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your trend of thought, your ming
ling with books and masters, cause
you to lose patience with the cru
dities of men less fortuned. In
this particular, to my mind, you
have failed. University Club
criticism by men who fail to give
either thought or time is small eX-
preston of good citizenship. Every
question of civic interest is your
question for action. Get in the
thick of the fight, mingle with the
crowd, impress your personality
on men. Give your state the bene-
fit of the training that has been
given you. Especially is this true
of a state institution such as this.
The duty as we'll as the opportun-
ity is very definite. From other
institutions you may go, and the
service to your State is one of
choice. Here it is an imperative
debt. To this State and nation, by
your training here, you are expect
ed to repay. | care not whether a
man of profession, as trained far
mer, as engineer, as professor in
the arts, you neglect and neglect
shamefully, if you fail or refuse to
play the full part of citizenship.
By this do not mean as superior
being but as a man among men.
In all the questions of the day, the
problems Of the public school not
only in the Institutes, but in the
assessment and election of Off
cials.
"In the problems of education,
not only by casual suggestion to
a committee before the General
Assembly, but in the primaries
that send men there.
The professional practical man
of politics from whom you shrink,
may be doing the best he knows
and no mere expression of disgust
from you is going to reform con-
ditions. You can not do your full
part and escape. Your man of
History who knows more of the
ancients than the doings of Con-
gress has failed. Your man of
Literature who knows more of the
Classics than what is in the week
ly reviews has failed. Your man
of language who can't talk to the
man on the street has failed. Your
engineer who looks at the world
only through the instrument has
failed. Exceptions we grant-but
only when a genius. Even those
are conspicuous today in the ma
tons service.
MY point is, gentlemen, that
your state and country wants you.
1t is gratifying to see your pro-
fessor of Literature associated
with a business man in taking
military registration. It is in
teresting to make out a Commits
sion as Notary Public to your pro-
fessor of engineering.
Il learn with pleasure of Col
lege men acting as Clerks in
Board of Registration. | warrant
they found us common men, eager,
willing to do the right thing. The
success of the Registration is
proof of my claim.
Little do you realize the power
for good that is in your hands.
Not as leaders until you have in
spired the right and confidence.
To will truly is not a matter of
domination but of cooperation.
Nor would l have you as mere
"Me Too" Follower.
Speak, work and fight for your
convictions. The man who follows
without question may make good
soldier, but not good citizen. Be
not awed by some high light. Dare
not to fawn to one in high posi-
ton. In a word be a Man of Della
ware, whose Ideal is to respect
authority but not cater to it. To
win favorably by agreeing with
everything Ill becomes our State.
"You men who are acquainted
with the dramatic events of his
tory oftimes, l suspect, yearn for
those days of hot blood and high
tension. The High Lights of His
tory are recorded so as to appeal
to you. The routine drudgery of
the days is left out. You have
been, no doubt, inclined to think
the exciting days of the Colonists
and the Revolution or even those
early days of Lincoln offered more
to the life and ambitions Of youth
than today.
"We have during your years
been living in prosperity of
mechanical progress. The dra-
matte acts of the history heroes