EIGHTY-FIRST COMMENCEMENT WEEK HELD

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VOL IV ALFRED, N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1917 NO. 29

War Atmosphere Envelopes Sessions—Captain Minifie, H. M. S., Present and Speaks—34 Seniors

Graduated

SPLENDID ALUMNI SESSIONS Good Sized Attendance

The eighty-first Commencement of Alfred University which closed with the President's reception last night, will always stand out in a remark- able manner. Held as it was amid the hustle of war preparations, with, the registration day for national service under the conscription bill coming on Class Day, with four members of the graduating class receiving their degrees in absentia due to absence on military duty and with all the speeches and addresses taking on the atmosphere and subject matter of war, the graduating exercises of 1917 will always stand out preeminent.

The audience due to a number of obvious reasons, was exceptionally small, but not for many years has there been such a unity of feeling in similar assemblages, not for a Ion?, time has there been a topic of dis- cussion big enough to find response in all those present.

The weather started gloriously Sat- urday, faded Sunday, brightened Mon- day to give the Seniors a chance to defeat the faculty at baseball and then descended with rain and disagreeable conditions all day Tuesday and Wed- nesday reaching a climax in a heavy electric storm while the Alumni As- sociation sat at banquet. The re- covery was slow but by the time'the Thursday morning exercises were over, the sun was again in command.

This no doubt, explains in part the k small attendance.

The exercises as a whole, were fine, some were not so much so as others but the Alumni session Wednesday afternoon and the Graduating exercises Thursday morning unquestion- ably hold first place. The Alumni Session was much enhanced by the presence and address of Capt. Wm. C.

Minifie of London, England, who as a chaplain in the Kings Army, is fresh from service in France. Rev.

Minifie received an honorary degree here three years ago. His first handed information presented in his

^gifted way, was most enlightening.

The Doctor's Oration given by Capt. Schoonmaker of Co. C, Brad- ford, Pa., on "Military Training and the American University" was exceptionally interesting btecausei of the Mexican, border service the speaker

Capt. F. P. Schoonmaker, Bradford, Pa., Who Delivered Doctor's Ora-

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saw last year and the knowledge that on July 15th next, the Captain and his command will be called to national service.

The thirty-four Seniors graduated leave a long record of achievement be- hind them both as a class and as individuals. The same peculiar conditions that will mark this commencement week as Unique, will always point out the class that graduated in the unsettled time of 1917 as going forth into a world fraught with greater uncertainty but bigger chances for service 'than any other das: of late years.

THIRTY-FOUR IN GRADUAT- ING CLASS

Four members Absent

The graduating exercises Thursday morning made up an exceptionally fine session. The procession entered the hall to the strains of the Tri- umphatal March from Aida, rendered by Nellie Wells '17 and Harold Clau- sen '17. Rev. J. W. Crofoot pro- formed the invocation.

The Senior Oration given by Ed- ward E. Saunders '17 on the "Crisis

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After the pronouncement of the invocation by J. T. Davis of Leonards- vine, opening the session, the entire assemblage joined in singing "Am- erica."

Dr. Harry W. Prentice of New York, president of the Alumni Association, then delivered the annual president's address on "Preparation for Citizen- ship." He showed the lack of responsibility the people take toward citizenship, with the result that our government is grossly inefficient and incapable.

When the people themselves should accept the tasks entrusted to them by democracy, politicians perform them, he said, simply because those who should do them leave them undone. He urged that training be given in preparation for the kind of citizenship that would recognize the importance and assume the duties democratic institutions require. This he said could be done somewhat by the college, altho it could not be depended upon to perform the entire task, because of the relative- ly small number that attend college and also because of difference in the character of the two fields that put the ethical college at a disadvantage to the professional politician.

The next speaker scheduled, Leonard W. H. Gibbs, was unable to be present owing to business engagements. Rev.

Jay W. Crofoot, of Shanghai, China, made the next address on "Preparation for Peace," in which he slated there was as much wisdom in the saying " I n time of war, prepare for peace," as in its obverse. War has ceased, in his opinion, to be a mere clash of arms and the time is past when it can involve a a small group alone or even a few nations, but instead it is international in scope, involving many nations. He asked if this must be continued and he himself felt not. Already he saw a change for the better, as India, Ire- land, the Orient were coming into a greater independence and world harmony. He spoke against the news- papers as a means of formulating such a view, because they do not have an international outlook themselves. Much is now a race conflict, he said, and misunderstanding largely explains this.

The different customs and practices existing in various countries tend to create the belief that a foreigner., is inferior because of these, but oft times he practices the really sensible method.

He closed with a final appeal for good will among nations.

Miss Nina Howard very pleasingly rendered a vocal solo, "The Temple Bells," following this Prof. W. C.

Whitford then read the secretary's report, in which he announced that Orra S. Rogers, Sherman Burdick and John A. Lapp had been reelected for three year terms as members of the Board of Directors. The treasurer's, Dr.

Norwood, report showed a satisfactory state of the association.

One of the oldest alumni was heard from when Hon. W. W. Brown, spoke on "Treaties after the War." After

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CLASS DAY CHANGES FORTUNATE

Inclement Weather Make the Ex- cellent Papers Read Much

Better Than Out Door Exercises

As had been announced, the exercises of Class Day, held in Academy Hall, were a departure from the cus- tomary plan of an out-of-door pageant or playlet to the older form in which a class will, prophecy, poem, etc., fig- urged. The change was decidedly for the better, for Tuesday brought mist, rain and cloudiness with it.

The audience was small due to the inclement weather, but those in attendance and acquainted with the members of the graduating class found much in the program to interest and amuse.

The session was opened with a selection by a Senior women's quartet made-up of the Misses Hood, Saun- ders, Trenkle and Taber.

The Class History prepared by Har- old Clausen was especially unique in its presentation and was accompanied by crayon drawings by Guy Rixford.

Mr. Clausen preceded "his paper by a reeit of "Turn Back tlie Universe and give me yesterday," by which he had the ability to recall the events of the voyage of the class of 1917.

The poem of the class, written and read by Jessica Davis, was a worthy tribute to the ability of the poetess and her class.

Like the prophecy of every class that ever crossed the exit door of Al- fred, the prophecy of 1917 carried a large number of guesses which bid fair to increase the activity of the matrimonial bureau. Miss Parker's insight was rare and often pointed.

