Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-23
YALE CommENoEmENr.

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 senior promenade. The class oration WE delivered at eleven o'clock in Batteu ohape The day opened rainy and threatening, br before noon the sun came out brightly and clear, bright but warm afternoon followed The attendance at Batten was large an brilliant audience Scattered here and thel in the audience were prominent old grad1 ates come to drink again at Yales fountai and renew their youth. The seniors marche to the chapel in body headed by Colt | band and occupied the seats in the body ( the house reserved for them. They bo1 aloft, as they marched, banner of blu with "S5" conspicuous upon it. Upon tn platform were President Porter, Governo Harrison, and Rev. Dr. Burton of Hartford members of Yale corporation. Prayer wa l offered by President Porter. The poem wa ! by Charles Eldridge Cushing, of Bath, Me ! and was talented effort. It describes young man who, wearied by the heat of summers day. rests at an old house where \ geod old dame is spinning. He watches he l task and draws from it the inspiration t seek for the ideal in life in action and i thought. He goes forth into life and tn poem tells how at the end weary and grim \ with the dust of the conflict he gazes back but not upon perfect thread. An extrac | from the poem is as follows: | And there She told, told, still spinning of her almost fnshe Spinning and telling it to me-ts peace, it's strife I It's dsappointments and it's joys, it's calm, 1t | care,
 Into her work she spun her life as she stood there Foil hard and ever spin, my child, fer me, While thou art young, and when thy youth is fled, Be faithful and thou shalt be blest See" He spoke and showed to me the perfect thread Of his own life and of his work of love, Elate with pride raised naughty head, And vowed, no faithless servant would prove, But even till my last heart throb were dead, Would l. too. work as he Thou spinner of perfect work!" cried My work shall be perfection, like to thine; I will toll on and keep close by thy side; Let temptfngs come-let me be fiercely tried Let time, who teaches to forget, 'ssail Yet I. unswerving. steadfaSt, will abide, And naught shall move me or shall make ms Thy blessing must be mine.
 Turning smoothly, turning swiftly, must thou wheel. spin for me.
 Never resting never hastiHg, moving on unswerv ingly:
 Spin for what desire now. spin for me a per Cleaning ike the feecy glory of bright day, al most dead,
 will make a perfect thread.
 Turning swiftly, turning smoothly, rolls the world Spinning out the speeding moments, intervening
 night and day;
 Father Time stands tireless hard by, urging the AS he winds the passing seasons on his ever empty Time doth spin perfect thread.
 Turning swiftly turning smoothly, just tireless Spinning that which may boast of, spinning that Seeing then, the world will wonder, wondering
 then, the world will say,
 Lo! A glo ious art in spinning, 10! the marvel of
 the day
 The oration was an able effort much above the average class oration. It was by Frank lin Robinson Shipnnan, of Hartford, son of Judge Nathaniel Shipman. His subject was ''The course of empire" The orator spoke of the share the migration of races has had in accelerating human progress. Beginning with the tribesmen from the uplands of Asia who pushed out into the western hills, he showed the results of the process of emigra tion. The results of that nomadism are seen in the government of this country, in it's new race formation and in our free insti tutions. The orator noticed the decline of city States and the growth of nation States He said:
 "To-morrows world is the world of conti- nent States. Such shall be the American Union. Russia, too, and at the gates of Her at she presses for a larger portion still Great Britain, Canada, Australia, with the subject empire of India, will they not make another? France, Germany and so on must keep abreast or they will shrink into insig nifcance. Now look at Africa. Is it not alive with this effort2 The British soldier has followed the British capitalist into Egypt, and both are going to stay. The flag of Europeans in South Africa. Sierra Leone, Dahomy, Ashantee-land on the west coast are England's. France has Al geria and means to have the whole of the Barbary States. Portugal claims much of the east coast centering from Zanzibar. The Germans are active on the other side On the Congo coast they have now sixty trading stations and are rapidly pushing up the river.
 "The universal law is also particular. Light comes from agitation is 8 text for zach individual to live by. I do not mean that, to win self-development, it is necessary to emigrate to Africa to travel through Europe once year, but it is just as neces- sary as ever to bring one's self to contact and exercise with outside facts and feelings. Practically men have been slow to recog- nize this great truth to themselves, still more tardy to apply it. "Ba, ba, thou art bar barian" is apt to be used still toward him whose speech differs from ours in any way with indifference, if not in scorn. It should not be so with the college graduate. The knowledge of a worldwide intellectual activ- ;ty, and the keen joy that comes from con sciousness of ones enlarged, enriched life by sharing in that-these are his ard should not be resigned. Yet there are influences working strongly on class at it's graduation which incline us to underrate the life of broad number of us to day is not 'how shall we Io?' but what shall we do?' Moreover, after a year abounding in new points of view and the development of new thoughts, a reaction comes, and the enthusiasm is all one way to plunge into the chosen business, to bend all ones energies to mastering that, and that only. By this view, the value of college study lies merely in enabling the mind to pursue it's purpose more fexibly. Not so. lou should not find the stars by which to sail your course only in the market price of or in the theory and prac .ice of the law. Nor should we be misled by that view of society which makes specialism nnder the division of labor the open se- same' to the millennium. Practical life is specializing enough without putting it in the strait jacket of that theory. The Sheffield making one pattern of spoon year after year, till he can hardly imagine the of any other, will doubtless pro- luce with ease and rapidity perfect spoon. But he is not fit ideal of the college gradu- ate Let us keep hold of the truth of MT. Munger's words at the late Psi Upsilon con- vention: Education should not only be discipline but an inspiration"
 Mir. Shipman's address to his classmates was very graceful effort.
 At the conclusion of the oration the class arose and sang the parting ode written by Herbert L. Doggett. The ode is as follows:
 PARTING ODE.
 By Herbert L. Doggett, Kansas City, Mo.
 Fled are the years, like stories
 Told in magic tone,
 Past are the joys and gories
 We so long have known our own;
 Set is our sun in sorrow
 Vainly our hearts may strive,
 Hoping against the morrow,
 Ne'er to sing Eighty y-fve-Farewen."
 Chorus
 Now we must part forever,
 Time breaks the mystic spell
 Hark to the words that sever
 Eighty-flve and Yale, farewell
 Farewell, historic places.
 Ye ems and storied walls,
 Where, on old Times last traces,
 Every ling ring echo falls.
 We leave the scenes of beauty,
 Scenes we have loved so well,
 Led by stern Life-duty-
 An, 'tis to Yale farewelI-FareweIl.
 Chorus
 Farewell, o loyal brothers,
 Parting to meet no more,
 And may you bear to others
 The true friendship learn'd of yore;
 Driven seas of trouble,
 This let US keep alive,
 And though the winds redouble,
 Cheer Yale and Eighty -fye-FareYel
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS.
 President Porter announced the following awards of fellowships, scholarships and