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ed to indifference and contempt, but it is persecution still. Some one has said 

 and said wisely that " only he is great who can bide his time." Justice is some- 

 times tardy, but it comes at last. It will devolve upon you to compel respect for 

 your position by your calmness, your patience and your dignity, to be liberal 

 without being illiberal — to be honest, conscientious and to wait. It will not be 

 fair to conclude that all who criticise are unworthy men. 



Bear in mind that this is yet only an experiment, and that many faithful and 

 good men honestly believe it both impracticable and absurd. One of the most 

 dangerous enemies that this movement will encounter will be found in the man 

 of little brain and less conscience who will make it a means to obtain for himself 

 the cheap notoriety of sensationalism or to invest his quackery with respectability. 

 The best thing may be put to the worst use. 



If through these things you are able to hold your way, unvexed by honest 

 criticism, unangered by dishonest pretenders, then you will have done more than 

 much toward breaking away from unhealthfui technical restraints and in teaching 

 men so. 



The world is wide and full of ignorance, want and pain. Superstition casts 

 its weird shadows over the cold, unlighted hearthstones of reason. Despair puts 

 out the torch of hope. The dew falls nightly on new made graves. Whatever 

 his special calling, the true man will find a field wider than his profession. He 

 will need knowledge that no curriculum gives, medicine that no text book sug- 

 gests, remedies that no formula supphes. Only as his heart is touched with the 

 deeper tenderness and filled with the sublimer sympathies; only as he rises above 

 the formaUties and literalism of mere profession ; only as he is truly man, will he 

 be able really to help men, and in helping bring himself and them into wider 

 liberty, into clearer light and nearer God. . 



Rev. Dr. Bowker next addressed the class, giving them timely warning of 

 the difficulties which m.ust beset their paths during professional Hfe. At the con- 

 clusion of his remarks Rev. Mr. Roberts pronounced the benediction. 



METEOROLOGY. 



REPORT FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT CENTRAL STATION, 

 WASHBURN COLLEGE, TOPEKA, KANSAS. 



BY PROF. J. T. LOVEVi^ELL, DIRECTOR. 



The extreme cold weather which closed our last report (Jan. 20th,) has con- 

 tinued through the first two decades here recorded. There have been two pe- 

 riods of extremely low temperature, the first lasting from January i8th to Jan- 



