The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-06-09
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Univer.
sity Of California to Graduates.
COMMENCEMENT DAY At UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
Exercises of Occasion Are Held and Thirty-Two Young
Men and Young Women Are Invested With Honors
1 Won By Years of Study-Address Is Best
Ever Heard in University Hail.

man. Milard S. Bullerdick, Florence
Elizabeth Catlin, Isma Caroline Eidell.
Jessie Hanon, Ethel Grace Hughes,
Abbie Catherine Lucy. Charles Stew
art MCGOWAN Mildred Alene Me-
Gregor, Gladys Ann Mclean. Mary
Lucille Marshall. Lucia lone Rofe,
Martha Edith Rolfe degree to be con-
ferred as of the class of 1910, Mar
jorie Ross. Lillian Williams.
For degree of bachelor of science
| Arthur Fowler Bishop Eva NJ Coffee,
Mary Erod. Hugh Temple E'orbis.
Mary Hansen. Massey Sandcrson Me-
Cullough, Harvey George Spencer.
Mary Edith Steele.
For degree of bachelor of science In
engincering--Oliver Raymond Dins-
more. Frank Elliott Gleason, Harry
David Maelay. Stephen James Rear
don. Morton Dixon Simpson. Ralph
Wallace Smith, Charles Henry Hoff-
man.
DIR. Wheeler spoke In part as fol-
lows:
1T Is with great delight that | ad-
dress YOU this morning. This Is my
first visit to Missoua. and | am a
stranger: but ! feel at home In a
university Your problems are ours,
they are the same everywhere, they
are the problems that are making the
world interested. In our work. Moth
ing is more representative OF Ameri-
canism than the state universities of
tile great, glowing west. SO 1t is that
am glad to be here. am glad to
because of President Duniway Il has
been said that If people treats it's
college presidents well 1t is q sign of
civilization. From what / hear | un-
derstand that you are moving In ways
of civilization.
And civilization is what I am GO
Ing to speak ahout-that intense. Pc
culiar civilization which goes under
the name of AmerIcanism. My sub
ject Isl What Is Americanism?
Americanism floats too easily from
the lips of the demagogue. II is used
too often and too generally. Yet in
II way II is peculiarly fitted for the
demagogue. for 1t IL hard to speak of
1t without falling into self-approba-
tion. II has been said that we Amerl-
cans think TOO much of ourselves.
do not doubt 1t: I think we do.
Il am not going to say things this
morning with which you viii all agree
If | were to do that ! might just as
well not have come all of the way to
Missoula. The orator who spends his
time repeating the thoughts of others
might better have stayed at home. He
Is creating nothing.
"'What Is Americanism? That
Americanism which has its seat In the
west. And what are Americans? Is
1t matter of race or descent? We
call ourselves Anglo SaXons: we pride
ourselves upon our relation to the
English. We point to the bonds which
link US to the British. Yet we are
not Anglo-S -Saxons. We have the Eng
lish language; yet we are not Anglo
Saxons. The only sections af orr
country which were occupied by the
English We're New England and the
tide water flats of, Virginia. The
other colonies were settled by peo-
pie of various races The Dutch In
New York and Pennsylvania, the
French and Spanish to the south and
the Scotch Irish in the middle If you
want To find the racial differences
look at the churches. Where there