The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-06-28
DAVIDSON COLLEGE COMMENCE.
MENT.
synopsis OF the Report of the Exercises
of the Closing Days.

| of the Closing Days.
| On Wednesday Col John N. Staples
| delivered the annual address. His sub
| ject was "Tides in the Affairs of Men. "
The Charlotte Chronicle says that he
spoke gracefully and eloquently The
alumni orator, Rev. B. F. Wilson, spoke
on katiOnalsm.
The representatives of the literary So
cieties delivered their addresses. The
orations were as follows: Vital Magnet
ism, A. w. Cheatham; Martin Luther at
the Diet of Worms, S. II. Edmunds; Bat
tie of CANINE, K. E. G. Lawson; The Cru
sades, J. NJ. Pharr; Chivalry, Medieval
and Modern, j. r. Walker; Westminster
Abbey, }. NJ. Moore
Col. j. l.. Brown, of Charlotte, was re-
elected President of the Board of Trus-
tees by aoclamation.
Hon. A. Leazar was elected President
of the Alumni Association for the ensuing
year, and Rev. w. s. Bryan, of Ashevllle,
Vice-President.
Rev. VIM. S. Lacy, D. D., of Norfolk,
Va, was elected Alumni orator for 1890.
PRESIDENT SHEARER,S INAUGU.
RAJ.
Probably the most interesting feature of
the commencement occasion was the
formal Inauguration of Rev. J B. Shear
er, D. D., as President, and Prof. c. r.
Harding, as professor of Greek and Ger
man. The formal Inauguration was
conducted by Hon. A. Leazar, Speaker
OF the House of Representatives, who
made an appropriate and elegant ad-
dress committing the college and it's work
"a priceless heritage-to the keeping of
DR.. Shearer, and charging him to guard
its interests as sacredly as his own honor
and as carefully as his life. Prof Hardy
and President Shearer 10th then swore
that they believed in the Confession of
Faith of the Presbyterian church, and in
the Bible, and that they would perform
faithfully the duties of their respective
offices; and they were therefore declared
officially installed.
DR.. Shearer, after Acknowledgement of
the high honor conferred, and the social
trusts connected with it, delivered an i'm
pressive inaugural, in which he empha-
sized the Importance of the harmonious
development of all faculties, physical,
mental, social and spiritual and the in
completeness of education that neglected
any of these harmony requisites, of that
high manhood which he and the faculty
would ever strive to foster.
THE GRADUATES.
The following is the list of graduates:
r. r. Stevens, of Statesville, A. B., First
Honor, Valedictorian-"T "The Perils of In
restricted immigration" w. P. Nestbell,
of Peedman, S. c., A. B. and A. NJ, Sec
ond Honor. Salutatory Plurality of
the World" W. V. Goldberg, of Charlotte,
N. c., B. s., Third Honor. Philosophical
OratiOn-''The Philosophical History
J. S. Brown, Bear Poplar, N. c., A. -
"a New Disturbances" j. W. Reid, of
Griffith, N. c., A. B,-''The Negro
Problem;"J. K Smith, Conyers, Ga, A.
B.,-"The Black Hole at Calcutta"
Other A. B. Graduates were w. E. AL
exander, Harrisburg, N. c.; J. A. Near
thur, L. L. Moore, Huntersville, N. CIR.
S. Thompson, Bennettsville, s. G.
CONFERRING THE PRIZES.
The Rev. r. A. Webb, of Charleston
College, delivered the prizes. The follow
lowing are the medals and their winners:
By the Phnanthropic Society: Debaters
medal, w. V. Goldberg, of Charlotte;
essayist medal, J. S. Brown, of Bear Pop
lar; defamation medal, 4. Lee McNair
By the Eumenean Society: Debaters
medal, J. K. Smith, of Conyers. GA es
sayist medal, w. F Holhngsworth; decla-
nation medal, b F. Townsend
The orators medal was awarded to K
E & Lawson, aud he medal for 'he b -
Bl SUDDEN 80 } n NJ \ hur
he following honorary degrees were
conferred
Doctor of Laws: Chas. w. Dabney
Doctor of Philosophy and President of
the University of Tennessee.
Doctor of Divinity, Rev W. H. Dodge,
Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. J. Y Fair. Rich
mond, Va; Rev. W. S. Lacy, Norfolk,
Virginia.
Master of Arts, Prof. Willis H. Bocock,
of Hampden Sydney College, Va.
NOTES.
The family of Rev. VIM. Banks, de-
ceased, have instituted the Banks Biblical
Medal, to be awarded to the student at
tanning highest grade in the Bible course.
The medal awarded now for the first
time was presented by the President to J.
A. Macarthur, of Fayetteville. The ora
tors medal was awarded to r. E. Claw
son, Troutman, N. c., member of the
Philanthropic Society.
A new gymnasium to cost s., 900 is to
be erected. 1t will emphasize the impor-
tance of physical Development
The next session begins September 10,
and closes week earlier, the Christmas
holidays being abridged one week.