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Another class of Echoes are those who endeavor to elevate themselves to a certain pattern of character-more commonly, to that of men eminent for greatness or goodness. These find many helps either in others who are on the same track, but who imagine themselves successful in their efforts, or in each other. They are constantly mimicking their models, and holding them up for others to mimic.

I would not deprecate that spirit of reverence-would it were more prevalent-which attaches a dear and sacred memory to the deeds and characters of men who "wore in death immortal wreaths;" but when biographers and pseudo-orators mingle in indiscriminate medley, the carnage of battles, the "Father of his Country," the babble of Congress, the preservers of the Union, black-headed Negroes, black Republicans, &c., &c., and through all, the American Eagle tangled in clouds and agonizing to reach the third heavens, then, reverence and decency, become synonyms for sacrilege and disgrace. What evil cannot be calculated on from such influences? The public prints catch the strains and send them echoing through the country-men of all classes speak to one another in the same incoherent terms: add to this the energetic appeals to the rising generation to study the character and imitate the examples of their forefathers, and you have a perfect chaos from which nothing can be formed but ungainly images of men.

Undoubtedly, of the good and evil characteristics of great men held up to view, the evil are in most cases copied, since aspiring blockheads are ever disposed to think that the chief necessity of a great intellect is a deal of extreme dissipation, and extensive experience in polite rowdyism. The useful arts are impeded in their developments by another class of imitators. No invention appears without its accompanying number of echoes. The most trifling as well as the important mechanisms are immediately lost among a host of counterfeits and shams. A few pages of the Patent Office report will furnish a proof of this most ridiculous furor for invention. Look at the pill list-there are names by the hundred pledged to kill or cure (more especially the former) a whole race. After the mutual toil of mind and body for perhaps a life-time, the originator of some useful machine, presents himself as the petitioner for the right of construction. It is granted: yet no sooner has it performed its first successful operation, than one of these gaping imitators can discover a place where some screw or bolt may be inserted, and speedily a model, minus two or three important items, is presented for a patent.

The age of invention is being followed by an age of shams: enthusiasm is becoming suffocated by the vapors of imitation.

Such is the world to-day as seen from a few principal stand-points. It would seem that inherent pride would lead these creatures to despise servile mimicry, or that a laudable curiosity would prompt them to seek original paths however humble. It is not to the ignorant masses that this shame fastens it is to those who, while they pretend to be uttering their own words or doing their own deeds, are perverting the designs of good men and belieing the characters of the great.

A most successful ground for the experiment and practice of Echoes is in the enclosures of a college. In so small a space, there could not perhaps, be found a greater or a more perfect illustration of these phenomena. It was said by an English writer that among those in the Universities, "there are many who, instead of endeavoring by books and meditation to form their own opinions, content themselves with the secondary knowledge which a convenient bench in a coffee-house can supply, and, without any examination or distinction, adopt the criticisms and remarks which happen to drop from those who have risen by merit to reputation and authority. These humble retailers, called by a correspondent, Echoes, should be made ashamed of lazy submission and animated to attempts after new discoveries, and original sentiments." But this description is too limited for us. We are not content to rest our opinions on those of the wise-we cannot be satisfied with adopting merely, the sentiments of distinguished men, but there appears to be an absorbing desire to remould and reiterate. A comparison with the world outside shows that the same classes-more expert and therefore finer examples -exist here as there. An author becomes popular, and his works are sought and hastily skimmed. A week is given to preparation, and Echo No. 1 breaks out on the chapel stage in most extravagant ideas clothed in equally extravagant words. It is a source of satisfaction, if many of the sentiments of the original author cannot be discovered, with just enough of the sensible and beautiful expunged to make them disconnected and disfigured. Socrates, Addison and the Bible are mangled with the same degree of recklessness, and the truth so choked out of them that it is difficult to discover whether there be anything but falsehood—at least, when the Echoes are taken into consideration. So, by No. 2, Washington and Webster, and all the statesmen are mutilated; and it sometimes seems as if we were listening to the tones of reproach and irony from the indignant ghosts of their speeches, rather than to primitively grand ideas and

eloquent words of statesmen and orators. We repeat it-it is not the imitation, so much as the empty pretension, we despise. No. 3 endeavors to assume a dignity and other traits of character which ill become him. He has set up, in his heart, an image of his fellow man to worship; has divested himself of his own individuality, as if it were an old jacket, for the purpose of getting the pattern of another man's, because he was great. The only apparent reason for such actions is the lack of brains to discover that such an attempt is not only absurd but impossible. True, there are characters it is well to strive to emulate, and qualities to be desired-not because they adorn another mind or heart-but because they are in themselves ornaments to any man, preserving to him his own independence and individuality.

