The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-06
GRADUATES MUST
GO into POLITICS.
DIR. Forrest Tells Academy
to Help Purify Present-Day
Conditions.
MANY HoNoRs AWARDED
HON0RS AWARDED
A. Simpson Has Choice
Of Three Scl,olarsl,ips-Tl,e
Medal Winners.

Closing the sixth and most success.
full session since It's foundation. Rich
mond Academy held its commencement
exercises last night in the chapel OF
Richmond College, diplomas being
awarded to sixteen graduates and many
prizes and scholarships distributed. At
the close of the exercises Professor
Frank c. Woodward who leaves the
chair OF English to take the same
branches In Woman's College. was
presented by Ex-Governor A. j. Monta-
que with handsome volume Of poems,
the gift of the boys of his English
classes.
Dr. n. II. Pitt. member Of the
board OF trustees of the college and
of the academy, presided. After the
opening prayer by the Rev. D. NJ.
Ramsay. D. D., DR.. Pitt made an adj
dress to the boys. Concerning every
thing save athletic records he was pro-
fuse in his praise, but. ever jealous OF
supremacy in this line, he urged them
to improve by next session.
Must Go Into Politics.
DIR. William NJ. Forrest, OF the Uni
verstty OF Virginia, made the address TO
the students. taking as his theme THE
Students Obligation" He said that
age. whose high school education Is in
some cases better than that of their
forefathcrs, when they had concluded
their college course
The primary obligation. he said, was
to be loyal, faithful and grateful to
the school which started them out, no
matter how small or obscure. The debt
is a broader one than that of merely
learning what is in the books, the
associations formed being worth more
to the man in after life than what he
gained BY taking his diploma.
The best way to pay the debt he
said was TO work in the cause Of cdu-
cation everywhere. calling attention to
Washington. Jefferson and Lee. each of
whom, though late in life, bent his en-
ergies toward fostering great cduca-
tional movements
Telling them as men OF intelligence
to take their places in the politics of
the country. and especially in the
South, Or. Forrest emphasized the inn
portance of putting clean men into Of
flee by their votes and back them
afterwards to the end that political
graft and rottenness might become n
thing OF the, past.
He closed with a eulogy on the New
South. and called upon the graduates
to bring 1t to the political. literary
and commercial supremacy that 1t once
enjoyed
Awarding tho HOnors.
Then came the presentation of med
ais, scholarships and other hon9rs. DIR.
7. c. Johnson presented the penman-
ship medal to William James Gilman
and the spelling medal to James Irwin
Cason, Robert White Farrell received
-the prize for mathematics from DR..
John Fl. Dickinson: the all-round ath-
letic medal was awarded James irwin
Cason by Mr.. Robert n. Pollard. and
DR.. Edward N./Calisch presented tho
primary school scholarship to Roger
Millhiscr. The Chandler English prize
went to William Alexander Simpson.
the Mr. Academy f1 hes rea hf prns senoa Of
ship winners to the University of Nir-
ginia. Washington and Lee University
and Richmond College: William Alex
ander Simpson. the first choice: Henry
Winston Boiling. third. The Richmond
Academy scholarship was awarded
Philip Barney Shields.
Primary Promotions,
In addition to the other distinctions
and promotions the following were
given in the primary department: Dis
Wallace, A. Churchill Young, Louis
Latone Osborne IIoughton, William
Chaplin, Ashby Miller. Arthur Scott,
Latane Montague and Roger Mllhiser.
ericle Scott, Clifford Maytield and Rob
crt Sharp. Distinctions from II. to the
upper school-Alvin Z. Coleman, Tom
w. Malone. Victor Metcalf. Burton
Cook. Thomas Mayo. Warriner Beat
tie, Terry Mitchell. Alvah Hovey.
Whitfield Harrison and Richard Meade.
Promotions from IT. to the upper
school--FIarold Hofheimcr. Morriss
Mitchell James Taylor. Robert Blank
en- ship, Bruce Ferguson and BraSton
Valentine.
INSPECTED DREDGE WORK