Newark post., 1919-06-11
Graduates Class that Bridged
the World War
Old Delaware Grants Degrees to 81 Men
Local Youth, Bayard Carter Is Awarded Much Coveted
Prize

liberty and buttressed by the fear
less strength of freemen. You must
continue the work of rescue of
mankind, while holding here the
stable and sure foundations of
order, peace, enlightenment and
progress toward fufillment of the
aspirations Of our race.
"You will be what are called now
the 'intellectuals, the men with the
knowledge taught by the books and
trained to think in the light of his
tory and by the stern logic of
mathematics. AS you read in the
newspapers the chronicles of the
days, you have put before you with
startling vividness of contrast of
horrible infections and distribut-
ors of loathsome intellectual and
political diseases, or centers of
benefcience and strong leaders
along upward paths to noble re-
Suits
"The 'intellectuals' of Germany,
the college and university men,
professors and students alike, led
the great empire to destruction and
the people to defeat embittered by
>dishonor and attended by the scorn
and hate Of all nations, and to
shame so black that only long
years of good work done in hu-
initiation and deprivation may
Tighten it. They have given demon
INstration clear and distinct as the
silhouette of a bare tree against
the sunset sky of a winter after
noon that human reason unguided
by reverence for God and honest
love for man must be cold, un-
fruitful of any good, and guide
only to ruin and horror.
Pays Tribute to State
Here in Delaware you are in an
atmosphere rich with traditions of
decisive thought and action givern-
ed by steady purpose and just bal
ancing Of things. She is a small
State that has kept her head level
moving among the foremost but
along straight lines. She has made
no great noise until this war, but
IN the war that made the Republic
the Blue Hens Chickens prove the
lnvlncible gameness that won them
their deathless name, and she took
from her larger and more preten-
tlous sisters the honor of being
first to comprehend our Constitu-
tion and adopt it. / do not know
that anywhere else on earth | could
find better illustration of the real
work for 'intellectuals' than in the
history of this very State.'
Reminding them of the world
wide scope of reconstruction and
charging them as ''intellectuals'
with the burden of the new politi-
cal, social and commercial con-
struction on broader lines and
isurer foundations than the old, he
proved by statistical evidence of
the wealth, opportunity, and pro-
ductive power of the United States,
that there should be no poverty
anywhere. In conclusion he said
mo man among you, nor any
other man in the world ever will be
rich enough to afford to be idle in
the busting and changing days
and years ahead of you. No MAJ
will be busy enough to have ex
ercise for Indifference to the con
stantly growing problems of poll
tics, of sociology of commerce anC
human relations. No prospect Of
fortune can be brilliant enough tC
compensate you for neglect of the
responsibilities you owe your coun
try and mankind-responsibilities
} made all the heavier and more urg
ent by the advantages you have
: had here and by any advantage
you may have of birth or station
of wealth. The three foremost fig
ures on the worlds great stage
the men shaping the course of tht
world, probaly for generations
| are President Wilson, Clemencea
: and Lloyd-George. All are poo
| men comparatively. None of yo
: would be willing to exchange tn
, place held by any one of the thre
/ for any accumulation of wealth ex
J listing.
| Choose We this day whom Y
, will serve in the life into whiel
: you are going-choose We betweel
: the satanic forces of discord, des
: truction, desolation and decadenct
, on the one hand, or on the othe
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