Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10
VALE COMMENCEMENT WEEK.

quently proaounced!i The Yale Missionary Address, by Dr. fJgaPl Thompson saf New York, was fine prodnctionLAiust three times | too long for the evening. Tbe Coacio, by the Rsv.'S c. Goddard of West Hartland, on The Resurrection of Christ its Nature and Effects, was replete with sound reasoning and able argument. '.'' 4-' One hundred and thirty, students were ex amined for admission to Yale and all but six teen '7i' accePteae riati a5anf G., stas +..tt rae, At the Alumni meeting 8 On Wednesday morning. presided oyer by Hon. ". M Eyarts of New York, it was announced that sixty-two of the Alumni had died the past ye4sr aver aging dfty-6ve years of age Fourteen gave up their lives in the service of their country The oldest surviving graduates are Hon, Eze kisl Bacon of Utica, class of l794, and Jere- miah Day, D. D., of New Haven, class of l795. He was 8 CD the 3d inst The speeches on the occasion were all good, and with one or two exceptions. vigorously spoken. But it is noticeable on these occasions. that if a speaker speak low more than half of the cultivated and refned(?) auditors fallto talking themselves, as if to. drown his voice entirely. tl'"i '"'s ''
 Ex-Governor Ellsworth spoke with great acceptance He exhibited Yale Catalogue of 1906, which he said was placed in his hands the evening previous, and was as great curi- osity to him as wonld have been the Pundect of the Roman law. Just before the close of the exercises, Gen. Robert Anderson Schuyler Hamilton, J. H, Roberts, N. Y Parsons and H. B Darlington, seated upon the stage, were one by one introduced by Hon. Mir. Evarts to the audience, Each rose as his name was an nounced, and was greeted with Idaafening cheers. l.. ,...,.ss.g. a., .,-..,a ..2i tAl --s}& :. The oration by Dr. Bushnell, at the Center Church, commemorative of the Yalensans who died in the service of the rebublic, was listened to with thrilling interest by a large and appreciative audience. The house was filled to repletion. He remarked that one hundred thousand colored men had acted as soldiers, entitling them and their race in this republic to vote. He recommends that Con- gress enact that the representatives be in pro portion to the nn,hber of voters in the several Stales, whichswill settle the suffrage question The, soldier, memorial festival, at Music Hall, was one oL the erentest affairs that man is7 pesahitted tn witness iIsi tie time. On fliis7 occasion the generals named, spoke. Gener- als Ullman of New York, Darlington and Parsons, are orators as we'll as soldiers but Colonel DemHg surpassed them all Proud may Hartford well e,thut she has three such citizeps as Ellsworth, Bushnell and Demine.-- Gov. ,. Buckingham, a wellnigh ifaultless man and matchless Governor. stated that Connecti- gut had furnished over six thousand more sol ders than her quota, in all fiftyfour thousand eqnals to 10000 years of service. Whole number of graduates and undergraduates of Hale connected in various ways with the army, 737.a During the session, the chairman, who presided with the most marked ability read the following telegrams: 'ae'''. s} -'''' I 1aao NEW HAVEN, July 26. ' To His Ercellency Andrew Johnson, Pres;dept
 cf Me United States: graduates of Yale College, assembled in of their associates who have served in the war, send their respectful greet ings to the President of the United States. May it be bis honor successfully to achieve the work Of restoring peace and order to the coun- try for the defense of which so many of our brave brethren have periled and offered up their lives. 4f7'io '''A'' 'l To which the President replied as follows
 oaa WASHINGTON July 26 Hon Wm. ,Evarts, Chairman etc, Tale:
 l thank you, and through you the graduates of Yale for their kind greeting. In the diff cult and delicate duties before me rely upon the support of the same intelligent patriotism which during the year has given so many noble lives and, deeds to our country. American scholarship has gained undying honor by is contribution to the literature and the acheve- ments in our recent struggle, for national ex- istence, and in the victories of peace which I trust are now to come, American scholarship will sustain the reputation it has BOW.
 Very truly,syour frienl ..
 ANDREW JOHNSON. ~S ]; Gen. Parsons was authorized by Secretary
 
 Stanton to say that 7s2,642 soldiers had al ready been mustered ont of service, and sent home, and that 100 900 more were about to be disbanded. From which it seems that we had a million of men in service. at the surrender of Lee. The Commencement exercises on Thursday, though equal to the best on former occasions, wete slightly shrandedby the exciting meetings or wednesday.a Gen A H. Terry, n, not Yale graduate, was honored with A, M.
 19sTt t' it7e'sA HON HaoNofIlr.l IL D. D59isA asTSaa Judge Noah Swayne United States sunren,e rae, Court .agS"2 Sa13G3sH ni f}fF : lac Hon: Wm. M. Evarts. 'iff'3 s4,fs4gtz4 s 3 Prof A:e. T~ining 'fg@dfsoa s'1'.ia. The corporation have made the ll,,a follow ;n,, i. appointments :0i' eoa ..1 '@ Hfasfsi ai ThelOgical Department --I'rof. Georu,a, aF