President R. M. Coon then pro- ceeded to read the "Last Will and Testament" of the class and its all in- clusive bequeaths appear in full below.

The entire class then went to the rostum from which they sang the class song composed by Mary Saun-

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of Democracy" was a well written paper and well delivered Mr.

Saunders treated the crisis of democracy from the viewpoint of the crisis of individual liberty both from the infringements of socialism and the attempts at coersion by imperi- alism. He showed that the better of two forms had always been preserved by the processes of natural selection and that all prophetic indications pro- claimed the downfall of autocracy and the elevation of the individual and democracy.

The music of the morning was rendered by a quartet of Senior women.

•The Doctor's Oration delivered by Capt. Schoonmaker appears in full, below:

"Military Training and American Universities''

The United States of America is essentially a non-military country.

It has always been against our policy to have a large standing army. The thought of war is ever abhorrent to us. We shall gladly welcome the day when all war shall cease, when treaty obligations of nations will be universally respected, when any points of difference between nations will be settled before some international tri- bunal without resort to the arbitra- ment of arms.

Militarism is a hated word in our vocabulary. It is difficult to define just what the term implies but there has been a grave fear among our people that we shall fall under the yoke of what, is termed "Militarism."

What we fear, I think, is the Prussian ideal, which might be defined as the recognition of the superiority of the military caste, a special sanctity given to the military code and an exemption of thai, military from the) ordinary civil code. In Germany, a -military officer is thought most competent to perform the functions of civil government. In this country, a civilian is at the head both of our Army and our Navy. The contrast is marked. In Germany, a military officer occupying a position in the civil government delights to wear his uniform on every occasion; in this country, a military officer discards his uniform and min- gles inconspicuously with the people when he is not on military duty.

The contrast between the two is very evident. Militarism is the guid- ing principle of Germany, while in this country the sanctity of the right of each individual to work out his own salvation may be stated as the guid- ing principle of our national life.

Under the Constitution and the laws of these United States, there is guaranteed to each one of us the greatest amount of individual liberty and freedom possible in organized society. In no other nation on earth are the individual rights of the people so carefully guarded and protected;

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LYCEUMS DISCUSS OLD SPIRIT AT REUNION Inactivity of Most of Them La-

mented and Benefits Thus Lost Shown

ALFRED MEN AT MADISON BARRACKS

Left to right—Ayars '17, Co. 2; Greene '17, Co. 6; White '17, Co. 15;

Gunsallus Co. 6; Randolph '18, Co. 13

FOOTLIGHT CLUB GAVE WONDERFUL BILL Three one-act Plays—Work Pro-

fessional in Character, Harold Clausen Especially

The spirit of the " revolt against Broadway " has seized upon Alfred. In theatrical circles Broadway stands for the notion that playgoers are always tired business men who go to the play to be amused; that, therefore, the only sort of drama that will pay is that with flash, fire, novelty, and frequently a touch—at least—of naughtiness. The result of this attitude on the part of theatrical managers has been to evolve plays that have much to appeal to the eye, that have developed many good actors, but which have little beauty or thoughtfulness of content and are fully as nourishing as apples of Sodom. The spirit of the revolt against Broadway demands that a piece not only be well staged and well acted but that it possess intrinsic value. This higher conception of the drama has been making speedy headway in America. The various independent theatrical ventures like the Washington Square Players, the Portmanteau Theater and others have" furnished conclusive evidence- evidence even to the money-clogged mental machinery of the veteran stage- men like David Belasco — that the public not so much wants to be amused as it wants to be delighted and in- structed. Mention need be made here only of the success of the plays of Lord Dunsany or of the long run which Barrie's " A Kiss for Cinderella" has had this past winter at the Empire Theater in New York. In this popular uprising in behalf of a more beautiful, imaginative and thoughtful drama the one-acter has been the David which has slain the Goliath of the commercia- lized theater trust.

The response of Alfred audiences to the representation of one-act plays shows that they too have fallen under the—shall we say spell—of this development of the drama.

Tne Footlight Club put on three one- act plays this year instead of the more conventional long play. Few apparent- ly, felt the change to be in any sense a lowering of play standards. While the actors no longer need to brace themselves for sustained effort, they do need the greater versatility and mobility demanded by the shorter play form.

The Time, the Place And the Event Time: Monday evening, June 4th; at 8:15. Place: Firemens Hall. Pipy Bill: " A Pot of Broth " a comedy by W. B. Yeats; " I n Honor Bound," a

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PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS

Alfred Shows Progress in Many Ways

Alfred is completing its sixtieth year as a chartered University and the eighty-first year since its found- ing as a select school. The year has seen many evidences of God's bless- ing and many things to give en- couragement and hope.

No serious illness or death has occurred in the Board of Trustees or teaching force during the past year.

One student of the Agricultural School, Mr. Roy Whipple of Bliss, N.

Y., died at his home after a brief illness, soon after the opening of the school year.

Few changes have occurred in the teaching staff and few are expected for the coming year.

In all the departments of the- Uni- versity the work* has been of its

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Tuesday evening was given over to a general lyceum rally. The Sigma Alpha Gamma, which is the name of the society formed by the combination of the Athenean and Alfredian lyceums, met the old members of these two organizations in their rooms before the general session, as did the Orophilians in their rooms.

The session was filled with speeches by old members of all four lyceums, lamenting the present condition of the societies. It was pointed out by Ethel Smith '18, President of the Sigma Alpha Gamma, that it was doing a good work both as a governing body of the college women and as a literary society.

Fritjof Hilde.brand explained the re- newed activity of the Oros and expressed the belief that they had made good in their probational revival this spring.

Mrs. Frederic Schoonmaker spoke on behalf of the old Alfredians and Matilda Vossler for the Atheneans.

The Oro's were represented by Col.

W. W. Brown, Capt. Schoonmaker and Pres. Davis, while Rev. John Davis, Dr. P. E. Titsworth and Hull Burdick upheld the old Alleghanian spirit. All of these speakers enphasized the need of training in thinking on one's feet and paid a tribute to the lyceums for the benefit they received from them. In this particular, Capt.

