OF V f igaf ; HG a I ean ae qin! it aa I ny F + by 4 Ht i a f 4 5 ‘ ; Hi ei i ' i seve nu | 4 u ) ! if a } ks } i ; a eee oa aeens ance aes ¥ ae SS Seen Sure SSF mene: i Li} HEY ah ihe i tp tit NH ih Sivepre oe ere ears earre! Ah iH het a Rie i tif r ik Hl ih i 4 A al aE ry i ie ; ay 1 TY ERE basi tesa ty hy Le bt brad \HRER RIC be ‘Tf in all coming time I shall have no higher designation than ‘Schoolmaster,’ and if it shall be known that in this calling I have not wholly failed, my highest personal ambition will be met, It 4s of this title Iam most proud.” S. PACKARD talent ry i th ret) Co ras i i fe 4 ( i See oy oesFIFTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY AND COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE PACKARD COMMERCIAL SCHOOL Founded by S. §. Packard Monday evening, May twenty-fourth One thousand nine hundred and nine CARNEGIE HALL THE PACKARD COMMERCIAL SCHOOL Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue New YorkSS PAckm&RD FOUNDER OF THE PACKARD COMMERCIAL SCHOOL 4 ene edeTHE PACKARD ANNIVERSARIES The Packard Anniversaries have been for many years an important feature in the public entertainments of New York. Many of the eminent men of our times have graced these occasions as speakers and presiding officers. It has ever been the ambition of the school to give to its students the best, and in this it has been peculiarly fortunate. Those who have greeted Packard students in the capacity referred to include men who have won the highest distinction as masters of practical affairs, literature, art, Statecraft—Governors, Representatives in Congress, Senators, Cabinet Officers, President of the United States. The graduating exercises are held the third week in May and do not mark the end of the school year. Packard students are not graduated by classes. They are permitted to enroll at any time and progress is dependent purely upon individual capacity and effort. Each student, upon completion of the prescribed course, receives a certificate which calls for a diploma at the next anniversary. And so it happens that when anniversary time comes a large proportion of the class is already in business. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, delivered the main address to the graduating class at the fifty-first anniversary exercises at Carnegie Hall, Monday evening, May 24,1909. Sereno S. Pratt, Esq., Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, presided.PRAYER REV. EDWIN ForREST HALLENBECK, D.D. Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, the author of our being, the giver of every good and perfect gift, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, our obligation to Thee. We thank Thee for life with its magnificent possibilities and for all those influences which add to its en- richment. We thank Thee for the institutions which have gathered up the results of the research and the experience of years and which offer these to those who seek a worthy equipment for life. We pray for thy blessing upon every institution of learning, and upon every soul that has part in this work; we pray that those who teach in these institutions may not only seek enrichment of mind for those under their care, but enlargement of heart and beauty of soul as well. May they understand that they are not only teaching lessons, but they are building manhood and womanhood, and in some crisis of nation, or church, or home, their work will be tested and tried. May they fulfill their ministry as a sacred trust from Thee. We pray for Thy blessing upon this institution under whose auspices we are come tonight. We thank Thee for its years of usefulness, for the training it has provided for multitudes of young men and young women that they might be prepared to do their work in the world and fill the places to which Thou hast called them. And we ask tonight thy benediction upon these lives that are to go out into the great world to fulfill their mission. Let thy blessing go with them. We pray that they may go with brave hearts and true; may their aspirations be pure; may their purposes be worthy. Give them a true conception of life, we beseech Thee, and may they understand that a far greater monument than the gains of earth and the laurels it can give, is character. And we8 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises pray that they may be what Thou wouldst have them to be; that they may do what Thou callest them to do. Help us to be men—not little men who have but little brains, not such as mainly live for sordid gains, but men of genius in the church, and state, men worthy to be called both good and great, men with clear heads, clean hearts and stainless hands, whose sympathy for souls includes all lands. And we pray that we may understand that in order to fulfill our mission we must look beyond the smoking chimneys and the dead tree-tops of the earth. Give us a vision of the hills of God; help us to see the glory beyond the clouds. May the grip of the Eternal be upon our lives, and when we have come to the setting of the sun may we have the consciousness that we have pleased Thee and have left some golden touch upon our generation. We ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.INTRODUCTORY REMARKS SERENO S. Prarr, Eso. Standing before the Chamber of Commerce three years ago Dr. Fdwin A. Alderman said: “ What we call business, and stupidly think of as a coarse, material machine is really the great cosmic university through which nine-tenths of hunaan beings go to learn truth-speaking and faith in men, to prove themselves by suffering and service.” Dr. Alderman thus describes commerce not