The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-02-19

Joseph Burlington, of the United State:
circuit Court, at the Founders Day
exercises at Lehigh University, PACK
er Memorial church of the Universit,
was filled with returning alumni fac
ulty. students, guests and toWnspeoDle
to hear what proved to be one of the
best addresses ever delivered at LIE
high. DR.. H. s. Drinker, president OF
Lehish, introduced the jurist, who
spoke in part as follows:
Taking into account grounds, build
1ngs, expenses of maintenance and in
terest on Endowment, the average AN.
er1can college has from two to three
thousand dollars invested in every stu
dent at graduation in excess of what he
mas paid the college. Now this large
sum comes from the outside world. 1t
Is freely given, but. gentlemen, it is
not given without obligation that there
should be return, not in dollars. but
IN men. And it is of this obligation Of
the college to return real men to this
great outside world l would speak to-
day, and this l have summed up in the
thought. THE Call of the World to
the College World"
And this insistence of the world
that knowledge renders useful results
has been the keynote of modern edu-
cation, and this it was that led the
practical mind of such world men as
Judge Packer to found here a practi-
cal school. He revered education, but
he wanted to make it a means, not an
end. He sought to breathe the breath
of practical, every day life into the
l1feless corpse of mere abstract erudi-
ton. And it Is the aspiration Of such
practical men that has largely given
the trend to modern eoucation
Now logically the very fact that
there Is worlds call to the college
shows that it is call not to self SER
vice (for that does not profit the world)
but to the world service. To me the
whole problem Of the college mans
relation to the world is centred in
stewardship. The possibility of service
is the obligation to service; existence
Is dedication to service and steward
ship is due service. For, mark you,
the very act of creation stamps the i'm
press of stewardship on the material
world. No liquid, or solid, no gas,
no air, was created for self-centred
use. The purpose of creation is to
obtain service. The earth to bear
fruit; the ore to yield metal; the fluid
and air to give power. And if this be
The memorable, universal fact in ma
terial life, suppose you that the crea-
ion of man, the boundless possibility
If his powers, meant self-centring or
Inspiration In Hard Work.
If you have agreed with the line of
ny argument it follows that, rightly
lserd, these college years are the ones
wherein your thought habits and your
life habits are moulded and get their
'et. l would have you understand that
hese years are years VI tremendous
Get that well grounded
n your mind, the purpose, the real
purpose, the opportunity, the privilege
If college life, and you have gained
lalf it's good. How can you do it?
Why, get close to some chap who is
making sacrifices to get his education.
Drink in his spirit and you will gather
What mean.
So couple up close to some man or
men who here in Lehigh are working
heir way through college. There may
,e more of them among you than you
NOW. For my own part, feel that
more than half the Joy and most of the
Inspiration Of my own college course
anne to me from one who, starting as
! newsboy and bootblack, worked his
'wn way through, and was to me the
most potent force to manhood. in my
ollege course. Second, take up your
ollege work, live your college life and
our after life with Joy and not in the
pirit of drudgery. 1 know of no more
asset. no more helpful thing
o self and others than that CHEEKY
pirit of optimism that grapples life
nd all Its hard problems IL CHEEKY
pirit. that has good sense as long as
me has to handle hot pokers to grip
hem by the frigid end. Walk on the
unny side Of the street. Learn to
make friends here in college by think
ng bit more about others; their hap |
'iness than your own. Learn to put !
he kindest construction on what 9th.
RS do and say, even If they are our
ivals. II they teach you here at Le-
Ugh, as I think they do, to cut out
riction and use lubricants in steel and |
ron, learn yourself that the cultivation |
# a CHEEKY, joyous optimism is the |
,est lubricant a man can take into life |
10 a life habit.