The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-29
Travellers Guide.
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acknowledgement.
OUR MT. UNION COLLEGE COR
RESPONDENCE.
MT. UNION. O. July "a. "a


Rditors Of the IntelliGencer:
The seventeenth annual commence
ment OF Mt. Union College was celebrated
yesterday. There were quite number Of
distinguished visitors from abroad. The
halls were crowded. The museum and
apparatus rooms were thrown open and
hundreds oil spectators passed to and fro
during the entire day. In looking over
the vast crowd could not help indulging
in retrospective view OF MI Union Col.
lege
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO
under the influence Of DR.. Heartshorn and
others. A charter was procured and
College started at Mt. Union. The Col
lege in its infancy was certainly not very
promising TO the friends OF education. A
little frame house, two or three times as
large as a country school house, was the
College Of seventeen years ago. In sew
enteen years her borders have been 80 ex.
tended and her success has been such as
10 elicit compliment like this from
BISHOP HAVEN.
Mt. Union College must DO ranked
among the first rate colleges OF our Coun-
try. The college buildings, libraries, art
galleries and museums arc among the
finest in the country: The people are
showing their appreciation olthe superior
advantages Of this school by sending SO
many earnest seekers alter knowledge TO
her halls.
When commenced writing thought
TO continc myself to the commencement
exercises, but find that l am depressing.
THE EXAMINATIONS
were held on the 2lst and 29d. On the
evening Of the 22d Bishop Haven, Of the
NJ L. Church leclured in the literary hall.
His subject was books and Brains" 1t
has not been our privilege TO listen TO a
more interesting and systematic lecture.
In the course OF his lecture he denounced
unsparingly thelSabbath School literature
OF the country. The applause by which
his comments upon this class of literature
was received indicated that he expressed
the sentiments Of a large per cent OF his
audience.
On the morning Of the 23d the perFOr-
mances Of the graduating class commence
ed. The halls were so densely crowded
that it was difficult Tor the Marshal to pass
back and forth in bearing the tokens Of
friendship and appreciation, which were
80 lavishly bestowed upon the performers
The exercises were opened with prayer
by Bishop Haven. 80
THE FIRST SPEAKER
was Mr.. James ANDERSON, OF Homework,
III AnAnHunnta ~
more than ordinary merit. The audience
was not prepared TO receive ordinary
speeches, Tor DR.. Heartshorn had remarked
in the College Chapel, some days before,
that the productions given by the grad
uatipg class Tor correction were among
the best, II not the best, that had been
given by any class Of the institution
THE APPLAUSE
with which all the speeches were received
indicated that the audience was not dis
appointed. In speech made by Bishop
Haven In the afternoon the productions
OF Miss Whitestine and Mr.. Hudson were
very highly complimentCd. The closing
performance was valediCtOry by q +.
Oliver
TIE CLASS SONG,
written by Charles Lane, was then sung
by the choir, after which the degrees
were conferred. The exercises were in
terspGrsed with music by the Willmont
Orchestra and the college choir.
The concluding entertainment was the
literary contest between the Republican
and Linean Literary Societies.
THE ORATORS
were l. P. Hays, Of the Liuaean Society,
and James Anderson, Of the Republican.
Miss Collins, OF the Republican, and Miss
Bowman, oil the Linean, read periodi-
Gals. The question discussed was, Re
solved: That republicanism will prove
failure. The affirmative was sustained BY
+. B. Thomas, Of the Republican Society,
the negative by o. NJ, CaxGn, Of the
Linean.
THR CLOSING PERFORMANCE
was an Grafton by Miss Matte White
slime OF the Republican Society. This
performance merits compliment, but we
hesitate to give it, for fear that we can
not do it Justice. We will only say that
it combined theHgraceIulness and beauty
OF poetry with the practical thoughtful.
ness Of prose.
We would enjoy giving you more
minute description OF our college, but We
must ceter this 10 another time. L.