New-York tribune., 1910-06-24
MAYOR TALKSAT c. c. NY.
Bids Graduates Remember Their
Obligations to This City.
DUTIES OF EDUCATED MEN
More than 5000 Persons See
los Members of 10 Get
Diplomas in Great Hall.

Mayor Gaynor delivered the address 10
the graduating class at the fifty-ninth COM
nencement of the College of the City Of
New York yesterday morning.
The exercises were held IN the Great
Hall, ST. Nicholas Terrace, and were at
tended by more than three thousand per-
sons. in addition to the 1o6 graduates The
Mayors remarks were informal and i'm
promptu- He said, in part:
We all know that this is the College Of
the City of New York. and l hope you
young men will go out thoroughly I'M
has done for you. This is the city's col
iege- 1t is almost entirely supported by
the City of New Yolk-in plain words, by
the taxpayers and the rent payers.
They, through this college, have given
you this splendid education, equal to that
to be obtained in any college or, university
in the land. You know what that carries
with it. You educated men still owe a
great obligation to the community by rea-
son of the education you have received
proper use of those talents. This is true
of you in q tenfoId sense, when you reflect
actually been given to you by the people
of this great city. 1t will stamp your en-
tire life and furnish the predominant mo-
dves of your life.
Wherever your lot may be cast, whether
you intend to stay here in this city, al
ready crowded, or settle elsewhere, remem-
munity
For this reason enter legitimately into
public affairs. 1 am not encouraging you
to become politicians or officeseekers, but
1t is the duty of all men, and doubly SO OF
men like you educated at the public ex-
pense, TO give a certain amount of your
time to the common veal. As you go out
into your communities, assist in public az
| fairs, at elections and in selecting proper
persons to hold Office.
You are intelligent beings and to do your
full duty you must rise higher than the
ordinary. level, whereRall prejudice Is ab-
soluteIy, gone Test everything by the
ing for granted. Follow nobody and shout
for nobody until you have tested the ideas
satisfied that it is the proper thing for
you to do.
Do not say: Il will not help that man
That is degrading. A man may. Be a Der1,
ocrat or Republican without having coIo
feet: You should never descend to that
level If you believe in the principles or
the national platforms of the Democratic
or Republican party that has nothing to
do with how you shall vote for mayor,
into national politics broaden out and sup
port the principles represented by your
party with all your might.
Be simple men Do not have pride. A man
who has inordinate pride. has no charity
whatever he does not treat ANYBODY @ I'll rignt H.
have inordinate pride but this, is all the
more reason why you should try and curb
yourself.
Treat everybody we'll. You will often back
slide, but every morning promise that you
20. Lord. save me this day from being
proud and arrogant, because | am only
little man here with other men,. This is a
and and viii III probably do the others good
The vain man never reaches the highest
point in the professions, II is the sismPie
IL Do Cd %
simple life. Do not arrogate airs to your
self because they easily slide Off Go out
of here with no notion that you are learned
men, and that your educationo is complete.
Any one who thinks so had better stay
here three or four years more Keep on
studying. To get a lasting reputation in
yer. or clergyman, you have to literally toll
all your life.
Following the Mayors address, Edward
NJ Shepard, chairman of the board of trus-
tees. was introduced. He congratulated the
class Of 10 that its members were through
with college; that they were fitted, in point
of learning. discipline and the stronger fac
ulties for work to meet the storms and
difficulties in this world of effort
He further congratulated them that they
had now come to a place of troubles and
hardships which had to be faced without
the guidance under which, while in school
and college, they had striven and made
their every effort. In conclusion, Mr.. Shep-
ard said:
Fortunately for you, for your character
and for the ripe happiness of your later
years all these troubles lie before you.
The bread-and- butter problem for yourself
and those who are dear 10 you is the one
that comes first. Then the larger prob
lens, and If YOU should live to reach a
hundred years of age there may be days
of still enlarging vista and problems still
to be solved. In all that you will find your
happiness-you will find your best and