vacation, perhaps it might be interesting to read an abstract from the Amherst Student relative to the trip abroad of the Amherst Glee Clubs, and from this account we might conjecture as to the results our glee club would have met with if the proposed tour had been carried out.

The Amherst Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs crossed the Atlantic this summer to make their longtalked-of tour of England. Though the trip was not exactly a triumphal procession, the American college boys certainly captivated the music lovers of the English public and scored a complete success musically and socially. American college music was a complete surprise to the English audiences, but it was a welcome surprise, and the rollicking glees and galloping banjo pieces brought forth repeated encores, even where least expected. The Amherst clubs may rightly claim the distinction of being the pioneer musical tourists of England, for, although Cambridge and Oxford Universities have glee clubs, they have never sung about England as scores of college clubs do about America. Consequently the presence of a crowd of college singers meant little to the English community, and had it not been for their curiosity to see and hear anything American, the clubs might have made a lonesome and unsuccessful trip. The word "America," which Manager Terry had wisely printed in large type on the concert posters, usually drew the people, though the clubs did not have the large audiences that they are accustomed to in America. The musicians received the kindest attention from the English people and every member thoroughly enjoyed the trip, finding much to interest him in his travels when he could spare the time from club work. The reputation of American college music in general and Amherst in particular is now firmly established in England, and a second trip would give the boys crowded houses and an unqualified success.

The Wabash, published by Wabash College, has been received and is principally remarkable from the fact that it contains thirty-two pages of reading matter without a single line of poetry, either original or borrowed. Whether this occurs from policy or not, it is certainly a unique record among college periodicals.

The Berkleyan of the University of California makes a very good appearance, both externally and internally. The outside cover is an artistic piece of work, and on opening the paper the good quality of the type is at once pleasing to the eye. The paper is managed by a board of twenty-one editors, which is a much larger number than the publications of the eastern colleges have. In the last number of this paper there is an editorial in a strain very common to many other editorials of the present season,

the lamentation for the "perennial college poet." The Berkleyan pleads for this rare person, the "perennial poet," in the following touching style:

We know spring has not come yet and that spring is the time for poets. But surely we have some in our midst who are perennial poets. Let none such go hence to say," Chill penury repressed their noble rage; for here are free columns for their souls' outpourings. We would be the Mæcenas of this fertile Rome, the gracious patron to many Horaces. Come! Do not the noble oaks, the grand views, the shady walks, the beautiful maids, inspire thy versifying pen? Or does not Horace urge thee to put his delicate enthusiasms in English tongue and verse? Where now is "Integer vitæ, scelerusque purus," or "Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis?" Are they no worthy tasks to challenge the scholar's effort, the poet's breath? Come, gentle maidens, amorous youths! Aspire! Let your regenerate Muse amuse.

W. Walker, M.D., '94, has returned to the school for a post-graduate course.

R. M. Pearce, M.D., '94, has entered the Harvard Medical School for a two-years' postgraduate course.

J. I. French, '96, has returned to school, having spent the past summer at the Rotonda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

H. C. Holmes, '96, leader of the glee club connected with his class, has called a meeting for next Monday evening. We are promised a first-class minstrel entertainment this winter by this organization.

At a meeting of the officers of the Alpha Kappa Kappa, held October 12, it was decided to call a meeting as soon as possible, there having been numerous applications made for admission during the past two weeks.

Professor Hall has appointed J. C. D. Clark, M.D., '94, quizz master in his department.

C. D. Knowlton, M.D., '94, is taking a post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania.

At the annual meeting of the college trustees, held October 9, the following board of visitors for the medical school was elected for the ensuing year: H. P. Mackeknie, M.D., Rolland, G. Hunnewell, M.D., Hermon J. Smith, M.D., H. B. Metcalf, and Hon. H. M. Knowlton.

Dr. J. L. Hildreth, Professor of Clinical Medicine, received the degrees of A.B., 1864, and M.D., 1867, from Dartmouth College. He is physician to the Cambridge City Hospital, member of Boston Society for Medical Observation and Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement.

The following members of the class of '94 have already joined the Massachusetts Medical Society Alice E. Palmer, Ella R. Wylie, William Walker, R. M. Pearce, H. B. Dunham, H. Rabinovich, and J. H. Meigs. The following also are members, having been admitted two years ago: C. D. Knowlton, Eudora M. Faxon, and W. A. White.

