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DAILY, DV*J*C
COMMENCEMENT,
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MQRGANjTOWN, W. VA.
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SALUTATORY.
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The success of the year's work at the
University and the importance that has
attached to the commencement exercises in
late years, prompt us to undertake the is
sue of a “Daily” on a somewhat more
extended scale than any that have been1
published heretofore. We undertake it,
neither because we expect to add to our
honoiyfjor from the hope of making it a
financial benefit, but that we may do
something to add to the interest of the
great gala time of the College. The
success of the Daily is ensured. It is
quite beyond our expectations. We shall
record^ as faithfully as we may be able
the occurences of the week. We give
synopsis <|>f several of the lectures deliv
ered during the year; an Alumni record,
telling where each member of the Alumni
is situated and how he is employed. We
also publish an article on each depart
ment of the University ; the speech of
each member of the graduating class, and
ether matter of interest. Our friends will
pardon pS if there are a few mistakes in
the spelling, as it requires experience -to
bead proof and make corrections, so as to
present a perfect sheet. We hive request
ed correspondence from; the principal
Schools of the* State, and earnestly hope
that we may,be able to do something to
obliterate the ill-feeling which ha*} long
existed between some pf our best schools.
We shall be satisfied with the results, if
We feel that we have done something to
Create an additional interest in favor of
tjfje University,
We greet our friends this morning with
the first issue of the Daily.
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Commencement at the sem
inary.
The Closing exercises of the Morgan
f.own Female Seminary, Friday evening,
June 4th 1880. Tne following was the
programme of the evening, choruswav
rtn-dered by the clew.
A selection from “5!axe”!5 yas recited
by Mips (Annie Stephensjui, entitled
Pyranius and ThisbeJ” l^jiss Florence
M. Ankney, rendered an “instrumental
Solo” in an effective manner,! “Coeur df
Leon, at the Srave of 'his father” was 0
recitation given by Miss Nettie Nye.
Edna Hough rendered that stirring
piece, related as*an incident in the career
Of Gen. Stonewall Jackson “Barbara
Fritchie,” andwas heartily applauded,
The Instrumental duet, byjMisses Hat
fie| and May Lyon, “Gallop Brilliante"
.vas well received. •
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Miss Mary Casselberry delivered “Hig^
Tide” in a very excellent manner. Her
Articulation was quite distinct, and her
gesticulation was good, the sclectiom is a
nf>ost difficult one, containing passages of
the most impftssionate eloquence.
An Instrumental solo by $uSi* 14
Moore, “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
presented a variety from slow, moderate
to the most rapid fingering.
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‘Keeping the Bridge” from Macaulay,
was recited by Miss Ankney. .Her man
ner of reciting it forcible and attractive.
The recitation was in the main, well ren
dered, the pathos thrown into the prayed
of the stoical Roman Soldier was scarcely
in keeping with nature; of the chaaracter.
Miss Etta Boyer■iread an essay from
which we make selections.
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DRIFTING AND| STEERING.
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Decision is one most essential requisites
to success in life. Show me the man who
is continually changing from one pursuit
to onother, never at rest, never satisfied,
and I will show you one whose life is a
failure, He surpassed by the butterfly,
for when flatting from flower to flower it
is merely fulfilling the design of its C*t
atiom He needs a lesson from the bee.
It wastes not its time trying to produce
the blossoms that supply it with honey,
but busily labors all day long collecting
the sweet liquid from the flowers that
God has made. | / ^ i
Some men are entirely ruled by the
opinions of of other*. When the taste of
the multitude .varies we look for these
men and find they are drifting jvith the
tide only waiting for another wave of
popular opinion to sweep them along in
a different course.
As we stand upon the ocean shot*,
and look far out o’er the waters we mark
a noble ship moving touenf ut S«C '■
nearer and nearer sire comes, and soon
But why this irr«gal»r
slowness of motion ?
Borne along by the CUr
What a contrast she presents to
Sh.e is also
vve can hail her,
course, Why this
She is drifting,
rent.
the bark a league away.
eoming towards us, but watch her upright
bearing, hers steady progress1. How
gracefully she sits on the waves. W#
are now led to consider what causes the
difference between the two, and thf
difficulty is splved wherf we see die pilots
at work keeping her in the proper course
She is being steered while theTirst had
no pilot. So it is on life’s restless oceen
We are all moving/upon the waves, and
wej are to decide whether we will let our
barks drift, 01 will vie have a! strong hand
at the helm, ■
■This is a world-of action, and, we must.
act with the’' rest.
