Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-18

But shared my dangers 10 the last
event
And fenced them with their own.
To the patient peculiar loyalty is
due. Mistaken kindness may easily
uplo in a moment the long and careful
work of days or weeks. The humoring
of a mementary within. the thoughtless
zeal and attention of eager relatives
and friends may nullify the results of
your long and painstaking labor. Ii
will be difficult often TO enact the roll
OF tyrant. but there is beniticent tyr
amy which is the truest devotion, the
greatest loyalty to hfm or her who is
your special charge and care.
Remember, whatever be the case
you have in hand. that however grave
may be your responsibilities. that the
whole burden is not cast upon your
shoulders. There is one above you.
who. in the estimation of the world. is
held to even stricter accountability.
Yet for the efficient discharge of his
duty. reliance must be placed upon
your constant fidelity. No occasion for
doubt or distrust in him should ever be
permitted to arise, for without a mu-
tual confidence and intelligent cooper
alton. neither can do the best of which
they are capable, and another must
suffer the illeffects. In times like these
when athletic contests occupy so large
a share of public attention, they have
brought home one lesson of great
value, the importance of team work in
the accomplishment of results. Even
If productice of no other good, this
one result is worth all the time and
effort bestowed. In every field of hui
man endeavor and activity, there al
ways have been and always will be
some who will be pre-eminent and
spoken of as stars, but when results
are summed up and balance struck
il will almost invariably be found that
the really significant results accom-
plishe,l have been those brought about
by intelligent, consistent cooperation,
that is by team work.
I'm the sick room in the hospital
ward or in the tented field. alike there
must be cordial cooperation free from
all jealousies and chickering's confidence
upon the one side, loyalty upon the
other. Thus and thus only can you
measure up TO your possibilities,
can you discharge with credit and eff
ficiency your full duty. If the time
ever comes where such relations can
not be maintained, the sooner the sem
blance of them is dissolved, the better
for all who may be affected thereby.
There is yet another aspect, when in
times like the present, the element of
loyalty cannot be too strongly empha
sized. This is in devotion to our coun-
try God grant the day may still be far
distant when our young men shall be
called upon to go forth in all the
panoply of war to defend these shores
from the attempted aggression of a
foreign foe, or to once more assert or
maintain by force of arms the rights
of the citizens of this Republic, but it
is futile to close our eyes to the fact
that it takes two to preserve peace as
well as to wage war And if the days
should come when our battle flags
must be unfurled. and the roar of can
non and rattle of musketry heard
along our shores, on you. just in pro-
portion to the opportunities you have
enjoyed, will the duty rest to render
the ministrations of your profession.
There has. never been a time when
women have failed to show a courage
worthy of emulation. On the blood
stained fields of Europe in the last
eighteen months, while shrapnel Kissed
above their heads, devoted women,
often with little or no previous train
ing, have closed the eyelids of the
dying soldier, or eased the pain of
those severely wounded in ministra-
ton that knew no foe or friends. And
in this generous rivalry none have
been accorded higher encomiums of
praise than the American women, who
so spontaneously responded to the
call. When the summons came to
them for volunteers to go to plague
stricken Serbia. they sprang eagerly
forward and plead, almost with tears in
their eyes, to be allowed to go to a
service which seemed to promise al
most certain death. Should now the
heavy hand be laid upon our own fair
land, will our daughters. such as the
graduates of this evening,b less ready
to respond TO their country's call?
cannot believe that such will be the
case. or that American womanhood,
such as is assembled in this hall. will
hesitate for single moment when the
summons for duty comes.
And lastly is loyalty to ones self
You all recall the parting injunction
of Polonius to Laertes:
"'This above all, TO thine own self
be true,
And it must follow as the night the
day
Thou canst not then be false to any
man.
Every man or woman has his or
her ideal. goal towards which to
strive, an end barely if ever reached
Unfortunate, indeed, would it be if it
it should be. With each passing year,
each varied experience, ii rises higher
and higher, just as the climber up
some mountain slope sees constantly
expanding before his gaze the sweep
of plain and hill beneath. 1t is this
aspiration for something yet higher
and better that enables the man or wo-
man of any profession. that sets an ex-