The Cortland
News, Friday, July 3, 1885.
COMMENCEMENT.
Thirty First Public Exercises of the State Normal
and Training School at Cortland.
Tuesday
morning long before the hour advertised for the opening of the commencement exercises
every seat in the gallery and parquette of the Cortland Opera House was filled, and chairs innumerable had been brought in.
A great improvement had been
made in not having any public demonstration of floral and other gifts to the
graduates. A large table had been provided at the back of the stage, and on
this all flowers, books, etc., were placed so that the graduates would get what
belonged to them at the closing of the exercises. This does away with the loss
of time and confusion that has heretofore characterized the giving of bouquets,
and also saves the graduates the annoyance of having every one in the audience
compare the number and value of their presents with those who have been before
them on the programme.
At 10:05 a. m. the Local Board,
Faculty and Rev. H. C. Cordo took their seats on the stage, when the following
exercises were held, those numbers given by the graduates all being orations:
Prayer, Dr. H. Cordo
Music—Anthem—Gloria in
Excelsis
"The Unrest of
the Times,” Thomas F. Kane
True Aristocracy, Archibald
A. Freeman
Guesses at Truth,
Fannie P. Corwin
Science an Element of
Culture, Edward R. Hall
The Nobility of True
Manhood, Vernon P. Squires
The Power of
Assimilation, Edgar D. Niles
Horizons of Mental and
Moral Light, Vila F. Page
Music—Quartette—Moonlight
on the Lake.
Unconscious Influence,
Cora A. Miller
Circumstantial
Evidence, Ernest I. Edgcomb
Self-Control, True
Freedom, Alberta S. Barrows
James Otis as an
Orator, Ernest E. Smith
Agassiz as Teacher,
Edith O. Katline
Energy, Life’s
Talisman, Charles H. Vantuyl
Music--Chorus--The
Dawning of the Day.
Presentation of
Diplomas to Academic Graduates.
Presentation of
Diplomas to Normal Graduates.
Class Song—Sung by the
Class of June 30, '85.
Benediction.
The exercises were all of a
high order or merit, in fact no better have ever been given at any public
commencement. If our space permitted we should be glad to publish each one in
full, but brief extracts will have to suffice.
Thomas F. Kane's oration,
"The Unrest of the Times," was one of the most masterly efforts it
has been our lot to listen to at any graduating exercises of the Cortland
Normal School. Below we give a resume:
"This is an age of
Unrest." In all lands society is as restless as the breakers of an angry
sea; the waves of discord are rising and threaten to deluge the land with
internal and domestic strife. Society has never been entirely calm and peaceful,
discordant elements have ever been at work, but never have their mutterings and
complaining been as serious as now.
Secret societies which spread
like a net work over the European States have arisen on account of existing
social conditions. Their sentiments have crossed the Atlantic and have taken
deep root in the minds of American workingmen, and there is a constant
antagonism between laborer and employers. The one seeks to obtain the largest
wages for the least work—the other the largest amount of work for the least
money. This leads to a constant warfare of interests.
The motives which impel men to
disregard every law of right arise not from lawlessness, but because we have
drifted so far into European social conditions. Thousands of indigent foreigners
collected from all parts of Europe are yearly landing on our shores, and by
competition with these, American laborers are compelled to accept wages barely
sufficient to procure subsistence. Perhaps the most serious evil is the rapid consolidation
of wealth; the few are becoming rich while the thousands remain poor. Fortunes
were never so rapidly made, and yet pauperism increases faster than the
increase of population.
The two great forces are labor
and capital, and should work in harmony. Education is the safeguard of free
institutions. The State should make it compulsory. Young boys should not be
permitted to work in shops, as the labor can be done by men and still yield a fair
profit. Capital must learn to deal more justly with those they employ. Such a
system would encourage economy, frugality, wealth. On the other hand the
laborer must learn that the best way for him to alleviate his condition is by
obedience to law.
Reforms never begin with the
rulers. They are satisfied to let the ship of State sail on an angry sea,
providing no danger threatens them in the voyage. To the teacher, writer and
speaker we must look to educate public opinions in behalf of labor; then we shall
have power that is irresistible, our social evils will cease, socialists and
communists will have lost their power, and it can then be truthfully said that
there is one land where all men are free and equal. In presenting diplomas to the academic graduates, Dr. Hoose said:—
Fellow Students:
Every Student endows his alma
mater with a measure of his own reputation. The sum total of the reputations of its students constitute the
traditional or popular reputation of the school as an instrument for
cultivating scholarship and forming traits of character. Students receive in
turn from this traditional reputation of the institution, an impetus, an incentive,
an inspiration to let the school suffer in no way in its excellence in the
points constituting its traditions. You have completed in a very creditable
manner that portion of your endowment of this school which has emanated from
your residence in this institution. You now leave the school, but your legacy
to your alma mater is not complete—the reputation that you make for yourself in
the future career will change for good or for evil the reputation which you
leave to the school when you accept these diplomas. The practical question for
you to consider now is this: How can you add to the value of the excellent
reputation which each one of you enjoys to-day? Not alone by brilliancy in scholarship;
not alone by superior abilities to secure a fortune in the marts of commerce; not
alone by extraordinary professional talent. That quality which perpetuates a
reputation with ever increasing luster is the weight of moral balance which a
man carries with him. Young gentlemen, the future awaits you. Recollect that men
are great for mental [worth] only as they are great in moral worth.
