Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-28
ADHIoE TO COLLEGIATEs.
Address of the Rev. John II. Howard,
ID. d., at st. Johns College,

Auuress OF tne rev. J0nu liz HOWARD
ID. d., at st. Johns College.
The Rev. John H. Howard, D. D.,
pastor of Asbury Church, addressed the
graduating class of St. John'a College,
Annapolis, Nd, yesterday week. He
said:
You are just now upon the threshold
Of your educational life, and not at its
completion, as some imagine when they
have graduated. Education is not the
number of facts learned at school, but
the proper development of all your
faculties, by which you make the most
of life that is to follow your school days
The process is that of evolution rather
than involution. College is simply the
training ground and system of dis
cipline to prepare one to grasp oppor-
tunities and make the most of life. II
is the beginning, rather than its glory
and crown.
you expect to succeed in life. The
conditions of achievement are more ex-
acting than ever before. What once
brought success will hardly to-day at
tract public attention. Circumstances in
other days, that have conspired to make
men conspicuous, will probably not
obtain in the case of any OF you. The
great meeting held in opposition to the
tyranny of George III that made Patrick
Henry so famous will never occur again.
There are men in the service of the
country as greatas Washington, Lincoln
or Grant, but it might require a revolu-
ton to demonstrate the fact--and who
wants the revolution There are many
| elements that enter into successful
I life htt tha N1ta1 I,nA 4
| your attention now is how to make the
most of the department you propose to
enter.
Are you to enter the learned profess
sions2 Let me advise you not to be
content with mediocrity. Be respect
able scavenger rather than quack in
medicines, successful rag-picker than
a swamp lawyer, and most anything
under the heavens than a third-rate
pedagogue. How is tho top to he
gaineds Not by mere goodness. Good
men are often failures. To succeed
have skill and make yourself indispen-
sible. A skilled workman is always in
demand. Be among the best in your
line and success is assured.
"If you enter the commercial world
don't entertain the delusion that be-
cause you are a college graduate you
can begin at the top. An intelligent man
who holds diplomas from reputable
college and university of world wide
reputation, who thinks his ability ought
to be recognized and an honorable posi-
ton offered him, is still waiting after 90
years of idleness, for something to
turn up His day and opportunity
| are conc and he is but a respectable
tramp with noble family history back
Of him. Seek opportunities and do the
duty nearest at hand, no matter how
small, and you will be prepared for the
pinnacle when it is reached. There are
too many men in all professions below
the average. The bottom is always
crowded.
"If you study medicines be sure to
know your profession well, for there
are no men so much in demand as skill.
ful physicians, and none so much to be
avoided as the average doctor. That
the schools are manufacturing NJ. DIS
by the thousands need be no discourage
ment, since the supply of tirst-rate
| physicians docs not half equal the de-
mand, but the world is suffering from
an over-production of pill-peddlers and
quacks. The production in this
commodity necessitates hard times with
the rank and file of medicine men.
| "Are you to be lawyer? Be versed
in the science of jurisprudence SO your
profession will be at your finger ends.
70 be successful counsel you must
not only know where the law is, but
what it is"