The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-31

community follow Dean FarraA and his
family to their new university home.
Near the conclusion of the com
mencement exercises Tuesday morn
Ing, as a surprise to Dean Farrah, H.
A. Terrell, in a few heartfelt and we'll
chosen words presented him, on be-
half Of the law class of 1912, in recog-
milton of their appreciation of his
faithful and conscientious work with
them, beautiful gold charm, inscribed
Your Boys of 1912" Dean Farrah
feelingly replied in part as follows:
Members of the Law Class of 1912:
The old adage, TT is a long road that
has no turn is verified again by your
action this morning. For two years
II has been for me to call you to your
feet and watch you work and struggle
with legal principles which you were
trying to master and apply. 1t is now
your opportunity to see me stagger
and stumble.
1t would indeed be strange If we
could meet together day after day in
the class room for two years, and not
be tied closely together by the bonds
of affection. / appreciate more deeply
than l can express the feelings that
have prompted you to give to me this
beautiful watch charm to take with
me as a remembrance of you and of
our happy days together. l assure you,
however, it was not necessary TO do
this in order that l might keep you in
mind. Although it is decreed that i
am to be in another state in the future,
l shall ever remember you, and none,
your father and mother or wife alone
excepted, will rejoice more in your sue
cesses or sympathize with you more
in your misfortunes than will /.
May I ask you at this time to grip
firmly the sentiments so well expressed
by that great and good man, the late
Justice Brewer. when he said: 'Sfhe
true lawyer is the helmsman Of the
community and the pilot of the state.
He is striving to incarnate into the life
of the republic the rule of justice and
in so doing, he is working as no other
for her enduring glory. Science may
transform material conditions and I'LL
the world with visible splendor and
accumulated wealth. She may perfect
| the highways of commerce, redeem the
arid lands and cause the wilderness to
| bud and blossom as the rose; she may
extract from beneath the surface its
concealed wealth; take from mother
earth all that she can give to advance
| the we'll being of man. But, when all
| that is accomplished, If justice Is not
wrought into our national life, the re-
public will descend through luxury and
dissipation to ruin, for it is written by
dissipation to ruin, for 1t Is written by
| the finger of the Almighty, on the ever
| lasting tablets of the universe, that no
nation can long endure through whose
| life does not run that golden thread OF
equal, exact and universal justice.
1--WE speak of the beauties of nature
and art. but more beautiful than any
thing made of material substances is
that fabric of civilization which hu-
\ mainly, toiling beneath the dome of
time, has been working into our social
and political life. But beautiful as 1t
| is, and there is nothing in the mate
rial world more beautiful, it Will crum-
| BILE into dust and be forgotten, as the
civilization of Ninevah and Babylon.
unless through every part of the fabric
| there runs that golden thread of jus
| tice."
Upon the legal profession, OF wAieh
you are soon to become members, as
upon no other workers in our civil
| ization, rests the duty Of seeing that
this thread runs through the entire
| fabric. My final words to you are, may
| God grant that the part that each one
of you weaves into that fabric may be
so pure that nothing shall tarnish Its
Eluster and so strong that no tempta-
/ ton shall break it's fibre.