voked, in order that successful war may be waged upon this all pervading sin which antagonizes civilization. MARRIED. the close of the College year, in Sixth month last, and considering the great disadvantages under which we labored, it was, in an unexpected degree, satisfactory. In most of the departments the work proceeded as before, and far less loss was experienced in this reAMBLER-WEBSTER.-On Fourth-day, spect than we had reason to anticipate. In Fourth mo. 18th, 1883, under the care of Gwy- consequence of the expiration of the lease of nedd Monthly Meeting of Friends, at the resi-the buildings at Media, it was necessary to dence of the bride's parents, Edwin M. Ambler, close the College two weeks earlier than the of Ambler, and Annie F. Webster, of Plymouth, Pa. regular time, a course which was kindly acWEBSTER-CONARD-On Third month cepted and approved by our patrons as one of 22d, 1883, under the care of Gwynedd Monthly the necessities of the situation. The whole Meeting of Friends, at the residence of the number of students during the year, which bride's parents, Samuel F. Webster, of Ply-closed in Sixth month last, was only 226, as our mouth, and Lydia Conard, of Fort Washing- accommodations in Media would not permit ton, Pa. us to admit more than that number. DIED. BANER.-On Fourth mo. 21st, 1883, at her late residence, with her nephew, Dr. J. B. Wood, 125 Market street, Camden, N. J., Bernice C. Baner, in her 81st year. DORLAND.-On the afternoon of Fourth mo. 9th, 1883, at Dean's Corners, Saratoga co., N. Y., Andrew Dorland, in his 89th year; an esteemed minister of Saratoga Monthly Meeting. HAINES.—On the morning of Fourth mo. 20th, 1883, at the residence of her son-in-law, William P. Test, Greenwich, N. J., Sarah B., widow of Ephraim T. Haines, in her 85th year; a member of the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia. LAMB.-On Fifth-day, Fourth mo. 18th, 1883, of typhoid fever, in Camden, N. J., Lizzie B., daughter of Restore B. Lamb, in her 25th year. MAULSBY.—At her residence, Plymouth, Pa., Rachel Maulsby, in her 84th year. TWINING.-On Fourth month 11th, 1883, in Newtown, Bucks co., Pa., Charles Twining, in the 73d year of his age; a member of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting. This Friend was taken with a heavy chill whilst atending Monthly Meeting, one week previous to his death. ANNUAL MEETING OF SWARTHMORE. The Minutes of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the stockholders of Swarthmore College, held Twelfth mo. 5th, 1882, have just been published. From these we extract the Report of the Board of Managers which was read at that time. Managers' Report. At the time of making our report to the stockholders one year ago, the College, after the total destruction of its main building by fire, was pursuing the work of instruction in temporary accomodations in the neighboring town of Media. This work continued until Of these, 84 were in the College classes, but adding those of the College Preparatory Class, just introduced between the College and Preparatory School, (thus cutting off most of the Freshman Class for the year) the number was 118. Since our return to the restored College the present year, the number admitted to date is 263, and counting as above, the number in the College and the College Preparatory Class is 132. About one-half of these upper classes are children of members of our Religious Society, and the sexes are about_equally divided. In the classes of the Preparatory School about one-fourth are girls, and onefourth members of our Religious Society. For the present year the sexes are divided as follows: 168 boys and 95 girls. The average age of the new students is one year greater than heretofore. Reference was made in last year's Report to the introduction of a new element in the principle of admission to our college classes in the following words: "Students from Friends' Central School in Philadelphia, from Friends' Seminary in New York, and from Friends' Elementary High School in Baltimore will be admitted to the Freshman Class without examination, upon presenting certificates of qualification from the respective Principals of these schools. Other schools may be added to this list by vote of the Faculty, and the approval of the Committee on Instruction." Since that time the Friends' Schools at Woodstown, New Jersey, Wilmington, Del., and West Chester, Pa., have, upon application, been added to the above list. It is believed that a judicious extension of this privilege to approved Friends' Schools will be of mutual advantage to them and to the College. Although our library, so important as a means of instruction, was almost entirely destroyed, yet, by generous contributions of the Alumni and other interested friends, a fair beginning with about 3,000 volumes has been made towards its restoration. Several thousand dollars more are, however, needed to place us in this respect, where we were before the fire. The books which are being thus supplied, are selected with care and