New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-15
COLLEGE COMMANDMENTS.
TIFTS COLLEGE.

COMMENCEMENT DAY-EXERCIsES AND IlS ll.',-,
TuE TaCIrLTY-oTHER UNIvERSALISr INsrI-
TUTIONs. ~
RosroN. .JuIy t3.-The Commencement eXer-
cises at Tufts College celebrated to-day lhS co
lego is supported by the Uniyersaist denomhauon' p
is by no means sectarian In its character stuueh.' ~
nrofessors OF other denominations being freely al
roit,ed within its pale. Among the present rae
ulty are two graduates from Yale Coilege' ono
from Harvard ono from Middebury, one from
Brown University, from the Naval schOo az A"n"P
olls and one from German University TWO Oh the PlV
fcssors are Unitarans, and one Is member OF we fr
formed Church.. The College buildings are aDoN to
miles distant from Boston The grounds Oh t
which have lately been much impr3Dru ~ outdoor
cost afford the best opportunities ior neanT %barc
exercises The College derives It's name IRON Pr ~ tbs
Tufts Of somorye, who gave e .bor necnniary as
institution stands, and afforded 9tner IL IC'"i'' nav
sistance The venerable founder VINO 10 NV NV
- years OF age tbe SSorclses The President OF
the Faculty Is DR.. A. A. Miner, ffOiesSo4r W Iii
n ioE the determued stand he has taken in the
Temperance The Faculty numbers ~ inr n
The Senior Glass numbers nne students, tne r,
the sopboInoro 23 and the Freshman Class 20 IBeTe
IS scholarships IN the glt OF tno @ Students in
The exercises commenced about 1Oi o'clock and were
held in the chapel, which was completely Iiiou rcd
by the President Dr Miner after wnlcn MI JUL ~. s,,b
man Adams delivered the Salutat9ry Otailon VIZ Con-
iat heinz The Influence Of Semitic Theism' ~ con.
tanned occasional passages OF Deauly aiu Ia ~ the
"A
timo Vas that men and should be newly Daptnea
in spirIt of religious devotion I'm order 10 couneTaGt
the destructive tendencies Oh OLE ~ Sows:
The other Literary oxer S Anon Boe Csmbrdgepo Vt
.3 pr opcI 6rosfIe Poetry science w@ Bradford
French Brunsgick Ne Dserson-O "
North wobua Philosophical OnonI "a Sy Charles
CAROL ion Cornish Me- Observation-Disclosures an L1uclor
school system jonathan Merle Teee College i ~ vaeI p
or,tion-The Mission Of American sehohr~ An'"a warren
The Goddard prizes reading and defamation were
given TO J. g. Adams Of the Senior Class, j. r. hheaie
~ The T,Uiors George T. Knight OF tho sophomore, so
each. The Packard prizes for scholarship anu t Ia,s
baylor were distributed follows; snttea f.
" KnOwtOn, j. W. johnson. Freslman-C =. DatSs'
T. p White +. T. Farnsworth g. W. Baiey, d hSG hum
seven scholarships, amounting 10 rom my " nun
dred dollars each, were also awarded. 49,, -, .to
The degree Of Bachelor OF Arts was coheTIeu on AZ
following students: John Coleman Adams fIalel1, a. "A
mon Bolles, Samuel Horton Brown, william BraIIOru
Treuch Samuel KenistOn Charles Carroll BfIOn ,y's'
BarsOw Southland, Jonathan Merle Teele Mlhtoh VIZ
rem The degree Bachelor Of Philosophy was coeIIe
on George Barthram Harris ana warren InUn III
fine degree OF Civil Engineer on Arthur Madlsou
degree OF A. NJ. in course, Edward A. Drew ana b1roh
GrOce of the class oil 1867. ..r -. . 90, o,,i,o,,
The Commencement Dinner took place az ~ oel9ch,
the President, DR.. Miner, in the chair me fTesIfl
alluded TO the want OF effort In educational WORK ~uc
was felt by the Uniycrsast REORGANIZATION 5oi - -
AGO The denomination then bent itself 10 the Dilu B
81 educational Institutions, collegiate and academic.
They had accomplished much IN thls ull'S" III
They had Tufts College whose assets amounted 70
81 900 600 and also another college OF similar grade az
81 Lawrence, New-YOrk They ihso had Ile LollpaIu
University at Galesburg, I'LL They had also begn rng
their attention to preparatory schools OF when they
now lad several: Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass,
Wcstbrook Seminary, near Portland; Green hQuhtnn
tion at Woodstock Vermont; Clinton Liberal institute,
ScwoYork and several others in the West. Speeches
were also made by Byron GrOce esq ana the lN. lien
nv blanchard OF The alumni, the Rev. Mr.. Putnam OF
brooklyn, the Rev. Dr. BROOKS, ana otherS III 3ie
ton, and - r shaber Mrs Partington) poem before
the MatheuCan Society.