New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-28
MANLINEss IN THE SCHOLAR.
ORlTION by THE REY, pr sroRRs AT
Union COLLEGE. l5-5

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UNION COLLEGE
rxERc1srs OF COMMENCEMENT DAY-THE REMOVAL
OF PROFESSOR WEBSTER AS VIEWED BY GRADU-
ATEs AND sTuDENTs-PREsIDENTP POTTER OFFERS
TO PAY HIS SALARY FOX SIX MONTHS.
trRon SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSR.l
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, June 27.-The eighty
sixth commencement Of Union College took place to-
day in the presence of largo audience. Members OF
the graduating delivered oratons follows: John
W. Adams, OF Belmont. Iowa. "Hungarian Fidelity )"
william Gchrst OF Schenectady, on O. The Cnivairy OF
the Nineteenth Century" Condo Hamlin, Of winona
MIMI. on Social OAgarchies -; Franklin W. Mcclellan.
of Cambridge N.Y., "The South that Lost" James r.
Van Ness, Of Osborues Bridge N Y, Progress OF
Reform"
THE REV DIR. sTORRs's ADDRESS
The Chanceor's annual address delivered by the
Rev Dr. Richard 8. sorrs. Of Brooklyn. who spoke az
follows:
Eckermann tells u.s. his interesting report Of talks
with Goethe. that once. when looking with him at
engravngs the poet sad These really good things
You have before you the works OF of very fair tai
ents who have learned something, and have acquired
no little taste and art Still something is wanting In all
these pictures-the Manly Take notice OF this word and
under It, The pictures lack certain urgent power
which in former ages generally expressed but In
which the present age s deficient that with respect
not only to painting but to all the other Grts."
This remark OF the great German unrequently re-
he stands before pictures graceful in con-
cepton harmonious in composition radiant In color but
wanting In evident and predominant motive and so
wanting the dignity and charm which only from an
imperative spiritual impulse, mparting significance to
lines and tnts He thinks Of IL in reading many books,
where the thoughts elaborated assembled
seem quite sufficient to reward the attention. and where
the style which commsnds them to attention is nowise
wanting careuness elegance but where there beats
rr,lse in In nor no
ing spirit transposes what is written into quickenng
message where the finest have In them
a certain moral irertnesss; and where the element,
however indehnable, which changes words into
powers, and makes sentences surprise us with fDe
inspirations, is papaby wanting And We see the
same thng often and sadly In the character and career
OF accomplished capable, perhaps brilliant men. who
eagerly aspire but who achieves whose nfuencei
perccptiby limited and langud compared with their
powers; from whom society after
time ceases to expect anything more than
transient entertainments; whose age Is
Swallowed with the deepening OF practical failure
and who finally pass out OF the communities which they
seemed adapted inveorae and to guide. with re-
suits and no be the bright memorial Of
them.
In how many instances does this word OF Goethe como
back to the thoughts Something is wanting 1t is the
Manly note Of the word and underscore It, There
is lack of urgent power and that lack is as fatal to
genuine and fruitful human as the want OF fire
beneath boiler Is to the movement OF the system OF
mechanism OF which that should be the throbbng heart
TRIBUTE TO DIR. wAsHBURN.
But on the other hand sometimes this In rich,
bright superb exhibition In writings in art works, 10
the temper Of men. and in their illustrative public
careers do not think 1t extravagaDt to say that this
special element OF native, habtual governing manness
was as marked in him. Of whom fitting memorials have
remided us to-day, in any whom have personally
known. 1t was this which first attracted me TO him.
when he and were young together
II was this for which, in large measure. AFTER
ward admired and honored him aud tho Image OF him
which rises before me- speak, without the help
ofhbrary OF portrait, bears this characteristic with
indelible clearness stamped upon It,
DR. Washburn was a mas OF many knowledges and
generous accomplishments, VINO impressed one with the
natural dignity OF his thoughts and the easy abundance
of his gathered ACQUISITIONS. He q man In whose
mental faculty. well In his face and his physical
frame rare gracefulnes intimately associated with
disciplined strength He united much Of the spirit othe
poet with the faith OF the Christian, the learning OF the
student and the discursive reason OF the philosopher
He had studied many subjects and his thinking upon them
was uniformly just fruitful and stimulating while he
hardly could express himself form Of action or OF
speech without certain romantic elegance in Whatever
he did attractive TO all, delightful to his frieuds
But beyond all this he pregminenty manly man,
who was true TO convictions nnd determined by his
sense practical duty, whatever might happen when
men shrank into silence and rctreatod into ingorons
Incidence before any opposition whose spirit Indeed
grew more elate, as he was hndered, antsgonizcd,
threatened; who most buoyantly sure OF his end
when to nd the last chance Of snccess seemed TO
have vanished this than thing eisc-or
this az eupobling everything elsewhch fitted him for
the positions sometimes as hazardous as they we're
eminent to which he called II gave him large In
auepoe over minds hardly ess discriminating than his
casiSn OF giadness 10 those who did not meet
hun often, or hear his sermons but who
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fearless a n consecrated scholar It "a this for which he
will long be remembered by thosc who stood near him.
which gives for Of us peculiar sadness 10 the ser
vices Of this day Which makes the thought Of seeing linn
those which lie this side death, our familiar and happy
%Crown him With gold" wrote one who had known
him long and well, with afectonae admiration. after
| his death
"Crown him with gold, the kugly crown Of goldl
Where Is there one Of statelier grace or Dieni
On wings of lorious Thought % realms unsecul
What though his head lie low beneath the SOD
He lives king and priest before our Cod"
| COURAGE AS AN ELEMENT OF MANLINEss.
Pausing little then, under the suggestions OF so
high an example. do know that any subject can be
more suitable to this brief address likely to i'm
part to us heahful impulse, than that to which our
thoughts are by this occasion naturally turned: the
| beauty and power OF thorough manliness In
| the instructed American scholar. The duty OF
| cherisbing this In ourselves Will hardly fall
i to become apparent. and the usefulness
TO great institutions OF learning IN 30 iar as they s-
ter to this manDess OF spirit In those whom they edu-
cate viii need no other vindication. The subject Is
ethical az well as literary but 10 not therefore the less
adapted 10 an hour oyershadowed to some Of us this
a. by aectonste recollectlons throngod az 1t Is 10
many Others with eager hopes and large expectations
The question is of course. concisey TO be answered.
what is implied such essential manliness OF SPIRIT
What principal elements must combine In the temper OF
the schoar to constitute and complete 1t And the
answer Is not far to find.
Certainly Courage Is essentially involved and
IL cannot be realized when that not presents Courage
AZ denotng not merely that instinct OF battle which dis
plays itself boldly In stimulating exctements, In the
heat of contest the crisis which pushes ono to self
y.ndication In passionate championship OF fsyorite
opuions but as representing what 10 amper than this
ana aso aner-strcngh of heart; strength endure
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