as an ocean steamer, huge in bulk and mighty in power, bridging the sea, not as a twentieth century railroad train annihilating time and distance and making Chicago a suburb of New York, not as a wireless telegraph shooting intelligence through the trackless spaces of air, not even as an exchange where international transactions of all the great countries of the earth are carried on—No, he describes it as a university in which men and women learn the hard lesson how to live. Now, ladies and gentlemen, young ladies and gentlemen, you are to graduate tonight from this famous school, founded by Packard and carried on now faithfully and well by Mr. Horton, you are to graduate from this school of commerce into this greater university of commerce. You have leamed in this school something of the science of economics, something of the art of accounts. What are you to learn and what are you to be in the greater university of commerce >? You are to learn, of course, certain prac- tical, material things; you are to learn how to apply there the knowledge that you have acquired here, and you are, I hope, to cultivate an intimate acquaintance with profit, that great motive power of ambition ; but you are —Dr. Alderman says this—to learn also truth-speaking, faith in men, culture by means of suffering and service. Now that is strange language to speak of commerce. The function of commerce is to supply the10 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises material things of mankind; it is a connecting link between production and consumption, between the farm and the breakfast table. It means buying and selling; it means the making of money. Then why this talk about commerce being a university in which men learn truth-telling and service to others. Of course, Dr. Alderman is right. In the few words which I shall say tonight I purpose to impress that idea upon you. Measured by the infinite expanse of the universe how insignificant is man. —Mind you, I say man; a woman is never insignificant. (Applause. ) But while measured by these measurements man appears of microscopic proportions, yet in a vital sense each individual is the center of the universe ; and it is essential to the welfare of the world that each indi- vidual should. conduct himself as if everything depended upon himself. The only way for success for yourself and service to the world is by regarding yourself absolutely essential to the well-being of the race, Modern business is conducted by various forms of credit. This credit is supported partly by gold in bank vaults, partly by goods in the process of transportation from producer to consumer; but for the most part it is based upon confidence in men, in each other’s good faith in fulfilling their obligations. The moment that is impaired the vast structure topples over and we have disaster. This confidence is itself based upon character. You hear a great deal about the sins of the weak, and you may be able to point to many individual cases; but a student of economics will tell you that in a very intimate sense general prosperity depends upon indi- vidual conduct. Good times are the product of good conduct; panics are the penalty of disobedience to moral law. The fact that the world is advancing year by year is a pretty good certificate of character for the human race. To me it is an impressive and solemn thought that even to- morrow’s breakfast for the world depends upon whether you and I and the rest of us have today performed our duties. The daily miracle by which two billions of people are fed is made possible not alone by the financial profit taken from the soil, but also by the fidelity and sincerity of the human race. [he world’s social and business structure would com-SERENO S. Pratt, Esq. OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE y SECRETARThe Packard Commercial Schoo] II pletely collapse if a majority of men and women were not trious, truthful, and virtuous. The world’s vast aggregate of one hundred and twenty billions of corporate securities, representing perhaps one-sixth of the wealth of the earth, would not be worth the paper upon which they are engraved if you and I were not obedient to law and reverent servants of order. The tremendous forces that operate in the market, the mighty processes of commerce would be impotent for good if com- merce did not consist of a longing anxiety of nine-tenths of human beings to speak the truth, to prove themselves worthy of the suffering and service. I would be false to the trust committed to me as chairman of this meeting and to the splendid opportunity which this occasion affords me if I failed to impress upon you this simple but fundamental truth, as old as the hills and yet new every morning. Enter this university of commerce with a high ambition of success, but with a still higher sense of your per- sonal responsibility to uphold by your individual conduct that confidence and mutual service without which there would be complete anarchy. The grand orchestra of industry would produce only hideous discords unless it kept time to the baton of character. sober, indus- [AWARDING oF DipLomas] Mr. Pratr: The Commission appointed by Governor Hughes to revise the Charter of Greater New York no doubt did its work well, and yet we here tonight are very glad that the Legislature has postponed its adoption, for you know that revision proposed to abolish Aldermen. Now, whatever you may think of a New York alderman, we all admire a certain Virginia Alderman, and we admire him both for his eloquence and for that national spirit with which he discusses all great public ques- tions. No voice has