St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-11
CLASS DAY AT HAMLINE.
Enthusiastic Meetings of Omcers,
Alumni and Students.
Officers Elected and the Usual Class
Day Exercises Held.


Commencement exercises at Hamline were
fully inaugurated yesterday morning.
The dry examinations had been completed
the day before and all that remained was
the spice, the perfume, the Towering OF
commencement week that will last for two
days, and fade with the closing words OF
the valedictOry to-day. The first exercise
was the annual address before the literary
societies. The Thilomathean and Amphic-
tonic of the gentleman, and the Browning
and Athenean of the ladies. The morning
was bright, and many visitors from st.
Paul and Minneapolis went to the classic
halls for the day. 1t was 10 o'clock when
the exercises began in the chapel 1t had
been prettily trimmed with wild flowers
and ferns, and on the stage were many hot
house plants. The chapel was well filled
when j. A. Sutton, president of the lecture
bureau, calledfor order, and prayer was
offered by Rev. DR.. johnson.
THE ADDRESS.
Following this came the address of the
morning by Rev. John l.. Pitner of Mime
apolis on The Requsitions for the Future.
The address was filled with good advice,
clothed in welI-chosen words. and was
forcibly and impressively delivered. "How-
ever bright the past has been, the future
but waits to eclipse it," said the speaker,
and he then mentioned certain requisites
for meeting this future and out of it devel-
oping the highest degree Of manhood and
womanhood. 1t was a mistake, he said,
for the young who were just about to be-
gin the work of life to suppose that the
world owed them living or anything else,
save as they earned it. They would each
be given trial, but when once man had
been weighed and found wanting, the world
seldom takes the trouble to adjust the bal
ance again. The refining influences of this
institution have made you sensitive, so that
you are conscious of weakness or of power.
The speaker then urged, in the first place,
work, saying that the belief that the world
owed one living was principle contrary
to the foundation Of society. Communism
in it's worst forms has its roots in Incidence.
He then mentioned the great problems OF
life to be solved, and said that heroes were
not carved from the marble, or their feat
ures stamped in bronze, simply because they
were heroes, but because they
have shown to the world some Of the possi-
bilities of the human race. The future will
see more inventions, deeper investigations
in science and progressive spirit
will be needed. The progress
in theological and scientific in
vestigation was then noted somewhat
at length. The speaker took occasion to
say that he believed the old theology would
stand and that his hearers would live to see
the last theological Don Quixote. The
great laws should be watched, and beneath
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principles that are working The youth
were urged to live for the present age rather
| than for poSterity, and to cultivate deep
sympathy for the common people with
whom they come in contact every day.
Pluck was also urged as a requisite for sue
cess. The address was Of nearly an hours
duration and was listened to attentively
by some three or four hundred who made uI
the audience.
THE ALUMNI MEETING.
President F. W. Hoyt of Red Wing pre-
sided at the alumni meeting at $3.50 o'clock.
In opening, DR.. Bridgman made a short
address of welcome, speaking about as fol
lows: We are met to-day to reorganize the
alumni of Hamline university. No more
shall we be called the alumni of the Ole
Hamline and of the New Hamline, but OF
Hamline university. The alma. mater is g
little bashful, so I was chosen to
introduce her. I am happy to
say Hamline university is free
from debt, having balance in her favor
after all the expenses of the year are paid.
A united faculty, able and progressive,
represent the institution. The students of
to-day are worthy of the students of
former years. The course of studies pur-
sued is revised to meet the demands of a
growing age. | am not prepared to say that
Latin and Greek are absolute studies; that
scientific studies are to take their places, OF
that elective studies are just the thing,
since professors are the better prepared to
lay out the line of study with reference tc
the profession in view. The alumni, both
past and present, testify to the beneficial
results of cO-education. the former having
married. their associates and the present
being in prospect of the same good fortune.
The colleges and universities of this state
are in perfect harmony.
Compliments were then paid to the newly
inaugurated president of the state univer-
Sity, and the speaker concluded: ''Hamline
university is not Sectarian, but Christian
and denomnatonal The demand of the
great Northwest is to-day for true men and
women to carry forward the work of
Christian education, which Hamline is en-
deavoring to meet.
PROF. HoYT's INAUGRAL.
Prof. F. w. Hoyt then delivered his
inaugural address. ''Some estrangement
has existed between the Hamline of the
past and the Hamline of to-day" said he,
''but more perhaps like the two brothers.
one of whom went out to shift for himself
before the other was born, yet after they
were grown and, meeting under the home
roof, greeted each other in common brother
hood.
We to-day talk not of the past, but of the
present and future. Bishop Hamline saw
the opportunity to found university,
around which the infant church might
rally, and contributed of his means to that
purpose. Hamline is the outcome Ham
line stands in the center of circle of 200
miles, with thousands of MethodistS on
every hand. Not our church school only,
nor university only, but Christian univers-
ity should stand at the summit of all.
Among the things brought from old Ham
line is flag. This had foated over old
Hamline, over the soldiers going to save an
imperiled Union, over the returning few,
at half mast when Lincoln died, and now
hangs, stretched at full length, in Univers-
ity chapel, trophy of united brother
hood.
BISHOP Foss.
Bishop Foss then gave one of his charac-
teristic speeches, saying that he believed
Hamline destined to be the greatest insti-
tuition west of Evanston.
At this point Rev. Jabez Brooks, D. D.,