Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-08

OF Utah: This Is a proud day for You
who are receiving the certificate OF
educational attainment IL is proud
day for this institution, which lends
the seal of approval to your college
work. 4; Is a proud day for your ia
theirs and mothers. who have awaited It
with a concern and interest second
only to that of your own; II Is a proud
day for the State OF Utah.
standing today. as you do, on the
threshold of LIES realites-ambitlous
eager and confident-with all the grave
problems before you. 1t Is in addition
to day OF congratulation, an occa-
sion FOR serious. sober reflection: and
hence. IL is customary that each gradu-
ating class shall listen to words OF wis
dom and exhortation from those
capabi of inspiring them to a realiza-
ton of their position in society, be-
cause Of their superior educational at
tainment
81 must ask for Sour attention. not
under the pretext OF regaling you with
an elaborate discourse on some selected
theme, but rather to bring TO your no.
tice a few topical subjects, in the dis
cusslon and consideration OF which
some practical good may result.
Il do not. assume that any one OF
YOU is self-complacent to a degree that
removes all doubt of success. But l
do know that as a rule, the stern re-
dIlltS ol me CONQUEST tpult as "a
rude awakening to the college Ideals.
Association and environment. while one
Is engaged in the business Of securing
an education. combine TO divert from
the practical considerations Of life
Every person says Gibbon, has
two Quotations; one which he receives
from others. and one which he gives
himself
"That you have received your educa-
ton up to a certain point is evidenced
by your graduation today. That you
will continue TO educate worcestershire
future alone can determine, of this,
however. you may be certain: Your
education has only just begun. Whether
your college training ends here or
whether you pursue 1t in the famous
institutions of the land, you will leave
the theoretical phase OF your educa-
ton To take up the practical duties OF
life. There you will find that ability
and fidelity will ever go hand In hand
as the two principal essentials To sue
cess. Upon your natural capacities,
faculties and talents, coupled with all
the dexterity. skill and readiness you
may acquire. the grade Of your em-
employment viii be determined. Upon
your fidelity to employer and interests
viii your advancement and the perma-
nency of your employment depend.
LOYALTY AND HONESTY.
ability to grasp and handle a situa-
ton with faithfulness, integrity and
fidelity 10 the interests involved is a
quality that denotes power. Failure is
spelled for the most able man IL he
displays the traits Of disloyalty, dis
satisfaction or deceit.
Ability is the ship Of life In which
each individual embarks for the voS
age TO the port of success. Fidelity Is
the ballast which gives uprightne5s,
NtFl h
out fidelity Is like the ship without bal
last. Therefore loyalty is ndispensi-
BILE to success
"'This above alto thine own self be
true;
And it must follow as the night the day.
Thou canst not then be false To any
man
II deplore the modern tendency to
ape individual peculiarities In persons
whom we may chance to admire, and
the itching desire to show worldly pos
sessions. exhibited by the weak-minded
Ia imitation of those who can afford
luxures.
ut ~ impossible that for long there
can be more than one person subiimely
ignorant of the foolish spectacle OF A g.
posing individual, incorporating in
the personality OF another as a preoe-
cupied being, intensely engrossed In
abstruse problems-full OF affectatton
and sham. II l. inevitable that unrea-
soning assumption. manifested in reck-
less extravaganza, will lead to sorrow
dishonor and disgrace.
INDIVIDUALITY
II admire the individual who. with
a due regard for others and a high
sense OF right and justice. plays his
part i'm the drama of life as real be
ing--proud Of his entity and supremacy
jealous of his divine personality.
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every human being. and the man who
is content or ambitious To ape, intel
lectually or socially. shows scant respect
for his own Individuality II is unreal
and insincere and strikes at the very
foundation OF character. II is the aping
of those who can afford luxuries by
those who cannot that destroys careers
and brings ruin and desOlation to fami-
lies and homes.
You will understand what ! mean
by aping Every good trait possessed
by man is worthy OF emulation. Emu
lation OF qualities is an evidence of
greatness. Servile and irrational imita-
ton of the characteristics and social
standing of others is an admission of
inferiority.
''Thackeray dressed this thought in
these beautiful words:
Might ! give counsel TO any young
man. l would would say to him. try e.
frequent the company OF your betters.
In books and in life that Is the most
wholesome society; learn to admire
rightly; the great pleasure OF life Is
that. Note what great men admired.
they admired great things; narrow
spirits admire basely and worship
meanly'
"rhat men apes who. at the expense
OF the neccssaries OF life INDUCES the
theaters. the resorts and the places of
amusement: that woman apes who, Mt
the cost OF savings for the future. wor
ships at the shrine OF fnery and pa
radcs in delectable buds; that man apps
who mortgages the home and his in
come 10 ride In an automobile for
pleasure: those who live on tea and
crackers six days a week in order II
indulge n wine supper on the seventh
day are In the senile stages of ape
hood; that man apes. who, reading OF
great combinations of wealth, proceeds
TO orga nize and promote a $1,000 900
corporation on a questionable 500 enter
prise: and who. like the inancier he
reads about. must maintain n suite OF
magnifcentlv furnished offices, give
wine dinners and make show OF af
fuence And the pity OF It All is that
he apes at the expense of those who
can III afford 10 nay his eytravagant
price for prettliy decorated stock Ger
tificates.
CURSE OF SNOBBERY.
"You may wonder at my reference TO
this matter on this occasion. but in all