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2 GRADUATES WHO WORK DEGREES CONFERRED UPON GRADUATES OF THE A. AND M. COLLEGE FOR PROFI CIENCY IN PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE. HEALTHY-MINDED SPEECHES. This Institution of the People Cele brates the Close of its Seventh Year— The Audience Fills the Hall-Prizes Presented by B. R. Lacy—A Fare well Talk to the Seniors by President Holladay—Everybody Pleased With the Young Men. The college hall was quite filled yester day morning at eleven o’clock with a cheery audience to witness the closing exercises of the seventh year of the North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts. Most of the people, of all ages, went from Raleigh, the first glance at those gathered giving the eye the notion of pretty young women, dressed in light airy, fairy Lillian stuffs, with all the colors of summer gardens in their wav ing, wafer brimmed hats. But there were others: they came from places away, women and men who were mothers and fathers of students, and some came out of sheer interest in the great work being done by this school. Among these, of course, were the trus tees, who between their two meetings, were sitting in two rows of seats to the left of those on the platform, looking upon results and seeing that they were good. Others in the audience were ex- Commissioner John Robinson, Mr. Josephus Daniels, Mr. T. K. Bruner, Mr. 8. L. Patterson, Mr. J. W. Thackston, Mr. Sam Ashe, Justice Walter Clark, Hon. J. B. Batchellor, Prof. J. A. Holmes. On the platform. President Holladay sat in the centre, flanked on the right by His Excellency Governor Elias Carr, and Messrs. J C. Dey, H. Wiswall and W. A. Bullock, young men who were soon to deliver their orations. On the left sat Mr. B. R. Lacy, Rev. John N. Cole and Messrs. M. B. Hunter and J. A. Bizzell, the two latter, also, being on the programme for orations. A breeze of good humor went over the audience from the bracing notes of the band, after which there came a hush as the Rev. John N. Cole offered up an earnest and impressive prayer. Then began the orations by the young, graduates, President Holladay first introducing, in a neat way, Mr. M. B. Hunter, of Meck lenburg county, whose subject was “Looking Aloft.” Os all animals, man alone learns and improves by his errors. From Tubal Cain to Edison, man has been an inven tive animal. Progress is sometimes regular, is often spasmodic. Man’s pro neness to evil is his great hindrance. We are only great through goodness, and only happy through virtue. The battle between good and evil is being waged in every country and m each one of us. The world is very weak. It longs for the burning words of strong men. Pessimism weakens and destroys. It made Poe, Elliott and Carlyle weaker. . It is cowardly. Opticism is the i elixir of life. It is better to believe a < wrong thing than not to believe at all. i He compared a lack of faith to a ship on < the oeean without helm or crew. Pessi mism exaggerates the man of heathen ism and the growth of agnosticism. Con cluding, he predicted that, as the world i grows better, the penalty of hanging would be done away with, and that wo man would be given the ballot if she wants it. Mr. Hunter was followed by Mr. J. A. Bizzell, of Cumberland county, whose talk on “Recent Chemical Advances,” kept everybody interested. He opened with a dash of humor which oent a nutter of smiles over the faces of the girls, specially, aod fixed the attention of the audience upon several modern achievements in science, which gave them new knowledge. Among these were noted by the speaker the new cyanide process for “snatching gold from its base surroundings,” thus bring ing into the available wealth of the world that gold in North Carolina which heretofore has been locked up in the sulphate 4of iron, lead and copper. The speaker thought that the freeing of such gold would pay better than the discuss s on of free silver which amused the people. He spoke of the coming cheapness of light in the new il luminating gas called calcium carbide, and monazite, which has just been dis covered in quantities in North Carolina, had its merits likewise exploited. New discoveries by chemists as to the con stituency of the atmosphere were noted, and newly found explosives were touch ed upon, as were