Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-13
LIVES ARE INSURED
TO AID penn STATE
Graduates Give 100000 in
Policies to College, Due
in 20 Years
CLASS DAY EXERCISES HELD

State College. Pa. June 13. -
A gift of $4,000 in life insurance
policies TO the college from members
Of the graduating class was accepted
by Judge II. Walton Mitchell. of Pitts
burgh, president of the Pennsylvania
State College Board Of Trustees. at the
1921 class day exercises this morning.
F. J. Stevenon, Of Oil City, a men,
Der Of the class Memorial Committee.
made the presentation. At the fifth
year reunion of the class, decision will
be made as to the disposition of the
fund, which will be available in twenty
years.
That these are times to "try the met
tie Of mems souls" but make up ideal
conditions for young college graduates to
leap out into their lifework, was the
sentiment expressed by John M.
Thomas, president, in his baccalaureate
sermon yesterday.
"You are leaving college and finding
your places in the world in a most
difficult and trying time. y DR.. Thomas
said. Thought is confused and un-
certain. A spirit Of depression and dis
couragement is in the air. The prob.
lens of humanity seem too vast end
intricate for the minds at hand to solve
them. The war has brought q great
disillusionment and we see that We are
not so far along toward a world of
happiness and peace as We had before
imagined. It is a time that tries the
mettle of mems souls.
You are fortunate that this Is true.
It Is we'll for a man to face difficulty
in his youth. Ease is no friend of ours,
but hardship, trial, danger, temptation,
the utmost burden a man can stagger
under and not lose his spirit-these are
his truest friends.
II covet for you each one the hardest
place he can find. for 1t is in the meet
Ing Of task worthy of him and a
little larger and more difficult than he
can ever accomplish to his satisfaction
that a man finds lasting joy"
Pottstown, Pa, June 13. The
baccalaureate sermon to the Hill
School graduates was preached yesterday
by the Rev. 8. Parkes Cadman, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, in the pretty ivy
covered Alumni Chapel. Doctor Cad
man declared that the bulwark against
radicalism is the church and school
and they always 60 hand in hand.
Saturday afternoon the golf school
championship was won by Tracey Tur-
per. In the evening the musical organi.
cation Of the school gave concert and
Shakespeare's midsummer Nights
Dream" At the closing ceremonies
tomorrow Jacob G. Schurman. recently
appointed Minister to China, will
speak.
Syracuse. June 13. - Condemnation
Of class hatred featured the baccalau-
reate sermon delivered yesterday by DR..
James Roscoe Day, who last week re-
signed the chancellorship Of Syracuse
University.
until the idle agitator comes among
them to teach them that the prosperous
have stolen what they have from the
less prosperous" DR.. Day said. 1.-The
logic Of which is that the poor are
poor because they have not had a square
chance to steal from their neighbors.
There is nothing more fattering to a
man than to tell him that his failures
in life are not due to himself but to
others, or to wrong condition and
economy among his fellow men. It is
fattering, but 1t is false and fatal.
Wherever it has been reduced to prac-
tice it has strewn its path with mire."
Allentown, Pa, June 13.-Muhleu
berg's commencement events began yes
terday with the preaching of the bacca-
laureate sermon by the Rev. J. A. w.
Haas, president. DR.. Haas said COL
lege men must use their heads to re-
store right thinking among people in
general to offset the upset caused by
the war.
Rev. Frank Du Moulin, coadiutor
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Ohio,
gave the baccalaureate sermon In Le-
high University yesterday.