With the first week of bustle and excitement over, all have settled down for a hard year's work. The course of study has been changed and broadened considerably in many departments. Bacteriology, which heretofore has been considered a part of pathology, will henceforth be treated separately, four hours a week being required of all who take it. Those taking obstetrics are obliged, before coming up for examinations in that department, to spend ten days and nights in clinical work under Assistant Professor Wm. P. Derby, at the North End.

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The first number of this volume of the TUFTONIAN has been distributed to all members of this department, and is receiving many compliments. Quite a number have already signified their intention to subscribe. It is to be hoped that all who can will see to it immediately that their names are placed on the list with our subscription agent here. For the benefit of those who have entered this year, it should be said that this is the only paper the college publishes. It will contain all the news and matters pertaining in any way to the interest of this department, as well as the college at large, and it is to be hoped that through the TUFTONIAN, the members of the Medical School, though quite a distance from the members of the various other departments at the Hill, will, in their common interests, be quite close together for mutual benefits, bearing in mind the fact that "in union there is strength." union there is strength." The correspondent places himself at the service of all.

President Capen is to deliver an address on "The Church as a Force in Political Life," before the New England Conference of the General Universalist Convention at Lowell, October 27.

'67. The Rev. E. A. Perry has been elected vice-president of the New York State Universalist Convention.

'67. William R. and Clara, son and daughter of H. H. Ransom of this class, have entered Tufts in the class of '98. Mr. Ransom died in Chicago, about fifteen years ago.

'74. "The Universalist Church in the Church Universal" will be the subject of the address of the Rev. Charles Henry Eaton, D.D., of Brooklyn, New York, before the General Universalist Conference of the Middle States, at Baltimore, Maryland, October 23.

'75. Rev. W. H. Morrison spoke to the New Hampshire Universalist State Convention upon "Denominational Loyalty." He resides at 44 Walnut Street, Manchester, New Hampshire.

JOHN FRANCIS RYAN, '96.

'87. The Rev. M. L. Cutler, of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, took a prominent part in the New Hampshire Universalist Convention. The subject of a vigorous address which appeared in the Christian Leader is "Our Faith in its Moral Aspects."

'87. Frank E. Bateman received his medical degree from Harvard in June, and received an appointment on the staff of the Boston City Hospital. He is also teaching in the Evening High School.

'88. Frank E. Huntress is in the iron and steel business on Oliver Street, Boston. He is also agent for the Laconia Car Company.

'88. The Rev. I. C. Tomlinson is the associate of Dr. Perrin in the institutional church of the Universalists, in Boston.

'88. The Rev. Thomas O. Marvin has resigned his pastorate at Spencer, and is considering calls to the All Souls' Church at Albany, New York, and to the First Universalist Church in Norwalk, Ohio.

Harry C. Bascom is practising law at

'89. Leominster.

'89. One of the society events of the season at Haverhill was the marriage, on September 11, of B. W. Davis, of Denver, Colorado and Miss Sue Kimball, of Haverhill. Rev. J. Harry Holden, '85, performed the ceremony, and H. H. Dunham, '86, C. L. Stover, '91, and H. W. Spaulding, '93, were among the ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will reside at 162 West 13th Avenue, Denver, Colorado.

'89. O. K. Hollister has resumed his work as teacher of mathematics and sciences at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vermont, after a long ill

ness.

'91. "Good Sense in Religion" is the title of a recent publication from the press of the Universalist Publishing House, and its author is the Rev. Henry R. Rose, of Auburn, Maine. Of this work the Gospel Banner editorially says: "On the whole we regard the book as a strong one from a young and talented minister, and we commend it to our own people own people and others as containing a plain and forceful argument for the leading doctrines of Universalism."

'92. H. C. Carter made a hurried visit at the Hill recently. He is just regaining his health after a year of sickness, and is staying at his home in Springfield.

'92. William S. Gray was at his home in West Somerville recently, on a short vacation. He has returned to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he is in the employ of the Johnstown Company, as an engineer.

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Frank A. North was admitted to the bar this spring, after a law course of only two years at Harvard. He entered the office of Ball & Tower on Water Street, Boston, upon his return from a seven weeks' trip in Europe, and argued his first case two weeks ago.

