The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-06-06
Commencement Address Of Dr.. Shepherd
fun Of Wisdom and Warning
SP|ay Proves Most Interesting and Entertaining to Large
Audience Wednesday Evening

Wednesday evening of this week was
given over to the class exercise and
play of the seniors and was greeted by
packed house. The play, For Old
Eli" a comedy of Yale life, overbrim-
ming with merriment, was the basis
for showing some wonderful histrio-
mic ability on the part of the seniors
who entered into the spirit of the ia
nous college play. The comical
parts and the development of the plot
as the play progressed were met with
hearty applause.
AS fitting close to the four years
of hard work, the gay round Of pleas
ure and excitement of the commence
ment, the class of nineteen hundred
thirteen listened to an address last
night of wonderful wisdom and ad-
monition by DR.. John Franklyn Shep-
herd, in the high school auditorium,
together with an audience that taxed
the capacity of even that large build
ing. Brightly lighted and tastefully
decorated with the class colors Of
green and white the graduates, forty
six in number, were seated upon the
stage together with the members of
the school board and faculty Music
by the high school and the invocation
: ushered in the annual commencement
and the presentation of the diplomas
which marked the goal of the ss.mbi-
= tlous young. men and women. Dr.
Shepherd, the commencement speaker,
In terms of simple rhetoric laid down
IN no uncertain terms the divine plan
OF existence and the real goal of life
and the need for the inner develop
ment of the real man and woman His
mastery address follows:
Inscribed in a Greek cross on the
tomb of Henry w. Longfellow are the
words, LUX, Lex, Dux, Rex."-A wise
opening to the light of God, willing
ness to obey His law, will make one
leader among his fellows and bring
him to sovereign power at last.
In June, 1880, in little town in
northern Alabama, a baby girl was
born, perfect as babes in general in
sense perception, but at the age of
twenty months, a serious disease
closed the eyes and ears and left the
tongue dumb, plunging the infant into
black darkness. Psychologists would
have said, but little could be done for
her to bring the imprisoned soul into
touch with Gods great world of beau
ty and life But the patient, loving
Miss Sullivan tOiled on to throw open
the windows of that soul until today
the cultured mind and enriched soul
of Helen Keller astounds the world
Education is but the calling out Of
the powers of the human soul, to
make them vibrant with the truths Of
Gods universe-a rich correspond
ence with environment. With such a
high conception of the purpose of an
education, why is it that so many have
associated 1t almost exclusively with
the thought of securing money over
the road of least resistance? Why Is
it that so many are making the words
of the pseudo poet true?
Hurry the baby as fast as you can;
Hurry him, worry him, make him a
Off with his baby clothes, get him in
pants;
Feed him on brain food, make him
advance.
Get him in school. compel him to
grab,
OF every known subject dip and a
dab.
Get him in business and after the
cash,
All by the time he can raise mus
tache.
Let him forget he was ever a boy;
Make gold his God and its glitter his
JOY,
Keep him hustling and all out Of
breath,
Until he wins,-nervous prostration
and DEATH"
Why not remember that as Milton
said, 1.-THE end of an education is to
know God and out Of that knowledge
to initiate Him." or with Young,
How empty learning and how vain Is
art,
But as it mends the life or guides the
heart"
An education Is to give us power to
multiply good. to create wealth, to
arm, re-endow and recompose the
world. To give us piercing insight
into Natures laws and properties and
view, in scientific study, Of univer-
sal and eternal truth and beauty,
emanating from loving God.
Tis being true. NO wonder that at
the head Of Ill great movements for
popular education stand those who
hwo beon closest to the heart Of Je-
hovah. In Egypt of long ago, the
hiefoglyphics and later script were
Tor the delectation Of the few. The
same IL true Of the cunefcrm writings