The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-06-13

Crocker.
New Aristocracy vs.. the Ode. W.
Ward.
The Empire of Night j. o. Atkin-
son.
The Hero of Popular Education Jo-
siah Crudup.
Who are the Jesuits 2-J. B. Spilman.
Valedictory Address,. 8. Cannon.
The other graduates presented theses
on the following subjects:
Raiis-T. W., Beckett.
Benefits Derived from the Search for
the Philosophers Stone-T. L. Blalock.
Man, and What He Has Done-E. s.
Ooffey.
The Power Of Custom-O. P. Crudup.
Chivalry vs.. The Dude-E. F. Early.
How Studied Character-C. L. Felt.
A Glance Intb the Future. G..
Gregory. N
Honor to Whom Honor is DUE. A.
Hollomon.
Life and Works of Madame de Stael-
G. F. Hopper.
Modern Pythons-J. F. Mitchell
IntOff rance-B. 8. Mitchell.
Dirt DAubers O. Maske.
Christianity and Education-H. G.
Moore.
What 1 would Do and Be We're 1 a
Woman-J. b. NOVEL;.
The Dream of Future Years ID. B.
Oliver
The Hero of '62-W. o. Riddick.
Fratres Usque ad Aram-J. E. White.
All the speakers acquitted themselves
creditably. There was an honest appre-
citation of their efforts.
M. Hawkins won merited glory for
himself by condensing his salutary into
about three minutes time; but in that
time he managed to say just exactly
what was wanted and appreciated.
DR.. TaylOr's Address to the Gradual.
ing Glass.
After the speaking, President Taylor,
of the college, delivered the diplomas to
the graduating class. In presenting
them he said: ar
"In one cf his charming essays, Benja-
min Franklin expressed the wish that he
could awake at the end of hundred
years and be witness of the wonderful
things which century would produce.
But, farseeing though he was. his pro-
phetic dream fell short of the reality as we
know it. The vision, young gentlemen,
which was denied to him is granted to
you. You enter life and assume the to-
ga virilis in such an era as this world
has never seen before-an era of great
and growing enterprise, of widening
knowledge, of qulckened sympathies, of
universal peace.
Especially are you to be congratulate
ed, as sons of the South, on coming into
your well-trained manhood at such a
time as this. Whatever problems you
may have to solve, the questions that
harrassed your fathers are settled, for a
quarter Of a century flowers have
been blooming on the SCARED fields
of their battles. A new era has
opened for North Carolin a
and her southern sister states
Each mornings paper tells of some new
enterprise-of furnaces, cotton-mills,
factories, improvement companies
Therein we all rejoice And it is with a
feeling of peculiar pride that the old
mother college sees 80 many of her sons
in the forefront of this bloodless strug
gle. This is the New South of which
the eloquent and lamented Grady wa,
the prophet-New in It's enterprises, il
it's leaders, in it's spirit. And this spirit
,, 1 need not tell you, is thoroughly mate
.. rialistic Chafed at being laggards il
the race for wealth, weary of the almos
universal poverty, our own Souther
men who have discerned the hidde
Q utilities in soil and forest and sunshin
8 are striving with as great inventivenes
: and energy as has ever been dsplaye
o by Northern Yankee or Western Hoosiel
}: And We gay, God bless and speed then
: Yet Of this scheme-Weaving and inter
7. sity of application there are obvior
j tendencies which are to be deploret
s. The pendulum is swinging from listles
ness and inactivity to the rush and hu
10 ry Of all business enterprise. May
20 not swing too far2
g Are not some of the characteristics
ID the Old South worthy of preservation
O. not as hallowed memories, but as livil
O. realities9 If it is the fittest that su
4 wives. they should not he allowed
r perish. AZ
re Your fathers will tell you, young ge
"a tlemen, of the spirit of that civilizati
'g which is passing away. It taught
honesty which was something more th
the best policy. It practised neighbt
illness and hospitality which knit CO.
'ss Ss munities together like great families
'o' breathed reverence for the hearthsto
- = and the sanctities of home, for the 2
~ rity and dignity of womanhocd [such
D has never been surpassed. It was b
~ lowed by patriotism which was as wi
y. as it was intense-a patriotism VIII
A. took unselfish Interest in all public
r. fairs, sought the ablest for Office, a
o. was ready to die for liberty. It belle,
~. that gentleness made gentleman, t
q personal honor was priceless. 1t was
E. = lustrated by many a life such that sci
D ment and poetry we're as true as scien
a It showed many q sparkling fount
=. - and fragrant flower by life's waysi
~ believing in the enjoyment of Ii
- rather than the enjoyment of MONEY.
i9- as we drift into the properties O
n.y. New South. we are to forget and lose
~. this-if the flower is to be crushed {
n the fountain defiled, may not the I
- n have cost too much9
But we need not lose it unless we Y
es, .e, And avail myself of this opportun
''es in this presence, to deliver mess
: from the Old South to the New.
would bid you with wise eclectic
and to foster the best in both. Turn ey
as stream over wheel, explore the me
Ills. tains for ores, cover the plains '
lee growing crops and lowing cattle,
uiv. | fho ev>oIl ~ vour oncho NJ tmonte ovor