SCHEDULES.

MESSRS. EDITORS :-The communication on "Schedules" in the last number of the Quarterly, reminded me of a curious collection of similar venerable documents which I had, lying, not in a dusty garret, but on the tidy shelves of a mahogany book-case. Taking up my carefully tied bundles, I looked them over again, and observed several interesting circumstances connected with the public exhibitions of our Alma Mater. Some facts I will present to you and your readers, premising that these afore-mentioned schedules furnish all the data I have on the subject.

I observe, in the first place, that College Honors, as they exist at present, were not awarded until 1805, since which time the present system has been in operation, although none of the honors, as they are now named, have been continued annually without interruption. As no list of the honor-men of the College, so far as I know, has ever been

published, and as such a list would be exceedingly interesting and suggestive, I send you one for publication in your Quarterly:

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1810. Justin Edwards,

1811. Cyrus Yale, 1812. John Woods,

1813. Reynolds Bascom,

1814. Orville Dewey,
1815. Ehaphras Clark,
1816. Stephen Taylor,

1817. Henry W. Bishop,
1818. William N. Porter,
1819. William A. Hallock,
1820. Charles Baker,
1821. Emerson Davis,

1822. Jonathan E. Woodbridge,
1823. Thomas P. Allen,
1824. Mark Hopkins,

1825. Norman S. Sprague,

1826. John Morgan, 1827. Nathan Brown,

1828. Edward Lasell,

1829. William Hicks,

1830. David N. Sheldon,

1831. G. A. H. Corning, 1832. N. E. Spencer, 1833. Samuel Buel,

1834. John Hall,

1835. Chas. A. Williams, 1836. John Tatlock, 1837. Stephen J. Field, 1838. John Wells, 1839. George Kerr,

1840. Chas. Hawley, 1841. Saml. G. Wheeler, 1842. Addison Ballard, 1843. H. B. Hosford,

1844. Theron H. Hawkes,

SALUTATORIANS. Israel Williams, Elizur Goodrich, John Bascom, Joseph Boies, Josiah Clarke, Lorrin C. Hatch, Herman Halsey, Chris. A. Paige,

Caleb Rice,
Franklin Sherrill,
F. Stebbins Gaylord,
Emory Washburn,
John Whiton,
John C. Brigham,
Alvan Wheeler,
Lucius Field,
Joseph Hyde,
Elisha H. Allen,
Henry Davis,
David A. Noble,
Levi F. Claflin,
James Ballard,
Joseph L. Partridge,
*George A. Williams,

Benjamin R. Sheldon,
George Hale,
J. E. Field,
Jonas Denton,
Azariah S. Clark,
J. Homer Ellis,
Walter Wright,
J. H. Ferris,
Thomas A. Hall,
N. Lasell,

Chas. Worthington,
Timothy Childs,

L. Fairbank,

A. H. Laflin,

Chas. S. Spencer,

* In consequence of the death of Williams, the Salutatory Oration was delivered by Simeon Howard Calhoun.

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S. McClellan,
Chas. S. Sylvester,
S. B. Sheldon,
Theodore Strong,

N. H. Rosseter,
William Stark,
Chas. A. Dewey, Jr.,
Edward W. French,
W. Cherrey,
James L. Rice,

E. L. Lincoln,
John Lamberton.

GREEK ORATIONS.

1816. J. Burt Goddard, 1817. William Eastman, 1818. Royal W. Smith, 1819. Gerard Hallock, 1820. Elijah Thayer,

1820. Judah Ely,

1822. Chas. A. Lee,

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1825. A. Caulkins,
1826. William C. White,
1827. James M. Arnell,
1828. H. R. Hoisington,
1829. S. Irenæus Prime.

FIRST ENGLISH ORATION.

1830. W. Woodworth,
1831. Wm. Stuart,
1832. Geo. C. Gibbs,
1833. Willis Lord,
1834. E. W. B. Canning.
1835. S. C. Wilcox,
1836. Joseph White,

1837. Saml. G. Jones,
1838. John Isham,
1839. J. Vanderpoel,
1840. J. W. Brown,
1841. R. M. Wright,

1842.
Geo. P. Briggs,
1843. Abm. Gosman,

1844. J. H. Budd,

1845. Stephen C. Strong,

1846. John Allen.

MATHEMATICAL ORATIONS.

1847. S. P. Ely,

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