The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-10
OPERA HOUSE IS
CROWDED To DOORS
Commencement Ceremonial Of Public
Schools, Is Marked By Elaborate
Program and Carried Out in Such
a Way That Standard Has Never
Been EquaIled Before.

That like Gladstone, they keep their
hands clean. copying his life so that
even their enemies must have faith I'm
them, was the Anal request that DR..
Frank w. Gunsauius made of the Ham
mond high school 'OS graduates last
night I'm peroration of his splendid lec-
ture, whose subject was "GIadstOne."
The commencement address that DIR.
GunsauIus delivered last nigh was
possibly one of the most fnis-- ii adj
dresses that has ever been heard In
Hammond. And it viii be greatly
through his mastery effort that the
commencement exercises of 'OS mt
Toyyle's opera house will be long re-
membered I'm the annals of tie Ham,
mond high school.
Juniors Lead Procession.
Shortly after o'clock last night the
junior class of the high school formed
in procession at the entrance Of the
opera house, which was crowded. car
rying a garland of black and gold rib
bon. With the leaders of the process
sion standing at the foot of the stage
and the last onesssin the rear Of the
auditorium, the graduates marched
down the aisle that had been formed
for them and took their seats on the
stage. .--s
The invocation had been pronounced
by the Rev. J. Eugene Shook of the
Presbyterian church, after which the
high school sextette, under the direc-
ton of Professor Clark Leaning, sang
Hail the Glorious Dawn" with much
expression.
Superintendent c. NJ. Mcdaniel then
introduced the speaker of the evening,
DR.. Frank w. Gunsaulus of Chicago.
Most of those in the audience had
heard the gifted orator before and
greeted him last night with applause
before he made his opening remarks.
A Beautiful Word Picture.
The speaker, himself with a strain
of Saxon and Celt in his blood. began
to create an atmosphere for his word
picture of The Grand Old man." who
was a Scotchman. Incidentally he
wove into his lecture impressions that
he had gained of Gladstone at first
sight, when he saw him in the house
of commons, on the debaters' plat
form, and out in the rain talking to a
little boy, as though he were address,
ing an audience
Telling his spell-bound hearers how
the smallest and most inconsequential
things in this world were not too
small for Gladstone. he eulogized the
orator, the statesman, the scholar, and
the man, all of which he said were
represented in the highest degree in
Gladstone.
Gladstone's Inconsistencies.
/ Ia ha
| tencies of Gladstone, which the speak
stand until now, when Gladstone has a
place in Westminster Abbey Then
| drawing his great lesson for the grad
yates he showed how the life of Glad
stone having been inconsistent only in
| that he was always ready to grasp a
newly discovered truth, said that it
was Gladstone. the orator, scholar and
statesman who awoke England from
| its lethargy, when its poets were III
read and its painters and sculptors un-
known. This all in the lifetime of one
man at time when England was in
terested only in interests"
Leaving the application of Glad
stones life for time, DR.. Gunsaulus
paid a tribute to President Roosevelt
| that was received with a rousing ap-
plause England's conscience was
aroused in 1853 by Gladstone. said DR..
| Gunsaulus, and Americas conscience
| has been aroused within the last four
years. With irony in his voice he said
that Gladstone, too, was guilty of at
tacking every subject and that he al
ways spoke on every subject, and knew
it well, too, but that he had left few
things for the great American. For
instance he had not taken It upon him
self to call people who had not yet
been tried by court undesirable citi-
zens," nor had he regulated the family
life nor decreed how many children
there should be in each family, etc.
Gladstone the Man.
Toward the close he painted pic
ture Of Gladstone the orator, as he had