The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-05
SENIORS URGED TO
MAKE LIVES GREAT
DEAN EDWARD ELLERY PREACH
ES BACCALAUREATE SENIORS
PLANTING IVY TODAY

ES BACCALAUREATE- SENIORS
PLANTING IVY TODAY
In his baccalaureate sermon on
The Hills of Human Help" Dean Ed
ward Ellery of Union College, Schen-
ectady, N. Y, challened members of
the 1922 raduating class of the Uni
versity of Idaho to make their lives
great, 80 that they might become help
ful to their fellow men. The bacca-
laureate services were held in the un-
iversity auditorium yesterday morn :
ing.
Members of the university faculty,
followed by the seniors and guests
OF honor, marched into the auditor
ium and the audience remained stand
ing while the invocation was pro-
nonuced by the Rev. r. L. Dunn, pas
tor of the Christian church A mixed
chorus, directed by Mrs. Sharp of the
music department, sang unfold Thy
Portals" from Gounod's "The Re-
demption."
will lift up mine eyes unto the
hills. from whence cometh my help
In these words, five thousand
years ago., said Dean El1ery," He
brew bard epitomized and prophesied
the experience of the race.
Cities Look to Hills
"Great cities can get their water
supply from the lower levels, but bit
ter experience has taught that untold
dangers lurk there. They now turn
their eyes to the hills for the clean
waters with which the hills abound.
With water from the hills the desert
blossoms as a rose.
"Individuals look to the hills of in
.dividualism for help in medicine, law,
business and education.
'sNations turn to the hills OF indiv;d-
uals in the days of stress and need.
Washington leads handful of de-
termined men against the might of
an age-old empire and brings inde- |
pendence to a newly born govern
ment. Lincoln controls and defeats
the forces that work to unseat fed
eral authority. Roosevelt, man of
with clean and clear mind, never
falters in the struggle of the people /
against monOpo1ies. Nations through I
the ages have turned their eyes to the /
hills of individualism for help, and
help has come.
Help From the Hills
'sOur Ianuage today calls it the
search for superiority The psalmist
called it help from the hills.
eff in nature and in the realm of
human relations our help cOmeth
from the hills, why not also in re
ligiOn? Religion is an overwhelming
passion for an ideal founded on the
revelation OF an eternal unchanging
purpose. Every man knows that in s
some form or other. Man will find no
of his desire, no meeting
If his great need, no respite from his
restlessness, except as he turns his
,yes to the supreme religion hill of |
LII the ages-Jesus who is called i
Christ
'sIn some of it's aspects, our edu
,atiOna1 system is like huge me-
:hanical hopper, with the material {
ct in at the bottom. Here is a grave !
The superior student and s
he inferior should not be taught to-
.ether. 1t is a 1eveling process that I
s a menace to intellectual advance
nent- )
Challeage to Life
Here is the challenge to life-hOw =
les in struggle and restlessness-On
he everlasting pursuit of the ideal =
Who hath measured the possibilities
f the human spirit.
ssYoung ladies and gentlemen of the
graduating GLASS;" he said as the
lass of SO members rose to its feet,
you thing rightly that you have
cached a height. The world at
arge looks to the hills of your in
ividualism for help. You will give
J. Thousands and tens of thousands
ave gone before you. They have T
iven their help. Many have been I
ost in the valleys. Some have lifted =
be plane of living to the level they
<,I,o u 90 -
limb A few, very few, have con- r
nued to mount. .
what will you do? A host is about !,
ou at this height. You feel it's
7armth. On the next height just
bove you there are not SO many. L
hen you will begin to feel the lone N
mess of the heights. You can go
the heights where you may even a
ry, as did the Great Saviour of Man /;
Ind" MY God, why hast Thou for n
AIKEN me?"
Blind Soprano Sings tt
Miss Margarete Carney of Portland, o
lind soprano, who gave recital at d
1e university earlier in the spring
ang eAngels Ever Bright and Fair" 1
he was accompanied by Miss Mar
uerite Clark of the music depart
Lent. After the singing of the Dox
ogy by the audience the Rev. j. Or
n Gould, student pastor, pronounced
le benediction and the orchestra
layed the recessional march while
10 academic procession marched from u
le auditorium. 9.
The commencement week program - =,
as opened Saturday night with the =
of Shaw's play, "You ~ ~
ever Can Tell" by q special cast OF :,
laracters from the senior class. The II T.,
lay was directed by Dean Permeal s1 so
French and Professor Cushman a,
Sunday afternoon on the campus, is
front of the administration build