The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-06-17
GRADUATION At
Penn ACADEMY
twenty-five Young People Qualify
.t College Course.
.PURDY WON ORAToRIcAL PRIZE
Miss EIida Mason Was Second and
Harold White Third-other
Features Of Commence
ment At Penn.

ment At Penn.
| A class of an even twenty-five mem
bers graduated from the Penn college.
academy with appropriate ceremonies
| in the college chapel Monday after
noon. The chapel was more than.
crowded and the lobby leading into
the auditorium was filled with spec
tators during the program. The dec
orations were very attractive with an
arrangement of the class colors, or
ange and red in festoons, streamers
and pennants. The class was seated
on the stage with the president, prin-
lcipal and speaker of the afternoon.
Hopes orchestra played several Sc
Ilectons, interspersed between other
plumbers on the program. President,
A. Rosenberger of the college offered
the invocation, and Rev. Eugene AL
len. ID. d., pastor of the Central Meth
odist Episcopal church of this city, de-
livered the address to the class upon
the striking subject of Gold Dust or
Ashes" Rev. Allen as usual gave his
hearers much food for thought and
|study and his remarks were delivered
with his characteristic eloquence and
ISmoothness which made the address
entertaining as well as instructive
and inspiring to the graduates. Be
fore everyone is the possibility of the
highest or the lOwest-gold dust or
ashes. He urged the cultivation of
the heart as well as the mind The
prime question in the minds of think
ing men, he proposed is What is
iliie?"
There have been many attempts to
answer it. Most of these answers
have been fakes. Darwin, who perfect
ed and amplified the theory or law of
physical evolution, did not answer it..
The break between the brute and
man is too great to permit of this.
Mere intellectual attainment does not
answer it. 1t is answered adequately
by the heart Head knowledge apart
from the heart is of no avail. Life
consists in getting down on a level
with the needs of humanity. This
Is the gold dust of life as contrast
led with lthe ashes" of other attain.
ments.
Following selection by the orches.
ira the diplomas were presented to
the graduates by Mrs. Jennie G. Cor.
lett, principal OF the academy, who
spoke In most complimentary terms
Iot the class of 1909. She expressed
for Penn college the great expecta-
lions they have of these graduates
and urged the members of the class to
strive in their lives to meet these ex.
pectations. The benediction was Of
Tered by Rev. e. X. Purdy, pastor of
the Friends church of this city.
Following is the class roll as classi.
fed by courses:
Classical-LPearle Gwin. Jeanette
Hadley Katherine Hiatt. Lulu Marie
hull, Harold NJ. Lane, Eugenia NAL
colin, Roberta Meredith and Jesse A,
Stanfield.
Scientific - Eva Mae BrownelIer
Mia Fay Fleener Maude Hanson,
David Hawkins, Chalmers w. John.
son. Neda Johnson, Mary F.. Kissick.
Flora b. Moore Ernest ]. MYERS. John
w. Porter, Homer Scott Reynolds. AL
len ]. Rodgers, Earl Schultz, VIM. w.
Southwick, Mamie A. Wright and Ma
bel N. Wright.
Normal-Mollle Warner.
! Prize Oratoricai Contest.
The annual prize oratorical contest
was held in the evening and resulted
as follows:
First-AleXander Purdy, The Crime
of Glass Hatred"
Second-Miss Ellda Mason. "Why
Am II"
Third-Harold White, The Safe.
guard of Liberty" ..
Art Oppenheimer presided during
the program, and following piano
solo rendered by Miss Mabel Flint.
the six contrasting orators spoke in
the following order: Harold White,
The Safeguard of Liberty; Othello
Davis, The Hope OF the Nation:
lZiba A. Ferreil, Following the
CLEAN; Alexander A. Purdy. The
Crime OF Glass Hatred; Raymond
Mendenhall, will American Ideals
Survive; and Ellda Mason, why Am
II" 1t was the general comment that
the orations were above the ordinary
standard and seldom has there been
at any college contest six orations
with all as good as these. The deliv-
lery was excellent. The judges on de-
livery were II. o. Glasure, general Sec
retary OF the Y. NJ. C. A., Marion Seev-
ers, and Mrs. Linda Ninde Dorian. of
Long Beach, California, the first grad
uate of Penn college, class of 1875.
Germans In Convention.
The sons of Hermann invaded Fort
Dodge 300 strong last week for the