, 1865-10-04
EASTMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Inauguration Exercises..-The Opera
House Filled.-.NAj. Gen. Sherman
---Addresses BY Hons. Horace
Greeley and II. D. Wilbur-..
Poem by G. IT. Bungay.

Poemby G. #. Bungay.
The exercises attendant upon the opening Of the
Eastman Business College in or city commenced
Last evening in the Opera House, which wns packed
to ftpleou and great The deslse to be pres-
ent On the occasion that at Least one thozasud Der.
| sons were unable to gain admitance. A larrer
audence was never gathered within the walls Of The
Opera Honse, The lasgest structure tn Chicago.
family circle wess slike iled to he Sram' ' a''a
i6e audience compr1sed within It's membets
many distinguished gentlemen friends Of educz-
9 %ss enEs n s f. hslas e nSE o1s
| man md staf, another ty Senator Eastman md =
| GsrT Of ladiee. on The stage were: Hon. John
81 af IL Haix. T. e. co Sio9i e he@tn hSR " bi G.
D. Hrafnerd, Mayor ]. B. Ricc. presidins, Bric.
Gen. Ke,ehan, Wesley Munger, fan,ton Lite.
Tie nns brass iaad rom Eat.man'e BUSINESS
| College Of Poughkeepsic occupied the orchestra,
and introduced the exercises NTH some really
IL the iron. Of the parquette, Immediately behind
al eight O'Clock Prof. Eastman advaneed to The
trout and announced that the Mayor Of Chicago
| lion. J. 3. Itfct-would preside,
TIE chahsnan referred b.ieay, to The i1nport1nre
tosebss, md aatd % tsat 20 p eteai Lad ben tbs aee
Of The Instruction II aGorded+ That the college had
heep opened come weeks in advance Of the tine
speakers uho wonld addrees them were eminent
mcn, ard would detail to them the advantages Of
that cdpeati ion The nrt speaker be would intro
nois sy Sp y hs ensmies hsn E
| ftiende.
The General bowed from bis box amid perfect
ttoEua o. applause, many tines REPEATED; 1he A. a
General agafn; he spoke as follows IN response:
The cars leave n fiteen lnl11ntes and
oh Ia R ep5 on yons
| attenlion. tLoud Checrsl.
Nsyer Rioe. xea ls.e seen ana heard the
tbc ralle.y on the right, we have not eeen him on
se asss1 fsSs s IT, aa, IL
next gentleman Wi be much shorter th.n 1t other.
| wise 'on1d be- The peopie-.Wi1l be Please come
| do"n and fEow himself on the platform!
noS. noRAcE GREELEY,
The Chairman then introduced Hon Horace (sree-
Icy. oi thc kc,E ior. Tribune, paving very hand
some bute 10 flts talents as man and bis ahill-
Lies ss friend Of the people. Americas Own
man.
At. Greeley was received enthusiastically. There
were two wonf-* Education and Bus1pese.r'-
which wcsc all important 10 the American. The
Indeed The whole Of our lives il one courre ui edu-
Cation But In Que especial sense the trimming Of
fse people Y an American idea- II dates back f1nm
| gone forth annually long army Of tearherx-pot
necessarily teachers OF book, but teachers OF ali
q Ss so bs e. Z ss s
ca,ed. So then the rank and file Of our recent ns-
mics were the best in the world becanse
hat Massachusetts regiment went out towards
ped ont Of tie ranks men to man be Old consti,a-
| lion. 10 hnild railroads. and to break them up II
od La sss ee: ss ' sDed d b. 81 d., sGns s4 II
! General rho had Just bid lh,m adi;u. Ichee.s.l
MDiPth F1Uf4f1Hn 11Fh rSE4t <s+1 10
&c ent; In day The horizon Of knowledge Is
much wasnsd + md peS t9e question i not Of
mest needs 10 learn cut Of shai vass rne Of Enox-
enoe spoGe viii meny WILLIE nslSert l'xa aads ibe
gnat chemical scholar. who told him that ps:p.1s
1e,tT aequire perfectly. The la1euasc Taught,
IT. Na4 44oi friend oi on Natlonai jzeadcsur al
a%e e % g. ON on
utes. lie believed thas every academy shoald have
is own coare Of military instruction, and whcn a
iidon, and The question asked be not 'sNkere "a.
the candidate taugltF' but What does be kno":''
~ b eeessd W.. Popt
world. The great point in education was to nt
nun for becomlne useful lie Hyed in city which
was the city Of refuge for the bankrup,e Of both
man landing tbcre witb thc edacation oi 4 had.
carrier ma, insure likelihood. but man ~Ith a
Diploma from Cambridge q Oxford ~ in sres.
