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But what became of their studies during all this time ? Wliy four 

 or five months' close confinement called for some relaxation, and our 

 observation in this instance, satisfies us that the Linnaean Association is 

 the best auxiliary that the College can have in converting the lassitude 

 of its ''• long session" into cheerfulness and vigor. As we stood one 

 bright morning upon the College portico, listening to the clear notes of 

 tlie lark, and some early birds of spring, and saw some fifty oi' a hundred 

 students scattered over the campus in regular detachments, vieing with 

 each other in their etTorts, and pealing forth their merry shouts redolent 

 of youth and happiness, we were forcibly impressed with the idea that 

 this could not but have a fine moral effect upon these young men in 

 their studies and in their general deportment. That they studied twice 

 as much during the following weeks, when the change of weather put 

 a stop to their manual labors, we have no doubt that their Professors 

 will testify. But my reflections upon this subject are cut short by the 

 thought that I cannot expect to find room for much more than this in 

 the "■ Journal." 



HAIL! HAIL! TO THE COLLEGE: 

 A Song written and dedicated to the Medical Department of Pennsylvania Col- 

 legje, By a Lady of Philadelphia. The music composed by R. Breiter. 

 Philadelphia, A. Fioi, 196 Chesnut St. 



Such is the title of a new piece of music just brought out by Fiot 

 in the finest style of fashionable music. It is headed by a fine engra- 

 ving of the Pennsylvania (Medical) College ; a very handsome building 

 which stands in Filbert above 11th st. Philadelphia, and is admirably 

 fitted up with Lecture-rooms, Dissecting-rooms, a Reading-room, Mu- 

 seum, Sec; all the appliances of a first-rate Medical College. We give 

 below the words of the song and are sorry that we cannot give the air, 

 which we know will be highly popular, not only with our literary and 

 medical students, but likewise wills the ladies who have already com- 

 menced tuning their pianos to it. It was performed at the last com- 

 mencement in Philadelphia, and we have no doubt that it will be the 

 "song for the gathering of the clans," both there and in Gettysburg, for 

 many years to come. In regard to the words, all we havs to wish is, 

 that the fair writer would add a couple of additional stanzas adapted to 

 the other professions, (\a\v and theology,) and to our intelligent far- 

 mers whose sons we expect to avail themselves largely of the advan- 

 tages oflbred them in the literary department of this Institution, which 

 not only bears the name, but i.s so closely identified with the highest 

 interests of " the Keystone state." — But to the song : 



