The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-01


representative.
Music.
Baccalaureate address, Richmond
Pearson Hobson, Washington, D. c.
Music.
Awarding of medals, diplomas and
degrees.
Ushers: c. B. Jackson. M F. Hous-
ton, L. r. Hanna, G. l.. Moore.
logist Is recommending psychological
tests to determine what vocation in life
young man should follow in order to
make as we call it, success
A Utilitarian Age
THE age is unitarian age. The dol
lar mark is upon everything! Failure to
get along financially is unforgivable.
Your accounts may be right with God and
right with the law and right with your
wife. but If they are not right with your
banker. you are bankrupt.
I'm the old days the business of an ed
ucational institution was to make man,
to take him. to train him to feel and to
think and to have convictions Of right
and wrong, and to be willing to die the
death that the right might triumph and
the wrong be destroyed.
I'm the newer and more scientific age 1t
seems that the business of education is to
NAVE career-to take q young man
and at the loss of all of the higher and
finer and subtler sensibilities Of his ma
ture draw out that particular trait where
by ne can win success for himself and
abnornially develop 1t. In the old DAYS
this laid was filled with rounded men.
educated from the cultural viewpoint
who rolled along the highways of life
and in a good, old age rolled into eter-
nifty.
THE north is now filled with men
whose only knowledge of the scripture Ia
the statement OF the Apostle Paul: This
one thing I do" Specialists with the
rough corners of their speciality striking
against the rough corners of every other
mans specially, pushing. struggling,
striving to make a career. I see signs
that this Is to be introduced as a part of
the system of the new south; that educa-
tion shall have for its object not the MAX
ing Of man but the making Of a ca
reer and that career" reduced to it's
lowest term means cash" It is no DIFF
ncult thing in America to make a ca
reer l may enlarge the horizon. IL YOU
please, and eliminate the question Of
finance. l may admit for the sake of the
argument that there are other words he
side money which go into the meaning
Whatever
word may stand for education Is not nee
essary for its making. but education is
essentially necessary to the making of a
man. 1t Is good thing to develop the
material prosperity Of the state of Ala
bama. and to dig from its bosom precious
metals and to distribute from the store
houses or nature to the world the things
which God here garnered for the use Of
mankind. 1t is no bad thing for the
Clt1ZelIEhfr. to "a To ~
warded for all their toll of brain and
body In the accomplishment of these good
purposes for the human race,
But In my Judgment 1t will be serious
for Alabama should this venerable instI-
tuition turn Its face upon the sacred tradi-
tions Of the past. forget that its hiei, And
holy calling Yas the making of mer with
principles and convictions, and devote
itself exclusively to the turning out or
men who simply wish career and wish
nothing else.
Ktndlfness and Generously
There can be none too much of ease
and pleasure and luxury even in this
world, but upon the other hand. there
can be none too much of kindness. of
generosity, of fixed purpose and divine en-
deavor. Men may get what they want in
this world They may get it. but they
must pay for It, This university can send
out. if it will, another Rockefeller and
another Morgan. Will it be deemed lese
majestic If should say that in SO doing
1t will not have turned much out into the
world? 1t is good thing to live now.
but It is far better thing to live here
after.
History becomes more compact as the
age disappears into the past The judy
ments of your fellowmen In life are liable
to be erroneous. but the judgments of
your fellowmen when you are gone are
almost certain to be correct The book OF
remembrance is so small that 1t has not
had space to devote many lines to the
man who has lived exclusively for him
self, and none whatever to the man whose
only instinct Is financial. Who here can
tell me the name of the richest man In
Greece when Aristides made It JUST the
name of the richest man in Rome when
Augustus found 1t brick and made It
marble; the name of the richest man in
England when Shakespeare sounded all
the depths and shoals OF human passion
and made of the Elixabethan the one
great age of English history; who knows
even the name of the man who had the
most money when Washington's footsore
soldiery incarnidined the SHOWS of Valley
Forge: who the richest man In all the
southland when Pickett's brigade charged
tho bloody angle at Gettysburg; no one
knows and no one cares.
Value of University
Eyes. this university can send out an
other Rockefeller and he in his old age
and with a perturbed conscience may
build a seat of learning here in Alabama
where the millions wifi be poured like |
sand slipping through ones fingers, and
yet those millions can never, never buy
tine history of the Is years of the Univer-
sty of Alabama. This university may
train II 1t pleases. some yosng man who.
by his scientific research. will satisfy a |
or thousand, or a million peo-
pie that God does net exist. and yet the !