. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. ere the exercises wereperformed. There, the president, trustees, and other dignitaries ofthe college, were waiting his slow approach,, amidst learn-ing, beauty, and fashion, collected from far and hands and kerchiefs of the ladies, as well as thevoices of men, including hundreds of enthusiastic stu-dents, were in constant exercise. The rafters of the oldedifice rang and re-echoed with applause. In Nassau Hall,
. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. ere the exercises wereperformed. There, the president, trustees, and other dignitaries ofthe college, were waiting his slow approach,, amidst learn-ing, beauty, and fashion, collected from far and hands and kerchiefs of the ladies, as well as thevoices of men, including hundreds of enthusiastic stu-dents, were in constant exercise. The rafters of the oldedifice rang and re-echoed with applause. In Nassau Hall, it is customary to select the mostgraceful and elegant speaker* to deliver the valedictoryaddress. On this day, the orator of the valedictory was General Mercer fell on the battle-ground of Princeton. His fulllength portrait is, or was, hung iu the chapel of Nassau Hall, revivingcontinually in the ;pinds of its students, memories of the glorious Revo-lution. Pre^rdent Witherspoon left these academic shades of Prinoetopto join the revolutionary congress, and there he put his name to th&iimmortal instrument which shall endure while the history of nations ftir THE GOOD CITIZEN IN PEACE ANI WAR 145 Bloomfield MUvaine, Esq.^ His theme was The pub-he duties of a good citizen in peace and war—a subjectwell adapted to the then situation of the country, and notimproper at any time. Towards the close of his oration,the speaker turned to Scott, and in the most graceful andextemporaneous oratory, made him the personification oftlie civic and heroic virtues. Nothing could liave beefimore happily adapted to the person and the subject. Thesympathies of the audience burst forth in applause, aliketo the young and disabled general who was personified,and to the eloquent and enthusiastic student whose readygenius had p^id so jiist and beautiful a tribute. After a brief consultation by the president and trusteesof the college, General Scott was complimented with thehonorary degre
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