The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

| LAWRENCE, Kan, June 10. - Today
closed the exercises of the quarter cen
| tennial of the state university. President
! Angel, of the Michigan state university,
delivered the address this morning. his
subject being. "The Development of the
State Universities. F." The first part of the
address was devoted to the university of
Kansas, and the speaker paid a high COM
plimeut to the institution and to the state
He then discussed higher education by
states and state universities in general.
His address was mastery and scholarly
effort.
After President Angel finished his ad-
dress, Pliny Leland Soper, OF the class of
81, delivered the masters Grafton. His
subject Was State Interference in Econ
omic Affairs" Mr.. Soper is now assistant
United States district attorney for Kansas.
His address was a strong one
AT the close of the Grafton the graduates
were addressed by Chancellor Snow, who
gave them some excellent advice in refer
ence TO their duties as citizens, after which
the diplomas were presented and the exer-
cises of the twenty-fifth commencement
were at an end.
There are twenty-five graduates in the
department of arts and science, one in civil
engineering twenty-five in law and ten in
pharmacy. Two also receive the degree of
master of arts and two as masters of S i
enCe.
TOPEKA, Kan, June 10.-The third an
nual banquet of the alumni of the
Michigan State university was held at the
Copeland tonight. Hon. Albert H. Horton
presided IN the capacity of toast master
Toasts were responded to by Hon. James
B. Angel, president of the Michigan
university; Hon. A. G Otis, Henry Wade
Rodgers, president of the Northwestern
university; Hon. o. II. Dean, of Kansas
City: Rev. DR.. J, A. Lippincott and John
A. Murray, Of Topeka, and others.
THE FREDERICKSBURG MONUMENT.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, June 1O-The
town was profusely decorated today with
bunting and Confederate and national
flags In honor of memorial day and the un-
yelling OF the Confederate monument.
The oration of the day was delivered by
Gen. Bradley 7. Johnson. The monument
was erected by the Ladies' Memorial asso-
citation. About 3 o'clock the procession
was formed and marched through the !
streets to the cemetery, where |
3 600 Confederate soldiers are buried. amid |
cheers from the throng which lined the |
route. The services at the cemetery were |
opened with prayer by Rev |. w Canter, !
of the Methodist church, and then Gen. |
Bradley 7. johnson, of Baltimore. deIiv- |
cred the unveiling address. Among other /
things, he said:
For the last twenty years | have been |
observing with growing wonder the /
of the feeling toward the |
actors on the Confederate side It is a |
TACT, and wonderful fact, that the
Dathos, sentiment and romance of the war
between the states is concentrated and |
,ryStaIllzed about the cause of the Confed-
aracy. Ia the north today no name thrills |
human hearts like that of Lee-no name
,lectritieS the peoDle like that of Stonewall
Jackson Neither Grant, nor Sherman
Tor Sheridan, the great and successful
soldiers of the victorious side have left
such impression on the imagination or
hearts of the people as have the leaders of
he Confederates who died In battle or
'ielded to overwhelming force when
urther resistance would have been GRIM
nal
Il do not mean to intimate, for do not
believe 1t, that the north has changed its
'pInIon as to the wisdom of our course.
they thought then, they think now, that
was foolish to break up the Union. be-
suse. first. the Union was profitable: sec
nd, because il was impossible. before
forces, for us to succeed
5ut do say that the idea is dimlv press
ng itself upon the northern mind that we
ried to avoid war and did not want war:
ut that IT was brought on, waged and
ontinued for the purpose of keeping fac
Ion IN power, and enabling the controllers
[ the faction TO make a profit out of it. 5"
The monument was then unveiled by
apt. John ". Barney The exercises
losed with an artillery and infantry
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