The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-12
STUDENTS HEAR .
. COLLEGE, SERMON
Commencement Exercises Begin
With Address by Dr.. Taylor,
Of Petersburg.
GET REPORTS ON NEW HOME
Trustees Expected to Announce
Opening Date at West
hampton.

Richmond College commencement ex :
trcises began last night with the bac-
:slaureate sermon. delivered by Rev.
". c. Taylor. D. D., Of Petersburg, in
The college chapel, before a large au-
dience. made UP Of the student body,
members OF the faculty and board Of
trustees. and friends OF The insttu-
ton from all parts OF The city.
DR.. Taylor took as his text CORN
thians ". IS: For the things which
sre seen are temporal, but the things
which are unseen are eternal" He
said that the highest type of civliza-
ton is that iI which all men have
their capacities developed to the full
est extent and their powers at work.
These capacities and powers, he held,
are of dual nature. Science and
philosophy lead man to know him
self and the world about him religion
teaches man to know the unseen He
enlarged upon the Importance of faith
In everyday life and affairs and pic
tured the Apostle Paurs triumph over
difficulties and seeming misfortune
through his sublime faith in the I'M
eeen. The insufficiency of pure scholar
ship was strongly set forth. and the
graduates were eXhorted to know not
only the things of the material world.
but also to know and to show forth
In their lives the fundamental and
eternal principles Of the Christian re-
ligion.
The singing was led by the College
Giee Club. Howard D. Bryant, who
has trained the club, sang solo, ac-
companied by D. r. Anderson on the
plano. DR.. Charles H. Ryland offered
tho invocation. Rev. Charles ii. Gard
ner. D. D., of Louisville, conducted tho
service, prayer being offered by Rev.
II. w. Provence. an alumnus of the in
ttitution, now on a furlough from
mission work in China,
Class Celebration To-Night.
The class of 1911 will hold its cele-
bration tonight r. C. Duval Is the
orator for the academic class. Walter
Beverly Is historian A. r. Kershaw
will read the Law Class history and
S. W. Shelton will deliver the Grafton
on behalf OF the law graduates. Tho
board of trustees meets tomorrow at
II o'clock. To- morrow evening comes
the annual reunion of the alumni, when
!. yndham r. Meredith, of Richmond.
Will deliver the address. The annual
alumni dinner will follow at the BUSH
ness Mems Club. After dinner speak
crs Will be Rev j. NJ. Pitcher, d. d..
Professor z. B. Pollard and John S.
Eggleston, representing the classes of
fifty, twenty-five and ten years ago.
y. o. Lynch VIII represent the grad
yates of the current year-the class of
1911. -
The commencement exercises proper
occur on Wednesday morning in the
college chapel. following an Imposing
academic procession of undergraduates.
candidates for degrees OF various
grades. alumni, faculty, candidates for
honorary degrees and members Of the
board of trustees. The commencement
orator on Wednesday will he Professor
G. Alphonso Smith, of the University
OF Virginia. Degrees, honorary de-
Erees and diplomas will then be
awarded. and the session OF l9l0-19ll
Will have come TO a close.
Plans for New College.
The feature OF interest in this years
nesting of the board OF trustees. be-
tides the general plans for the work
OF the college, is the report OF the
building committee, which has ir hand
preparation of plans for the new home
Of the college. at Westhampton. The
date VIII probably be fixed for opening
the college In Its new quarters prob
ably In September, 1913. Tho board
Will also discuss plans for continuing
the work of the institution mean while,
and make temporary provision by au-I
thoriztng the renting OF outside houses
to take the place of the north wing of
the main college building destroyed by
fire on Christmas morning
An important report is also to be
submitted BY the finance committee
having to do with financing the scheme
for the new college building Under
the plans adopted an imposing group
Of buildings is proposed some OF which
VAL be erected at once, while others
VII! follow es funds are available The
college expects to realize large sum
from the sale of the tract at present
occupied, which stands In the heart
OF the residential section or Rich
Inond' at the beginning Of Monument
Avenue.