The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-27

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SCHOOL OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY.
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SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 4.
Il! PHYsrcs-JuNroR CouRsE.-Profcients: W.
B. Childers, W. s. Jarratt. j.. 81. Key, shaIer.
II: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CoURsE.-Profctents:
Dtsttngnished Profctents B. Guthrie, w ID.
johnson, j. Kruttschnitt, =. T. Moreland. !
SCHOOL OF LAW. a@
y JUNIOR CoURsE.-D fstfng,,isl,ed Profcients:
II. L. Dufour, w. c. Frank, q. s. Purdie.
fs.3 TIE CINCINNATI GRAFTON. -
awarded TO- that graduate who shall be
judged by the Faculty to have attained the
highest degree of general scholarship was
won this year by b. B. Ferguson, NJ. A, OF
Alabama, but by recent action of the Fa-
Guilty the Grafton will not be delivered until
the next commencement. The University
prize Grafton awarded by the Faculty to that
student who may have submitted the best
essay or Grafton was won this year by Will
liam Boyle, NJ. B., of Iowa, WHO read a
most excellent essay, Astounding in fine
thought and chaste diction, on the Moral In
auence of Poetry.
"'." THE vALEDICToRY ADDRESS,
awarded TO that graduate who shall be
selected by his Undergraduates, was de.
livered by Mr.. A. N. Gordon, of Kentucky.
Mir. Gordon drew "a vivid picture of the
Sumpter. Twelve years ago to-day she was
all ready for her cruise, and eagerly awaited
her opportunity to escape the blockaders and
20 forth on her mission. The feelings of her
gallant commander and his crew and of those
who eagerly watched on the shore as she
thus waited her time; and four days later
eluded the vigilance OF her enemies, and
steamed out on her splendid career. lie re-
garded every member of this graduating
class as Sumpter about to leave port this
house as the port where the vessel has been
seeking repairs, this University as the dock
yard, and this audience as the.sympathizlng
friends who have been anXiously awaiting
the issue, and are here to-day to see them set
sail and to bid them hearty God-speed.
Their vessels go forth to dangers as well as
duties. and may meet at the very beginning
of the voyage some hungry Brooklyn that
they may not be able to eiude as success
fully as did the Sumpter. Dropping the
figure, he said that we met here to-day to
greet and bid farewell to loved friends
ere we 90 forth to the voyage OF life.
In behalf of the graduating class he greeted
the citizens OF Lexington. He thanked them
for the happy days spent in their midst, and
for kindness which they can never forget.
Although coming here as strangers they had
been treated as sons. They found it harder
still to say Goodbye 10 the ladies' of Lex
ington, whom he pronounced the farestand
the best whom the sun shines upon. He
babe an afiectionate farewell to the Faculty,
who had so gently urged them along the path
of right, and with stronger hand restrained
them from the path of wrong; whom they
had come to esteem so tenderly, and parted
from with the assurance that, though in
coming years their persons may change,
the returning student will find their hearts
in the same old place. In parting from his
he would not indulge in the
cheap Office of giving advice, which every
body can give and no one takes, but would
simply leave in their charge the honor and
the interests of this grand University, which
is vet to become more worthy of the
honored names it bears and the fitting mon
ument of the great chicftan who sleeps be-
meath its chapel. His saddeSt task was to say
farewell to his undergraduates, who must
now scatter far and wide, but who go forth
for the good of the country, and who in
coming years will eagerly watch each others
career. To all he would bid most affection:
ate goodbye. Mr.. Gordon delivered his
address with characteristic independence OF
manner, and was interrupted frequently
with loud applause.
General Lee then delivered the Universe
ty prizes and announced the honorary de-
grees, after which we had
THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES,
By HON. JOHN GooDE, OF NORFOLK.
Mr.. Goode said that in obeying the sum-
mons of the gentlemen of the Graham Lee
and Wash; Ngton S ocielies, he came with
happy memories Of his own youth and boy
hood, and ready to catch inspiration from
the hallowed associations and historic glorics
clustering around thislbeauti(ul town and
these classic halls. He said:
1t is not my purpose on the present occa-
sion to enter upon the broad field Of philo-
sophical inquiry or literary speculation. /
come not with the distant reserve and cold
formality of stranger to discuss any dry,
abstract question of science or metaphysics,
but come us 4 friend and brother, with a
heart full of sympathy with you, to otter
some reflections upon "Thc obligations Of
patriotism arhich are non imposed upon the
,,ounq men of the South" [ feel that my
mission will have been accomplished it can
say anything calculated to inspire you with
n more lofty purpose or to give fresh impulse
TO YOUR minds in the pursuit of knowledge
by impressing you with the conviction that
the attainment of excellence is not only a
high moral and personal duty, but that it Is
an obligation of patriotism imposed by the
State. u...
After an eloquent alusion to the exalted
privileges and the responsible duties to
which, in the providence Of God, his hearers
had been called, aud an admonition to them
not to neglect their opportunities, he said:
You have been called to live, young gen.
tlemen, in an extraordinary period of the
worlds history. Nations are contending
with nations in exploring the fields and add
ing new discoveries in the realms of science.
The fire, the tumult, the energy of an intense
nation are all around you. Laws of nature
which have been hidden mysteries since the
morning of creation have become the daily
servants of man. He has been enabled to invent
the means by which he may stear his course
with unerring certainty across the painless
deep, survey other worlds lying beyond the
range of human vision and determine their
with the greatest accuracy and
precision. The elements themselves have
been made subservient and submissive to
his will. Steam has been converted into a
beast of burden, and the whistle of the en-
CINE and the rattle Of the railway car are
now heard in broad prairies and magnificent
forests. where short time since the 81
lenco OF primeval solitude reigned. The