New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-20
Of time AID money h,. not beer wasted IN ras'oe
a tolersble lawyer or an intok.eabe clergyman or

, dangerous ptysici,o Of one who Scu'i hsve
been cspitsl chip master or an excellent farmer.
But what opportunity has the "rrry and per-
,pirIpg he,rer of discovering Wat these simple
d,c,.mers know or can do Look for moment
at the subjects which they are comPched or eDcour'
aged to engage VITA There Is fresh young
College in Massachusetts called " TUFTS, when
cave its annual exhibition on the 18th inst. And
here ere some of the themes upon which the de-
parting Seniors diIsted. Labor blessiog;
"I.iterature an Element of National Prosperity;
:. Our Duties: True Greatness: " Life i Dis
cpipe.' These arr all very pretty subjects; oal'
to quote tie by npmeans academIc,l language oil
Mrs. Betty Prog. We are compelled 10 ASH
"Who deniges il z" Life Is discipline: labor IS
a blessing, and literature Is an element OF national
prosperity. The most subtle philosopher would
hardly think it worth while to waste his time in
proving truisms like these. Whatever may be said
in their defense will hardly come from boy, and
will BE- Of bature too subtle for popular compre-
pension. We we're not-such is the goodness oil
Divine Providence-compelled to listen 10 Inese
orstiops. disauisltions anJ dissertations, but We
suppose that they were just like other orasons,
di.quisions and dissertations, which. for our SINS
We have been fated to hear; that they exhibited
the same droll apiDg of pronndity, were couched
in the same beautiful terms, made up In sound Tor
what they lacked in sense, were considered admi-
ratle by parents, students and professors ana not
considered at all By anybody else There was not
probably, an original thought, or new comoiha
-, Of ham
hammered out with proise"orthy pains, doc
tored" by the Professor Of Rhetoric, and then
trippngly enough declamed. They will now go
into portfolios. aud will there remain until their
writer's grow wise enough to put them into the
fire. and to witress their combustion with grim
satisfaction.
After the Tufts graduates had spoken their
speeches. the Orator of the Mathetican Society
whatever that may bespoke his speech on the
Example of Perices TO American Youth We
do not pretend to know Why Pericles was selected.
Any fine old ancient with his name terminating In
seq" would have answered as wel-Alcbiades,
Demo.tbenes. Eschines, Sopbocles-and we hope
the orato. did not dwell too temptingly upon the
tenderness of the great Athenian for Aspasia,
which may have been sport to him, but was far
far from agreeable to the Samians. We are glad to
learn as we do from the report that. in the opin-
ion of the Tufts orator. "Pericles combined in him
"self the genius and daring of the American chiefs,
Webster and Henry Clay" although We cannot
understand why Mr.. buchanan was left out OF the
parallel. unless it was because Perlcles refused,
as We are informed, "to waste the energies of his
"country in foreign fllibusterng though the
Lacedamonian and Peloponesian wars certainly
squinted in that dire cton. We hope the youth oil
Tufts will not be seduced by the example of Per-
icles who was We hasten to assure them, always IN
trouble. If they want an excellent classical exam
pie. We recommend Midas. They might not be
able to obtain his aurcular distinction, and II
they should, they might find that in these days
It would hardly be a distinction at all. But just
think, after the gods had given him the gift of
trapsmutation, what bank account Midas must
have kept upon how beautiful q specie basis his
fortune must have rested how easily he must have
taken upbis notes how many friends must he have
bad, all willing to borrow on call at an incredible
rate of interest Yes. When We are called upon
TO deliver an Grafton before some Delta PHI or
Alpha Delta Phi" or" Mathetican'' Society, our
subject will be 1.-THE example TO American Youth
" of the career of Midas the Phrygan; and we
promise whenever the invitation reaches US to resd
up night and day-to ransack Ovid, who singuarly
enough ssys that Midas was " rich and miserable"
although bis wine was gold, his bread was god,
the feathers of bis bed, his shirt his clothes all
were gold"-to pore over Plutarch, Valerius,
Maximus, Herodotus-to compile, manufacture,
doyetal, weave and patch an Grafton which shall
still be in accordance with the times whether they
may be hard or soft
We have here mentioned but one college, but
We hardly know one which upon Commencement
occasions condescends to Use common sense. In
the absence of originality and of thorough pract-
cal purpose, it is refreshing to find an orator In
dulgipg in certain eccentricities of speculation
In his late address before the Alumni OF Hobart
College, Mr. Senator DOollttle selected as his SUBJ
iect, "the Vision of Nebuchadnezzar," and proved
to his own satisfaction that the Fifth Kingdom
"the stone cut out of the mountain to ill the
"wbole earth" is the United States of America, in
which James Buchanan is President and Gen. Cass
Secretary Of State. Without being able such is
our limited eIudition, to say whether We agree with
him or not We can declare emphatcally that we
are much obliged to Mr.. Doottle for giving the cold
shoulder TO Pericles, and for introducing Nebuchad
nezzar, who is an entirely fresh parsonage.
POSSIBILITIES OF NEGOTIATION.
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