Schoonmaker said a man is very accomplished when he can " g e t up, speak up and shut u p , " and in no place is this learned any better than in the free democratic surrounding of college life.

Edward Saunders '17 explained that the Alleghanian undergraduates were too busy doing the work of the various college activities to revive the obsolete lyceum, that for the last three years the Presidents of the Student Senate, the Editors of the Fiat Lux, the Managers of the Interscholastic Meet, the winners of the Dr. Thomas Peace Prize Speaking Contest; for the last , two years the Managers of the Fiat, of the Kanakadea, the Presidents of the Y. M. C. A., the Senior Orators;

that the President of the present Foot- light Club, the Editor of the Kanaka- dea, all seven men student assistants and all seven volunteers that have gone into the U. S. service have been Alle- ghanians and their time was conse- quently taken up.

Several musical numbers were rendered as follows:

Piano and Flute Duet

Harold Clausen '17, Willard Sutton '17 / Male Quartette

Robert Sherwood '19, John Cottrell '19, Stanton Davis '17, Burtis Murdock '17 Vocal Solo Nina Howard

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SPLENDID ALUMNI SESSIONS

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Association Officers Elected

At the business session of the Alumni Association the officers elected were:

Asa F. Randolph '93, President Alpheus B. Kenyon '74, Vice Pres.

Wm. C. Whitford, Secretary J. Nelson Norwood '06, Treasurer

Banquet Well Attended

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subject, he reviewed the treaties that have followed wars the United States has been engaged in. Those subse- quent to the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, the Spanish-American War were he thought treaties that America

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Still another inroad was made on the Commencement Week plans by the war, when it was announced that Pro- fessor Fred C. White, of New York, would be unable to deliver his address, as he had been detained by patriotic duties.

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Robert Coon—The Class of 1917.

Capt. Schoonmaker—Service on Mexican Border.

Capt. Minifee—The Needs of the War Pres. Davis—What Alfred Offers and Hopes to be Able to Offer.

The entire Senior Class attended as guests of the Association, occupying the center table in the room.

COMMENCEMENT GUESTS

Among the guests who were in at- were:

Carl Rosebush, Appleton, Wis.; Rev.

J. T. Davis and daughter Ethelyn and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Coon of Leonards- ville, N. Y.; Rev. Bernard Clausen of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Mrs. Clausen and daughte.r Harriet of Binghamton;

Theodore and Ralph Clausen of Varys- burg and Mr. Christopher Clausen of Gasport, N. Y.; Mrs. Geo. D. Maxson of West Edmeston; Dr. and Mrs.

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INTERSCHOLASTIC MANAGER REPORTS

Poor Weather Causes Deficit For The Year

FROSH DISCARD GREEN DOME-COVERS

Moving Up Ceremonies Saturday Evening

Manager C. M. Potter of the Inter- scholastic Field and Track Meet held

N. here May 16, makes the following re- streets of Alfred has undergone a great port of the finances of the Meet. The change. No longer is the green of the The color scheme of the campus and

for men of passion, real men in every way; men who are strong, yet willing to the severe disciplining required.

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to the small gate receipts, caused by the inclement weather, and the lack interest in the Meet by several nearby communities since the cadet enlistment had

no doubt directly traceable grass and the gold of the dandelion supported by the headgear of the class of 1920. For they are no longer Fresh- man, they no longer are first year high school

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fee's stirring address was its determin- Person, ation. Everything was expressed with

the word must, there never was an ought or should, and the appealing earnestness of his talk made it truly such a one as Alfred has seldom the occasion to hear.

After a vocal solo by Miss Ruth L.

Mr. and Mrs. Sutton and Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, Hornell; Mrs. W. G.

Hunter and daughter Charlotte of Co- lumbus, Ohio; Dr. and Mrs. Schoon- maker, Bradford, Pa.

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The following night letter to the class of 1917 came last Wednesday from Madison Barracks where three of the class are in training at the Officers Reserve Camp:

•To the best class ever seen—1917, congratulations. I am with you heart and soul; wish I could be there in To each and every one, good luck and success. Hit the line hard and tear a hole in it for yourselves and Old A. TJ., and don't forget your Uncle Sam. God speed and God bless you through all your life and may the old war cry contain no boast but a plain statement of honest fact.

Again, good luck and don't forget

Expenditures Postage

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Telephone and Telegraph . . Score Board Cards

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Printing

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Judge (expenses for) Janitor labor

Total expenditures $297 Receipts

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year $124 3S 1917 Deficit 48 85

With appropriate ceremony these marks of collegiate beginning, these pledge badges for admission to the society of the college, these emblems which excuse the immaturity of action of the wearer (this applies to faculty also) were discarded last Saturday night.

The class was bid to feast and feast it did, and although about half of its membership was missing, it descended from the hills in all the strength it could muster to inform the town of its 65j release from "froshdom." Casting

the caps into the air they lodged in the elm by the President's office where they still hang in state; then entering the icy depths of the bathtub the leader of the mob erected signs and emblems in the mud of the lily-tubs to the glare of the torches, proclaiming the valor,

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FPBMSnED WEEKT.T BT THE r.TODENTS OP ALFRED UNIVERSITY

Editor-ln-Chlef Edward E. Saunders, '17

N. Y. S. A. Editor Rolanrl Corning Associate Editors

Haze! Parker, '17 Meredith Mnxson, '18 Kobert Slierwood, '19

Reporters Hubert D. Bliss, '17

Marian Elliott, '17 Managing Editor Ernest II. Perkins, '17 College A s s i s t a n t Managing Editor

Frit.Iof rilldebrand, '18

N. Y. S. A. Assistant Managing Editor Alan Paly

T E R M S : $1.50 per year.

Address all communications of a business nature to

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patriotic duties or other demands made upon them by war conditions.

The attendance for next year is likely to be reduced twenty or twenty-five per cent if the war continues. The Trustees in making up their budget, have estimated a loss in tuition of twenty-five per cent or $2000. It will therefore be necessary to retrench in the expenses of the coming year. This however, must be done without reduc- ing salaries. The increased cost of living makes it imperative that no salaries be reduced and that wherever possible they should be increased.

Every effort therefore will be made to plan a general increase of salaries after next year. This will necessitate the raising of additional endowment and the generous and hearty support of the alumni and friends of the College through this trying period which must continue during the war.

