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POEM AND ADDRESS,'POGETIMIR WITII TIHE
CONSTITLCTION AND OFFICERS
OF THE SOCIETY.
JU1U:5E 14, 1867.
CLEVELAND, OIIO-:
1867.








I.s'r o  PqThe first Reuinion of ECLLJTICTl  Studentfs was held at
-lirmn, Aug'ust 31st, 1866;.  The call was infornial and
thel  notice short, yet there vwas a large assemnalaofe of
stuldents andl friends.  After spending the dlay and evenilg' togetller, it wavs resolrved to continue the reuniols.
3.iManaoin' Colllittele, consisting of' two Ilalies and
three' genitlemelln, was appointed.  This Comlnittee madel
choice, of Friday ftter Comi meneemnent, Junle 1Pth, 1867,
-as the day for the second revunion.  Ti'he ( om-uittee
falso  flmade arrlangem-luents for a, Poem  and an A ddiress.
The reuttnl:ion took place on the day mentioned -a joyous
Ineetinl' of old  adn  new  friends.  It was decidedt  to
lorma   Society.   Ihis decision was carried indto eflect by
adoptin     a Constituti on, and electing Officers.  Arranogeracits  weree tlso mad(e foi) publishing thle proceedings of
the day. Thllis little rllblicatlion is sent out in the hope
that it wrill be kindly  ieceired by those to whoml it is
especially comimel-nded —the old and new  students of
the ECLECT:C.








BY ALMEDA A. 3BOOTH.
We come to meet thllem  here,
Our firiends from  far and nlear;
To meet with  love sincere and true,
Eclectic firiends )both old and new,
And welcome give.
Away with  toil and care,'Mid  scenes so bright and fair;
The bustling world bid go its way,
And let, for one unfettered  day,
The past re-live.
The playf'ul mind at ease,
Its sportive self will please
With ringingo  laugh  and merry  jest,
And find no htarmlless mnilth repressecd,
Or awed by fears.
IHere kindling eyes will greet,
When friiend with friend shall meet;
Here hearts will ache and tears will flow-,
When recollection back shall  go
To other years.




On  this fmniliar  tgrornfl(
rlspirmging  life  we w folbmnd,
Whill  lsolsne   tlyeirs, yett pea(ceft1l days,
Wf....:.t hila<',t'    *i     t ll-eil.e'  allhigefutil. ways,'With  ce.etsel.ess flonw.
F[t:a:,e e. yes were elll    an-ld  brlighlt,
And htatlts  were  puire  a.nd light;
I'ere t.o:es of joyT)u5 h's   hlop e were sung,
And  Jbrow(s were Iin.ir a1nd so0ulS w(ere youtng
With -gen'rous'lovw.
eiimre  Love  tlhrew  round  his mystic. clin,
One linlk  of joy  anld one of p.ayin,
In  sweet accord.:cil-ie  truth  and  lo].ve  divine
-id.hle art anid  soul.  refine,
Whe-n  pelace  anld  tIrustil' fil.it  beg'a.n
Ipure  and noble life for  mlan,
v.S ra  ce  restored.
F-ere hllinh  resolve grew  strong,
To  battle'galinst the  wrong;
AmbitLion  sat witll folded  wing',
Not  Idreaming-i' yet that ftame  wouhld  bring
Exatlted place.
Te-re -nature, too, we love —
The earth, the  skies above;
W\e love  fiull well the distant view,




WVlere landscalpe meets 4t-le ethecr bluel
In lfond emblrace.
At carly  hour of dclalwn,
Oer  illl n1  sloplinlg lawn,
Hlow  beautiful the rising l'iSt,
WlWhen  ilm,llli,,r l)eai its fte(, lilas kiss;ed
WAith rosy blush;
A. b1i(oad a11(l shallow  lalke,
Whllere tl cc-tops islands manllke'
Then mlill'b 1) quell.ths he"r mlist to noon
For llntntl]e blue, but reddelned soon
In  evening flush.
I. lovelyV  home  fir trutl
To guide the steps of youth,
WIhere place ai.nd iinocLnce control,
Aknd'quiet beauty le ds tlhe soul 
li w wisdCom s   WayS.
In wea ry hours and sad,
When life is dlarkli clad,
In hours when pa'ssion1S  fiercely burn,
Regcretfufl mlem'ry here -will turn
To tranquil  lays.
Oar alnva,-nu:ter true
Has numbered years but few;
These children lads and lasses grown,
Ere yet was laid her corner-stone;
She is not old.




