The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-13
COLLEGE LOAFING SEASON
Another Year Completed at Most OF the
Institutions of Learning.
Bsecalauresies OF Pr, siients futile and COul.
ter-Staie Normal faily in Neei of y
New Building-Last Week ct Butler.
WABASH COLLEGE.
President Tuttle'. Thirtieth and Final Bac

President Tuttle's Thirtieth and Final Bac-
caIaurease Sermon.
spteial 20 tie Indianapolis Journal
CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, June 12.-The
commencement season is In full swing, yet
there 10 a sad effect caused by the tact that
Blackford Condit Mills, of Terre Haute,
senior, died June 2. and James II. Adams,
q junior. died just q week later. Since
year ago five alumni have died-WiIiiam
&. Wilson. Al; g. G.. Dunn, 81; c. Is. Bowk-
er, III; G.. A. Kanouse, '73. and j. Is. Alien,
's5. President Tuttle to-day delivered his
thirty-first and last baccalaureate address.
and this evening the commencement SER
mon was delivered Dy Prof. J. s. Riggs, of
Auburn Seminary. After reviewing the
history of the college the president. In his
baccalaureate, said:
Gentlemen OF '92-Thus far the baccalaureate
has borne more directly ON the president OF the
college than on those who are TO receive at his
hands the bachelors crown. Yet this review Is,
IN some sense. sermon TO you III dlscourses OF
poverty. struggle and attainment. IL compares
The be ginning OF q period with its close. Thirty
years ago the pastor OF "a country church was
transferred from that place TO the presidency or
this college. At the end OF thirty years he Is to
turn the sacred trust 70 the board which conferred
It, You may be sure with me this is an interesting
incident. The panorama or war and OF peace;
or brothers and comrades, OF co-laborers and
OF disciples, the living and the dead, unrolls Its
faithful records before my eyes. These years
have been remarkable in the annals OF the Ma
ton. But to-day my mind dwells chiefly on that
history which gathers itself about the name of
this college and Its sons. OF the six men Who
dined together at Mrs. Hoveys table, Feb. %,
1862, Hovey,S Mills. Thomson and Hadley.
and their honored hostess, Mrs. Mary &. HOvey,
are not living. OF the class OF seven who heard
the baccalaureate of '62, jackson. Kingston
aud Milford are gone. and many others. Thirty
years ago addressed my first class, and to-day
j am addressing my last. On that day an-
nOunced the words "this one thing do" as a
rule OF life for those young men.
The years have swept rapidly away, and To-
Gay take up the sublime rule and review Its
application 10 the history In which. with others,
have been a humble actor. In addressing the
class OF 62 referred to the death OF their non,
my remarks 10 you who stand before me to-day
the class of 90.
'sGo TO your life-wOrk, be strong, be courage
GUS, he good; GO and do what your hands flnd 70
do with your might; and be sure You do this one
thing. that when you come TO ole you may
beautiful sentences with which DR.. White closed
the eloquent utterances of noble Christian lie;
Faith sees the blessed Savior at the death bed
side, with attendant angels to so0the, and sus-
tain, and bear up the spirit to heaven" And,
with these words, pass the sacred trust which
who shall breathe the blessings of God on the
coming classes.
Visiting alumni are: L. p Lain 80. of
Sheldon, Ill; s. NJ. Morrison. '9l. of indian
apolIs: Rev. Campbell Coyle. 80, of Nevada,
Ia; Frank May, 'SS, of Aspln Hill, Tenn;
Andrew McMaken, 80, of Chicago; Gen. s..
3. Fry, 40, of Harrod's Creek. Ky.
4. J. Lloyd, $50. has been appointed one
of the four Hitchcock contestants in Bible
history by the faculty of Mon Theological
Seminary. Ned Ballard, '9l, secured $50 as
second prize in the Cincinnati Law school.
Rev. c. III. Little, 70. delivers the bac-
calaureate at Coates College, at Terre
Haute. to-day.
The final issue of The Wabash, the col
lege monthly, will appear this week. This
publication is in charge of each senior
class. and was admirably conducted last
year. The staff for next year will be: w.
w. Wilson editor-in-chief, w. V. Hutch
ings business manager, e. NJ. Zener edi-
torial and college news, Arthur Hughart
and alumni editor. The Ouiatenon. the
college annual, has appeared. and IL is the
finest production of the kind ever issued.
Claude Travis entertained the Phi Debts
and friends last evening. Several men,
bers of the PHI Psis, with female friends,
picnicked at the Shades Yesterday. The
SIgs gave a dance last evening at their
hall. The Phi PsIs will have q banquet at
the Mutt House this week.
w. e.. Abbott, of Noblesville senior,
has secured the fellow ship in English
phiiology at Cornell. Hutchings Is now
manager of the football team. The glee
club returned last night from trip in
Illinois, having been at Charleston and
Westteld. The senior class will give the
class-day exercises at Music ali to- orrow
evening, and an interesting programme has
been arranged. The commencement pro-
Rrammes are beauties and were engraved
by l.. A. Wright. of Philadelphia There
will be no commencement hop. From
present indications, no person Tor president
will be named az tho meeting of the
trustees. Campus has been moved, and
the several buildings renovated, in readi-
ness Tor commencement visitors