Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-07-08
For tho Chronicle.
For the Chronicle.
Commencement at Mt. Union Col
lege.

For the Chronicle.
Commencement at Mt. Union Col
lege.
Eds. OronicLe:-The Committee ap
pointed by the Pittsburg Conference. NJ
E. Church, to visit Mt. Union College
and report its condition and Anniversary
Exercises, submit the following summary
We found the College in a very healthy
and prosperous condition, having a large
and thoroughly qualified Faculty, exten
sive apparatus, a first-class college edifice
ample facilities for good and cheap board
ing, a respectable financial capital, an ex
cellent system of government, of instruc
ton, and a healthy, moral and accessible
location.
The public examination of the classe:
occupied five days, closing on the 18th
instant, and evincing on the part of the
students remarkable accurateness, thor,
oughness and system in their respective
studies, of whom there were in the Col
lege classes two hundred and eleven, be-
sides the students of the Preparatory De
partment. Nearly three full companies
of the young men of the College had pre-
viously volunteered to serve their country
in the army. The students attending the
College consist of both sexes. of mature
age and we'll advanced in the sciences
and the classics, arc orderly and enter
prising, and about three-fourths of them
have taught school one or more terms
Besides the regular College classes, stu
dents are instructed in instrumental mu-
sic, painting, drawing, commercial sci
ence, and the French, German and He
brew Languages.
On wednesday evening an address was
delivered before the Literary Societies by
Hon. John Crowell, of Cleveland, and on
Thursday evening the Republican and
Linnean Societies held their annual con-
test performances, consisting of Orations,
Essays and a Discussion, all of which was
highly entertaining and instructive. On
Thursday, the 18th instant, the Com
mencement Exercises were held in the
new College Hall, which is about llG feet
long and &c feet wide, and was densely
filed by an appreciative audience. Each
member of the graduating class delivered
a short and racy address, in an easy, clear
and forcible manner. The Baccalaureate
Address, by President Hartshorn, l.. /.
D., on the Ethics of our Political Union,
was of the highest intellectual order, and
demonstrated that ours is a rightful, per-
manent and national Union of the people;
that secession, whether ~peaceable or for
chile, is parricidal and barbarous; that all
persons, at home or abroad, who will full
ly aid the rebellion, either by either ov-
ert act or sympathy, are opposed to the
Constitution of the United States, and
are enemies to liberty, to our country
and to humanity. The large audience
showed their strong Union attachments
by frequent applause and the utmost in
terest during the hour and a aalf of its
delivery. At the close of these exercises
which were richly interspersed with vo-
cal and instrumental music, Professor
Hartshorn conferred the degree of Bach
elor of Art upon all the members of the
Senior class, and the degree of Master of
Arts upon HI. Caldwell. E. Eli. Matilda
Hindman, 4. W. H~eldenbrand, j. l..
Lennon, and W. C. P. Hamilton and
the degree of Doctor of Divinity on Rev.
VIC. Clark, of New Castle, Pa. Rev.;:S.
C. Hartshorn, Agent of the American BIZ
Die Society. and Rev. D. L. Dempsey. of
Beaver, Pa.
We regard Mt. Union College as one of
the fixed institutions of the land, richly
deserving the distinguished public pat
ronage, confidence and financial dona-
tons so generously bestowed by the
friends of education. Its new building,
nearly completed, is one of the finest col
lege ediices in the country its rates of
tuition and boarding are very moderate /;
its session S or terms, beginning on the
nFsb Iuesuay ol august, November anu
March of each year, are happily arranged
for those who teach a part of the year.
and its accessibility is easy, being les
Alliance, Ohio, the junction of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad.
We cordially commend this College as
entirely worthy whatever material aid or
discerning philanthropists may
be prompted to bestow towards an ample
and permanent fund for the proper edu-
cation of the youth of both sexes.
w. B. WATKINS,
Chairman of COMMITTEE.