The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-24
YALE COMMENCEMENT WEEK
BAOCALAURE1II1S SERMON BY PRES.
 IDENT DWIGHT YESTERDAY.

School Anniversary-Address by Justice
 Henry B. Brown, L. l.. D., of Washing l ton.
 l Yale's commencement week has now 1 fairly begun. Alumni, friends of the
 university relatives and friends of the different graduation classes have al.
 ready arrived in large numbers and are ! constantly coming. The week promises
 to be one unusually lively, as the mum
 Der of visitors present will exceed that
 of any former year. The commence
 ment girl is here, too,> in all her glory and regards the seniors with a less distant gaze, now that he is to quit academic walls and mingle in the world of men and women, freed from the dis clpline of college rules. She will reign supreme at senior promenade concert in Alumni hall this evening.
 The baccaleaurate sermon delivered
 by President Dwight in Battell chapel yesterday morning was heard with pro- found attention by very large congre-
 gation, every available seat in the
 
 and Shelf. senior classes, clad In their
 caps and gowns, assembled at the Ly-
 ceum at 1915 o'clock, and marched in
 procession to the seats in the center of
 the chapel, which had been reserved for
 them
 When President Dwight spoke the
 words of farewell instruction and ad- vice to the seniors they arose and re- mained standing while he was speak ing After the service was over and President Dwight passed down the center aisle, the seniors made their farewell bow to the president
 An abstract of the sermon follows:
 THE BACCALEAURATE SERMON.
 President Dwight selected for his text, Ecclesiastes vii, 8. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning there of; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit"
 These words which have come down to us over the ages in the form of prov erbs carry in themselves a reference to two striking characteristics of our human thought and life If we take our place at the end of any period of years, which constitute marked and separate section of happy life, we al- ways find regretful look backward, a thought that the beginning was gold en season and the ending of a sorrowfu one. If on the other hand, we take our rlace at the starting point of any such period we see a different thought and feeling holding possession of the man. The mind turns largely to the future, thinks of some better element for the happiness of life which 1t is confident the futuhe will bring. We wish the time to go piece by piece until the last days and hours are reached then we change our feelings, and with regretful spirit send forth our unavail- ing wishes that the beginning might re- turn to us. have only need my young friends of the graduating classes, to call your thoughts to your own expes- fences here in the university life In order that may give a forceful illus tration of this change and contrast or feelings common to us all. To-day the end has come, and the wish of your hearts is that you could in your life follow your thoughts backward along the pleasant years. Life looks very rich behind you; you will know 1t again.
 The end of the coming years Is bet ter than the beginning. The growing man is more tomorrow than he Is to- day, and we, as growing men, from the early to the late years, belong in our hoblest life, to what is beyond the present experience. Everything with | n this sphere that the genuine man gains in the progress of life, makes life oett& for him. Life is not dark 1 hing, but bright thing It is morn ng moving towards a monday It may l nave disappontments in 1t, but it is not l tself disappointment. It may carry l llong with itself some deceptions and ! many sorrows, but 1t is not itself decep- 1 ion and sorrow. It is joy, pointing to { sreater joy, and truth pointing to great | r truth. This is in the outward sphere. | But life is not in the outward sphere: | t is in the man. Think not of the 'ast and it's pleasures, or it's goods, | ut rejoice in the opening of the uture. As you carefully examine your elves and see the working of all the i orces within you, you see how time-- s if with a divine intelligence-ha ! cen, in all the years, gently and with wisdom, and as rapidly and | s effectively as the possibilities al- owed, been bringing into your mind 1 nd character the changed sentiment; l he nobler impulse, the loftier purpose, he stronger power, the better things mich you find in yourselves to-day, l nd which make the end better than he beginning.
 Gentlemen, you are to live in your elves very much in all the coming ears, no matter how largely or how de- otedly you consecrate yourselves to 1 thers. As the years pass on the ques- on of what is the growth of yourselves i'll be more and more question of eepeSt moment to you.
 To be impatient is to forget the very aching of life itself To wish the ears to move faster than they do is to 1 lsh that the work which needs time light be less in your life. To desire le result before the movement of the ears has brought it in the natural way growth is to abandon the true idea
 our life and shut out from our vision le joy and beauty of the process by hich we grow It is even more than ( lis; it is to remove from our living 2 ong the years the energy of our ef- l Tt. The Influence of life for the good end
 to go forth from the individual and