fervor. In disobedience to orders he rushes from his tent, takes command and leads to victory. If only in that moment of supreme success the ball that tore his leg could have killed him in his saddle the blackest character in American history would have been illumined forever, and the name whose utterance now curls the patriotic lip in scorn would have been a watchword of unfaltering devotion to country.

For the faithful worker doing with honest might the utmost that he may death can not be untimely. Over the immortality of deeds it has no power. For the weakness of our humanity, death in the hour of triumph and the glory of victory, though it seem untimely, is most often, in its warranty of fame, the greatest of blessings.

WALSTEIN ROOT, '90.

Editors' Table.

THE twenty-fourth volume of the LIT. is finished, and the retiring board must say farewell. Fain would we linger over the words, yet it were not fitting to linger long; the old must give way to the new.

For two years we have labored in the cause; to what avail it were hard to tell. Some of our plans have come to naught; perhaps it were better so. And some have prospered; and in their success, we see a reward; our work has not all been in vain. We have had unpleasant things to say, but if it has been hard for you to listen, it has been no less hard for us to speak. Sometimes you have complained, and justly, that the LIT. was not up to the standard; but remember, it is your work we publish; the LIT. is representative. For two years we have labored; yes, and during that time, the LIT. each month, has gained a larger share in our sympathies; is it a wonder we hesitate to give our charge into other hands, even though we know those hands are true?

For the LIT. we hope great things. Whatever serves to bring our alumni into closer relation with the college is to be commended. The LIT. has a worthy mission. Let students, professors, alumni, lend a helping hand in giving larger scope to her influence. For our successors we can only ask the same kind reception that we have received from you and for which we take this opportunity of thanking you. And not to you alone are our thanks due. It were indeed discourteous to say farewell without thanking him to whom we owe our chief success. The LIT. without its "Alumniana" were a failure; all agree.

And now, as our last word, we bid you be loyal sons of Hamilton. Plenty there are to rail at her, for she is small and poor, but for that very reason we should be the more steadfast in our loyalty. Others may laugh, but we know that she is worthy of our love, and we should be proud to manifest it.

And now again farewell! Our editorial work is ended. Soon we leave these college halls, but it will not be forever. Our four years' course would indeed be vain were there not ties too strong to break, binding us to our Alma Mater.

THE class of 1890 has voted to give $150 to the college library, as its class memorial; $50 to be used in the immediate purchase of books, and $100 to be left as a class foundation. They have chosen the section of Political Science to receive their gift, and this section is to be henceforth known as "The Class of 1890 Library of Political Science." A tablet is to be placed in the library stating the fact and nature of the gift.

Every thoughtful man in college will commend the act of the Senior class. It is the best way to preserve the name of the class of 1890. The record will stand where it can not be effaced, in connection with the most vital part of the college; a part that will grow with all the growth of the col

lege. And it will have more than the preservation of an outward record, for the name of the class shall live in the gratitude of the future generation of students.

It is the best way for the class to influence the young men to come after them. The library of Political Science will be a direct help to Hamilton students. Without doubt the questions for the next generation are the political ones; the relations of the individual to the state, of classes to each other, the problems of the state as a social body. College men must be sensitive to these questions and study them with the best light of theory and experience. Therefore, the gift of the class of 1890 is the most direct and practical way of helping the future student of Hamilton.

This may seem large praise for the gift of a few books. But the gift is a large one in its direction and possibility.

The act of the class is prophetic of enlargement. A similar gift by the class of 1879 at Williams College has led indirectly to the endowment of their library, now reaching $48,000.

Members of '90 will take pride in their class memorial, and each year will see the gift either of books of Political Science or money to increase their endowment of the library. It is not a wild prophecy to say that in ten years the $100 will have grown to $2,000. The act of the class must be an encouragement to all loyal sons of Alma Mater. It is worth a thousand fold more than the intrinsic value of money. It shows that the hearts of these young men beat true to the position and destiny of Hamilton College. It proves that the college will have so many more loyal sons to uphold her fair name and extend her influence. We believe that the act will be an inspirer of loyalty. The college is rich, not in brick and mortar, not in lands and stocks, but in the heart and brain of her sons.

THE base ball season has opened, and again the interests and spirits of the students are inflamed to the utmost. As the inter-visitation of college nines begins, an enthusiastic and loyal body of students present themselves. This we are pleased to see, yet may not a word of caution at this time be appropriate? It is not a word of caution, however, as to the depth and extent of the enthusiasm manifested, for these, if properly controlled, are most essential to the success of our nine. But rather, it is a word in regard to the manner in which vent is given to this spirit on the part of our student body.

Not infrequently in past years have there been receptions given a visiting nine upon our ball ground that have been far from courteous, and even sometimes they have been unmanly and disgraceful. Whether this has been proper and just, any fair-minded man may answer for himself. It must be acknowledged by all, however, that to ridicule or roast" players who come to Hamilton from neighboring colleges tends neither to dignify the participators themselves nor to add anything of repute to the college which they represent. Both of these thoughts, it seems, should enter into and govern our actions on the ball ground. May we not hope, therefore, that throughout the entire series of games this term there shall be not a lack of hearty and spirited enthusiasm, but rather an increase of manliness and irreproachableness in the mode of expressing this enthusiasm ?

