The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-24

home in teaching obedience to con
stituted authority in the Church, in
reverencing God and upholding the
duty Of worshipping Him; in the
school, by sympathy and cooperation
with the teachers. As an answer to
the word said recently in the Senate
that State College had produced
nothing. Senator McCarell referred
to long list of the Alumni who were
flling places of responsibility, and
said: " If. like the city of Florence,
the county Of Centre should decide to
erect a monument TO each Of the
great men who had gone out from it.
/ Professor Hamilton would have to in
crease the number Of his highways to
make place for them" 1t was a
graduate from State College, he said,
who planned the harnessing Of
Niagara
Following the meeting was the
" Cremation by the Sophomores, a
reception at the Inn by one of the
more distant fraternities, and a parade
through the midst of it by the
' Naughty Naughts,7 as the 100"
class Is known, in q costume they
have adopted as their own.
The attendance on Wednesday was
| just a little more than the town could
comfortably accommodate.
The audience in the chapel was
very large and enthusiastic. With
| Governor Hastings, the speaker OF
the day, were members of his Cabinet
and members from both House and
Senate, and the large platform Of the
chapel was crowded to the edge.
The orations were By John Tonner
Harris, Bellefonte, on "Americanism;'
Edward Reber Heilig, Reading, 'Our
Hero" John Edmund Schueler, Bal
timore, Nd, "The Triumph OF
Democracy" and William Mitchell
Whitten, Slippery Rock, "The Euro
pean Incumbrance :" Ermin Forest
Hill, Hughesville, was valedictorian.
| Governor Hastings had followed all
that had been said closely, and had
sometimes, when there were points
that particularly pleased him, led in
the applause. In his address, after
expressing his qualification a, the
progress making by the institution
and the excellence OF the work II is
doing, and commenting favorably up.
on the live, up-to-date topics chosen
by the graduates for both orations
and the manner Of treating them, he
congratulated such of the class as had
their own living to make and must be-
come producers. The first thing, he
said, must be TO find out for what
they were ftted-their special talent.
The shores OF life, he said, were
srewn with wrecks Of those who at
tempted to follow one pursuit when
qualified for another.
CoNFERRiNG or DEGREES.
| The degree of Bachelor OF Science
was conferred upon thirty can
didates and advanced degrees and
degrees not in course upon nine an
plicants who had passed regular ex-
aminations. Among these was DR..
George G. Croft Of Lewisburg.
The announcement OF the day was
that all departments of the college in
all their appliances would be open for
the six weeks beginning with July for
the use Of those of the Freshman
class who desired 1t, and to give the
teachers of the State the facilities Of
the shops and laboratories.
We trust that many OF our teachers
may be able to take advantage of
this very liberal offer.
Those in attendance from Columbia
County were H. V. White a Trustee,
A. c. Greasy, E. H. Sloan and F. P.
Hagenbuch delegates from the Agri-
cultural Society, Mrs. Norman John
NJ. Fairchild, Isaac Heacock and
| John Bowman as visitors. All were
cordially received and very well enter
tanned. They speak in warmest terms
| of their visit and most emphatically
recommend State College for young
men desiring thorough education at
a pleasant, healthful and moral atmos-
phere.
| EXPERIMENT STATION WORK.
| For testing results from using differ
ent fertilizers I44 plots are used and
so arranged that corn, oats, wheat
and grass come in regular rotation
each year, each crop having the same
fertilizer. This has been continued
for fourteen years and is now just
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