The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-01
Final Exercises at Uni
versity Yesterday.
SPEECH OF BOUTELL
Picture Of Old Scenes at Memorial
Hall, A Great Crowd in Attendance,
Graduating Exercises, Senior
Class and Theses, The Phi
Society Wins Debate.
BY EDWARD E. BRITTON.

Chapel Hill N. c., May 31.-The
commencement day at the State Uni-
versity so great a day. The orator
of the day is of course an event, but
then there are other speakers here,
young men whose four years service
has made the day, and these add their
voices and their thoughts to enter
tain the great throng of assembled
people Men, men, men, and women,
women, women, from many parts OF
the State add life to these buildings
which. as beehives of learning, keep
sending out noble and talented meE
to make North Carolina greater and
better
How many people gathered this
morning to hear the orator of the day,
Congressman Boutell, of Illinois, l
can't say but there was great
crowd, that for the most part sat the
exercises through from start to finish.
despite the fact that the finish was af
ter o'clock and the dinner hour.
But the people were repaid. for that
which came to them in speeches could
but enOble and build up to more
earnest life for the good of human
ity and the State.
Scene at Memorial Hall,
The graduating exercises were held
in Memorial Han, a spacious auditor
ium. On the outside were groups Of
maids and laddies, all in gala dress,
making the scene as Of a huge all day
picnic. In the hall itself there was
gathered a goodly company, the major
portion of whom whirled and twisted
and waved fans of various styles and
many conditions of servitude, some
fresh from the dainty millinery selec-
tions, others of the palm leaf variety
Of some summers of experience, while
the festive red letter advertising Jap
ancse fan was in its glory. The gentler
sex were in the majority and these
mainly affected white as to dress and
hat and fan, splotches Of black being
furnished by the men, who were to-
gether i'm some numbers on the right
and left of the hall as if for an organ
lied protection of themselves. 1T was
an attentive audience, silent and in
terested while the speaking went on
chatting, lively and gay when the
music of the band took up the story
of the day. Through the open win
dows the sunshine could be seen as it
sparkled and glittcred on the leaves
of the many oaks which almost en-
brace the building There are long
ranges of big windows and these swung
open to the breeze today in this ideal
weather Above these are half ovals
of parti-colored stained glass, some of
these being beauti1icd as man cannot
beautify, by the shadow tracery of the
IVY that chambers about the building,
and forms for itself figures of artistic
fancy back of the stained glass.
On the rostrum to the left of the
speaker were the members of the fac
ulty, and the graduates who spoke
during the morning. This section Of
the platform was marked with the
black scholastic gown, set off i'm other
coIors by faculty men who had captur-
ed high degrees on the literary bat
tlefield. To the right sat the many dis
tinguished citizens of the state and
alumni of the University, among these
Governor Francis d. Win
ston, of Windsor; Hon. Richard Battle,
of Raleigh; Chief Justice Clark, of
Raleigh; Prof f. p. Hobgood of OK
ford; Prof w. T. Whitsett of Whit
sett Mr.. f. w. Hancock of Oxford;
Hon. Josepbus Daniels of Raleigh;
Graham, of HiIlsboro; Hon. s. Nj. Cat
It's, of HillsbOro; DR.. r. II. Lewis, OF
Raleigh: Hon W. w T<itchin, Of Rox-
boro: Mr.. George w. Connor, of Will
son: Major H. A. London, of Pitts
boro; Rev. AZ. D. Belts, of Lillington
Hon r. T. Gray, of Raleigh; State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, j.
Y. JOINER: Mr. t. i. Carr. OF Castoria,
Prof. J. c. Horner, of oxford; Col.
Thomas Kenan, of Raleigh; j. A.
Iockhart Jr.. of Wadesboro; Mr.. D. y.
Hudgens, of Marion,
Fine Goods i'm Small Packages.
Honorable Henry Sherman Boutell,
of Chicago, Illinois, is not as large 4
man as his name would indicate, but
he is a big talking small man. tho
small applying to the physical and
not the mental Boutell From the
neck up he is white as to hair and
pale as to countcnance. His closed
trimmed beard on the sides is rounded
off at the chin, while mustache, as
white as the beard. has an upward
Frenchish tendency that fits the name
Boutell. Eyebrows white, mark the
beginning of a broad eXpanse of fore
head that sweeps way up over the
head which as to the front half bare
ly escapes being bald, while a gener-
Gus supply of hair abounds on the
back Of his head, which, as he turned
sideways i'm addressing the Univer-
sity faculty, showed a mild black at
the lower edge. His white standing
collar. marked off from the white shirt
front by a grey cravat,
hand tied, and a white vest, With
longitudinal black stripes and black
buttons ON his Prince Albert, while
grey pants. correctly creased and
patent feathers completed the picture
of a most distinguished and literary
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