New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-08

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Gem mencenens OF the State UniversitTo o.
Vermons-The vexed Question Of Union
Still UnsettIed-Dr. shedd's Ruiogy on
President PeRse.
Correspondence o. The ~ Y. Tribune.
fl BURLINGTON. Vermont. Aug. T. 1864.
Resuming our journeyings still northward,wt
ore now drawing the close Of this Commencement
Season. thsro is one which stu cings fast to the old
custom tina. gave birth and significance to tho tern
| .Comnenoement'-Brown Universty-of which there
NAV be something to bs said a month or more bence
but for the present the Vermont colleges conclude he
Hist A pleasant journey over the hundred and niiy
miles that Intervene between tho grand old hills OF
berkshire and the sti grander submits of the Cham
plain region brings to this PaInaSsls OF colleges:
the northern limit, believe. OF our national
universities finer site could not have been found IN
the wide range OF the continent east OF the Mississippi
The grounds Of the University are upon the highest
spot In the town Of Burlington. about mile back from
the shore OF Lake Champlain; and from tho cupoa on
the central building is 20 be had view seldom equalcd
for its magniiccpce aud its beauty.
Directly behind the buildings, the great profile OF
Mount Mansfield 70 lose It's twenty miles Of dis
lance in the startling clearness with which II rivals the
opposite view. TO tire west lies LOke Champ,Gin.
stretching away TO the north far beyond the historic
scenes OF Pats5urg and " the south until the pro.
eeting headlanas shut it from the sight, aud rising
rapidly from is further shore ten miles distant st this
point are the lofty peaks OF Essex County IN Now.
York where maguihconce eliminates and where. In
the Adirondaes and among the SGrcnacs the happy
fugitive from city heat reyes In the sports Of natural
enjoyment.
GATED If the influence OF all these combinations OF
scenery DC taken into consideration. has enjoyed now
existence Of sone sixty years. oen IT'S trne pass
the trials and dangers necessary tns Houd
appear, 10 nil similar institutions but yet holding us
own still with successful pertinsoity that wiz doubt
less secure IL hna certainty OF eKls'eiee ~ Is now
In the midst Of Of those local Wlrares wblch We
remember in the history Of most OF our now THRIVING
colleges Yale long Ito subject OF beroe contrO-
YeIsy between the inhabitants OF Now Haven ana say
brook, and even Other aspiring villages; Nassau Hall
WIS not located Princeton without much dlscussion
and Amherst and Williams rad both hard Struggle 10
countersct The opposing Influences nom mo eastern
part OF their State; and yet no colleges lave brighter
prospects, certain present establishments or more
thriving existence than these subjects Of dispute
The wordy discussion sbout the union OF tAe llTcc
Vermont coleres darlington. Middebury and Nor
wiol that has been exciting these excellent mountain
GERS during the pGst year Is doubtless too iaiaar 20
your renders 10 need more than passing mention Bnt
the settlement OF tao question seems 10 be only Little
nearer tlan ever. This University h-s ssnlied is
willingness 10 accept all tho requirements OF the state
Legislature with reference 70 tie Agricultural College
II the Others viii form uaion with this that valuable
Grant (Which Ia the other States has hitherto proved 70
b. worth about Si3n VIII De given 10 this II nj
yersity and tho State OF Vermont viii have q large
promising fourihiug University ~ It must needs br
called by Shat tte-in is finest town II not. there IL
little probability but that the asaouii aTe grant VIII Do
Used for TIE foundation Of entirely new Institution
become car 20 every that there "a need Tor one only
Tie Legislature arr % have special meeting next No.
yember with reference particularly 70 this matter AID
we NAV therefore look with soue degree OF nope Tor
the set cement Of thsOngyexed and disastrous problem
The great feature Of Commenoement here this year Is
the appearance Of Dr. W. u. 4. ehedd Of the Union
Thsoogicsl Seminary OF your city. parcuiery 10 de-
liver tho oulogy upon the late President Of tho Uni
versity the Rev Calvin Pocse d. D. II IL needless 10
say WHO and what Dr. Peaso Was. His Presidency here
wss marked by an uufllug and unee.sng love on tho
part Of his pupi and his retirement fio tie chair 10
pastorete in Rochester, \. " was cause of uni
yersal rsgrot IN all Burlington. And no filter man
could have been selected his eulogfi than Dr. Shedd
Born aud educated. am Informed IN this vicinity.
