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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
4
Bishop Lawrence delivered the baccalaureate sermon to Harvard seniors, urging courage and responsibility. He warned against self centered ambition and urged graduates to use their power for the common good as they face a world of vast wealth and mass institutions.
College leaders urge ethical standards in education. Garfield at Williams warns against traitorous demoralization for fortune. Butterfield at State Agricultural, Hyde at Bowdoin, Halloran at Boston College stress responsibility, character, and balance between athletics, science, and study.
A speaker urges students to abandon self interest and social demoralization. Emphasizing service, humble history, and uplift through personal devotion, the message calls for genuine character over wealth and power and for real happiness found in moral conduct and community respect.
Pastor commends ex president Eliot of Harvard for not placing the Bible in his five foot Dudley Street library. Rev Samuel Gray preached on the Peerless Book and urged commendation for Eliot’s judgment in keeping the Bible apart from other works.
In Delaware County Court Mae D. Dannaker seeks a decree of divorce from George Dannaker. Master Ernest L. Green recommends the decree citing cruelty and abusive conduct including whistling singing and dancing at the foot of the bed while Mrs Dannaker tried to sleep.
A trolley pole snapped off at the base as an outward bound East Walpole car left the Dudley street terminal yesterday afternoon. The pole whirled over several children but none were hurt, though they were greatly frightened. Motorman 1236 controlled the car as it was pushed by another Walpole car, with no clear explanation from the crew.
The storm between Mark Twain and his former private secretary Mrs Ashcroft, formerly Isabel Lyon, has erupted after months of tension. Those close to the matter refuse to detail the events that sparked the latest trouble and ensuing lawsuit.
Denver June 20 A Colorado jury convict Samuel Ross of coercive acts against Hazel Ross as she seeks divorce The jury ruling supports Hazel Ross alleging husbands have no right to control a wife's bathing hour and oversee her routine without consent
Six daintily dressed young women from Prince Edward Island arrived in Boston yesterday afternoon for a sight seeing tour of this city. The girls are daughters of wealthy farmers of the island.
Ambassador Riddle has received a letter from former Vice President Do W Fairbanks stating his intention to visit St Petersburg soon and then travel to the Far East where he currently is.
Last week at Boston College covers senior hop at Intercolonial Hall Roxbury with 400 invitations and a dance to follow. Graduation exercises Wednesday feature Dr Francis J Barnes and a slate of speakers on Ideals in social civic moral and educational life. Class day events occur Thursday at Youngs Hotel with history poem mantle oration and prophecy. Scholarships eight awards to be contested Saturday morning with fall enrollment projected as highest ever.
The annual graduation exercises and prize distribution at Boston College High School take place this evening at the college hall on James Street. The largest class in its history graduates. diplomas are awarded by Rev. Thomas I. Gasson S J who will also deliver the principal address. Francis Lucey of Malden delivers the valedictory and James Daley of East Boston gives the salutatory.
In Sanford Maine on June 20 Charles F. Ham 31 left his Snapleigh home carrying a butcher knife aiming to commit suicide amid belief by neighbors he killed his father Benjamin Ham who died two months earlier leaving 25000 to his son. Police and volunteers searched 50 miles of woods with about 200 people but found no trace.
Willimantic resident Ezra Donovan recounted five years of suffering from female troubles including backache irregularities and dizziness. After three doctors failed to help she found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a thirty year standard remedy for female ills.
Justice David J. Brewer predicts a coming era of disarmament driven by socialism labor politics and suffrage. He says the United States must lead the movement and would stop building warships, while noting obstacles from Germany Britain Russia and Japan and the ongoing Anglo German rivalry.
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