Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-06-29
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TIE 54th annual commencement OF tie
Collegiate Department OF Columbian Unit
vers1ty took place last evening. In spite nj
the rain, Lincoln Hall IVES well oiled with
OF 16- There was the usual displav of t.Nu-
quets, baskets OF flowers, etc. on the stage.
and one graduate was the happy reel pient al
an a ,S oIna am box OF cigars Struggled in
Among nose present on the platform were
President yelling, Judge Bodies, Rev. DIR.
Suth6ert, Rev. DR.. Wills. Rev. DR.: sunder-
and Professors Huntington, Frlstoe and
Shute.
THE EXERCISES
were opened with prayer by the Kew. DR..
Cuthbert, and were continued as follows:
Latin Salutatory, first honor, William b.
Frisby, District OF Columbia; Ring out the
old, ring in the new" E. III; c. Brown,
chell, District of Columbia; Music; Dreams
at the Dawn OF Philosophy. Frank Fuller,
Illinois; Genius, A. II. w. Clum, New Yor
Trifes, VIM. b. Frisby, District of ,olnm
bia; "More Light" second ..,onor IncIns
NJ. Cuthbert, District 81 Columbia: Music:
Naledictory Address, third honor Frank
Fuller, Illinois.
This programme was executed creditably
throughout, and in soTr,s cases With such Ell
ieet as 10 call forth Ioud and long-contInued
applause.
THE AWARDS OF PRIZES
Hon, John A. Bolles then awarded the
prize medals, accompanying each awarI
with some humorous and felicItous rem rks,
as follows: The Elton prize IN Greek. Wn.
y. Frisby, Of the District of Columbia. The
Staughton prize in Latin, VIM. Il. Fris0y,
OF tbs District OF Columbia. The Young
prize In Metaphysics, Luctus NJ. Cgthbert,
OF the District of Columbia. The RuggIes
prize In Mathematics, VIM. b. Frtsoy, OF the
District of Columbia. The Lindsly prize for
Reading, Lucius NJ. Cutbbert, OF the District
OF Columbia. The 1st Davis prize in elOcu-
ton, Lucius M. Cuthbert, of the District of
columbia. The % Davis prize 10 Elocutlon,
Frank Fuller, of Illinois.
The Rev. DR.. A. j. Huntington then on
behalf OF the Enosinian society, presented
I" Ih'nncrIore w. ISoyes gold medal for ex-
cellence in debate, prefacipg the presenta-
ton with appropriate remarks.
PRESIDENT wELLING'S ADDRESS.
After the medals were awarded President
yelling addressed the class of &c. as follows:
Gentlemen Of The Graduating Class: ITO
everything there is season." as the wise
man has told US, Sand time to every pur-
pose under the Heaven" To you and TO us
the time of parting has come. For mo-
ment we stand together TO nj ght at the farth-
est point of the narrow isthmus which con-
meets the present with the past, and together
we cast our wistful eyes over the boundless
ocean of that near future whose surges are
already leaving your feet, and the noise OF
whose breakers is already filling your ears.
The vicissitude OF life, with its Joy and its
sorrow, has brought you to that critical
epoch of transition at which two seas meet
and struggle for the mastery. as the tides
of memory rush in to buffet the tides OF hope
which are swelling In your souls. Your
hearts beat happily, and yet the pendulum
that marks the fitting seconds is seen to
swing alternately "betwixt a smile and a
tear" as the hand on the dial points back
ward to the hour that has struck, and for
ward to the hour which is just about TO
and ringing in the new.
1t is most fitting that you should pause for
q moment on the threshold of the career that
lies before you, and receive the last saluta-
ton of your Alma Mater. Day by day,
through four long years of homage and OF
service, you have entered her sanctuary and
laid your gifts upon her affairs. From this
time forth we treat you no longer as acolytes
In the temple of learning, and as we lay our
hands upon your heads for the last time we
do So not only in token of our parting bene-
diction, but also in earnest and pledge of
your dedication 10 the exalted prizes thooi OF
the Christian scholar. We send you forth
as soldiers, equipped in the panopIy of our
schools for the warfare of life. Not without
preparation, and not without the animating
voice of high heraldry, do you enter the
struggle TO which you are summoned, and
for which you have already girded your
loips.