Dr. Hoose addressed the normal graduates,
and in the following well chosen remarks, presented them with diplomas.
Fellow Teachers:
These diplomas register your
names among those men and women who carry on the burdens of active life. Permit
me to give to you this piece of council: Never expect to do great things; be
ambitious to excel in doing little things well; the great things of life are
made up of small things.
The dazzling sun light that
chases away darkness is only an aggregation of tiny [a segment of The Cortland News is
torn and three lines in column are missing from the speech. Our apologies—CC editor] …routine duties of each
day, do not make the mistake of regarding each duty as an end unto itself; for
all events have antecedents and [complements]; each act is linked inevitably
with others; the acts of life form a chain of events. The acquisition of
learning is made by increasements added daily to one's stock of knowledge. The
film of information is increased insensibly as a shadow moves—one does not see
it move, yet ere long one discovers that it has moved. Be jealous of opportunities; let no one pass
without taking advantage of it. Opportunities may be likened to through-trains
that bear one forward to the success of life. Missing an opportunity is to travel
afterward by frost or by diligence, not by steam. However high your aspirations
for professional success, yet keep always the personality and nobility of your
manhood and womanhood supreme. Cultivate a hopeful and cheerful spirit, so that disappointments shall
not overwhelm you early in your career. Be brave and wise, and success shall crown
your efforts.
THEY
GOT THERE.
The
Fact Once More Demonstrated That in Union There is Strength.
Yesterday afternoon a large
crowd assembled at the fair grounds to see the married men mop the ground, so
to speak, with their less favored brothers of the bachelor
persuasion in a game of ball. Ab. Edgcomb, alias old man Coup, attired in
faultless clothes, and with a big navy revolver at his side, occupied the position
of umpire. Ab. said that the six-shooter was not so much as a means of defense
as to give force to his decisions. It is needless to say, however, that no fault
was found with him—it wouldn't do.
Although the score was not kept
in the single figures, it was fun for the spectators to watch the old
bald-heads who used to play ball six, eight, ten and fifteen years ago, and the
score was close enough to make it interesting.
THE SCORE.
SINGLE. R. 0. MARRIED. R. O.
Ballard, 3 3 Fund, 5 2
Dickinson, 4 3 Brewer, 4 2
Ward, 5 2 J. Schermerhorn, 5 2
Peck, 2 5 C. Strowbridge, 5 0
T. Barry, 4 2 H.Strowbridge, 2 3
Gould, 4 2 Sherwood, 1 5
D.Barry, 1 3 Stoker, 0 5
Taggart, 1 4 Blowers. 2 3
Duffey, 2 3 A. Scbermerhorn, 4 2
Total.
26 27 28 24
BY INNINGS.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Married, 4 2 0 4 4 7 5 2 * --28
Single,
5 6 2 0 3 0 4 4 2 --26
Ernest M. Hulbert, Scorer.
The single men have issued a
challenge for a return game, to take place Saturday,
July 11.
CORTLAND
AND VICINITY.
Hayes chair factory is now
turning out 700 chairs per day.
Rice's shoe store has been
moved to the new rooms No. 5 North Main street.
A. G. Brown, residing near
McGrawville, had three cows killed by lightning last Sunday. They were insured.
Next week we shall issue an
edition of 2,500 copies. Advertisers should take notice and govern themselves
accordingly.
The three drinking fountains
for Main street have been finished and will be put in position in the course of
a week or ten days.
A. B. Raymond, of Little York,
will please accept our thanks for a beautiful basket of mammoth strawberries.
The largest one measured 9 1-4 inches in circumference.
Street Commissioner Doud has been doing some
excellent work in grading the extensions of Maple and Lincoln avenues The work
speaks for itself and shows that a master hand has control.
The Cortland Water Works
company are extending their mains about 1,500 feet up Groton avenue, and as soon as that is completed will extend them
through North church to Grant.
S. C. North was presented with
an elegant meerschaum pipe Saturday evening last by the employees of the gas
company. Mr. North has severed his connection with the gas works here and will soon
go to Fulton to take charge of a similar business there.
On Friday last the case of Ed.
Riley and Dan Kernan for assault and battery on Wm. J. Hollenbeck was tried
before Justice Bouton. Kernan was discharged while Riley was held. On Monday he
was brought up and sentenced to sixty-five days in the Onondaga penitentiary
and to pay a fine of thirty-five dollars or stand committed thirty-five days
longer.
On Saturday last the Emerald's
received their parade carriage from Rumsey & Co.’s factory, where it has been undergoing repairs. More plated work
has been put on in place of the wood and painted iron work. The front of it is
ornamented with a statute of Washington while one of Robert Emmett graces the
rear. An immense statue of Liberty Enlightening the World also adorns the
carriage. What the exact cost of changing it over is we have been unable to
learn. After the committee had accepted the work and agreed upon the price and
terms of payment with Mr. Rumsey, the latter, made the Emeralds a present of a
duty cart, which they are now practicing with, as they will use it for a
running cart at their trials of speed this summer. The parade carriage is
probably the finest in the State now, and will be used for the first time
to-morrow in the parade before the company go to the fair grounds for their
field day sport.
Wm. Menken, the murderer of
Katie Broedhopt, was swung into eternity at the jail in Binghamton yesterday at
10:54. He admitted that he killed her but that it was not intentional.
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