Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-03
SENIORS HEAR THE
BACCALAUREATE
Students Assemble at First Meth
odist Church to Begin Exer-
cises OF Final Week.
EQUIPMENT FOR SERVICE"
This The Theme on Which Rev. Bcn-
inmin Young Addresses Men anu
women in Caps and Gowns.

FIR eight years IN the grammar
schools they were told they were pre-
narins for life. For four more IN the
nigb schools the story was repeated,
and then they experimental for an
other four on the university campus
Last night they were told that they
we're ready, and standards OF lie Welo
held up as the most valuable TO toiloW
IN taking the plunge that begins WIN
tho receipt of diploma OF degree o"
1,hursdsv next, commencement day.
I,or the university student this Is an
,,,nortant week. The Baccalaureate
Gas it's beginning last night. ana a
Eeld day at Saltair win be its closlts
Friday, In the interim there ~
senior class day today, a normal ciass
day tomorrow, an Alumni Joy xer.
Wednesday, and commencement eAe
Uses Thursday, all held this year on
HE campus for the first time. s
The weeks opening last night ioutIu
,be FIRST Methodist church CROWDED 70
The doors with students ana q Io,,
friends anxious TO hear what ReS:
Seniamin Young might have 10 lay
down as the Fundamental laws
healthful progress. .ry
Prof' Geo NJ Marshall, for many
,,aars head of the university English
aenartmeut, offered an opening praSeI'
This was followed by 9 seiec e,i
"swset Is Thy Mercy Lord, by MlsS
Hazel Barnes. assisted ~ tnS w w
1amerenux was rendered at the CON
cinsion of the baccalaureate ana peIe-
Action by Maj. Richard w. iou"s
closed the evenings exercises
Rev. Mir. Young took tor the toNt OIL
bis sermon, who knowest whetneL
thou art not come TO the Nlnga"tii 20, tos
such n time as this? Hls sI i ne snoks
DEouipment for Service, ana ne sp'N'
as follows: H.
character and u crisis make ms
,orv THE question of the Jewish dlplo-
mat to his queen suggests that cnaI
acter and crisis had met. victory OF
failure depended as to now sne nau
assirnilatcd the wisdom which past ex-
nerience had brought to her. Here was
an opportunity for serving the
highest Interests under heaven.
Wo,nentous we're the consequences
Of action, Had she the coup.
ment necessary? was she ready
10 serve contemporary life? her
sbuitv ia cope with an intricate situa-
tion vas shown by subsequent events
We live In an intense age. The sue
cessful life must be pitched TO plsh
KEY. Competition is keen and vigorous
civilization is highly complete ana peLt-
cate in organization. TINS is an az
of vibrating machinery ana narrow
margins. The content OF lie is sreater
today than at any time In the past. NOT
in reality. only In analogy. can history
repeat itself. Evidences OF the ire
uuency Of modern life can be 1ouho ~
every realm OF thought. u is reVeaLeu
in pathology. and In pnllosophy, III s nh
ology and in sociology. Never sucn
strides OF progress. Shall we cry
against this? Shall we array ourselves
in hostility 10 the onward spirit! Noula
this be wise? II so. then we could with
the same reason inveigh against the
law of graVitation, or cry halt 10 tle
tides as the oceans swell Kisses our
feet. To be defiant In the presence OF
rcsistless law Is TO play the clown IN
the sanctuary. II will be far better 10
study the law which is back OF all TINS
movement and endeavor TO get oehiho
phenomena that we may know tnat
which has been manifested. VINO
knoweth whether thou art not come
to the kingdom for such time as
this?" The power of your assimilation
viii be the measure OF your success.
Your ability to apply and to make
practical acquired wisdom VIII deter
mine the quality OF your contribution TO
history. Coleridge planned for. years
series of great essays and grand epics,
but he wrote not a line OF either. lie
had splendid equipment, but he loved
meta physical fog and wasted energy
and time in building dream castles
Tho dreamer has his place and the
man lost In speculative philosophy finds
his place hut the directors Of our civil
izatiou are the men who have the abili-
~ to convert static wisdom into dyna-
mic power IT Is very well 10 put ON
phasis upon the ingetting Of knowl-
edge, but no less stress must be put
upon It's application OF what avail is
knowledge If IL does not come out in
progressive and transforming powerP
Polish and discipline the mind, but
above all, forfeit not the demands ot
the modern world, the intensit" of its
life, the subtleness OF Its forces ana
the urgency of its problems. storage
reservoir Is good thing when II IL
provided With n headgate for letting out
It's life. giving flood so that the wilder
ness may be transformed to o garden
poisoning with fruits and nowe.s,
otherwise II VIII become the stagnant
lake, breathing out disease and death
into The atmosphere. This acquired wis
dom Is 10 be turned toward the solution
OF the problems which menace society
OF guided where II shall fructify soma
barron field of life.
RUDDER NECESSARY.
Now, granting that YOU have the
NECESSARY equipment anu wa W. 10 y
come 10 the determination 10 serve
contemporary life, there are certain
forms which must never be forgotten;
First, l must be master OF my own
intellectual machinery | must think
for myself, This does not mean that
may ignore the trea sures of art. Of lit
erature or OF science. II does not
mean that can turn my back upon
history and experience, Plato said:
The head was placed at the top OF
the body IN order 10 direct the entire
organism There is u tinality reveal
ed in the build OF the human brain,
With all our boosted abilities we
have not too much clear thinking
There is a great deal OF that which Is
superficial and loose Look al tho
stream OF ephemeral literature which
rs pouring from the press, The novel
OF the day attempts IN many instances
In u brief plot or IN few short notes
% solve problems which have bafled
for years the keenest intellects. There
are many things IN literature and IN
life which reveal intellectual lazineRs
We have enough OF debris floating IN
dlshWatcr' We ought not TO he
moulded by that which Is superficial
and cheap, but with discipline and the
equipment we possess we should cut
way out OF the maze around us into
the broad clear path of duty.
There ha "A inNgNbin nd