The adequate support of our professors is of course a primary necessity, but of almost equal importance is the necessity of maintaining the standard- ization requirements which public opinion and educational associations are fixing as necessary for private college rank. Alfred has enjoyed uni- versal recognition for its high grade work in the past and every effort will be made to make it measure up in everv respect to the best educational ideals.

Entered as second-class mall matter at the Post Office in Alfred, N. T.

Alfred, N. Y., June 7, 1917

L' ENVOI

With this issue, volume four of the Fiat Lux will come to an end. Its twenty-nine numbers have been full numbers, have contained between two and three hundred thousand words.

The- preparation of these numbers would have been dull and monotonous except for the interest the students have taken in them. It would have been little short of a miracle if none of these words has displeased. But we have tried to make up in hard work what has been lacking in originality, freshness and judgment.

We value the experience we have gained highly, but its price has often been heavy Leisure time, personal feelings and studies themselves have been laid upon the altar of service, but if the paper has been of value as a record of events, a fashioner of opinion, a booster of progressive move- ments and a means of bestowing praise (the only reward for college service) where it was due, the result will far exceed the price.

We have tried to increase the read- ibilitv of the paper, to put it in better newspaper form and we hope the new board will find manv ways in which to imnrove the Fiat as it now stands.

Without the cooperation of the board, the college office and the generous use of a desk in the office of the Sun Publishing Co., th» naner would have been impossible, with these it has attained a fair degree of success.

ALFRED AND THE WAR

The attendance at this Commence- ment is materially reduced on account of the war. For the past month, some ten students from the University have been absent on account of enlistment in military and naval service, and about fifty from the University as agricultural cadets. This greatly reduces the student population at. commencement time. Also many alumni who had expected to be present are detained by

FOOTLIGHT CLUB GAVE WONDERFUL BILL

Continued from Page Two play by Sidney Grundy; "The Maker of Dreams," a fantasy by Oliphant Downs.

"A Pot of Broth"

The first piece, one of the Irish plays, expands the text. " T h e world delights in being hoodwinked" A clever beggarman succeeds by applied psy- chology and hocus pocus in completely duping Sibly Coneely and her worthy consort John Coneelv By pretending that a stone he holds posesses magic power to make in perpetuity smacking broth, he palms off this common pebble for a substantial and nourishing meal and provides for several future gastric emergencies by just slipping into his bag, with the consent of the honest couple, a piece of ham bone, a whole chicken and divers other alimentary bagatelles.

There is no plot but the interest is keen in watching the fakir weave his spell over the unsuspecting Irish peasants. The acting was mighty clever throughout. In get-up and finished action Harold Clausen played the prac- ticed, nimble-witted beggar delightfully. It was hard to keep the eyes off him. Mr. Clausen acts with his wholi body, to his very finger tips. Mary Saunders, as Dame Coneely, as the large-dimensioned, blustering but with- al easily gulled Irish woman was in the game every minute. She was togged up, fit to kill. Burtis Murdock played the inconspicuous husband inconspicuously. It is not easy to stay on stage with little or no business and not be noticeable because one is trying to be unnoticed.

" I n Honor Bound"

The second play " In Honor Bound "

was a closely-knit play, with material

for a five-act drama tamped into one

act. Its interest is plot interest. In- stead of going ahead, the drama works backward. Up to the end, the play merely reveals action that took place before the drama began. Its technique bears a likeness to Conan Doyle's de- tective stories, the interest lying in unwrapping with suspense an unhappy situation. Philip Graham, a young bachelor, leaves home because of an unhappy love affair. After many months, returning to England from Australia, he meets and falls in love with Rose Dalrymple on board boat.

Rose is a minor and in order to marry her Philip must get the consent of her guardian, Sir George Carlyon, an eminent and astute lawyer. To start with, Sir George knows nothing of Philip's infatuation and the purpose of his visit, but the older man is a divorce lawyer and he uncannily divines Philip's innamorata Sir George also discoyers some data concerning Philip's previous affair. Sir George's own life has been unhappy, because he was joined to a woman he cared nothing for and in the early years of his married life he allowed himself the dangerous luxury of an affinity. He sees his folly and is determined that Philip shall start his marital life right and rear it into a perfect and happy structure. Because of his own experiences, therefore, Sir George demands that Philip, obtain from his former flame a signed letter that all is over between them. Philip is horrified; for his first love was none other than Lady Carlyon, Sir George's wife. By chance, Lady Carlyon has overheard a conversation between the men. Secretly she gives Philip the required letter. Philip is too much of a man to show it to Sir George until Lady Carlyon herself entreats him.

Reluctantly he hands Sir George the fatal missive but the older man, mag- nanimously burns the letter unread and thus never learns the ugly secret.

Lady Carlyon, touched by her husband's big-heartedness, discovers for the first time the native greatness in this man to whom she had been married loveless- ly and whom she had esteemed a mere machine.

This sketch gives a very inadequate idea of the power of the piece. It is a worldly-wise play but instead of ending in cynicism and dissolution ends in magnamity, forgiveness, love and en- largement of human character.

The casting for the play was most happily done. Meredith Maxson was dignified, easy and natural in the part of Sir George. Lawrence Burgott, a new man in Footlight features fitted well into the part of Philip Graham.

More work on his part would have made him more at home on the stage.

The best dramatic task which Miss Eunice Anderson has done she accomplished in her rendering of Lady Carlyon, the woman who mends a broken life. Rose Trenkle played very breezily and likably the part of Sir George's ward, Rose Dalrymple.

"The Maker of Dreams"

The third play on the bill was the repetition of "The Maker of Dreams."

It is unnecessary to expatiate on this

"fantasy." In itself it is a thing al- together lovely, spun of gossamer and damped with orient dew of summer morn. We do not see how professional

actors could have done better. Meredith

Maxson as the Manufacturer, alias Cupid risen to man's estate, Mildred Taber as the home-keeping Pierrecte and Harold Clausen as the insouciant Pierrot set.forth so insinuatingly the elements of pure delight—sweetness, sadness, joy of living, beautv, grace, and thoughtfulness—of this play that it will haunt us for days.

