The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-20
TECHS CLOSING EXERCISES.
MANY SAW exhibition WORK BY
STUDENTS.

STUDENTS.
Editor r.. II. Edmunds of the Manu-
facturers' Record Delivered the
Commencement Address and Was
Banquetcd by the Graduates Last
Night-President Announces Com
pIetion of the $4,000 Subscription n,
which Means $4,000 for Tech.
Atlanta, June 1s.-The closing of the
archaeological School for the summer
was marked to-day by simple but in
teresting graduating exercises. The
work by the students in the shops be-
gan at $50 a. m. and was witnessed
by many visitors. The literary exer-
cises took place in the chapel from
1890 to l. and during that time the
little building was crowded to suffoea-
tion.
A feature of the closing Of the Tech
was the announcement by President
Lyman Hall that he had completed the
subscription of $4,000 necessary TO Sc
curing a like amount from the gem
eral education board. This will give
the Tech. $4,000 with which TO equip
experimental and electrical labora-
tories. The opening prayer was by
Rev. Theron Rice, followed by bac-
calaureate address by President Hall,
and then the commencement address
by Richard H. Edmunds, editor of the
Baltimore Manufacturer Record.
Mr.. Edmond's Address.
In his address at the commence
ment of the Georgia School of Tech
Al 11x Dfrb ND a.
monds, editor of the Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore, made an earnest
plea in behalf of the broadest sort CT
manuel and technical education for
Southern boys. He said that in the
struggle for individual community or
national success the trained expert is
TO be the leader. and that unless the
South promptly develops its now linn
tied facilities for the industrial train
ing of the tens of thousands of white
boys who would gladly avail them
selves of the opportunity, its greatest
natural advantages will no more en-
able them to win in competition with
the technical experts of other sections
than would a naturally strong position
enable an army equipped with the old
muzzle-loader TO withstand an assault
from one holding a position naturally
weaker. but equipped with the re-
peating rifle and the breech-loading
cannon. He mentioned Southern men
who have already practically recog-
nized the pressing necessity, and,
compared the South and other sec
tons.
The destiny of the South is to be in
the hands of the men who shall be the
leaders in this coming industrial age.
Southern boys of this day must be the
leaders, or they will be the "hewers of
wood and the drawers of water for
others who will come and do the work
which will inevitably be done. The
trend Of the worlds economic develop
ment is toward the South 1t is for
this generation to say what part of
the people of the South shall play in
this great march to industrial and
commercial supremacy. AS are our
opportunities, so shall be our respon-
sibilities. Nature has d0ne more than
her share. She has covered our noun
tains and our valleys with timber: she
has burdened cur hillsides with min
eral wealth beyond the power of imag-
ination; she has given US coal and
iron and cotton and oil, marbles and
GRANTEES and clays; she has furnished
US variety Of soils, which, according
to their kind. need but to be "tickled
with the hoe to laugh with the harvest
OF cotton or grain or sugar or rice or
fruits. Earth has no duplicate of the
wealth of natures bounty to us but
great as is the wealth of all our I'M
measured raw materials, it is in value
but as a grain Of sand upon the sea-
shore compared simply with the eco
nomic value of our boys and girls.
They are our greatest raw materials
Our schools, especially the manual and
chronological schools, are to be the fac
tories which, using them as it's raw
material. shall turn out the most price
less product known TO mankind-men
and women equipped by training to de-
veiop every latent power TO their own
happiness and to the blessing of their
country
Tonight the graduating class ten
oered banquet to Mr.. Edmunds at
the Kimball House. at which he and
several others responded to toasts
The graduates of the Tech. this year
to whom diplomas were delivered to-
day are as follows:
Mechanical Engineering - Thomas
Merriweather Thompson. Harold Ber-
nard Wey, Roy Gibson Merry, Robert
Lee Hicks. Morgan Taylor, Hochstras-
ser, Edward William Klein, Henry
Lem Strickland, Jacob Henry Paulsen,
Anselm Herbert Morton, Charles Har-
mon Kicklighter, Milton Graham
Smith, Maxwell Rufus Berry
Textile CONGRATULATIONS Thaddeus
Anthony, Isaac Hardeman, Jr, Charles
Walter Rainey, James Gignifriat West.
Jr-, Edwin Henry Bacon, Donigan Dean
Towers, Folger johnson, Arthur AL
vim Jones, Paul Howes Norcross. Julian
Carroll Prioleau and Louis Gardner
Yankey
Civil Engineering-MacDonald Law
renee.