come from the great southland since the day of Henry W. Grady that has been so eloquent of the inspiration of patriot- ism and national unity and national uplift as the voice of Dr. Alderman. I now have the pleasure and honor of introducing Dr. Edwin A. Alder- man. (Applause.)ADDRESS: Remaking of the Republic DR. Epwin A. ALDERMAN Gentlemen of the Faculty, Students of the Packard School, Ladies and Gentlemen: My first sentiment is one of gratitude that I am not abolished: my second is one of gratitude to one unfailing privilege and pleasure of a college president, the surety that he is to have such pleasures as this, to come into contact at this time of the year with long, bright lines of vital youth, breaking upon the shores of manhood and of womanhood. [ am very glad to have the privilege of meeting and speaking to this particular line that breaks tonight upon that shore. There is but one great question in this world and that is how to make a man or a woman better, and there is but one answer, and that is by some sort of trainmg. Everybody in ‘this world has to do one of four things: He has to work, or beg, or steal, or starve. Now, I have never tried all four of those methods, but I can, I think, declare to you that the method of work is the only feasible one. On the other hand, everyone who enters this world—and we come to it but once that anybody knows about—has got to make a character for himself. In other words, we have got to live a life as well as make a living. I am not here to tell you how to succeed, to give you a patent method for success, because | should have to define success and I would not know how ; but if I could put in one sentence the most fruitful ingredients of success in a practical way in this world I would say about this: A man’s salary is made of two parts; the first part is the money he receives, the second part is the opportunity he has to learn something. The young14 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises man whose chief idea is to make his service just exactly fit his salary is not going to get his salary very much larger than it was when he started to fit the two. Promotion won’t wait on him. Do more than you have to do that you may learn more than you need to know just to do the or- dinary work. There are thousands of men and women in New York today looking for the boy or girl, the man or woman who is willing to do more than he needs to do, who has that zest for work that makes him bound to do and to take responsibility. I confess that the most hopeless thing in the world to me is when I speak to a man who is in service to have him look at me with a fishy eye and to suggest in his glance that I am asking him to do more than | am paying him to do. The next thing is a certain hopefulness. Young ladies and young gentlemen—hopefulness. | always had a great liking for that story about the two frogs. One was an optimistic frog and the other was a pessimistic frog. “They both fell into a big pan of milk. The pessimistic frog threw up his arms and said: “J am going to drown, ] am going to drown, | am going to drown!” And he did drown. ‘The optimistic frog said when he found himself in the milk: “I won't drown, and | won't drown, and I won't drown!” And they found him the next morning floating around on a pat of butter singing “ Life on the ocean wave.” (Laughter.) I commend that optimistic frog to you. My friend, the chairman of this meeting, has been good enough to honor me by quoting something | once said about the career of business. I would like to add to that this word. ‘Trade is the pioneer influence of the world. It is not a common and sordid thing; it is not a coarse and greedy thing. ‘Trade is the pioneer of civilization in a high sense ; and if business ceased for one day in all the world it would be a matter of frightful consequence. You often hear the word commercialism spoken as if it were something to be avoided. Well, it depends upon what you mean by it. If you mean a philosophy of life which declares the chief end of man is to get a dollar and to keep that dollar ; then I say it is about the vulgarest and cheapest and sordidest , Tr SUL aaCOPYRIGHT, 1907, PACH BROS., N. Y. Dr. EpwiIn A. ALDERMAN PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAThe Packard Commercial School ES philosophy of life that ever existed. I have seen some men so imbued with this spirit that when they woke up in the moming and looked out at the shining sun they ought to have seen a dollar mark through the middle of it; and when they went to bed at night and looked up at the moon, found it still obscured by the dollar mark. But commercialism and industrialism considered as the great efforts of this world to conquer nature, to mould nature to the uses of man, to scatter the product of mine and forest throughout the world so that there shall come into civilization comfort and power and luxury, sensibly used if you please—that sort of business is statesmanship and patriotism. Now, my young friends, | make it a rule not to talk to people about their business unless it happens to be my business. Somehow I have dealt with young men all my life and I am shy about giving them advice. The more advice | give the less I value it, and I love to talk to people not as idlers but as folk, not as workers, but as men and women; so that I think perhaps I may help you in a large way by speaking briefly to you tonight on a big subject at least; and if I can help you to think straight on that subject I think I have done you the best service | can. The biggest thing in this world to you is your country ; and the biggest service on