The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-05
Eminent Domain.


| the Alkaloids.
Warren stebbins Prior-Religion and
Science.
Birdie Pritchard-The Power Behind
the Throne.
Frank Abton Lunsford Reid-The In
| huence of Christ
Henry Moring Robins-The Louisiana
Purchase.
Guy Vernon Roberts-The subsidizing
| Of our Merchant Marine.
Edward Duncan Sallenger-Federa1
Ownership and Control of Industries.
James Thomas Smith-Vergil's Aeneid
| as an Epic of Human Life.
| Henry Blount Short. Jr.-Modern Ten
denotes of the American Democracy.
Marvin Hendrix Stacy-The Growth of
| the American Idea.
William Faris Stafford-The Real Lord
| Byron.
David Pony Stern-Does the Modern
i Trust Threaten Americas Welfare
George Phifer Stevens-Heredity and
Environment.
Reston stevenson-The Ethical Idea.
| John Edward Swain-The Church and
State in Education.
| Buxton Barker Williams-The Veto
Power.
Robert Ransom Williams-Industrial
| ISM.
Thomas Clemson Worth-The Diffusion
of Roman Law.
Next came the theses by candidates
for the degrees of A. NJ. and S. NJ, these
being:
| Lester Won Noy Branch-A Resume of
| the Development and Present Status of
| the Theory of Ionic Dissertation.
! Jacob Observation-Disclosures Arnold ct
Sainte-B -Beuve: leur methode critique.
| Minna Curtis Bynum-The Ideals and
Ethics of Rome.
Julius Fletcher Duncan-The History
of the Louisiana Territory.
Clarence Albert Shore-The Early De-
| velopment of Toxopneustes, Thalassema,
and Ascaris.
| John William Turrentine-The Prepara-
! tiOn of Pure Praeseodymium Compounds
and the Behavior of Some of Them.
Louis Round Wilson-The Works of
Lyly and Green and the Pastoral Comedy
of Shakespeare.
! Following the reading of these lists,
| which names the graduates of the Uni
versity, were the four orations by the
members of the graduating class.
SOUTHERN POETS.
! Mr.. Pinckney Broadield Groome was
| the first to speak, the subject being
Southern Poets. Ii was most interesting
/ ly presented, in part as follows:
| Mr.. Groom presented his views in part
as follows:
They poured out their music on a
> sleeping world. The South has litera
! ture-a classic literature
! Among the first southerners who touch
ed the Tyre of poesy was William Gilmore
Sinims, a South Carolinian, man of
quick and energetic nature, who wrote
much, perfecting little. In different
vein the pure, refreshing songs of Pinck-
ney fall upon our ear, awakening lighter
moods of feeling, while Pike rings in the
chorus with the heaven born notes Of
this moclIing bird. OHara wins his way
/ to the hearts emotions, leads glory forth
! to guard with solemn sound the bivouac
| of the dead With Hayne we catch the
outlines of the pine trees and hear their
| ceaseless moan.
! In Baron Hope the chivalry of the
I South breathes anew, and Henry Timrod
| discovers for us the handiwork of -iod
| in the tiny cotton boil. With naive
! touch Cook weaves for us a glory verse
Better known are Ryan, Lanier and
! Edgar Allan Poe" he said and gave
| some of the splendid verse os these poesy
makers, and told of their impulses and
ideas, using pure and choice words and
| speaking with effect
| His final words We're given to a de-
| scription of Poe's ideals, Beauty meant
more to Poe than an appeal to the aes-
| thetic sense alone. He thought of
! beauty, which IS nope, he idealized is
poetic images, thus, contrary to his
| theory, bringing them into truths realm.
/ There is something never to be under
stood about this being who held his soul
| in his hand, as it were, could bid it soar
on angel wings.
| GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA.
] The second speaker was Mr. Marvin
Hendrix Stacy. whose subject was "The
| Growth of the American Idea" IT was
i an eloquent and finished effort. much
applause being given the speaker, who
/ is the class president. In part he said.
! Philosophic historians have formulated
j two theories as to the cause of the
! growth and development of the American
republic. The former of these schools
attribute TO Washington, Hamilton JEFF
ferson and their contemporaries the hon
| or OF inaugurating a new system of gov
eTnment, the consolidation OF thirteen
weak, incoherent and dependent frag-
ments into rounded and symmetrie unit
| and the final elevation of this new crea-
| ture to the exalted position of a posi-
| tive dignifed, and unified force i'm world
! politics. The exponents of the latter theo-
ry see in American institutions only an
extension and amplification of deep un-
! Gerlying force that has been working for
centuries among the AngloSaxo peo-
PIE.
In support of the latter view which,
without any derogation, we may call the
ancestor theory, it may be said that
there is marked parallelism between
the nature of the struggles CT the Eng
lish kings with their parliaments and the
(, contests between the royal governors and
| their colonial assemblies prior to the
] American Revolution.
The support of the opposite view, which
without violence to facts, we may call
the heroic theory. rests largely upon the
individual initiative of small band of
| American natriOtS It's advocates would