The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-11

Study of Hssthetics.r by Miss Long, ard French
Fiction by Miss Merrifield. In treating this
topic the essayist showed womans delicacy
and intuition, coupled with mans judgment and
analytical power, making it in many regards the
most perfect exercise presented.
There was no formal salutatory nor valedicto-
ry; the class stood for what it was worth, meas
ured by the individuals composing It
In comforting the degrees DR.. Jordan said:
IL one thought of ours were to remain with
you all your lives | would have it this: there is
something In life nobler than success; and true
greatness is measured by the distance and lofti
ness OF the aim toward which you work. About
you are men whose aims are neither far nor
high. Their goals are near and visible, and they
reach them. The man really great works to-
ward an ideal far away, with lifelong journey
between. His ideal is seen only by the eye of
faith. There are rivers to ford. mountains to
climb, deserts TO cross. armies to conquer ere
you reach the Holy Grail You will meet the
found the way too long; who have forsaken their
ideals; who have lost sight Of the pillar OF ire
aud cloud. You will hear the words of those
who would turn you from your great plans ana
ideals to those things which promise immediate
advicel Adversely will turn you from
your ideals, prosperity. also, by relaxing the
need of endeavor. Your great castles, with
their turrets hid in the mists of hope, may
prove but castles in the air, the haseless fabric
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couragement you have heard BEFORE and you
have resisted it, and are here to-day in token of
your resistance You must continue to resist;
to follow your ideal of worth, scholarship, man
hood and womanhood. keeping your youth in
your heart all your life long, ignoring the max
inns of low prudence. You will hear that your
first duty is to get land and money place and
name. What is this truth you seekl will be
asked. What Is this beauty} men will ask in
derision. But if God has called you to explore
%r,< hao hn ho1d ho fpr1 ho fr11n
When you shall say. "As others do so will |:
renounce my early visions; l must eat of the
fruit of the land, and let truth. beauty and puri
ty go till more convenient season. then dies
the buds of art of poetry and science as they
have died in thousands before The hour OF
such choice is the crisis in each history. Who
holds firm to high purpose has a value above
his actual attainment Such youth is seen not
as the boy he is, but as the man he is to become.
1t is not anything YOU can say or have said
that brings the people to hear you on commence
ment day. Your scholarship is crudity; your
achievements petty; your eloquence the trash OF
the worlds literary waste basket; yet you have
been listened to with an attention no profession
al orator would inspire. 1t is because they see
you in the light of your ideals, and in this light,
my friends you are glorious; they see not boy
and girl, but the manhood and womanhood OF
which you dream. It is this that gives charm
to the crude effort Of commencement day. IT,
throughout your lives you keep these ideals. are
faithful to the light in you, hold fastin the strug
gle of life to the dreams that have come to
you here. you need not trouble yourselves
about success, for whether in success or failure
greatness will be yours. And through all these
years, with love- and tenderness. and pride
that shall never fail, your cherishng mother, the
University of Indiana. will say of you: 'These
indeed are my children"
UNIVERSITY NOTES
The appointment of Prof. A. W. Woodford, of
Yale College, to the chair of political economy,
John c. Branner. of Cornell University, and late
of the Brazilian and Pennsylvania geological
surveys to the chair Of geology, gives general
satisfaction. Each Of these gentlemen have Wis
tied the university and lectured during the last
week. Prof. 0. B. Clark has leave of absence to
study English literature in the English univer-
sites the coming year.
DR.. Maxwell, for thirty years member
of the board Of trustees, is over seventy
years old, but as straight as an
arrow, and completely tagged out the younger
doctors, Harvey, of Indianapolis, and Hibberd,
Of Richmond, when showing them about the
new campus and buildings. But they were
carrying the unusual weight of their honorary
degrees Of Liz ID. about for the first time, and
had not yet got used to them. They both beg,
to use the language of Dr. Harvey, ''that it may
never occur again." Dr. Hibberd was born IN
1916, and has practiced continuously in Rich
mond and vicinity since the 14th of August,
1845. AS right and left hand supporters to
President Jordan they added dignity and honor
to the occasion. Letters and kilograms Of con-
graduation have been received by them
from many friends eminent in
their judgment in honoring the medical as well
as the legal and clerical professions.
The new buldings-Owen Hall and Wylie
Hall--according to Dr. Maxwell. chairman of
cents of $50, 0O0 The foundation stone-ootic
l;mestone-was taken from within 100 feet of
the buildings, and the cavern left will be occu-
pied by the engine and boiler-house. The old
campus and buildings will be occupied by the
preparatory. new wooden building has been
contracted for by the board to serve temporarily
for history and literature.
WHAT PRESIDENT JORDAN SAYS
In talking with some friends of the university
President Jordan said: eff the university does
not succeed as the State educational institution,
it will be because of the poorness of our work
and the ignorance and selfshness of our faculty
We have a good chance. There is harmony all
around, and no one has an AK to grind. Hereto
fore we have sedulously and industriously neg
lected the State of Indiana, and at the summer
vacations have got as far off as we could and our
money would take us-at least, have The
place is all right; it is poor place for a pork
packing house. but good place for college.
We have no saloons or side shows-everything
makes for study and hard work for both
students and teachers A student can live here
well and pay all his bills for ten months for
$3.50. As to college government, never think
of it, all relating to it is stricken from the cata-
logue; give students men for teachers, hard work
to do, see that they do it, and government will
take care of itself. We shall not try to put q
81, 900 education on a 50-cent boy. We have no
time or money to waste on drones or dolts, and
shall graduate students because they have
been sitting on the benches and looking at the
professor for four years. The train service on
the New Albany road gives us new relations
with the capital We can go from here in the
morning, be six hours in Indianapolis. and home
to supper shall be in the State all summer;
Prof. Branner will at once commence topo-
orsnhical SUBWAY of the township and co11ntu.