The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-08
FRIENDS LAST EVENT
Pres. A. C. Scott of Oklahoma
Delivers the Address.
TEN WERE GRADUATED
Closing Exercises of Lewis
Academy Very impressive.

The years work at the Friends uni
versfty was ended yesterday. This has
seen the second years work Of the uni
vel,sity and the attendance and the quail
ity OF, work done has exceeded the hopes
of everyone interested. Just twenty-three
months ago a number Of people came here
TO look over the building, grounds, apph-
ances, etc, with the expectation, if they
were satisfactory, of starting a Christian
university.
The faculty was selected and the school
was opened the same year with good
attendance for the first term, and it
would now be safe to say that no school
in Kansas in two years has made such
an enviable name for itself as has the uni
versity.
For week every day and evening has
been filed with something in connection
with the closing Of the year, but none
of the events have been more entertain
ing or more impressive than the closing
exercises Of yesterday. A. G. Scott, presi-
dent Of the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical school. located at Saltwater,
delivered the closing address. President
Scott is a pleasing speaker and his audi
ence was a very appreciative one. The
thoughts which he presented were filed
with solid things and were said in such
q manner that could not but have much
effect on his hearers.
The speaker began by a reference to
The Hague peace conference and the late
Ecumenica- Council as the TWO events Of
of recent years most encouraging to
the lover Of his race, and declared that
the thought at the bottom Of them-the
disintereSted effort to benefit men and TO
advance civilizations the greatest
thought in the world. He had nothing to
say against personal ambition and adj
vancement. Society may not hope much
from the man who has no aspirations for
himself But dominating all personal
ambition, Illuminating all personal am
bition, clarifying all personal ambition,
and finally transmitting all personal am
bition to higher and finer metal, hangs
and burns the star Of a loftier purpose
to throw ones weight at last in some
degree. great or small, but up to ones
limit, into the succor and uplifting of his
fellow men, and into the service Of his
own generation"
From this premise the speaker argued
that man must d~st TT himself for per-.
sonal achievement and success before he
can be effective IN the service of civiYZa-
ton. And he must first cultivate a sound
body. ANY religion that crucifies the
body is blasphemy. Any midnight ell
propogandist is an enemy of the race.
Any man who, short of memorable neces-
sity. drives his jsded body forth in the
grim hours that Turk before the dawn
sins deeply against his own life. 1t is
immoral and irreligious to distemper the
bcdy by vile eating, or to poison it by
foul breathing, or to stif1e or deforln it By
barbarian dressing or to tear and rend
Ii by dissiDations or TO wear il out or
break it down, or to shrivel, defile, or pol
lutte 1t IN any way. Some choice and
master spirits of this world, l know, have
fought their way to power through a
weak and puny frame-and how I do
honor them! The world, great virile beast,
may well uncover these pygmies, lwarfs.
hunchbacks, epileDtics, dyspeptics.
estimates. who have hobbled and Wheel
ed and groaned their way to the topmost
places among men-Pope. Nelson, Arts
totle. Charming. SUwarrow, Carlysle But
the rule is otherwise. The rule is that
the accomplishing, the effective men Of
the world, are the men Of strong frame,
and sound digestion, and steady nerve;
whose pulse doth temporarily keep time,
and who sleep OF nights"
And then TO find the work that nature
Intended Us to 90, this is next-to under
stand ones own strength It is so piti-
ful to see men struggling against their
own character and constitution for ears;
and when it comes to a lifelong conflict
the man against himself and everything
that bockons to him-then it Is tragedy
The choice Of ones vocation : =
right as inviolable as the choosing of
ones husband or ones wife. and = ri.,ht
10 be exercised as carefully. And it must
not be abridged by any artificial c7yircn-
ment, or by any false oonce.t Of staten.
orr say it reluctantiy-by any wish OF
parent If only a figure from the crowd
heckon you plainly and say. Com. with
me then count yourself bies sci among
nen and 90 whore you are hidden. In
every man, not wholly sodden. there lies
! think, some natural oent or aou.,:de
that should be sought or as the miner
seeks for the mother vein Dare 20 Do
that which You can do bes-. stand or
your owR feet. Follcw your own head.
Ny observation is that the cost!rst mis-
takes man makes are those wherein he
is persuaded cut OF following his own
judgment We are not in osril OF ovey-
confidence. We are far too humble. most
OF US. We believe the thoughts Of others
are SO much larger and wiser than our
own We bow 70 a voice. We knuck,e
10 an assertion We are subservlert 10
a mere look AID bearing OF authority.
And in the third place let our Young
man learn the Immense delight and the
:nexora6le necessity Of labor. What
miserable atom young man seems as h
stands face 20 face with his ife's prob
lem-the mountain Of il But put work
into the atom. and II VIII level the noun
tsin-ey pebbles, by snadefllls. by bo5-
LOADS, No wonder the language Of
every civilized people has crystal!zed into
a Droverb The tllImitable power % labor
i is The key that unloCks al mysteries
What & IN your life9 You 10 not Arcv-
You see little talent. a small facI.!tv.
certain acouirement. but your 1.o.--on
shuts down very closely. hoes Il note
Ca.l in work. he rltracIs-msker st t.'-a
4 heaviDg. pushing. strs -nirr. dfSSiss.
ana then naie how the rabbv tslent be-
gins e gather strength, how :hs POWER