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Amitd her youtihful scenes,
In  trultl shloe's iln her teens,
Yet stories lon- sle could  relate,
Adventlures strlanle    andl chanesw3 egreat
y-3  her'e told.
She saw  th.Ie grandest sight,
A.  m'tiuiit's rlsiilng   igiht
She s:atw,'wlien  dleolldly  conflict rose,
HZTer chit Iren  fill by  southern  foes
A  salcrificc.
She gave witll prayers tand tears,
With  miTiled  hiopes a-nd  fea.rs,
Her bravest sons, her treasulres rare;
In silent grief' she leaves them   t/here,
Where glory lies.
She saw  fell slavelry  gone,
And  -.hailed  a brighter dawn;
Redeclne(l, she felt the nation stand,
And looked upon her native land.As saved  anew.
No party  namine she wearsXNo:f-actious  spirit shares;
For human  kind she sets no bar;
The sons of earth  all brothers are,
Though  strange their hue..As washed on  either side
Her coucntry is by  ocean  tidce,
She looks fbr millions yet to go




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O'er sunny plains and hills of msnow,
In mingled throng.
She sees a. ripening field,
That harvests trich will yield
Of humlan souls, but reapers few,
And trusts her sons she mrty  imbue
With purpose strong.`he boasts no high-born namrePlebeian is her itim.e;
No lordly  tootstep in. her halls,
W.o courtly grace within her walls,
iNo prid(e of birth.'Yet eleginlce  refined
She seeks and hopes to find:1 cldaughters gentle, sons well-bred;
For noble rank, she takes instead
Their modest worth.
New  names for mater dear,
As college, we shall hear;
Though titles such she choose to d(on,
No airs we think she's putting on,
She has good sense.
With titles old or new,
We know  she's staunch and truie;
If graceful honors she i-may wear,
For names her children little care
Nor take offense.




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S1he sits like  nature's que.en,
To rule this goodly scene;
While mind wit;lh  tholluht sh.e fills,
As putre ias snow  that drif'ts her hills
In winter time.
Observed oil every side,
Her light she lma-y not hide,
For naltuLre's laVwTs she's called to bound
With rev'rent calre, iand show  what's fi)tun
In  every clime.
Between the scoffer's rant.
And big'ot's idle cant
The line of truth is her's to sca.n,
To show  "the ways of CGod to mai'n,"
And faith  restore.
Still for some good she'll seek
In Latin and in. Greek.
These noble tongues she'll  not desert,
Till reason. strong  shall her c)onvert
F'rom  classic lore.
On  her 1lay ifortune smile,
Her name no blot defile;
May long and vig'rous life be hers,
The fame that honest worthll confers
ieIr righttful meed.
May heaven's holy page,
For all, in youthl alnd agle,
Its richest, hli;glst 1blessings bring,
O'er all a crown, a glory flilng'
Our greatest need.




D D  XSS.
1IY 1B. A. I:liS1AL-E.
ODAN) A      iND  FA?;N, s
YollI ha;ve not lassenl)dled on: this inte-resting
ocrta stionJ) for th.e purpose of listelning to a long and
l taoreld laddre'le s.  The most'belltifl thoulghts,
dropped  ifroml  tihe  most eloquent lips, could
not, and should -i1not, mrake you forget the object
of oulll meetingl.  It is to revive the old time,
to live over -te old life, to strengthen friends'hips
deying tlhroulh la pse of time, tha.t we have
coiaeC touether.   We hlIive conme to look into the
winddows throughl  which thlle ligllt of our studyl:tuu}ps once shou,e to  wak through the rooms
where once  We   reteid, to tread  the  ground
where once -we trod, sonme ofI us with lighter step
and fieer heart than. now, to anllnoihilate the time
tllhat Ihas sped *away siuce we left these pleasalnt




scenes, to think of tLe absent living and of the
absent dead.
TWe boys have come to mingle aai in in the friay
of debate, to recount the triumphlls of the past,
to ask the girls with lwhom we walked and talked when younger than now, to sit with us undOer
the shade of the trees, around whose roots we
carefully sifted the mellow earth in the springtime long  gone by. And. you girls have conme
to revive in memory the generous emula.tions
of other dcrys, andcl to talk, in your modest wray,
with the boys at whose knock you -were onice
accustomed to throw open your doors on Saturday afternoons.  These are the objects of our
assembling, and not to listen to a formal address.
You do not expect me to unfold any theme philosophic, historic, political, or litertary; nor is such
my purpose.  Neither is it in my ]head or heart,
to detain you long.
However it mig'ht be at other re-unions, there
is but one line of thought proper to be presented at this, and that is suggested by the circimnstances uncder which we have conme together.
The future is, ot to be as the past; old things
are to pass away, all things are to become new.
Some words and phrases that -we have loved are to




