The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-01
Four Days of Celebration for
College Graduates.
SHELD0N'S SUNDAY SERMON
Baccalaureate Services fol
Nearly Seventy Students.
Varied and Interesting Fea.
lures on the Campus.

The Washburn college program To-
commencement week began Sunda!
with the baccalaureate sermon and con
cludes Thursday when the forty-ninti
graduation exercises will be neio
Every day is filled. Students are bus,
planning play, class day and lawn fete
Sunday afternoon commencement yes
per services were given; Frank Mohler
1904. addressed the Christian assoc1a
tions. Today was devoted to the acad'
envy graduation and the annual prize
contest in oratory at MacVicar chapel
Nearly seventy students will be grad
uated.
DIR. Sheldon's Sermon.
Declaring that the fancy of today Is
the fact of tomorrow, DR.. Charles M
Sheldon. author. lecturer and preacher,
at-large addressed the students OF
Washburn college in his baccalaureate
sermon delivered Sunday morning al
MacVicar chapel He asserted that
three great mOvements-industrl eco
nomic and religious-were shaking the
world His subject was the oppor-
tunities of today for the college bred
men and women. DR.. Sheldon was as
sisted in the services by Dean D. l..
McEachron and DR.. D. NJ. Fisk. Spe-
cial music had been arranged by Dean
Horace Whitehouse. Miss Helen Hoge-
boom sang Haydn's with Verdure
Clad.'
1.-The world is tremendously inter-
estine place to live because Of the his
torical movements in it, Dr. Sheldon
said. These movements are political,
social, industrial. economic. religious.
They touch all nations, affect all cOndi-
tions.
What educated man or woman can
remain Indifferent or stupid when
these great world movements of this
age are displayed before him? There
are three great groups Of movements:
or iol- demand and a O.
gle for human justice.
"Economic-A demand for a struggle
for efficiency
"Religious-A demand and a struggle
for spiritual satisfaction.
Under the first group we notice
the struggle in Mexico which is in
reality cry from the people for land
rights. In Colorado and Michigan a
cry for human Justice in participation
with the fruits of toll. 1t is the cry
of the children and motherhood for
freedom to play and work in normal
and human ways.
Under the second group we hear the
cry for a cleaner. happier. more eff
cient physical existence. The temper
ance wave is sweeping the wOrld-what
is that but the struggle of the living
soul for more life, emancipation from
q poison that has for centuries cut
short the living souls happiness and
efficiency?
A Cry for Unity.
1.-THE religious moveme-- is a cry
for unity, for a simpler creed, for a
more satisfying and identifying faith.
1t finds expression in vs.ried ways, in
federation Of the sects. in a daily re-
ligion that makes all energy worship,
in a worship that satisfies the hum
cry heart and mind together. What
is all this religious restlessness but
simply the cry and hunger of the hu-
It'll \ l. 41kI
Il migl escape my responsibility
to live grandiy if all It meant was to-
day." concluded DR.. Sheldon. IF I
am going to live tomorrow and the
day after and after-what small or
mean or unworthy thing can I do to
this living soul to mar its beauty or
destroy it's dignity?
You are living souls that are going
to live forever. Have you picked out
career that VII fit into an endless
life? You will never find any higher
or more he. ole problems to solve
than those which have to do with the
making Of a better world
Program for Week.
The program for the rest of the
week follows:
Tuesday.
10 a. m.-Class day exercises of
the class of 1914, on the campus.
1O:30-Annual meeting of the board
of trustees Of Washburn college. at
Boswell Memorial hall.
$50 D. m.-Annual luncheon of the
Society of Tau Delta Pi at the OBJ
servatory.
Sis p. m.-Annual outdoor play by
the Washburn Dramatic club, Much
Ado About Nothing For reserva-
tons notify the college Office.
Wednesday.
1000 a. m.-The dedication Of the
Agnes Mitchell Fairfield memorial
pipe organ at MacVicar chapel
from the May day fete: The masque
Of the flowers; the dances of the sea-
sons, and the operetta, The Sweet
Smile of the May" A small fee will
be charged for the tenefit Of the Y
w. c.. A. conference fund.
500 p. m.-Alumni and undergrad
uate class reunions, with basket pic
500 p. m.-The annual concert of
the faculty of the conservatory of mu-
sic at Macvicar chapel.
$3.50 D. m.-Commencement recep-
ton at the presidents house.
50 Thursday.
1890 a. m.-The forty-ninth an
nual commencement Of Washburn
college at MacVicar chapel. Address
to the graduating class by the Rev.
Ambrose w. Vernon. D. d.
1915 q. manual business meet
ing of the Alumni association in Car
negie library.
100 p. m.-The annual alumni din
ner at the Thomas gymnasium. Places
should be reserved in advance.
800 D. m.-volley ball game of the
alumni vs.. the faculty. on college
courts.
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