The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-13
EARLHAM COMMENCEMENT
TWO SENIORS Welded AND WILL
LEAVE As MISSIONARIES.
Class Day Programme at Franklin
COIlcge-Regntta at Notre Dame
Hanover Exercises.
Special TO the Indianapolis journal.


attended commencement held here for many
years. Nearly four hundred alumni
attended last evenings banquet, which
broke all records. they say in athletics.
Rev. John VI. Goodwin, of Nashville, Tenn,
class 'S5. delivered the alumni Grafton. There
had been a decided preference here for
DR.. John for the presidency in case he
could have been reelected, but such
was not done the feeling in Greencastle
to large extent is that the trustees have
done the next best thing in placing DR.. II.
\. Goblin. Greencastle man. in temporary
charge. and re-electing Bishop Bowman
chancellor.
The commencement exercises Of the senior
class of the College of Liberal Arts oc-
CURED at 10 o'clock this morning. Bishop
Atticus c. Haygood. d. D., Ii. D.. of Ok
ford Ga, OF the NJ. K. Church South was
on the programme for address to the
senior class. on the subject of Thirty
Years After Appomattox, but he failed to
arrive in the city. being detained at home
on account of illness. DIR. j. Il. ID. John
supplied the vacancy admirably and showed
his great versatility by making an excel
lent address to the outgoing class on
What Snail the University Do with, Wom-
en?' The circumstances under which DR..
John spoke were most trying 10 him. Ii
was his goodbye speech not only to the
class, but to the university, and the
students, Alumni ana citizens or GfeencdS-
tie. who packed Meharry Hall TO the doors
Coming within few hours after the public
had learned that President Johns resig-
nation had been taken as final by the
board, there was increased interest in what
he might say. No speech that had come
during the week Of speeches and orations
was listened to with such acute attention.
DIR. John realized the situation keenly. and
betrayed much tender feeling, and his words
were peculiarly effecting. His closing re-
marks follow:
WORDS TO SENIORS
Young Ladies and Gentlemen-This is a
moment CT supreme interest in your lives
1t is equally a moment fraught with some
hazard. The danger is that you will set
your eyes backward instead of forward
The backward look is we'll, but IL should
be only glance; the forward look should
be steady gaze. There is danger that
you will overestimate this moment by
garding Ii as the elimination OF past sue
cesses. rather than as the precursor of
greater successes yet to come. This is a
supreme moment to you, but every moment
is supreme. Every moment is the ending
of one epoch and the beginning of another
The calendar lays down the beginning and
the end of the year. but the earth came
before the calendar; and the earth at each
the sun, and begins another. There are
epochs in the sweep of the earth, and there
epochs in human lives. The earth does
not pause at one OF its epochal periods to
see how far it has gone, but with all the
new circuits i And God does not mean an
that men and women, when they have
passed "a, critical moment in their lives
their past achievements.
The best way to celebrate a victory is
10 gain new one. The best way to take
to another. You dare not stop to glory i'm
the past; The world moves, and whoever
halts falls behind the procession. We may
fold our hands for moment, but we unfold
them only TO grasp ut opportunity that has
forever gone by. Human life at the longest
is short enough for all the possibilities
within our reach, and cannot afford
TO make ii still shorter by sleeping when
we Should be be awake by DIR dreaming when
when we should be full of courage. To-
day is one of the critical periods in your
lives. 1t ends one stage only 10 begin
other. fraught with harder struggle. hall
lowed by higher responsibility and pregnant
with greater opportunity, and possibility.
Do not fold your hands. but grid on your
sword. Do not stop. but rather increase
your pace. Do not lull yourself into slum-
Ser with ahe g, r Sr ros Behold 1or
selves into activity with the cry, 'Lo, the
greater deeds. sacrifices and conquests yet
TO Gomez
To live in the past is sign of old age,
not a guarantee of youth and vigor. To
live in the past is 20 die in the present.
He who resolutely forgets the past eX-
cept as it is teacher. and who sets his
face towards the future, can never grow
old.
"Do your best in your lot. Do not worry
If great opportunity should not seem to
come to you. The greatness of an oppor-
opportunities. and large ones will come to
take their places. The size of an oppor-
tunity depends not on what passes without
us. but on what we require TO pass within
us; not on what 1t does for us bur on
| what we do with II. a small opportunity
to one is great to another. II is better to
nd rfa EfD ~ fnn TO-
| our capacity and succeed, than TO undertake
| one too large for us and fail. 1t is better
! to overcrowd a small sphere. than to rattle
around in a large one. Fill your sphere full
! 10 overlooking, and the overflow will bring
| you a wider sphere.
do not be square pegs i'm round holes.
| or round pegs In square holes. If
the place into which you are thrust is
round and you are square. either round
! to fit you Let none of your energy go TO
waste-there is too little spiritual energy
now I'm the world and God forbid that you
J and should diminish the store.
| T1ave convictions; not merely adjustable
opinions that depend on which way the
| wind blows but convictions that you will
stand by, whether the wind blow east or
west. or south or north, for convictions
Have convictions for which you will be
! willing TO be put TO Inconvenience: con-
victions for which you will be willing to
! contend; convictions FOR which you will he
/ willing to suffer-aye. convictions for which,
| If need be. YOU will be willing TO die.
4 Uopt W iIOiu NOu hereafter.
| Shall II be that you were content 10 take
! leave the world better than YOU found it?'
When d.. John had finished there was
| painful hush. and then subdued murmur
! OF satisfaction and Endorsement throughout
/ the large hall. Everyone felt his words
| contained deeper meaning than simple adj
vice to the graduates. 1t felt that he
| had spoken a justification for his part In the
| recent events at the university. Those who
know DR. John well that he is
| a man who takes his own advice, and that
when he has convictions he will stand by
4 being a trimmer. After the address he con-
! fcrred the following degrees and diplomats
| RECIPIENTS OF DEGREES
! ~ B,-John Sexton Abercrombie. Grace
| Washburn Birch. Frederick Harvey Bly,.
/ Brownfield. James Horatio Cooper, Oenda
| Lawrence Fulwider. Joseph Nelson Greene
! tba Sines Hattery. Eugene Holt Iglehart
! Herbert Spencer McCutchan. Joseph Gilsis
! McNutt. Leila Dell Middleton. sherman
J Powell. Ina Roger. Edward Seitz Shunfker
! Albert Preston Smith, Donald Louis Smith,
] Jesse Orila Stutsman. Henry Taber Epson
/ Julia Ann Williams.
| Phi. B-Henry Sigel Beals. Edith FULLY
| Grace Oglesby Carter. John Adams Chaffee,
| Frederick Henry Church. Herbert Arthur
| Church. Lille Dale Cline. Homer Lamont
| Cook. Charles Augustus Cooper. Hadde
| 'iarlsSe Daggy, George Nathaniel Dunn,
/ Mary Deborah Elliott. Walter Evans Erwin.
4 Abraham Lincoln Gary. Ezra Nicholas Cos
/ horn. James Morton House. Mamie Ada len
! nings. Norman William Jones. Terrell Eu-
| gene Morse. or lille CLYDE Pratt. Roscoe III
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