The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02
TOM M'NEAL'S ADDRESS.
Tells Washburn Students What He
Thinks of Education.

The graduation exercises of the
| academy took place at the Washburn
| chapel last night. The platform was
| tastefully decorated with palms and
evergreens interviewer with wild
daisies, and suspended above the ros-
| trum was the emblem of the gradual
ing class 1909 also in daisies. /.
| the evening. He said in part:
| Il wish I could tell the members of
the graduating class just where the
rocks are along their path, but it has
| pleased the Creator to make one indi-
vidual different from another. and
what will apply in one case will not in
another A mother who had a num-
| Der of stalwart sons IN speaking Of
| them said that none of her children
We're alike except William, and he was
| just alike
81 am fairly grounded in the opinion
that each individual should work out
for himself his own destiny. 1 do not
climbing, character is developed and
| one comes out of the fire finer and
cleaner But anyway, I go up against
this. sort of a problem that my tastes
and desires may not fit a single one
| of those sitting behind me.
The question now comes UP as to
whether we should spend four more
years in study. That can't be an
question what is your object in life :?
For long time it was dogmatically
| asserted that you can't make a whistle
out of pigs tail. One man went to
work and upset this theory, but that
wasn't important after ALL The Ques-
| ton was whether the experiment was
worth the time.
"It is probably true that there are
people who had better be contented
with a meager education rather than
to try to spend their time in attempt
| ing to get higher education, when as
| matter of fact they are better cal
culated to do some other work. I am
a thorough believer in the wisdom of
somewhere in this world there is a
work into which each of us will fit
The speaker then asserted that there
are many educational institutions
where the instructors are simply edu-
Gated FOOLS and while they may have
| had the advantages of an excellent
training and education, still they may
lack the qualities necessary to the
proper instruction of the students I'M
der them. He did not put Washburn
college in this class. but on the other
| hand recommended it to the favorable
| consideration of the graduating class.
| 1.-THE question as to what you should
do" continued Mr.. McNeal, depends
! upon what your object is in life. If
you are going to pursue the almighty
| dollar you must go out with your eye
| concentrated on the dollar. There is
not a single great captain of finance
| who is a college graduate with the
possible exception of ]. P. Morgan
and I am not sure about him. They
| worked up from the bottom and con-
centrated their minds on the one thing.
| There are after all a good many things
that are worth more than wealth. As
rule the college graduate is not
wealthy although he is usually COM
fortably situated. His mind has de-
ve1oped along other lines.
| None of US know just what we can
accomplish until we try, but energy
without common sense to back it is
wasted force
| Two musical numbers were rendered
| during the evening by Miss Hulda
Chaplin and Miss Marie Ziegler.
| Robert Fry Clark. principal of the
academy, stated that the graduating
class had in many respects been a re-
| markable one, having won many hon
| ors. The honor student, Ralph Lemon,
had been so fortunate as to have Sc
cured a scholarship for the ensuing
Dean D. L. McEachron conferred
diplomas upon the following gradu-
ates: Rae Adams, Henry Wallace Cor
bett, Amelia Irene Courier, Rena Au-
gusta Eddy, Lavanche Hardick. Melvin
| Orlo Johnson, Helen Evelyn Johnston,
Robert Hills Kingman, Ralph Waldo
Lemon, Mignon E. Logan, Inez Mabel
| McMahan, Frank Morgan. Olive Belle
Rude and Mildred Hood Taliaferro.
| Those who received class honors
were: az
/ Fourth year-F'irst rank, Ralph
Lemon; second rank, Mignon Logan
Third year-F'irst rank. Arlie Scott;
second rank, Bessie Allen and Finney
| Markham,
| Second year-First rank. Mabel
Thresher; second rank, Carl Guild.
| First year-First rank, Margaret
| Owen; second rank. Olive Carkuff and
| Grace Guild.
! DIR. Wilson S. NayIor of Lawrence
university, Appleton, Wis, will deliver
| the address to the alumni at the chapel
tonight The meeting will be open to
| the public.