The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-06-16
BETHANY.
Exercises Of Commencement Week
Mt the College. .8
Exhibitions Of tho Literary S0cie.
ties Of the Institution.
Glass Day Performances andJunior
Class Exhibition.
Commencement Day, Incidents,
Notes and Personals.
A Brief but Enjoyable Classical
Renaissance.

Yesterday bethany was gay, her streets
thronged with people, and presenting an
animated scene such as is only the lot OF
college towns 10 experience and enjoy. 10.
day tho calm will succeed, the hum OF
voices will only be heard in tho residences
where the few lnger, loatll to leave n place
so inviting for rest, for pleasure, und where
hospitality is so cordial and entertainment
80 oroyal. The contrast, though, with Thurs.
days entertainment will be OF u nature
akin to going to sleep during n tempest and
awakening in the quiet Of peaceful morn
ing and cloudless sky.
The features OF the week were the exli-
billions OF the Literary Societies, the class
exercises, Alumni meeting gnnd commence.
ment, all OF which were enjoyable, each in
degree above the other until the culmi-
nation in the graduating performances.
Bethany is almost an ideal college town;
near Wheeling, yet far removed from it by
its absence Of commercial life, but pecu.
liarly fitted for the home OF thestudent and
the seeker after intellectual life. Still it is
not prosaic, dull stale and Improbable to
those who are more partial 10 the pleasures
Of purely social life. The phases Of life
during commencement week are combi-
nation OF music, love, flowers, wisdom and
culture. This is not sentiment or inagina-
ton colored for the occasion, but an i'm.
pressive fact. Susceptibility is the inaliena.
bic privilege OF youth, but truth is
ponderous and prevails on its own merits,
and this is why the reporter has the tcnerity
to declare without fear Of having his mo-
tivcs misjudged, that never was there
collection OF young ladies vino were SO em.
nently worthy Of the tribute OF an eloquent
pen as those gathered at Bethany. In thus
rendering unto Cesar the things that are
Ccsar's" this rhapsody cannot be called
into question, and with nm eye single TO
the glory OF the beautiful and the good
these lines are set down as IL graceful ac-
acknowledgement OF the charms and sraces
OF those who contributed so much to The
success and pleasure Of the busy week.
The College year has been very sue
cessful one, closing with great brilliancy
and encouraging the friends Of the institu-
ton to look forward to still brighter one.
The instructors express themselves us be.
ing well pleased with the progress the stu
dents have made, and are stimulated by re-
suits to hope for tho same satisfaction Mt
the close OF another year. In tho iorty
years OF IFS existence Bethany College has
sent out into the world five hundred and
eighty.siX graduates, many OF whom are
occupying high positions in the Church and
the various pursuits and professions. OF
this number Kentucky has contributed
one hundred and thirty.two, the old
Dominion following next in order with
seventy-tive Of her sons enrolled
on the register. Ohio, our SIS
ter commonwealth has contributed
seventy-four, and is followed by Missouri
with lifty-ninc. Pennsylvania and West
Nirginia come next, dividing honors
equally in having iorty-eight each credited
to them. Nearly every State in the Union
is represented in this army Of intelligence
and knowledge. whose forces are scattered
over the land, while Canada, Ireland,
| Mexico, New Brunswick, Nova Sco,in.
Scotland, Australia and Wales have swellcd
the ranks equal contributions. Thisisa
record to warrant pride in the history OF
the college and reflect glory on its name.
| On Wednesday the Trustees held n
lengthy session, ut which the affairs OF the
college were thoroughlynnd exhaustively
discussed. There were present, President
W. X. sPendleton, Bateman Goc Albert
Allen, Thomas Gale, Porter S. Newmyer,
james Darsie, A. Z. Myers, Jacob Curtis,
Il. NJ. Mohit, W. /. Lewes, John C. Palmer,
John 1. Rowe, l. II. Jones and A. NJ.
Buchanan. The meeting was very salts
factory and harmonious, and many
measures were discussed looking to tho nd.
ditional usefulness OF tho college. 1t is pre-
sumed, from what we could learn
of the deliberations, that the fac.
ulty will be enlarged to provide for
the growth Of the institution and distrib.
ute tho work more evenly among the in.
structors. The changes proposed and tho
measures discussed were left in the hands
ofn committee appointed for that purpose.
In all things there was hurmony OF action,
and the prospects for still brighter times are
us radiant with promise. Ms the face OF Cl,ap.
lain Jones, when il is lit mp in telling m
aneCdote or making II pun.
With this generalization of the past and
present, and predictions and hopes for the
i iuture, the exercises OF the week arc taken
up in their regular order.