Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-05-22
ALLEN ACADEMY
commencement
Opened at First Methodist Church
Sunday with Eloquent Sermon
by Dr.. Vinson OF Austin.

The II o'clock service at the First
Methodist church Sunday.>was one of
unusual interest itNbefng the occasion
of the commencement sermon for AL
len Academy. Special music had been
prepared for the hour and the sermon
was delivered by DR.. r. f. Vinson,
president of the Presbyterian Theolog'
ical Seminary at Austin. The whole
central portion of the church audito-
/ rum was reserved for the Allen Acad-
envy students and the large class of
graduates occupied the first three
pews. The audience was a magnificent
one. overlooking the lower part of the
church into the Sunday school gallery
above.
Those who had heard DR.. Vinson on
his recent visit to Bryan at the time
of the Bible day services held at the
skating rink were expecting a treat,
land in the message brought by this
eminent divine they were not disap-
pointed.
DR.. Wilson'S text was the twenty
fourth verse OF the sixteenth chapter
OF Matthew, and his sermon dealt
with the essentials OF a really success
Iul life. These as set forth in the text
were presented as self-denial, cross
bearing and following Christ Self
denial he defined as rejection of self
as a master and the enforcement of
someone else. Cross bearing he defined
as the assumption of the work of life
chosen for us by God, and to follow
Christ he said meant to 90 about our
task as Christ went about His, in
happy and unreserved way. The ser
mon closed with a fervent appeal to
the young men graduating to take
Christ into their lives, and it made
deep impression on the whole audi
ence.
DR.. Vinson preached again Sunday
evening at the Presbyterian church,
and left Monday morning at l O'Clock
for Dallas on business pertaining to
the great educational fund the Pres
byterians are raising in Texas.
Sundays exercises marked the be
ginning of the twelfth annual com
mencement since the establishment of
this splendid school in Bryan. Twelve
years ago the school was moved from
Madsonville to Bryan and the first
year there were fifty students and two
teachers Year by year the school has
grown until this year the enrolment
was enc hundred and seventy, with
teaching force of eight professors.
This enrolment does not represent the
limit of students that could have been
secured, but the number that room
could be provided for. So well and
/ favorably known is the school that it
! is hard to conjecture the number of
boys it would draw from Texas and
other states if room could be. provided
for them This has not only been the
most largely attended session of the
Academy. but the most profitable in
the amount and quality of work done.
Final examinations are now in prog
ress and on Thursday at 10 a. m. the
seniors will hold their class exercises
at the Colonial theater on which oc-
casion President r. T. Miner, of A. 4
NJ. college, will deliver an address.
A strong faculty for the coming
year has been engaged Among the
new additions to the teaching force
are ]. c, Snipes. A. b., Southwestern
university, 1911; and Orville r. Post,
NJ. D., Harvard, 1911.
Below is given the list of the grad
yates for 1911. Every member of the
class expects to continue his educa-
ton in some higher institution. The
graduates are:
Paul II. Allen, Roy A. Mcknight, IL.
Rex Cabaniss, Rudolph Mitchell, G..