thought 70 be traaing. That is but one snail lart
business; .nn int o,nsc, w oompusea 1sw
q trading: This produced what Va. called panie
be called il common eente. This competition pro-
o. @ Old Ia an i 1.tn 'be yoanc s ons
bas sse es ihe le0dins "a asn nm noney ny
I'm hTT3 7If+
nss s ei s. i sns gn %s, 16e e.
sora wapts ; IL noI more t1sde1s bn moFe workess,
~as I aad e: sRsss Rssi It y a a. s
around him othess and giving employ ment to oth-
eE. IL turning cEer produces aa5 making them
nor more valuable: a These nen A. a.s lhs tue business
trucst benehctorr. such as Watt aud Fulton They
hsre cansed the employment Of hundreds of tnon-
ntilirer Of Labor, and WI ii Do for the world
what The steam engine has done and ihe
steam plough may do. It ha g7eat mistake 10
with It. Ano,ber mistake il that certain races-as
The lnata-wfn not work. All men znay be In
dEced to work II yon will only ehow them how they
The tue mission Of gcntuE-to prexcat Inducements
70 labor bF ineeastng the results a.1Aug trosn It.
Erssy railroad Is great ecnoomizer Of 1sbor ret
seen in his day bind, ignorant work1pen destroying
neutrality-suspicious.. powe.looms, &c, when
sss;E eas ., heSs .3ss Sss T. r.
IN FEance ten ycarr ago anc eaw there Ecythes enc
loot shorter than onrs ind they justiaed Il b ssy
| they Increased the length. That was because they
bad not the genius to ret men to work in draining,
&c. uheTeby they might corer the earth with
human Eenins will be able to make every thing beau
uiul and usei9l II was not long since the
people ttumhed On tzou, The great mark Of cv1liza
were fm long time unacquatnted with the r1lue Of
coal It had ben said thar the coal Of England
her strength. But when the eoal was gone, they
| ~pAld dnd in Their peat boet great store Of
xea1th as they hays already done r. New England
Nould uncover more than enough wealth to pay iof
liz coat. and will make Of this country the great
| cxnsral mart Of the world. He commended these
parmtut Of discovery there WIS work to do, new
tountatue 81 wealth TO he opened up, new fields 10
.is ns e a. .ef g. h,a ~ -;
there has betn nothing yet done compared With
what has gel to be done, and that within tbs ue1t
fnde Of is results vii be three timeu incfested. Ind
that the World will be cole1cd with = wealt, Of
beauty never Jet known.
TEE roEx.
q GsoEce r Bnnssy. En-, !sis of the New Yo.t
Men. and several poems, next delivered the inau-
rasa. poem very vel WEittea. ode to the genius Of
tne a. sna ~ ae I'm sad
has Ealsed-her repEesentadvc mcn-paytng beau.
ttuy expressive tribute to the memory Of Lincoln.
eonched In true poetic language. II concluded
!|;sss g 1, e tes sssy e5 81 tes b.
The reading Of fhe poem Mas frequently inter.
zupted BY demonstrations Of applause.
| hon. y. u, WILBUR.
| The Chairman Introduced Hon. Mark D. Wilbur,
| Of New York. srho, however, declined 10 make i
.peech. Yet be could not, On being tnrited to ad
and brans Of The West. but feel deeply the eomph-
| tnrrt. lie proposed only 10 say few words about
the Eastman Hnsme,s College,. Nj. Eastman was
edce Of him as being proad thing in his life.
Practical education, Al distinguished from the
o'dfaFhiontd educasions. tad been spoken or BY a
Thing taught; medicine md law were neu tanght,
| and ater"aEds the sciences. running nom astrono
ny to masic Mh,sh he ehazssserixed ~ The highest
field bad done their 6uty; The fair ones 1t home
hnd doue theirs. but there was more to do yet fo.
ana epes In % w dsient I Ito to sny FL they nut
ehow their devotion 10 these sons Of Mars, and. let
ting thsis cheeks represent the rcd, their bosons
power for them. fLoud checsa
Professor Eastman, who bore upon his body the
sca.F Of battle and the medal Of honor, hau opened
tl,is eolseT which would x T. found military
but Emalt part Of the learned man DuEi-
ness and l,roieseIoua had eaeh their educated
men, and The pasely classical mau Tas as much At
loss in my Of these matters DE- eome business
men to dletintngnfsh themselves in Greek and
tatin.
college greater shan In any other in the world
Fouchkeepsae sn.at 2 100 students were instsucted.
endowed BY his own m @eanst con.rolled b. Its own M
intellectual power, and he wor}n predict that in st1
mon1bs Chicago would have an Institution Of equal
| extent, and i0E which in two yea1t ahe would e1t
tiAce any Other institution IN her midst
The detailed workings Of the COLLEGE were then