earth that awaits you is to be a good citizen in that country. The republic that we live in is the most solemn and majestic conception on this earth today, and to be a good citizen in it is the noblest dignity that can fall upon the shoulders of a human being. I am very glad to see so large a number of young women here. One of the greatest revolutions of the world has been the attitude of society towards women in the last fifty years. There has been an emancipation of one-half of the race. And by that I don’t mean that they need neces- sarily vote, but I do mean that the world has come to the conclusion that women can be free, that they are entitled to freedom—to use their time as they see fit——the intelligent freedom of the university to use its lessons and its means; and as God is thei judge and guide, to live their lives with self-direction and freedom. There are twenty-four millions of women16 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises in the United States: there are five millions of them earning their daily bread——twenty-three out of every hundred——and they are earning it m every occupation on earth that men work in except nine. There are women blacksmiths, one hundred and eighty-five in this country ; there are women engineers and brakemen. There are no women sailors yet nor soldiers, and they have thus far absolutely refused service as telegraph or telephone linemen. There is nothing more touching or more impressive to me than the thought that women have thus entered into the work of the world, and I am one of those who do not believe that it is masculinizing them. Men will still love them; men will still need them; but I believe they are humanizing society and humanizing work. Now the great thing that I want to talk to you about briefly is the idea of democracy. By democracy | mean a society in which every man has a chance and knows he has that chance, and intends to keep that chance. It is one of the most beautiful and daring ideas in the world, and in a certain sense it is a terrible idea, because a democracy when once corrupt can never be repaired. You can cut off the head of a king and get a better king, or a new king, or you can do as the Turks did the other day, take him out and put him in an automobile and send him away into the country and lock him up and get another ruler; but when the heart of a democracy is corrupted it is ruimed forever. That makes it a terrible idea. The most wonderful sight in the world to me is the spectacle of this Republic in which you are coming up to be men and women, as it is likely to be shaped by the affairs of the future. | don’t believe we quite understand it here as they do in Europe, where they feel the boom and majesty and uplift of this Republic. It is already the oldest and most venerable of all the republics of the world. It can look down on a young empire like Germany with a great deal of con- descension. Some of you will be gomg down into Wall Street some day. I go down there myself sometimes. I am impelled by that wonder which if] , aE TESS ETA): Baa at eaThe Packard Commerctal School 17 Plato said was the beginning of knowledge ; but the place does not agree with my nerves. There is one thing down there which I want you to look at. It is the statue of an old Virginia country gentleman, standing on the steps of the Sub-Treasury building and gazing with tranquil eyes over that hurrying throng. It is the figure of George Washington, who was the richest man in America when he died. He had eight hundred thousand dollars. Think of what that meant! He couldn’ t have more than two automobiles now; but he was the richest man on the continent then ; and what is most important he was the most patriotic man on the continent too. Put those two facts together—the richest man in the country being the most public-spirited and patriotic man in the country—and you induce a desire to inquire what was the deepest conviction in the heart of Washington: If we can find it out and scatter it around it may help us to make a better democracy of this. | will tell you what it was. That old man believed in his soul that democracy was the final form of human society ; that just to serve democracy was glory enough for any man, and that service to men is the very greatest oppor- tunity that can come to any man. Washington made a religion of that idea, and men of his time like Hamilton and Jefferson and Clinton here m your state had the same idea. The century has somewhat dulled the halo about Democracy, but it has still to its credit a splendid tale of service to men. It has without doubt developed some new and carnal things in politics and in business, and new shapes of temptation have entered the world; and after the busiest generation the world has ever seen——without sufficient leisure for moral consideration——our country in a way is in danger of its own strength and must protect itself against its own strength. [ am simply claiming that Democracy, like a man’s char- acter, is never wholly out of danger. It is not selfishness or corruption alone that we have to fear for our country, but a despair about it. We must not think it is rotten at the core, for it is not. The heart of it is as inspiring and simple and pure as it was when it came fresh from the hands of its political fathers. But there is needed a going back to the sort of18 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises patriotism that men like Washington had and making it a working theory of life. By the measure in which the United States Steel Corporation surpasses a blacksmith shop and New York surpasses a rural township in complexity, in