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CAPT. ROBERT PATTON LISLE, U. S. N.

Kindest of hosts, different is your gracious presence from the descrip—
tion of one of your profession in the march to Moscow :—

“An Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name.”

We have known you and followed your many wanderings with
interest, and no one has ever associated any but the pleasantest
remembrances with you. In your boyhood you were one of those

" inflamed with the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave
men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.”

At. the head of the list of your department of the country’s service,
it is with the hope which approaches confident anticipation that we
hail thee, not Thane of Glamis, nor of Cawdor, but Paymaster—General
of the United States Navy that is to be ere two full moons be gone.

It is with great pleasure that we present you the accompanying
group of the intellectual parts of your classmates. It must and ought
to be a profound satisfaction to you that there is not one in the assem—
blage, whether represented by picture or name, whether living or dead,
who has not (or had not while life lasted) a sincere admiration for your
high character and a warm regard for your kind and friendly nature.
All of us will say of you,

“ Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere.”

CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, A. M., LL. D.

Captain Lisle has invited here to-day CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON,
by whom his classmates ask to be addressed:—

Because from, and even before, the epoch when through his eX-
ceptional capacity and industry a business of great proportions had
reached the calm harbor-waters of a rock—bound trust, he threw a rare
potential and kinetic energy into the lists in favor of our Alma Mater,
which he has kept employed to her advantage up to the present time;
/ Because he has not hesitated to risk his life on the trunk lines lead-
ing north, east, south, and west from here, and in various parts of the
country; to recklessly brave unassimilable if not actually toxic repasts,
to which his accustomed ginger ale is no antidote, in order that the
U. P. Societies of Kalamazoo and Coyoteville might live and flourish;
and those indigenous to their respective soils might still continue to
come and blow out the dormitory gas;

Because he has successfully corralled several Presidents of the
United States, the prince of Shakespearean commentators, and even
his own uncle, into lending to our Alma Mater on the day she shares
with George Washington, the dignity and weight both of the Republic
of the United States and of that of letters.

And yet—~and yet-—even had he done naught of this, still were
our assemblage no reunion without him; for is he not our First Honor

and our last President?

. . “Deep on his front engraven,
Deliberation sat and public care;
And princely counsel in his face yet shone.”

Therefore do I in the name of our host present him to you as first
speaker, that he may exhibit to you his mastery of encouraging statistics.

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REV. ROBERT RITCHIE, A. lVL, LL. B.
We ask to be addressed by

“One in whom. persuasion and belief
Had ripened mto faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition."

Conservatism and constancy are two virtues which our classmate
illustrates. Many lustra has he remained at the same post, carrying
consolation and hope to the afflicted, and bearing with the Falls of the
Schuylkill if not with those of Dr. Rainsford. ,Yet with the bard he
will say :—

“Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;

Though they may gang a kennin’ wrang,
To step aside is human.”

It will be superfluous to add that reference is here made to the
REV. ROBERT RITCHIE—

“A happy soul, that all the way
To Heaven hath a. summer’s day.”

HON. JOHN CADWALADER, ESQ., A. M.

We ask to address us to—night JOHN CADWALADER, who by that force
implied in the thought “noblesse oblige,” has during his varied career
reflected high honor on his birthplace and his University.

Making ice cream in the abode of the wicked, or freezing mercury
in a white-hot crucible, are tasks which may be compared to that of a
disciple of Jefferson winning admiration as a Federal officer in Phila—
delphia; especially in carrying out rigorously the regulations of a high
protective tariff. But acting on the apothegm of General Grant, that
the best way to abolish a law, if bad, is to strictly enforce it, our class—
mate never relaxed its rigor, and justified the author of Don Juan in
the observation that

“* * * wrinkles, the d—d Democrats won’t flatter.”

But a more recent triumph has come to him through his fine oration
in Richmond, Va., last October, from which the reconstructed South-
erners learned that a vast majority of the Northern people, especially
of those who bore arms for their country during the Civil War, regard
the rebels of that time as misguided, not criminal; and Robert E. Lee as
the George Washington of an honestly mistaken sense of duty, and a
very fortunately lost cause.

“Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

Of the four companions which Knowledge advised Everyman to call
to his aid, viz., Strength, Beauty, Five Wittes, and Discrecyon, it is but
fair to say that in the case of Cadwalader there is no indication that
age has diminished the first, while it seems to have enhanced in him
the other three, and in particular the last, Discrecyon. His picture
before you, his Virginia speech, and his declination of the nomination
for the mayoralty of Philadelphia, are the proofs.

Over and above his tenets and his accomplishments, he is one who
fulfills Chesterfield’s requisition that

“Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world."

REV. JESSE Y. BURK, A. M.

We long to hear from the gifted orator chosen to represent us when
our University at the end of our first triennium asked us what account
we had to give of ourselves. We call to

“The solitary monk who shook the world
From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump
Thundered its challenge from his dauntless lips
In peals of truth.”

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Among us all, this member of the
“ Monastic brotherhood, on rock aerial”

(viz., third floor, 400 Chestnut Street), has performed the most varied
of duties—master, pastor, marshal Of gowned hosts, author, orator,
and counsellor. Yea—

“A clerke ther was of Oxenforde also * * *
Nowher so besy a man as he ther n’ as
And yet he semed besier than he was. * * *
His studie was but litel on the Bible.”

Let him give us a glimpse of the machinery of Higher Education,
and, not revealing secrets of State, yet explain to us the motives that
actuate the great Senate Of the Illuminati at the supernal altitude of

its temple.

”We envy them these monks Of old;
The books they read, the beads they told.”

DR. BEVERLEY ROBINSON, A. M., M. D.

His classmates of 1862 invite DR. BEVERLEY ROBINSON to address
them :—

Because he and another surviving member of the Class have won
fame, each in one of the three professions anciently recognized as
“learned,” away from the city of his birth and college education, which
fame is reflected upon his college and classmates;

, Because wherever he has been in the last fifty years he has en—
deared himself to the persons with whom he has been thrown;

Because, besides his enviable position in his profession, he has con—
stantly added to

“That best portion Of a good man’s life:
His little nameless, unremembered acts
0f kindness and of love.”

From his early boyhood days, when he scorned to lie to save a
cipher for the recitation he had cut; through his campaign as a soldier
in Company D, Gray Reserves, when he resented, to the threat of blood,
the imputation that he had absorbed two tin cups full Of coffee when
the ration was one; in the gay Latin Quarter, where he did as the Paris—
ians do; in the stately clubs and salons Of Gotham—everywhere he has
made friends and won admiration for his character.

NO patient of his will say

. _ ”But when ill indeed,
Dismissmg the doctor don’t always succeed,”

because no patient of Robinson’s would ever think Of doing such a
thing.

But what his patients and those not his patients will unite in saying
of him is:—

“To those who know thee not, no words can paint;
And those who know thee, know all words are faint.”

REV. JOHN SPARHAWK JONES, A. NL, D. D.

We ask a few words from our honored classmate, the REV. DR.

JOHN SPARHAWK JONES.

“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”

But whatever it turn out, we are sure to hear words Of wisdom
eloquently and feelingly expressed.

We will not consent to yield our comrade to any sect or congrega—
tion. He belongs to us and to our community, and though as a body
we only hear his pleasant voice and View his emphatic facial expression
but once a year, we claim him as partly our own.

:0 perfect is his oratory, so pleasing his diction, that his auditors
say e

“So charming left his voice, that (they) awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.”

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GEORGE HAMILTON COLKET, A. M., LLB.

St. Matthew tells us that
“Wide is the gate and broad is the way which leadeth to destruction."

His allusion was, however, not to railways, and we have amongst
us one who is the chief of a system both of broad and narrow railways,
all grouped under the general designation of Broad Top and nestled in
the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, from whom we should be glad
to hear. Like all great railway presidents, he is more fond of horses
than of locomotives, and this preference deprived us of the pleasure of
his company this night a year ago in New York.

From his accident, then, we rejoice to find him entirely recovered,
and note the truth that

“Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom he most likes.”

