New-York tribune., 1869-06-25
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
THE BACCALAUREATE sERMoN-THE CLAss-DAY
AND OTHER EXERCISES.


end Of the hubbub there last week but very fair pro-
portion Of them did, and the little place is overhowing
with gay dressed people OF all sexes and ages This is
the seventy fifth Commencement week. and ts exercises
were begun Sunday morning with sermon before the
Mills Theological Society by tho Rev. Dr. Samuel I.
Prime OF The Nc,o York Observer His address was upon
course unfolded and developed the proposition that
sion is to proclaim Gods word 10 man" The address
was earnest ana eloquent In passages, bnt ITS thought
by no means profound its structure logical; and
u disappointed many who had right to expect from Dr.
Prime discourse worthy OF his abilities aud reputation.
The haccaaureate sermon was preached by President
Mark Hopkins In the afternoon and OF the ablest
sermons ne has ever written. 1t called out by the
pa~inIc theory OF Huxley that power and person
atty are but tho mere upheayas OF infnite under
yne, UNCONSCIOUS force into which they VIII sink again
ana all separate consciousness be lost" by Darwlns
Theory that the soul OF the universe works itself
from Inconsistencies through molecules aud maggOts,
ad nice, ana mafmOts and monkeys TO Its highest cul-
minaton. IN man and by all those who practically g
more the spirit and recognize only necessary relations and
the uniform and unconscious forces OF nature-those
VINO VINO IN India may hold to Brahminsm or Bhudism IN
ISM and In tins country humble imitation aud jumbo
OF them ALL and whose beliefs equally paruylng 20
the religious character, whether at Benares, at Berlin,
Little of interest occurred on Monday Tn the after.
noon the College Glce Club gave concert n the chapel
and sang very well through programme in which the
Lamb Three Crows, Rumskey Ho were strangely jun.
bled with selections from Mendessohn, Mozart, aud
Haydn The effect, though groesque, not uuples-
ing, and the audience seemed TO enjoy it very wen In
the evening the exhibition Of the Adepmc Union COM
bnaon Of the two open literary societies OF the College,
took place IN the Congregational Church, and en-
vcned by music from the famous Gilmore and his
Boston band Oratons were delivered b7 Joseph Matte
son Of Chicago Arthur Robinson Of North Adams Mass;
Charles d. IIowk OF NewA Albany. Ind; J. NJ schermer-
horn OF Homer n. Y; Thomas H. Spann OF Indianapolis,
Ind; James White Of Huntingdon, +, and j. H. Mhte.
poems by W W. Wight, jr. OF Troy, and r. B. Hall OF
Ashfeld Mass, aud a dispute on tho resolution that
waged by j. b. Thacber OF Albany and @. W. LOOMS OF
BnghamtOn. There was the usual amount OF good ana
bad In the speaking aud writing but nothing In the one
direction or the other that deserves partcnlarzaon
This Is Glass Day, which used to month earlier,
and being set in the middle Of COmmencement
week has lost many OF It's peculiar features ANA peant
characteristics. The first thing to-day was gymnasuc
exhibition by selected from each OF the four classes
who showed excellent muscle aud training; but the
ercses Of the day proper did not begin W 2ocock In the
commencement suits OF black marched from the Chapel
10 the Congregational Church, led by the band There
the Grafton spoken 10y Horace II. Leayit Of Lowell
Mass, who took for his subject Cosecraton 1t was
Rodney J.. Tabor Of San Francisco, who sang
about Wealth in the usual manner and with the
usual force of college poets One hundred volumes Of
presented TO tHo College library by the class through
EdwnrJ II Cole of Nvark N Y and pccented win
httng speech by the Librarian Prof Grhn ON the east
and more speech this time by Henry Kctchum OF Indian
apOli Ind The address to the lower classes made
bv James White OF Huntington C. f. ana was more than
commonly short aud witty. Under the broad trees Of the
smoked the calumet and sung the welworn college airs
the admiration and envy Of all the lower classmen and
the pride OF pretty sisters and cousins who had been
brought from far and near especially for the occasion
TINS evening the Rev. Dr. Theodore l.. Cuyler OF
Brooklyn delivered before the Adelphc Union
address rarely II ever equaled for It's power and
his subject by his actions no less than by hs words
The promenade concert and dancluRin Goodrich Hall fol-
loved and tie Class Day of was over The prophecy
and class supper Thursday night after the eX
The Phi Beta Kappa Society which selects its members
FOR their scholarship alone have elected from The senior
Keene n H.; G. y. Howk Of Ncw.Albauy, Gud., aud c.
w. LOomis of Bingnamtoni ana rom Tue Jnhor cIiss
Iansr HFgh; r. Il. Hall Of Ashiicd. Mass j. G. Haines
OF Chra-p and r. III. Davenport Of Boston.
