New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-07-21

COMMENCEMENT Al HARyARD.-The Academ-
cal folks were favored with fine day yesterday -
Though the was hot and the sky clOudless. the
breeze constant strong and refreshing At about
~ O'Clock found the Governor and Council with the
college dgnitaries aud church full of literary men,
with good show Of beautiful and intelligent ladie
listening TO the maiden performances OF some rs picked
orators OF the graduating class, who followed each
other in rapid succession each giving taste of HE
subject and passing of. The monotony was relieved
by music every fourth OF hith speech We were par
ticulsrly pleased with the performances OF Robert
Bsrnwcll Rhett OF Charleston :. c James Edward
Oliver of Lynn, and Charles Francis Choate Of salem
II Is true that the boys have good deal OF the
vatVe nonsense and twadde about them, which they
of course derive from teachers in very easy circum
stances with nothing TO gain and everything TO lose in
their own apprehension, from change, but they have
also many ideas which belong TO progress and reform
and faint idea of what they have ~ do 10 pay Tho
world for their bringing up. OF the Greek ORATOR
about the ogos OF Percles cannot speeke Il being n
q tongue never very familiar and now completely tos
gotten by We should have preferred English sbOG
the lagos OF Zachary Taylor But the learned lsdie
and the Doctors of Law and Divinity present probably
understood II better than English The ladies generally
were delighted with II and got perhaps a very eles
idea of the impetuosity OF Demosthcnes, and IN
soemnity OF Paul in Mars Hill
The Degree of Bachelor Of Arts was conferred upoI
n young gentlemen. The Degree Of Master Of Art
was conferred on a number. The Degree OF ND wa
conferred upon al students Of the Medical school ans
and that OF Bachelor Of Laws upon - students OF th'
Law school only two OF whom present lh'
Degree OF LII was conferred upon Hon. hof &C,
Mann Nj. C.. Hon. Richard Fletcher Associate gusiic,
OF the supreme Court Of Massachusetts; Hon George
Eustis Chief Justice Of Louisiana and Hon TheOphiu
Parsons Professor in the Law School OF the University
The ID. was also conferred upon Rev. Lew Wsshburf
Leonard Of Dublin, \. H.; Rev. George washiugto
Rurnap OF Baltimore and Rev. Chsrle. kittrdre ru,
of Chalesiown. Mr.. True belongs to the Methods
Church graduated, IS lew Methodists do in lsss ans
represents that important denomination Ia the Boar,
of School Commissioners.
The Honorary Degree Of Master Of Arts confer
red on Professor Arnold GayOt OF NeOtchStel Switz
erlsnd Francis Alger, and Jonathan lngersOn Bow
ditch, of Bos,on The Dinner, much more lmPoriau
and substantial affair. conferred upon the dstir
guished legal, clerical and medical gentlemen and u
alumni Of tina, other colleges quite generslly-snd wa
good cold water feed.
Among the distinguished personages whose presene
srsced the occasion beside Governor Briggs and Coui
cil we noticed ExPresidsnis Quincy and Everett
Chief Justice Shaw, Senator Davis Hon J q. Fslfrel
sheriff Eyeleth DR. lyman Beecher and several very IN
hooking military men whose brilhsney OF plnmsge an
uniform rejected the highest credit upon their tailor
and ssddlers lVhronoyPe'