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28 THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS. i ~
Yale, Massachusetts Institute, Cornell, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Lehigh, ‘
` Pennsylvania and Stevens. Everyone of them has equipment and building;
; which cost several times ours. » A ‘
The first cost per student, the cost of teachers per student, the cost oi i
operation per student, are all larger than here. Students at these schools have W€d
l _ better equipment with which to work and more professors for instruction. .€¤mI
` I have seen graduates from all of these schools year after year enter the -
, employ of a great engineering company in competition with our boys, but t as fl
` greater percentage of Kentucky men have made good than those from any ‘
: other school. enro
` _ Why should this be true? Why should this school, located in an agricultural YOU?
country, away from centers of manufacturing and engineering, in a State that 0¤€,
I   does everything possible to stifle manufacturing, with a poorer equipment and trad]
  fewer instructors, be able to more than hold its own? The reason sits here, and
l, When recounting the special privileges which we enjoyed upon the campus, mmf
l I purposely omitted mentioning Professor Anderson. The history of this cnt;
'   ` department is what Professor Anderson has made it. It has been his energy, his to °
g enthusiasm, his business ability, his personality, his judgment, his leadership and I sa
  work that has built here a great school. The Alumni are giving this tablet that
, i others may read for they need no bronzeto forever keep dear to their memories POW
~   the school or its maker. , ,
. _; · COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. ugm
_Q _ The annual commencement exercises of the University were held on agld
· , , Thursday, June 1, t at
* The Faculty, the senior class and a number of Alumni, headed by President li ·
l   Barker, marched from the Armory to the big tent. The program for the gw
t j morning was opened with an invocation delivered by the Rev. Richard Wilkinson,
Y pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd. yea!
An oration entitled "The Trophy of Miltiades," was delivered by Julius
, \/Volf, the class representative and a graduate in the College of Mechanical and
_ =; Electrical Engineering. Mr. Wolf emphasized the fact that the progress made by
` ;_* the world was made because of discontent and declared that the man who was
  satisfied had long since ceased to grow and if he does move, will move backward, Whc
  Such, he said, was the inexorable law of evolution. stm
_, President Barker, after presenting Governor Stanley with the silk`robe made
  for him by Misses julia Van Arsdale, Caroline Lutkemier, Nell Salisbury and
  Elizabeth Pickett, students in the Department of Home Economics, conferred on
if` the Governor the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, after which Governor
  Stanley delivered the commencement address.
' The keynote of his address was: and
  “A straight`line is the shortest distance between two points. Everybody
  admits that this is true in geomerty. And so it is in life. You members of the
i   graduating class, who expect to make a success in life, must remember that n
  straight line is the shortest distance between two points."
QZ Two honorary degrees, eighteen master’s degrees and 147 bachelor’s degrees
  were conferred by President Barker, who also announced the annual prize
Si awards for the year.
ii A feature of the exercises was the conferring of the degree of Mechanical Chi
ya and Electrical Engineering on Miss Margaret Ingelsjthe Hrst woman graduate
  of any mechanical and electrical engineering college in the country. Miss Ingels Sm
`Fl completed the entire four years of the course, taking her turns in the forge shop
  and machine shop and doing the other duties of the engineer with the rest of thc
Yi`, "boys," never shirking a duty, however irksome.