Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-15

of life. Only a small number of the class went to college or pursued any further course of education. Most of them plunged at once into the days work and in the years that have elapsed I have lost sight of many of them, and they of me.
 Youthful Compassion.
 remember very vividly my feel ing of compassion for those unfor- inmates in my audience who had never had glimpse of the Latin gerundive, or of the wonders of laboratory physics, whose benighted views of political problems had never included the Illuminating pages of Political Economy, and who knew nothing of the mystic relations of supply and demand. I felt that the world was waiting to see what in tended doing with it, and nobly re- solved that in spite of my superior advantages I would lend a helping hand to the backward world and endeavor to lead it to a higher plane of living and thinking.
 I had no available means with which to take college course. Per haps I felt somewhat surfeited of learning. It is certain, however, that having reached the mature age of eighteen, I then contemplated matrimony as an early possibility and east about me for some material means of attaining that desirable end
 In the course of two years there after, discovered that the world had not waited for me on tiptoe and did not give much consideration to my superior intellectual equipment. It greeted me with the same harsh requirement which it imposed upon all other boys, namely, that I should earn my way by making good. In the course of two years I acquired good old friend, who offered to help me through college, and I learn ed that a college course was the particular thing I wanted My mat rimonial ambition had been blasted.
 Hast Childhood Toys
 So l was enabled to go to college l left Ohio and followed the Star of Empire Westward to Stanford Uni versity, where I spent four happy years of work, play and discovery, at the end of which I took my plunge into the "cOld. cold worldi' On a beautiful May morning, about thirteen years ago, and my class mates attended our commencement exercises and received our coveted sheepskins. In deliverig them to us President Jordan said: "Today l give you the last of your child hoods toys, your college degree. It will not help you much in life"
 It was not long before I diseov- cred that the world had not even noted my advent and did not care much whether I sank or survived. It meant nothing to it that I had writ ten prize essay on the protective tariff. The fact that I had been an intercollegiate debater mad at traeted no notice whatever, much to my surprise. I found that the busy old world whirled along with en- tire indifference to me, and I must learn to breast the swift current or sink beneath it. And thus I en- countered by real commencement
 What I have said is not to dis courage the advantage enjoyed by the members of this outgoing class of 19,O, but rather to emphasize them. You have finished an admir- able course, with credit to your teacn- CTS and yourselves. Tomorrow your ways will divide, and heneeforth will increasingly diverge. Such is the way of life. You have completed one of the happiest periods of your lives, the memories of which will al ways remain sweet and vivid. You have formed friendships which will