The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-20
OUT INTO THE WORLD.
Graduating Exercises of Uni.
versity of Washington.
"PER LABoRuM FIT sUcCEssus"
The Motto OF the Glass OF lS9e-Themes
OF the Orations and
Essays.

The annual commencement exercises of
the university of Washington were held in
the First Methodist Episcopal church yes
'erday afternoon. The room had been
very prettily decorated for the occasion by
Miss Annie ". Bates. Airy festoons hung
from the gallery, and on each side of the
PLATFORM were masses of palms and rhodo-
dendrons. Above, against a broad strip
OF yellow silk. wa. the class motto IN floral
letters, Fer Ldborem Fit Saccessus The
faculty, graduates. Judge William II. Up
ton, OF Waila Walla, Professor r. b.
Bryan, the state superintendent of public
instruction, and Rev. W. G. Eliot,
Jr., were on the platform. The
young women wore the customary white,
and it is due them to say that the gowns
were extremely becoming. The seats in
the body of the house and the gallery were
filled with friends and admirng parents,
chiefly the latter. The programme was as
follows:
Prayer '".''............ Rev. W. G. Eliot. II.
Musie-Selections from Lohengrin ..... Wagner
ora,ion-.A LOAF Of Bread Minnie Julia Potion
oration-"lnventions ana Progression"
......................John Herman Schrmer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF Genius" ......::..
Music, violin NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .Vieuxtsmps
..-...::....:.: John Alonso Kellogg
Music, overiure-'La Dame Biansn" ~. Boiidier
Address. Hon. William II. Upton
Presentation OF Diplomas by Hon. r. b. BRYAN.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Benediction Rev. w. q. Eliot, il.
Mr.. Douty in his Grafton sketched the
career of the great reformer Savonarola,
and closed with fine estimate of the fer
vent monks character and work. Miss
Pelton made clever comparison between
the nation and loaf of bread The peo-
pie were the flour, education was the yeast
and so on through all the ingredients.
Mr.. Schirmer spoke of the advances
brought about by the various great lnven-
tons, and Miss Nickels cited various strik-
ing instances to prove her thesis as to
the loneliness of genius. Mr.. Kellogg,
after briefly referring to the purity and
patriotism which for some reason he fam
cied were characteristic of politics GEN.
fury ago, bewailed the present degeneracy
and corruption. 1t was apparently his
conviction that unless the stay at ONE
vote could be brought to the polls. the ma
ton would rush headlong to anarchy, ruin
and various things of that disastrous sort.
Miss Parker dwelt at some length on the
theory of evolution.
The address bv Judge Upton was COM
psratively brief. bnt was timely and
pointed. He took for his text the Latin
motto, Esse guam cideri-to be rather than
seem-and urged his young hearers TO
Sh nd hv
religion, politics and education.
In presenting the diplomas Professor
Bryan spoke for a few minutes on
Washington's educational endowment.
He said that if the states various school
lands were we'll managed they would yield
an income sufficient to support the finest
schools in the country without the imposi-
ton of dollar of tax. For the common
schools there were 9, 500 900 acres, for the
agricultural college 1900, for the normal
schools 100000. for the schools of technical
science 100000, and for reformatories
and other educational institutions 100000.
The State university had had seventy-two
sections. but the money from those lands
had all been spent. Professor Bryan ex-
pressed the hope that steps might be taken
to make the university Weather and more
independent.
Diplomas in music were granted to May
Clohecy, Abbie 4. Drew, Carrie Noble and
Edith V. Simon. The normal diplomas
were granted as follows: Marguerite
Annie Baldwin, theme, "Silent Forces -
Vesta May Baldwin, theme, PHILOSOPHY
Of Beauty" Hattie Phillips Griswold,
theme, Myths" Lillian Annie Keen,
theme. Evolution of Poetry" With the
usual Latin formula President t. NJ. Catch
conferred the degree of bachelor OF science
upon D. Ellis Douty. John Alonzo Kel-
logg, Adelaide Grace Nickels, Minnie
Julia Pelton and John Herman Schirmer,
and bachelor Of arts upon Lima Maud
parkar