Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-28

The first speaker was DIR. J. P. Wild
ney, who explained the business feat
ures of the university. He said that
''ten years ago band of devoted men
entered upon this work with the best OF
all assets-absolute faith in God, in the
church aud the country. Without a
dollar for foundation they set to work,
and after ten years we have this Uni
versity of Southern California. which is
university in the true sense of the
term-an aggregation of colleges under a
common charter"
Bishop Fowler then delivered an ad-
dress, in which he said:
''There are three component parts of a
university-the students, who think
they are the university the faculty, who
know they are the university; and the
directors, who are the university. Give
me board of directors without students
or faculty, and I'll make university.
have little sympathy today for the stu
dents, for l firmly believe that the fee
blest professor among you can teach the
wisest student something yet neither
are my sympathies specially drawn out
toward the faculty, for you had better
stand ankle-deep in the water in the
bottom of the boat than Jump out into
the tide. do have some sympathy for
the directors, however, who remind me
of men digging underground and laying
the foundation for city and civiliza-
ton. The most they can do is to make
the excavations and get themselves cov-
cred with chips, and dust, and stones,
and then have the distinguished pleas
ure of paying someone to brush them
off, and the consciousness that if there
is shortage they will have it to meet.
But after all my sympathies do not go
out very strongly to them, for we know
that when general wishes to punish
soldier he orders him to the rear and re-
fuses him the privilege of being sent
forward into peril. The men who so
wriggle and turn themselves as to escape
the burdens of the day are the ones who
have my sympathy, for they get SO far
away from Gods work that they stand a
good chance of being dropped out of His
fingers before He gets them into heaven.
In fact, / don't see anyone l want to
pity very much in connection with this
institution.
The masters Grafton was delivered by
Miss Helen Burnett, who, in the course
of her remarks, said:
We may build and equip Atlantic
liners such as were even undreamed OF
by our fathers. We may send them
around the world, steam driven and
lightning lighted, ploughing the green
sward of the ocean in storm and calm
with the familiar ease and safety with
which the farmer turns the burrows in his
fields, and yet we must ever take our
reckoning by the same old stars that
ages ago shone down on the roof of
Noah's ark and have been the lighthouse
lamps for all the sailors through all the
centuries. But what we rejoice at is
that the siftings OF science and the win
nowings OF thought have, in a great
measure relieved us of the chaff
and rubbish, leaving us only the
wheat and the gold. And what we can
say of our forefathers will possibly one
day be said of us when the antiquarian
societies of Central Africa shall ponder
over the ruins of our American civiliza-
tion. For the course of human history
from its beginning in the far past has,
on the whole, sloped upward. There
have been dark forests to thread, rugged
mountains to climb, deadly chasms to
cross, deep valleys to descend burning
deserts to traverse and hosts of enemies
to encounter and overcome. Ignorance
and superstition, with all their mon
strous offspring, have dogged humanity
from the first and sought to drag it back
ward and downward to darkness and
death. But in it and through it all,
there were poets and prophets, thinkers
and martyrs, who saw light ahead and
cheered the struggling race with visions
OF a brighter future. And as we look
back down the line of history we can see
how long and sad and weary has been the
march OF nations onward and upward
toward the ever vanishing sunlit peaks
in the far distance. And though there
have been long halts and many turnings
backward, yet after all, there has been
final progress, and today finds us far up
the mountain slope where the sun rays
begin to gild our banners whereOn is in
scribed Per asperG dd aStrd. We do
not believe that we have yet reached
the summit. We feel that the evolu-
ton OF the past is but indicative of the
splendid revelations of the future when
science, art and religion shall have re-
deemed the race from error and ushered
in the glorious era of truth. And so,
with tear for the dark past turn we
to the dazzling future, and yelling our
eyes press forward. The long winter OF
the race is ended Its summer has be-
gun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis.
The heavens are before it,"
AT the conclusion OF the exercises
President Bovard conferred degrees upon
the following: Helen Burnett, A. B.
Lily NJ. Allin, A. B.; Frank Sigler,
A. B.. Rose Harrison, Phi. B.. Fannie
Farr, Phi. B.; j. w. Curtis, Phi. B.
Frank Robinson, Phi. b. Sada johnson.
B. s.. Bertha S. Coffin, B. s.; Philena
T. Bovard, B. S.
The Normal School.
An open meeting of the L. O. L. Soci
ETY. was held in the assembly hall of the
normal school at s O'Clock Thursday
evening, in honor Of the graduating
class OF 80, at which an entertainment
of much higher order than is usually
the case on such occasions, was pro-
vided. An inkling of what might be
expected had evidently been given be-
forehand to their friends by the mem
bers OF the society, for at the appointed
hour, not seat was to be had in the
large hall, and standing room in the
Railways outside was at a premium.
The programme rendered was as fol-
lows:
Quartette, Misses Cora Barton, Maud
Boyle, Messrs. r. p Schilling, G. NJ