THE
Trinity Archive.
Published under Supervision of the Professor of English.
Trinity College, Feb. 1888.
In accordance with the regulations governing the management of the Archive, the Editors from the Hesperian Society are changed. Two new ones take their places in this issue on the staff, and three of the former set are retained, but are assigned to new work. The representatives of the Columbian Society do not go out till the last quarter. By this arrangement part at least of the staff is always familiar with the duties of the office.
This paragraph is especially addressed to that “old” student whose eye falls upon it. Write to the Archive, and in so doing you will furnish entertainment to many a friend of your college days. We mean you.
That toy of modern linguists—Volapûk—is having a wonderful run with publishers. Handbooks to it “now tread on one another’s heels.” The American Philosophical Society, at a meeting last fall, appointed a committee to examine into the scientific value of this “universal language.” Their report points out the requirements for such a language, and finds on comparing them with Father Schleyer’s system, that it is “synthetic and complex,” and therefore unsuited to modern needs.