The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-15
ST. THOMAS AWARDS
DIPLOMAS TO Is
Commencement Exercises Are
Held In St. PauI's
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The commencement exercises of st.
Thomas college were held in. the auia.
maxima Of St. PauFs seminary yester-
day afternoon before a. large audience
of alumni and friends and relatives Of
the members of the graduating. class.
Archbishop Ireland presided and many
noted churchmen We're present
The programme. opened withaa musi-
cal SELECTION Kaiser So 'Uncas," given
by the college nine4piece orchestra, and
this was Followed by the salutatory
address by Peter A. Tibesar on "a
Scientific Education" which he said
was almost a necessity i'm this scien-
tiflc age. About twenty members of
the Glee club sang ''Lead Kindly
Light and William w. Coleman re-
cited an original poem my Sabine
Farm" Part of the orchestra played
Pope's "Massaniello'' and Lawrence F.
Ryan delivered the valedictory address
on "a Classical Education"
After a vocal selection by the Glee
club a debate was held on the sub
ject: Resolved, That the Sympathy
of the American People Should be
With Russia in the Present War;" The
affirmative was upheld by E. f. Casey
and w. j. McHale, who commended that
the interests of the Americans and
Russians were alike; that the Russian
government was not despotic; that the
Russians Were very religious and that
the Japanese were irreligious and that
white SympafhieS should be with
whites and Christian sympathies with
Christian. r. NJ. Hughes and E. Il.
Foley argued that Russia was despotic;
that she was unprogreSsive; that her
people preached Christianity and prac-
ticed paganism, while the Japanese
lived up to Christian ideals although
they had not adopted the Christian re-
Hgion.
Archbishop Presents Diplomas
Very Rev. Humphrey Monihan then
read the names of the graduates while
Rev. John Dunphy handed the diplo-
mas to a boy who carried them to
Archbishop Ireland. AS the name of
student was called he went forward
and kneeling before the archbishop re-
ceived the diploma from his hands.
After receiving the blessing of the
archbishop he returned to his place.
Father Moynihan then introduced
United States Senator Moses E. Clapp
who delivered an address on Achieve
ment." Senator Clapp said that some
people thought that man was the sole
architect of his career, while others
thought that his life was all mapped
out for him, but that he believed that
the truth lay between these two eX-
|, tremes. He said that every young man
should have an aim, an object when
he started on his career, but should be
careful that in seeking this object he
keep his eye on the path directly be-
fore him. He gave the young men as
a watchword IF you achieve, achieve
something worth WHILE" and Achieve
ment comes only after work, necessity
I'D gSI, I1n VA vnd
their diplomas were:
Classical Course-W William w. Coleman,
Rochester. Mimi; John r. Keenan,, St.
Paul. Daniel +. Noonan, Waverly, Mimi;
Lawrence F. Ryan, ST Paul; Edward
Sprenger, New -UIm. Mimi; Peter A. Tibe-
sar, Minnesota. MINI.
Commercial Course-Francis Cummis-
key Currie, Mimi; Nicholas Kohanek,
qua, Wis; James Mcmahon; New
Richmond, Wis., John J. Meagher,
Minneapolis; Thomas Martin, Trip.
Fred Port, Milbank, S. D.; Ralph
Quinn, Brainerd; Leo r. White. Still
water; Raphael Vessel. Ireland; Michael
Gold medals foF general excellence were
awarded to the following students In the
academic depaft fhRnt:
Sophomore. 8 q ....ssJo Ohm r. keenan,
Freshman :. az .......... .,John p. Cleary
Fourth Acadennie 4. . ~ Joseph Finnegan.
Third 'Aeademles. n =. e. Francis Kelly
oeCoHu <1OduClnlO' sseAHth1U1iily, <H.A1OSeaI
Preparator sTla9fnas Kennedy, Arthur
Vader, Edward WELSH -
Gold medals have been awarded to the
following students in the commercial de-
partment:
Photography. ............... John RochOn
Bookkeeping. 49,. Martin BohnenStengle
PenmanShip. .......... Francis -McGonigal
Three medals for exemplary conduct,
presented by Rev. E.. Gauvreau, We're
awarded to the following students: Will
liam ]. Luby. Francis ]. Cummiskey, and
Arthur j. Wehr. tA-