The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25
PLAINTIFFS BAooA1AUREArE,

graduating class. Upon the sam,
 day and at the same time the gradu
 ating class at Trinity listened to 6
 characteristic farewell sermon iron
 the many sided president of tha'
 prosperous Connecticut college. Like
 President Hadley. President Luther
 has studied men and the conduct ol
 men at close range. They have
 been students, citizens, politicians land
 philosophers, and from each peek be-
 hind the curtain of life they have car
 ried away broader view of the re-
 responsibilities of life. That their ex-
 perience has made them more than
 ever followers of the simple life is of
 itself vindication of the higher edu-
 cation they represent.
 President Hadley bade farewell to
 hundreds of young men who have been
 candidates for degree. President
 Luther bade farewell to scores, which gave him an opportunity to strike a personal note which will not be lost
 upon those whose thoughts carry them
 nearer and nearer the contemplation
 of the small college as contrasted with
 the big university. Said he with a truth the older graduates of Yale will
 appreciate: Gentlemen of the gradu- ating class, I suppose it is because our college is small that there is special pang in the final parting. As is so
 often the case, 1t Is those who stay
 rather than those who go who feel
 the separation most keenly. For you 1t Is the resistless appeal of new things to be done, and new lives to be lived. For us Is the picking up of an
 old burden, not grlevous to be borne,
 indeed, but the same year after year"
 While there is this contrast between
 the university at New Haven and the college at Hartford and while each makes its appeal to it's own constitu- ents, it can only be reckoned a splen- did thing for the State of Connecticut,
 that 1t has within its borders two such admirably manned and conducted in- stitutions of learning, which are in no sense of the word competitors but which are in every sense of the word mutually helpful. There are still those who regret that the program for the consolidation of the two institu- tions was suspended, but as the years go on 1t is likely that 1t will be found that Connecticut Is the stronger for having university for boys fitted Tar university life and a college for boys fitted for college life.
 We have rarely seen a more felicit- ous farewell than President Luther's to the graduating class of Trinity. The affectionate words bear testimony to the closeness of the relationship which is now interrupted and they may be read with profit by others He said in part; We have tried to give you here some at least of the priceless things which we hope that you will pre- serve. None of us Is g St. Paul, yet do we venture in his words to beg you, our disciples, to guard that which we have committed to you, to guard the high ideals, the honorable purpos- es, the pure hearts, and the high | courage which we have tried to deyel- | op in you. Keep your religious prin- ciples. This Is simple injunction, but the most necessary of all that are | possible Surely advocacy of religion Is not improper, even In baccalaure- ate sermon. We cannot fight your battles for you, but we have tried to | make you strong; we have tried to | arm you we'll and with twentieth cen- .ury weapons; we have tried to tell you which Is the right side on which Q fight, Keep all this that Is good. Around you will sound the profane md vain babbllngs against which the yreatest man of his time warned his avorite son. Against you wlll be eagured all those propositions of ignor. mt folly which In every age hold back he progress of mankind. In your 'wn hearts will you find some disposi- ion to yield to talk of inexpediency. of he impracticability of the highest houghts, of the imposslbillty of doing hings that are best and noblest, It Is he first temptation and the greatest that meets the young man t the outset of his career. If 1t di- 'erts the young man from the course e knows to be best, 1t also allures tine nan of many years as he grows tired, erhaps, of fighting; and 1t sometimes irecks the old mans 8 soul on the bar ust outside the harbor of eternity. lay no such destiny be yours" There is something very fine about !, hose words, which appear to have l cen spoken by 8 parent to his son | ather than by teacher to his pupil. r he sense of personal responsibility is here, the desire to have 1t appreci- ( ted that the instruction piveo h,s |,