The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-16
middlsbury College (vt Anniversary.
OUR MIpDLEBURy CORRESPONDENCE

MiDDLEBcRy CorIsoK, W., August Is, 1858.
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The ay eighth anniversary Of this venerable insttu
ten washed at Middebury during Tuesday Wednesday,
and Thursday OF the present week. ana CAME OF with
thssusuai sciat Commencement week In a little
village like this the great event OF the year, ecpsns
everything else, Thanksgiving Tue country lasses
Ter miles around exhaust this occasion all The fascns
tons they have been accumua,ng during the year and
great the conquesfs which made II the season
OF family reunions, every social point Of view
incidental merely Of course 10 it, great Literary features
- even, Of much importance
The appearance OF the college buildings grounds
strkpg Illustration Of the prcdominsnoe Of The usefa
over the ornamental In our New England fathers The
desois.e looking jaIe old buildings located in
large barren enclosure containing not grown tree or
shrub, must have been especially designed distract the
mind Of the student from the pleasure and
~ peculiarly for the successful Of the
Isneusees and abstruse sciences rhe grounda have
however, within the last two years been planted with
tree. ana soruooerys new square has been enclosed,
and the spec, Of hnes will be entirely changed within
But the success Of the institution in re-pec, to the
men has graduated has been marked. The number q
graduates who have attained 10 empence greater in
proportion TO the entire number perhaps than any other
susn iss,' ~ The country can oo.., q Scarcely
some of ts distinguished 10 the departments OF law,
medicine, politics ana theology The present graduating
dents sbout1oo Tue young gentlemen OF the graduating
csss depor'ed themselves with about average abty
The Grafton "skepticsm," by b Kellogg, Of Cham.
plain, N. Y, and the vacdctory orato1 Of A. Walker,
Of P'tsford, VI, were particularly good
There oue feature running through the whole exer.
cscs which struck me most essentially IN bad taste, and
70 partial extent, at least not calculated n accomplish
the ends for which such anniversaries design
ed. refer 10 the which the morbid excitement OF
the public mind upon the subject Of slavery wa every
whore paBdesed 70. Tue regulations colleges are
and oug hs 10 be ln ALL such literary men OF s reli
gous and political creeds may meet aro enjoy feast OF
pure cassc literature without arousng 10 the breasts OF
But the "nigger' in Coogress, on the stump, IN
the pulpit, and everywhere else, was here lost
" prominently Niger" in the cemnencemeu.
OF with address before the phoma,asiss
Society slave free labor followed bv an sddress
before the Phiiadephan society by the Rev Or rhomp
son, Of Broadway Tabernacle memory on the taty OF
the Human Race Then came The Parksrsu prize spesk
ing, in which the faculty among other things ensht
ened upon the supposed sentiments OF southeruer on the
savery agitation On the second day Of the young
gentlemen delivered an Grafton upon the subject u
Slavery and the Tract Society ani the crercses were
closed on the third day by address before the United
s ssan soosss y Geo Curtis -hios although
gca connection with his subject The Dred Scott decisoe
formed prominent feature. The only part Of the
r rnos Performance IN which ms "1sss a.ss, no
BY j. g. ssxe The subject OF Love In which, 90 far AZ
remember nothing colored was used, even "a an hias'
Hston.
Ihave only time 10 make q passing reference 70 the
different addresses. That Of Mr.. Howard would have
been oonsdered good effort upon the floor o. me nouse
Of Representatives II Washington, and MAO oeen oe
veved there on the return Of Ksntemsu from hour
OF actual the head OF the kaosss IaVesu
eating Committee would have been oousdered decided
I'M pot sny one eo wiIl take the pains 70 CONSULT the
r,oas "a bs Crgsssof Globs will dnd tse subject OF
Inc relative merss q slave aud ees labor exhausted