Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-03
Correspondence Of the Intslllgehccr.l
Rethany College Commencement.
BRTHANY, Friday evening July 2 rs


Your reporter has been on hand here for a
tiaysor twd, enjoying the exciterncn(s aud enter.
tnlnnentst peculiar 10 this season Of tho year
et TINS place: Viz. the commencement exercises
at the college. Your readers are all aware tln1
Tor some months the exercises aud rounds of
study have been carried Oh here without Il COLLEGE
building, but notwthSta ding tn
experienced from the want Of enc, everything
has gone on with. a most cQmmendable degree
oil slnoothhess and regularity. The village
Church has been made to sctRe'in the several
en- acity of recitation, lecture and society roone
aud during this week has been well filled to hear
the various performances, which precede com
mencenlent day. There has been nothing lack
ling save the old college building itself TO give
the usual interest TO all that has been said ana
done. The attendance has been good but not
crowded as usual, owing to the backward state
OF the corn crop, and the additional farm labor
whicl2has resulted from the terrible washes
of the streams. The farmers have been kent
at home fixing up their fences and ploughiny
their corn. the mos of ttIe,viSitors therefore
have been those from distance. The exercises
commenced on Tuesday evening last, with the
annual exhibition of the Nepolitan Society.
The American Society followed on Wednes.
day evening and the Society Of the Alumni ON
Thursday evening While this day--com-
mencement day-ThaS cleared out the whole
scene with the speeches of the graduating class
comforting of degrees, &c. These commence.
ment scenes are usually very joyous times, vet
not of unmixed joys, for rs they progress each
-parhcipatorS and spectators-feel that
when they close there viii be sudden partingsz
never to meet again, of most of those who but a
few hours before waited to be gone. tits, no
doubt, joyous time to the student who for
years has been laboring far from home and
Kindred His hehrt leaps within him as he
thinks of the prospect ola coming re union with
the long left friends at home; hut he thinks too
belind-assueintes dearest of any in the world,
saSe those Of the tireSide Of childhood.
While aul now Writing 10 you, the venerable
President is addressing his last words to the
class of ''5S" They have here all--twenty-
four in number-received their Diplomas
Their heads are dropping as his impressive
words of cOuSratnlati0n aud henediction fall
upon their hearts, while, no doubt, their minds
are busy with the crowding memories of the
past. Their names and residences are as fol-.
lows:
H. Pangburne, Ohio; c. w. Riley, XIV; a. S.
Hale, Pa; j. Hobbs, Ills; II. Turner, KY, Ii. S.
Earle Ills; II. II. Haley, Mo-; T. VI Berry,
Mass; D. G. BTamham, Va; A. e. Dabney, Va;
y. j. Rogers, KY; G. II. Coleman Va; n. b.
Peeler, Mo-; JIM. Earue, KY; j. W. Goss, Ya;a
j, L. Taylor, Pa; @. Q. Moore, Ky.;, r. A.
ShriVer, KY; s. q. Humphreys, Ills; NJ T..
Mayo, N. C.; 4. III. Wynne, Va; j. G. Miller,
Ia; D. L. Yates, Miss; w. T. Moore, Ky.
Many of the students will leave tonight,
scattering far and wide to all points of the
compass, while some will remain to attend g
farewell party given by Prot. Pendloton. 50