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THE COLLEGES. Commencements in New York and New Jersey. HARVARD EXERCISES. The First Banquet in Me- mortal Hall. ALUMNI DAY AT YALE. An Oration by Hon. Edwards Pierrepont. Unveiling of the Statue of Presi- dent Pierson. UNION COLLEGE. Governor Dix Addresses the Grad- uating Class. W. M. EVARTS AT DARTMOUTH. His Eulogy on Chief’ Jus- tice Chase. COLUMBIA COLLEGE. Award of Prizes—Conference of Degrees. The one hundred and twentieth annual Com- mMencement of Columbia College was held yester- @ay at the Academy of Music, The spacious build- ing was filled with an enthusiastic audience of Weil-wishers and friends of the succcssful youths who were the enviable recipients of Columbia's valued prizes and degrees. The proceedings commenced at ten o'clock and were not concluded till half-past two in the alter- Reon. So unremitting was the interest sustained by the several exercises that hardly a single per- son of the numerous assemblage left their seats till the close of the meeting, notwithstanding the great warmth of the day. Vice Chancellor Benedict, in the scarlet robe of ® doctor of laws, accompanied by the Faculty of Columbia College, in full academic costume, took their places on the stage punctually at ten o'clock. ‘The exercises of the day were interspersed with Pleasing musical selections, commencing with Buppe’s overture “Banditenstreiche,” and giving afterward various well chosen morceaux from Stranss, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Mozart and Gungl. The various orations, and especially the prize es- says, called forth 1oud plaudits from the audience and many a floral tribute to the successful talent of the eloquent authors, The valed ictory address, by Mr. George Christian Kobbe, was marked by exceeding neatness and delicacy of expression. Rev. Cornelius R. Duffie opened the meet ng with prayer, giving also the benediction at we conclusion. Previous to distripution of the prizes in Greek, Proiessor Drisier stated that it was most grati- fying to him to be able to say that the answering im examination in this subject this year had reached & very high standard, lar surpassing that of pre- vious years. The tollowing is the order of the exercises :— Prayer, Rev, 0. Duffie; Greek satutatory oration, George Forest Butterworth. Succeeded ye these other orations, ‘Popular Indifference to e Exercise of Suffrage,!? Benjamin Aymar Sands; “The Anglo-Saxon,” Frank Drisler; “Practical Thinkers,” Albert Jared Lorer; “The Neces- amity .of Speculative Minds,” George Ken- nedy; “Influences of Grecian Art upon Roman Ctvilization,” Sylvaias. Albert Reed: «Rapid Transit,” Spencer Aldrich; ‘Intellectual Jupk-shops,” Jay Humphreys; * mpetitive Ex- Sminations,” Frauk Dunlap Shaw; “"Vonders ot the World,” Frank Storrs, The Latin oration was to have been delivered by Frederich Witham Heinrichs, an oration on ‘‘The Choice of a Proies- sion,” by Alfred Meyer, and one, “Classics va, Science,” by Thomas Witt Thompson, bat these gentiemen were beld excused. After the delivery of the addresses the Vice- Chancellor announced the names of the Honor men in the graduating cl: the re- suits of the competition for Scholarships in the Freshman, Sophomore and Japior classes, and awarded the Trustees’ Prizes for exrelling in German, the Trustees’ Greek Prizes, the Trustees’ Prizes tor English Essays, and the prizes in the School of Mines. George Forrest Butterworth was the jorvunate recipient of that reward—the prize of the Alumni Association, given to ‘the moss aa and deserving student of the graduating o! ‘The prizes awarded were:—For proficiency in German iSaore advanced class)—first prize, $30, Herman Drisler; second, $20, William Cleveland ‘Thayer. In less advanced class—first prize, $30, Witham Christopher Rhinelander; ne, Bn $20, Frederick stilwell Ackerman, The prize of the Alumni Association was $60, Junior rises in Greek—First, $300, Edward Delavan rry; second, $150, William James Adams; next in merit, Jonn 4. Browning. English Essay Prizes—First, $100, 8. C. Harrower; second, $50, F. Hendricks. Scholarships ior 1874 (!resnmen class)—Greek, not awarded. Latin—John Buck- ley Pine; honorable mention in the same exami- nation, Aeury Goldman. Mathematics—Charles Montague Ward; honorable mention, Bunting Fletcher. Rhetoric—Wiliam Henry Hyde, Jr. SOPHOMORE CLASS. Scholarship in Greek—Eugene Seligman; honor- able mention, David Vaiman. In mathematics— Fre‘ierick Oakes; honorable mention, David Cal- man, pagers Seligman, Leighton Williams and Richard Th. Ely. In History—David Calman; hon- orabie mention, Eugene Seligman and J. FE. Hindon Hyde. In Latin—irvin Auchiniogs Sprague: hon- orable mention, Eugene Seligman, George Wash- ington Seligman and Benjamin Franklin Mayer. JUNIOR CLASS. Scholarship in Greek—Hdward Lyman Short; honorable mention, Edward Delay: Perry. in chemistry—Randolph, Harry; rable mention, T. S. Ormiston, The scholar in nysics Was not awarded. In mechanics—Harry innea Bodley, Jr.; honoravle mention, Alistor Greene. In English—Harry innes Bodley, Jr.; honorable mention, Duncan MeKim. In Latin— Eaward W. Price; houoravie mention, H. 1. Bod- key. Jr. The Scuool of Mines—A iriend of the school has offered # prize of $50 to the student of the first year who passes the best written und ex- perimental examination in qualitative analysis and $80 to the student of the scnoul who gives evidence of the most thorough knowledge’ ot the theory and practice of assaying. Tnese prizes are called the ‘Torrey prizes, in honor of Dr. John Torrey. In accordance with the terms of this donation the prize in qualitative analy- sis, $50, Was conierred on Nathanisl Wright Lord, Thomas S. Allen aud W. Lowrie Hoyt are reported as entitied to honorable mention in the same ex- amination. ‘The prize in assaying was given to Eben Erskine Ole tt; entitled to honorable. men- tion, J. G. M. Cameron and F, H. Williams. The undermentioned gentlemen were formally admitted by the Vice Chancellor to degrees :— Honorary Lt. ).—Rey. Eben Edwards Beards- wey, rector of St. Thomas’ church, New Haven, onn. 8, T. D.—Rev. Josep Hart Clinch, chaplain to the uvlic mstitutions o! the city of Bost Mass. ; | v. Jacob Cooper, Protessor of Greek at Rutgers College, N. J. vy. Wiillam H. Harrison, rector of Grace church, Newark, N. J.; Rev, Norns Merrett, rector of St, Peter's church, Morristown, M. A. (Class of 1871)—Robert Barbour, Clarence Rapelye Conger,’ LL. B.; Stuyvesant Fish, Jacov Herrick Henry, Joseph Hooper, Francis Hustace, Richard Busteed Kelley, LL. B.; Henry Day Loder, a James Brander Matthews, James Otis | LL Morse, Jr.; John Watts Russell, LL. B.; William | Henry Sage, LL. B.; Oscar Solomon Strauss, LL. B. ; Robert Swan, or, M.D; Obadiah Valentine, Joseph Fencion Veriilye, Robert Waller, Jr.; George Francis Work, and also George Starr Sco- field, Jr., Li. B., of the class of 1870. B. A. (Class 1874)—Spencer Aldrich, W. 5. Al- lerton, K. Buckley, G. F, Butterworth, T. M, Cheeseman, KR. C. Cornell, Frank Drisiet, J. H. Foster, P. P. Harrower, ', §, Henry, F. W. Hen- dricks, Jay Humpureys, W. W. Johnson, G. Ken- nedy, G. C. Kobbé, A, J. Loder, Aurea Myer, E. 8. Rapallo, 8. A. Reed, B. A. Sands, H, T. Scudder, F. 8 » Frank Storrs, IT. D, Thompson. Otis Field, Jr., of class ‘73, also presented himself for ‘and received his degree. 