The log cabin Democrat., 1914-06-11
THIRTIETR SESSION
 OF HENDRIX ENDS
GRADUATING EXERCISES
CLASS HEARS STRONG AD- DRESS BY DR. MKEEVER
 OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY.


 'I am descended from a cattle thief 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 versity 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. McKeevers address was a de- nial of the belief that ancestry, wealth or position is necessary for success in life. Success, lie declared, is not 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-
 
 mix them up with 1000 citizens and about the only difference you will dis cover is that the convicts are little fatter-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. McKeevers subject was "The College and the New Humanism. Introduced by Dr. J. H. Reynolds as a 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 together spirit is needed in individuals as we'll 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 piano solo by Miss Laura Harton. Following Dr. McKeever's address and a 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 pr. Reynolds, will re- ceive their diplomas upon the compile tion of small amount of unfinished work, later in the summer.
 In the absence of the chairman, Dr. James Thomas of Pine Bluff, pr. F. s. H. Johnston made the an nouncements for the board of trus- tees. He said the completion of the $300,0 ,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 $30O,00O more would be complied with. "We can do it, we must do it, we will do it." he declared. Dr. Stonewall Anderson of Nashville, for mer president of Hendrix and now