Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22
LIES FIRST LESSON
Completed by Many Graduates of the
Pennsylvania Colleges.
CLASS MEETINGS AT WASH-JEFF.
Commencement Week Also at Grove City
and New Wilmington.
NEws1 NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS
,ePrcrAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,


WASHINGTON, PA, June 2L-The in
coming trains to this city to-day were
crowded with commencement visitors, many
of whom had been graduated from WASH
ington-J eferson college years ago. By far
the most interesting exercises of the week
were held to-day. The exercises consisted
in the reunion of the Washington-Jefers
classes Of ~; the Washington class Of 80,
and the w. and ]. classes of 'S2 and 'S7.
bers sat in friendly circles in the various
class-rooms of the college, and related in
teresting stories of their happy school day
lives, and listened attentive1y to the history
of the classes since graduation.
Tonight in the Opera House the College
Mandolin and Guitar Club, which has won
many laurels during the past two years, gave
a concert to an immense audience. Ex-
Governor James A. Beaver, who arrived
here at O'Clock, was an appreciative list
ener.
An interesting event was the meeting of
the surviving members of the class of '52 at
Canonsburg to-day. Twenty members of
this class have passed away, while the re-
naming members are scattered all over two
continents
One Glass Reunion at Canonsburg.
To-day, however, many gathered at
Canonsburg and were especially interested
in the reading of their class history by DR..
M. B. Riddle, of the Western Theological
Seminary. This class embraced such dis
tinguished men as Justice Silas M. Clark
and Hon. Eugene Wilson, of Minnesota,
both deceased; Rev. A.. o. johnson, MUIR
dered in the Cawnpore massacre in India in
1857; Joe Shaw, editor of the Westminster
Democrat, assassinated in 1865 by mob;
Rev. M. B. Riddle, now of the Western
Theological Seminary, and many other dis
tinguished men.
Tomorrow, at o'clock, the class of '92
will be graduated in the First Presbyterian
church. The orators of the occasion had
long been chosen, but in order to institute
reform in such measures the class selected
the following gentlemen to represent them
on this occasion: Salutatory, 'The Evolu-
tion of Society,"" James A. Kelso; ga
Study in the Development of Christianity"
w. R. Farmer; Natures Compensation"
P. s. Gardner; "British India" j. w.
Hoffman; ''No Stranger at Our Gates,'
Fulton Jack; "Specialism," R. Phillips;
Valedictory, L. H. Downing. w. S. Hay
maker, of Braddock, will deliver the
masters oration, his subject being can
drew was Simon Peters Brother"
After the commencement the corner
stone of the handsome and costly new gym
nasium. which is being erected on the COL
Beaver presiding. This, in turn, will be
followed by the alumni banquet, at which
Mr.. Beaver will again preside, and the COM
mencement of '92 will be ended.
Among the prominent graduates of the
college who are here, are the following:
Edward 7. Hartje, Pittsburg; Mayor Sandy
Houston, Monongahela City; G. E Kuhns,
j. C. Shields, Ed. B. Mccormick and D. D.
Miller, Greensburg; Rev. D. A. Cunning
ham, Wheeling; D. I. Reid, Austin, Ark;
Rev. John G. Vance, Allegheny; j. R. Bell,
lakewood; Rev. Frank Hill, Parnassus;
Rev. A. P. Relso, SaharaEpm, India; W.
Hayes, Kansas City; Rev. H. G. Furguson
and j. F. Narchan, Canton, O.
In the Other Colleges
A special telegram to THE DISPATCH
from Grove City, Pa, says: Commence
ment week at the college here is passing off
very pleasantly. President Ketler's ser
mon Sunday evening is creating considera-
BILE favorable comment. It was strong
protest against pessimism, the President de-
claring that the good in man far exceeds the
evil; that the dogmatism of the sixteenth
teenth, and that theology is really pro-
gressive science. This evening President
and Mrs. Keller rendered reception to the
graduating class of 1892. There were 43O
students in attendance this. session and the
graduating class numbered AZ.
A special telegram to THE DISPATCH
from New Wilmington, Pa, says: At
meeting of the Alumni Association of New
Wilmington College, Judge. Martin, of New
Castle, was elected member of the Board
of Trustees. Rev. j. M. Fulton is the re-
tiring member