The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-27
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Held was here few years ago he express
cd the opinion that tho decision wa
fraught with evil, and would yet be re
verscd. And so say well informed tlispas
sionn!c men generally, And notice il
reading the famous eulogy upon Wcl,ste
by Rufus Choate, delivered hero In 1853
that in saying much Of the caro- and 0
Wcbstrr's great agency in the decision
Ito says not Il word on his own accoont b,
way OF endorsing the decision.
All this is, fear, very dry reading 70
your subscribers. And yet being here ol
the ground, with rowing commission I,
write for you, how could I play lIamle
with Hamlet left out? How could
write about Dartmouth College md omi
the famous Dartmouth case. The collcg,
now, as in the past, is OF course II grand in
stitution, and worthy Of much that nigh
write about in its praise did your spac,
permit, but rs compared with the Cease
referred 10 it Is Just nothing ut all
neither 1t nor any other college in I'll,
land. s5.
". wEBsrERs ARGUMENT. u
+ OF course the mir here is full OF trad
tlons and "reminiscences concerning tho
noted men who have graduated here
Webster Is naturally the Olympian Jovc
lie is tho Charter Oak, us l might cal
him, whereby the charter was saved, and
why should not statues and pictures Of
him ontrlnk MI others in the College
litcraryhall. Dartmouth remembers what
he said before that august presence in
Washington to show his LOYALTY to her
and she gratefully keeps his memory
grcento her. Heroncludcd his magnificent
argument Of four hours before the Supreme
CvurL with these words: "Sir, know
not how others may feel (glancing at the
opponents Of the College before HIM but,
lor myself. when | see my alma mater
surrounded, like Cesar in the Senate
house, by thuse&wllu arc rcterating stab
up1n stab, ! would not for this right
hand have her turn to me and say, Fl tu
4nar,'e m@i' "And thou, too, nty son"
All the Indifferent students who have
been TO school here since the DAYS OF
Webster consolet themselves with the reiec-
ii II that this leader Of men did not lead
hi, class in college. The man who did
lead it lived and died in the quiet, drowsv
Vi lase OF Norwich, Vermont, Just across
tho river from hert, and never made a
sign during al his life to show that he
had distanccd Hercules on this academic
arena. The great Daniel did not pan out
for oil that WIS in him here, and nobody
seems to have suspected him OF being the
first class Titan that he turned out to be.
II is on record here, in pamphlet dis.
course by Theo. Parker, OF Boston, That
he was silly enough 10 tear up his diploma
after graduation, and tramp it under foot
on the campus. doubt this statement,
us do not hear it confirmed in the oral
traditions here, but there is no doubt that
he was displeased with his award. He
told one OF the old citizens that the faculty
had not done him justice. -
Rufus Choatc was 4 remarkable boy at
college and easily the first in his class,
He graduated in 1910 in his Goth year, and
delivered the valedictory His commemo.
rative address here on Webster in 1858, at
the commencement following Webster's
death, is thus alluded to by local histo-
rian: "ie gave to the world one Of the
most finished and impressive examples Of
elegiac cloquence to which it has listened
since the days OF Pericles." Choate was
one Of the brilliant coterie Of New Eng
land Whigs who surrounded Webster like
d constellation during his last days, and
did not turn away on the slavery ques-
ton, when nearly all New England hid
her face. In fact, Choate was the man
who i'll Congress characterized the Decla-
ration Of lndependece us "a string Of gilt
tering generalities." ~ ~
d. NOTED ALUMNI.
Chief Justice Chase is another Dart
mouth graduate who did not lead his
class. Nor do find any special chronicles
Of his career here. He attained respecta.
BILE scholarship, however. lie presided at
the imposing Centennial celebration in.
1869. OF Thad Stevens, who graduated in
1914, and Levi Woodbury., who graduated
in 1909, I do not hear anything special.
And yet they were, as your readers know,
big men III their day. The coming man,
it would seem, does not always cast his
shadow before. DR.. John G. Campbell,
who still lives near Wheeling, was u
student in the medical department here in
1914, and went to Wheeling to practice his
profession. No.,
One of the noted presidents Of this in
stitution was DR.. Lord, famous in his day,
like Bishop Hopkins, OF Vermont, Tor his
defcnses OF slavery. This atti-
tudc tothc Southlcd him naturally into an
equivocal position in the war, and hence
tlle.press,lre OIL him hercabouts became
sogreat that he resigned his position in
1861, after holding it thirty-ive Years.
New Hampshire lias always been con-
scrvativc New England State. 1t was peo-
pied by English and Scotch Irish early in
the Seventeenth century, aud was intense
ly Congregational and Calyanistic in its
religion. This college is still visiblv un.
der this influence. Tho college church is
the plain white Congregational editice OH
the north side of the campus square, to
which thrce.i6urths Of the students and
nearly all the professors 90. The rest 20
to the Episcopal church. Every stu.
dent is obliged to attend one or the
other. There is q college monitor ut
each church to report the abscntccs.
Every student is required to 60 to "Bibli-
calls" at the College chapel every Sunday
where they read the New les
lament in the original Greek. Every
student is Obliged TO attend chapel cxer-
cises at q quarter to eight in the morning,
where chapter is read, hymn sung and
prayers by the President. From all OF
which you willsce that Dartmouth college
is in the land OF the old time stock Of New
England Puritaus, and that they believe
with their ancestors in the scripture which
teaches train up child in the way he
should 80, and when he is old he will not
depart from it" a. W. c.
Z. AN USNATURALlXED CITIZEN, .i
The Case OF Police Con,,nissioner Newell on
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BUFFALO, September 2G.-In tho case Of
Michael Newell, Commissioner OF Police,
who is on trial for holding Office and vot.
ing without becoming asnaturalized citi.
zen, Newell today tried to put upon the
prosecution the burden OF proving TINT he
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