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OUR DEPORTMENT. 



True etiquette may be defined as 

 genuine unselfishness, for real polite- 

 ness, under all circumstances and 

 conditions of life, demands consider- 

 ation for others even to the ' setting 

 aside' of one's own desires. Kind- 

 heartedness and culture are closely 

 allied, as are, also, ignorance and 

 rudeness, for culture is robbed of its 

 most essential element when a kindly 

 consideration for others' thoughts 

 and sentiments is lacking. Etiquette 

 may be acquired by education and 

 observation followed by constant 

 practice; but true etiquette is born in 

 the heart, not in the head, and often 

 reveals itself in the lowly walks of life. 

 ' Civilty, refinement and gentleness 

 are passports to hearts and homes, 

 while awkwardness, coarseness and 

 gruffness meet with locked doors and 

 barred hearts/ Emerson says: 'Give 

 a boy address and accomplishments, 

 and you give him the mastery oi 

 palaces and fortunes wherever he 

 goes; he has not the trouble of earn- 

 ing or owning them; they solicit him 

 to enter and possess.' Calvert says: 

 ' Ladyhood is an emanation from the 

 heart subtilized by culture.' 



A rude person may be well mean- 

 ing but scarcely kindhearted, for 

 genuine heart kindness is seldom 

 rude. The face is the mirror of the 

 heart reflecting its sunshine and its 

 shadows, so one's manners are doors 

 ajar affording glimpses into the inner 

 chamber of one's self, revealing the 

 true gentleman and lady. 



Education is incomplete which does 

 not bring good manners into promin- 

 ence. True courtesy is the golden 

 rule expressed. It is no trifling 

 matter, but one of the greatest im- 

 portance, that this Christian element 

 become a firmly established part of 

 every student's education. The ex- 

 pression of kindheartedness will 

 create a kindly feeling which , in time, 

 will become the genuine article that 

 can only influence our lives for the 

 greatest good. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Peabody institute at Danvers, 

 Mass., has been destroyed, with a 

 $75,000 loss. 



Cornell etiquette requires that no 

 lady recognize a gentleman acquaint- 

 ance on the university grounds. 



Miss Eleanor L. Fleury, of the 

 London school of medicine for 

 women, has a record in three colleges 

 of the highest honors that a female 

 medical student can obtain. 



Four college dailies are now in 

 circulation. Princeton, Harvard, 

 Yale and Cornell each publish one. 



Miss Joanna Baker, who was a 

 tutor of Greek in an Iowa college at 

 the age ot sixteen, now occupies the 

 chair her father filed seventeen years 

 ago. 



The fair freshman at Bryn Mawr 

 is hazed by being made to walk up 

 an inclined board with a pile of books 

 on her shoulders. When she reaches 

 the top, she is given a lamp, with the 

 injunction to keep it well trimmed 

 and not to be a ' ' foolish virgin. " — 

 University News. 



During the past year Lake Forest 

 University leads the list of colleges 

 as having received the largest endow- 

 ment, $400,000. Syracuse follows 

 next with $365,000, then Yale with 

 $275,000, Cornell with $265,000, 

 Vassar $222,000, Pennsylvania $225, - 

 000. — Ex. 



Vassar College owes its existence 

 to a woman, Miss Lydia Booth, a 

 cousin of the founder, Matthew Vas- 

 sar. Mr. Vassar was planning a 

 hospital on the plan of Guy's hospi- 

 tal, in London, as his bequest 

 to the community, when his kins- 

 woman suggested the founding of a 

 college for women which should be 

 to them what Yale and Harvard were 

 to men. Immediate application was 

 made for a charter, and in 1861 there 

 came into being Vassar College. 



The display of American students' 

 periodicals at the Paris Exposition 

 was of great interest. It is said, no 

 such showing is possible among 



