St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-07
men AND WOMEN.
The University Class Of '89
Presented With Its
Sheepskins.
9e
Interesting Orations by Eight
of the Members of the J =
Class. ~
Gov. Pillsbury Gets His Last
Dish Of Resolution Ia
Chowder.
President Northrop's Even
ing Reception Well
Attended.


ing Reception Well
Attended.
Never a graduating class had more
splendid audience to greet them than
did the class of 1889 at the university.
The immense auditorium was nearly
filled, and when Prof. DAM gave the
word to his orchestra and started the
instr uments off on that stirring tune,
the overture to civilian Tell" the
candidates for graduation marched in
on scene of unusual and gratifying
interest to all the friends of the institu-
ton. On the platform the faculty was
represented by members of the now
large faculty which conducts the vari-
Gus departments. About fifty pro-
fessOrs were present. President North
op was fianked and supported 10y many
of the most distinguished men of the
state. having on his right Gen.Sibley Gov.
Merriam, EX-Gov. Pillsburv, Col. Lig-
gett, JudgeV anderburgh and members
of the last legislature, Jared Benson, II.
F. Stevens, John Day Smith and j. Z.
Flynn. On his left were Chief Justice
Gilfillan, Hon. Gordon E. Cole, Judge
GreenIeaf Clark. Judge Dickinson and
other DISTINGUISHED members of the bar
and bench. Besides, the platform held
many members of the clergy, Supt.
Bradley and Principal Crombie. of the
city schools, Col. Charles W. johnson,
Supt. Kiehle and others. After the
overture. the divine blessing was in
voked by Rev. A. j. Graham, and the
exercises began with the
sALUTATORY IN LATIN
by William B. Ladue. Mr.. Ladue is
the second scholar in his class, and de-
hvered clearly and handsomely the ira
ditional ''salutatoria' in the language
of Cicero. He spoke with an unaccus-
toned command of the pronunciation OF
the classic tongue. and his Grafton,
while not specially instructive, was
evidently artistic.
Earle j. Babcock delivered the first
English Grafton of the programme on
Education and the Citizen" He
dwelt upon education as safeguard
against the pressing social and political
dangers of the day. On this ground he
argued liberal and broad education was
a political necessity. Kendric c. Bah
cock, one of the honor speakers of the
day, followed with an Grafton on ''Ihe
Reign of Influence" He considered
the subject philosophically and pointed
out that the reign of influence was the
kingship of the idea over the atom. the
thought over the fact, the moral cOncep-
ton over the physical force. The king
dom was yet imperfectly extended, but
it would in the future take in provinces
now ruled by war or by violence of one
kind or another. Miss Gratla
Countryman talked learnedly of
without once abiding to female suf-
frage. She serenely rebuked some
features of man suffrage, and intimated
that it went more by suffrage than by
manhood She pointed out three safe
guards that should be thrown around
the ballot-education, industrial indie
pendence, morality. No one, she
thought, should be a voter who could
could not read. who did not maintain
himself in the community, or whose
moral character was openly bad.
Arthur E. Giddings, in we'll
delivered grafton, took up the contro-
versial topic of so many nations, lin
migration" He agreed with the great
majority of speakers on that topic now.
that the importation of European dregs
ment marred the clear and modest
rhetoric of this speaker, which was
heartily applauded by the audience.
Henry Johnson, another ''honor,'
drew picture of the good old times
and denied that the backward glance
was a sign that the nation was going
into decay. 1t was an evidence of the
reflective spirit which dwelt IN ali great
peoples. r, l.. MOffett was strlkingly
handsome figure as he stood on the plat
form and spoke in clear, ringing tones
on his chosen topic, IA Look at the Sad
Side" His Grafton was an calculation
of Schopenhauer's theory OF pessimism,
to the effect that pessimism does not
concern itself with the question, us
the world growing better?' but with
the problem of the preponderance of
good or evil in the individual exist
in the same line with Schopenhauer. 1t
was pessimistic for this age, but opti-
mistic for all the ages. Lydia K. Stro-
meier discussed in beautiful essay
Heinrich Heine and his wonderful
works. She worked into it a eulOgy on
the Jewish race. of which Heine was
such a shining and yet such an odd rep
resentative. The sadness and irony of
his poetry she traced to his sympathy
with the Outcast race to which he be-
longed.
Oscar L. Triggs, the thinker and
writer par excellence of his class,
specialized young man with faraway
look in his eyes, chan pioned the elias
sizes in an grafton on 1.-THE Problem of
Education" 1t was the Grafton of the
day, and the only one whose
finished periods brought forth APP
plause before the orator had
done. He appealed to his hearers to
penetrate facts to the thought of au-
thors and boldly claimed the palm for
Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, Milton,
Shakespeare, over the horde of fact
authors. These mems works were the
ultimate sea in the flood of literature.
The .'fact' authors were the shore
drift. Mr.. Triggs speaks with deep,
rOund-toned voice that penetrated the
auditorium. He impressed all as
young man with burning thought in
his brain and man with mission and
good deal of latent power to
develop it. Miss Ada E. Smith fol-
lowed with a brief and well!ar-
ranged Grafton on collegiate prepare
ton for special study. Then the
orchestra played ''The Reigning
Beauty" waltz, and there was an eX-
pectant hush as the president an
nounced Miss Margaret Sewell, the vale
dictorian. AS the diminutive lady came
forward, he face shining with proud
consciousness of her position. many
wonder how SO wee a person could be
the first scholar in such an able class,
judging from the preceding Grafton.
But such was the fact and Miss Sewell
amply justified her reputation for schOl-
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