The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-23
ADDRESS TO
GRADUATES

The baccalaureate service of the
1910 commencement of tae New Mex
leo Military Institute, held Sunday
morning as the first public gathering
i'm the elegant new Lea Hall, was
largely attended and fitting formal
opening of ghe important proceedings
of the week. The big auditorium of
the new building was completely filled
and extra chairs were placed in the
rear to accommodate the overflow
portion of the crowd. The address
was given by DIR. George Fowler pas
tor of tine Caristian church, and was
a forty-five minute discourse OH ,the
right sort of ideals thai young men
should look TO in passing from school
work to the affairs of life or to the
duties of higher college life.
W.lile the rest of the building is on
ly partially completed. and the audi
toriITn itself is not entirely finished
and was seated temporarily for the
meetings of the commencement week,
the new academic brilding at the In
stiLute. known as Lea hall, made a
most favorable Impression on the Wis
itors yesterday. II is a large com
Portable and well arranged building,
and, moreover. is artistic and appro-
pirate in its style of architecture.
The windows and doors of the audi
:arium were curtained and draped
vita bunting yesterday. The stage
was set with palms, ferns and otaer
touches of green and draped with the
flags of the Institute and OF Uncle
Sam. Hung i'm festoons at the top OF
the stage were immense ropes of
bunting in the colors of the class of
1910. blue and lemon. In the center
of the rear wall of The stage was sus-
pended a large, beautiful likeness of
the late Captain Joseph C. Lea, which
was later to be presented to the new
building by the alumni of the school
1t was fitting that this picture should
be givea the prominence il was on
this occasion, since it was the first
meeting in the new Lea hall, named
so because Capt. Lea was tle man
who made the Institute a territorial
institution and started it on the sue
cessful career il is now enjoying.
Seated on the stage were the
speaker and the Institute double quar-
tette In the hallway on the right
were the members of the Institute
band, by whom the program was op-
ened with Gounod's grand triumphal
hymn, PRAISE Ye the Father"
Following the invocation by DIR.
Fowler. the audience sang Come,
Thou Almighty King" and then DR.
Fowler read as the Scripture lesson
the Tooth Psalm. Then the Institute
double quartette gave a beautiful
number. Under the Shadow of Thy
rr~H-~ m
appeal to God for his blessing on the
service of the day. of the week and on
the lives OF the young men who soon
go out of tho school.
lieut. Col Barlow gave as vocal
solo THE Judgment Day." by Law
renee his voice having a pleasing eff
feet on the audience.
Then came the sermon, the subject
Of which was The Call of Life. DIR.
Fowler Iold of the advancement of ci-
vilization from the early stages, show
ing how the races from the stone age
tn the present day have been working
out tie basic principles of nobility OF
character, and logically showed that
il was the duty of the youth of the
present day to carry forward this
plan of the Creator. His address all
tAe way through was tribute to the
young men of the country, slowing
that in them depended the advance
ment OF al lines of learning and civi-
lization. He stated that when the dis
covery of the circulation of the body
was announced in England. not one
man over the age of As would believe
In the theory. He gave this as proof
that to youth belongs progress and
advancement of all kinds, as well as
folly and indiscretion. In progress
the speaker encouraged the young
men Against the follies he counsel
ed them. The desire to do something
I'm life he pictured as the Important
ideal Of the material and mental sides
OF life, but above all he would have
them discard the ideal that Americans
hold too dear, the desire Ito have and
to held" But first of all. for true sue
cess. they should seek the Kingdom
OF God.
The audience sang america" as n