purchased at the most reasonable rates by a Committee of the Board, to whom this very important service is entrusted. Friends' Historical Library, which was not destroyed, has been but slightly increased since our last report. The different departments of instruction remain under the same general management as at the time of the last report, except that Prof. William H. Appleton has now returned from his year's absence abroad and resumed his work, and Prof. Maris has resigned the Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Teaching, to accept a position in Friends' School at Race street, Philadelphia. The duties of this latter department, which is in a flourishing condition, continue to be acceptably performed by Amelia P. Butler. Our new Scientific Building, referred to in the last report, is now completed, and was opened to students at the beginning of the present College year, a large number of whom are availing themselves of the great advantages thus afforded in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Civil and Mechanical Engineering. It is believed that the College, in this respect, will now compare favorably with other colleges in this country, being equalled by a few and surpassed by none, except some special schools of science. A few thousand dollars to complete the equipment in this department could be very profitably employed. a reduction of $100 a year in all of these classes to children of members of our Religious Society. While the work of instruction has been progressing steadily, and the College, in this respect, was never in a more promising and healthful condition, the subject of paramount. interest and importance to the stockholders and friends of the College at this time must necessarily be, the restoration of the College buildings which has been accomplished since the last report. A large Committee of the Board of Managers was entrusted with this important service, with power to proceed as rapidly as possible with completeness and thoroughness, towards its early accomplishment. Suggestions were solicited from various sources, especially from those who had been actively engaged in the work of the College.. These suggestions were carefully compared and collated, and where they commended themselves to the judgment of the Committee, adopted. The result is seen before us to-day in a building admirably adapted to the various educational purposes for which it was intended. The object in view in the construction of every part has been fitness for the end. for which it was designed, together with durability as well as security from fire. The drainage, the ventilation, the heat, the light, and the water supply have been made the best and most complete that modern science can supply. While economy has been carefully, studied, it has not been forgotten that the wise expenditure of large sums in permanent improvements is far more judiciousthan frittering away our resources by tempoAt this time when the discussion of the sub-rary contrivances, which may save hundreds ject of co-education has been so generally re- of dollars this year, and entail an expense of newed, the Managers think it right to say thousands in early changes and constant rethat their confidence in the system remains pairs. To any one visiting and examiningnot only unshaken, but is greatly strengthened the College as it stands to-day, stability and by our experience of thirteen years. We see permanence, as well as eminent fitness, imno reason for separation in the class rooms, press themselves upon the mind on every deeming that instruction unsuitable for either hand. The new water works, referred to last sex, which is not suitable to be given together. year, are now completed, and are supplying And the general social influence, when both the tanks daily with about 40,000 gallons, mingle under proper restrictions, with wise being an excess over the united capacity of and judicious care, in the same college home, the tanks of 12,000 gallons. The waste. we have found to be highly favorable to both. pipes and sewer are thus kept thoroughly In this department of the household we flushed, and the healthfulness of the College have met with a serious loss in the resignation greatly promoted. The grounds immediately of the Matron, Caroline S. Wood, who has adjacent to the College have been carefully served the college ably and faithfully in this regraded and sodded, the asphaltum walks position during the past four years. Her place repaired and new ones added; in short, all has been filled by the appointment of Anna traces of the recent destruction completely reW. Frost Clapp, of New York, who has en- moved. That all this could have been actered upon her duties during the past month. complished and the building ready for occuThe price of tuition was changed the pre-pancy, and re-opened to students on the annisent year, making it $300 a year in Class C, $350 in the other classes of the Preparatory School, and $450 in the College Classes, with versary of its destruction, is