Let us not think- We
can drift through life by the force imper
ted to the waters by the oar of gome
other boatman, or by the prevailing ear
ffcnt of opinion. ■ j * *
In; the dark prison cell is one still in
the prime of youth, but worn and “hag
gard, his wild blood shot eyes shooting
forth* malignant g\enee*. What bfoagh
him to this wretched Condition ? V|h§t
crushed his manly, noble, impul|eh
What^crazed ' him, and caused hirnlt*
Shriek and flee from imaginary- demdns £
Whak brought him so low as evert afr
Stain his Mhd' with the blood of hisfettov
Creature? Listening to the siren don
of temtation, until he weakly yielded
and qUaffed the delicious poison. Per
Perhaps he Urged to taste the first
glass by the bland and srnilling landlord
of a model hotel. Perhaps, and I speaK
it with shame, he vra* induced to partake
of the sparkling beverage by the smile
*nd soft pleadings jof a lady friend. But
the mischief is done. At first' he Only
Indulges occasionly, but the habit grows
On him.. The loving and passionate! on
treaties of his mother are not heeded
He is gradually, but surely drifting down
downto evbrlasting ruin and misery. |!
But drifting or steering as we may thd
time comes when out barks must leave
the shetlered shore,* and pass out into th*
boundless ocean. j Those who floated
Side by side, may sail in strange sdaS
and be seperated by adverse gales. JMafl
Oach hold on its way to the safe harbor
At the close of Miss Boyer’s essay
Mrs. Moore, advanced and presented jher
the Diploma of the school with this ‘very
elegant and sensible presenta.iori address
Tp some, this may seem a matter
to provoke a smile. , Our school girl com
ing forward to receive the testimonial t&
which she is entitled^ Yet looking; ijntq
the |Jnner life, ther^ is more in this sirniple^
act than appears dhfthe surface. It speak*
of patience and perseverance of a bnjve.
cheerful spirit making the very Best
the opportunities within her reach, whilt
she sees superior advantages 9pen
others, who in some instances fail to
preciate them.
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Surely she is entitled to the commenda
tion given to those who are faithful in a
few things, and as she has nobly toi)ed
through her school life, recently under dr
cumstances of peculiar difficulty which
would have discouraged a less resolute
spirit. YVe may predict her success in build
ing up a* complete and rounded character.
Shall she fail ? Time prooves all thijhgs
and as the Greeks said grandly in their
tragic plays ‘ ‘Let no one be called happy
till his death.” So we say, let no one till
his death be called unhappy. Measure riot
the worth until the day is out and the labor
done, then bring your gauges. If the day's
work is scant, Why ? Call it scant; affect
no compromise, and in that she has n< "
striven, deal with her nobly, at least, llnd
honor heir with truth, if not with praise,.
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After the instrumental duet by
Susie Moore and Eva Hayes, Prof. jj|ur
intoit as chairman of the committee’ to
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decide upqn the merit of tire recitations, i
reported that the decision had been given
in favor of Miss Mary Casselberry. The
audience was then dismissed by Rev.
Dickey.
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Tuesday, June 1st., 2v. w., AnnualEx
aminations beguit
Wednestay, June 2d, 9 A. m., Exami
nations continued.
' Thursday, June 3d, 9 a. m., Examina
tions continued.
-- 4th, 9 a. u., Examina
Sunday, June 6th, 3 p. 11., Baccalaur
eate Sermon.
i Monday, June 7th, 9 a. m., Examina
tions continued, S’ P. m., Regent’s Prize
Contest;
Tuesday, June 8th, 9 A. M., Examina
ftons continued, 7:30 p. m., Literary en
tertainment of Columbian Literary Socie
ty V 4, % {■ , v „
v Wednesday, June 9th, 9 a. m\ Ex*
filiations Completed, 8 P. m., Address
before the Literary Societies.
Thursday, June 10th, 9 a. m., Com
tftencement, 3 p. m., Artillery Practice
*nd Military Parade, 8 p- Mv Public con
ttliof Parthenon and Willey Literary So
tieties.
The contest for the Regents ‘‘Prize Es
5iy” was decided on Tuesday by thecom
roiittee, Dr. Jos. McLane, Dr. Dan. Rog:
* rs and Prof. B. S. Morgan, Mr. Charley
fe. Grafton of the Senior class was thf
^pccessful contestant; The other coq
^slants were B. L. Keeqari ; J. N* Marsh ;
I. Ns Ogden ; . W. M. Hyland ; L. M.
Joyers. j' - i -
The Regent's Prize contest occur.c
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Monday evening. There fiWill be sevei
for the declamation.
j Literary Entertainment.—The Colum
dan Literary Society will give its enter
iainmenf on Tuesday evening- Kramer
ViU bo present, and has promised to give
'«$ betteij music than ever heretofore, aH
are invited. The following is the pro
ramme.
