The Portland daily press., 1872-06-28
yarmouth College Commencement.
HANOVER. N. IL. June DC.

Inls forenoon, at ten o clock, an address was
delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
by Rev. Charles A. Aiken, d. D., of the Prince
ton Theological Seminary. His subject was,
The Rights of Doubt. His address was a most
excellent essay upon the relations of doubt to
philosophy, religion and the great moral prob
lens now before the public. He exposed the
absurd position of those who consider it mark
of superiority to be continually in doubt re-
specting the most obvious truths of existence
and philosophy. "When doubt is made an
end, and not MEANS" said he, sit is illegiti-
mate" eff it is manly to doubt, it is manlier
to believe" He spoke coqently of those
doubters who struggle against unwelcome
truths, because they are unwelcome.
After DR.. Aiken's address, and during the
playing of Pleyels Hymn by Grafulla's Band,
a bust of the late DR.. Nathan Lord was brought
into the church and placed on the pulpit. Then
commenced the eulogy on President Lord by
DIR. Alpheus B. Crosby a @ .i1.
The eulogist spoke briefly of DIR. Lords birth
in Berwick, Maine, ON Nov. %, 1898; of his
graduation at Bowdoin College, in 1909; of his
services as teacher at Exeter; of his theologi=
cal course at Andover; of his subsequent
marriage; of his twelve years ministry at Am
herst; and of his final entrance upon the du-
ties of President of Dartmouth College in
1928 He was this time thirty-five years old.
He held the Office until 1868, when he resigned.
He survived every Professor of the College who
was in active service when he entered upon his
duties as President. Several professorships,
three or four buildings, the Chandler Depart
ment and good deal of money were added to
the machinery of the College during his ad.
ministration. -gll9t aaC -sE -
When DIR. Lord became President he was in
hearty SVmDathV with the aDti-Slavary tu
but when Garrison and others said: "If the
Bible sanctions slavery, down with the Bible"
he examined more fully than ever before the
grounds OF his own opinions, and finally be
ton. DR.. Crosby alluded to the fact that Presi-
dent Lord favored tho admission of negroes in
IT, Dartmouth College. He stated also that he
once preached at the ordination of a negro min
lister in Troy, New York, when no other white
ciergymen were present DIR. Crosby spoke
highly of the Presidents success in governing
the students He reverted humorously to
the numerous occasions on which wild boys
were summoned to his study and requested ''to
varay the monotony of their existence by telling
the truth" His skill in finding out the facts at
such times was very great. The serene and
even happy death of President Lord is well
known. His last words, uttered in the pres
ence of a large number of relatives, were: "The
Lord take me and mine."
The address of Rev. e. E. Hale, D. D., to
which we listened this afternoon, was the
same one that he delivered at Bates College,
Your readera have doubtless heard what an ex-
cellent exposition of the principles of true edu-
cation it was. 1.-F
Walt Whitman's poem was very characteris-
tic. 1t was, of course, sneered at by nine
tenths of the audience, and regarded with sus-
picion by half the other tenth. Mr.. Whitman
was, as usual, dressed curiously. He reminded
one of hearty, eccentric, good-natured old
farmer. 1t is so difficult to follow this poet
through the maze of his productions that you
will, of course, expect no account of the poem
His subject seemed to be, "The Future of
America sbas
Grafulla's Band furnished the best of music
THE Senate vote on the supplemental article
to the Washington treaty is now said to be as
follows:
Yeas-Messrs Alcorn, Anthony Bayard
Foreman, Buckingham, Caldwell, Cameron,
Chandler, Clayton, Cragin, Ferry (Connecticut),
Ferry (Michigan) Flanagan, Frelinghuysen,
Gilbert, Hamilton tMaryland) Hamlin, Har-
Ian, Hill, Hitchcock, johnson, Kellogg, Logan,
Morrill, (Mainel, Morrill, (Vermont), Morton,
Norwood, Nye, Patterson, Pomery, Pool, Pratt,
Ramsay, Ransom, Schurz, Scott, Sherman,
Stockton, Vickers, West, Wilson, Window and
Wright-43
Nays-Messrs. Casserly, Corbett Davis West
Virginia), Edmunds, Hamilton (Texas), Kelley,
Sumner and Tipton-S. H-I
Absent or not Voting-Messrs. Ames, Blair
Brownlow, Carpenter, Cole, Conkling, Cooper,
Davis (Kentucky) Fenton, Goldthwaite, Howe,
Lewis, Osborn, Rice, Robertson Salisbury,
Sawyer, Spencer, Sprague, Stevenson, Stewart
Thurman and Trumbu1l-23.