The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-29

| in the programme, the reunion, q wa
intended, did not take place.
President Hays delivered . few 70.
marks regarding the discipline OF the
COLLEGE. stating, among other things, the
manner of keeping the building in re.
pair. /. G., levying . tax OF 81 on each
pupil, the Faculty returning the surplus
funds ut the end of the session to the
proper persons. Last session. he stated,
that out OF money paid in, SO cents of
each dollar was returned, only two win
dovs having been broken dur.
INC the session. He then pre-
ssnted the Hon. Secretary of the
Board of Trustees, who announced the
conference of degrees on the following
persons:
DEGREE OF N. A. IN COURSE.
John NJ. Birch, Wheeling, w. Va; j.
T. Noble, Bellaire, o.; w. Il. Borlsnd,
NJ. D., Pittsburgh, Pa; S. g, Linn, But.
Ter, Pa; w. A. .Burchfleld, Pittsburgh,
Pa
HONORARY DEGREE OF N. A.
w. S. Taylor, NJ. D., San Francisco,
Cal; 5. G. Sharp, Maysville College,
Maysville, Tenn; Rev. w. z. Magner,
Carthage, Pa.
HONORARY DgGREE D. OF D.
lIEbenezer D. Junken Brownsburg,
Va; George Frazer, Wsynesbug, Pa,
John Van Eaton. New York City; John
Hughes, Welsh Calvanistic Church, Liv.
erpool England.
RA. DEGREE D. OF L.
Prof. Chas Morton, Agricultural Col.
lege, Blacksburg, Va; Hon. Benjamin
Bristow, Louisville, Ky.
THE ALUMNI BANQUET.
The audience were then dismissed to
meet again at2 o'clock P. NJ, at the Col
ge Hall, about 400 OF whom, invited
guests, repaired to the College Hall at
once, where a magnificent collation. was
spread, the tables fairly groaning beneath
the weight of good things there dis
played to tempt the palate of the most
dainty.
At 2 o'clock all traces of the repast
had disappeared, and between 800 and
900 of the audience at the Town Hall in
the morning had again assembled at the
College.
FEAST OF REASON AND FLOW SOUL
Order being restored, the Rev. DR..
Strong, President of the Pennsylvania
Female College, was introduced, and i'll
a few pertinent remarks, reviewed the
history of the College from the time OF
the severance OF his connection there
with (lS3S) to the present time, recount
ing may "reminiscences of the old
time College days at Jefferson,
when he and the late Clement l.. Val
landing ham were schoolmates. He also
rendered the greetings of the Female
College of Pittsburgh, or rather the
ladies connected Herewith, to the grad
yates, and closed by subscribing $50 in
aid of the Franklin and Washington
Society.
DIR. Dickey, of Philadelphia, next took
the floor, and recounted in like man.
ner his early days within the "beloved
walls of old Jefferson" He named
over the roll of his old class
mates, but five of them were
absert five OF them had passed to
that better world beyond, and were now
reaping the rich reward of life OF use
fulness in this world. His eulogy on the
death of his deceased comrades brought
tears to the eyes of nearly all present.
He also subscribed $50 TO the same So
ciety.
Rev. Milligan, was next called and
briHy summed up his experience at the
college, closing with the rendering OF
another $50 TO the PhIlo and Union
Society.
Three cheers were then given for the
ladies of Washington, and the semblage
was dismissed.