Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-18
COMM MENCEMENr TINE,
DOT, moUtuns oa opLLrur unrA MS
meeting OF the Uoard ot Trustees s-Uegrces
Cbnisrr at rhe Alumni Meoti rg-Cns
UUaerVatory Corner stone taIt,


CSnisrrNd- rhe Alumni Meuti hg-Cns
observatory Corner stone Lsii.
rde OpmmahJsmenJ season was faitly
ushcred ia hy the msntinS of tho board
OI trustees yesterday, at which the various
degrees were conferred. In the evening the
cDurt house was the Mecca to which all
steps were turned to hear Col. McClure's
address, To day tho society reunions,
the alumni meeting, the laying of tho COR
uor stOua Of tho Scholl observatory aul
the class day exercises wero held.
This evening the Junior oratorical CON
test will br held, to 10 followed by tho
cremation of tho analytical geometry.
TO morrow tho commencement exercises
proper will bo held In the college chapel.
Before ono OF the largest audiences that
could bo packed into tho court house
auditorium, Col. A. X. Mcclure, OF tho
Philadelphia Times, last evening dolivorcd
his address on " College Dreams" before
tho literary societies OF franklin and
Marshall college. The address was given
under the auspices Of tho DAguothiau
society, aud tho introduction of the orator
of the ovcuing was made by Mr. w. L.
uensel
Col. Mcclure, than whom perhaps tho
personality Of no man ia the state is better
known, began Ivy remarkiug that he would
discuss his subject in u somewhat original
manner IL ~ customary for mon who
have passed tho meridian stage of life to
speak disparaiugly Of college dreams
shall speak sympathCtically. You are
doing now what all meu in all conditions
OF lite from the cradlo to tho grave are
doing. Even your professors, sober and
st0id NJ they Inay seem, arc droamcrs
| themselves, aud will 50 remain until the
long trump comes,
II ~ a common aud erroneous idea
that there is u deep, impassiblc gulf
between the dreams Of youth aud age.
The only difference that exists between
the two is in tho direction in which they
tend All life worth living is simply a lifo
of dreams, rarely fulfilled, aud when
fulfilled, rarely satisfying. the ideal,
perfect dreamlySs man that you are
taught of IN your college days does not
exist. lie who dreams not, lives not.
Whether success or failure attend your
efforts, YOU will still dream bliss(ully,
TRANQUILITY, until tho end comes.
No uuif Botw,en Youth snd Age.
OF what do you dream Think not to
dismiss your dreaming when you eutcr
the broad theatre Cf actual life. Did you
ever consider how few men realize their
| dreams in tho legal profession In the
! Cuy Of Philadelphia there are 200 .aw-
yers, presumed to he in active practice. OF
! these 200. not ton make $50, 900 per
anuum from their profession. CT the re
maluder, not twenty live make $40, 600 a
! year. aud OF those of next highest rank
| not fifty make - OpO, Aud oi all the vast
! number remaining, do not believe one
half make 800 year from legitimate
| professional fees Ihis is stubborn,
tn ~ hI
| are standing on the threshold of life.
| II Is, nevertheless, strictly true. The
| same statistics will bo found measutably
| true III the medical aud cc;ical profes
| Sl0rs.
Dreams OF Political success
do not tell you these facts to dscour.
! age you At the Outstart of your career,
! but wish you to remember how few OF
! the many succeed. some of you may dream
| of political SUCCESS. There is no distinc
! ton that mau seems To COvet more than
that of success IN the political field. Let
me tell you, who knows something about
it,theto is no dream - disappointing, ever
when realized as that Of political sue
cess. Unless you wish to study practical
politics with all it's disagrcoablc features
ding away political ambition.
And yet the politics of to-day arc az
| pure as they ever were. 1t il all rubbish
| - say that thpro wns a timc when tLe
people made tho laws and not the bOsses
There always were and always will be
bosses, who will on every crucial test be
boascd by tho people. 1t is true we have
more scOundrels in public life t. day, but
they are hardly out Of proportion 10 our
vast incIeaso Of population. Though
politics is and will remain full Of fraud
and chioauery, there will never come a
period OF moral depression 80 deep as t.
resist the assertion 5y the people of the
supremacy of right,
! Dream Of political honorB, but romem
Der in doing 80, that your entrance into
political lifo means simply the performance
! of plain, public and private duty
| Have you ever considered how grave thost
duties are havo lived to 800 this repub
lie grow from 10000 900 to 10000, 900 o
people, and have seen 1t double itself II
the last quarter Of century. Before yol
shall take the places of the older genera
tion now living, 100, 900 Of free people
will look to you for the perpetuity of FREE
government in their midst. Forget no
that this country has written the graudes'
achievements OF man III the annals of re
corded history. To you and your children
will be entrusted this heritage of tn
grandest government ever raised by men
or blessed by heaven.
Teaching Philosophy by Example.