Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-30


commend themselves to solid men of
means, is often the surest road to
financial aid TO create a scholarly
atmosphere, high standard of NOR
ais, a modest, useful body of gradu-
ates, will in time secure the approba-
ton of the public, and oftentimes its
ments for colleges, like happiness for
individuals, come oftenest as by-pro-
ducts" Students, in your hands, i'm the
largest measure, lies the making of
such a college atmosphere of morals
and scholarship as shall aid its en-
dowment. You can do it by your dill
igence, effectiveness and thoroughness
of study such as | have already urged
upon you. | want to emphasize the
fact that you can do it by the manner
and spirit of your sports. BY dirty,
disreputable craftsmanship you can
damn your college almost beyond
mans redemption. By clean, decent,
high-souled craftsmanship, such as
warns the blood of every man, no
matter what his age, you can say to
all the world so that it must hear
THE College whence we come is the
home Of honor and rightmindedness 4"
In the annals of sport i'm my college
three events live in my memory. One
is the day in which Mac Mann, my
classmate, and the first curved ball
pitcher in the college world of sport,
turned the strong Yale team down
without a run, no man passing
Princeton's second base in the nine
innings The second was Phil Kings
long run that won the football champ
ionship for our college.
And the third and browning event
was when one of our nine landed on
second base by steal and a very
dubious decision. The umpire cried
safe" Yale with : score of to
in her favor and with two men out in
the ninth inning protested The ar
gument became fast and in a sense,
furious. Amid it all. Ernst held his
hardly gained base. At last the UNI
pire-in those days there was but one
said, "1'll leave it to the runner"
Everybody agreed, and a hush fell on
the crowd to hear decision upon
which probably depended champ
ionship. Ernst, authorized by his
captain to speak, promptly and clearly
said, Il was out" and Yale had won.
That is what call college honor
By such clean honor, no matter
what it loses, you viii win for your
sport, your club and your college in
valuable credit Fathers will say, Il
want my boy to go where he may as
sociate with such boys" Financiers
and philanthropists will say, eve
want our money to go where it will
help to such highmindednes among
the coming manhood of the nation
You women, and you men of this stu
cent body can help to create the vac
uum." You, ladies and gentlemen of
the faculty, can help create it. Out of
antiquity comes the story of an old
peripathetic pedagogue. He had
grown weary. He wanted rest. He
ordered his followers away. They
refused to go. He drove them off with
his staff But they returned; and they
said to him, $50 long as you teach
such truth as you teach and with such
winsomeness as you use, we will come
to you You may beat US off with
your staff again and again. But again
and again we will return to sit at your
feet" Friends of the faculty YOU,
too, may help to create a vacuum in
to which women and men. as well as
means, will flow. May there be such
emulation as between students and
faculty in this regard as that both
shall win and the College also.
" A fifth ching by the way" is
suggested by a single word in the pre-
cedeing acknowledgements"
This hyphenated word stands for
one Of the most interesting and impor-
tant facts IN the industrial world TO
day There are in play a skill and
science that is transforming waste in
to wealth. 1t is taking the fragments
and making them more than the whole
value Of original materials. Main
products have, in not a few cases,
been sidetracked IN favor Of the by
products and men, in their later days,
have grown rich Oh that which they
'ormerly cast out to be trodden under
foot OF man. And the by-proiuct has
its place in the mental world as well as
in the material 1t is in education,
and want to urge that you be alert
to enrich yourselves and others, your
fellows, with it.
You have probably come to college
with a pretty definite idea Of what you
wish, in your course, to accomplish.
You have gone over the catalogs of
various institutions. You have for one
reason or another chosen out of its
offerings such and such studies. |
hope you have chosen the broadcast,
cultural course, that you can discover,
to deepen and enrich your life | hope
that Won may ppt all that Won axoecf