that measure must the national conscience come to see the moral and public nature of both business and politics. Patriotism, therefore, which is hard to define and new with every age must re-define itself. It once meant manhood’s rights when Washington thought of it; it meant culture and refinement when Emerson wrote about it; it meant ideas of liberty when Grant and Lee fought about it; it meant a great desire to annex a continent to our use when the great businessmen of this generation tied together the Pacific and Atlantic with bands of steel. Today it means a reaction from unsocial selfishness to self-restraint and consideration for the general welfare, impressing itself in a kind of fierceness as the safeguard of republican ideals. Now, my friends, a servant of the people in city or state is not so highly honored today as was Robert Walpole or Warren Hastings, as the roll- call in some prison houses will show. ‘The disposition which Democracy has just shown at the most inconvenient moment to ask the forces that be whether they are the forces that ought to be and the answer to that question are testimonies on the affirmative side of this opinion. Plain people these days are not so awe-struck as they used to be at the names of the merely rich. There was a time in American life when just to set a man off and say he was a rich man was to put a halo ahout him. But we have found out how many of them got their riches, and now it is not, Is he rich > but How did he get rich and how does he use the riches he has? And that answered rightly gives him dignity. He deserves dignity, and I am glad to say that in a time of moral and poli- tical danger some of the sweetest and finest examples of American life have come to us out of this world of business that you propose to enter tonight. I do not want to be indulging in any easy optimism, but I am going to claim tonight that this republic is trying to adjust its old self, which is theThe Packard Commercial School 19 product of country life and individualism, to its new self, which is the product of city life and natural science, in such a fashion that it shall lose neither the individualism which characterizes every day nor the co-opera- tion which insures power and progress. Whether we will or not a new social order is being built before our eyes. Most of us were reared in the idea of government which declared that that government was best which governed least. The high priest of that in America was Thomas Jefferson. The young men coming up today are witnessing, if they are not being taught in schools, the operation of that philosophy—I do not know just what to call it. I would call it socialism if that beautiful and noble word in its pedigree and in its lineage had not been so bandied around and so applied and so used as to become sinister and even evil in its significance. I cannot find a name for it, but it differs from the old idea which thought of government as a sort of near-sighted policeman and of society as a group of units to be protected from violence, to be loved not at all, and to be allowed to do as they pleased, provided they did not please to hurt anybody else. In other words, every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. This new philosophy has arrived, which I cannot find a name for. It has three fundamental qualities. It thinks of society as a whole organism and wants to study it and understand it and through knowledge of it to help it, to help all of the units in it to realize the best they are capable of. Second, it is in line with the spirit of sympathy and brotherhood; it just will not let people alone. It insists upon helping people whether they want to be helped or not. It is merciful, it is sympathetic and it is enlightened. We have had the beggar with us ever since the world began. But there never was a time when Society purposed to study the beggar scientifically and to see if it cannot so arrange things that there won't be any more beggars. Third, it has a genius for organization and co-operation. They talk about killing co-operation—-the thing has come to stay; it is the genius of the world. There were fifteen hundred laws passed in the last ten years to effect the betterment of the laboring class. Whether they did it or not I do not20 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises know. Here is just a bare brief list of some of the things that the world is trying to do under the operation of this spirit: We have the National Civic Federation to affect capital and labor; public health societies, who investigate conditions of city life, showing the congestion of cities like your own and its results, an outcome of which is the Tuberculosis Exhibit. There are the Sage Foundations, the Rockefeller and Carnegie Founda- tions, great industrial organizations which have been instrumental in pass- ing the Employer’s Liability Law; societies for improving municipal government—just a lot of men get together and say we will improve the town; and they get together and try to do it, whether they do it or not. The income tax agitations, the child labor laws. They have even gone so far as to form societies to abolish war, to bring about peace throughout the earth. There is something majestic in that spirit, whether it accomplishes what it sets out to do or not. It shows a moral power in the individual that no other age ever dreamed about. You can call it what you please: it seems to me to be an enormous movement and a genius for co-operation in the service of society considered as a unit. You young men and young women are going to be members of this society. It is