Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-27
English Breeding.
Nd. Conway in Cincinnati Commercial.

n. d. Conway in Cincinnati Commercial.
The combing and washing of that sboat-
load of pirates as Emerson calls them,
which landed at Hastings, an what is
called the Norman conquest, have gone
on steadily, but it has left still a certain
roughness in many embryonic Young
English gentlemen, which easily shows
itself on opportunity. 1t was displayed
particularly at Cambridge university on
Saturday afternoon, when the honorary
degree of LII. D. was conferred on Oar
win. The giving of this degree has been
attended with circumstances rendering it
one of exceptional honor The senate
had been convened in special conerepa-
ton for the purpose, thing never done
but IN IN ost important cases, and Charles
Darwin stood alone to receive the honors
OF the university, and of his scientific
friends who went down in large numbers
| from London. No gathering of equal
numbers ana distinction has been known
in any university in this kingdom since
Thomas Carlyle was lnaugurated as lord
rector at Edinburgh.
The senate-house was densely crowded,
there being many ladies representing the
Girton and NEWMAN college. The under
graduates, or as many of them as could be
packed in her gallery, managed to stretch
across the upper part of the room astrine
suspendlng the ettigy of a monkey in aca-
demic costume, and also another monde
script form was suspended as .sthe miss
! ing link A proctor repaired to the gall
lery to seize these etfigies In the scutfle
the monkey fell to the floor and was i'm
| Al l,,A AZ.
suspended in the air above the heads of
the learned men and public orator. This
was not so bad, and might have passed as
fair fun, but the uproar and disorder
which the youths kept up was so incessant.
their chat so rude and vulgar, that Ii
was generally felt that if two of the GAL
iery boys, who showed themselves such
adopts in animal cries, and suspended
themselves over the company, the famous
link would have been no longer missing.
1t WIS impossible to hear more than an
occasional word or phrase of the orators
| Mr.. Sandys) Grafton, which was in Latin.
Even the reporters laid down their books
and depended on getting a copy of the
Grafton after the row was over.
1t was pity that SO neat an address
from so accomplished a speaker should
have been SO far lost to the MANY who
would have enjoyed it. He alluded to
Mr. Darwins father and grandfather, and,
much to the delight of Mr.. Cation, who
was present, spoke of him (Darwin) as
an example OF hereditary genius He
quoted frem classic authors their recogni-
tons of the resemblance of the apes to
man (Which the gallery immediately illus
trated). He spoke of Darwin's education
at Cambridge in the college of Milton: of
his important early work, "The Voyage
of the Beagle" and Of the later works by
which he has made SO large mark on
the world. AS he went On, the gentlemen
and ladies on the floor endeavorcd once
or twice to assert their right to hear, but
hardly succeeded. At the end. however.
the ovation to Darwin was universal.
Throughout, indeed, there were indica-
tons of the great mans popularity. There
were no filings at him in the "chaff,' =
though many allegations of simious an
cestry of certain university officials who
made their appearance. When Darwin
stepped forward he was greeted with long
continued applause from floor and gallery,
there being not one of the signs of disap-
prevail which invariably make themselves
heard when there is such a feeling present.
That Cambridge is proud of Darwin is
amply shown. When he emerged from
the building the enthusiasm outside
among the populace was as great as if all
the orthodox pulpits Of the town had not
been denouncing Darwin as the fell de-
stroyer of the blessed belief in the fall Of
man from original perfection, and the
substitutor of evolution for redemption.