The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-30

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going to take application and persis-
tonce to pursue your course of study
with credit to yourself and with credit
to your parents and your friends. I
doubt not that today you have mind
to work. There is not young man or
woman here today whose mind is not
made up to work and win. There are
strong enthusiasms stirring in your
heart today, this first day of the col
lege session. Oh, I would that you
could keep hold on these enthusiasms,
and that you could cherish these royal
purposes all through the year, and not
let 80 Of them for a single day! You
are starting right. Keep right! and
keep right on, and work as you will
wish you had worked when commence
ment time has come.
But we have a strong, unusual con-
idence this morning that this is what
you mean to do. 7 say s'unusuaP' con-
fidence, because we never were as sure
of the quality of our students, in mind
as we'll as manners, as we are at the
opening of this session. Newberry
college has never yet been called on
to apologize for its student body. Just
the other day receive a letter from
lady whose son is registered as a
student here today, who said, II am
sending my son to you at NeWberry
college because I know it is a safe
and splendid school. I have known s
great many students from there and
entertained them in my home, and
have always found them to be Chris
tian gentlemen" And We are proud
of that. We have had reason to be
proud Of each successive student
bodies. But We are unusually proud
of this one. During these opening
days you have completely charmed US
by the ease with which you have set
tied into your places, as well as by
the plain seriousness and enthusiasm
with which you have begun your work.
And it augurs well, tell you, for
the session of 1910-11. And I repeat,
we start the year with perfect conf
dence that the results of the present
session will be far above the average
in growth of scholarship and growth
of character.
What T want this morning is that
you should have this confidence in
yourselves. AS I looked on at the
"Passion Play at Oberammergau this
summer, and saw what wonders those
simple peasants had evolved from
their simple genius, I learned as I
never learned before the great lesson
of human capacity. That word "cant"
is block-head word. You can, young
men and women-you can if you think
you can!
You will make mistakes. But never
mind them. The man who doesn't
make mistakes never makes anything.
Josh Billings says: Success don't
konsist in never maxim blunders, but
in never maxim the same one twict."
If you have work to do, do it, and
save yourself the fretting over it. Re-
member that we are here primarily
for work and not for play. There is
no place on the schedule for the man
who loafs.
Work will win it's average is sure,
He wins the fight who can the most
endure;
Who faces issues-who never shirks,
Who waits and watches and always
works.
Above all we are ambitious that you
should be upright, clean Of character,
men of honor in the very least thing
to the greatest We are Christian peo
pie We believe in character above
culture. To be a Christian is greater
than to be a scholar. We are ambi-
tious for your intellectual growth, but
We would rather see you ignorant AMI
a Christian, than the wiser man is
Christendom. But the doctrine Of
Christian education is that We can be
both, Christian and intelligent Moth
ing is higher than character. The
other day President Taft declared in
Cincinnati that there was more salts.
faction in being upright than in being
president. Nothing is dearer to you
than honor, and that is why I believe
that the honor system in college is
one of its best marks of merit.
In conclusion, We wish you, young