owing largely to the promptness of Friends in furnishing the needed funds, and the energy and efficiency of the Re-Building Committee, into whose hands this great work was committed. We deem it proper to make mention here of the valuable services of the chairman of this Committee, Edward H. Ogden, who has given the work unremitting attention during its entire progress. The Committee has had many difficulties to encounter, having had before it the difficult problem of re-building the College promptly on a substantial and greatly improved basis, and at the same time not to exceed, too far, the resources in hand. Animated by these motives, the Committee has gone forward in the full confidence that friends would promptly make the needed contributions to meet the expenses incurred. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars were received from insurance, and about eighty thousand dollars have been raised by subscription. To meet all the necessary expenses of the construction and refurnishing, including the loss on last year's business, about $275,000 will be required. This leaves a balance of about $65,000 still to be made up by subscription. It is contrary to the usual policy of Friends to incur indebtedness, and a circular has recently been issued asking that the amount of deficit be subscribed before First month 1st 1883, and the necessity of meeting that deficit by executing a mortgage upon the property be thereby obviated. It is hoped that Friends will come forward promptly with subscriptions necessary to secure this result, as otherwise a mortgage must inevitably be placed upon the property early in the coming year. The present flourishing condition of the School and College warrants the conclusion, that it will continne to be self-supporting in the future as it has been in the past; but it could not be expected that large deficiencies could be made up from current receipts. Friends are therefore earnestly requested to take measures that will place the only College in the country, under the care of members of our Religious Society, upon a secure and firm foundation, M. FISHER LONGSTRETH, Sec'y. Twelth mo., 4th, 1882. a week in the Lecture Rooms, I came down to London, and at ten at night the door was opened by Jane Carlyle, and the man himself was behind her with a lamp in the hall. They were little changed from their old selves of fourteen years ago, when I left them at Craigenputtock. 'Well,' said Carlyle, we are shoveled together again.' The floodgates of his talk are quickly opened, and the river is a plentiful stream. We had a wide talk that night until nearly one o'clock, and at breakfast next morning again. At noon, or later, we walked forth to Hyde Park and the Palaces, about two miles from here, to the National Gallery, and to the Strand, Carlyle melting all Westminster and London into his talk and laughter as he goes. An immense talker, and altogether as extraordinary in that as in his writing, I think, even more so; you will never discover his real vigor and range, or how much more he might do than he has ever done, without seeing him. Carlyle and his wife live on beautiful terms. Their ways are very engaging, and in her bookcase all his books are inscribed to her, as they came from year to year, each with some significant lines." From lodgings in Manchester, under date of Nov. 5th, 1847, Emerson writes to his friend of his days being consumed by correspondence concerning hospitalities, lectures, etc., and adds, "In this fog and miscellany, and until the heavenly sun shall give me one beam, will you not, friend and joy of so many years, send me a quiet line or two now and then to say that you still smoke your pipe in peace, side by side with wife and brother, also well?" The next letter of Carlyle is dated Nov. 13th, 1847. He writes, "We had a call from Bancroft the other evening. A tough Yankee man, of many worthy qualities, more tough than musical, among which it gratified me to find a certain small undercurrent of genial humor, or as it were hidden laughter, not noticed heretofore." Emerson's lecturing tour in England, and his mingling with the choice spirits of that time, are commemorated by his famous book, "English Traits," accounted by many the CORRESPONDENCE OF EMERSON AND CAR- best American book upon England that has LYLE, NO. 2. On the arrival of Emerson in England, in October, 1847, he found a cordial letter from Carlyle, beseeching him to go immediately to his house, "No. 5, Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea," where, "if anywhere in the wide earth, there ought to be a brother's welcome and a kind home waiting you. By night or by day you are a welcome apparition here, foul befall us otherwise!" "Finding," says Emerson, in his diary, "I should not be wanted for ever been written. In 1853, long and loving letters were exchanged by the two great men, now growing old, as they judged. Emerson writes, I went lately to St. Louis and saw the Mississippi again. The powers of the river, the insatiate craving for nations of men to reap and cure its harvests, the conditions it imposes—for it yields to no engineering-are interesting enough. Workingmen-ability to do the work of the river, abounded. Nothing higher was to be thought of America is incomplete. Room for us all since it has not ended, nor given sign of ending in bard or hero. 