CLASS OF 1879. SALEM, OREGON, Thursday, June 12, 1879. EXERCISES Willamette University,MUSIC—ORCHESTRA. PRAYER. Overture— Grand March, Tannahauser. FESTIVAL HYMN. If— Sarah Jones. The Web of Thought Viola Johns. MUSIC—ORCHESTRA. Genius is Patience Hugh Harrison. Hidden Treasures Retta Yocom. VOCAL SOLO. Social Science John W. McKinney. MUSIC—ORCHESTRA. Silent Influences Carrie E. Nichols. PIANO SOLO. BENEDICTION. Evening. MUSIC—ORCHESTRA. Overture Crispino e Comare. HYMN-ANGEL OF PEACE. Address HON. J. H. MITCHELL. PIANO SOLO. Drift-wood—Master’s Oration.. .Jennie E. Dawne. MUSIC—ORCHESTRA. CONFERRING DEGREES. Class-Song Graduating Class. BENEDICTION.“As the gentle summer evening, Marshaling her sable train, Leads the shadows from the valley— Clouding sunny hill and plain,— So the night, now o’er us closing, Breaks the barriers of our fears ; Shrouding in the past our pleasures— Ushering in long earnest years, We have passed through fields of richness, Gathering balm-buds by the way, Homeward still we all are pressing, And yet wither, who can say ? Gladly sad and sadly joyful On life’s hither shore we stand, Waiting for some wind to waft us Onward to an unknown land. Waking on our trembling heart-strings— Echoes to their mournful song— Thought troops sighing, demand flying Memory’s haunted visions through. Classmates : May a glad fruition Of choice hopes repay us well For our labor here, hereafter, Where no parting is, Farewell.”