The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-02
PALM IN HIS WAY
DIR. Loveland Wanted Room to
Deliver Address to Graduates. I
Offending Plant Taken Away
and Then He Talked.
THREE MAKE TALKS.
Justice Mason to Lawyers; DR..
Porter to Doctors.
Washburn Commencement Well
Under Way.

Il
Under Way.
| to remove a huge palm which screened
| the center of the chapel rostrum at
Washburn college this morning, DR..
Frank Lafayette Loveland launched
into his address to the professional
graduating classes and delivered one
OF the greatest speeches ever addressed
| to body OF graduates at the local col
| lege.
Having for his subject, 1.-The Obliga-|
| tons Of Greatness" DR.. Loveland, once
he had the classes under his eye, en-
phasized upon them the trust imposed
| in them and the worth expected OF
them.
"Only per cent of our people ever
go to college" he declared, land from
those per cent come 80 per cent of
| the worlds leaders.
ITO you graduates I would say that
| the world looks to you for more than
your professionalism.
| ITO you lawyers, / would say that II
| you are merely lawyers, then you are
| failures.
| "And to you doctors, if you are only
| practitioners, you, too, will be failures"
| But he qualified his admonition to
| become leaders by drawing line be-
4 tween right and erratic leadership and
/ thinking and therein lay the strength
1 of his address and charge to the grad
| yates before him.
The speaker ridiculed the popular as
sertion that to be leader person
| must necessarily be a crank, holding
| that a crank is an erratic man, VINO
| lacks balance-a monomaniac. A man
may as well condone himself for being
/ a lunatic as a crank, he declared. Good
intentions, he argued, would win no
lawyer a case or cure patient Tor
| the doctor.
| "Principles," he said. afford easy
/ and obvious rhetorical treatment at
| very little expense of thought or brain
| sweat and, therefore, are very popular
with the professional takers and walk
| ing delegates" NarroWness in every
| branch fell under the speakers lash
| and his closing exhortation was for the
exercise of good sense.
Justice Mason on Courts.
| Justice Henry F. Mason spoke to the
law graduates particularly on 'NThe
Courts and the Public" dwelling large
] ly on the criticism of the courts.
| THE criticism of the courts by the
people at large is not yalueless,'' he
said, but it may be too bold. 1t must
| be remembered that court in making
| a decision on a certain matter may
have to exercise caution in avoiding an
infringement on some sound rule not
altogether applicable in the matter at
hand.
/ 1T is a wide contention that the
courts decisions should be dressed in
such a manner that their contents
might be as well appreciated by the
people as by the lawyers. Undoubtedly
this would give them a clearer under
standing and lessen criticism.
4 THE only person who is absolutely
barred by legal ethics from criticising
decision Of a court" declared the JUS
tice to hte graduates, lis the attorney
for the defeated litigant. He may not
challenge the wisdom of the court
During the course of his speech, JUS
tice Mason declared that the safest
thing in the land was to criticise the
II decisions of the courts because no
member of any court ever attempts Il
prosecution of the guilty party.
DR.. Porter to Doctors.
Talking to the young doctors, DIR. NJ.
G. Porter spoke on the topic of 1.-THE
Young Practitioner" Curly he told
the young fellows the answer to thai
spectre before them-How are We GO
ing to get patients and get their con-
L fidence? Deserve them" he said
He told them their relation to their
professional brothers was the most
important matter of all, for, he said,
the iaity would judge the doctor ac
cording to the estimate placed upon
him by others of his own profession.
The speaker asked himself the ques-
ton, why is the medical profession
in its fight against diseases SO bitterly
opposed by the pubiic?'' He said the
public readily accepted any form of
curative medicine, but resisted all pre-
ventiye measures. The greatest good
the medical profession can do, he sug-
gested would be in creating a senti-
ment for the preventive treatment
The program for the anniversary
of the professional schools was embel-
lished by numbers supplied from the
music school. piano solo by Miss
Pleasant King and a vocal solo by
Miss Marie Wickwire and piano
octette were the numbers.
The program follows:
Professional.
northumberland Frank Theo-
dosius Lee, D. D.
Piano solo, valse in c sharp minor
Chopin Pleasant King.
The faculty address in medicine,
1.-The Young Practitioner''-Melanc
thon Cameron Porter, M. d.
The faculty address in law, 1.-THE
Courts and the Public''-Hon. Henry
Freeman Mason, B. A, justice of the
supreme court of Kansas
Vocal solo, Hearts Springtime -
(Wicked e)-Miss Marie Wickwire.
Address to the graduating classes,
1.-The Obligations of Greafness''-Rev
Frank Lafayette Loveland, D. d.
hoven)-Misses Hobson, Weber, Seeds
and Townsley.
Benediction-Rev. DR. Love1and
The medical school will hold its an
nual banquet tonight at the Unitarian
church at 912 Topeka avenue at 7
O'Clock. The laws had their banquet
at the Commercial club rooms last
night.
IS QS at KanGaS