The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-06-16

Salutatory Essay; Milton ana Whlttlef as Expo
Miss E. Il. Wallis. Bell Buckle. Tenn.
Music: Flute and Piano. wild Flowers Songs
without Words Ad TeTschak.
Professors Dielman and Rinehart
Essay Miss 4 wilmington crisiied das Nd. Gems
ofA'i0a Mr. j. Med. Radford' jersey, Ga
Music: Piano Subdivisions Mefitation-....Jaell
Prof Rinehart.
ADDRESS TO THE CLASS.
President Lewis
coSFERRING DEGREES.
Music: Fantastic for Clarionet from Barber of Sc
vile
:. Miss c: VI Phoebus, Princess Anne Nd.
Vaiedctory oTan9n i1 oid p9mihion
Music: Flute and Piano-Aurora Waltz. Labitzky
Professors Dielman and Rinehart
BESEDIcTIoN.
By Roy. L. W. Bates, d. D.
The essays and oratons were all creditabe
productions, and what was quite as creditable
they were all delivered in such manner as to
be heard in the farthest parts of the hall with
ease. We give here the President address
to the class:
ADDRESS TO THE CLASS.
My dear friends of the 18th Graduating
Class | greet you on the commencement of
your career as educated men and women with
joy and heartfelt congratulation. am about
to admit you by the authority OF the Trustees
of this seat of learning into the sacred college
of scholars. / feel as though were priest
at an altar, consecrated by the illustrious his
tory of millions of devout worshippers, and
you were candidates presenting yourselves
here for the noble order of culture. If were
to indulge the solemn fancy would before be-
slowing upon you the insignia OF rank question
you in the presence of this assembly and be-
fore that assembly which memory brings to
such scenes as this, in the catechism of learn
ing's solemn responsibilities, would ask yen:
Do you believe in the dignity and unself-
ishness of learning?
Do you believe that you to-day but cross the
Threshold of the temple of knowledge and
that its vast aisles lie before you to be ex-
plored?
Do you believe in the noble and sacred uses
and ends of education as means and not the
ultimate end of human endeavor?
Will you wear the honors bestowed upon
you to. day, meekly, reverently and in the fear
of God?
Will you make diligent use Of every oppor
tunity to increase your stock of knowledge, re-
Numbering that what is yet to learn is more
than the whole sum of what has been hith erto
learned?
Will you give earnest heed to the necessi-
ties of the ignorant and SO long as you live
let the light which is in you shine upon the
darkness in which your less fortunate brothers
dwell2
Will you, finally, solemnly covenant here
to-day that you will cease to claim the digni-
ties of scholar when you shall forget Alma
Mater or cease to love her with the growing
affection of ripening age. Will you comfort
her, honor and keep her in sickness and in
health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only
unto her, so long as ye all shall live?
Did | not confde in the honesty of your
satisfactory replies to such queries as these,
| should not consent to be the instrument of
your decoration day. and the sadness feel
at parting with you would be greatly dimin
ished. have already spoken to you my con-
victions of the moral significance of your
present situation and | will only add d per-
sonal word before bidding you final alden as
students under our charge. That word shall
be cheerful, hopeful word. We have been
associated in relations which time and dis
lance will never efface. Try as we may we
can never hereafter be Indifferent to each
other. You cannot forget or forsake us; We
cannot lose interest in you. "The tender
grace of day that is dead" will even be po-
tent to stir in us the liveliest sensibilities.
The Lord be very gracious to thee.
The Lord mercifully with his favor look
upon thee.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee
and give thee peace.
And now, in accordance with the mandamus
of the Board of Trustees and in the name of
the Faculty, proceed to bestow upon you the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Immediately after this the President an
nounced that the Trustees had created Chair
of Modern Languages and elected Miss Vir-
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same; that the erection of new building,
and other improvements had been ordered and
that the degree of Master of Arts in course
had been conferred on John II. I. Earhart,
NJ. D., 'S2.
1t will be noticed from the program that
the music was different from what is usually
had, and very agreeable difference it was.
Too much could not be said in its praise were
the space permitted us.
Dinner was served Immediately after the
exercises, and the students in eager haste to
be at home left on the earliest trains there
after. Thus closed the most successful COM
mencement Western Maryland has ever had.
College Personals.
The following are the names of those from
a distance at the Commencement Exercises:
Mr.. John Dodd and Miss Retta nood, Wye
Mills Nd; John G. Clarke, ESQ.,, DIR. ]. j.
Murray, DIR. S, B. Switzerland, DIR. E. j.
Drinkhogse, baltimore; Rev. B. f. Benson
A. NJ; DIR. Daniel Bates, Edesville, Nd; DR..
Lawrence Bates, Georgetown, d. c.; Miss
Annie R. Yingling, A. NJ, Baltimore, Nd;
Rev. Thos. o. Grouse, A. NJ. and Mrs. 7. O..
Grouse, Ceutreville, Nd; Mrs. Martha Fenby,
Baltimore, Nd; Miss Lizzie Trump, Manches-
ter, Nd; Miss F. E. Wilson, Union Bridge,
Md. Alonzo L. Miles, Esq, Crisfeld, Nd;
M;ra Ida H. Gnft prinoe Erndnriak Md :.
Miss Sadie A. V. Kneller, Baltimore, Nd;
Miss Minnie E. Stevens, Edesville, Nd;
Rev. Leyburn M. Bennett, Pikesville, Md;
Prof Charles NJ. Grow, Jr. Fulton, Mo-; Miss
Eula c. Handy, Marion, Nd; Miss Oracle
Rinehart, Union Bridge, Nd; Miss Annie
Hill, Long Corner, Nd; ]. G. Watson, Esq,
Centreville, Md; Mrs. j. I. Wilmington,
Crisfeld, Nd; Mrs. Wilbur Phoebus, Prin-
cess Anne, Nd.