The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-15
,urnal spacial Service.

consider a success and yet which would
merely make you curse to your coun-
trylnen. . d
Urges Independence.
"You bear a peculiarly heavy bur
den: Of moral obligations To you much
has been given. You enter life with
privileges denied to most Of your fell
lows, and therefore we have right to
expect from you peculiar measure Of
service to society, to the state, in re-
turn. III
"Of course the first duty Of each Of
you is to earn his own livelihood. You
will not find it too easy, either. Your
first business is to be a help and not a
burden upon those. who have helped put
you thru, who have entirely put you
thru, this institution Of learning. That
81 do not want you to go out so in.
tent upon reforming the world that you
are quite unable to keep your own heads
above water. First be able to hold
your own in the world. If you make
| that to be the all and end Of your exist
ence you SHOULD never have come to q
university like this at all. ..E s4,...@>
here (what I think the older men do
not need to be told) that. the chance for
heroic endeavor of a rather spectacular
kind does not often count; that the man
who really counts in this life is not the
man who thinks how well he could do
! but the man who actually does the hum:
drum, workaday, everyday duties as
those duties arise. The very first thing
to do is to do your duty in the family,
| in the home. = ,G....-.. :
Wage War on Dishonesty. {
'1t is a happy coincidence that your
commencement comes on flag day, when
we pay especial honor to the symbol
of our national existence. Georgetown,
which has sent its proportion of sol
| diers to the country whenever the coun-
try called for it, must remember that
| duty just as high can be done in time
| OF peace as in time of war. We have
| plenty of evil to combat in this repub-
lie, and the success of the fight that
we wage against it is going in large
part to depend upon the attitude taken
| by the graduates Of our universities,
| whose training should peculiarly help
| them to leadership in such fight. Il 80
"Now. lust one word in connection
| with that fight; remember always that
| honesty can never be unilateral. Do
| not attack the poor man who is dis
| honest, or the rich man who is dishon-
est. as member Of class; attack him
war relentlessly on every man of
wealth who does what is wrong. At
tack in every way the 'iniauity Of the
corporation which commits iniquity.
But remember, you men of education,
4 You men of college training, you to-
whom we have right to look for lead
ership in the generation now taking up
its burdens, thai. you do the greatest
an obliaueness of vision which shall
make them fail to condemn wealth in
| stead of condemning crooked wealth.
which shall make them fail to see that
the real test is; honesty as against dis
| honesty. ..
=. Condemn Demagog, Too. Or
50 Condemn the rich man who cor.
rupts legislature; condemn equally
the. demagog who seeks to incite one set
of citizens against another because that.
other is in the material things Of this
world more fortunately off. The veal
| thy corruptionist ands the sour dema-
| cog who denounce all wealth represent,
not opposite vices. but the same vices
| developed under different conditions. b
"The arrogance Of the man of wealth
| who disregards his obligations to the
country, who looks down upon and dis
regards his poorer brethren. it has the
same feeling as the envy, hatred, NAL
| ice, felt by a man of Jealous temper
who lacks means, for the more for
tunate man who has means. The self
ish arrogance and envious hatred are
not different qualities, they are sim
shield. Y& can rest assured that the
poor man who thus envies and hates
the, rich man, the arrogant rich man,
who looks down upon and disregards
his duty toward the Door man, would
each commit the faults Of the other
of the other. az-s l ss<
s- Stands for Athletics.
was much pleased today not only
to be able to. give degrees, but to give
prizes, in at least one case, to Students
who had evidently been able ttoade-i
velop a thoroly sound mind in an@ex-l
ceptionally sound body. I believe in
athletics; but believe in them chiefly
because Of the moral qualities they
able to keep his nerve ina close base.
ball game, able to keep his courage
under the punishment Of football
! game, or in four-mile boat race; be-
\ cause If the boy really amounts to any
thing and has the right stuff in him,
this means that he is going to keep his
/ nerve and courage in more important
1 things in after life.
i your pIOWoSS Is que Simply to
the possession of big muscles, it does
not amount to much. What counts is
the ability to back up the muscles with
the right spirit. IF you have the pluck,
the grit i'll you to count in sports, Just
as If you have the pluck and grit in
you to count in your studies, SO in
both cases it will help you to count in
after life. ss5 Y
You will not need to show in after
life the identical traits of intellect or
/ of bodily proWess that You have shown
here in college; but You will need to
show the character, the qualities Of
heart and soul which enabled you. in
college to make valuable your intellect
or your bodily prowess. When you
come out into after life L can say no
more than to wish you to copy the
Emotto which should be the motto Of
every boy who plays on "a college
I eleven: Don It finch, don T foul, and
bit the tl ling hard &, =