The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-06-05
FINAL EXERCISES HELD
Spiielt Collegiate and Military Institute
Ends Its Session.
BEAUTIFUL ADDRESS OF DR.. LAAKfORO.
Whine Cramplcr Awarded tho De-
claimcrs' Medal baseball Gnn,e
Poatponed-wili Rny Road Mn
chines-A Competitive DriIl-The
Coanty Controversies Arrive.

Coanty Controversies Arrive.
Suffolk, Va June 4.-The final exer-
cises of the Suffolk Collegiate and Mill
}tarS Institute were held last night In
the chapel hall The feature was
contest FOR declaimer's medal between
four students. They were ]. 7. Steele,
of Napoleon; w. T. Mcneil,
s'sTime and Eternity; Willie Crumpler.
&s.Massachusetts and South Carolina;
&C. p, Cremer, "Emmets Defense" DIR.
u. p. Whedbec, MIR. S. e. Everett and +.
& r. Holland, Esq, judges, awarded the
medal to Crumpler. Mr.. Holland made
the presentation speech; j. NJ. Hostetter
was essayist.
pr. Lankfrod of Norfolk, delivered the
following address at the reunion of the
Suffolk Military Cadets on Wednesday
\ evening. The occasion was the first re-
union In the history of the Academy for
3 over twenty years, and DIR. Langford
lected as his subject
MEMORY"
Tonight we look back! And what is
this but memory, that photograph plate
Of the mind which records our experiences
from childhood to the grave. Memory Is
phonograph. The court of the soul has
Tor It's Judge. Conscience: and for Its
Clerk. Memory. Memory is the bane of
home of the past. 1t Is the great, big iron
: safe within which we are. moment by
I moment mon putting treasures Of veal or OF
less.
., sSmeti me It. nes open by strange and
4 everything we are. is locked up there; by
touch in an instant It's manifold combna.
tons. and reveal to our bewldercd CON
seiousness our whole life in one unbrokcn
history. How blessed II He shall say
s antl' We'll DONE good and faithful serv-
3 1t is my memory that identity myself
as the same person who once In this
place frolicked on It's streets and suburbs.
bathed and iished in It's river, trudged to
Its academy, played OH its grounds,
and dreamed OF what should he when l
became an active practitioner OF medicine
same Is on oy 1 memory oEs Mat mat know am the
of the Dismal Swamp, poured forth my
very soul into the ear of Surolk's most
bewitchihg belle Sitting alone in a little
canoe on the bosom of that lovely lake |
pressed her fair. soft hand tightly be-
tween mine and gazed with Mays into
her beautiful face, lighted by the flash of
Z the freely. Young men, | will never call
upon Gabriel in or near Suffolk. Neither
ume. nor care. nor success. nor failure
can change the record then made at this
academy nor the pulsatng action of
memory.
Each fainter trace that Memory holds
30 darkly of departed years
In one broad glance the soul beholds.
anu all that was at once appears"
Every one writes his biography within
MS soul. The Recording Angel" my dear
comrades, is no myth: It is found In our
selves. It's name is Memory. and holds
thousands of things until danger or duty,
1eVer or failure, need or notions or the act
OF drowning brings them back to our con-
seriousness. Like germs of cholera are the
eVil, like protoplams of life are the good
tnings lying within us. Sometimes the
ousiines OF ones past life will seem to
pass before him In an instant: but at all
times 1t Is really. although unconsciousiy
passing before him In the sentiments he
1eels, In the thoughts he thinks I'm tho
Impulses that move him apparently with
out cause.
our acts our angels are, good or III.
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. :"
Humbolt found in South America par
roe winch was the only living creature
Of f ios, , speak 1 word Of the language
haoit OF speech after his teachers had
uled. and the influence of the teacbers
nvea on nothing dies Benjamin West
snlo KISS from my mother made me
o. painter" ''e
backward. turn backward. O. time in
Make me a child again Just for to-n,,bt
mother shnr,a come back from your echoiess
And kiss my son good night once more
It greatly elevates this common n,ace
3 NE OF mine when I realize that kisses
aiIectlon and prayers of my precious da RI,
ing mother have made me all that I am
let me become ever so obscure Memorv
o. wonderful power! How II works nov
IN tlme, ana how II shall work in eternity
Its magic miracles! Then 1t will rise 70 =
scope, a compass, Il certainty to a nreci-
sion and fnllness of action. that viii
Snrow the most vivid light of thought
PACK upon all the minutest Impressions
enc experiences Of our whole earthly life
commenting and claiming all into one
identify us; SO they will establish our re-.
Immortality. Jul
Holmes, in his "Autocrat of the Rraok-
fast Table beautifully says: "The inf
nlte galleries OF the past await hut one
preif process. and all their pictures viii
DC called out and fixed forever
suppose we can remember tirnAs In
which the face we loved best looked the
sweetest; and tones, pleasanter than ali
the rest, of the voice that was aivxaus
sweetest to hear: or the thoughtful look
+ OF the little child you vainly seek in the
man IN whom you lost 1t: or the smiias Of
the little girl who died. Each one has his
own mental picture gallery. Go often
sweetest medleys or it's saddest tlirees 70
give either Joy or sorrow in the Review.
but every time we tread that gallery q =,
some grand lesson OF truth and dutv ~
love and service, In our minds. in onr
lives, In our characters.
To-day, recall the old Academy ne
over twenty years ago. Scene after scene
life passes in pleasing succession This
town have ALWAYS loved nj NH. -