The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-19
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, JUNE II, 1914
STATE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
Five Graduates From South Jersey

u v S0AS
The commencement of Rutgers Col
lege and The Stale Scientific School
was on Tuesday. The close Of the
I4Sth college year was begun on SUN
day when the baccalaureate sermon
was preached by the President VIM. H.
S. Demarest, d. D., LII. d.
RUTGERS BACCALAUREATE SERMON
TIE Baccalaureate Sermon was
preached by President Demarest Sum-
day evening. The text was Sand the
second Is like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself" Dr. Dem
Arrest spoke in part as follows:
at is a saying of Jesus Christ, but
a saying also of Moses, centuries be-
fore, and a saying of the human heart
and of social philosophy whenever the
spirit of Godi is not quenched. 1t sweeps
the whole field of civic, social and COM
mercial relations.
"Men are debtors to the world.
Every talent is a trust for all men.
The spirit itself is to be far reaching
for good. Every relation of life to be
altruistic, every task, every profession,
every commercial enterprise. At every
point the virtues which serve others are
required. justice, fairness and truth.
AT every point it is required that the
rigid virtues be enlarged by the grace of
mercy and beneticence.
''The present generation teens with
opportunity for separate service. Civic
affairs, social affairs, church enterprises
command the mind and strength of our
citizenship, the interest and zeal of
every young nla entering the field,
which is the world.
MEN are debtors to themselves.
~Self-sacrifice does not justify lack of
~Self-respect. The personal life is mans
first trust and stewardship. 1t is duty
to make the most of one self. 1t is 10
credit to a man TO be- satisfied with
small attachments and a low place if he
can make large attainments and attain
high place. Duty to self lies i'll the care
of conscience and character, of spirit
and immortal life.
"Men are debtors to God. The Su-
preme incentive to service of others and
honesty with oneself is the call of God.
That lies within every human duty.
The helping and redeeming of the
world and the best personal life have
their hope in the recognition of God
and obedience TO Him. Religion is a
first aud Supreme need of every mans
life for the world that now is and for
the world to come"
CLASS DAY EXERCISES
were held GU Monday in the Ballantine
Gymnasium and on Queens Campus.
They consisted of a class history, pro-
phecy, poem and presentation of some
humorous memento of college life
James Morrow, of Vineland, who held.
a Cumberland county scholarship, gave
the class history.
Lewis K. Wilkins, of ThorOfare, the
holder of a Gloucester County scholar
ship, planted the ivy. The class day
exercises were completed by the grad
uating class squatting around the old
cannon Oh the the campus AMI smoking
the pipe of peace after which the pipes
were broken on the cannon. Austin
L.. de la FORE, of Guadalajara, Mexico,
delivered the pipe Grafton.
COMMENCEMENT
The commencement exercises were
held i'll the Second Reformed Church
on Tuesday morning. Levi S. Ernst,
of Catskill, of N. Y, gave all Grafton
OIL History, Its Relation to the Resent;
Edward L. Paxton, of Freehold, The
Gain of College; Carl R. Woodward, of
Englishtown, Education, Vocational or
Liberal.
Twelve graduates received the degree
of Bachelor of Arts; five Bachelor of
Letters and fOrty-tive Bachelor of Sci
ence.
-Four of the five graduates from
South Jersey received honorable NEIL
ton on the Commencement program
James Morrow, Of Vineland, received
special honor in Latin and Italian.
Louis X. Wilkins, of Thor0fare, hon
Ors in the Agricultural course; Robert
G. DoOling, of Clayton, in science;
William w. Summerill, of Penns
Grove, in the physical department. AS
a member of the gymnasium team he
a gold medal for the best club
swinging in intercollegiate Amateur
athletics in the contest with the Penn
sylvania, Yale and Harvard UNIVERSE
ties. He was captain of his class COM
pany Of College Cadets.
MI. Summerill's graduation thesis
was making plans for a Sewage Dis
posal Plant for the city of New Bruins
wick.
The other South Jersey graduate was
James A. Stackhouse, of Bridgeton.
Because Of the app opriation Rutgers
received from the U. S. Government
and State every man who received a
scholarship musb~take military drill i'll
order that the State may have an edu-
citizen soldiery.
Rutgers is also strict in requiring at
tendance at morning chapel service.
Absence therefrom five times a term
without an excuse puts a man out of
college.
Among those who received honorary
degrees flom the Trustees of the Col.
lege for some special service they had