The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-06-12
TEXAS STUDENTS RECEIVE
DIPLOMAS OF TUSKECEE.
Many Notables Represented
on Closing Program. Oberln
Head Delivers Closing Ser
mon.
By Special Correspondent.

BY Special Correspondent.
Tuskegee, Alabama, June 10.-The
Thity-ninth annual Commencement
exercises of the Tuskegee Normal
cluded Thursday when DR.. Robert r.
Notion principal of the Institute
presented diplomas TO One Hundred
and Twenty-nine Graduates of whom
II were young men and women from
Texas.
The exercises began Sunday, May
23rd at which time President Henry
Churchill King of oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, delivered the com
mencement sermon He selected as
Work"
This subject was treated as defined
by DR.. King, 'as giving a point of
view from which one may well think
view that aims not to make too much
of any single incident In the days
work. that takes what comes to face
Il thoughtfNlly and theoretically and
turns with undminished energy to the
''The real question then, that l
wish TO bring to those of you who
stand today at the END of your
course of study, as to TIE rest of us
is this" said Or. King: How are we
to think Of our lives as we look
forward to them? Wat mood are we
to carry into Then? IN what spirit
vicissitudes? For a mans point OF
view and his mood toward life have
after all, ver5thing to do with what
his life is to mean to himself and
other men"
Five suggestions are contained in
this phrase, tits all in days work
namely. The true view of life is not
the ascetic view; nor the attitude OF
self-pity; nor the point of view, OF
| tmediaeva1 chilvary. with it's faith
in the aristoracy of certain kinds OF
events;nor like faith in the aris-
tocracy of persons even in at
tempted service; but the Straight
forward taking on, with cheer and
courage. of whatever is involved il
the goal one has set for himself
| 'fhf 80 ye uggestions. fsai d. DF
l>ixfkig, 'secnl to's be seXpfesseue II
classic forms in the five passages Of
be said TO reflect the true view ol
ones life and works: Il have learned
! In whatever state | am, therein tC
be content Take thy part in suffer.
as not uncertainty; Not to thing Of
himself more highly than he ough
to think. but so to think as I.
think soberly, according as God hatl
dealt to each man measure o
faith; Forgetting things which arr
behind. and stretching forward to thu
thingh which are before, l press oI
toward the Coal"
In these Ave, passages of scripture
| is embodied the lesson and advic,
| of DIR. Kings message. A NOR,
wholesome advice could not be Offered
nor lesson taught. His entire ser
mon was filled with advice to thost
who are about to embark upon th'
sea of life and also to those VIII,
have been sailing upon this sea fol
years. 1t was sincere, fervent ant
instructive. Those who attended wer'
well rewarded
The Commencement Address.
The commencement address was d,
| livered by Bishop John Hurst of th'
'The education of today and o
tomorrow must be propelled by it
own rightness. 1t must develop mel
and women capable of filing thei
tivities. but those men and women
whether as carpenter, scholar. artist
brick mason clergyman or traveller
must be trained to realize the vir
tached to all professions and occu
pations. The beauty of the other fel
lows endeavor must at once be a
much a matter of pride and that o
our own creation. Narrowness AM
judgement, The house painter mus
not learn only to do his iol
Job We'll but to appreciate and ftnt
kbeauty in the master works of th
canvass; the wagon builder is to b
taught that his apbition does no
rest upon his ability to repair tn
hubs, rebuild the body and replac
the spokes. but upon a full appreci
alton of the Developments in allie
trades. affording him the opportunit,
of appropriating that which may b
beneficial in his own; and the bricl
mason must learn 70 find much ar
and worth in the alter of tthe cathed
N.D1 lNA Nl.A ar1I a.aI shTNI &
which he helped to build. Education
will only be helpful in so far as
ar Continued on page 81.