4, GM. Cameron, SM Lilie, Goorge Mareen BE . G. M. Camert Lillie, George Murray, E. b. Gicott, F. B. F. Rhodes, F. i! Wilkams, Civin ENGINEKR.—Jobn Gedney Mott Cameron. The honor men Of the class of 1874 are ;— Finst Ciass.—1. G,. KF. Butterworth; 2 F, W. Heinrichs; 3. B. A. Sands; 4, Frank Drisier, SECOND CLAss.—1. A. J. Loder; 2 George Ken- nedy, THIRD OLASS.—1, 8. Aldrich; 2. J. Humphreys; 3 FP. D. Shaw; 4. Alfred Meyer; & F. Storrs; 6 1. D. Thompson; 7. G. ©, Kobod, ‘tho Committee of Management, which may } NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNK 25, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. consisted of Mi Frank Drisier, D, Shaw, 8. A. J. H Foster, S. Aldrteb, Cheeseman, C, R. Buckiey and 8. T. 8. Hepry. Mr. B. Somner Rapallo acted as Grand Marabai on the occasion, 8T. JOHN'S COLLEGE. The Twenty-ninth Annual Commence- ment Yesterday at Fordham. The twenty-ninth annual Commencement of St. John’s College, Fordham. was celebrated yester- day under the great oaks of the Fordbam grounds, through which, by the way, the law says no boule. vard or street improvement can go. There was @ neat platform under the oaks, draved gracefully with American flage, where was assembled a large number of Catholic clergymen at the opéning of the proceedings, as well as the members of the graduatipg class, who were to do the spouting, Tne fine weavber and the excellent arrangements by the good iatners made the exhibition bours pass by most pleasantly, The Archbishop was present and, at the close of the proceedings, he made & few remarks to the students, which, if they were, sensible fellows, must have been well relished. The address to the graduates was delivered by General M. T. McManon, The address was a timely one, it was brim full of good suggestions and flowing over With excellent advice to the yoang men who, cause they are graduates, @ an idea that they know a great deal more than the ordinary Tun of mankind, whether they are of the claesicul order or not. ‘The proceedings were opened at noon; a band of music doing its instrumental utmost to enliven the general scene. The fathers of the college were also on the plat- jorm—that is, the fathers who make up the domes- Uc samily—the chiei men of the Fordham estab- lishment, The “intellectual” exercises were given as fol- lows:—The Moral Element in Education,” kd- Ward Bermudez, A. B.; “Popular Recreations,” Joon F. Leary; ‘the Limitof Legislation,” Charles F. H. O'Neill; ‘‘Singleness of Purpose,’ Horice K. Doherty; ‘Ihe it of the Physical Sciences,’ Peter at ‘aledictory,’? John P. O’Brien. ‘The degree of Bachelor of Arts wus conferred on the following studenis:—Michael McDermott, Ho- boken, N. J.; George MoCreery, Belleville, ‘N. J.: Horace K, Douerty, Honesdale, Pa.; Krancis M. Adams, Columbus, Ua; Jonn C. McBride, Jersey City; sohn P, O'Brien, New York; Joseph F. Car- Min, Praviaence, RK. I.; Charlies F. B. O'Neill, New York; William 8, Keegan, Brooklyn, b. 1.: Bernard J. Reilly, New) York ; Joon Shea, Fordham, N. Y.; Robert #. touney, Ovarleston, 8. 0.; Thomas B. Minahan, Pittsburg, Pa.; John F. Leary, Boston, Mass, ; Peter L. aailaly, New York; Edward Karri: bault, Assumption, O. E.; Thomas Kearney, New York ;;Joseph D. Murphy, Albany, N. Y.; trick Donnelly, Ireland ; Tob:as Fitzpatrick, th Bridge, N. Y.; Charles J. Gallagher, Brooklyn, L. 1. In consequence of a serious lent which befel him some ‘days before the final examination, Mr. McDermott, though a member of the graduating class during the whole year, was unapie to com- pete for honors, His fellow graduates, as a mark of affectionate sympathy, have very gracefully voted him the highest rank in his clas. The gold medai, awarded for the best blographi- cal essay,. Was merited by Horace Keating Doherty. Next in merit, Bernard Reilly; subject, Louis X’ of France, Donor ior the ramen year, William J. Joyce, A. B., Class Ol '61, New York, ver medals for proficiency: were.awarded for rhetoric, to Charles N. Bulger; for Belies Lettres, to’ David H. Hunt; for ciassics, to Walter D. Denegre. ‘The silver medal for good conduot of the senior division was awarded to Patrick P, Halpin. The degree of Master of Arta was Cet Se bg the following gentiemen :—Edward Be their Ofieuns, bees be As. Muguet-Latoury “i Canada. MOUNT WASHINGTON COLLEGIA Old Harvard and Yale cannot be said to claim all the attention of mankind at this season—though they do monopolize most of it—for the commence- ments of our smaier schools of learning, occurring now almost dally, are largely attended. Yester- day afternoon a large and fashionable audience assembled in Association Hall to witness the clos- ing exercises of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, of No. 40 Washington square, and an interesting programme, under the able super- vision of Professor Waiter 0, Lyman, fully rewarded them, The exercises of this institution were ren- dered particularly attractive this year owing to the adoption ofa rule at the commencement of the year, whereby temale pupils are admitted (a rule which Protessor Clarke states “works admirably”). Sbarply at two yesterday the exercises began, tne Rev., Mr, Lucas offering a prayer. A young gentleman, uamed Henry H. ies, then delivered an oration upon the proiific subject of ‘croakers,” Miss Laura R. vu Bois following with an ex: y and able essay, entitled “The ip of Writing and Reading.” “Singieness of ”? was the sub- ject-of Mr. David W. Brown’s wating oration, and was a masterly effort, rewarded by spplaase and many flowers. Music succeeded, alter w! recitation of ‘The Ourfew,” by Miss Emma OC, Hilton again drew the emphatic plaudits of the audience. An oration by Mr. Wiluam A. Clarke, ‘was meritorious in its handling of a rare subject— “Sympathy’’—meeting also with a liberal floral re- ward, “LExile,” nch peer in two par Lottie J. Hallock and Miss Bi Was recited by Bow. The customary commencement exercises were next further varied by the performaace of “Lightneart’s Pilgrimage’’ (an allegory). The characters were represented by Misses Du Bois; Hilton, Hallock, Smith, Akin, Asten and Lucas, Miss Gracie Akin, a@'petite golden haired young lady, distinguisned herself as Celesta. ‘The recita- tions by little children irom the junior class were very, 0 Rida oA The salutatorian of the class was Mr. J. Mortimer Granby, and the salutatory being sensibly delivered tn the English lavguage Was appreciated by the audience, Mr. J. Edgar Bull delivered the valedictory, which, thougn a trine highflown, was a creditable effort. In the distribution of prizes A. Freeman, Jr., was awarded the first honor for oppor ements A. Kiamroth, Jr., for attendance. In the middle and junior depart- ments G. H. Condict received the first prize tor deportment and Miss Nellie Clarke jor at- tendance, Among other honors awarded to under- graduates, J. K. Blauvelt recetved one for Greek, also for Latin, algebra and English — H. D. Appleton one tor geometry, Frank B, Hallets for arithmetic, C. Brainerd, Jr., ior natural A Miss Lottie J. Hallock jor French, E. C. ay ard jor German, William Adams tor oe and J. W. Halstea for mechanical drawing. The presentation of dipiomus to the graduating class by the Princi- al, George W. Ciarke, Ph.D., closed the exerctses, ‘The following are the names’ of the graduates of °74:—Miss E. Gracie Akin, D. W. Brown, J. Edgar Bull, W. A. Clarke, Miss L. R. Du Bois, M. Kiseman, Miss