Contents of Series 1, Volume 2, Number 5

Baseball and other games have been the rage with us for several weeks past but are being brought to a close, by the form that near approaching Commencement always assumes.

In speaking to our fellow students we might write a column. or so upon…

COMMUNICATED.

DEAR EDITORS.-Among the many pleasant occasions of the spring, it was your humble correspondents good fortune to attend the public exercises of the Lee Literary Society a few weeks ago. The weather favoring the occasion, it seemed as…

REMINISCENCE OF PRESIDENT MINOR.
I intended to write this letter about President Minor but in writing, other things suggested themselves so naturally [illegible] it may strike a sympathetic chord in old students and be not uninteresting to others.…

"THE MILLS WILL NEVERGRIND WITH THE WA-TERS THAT HAVEPASSED." The above quotation seems true enough, yet nearly nineteen centuries have passed and the human race has failed to realize its truth. Mankind has thought, acted and lived as though it…

LOCALS.

The final exaninations [sic] are rapidly aproaching [sic] and the midnight lamp burns low.

Mr S wants to know if there is an Aluminum (Alumni) Society connected with this institution.

One of our students Mr. MaHaffey fell a few days…

PERSONALS.

J. H. Pigg, class of '76, is county Surveyor of Pittsylvania.

R. N. Howard, class of '76, is farming in York cnunty [sic] Va.

R. Taylor Gleaves, class, of '78, is a Civil Engineer in Southwest Va.

J. H. Goodridge, class of '81…

WOMAN.
In the remote ages of antiquity, woman knew not the protection of civil laws and it was only by special favor, that she was allowed to enter the temples of the Olymphian deities. But during the Middle Ages, that fruiting season of modern…

THE GRAY JACKET
Blacksburg Va., May, 1883.
EDITORS.
Lee Society
G. H. SPOONER, Albemarle,
R. J. NOEL, Montgomery,
H. L. WATSON, Washington,
Maury Society
J. W. CARSON, Appomattox,
C. E. GILBERT, Pittsylvania
E. ANDERSON, Pittsylvania

Enthusiastic professor of physics, discussing the organic and inorganic kingdoms- “Now, if I should shut my eyes-so-and drop my head-so-and should not move, you would say I was a clod. But I move, I leap. I run; then what would you call me?" Voice…

SELF MADE
‘Do you see that man near the frog-pond on the common?'

“Thirty two years ago that old man came to Boston with one suspender and a sore toe. He also had a basket of apples which a farmer in Lexington had given to him. He peddled the…

SOLITUDE.
BY H. L. MAYNARD of PORTSMOUTH, VA.,
PRIZE ORATION DELIVERED AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF 1880.


In reviewing the reords of the past we find that the greaest [sic] and best works of man are those wrought in solitude, for there have been…

PROGRESS
Steadily, steadily, step by step.
Up the venturious builders go;
Carefully placing stone on stone-
Thus the loftiest temples grow.

Patiently, patiently, day by day;
The artist toils at his task alway;
Touching it here and tinting…