The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-11
.ELON'S GALA DAY
A Happy Address by Ex-Judge
Robert w. Winston.
JULIAN S. CARR APPLAUDED
Reference to His Name Received With
Cheers--S STEADY Growth of the Col
and Splendid Outlook Clos
ing Exercises To-Day

Elon College, n. c., June 10.-(Spe-
cial.)-The commencement exercises
of this college began yesterday and
will close tomorrow evening.
The college building sits well back
in a grove with literary seclusiveness.
The exercises this delicious summer
morning were ushered in by music by
the college orchestra light and catchy
as the season.
The young women and young men
marched in down separate aisles and
the spacious hall rapidly filled.
The features of the day were the
literary address by ex-Judge r. w.
Winston this morning and the bacca-
laureate sermon tonight by Rev. Mar
tyn Summerbell. of Maine.
Two hours of the afternoon We're
spent in the Art Exhibit in which
there were some charming specimens
of the artistic spirit fostered here.
But Yesterday was perhaps no less
interesting than to-day, being taken
up in the evening with addresses by
the pupils and the Alumni address in
the morning by Rev. n. G. Newman,
OF NOF1Olk. Va, HIS SubJctO having
been Observation-Disclosures Building.
1t was mastery presentation.
The subjects and society representa-
tives were as follows
F. Berta Graham. n. C.. Psiphelian,
Subject: "a Plea for Southern Lit
erature."
John w. Spence, Va, Clio. Subject:
seThe So-called Lost Cause"
uanCnIt Miss Watkins
Ed. Summers, n. c.. Phi. Subject:
"Altruism and Social Progress"
Whisper and Shall Hear, Piccolom-
mi Miss Long.
I. W. Johnson, Va, Clio. Subject:
ga Successful Pilot"
The Flattereer, Chaminade. Mrs.
Albright.
Ulabell Edwards. n. C. Psiphelian.
Subject: Thoughts About New
Poetical Era"
and Mrs. Albright
w. Fl. Young, n. c., Phi. Subject:
The Evolution of a Diamond.
Preceding the address of Judge
Winston this morning, the college mu-
sicians gave some delightful selections,
notably the Lusts-Speil Overture by
held Ield, TenOeTeu Dy MISSES I<d-
wards, Jones, Long and Mrs. Albright.
Judge Winston opened his address
by saying "You have wrought great
work here and should be proud of it.
The strength of college is the
strength of the internal working of
the college.
After paying deserved high COM
pliment to the speakers of Tuesday
evening. Judge Winston addressed
himself to the subject: ''The Ameri-
can Boy"
He humorously opened by saying
that an old bachelors plan for raising
boy was up to the age of fifteen put
him in barrel with all the holes
stopped up except the bung-hole, and
when he got to be fifteen, stop up the
bung- hole" 0aughter.)
Judge Winston continuing said that
the lots of the boys and girls of this
day has not fallen in unpleasant places
He referred to the pocketless pants
of Senator Vance and to the mother
of Marion Butler who sold cakes upon
the streets of Clinton, and said there
were not in the State to-day a very
rich man who had not started poor
The Judge said the simple pleasures
of life could not be monopolized by
the rich. These things had been done
away with by Yorktown and Gettys-
burg. He took an optimistic view of
the South, saying that it was first in
industrial activity and that giving
was the great note of the time, and
hoped no boy, would knock at the door
here without finding entrance. Zap
plause) The Judge paid high en-
comium to Geo. Watts and the Dukes
and Julian S. Carr the George Peabody
of the State (applause) as benefactors
to their State.
Citing Oliver Cromwell as of
common origin he said that
once in four years there came
to the White House as the un-
crowned King of eighty millions of
people man sprung from more OBJ
scure ancestry than even Oliver Crom-
well. Running over the line of Presi-
dents, Lincoln, Johnston and others,
the speaker referred to Grover Cleve-
land as a patriot upon whose grave
tears would fall some day. This Sc ntl-
ment was received with much APP
plause.
Through the turbulent centuries
the individual man had forged to the
front. Man was greater than any
thing man can do. With such great
ness involved in the individual came
corresponding responsibility.
The great danger to-da' was the
discomfort of people with all kinds
of governments. America was the
head of All governments, and the peo-
| pie do not know it. If there were one
| Injunction he would give; love your
| country, hold up her institutions,
speak well of honest men in power
no matter how they differ with you.
| The speaker contrasted the young
| men in the old country with those
in this, referring to the long service
| demanded on the continent of the
young men in the standing army.
There was only one limit to the
| American boy and that limit lay with
| in himself. Where was his heart?
| What did he want? What was his
purpose? Judge Reid had faith when
boy that there was a peg in Wash