The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
PRESIDENT TO GIRL STUDENTS
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stgvs loss, snd saat,, m ssaasIoa n
N~taHtgatoe. tune a President Horars
tuIi 4tienfni tho rrmmHntNutnnt aSrf
faat ~ rht ytUrtl Cathedral q"hnul
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w no nonIefs NJ mo graduating Glass
Inc arherI 10 situated rn mo heights north
q OenfrrIrtr tri iho FtrsHinht drove
0t IN ~ .%F0frra tr, mi fHni"d Nv Mr.
nprsrvet V.s ~ ~ tho dluahtef "
the pfrsiIrn, 1ud Nrt Voospvalt 10 = pupil
~ me a.1.ul
Tho arafuni|ur ryrtr.trs wern held
M ~ ttIlu % hall sri ihcre vts y lHrga
eaihefins " wtpila and thor parents and
friende on ihr platform WITH tho Preai-
don't were prom frui meuhnfs ~ the hoard
NJ trustee Including me plaht Rev Henry
Y satteflcr Rahop # Washington, the
Right Rev Nlct MacbBy. smith, Admiral
George prvcv. Ocn tohn NJ Wilson and
Gov Watneld n Maryland, In delivering
tho commencement addrrss President
Roosevelt rnii
nlsuoP ,Nb strrrvrs have three or
tour thinga nat want 10 say TO you, lar sHlv
suggested b, trading n couple " hooks,
Of one NJ which. NIahor. have mnre than
once spoken to- yuu hooks nv President
Hyde NJ Bovdoiu ,ollrV" Tho nrst IL n
remarkable philosophical study called Prom
Eplcurus' 20 Christ tho other 81 an "i''relv
different tNrc. called The oll"s" Man ana
College Woman, buf both of thsm dealing
IN part with the ethical side NJ the man and
the woman that We sec about Us. that Is,
dealing with conduct both Of them books
that, In my Judgment, viii benefit evorv
man and woman, every hoy ana girl approach
Ing manhood aud womarhood. who cares
% read them. and In reading them YOU viii
see that the two essential points which the
author develops in supplying his lessons
are, first, a high Ideal, and. secondly, sanity
IN realizing that high ideal
II there Ia one thing with which ! have no
sympathy II il with the type of Grafton very
frequently delivered To graduating classes.
sometimes. | regret 10 say. delivered from
pulpits. which give an IDEAL so fantastio that
those listening to II listen to 1t with a merely
intellectual pleasure and without the slightest
intention OF trying IN real life to realize IL.
To preach an ideal like that does not do good:
n does harm for Il Il an evil thing to teach
people that precept and practice have no
close relation The moment that any person
grows TO believe that the abstract conception
p OF conduct is not in any real way to be APP
preached in actual life, that person has re-
ceived serious harm.
] do not intend to FFeach anything to you,
especially to YOU who are graduatinS' to you
who, in the next Two or three years VIII
graduate. THAT do not believe YOU can i've
up 10 In practlce' II only yo'i III soou idun
do your best want you 20 nave lu"aIs
that you can ao"l'Ne ana YET lu'4ls that stdtl
mean on your part q sleauF' spifltudi nv
within you II you try TO reaoh theln. |
want you TO haNe your eyes on ehe STARS
but remember ehat your ieee are obtNe grouha'
and never 10 icy yourselves get uh'o the frame
Of mlnd "hlcl accepts .he apSItacl uei'-
cation OF ceFteih attributes IN 'neory ~ q n
excuse lof 'a4Ahs lar sH'' ~ ae''ai u VI
what you eau a''uatE ~accoH'pilsh'
iou SCHOLARS ata"uSn YOU ha,e hdu Nels
reaitrouoles qua o''nouN'es nnVe he'ettheiess
peen 10 a Arse Extent sneteleu, out nov
you areaoou to'o''e out 't.o sied' "oln'
noTted Nv those peor rest and dearest, win
hhornefortb have n stand more or less nv her
nnit - 10 a.. No, ni,v Won bac,,se Won will
Gu. 49, : ~ go nbeaJ 81 vow tbon wo,'
nave huL"eI Spn's qNe"N - 10 soa
nave hau III tHe PaN' 40 man VI MoLlan
worthy Of beng called tFue man or woman
prizes life merely so 1ar as II means absence
OF pain and effort. on the contrary, the thing
that makes life worth while is the active
achievement OF the things worth achieving:
and this is Just as true of the women as it is