Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-06-25
COMMENCEMENT


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The present has been a gala wee-
with our institutions of learning, an,
the annual literary and social festivi
ties incident to the close of the cole
giate year have brought a large infiu1
of strangers to our city. One would
have known, if in no other way, b.
the visible increase in the pleased
faces and cordial greetings in the streeti
by the relaxed and generous air of ev
cry other person you meet, that tn,
commencement anniversaries have foi
the time p-re-occupied mems minds
driving out the demons of are and re-
placing them with pleasant Thoughts
aud kindly emotions.
To the undergraduate this is an oc
easion of more anxiety, for it is thu
time when he or she-wiII cross the
threshold of anew life, leaving behind
the most delightful employments, the
most beautiful associations that come
into the experience of mortaIs. Fol
who, of mature years, turning his facs
toward the past can find a period in his
life where mis- mental vision will rest
with more ~fondness and less regret than
upon the years spent in classic walks
aud beside Pierian fountains, under the
fond guardianship of his Alma Mater !
Or who in this rstroversioD, even
though not old, is not touched with the
sentiment of the old man in the Span
ish Student {:
40 those were pleasant DAYS
Those college days! I meier sha see the
likeI
I had not buried then 50 many hopest
I had not buried then so many friendsl
I've turned my back on what was then be
fore me;
And the bright faces of my young compan
Ons
Are wrinkIed like my own, or are no
more ~
To live over those youthful memories
makes the heart young again and brings
a pleasure like that felt by the soldier
in recounting his battles. What won
der, then, that the commandments ac-
cumuiate pleasant faces and multiply
cordial greetings? For us all it is a
new point of departure. The old go
back and commence" with the young
again, and the young, turning a fond
glance to the past, go forth with enthu-
siastie anticipations of new adventures
and great ACHE vements in The dusty
highways of life.
Let us heartily wish them all God
speed.
It would be impossible, in our limit
ed space to give a detailed account of
all the exercises of the week, which
have, throughout, beer of unusual in
terest. Our readers have already been
advised of the general programme, and
we shall now undertake only a general
summary of details no hitherto men,
toned.
On Friday evening last the Allen
Missionary Lyceum held their anni-
versay, of which the following was the
programme
Anthem.
Prayer.
saiutatory-The Great Work. L. R.
Henderson.
Essay-our Complement. j. N. r.
orariou-onward. N. S. Albright.
Discnssion-"Resolved, That the
Probationary System of the Methodist
Episcopal Church should not be abol-
ished." Affirmative o. j. Nave, M.
NJ. Kugler ; Negative Fl. B. Weste-
relt, J. Whistler.
neutrality-suspicious. a Mystery.
II. L. Spindler.
Anthem.
Presentation of diplomas, by Rev.
Mr.. Pope, of the Central Ohio Confer
ence.
On Sunday morning Rev. DR.. Curry,
Editor of the New York Advocate. de-
ltvered the fifth lecture of the Ingham
Course. Subject The Adaptation of
+ he Bible to Mans Moral and Spiritu-
al Wants. The lecture was listened to
by a large audience, and regarded as a
very able discussion of its theme. Il
exhibited great power of thought DR..
Curry delivered a second lecture before
the Chrestomathean Society on Monday
evening on 1.-THE Scholar in his Rela-
lions to Life" It was practical and able.
On Sunday afternoon Rev. DR.. Cocker
delivered a very eloquent discourse on
the Providence of God in the Distribu-
ton of the Human Race, taking for
his text,
Acts. xvii rs, Z7-"Andh hath made ofOne
all nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth, and hath determined
the time before appointed and the bounds
the Lord, if happily they might feel after
Him, and find Him, though He be not far
from every one Of us"
Boil tue theme and the discourse
were fully ia keeping with the pro-
gre>sive ideas of the times, and carried
with them grand conclusions As to the
unity and brotherhood of the human
DR.. Cocker is a live mai, and
his lecture has received the highest
praise as an eloquent and able discus
sion of a live subj. ct.
In the evening Rev. T. w. Stanley,
of Marietta, Glass OF '53, delivered the
annualSer6on, taking for his text,
Gen. xviii. 525-aShaH notSth& Judge of
lion ; Job xxXtv. { Z3-"FOr He viii not lay
mar more tEran right, that he should
into ju~dgmentwfth Cody Elihu's an
:
His general subject was, Goods Jus
tice in requiring Ofus Christian Life"
and was treated with much originality
force.
On Tuesday evening Rev. Bishop
Thomson delivered an address before
the Methodist Historical Society, on
Personal "Reminiscences OF Method
ism. 1t was full of brilliant points and
n all res pects masterly.
The same evening the Athenian s ici-
ETY. observed the ceremony of present.
ing diplomas, other graduating mem
bers, Rev. o. A. Beown, Of this place
delivered the Grafton.
On Wednesday the commencement
exercises OF the Ohio Wesleyan Fee
N lie College took place at the William
Street NJ. e. Church. They drew, as
usual, an immense concOurge Of lis