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fall into disuse; other word(sts and plhrases, strange,
and to some of  us nucouth, are to supersede the:n.
ECLEC:TIC INsI-[?:[ur TL —-lname never to be forgotten —c!-gives p-lace to Hiram  College; " new students"  and a" (dvanced stltdenits," yield their places to Freshmnen and Seniors; the unpretending
" teachers," w-xho ta ught us in the good old. time,
resign their chalirs to Professors; and,?mi.se c7rahile'~isae et (licta,,  old students " will be followed by
a fill-fledged brood of Alumi; i; and then suchl
words as " ogaduate " and  " mdcler- grad.  ate,"
4' diplolmal " and " degr(ee," will figure in the -new
terminology to the shame and confti:sion o-f those
of' us w'ho are doomned to get on through lifti, uls
best wAve Imay, without sheepskin backing.  Tlis
re-union sees the last of the old school, sad as
the thonght -muay' be.  Soon we lnay say:
"is face is growing shl-arp cand thin,
Alack! our friend is gone.
Close up his eyes; tie up his c hin;
Step fi'om the corpse and let him in
That standeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door.
There is a new foot on the floor, my friend.,
And a new face at the door, my friend,
A new face (at the door.'"
And yet before we "let him  in," let 1s fix




cle:lly in:  ourl' m lnds thle form  and    t r::letrces of
lthe frie-1d -vlloso  l.-l'a1e lhe, takes. hO   (Course 1:
shliall be-  olObli.rd to t;alk  n   od  (eolo 1, "))bout ourstol.b,: but tll:itl, nllderl theio (ei] G:lon' c(t1_ s w   ill  -eI
all.owa,_, leo.  t'here (are  some  oC.ions  wllen
(gotisl is Ilot (.lllyV pt)a.1dollned but expected,  a'n1d1
T  pr-'esulme  I:.](.-tol reC-mdt~ios  ni'1ay  be:rec, lamed:.tinoong  tmi-.  Somew}l relel      i T   (Ive  red o' t  a1
G —eria-lll wjhose selt' S i'e se(e';t was so grett,  that.-he.never r'.ete' red to himA)-self without t.lakilnl  off  L1is
lIht.  lIn  h~:.it.l..tionn  of' this eom1pl.-aeent (C erma.l:,
let us d'on t11 t hats anld proe(ce(l to'Ir1haw  oultl  a
hist-orie skele:thl ti.hat xwill be in  pal't a record of
o11r own aeClbeveiments an.d_ vi.rtutes.
Like nlost igreat; ehllaTltcters, the ItEleetie Insti.i-;ltute  wv.s -bor-al o-f -poor but, respl-ct:tablce pareints.
It          s  eniln.  was  without oserat, iol.    Its  life,;has   eenl   onle  of' toil arid tl;rial.  It has lived
0(n  tlhroollo'lt'seventeen  ye.-l's solely  bcau-lse  it
w-on. its xway tco the hearts of the  peoople.  iAind
still the t1rillt compels mle to say thlt since  these:groun d.-is we-re  ptcl.ehase1' d, this buildilnl erected,
aln,dl both paid -for, the teachers who haie tanigllt
in -tliese halls have made the  only conisidera bel
sa:rhificees thait have bee. made ii in.ts bl)eh. f..  I:
will take  the  responsibility  of sayingY th.at in




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theQ0se  sevelnten y ears, I10o scool in) thle it l;ac
havingl  att its   ommeat,'nd   no  frea-t..gl er I'eo(11rces,
hals done ni n.'e for thle c-.ause of educat-tion..  Eelc,.. —
tic  studen.ts atre  still yool[~g  men ll   nd younli
women.  A\n 11. thle n1ex-t tell mo  t wentA    t  ear s wi ill
emphajize thi1 e statem.enta th:at l-ev  have won- fo r
themsellsives'hhi1  Ill-lt c' ies of usefulness. hnd.ontor
in society. Eye    eec tie, boys have wrou' }l_;t l)objly
ini the sehtool room,~ on tlhe fiarmll; ill te arlnl'v, oil.
the ecditoiall staff; in the 1pulpitu at tll e:ba.  As,,
a class they do 1not ftlil biut sueceed.  i\    tlen
Ecleetic  girl]s are a very   d.Ti,    so/, r sor't of' e'irl;
they m-ake good  wives anld  motlersl  anld  n
high er comlplinlent coulld be palid th1em. e lven i3n
the l  a(e  of Yl.osa_ _Bonhilu   Elizlbeth.l Biarrett,
a1nd   Anna Di.e, kenwson.
Standiml, thein as we do to-day1 onr the piv'otal
poin't in the Eelectie's )listory, it is well iworthl
oulLr while to in:lquire, What Ihal-e beeln:l the!lli-n1h
ideas thlat have ins-ured this success i.n thle past
and that deserve to be perpetuated in the fiutture?
Of thl-esc ideas there are three, and I sha111 n.ame
thei, baut without any attelmpt to put thellil in
the order of their value or promincuen;e.
First, I shall namle the idea o:f a self-reliant
n:tanhood. —that interior force or energy which




