Commencement

The exercises of eommencement week began with the baccalaureate address of President Angelí, which was delivered in University Hall on Sunday evening. Prof. Renwick and a chorus of fifty voices f rom the Choral Union furnished the musie for the occasion, assisted by Fred Dansingburg. who sang a solo. Prof. D'Ooge read the scripture Jesson and offered prayer. The subject of Dr. Angell's address was "Ambitions and Ideáis." It was full of good sense and tirnely advice for the graduating classes. Among other things he said: " It should be the ideal of everyone to build nis manhood on so large a scale that it should overlap and stretch away beyond his profession. The man shouid be more and greater than the lawyer. the physician, the engineer.the teacher, the preacher, the merchant, the farmer. " In these days of narrow specialization in professional and scholarly life, there is a real danger that one's ambition and development should sfion be boanded by the limits of one's vocation. That means much more than to be bounded by the limits of a single profession, as law, or medicine or teachirig. It means to be shut within the confines of a small section of a profession. Beginning then from this day, let all your professional ambitions be tempered and exalted and inspired by this high ideal of the best and fullest development of your complete manhood. "Closely akin to what we have called the social duties of educated men are the more distinctively civic duties, or political duties. Ilere, too, is a marked contrast between the ideáis and the ambitions of graduafes. They should recognize the cali which their training lays upon them to play a conspicuous part in securinr good government. They should be willing to subject themselves to some inconvenience ir. bearing their share of the civil burdens, whetber by the some what disagreeable task of serving on a jury or by accepting at times an otïicial position of higher responsibility. It is a matter of congratulation that of late years more of uur young men of education and wealth and leisure have been willing to accept laborious offices in our large cities in the hope of renifdying our most crying evil, misrule in municipalities. Men of such special training as you have received ought after some perience among men to be able to be of real service in the conduct of public education, charities, penal and reformatory institutions, sanitary and hygienic boards, and in general legislation. When called by your fellow citizens to such work, which is commonly unre quited in money, be ready to do your f uil part in the spirit not of personal aggrrindizement, but of devotion to the public good. "Unhappily positicn is of'en sought in a vtry different spirit and for a very different purpose to gratify an ambition which cannot be called lofty. "It would be easy to name many men, who with no evil intent have by their irrational itching for office wreeked fair prospects of professional usefulness, and are stranded now in middle Ufe without office and without profes sional support. I know of few more melancholy spectacles than the long procession of these chronic office seekers now crowding the corridors of the capital and the White House, as they do at every change of the administra tion. What was long ago said by an eminent lawyer of his profession that "the law is a jealous mistress" may be said of every profession. The rewards of the professions are won only by devotion to their calis for arduous toil. The chances of gaining an honest livelihood by holding offices obtainable only by election are in this country extremely precarious. The adoption of' politics as a profession is genrally fatal to success in any other profession." TUE SENIOR PROMENADE. On Monday evening was a most interesting affair. The brilliant illumminations and the tbrong of happy faces oíd and young passing to and fro over the velyety turf listening to the sweet strains of music and enjoying the cool breezes of the delightful evening gave the campus an air of animation which it rarely presenta afternight f all and the campus itself is a thing of beauty this jear. It is said to have never looked better. The wet weather of last year and this Iims ably seconded the efforts of Supt. Heeves' to redeem the campus from the rusty and dejected iippearance of former years. The systematic work that has been put upon the grounds is beginning to bring its fruits and if the present policy is pursued in the future we may expect the campus to become a most attractive spot instead of an eyesore. LAV'S CLASS DAY. The law class of '97 which is small on account of the extending of the course from two to three years. in 1895, held their class day exercises in University hall, ilonday afternoon. The class of '97 is small, but it is possessed of a class yell of striking forcé and vigor, and as usual on such occasions it was very much in evidenee a liberal translation of it would run about as follows: Blackstone! Brimstone! Cole and Coke! '97 law class, Holy smoke! William L. Hart, of Ohio, class president; Henry N. flayes, class historian; James Handy, of Arm Arbor, class orator and Emmet C. Kyan, of Illinois, vaiedictorian, all talked shop, but they talked it well, and the large audience of citizens and students who gathered to honor the occasion, were highly entertained. THE LITERAKY CLASS DAT. Exercises were held at the usual place under the Tappan oak and neither the heat nor the threatened ratin dampened the enthusiasm of those who took part in the program or of the gathered friends and relatives who were there to witness the performance. The program consisted of an address by the class president, ShirleyW. Smith; the class history by Miss Oceana Ferrey; oration by Bïiyard H. Affl1; poem by Arthur M. Smith; prophecy by Miss Inez C. Perrin; and presentation of memorial by Irving O. Woodward. OOMMENOKMENT DAY. The iifty-third annual commencement ciosed with the exercises in University Hall yesterday. The procession f ormed in front of the law building and marched to the hall, which was packed from floor to dome. The cominencement oration was delivered by Andrew S. Draper, LL. D., President of the University of Illinois. I Ie took for his subject, "The Recovery of the Law." Four hundred and seventy-one diplomas were given divided between the various as follows: Literary, 221; Engineering, 47; Medi cine (regular), 64; Medicine (Ilomeopath), 5; Law, 61; Pharmacy, 24; Dentistry, 49. The exercises in University hall were followed by the Commencement dinner in the Gymnasium.