Stage Decorations Charming An added charm there was in these representations by reason of the stage decorations. The old wings and cur- tains were banished and delightfully appropriate scenery and furnishings introduced. In the first play, was seen the bare but not sordid interior of a cottage kitchen, in the second play the artistically arranged and decorated drawing-room in Sir George Carlyon's house. Particularly in keeping with the tone of the final play were the furnishings and scene painting for the last third of the program. This stage decorating is the most pretentious and successful ever attempted on our stage and should set a standard for future work. The chief decorator was Guy Rixford, whom we felicitate most cordially.

Plays one and three were directed by Miss Lucia Weed and number two by Miss Susan White. They were uni- formly and conspiciously successful in casting their plays and they knew how to give them the finish which raised the whole evening's program above our one-time level of play performance.

This production will take its place ift the local dramatic hall of fame on a pedestal as lofty as our former most noteworthy successes.

SENIORS WIN FROM FAC- ULTY 9 TO 8

Exciting Game—Wingate Noisy But Asleep

Contrary to all precedent the baseball game between the Faculty and Seniors Monday afternoon was a serious and not badly played affair. The Pedagogues played only seven of their best men thus eliminating two certain strike outs each time the batting order went around.

As is shown by the score by innings the Faculty got to the seventeeners in the sixth inning crossing home- plate six times. This, however, only proved an incentive to the Seniors md in the seventh Burgott cleaned the bases while E. Saunders did it again in the e*iglith. When the last ball had been pitched the score stood 9 to 8 in favor of the Seniors.

Line up:

C.

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P.

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Burgott Clarke

?, B.

Coon Randolph S. S.

Bliss Willson 3d

H. Saunders, Davis Willson R.F.

Rixford Bennehoff C. P.

Sutton Bennehoff h. F.

Perkins Wingate Runs: Faculty—Banta 0, Clarke 2, Randolph 2, Fiske 1,.Bennehoff 1. Wil- son 1; Seniors—Murdock 1, E. Saun- ders 3, H. Saunders 1, Perkins 2, Bliss 1, Burgott 1.

1 2 3 4 5 . 6 7 8 9 Seniore 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 3 0—9 Faculty 0 0 1 0 1 6 0 0 0—8

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SERMON BEFORE Y. W. AND PRESIDENT D A V I S

— DELIVERS BACCA-

Rev. Claus^leacfcFor "The

L A U R E A T E

SERMON

The exercises of Commencement Week opened Saturday morning, June 2, with the Annual Sermon before the Christian Associations at the Seventh Day Baptist Church. The sermon with the theme " T h e One Thing " was delivered by the Rev. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, A. M. of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

The Seniors attended in a body but without academic costume.

The text of the earnest and forceful young speaker was from Mark 10:21, of the story of the rich young ruler seeking eternal life. The young Jew had kept the commandments from his youth up, but this obedience to the letter of the law did not satisfy him and he came running to Jesus saying

"Good Master, How may I inherit eternal life? " and the Master replied,

" T h e one thing—the important thing you have not done—you must give up your selfish life, and live a life of service." But the young man went away sorrowing for he had great possessions. Away into oblivion he went and his name is forgotten. Paul, Luther, Brooks heard the same call, without the emphasis rendered by His physical presence. They did not go away sorrowing, but turned to a life of service. Great are their names and manifold their works. They found

" the one thing " in a life of service.

There may have been times when decisions about life work could be made carelessly, but not at this critical time;

there may have been times when a wasted life would not have mattered to the world as a whole, but not at this time; there may have been classes that have decided carelessly and lived fruit- less lives but not this present class of 1917, and Mr. Clausen appealed to them to realize this to be the important step to eternal life—it was not "one more thing needed" but "one thing needed."

Mr. Clausen is a living example of the one who has answered the call and his personality and forcefulness emphasize mightily the joy and opportunity to be found in this life of service.

The University has recently had several scores of mile markers prepared which read, "Alfred University miles." These will be posted in the near future along the roads of the vicinity and it will then be true that

" a l l roads lead to Alfred."

Another volume of that most handy of books the Christian Association Handbook or "Freshman Bible" will be issued next fall. It will be prepared this summer under the direction of Clifford Potter '18.

L. Meredith Maxson, who has served very efficiently as Associate Editor of the Fiat Lux this year will conduct the

"Around the Campus" section of the Alfred Sun next year.

Urges Seniors to '' Fight the Good Fight of Faith

Pres. Davis delivered the Bac- calaureate sermon, Sunday evening on the text, "Fight the Good Fight of Faith." The Seniors and Faculty appeared in academic costume and after Director Binns' prayer, the President outlined the "Good Fight." It must be a fight for freedom, with love, on the foundation of unselfish service and one in which there is profound faith. The sermon in full appears below:

"Fight the good fight of faith,"

I Timothy 6:12.

For nearly three years, or about three-quarters of the college life of this class, the world war has been the topic uppermost in every mind.

Now that the United States has been drawn into the maelstrom, your gradu- ation is in the midst of the mobiliza- tion of men and the organization and training of armies and navies. Four members of your class, almost an eighth of its membership and a fourth of the men of the class, have joined the colors and are tonight on the training grounds for military or naval service. One is an agricultural cadet.

Their absence forces name to us the stern fact that a fight is on in which everyone of us must bear a part.

Some of your grandparents were engaged in a gigantic national struggle testing democracy a little more than half a cenfury ago. The peaceful pursuits of the half century since that conflict have had little to disturb their order and progress. The Span- ish War of nearly twenty years ago seems now to have left but a ripple on the peaceful surface of history.

The development of financial re- sources and the swift rise of political, social and educational institutions have occupied the generation which has preceded you. But today the world vibrates to the tramp of armies and the roar of cannon. You are to be graduated from the quiet intellec- tual pursuits of your college life, some of your number to march as patriots to the battle's front, and all of you to breathe the hot breath of war.

Nothing therefore could be a more appropriate theme for such a bac- calaureate occasion as this, than the theme "The Good Fight of Faith." If there is a bad fight, a wrong fight, a cruel and inhuman fight, a selfish and tyrannical fight, there is also a just fight, a right fight, a patriotic fight, a brave fight, a confident fight, a good fight; and it is to such a fight that we are called by the exhortation of the text: "Fight the good fight of faith."

