The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-05
Get The DEGREES.
FOrty-fOur WaShburn Students
Graduate Today.
Twelve Complete Course in the
Academy.
DIR. j. f. LOBA SPEAKS.
Outlines Duties of Members of
the Glass.
'R. j. F. LOBA SPEAKS.
An Interesting Ceremony in the
College Chapel.

!
! College Chapel.
The forty-second annual commence
ment exercises Of Washburn college
were held in MacVicar chapel this
morning. Degrees were conferred upon
forty-four students who had completed
/ the work in the various departments OF
the college. Fourteen degrees had al
ready been conferred earlier in the sea-
son to the graduates of the Kansas
! Medical college which brings the num-
Der of graduates this year up to the
| number of flfty-eight which is a little
| lower than the ordinary for the college
year. There were also twelve students
who received diplomas Monday from the
academic department of the college and
who will be full fedged college students
next year.
The chapel room was tastefully dec
GRATED for the occasion. Washburn blue
predominated in the elaborate setting of
the stage. Palms were placed on the
platform in a very artistic arrangement
which added greatly to the effective
decorations of the stage.
Promptly at 1890 the graduates cloth
ed in the caps and gowns of their var.
iouS departments marched into the
chapel. President Plass with the men,
bers of the board of trustees and the
college faculty headed the professional
followed by the members of the grad
uation class. The faculty and trustees
occupied position on the rostrum while
the graduates were seated in seats in
the front of the chapel room.
The exercises of the morning were
opened by a piano solo by Miss Anna
the musical department of the fine arts
school. The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. Francis L. Hayes, pastor of the
First Congregational church. Miss
Celia Smith who also received a degree
from the fine arts department sang two
solos which were heartily encored.
DIR. Loba's Address.
The address to the graduates was de-
livered by the Reverend Jean Frederic
Loba, D. D., of Evanston, Ill. Rev.
Loba is noted educator and occupies
a prominent place in the religious and
educational life of the country. His adj
dress this morning was on the subject,
THE Awakened Spirit; the Enrichment
of Life" The address was by far the
best and most eloquent address which
has been delivered upon similar oc-
caSion at Washburn in many years.
In the course of his address DR..
Loba said: I'VE can not read the
name of Athens without thinking and
wondering at the marvellous existence
of the educational life of that coun-
-
streets through which Aristotle. Plato
and Socrates, once roamed disseminate
ing their great teachings in art and
philosophy No one can mention the
name of Florence without feeling the
power of the great names connected
with that age. At the mention of the
great Florentine martyr to education,
Savonarola, and Michael Angelo, a
genius in all lines of thought and
achievement, we find ourselves SPELL
bound as it were to their great attain
ments in the darkest ages of the
world. But there is a secret to the
fascination which hovers around these
names which is more wonderful and
which has done more than the men
who have formed the ideals of cities
with their own thoughts. 1t is the
wonderful awakened science of the
ages.
sAT that we do or think is the
work of this great artisan which con-
trolls the working of the world. The
whole power of civilization is not what
we think it is. But it is the awaken
ing to a scientific and spiritual life
which has made progress in the va
riouS lines of human activity and the
refinement and culture of the human
spirit. The senSativenesS of the hu-
man spirit is the index of civilization.
1.-The Renaissance marked the
awakening of civilization. The wave
of new learning awoke Europe to
knowledge of her possibilities in the
darkest period of history. This great
work of awakening the world was ac-
by the awakening of the
spirit in a humble monk. Martin Luth-
er's conceptions of life found their
way over Europe where they breathed
forth life to the common and relig-
iously oppressed people OF the contin-
''The student of today is not engage
ed in visionary and impracticable pur-
suits AS Matthew Arnold says they
han in fr1T1 h
with the best. though handed down
the ages from the beginning
Of time. Their service to the world
with the knowledge which they have
gained in their college halls will help
them to make the world broader than
ever before as they are mustered in
to help on the worlds great battle
field.
the developments in the field of
science but man can not live by brea d
alone The material world in which
we fight our daily battles is but the
to come. The enlargement which pre-
pares for the organic relation of hu-
manity to the future world is but the
outcome of the proper enrichment of
life.
1.-THE text book. the library. the
halls of the school is not the essence
of college life. but it is the contact
into which the student comes through
the association with the great learn |
ing which is handed down. These
boys and girls in the graduating class
will forget all they have learned in
ten years But if they put to use what
they have gained from the learning
Of the past they will mingle with liv-
ing men and women and through their |
efforts they will lead those less for
tunate TO a better life and will kindle
what is now dead with the fires of life |
I'VE are living in the same world as
Moses and Abraham but we cannot
live and make places for ourselves as
Before us lies the plastic world and
l,pon If we are to leave orr iuscriD-