The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

one in all respects, and the forty-four
graduates took the step over the
threshold between the school room and
the work-a-day world amid surround
ings of beauty and good will and I'M
der circumstances which ought GER
tainly to betoken nothing short of a
happy and prosperous future in the
world of men and women.
That the nearly half a hundred who
have gone out Into the world have
gone from among friends was attested
by the large audience which assem-
bled to witness the last scholastic
rites and to see them receive from the
head of the states highest institution
of learning that which entities them to
recognition among educated people.
The body of the theatre. was filled to
its fullest capacity as was also the first
balcony, with friends and relatives.
The theatre was handsomely decorated
though modest1y, with a great variety
of plants and flowers, which were set
about the stage with excellent taste
and over each of the proscenium boxes
was draped a large American flag. At
the rear of the stage, two flags par
TALLY drawn, revealed huge bank OF
ut flowers arranged in bouquets which.
after the ceremonies. were presented
to the ex-students.
Promptly at 1880 the theatre orches-
ira began playing a march and the
graduates filed onto the stage and &C.
cupied seats at the left. while the re
gents of the university, the faculty and
q, number Of the alumni occupied seats
on the right. Those of the regents who
were present were Mrs. McVicker, John
j. DAILY and Waldemar Van Cott. The
faculty was represented by President
James h. Talmage, who presided during
the exercises: Vice-President Joseph F
Kfngsbury, Professors Toronto. Stew
art, Marshall, Mathews. Whitley. Allen
and Cummings, and instructors Misses
Brotherhood and KEGS and Messrs
Reynolds, Bradford and Hadley
County superintendent Oscar Van Colt
also occupied a seat with the instruct
ors. Governor Wells and Hon. George
u. cannon were seated on the right
with the regents.
me exercises were opened by George
.. Cannon. who offered the invocation.
"a PHASE OF woMAN's EDUcA-
TON"
Following the invocation. President
Talmage announced the essay of the
day, and in response, Miss Leah Dun
ford, who had been chosen to deliver
1t, received warm greeting as she
took her stand by the Speakers table.
Miss Dunford's effort was all that
might have been expected of an ex-
ceedingly accomplished young woman
and showed that in addition to her
other requirements, she had learned
to think and investigate for herself.
She was very self-possessad and dis
played a most pleasing manner of de-
livery, as she said:
While most children of today can
learn many things of which the wisast
were ignorant fifty years ago, but com
paratively few find it possible to reach
the college or university The less for
tunate must perform the duties of life
while the favored ones climb higher to
see farther and tell those still in the
shadow what is beyond. The acts and
lives of the privileged minority should
be illuminated by such wisdom. not
for themselves alone, but for all.
THE purpose of an education is to
make possible truer, nobler and hap
pier lives. Wisdom gives content and
knowledge affords, with wisdom, happi-
ness and power. An education should
make man wise, just and good. 1t
should prepare a woman equally as
we'll for her life's work. then can be
unified the work which is done in the
world. Always have men and women
divided this work. man has taken his
part and given to woman hers
What is woman's vocation in this
great drama of existence? Her first
duty is to herself, to make her own
life full and complete. She must under
stand herself. live with herself, but
not for herself, making each moment
as it passes happy instead of closing
her eyes at night with the thought.
I am not happy Happiness is duGy
and if life is made what it should be.
every duty performed will insure hap
piness. This is the first lesson to be
learned in the inner spiritual educa-
ton.
THE woman of today is not quite
satisfied with her life-she has a vague
feeling that there is more behind what
she realizes, and this more is what she
wishes to obtain. But there is a reason.
for this. For many years she was de-
MED an education. She was looked
upon as one of those beings whose
brains were in their hands and their
feet. but fit to dress, to dance, to
scou:
" No one questions the Judgment. the
intellectual capacity of woman says
Emerson, but we do question the wis
dom of their choice of mems occupa-
TONS The trouble is she cannot be
a man, and she has not learned how
to be a true woman. The women we
admire and love most are not the law
yers, doctors. or the defenders of We
mans rights, but the Cornelias. the
Gertrudes, who gather their children
about their knees and teach them the
wisdom of life. The girls highest pro-
fession in life is chosen for her She
is the born educator of the race. but
there should be a special training for
this important position.
Many a beautiful girl has been al
lowed to grow up in idle ease while
no true lessons of life and it's response
bilities have been instilled into her
heart, and because of this neglect and
selfish indulgence. she grows to wo-
manhood carrying in her vain heart
ideas which embitter all pleasure, and
yet she is not entirely to blame, but
more so is the training she has re-
ceived at home. The curse of the home
today is the lack of sympathy and a
knowledge of the dispositions of those
who form a part of the home circle
Only that it were cruel to say so, are
not many parents of today but little
above the animal creation? They fol-
low brute instinct in providing food
and shelter for their offspring. but for
get the spiritual training of the child
The great weight of the sin of the
world rests primarily ON the criminal
absence of home culture.
1.-THE woman of today. not that man
woman, asks the privilege of remedy
! ing this evil but she must have that
kind of an education that will enable
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