The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-29

not had time nor experience to measure
our capabilities. We would be so much
better able after while to judge. We are
always pleading 'manana-' HOW hard 1t
i. to choose from all these sealed caskets
| the one containing pure gold and the
miniature of success. Is it not a lucky
chance If the right one is selected? How
many must see only the deaths head and
receive the shadows kiss.
THE hurrying crowd win not wait
There is but one preemptory command.
| ''ForwardP' There are a perpIexing num-
Der Of roads and none parallel. All are
beset with unknown periIs. but none are
50 certain of destruction as an indecision
| which stands idly at the parting of the
ways.
''Of this you may be sure: That if you
| expect to attain the place you desire you
must fit yourself for 1t. The aristocracy
| of the brain is open to labor and merit
and nothing else No wealth will bride.
no name over-awe, no artif1ce deceive
the guardian Of those 81! sian gates. At
the partierres OF fthat silent Fauboug st.
German there is bur the brief question,
| Do you deserve TO enter?-Pass.
a mistaken aim a good ship beating
against adverse tides and counter cur
rents and head winds, that will rage until
| it goes down and continue with undated
fury above its sunken carcass. 1 have
known men trying to be lawyers, when
you couldn't pound a legal PROPOSITION
| into their heads with hammer Of Thor.
I have seen the experiment tried of max
|
of people who had failed at everything
else. There are lots of doctors who don't
| know whether health or disease is catch
ing.
"1disdirected energy can accomplish lit
tie or nothing No one can succeed unless
| heart and mind and soul are in the work.
Then even the meanest ability will do
something. AT any rate there comes the
| inward consciousness Of having placed
ones ability to the best possible use.
To get out of life the satisfaction Of hav-
ing done the best you can is about all
| there is in it. In the end it is your own
applause you most covet. The world
| often raises a counterfeit to the seats OF
the mighty and bows down and worships
| the braZen image of a sham. Think II
is Holmes who somewhere says what 1
wish to express, very prettily. He COM
| pares the human sould TO a stained glass
window-from without it is but d bit of
colored glass-within there are aureoled
shapes with TRANSPORTED wings.
Under our system of government a
| state and nation can raise no higher than
its source, which is the individual citizen.
| America will continue TO ge great in pro-
portion as her citizens make the best use
of their facilities. Where can we ex-
pect to find the enlightenment. courage and
| brains of a nation if not in its colleges
and schools? Where is the index of a
I national character, il not there? we
! must educate or we must perish was the
passionate appeal of 4 renowned states
man a century ago. 1t was true then 1t
will always be true. Now and then with
! the highest motives. the most careful
safeguards, the individual may fail. Some
| calamity may oveTtake, some disaster
| overwhelm But as long as there is a
fixed. determined resolve among the
| Young men and women Of the land TO Sc
cure the best educational facilities which
the schools afford, to develope their
higher selves to the limit of their capable
tiles. the nation is secure. Dreydon, l be
leve it is. who says that he has heard
of some virtuous persons who have ended
unfortunately, but never of any virtuous
nation For he explains that providence
is engaged too deeply when the cause
becomes so general
And so, today, you start each upon
your several journeys in the world When
the way gets hard and long you will look
back TO this institution as to the shade
of a rock in a WEARY land'-2;light as OF
| the Pharos in stormy sea- You are TO
become parts of this living, vital age You
! must face manfully and help decide the
question of the hour You are sentinels
of your country You must cry halt
even though it be only a shadow that
pass. and not bring your piece to rest
until yo uknow who goes there Greater
America. growing America. immeasurably
| expanding America is calling upon you
for your best service. In the light OF
duty be thou exalted. There is plenty
to do. Not in your time nor in mine viii
the Daenides drain the ocean Of knowl-
edge nor Sisyphus roll the stone to the
summit of the hill.
ooh. we love this young republic From
its dust we sprang and on IT'S bosom we
win sleep It's majesty has been empha-
! sized by the thunder of cannon and sane
tilted by the blood of heroes and martyrs.
II has shielded and protected Gods o.
pressed children who have gathered under
its wings from every quarter Of the
globe. II has a message for all the peo-
pies Of the earth. That message Is en-
blazoned on the banner 1t IS bearing on
! ward with a giants stride. It's nerves
are senstized with the acute intellectu7
aIitv Of the age and its face IS turned
toward the ever rising sun. II reposes a
! speciaI confidence and trust in the edu-
Gated youth Of the land. Stout Of heart
and strong Of purpose may they toll
on. toll ever. with firm and steadfast hope
unfolding the nations hands and in them
the light that shines afar. vouchsafing
the blessings Of Christian civilization unto
al mankind"
The class Of 1890 with its membership
OF twenty. is the largest number OF grad
yates turned out in any year not only
from the Edmond normal but from euf
OF the higher territorial institutions. n
spite OF the numerous disbursement
and obstacles President MurdauEh and
his faculty. ably seconded oy an efficient
board OF regents. have lsbored jealous
for the uubuilding OF the school with
| the result ef an increased enrolment O.
about no students over the enrolment 81
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