The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-06-10


Diplomas were gwen to fourteen
young ladies and gentlemen of the
graduating class of 1908 of Broad
dus Institute at the close of entertain-
Ing and-pleasing commencement exer-
cises held in the First Baptist church
Wednesday morning, the fifteenth an
nual event of the kind in the colleges
history.
The program was opened by pre-
lude on piano by w Lee Williams,
the piece rendered being the prelude
in c sharp minor by Rashmanioff.
The Rev, B. D. Stelle asked the
divine blessing upon the assemblage.
Thomas Hale Erwin delivered an
oration entitled THE Educational
Power of Modern Literature" a
splendid discourse, well delivered. At
ter reviewing the various branches of
literary endeavor and Weighing their
respective moral influences he show
ed how degraded literature leads
downward and good literature, up
ward and eXhorted all to discriminate
carefully in the choice of literature.
In discourse on "The Qualities
Tat VIM" Miss Georgia Lee Garrett
held the close attention of her audi
tors while she enumerated the moral,
physical and mental attributes that
are necessary to the well being and
development of all persons and en-
forced her points by strong illustra-
tions.
There is constant demand in the
public service, in the educational
nelds and in other branches of work
for good, well trained, educated men,
declared Arlos j. Harbert in an ora
tion which had for its subject Want
ed-A Man" We are surrounded by
institutions that need support and
protection and we need good men to
do this work. There is no better
type of man than he who contributes
largely to ~civilization. We are to
find him only in the man who has
well developed, vigorous. physical ma
ture, well trained mind and care
full moral training. Mr.. Harbert's
grafton was very interesting and 1t
was rendered with gree and ability.
Chopin's Polonaise was then artis-
tically rendered upon piano by Miss
Willie Lawson, eliciting unusual ad-
miration from the audience.
Howard R. Lynch told of the value
of an ideal in a well prepared and
nicely delivered grafton. We must
have higher ideal, we must strive
to live upon higher plane, he said.
There is big difference between the
wisher and the doer-the aimless life
Is shameful one. 1t is not encbgh
to set the. ideal and then wish for It
for success in life comes to him who
does things. But success demands
its price of preparation, exertion and,
above all, a singleness OF purpose. Let
us each have high ideal and ever
strive to win.
Mary Evlyn Patt. in an excellent
discourse. told all about the new
woman. The new woman, she said,
must first be Christian. Then she
must guard her health, by proper
physical culture. Her mental de-
velopment must not be neglected. She
will, do those things she has the abil-
ity to do. She will not forget that
she is the one who makes the home
and whatever her surrounding condi-
tions she will take up her home work
or work in business or professional
lines just as the conditions require
without faltering and she will do her
best and be true. noble woman in
every sense of the word.
Many have been the glorious
achievements OF the nineteenth cen
tury, said Glenzie NJ. Morris in an
Grafton on the subject THE Real
GIories of the Nineteenth Century"
and the far reaching, beneficial re-
suits therefrom encourage us to
strive for more and even better things
in the century to come. The achieve
ments and masterpieces of mechanical
science, music, painting. literature,
/ the works and deeds of great men,
the good results of wars and dipIo-
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