The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-20
ADDRESSES
YOUNG MEN.
Governor Montague the Orator
at Closing Exercises OF Me
chanics' Institute.
MADE A FINE IMPRESSION il: !: 10
Diplomas and Medals Presented
Before Large Audience
Last Night.
MADE A FINE IMPRESSION

The session Of the Mechanics Institute
closed last night with public exercises
in the auditorium of thu building, and
the audience was large and apprecia-
tive one.
Mr.. Wv. j. whitehurst, president, occu-
pied the chair, and he read the annual
repor Of Mr.. Mann S, Quarles. chair
man CT the School Committee, which was
both interesting and encouraging,
Governor Montague was the orator and
his tcma rks, relating mainly to the value
and Importance OF technical education,
were often enthusiastically cheered.
His Excelcncy was introduced by Mr..
r.. Rand Wcllford, in a brief speech,
Rhristling with congratulations for the
schoo. and praise for the orator. The
speeches were interscerscd With sweet
music by an orchestra stationed In the
balcony :, Sls "
Governor the Orator.
The Governor first congratulated me
city and the directors upon the 1onnua-
ton and maintenance of school to los
ter and further the mechanical arts ~. ne
at once argued for the education TINS
school gave, urging with emphasis ana
illustration that education must meet the
needs of ninety-fveA out of every hundred
and not to be subordinate to the ampl-
lions of five of every hundred.
He argued for an education to meet
modern Industrial conditions, declaring
that this was an age of machinery, ana
that mechanics and not maglclans were
the need of the hour. He then developed
his contention that the equilibrium OF
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physical force and mental force balanced
each other and that society as whole
did not receive the benefits of mans
service until such an equilibrium was
reached; and to this end he insisted upon
the conception Of labor and physlcal
skill as a calling of dignity and nobility
declaring that no aristocracy over that
of personal character and intelligence
was desirable.
He elaborated the resources of VIZ
rlnia, and showed how we need manufac-
tories and the skilled hand to direct
them. exhorting the inspiration Of pa
trIotism for our economic development.
Urges Private Work.
He gave the Indian as a type Of man
with low mechanical culture, and drew
from history example after example OF
the development of the power and glory
OF nations as the direct result OF great
mechanical skill, and that mechanical
culture saved time and labor, thus ~
turn giving time for leisure, comforts
and mental and moral Development,
In closing. Governor Montague urged
the young men to put private worth
above public place, and declared that II
they should merit the latter 1t would
come to them in the end.
The Governors speech was often pune
uia1ed with applause, and at the end OF
his splendid peroraticn there VAS pro-
lonsed cheering
Diplomas Presented.
Colonel &, p. Il. Btrswyn, principal
of the school, followed the Gove1nor, and
presented the diplomas, as follows;
Arithmetic-C Glass A-first honor, Lin
wood Everett; honorable mention, William
Bowen. Class B-First Divison-first
first honor, Oscar Brown; honorable
mention, Maurice Mohsberg, Class b.
Second Division--iirst honor, Charles r..
Cooke; honorable mention, VIM, II. Bell,
Norman Blankenship, Il y, Crittenden.
Glass B-Thrd Divison--hrst honor,
Charles II, Bliley; honorable mention,
w, b. Priddy, Glass First DIVISION
first honor, Oscar Brown, honorable
mention. Il. G. Harrison. Glass C-sec-
ond Division-first honor l., T.. klhs;
honorable mention. Frank Mayo. Class
D-irst honor. Charles Il, Redford; hon-
orablc mention. Luther W. Wells, Class
E--iirst honor, Heath j. RHwlcy' hohor~
able mention, Helm Latham,
ALGEBRA Glass A-first honor charles
Bialkowski, Jr, Algebra Class B-irst
honor, j. A. udriet.
Geomctry--Class A-first honor Em,l
Parsons honorable mention Charles Bial'
kowski, Jr, Geometry Glass B-llrst hon-
or j. A, Udriet.
Trigonometry- honor. ], a, udriet,
Descriptive dcometry-lirst honor - -,
,rwlning. honorable mention, w, ~
Woodson, Analytical Gcometry-frst
honor. r. H. Twning' honorable men'
ton Charles G. Taylor, Jr
Differenual Calculns-iirst honor, r. r.
Twin!ng' hohoraple. mehuVn' ~
Woodson,
Applied Mechanles--first honor =. T.
Pitcher.
' Bookkeeping-c A--rlrst henor'
Arthur F, Profitt; honorable mentiosh
Irra5k :, E,vensen Het