The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-09
Lack of Funds Likely TO Close L. D.
S. College.
FOUR RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
INTERESTING AND WELL PRE-
PARED PAPERS READ.
Bishop Whitney Delivers an Grafton
In Place of Judge King, Who was
Compelled to Be Absent on Ac-
count of Business-President Done
Bids the College Farewell.

A class of four graduates of the Lat
ter-day Saints college received Ill
plomas at the commencement exer-
cises of that institution at the Assem-
bly, hall yesterday afternoon The class
is probably the last one to be graduated
from the college for, from remarks
made by some of the speakers, II is
anticipated that the college Will be
closed this year, owing to lack of money
with which to carry on its work.
Music by the college choir, led by
Professor Frank Wightman opened the
exercises, and the invocation was given
by Apostle Owen Woodruff.
Miss Scholes' Paper.
Miss Caroline Scholes gave we'll
written paper on the Revival or
Learning" She described the state OF
ignorance which existed among the
people of Europe at the close of the dark
ages, and how from Italy, the univer-
sity of Europe, came the first whisper
ings of culture and learning and liter
ature The Reformation paved the way
for its advance, and finally the move
ment grew and spread over Europe.
Poets Sprang up and they were mark
ened to, not laughed at; literature Hour
ished. the Bible was translated, the in
multiply, and all over Europe an era
of culture began that has left its mark
permanently upon the history of the
world.
There was a piano solo by Spencer
Clawson, jr, and Elias c. Ashton arose
to deliver an address on Our Fathers
Suffering and Our Duty" 1t was a
fiery and passionate Grafton Nlvldly
the speaker depicted the early trials
an firth laf of no
Mormon faith, how they were driven
from one state to another, prosecuted.
downtrodden. imprisoned, even muir
de-ed by their enemies until they at
last fled from civilization to these
mountain Businesses and founded here
their kingdom. He urged his fellows
of the younger generation never to for
get these trials through which their
progenitors mad passed. and by stead
fast adherence to the faith for which
they suffered, to prove themselves
worthy sons and daughters of noble
parents.
Professor W. C. Give filled the inter-
lude with two charming selections upon
the violin. Then DR.. Karl G. Maeser of
the church board of education spoke
briefly, congratulating the college on
the completion of a successful year, and
urging the young graduates to be as
true and hardworking in the life in the
world as they had been in their class
rooms.
Diplomas were then conferred upon
the following graduates:
In normal course, Caroline Scholes;
in high school course, Elias Conway
Ashton, Jessie Zulu Davis, Charles
Frederick Thompson.
The degree of bachelor of didactlcs
was conferred on Professors Jesse War
rem Hooper and Ralph Vary Chamber
lin.
a contralto solo by Miss Edna Dwyer
followed.
Bishop Whitney Talks.
In the absence of ex-Congressman
William H. King who is in Washing
ton, Bishop o. F. Whitney delivered
the commencement Grafton. He said
that he had heard with sorrow that the
Latter-day Saints college would prob
ably close its doors this year. 1t de-
volved upon such institutions, he said,
to keep alive Mormon education, and
especially to act as a standing argu-
ment that the MormOns are not and
have not been enemies of education.
The Mormon people, he said, never
either in theory or practice opposed ed
ucation. but they believe in complete
education, in spiritual and physical
education, as well as mental education.
u the he Sctlu that lllcJ lieiQ
but sharpened the weapons and buckied
on the mail for the battle of life by
their school course, and they must re-
member that all life was a school, and
that they had not by any means com
pleted their education, for they had
only begun to learn now, their real
studies commencing when they went
into the world and took up the struggle
for existence.
Angus NJ. Cannon. president of the
church board of education. gave brief
history of the school and what il had
accomplished since its foundation in 1886
and then announced that the school
would probably close its doors this
year, as funds We're not available TO
carry it on. Unless the money could be
obtained during the summer, there
would be no hope of opening again in
the Fall.
President Willard Done. in a short
address, babe farewell to the school,
announcing that he had accepted a po-