The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16
UNDER BUSH ARBOR
AS IN 0LOEN DAYS
UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT
WAS BROUGHT TO A CLOSE At
ATHENS.

by Congressman Brantley-JudCc
S. ID. Adams Delivered the ID. A. n.
Prize-Savannah Students Were
Among Those to Whom Prizes
Were Awarded.
Athens, Ga, June 15.-The closing
exercises of the university commence
nent were held this morning. under
the great bush arbor, on the same spot
where, 100 years ago, the first COM
mencement was held.
The graduates making addresses
were Messrs. N. H. Billiard, MilIedge-
vile; j. D. Bower, cambridge; 1. S.
PEBBLES. Gibson; G. D. Perdue. Green's
boro, and H. L. Reynolds, who deliv-
cred the valedictory to the class.
The baccalaureate address was de-
livered by Congressman W. G. Brant-
ley of the Eleventh Georgia district.
Diplomas were issued to the follow
ing graduates: Bachelor of arts, Frank
Butner Anderson, Don. Roland Bower.
Jack Dickinson Bower, Robert Preston
Brooks, Gordon Cubbedge Carson,
Jesse Franklin Cleveland, Wister
Weyman Cook, Samuel James Grove,
H. Quigg Fletcher, Ralph Meldrim,
Max Michael, George Winship Nunnal-
ly, Clifford Rylander Oliver, Willis Eu-
gene Raglan, Herbert Lindley Rey-
nolds, William Odds Roberts. Robert
White Woods.
Bachelor of science, Thomas Rufus
Aycock, Newton Hudson Billiard, Rob-
ert Springer DObbs, Abraham Falk Jr
Herman Hirsch Harris, Robert Edgar
Ozier, Ernest Lee Worsham, Lamar
Flowers, John Christian Koch, Martin
Luther Richter, Jr., Marcellus Rambo.
]. Cohen Chandler, Isaac Wayne
Chandler.
Bachelor of law. Robert Ashford.
Marmaduke Hamilton Blackshear. A.
B.; Charles Garden Bum, il, Rey-
nolds Marvin Burt Thomas Whipple
Connally, Phi. B.. John Bonner Gamble,
Lucien Prichard Goodrich, A. B.; Isaac
Stiles Hopkins, Jr., A. B.; Isaac Sid
ney PEBBLES, Jr., Graham Daniel Per-
due, A. b.; Walter Barnett Shaw,
George Edgar Simpson, B. s.; Robley
Dunglison Smith, Jr., Richard Perry
Spencer, Jr., Theodore Tiffany Turn
bull. a. 3.
Prizes Announced.
Chancellor Hill announced the follow
ing prizes: Medal for excellence in
freshman class, contributed by class
of 1875; w. C. Sherman, Augusta; best
junior grafton. w. o. Marshbun
GAINESVILLE, Ca: William ]. Bryan
prize of so for best essay on the theory
of government, P. w. Holzen docff
Crystal Springs: Horace Russell prize
of $50 for best essay in psychology, II.
H. Harris of Eastman: Horace Rus
rell prize of $50 for best essay in ethics,
w. o. Roberts, Yatesville; Wilcox prize
in French, $50, divided between Max
Michael, Athens. and Roy Jackson
Statesboro; prize by Prof. Lustrat for
general excellence in class, D. R. Bow
err, cambridge; Wilcox prize in Ger
man $50. A. V. Berg, Savannah: prize
of SIS for best essay on agriculture. J.
V. Arrendale Grove, Ga. medal for
best drilled cadet, w. T. McCaffrey,
Savannah; ready writer's medal, A. L.
Hardy, Stinson; prize offered by the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
on a subject in Georgia history, the
subject being Gen. James Oglethorpe,
delivered IN a magnificent address by
Hon. Samuel b. Adams of Savannah
to Mr.. Dudley w. Reynolds of Mariet-
ia, handsome silver cup; the Van
Eops Akin prize of the index of Geor-
gia reports for best thesis on a sub
ject selected by the law faculty, to
Mr.. Isaac S. PEBBLES, Jr., of Gibson,
Ga.
Reverence was the theme of Con"
gresham Brantley's address. I'm the
treasure house of the century, whose
closing we mark to-day" he said
many precious jewels of wisdom are
stored. They are not so deep nor so
far away, but what you can find them
and wear them if you will. They have
been preserved for the adornment of
those who seek them. They are of
many and varied hues, and each has
charm and beauty of its own, but
among them there is one more brill
liant than all the rest and that one
is the Jewel of reverence. 1t is The
one jewel of great price without which
the others are worthless"
THE dominant thought of the day
is reverence. 1t is reverence that has
caused us to discard our chapel, to
discard all our buildings and to as
senlble under an arbor in the way our
forefathers did and on the very spot
where. a century ago. they gathered
together to conduct their exercises
the first commencement exercises OF
its achievements for education. for
liberty, for patriotism and for just
government, and crowned with the
glory of a century of commencemenfs,
is the first object of our reverance and,
With reverence for lit, there goes
reverence for the memories of the
wise and patriotic men who builded
it. The very pride with which they
hailed the opening of their first COM
mencement is to us an object of rev.
erenoe.
100 Years Ago and Now.
The thought, however, that / would
suggest is that the things most rev.
erenced by those who preceded us uh-
der this arbor by just an hundred
years. are the things that merit now
the humblest reverences that we of
to-day can show. In the wreck and
ruin of the years that are gone, men
have sprung from the dust only to
be thence returned buildings have
been reared only to crumble and de-
cay; ambition, pride, love and hate
have each in turn played the part of
power; but, throughout all these tu-
multuous changes, certain great
truths have stood unchanged and I'M
changeable. In the beginning of the
past century, they were dazzling in
their sublimity and grandeur. They
are equally dazzling now, If only there
be eyes to see them. They were rev
renced an hundred years ago by those
whose examples we emulate to-day
and it must be to our lasting humili-
alton, as we'll as irreparable injury if
we withhold from them now the same
reverence that then was shown.
A Century's Changes.
Gould we to-day go back and look
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