The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04
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IN THEIR
AND GOWNS
-r-r
bmmencement Now on.
at the University.
IN THE CLASS

VI ,or4 ard achievements OF Young
L. FINISHING Their Course
q Bright Hopes for the Life Upon
which Theyvvin Enter-An
Participate In Exercises.
u e-a-IaI to News and Observer.)
4c1arel Hill, N. c., June To-day
.|sar.ar Class day at the University,
u 5e=pite the fact that a binding
storm las been raging all the
krn.ag, 81 proud. happy, SMILING
4 tors. confident of success. and with
I q running high in their MINDS and
4 ,rs PRESENTED themselves in front
4 fine Old chapel, arrayed in caps and
r. which gave them an appear
L. # dignity and an air of scholar
At $50 the prayers were held,
according to an ancient custom
= made strictly private. no
4 seniors being present.
n 1890 70 the strains Of inspiring
.stc 10 which their feet almost I'M
T~sciously kept step, and preceded
u Chief Marshal j.. n. Porter and his
&etarts, Messrs. w. G. Woodland, Jr.,
L. Fore, Snowden S~ingletery. 7. NJ.
q res. ana w. G. Coughenhour, wear
beautiful and appropriate resalia,
4 class marched up the aisles of the
&aral. whose walls have witnessed
m cen of a like nature, and took
2Fr respeCexo places on the rostrum,
H. President John Johnston Parker.
The enter.
IT. first feature of the program was
azdont Parker's address He is a
sCa65r Of force and attractiveness.'
\ his eloquent words coupled with
ernest, passionate appeal OF MS
] gerry always carry conviction to
1 minds Of his hearers. During the
Y $50 Of his remarks, he paid just
i l.ghIy merited tributes to Presi-
Nenable for his effort to raise
II standard Of the University, and
| DPS. Hume and Battle. retiring pro-
/ 3rs, for their valuable apd unset
services TO the University and to
!, rari?us members of the class. Mr..
rker S:scA> somewhat as follows:
Prt:;H4nt Parker's Address.
pm the name of the Senior Glass
relcome YOU to our class day exer-
We have met in the old chapel
I'D the last meeting that our class
ever hold as ar undergraduate
b.. and it is but natural that on
OCCASION we should think of the
!. { that We have played while in
h. c-e and the part that we are yet
lay in the wider life of our State
-4 country.
I'm college, it has been u privilege
4Uell beneath the shades of this
Gent institution, TO enter into the
Grlt of its sacred tradition, to study
the classic atmosphere, and hear
.a words of truth and wisdom from
Ten whose lives have been conse-
gted to the cause of learning. And
a class we have ever stood and
rked for the progress Of the Uni
~.ty. In our sophomore year we
Jared against the b~arbarCus prac-
2 Of hazing. Last year we laid
lie the rancor of partisan politics.
ii We have ever stood behind the
.ivcrsity President in his effort to
lie the standard of scholarship and
c ideals of student honor. The prob
that confrOnts us now, however.
.-ot the part that we have played
Z the part that we r yet to play.
- question to which each of IL
tls, address himself is, what is the
educated man, and what part
.oui6 he play in the life of North
.rolina.
Education IS a system Of training
..eh develops the reasoning facul-
-. which stores the mind with use
. knowledge, and which. by hold
5 UP high Ideals of truth, of good
md of beauty, teaches the youth
. mind to move in loving harmony
natural law. The educated man
en- will be open-handed. he will be
oral; and he will be cultured. But
hat is he TO do with his education?
he to withdraw in scholarly Sc
usion or professional indifference and
Joy selishly his knowledge and his
Iture? Is he to give the guidance
his community into the hands or
VINO have neither his ability nor
s principle? It is his duty 10 en-
2 humanity into the life which other
lead and make himself a leader
public opinion. He is peculiarly
tied by his training to exercise that
of leadership which a Demo-
attic community demands.
old North Carolina needs all the
and all the devotion that her
juCated men possess. She is con-
'0nted by the most complex problems
ever troubled the mind of men
he first of these is to remove that
TO foreign ideas and the oppo-
Inn to corporate organization, which
lreatens to wreck the industrial pros
Gritty of the State. The second. n
ossibly the greatest of the problems
Conf0nt US is the increasing dis
for law. 1t is a fact which de-
wing does not help, that lawlessness Is
7 the increase in State. We be-
by ~lynching negroes guilty of the
2meless crime; we have ended by
'Hching a white man accused of muir
r0, who was under the protection OF
be law, whose sanity was open to
uestion. and about whose guilt a jury
his piers disagreed after q fair and
npartial trial. the third problem in
lF relation with that inferior race
mich Providence and the mistakes Of
Ur ancestors have entrusted to our
.eentng. The negro is here; and he
here to stay. And the cal negro
foolem is TO live beside the negro in
tace IN friendship-to keep the blood
Z the White race free from corruption
fHIe securing to the negro the oppor-
IA-tT 10 develop every possibility with
'4lcn the God of nature has endowed
u aid in the solution of these
l.1.ems is our duty as it is our
1iEt.ege; and let US not be dismayed,
s1h we find that our Well meant