New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-29
A BUSY WEEK, AT Alfred UNIVERSITY.


BUSY WEEK. AT A FIRED UNIVERSITY.
CLOSE OF A PROSPEROUS YEAR-DR. pANlLI.
LEWIS REELECTED PRESIDENT Or
TIL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Alfred Centre, y. y, june 25.-The exercises OF an.
p;.crsary week at Alfred University began on sunday
night with President Aliens baccalaureate sermon and
ended Yesterday with the comforting Of degree, am
the exercises of the graduating class Tie institution
closes It's fifty. second year with the brightest pro,
pects Monday and Tuesday we're devoted I" .nl''
exercises by the lyceums, which are four IL nu"n"''
also 10 the annual meeting Of trustees ana sio'Kh'a
er, Tho Alumni Association he'd ls se,- Hn' o.
"wednesday. and was addressed by Judge Dexter. o.
Eln,,rs on The Relation Of the state to lndU>F'a
Activities" and by the Rev. Dr Thomas Ar1n!ra1e OF
Now. York on Tho - '.'!lu Fducsuon' pr. Daniel
ltHrS OF Sew.Yurk, 90 ~ elected president OF u"
Association although Headed hts otter engagements
A. reason for posi-. IN declining tn srvc, and 1t re
our,d ,Uo ahle Ia o., d a host Of other ficndS {"
convince him t!at be SHuot lie spared from the helm
lust yet Secretary Dewey, 0; the bcard Of Rcrrui'
Of tho University talked on his fayoTc theme. " lie
Library In tie afternoon flags were presented to
the University and to the Alfred Union school l7
B. Frank MaXon Post, No aga. g. A. i.
The Alumni dinner came just after heavy thunder
shower but the tables were well filled Our OhI''r
suyn was responded TO By President Allen The Gas,
of 's9' by Miss Agnes BabcOch, and The Faculty
by Mrs. Ida r. Kenyon. secretary Dewey, Dr.. Arln
ta,~ Asscmblynan Acker, of hDrT"ls"Ir, Sllas e.
BurdicS, one Of the local celebrities "CoEGr H. ia"
cock, of Pisnteld, y. j.. aud T. b. hcLTIhI az :"
Syracuse also responded To tOast>. george H. Bla'n
man, Of Wclsvile whose empty sleeve gave mute el
but an old cunshot wound III tue lungs troubling
iim and ne was not in condition to SPEAK lie has
civA service was represented by Colonel Weston tLnt
9. ws.hnston and Colonel Ghares j. Ghstea OF TIE o
day numbered eight ladies and nino genueaien
CLOSING EXERCISES OF AN ANCIENT SCHOOL
Kingston, y. l., June &c tspecislj-Ihe com
neneement exercises of the Kingston Academy loon
place At the Opera House this evening. II was t't
1l0h anniversary Of this ancient school iho "rSHal
building having been burned by tue British, IN III
The present graduating class numbers wehS-tA'
nineteen young women and seven youhS met INV
valedictor,an was Hester l.. Marsh, the sautatorAH'
Ada IL. Teneyck. May L. Ma,teH L$I tAr 4.hShs"
honor Edward A. Nchicnsn tho classical honor ana
Ada j. Oyerbaugh and Thcodore II. Ectcc. tie pLilo.
sophicsl honors. The other graduate who rraG
essays wcro Julia L. Dihble Eetwecn tho LlNh'' ;
Elizabeth Dewitt, "ThnE, that cost Nothing Ter.
Ina H. Hendricks, The lIadb Of Hope Margaret NJ
slulIgan The Imagination" Mary J.. Murphy Ma
Ter Minds: Carolina Myer,, BIlnd ID lie M'u''
Of Beauty" Josephne !. echrk, 'N".r"7 nom t''
Past Ada wiuue. " a ,erttrS Of Progress oiauo"'
were delivered BY Ir,Iag 4. scott, M'ara Loyce ann
n.Ei.nsn The other gr4.-ay~. We" H4ry J.. Martin
LlzaDeth NJ sui' AZ Dora tc"P,"'"'., "e' 80"
INK Dsyis G!rSr- /. M.AIlseI ecAuy Ic. g scGIih
William Wood lle diplomas "cIr gIo"InI y,
AurneyGenera TA13; hr ne I ,ie.. G%~' 10 H.
Board OF Education by tie class Pre- cohH''
between the juniors and Hlud!e'S I''A ''"' '~' "e
READY FOR HIGHER SCHOOLS AND PLACES.
~ hcu.v, In practical culture said the Eev.
Dr. Il. s. Macarthur in his address yesterday To The
graduating class IN Miss Mary l.. Taie's echoo' NO,
20 In West Twenty .fourth-st. Learn I" VITO am
speak good English, young ladies' but above all ci'o,
learn some ling which may be Of uso TO you IN ne'
have determined that my daughters shan learn
stenography and typewntng, Whatever other "'o'n-
plishments they may acquire"
There were forty three girls in the graduating Glass
The valedictory delivered by Jessie Thomas.
trustee George Livingston presided
Grammar school No. 50, at Frstst. and second
ave-, OF which Henry {. LitchAed is principal, held
5is closing exercises yesterday. The graduating
class numbered twenty seven boys.
An elaborate programme given a. the closing
exercises of Grammar school No 81 OF which Theodore
B.rnser T. Pncps yg.eSiiy Ter awsrdS
10 Margaret Z. Nclperny and Herbert William Nor
man.
PRIZES At THE ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL
The fifteenth annual commencement exercises Of
Ashland High school, OF East Orange, y. j., wero held
in Commonwealth Hall last evening and were largely
Dutson, Mary B. Condlt, Gertrude NJ Colgate, James
A. Van Rosum, Helen Schoch and Josephine n.
Marsh. Miss Marsh read the valedIctOry and Miss
Owen tho sslutatory. The address b tie graduates
was by ths Rsv. Alexander Mann The Alumni medal
for improvement In English composition was awarded
TO Bess,e A. owen; for best mathematical work ~
james A. Van Rossun; editions Of Longtcllow and
Whittier for best years work In Latin to Mary Chur
and Isabelle J. Aitsn, 10th equal; for botanical
coliecuon, aGbsons Happy Hunting Cround.S to
Louise 3, Stevens; for best essay "Rse and Pro
grSss Of CIVILIZATION Grocns History of the English
People, TO Evelyn L Wilder
A JAPANESE IN THE LEAD AT Ann ARDOR.
Ann ArbOr, Mich, June 2s.-Yestersy was com
nencsunent day at the Michigan University. There
ware <se graduates lis Of whom took degrees IN the
literary dep artmeut Yelero Ono japanese took the
leading place Of the class There are eighty medical
graduates and lat Jaw graduates. The remainder
were scs.tArod among the different branches. The
honorary degree OF Doctor Of Laws was conferred
upon Chief Justice Horton OF the supreme Court OF
Kansas: Professor I. W. Mckinslcy, OF the Hastings
College Of Law at San Francisco, and the Rev
b. L. D'ooae, Phi D.. Of Ann ArSor. The Hon }. H.
81 Curry, d. D., IL D., Of Richmond, Va, ex.
Minister to Spain, and now general agent OF the
Pssbody Fund, delivered the annual grafton TO the
graduating class The subject was The Causes OF
the Power and Progress Of the American Nat@on."
His grafton showed . thorough mastery Of tho SUD
9eSt ana was SAID 70 be the finest Of the hnd ever
Sslfverec here. The graduating class heh thc'r