The Portland daily press., 1870-07-14
Oammoncemen, Week.

traction. TIE bellies, "ancient and modern"
wend their way to the varied exercises Of Com
mencement Week, some for the seventeenth
time, who recognize among the dignifed
alumni beaux of years gone by, while the
younger with 1utterng hearts ply their favor
ties with gaily ribboned bouquets; aid the OBJ
iects OF all the excitement having taken their
sheepskins, step off the stage and absorbed in
the great world are lest to sight and almost re-
membrance.
BACCALAUREATE AND JUNIOR EXHIBITION.
The services of the week were initiated by
the Baccalaureate sermon of President Harris,
followed by the prize exhibition on Monday
evening, by the Junior Class Davis of East
Machias, took the first prize, and Lord of Vir
ginia the second.
ALUMNI GRAFTON.
Tuesday afternoon the Alumni formed in
procession and marched to the Congreg gational
Church, where, after prayer by the Rev. Mr..
Fuller, of the class of '49, and few introducto-
ry remarks by Gov. Chamberlain, an address
was delivered by Mr.. Charles D. Warner of
Connecticut The orators subject was "a New
Education," being an argument, in favor of
technical rather than general schools and COL
leges, on the ground that all the strength
should be devoted ito specialties; conceding
the value of the present system in a neat COM
pliment to the college which had produced
poet like Longfellow, linguist like Haw-
thorne, a Fessenden. the poet, the scholar
soldier and public officer, Chamberlain.
ALUMNI BUSINESS MEETING
Immediately after the services in the church
business meeting of the alumni was held in
the Medical building, when the following Off
GERS were chosen for the ensuing academic
year: President, Gov. Chamberlain; Vice Pres
ident, Hon. Joseph Titcomb; Secretary, Rev.
Prof. j. B. Sewall The committee on funds
for Memorial Hall reported whole cost of build
ing, SO far as completed, $49,02O.32; cash on
hand, $1O, ,147.67; debt upon building, $1O,14S61.
The committee on construction reported $1O,-
600 necessary to complete the Hall proper and
$4,000 to complete the building. The same
committees on finance and construction were
reelected for the ensuing year, and were au-
thorized to contract an Indebtedness for the
completion of the Memorial Hall proper for a
sum not exceeding $4,000. Rev. DR.. Woods
was elected orator and Prof. Longfellow poet
for the next commencement; and a committee
was appointed to make arrangements for the
dedication of Memorial Hall.
CONCERT.
The Germania Band concert, given under
the auspices of the class of 20, was, if not a
pecuniary, certainly musical success, and de-
lighted large and cultivated audience.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
Thu
clearediaway and Commencement.Day dawned
clear. The trains from the East and West
brought the tardy in great numbers, and the
preliminary meeting of the Board Of. .Overseers
and Trustees were unusually full.
MEETING OF BOARD OF ovERsEERs
at meeting of this Board it was voted that
the alumni at the next and each succeeding
year, until otherwise ordered, be requested to
nominate members to fill vacancies in the
Board of Overseers to number not exceeding
one half of the vacancies, and four of the va
cancles now existing, those caused BY the res
ignaton of the Hon. j. Smith, G.. s. Abbott,
d. Howard and Rev. DR.. Clement, were left tn
De hiied under this rule. The other five were
filled by the election of Hon. VIM. w. Rice of
Worcester, Hon. S. H. Blake of Bangor, Peter
Thatcher of Rockland, Rev. G. M. Adams of
portsmouth, N. H., Rev. Henry 7. Harding of
East Machias, in place of G. f. Patten, Geo.
Downs and A. w. johnson, deceased. Hon.
John Appleton and Hon. A. D. Lockwood
were elected Trustees. Profs Chapman, Good
ale, Sewall and Palmer were permanently
chosen to the positions in the faculty which
they now hold.
