Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-14
teaching were challenged.

. Again, the CclleRlate fnercahtihSh ""
the present time comes to the surface
when we see institutions Of learning,
Of glorious lineage and Godlike history,
getting clear down on their literarX
bellies and passing up to some politi'
cal montebank or Industrial highway
man of the province, who has piled his
vocation with success, degree which
should be passport of honor and an
evidence of learning,-in the hope that
he may become the patron and the coli
lege his cringing client. He may in
deed be so ignorant that IL the mystic
letters signifying the glory thus thrust
upon him were expanded to their full
form, he would not know them if he
met them In the road. He may have
come to his wealth or his position dis
h6norpbly. Material success is made
the test of merit. while unobtrusive
but impecunious scholarship remains
In dim eclipse.
And SO this invitation Of the modern
college is to dare the doom of Long
fellows legend, and to run down the
Iate Wnlcl DeIeli
"rEe clerk, tie scholar whom the
love Of peis
Tempts from his books and from his
noblef self.S
1t is but simple truth to say that
manhood add NOT mammon was the
quest of the college Of my time.
1t will be asked, "autd ergoW ~
will be said. what relevancy has all
this to the feeble band of survivors Of
the 1S men, who thirty years ago
Western Reserve College, clothed in
the mailed garb Of her discipline, and
with her choicest benediction resting
upon U.S. to do, to dare and to bear
upon the then opening field of manly
adventure. We have returned, not in
deed on our chiseled shields, and,
fear, not with them to any great exs
tent. But my talk has, 1 hope, this
significance-no MORE: IL the class of
1872 has not won greatness, Or even
notoriety, 1t may still claim some Of
the humber and negative virtues. 1t
has stood, and it's remnants yet stand,
as in some sort the offspring and ex-
ponent of the small college, owing
whatever it may have done in the
world to the self-respecting effotts Of
its members, and to the inestipabie ad-
vantage of havins scholarship
moulded and chastened and quicken
ed by daily contact with those men
who in our time kept alive its sacred
fires, each of whom-without dispar-
agement to anyways the .'Integer
vitae" Of the ancient verse. in sense
infinitely higher and grander that 1t
ever entered into the heart of Horace
to conceive.
We come back tonight,-as near as
we can to the old time and the old
place, bringing with us 10 wealth of
fame or fortune, with no great OF
notorious names, answering to no re-
sounding titles. bearing with us nc
sheaves of noisy glory. We are moi
even possessed of what John Ran
dolph called "the talent for turbu
lence." ,i
We point, instead, to a quiet record
of the nearest duty each day done, o.
labor honestly performed In the sey
efal fields wherein we have been call
ed to Strive.
We have trled to be lsyal to the per
petual injunction of our cherlshinl
mother to bh MEN, and for which W
: aye here toaght tS bear witness to on
= abiding reverence ana gratitude to hs1
, Loyal to her example; testifying 4!
undohbted allegiance to her teaSt
i ipgs; counting them even aboSs .HG
: present material and scholastic pfoi
+ perity--in which we also rsjoice--w
!. bring to her in her new and large
e home the laureled wreath Of our filis
v affection, trusting that, Renewed b
succeeding geherations Of scholars an
}. men, as they shall attain their iiteifaair
maJ JorifS and take Shr places On II
.delp Of human epdeavof, 1t paHflik
: tic faHled andrahth. he 5athed Ii Il
Q fadeless green of Immortality.
al Nelson's battle signal at Irafalgs
= was written on the standard whicl
e in our academic days, thH Waste4
e Reserve College kept Steadily befGi
l. Us.
d This followed, and consequence.
'e were to be to US as our shadows on Il
j. wall. This obeyed, and fame and TO
i. tune, tile applause of listening se
a. ates," deeds called heroic and pervet
is ated by shaft or lsbored dApe
se statues Wrought by the canni4G ohis
It Of the sculptor int the csanqe.t
IS brsathing iife-aii were 10 Se w
II matters Of wise indifference.
A. It becomes pst me to shy bBkxR,
d. this preselt has been oBssIsea 4Ss
ID Of US whc nave go&e doWR ep shs.AS
II. Of iifss battle. have fallen ID Nz Bs
lie ness Of. duty. The Scared syESlxS
~ are, tf9st mindful Of tkeiIs 3SRh
1T end, wM 0ldEsdsAr rapX NMI|fs n
e. taithfvt p y anfii ths sc1spfA Oh
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