The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-03
DR.. Charles H. Small Delivers
the Address.
STRONG PERSONALITY.
Discusses Value of Right Kind
of Life.
Men of Conviction Who Have
Done Things in World.


dress was delivered by Rev. Charles
Herbert Small Of Cleveland, Ohio
At 1920 the trustees, faculty and
members of the senior classes of Wash
burn college marched down the aisles
of crowded house. A notable figure
among the trustees and faculty who oc-
cupied the platform was Mr.. A. c.
Stitch, of Independence, trustee Of the
college who is to give Washburn the
Fine Arts building which will be erect
ed in 1910. Those to receive diplomas
were clad in cap and gown and occu-
pied a section in the front of the hail.
After piano solo entitled Fri King by
Miss Euphemia Black Page who later
received the degree of Bachelor of
Music, prayer was offered by DR.. D.
NJ. Fisk. This was followed by THE
Sweetest Flower That Blows" sung by
the Washburn Ladies' Quartet. Presi.
dent Norman PlasS then introduced as
the speaker of the day a classmate of
his at Yale. now superintendent of the
Congregational churches of Ohio, Rev.
erend Charles Herbert Small Of Cleve-
land.
DIR. SmalFs Address.
DIR. Small delivered an eloquent adj
dress upon THE Power ofPersonality,"
which follows in part:
Members of the class Of 1908, friends
of Washburn college: We find our
selves in world in which there are
myriads of human beings. millions upon
millions come and live their lives after
you and 1 are gone. 1t would seem as
| though we were grain of sand on the
shores of eternity, and the question
comes. What does our life mean?' The
answers are varied. First-Life Is cap
able of development. It is vast I'M
| folding dealing with body and soul.
Whether we came from the Garden Of
Eden or from a geological garden is a
| question, but the fact Is we are here.
and capable of an unfolding of the
| soul into largeness of life and vastness
| of power-the power of personality.
1.-THE colored lad crawling under the
| sidewalk for the night held the soul I'M
| folding into possibility and power in
the personality of Booker T. Washing
ton.
ideas never march. 1t is the man,
the man with the ideas that marches.
1t is when the idea is embodied in flesh
and blood, personality that it has pow
does. -
put it in the hands Of the de-
baucher. and it tells an awful tale
Put it in the hands of the college
president, and it speaks language
of rich fruitfulness. Put 1t in the
money talks disaster. Put it in the
hands of the church and it speaks
beneficence and power. The power is
in the personality. It is an instructive
capacity. Some are born with grace
of body and soul and some must ac-
quire it. If one does not acquire it,
let him not think that family position
and ancestry will give him power. The
power of personality is in the in
dividual and not his father and
mother.
First. the thing that will give this
nprSOna1ify a q inf
and pure ideal. 1t is the men of con-
viction that have done things in the
world. The chief thing In the world
is not the success of an effort, but the
effort itself. Second, have prepara-
ton. You want to throw away your
books. I say so too. But buy
others. Keep on studying and prepar-
ing. And again, have eagerness. Let
nothing dampen your ardor. Go
forth with an intensity that stirs your
being to encounter. Study the eager
ness of Nansen, Wellman. Peary,
Livingstone, Stanley Then, there
must be conformity to the laws of
God and men. Our joy and freedom
physically comes from obeying the
laws of the body. Our joy and free
dom IN the universe lie in obeying it's
laws. -.-f
1.-THE industrial world is calling upon.
you. Your personality is going into
the industrial world to make the
power more complete or to solve it.
you go with your preparation and
the power God has given you to solve
it. Your country calls FOR your per-
sonality. The leaders of the nation
have been those with a clean rugged
righteousness. There is no better
field for patriotism than the world
of work into which you are going.
You can have your part in maintain
ing the glory and honor of your coun-
no Ind, cfr ioJ
need you and your country call you
but humanity needs you. The world
looks for you to bear your share of
the load, your burden in life, it's
opportunity, it's obligation. There are
the weak to whom you may give
strength There are ignorant to
whom you may give wisdom, poor
with whom to share your riches, de-
graded with whom to share your cul-
ture. Each is a voice calling to you
reckoning you on. Out beyond the hills
and the ranges is the voice calling
you and waiting for you. Col"
After the address President P1ass,
with the aid of Deans McEachron, Os-
born and Klingenberg, conferred the
degrees and diplomas. The degree of
master of arts was conferred upon
Louis Baxter Fritts, missionary to
India and unable to be present The
degree of doctor of divinity was con-
ferred in person upon Reverend Leon,
AuStill 0HdCke, superintendent OIL Con-
gregational churches of this state and
Reverend Charles Herbert Small of
Cleveland. who holds a like position
IN his state.
Following are those who were given
degrees:
Bachelor of Arts+Jennie Pierson
Arnold, Elizabeth Nichols Barr. Mary
Estella Bowman, Charles Arthur Boyd.
Arthur Jay Carruth, Lottie Catherine
Cell, Warren Woods Dunaway. Mar
garet Waite Foster, Ethel Evelyn FRI
zell, Mary Elizabeth Gall. Audrey were
Gardner, Willis Laiten Goldsmith, AL
bert Lincoln HOLSTER, Ralph Sherwfn
Johnston, Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld
Ethel Keller, Abe Lena Lux. Jose
phfne Yolande McCammon Louise
McNeal. Janet McNee, Reuben Henry