Evening journal., 1920-06-15
GRADUATES TOLD
OF THEIR DUTY
More Complex Problems
Than Ever Before, Mr..
Page Says
DEFINES EDUCATION
AT COMMENCEMENT
Special 70 Tho Evenins journal.

special TO The Evening journal.
NEWARK, June i5.-Education was
interestingly defined TO the gradua-
tlon class OF Delaware College by
Hon. Thomas Nelson Page, former
ambassador to Italy, in an address at
Inc annual commencement eXer-
cises yesterday. Mr.. Page said in part:
An institution has been said aptly
I 70 be the projected fiturs OF one man.
stitutions.
Now what is college education2
~Ihis brings me up TO the deeper
one, what is educatiOn2
DO not imagine that / propose to
answer with any INV definition
question second only to that Of the
sphinX-a question whbdh the sages
and The leaders OF thought have
asked and attempted to answer
through the ages. l know better
what it Is not than what it is.
am better acquainted with its want
than with its possession. ] can bet
ter define what 10 is not than what
DO is. / know that IL is not brick
and mortar; nor a host OF professors
and an army Of students-Or under
graduates. l am not sure that IL is
even books and lear1ng. / have
seen bOOkiSh men and learn mon
who appeared but ill-educaied If %
was In any sense education that thoy
had.
@What is education9" says Wendell
Phillips. "Of course, it is not book
learning BOok-learning does not
make ilve per cent OF that makes
Of that mass Of common sense that
runs the world" Education, he as
scrts 'ts not the chips Of arithm8-
tic and grammar" Quite true; but
much that goes toward education is
in arithmetic and grammar. 10 MAS
these ships that no the blaze that
lighted George Washington and Abra-
ham Lincoln 10 an education.
Il sometimes wonder If we In
America are not in danger Of losing
that which we term education. or,
at least. that which is termed 'eduoa-
tion' and which is educaNon-wOn-
der IL we are not In danger Of build
ing IL in and losing 10 amid vast piles
Of brick and stone and mortar erect
ed for the glory Of some wealthy
founder rather than for the glory OF
God as the old phrase ran-Of over
clawing 10 with the mere machinery
Of education and smOthering 10 with
accumulated masses OF information; (;
indigcOtaque mOles, which are but
the body and form OF that whose
spirit Is education.
Il recall a former student OF Del
aware College saying TO his son. I
have no patrimOny TO leave YOU; but
] Will cive you an education-if you
will take it; it is the only patrimony
OF which not even war can deprive
YOU
1T is not so much TO get informa-
tion as knowledge, that You are here (;
10 learn what kn0Nl dge Is. how to
ct and how TO apply Ito get a
vision Of it--that is, how TO get wis
dom and understanding. A single
modern metropolitan journal con-
tains more information than Plato
or Newton possessed; but how little
wisdom.
1--WE are in the midst Of a great
revomtion We have been in 1t for
a good while. Is 10 simply evolution,
or revolution? That depends largely
on you young men and your COM
peers who are getting your educa-
ton today In our institutions OF
harrington YOU and those but Htile
older or younger than YOU. We are
in a new world. What shall be
made Of this nGv world Will be de-
cided by your generation.
'gThe war came and in time came
20 us. The nations OF the earth
tnrOuEl us sank IN kuNlllltICldloIl.
The empires OF central Europe trad
ell on it: the others thought to use
a. for their purposes. And then out
OF the murk came the buglecall, the
call OF the President OF the United
States-tO what? Not 10 the COM
merolal instinct; but to the idealism
Of TIE American people. And the in
slant responsible aye-aye OF the
American people. You remember
The ten million men enrolled In one
day. the seven billions Of money that
WAS voted another day. 10 was an
incidant samson had got his h1nds
on the pillars and bowed himself and
Dagon's temple in ruins; and free
b dom came If only for a space, free
dom and the sense Of duty and the
fear Of God. the beginning Of wis
dom, came back
And now we stand onca more at
the parting Of the ways. What shall
we dO2 Choose ye, for the choice
is yours. Shall we follow the pillar
OF cloud and the pillar Of fire and
press forward TO conquer the giants
and take over our possession OF the
land OF promise or shall we turn
back 10 the fleshpots Of Egypt with
her entertainments and her slavery
frhn choice L. VoffrS And the work