Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-29
LAST DAY OF CHAUTAUQUA.
Graduates Awarded Diplomas
by DR.. Winbigler.
Hawthorne and Irving Contrasted b,
Professor Anderson.
Grip and Grit Depicted by Rev. MT.
Silcox-A Large Audience At
the Closing Concert
Last Night.

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Last Night.
The Chautauqua assembly that has
been held at Long Beach for the past
ten days, closed last night. The session
has been success in all respects, and
the managers are to be congratulated on
such happy termination of the affair.
The. graduates received their diplomas
from DIR. Winbigler yesterday morning,
and appropriate remarks were made by
DIR. Weller, Rev. J. I'll. Silcox and DR..
Winbigler. The following were the
graduates: Mary G. Carpenter, Boyle
Heights; Mrs. Harriet E. Hubbard,
Cotton; Mrs. Mary d. Todd, Mary J.
May, University; Mrs. Abbie Lee But
ton, Cotton; Mary Stuart Walllng, Gar
den Grove; Anna @. Buchanan, East
Los Angeles. The historical contest ter
minated in tie for both prizes: First
prize, Mr.. Bailey and Miss Bishop !;
second prize, Judge Potter and j. H..
Hill.
The devotional and normal school
hours were well attended yesterday.
Professor Anderson delivered his final
talk before the American literature
]. class in the morning. 1t was an essay
comparing Irving and Hawthorne and
will be published in book form.
In substance he said: Irving and
Hawthorne led distinctively literary
lives under very similar conditions, and
both without being politicians, held
government positions abroad. Both
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wholesome lives and after long strug-
gle against unfavorable conditions re.
ceived recognition at home and abroad.
Both were masters of pure, simple,
lucid style, superior to that of their
contemporaries, Bulwer, Dickens and
Thackeray. Both were distinctively
writer's of prose; the aim OF each was
the aim of the literary artist. That is,
they wrote rather to crafty the taste
than to instruct. Nevertheless, the
unquestionable.
Irving appeared nearly generation
before Hawthorne, and Irving's first
thorne was still little boy; in fact Irv-
ing was the pioneer in the field of
American letters, and lacked the stimu-
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that time only abroad. Hawthorne on
the other hand grew up in the midst OF
the transcendental influence of New
England, although he was very little
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the difference between the two men is
most striking, Irving's sunny temper
is apparent in all of his works and Haw-
thorne on the other hand is nocturnal
and gloomy. Irving touches none of
the deeper moral problems upon which
Hawthorne thought SO intently. Haw-
thorne is a profound novelist and deals
with profound subjects that Irving does
not touch at all.
The lecture was concluded with a
high tribute to Hawthorne as one of the
first writers of the age.
GRIP AND GRIT.
An unusually large crowd was pres
ent in the afternoon to listen to the
lecture of Rev. J. D. Silcox. His talk
differed in a measure from all of the
previous lectures, but it was none the
less enjoyed. The subject was one that
could not fail to interest all, and con-
tanned some very practical suggestions.
1t is from the hardy norsemen, the
bold vikings, that we get the two words
grip and grit, and the quality composing
them. Grip means to grasp and to take
hold of in a vigorous fashion; while grit
means holding on to what you have.
They are partners, and, like the Siamese
twins. 60 hand in hand.
The speaker next referred to the
women who lead poodle dogs by a
string, and said that if he had bis choice
he would take the string. These ladies
were referred too with much sarcasm
and were called poodles' nurses. The
gripless and gritless man was found
in the social world and was
a. firt, fit only to marry a
poodle's nurse. An amusing descrip-
tion of how the dude dresses and makes
love was given, and he added that he
detested a f1irt and had q constitutional
and undying contempt for man who
hampers with a woman's love. He
would rather break all the command
ments and take his chances of going to
heaven than to break the marriage VOW
made at the altar. There was nothing
that had so much grit in it as the love
of a wife for her husband-not even the
love of mother for her son.
A number of illustrations were given
OF success finally won by perseverance,
including droll description of how the
homely but gritty man won his bride.
If the lives of the men who have
made successes are studied, they will
show that they possessed infexible and
invincible grit. Napoleon wasa more
brilliant general and more of genius
than Wellington, but the latter steadily
overcame every defeat in the Peninsula,
and finally won at Waterloo because Of
1 his qualities of grip and grit. We must
focus our powers. Barnufn, Agassiz,
Harper, Booth, lAstor and Vanderbilt
were given as instances of men who had
stuck to their various professions and
had succeeded because of their persist
ence.
5, Genius without labor is. no match for
/ mediocrity with drudgery. The boys
do not serve long enough as apprentices