The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-12
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PHovDWm, r. l., Sept. 7, 1858.
He vsadAr-Ssat< Holiday-Tk People Os-Addrssas-
Psems-Homoyary Degrees CoHaicn-Gor. CLIFFORD
Ssslh Caroli~a- Plymouth Rock, DC, DC.
you supposs that you escape tbs oppressive heat o.
The by leaving New YORK, you are decidedly mis-
taken. And very particularly seek this insulated
city ~ place refuge Yesterday and to day havt
suffered intensely yet have large crowd
Of people ut this season and on such occasion.
Cesamspcemspt day is = holiday throughout Rhod
lani quite the Fourth OF July or Christmas
1t is truly gala DAY for the people. The workshops
al closed the Thousands Of tons industrious operatives
IN the factoiss turn out in their cheap yet beautiful
AID attractive ATTIRE and the country and all the villa
gss throughout the whole State pour into the city per
feet ssod of the free and intelligent people Of Rhode
Island until one would think that the greatest highest
rst purpose of the souls of this whole people the
feHsvship Of literature and human knowledge and the
support Of their old and beloved Brown University II is
truly scbe spesacs to zee thus whole State rejoicing
the Of college and cheering ITS graduates
to greatness and glory 1t has too much do with their
success for these people confde their trusts in their
sasss, which IL nust be acknowledged powerful slim
ALIAS the proas cution of human knowledge Let the
student realize that the people conads their
10 and gDo ant blusterers his soul sinks in
despair resolves TO leave the unprsdtable and unho-
nOrbA VI 10
aeu Of real life around him.
Brown University is eighty nine years old 1t was
Literally chartered by the State but foaserei 1t
has stsod the Of time, ike Yale, and triumphsd
without State patronage, and, until recently, without
available endowment II is true that many years since
Mr. Nicholas Brown left large amount OF lands valued
at nearly 500 but these have yet yielded very
little The University has recently collected for the
purpose Of its $13 GEO. This increased
y the gift Of $4,000 IN 1889, for the library aud S3
900 BY various since. making total of active
cash snao~ Of $3.50 Geo. independent of the aad
fhs University is in more hourishing condition
than at any previous period believe that the highest
number Of 1aauatss at any time under the old system
in 1925 which forty eight There this year
jast halt that number, while the college classes are
erAti0a; numbering 24S.
TAs Is attributable the system introduced by
Dr. Waylaad in 1850 which provides for the education
ID students in this scenses only ths sciences and Ian
guagss bined the languages aloae giving nstruc
tus The INSTITUTION viii thus do far greater and better
service to the StAe in giving aspiring hut poor young
the EuDity OF obtaining such practical know
ledge u peculiar subjects viii enable them to pursue
desired calling most efficiently Hence this is but
tho second year the organization and 81 the classes
s.tv .ss seniors Sserradu.ss 50 that tbs ' list
must be mere than twice rs large next year.
The Csnmsncessot exercises comnenced yesterday By
prsosessn Of the alumni formed ut 10 o'clock. The
prscesisa least quarter Of mile sag, and
tansd many eminent psrsonages Long before this hour
for adn;ttAnce. The whole city seemed one continued
threng Of enthusiasm such - We have rarely seen
sguAlsd even on political occasions.
The address before the alumni was delivered by the
Hon. BENZ FranAhn Thomas Of Worcester, one OF the
ohisf Justices of Massachusetts He made unusay fine
sratoa highly finished In it, literary points, and with
some fsw exceptions happily conceived. His theme was:
'o.s General Ksasctons upon the Leading Features Of
show the rapid strides Of physical
not making commensurate advances in spiritual
ths spiritual to control it. Progress in the material had
created great demand for additional moral and mental
pewr in diplomacy, international Law, domestic policy,
education, and tins daily press He sketched with
tar hand the leading features Of the ageits foss and
and satiised these vigorous
~ appealed to the alumni to steAdAsty support and cher
ish "0ad Brown" His address characterized by
dssp thought but too Respondent in its tone and too
unhoPsfa Of tbs future It. however, the high
prestige Of his anne, and will do much good.
