The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-12
"A. c. GRADUATES
GET DIPLOMAS
THIS MORNING
Successful Year in Institu-
tons Concluded With
Commencement
WELD POINTS TO
GREAT OPENINGS
Several Grads, Gone Into
War Service, Also Re
ceive Sheepskins

Commencement exercises at the
North Dakota Agricultural college,
marking the conclusion of very sue
eessful year, were held this morning
in the college armory, preceded by the
annual procession, half hour earlier.
Frank A. Weld, president of the
Moorhead normal school, addressing
the graduates, depicted the great OPP
portunities that are opened to the
young men and women in this coun-
try, and the great responsibilities that
rest upon them.
A feature of the exercises was the
comforting of degrees upon several
students who have enlisted for war
service. These include William Wesley
Mendenhall. engaged in Y. M. c. A.
war service in France, and who is
just now in London: Walter G. Ben
der, who is at FIT. Smelling; Herman
Halland, Annapolis academy man, and
A. Martin Roisum and Roy August
Slagerman, who have gone into the
army pharmacy work. John Gazette,
James Mclaughlin and Ernest Pile,
called into agricultural work, also are
awarded diplomas.
The exercises were presided over
by President E. F. Ladd, who also pre-
scented the diplomas to the graduates.
He referred briefly to the success of
the school work during the past year
and spoke to the graduates of the re-
sponsibilities that they must assume
in the present world crisis.
At IL o'clock, the annual commence
ment luncheon was served at Ceres
hall.
Many friends and relatives Of grad
yates attended the exercises, diplomas
going to the following graduates:
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture-
Harrison RHsRso Nj Morton Britton. Mohall. n. B.;
Andrew Melvin Challey,. Lisobn, n: D;
Worth Graham Couey, Sherwood, N. D.;
Warren Dodds, Wheaton, Mimi; John
Hooper. Fargo, N, D.; Alfred Rae Mat
Mendenhall Kokomo, Ind; James Err
win Mclaughlin, Grand Forks, N D.;
mond Reierson, Fosston. Mimi; Oscar
| Arthur Schollander, Montpelier, N. D.;
Floyd Hiram Slingsby, ArgusVille, N
d.; Matthias Adolf Thorfnnson. Mu-
Bachelor of Science in Education
Olivia Mary Wild, Osnabrock, N. d.
Bachelor of Science %aeTts. in Mechanical Rsndsr
Wheaton, MINI; Robert T. Jacobson,
Bachelor of Science in General
science-Charles Thomas Ellis, Town
err, N. D.; Martin 8. Hagen, Fort Ran
som; Herman Halland, Annapolis, Md.
Bachelor of Science, in Home Eco
| nomics-Madeleine Blake, Fargo; Joyce
d iTso Eatner Gay
Bourbon, Ind; Mary Alice Gibbons,
Cando; Lillian Anneta Hanson, Moor
head. Mimi; Lena Lucille Horn, Moor
head, Mimi; Myrtle Matilda Johnston
Forest River; Eleanor Kindred, Fargo
Rosilla Ladd, Fargo; Nyna Eleanor
Larson. Fargo; Helen Drew Lewis
Moorhead, Mimi; Charity Marie Pinney
Fargo; Lylith d. Rusk, Fargo; Mabel
Ida Void, Fosston, MINI.
Graduates in Pharmacy-Oscar Carl
Christensen, Henning, Mimi; Laban G.
Cochrane, Berthold, N: D.: Patrick Hen
Ferguson. Glenburn, N. D.; Carl Edwin
Hanson, Fosston, Mimi; Martin Selmer
Haakenson, Hatton, N. D.; Mark Leon
seph McHugh. Mimic, N. D.; James Jo-
seph Nelson, Stephen Mimi; Elder Q.
Otis, Kindre, N. D.; A. Martin Roisum,
Edmore, N. D.; Roy August Slagerman
Bathgate, N. d.
President Yields Address.
President Weld. in the first half OF
his address, dealt with the importance
of right training in education, and
the value of active and systematic
work in the life of an individual, as
an essential element in education to
develop character. The address deals,
also, with the Importance of associa-
ton as a means of education.
Continuing, the speaker spoke as
follows:
The people of the Red river valley
constitute a community that is on the
upgrade. To live in such community
| is an education in itself. Here, life is
| expanding. The force of progress is
| evident on all sides. Opportunities for
social activities are limitless. The cos
mopolitan character of our population
| invites attention to the Importance of
the amalgamation of races to point
where there shall be unified thought
and a national spirit. Someone has
said that if all the histories of Eng
land were destroyed, including Hume,
Macauley, Greens Stubs, still the spir--
itual history of that great people could
be written from it's poets from the time
of King Arthur to that of Queen Vic
toria. The English people have liz
erature that is national in character.