Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-15

| building it in and losing it amid vast piles
| of brick and stone and mortar erected
| for the glory of some wealthy founder
rather than for the glory Of God, as the
! old phrase ran~-of over clawing il with
/ the mere machinery of education and
smothering it with accumulated masses oi
information: indigco taque moles, which
! are but the body and form of that whose
spirit is education.
Il recall a former student of Delaware
| College saving 10 his son, II have no
patrimony to leave you; but ] will give
YOU an education-if YOU will take it; il is
/ the only patrimony of which not even
war can deprive you.
/ 1T is not SO much to get information
/ as knowledge, that you are here; TO learn
! what knowledge is. how to get and how
| to apply ito get a vision of It-that rs,
| how to get wisdom and understanding. A
single modern metropolitan journal con-
/ tains more information than Plato or
| Newton possessed; but now little wisdom.
I'VE are in the midst of great rcvolu-
ton We have been in II for good while.
Is il simply evolution, or revolution?
That depends largely on YOU young men
and YOUR compcers who are getting your
education today IN our institutions Of
learning YOU and those but little
older or younger than you. We arc IN a
new world What shall be made of this
new world will be decided by your
generation.
and now we stand once mere NJ the
parting Of the ways. What shall we do?
Choose We, for the choice Is yours. Shall
We follow the pillar of cloud and the pill
lar Of fire and press forward to conquer
the giants and take over our possession
Al. l., - rboII tstrF
back to the fcshpots Of Egypt with her
cnchantments and her slavery? The
choice is yours. And the work Of this
college is to educate you to make your
choice with wisdom.
what is education2
1T is that which, beginning with tho
learning of the Egyptians, fit ted the son
of Levi in the wilderness of INDIAN to
rescue his people from slavery, 10 ad them
To the promised land and lay down the
moral code which became the foundation
Of the code of humanity and IN the mouth
of the Divine Master the basis Of the code
Of Christianity.
1t is that which made Solomon's
name the synonym for wisdom above
the riches which made gold like brass
and silver like the stones Of the street for
abundance.
NO. II is not collegiate; ii Is not book
learning 1t is morc-far more. 1t Is
spiritual. II is Greece it is Rome; it
is philosop ny and poetry and power !
drew st Augustine and st Francis like
St Paul and like Moses from a life Of self
indulgence and personal ambition to .
life Of divine service. 1t brought Raleigh
from power and ease 70 the tower-room
where he wrote that history Of tho world
which Cromwell hadc his son read when
he would refresh himself. II unlocked
for Milton the gates of Paradise and taught
him the splcndors Of Elizabethan prose
It led Crotius from great rcspcctabillty to
a garrct and fame.
1T created our country and started
men on new quest for liberty and happl-
ness and a broader hfc 1t has led every
revolution for freedom from tho time Of
Graccus to Mazzini and from Mazzlni
10 Wilson. and however ahortiyc they
MAY have appeared III the actual struggle
they have ever hron ght the world for
ward in the progress Of mankind.