EPISTLES TO STUDENTS. 139 



Quod fuit in votis, fratrem capit alteruterque j 



Quod fuit in fatis, perdit uterque iidem. 

 Captivi gemini sine captivante fuerunt, 



Et victor victi transfuga castra petit. 

 Quod genus hoc pugnae est, ubi victus gaudet uterque, 



Et tamen alteruter se superasse dolet ? 



Which I have tried to put into English in the following pentameter?, 

 •which may answer until some true poet gives them a more melodious 

 character : 



Twin-born brothers a contest worse than civil were waging. 

 Goaded to strife by some point dark in religion and faith. 



This one appears of reform the bold and ardent defender ; 

 That one denies that the faith ever conld need a reform. 



When they had marshall'd their reasons, fiercely each rush'd to the battle. 

 Equal the strength of each, equal the heroes fell too. 



Just as their prayers had been, each made his brother a captive ; 



Just as the fates decreed, each of his faith was bereft. 

 Two poor captives there were, but no capturer ready to hold them, 



Lo ! the conqueror here unto the conquer'd deserts. 

 What kind of battle is this, where the conquer'd elated rejoices ? 



Yet, that he conquer'd, each weeping laments and bewails. 



epistles to students. no. vi. 

 _ Young Gentlemen : 



You are now in the membership of a literary in.stitution. Having 

 been submitted to a probation, you were admitted, at its close, to matri- 

 culation, and your college considers you as one of her sons. She has 

 sons of almost every grade of character. Some are distinguished for 

 high moral purity; they are disciples of Christ. Others are adorned 

 with the virtues of gentlemen, and abhor the grosser forms of vice. 

 Others, again, assume the exterior of correct deportment and desire to 

 make a favorable impression upon their instructors, but secretly are rea- 

 dy for mischief to almost any extent. These, with the uncouth and 

 the wily, whose trickiness may be read in their eyes and faces, though 

 not embracing every variety of character, may suffice as an enumeration 

 at present. The rank which a student occupies, generally depends on 

 his training before he enters. It is true, that great changes have taken 

 place in young men during their college-life. These changes may be 

 from good to bad, or the contrary. It is very probable that in the col- 

 lege to which you belong, more have been reclaimed from vice, and rend- 

 ered morally good than the contrary. Many, it is known, have been 

 brought under religious influence during their stay at college. Others, 



