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and in this atmosphere [ know the
morals also havo boon carefully
watched and guarded, what promise
haVo you for usefulness in lfoY Very
great 1ou arc better equipped than
those who do not have college train
ing. There is no uso to deny that
knowledge is not great thing to
possess. knowledge is power.
knowledge Of thoright kind is money,
is wealth. But knowledge alone docs
not give happiness. knowledge
alone, however great, il not tho high
ost ambition that wo should follow.
Micro knowledge without common
sense is tho--oh, is pitiful exhib-
ton to havo man chock full, brim-
ming over with knowledge of books
and things that he has road and nc.
quirod, and who hasn't sonse enough
to got out Of Il shower Of rain. That
ls involved in this question Of montal
training, tho cultivation Of tho judg-
mont. donot know whether it can be
cultivated Cr not. J. believe that |
am almost right when L assert that
unless man lnhorits common sonsc,
he novcr has it and cannot acquire
it. do not want to give you any
tally (thoy say l sometimes deal III
it, but | will say this, that tho anccs-
tors Of most Of you, those phlegmatic
Dutcnmen who smoke their pipes and
drink their beor, have been noted rs
|
about ii, for thoir hard horse sonsc,
and L do not think that the people Of
Nowborry a i tho surrounding
country who arc their kindred arc
lacking in that essential to good
citizenship, progress, good govern
mcnt, patriotism. Tho Judgment
can DO strengthened, Just Il little
weakly child can bo taught to walk.
And the human mind can be strength
enod in its most essential feature Of
good Judgment, by timely admonl-
ton.
Advice is thing so plentiful, uni
vorH"lly possessed by everybody,
wise, or otherwise, and ready to be
otiorod at anytime, that l trust you
will bear with mo while l oIror a few
chunks of it, And ! an going to
talk to tho graduates principally,
They havo coasod their college life
and arc commencing tho other lifo.
Commencement this is called, and
why? College has just closed for
tho year. 1t seems to bo rather II
contradiction in terms unless you
tako it to mean only tho graduating
class. Oh, how their hoarts beat
and thrill whom they say, am
man. Lot me say TO you, young
man, you lo not know what is ahead
Of you. / sympathizo with you.
have b"n all along that road, and
looking back from my fifty three years
down tho vista Of struggle through
which | have passed, / say it from
tho bottom Of my heart, to those
youths who put off their childish
things and pnt on tho toga Of man.
hood and SO forth tomorrow,
you are to be pitiod. Those Of
us who hnvo tho harness of life
on us and who have fought and
reached tho point whore wo aro
tonight, will understand mo and
know that what 1 say is true. You,
young men, who arc just entering on
| your course with hearts flushed with
tho victory won in your collegiate
struggles, with your minds imbued
with high thoughts and noblo aspi,
rations, with the feeling that tho
world is mino, is mino oyster which
/ with sword or with pen will open,
SEQ down that limo struggling mass
who havo to buckle to and work,
work, work, if they are to accomplish
anything. They all work, and many
Of them without compensation abovo
q nsubsistcnce. And much Of it to result
in failure, much Of it to DO as Sodom
apples, turning to ashes on their lips,
bocanse again stastistics como in to
prove that Of tho human raco out Of
one hundred, ton succeed Ninety
struggle along through the miro Of
medocrity, somo Of them drop low
or into tho mire. But ton win tho
prizes which wo struggle for in this
little battle Of life, ninety fall by tho
waysido or only go through with
comparative failure.
But what arc tho prizes worth
living for7 What are the bobbles
which wo SGT up and die to got,
fighting like demons2 The one
which is the supreme prize, which
all men want is money, wealth and
in this day Of our country's history
wo witness condition in which
mammon worship is supreme. The
doctrine of old Huldibras, what is
tho worth Of anything but tho money
it will bring, is abroad IN tho land,
pulsating every hamlet, invading
our peaceful Southland here, invit-
ing us to repudiate the principles of
our ancestors as far back rs wo know
any thing about them.
But | am not going into politics. T