The Portland daily press., 1862-08-16
COMMUNICATIONS.
Correspondence of the Press.l
Commencement at Waterville College.
WATERvILLE, Aug. 13, 1862

aug. 10, lCo1.
When / closed my communication yester-
day morning they were still coming, and kept
coming till the remnants of all creation finally
arrived. In attempting to be prophet, to
foretell who would win the prizes at the Jun
ior exhibition, on Monday evening, l did not
succeed, for the committee awarded the first
to John o. Marble, and the second to Chas. T.
Emery, both of Watervlle
The Grafton and Poem before the societies
last evening were pronounced by all TO be ex-
cellent productions, and in fine taste. The
Grafton was peculiarly scientific article
plain and intelligible, and brought, by happy
illustration, within the comprehension of all.
The Poem was indeed war one, commen-
cling with VirgiPs familiar line "Arms and the
man sing" and then showed that the "coun-
try was full of arms, and to arms was the cry,
but tchere Is the man? 1t was not Mcclellan,
nor Hunter, nor Burnside, nor has the Napo-
leon yet arisen. The poet had confidence in
all the men he named, but attempted to show,
in an ironical manner, that the Federal people
had no confidence in their Generals any longer
than each General is eminently successful; and
the first time he fails TO come up to their ex-
travagant notions, the cry goes forth, "he is not
the man."
This morning the trustees of the College
held their meeting at the College chapel.
We are obliged to abridged
RAVN1ocAoh
and marched to the church, where the follow
ing order of exercises took place:
1-Latin Oration; Ozias Whitman, Buck
field
2-Oration; The Greek and French Revou-
tions; Frank Bodfsh, Watervlle
3-English Grafton; Seeming and Being -
Albert Quincy Marshall, Hebron.
1.-The Brotherhood Of Nations; Zemro Au-
gustus Smith, Hodgdon.
5-Dissprfation. The law of 7 ahor. VIM
Carey Barrows, Litchfield.
6-English Grafton; Government and Peo-
pie; George Adam Wilson, Waterville.
7-English Grafton; The Sphere of Faith
Isaiah Record, East Livermore.
S-Poem; OF the Class of Grafton; The
Traitors Dream; Alonzo Bunker, Atksinon.
e-Oration; The Poetry OF Mathematics -
Aretus Gustavus Barker, Lowell.
10-English Grafton; Influence of Histori-
cal Characters; *William Amory Stevens,
Waterville.
1l-English Grafton; The Magic of Evil;
Frederick Hale, Turner
12-English Grafton; Aristocratic Limta-
tions; *Whiting Stevens Clark, Sangervile
l3-Oration; Reason and Prejudice; Elias
Brookings, Jr., Woolwich.
14-English Grafton; The Mississippi: *Au-
gustus Champlin, Waterville.
l5-Oration; Power developed by Emer-
gencies; Justin Payson Moore, Sidney
16-English Grafton; The Foreign Policy
Of England. *Arch Dorillous Leavitt, Turner.
1I-English Grafton; The Ideal in Life -
*Wm. Eustis Brooks, Bloomfield.
1S-Poem; Of the Glass of an English Ora
ton; The True and the False; John Francis
Liscomb, Portland:
19-Oration; The Unity of Mankind; Geo.
Langford Hunt, Woburn, Mass.
U-English Grafton; Sadness in JOY; Ed
ward Winslow Hall, Portland.
2l-Dissertation; Edgar A. Poe; *Moses
Campbell Mitchell, Temple
22-English Grafton: Fate and Self; Asa
Lyman Lane, Strattanvlle, Penn.
13-Englsh Grafton; The Relations of Law
and Liberty; *Wm. Dyer Ever, Vassalboro'
24-English Grafton: Sans peur ct sans re-
proche; George Alvah Clifford, Vassalboro'.
The whole interspersed with suitable music
Those marked with star ~ excused.
Inc pieces, with two exceptions, were thor
oughly committed, of good composition, and
timely selected subjects. No. 8, the Traitors
Dream, was poetic vision; the darkest, foul
est boodest plot which could be laid before
the human mind. The scene was laid in
Washington, the actors Davis, Slidell, Mason.
Toombs, Floyd, &c, each carrying on his part
with zeal, and having frequent consultations
with the devil; and the object of it all to sac
rifce upon the altar of slavery the bleeding
lamb of liberty
Ihe degree OF A. il. was conferred upon
Henry A. Kennedy, of Waldoboro', in course,
and the graduating class. Also the degree of
A. M. upon Judah I. Pompilly, Simon S.
Brown, Henry A. Hart, and Geo G. Percival.
The degree of d. ID. was conferred upon Rev.
Hezekiah Harvey. Geo. A. Bosworth and Sam
uel A. Collins, and the degree of LII. d.. upon
Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler. This last an
nouncement brought down storm of an
plause which 1t seemed would never end. This
closed the exercises at the church and the au-
dience, as hungry as Poleyphemus, marched
almost on double quick TO town Hall, where
war dinner, as the President called it, was pro-
vided by Mr.. Williams of the Williams House.
The crowd, some 300 strong, made desper-
ate charge with knife and fork upon the load
ed tables, and they were in very few min
utes 'horribly cut to pieces'
The President requested the audience not to
disperse until after the second course was
served, and called upon Vice President Ham,
lin, who was most Justify cheered. His re-
marks soon drifted to the popular theme of the
day-the rebellion.
lie thought he could see the silver Innings
OF the sky through the clouds and to him it
was the brightest day he had seen for sixteen
months. He was followed by Gov Washburn,
and In very much the same strain He said
Maine had sent not less than 23,OOO to the ar
my ana navy before the call for the first 100000,
ana her quota of the last two calls would not
be less than lI,000,making not less than 10000
from Maine.
Hon. L. NJ. Morrill, was then called out and
ne followed the course indicated by his prede-