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widely diffusci!, but seems to oiiginate with each individual separately, 

 as the IVuit of a highly-wrought imagination acted upon by external 

 impressions. 



The Tschuktschi are a peculiar race, and but little known. They 

 are less civilized than the Jakuti, and retain more of their heathenish 

 customs. Polygamy is general among them. Infants that are deformed 

 or delicate, and all their old people, as soon as they become unfit for the 

 fatigues of a nomadic life, are inhumanly destroyed. The nearest rela- 

 tions are the executioners. 



Here also slavery exists. Whole families were found who had al- 

 ways been in a state of servitude. When interrogated as to the origin 

 of this state of things, the reply was, "It always had been so, and must 

 always continue to be so," The slaves are doubtless the descendants of 

 captives. I must not omit a fact connected with the habits of this tribe 

 which may be serviceable to the cause of temperance and health : Here 

 in this intensely cold country, where one would suppose every means 

 of warmth would be resorted to, every article of food is taken cold, 

 when broth is made it is not tasted until it is quite cold, and then is of- 

 ten mixed with snow. They usually conclude their meals with a lump 

 of snow. 



ALMA MATER. 



Jubemus fe solvere, mater. Plautus. 



Infrcta dum/Itivii current, dum montibus umbrm 

 Lustrabvnt convcxa, polus dum sidera pasccL ; 

 Semper honos, nomenqitc tuum laudesque inaiiebimt 

 Quce me cunque vacant terrce, Virgil. 



The Alumni Association stands adjourned to meet on the third Wed- 

 nesday of September in the College Chapel, on the evening of which 

 day the annual address will be delivered by Rev. J. L. Schock. A full 

 attendance of the members is earnestly desired and respectfully urged. 

 After an absence of several years, it will be pleasant for us to meet 

 again, to revisit the scenes of our former studies, endeared to us by a 

 crowd of gentle associations, to clasp one another by the hand, to re- 

 new early affections and to strengthen youthful friendships. Hccc oUm 

 meminlsse jxivabit was the sentiment adopted by some of us when we 

 bade a final adieu to our Mma Mater, and exchanged the holy quiet, 

 the peaceful shades of Academus for the engrossing cares and responsi- 

 bilities of life, the noise and bustle of a cold and selfish world. And 

 although only a short period haselapoed since the oldest of us separated 



