The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-19
STATE UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES
THOSE ON WHOM DEGREES WILL BE
CONFERRED TO-DAY.
Mr.. MIcrs's Address to the i. u Alum
ni-JOhn ID. Rockefeller Speaks
at Chicago University.

ker Bassett. b. ~, El Paso, Tex; Harry
Augustus Bevis, B. S., McLeansboro, ILL.,,
Ernest Harper Cox. b. s, Crawfordsville;
Robert Law Cunningham, b. A, Newburg,
n. Y: Carson Samuel Duncan. Ii. A, Flat
rock. ILL.,; Truman George Hardy, b. A,
Goodland; Bert Raymond Hcobler, Is. s..
Bay City. Mich; Carl Noethling klass, b..
A., Indianapolis: James Mcknight Lawson,
Is. A, indianapolis: Stuart Turner McCol-
lum, Phi. b., Monticello; Mark Deming
Nave, b. ~, Charlottesville; Edward De
Witt Scott, y. A, Hecla: Gerald Hayden
stoner. b. s.. Valparaiso James Ray
Thomas, h. s.. Ration, n. NJ; William Irwin
Utterback, b. s., Charlottesville, and Prier
B. Wright. b. ~. Cayuga. The address TO
the class will be made by Robert W. Not
man, ID. D.. of Chicago.
The board OF trustees met in regular
spring session this morning. with the fol-
lowing out-of-town members present: Ly-
man +. Glover, NJ. A., of Chicago; George
l.. Mcintosh, NJ. A, Indianapolis; VIM. a.
Woods, Ii. D., Indianapolis; Charles
Hutchinson, ID. D., New Albany; James L.
Orr. Evansville; Edward Daniels. NJ A.
Indianapolis; Judge S. c. Simpson. NJ. A,
Terre Haute. The morning was devoted to
routine business. The treasurers report
showed that the college, for the first time
in several years, had lived within its in
come and had a substantial balance on
hand. State Agent A. S. Leonard reported
that the prospect for many students is
very encouraging. The vote for alumni
trustee resulted Eben H. Wolcott, class of
sc, 175; George Hall. 80. 175; Clarence
Zener, 90, So the last-named gentleman
representing the anti-coeducational forces.
The failure ~ the alumni to elect trus-
tee, as commanded by statute, left the Sc
lection in the hands of the board of trus-
tees, and they proceeded to chose c. B.
Lands to the place. The following trustees
were elected for the four years 190l-190i:
Edwacd Daniels. II. H. Hanna. George L.
Mcintosh and William a. Woods all of In
dianapois.
The annual banquet was held tonight at
the Crawford House. .. w. Moores, class
Of 81. of indianapolis, was POSTMASTER
The alumni address was made by Parke
Daniels, 81. of Starkville, Miss. Following
is the programme: Our Tribute to DR..
Princeton; Wabash" Thomas r. Mar
shall, 81. Columbia City; Wabash and the
New Century the Rev. j. A Blair. '9S.
Indianapolis News: THE College and the
Field" President Kane and a. s. Leonard.
State agent.
MIR. NICHOLSON'S ADDRESS.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society listened to
an address at o'clock this afternoon, at
the assembly hail. by Meredith Nicholson,
of Denver, Col.
After quoting Matthew Arnold on the
saving remnant in q democracy and dis
senting from that writer's opinion, Mr..
Nicholson said: In this Republic we need
never expect TO find the whole population
brought TO the same level of cultivation;
even the woman's club and the study class
and our Chautauqua circles cannot do that
for US. Nor is it desirable that we should
all have like interests and similar ambi-
lions. After we have taken care to assure
efficient and honest public administration,
providing adequate protection for the weak
or defective and widening the horizons of
all who seek the light; when we have
checked vice, oppression and tyranny we
are wise If We let the principle of doing
as one likes find its free expression. The
majority are not unsound; on the other
hand, the majority with us have usually
proved themselves to be singularly intelli-
gent and wise If the ma jority were I'M
sound we should not to-day have national
existence. and If any great number of our
people believed that this majority were
incompetent to choose policies and admin
istrators should quickly revert to a
state OF disorder and chaos.
THE maintenance of the faith of man in
his brother is essential to the continued
tranquility and prosperity of the Nation.
In these first years of the new century.
Under democratic government all that
tends TO the submersion Of the individual
is fraught with danger, and all that inter
feres with the individuals fullest partici-
patton, not merely in government, but in
the free enjoyment of those expressions of
mans higher life which make their appeal
through literature, music and the graphic
arts"
The speaker next took up the subject
of trusts and after deploring the organiza-
Of roll dc nd I'D,
consultations under central control he con-
tinued as follows THAT was an ideal
economic condition-ideal because the in
dividual enjoyed his greatest liberty and
prosperity under it-in which the small
village was practically independent of the
outside world. The shoemaker. the baker
the wagon maker the butcher and the
tailor were all members of society which
thrived with little outside interference
Now their occupation is gone.
Now we are told. on the one hand that
while trusts are destructive in their atti-
tude toward labor, they tend 20 cheapeu
the price oil commodities: and this by con-
are an evil and menace. they will in time
fall Of their own weight. AS 10 the first
proposition. | am unsound enough in my
political economy TO believe that the wsi-
many hands are employed by many com
peting Industries than where one autocr Al
limits his labor, stiles his competitors ano
holds the public at his mercy, and as q
| the second, the policy of waiting until ie-
struction is complete before we begin te
mend is not we'll calculated 10 inspire col
ndence
THE organization of the American STATE
Is extremely delicate and me. ana we nee
men possessed OF that acute perception
and lightly balanced sense OF equity which
ccme only with sound training 10 admmiste,
| it. While a knowledge OF Sanscrii or Gsr
man philosophy may not aid the Governor
| OF n State or county commissioner, there
| Is no denying that the trained faculties
OF cOllege-bred men arc better able TO de-.
! with all problems than those of men whose
powers and faculties have had no system.
! attic training TX Is beyond debate that
great and increasing share or the worid'.
! rough work IS well rs in the more exact.
! ing labors OF art and scholarship. is be
/ ing done and done necessarily by colieg,
men.
HOPE OF DEMOCRACY.
THE voice crying In the wilderness is tn.
hope Of democracy. Complete and uncritl
cal self-satisfaction is fatal We need re
proach and questioning To keep W aler
| and open-mlnded and open-hearted. Tn,
! doing OF obscure and thankless tasks II
the name OF a principle wins no public ap
plause, but il builds bulwarks OF charactel
in the individual or the State. Civic cour
age is rarely praised: rather, those VIII,
practice it are often pilloried in obloquy
And yet, after the dust and smoke OF bat
/ tie have blown away and we have placed
the crown on the hot brow OF the victors
We have still the brave, quiet. far-seeins