SIN our halls is hung,
ArmOry of the inyincible knights Of oldD
You have the saints and sages OF all his
tory for your fle-leaders, and, like them,
when your warfare shall have been accom-
plished, you may hang up your shields in
memory ofyour triumphs, II, like them you
shall learn TO keep your swords without rust
and your souls without spot. We send you
forth as feet runners In the torch race of
modern culture, and as you catch from yonr
predecessors the lamp of learning or the
lamp of life, We bid you to feed It's sacred
flame with the beaten Oil OF the sanctuary,
and ever to remember that
..Heaven doth with us, as with torches do
Not light them for our selves"
We send you forth as athletes called to en-
gage in nobler games and more generous
rivalries than any to which old Greece in-
V1ted her stalwart youth, aud by which she
was wont TO count the years of her calendar.
Let no dust settle on your chariot wheels.
Be eager and earnest In the race of life, ever
remembering, as Bacon phrases IL, that God
only and the angels are permitted to bs
spectators in this busy world OF ours-re-
has admonished us, that 'if man strive
for mastertes, yet is ne not crowned except
he strive lawfully"
IL L exhort you thus TO struggle for the
victor's crown and the victor's palm, it is
not simply that you may bind the laurel
and the parsley around your. brows, as q
decoration which shall lift you above the
humber OF your fellow-men. In the midst
OF all the high aspirations which You may
rightfully cherish, i pray you not TO for
get that the scholarship to which you have
Even the great Teacher OF Galilee mingled
with His disciples "as one that serveth,"
and If the lives of great men are set In ,he
galaxy OF history to rain their influence
down, ahd remind US that we, too, "may
make our lives sublime" 1t behooves us
ever TO remember that our lives can never
DC Hduo 30 truly dS Wl6Q L0eY are
patterned after the meek, patient, humble
and tranquil spirit OF Him who was at once
the Son OF man and the Son OF God.
CONFIRMING THE DEGREEs AND CERrIPI.
Gates.
President yelling then conferred the de-
gree OF master of arts. by examination, upon
VIM. b. Frisby and Lucius NJ. Cuthbert; the
degree of bachelor of arts upon E. III. @,
Brown, Edward Burchell, A. Il. Waldo Clun,
and Frank Fuller.
Students entitled to certificates OF profici-
ency were announced as follows:-Wiliiam
J. Baxter, Gonzalez 8. Bingham, John w.
Cbappell, Clarence Curtis, Harry G. Davis,
Z. TIC. Earle, Henry s. Elliott, William b.
King, John A. Klein, VIM. A. Leetch Leon
ard Marburv, Theodore W. Moves. Leonard
ID. Poole, j. 8. G.. Richardson. Frank r..
smith, Arthur s. White, Thos. w. Wyman,
George York.
Students entitled TO diplomas as follows
VIM. Bayne, jr., Gonzales s. Bingham, e. IL.
I. Brown, Edward Burchell. a. II. w. Clam.
Luetus "a. Cuthbert, VIM. 3. Frisby, Frank
Fuller, Leonard Marbury, Theodore w.
Noyes, George York.
The degree OF L l.. ID. was conferred upor
fIoI Sam1J. Kirkwood. OF Wooster Univer-
sity, Ohio; and ID. D., upon Rev. Luther
hlce Gwaltney, OF Rome, Georgia. The de.
gree OF A. NJ. was conferred upon BENJAMIN
White and upon Moung Edwin, of Burmah.
Benediction by the Rev. DIR. Wills closed
the exercises, which were throughout of such
character as to make the college proud of
ner centennial class.