Show WHY JAPAN J AP AN SHOULD WIN Subject of Valedictory at Westminster Commencement The Tha commencement exercises of ot Westminster Wt college worn wern ere held last Int night In the First Presbyterian church before a n good audience com composed of ot many amid patrons of ot the hull Institution lutton A number nt of present were from out of or town lown Including Rev Bev ns I James Thompson anti and ane Rev Iter Ho John Johll E K Car vcr ver er from Crom Ogdon Mlee Thompson 1111 nil In inthe tho the Presbyterian school ut ul Sn t hunt Una and a 1 of ot the tho Collegiate Institute and IUlI others Rov Ho Dr R lt II G I dean denn of oC tho thin college collo e presided The Tho wan Willi very vary good and the creditably handled The themes were Iro largely political poll tt I and in evidenced originality of ot thought with careful mind and conscientious Albert C of ot Portland Or spoke on America In time the twentieth lilt oration a II good Food with a IL tendency to tho the DO 10 n a with excellent of or desert m live and hn Ito pointed towards the high hll I emit CHt of ot attainment ns as the aim of ot American ambition LeRoy Lenoy Nielson or of Mt Pleasant spoke on Tile Tho Worlds tint and Hl Ilis Victorious Work Tho oration WM wan an eulogy ot or Secretary of or State John Johh Hay flay whoso whose treatment of tho ho Chinese question tho the speaker hold held wan WO of ot tho the highest hll host praise Mr NIelson In extended reference to the tho Russian situation par particularly In lt Its relations to tho United States mind appeared well rend read on Oil time tho Ih subject Theodore Theodoro K E 1 Larson of oC Wyo 0 In his hla oration on Is III H En Fon Entitled Entitled titled to um American Sympathy In th the Pi War Wor took strong lIh Japan nail bus hla reason for the tho claim wern set pot In III an In chin ahlo effort both front from an nn historical rued rhetorical stand standpoint point Ills exposition of ot policy poUr of ot aggrandizement I and en encroachment encroachment nl on 01 tho time natural rights of or other peoples l nod nations was WIH very er good 1100 The Tho valedictory oration by h James Inmost T me Roderick Thompson of ot Ogden Ogdon va wan Willi on Oil Why Wo Should for fop Japans f Tills was L RS a u thoughtful schol scholarly scholarly arly effort In which tho the present shut of or tin the orient wall portrayed from front thin the view of the careful student of or his history tory The Tho showed that Rus Rum slim p success meant stagnation lAJ po 10 politically while the th success of ot th thin tho JapH Jarl aren arms arme would provo n 1 incentive tive to 10 mid In all alt of oC these the e activities has haR mailo made moro morn Improvement In 30 31 years ear than Russia HIIS hL ban hns In COO The valedictorian wan II presented with Ith n a one lino bouquet of or flowers as ho he sat silt down downAn downAll An All ablo Ihlo wua Willi mid made by b Rev J T 1 13 TI Carver on all Tho Importance of or it n ItCo College Co 11 Education thin tho central point of which was ryas that limit the tho man mot with such an nn education wan nil hotter better quipped equipped I In th thin thA battle ot of life lito than one OliO who ho WitH tn without It II TI The mr evening n WRit as th the n morn en Ill Jo by hy several several musical in In Including eluding n vocal oral Mrs II r A t U G Andrews mud Mrs MTH R n J nail and aliI a I violin solo front from Mr MI Plano piano accompaniment by Miss Hilt Tho limo exercises rinsed d by b Donn Denn I ran Mr Thompson with his do de gree |