The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-03
CLOSING DAY
AT THE APT.
Dr.. ThWing Addresses
Class.
MANY RECEIVE DEGREES
Fine Speech at Auburn BY Ohio
Man.
president of western reserve Univer.ity
stresses the Resources Of Nature
on the Young Men
Graduates.
Bf rARLEroN COLLIER.

Auburn, June 2.--(Speciai.) Com
mencement season is past, with its
glory and its sentiment. Alumni have
been made today, and in the making.
The class OF 1909 is sent out in the
world, equipped with each, his diploma,
the lever whereby to move the world:
for their evident hopefulness shows
them the essential fulcrum in sight.
A. long, single line OF cadets, clad In
the grey and white of the dress occa-.
sion, formed itself on the campus to-
day at II o'clock. where each year. at
the same time. a similar line 10
stretched. 1t was longer this time
than ever before, for the graduating
class OF 1903 Is. of its numbers. rec
ord-maker. Presently they counted
off--"one, two, three, four" There
were eighty-six, all members OF the
senior class, who. within the hour,
would be seniors no longer, but alumni.
They were an enthusiastic body.
these graduates. as they stood, await
ing the order to march within Lang
don Hall. A cheer and song ripplied
down the line. and were caught up by
ALL,
The cadets stood at attention while
the faculty passed before them, and
then, swinging into pairs. fell in be-
hind And the end Of the thirty-sev-
enth commencement of the Alabama
RolyLecAn1c INSTITUTE uhQ uc6 uAts
impressive Exercises.
The exercises were held in Langdon
Hall--impressive solmn, and yet joy
Gus were they, fraught with mystic
essence that made of each of the
youthful engineers, and chemists, and
agriculturalists sink. for the time, the
reasoning that comes Of four years
of technical training. into an an I'M
polling idealism.
mi ~ &n "a ruA NJ
they saw, for 1t was that prospect that
Dr. Charles A. Thwing. President of
Western Reserve University and COM
mencement orator, held before their
eyes in one of the most eloquent ao-
dresses ever heard here.
1t was of the resources at the hano
of the college graduate that DR.. Thwing
spoke. The resources which are ms
possession because he has been trained,
Tor four years, to acquire them.
The appreciation Of nature, OF art, OF
literature, as resources from which 70
draw for q glortons life; the friend
ships acquired In college as q WONDER
ful resource confidence in ones self
instilled by schooling, moral govern
ment and religious culture-it was OF
these as resources that ne spokee
~ might interpret your thought re-
specting the wealth you have In the
appreciation Of the natural world = said
sF5r. Tkwffig Mature first awakens IN
the behoider wonder, which, in turn.
becomes the material for and the moth
er OF poetry, and, secondly, she quick
ems curiosity. which in turn becomes
the inspiring force Of science.
mature makes her appeal to the
will. too, as q source and emblem OF
mower She addresses herself, more
over to the aesthetic sense as the I'M
age ana the inspirer Of the beautiful.
Under each part OF this quartet OF rela-
lions nature offers friendship In poetry
nature is interpreted as suffused with
vital spirit, to which man may hold
relation. In science, nature shows her
worth as the beneficiary OF man. In
her power, nature Is manifest as the
origin of the forces making for human
welfare, comfort and upbuilding.
am beauty and its appeal to eye
and the general heart of man, Nature
presents great consultations and IN
spirations. In each OF these relations
nature has become resource 10 you
whence YOU have acquired strength TOT
doinr. forbearing and for the enrich
ment of character.
Riches in Literature.
"The' second form of the riches wnich
belong to you as a college graduate Is
found in literature. Literature mas In
various languages, been large snare
Of your study. - The p1oslepHy, :"
novel, the poem, the history! VIVA.
one man, what all men, have been and
have done, what the imagination ere
ates of romance and of song! the
book as a friend is a great resource
one might speak of book as a source
Of knowledge. Let me interpret II as
4 source and resource OF frinedship.
II have already referred TO the
= greatest scientific man of the last cen
fury as finding restfulness and refresh
ment in music. I may also refer to
Darwin as finding resources In litera-
ture.
Perhaps some one would say that q
yet richer resource lies in the great
poem"
Naming examples Of great men, and
their devotion to books and literature
he spoke of Macaulay:
1.-The one man in all history, think
who found books the richest resource
was one who himself was a maker OF
books" he said. ION his way out to