Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-16
ONLY CONQUEST OF IDEAS.


lnSo policy We have not adopted
an ambition for conquest. We have not
started on an irresponsible career OF in
discriminate annexation. We have not
en,tahgled ourselves in policy OF foreign
alliance. The only conquests that
America wants TO make are conquests of
lueas, But our new national spirit will
no longer be abashed at the thought Of
Sohquests or arms, or annexation OF
lands, or alliance with other people. II
thereby these conquests OF ideas may be
assured. The revelation OF the real
American sincerely preferring peace. but
grand enough 10 make war inexorable
when war must be, is the most salutory
moral lesson IN the worlds politics since
the Bastlle fell.
PROGRESSIVE AND DEMOCRATIC.
The new Amerlcanism Is Qhird) pro-
grcssiYely democratic.
SO long as society remains vital. every
age will encounter peculiar problems.
We have I'm America to-day not only the
new problems OF Porto Rican reOrganiza-
ton and Cuban reconstruction and Philip
pine paciiicatOn, but we have the OLD
social problems, under constantly chang
ing forms. There are people so conserva-
tive that they are revolutionary In their
desire TO hush up the fact that our air is
tense with social problems. All our
ways of life will be problems so long as
IL is possible TO think of other ways that
might make the world. ON the whole,
safer and whOlesomer and happier. HUI
man life not merely contains problems,
but ii essentially consists of problems.
AMERICAN EDUCATION.
The problems Of American life set the
mark for American education. Ihere are
three traits OF practical wisdom that our
education should work into the character
OF every American citizen:
First. That personal merit Is the only
respectable title TO rank or emolument
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Second. That respect for authority is a
necessary element Of the civic spirit.
Third, That universal reciprocity is the
law Of human welfare.
The social problem reduces to the task
Of getting men and women all work at
each ones best, so that each may both
give and get the most in exchange with
all the others.
Christian education is the securest hope
of American patriotism, because it is the
most persl siye nnd perVasive witness
for the ideal. -t SIRrds for the elements
that are choiJcsa. aso hest IN human HE.
the potent secret that life is empty and
hooking and dear unless II is filled and
sanctiied and glorihed by the best that
mind can know and heart can feel ana
conscience can command.
We Americans have a mission Tar De
yOnd our present pOWers-tO champion the
most beneficent ideas vouchsafed to the
keeping Of the race. The new American
ism will be triumphant AinericanlSm IN
proportion as it learns the lesson of the
Great Teacher. "Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free
"AMERLCA" SUNG.
Tremendous applause followed the
splendid address. The great gathering
had caught the speakers enthusiasm, and
the fire of patriotism was famed into a
living fame. The orchestra struck up the
familiar strains of America. MY Coun-
try. IT'S of Thee" Instantly every man.
woman. and child sprang to their feet
and the nations hymn rolled and trem-
blcd through the great building.
DEGREES CONFERRED.
The comforting OF degrees was the next
event, to which forty-one young men had
looked forward with an anxious anti
cipation Of delight and triumph. Presi-
dent Boatwrght delivered the diplomas
to the following gentlemen:
Bachelors Of Law-CharleS Carter An
dersOn. Richmond; Raymond Wiley
Buchanan. Arkansas; William Briggs Co.
lonna. Southampton county; Charles Bur
nam Conner Warren county; Hasklns
Hobson. Jr., Powhatan county; Hunter
Miller. Madison county; Orlando shay
Moncure. Caroline county. Herbert Ice
NOrfeet southampton county, Edward
Samuel Perry Culpeper county; George
y
Tayloe Tyler. Prince William county;
John Cokcley Weckert. Richmond; Ben
iamin Herndon West. Louisa county /:
Robert Lee Williams. Smythe county, and
Arthur w. Vim. Richmond.
Bachelors Of Science-Allen Weir Free
man. Richmond. and Lulie Gaines Win
ston, Richmond.
Bachelors Of Arts-Claybrook Getting
ham. lancaster county; James Alfred
Garrett. Loudoun county; Fred. Goch-
..rnln lf eg01
Hicks. Tennessee; Joseph Day Lee. Rich
mond Walter Scott Mcneil. South Caro-
lina Henry Martin, Caroline county;
Fred. Washington Moore. Norfolk; JOhn
William Morgan, Culpeper county; sam
uel Lewis Morgan. CulpepeT county; Jo-
siah Moses, Richmond; Vivian Meredith
Myers. Savannah: ROBBERY Walter Nea-
tEery, Halifax county; Robert Opie Nor
ris. Jr.. Lancaster county; Charles Chll-
ton Pearson, Richmond county; Sidney
Clarence Everett Taylor, Maryland and
Calder Trueheart Willingham, Richmond.
Masters of Arts-Afred Paul Bagby
Prince Edward county; Robert William
Durrett, SpOtsylvania county; arthur
jackson Hall. CUlpeper county; Elvin
seth Lyon. AppomattoX county; John
William Thomas McNiel. Franklin coun-
ty. and Hugh Goodwin Noffsinger. Bote-
tourt county.
THE PRESIDENTS STATEMENT.
President Boatwright congratulated the
class. and on the part Of the college eN-
pressed to them the best Of wishes And
fullest Of confidence. He said he would
forego the usual address. however, 10
make a statement of the present work
and condition of the college. He said IN
part:
During the past session 2Ss students
were enrolled OF these f1ty-siX were
REGISTERED in the School OF Law. The num-
Der Of students who take degrees in this
June is forty-One, as compared with thlr-
~ last year. 1t is worth while in this
presence 10 state some OF the evidences
Of recent development in the college. We
all try to improve, but in some depart
ments IL has been possible to make great
advances The work in chemistry has been
enlarged to include two years or laoofa-
tory work Full work in the laboratory Is
Of every student who graduates
in The department. Nine commodiouS
rooms are set apart in the new laboratory
for the Chemistry Department ana am
pie equipment for work Will be PROVIDED
a new Department OF History and Lltera-
tire was established one year ago, ana
during the past session advanced CLASSES
i'm general history and politicai science
have been taught to large classes me
for graduation in literature
have also been advanced. In the Schoo!
of philosophy. a third year OF Work III
sociology and political economy nave Deeh
added 10 the extensive courses already
Taught i'm the department. Full prepara-
ion has already been made Tor laDord-
tory work in physics ana as ainpie
,o,,inment will be added to the apparatus
of his department as is contemplated for
he School of Chemistry.
NEW DORMITORY.
Along with this expansion IN the
.oi5rscs OF instruction has come the ne
.cssity for new dOrmitory Heretofore
ye have had lodgings on the campus Tor
"a students The new dOrmtOry. which
,,iu he ready for next session. will enable
20 ~ ia accommodate PIG young men in col
% buildings. If Richmond gives US lOO