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enables its possessor to stanid up oin his owin individnality, and  w-ork  his way  to  success.Many institutions are sunrrounded by  ian effeninating,  ets:ei:Is,'t1 noit) opliie, tiaL.nt UilS ilne
iaa. who obreathlths it:) the res3            C,"k.f!i I,4
If you irnimerts al'oie in so-me acids the earthy v
matter is rem.oved,1 an'dl only a soft, pl:istie, geli.tinous pulp is left'; so these institutions destroy
the very  skeleton  of eha:racteir'and le0ave  a
Spony'y  r'nlhs(oUs  crc'initiie,    entirely  unabl'le to
push his  vay  inh the world.  Such in)stitntions may
give expans ion to  the nind:d and g'ent~leness to
thle e}nart,   but they are not the. sort of insltiltutions for to-daiy.  They could be tole.rated. in the
past when the difference between the scholar and
the worker was more clearly defined than now,
w-hen learning was a guild anid protected by the
conventionalities of society;  but now  when tlie
scholar is bcinauing  to be a worker, alnd the
worker is beg.9'mbug to be a sh-lolar, they will
not supply our eduine:ational wants.  Buckle, in
one of his essays, inveighs strenuously, almost,
bitterly, ngainst the weakness aind helplessness of
literary nien; but the fact which ihe deplores is
due, in large measure, to: the failure of schools,
colleges;,  and  universities to  infuse into their




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students a self-relianlt marnhood.  The scholar
who is -unable to talke care of h]linself; whlo is a
paulper 111)11 th( world, deservedly falls into cont(mpt.  Y oung mcI have hl ere bxeen tlal lht that
success is -i', the.(ian,:'.' and does, not 1row  OCt of
f)t-tuitous (ceilnlutstanclres;'they 1hiv  been telghlt
to pIreac:   their own sermons, iike their own
speech-es, teach their owjn schoools, an.d tllhat theirs
Aill be tieQ s.lccests and.d -theirs thl:e ih.lilure.
One impolrtalnt pnrt of this hiltl:y discipline
has been. to imp11r ess the desinraiblity, the necessity ex en, of beino able to do more tlhan one
thing(.  fDivision of labor, as tlle econolmists eall
it;, is good,0   essce:.'tia.a illtdccd. to ihe pro:oress of society, lbut there is some recason to fear that it is
being pushed too far.  It is well -to have more
thin. one string to your bow, wheuther y ou spell
it b-o-w or b-e-a-u.   ihe res-ults of this kind of
discipline are very  observable.'Eclectic students are able to tLake  c'e of themselves. —
Other schools  uni;ayv  e,eld f~orth  Dmore filnished
schola-rs, but none send:l out Dmlore helpfil. men
and women.  I know  no Eclectic  students who
lare learned  paltlers —noneo  who  are  begging
their bread and cheese.
As the second of these ideas, I shall name. thlat




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of a1 m.Sllsculit lmorality  reinfllrlcd.i by     plractliCal relii.oll.  The 1nol-to 1]1as he)(e,;   " Quit  yonu
like menon, 1)e stioln.!'."   Too  oftietl }las   loi,1,dity
1)eeni divol(ced fl0o1ll. I1)1.af.liness1,   111(1 r0el10ji1o frolom
elhaacter; tlhe o1t 1bcing  1tlde1   to consist of dir
ethic.1l formiu-aIls w Aitltoult hoeait,'1111 til  othCer of'
pietti     outistic  nvwithout life.  Onte of the Imost,
pafinfid clptellt    in  the listory  of the Church,
is that in which we r ead. of religion b1ein, g driven
awSay into the wildertlless of dogma'na and formlulltl,
to be temp)ted  and oveeOll o n y        tyhe devil; andl
in tlhe fulture 01oe of the lcmost  pleasil.g  chlapte Irs
will be t:lat in. \1hi.hll mlen  read  ofl its returnli to
tjhe.ldS  cf In11oin  to  be 1elnolfllHte1   by't:Le
Slpirit of Gotl.
It has often been- sect down  to tle credit of' the
Ecleetic tlhalt friomI 11he  wralls lia (e (o01e fortth n,
lasrge 1numb1)er of 1)celelters, and jusltly  so.  1Bunt
the  lnumber  of  thoolol. ialls, inl  the  tech]lic(l.1
sense of tflie  tC1er11, ha.s b1)eel small.  I  shall. not
be sorry  if that. nmlltibr is 1iot m:Inaterially increeased ij  the fitture.  It is e.xpleted( that  1-1ore
attention  will hereafter be  paid to fitting  -lmen
for the  ml.nis-try.  I  bid  those  whlo  hlave tli.s
work  at heart a god-specd;  and  yet wri-th  (:hll
my love for these walls, fiagrant with the mcum



