ork , and then condemned his life, has deserted him. And 3^et not-wdthstanding t h a t all have turned against him, he accepts his fate. He is a hero in his rejection of Aphrodite and his clearing

I t would be absurd t o impiet3^"

Yet to one thing I never will give credence, That this th3' son has done a deed of baseness, Nor should the whole of womankind go hang And score the pines of Ida with their letters, Because I know—^I know—^tliat he is noble.

The effect t h a t the example of Hippolytus

near the g rea t

the virgin Artemus ta lk of his

as a scandalous production. We are informed t h a t

sanctuaiy of Hippolytus a t Trcezen there w^as a stadium named after him, and above this a temple of Aphrodite vnthi monuments of Ph£Edra and Hippoh'tus, which were looked upon as tombs in spite of the fact, as Professor Har ry says, t h a t the w o r s h i p of the gods excludes the existence of a grave. Not onlv is the virtue and chasti tv of Hippoh'tiis thus honored, bu t the ancient pagans, according t o the myth, gave him divine honors. Maidens before their marr iage

produced—mythical in origin though the clipped the locks which adorned their jfree

character be—must have been wonderftil. His virtue could only have inspired others wi th virtue. The ancient world mus t cer­tainly have been benefited by it. And yet this noble character has been conceived and given life in the mind of a pagan , author .

heads, and weeping laid them on his shrine, a t r ibute t o his puri ty of soul and. body.

For girls unwed, before their marriage day. Shall offer their shorn tresses a t thy shrine, And dower thee through long ages with rich tears ; • And many a maid shall raise the tuneful hymn . In praise of thee, and ne'er shall Phaedra's love"' Perish in silence and be left unsung.

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Notes from the Colleges. T h e Social Whirl .

By w^ay of explaining the fact t h a t " T h e Catholic school (Notre Dame) has a record of seventeen consecutive victories in debate," prominent place is given in a recent issue of The Daily lo^^an t o the following curious rat iocination: "They (Notre Dame) have a system of t raining there w^hich makes experts out of their men; one professor (?) gives five hours daily t o the team, and all other work is laid aside when preparat ion for the debate begins." The first clause of this s tatement is no t debatable; the second t w o are—^to pu t i t mildly—false respective^. Gentlemen of The Daily lowan, don ' t admit into your pages such irresponsible "wri te-ups ."

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Harvey Blair, a former t rack s ta r of the Hammond, Indiana High School, has joined the Wabash School, and great things are expected of him in the sprints.

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Down a t Indiana they have an annual student scrap day. At some of the Western schools they scrap every day ; bu t a t Notre Dame they never scrap.

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T w o hundred and forty-six candidates ' for the cinder p a t h have reported t o the Harva rd coaches this year.

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Harrison Rice, 17 years old, a member of the High School of Worcester, Mass., died recently of lockjaw, as a result of injuries received a m o n t h ago in a basket-ball game.

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I t is rumored t h a t if Michigan decides to withdraw^ from the conference, their schedule for next fall will include Pennsyl­vania, Yanderbilt, Case, Ohio Sta te and possibly Nebraska and Notre Damc^Parcfwe Bxponent.

E. PERCIVAL SNOB.

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-The Honor System prevails a t Yale. There surely ought to be some w a y for students t o pull through the examinations, and this .Honor System appeals t o us a s the long looked for means.

An appraisement of some of his recent lyrics by an anonymous ^\^riter reached the Sorin laureate early in the week. By w a y of parenthesis, we are nov '' in a position t o s ta te t h a t the nameless one has turned out t o be a civil engineer. The wicked critic, among other irreverent epithets, employed the word "cobble"—a species of imagery which, according t o a subtle law in poetics, should -indicate the quarters w^hence the vile appreciation proceeded. Natural ly the metaphoric reading appealed first, and some saj'-, mightity, t o the poet, and brought into being the bardic utterance which, as an open letter, we append. The reader need no t be advertised t h a t in idiomatic prose the heroic couplet would read, "Shoemaker, stick t o vour las t ."

