ALUMNI or PEW. COM.ECF., OO 



Rev. Geo. Piehl, of Easton, Pa. read an interesting report, but its con- 

 sideration was postponed until next meeting, in consequence of exertions 

 now making by the students of the College, to erect a Hall for the Li7i- 

 ncsan Society, and a resolution was adopted cordially approving of the 

 enterprise contemplated, and a willingness expressed to co-operate with 

 them in the effort. 



The officers elected for the ensuing year are, Rev. Jiw. Hecic, Presi- 

 dent ; Prof. M. L. Stoever, Secretary ; Mr. Wm. Ruthraiif, Treasurer. 



The orator for the next Anniversary is Rev. C. P. Krauth, of Balti- 

 more, Principal \ Dr. C L. Baker, of Lancaster, Alternate. 



TO THE ALUMXI OF PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE. 



We desire to make the Journal the organ of communication between 

 the Alumni of Pennsylvania College and the literary and scientific world. 

 Not that we expect that they will make this the exclusive recipient of 

 their efforts in this direction, but that they will here, from time to time, 

 as it were, report progress — let their old friends know what they have 

 been doing and how they are getting along — what use they are making 

 of '■'■ omnia jura priv He glaque'''' of literary and scientific men, with which 

 their diplomas and subsequent college honors have invested them. If 

 we can succeed in this, we expect to render a service equally acceptable 

 to our readers and to the graduates themselves. To the former it will 

 secure a rich variety of original and instructive matter, which we are 

 satisfied that the membfeis of the various classes that have left Pennsyl- 

 vania College within these 15 years are as well able to furnish them as 

 any similar body of scholars in the country. To the Alumni themselves 

 it will be productive of results more pleasing, if not more profitable. 

 They will here re-unite once more, at least in spirit. They will recog- 

 nize the style and the sentiments, the manner and the matter of old 

 friends and class-mates vvith whom they once "took sweet counsel," 

 when mind coming into collision with mind was like "iron sharpening 

 iron," which has now become fine and polished as a Damascus blade, 

 or, at least, as useful and effective as the axe of our western woodsmen. 

 It will thus be a bond of union, a place of re-union, and a ineans of ma- 

 king friendship and fellowship as lasting as life. We mean these remarks 

 to apply likewise to those who have received honorary degrees from 

 Pennsylvania College, who are at least her adopted chiklrcn. 



We also extend this invitation to that numerous class of students 

 who were here matriculated and sojourned for a shorter time within the 

 enchanted circle of college-life, but were, by various cause.s, withdrawn 