graduate OF tie Uaiversity and u eleague OF fEes
dent then Professor Pe0se In tho Faculty for
years beside intimate personal relations the dis
tnguished theOlOgien was placed upon 10 uncertain
ground when aked 20 perform such duty. And nobly
Las lie performed mis- worh Citizens ol Burlington.
who listened 20 him Oh Tuesday afternoon tell mo they
deemed II his finest effort, aDd fully worthy the man
WHO spoke and the one he commeInOrated
Tie Becculnureato Sermon. G,sO was preached by
DR. Shodd. on Sabbath afternoon last before an au.
dience that despsed the heat when their esteemed
friend and former citizen was 10 be tho speaker. Ho
selected the passage in tomans vi y i3i ms ieIt,
found to DC uutO death" He proceeded TO consider the
yays in wiich the commandment is found to be unto
death 20 the sinful most particularly withreerence
TO the sense OF duty which Is o pain to him.
first; because II paccs him under continual restraint.
and secOn, because i demands Of him perpetual c'
sor, From these two points Dr Shedd continued with
L
with the usual appeal TO the graduating class before
him.
Ia the evening Of the same day Dr. Huntington Of
Pcsfon the Society OF INJURY from tho text
l. Cor xi 90 inclusive making The subjects Of Va
rcty and Unity. as related In sni to human He the
theme of his excellent discourse which, however does
no. appear 60 have surpassed his oer sermons IN the
genera opinion Of bis audience
The sermons in remembrance Of two former Presl.
dents OF the University-the Rev. john Wheeler d. d..
President from lss to le49 and tho Rev Calvin Pease
~ l-gD Of laVa al nj
lulel TO- were delivered Tuesday afternoon, before
crowded sudiences. Tho frat. by the Rev. Joseph
Tracy, d. d., nom Bo'on. was IL The main biograph'
ical sketch OF President Wheeler by one who had al
WAYS been very intimate friends ind showed tho de-
ceased o. have been valuable and athf beneiactOr.
only of the college but OF tie oppressed referring
10 his laboss Ia 1919 among tho slaves and the poor
whites at the South, and 20 the useful effect Of his min
istTatOns among those people.
Dr. Shedd placed in the early part OF his discourse
brief sketch OF President fease life and then proceeded
with his characteristic love OF analysis TO treat OF the
character Of President Pesse a. scholar. teacher.
aid preacher. lie referred to his late commencement
BAT successful prosecution Of his studies with high
prase spoke the benefits which the University Las
rcaped the method pursued BY tho late Pre-
sdcnt in instruction. and finally after aybnfing his
SUCCESS as preacher 10 tho simplicity with which BIO
brought his own ue culture ~ be Of TO tho people,
closed with m eloquent reference to the oss which has
been sustained by the University and his friends in the
death Of 70 eminent Christian and 30 genial man.
regret that space and time prevent me from sending
you q extended account Of address which wes
IN every way admirable. and gach has produced pro
found sensation IN this community.
DR. Hitchcock addressed the Phi Beta Kappa Society
In the morning and delyercd snch an Grafton as might
be expected from bis able pom In regard 70 The fact OF
Providence in national affairs. And in the evening.
the Juniors afforded deectaiio 70 the crowds who wero
wiling after great days intellectual icast to conclado
with under graduate rhetoric: The speakers were
Albert w. Clark Nehemiah Pierce. George Il. Shaw
| Samuel w. 1orrey. Lambert l.. Wood, John H. Wor-
ceser. IT. There was Alumni meeting for business
at which nothing Of particular public interest was
transacted beyond the election Of Orator and Poet