The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1917-05-31
BRILLIANT AGRONOMIST
DELIVERS gACCALAU-
REATE ADDRESS.
SERMON BY RENNIE
Diplomas Delivered to l4l Stu
dents, While Large Number
Get Certificates.

The thirty-second annual session
OF the Mississippi Industrial Institute
and College came to final close
Monday morning, when President
Whitfield delivered diplomas to Ill
graduates and presented to nearly
two hundred students certificates of
proficiency in the various industrial
arts embraced in the college eurricu-
lum The baccalaureate address was
delivered by Hon, Bradford Knapp.
OF Washington, d, c., mead of the bu-
reau of plant industry of the United
States department of agriculture,
and was clear-cut and foreeful ar.
gument for agricultural prepared.
ness, having convinced all who heard
1t that there is not only urgent need
for more bountful crops but for
more careful conservation of food
products. He said that the peonle
OF the country and especially those
OF the south, had responded nobly TO
the call of the country for an in
creased acreage in food products and
hesought them not only to work dill !
gently but to take steps to prevent
waste. He said that people should |
can, dry or otherwise preserve all |
products not needed for immediate |
consumption and that absolutely |
nothing should be thrown away.
During the course Of his remarks .
DR. Knapp took occasion to compll |
ment the college and the splendid op |
it affords the vouny |
ladies of Mississippi 10 secure an edu- |
cation which is not only thorough |
from a literary viewpoint but thor |
oughly practical also, as they receive !
training which will fit them for most |
efficient work not only in various pro-
tessions and yocations but in the
homes and on the farms of the state.
which, he said, would necessarily be
the future abiding places Of many Of
them. He referred enthusiastically
to the Red Cross training and other
activities which have been
IN progress at the college for several
declaring that, with the pos
sible exception of the University of
Texas, no institution in the south had
accomplished such splendid work
along this line.
The baccalaureate sermon was de-
ivered at II o'clock Sunday morning
~ DR.. Joseph Rennie, pastor of the
first Methodist church at Green
wood, Miss, who, taking as his sub
ect "I'he Bible in the School," de-
Jared that America is following
dangerous course by neglecting to
lse the Bible more freely in her edu-
.ationa institutions. He called at
ention to the fact that Bibles had
'een banished from the public schools
# Germany, and declared the la
nentable conditions which prevailed
here today to be largely attributable
o this action.
He declared that when American
)eople ceased TO read the Bible and
'egard it as their standard of morals
lavery will ensue, and in support of
his contention cited The famous
words Of Horace Greedy; 1T is i'm
possible to enslave Bibe-reading
'eople." Dr., Rennie also delivered
he sermon before the college Y w
:. 4. at 8 80 o'clock Sunday evening.
The session Of the college which
iosed Monday was in many respects
he most prosperous in les history
The attendance was unusually large,
III available space in the dormitories
aving been occupied, and splendid
york was accomplished in every de-
'artment
The following are the graduates
ABB. Degrees.
Misses Flora Ethel Adams, Hatties- $
'urg; Sarah Fisher Ames, Macon;
lillian Lowther Anderson, Shuqua- Z
ak; Mary Chastelette Avery, Holly
springs; Ruby Kate BarnhilI, Brooks
lille; Myrtis Christine Beckwith, Co 9
ambus; Mildred Bell, Starkviile;
Winnie Meade Bennett, Walden; An
lie Rose Berry. Prentiss; Marie An
oinette Berry, Florence; Ruth !
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