The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-06-09

from Musical Fantasy was fitting In
troductOry to the brilliant program
which followed. Mr.. Frederick viii
liam Buchholz, who is to be Florida
representative at Oxford, delivered an
grafton on THE Classics in Education. -
The composition showed study and a
discriminating judgement which de-
veloped will make its mark A vocal
solo by Miss Margaret Buchholz and
the encore to which she so pleasingly
responded was received with insistant
applause.
Miss Pattillo's grafton on Literature
and Life opened vistas Of delight to all
leading through the carefully prepared
thorOughfares Of literature IN the close
association of immortal minds. She
showed that all countries had such high
ways we'll worth the travel and open
toall Miss Pattillo's address was most
pleasing.
The Tallahassee orchestra followed
this with the Myriad Dancer"
President A. A. Murphree in most
complimentary words introduced the
Orator Of the evening, the Hon. John
Temple Graves, Of America. Presi-
dent Murphree's Introduction gave all in
the audience a share in this gifted gen.
tlsman, some as Floridians, some as
Georgians and all as Americans. The
Hon. John Temple Graves is matchlessl
He holds his audience in his hands as a
master holds his violin, the strings are
the emotions of his hearers and thew
vibrate at his touch TO laughter or to
tears or rise with him to the grand
heights from which all good things
seem attainable and all evil things iiee
as shadows Of night before the sun
His subject, the Reign of the Dema-
gogue, should be delivered in the hear
ing Of every American, old and young.
The pictures he draws Of the demaRO-
que looming up like the genii in the
Arabian Nights from q puff of smoke
until he obscures the Sun of Freedom
is a warning not to be ignored. The
scathing denunciation of those who
would sell their birthright bought BY
the blood of patriots for q meas of
potage, the tyranY and oppression re-
sulting from unlawful combinations
based on the votes Of the Judases, the
expulsion from the glorious field Of pol
ltics, Of the eagles Of statesmAnship by
the vuitures OF corruption foreshadow-
ed hasty dissolution of our inspired
constitution. But he also showed the
silver lining TO the lowering cloud and
gent faces Of the class which he Rd-
dressed. Education, liberal education
for all, which would make the spacious
falsehoods display their hollowness and
wipe the veil Of prejudice from en-
Iightened eyes
Mr.. Graves eulogies of all our great
and glorious ones, Washington, Lee, |
Grant, Davis, Lincoln, Mckinley, Alex |
stephens, and a galaxy of others was
IS a brilliant light to draw others on in
heir footsteps.
The presentation Of diplomas TO the
lass by Mr.. Rawls, a trustee of the
college, followed. These degrees were
conferred. The degree Of Bachelor of |
Arts on Fritz William Buchholz, Ida
Grace Cramer, Samuel Franklin Gam
non and Robt. Bryan McCord; the de-
,ree of Bachelor Of Letters on Nettie
Clare Bowen, David M. Cook, Bersha
Archer McGinniss and Arthur Joseph
ShutAn; the degree of Bachelor of
Science on Agnes Kennedy Apthrop,
Burton Ellis Belcher, VIM. Parish Byrd,
Ruby Diamond and Nellie Patillo.
The Hilson medal for oratory and the
medal for the Platonic De-
rate was presented by Governor Brow
Ird to Miss Shirley Long and Mr.. DOz-
err Devane.
Prof. Calhoun then arose TO express
he love and admiration of the faculty
or their president and his estimabIe
wife. They begged that he would ac-
ept from them a small token of re-
nembrance. This was a handsome
present of silver and was accepted by
Pres. Murphree with pride and pleas
ire. He disclaimed the credit for the
IOtable advancement Of the college and
haired most generously with the faculty
nd students the justly earned COM
of the public.
Thus with the most brilliant COM
nencement in it's history, the Florida
,tate College closed it's doors.
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louise asylum investigating committee
as not been handed out to the public
ct. The report has been extensively
sed, and conveys the idea that the
'hOle asylum business has been white
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ore coming 20 the final conclusion that
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