Warren telegraph. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1857-1861, 1857-07-25
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The Seminary Exhibition.


ny evening the new Hall, which has just been ad-
ed to the building, was dedicated with appropriate
The Hall was filled with an audience
vincing a warm interest in the occasion, and an
address was delivered by Prof ANGEL, of Brown
University. The Address was replete with those
ntelectual evidences which 80 highly distinguish
he efforts Of that gentleman, and presented sue
met sketch Of the history aud progress of the In.
titution from its inception, twenty-iour years ago
o its present era of eminent success and favorable
romise
The following original productions were sung =
Thou Architect of earth and sky,
BY whose decree the mountain stands,
Deign from thy dwelling-place on high,
To bless building made with hands.
Thou saidst Let temples fill the sky
And worlds on worlds with haste obeyed
o, God we trust thou'lt not dcspisc
The earthly temple we have made.
To learning, piety and truth,
We dedicate, to-day, these walls,
And may they prove to many youth,
The doorway into nobler halls.
Here may the daughters of our land
Who gather fro their distant homes,
BE fitted in Life's niche to stand,
As fair and polished corner stones.
AS, day by day, we turn for each
The page illumed by Sciences light,
o may we not forget to teach
The Book of books, which Thou didst write.
While quaffing here, may it be seen
That this has been first account,
To show them how each little stream
May be traced back to one great Fount
Forth from these halls welded pair,
May piety and learning go,
To seek mission every where
That Thou art pleased path to show.
Then, Father, come and bless as thine,
This humble altar built with wood,
And it shall prove golden shrine
If Thou wilt degn to call it good
How fair, Oh Science, are tho beams
Thou scatterest on thy way;
The shadows fee before its CLEANS
Thou mak'st the night glad day.
While Error spreads her mournful page,
By many darkened shrine,
We catch the light of Learning's age,
And claim its powers divine.
Upon these fair and unstained walls,
BE fadeless garlands wreathed,
And ever through these pleasant halls
Their heavenly odors breathed
And memories, like the SUMS last light
With rays Of glory bound,
Fen fairer than the noontide bright,
Are sweetly clustering round
Oh are the loved ones gone before
Their bright wings folding nearS
We deem they still are bending Ger.
To bring blessing here.
Eternal Fount of Light divine,
Oh, from Thy lofty throne,
Let beams of grace upon shine
This earth-reared altar own.
On Wednesday morning, the Exhibition of the
Class of the present year took place at
he Baptist Church. The throng drawn together
y the occasion was greatly increased by tho steps
which had been taken tO constitute the day one of
reunion" of those who have been connected
With the Institution either as teachers or pupils.
Of course very many of them were unable to fulfil
heir wish to be present, and the hand of death has
been laid upon a number. Nevertheless the num-
Der who attended amply testified both to the i'm
oortant part which the Institution has borno in f-
male education, and to the interest taken in the
seminary by its former pupils and teachers.
The Exercises at the Church were as follows -
Voluntary.
Prayer.
,hant-"O, sing unto thc Lord" BY the Vocal Class
The Salutations, ns,.................J jeanette Greene
'ha m Mar LAM Rurfc on
Iusic-A Terzetto from Mozart. By the Vocal Class
he INFLUENCE of Music, ,.... Mary Caroline Gould
'hings that Change Mary Frances Collins
Iusic-Il Trovatore' by Verdi Verdi n.i, W.,
i FRENCH COLLOQUY-Three Scenes in the
Life of the Empress Josephine. Scene 1st-At
Martinico, in her girlhood, when the Sbyl predicts
her destiny. Scene 2d-At Paris she is Empress
Emperor, by representing the goddesses lady
comes in, and presenting petition, pleads for the
pardon Of her husband. Scene 3d-Joscphine and
Hortense after the divorce.
dusic-La Cristalique, by Herr, z,........
Jeannic Frances Foster
The Visible Heavens, Isabella Maria Fletcher
!recian Mythology. ......; Sarah Gardner Munroe
Iusc-oycrture to Tancred by Rnssi-
nj, ....By Three Performers
Natures Nobeman Elizabeth Josephine Cannon
An English Colloquy-Grcece and Italy.
a, ,thETes,parTt Eespr sOng"IIOw sleep ,,p v,
Progress Of the Soul, and the valedicto- 49, ~
ry Addresses, ..... Annie Greene Peckham
Award Of Diplomas.
Prayer
Benedcton.
Among those present were Rev. DR.. SEARS, Pres
dent of Brown University Professors GAMMELI
and ANGEL, of the samo Institution ID. p. Col
BURN, Esq, Superintendent of the r. 1. Norma
School; Rev. J. c. SToCKDRIDGE. former Princi
pal of the Seminary; Rev. DR.. BABCoCK, o
New Jersey; His Honor, Lieutenant Governor
TURNER Hon. ALFRED BoswORTH, of the Su
preme Court, and a number Of literary gentlemen
known to fame There is but one opinion in regar,
to the exercises, which is that they exhibited
excellence on the part of the graduating members
proving Enthusiastically the superior character of th'