The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-08
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.

COMMENCEMENT EhINSiSIS'
The commencement exercises in the
various universities and colleges Of the
limited States, which are now COM
handing public attention, are this year
marked by unusual depth of thought,
united to practical applications. In
California. at both universities, the
views expressed Of their relationship
tn common life were broadly educa-
tiopaI. David Starr Jordan, of Stan
ford delivered an address upon typical
college men, which was Enthusiastically
great. He showed the tendency
throughout the civilized world, and
especially in our own country, to use
men of university training, not merely
in the schools but, more conspicuous
Iy. in every department of business
With intense earnestness and IN
eraphic and condensed sentences, ne
asserted the necessity for the employ
ment of graduates in the various dlVl-
<sions of trade and commerce, and ne
enforced upon his eager listeners the
absolute Importance of acquiring ex-
perience in definite careers and avoid
ing premature immersion in the fiux
os politics.
Professor Jordan's address touched
the heaving breast of the times. Or
ganizatfon, system, co-operated in
d.Istries. vast combinations, are the
texts of progress in the twentieth CEN
fury But underneath and controlling
them all is individual training and dis
cipline Only short while ago, the
universities were the nurseries of
statesmen, philosophers, lawyers, doc
tors, clergymen. and other members
OF the learned professions, and were
also considered as finishing schools
milton OF that appellation which pre-
vailed for many centuries. Now edu-
cation, from its simplest to it's most
complex and elevated forms, has
broadened TO the extreme limits of life
as extended year by year in the
wonderful development of civilization
When trade, finance, agriculture, horti-
culture, and all other phases of pro-
ducing industry, were conducted by
isolated individuals or copartnerships,
academical education was profaned by
association with. these material ele-
ments in human advancement. Then.
a gentleman possessed of inherited
opulence, considered his fingers soiled
if they touched a counter or ledger,
s1rewd financiers, who virtually ruled
the fate of nations, were excluded
from what were deemed to be the
higher social circles. Now these ta-
booed occupations have risen to the
top of the human ladder, and have be-
come identified and interviewer with
the destiny of man.
University methods, particularly in
the United States, under the lead Of
men who are fitted to rule and to pre-
pare other men to travel on the roads
t3 the changed and better order. Or
ganization and combination have be-
come regnant, and the man of all
work. who used to depend exclusively
upon his own brains and industry for
success, has been virtually relegated
into obscurity and has been superseded
by the man of education, both gen
eral and specialized. who has learned
to discard superfiuities. to use time
and opportunity for specific ends, and
TO press his upward way through the
iunumerable avenues OF systematized
energy and enterprise.
The Duke of ArgylPs conception of
the Reign Of Law is quickly being
hardened into fact, and the mass of
humanity, with perfected individualism
as its base, is raising and also con-
solidating its standards. This is the
grand and irrepressible movement,
which the typical address of Profess
sor Jordan at once interpreted and
promoted. The car of progress is at
every mans door, and he must either
enter or be thrust aside and crushed.
Lewis Etzel, an American war cor
on1op &c fhR