New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-03
COMMENCEMENT Ar DARTMOUTH COL
LEGE.
Correspondence OF The v. Y. Tribune
No..I uANnNER Thursday. Jnly %.

HANOVER Thursday, July q, 1904.
The exercises of the Anniversary week were opened
last SUNDAY by the Baccalaureate Sermon from tho
President Dr. Lord, to the Senior Class. The veneer.
able President was quite practical in his remarks aud
COMMUNICATED the class Tor the harmony courtesy at
tentop 10 the studies, Independence of opinion sud
oneness to conviction which had marked their course
in College. -,
dav n cnstom now first introduced at Dartmouth.
The exercises were conducted in the College Chapel,
and consisted of an Grafton by George hazeitihe'
poem by l.. r. Lang, and were concluded by an orgi-
nal parting song by h. w. Masoh "h'cn 'nc ""o'o
cnss Joined in singing.
Aft,r those exercises. the class preceded by baud
of music escorted Professor Brown, who presided
in the necessary absence o. the President 10 MS resi-
dence serenaded the President. and marched in pro-
cesslon 10 the pine north of the buildings aud sung
round il the song slightly altered for the occasion,
When shall Ne thft. meet sssn"
said 10 have been composed under It's branches many
wears ago by Seneca Indian, just before graduation.
Round the tree was bound Il clsss-wreah, and at the
conclusion of the singing, each member pucked leai
or flower from the wreath, to be preserved ~ Pfrpe
funm AS a memorial OF the class and the occasion.
Alter these ceremonies, it voted to preserve tho
wreath till the decennia meeting OF the class IN icoi
YESTERDAY the Phi Beta Kappa Society commenced
its anniversary exercises by the election OF members
from the graduating class. The class and most OF ITS
members who had reason TO expect an election, deei
ng the society hUmbug AS 1t is here conducted msho
arrangements previously not TO JOIN ms matter
having reached the ears of that portion of the faculty
who take part in the meetings OF the society and pre-
sent the names Of candidates for election through GER
tain men, il is SAID, who were anxious 10 secure tho
doubtful honor Of college popularity the SIX only were
proposed who had refused 10 join IN the movement o
the class. This procedure oi tne I'M De'a Nap
n, socet, has elected considerable remark, aud has
been severely censured by members OF the Society
itself and as far as learn the poor estimation
in which was held by the Graduating CLASS mas Do.
come quite general. The Grafton was pronounced oy
Prof Shedd of Andover Theological Seminary ms
suLiect Was in substance, The Essence OF ulstory'
He took history to be evolution, developementoi
tbe mind and demonstrated his theory by most
ss,rcbino snaysis The Grafton itself was AN AL
ir,be Illustration of the theory being unit OF sue
cessiye eyouons of argument bound together Dy VI"
closest sequence. ,,. H.
w A Field. ESQ., OF Boston. His subject was
Eloauence and unlike most poems ior college, annveI
sares il combined the virtues oi appropriate
ness aud high poetic merit >,
In the afternoon address was delivered peIoretno
Theological Society by the Rev. DR.. Hitchcock OF Am
bert College having for it, subject Man in relation 70
Uistory and proving by course OF sclenthc reason
inc that man could not have existed before what is
termed the Adamic period. ~
To-day was the regular College Anniversary ing
nnmber of Young men who received the degree VI
A. b. was 81, "a Of whom were from New, Hampshire,
ten from Vermont, seven from Massachusetts, SIX
from Maine. two from Connecticut, two from ONO,
one from Rhode Island one from Wisconsin, and ono
fron the Choctaw Nation. Twenty received the de-
gree of A. NJ in course; fifteen the degree Of N. d.
The honorary degree of A. N. was conferred on the
Rev BENJAMIN X. Allen Of South Berwick, Me-, and
on Goldsmith f. Bailey and Erastus b. Bgelow, Esqs.
The degree of d. ID. conferred on the Rev. Isaac
Hurd of Exeter, N H. The degree of LII ID. was con-
ferred on Reuben ID. Mussey, NJ. d., formerly at the
head of the New Hampshire Medical College and now
Of Cincinnati and or the Hon, Samuel ID. Bell.
The speakers were selected without regard b schol-
srship and manifested more Oratorcal and general
ability, and more comprehensive views than are usu-
ally net with at College c0mmencements. CAR.