The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-03-30
[By our Special Reporter. ]

Judge Fleming was present at
Chapel exercises on Monday morning
of last week, and after the conclusion
of the services made a very pertinent
little speech.
At the last regular meeting of the
Columbian Literary Society the cleo
ton of officers was held with the fol-
lowing result; j. NJ. Lee, president;
A. F. Courtney, vice president; Geo.
Pearre, secretary Spencer Wade, crit
ic; j. j. Hall, treasurer, and Hyland,
librarian.
am under obligations to a member
Of the Sophomore Class for the following
well written report of the last public per>
formance.-REP.
The last Junior and Senior per-
Torrance for the year was given in
the Chapel, Friday afternoon, the 22d,
at 2 o'clock.
The organist for the occasion, Miss
Susie Moore, introduced the exercis-
es by a piece of instrumental music.
which was highly appreciated.
Pres't Thompson then announced
the first performer, Mr.. Wade, Of the
Junior Glass, who delivered an ora
ton on prison Reform" in which
he reviewed somewhat the work done
by Howard and others, enumerated
other reforms that should be accom-
plished and closed with an appeal in
behalf of the prisoner, who is a man
as other men, only more unfortunate
Dana Purinton, the other member
of the Junior Class, read an essay,
Subject-"Chance." He began by
stating that men are prone to turn
from the actual and real to the fanci-
full and imaginary; that chance is
nothing but unknown law; what in
the past was attributed to the work of
blind chance is now well understood.
A. F. Courtney discussed the Chi
nese problem deliberately in an essay
on that subject, concluding that there
is no sufficient reason why John Chi
naman should be excluded from our
shores.
Jas. M. Lees grafton on money
the American Idol was a practical
and truthful exposition of the fond
ness with which Americans idolize
the almighty dollar. AS the worship
of idols was mans primitive worship,
so in every stage Of society he shows
a tendency to worship the material in
some form. He closed by expressing
the sensible wish that money might
soon come to be valued as the serv-
ant and not the god of the American.
The subject of B. S. Morgan's es-
say was Byron" one of his favorite
authors. After carefully reviewing
his character and that of several of
his poems, he stated that we close his
works at once admiring and despis-
ing. unlike many critics of Byron
who only condemn, he accorded to him
thetitle he so justly deserves-the
greatest genius Of the eighteenth cen
tury.
The subject of E. !. Marsh's ora
tion-"King Lear"-is one that pre-
scnts many difficulties, but it was
well handled, Astounding in vivid des-
scriptions of the characters represent
ed in that one of Shakspeare's plays
which, as he said, abounds in express
slons of the deepest emotions, the no.
blest pathos and the most sublime
grief.
A. G. Dayton had well written es-
say on THE Slavery of Modern
Thought" He asserted that the his
tory of civilization is but the history
of the emancipation of thought. AL
fusion was made to the fallacy of ev-
cry age thinking that it has reached
the highest eminence of civilization.
Although he argued strongly for free
dom of thought, yet he showed him
self in favor of it's slavery in the
meanest form by one of his very COM
mon sings at the Grange Organiza-
ton.
The last performance was an ora
tion by Daniel Rich on the subject
"Cannons Never Cease to Roar" The
speaker very ably showed that war is
a powerful means of advancement and
that to war the world is indebted for
its present state of civilization. He
says that the mission of war is mis-
sion of providence to elevate and adj
vance the human race.
Prof /. C. White, of the University,
is off for short stay at Newcastle,
Pa, attending to business pertaining
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