Newark post., 1920-06-16
OLD DELAWARE
GRADUATES LARGEST
CLASS IN HER HISTORY

(COuIluucu 1TOII age -
Mitchell s invitation. Chief Of these
was the love inspired by his father
who was a student here 80 years
ago, which gave Old Delaware
place in his youthful imagination
beside the University Of Virginia.
Reverence for the memory Of Will
liam NJ. Pendleton, mathematics
instructor in whose house the elder
Page lived as student in Newark
and whose home sheltered the son
in his student days in Virginia.
Another motive was ascribed to
his desire to pay tribute to the
greatest orator he had ever known,
a great teacher and a preacher of
true eloquence clothed in the
habiliments, of simplicity" a
gentleman Of profound knowledge,
culture and charm-Dr. Broadus,
the father-in-law of president
Mitchell.
Couched in matchless eloquence
was his recital of a third potent
motive; gratitude for the fact that
the first voice raised in the Senate
in behalf of the South in that dark
period Of Reconstruction-the first
hand that lifted the torch to throw
light upon the darkness Of despair
was that of Bayard Of Delaware.
His mantle has fallen ON others, -
the speaker declared, for the most
impressive figure in America today
is that of Judge George Gray who
has honored this occasion with his
presence. -
He outlined then from his
formal address the influence Of the
smaller colleges in national life,
pointing out the great opportunity
for personal influence and spiritual
growth in the smaller college. He
warned against the tendency to
consider great structures Of brick
and mortar as necessary adjuncts
to the acquisition Of culture, stated
that the influence which gives life
and Immortality is not physical
that the measure of man S educa-
ton cannot be given in any di-
ploma, because it is after all a
thing of the spirit, to which the
diploma and the personal inf1u-
ences which it represents may be
but the key.
A glowing and eloquent tribute
was paid to the part women have
played and are destined to play in
the righteous development OF
American life, was voiced in honor
of the representatives OF the
Women's College and others whom
he addressed without reference al
all to the question Of suffrage
which, he said, was not now under
discussion. He said that woman
should take her rightful place as
the complement Of man on the high
road which our forefathers blazec
for the progress Of the American
people. "There can be no true
civilization" he declared, until th'
emancipation Of women to al
equality with men can be assured
Gives HIS Conception of Education
The wisdom, moderation, breadth
of the men and women we NEE
something personal and splrltua
that passes from teacher to re
ceptive student, whatever the TIM
or place, is his conception of edu
cation. He agrees with Miltol
that "a complete education is tina
which fits man to perform justly
wisely, and magnanimOusly all OF
fees, public and private, in peac
and in war;" to which he may b
called. A college education, he de
fined, as the key which may ope1
all avenues of knowledge. Its OF
iect is not to enable man to amas
wealth but to fit him for a life o
usefulness which has. its beginning
in the fear of the Lord and tn
love for his fellow man.
He quoted reverently the pre-
verbs of Solomon and other Wrl'
ings from the Sacred Book bearln
on this subject and lauded the WIS
dom of our forefathers who's
character began in wisdom, who's
foundation was laid deep an
strong in the fear of the Lord
Cataclysm Tested Strength OF
american Character
The unrivalled industrial an
commercial prosperity Of the pre-
war period, he said, threatened L L
lead the American people to set u
the dollar as their idol and Worshi
at the shrine of wealth. Ihe wa wa
and the trumpet call from the hea