B.C, Hilton, J. M. Granby, A. W. slaraman, A. L. Odell, W. R. Prescot’, Miss A. F. Smith, FB. A, Vanzandt and Henry H, Spies. MANHATTAN COLLEGE. _—— Farewell Celebration the De in Salle Club. The farewell exercises of the De la Salle Liter- ary Club, of Manhattan Voileze, wore celebrated yesterday afternoon on the sward in front of the old building. A large and fash- jonable audience, the iriends and guests of the club, assembled on the grea, long before the hour announced for the commence- ment of the exe rcises had arrived. The De La Salle Club ts composed, for the moat part, of the members of the graduating class, und 18 a lair ex- ponent of the literary ability of the college's best men, The programme consisted of speeches und music and was fairly up to the average occasions of this character. ‘rhe young men of the clab were addressed by. Mr. Milan McGowan, who complimented ,hem on their last schoolday effort, and on bvebalt of the visitors thanked them for the pleasant treat. The orchestra played @ sprightiy march as the visitors promeuaded through the college hallaand museum, PRINCETON COLLEGE. BLT # Sa bak, PRINCETON, Jane 2, 1874. Shortly after noon to-day the Commencement exercises of 1874 were closed, and the little splurge of mild dissipation that the collegians, tueir friends ana their sweethearts have indulged in during the week came toan end. Wheiher Dr. McCosh belleves that Commencement Week is pro- motive of living for ahigh end remains an unan- swered query, but it is quite certain that the title of hia Baccalaureate sermon, “Living ior a High End,’ Nas been the inspirer of more jokes in Prince ton than probably any sermon ever published, The procession was formed in the college chapel about eleven o'clock this morning, and, preceded by Dodworth’a band playing inspiriting strains, the faculty, the stadents and @ long line of friends artived at the First Presbyterian caurch in good order. Tho galleries and a portion of the floor were filled by ladies, and when Dr. Hodge rose to implore the divine blessing ou the 127th Commencement, tho invertor of the church, crowded agit was in every part, presented a very attractive appearance. The Latin saluta- tory was delivered by Mr. Allan Marquand, of New York; the Greek salutatory by Mr. Samael Ross Winans, Jr., of New Jersey; the English salutasory by Mr. Simon John McPherson, of New York. Then followed, with intervals of music, & number of orations on philosophical and classical aubjects, ‘These wero succeeded by speeches on literary and social subjects, After the interval of fifteen min- |: Geneva, Switzerland, D. D. , Theodore Sewall, delivered the Master’s oration on “Scepticism,” in | His appearance was greeted with cheers and ap- which he swept neory the eutire fleld of ween commencing with the “Everlasting Year’ an ending with Darwinism. PRIZES: AND DEGREES, The following jist of prizes and degrees was Presented and awarded aitcr the delivery of the above oration :— HONORARY DEGREES. James MeClure, class of 185, Professor of Mathematics id Asironomy, Ceniral High school, Philadelphia, D.; Hon. Ainzi Dodd, Viee Chancellor, New Jerse} ; Rev. P. Augustus Stuadtord, Lambertvilte, . Rev. George 5. Mott, Fiemiogton, N. Y., Saree g. Snes. resident Tneolegical veminary, Roy: . D.D.5 J. wall Hodge, of nN. + Loula’ icuttate’ Professor’ ‘thea m jartiord, . ical Seminary, .: George W. Kehoch, Prine yy ofthe Lincoln, '® School, Philadelphia, H, My Ho’ oe i. D., Newark, Ph. D.; Pro.essor B. Waterhouse Hawkins, D. 8. FELLOWSHIP, The Marquand Classical Fellowship.—Andrew Hem- ing, Mest, tacky ye ed z lathematical Fellowship.—George Henry Terris, an. The i Roncetlor Green Mental Science Fellowsbip.— vtthe Glas of Haperimsental’ Galenes, Fellowship. —Ale * y Alex. ancer Heed Whitehill of Pennsylvanian be. Hondrus Historical Feliowship.—John Wesler Sepni, of Fenuarivanis. The Hondrus ern Language Fellowship.—David Compton, of New Jersey. . PRIZES, The McL¢an Prize.—James Pcnnewell. Delaw: Junior Orators.—Medaliists—First, anthony man, New York: second, Dudley «, Artten, Texas; third, John F. Campbell, New Yors; fourth, Jomes Pennewell, Dela- le Class Prizes.—George votts, New York; John Qranam Heed, ‘New York James Chisholm, ' south Dickiuson. Priae,—Arthur Newman, New York. y gf oR pine English lterature, $140.—Delancy Nichol, rk. Class of 61, mathematica, $80,—Chandler White Ricker, New Jersey. The proceedings of the Commencement wero Sotet @dinuer given to the Alumni in Dickin- SETON HALL COLLEGE. A Very Interesting Programme, and a Large Lay and Clerical Attendance. Yesterday was Commencement Day at Seton Hall College, picturesquely and beautifully located at Sontn Orange, N. J., in full view of the lovely Orange Mountains, As customary of late years the exercises took place in the open air, under a broad awning spread in the grove tothe leit of the college buildings, the coliegians, clergy and distinguished guests occupying seats on a plat- form. There was present a large attendance of clergy and laity. The programme, which was one of real interest, Was conducted to a most success- ful issue by Rev. Father W. M. R. Callan. DEGREES AND MEDALS : were conferred and awarded as follows:— Bachelor of Arits—James Byder Aveilhe, John Pat- rick Callaghan; Eugene Charles Carroll, Patrick Francis Connolly, Daniel kdward Deia: Hoary Joseph Dough- erty, John rrancis Dowd, Michael Francis Downes, Chiistopher Churies Fallon, Henry Augustine Gross, James William Ke James Francis McEntec, Thomas Qunn, Jonn Erigens Robinson, John Francis Shanley. Master ot ar mes J brennan, Michael Joseph Brenna: h “ rennan, Robert Uminey Burke, Son Lucien, 0. jeruan ur Jove lenry, Patrick McCabe, Her- nard ohn Mulligan, Thoma: ¥ jernard Preston, John Augustine Sheppard, William john 8. Lawrence, Joseph Tiers, Isaac Patrick Whelan. A Good Conduct—The Hamilton-Ahern gold medal, John W. M.;Falden; the Hamilton-Ahern silver medal, John Quinlan, Henty H; Floyd. JamenJ. McLaugh'in. Christan Doctrine— Seton prize, topher O ion, Roemes P. McMillan, Eibi¢e—The Preston prize, Christopher C. Fallon. Philosophy—The McQuaid prize, Christopher 0. Fal- jon. oe —The c prize, Francis W. Duffy. Latin—Tne Anderson prize, Christopher 0. Fallon. Greek—The Bayley prize, Francis J. Griffin, Political Economy—The Boyle prize, Christopher C. Fallon. History of European Civilization—The Corcoran prize, B, Augustine Gross. History—the Bruner prize, Oharies ¥. MoLaushiin. Glvil Polity—The Crimmins prize, Charles k. McNeely. Mathema:ics—The Lamarche prize, John McFadden. Natvral Sclence—The Barry prize, T. Ward Mohun, Elocution—the Byrne prize, James R. Aveilhe. German—The sossier prize, JohnJ. McKee. Bible History—Tne prize, Miguel Ramos. Penmanship—The Foley prize, Miguel Ramos. For Proficiency in Drawing—The silver medal, Walter E. Malley. ‘Bost Recitations in the Freshman Class—The Presi- dent's prize, John A, Coyle. Bishop Corrigan delivered an address, which was Nstened to with rapt attention, and which con- tained sterling advice to the youths then about to leave their AJma Mater to begin the buffet with le’s stormy sea. A collation was sunsequently served in the reiectory, Kight Rev. Bishop Lough. lun, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was present. HARVARD COMMENCEMENT. CamBnriver, Mass., June 24, 1874, A cloudless sky, a gentle and refreshing breeze, and, all in all, one of the choicest days of the sum- mer season, dawned upon the commencement fea- tivities of the Harvard University. The spacious grounds and the lofty elms were never more beau- tiful, and all nature seemed to smile ap- provingly on the various in and ott door exercises. The attendance of visitors imme- diately interested in the occasion, as well as the gathering of general outsiders, was unusually large, and the event was in every respect a uni- versal caruival as well. as a university literary festival. The iollowing was the programme of the day :— 94. M.