The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-29

York, and Doctor OF Philosophy on Peter s. Niche
oil west Point The following were also created
HONORARY MASTERS OF ARTs:-
s. G. Brown, @. A. Merwin. s. Dunell, +. II. Buzz
bee, Rev. L. Burroughs and " A. Lewis.
TIE FELLowsnIrs AND FRIES
were awarded rs foows:-Marquand Classical Fell
lowship, $500, Il. $. Lassiter; Chancellor Green Eel
lowship 5000, Mental Science, Charles .. barrett;
Glass or 1850 Fellowship, $780, Experimental Science
J. c. pennings0n Glass OF 1859 Prize. interest or
$4,000, Early English Literature, William y Horn,
and A. b. Marshall The junior orators were awarded
Tour gold medals, a. L. Daniels and J. q Lane being
considered first ana equal and \. y berry ana W.
X. Martin being voted second ana equal when inns
was conclded DR.. McCosh announced that u num-
Der or new tciowships had been lately added ana
that al the o-her ieilowshps would be continued py
the donors. Two obsolete iei!owships-the bouai
not--which had
DISAPPEARED MYsTERloUsLY
some years ago. nad been subscribed for by the
trustees These amount to S225 a year eacn aud
Wal lie given 10 history and Continental languages
respectively. The class OF 1861 had subscribed zoo
TO be given 10 the best student az the end OF
tae SOPHOMORE year, while the stlnnccke
A. StinpecEe, or the class OF 1881, wouG be
10 the best man at the end OF the Freshman
year, under the following condIlions:-Flve hundred
dollars per annum to be awarded 10 that person
about TO enter the Sophomore Class VINO shall have
passed tue best examination in the Odes OF Horace.
Eclogues OF Virgil and the Latin Grammar ana
Prosody, as well as the AnabaslS OF CytopJdla or
Xenophon ana the Greek Grammar. Students or
colleges who have been members Of the Freshman
Class shall be admitted TO such examination. The
Maclean ffiZe OF 500 per annum 10 thag one OF the
CHOSEN from LHe literary NilO
on the night before commencement pronounce the
bestEnglish grafton. In addition he had to announce
mat on last Monday evening
THE MuNTICEST SUN or ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
had been placed IN his hands by Chancellor Green,
the gilt Of his brother, John c. Green, OF New YORK,
10 pay for the erection OF library OF beautiful de-.
sign, when, when iinisled VIII be the finest OF It's
KIND on The Continent Thus it would be seen that
the college was progressing iavorably, and its
children ana friends were not forgetting II. The
Doctor was about to say tue Concluding prayer,
when one OF the Faculty bounded 10 his ear and re-
minded HIM that the Vaedictory mad yet TO be
GRATED. The Doctor apologzed, and the result was
that
THE PATHETIC GENTLEMAN IN SPEcTACLEs,
who hau The doleful task OF moving the audience TO
which dad not die out until the Doctor prayed IN
earnest THIS once done JOY took supreme posses
SION Of everybody.
TIE ALUMNI DINNER
was held at Cooks Hail. and attended by at least
five hundred young and aged children OF the insttu
tion. secretary Beknap had the place OF honor be-
side President McCosh. A table was spread outside
ale the bounul beef tongue ice cream and raspber-
ries. After the cloth had been removed the tumbers
were charged with cold wafer ana toasts given and
responded lo"1he President of the United States,'
by Judge Nixon, OF New Jersey, and Ex-Governor
Pollock, OF pennsylvania; 1.-The Cabnet,' by felici-
tous secretary Belknap; alma Mater" by Dr..
McCosh, III a vein Of dry Scotch humor, which his
and "our Sister Colleses,n by Benjamin ID. Van
Dyke, OF Brooklyn.
nus concluded commencement or which old
Princeton may be well proud In the stuff and
stamina OF the educated gentlemen II has sent forth
to labor honorably up the steep OF lie.