By the courtesy of the Music School the Dannreuther String Quartette of New York gave a concert to the college in Assembly Hall, on Wednesday evening, October 23. This was the first concert of the year, and on this account, as well as on account of the charming program so adequately rendered, was it hailed with delight and enjoyed to the full by the music-loving members of the college.

Through a typographical error copied in the last issue of the Monthly, Miss Amy L. Barbour '91, who has been studying at Yale, was credited with the degree of Ph. D., for which she has not yet presented herself.

Saba Drake Coggshall, of the class of 1903, died in Northampton on the twenty-seventh of October.

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Nov. 16, Students' Building Fair.

Dec.

18, Philosophical Society.

20, Delta Sigma and Southwick House Dance.
21, Biological Society.

23, Phi Kappa Psi Society.

28, Thanksgiving.

2, Philosophical Society.

2, Open Meeting of the Voice Club.

4, Dewey, Hatfield, and Haven House Dramatics

5, Biological Society.

7, Open Meeting of the Alpha Society.

11, Albright House Dramatics.

In New York to-day there are three million people roused to a man, with every nerve strung to its highest pitch, who are vitally stirred, earnestly thinking, striving, working. And why? Because they have been made to realize that under the outward veneer of wealth and prosperity there lies the most horrible evil and corruption. The men who have been governing the city have expended their efforts, not for the good of the city, but for the good of their purses and that of their lord and master, "Squire Richard Croker, of Wantage, Berks, England", as the Sun" aptly designates him. Every department of the municipal government is proven "rotten to the core". The police, instead of hunting out and tracking down the gamblinghouse keepers and the "crooks" of every kind, protect them almost openly, for a remuneration, of course. There seems to be no privilege, no matter how vicious the consequences of it may be, which cannot be bought for a remuneration. I believe there is even a tariff of prices for protection, varying with the degree and nature of the crime.

Is it necessary to say that there are citizens in New York, both down town and up town, who, when they appreciate the

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facts and their significance, will not "stand for this"? There is no remedy so potent for an evil as the truth earnestly told to the people. And in the hour of her direst need the city found a man who knew the truth and was not afraid to speak it. He says:

"You have no idea of the actual condition of the awful tyranny on the East Side. I know of it from thousands of cases that have come before me in my judicial capacity. I know who is responsible. The police are responsible. I arrested Bissert? Where did the five hundred dollars go that Bissert received for protection? Where did the fifty dollars a month that he received go? Not to the patrolmen, not to the men who obey their superior's orders, and of whom ninety-five per cent are honest and straightforward. Who receives the price of protection? Ask the sergeant, the captain, the inspector. Ask but perhaps I had better not go 'higher up' just yet. [Cries of 'ask Devery']. Let us hope for the time when the Crokers, the Sullivans and the Deverys will cease to have control of the city. It is not fighting personal liberty to oppose that organization which is dominated by blackmail and rottenness or to oppose police made subservient to the interests of that organization. We shall, we must, have an end to this oligarchy of plunder."

"Most of you here to-night," he said, "came to this country from foreign lands, filled with hope because you were told it was a land of freedom. Freedom? God save the mark! Is it freedom in this Assembly district? Is it freedom south of Fourteenth street and east of Broadway? Yes, it is freedom for the grafter and for the thief; but is it freedom for the man that would live clean, for the man that would keep his name. honest and honorable as his father gave it to him? I know what the East Side is and I know what the domination of Tim Sullivan, Max Hochstim, and Jake Hertz means here.

"Coming down in the car I read a sign which said that I am a 'crusader', a kind of 'Carrie Nation Jerome'. Now if crusading is a question of standing for clean living and the purity and sanctity of the home, then I am a crusader."

In a city where it was said and even believed that no decent man cares to hold office, that is, serve his city, and that even should he care to, it is impossible for him to enter that office without being bound hand and foot by pledges to party leaders

and office-seekers,-in that city, I say, a man came forward ready to serve her, who stood for honesty, decency, and good citizenship, who stood for no party, no class, and gave no pledges, whose platform was moral reform and moral reform alone. He made no concessions, he asked no favors, he gave no promise other than that he would be guided by his own conscience,- —a pure and honest one indeed. He had a message of morality, decency, and honesty to deliver and he delivered it earnestly and fervently. He appealed to the best side of man's nature, he pleaded for righteousness for its own sake, and he moved every man that heard him. There is no American who needs to be told that the man to whom I refer is William Travers Jerome.

Jerome! That name suggests to the American of to-day the highest ideals, never relinquished for any considerations of expediency; the cause of morality and righteousness for their own sake, pleaded with prophetic intensity by a God-inspired prophet. Prophet indeed, prophet of to-day. For many of us, blinded by the lapse of intervening ages, have not realized that the great men whose prophetic utterances have formed the Book of Books for those ages, were living men, addressing a living people about live issues. How much the appreciation of this fact enhances the dignity of the Bible! How much greater seems the inspiration of these earnest and righteous men if we understand the full import of their words as the people who heard understood. Their problem, too, was a social one, their issue a moral one. "All social bonds were loosed in the universal reign of injustice, every man was for himself and no man for his brother. Things were tending to a pass when ere long none would be found willing to accept a post of authority, or to risk his substance for the good of the state." Official and "Judicial corruption increased; every man had his price." The nation was "unclean ".

Despite the difference between the East and the West, despite the twenty-six hundred years of material, scientific, and intellectual advance, the fundamental moral and social problem is identical to-day. Of course the difference in the resulting environment has changed the outward aspect, the superficial appearance, but that is all. It is a truth whose force staggers us when we first realize it, that since the days when man first recorded his experiences, his passions, his feelings, his sufferings

have been essentially the same. He has sinned and he has striven for righteousness. The sins of ancient Israel are our sins to-day the message of their prophets is the message of our prophets.

Israel was evil and corrupt, and Amos did not hesitate to upbraid her for it. Amos, a poor man, a shepherd, left his crook and came to Bethel to tell the people in plain straightforward words that cruelty, immorality, and bribery must be stopped. He tells them: "Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof. For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. . . . Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof: because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the same maiden to profane my holy. name: and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. . . how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right. Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. Seek good and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate."

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As Amos took Bethel to task, so did Micah Jerusalem. He too was a moral reformer, he too argued "from the universal principles of right". "Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor justice, and prevent all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."

But the prophets of the people were not the only men who