MR. GEORGE BRINTON PHILLIPS.

One of Dickens’ characters has said,
” I take a glass of grog for a fillip.”

In this case the fillip may be considered drunk; but we are fortunate
to count among us a PHILLIPS sober—very sober—and we ask him to
join in our symposium and add to our cheer.

A practiCal chemist in the mart, and a theoretical physicist in the
lecture room, he joins both accomplishments in his mastery of mysti-
fication and prestidigitation.

“The force of Nature could no further go;
To make the third she joined the former two.”

He can remove the very dinner we have eaten and produce it from
his sleeve—either as it was, or as it 15. Indeed, so great is his art that
it was said:—

“Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove
The pangs of guilty power and hapless love.”

Thus spoke of him with prophetic vision the great poet-lexicographer.
But we who know him in the flesh can be even more complimentary,

and say:—
“* * * Friend of truth; of soul sincere;
In action faithful, and in honor clear;
Who broke no promise, served no private end:
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.”

MR. JOSEPH URY CRAWFORD.

We live in an age of tremendous achievements. Let but a Colossus
of Rhodes rear itself in the remotest quarter of the earth, and straight—
way there is a demand and a supply for a similar or greater Colossus in
every large city of our toiling, growing, money-mad country. The
greatest of all our space-annihilating corporations has undertaken
stupendous tasks of engineering which but a few years ago would have
been classed with the feats of magicians, and part of this work is directed
and executed by one of our quondam mates:—

“A stature undepressed in size;
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise
1n open victory o’er the weight
Of (sixty) years to loftier height.”

In fact, he is our Colossus of railroads, and we would like to hear
from CAPTAIN CRAWFORD of the part taken by the Class of ’62 in scuttling
away hills, boring highways under the world’s waterways, swinging on

airy threads over deep abysses the throbbing engines and the human
freight they draw—in fact, surging and merging.

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MR. LEONIDAS HUSTON NICE.

There are many bonds between Philadelphia and Baltimore: political,
sentimental, and physical.

Even before Independence the ties between the two cities were
close and intimate. Geologically the same gne’iss furnishes foundation
to both of them, and until last year the universally beloved Wilmer
gave a special interest to his Class in the Monumental City.

The gallant and unhappy King of Lacedaemonia, who at the Pass
of Thermopylae stood his ground with his three hundred Spartans and
seven hundred Thespians, in spite of the Theban quitters; when warned
by Xerxes that if he dared to fight, the sun would be hidden by Persian
javelins and arrows, replied, “In umbra igitm' pugnabimus.” He is dust;
but we have another Leonidas who I trust may long defend a pass be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia, and never fail to use it on such
occasions as this. In return, I can assure him that the Dinner Committee

will always have

* * * “Taken advice
Of the Council of Nice,
And rejected the Diet of Worms * * * ”

Furthermore, if any of our comrades should be overcome by Lisle’s
hospitality to-night, it is understood that

“* * * He that stands upon a slippery place
Makes Nice of no vile hold to stay him up.”

MR. THOMAS FIRTH JONES.

It may not have been remarked before that our Class has not only
supplied the present age With some, and posterity with many, of its
leaders, but even antiquity was obliged to borrow from us some of its
most renowned gems. What would the modern novel be if there had
been no Fielding; and what is Fielding without “TOM JONES”? We ask
this brother in whom past, present, and future meet to let us hear from
him.

“On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed its Signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth.

Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to .do, the soul to dare.”

Welsh in ancestry, he is yet an inhabitant of a Germantown; sturdily
conservative in the great human questions, his most intimate associate
is our typical reformer; in short, a catholic Protestant, a capital laborer,
and a laborious capitalist.

MR. FRANK BURNS.

On the forty-first year after our graduation we see with us to-night,
for the first time since that event, one of our number. We might resent
his neglect, but it would be a good-natured resentment. We say to
him 2——

“A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with our love, with our resentment glows.”

He can speak for himself and tell us why our previous festivals
have been Without him. It may be that his explanation is

“As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns
As the rapt seraph that adores—and Burns.”

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