Varuna. Saturday noon, June 20, the following officers were chosen: Friday noon, June 26, the following officers were elected: Appointments for Commencement.---1863. Leander T. Chamberlain, Valedictory, West Brookfield, Mass. FIRST ORATIONS. Henry F. Dimock, South Coventry. Orlando F. Bump, Baltimore, Md. George S. Hamlin, Sharon. William G. Sumner, Hartford. Egbert B. Bingham, Scotland. Jacob Berry, Clarence, N. Y. ORATIONS. Erastus New, Philmont, N. Y. Horace W. Fowler, Utica, N. Y. Samuel Hollingsworth, Zanesville, O. Joseph F. Gaylord, Norfolk. Cyrus W. Francis, Newington. Horace Bumstead, Boston, Mass. Thomas H. Fuller, Scotland. Edwin H. Cooper, Henderson, Ill. Edward B. Glasgow, Warminster, Pa. Robert G. S. McNeille, Philadelphia, Pa. William C. Reed, Hampden, Me. Thomas A. Emerson, South Reading, Mass. Wilbur Ives, New Haven. DISSERTATIONS. Henry S. Pratt, Meriden. Josiah Jewett, Buffalo, N. Y. George W. Banks, Greenfield Hill. {George W. Biddle, Philadelphia, Pa. Charles C. Blatchley, New Haven. FIRST DISPUTES. Joseph F. Kernochan, New York City. Frederick J. Barnard, Worcester, Mass. {Henry H. Ingersoll, Oberlin, Ohio. Lewis A. Stimson, Paterson, N. J. {Samuel A. York, North Stonington. SECOND DISPUTES. Morton W. Easton, Hartford. John H. Peck, Norwich. John B. Doolittle, Terryville. John H. Leek, Althea Grove, Pa. Joel T. Wildman, Guilford. Albert S. Garland, Gloucester, Mass. Thomas Young, Franklinville, (L. I.) N. Y. Samuel Throckmorton, San Francisco, Cal. THIRD DISPUTES. Alexander H. Wright, Boston, Mass. Joseph P. Cook, Honolulu, Hawaiian Isles. Henry E. Cooley, Newton, Mass. George L. Curran, Utica, N. Y. Edward L. Keyes, New York City. Henry W. Scott, Southbury. Frederick F. Thomas, Waverly, N. Y. George W. Allen, Worcester, Mass. Henry B. Waterman, Belvidere, Ill. FIRST COLLOQUY. Cornelius W. Bull, New Haven. Henry C. DeForest, Madison, Wisconsin. Edwin Macomber, Oakham, Mass. Daniel M. Brumagim, New Haven. John H. Bishop, Smithsbury, Md. SECOND COLLOQUY. Jonathan Edwards, Troy, N. Y. {William C. Whitney, Cambridge, Mass. Prizes. At the close of Chapel Exercises, Presentation Day, June 24th, the following prizes were announced by the President: For Excellence of Eng. Composition, Class of '65.— Prize extraordinary for Excellence in Latin Prose Composition. The regular Promenade Concert, under the auspices of the Wooden Spoon Committee of '64, occurred Monday evening, June 22d. It was a perfect success-a compound of four needful elements; select programme, select attendance, select ventilation, and select length of exercises. The first, a little further on, speaks its own merit. Of course the 22d N. Y. Reg. Band, under the direction of Helmsmüller, rendered the pieces with rare and exquisite effect. Again, every student and townsman will swear to the existence of the second of these essentials, as far as himself and lady were concerned, and therefore taking their united testimony, the proof is irrefutably established. The third and fourth find their support in the facts, that no one is reported to have caught cold by coming from an oppressive into a more open atmosphere, and that the ladies and gentlemen left the hall at the close of the exercises, with undisguised reluctance. We cannot regard a large number, in the case of a promenade concert, as contributing to its success, in the view of those who attend, although it undoubtedly is in the estimation of those under whose management it takes place. Crowded setts are no felicity to the dancers themselves, yet undoubtedly they bring pecuniary advantage. At this concert, however, both parties, managers and participants, were very admirably suited. Every one drew from this initiatory pleasure, a delightful inference respecting the other exercises of the week, which were yet to occur, and they were not disappointed, as we shall see. Twenty-five hundred, if not more, crowded Music Hall on the evening of Tuesday, June 23d, to witness this ceremony of the Nine in behalf of the One Hundred. Now, for the first time, were seats reserved for each member of the Junior Class. Previously, the cochleaureati, in the exercise of a lofty and awe-inspiring prerogative, had reserved them for themselves alone. But now, over five hundred seats were reserved for friends of the Junior and other classes. It is reported that a few of these, held the respected