Leaving the characteristic of faith as a requisite for a good fight, to be discussed later in this study, I wish to present first, some of the other evident requisites of the good fight.

Jesus said, "I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword." He came to set up standards of justice and equity in the midst of injustice, human slavery and religious tyranny.

He did not expect injustice, selfish oppression and slavery to slink away and hide themselves without a fight.

He did not expect religious bigotry, phariseeism and intolerance to put up a white flag and surrender without a fight. But he was ready to begin the fight and to make whatever sacrifice

it might require. He proved that willingness by every possible protest against wrong, and finally by yield- ing his body as a sacrifice on the cross.

In this battle for righteousness, Jesus set the standard for a good fight. If we can analyze and cata- logue the characteristics of his fight, we can know what the requisites are of a good fight for ourselves. There are so many of these distinguishing features in Jesus' fight that we can not dwell at length upon many of them or even mention them all.

1. Among the outstanding ones, it seems to me that the first is freedom. He said "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Every fiber of his nature throbbed with the pulsebeats of freedom. Every thread of his intellec- tual and spiritual fabric vibrated with the resistless demand for freedom.

Tyranny, oppression, slavery, over- lordship, autocracy; all were the foes for which he unsheathed his sword, and sounded the challenge of battle.

For nearly two thousand years the battle has waged. The Christian Church, under its great captain has made conquest after conquest, in the name of justice, liberty, freedom. The milestones of history stand on the battle grounds of these great conquests. The Crusades, the Renais- sance, the Reformation, the American Revolution and. the Emancipation of the American slave. All these achievements have been the conquests of religion, and they have been won in the sternest of wars. But the west- ward movement of conquest in the fight for freedom has left some buried seeds of autocracy to germinate in the overgrown trenches of its ancient warfare. In the land where Martin Luther struck his gigantic blows for spiritual freedom, where the beacon fires of the Reformation were first kindled; in that land where spiritual fervor and restless upward longing fanned into flame the protests against spiritual slavery that were voiced by John Huss, Reuchlin, XJlrich Von Hut- ton and Melancthon, leaders of Ger- man piety and learning; in that same land, after two centuries, William Frederick and his son Frederick the Great, planted the tap root of auto- cratic militarism, deep in the heart of the German people. It was nur- tured in the "Blood and Iron" of Bis- marck. It has resisted all the chal- lenges of democracy; and survived above the philosophy, art, music and religion of Germany. Now it has burst info the volcanic eruption of William Hohenzollern.

As old Vesuvius belched forth fire and ashes, and buried Pompeii in the days of her wealth and art and peace and luxury; so this Prussian autocracy which first overlaid Ger- many, is now belching forth its liquid flame of withering destructive fire upon the whole world. In neighboring lands where once Christian peoples dwelt, plied their peaceful industries, and cherished their art treasures, their schools, their churches and their cathedrals; now stand the pitiful ghosts of their once beautiful and his- toric cities; all because treaties and sacred contracts are but "scraps of paper" when tyranny wishes to ride rough shod over human rights and freedom, and thereby accomplish for its own selfish purpose, the enslave- ment of the rest of the world.

The democracies of Europe that are the fruitage of the best achievement for liberty, which two thousand years of struggle have given to Europe, are being rocked to their very founda- tions, and their future existence is threatened by this Titanic assault against freedom.

And on the seas, the peaceful high- ways of the world, this Prussian au-

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tocracy has launched its death deal- ing blows against neutral trade and commerce; and has defied law, hu- manity and mercy, in the belief or in the practice that "Might makes right."

Against such assaults upon freedom, democracy, justice and humanity, we as a free and democratic people have been summoned to make our protest.

That protest has been patiently and repeatedly made in courteous argu- ment, respectful petition, appeal and warning. Month by month and year by year, the continued assaults demonstrated that the Imperial Ger- man Empire has no conscience that hearkens to the claims of justice and international law. She has no scru- ples to trample upon the rights and sacred heritage of the weak and defenceless. She has no pity touched by the fountains of mercy to spare helpless women and children from a cruelty and inhuman torture, formerly ascribed only to barbarous and infuriated savages. She has no chivalry or honor to respect the chastity of un- protected virtue.

When protests and notes and warn- ings had exhausted years and wit- nessed only the increase of tragedy, the scientific incubation of crime, and the noisy declaration of immunity from honor or responsibility, this great nation laid its wealth, its most cherished institutions and the pride of its citizenship upon the altar of free- dom in a proclamation recognizing a state of war with Imperial Germany.

In this act she entered the sister- hood of Allies in the most desperate fight ever maintained for the prin- ciples of freedom, for which Jesus the great Master laid down His life. In this fight she stands beside Him who said "I came not to send peace but a sword," when that sword was to liber- ate the oppressed and to give free- dom to the captive.

In this fight she follows the com- mand of the great apostle who said:

"Fight the good fight of faith."

2. A second characteristic of the good fight is that it shall be with love.

"Love your enemies," was our Lord's command. Of Him it could be said he had no enemy whom he did not love.

I would not fill your hearts with hate. I would not do injustice to that other Germany that has won the admiration and esteem of humanity;

that great body of Germans, brave, obedient and subject citizens who in times of peace have been leaders in science and philosophy, art, music and religion. Many of them have longed for the same freedom from autocracy which we enjoy, and but for the acci- dent of the Hohenzollerns they might have had it. For these scholars and thinkers and humble peasants we have the greatest sympathy and fraternal love; and we would make this good fight liberate them from the political slavery in which they are enthralled.

This war will not be in the fullest measure successfully ended, until that result is accomplished.

Thousands of the young men who are graduating this year from Ameri- can colleges, are now in training to do their bit in this great fight. They will be comrades with your class- mates who have already volunteered or may hereafter do so. And all these brave, choice college men will be com- rades of all the thousands or millions of brave boys who- may be recruited for this good fight before the war is over.

We have been accustomed to attach special honor to a volunteer. I would not in the least detract any meed of

praise from such pure patriotism as every volunteer has shown, but I am convinced that on the whole, for the just distribution of the burden, and the wise selection of talent where it can render its best service for patri- otism, the selective conscription is the sanest, most democratic and most effective method of recognizing uni- versal obligation for service.

