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the name of "Hebrew Children." Consoling themselves with the fact that this study consists of only one language, instead 01 eight, they confidently settle down to work. During the vacation the august body of Ecclesiastical Dignitaries had been supplementing their experiments, the result of which appears in the form of a mandate, which, like the laws of the Medcs ami Persians, altereth not, de- creeing that the group shall take a post-graduate course at the Seminary. This information is not enthusiastically received, probably for reasons shown by Pettet's visit to Pottsville, Pa., Melvin's letters from Chestertown, Md., Gibson's frequent requests to come to Baltimore, Livingston's visits down town, and Ward's smiles across the dining-room. The Hebrew Children of Old Testament fame had the advantage of our heroes, in that they had only to pass through one fiery furnace, while our un- fortunates were doomed to what seemed to them an endless repetition of such an ordeal, and perhaps because of their inferior piety no supernatural hand seemed to screen them from the torturing flame, but every recitation in Hebrew marked a period of unequaled torture, rendered more acute by the stinging information that we are dumb, and when he had fanned the flame into seven times its usual heat, by the shaking of his coat-fail, called this ;; unsatisfactory work," and consequently redoubled his efforts. After nine months' endurance, supplemented by three examinations, in connection with the other duties of college life, am Hebrew Children, pale. worn and haggard, receive their diplomas, and depart in peace, resolving, of course, to make a specialty of the study of Hebrew, to the exclusion of all else, and to ever hold in remembrance the miseries of the fiery furnace. '74