New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-10
AMHERST COLLEGE.


CLOSING EXKRCIsEs-THE GRADUATING Class
ALUMNI AND CLASS ACKNOWLEDGMENT DE-
GREEs.
prom An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
AMHERST Mass, July 9.-The Commence
ment programme duly performed IN the old College
Hall to-day and. under the pressure Of tOrTd Summer
heat graduates guests and strangers are fast deserving
the town. The orauOus We're, as whole, Of high or
der OF merit and the steady progress of Amherst IN the
department OF rhetoric and oratory clearly manifested
The graduating class beside being the largest IN the
history Of the College. Is everywhere commended by
faculty and feOW-sudens superior IN character and
general promise. The entire membership Of the class
has been g5 Statistics compiled from the So graduating
members that the average expense per year has
been s6l7 49, the highest by any one member NIOl
and lowest $40 Each college exercise, not including
those OF religious character has the class about ST.
The class has gwen FOR boating $780, and FOR missions
S2O6. seveutyive per cent OF the class are church
members the majority being CongregationalIsts. Six
~ four per cent oppose compulsory attendance az
church and p per cent oppose the ranking system.
sixtyfour per cent are Republicans, " Liberals, Il
Democratic. and 60 Free Trade.
Just before the delivery Of the valedictory Grafton
the following honorary degrees were conferred;
LLD-wIsn CLARK Class 40 and President Of tie Masss
D Dhs 6 Gef5s w,,nsura c'o % Po'r..or Of Mon. No
Golam Ne the Rev Edwin C. Bisse Class Of o. Of Vienna
sTb. RevA D MAYO Of Springfield Mass. the Rev Justin
" Ward Of Trenton. Ji j. w. Phelps Of spnIshri' Julas a.
Morrill, Of Brook W. s.. i.
A B-Roiolplls b. Hubbard q Amherst
The attendance OF alumni this year has exceeded that
OF any year 1871, the semcentennial year one
hundred and nftyhree registered yesterday, AMI
more have arrived this morning. Among the class re-
unions those OF 1894 1864 1862 and 1871 were the most
fully attended and successful. The late Prof G. b.
Adam. WAS the vaedctoran OF the Glass Of 1884. and
among It's living members are the Rev DR.. Field OF
New London Conn, former Professor Of Rhetoric at
Amherst the Rev g. Hopkins Emery Of Bridgeport,
Conn the Hon. Ct. F. Homer " Brookllne, Mass. the
Rev Dr. r. p. stebbns OF Ithaca n Y; the Rev. Or.
Henry Nei and Rev Henry Ward Beecher The class
numbered 49, OF whom 10 have dled. The Class Of Il
mustered % AT their triennlal reunion last
night and reported nearly half OF the scholarship
OF 5000 paid up. The Class Of 60 reelected It's old
officers and adjourned FOR Its tenth anniversary IN 1876
The meeting OF the alumui yesterday was one OF the
brightest and best for many years. President Waldo
Hutchins on taking the chair, made graceful and per
ncnt address, and followed by the Rev. Dr. tors
OF Brooklyn OF his happest and most eloquent ef
forts. The Rev. DR.. E. X. Alden OF the Glass Of a,
Henry D. Hyde OF o. two missionaries, DR.. Bliss,
President Of the Syrian College at Beirut and the Rev
Alden Grou OF South Africa told OF their college DAYS
humorously and earnestly, and other addresses
made by Prof j. r. Eastman Of the Class OF 3d. and the
R.v. A. D. Mayo OF springfield. Mass.
The new Weep residents OF the Alumni ssocation for
Glass Of -; the Rev DR.. William II. Ward '56; the
Rev Daniel Bliss 80; Henry D. Hyde, 81; and F. A.
Walker CO. Prof. J. ". Burgess added 10 the Ex
ecutlve Committee place OF the Rev. ". D. Herrick
removed from town.
The vacant PROFESSIONALLY Of Rhetoric and Oratory
will probably be rendered 10 the Rev. Richard q.
Greene who has just resigned the past0rate OF the
North Congregational Church in Springfield.
After Gen. Walkers address IN the afternoon the
rules governing The election OF trustees by the alumni
adopted, as already reported, without change ex
cent the removal OF the restriction against reelection
after service Of I'VE years and Samuel I. -pauidng Of
Northampton and PrOfs. Seelve and CrOWel were
elected Inspectors OF Election for the ensuing year