The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-14
EARLHAN,s TwENrY-srx.
Address to the Glass by DIR. Angel,
of Ann Arbor.

VI N AEnDFs
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Jane B.-The last
event of commencement week at Earlharn
College came off to-day with the GRADUATE
ling exercises of the class of "a. On the
decorated platform besides the twenty-six
Members of the class. including twelve
young women. were President Mills. DR..
James Il. Angel. OF Ann Arbor. Rev. Bin
ford. Timothy Nicholson and other friends
of the college. Dr. Angel delivered the
address 10 the class. He spoke on The
Heroic Spirit in Life" In part President
Angel said:
Our Lord plainly tod men that they
must cherish a brave and heroic spirit.
The call for men OF heroic spirit always
brings heroes TO the front. Life calls for
heroic patience and persistence in every
one who Is pushing TO the front. No
years in ones iife call for more pluck
than the years just before the young grad
uate. The conspicuous positions
10 which the young graduates are called
demand the bravery induced by high
ideals. This is especially true now. You
your training to stand for purity In polit-
ical management. You will need all the
heroic blood in your veins 10 stand by the
right to the end. Let me call your at
tention TO two great heroic leaders or
men. Far back in the gray dawn OF Jew
ish life we find one such man. Moses. In
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human history. An old tradition refers TO
Moses as a graduate OF what we should
call the University OF H~eliopolis. the OK
ford of his time. With every prospect of
gratifying his ambition as a scholar and
an officer, yet with an abnegation which
we can hardly measure. and a devotion 10
his people and his God which his whole
subsequent career so wonderfully illus
trated. he deliberately chose rather to
suffer afiietion with the people Of God
than TO enjoy the pleasure of sin for a
season
THE New Testament also gives us the
life of a scholar who combined the best
learning or his time with the most heroic
devotion to truth. Saul of Tarsus. Now
that life which seemed to the Jewish
rabbis as lost, thrown away, is still blaz-
ing with light before the world. But some
of you will say with becoming humility
that you are not looking to the posts OF
conspicuous leadership. but rather 10 the
the great mass of college-bred men ana
women. Still you may well cherish the
brave and heroic spirit. Does this view OF
life seem stern and exacting? Surely IL
is no more so than that which breathes
through the teachings OF our Master. II
any OF you have no higher aim than TO
perhaps you can so drift: but the question
is whether the voyage is worth making.
/ am sure that to-day loftier purposes IN
spire your hearts. Earnest and strenuous
views Of the significance and responsible
ties of life are not unweicome TO you"
After the address President Mills pre-
scented the diplomas. Eleven received the
degree of Pm. B., seven that OF B. s..
seven that of B. L. and one that Of b. a.
The masters degree was conferred on
Charles Reagan. Following is the list OF
graduates:
Clarence NJ. B%urkholder. Chicago; celia
S b; Gox; AE Artsar j. NJ Fre ebnaies' coz Riohn 5eiaa:
| Emma Doan, Westfeld; Walter f. Dor,
land. Chicago; George DeVoL Glens Falls.
Ellis Eli 81; Ridge %; f Farm, P H.; 6aT%iii' F SsEnlias
Richmond; Abigail Gilbert. Lewisville;
Lulu c.. Hadley. Lawrence. Kan; NJ.
son. Lynn; Stephen Stanton Mydick, Ricn-
mond; Anna NJ. Moore. Richmond; Anna
e. Maddox. -Bloomingdale; William E.
vincennes; Carrie 1. Riggs. Granger. Ky:
Ebert Russell. West Newton; Frederick
c.. Roberts, West Elkton, o.; Daniel IN.
Shoemaker. Fair Haven. o.; BENJAMIN b.
Lswisville; Evelyn White, Knightstown.
The class exercises yesterday morning
listened to by a large audience of students
and citizens. The exercises consisted or
the presidents address by Surrilda Ellis
| class history by Ebert Russell: ITO Our
Alma Mater" by Anna Maddox: class
| poem, by c. NJ. Burkholder: class prophecy
by Arthur Charles and Anna Moore: the
White, n the final class song. The an
| nual address before the Literary Society
was given yesterday afternoon by the Rev.
DR.. Coultas, OF indianapolis. DR.. Coultas
handled his theme, From Palos to Chi
cago; or, and Columbia" in a
thoroughly inspiring way. He held that
Columbus as she now exists and as the
future will reveal her is a very different
thing from the dream Of Columbus. DR..
Couitas may well be pleased with the inn
preston he left on the students and
friends Of Earlham.
DIR. Arthur c. Rogers, superintendent OF
the Minnesota State Institution for the
Feeble Minded, gave the annual address
TO the alumni on Social Pathology" IL
was both scientific and practiccl. DR..
Rogers had charge Of the display of the
work of the feeble-minded at the worlds
fair at Chicago. The alumni poem was
given by Mr.. A. W. Macy. of Chicago.