The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-01


edge and power given the student IS
made safe.
There are two great evil tendencies in
American colleges. The first | will call
the fallacy of the shortcut. The stu
dent fears he is losing all the chances
in life; that he ought to be out in active
work. and so he rushes through, takes
all sorts of shortcuts and subterfuges
and rushes out half prepared and finds
failure where he expected success. The
world is patient. 1t will wait for you.
Great opportunities are thick along the
way. The trained man wins. If | had
only ten years to live | would spend
nine years getting ready. A mans pow
or in this world, after all, depends upon
his reserve force.
The second fallacy is the self-made
man. In every case where such a man
has succeeded you will find that he was
a man of extraordinary talents and force
of character He has succeeded in spite
of lack of training and education, not be-
cause of it. The schools never made a
man or the lack of schools unmade a
n man. Every man in this world who
has been made at all is a self-made man
in the best sense of that term-men who
have made the most of their opportuni-
ties.
You will notice the change in recent
years of the attitude of the business
world toward college men. The business
world has long been dominated by col
lege-bred men. They are the men and
women upon whom the destiny and fate
of this nation and the world depend.
They are the leaders. The leading ac-
tiyities of American life to-day depend
upon them.
Addressing the graduates DR. Butler
said: You hear a great deal about a
high mission. BE true to yourself. 1t is
YOU and such as you that must guard
and protect this nation; that must bring
your training TO bear in the great crises
of the world.
Let me remind you in closing that the
ideals you entertain are TO shape the
ideals of others and are to go into the
makeup of the factors that are
10 control American life If these
ideals are true there will be a
richer life and better citizen
ship. We are strengthening our defences
and preparing for the future not so
much by buying ships and building forts
training the youth of the land.
Gen. T. J. Morgan then awarded di-
plomas to the graduates Q0'in medicine,
1 in pharmacy and ? in law as follows:
Graduates in Med;cine-P. Francis
Ghee, Virginia; j. Henry Goodwin,
South Carolina; w. Henry Graves,
North Carolina: IL. Bradsher Hodge,
Florida; Samuel Howard, Virginia: J.
Anderson Lightner, South Carolina; J..
Russell Mask, North Carolina;A Sid
ney Mcmillan, North Carolina G. Nell
son Marshall, Virginia; G. Chester Whit
ley. North Carolina.
Graduate in Pharmacy. Henry
Mccullough, South Carolina.
Graduates i'll Lava. Wendall Scott,
North Carolina; w. Thomas Pollard,
Virginia.
| charge YOU three things, said Gen.
Morgan: ID That you be students.
You have only commenced learning here
just learned how to learn. To succeed
you must be a student. You must study
books, study men. study your exper-
fences. (2l Be greater than your pro-
fession. Don't let your profession mar
row you be broader than that. Have a
daily newspaper by your side and read It
that you may keep in touch with the
world with every phase of life. C3l Be
servants serve the God above you and
the men and women with whom you
come in contact. Make the world hap
pier and better for Your being in it. He
that is greatest among you will be he
who most and best serves the world.
Then lastly wherever you go plead
with young men to save their money
and seek to do something for them
selves. Tell them of your alma mater.
fire their ambitions. Pay your debt to
this institution by helping some one else
as this institution has helped you.
The presentation Of prizes and parting
address to graduates was made by the
president of the university. The prizes
were awarded as follows: Mckee prize,
Mr.. Whitley; Knox prize, Mr.. Whitley;
Goodwin prize, Mr.. Graves; X. 2. Bat
tie prize, Mr.. Caldwell; Lewis prize, Mr.
Whitley; Miller prize. Mr.. Kenny.
President Meserye began his parting
address with brief review of the year
Shaw University, he said, exists
through virtue of a charter granted by
the State of North Carolina to "Elijah
Shaw, of the State of Massachusetts.
and certain other charitably disposed
persons" The State has q right to know,
through the medium of occasions like
this and the public press, how the pow
ers granted are being administered.
The enrolment in the medical depart
ment is the largest since its establish
ment in 1882. There never has been a
larger graduating class than the one
that to-day bids IFS alma mater fare
well. though the classes of '93 and '96
numbered exactly the same. The posi-
tion Of our medical department is unique.
1t exists not merely for the benefit OF
the students, but of the community, and
50 quietly and unostentatiously have it's
services been rendered that a report of
the sessions work will be, to the larger
part of this audience, in the nature of
a surprise. Ninety patients have re-
ceived medical attention in the city, $50
at the medical school itself, and 40 in
the dispensary. Thirty-six patients have
been admitted to the hospital during the
year and the average attendance has
been II. In some instances the patients
have been cured, in others the summons
Of the dreaded messenger have been de-
ferred, and in still others the end has
been made easier and more peaceful.
With the exception of less than $50 re-