The Washington herald., 1921-02-23
null FOLK GIVEN
6. ". U. HONORS AT.
CENTENNIAL FETE
speaker Says Education
Must Be Tempered With
Humanitarianism.

Education. unless tempered with
ne teachings of religion and a
nowiedge Of humaaity, Is as much
u an enemy to mankind as ignor-
lnce. declared DR.. Charles A. Rich
nond. President of Union College,
q an address at the centennial con-
ocation exercises of George wash
atton University In Central High
scnool yesterday afternoon.
science and education do not
each forgiveness, or pity. or brotn-
rY love-" said DR.. Richmond, but
ehgton and a knowledge of hu-
nanfty does. In five years science
as destroyed more lives tSan IL
VII save In many years and these
the best. Whether science with
Hentualiy prove to be the friend
enemy of mankind will depend
lot at all upon the teachings of
leience, but upon the teachings or
eligios."
Capacity Audience.
An audience which taxed the
paeious auditorium to its capacity
ttended the convocation exercises.
occupying seats of honor on the
aatform were centennial delegates,
nlversity officials, twenty-seven
distinguished recipients of honorary
segrees and thirty members of the
nid-year graduating class Will
am Miller Collier, president of the
University. was in charge of the ex-
rc1ses and awarded the degrees,
During a plea to purge educa-
ional institutions of "the poison OF
iational prejudice and hatred. which
, breeding in the minds of students
ne lust of new wars" DR.. Richmond
aid: I'VE call this the melting pot
II the nations Certainly the crude
md diverse human elements gath
red here will never be fused by the
Tres of passion nor by the burning
u old wounds nor by any heat
whatsoever except the fires of a
ommon devotion and a common
acrffice
Our work of education Is ar
ducation in forgetting as well as
n remembering. We must set our
elves patiently to the task of edu-
ating all classes of our people tC
he conception of a new nationality
Z made UP out of many old elements
Tut purified and refined and en-
Iobfed because it is permeated and
ransfused with the spirit of human
liberty and of human sympathy
,uch a nation will be a united ma.
Ion and strength and prosperity
will follow unity"
Says Living Art Lost.
I'VE have lost the art of living
imply and thousands of peopl,
nccessful in business and in so.
dety exhaust life in the process OF
IVin1 ThA -
m-held. as / believe. quite un-
sf money will emancipate from the
'ondage of work and enable US Il
i've free and easy lives, and thai
his is the goal of human aspira-
ion and the only happiness We car
,e sure of.
1T is a british and faIIaciou,
Z does not satisfy. To make such q
heory the foundation of a system
4 education and to teach our chill
lren ain-the schools and the youne
men and women in our colleges
hat this is life would be like in
Getting an insidious kind of poisor
nto them which would slowly cor
upt the blood and in the end de
lFOy AL the uucI Impulses CIV
deals.
list in earning his bread, ever
though most of US spend nearly al
,ur time doing 1t. Freedom from
work does not mean freedom from
bondage. A mans life work con
lists in contributing to the sum o.
human good; in realizing himself
Is an immortal soul: in emancipat
nr his spirit and developing him
,elf into the divine likeness.
Success in life should not b
rated according to a cash standard
aor should men be estimated in tn
professions in proportion to thei
,alary. Such a policy 10 more likel,
10 produce a generation of needle
,yed, acquisitive men who will, N
Ioubt. gain great deal, but whit
IN the process will lose their owl
souls.
"a school or a college is neither
4 rolling mill nor a 10-cent store
Minds are not merchandise. and sale.
md profits are not in our program
rhe real values in education are tht
things which money cannot buy
without them man would have N
more NhoA
wild cattle grazing in a usciou!
ield, or "a swarming mass of ami
nalculae absorbing nourishment IN
, The interior of an over-ripe cheese.
Seeks Endowments.
A plea for the people of the Dis
trict to provide. the university I
magnificent endowment to enable u
70 fulfill its local duty and develoI
into a great national university
supported by men of large wealth
throughout the country, was mad,
b, william Bruce King in a com
nemorative address, during which
ne outlined the history of the uni
yersity.
IT regard the university as hav
ing two great responsibilities ant
opportunities" he said. The frs
is to the boys and girls resident II
washington who desire a colleg,
education, but who cannot get 4
unIess they can live at home. This
: the university's primary function
and its sacred duty. The seconG
responsibility is national in scope
There are thousands of young peo.
ple from every State in the Unior
who enter government service hers