The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-29

believe thatif scholarship and culture would shake
the crowd with an honest effort a way would open
for them to very high, II not the highest place
nsro9 IN Rn1.g esdng Impulses OF ths naSon tae
they were not found wanting and held their own
bravely in the midst Of those "mailed old prize.
lighters" For IL the scholars Of this generation in
fuence our future powerfully as Lanfranc and
Ansem did that of England, shall have reason to
fought for, and obloquy and vtuperation can strike
as hard blows as the swords OF Norman barons. It
is not at the polls that the war is to be waged,
but in meetings and canvssses in the papers
and on the stand; for II Culture stays away from
the Tard mefe6ng enc is going to stay away from
this to some extent. 1t may be that the railroad in
terest, or the commercial interest or the manufac-
turing interest. or something akin to one OF them,
is to govern our future policy by sheer prepouder
snce of mass; but, at any rate there is one thing
which this scholarship "rng" that ] long to see can
DO, and that Is to nd out once for all whether igno
rance or culture SUCH is to have the upper hand.
Let us fight the thing out fearlessly and honestly,
and If we are beaten in fair ngut frankly coaress
IT. and, making becatomb Of caps and gowns and
Leipsc editions go browse upon our proper thistles
for the remainder OF our days.
But perhaps it may seem to be forcing matters
somewhat in thus appealing to you university-Ured
men specially as the ones upon whom the RESPONSE
oiy falls There is more call for honesty at Wash
ipgtOn than for scholarship and the fight is between
all things that are noble and all that are base There
Is no need to emulate the House of commons, and
to make the walls Of the Capitol re-echo with the
shuttecocks OF epigrammatic hexameters, but there
is need the very last and utmost need of truth and
sincerity and wisdom; and / appeal to you, gentle
men, as Jne ones Wn0 mDued with the Spirit the
past are or ought to be, the most competent fore
seeIs of the future
Heirs Of all old civilizations; unbiased in your
Judgment by the presence OF deep-rooted instltu-
tons founded on the 'diyne rights that have grown
out OF human wrong;' in land where the truest
conservatism is to be ever radical you have
nothing but your own negligence to thank if you do
not make your experience tell on the side OF right
interpreting Justly this matter of equality, and
while unveiling with one hand its fallaces nointing
WIN the other in reverence to the divine truth that
underes them.
Have you learned to look upon these Athenans
and Romans, and Feudalists, not as puppets moved
about to make an exhibition and stumbling block
Tor modern schoolboys nor yet as statuesque forms
or beauty for us to read Of admire and ignore, but
as men who believed, and aspired, and struggled
and died. bequeathng to US the lesson of their lives?
II So doubt not that you have solved the greatest
secret that the ages BEAR the secret that lies at the
root OF all their achievements, whose key is in that
word belieUed" The world once had faith-faith in
something. Whether 1t was religious faith or not is
anSther an matter. Its .catholiciy was wide
embrace all nations and peoples Of the
earth, and to range through all things. from muscle
to mysticism. Drawing men out OF SELF it set them
in notion it guided their hearts and hands till they
have MADE the earth's surface palmpsest OF noble
and glorious things. 1t hewed temples out of noun
tain sides and reared the pyramids upon their desert
sands. 1t nefved the arms Of warriors and wrote
their songs OF triumph 1t guided the artists hand
and from its gentle Inspiration were born forms OF
lovellness on softhued canvas and in soaring stone
But its noblest and most glorious effort was begun
when 1t wrote upon the bosom Of this virgin CONT
nent the words that it meant to be eternal :-"All
men are created free and equa' | said bequn be-
CAUSE lis IllSblOu Is UOG eUQcu YET. EdEl alone
interpret its own meaning, and without it we have
gone thus astray.
Slavery came and tried to choke up the former
word till it had to be written anew and forever with
the edge of bayonets, and now the arch-enemy,
foilea in attempt is trying to misnterpret what
is leN and to stretch out upon procrustean bed
till we shall all be equal in medocrity, and If we do
succeed in rescuing our civilization from ruin, to
give us system the very apotheosis of all common
place. Do not be deceived by this blatant nine
teenth century, with its transcendental science and
machine-made civilization.
loPla hat thor itu caIon
grasp nor its machinery compel. The faith Of the
nineteenth century is negation Its credo is non-
that fears to kneel at any shrine, or to give place
to any true be- snSed at @ ssg e
stitlous, or Eneered at as emotional and gush-
ing. And until it has blotted out this nil
DR.. Arnold called 1t; until 1t has accomplished some
living faith and made its politics religion, or
religion its politics. 1t will never write its story with
the mighty ones OF bygone times, nor will it solve
this strange thing OF equality. Equality is not of
intellect, nor muscle. 1t is Of the heart; and it is
only by binding the hearts of men together in a
mon aspiration and common faith that you can
make them equal, yet greatest in their equality. All
the achievements of science, all the developments
of amateral civilization like our own, are but as
drawings upon the seaside sand that the tide of
ever. advancing material progress shall wipe out
with single wave; but take the rock from that
and faith, and you have built a cathedral whose
front the storms OF centuries can but adorn with
the beauty that s born OF resistance to decay, and
stream through its misty aisles, shall shine upon
| the workman and the prince the scholar and the
clown, kneeing side by side in the only equality that
| this world can know-the brotherhood OF common
| Faith.
So at least to me reads this wondrous palimpsest
| OF the ages.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts was then
| conferred by Professor StilIe upon the following
! members of the Senior class, with the eXcep-
tion of three of its number, who, having salts
| factorily completed special or partial courses,
received certificates OF proficiency
Griffith Evans Abbot Louis Conrad Massey,
| Nicholas Bidde, EVeTard p Miller,
| Louis Naglee Bruner, VIM. RhOaos Murphy,
| Herman Burgin, Robert Henry Nelson,
Hampton l.. Carson, Jr, VIM. Pepper Norris,
| Charles Carver, John Bingham Roberts,
| Vim. Gardner Freedley, James G. Shirley,
Charles Henry Howell, Frank Smyth,
Craig Heberton, Alban Spooner,
| George Il. Justice, Wm BiRer StOeVer,
John Jay Joyce Jr VIM. Wharton Thurston,
| Marcellus Karcher, ames Price Townsend,
| Newton Keim, BENJAMIN ii. Yarna
| Morris James Lewis, Herbert Welsh.
| Robert Steen Martin
The degree of Master of Arts was conferred
upon the following gentlemen, graduates OF
three years standing-
Henry Budd, Jr, IJohn Emore McCreary,
! William Levi Bull, Edward Stewart Miles,
Joseph Cresson Fraley, James Peacock Sims,
| David Hazel, William Moore Wharton
Edward Fenno Hoffman, Charles Ad0lph Max
| Gustavs Brown HorneT, Wiehle, Nj. D.,
| leighton Hoskins Alexander Wood,
| Ewing Jordan, M. d., James Purdon wright,
| William Robert McAdam William Russell Wright,
| Jr, Charles Frederick Zegler
The degree of Doctor of Medicine was con
ferred upon
Caspar Morris Cheston, William p. Read
Arthur Vincent Meigs, John w. Warren
The degree of Bachelor of Law was conferred
upon
Jonathan r. Luse, H. Albin L. Pyle,
Charles P. McHugh, Charles Swayne,