h 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 curio