The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-11
WEEK At THE
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE
EXERCISES OF COMMENCEMENT TAKE PLACE DURING THE PAST
WEEk-THIRTYFoUR GRADUATE FROM THE REGULAR FOUR.
YEAR COURSE OF THE INSTITUTION
DIPLOMAS OR CERTIFICATES TO ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN GRADUATES
Dr. has. Zuebltn, tn Well Known Publcist and Lecturer Of Boston, Delivers
The Commencement Address at Yesterday Mornings Exerdses-A
Review Of the Programs Given During the Week

Carl Gilbertson, Hilmer Hanse, Louis
Howe, Edward Heberer, Emanuel
Hasz, Edward Herr, Wallace Huppler,
Walter G.. Johnson, Edwin Jung, Henry
Halverson, Oscar Lokken, Victor Lund-
gren, Hardy Moen, Victor C. Odland,
Lewis Peterson, Clarence Prestegard,
Charles II. Storm, John L. Vearrier,
Carl Westin.
DR.. Zueblin's address was a master
piece and vas thoroughly enjoyed by
the large audience. He said in part:
Culture is the habit of a mind in
stinct with purpose, cognizant of a
tendency and connection in human
achievement, able and industrious in
discerning the great from the trivial.
IL is not accumulation of knowledge,
the piling up of facts; it is something
that, acquired, becomes a habit. Some
times the acquisition of knowledge,
like the acquiring of gold, makes one
misery, and n spends ones time in
counting up the accumulations instead
of using them. Some of our most dis
tinguished authorities say that we
must not read a book until it Is five or
ten years old, as by that time bad
books will have been sifted out. Where
are we going to get our standard of
judgment if we do not ourselves know
enough to tell whether a book is good
or bad?
What are some of the indications of
the tendency and connection in human
achievement-the political movement,
the labor movement, and the roman
movement? These are the three great
movements which are shaping society
today. The Labor movement'-what
is that? | do not mean the clash when
capital and labor are in conflict, but
the great evolution of industry which
is absolutely forcing intelligent work
ing men into organization for indus
trial and political accomplishment. 1t
is true that the very best element
among the working men belongs to
these organizations, but Ices not con-
ment; in exactly the same way the
corresponding element has not partic-
ipated in the municipal government.
But more and more the pressure of the
factory system will compel these peo-
pie to come together, if they do not get
what they are demanding from their
own activities, and through that unfor-
tunate fighting for their most prec-
iou> principles, then they are going
into unions-you cannot stop it, though
you may delay it. If one does not get
that from the newspapers, one should
read the calm, di~spassionate literature
on the subject, in order that ones cul-
ture may not content itself with the
struggles which Joseph had in Egypt,
or with other ancient labor conflicts,
but come into contact with the social
problems of today.
There is also a politica, movement.
How long will it take the politicians
and the rank and file to understand
that there has been going on, regard
less of parties and constitutions, some
kind of thing that has actually brought
together the great leaders of their re-
spective parties, so that these are in
distinguishable? There is a movement
to give the people representation; not
to give them the semblance of repre-
sentation, such as they have in the
house of representatives and the sem
ate. but to give them direct represen-
tation. If you will ride from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic, or from Oregon to
Maine, and read the signs of the times,
you will see that the people will pre-
sently instruct their representatives
in order hat the government may be
made more democratic.
Then there is the move
ment. When we begin to look about
us we find that there are many mil
lions of women in this country work
ing outside of their own homes; we
find that the public schools are not
only open equally to girls, but more
largely to girls than to boys, and they
get a better education than boys. They
take the honors at college, SO that we
have to put up the bars to keep them
out, or they would swamp the co-edu-
cational colleges. They have their
federation of women's clubs and col
legiate alumnae; these and their suf-
frage associations threaten to take US