The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-06-26
ADDRESS TO s. s. G.. GRADUATES
BY HON. CHAS. F. ENGLE, 'O.3.
Annual Address Delivered By Former Well
Known Collegian, Now Of Natchez Miss
He Said It Was Necessary to Turn to Self
and Cultivate Self in Order to Achieve Sue
cess Spelled With Capital "s."

One of the happy events which
marked the closing exercises of ST.
! Stanislaus College was the delivery
Of the address to the graduates by
| Hon. Charles F. Engle, of Natchez,
| of the Claas of '93. The Echo has
| the privilege of reproducing the adj
dress herewith in full:
Il fear that after the flattering in
| PRODUCTION | have received that your
) hopes have been raised too high, and
you are doomed to disappointment,
and that when l have finished you
will be somewhat of the mind of the
| old lady who all her life longed for
th4 sight of a hippopotamus, and felt
that she could die happy could she
only once behould the graceful crea-
| ture. In the course of time a travel
! ing circus came to town, and she had
a chance to gaze to safety upon the
animal of her hopes and dreams,
which she did, and then turning to
those near remarked in a pitiful tone
My, amt he plain
| Mr.. Engle then spoke of how six
teen years ago he was graduated
| from st. Stanislaus College, and the
| thrill of pride he felt at receiving his
! diploma but his vanity, however over
| shadowed all else when he thought
OF his photograph in the annual cata-
logue.
He spoke of the appreciation of
the addresses made by the graduates
today and how fitting he considered
the address "The South's Gift to the
men should be taught to take pride
in the Southland and in the deeds
of those valorous dead who had gone
| before He spoke also of hte advant-
age of holding up for emulation the
glorious deeds of other days, and the
appropriateness of the address on
True Nobility Then, after some
| further remarks along these lines,
he spoke as follows:
when | received the invitation
to address the graduating class of
this historic college on this occasion,
the fifty-fifth annual commencement
| of an institution the fame of which
| lies not in magnificent edifices,
! colossal endowment or the grace and
| favor of fashions votaries, but in the
charter of the self-sacrificing men
| who guide its policies and watch over
| its progress, and in the worth to
society and civilization of the young
men they yearly send forth to battle
for success in life's great arena, l
| felt that the invitation could not be
| declined nor lightly considered. 1t is
custom hallowed by age and sactified
| by long usage to have the graduates
addressed on an occasion such as
this, and have often wondered if
| the situation is not more humorous
than serious. The idea of any mere
|
or inspire CLASS of newly made
graduates. 1t seems that the Off
GERS of the colleges and universities
should know that graduates are of a
superior order, and, at least,at the
moment they are graduated, all the
themselves-they recognize it, and
Yet this patent fact seems to be
overlooked by all save the graduates
thmselves-theys recognize it, and
hence the sublime resignation and SUI
perior indulgence with which they re-
ceive reams of advice dinned into
their earns each recurring commence
ment.
However this may be, shall take
advantage of your courtesy to say 10
you some things which have occurred
to me as not altogether inopportune
at this time, especially as | am some
what in the humor of the negro ell
der who commenced his sermon with:
"Brudren, | feels eff I could talk mo
good en- five minutes dan l can do in
a year"
81 have read somewhere the SEN
timent:
I'm youth the thought of life's me-
ridian seems
The end of action and blithe heart
dreams;
In middle age we see, through wist-
full hope,
The MONDAY lingering on the sunset
slope
Youth, tbs true, is the season OF
dreams, but if you would have those
dreams come true, you must make
of youth a time of worth and work.
You must live up to the adJuratlon,
Il Whatsoever your hands findeth to
do, do with all your might That
man who negledts to do hts very
best with the snaall things which
] come his way, and waits ever for the
great opportunity when he shall dis
tinguish himself. vii. unfortunately
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