The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-06-17
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
By JUDGE v. c. BENET
DELIVERED AT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF ABBEVlLLE
HIGH scHooL,-A SCHOLARLY ADDRESS BY SCHOLAR,
~ MAN. ONE THAT SHOULD EVERY
BoDY-PUBLIsHED THE REQUEST OF
:: FRIENDS IN ABBEvILLE ELSEWHERE


The exercises OF ooe
vile High School this year Judge Bene was really liter
ar address, should be made such occasions mad noun
ing with the price of eottonnor did the speaker ehoose 10 ~
wodproblems The address, was literary
address scholarly address, the most scholarly man we nave
known The Banner feel sure will 0De glad
to have order that they and aside for future ea
ing Nothing aside for the boy OF g to be th0ugh'
of in the years coming The following is the address,
He who is chosen students their Commence
mont Dav while he cannot thus conferred
would greatly he did feel the responsibility deVoNe0
him the which should neither be nas1
lightly But when he accepts the snouo 40
his utmost something which he thinks worm
saying that his audience will think worth nearing
and remembering Should and food for
wseb assured the failure Will
notbe % lack of honest endeavor =.
subject but moved by he'consioefat'ons
have Just stated determined to address on the
THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE EDUCATED
This subject consider the duties and Responsiveness "
educated Of hgh-schoo college, ana un'e
sy But this and this historic Southern town. and
before this audience southerner feel that justified in consider
inc more especially weghy obligations which rest upon
the of the South the deo they
owe country the duties they should strive to fulfil
shall hear much about the South and Things
peculiarly Southern that southerner OF my own
free Accordion not born the South Far be from
me however feeling narrowing pro-
vna, stir but the endest sentiments between w
Southern divisions this Repub
lis North we'll true friend OF the South SILL
help loving more than the North for here my home
dead And doubt the Norhener
loves the South for similar q
Consider hen of the weigy and pressing o
cations of the Southern Same the debts
The first would
point obligation the friends guardians and OF
the liberal including Greek possible but hold
ing Indispensable.
D.. %-~ The Currcuu
earnestly graduates the duty Of doing all IN
your power uphold drive from Southern
seats of learning the unitarian doctrine which
science included in the classical course
uwhich simply looks to money making
controversy itself with the physical wants
when knocks at the doors Of schools and
speaks wasted the dead languages and old
PHILOSOPHERS doctrine of Judas scarot when he g
norantly asked purpose this waste?"
intended primarily to help to get the
the mind full
the drawing out and training and
strengthening something higher and
making And he who lives his life Alright will
hest he able to the question which comes en sounding
pake spak rs not the
life than meat, and the body than rament?'
scholarly American, Richard Grant White
that Education the getting Of knowledge but Of discipline develop
men and it is not for the knowledge we obtain at sho or se
pass study The acquaintance with facts that
could mauer tenth
part education To the demand why we
study which dead languages preference to
which spoken which will be OF some prac-
getnguse the that the value
of education lies the very fact that
they their unlike that of the English
eber their sentences and extract from them their
training in thought be found
in other study mental exercise.
the modern languages No. you
BOTH You will find much easier work
learning Latin all languages the sequence
of thought similar But while of intellectual training
they educating of the dead languages
open up for you inviting fields Of literature.
Continue Studies
Obligation conceive it, which rests and women
students after
leaving university should of books
seekers after knowledge long life lasts In vain have you come
tled for within the fan