The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09

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The poem of the day was read by DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. The following are character
istic passages of Dr. Holiness poem:
There are patriarchs looking vaguely round
For classmates faces, hardly known if found
See the cold brow that rules the busy mart;
Close at its side the pallid son of art
Whose purchased skill with borrowed meaning clothes,
In stolen hues, the Sinking face he loathes
Here is the patient scholar; in his looks
You read the titles of his learned books;
What classic lore those spidery crows feet speak.
What problems figure on that wrinkled cheek,
For never Thought but left its stiffened trace,
Its fossil footprint. the plastic face
As the swift record of rain-drop stands,
Fixed On the tablet OF the hardening SANDS
On every face as on the written page,
Each year renews the autograph OF ,age
Ono trait alone may wasting wears DEFY
The fire still lingering in the poets eye;
While Hope the siren. sings her sweetest strs;r-
Non 0nnis Moriar is its proud refrain.
"a Mighty Fortress is Our Godr was then
surg By the chorus. A number of honorary
degrees were then conferred by President
Eliot, the exercises closing with the benediction
by the Rev. Mr.. Peabody. The members of
the alumni association and invited guests then
adjourned to Memorial Hall, where the banquet
was spread.
land visited President and Mrs. Eliot at their
home. The members OF the various associa-
tions, with their invited guests. took up the line
of march to Memorial Hall, which was soon
reached. The invited guests were the first to
enter. and were saluted With a song by the an
niversary chorus. President Cleveland entered
the hall and walked to his place by the side of
Judge Devens. No hall in New England prob
ably ever held such array of distinguished
men. The Presidents table was surrounded
with the faces Of men whose names house
hold words all over America and many OF them
such throughout the civilized world. President
Cleveland sat with Secretary Bayard on his
right and Governor Robinson on his left. At
the Presidents table were seated the following
distinguished guests:
Secretary of War Endicott Secretary Of the
Navy Whitney, Secretary OF tho Interior La
mar Hon. Robert G. Winthrop, United States
Senator Hoar, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. Prof. Ru-
dolfo Laucani of the University of Rome. Hon.
James Russell Lowell, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes Mr.. Francis Parkman, DR.. John Shaw
Billings, Prof. James b. Thayer, Alexander
Agassiz. Geo VIM. Curtis. Hon. Charles Devens
President Charles Welcot, President Timothy
Dwight of Yale. DIR. Charles TAYLOR of the L nj
versity of Cambridge, England, PresidentJames
y. Angel, Rev. Mandell Creighton of Emmanuel
EG onaTob. Cambridge Ens PIaqfa, Right
the University of Edinburg DR.. Basil
Lucean Gilderseeve. President Roswell d.
Hitchcock, President Ezekiel Gilman of Brown
University. President James McCosh OF the
college of New Jersey, DIR. Mark Hopkins, Judge
Waibrdge A. Field, Chief justice Brigham.
Justice Cody Dr. Frederick n Hedge, Prof
Edward A. PARK. John Quincy Adams. Theo-
dore Thomas, President julius Ii. Seeleye of
Amherst College President George Williamson
Smith of Trinity College, President George ID. B.
Pepper of Colby University, Hon. Oliver Ames,
Hon. A. E. Pi:lsbnry. Hon. John w. Dickinson,
Rev d Normande, President ElmersH Capen
of Tufts College, aud Dr. q. H. Gray.
lal. ~ So -
230, it 2.50 o'clock before Judge Devens, tho
president of the day. was enabled TO call the
company to order When ne finally did SO there
were 1900 persons seated at the long tables and
then alfhad not been accommodated. Rev. Alex
Ander Mckenzie. of the First Church. Cam bridge,
Invoked the divine blessing, and tho banquet be-
gan. While the dinner was in progress, Mrs.
Grover Cleveland attended by Mrs. Endicott
and the wife Of President Eliot of Harvard, en-
Eered one OF thg galleries, with mum Der of other
lnyrted guests, and was enthusiastically received
By those present. At the close of the banquet
the alumni sang ''St. Martins" in chorus, after
which President Devens arose and delivered the
address of introduction. President Devens gave
as the first sentiment, "Our Alma Mater" call
ing upon President Eliot to respond. In tie
course of his address, Mr. Eliot said 'At this
high festival, in which tender recollections and
hopeful anticpations, thanksgiving for the past
and aspirations for the future are mnging,
We all think first of beloved country
Old at our birth new as the springing hours;
Shrine OF our weakness fortress of our powers,
Consoler kinder, peerless mid her peers,
And we salute him who here honorably repre-.
sents her. Here Chief Marshal Lee proposed
three cheers for the President. which were
heartily given.
Next we give thanks and praises to NTassa-
chusetts. Hers was the far-seeing and far-reach-
Jag act we celebrate; hers was the eenerative
deed-done in loneliness aud poverty, bat in
faith. To day fifty millions of people, in wealth,
aud nd
we greet the, representatives OF other institu-
tons Of learning who have come to rejoice with
u.s. and we welcome the men distinguished in
the public service and the professions. in letters
science or art. whose favoring presence adds
lustre to our assembly"
President Eliot closed amid applause and
Governor Robinson responded to the sentiSnent,
"The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" Gov.
Robinson's address was received with great
favor At its close President Devens, in a
fellcitous speech, in which he euogized the
qualities of the Nations chief, introduced Presi-
dent Cleveland, who spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen find myself
to day in company to which l am unused, and
when see the alumni Of the Oldest college in
the land surrounding, in their right of sonship,
the maternal board at which am but an invited
guest, the reflection that for me there exists no
alma mater gives rise to feeling of regret
which is kindly tempered only by the cordalty
II your welcome and your reassurng kindness
of the fact is recalled that only twelve of my
twenty-one predecessors in Office had the ad-
vantage of a collegiate or university education.
aproof is presented of the democratic sense of
our people rather than an argument against the
supreme value of the best and most liberal edu-
cation in high public positions. There certainly
can be no sufficient reason for any spSce or dis
tance between the walks of the most classical
education and the way that leads to political
place Any cisinclination on the part of the
most learned and cultured of our cti-
zens to mingle in public affairs, and conse-
quent Abandonment of political activity to
those who have but little regard for student and
scholar in politics. are not favorable conditions
under government such as ours and if they
have existed to damaging extent. very recent
events appear to indicate that the education and
conservatism of the land are TO be hereafter
more plainly heard in the expression of the pop
ular will Surely the splendid destiny which
awaits a patriotic effort in behalf of our country
will be sooner reached, if the best of our think
ers and edueated men shall deem it solemn