Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-29
MOUNT UNION COLLEGE.
Comm encement Week ut Mount I'm
iOn-EXerciSes of the WeeII-EnOrt
10 Raise an Endowment Fund.
Especial Correspondence of Cleveland LEADER.l
MOUNT UNION, June 23d, 1866.

Especial Correspondence of Cleveland LEADER.l
MOUNT UNION, June 23d, 1866.
The somewhat novel but interesting
exercises of the Commencement week at
Mount Union College, were opened with
a telling address by Hon. E. E. White, A.
NJ, the late efficient School Commissioner
of Ohio, on the subject of Educated
Labor
On Sabbath an able and appropriate
"Baccalaureate Sermon" was delivered in
the College Chapel by DR.. Hartshorn, the
efficient President of the College. On last
Wednesday, after the meeting of the
Board of Trustees and Conference Com
mittees, the Annual Address, able, appro-
pirate and eloquent, wa delivered to a
large and appreciative audience, by Rev.
S. H. Nesbit, D. D., editor of the Pitts
burg Christian Adrocate.
Early on Thursday morning a la ge
procession was formed and march o
the ~capacious College Hall, the procession
being led by the Alliance Silver Cornet
Band.
GRADUATING EXERCISES AND DEGREES.
The addresses of the seniors were excel
lent, both in matter and manner of deliy-
cry. At the close of these orations, a
brief Baccalaureate address was delivered
by the President. The Bachelors De-
gree was then conferred upon W. H.
| hracp1ar lfo-o1 n n n nn=--.-
Washington, Pa. H. s. Leland, Mount
Union, o.; A. c Scott, New Alexandria,
o., A. P. Conkle, Mt. Union, o; L. B.
Eberly ~Smithville, o.; E. L. Rich, Neva-
da City, California; and the Masters De-
gree was conferred, IN cursat, upon 1 Nor
rs Taylor, East Bethlehem, Pa Sallie c.
Caldwell, Warren, O.; B. F. Garretson,
Mt. Union a. j. Sampson, Sedalia, Mo.
SADIE L. Slemmons, Mercer, Pa; j. W.
Witter, North Lima, o.. Hattie G. Clark,
Edinburgh, O.; Louisa S. Lukens, Belle
fontaine, O. Ell. Wood, Louisville, Ky;
J. A. Brush, Mt. Union; Sarah G. Bu-
chanan, Carrollton, O.. 1. o. Kemble,
O~skaloosa, Iowa E. NJ. Wood, Freedom,
Pennsylvania.
The degree Of Master of Arts was con-
ferred. IN honore, upon Rev. Jas. S Brack-
en-, Beaver, Pa. and the degree of Doctor
of Laws, upon Hon. John A. Bingham,
Cadiz, o.
In the evening the "Contest Perform
ances' of the Republican and "Linnman"
Literary Societies were ably conducted,
and the large hall was crowded with in
teligent and delighted listeners.
The meeting of the Alumni and re-
union Of the students and faculty next
day were occasions of marked interest.
LADIES MEETING - CONTRIBUTION OF
$2O,OOO,.
No exercises of the Commencement
week made a moro deep and favorable i'm
preston upon all than the public meet
ing held in the College on Thursday, by
the Ladies Centenary Association of
Eastern Ohio and Southwestern Pennsyl-
wanna, and gracefully presided over by Mrs
DIR. Homer j. Clark.
Appropriate and eloquent addresses
were delivered befodc this Association. by
Rev. c. A. Holmes, D. D., Pittsburgh, Pa,
and Rev. W. A. Davidson, A. NJ, of
Washington, Pa. President Hartshorn
was called upon to state the progress and
claims of the College Endowment, and TO
solicit contributions TO the endowment of
the College. Liberal responses to the
Presidents appeals were c~heerfully made,
by the large audience present, in sums
varying from one dollar to ten thousand
dollars-one member of the Board of
Trustees, c. Aultman, of Canton. O., do
mating ten thousand doLLars-until before
adjournment the Secretary ofthe Associa-
ton announced that the subscriptions of
this meeting amounted to nineteen hous-
and three hundred dollars.
The subscriptions however, did not
stop with the adjournment, but kept com
ing in, until, by noon next day, it was an
nounced that over ts0snty-tlDo thousand
dollars had been reached, swelling the ag-
gregate of the pledges on the College En-
dowment to 100000 90.
VALUE OF THE COLLEGE PROPERTY AND
PROGRESS OF ITS NEW BOARDING HALL
These exercises of the Ninth Annual
Commencement have reflected great cred
it upon all parties, and will form a grand
epoch in the history Of Mt. Union Col
lege, whose 1926 students are laboring
nobly in tyenty-tigo different States of the
Union; and the estimated value, of whose
apparatus and real estate amounts to
$l21, 992, 60, being free of debt or any in
cumbrance.
In addition to the new and stately Col
ledge Edifce and the present boarding
house, a magnificent brick boarding-hall
1919 feet long, by ACT feet wide, and 4
stories high, is in rapid process of cree
ton, on the beautiful college campus of
twenty acres, and will be completed in a
few weeks, in good style, for the use of
students. E. B.