The Irish standard., 1914-06-27
From the National Capitol
BY Stanton Lawtea

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4 GOVERNOR GLYNN AT GEORGE
TOWN.
Governor Martin Glynn was the
principal speaker at the commence
ment exercises Of Georgetown Uni
versity, and his address which was
4 listened to by over 5000 people. was
/ an eloquent oration-out of the Or
der of the usual stereotyped speeches
delivered on such ossasions.
It was full of advice to the gradu-
ates-coming as it did from the
Chief Executive of the greatest state
!. of the Unions and one distinguished
alumnus emphatically suggested that
+ 1t should be inserted in text books,
that every student of American his
tory should profit by its solid ad-
vice.
The Governor said in part: 1.-The
Z Constitution Of the United States is
1875 years old. So is Georgetown
University. When the Constitution
was adopted in 1889, Georgetown
University was founded. Both stand
opposed to the denial of the funda-
mental rights of man. They stand
for freedom of creed, for the right
of petition and assembly and for the
freedom of the press.
GAS you young men go down the
corridors of the years you will often
recall the sweetness of your college
days. You will hear in memory the
peal of the college angelus. In such
memories you shall derive inspira-
ton which should lead you to higher
accomplishments.
''No one expects you to go hunt
lantern, as did Diogenes. but every
body does expect you to know and to
show an honest man is be-
meath your own hat. Be an
average man-an average man at
his best. You may set no rivers on
fire, but you will make the wheels
of life go round.
Men of faith you are-men of
work in vision you must be. The
man of the hour is the man who does
things. Napo1eon's coat of arms,
shirt Sleeves has become fashion,
able, and society's drones are ia
booed as industrial twins of the ho-
DO.
"Drummond made himself fam
Gus by asserting that love is the
greatest thing in the world, but the
world says mot So We might live
without love, but we could not exist
without work. With the equipment
Georgetown gives you, you ought to
be somebody and do something out
in the world-if you will only work
"Blaze your own way in life. walk
on your own feet, work with your
own hands, and speak with your own
mind. Don't be graphaphone and
don't be an automator.
GAS a man of experience and a
man who may know something of
the experience of other men of the
practical world, I have one thing to
say pointedly to you that will hurt.
but it is true. Indifference to the
magic of work and the potency Of
drudgery is the curse of too many
college men. They want to fly before
they can creep; they want to be
100000 men before they are 80 cent
apprentices. Worldly wisdom, my
friends, is Of slow growth. You can't
get 1t in the frivolities of pleasure
or the steeplechase of mirth, but
you can get it in mans work
among men and nowhere else.
II consider it part of mans
work to take hand in making of
current history. would advise alb
Duration of political office. but I
would urge an interest in politics. I
have no patience with those men
who hold aloof from the political
field because it smells of 'villainous
saltpeter.' They are 'perfumed like
a milliner' who used a bottle Of
smelling salts to protect his nose
from the carnage smell of battle and
would be soldier were it not for
the guns.
ITO be men you must mix vision
with work. Life is not all drudgery
and the man who thinks the grass
will not grow at night unless he lies
awake to watch it, either lands in an
insane asylum or lands ON the en-
peror's throne.
vision and work-they span the
earth with railroads and cleve the
sea with ships; they give wings to
man to fly the air and fms to swim
the deep. They are the fundamen-
tails in the progress of civilized soci-
i ety.
# Before Governor Glynn left for his
i home in New York he visited the
White House. and discussed politics
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