Music.
Veston
' Music
Prayer,
• Declamation.
“Cust-cr’s Last Charge,” D. U. O’Brien
vs,
“Banner of Union.” R. E. Kerr,
So'amp Run. j
Music; Essay %
“What we Need,’J A, L. Cox, Fair
t*vont ' - ‘ ’ j
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“Rcmmiscences of College Life.”
George H. Haymond, Morgantown,
ptusic. Or'ation .
“A few Moments with the Past ” W.
V. Houston, Morgantown. %
vs.
“Cuba's Claims.” F. T. Haymond,
Morgantown.
Music. V Debate.
Question: “Did the Career of Na
poleon Bonaparte producemore good
ban evil Results ?”
Affirmative. H. N. Ogden, Fairmont
vs.
Negative. A. A. .Waters, Laurel
Point
Music.
Our Methodist friends who intend; sub
Scribing for a religious paper, should re
member their own home paper, the Pitts
burgh Christian Advocate, edited by Rev.
Alfred Wheeler, D. D.t and published at
131 Smithfield street. With suchran ex
cellent and ably edited religious paper at
home, thfere is no excuse for sending
abroad for higher priced papers of which
the editorials and general reading matter
are no-; better, and which cannot supply
the local church news h. which the Meth
odists of this section are chiefly interested.
It is the intention of the editor and pub
lishers to ihake the volume of the Advo
cate, for 1880, more valuable than any
that have pfeejceded it. Every Methodist
will needL it.rjn order to keep posted on j
the great questions of church policy that =
come up for discussion and decision. The j
Advocate is a large forty-eight column
paper, and 19 published at the low rate of {
£2.00 per year, and all ministers of the
M. E. Church are agents and receive
subscriptions. f
J. L. Reese, of Grafton, arrived yes
terday to work on the Daily.
i Mr. J. H. Hawthorne, one of Preston’s
legal fraternity and an Alumnus of the
University, is present for duty.
H. Allen Ison, brother of Maj. W. O.
Ison, is here for the purpose of atten
ding Commencement.
Our young friend and school-mate H.
Yokum, of Beverly, is town to attend
Commencement exercises
We are glad to note the arrival of Hon
Dan. B. Luca#, of Charlestown, W. Va.
Mr. Lucas is a candidate for Congress
from this District,
Hon. D. D. Johnson, President of the
Board of Regents, and a Itading politi
cian of the State, is puttidg up at the
Wallace House,
C^l. John A. Robinsonl of Patterson's
Creek, W. Va., a Regent of the Univer
sity and one of Mineral’s foremost busi
ness men, is in town.
Hon. H. S. Walker is the guest of
Prof.;Lawrence. Mr. ^Walker is the eighth
Regent that is now in town, including Dr.
ii. W. Brock, pf this place.
H. C. Si&ms, Esq., Regent of the 7th
District, is putting up at the Commercial.
Mr. jSimms is-the youngest and ma0f
handsome man of the tWelve Regents.
We also notice at the Wallace House,
Dr. B- W. Allen, of Wheeling. Dr. A.
>S the Regent of the First District, and
Was not at Commencement last year.
ThO$. J. Farnsworth, Ejsq.,, one of Up
shur’s best, citizens and a Regent of the
University, arrived in town yesterday
evening and will remain during Com
mencement weak. Mr. Farnsworth’s first1
work was to subscribe for the Daily.
The Centennial Jubilee Singers, under
The management of T. J. Gatewood,have
given the citizens of MorgantpWn a
Couple of treats in the way of choice
SOrtfS' Their programmes were entirely
different Thursday and Friday nights, and
they propose to give us a new pro
gramme for this evening. Their enter
tainments have given entire satisfaction
ro all classes, and we hope they mav be
|s wed patronized in their crowning efforts
this evening 0$ they have been in those
already given.
Purposes l^ojvever wise, without plans
CanncfT be relied on for good results. Ran
dom1. or spasmodic efforts, like aimless
Shot*, are usually no better than wasted
time and strength The. purposes of
Shrewd men in the business of life are
llwajs followed with carefully-formed
pla(t& Whether the object is learning,
honor, or wealth, the ways and means are
|11 laid out according to the best methods.
The mariner has his chart, the architect
plans, and the sculptor his model—
and all as a means and condition df suc
cess.