The Williams baseball nne VINO are the champions oi
New EuL nd colleges, start this week professional
i9gr Ih E play tGC'Sm is SobsT %I cSe @I cg on
Saturday the Harvard nine at Springfield on Mon
ScY"fk 10 try their hand with the Atnntcs
Prof Charles Frost has resigned his proicssor,lp Of
Prof john Bascom, who resigned for year some time
ago VIII be elected by the Trustees at their meeting the
WILIIAMsTowN, June 24.-The regular Com
mencement exercises bsgnn this morning az 10. O'clock
study Of scicGcc James " Campbcl
G,I6riS~c o. = English Oration-Work t. IL cole
Nyack n T. 3 Englsh Orauon-Aiter Death. Charles
A. G. Ch2pin. Kecnc n H. 7. Oration-Apprchcn,ion Of
Beauty j. Mnus scheunerhorn jr, Homer, Y {. Ora
ton Health Essential Factor oi Power Henry W.
Smith WHHamstOwn Mass. .. Philosophical Grafton
HIS Image, W. r Winslow, Ptisford' Vermont.
10 English Oraton-Polticnl Missionaries, H. j. Doc
little Champain n y. II Poem-Dream-; J. B Ihaeher'
Albany a. English oi9f9lnsIr y iG Tth zee, TS
gsh Responsibility IN Society IL. u, Leayitt
MURRAY Elizabeth \ Y. IS Oratiou-The Responsibility
OF an Education, II. G. Love- Dayton, .. 10. PhosOphl
w " Wight, ir Troy \. Y. II. English Oration-Cn.
bar the Gates, A. l.. Billings, Rutland " lb Orallnu-
sophicai Oraton-Method Of Progress, c. W. Loo
mis- Biughanton. n y. 20 Naiedletory or9ioG-
2l. Degrees Conferred. %. Prayer and Bcnedction.
The following gentlemen received the degree Of A. B:
pin, l.. II. Cole, j. b Cooley, H. G. Dayey' W \; Davis
i l. Doolitile II IrrIdy H. i Heay'l NJ MYERS e. TS2i Po%e
j. NJ. schcrnerhorn. jr, ii. S, smith; H. W; Smith,
II. b. Foster, w d. Granger G. d. Howk, =. = Johnson
III Spann W. r. Stocking, r. f. Tabor, J. II. Taylor, j.
b. Thacher. James White, J. H. Whitehead, W. W. Wight
J'fi fne following gentlemen were the "honor men" Of
1869: james Cooley, C. W. LooInis, L. B Powell, W. W.
The following honorary degrees conferred; Hon
orary Masters OF ArtsWlian Everett Of Boston; Ben
ia9in Howard, NJ. D., New-York; Jeremiah Coibuu,
Boston; George a. Walton, Weshcld Mass; Samuel Ne
CIelan Mayor Of Wheeling, Va; the Rev Daniel = Rod
man, Montclar, n J., d. D.; the Rev. John william
Rev Pew iucins Il. smith, Hew-York IL. D.; Charles
william Eliot, President elect Of Harvard Col
lege Charles Linugus Benedict, Judge OF the United
states District Court Of the southern District Of New
York; Major Gen. John +. Wool United States Army;
the Hon Henry L. Dawes OF the United States House Of
HE following distinguished persons, among Others
were present to-day: William Cullen Bryanti rengrgs
Prime editor Of Nei0 TOrk Obserer Erasns G. Benedict
H. d.; Chas Z. Benedict, Judge L. ; District Court;
Judge Wells Judge Supreme Court Massachusetts; Mar
lin I Townsend, Ii. d.; DAVID Dudley Field, LII D.
Judge Colt IL. D., Of Pittsheld Lynus Cbild. N. d.,
III. d.; the Rev Robert Il. Booth, d. d.; Giles Is. kc-
Iogg; Rufus Townsend esq; Charles A. Smith, d. d.;
Gulelmus Fitzgerald Huricus Aug. Mcrya Gen AiOnzO
Alden Pin and wife. Troy; the Hon. Timothy Manning
Drome T. s. Assessor Springfield; the Rev. Chas. Hall
Everest poet Springfield; the Rev Washington GLADDEN.
author; the Rev Martin Luther Berger, syracuse the
Rev +. Is. Parsons; Humphrey = Anderson, NeW'loiki
H. b. Crandall, esq Boston, jacob T. Mllcr lIoga, n a
The Alumni sat down 10 dinner at o'clock; but very
little of interest trauspired Speeches made by
president Hopkins Gov Claiin, the Hon David Dudley
Field Ii d. of New-YOrk Mr.. Osoph White Mr Jamesl
coli OF Pttshcd aud Judge James T. Robinson Of North