Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-06-15
IMPRESSIVE EXERCISES FEATURE
STATE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
Diplomas Granted to $50 charlottesville
Address to Class Delivered by Dean
Briggs OF Harvard University.

Washington State College added
i5s young men and young women to
NJ quota of well equipped graduates
Yesterday when the twenty-first an
uual comm encement exercises were
held under most suspicious condi-
firms The doctrine of leading ones
own life, as applied to college men
and women, was the subject of the
commencement address, a forceful
message to the graduates by LeBaron
Russell Briggs, LID, dean of the
faculty of arts and sciences of Har-
ward University. The address was
snappy and pointed, every statement
teeming with sound judgment and
good advice, and ably illustrated by
close association with college stu
DENTS and the experiences of others
in the same line of work.
THE inspiration of one age be-
comes the damnation of the next
when we do not forget self but do
forget the humanistic lines of prog
ress, said Dean Briggs, in urging
upon the graduates the injustice and
the fallacy of leading ones own
life" HE who leads his own life
leads his character to death and de-
struction, especially if he is gaining
power for self by cunning and by
force"
As an example of the inclination
OF college students to Give for self
alone, especially during the earlier
years OF their college careers, he stat
ed that the average Freshman COM
ing to college uses the college to ad-
vertise his talents rather than to use
those talents to advertise and ad-
vance the college, AS an illustration
OF this statement he told of the ath-
letle Freshman who used his foot
ball to advance his own interests, ir-
respective of the interests of the col
lege and of the literary Freshman,
VINO used his compositions to exploit
MS own talents rather than for the
good of the institution.
some possessors of doctors de-
sfees know so much, yet understand
50 iittie because they have forgotten
everything but themselves. Doctors
must understand, must know and
must love, in order to make their tai
cuts Oh benefit to humanity and to
Iuliill the doctrines of life"
No decent man will lead his own
me- and that woman is a menace
VINO is not developed in conformation
Oright doctrines of life. The doctrine
VI acknowledgment for our own sake
an outstanding evil. Shall we give
tDerty OF action to satisfy some un-
seiiiSh ideal? The young man or
woman who throws away an oppor-
UNITY for acknowledgements at col
'ese Is a wicked and loathesome SER
want out he must use that advantage
:" tue interests of humanity and not
Tor self alone.'
every nation, regardless of it's
eishoor' Insisted on living to the
'aiest' the result would be interna-
u0hai anarchy. We are the superior
avs whose advance means the prog
'ess Oh the world" said Dean Briggs,
-. ~ closed his remarks with this
.a ousht' addressed particularly to
.ne women graduates: 1.-THE one
s.',ne thing in a woman's life, as
~ as a mans, is human love"
.ne academic procession, which
preceded the commencement exer-
t'ses' formed at the Administration
iulng and marched to Bryan hall,
Aefe The exercises were held. The
eession was led by President f.
0iiand and Dean Briggs, fol-
.0wed by William M. Pease of Sc
'ue' the president of the board of
s' ana .. l., Waller, the vice
resident of the college. Then fol-
pha1 pr E. A. Bryan and Dean
oa,, ua NJ. White, the regents of the
nit, see' the honored guests. the fac
a,s b the alumni and finally the can
s'u y, for degrees.
go. me members of the board of re-
~ s and the faculty occupied seats
sa.. 'He platform, the graduates being
.,s' LEU In the front section of the
as u'.orium. The platform was
s,iully decorated with potted
snlums and ferns.
g,.se'ees were conferred upon the
'uates by President Holland, the