New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-30
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
FIRST DAYS OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK.


ITHACA, June ga very dOg-day sun,
ever flying clouds Of dust hot necessity OF hurryng
from museum to and from hall to hail. the glow
ing countenances youth eager step from the school
boy stage and seek the bubble reputation the le'eSh
faces Of candidates for admission awaiting eXamnAuoh
the sweterng heat Of OveTcrowded rooms the Wa'hB Vi
mutitudnous fans which only make the intense warmth
more felt whiffs Of mel1uous wind pulled out by
persprng orators but which somehow fail to stir the
anguid atmosphere and if at all COOL are so in another
sense than meteorological one-ths Is Comneheeneht
week. Here at Cornell, where there comes, even III
the hottest hours, occasional breath or untanteo
air from the broad surface of Cayuga Lake, where
the tall and verdant hills always have fresh
and refreshing look and where in ones walks the sound
of pashng water is heard and the mist OF innu-
merable cascades is seen, il is little more endrabe
than in many other collegiate localities. Already on
the real eTvOr of the week begins, for then in
the early morning. the entrance EXAMINATIONS commence
lasting all the day long, The candidate goes first TO the
arithmetic ROOM receives his list OF questions sits down
bv himself at table, removed, by the legitimate space
of four feet from every other table, and is allowed GER
tain period of time in which TO write his answers Then
follow the algebra room, the geography room, the gram
mar room the classics room, and 1t rarely happens that
man gets safely through these chambers Of torture In
sin day. The arrivals by boat and car during Monday
are numerOus-trusees of the University for the semi
annual meeting, the "eminent speakers"-aslt 1s the
duty of the discriminating correspondent to style them
before this that college or society," friends OF the
graduates friends Of the Professors parents Win soas
about to enter and not few sturdy iTeT Md t9
| drawn by a curiosity to how Mr. COrnelPs big
5oe stInS down into quarters at the hotels or
where glance at the schedule Of the exercises Tor com
Village and in which set forth the appellations and
titles OF the speakers aforesaid including names OF such
opposite eminence as Goodwin Smith and H0ratio
Seymour. Judged by the placard they are al men OF
letters, and OF very big letters indeed me earnest Oh
iG IL.
who on Monday morning delivered to large audience
se Arts ALREADY Printed in TnE TsBrSE
The entrance examinations were resumed thlS morn
ing and at noon to-day applications for admission had
been regsered-the number the corresponding time
last year having been IT, Thus far lees than doze nave
been rejected and the indications are that at the close OF
the Autumn examination the entering class will number
$50 Among the recent admissions, the Sandwich
Islands Georgia, Tennessee, Delaware California, and
most OF the Western States represented This even
ing brilliant address delivered before the College
| Of Literature by the Rev. O. d. Brdgeman Of Alhany
Among the persons on the platform were the Hon
Horatio Seymour and several OF the s trustee
| The discourse treated of The Law OF sacr1hce,
| to which the best results IN history and IN
life are due THIS law peTyaGes inc cv GVe asp ae
OF what the world accomplishes or may accomplish In
INSTITUTIONS from our recent war aud the history Of
leter-makng timely ausiOn to the characters based
Dickens The audience which, despite the heat, had
gathered In Library Hail. where ell the University cere-
Brdgemans earnest address, and applauded part of
it than that in which he condemned the revival Of
of the week occur in the two coming days.to-morrow
being the occasion Of the addresses by Goodwin Smith
| and HoratiO Seymour, and the annual commencement
| taking place the day after.
ITHACA, June 29.-This afternoon, Prof. Gold
win Smith delivered address before the University,
upon the condition Of Europe for the past year He
garded the Gcumenca Council sitting at Rome as
one phase OF great crisis the result of which will be the
abolition of the standing armies and the establishment OF
Liberalism He paid tribute to Garbadi aud Aazzni,
eloquent referring to the Of Glad
stone and the work Of the Liberal party in England