The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-03
IMPORTANT WEEK
FOR UNIVERSITY
commencement Season Begins
With BacCaIaureate Sermon
by Rev. Benz. Young.
GLASSES ATTEND SERVICES
ERlSIS EXPECTED TODAY IN
LoNG-FOuGHT BATTLE.
GLASSES ATTEND SERVICES

The thfrty-eighth annual commence
ment OF the University of Utah began
last evening with the baccalaureate serv-
ice I'm the First Methodist church. The
program will be continued throughout thu
week. Today college seniors will give
their class day exercises IN the assembly
hall at IL o'clock This is one of the most
enjoyable events of the week The class
has an unique program to present. In
the evening the senior ball will be given
in the gymnasium.
A meeting of the class was held yes
terday afternoon and the matter of at
tending commencement was brought up
President ]. T. Kingsbury gave the grad
yates a lengthy address. Another meet
ing was held after the baccalaureate SER
mon at the residence of one of the grad
yates. A final meeting will be held today
before the class day exercises at which
time will come the crisis of the long fight
waged between the seniors and the school
authorities, in which the seniors have re-
fused TO graduate with normals The
matter must come TO a head at today's
meeting, as it is the last chance of the
graduates to stand by the agreement
reached early in the year or to attend
commencement They must decide today
before IL o'clock because the board of re-
gents must be notified at that time, or the
diplomas will not be prepared.
Services Well Attended.
/ The services last evening were well at
tended and the large auditorium was
filled with the graduates. students and
friends of the school. The music was
delightful. W. s. Lamoraux of Logan
sang a solo which was exceedingly well
rendered. The subject of the sermon,
which was given by Rev. Benjamin
Young, was Equipment for Service His
address was extremely interesting and in
structive.
Dr. Young spoke from the text. who
knoweth whether thou art not come to the
Kingdom for such time as this?'-Es-
liner w.. H. He said:
The Making of History.
"A character and crisis make history.
The question OF the Jewish diplomat to his
queen suggests that character and crisis
as to how she had assimiated the wis
dom which past experience had brought
10 her Here was an opportunity for serv-
ing the highest interests under heaven.
kMomentouS were the consequences of &C
Ttion. Had she the equipment necessary?
Was she ready to serve contemporary life?
Her ability to cope with an intricate sit
hation was shown by subsequent events.
I'VE live in an intense age. The sue
rcessful life must be pitched to a high
key. Competition is keen and vigorous.
Civilization is highly complex and delicate
in organization. This is an age of vibrat-
Ing machinery and narrow margins. The
contest of life is greater today than at
any time in the past. Not in reality,
only in analogy can history repeat itself.
Evidences of the fervency of modern life
can be found in every realm of thought.
1T is revealed in pathology and in phil
osophy; in theology and IN sociology, New
or such strides OF progress. Shall we cry
against this? Shall we array ourselves
On hostility to the onward spirit? Would
this be wiser If so then we could with
the same reason inveigh against the law
of gravitat1on, cry halt to the tides
as the oceans swell kisses our feet. To
be defiant in the presence of reSiStless
law is to play the clown in the sanctuary.
1t will be far better to study the law
which is back of all this movement and
endeavOr to get behind phenomena that
we may know that which has been mani
Tested. Who knoweth whether thou art
not come to the kingdom for such time
as this" The power of your assimila-
ton viii be the measure of your sue
cess. Your ability to apply and TO make
practical acquired wisdom win determine
the quality of your contribution to his
tory. COleridge planned for years Sc
ries of great essays and grand epics, but
splendid equipment but he loved metaphy-
steal fog and wasted energy and time in
building dreamy castles.
Each Has His Place.
. 'The dreamer has his place and the
man lost in speculative philosophy finds
i1nis place. but the directors of our civilI-
cation are the men who have the ability
to convert static wisdom into dynamic
power. 1t is very well TO put emphasis
upon the ingetting of knowledge, but no
less stress must be put upon its applica-
ton. OF what avail is knowledge if it
does not come out in progressive and
transforming power? Polish and discipline
the mind but above all forget not the de-
mands of the modern world, the inten-
sity of its life, the subtlenesS of its forces
and the urgency of its problems. A stor-
age reservoir is a good thing when it is
provided with headgate for letting out
Its Ife-giving flood so that the wilderness
may be transformed to a garden blossom
ing with fruits and flowers, otherwise
1t will become the stagnant lake breath
ing out disease and death into the atmos-
phere. This acquired wisdom is TO be
turned toward the solution of the prob
lens which menace society or guided