The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-04-26

as nODle as TO create.
President Hubbard: 1t is with a
sense of veneration and tender regard
that we linger over the memory of
your splendid character, your un-
swerving devotion and your steadfast
generosity in giving your life to such
a noble cause. With the courage of
an Ajax, with the craft and diplom-
acy of an Odessyius and with clear
sighted vision of Janus, viewing the |
present and future with its possi-
bilities and probabilities of interest .
to Negro professional education; in
spired by the vision which John saw,
revealing a new heaven and a new /
earth, you have builded monument /
not merely of stone and mortar, but
shaped and fashioned on the altar
OF mems hearts, who have sat at your
feet and whose disciples to humanity
they are. President Hubbard: You,
with the tender companionship of
your noble wife, have builded well.
Your name shall not go down to the
tongless silence of the dreamless
dust, but it shall ever be revered and
honored by countless generations
who shall come treading down the
shining pathway of the future, keep
ing steps with the ever shifting sands
of time. With the pen of apprecia-
tiOn dipped in the flaming waters of
enthusiasm, inspired by your glorious
example, | would write upon the star
decked canopy of the etheral blue;
George Whipple Hubbard, EXCEL
SIOR.
My Dear Classmates; Let not the
constant drugery of life, this daily
plunge into exacting work care and re-
sponsibility deter you in your determ
alton to rise to efficiency's heights,
do not consider the petty difficulties
of life necessarily misfortunes, for
they put stamina in man of fibre
and brings out all of the latent forces
so long lain dormant We are
strengthened by the difficulties we
encounter, developed by the wrestless
with chance in the arena of fate and
finally we rise to our sublimest ex-
cellence in our struggles.
Let us not be like the son of the
Plueocrat, the child of idleness, in
} him the faculties are indeed relaxed,
unstrung, he follows no summons to
the treadmill of labor. Having no
worthy end in life, nothing to meas
ure the days or years by terms OF
: wisdom, service and influence, his
r highest aspiration consists in graft
+ flying his ever coursing appetite, un-
, til his very soul is being strangled
by his intestines, and when he final
s ly dies of fatty degeneration the only
: legacy he can bequeath to the world
= will be an atom of dust
Y We are not creatures but creators
of circumstances, that ours is largel.
= the master hand, the magic alchem.
Il which changes malediction into bene
). figures the hideous hog of povert
e diction, which transforms stumblin,
l. blocks into stepping stones and trans
,s into an angel of light which guide
v us in the better way. Hard work a
e one thing is the only recipe for sue
= cess in any field. The world toda.
d teaches concentration and special
= cation, the Observation-Disclosures is
= relic of the shadowy past, his nam
IS is Ichabod-away with him. Con
n ditions are too complex for general
o ization. Already the bugle call ha
o sounded the length and breadth o
the land, in yonder place mobilization
, camps and cantonments are file
~ with men in khaki and olive drat
,f the turning wheel and noisy below
70 are belching forth their fiery product
"a to be turned into munitions for thes
= men. Ships, those swift winged mes
J. sengers of hope are moving acros
= the heaving bosom of the restless Sc
y bearing men and supplies to tn
n blood-soaked battlefields of chaoti
i Europe. With these the Dental Sur
q geon has gone with others we shal
a go, not to do our bit, but to d
- our all. Newer and awful responsi
n bilities will be placed upon our shoul
ders, the cry of the wounded an
stricken will assail your ears. You
70 eyes shall see orgies Of horror an
T. desolation, your hearts will blee
/ with compassion, but with nerves G
II steel and steady hands you will bea
I the responsibility of restoring shat
le tered CONTINGENCIES and giving al
D. and succor to the helpless in N
~ Mans Land.
~ We were there in former wars an
% came out with honor and distinguish
- ed our fathers will be with us. Thi
- time we go to make the world saf
10 for Democracy. We are going i
spite of discrimination and preju
dice, we are going in spite of mo
n violence, we are going in spite c
IL Jim Crowism, we have no bitterness
Is no hate is surging our breasts, eve
'e though these injustices cry out t
l. high heaven, our faith is steadfas
IL our hearts beat true. 1t is our hop
e that out of this awful struggle
III true Democracy will rear its alta
i giving out its shining hope and prom
ID ise to the black man in America,
u real Democracy that knows no cree
ls nor color, Democracy which has n
u geographical boundaries nor ethnt
W logical limitations, Democrat
es which shall fold its protecting mant
~ about the shoulders of all men, r,
"a gardless of color of their skins. 1t
es us not lose hope, the rugged patl
III ways may bruise our feet and tire OF
is souls but let us press forward t.
u ward the surely rising sunlight
NJ opportunity, ours the goal will b
for
of
"a There are no beaten paths to Glory
OF heights
Is, There are no rules to compass grea
ic ness known
ic Each for himself must cleave a pal
I'D alone,
IL And press his own way forward :,
is the fight,
IL Smooth is the way to ease and cal
an delight,
Sc, And soft the road sloth chooseth
32 her own.