The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-21
THE CADETS IN LINE
James Sheafe and Fred Moron@
Win the Leary Medals.
THE DRILL UNUSUALLY LONG.
Herbert Osrrom and John Jackol Hold
Out for an Hour-C. N. Jenner,s
Address on success

G. X. Jenner al the university chapel con-
corning Success Great interest was
manifested in both events and large au-
oiences were present.
Sergt- James Sheafe won the gold medal
and Sergt. Fred Morong the silver medal
Yet in justice 20 Herbert Ostrom and John
Jackol, especially Ostrom. Il must he said
that Lieut.. Nholley. OF the United States
recruiting station, who conducted the drill
has great difficulty In arriving al the mer-
its of the case. A drill of half an hour is
usually sufficient TO settle the competi-
ton. but yesterday the lieutenant found
himself compelled 10 keep the examina-
ton up for one hour before naming the
victors.
All conditions were favorable for a good
exhibition of drilling. The campus pre-
sented lively sight. anxious mothers.
pretty sisters and admiring fathers were
there In fun force. The full quota OF MEM
bers of Companies a. 3 and C were in full
dress parade uniform and were drawn up
across the north end OF the ground oppo-
site the spectators. Lieut.. Hayden, OF the
First United States artillery. who has
charge OF the drilling at the university.
was on the grounds and took keen inter
est in what was going on. II was much
the same to him as public examination
OF his work.
When all the preliminaries had been
gone through with, the nine candidates
for special honors were called forth before
the assembled crowd. They were chosen
some time ago by preliminary drill, and
were as follows:
Company C-Herbert Ostrom. Oscar
Lee. Fred Morong.
Company B-Clayton Crawford, James
Sheafe. Mr.. Davis.
Company A-Crosby Keene, John Jackol.
Ginto Ymagouchi.
Lieut.. Wholley put the nine young men.
through a course OF sprouts that while
hard on them was well calculated to test
their knowledge of Uncle Sans tactics in
the military line. II man made a slight
mistake he did not stop the line and
drop him a ( once. His method Is
different. He drills men until he finds
out from their actions what they know
OF the subject and how well they can do
what is called for. II did not take HIM
a long time to reduce the number OF can
didates down to four. These We're Ostrom,
Morong, Sheafe and Jackol. Then the
drill went on and the lieutenant ex-
hausted 80 pages of tactics on them be-
fore ne dropped out Jackol. Three min
utes more and out went Ostrom. Ii was
then announced that James Sheafe had
won the gold medal and Morong the sill
yer. The troops were drawn up in line
and the presentations of the medals made
by Lieut.. Hayden.
In speaking of the drill Lieut. wholley
and they did well; yes. / may say very
we'll 1t was an unusually long drill but
the difficulty in deciding between the last
four necessitaJed it,
Following are the officers OF the cadets:
Company A-Captain. William NJ. Inglis:
first lieutenant, Harry MCGOWAN; second
lieutenant. Walter Wheeler. Company
B-Captain, Phillips Dearborn; first
lieutenant, Phillips Morrison: second
lieutenant, Harry F. Giles. Company C
Captain, James Gould: first lieutenant,
George Allen: second lieutenant NJ.
Fraser Staff-Adjutant. NJ. NJ. Moss;
quartermaster. Earl Jenner; quartermas-
ter sergeant, Martin Harrais.
The exercises of the literary societies
in the evening, were presided over ny
Earle r. Jenner, president of the Philo-
matheans, and Miss Martha Wiley. pres
ident OF the Normals. Preliminary to the
address Miss Clara Talmadge gave
piano solo. and Miss Alice Howell recited
Tomorrow at Ten" Both young ladies
responded TO hearty encores. Mr.. G. r.
Jenner was felicitously introduced 10y the
president of the PhiloEna theans in a brief
sentence, as follows:
THE best thing l can do is to say that
my name is Jenner and that the speaker
of the evening is my father"
Mr.. Jenner treated the subject Sue
cess" as applied TO life as a finished
whole. considering the term in its broad
est sense. In looking over history, he
said, one selects instinctiyely the great
characters. There were Alexander the
Great, whose military exploits led him
to conquer the world; Julius Caesar. who
carried the Roman eagles to the remote
corners OF the earth, yet who died struck
down by those he trusted and left behind
him a dynasty destined in few genera
tions 10 become the most debauched in
human history; Napoleon Bonaparte,
whom the star OF his destiny guided to
the distinction of heing the greatest gem
eral OF his day, yet who died an exile.
All these lives were failures. because they
had been concentrated on self, and when
they expired they Left no legacy OF love to
humanity True, the Code Napoleon was
a rich legacy of the reign OF the emperor.
but he himself was only an instrument
in the Hand Divine to bring order or. OF
chaos. His life. predominated by amb:-
ton and love OF self, was a failure. Ned
Forrest. Harry Courtaine. Adelina Patu.
James Gordon Bennett, the Rothschilds.
Jay Gould. Mrs. PAran Stevens. all lived
for self and self alone.
In contrast with the above stood Wash
ington. Lincoln. Peter Cooper, George
Peabody and Florence Nightingale. whose
motives in life had been love of country,
of humanity OF God. and whom thou
sands had called blessed. When Cardinal
Woolsey realized what his life had been
he cried out in The agonies Of his heart,
Cromwell I charge thee. fling away
ambition. BY that sin fell the angels"
He had found from bitter experience that
the successful life was that which made
country and God the chief object. Mr..
Jenner concluded:
There is one life that stands out In
history as the one successful life. II Is
that OF Jesus Christ Whether you be-
ueve. Him divine or human, there Is no
doubling here There is an entire alb
sence of self. The old dlspensation gave
an eve for an eye. a tooth for a tooth,
and Solomon, in the last OF Ecclesias'es
announces the law OF retaltatio Fear
God and keep His commandments. was
the framework OF gospel OF fear. Christ
not only gave 70 man the eleventh COM
uandment Love one another but He
lived f. and His life is the one that
stands out successfully in all history
I'VE can gather from what has been
said that not one bf tho lives that sought
for self and self alone. that were not
artua.ed by love OF country and human
itv. has been successful. Therefore. "a
Won strive for success. try 70 DO what
good Won can never departing from the
maths Of morality. righteousness and
truth. That life IS most successful which
has been devoted 70 love for his fellow
men. would impress the lesson on your
hearts that TO DO good is always right
and 20 do wrong Is never right or in
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