The Gavelyte, October 1909

THE GAVELY'l'E, interested in it is confident of its future. The spirit among the students, between the students and the faculty, and between the graduates and the college, the spirit of harmony and effort, is and will be the secret of a happy College year. Current Events. BY PROF. LEROY ALLE -. Among the principal occurrences since the GA VELYTE ceased publication and thus )pft its readers in the dark as to the doings of the world, must be mentioned the pas<iage of a new tariff bill; the developments in aerial navigation the promulgation of a new religion by President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard University; the discovery of the North Pole; the appParance of Halley's comet; President 1'aft'15 western trip; and the Cedarvilie-Antioch foot ball game. Concerning the lailt mentioned event, inasmuch as we highly value the intPgrity of our head, we shall maintain a discreet silt-nre and hope for brighter days - or (since the weather \\as ur.fxreptional) darker day~. if they will bring us better luck. The chief purpose of a revision of the tariff, as \\ e unde, stand it, was to lower the cost of living, so that eng:1ged couples, who were fondly ht)p;ng and pati~ntly waiting for the time when a union of lives as well as of hearts might be possiulP, might get rnarrit d an.I estaulish homei- of their own. Rut the bill which Gongress passed and thP President signed was a complete failure. 'l'ruP, the dutit:'s on lumber, iron ore and bituminous coal were rP– duced, thus perhaps enabling the new family to buy lumber and nails to baild their home, and fuel to heat it. But of what value is a house unless · those who am to live in it can have food to eat and clothing to wear? While there are vr1rious changes in the schedules, it is sairl by impartial students of the new tariff that, 011 the whole, there will be no saving on fo0d, while the rati>s on wo,ilen goods., amounting to almost one hundred per r.ent in the old tariff, remain unchanged and the rates on cotton goods have actually been increased . It looks as though the preacher will have to go without his fee for a long time yet. Orville and Wilber Wright., Count Zeppelin, M. Bleriot, n,1d other aviator~ h,WP heen having remarkable success with dirigible balluvu~. monoplane:,.;~