Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 June 1893 — Page 1

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A COMMENCEMENT "WEDDING.

The Engagement of Miss Davidson and •Prof, Thomas Happily Consummated Marriage.

Wednesday evening, at half past seven o'clock, occurred the wedding of Miss Anna Mary Davidson and Prof. Mason Blanchard Thomas. The home had been prettily decorated with rosea and at the appointed hour the bride and groom entered the parlor, preceded by the minister, Dr. R. J. Cunningham. There were no attendants and the simple yet impressive Presbyterian service was used including the giving of the ring. At the close the groom pulled aside the veil which almost enveloped the bride and kissed her. Congratulations were received from the guests and all retired to the dining room, where the wedding supper was served. The bride's costume was made of white crystal silk. Thtra were only a few intimate friends of the bride, and the relatives present to witness the nuptials. Among the guests from out of town were: Dr. and Mrs. Davidson, of YountBville E. H. Nebeker and wife and Miss Nebeker, of Marion John A. Finch, Charles Thompson and wife, of Indianapolis Miss Keyes, of Wabash Miss Gordon and Mr. Tice, of Frankfort. A number of beautiful presents were received, among them being a beautiful etching from Prof. Thomas' special students in botany. The bride and groom left Thursday for an extended wedding trip which will include New Woodstock, N. Y., the home of Prof. Thomas' mother, Cortland, Ithica, New York City, Ocean Grove and other places. After September 1 they will be at home to their friends at 119 east Franklin street. It is needless to say that the congratulations and good wishes toward Prof, and Mrs. Thomas are not confined to the limited number who were at the wedding. All who know them or either of them will rejoice in their happiness and wish them many years of it. The bride, a daughter of the late T. F. Davidson, has had a large circle of friends aod admirers ever since her home has been in Crawfordsville.

The groom is professor of botany in Wabash college, and has a brilliant future before him in his chosen line of work.

WAS IT A WRECKER?

A Bi? Stone on the Big Four Track Almost Causes a Disaster. When the 5:30 east bound Big Four passenger arrived at Plum street station Tuesday the train crew and passengers were found to be in an excited con dition. They reported an attempted case of train wrecking to have occurred between here and Waynetown. A large stone, as big as a nail keg, had been rolled upon the track, and had it not been discovered in the inch of time the train would have bumped up against it and precipitated down a fifteen foot embankment. It is said that the stone co lid not have been in the track without assistance and the trainmen were loud in their denunciations of the dastardly trick which came so near costing human life.

Sent Home.

Lafayette Call:—C. J.Freel, of Crawfordsville, an old L-iFayette boy, was in the city to-day. Thirteen months ago he fell from a ladder and broke one of his legs, and it had to be amputated below the knee. Some dajs ago some quack medicine man induced him to come to the city to sell a mild laxative pill from house to house, but when he commenced the canvass he found in nearly every family that pills of that kind had" already been supplied. He was out of money and Trutee Sims sent him home on a township pass. Mr. Freel has a wife and one child at Crawfordsville.

An Important Decision.

Heretofore Superintendent Zuck, in order to obtain teachers to fill the county schools has been obliged to raise the grades of some of the teachers in order to give them the necessary average of 85. The board of trustees yesterday decided to establish a second grade 12 months' license, and any one whose average is between 80 and 85 will be entitled to a seoond class twelve months' license. They will receive $2 a day while those holding first class licenses will receive $2.50.

The Conspiracy Oases Ended. The riot cases were virtually closed Wednesday. Prosecutor Wood entered a nolle prosequi on sixteen riot indictments, ten for disturbing a public meeting, three for conspiracy to commit a felony, and three for assault and battery with intent to commit a murder. This disposes of $11 the pending cases save one plea of guilty for riot and six pleas of guilty of disturbing a meeting. JudgaLangdon will pass on these latter cases soon.

Did a Neat Thinjf.

Gerge E. Robinson, agent of the Big Four at this place, received a check for §40 Wednesday from J. A. Barnard, the general manager, with instructions to give it to the boys of the fire department. This is a substantial hint that the Big Four appreciates the efforts of the department on the trestle and goes far toward disproving the notion that corporations have no souls.

MONEY to loan, in sums ranging from $1,000 to S10,000. E. W. CKIST. 6-16-18d wit

CRAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA SATURDAY, JUNli 24, 1893. NUM BKR 2(i

COMMENCEMENT,

ADDRESSES BY DKS. TUTTLE, BUE-

ROUGHS AND OTHERS.

Degrees Conferred By the Trustees-Notes Of Interest.

