The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-16

| Ineologlcal seminary - Alumni
Have a Reunion = Meeting of the
Trustees.
| Picturesqueness is one Of the chief
aims in the arrangement of commence
ment exercises, and that aim was at
| tained in an exceptional manner by
| those who had in charge the arrange
ments for the thirty-flrst annual COM
mencement of Keystone academy at
Factoryville, yesterday.
| Instead of the crowded hall and it's
stage, jammed with students and dull
| tropical plants from the public con-
servatories, such as the city is wont
to offer, yesterdays exercises had for
their scenario a broad platform, in a
cool, shady grove of hickory, pine ana
| maple, erected at the foot of a fern
| clad steep hillside, where, on comfort
| ably arranged tiers Of benches, the
| spectators sat and listened to the vari-
| Gus numbers of the programme given
| to the accompaniment of whispering
| zephyrs, the gentle murmurng of
| beautiful Nokomus creek, the splash
| ing of fountains, the singing of birds
| and all other delights that come ITO
| him who, in the love of Nature, holds
| communion with her visible forms"
1t was beautiful, indeed, and at the
same time was classic, as it appropri
] ately should be, copying as it did the
| first theatre from which grew those Of
| Greece and Rome.
Hundreds came from the country
| round and many from a distance to
witness the exercises and spend a day
amid the beautiful surroundings of the
old school, which was to a goodly
| number of them the first fountain from
which they drank of the higher learn
Ing which makes them now among the
foremost of their fellows.
RECEIVED BY PRINCIPAL.
They were received by the principal,
| Rev. Elkanah Hulley. and the other
| members of the excellent faculty and
made to feel welcome or once more at
home, as the case might be. Some
| informal social preliminaries over
after which all repaired to the grove
in the dell behind the school buildings
and proceeded with the graduating ex-
ercises. The trustees and a number of
the alumni sat on the platform with
the faculty and graduates.
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graduating class delivered an grafton
or read an essay. Hayden Van Fleet,
of Fleetville, the salutatorian, had for
| his subject "Our Great Standing
Army" and Roy C. Kemmerer os
Factoryville. the valedictorian. dealt
with THE New Anglo-American
Spirit"
The other subjects were: "Despot-
ism of Democracy" Milo b. Worden,
Of Factoryville; Education and Fran
chise," Winfield S. Green, of Fleetville; [;
True Americanism," George A. White,
of Justus: Pulpit and Reform" John
II. Richards, of Edwardsdale; ma
tional Celebrations" Miss Ivadean
Stephens, of Nicholson; IAN African
Hero" Howard C. Reynolds, of Fac
toryville; "Civilization and Govern
ment," Paul NJ. Rainey, of Tunkhan-
mock: "a Plea for Good Literature" !"
Mary NJ. Wheaton, of Franklin Forks:
THE Evils of Concentrated Wealth." ,"
John T. Davis, of Scranton.
Principal Hulley presented the diplo-
mas, after wishing the graduates God
speed and offering a few words of ad-
vice. Lay hold with firm grip on the
affairs of life: the grip Of sturdy man
hood and womanhoOd," was his part
ing message.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
The annual distribution of prizes ther
followed. The Blanche Reynolds dec.
lamation prize, contested for by young
men of the graduating class at Christ.
mas time, was awarded to Paul NJ
Rainey, of Tunkhannock. The DAME
Langstaff defamation medal, to bt
contested for by young women of thf
whole school, was won by Miss Bessie
f. Gardner, of Factoryville.
Charles Leber. of Scranton, captured
the middle class grafton prize, and Mis-.
Lena NJ Olds, of Elmhurst, secured
the prize for the best essay by the
young women of the class
The George Laton medal, presented
in memory of his brother James La,
ton. II (Yale, 'SD, to be awarded to the
, member of the graduating class passinl
the best examination in Latin, went tC
Miss Ivadean stephens, of Nicholson
The invocation was by Rev. r. f. Y
Pierce, ID. D., of the Penn Avenue Bap
tist church, and the benediction by
Rev. NJ. j. Watkins, of Hallstead. Mu
sic by Lawrences orchestra inter
spersed the exercises.
At 1890 was held the annual alumni
dinner, to which all visitors were in
vited. 1t was served in the main re-
fectory and was delightfully."- infor
NAL affair.
At 2.30 p. m. the open air theater wa.
again the center of interest the even
being the annual address, which wa'
delivered by Rev. Milton G. Evans, d
D., professor of Biblical theology il
Grocer Theological seminary, Chester
and a graduate of Keystone in the elias!
of 81. 1t was an elaborate and schol
arly dissertation on The SOvereignt
of Conscience"
ANALYSIS OF SOUL
He embarked on his subject with
psychological analysis of the soul
pointing out the sensiblities and sus
capabilities and showing how con
; science sits regnant over all. We arr
not men, he said, If we do not feel tn,
pain of moral disapproval. The au
thority of conscience asserts itself II
every soul at some time in life. /
was the instructive sovereignty of con
science in Abraham that led him L
fight with himself over the rights o
; man. Hawthornes Scarlet Letter" i
. a portrayal of the sovereignty of con
l science In sin-stricken man.
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