JOHN LYON, Virginia. WILLIAM C. DOUB, N. C. WILLIAM M. CABELL, Virginia. HOLLAND N. MCTYEIRE, Ala. ARCHIBALD CLARK, Virginia. THOMAS H. RODGERS, Virginia. JAMES G. FANNING, Georgia. JOHN HOWARD, Virginia. RICHARD IRBY, Virginia. RICHARD S. PARHAM, Virginia. WILLIE M. PERSON, N. C. BENJAMIN F. SIMMONS, N. C. J. L. GILLESPIE, Virginia. A. M. THOMAS B. GORDON, Georgia. GEORGE B. JONES, Virginia. Rev. EDWARD WADSWORTH, Va. FRANCIS A. CONNOR, S. C. Rev. THOS. H. JONES, Virginia. WILLIAM H. BASS, Virginia. HENRY F. JONES, N. C. Rev. Henry B. Cowles having declined to accept the office of Agent, to which he had been previously elected, was again elected. Warren DuPre resigned the tutorship, and Holland N. McTyeire was elected to fill the place. It would be an omission if, in describing and relating other matters, the description of an old-time Annual Commencement should be left out. These occasions were notable events in the first two decades of the College. In those days preparations were begun four weeks before the Commencement day by releasing the Seniors from regular daily exercises so as to give them time to prepare their orations, which each one had to write and commit to memory and rehearse before the Professor of English, who was authorized to make corrections in matter, style, and also in manner of delivery. The Commencement generally was held the third Wednesday and Thursday of June. The Sunday previous a sermon was preached by some eminent minister appropriate to the occasion. Selecting one occasion that the writer witnessed as a specimen, that of 1842, the following description is faithful: The visitors, in the main, began to fill up the boarding-houses around the College and the hotels of Boydton on Tuesday. The Board of Trustees assembled on Tuesday at an early hour, holding their meeting, strictly private, during the day. Friends of the graduates from Virginia and the Carolinas were largely in attendance on Wednesday in time for the opening of the exercises in the chapel. On this occasion the far-famed evangelist, Rev. John Newland Maffett, had been selected to deliver the annual oration before the literary societies. He arrived on Tuesday by private carriage, having travelled over seventy miles. The Alumni Society orator had also arrived.