The undergraduates celebrated their anniversaries in
ths af.enoon The address delivered BY the Rev.
l. Magosn, D Of New York, who took for his theme
BsrkeleJ's celebrated stanza
Westward the course OF empire takes its way,
The four first acts already past;
The fifth shall close the drama with the day
Times noblest offspring is the last
TMaz-" The Westward Course Of Rmpirs'-ani s.
rousi1g pssachment out Of it. The four rst acs
rse skstched boldly somewhat as follows
PsrIc1x5-THE AGE OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY.-TAking west
,ru Asia q the source of historic elements it said
that n, civilization movtd thence evermore, and in
westward course only In the year 1871 bsfore Christ
Moses had absorbed al sacred power himself to be
inso bed on tables that will ever endure and years
after, Gee ops, from the same Egypt, bore away th
Standing Imagination at the head OF the Eysan, the
magnificent panorama was made vivid to our gaze ::
oides s.d Arstophanes Diogenes Plato and Aristotle
Leuxis AppeIles and PhidiAs-s . word, the age OF
Psisss, In whom AL art science and literature stood
harnsn:zsd and complete ard all the heroes of the
bsd old bard OF Scios' rocky iae, were united in
Achilles In every department beauty refined supreme
Aycvs1us--TFM AGE OF MARITAL FoRcE.-Three hundred
hsfor epepdOF Of the PArthenOu blended
with ten thousand kindred charms around,
or $50 years before Christ, few brgands in the far
Wsst Il sxcaya,isg their frat fortress, threw up
blesdy "caput" and thus signalzed the spet az the
Capitoi--ths predestned centre Of sonquered
Vs. thsy. The sword was their instrument, and
tins sxbjugation CT mankind their aim. Soon,
fren the Eurhrstes to the Rhine from Mount Lebanon
10 tas heather Mills Of Scotland language and one
code bore universal sway. The Pantheon is compets,
and eria force sets up its last god therein the
desire Of AL n.tons Is how to occupy the field thus
sared for his use Then another Hshsu appears that
sublime Official relation which never to cease Asiatic
by birth Grecian by culture, Christian BY grace he
has tarowx . sapctifyng element into commerce, and
in MAT ship from Egypt bears all snnobing gems 70 west-
s1 Europe The age Of Perices that Of natehless
min. force win ,d longer 4 pa o.
preseats the Individuals The best Of her authors
svsa Horace Virgil and Cicero sycophAntic and art
Of every kiad was degraded. The Empress, who had
shassS al nations to supremacy ended by holding
them chainsa to hsr degradation; 80 that when Christ
vas born and Paul preached liberty for the aTst time
Izo --rax ACE on ENLARGED INVENTION. -Providsncs
reveals itself in ntng representatives, and passes on
These are invincble BY the ideas they represent Christ
ianty that eagle from he supreme throns dropped egg
amid the palaces Of the CGsars and the ravines Of h
Alps ful of Almghtiness. Ambrose, jerome, Basil
Asxusns Tertusn, and others appeared on the stage
whiis Huns, Goths. Saxons, and Franks, grand Land
aides from The North, poured upon the eae South an
feriasd the am.Igam they formed. AT the end Of th
aft osatury the Western empire fell During the clever
centuries needed TO prepare bsrbariAns for the boon
reserve Bysantium guarded the remnants Of eastern
CIVILIZATION then restored the palladium and ceased
virtually be. Al this point the orator presented
brenf review Of the gin and Of the four great
reieiozs erders beginning with the Bsnedc.inss, 52t
A. o. asd thence through the franciscan and Domin
cans 1900 A. d. do~n to the Jesgits at the beginning
* the sixteenth century. Ia all their seeming vagariss
they wsre ruled by that higher Law uAds,
which Napier and Descartes invented logarthms and
the ssonsri al calculus. Before Aurora reaches Mem
asr night must b trAversed. In 1913, d., the houl
seuads Thsre had not been . siagle discovery In me
ehascs hydroetatcs sincs Arohimsdes when Gslils
poised the telescope Columbus trusted the compass anc
Gutenberg invented the printing press. The hsaven
we're ssevatsA, the horson enlarged infinitely, and
thought Everywhere was abaze. All writer's, from
ante to Beeaccio all painters from Gistto to Michael