—Meeting of Overseers Memorial Hall. 10 A. M.—Procession formed in vestibule ot Memorial Hall and march tothe commencement exercises in Ap- pleton Chi ‘pe 1 P. M.—Atumni business meeting in Harvard Hall. 2 P. M.—Procession formed at Massachusetts Hall and march to Memorial Hall, where the annual dinuer was porved; addresses by President Eliot and others. Eel chapel opened for ladies at balf-past nine A.'M., and the commencement exercises begai atterten. Mr. Sibley, the veteran librarian, rocession for the ti hief Marshal, chusetts Hall \ he declared the tollowing nomin years—E. R.. Hoar, theodore jan, George 0. Shat- tuck, Samuel A, Green, B. R. Curtis, Wendell Phillips, John Lowell, James, Hields, Edmund Quincy, William I. Bowditch. Kor the term of three years (to fill the vacancy cadsed by the removal from the Commonwealth oe Mill) —Francis Parkman, William &. Hunting The following parts were delivered at the exercises in Appleton chapel:—Disquisitions—Ernest Francis. Feuo!- losa, “Pat William. Royal Tyler, “Ruskin’s Art Theories.” Dissertations—Frederick Joseph Stone, “So cialism in its Connection with the Labor Movement; The English Agricultural Laborer Charles Francis’ Withington, “Tragedy, Classical and Romantic.” Oration—George Wigglesworth, “the Em- peror Joseph II,” MEETING OF THE BOARD OF OVERSRERS. Karly in the morning the Board of Overseers held the customary meeting, occupying for the | first time the new Memorial Hall which was dedi- cated yesterday afternoon. President Clifford presided, and the votes of the corporation were presented conferring the usual academical de- grees UpOM persons recommende d by the several | raculties, The appointment of George F. Marshall as Instructor in Materia Medica for the ensuing year was confirmed; the proposition to establish a prema of geology was approved, and John cCrady, A.B. Was appointed uw Protessor of Zoology. THE FINANOBS OF THE UNIVERSITY. The balance of funds in the hands of the class subscription amounts to about $47,500, leaving $2,500 to be raised before another payment can be made to the corporation. The account shows— Balance on band last y Interest received sin Subseription Making a balance on nand as abov: PROCEEDINGS IN APPLETON CHAPEL. The procession formed at Memoria! Hall and Marched to Appleton Chapel, where the literary exercises took place, Every seat in the chapel was filled and many stood up, President Eliot occupied the chair, and aronnd him on the platform were not only the College om- cers and jaculty, but the usual number of distin- | guished alumni and guests. The proceedings Were opened with prayer and enlivened with occa- sional masic by the Germania band. On the conciu- | sion of the literary exercises the appropriate de- grees were conferred, , aa the foliowing honorary degrees were con- erred :— M. A.—Alvan Clark, of Cambridge; George Wil- | liata Bond, of Boston; J, Hammoud Trumoutl, of Hariford, Conn, D. D.—Professor Charles Catroll Everett, of the Divinity School. THE ALUMNI DINNER The chief event of the day was the alamnt din- ner, In the new Memorial Hall. At the end of the hall, opposite the matn entrance, a platform bad been raised, and on it two tebies had been placed, running from side to side. At the centre of the one in front sat General Cbaries Devens, Jr., Vice President of the Alumnt Association, and presiding oMicor in the absence of the President, Mr. James Russell Lowell. On bis right was President Eliot, Dr. Bellows, Josiah quincy, Natban Matthews, Mayor Bradford, of Camoridge, and William F. Weed. On hie Jefe were Governor Talbot, ex-Governor Cli- fora, Joun’’ Emory Lowell, ex-Cuiof Jus tice Bigelow, Francis Bs owinshield, Na- thaniel Thayer, Nathaniel Silsbro and the oldest alumnus present, Mr. Head, of the ciass of 1804, ‘Tne noise and tin the hal waa something to be depiored, but hardly to be surprised at. The men of tho junior classes, deprived of the osual Joltication on their own’ tin lower Massa- chosetts Hall, seemed determined, nevortheless, to, sacrifice none of tneit sport. So the meagre dinner materials were knocked about in fine style. Dishes were upset, liquid spilled, clothes smeared, and hands and faces daubed. The cojored waiters had a pretty hard Time, their treatihent in some dustances being such that they were alraid to go noar the gay young sparks. After order had been secured @ brief prayer was offered vy Dr. Bellows, in which he asked the blessing of God upon alma mater and her sons. Tho eating of the dinner, somewhat Meagre though it was, oceupfed the time antil past three o'clock, When the old luRa- fairly congratulate themselves on the success of | utes Mr, Oliver Alexander Kerr, of Pepntylvania. | rian wok his ylace by the side of Governor Talvot, | ham Pierson, who was President of plauge by the audience. THE FLOW OF SOUL, A psalm was sung by the entire body of men. ‘The first addres+ was delivered by General Devens, and he was followed. by President Eliot, Governor Taibot, the Rev. Dr. Bellows, the Hoh. Josiah jaincy, General Bartlett and Proieasor Thayer, of the taw school, All the speeches were interesting, that of General Devens being particularly eloquent. In most cases fitting aliusivn was made to Charles | Sumner. and in the case of President Eliot to | Louis Agassiz. THE ELECTED OVERSEERS. The voting ior overseers was anoounced, and the result was shown to be as follows:— For Str Years—B. KR. Hoar, Theodore Lyman, George 0. Shattuck, Samuel A, Green and Benja- min R. Curtis, For Tiree Years—trancis Parkman, ‘It has been decided to establish @ professorsht, of Zoology at Harvard, with John McCrady as lead- Pa procr, . F. H. Markoe was appointed instructor in materia medica for the ensuing year. ALUMNI DAY AT YALE, New Haven, June 2%, 1874 To-day the senior class must stand in the back- ground. Their jestivities occurred yesterday. But this 18 the day that belongs to the old graduates of Yale College, They are here from ail the States in he Union—from California and Louisiana, as well as Michigan and Maine—and are determined: to have “a good time.’” They fee! an interest in thelr Alma Mater. Tney gladly notice the improvements that are being made. The erection of new build- ings and the gradual development of tne entire university are welcome signs that gladden the hearts of all irue friends of education, whether gtaduates of Yale or any other institution, THE ALUMNI MEETING, The meeting of the aiumni was held in the Alum- Di bali at half-past mine A. M., and was called to order by Professor George E. Day, who nominated Judge Maunsell B, Field, ’41, a8 Chairman, and General William S, Pierson, a great grandson of the first president of Yale, as Assistant Secretary of the meeting. