The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-05-27
THE SCHOLAR Of TODAY.
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/ solicits with all her placid, all her
n1onitory pictures. Him. the past
instructs: him the future invites.
Is not indeed every man student
land do not all things exist for the
students behoof? And finally, is
not the true scholar the only true
master? But the old oracle said:
All things have two handles, be-
ware of the wrong one In life, too
often, the scholar errs with mankind
and forfeits his privilege.
In self-trust all the virtues are
comprehended Free IS the scholar;
free and brave. free ever to the def
inition of freedom without any hind
rance that does not arise out of his
own constitution. Brave, for fear is
a thing which scholar by his very
function puts behind him. Fear al
ways springs from ignorance It is q
shame to him if his tranquility amid
dangerous times arises from the
presumption that like women and
children, his is a protected class. Or.
] il he seeks temporary peace by the
idiyersion OF his thoughts from
politics and Vexed questions, hiding
his head like an ostrich among the
Towering bushes, peeping into mic
froscopes and turning rhymes as a
boy whistles to keep his courage up.
So is the danger still. So is the fear
I4x~n Il.
il. He looks into it's eye, searches
its nature, inspects It's origin, which
lies no great way back, and finds
within himself perfect comprehen-
sion of its nature and extent. He
makes both hands meet on the other
side, and henceforth defies it and
passes on superior.
The Office of the scholar is to
cheer, to raise and to guide men by
showing them facts amidst appear
anees. l affirm today that the
wealth and the power and the secur-
iity and success of existing nations
are enactly what the scholars of
those nations have made them. What
/ is and has been the secret of the
power of England? You will say,
Her well-balaneed government, her
almost perfect administration, her
educated people and her experts in
ieyery known science. But who are
those who maintain that we'll
balanced government? Who adj
ministers her laws? Who build and
i command her navy2 Who multiply
her industries? Who develop her re-
sources? And who gather tribute
for old England from everywhere
| and everything? There stands the
grand answer. The scholars from
lCxford, Cambridge. Marlborough
and the like.
Need / tell you now that the VIC
tories of sadoWa and Sedan were
EWon in the school rooms and work
shops It was educated artillery to
which Austria so readily courtesied,
and before the approach of which.
France, naughty France, lifted her
crown, yielded her capital and bow
ed in humility.
Observe that whenever the people
are the scholar must be there also if
he is to carry on his work. OAR
tagon, Aramis and Quentin Durward
had to go to Paris to the capital to
seek the sovereign If they would
serve the state. But with US the
sovereign is working in the mines
OF Lake Superior; the sovereign is
fherding cattle in Colorado; he is
feeding the world from the wheat
| plains of Dakota. Observing also
that the hands Of the government
i are no longer turned BY war presi-
dents and popular heroes. bur from
1.-The bosom of proud Princeton a
scholar, yea, mighty scholar Yields
the governing hand and directs our
era through prosperity.
The scholars of America of this
generation must be responsible for
the future Of America That future
will be anything they now COM
nland From every portion of this
uedt GU Ldh1oii tdcAt COiieS THIS Gay
the earnest. anxious voice to them
saying, Shall you command. or.
shall you serve. Shall you rise, or
shall you fall yet lower Shall
! sou live or shall you die. Gathering
in my own the voices of the scholar
LOT today, and with hearts resolved
and purposes fixed, 7 send back the
gladful response. They shalf live,
they rise, they command