Evening journal., 1910-06-06
MONDAY, JUNE 6. 1910
HAPPY COMMENCEMENT DAYS.

HAPPY COMMENLEMENl DAYS.
TT HESE arc hacyon days for the prominent
A citizens" of the lawyer and preacher type,
and those who bv some mysterious means are
entitled to apply the rather indefinite term of
lion" to their names For the annual COM
mencement season is on in some places and
will soon be with us in others. 1t is a great time
for hundreds of bright young folk and it ought
TO be for certain percentage OF fortunate
"promincnts"
Noted preachers will be called upon to dc
liver the baccalaureate sermons in colleges where
that task does not devovc upon the President
OF the Faculty. and the lawyers, many of them,
will be delivering the annual addresses. Every
Rpreachcr should be an inch or two taller when he
is invited to deliver a baccalaureatc address and
every lawyer should feel SO happ~ when called
upon to deliver an annual address that he should
mentally resolve to cut down his fees and leave
something for the stockholders the next time he
- Is appointed receiver for business concern
To the school and college world June should
be and often is as iovful as the Christmas season
that is, TO all the seniors who have passed their
examinations and are not in fear of the autOcraic
faculty. "\Nhat is so rare as dav in June.
they may sing And it is great occasion for
the professors and teachers bless them, for there
is no class of people in this age who do more
work and get less money than the teachers and
professors-professors of prize fighting and base
ball playing of course, excepted.
Then along come the wise editors and the bus
talk about the young graduate going to reform
tlic world They tell the Young graduate that he
doesn't know anything about the practical part
of life, and that the rah-rah will not earn him
dollars or cause him TO pass muster of the
stern boss whose sternness is more of a fiction
than a reality because if the Young is of
anv account the boss is going to grab him and
hug him. The boss is looking for this kind. l.
is fiction, the Young man who thinks he is go
ing to- conquer the world. If he has sensible
parents who tell him that after leaving school
he must earn his own living, he is not thinking
about conquering the world, but he is thinking
how he can adapt himself to the confines Of the
dismal boarding house after enjoying a free and
easy life in the fraternity house or dOrmitory.
But all that adjusts itself.
The boy lust out OF school is as sensible to-
dav and perhaps more so than ever he was He
ought to be happy for opportunity never beck
oned more alluringlv to him than at present. AS
a result OF his teachings he NAV have ideas about
honesty and decencv and uprightncss that will
be ioted in his contact with the world, the flesh
and the devil but he will learn in the long run
that fine qualities pay.
Let him listen to the good counsel of the ser
monizers and those who deliver the addresses
and then realize that requisite amount of nerve
supported by a more or less amount of what
passes for knowledge will carry him along fairly
well and enable him to earn his living. And if in
after years he get back to his college COM
mcncement in an automobile of sufficiently high
power and price. the professors will think
him qualified 10 be a trustee, an honor which
he would appreciate above all others