The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1883-06-20

professions. and titles--that
'The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
A mans man for o. that. " !
TRIBUTE TO DIR. CRAVEN.
In coming, young gentlemen, to this
festival to lay on umble flower
among the immortellcs that bedeck
the shrine-as an example of the in:
f1uence rnur true culture may exert,
of the noble results that true culture
may achieve, &c stand with me on yon-
der hill at the grave of the priest who
reared this temple, and who for so
many years, ministered at its affairs
view his life, his work, the influence
he set in motion, and tell me if they
ever lay to rest any nobler dust, even
in the great English pantheon?
"Truly kiugof men king whose birth
Sprang not from kings of great OF earth:
Bare Of the might that sceptered splendor
The faithful servant of the King Of kings,
Truly bard bard who sang no song,
Flooding Heavens gates in stormy tides
and strong.
Yet left one strain with lofty purpose rife,
The simple record of a noble life.
Born amid the hills of Randolph,
with no legacy but his brains and no
inheritance but his indomitable cour-
age; put to hard manuel service in
tender years /; at the age of seventeen
teaching a little country school in an
old log school house for two quarter
sessions; two years later attending
New Garden Academy for nine months
on the proceeds which his economy
had saved from his little school, and
q crop of corn made with his own
hands; and one years tutorship in the
old Union Institute that stood on yOn-
der campus make up the tuition of that
man whom in after years, before his
sun had crossed the meridian, two col
Ieges and two universities delighted to
honor with literary degrees, and who,
though stricken down in the very flush
of his power and manhood, leaves the
fruits of his scholarship scattered like
golden sheaves all over the State. He
needs no eulogy. The fittest panegyric
that could pronounce is found in the
fact that for eight long months these
curators have not found man, among
all Cardinals gifted sons, to fill his
place-and they never will! His best
monument is this temple of learning
and this brilliant assemblage render
ss sass and ID The III vs.
his me-for Trinity he laid down his
life. May her fame and usefulness
be as imperishable as that of her foun
der! In superior calling he relin,
quished the glittering prizes of life
sought and found in the pursuit o
truth, in the noble offices of the teacher
in the vocation of the Christian scho
lar, the end and the reward of living
/ had rather live the life that Braxie
Craven lived, set in motion the infu
ence for good that he started, help t
an education the scores of p:Or young
men he aidei, have my name embalm
cd in such precious memory as he
has left behind, and be buried in tn,
"potter's field in a pauper's coffin
sleep isolated aud alone beneath tn,
stars, with no requiem save the night
winds, and with no loving hands t.
deck my humble tomb, than, with tn,
fame Of earth's martial heroes, to hay,
my ashes followed by such fuscra
cortege as went after Leon Gamhctt;
to the wind-swept cemetery Of Nice
and to be laid to rest in Westministe
Abbey among England's illustriou
dead, or repose on the banks Of tn,
sacred Jumna beneath the marbl,
glories Of rhe Tai Mahal!
As stand here to-day in this pre-
sence near that old chapel where
drank in some Of life's freshness an,
contemplate the life Of the petrles
Craven, and there comes crowdin,
into the soul the hallOwed recollection
Of our other consecrated dead-DouL
Barringtr and my own sainted fathe
who stood by him aud upheld hi
hands in his noble efforts to give Til
church and the State this grand insti
tuition, l feel that there Is no ulac
, more fit for u man to live than tina
hallowcd BY the pious walks and pre-
cions memories Of his ancestors, an,
no place 20 meets oil the instincts %
, a noble manhood for a sepnlcIrc as
chamber beside the graves that c..ntail
all that is earthly 10 them.
II, young gentlemen, in the battl
Of life, you will BE- - faithful Ia tn
best interest Of humanity ~ was tn
lamented Craven. when the sun %
your life, like Gods sun, shall ,icrIin
) to it, setting. ian influence n chec
and to bless will long limger brhin,
you like the radiance which beam
from the twilight Of u summers sly.
At the meeting Of the Alumni As
ISOLATION yesterday. lien. :. Brad
shaw, Of the Ashebor0 Courier. wa
elected President. aud Rev. y. N
journey the Orator for next Cnm
ncnccmcnt. At night, there WI.
memorial meeting IN honur Of III,
lamenied BraxteY Cravrn-the fir.
and only President Of Trinity Col
legeuntiI to-day. Gov. Jarvis. ant
Dr. M. Robey, made feeling al
dresses. The Board Of Trustees afteI
several meetings succeeded in elect
ing u President Of the College. Rev
Marcus l.. Wood, Presiding Elder Of
the Charlotte District l. the man.
To-day DIR. J. T BagweIl, Of Char.
lotte, and. Rev. J. +. Heitman Of
Chapel It'll, were elected Professors.
We we're unable 10 hear the Senior
speaking. There are Is graduates
che largest class ever graduated ut this
institution. With ihenew President
and excellent corps Of teachers, We
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