The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-09

Evans Beauchamp Wood, Pike; James Al
to York. Dale.
Sophomore Glass, Distinetion-Henry
Madison Averyt, Lee Casper carr Ger
tain, Madison; Charles Abiatha Dean,
Lee; Nimrod Davis benson, Jr., Cham
bers Nell Alexander Frazer, Mobile;
! Chester King Gould Mobile; William
/ Francis Jordan, Madison; Cincinnatus De-
1 catur Kilebrew, Dale; William James
| Mcbride Morgan; Claude Stewart Nc
Nicely. Talapoosa; Henry Castor Mitchell
! Tennessee; Frederick Henry Mohns JET
ferson; James Marion Poyner, Dale Moan
Parker Renfro, Jr Lee.
| Highest Observation-Disclosures Francis
Beasley Lee; James Robertson Black
Lee: Beftram Ezekiel. Butler.
Special Students Observation-Disclosures
Lemue Payne, jefferson.
Highest Decentralization Tracy Par
Sons. Kansas.
Junior Glass, Distinction = William
Brasher Clayton, Barbour; Obie Boland
Cooper Marshall; Kess Lawson Forrester'
Houston; Alice Brown Frazer, Mobile.
May Persis Harvey, Lee; John Howard
McEniry, jefferson Enoch Lester Miller,
Marshall, Cicero Louis Nelson BALDWIN;
George Wallace Postel, jefferson; Walter
Robert Sanford. Lee; Henry Howard
Thornton, Talladeea.
Highest Observation-Disclosures Platt Boyu'
Montgomery; John Vernon benson,
Chambers; Ralph Dudley Georgia.
Samuel Luther Gipson, Dehalp' harie ~
gene jerks, Mobile
Receive Masters Degree.
The degree of master of science was
conferred the following:
POSTGRADUATE Degree Master Oh
Science-James Victor Blackwell, Cal
houn; Rush Pearson Burke Montgomery
Charles Sanders Culver, Lee; William
Watson Davis, Mobile; John Harris
Mitchell, Georgia. Thomas William Nor
gan. Jefferson; John Rice Searcy, Cone
cub.
professional Degree. Civil Engineer
Jacob Thompson Bullen, Alabama
The Commencement Address.
Dr. William Oxley Thompson, who de-
livered the commencement address,
ranks among the leading educators IN
! America. He Is president OF the Uni
versity of Ohio and has held for some
! time the position of president OF the
| Association of Land Grant colleges.
Many of the leading institutions of our
country are members of this great group
of schools for higher scientific learning.
| Chief among these is probably Cornell
university the Cambridge of America.
| DR.. Thompsons address was entitled
Modern Industrial Education" The adj
dress showed the impress of the scholar,
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for the individual what he needs to have
done for him.
Education for education's sake is not
the hlghcrt ideal. There is something be-
youd the processes of education that can
not be MEASURED in terms of education.
This some thing beyond is often the deter
mining factor in what the process of
training shall be- The true aim and bust
ness of all education Is to teach individ-
uals how to live
Study of the classics prepares men to
live efficiently. 1t stands for the interpre-
tation of life and for the study of man,
the highest expression of life
Greece was the mother of language.
philosophy. poetry and art. The Hebrews
gave us a pure ana lofty religion me
Greek and Hebrew combined and then
came the revival of learning. the reforma-
ton, and the birth of modern science.
The names of Bacon. Sir Isaac Newton,
Faraday were quickly followed by others.
The intellectual Interpretation of man
has been supplemented by the spiritual;
the spiritual Interpretation of the world
was the advent of science and new
direction to education.
The struggle between the scientific and
classical schools was long and bitter; but
finally science. first pited. then endured.
was embraced and took fixed and lofty
place in education.
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