improvements in cook ing, and a new process that was in sight for the making of sugar at a cost of less than a cent a pound. Thus the audience was put on the atmosphere of showirg possibilities which made the applause natural at the close of the speaker’s in teresting remarks Although Mr. Dey’s subject was put down on the programme as “The Eleva tion of Labor,” President Holladay in his introduction was requested to announce it as “The Education of the Laboring Classes.” Mr. Dey is a young man with every sign of promise about him: he took for his subject that which the world is dis cussing more than any other to day, and therefore, he at once caught the ears of those in front. While fylly cognizant of the wide import of his subject, he kept its application well limited to North Carolina. , Mr. D<-v <edd that some people maintain ed that luiuking and manual labor were not to go together. It was a libel on the Almighty to say that He required the suppression of intelligence in North Carolim, or the depression of the multi tude. No stable foundation could be laid for a State except in men’s minds. The power of a people lay in its mind. The whole speech was excellent and was enjoyed Mr. H. Wis wall, Jr., of Beaufort county, came next with “Man and The Machine,” as his subjoct. He did not make the fatal error of giving politi cal interpertation to his subject, but was practical throughout, saying that man created the machine and the machine made him the ruler of the universe. Mr. Wiswall said that a cotton picking mach ine would make the raising of cotton pro fitable even at five cents a pound, and that the people would be the gainer. Mr. Wiswall referred to the day of projectile-cars which would make the trip to San Francisco in ten minutes, which made the people laugh, but people laughed in the thirties, too, at the talk of railroads. “Brains as a Fertilizer,” was the sub ject of Mr. W. A. Bullock, who was last on the list of college speakers. Mr. Bullock spoke of the improvidence in the management of farms incident upon ignorance, illustrating by reference to the untimely felling of forests, which in preventing two rapid evaporation after the passage of winds over the coun try stored the moisture for the land as well as prevented in many cases inju rious overflow of streams. The intelli gent thus finally got possession of the farm, non-paying under such treatment, and the rest of the ills followed. Mr. Bullock said the ability to read Greek would not help the farmer to drain his land. He urged the study of English, mathematics, book keeping, the sciences, specially chemistry, a thorough knowledge of agriculture, for the farmer as against the other studies not immediately serviceable for his particular work. Also the farmer should understand stock-breeding, the veterinary art, &c. Mr. Bullock maintain ed that outside men and money would not come to North Carolina unless North Carolinians could show- by skilled farm ing the power of the land. Summing up the results of the work of this college, Mr. Bullock said that two classes of men were being made, namely, well informed, brainy farmers and brainy mechani cal engineers. The young men had acquitted them selves well, and the excellence of their efforts at the close of each speech had been recognized in the bestowal upon them of laps-full of choice flowers, which they regarded with pride, looking bash fully for the cards on each offering to see the particular names upon them, or the particular name as the case might be. The band played again, after which Mr. B. R. Lacy, Commissioner of Labor, came to the front to make a presentation of Freshmen prizes in Agriculture. The winners appeared,amidst applause, as Mr. Lacy read the list which was as follows: Mr. A. R. Kennedy, of Lenoir, for hav ing done next to the greatest amount of farm-work —prize five dollars. Mr. S. H. Beck, of Burke, for most work on farm-prize, ten dollars. Mr. Paul B. Parks, of Cabarrus, for most improvement in agriculture—prize, gold medal. Mr. Lacy, in presenting the prizes, made a brief talk, full of hard horse sense, saying that the tendency nowa days seemed to be to trust to luck and not enough to labor; to take a short cut. The sudden growth of David from a lad with his sling to the great soldier was the result of hard, constant labor. Mr. Lacy