The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-06-16
ssnioFa Graduating Exercises Thi
Morning Closed a Very Event
ful Week.

Murning Closed a Very Event
full Week.
The graduating exercises OF the
senior class of Dakota Wesleyan took
=ffpp aaacre this forenoon at the college
chapel. Dipolmas were presented to
the normal graduates. also to Miss
Hazel Lathrsp the only graduate
from the school of musis. John p.
Hauser of the city OF Mexico has fin
ished post graduate work and was
honored with the degree of master
of arts.
Rev. John Prince jenkins, of Sioux
Falls, for his twenty years continuous
services in the ministry was con-
ferred with the degree of Doctor Of
Divinity.
There we're twenty graduates from
the commercial school and fourteen
from the shorthand department.
These did not receive their diplomas
in public but were presented by those
having the departments in charge.
The college graduates were four in
humber, and were as follows, who
presented their orations In the follow
ling order: Alfred Lincoln Schafer
took for the subject OF his Grafton
1.-THE Simple Life" Mr.. Schafer
received the degree Bachelor Pbilos-
ophy and in his Grafton he makes
the plea for loving a simple life, and
said in part;
AS we come here today friends. we
have no new message to bring you.
we cannot pretend to present any
new phases of life or any new ideas
that would revolutionize society.
Politicians tell us that within the
next so years or nation will have tC
have a new constitution or at least
a very radical change Of the old one.
We are loatlle to believe this and un.
It'll these statesmen produce some.
, thing showing the foresight anc
grasp OF human nature that Wash.
ington displayed, we will stand by
the constitution. 1t is a disgrace t.
"a nation to allow these God-giver
Icharms to be sacrificed to CONNER,
cialism. The open book of nature
that lies spread out before us is al
expression Of the Thought Of God.
l once visited a library on the wall:
LOT which hung a picture. 1t repre-
sented a man Of middle age, seated al
his desk at the close of bushes!
} hours. His attire and the scattered
Furnishings OF thesrooom were all in,
dications of wealth. but on tina,
J face was-wTitten the story Of cares
we know not OF, the brow wrinkled,
depression worried, the vigor Of man.
hood replaced by che anxiety of
Heavily burdened mind, the picture
OF a life ruined by strenuous living
In high society. Near this picture
hung another. This too represented
a scene in the twilight of a summer
eve. In the dooryard OF humble
cottage. the husband, returned from
his days toll, was palying with a lit.
tie child; beneath it the dropping
vines which overhung the porch, as
the mother, her face radiant with
Joy at the frolics Of the other two,
was partly hidden by a lilac blossom
which she clasped in both hands.
Wearied with the DAYS labors this
happy family seek recreation in these
simple childlike diversions. Inthese
pictures what a contrast, and We,
wherein does the constrast lie? The
life of one divorced from all happi.
mess by his business cares which keer
him from the enjoyment Of home and
from any exercise of bis tender emo.
%tions. The life of the other made
happy and bright by indulging in
the comforts Of a humble home and
the joys connected with it. This
transition from simplicity and hap
piness to perplexity and discomfort is
what is going On here today. Sim.
plicitv being our aim let is live out
what God has placed within us, let
us renounce the type OF life that pre-
tends TO be what 1T is not and above
all let ~us2remember that ssWhosoevel
shall humble himself as a little child,
the same will be the greatest In the
kingdom Of heayen.n
Carl Douglas Ruth also received
the degree Bachelor of Science. He
took for the theme Of his Grafton
Monumental He spoke with ease
and pointed to some Of the monu-
ments Of life.
Monuments are the expression OF
national ideals. In them is nirrored
the character Of It's people. They
mark a nations progress in civiliza-
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