Dermeau Artifice, thou energizes on foul oxen rind! Beside thy digitless cold foot thy person stoutly bind.

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I t seems quite contagious this cHpping of the pates of the elder Sorinites. Whatever the occasion may be i t still is no t the greatest sign in the world of the greatest amount of cranial matter , though the several persons guilty have done their best t o lay the gray stuff bare. February and blasting winds and meltable snow is not, t o say the least, the most desirable or sensible time t o expose one's skull. And so most of us are inclined t o think t h a t all the g ray stuffing has been laid bare, and w e have seen about as much as there is. "Wanted a phrenologis t!" seems t o be placarded on nearly every accumulation of bumbs. sup­ported by a neck, and few have any doubts bu t t h a t i t would drive the heady man into b rown studies deciphering w h a t the many upheavals mean. F o r myself,—and i t takes little observation t o note it—I can see the temporary insanity hill abnormally devel­oped. But perhaps i t ' s a Lenten penance, in which case i t is mostly too extreme, as one should hardly run the penitential season t o the limit, and we somtimes can sacrifice too much in an attempt to kill the pride-bug.

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I t would cover a multitude of sins and, , . , „ , •rM7r)Ar>'T'A;rT?^T'T' . - , , 1 1 ,1 1 1 1 . L i A W L / J i i r A K i M l l i N i .

mcidentally, t h r o w a soggy blanket on many others, if some one would speak to TM r n • • 1. ^ c r ^ ' ' ,^ .•; I ^ •, T^' 1 . . -r, The foliowmg is a s tatement of facts m McAleenan of Corby. F o r a long time I've ,, r ^.-,. . -, -r -,- n^ ^

, ,, ^ , , the case of Illinois and Indiana Transporta-been t rying t o place the youngster, and ,. ^ AT- i.- r -x "cv ^^

•^9 - . 1 r M -1 J • t ion Companv vs. Michigan City, South numerous inquiries have tailed t o give me .p. , „ >^• • u.- -n •? i A , , , ^ ^ ^ . , , , r , i Bend & Cincinnati Railroad Company, the knowledge concerning w h a t p a r t 01 the ,. ^ • -, • ,x. AT a.r^ _x ^^ . ^ ., , .* , , . ,*? , 1 ., -r, pendmg tr ial m the Moot-Court. Mam Building this particular bit owns. It ^ , TIT • i T T a> ^ j . -

, , * , . , , . ^ .j_ . 1 The Illinois and Indian Transpor ta t ion he can ' t substant ia te a claim t o i t plus the ^ -, , , , ^ ^, , . . , , »^ .,- Companv owns and operates several steam-Dome I've been sadlv- mistaken, tor with- A, x" 1 1 1 i. j _ /^i -

^ , 1 ^ 1 1 , 1 11 1 - 4 - -11 ers t h a t regularly ply between Chicago, out doubt the boy's skull box is terribly -,IT • i A/T- x,- T i- ^T .

^ ^ ^ , ^, - , , . . , , 1 lUmois and Michigan, Indiana. They carry extended. But I 'm no t a physicist and w a n t -, .x, r - •,. i ^ i . Tv,r- T •

,,^^ ^ -^ ^.,„ bo th treight aud passengers. The Michisran t o know H o w can a vacuum expand r ^ . , <> .1. TJ T O ^- • ^- -r, -^ -,

^ City, South Bend & Cmcmnati Railroad ^*^ Company has a line extending from Mich-

^ _ _ ^ ^ X- -x iga^ City in a southeasterly direction t o Your pardon, Roan, I meant t o mention i t ,? ^ , . T - - I T / • x-

, ^ }• , \ -, ' ^ 1 - xi X- "fclie Ohio River, said hne t e rmmatmg a t before, bu t wanted t o get things authentic, r - • . • TX x. 1, ^ j- r:^

