The Yale expositor., 1897-07-02
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM RENDERED
AT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
ESSAYS BY THE GRADUATES WAS THE
FEATURE OF THE EVENING.
President Snyder of the Michigan Agri-
culturtural College Was Present and
Delivered an Address.
CLASS MoTTO:--
THUS Ends Our First Lesson. y


high honors at the NJ. E. church last
Saturday evening before an immense
audience. The alcove and platform
were beautifully decorated with plants
and flowers. The class colors, gold
and white, were festooned in bunting
and the motto hung overhead in gilt
letters all making pretty background
for the graduates.
The program was opened with Il
march by Polly Williams, when the
graduates, together with IL. $. Camp
bell, the principal, j. l.. Snyder, Pres.
Agricultural College, Revs. d. Mccall
and J. A. Rowe filed in and took
seats upon the platform. Rev. Mccall
opened the exercises by prayer. A solo
by Beatrice Springer was charmingly
rendered and the salutatorian, Fran
ces Scuiiy, gave her welcoming ad-
dress. She said, owe do not expect to
win imperishable fame, or lasting re-
membrance, bat we hope to create n
higher appreciation of the object and
mission of the public school, and its
influence as Il factor in the dawn of
the Goth century civilization" d" ]F at
has been most aDtly said that the pub
lie school Is the hope of the nation,
and to Il thoughtful man or woman,
a good education Is their only hope
IN these stirring times" At the close
of her ESSAY she welcomed all parents,
teachers and friends and extended II
most cordial greeting to all.
Carroll Shaw took for his subject
General Robert l.. Lee, and we'll he
spoke the praises of that hero of the
south. Lees watchword was duty,
and duty" he called the noblest word
in all the language. "The public
virtues of great man can be seen by
all. But General Lee possessed those
winning qualities that can only be
| discovered by personal association,
Those who knew him best loved him
most. For his gentleness, loyc and
sympathy won ALL M" 1.-THE quail
ties which formed the essence of his
greatness, viz, his childlike simplicity,
his reverent humility, his sympathy,
his manly gentleness, his kingly mag
nanimity and his untiring devotion to
! duty, are those which we may all
acquire. What in his character is
tation." 't'S} ellis name will never per-
ish. 1t is 'one of the few immortal
names that was not born to die" The
next number on the program was a
piano solo by Lillian Hennessey, who
has become very accomplished
| player.
George Mann next thoroughly in
terested his audience in "The needs of
the times" He thinks that many
| social and political problems loom up
before the civilized world but that the
world is always equal to itself. "There
is scarcely an instance in the course of
human history in which the very condi-
tions that created an Emergency, did not
bring out of it, men capable of meeting
it." The right education of the people
is the note, which, when struck, will
bring all clashing and discorded ele-
ments into concord and harmony.
"Put loan of intelligence and wis
dom into their heads and of virtue and
justice into their hearts, if you want to
move the world by these silent forces"
''*# "Happlly, these problems are to be
solved, not by the individual, but by
the people; and on no land is there so
high an average of intelligent persons,
thinking upon so wide range of sub
jects, as in America"
Mary M. Irving's subject was "Be-
come that which thou art" "To be-
come successful in life, one must be
what he was intended to be. God has
given to each individual a distinct
individuality. No two people are
alike" NM each one has place to
fill, and if one gets into the wrong
place others will have to also, and the
whole arrangement will be marred.
Not only should we choose an occupa-
ton for which we are fitted, but we
should make most careful prepara-
tions for il and then work it with a
desire to constantly do our best with
the talents we have, and to the best of
our abilities become what we we're in
tended to be.' '''iS " A few are made TO
lead, the majority to follow. A few
are made to shine for the world, the
majority to shed their light in small
place. But each person has work to
do, and if he does it willingly and
we'll, working to make the most of
himself in his own sphere, he will be
doing all he can to become what he
is."
A recitation by Lura McKenna fol-
| lowed this essay and as usual with
MISS Mchenna an encore was called
for and responded to most graciously.
The subject selected by Vaughn
Francis was James G.. Blaine. "Janu-
ary 81, 1880, just four days after Web
ster's historic speech in reply to Hayne,
the great orator and statesman-James
q. Blaine was born" A short history
of his life, private and public, was
given, and the essay closes as follows:
"Mr. Blaine was an assiduous worker.
Few men who have appeared in the
public life of the American nation
haye applied themselves more persis-
tently and industriously than he.
Blaine thought that conduct was the
test of character before the world. In
his attitude toward his fellow men; by
blamelessness of life; uprightness of
character, openness and simplicity of
manner. and purity of thought and