forms of our late fellow-students. Our friend, however, probably mistakes, since we feel quite sure that '63 was there to nearly a man. Most of them, too, were quail-ing, undoubtedly because a good position favors such demonstrations. With a philanthropy which has always marked celebrated men, in their youth, one of your Editors resigned No. 1 W, and went up to bacheloric No 2, B, from which point of view, the exercises, if we may trust him, were close at hand, while distance lent enchantment to Helmsmüller's strains. The opening load was the product of an imagination both deep and singular. The "rosy" splendor of the scene only heightened the pleasure with which we recognized in the disclosure, the form of a respected classmate. What a grand thing would it be, if all things rose in roses? The Latin Salutatory of our bob-bing friend was delivered, as might have been expected, with a most finished and graceful elocutionary power, and was very decidedly the success of the evening among single parts. The first colloquy, entitled "A new Per-version of the Alcestis of Euripides," was personal and piquant. Well-conceived, it was rendered with a slightly disproportionate degree of action. Alcestis was a little too nervous. Admetus hardly enough. Mein Heer Kules was at home in his German character. "No. 13" very accurately represented the dress and demeanor of our effective police. This colloquy was characterized by an excellence, which rarely marks such productions. It was of just such a length as to leave the audience in that state of dissatisfaction at not receiving more, which is always a most desirable end. "The American Indian" spoke for himself, amply sustaining, however, that peculiar mark of the Savage, taciturnity. The second colloquy, "Freshman Prize Debate," did not tire the audience, and pleased the students by its naturalness. To describe the Philosophical Oration, in its own simple style, it will suffice to say, that it was a grandiloquent electrophorous asseveration. It was finely declaimed. The last colloquy, "The Initiation," was perfectly startling, in its novelty, to all but the students, and was not, we think, as several remarked, unfitted for public representation. The Presentation speech was quite relative in matter, and in some passages very touching. The Reception speech was brief and moving, as it could not but be. Both were very matter-of-fact. No one called for the historic development of the ceremony, and there was no invasion of the Metaphysical into the realm of the Social. True feeling will not parade itself in words. It did not upon this occasion. The songs were the productions of no meagre or stunted poetic genius, and but for the absence from town of several principal singers, during the period of rehearsal, would have been well sung. The Class of '64, notwithstanding, confesses to an undisciplined musical talent. The Exhibition, as a whole, was superior to any which has transpired during our past three years "in this little town," and very probably may bear away the palm from all its predecessors. Presentation Day. At half past ten, Wednesday, June 23d, the Senior Class were marshalled into Chapel by Senior Tutor Hutchison, to listen to a poem from their poet, Mr. George S. C. Southworth, and an oration from their orator, Mr. Wm. C. Whitney. The church was well filled with an appreciative audience; among them the venerable form of one who, to a large extent, has given Yale her glory. As with uplifted eye he gazed in admiration upon the speakers, we traced more than a mere professorial pride and affection, and could not but wish that the scene should have a marble life. The poem was a rare result. Eloquent and impassioned, its distinctive heads would have seemed too abruptly connected, had not the poet, by a meausured pause, signified the transition. 1 The oration was marked by close, logical thought, and was a very clear and thorough exposition of the normal relation and subsequent encroachment of the three separate elements of Republican government. Two untoward circumstances considerably marred its effect-lack of rhetorical ornament and indifferent delivery. Perhaps they, relatively, are of minor importance. With most audiences, however, they are of major interest. After the oration and poem, the parting ode of the Class was sung. It was composed by Mr. J. S. Fisk. |