' ,, ,. ., . ,^ . ^ , , . Cmcmnati. I t has been customary for the You see authenticity is the price ot pubh- , . ,.rc r ^- T, j_

, . s T1, \L. £ plamtifl company as far as practicable t o cation (m my business). It^s ^ sort of .^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^ .^ ^^^ license and is very much higher t h a n the ^ ^^ ^ ^ - ^ passenger traffic in the nearby burg 's thousand dollar one. But t o ^ ^. . XI • X TATi. x, n x-u- X n • same direction. the po in t : What ' s all this ta lk concerning ^ j ^ ^ railroad companv needed monev in flaring headlines, etc.? The whole Varsity ^j_^^ j ^ s t and applied ' for a loan t o " the is agog, and I confess I am a bi t itchy plaintiff—the t ranspor ta t ion company. On myself. Evidently the " Yellow" man had a ^^^ 25th of t h a t month the loan w a s modest conception of our champions. But ^^^^^^ ^^e amount being $25,000. I t was t h a t ' s t h a t sort of journaHsm. Now- the loaned on this agreement t o w i t : " t h a t t h e sensible th ing to do is live up t o t h a t rep., g^:^^ gum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) and show the townies j-ou're there. I know (dollars, now loaned by the Illinois and one man who go t caught in a t r a p like Indiana Transportat ion Companv t o the t h a t ; i t happened in football season. Of Michigan Citv, South Bend and Cincinnati course, he w a s there t o meet . the occasion, Railroad Company, shall be paid within six and bought a sweater wi th 1906 spread ^jonths from date, in t ranspor ta t ion of across the breast . Imi ta te him and no one height and passengers or in cash." l u s h o r t , will blame you; Darwin says we all are - ^^^^s t o be' paid either in service a t the ^T^J^^'^^J- usual cost of t ranspor ta t ion or in monev,

F o r particulars about this original case although presumably i t might be paid ask the man wath a big blue sweater wi th par t ly in the one and par t ly in the other, a great 1906 on it . I t ' s the only one in Q^ ^-^^ 12^1^ of August, however, the the place. You know the rest about t w o defendant company failed, being unable, t o men, one of whom was a s ta r lineman. ^^^ -^s debts, and the road passed into the Still, Adam should, have provided t h a t no ^^^^^ of ^ receiver. The person appointed t w o men should have the same name ^^ ^^ie position by the court is Jonah especially when both were athletes. I hear whaleback o f ' S o u t h Bend. He took a t Manager Draper has some Varsity stuts ^^^^ ^ pronounced stand in respect t o the t o give a w a y ; bu t the wors t p a r t about i t agreement between the t w o companies. He is t h a t there are several formalities t o be declined t o car ry freight or passengers for gone through before you get o n e - d a m the plaintiff company in accordance with i ts requirements and red t ape ! And another ^^j.^^. On the expiration of the six m o n t h s ' word, let us hear from you, boy, when you f . ^^^-^ ^-^^ loan was made payment w a s break in to t h a t league. We're mterested demanded, bu t he refused t o pay, and said in your case; i t 's muchly amusing. In the ^^ ^^^^^ ^ o t be governed by o r recognize meantime take this advice as t h a t of some in any ^\^a.j the agreement made' in connec-one interested in you. . t ion wi th the loan.

HO NO'lRli DAME :^CHOLASriL

111 view of these facts the plaintiff compaiw. files i ts bill, acting through i ts solicitors, and praj'S, t h a t specific perform­ance of said agreement be decreed and t h a t the defendant be required on its p a r t t o give effect t o and c a n y out the same.

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China has no lawj-^ers; Japan, about one lawyer to 26,000 inhabi tants ; Russia, one lawyer t o 31,000; German\^ one lawj-^er t o 9000; France, one lawj'^er t o 4500 ; England and Wales, one lawj-er t o 1200; this countiy, one lawj'-er t o 700.

