The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-06-04

which PRESIDENT Chas. T.. Taylor, ID.
d. of Wake Forest College had pre-
pared for the late Senior Glass, but
the approach Of a storm rendering
it necessary that the exercises be
made as brief as possible it was
omitted.
PRESIDENT TAYLoR's BACCALAUREArE Ap-
DRESS.
1oUNG GENTLEMEN The June
number Of The Forum, which has
just reached US, contains remark
able article from the pen Of Presi-
dent Thwing, cf Ohio. In order to
estimate the comparative chances of
eminent success in life of the men
who have graduated at college,
and Of those who have not, he has
taken the trouble to examine in de-
tail the six Volumes Of Appleton's
Cyclopedia of American Biography.
The results of his investigation
seem to me to be very remarkable.
One of the more than $4,000 men
who have been deemed worthy
Of mention in this collection, thirty
five per cent have been college,
men. His estimate attaining to
eminent distinction, are in proper
tion Of one to thousand The
chances Of the college man are one
in forty, or two hundred and fifty
times as great.
have ventured to call your at
tention to these results, not to fla.
ter you with hopes which may he
delusive, not to stimulate any am
bition which may be unworthy, an
least of all, to foster pride which
would surely be foolish and unholy,
but with the hope that, as you pom
der them, you may see how wide is
the pathway which opens before you
"a pathway of eminent usefulness
to your fellow men. This is not
empty sentiment, or the rhetoric o.
Commencement oratory. 1t is q safe
deduction from an exhaustive study
of the facts, cold and careful cal
culation, that the chances of th'
men who have really availed them
selves of the opportunities which
college offers are out Of all proper
ton to the chances of the men VIII
have not enjoyed these privileges
Your almer mater will have tn
right to expect that you will b
leaders in the world of useiu
, thought and useful action.
The results of the investigation
to which | have just alluded at frs
amazed nae. That in this compars
lively new country, the very pars
disc of the so-called, self-made maj
and wkich, for the first century {
h it's history, afforded few facilitie
: for college training, that thel
, should be such a large ratio of CO
q lege-bred men to others anon
n those who have obtained the reco:
milton OF mention in this great c,
clopedia, suggests at first though
that some mistske must have bee
mado either in the collection of tb
facts or in the inference from then
). And yet, when 1 remember wh:
9, liberal culture is, what it aims to
n and often accomplishes, surpri:
,, and incredulity begin to vanis'
9. What has the college sought to
for you? What has been the big
;: end for which during these bygo1
.r years professor and student ha'
lie labored together harmonious
lie happily, successfully in lectur
1t room and laboratory? The best a
RS oodnt that have ever seen of it
~ ~ given by Prof Huxley, III ore of
g "Lay Sermons" He says:
5e THAT man, l think, has had
le liberal education who has been
trained in youth that his body is Il
it ready servant Of his will and do
e with ease and pleasure all the wo
or that, as a mechanism, it is capah
az Of; whose intellect is q clear, CO
= = logic engine, with all it's parts
nd equal strength, and in smooth wor
lis ing order; ready like a steam g
he gine to be turned to any kind
Sc, work, and spin the gossamer as W.
US as forge the anchors of the min
is whose mind is stored with a kno1
nd edge Of the great and fundamer
De. truths Of nature, and of the laws
* her operations; ore who, no stunt
- - ascetic, is full of life and fire,
nt m whose passions are trained to CO
ife to heel by vigorous will, the 8
es. want of a tender conscience; who |
wo learned to love all beauty, whetl
for of nature or Of art, to hste all vi
of ness, to respect others as himse
ing This is high ideal. Alas, t
'es' the actual so often falls far short
80 , ii. Yet with such conception
m sm culture, of the culture that we g.
ave to give in our colleges, the won
is rather that even larger prop
of ton Of eminent and successful n
ige, are not college men. Many reas
might be suggested why this is
:. the case. Bat one of the most
use tent of the obstructive causes i
'"s imagine, that too many relax Il
application to study, and take