said youth was the time to be gin such labor, and brought out a thought that should be of great worth to every young man, when he said that the most valuable part of the victory achieved by the youths before him lay in the training of hands, mind and heart involved in the striving after these prizes. “Whatso ever thy band findeth to do, do it with all thy might:” this was the closing word of Mr. Lacy’s wholesome advice to the young men who went to their seats while the audience applauded. At this point the honor-roll was hand ed up by Prof. Withers, Secretary of the Faculty, to President Holladay who rod as follows: Students whose average grade for the year on all studies has not been less than 90 out of a possible 100. Senior Class: Howard Wiswall, Jr., Winsteadville, Beaufort county; James Adrian Bizzell, Fayetteville, Cumberland county; Walter Austin Bullock, Williams boro, Vance county; Lee Borden Ennett, Cedar Point, Carteret county; Abram Hiuman Prince, Henderson, Vance county. Junior Class: George Stronaeh Fraps, Raleigh, Wake county; Robert Graham Mewborne, Kinston, Lenoir county. Freshman Class: Nurna ReidStansell, Allenton, Robeson county; Joseph Frederick Hunter, Brinkleyvillc, Hali fax county. Distinctions in the Graduating Class. First Distinction: Mechanical course, Howard Wiswall, Jr., Beaufort county; Agricultural course, James Adrain Biz zell, Cumberland county. Second Distinction: Agricultural course, Walter Austin Bullock, Vance county ; Mechanical course, Samuel Chris topher McKeown, Chester, 8. C. This reading, also, was followed by the applause which invariably makes everybody feel good when they see young men doing well. Presentation of diplomas came next. The speakers on the platform arose, as well as the rest of the degree-men, to the number in all of twenty-three, while President Holladay called the names out slowly as follows: Batchelors of Science: James Adrian Bizzell, Fayetteville, Cumberland county; James Washington Brawley, Granite Hill, Iredell county; falter Austin Bul lock, Williamsboro, Vance county; Ed win Speight Darden, Speight’s Bridge, Greene county; Joseph Charles Dey, Cur rituck, Currituck county; L?e Borden Ennett, Cedar Point, Carteret county; Charles Wyllia Gold, Wilson, Wilson county; Abram Hinman Price, Hender son, Vance county. Batchelors of Engineering: Thomas Martin Ashe, Raleigh, Wake county; John Isham Blount, Clinton, Sampson county; David Clark, Raleigh, Wake county; George Washington Corbett, Jr., i Keith, Pender county; William Kearney Davis, Jr., Louisburg, Franklin county; Isaac Henry Harris, Warrenton, Warren county; Christopher Miller Hughes, Ral eigh, Wake county; Malcolm Beall Hun : ter, Charlotte, Meekleuburg county; Samuel Christopher McKeowu, Chester, South Carolina; Mann Cabe Patterson, s Durham; Orange county; Victor \ ashti Privott, Rocky Hock, Chowan county; ; Howard Wiswall, Jr., Winsteadville, > Beaufort county ; Charles Garrett Yar ; brougb, Locust Hill, Caswell county. The News and Observer, Thursday, June 13, 1895. Mechanical Engineer: Charles Marcel lus Pritchett, Cartersville, Georgia. The subjects of theses for graduation by these young men were as follows : T. M. Ashe, Design of a Machine Shop; J. A. Bizzell, Steamed Cotton Seed vs. Raw Cotton Seed as a Food for Milk and Butter Production; J. I. Blount, Con struction of a Machine for the Determi nation of Coefficient of Friction; J. W. Brawley, The Milk Separator—Theoreti cal and Practical; V 7 . A Bullock, Brains as a Fertilizer; D. Clark, Designs of an Auditorium for a College; G. W r . Cor bett, Jr., Design of a Foundry for a Col lege; E. 8. Darden, Tile Drainage; W. K. Davis, Jr., Relation between Actual and Indicated Horse Power for Engines; J. C. Dey, The Irish Potato; L. B. En nett, Tee Main Principles of Stock Breed - ing; I. H. Faust, Construction and Read ing of a Current Meter; C. W T . Gold, Tile Drainage; W. H. Harriss, Relation between Actual and Indicated Horse Power for Engines; C. M. Hughes, Con struction of a Galvanometer of High Re sistance; M. B. Hunter, Design of a Water Supply and Electrical Pumping Plant for a College; S. C. McKeown, Design of a Dynamo; M. C. Patterson, Partial Construction of a Machine for Testing Lubricants; A. H. Prince, Steamed Cotton Seed vs. Raw r Cotton Seed as a Food for Milk and Butter