The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-09

schools, wit an aptness to teach that
gave him high rank as an instructor,
and with a sympathy for those who
sought his aid in threading the laDy-
rinth of the most bewitcing Of the
sciences that relieved work Of it's
}tedium and the daily task of its irk-
someness. he did a service for our
alma mater and for many of US that
we should never forget. It is today
one of my chief pleasures to weave
the garland of my affection, esteem
and loving remembrance around the
name of Daniel Arlington.
J To this trio of goou men and true,
I beg your indulgence, while yet an
other name is added. In the rush
and greed of this strenuous modern
life, it is most refreshing and lnspir-
ing to find a soul that can rise above
| the low level Of sensuousness and
avarice; and unmindful of temporal
success and earthly fame, seeks and
finds the walk in the higher spheres
of the intellect and the spirit. He
gave himself and his talents to the
service of Newberry college without
material reward, standing always for
the beautiful and the true, a delightful
companion, loyal friend, and hum
BILE Christian. May the wild flowers
that he loved so well ever grow and
keep fragrant the spot in Rosemont,
where rests the mortal body of Or
lando Benedict Mayer. If Newberry
college had lived only long enough to
give to US these four men, her exis-
tence had been fully justified; but
when we reflect upon her assured per-
manence, who is confident sufficiently
Of his own powers that he would esti-
mate her worth to future generations? {?
Let US indulge the hope today that,
| before many years shall have passed,
| two more halls will adorn the college
campus, bearing the names of AIRING
ton and Mayer Let them, with the
two already there, stand upon the four
corners of sacred quadrangle where
in none may enter who values self
above service and prefers superstition
and slavery to enlightenment and
| freedom.
The causes that have given US
Newberry college are those that al
ways and alone make for the safe ad-
! vancement Of civilization and the true
elevation of the race. When primitive
man stood face to face with the
strange but beautiful creation about
him, the thrills that ran through his
being must have early awakened in
him the desire to know his environ
ment and to surmise his destiny. In
his circumspective and introspectiVe
moods there must have flashed across
his puzzled brain CLEANS of the ideals
that were to draw him ever onward
and ever upward to the dizzy heights
we now inhabit. Nor is it strange that
in his bewilderment, he should have
given to these ideals "a local habita-
ton and a name" Being child in
experience, to him the abstract was
inconceivable and only the concrete
was a reality. When he would define
his conception Of heroism, Of physical
courage, and Of patriotic devotion to
home and country, he embodied his
! ideals in all Achilles, a Diomede, and
Hector. When he would exemplify
his children the qualities that make
his notion Of cunning he fashioned
| Ulysses. When he would teach
one great, he told them the story Of
| Hercules and his 1abors.
These are now but myths for the de-
light Of the schoolboy; but when given
their proper place, they become the
first efforts of the spirit to shape the
impulses of mans desire and search
| to learn the truth.
simultaneously, from another land
there began to flow a stream of ideals
which were to supersede all others;
and become in modern times the
source Of all great power, the inspira-
tion of all great hopes, the instrument
OF all great achievement. The shep-
| herd watching his focks by night on
the hills Of Chaldea, and contemplate
Ing the vast universe above and
around him, caught gli1npses of what
lay hidden, and set in motion train
Of thought that finally brought forth,
as it reached the peaks of human Wis