The Butler Collegian: Volume 7 Issue 2

              The Butler Collegian. 
VOL. VII. IRVINGTON, IND., NOVEMBER, 1891. NO. 2. 
The Butler Collegian. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. 
EDITORS: 
Editor in Chief R. F. DAVIDSON, '92. 
Assistant Editor LONA L. IDEN, '93. 
Literary BERTHA THORMEYER, '92. 
EVA M. BUTLER, '93. 
Local GERTRUDE JOHNSON, '92. 
HARRY L. HENDERSON, '95. 
Alumni Editor EVA M. JEFFRIES, '91. 
Exchange Editor J. L. BRADY, '93. 
Business Manager REED CARR, '92. 
All communications for publication may be addressed to the Editor in Chief; all in regard to subscriptions, advertisements, etc., to the Business Manager. 
The Alumni of the University are invited to send items, poems, sketches, short articles, and especially personal notices. 
Associate Editors will be pleased to receive reports of incidents and events of college interest. 
TERMS: 
$1.00 Per Year in Advance. Single Copies, 15 Cents. 
All bills for advertising due after first insertion. 
Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Irvington, Indiana. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
EDITORIAL ... 29 
LITERARY - 
The Warning ... 31 
Defense of Bacon ... Bertha Thormeyer. 31 
University vs. College ... Geo S. Cottman .. 34 
A Trip to Spanish Town ... 37 
What Happened One Halloween ... 39 
A Tramp Through Southern Indiana ... 41 
ALUMNI NOTES ... 44 
Y. M. C. A. NOTES ... 44 
EXCHANGES ... 46 
LOCALS ... 48 
EDITORIAL. 
Why can't we have better light? 
Do not become discouraged because the team has not won every game. We still have a chance at the pennant. 
HAVE the editors of Drift been elected yet? 
THE Saturday morning lectures are very much appreciated by the students. 
COMPLAINT has been made of the misbehavior of some of the students that go to and from the city daily on the electric cars. The young men should never forget to conduct themselves as gentlemen. 
THE recent invasions of private rooms at the dormitory should receive the condemnation of all fair minded and peace-loving students. Although meant for a joke, such actions are presuming too much on the good nature of the victims, and the perpetrators are deserving of the reprimand which they received. 
THE convention of the college section of the Young Men's Christian Association, which met with us recently, was an event o fpleasure and importance. The Y. M. C. A. movement among the colleges, as elsewhere, is worthy of all praise on account of both its objects and its results. A few years ago the association was unknown as a factor in college training, but since its establishment by a few men at Princeton, it has had a wonderful growth, and has become indispensable as a means of Christian culture. Faculties and students have taken hold with earnestness, and the organization has developed into a great body of enthusiastic workers in the cause of Christ. So we