Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-26
COLLEGE JOTTINGS.

Wesleyan's Commencemens-G
 Harrison On A Liberal Education-
 Honors And Prizes At Various
 Places Won By Students - Morgan
 School.
 At Wesleyan university commencement was printed yesterday, Governor Harrison said in his eloquent address,:
 1T am classicst in feeling, and it has occurred to that DC -haps reason is that the young man of impossible age withdraws from the com m9nity, absor5s and makes part Of himself those ambition, self-sacrice love Of what is beautiful, organism and vices of Greece and Rome, dc per wade their literature and make them noM meaus more than hss broadened out, or thipned out rather, as to in she of day consists largely of classical and mathematical studies. Knowledge of a man should be a better lawyer because he has studied Latin and Greek than one who has not do lawyers who are not college graduates. yet in learning, professional ability and moral tone col lege men excel.
 At the graduating exercises st the Morgan school, Clinton, Thursday evening, the Latin salutatory was by George J. Spencer, of Say brook; essay on Helen Hunt Jackson, the gifted poet recently deceased, by Marion w. Clark, Saybrook; essay on ''Corneille ct Moliere" by Mary E. Coe, Madison; oration,
  James Adams, Chicago: essay, 'The Last Fashion," by Cal rie L. Grinnell, Clinton; es- say, 'The Lens in Science" by Evelina E. Kelsey, Clinton; oration, ''The Labor Agita- tion," David c. Dibble, Clinton; essay, ''The Rise and Development of the Essay" Lot F. Redfeld, Clinton; essay, ''Shakes- peare and Gethe," Nancy S. Stannard, Westbrook; essay, " Historic Results of Glory and Duty" and the valedictory, Lin nie E. Carter, Clinton. The prize rhetoricals in the afternoon speaking and recitations were by George R. Brush, Saybrook; Miss Nellie B. Peck, Clinton; Charles R. Gallup, Waterford; Miss Annie R. Kelsey, Clinton; Charles s. Ingham, Saybrook; Miss Florence E. Dibble, Robert Bellman, Killingworth; Miss Lottie 0. Merrills, Clinton; Charles P. Redfeld, Clinton; Marion w. Clark, Say brook; William G. Gaylord. Clinton; Miss Pauline s. Fox, Clinton. The judges were Smith, Brooklyn, N Y.; H. W. Southworth, Springfield; Rev. L. s. Crawford Topsfeld, Mass.
 Miss Alice Jordan, the lady student at the Yale Law school, received the pleasing news yesterday that she had successfully passed her examination for admittance to practice law at the bar of this State As Yale awards no diplomas to women she will re- ceiye no diploma from the college. The senior class will be sworn in as attorneys next Wednesday.
 Mir. Edward L. Munson of the graduating class of Hopkins Grammar school, son of Judge L. E. Munson of this city, received two of the highest prizes, one for best Greek translation and for the best English essay.
 The thesis which MT. C. H. Levermore, of this city, presented for his doctors degree at the recent commencement of the Johns Hop kins university is soon to be published in book form. It is entitled "The Republic of New Haven; History of Municipal Evolu- tion.'' It tells the story of the New Haven community from it's inception to the present time, bringing into especial prominence the formation and growth of the various depart ments of the town and city governments. Eight chapters are devoted to the continuous story of New Haven's development, while the ninth and last contains 8 critical review and analysis of the present municipal admin istration.
 George P. Wardell, son of Presiding Elder Wardell, won the Pierce prize for excellence in mathematics at the Wesleyan university annual award of prizes.
 Miss McMahon, sister of Bishop McMahon of this diocese, was in Waterbury yesterday, the guest of Mrs. John O'Neil. Mrs. Don nelly, of New York, was at Mrs. John Ky ans Both were there to attend the closing exercises at the Convent de Notre Dame.
 The financial reports of Wesleyan univer- sity show that the college buildings and land are worth 400, ,O00; Scientific apparatus, i- brary, museum, etc., $1O9,63 and stocks, mortgages, etc., to the college, S653, ,561. 50. The receipts for the year were over S52, ,O00, the expenditures, which were nearly as much, included $33, 300 for salaries of the faculty.
 Among the honors awarded to the students of Mount St. Msry's college at Emmettsburg, Md, Wednesday, was gold medal to Ed mund J. Ryan, soE of Lieutenant Cornelius Ryan of Hartford. Young Mir. Ryan is 8 graduate of the Hartford High school of the class of '85.
 The highest honors of the Convent of No Ire Dame, Waterbury, the gold medal and diploma, were conferred Thursday evening oh the following graduates: The Misses liar riet Barkentin, New Haven; Lucy Conran, Naugatuck; Sarah Hartley, Branford; Stella Mattimore, Albany; Eleanor Balch. Hart ford; Lizzie Shanley and Annie Dougherty of Waterbury. Miss Shanley received the highest honor of her class, the gold medal for general proficiency, awarded by the late Bishop Hendricken. Toward the close a most touching address was delivered by Miss Barkentin in memoriam of the Rt. Rev. T. F. Hendricken, 'swho though dead still lives. " This address formed prominent part of the exercises. He it was who brought the Notre Dame sisters to Waterbury and as such he lives in the hearts of his children.