The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-01
GIFT BY CARNEGIE
Twenty Thousand Dollars
to Davidson.
Offered On the Usual Conditions. Com
menCement Day Exercises. Young
Ben Lacy Wins Junior Orators
Medal.

Medal.
Davidson College, n. c.. March 81
The closing exercises of Davidson Col
lege took place today with the award
ing of medals and other honors during
the day, and the meeting of the socie-
ties at night One of the features OF
the day was the announcement that
Andrew Carnegie had offered the col
lege $4,000 on condition that a sim
liar amount be raised by the college
and its friends. The offer will be &C.
copied.
The Annual Address.
Shearer Hall was well flied yester-
day, when DIR. Charles Kent, pro-
fessOr of English literature in the
University of Virginia, arose to de-
liver the annual address to graduates.
President Henry Louis Smith in in
Producing the speaker, took occasion
to refer to the ties that bind North
Carolina to the Old Dominion, recall
ing the fact that he and his predc-
cesSor at Davidson were from the Vir-
ginia University, and noting that Da-
wilson in turn had furnished Drs.
Barringer and Thornton to the Uni
versity of Virgania, Or. Moore to
Union Seminary and DIR. Hodges to
the Virginia Medical college. The
reference to these gentlemen was UNI
mistakablc, though DR.. Smith did not
name all those of whom he spoke.
DR.. Kent, who in personal appear
ance closely resembles President
Roosevelt, being handsome man
withal, chose as his subject 'Educa-
tional Ideaism" He said in part:
knowledge is power, ignorance is
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Education administers to the power
of leadership for the force it gives to
royal men. But let education beware
lest it be too cold, too austere, too
heartless Men prize it for the Gull
ture it brings, for the culture Of gentle
manhood, but that culture must be
deeper than the rouge of the coquctte,
it must spring from the glow of an
unsullied conscience. That education
does pay financially is true said the
speaker, and he. gave significant fig
ures to show the relative earning ca
pacity of men. Commercially, then,
it does pay, but that is the lowest
ground upon which we could place it.
Not every man, however, should have
a college education-'the artisans far
outnumber the artists. DIR. Kent
warned against the spirit of CONNER
cialism in education and denied that
ism, culture and power. He had, he
said, larger and truer conception
OF it and summed up his ideal of edu-
cation as education for citizenship,
here and hereafter"
1.-The educated man stands for every
good thing-sweetening the home life,
enriching the community, enlghten-
ing the State. Education fits men for
the duties and tasks of today-gives
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those that are lovely and true, and
his is of sufficient breadth and scope
to take in the whole universe. If /
had but one message to give to these
young men today it would be this-to
lead the people Alright. In your hand
you hold, whether you will or not,
the torch Of enlightenment"
Our ideals of true education, said
Dr. Kent are laid down in the Bible
and embraced in one passage: ITO
grow in stature and wisdom and to
favor with God and man"-the educa-
ton of body, mind, heart and spirit.
DIR. Kent referred to the training
of the physical man. He did not be-
little the necessity of physical develop
ment, but Southern colleges are drift
ing into dangerous channel when
the betting on game is worth more
than the winning of the game, and
for sport.
In concluding, DR.. Kent sounded a
note of warning. There are three
'isms," he said, which are menacing
the idealism of the South today-in-
dustrialism, absenteeism and material
ism. The second he defined as the
growth of alien readiness
of the young men of the South to yield
their opportunities to foreigners, and
he cited the recent utterances of q
North Carolinian who made a plea,
not only for foreign-owned factories
in the South, but for alien labor for
them. 1t is materialism that counts
only the dollars, and he made this
plea Don't measure your tasks by
the money you get for them.
The Oratorical ConteH.
Last night the oratorical contest
took place in Shearer Hall before an
audience that filled almost every avail
able space. The speakers were: e. j.
Erwin, of Morgantown, who discussed
american craftsmanship Y. w.
Faison, of Charlotte, whose topic was
THE Chinese as Remedy for Our
Domestic Labor Situation; Mr.. S. Fl.
Hay, of Liberty Hill, S. c., who talked
upon THE Man of Action" and B. Il.
Lacy, Jr. of Raleigh, on North Caro-
lima and Her Motto"
Following the speaking the recep-
ton rendered the class of '05 by the
alumni association was held i'll the
lower rooms of Shearer Hail.
Events of Commencement Day.
The senior oratorical contest for the
faculty medal was held this morning
w. T. Gibson made the salutatory adj
dress and then spoke on THE In
f1uence of Ideals"
The Philosophical Grafton was by
L. S. Stirwall. his subject was the
"Mugwump Idea" j. p. Paisley,
Southern Progress" w. L. Thomp-
son. War and It's Remedies" j. A.
Wyman, Our Heritage" S. c. Will
liams, Menace to Americanism."
The judges retired to decide the win
ner, while the degrees were conferred.
The degree of A. NJ was conferred
on one; A. B. on twelve; b. S. on five.
The following priZpS were wa rda6.