New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-17
EDUCATIONAL ANNIVERSARIES |
TROY CONFERENCE ACADEMY.

WEST PouLrxEy VT, Friday, July IA, 1854.
The examination of classes commenced on Monday
morning Of the present week. The forenoon exer-
cises included recitations in Algebra, Geometry and
Trigpnometry. The afternoon was devoted to French
Grammar, Astronomy and Readings in L'Alemange,
Racine and Tasso. Tuesday, classes were drilled in
Betshy Physiology, Virgil and Livy, Mathematical
Assnnnomy, Anabasis and Cesar, Geology and Chem
istsy, Rhetoric, Logic Moral Philosophy aud Psy-
-hoogy-the exercises closing with song adapted 10
he occasion, and prayer by the Rev. Mr. Patterson Of
'sstietona model prayer, if the expression be rev.
rer', for point brevity and direct address heaven
var The Anniversary (frst) Of the Theta Rho
society was addressed on Wednesday morning by the
Principal the Rev. Jason F. Walker, in pungent
md orcibe hit at the possibilities Of orator without
physicei afhnities corresponding with the inward
waking up the speakers who show dirty teeth
and soil the floor with distilations of tobacco,
and the clergy, If there be any, (Which the Lord
Forbid who pronounce the benediction with un-
cleanly hands. A poem before the Alumni of
the Institution was expected and announced,
ebe read by the Rev. Luther Peck of Newburgh,
{, T., but the audience were instead indebted TO
Professor E. j. SPHINX, for the reading Of an interest
ing original poem, substituted for the omission. The
Rev. Mr. Power Of Fort Edward, afterward delivered
q senfentious address TO the same class which being
done. the audience, In great part adjourned 10 the
social meeting Of the Alumni at the Seminary Chapel
where capital speeches made and some
more not. Wednesday evening, John g. Saxe-Saxe
the Bimtable John drew from country neighbOr-
hoods and adjoining villages, mighty host to hear an
address on Poets and Poetry convincing them it is
believed in his identity Of rich poetic fancy and
practical fact, that deality and utility not in
sepertble in any degree in the same existence. What
with, Mr. Greeleys scathDg on the tecundity
Of American poetry, in his last years address, and
Saxes philippe tending to the same purpose, the writ
ing geniuses OF this region getting their qnis alarm
ipgly cut-and no doubt from very want Of Mr..
Griswold's ''dry nursing" will die with all their
music in them" So let il be. Meantime we
have net forgotten but overlooked, tie novel
addrets TO the Phiiomathean's, by the Rev.
g. D. Broan Of Troy, aiming at some of the fallacies
ard fcibes OF the day, in trenchant and Lively artil
lery Of words. If the movement Of Woman's Rights
came In his wsy,h he was fortunate IN hitting 1t, and
doubly so in setting up the sicky gentry, who wear
Bay State shawls article OF apparel infinitely more
inappropriate TO the figure OF gentlemen than the
Bloomer costume is to ladies, if elegantly made and
nodestly worn, as il has been and will be without
fear Of prejudice censOr0us criticism. Let the same
merciless battery be directed against every man,
whether sacred secular who goes out of his sphere
TO put the goss shonis aprons ribbons and rcseties
designed in the fashionable millinery arrangements of
Paradise as ornaments and apparel exclusively for
woman.
The Thursday morning was bright and deIiciously
cool but the hundreds Of people crowdng eagerly TO
the church. white and powdered with the dust Of
as many generations, beached, not and sticky AS our
human depfayity. Unfortunately collect for ram sd
been omitted in the programme and the result una
yodable. The house was packed to its utmost capa-
city The graduates, tweny-one in number, appeared
in the finest spirits and Tie compositions OF
the ladies were of high order and capacity, and
the music by the Whitehall Band choice and splen-
didly executed The gentlemen acquitted themselves
credtably as whole and If il is not inydious where
oil were excellent to specify few, shall be par
doned if we point to Napoleon" to Public OPin-
"ion," to Europe and ts Future, and especially to
"The Issue" as the style of writing best capable of
declsmatory action and oratorica ornament The
closing piece was well written and unstectedly dev-
ered and very cevery free from "hifalu'in scntl-
ment or hysterica panegyric Of woman chronic
disease of yaledictorans from which they should be
thoroughly purged or else forever afterward choked
sE In conclusion the school is alive and well, thrv-
M and likely to thrive and the exercises were at
1ended with enthusiasm unparalleled in its history.
Among the visitors present were the Rev. Dr. Beman
AZ Troy. Prof E. s. Carr of Albany, Gen. Ripley Of
Rutland and large delegation of clergy from abroad