Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
CLASS OF SEVEN
GRADUATED TO-DAY FROM UNI
vERsITY OF MONTANA.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMME,
President Craig Addressed the Glass
A. b. Keith Spoke Upon
Thought Control"
Special to the Inter Mountain.

MlSSOula, June 6.-Ine programme LOT
the third annual commencement day ex-
e~rcises for the University Of Montana
was carried out today without a hitch be-
lore one of the largest crowds of the sea-
son and the graduating class OF seven IS
one that the university and faculty may
be Justly proud. The first number on the
programme was a very pretty selection
by the Nordica quartette. After the IN
vocation by Rev. SALESMAN, Mr.. A.. Is.
Keith was introduced and spoke LOT
about an hour on Thought Control.
Miss Hernden then followed with a vocal
solo, "Lazingara,'' by Donizetti, which
she sang very sweetly. President oscar
]. Craig then delivered a fitting ADDRESS
to the graduating class, and by the au.
thority vested in him at the meeting or
the state board of education at Helena
June 4th conferred the degrees as Ioi-
lows: Charles Earle Avery, Phi. B., Yer
trude Buckhouse, BS.; Caroline Hairlis-
ton Conkrite, BIS; Lulu Knowles, Bs., T..
Hugh Murray. A.. B.; Percy Smelly hen-
nick, PHI B.; Sidney Elery Walker. 3. ..
The Harmonics then SANG a cradle SONG
Very acceptably and We're roundly en-
tored, The Nordica quartette SANG
Baby Bunting beautifully and answer.
"a the encore with 'Old Folks at Home
in perfect harmony. The exercises closed
with benediction by Rev. Salesman.
Mr., Keith spoke in part as follows:
No greater event can happen in the
lifetime of a human being than Tue
dawning of the day in which he passes
from the field of speculative philosophs
into the logic of real life.
This time may come to the rustic
genius when home ties are broken anu
the sweet scenery of makes
way for the practical responsibilities OIL
the hour.
To the pampered son of luxury it may
come when the illusions of wealth dis
appear and the problems of s~elf-support
present themselves for solution.
To the student it comes when Com
mencement day ushers in the era of the
worlds activities, and the young lie
passes across the threshold of the school
room into a future as limitless as the
powers of mind.
L can imagine no conditions more aus
picious-no surroundings more pleasant
under which the student might pass
from the plane of preparation into the
wider world of re~alization-than those
which exist in your beautiful city today.
day.
Under a tutelage as thorough and COM
plete within its lines of work as the edu-
cational world affords-in an institution
recognized throughout Montana and the
west as peerless in the utilirarian meth
DDS of it's management and the high
character and ability of it's Instructors
within a city decorated with all the
charms which the air-handed goddess
vi Dcduly SdH NouClAShlC " l0A
who are awarded degrees today have
reason to feel truly thankful to the
guiding stars which scintillate in their
heaven of hope.
Their footsteps may tread far different
pathways from the school room to sue
cess, and their successes may be meas
ured from different st%andpoints, by those
who would run the life-lines in the sur
yeys of the world: but within the 1ati-
tude and longitude of every human SOU
there lies the latent elements of victory
wherever the wheels of destiny may rol
the fortunes of the man.
It is not to the incidental victories or
the battlefields of life to which 7 would
direct your attention today-victories
that are measured by the yardstick oil
fortune or the transient applause of the
World-but to the practical personal vic
tories of the selfhood-triumphs tina
stand for the highest and purest and
best uses for the intellectually of the
race.
I would divert the chariot of though
for a time from the highways of ambi
tfon, which are builded upon the tenn
porary and artificial allurements of life
into that field to which the real triumph!
of mentality belong.
If the wisdom of the sages and thu
philosophers and the Christian teacher!
of the world be true, it is the duty o
man to promote the happiness of hi
fellowman and himself through all thu
legitimate avenues which environment
may supply.
AS diversified in it's manifestations a
this aspiration may be, it embraces tn,
totality of human life on this earth, an.
into it's warp and wool are woven ever,
hope in the life to come.
Yet, after all has been gathered iron
the richest fields of both ancient an,
- modern times-after the pathways o
ambition have been trodden by aspirin,
cynnillC-oftaf o1nnn1 an1 or1npu orl ~,v,
shine and despair have made their con
tributions to the human HEARTH
golden motto of the Delphic temple still
sreets the eye of man--'KnoM myself.
Though learned in the lore of the ages
with a mind enriched by the brightes
gems that ever fell from the crown O
wisdom. he is not truly great who can
not discipline his intellect and analyz
his powers.
NJ greater truth ever fell from the lip
of inspiration than that "as a ma
thinketh, so is he
II In recognition of this idea-in whic
science and religion and philosophy, an
the practical experiences of mankind
are blended together like the summe
sunshine and the velvet of the moss ros
1T is deemed the better part of wisdor
to tempt the growing mind with prope
food. how much greater the duty t
teach the power of thought control.
The scholar of the present daysis a
encyclopedia of facts discovered by tn
original investigators of these or othe
times. and the knowledge he acquire
may be a feat of memory rather than
feat of thought.
While this course is consistent wit
the demands Which modern civilizatio
may make upon the time and energie
of the scholar, and is therefore not to b
disnaraged. it nevertheless is true tha
1t is followed at the expense of til
tharelt control to which every studer
Is by right entitled as he ripens into cor
tact with the activities of the world.