The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-06-09
DEALS WITH USE or EpuoATIoN
IN ONE OF MOST UNIQUE TALKS
HEARD AT SCHOOL IN
YEARS.
DIPLOMAS AWARDED BY PASSA
DENT HOWARD M'aIHNIS IN
5aND ANNUAL coMMsNcE-
MENT.

dress given Yesterday morning III nc
West Liberty Normal school chape. "
the eighty-two members or the ~
second graduating class OF inc sor
by DR.. waitman T. Baroe, dean ot
nsh at West Virginia University at
Morgantown.
Dr Rarbe's address wan most unus-
ra, In that IN the place Of the usuai
wealth OF advice to the graduates u
rs In the form OF the oid-time cuntom
Of public oral examination. such as
used In the olden times. when west LILO
ertv ysas not a normal school. but an
academy.
His Questions seven In number. were
questions pertaining TO life. He did nor
request the graduates to answer ms
questions, but to live the answer tnat
In latter life the proper credits VIII %
given.
The commencement exercises held
yesterday were for the largest class IN
the history OF the institution Inc
stage was appropriately decorated IN
the school and class colors. Presiaen'
Howard J. McGinnis presided. Music
wa, furnished by Purpura's orchestra
and the normal Girls Glee Club sang
a number.
In the absense OF a representative OF
the state board OF education, President
McGinnis also presented the diplomas.
There were thirty young men ana
women In the standard normal course
10 receive diplomas, while 4S were IN
the short normal class. The other nine
were In the secondary class
DR., Barbe In opening his remarks
commented upon the length or time 'hat
has elapsed since his last appearance
at the school. and declared himselt
pleased to renew many old acqaaint-
ances and TO make new ones he then
spoke Of the time Of the year oeinS
most appropriate for commencement eX-
ercIses, declaring the graduates are
lust blossoning into their own as the
tIms the flowers are bursting into bios
som, and his word picture was indeed
most interesting.
'sBut- In speaking OF your poisoning
into your own at this time" said the
speaker, let me give you some advise
before we start our address. Do NOT
permit yourselves to become wfthered
Nv the hot winds Of the egotist: don't
lat yourselves DO frost bitten by en-
couraEement, nor let yourselves become
widowed by iddlness. Do not become
yellowed and useless because OF evil.
But always keep in mind that rruit Is TO
30 borne and always think OF what tho
harvest win be-
This great occa sion In your lives
brings to my mind that all over the
country similar exercises are being
Maid. They are all the Same, the same
pretty young ladies' waiting with trip
ming hearts to receive their diplomas,
the proud parents who are present the
many friends the out-of-town speaker
with the same old subject II IL really
an old. old story.
startling view Day
sSut the thought that you young
people are at the sunrise OF life makes
the exercises always beautiful. Wnen
tbs sun rises over tho hills on the norl,
ron 40 the bright morning. It Is indeed
. graat sight, a great time OF tho day.
Wv heart gives a leap when I think OF
theSS 81 young men and women ready
10 start a new day, and they arc
yeritable rainbow.
7. was Mt this point that DIT. Baroe
announced the theme or his ADDRESS
declaring that many years ago. In the
olden DAYS. tAe old style oral pubic
examination. was the course the student
prepared for -, -- -
arMany years ago" he said. In mo
old fashion academies and scnoois' R
was the universal custom 10 90 some
thing that Is now extinct 1t was 10
vIye the oral public examination the
nnals, Parents and teachers asked oues-
lions and II they were answered cor
rectIv. the pupils were graduated.
And I am going to follow tho old
custom OF giving you final. oral. puo-
lie examinat ton here before your parents
and friends You have not yet received
Your diplomas. you know. Therefore,
the subject OF my talk win be Tho Final
Examination
ct will ask you six or seven oues-
lions. Do not answer now. maybe never
live out the answer. I VIII NOT gave
the marks, but the Great Registrar will
make his marks will ask tho oues-
lions, illustrate what mean. and you
may answer as you wish. by your lives.
Now, my frst question to you VIII be
What does West virginia mean to your
Or, Barbe contended that the state
ought not TO be considered Feeding
ground" where wealth might be amasseh
no matter how but should DO scene
Wherein to develop the higher attributes
OF the race, loyalty and spirit or sac
rince and uplift. As ono reason Tor
the graduates to be proud OF the state,
he cited the fact that West Virginia Is
the only state IN the Union which can
claim three Rhodes scholarship grad
yates OF oxford University who receiV-
ed first honors. Many states have mono
and no state has three except the Noun
tain State, ne affirmed. He further
clinched his point by reminding his
hearers that West Virginia authors
were included among the leading short
story writer's IN the compilation OF
1920. one OF whom. Melville Davissor
Post, was given first place IN America.
What America Means.
For his second question the speaker
asked What Does America Mean 70
fou?" In reply and as a hint he said:
America is not what you see as you
40 about over it's vast domain. or read
In it's census reports. or its financial
statistics America is Patrick Henry
standing In Old ST Johns church az
Richmond making his immortal plea
for liberty ur death: IL Is James OTIS
IN Boston. stirring his hearers to pa
tr!otic fervor: IL Is Franklin and JET
Herson and Washington AZ Valley Forge
and Yorktown: IL * Lincoln and Lee;
II Is Emerson and Hawthorrte and Whit
tier and Walt Whitman and Poe: II Is
the long-winding western emlgrant train
and the lonely wife in the pioneer cabin.
more heroic In spirit than any Roman
matron: Il Is Harvard's three hundred
wears: II Is the old circuit rider: II Is
the accumulated historical memories
of n great and free people: IT is the
field OF opportunity: II il universal pub
lie education: II is the spirit Of the
Red Cross. II is the hope of mankind
These things are America. You
can't make a map Of them. hut YOU can
put them in your hearts. And II you
have this spirit OF America In your
hearts YOU will never be holsheSists:
YOU will not be cynical 81 her present.
and YOU will be as confident ot her
future a. YOU are thankful for her
past
In answer 10 hts second question. no
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