The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-03
"YOU CAN DO 1T"
Nothing Is Impossible, DR..
Charles F. Aked Declares.
Warns Washburn Graduates of
"Never, Never Country"
PRESENT DIPLOMAS TO 66
Men Outnumber Women i'm This
Years Glass.
Commencement Exercises I'm
Chapel This Morning.

IF the only objection that stands
in your way of doing thing is that
it is iInpossible-then start in and do
1t, was strongly emphasized state
ment by DR.. Charles f. Aked, of Kan
sas City. Mo-, who delivered the ad-
dress before the sixty-six graduates of
Washburn college at the fifty-fifth
annual commencement in MacVicar
chapel this morning.
want to warn you against the
never. never country" Doctor Aked
said, land to warn you against the
people who live, there. The never,
never country is a region of spirits
inhabited by people who think be-
cause something was not done in the
beginning it, therefore, cannot be done
in the end"
Heroic View of Work.
Doctor Aked cited instances of his
!! tory to illustrate his point, showing
impossible had been accomplished
while 'oid women of both sexes de-
clared it could not be done.
Take a heroic view of your work"
Doctor Aked urged, asserting there
was no work. however humble, that
. did not mean service and resulting
happiness to the world. if that work
was we'll. done. Your work should
be worth more to you than the honors
1t brings you. If you take a heroic
view of your work there is nothing
that can limit your achievement. He
who takes this view of his life work
finds in it romance. poetry splendor
and glory. You cannot touch life
anywhere on it's circumference. brush
aside the commonplace and not touch
, reality and romance
Prohibition as Example.
BE satisfied with nothing" he said.
! Always push on to greater and more
/ CT in ha mi in Or
| is impossible. Have you pondered on
{ the phenomenon of this entire coun-
/ try becoming 'bone-dry?' 1t was
thought to have been an impossible
happening. but it has happened"
| Doctor Aked sketched the life of
disadvantage of having rich and
| stupid parents who believed that it
was positively disgraceful and unwo-
manly to work. showing how, AGAINST
| these and other handicaps, she had
made herself famous character III
| history by her great and unselfish
1 service and her heroic view of her
work.
| Doctor Aked one of the most bril-
| liant clergymen of the country, has
/ Liverpool. Eng, from where he was
called to the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church, New York City. and later
served as pastor. of the First Congre-
gatiOna1 church in San Francisco,
Calf, which was destroyed in the
earthquake. From San Francisco he
went to the Kansas City charge. He
! is the author of several theological
books.
Commencement Program.
| The commencement program. which
began in MacVicar chapel at 1880
| o'clock following the procession of
! graduates, headed by the president,
| the faculty and trustees of the college,
was as follows:
! Organ-Marche Pontificale. .Lemmens
! Henry V. Stearns.
Invocation Rev. John W. Rahill
Misses Carrie Thorp, Hazel Swogger.
| Address before graduating Glass;.
........-.. Rev. Charles F. Aked, p. D.
Misse Thorp, Swogger. Scott, Rogler.
Comforting of the degrees in course.
Announcement of honors.
! Review of the year. Washburn song.
The 1920 graduating class is the
! largest to leave the college since this
country entered the war. For the
first time in twenty years more men
than women were graduated. thirty
four men and thirty-two women re-
by the wars interruption of the col
lege careers of nearly every man OF
the class.
Washburn Honors Students.
Announced as thigh honor stu
dents. the highest scholastic distine-
tion of the college, were the names OF
Dorothy Crane, Mildred May Owen
Beth Evelyn Rogler and Lester Pos
var. Honor" students are Rheva
Bonjour, Bernice Fac Conard. Ruth
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