MEETING OF TRUSTEES,
at the meeting of trustees the following
honorary degrees were conferred: LII. D.,
hon. Thomas Drummond of Chicago, of the
class of 1880, and Charles M. Cumston of Bos-
ton; that of d. D. upon Rev. William War.
rem of Gorham, Rev. VIM. M. Barbour of Ban
gor, and Prot c. G. Everett of Harvard Divin-
ity School; that of A. NJ. upon G. G. Rounds
and Roleston Woodbury. of Pennington, and
that of Ph. D. upon George W. Fosser of Bos-
ton.
Chief Justice Appleton was elected Lectur-
er on Medical Jurisprudence. Mr.. Edward S.
Morse was elected Professor of Comparative
Anatomy and Zoology for ehree years, provid-
ed his salary be raised by private subscription.
The salaries of the President and each of the
Professors were increased 500 for this year
which will be precedent for the future. Mr..
Henry l.. Chapman was reelected Instructor
in Latin and Mathematics Mr.. Rogers, the
Treasurer of the College, and Mr.. Sargent, the
Director of the Gymnasium, were also re elect
ed. Some of the medical faculty were raised
from Lecturers to Professors. The Faculty
were authorized to remit $50 per year on the
term bills of any student who would otherwise
be compelled to leave College. The study of
Spanish was deferred to the Senior year and
Italian made Junior study,
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
The procession, consisting of Alumni, facul-
ty,' corporation of the college and under gradu-
ates, marched to the Congregational church
where in the presence Of large audience the
graduating class delivered their orations for the
degree of A. b. in course, ard the orations for
A. M. in course were pronounced according to
the following programme:
EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF nAcHrrop on
ARTS.
1. Salutatory Grafton in Latin. Charles
Henry Moore, Lewiston.
2. Grafton. Political Influence of Roman
ism. William Edwin Frost, Norway.
3. Dissertation. Genius Of Dante. George
HeelWrlSnC dODS0D, SaCO.
4. Disquisition. Chivalry, Past and Prog
ent Charles Edwin Beale, Monmouth. ~
B. Literary Disquisition. Rome and Amer
lea. Lucien Howe, Brunswick,
6. Philosophical Disquisition. Alchemy.-
Willis Howard Meade, =. Limington.
Franklin Gilman, Portland.
>, g. Grafton; Effects of the Crusades upon
Europe. Albert Gray, Jr. Harrison. f
9. Dissertation. The Northern Vikines.-
Erastus Fulton Redman, Ellsworth.
>, III. Dlsquisition. Science and Speculation.
Everett Hammons, Bethel Hill.
II. Literary Disquisition. Phiosonhv of
Reform. DeAlva Stanwood Alexander, Def
L. Philosophical Disposition. The Chinese
SLestlon in America. Wallace Kilbourne
13. Grafton. The Fanatic as a Ciyilizer.-
Joseph Wadsworth Keere. Bremen.
IA. Grafton. Sacrifice, the Condition ofpro-
gress. Burdns Redford, Brunswick.
10. discussion: Effects of Inventions and
l6. Dlsquisition. Capital Punishmenta a Fail
ure; Walter Ebenezer Holmes, Oxford.
II. Latin Disqusition. Beauty. Te Row
Zuingius Collins, Union.
IL. philosophical Disquisition. Trial by
Jury. William Edward Spear, Rockland.
~. Oratlon. Confucius. James Arthur
Roberts, Marlborough.
~ Grafton. Antagonism between Faith and
Science. Alonzo Garcelon Whitman, Auburn.
Il. Dissertation. Sir Walter Raleigh. Ed
ward Burbank Weston, Gorham.
%. Discussion. Proportional Representa-
lion. Caleb Alexander Page, Burlington.
2S. Disquistion. Influence of Government
on Mind. David True Timberlake, S. Liver
s,r a. philosophical Disqusition. Julius Cae-
Ok Onstiees Onares Turner Torrey, Yarmouth.
W. 20, aOration. The Vital Force. Edwin Cox
woodward, Damarscotto ~