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http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
May 1877
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Abbey Williams, Peter Royal
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English
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LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.7 (May 1877), p.2-3
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The Governor of Missouri has signed a bounty bill, offering five cents each for rat scalps. Wonder if he means college " rats," if we thought so we would forthwith send a courier to Roanoke College for a detail of Indians to scalp some of the unruly rats of this institution.
In a Cambridge (Mass.) evening school is a man fifty-seven years old learning to read, and one forty years old studying primary arithmetic.
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
The commencement exercises of Roanoke College will take place June 10-13th. Hon. Clarkson N. Potter will address the Literary Societies on the evening of the 12th.
Washington and Lee University commencement will come off June 24-27th. Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, addressing the Literary Societies on the 27th at 12 M.
The closing exercises of Montgomery Female College will take place June 24, 25 and 26. Rev. Chas H. Read, D. D., of Richmond, will preach the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday the 24th.
Rev. Chas. F. Deems, of New York city, will address the Washington and Franklin literary
societies of Randolph Macon College, on the 21st of June.
ETERNITY.
Mysterious, mighty existence! A sum not to be lessened by the largest deductions; an extent, not to be contracted by all possible diminutions. None can truly say, after the most prodigious waste of ages,"that so much of Eternity is gone." For when millions of centuries are elapsed it is just commencing; and when millions more have run their ample round, it will be no nearer ending. Yea! when ages numerous as the blooms of spring; increased by the herbage of summer; both augmented by the leaves of autumn, and all multiplied by the drops of rain, which drown the winter—when these and ten thousand times ten thousand more—more than can be represented by any similitude, or imagined by any conception, are all revolved; Eternity, vast, boundless,amazing Eternity will only be beginning, or rather only beginning to begin.——James Hervey.
AN INDIAN TAKES A MEDAL AT ROANOKE COLLEGE.--The gold medal given by Prof. J. W. Peterman to the student who had attained the greatest proficiency in penmanship, has been awarded to Mr. William Morris, of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. The contest came off on Saturday, the 12th instant. At the same time the medal was presented to Mr. Morris by Prof. Peterman.——Roanoke Collegian.
"Insults," says a modern philosopher, "are like counterfeit moneY. We cannot hinder their being offered, but we are not compelled to take them." [p. 2]
Peter the Great was the founder and editor of the first newspaper ever known in Russia.
The West Point graduates this Year will number seventy-seven, the largest class on record.
Prof. B. L. Gildersleeve, of the Johns Hopkins University, is to deliver the annual oration before the literary societies of Princeton College on the 30th of June. [p.3]
In a Cambridge (Mass.) evening school is a man fifty-seven years old learning to read, and one forty years old studying primary arithmetic.
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
The commencement exercises of Roanoke College will take place June 10-13th. Hon. Clarkson N. Potter will address the Literary Societies on the evening of the 12th.
Washington and Lee University commencement will come off June 24-27th. Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, addressing the Literary Societies on the 27th at 12 M.
The closing exercises of Montgomery Female College will take place June 24, 25 and 26. Rev. Chas H. Read, D. D., of Richmond, will preach the Baccalaureate sermon on Sunday the 24th.
Rev. Chas. F. Deems, of New York city, will address the Washington and Franklin literary
societies of Randolph Macon College, on the 21st of June.
ETERNITY.
Mysterious, mighty existence! A sum not to be lessened by the largest deductions; an extent, not to be contracted by all possible diminutions. None can truly say, after the most prodigious waste of ages,"that so much of Eternity is gone." For when millions of centuries are elapsed it is just commencing; and when millions more have run their ample round, it will be no nearer ending. Yea! when ages numerous as the blooms of spring; increased by the herbage of summer; both augmented by the leaves of autumn, and all multiplied by the drops of rain, which drown the winter—when these and ten thousand times ten thousand more—more than can be represented by any similitude, or imagined by any conception, are all revolved; Eternity, vast, boundless,amazing Eternity will only be beginning, or rather only beginning to begin.——James Hervey.
AN INDIAN TAKES A MEDAL AT ROANOKE COLLEGE.--The gold medal given by Prof. J. W. Peterman to the student who had attained the greatest proficiency in penmanship, has been awarded to Mr. William Morris, of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. The contest came off on Saturday, the 12th instant. At the same time the medal was presented to Mr. Morris by Prof. Peterman.——Roanoke Collegian.
"Insults," says a modern philosopher, "are like counterfeit moneY. We cannot hinder their being offered, but we are not compelled to take them." [p. 2]
Peter the Great was the founder and editor of the first newspaper ever known in Russia.
The West Point graduates this Year will number seventy-seven, the largest class on record.
Prof. B. L. Gildersleeve, of the Johns Hopkins University, is to deliver the annual oration before the literary societies of Princeton College on the 30th of June. [p.3]