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o-ies of the palst), I would ratther see them  crunm1)10 back  to the ll:-tiy  andl limnestone of which
the y were mlade,   tllln to h.ear them   echo the
footialls of in outlO-'.'ers of. fo:: u'1llas, ped dlcIlers of
dog mats, (and  l.lte,s of  letr'esy.
This instit.lltion l   as done soincthl)i,   as I' verily
believet in cna.li- the  lattenlition of men,iianclk to.ore wl~tol.~sone  ideas (oeerllht  religion.  I
f-1rvetly lo)e thl:tt tbie idea    re  unfolttded, a
ntls-ulal'   o:r'IalitL.y'einfO'rced by 1)a-ictical religi. iJ under'whos.e!tnln jtinfuellee so m.a.ny. oble
r;lot',ires lh:,a ve expanded inl the past, will be thel
1i,.)l. —staml of the fiLttu\.
A:s the t    tlil  atl  last of these i(leas, I nam. e
the'fliree spirit, the intellectu:al  toleraltion, tlhe
la.r'e-11i,1:tieduclss  tlhat  thals  chlarfactterized  the:-Eclectic.'Nothinil   destrlltoys a man  soonuer or
lnmore  elffec-ttally  thailll n'arrowness.  What the
mil d'needs is r1ocn.    \ Ve walnt iroo'y  Me1ll.,
roomly  l:,ooks,  rooy  schlioolS.  Men  are st1rrounded. by anI atm-iosphlere.  You have breathed
thle close, oppressive, stifl-ing  atmosphere, ladlen
withl the carbonic   acid gIas of party a11i1d Siet, that
envelopes  some 50     e lnl.  Frolm. strch  an  a.tmosphilree you  feel that you must, escape or die of
entll  asplhyxia.    gain   you ha-ve Imet lmen of




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a-l broad lhori;zon of thought, their intel.lectual
bounldaries stretchilng   away on every side beyond your fartherest reach.  TIic atmosphe re
of these is bracing, invigorati ng', fill of the oxVygen of our modern civilizationil.  You will clr
out in exultation,'l-re I can gr-ow to theC extent of Tmy capablilities."
What I hav-e said'of imen holds tlrue of books.
Son.c are smwall. ila.row,  seiven bly nine, -lre
you will die of sluffocation; others ar1e large,
roomy, where you are in no danger of beingo
cramped to deatl.  It holds true also of schools.
From  some a ]larg,  roomly-linlded man never
goes  fortih.  For an extreme   ase  take tak    e tle
schools of tilhe J'estits.  For twvo centuries in
them was trained tihe best milnd of the Catholic
church; who an naCll  e a Ilinild of the first order-, or
even of the second, that thecy gave to the world?
Other schools hav-e the power of enlarging wvllhtt
is small, of expanding what is narrow, of maka-ling liberal, if not grieat, thinkers out of average
minds.  It therefore becomies all who have their
Own healthy growth at heart, to be sure of the
atmosphere before they take a man, a book, or
a school into their confidence.
For a school to be roomy it is not necessary




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for it to be either old or rich; not necessary
that it have numlerous and costly buildinRs or
colossal libratlries.  Indeed tlese,  in.surinag as
they firequeLntly do conservlatisn, may defeat the.
very end in view.  Look at Oxford.  Its n1aine
carries us bmalck to the time of' the Saxons.There3, says Goldwvin Snlitl, "are the anuals of
Enoglantld written in glray stone."  It was a pl-a.ce
of educationl in the time of Alfied,  whose birthplace was hard by.  It was afterwards the holme
of Duns Scotus, of Occam, o-f Wickliffe.  A(ccordilng to one of the old chroniclers, in the reign
of Henry III, 30,000 students gathered there to
attend the lectures.  There  are the venerable
colleges founded by aValter de Merton, Willia:ln
of Dullrham, and Cardinal Wlolsey.  There is
the great; IBodleiaun library, rich in the tomes of
all languages and all ages.  All this excites our
interest and fires our inlagination,  and yet the
writer just mentioned says, "'Nowhere do you
feel more the power of the past, and the ascendency of the dead over the living,.  Thlis influence,
in truth, weigohs somewhat too heavily on the intellectu-al life of Oxford.  An Oxford student
can  preserve his independence and even his
individual activi.ty of mind, only by cu-ltivating




a   ey.t.'  r:t,'e  and liberal interetst in  th;e?'eneral
f()!tlttlCS aid  dst e t.iie ot O lltll]ani lllty"    r_.[nl' ile -
c-oi.  w-]lo se 1-..l   I ilVrpose  W'LS to iOVc  more 1 i1oo1  to''[a'on? r It is uo0 wxi'tl   l t.tha.t th31r  iconelo,:-: stie- P?-u
rito.nds dealf s(-):lnshs111 iy, si.-va(   ely even, with1  11this.fh. ionls seat  tof  Ierli1ro'   But, tlal.nk  G-od, we
(c:t,11 I.\     0 0re t roo   i-thol,.t  oorfilIg    leave of- veetolrl
ble    1 iive\itics.' Stys  1  reeuent  \riter: rrlpl'..::a   el   oS1S 1 ix c\-(t       i —gnelt.ally been eraitde(
i- n-a1:1::ers, and   a-ve., tone  tfi rooIli ronlt, discipiiue int ceatly  life.  ( ivilizattiol is inldebte d to
1ow-ly  cradilet,   ani d   nkntl,lowlvn  niotlelrs.,bold  a,
hea.lvy accoiunit aga in,st the wAorld.'
I  aun  ctlyri), out  agi tinst  nartow\ net.            )od
ct  ic  out  agaltinJSt it too.  1n1 NTatu l -e,   in l' evelat.ionl, ni lTi-stor y,  He entlers Iis  protests.   Let tus
t.lake  one  or  twO  illstrattions fi.')ln  tihe  latter.
W1ith  ll  lls y veIeri ttio n 1.t  the Scriptures,   ligloIy Y s I v l lue our Ctl-istiil eiv-ilizatioll  essential
even  t..o the  temuporal'  welfalre  of man:l-    as I conceive the Gospel to  be, T o:ra   still compllliled to
say that.  C1lri.stendomtn  is too  assunllilrg.   Every'fair-minded  mlnl  Iust  concede  that there  are
sonIrelces of  culture, inltelleetual,, a:stI.c,,l(mol
even::for w chlj    we are ialdebted neitheri to Ch ris



