The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-08-18
Commencement Week.

The exercises in connection with the an
niversary were commenced by the BAcA-
LAUREATE SERMON, on Sunday afternoon,
by Prof. Boardman. The text was
Psalms VIII, So Thou hast made him
little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honor. Thou
nadcst him to have dominion over the
works Of thy hands; thou hast put all
things under his feet"
The discourse was an exposition of the
ideal and essentially perfect humanity al
uded to in the text, and the lessons there.
in taught the scholar of his duty to human
Sty and to himself In vigor of thought
completeness Of arrangement and finished
rhetoric, this sermon is rarely equaled
A. it is soon to be printed, we do not
deem it necessary to say more, 1T present
On Monday evening came the CON-
MENcrNENT CONCERT, by the Gsrman,a
Bo"d. This concert has become an es-
tablished part of the anniversary, which
could hardly be complete without it. The
attendance was unusually large and the
music Of the first order. This band has
the reputation of being the first, for con-
cert music, in the country, and we think
no one who heard them will question it.
The time for the Address, before the
Philomaihesiau society, by the Hon. w.
A. Howard, was changed at a late hour
on Monday, from the afternoon, 10 the
forenoon Of tuesday,. The change was of
course, imperfecty advertised, aud some
disappointment resulted. The subject of
the address was Free and Slave labor,
relatively considered, in the light of polit-
ical economy. 1t WAS statesmanlike ex-
position Of the absorbing question of the
time, and the view taken Of it, is unqucs-
tionably, the one that will ultimately pre-.
vail, and which will necessarily extinguish
the false system Of labor Mr.. H. exces
in ciearness and earnestness of thought,
and We think it would be difficult for any
one to listen to him for an hour, and resist
the conviction that the question which is
now the soul Of American politics, is but
JUST entered upon.
In the afternoon the Rev. DIR. Thonp-
son, Of New York city, addressed the Phil
adephian Society and crowded audience,
upon the theme; Philanthropy the Goal
Of our Philosophy. No system Of Phlos-
ophy has real power except as it is in
spired with Philanthropy, and philan.
thropy which embraces the whole human
race. DR.. T. wiped out the various theo-
ries which have been invented to prove the
separate origin Of the various races of men
and vindicated the right of every ind;vid-
ual of the human family to the consider.
alton Of the philanthropist. The address
was, throughout, in that style Of compost.
ton and delivery which has placed him
among the first Of pulpit orators.
| On Wednesday, the procession, at the
usual hour moved from the College Chap
ell to the Church, escorted by the " Light
Guards" and the " Allen Gregg" where
the exercises of Commencement day were
rs follows
!. SALUTAToRY ORAuoN-- English Lit
orature the worthcst field Of labor for the
Scholar, l. WALKERS Thetiord.
II. ORArloN. The Heroic in Christian
Character.
Il. A. lockwood, Russell, n. Y.
III. ORAuoS. Oratory,
j. II. LEAWTr, Fergennes
". ORAuoN,-True Idea of Popular
Education,
G. II. FLOWER, Parshville, n. Y.
Y. SCIENTIFIC Evidence OF
Design in the Planetary System,
II NJ. BABNuM, Sheridan
VI CREATION Utility of the Beauti.
ful.......J. L. PARKER Middlebury
VII ORAuoN. 49, John Quincy Adams
GEo, W. SoUIfB, New Haven.
VII. SCIENTIFIC ORATIoy.-The Nor.
al Relations of Nature 10 Man,
G. S. CoLBuHN, Pittslord.
TX. GnrEE Observation-Disclosures
of Socrates, ..........,,.A. /. DurIoN.
b. KELLOGG,
&Ycalsc7. L. WALKER,
A. l. DUTToN.
X. ORATIoN.-R Religious Prejudice,
b. NJ. HowARD,* Benson
Xl. HIsToRIcAL ORATIoS.-- British
Rule in India,
". II. WHBrR So Londonderry.
XII OaAItus --Aorh West Passage
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