The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-28
GEre IttteIIfaenfer.
coLLEGE ColTMENcrMENTs.

COLLEGE COTMENCRMENTs.
Photographic Echoes from the Speeches
Made By the Boys NJ bethany. Morgan
town, WAshington and other Places.
Photographed BY Buriotts.
"Man Is the architect Of his own for
tunes. In ali the sweeping currents Of
human events, in oil the aspirations and
ambitions Of otheFages, how nobly-"
"Night brings out the aars. III also
brings out thebugs, and the essay neglect.
ed to say so,-ED.1 Its only when Soro~
and misfortune have darkened our lives
that the brighter traits Of character, the
GOd,iks instincts Of mans nature, shine
forth amid the surrounding gloom, like"
1.-THE press and the ballot.box, the great
palladium Of human liberty, what power
Is theirs in molding national Characters.
tics; what has been their influence as
agents OF civilization; what do We see"
Gas we glance back across the wide un-
folding centuries that stretch between US
and the buried ages Of the past, how the
ruins and wrecks Of the grandeur Of man
In his proudest estate, in his"
"Life, Ikea mighty river, springing in
unseen fountains deep in some mountain
glen, then meaDderiDg, u CeaselesS, spark.
ling riVulet, through verdant meadows,
and adOwn many sleeps, and at length"
To-day We stand upon the Threshold
OF life, ready TO cross II with impatient
feet, and, as we strain our eyes to pierce
the curtain Of the future, our hearts tell
US that"
"What man has done, man can do. All
that the past has taught us, all that the
great and good In other ages have done
for u.s. all that the pages Of history, in the
stormy times Of old,
'Thucydides, towering high above ordi.
nary men in an age that counted among
its leaders and teachers such poets, and
artists, and statesmen as Sophocles aud
IEschylus, Phidias, Zeuxis, and Parrhasi.
us, Herodotus, and Xenophon,-Thucy.
dides, himself great among the great, is |
said TO have remarked :"
"But what, let US ask ourselves, were
the motives OF Alexander in these brilliant
achievements? When we consider that
no other conqueror ever effected SO much |
in so short a time, and when we reflect
that the only motive that led him to carry
war, and bloodshed, and terror into almost
every part OF the then known world, was
cold. selfish, tnhuman ambition, We are
led to exclaim, with the immortal Wash.
ington-"
'Hedren from all creatures hides the
book OF fate And although often we
would fain penetrate the nell Of the future,
yet at length, in the wisdom of riper years,
taught IN the rugged school Of experience,
we yield to-" t--la
"Man, helpless in himself, untaught by
the instinctot the lower animals, incapable
in his natural condition Of protecting him.
self, prey to the elements, and at the
mercy Of the beasts Of the field, yet aided,
developed, and elevated by the creating
art Of his own brain and the skill Of his
own hands, he is found"
"Among the ancient Greeks, whose
wisdom, craftsmanship, aud art has been
handed down to us through the centuries,
it was considered one OF the highest and
first duties Of the citizen to provide for"
woman, Heavens last, best gift to
man, what is her mission? What is the
life-work waiting for her earnest, patient
hands? The hand that rocks the cradle
truly may shake the world; her strength
is gentleness, her courage Is confidence,
and she walks"
"0n the broad ocean OF life we launch
our barks fearlessly; we face the storms as
we welcome the sunlight; and, serene and
amid the changing currents and
the battling winds, we spread our sails and
boldly hold our"
KNOWS he, who knoweth himself, the
first principles Of human knowledge? The
man who"
"Blows the wind never so i'll that it
blows no good to some one. Across the
broad ocean Of life, into ourvery faces the
tempests may bowl, but the fearless sailor
meets the storm and calmly trims his"
Corn is King, To-day, more than ever
before, the agricultural interests Of the
country are overshadowing all others un-
I'll, as we contemplate them in their i'm
mensity-"
"Wesay farewell. To you, whose pa
tienCe and wisdom have led us with gentle |
hands along the dizzy sleeps OF learning's
bill, and to you, dear classmates, whose
cheerful"
"A-h'mm! BIN! Young gentlemen
hmm! BIN! and young4h'm-a~la.
dies; it is-whoO-toot!"
THAT settles it. That ruptured the ma.
chine. Thore never was photograph
yet built strong enough to stand the "a.
sonant strain OF hool.commItteeman
winding his small but mellow horn with
red bandana handkerchief while he
thought OF word, That winds up the
report.