tli:arlt   nor to  tl.e  ChO_-iil'(?.  rj'    i-S }a  igl-g"f11-O, Of 7  whh J     some     o,, 0,s of  inaus  nwt.lot  be
rilwra-, it. tie fct tl at the  Greels, l'helievrcs as
thely   i'. 10   i  u dllld- I P1l a dll-  Apollo, bl('d
the o'0tOway   o01 the XX  st i11. the f0..e *of Ea.sfte'i o
i.vasi,.l   until  thle  po] itic.,l  idl'epeldlcl:-..e  (of
Europe)  was1 sec:edV Ilidl  the  fi->11(_ltilois  of,
scieilc,  soundlc   tic depltlits- of pfhilos,)ophh)y, (-.1lt,i'.ated  all fhrmlls of    sthltiet  iex-p'vesioll  in a1
ord,  ki-dllled tl.  torell of klil owlc(ldoe tlhat the
a.f'ter g'Ienerac't.otI8   1 ns1(e plroul t   11h1d  oin, llow'ln
in1to 11 fierc er flame, to the com7 lil11 8(3 es.
A ga.i.,   C.lhriste-ndoi     has 11 ever aneki iowl d(1o-e(1
its obliga-tionis to slslaiii.   Tlhc  st-!cea-l. of (Ilorist ia 1    ivilizaltiou    1a|.  receive(l  f       1\1 b  1_.  1)1t
a.,f-luent.s t1ha11  th ait wVl'fich  s    fprun' oiao  Io. th'  it tle
o.1Sis il Ara\i.a,, A'nhere stood tle city of Medina.
it, elitlered  luropel fi['-1om  tle TWest.  Itt gat lheredl
a  Il-iitvty  h1-adl i.  the scloo!s0  of' Toled(o   1old.
Cortlor',  1nly11  to fl ow  oVer thle' Pyre1lees into
Fralnc7    a)1(1l  Sicily.  It watered. tCh1 e  soutl]  o-f
lra.';:ce, thie beaut;ifill prlovini  ess of P1rove11Ce 017n1
Lna.lguedoc, and thlere blossomed out tle fieest life
th:lt Ettto)pje h1ad known foir celtiuries.   le ed(c do m
of thloughl: t gave birth. to  heresy, as the chI-urchl.
t erliae:ld  it, and  herdsy  to  persee:ltion.   WVhile




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Europe was indlebted to the Mohalnmuedans, toe(fth.er with the Jews, for this:free development, it
was the bishop  who  e           l-.cd l;o sit. in  Peter's
chair, ian2 lwho certai, y' r        " 1.1. u..   l t   iL 
Ilurope o' the C I!h::ci s              fiif,l   y 1(4  111h h   a!)7or's of
Peter and P aulll, wh —lo if'l-tl:'.ted thle  clusa:le
which  d.evt-:lt.:-ed  those  Irovilces,  ilestrloyed
learniinc,   hushedl the song of thlle  Troulbadour,
1an:(d m:ade tIhe gireen  hiillsidles  and -valleys run
red witll blood.
rllhese  ir(e'l.rO l:fcts  adl w'eIl worth  our
study.   Tlhey  are  Gxodl's protests, in  History
a.o at.inst the na'rovwness of' nin.   Tley  prove
that each nl ation Il-s its wo rk to 1o, that " men
of evc ry clim.ne  aid  Ir(ce. are ne.cessary to Hrfa, 7tke
ulp theo ent;ie ot f God.'s idea of h   anity.'    Still
we mlust nt f-ol.t eot thl. t these streams:lre only
aflutents feedin'l th-e streamr  of Christian  civilizatlon wili is sweepinig on to the ocean of -the
worlld's destinv.    Tihen Ohio feeds the M:.sIsissippi; the.itississipi  loxs to tie sea-! IT lle Pl'g a
cirviliza-tion of' Gre-ie    i.e (lea dl,  and so is the MA[ohiamlmedan -civiliz-ttion  of' Arabia and  Spt-pain;
bult the waters of' these twvo affluents mllike lup
no small share of the large: streamin  upon which'we rid'e.




