Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-16

the GRADUATES IN FULTON HALL.
The Dinner and speeches-Social Reunlons
Tho BaccalauFeate OraSaOne.
The alumni dinner at Harbaugh hail.
at noon yesterday, was the most delightful
and successful event of its kind ever held
at the college, and this fixed institution
has now become the central feature of the
social and literary festivities of the week.
Shortly after twelve o'clock the guests a.
sembled jim the shade Of the trees in front
of the college and were escorted to dinner.
The dining hall was decorated in the
usual prOfuse manner and after the ele-
CANT taste of the ladies in charge pyramids
and bouquets of flowers and bunches of
waving grasses adorned the tables. at each
plate was button hole bouquet and
bill of fare with the t0asts AZ printed
yesterday. Rev. p. S. Davis d. D., pre-
sided at the central table, flanked by Gov.
Hoyt and DR.. Nevin. Rev. DR.. Higbee
sat at one cnd and Rev. DR.. Weiser at the
other.
After the material. feast was concluded
DR.. Davis raped the guests to order with
cause he was one of the "Old boys, and
young man had been pronounced "tOO
thin" (alluding to signs of badness and
other indications of clerical virtue). He
accepted the situation and would carry
out the prescribed programme at all
hazards. The gentlemen upon whom he
called responded readily.
Rev. DR.. G. z. Weiser, answering for
'Christianity, q friend to intellectual cul-
ture," addressed the presiding officers as
president Davis OF this cOnfederacy.
most prodigal COmissary General and fel-
low granivOrous and carnivOrOus Wan
ders." 1t was not we'll to speak on a full
stomach. but the occasion furnished no
other condition. Mrs. Partington had
remarked that 1.-THE quack rost-
runs which are now SO cOrnucopiously
distributed through the land were
regimental to the human cisterns," ard
the present occasion emphasized the warn
ing. With regard to his treatment of the
topic assigned, like his sermons, the text
was the best part OF it. Seriously speak
ing Christianity is favorable to all sorts of
right culture to the education of the
body, soul and intellect. It has only been
indeed since Christianity is introduced
that true physical culture in the way
of temperance has come to be
rightly understood. Before the ad-
vent of the Holy Ghost the world
had no true conception of sin, righteous
ness or the judgment. Christianity takes
good care OF the body and the mind it is
the mother of all intellectual institutions
only two in our country are separated
from it, Girard college and the public
school system, but even these could not
have originated in a community where
Christianity is stranger. Nearly all the
magnificent literary institutions Of the
world look back to Christianity as their
mother. Here we have a Christian iusti-
tuition, but the intellect is not neglect
ed-nOt at all. Ignorance is not
the mother of devotion zeal SPRINGS
from light. Ingersoll is a spe-
cimen of the class called atheists, and
who consider Christianity hindrance to
the desire of man, but even his develop
ment is dwarfed in the very degree in
which he has departed from the faith of
his fathers, and cannot for q moment stand
against the Christian scholarship of the age.
DR.. Weiser made way for what he called
the heavy guns, protesting that he had
only come to commencement with one
piece and had spoken that the night be-
fore.
Gov. Hoyt was called upon to answer
to the toast The state and the Higher
Education.'
"And sovereign Law-that States collected
Der thrones and globes elate,
Bits empress, crowninS good, supprcssing ILL.,"
II will point 70 out the right path of a vir-
tuous and noble education; laborious indeed
at the first ascent, but elso so smooth, SO |
dious sounds on every side that the harp |
OF Orpheus was not moro charming"
His Excellency said that he could, with |
entire truth and and taste, consume the |
five minutes allotted to him in express |
ing or trying to express the delight and |
the honor he felt to be in the place and |
company in which he found himself. He |
had seen the people Of this state in many |
forms and localities and of many descrip-
lonesome not always favOrable-and |
they were q people of
such large capacity he had seen no gather
ing anywhere in which he felt more
pride for the commonwealth than in
the present. For it was a typi-
cal assemblage of typical people.
No man can witness such q gathering of
thrift and purity without appreciating and
the definite purpose kept stead
lily and faithfully in view by those who
compose it. The state is engaged in an
work, which if it was not re-
lated directly to Christianity was never
theless the irresistible impulse If the peo.
pie. Statutes after all only embody your
purposes, tho laws do not create them,
they grow out of them Because of these
impulses Of this people any man can may
be proud to claim citizenship in
Various streams of
emigration poured over this CON-
to make up its composite citi.
zenship, but they had all conformed to
one common moral purpose, and the aver
age purpose of Pennsylvania is as good
scheme Of civilization and Christianity as
any commonwealth had ever proposed. A
judge Of the supreme court
now deceased-had once spoken to the
governor about the remarkable steadfast
ness of the people of eastern Pennsylvania
from Northampton to York countless
their succession Of names, their perpetual
lion of estates, their continuity and the
absence of any break in their proprietorship
of principle or property. He had further
that it was largely due to the
fact that they sent their sons to Pennsyl-
vania colleges. The governor concluded
an effective and appropriate response with
a renewed expression of his delight at
being present in the midst of these festivi-
ties, and amid such beauty and wealth
If surroundings that made one feel who.I
looked at these fat farms that he owned a
share in. them. He was pleased, moreover,
to hear favorable report from the COL
e0o's cOnditiOn and nrOSnocts that II na;d