New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-30

| inc To 40 40. we should labor assiduously
70 cultivate everv faculty of the mind and
| heart. Every man ESPECIALLY IN the Gays
of his youthl should study to know INN,
self and find what avocation Coo had
| especially adapted him to, and then pursue
| that one with all the energy of mis- nature.
This idea of the necessity Of special at
! tent76n to one particular line OF thought
! and action was the keynote TO his address,
and was aptly illustrated by numerous ex-
| amples from history, and torclbly impressed
| upon the minds of his hearers by numerous
| appropriate quotations from prose and
! pOetieal writers.
/ rrr CoNFERRNG DEGREES.
| Degrees were then conferred upon the
| following graduates
Master Of Arts-ThOmas Duckett Boyd,
! Virginia; Isaiah Booker White, East Fellcl-
ana parish.
Bachelor of Arts-James Lewis Perkins,
East Feliciana parish.
Bachelor of Science-Daniel Madison
| Brosnan, New Orleans; Macmillan Feazel,
| Union parish; Griffin Theobald Hawkins,
/ st. Landry parish; Norbert Ransom, st.
| Charles parish; John Thornton Sibley, New
! Orleans.
Bachelor of Philosophy-Jos. Davis
| Smith, West Felieiana parish.
Civil Engineer-Luke Peter .Radescich,
Winn parish.
| SUMMARY OF THE ADDRESS OF THE sUPERlN-
TENDENT TO THE GRADUATING GLASS.
Colonel Boyd began his remarks by say
| ing: There are times with US all, when,
| like the timid, blushing bride, we know not
! whether to be glad or sad, to laugh or cry.
! Such is the present occasion with you. You
have right TO be glad that your course
! here is so hOnOrably at an end; but you
must regret leaving the University which
/ .,Io cd co nyat q N in nnVnl-
| Oping your mental and moral faculties, IN
| moulding your characters as men, and IN
| preparing you for the great struggle which
| you this day begin"
The speaker enumerated the various
causes of their regrets, and also the causes
! of their gladness. He then urged them to
/ consider that while they might be called
educated young men," he hoped they
would not deceive themselves in consider
| ing their work done. 1t was only com
menced, and they must remember the diff
| ference between education of the mind sim
/ ply and the general development of all the
! faculties of the mental, moral and spiritual
man that constituted true education. Now
/ they were simply college bred" Much
| severe thought and study was still in store
| for them even to finish their mental educa-
| ton; their moral culture could not be Sc
/ cured at college. The first prerequisite for
| this culture nature must have supplied, "a
heart full of kind, generous principles, full
Of truth and courage" Without this their
mental training would simply in
crease their capacity for evil He
| then expanded this idea at some
| length, claiming that if possible only
the good in heart should receive finished
education, but that every girl and boy
should at least have chance, by two or
| three years of attendance at school, to show
whether he OF she belonged to the class of
4Is.r saso on rOod To this hn az
vOcated compulsory education of the very
young. He then said that true culture, like
charity, began at home, and that no school
should ever attempt to take fireplace OF the
home.
Colonel Boyd opposed the too common
practice of merely ''cramming" the young
with book learning. He advocated the i'm
provement of the mental and social quail
ties by all the means that could be COM
manded, such as intercourse with refined
society, social gatherings, dancing, music
and innocent amusements, where the young
of both sexes were thrown together. He
was thankful that the little city of Baton
Rouge, with its high toned citizens, had
given the University an opportunity to use
all these advantages. He pitied those who,
though good people, could not appreciate
the prOpriety of making use of such oppor-
tunities, but considered dancing sin, and
music syren song leading to evil. He then
reviewed the history of the colleges and
universities of the past, in which students
were governed by no laws, restrained by
no principles, but allowed to run riot into
all manner of excuses and crimes, under
the idea that it was simply college boys
fun
This, he said, was all wrong. No college
boy should do that which would be INSIDE
meanor in the clerk or mechanics appren-
tice, and expect to go unpublished of the
law. He warned the young graduates of
the dangers of intemperance, but advised
them against the taking of Oaths and
pledges, as these adventurous aids generally
proved snares rather than safeguards.
He spoke at length of the necessity of
home influence in shaping the characters of
men urged upon the graduates to make
themselves home in the land somewhere
as soon as possible; bewailed the want of
home love and home culture so common in
the South and Southwest, and attributed
many of the evils of our present situation
to the bad habits of LOuisianians of going
abroad for their health, their social enjoy
ments, their education, and everything but
their money. Louisiana had many advan-
tages, and some disadvantages. 1t was
thought to be too far south for the Anglo
| Saxon, but if any one could make his
money here he ought to live herein sum-
| mer and winter, in the days of his pros
perity as well as the days of his toll. Only
in this way could any one become a good
citizen.
The speaker then referred to the difficult
| ties of building up first class school ia
| Louisiana, andcOmpared the distressed con-
| ditiOn of her State University with those of
other States, and attributing it to the want
of homogeni ty of the population. The com
| ing generation must not follow the example
of their fathers, but build up home institu-
| tions.
Colonel BOYD closed his address by urg-
| ing the graduates to select at once some
| pursuit in life, and work at it patiently
| y-assiduously-with the deter
minatiOn to be first in whatever was under
| taken. As Pope says, 'honor and fame
/ from no condition rise; act well your part,
| there all the honor lies" He then begged
! them mot as a minister of God, for he was
not worthy to unlOose the latchet of the
shoes Of one of such, of the right kind, but
! as man, who had seen the result of both
| careers-tO learn their duties towards their
| God in the days of their youth, and perform
| them on all occasions, and avoid all kinds
| of profanity, and grossly irreligious con-
| duct. He did not advise the mere outward
| semblance of goodness, which frequently
beget the title of "a piOus boy" but genuine
and sincere truthfulness. uprightness, hon
/ esty and charitableness. With these adOrn-
ments Of their spiritual natures superadded
| to their mental training, they had before
/ them useful, peaceful and happy lives.
| On this, as upon every other occasion, a
large cOncourse of persons were present.
THE HOP.
On the following evening Thursday,
/ June ~, the annual commencement hop
came off in the dining hall with more than
/ usual eclat and brilliancy. The st. John
| took several fair ladies from the city, who