The Music Hall was thrown open before nine o'clock (Wednesday and immediately began filling up. The parquet was reserved and here were seated the visitors and friends of the graduating class. The large building was filled in spite of the very oppressive weather. The stage contained about 100 chairs which were occupied by the Senior class, the trustees, faculty and distinguished guests. Montani's Italian Orchestra furnished the most delightful music and

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all things went off with precision and smoothness. The published programme was as follows: 1. Scripture reading and prayer. Rev. Blackford Condit, D. D.. class of '54. 2. Address by the president of the board of trustees, Kev. W. P. Kane, D. D. 3. Presentation of the college charter and key6. by ex-President Tuttle. 4. Inaugural address, President Burroughs. 5. Address by John A. Finch, Esq., of Indianapolis, class of '63, representative of the alumni, iPresident Fisher, of Hanover college mid others. 0. Conferring of deurfes. 7. Henedlotion, Kev. George W. Burroughs.

After the Scriptural reading and prayer by Dr. Condit, Dr. Kane made a short and eloquent address relating chiefly to the promise of Wabash Colleg6. He declared that her idea was progress and not revolution, that her aim was to make good Christian citizens, to prepare men for the active duties of life and special studies. His address commanded close attention and was well received.

One of the most interesting features of the day was the presentation of the college charter, keys and seal to Dr. Burroughs by Dr. Tuttle, who spoke as follows:

PRESIDENT BURROUGHS: It is in no spirit of vain-glory that I venture the remark that to-day you are officially recognized as one of a somewhat select fraternity. The first college president in this country was Henry Dunster of Harvard, in 1640, the last for this current moment in 1893 is George Stockton Burroughs. In 254 years Harvard has had 23 presidents and in 60 years Wabash three. She will have had four when your inauguration shall be completed. Long may it be—if God so will—before it shall become a fact that Bhe has had five!

If we include all the 300 American colleges and universities the list of all their presidents from the beginning would include not a large number. Grunted this is not a very weighty consideration. I only mention the fact. In so doing I do not intimate tlmt none but great men have attained the honor, but claim that it includes some names than which not mauy are more illustrious. Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight, Edward Everett, Mark Hopkins, Francis Wavland, James McCosh, Henry Smith ot Marietta, were college presidents.

The Board which has elected vou the fourth President of Wabash College has instructed me to hand over to you the charter and the kevK. In doing this they comply with a venerable custom. What that charter includes has been defined by the Legislature of Indiana. You are to regulate yoar official life by that charter and the amendments enacted by the same power. These may be summarized in the word justice—to the Stute—to ('"eh laborer for it from its President to its janitor—each student whether he be high born or low-born, whether he be gifted or dull, whether he

be rich or poor to each teacher and each benejiciari/: to each benefactor from the boy Lowry who gave a dime to the open handed men who have given by the hundred thousand the trusts of this college in real estate or money, or equipment of all kind this word justice includes them all. In the name of the Board I commend to you the charter of the college. See that you execute justice. And not the charter only but the keys of Wabash College. The first inoluded justice in respect to right the second includes authority. So far as the rights included in this charter are concerned, these keys in symbol convey to you the authority to enforce them. In respect to the rights you are to guard and enforce as defined in the charter, the Board's authorty is your's, the Board's keys are your keys I need only suggest that you oarefully study these characters right, and the "authority of the keys" which guard them.

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committed to the President. In his address to Dr. Porter, on the oocaBion of his inauguration as President of Yale college, the retiring President, Dr. Woolsey said, "To you I commit the charter and the seal—a charter which has provided an enlightened and efficient government oyer the institution a seal which will be the certificate of true scholarseip as well as of high scientific and literary reputation hereafter."

Mr. President, take the three—the charter, the keys and the eeal—and guard them as the ardent lover the honor of his bride. I know you will.

Let me add a few words to complete this investiture of you with the insigna of this office.

Your's is the fourth inauguration of a President of Wabash college. 1. Elihu W. Baldwin, July 13, 1836, terminated by death, October 15, 1840, after 4J years in office. 2. Charles White, July 20, 1842, terminated by death October 29, 1861, after 20 years in office. 3. Joseph F. Tuttle, July 24, 1862, terminated by resignation June 21, 1892, after 30J years in office. 4. George Stockton Burroughs, June 21,1893, "finis coronat opus," or rather predictively, "finis coronabit opus."

I may add as a matter of history, that during the intermission between the death of President Baldwin, October 15, 1840, and the arrival and work of Dr. White, as his successor, September, 1841, a period less than one year, the duties of the Presidential office were performed by Professor Caleb Mills. That year, 1841, there was no Senior class, but as oldest member of the fuculty he wus the executive head of the college, preached the annual sermon and presided at commencement.

The second interval, from October 29, 1801, to May, 1862, was filled by Prof. Hovey.

The charter and keys were delivered to President Baldwin by the venerable Rev. Joha Thomson, the father of the founder, "by whom the high duties and solemn responsibilities of the office were appropriately set forth." At the conclusion of the address President Baldwin delivered his inaugural. Let me quote us concluding sentence: "With such views, fellow citizens, as have been presented, I consented to commence my personal efforts and interests with your rising college. It is eminently the college for the people. Your charter prohibits sectarianism in its government and instructions, so it is in fact an institut oo for the whole people."

