The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-15
'94'S CLASS DAY.
Exercises Of the Seniors at
SayIes Memorial Hall.
Glass Tree Planting This Afternoon
and the "Prom." Tonight.

The opening exercises of Glass Day at
Brown University were held in Sayles
Memorial Hall, at 1890 o'clock this
morning in the presence OF large and
brilliant assemblage. The weather
deity smiled most benignantly
upon the grave and reverend seniors ar
rayed I'm their mortar caps and gowns as
they marched across the campus
uncor the leadership OF Chief Mar
shal Cooper, and proceeded down the
main aisle to the reserved section at the
right OF the platform. O'Connor had
decorated the stage, tho balcony and the
walls with graceful and fragrant profu-
sion of vines, tropical plants and cut
flowers and tho bright and picturesque
summer costumes OF tho ladies enhanced
the charm and beauty OF the scene..
Reeves orchestra stationed in the bal
cony filled the spacious auditorium with
sweet melody, and stimulated by the in
spiration OF such stirring environments the
class representatives, TO whom the burden
OF the oratorical and poetic entertainment
was entrusted, acquitted themselves with
much honor and distinction.
The exercises opened with an orchestral
selection, "Chuda Septimas," and prayer
by President Andrews, after which the
orchestra rendered the entire act OF ..Liffls
Beauty" and Clayton Sedgwick Cooper,
president OF the graduating class, de-
iivered his address.
Mr.. Cooper's speech was somewhat
general in character. lie spoke of
the success that had greeted the
senior class during the four years
day in the life of every senior. The
speaker then referred to the president and
professors OF the University to whom the
members OF the class of 81 had been SO
deeply indebted for the remark kable SER
vices that they had rendered, often
under such trying circumstances
the personal interest that had been taken
in each student as we'll as in the work in
the class and lecture rooms, all OF which
tended to make the respect that had first
been felt something deeper and more
abiding.
The address was concluded with glow
ing tribute to the class OF '4 and few
words Of advice in regard to their conduct
after they had passed out into the world.
The orchestra then rendered "Old
Brown" q series OF concert waltzes, after
which John Hope rendered the class ora
tion, "Brown University"
Mr.. Hope said that every member OF the
graduating. class might he supposed to
he certainly should be preeminently
loyal to his Alma. Mater. II this
was not q fact reverence for the college
would be but a fiction and only hollow
sentiment would make the class raise, In
glad chorus, the name Of Brown.
progress Of the university spirit from
a !, time previous to that of thst
| AfiddIS Ages, and showed that
| the powerful and abiding influence OF
! the Renaissance was felt today nowhere
more emphatically than In intellectual
| affairs, and no monument stands so
characteristic of this many sided influence
bo nutvoraifv
| Mr.. Hope then selected a few names
| from the list of Brown graduates to show
J that the University might well be re-
| garded as one OF the ideal institutions.
| Among those that were mentioned were
Francis Wayland, man who
| inr and deep manhood than any educator
| of his time; Nathaniel Wheaton, who
| wrote the most profound and authoritative
| work on international low in existence,
1 John Lsrkin Lincoln and DIR. Roberts,
1 who, carried the lessons OF higher and
broader intellectual and spiritual lie 70
th4 ignorsnt and vuperstitious negro Of
A. idyl ssfbe Harp Sounds was rem
] derc1 81 the orchestra, and Harold Doxter
Hs:SRiSs 7: dsliSsssf 5hs class posm' "Th'
! TIE posm was . pleasing conception o!
1 soms'sl thA important lessons o. LIE ana
credit upon the poet.
ThS roruine 6xrrciscs were concluded
with abe0sd iction and the 'Commepcc'
mont March. s.ty ~ ts-.e n.
| n|.'s Excrclses At the Tree.
| AeS:so o,clock the usosl s1srylses at th'
elsss tree esd on thl eaeys stes oc
band ~ concert. Tho en-
6rn1ses z proper lr,commeucing at -
S58ockf when f9owaFd Frapfis Gemwel
! SS(iysrId Ms ddrsss on 4" univcrstsy TX
\ tension. ,hriIhe >6dtrsss s6ntaipcd mani
/ iupportspt facts in regasd to the history o
ths movemen( el4ce4he dsyes us inseitu
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