The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-17
The Commencement at Shaw
University.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
THREE DOCTORS AND ONE LAW
YER GRADUATED.
A FINE ADDRESS BY mr.. Crosse
Wise Words to the Graduates by President
Meserye and Colonel Fred Dow
The Presentation of

The Presentation of
Prizes.
Commencement EXERCISES of the pro
fessional schools at Shaw University
the Leonard Schools of Medicine and
Pharmacy and the Department of
Law--were held yesterday.
The program for the day was as fol-
lows:
Invocation
Music.
Address-Rev. Howard =. Grosc, as
sociate editor of The Watchman.
Music.
Awards of Diplomas and Comforting
of Degrees-Rev. j. w. Carter, ID. D..
Pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Raleigh, y. C..
Music.
Presentation OF Prizes and Parting
Address TO the Graduates-By Presi-
dent of the University.
The Mckee Prize Mr.. Conner.
The Knox Prize Mr.. Cardwcll.
The Goodwin Prize . Mr.. Cardwell.
The *. +. Battle Prize Mr. Conner.
The Lewis Prize +. Mr.. Cardwell.
The Chemistry Prize Mr. Taylor.
Music
Benediction.
The young men finishing their course
and receiving diplomas We're:
Graduates in Northumberland ~
Cardwell. North Carolina: Edward T..
Common, Virginia. John III. Moore. Ar
kansas.
Graduate in Law-Wiliiam II. Green.
North Carolina.
The college chepel was filed with
students and visitors to witness these
exercises, which began promptly at II
o'clock.
Among the distinguished visitors nros.
ent We're Rev. Howard r. Grosa. asse-
ciate editor Of 'The Waterman. lol.
Fred Dow, editor of the Portland Ex-
press. Maine; DIR. w. A. Goodwin. DR..
X. Ii. Lewis, DR.. X. r. Battle. .Ir.. DIR.
A. w. Knox. Mr.. II. II. Battle. Dr. w.
/. Register, DR.. James Mckee, Rev. DIR.
j. w. Carter, DR.. Hubert A. Register.
Rev. Dr. pittinger. Rev. DIR. skinner.
Mr.. William Simpson, Rev. A. Il. Hun
ter and Rev. w. c. Tvree.
Music was furnished by a string band
and the exercises We're of a most Ell
pertaining and interesting character
The chief event of the day. barring.
of course. the graduation of .nc -four
Young men who had successfully com
pleted their course, was the address Of
Rev. Howard b. Crosse. associate edi
tor of 'The Watchman''
The Power of An - Idea was the
subject, and upon it the speaker leliy-
cred one of the most eloquent and fin
ished addresses heard here in many
months. 1t sparkled with gems of
thought and was scintillant with cpl
gram. Now and then a rich vein of
humor was struck or some depth Of
pathos was sounded. Ii was an address
eminently suited to the time and the
occasion and one that must do much
II good.
DIR. Grose began by referring to the
classic story of the fire that once ran
over the Pyrcnean mountains. destroy
ing all the vineyards of tho inhabitants.
But as the villagers mourncd for their
vines. they discovered that the fire.
which had destroyed their grapes. had
opened by its heat deep assures i'm the
rocks, through which cleaned rich veins
of silver which had lain there unsus-
pected through the ages. So the fire
left them richer than it found them.
Experience continued the orator,
pointing the moral of this story.
lis he fire which runs over the sur
face views of life, destroying them only
to open the rich veins Of truth that lie
hidden beneath. And let every soul re-
j0ice when by any means soeyer ii finds
openings through the soil or mere things
into the underlying mines Of thought.
For he who brings forth thence solid
and serviceable ideas, gains riches truer
and more lasting than his who eains
only silver or gold. Happy the hour or
event that discovers to a man new
and true idea. For whatever illusions
may be dispelled, every such idea leaves
man richer than it found him, because
it tends to ennoble his character and
enlarge the possibilities of his career.
Every such idea acquired and applied.
broadens the bounds of his being. adds
to his building power, and makes him
truer man-kingliest creature Of Gods
craation" =
An idea. DIR. Crosse defined as Seeing
ness. The man who can see further.
est and fullest into and all around and
beyond a thing, both in it's actual
ties and potentialities, has the truest
idea of the thing, be it an external oh
ject or an internal project.
Your idea Of the world is what you
can see in it. The measure Of your
seeing-capacity is the measure of your
dea--the line that will encirclc the one
will encircle the other. Any given
business or plan will be rs large II
you as is your mind-sight of it. and nc
larger. The man Of cross-eyed mind
will have a cross-eyed idea of every
thing, including himself. Carlyle-and
what a sight-gi he had-saw the world
through the distorting lens of dyspep
STA, and what blue-slass idealof the
world was his. Napoleon, eagle-sighted
saw through the red glass of war, an,
in his idea the world was huge bat
tle-field, life a conquest, himself chief
conqueror.