Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-01
Nashville. Tenn, Feb. Is, 1873.
commencement Exercises OF Univer.
aifY of Nashville


sity of Nashville.
''Time will right all things" is an old and
trite proverb, but We are inclined to accept
its truth; at least that We have met its
happy application in one instance. Not
many months behind the past we remember
with what glowing anticipations We attend
ed some exercises of the University of Nash
vile, and how, amid the feast which reality
offered Us in the generous entertainment of
the evening, we were suddenly and deeply
wounded by 'dart" from the surgical de-
partment. They said the voice was Pro-
fessor Ewes, but this sentiment was Esau's,
or that Of some one else; but we felt
little like commenting on that subject
since we were frighted forever from the
hope of this friendly aid of surgery, and thus
left to heal our own wounds, notwithssand-
ing the venerable Professor had assured us
of our imperfections, both mental and phys.
ical and, of course, our incapacity to such q
task.
All We cannot forget what a cruel
wrecking he made of the hopes and pleas
ures of the unfortunate fair who were pre- s.
ent on that fatal evening; how he reversed
the account we had formerly received of our
formation and reformed us OF steel stays
and material substances, not even imbuing
us with one noble impulse of mind or soul.
But time, upon its broad and generous
bosom, bore that unkind 'present" into the
'past" and brought us again to revisit the
exercises of the "Old University" under
more suspicious circumstances, when we
were assured that we yet had one surgeon
who at least fees no antagonism to our de-
fenseless sex. We claim not, however, any
special notice from Professor Briggs Ad-
dress, but must confess we presumed to
catch some gleanings from his kinder feel
ings which gave us credit for some mystic
rious and ennobling power to crease "sun-
beams in the SOUL" some gentle impulse
which perhaps prompts "kiss," 3 ''smile"
or "tear," enough to restore the conf
dence and friendship of woman's forgiving
nature. Yes, and even gives us well
come without modification to enjoy
the rich entertainment of his
elaborate effort, which while it was COM
posed of depth and point was adorned by
those rarely beautiful thoughts which
cleaned through its well woven web, like
glintings of sunlight stealing their golden
paths through wealth of foliage deep and
dense. His soul seemed fred with the in-
spiration of his great subject as he ex-
pounded the divinity and history of It's
origin, and committed its interest to the
keeping of those youthful reapers whom he
was about to dismiss for the harvest field.
Truly, while we listened to the grand and
eloquent emanatfon of his MIND, wo could but
feel that "Apollo," or some other son of
light, had commissioned him and elucidated
his pathway by the beams of bis divinity.
And we trust that no "Jupiter" will arise
in his sterner age to STAY him with his
"thunderbolts," thus depriving US of his
signal lights, but may he long live to scatter
the light of truth and happiness, and to
heal the wounds which brother surgeons
may cause to the defenseless fair.
NASHVILLE, Feb. %. "SUB Rosa"