Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-02
PRESENTATION DAY
Interesting Exercises Held at Gallau-
Diet College Yesterday Afternoon.
FIRST TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASS
Addresses by Commissioner Mac
tarland, Minister WI and Others.
LIST OF THE GRADUATES

! Presentation day exercises of Gallaudet
| College took place yesterday afternoon be-
| ginning at ) O'Clock, in the chapen at Ken
| dali Green. The occasion also marked the
| thlrty-seventh anniversary of the college,
| ana large audience was present. Rev.
| Dr. Gallaudet, the president Of the insti-
| tuition, presided.
Inc exercises were opened with an invo-
cation offered by Rev. DIR. F. D. Power,
pastor OF Vermont Avenue Christian
Church, following which an Grafton on
The Relations Between Canada and the
United States" was delivered by John A
BralthWa1te of Canada. Speeches We're
also made by Alexander D. Swanson of
Canada on Devotion to High 1deals,'
Anna B. Stout of Pennsylvania on 1.-The
Power Of Poetry Robert s. Taylor of
North Carolina on 1.-The New South
Why" and there were dissertations by
Theresa E. Gailard of South Carolina on
me influences That Mold the Great" and
by Winfield S. Runde of California on The
inequality of Man a Necessity"
president Gallaudet read a letter from
President Mckinley regretting his inability
to be present, Mr.. Mckinley, it was ex-
planned, being president ex-officio of the
board of trustees Of the college.
President Gallaudet also made some
marks preliminary to the presentation of
the candidates for degrees, whose names
follow:
For the degree of master Of arts, Albert
F Adams, b. A, Gallaudet College
Normal fellows Margaret Ashby Lyle,
b s., Caldwell College; Ora G. Daniels b.
A, Tufts College; E. F. Mumford NJ. A,
Wake Forest College; Elmer d. Read, B.
A, Illinois College.
For the degree of bachelor Of arts, John
Alexander Bratthwaite, Maud Hester Bri-
zendine, John Sebastian Fisher. Theresa
Elizabeth Gaillard, Annie Matilda Lind
Nichols, Arthur Hilton Norris, Frances
Amelia Norton, Winfield Scott Runde,
Anna Belle Stout, Alexander David Swan
son, Robert Switzerland Taylor.
Normal student, 10000, Sara Frances
Small, Richmond High School, Maine.
Address by Mr.. mcfarland.
The principal address was made by Mr..
H. B. F. Macfarland, president of the
board of District Commissioners, and in
part he said:
Three years ago today our national
horizon lifted and removed to the utter
most parts Of the earth. On that May day
the United States stepped out Of it's re-
stricted confines into all the life Of the
world and was recognized by the other
nations as new power in it's affairs. 1t
has been the moral leader ever since in the
most important international events nota-
bly, in China, where the Philippine base of
operations which 1t secured three years ago
has proved so valuable. 1t has no cause
to blush for that leadership. 1t has been
just, peaceable and benefcent, and has
constrained the cooperation of other ma
tons by the strength of its principles
quite as much as by the strength of its
power. What it has done is typical of
what it will do, with more and more au-
thority and success, throughout the CEN
fury now opening. If it cannot now be
safely called the AmpScan = iS
certainly safe to predict that it will be
dominated by American influence. The
United States, far from being in danger of
decadencer has not yet reached it's prime
1t has the pent-up energy of youth, so
long shut In by its old boundaries. 1t has
such wealth and power, moral and physi-
cal, as no other country has every had and
1t Is able to spare great and increasing sur
plus for the benefit of the rest of the world
With all its shortcomings and transgres-
sons, with all it's needs and woes the
United States is today the finest product
of all time, sound at the heart and full of
life. 1t is the center of the best hopes of
mankind, and on it's action depends the
future history of the race Against its will
suddenly and without preview, it has been
led out into a large place. where as al
ways, great responsibility and great OBJ
portunity stand waiting hand in hand
Naturally the conservative and the timor-
Shrink back, but the nation has heard
the trumpet which can never sound re-
treat, and as nation it must go forward
1t could not turn back if it would but it
would not If it could. 1t remembers the
wonderful way in which it has been led in
the past, the years of the right hand of
the Most High, and sees through the fogs
Of doubt and the thickets of difficulty the
clear opening of the path of duty.
First of Twentieth Century.
AT this impressive moment you the
first graduates Of Ga.iaudet College In the
twentieth century, step forth from this
sheltered and scholarly place, so comfort
able, so agreeable, into the activities of the
outside world, which are now stern and
again sweet, and always stimulating if not
satisfying AS thoughtful men and women.
realizing that having had exceptional
preparation you must render exceptional
service, you ask yourselves what you are
to do in this great hour of our national
life You feel the fine desire of all the best
American youth to strike a full and tell
ing blow. You are ambitious to make your
mark, and, l believe, to do your duty fully
and faithfully. What can You do in the
States? You may not become a soldier
or a sailor, a merchant adventurer or
scientific explorer. You may not be asked
to carry the flag Of your country to new
triumphs abroad. Your name may not be
destined for the roll of fame. Neverthe-
less, every one of you may as perfectly
serve your country with high purpose and
honorable achievement. The private sta
ton may be the post of honor. It will be-
If that Is where you are called to stand
in common with the vast majority Of your
fellow citizens. Then, as the battle line
may depend upon it's weakest member, SO
the states success may turn upon your
fidelity in the humblest place. The nation
is simply the men and women who COM
pose it, 1t will be what they are and every
one of them is responsible for one share
in it's well-doing and well-being There
fore, you, every one Of you, must maintain
as though you were the President of the
United States, the honor, the credit of your
country at home and abroad. To do this
most effectively YOU must support the
standard Of it's high ideals by conforming
your own life to them. They are the ideals
of Christianity. They have been said to
be too high for unaided human nature to
follow And this IS SO. But You and be-
lieve in God the Father Almighty, and that