The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-18
McGUIRE'S UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL ENDS SESSION
DR.. ALDERMAN INSPIRES
IN FAREWELL ADDRESS
Our Country, At Crossroads
Destiny, He Says Should Be
Foremost Thought.

final exercises and comforting Of de-
grees, held at IL o'clock Wednesday
morning in Cabell Hall. brought the
ninetieth session of the University OF
Virginia to a formal close. The ad-
dress to the graduates was made by
Delaney Nicoll, of New York City.
a graduate of Princeton and Of the
Alderman. president of the Uni
versity, babe farewell to the gradual
Ing class.
| The reception to the graduates,
their relatives and friends was held
at o'clock in Madison Hall. At
O'Clock in the afternoon there was
band concert on the lawn, and at
night the Anal ball was danced in the
Fayerweather gymnasium.
Other degree winners besides those
already published in the Virginian
include:
President Aiderman's Address.
And now l must say goodbye TO
you, men OF 1916. You have become
a part OF the changing but immortal
life OF a great university, said Presi-
dent Alderman in his farewell ad-
dress GU have. added TO II some
thing OF your own spirit, and II has
instilled into you its great tradition.
You have some right to think OF
yourselves as scholars, as men who
live in and with the world OF Ideas.
who have power TO. gather inspiration
from men and books. whose lives are
shaped and enriched by thought and
who may reasonably hope to add
something TO the worlds progress by
the application of energy and thought
to life. With trained minds and train
ed conscience. and. | hope. trained
~.ytil ivt nd
po'ont@us era in human history.
The foremost thought In all OF our
minds today Is our country. for in a
real sense Ansrica stands Iak tho
cross roads of destiny. ! beg to re-
mind you that the period of American
isolation has forever passed. and /
venture TO remind you. further that
. the period OF American leadership in
world affairs has definitely come in
all the ideas. arts, implements, Gull
ture. IL you please. that the ultimate
: triumph OF dem ocracy may demand.
Certainly IL is true that men OF your
lives In the thick Of the battle 10
prove that the Erea' processes Of self
government are the final forms OF
= human sncietY.- is Wonderful
thing To enter into the life OF a gene
ration whose lips are tou he'd by Are
and which hears n new call for new
type OF man to help reshape into
something different and finer world
that can never he the same again. /
am constantly listening TO older men
OF the 7os and SOS who recall with
pride the trumpet call TO duty that
came to them to help reconstruct
their own land broken In civil war and
suffering from social paralysis. When
, you are old, I believe that memory
will bring back this tragic age TO you
with a strange charm as OF time
thrilling with new crisis and new I'M
pulses. Your country Is now alone
among the great nations OF the world
! al peace. but It is a peace that has
its sinister pxils and that calls for
the exercises OF every power. every
high passion, every great energy In
it's sons to the end that peace may he
n noble peaee tending TO advance the
great faiths upon which our social
order was originally built I wish for
you in the great struggle before your
country in the preservation and ad-
vancement OF its historic ideals, three
great qualities:
Corporation and Patriotism
First: Thoroughness. II is well
not to make mere energy OF will and
energy OF action the idea of human
life, but the wish and will to under
stand thoroughly what one has 10 do
Ia the fundamental necessity OF highly
organized life; and we must always
hold In mind that to organize dem
ocracy we must organize Its soul and
not merely mako II a sort OF mechan-
ICED energy.
Second: A genius for cooperation
which will impel you to lend hand In
all public affairs and to illustrate that
finest attribute Of q free people,
generous. Intelligent public spirit
Third: A commonsense under
standing Of patriotism BY patriot
ism do not mean any mere hysteri-
cal or emotional passion or any crude.
savage nationaiism. Patriotism IL a
hard thing to defne and new with
every age. but there are certain
ETERNAL essentials in this greatest Of
srirituci contepts--love OF ones
home. ana understanding of the de-
vine In human government. knowl-
edge of the origin and ideals of ones
country. determination to free those
ideals from mere greed or self ag-
grandisement and having set them
In the path OF highest service to man
kind to be unafraid to die that they
may pervail
In the great Encouragement OF the