The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-23

HONORARY DESIRES AND APPOINTMENTS
nnesa degrees Of Master Of Arts were conferred =
COARSE.
A. u, Hon. Arthur 2. Bonnsy, Lowell, Massachusetts,;
Bsrdw oil, Oxford, Massachusetts; Rev. Lewis g 6oln,
Tenpleton IL o., Prof ohsrles U. Sheoari, Nov Ha
ven, Connecticut Rev Daniel W. Poor, DID,, e Newark,
New Jepsy has aso been appointed Moore Professor Of
Latin and the Modern Languages.
ALUMNI DINNER
At the conclusion OF The Commencement exercises she
annual Alumni dinner ~~ served up. Numerous
speeches were made. but none OF general intsrest.
The dormior destroyed By are i.:s January being TO
building, while the site rfhe old dormiory s occupied by
. ouildiug nearly finished containing the drut oor tho
svo literary src,ctes vhe the third and niGbest
pied by the Alumni hail. for the Of gradua hss
annual meetings, oomnsncemsns dinners, NC us
y erected BY hs mupincence Of Hon. s. VIII
liston, who has contributed moro 70 Amherst than
on condition iha. the Iumni should raise SIS 900 MORE
Tor the Improvement Of Tie library and had at the Same
time such strong @ tn III that, thai he did mt
mentioned enest effort 70 make up the dedoeny In that
fund.
finest collection Of mneras In he country His ueeoric
iron In number and variety Of spccuens has 40 eq7a in
the world
o. Hitchcock has made some new and imporsap, add
tons 10 his foss uoimaks This 10 remark sble ool
lection but she Doctor has been making tracks himself Tor
he has gone uH TO Montreal 70 the Scientific nvcnon In
stead Of waiting 70 seoeve his friends Ths walls or the
room pianine the SOCIOLOGICAL collection have
%en,sd Come would dipu's ,ni') BY p.u.'ns: Of se
field Several slabs OF Nneveh sculptures
presen ed TO the college during tbs pat by Rev. H.
On exhibition IN the Dickinson Niueveh Osbtaet
Tins Amherst has dismissed batch Oh tn ients, and
n nav preparing to refill their vacant places From tho
dates have seady been admitted TO the Freshman class
would indicate that that clsw will begin the year
With ninety members-an unusually large number for
AmhoYnk
ORDER or EXERCISES.
Prayer by the President
l. sautasory Grafton in Latin. william Crawford,
Ora You. American want of Bsthe.ic Culture. Thos
g. Oraiisu Tae value OF Illustration. Gorge L. Big
I. Grafton: Elements of true Poetry Matthew Walker
Grafton. Literature Profession. John E Wheeler,
Amherst, N. a. Music.
Q ofasion. Moral Hsroi'm. James p Lane, Gambia,
= Grafton The Liberty OF law. James H. Palmer,
(excused) Derry, H.
Arts TO Religion Joseph Kimball, Plastow, N. II
o orstcn Every Man in his Proper sphere. John W.
10. Orauon. agernon Sidney Albert q. socomb, Tex
cused) sutton Music.
u 0raon Gnsssn Poetry suporo, :, that of tho
H. Grafton Eayly Nav England Poetry. George 7
Higsy, (t1cussd( A.hlani
c. Clapp, (excused) slamancs, Goiford couotY, N. O.
Ia Osaon Extinction. the only Reform Of the yneAtre.
Daniel RogAn Lockhart, reTa' au,ic
IT, Grafton CleArpees OF Expression Indispensable TO
the Writer. william ID. Herrick, Aehuen.
10 Grafton. Handel Georie e Aiken, Dorry, N. II.
IT, Oraon spsin In her Glory. j DeWh Weaver,
(excnsed) Penheld, N Y.
Is Grafton. The best measure of Intellectual Power.
John W. Dodge, Newb- ryport.
10 Grafton John Milton Lucius X Eastman, Jr,
Bel kley. Music
TO- 0raticn The true Idea of Power Alvah I. Frsbe,
FL Grafton Connection of Commerce with Modern Mis-.
sion. snci' Burt, sIcus0d2 West Hampton amp n.n, Nv
20 Philosophical Orstop. Formation Of National Cha
Yicter. George d. b. Pepper, Ware
CANDIDATES yOR TIE pxaRgs OF A.. B.
william Aanson Able. Boston; Benjamin Henry Abbot.
Fran ipg Stephen Cambreleng Aenew, Monticello, ~
Y George iward Aiken, Derry. N. David Beas, Jr
Char lemont; George Augustus Beck nh Es, Haddsm,
o. tx orge St ee. Bscoe, Grafton; deary FRANKLIN Blod
Henry MARTY Bridgman, West Hampton James Theodore
Bryce, Or~pee; Francis Burt, We I Hamp!Jn William
OILS Carr De ry N Il I.con Crawford Ctapp, Aamance,
Green Cobb, Delhi, N. Y. william Crawford, Bar 81 JOIN
Webster Dodge, Ne ~burypor Lucius Root Eastman J,
Berkeley; John Euclid Elliott New London, O. John vii
liam Faust, Graham, N. c.; Arthur Folsom, Derry, H.
Rcharc Folsom, Derry, N jeremiah Leon Fordhsm,
Southampton, L L Alvah Lille Frsble, ohsco NJ Y.
Thomas Gordon GYasse. Boton simon William Hatoevay,
Trssk Hisiey, Ashland; Henry White Jones, Hudson,
Mich Joseph Kimba, Plastow, n H.; James Pll'bury
lane. Opda, N. H.. Richard Henry Aaiher, Bingham.
ton, N. Y; Nathan Ransom Morse ssoadsrd, N H.;
Henry D~v, nport Northrop, New York city Henry
Palmer Derry, N. Geo Dana Boardmsn Pepper, Ware;
Daniel Henry Rogan LockhArt Texas; Ferdinand sbAs,
Augusiui stevens Georgetown; Matthew Walker ware;
John Dewitt Weaver, Pcnneld, n. Y; Jehn Edwin
wheeler. Amherst, NJ e. DE- mis- Workman Jr, East rsn-
Por tho present the spawning season OF colleges
u over and the duties Of your correspondent in that
Inc are to himself ~ least happily ended.