The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-20
Parke Daniels Eloquent Tribute to
the Late President futile at the
Meeting of the Alumni.
ILLNESS OF DIR. BURROUGHS
AMPUTATION OF AN ARM Is EXPECT
ED TO RESULT FATALLY.
DR.. Swain Talks to State University
Graduates About the JOY of Serv-
ing-WOman's Building Fund.
special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, June 19.-The
sixty-ninth graduating exercises of Wabash
College were held this morning at Assem-
bly, Hall in the college campus. The orator
for the occasion was the Rev. r. w. Nor
ton, D.. D., of Chicago. AT the close of
this address President Kane delivered the
~parchments to the graduating class. and
then announced the following degrees. con-
ferred by the board of trustees:
LII. D.-Thomas Patterson, Denver. Col.
Edwin r. Thomson, Springfield, o.; William
5. Young, Los Angeles, Call; A. j. Alex
ander, Charlottesville.
NJ. A.-Harold Taylor and Louis How
land. indianapolis; Meredith Nicholson.
Denver, Col.
Degrees in Course-Ph. D.. Charles z.
Larsh. SO, Bloomington, ILL.,; M. S., Fran
els w. Chrisney. '9S. Chrisney. and Samuel
NJ. Dague, 80. of indianapolis.
At the meeting of the alumni association
]. A. Green was elected president and ]. H.
Osborne secretary. II. L. McLain, s. B.
Thomas and Chase Harding were appointed
a committee for next years banquet. The
presidents reception this evening. at the
presidents home. closed the commencement
season.
The class of 80 banqueted this evening
at the Crawford House, and a silver cup
was given to the member OF the class hav-
ing the Oldest boy. The cup fell 10 NJ.
Plunkett. This afternoon the class paradel
the city in a four-in-hand, blowing tin
horns and having a merry time, as in the
old college days
Parke Daniels, Of Starksville, Miss.
p%refaced his alumni address last evening
with the following remarks concerning the
late DR.. futile: ITO one who has been
an alumnus of Wabash College for four
teen years, and who has returned 10 the
alma mater but once in that time, il seems
that DR.. futile is here yet, that he ought
10 be and VIII be here forever. If ii were
right l could wish for some such divine
dispensation. He knew his men so well.
every one of them, To the last prep. and
he made them feel that he knew them and
was ever near. He was our friend. our kind
counselor. our impartial judge. teacher and
leader of men. Truly Joseph r. futile
was the grand old man of Wabash Col
Iege. But he has laid his armor down. He
is gone and will return no more. For my
class and generation l wave the parting
sign, All hail. DR.. Tuttle. and farewell
"A few days ago l asked a brother alum
nus, who Is my friend, what in his opinion
was the chief human characteristic of DIR.
futile, and he answered, Broad common
sense No doubt this is the opinion of
nine-tenths. if not all. of the alumni. Pre-
eminently DR.. Tuttle was a sane man. His
effort was 10 know the truth and to see
things as they are, spiritual, intellectual or
practical. This GROWING characteristic
made him a tolerant man. mpre,so than We
knew, but we recollect- it now. This. per-
haps, is the lesson of his life. 1t seems
appropriate at this hour. We live in a
country of the most ex~travagant actiyi-
ties, of the most emphatic partisanship.
and for forty years and more sectionalism
has bestridden the land like a colossus.
We should welcome the dawning of a new
day. We should invoke the spirit of toler-
alton and let the best instincts of an Anglo
Saxon people prevail"