The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-20

year Riehmond. N Va: 1 G. L. Sands, Richmond, Va.
D. III. Smith, Texas.
MEDALIsTs.
| aWoods Medal n-Deciamasion !: J. W. Fleet
M ing: Il. :es P. Mccornlct. % TX Londoun i County. Va
Frances Gwin Medal Philosophy: Rolfa Z.
Glover. Richmond.
AWARDED CERTIFICATES OF PROFICIENCY.
Va. q. L. Jones. Richmond. Va: Il. q. Laiane,
King and queen county, Va I. j. Lawrence Nanse-
r. Wsinedn z r eeans vs
Washington, Jr. Caroline coanly. va.
Surveying: +. P. Brown, Upkeryille, Va: j. W.
King and t Queen I esanty Iatane .fRf King
and Queen county. Va. z. F. settle CuIpeper coun.
juoior jii Physics: ]. W. Fleet, King and Queen
county, Va; = M ~ Garnet. king and Qaeen county,
MAY. New Orleans. La; F. F. SettIe, Cupeper coun-
~. Va; W. G. Stanard, Richmond, Va; j. E. WI
att, Gloucester county. Va
GRADUATES. .,-.,.,.o
School of Latin: Edwin n. Benton. Loudoun
county, Va; Waiter Christian. r edmond, Va;
James T. Dickinson, Richmond. VA; Henry 81.
vs nSoS.s
county: Va: Charles Pgryears Richmond, Vn.
Jahn 5. Gunter, Aeco!nac county, Ys.; EDWARD L.
Holland, Nansemond county, Vaf john D. Jen-
Va: John Henry Smith. Franklin e6nnty. Texas.
Scnool of Modern Languages: Jamcs a. Brown,
soahHs Henry
county, Va: Rolfe 4. Glover, Richmond, Va; Will.
liam 7, Hudgins: Marshall, Texas.
School Of English: Henfy e.. C.bell. Jr., Rich
mond, We. !; M. Allan Chambers, Richmond, Va;
Henry H.; G, orge: Jr, Caroline coanIv, Va; Cd
s. holland, Isle or Wight county. Va; James n.
McMauswsy, Bedford county. Va Gordon p.
Moore, Giles county, Va; George u. Taylor, Jr, ,
School Of Mathem m.,lcs: William T. Hudgiinss;
Texas; |. Morton Mercer, Richmond. Va; j. judi
School Of Physics: James A. Brown. Montgomery
county. Va: Landon q. Catleti, Gloucester county,
eer M Riehmond, va; J. Jndson Taylor, Henry
School @ OF Chemistry: William F. Bapby, King
county, Va; I. Ellis Drewry. Griffin, Ga; Henry
ZONES, Rlchmonc, W.; Levin Joynes. Richmoud,
Va; Robert H. Laiane. King and Queen county,
PeaEe, Portsmouth, Va; a. Jndson Realny, Rich
mond county, Va, John Henry Smith; Texas;
m Wife,
School of Philosophy: james A. Brown. Mont.
inond. Va: N. Allan Chambers, Richmond, Va. ;
Walter Christian, Richmond. "; KoIfe f; Glover
Moca creer Mis Rcond
| B. Moore, Giles county, Va; Frank z. Robertson,
Abemarle county Va. A6ram F. staples pn,cs
BACHELORS OF LAW.
John F. Anderson, Richmond: Va: Frank f.
Anderson. Richmond, Va; Edward NJ. Baum,
Princess Anne county. Va: j. Clay Gentry, Cor
donsvill., Va; Samuel D; Jones, Campbell county,
Timolhy Ryes, Prince George county. Va. John
w. Snyder, Richmond. Va; Abram 7. Staples,
Patrick Courthouse, Va; Mortimer a. Turner
Richnoud, Va.
- BACHELORS Of ARTS.
Henry c. Cabell, Jr.. Richmond. Va; Frank P.
Robertson, Albemarle county, Va.
~ + -. MASTERS OF ARTS. >
james A. Brown. MONTGOMERY county. Va:
Hudgirs. Marshall, Texas; ]. Morton Mercer, Rich
moDd, Va.
AS the students received their honors
they were greeted with loud applause, and
many of them received beautiful bouquets
or baskets Of flowers from fair friends.
." WOODS MEDAL.
s. B. Witt, Esq, OF Richmond, next pro-
ceedcd to deliver the " Woods Medal " the
gift of Hiram Woods, Esq, Of Baltimore)
10 the chest declaimer," Mr.. j. W. Fleet,
Of King William county, Va.
Mr. Witt made graceful and appro-
pirate little speech, in which he spoke OF
| the power of the speaker, gave the medalist
some sound counsel, and invoked for him
Iaborious life so we'll spent that at its close
men might say of him: "1t is we'll for the
world that he has lived"
Mr.. Witt was loudly applauded, and his
fine taste, sound counsel. and graceful and
fitting words were highly appreciated by
| all who heard him.
STEEL MEDAL.
The medal to the d" best reader" (the gift
OF DR.. George Il. Steel, OF kichmond) was
then awarded to Mr.. II. p. Mccormick, Of
Loudoun county, Va, in an excellent ad.
dress by Rev. r. Hume, of Portsmouth, in
which he said:
! There rs no need that should tell you
what the Steel Medal is. 1t was Il happy
thought wisely and gracefully put into act
by generous nature. 1t gives TO Richmond
College peculiar distinction-Lhat OF
awarding the only prize for an important
accomplishment. 1t supplies much-needed
stimulus, if we may Judge from the
serious lack Of interest and attain
ment in this most graceful, impress
sye, and useful art. How often
the fine thought, the stately rhythm, all the
uis viUida, the life that glows and beats IN
q great classic is manned or weakened be-
cause the appointed eXpounder has never
studied and practiced the best utterance OF
it. Gross injustice is done the Word oil
God-that Word which in every sense is
meant to be spirit and ll7e-and gross in.
justice done to the multitude of its suscep-
tib.e hearers by the spirit!css, lifeless, sense
less, coloriess style in which its fresh narra-
tive, its noble biography, its sublime poe
try, are droned out from the sacred desk.
It is most useful art; for it is eminently q
social one. Our eyes gis:en under the
mellow light of the lovely interior painted
by the poet of the domestic affections, espe-
cially OF the scene in which "the day is
done.'' And one reads from the treasured
volume
The poem OF his choice;
and one lends to the rhyme OF the poet
| The music of his 7oice.
What boon to the worn spirit to find its
favorite author interpreted In the melodious
notes of a sympathetic voice, and rise on
its yibrand tones into 81 ''thoughts that wan
der through eternity" The speaker gave
4 charming picture of the MacaulaY family
reading under the evening lamp, and Of the
delightful and profitable reuuions provided
bv nei.hborhood reading clubs. 1t is some
times said that the art OF reading is rather a
feminine accomplishment. With pleasant
allusion 10 the fascination OF woman's
voice to the magnetic charm Of Fanny
Kemble's readings, he urged that neither
raIlautry nor justice required us to give
nIace here to the Ladies, and congratulated
Mr.. Mccormick on the superior skill and
Grace which had merited this distinction in
his art: for, said he, it is an art. not natu.
raj pift. After analyzing the elements that
On to make it up, he conferred the medal as
An incentive to the pursuit OF all tue arts
onl yrsce to 90 to constitute the complete
nFRASCEs GwIS MEDAL"