not at all impossible that there is among you some one who will be a great industrial leader, a man of power, of wealth. You are going to have to face this idea, because the businessman nowadays has responsibilities to face greater than any other profession in the world. It is his age. In the peculiar sense that there was once the age of the monk, of the soldier, of the lawyer, this is} the age of the businessman. If I should attempt to tell you how, in the domain of legislation the im- pulse is buried, I would go far afield. There is not a thing in the world from the boll weevil to the hook worm, from the Mississippi River to an inland creek, that is not the subject of federal legislation. They even study the domestic life of the farmer. Of course this genius for organi- zation has operated to produce a vast era of combination which we must study intelligently, and the strength and the evil of which we must face intelligently. 7 wradt TPT EN if BTU aaThe Packard Commercial School 21 Now, my friends, it is my belief that the chief constructive govern- mental problem of this century and of this tme—and with this I shall close—is to find the golden mean between rank individualism, which is not possessed in any democracy except in a little city or state, and rank socialism, which js not possessed anywhere until the Lord God changes human nature. I am going to tell you what { mean by rank individualism : Trying to do everything yourself and not getting together as a community and doing big things. Once | lived in a little town, and we tried to get a public library. First one little society got up a little festival and sold ice cream and made about $6.25; then another society had something else and made about $11.25; and finally the Young Men’s Christian Association thought it would help and decided it would contribute books, and the way it would do it was to ask the people to give them the books they did not want; and they did it and they sent them all the books they did not need. They made a great collection of books that no one wanted to read, lives of people no one had heard of, etc. Finally the whole thing petered out. That is rank individualism. Now that town has a splendid library, situated on a noble site, graceful in architecture. It was done by all the people getting together and looking into each other’s faces and saying: “ Let us tax ourselves for a common good, for our children and our children’s children.” And they did it, and that is true individualism as opposed to rank individualism. To define socialism is a different thing. We really do not know what itis yet. It is a yearning rather than a programme; it is an expression of discontent rather than a scheme. Certainly the picture given to us of the socialistic land by its dreamers is that of a state where all injustices have ceased, where there is no poverty, no struggle, no peril and no anxiety. Lhat sounds very beautiful, but here is where its promoters seem not to realize that in such a city as this there would likewise be no benevolence, no foresight, no heroism, no struggle, no courage, no forti- tude—a human drama without a villain, a community of which might be said as William James once said of Chautauqua, “so refined that ice22 Fifty-first Anniversary Exercises cream soda water is the utmost offering it can make to the brute nature in man.” A gentle city simmering in the gentle sunlight. I remember the quiet beauty of it; the true kindness and gentleness and order greatly touched me ; but as I got on the train and went back to Buffalo I some- how felt a little glad as I neared the great city. Away off on the twelfth story of a great building I saw a man swinging in the a, adjusting a huge iron girder, | heard the noise of the hustling multitudes, the clamor and battle and fight and struggle of life; and somehow my pulses sang and my heart beat and I was glad I was living in a world where there was work and fighting and battle. Now, my friends, in spite of that don’t forget this. Men have per- ceived the dignity and majesty of human life. The vision of a more wisely gentle and merciful world has gotten into men’s eyes and they are not going to forget it; they are not going to forget, either, that liberty and individualism and human struggle cannot be taken out of the world without disturbing the finest thing in it. The finest thing I can say, as my last word to you young men and women who formally today enter what we call the great battle of life, is to emphasize the spirit of achieve- ment and the will to do. And may the good Lord give you strength to live up to that maxim in the vicissitudes and fortunes of life that await you. (Applause.) BR TEE Lee aCO 10 Program Music } Overture: “The Bars. Jobann Strauss March of 1909 PRAYER REV. EDWIN FORREST HALLENBECK, D.D. Music—Meditation Religieuse, “Thais” VIOLIN SOLo: Mr. H. P. ScHMITT INTRODUCTORY REMARKS... |. SERENO S. PRATT, Esa. SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MuSIC-—Bourrée AWARDING IDIPGOMAS 9. = 423) BYRON HORTON, PRINCIPAL Music—Selection ‘‘Havana”’ ADDRESS—‘‘Remaking of the Republic” . DR. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BENEDICTION Music—March ‘‘Commencement”’ Music BY AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SAM FRANKO, ConDycToR Massenet - German . Stuart E. GoldmanGRADUATES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Walter Herman Acher 2.2... New York Edward Bo Baker; 1 New Rochelle, N. Y. Rene] ules Bernard... New York MGA CIS VBleM tec c eee ee San José, Costa Rica Arthur William Bloomfield ........... 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