The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-22

Dr., III. hoDert Hamill w Q. Lawson, James
Mckeen, Matthew Hale JONES' Rev. Samuel f.
Soit, James Ross Snowden, A. Pardee, Alfred
Martien, Rev. DR.. James M. Knox. Barton III.
jerks, and Morris Patterson.
ING lOno@lng was the order of exercises
Prayer BY the President.
ncaOsn1orary Grafton Latin salutstory d. B. King
OraIon-Fecular Destiny of America. f. Gutelius
3. Oration-Potcal PARTIES. j. a. McKnieht
Z. .Honorsry yoration-pSSiHISoiiOOsy. pSHSiO A. sw.rtz
Two yes Of s. FSsGn SsS.
Oration-Every Path hath!a Puddle. f. W. Edgar
9. Grafton Literary NSsaS woS.n Glover
l9 Grafton Man Of Feeling s. SS1sT %1tsi
IL oratiOn-Talk j. e. Watkins
II n 9TStiSn 99TSttiiOn-PoPulAr W Lewis
IA oT,tipP World afford to give up ",0y 'f
MiYsIc Pollock
Prizes conferred.
The pou.,. Masters oRAr1oNs.
me Inc development of National Character A. B. Howell
,,I,sio L. Baker
To- honorary Oraton-Beauty- Vaedic-
MrsiG '''''''''''''''"' D. owen
Degrees conferred.
sV-,.,. Benedction.
The first speaker, D. b. King, of Mount
Pleasant, first saluted the audience with few
appropriate words and then turned to the trus-
tees. lie greeted them, congratulated them on
the prosperity of the college and on the good
results Oh their labors in its behalf. He also
greeted in turn the president, the professors,
the Alumni the ladies, the students, and class
mates.
The prizes were awarded as follows;-The
fowler prize to w. Baxter Owen for the best
essay on the subject of the life and writings of
Burns The prize was set of Burns works
bound.
The junior mathematical prize of $40 in gold
dnH To Vnx
$3O Tor astronomy and the working of the
observatory was awarded to James c. Crawford,
OF the graduating class. In comforting this prize
the president stated that the recipient of the
same prize last year, Mr.: Richard W. Bryan,
had just succeeded in passing the examination,
had been admitted to the Coast Survey Depart
ment, and is now under appointment to sail with
Captain Hall on the Polar expedition.
From the valedictory address bv Mr., Owen
we select the following:-
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees turn
to address you, the keepers of the honor and
prosperity of our Alma Mater, with feelings of
profound respect and gratitude. The benefits
which we have ourselves received from the
course OF instruction would be sufficient to
prompt this; but we stand on broader ground
We think of the far-reaching results of work
such as yours Society, government and faith,
as well as science and literature, depend. under
God, upon those who devise the means and the
plans OF education. We are glad to see that to
work of such intensely vital consequence
men of sterling attainments are called.
Mr.. President:-To the noble work of which
l have just spoken you have brought strong
hands and willing heart. of your success,
men OF two continents, who speak and write
have left us little TO say. These say nothing OF
your. personal relations to us-that you have
stood over us as teacher and pastor not only.
but as an eXemplar of Christian energy and
zeal. We have reason to rejoice that upon us
have been the influences of your life-a life
whose strength is faith, leaping into the future,
oSnti inl nvNd Nha,.N
drawing might that is magnificent; a life
whose beauty is q love that labors, q hope that
waits. Thou hast asked hard thing" said
that mighty old man of God, when Elisha
would have double portion of his spirit: but
the mantle fell upon him. How large portion
OF the spirit OF your noble predecessor has
fallen upon you, let the prosperity of our col
lege bear witness.
Gentlemen of the Faculty:--You are endeared
to us by all the qualities of mind and heart that
commend men to their fellows. Yet friendship
alone is not our parting theme. You have been
our instructors, but more than the facts of
science and language, more than the laws of
matter, are the principles of action you have
labored to instil. Silent but mighty is the power
OF mind over mind. the strong strengthening the
weak, the high lifting the low toward its own
plane OF thought and principle. From the
teacher go out Influences that mould Character.
That is an enduring work.
Students of Lafayette:-We come to you with
brotherly good-by Our companionship as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ceases to-day. Our advice to
you is stand up in the dignity of thought and
reason, but stand higher in the greater dignity
OF faith. need not tell you that life is short
and uncertain. Four times in three years death
mas come to this little company and written this
lesson ton our sad hearts, From the unseen
realms of another life-from Lewis and Camp
and Smith, and Thompson-there comes TO us
the admonition, think, believe, and act for
eternity"
Classmates: There are times when men pause.
ChAnUA- time WiIhnnt afa
out human life is not spending time-it is the
economy OF action. And IL seems TO me there
is nothing grander about man than that he
can stop; no period about which there gathers
such intense interest as about that when, not
in ldleness, but in the coordination of thought
and pmpose, in the mastery OF himself man
stands STILL We have come 10 such a time to-
day. Our college course is run; life is before
U.S. May this with us be period characterized
by the best of hopes, the noblest of aspirations
After the yaledictory the degree of A. b. was
conferred upon the following members of the
graduating class:-
John Stockton AxteI, SULPHUR Springs, Ohio.
Lard Howard Barber Mnlinburg, Pa
Matthew Henry Bradley, Mercersburg, Pa.
EDWARD Bryan, CarbOndale, Pa.
John CoWan, SadsbuTyVle, Pa.
James Camp Crawford, HeTrick, Pa.
John Maftln Crawford, Herrick Pa.
Benlsmin douglass, Jr., New York City.
FRANCIS Moolworth Edgar, Easton, Pa
Thomas Mexican Farquhar, Easton, Pa.
lillian shonse Fulton MerrlttstowD, Pa.
Horace Fenman Glover, Hartleton, Pa
Fisher Gutelus, Miffiinburg, Pa.
Jonathan Moore Harris. Phillipsburg, N j.
Olin FIlsbe Harvey, Wlkesbarre, Pa.
oscar Jewell Harvey, WilkesbaTre, Pa.
James Theodore Houston, OliVesburg Ohio.
David Bennett King Mt Pleasant. Pa.
Bradley WaReman Lewis Spring Hill, Pa.
Abram Woman Long, Point Pleasant, Pa.
James Alexander Mcknight Chambersburg, Pa.
John Meigs, PottstowD, Pa. /.
Franklin Theodore Oldt, New Berlin, Pa.
William Baxter owen, Wysox, Pa.
Joseph Rogers PAUL, Connellsyille, Pa
John Findlater Pollock. Fall Brook Pa.