The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-12
THEIR DIPLOMAS.
Washburn College Seniors Get
Them Today.
Twenty-one in the Class of
Graduates.
JUDGE DOSTER SPEAKS
Chief Justice Of Supreme Court
Delivers the Address.
JUDGE DOSTER SPEAKS
Degrees Are Conferred by Pres
ident George N. Herrick.

A class of II students graduated from
Washburn college this morning. The
class was composed of nine young la
dies and Y young men. The exercises
were held in the college chapel The
trouble had all been smoothed out by
the faculty backing down. The seniors
did not take the examinations and they
did have a vacation.
Shortly after IL o'clock the members
of the faculty took seats upon the ros-
trum and the members of the gradual
ing class followed in and were seated
in the place reserved for them directly
in front of the platform.
The chapel was prettily decorated
with festoons of evergreen and roses.
The rostrum itself was nearly hid be-
hind a bank of palms and clusters OF
white roses and carnations.
The address to the graduates was
made by Frank Doster, chief justice of
the supreme court of Kansas.
His subject was "Commercialism the
Spirit of this Age" He said:
AN address to a class Of students
about to step into the fields of activity,
or even into the paths of a more ex
tended scholastic course, is supposed to
be of counsel and instruction, either d.
rectly or inferentially given.
AT all times there is abroad in the
world what may be called the spirit Of
the age. 1t is that consciously felt,
ideal which for the time shapes the
thought and inspires the action of the
people.
enterprise and conquest, and I have
an unshakable conviction that it will
as the spirits of other ages have done,
work itself into forms and institutions
of beauty and of eternal worth to man.
By commerce I do not mean the vulgar
hucksterings of the market, and the
small chicane of trade, but mean the
vast financial and industrial undertake
ings in which the scientific methods and
the masterful force and genius of men
are employed.
Young men of the graduating class.
let me say that the spirit of this age is
commercial enterprise and achieve
ment; the spirit of this age is breadth
of view, vastness of plan, strength and
power of action; the spirit of this age
is combination, cooperation and so
cializatiOn of all the heterogeneous,
waring and discordant interests and in
situations of mankind the spirit of the
age is the masterful imperial spirit
which is generated out of the worlds
great centers of population and com
nlercial activity
In conclusion let me say that the
person who sets himself in harm ony
with the general spirit of the age, who
catches its enthusiasm, and puts him
self under its vitilizing, energizing in
f1uence, is the one who with others OF
like temper viii mold the policy and
shape the QeSL1IlV OF the American pGO-
pie and the world. So I welcome the
new invention, the new discovery, the
new labor saving device, the new COM
bination, the new enterprise. know
they cannot make the world worse. I
believe they can and do make the world
better
The exercises were begun with trio
20 Blessed Redeemer," by Misses Al
berta Scoville, Sadie McCauley, and
Octavia Greenwood. The closing num-
Der was a piano solo by Miss Maud
Parker
The degrees were conferred upon the
graduates by President George NJ. Her
rick whose resignation as president be-
comes effective next August.
The graduates in the various branch
es are as follows:
BACHELOR OF ARTS.
Aida Maude Cook. Adam Garfield
Frank, Victor Gustav kropf Grace
Alta Mcclure, George Lee Seeley, Ina
Shaw, Cora Lucinda Silvernai., Doro-
thy Tuckerman. Sherman willard
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
Charles Rudolph DetWiler, Lincoln
Cady Hodge, Adelbert Blaine Kirkpat-
rick, Walter Garfield Lux, Harry Lewis
Nelson, Albert Webster Newcomb, Ed
win Buckeridge Tit.
BACHELOR OF LETTERS.
Edwin Lester O'Neil.
GRADUATES IN MUSIC.
Octavia Greenwood. Sadie Eileen Nc
CauIey, Maude Parker, Alberta SEQ