The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-13
PRINCETON BACCALAUREATE
SUNDAY AFFORDS REST FOR THE
 MANY VISITORS.
The Academic Procession Participated in by Former President Cleveland For First Time in History of Univer- sity a Layman, President Woodrow wilson, Delivers the sermon--The Fruits of College Life.

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 Princeton, June 12.-Baccalaureate Sunday at Princeton afforded rest
 for the many visitors who are attend ling the one hundred and fifty seventh
 annual commencement exericeses. For the first time in the history of the uni-
 versity a laynan delivered the bacca- Laureate address, the honor being con- |ferred on President Woodrow Wilson lat the request of the students.
 The academic procession formed in front of "Old North and marched to
 Alexander hall with ex-President Gro- yer Cleveland, President Wilson and Prof. William Libbey in the lead. The trustees and the faculty followed and the caps and gowns came last. The lhall was crowed. President Wilson said lin part:
 The fruits of college life lived as I've try to live it here and lift it from laga to age are not knowledge of a sort lof superiority which man gets from knowing more than his fellows. They are more various than knowledge; and knowledge is only one of their many Icompounds. The college man ought to
 see more in the life about him than oth-
 CTS see; ought to have access to sources of refreshment and of confidence that other men have not found; ought to see values and know very clearly the ways of lasting satisfaction.
 ssThe vast accumulations of wealth, the vast material equipment of civil ization in our day ought not to mislead Jus into supposing that this Is an age gross and material beyond prece- dent; more debauched by greed or in-
 toxicated by material power than any Ithat has gone before it. It is not. Though it's spiritual impulses and con- lceptions and undertakings do not run so exclusively along the old, hollowed and familiar ways of religion as in some noted days gone by-particular- ly some days that shine bright and H. | lustrious in the early annals of our own natior-the spirit of man has wax ed as strong in our time as has his hand, and has given itself to works as mighty as influential.
 EVSry cOueSe man ought to knOW that the full pulse of life is in nothing
 but things that satisfy his spirit. Mans fortunes may be torn away from him; there is no material with which they
 may fight and be sure to prevail. Only i the spirit of man is uniquivocal. Many betty books and hornilies have been written for us of late in advocacy of simple life, and beneath their senti- ment lies a noble and enlightening truth. There is no virtue in plainly | furnished room; a little circle of ern- lployments; a little group of friends is no certain means of grace. The sim pie life may be very mean and bare
 and unrewarding: what is worse, it
 may be very selfish and belittling. The
 kernel of the moral is simply that our l life is greater than the things that we handle and that our life is to us, not l in our possessions or our social and business engagements.
 | Tt is our modern philosophy that virtue is not for the cloister and the convent but for the open field and the
 dusty road, and every place of work
 and intercourse: for the cleansing of
 the world and the deliverance of those l who toll in it.''