The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-01
-FOUR ELIMINATES IN
COLLEGE EDUCATION
PERsPECTIvE TO LIFE AND EN-
LARGEMENr OF HORIZON
OF VISION.
HABITS OF THOUGHT
BEST OF ALL Is CORRECT NOTIONS
OF GOD, AND AN ABIDING
INTEREST IN THE sPIRI-
eS TUAL LIFE.
HABITS OF THOUGHT

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
ELON COLLEGE, n. c.. May 81
Today was baccalaureate day at Elon.
DR.. F. T. Tagg, editor of the Method
st Protestant, Baltimore, Md, preach
ed the sermon at 1880 A. NJ. DR..
Tagg is one of the most distinguished
scholars and pulpteers of the Mthod
LIST Protestant Church. His place of
leadership with his church is attested
by his editorship of their national
organ. a position he has filled for
many years. His editorials are right
sous and WELD great weight in re-
ligious realms.
Or. Tage knows the student life and
the student heart. He based his re-
marks on Acts 1872, And Moses was
learned in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians and was mighty In words
and deeds" His theme was "Prepar-
Ation for Life Work . He showed by
The illustrious example of Moses life
that intellectual preparation IS not all
sufficient for the best service. for after
ne had received his diploma from the
university Of that land Of scholarship.
culture and learning, he had To add
forty years of heart preparation be-
fore he was able to do the work divine
~ assigned Inn.
He made it plain that this heart
preparation means prominently the
self The first step upward Ia a step
downward. A man who begins with
out humility Is almost sure to reach
a place where he will be hunb1ed to
obscurity The next step is obedience
to the inflexible laws and principles
which govern every progressive step OF
fife"
At the evening servgte, ohedient TO
time honored custom ia Elon's an
nails President Harper gave his hae-
calanreate address 10 the senior class
President Harper's theme treated Of
the ultimate values II eJiUCErItU JIM
was worded "The Contributions OF
College Life
Eliminates in Education.
In the beginning, President Harper
spoke of the splendid opportunity for
sarvice to humanity college odHca-
ton offers a man and Of the equally
splendid array or noble achievement
unto which the men holding such OPP
portunities mad attained. He then
turned To the specific contributions IN
ideal college course ought Ia make
TO a man ana how ii ought "a render
him capable OF best serving his day
and generation. There seemed 70 him
to be just four things. which misht
be described as the uitlmates In educa-
ton. which would abide when the
strain of real life should settle down
trrtsry 4ssssf'f 4.t.-4+.e
shown TO be the giving Of a perspective
10 life, as important In life as in art.
coioring the life by imperceptiole
gradations and yielding q result tplB-
parable to the halo Of a gorgeous sun
set and guaranteeing sanity in every
ret of Judgment. The second was
named as the enlargement OF the
horizon 81 a mans vision Of the world 3
needs and she impulses 20 take his
place in supplying them. The college
t.a Frv frx4 "a for
self-cenfercd men nor does the world
college education should enlarge and
humanixe and equip It's fortunate pos
SCISSORS with the reformers zeal ana
the statesman's firm graap+~hoth Of
which are conditioned on clarified
vision.
Education should also, as It's third
ultimate. equtr O. man with correct
habits OF work and thought the
speaker declared. for q man may be
as learned az solomon and yet make
shipwreck OF life because he does not
know how 10 work at thing con-
eecutively. sysfematt caily. urreienting-
~. The wor,x OF the work a-day rid
is not all sugar-coated and. II tho coll
iege course is, 1t is in thai respect not
a complete preparation far life. tt
is no accident that Paufs exhorfaton
TO endure hardness was given TO q
young man, end college men who REL
otss - Se1AAaN W. S'*AA ~ "a afsf 3ERsAA
easy subjects as permitted hy tho free
elective system now so prevalent, Will
be second vice-presidents and third as
sistant secretaries in the counsels Of
mankind They will never be this lead
NrR OF men
Greatest of All.
but men may have these three SUI
pcrb uitimateS In supreme degree. and
yet make of life a miserable disaster,
being incapable or leading the world
to righteousness or OF assisting in re-
deeming mankind, because their hearts
are wrong. The college curriculum
must give man correct notions of
God and an abiding interest in the
spiritual life, or Ii is worse than use
less, equipping those who possess II
with all the greater power Of hurting
the world and retarding mans prog
ress upward tc the light. There IS no