Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-13
MIR HERBERT AT AUBURN His Words of Wisdom to the
 Graduating Class AND DISTINGUISHED MEN
Who Graced the Historic A. and M. Platform
 With Ther Presence.
THE SECRETARY WAS VERY FEuCHoUS
And 1Te Was Rewarded With Liberal App nlause-Dr. Broun's Address, Too, Was Full of the Meet of Expe-
 rience-Southern Eloquence.

Auburn. June 12-(Special) Herbert arrived at 7:45 D. m. Tuesday from Washington. He was met at the train by a committee from the faculty and entertained at Dr. Broun's
 He was escorted to Langdon hall at 10 a. m. today by the governor, faculty board of trustees and battalion. An lm- mense crowd of people were turned away Secretary Herbert and the governor were received with great enthusiasm They were introduced by Dr. Broun. On the stage were many distinguished men. pr. l. T. Tichenor, ex-president of the college; Dr. Hoge of Richmond, Va, Professor Bondurant of the University of Missls- sippi, State Examiner J. A. Reeves R. Il. Thatch of Birmingham, the board of trustees, president and faculty and oth- CTS.
 Several points of the secretary's speech were heartily applauded. His illusions to Grover Cleveland were well received. pr. Hoge, pr. Tichenor and others heartily congratulated him at the close Of ms speech.
 The following is the full text of the speech:
 Secretary Herbert's Speech.
 Young Gentlemen of the Graduating Class This is to you and your friends an occas sion of exceeding interest. In few hours you are to bid farewell to your alma mater and the professors who have so kindly aided and counSelled you here, and go out into the great world to begin for yourself a career. In nautical phrase each of you are henceforth cap tain of your own ship. At the moment when you assume this respon- sibility one who has already made a large part of the voyage that is before you and who has had his share of storm and sunshine is present to counsel you as a friend, and to tell you something about the rocks and shoals that lie in the great ocean of life. If can say anything that you will re- member and that will be of use to you asI you sail along life's stormy main, shall be content.
 In the first place, let me advise you 10 carry with you into the world and cherish in your heart of hearts the friendships you have made at college. Your days and nights of laborious search. after knowledge, and your sports and recrea- tions, on the college grounds, the gen. erous rivalry of your fellow students, the kindly aid and sympathy of your teachers-hae olim meminisse juvabit- all through life will they finger in your reeollections. Time and again will the memory of the days spent and the tasks accomplished within these walls inspire and prompt you to grapple with the problems that beset you, and many will be the occasion when the friends of your college days will rejoice to lend you a helping hand. Youth is peculiarly the season of warm and abid- ing friendships. I remember to have heard q college-bred man say that, after some years of experience, it was his opinion that the meanest man he ever knew at college was the best man he had ever met in the outside world. Gentle men, this fellow was dyspeptic; he had not taken kindly to the world, nor the world to him. Do not, I beg of you, fall into a mistake of that kind. The friend- ships of youth are indeed much like first love between man and woman, and you know Byron said: First and passionate love stands like Adams recollection If his fall" Some of you. pernaps, are able already to echo the sentiments of Lord Byron, but if you have been unfortunate In a love affair, If there be some pretty girl to whom you already look back as Adam did to the garden of Eden after he had been banished from it forever, let me stop here to bid you take heart again Take my word for it, that first love, though it is quite as beautiful as the poet describes it, is not the only love you may look for if you are lucky. And so it is with friendships. Beautiful as are the friendships ar youth you will make other friends, as you journey through life, quite as true, quite as de- voted, as those as you will part from to- morrow-that is to say, if you show yourself to be entitled to them. The classic advice of the old Roman to him who would be an orator, that he could not expect to make other people weep unless he was himself first ready to weep holds entirely good here. If you go forth into the world to live all for yourself you will never make and you loo friend. Indeed. will go further and say that you will lose the friend ship of him who loved you at college. He will discover that he was mistaken in his man. Let me add, though it is a somewhat sordid view to take of the question, that have seldom known a single act of generous and self-sacrifoing friendship that was not. somehow and in some way and by somebody, repaid in ten-fold measure All the world loves and is willing to help the man who Is willing to help others.
 But. young gentlemen, beautiful and helpful as friendship is, you cannot in this world rely for your success on the help of friends; you must count on your selves. Conditions have been rapidly changing in our country during the whole of the century that is now draw ing to it's close. A hundred years ago most of the vast domain now occupied by our states and territories was unde- veloped virgin forests, rlcn pralrleS coV- cred with flowers untrodden save by the Indian and his game. mountains of un- told wealth-these invited energy and nuapierprise. Never did there open up be-
 portion of mankind such op-
 as our fathers enjoyed and
 he history of the world did
 such results as have been
 in these hundred years.
 forth into the wilderness
 ,and ax and hymn book
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 nHarching eYerywhere'
 lha led