Literary and Educational Supplement. 



21 



School an& College. 



SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. 



The Chicago News notes that eld- 

 erly college men (especially as pres- 

 idents) are disappearing, and are 

 being succeeded by younger men. 



The LJniversity of California has a 

 library of 38,000 volumes. 



In an interesting article in the 

 Academy, by Professor V. M. Spald- 

 ing, on Asa Gray the botanist, his 

 patience and aptitude in teaching 

 after he became eminent, and his life, 

 laborious in the cause of science, are 

 especially dwelt upon. Evidently 

 Dr. Gray regarded the function of a 

 teacher as important as the labors of 

 scientific research. His life work, the 

 "Flora of North America," — how 

 vast the subject! — nears completion 

 in other hands than of those of the 

 honored botanist of Cambridge. 



"The happiest of all callings, and 

 the most imperishable of all arts/' is 

 what Mr. John Morley said of litera- 

 ture at the recent Royal Academy- 

 banquet in London. 



"Professor," said a graduate, try- 

 ing to be pathetic at parting. "I am 

 indebted to you for all I know." 

 "Pray do not mention such a trifle," 

 was the unflattering reply . 



The Pall Mall Gazette recalls the 

 snub that Carlyle is said to have given 

 an American university that proffered 

 him the honor of LL.D. "That you 

 shall ask me," he wrote, "to join in 

 leading your long lines of D.D.'s 

 and LL.D.'s, a line of pompous little 

 fellows, hobbling down to posterity 

 on the crutches of two or three letters 

 of the alphabet, passing on into the 

 oblivion of all universities and small 

 potatoes, is more than I can bear." 

 Carlyle was a great self-made man, 

 no doubt; and still he was always in 

 such an ill humor that nobody could 

 feel that he was entirely pleased with 

 the job. 



Education begins the gentleman, 

 but reading, good company and re- 

 flection must finish him. — Ex. 



The Oberlin Review commends 

 Professor Frost, of Oberlin, for his 

 diligence in inventing mental stimu- 

 lants of his class. He has asked the 

 members of the senior class to write 

 out their respective creeds. It is to 

 be hoped none of these "creeds" 

 will ever get outside of the college 

 walls to swell the number of those 

 already abroad. 



Work to-day, for you know not 

 how much you may be hindered to- 

 morrow. — PI in y . 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sir Morrell McKenzie, than whom 

 there is no better medical authority 

 living, declares that smoking is de- 

 cidedly injurious to the throat. He 

 says more. He declares that the 

 smoke of tobacco inhaled by those 

 who do not use the weed is more in- 

 jurious than to use tobacco. This is 

 a terrible indictment. It is suggest- 

 ed to the smoker how great a wrong 

 he may commit upon his friend by 

 forcing him to breathe the poisonous 

 fumes of his pipe or cigar. — Ex. 



Oh, how heavily passes the time, 

 while an adventurous youth is yearn- 

 ing to do his part in life, and to gath- 

 er in the harvest of his own renown. 

 How hard a lesson it is to wait. Our 

 life is brief, and how much of it is 

 spent in teaching us only this. — 

 Hawthorne. 



Edgar L. Wakeman, in "Afoot in 

 Ireland"says of County "Connaught 

 and its "two roads": When you 

 have known these two roads as on 

 one foot may know them, and have 

 followed your fancy for exploration 

 among the quaint pleasant homes in 

 the wilds between, you have wit- 

 nessed the most interesting in scenery 

 and people that can be found in any 

 portion of Europe. 



The greatest shipping company on 

 earth (or sea rather) is the North 

 German Lloyd, with sixty-four steam- 

 ships. Their service of two ships a 

 week out of New York requires 

 twelve great steamers. Bremen is 

 the eastern terminus of the line. 



