The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-12


been with Us through four years Of
struggle, to help, to encourage, to
point out the way. Your interests
ana enthusiasm have never waned,
even though our own sometimes has,
and now that the time has come when
We ara to go forth from under your
direction to put into practice those
things which we have learned here at
college, to play our part in the game
OF life, you are here to Join with us in
our class-day exercises ana to bid us
God-speed on our way. We are glad
to welcome you here, and we thank
you for the Good-speed and good
wishes which will follow US as we
leave our alma mater.
To the Underclasses
Members Of the underclasses. we
welcome you to our class day exer-
cises. Today marks for us the end of
our four years Of endeavor. You are
still upon the way. Tomorrow we
must go. leaving all the things of COL
lege which have meant go much to us
In the past four years. We leave
them, the time honored traditions of
our university, in your care, knowing
that you will cherish them and be
faithful to them until the time when
you too shall say farewell to your
student days.
Parents and friends Of the grad
yates. citizens Of North Dakota, you
who have fought to wrest this western
country from wilderness and make
Of 1t prosperous state, with graft
tude and pride we bid you welcome to
have maintained upon this western
prairie for your sons and daughters a
university upon which you may look
with pride. You have given to the
young people Of this state the OPP
portunittes Of a college education and
all that It means both in the learning
Of books and in the wider and cleaner
view Of life which such an education
gives. All that the university has
comes from you-citizens Of North
Dakota.-the only return which we
can make to you Is that of service
to our state, citizenship that shall
stand for honor and loyalty.
Our student days are over and we
are going forth to prove ourselves
worthy Of the sacrifice which you
have made. We are eager to prove to
you that the sacrifice has not been in
vain. And so today, as we stand up
on the borderland Of the yesterday of
college days and the tomorrow Of that
larger life, looking backward with
feelings Of regret and forward with
feelings Of hope and confidence we are
glad that you are here to rejoice with
US and we again bid you-faculty,
alumni, fellow-students and friends
of the university-a hearty welcome
to our class day exercises
e.. The, Valedictory.
The valedictory was delivered by
William Greenleaf. It was a master
full statement Of the obligations of
the college graduate in the activities
of life. The address In full was as
follows:
We have come to turn in the
road. We have reached a parting Of
the ways. We who stand looking in
to an untried field, into that bourne
from which no college traveller re-
turns can realize today as we never
knew before, the responsibility of the
college graduate. Because of greater
opportunities, the college student has
greater obligations than have other
men. AS we look for the last time
into the eyes of fostering mother
who has cared for us, who has led |
us onward, who has given US the
knowledge of a strength that is with
In us, we solemnly appreciate the fact
that of all our responsibilities, of all |