The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-06
BY CLASSMATES.
FUNERAL WITH MILITARY HON
ORs AT CAUTHORN HALL
OF EARL RAWSON.

Accompanied the Remains
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cal News.
S iturday at Corvallis, was ty-
pical day in May, The sunshine
and the breeze. the bird song and
the opening leaves, the blossom
ing meadow carpet and the rotunda
of hills fading away like pageau-
, try in the sky. made the morning
truly ideal. But the OAC flag was
at half mast, for Cadet Earl Raw.
son was dead, and sorrowing citi
zens and colit tgians g gszed through
crepe and mourning at thu sur
rounding display of God S miracul-
GUS dispensation of beauty.
1t was the second time within a
month the battalioa m -rched to
the funeral notes of the cadet band.
There is something so sweetly
solemn in outdoor music when
the springtime flowers are yielding
their beauty and fragrance. IL
seems that the music. the colors
and the perfumes ascend togethe,
in com mingling of praise. Hard
" had the Ides of April passed
when member of the sophomore
class answered the final sum mons,
and now with the calends of May
another from the same class took
his long departure. 1t was indeen
day long to be remem bered in
Corvallis.
S 'lomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like lilly; yet thousand of
Oregon flowers, more beautiful if
possible than the lilies woven iuto
crosses, wfea'hes, anchors, and
festoons by fellow students to adorn
the casket containing the remains
of Earl Rawson. So close are ths
attachments formed in college and
so intense the college spiris that it
is said that every cadet, who could
come. was in ranks on the plaza
of Cauthorn Hall.
The services were opened with
the hymo. LEAD Thou me on"
sung by Mrs. Edith Pernof, Mis-
Ellen Chambarlin, o. F, L. Herse
and ID. w. Pritchard. Rev, Hum
bert, in twenty minute address,
emphasized the Importance o.
Christian integrity in college train
irg
After the remains were reviewed,
the sad march was taken along
College avenue and then direct t.
the railroad station. Pallbearers,
selected from the student body,
we're sent at the expense of the |
Y. M. G. A.. the athletic associa-
tion and the Phfladelphian literary
society, of which associations he !
was an active member. They ac-
companied the remains to Orch
ards, near Vancouver, Washington,
where the burial took place Sun
day. They were, Frank Galloway,
J, S, Tannok, Miles Belden, Mark |
McCallister, John Mccormack
and Clifford Gardner.
Briefly told, thus ends the last
SAD rites paid a worthy young man
who came as stranger t. our
college nearly two years ago, was
successful in all his undertakings
and who made every acquaintance
his friend.
The military aspect of the two
college funerals recently held in
Corvallis brings into greater prom
ince the character of the typical
modern soldier of America, He is
an educated man, trained in the
public schools, farms and shops of
his home, and then schooled in
science and drilled in military
tactics for four years amidst all the
allurements and prestige that the
highest culture in college can give, !
The greatest admiral of the age
with Salust said that brains rather
than guns win the worlds greatest
battles. Herein comes the demand
for American so1diery, an intelli-
gent college bred so1diery, a sol
diery of which every man has the !
requisite character, training and
ability to make him an enviable |
leader in military and civil af-
fairs. Of such a soldiery Earl
Rawson will long be remembered
In Oregon Agricultural College
circles as having been a promising
representative
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