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The Musical Million and Fireside
friend, is a charming tittle magazine. We
hive read it now anu then for several
years, and have always been pleased with
♦he tasteful literary matter it contains/
The music is published in the “patent
note” system, and is, just the thing to be
popular. I have used the music in the
School room and know that even children
Soon read the music in this manner; with
facility and zest. The magazine is pub
lished by Ruebush, Kieffer & Co., Day
ton, Rockingham Co. Va., at fifty cents
per year,
copies.
Address them for specimen
We haVe received the first number of
the Normal, published in the interests of
the Normal School at Farimont. by R. S.
Miller and U. S. Fleming. These gen
tlemen will publish a Daily during the
commencement week there, June 21st to
the 25th.. The Normal School has had
for success in the past year.
With no appropriation, it has yet bad a
large attendance, and we doubt not the
boys will add much to the interest of
commencement week with their papfr,
W« welcome the Normal and hope that it
majr do much to arouse an interest in fa
vor of the school, and to create an educa
tional good feeling wherever it gaff
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THE SCIENTIFIC RECOGNITION
OF GOD. ,
Selections from Prof. Tyndall’s recent
article hi the Fortnightly Review:
If asked to deduce from the physical
inter action of the brain—molecules the
least of the phenomena of sensation of
thought—we must acknowledge our help
lessness.
The mechanical philosopher, as such,
will ncvej place a state of consciousness
£n<Pa group of molecules in the relation
of mover and moved. In passing from
the bne to the other we meet a blank,
which the logic of deduction is unable to
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Physical consideration do not lead to
the’final explanation of all that we feet
and know. / ?
We meet a problem which transcends
any conceivable expansion of the powers
which we now possess.
We may think over the subject again
and again, but it eludes all intellectual
presentation. ,
Having thus exhausted ptvyH)|g, and
reached its very ruin, a mighty mystery
still looms beyond us. We have, in fact,
tpade no step toward its solution. We
try to soar in a vacuum when we ciideavbr
to pass by logical deduction from the ope
to the other. Religious feeling is as much
a variety as any other part of human con
sciousness, and against it on its subjec
tive side, the waves of science beat in
vain. I could see that his (Carlyle's) con
tentions at bottom always was that the
human soul has claims and yearnings
which physical science cannot satisfy. It r .
seems high time to him (Virchow) to en
ter an energetic protest igainst the at- »
tempts that are made to proclaim the
problem of research^ as actual facts, and
the opinions of scientist* as established
SCMHC« We ought not, Virchow urges,
to represent our conjecture as a certainty,
nor our hypothesis as a doctrine; that is
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The .burden of my writing, in this con
nection is as much a recognition of the
tffttVues of science as an assertion of its
Strength’ If asked whether science has
$a|ved, or is likely in our day to solve,
the problem of the universe, I must shake
my head in doubt. Behind and above'
and around us the real mystery of the
universe lies unsolved, and, as fHr as we
%re concerned, is incapable of solution. ,
The problem of connection •( bedy and
nul is as insoluble in its modern form as
it was in the prc-scientific agts. There
ought to be a clear distinction made be*
| t^een science in the state of hypothesis
anil science in the state of fact. And.
inasmuch as it is still in it£ hypothetical
Stage, the barr or exclusion ought to fall
upon the theory of evolution. After
speaking of the theory of evolution ap
plied tq the primative condition of matter,
as belonging to the dim twilight of con
jecture, the certainty of experimental in
quiry is here shut out. .... f
Those whp hold the doctrine of evoiu
"ficih are by no means ignorant of the un- ;
certainty of their data, ami they only
yie|d to a provisional assent;
In reply to your question, they will
frankly admit their inability to point to
any satisfactory experimental proof that
life can be developed, save from demon
strable antecedent lifjft i
I share Virchows opinion that the
theory of evolution in its complete form
involves the assumption t that, at some
period or other of the earth’s history,
there occurred what would now be called
spontaneous generation. I agree with
him that the proofs of it are still wanting,
4 I hold with Virchow that the failures
have been lamentable; that the doctrine
is utterly discredited.
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MARSTILLER—On June 4th, 1880.
at 2 o'clock P. M., Mr. B. H. Mar stiller, '
aged 67 years and 5 months.
Mr. Marstiller had been complaining
of shortness of breath for a your or two
twit showed no unusual symptons up to
the time of his death. >He had been
working in his garden in the forenoon.
After he ate his dinner, he sat down to
rest; his wife noticed that something was
wrong and ask him what was the matter
but he could avTspeak, and dM in a few
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