'93. Stillman Shaw has entered the employ of the Massachusetts Highway Commission as a civil engineer. He is engaged in constructing a highway through the Cherry Valley in Leicester.

'94. Robert H. Morse has given up engineering and entered the Junior class at Harvard, where he is a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

'94. Willard S. Small has entered the Tufts Divinity School.

'94. Charles J. Snow has returned from Europe. He has been appointed assistant librarian of the college.

'94. Fred H. Webster has returned to college to do post-graduate work in chemistry.

'94. Fred C. Hodgdon is in the employ of Ginn & Company, Boston publishers.

'94. Adelbert H. Morrison and Sumner Clement have returned for advanced work in engineering.

'94. C. C. Stroud is teaching Latin and Greek in Manchester Academy, at Manchester, Vermont.

'94. Mrs. Mabel MacCoy is preaching at Mansfield, Massachusetts.

'95. G. A. Ward, at one time a member of this class, is coaching the Goddard Seminary foot-ball team. He expects to enter the employ of the Lane Manufacturing Company, at Montpelier, Vermont, soon.

The classes in chemistry have begun work in the new laboratory.

Professor Maulsby is giving a course in Anglo-Saxon this year.

Mr. Nicholas Dwyer has left his position at Barnum Museum, to assist Professor Michael in the new chemical laboratory.

The office of assistant secretary

was

The subject of the last Tufts College Studies is "The Development of the Wing of the Common Tern."

C. D. Clark, '95, has left college for a few weeks to coach the foot-ball team of the University of Mississippi.

The bleachers have been erected on the new athletic field, and will doubtless prove an advantage both to players and spectators.

The copy for the Tufts Song Book, soon to be issued by the Senior class, is now in the hands of the printer. The publication may be expected to appear shortly after Thanksgiving.

Mr. H. W. Hamlin, a graduate of Yale, in '92 from Sheffield and '94 from Law School, has been engaged as coach of the foot-ball team. He left the position of captain of Chicago Athletic Association to coach for Tufts.

At the annual initiation of the Kappa chapter of Zeta Psi, Tuesday evening, October 15, the following men were received into the society: Belcher, '96, Hodgman, '97, Butterfield, '97, Ryder, '97, Bailey, '98, Robinson, '98, Lewis, '98, Moore, '98.

The following were elected as officers of the Athletic Association :

President, E. C. CRAIG, '95.
Vice-President, E. R. SAMPSON, '96.
Secretary, L. G. BLANCHARD, '97.
Treasurer, Mr. DURKEE.

Dillon, '96, Saunders, '95, and Belcher, '96, were elected on the base-ball committee; Parks, '97, Craig, '95, and Eldredge, '97, on the football committee; Browning, '97, Garcelon, '97, and Eldredge, '97, on the tennis committee.

from the list of the officers of the class of '98. This position is held by W. G. Whitman.

The comedy, "Me an' Otis," written by C. H. Wells, '95, of the Divinity School, which was produced with such success by the Junior class last winter, is to be given in the near future as a class play at the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, in California.

The following were chosen as officers of the class of '96 at the annual election :

President, WILLIAM O'NEIL.
Vice-President, R. K. MARVIN.
Secretary, MISS G. K. MEACOM.
Treasurer, GEO. A. BROTHERS.

The Glee and Mandolin Club has been re-organized and has elected the following officers: W. S. Small, '94, president; A. E. Shipman, '97, vice-president; L. L. Perry, '96, secretary and treasurer; G. C. Pierce, '96, manager. A. K. Lane was chosen leader of the club.

A meeting of the Evening Party Association was held October 12. A. E. Shipman, '97, was elected president and F. B. Williams, '97, secAn executive committee was appointed, consisting retary and treasurer for the college year. E. D. Johnson, '98. of A. B. Start, '97, H. W. Holbrook, '96, and

The colors of the Freshman class are Yale blue and white. The class has chosen the following yell:

Hi! Hi! Hi!
Zip, Zoom Za!

Ninety-eight! Ninety-eight!

Rah! Rah! Rah !

Mr. C. G. King, formerly of '95, has rented a part of the new Commons Building, and intends to keep a store stocked, for students' needs, with gentlemen's furnishings, athletic goods, and smallwares of all sorts. He expects, by keeping his prices as low as the lowest in Boston, to get a large trade from the students.