The morning call., 1890-06-26
CLASS OF 80.
FOrty.fiye Students Graduated at
Berkeley.
Commencement Held in the Harmon Gym
nasium-speeches, orations-The Alumni
Elect officers - A Banquet.

the class-ro0ms, to the gymnasium, to the
town again-ever on the 60 visiting the
many places of interest in and about the
university grounds.
The occasion was the twenty-first COM
meneement of the University of California,
and forty graduates were about TO be
equipped with diplomas and sent out into
the world to do battle in the various pro-
LESSONS.
Besides the general interest always taken
in similar events by the public, each stu
dent brought to the scene at least a dozen
friends anxious to see the laurel placed on
his brow. Many distinguished visitors
were also present.
The Harmon Gymnasium, in which the
exercises were held, was crowded to over
flowing long before the time for the pro-
ceSSion to start from its point Of formation.
The gymnasium was fest0Oned with ever
greens and ivy, and on the platform was
row of the brightest of flowers banked in
green, which added mate rally to the scene.
Besides the verdure in the decoration con-
siderable relief was given by red and white
steamers suspended from the dome and
caught up at each side, and by two large
flags stretching from one side over the
platform to the other over the entrance.
The taste displayed in the decorations alone
called out many expression of admiration.
Immediately facing the entrance, on the
wall over the platform, was the class motto
=" Post PTelium Premium after the
battle, the reward.
THE PROCESSION.
The procession formed at 2 o'clock at the
library and marched to the gymnasium,
head ed by the Fifth Infantry Band, which
had been brought from the Preside for the
occasion. The procession was composed Of
distinguished visitors, including Governor
Waterman, the entire Faculty, members OF
the Board Of Regents and the class OF 80.
Entering the hall the visitors, Regents and
Faculty made their way to the platform to
seats provided for them, and the class took
its place on the left side, near the platform
In the hall quiet was soon restored after
the outburst Of applause as the procession
entered the building and the nUise caused
in seating the large number Of arrivals.
Then, with the Soitening influence OF the
band, which played Il p0tpOurr, the COM
mencement exercises were begun.
The opening PRAYER was made by Rev +.
b. Pullan, who was followed by Orrin Kip
McMurray in an able Grafton on ''Pessi-
mism in Modern Thought" Later in the
proceedings the degree of Bachelor OF
Philosophy was conferred upon the orator.
and he was awarded the University medal
His effort was SO well received that lre-
Quent Interruptions were made By applause
from the audience.
THE FOUNDATION OF GOVERNMENT"
After lively tune by the band, Edward
Head Stearns, q candidate for the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, gave an Grafton upon
1.-The Foundation of Government" in
which he sought to prove that the claim
made by Anerlcans-that each one mas
inalienable rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuits OF happiness" Is a
fallacy. He delyed far into the philOso-
phies Of Greece. and constructed in its stead
a Government founded upon the moral law,
untempeTed by any possibility OF kindness,
and the result was the ideal despotic Gov
eminent.
The thesis of David Clarence Demorest
on the Analysis of Thermodynamie
Motor" was not given, on account OF the
little interest the public has taken in such
deep subjects, and Its author was excused
from speaking. Mr.. DemoTest was a can
ddate Tor the degree of Bachelor If Sci
eDces.
Ernest n. Henderson, in an address on
1.-THE Fine Arts" made a very able effort,
which was gagged to the intellectual deyel-
Opment of his bearers, and many
Of them went forth with better
understanding of the beauties of ma
ture. He placed art on the plane
of reason as we'll as a thing of sentiment,
and he claimed that art was not only an
imitation, but method of creation.
He closed his address with the following:
art is not au illusion; IL is living force
All Of Illusion there is about 1t comes from
its nature as ideal, and tie ideal is not an
illusion, Neither is art a pleasant paStime
for children to indulge in. 1t Is instinct
with yearning after truth; yearning that
must incarnate itself. II we have aught Of
the divine in our nature, art is divine. And
so it is that the enslayed soul, poor lame
Vulcan, FORCES shield Of freedom from its
chains and upon that massive front graves
the images of immortal life"
1.-THE TRUE SCHOLAR"
The event Of the afternoon to the STU
dents was the address by Rev. DR.. A. G..
Hirst, President of the University Of the
Pacific, who gave his idea Of The True
Scholar" in forty-hye minute address.
he said, in the course Of his address
Lately the Americans have teen told by
innumerable dispatches from Europe and
by the reiteration of the press that there
has been overt education On the continent
If the Old World. The American has been
told it and retold it. Still he cannot under
stand what it means. be is told that In
Germany the oVeT-educatl0n is disruptng
the powers, and that in Russia it was the
cause of the many consplracieS ana MILL
istic plots.
LAS say, the American cannot under
stand it. We believe that education makes
men fearlOus and visionary, incapable OF
plotting and creeping about IN the mlfe Of
intrigues. We believe that man IS greater
and broader and better Tor education. We
do not know of the greatness in the world.
There is much more than any one oil us
Imagine, and more brows, were we 10 know
the truth of their self-martyrdom, would
be crowned with honor and cur worship,
and even in Europe it is possible that we
could find that it is oveT-ruling instead OF
overeducating that is the cause CT Its Ills. =,
1.-THE ideal man is the product Of all
thinking. In him are currents that EN-
brace all the currents of the divine cosmos.
Dreams upon dreams, thoughts upon
thoughts, loves, larger than the universe,
upon loves; this. all this, is the man to be
educated, the ideal man.
81 think that the grandest step taken in
modern times, the one indication Of great
advance in the Intellectual world. is the
conception that the girl is as susceptible Of
education as the boy. [Applause.]
THE scholar is known not so much for
she amount of his knowledge as its quality;
not so much by the number OF Isolated
facts he has made himself master OF as the
broad general education and the univer-
salty OF his reasoning.
Mental development should be for the
mind itself. There should be in every act
Of the student, in his every thought, that
winch would give an impulse To higher
energy. 1t is in the doing, not being, in the
seeking, not having, that true pleasure con-
lists"
CHARLES W. WARNER.
After the address by DR.. Hirst, the audi
ence was agreeably surprised when the
noted author, Charles w. Warner. was IN
troduced. He made a few remarks, brill
liant Wild Willy alluslOns 10 tile occasion
and the country. His short speech kept
the audience in an upToar from beginning
TO end.
DEGREES CONFERRED.
President OF the University Horace
Davis, after making a few appropriate re-
marks to the candidates for graduation,
then conferred degrees on the following:
Bachelor OF Arts-Kichsrd Frank Dean, An
drew Mitchell Henderson, Ruth " ales HobsOn,
MoIiIe Morton JOhn Duuning RideOui, Edward
nj
Bachelor Of AIts-WIllam Henry Davis, Fanny
Matilda henderson, Leslie Randall Hewitt; Ed
ward Coke Hill, Fred William McNeaf, Ruil
Merrill, William Sidney Smith,
Bachelor OF PhilOsOpby-Henry French Bailey
James Hickcox Cary, Josepbine Esteile Ghap
man. Rose Mary Dobbius, Ernest Norton Hen
derson, Norman Russell Lang. Lewis Mehlsick
Orrin Kip McMunay, Anna Mcneil, ada Hope
Ramsdell, Flank Elmer Rich, William Lafayette