The log cabin Democrat., 1914-06-10
TH|RT|FTn SESSION
 OF HENDRIX ENDS
GRADUATING EXERCISES
CLASS HEARS STRONG AID DRESS BY DR. M'KEEVER
 OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY.

I am descended from cattle
 .Aief who to escape hanging fled early in the eighteenth century to America, was the startling admis- sion of Dr. William A. McKeever. professor of child labor in the Uni vei tT of Kansas. in his address to the graduating class of Hendrix Col lege this morning. T would not make this confession except for the knowledge that there are similar characters in the ancestry of every one of my hearers" he said. We are all members of one great human family"
 Dr. McKeever's address was a de
 nial of the belief that ancestry, wealth or position is necessary for success in life. Success, he declared, is not a thing that comes to those who strive after it, but it will follow those who press forward with an earnest purpose of bettering his fel- bowman. "Take 1000 convicts and mix them up with 2,000 citizens and about the only difference you will dis cover is that the convicts are a little tatter-they are not permitted to run around of nights. Some people refer derisively to poor white trash. but you can take the children of poor white trash, carefully nurture and educate them and inspire them to high ideals and you will make of them Gods noble men and women.'
 Dr, McKeever's subject was "The College and the New Humanism." Introduced by Dr. J. II. Reynolds as d man who reflects in his own life the Christ-like spirit of service, he told the class of 1914 that the most inn portant thing they had to do was to organize their own individualities.
 'The get-together spirit is needed in individuals as well as in states and communities,' he said. The philoso- phy of people, he declared, they should study How to get at the truth in yoUr own life, how to get at the truth Of other lives, how to find out the truth about your careers, your purpose in life, what is society and what is my relation to it-these are the questions which Dr. McKeever said the graduates should seek to They ought to be leaders in the com munities in which they live, he said, and they needed the pioneer spirit.
 Finally, the speaker declared, they should seek to know what is the fact about immortality-"for it is a fact. and it works, and it IS the biggest thing with which you are confront ed"
 The graduating exercises were opened with an invocation by Rev. J. M. Workman of Little Rock and a piano solo by Miss Laura Harton. Following Dr. Mckeever's address and piano solo by Miss Ruth Cor don pr Reynolds delivered diplomas conferring the degree of bachelor of arts upon the following: Misses Maud Atkins, Faye Canada Mabel Irvine and Lutie Stevenson M. C. Bevens, C. A. Black, o. c. Bruton, R. E. Farr, W. J. Hughes, J. J. liar rison, P. H. Millar, C. O. Moore, D. l.. Purkins and H. T. Steel. Two oth- CT members of the senior class, B. P. Clayton and c. D. McSwain, it was announced by Dr. Reynolds, will re- celve their diplomas upon the compile tion of small amount of unfinished work later. in the cunlp1ar
 In the absence of the chairman, Dr. James Thomas of Pine Bluff, Dr. F. s. H. Johnston made the an- nouncements for the board of trus- tees. He said the completion of the $500 ,000 endowment fund was only a beginning for the college and that the terms of the General Education Board additional gift of $100,000 con tingent upon the college raising $300,000 more would be complied with. "We can do it, we must do 1t, We will do it." he declared Dr. Stonewall Anderson of Nashville, for mer president of Hendrix and now secretary of the General Conference education board was called upon for a short talk and was enthusiastic in his praise of the generosity of Con- Way coward her educational institu- tions, He told of the boast of a col lege president in town of about 1000 in another state that his town had contributed S12,000 to the col ege since it's establishment. T told him." Dr. Anderson said, that .ame from a little Arkansas town that in 20 years has given more than S275,000 to the cause of education" He said that no town south of the Mason and Dixon line had done so much for its institutions as has Con- way.
 Dr. Reynolds then announced the prize-winners, the medals being | awarded in happy speech by Dr, !