'Tis a wild democracy, the riot of mediocrities, and none of your selfish Italies and Englands, where an age sublimates into a genius, and the whole population is made into Paddies to feed his porcelain veins, by transfusion from their brick arteries. Our few fine persons are apt to die. Nature has only so much vital force and must dilute it, if it is to be multiplied into millions. "The beautiful is never plentiful." On the whole, I say to myself, that our conditions in America are not easier or less expensive than the European. For the poor scholar everywhere must be compromised or alternation, and, after many remorses, the consoling himself that there has been pecuniary honesty, and that things might have been worse. But no, we must think much better things than these. And now be good, and write me once more, and I think I will never cease to write again. And give my homage to Jane Carlyle." The next from Carlyle was pensive. He had only reached 57, but speaks of old age having come upon the scene. "Alas," he writes, "there goes much over year after year, into the regions of the Immortals; inexpressibly beautiful, but also inexpressibly sad. I have not many voices to commune with me in the world. In fact I have properly no voice at all; and yours, I have often said, was the unique among my fellow creatures, from which came full response and discourse of reason. The solitude one lives in, if one has any spiritual thought at all, is very great in these epochs. The truth is, moreover, I bought spectacles to myself about two years ago (bad print in candle-light having fairly become troublesome to me). Much may lie in that. "The buying of your first pair of spectacles," I said to an old Scotch gentleman, 'is an important epoch, like the buying of your first razor.' "Yes,' answered he, but not quite so joyful perhaps.' Well, well, I have heard from you again, and your promise to be constant in writing. Shall I believe you this time? . I really am persuaded it will do yourself good, and to me I know right well, and have always known, what it will do. The gaunt lonesomeness of this midnight hour, in the ugly universal snoring hum of the overfilled deep-sunk posterity of Adam, renders an articulate speaker precious indeed. Watchman, what sayest thou, then? Watchman, what of the night?" Later in the same letter he speaks of a recent visit to Germany. "The Rhine, which I honestly ascended from Rotterdam to Frankford, was, as I now find my chief con quest, the beautifullest river in the earth, I do believe, and my first idea of a world river. It is many fathoms deep, broader twice over than the Thames here at high water, and rolls a long mirror-smooth (except that in looking close, you will find ten thousand little eddies in it), voiceless, swift, with trim banks, through the heart of Europe, and of the Middle Ages wedded to the present age; such an image of calm power (to say nothing of its other properties) I find I had never seen before. The old cities, too, are a little beautiful to me, in spite of my state of nerves; honest, kindly people, too, but sadly short of your and our despatch-of-business talents, a really painful defect in the long run." Of "At Luther's little room in the Wartburg, (I believe I actually had tears in my eyes there, and kissed the old oak table, being in a very flurried state of nerves), my belief was that under the canopy there was not at present so holy a spot as that same. human souls I found none specially beautiful to me at all, at all. Such my sad fate. learned professors I saw little, and that little was more than enough. Tieck, at Berlin, an old man, lame, on a sofa, I did love, and do; he is an exception. Could I have seen much of him." Of In 1854, Emerson writes to Carlyle that he was forced from his work on his English notes to go read some lectures in Philadelphia. and some western towns. "I went out northwest to great countries which I had not visited. before; rode one day, fault of broken railroads, in a sleigh 65 miles through the snow, by Lake Michigan (seeing how prairies and oak-openings look in winter), to reach Milwaukee. The world there was done up in large lots,' as a settler told me. Greeley, of the New York Tribune, is the right spiritual father of this region. He prints and disperses 110,000 newspapers in one day, multitudes of them in these very parts. He had preceded me by a few days, and people had flocked together, coming 30 and 40 miles to hear him speak, as was right, as he does all their thinking and theory for them for two dollars a year. Other than colonists Isaw no man. There are no singing birds in the prairie I truly heard. All the life of the land and water had distilled no thought. America