The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-08

sBT8uudtcu lTOIu CHe University o.
Idaho at the twenty sixth annua
commencement, 81 receiving bacca
laureate degrees and two receiving
masters diplomas.
Five students received commits
sions as second lieutenants in the of
ficers' reserve corps, United State.
army.
Edgar Bramwell Piper, editor o.
the Portland Oregonian, delivered the
commencement address, taking as his
topic, Journalists and Professors"
What are the newspapers mora
standards" he asked. what are its
outlook, it's motives, it's common
goal? What are its practical meth.
DDS? Has a newspaper any duty II
any crisis to throw on the light, who
soever and whatsoever may be ex-
posed? Or should hurtful facts anC
scandalous happenings be suppressed
in the interest of public ease and
common decency? What is news
Who shall judge what it fit to print
Should a newspaper be a medium
of free opinion for itself and all its
writer's and free forum for all its
readers? Or should it have certain
principles and policies, conformable
to its traditions, to its conception of
it's duties, to the changing needs of
the time, to the permanent welfare of
its public, all framed by one central
authority and all fixed as body of
rules to which every member of the
staff must subscribe
1T is not easy for an experienced
and conservative journalist to define
the boundaries of proper and i'm
proper publications, for there is a
twilight zone which all enter upon
some occasions and all avoid upon
other occasions.
"There is to my mind similar
twilight zone for the university or
college in it's scheme, if it has any,
of independent thought and liberty of
speech. 1t lies between institutional
control on the one hand and free in
dividual action on the other. No one
of sense or vision will say that re-
preston is the duty Of any school,
1t would be ridiculous and ruinous to
put the lid on the class room except
for unusual reasons or for aggravated
offenses.
"But the university or college itself
has mission of noble and useful SER
vice to perform to it's public through
the maintenance of certain standards
of morality ethics, education and
common sense, and no one member of
its faculty, nor all Of them together,
have right to depart from them
merely on his or their own initiative,
nor to lower and debase them on any
ones suggestion.
"The teacher must reckon with his
own conscience and must be given
large discretion, but it should be a
conscience inspired by a profound
sense Of his duty to his institution,
its traditions, its aims and its re-
sponsibilities
DR.. Enoch A. Bryan, state commits
sioner of education, spoke briefly, re-
calling, the exhibition Of faith shown
by the university year ago when it
was announced that President E. H.
Lindley had resigned, and congratu
1ating the institution on the outlook
for the future under the presidency !
Of DR. A. H. Upham, who took up his
present duties December 1.
Lately President Upham has tour
ed the state meeting many people in
many communities" said DR.. Bryan,
"and from all quarters come reports
of the splendid spirit toward the uni
versity that has sprung from that |
contact"
Moscow Leads With Twenty
Twenty Moscow students were
graduated, as follows: Marie E. An
derson, arts, with high honors; Mary
-. Brown, arts, with high honors;
William H. Carder, education; Mary
L. Clark, arts; Bernice M. Cornell /.
son, science; Boyde w. Cornelison,
arts; Joy Crockett, arts; Lenora T.
Elliott, science; Margaret H. Fan
ming, arts; James H. FELTON,, law, with
high honors; James H. Fox, agricuI-
ture; Charles w. Gerlough, arts, with
honors; Jean P. Gerlough, mining;
Elsie M. Munsell, home economics,
(receiving degree at Kansas Agricul-
tural college,; Oscar Munson, forest
ry; Freda Soulen, education, with t
honors; Charles Warren, agriculture; {
Lillian O. White, arts, with high S
honors; Virginia Dermott, arts, Fred {
erick Dewey Stewart, agriculture
Thirty-two students received the
degree of bachelor of arts, as follows:
Marie Elizabeth Anderson, Moscow, I
high honors; Margaret Florence ,
Bauer, Boise, highest honors; La
Verne Inez Borell, Rathdrum, highest :
1onors; Fleeta Brennan, San Francis f
%, high honors; Mary Ernestine I
oIOWn, MOSCOW, hlgh hOnOrS; jean q
.tte DeArmond Clark, Meridian, high
1onors; Mary Leila Clark, Moscow;
3oyde Wallace Cornelison, Moscow;
10y Crockette, Moscow; Helen Vir-
yinia Dermott, Moscow; Edith Mae =
)ingle, Occur d'Alene; Alice Edge =
omb, Wallace, honors; Harriet Eliza ! !.
'eth Ensign, Clarion, Iowa, high :
lonors; Margaret Hannah Tanning, I
Moscow; Charles Wilding Gerlough, .
Moscow, honors; Howard Hans Han a a
en-, Vashon, Washington; Lawrence q
edwin Huff, Moscow; Mercedes !.
ones, Portland, high honors; Jean :.
ngelow Kendall, Spokane, honors; !
Anfred Adolphus Kinney, Nampa; :
.eslie Nelson Moe, Kellogg; Carl :
frederick Nagel, Genesee; Leila Mae Z
'atch, Boise, highest honors; Thur =
IN Howard Shrontz, Longmont, =
colorado; George Christian Space, =
Veippe; Edith Viola Starr, Meridian, :