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T. W. Higginson.
Every seat in the University chapel was occupied last Monday evening, the occasion being the lecture before the literary societies by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of Massachusetts. Mr. Higginson was received with prolonged applause. He said that thirty-two years ago he saw Kansas, he might almost say without a tree; to-day he saw her without a slave. He said that thirty-two years ago he waked up in the morning here at Lawrence and looked out through the misty air at a file of United States dragoons drawn up before the hotel where he had slept, and who had come there with the complimentary purpose of escorting Mr. James Redpath and himself against their will before his excellency Gov. Geary. On this visit, however, he had seen no sign of any similar cavalry or even police escort along. But if anything of the kind should be drawn up before the hall when he made his exit, he would feel the calm assurance that the honor was destined for the members of the University and not for him. He spoke of Kansas in glowing terms, and remarked that were he not a citizen of Massachusetts he would certainly be a citizen of Kansas.
He then proceeded to deliver his lecture on "The Aristocracy of the Dollar," and held the close attention of the audience for two hours. His manner and gestures were very easy and agreeable, and his delivery deliberate. There was a vein of wit and humor running throughout the lecture. He paid a deserved compliment to Prof. Marsh, which was received with applause by the Professor's friends, showing the esteem in which he is held in the Kansas State University.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in December, 1823, in Cambridge, Mass. He graduated at Harvard, in 1821; was second in a class of which he was the youngest member; among his elder school mates were James Russell Lowell and Wm. W. Story; in 1869, he received the degree of A. M. He studied divinity at Cambridge, and was ordained at Newburyport, Mass., in 1847, the year he left the Divinity School; in 1850 he was a Free Soil candidate for Congress, but was defeated. Mr. Higginson had taken a leading part in the anti-slavery conflict that preceded the civil war; he was wounded in the "Anthony Burns riot" in 1853, and was indicted at the time with Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, and others, though all the prosecutions failed from a flaw in the indictments. He had much to do with the organization of emigration parties to Kansas in 1656, and was in the territory during part of the civil strife, being on the staff of Gen. James H. Lane. Serving as a colonel in the rebellion, he was woundel i in 1863. Since the war he has devoted himself to literary pursuits and is the author of several volumes of collected essays, besides various pvmphlets, memoirs, and magazine articles.
The Baccalaureate Service
On Sunday evening, June 3d, University chapel was more than illled with students, citizens of Lawrence and many visitors who were attracted by the announcement of the Baccalaureate sermon by John H. Barrows, D.D., of the First Presbyterian church, Chicago. Suitable programs, on which were printed the hymns used in the service, added much to the pleasure and profit of the evening.
The singing, led by the Congregational choir, was entertaining and has since received much favorable comment.
of the universe could exist without a designer.
After music, prayer and a Scripture reading, the speaker was introduced. He spoke on the subject "The Truth and Comfort of Christian Theism," taking for his text "Our Father which art in heaven."
Lack of space prevents more than the most meager outline of his sermon.
He first showed that the human mind is most intensely theistic. All see a creator in Nature. It is idle to think that the admirable adaptation
But the closest union between the Inventor and the invented is found in the relation of man to his Maker. In man is a natural law. Religious affections and instincts are a part of his nature.
The study of nature is a study of correspondences between the world without and the world within.
You find in the rocks the wing of a bird; you know that air existed through which the bird might fly. If air existed you know that the bird had lungs. Every adaptation of nature finds its necessary counterpart; there is no disappointment. Man has a worshiping instinct. You cannot destroy it without destroying human nature itself. Is there a deviation here from nature's plan? Does man long to worship and find nothing to worship?
The whole effort of the speaker was marked by its clearness and rousing energy. Dr. Barrows speaks without notes or manuscripts and displays a wide range of reading and a most remarkable memory.
Pavrmacy Commencement.
A larger audience than usual greeted the department of Pharmacy on Monday morning. The exercises throughout were good and somewhat superior to those of last year. The Coate's House Orchestra enlivened the occasion with the choicest music.
Mr. A. E. Topping delivered the salutatory in a graceful manner. He evidently knew how to handle to pen as well as the pestle.
Miss Mary A.Rice spoke on "Pharmacy, Its Relation to Industrial Education." Miss Rice graduated from the Collegiate department last year with high honor and in this effort fully sustained her reputation.
The class history by George F. Weida was interesting and somewhat humorous. Mr. T. L. Abbey handled the subject "Pharmacy, Its Origin and Position" with some ability.
The "Pill speech" by W. C. Albach, in the course of which he delivered a mammoth pill along with much wholesome advice to the Junior class, was full of humor and was well delivered.
Mr. G Fred Kaiser, of Ottawa, responded in behalf of the junior class. He fully met every thrust of his opponent and displayed in his speaking a clearness and energy not found in any other effort of the occasion.
Prof. L. E. Sayer Dean of the Pharmacy department, delivered a very able address to the graduates and friends of the department.
plays the same careful thought in literature that has characterized his work in the laboratory and classroom.
The selection of W. P. Brown as valedictorian, was an honor well deserved and well bestowed. Mr.Brown is a young writer but he disto Order. Three Hundred Styles of Picture Mouldings. We run a Tremendous Line of Lawn Tennis Goods of Horsman's make.
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