Some token let us have that they are unforgotten.  It was no quarrel of vulgar ambition in which they fell.  It was the sacred strife for which the mother armed them when she sent them forth.  For her they fought, for culture, generous learning, noble arts, for all that makes a land great and glorious, against the barbarism of anarchy and the baseness of a system founded upon wrong and oppression.  We cannot, indeed, forget them while we live to come up to our annual gathering, and see the vacant places amid familiar ranks.  There will then be question and reply, saddening, but proud.  “He fell at Port Hudson, cheering on the forlorn hope.”  “He lies beneath the forest-trees of Chancellorsville.”  “He was slain upon the glacis of Fredericksburg.”  “He died in the foul prisons of Richmond.”  We cannot forget them, and we would fain leave the memorial of them to future generations.  Their fame belongs to Harvard; for what they learned there could not be other than noble, inspiring, manly.  Let Harvard make the plan, and give the call, and all of us, from our distant homes and according to our ability, will offer our gifts with gladness.  Let the graduates who have leisure and taste and means, and who are still dwelling under the pleasant shades of the Cambridge elms, come together and take up the matter while love and gratitude and pride are fresh.

WHO IS ROEBUCK?

An inquiring American mind, seeking the solution of this momentous question, would naturally turn to Appleton’s “New Cyclopaedia,” Vol.  XIV., page 131.  The inquiring mind would be enlightened in a somewhat bewildering manner by the description there laid down of a little animal, some of whose qualities are thus set forth in the first article on the page indicated above:—­

“ROEBUCK.  A small European deer of the genus Capreolus....  The skull has a very small, shallow suborbital pit, ... tear-bag indistinct, hoofs narrow and triangular....  The color in summer is reddish brown, in winter olive, with paler shades; inside of the ears fulvous, and a black spot at the angles of the mouth....  It is about four feet long....  The horns are used for knife-handles....  They congregate in small families, but not in herds....  From their strong scent they are easily hunted; though they frequently escape by their speed, doublings, springing to cover, and other artifices....  The roebucks are represented in North America by the Virginia deer.”

Inquiring mind, not wishing for researches in the direction of Natural History, albeit the subject of parallelisms is a somewhat curious study and in special cases infinitely amusing, passes on to the next article in the Cyclopaedia.

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