The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-24
NORTHUMBERLAND AT LAFA YEyTR


We aIe glad 10 notice an unusual interest on
the part OF our citizens with reference to the
approaching Commencement OF the College
The ladies are already preparing for the dinner
which Of late years has been so pleasant a
feature Of Commencement week. AS the Ma
sonic Hall Is otherwise engaged for that day
the lecture room of the German Reformed
Church has been kindly granted to the ladies
for the occasion.
Il may be we'll to state that the public eyer
sises commence on Sunday, July 26. The SER
mon before the graduating class and the Bacca.
laureate address, Will be delivered in the morn.
ing at the Branerd Church; and the sermon
before the Brainerd Society in the evening al
the First Church. Each year these services
alternate between the First and Second
Churches, and the congregations for the last
few years. have wOrshlpped together. Last wear
the Branerd Church was closed in the morning
and the First Church in the evening. On Sun.
dav afternoon the topic for the conference in
the chapel will be "Christian Activity In Col
ieee.n On Monday the usual public examina-
dresses of the visiting committee from the
avnod Tuesday morning the Trustees
al tbe College and the Board of Examiners of
The Pardee Scientific Course meet in jerks
Hall and at the same time candidates for ad-
mission to either course in the College, classical
or scientific will be examined by the Profes.
sorsin the various departments. At 10 o'clock
the literary societies hold reunions in their
respective halls, to which the Alumni and
honorary members are invited. The public
meeting OF the Alumni in the chapel at 4
o'clock, and the oration before the literary so.
cieties in the Brainerd Church at O'Clock, will
conclude the exercises OF Tuesday,
Wednesday is graduation day, The members
Of the graduating class and the Masters will de-.
liver their speeches, and their degrees will be
conferred. 1t Is supposed that the procession
will leave the Church for the Commencement
dinner about one O'Clock. In the evening, from
eight TO ten, President Cattell will hold his re-
ception at his house on College Hill, where
there will doubtless be the usual throng of
beauty and learning. Many of the Alumni and
Others accustomed TO leave on Wednesday after
noon have concluded TO remain to attend the
levee of the President and meet there the Pro-
fessors, the Trustees, and our citizens generally
for friendly and social chat. 1t is of course
known to our readers that no special invitations
are given to these receptions OF the President,
but all friends OF the students and all who take
an interest in the College are invited to attend.
The Presidents house is always thronged on
Wednesday evening 9g 9gs an a6d ntdelgent and de-
SAINT termination to the public and private exer-
Cises Of Commencement week,
There Will be no corner stones" OF new
buildings laid this year; in fact the Astronoml-
cal Observatory, owing to unexpected dlthcul-
ties in securing castings for the revolving
dome, has not been completed while in view OF
the increased expense OF building, the wsrk on
the wing of the main College building has been
suspended. But jerks Chemical Hall has been
completed, and visitors will have free access to
the museums and cabinets. Some OF the recent
additions to the museums are very interesting,
especially the celebrated papyrus of the time OF
King Shishak, pronounced by Professor SeY-
farth, the eminent EgyptologisG, to contain
''the finest Hleratic inscription known to exist"
1t was written nearly three thousand years ago,
but the colors in the hieroglyphs are as fresh as
il painted yesterday.
Among tine class meetings, next in interest to
that which takes the Masters degree will be
the "Decepnials," beginning with the class of
1887. To this class belongs the orator before
Ahn ffaro iatt Otln ~ hn ndt
guished Alumni of the College, Hon. j. Morrison
Harris, of Baltimore. He Is one OF the rrus-
tees OF the College, and now returns alter an
absence OF thirty years to the scenes of his stu
dent life. He will find old Lafayette has taken
a grand stride in advance since the days he
studied Euclid and Homer in her quiet halls.
May ali the exercises give pleasure and profit,
and the blushing honors of the tdureGts give Joy
to the parents and brothers and sisters who will
be present, and may no unpleasant circum-
stances or conduct un worthy the manly reputa-
tiOn OF Lafayette student mar the literary or
social pleasures of the week. Easton E1presS
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