The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-10
AT CHI APE i HILL.
Commencement Exercises at the Uni.
VCrSlty.
JUDGE VAN WYCK'S ADDRESS
Largest Crowd in Attendance Since
the Re-Opening of the University.

CHAPEL I'LL, N. ", June =
Commencement at Chapel Hill What
a host of feelings thronged the minds
of Alumni and old students of the
University when hurrying carriages
brought them within the sound of the
College bell.
Tuesday night the honorary and
active members met in the halls Of
the Literary Societies to speak of old
days at the Hill and to increase the
attachment of the boys to the Societies
and Society work The medals given
by the Societies for proficiency in De
bate, Defamation and Composition
were awarded at this meeting.
From the Phi Society, Mr.. G. L.
Patrick received the Debater's medal,
Mr.. Fred d. Thomas the Declaimers
and Mr.. II. w. Lewis the Essayist's.
From the Di Society Mr.. w. a.
Self gained the Debater's medal, Mr..
j. l.. Crowell the Declaimer and Mr..
0. G. Odell the Essayist's.
After the meeting of the Societies a
Hop was given in the Gymnasium
Hall apd many participated.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
ushered iii Commencement exercises,
proper From o'clock in the morn
ing constant stream of people poured
into Chapel Hill Trains were crowd
ed and carriages brought hundreds
from the adjoining counties. At II
o'clock began the address by
HON. AUGUSTUS VAN WICK,
Judge Of the City Court of Brooklyn
and a graduate of our University. He
was born in South Carolina, raised in
Georgia, educated in North Carolina,
married Virginia lady and for the
past ten or twelve years has been
resident of Brooklyn, n. Y.
In appearance he is of medium
build, finely formed and wears a full,
closely cropped, Grant-like beard.
He has a pair of the brightest eyes
[ ever saw and resembles to some de-
gree both Prof. Henry E. Shepherd
and Lieutenant Governor Stedman.
For his subject he took a theme
which can best name as Education
al Development His treatment
was full, rounded and complete. He
made beautiful reference to the Con
federate dead and spoke with much
feeling of his former days under his
Alma Mater. Of Hon David L.
Swain he said s'His death touched ev-
cry heart, throughout the country,
that beat in sympathy with Science
and Learning" Among his many ad-
vices to the class, he said, "Graduat-
ion is only milestone on the highway
Of developement'' and urged that
earnest effort towards self-culture
should go ON after graduation with
the same faithfulness as in college
life.
He seemed strongly opposed to Nat
ional aid in Education. He belives
the Blair Bill would injure the manly
independence of Southern men and be
only an entering wedge, whereby to
introduce National supervision of
State affairs.
Infdelity and Anarchism are to be
destroyed only by the proper educat-
ion of the masses and when our
schools and colleges are we'll attended
they will be 'like purifying rivulets,
making an ocean of intelligence and
integrity"
[ can not say that Judge Van
Wyck is brilliant orator. His is
rather the methodical and regular
style of thought that proceeds in a
logical way to solve the practical
questions of to-day, and while he lacks
the glitter of the luxuriant Com
mencement orator, his way of putting
things convinces as well as pleases.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
at 5 o'clock, vast crowd gathered in
the grand Memorial Hall to hear the
annual sermon, by Rev. Charles Hall,
d. D., of Brooklyn. He chose as his
text; 'Why stand ye here all the day
idle"
DIR. Hall is an earnest speaker. I
would like to give an outline of his
sermon, for The SENTINEL's readers,
but lack of space forbids In appear
ance, DIR. Hall is about fifty years
old, white-haired and with a noble
face. There is something Websterian
about his face that at once attracts
every ones attention. His sermon is
spoken of with many compliments by
all his hearers.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
three representatives from each socie-
ty were competitors for the medal of
fered for the best oration. The fol-
lowing were the speakers:
Dialectic Society.-Claudius Dockery, Man
gum, N. C.-Subject-The South.
Philanthropic Society,". C. johnson,
Johnson's Mill, N. N.C.-Subject-T The Fourth
Estate.
Dialectic Soeiety.-W. E. Edmonson, Nor