Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-08-20
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
PRAYER.

PRAYER.
MUSIC.
/. SALUTATORY GRAFTON. Litara
ture the worthiest field of labor for the Scholar
~ l.. Walker, ThetfoId
II. ORAT10N.-The Heroic in Christian Char
G. II. lockwood, Russell, N. Y
III. ORATION.-Oratory.
w. oRATIoN.-True Idea Of PopuIaT Edu
cation.
c. II. Flower, P4.ishville. n. Y
V. SCIENTIFIC ORATION-Eridenc of Dc.
sign in the Planetary System.
II. II. La mum, shoreham.
vi. 0RATION.-Utilityo OF tue Beautiful.
j. E. Parker, Middleburv.
VII. ORATlON.-John Quincy Adams.
Geo. W. Squier, New Haven.
VIII. SCIENTIFIC CORATtoN.-The Moral Re-
lations of Nature to Man.
C. 5. Colburn, Pittsford.
TX. GREEK DIALoGUE.-condomna Of
A. I. Dutton.
{ B. Kellogg,
Speakers L. Walker,
op,r,o>- a; l: Dutton'
~ Nls hONdIu, benson.
Xl. HISTORICAL oRATIoN-British Rule in
India.
W. H. Walker, So. Londonderry
MUSIC.
AFTERNOON.
XII. oRATIoN.-North West Passage,
Z. Dewey Jr., Malone, n. Y.
XIII. oRATION.-Yankee Element in Ameri.
can Society.
S. E. Burnham, Manchester
XIV. oRATI0N.-Dr. Livingston as a Mission.
c. F. Abbot, Panama, Ohio
XIV HISTORICAL GRAFTON. Deveiopc.
ment Of Important Ideas.
MUSIC.
XVI. PHILOSOPHICAL ORATION.-Skentic.
ism Characteristic Of all manly thinking
WY, u. Kellogg, Champlain, y. Y.
AVu. .oRATION.-Slavery and the American
j. Wilcox, Middlebury.
XVIII. vALEDICToRY oRATIoN.~Conser.
vative Tendency of Scholarship.
5. a. Walker, Pittsford.
MUSIC.
MASTERS GRAFTON.
Martin l.. Mead
MUSIC.
DEGREES CONFERRED.
PRAYER.
BENEDICTION.
The young gentlemen were, at the close
t their respective orations, literally supplied
With bouquets by their lady friends, (no one
far as we observed, receiving less than four
r five,) of course compelling each speaker,
fter he had made his parting bow, to exhibit
imself for a short season in the not very
raceful attitude of one picking up chips.
he interval between the morning and after
oon services was occupied with the CUSTOM
ry Corporation Dinner at the Addison
louise.
The Alumni Celebration ON Thursday, at
1iddlebury, was an occasion of uncommon
interest Prof, Butler, the expected Orator,
allied to uppear-leaving the forenoon to
IT. SAKE, who delivered his poem on Love,
rom which we have heretofore quoted. The
inner and social reunion of the Alumni, of
7hom goodly number We're present, occu-
led the Afternoon. Our townsman, Hon.
)ANIEL ROBERTS, Vice President of the
ssociated Alumni, presided at the table,
cad the toasts and with appropriate and
umorous remarks called up successively
.ev. Mr.. Hopkins of the class of 1904, Rev.
'r. Beman Of the class of ls07, (tho DR.. is
, his 73d year, with not nerve unstrung,
S he declared with emphasis while COM
,ending his principles and practice of
temperance to his younger hearers); Rev. DR..
thompson of New York Hon. Mr.. Howard
t Michigan; Mr.. SAKE, who repeated in the
curse Of his response his travesty of Richard
d, a very Saxey and laughable thing, not yet
a print we believe; Judge Swift; Hon
'eter Starr, and others. Many genial and
'itty things were said, and the occasion wa
ne of unqualified enjoyment to all
In the evening Geo. W. Curtis of New
'ork, delivered his admirable address on the
relations of Education to true Democracy,
efore the Secret Societies.
DEGREES CONFERRED. On Wednesday, in
ddition to the degree of A. B. in course
onferred on the graduating class, and the
egree of A. NJ. in course on five graduates
f former classes, the degree ofD. D. was
onferred on REV. E. W PLUMB, of Potsdam
I. Y, and REV. HENRY d. KITcHEL Of De-
,oit, Mich. The Honorary degree of A. NJ.
vas conferred on REV. EBENEzER PLATT,
Rev. GEO. L. WALKER, REv PETER P. HAIR
owER, Rev. GEo, G. SAKE, Hon. Moan
JAWS, JR., RICHARD II. SroDpARD, ANsoN A.
BARNES NJ. HALL.
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