The times., 1899-06-08
AWARD OF DIPLOMAS
TO business STUDENTS
Annual Commencement EX-
ercises of Flynn's College.
Prof. Willis l.. Moore Addresses
the Graduates.
He Conrrntulates Them ON the Com
pietion of Their Studics-Iiss
Maude Lee the VaIedIctorian.

| musical commencement. an innovation
| at exercises incident to the distribution
| of diplomas, occurred at the Academy of
Music last evening. when the class of 1899
of Flynn's Business College was graduated.
In addition to the valedictory, class ad-
dress. and salutatory. there was an elab-
crate and lengthy programme of vocal and
| instrumental music. including selections
| from old and new operas.
The playhouse was well filled with peo-
pie. seating space being at a premium b.
o'clock. Each graduate was represented
by score or more of friends and acquaint-
ances. These were escorted to their seats
1 by ushers chosen from the junior classes
of the college. The graduates occupied
seats arranged in two rows, amid an ex-
| quisite stage setting. The young women
| of the class, attired in white garments,
/ sat in the front line, and behind them were
the young men of the class in conventional
! black. Near the centre, dividing the grad
yates on each side of the stage, sat the
| president of the college and Prof Willis
! L. Moore, Chief of the United States
! Weather Bureau, who distributed the d-
plomas. The footlights were completely
| hidden under a trocha of sweet-scented
/ roses and other summer growths, sent
| TO the graduates by their friends.
The first part of the programme includ-
! ed an address OF welcome by Leonard
| Shertzer, graduate; piano duet The
I Arrival" by Prof. H. Clay Murray and
! Miss Annie Louise Collette; Halls We'd
ding of the Woods by Hollis guitar and
mandolin orchestra; a baritone solo, by
/ Robert ]. Green, with Miss Annie Green
! as accompanist; ''Felice," by the Urban
orchestra; baritone solo, John b. Aren-
| des, with Miss M. a. Browne as accompan
| list; Gay Coney Island by the Burke
| family, coprising Mr. and Mrs. Burke and
Master Willie Burke; selections from The
Fortune Teller by the Norwegian Quar-
| tette consisting of Prof. Walter T. Holt
and Messrs w. H. Thomas, z. E. Butter
! field and ]. v Birch; cornet duet. by
| W B. Mundell and DR.. W. f. Defender
fer: "Dorris,' by the Rossini Circle, con-
sisting of Miss 4. C. d. Murray, soprano,
Miss x. L. Grady. pianist, H. NJ Hoskins.
violinist and ". H. Oates, cellist; and a
| vocal duet entitled, only for You, sung
by Miss Annie Hanley and John B. Aren-
des. with Miss III. A. Browne, accompanist.
The second half of the programme was
opened with Wetmark's Mexican waltz.
| La Carmela,'' by the Urban Orchestra,
| and contained in addition the following
numbers: Arditti's soprano solo. "Parla. >"
| by Mrs. Charles Bishop, with Miss NJ A.
! Browne as accompanist; a mandolin solo.
Rubinsteins ''Melodie in F. by Prof. Wal
ter T. Holt. with Kari Holer as accom-
panist; violin solo. fantasie from II
Trovatore'' by Master Willie Burke. with
Mrs William H. Robey as accompanist;
a Bohemian air, entitled 'Moravo, Mo-
rayo" played on the flute by Edmund
Becker accompanied by Miss Marie Beck
er; Geibel's ''Over the Hills at the Break
of Day." by quartette composed of Mrs.
H. Clay Murray. soprano, Miss Willie La
| Hayne. alto, B. w. Beebe, tenor, and
Charles L. Van Dorne, basso, with Miss
Lena A. Murray as accempanist; Sousa' S
"Charlatan March" by Holts violin and
guitar orchestra. and piano duet. Schu-
bert's Les Danes de Sevilee," by Misses
Marie Becker and Refine Rochon.
The valedictory was delivered by Miss
Maude Evelyne Lee. Prior to the presen-
tation of the diplomas Prof. Willis L.
Moore addressed the class in part as fol-
lows:
81 congratulate you upon the completion
of your studies. Not SO much because
your work is done, but because 1t has only
Just begun. Business today is conducted
on such small margin of profits that the
successful business man does not desire
to engage slothful person to work in his
service.
In this land of the free, and also. judg-
ing from recent events, OF the brave. one
of the crowning achievements of our
American civilization is the facility
with which our people. men and women
alike acquire an education and are en-
abled to compete in the field of competi-
tive trade or to obtain renown in the arts
of peace When one considers the accom-
plishments of the American Navy there
dawns upon him the prestige of the nation
in the ways of peace and its arts. 1t was
not the S-inch guns of Dewey at Manila
nor the HaryeyiZed steel armor of the fles
at Santiago that won the recent victories
, which caused the fame OF the American
soldier and sailor to reverberate around
the world. 1t was the American system CT
universal education shown in the men who
stood behind the guns. 1t was the nine
teenth century civilization driving from the
Western Hemisphere the last remnant o!
the Inquisition. The roar of the American
cannon in the isles of the sea proclaimed
the doctrine of human liberty and univer-
sal education.
1T is the skill of the American mechanic
with an educated brain that wins victories
in peaceful ways OF trade and commerce nc
less important in history and modern civ
ilization than all the glories OF war.
I'm making your debut into the world
you will be well fitted by training to GRASP
at the golden opportunities and work out
successfully your own salvation"
The graduates were:
Clara Alberta Bacon, Thomas Philip Browne
Margaret Chapman, Howard II. Dalzell. Sarga
ret b. Donovan Joseph 5. Duff. Charles G. Du
, game, Leon L. l.. French, Bayard H. Hamilton
; William Percell Harrison, James U. Horne, Wal
ter Hunt, Rena Hurtt, John j. Jones, Bertha
Ruth King, Margaret Lane, Henry c. Larner
Naude Eyelyne Lee. Oliver 7. Lehman, Sarah
Theresa Murphy. William 7, Nairne, John II
Ontrich. Irene Olivia Phillips. George b. Price
Victor Emanuel Pohlers. Nellie, Ruckdaeschel
Leopard Shertzer. William A. Swenk Oscar
Z. Winkelman. Willis T. Wolfe
Germnay's Meat Consumption.
The Bureau of Animal Industry of the
Department of Agriculture has received