President Baldwin as he was dying had been asked, "have you any message for the student:s?" And this was his reply: "Tell them to seek first the kingdom of God. Mv heart's desire Bnd prayer to God is that they may b6

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saved." They were his last words. How sweet, how solemn, how worthy, to close such a life with such words! .They nclude the highest purpose of a grand life ending gloriously!

Dr. White closed his inaugural address July 20, 1842, with this eloquent reference to his predecessor in office:

May it not be he is here to-day! Bnt if not he may from his happpy and heavenly abode, be looking upon us. If it be BO, how his noble heart warms and throbs in behalf of this college, for which, when alive, there was no sacrifice he would not make, and which, I will believe, he now watches over with a father's love. Dear spirit! loved below, honored in heaven the good thou didst liveth after thee! So thy joy and glory above goes on, so both brighten and increase thy influence upon the earth! Heaven grant that thy mantle may fall on thy successor!"

The third president in his inaugural address quoted these words of Dr. White's inaugural: "I am not unconscious, I trust, of the high responsibilities which I have now assumed in undertaking the duty of a literary teacher and moral guide in this institution. Whoever expects an influence here expects an influence upon many individuals, and upon great interests elsewhere. Whoever communicates any portion of his opinions or his character to young men communicates them to till after ages." Having quoted these noble words of Dr. White his successor added words which are quoted in no spirit of vanity, "And surely this key note of his life woke a melody of unusual sweetness! Of his life and death it is not necessary for me to speak to you who knew him so well, and mourned him so sincerely, exclaiming, as he was rapt so suddenly out of your Bight, 'My father! my father 1 the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof!"

You have noted, my dear Mr. President, that I have sought to link the blessed men Baldwin and White who have held this office before us, with this day and occasion, that we who still liye may come into a communion with them. It is a noble fellowship made up as it is not only of these men but of the founders, and burden-bearers in the class room and counting room, the Thomsons, father and three sons, Hovey. Mills, Twining, Humphrey, Hadley, Carnahan, Lowry, Ellis, Peck and others. The dead and the living write an invoking blessing on you, my dear and honored brother, as you receive the mantle of power which the God whom they worshipped to-day lays on your shoulder.

And when you drop it may it fall on shoulders consecrated of God worthily to wear it for the glory of God and the the good of mankind! And when the end comes may you without condemnation either of God or man, say as your Lord and Master did: "I have finished the work thou pravest me to do!"

And from the heaven above you shall come with ineffable melody the words "ivell done."

Dr. Tuttle was followed by Dr. Burroughs, who delivered

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gural address, the substance of which was as follows:

"The ilays,rt says Emerson, "are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time." Tliis is true of the days of Wabash college. Faithful, consecrated men, as the decades have come and gp*ie, have received from the past its heritage, and, with far seeing glance into coming time, have cast the shuttle and thus the fabric has been fashioning. The college has lived her three score years. Aa go ths ages of our institutions of higher learning, she is old. Of the well nigh 300 of these, five of every six are younger than she. She rejoices in her alumni, who today number over 650 scattered through 33 states and territories, and in lands across the seas. She rejoices in the more than 8,000 others who have enjoyed the shelter of her rooftree, fed at her loard and warmed themselves at her heirtliHtone, whom she would fain count as belonging, in some true sense, to the family circle. She rejoices in the memory of noble founders and teachers, of devoted care takers for her welfare, of generous benefactors, of two noble men who stood at the helm until they were translated she rejoices in the presence of a third, who, after having his hand on the wheel for half the days of her life, gives us today his benediction. This past is incarnate in that which is personal. It is not dead it lives and for itself it speaks.

The college is still oil the loom. You ask me what of today? what of tomorrow? I make answer, Wabash is in the making, this state is in the making, our country is in the making. Men say, wo are in a great transition age. It is the transition of growt h. The revolution o' our time is evolution. It is silent yet mighty it i.as the omnipotence of vital ]tower. Wabash college is to grow with the day. The college is to generate vital power, to conserve vital power, to apply vital power, as the present demands. It is if meet the needs of state and nation as these disclose themselves. This, then, 1 conceive to be our present duty and privilege, to train for Christian citizenship. The product of Wabash college today, tomorrow, is the Christian citizen ol' the 20th century in this American republic. College training for Christian citizenship—what does it involve?

It involves that the col lego stick to its last. It has its own sphere. Let it know it let it fill it. It trains teachers, but it does not instruct in the art of teaching. It fits for practical life, but it is not a school of trades. It prepares for professional life, but it is not a school of professional technicalities. It is not a university, understood as a college of special schools.. Without itji university

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