New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-15
PRESENTATION DAY AT YALE.
uepopd.uce Of The N. Y. Tribune.


The New-Haven elms have now come forth IN AL
the beauty Of fresh green leaves and abundant foege
The month If June 10 the very season TO vis't this
quiet, rural city, and it happens just now to 30 place
of unusual interest.
Last week the Medical Convention brought large
crowd Of strangers from all parts of the country; you
met doctors at every streetcoper, and found tnem I'D
every house while at their Convention high words ire
ouently passed in debates upon medical ethics ~
seemed 10 he a special object of the body 70 censure
Dr n w. Holmes for bis recent address in favor OF
practice without pills. -, LII. a.
session. and the rural legslators-vulgariy called
sbad by College boys, because they always come ia
the sbad seatonas they knot together in the streets
DIRE ssed in hone and discuss the questions OF inc
hour, give sort Of picturesque interest TO tne Guy
In The College world, this week is one OF great sur
and excitement Everybody is on the qu' uice. we
now have The "Wooden Spoon" exhibition, the class.
day exercises including the poem oraton ana hnai
partine of the graduating class, the Freshman pow
wow and tie De Forest prize speaking Inc SENIOR
Class has Just finished the Biennial examination OF
over two weeks in length, and the Sophomores are
examining up for theirs, which begins july D. Inc
new gymnasium is the most popular institution III vi
lepe IL is better furnished in respect OF apparatus
and than any other IN the United o.a'ss' a I
Harvard Gymnasium does not begin with II. Inc
thunder Of the bowlingaeys never ceases from morn
irp till night while the feas performed in the upper
room vie with those Of the circus Inc practical IN
luence Of this gymnasium is expressing itsei In the
changes slowly coming about in College life. Instead
of drunken buoonery there is generous mrth; kind
Of manly uprghtness is fast becoming popular; and
there is fear that the particular local institutions
which gave zest to student LIE IN former times
may die out 10 great extent
The gymnasium has given fresh impulse 10 the
muscle movement, and the halfdozen men now
training for the coming college regatta are the most
popular at Yale. The spirit of rivalry IN boating
Il; baa nd audd American
colleges, has worked wonders for Old Yale. Two
wears since there boats; there was not even
the spirit and energy to obtain them. The Yale Navy
is now permanent thing IL consists Oh sixteen ooass
boat is now being made by Mckay Of Brooklyn, which
will be pulled by the Yale crew in the Union College
Regatta at Worcester, Mass, on the 10Th OF July
this time, Harvard Brown, Trinity Union, and Yale
Colleges will be represented, each by its champion
boat and crew. and the contest will probably be closer
and exciting than that of the year previous The
Soph omore and Freshman classes OF Yale nave also
challenged the casses respectively OF Harvard
for the championship. They pull on the day OF the
Union Regatta.
Prof Dana, the geoogist, is now absent in Europe,
account Of his health. The loss OF the lamented
Prof Goodrich is greatly felt. He was one of the
main props of the College, and il will be years before
Yale can educate a man for his post. Prof James
Hadley will soon publish a grammar OF the Greek
language, on which he has been long engaged. It Is
going through the press of the Appetons. Mr.: ID. L;
Gilman the College Librarian, has recently published
a noticeable article in The NeG-Englander Oh " Hum
boIdt, Ritter and the New Geography" President
Woolsey has just published work on International
Law" His articles this and kindred topics in The
Netr- Engiander have attracted much attention. This
book is thorough digest of the numerous works on
the laws of Nations and while constantly keeping In
view the history of the subject and the wants Of
college textbook is very satisfactory and interesting
10 the general reader. Its conciseness its practical
character its breadth Of vew and the plentiful Saxon
of the style just what would expect from the
author, and these qualities give the book value
p Fisher will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon this
year.
Last evening the {" Wooden Spoon" exhibition drew
together large crowd. This exhibition is given by
those members of the Junior Class who didn't get ap-
pontments at Junior exhibition 1t il an institution
additionally of low and guttono1s origin, but now
rapidly rising in dignity and character az one of the
leading pecuhartes OF YALE The present exhibition
in which the design TO give outsiders taste OF the
fun and jolity Of low scholarship men, was hardly
up TO the usual ct indard. One Of its scenes though
College Trials-was quite funny. There was a bur-
lesque prize-fght recently between couple of Fresh
men. 1t created much excitement at the time and the
Faculty promptly sent away the geter-up of the mill
The scenes of this fight introduced in the colo
college Trials S as RsS kaegy Meeting
the Profundity of Molecules, delivered by John c..
Kinney of Darien Conn, rich in hyperhifalutn,
as the following section shows:
have thus far treated my subject the light of proreasOn
ing view It the other And here too
cannot but affect to tears the irsensbe deyotee Of the
manly ant Of sesduaion to consider that mole
cua development abqualste beneath mighty supern
cunbn condemnation OF circumstances entirely beyond
Surely steadily this glorious pherics period
saPProaehns Then and not till then will the sntedinyn
paTubos OF Systematic speculation which for untold has
bIooded IN melancholy crystalline density awake from its mex
pcshle slunbe and soar far beyond the anomc revolution
the lunar apdes into the pegee the
where and the acJom2tc pembr bates into Ia
cyss categorical caducities Wide Caleb Cushng Then
and then only will the nation learn It's true destiny and leaving
to conmpuous ddan all intensified application for the ame
Grafton Of Ethiopian lille the thundeIs of
nuba 10y mig from Greenandscy mountains to lndiss coral
desihess pucpc that the Proandity Of @olecaes ya. M
versely the squares of their ccumsnbent superluty"
The Spoon was presented, with an appropriate adj
dress, by w. II. Fuller of Barryvile, New-York, to
Stanford Newell of st. Anthony, Minnesota.
This forenoon the Senior Class numbering over one
hundred men, were presented candidates for the
degree of Bachelor OF Arts at the College Chapel,
Then came the class poem by Charles A. Boies of
Keene, New Hampshire. 1t was devoted mainly 10 the
topics of the hour gracefully delivered, and in
easy rythm, delicacy Of dicon, and natural flow of
earnest feeling and thought surpassedan presentation
poem delivered here for a number of years These
stanzas from the poem will give some idea of its cha
Taeter
Living well is not mere living
In the cultured taste Of schools
IT'S in the kna x of business,
Or the boarded gold Of fools.
But an earnest life's deep passion
Beating in kingy heart
With the gentle grace Of goodness
Clarifying every part
Oh twas true the dream of sages
OF the music Of the spheres;
And each lie Of human creatures
With its ehangingJoys and fears
Is note in that great anthem,
Ever ringing tlIo' the stars
But our Life Hymns minor bars
The ygor of the writer carried him out of the usual
common place, and his poem has interest and value,
outside OF The present occasion. The Glass Grafton