Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-27
FINAL PARADE
ENDS INSTITUTE
COMMENCEMENT
twenty-five Graduates Step
From Ranks and Review
Battalion as II Passes; Fac
uIty Reelected by Regents.

Roswell, n. NJ, May 26.--"Final
parade ut $3.50 o'clock this after
noon and presentation of diplomas
tonight marked the end OF one of the
most successful years ever had by
the New Mexico Military Institute. as
well as the end of brilliant and inn
pressive commencement exercises
that have kept local society in a tur-
MOL for the past four or five DAYS.
The graduation address was deliv-
cred by DR.. NJ. l.. Spencer, professor
Of English literature at Lawrence
college. Present at the graduation ex-
ercses were Adjutant General Herr
ing the board of regents in a body
and many others. The institute faculty
appeared In full dress uniform and
the bright colors of the visiting la
dies gowns, the gold braid of the uni
forms and the many flowers and
masses of greenefy with which Lea
hall auditorium was decorated.
blended into one harmonious mass of
color
Cahoon Presents Diplomas.
Il. A. Cahoon, president of the
board of regents. delivered the diplo-
mas to the graduates. Dempster O.
Murphy, Of st. louis, delivered the
valedictory address. Music was fur
nished by the institute orchestra.
The list of graduates was as fol-
lows
Herman Revere Grille, Harold
Friedman Cohn, John BOYLE Connol-
~ James Joseph Connolly, Cuba
Varlne Clayton, Francis Leo Drew,
Hubert Jouette Davis. Curley Phar
Duson, Frederick Abel Hobart, George
Patton Kraker, William Francis Lo-
max. Dempster Ostrander Murphy,
William stephen Murray. Edward
Hugo Preisler. John Mccain Rimassa,
Hugh Columbus Trigg, Calvin Brooks
Vance, Jr., Stephen Peter Vidal Jo-
seph Knode Walton, Leo Gates Whit
low, Floyd Richard Drew, Carroll
kimball Leeper.
scholarship Awarded.
A scholarship to apply on the fol-
lowing session was awarded. to the
first honor men of each class. Those
to receive this distinction We're James
Valentine Doss. Lawrence Buford
Merchant Oliver Walker Elliott John
Daniel Randolph
The Princeton Declamatory Medal
which was won last Friday evening.
was delivered to George w Warder.
Company OBJ was declared winner
of the annual competitive drill. The
Harry Morrison loving cup was de-
livered to Company &C. -
The Saunders oratorical medal was
presented to the winner, Bart Cor
don
The Robinson medal went to Oliver
Walker Elliott.
A diploma was delivered to Eu-
gene A. Roberts, of Carlsbad, who
completed the course two Years ago,
but was compelled to leave school
Just before commencement on ac-
count of illness.
Brilliant Address by Spencer
DR.. Spencer said in part
"rhe first responsibility upon you
when you begin Your career tomor-
row morning at 6 O'clock, will be to
begin making q success of your own
life. You will find it considerably
pleasanter on the top rung of the
ladder than on the. bottom one. Men
look up to you there and the view is
better. When you are a $12-a-week I
clerk, you are careful to speak to the |
big men YOU meet. When you own
the establishment, the men you meet
are careful to speak to you. When
your home is Of brown stone and
fronts on Washington boulevard, au-
tomobiles stop before your door; !
when it faces on Tin-can alley, only |
the garbage wagon tarries.
Success and Failure Compared.
The men who go to the top have
their names included in dictionaries of
national and international biography
and admiring followers erect monu- !
ments TO their names and cover those !
monuments with. myrtle and laurel. |
The men who fail get their names
Mritien ON Wnnden slahs IT the head |