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that the Professors and Students of that institution are resolved to do 

 what they can in maintaining an elevated stand in promoting the cause 

 of thorough education. The appearance of this Journal is a cheering 

 token for good ; the zeal of the Linna?ans in embellisiiing the adjacent 

 grounds, and rendering access to the College pleasant and easy ; their 

 laudable ambition to enlarge the cabinet, library, and the materiel of 

 their cherished school, all display a most commendable spirit, which I 

 believe will be warmly seconded by others. I entertain the hope of 

 seeing the corner stone of the Linnaean Hall laid next summer. I shall 

 be there to pay my contribution, and invoke God's blessing on the en- 

 terprise. POLITES. 



College Record. — The fourteenth Anniversary of the Phrenakos- 

 mian Society, was celebrated in Christ's Church, Gettysburg, on the 21st 

 ult. The performers acquitted themselves in a manner highly credita- 

 ble to the Society, and to the Institution. The influence of these liter- 

 ary associations upon their members and upon the community, both in 

 College and beyond its walls, is evidently of the most salutary char- 

 acter. The large assembly convened upon this occasion, listened with 

 the most marked attention to each of the speakers, and we have no 

 doubt tliat they were alike interested and improved. We were pleased 

 to see an unusually large number of persons present from the surround- 

 ing country. The Society itself appears to be improving externally as 

 well as internally, if we may judge from the handsome manner in which 

 they have recently fitted up their hall, from which they marched in pro- 

 cession to the church. The vocal music given upon the occasion, by a 

 select clioir, added, in no small degree, to the pleasure of the evening. 

 The following was the order of the exercises : 



Prayer by Prof. Jacobs. Oration — "The Universal Deluge" — by 

 J. P. Smeltzer, Frederick Co. Md. "The Christian Missionary" — by 

 G. J. Martz, Frederick Co. Md. "The Sublimities of South America" 

 —by R. A. Fink, Frederick, Md. "The lirst Martyr and the first Mur- 

 derer" — by C. A. Brougher, Tippah Co. Miss. Benedictiox — by 

 Rev. Dr. Krauth. 



To CorrespoxVDents. "Philoruslicus" is informed that his commu- 

 nication with the reply of "Rusticus" will appear in our next number. — 

 Those who write for the Journal will please to bear in mind, that they 

 cannot write too legibly; all our matter being in manuscript it will light- 

 on the labor of both printer and editor to have each letter as plain as 

 possible. 



