The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-01


young woman; do not bother with
them too much, for you cannot find
much better company for them than
themselves. II they are alone, they
are thinking good thoughts, talking
over to themselves good things. Ev.
cry minute that that young man or
woman is alone is a minute Of i'm.
provement." But I will not Judge
you; I want you to Judge yourselves.
What has your college work done for
you? What has your college life pre-
Dared you for? But o. how lost to
truth. how lost to manly thought,
how lost to the ennobling salles of
the soul, is one who thinks it solitude
to be alone. You cannot always be
under the direct tutelage of teacher,
you cannot always be in the hands of
instructors Our training should have
been such as to make us teachers
unto ourselves, each one capable Of
proceeding along through life without
help from the outside, except that
! help that each one gives to his fell
lows in this inter-dependent life in
which we live. But you know there
are some who graduate from college
without ever having any working
seem TO think that they have got to
power to be their own teachers. They
seem to think that they have got to
be waited upon in matters of adj
vancement, as they expect their tail
ors to wait upon them and prepare
for them the richest garments that
they have told them to make, or as
they expect their shoe-makers to
supply them with shoes. but what res.
pect would you have for tailor who
had no regard for his attire, or Of
the shoemaker who has allowed his
soles to run down? None whatever
And If the college graduate cannot be
a teacher unto himself, If he stops
where he left off,-on the graduation
day; II in short, graduation day TO
him was finishing day and not a
commencement, he is as bad as the
tailor un-tailored or the shoemaker
unshod.
! | regret to say that of the great
numbers, the great army, of college
graduates turned out in this country
of ours every year, very large pro.
portion of them regard their gradua
ton day as day of ending-and they
make it so. You have received much
you have received freely; 1t is ex
pected of you that you will give
freely; that you will minister among
, your fellows, that you will make the
, community better fer the college
course that has been made possible
, for you. Do you know that If
| 1uld look at your college record, an,
should find that every one Of 20,
, has passed with a high mark. tina
5 your record in every case is excellent
. that alone does not tell M
. whether you have been successful
e students, or not. That waits yet t
: be seen. Your college records al
= necessary, and marks of examination
cannot be avoided, but colleges az
n not maintained for the purpose @
making college records, nor for tn
, purpose OF holding examinations.
Q count your work, in part, a failure
= you do not become better sons an
4 daughters, better husbands an
# wives, better fathers and mothers /
g the years that are to come. The NJ
Y ton needs citizens of high orde
r. citizens of zeal and prudence, cit
n zens of intelligence and devotion, cit
n zens who know what honor an
4. honesty is. And II we cannot fin
8. any such among our college men an
d women, where can we look for such
a. l pray you, look into the matter {
s what real success means and is, fc
m false standard of success Is apt
n. lead us astray. 1t is a thousan
is times better to fail in good caus
m than to succeed in bad one. An
Of remember, the prize has not bee
I'd promised unto him who has nevt
is tripped as he ran, but unto him, WI
TT has, however oft he tripped, howev'
lg sore the bruise, however hard II
We fall, was willing to spring up aga
Id and go on with renewed determinatic
r. and renewed hope. ! am not goir
,g to ask in my own soul that you shou
ly not know what failure is, as Il
er world conceives failure. want "
us to not be ashamed of an honest ia
ur ure, If It comes cheerfully, for
az is by such that we gather .strengt