The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-06-04

vas presented 10 Corporal steele % os
tividel among his squad
TIE Lowing cadets because o. .
a-oneiency in military training, Vili .
s. specially mentioned 70 the War !
where their names VIII .
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Exercises Begin.
II vas shortly after II o'clock this .
mcrnins when Col j E. Edgerton
mounted he rostrum OF the Academy
auditorium and announced that the
graduating exercises would begin
Seated upon the rostrum, handsome IN
regulation blue uniform, was the en-
tire faculty; President Craighead, OF
Tulane University, and Norton Mich
OILS. valedictorian.
The invocation was delivered by
Col. Hardy. after which Col. Edgerton
introduced the speaker of the day DIT.
Craighead. In prefacing his remarks
President Craighead took occasion 10
refer to Columbia Military Academy
as the greatest school for boys in the
entire South" He deplored the fact
that the distance Of the school from
his own home prevented his sending
his son here.
President Craighead then launched
into his subject, speaking eloquently
and earnestly. and at times relating
a humorous anecdote. He carried MS
audience with him in that peculiarly
magnetic way which is his own, point
ing out to them the necessity for en-
tering life with the right purpose In
view.
Have a purpose in life" might be
considered the text from which the
distinguished educator spoke. And in
handling this subject he presented
some striking examples of those who
had set their aim high and had climbed
to the mark. 81 knew boy once who
said that he would be a governor and
he attained his ambition, for he lived
to become the governor of one of our
greatest commonwealth. knew an
other boy who said that he would be-
come a United States Senator and he
did. And there was another. Today
he is shooting the female rhinoceros,
on Sunday, over in Africa, SO the news
papers say. In relating his experiences
with life he has declared Il started out
with the determination to become
president of the United States
knew that the only way to get there
was to go to the Spanish-American
war and | went" This reference was
to President Roosevelt.
DR.. Craighead spoke of the magnit-
cent strides which the world has made,
but he declared that the fact that a
man could today call up friend
thousand miles away over the tele-
phone, or could ride at the rate OF
sixty miles an nour upon a train, did
not entitle him to say that he was the
superior of that other man who had
learned his lessons by the light OF
pine knot. There is no real progress
without moral progress. No real ad-
yancement without individual strtv-
ing he asserted What would it
profit us to gain the whole world and
not gain real and larger life for our
serves" he asked.
He referred to Abraham Lincoln,
reading his Plutarch by the feeble
blaze of pine knot; of Socrates go
ing barefoot through the streets OF
Athens; of Christ and his humble de-
meanor in life, as examples OF true
greatness worthy of emulation. And
he declared that 1T is possible that
though our works have grown greater
within the past few centuries, we our
selves have grown smaller"
DIR. Craighead declared that the
generation paid to human worth is
ever new to the hearts of men, and
that no age was greater than those
that came before except as its men
were greater.
Il can stand anything but an idle,
lazy boy with no ambition he said.
And he agreed with Carlyle that that
man was worth while who could buy
and sell and skin an OK we'll" Presi-
dent Craighead concluded his address
with an eloquent peroration, that
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