Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03


'adio engineer. !. position with vir-
Sinia Committee on National Defense.
l. faculty Farm Club. active mem-
bers. 10.
Third. To keep alive and vital the
processes of learning and teaching. in
order that the capable youth reaching
upward towards manhood may get the
training that free peoples need TO ad-
vance their ideals and defend their
rights. Science aud knowledge are the
breath OF life in any community. They
must receive their fun annual share of
nourishmcnt and continue TO contribute
their fun annual share of results. lest
the onward march Of progress In the
..Nt generation lac impcdcd.
And here dicrcSS To say that the
response OF the college youth OF Amer
lea Ia the call of The country seems to
me one Of the finest episodes in our
history The nations HAY" instinctivoly
turned 10 them as TO the natural rcser-
voirS OF power and courage. and they
have no; been found wanting. 1t Is
not coincidence that their blood is
tho first TO he shod, their service the
frs, 70 he utilized. their hands the
first To bear the flag To the battle line
There is Il fine poetic justice In the
fact that the finest breath of patriotism
blown ahodt the world aud expressed
in lofty verse has come from young
English college man. Rupert Brooke.
an incarnation of courage and beauty,
now dead in the Aegean Isles. who.
foreseeins his end. thus wrote of the
land that gave him birth:
- there's some corner Of Il foreign
field
That is forever England. There shall
III that rich earth richer dust con-
Cealed
\ dust whom England bore shaped
mandcuaware.
Gave. once. her flowers to love. her
ways to roam.
y body of Enylands breathing. breath
ing English air.
Washed by the rivers. hlcst by suns
OF home"
NOTHING CAN TAKE
PLACE or CHARACTER
And so YOU to-day. my young
friends. Will emerge from this quiet.
kindly spot into world of battle and
struggle and obligation. The one thing
hope and believe YOU have achieved
here is character. II is good to get
money and understanding and powc,
over men through appeal and persua-
sion and knowledge but nothing can
take the place OF character. Neither
cleverness nor cunning nor shrcwdneSs
can be substituted for H. All these
things are paper money. Character is
gold. The thing | have in mind and
here call character, suppose. is that
quality now showing so spiendidly in
peasants and princes in cockncys and
carls. which regards obstacles as op-
por,unitics. difficulties as Incentives
which does not know the facc of de-
feat. and which fights TO finish. |
would have YOU know that next to your
homes and to your parents who have
brought YOU into the world and reared
YOU TO manhood. no other spot in the
world Will take thought OF your sep
arate careers more Symrathetically than
this Alma Mater OF yours. Wherever
fate may beckon or lead YOU, on land
or sea or air. in the more dramatic
fields of achievement. or in the ouieter
fields OF labor and sacrifice. we here
shall somehow know the quality of YOUR
manhood. and this great structure YOU
have come TO love and under whose
shadow YOU have grown. will
he ccmeuted and strengthened by it
into more beautiful and enduring form
Watch We. therefore, stand fast in
tho faith, quit YOU like men, he strong
The following degrees were awarded
Graduates In Nursing.
Cora Lee Hutchinson, Red Star. Va.
Sara Belle Cahincss. ST GATHERINGS.
Ontario.
Lille wenona raulet, Lynchburg
Va.
Winnie l. Baker, Charlottesville. Va
Arcs'a Elizabeth FadcleyRoila, Va.
Marion NJ. Snow, charlottesville Va
Katherine Louise Wills, Charlottcs-
vile. Pa.
rwmn Parish. l.eatham. VA
Marsuertt" Ysahcl Mcknnio Uni
vcrsity. Va
Doctors Of Medicine.
Adams Donald Stamshury Indian
apolis Ind
Amos. Chester Alien, Manassas Vn
anderson, Richard pahncy. Rcd IIiM
Va
Barker, Reuben Allen, University.
VA.
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