The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-14
HOW TO LIVE.
Subject of DR.. Kings: Address to
Washburn Seniors.
Twenty-nine Are Given Their
Degrees Today.
IN COLLEGE CHAPEL.
Three HOnOrary Degrees Are
Also Conferred.
Commencement Closes With Big
Banquet at ThrOop.
N COLLEGE CHAPEL.

/ With simple ceremony the class of
1905 of Washburn college were gradua-
ted this morning.
The exercises attending the gradua-
ton took place in the college chapel
Twenty-six of the senior class were
awarded the degree of bachelor of arts.
| two that of bachelor of science and one
that of master of arts. The musical
department graduated three students.
The address of the day was delivered
/ by President Henry Churchill King of
| Oberlin university. 1.-The Supreme Con
! ditions for Living was the subject
| chosen by Mr.. King. He treated his
subject from the psychological stand
point and yet with a simpleness and
| clarity that made it enjoyable to all of
| the large audience which filed the
chapel to its capacity. He said in
! part:
For the very sake of feeling and
thought you must act. We cannot af-
| ford to indulge ourselves in mere pas
siVe acts and dreams and ideals. If
this is true that there is no normal
/ state without action it means four i'm
portant things, viii. effort, self control
and personal association. The body
and mind are made for action The
supreme thing is self CONTROL to hold
the self in check for the greater and
more supreme whole. I see small pros
pect for the man in controlling and
leading others until he can control him
self
"One of the chief marks which dis
tinguish us men from the lower ami
mails is self control; moreover self con-
troll is the chief mark between the
sane and the insane. Our normal mood
is our objective mood. It Is the mood
of our natural state. The objective
mood where we forget Ourself in our
work. We are not our best in any
tz-r in 0r,a Of rrf,,-T~
We are made for action and the chief
aim to action is work. If you have
anything you want that should live
express it and If you have anything in
you that you want that should perish,
stifie expression 1t VIII surely die.
THE great relations in life are per-
sOnal relations. The existence of other
persons in the world is the most i'm
portant fact in the world. And 7 think
in connection with tins that the most
important fact is the respect for hbsrty
and the personality OF the individual. A
1epub1c is the most prosperous char
acter Of government it is the most
costly for simply getting things done
but it is the cheapest and most direct
for making men and women. / believe
that the truest test Of civilization is
the respect shown for the personality
of its citizens.
''You cannot expect to treat, no not
even this state of Kansas. to treat
1000 600 of our industrial population
as serfs and you yourself as free.
"A prime need of the world today is
personal association. There is no
royal road to character building ex-
cept through association. 1t is a cost
ly method but there is no other way.
There has nothing come to you stu
dents of Washburn so valuable as this
personal association. The best part of
college life is the personal associa-
ton.
The chapel was decorated elabor-
81, a.
daisies The graduates filed onto the
platform and the presentation of di-
plOmas was then made by DR.. Plass.
The honorary degrees were also con-
more, Rev. Henry Thayer and the
Rev. Archibald McCullaugh.
The Washburn ladies' chorus Miss
Ellie Meyer and Miss Alice Tucker
contributed the musical selections.
The graduates, the trustees and the
honored visitors march ed out of the
chapel in the same order as they came
in. in academic precedence. The presi-
dent of Washburn and the guests
came first, followed by the trustees
professors and the graduating class.
This afternoon from 3 O'Clock until
6 a reception was rendered the public
by President and Mrs. Plass in the
new library building This evening
the banquet at the Throop hotel will
take place. The alumni of Washburn
and other colleges, the business men
and those of the profession both IN
the state and city have been invited.
1t is expected that Governor Hoch will
attend. The programme IS entirely
informal. The following colleges
have arranged for tables: Amherst,
Oberlin, Yale, Harvard, Kansas uni
Versity Baker Miami university, IN
diana university and Monmouth col
lege. About three hundred guests are
expected.
This afternoon the alumni associa-
ton held a meeting. At this time it
was decided to admit the students of
the medical fine arts and law depart
ments of the college into the assocla-
ton. The report on the McVicar
fund was made and $4,000, it is stated,
has now been raised to endow chair
to be named after the late president.
The list of the graduates follow:
Bachelor. of arts-AIinna Bauer, Arth-
IIr Joel .Bolinger. Estelle Dora Brooke,
Mabel Laura Brooke, Herman Glen
CaTkhuff. James Lee CotueH Horace
Branson Cowgirl. CLford DorWln Gun
ningham. John Hudson Dadisman, Jno.
E7kstrom. Agnes Fisk, Grace Galloway,
Helen Marion Inghan, Martha Marie
Madison Maude Glen Neyhart, Sumner
Wadsworth Pressey Harvey Eugene
Philips. Lydia Elvira Stoffer, Annie
Brown Sweet. Mamie Zella Neale, Elor-
ence Mason Welch, Charles Hill White,
Mary Eliza beth White, Marcia Mary
Williams. Ethel May Voxall.
RacI,Alor 0f science-Fanny Juanlta
Foster. Albert Christian Aelser-
Graduates in nusic-Linna Cotting-
ham. Marian Gilkerson, Ellie Kline
Moyer.
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