| Show during the V isit of the dellit at chapel dilill IN C D daring iring an ingeri interval al in these exercises professor jolin john T wheat appeared on the platform and introduced student elisha E wright of tennessee to president buchan an ds as the one who ni ho had won v on the prize offered for the most meritorious english ca composition t ions adding that the prize would be doubly valued allied if i presented by himself the president consented and said I 1 confess lam I 1 am taken by surprise at this incident of this evening t ening but I 1 am happy to be the honored medium in the presentation of tins this token to the young gentleman Us ile la is distinguished for most meritorious composition and that is the great mer merit it amo g literary gentlemen the man w how writes rites clear 1 ly must think clearly and kill i ill by practice come coine to speak dearly clearly there th ere is great merit in in short sentences the author who ho uses log org sentences is always laboring with difficult ablay one distinct idea alea distinctly set forth ins his more P potency ency than a book full of 0 those in which everything everything very thing under the sun is is jum bied together as is commonly the case a mong among wit our modern writers the ancient style was i he best style ie and that was the style of han mn and webster I 1 wish you 5 ou sir great bonor and great prosperity in whatever pursuit pursuit in life you ou may engage I 1 have been een delighted with this examination I 1 leaie h ave never heard more genuine sense humor arld and i wit it than in the address delivered by the gentleman who spoke to louthis you this afternoon dr If hooper and who was formerly a protessor professor here and w m ith regard to the more sober portions of f it I 1 hope they have hae sunk deep into the minds of every student in this college the grea great t curse of our country anich has involved so many in in crime is drunkenness it is more dreadful than the pestilence e s lence than the yellow fever than the P I 1 lague a e than all the calamities that visit man mail in it we bring on ourselves a greater calamity than heaven has brought afon upon us in any form or shape of misery 1 wish with ith all my heartso he artto repeat what nhat has been bet beit said what w hat that speaker said and to ask ot of you vou all to take care of that fatal vice ace ibach degrades man to the level of the brute and and brings him ill aito disgrace in the eyes ees of th ahr whole hole world applause y a I 1 I 1 atel on the ath dinst says the washington star the Mr rogers M E the pastor pastor of af ryland chapel united in the holy I 1 bonds of hedick edl ck st sr antonio buchignani I 1 and rd airs margaret L eaton the announcement 1 no of the marriage of 0 this lady I 1 adl w 11 create quite a stir in the world of fashion the country over 01 er for no other in the c has been better known since the accession of mr jackson to the presidency to distinguished sojourners here and their families i i she will be recollected by those aho vho m ho f frequented r washington i agton during 11 the seasons i in n the c course 0 urse of the presidency of general jackson as the brilliant w m ife of his secretary of war gen john 11 II eaton to whom F she b e then the widow of the late slate purser tim b burlake er ake was united it if we remember correctly in 1829 or 1830 in in whose behalf the old man inan of iron will villa separated from his first cabinet on the occasion of social difficulties in their families the happy bridegroom room is is an accomplished italian professor of the terpsichorean art as ardent and brilliant as his countrymen usually are at lna his age perhaps twenty two yet hardly more than his bride under the genial in influence bence of some sixty summers suns ill in this delightful climate NEW YORK june 14 the has recovered the claim of oe from the estate estal e ot of jardner ardner the forger of mexican claims and the money has been paid over oter |