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1This is what:[  ea  -when i say t.he spirit of
t Ehe EcLIctie has bei en. fi'ee, toleranut, 1axr'e-l.imnded.  Hiere,  }wt, cl hiv:tld    o l   _s. As, a, class E?'clectie stldatlients are anoi -itlI  pari, isans in the St:ate
nor sectaries  in t.l. C luh:rel.  The tlhree ideas
wh.ich i I have u1 foh.i, 0    hNt  vtl lbd;een t1m:  doi'allnt: ltt
olesic  i nl the f et ciet.c i  poli.ty.  I do not say th at,:no oth ers sho"l,.dI 1)e itecorpora. te( d. with  them. ini:the-lC  t.t;      t his; Ilt I say, 1 shl  l'    ) solrry i;o see
al r  o  thl   e I e a,  l dl,  on 1.'t ed.
i.,    J;ve refeI'red  to the ch(1 e that is to1) oceu(
i.tl the (c:harillacte-: of the school.  The Iloard  of
[:ru. steos has deceidetd. thlat, the., l eti~ Institute
shatl., he:lC:ia. Coillege. Col Tiis is not the place
t;o diselus t hle -wisdomin  of  its action.l Indeed,
sach dtislcssion will b)e of littlie  profit at  rany
ti-mie.  The  dei  ee  lhas  gonle  forth;  thle clil(d
is b)orn..  If those who Sto odl  sponsors   fbr it ait
t.he blaptism   t1de  pe rplexed  to  find  swaddlinog
blands to  cover its 1lnalke(dness,   it does rnot conc(,e nt 1s1.  W.   t,  I c a- ll t  pon evIery   one  slhIlin1
in  this reunion. to c(,do  whalt I call up)n every
Hiramn stuIefollt to ro, is to sta:nd lby the College.
It wvill be a tnlew  friend, bat it, will ha,\re an old'tkee; Awe will cherish tilhe d.anlthter becauLse  w'e
have loved  the  mother.   T do n(ot;   ean l  thlat




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we rare to be its f.tisome culogists,: its na,rlro w
partisans.  That    not'be             clasked at our h, Inds.
To be such we miust tf,,rg'et tile  l.lerail teal-clilldu
ot' the pst  nId  tlat 1, for one: cuan  never do.
But'wh:I!ti t -miean  is this: thlat the -weiglt of'
outtr' in-f1itn.Ol(:co —an(i we arc' nIl.tel.-erous oeotg-hll.c.ld
old  enon-ou1: to  hiave  son3        inlfil.enee. —.shal. ll be
on its sie..The charactetr an:d ft.   e of a sool...      e l.ag  
in  the  hands  of tlose  who li.IVO C.l ljoyod l         it~ s
benefit[s.
The Alnumni of a College  when  they become
numILerous: (.111n  i.;-ise  or  utnnt a:ke  i.t; andi  the
tlOuI sallnds wol)  1- ltutre be-(   ttl'lit in tllese hallts
can bli of very  esse:ti-l st'rvice  tI) tluis ilStittltion  in-: tlli s  ihc ci'sis   of  its lhliietory.  T  hlave
said the crisis of its  istoiy,         S.:i it iS    rAs o
or  thll ee   yealrs,  n(11d  p)rc-laps inmno.u   lss  tilnoe,
will deicleri ne  wh- wlt-,le-  it i    to'e,1oo, e 01 iess
tllial  it Ilts bec; e e_'lilhap s  they  will detemui-t.nt'whotlh.er it is to be  )io'c  or.o/.iJL/.   L  t, us
nIot thelln go from  tl] i as pen:.Ion' 1to ouir h]onIe, nlnlltil we hlave p)ledgcOd  oursel'ves to the ne-w  entie1;(rprise.
Old school i'-itnds: 1 am  gol d  t.o  he able to
meet you at this reunion.  It dloes In   good to




