Friday, January 20, 2012

1881 Commencement Program of Dartmouth College at Hanover, New Hamphire


Order of Exercises at Commencement, Dartmouth College, June 30, 1881

Paper, approximately 19" x 12", folded once to make four panels.


Order of Exercises
Prayer
Music
1.  Salutatory Oration in Latin, by Oscar Mickel of Albany, New York
2.  English Oration.  Classical Authors, the Masters of Modern Thinkers, by William Bradford Greeley of Concord, New Hampshire
3.  Philosophical Oration.  Unchangeable Law, the Basis of Science, by Owen Copp of Methuen, Massachusetts
4.  Dissertation.  The Career of Lord Beaconsfield, by Charles Sumner Ward of St. Johnsbury, Vermont
5.  Political Disputation.  Do Republican Institutions tend to produce Brilliant rather than Able Men?  Aff. Edward Wallace Pelton of Covington, Kentucky.  Neg. Edward Henry Trowbridge of Portland, Maine
6.  English Oration.  Creative and Critical Periods in English Literature.  by *Charles Henry Hall of Manchester, New Hampshire
Music
7.  English Oration.  Liberalism, the Spirit of the Age.  By Ira Wright Holt of Milford, New Hampshire
8.  Philosophical Oration.  Philology, the Interpreter of History, by Charles Herbert Howe of Ipswich, Massachusetts
9.  Dissertation.  The Growth of Parliamentary Government, by Frank Ransome Lane of Manchester, New Hampshire

*Excused


10.  English Oration.  "Every Institution the Lengthened Shadow of some Great Man", by Lewis Roger Wentworth of Bridgewater, Massachusetts
11.  English Oration.  Relation of Official Station to Partisan Service, by Edward Nathan Pearson of Fisherville, New Hampshire
Music
12.  English Oration.  Othello and Iago, by Charles Sedam Wells of Albany, New York
13.  Economical Disputation.  Has the Time come for the United States to adopt Free Trade.  Aff. Orange Henry Adams of Hanover, New Hampshire.  Neg. Oscar Hitchcock French of Hartford, Vermont
14.  Dissertation.  The Model King, by Charles Henry Beckett of Williamstown, Vermont
15.  English Oration with Valedictory Addresses.  Modern Heroism, by Myron Winslow Adams of Swanzey, New Hampshire
Degrees Conferred
Prayer
Music

Graduating Class
Myron Winslow Adams of Swanzey, New Hampshire
Orange Henry Adams of Hanover, New Hampshire
George Thompson Aldrich of Walpole, New Hampshire
William Henry Angleton of Marlow, New Hampshire
Gardner Pichard Balch of Groveland, Massachusetts
Charles Henry Beckett of Williamstown, Vermont
Arthur Sullivan Brown of Washington, D.C.
Charles Arthur Castle of Burlington, Vermont
Hurlburt Erastus Cole of Oberlin, Ohio
Owen Copp of Methuen, Massachusetts


Nathan Dow Cram of Chicago, Illinois
Charles Burdick Cunningham of Warrensburgh, New York
Charles Sumner Dennett of Biddeford, Maine
Charles Gipson Dewey of Hanover, New Hampshire
Warren William Foster of Riverhead, Long Island
Oscar Hitchcock French of Hartford, Vermont
George Washington Graham of Manchester, New Hampshire
William Bradford Greeley of Concord, New Hampshire
Charles Henry Hall of Manchester, New Hampshire
Arthur Sargent Hazelton of Plymouth, New Hampshire
Francis Hobart Herrick of Tilton, New Hampshire
Ira Wright Holt of Milford, New Hampshire
Charles Hebert Howe of Ipswich, Massachusetts
Clarence Eugene Kimball of Salem, Massachusetts
Elwood Davis Kimball of Nashua, New Hampshire
Ephraim Gardner Kimball of Nashua, New Hampshire
Charles Francis King of Warrensburgh, New York
Frank Ransome Lane of Manchester, New Hampshire
Francis W. Lane, Ashburnham, Massachusetts
John Willard Lanehart of Bellville, Ohio
Byron Charles Leavitt of Saco, Maine
Harmon John Locke of Corinth, Vermont
Joseph Franklin Merriam of Derry, New Hampshire
Oscar Mickel of Albany, New York
William Moore of Brooklyn, New York
James Edwin Odlin of Andover, Massachusetts
George Willis Patterson of Hanover, New Hampshire
Edward Nathan Pearson of Fisherville, New Hampshire
Edward Wallace Felton of Covington, New York
John French Philbrick of Concord, New Hampshire
George Henry Roberts of Onawa, Iowa
George Elwyn Rose of Elyria, Ohio
Louis John Rundlett of Manchester, New Hampshire
William Smith, Jr. of Cavendish, Vermont
Frank Brigham Spaulding of West Medford, Massachusetts
Edward Henry Trowbridge of Portland, Maine
Charles Sumner Ward of St. Johnsbury, Vermont
Charles Sedam Wells of Albany, New York
Lewis Roger Wentworth of Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Scientific Department
Fred Charles Baldwin of Manchester, New Hampshire
George Frank Brooks of Boston, Massachusetts
James White Hale of Newburyport, Massachusetts
Charles Willoughby Healey of Stratham, New Hampshire
George Hunt Hutchinson of Norwich, Vermont
Edward Lincoln Kimball of Manchester, New Hampshire
Edward Hooper Kitfield of Lynn, Massachusetts
Wesley Walter Phelps of Middlebury, Vermont
Napoleon Bonaparte Porter of London, Ohio
William Pliny Snow of Roxbury, Vermont
George Melvin Stafford of Helena, Montana Territory
George Calie Stoddard of Westminster, Vermont

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