The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-21
CLASS DAY At
Mining COLLEGE

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good rosewood desk, n new typewriter
a fountain pen, lots of linen wove pa.
per and leisure, has ii in his power tC
make a great literary reputation fol
himself, If he can only think of some
thing to write" J had everything OF
the list with leisure in abundance. but
| for the life of me | could not qualify
i'm the last item. Here was my first
ambition blasted. Dr. Koenig knows
that as student the rhythm Of pen
than the sizzling jet on an ugly piece
of charcoal i'm a blow-pipe analysis, OF
the homely bubbling of H2O in a cast
iron tripod. After a whole course
under so good a teacher as DR.. Koe-
mig my chemical knowledge was sum-
med UP in these few words, so sweet
yet so sad:
80, come where the cyanides silently
flow
And the carbonates droop DER the
oxides below.
Where the voice of potassium is
heard on the hill.
And the song of the silicate never
is still.
Come, oh come.
Tum t. tum tum,
Peroxide of soda and uranium!"
And yet, and yeti say il more in
joy than in angcr-they gave me the
degree of NJ. E-+Mining Engineer.
rather thing that Or. Koenig and
others of the faculty of science would
have agreed to still further distin-
guish me by adding r. |. Pre-
quiescat in pacem."
My first personal appeal to you is
that poetry is a good antidote for in
somnia-a joyous pastime, but it is
not a passport to prosperity. 1t is
said that men should eschcw evil ana
do good. Rather would | advise YOU
60 eschew poetry and be good lest you
fall victim to the wrath of the gods
and it is written in the scripture "ro
him that hath shall be given, and to
him that hath not shall be taken away
even that little nothing that he hath"
At the risk of being charged with
egotism | am going tc give you the
next step in my career. Opportunity
opened the door to me in the offer OF
n position as chairman on an engi-
neer corps i'm or near New York. In
this work, AZ soon appealed very
strongly TO me (and because of that
fact I want to appeal very strongly
TO yom, that my college training gave
me no knowledge of the practical
things in life. l could lay out a pipe
line on paper, but could not Law that
line on the ground. l did not know
how To handle the tools, how to lead
joints and a hundred other things that
an uneducated workman, little above
the scale of n day la'borer, knew all
about OF equal Importance and of
greater regret to me was the evidence
that not having mixed with working
men / was not competent TO handle !
them. was not i'm touch with them |
and did not know how to discriminate !
between men. To do good executive |
work one must know men. We cannot |
handle men properly without knowing |
hem. We can never understand men
through the study of books. All the |
colleges in the world could not have |
aught Napoleon that rare faculty by |
which he placed the right man i'm the |
light place and at the right time.
Ability is broad term. We have
he ability of the student to reach tho
highest place in his class; we have the
utility of the scientist TO uncover the
hidden things in nature. of the inven-
or TO put that knowledge to practical Il
nds and to advance the progress of n
he world. We have the ability of the
ngineer who designs n great bridge; Il
# the architect who plans a building;
he sculptor and the painter: the poet i
nd the author: the editor, the finan-
Ter and the business man: but that
bility which is to be most desired:
hat ability which IL is within the
over OF almost all men of common
ense to cultivate; that which repre-
ents the we'll rounded man. the high
st ability of all. Is executive ability. IA
is far easier to find men who can
o good work than to find mon who
now how to make others do good
'orle. The man who WORKS does only
ne mans work, while he who knows
ow to get work out Of others does