The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
DR., KILGO SPEAKS
TO THE GRADUATES
And Dr.. DetwiIer breaches
Before the Y. M. C. A.
Mr.. SOUTHGATE'S REPORT
In His Statement as President Of The Board Of
Trustees He Gvss Information That
Will Prove Food for Profound
Thought.
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t.OugHIs
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Durham, N. c., June S.-Great crowds
heard DR.. G. H. Detwier at Main Street
Methodist church yesterday morning, and
DR.. j. c. Kilgo at Craven Memorial Hall
last night. These were the first exercises
of the commencement occasion at Trinity.
This afternoon the board of trustees met
in annual session and President Kilgo
submitted his annual report, this cover
ing the work that has been done and
made recommendation as to what the col
lege needs. Tomorrow the commencement
will be on in earnest and on Wednesday
the graduating exercises will take place
There are a large number of visitors in
the city and the commencement viii be
the largest attended in several years. Some
came here the latter part of last week,
many reached here yesterday and today
there was great throng around the de-
Ipot, visitors and the people Of Durham
out to meet friends forming the crowd.
The exercises Tuesday will be unusually
interesting At II o'clock in the morning
/ the baccalarureate sermon will be preach
ed at the Craven Hall by DR.. S. Parkes
Cadman, of Brooklyn, N Y. who is one
| of the great preachers and thinkers of the
/ day. The alumni association will meet at
/ 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the address
on this occasion viii be delivered by Con-
gresham John H. Small, of Washington,
this State. At night the orations by mem
4 bers of the graduating class win be de
I hvered. There viii be four speakers. On
4 Wednesday Mr.. Bliss Perry, editor OF the
Atlantic Monthly, of Boston, viii deliver
the commencement address. He is an able
speaker and great leader in thought.
Many will be attracted here on account
i of the fact that he is to speak After
this address the graduating exercises viii
take place.
SERMON TO Y. NJ. c. A.
In the sermon Of DR.. Detwiler before the
college Y. NJ. C. A. yesterday morning a
new feature of the commencement was in
IauguTated He is a fine speaker and the
church was packed to its utmost capacity,
and those who crowded into the church
heard a great sermon. He took tor his
text 1st Cor. 3rd chapter and 10th verse:
But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereon"
He then preached a sermon Of virile
force, originality and eloquence, a sermon
that made its impress upon the hearts
and minds of the congregation. and that
viii live in the memory for many day
PRES. KILGO's LAST MESSAGE.
Last evening the Craven Memorial hall,
which has a capacity of about fourteen
hundred people, was packed to the doors
with those who went out to hear DR.. John
c. Kilgo deliver his last message to the
graduating class. This feature of Trinity
Commencement was established with the
coming of DR.. Kilgo to the college, and
it has now grown to be probably the
leading feature of the commencement.
Certain it is that as great a crowd go out
to hear this address as is gathered together
during the week.
The address was ably prepared and
eloquently delivered. He is a great speak
er, great thinker and has a personal
magnetism that holds and sways an au-
dence at will. He began with speaking
of the chief characteristics of the nine
teenth century and closed with this ad-
monition to those who have learned the
greatest dues of life under him and are
which has been committed to YOU. His
address in part was as follows;
"The chief characteristics of the nine
teenth century may be said to have been;
on the material side the creation OF
mechanical force, and on the intellectual
side the unification of nature These are
the words in which John Fiske sums up
what he regards the most notable achieve
ments of the marvellous century which
has just passed. Like the majority OF
students of history who attach a final
Importance to material forces and pro-
cesses, Fiske seems to have no keenness
OF sight for the discovery of the moral
changes and the supreme value of the
moral forces that have wrought during
the century about which there is so much
superlative talk
When one wishes to recount the things
that give distinctive progress and unpar-
alleled greatness to the nineteenth cen
tury he must mention the death of human
slavery, the growth of democracy. the re.
cognition of human kinship, the dignity
of labor, cooperation in industry, the
rise Of missionary zeal and faith, and the
growth of private henevolence.
'The highest power belonging to our
nature is not physical power, nor intel
lectual power but moral power. What
ever Of progress and whatever Of strength
have been brought into our lives by the
wider knowledge Of nature; whatever Of
better and fuller views have come through
the increase of knowledge, giving supe-
rior advantages over former times, all
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