The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-06
OVER FOR Them.
Washburn Graduates Receive
Their Diplomas Today.
Seventeen Men Made Bachelors
of Laws.
GRADUATE IN ORATORY
First One in History Of the
School.
Big Glass of Students Get the
Arts Degree.
IN ORATORY

For Il 2 first time in the history of
Washburn the degrees of Bachelor of
Laws was conferred on graduates from
its department of law at the exercises
attending commencement day. Seven
teen, all of them men. received the Ii.
B. degree at the hands of DR.. Normal
Plass. president of the college.
A little too windy to be an ideal June
graduation day, it was still almost de-
lightful on the college campus and in
the chapel where an audience of about
zoe were in attendance. The exercises
were not marked by any important
event aside from the comforting of de-
grees. Contrary to the past few years
no graduate degrees were conferred and
the bachelor degrees to the graduates
from the arts and law school and the
diplomas to the fine arts students were
the biggest honors conferred.
The chapel was decorated with ferns,
palms and the class colors, yellow and
white The members of the class OF
1906 occupied seats reserved especially
for them in the chapel The diplomas
were first conferred on the music stu
dents entitled to that honor. Miss Net
tie Zimmerman, also of the fine arts de-
partment was then granted the degree
of Bachelor of Oratory, and in turn the
graduates from the arts and school OIL
law were called to the platform for their
diplomas.
The address before the graduating
class was given by Rev. Albert Bush
nell of Kansas City on "Chariots Of
The power and ability to see visions
and dream dreams was the message
which the speaker endeavored to prlng
to the college men and women Just
starting out into life. He deprecated
the sordidness of life and the CONNER
cialism which pervaded certain spheres
of action.
IN extolling the power to see beyond
the immediate horizon he SAID: Ihefe
are men of large eonceptlonI VINO eo,, re-
that which is hidden from their 1eiloW
men it is these who make history
Charlema gne, Alexander and Napoleon
narshalled the armies OF the Woflo-
They could shake empires with the
tread Of their sOldiery and make heavy
their power and might upon the ma
lions of the earth. But there was a
greater one than these. There was
Paul who had no armies, no empress
He relied upon visions and dreams; like
Elisha of old he saw chariots of fire
and he was greater than these with
their armies.
'sMen who had visions and dreamed
dreams were men like Phillips ana
the law of gravity like Columbus, like
those who came and settled this coun-
try and founded this government 1 gu
see then that this ability to grasp with
a cIearness of outline helps you to gel
started in life. Now man VINO sees
clearly a line of action and adheres to
IT may be called a fool or fanatic but
he becomes a leader of men. Inc
ability to see larger worlds does more
for men then enhancement of thelI
toll r,Io The thrill of lHe
heroic always lifts the heart of men
out of the commonplace.
Miss Ada Lois Porterfield, member
of the graduating class Will be welded
today and was not present to receive
-, The programme for the morning fol
Piano Piano solo-sixth Rhapsody -. List
Paul McNeely.
Vocal Questioning serenade:
Misses Best and Pond.
Adde'S Before the Graduating Glass
........I.. 'CharloU OF FIRE
Rev. Albert Bushnell. D. D.
Music-Snow Drops $3.50 Dorn-Plattt
Ladies' Chorus.
Comforting of Degrees-By the Pres
ident.
Those receiving diplomas this morn
Bachelor of Oratory-Miss Netti'
Zimmerman: diploma in music, Rilla
Hussey, Bessie McNeely, Paul P Ne
Nicely Nellie NJ Pond.
Bachelor of Arts-Mary Leila Axtell
Florence Myra Burge, Elma Alethts
Burkett. Seth Leroy Cox, Edwin Wiare
Dales, Lucy Dee Dickinson, Ray Cue
Doane. Bessie May Forbes Mary Sey-
mour Gaylord, Ward Hamilton Green
Artie b. Harris, Elnora Heiddleston
Edith Belle Ingham. Clarence Arthur
Johnson. Eleanor May Lukens, James
Austin Mcclure. Alice Katherine Nc
Farland. Hugh Mcfarland, Orley Les
! ter Miller. Lenore Monroe, Gertrude
| Nellie OFT, Arthur Henry Platt, Irving
| Montrose Plat, Ada Lois POrterfeld, Al
bert Crawford Ramsey, Pliny Thomas
/ Snyder. E.ldon Webb Tiee, Florene
( Eliza Tucker, John Van Etten Van d
/ Mark. Iugrace Whitmer, Mary Francs
Watts Wilson, Imri Zumwalt.
Bachelor of Laws-George Swile
/ Badders Chauncey' Cotteral Brown
| John Shaw Dawson, William Henri.
! England, Ross Burns Gilluly, LleweHyl
James Graham, George Albert Kline
1 Walter Scott Martin, Hugh Mcfarland
I David Danford Sallee. Benjamin Wrigh
/ Scandrett Ernest Raymond Simon, Ed
ward Ray Sloan, James Stanley ivy
ford, William Henry Vernon, Johl
William Wilson, Philip Cooper Wilson
HITS THE NINETY MARK.