The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-09

the Success OF the school, Which
Medical Class of I6, Academic
of 20.
Hamline's commencement was the CEN
ter of interest at that suburb yesterday
when large classes. both in the academic
and medical departments, received iii
plomas from the hands of President
Bridgman.
Distinctively as the most important
event in the school year the classmen
were the recipients of congratulatory re-
marks from the faculty of the school, and
their many admiring friends and relatives
who crowded the college auditorium
Many of the visitors were from distant
parts of the Northwest, and the patrons
Of the school and members of the clergy
of the Methodist denomination graced
the rostrum with their presence as well
as number of prominent laymen.
The platform was decorated with q
bower like frame work with background
of. smilaX and studded with carnations
and wild roses, lending delightful effect.
The senior class occupied seats on the
extreme left of the hall. where their
numbers took up large space. The
members of the class of 1899, who conf
pleted their scholastic pursuits at Ham
line yesterday were: Miss Winnifrad w.
Bloomfield, Ora E. Dack, Ellen NJ
Adams Prudence Trasker, Earl L. Atha,
George P. Babcock, D. Knox Caldwell,
Nettie Clifton. Fred Coleman, J. C.
Cooke. Anna L. Cotton, Blanche Dona-
hue, Jessie H. Evans, May c. FIuke,
Susan c. Holman, William e. Judson,
Lillian B. Lauver, Lillian c. Link, Arthur
W. Martin, Lewis H. Merritt, Lucien
Merritt, T. A. Olson, Hortense r. Rob
bins, Ethel l. Weld, and William w.
Young. The following graduates of the
medical school were also graduated:
Robert M. Burlingame, David J. Dona-
hue. Titus c. Briggs, James Haynes,
Robert James, James D. Jones, Adolph e.
Loberg, Edward H. Kirkhoff, Charles H
Mason, Fred c. Miller, Carl M. Oberg,
Floyd j. Roberts, George M. F. Rogers,
Ernest G. Sasse, Daniel L. Scanlon, Ellen
e. A. Willis.
Seated on the platform were the fol-
lowing: A. G. Drew. Dean Batchelder.
DR.. Bridgman, William A. Shannon, w.
A. Osburn, ]. W. Mcdonald, DR.. Cyrus
Brooks, J. F. Chaffee, Leo M. Crafts, w.
A. Chamberlain, Rev. T. Il. Cowgirl, w.
E. Thompson, A. Y. Drew, William Moses
G. S. Innis
Miss Ora Emery Dack delivered an ora
ton on THE Spirit of Investigation"
which was characterized by deep thought
and evident careful preparation. Miss
Dack contended that the children of sci
entif1c research were just beginning to
break through natures crust, and the
discoveries and departures of the CEN
fury, great as they WERE marked but the
beginning of research bounded only
by mans capacity to investigate. She
said in part:
Science existed in embryo in the world
Of the far past. 1t had its infancy in
the days Of later Greece, it's childhood in
the Arabian period; its adolescence in the
Renaissance, and is today in the prime
of It's early manhood. We talk Of the law
Of gravitation, and yet we know not
what it is. We talk of the conservation
and distribution of forces, yet we know
not what forces are. We have advanced
very little beyond the threshold of the
great temple ofs.nature, it's. deeper re-
ceSses must be left for the thinkerszsof
the future to explore. ~ -
Ignorance pays a heavy ransom for
its existence. knowledge ennobIes what
ever 1T touches. 1t is the force that civil
Lies mankind. If ina gination had been
more cultivated, If there lad been a
closer union between the spirit of poetry
and the spirit of science natural philoso-
ply would have made greater progress
Hind disbelief is as fatal to science as
blind belief. The literature in our
alcoVes, the v'hirl of wheels in every fac.
tory the exquisite lines from the sculp-
tors chisel civilization itself is a monu-
ment to the investigator, the man with
great powers of thought-great construc-
tive ina ginatton.
"Oh, the solitude of great minds! How
they shun the crowd and seek peace and
inspiration amid the solemn beauties and
lone sublimities of nature. They wander
through the painless woods they linger
on the wave-washed beach awed and
thrilled by the deep anthems of the sea.
They stand alone on the mountain tops
and hear the terrified voice of storms.
It's the voice of nature; they know It
we'll. To the groveling and earth bound
they are the evangels of a nobler and
better life. Interpreters of deeper mys-
teries. they hold ajar for us the doors of
the ineffable. Heralding all grander
truths, they are the opponents and proph-
cts of that golden age for which human
fly waits"
Miss Winnffred Bloomfield struck q pom
ular chord with her grafton on National
Spirit" Primarily, it was the love of
country which melted the Greks to val
liant deeds, and to a higher elevation of
the country's institutions of art but even
the patriotism of the Romans was but a
puny growth as compared with Wash
fngton and Gladstone. The patriots of
Egypt, Babylon Greece and Rome loved
their country with a far different love
from that which the well educated Chris
tan American or Englishman loves his
country. The Egyptian said, LET Egypt
flourish though all other nations decay"
The Babylon said, LET Babylon's power
increase and others wane" So said the
Spartan, so said the Corinthian, so said
they all. 1t was not the mountains that
kept Greece divided into many independ-
ent states, but lack of patriotism.
1.-THE true patriot" Miss Bloomfield
said, loves not only our flag, our rivers
and our mountains, but our commerce.
our institutions. our influence and power
for good among the nations of the world.
The man who is loyal to his own land
seeks the best things of other nations. for
only thus can the best come to his own.
He lays aside all personal motives. and
having his country's interest at heart.
works for the nations welfare. AS Amer
leans we have the best reasons for being
patriotic. We live In a land of perfect
liberty. There is a broad field of action
before us stimulating to the greater in
dustry. We are unsurpassed in range Of
territory, inventive genius and just laws
what other country can boast of g. record
like ours? Where In a thousand years Of
their history could Greece, Rome or Brit
ain show the progress that our nation
has made in the past century. From a
few struggling colonies we have In three
centuries become great nation with a
still greater future before u.s.
Miss Bloomfield's Grafton concluded with
a verse of America which was caught