The New York herald., 1865-08-03
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
Commencement Week and Its
Exercises.
List or the Graduates and the Degrees
Conferred,
Sc, &c., sc.

Our WIIliamstown Correspondence.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILiIAnsrowN Mass,
August 2 1865. +
brilliant tlrong are patiently waiting upon the now
closing exercises of the Seventy first Commencement
Anniversary OF Williams College, Williamstown than
which there is select spot in all the States
send you all the details of this seventy first literary COM
memoration OF stalwart and in many respects sterny
'dogmatic New England college.
THE BAccALAUREATE SERMON PRESIDENT HOPKINS.
The commencement season each year ia theologicaly
dnaugurated by the delivery of Baccaaurcae discourse
which is invariably preached by the Reverend Mark
Hopkins, d. d., LII d., for thirty years or moro the
President of this institution Dr. Hopkins is deep and
powerful thinker leading exponent of the doctrines OF
his church. and pulpit orator of learned research and
power In personal appearance he is tall and spare with
che form and mein of the cultured scholar and the
countenance of the fervent unreentng student
In voice and he is at charming and per-
suasive.
THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE MILLS THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
was delivered the evening Of Sunday, in the Presby
teran church, by the Rev. E. B. Webb, of Boston. Mr..
Webb delivered a strong sermon in defence of the
church which he represents which listened to by
large and attentive audience.
KAPPA ADDRESS
before tho chapter recently instituted in this college
DR. Thomas Hi President Of Harvard University Cam
bridge near Boston, Mass, and the in the
presidency of Antioch College of the late Horace Mann
president Hill dscoursed to immense audience in the
church upon Political Economy
THE PoEM
before the Phi Beta Kappa followed the address, and
delivered by f. W. B. Canning Esq, Of Boston It
was q rich poetic production, carefully eliminated and
delivered in an earnest and spirited manner, ocitng
frequent applause.
rHE coLLEoH MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT EDWARD DoaR
GRIFFIN.
Shortly after six O'Clock Tuesday evening the
Alumni consecrated memorial monument to the Rev.
Edward Dor Griffin, D. D., the third President Of the
college.
RALPH WALDO nsKRsoE ON THE RosrRUM
Later in the evening the idiosyncratc New England
thinker and speaker Ralph Waldo Emerson Of Concord
in this State, delivered purely philosophical address
before the Williams College Adephic Union Society. Mr.
Emerson's subject tThe Ideal in Literature and his
discourse which like everything from this peculiar
but gifted man, aimed 10 show that literary man, to
sinpcre influence, must have heart in some
given subject hobby and dedicate all his energies to
the illustration Of before the people, and then that he
cothe his conclusions upon this selected theme in
language comprehensive the Masses the exclusion
of the erude He need not be vulgar in the of Ian
9uage but through it. and by Its simplicity educate the
poRe!sS heart and mind
ALUMNI DAY
PAIGE Of schenecady n r, Of the class Of 1872 pre-
over over the ne new Chapel, and was quite well attended
49,. TIE 4NNivERsARY OF TIE ALUMNI
followed the above proceedings and took place n the
college church. The annual address delivered by
Charles Demond Esq., Of Boston, and the poem BY Rev
Washington Gaddin. Mr. Demond spoke at length upon
<sThe Late War;"
THE WHOLE NUMBER OF DEATHS
Hmonsthe Alumni according to the neurology list for
Auor p0at ta a1O " Voar
THE BATTLE MONUMENT,
which s only partially finished partially dedicated
made by President Hopkins Colonel Colt of Pittsneld
Judge Olin, OF Washington Ex-Governor Emory Wash.
burn, OF Boston, Mr.. Emerson (not Ralph waido) and
The monument is Of feestone pedestal Of stairs and
scribe tho of the dead heroes of the Alumni
the stone and the entire when finished will cost
rather more than eleven thousand dollars.
THE PRIZE RHETORICAL EXHIBITION
took place last evening IN the church Tho choicest
speech of all this occasion that delivered by Mr.
"Peace" The greatest care was evidently taken in the
preparation OF this oraon and 1t delivered with far
than Che oratorca power incident to such efforts In
PRIZE RHETORICAL xxHBlrIoS.
The committee awarded the prizes for rhetoric as fol.
In tho Freshman clnss, to Arthur F. Egseston, Of
IOngmeadow Mass.
In the sophomore class, to Grenve sewal, of North
In ths Junior class, to Hamilton G. Howard, Of Detroit
Mich.
TIE DINNER OF THE CLASS 1852.
Last evening the class Of 1862 twenty members
of which to-day took the degree Of A. NJ in course,
ber Professor Franklin Carter Of this college, the father
OF the first heir Of the class The presentation speech,
Joseph % Simmons, Esq counsellor a. law Of Troy,
and was really very happy and appropriate effort
response the part Of the other married men Of the
class was made by Theodore Gilman Esq., Of New York
city. This effort was also highly polished one The
entertainment that followed elaborate one and
v~l~~ tlt.~r ns,h
(coIored of Troy whose fame this respect rife in
Eli this region The earlier hours of this mornine found
and Rich in his racisst glory as president Of the
prsndisiA - -,
This morning, at past six, q prayer meeting was
held In the Mission Park, the spot where the ebay
back" stood around which the earliest regionsts Of
Che college stood invocation many years since II
m interesting religious occasion.
occurred this year on the 7h Of July was most in
teresting OCCASION under the presidency of that genial
member Of the graduating class, Mr. Justin Kellogg, Of
Troy There was Grafton by r. c. wiett, and poem
vered BY O. T. r. spoor at the moment Of planting the
class ivy near the chapel in memory Of the class The
sy
consolation and encouragement the lower and remain
ing classes delivered by I. W. Euck After the
history was read by G. Noble the pipe OF peace fol-
lowing the festivities closed with dinner, music and
speeches
The festivities OF the week have been envened most
materially by the rendition on the part OF the students
OF the following songs, peculiar to old williams:-
(H)ossKous PHILOSOPHY JOHN A. rRKScH, ga.
Air-Cocachelunk.
Tell me not In mournful numbers
College life In but q scheme
To waste the soul In raking KS
All things else are but dream.
Chorus-Cocachelunk. &C.
Tell me not of mental fesstng,
o, good Prof, In solemn tones;
We reply In words of Scripture
II ls 70 have Bohns.
Deadly fakrng and not grubbing
- Fills our college life with mlrth:
Make bones, when brains do fail you,
OF making Bohns supply the dearth.
Grub no Latin, hows'er easy;
Murdered Greek must bury Its dead
Fear not ghost OF outraged Homer,
'Show your bones and punch his head"
Upper classes lives remind US
We may make lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us
Bohns among the sands Of time.
Bchns q may be, that another