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COLLEGE RECORD. 



Mr. Editor : As the Journal professes to give a record of the' 

 events connected with the College, it may not be amiss to furnish your 

 readers with some account of the Ciollege Temperance Society. The 

 idea of introducing the subject was suggested by a late interesting meet- 

 ing of the Association, held in the College ChapqJ on the 29th ull., at 

 which appropriate addresses were delivered by Messrs. Raby and Es- 

 sich and Prof. Baugher. The Society was originally organized in the 

 summer of 1834, and was in successful operation for several years ; but 

 in consequence of the strong hold, which Temperance principles ob- 

 tained in the institution, and nearly all the members becoming pledged 

 to total abstinence, the Society was permitted to lose its organization. 



Recently a very successful effort was made, to revive the Associa-* 

 lion, and there is every reason to believe that the interest, which has 

 been excited, will be productive of good. A large number of signatures 

 to the Constitution has already been secured, and the hope is indulged 

 that before long, every student cf the College will be enlisted under the 

 banner of Total Abstinence* 



The officers of the organization for the current year are : — President 

 — Professor Stoever. Vice Presidents. — Messrs. Jl. C. Wedckind and 

 A. EssicJc. Recording Secretary. — Mr. J. K. Plitt. Corresponding 

 Secretary .-Jfr. J. H. Heck. Censors.-Messrs. P. Baby and G. C.Maund. 



The speakers selected to address the Associationat its next meeting 

 are Messrs. W. M. Batim, R. A. Fink and J. A. Bradshawe. 



The cause is certainly a worthy one, the end it contemplates most 

 laudable, and the Society may be instrumental in preserving many a 

 noble youth, for whose feet, perhaps, a snare is spread, from a dishonored 

 life and a hopeless grave. So great is the misery which the vice of 

 intemperance infuses into the cup of domestic happiness, so often 

 does it cause a parent's heart to bleed over the son of his love, a 

 mother to shed tears, the most bitter, over a child early ruined — 

 so blighting is its influence, so fatal its power, so sad its consequences, 

 that the most earnest efforts should be put forth to arrest the entrance 

 of a young man into the temple of Bacchus, before the coils of the 

 dragon are twisted around him, and the poison of its fangs is rankling 

 in his veins. 



Pennsylvania College. — The Summer Session of the Institution 

 opened on the 20th of May. The students of the last term have gener- 

 ally returned, the accession of new ones is larger than was expected, 

 and as we have been in operation scarcely a fortnight, there is reason to 

 believe that the number will be considerably increased. 



