The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-06-18

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Albany, Ca; William Leonard Evans,
Louisville, Ky; Benjamin Allen Nor
ris Green, Mound Bayou, Miss; John
st. Anthony Green, Mound Bayou,
Miss; Birdie Henrietta Haynes, Hot
Springs, Ark. Lettie Kakaza, PIT. Eli
zabeth, Africa; Swan Marshall Ken
drick, Duncan, Miss; William Edward
Key, Helena, Ark; Alfred Garfield
King, Tullahoma, Tenn; Monroe Pat
terson, HARDWOOD, Ark; Daniel Thad-
deus Edward Robinson, Charleston, S.
c.; Alma Mabel Ross, Muskogee, Okla.
Helen Louise Shelly, Huntsville, Ala;
Virgil Ellis Ship, Hen%dersonville,
Tenn; Charles Webster Smith, Lynch
burg, Tenn; Jessie Breckenridge
Thomas, Lexington, KY; Charles La.
crosse Wallis, Camden, Ark; Howard
Wallace Warner, Atlanta, Ca; Jesse
Eugene Warren, Tyler, Texas.
Bachelor of Science-Zilphia lone
Chestnut, Wilmington, N. c.; William
Hobbs Childress, Nashville, Tenn;
Josephine Jeanette Davis, Louisville,
Ky; Minnie Sarah Douglas, Florence,
S. c.; Blaise Lionel Duhe, Laplace,
La; Robert James Ely, Lexington,
Ky; Leila Virginia Marshall, Charles
ton, S. c.; Ghretta Elise Scott, Flor
ence, S. c.
Graduate from the Department of
Music-Mamie Louise Copeland, Nash
vile, Tenn.
Honorary Diplomas in Music--Noah
Walker Ryder, Washington, D. c.
Magma Cum Laude-W. L. Daw-
son, ]. A. Green, D. T. Robinson.
Cum Laude-Sadie G. Binford, T. G.
Brock, T, M. Brumfeld, Zilphia l..
Chestnut, Jennie L.. Childress, G. E.
Davidson, Minnie S. Douglas, B. l..
Duhe, w. L. Evans, S. M. Kendrick,
w. E. Key, Leila V. Marshall, Alma M.
Ross, Ghretta E. Scott, Helen L. Shelf
fey, Jessie B. Thomas.
ADDRESS BY DR.. sILCoX.
Personality in Moral Reform"
was the theme of Rev. j.. B. SilcoX's
address to the graduating class. The
speaker emphasized the work of the
individual man, the value of the one
single strong man to the community
or nation. Back of every revolution,
every reform, stands some great,
strong man who is brain and consci-
ence to the cause. Communities stag
nate and degenerate without the quick
ening impulse of the individual. He
quoted as the condensation of his adj
dress, the principle enunciated by Ten
nyson, The Idylls of the King
" And sc there grew great tracts of
wilderness,
Wherein the beast was more and more,
And man was less and less
Till Arthur came
ct is most impossible to overrate
the service that one wise, strong man
can render to a community or nation.
The wisdom and courage of the one
has often saved the many. Every
great reform began as a conviction in
some one mans conscience. 1t is only
through noble personalities that noble
truths find expression. The great re-
generative forces in human society are
individuals. When you get the poet
you can have the poem; when the
reformer comes you can have the re-
form. If you want to succeed in an
enterprise put a man at the head of
it. The creative, initiative, determine
tive forces of reform are always per-
sonal.
Again and again, in the history of
the world, one strong man has stood
up and saved the Il as Elijah did
at Carmel, as Wellington did at Water
loo. When God is purposed to benefit
a people he capitalizes the forces Of
the movement in some n person who
is brain and blood to the reform.
All our advance in the sciences, all
our progress in the arts, all invention
and discovery, have come through in
dividuals. The real big thing is al
ways done, not by a society, but by
an Individual. 1t was not a committee
that built the ark. 1t was Noah. At
the head of all movements that lift
the world sunward stands SOM soli-
tary man as it's inspiration and con-
trolling genius.
"Back of all reform stands the man,
and back of mar stands God. The
worth of a college is certified to by
the men she equips for leadership in
science and craftsmanship, in divinity
and reform. He urged the students
to enrich their selfhood, to augment
their manhood, for back Of all life's
problem lies the problem of the indi'
vidual. A marble palace cannot be
built of mud bricks. To make the ma
ton intelligent and Christian we must
make intelligent and Christian the
men and women who compose the ma
ton.