Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-14

LIE ALUMNI OF AMHERST. Alumni
of Amherst College held their annual meet
ing on Wednesday morning, when the fol-
lowing officers were chosen for the ensuing
year:
Preside@t-Prof. Joseph Haven.
Vice Presidents Rev. Nathan Allen, Rev.
]. A. Nash, Hon. E. H. Kellogg, Hon.
Whiting Griswold, Rev. Lewis Sabin.
E1ecntiUe Committee-P E. S. Smell,
Prof. w. s. Tyler, Rev. A. A. Wood, E. G.
Bowdoin, DR.. E. Hitchcock, Jr.
The orator chosen for next year is George
F. Homer, (class of 34,) of Boston, with
DR.. John H. BOcock, of Georgetown, D. c.,
as alternate. The Springfield Republican in
its notice of the meeting says:
The principal topic of discussion was the
raising of money for the library of the Coll
lege. Prof. Clark explained the position of
affairs. 1t appears that Samuel Williston of
Easthampton, has pledged himself to build
an Alumni Hall at cost of Sl5, 900 that a
dormitory has been nearly complicated in
place of the one burnt, which is partly pro.
yided for, and the responsibility for which it
rests with the trustees and that the project
tor raising $4,000 for the library, Started
three years ago, and to be completed at this
time IN order to secure the subscriptions nj
ready made, has been completed only so far
as the raising of $1,000. Of this sum, all
but $2OCO has been subscribed by the Alum.
nj. -Four thousand six hundred dollars are
wanted to complete the subscription, and this
is to be provided for now. The lime was
now spent in what seemed to me n very nm
profitable discussion of the methods for get.
ting the money. Half of the number of The
Alumni which l saw at the chapel this morn
ing raised $4,000 at Williams last week. and
made no muss about it. The following were
appointed board of trust for the Alumni
| fund: Prof w. s. Tyler, A. H. BulIoch, DR..
E. Hitchcock, Rev. A. A. Wood, ]. 3. Clark,
The meeting adjourned until s O. clock, Thurs
day morning.
AT IL o'clock, the procession formed in
| front OF the college chapel, and marched to
the church to hear an Grafton by Hon. Galu-
sha A. Grow, NJ. c., of pennsylvania, Mr..
| Grow is member of the class of 1874; and
| isqulte young man. His performance was
within an hour in duration and was well and
smoothly written. His general subject was
| the formation of national character, The
double proposition to which he devoted his
discussion was that it is by the system OF ed.
ucation pIaclised by nation that the charac-
ter OF people is moulded and those distinc-
tive traits that mark its national identity are
formed; and that the basis of the greatness
and power Of a nation is laid i'll its physical
organization. Thus, natioa energy, DOW
er, and scope, are determined by race, or the
comminglng of races, while the direction
that is given to these qualities depends upon
the nations education-its first ideas. 1t is
the development of some one great idea by a
master spirit that forms the eras Of history
and the cycles OF civilization. China is now
what Confucius, thousands of years ago
made it. Climate and race may be the same,
and since it is neither that develops peculiar
traits in people, we can thus weigh the i'm.
portance of its first discipline.
Mr.. Burhpggazme's Grafton before the Social
Union comes too late for reporting to day."
| GREAT OUERAGE IN TENNESSEE. - The
house of Mr.. VIM. Cant, an old resident
near Shelbeville, Tenn. was entered about
midnight and the inmates, Mr.. g., and hi.
wife, and eldest son, were awakened in time
only 10 know that they weresurrounded by q
| crowd of murdernus williams ,pho ,,;,h =,