Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-10

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house before him. After graceful allusion to times
and scenes with which he familiar as a student
of the University, and a patriotic exultation over
the striking progress of the present age in all the
elements OF material happiness and strength. he
undertook to investigate the symptoms and the caus
es Of the decay in the social and moral strength
which ne feared was surely invading our body pc.
lite From this investigation he hoped to deduce
some profitable suggestions which might arrest the
downward tendency around US. Whatever Mr..
Miller says on momen.ous occasions is always well
said and worthy Of attentive consideration. His
contrast between the conditions of our country in
1871 and in 1851 was very striking, and the infer
ence that he thence drew to the innate wisdom
ard strength of our Constitution went right home to
the hearts of his hearers. But there is nothing that
when left to the care of fallen humanity, escape
perversion So fanatics are trying to wrest go-
rious Constitution into an instrument of oppression.
Their efforts must be resisted to the DEATH with
quiet, we'll poised, imperturbable dignity. So also
evils affect the social and the religious state. There
are witnessed by hccntous press prurent litera-
ture, corrupted Congress, and prosttuted pulpit
SpIr'tualism, and Fourerism and Mormonism, and
Free Love were also moastrous morbid growths
which indicated deep disease in the body which
they fed. Most earnestly and eoquenty did he call
on his young felow-ctzens to bring their powers to
the help of their country, and by cutvating the
love of truth, respect for law, divine and human
domestic purity, and profound veneraon for the
Constitution, establish our present civilization
sure basis and render its progress both brilliant and
enviable. This address gave great satisfaction, and
| most fortunate as people would be, were its
weighty councils thoughtfully pondered and perse-
veringly practscd.
At the conclusion of Mr. Millers address the
Alumni Association for the first time gave us in.
sight into what outsiders usually regard its mys
ter'es-the election OF its chief officer The Presi-
dent of the Association, the venerable James Me-
bane ct CaSwell county, was absent and one of the
vice Presidents toOE no cAoir in Anty
bound to arrange, as was thought the usual pro
cssslon of Alumni to their private business meeting
in the College library. But instead of doing as has
been done hitherto, the Association turned in and
elected a new President, and committed to him the
ordering Of the usual ceremonies 1t is understood
that the Alumni Association determined that suita.
BILE arrangements should be made for dcdicatng the
monument to Dr. Caldwell at the next annual meet
ing. and that eu'ogy commemorative Of DR.. Cald.
wells srea: services to the UnvcI sity and 10 the
State, should then be pronounced by some ofhis
pupils.
AT P NJ. the Hon. Warren Winslow, of Fayette-
vile, appeared the Orator Of the Alumni Associ.
alton. Mr.. Winslow is graduate of 1927, and was
attended on the stage by the President of the Asso
citation, Mr.. Paul C. Cameron and by Messrs VIM.
Eaton. Henry I. Clark, and Hon. D. NJ Barringer.
MIR. W inslow's address was very nice thing-ap-
propriate to the time and place, genial, and spark
ling with many gems of wit and fancy. His object
was to arouse us North Caronians to a life more
worthy the real character and great of the
State. We hope his appeal may excite some of
the sons of Carolina that Wheeers History and AL
amance may not be long regarded as only litera
ry productions
AT night the following young gentlemen appeared
as competitors from the Sophomore Class:
!. Virginia. Lay of Ancient Rome. .MAcAuLEY
JAMES P. COFFIN, Tennessee.
2. Intidelity resukcd ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PHILLIPS.
THOMAS c. EVANS, Milton.
8. Liberty and Union. WEBSTER
JOSEPH L. CRANBERRY, Tennessee.
4. The true source of National Strength HARPER
ALEXANDER KIRKLAND Chapel Hill
o. Past and Present of America. CUSHING
WELLS THOMPSON, Texas
H.
l Our Manifest Destiny. CUSHING
HENRY l.. RUGELY Texas.
q Dr. name. drge. ANONYMOUS
c. STEPHENS CRooM, New York.
3. Love of Fame and its abuses c. B. LEE.
JOHN T. Cook Warrenton:
f. The Mississippi Contested Election. .PRExrIss.
HENRY c. LEA, Alabama.
CHARLES w. MCCLAMMY, New Hanover Co.
Messrs Coffin and Kirkland were very much
praised for the good taste and spirit they displayed
in the performance of their parts We do not think
that the pieces selected for defamation on Tuesday
and Wednesday nights manifested that the young
gentlemen were extensively acquainted with the el-
oquence of Ancient and Modern times. 1t is good
many years since Regulus badc the Carthag gilman
Ambassadors take him back to their home, and it is
TO be presumed that the old gentleman went long
ago. So also Emmett asked for the charity of ST.
lence, and as the request has been repeated many
times, it is high time that it be granted Prentiss,
on the Mississippi election, makes us always lookout
for the next train in the shape of II have but one
lamp" &C. Why may we not be refreshed by some
appropriate defamation from the Greek and Latin
Orators and Poets in their original languages? Why
may we nothavc dialogues from dramas in French
and in English?
The exercises of the evening were agrceably va
ried by Gov. Braggs presenting to Mr.. Charles W.
McClammy the "Encyclopede of Biography" which
had been offered as prize by DR.: Wheat to the
Sophomore Glass for the most marked improve
mcnt in Composition. The award was made after
an examination of the competing essays by the
Board Of Examiners This is the third time that
this prize has been offered and it is understood that
it has had marked effect in exciting a generous
emulation among the members of three successive
classes
Thursday has been graduation day for many years,
ard is so still. On this occasion sixty nine young
men were known to be fit to receive the first degree
in Arts (but then this knowledge was IN Latin -
This is the largest number that has ever graduated
at the University. The last Catalogue shows that
it will not long remain the largest Its successor
there numbers 1O4 and after that comes Glass OF
1877. So, Messrs. Editors, there may be Com.
mencement for you to attend next year, if you live
long enough.
The names of the graduates for A. D. 1857 &C.
cording to their Latin look and sound, arc as fol-
lows:
Joanres Anthony, Pinckney-C Harrington.
Alphonso-Calhoun Avery, Hubertus Harvey
Benamin-Blount barnes Ieondas-B. Hayley
Thadeus-C. Besher, Gulielmus Holiday Haylev |
Robertus Bingham, Thomas-Norfeet Hill,
Robertus-Joannes Cannon, LudovcusW. Howard,
Thomas billiard Christmas Eustaclus Hunt,
Cuble, Joannes Calvinus Jacobs
Gabriel-Jones Davie, Ludovcus-M. lights,
Junus- Bynum DeBerry, Thomas G. Johnston.
Joannes Edvardus Dugger (iulielnus-H Il Jordan, Jr,
RrsE. Thop,. Nta,h,