The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-19
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Richmond DISPATCH.

MEETING.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Richmond DiSpatch.I
JUNE Is, 1876.
The President announced the titles that
have been conferred by the trustees this
week:
D. D.: Rcvs. A. D. Hepburn, of David
son College, Va; j. D. Tadloch, OF King
college, Tenn; J. r. Graham, OF Winchcs-
ter, Va; S. A. Repairs, OF Salem, Va; W.
U. Murkland, of Baltimore.
LII. D.: Professor Charles Martin, OF the
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col
Iege, Blacksburg.
A. NJ: w. L. Bishop, OF Petersburg, Va.
b. A.: Graduates previously published.
The President then read the distributions
in the various classes at the intermediate
and final examinations. ....
SPEECHES OF GRADUATES.
A Latin salutatory was delivered by Mr..
Frank Irving Thornton; which was much
applauded by the audience, especially in the
passages which were hardest to be pro-
nounced and hardest to be understood.
Mr.. w. F.. Cave delivered philosophical
Grafton. Mr.. Cave was the successful cam
didate for the honor OF representing this
institution in the intercollegiate eNamina-
ton at Lynchburg. Mr.. Cave ably and
clearly, and with close logic, traced the in
fuence OF public opinion, its tendency to
err by receiving its conclusions from the
concrete, and showing the duty. of philoso-
phic and patriotic minds to correct the
Sources OF public thought. His address was
clearly enuncated and handsomely dellv-
cred.
Mr.. Peyton Harrison Hoge, OF Hampden-
Sidney, pronounced the valedictory. His
speech exhibited the potency and promise
of his name and lineage towards success is
an orator.
DIPLOMAS.
In delivering the diplomas to the grad
yates DR.. Atkinson expressed his aleCtlona,c
interest, and enforced his counsels by con-
siderations founded upon their graduation
at this important era.
CENTENNIAL ADDRESS.
DR.. Hoge said that never before had so
many of the descendants of Hampden-Sld-
ney been assembled, nor ever before had
they received so cordial welcome. You be-
hold the traces of the mother melloWed by
time. The years between youth and man
hood vanish to-day. Anticipation and re-
alization meet together. AS the evening
becomes the morning star memory becomes
hope; and the glory OF the past is the dawn
Of brighter glory.
/ close this meagre report OF an eloquent
and instructive address for the mail, and de-
fer till tomorrow my account OF Senator
Stevenson's Grafton and other interesting
proceedings of the day. p.
JUNE 10TH.
As Senator Stevcnson'S address was to be
delivered before the Society OF Alumni,
Colonel w. R. Berkeley presided, at whose
request prayer was offered by DR.. William
Brown, of Richmond.
MR.. sTEvENsoN's GRAFTON.
After indulging for while an expression
of the feelings excited by returning to an
institution and scenes where he was IL
student forty-seven wears ago, Mr.. Steven
son said that our duty calls us to consider
the living present. American independ-
encc and Hampden-Sidney College had been
born the same year. Twins ut their birth,
| they had been allies in life for the freedom
and salvation of man. The question as to
each is whether from this time we shall adj
| vance or decline. We are towards if we do
not boldly look the future in the face. The
Constitution purchased by the red blood
Of our fathers is to be preserved. We must
pass away. To you younger men is com
mitted the trust which patriotism and liberty
impose. Dead empires show the certain de-
cay OF that prosperity which is only material
come to deprcss nobody. All dangers III
crease responsibility. Is there not a cloud !?
Is nothing different from what it was in the
days Of our fathers! Is there more corrlip-
ton and self-indulgence? He could speak
OF corruption in no party sense. There is
corruption in all parties. Discarding the
flowers OF rhetoric, he would treat OF one
evil: The application of moral and reti-
giouS tdrs to associated action in political
life.
On this theme Mr.. Stevenson delivered a
mastery Grafton, full of wise monitions and
beautiful thought.
THE SUPPER.
After Mr.. Stevenson's address the alum
nj, trustees, and faculty, graduates and visi-
tors, and others, partook Of a supper OF a
quality so bountiful, varied, and elegant as
to excite the profound gratitude OF all to the
efforts of the resident alumni OF the county
and their friends, by whose generous efforts
it was provided.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
The literary societies held their anniver-
saries on Wednesday and Thursday, and
heard from the visiting alumni in many
brief and entertaining speeches..
ALUMNI MEETING.
The Alumni held a meeting and chose as
their speaker next year Major Venable, of
baltimore, with Mr.. L. Ii. Harding, of
North Carolina, as alternate. ?.
-FOUR correspondent sent full reports OF
the addresses, but in order to afford our
readers the usual variety we were reluc-
family compelled to omit them.]
Governor Tilden is In the hands OF the