The San Francisco call., 1906-05-17

OeEL6SS were GnSEQtQ 10
uating class and President Wheeler
then addressed the class as follows:
Members OF the Graduating Glasses Of
All the Colleges: The world into which
you are now going is very real world
felt moved 10 tel you this today. when
- al Gays ! would fain tell you some
thing worth while. because / have noted
that men OF unWaslen vision seem cur
rsntiv 70 regard il not as q world OF real
ifv UuI rainer as a work OF fiction, or a
dramatic performance, or a game OF bluh.
Or even as e throwing OF the dice.
7 an aware how much truth and how
much inspiration reside in the pregnant
1stenent that every man makes his own
world By clarity OF mind one sees
things in the world about him as they
are: by strength OF viii in self-direction
one makes himself z place and q task,
assemblies che hard facts into solid foun-
oatfons. and rears the structure OF his
life success upon them. Yes a man
makes his cwn world. but he cannot ex
pect 10 make il p" Ike story. Think
ing 4 thing is so does not make IL so, no
matter Il you think il is 50 seven times,
yea. seventy times seven You have at
The most baked your self-oe.usion into
a hard locking substance called preiu-
dice IN quiet times II may pose as hewn
plaster and disclose the laths by which
you lied 70 yourself The sooner you get
in the way OF seeing things just as they
arc all around the sooner you viii stop
pALAIe- COlAOS II Nc4@AS Win
L1ick steel doors and thin plaster CT paris
walls The flames OF e conhagration are
real flames, and an exercise Of the i'm
agtnation is not accompanied by g de-
nation man never once discovered. in
vented Or created; but he knew he was
imagining. and after iadulging his dream
proceeded 10 pull his air-castles down
with q string an reconstruct them OF
reinforced concrete.
WORLD is NOT A PLAY.
The world into which you are enter
ing is a real world and not play. There
Is z good deal Of paper scenery in evil
oence, ! adnit-sor.e tin spears, penciled
eyebrows and sham thunder. The aver
age man, I fear. is all too ready 10 take
on any mask that happens TO be passed
him. catch the cue and follow wherever
the lines lead. Thinking is hard and il
is OF course easier TO nemorize the lines
than make them IL Is easier still 10 be a
puppet pulled with q string and let the
ventrilocuist do the talking behind the
box But none Of this is b. right for you.
We expect you 10 be real men and women
in e real world.
Lest my symbols be misunderstood I
want 70 Illustrate in plain language what
I mean by taking the mask that happens
TO be handed one. A certain woman drifts
into college because in the fuilness cf
time the high school course was COM
pleted. there was nothing in particular
70 DO and tuition at the university was
free. On arriving al California Hall she
found people were generally engaged in
making out cards, and combinations of
Latin and English and history seemed to
be the vogue After accommodating sun
dry units on card as boys accumulate
agates and alleys in a nag our pupil is
warned by the rising total that the time
Is come 70 join the throng OF applicants
for a teachers certificate; and again in
the fullness OF time she goes forth to
teach English and history in obedience
10 the still, small voice OF the units-not
strUet and shape and lead nor that any
special knowledge of source Of inspira-
tiop struggled TO be freed
Then there Is the man who proves his
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