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THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 



cascades to the placid Delaware. The crystal 

 ice around the falls, hanging in pendants and 

 supported in stately pyramids, causes the sun 

 to scintilate back and forth from neighboring 

 walls of "crystal clear." The emerald green 

 pines make a fitting frame to illumine the living 

 picture as they blend with the complimentary 

 blue of the heavens. The laughing water, as it 

 prances away in miniature cascades in the 

 ravine below, blends with the reverberating 

 war of the cataract tike the softer tones of 

 architectural music, or the singing of the birds 

 among the sighing pines. 



In a recent stroll I went to the cliffs. "The 

 Cliffs" resemble the palisades of the Hudson, 

 as they are perpendicularly in majestic grandeur 

 several hundred feet above the winding Dela. 

 ware valley. The road at its base is said by 

 bicyclists to be the best one in Pennsylvania. 

 But I am digressing. What I was going to 

 mention has almost been lost in my mind. It 

 was that while taking this walk to the cliffs» 

 and gathering a winter bouquet of bitter, 

 sweets, the shiny leaves of the beautiful rhodo- 

 dendron holding in their fingers the inanimate 

 life of exquisite blossoms, and the warm looking 

 fruits of the sumac. I was poisoned by the 

 toxic rhus glabra. Fortunately I remembered 

 a remark of Prof. Rusby in this connection, 

 and my hand was soon healed. Is it the ex- 

 perience of others that the fruit poisons as well 

 as the leaves ? 



D. M. Wells, '95. 



(College Notes. 



Prof. Arthur H. Elliott, has resigned 

 from the chair of chemistry and physics, and 

 will henceforth devote all his time to gas, being 

 chemist for the Consolidated Gas Co. There will 

 at present be no successor to him, as it is intend- 

 ed to divide the work of his department among 

 the other professors. 



Prof. Rusby, sailed for South America, on 

 March 21, to be gone .some time in the interest 

 of science. 



The following are the officers of the college 

 for the ensuing year, 1S96-1897: 

 President: 

 Edward Kemp. 

 ist Vice-Presidefit : 

 Charles F. Chandler. 

 2d Vice-President: 

 John R. Caswell. 



jd Vice-President: 

 Gustavus Ramsperger. 

 Treasurer: 

 Herbert D. Robbins, 

 Secretary: 

 Alfred H. Mason. 

 Assistant Secretary: 

 O. J. Griffin. 

 Trustees to serve for three years : 

 Clarence O. Bigelow, 

 Samuel W. Fairchild, 

 George Massey, 

 Ernst Molwitz, 

 Reuben R. Smith. 

 Trustee: {term to end in iSgT.) 

 Charles S. Erb. 

 Trustees to serve two years: 

 Charles Holzhauer, 

 William M. Massey, 

 Albert Plant, 

 Charles F. Scheirssner, 



Horatio N. Fraser. 



Trustees to serve one year: 



Hermon W. Atwood, 



Thomas J. MacMahon, 



Charles Sice, 



George B. Wray, 



Charles S. Erb. 



'97 NOTES. 



Professor Ferguson has our deepest sym- 

 pathy in his sorrow. 



Our classmate, Mr. William Becker, recently 

 met with a painful and exceedingly unfortunate 

 accident causing the loss of his right eye. 

 We hope Mr. Becker will keep up a stout 

 heart and not give way to discouragement over 

 his loss. 



"Where there is smoke or the odor thereof 

 there is fire," was borne out the other day dur- 

 ing a botany demonstration, when Dr. Rusby 

 detected the faint odors of burning woolen fibre 

 and damp wood. At first, there was apparent 

 cause for alarm. On investigation, however, 

 one of our worthy classmates was discovered 

 contentedly puffing away on an "Egyptian" (?) 

 cigarette in the lower hall. Luckily for this 

 fume producer the doctor did not make the 

 nvestigation in person. 



Keep up your "style," gentlemen ! Our class 

 historian. Miss Fellows, "is a spottin' yer." 



Section 2 men should not forget the advice 

 given them in regard to their table drawers. 



"Wild Wooly" has been so very quiet lately 

 that we fear he is ill or in love. Which is it 

 Mr. "Wooly?" 



