The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-04

Young Men Concerning the Battle of
Life-.Duty of the Educated Citizen.
Special to the News and Observer.
WAKE FOREST, N. O., Sept.
The session of Wake Forest College
opened August %, week earlier than
usual, and with brighter prospects than
for many years, both as to the quality
and number of udents in attendance.
There are nearly two hundred students
already registered and some fifty old
students and several more new ones are
still expected. They are all entering
better than usual.
The introductory address of the session
was delivered this evening at o'clock
by DR.. J L NJ Curry, the general agent
of the Peabody fund. The address was
given in Memorial Hall. The meeting
was opened with prayer by DR.. ". r.
Gwaltney; and, in the absence of DR..
Taylor, who is in Raleigh to attend the
funeral of Mrs. W. W. VaSs, DR.. Curry
was introduced by Prof. W L. Potoat.
The address was fine one and was
received with appreciation and applause
by the audience.
The fine body of students was supple
mented by nearly every resident on the
Hill and number of persons from the
country around
DR.. Curry began by congratulating
the students upon being in college of
established reputation for good scholar
ship, thorough mental discipline. nigh
standard of graduation and healthful
Christian atmosphere. The influence OF
the college is eleVating public opinion.
1t stimulates refinement rather than
conceit and coarseness. There is no
royal road to learning. What one &C
quires is to be done by hard work. Sir
Isaac Newton being asked as to his
methods in taking complicated problems,
replied in the simple manner, II keep it
before me- Education is developed in
due order and proportion to whatever is
good and desirable in human nature
Manhood in its manifold moral and in
tellectual possibilities is the initial truth
of Christian revelation. Every man is
appointed a minister and has race
to run, individual, inalienab,e and
untransferable, : and he fails of his
mission without thorough education.
Let me mention briefly few of the duties
which devolve upon an educated man.
There are the inaccuracies of our Ian
guage need not say to young gentle
men to shun vulgarity and o5scenity. /
am speaking Of habitual inaccuracy of
speech. The too common exaggeration
has bad effect on memory and on
logical thinking. The inutility of ordi
nary discussions is the result of failure
to agree on the proposition.
Reference was made to the debates
between Calhoun and Webster and to
DIR. Hooper, of the University, who was
distinguished for his purity and accuracy
of style. The young men Of the South
should do more in the way of author
ship, original investigation, and scien-
tific discovery. The speaker referred to
the theatre of Dionysius, in Syracuse,
which was excavated from the solid
rock; 80, 900 chairs of Photographic
marble with inscriptions and names
works. This was the cradle of the dra-
matte art of Greece All is now in ruins
but the masterpieces of the great dram
atists which delight the most critical au-
diences still survive. We stand on the
threshold of greater achievements in
utilizing the forces of nature. Reference
was made to what has been accomplished
by science in various departments, and
our government was commended for
what it has done for the improvement of
science.
The speaker said that all cannot be
statesmen, authors and inventors, but
all can be patriots and citizens, and each
man should seek to lift politics abo'
Tammanyism and Q1ayism. There is much
need of the study of the science of gov
eminent Few things are more needed
than wise and patriotic legislation In are
cent address, one of our greatest thinkers
said that the study of the science of leg
islation impressed two principal things
First the just limits of legislation, dis
tiuguishing subjects for legislative action
from those that shonld be left to courts
and high moral agencies of society; Sec
ondly the art of framing proper and eff
fectiye laws. The speaker denounced
the spills system" so prevalent in our
country, and the frequent and unpun-
ished violations of law. Mob law, as a
system Of human conduct, lacks two in
dispensable conditions, a supreme au-
thority prescribi gobligation and apara-
mount force exacting obedience.
WHATEVER We 10, NC Sdiu, uo'
mands high IDEAL Drum
mond, in his recent book, speaks
of man as the consummation of evolu-
ton and his highest duty is struggle
for the life of others. He closed his ad-
dress by reciting fayorite tale, the
moral of which is that we should be
drawn from the thought of self and work
for the benefit of our fellows.
DR.. Curry will return to Asheville by
the atlanta Special" to morrow morn
ing. He attended lecture in the bio
logical laboratory, and this afternoon
will 'do" the laboratories, library, liter
airy halls, &c. He made a commence.
ment address here some twenty or more
years age He says the place is so
changed he would not have recognized il.
A Test of Patience.