The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-25
v AS S a r
Commencement Exercises TO-Day-An-
nouncement Of the Programme.
The Woman's College, Inside and
Outside.
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION PURSUED THERE.
100000 Contributed by Matthew
Vassar, Its Founder.
The Gymnasium, the Riding School, the
Bowling Alley. the Theatre, the Flower
Garden and the Boat Pond.
Chapel, Art Gallery, Library, Lecture Room
and Natural History Cabinets.
vassar Practically and Poeti-
calIy Considered.
Receipts, Expenses, Scholarships and
Personnel Of the Institution.
Early Struggles and Ma
tu1.e Successes.
Laundry and Laboratory, Dining
Room and Dormitory.
How the Young Ladies Live and Move and
Have Their Being.
Early Struggles and Ma
ture Successes.
Laundry and Laboratory, Dining
Room and Dormitory.
How the Young Ladies Live and Move and
Have Their Being.
vAsgAR's NEED OF ENDOWMENTs.
POUGnKEEPSIE, N. ", June 30, 1873,


Archbishop Whately defined woman as creature
who does not reason and who pokes the fire from
the top. do not know what motives may have
impe,led the worthy Archbishop to this remorseless
piece OF cynicism, but, probably they were fur
nished by some domestic experiences OF not par
ticuiarly pleasant Kind. at any rate, the epigram
proves that he took a very superficial view OF
woman's nature, and that totally wrong prin-
ciple was adopted by The femnnehands which
superintendent his fires. The woman OF the present
age at least the American woman, is essentially
argumentatiye and Is full OF reasoning, whether
she be reasonable not. 1t is to her that Mr.. JUS
tin Mccarthy paid that fine tribute in reference to
conversational power which he denied to woman
OF any other nationality. 1t is, therefore, pleasant
to learn that al least one nucleus exists in the
United States where something akin to the
poetic ideal OF the perfect woman nobly planned
Is appropriated. | allude, OF course to Vassar,
. college which Is often misunderstood. which has
been frequently misrepresented and which Is
probably not even perfectly appreciated by those
among whom II sprung into existence 1t is indeed
q noble insttution-noble alike in its structural
form and dimensions and architectural beauty,
and in the spirit which gives 1t its power and sig
nincance and invests it like a soul. Your CORE
spondent has had peculiar opportunities for seeing
ana Judging FOR himself The Prince and his two
Amazonan College in "Tne Princess had
scarcely a better occasion for closely observing all
the piquant peculiarites OF that wonderful univer
sty. But you must not expect me to come 10 YOU
Drumming with poetic enthusiasm. l. alas am
neither Florian nor Cyril nor the Prince and may
not measure my impressions into exquisitely
finished blank verse. The laws OF newspaper
correspondence forbid impassioned smilitudes
about rosy blondes in academic silks and
solemn psalms and silver litanies. 1t is
all very well for professional poets to
make use OF these arts, and when
Mrs. Hemans visits girls school everybody
knows she will melodiously record her sensations
during evening prayer there. She VIII tell us that
the quiet room seems ike a temple and that it is
the future lot OF every school girl to make idols and
to find them clay But il is with the practical not the
poetic aspect Of the subject that your correspond
ent has more particularly to deal. and, though the
poets may be quoted from occasionally to point
paragraph or lend felicity to an Illustration, let us
beware how we draw upon them too largely.
COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT vAssAR.
Your correspondent, upon arriving at Pough-
keepsie found every hotel full and the little city in
that pleasant state OF excitement which occurs
semi-annualy whenever commencement week
arrives. About fourteen hundred invitations are
Issued by the President John II. Raymond, LIZ d.,
the utmost the hotel accommodations The
baccalaureate sermon was preached yes
terday afternoon by President Raymond, and
deserves mention a broad-spirited and judicious
exposition OF the present relations OF science and
religion. musical entertainment By some OF the
pupils OF Vassar Will be furnished in the college
chapel where all the exercises held tonight.
Tomorrow Is to be devoted to the annual meeting
Of the Board OF Trustees, the class day at
two in the afternoon, and an address before the
Phialethean Society at eight IN the evening"
Wednesday is the great day-the day Of the COM
mencement-the day which has brought all these
anectionate fathers and mothers TO town; which
has filed the hotels with good-natured aunts and
congratulatory unces and spread sunshiny, holi-
day spirit over everything. 1t needs very little ex.
perence to detect a relative Of member OF the
graduating class There is sort OF norid good
humor In the air with which such one enters the
room which discovers him at glance. There is
the magnetism OF propTietorship about him, as
Though he had a share in vassar and possessed
n deep and subtle sympathy with its founder
And yet question whether any OF these good
people will see before you do-however anxious
they may be to do so-the programme 10 which |
NOW proceed TO ask your attention. 1t is the pro.
gramme for Wednesday, and, like every other com
mencement programme indicates alternate
prayers, music anu addresses. First comes an or.
gan voluntary, which have no doubt VIII be ap.
propriate to both time. place and occasion. Then
Miss Elma Doremus Swift Of PoughSeepse, de.
nvers the s'Oratio SalutatoriAn Miss Anne Red
Geld Phelps, Of syracuse, win then make address
In relation to Thomas Arnold as an Educator
1t is natural, perhaps, chat pupils should have
fancy for criticisH4g teachers. Miss Mary Eva
Perry OF Rockford, ILL.,, has gone out OF the beaten
track and WIZ discourse on Life In the Deep Sea-
After there three speeches the fnale from Bcetho.
vents Fifth SYMPHONY will be rendered by Misses
Bopson, Perry, Leggett and WEIGH When the
music has done it's work by imparting the
relief OF diversity Miss Elizabeth Hale Brewer,
OF Stockbridge, Mass. Will take up the orator
lca thread again with 'The Theory OF Perturba.
nonsn Very different is the theme selected by
Miss Blanche wilder, OF Brooklyn who has com.
pacted her thoughts and convictions in relation to
sThe Literature or the Day Critical Rather than
Creative Miss Clara Jenette Wilson, Of Rock