The San Francisco call., 1910-05-16

Committee on alumni headquarters-
Prof NJ. w Haskell.
Music commiftee-Prof r. +. Scholz,
Greek play-Prof. James t. Allen,
intercollegiate Ralph p. Mer-
ageant-Homer Boushey, ex-'O1.
chairman: Robert Moulton 10, chair
man students committee.
Press-Wells Drury. secretary Berke-
ley chamber of commerce
Sermon Given Beneath Oaks
BERKELEY, May 15.-Under the oak
trees lining the south side of the Uni
versity of California campus, before a
crowd of several thousand, besides the
vile Eldredge, pastor of St Johns
Presbyterian church of this city, deliv-
cred the annual baccalaureate sermon.
The services were to have taken place
in the Greek theater, but in view of
warm weather, which had heated the
stone seats to an almost unbearable
temperature, President Wheeler sug-
gested the oaks as the proper place
for the ceremony. Led by President
Wheeler, Professor Chauncey w Wells
and Doctor Eldredge, the senior class
assembled at the North Hall steps at 3
o'clock, marching in body to the oaks
near the Faculty club, where, on a ris-
ing knoll, they were seated while the
sermon was delivered.
The music for the afternoon was rem
dered by the Orpheus club of Oakland
under the direction of. Edwin Dunbar
CrandalI. The chorus rendered the in
vocation, The Worship of God and
Nature Beethoven and the Pilgrim
chorus from 'Tannhauser." Professor
Wells read the lesson from the scrip
ture.
LEARNING TO LIVE
Doctor Eldredge chose a his topic "A
Tribute of Goodness" He said in part
You, members of the class of 1910
have been for four years learning
how to live, how 10 do this and how
TO do that. how to think your way
along straight lines, how to put >
into the cleareSt and most direct
language the things which you
have learned; you have been learn
ing the best methods of life. BY
the aid and advice of your in
structors you have been assembling
and putting together the machinery
with which you propose to do your
life work. Today that enginery
your duty is to use it.
What shall be the motive power
which shall make this splendid ma
chine go, and to what work shall it
be turned?
Let loyalty to goodness be that
motive and let loyalty to goodness
suggest the work which Is to be
done.
Thus will you be restrained from
all perversity and meanness and
the glory of any life where it is
found. Whether our age has less
or more of this heroism than other
ages is probably impossible to say;
but. whether we have less or more,
we are still sadly deficient in it,
More than we need any kind of ma
any kind of physical welfare. do we
need heroism that springs from a
loyalty to goodness. and which will
live for the good and die for it.
Look about you. Who are the
men who are the pillars of the
great temple of our races well be-
ing? Not necessarily the men of
the greatest intellectual acumen.
There are as keenly int llectual
men in the cells at San Que, tin and
Folsom as there, are in the. pro
fessional chairs here in Berkeley.
They are not there simply because
they have keer minds. but because
they have n2t che counterpoise of
good hearts These are not here in
their places of dignity simply be-
cause they have great acumen. but
because we lave reason to think
that beneath their keen minds
there are good hearts.
Let the people discover that the
occupant of some seat of honor is
unquestionably bad at heart. and no
matter how high he may be- they
will pull him down with loathing.
and account him meaner than the
dullest.
We rest our hope upon our good
men. Whenever we find a man of
that type we look to him with all
to carry heavy loads: and we say
his strength is as the strength Of
ten because his heart is pure.
you upon pont Of aw an count 90 yoae
self fortunate if you can find a man
whose knowledge is broad and deep
and thorough. But however great
your trust wholly in that mans
advice until you know that he is
good man. a man of pure heart
and devoted life. Law is ideally
codified justice, and only man
who is himself good and true can
see through the tangled meshes of
precedentS and rulings and deter
mine what the point is upon which
the matter at issue will turn and
at last be brought to decision The
good can see farther than the bad
and the just can see the ways of
Justice farther and more clearly
than the unjust.
And in matters of religion. what
part does goodness. play? There,
too, we recognize that 1t is abso-
lutely fundamental
The world waited for Christian
ity- to teach it that Righteousness
Aand goodness are inseparable Re
ligion could hardly be great
moral IOICe 10 the greeks, Tor IN
stance, when even the gods were
conceived to be grossly immoral.
A man who in those DAYS aspired
after the highest life, set his pur-
pose far higher than godlness. If
he were To be good he must be bet
ter than the gods.
But how different is all that to-
day. We demand of the religious
man that he shall at least show a
growth toward goodness, and If he
does not we Scoff at his religion
and brand him hypocrite.
Lodge to Parade
BERKELEY, May Is. lie Conte
council of the Royal Arcanum will take
a prominent part in the jubilee parade
to be held under the auspices of the
university and Berkeley fraternal or
ganizations next Tuesday night.
The plans of LIE Conte council include
three decorated automobiles, as well as
as number of other features.
Frank NJ Schoonover is regent of the
local lodge, and the committee In
charge of parade arrangements is com
posed of C. w. Brock, Herman S. Walch
and w. r. Wright.
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