Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-05-29
DIPLOMASTO MANY
Commencement in Collegiate and
Seminary Departments
of Augustana.
GOV. YATES SPEAKS ON PATRIOTISM
And DIR. Mclean, of Iowa University
on CuIture-Names of
Graduates.

Graduates.
Seldom has class graduating from
a western college been honored more
! highly at commencement time than
was the class of the college depart.
ment of Augustana this morning, in
the presence at the commencement
! EXERCISES of Gov. Richard Yates and
!. president George Ii. Mclean. of the
university of Iowa, both of whom de-
livered addresses.
The presence of these distinguished
men added greatly to the interest of
the mornings exercises and the ca
lpacity of the chapel was toally mad
lequatc for the accommodation of the
audience that assembled. The hall
was decorated in the national and
class colors, the latter blue and or
ange, and back of the rostrum was in
scribed the class motto. ''Esse guam
videri" (TO be is to know.).
The exercises opened with the sing
ing by the audience of 'All Hail the
Power of Jesus Name" after which
there was a scripture reading and
prayer by Rev. l.. +. Johnston, of St
Paul. Then DR.. Gustav Andreen
president of the college. introduced
Chancellor George Il. Mclean, of the
University of Iowa.
President McLcan's Address.
DIR. Mclean opened with reference
to- his connection with Yale and his
meeting with DIR. Andreen at
the festivities held there in cele-
bration of the 2OOth anniversary of
the founding of that institution.
which led to his presence before the
audience. Then he fell to Il compar-
lison of the material advantages of
iowa and Illinois in which he en-
lphasized the fact that Iowa eXcels in
corn, cattle, chickens and cabinet
members. To Illinois, however. he
conceded an equality in the matter
of men.
For his subject DR.. Mclean took
Couture" and his discourse upon this
theme was finished, helpful and in
tensely interesting. First he told of
the misconception that had arisen as
to the real meaning of the word Gull
ture through its application to the
craze for bric-a-brac and alterations
Of speech that emanated from Boston
some years ago. This he showed was
cntirely fallacious, although the
movement that led to the misuRder-
standihg was important in leading Co
better things. Education and cul-
ture. he demonstrated, are not one
and the same by drawing a picture
of a man who loves learning for its
own sake and his soul shrivels and
dies through very narrowness. True
culture was defined as sympathy
with intelligence" and under this APP
plication was identified with that
which educators are coming more
sion To impart To the human race.
After an eXquisitely rendered song
by the chapel choir DIR. Andreen in
troduced Gov. Yates and the audience
rose i'm welcome. With characteristic
directness the governor announced
his subject as 1.-The Evolution of
Patriotism"
Welcome to the state Executive.
As leading up to the development of
that love of home and country that
we call patriotism, the governor
launched into rapid review of the |
evolution of the forms of government
of which history tells. In the first |
stage, or that of the barbarians. |
there was no love of any particular |
spot and the submission to Il chief |
was of the same sort that herds of |
animals accord to the most powerful |
among their number. In the despotic |
governments erected following the |
r. IL |
had its dawn, but it was of a sort |
very different from that of today.
The patriotism of Greece and Rome |
was of an advanced type, but it was
not permanent. In the English gov
ernment the speaker saw the best
form of patriotism of the later mon
arches and therein was planted the
germ that has since come to it's full
fruition in America. But Gov. Yates
did not end with the present. He be- /
held a vision of a patriotism far be-
You'd that of our own land at the
present day. a patriotism so perfect
that it can never yield to a better and
must therefore exist forever. This he
believed would be the result of the
broadening and deepening of the
channels of human thought and ac-
ton through the agency of modern
Second to None I'm Education. !
Illinois is second to no common
wealth in America in educational adj
and the governor spoke
Of the great responsibility that rests c
upon him as the political head of t
state that is exerting such powerful 4
influence in a movement that shall /
De worldwide and endure forever. In 4
he addressed the class, adj 2
rising the members to learn to apply a
IN life that which they had re- il
seived in college. Il