Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-27
seek HIGH CHARACTER
As WELL AS KNOWLEDGE:
PRESIDENT Arthur T. Hadley Declares
Students Should All Seek to
BE Honor Men.
WORLD GRAVES LEADERSHIP
fale's Executive Says Masses Seek
Guidance of Those Who Shall
- Reveal Divinity to Them In Terms
They Can Understand.

They Can Understand.
The following baccalaurcate sermon
,eas delivered in wooisey Hall, Yale
University, by President Arthur T.
Hadley;
Eph. ~. lS: The measure of the
Stature of the fullness of Christ
Every college contains two groups
J of students: one composed OF men who
are content 10 perform set task re-
CURED of them as candidates for a
degree, another consisting OF men who
put their heart into their work. and
strive to do all they can The English
universities frankly recognize this sep
!. arRtion into groups, and classify iht irl
graduates as pass men or honor
: men,"
This difference of mental attitude
: shows itself in other things besides
study. A man can face his life pro-
blems in either OF these two ways.
As we come to the end OF. our college
whether we are entering, upon our
I career in the world which is before
us as pass men or as honor men. Are
{ we content TO do what society REQUIRES
F. or do we intend TO show tho best
that is i'll us in order to qualify AS
, leaders?
, lieve that every ONE of us is AT heart
, an honor man. We do no. 70 II to the
study of law with the idea ~: learn
ing just enough TO enable US to gain
routine practice witnnht consp.cu-
GUS mistakes. We want To fit cur
selves for eminence In the pro s"ss sion.
culties and risks that so with Tue pa
suit of eminence. We do not go into
business to learn the routine VI com
qualify ourselves for working on just
as large scale as possible and achier-
ing the kind OF success which the
world recognizes and rewards In
science we wish 10 be discovercrs: in
politics we wish TO be leaders. The
career that attracts us is not that
which is won by observance OF routine;
but by the development of individual
power.
Ambitions for High Character.
But are we equally ambitious re-
Earding our own Christian character?
In this all-mportant field are we con-
to be honor men? 1t is enough for us
to maintain our standing as respect
able members of society, or shall we
develop ourselves 10 the point where
there can be blu, one answer. The
Christian who is content with mere OBJ
at all. If there is one lesson brought
epistles OF ST. Paul and to their
hearts by the gospel of the Lord Jesus
lie dership and religious initiative. Not
TO obey law, but 10 do better than
.sthe law requires; not TO follow in
paths Sc, by others. but to mark out
true religion; this is the essence or
Christian doctrine.
How can We best rsa ha 5hiS ideas
: things has the world the right to eN.
'--pcct of us the result or our last
three or four years OF experience.
of US by the privilege OF serving our
country in great national crisis?
How can we use the lessons OF our
college career TO help us become Chris
tian leaders?
Three qualities mark the leader
-S,@hom others can s, " follow: sense
,.SSs6t proportion. per onslity and self
~s Sense of proportion is not only one
.sm,:of the most useful human Qualities
r.but one of the rarest Few men in
>,.or value things by their real measure.
,n,People look AT the foreground and for
y.get the background. y tree few feee
escape. Just for that reason leadership
unjust be entrusted TO the man who does
~.,r--not let :he distant landscape be blotted
;>...out; who appreciates that the trae
...@ccatoday may look very small from where
1--WE stand tomorrow. II we are anxious
,.>.to qualify as leaders, we must under
.,-stand and emphasize permanent values
.s,as distinct from momentary values.
-, Part of this power is temperamental
something that a man has from his
s,rss :sGy"s some Rfsvs which "s ssn
= be lea'fned. and which the lessons CT
:. our college course should assist US TO
Is learn.
To Secure Relative Values.
To set human events in their rela :
: tive size We need TO look at them from
. a distance, md our college studies help
us 10 this end. History may he de-
!. fined as the science OF observing hu-
H., Il ,rtn 1T f.,t.
n ing the behavior of men in other ma :
;ions and other times under conditions
. where we can see which of the things
: that looked large at the time were
prominent, i'he man who takes the
lessons of history to heart has an ad-
z tics OF mis- own nation. but in jude-
jnG his own conduct and that Of those
bout him. Nor is At by historical
studies alone that we can help our
real size of things. The man who reads
= masterpieces Of poetry and prose
!. which have stood the test of time
/. gets habit OF Judgment OF literar.
;. values which is denied TO him who only
= reads the novels Of the day. The habi,
- of fixing our vision and our interest
= successive generations of men. instead
u of appealing TO the momcntary in
ri terest of single decade or single
4 year. gives student Of letters or art
III
g is the true justification OF classica
- study. Men whp have the instinct fol
what is permanent become thereby bet.
= Ter Judges, no, OF art and letters only
Va but of historical and moral values
Paul ScnSed Real Size of Things.
. We can also learn TO look at facts
q without prejudice. The man who has
- studied Law can make his knowledge
q of evidence just as valuable help In
:. his own personal character as in his
~ profess ional practice. The man who
s has studied science can ind the habi
y of making measurements instead Of
q making guesscs. and OF applying gen.
q eral rules rig!dly instead OF, treating
- individual cases a haphazard. just a!
x important for his work as a man a:
IL 1t is for his work an expert. Every
thing that conduces 10 Objectivity IL
our. Thinking can be made 10 contribute
TO that riC>t sense of values which /!
= at once SO usefui and SO rare.
- We may also learn from our cole z,
experience TO look At things in As man,
: cross lights as possible. During tn
last three or four years We have ha,
{, the chance to compare Impressions witt
men who were studying the sam
3. things that we were and interested il
The game things, but who looked a
(. them from different angles of vision
men OF different antecedents. differcn
fIrnf ttIt rzc Il hah rs TT.