have started out right. We believe they are all subscribers of the "Lit." What better evidence could we have of their good sense and appreciation? We commend their example in this respect to other classes in College. By referring to the Memorbilia you will find that the great contest between tweedle.dee and tweedle-dum has been decided in favor of T. Dee by 8 majority. The College world of course breathes freer after this important announcement. Nothing of any general interest has occurred during these few days—unusual quietness has prevailed-even old clothes men have become scarce, and not even a solitary sunburnt Italian minstrel, with his box of "sweet harmonies" which he grinds out at two cents a tune, has visited our quiet retreat. We actually thought one had arrived last week on hearing the accompaniment which generally attends our Italian's performances in the College yard; but we subsequently learned that the accompaniment was only an appropriate salute extemporized by South College and bestowed on a Democratic cavalcade which contained one or two animals that added peculiar force and significance to one of their most favorite mottoes,-"We will swap horses." The mathematical editor has furnished us with a copy of prize problems, which we are sorry to say are not open to the competition of the whole College. SENIOR PRIZE PROBLEMS. 1. If a man climbs a greased pole and after reaching the top pulls it out, what is the length of the pole? 2. If two men start from opposite corners of a quadrilateral field and travel toward the center, which will get there first? 3. If a man receives two bouquets speaking in a swallow-tail which is borrowed, how many will he be likely to receive speaking in one that is "hizzen”? 4. Find from the speech of little mc'clellan,-"you stick by me and I'll stick by you,"--who's stuck? 5. If a man falls down and runs a knot-hole in his eye, which is hurt more, the eye or knot-hole? 6. Were the four "most unmarried" women who bore the banner in the late Democratic funeral procession inscribed "Union," the original "wayward sisters ?" We desire to return our thanks to a gentleman of the Senior class for furnishing the Memorabilia for this number; and also to recommend to student patronage our liberal advertisers. Students will find it for their interest to patronize those dealers in town who take an interest in the prosperity of our student publications. We take pleasure in recommending any one who wishes a 'loud pair' of pants or good coat, to such well-known firms as Bliss, Thill, Mason & Rockwell and T. L. Kingley & Son. If you want a good hat, go to Mansfield's; if a clean shave, go to Rathgeber's; if a picture frame, Bassett's is the place. If you want a good smoke, where can you get a better cigar and meerschaum than at Kahn's? If you want a pleasant read, just drop in and buy a good book of Judd & White. THE position of a great University, in the trial hour of a nation's history, is certainly a matter of interest to those connected with it, if not of weight in the outside world. Therefore, since old YALE has spoken in strong and earnest language, and has wheeled into line on the great moral battlefield of the day, we should be false to our position, did we not perpetuate in the pages of the LIT. this remarkable Record of Loyalty. Many of our number-all honor to the braveare making a nobler record in the armies of the Republic, and it becomes us, who are still over our books, to extend our warmest Godspeed to the cause for which our classmates are perilling their lives. There is solemn truth in the trite remark, that this is the great crisis in our national life. The political heresy of State Rights, which means disintegration, weakness, defeat and death, is working for a fatal supremacy. English gold and sympathy feed the conflict. English "neutrality" is being molded into cannon and forged into sword blades, for the Southern army. France, from the Sierras of Mexico, is watching the long-lingering strife. When such powerful and unprincipled foes are arrayed against the Republic, it becomes every true man, of whatever political faith, to rally to the support and defense of the country he holds dear. In the presence of a com mon danger, minor differences must be forgotten. In the bond of an exalted patriotism, all loyalists are one. It was to express and publish to the world this unity, this almost perfect oneness of the University in this solemn and portentous hour, that the Yale Union Club was organized, under whose auspices the great meeting was held. It was a proud night for Yale, when she spoke so firmly and so well for the New American Union, in which walks not a single slave! Its record will be read hereafter with joy and pride, when we shall have better learned the lessons of this hour, and seen with our own eyes the new and nobler civilization which is now becoming faintly visible. The demonstration took place in the beautiful hall of the Brothers in Unity. The sacred colors of the Union were displayed in tasteful profusion, and made a silent plea for the "dear old flag," that must have touched the coldest heart. After three hearty cheers and a song, the following resolutions were read. As their earnest sentences rolled from the eloquent lips of the reader, the enthusiasm of the meeting rose higher and higher, until, with the electric sentence, "RESOLVED, that Yale stands firm by Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson," it burst into the wildest applause. The first three resolutions, which are national in their character, we omit for want of space, giving only those which are of local interest. Resolved, That Yale cannot qualify her loyalty, nor prove false to her history; that the Nationality, to whose creation she lert her bravest and choicest spirits, who cheered Washington with their steadfast devotion, whose government she has helped to establish and administer, whose Constitution she has helped to frame and expound, and whose Union she has illustrated with her learning and eloquence, she will never desert nor betray; that their glory is her glory, their history her history, their fate her fate; that her venerable traditions, the sentiments of her honored Alumni, the teachings of her respected authorities, and the intelligence and patriotism of her youngest sons, assert her unwavering attachment to the great principles at stake; and that we will never stigmatize our own brethren, fallen in the fight for their country, as useless sacrifices or misguided suicides, or · brand as a "failure" their heroic triumph, but that we solemnly declare that though low may lie their bodies on all our consecrated fields, their memories shall be blessed and enthroned within our love forever. Resolved, That Yale stands firm by Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson; that she recognizes in the one the sagacious, sincere and prudent President, of unquestioned integrity, and unshaken faith in popular rights and our speedy success; and in the other, the fearless representative of the