The age-herald., 1900-06-22
EXERCISES AT THE
 STATE UNIVERSITY The Graduating FormaItleS Were
 Intensely Interesting. A BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE None of the Class Delivered an Address According to the Programme, and
 President Powers Spoke at
 Length on Education
A BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE

Tuscaloosa. June H.-(Special) )-The graduating exercises of the sixty-ninth an- nual commencement of the University of Alabama were held this morning in the presence of the largest and most brilliant assemblage that has ever gathered in Clark Hall.
 When the programmes were distributed the audience learned for the first time that there would be no orations by the students on this occasion. Of those who were en- titled to speak all had asked to be ex- cused.
 President Powers therefore made the an- nouncement that the number of contes- tants for the trustees prize had reachsd the vanishing point, and by an unwrltteh law of the University that the president shall fill all gaps and discharge all duties not specifically assigned to another. he would endeavor to do so on this occasioh pr. Powers then delivered very able and interesting address that he had prepared for another occasion, on the subject of Education"
 The Orogra mme is as follows:
 Grafton: "The South African War as Seen by an observation-disclosures Jefferson Broth ers Zula.
 Thesis: "A Limited Monarchy as Com pared with Republic''-Philip Henry Ais- ton, Clayton.
 Thesis: "The Nineteenth eCntury'- George William Andrews Clayton
 Thesis: Federal Control of trusts - William Stilman Bell, Gordo.
 Thesis: "The Advantages of Liberal Education"-George William Brock, Tusca- loosa.
 Grafton: 'The Middle Class the Preserva- ton of the Republication Anderson Cole man, Eutaw.
 Twentieth Century''-Benj. Elias Catchings, Birmingham.
 Thesis: "The Nicaragua Canar-John Robert Foster, Camden.
 Thesis: ''The Sword of Robert E. Lee John Moseley Holloway, Geneva
 Thesis: Social Life in the South Since the War"-Rosa Lawhor, Livingston.
 Thesis: "The Influence of the Home on National Charater''-William Oates How erton, Abbeville.
 Grafton: ''The Race Problem"-John Mill Ter Bonner, Camden.
 Thesis: War in the Civilization of the Twentieth Century"-Homer Linden Reed CT, Burcham Mills.
 Thesis 'The Nebular Hypothesis" Charles Walter Vaughn, University.
 Thesis: ''The Citizens Duty to His Gov ernment" James Whitaker West, Clayton
 Thesis: "Trusts Their Advantages and Disadvantages'- Robert Craig Young, Sell ma
 Thesis American Citizenship"-James Napoleon Granade, Frankville.
 Oration "Education and Morality the Safeguards of our Government'-Leo Leva, Selma.
 Thesis "The Evils of Intemperance'- John Walter Pugh, Grove Hill
 Thesis "A Model Coal Mine''-Notimer Norfeete Hey, Union Springs.
 Thesis Water Supply of Tuscaoosa"- Osborne Jefferson Dykes, Union Springs.
 Thesis "The Engineers Work in the Development of the South"-John Goulding Little, Tuscaloosa.
 Thesis "The Improvement of the Black Warrior River"-Landon Garland Smith, University
 Oration Thomas Jefferson'-Forney Johnston, Birmingham.
 Excused.
 Best Drilled Man
 J. w. Fielder this year is the winner of the Mary Fene medal the best drilled man in the corps of cadets. At the prize drill last night Colonel Peyton H. Moore, commandant, put the boys through a diff cult drill. The judges were Captain c. A. Allen of Montgomery and Captain Hughes Kennedy of Birmingham. Those who con- tested were: A. s. Taylor of Mobile; J. w. Holt of Montgomery; A. Boyles, J. w. Brewster, J. w. Fielder, w. McMahon or Livingston; J. Thomas of Roanoke; E. R. Lit of Goldholt; Hagler Shirley of North port; J. w. Foster of Tuscaloosa and D. A. Ozment of Tuscaloosa
 Prof. Gibson's Addr,ss
 At S3O p. m. yesterday large audience greeted Prof. c. s. Gibson in Clark Hall at the university. He addressed the liter ary societies of the University of Alabama, namely: The "Philomathic," "Erosophic' societies and the Kent Club. Mr. c. A. Beasley of the Kent Club presided. His subject was '"The Relation of the Universi- ty Man to the Body Politic." The dis cours ewas not only finished literary production, but it was freighted with practical common sense advice to the young gentlemen upon whom must soon rest the responsibilities of government. He deplored the fact that the term politician was now synonymous with interruptions tricksters. He believes 1t is every mans duty to take an interest in politics looking not to individual selfshness but to the welfare of the people at large. He viewed politics from a high moral standpoint, and insisted that corruption in politics was the sure cause of a decadence in eivernmeuts