The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-20

your tastes and aptitudes for biological and chemical research. Do not be entire ly discouraged. It Is the province of genius to overlay obstacles. Some ac- curate. but apparently inconsequential ob- servation you have made, under difficult ties. may prove of surpassing interest and importance.
 Like Saul of the olden-time who went out in the morning to seek his fathers asses, and found a Kingdom, you may return from some of your exeur- sions into the domain of biology, bring ing in your hands the guerdon of health and happiness for suffering humanity.
 "Aller anfang ist schwer' says the Ger man adage-everything beginning is hard; but things that are difficult at first become easy to the trained intellect and the prac- ticed hand. Do not allow the difficulties of beginning to deter you from engaging in the pioneer work of original research Your predecessors honored you by leaving much work in this line for you to do. Some terra incognita, in the realm of medicine, you must open up. Like vikings of old in voyages of scientific discovery, your keels must ploy the wa- ters of remote and lonely seas. The blood that courses in your veins answers the call of thousand years of high endeavor and glorious achievements in science, ut- erature and arts, and arms In this, your chosen field of effort, you must do your part to augment the sum of hu- man happiness. and reduce the volume of human misery. Influence which this in- stitution has thrown around you gives guarantee that the demands which the age will make upon you will not be made In vain In your lives. gentlemen, the wis dom and the virtues of the noble men who have here labored unselfshly for your advancement will burst into flower and ripen into fruit. See how high you may build the monument that commemor- ates the glory of your alma mater, for from it's lofty summit, your honor shall blaze like a beacon light.
 Finally, young gentlemen, take heart and hope for the work that lies out before you. Rich in every attri- bute of glorious manhood, strong of limb, trained in intellect and resolute fin heart, you face the future with un- daunted spirits. Die zukunst Is fur sie-- the future Is yours
 From such commanding eminence as you occupy tonight, the poet sounded the bugle note of progress in the thrill ing words:
 Not in vain the distance beacons, for
 ward, forward let us range Let the great world spin forever, down
 the ringing grooves of change.
 '"You, gentlemen. heirs of the past, hope of the present, guardians of the future; sh ould look well to it that every change shall mark improvement re- dounding to the honor of your profess sion and the well being of the human race.
 "So shall the averaging Nemesis of deterioration be forbidden to dog your footsteps; so shall your destiny be full filed"
 Presentation of Diplomas.
 When pr. McWhorter had concluded Dean Wyman presented the deplomas to the graduates in this order:
 John Clifton Anthony, Alabama; No Ian Ray Curtis, Mississippi; Reul Cleve- land Cleere, Alabama; James Robert Chandler, Alabama; Clifton Edward Clayton Alabama John William Black, England; James Calvin Basbtn, I,eujs- lana; William Madison Dinsmore, Ala bama; Edward Waters Gray, Alabama; Robert Lee Hill, Alabama; James Henry
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