Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-24

avail you nothing unless 1t be supported by
the inspiration of high resolve.
Preserve Self-Rcspect.
1t was DIR. Walker, in one Of his great
baccalaurcate sermons years ago, who said,
IF we have to live on bread and water we
can live on bread and water, but We must
keep our self-respect." 1t is your duty to
do your utmost to realize the fullest posi-
bilities. The foremost man In industry. In
telligence and integrity. must In the long
run be the highest man. Ignorance, i'm
morality and Incidence have no right to
rise; they can lay the foundation for no
permanent success.
Education gives a people hope and in
SEPARATION; it makes all forms OF employ
ment more honorable. more productive ana
more remunerative. To say that IT Is a
wasted investment to educate men FOR the
ordinary occupations of life is an argument
as dangerous as it is fallacious. 1t has been
aptly called Bourbon theory OF anotner
age and another form of gov eminent. Inc
only basis for our civilization and our de-
mocracy is universal education. 1t must be
an education that will discipline the heart
well as the head. Culture style ana
form are excellent things, but they cannot
exist in very high degree unless there be
an ardent soul. a great human purpose and.
above all. character behind them.
Greater Than Talent.
All of your attachments will be as moth
ing if you be not men and women of char
acter Character says Emerson. lis ma
ture in it's highest FORM Talent is great
thing, but that inexpicable influence, that
power that makes talent trusted, that in
definabIe something in ourselves called
character. is greater still than talent.
The world has ever been full of material
gotten together by small men, but 1t Is only
a dead mass until the strong men of char
&C ter turn it into force. And so 1t is In the
world of letters Tradition that almost
is sometimes aroused from Its
dreamy state by man whose scope OF
imagination Is great, and the world gets a
book that is not merely a book. but a
power. You must expect to find the world
severe, sometimes brutal, in its anxiety to
probe your weaknesses.
Flushed with the triumphs of classroom
vic tories, with innocent purpose and un-
heart, you will frequently rake
mistakes. But do not let these mistakes
discourage you.
1t is only the man Of discretion and long
experience who puts his ear to the ground
to hear the march of public opinion, and to
learn the way it is going. The men of the
world who have not enjoyed the advan-
tages of the schools are often hypercritical
trained in them. 1 may say, too, that the
men of the school have not always done
justice to the merits of those not in their
charmed circle
Long Problem.
1t has long been problem how the world
and the school could be more closely
brought together-how the transition from
days Of equipment and learning into those
of action should be made TO the best adj
vantage. Happily now this question is
finding its solution in The New Educa
ton" as exemplified by our systems of
specialization in all the great schools of
the country, from the university down
through the high. technical. art and man
Jal training schools For centuries the
school with all its joys, all its hopes, and
real Efc with all its hardships and disap-
pointments nave stood so far apart that
the passing from one to the other was no
easy and no agreeable task.
The day has at last dawned when the
great wave of reform is sweeping away
the plans and methods of medieval educa-
ton. The great receptacle in which the old
ideas fell in hopeless confusion is casting
up its fragments, and interchangeable man is
so refitting them that in spite of conten-
tons. bubbles, the great schools are be-
ginning to fit one to cope with as many
exigencies of the day as possible, and al
the same time TO make him a man of cul-
ture, man of self-reliance, and more than
all man with sufficient strength of char
acter to think and act for himself.
In the olden times the school took I'D it's
abode in the cloud land of unreaiities and
distractions. But your school, the school
OF today. has some connection with this
land of flesh and blood. 1t breathes into
abstract pursuits a living soul that
arouses some enthusiasm in the student
for the actual work of life, and it rains
the worlds great captains. For 1t is on:y
now and then that genius of mastery
energy, without the aid of the school
swlft-footed, outstrips his leaden-. c.ed
competitor Such. then, is the school that
mas sent you out into the world. The eff
fectlveness of its methods must find its
vindlcation in you and in your work
Quit You Like Men.
Your duty is to make the world a little
better If you can, for those who are to
ioiow you than you yourselves shall find
IT, To do this, that great personal quality
called character must be your most ef
fective instrument. No other influence can
ne SC great as this in making the really
successful person. For If all the instity-
IONS OF learning were closed, still men
would know man.
We keep the sacred life God gave,
The true man never dies"
The doctor must he learned in medicine
,ne minister in theology, the teacher must
Know the best methods OF instruction and
the lawyer must be yersed in the law, but
nrst OF all they must be men.
1t is said that the negro race surpasses
All other people in religious fervor. Re-
hGion is its most striking important and
formative characteristic trust il NAV
ever continue to be a most effective and
important element in accomplishing our
complete elevation. woull not abriis,,
inc ardor of the negroes religious nature
but 1 would better ii by educating the
negro. and teaching him that the oasis of
Christianity Is character and tina. char
acter manfests itself in dress, in manners
and in morals
Duty to the Race.
Learn early 10 appreciate your duty to
your race and the great responsibility rest
ing on your shoulders to assist in freeing
IL from the calumnies and ISLANDERS of its
enemies. The hope of our people Is center
ed In you. You must not disappoint their
expectations / know of only one way by
which you can help yourselves and help
yoar race. and that Is to study without
ceasing. and let your moral keep pace with
your mental develnpmen..
Mr.. Terrelps remarks were loudly ap-
piauded, and after the band had rendered
Roseys march, THE Brooklyn Handicap"
MT GrlmHe pronounced che benediction
tEe audience dispensing to the strains of
Ellenberg's galop. "A Sleigh Ride"
The list Of graduates has already appear
ed in The Star.
Uses and Value of Pins.
An original essay upon ''Pins" and brim-
ful of clever points and suggestions, was
read by Secretary II. F.. Smith, before Min