T. E. McCRARY, _Hes._, } } REPORTERS. W. I. CRANFORD, _Col._, }
Examinations are here. Truly “man was made to mourn.”
It is reported that the Trinity Commercial Bank has “busted” again. However, there have been no excursions to Canada yet.
The Trinity lawyers are having considerable practice now, in these “evil days.”
“Benny” says he had a good time with his girl at Thomasville. He had permission to go on business, and he went.
We have one Senior who—Well, we don’t know whether he will share his commencement honors with some one else or not; but, if there is any sign in noonday-dreams and long strolls, we th-th-think he w-will.
_Growth of a Big Book._—When Webster’s Unabridged was first published in one volume, it was a comparatively small book. Some years after, an addition was made of 1500 Pictorial Illustrations, A Table of Synonyms, and an Appendix of New Words that had come into use. A few years later came an entirely new revised edition of larger size, with 3000 Pictorial Illustrations; then, after an interval of a few years, a Biographical Dictionary of nearly 10,000 Names, and a Supplement of nearly 5000 New Words were added; and now there has come another new and most valuable addition, A Gazetteer of the World, of over 25,000 Titles. The work is now not only _the best Dictionary_ of the words of the language, but is a Biographical Dictionary, a Gazetteer of the World, and a great many other good and useful things in its many valuable Tables.
Mr. M. C. Thomas, of Cary, received the debater’s medal of the Hesperian Society, and Mr. W. J. Helms of Poortith the debater’s medal of the Columbian. Mr. W. B. Lee, of Durham, received the declaimer’s medal of the Columbian, and Mr. J. R. McCrary the declaimer’s medal of the Hesperian Society.
Messrs. G. T. Adams and E. L. Moffitt were elected President and Vice-President of the Hesperian respectively, and Messrs. W. J. Helms and W. H. Rhodes President and Vice-President of the Columbian Society respectively for the 1st grade of the next College year.
Mr. C. Powell Karr, a graduate of School of Mines, Columbia College, has in preparation a Manual of American Colleges, which proposes to give in classified form all the leading Colleges, Universities, Technical and Professional Schools, their requirements for admission, courses of study, cost of tuition and living expenses, and in a word, a systematic _resume_ of all the information needed by parents, guardians and students to enable them to decide intelligently what college or institution of learning it is best to attend. It is to be issued from the press of William T. Comstock, New York.