New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-26

Gifts like the stroke given by Mesmenc law,
Make us zee plain what learning never saw.
THE SEw SCHOOL.
Wrept in the buckram Of scholastic wear
Each movement wrong thai plants wrinkle there;
No tissued robe of strictly piOus mold
Except It have one classic thread OF gold.
Religions self grows spurious and unchaste,
Except II gauges with the rules Of taste.
The priesthood shamed without classic trace,
A blot on rhetoric is blot on grace.
Conversions spurious If not strictly done
BY the fair rules Of etiqselte and ton,
Ard new bonn hope, with all the bliss j, brings,
In graceful sweep must spread her joyous wings.
ENPIRICIsN.
Midst learned doctors tie thing quite rare,
To find a Dives or CrGsus there;
But Doctor Lazarus-why, they re thick as notes,
EIbowng their way through cases, cure- and coats;
Til Psnaceas, and our patent pills,
That build the palace and that cram the ills.
PARTY IATTOss.
Men knit in parties, but in many a
It's quite fantastic how the knitting s done
Tie old Wing knows, when done with carths AFFAIR.",
He Il leave biz riches to some good Wing heirs
His nearest neiehbor, and with whom ne chats
Turns out batch of good sound Democrats;
And the Free-SoiIer, when lie woos and weds,
Lxtects q crop Of little "Wooly-hesds;"
And Sam hiusef-thst -lyest Of all rogues,
Means TO leave none 20 chatter foreign brogues;
And Soutl ern Hotspurs breed tull many Squire,
With mouth like Cecus. trimming fall OF tire.
A TRIBUTE TO UNION.
Union, so dear, nurse OF the good and great,
Whose stare are shining both in Church and state,
1h0u'rt felt where or theu hast son thar roarns,
To cer1y bliss 10 countless hearts and homes
And could the question be to-day proposed,
Shall Union fourish, or her doors be closed
The nation thrilling with thy classic lore,
From Names cold coast TO FL Dorados shore,
Like the old hero for the crisis nerved
Would say, "ihe Union il shall be preserved"
Should not love thee-true am not one
Whom thou wouldst claim even own thy son
Yet will claim I'm grandson cen though thou
The soft impeachment burst 10 disavow.
Fer thou didst train for honor and renown
II master spirit of my own loved A" Brown"
Onward and and upward Union, be thy way,
More and more glorious each succeeding day,
And us the Young shall TO thy halls repair,
And place them under thy maternal care,
May just as maLy, burs ing from thy arms,
Strew Ger the earth the sweetest moral charms,
And show the world by purest acts and thoughts
That men grow wiser VINO We encountered N0ttS
God bess thee, Union and continue long
That Gordian Mott that holds thee firm and strong,
And help thee prove by stern successful toll
That princely fortunes do not always spoil.
After the services in the church had closed, the
meIbers of the various societies Withdre to par
ticipate in the dinners, parties; etc, VIII n had
been prepared in honor Of the occasion. The testl.
vties were prolonged until late hour particularly
those of the Kappa Alpha, one of the largest of the
utmost good spirits and good fellowship.
TIE COMMENCEMENT.
Onyesterday morning the exercises of commence
ment took place, when the venerable DIR. Mott
graduated his fifty first class The interior of the
church was densely crowded during the exercises,
the ladies, a, usual, being in decided majority.
Every thing passed off pleasantly. and to the apPa
rent satisfaction of those concerned the addresses
by the students being general rule equal TO the
average On such occasions, while some of the poems
and essays were much better than those accustomed
to the stereotyped attempts of Commencement Day
we're LED to expect. The graduating class numbered
fifty persons The degree Of Master of Arts was
received in course by twenty.four graduates, aud
he honorary degree conferred on six persons.
| he names of the graduating class and of those
receiving degrees will be given to morrow in full
report of the proceedings, which is excluded by the
press Of foreign news