The San Francisco call., 1905-05-18
The men thus distinguished are as fol-


colonel' Eugene Russell Halle;t, major; wal
ter Leroy Huber, major; Julian Mast Wolfsohn,
major; Arthur Roy Heise, captain and adJu-
tant Leo Delvin Bishop. captain and commits
sary: Sidney Warren Wilcox captain, band
Tom Rutter I-andsborough. first lieutenant.
band Donald Eastman Fogg, second lieuten-
ami, band: Albert Franklin Menzel, captain,
Company A; Hugo Herman Miller, captain
Company b; Ralph Thomas Mshler, captain,
Company D; John Carter Stanley, captain,
Company 4; Lawrence Raymond Kessl,
captain, company F; Harvey Blanchard Lyon.
captain, Company G.: Frederick Paul Nicke..
captain. Company II.
Second Regiment-James Adoiphus Fort
colonel; Norman Casw.h Sttnes her crani :
colonel; Dyas Power Boothe. MAJOR; DeWts
Morris Evans, ma Jor; Raymond Spalding. ma
jor; Nathaniel Nelson Eddy, captain and ad-
Jutant; Robert Oscar Roedel. captain ana com
missary; Charles Henry Cheney, captain Com
paDy A: Belmont Perry Jaggard, captain,
Company B; John Mercer nightingale, captain,
Company c; William Lambert POTTS. captain,
Company d; Alfred Vincent wepfer, captain
Company Z; George W. Spencer, captain.
Company F: Herbert Leigh Junk. captain.
Company @: William Everett Hawley, captain
Company H.
Detachrncnts-AIfred ]. C7eary. captain, ar
tillery detachment: Ragland Tuttle. captain
signal detachment.
PRESIDENT WHEELER TALKS.
President Wheeler called upon the
class of 1905 to stand and then ad-
dressed its members as follows:
When an army has captured the
enemys camp, it is better not to fall
upon the spoil, but to continue falling
upon the enemy When a man has
achieved something, it is better not to
stop for congratulations, but to move
on. The achievement is to be treated
as so much gathered Roadway, and the
moment of victory is the moment of
opportunity. Stopping to look at ones
self means loss to momentum. and In
the race of life it is al any given time
momentum more than distance that
yields the reckoning. for in the things
of the spirit is it tension and quality.
not weight and quantity. that count
The leading runner in the dash dare
not turn to watch his antagonist with
out periling the victory. Eyes were
with purpose set in the front of heads,
and they that make for the mountains
must waste no time in gazing back
toward the cities of the plain or meas
uring the way they have passed. Salt
is good. but salt is the pillar and en-
blem of the static, not the strenuous
life. Remember Lots wife. They that
really run the race, they that really
live the life set their eyes on the goal
and press on toward the prize of their
high calling.
Commencement day marks a begin
Ming rather than an end. The ship
has made the run down the barhor and
is now going out over the bar. The
diplomas are not awards, but they are
your clearance papers. The college
course fitted the ship, towed you down
the harbor and gave you your bear
ings. Row spread your own sails, get
out your sextants and peel your
weather eye. And one word further;
much as we shall miss you. we cannot
withhold from you the urgent advice
to quit sight of harbor and lighthouse
and land with all speed and make for
the open sea.
ELF-RESPONSIBIT
THE sooner a man learns that only
what one gets for himself is really ones
own. the better. This consciousness of
absolute self-responsibility, this sure
knowledge that ones fate is at the GER
tain mercy of ones own acts and choices
brings with its first unfolding the appall-
ing lonesomeness of the mighty deep
alone with ones fate and ones power to
control it; but until one has thus been
once alone, he has never yet been once
a man. You have heard good advice al
ready to the full; you have had your
minds made up for you already too long
You have now got to decide for your
selves, and having decided take for your
selves the consequences. You will still,
if you are wise, collect from those who
have had experience of life various guild
ances and advices. but they will be only
the data for the solution of a problem,
which is after all your problem. After
you have assembled the data, you will
have TO decide yourself. You cannot, if
you are to be strong, fit from one ad-
viser's solution to that of another, and
finally settle upon one of them. You
must create, as a new creation of your
own, your own solution. The real uni
verse in which these souls of ours live is
not made of materials and mechanisms,
but is created clean and fresh in the de-
liberate choices of mind and will. You
make your world as surely as the mold
ers hands fashion clay. You can rely on
no other person, however near and true,
to make it for you. Every strong man
who has achieved the great success of
life will surely tell you that at one and
another of the crises of his life he has
won his victory by acting independently
of, if not directly counter to the advice
of every counsellor. 1t is only through
the valley and the shadow of the al
mighty loneliness of personal RESPONSE
bility that any man has won the eternity
of character and strength.
PATIENCE A NECESSITY.
"And now you set forth on your long
voyage. 1t is a long unity. Every part
count in the final balance, and so will
every success; and both mistakes and
successes will roll up by compound inter-
est. In terms of the total result you will
find that the patient doing of duty will
count more than the brilliant strokes of
wit. 1t is patience, patience, and yet
again more patience that you will need;
for your life is one long account, and you
must give compound interest time in
which to do it's perfect work. Some one
of the class will report after the first year
a stately salary or a brilliant opening in
business. Respice finem. would rather
have the chance of some other one who
is quietly doing days work. After fit
teen or twenty years that other will forge
to the front with his steadily accumulated
stock of sound reputation and public con-
fidence. tell you it is patience you will
need: patience to do the little things thor
oughly and well; patience to keep you
digging On your own claim, to keep you
at work on what comes next to your
hand, to keep you from skipping over to
glittering deceits beyond; patience to hold
you TO the gaining of results by processes
that naturally produce them. and the win
ming of success by the plain and simple
deserving Of il. The man who seeks a
position by the use of the vulgar thing
vulgarly denoninated influence and nv