New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-24
COMMENCEMENT SEASON.
Harvard College.

HAEvAnD CoLLE5r, July = l-as.
Frou Our Special Correspondent,
Tie attraction has need TO be potent that calls one in
these extreme days from the shade of Summer retreat
70 tho dust and heat Of the city. Finger by flgcr
release the cool grasp Of the county, and just as tho asst
trace gone You feel beating you the hot pulse f
tie thoroushiaro With surprise you awake as from a
pleasant dream All this commotion has ben going on
while you tool; note Of IT, Tie deJr,s of q hundred
advertisements makes you Of what You have lost
| during your rustic Teposc. dozen favontcs prma
| dOnnas and PrOsa dOnnas. have come and gone. MIR
Soandso the champion nder AMI another he who leaps
from the back OF the buffalo OF the pairos-ai esst
docs his portrait in black on yellow gound- BehemOh
Of Holy WIT, together with al tic quac medicines Of
this and 70 years past From oil this, yOu pass with
bound road often Travelled y the living ana the dead
To-day we attend the living thre the occasion Is
termination but commencement.
You at classic Cambridge Just in time 10 see the
academic procession form, and march with its baud Of
music 10 the church in which COLLEGE s0cmntcs are lad
AZ pump near by some military horses are getting re-
| freshment. This suggests a Governor and ads whom,
indeed find on entering the church. The procession
consists chiefly Of college officers faculty, and the youth
fu bachelors who to-day 10 be initiated arts,
the learned commencement document sets forth While
these umbling into their places 10 the Jolly music Of
the brass band we survey the familiar precincts and august
assembly The church is well flied, but not dscom-
fort the JUUcROS occupying the middle Of pew In
the seat Of honor where these eyes have behed Quincy
Everett and FELTON,, we now see Thomas Hill, Prae"'
WGgRVcus as the quaTto pamphlet above referred 70
styles him. And, lOl we discover Bullock before the
altar and new aids 10 new uniform Tie Professors are
mostly there the left of the Pr0cses Magnfcus. all
SORTS distinguished guests occupying his right
sacred fw circulate IN has immediate vicinity, and come
and 60 at pleasure.
from the eloquent lips Of the President, who thereafter
calls up the orators Of the day in tho following erude
! phTaSeOcy: eIDccfatur est cratic IomPk1Hs, or
whatever may be the selected name On our Gocument
We contemplate pleasing variety OF Thesis Disqnisltio
and Disseratio together with the more familiar CRATIC
Nearly hafoi the compositions set down III the list are
omitted from the spoken exercises on account OF want OF
time Hard for the pOssessors o. so much excluded elo-
quence but they remember that even the pay OF
Hamlet has t. be cur,acd Of It's noble proportions TO suit
the limited stomach Of The modern eshec. Life Is long
moreover and what with s'umpspcech caucus, senate
house and sermon they VIII DC very Nicely 10 have Their
OF hose portions Of discourse which l the share Of
the audience give but cursory account II took
long 20 hear them but they may be spoken Of az less ex
pcnse Of time Fst them the Latin Grafton, brief cor
rect, and emitting no theme essential g. tic occasion IL
was indeed conventional and seemed written rather out
Of the Latin grammar than out Of the Lain classics No
smallest llomuan fnsk, 10 Pondcious touch OF IacLs
no ClceIOnlau felicity.
But writing orntios in Latin must be much like swimming
in moasses. The density OF the element makes the Diff
Guilty. For from dead language many Of its efficient
particles have necessarily eyaporaed leaving cOndensn
tion Of flavor highly valued but inmitabe Follow The
compositions In fnnilinr English Plato ~ the
Court Of Dnyus get. more raps over the Enuckes Tor
having been loo much OF philosopher TOO Atue OF poi
itcan kerosene lamp would doubtless IN part cuiar
cases give assistance than the brightest moon, and
yet the moon n something majestic Tor te seeker ~ keIo
.ene cAidc az. f. Sincerity Excuse for Error,
Juyenis Stackpoe gave sincere error good rousing Win
unhappy applications IL his structures 10 the ALLEGED
sincerity oi the {. 3 A. IN late troubles, and 70 olner
topics connected with questions between white
aud black and 30 on Tho orator dealt with them quite
vigorously but with defective analysis. We must d.
Grim between the sincerity OF passion, which II purely
subjective, ana the sincerity Of reason which Is objective
Is porsuades himself that all means are lusu
fable 90 accomplish end which De makes supreme.
But in these judgments conscience and thought have lit
tie weight The with regard 10 the zeal OF persccu
ton and intolerance. II takes its tone from human pas
SION. This not the sincerity Of true ethics, which las
always relcemIDg meut ~ IT, whatever may be us
intellectual mistakes. Probable effects Of tho inter-
mixture Of the German race with the ArglO-Amercan
rcssntcd some points Of interest But III our day the
Germans mostly iniernauy among themselves. lh1
Cctc GdndXturc viii ffst have 70 bc dealt With. IRISH
Rebcons" gave quite gallant word for the long e1
p0tccd and oppressed ace Vho supply rs with such good
stories and such uncertain votes " Nomans suf
rage" came out broadly for the political rights
OF tho fair "Moml ADmsihesia" found very
ingenious analogios for the processes Of chloro-
forming elheiizaiion, and freezing, % produce
insonsbility IN those social influences which beuumb
n,i,rls Hof.r was well --i- sio,b vel
delivered. The two orations marked "'umud cuia
igndc' somewhat rlacd ~ delivery, Ald were per
haps rhetorical and less original than some a those
already spoken Of The last 81 these having been listened
TO- tue interest OF lie occasion eliminated IN Tie ciot4s
ceremonies. Fory-cght young men received the degree
Of Bachelor Of Arts conferred in LATIN eIhOriaton hy
the President and secured In roll II white parcr
parchment distributed 81 tho Glass by It's uashals.
Ihou clme a conforming Of degrees upon some whose
academic course Lad been interrupted by military service.
Then dtg given IN lW, atuiellc anu hcelcf
After this the degree OF Master OF Arts conferred
upon a variety of persons among whom y. Ihnyor,
esq Of Boston the cndoWeT Of the Acnss1 expedition
Il. ". Emerson, not unkrown 10 fame W. u. Rogers
most pOpular and desc wing Of scientific teachers. And
then came music benodicOn, and dism ssal Commence
mont had teruina,cdsomot thing more serious had com.
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