, 1896-03-21
|THE TERM CITATIONS.
Able and Interesting Efforts by
the Seniors.
WORK OF THE STATION.
Experiments Will Re Confined "a
Cereals aud Forage Finpt--The
school OF Wine. niiI Likely
To become n Law.


The senior orations for The winter
term were given in the auditorium be-
fore a large audience OF friends and
visitors yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock. On % Of the orations
the customary chapel exercises were
omitted. and America was sung in
stead, The normal seniors, Miss Tes-
sic Welch and Miss Mile Thompson,
came first.
Miss Tessie Welch spoke Oh There
is a God" bringing out the evidence
in the beauty and order and evident
purpose of design of all nature as a
proof OF the existence of an a%llpower-
full and wise creator, God.
Miss Mile Thompson's subject was
Americas Debt to Her Women" In
eloquent language she spoke of the
women who gave their husbands, the
Puritan fathers. the courage to start
out on IN unknown venture for relig-
ious liberty. and who encouraged them
in tho terrible times which followed
their arrival; of the women who, like
Washington's mother, brought up chill
dren inspired with the principles Of
justice and patriotism. to free our
country; of the women who during our
civil war were willing to sacrifice
property, life and everything to give
aid and comfort to the poor, dying SOL
diers; but also of the women who are
now forming the characters of our
leading the world in all matters of re-
form and philanthropy.
Miss Crumrine next favored the au-
dience with a piano solo, after which
the collegiate seniors, three in num-
Der, gave their orations.
Miss Mary George spoke on "Voca-
tion" and usefulness as being the puN
pose of the divine mind in genius life
and e~xistense. True measure of honor
of any occupation is not in the arti-
fetal estimate set Upon it by the world,
but in the value Of the work to hui
manity. and the honesty and care with
which the work is done. The noblest
occupation for women is that of a
mother. forming the growing gener-
ations into men and women Of noble
minds and high character, but such a
life-work is not necessarily incompat-
ible with manual or mental labor.
Hence the absurdity of the present
fear hat the new woman will prove a
deathblow to true American woman
hood.
Harol Coburn delivered an eloquent
address on Cuba. He reviewed the
history of the oppression Of the Gu
bans by the Spaniards during the last
four centuries, ever since Columbus
landed in Cuban in 1892. The inhu-
man cruelty and the despotic military
rule of Spain has made out OF a nation
which once was at the zenith of Euro>
pean power the poorest. weakest. and
most degraded of all Christian nations.
Its injustice will have the same effect
in CUBA. and no patriotic Cuban will
ever rest until his country is free from
the oppressor. He denounced the
apathy with which the Americans
have watched the struggle of Cuba. 20
years ago as we'll as at the present
time. But the spark Of latent sympa-
thy in every American heart will soon
burst into flame and better days will
dawn for Cuba.
Miss Adelaide Brown was HI last
speaker. Her grafton was on What
Lies Beneath" In nature. under every
surface apparent to the eye, is a hid
den meaning, speaking in mute lang
uage of the forces which have acted in
the past, and the potentiailties of the
future. Even in architecture, which
20 the unframed eye presents only a
pleasing whole, one can read between
The lines ideas and sentences as defi-
mite as If they had been put into cold
type. Likewise, every nation. though
its customs and life are now crystaliz-
ed in.o hard forms, gives evidence Of
each successive stage in it's develop
ment. In the Individual man is there
more than the surface indicates. 1nere
are evidences of development shown
in the character. and hidden powers
and. possibilities beneath the surface.
Within the human form there is the
divine.
The orations all gave evidence Of
careful thought and preparation and
were greatly appreciated.
EXPERIMENT FARM.
Spring work on the experiment farm
will be commenced about the 10th or
18th of next month. The experiments
CT this season will be mainly confined
to cereals and forage plants. The
plan of experiments includes the test
of $50 varities Of wheat, so varieties Of
barley and the same number Of oats.
and six OF 10 Of rye. This experiment
Awarded