The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-11
DIPLOMAS DELIVERED
Twenty One Graduates Sent
From Trinity College.
Mr.. fiANLY'S ADORE SIS
Wiley Gray Medal Won by J. S..
Maytubby, an Indian.


! Winning the VaIedictory
flames of College BuiId-
, ings Changed.
Trinity Park, Durham, n. c., June
10.-(SpeciaD This was commence
ment day at Trinity. Durham was
gay in its dress of blue bunting, and
the Park was crowded with the visi-
tors who came The audience of par
ents and brothers and sisters and
friends packed the hall, and the over
flow was enough to have filed it twice
again.
When the graduating class came in,
the four lady graduates gowned in
spotless white preceding, the audience
arose. The band played a stirring
march, and then medley, and when
the notes of Dixie" came there was
hand-clapping and a chorus of hearty
cheers.
President Kilgo announced the
hymn:
From all that dwell beneath the skies
Let the Creators praise arise"
This was sung by the audience
standing.
Rev. J. b. Hurley, of Oxford, led in
prayer.
The contest for the Wiley Gray med
al then began. This medal is given
by Mr. II. T. Gray, of Raleigh, in mem
DRY of his brother, Wiley Gray, who
fell at Gettysburg. 1t is offered to the
= i, al no
shall deliver the best commencement
grafton.
The judges were announced: DR.. E.
\. Yates, Rev. j. NJ. Rhodes, DIR. +. II.
Wood.
Mr.. f. S. Aldridge, of Oriental, was
the first speaker, and his subject
Luxury" History he said, teaches
that the happiest people are those IN
equal economical condition. lie trac-
ed the downfall of nations to the dry
rot of luxury that eats out the core OF
the life, leaving only the empty shell
of display that one day gust OF test
will crush.
Mr.. J. f. Bivins, of Albemarle,
spoke on 'The Element of Stability III
Our Civilization" The pessimist
points to present day conditions and
shows that already the seeds of decay
are in our time, and our CIVILIZATION
is vet to become the dead corpse of
greatness. But amid the SCATTERING of
the decaved nations of the past there
arose a tree whose LEAVES should pc
for the healing of the nations" and
there was lighted the taper of Chris
tianitv that was to light the world. 1t
has worked out the path of freedom IN
the world. and has linked the nations
in a common purpose and common
love. Our civilization has at It's DOT
tom a foundation that the storm OF
anarchy and infidelity can never sweep
away.
Mr.. Ernest J. Green, of Durham,
took for his subject Man, from an
Optimistic Standpoint" Man is the
highest unfolding of physical ana
psychical life, the crown OF creation
and the king of the universe.
The philosophy of the whole UNI
,,arso in found in man. The man who
laws down his life on the altar OF some
great purpose is the only great man
The answer to the questions OF lie Is
found only in the human heart.
Mr.. J. c. Hall, of Troy, spoke on
"gadical Changes in Mans Hlgher De-
yelopment." Development rather than
special creation is the key TO all ma
t1re. Mans greatest development mas
been in scientific and psychlcal con-
ception. We are retraclng our steps
from ghost-land to life, from sin to
virtue. Dry dogmas are superseded by
living faith. The God-voice in man
is at last becoming audible. Science
has not taken from Christianity its
divinity, nor has Christianity taken
from Science it's rationalism. Man
kind has failed because it has not stu
died manity-humanity the study
of the centuries.
Mr.. J. S. Maytubby, an Indian stu
dent from Doggy Depot, Indian Ter
/ ritory, spoke next and "A Civic Re-
naissance'' was his subject.
The pessimist tells us our nation
has passed it's youth and is going to
decay, but we who hope catch the
first rays of the rising sun of the civic
re-awakening. Disturbance among the
masses calls forth the manly heroism
of a nation. Emergencies make men
And this is a time for heroes to make
history. Teach the children the les
sons of patriotism, tell them of Wash
ington, of Henry Clay, of Lee, of
Grady, of our own Great Commoner,
: and when the tapers Of patriotism are
lighted in the hearts of all men it
viii be daylight everywhere.
+ Mr.. S. f. Mercer, of Haroldsville,
took for his subject "The Highest
Law" The divine finger has stamped
upon the heart of man the impress of
moral obligation. 1t is the golden
chord that binds the heart of man to
God. 1t was this that made Socrates
choose a cup of hemlock to a corrupt
crown, that inspired the Maid of Or
leans, the Prince of Orange, Martin
Luther at the Diet of Worms. Out of
the heart of John Knox was quarried
the truth that made Scotland a great
nation. No man had more of this in
him than did Bishop Haygood, our
/, own Southern hero; he died an offer
ing on duty's sacred altar. The time
will never come when those whose lives
have been true and heroic shall cease