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. FE. D. Morris, 49, of Cincinnati, Juage Fields made a few preliminary remarks to the speakers of the occasion. He spoke mainly of tho necessity of the young men of the country turning their attention to its government, The proportion of educated men who take part in the councils of the country fa less than it was a halt century ago. If a pre- Mium is to be wet on the higher education it must be brought about by a close union between educa- ted men. No college promises to fulfll this idea to a@greater extent than Yale. The Chairman then called upon the representatives of the different classes which hold their regular class reunions at this Commencement, . Mr. sohn Turnal Adams, of the class of 1824, was first calied upon, and he amused the audience by an anecdote connected with his college experi- ences, SAMUEL B. RUGGLES. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, of the class of 1814, then followed in a few remarks, which he desired to be correctly reported by the members of the press who were present, Alter speaking of his class, which had graduated eighty-three members ana Was now represented by only ten, he turned his thoughts to the great question of the day—the pay- ment dr non-payment of the national debt. Objec- tions had been raised to paying the debt on the ground that the war so crippled us that we cannot recover ourselves for years; therefore, that itis not to be thought of asa practicable thing to pay ourdebt. He would not answer this question from a moral point of view, but would meet the ob- jection wholly on his own ground. He asked them to leave out of consideration every branch of in- dustry but the agricultural one, and argue the question on this basis, The cash value of the farms in the Northern States in 1860 was $2,620,000,000, in 1860 Was_ $5,012,000,000 and in 1870 ‘Was $8,869,000,000, thus sfowing a steady increase of value. In the Southern States the value of the arable land was in 1850, $1,328,000,000, in 1860 was $2,840,000,000 and in 1870 was $2,003,000,000, thus: showing ‘that the South was better off in 1870 by $675,000,000 than she was in 1850, Mr. Ruggles ended with a tribute to ex-President Woolsey, in Which he named him the Grotius of America. Mr, J. B. Thomson, of New York city, followed in afew remarks jor the class of 1834, and was jol- ‘lowed in.turn by the Hon. Henry H. Haight, ex- Governor 01 California, After speaking of his love for his own Alma Mater, Governor Haight spoke of the work which was being doue for education in California. The university which had deprived Yate o1 Professor Giuman was fast making prog. ess on the Pacific Slope. Une delect existed in its orgumzation, I$ was not under the con- trol of a private corporation but of the State. Governor Haight looked with regret on the inn | away of all the old landmarks at Yale: He hoped that South Middle mignt at all events be suffered to remain. He thought it was not all sen- mens which prompted this feeling ta him. vr. . Morris, Of 1849, spoke for the class who have been alumni for twenty-five years. In the course ot hia remarks he gives much praise to the col- leges of the West for the excellent work which they, too, have accomplished. He was followea by Mr. Alphonzo Taft, of 1833, who continued the same train of thought witn his predecessor. Smaller colleges do notcompete with the larger ones. They serve an excelient purpose in stimu. jating ® greater number to attend tne larger ones than would otherwise do so, SPBAKER HUSTED, OF ALBANY. Tne Chairman then called on Mr. James W. Husted, 1854, Speaker of the New York Assembly. Mr. Husted took his revenge lor the presumption by saying that he kvew of no one who couid get bis little bills through the New York Assembly with the ease the chairman could. At this poink Mr. Husted was interrupted by the entrance of ex- President Woolsey, witu his honored guest, Uhief Justice Waite, Mr. Husted remarked that betore guoh judicial weight and intellectual ability, the class of 1854 could not do better than modestly retire, Chief Justice Waite was loudly called for and fittingly cxpressed thanks for nis kind recep- uon. Mr. Husted was then called on by the Chair- man to proceed with his remarks. He corr said that had he been called on carlier in his life he would gladly have coinp.ied, but that the duties of a@ Speaker were to restrain others from speaking too often and never speaking himeelf, t EX-PRESIDENT WOOLSRY. Ex-President Woolsey was then called upon, Te said that, in reply to Professor Sumner, Yale had never had any trumpet, and had never had any one to blow a trum: et for her, and, therefore, none had éver been blown. In reterring to the late rebellion of the students of Bowdoin College he had noticed that the newspapers, although they have notin every instance said that the college authorities were altogether right, yet have uni- formly been on the side of authority and govern- ment. As long as they take this ground he cannot teach them anything. They have reached the level of his wisdom it they speak in that way. The exercises then closed with the reading by Professor Day of the Alumni Committee ior 1875. ‘They are as follows :—Presiaent Porter, Dr. Bacon, Professors J. ‘Twi ig, Elias Loomis, George B. Day, E. K. Salisbury, T. A. Thacher, ag Dwight, G. J. Brush, Hervert A. Newton, A, M. Woeeler, William @. Sumner, L. Packa: Simeon E. Baldwin, Eugene i. Richards, J. Weir, Dr. Francis Bacon, Mr. T..B. Dexter and the Hon. Henry B. Harrison. UNVBILING THR PIERSON STATUR. At twelve o'clock the statue of President Abra- College fy from 1701 to 1708, was unvelled. It stands fifteen feet high, and is of bronze with a stone base. The sculptor 18 Launt Thompson, of New York, and the giver Charles Morgan, of New York. The exer- oises commenced with a lively song by the Yale Glee Ciub, after which the Rev. E, 0. gett, D, D., of New York, offered @ brief prayer. Professor Weir then stepped to toe platform and unveiled the statue in the midst of the most proioand silence. The duty of presenting it to the college devolved upon Secretary B.G. Northrop. In his address, ostensibly delivered to President Porter, Mr. Northrop briefly referred to the gift by Mr. Mor- wan, of the fact that, like the duplicate labor of President Pierson, a duplicate of his statue will be placed in front of the Morgan School in Clinton, near the spot where Pierson taught the first classes of Yale. Yale, he said, was planted on Pari- tan ground, and it will continue to grow strong and Stable as it strikes its roots deep into such fertile soil, Waxidg Ticher witn time, gathering memo- ries, traditions and inspirations, with Which no mere endowments cau invest a new institution. History, a study jar more negiected in America than in Burope, alike in schools and colleges finds @ persuasive advocacy in statuary, In the capitals and hrterary centres o! Lurope treasures of art ren- der the ancients as real and vivid as the mod- erns. Even outside of their galleries, museums and collections of antiquities, the very. ground itself ts Classic. ‘Memorials of the past on every hand stimulate the curiosity of the young and in- yite investigation from the most scholarly. Vestiges of Roman rule and works, arcnes, columns, coliseams, me gt hated and aqueducts, or in later times wails, towers and casties, or monuments of vattles and victories, or @ nation’s herves and benefactors ensarined in marbie or | bronze, all foster the historic spirit. ‘Thougn no longer iconoclastic the American people still un- duly