The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-20
university Opens
Thirty YEAR
s@THE REALM OF CHOICE" PRIN-
GIPAL ADDRESS BY DIR. E. A.
BRYAN-CUPS AWARDED


consider what you will do, for now
you are in the realm of CHOICE Dr.
Enoch A. Bryan, state commissioner
of education, told University of Idaho
students at the formal exercises We'd
nesday morning which opened the
thirty-first collegiate year of the
University of Idaho.
All members of the faculty in full
academic costume entered the audi
torium in a body in the academic pro-
cession while the entire audience re-
mained standing until the faculty
members were seated.
Scholarship Cups Awarded
The scholarship cups for the lead
ing fraternity and sorority in
scholarship during the past college
year were awarded by Stanly Easton
of Kellogg, member of the board of
regents and chairman of the univer-
sity executive committee, to the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity and the
Omega Phi Alpha sorority. Phi Gam
ma Delta has won the scholarship
cup for the past two years.
The cup for scholastic competition
among the fraternfties was present
ed by Congressman Burton L. French,
a University of Idaho graduate Glenn
Wilkison of Twin Falls, junior of
tIc COll0So OIL law, dCC0pU0Q Cu0 cup
for Phi Gamma Delta.
Miss Vera Luce of Spokane, a SEN
ior majoring in mathematics in the
college Of letters and science, accep-
ted the Elizabeth Kidder Lind1ey cup
for the Omega Phi Alpha sorority
This scholarship cup was presented
by Elizabeth Kidder Lindley, wife of
former President E. H. Lindley.
New Violinist Features
The first assembly of the college
year was opened with the singing of
America" The invocation was Civ
en- by the Rev. R. L. Dunn, new pas
tor of the Moscow Christian church.
Two Idaho songs were lead by Prof
3. o. Bangs, head of the department
of music. The musical feature of the
exercises was the violin solo and en-
core number by Prof. Carl Claus, new
university instructor of the violin,
harmony, and orchestra.
DR.. A. H. UDham, president of the
university, in introducing Commits
sioner Bryan told of the first opening
of the university 80 years ago on
October IL. President Upham ex-
planned university regulations for the
benefit of first year students, told of
sthe student employment opportunities,
and the housing problem.
In part Commissioner Bryan said
Nothing is too great for you to
choose. We can do or not do. We
can be or not be. We can build up
or destroy. We can hope or despair.
We can strive or give up. We can
range through the physical, moral
and intellectual world, conquerors,
and more than conquerors; or we can
choose to shrivel up to nothingness in
mind, soul and body The power of
choice is ours.
"But, more than this we must de-
eide. People are educated because
they choose to be educated; they are
ignorant because they choose to be
ignorant. Some choose to be happy;
others choose unhappiness. This one
chooses to be brave and strenuous;
that one decides to be cowardly and
ineffective. One man chooses to be
rich. Perhaps he sacrifices health,
love, honor, conscience friends, happi-
ness, but he gets his wish-gathers
in the gold if he has wished for it
hard enough. The story of Midas is
more than a parable. Another choOs-
es poverty. He doesn't like poor food, |
poor clothes, poor shelter, but in the
series of choices which make up his
life, he has chosen things which leave
him without material wealth. He may
have chosen well and strongly in so
doing, or he may have chosen lily
and weakly. Some choose dishonor;
others, honor. These choose loyalty |
those disloyalty; these vices, those
virtue. These to be courageous and
die; those to run away and live.
eve are always trying to get the
other person to choose for us. We al
ways want to know what our neigh
bors will think or say about it. But
in every case, we ourselves choose,
sometimes wisely and strongly, some |
time weakly and foolishly. One sheep
jumps over the side of the boat into t
the river and it browns. Every other
sheep follows and is drowned. Fool
ish sheep; it might have stayed on
the boat and lived.
Nothing is too great for you to
nothing is too great for you
to accomplish within the limits of rea-
son and common sense. Would you
be great scholar? Then be one.
"But idle wishes for castles in the,
air are not choices at all. The
trouble is that we pause, we hesitate,
we are diverted from our purposes
because other ends seen more desir
able This does not mean that you
are to butt your head into the wall or
walk blindly into the sea. There are
limitations to choice, but these be-
long in the category of law, to be un-
1erstood, respected, obeyed and used,
while we move steadily in the direc-
lion Of our hearts desire.
1--WE must accept heredity as fact.
We cannot choose our parents. And
our environment, till we have reach
I'd the period Of choice, is beyond our
control. Don't whine or weakly wish.
Accept what you have received and |
consider what you will do. Have you
ost and arm or leg? Then show
what One-armed man, or One-legg-
I'd man can do. For, now, you are
n the realm of choice" I