The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-21

recollections OF your attendance upor
iormer literary banQuets prepared fol
, vou in these halls, and your interest ID
our welfare fires our hearts with higt
| hopes and new resolutions. Some o
| you come to psy the respect you hold fol
members of the class, some IRON the sin.
Cere regard you entertain fol
this College, and some former
stuIents to revisit the familiar
and dearly remembered haunts OF your
college life, and sll, we trust, are anims,
ted with common interest IN the noble
cause of right education. We present to
/ you to-day class OF twenty young men,
representing seven different States and
| one foreign country, and while we dc
not make ally boast OF superior knOwl-
edge, we confess to have only
searched deep enough into the
! various lntriCacies OF science
and the labyrinths of knowledge, to
catch faint glimpses OF the wOndreus
beauty and grand truths that lie hidden
beyond the scope of our mental vision
This hour crowns an important epoch IN
our lives, and looking around from this
elevation, our hearts struggle with emo
tion, our eyes sparkle with delight, and
we can truly say, Memory gIlds the
past and hope brightens the future.
We can never forget IN future days,
this COLLEGE where religion and learning
were cherished in our minds and where
right principles, right beliefs and right
actions were klndled in our hearts. Kind
friends we view with pride your pres
ence here around our literary board
and we and sll the class OF 'T8 extends It's
happy greetings"
The Latin salutatory was given by Mr..
A. Skidmore, of Ohio, and wss remark
able scholarly production.
THE Dream of Ambition" was the
subject of the address of Mr.. w. n. Cur
tbs, of w. Va, who treated his subject
well. He anslized ambition, showing
how it obtained its hold upon Its victim,
and what were the results which would
inevitably follow.
Mr.. NJ. j. Goodwin, of Ky. followed
with an able dissertation upon The True
Student" telling OF his work, his aims
and his hopes, and the results which he
would surely achieve. 1t was an excel
lent and brilliant address, and was warm
ly spplauded.
An elaborate study of life, With all its
complex phrases, which the author ap-
proprstely called Wandering in the
Shadows" was delivered by Mr.. B. l..
Smith OF Indiana. lie gave really ell
cquent rendition of the paper, and it wss
received with more thsn ordinary
applause. MIR. y. p. Vsnmeter, of Ken
tucky, was one OF the best orators in the
class. His dissertation upon "Unfsdlng
Laurels" was capital.
prospect and Retrospect as Mr.. S.
ID. Cot, OF Kentucky, called his paper,
was one of the best things on the pro-
grsmme.
"The past is but one great record Of
what has been and M lntimatlOn OF
what can be. The achievements of the
ages zone betOre-the wisdom, the learn
ing, the discoveries, the prOgress-sll
com bine to form one vast high pyramid,
whose eminenCe is now ours to surmount
and upon whose summit 1t Is ours TO
build another and yet other truths, that
we may leave the pyramid still tending
further hesvenwsrd than before.
"As we daily tread the uncertain paths
OF this mystical existence-lite-how
often we scan the misty pages of the vol-
ume entitled The Past and sigh 1T
might have been" Yet we love to revel
amid her changing scenes, whose lowell
ness, at times, might rsVish even the un-
tutored soul Of the savage. While again
the sable goddess, darkness, hovers over
them, shutting out the sunlight and clos
ing all in mute obscurity. The present
IS replete with momentous problems for
the human mind to unIsyel and solve.
The future not only permits, but
emphsticaIly demands, wider, more
efficient and nobler action. The eternal
da. Of omnipotenCe' has decreed that this
future mus. be met. Though in his wise
ordinance ne has thought best TO en-
shroud it from US, but with memory for
our guide, we are allowed TO traverse the
allowed halls of the past and feast upon
the grand ole pictures adornlng her
walls-unmolested. Yet all is not flooded
with sunlight, for in this life we must
share equally our sunshine with shadows,
our nappluess Will sOllO"' A'N f'N"S"'S
with pain"
"The stream of every lite, be it the
travelling brook of childhood, the lesping
torrent OF ardent youth, the stately flow
of msnhood's river, or the sluggish stream
of sge-all, all at last are mingled in
eteruity's ocean"
Mr.. &. Ghent, OF Kentucky, gave an
address on "lndependenCe OF Thought W
which WAS we'll delivered and finely COM
posed. and was followed Mr.. ID. A. Quick,
of W. Va, with Memory the Ledger Of
the Soul" which wss very succinct and
finely rendered.
He said
The ledger is the final book Of record
m business transactions to which the sc-
counts from the journal are transferred.
As spplied TO the soul, il is summary
embracing every event and circumstance
which constitutes the entire register OF
hfe. Since we have not many ideas un-
der view and consideration 1T the same
time. it is necessary that we should hsve
depository in which TO lay up our
thoughts for future use.
The soul IN memory is active, intelh-
gent and rational, recognizing forms,
fgures. objects, spprehensions and reso-
lutions OF sll ki, d. and magnitude.
The mind once awakened, this ledger
grows rapidly into massive volume,
either pregnant with grand facts and
truths divine, or filed with shame and
false delusiOns."
when the cesseless ages Of time have
passed awsy-sfter the mighty angel
shall stand upoL earth and declare thst
time shall be no more-theu we, through
the countless ages of eternity, will turn
the glittering leaves of the completed
volume, the ledger of the soul"
The attributes Of Immortality" by
G, w. Shinn, of Arkansas, was fine
paper, and abounded in evidences of
deep thought and careful study, as did
also the psper Of Mr., G. l.. Brown, of
West Virginia, on the Majesty of In
tellect."
Mr.. George Byrnes address on Ian
guage" was one OF the best OF the even
ing. and we give it IN full:
"In the beautiful country bordering on