true Democracy, the incorruptible Senator, the inflexible patriot; and in both, the defenders of the original and necessary principles on which the nation was built, and on which alone it can survive, and therefore pledge them our influence and votes; while we appeal to the young men of the land to beware of blighting their lives with the mildew of dis loyalty, and to bravely forecast with us the coming time, when any implication in this foul guilt will work a social and political taint; and when, insurrection suppressed, her borders free of a foreign despot, the Great Republic shall rise impérial, grounded on the will of a free and loyal people, and uncursed by the sigh of a slave. After the adoption of the resolutions, the following letters were read, amid cheers for their patriotic authors: BOSTON, October 14th, 1864. My Dear Sir,-I have received your favor of the 11th, in which you inform me that it is proposed to hold a meeting of the Union Club of Yale College, comprising nearly the whole number of students in all the departments of the Institution. I am not surprised to learn that there is so great a preponderance of loyal sentiment in your noble University. The cause is one which appeals strongly to the intelligence, as well as the patriotism of the country. An institution which assembles its members from a region so extensive, must be a school for enlarged and liberal views of public affairs. Equally favorable to the formation of correct and generous ideas of nationality is the history of those great Peoples of antiquity, withwhich your classical studies have made you familiar. You have seen the premǎture extinction of the national life of Greece, under the blighting poison of an illunderstood State sovereignty. What better antidote can we have against the domestic venom of secession? You have seen Rome, goaded to madness by her merciless factions, throw herself into the arms of a line of despots, as the last sad refuge of her imperial unity and power, and have learned, I am sure, from her mournful example, to deprecate that party spirit which seeks, at this moment, to paralyze the Administration, at the risk of consequences too painful to be contemplated. Let us not, by repeating, under the lights of our modern Christian civilization, the errors of the great ancient Republics, draw down upon our beloved country their melancholy doom. I remain, dear sir, with friendly regards, faithfully yours, J. A. BENT, President of Union Club at Yale. EDWARD EVERETT. ROSLYN, LONG ISLAND, Oct. 13th, 1864. Dear Sir,-I am glad to learn from you that the Union men of Yale are about to give a public expression of their attachment to the well-ordered system of gɔvernment framed by our ancestors for the great republic they founded. In the present time of its peril, it is the duty of all who have shared its benefits, to come to the rescue against its enemies. Those who inhabit the seats of learning, may do as important a service by protecting it from the machination of foes within its bosom, as our soldiers in the field by repelling attacks from without. I shall look with interest for the report of your proceedings, which I doubt not will be worthy of your noble institution. Allow me to express the hope that the generous and disinterested spirit which, at this time, moves the students of that institution to come to the aid of their country, will never give place to those narrow and selfishviews which are too apt to cloud the moral judgment, and influence the political course of men in later life. I am, sir, respectfully yours, J. A. BENT, President of Union Club at Yale. WM. C. BRYANT. BOSTON, Oct. 14th, 1864. Dear Sir,-It is not in my power to take part in your patriotic meeting, where scholars will unite to serve and save their country. But I send you my God speed! I know not how the case may stand with you at New Haven; but I should be astonished, terrified and grieved, to learn that in a community so intelligent, the home of a famous University, the cause of the country had failed. Better for New Haven that all her beautiful elms should be destroyed, than that any such shame should be recorded. Her defection would stand out conspicuous at this moment, when patriotism is the watch-word, and the battle-cry of Nelson is repeated, that the country "expects every man to do his duty." But, thank God! no local defection can endanger the cause, which is already safe beyond the plots of enemies, or the hesitation of half-hearted friends. Abraham Lincoln will be reëlected President of the United States, and the Chicago compound of treason and apostacy will be rejected. The political quacks and barbers at Chicago went too far. Their prescription, like an over-dose of arsenic, cured itself, by causing an immediate vomit. Pardon the plainness of the illustration. But it is only in such terms that I can adequately describe the disgust caused by doctrines like these of Chicago. No patriot stomach can bear them. Accept my best wishes, and believe me, dear sir, Very faithfully yours, JOSEPH A. BENT, President of Union Club at Yale. CHARLES SUMNER. NEW YORK, Oct. 15th, 1864. Dear Sir,-It gives me great satisfaction to learn by your letter of the 12th, that the students of Yale College are so unanimous and so enthusiastic in support of the Union and of that Government which alone, under existing circumstances, can represent and maintain the unity and the sovereignty of the nation against rebellion in the South, and treasonable faction in the North. I regret that the pressure of engagements will not allow me to write anything worthy to be read at your proposed meeting on Monday evening. But I must take a moment to suggest two thoughts that I would gladly expand. Our struggle has two important phases for educated men; the one historical and philosophical-the other practical and personal. On the one hand, they can estimate most clearly the grand principles that underlie it; the forces of civilization, which all antecedent struggles in the progress of human thought and of civil liberty have concentrated upon this conflict; and the bearing of such a conflict of ideas and principles upon the whole future of mankind. To them the question is not one of North or South, of Union or Disunion, but of the permanence of constitutional liberty, of the progress of mankind in self-government, of the moral status of the race, after all the discipline of the past, in the schools of Christian faith and of political freedom. Upon the other hand, men of education have the largest stake in the future of their country, in its honor, in its advancement in the scale of nations, in the realization of their loftiest hopes and aspirations for a progressive humanity, in the field of thought and of endeavor that a great and growing nation will open, if true to freedom, to justice and to man. A nation that has a history, a principle, a life, a future, and that is great enough and true enough to hold these sacred, and to maintain them; this is the field where men of thought may employ their highest |