## Exercises.

### INTRODUCTORY PRAYER.

**ORATION**—The True Spirit of the Reformer.

ALFRED P. JOHNSON, BEDFORD.

**ORATION**—The Sure Triumph of Justice.

GEO. HENRY WELLS, WAKEFIELD, R. I.

**POEM**—Knowledge, the Power of our Republic.

W. W. DOW, PORTSMOUTH, N. H.

**PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.**

The Study of Nature.

O. C. MARSH, LOCKPORT, N. Y.

Original Hymn.

BY MRS. H. B. STOWE.

Ye who look forth to-day,
On the great race of life,
Remember all those noble souls,
Before you in the strife.

Think from these studious walls
How many good and true,
Have gone to bless and save mankind,
And left their place to you.

Your fathers reared these walls,
With hope and prayer and tears,
That here their sons might learn the truths
Which blessed their toilsome years.

They toiled that ye might rest;
They bore the heavy care,
That from these walls a race should spring,
Their principles to bear.

Then trust your fathers's God;
Fulfil your mother's prayers;
And leave a spotless name to them
Who come in after years.

Live for the right and pure,
The noble and the true,
And leave such names to other days
As they have left to you.

BENEDICTION.

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ORDER OF EXERCISES

AT
EXHIBITION,

Phillips Academy

ANDOVER, MASS.

JULY 20, 1856.

MUSIC.

1. LATIN SALUTATORY.

JOSEPH LEONARD DANIELS, Medway.

2. ENGLISH ORATION.—True Spirit of an American Citizen.

CHARLES LITTLE, West Boscawen, N. II.

3. ENGLISH ORATION.—Christian Heroism.

SAMUEL DRAKE BOWKER, Biddeford, Me.

4. ENGLISH ORATION.—Obligations of Genius.

JAMES WOODS McLANE, Brooklyn, N. Y.

5. ENGLISH ORATION.—Athens and Sparta.

WILLIAM MATTICKS ROGERS, Dorchester.

MUSIC.

6. LATIN ORATION.—Cinninnatus Romam rediens.

EDWARD HOOKER, Fairhaven, Vt.

7. ENGLISH ORATION.—Mythology of Ancient Greece.

WILLIAM EDWARDS PARK, Andover.

8. ENGLISH ORATION.—Independence in Opinion and Action

FREDERICK HENRY COLTON, Longmeadow.