The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-28

ness This assembly and present Won this
diploma, TO with Is SET the seal of the
University of Deseret, and the names
Oh Its Chancellor and Professors this
Iwen y-Seventh day OF Nav. In In
year of our Lord. One Thousand Eight
hundred and Eighty-six. and of The
re- 5sepnoiic OF the United States, the One
Hundred aud Tenth.
Beriot's seventh concerto was then in
,mitably rendered by Mr.. Weihe, with
hr. Mcintyre at the piano.
The following eloquent address was
next delivered by
cHAScELLoE o. F. wHiTNEf.
The Hon Beard Of Regents. the Faeulty
and Students Of the UniTersity.
Ladies and Gcnflemen:-I confess that
/ appear before you in the role OF
speech-maker on this occasion with n
great deal OF reluctance. The task of
addressing an audience like this j. ne
so new and strange 10 me that l natur-
ally shrink from the undertaking
teal something like boat loosed IRON
its moOrings and left TO driit herryer
the winds and waves list to carry II.
But while the experience Of this ocra-
sion is entirely new to me, the subie,
upon which | suppose it is expected
L should ssy something - that of
! education-is one that Is near ana dear
TO my heart. Not because am prac
tical educator, or school TEACHER. for |
am not; nor because of the office which
your legislative representatives have
done me the honor 10 place upon me
But because i have a deep and abiding
interest in the great cause of human ad-
| vancementr and desire TO heirien1 any
/ all ~ "A huF fhnrr
| objects
Before. me and around me are some
of the educators of the present and the
future. Some whose hairs are siivered
with the frosts of coming age, who are
growing gray in the service TO which
they have devoted the best part of their
lives; Others. younger in years and rx-
perience, but active and efficient work
ers in the tuteiary harness; 10 THESE IT
would become me to say but little.
was n schoolboy under DR.. Park. as
were also several members of tue
present Board of Regents. ! prefer
70 address the burden of nv re-
marks TO another class-tboSe who are
pupils still, or teachers who have only
Just PASSED their novitiate, and are
standing on the threshold of their pro-
fessional careers.
1 IL say that great future IS opening
up before you, / say il not with
the tongue of fattery. but with
1.-THE solemn voice of friendship.
Whether YOU become great 10 CORES
pond with that future Is another
thing entirely, and, depends largely
upon the uses 10 which you put the
time allotted you and the talents with
which you are endowed. These may be
many or few. but they are 4 sacred
trust, stewardship. for which an ac-
count must some day be rendered TO
the Almighty Giver.~ 1t Is our duty TO
ourselves and society TO prepare for the
responsibilities which life imposes, and
. then discharge them faithfully and
fearlessly as fast as they come before
, rs. You who have attended TO the
first part of this reauirement-tha OF
preparztion-have done well. thus lar.
1t remains 10 be seen how you will per
form the rest.
As TO what constitutes greatness
opinions NAV differ. l shall content
myself with citing the definition given
by the greatest Teacher the world has
ever seen Him who ''spake as never
man spake.n before or since Said lie:
WhosoeTer will be great among you,
let him be your minister. and whose
ever will be chief among you, let him
be your servant" This, then, Is the
pathway 10 glory and success; 20 labor
for the welfare of others. Greater Is he
who serves than he who is served. and
this is peculiarly the teachers's mission
and opportunity.
l hope there 10 no one here-nor do /
believe there is. who imagines himself
or herself perfectly educated, and that
nothing remains 10 be acquired after
leaving school l remember hearing
child asked BY its teacher-tne first
one il ever had-Ehere il had learned
its letters, as il happened TO have mas
tered the alphabet at home. II never
did learn EN-, 4" the little one replied. II
always knowed EN-. IL being the child's
suppOsition that nothing could be
Ie0rlted out of school. / have found
that some older children are imbued
with the same idea. The mind of man can
never cease to learn. At school we only
sharpen and make keen the weapons
We are 10 use in the great warfare
awaiting Us.
=, But if il were possible, 1t any time,
for us 70 comprehend within the scope
OF cur marrow intellectually all human
learning, We need not supposr that
F! even then we should know it all" We
live in progressive age The present
eclipses in many things the past, hut IL
is destined itself 10 be oyer Swallowed
by the future. As We proceed. Alps
on Alps" will arise to greet US. and
the summit OF one attainment will only
prove the point look out TO heights still
unsurmounted. Much of the so-cailed
science OF to-day may be the recognized
folly of tomorrow. and precious truths
now unknown. despised, or covered
with the dust of neglect. will yet be
eagerly sought Ton and priced as be-
comes their worth. Eye hath not seen.
ear hath not heard nor hath itentered
into the heart of man to conceive" OF
the sublime possibilities locked up
within the treasure house of times to
come. The sun of education has
scarcely more than dswned. even
upon the wisest minds. The highest
hill tops are but tipped with the golden
splendors of its rising. VIDA; do we
jewellers In the valley know? The
Windows OF our minds should be ever