It has been said that the Hamilton College campus is one of the most beautiful in America. This assertion was probably true once, but we are very much inclined to doubt its accuracy at present. Formerly, when the college gained the reputation for its fine grounds, the campus was well kept, but now it receives little or no attention. During the summer months it affords excellent pasturage, and twice a year hay crops of a superior quality are cut, which have grown under the observation of visitors and students. It seems a shame that this handsome spot, so generously favored by nature, and so richly endowed with historical associations, should be so entirely neglected.

The LIT. realizes how useless it is to appeal to the trustees for the necessary funds. The only hope lies in the Alumni. Will not some loyal son of Hamilton subscribe an amount of money sufficient to keep the campus in proper condition? By so doing he will confer a great blessing upon his Alma Mater and will merit the most cordial gratitude of the undergraduates,

THE college year of 1889 and '90 is fast drawing to a close. The present number of the LIT. completes the duties of the Senior editors and with the June number the editorial mantle will have fallen upon '91 and '92. Let us then glance briefly at some of the events which have happened in college during the past year. Perhaps in this way we may make the past to some extent the prophet of the future.

First, then, what is the condition of the college organizations?

The Glee and Banjo Club is a great credit to an institution as small as our own and we need fear competition with few of the larger colleges and universities. The trip of the winter term, while not financially very successful, advertised well the clubs and the college and rendered a trip next year an assured success.

The athletes are in better training than ever before in the history of the college and at Syracuse will undoubtedly sustain if not surpass the reputation gained at Albany last spring.

The ball nine, has not as yet had an opportunity to test its ability against other college clubs, and we can by no means predict the winning of the pennant. However, there is much good material in the nine, and we may hope for better results than have been gained in the past.

Hamilton has ever been rather conservative in the matter of change, but in September last a much needed step was taken and in the right direction. The old excuse system so long in vogue and so farcical, was supplanted by one which, while not perfect, as operated at present, is certainly a great improvement over the old. We hope that this reform is a forerunner of others the need of which the LIT. has urged upon the attention of the Faculty.

The financial condition of the college has never been better than at present. Silliman Hall, so ornamental to our campus and serviceable to the students, is the gift of a man who has given much money and personal effort to put Hamilton on a firm financial foundation.

It has been especially noticeable that during the past year or two, Alumni, undergraduates and friends of the college everywhere have shown more interest and expressed more hope for her future than ever before. A few years ago it was the universal custom to speak of Hamilton prospects in the most skeptical

This alone is very encour

terms, but there has been a radical change of late. aging, for students and friends will be gained much more easily where the Alumni and the undergraduates "boom" the college.

After a consideration of these facts we think we can logically conclude that both the past and the present prophesy a bright future. If we believe this, let us act upon our belief, and, wherever we are, let us sound the praises of Hamilton. In this way, more than in any other, we can aid the college and can insure her a future even more bright than has been her past.

"Shines the last age; the next with hope is seen."

HAMILTON is "a small college," "a fresh-water college," "an old-fogy class-ical college." Suppose it is all these, need one therefore be ashamed to graduate at Hamilton? Size is not always a measure of worth; salt, which preserves, does not always stimulate growth; there are living streams of wondrous power which still flow from classic springs.

"By their fruits ye shall know them." The graduates of Hamilton are a goodly band to stand with. Aside from the earlier worthies, noble and of note: Edward Robinson and Albert Barnes; Daniel Whedon and Asa Mahan; William J. Bacon and so many more; the younger generation will not make ashamed as we fall in line with them.

Shall you teach? You will find in your ranks a noteworthy proportion of Hamilton men at the front. Dr. Hastings in New York; Dr. Knox at Newark; Dr. Johnson in Chicago; Dr. Beecher at Auburn; Dr. Maynard at Colgate; Professor Coats at Rochester, and a goodly array of Theological Seminary leaders.

Dr. Van Norden presides at Elmira; Judge Dwight controls, as dean, the great law school whose prosperity he has made; and Professor Burdick is helping to build another great law school at Cornell.

Dr. Cochrane conducts year by year to higher and wider usefulness the Brooklyn Polytechnic, now become a college.

Dr. Sheldon at Oswego still guides the Normal Training School whose growth he has so ably and successfully fostered. The venerable Dr. Kendrick still has place of honor at Rochester. In the Cornell Faculty are Williams, '52, Burdick, '69, B. G. Smith, '72, Bristol, '76, and A. C. White, '80. In the University of Cincinnati T. H. Norton and J. G. Porter make honorable the Hamilton name. The whole legal profession owes a debt of honor to the late Professor John Norton Pomeroy of the Hastings Law School.

On the Pacific slope, W. B. Rising '64, administers the chemical department of the University of California. In the Peabody Normal College at Nashville, J. L. Lampson, '82 and Vance, '88 are helping to mould the coming teachers of the south.

D. L. Kiehle,’61, has not only superintended the public schools of Minnesota, ably guiding them to meet the swift growing needs of that great state, but has approved himself a leader among the leading educators of the entire country. Everywhere in the colleges and seminaries, in public and in private schools, Hamilton men will make you proud of your Hamilton diploma.

Nor has success come only in teaching. Judges Wallace, Seymour, Case,