Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-25
Efficiency" Qualities for Success.

IF 1 were called upon at the outset
| to give you in word the necessary
requirement for a successful life,
would say efficiency. 1t is the watch
word of our day and generation. Never
before in the history of the world has
| it been required in such superlative de-
| gree in all departments of activity.
| This world is not the world upon which
your fathers entered. Within the lifetime
of many here today complete revolutions
in the moral and physical worlds have
deavor which has seen forward
movement which has literally changed
the things that touch our lives, and
problems of state which we inherited
from the past have been brought to
solution.
These accomplishments have required
a high degree of personal power and eff
| ficiency.. But the permanent good accom-
plished in the world is the result of the
effort of those men who went forth re-
solved to live lives of service.
| THAT there may be sustained and con-
sistent effort on your part in the service
to which you go, your training mere, IN
this institution, has been of that high
character which will enable you to carry
the most beneficent and useful gifts to
| humanity.
| Creativeness VS.. Destructiveness.
| BE creative, resourcefuI. and do not
| play for fame upon your powers to de-
| stroy. In your Investigations of old
truths in your search for new ones, carry
with you an openmindedness, in order
that you might escape the pitfalls OF
prejudice.
BE not simply an image breaker. tear
ing down those who have succeeded. fault
finding or critlcising your seemingly more
fortunate fellow-man.
/ There is no spectacle more disappOint-
ing than the trained man who sees moth
ing of merit in his professional rivals.
and who has mistaken idea that he can
best succeed by seeking to beIittle them.
1T is my earnest hope that your train
ing will not make you seek the retreat of
cloiStered walls or cultivate reserve which
Keeps you from direct contact with your
| fellOw-men. Learn to live as much as
possible in Gods out of doors. Commune
1 with nature; keep in touch with living
things.
Your place in this fight must be in
the van. The command Forward" must
find you far in the front, fighting for
those ideals taught here
Degrees Are Conferred.
At the conclusion of DR.. vernon's ad-
dress President Thirkield conferred the
degrees upon the graduating students
The degrees conferred were as follows:
Bachelor of arts-Charles W. Barnett
Joanna NJ. Berry, Norma E. Boyd, JON
athan s. Butts William c. Chase jr.,
Joshua W. Clifford, James F.. DagIer.
Ethel G. Jones. Leroy E. Jones. julius H.
Love, William A. Love. Reginald L..
Lynch. Sarah n. Meriwether. Frederick
!, d. Morris. George W. F. Oldham. Ernest
NJ. Pollard. John c.. Ridout, Carrie E.
Snowden, Howard H. Summers Har-
riet J. Perry. Wexford r. Wilson,
Bachelor of arts and teachers diploma
, Henley l. Cox, Sadie B. Davis. Bertha
Hanson. Rufus J. Hawkins, Alice P. Muir
: ray, Phoebe E. Perry.
Bachelor of pedagogy-William r. Will
liams, A. b.
Bachelor of divinity Anthony Deans,
John c. Diamond. John T. Jackson, Lloyd
Doctor OF medicine-Charles A. Alien.
John Harold w. Ayers, Joliet c. Bagley,
A. B.; William Henry A. Barrett Henry
C. Bembry. A. B.: Edward Eleazer Best,
Harold NJ. Braithwate Clarence F.
A. Coleman, Michael NJ Edwards, John c.
Ellis. Alfred w. Harris. jr. William j.
Harvey. jr:, A. B.: George Fl. Haskins,
A. B.: William F. Holmes, IL B.: Walter
Mcdaniel, Edward s. Mason, Clemente
B. Mercado. Henry l.. Muckleroy, John
W. Pierce, a. B.; Christopher NJ. Rouhlac
, Walter l.. Scott, Raphael Stella, Roscoe
Doctor Of dental surgery-James B.
Brown, Joseph B. Cherry, Conrad f
Clarke, Carey V. Freeman. William d.
Giles, William D. Godfrey. Gene B. Cog.
: gins. Adolph l.. Hymans. Andrew l..
Jackson. Isaac NJ. Lawrence. B. A;
George F. Lumsden. Phar. D.: Moses A.
Morrison, B. s.: Egerton l.. H. Rance.
Park Tancil, Anthony V. Washington,
Linford r. Willis.
Doctor Of pharmacy-James H. Bynum,
, Reginald Q. Campbell. Sherwood H. Cat
lett. Enoch w. Dickerson, Robert f.
Giles, Arthur 8. Gray, LII. B.; James L.
! Hathaway. Nathaniel G. Minton, Frank
H. Weaver.
Bachelor of laws-J. Fenwick Bush,
George w. Blackwell, William r. Black
we'll James E. Floyd. Elijah. J. Graham,
. jr, Robert l.. Harvey, Tommie L. Hig-
gins, John G. Hodges. A. B.; Joseph ii.
i. ii. Johnson, Isaac e. Mason, Jesse II.
Mitchell. Brown w. Payne. A. B.: Charles
E. Sexton, Wilfred F. Shelman, Jerome
B. Smith. Clifford H. Tavernier. Walter
r. Taylor. A. b., A. M; John W.
Thomas, John B. Thorne. Andrew d.
Washington. John w. White, Ralph w
White. A B.. A. NJ.
Funds Low, But Bills Paid.
At a meeting of the board Of trustees
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