The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-14
WABASH COLLEGE.
Graduating Exercises of Fifteen Students
The Alumni Banquet.

The Alumni Banquet
Special to the indianapolis Journal
CHARLOTTESVILLE, June 13-The presidents
levee at the society halls and the annual
ball at the opera-house, this evening, will
conclude the exercises of the forty-tfth COM
mancement of Wabash College. This has
been one of the happiest commencements in
the history of the college, the attendance of
the alumni being unusually large. The
junior class day at the opera-house, yester-
day afternoon, proved an occasion of great
interest and enjoyment. The programme
prepared by the young men was bur-
lesque on college life-generally college
fraternities. The Y. NJ G. A. and the
members of the faculty were all remembered
and received becoming consideration by the
cheeky juniors. The entertainment was I'M
usually we'll received. The alumni address
last evening was delivered by Colonel Samuel
Merrill, of Indianapolis, OH general re-
FORM
The regular annual commencement exer-
cises took place at Center Church, this morn
ing, when fifteen young gentlemen pro-
nounced orations and received diplomas The
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The Religion of the Future,
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An Impersonal Religion.
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indlvidualism.
II. F. King Robinson, III.
The Solitude Of Greatness
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Conservatism.
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F. r. RoseDro Craw fordsville.
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George Skinner .Kempton, Ill.
The Master SPIRIT.
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Mistaken Greatness.
Utility of Vice.
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Duality IN Mental Developments
Address TO class and comforting of degrees by
President Tuttie.
DIR. futile then read a list of the degrees
which had been conferred by the board of
trustees The degree of LII. ID. was conferred
upon Postmaster-genera Gresham, that of
D. d. upon Rev. G. H. Fullerton, of Cincin-
natl; Rev. John Stafford, of Fond du Lac, Wis,
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degree of A. NJ. was conferred upon Samuel
Saylor, of Huntington; E. A. Palmer, of
Danvile Ill, and A. r. Orion. of Monticello.
The music for the graduating exercises as
we'll as for tile hop this evening. was fur
nshed by Joe Camerons orchestra, of In
dianapolis.
The alumni banquet took place in the col
lege chapel this afternoon, where about one
hundred graduates of the college sat down to
the heavly-loaded tables. Hon. John Co.
burn presided, and DR.. Tuttle delivered the
welcome address,
The responses to the toasts were all re-
ceived with much enthusiasm. Professor
Campbell was especially happy in his re-
marks, and was given three rousng cheers
George Bowman, of Monticello; Henry
Crawford, of Chicago; Rev. NJ NJ. C. Hobbs,
of Princeton; Rev. H. c. Hovey, of New
Haven, Conn; G. w. Mccoy of Fort Wayne;
Paul Taber of Logansport, aud Rev Samuel
E. Wishard. of Chicago, members of the
class OF SO, held a reunion yesterday, and
were in attendance to-day.
The ball to be given at the opera-house
this evening promises to be the most elegant
affair of the kind ever held in era wfordsville,
and will conclude very happily one of the
most enthusiastic commandments of Wabash
COLLEGE