The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-19
COMMENCEMENT AT BUTLER.
The Annual Closing Exercises Held at
the University Yesterday.
The 0rations and Essays of the Graduates
Degrees Conferred By President Everest
Newly Elected Officers of the Alumni.

Though commencement week at Butler is gen.
orally blessed with several nights and days of
extreme heat or drenching rain, yesterday was
bright and sunny, but the breezes were so cool
and steady that the temperature did not rise to a
height anything like uncomfortable People
crowded into the chapel until it could hold no
more. The stage was bright with flowers and
leaves and Sweet girl graduates" President
Everest, DR.. Benton, President Blount and Dr.
Hobbs. of Louisville, occupied seats on the
platform with the numerous takers of degrees.
After an eloquent invocation by DR.. A. |.
Hobbs, President Everest introduced Mr.. John
p. Findlay, of Canton, o., who spoke on Phi
losophy in Religion" In reviewing the history
of philosophy from its beginning he said it had
persttion over Christianity but that this had
not always been done ignorantly or dishonesty.
Men desire to know too much. They should be
satisfied with Gods revelation.
Mr.. Findley was followed by his wife, Ida M.
Findley, who read an essay on college Life
She said that due attention to physical culture
was essential to a successful education, and that
too little attention had been paid to this. She
urged the advantages of earnest toll to the
student, and said that the benefits of self dis
cipline, accuracy, and forming correct estima
ton Of ourselves and our fellow-men were ample
rewards. Her paper was excellently read and
we'll received.
Mr.. r. A. Gilcrest spoke next on the "Emanci
patton of the Pulpit" His forcible and timely
remarks were given in an easy manner, and
made good impression. He held that as was
the Bible chained in the days of Luther, so now
was the pulpit bound and fettered--not abso-
lutely enslaved, but relatively So BY its de-
pendence on creeds and dogmas on money, on
elements which it seeks to oppose and even revo-
lutionize, its usefulness is sadly impeded The
desire to succeed and to be applauded were de-
plored. The remedy, he showed, was wholly
subjective. A ministry endowed with courageous
manliuess and self sacrfcing devotion is sadly
needed. Let preaching the gospel be less OF a
profession and more Of personal conservation
Miss Juliet Hollands essay was on Some of
Shakspeare's Women" The paper was quite
sprightly and treated the subject in a thorough
manner. Hugos novels, she said, have no per-
feet women. Scott has many, but Shakespeare
excels in delneating the female character. Cor
Porta were taken up in turn and admirably
alyzed. Miss Holland is a member of the Kappa
Alpha Theta fraternity.
Mr.. L. U. Raymond gave an Grafton on Ten
nyson. the Poet" AS master of the ldylhc
school, the writer of the only epic within 200
years, and the greatest poet of his era. the lau-
reate received muchmerited laudation from the
speaker, who spoke principally Of Tennyson's
earlier compositions. Mr.. Raymond is from
Washington, d. c., and is Sigma Chi.
Miss S. Myrtella Sewell read a spirited paper
on the Empress Josephine" Josephines life
was so strangely romantic that, if given as ro-
NANCE it would be considered ridiculously improb-
able. The fair essayist described the unfortu-
nate empress's adventures at some length, and
paid graceful tribute to her beauty. generosity,
sympathy aud fortitude. Miss Sewell is Kappa
Alpha Theta and the youngest member of her
class.
Miss Corinne T. Thrasher the last of the
seven, and her subject was 1.-The Beautiful-Its
Mission in Art and Life" Beauty is not com
pretended by the practical, by common sense,
but by the finer perceptions of the inner nature
She pleaded for more of the beautiful in every
day life. Miss Thrasher read her well prepared
paper with much earnestness
President Everest, in a neat little speech. an
nounced the comforting of the degree Of A. B. on
Mr.. and Mrs. Findley and Messrs. Raymond and
Gilcrest, and that Of Phi. B. on Misses Holland,
Sewall and Thrasher. Miss Dora A. Pendleton,
'85, and Prof T. NJ Alden. 49, were dubbed Phi.
M. and Messrs j. 4. KantZ, '85, O. NJ Puritt,
'85. NJ. 0. Naramore, 49, DR.. Walter S. Tingley
and Prof. Harriet Noble were given A NJ, and
given the degree of LII ID. Messrs Kantz, Pru-
lit, Tingley and Iden are Phi Delta Thetas, Miss
Pendleton a Kappa Alpha Theta and Mr. Nara
more recent Delta Tau Delta. President B.
NJ. Blount. of the board of directors. in the name
of several of the alumni presented to the college
portrait of S. K. Hoshour, former president of
the institution.
The exercises of the day were very entertain
ing and quite creditable to the class Of '86. The
class was much smaller than for several years,
but promises to be succeeded next year. and the
year after, by two of the largest classes the col
lege has yet graduated
At the alumni meeting on the preceding day,
thu full list of officers elected was as follows
Presdent-Nfss Cora Smith.
Vice-President-Prof. T. M. Iden.
Secretary-Richard f. Bigger
Treasurer-Mrs. p. O. Updegraff
Orator-W. s. Motif.
observation-disclosures feathers.
Poetess-Mss Maggie Hustled.
Ell. U. Brown, Mrs. Updegraff and James B.
Curtis were appointed committee on arrange
ments for apublic literary entertainment in com
mencement week next year.