The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-06

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suan init so Tar on il seems we have not be-
kun 20 Climb; our foolish pride goes. I
aeau MIN who has not like advantages. the
da sa slugeiing against odds, who in the
spsns OF ignorance, rudeness and wretch
- nc a.: ~ may De, Is longing and striving
nigner, better. nobler. trusr-reach him:
l s,s. 20 nim, making fight in the face of
a:au!Icuiues, there are two spurs: one oppo-
s,eion, developing strength: the other a
cnsefing word from those who In nobleness
neaI. 90, by their sympathy, make the
n n WITH him. OF the first he will always
h;. enough: alas, 1t you withhold from
IIEtner reaching in its consequences than
nat OF disregard for the dictates and de-
mahus OF humanity. Then make him feel
.ue possibilities within him, and help him
20 develop those possibilities.
mere are ways to that above and beyond
Sn . Eauniai s-gfving from q sense of duty,
ou.lnsuiting the dignity of human nature
age, hurting alike the helper and the
ns.ped. These will suggest themselves in
4Osolence to will. A striking case, lately
Drought TO our notice by the newspapers,
: mat OF the college settlement la New
IorK, where few heroic women. with
brave hearts aud purpose. carry OF sue
h essluaiy 2 plan Tor helping Others in real
scarcely help thinking that Brook Farms
uay iaii, put Rivington settlements must
persist. You will remember that here a
rev years ago, We were told by the Scotch
scnoiar visiting US, o. q similar plan in op-
eration among university men in his coun-
s,y. Inc same thing You will find, too.
something of the kind here in a modest
way. What an advance since the days of
horace Greeley. if men are TO be saved by
the college graduate and not from himi
!nere Is no intention OF making mission
aries OF you except in the larger sense in
Wnicn every man is q missionary, but
prominent IN our college conference this
year has been this thought: what the
world needs is what Margaret Fuller calls
the spiritual man of the world" Now we
90 not think the work scaudalous, skep-
Hcat or epicurian. nor do we believe nothing
remains but hunger and cant; still il is IN
some respects queer world. for with it you
are at once 1.-THE fast set'' and the expected
leaders OF great moral movement. How
ever. you must fill the bill. There is abuli-
dant need for giving the world the assur-
ance which Goethe gave Carlyle: 1T is
sun possible that man be man" Indeed,
from ore act here. small in and of itself,
the world expects, nay, demands of US,
that assurance
When conscious OF possible taunt of
a
against professionalism in college athletics;
We put ourselves on record. virtually saw
ing that the winning or losing of game,
match, or race, is a small matter but the
means OF gain or loss is a far different
thing; the principles underlying sports, as
those governing conduct, reconcile means
with ends only when both are honorable.
Inc protest, though ilLreceived. was never
tneless right, and will, believe, lead to
fairer and better athletics; at any rate,
having taken high ground, we have no re-
treat which is not disgraceiul.
Looking from our college world to the
great world outside university gate, we
cannot fail to see great moral movement
going on; it leads . Russian count from
the court to . bench with the cobblers: it
dismisses in Germany imam of iron will -
and teaches him that the revolutionary
minorities which he feared must not stand
in the way OF the greatest good to the
greatest number, and of right and fair play
for all; it acts on the brain of an unpreten-
tious man. and sets agoing the thought of
the whole country. You may not agree
with Tolstoii in some of his theories-though
take him for all in all, be is one of the
grand examples of our time for from the
day on which the first rude savage freely
gave his life for the advancement of his
tribe, down to the day of John Brown of
O-sawatomie at Harper's Ferry, men have
seen that the noblest thing on earth, that
which most surely touches the heart, is vica-
rious suffering. human seif-sacrifice. You
may question the outcome of the efforts of
William OF Germany and of the Berlin con-
ference; you may find fault with the meth
DDS of the Nationalist; but you cannot denv
that the purpose of all OF these is not only
to help men TO comfortab living, but TO
add to their Intellectual and moral well
fare.
Til. ycovarcarf not x,ot 5or.I1s e..
widespread enthusiasm for humanity. waits
linen of thought and men OF action TO clear
the way," and looks with anxious eyes on
you. Believing with Emerson that the test
of civilization is not In the census, nor in
the size of cities, nor in the crops, but in
the kind OF a man the country turns out,
see to il that our civilization stands the
test by taking the Calibans of our soil and
making Prosperos of them. by making the
peasant brain-wise. Intelligence is vlr-
tues own handmade, labor's heIpmeet:
if the one have not her aid nor
the other her companionship. vice
and misery result. You have in
that truth the strangest argument for de-
veloping and stimulating the intellectual
faculties of every human being. Here in
America. where the humolest man counts
one. and where however much some may
look down. their neighbor will not be found
looking up, it is especially imperative that
every man be thinker.
Classmates of go. looking over the num-
Der here, find we touch by actual resi-
dence extreme points east and west, north
and south. in our country. We cannot 60
away rightly impressed with the deepest
meanings of this place without feeling i'm
PEELED to add somewhat TO its greatness.
TO do that, what you and / must make &C.
count OF is, not success, but that which
deserves it-endeavor. 1.-The measure of q
nations true success" says Mr.. Lowell,
sis the amount it has contributed to the
thought, the moral energy, the spiritual
hope and consolation of mankind" So.
then, it must be our endeayor TO open to
every man, woman and child in this land
every door leading to intelligence and
virtue. The time has come when honor
able men disdain to be guilty of accus-
ing their fellows OF ignorance and vice.
while they either deliberately dam up the
ssiniets TO the influences which make for
refinement OF mind and body" or else in
their indifference turn not a hand 10 give
free passage to them. The case before Us
REQUIRES not so much words. as work with
might and main. Let each OF US do his
duty, and in that find our relation to the
world about us: there. see where we may
help. So, and only so, we're those $50 years
ours, and we in our turn theirs.
A storm OF congrstulatory hand-clapping,
such as no other speaker OF the day re-
ceiyed. marked the conclusion of Mr.. Nor
CANS Grafton.
Following him came the poet, Waldron
K. Post; the Ivy orator, Kellogg Fair
hank. and Herbert Bates, who composed
the class ode. Then the congregation of
ceIebrants dispersed to the different
..spreads. :" receptions, dances and enter
students had lavishly prepared for the day.
Ths acassiz the Reck Hall and the Hasty