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P. J. O'Keeffe announces the association as S|)ecial partners for the general practice of L a w of George M. Bagbj'- and Arthur A. O'Brien, under the style of O'lveefife, Bagby and O'Brien, wi th Offices a t 1110-1111-1112 Ashland Block, Chicago.

Local Items.

Personals.

—Mr. J. Clement Hesse (s tudent '9S) has ])eco:ne a benedick. Cards announcing the mari iage of Miss Aetna Louise Person t o Mr. Hesse were received by friends a t the UniversitA'^ last week. Good luck and God'tJ blessing on Mr. and Mrs. Hesse!

—Recentty the SCHOLASTIC announced t h a t Mr. William A. Walsh had formed a partner­ship with another clever lawyer in the t own of Yonkers. I t appears t h a t Mr. Walsh has now formed another partnership, for we have received cards, announcing the mar­riage of Miss Harr ie t te Ann Walsh and Mr. Witliam A. Walsh. The new firm begin under happy auspices, and we wish them all sorts of good luck.

—Mr. Robert Pinkerton, '69, chief of the famous force of detectives visited the Uni­versity recently. He spent the day wi th Bro. Urban t o whom Mr. Pinkerton since his schooldays has been a close friend. While a t Notre Dame the famous chief w^as noted for ability w^hich later made him an internat ional name.

Mr. Pinkerton has a lways been a loyal student, and in his later years has been conspicuous for his enthusiasm t o bis Alma. 'Mater. I t goes wi thout saying t h a t he •wjis a very welcome visitor, and his call was marked .with mucb pleasure on the p a r t of many old friends. The University awai t s another visit from this distinguished alum­nus. With him were Mr. Gavanaugh and "Mr. Walter.

— On Easter Monday evening the Senior Hop, the societj-^ event of the season, will take place; The '07 men are making great preparations, and i t is expected t o be a great success. Invitat ions have been extended t o the members of the Faculty, the post­graduates, the senior- l aw men and the junior collegiate class.

—The SCHOLASTIC went t o press too early t o give a detailed account of the exercises held in Washington Hall in honor of The Nation's Father . Around the campus though, comments are heard which sa3' thej'- were the best held in 3'-ears. Mr. O'Connell's presentation of the flag provoked much praise.

—The members of the Brownson Literarv and Debating Society assembled for their regular meeting Thursday evening, Feb. 14. Mr. Victor Washburn was admitted as a member of the organization, and the name of Mr. Daniel C. Clune was presented for consideration. A motion was made by Mr. Claude Sack and seconded hj Mr. Denis Morrison t h a t a committee be appointed t o confer with Fa ther Cavanaugh on matters-of vital importance t o the society. This w a s further amended \'yy Mr. Graham. The program for the evening, a verj'- interesting one, was well rendered. "A Smack a t School" was given b3' Mr. W. H. Rice which caused a heart3'- laugh a t James O'Leary's expense. Mr. Knuzer recited "Chr is tmas Treasures" which w a s followed bj^ Mr. J. Coggeshall's comical description of a coun-trj fair. Mr. Morrison described the historic F o r t Madison, Iowa. " M a u d Muller," w^hich never fails t o touch the hearts of aix audience, was w^ell rendered by Mr. Egge-man. Mr. F . Condon inspired the societj'-t o higher thoughts in his declamation, "The Ladder of St. Augustine." Mr. Duncan gave a descriptive picture of Starved Rock, famous in Indian tradit ion, and Mr. A. Howard compared Notre Dame and the Benedictine College of St. Bede near L a Salle, Illinois. The m a i n feature of the evening was the ta lk on poetry by Mr. L. Coontz, an old Brownson student, who is no t only a lover of poetr^^, b u t has himself composed some very credita.ble verse. Bro. Alphonsus closed the program with a short t a lk in which he urged the society t o acquire a tas te for good poetry. He recited t w o beautiful poems hj Eugene Field, the poet of the children. A program was announced for the next Thursday evening, the greater p a r t of which wiU be given t o a debate on Labor and Capital . As the hour w a s growing late the meeting adjourned.