is growing furiously town and state; new Kansas, new Nebraska, looming up in these days, vicious politicians seething a wretched destiny for them already at Washington. The politicians shall be sodden, the States escape, please God! The fight of slave and freeman is drawing nearer. The question is sharply, whether slavery or whether freedom shall be abolished. Come and see. There is a very serious welcome for you here. And I, too, shall awake from sleep. entreats that an invitation shall go from her to you.' But Carlyle never came. My wife | She was snatched from me in a moment,—as by a death from the gods. Very beautiful her death was; radiantly beautiful (to those who understand it) had all her life been." In 1858, the first half of Carlyle's "Frederick of Prussia," was launched upon the world. It was the result of many years intense labor, and went forth from the hands of the author with the assurance from him that it was, "a bad book-poor, misshapen, feeble, nearly worthless (thanks to past generations and to me), and my one excuse is, I could not make it better." Emerson, to whom the first volume was immediately forwarded, received it with warm enthusiasm. "I am all tenderness, and all but tears. The book is sovereignly written. I think you the true inventor of the stereoscope, as having exhibited that art in style long before we had yet heard of it in drawing." In Emerson's diary, in 1859, he speaks of the book as the wittiest that ever was written a book that one would think the English people would rise up in a mass and thank him for." He counted the book "a Judgment Day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times. I have hardly seen a notice in any newspaper or journal. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or the blessing of love, and yet I suppose they are sensible of these, and not less of this book, which is like these.” Then came the awful days of civil war in America. Emerson's letters give us some of the heart-throbs of this wise, prophetic man. But he insists: "Even the war is better than the degrading and descending politics that preceded it for decades of years. Till 1872 the two friends exchanged letters full of the tenderest affection and sympathy. In that year Emerson went to England and met Carlyle again. Then he proceeded to the Continent and to Egypt, returning to London in the spring of 1873. Then he and Carlyle clasped hands once more, and never met again on earth. Secure in each other's affection, they wrote no more letters. They were old men, and writing was difficult. Carlyle died, 85 years old, on the 5th of Second month, 1881; Emerson, 79 years old, on the 27th of Fourth month, 1882. Carlyle's bequest of the books collected by him for study in writing his "Cromwell," and his "Frederick" to Harvard College, attest his friendly feelings for what is best and wisest in our country, though his want of sympathy for America in her awful conflict with the demon of slavery must ever remain a strange shadow upon his memory on this side the flood. We lay aside these volumes with a sense of gratitude that this glimpse of the inmost heart of the philosopher is preserved to after times. S. R. WHEN SPRING-TIDE COMES. Your change draws near, O changeless pall of gray! sere! Thou dull brown plain, ye silent woods and Heaven will be blue and earth be green and gay, And bird and beast be joyous, and life be dear. When Spring-tide comes. bleat; The last volumes of Carlyle's "Frederick were printed, and the author had breathing Far o'er the fields will sound the new lamb's time after a long and toilsome, nearly hopeless labor. The health of his faithful wife was now completely broken. In 1866 her death came after long sufferings, and tender letters of grief and sympathy passed between the two literary veterans. Said Emerson: "I could heartily wish to see you for an hour in these lonely days. Your friends, I know, will approach you as tenderly as friends can; and I can believe that labor-all whose precious secrets you know-will prove a consoler, though it cannot quite avail, for she was the rest that rewarded labor." Carlyle replies: "By the calamity of April last, I lost my little all in this world; and have no soul left who can make any corner of it into a home for me any more. Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her. The lark will mount his topmost stair of song; From high elm-boughs the treble and tenor sweet Of thrush and blackbird mingle all day long. The woodbine branch will dart its winged sprays; The palm-gold rend its casket; whorl by Her fragile ladder will the cleaver raise; whorl The arum-scroll will silently unfurl. And soon from woody coverts, and beds of grass, Meet for the court of the maiden year, will pass Arrayed in vestments all of delicate hue, Troops of white flowers and yellow, pink and blue. The shy windflower will nestle 'neath the trees; Primrose and violent haunt the mossy bank; Cowslip and king-cub spread o'r the downs and leas, Robin and lady-smock o'er meadows dank. |