The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-02
A SPEECH THAT WILL LIVE
AN EXQUISITE TRIBUTE TO EN-
SIGN WORTH BAGLEY AND
HIS MOTHER.
GRADUATING EXERCISES
President AIderman's Speech Accepting the
Flag Governor Russell Presents The
Diplomas Memorial Pre-
contat;on Fvarcisec
sentation Exercises.


sentation Exercises,
Chapel Hill. June 1.-(Special.) To
day was commencement day proper, the
big day and the village and campus
were crowded with visitors who were
here to attend the exercises. The one
hundred and third annual commence
ment of the university has closed, but it
will be remembered as long as Alumni
Hall stands-the gift of the varsity $
sons to their alma mater.
The regular commencement exercises
began this morning at II o'clock in Me
mortal Hall, being opened with prayer.
The following gentlemen presented
thesis for the masters degree:
Ralph Henry Graves, Alb. 1891 The
Puritan and Cavalier of 1910.
John Knox Hair A. b. Furman) 1897.
Maximum Stresses Through Pratt Truss
for Wheel Loads.
Thesis for the doctors degree:
Thomas James Wilson. AM. lS96.
"The Genitive of Quality and the Abla-
tive of Quality in Latin"
CREATIONS.
There were four orations by members
of the senior class. each being a con
testant for the Wiley +. Mangum medal.
given for the best GRAFTON. The contest
ants were:
Pleasant Daniel Gold. Jr. Feudalism
of the Nineteenth Century.
Charles Hughes Johnston. The He
brew Versus the Greek.
James Daniel Parker The Scholar 5
Duty to Society.
Edward Kidder Graham. The Eco
nomic Man.
ADDRESS OF HON. HANNIS
TAYLOR.
At 1890 o'clock Hon. Hannis Taylor.
of Mobile Ala. a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina. and ex-min-
lister from the United States TO Spain,
began the annual literary address, 1t
was a mastery effort and the address
was one that viii long be remembered
by those who heard him. His subject
was Our Widening Destiny"
After returning thanks for the cor
diality Of his reception. Mr.. Taylor made
a brief RETROSPECT, at the end Of which
he said But | crave your pardon. !
have not come here today to brood in
gloomy spirit over the memories of the
past. but to speak hopefully to the men
of the new generation of our glorious
and united country. and of its widening
destiny" He referred to Maury's Physi-
cal Geography of the Sea in order to ex-
press the hope that a little contribution
may be made TO political science in the
way of a chart that viii guide us in OBJ
serving the great currents and forces by
which the movements of nations are di-
rected.
A statement Of existing political con-
ditions hi the world was made TO show
that the Teutonic and Savonic nations
are the great advancing and expanding
nations and that the Latin and Semitic
races are falling behind Without ignor-
ing La German empire the statement
was made that the British empire. the
Russian empire and the United States
are the three great growing and con
qucring powers whose movements in the
near future are likely to exercise the
greatest influence upon the destiny of
mankind From a broad historical point
Of view the British empire and the Uni
ted States. which together govern nearly
Il third of the human race. should be
considered as a single force, so far ms
the rest of the world is concerned BIZ
reason of the identity Of their origin
and institutions. making them in fact
the outcome of a single historical de-
yelopment.
TO briefly outline that development the
speaker declared to be the main purpose
Of his discourse beginning with the small
group Of low Dutch people known as the
English kin grouped around the neck of
the Danish peninsula when written his
tory begins, their migration was traced
into Britain where they founded the En-
glish kingdom which arose out of the
gradual aggregation Of Il set of local self
governing communities that never LOST
their local independence. The point was
at last reached that down to 1904 the
English nation had in fact won nothing
beyond its four seas. Since then out Of
two charters granted to the two trading
companies has grown England's empire
IN the east and west. Out Of one grew
the empire of India ont of the other the
federal republic of the United States.
After rapid summary of the expansion
oLthe latter. review was made of the
growth of Spain's colonial empire and
Of it's almost entire disappearance from
the new world. In that way the causes
leading to the present war with Spain
were fully and clearly set forth. Upon
That subject the speaker used the fol
lowing words in which he pays Ensign
Worth Bagley a glowing tribute:
u viii venture to say without reserva
ton that among all the wars that WI
have been so far involved in there has
| not been one in which the motive thai
| impelled us to arms has been higher OF
| more unselfish than that which now in
spires our efforts to rescue the victims
Of Spanish tyranny who are still DYING
and starving at our very doors No bu
name or liberty-loving people have ever
been appealed to more urgently than w,
have been to take into our breast 9Th,
sheaf of hostile spears, and break patti
for the oppressed" To the attainment O
| that end the reunited nation has pledged
| its troth as one man; and by the per
feet spirit of union that has bloomed on
Of that resolve has been driven from thu
temple of our national life the last Turk
ing spectres of the civil war
In that longhoped for and dra
matte contamination North Carroll
iia has borne stately yet patheti
part II is seldom that any great In
man end can be attained without SOM