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brief but most interesting period of your life, when you expect, and your 

 friends expect that you will enjoy important facilities for intellectual and 

 moral training. In your father's house, you were habituated to the 

 observance of the Lord's day. You abstained from your ordinary pur- 

 suits, your ordinary studies, your ordinary reading. You went to the 

 house of God ancyiieard his holy word. Quiet reigned in tlic house- 

 hold, and cleanliness and order pervaded every part of it. In entering 

 upon a collegiate life, you become members of another family, and the 

 law of the Sabbath prevails in it. Your father's and mother's lessons are 

 not to be unlearned ; the sacred day is not to become profane ; but it is 

 to return to you with its rest, its subduing influence^ and its purifying 

 power. With this arrangement, you cannot find fault. It commends 

 itself to your head and heart. We will not write more on this subject 

 now, for it will recur again. Our present purpose is merely to shew 

 that the requisition of your college in this respect lias the highest au- 

 thority and the strongest claims, and therefore you cannot with reason 

 object to it. Yours. 



COLLKGE UKCORD. — COMMENCEMENT- WEKK. 



Another era in the history of our town has occurred, one not soon 

 to be forgotten. Commencement-week, with its interesting exercises and 

 stirring incidents, now takes its place among the records of the past. 

 Around its memory will cluster many pleasant thoughts, and with their 

 awakening, come emotions and associations fraught with no ordinary 

 gratification. Anticipations were fully realized in the rich treat aflbrded 

 by the various exercises connected with the institutions in our midst. 

 The attendance of strangers was large, beyc^nd prophecy : it was such 

 as most highly to gratify those who cherish a deep interest in the pros- 

 perity of our Literary and Theological Institutions. Puldic attention 

 seems to be more fully than ever before excited, in behalf of these seats 

 of learning and virtue, and popular enthusiasm is setting in to them, 

 with a fuller and deeper tide • giving to the officers and patrons of the 

 Institutions and to all lovers of intelligence, an earnest of a rich and 

 glorious future. Willi permission of the editor, a citizen would present, 

 in brief detail, the most attractive public incidents of Commencement- 

 week, to those readers of the Journal, who have been precluded the grat- 

 ification of mingling in the exercises of the occasion — scenes we pro- 

 pose to pass in review. 



Jllumni of the Seminary. — The exercises, opened on Tuesday even- 

 ing, with a rich moral and inlelleflual treat, presented on part of the 

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