College men are the flower of the nation's youth. They are the most

vigorous and enthusiastic minds among all our people. Likewise they are the freest from bitterness, malace and revenge. They are brave and true and ready. Of course they will volunteer in mass for any patriotic task or hazard, if they are urged, or even permitted, to do so. But the wisest and sanest minds in national leadership know that a wholesale sac- rifice of college youth without refer- ence to its greatest efficiency, is most disastrous, most improvident, most reckless of the future of democracy.

The greatest sacrifice that England and France have made in the war is not of money or ships or even of life.

But it is of college men who went in the first rush of enthusiasm to the trenches, when they were needed and fitted to be trained as officers, en- gineers and experts in countless fields that have suffered for the want of such experts. The selective draft may seem to hit hard here and there, and if it does, we will be brave enough to meet it. But on the whole it will select and distribute and equal- ize the burden better than any other method. Most of all it will conserve the brains and training of the country to be used where they can strike the heaviest blows for freedom and de- mocracy.

The selective draft leaves all young men under twenty-one years of age free to continue their education. It will also leave the great majority of those above twenty-one free, particu- larly, I am sure, those who are in col- lege but have not yet finished their education.

It is not the policy of the govern- ment to disturb the processes of the education of the youth more than is absolutely necessary. The cessation of one year's full quota of educated men at our colleges and universities would be one whole year lost in the onward march of progress. The good fight of faith looks to the future and seeks to be equipped for whatever of opportunity the future may bring to

us.

The ranks of our colleges must be kept filled. Learning must continue to receive its full annual share of our thought and money and of our youth.

College graduates, professors and stu- dents alike, must not cease to assist in keeping alive the fountains of knowledge, science, literature and art.

They must do their bit in keeping the colleges intact, and in keeping the youth of the land in constant and in- creasing measure at these sources of knowledge and training. Though not so sensational as army service, or pos- sibly as agriculture and manufacture, it is just as patriotic and as honorable to be supplying leadership, training and culture for the tasks of tomorrow.

Such a contest as this war, is not a momentary struggle. It is not a burst of enthusiasm. It is the ground swell of freedom and democracy for the world as against tyranny and autoc- racy. This war will not only deter- mine whether democracy can survive in Europe; it will determine whether it can survive in America; whether it is of enduring stuff, or whether it is evanescent and temporary.

Providence has given it to this gen- eration, and perchance to this the greatest of democracies, to cast the die that shall record for all the future, the fate of democracy.

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PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS

Continued from page two usual high order and the faculty has labored with continued self-sacrifice and devotion.

Registration

The total registration for the year shows a slight increase over last year.

College 179 Seminary (26 special) 6 Ceramic School 52 Agricultural School • • . . 190 Summer School 69 Department of Music 93 589 Of this total 146 are duplicates, leaving a net registration for the year of 443 different individuals.

College Degrees

During the past year the college courses have been revised and the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy will be discontinued after 1920. Only the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science will, after that time, be given in the College, and the entrance courses ari,d elective sub- jects have been modified to meet this new arrangement.

In the Ceramic School the degrees

•will be Bachelor of Science in Cer- amic Engineering and Bachelor of Sci- ence in Applied Art.

Heating Plant

After a careful study of the problem of steam heating for Ladies Hall, Burdick Hall and other buildings of the campus, it has been found ad- visable to begin at once the construc- tion of a central heating plant rather than to install separate plants for each of the several buildings. This will entail a cost of about $15,000 and will necessitate the raising of $10,000 more than for heating purposes had been originally planned. It is now expected to install the radiators in Ladies Hall and Burdick Hall during the summer vacation and to have the plant in operation by Christmas which will be as soon as the boiler can be obtained and erected.

The heating plant will be construc- ted on land just in the rear of the brick barn which has already been purchased.

It is not expected to undertake the reconstruction of the barn for gym- nasium purposes until a year from this spring, when it is hoped that suf- ficient funds will be in hand to make the necessary improvements.

Improvement Fund

The efforts during the past year to raise a fund of $55,000 have been only partially successful. The fund has reached $30,000, leaving $25,000 still to be raised.

Application has again been made to the General Education Board for an appropriation of $25,000 on condition that the Trustees raise from other sources $75,000 which will increase the Improvement Fund to $100,000;

$60,000 of which would be endowment and $40,000 would be available for equipment and improvement to buildings. If this request for an appropriation from the -General Education

Board is granted, it will necessitate the raising of $45,000 during the coming year instead of $25,000 which would be required to complete the present $55,000 fund.

Gifts and Bequests

The largest gift received during the past year is $5,000 contributed to the Improvement Fund by a friend whose name is withheld from publication.

One $1,000 scholarship has been established by Miss Mary E. Bowler.

This scholarship is established on the annuity plan and the founder is to receive interest on her gift during her life-time, after which it becomes an active scholarship.

A large number of smaller gifts have been received, most of which are included in the gifts and pledges of the Improvement Fund.

A bequest of $50,000 has been made to Alfred University by the late Prof.

Stephen Babcock and his wife, Hen- rietta Ban Patten Babcock. The income from this bequest does not become available until after the death of certain beneficiaries who are to have the life use of the income of these funds. This is the largest bequest that has come to Alfred from any one source in the past twenty years; and it is a matter of great gratification that Prof. Babcock, who was for many years a trustee of Al- fred, and his good wife, planned so generously for the institution whose welfare lay so much upon their hearts.

The most recent gift is one made this morning to the library. It is the complete works of Gibbon—in 15 vol- umes—made up of his History of Home, Miscellaneous Writings, Pri- vate Letters. Autobiography, etc. It is a handsome de luxe edition, and is the gift of Judge Clarence Willis of Bath, N. Y.

Honors

Senior honors have been awarded as follows:

High honors to Robert Morell Coon, Ellen Cleaver Holmes, Edward Earl Saunders

Honors to Stanton Hoffman Davis, Marian Elliott, Hazel Lottie Perkins, Mary Zulieka Richardson, Guy Lynn Rixford, Mary Emily Saunders, Mil- dred Taber, Nellie Irene Wells.

Department honors have been awarded to the following; Seniors:

Marian Elliott in Mathematics and in Philosophy and Education.

Gertrude Ford in Biology and Geology.

Leona Ellsworth Hoffman; in Bi- ology nnd Geology.