ignore the esthetic as well as the historic | element. in education. The love of the beautiful both in nature and art should be carly developed, and art be employed as an instrument of !tberal culture and au ally of virtue and religion. Mr. President, in behalf of Mr, Morgan, tt gives me great pleasure to present fo you and through you to Yale College this admitavie ideal of the Divine and scholar. ADDRESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. After the reception of the monument In due form by President Porter, Chief Justice Waite was introdaced and apoke as follows ;— All say Connecticut isa good State to be born in, Some add that it ts a good one to go irom. A jew only say it isnot good to stay in. But woether we go or whether we stay, all agree that it is just ritan the rece for preparation to enter upon the real work of ufe, What higher praise van Wo of Con- Becticut origin asx for our native State than the acknowledgment that she is Ot to be a trainer of men? 4 have always known this, but never have felt it as Ido to-day. This iorm, ideal though it may of the first President of our houored university, which patient ana loving art has given and generous wealtn placed here for | us to look upon, tells the whole stor). It is only a | little more than two centuries since the soil of | what is now C: nnecticut was firs: pressed by the | foot ot civilized man. Yet one of those centuries has passed and three-quarters of another since this college was founded and the work o1 higher | education commenced in the then gparsely settied | colonies, A little fSurtner On, and schools were | made free, and, as was then thought, Itberally en- dowed. irom tue public domain, The law did not compel & man to be educated, but custom, which | ig oitentimes more powerful than law, did. Our | fathers at the outset realized that 188 can only come irom those who know how to be goog, Hence these surroundings; hence | thia atmosphere of learning; hence these annual ghd of the sons of Yale to renew the vows of the past and do homage at the lap of their collegiate mother, But there is more. A few booxs, donated from the scanty libraries of those appointed to walk before the people and guide them on the road to a life above made up the first material contribution to the work which had been begun. Every leat would have cost its owner the bitterest pang ut the parting if it had been devoted to any other cause than the one he | so warmly cherished in his heart and bound to- gether tnose who so fully realized that wherever nowledge is there also is power. ‘The rock on whica they buiit was the rock of their religion, Betore our eyes pow it seems to have been cold and stig, and not untrequentiy irreligion, but it was religion, Agsuch Was received and as such ithas stamped the char. er ol the teachings here. Time has warmed its apparent colduess and given it@ more attractive iorm, but time hag never taken away from the seekers alter knowledge. a Tealiziog sense of the truth that Connecticut com- menced her teachings with an unquaiified. recog- nition of the wisdom of the laws which come from above. Such was the veginning. Who can meas- Ure the vast Magnitude of the results ? THE LAW SCHOOL SEMI-CENTENNIAL, The Yule Law Schoo! celebrated its semt-centen- Nia anniversary in Centre churca at four o'clock this alternoon, President Porter opened the pro- ceedings witn prayer, after which ex-President Woolsey delivered an interesting historical dis- course. ‘Yhe great feature of the programme, however, was the oration of Mr. Edwards Pierrepont, LL. D,,on “Ihe Influence of Lawyers Upon the Freedom of Governments, and the Influence of Mora! Forces Upon the Prosperity oi Governments,” EDWARDS PIERREPONT’S ORATION, Mr. Pierrepont was loudly cheered as ne arose to Gales his discourse, the substance of which is as jollows :— ‘The founders of this Republic were wise in their generation, put of the great future not much was revealed. In their day no steamer had ever Pionaied the ocean; no locomutive had ever drawn 1,000 men over the earth at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Buffalo was then practi- cally further irom New York than San Francisco is to-day; then communication between America and England was had after a jong and weary voy- age, while now a letter written in London at the rising sun 1s read in New York five hours belore his inspiring beams can gilda the mourn upon the topmast boughs of your Forest City. On the West, Asta, with her, strange civilization and ner date- Jess history, looks over into our lace; on the East, we can talk with Christendom as we will. Mexico, fast dissolving, will soon, very soon, melt into our embrace, and then the commerce o! the world is tour feet, With every climate, with every soil, with every mineral and every tree which the needs of man ean Wish; with colleges, newspapers, [ree schoois, free ‘auftrage, free speech; with slaver: abolished, energy, enterprise, activity unparal- leled and imteliect sharpened beyond uny experi- ence of the past, can we fail to become the great- est nation upon Which the aun ever shone? . Yes; and fail we shall unless a change comes over the spirit of this people, and sturdy honesty drives out imbecility and corruption! Moral forces as well as physical advantages must be considered tn calcu- lating the future of anation, No government can prosperously endure, which, in the main, is not administered by the higher intellect and tne higher Moral sentiments of the people. Lt requires ability a8 well as honesty to govern @ great nation wisely; and yet our people make frequent protest against this simple truth; they never employ a stupid lawyer to try an important cause nor an ignorant mariner to sail a valuable sbip, but they often elect | legisiators to make laws who Know scarce any- ‘thing, and about laws and toelr operation—noth- ing. “As the* country advuices new and complex relations make government the more difficult, and @ higher order of statesmansbip is required, DIFFERENCRS OF OPINION. Our fathers declared that all men were born free and equal, and to-day. we have in several States legislators who were Dorn negro slaves, some of whom nave no education whatever. Our theory ia that the most: ignorant must govern if they are the most numerous; and Arkansas, Louisiana and the other reconstructed States are giving our theory a rude test. But we are told that the trouble in those States comes of the fault of the South. But when your kitchen is on fire it does not help the matter to exciaim that it is the servant’siault. What you want is to save your house, When the war was ended a statesman could see that though slavery was gead its corpse was unburied and chained tast to the foot ot the Repubitc, and would breed disease if not wisely disposed of. But it was not thought desirable that statesmen should meddle tn tois matter and politicians hastened to reconstruct the South upon theories crude, 111 considered and impossibie Ol success. The seeds of this jolly are producing Iruits alter their kind, and bitter fruits they are, more dangerous to liberty than any that ever ripened on oar soti. THR MONEY QUESTION. We drift away from the economy of former days. During the early years of Washington's saminis- tration the entire ordinary expenses of the federal govornmen: were but $1,877,000 a year; while the taxes of the single city of New