The New York herald., 1872-07-13

speak through his lips. There is certain trans
fguratlon to man thus speaking; when the true
and all who wish to be simulate him. Shall we ask,
what Is this sefrespectf This would involve Q
search into the highest problems. man needs all
the armory OF thought, and must walt seduiously
every morning for the thought the spirit VIII give
him. And In this self-respect or hearkening to the
perfect oracle the man ought never TO be at loss
In respect to his deep religious CONVICTIONS This Is
our practical perception OF tae aey IN h man
''but II at any time l wish to perform Journey
something interposes in the mind let II lie. II
1t don't pass away yield to this deep conviction In
my religious nature.b If you ask the nature Of this
/ cannot describe 1t. 1t Is too simple to be
described. 1t is IKE grain of mustard seed Yet
the opposition OF all mankind could not swerve me
from its eadings, nor the consent OF all mankind
confirm It, Respect the bias OF the individual mind
The world ia created as an audience for the
scholar and the atoms OF which his world Is made
are opportunities Let the scholar use genius
Stick to your own. Do not engage In local, social
or national crime. Thus will you develop charac-
ter somewhat more clear ana taan
draws the extremes of society so that the very
dogs believe in him. We have had such
EXAMPLES IN THIS COUNTRY.
In politics, Clay, Webster, Linc0n-a man who
commanded the admiration OF all. There was not
room in his heart to hold wrong. In the pulpit
land, Robert Burns; and have some conviction
that this can be justified even where there s great
imperlection In character. Perhaps the old
Trouvere poet was right
oft have heard and deemed the witness true,
What man delights IN, God delights ill., too.
Every sensible man drops out of his narrative all
allusion to himself He Is content with putting his
theme on its own ground You shall not tell me
that you have learned to know most men; your
their titles what books you have read; you shall
not tell me your house Is the best and your pictures
the finest; you shall make me feel IT. am to infer
1t from your conversation. celebrated Marshal
OF France said of Albert Durer lt seems "a II the
sea stood In awe Of that man. SO strong was his
man and men In history. The inventors skill
never dies. One man tends stocking loom, an
ether makes se and te
not suit them. Biographies Of Raphael show what
he accomplished Or Napoleon, even In his down.
nuence he handed down to his decaying dynasty
He pierced through the surface to the the heart cart
bis ny s so s
Italy were "Be master" When an earl Of Ireland
was brought to London some one said that oil Ire
govern Ireland was the reply Gibbon pretended
to vices he did not possess that he might
ESCAPE THE CENsURB OF HYPOCRISY.
Men of great perception appear to have an en-
thusasm approaching insanity. The favorite Of
wealth more than the educated man is preferred.
al never knew bad man without some good In
him." The Five Points in New York are even said
to have their own virtues. Dederaux was the best
A certain man wrote some lampoOnery about him,
and afterwards obliged to come to him to write
an which M ne dd ana thus secured
The great man is he who fills the relation to all
humanity which he possesses He exists for the
widest use. He is the friend OF schools, churches,
&c. All greatness is in degree--there s more
above than below. We have seen an intellectual
nS snpe ea
men, but rather influences. There is class of
men who without address. possess taent-in
We admire the intellectual gods of the world
Homer, Plato, shakspeare-but who were the gods
poised iovers who make the sense and conscience
of the mind-only working In the intelligence as q
living force. Such are our influences Miners in
California tell us that there is an ore from which
the gold cannot he separated without loss. There
are men from whose mind nothing can be detached
without the disintegratiOn OF the whole. How
often, then, we lament when we
SEE TAI ENT SUCK THE SUBSTANCE
How often we are unable to separate general
from specific ability Some one has said, BLESSED
Impossible to Inventory the minds Of the gods.
what they read. The only real beneft of which we
are susceptible Is what has been dignided for US.
WE s wha sh M +;
always desirable to collect examples in which
Strain You must not wait m the sun is entreiy
down, for this Is a subject which ends only in
zier, a Jesuit, was once in his cen when the devil
appeared to him. In his humility he arose and
more worthy The secret Of the true scholar is hu-
mfty Every man is my master in some point, and
Il these Ss
say that they belong to the daily service OF the
college, the prolane service T' u you 50 term it.
too long only hope that from the study 81 these
humanities, you may have CLEANED something wor-
To-day closed the exercises OF the week. They
were done in every respect as Amherst Is wont to
do them. The graduating class numbers forty-sev-
en- whicn IL smaller than the average. The number
graduated is only about half the number OF those
who have been connected with 1t during the four
years. or course the speakers settled many queS-
tiOns which are agtating the public mind at pres
ent, and II there Is any doubt as to the wisdom Of
their conclusions, 1t does not rest with them. The
speakers, this year, were fewer than formerly, and
were chosen by an examination OF the essays pre-
sented, instead of being appointed according to
Prayerb the President salutatery address in Latin
speS AZ ST"as osn sES%h
tom d H'"@ Was he rest an Grafton
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II, English Grafton, "The American Corner Stone"
DIPLOMAS CONFERRED.
The diplomas were awarded publicly, and the
degree of A. B. conferred on the following:-
A; B.mHerbert Baxter Adams Amherst; Harrison
sw s S.Ssa s
wss AnH 5ar9S Bsnsss B
sGnn Ssn'G meIs fs'si ass
Emerson Davis Cornish, simsbury Conn. James Ding.
we'll Amherst Charles Andrews Doclittle, Utica, n.
4, Pascal Monroe Dowd, New Hayen, n y;
French Kansas Giiy, Mo-; Charles Edward sGarmai,
n. y; Leweln Middleton Gdden, Panama, n. y;
Gordon Robert Han, Northampton John Handy Hen.
pee; Moses Montague Hobart ATheTst; Constant Cock
cago, ILL., Aonzo s. Lambert Durham, Me- r. Dewitt,
Mallary, Brooklyn, n X; John William McElhinney,
Charles Fitch Morse, Union, Conn., Walter Negley
H.; Albert George Paine and Lyman May Paine East
Woodsiocf Conn Frank farke Gloucester George
Robinson salisbury, England Timothy Grdley spaald
Ing, Northampton; Harry Sidney Stevens, Chicago Ill |;
Albert Henry Thompson, searspor Ne. Walter rhomp
son. Troy, N y steven Alvah Thgriow West Au.
Frank Melville wilkins Peabody; W. NJ. White, Canton
Centre, Conn.
ministry and one-third for law. The alumni ate
their dinner at halfpas one, according to the pro-
gramme, and so ended the week.