The Washington times., 1902-06-09
Baccalaureate Sermon to
Princeton Seniors by
DR.. Patton.
GROVER CLEVELAND PRESENT
President of University Refers to
Temptations of the Intellectual Side
"A Restless Age-Helped by COL
lege Course.

PRINCETON. y. j.. June S.-The bac-
calaureate sermon to the senior class
at Princeton University was preached
this morning by President Patton in
Alexander Hall. The big auditorium was
crowded with the friends and relatives
of the graduating classmen. The mem
bers of the faculty and the trustees Of
the university all wearing their bright
academic costumes. occupied the onyx
rostrum in front.
Former President Grover Cleveland.
who was recently elected to the board Of
trustees. sat on DR.. Patton's right Mr..
Cleveland wore a gown and mortar
board. The graduating students occu-
pied the body of the hall.
President Patton said in part:
II belong to that school of men who
believe in progress. but do not believe
the time will ever come when we shall
have a curriculum that makes it posi-
BILE for man tc claim to have an educa-
ton who does not know something
about the great progress of science and
something about his own psychological
self.
A Mad Rush for Riches.
I'VE are living in day when men are
making a mad rush to get rich, not only
for the environment which they can
control. hut also for the power that
comes with wealth. The poor man who
is uneducated is embarrassed and OPP
pressed. as he may well be.
Mans life consists not in an album
dance of stock and bonds in strong
box. 1t is something for an educated
man to realize that he has a soul. We
do make mistakes and judge other men
wrongly, but there is judgment that
we need not err in, that is the Judgment
OF ourselves.
"a large part of a university educa-
ton consists in teaching men 70 avail
themselves properly of the franchises
of their consciences. Sooner or later
a man must be set free. Sooner or later
he takes charge of his own conscience,
and a university is one OF the best train
ing places for this. l say this because
an impression abounds that university
is a place of terrible temptation. and
mothers often debate the question
whether they should sacrifice the intel
lecI or the ulOTdiS VI IHtlI SOHS-
They think it is difficult for a man to
acquire an education at great risks, and
men speak about the temptations OF COL
lege life as if there were no tempte tion5
in business: as ii the banker and broker
lived in a holier atmosphere: as if the
apostle of Wall Street were in closer
touch with the Ten Commandments than
other men.
Il know no place where a man may
be trusted to work out the best in him
so well as in a Christian university. II
you have been faithful to the early
tt aiming you received, it has been helped
by your coming here.
Temptation of Intellectual Side.
But realize that you are in tempta-
lions on the intellectual side; that you
have come into contact with the spirit Of
this restless age. Some people complain
that so few men are now entering the
and give every reason for
this but the true one. The reason is
simply that we are living in an age OF
intellectual transition burning with I'M
rest. and. therefore, | have respect for
the man who doubts. who overcomes his
doubts and who gathers strength.
Gentlemen of the graduating class.
this is the sum OF all that l can say to