Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-27
FRIDAY. JULY 81. 1850.


,,orrespondenee Of the Worcester Daily Spy.
commencement at Yale College.
The annual festival of the graduates of Y ale
College for 1860 is nearly finished. The an
Gent elms are as majestic as they were years
ago, when gray haired men were boys, and
the fathers of stalwart sons were among the
children who rejoiced in their shade 1t hap
pens, by some ineXplicable visual law, that
nothing here seems to grow old; faces which
one knew a score of years ago look as they
did upon the benches, of the Lyceum and the
Atheneum, in those sncient days. 1t is only
the presence of the very youthful generations
of students which impress the returning Pill
grim with the consciousness of age.
The oldest of the living graduates of the in
stitution, Joshua Dewey of the class of 1857,
and Daniel Waldo of the class of 1888, whose
venerable and familiar faces are known to most
of the graduates of the college, were present
during the exercises of the week. Among
those who have died during the year, some of
them enjoying an honorable fame in Massa-
chusetts, was the venerable and excellent Tim
othy Mather Cooley, who died at East Gran
vile in December last. Aside from his great
personal virtues, il is mentioned that he had
the singular honor of delivering an Grafton in
Hebrew, on the day he graduated, and that
he cherished peculiar friendship for the Ian
guage during his long and worthy life. John
Goulding, of the class of 1921, and the son OF
the late Ephraim Goulding of Grafton, Massa-
chusetts, contented with the opportunity of
doing good in an humble way, died in STRAIT
ford in May last, where he had been an es-
teemed and successful physician during the
greater part of his mature life. John Maltby,
OF the class of 1922, settled many years ago in
Sutton, and subsequently in Bangor, died in
Worcester in May last, while on fruitlesS
journey for the restoration of his health.
The meeting of the alumni, though attended
by fewer numbers than it has been usual to
see, and encountered with the innovation of a
formal and elaborate discourse, was of a most
interesting character Prof. S. f. B. Morse
of the class of 1910 INDUCED in some half
century remarks, saying, with the modest
consciousness of his success, that, if there had
been battles, there had also been victories,
and closing with a tribute TO the memory of
those who had passed away. Ex-Gov. Ellis
worth of the same class exhibited unique
catalogue of the institution fifty years ago,
telling the whole story of its members and its
uses on a single leaf President Woolsey,
who was welcomed with very grateful ap-
plause, and Rev. Dr. Bacon, spoke for the
pupils of 1920. Judge Thomas was called up,
and said that he had no place at the seat OF
learning except as a friend OF culture and an
admirer of the great men recorded in its cata
logue. He instanced with appropriate eulogy
the names of Edwards, Kent, Calhoun, and
Goodrich. Eloquent and agreeable speeches
were made by Hon. c. G. Esty of Framing
ham, Mr.. Ellis H. Roberts of the Utica IN.
V Herald, Mr.. Cyrus Northrop of New
Haven, and several others, when the alumni
adjourned to the church to listen to the address
Of the Rev. DR.. Sprague
The Phi Beta Kappa Grafton of Hon. Benja.
min f. Thomas was quite the best OF the liter
airy exercises of the week The general theme
of the Grafton was the necessity and the uses
of reserved intellectual power. But it was, in
fact, eulogy of honest culture, vindication
of English literature, and of the orators and
writers of our mother tongue, beautiful and
worthy tribute to the great intellectual ex-
amples of our time The orator was favored
with a select and refined audience, who gave
many expressions of qualification and pleas
ure during the delivery of the address, and at
its close.
On the same evening several very interest
ing class reunions took place, of which tales
must not be told. Nine members of the class
of 1910 met at the residence of the Rev. DIR.
Fitch, some of them after SO long separation
as to have forgotten each others faces. The
class of 1920, embracing President Woolsey,
DIR. Leonard Bacon, Hon. Garnett Duncan of
Ohio, Bishop Rutledge of Florida, and 9TH
er bright and venerable names met in
larger numbers. Forty-two members of
happy reunion at the Tontine, prolonging
the festivities far into the night. We notice
among them DR.. John B. Alley, and Rev.
Henry NJ. Dexter of Boston, Rev. Horace
James Of Worcester, Gideon H HOLSTER, the
historian of Connecticut, and others bearing
familiar Names The biennial meeting of
the class Of 1850, and the triennial meeting Of
the class of 1857 occupied the night at the
New Haven House.
The exercises of the graduating class on
Thursday were attended by throng of ladies
and friends OF the participants, who listensd
with great patience Tor many hours to dis
courses on very impractical and useless
themes The class, however, is said to be a
very promising one, and it is not the first, and
we presume will not be the last 10 write upon
subjects as far removed from present exercises
as the old red sandstone is from the stratum
which is now forming Upwards of one hun
dred members have been admitted to the new
class, very few of them with conditions" the
scholarship being generally of higher grade
than was usual with applicants.
The intelligence of the regatta did not ex-
cite much enthusiasm, less interest being ap.
parent than last year, perhaps because so many
of the younger classes were out of town; per.
haps because the success of the Yale boats was
not so brilliant as had been hoped
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