The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-28

as it always does, to man VINO IS
breaking ties which have been weld
ed together with hooks of steel, and
who is throwing the dice, and stak-
ing his all, upon new and untried
The best and most fatterlng
fdence that the game has been
:. ed with some degree OF success
>, 3 credit, is the fact, that am
l. today, in such an honored ca
y.
gSke useful and pleasurable years
eh I spent among you, as student
IA teacher, are still fresh in mind
nd furnish delightful subject for
memory to dwell upon More con-
j genial pursuits, shifting scenes, new
surroundings and the leveling in
fuences of time, have not erased from
that memory the feeling, that old
Newberry, after all, has the most hos
;pitable people in the world.
I wish to thank my comrades OF the
Alumni association for their kindly
, attitude, and to say, that am hatter-
ed beyond my deserts in being thus
invited, a. second time, to appear, as
your commencement speaker.
When I remember that the theory
and practice of medicine are not con-
ducive to oratory or purely literary
DEVELOPMENT; and that the giant
strides OF Newberry college have fill
ed her rolls with many who, by spe-
cial training, are better fitted to do
greater honor to them and the insti-
tuition, at this time-I would be
ashamed, under such conditions, to
own a heart so cold, as not to beat
high, in/grateful appreciation OF such
{ a tribute.
Exploiting the Ego, in speechify-
ing. as in ordinary 'shop talk" soon
grows monotonous and pales upon
ones hearers, but only those ignorant
Of the tender chords-Woven of a
thousand strands-which bind teach
er and pupil, through school and aft
er life, would be.so uncharitable as to
yeto Just one more personal allusion.
mt of you know, the worthy
i PRESIDENT of Newberry college,
Whom we are ali expecting
Rch, once sat at my feet, as an
Sent and receptive pupil. Soon
his election to that exalted
ka, I wrote him congratula-
Bite and, like Cassius (without
ky and jealousy asked him up
ht meat he fed, that he, thus
lad grown so great and bestrid-
- barrow world like a Colossus,
4 Sass old teacher is obscurely
around under his huge legs
dishonorable grave.
IRE w:ll be no hide-bound sub
pEiency to any text but today's
limadversions will centre, mainly,
Eround 'Some Of the Essentials and
RESPONSIBILITIES of the Twentieth
@Century Alumnus A character in
<fFelix Holt" is made to say that there
are two ways of entertaining an aud
ience: Zone is to tell them what they
don't understand; and the other is to
tell them what they are used to- In
following the latter method, it is pos
sible that you have had, from time to
time, on these occasions, a surtelt
OF advice along the lines that We shall
travel over this morning. You can
not be reminded too often, however,
that where much has been given
much will be expected. So long as
any community has better scholar
or citizen. among the uneducated,'
than the college graduate, there is
need of the word which spurs the
Sambition and stirs the latent ener-
4 gies.
A trustful and receptive mind, un-
der the spell of most modern lectur-
ers and platform orators Will soon
land one into a state of morose fore
boding, if not a species of actual coma
4 over the present status and future
%outlook of this country. He will in
evitably conclude that he has fallen
hpon evil days; that no star OF hope
konger beckons the "Mill-boys OF the
6lashes," the canal boat drivers and
ail-splitters, on to glory and the
highest posts of honor and useful
ess; that there is no more room ex-
fept at the top, whose dizzy heights
hn only be scaled by those
Messed with silver spoons in their
or by that vague and mys-
II ferrous few, often talked about, but
9tarely encountered, in every day life,