York this year are $39,218,945, and the cost of the federal govern- ment for the fiscal year, this month ending, as estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury, is $519, 198, A little arithmetic wiil show that our expenses have increased in far greater ratio than our population aud resources—an agly iact—so ugly that no one seems willing tv look it in the tace. The city of New York will: best tilustrate how easily great natural advantages may be de- stroyed by moral causes, Better placed ior com- Merce tham avy other great city on the globe, New York 1s losing her trade. A corrupt and imbecile government, neglecting the piers, docks, storenouses, elevators aud other tactlities for business, has, tureugh fraudulent practices, so iucreased the taxes and other exactions upon the merchant, and thus made bis expenses so enor- mous, that other places can undersell him; and trade, never sentimental or esthetic, goes where 1t-can buy cheapest. Money has a closer relation to morals than is gene! admitted. In all his- tory, whether of individuals or communities, 1 tind that laxity in Led matters is followed by looseness in morals; and among other evidences note @ favorite theory, quite prevalent just now, that there ought to be increased facilities in ob- taining divorces, on the ground that iacility of divorce will diminish the temptations to vice— that is, legalize robbery to prevent burglary. ECONOMY 13 A STBRLING VIRTUE in the administration of the State, and without it neither justice nor honesty is possible in govern- ment, Bxtravagance is one of the most corrupt- ing vices and leads by easy grades to numberiess crimes. It isthe curse 01 our day; it came of the issue of irredeemabie paper money to carry on the wars and when the war was ended luxury had produced an intoxication too dreamy to be volun. tarily abandoned. Our duty was in; and to any one worthy to be called a stat n our in- terest waa ae plain as our duty. We shoald have turned all our energies to keep our faith, to deem our promises, to stop our luxuries and end the sham which has cor- Tupted the nation. Like cowards we have shut our .eyes to the trath and revealed in delusions until we can deceive ourselves no longer. The reconstructed States, eager to prosper with the rest. issued bonds which they never hoped to pay, ruined their credit and their thriit and tumbled into anarchy, while we of tae North have piled ap our debts until our taxes are a burden rievous to be borne, We wake from the deceiv- ing dream to learn that the American people are subject to the same laws of nature and of finance as other mortals; th: romise tO pay a dollar is not adoliar any more a &@ promise fo deliver a horse for a Joad of wheat received is a horse; vhat our industries are pemraet because contidence has ceased, and that the issue of & thousand millions of new greenbacks would not restore the lost confidence for an hour or re- vive trade in the least. It will dawn upon the popular mind before Jong that during the war the. vernment printed eo tender’ id it Out everything which the country juced, and thas gave a temporary prosperity, at that now the government do not pay out @ dollar for any- thing until it has first collected the money from the people; when the changed condition ts under- stood {t will be seen that anew issue would bea delusion and a fraud, The farce of attempting to create property by legislative enactmént was ong. since played out by older nations, and always with the same disastrous resuita. It is now thirteen years since specie has been our ‘carrency. For more than twenty years, England, through the mfuence of the Napoleon wars was in the same condition, and she listened to the same suallow arguments which wo now hear; but her rosperity never returned until, under the maniy ead 0; Sir Robert Peel, she faced the situation, ac- cepted reality and rejected sham; from that hour her onward progress un. OUR EXTRAVAGANCE, We have been as extravavant as England atter the restoration and we are in debt for the reveiry. But some well-to-do citizen jooks up with innocent surprise and says, “I am not in debt.’ But you are, my deluded friend, and your house and your store and ali that you have heavily mort- ganed, and so are the wages of the humbiest la- rer, and none can escape. That our prosperity will revive again I make no question; it is the trib- ulation preceding the revival which we ought to avoid, A country with a eee 80 active sources 80 boundless will get along; statesmanship might save us many setbacks and Reavy troubles into which the lack of statesmanship may plunge ug. A government which gets money from its citizens on @ promise which it never tries to keep does not differ in the least irom the King who took his subjects’ money Without the pretence that he ever meant to pay, When @ government cheats its citizens, its citizens will cheat each other, The hardest strain which free government has ever had is close at hand; the next Presidential clec- ci 3 {a our history—tne public mind wil! be awake and that will be an eventful day. It will sertle the cae whether our government will keep ita and ‘urn ite determined face to wi Justice, economy and trutt, and thus begin with the new century a new career of prosperity and grandeur and niches such 8 the worid has not seen, or whether it will imitate England in ver corr uptest times and take the curse which amictea her so long. When the conflict comes may every lawyer and jg man«whom this great college educates La for the pubitc faith, for the honor and the giory o! his country, with his to the enemy and hia trust in heaven. At the conciusiom of the exercises and the an- nouncement of the prizes by Chief Justice Waite, the alumni of the Law School met ut the Court House to enjoy an hour im social intercourse and short speech-making. A grand reception is being given this evening, but Lo the alumni of the college the class reunion are attracting the most interest, The classes o 1814, 124, °34, 44, 49, "64, 169, '64, "68 -and '71 holding reunions in diferent parts of the town, UNION COLLEGE. SCHENKCTADY, N. Y., June 24, 1874. A gentle breeze from the northwest, sweeping over the emeraid meadows along the valley of the Mohawk, tempered the heated atmosphere and rendered the proceedings of the day exception- ally gratifying and pleasant to witness. The building in which the exercises of the alumni and the Chancellor's address were delivered—the Presbyterian church—was opened at ten, and soon became occupied, without being crowded, by @large and fashionably dressed audience, two- thirds of whom were ladies, the total number present being about 1,000, Ataquarter past ten @ procession of the heads of the college, former alumni and visitors entered, Dr. Eliphalet Todd Potter, President, and Governor Jon A, Dix, Honorary Chancellor, leading, followed py J. Cc, Robinson, Lieutenant Governor; N, K. Hopkins, Comptrolier; Charles ©. Jenkins, ex- Governor of Georgia; Daniel Pratt, Attorney General of New York; Clarkson N. Potter, member of Congress; Rev. Henry ©. Potter, Grace Church, New York; Hon. Ira Harris, Hon, W. W. Campbell, Hon. G C. Nott, Judge of Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.; Hon. Robert 8. Hale, M. C.; Doctor Taylor Lewis, Rev. Doctor Halley, Albany, N. Y.; Hon, R. H. Prayn. Alpany; 8. B. Brownell, New York; ™ Rensselaer, Hobart College, Gen» others. The 117th Psalm (Old Hundrev from the organ presided at by the audience all standing and ue old air. An appropriate prayer was offered by Rey. Dr. Upson, of Albany, N. Y. THB EXBROISES then commenced, the first being ‘‘Salutatio La- tina,” by Henry Webster Lawrence, Greenfield. Next came “Toe Age of Reason,” by George Fred- erick Beakley, Sharon Centre; jodern Oratory,’? by Fitch James Swinburne, Rouse’s Point; “Liter- ary Oulture—its Claimsand Compensations,” by George Artnur Hoadley, Sheffield, Mass. ; its Miseries and its Remedy,” by Franklin Abbott Jagger, Albany; ‘Grit, as Defined,” by Jobn Fred- erick Slosser, Schenectady. Music on the organ and cornet here gavea re- spite to the labors of the speakers for ten minutes. A brilliant eulogium, “Grant als Soldat,” by George Marcius Vial, Dorset, Vt., on the services and character of Grant, was listened to with marked attention and warmly applauded at its conclusion. ‘The Imfuence of Literature,!’ by Robert A. McDuffee, Glen; “Ont of Darkness) Into Light,” by Patrick Henry McDermott, schenec- tady; “The Problem of French Government,” Cort- land P. L. Butier, Jr.. Columbus, Ohio; **fhemes for the Poet,’ James Taylor Hoyt, West Green- a “Robert Burns,” Lawrence A. Serviss, Mina- ville, P Silver cup, value , for excellence of demeanor and progress, to trick Heury McDermott, wno ‘was warmly compitmented by President Potter and Governor Dix, being the first Catholic who took a prize. vin ident’s first prize, $50, to George Marcius all. Ingham prize, $70, to George Frederick Beakley. President’s second prize, $30, to James Taylor Hoyt. Prine Essays in English Literature.—ist. J. T. Hoyt; 24. P. H. McDermott. AWARDED, c. fovt Prize Scholarship.—ist. J. R. Davis; 2d. James Truax, Prize Speaking.—Junior—ist. Abbey; 2d. Lan- sing. Sophomore—ist. Truax; 2d. Baker. ‘taton'ora Oratorical Medails.—1st. Slosaer ; sub- ot “Grit.” 24, McDermott; subject, “Oat of kneas into Light,” * THE GRADUATING CLass, ‘The graduating class is as follows :— James rd Backus, Q Maxon, James Barker, Porrick Henry McDermott, George Frederick Beakley, Rovert A. Mc’ Dafiee, Tracey Chatteld Becker, ' Charles Francis Cook Moor, Walter Romaine Benjamin, Cortland P. L. Butler, Jr., Kaward L. Corbin, James Taylor Hoyt, Lawrence A. serviss, John Frederick Stosser, Milton Whiting Stickney, Fitch Jai winburne, Franklin Abbott Jagger, George 5 Vial, Henry Webster Lawrence, Henry Adams Waldron, George Byron Whit. OLVIL ENGINEERS. Homer Green, John William Maxwell, George Arthur Hoadley, Jobin McLellan, Jas. Livingston 0 Donnell, Frank Alexander Powell, Luke Peter Radeseisch, Jobu Ephraim B Edward Jackson So ‘William Leonard Jackson, Geo. Archibald Kilpatrick, Eugene Henry Sankee, David William Kinnaird, ster Allen Sharp, James M. Lewis, Jr., Henry Clifford Wilcox. GOVRRNOR DIX’S ADDRESS. Governor John A. Dix, who is Honorary, Chan- cellor of the University, addressed ihe graddating class. His remarks were quite lengthy, but Igive below only the most prominent points. He — GENTLEMEN OF THE GBADUATING CLass:—I not come before you to make a formal address, but for the purpose of presenting 10 the most Jamillar, colloquial way a few practical 8 tions for your thoughwul consideration regard to the broader sphere of which you are abuut to enter. It has often occurred to me that there was « seeming incon- gruity in applying the term Commencewent to exercises connected with the termination of the collegiate year, followed as it ts by the longest vacation, Guring which ail prescribed literary labor on the part both of proiessors and pupils is uspended. But there is a sense in Wiveh this ap- picetion of the term is appropriate and significant. it should be regarded us the real commencement of your literary life, and what rou have acquired should be considered merely as the rudiments, or, to speak Socratively, the materials with which the foundation ot the fabric 1s to be laid. I fear that it ig rarely so treated, and that the greater part of those who “go through college,” .a8 the common phrase is, think their literary labors ended when the doors of their Alma Mater are closed upon them, and retain aiter a few years only @ misty remembrance of the lights of science | which beamed on them in their student days. This observation is more particularly applicavie to their classical stndies. How mauy graduates are there, for instance, who alter the — of fitteen or twenty years have @ suMcient knowi- edge of tne Latin to translate with facility trom the Roman writers quotations which they meet in their miscellaneous reading, or who can (go over withont iaiterine the pages of Virgil, Horace or Ovwsar, with which they were once familiar? 1 tear the number is very small, One of the greatest errors which can be committed by those who are entering on the practical business of Itie is the waste and abuse oftime. Indeed, it may be regarded as the chief cause of the failures in professional and in- dustriai pursuite, with which society abounds. Ido not speak of it in the sense of the old adage that time is money. That is tne lowest view under which it can be considered, in saying 1 am not, | am aware, in with prevalent opinions, But time is also, in @ much higher sense, knowledge, inteilect- ual power and contentment of spirit. ‘There is no lue #0 weary and irksome as that of an idler; none 60 free from the mental tedium which the neh call ennui as that of him whose mental faculties are systematically employed. Ido not mean that there is to be no intermission of lator or application. Quite the contrary. The intellectual powers require, alter protracted exercise, @ suspension of effort, ‘but not necessarily in the same way or to the same extent as the corporeal. They may, by chauging the subject of thought, obtain the rela: on wriioh the hysical powers can eal gain . baO- jute res y We notéregard this capacity asa beneficent endowment by. Providence to enable us to go on without interruption in the pursuit of knowledge, thus constantly advancing towards the divine Oimnisctence, though forever doomea, through the tmperiection of our nature, to fee It at an immeasurable distance? To Illustrate what lL suggest: I believe it to be undentanie th when we have been engaged in working out the solation of a mathemat problem or in ringing @ train of reasoning to & logical conclusion, until We are incapable of further effort in one direction, rele! the . - tainly so if the eubject demands no exercise of the reasoning faculties, but merely brings un- der our cogulamnce ideas or facts from the outer world, QUOTING DICTIONARY LATIN. Let me give you one caution, If you become writers or public speakers, Rever quote irom the Latin — withor consulting the orig- inal auttior, Yo not trast to any dictionary of aotations. | will tell you my own experience. me years ago, having occasion to use a Latin | phrase, and vot feeling quite sure of it, I lephed Borie in the dictionary of Latin quotations, wi forms @ part of Kohn's classical library, and wo my surprise I found tt attributed toa wrong | to Ovid, when I kuew it was from Juvem l- theugh the work was compiled bya saat wae | schoiar and was commended by the Britian | lisher for its accucacy. ‘The discovery of this error | tom Is the turning pulnt; 16 begins a bew cenlury | CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE, LLL

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