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look into  youre:f-aes ad1 to heIar yo'rl  words.
We need slpath. y andl  ilatercom'l1uf1elat. iOl  of
thoutlit.    As \e, give ourselves to our "lheavy
ob) of o-vi," " wEql\e ireqent l  s.v "ta,'o'er andl  lmost
t-h-ll 1 1deX    tnhe  )ltilel.  Soimetiltes; l.y heart
sinlks,'alcd 1: si3,y, I migh:tlt as vwell try.andl pau.sh
over one of thte pyramli(s by laying  my  lhand
agant1.illst it,  1s to try to raisie m:len to  a. lhigll r
l  o   li'i f. You, I doubttl1f, not9, ihav-e sinmilar...elinp' Ts.  We w\ill go to O1ur hoes and to our'WoI']<, st;r'oner tbr l'avinlg slhyareld together the
joys  of this anniversary.
ManLt-y  Awltion -Lwe would htaver  been  pleased
to see ma-nd. take bv the  land, are not: wIith  us.
iSo'i-me whose l rts  are1', herl'e  alre'  detatlined C  at
lhome by their bnsiness; so-me, like tlle mem.)bers
of'a n an.7cient chnre.h, have lost t]1heir fir'St loIve
land are kept away by their indifierelnee; some,
thoug11h  I t-rust the  lv-numlllber is not l, 1r:'e, mayl.y
have.:ille:n. into evil wa.ys and-l lave ncot cared
to  slow  their f"aces; somle rest ]in kl^no-wn  and
sonme  in   umkl:nlnowln  graves.  VWhile    e  remeber  all thllese  in kilndness,  dropping  a tear
for th]e dead and p u'tt ing p a, p>ra (yer for the
-fl.llen, let us thalnk  thle  IInfilnite Flatlher that so
mrany havoe been al)le to rmeet together.




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Still. fa. rth-:er:   let  -s not abancdoln  these(  roi
unions.  Trllv -wi-ll do Is -t.-and tlhe college g  ood.
We shall vxtlue tllem  more and m —ore hoigld-y as
older we 1ArTOw.   Prtetty soon0 an oIcasioIa, d   old
fillow               l l l' ict "n nlxed w.ith tle boys;" an1t'ss
we  0o sweeping past mile-stOl ce after mile-s-toio
al.ongi tht.e ]higl'-roa0d. of li-e, as one afite another
fid-lls oult of the collumn  and is  lborne r  uws —y by
stron.g  allrm's to at. holln.e o.n t le hfillock' or irn the
vaelcy, t.here to rest unllder tleC s11ade of' grCCeen
trees ulltil tl(  Father ca. lls hihn;  a1s vwe  increase in wisdom  a.nd in  g.oodlness, those -wh\\lo
]-keel) their he:iart S rtto' \will m11ore  1.and more
love to colme 1up to th-ese a.n-:lual r1allyi,')s.
No-r mlIniust   C']lose wvitlhout a word:for the flture.  Gre(.at thilns   1lve comle to pass since the
feet;f of some of us first Ipressed  these floors.
We behold a coun —ttry f'lreed froml thie gialnltt sin
of~ its yrouth1.  A  new  era is opening.  There
is workl to be done flbr the count-ry, fil lman, fbr
God.  Upon the  Americani   scholar devolves no
light responsibilit.y.  Shall.we lot retLurn. frio
this anniversary to our homes resolved  to do
our share?
"We are livillg, We are dwelling:In a gramnd and awful timne,




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In an age on ages telling;
r'po be livinig is sublim.
Itlark! the onset!   ill ye fold y'our
FaPith-clad arms in lazy lock?
Up! O, 1tp!'thou drowsy soldier;
Worlds are clhargi-Ig to the shock.
Worlds are ceharginlg, heaven beholding;
Thou hast but an hour to fight;
Now, tllhe blazoned crown unfblding,
On! l'ihlt onward for the right.
On! let all the soul withinl you1
For t;lle trutlh's sake go abroad;
Strike! let; every nerve and sinew
Tell on ages —tell for God."








CONSTIJTUTION.
WVe, the folrmer and present Students of the.EcirLEcrCT   I'Nsr:rturT1i, at this etor'nion assem-nbled,
do  hereby  orl'anize ourselves into  a society
based on thi follorinlo Constitution:
For the purpose of oerpetuia, tting the pleasan..lt
menories  of our student liie, at HiL-i'an,   we hereby ordain alnd estaiblish  a society to be knolLwn
as rlTnl  I-I'nr   1:1,It'UNroN.
"-t'.rJCiri  1. Theo ofilcers of this Society shall
consist of a Master of' Ceremonies,  A.lternate,
and Scribe, to be elected:mnua. lly.
2AT-ric'LE 2. Inl addi.ti.on. to theire us-ual d.uties,
these  otffieers  shall  consti-tate  ani  Executi ve
Coommiittee to imakle all alr'at  el.ents for the
anual.l meeting of' tlhe society,  whi.ch shall be
held. Conrmencement -week.




32.AuricLE, 3. The f ol-lowving  persons are hecreby
declar-ed li-fe leln.ber's of t'ihis society:
l.st. All Awho at:ally t-imle are or t:a.:ve been
Stu:lents, Teac cies, Ilct usrers or Tru st;ees of the
ISntitttionl at I-Htsr al,
2d. All.husblandls In.d wives of such Stuidellts,
TeaIhers, Lecturers or Trustees.
OF FICE E R S.
J. A. GAR:FIELD,  -             Olfnster~ of C'rcmom2,ises.!IL Ai. JAIr --  -  tecrnSa)te.
M-{RS. HIE: mIE S:MIT  CLAIKs,    -  -   ScrCibTe.