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nt THE CONCORDIENSIS. VoL. III. ScHENECTADY, N.Y., JANUARY, I88o. No.4· THE CoNCORDIENsrs. PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR BY THE STUDENTS OF UNION UNIVERSITY. EDITORS: ~ JOHN ICKLER, 'So, EDITOR IN CHIEF. G. E. DIXON, 'So. A. H. DOUGHERTY, '8o. E. C. JOHNSON, 'Sr. W. E. VAN EPS, 'Sr. W. R. WINANS, '8r L. R. HARGRAVE, '8z. W. M. LEWIN, '82. TERMS: One Dolla.r per Year,. in advance. Single copies, Ten Gents. ADVERTISING RATES: Square, per issue, \ \ year, .. Business Notice, per issue, H \ \ year, Half page, per year, Quarter page, per year, Address, $roo - 7 00 75 500 25 00 - 15 00 THE CONCORDIENSIS, Bo.x 48r, Schenectady, N. Y. CONTENTS: LITERARY: The Watcher (Poetry), We Met by Chance, Incipient Profanity, The Maiden of Unai and Her Two Lovers, Rock of Ages (Poetry), - EDITORIAL: Drill should be Optional, The Poem 11 Rock of Ages,\ The Class of '83, - Be Consistent, - The Lecture-System, - The Gymnasium, The Seniors' Readings and Criticisms, CORRESPONDENCE : College Albums, Ingham and Clarke Prize Essays, .LOCAL: Local Bri.efs, The Alumni of the North-west, Delta Upsilon Camp, Tenth Anniversary, Alumni Banquet in Chicago, ExcHANGES: PERSOMLS: ,. - - - - - - - - - - 49 so 5z 54 55 s6 s6 s6 s6 57 ss ss ss ss 59 6o 6r 6r 6x 62 63 • LITERARY ----------------- -- ------ ------- THE W ATOHER. Mid: ... tight is past; broad sileuce falls O'er campus and o'er colleg@ walls. . The neigbb'ring town in slumber dreams; But still from many a window gleams, Here on the hill, the ray that tells Where yet the wakeful Rtudent dwells, O'er pages touched with less of light, The deeper wears the weary night. Profoundly da1·k is all without these walls, The black horizon seems approached so near The outstretched arm might reach It; overhead, A double darkness rests; not one small star Casts from the heav'ns its silent, loving glance; Shut from the world and shut from Heav'n,~we seem Cut off from man, cut off from God-alone. Eut now the banded shadow;:; break apart, And, gaining form and life, appears o'erhead A lH~ly face-a face in which shine out The blended virtues of all mother-hearts. fJ. 1 he eye is full of tender sympathy, fJ.,hat conjures quickly up those vanished days, When oft an eye like that beguiled the griefs Of checkered infancy; those 1nagic lips Are like the lips that pa,rted oft in smiles To see the antics of the joyous child. .And yet an inw:rought sadness lingers there, As if those eyes had dimmed with floods of tears ' Because Death's hand did pluck some little :flow'r That filled them once with soft and blushing·Jiaht· 0 ' And over all there rests so true a look Of fondest yearning none can see th~t face .And not remember, chance not long ago, He saw some mother watching for her child, And though her hea1·t, with hope defer1·ed, was sick She braved all doubts and fears and ever watched. All hope, all fear, all joy, all sorrow meet In that one face and mingle deep with love. The lips a1·e parted; clearly falls a voice:-