The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1921-06-06
NORMAL, HENDRIX
PROGRAMS GIVEN
HENDRIX CLOSE TUESDAY
DIR. Haw Speaker at Sunday Services
by Both SchOols-Two Exer-
cises Announced Tonight.


morning when graduating exercises
will be delivered by DR.. Edwin T..
carp, professor of sociology at the
Drew Theological Seminary of New
Jersey. Diplomas and degrees and col
legiate honors for the year will be
awarded before the session is brought
to close. Many visitors are already
in the city for the finals.
Tonight the annual program by the
alumni will be presented at 9:15 o'clock
to be followed by the alumni banquet.
State Normal's program will be CON
tinued through Tuesday and Wednes-
day and will be brought to conclus-
ion Thursday morning at 1890 o'clock.
Governor McRae will deliver the ad-
dress to the class graduated at that
time
The class day exercises were held
this morning beginning at 1890
o'clock in front of the main building
at Hendrix College, at which time the
class memorial was presented to the
college.
The program opened with decla-
nation by Jerry L. Patterson, men,
Der of the class Of 81. Following his
Grafton, the class prophecy, written
by Walter Nelson of the junior class,
was read by Fred H. Harrison, also a
member of the junior class. A quartet
by Messrs. Campbell, Thompson, Kamp
and Mutt, followed, after which the
presentation Of the memorial, a large
drinking fountain, was made by Levi.
P. Mann, president of the senior class.
The memorial was accepted by DR..
c. ]. Greene, on behalf of the college,
faculty and board of trustees.
The next part of the commencement
program will be the annual alumni
exercises tonight at 8:15 O'Clock in
the college auditorium, followed by the
alumni banquet at which time the
class of '21 will be honor guests.
The customary order of worship
and an anthem "Gloria," excellently
rendered by the church choir, pre-
coded the sermon to the Hendrix
graduates Sunday morning at the
First Methodist church. DR.. Marvin
IT. Haw, presiding elder of the St.
Louis district, was the speaker, using
as his text the familiar passage from
the seventh chapter of st. Matthew's
others?" In the main, DR.. Haw's
, theme was concerned with the accom-
plishments of Christianity as distin-
gushing the church and other agen-
cies and organizations in the world.
Ignorance, poverty, intemperance, au-
tocracy and fear are some of the evils
which the church has overthrow, DR..
Haw declared. The present genera
ton has witnessed the uprooting of
intemperance and autocracy, the
speaker said. AS to minor violations
of the prohibition law, the minister
compared them to the stumps left af-
ter field has been cleared. AS time
sees the passing of the stumps, too,
the speaker predicted that the pro-
hibition law finally would be given alb
, solute enforcement.
DIR. Haw concluded his eloquent and
) we'll received sermon with statement
direct to the graduates, asking him
| what they intended to "do more than
Others" and exhibiting them to a
| life of Christian service.
An overflow congregation witnessed
the baccalaureate service for the
State Normal at church Sunday night
Following the organ prelude by Miss
Vera Graham and the professional OF
: the faculty and senior class, quin-
tette rendered Glide Thou Me-" In
vocation was asked by Rev. c. M
Reeves, and the Gloria, hymn, an
nouncements and an anthem preceded
the sermon. also by DR.. Haw. His
: text was taken from st. Luke's nara
tive of the birth of Christ, the condi-
tions surrounding which he ascribec
to imperialism. From this as be
ginning, DR.. Haw led to the state
ment that the home has overthrow
governmental autocracy although IN
dustrial autocracy in some forms
still remains. An indirect attack was
. made upon the capitalistic class fol
the fact that only one of every sever
> babies born in America is surrounded
by conditions conducive to its vel
fare and development.
DR.. Haw's final appeal was to the
senior class. composed Of Sc mem
+ bers, as teachers who will touch chile
n life at a vital period. He exhorted th'
q class to make it's influence felt fol
e the best interest of the individual ane
e the state.
t State Normal's commencement wa
i continued today with the exhibit o.
sewing at the chapel hour and to
night pupils of expression and music
t will be presented in recital under di
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