Ernest Herman Perkins in Biology and Geology.

Hazel Lottie Perkins in Modern Mary Zulieka Richardson in Modern Languages.

Guy Lynn Rixford in Applied Art.

Edward Earl Saunders in Physics and in Mathematics.

WiUard James Sutton in Chemistry.

Nellie Irene Wells in Applied Art.

Norman Jehiel Whitney in English.

Junior honors have been awarded to Alice Marie Baker, Eli Roe Bartoo, Celia Cottrell. Alice Augusta Crans- t/m. Emmet Fritjof Hildebrand. Laura Marguerite Keegan, Lawrence Mer- edith Maxson, Harold Siegrist Nash, Phyllis Palmer, Mildred Frederica Place, Clifford Miller Potter. Lucile Belle Robison, Marian Enid White.

Sonhomore honors have been awarded to Wayland Harold. Burdick,

Eairl John; Burnett, Elizabeth Ran- dolph Davis, Mary Louise Greene, Hazel Marie Humphreys, Adolph Ern- est MJeierj, Robert Ford, Sherwood, Elsie Roana Tefft, Hilda Baker Ward, Gertrude Lucy Wells, Mary Elizabeth Wilson.

ed to Charles Willis Alsworth, Lois Augusta Cuglar, Muriel Stevens Early, Margaret Huldah Everson, Marion Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Wayne L. Jack- son, Sherman Spicer Kenyon, Helen Bishop Kies, Dorothy Iola Lanphere, Elizabeth Luceba Latimer, Marion Reed Roos.

Prizes and Medals Awarded The cup offered by the Twentieth Century Club to the one of the two lower classes making the highest scholastic average has been won this year by the Sophomore class.

The Dr. Thomas World Peace Prizes—first, L. Meredith Maxson.

second, John B. Cottrell, Jr.

Medal for Loyalty—'Edward Earl Saunders.

Chemistry and Ceramic Medal—

George Eugene Crawford.

Certificates Without Degrees Certificates in Public School Music:

Gertrude Ford, Nina H. Howard, Lina A. Perkins, Mary E. Saunders, Zulieka Richardson.

Certificate in Normal Art: Nina H.

Howard.

Diploma in Theology: Aquj'ta Barker England, Ira Sylvanus Goff.

Degrees Conferred Eunice Belle Anderson, Ph. B.

Ei-ling Eli Ayars, *B. S., in absentia Erling Eli Ayars, *B. S. in absentia Hubert Donald Bliss, Ph. B.

Sidney Deyere Burdick, B. 8.

Harold Christian Clausen, fB. S.

Martha Rebekah Cobb, B. S.

Robert Morell Coon, B. S., magna cum laudc

.Tessica Brockton Davis, Ph. B.

Stanton Hoffman Davis, B. S., rum laude Marian Elliott, B. S., cum laude

Gertrude Ford, Ph. B.

Edward Falworth Rudiger Greene, B. S., in ab'sentia

Genevieve '-Catherine Hart, Ph. B.

Leona Ellsworth Hoffman, Ph. B.

Ellen Cleaver Holmes, B. S., magna rum laudc

Mabel Estella Hood, Eh. B.

Myron Flwood Kenyon, B. S., in absentia Burtis Rupert Murdock, Ph. B.

Hazel Parker, B. S.

Ernest Herman Perkins, B. S.

Hazel Lottie Perkins, B. A., cum laudc Mary Zulieka Richardson, B. A., cum laude Guy Lynn Rixford, fB. S., cum laude Edward Earl Saunders, B. S., magna cum

laude

Harold Briggs Saunders, B. S.

Mary Emily Saunders, *Ph. B., cum laudc Willard .Tames Sutton, *B. S.

Mildred Tabor, Ph. B., cum laudc Hose Anne Trenkle, Ph. P..

Dorothy Pauline Wells, Ph. B.

NTellie Irene Wells, fB. S., cum laudc Ernest TT. White, B. S., in absentia Mildred Carolyn Whitney, Ph. B., Norman .Te'ijel Whitney, Ph. B.

Leslie Oscar Green, D. B., in absentia Honorary

Cant. F. P. Schoonmaker, LL. D.

* Tn Ceramics t In Applied Arts

of Divinity, in absentia,. The program in full is as follows:

Organ Voluntary Wagner Prof. Ray W. Wingate

Invocation

Graduating Addresses—

Atonement

Mr. Aquilla B. England Salvation

Rev. Ira S. Goff

An Abiding Law in the Gospel of Grace

Rev. Leslie O. Greene Soprano Solo—Everlasting Hills

Miss Sara Jones Dean's Address

Rev. Arthur E. Main, D. D.

Conferring of Diplomas Benediction

GRADUATES Bachelor of Divinity

Leslie Oscar Greene, A. B. (in absentia) ,Farina, 111.

In the English Course Aquilla Barber England, Pedricktown,

N. J.

Ira Sylvanus Goff, Alfred Station, N. Y.

Mr. Greene was excused for Agri- cultural work.

SPLENDID CERAMIC EXHIBIT Students Work Shows Diversity,

Skill and Taste

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY Thre_e Graduates

The Commencement exercises of Al- fred Theological Seminary occurred at the church Sunday at 2:30 A. M.

Diplomas of theology were occorded to two candidates while upon a third was conferred the degree of Bachelor

The present annual exhibition of the State School of Ceramics affords con- vincing and gratifying evidence that the troubleous conditions through which we are passing have not re- acted unfavorably upon the work that is being done by the students there.

On the contrary, there is ample justi- fication for asserting that, taken as a whole, the work shown, reached a higher level than that attained at any of the school's previous exhibi- tions. There is no lack of diversity either in subject or treatment among the ceramic wares and also among the designs and water color paintings.

The entire exhibit shows tendencies toward exploration and discovery, toward a generous use of the imagina- tion and toward a technical skill and perfection which rivals any former student work.

The method of displaying deserves special notice. The effect of the whole show is greatly increased by the neutral background offsetting the artist's work to its best advantage.

And the happy grouping of the pottery upon stands covered with harmonous spreads is indeed successful. The exhibition is admirable in every way and has set a high standard for the future. The faculty and students are to be strongly commended and thank- ed for arranging such a delightful, intimate display of their work for the townspeople and the commencement visitors.