The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-06-16
COMMENCEMENT
At PENN COLLEGE
LARGE CLASS OF 'o4 is Gradual
ED WITH HoNoRS.
ADDRESS BY REv.M. S.HUGHES.
Annual Alumni Address BY Prof
Charles A. kent-5usiness Meet
ings, Banquets and Reunions
"A Red-Letter Occasion.

Penn college was held in the college
chapel at 10 o'clock this wednesday
morning and class of seventeen was
graduated with full honors. Rev. Mat
S. Hughes, of Kansas City, delivered
the address. The stage was decorat
ed in the college colors, navy blue and
old gold, and the platform was filled
with graduates and those receiving
degrees. The Hawkeye orchestra
gave several well rendered musical
numbers which were appreciated by
the large audience in attendance. II
was pleasure to his classmates that
Marion Sewers, who was so unfor
ago, was able to sit on the platform
with his fellow graduates.
The Program in Detail.
Waltz-"Natles."
Scripture Reading and Invocation
by Pres. A. Rosenberger.
Overture Evening Idyls, Barn.
house.
TwoStep--'' Exposition d."
Address-"The Fine Art of Living
by Rev. Matthew T. Hughes, of Kan,
sas City. .- .-~.
Address to Class.
In his address Rev. Hughes in part
said:
"One of the many problems of the
world in which we live is the problem
of creation. Modern scientists have
endeavored to explode the six-day
creation theory, and tell usi-o of the
long period of evolution. They give
us a beautiful vision, one worthy OF
a great and omnipotent God. But
science can not explain what process
applied force to matter, nor can he
tell us where he got his star dust.
Science has not to do with origin, II
has to do with methods. We must
consider the world from the stand.
point Of its relation to man. AS far
as mans purposes are concerned this
lis not a finished world. Almighty
God might have finished the world,
but he did not. He gave man the
materials to work with and then told
him to subdue the world. Man is
gaining great mastery over the
forces of the earth. Science and art
rule the world. 1t is mans manifest
duty to work. The most of us are
overworking. Among al 1.-The arts of
life there is one art supreme, the fine
art of living. The function of all ed
ucation is to fit us for complete liv-
ing said Herbert Spencer. Few
men know how to live. In this art
nature is also incomplete, but this
time it is human nature. Man comes
into the world possessing all the ma
terials to live well, but the materials
are in the rough and need perfecting
Not art for arts sake but art al.
ways and everywhere for mans sake.
Who ever heard of a railroad for a
railroads sake, or a plough for a
plough's sake? They are for mans
sake. You can't measure our pro-
gress by the toot Of the locomotive
whistle or the tinkle of the telephone
bell. All human progress is human.
1t Is the men-not the inventions.
What has become of our crop of
George Washingtons' We are to
measure all art by the influence it
exerts upon life. We should not take
into our lives anything that does not
make manhood and womanhood Do
not judge a life by years, but by quail
80 % Is,,;, t.
vital art, all the better arts are for
NAL. A kind heart and sympathet-
ic nature are what make gentleman.
The finished product of the art of liv-
than the building of the finest cathe-
dral or the largest pyramid is the
building of men. 1t is a greater thing
to be madonna than to paint one !;
it is greater thing to live music
than to play it. 1t is a greater thing
to live poem than to write; a great,
er thing to live a part in an epoch
than to write it. Life in action is
greater than its description. The
man who lives his life to the best or
his ability with Gods help is engaged
on the greatest masterpiece in the
world,-a perfect life. Not by dl
plomas, not by degrees will the world
Judge today's graduates, but by their
lives"
The Rev Mr. Hughes is a young
man of wonderful possibilities, an
Iowa boy who for years lived in Grin
nell, the son of Presiding Elder
Hughes. He has been called to fl
some of the best pulpits in the gift oi
his church, He is forceful in argu
ment, eloquent and magnetic. The
class could not have made wiser
choice for the crowning event of their
college life.
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