The log cabin Democrat., 1920-06-08
NOTABLE SERVICE
CLOSES HENDRIX
81 STUDENTS GRADUATE
Exercises Most Impressive in Long
History of COllege-HOnors
Are Announced.

| Four factors contributed to make
! graduation exercises at Hendrix Col
lege this morning notable in the long
history of that institution. The class
graduated was the largest in the 4C
years Hendrix has been an institution
of higher education; the year the end
of which was marked by the exercises
has brought together the largest num-
Der of students ever enrolled there;
concrete evidence of it's forward march
was shown in the gift of $150,000 by
the General Education Board of New
York, and the address by Dr. Ray
mond A. Schwegler was one of the
most scholarly and profound delivered
at Hendrix in recent years. Thirty
degrees in the bachelor of arts and one
in the bachelor of science were either
! awarded by DR.. John Hugh Reynolds
the president, or withheld until the
students concerned have completed the
small number of credits standing be-
tween them and graduation
Invocation at the exercises this
morning was asked by Rev. S. R,
Twitty of Monticello, an alumnus of
the college, following which a vocal
solo was rendered by Miss Mabel
Thompson. DR.. Reynolds then intro
duced DR.. Schwegler as an educator
and civic leader whose personality is
having a marked influence on the life
of the great middle west. DR..
Schwegler is head of the department
of education at the University of
Kansas, Lawrence.
With his initial assertion that not
in the past 1000 years has the world
had greater need of such young men
and young women as composed the
graduating class, DR.. Schwegler plung-
ed into an Illuminating and brilliant
discussion of the world problem of .'e-
construction, which he termed the
greatest task facing the civilized
world. He declared that he regarded
commencement as a time of sacred
ness, when the highest and noblest
impulses and forces of modern civil
cation were felt most keenly. Back
of the members of the class, the speak
er declared, stood the denomination
dedicated to the type of service which
found only partial expression in the
work of the institution, and further
back, the fathers and mothers whose
toll and perhaps sacrifices had enabled
the graduating class to reach its place.
Celebrating upon the problem of re-
construction, DR.. Schwegler declared
that human order is sorely disturbed
and the very foundation of political,
economical and moral life of civiliza-
ton is face to face with a broad chal-
lenge. Reconstruction is the domi-
nant note of the hour" DR.. Schwegler
said, "and the new generation must
solve it. l know of no better method
to use the past as key to the future.
For history repeats, moves in con-
centric circles, and every 700 or 800
years we find the recurrence of the
same things. This is true of the
Samuria in Mesopotamia, Menees in
Egypt or the Druid priests Of Italy.
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have done so by virtue of industrial
and economic stability, social sanity
and stability and moral, spiritual and
intellectual integrity"
DR.. Schwegler then dwelt at length
upon the potent influence welded in
civilization by industrial and economic
stability, this phase of the general
subject occupying the major part OF
his address. First he compared the
life of today with the life of 1900
touching upon the households of the
two periods, transportation and com
munication as the measure of their diff
ference In so years time, the speak
err said, the worlds store of knowledge
has been doubled. Not so long ago
he said, the word impossible" wa
marked by civilization as obsolescent
but now it is marked obsolete, in tn
light of the rapid strides made.
His detail of the history and de
cadence of Tyre, Carthage, Rome, an
more recently, the German empire
Dr. Schwegler said was to impress
upon the minds of his auditors tn
basic truth of all history, that unles
a nation recognizes it's dependenc
upon Divine power, it must sooner o
later fall as did Tyre, the remains o
which he pictured as four broken col
umns of stone standing up from tn
edge of the Mediterranean. Moder
industrial and economic life has bee
so sharply Influenced by recent prog
ress that it must be taken into az
count if the America of today is
endure and not fall.
Concluding his address, DIR. Schwee
Ter gave a composite definition of edit
cation, which he gathered from tn
opinions of ten citizens of Lawrence
his home town. 1t was "The mean
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