Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-07-11

E-In saturdays paper we gave an account of
The burial of Whateley Logic, BY the Junior stu
dents Of Brown University. Providence, R. l.,
which, It would seem, indicated that the ceremo-
ny was extemporized, and not of ''ancient orr
gin" At the request of the youthful ''Under-
takers" who ofIiciated on that classical occasion,
we publish graphic description of the ceremony
from the Providence Journal.
Revival of an Ancient Ceremonial.
On the evening of Tuesday last, our city was
enlivened by the passage through some of its
principal streets, ola torch light procession com
posed principally Of the members of the Junior
Class of Brown University The occasion was
the close of the College year, 1858, and the
young gentlemen embraced The opportunity to re"
store the time honored right of the burial of the
most obnoxious Text Books of the Junior year,
"a custom annually repeated at many colleges
otthe country, but which, at Brown, has OF late
been
s'More honsred in the breach
Than in the observance"
The procession formed in the rear Of the Col
lege, and, headed by full band of music, dis
coursing most lugubrious dirges, and patronzed
by dignlfied deputalon of Seniors, fanked by
a selection Of Sophomores and Freshmen, moved
with impressive solemny through several streets
10 a point in the river, at which boats were sta
toned TO convey the company 10 the grave. The
bier and coffin, containing the marlyred Text
Books, Whateley's Logic and Canpbe's Rhe-
torc, were appropriately shrouded, and elevated
on the shoulders Of four stalwart Juniors, while
at each side marched an escort Of aspiring
Freshemen, bearing torches. Guided by an ef-
6cient corps of marshals, and amid an admirng
cOncOursa of SnpcfafnrS tho frai in etnharL Cd
and proceeded down the river to the scene OF
burial. t1ele, al a spot marked by lonely bea-
con, towering high above the cleaning waters OF
Narragansett- Bay, the funeral exercises COM
meaced. They comprised sepulchraI dirge BY
the band, appropriate orations and poem, re-
QUEEN performed 10 a mastery manner by a
special choir, Latin communal to the deep, &c.
The whole was concluded by some remarks by
the Chief Marseal, in which he impressed upon
the auditory that the affair was not to be con-
strued as disrespect TO the Faculty, but as an
expression of The unmtgated hatred of the Junior
Class towards Richard Whately and DIR. Camp
bell After the burial service, the coffin was
lowered from one of The boats amidst an unearth-
ly chant 1t seemed, at first, unwilling to repose
in quiet, and when all imagined it had been look
ed upon for the last time by morta! eyes, it rose
and reared lis black dimensions ages on high
This omnous return of the detested dead, the
Sophs considered typical of their approaching
fate, since they have yet to pass the dreaded or
dea of Rhetoric and Logic and with united
yell, they sprung forward to plunge all traces
Of their future tormentors beneath the foamng
waters In fact, TO Judge from their pallid faces
and downcast looks, they hardly participated in
the JOY Of Juniors, for they dreaded the coming
resurrection. The impassve Seniors, on the 9TH
er hand, elevated alike above the paltry concerns
of College, and a senile hatred of departed ty-
rants, as they loomed in silent grandeur amid the
shadows of the lofty beacon land clothed in dig
nifty worthy of Roman Senators, gazed with i'm
Putable gravity on the proceedings around, form
ed no bad picture of the Olympic detes, seated
in solemn conclave over the deeds of mortals be-
meath. When the bodies finally sank ,groans and
cheers startled the echoes ofthe night, and aftel
the Rogue's March by the band the company de
parted, with three cheers for the Professor o
Rhetoric.