Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-29
GRADUATES GATHER
IN BARRATT HALL
Twenty-Second Annual Com
menoement of |. D. S. U.
Held Last Night.
WILL PUBLISH VALEDICToRY
Hebcr Bcnnion of Graduating Glass
Presents Strong Reasons WHY
Church school Is Best.

The twenty second annual com
mcncement exercises of the Latter-day
Saints university were held last nigh'
nj Barratt hall There were % gradn-
ates from the high school and the busi-
ness departments of the school
The leading features of the program
were the yaledictory by Heber Bennon'
Jr.. the address to the graduates by
president Richard w. Young, and me
numbers by Mrs. Emma Ramsey Nor
ris and Prof. Give.
The valedictorian chose Tor his theme
"The Church school system vi educa-
zion provides the safest kind OF school
training for Latter day saint children
After showing that these schools en-
deavor to keep in mind the highest
ideals OF educatlon-the development OF
characteristic went on to show that
both the faculties and the student Dou'
les IN these institutions were electiNc,
the first by reason of the hlSh moran
requirements in addition TO the pro
fossional demands OF other schools, the
second because of the regulations OF
the schools in regard to moral conduct
This point was followed up by tue
statement that the study OF theoloSy
acts as AN influence upon both teacherS
and students--all of which goes To-
ward the creation Of school Amos
phere In which it is good to live. These
considerations, the vaiedictorian con
tended, made the large expenditures ny
the Church for educational purposes
entirely worth while.
The paper was well received ana
pronounced by many TO be the best ar
Eument ever made by student toi
the existence of Church schools IN
deed. so great an impression ala II
make - President I.und and President
Young that they announced Just before
the atoso OF the exercises that they IN
tended to have the essay printed as
pamphlet and distributed among the
people.
RICHARD w YOUNG.
The address to the graduates by Pres
idont Richard W. Young was sGhoi-
arly and eloquent plea for the student
life. broadly interpreted. Not he alone
is a student" he declared, who, with
satchel and shining morning face creeps
unwillingly to school, but II must be
that this big world rs the object OF
serious study TO the infant meWilng ia
its nurses arms. The lover sighihe
like q furnace rs student OF poetry
that he may the more woefully make IA
ballad TO his mistress eyebrow. Tht
bearded and profane soldier studies the
art and science of war that he may
successfully snatch reputation even
from the lannon's mouth The severe
eyed Justice has been Il hard student
OF dusty books and n close observer
OF his feilow-men 10 become full of wise
saws and modern Instances. And so
as q man glides into the lean slipperod
pantaloon, and even further into the
last scene Of all, he observes, studies,
learns
IF were to flatter myself into the
belief" Prest. Young continued thai
] could possibly utter any word here
worthy OF recollection it would be that
] urged you to be thorough, to be ac-
curate, to observe the little things. The
dollars. II Is said, VIII look after them
selves, II we but look after the dimes,
SO with great enterprises. They VIII
work out successfully If we look after
the details. In history and experience
little things have exercised an effect
apparently out of all proportion 10 the
cause. The Stamp Act seemed tri-
vial measure. yet II cost Great Brit
ain an empire word is small
thing yet II viii gain or lose a friend.
it is no more certain that the ocean Is
made mp of little drops of water anu