New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-26
COMMENCEMENT At YALE COLLEGE.
CoScIo AID cLERrM-sUPPER OF HOPKINS GRAN
MAR sCHooL-ALUMNI MEETING-DR. W. b.
spRAGUE's ADDRESS 8EF0RE THE ALUMNI.

MAR sCHOOL--ALUMNI MEETING-DR W. b.
spRAGuE's ADDRESS 3EFoRE THE ALUMNI.
From Our Own Reporter.
NEw-HAyEN July -, 1860
The Concio ad Clerum was delivered at the North
DIR. Dultons Cbu fch lsst evening by the Rev. w.
Clspp of Rockville Conn. His text was in Psalms,
S3:l7, 18.
The dscop.fse WIGS on the nature and design of pun
ishment unler the Divine Government. Its leading
points were these: What might be the proper design
of punishment in the government of God What
will be the character of punishment In discussing
the first point he dwelt much the QUESTION Whether
there other higher ends than the reformation Of the
individual man. he claimed that fhe welfare of soci-
ETY. and Of the universe of higher importance. He
then took up the idea that society in se the sole end
He showed that the word right has no derivation any
language, but unique, independent, and depending
on no relations, in fact, ultimate principle. Take
away right from God, and we destroy the Godhead.
Is not rightDess not aptness, then, God governing
principle He then showed that rightness or bapoi-
ness was Gods governing and fundamental priacipie.
He claimed that Justice too precious principe 70
be tramped on TO world of woe, and that 1t was
admitted that we ought 10 SEEK he highest good BET
ter that one guilty man should go free, than that ten
innocent m.n should suffer. This shows the iund4
mental character of right The speaker then enforced
this point by urging it on general principles.
He then took up his second point-W bat VIII ne tne
character of punishment Its mode will be spiritual,
direct penal; rot patura simply. 1t must be such as
to show the avenging hand Of the Almighty; lie 'neh
sci forth what he conceived to be its proper degree lie
thought its duration would not he moment Longer
than was necessary 10 fulfill its object but 1t will not
be checked moment before it is necessary. Punish
ment must be continued long as the punished SINS
If one SAYS the sinner will repent in after life, we may
ask how he knows IL. There reasons TO believe
that the sinner will repent. This idea of proba-
ton was against this belief. God has allowed race
of beings to become stupid in sin here, and why not
hereafter The discourse closed with review OF the
salient points of the argument. II made deep i'm
preston and was better than the cORci0 dd cerums
for many years previous.
At the same time, the Alumni of the Hopkins Gram
mar School had pleasant reunion at the New-HaveD
House. Alexander Noming, esq, presided When
the supper was over with few pleasant remarks, he
called on the Rev. Dr. Bacon, who said ne had not
much knowledge of the Hopkins Grammar School, but
he had kept eye upon il all the time 1t had pros
pered more in the last few years than before. He
was pupil at Hartford in 1872. John Witer once
tutor in College, was his teachera with that ex-
ceent qualification for a schoolmastsr being not only
pedsgogie but pedantc. Witer spoke four words out
Of five in Latin The tradition is that it was beneath
dignity TO speak in anything bat Latin. If scholar
whed TO go out he must ask in Latin 1t lie said that
Hartford gained it's share in Hopkinss estate by hnlca
is not by metaphysical means. The story is that down
to 1870 the Hartford people had only common school,
but here they had a grammar school from the first.
He remembered hearing from Prof kipgsley that
the grandfather of gentleman present told Kingsley
how he was introduced into the languages. lie had
already learned little Latin. He went then TO Hart
ford and when in the recitation, called on TO de-
cline Jupiter, he said, nom. Juoer, gen. Juprls,
upon which the schoolmsser struck him with ferne,
and told him it Jo1ts He said, from the pam the
ferule gave him. he always thought it rds JO0iS. n.
B. thought it would be instructive to out all the
good influences Of the legacy of Gov Hopkins,
and in fact which has come already. Ii was cheerful
thought to realize the debt to predecessors,
to those whose deeds have made them fathers to us.
Had ayaiI bo
thinking be had double experience both al Hartford
when John Wtter thoroughly thrashed him, aud here
in New Haven where be only hreshsd grain out Ofhe
classics and where he got the best part of his educa
ton. He said the prince of all his masters DR..
Barstow Of New-Hampshire. He had wonderful
originality He used to say he could the evil in a
boy as big as a 0OOd.chuck. DIR. WOosey had had
very great pleasure 10 the early friends made at the
Grammar School. He alluded feelingly to Prof.
TwiDng, and others present, whom he highly valued.
BY happy turn he called out Henry White, esq, of
New-HaVen. He said if he was a Grammar.SchoOl
boy, he was good deal of one-a years term
he bad 1t took ten teachers TO get him through, and
who gave him the last push seated before him.
This push carried him into college, but Providence
ordained il, this last teacher became tutor, and
carried him safely through. President Woolsey and
Prot. Twnng were members of the school in his day.
The students in those days We're divided into two
caesesfriends of the administration and those who
Were not friends. There was a secret society which
he could get into, and which the administration
much TO his JOY, soon destroyed Prof. Twining then
humorously brought in about how President Woolsey
used to get shook up by DIR. Barstow.
DIR. j. p Thomson was then called on and said he
was not a HopkiaSonian nor did he ever mean to be
pupil of Cheever's Ezekiel He had been thinking
during the day of the debt owe TO those men who
lot literally educated, but who had large sagac
ity to provide for the wants of future generations
he had lately made the acquaintance of merchant in
Boston who had got respectable fortune. DIR. L.
struck with the thought that this of business
had cultivated his tastes for science. The merchant
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sons progress during the day in geography. This
friend Of his retired from business, and was early
stricken down, but lost his interest in learning
and in his son. The present Rector of the Hopkins
Grammar School, has handed down his succession to
the present day.
Mr. Wilton the Rector then spoke He was
struck with the fact'ths the Hopkins Grammar School
had more lives than a cat-ll it in way it would
to life in another. lie would have them remem
Der that his vocation was 10 repress mrth," and
they had better not have called npOn him early
he might put wet blanket on the proceeding. The
Hopkins Grammar School Association was inst tenn
pOrary, but ought to be perpetual. TIE legacy was
not Just what Gov. Hopkins intended it should be- it
was not free school, but cost each member about $40
year. The Alumni ought TO be watchful, each man
a trustee of its interests. Discipline had not made
much progress in keeping the benches uncut but there
was great deficiency Of jack knives.
Mr.. Wheatman an old rector then spoke. lie could
REGAL but three pupils present when he was at the head
of the school. He succeeded DIR. Barsow, who hsd a
system Of proectes which, if they hit chastsed the
offender, but generally they did not hit. He felt the
rapdiy of years as he looked on the results OF this
Hopkins foundation for the last hundred years. This
anniversary was a memorial to Gov. Hopkins.
Mr.. Cros well of New-Haven followed. Mr.. White
had been in the school years he was there only
seven days. Ills teacher was Mr.. Ward He was
sick two weeks, and Mr. Croswell then left.
Prof. Irving said he was teacher during that two
weeks and wished 10 know il air. Croswell left on
that account? He did not.) John Wither used to
call the school bell always the "Tintinabuum.'
Prof. Sillman, jr., reminded of bis chemical
tendencies. His memory of the school was distinct.