The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-18
SEYENTY-EIGHTBY YEAR
OF tho 1insIy Institute Closed IN
der Eevorlng Skies
A PICTURESQUE COMMENCEMENT
On the State Fair Grounds Yesterday
Afternoon =. Twenty.one Graduates
Receive their Diplomas-..A Hand
some Flag Presented to the Cadets
BIZ Lady Friends

Another year closed for the old Linsly
Institute yesterday, and another class
went out into the world to complete
elsewhere the education, here so auspi-
ciousIy begun.
Last years experiment OF having the
exercises out Of doors proved SO pleas
ing and acceptable an innovation in
Wheeling commencement celebrations
that 1t was concluded to again hold
them on the State fairgrounds, where
the grand stand affords all the facilities
for spectators that could be desired,
while tho performe1 occupied the
Judges stand and the band the music
box. The crowd present could not have
been packed into the largest theatre or
church in Wheeling.
The boys marched from their armory
ut the Institute up street, across the
new steel bridge and down South Penn
street to the fair grounds, headed by
tho Opera House band, which furnished
inspiring strains for the march and
throughout tho literary aud military
exercises which followed
The line arrived in front Of the grand
stand shortly after 2 O'clock, where
thew were greeted by hundreds OF men,
women and children, md in a few min
utos the crowd had largely increased.
THE EXERCISES.
When the boys had stacked arms and
broken ranks, Rev. DIR. Cooke, pastor
OF the Second Presbyterian church, OF.
fered a fervent prayer, and after music,
G. W. letters was introduced, and de.
livered the salutatory. In spite of the
distance between himself and his audi
tors, every word was distinctly heard.
His address was we'll worded, thought
full and feeling. 1t formed worthy
introduction to programme OF uni
form excellence. .
NO. Ford spoke logically and force.
fully OF 1.-THE Advantage Of Education. !"
He showed thorough appreciation Of
the truth of his theme, and his paper
was full of good thoughts.
&C. Halls theme WAS the Latin
motto OF his class, "Nos conari habemus"
1--WE have the courage to undertake" "
He told Of the circumstances which led
to the adoption Of this motto, and
showed how the members Of the class
had justified Its choice, expressing the
hope that all Of them would in future
continue to show so desirable quality
and vindicate in their lives their just
title to the motto. :.
D. II. Wagner's essay on Genius"
and the next one, W. B. Higgins's, on
"Individuality," dovetailed into each
other somewhat in the line of thought
and the ideas advanced, yet each
showed enough individuality in his
paper. Both showed thought, aud their
essays, separately and together, were
interesting and creditable.
After music G. w. Atkinson, jr., read
a biographical sketch of Noah Lnsly,
so appropriate to the occasion that it is
here printed in full:
NOAH LIEsbY.
But few men have been public bene-
factors. But few men have done what
they could to elevate and ennoble their
race. But few have sought, above every,
thing else, to make the world better
Many have done we'll. Many have con-
tributed of their means to elevate hui
manity. Many have done noblJ along
this line, but comparatively few have
left their impress upon the times in
which they tourished, all along the
ages, by the muniicent distribution oil
their means and resources. In looking
back over our own Mountain State,
we find one name, that towers above all
others, in the establishment of an edu-
cational system here in Wheeling, that
has lived over three.quarters OF cen.
fury, and is growing stronger, and
broadening its influence with the pass
ing OF tho years. In the beginning the
school which this man established was
called "The Lancastrian Academy"
practically our present American sys-
tom Of public schools. 1t was new in
Wheeling then. It is'old now. 1t was
the lighting OF torch in educationa
work that is now shining all over West
Virginia. 1t gave new impulse to
education, an impulse that can be seer
and felt, to the present day, in every
portion of our state. The experiment
Of the Lancastrian academy is now the
solid. we'll equipped, we'll endowed,
Liusly Institute Of Wheeling, West Yir'
ginia; and its founder and builder wai
Noah Linsly. 4fa
In the city of tho dead on yonder hill
top, which we cali "Ntount Wood GENE
terry" he has been slOeping for nearly
three-quarters OF century, AT the
head OF his grave stands a neat marble
shaft, bearing this inscription:
NOAH IINaY.
A Naifrs Of tOapEettth
The Founder OF the LanoaStrian Academy.
The Friend OF Youth and tho BenctRctor o.
Mankind. nts
Althnnnh VIZ know hut litflA of the