Pro duction; V. V. Privott, Design of a Grand Stand for Pullen Park; H. Wis wall, Jr., Construction and Reading of a Current Meter; C. G. Yarbrough, De sign of a Dynamo; C. M. Pritchett, Bal ancing of Engines. The President’s Common-Sense Talk. In giving the diplomas, President llol laday made no attempt at speech making: he simply made a fatherly talk to the boys over whom he has watched for four years and whose all-round qualities are perhaps not known to any one so well as to the president. He seemed to speak to them as an older companion to younger companions, very happily at times, causing hearty laughter to come to eveiy bodv. “To-day,” said President Hollady, “you receive diplomas in testimony of four years successful study, and I con gratulate you on winuiug this proof of no small amount of hard work. Perhaps you may think the bat tle over and the victory won, but you are mistaken. The keenest competition is still before you. Perhaps, also, some of you are already listening for the foot falls of fame stealing behind you. Let me give you, then, a parting lesson: get at the true value of things now at the beginning of your real wrestle with life, diplomas include '. They only certify that we have given you four years of guidance, that we have seen you through a season of mental and moral gjmna sium, and that we believe you are fairly equipped to go into the struggle, without beiDg placed at a disadvantage—that is all a diploma means, and is worth, and any other virtue it possesses de pends on the use you make of it. Remember that after all, knowledge is but a little oasis in the great desert of ignorance, and each succeeding genera tion by earnest effort enlarges its boun daries, irrigating and beautifying new territory. Life then offers ample scope for your ambitions in every line. Wbat you take from it is but an atom of the whole, and it is for yourselves to so use that atom as to make it expand like the genie of the Eastern fable when loosed from his petty prison. “These diplomas are but pretty leaves of parchment but they are symbols. The ancient Greeks, I have told you that they had the cleanest, keenest and deepest and most original minds the world has ever seen, were ready to study for years and even to risk their lives to acquire a crown of oak leaves, but it was not the mere chaplet of leaves it was the symbol of other and higher things that aspiring youth studies and strive for, and the diplomas are not mere rewards for past labors, but they also gave bonds with us as witnesses in pledge of far higher more a duous and valuable labors though your future lives. Look for that life-work thoughtfully and carefully. Do it manfully, thoroughly and then but not till then will the real crown of your reward come. May the blessing of God bring it to you in this world and the world to come.” Mr. Holladay departed several times from the main line of his talk to give way to his natural sense of humor. His reference to the competition in store for the young men from the smart young women now taking college degrees was exceedingly amusing. The morning exercises, which closed the session, ended with the benediction by Rev J. N. Cole, after which the crowd scattered over the grounds and through the buildings. The bouds betweed this college and the people seem to grow stronger year by j ear. It is getting to be tbe pet of North Oaroliuiaus. They seem to take a common interest of a new sort in the idea of the country lad’s being educated just as he is being educated at, this school. Some people have gone so far as to say that the Agricultural College is doing more good in the State Uses Mexican Mustang Liniment On Ms horses, om Ms drivers. t Gentlemen: —Having seen Mexican riustang Lini ment extensively advertised here induces me to tell you how useful It is to persons In the livery business. I have used it for the past 18 years on my horses for almost every thing that horses are subject to. For sprains and stiff Joints I do not think it has an equal, and for such tilings as harness galls and rubs It Is wonderful. I once had a very flue driver who was thrown from his car riage in a runaway and so severely bruised about his shoul ders and breast that I did not think he would ever be able to got on a carriage again. 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