The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
HOWARD GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Il
Closing Exercises of Commence
ment in Chapel Yesterday
FOUR GRADUATES SPEAK
Baccalaureate Address Delivered BY
the Rev. J. L. Observation-Disclosures
Gives President Montague
ChautauqGan Salute.

| With an appropriate setting of music
| flowers, stirring words of inspiration and
the kindly interest of friends, sixteen
graduates, composing the class of 1906 of
Howard college, were given their diplomas
in the college chapel yesterday morning by
President A. P. Montague. Present on the
rostrum at the time of the presentation
were most of the members of the board
of trustees, together with a number of
prominent educators from different points
| in the state.
Following is the order of exercises as
| carried out:
| Music-Orchestra
Prayer-The Rev. j. G. Lowerey.
Music-Orchestra.
THE Evolution of Society'-W. P.
Wilks
Musc-Orchestra.
Corporations and Their Bearing on the
Life of Today"-William Wessnger, Jr
| Musc-Orchestra.
Treasures of Memory"-F. B. Greenhill.
IAN Internal EVIL. F. Brock.
Music-Orchestra.
Baccalaureate Address-The Rev J. L.
Rosser. Selma, Ala.
| Music-Orchestra.
Comforting of Degrees--The president OF
| the college.
Announcements for the president of the
board of trustees.
| Benedicton.
The class register is composed of the
following names:
William A. Berry, b. s.; Austin Crouch,
A. NJ; John Frankling Brock, A. B.; W.
Arthur jenkins, A. B.: Marion Tabb
Davidson, A. B.; Carey Pratt McCord. A.
B.. Edward Day, b. s.: John W. Part
| ridge, A B.; James Kelley Day, B. S.;
Victor Leonard Powell, A. B.; William
Madison Duke, B. s.; Samuel Jefferson
Russell, B. s.; Fred B. Greenhill, B. S.;
| William Weissinger, Jr., A. B.; Albert Lee
Smith, A. NJ; William Pugh Wilks, A. B.
The president of the college, Dr. A. p.
Montague acted as master of ceremonies.
Graduassy Speeches.
The first speaker w. P. Wilks, made
what was regarded a clear and logical
address on 1.-The Evolution of Society,""
He began with the institutions of primi-
tive man and continued on through the
gradual stages of the evolution down to
the present day. He said that we are in
the dawn of new era that recognizes
/
in looking into the future he said that
the evolution will be completed when men
accept the doctrine of the universal broth
erhood of man.
Mr.. Weissinger defined corpora tions ac-
cording to the generally accepted stand
ards of the day and declared that they
i originated In the industrial life of Rome.
He treated the trusts from a favorable
viewpoint and gave 1t as his opinion that
they are responsible for the great indus
trial prosperity of the country and that
they maintain the equilibrium between
supply and demand. Among other things
he said that: I'm our day and time the
trusts are almost Indispensable
The Grafton of Mr.. Greenhill was pro-
nounced an example of graceful rhetoric.
! 1t was a poetic conception of the influ
ence that memory may and does play in
mems lives. He said: Sometimes we
find that memory is the only thing we
can call our own.
Mr.. Brooks address dealt with the
viper" of Mormonism. He followed the
inception and growth of the Mormon
| church, and touched on the Smoot in
/
revealed His conclusion was that the
country must stamp out polygamy.
Mr.. Rosser's Address.
| AS a subject for his baccalaureate adj
dress, the Rev. j. L. Rosser took my
| Lfe--What Shall l Do With It?"
| He charged the graduates that the sub
| ject as he had chosen it was a question
that presented itself to them at that hour
and impressed upon them the RESPONSE
| bllty of choosing well. He said that there
are three ways in which man may
| spend his life, and he held up before
them by example and illustration the
rewards that each will receive.
| The first is the life without ambition
the aimless life. Mr.. Rosser said that the
man without a purpose is like the man
| without a country and he showed that
the ultimate end of such life is ruin.
| The second life. as presented by the
| speaker, was the entirely selfish life in
| which he declared that the principal i'm
AGNES that the world exists for him and
not he for the world. Among other
| things he maintained that "selfishness
is mildew to the heart and frost to the
you value your soul itself, flee this type
of life."
The last life, and the true life Mr. Ros-
ser declared, is the life of service. This
is the life that is real and good and
noble His conclusion was: LAS you go
out in lfe-may God helpsy you to answer
the question right"
The baccalaureate address over. DR..
Montague. in a few appropriate and
touching words. presented the diplomas
to the graduates.
The Rev. Dr. A. c. Davidson then told
the audience of the $4,000 endowment
fund that has been secured during the
last year through the agency of DR.. Mont
ague He said he thought 1t was a prop
er time for the friends of the college to
give tangible evidence of their appre-
citation of his work, and suggested that
the audience give the president the chau-
tauquan salute. n response to his signal.
hundreds of handkerchiefs fluttered from
as many hands. DR.. Montague replied
that he pledged whatever of talent and
heart he had to the cause. He then an
nounced, in behalf of the absent president
of the board of trustees, the proceedings
and plans OF that body. which have al
ready been published
The benediction, which closed the COM