Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-08

the Rev. j. G. Molloy. This gentle
man is remembered by the Clarks-
vile people as one of the best speak
ers whom our University has pro-
duced. Indeed, he and his successor,
Mr.. Plunkett, would about equally
divide the suffrages of our people
were it put to the vote which was
the prince orator of the College.
Abiding to his College soubriquet
of Pat Molloy, he spontaneously
said that, being set down 1aoIe1lS 60
lens as an Irishman by his friends,
he supposed he could talk more ac-
ceptably to them about Ireland
than upon any other topic; so he
broke out at once in a general dis
QUESTION on Irish history, Irish
statesmen and orators, Irish poets,
Irish wit and humor and Irish bulls.
He was alternately pathetic and
humorous, philosophical and pOeti-
cal, and wound up with the one
defect which prevented all that was
good and noblein the Irish character
from producing its legitimate results,
and that defect was that they had
not the Bible. Give them the Bible,
and the Irish nation will be the
brightest gem in the triad of the
British Empire instead of being at
once the victim and the Nemesis of
Scotland and England.
The graduates were Messrs. A. ID.
Eakin, j. w. Green, J. M. Smith,
A. S. Caldwell and G. E. Thompson.
Messrs. Eakin and Smith being ex-
cused, only the three other gradu-
ates participated in the exercises.
Mr.. Green was peculiarly unfor-
tunate in having chosen subject
which had been already exhausted
by Mr.. Malloy. ireland was his
subject also. We are far from dep
reciating the manner in which he
treated his subject, which was both
lucid and eloquent, but the audience
had heard so much from his prede-
cessor on the same subject that their
interest in it had become exhausted.
Something ought to be done to avoid
such a cOatretempS in future; the
subject of the alumni address ought
to be notified beforehand, so that
the graduating orators might avoid
collisions. Something of the same
sort happened in regard to the soci-
ETY. addresses, every one of the
understanding up on Martin Lu-
ther.
Mr.. Thompson's subject was, "IHe
analogy Bet1Ceen Mental and Phys
icaL Nan" 1t treated of man as
both a material and spiritual being,
in whom the due coordination OF
the bodily and mental faculties is
essential to the complete develop
ment of both and their harmonious
concurrencein constituting the ideal
of human perfection.
Mr.. Caldwell gave as the title of
his essay, "The World Our Home. "
This was the valedictory address.
Promising that man alone of all the
| inhabitants of the earth is able to
make his home in all parts of earth,
from the frozen Arctic regions to
the burning Equator, he dropped
gracefully into acknowledgements
of the pleasant home which Clarks-
vile had been to him during his
academical year. This, of course,
led naturally to the customary fare
wells, to GAINESVILLE, to his College
friends, to the faculty, all of which
was done gracefully and with feel
ing, and appropriately closed the
graduating exercises.
The speaking concluded, the di-
plOmas were presented by the Pres
ident, DR.. Flynn, whose happy
geniality of manner rendered this
an interesting part of the ceremony.
The names of the graduates are as
follows:
Bachelors of ArtS-Messrs. A. d.
Eakin and A. S. Caldwell.
Graduates in the partial course
Messrs. J. w. Green, J. NJ. Smith
and G. Z. Thompson.
THE PRIZEMEN.
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