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

crowning event in the history Of its
achievements. From the very able,
earnest, warm baccalaureate sermon
by the Rev Dr.. Colfelt on Sunday
June IS to the brilliant Assembly,
participated in by over FIVE hundred
Of the gay and festive.
On Wednesday evening following,
all was indicative Of the growth and
ever increasing. influence OF this our
beloved State College. The build.
ings, the campus, the farms, the
weather, all were perfect and it has
been well said that perfect weather IN
this mountain air has invigorating,
erlivening influence that must aug
ment the happiness Of an occasion
Ike this.
Monday the class Of 1897 held their
exercises on the campus and the
revival Of this old practice was greeted
with pleasure by all.
The annual inter class athletic con-
test which followed, demonstrated
most clearly that the boys had not
suffered physically while they were
preparing their literary work, the scope
and completeness OF which was most
satisfactorily proven at the Junior
Oratorical Contest in the evening.
The judges were ex-Judge Krebs,
OF Clearheld; Lawyer J. e. Myers, OF
Bellrfonte, and Captain Pratt, of the
Carlisle Indian School The winner
was Robert Kerr Stevenson, Morris
Run; MS topic, Building Monu-
ment.
Tuesday was busy day. The an
nual meeting Of the alumni was first
on the program and the attendance
was unusually good. J. P. McCreary
was elected president, Prof. J. Price
Jackson Secretary and Treasurer and
Gabriel Hester Of Harrisburg, alumni
member OF the Board OF Trustees.
Following the meeting Of the
alumni was that Of the Board Of Trus-
tees. The only absentees among
elected members were Hon. Francis
Jordan, Harrisburg Hon. George w.
HOOD, Indiana, and Hon. Andrew
Carnegie, Pittsburg. President Jor-
dan is i'll, and General Beaver was ap-
pointed Chairman pro TEN.
At the alumni dinner, IN the ar
mory, the guests were the Faculty,
the delegates, the class Of 81 and
their friends, the Juniors acting as
sevitors. General Beaver, as Chair
man, was in his pleasantest mood /;
"knee deep in clover" he expressed
it. The first speaker was Captain
Pratt, Of the Indian School at Carlisle,
two of whose students enter State
College next year. For these he ask
ed the welcome that would make them
glad that they came and that they
should not be made to feel the desc
lation that is an aoomination. We,
as people he said, stake in hun
dreds of thousands OF foreigners and
of another language and permit them
to become OF US. We admit the ne
gro to our families and to all the
privileges Of our own people, but our
poor Indian brother, whom We have
driven from the land, We hold as in
a prison, and with ignorant, unsym-
pathetic jailers. They have the same
thoughts and feelings We have, and,
coming among US, should be treated
so they will stay
Other speakers were: Ex-Judge
Krsbs, of Clearheld, for the State /;
DR.. Laurence NJ. Colfelt, tor the
Faculty; Hon. Charles w. Stone, for
tine Trustees J. P. McCreary, NJ. S.,
for the Alumni, and William Mitchell
Whitten, President of the class OF 81,
tor the Maiden Speech OF the
Alumni"
The speech OF Mr.. McCreary was
bright with wit and poetical allusion,
and in good part an answer to all that
had been said before it. Reference
was made to the early days when the
students had to pick stone and pull
weeds for their athletic training and
prize contests, and to the disorder
prevailing under one management
when the pupils petitioned the trus-
tees for a change OF principal because
Of the lack Of discipline.
At the meeting Of the delegates in
the afternoon forty votes were cast.
Philadelphia county was represented
for the first time in the history of the
college, the Pennsylvania Horticultur,
al Society sending John Burton, Chest
nut Hill, as its representative. The
business Of the meeting was to elect
four trustees to serve three years. The
choice was Hon. Francis Jordan,
Harrisburg Colonel r. II. Thomas,
Mechanicsburg; Cyrus T. Fox, Read
ing, and General James A. Beaver,
Bellefonte.
ADDRESS TO THE ALUMNI.
The address Of Hon. S. ]. NJ. Nc
CaTell before the Alumni was worthy
of the man and Of the men to whom