Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-06-25

were not fully printed. On looking ovel
those taken at the different colleges, WI
find some worthy of publication even al
this late day, and below we give some ex-
tracts from them:
| EXTRACT FROM A VALEDICTORY.
Kind friends, beloved compan
ions, cherished stewards, benefcent teach
ers, adored Principal Adieu! tits word
that must be spoken though it wiring the
heart. Farewell! The worlds rough and
stormy paths are hidden from us. We
know no more Of the dim, solemn, mystic.
rious and mist-enwrapped Hereafter than
we do of the yelled and unfathomed Here.
tofore; but here. in the rose-scented and
balmy-zephyred Present. we can only stand
and cast trembling glances towards the
stern and crag-crowned Future, something
of which is mirrored in the stricken Heart
Thoughts Of this eventful Day.
EXTRACT OF AN ADDRESS TO THE GRADU-
ATING CLASS.
x 1t becomes our mournful duty
to say Farewell! The Great World into
which you go has but little idea of your
ability, but we, who have watched you
while taking your three square meals a
day, have formed some slight idea of what
you can do. You have many trials to I'M
dergo in the Wide World you are about to
enter The printers will spell your name
wrong in the Commencement lists, and
some of them will leave it out altogether.
You will find the Hard World full of OPP
position to you. You will probably find
the circuses closed against an exhibition
of calisthenics, and you will doubtless see
young men yawn during the 9th symphony
in B; but, amid all this desolation of I'M
appreciation, you will have the consoling
and enrolling reflection that you stood
first in the class of NJ Metaphysical Solfeggio
in G minor. This is a consolation that
the World cannot take away from you,
and though grovelling dry-goods men may
refuse to take it in exchange for shoes and
stockings, that only makes your assurance
doubly strong that nobody will take it
away from you.
EXTRACT FROM A COMMENCEMENT SER
MON.
x Whoever, my fair hearers With
diamond eyes, rosy cheeks, coral lips and
alabaster necks, shall tell you that Woman
is not the mainstay of the world, little
knows whereof he speaks. At the Crea-
ton she showed her fitness to hold the
reins of it's destiny. In the Garden OF
Eden she played Adam out of house and
home at one sitting, and to this day 1gno-
noble Man has been obliged to stock the
cards to have any show at all with her.
Look at Joan Of Arc, of thei2Sth Canal
Marines, who carried all before her till Ig-
noble Man was obliged to toast her in self
defence. Look at Susan Anthony, the sis
ter of Marc Anthony, who, when she was
charged with sitting in the lap Of the Ro-
man Emperor Theodorus, the whole world
rose I'D as one man and sWore it was i'm
possible. Look at Kate Field, who de-
fed Christendom to produce a man who
had held her hand a minute, and then
deign to cast a glance at Ignoble Man,
who. craven that he was, replied that it
Was UCCduSC uO ludu CfCl WduUCu W.
X X Woman came in with the Gre
atom. The Creation of the World was de-
layed few minutes for her to get on her
bonnet, and at its destruction she will be
hunting her fan.
There has been nothing great but wO-
man. st. Paul was a noble woman Ju-
Illus Caesar will be held in sweet remem-
brance as loving wife, and Napoleon b.
napagte claims our tears as fond and
mother. Remember,
that to you Ignoble Man is indebted for all
he is, all he has, and pretty much all he \
owes. When in the innocent gambols Of
childhood be has tried three queens against
four aces, on whose bosom does he pillow
his aching head? When he is vending his
way at the midnight hour over tempestu-
GUS pavem ents amid unsteady gas lights,
whose loved recollection is 1t that nerves
his wavering steps to the night latch2
Into whose loving ear does the husband
man pour his lamentations over the potato
bug? Woman is the Comfort, the Solace-
the Linchpin Of the World. Pull her out,
and the whole thing goes to pieces.